Nope his spirit of vengeance for what was done to his family has earned him the blessing and power of Ragathiel.
Oops, I missed that the first time. Yeah that definitely fits Tristan!
The Transition;
1. I think we should finish looking into the Faerie's Hunger.
2. If those who choose the scepter find or whatever, they can find it any time along the search for "The Hunger."
3. After return to Oleg's
4. I think Tristan and my Gestalt class will require some sort of mini-pilgrimage/quest. For example, Kev is and should go visit the Temple of Erastil that we cleared and Stalker is currently at. We can do each quickly to keep interest high in the game. Or, we can meet someone significant from each religion the way.
I covered mine. Ragathiel's Herald will be visiting and blessing me. Doing side quest is a bad idea and will derail the game before it gets going and puts more work on wolf to come up with it. I plan on writing a narrative to explain mine once we get on track and wolf gives the go ahead.
Well you might be jumping the gun there Tristan...
Don't forget what Wolf said :
I am open to gestalt but first I want to make sure everyone is up for it. Secondly, it won't be immediate. I would want each of you to have an avenue to gaining that new power or working towards that training. Feel free to throw out ideas about how this could happen for your character. An example would be finding a scepter that will infuse or awaken the arcane powers within you, giving you sorcerous powers. Also I would prefer when you gestalt to stick with just adding one class.
So he plans on any Gestalt to be happening after we start, possibly some time after we re-start. Subject to GM change-of-mind of course.
That said , I was leaning toward sorcerer initially but now think Witch might be thematically more interesting.
As for prestige classes, Arcane Trickster does look interesting, but i always saw Angeus going Shadow Dancer :)
That said , I was leaning toward sorcerer initially but now think Witch might be thematically more interesting.
As for prestige classes, Arcane Trickster does look interesting, but i always saw Angeus going Shadow Dancer :)
I mention sorcerer(es)s for the arcane dps part and than Arcane Trickster for the Rogue Trickiness. I really don't see a witch, although maybe for the Stolen Lands it would be cool? But in the end, it's really between you and Wolf.
I am sure Quince would love to be able to see them Angeus signature Shadow Dancing leg splits around him ... lol
@Tristan, a very valid point regarding derailing. PnP, you would probably work slight better but probably not so much in PbP. I will write a narrative as well and I know a perfect time to do Kev's. That way we can continue as Gestalt where we left off with the Hunter who died on his own trap and search for what the Faeries called, "The Hunger."
Mmm dancing.
I will look into arcanist and that archetype. Though I am weighing fey blooded sorcerer or bloodrager and I know exactly how to handle the transition. That touches his secret and unusual heritage.
Knowing us if we delay the gestalt additions it will be Christmas before we get there.
In my narrative, I am going to have Kevros proceed to the Temple to tell Stalker about Jhod and the small contingent, then comes back joining the group the night before. This way, the group doesn't have to go to the temple.
My Gestalt crunch is completed, I am still working on my Transitional Narrative.
I like the side quest thought, though I do agree with Tristan that it would derail from the present quests. I will be likely creating quests that your 'mentors' will be putting before you and to attach it to future quests. Just a bit of focused flavor!
I would like to have an in-game instance of some kind before you power-up to your new gestalt form. I am still open to avenues for each of you. Please either PM me or discuss it here how you would envision it. Please put some thought into why a god would quickly give you power.
Tristan I like how Ragathiel's Herald will be visiting you but perhaps you need to enact your vengeance first and fail; or call upon his spirit to be recognized.
Kevros could easily begin to take up the mantle of Erastil by making a pledge or oath to Erastil. Though old One eye would likely need a show of faith to fully power up Kevros, what might that feat be?
I would allow you to take a prestige class though you would need to sacrifice one of your classes to take it instead and have all the prerequisites.
I plan to have gestalt done before the end of the month, one way or another... trust me.
I love to see the projected gestalt character spoiler, thank you Kevros. Everyone feel free to check out his character sheet for a reference if you need one.
On a side note, sorry about last night. I passed out hard and didn't get to do much but sleep after work. 14 hours of sleep and woke up as if I had 6. Hopefully I can wake up rested tomorrow.
I should have a few posts in gameplay in a bit.
I did fail. The Stag Lord is still out there :)
Yeah when you sleep too much, it actually works in reverse unless you really needed 14 hours like what happened to me in the military. I have slept 12 to 14 hours when I was in and felt fully rested, rearing to go. And no, sleeping that long in the military was not a common occurrence.
Kevros could easily begin to take up the mantle of Erastil by making a pledge or oath to Erastil. Though old One eye would likely need a show of faith to fully power up Kevros, what might that feat be?
Kevros was simply going to pledge his crossbow to him (Old Deadeye) and not only rebuild/restore the Temple the Wardens had recently freed but either restore the others or have new ones built including Oleg's and whenever we have the funds to build our own Keep or Keeps. Also, I am sure Old Deadeye would love to have the Stag Lord purged from land and I am sure he can see that the Wardens are trying. Kind of hard now since we lost his trail for now. I think anything more would be on the levels of Mythic but also tell me what you are looking for since everyone is different.
