JZ's Carrion Crown - (Wake of the Watcher) (Inactive)

Game Master JamZilla

I mean, I guess I could stand back and shoot my bow from a distance but I don't know how effective it'll be.

This is a two-stage encounter it seems. First stage is here at the mill, then once the demon wolves are done, we rush on to face Vrood and whatever fresh, new horrors he's got waiting for us.

How about Zed gives his shield of faith to himself and to Hazel, and I can give Vermundr a bone ward. That way each of our melee folks will be wading in with boosted deflection bonuses, but Hazel will more at risk due to Ionocu's ability to smite good.

I was also kinda sleepyish last night when I posted so apologies if I sounded grumpy. Hazel's got almost 20 silver arrows so that and Zed's Weapons Against Evil should help her do some damage even at a distance with her longbow :)

This is a two-stage encounter it seems. First stage is here at the mill, then once the demon wolves are done, we rush on to face Vrood and whatever fresh, new horrors he's got waiting for us.

How about Zed gives his shield of faith to himself and to Hazel, and I can give Vermundr a bone ward. That way each of our melee folks will be wading in with boosted deflection bonuses, but Hazel will more at risk due to Ionocu's ability to smite good.

Correct.

Sounds good Vala.

Yeah Hazel, I realize you won't be as effective at range, but it's better than the BBEG chunking half your health a round. Don't worry, we will make sure you get some spotlight with Vrood :)

Sorry guys. My other Carrion Crown game on these boards has actually completed - I am posting the final epilogue today and want to take some time to make it something really special. I'll update this tonight or tomorrow as time allows.

Five years after we started we have come to an end. Crazy.

You guys have the amazing second half to come :)

Hey, congrats on finishing the game! :D

Thanks! Im genuinely thrilled we've made it. I think I'm right in that we are only the 4th adventure path on these boards to actually finish all 6 books

Or certainly there aren't many anyway

Yeah, there definitely aren't many! I'm in a Mummy's Mask game that I'm certain will go the distance but a large part of that is because the GM is relentless in keeping things moving along.

*golf clap*

Interesting creatures.

Do we want to wait at the doors and funnel them to us? Or just charge in?

Sounds like the Abomination from Darkest Dungeon.

THrow in some sneering contempt and see if you can get them angry enough to come out and play. Let's give a space just large enough for one outside the door and see if they'll come into the kill pocket.

I agree, let's see if they'll come to us first.

It's no worries GM, it happens! Though given how the group has grown and developed, I wish I'd made Hazel a ranged character since Zed and Verm up in melee is usually plenty. Doing it over again I'd maybe invest in the Desnan Divine Fighting feats and throw starknives or be more of a switch-hitter :)

We can look into retraining if you'd like? I certainly want you to enjoy the game as much as possible and as much as I love the roleplaying, mechanics and feeling like you're running a strong character is important too :)

Lol sorry GM. We're a mid level party with casters who had ample time to fully buff before the fight started. We're going to be really freaking tough for a few minutes.

I remember running a 15th level transmuter wizard. I had entire spreadsheets for different buffs given different amounts of prep time. It was exhausting.

@GM - I'll do some research on it and maybe look at doing some retraining between Book 3 and Book 4 if it would be feasible to do so :)

Do you feel as if we often crowd you out of melee? I thought that this fight was just unique because we wanted to protect you from smite.

Nah, I just feel like Hazel's contributions to battles are largely negligible for the most part though a lot of it is probably because I didn't/don't have as much practice building melee characters when I first created her.

Ok this is important. Kaz, is your AC correct? It is listed as 18 but I think you missed the Haste, meaning it would be 19 and would basically save your life here

It looks like his normal AC is 16 (+5 armor, +1 deflection). Vala put her bone ward on him, which at current level is a +3 deflection bonus (overlaps with his own deflection). Plus haste which is giving a +1 dodge bonus. AC should be 19 (+5 armor, +3 deflection, +1 dodge).

I think haste just saved your life Kaz.

On another note, we were worried about Hazel going into melee for no reason. Ranged smite builds. Nasty.

Edit: How tall is the ladder, and is he blocking the top portion of it right now?

What does climbing a ladder take, double movement? Would a climb check help?

Also worth double checking to see if the +1 to hit from haste was factored into Kaz’s attack roll. If it missed by 1, the 15ft push could mean no full attack for Wolfy McShooterson.

+1 from haste was indeed factored into the attack roll, but the AC bonus was NOT in. I'll change that in the profile now.

Thanks!

Actually, looking at it, I'm wondering if I was awake when I figured that attack bonus. It's a miss, anyway, but it should be
+6 BAB, +2 for Spectral Hand, +1 for Haste. Not sure where that other +3 came from...

Sorry about that.

I'm going to move you on tomorrow guys. I need my laptop but I left the charger in work <facepalm>

Sorry guys, very busy few days. catch up tonight

No worries GM, it's been busy here too!

No worries, thanks for keeping us in the loop.

I've been swamped at work anyways.

Hey guys, just a head's up that I may be extra slow in posting for the next little while. I (finally!) landed a new job and presently paizo is blocked on their network. I haven't figured out how to get into the firewall yet to add it as an exception, so until I do I'm limited to posting from home and that's proven to be hit or miss.

Congrats on the new job!

I have a few ideas to help get around that, but I'll have to dig it up from my memory. I assume a VPN would be overkill (and might not work with company wifi anyways). Let me know if you are allowed to download software onto your computer.

Congrats on the new gig!

Hey, congrats on the jerb! :D

Nice one dude

sweeeet

Muwahahahaha! I have done it! Phenomenal cosmic power!

And without the itty bitty living space? :)

As a reminder to all my lovely full-attacking friends, Constantin was nice enough to bless us with another haste.

Yes! Hazel just had to move up first though, so she couldn't full-attack this round. But! Next round... :)

All my guys get that too right?

All my guys get that too right?

Nope, we actually stole their extra attacks, so they get slowed. I'm almost sure that's how it works....

You guys never let me have any fun

Oh no, I'm taking minor damage from mooks rolling nat 20s. Let me just fix that right up...

Honestly GM I wouldn't blame you one bit if you decided to buff up the encounters. We are a large party and are built fairly well.

Oh don't you worry Zed, you might feel powerful at the moment wading through wolves and skellies but you know what they say about false sense of security and all that :)

*I* was going to say, "Don't listen to Zed, he's a crazy person and none of the rest of us agree with him or are confident about our chances at survival or success in any way whatsoever kthxbai!"

=P

Oh fun. At least we buff up our casters for protection too.

How tall is the tower? Could Vala leap us up there?

Zed will volunteer to go first. He can get pretty tanky and soak some hits if he needs to.

No leaping. Vala's not got the Heaven's spirit, she's rolling with Bones today =)

dem old bones!

What a fun ride. GM-JZ you've really inspired me to bring out some good writing and role-playing with this character.

Question: Could I cast blistering invective on targets I can't see? My understanding is that any enemies within 30 feet of you that can hear you are subject to its effects. Could I conceivably use this to light Vrood on fire and help us locate him?

In theory, yes I suppose you could. But you actually don't have line of effect from where you are right now. I think you would need that.

Also, I'm really glad. Vrood is an interesting bad guy (at least I think so) and his contact with you so far has been really fun, frightening and fraught.