The pledging with conviction of the crossbow to Old Deadeye would have been enough for me as a GM but everyone is different. It's basically a Knight of Old pledging his sword to his Lord or Deity.
EDIT: Hmm, the game is still hidden. Is that something on your end GM WOLF or how do I unhide the game?
I will try and draft up what Tristan Gestalt will look like today.
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You can load crossbows with blinding speed and even fire them in melee with little fear of reprisal.Prerequisites: Dex 15, Point-Blank Shot, Rapid Reload, Rapid Shot.
Benefit: The time required for you to reload any type of crossbow is reduced to a free action, regardless of the type of crossbow used. You can fire a crossbow as many times in a full attack action as you could attack if you were using a bow. Reloading a crossbow for the type of crossbow you chose when you took Rapid Reload no longer provokes attacks of opportunity.
Special: Starting at 6th level, a ranger with the archery combat style may select Crossbow Mastery as a combat style feat.
Is it me or should they remove the part in the description that states "even fire them in melee with little fear of reprisal"? To me, that sounds like you can fire crossbows at point-blank until you read the benefit. I am guessing this is a two prong approach?
Crossbow Mastery and then Point-Blank Mastery (Weapon Specialization + the Feat) to be able to fire in melee w/o AoO?
Kevros was simply going to pledge his crossbow to him (Old Deadeye) and not only rebuild/restore the Temple the Wardens had recently freed but either restore the others or have new ones built including Oleg's and whenever we have the funds to build our own Keep or Keeps. Also, I am sure Old Deadeye would love to have the Stag Lord purged from land and I am sure he can see that the Wardens are trying. Kind of hard now since we lost his trail for now. I think anything more would be on the levels of Mythic but also tell me what you are looking for since everyone is different.
The pledging with conviction of the crossbow to Old Deadeye would have been enough for me as a GM but everyone is different. It's basically a Knight of Old pledging his sword to his Lord or Deity.
EDIT: Hmm, the game is still hidden. Is that something on your end GM WOLF or how do I unhide the game?
That pledge will work great!
The game is active again. You will have to unhide the game in your hidden campaigns.
You can load crossbows with blinding speed and even fire them in melee with little fear of reprisal.Prerequisites: Dex 15, Point-Blank Shot, Rapid Reload, Rapid Shot.
Benefit: The time required for you to reload any type of crossbow is reduced to a free action, regardless of the type of crossbow used. You can fire a crossbow as many times in a full attack action as you could attack if you were using a bow. Reloading a crossbow for the type of crossbow you chose when you took Rapid Reload no longer provokes attacks of opportunity.
Special: Starting at 6th level, a ranger with the archery combat style may select Crossbow Mastery as a combat style feat.
"even fire them in melee with little fear of reprisal" Is just flavor text. With this feat you no longer provoke AoO with this crossbow.
Will I need Weapon Specialization and Point-blank mastery to use the crossbow in melee combat w/o AoO? Granted, I receive the ability to shoot while in melee without AoO automatically at 13th but that is a long ways away. And when that happens, I will just retrain.
As for my pledge, can that be done anywhere in the forest pledging Kev's crossbow at a tree where most or all bows are made from? Or another location such as Temple? I was going to write in Kev's narrative that he makes a quick ride over to the Temple we just cleansed to pledge his crossbow and returns to the group anew without effecting the flow of the story or players wait for me.
Rats, I still can not unhide the game so I will have to go with a favorite until it resets or I figure it out.
Quince is an Oracle of Erastil and gladly perform a ceremony and or hear your pledge give a blessing and so on.
Perhaps we can help each other? What do you think GM Wolf? Kev uses Quince to Pledge his Crossbow to Erastil and Quince is rewarded for being that conduit? I know GMs dig PC synergy ... lol
It certainly can foreshadow things for Quince. If GM likes my plans I have a introduction that is years in the waiting.
GM Wolf can you readd Kev to the game because I still cannot see the game.
Your synergy will work great. Kevros can be blessed by Quince. Go ahead and post what you do. Feel free to PM each other if you want to make it a surprise for the rest of us. I love collaboration, it brings PCs and players together.
Will do Kev. If it is still hidden you may need to hit 'show' down in your hidden campaigns.
Crossbow feat questions coming up...
Crossbow Mastery allows you to reload as a free action and reload it w/o taking an AoO.
Point Blank Mastery allows you to fire while threatened w/o taking an AoO, weapon specialization is a prerequisite.
I don't see my Hidden Campaigns. If I have to, I will just have to wait until the next reset. I have the campaign down as favorite for now but I don't see updates. I try to keep up what is being posted but it has to be more proactive than reactive.
As for the crossbow answers, that is what I figured but they should change crossbow mastery verbiage to not say anything about shooting in melee without reprisal because that is incorrect regardless what the benefit states. It causes confusion and questioning.
In the interest of being helpful in a no way patronising there should be a button off to the right hand side of your campaign listing below previous campaigns that should say show or hide.
Is that missing?
If so it might be time to call for tec support.
I hid the hidden too but if I knew that would have hampered me recovering a campaign, I wouldn't have hidden the hidden. It comes back after a reset, I will just wait until then. I will look into tech support but I don't expect much since board use is for free.
Hopefully the reset is soon.
GM Wolf, do you use the standard rules with Bucklers?
Does not hamper shooting especially with a crossbow. However with melee weapons, it is a -1 to attack? I am thinking that as a small gift devoting Kev's crossbow/life to Erastil, he leaves a non-magical buckler with a removable skin that acts like a Holy Symbol. This way, it is is not OP being a standard instead of magical buckler and if I upgrade my buckler, which can be expected, I can remove the skin off the old and add it to the new. Real life hide coverings are highly resistant to most damage. Not only is the shield a means of protection, it is used as Kev's Warpriest Holy Symbol and it is always out facing friend and foe.
I see what you are saying Kevros about the wording being misleading. Yes the buckler would work that way.
Thank you for both ... It is no problem with the feat, that is only one or two levels away for crossbow in melee. Then retrain at 13th level.
This is forcing me to reread up in Erastil . . . family values, simpler natural life-style, rugged self-reliance . . . join a Montana militia or just start prepping for the apocalypse. hmmmmmm
Side question. Who does Katrina follow? Has it come up and I forgot.
I don't think anyone has asked her Quince, or at least she answered rather vaguely. It was quite a while ago for the PCs let alone the players.
She laughs then says after she calms down, "For heaven's sake I am no Cayden worshipper. Nature and the world speaks to me and spirits keep my company, I am likely to act like no cleric you have seen before. I only ask that you consult me before dealing with any plants and understand if you need healing you will come to me, if I enter the fray it will be from afar with a bow." She giggles to herself some more as she dabs Saren's face.
I think this is as close she gave an answer. Quince is going to assume Erastil or Green Faith at this point.
Will we be camping before we get to the Fey?
You will likely not be camping before the fey find you, I will move us along. Though she has said she uses a bow you have never seen her have one nor used one before.
@Angeus - good choice for Gestalt class.
Please let me know if I miss anything. I am going to be brushing up on my knowledge about part 2. Could I have someone go over the NPC list for me please in the Google docs file and add any NPCs that I have missed from your gaming past. Thank you that will be a great help!
I will update your map when I get home, do you guys remember which hexes you have explored and in a couple words what you found in the hex? I put new numbers up.
I will study the map and double check.
Question: I know Kevros is getting the buckler form ready. If I remember correct we are avoiding hunting around the Fey. Which means if the Fey stick around we shouldn't hunt. Are we assuming they are with us and we are playing through their time with us or are we assuming we moved in toward whatever goal we pick and they stayed with us and we are picking up the action after they left.
Did we encounter Kobold? I think I remember 1. Where on the map was that? It may have been near 2 or 4.
I believe we gathered the radishes on an early trip. So we may have visited the hex between 1 and 12.
Is Tuskhorn the same thing as Tuskgutter? I think we brought back the bar meat for cooking awhile back. If not hunting Tuskgutter the infamous boar might be a good hunt for us so that Kevros can get his skin for his buckler.
Perhaps you should ask the fey how they feel about hunting. Just stop hunting. Or discuss it with the group with or without the fey.
You have moved to explore maybe a day with the fey, if that. Really only a half hour since no one has told the fey they can come or not.
I don't think tusk horn is the same as tusk gutter, I will have to check.
I don't think craft checks will be nessesary for this wooden buckler because you will likely replace it once you find a metal one.
yes and move the removable animal skin holy symbol from the wood to the metal one.
So let me get this straight, your group is turning South. Exploring as you are going? Scrounging as you are going? Also looking for boar or deer tracks? Which Hex are you currently in and which hexes do you want to travel through?
Yes tusk horn was the same as tusk gutter.
Heading to the dryad where ever that is.
Are we that low on supplies?
My thought was we would wake go on a hunt. Then once we dressed the kill set out for the Dryad because that seemed a lead to find the Staglord.
Though I believe the fey mentioned Berik might be able to help.
I don't remember our plan before we went after the hunter.
We ran into the Fey while we were on our way back to the Temple of Erastil. We left Stalker alone at the temple to heal. He is expecting us and Jhod and the group he is trying to raise up will be heading for the temple as well.
I believe the temple is still south of us. I think we are in the 12 hex or just to the east of it. If we are not already in the same Hex as the temple.
So we might want to stop by the temple on the way to see the Dryad.
Kevros what kind of bow are you making? short bow, long bow or something else? (300 sp ... 750 sp ... ?)
Pay 1/3 of the price.
4. Make an appropriate Craft check representing one week's worth of work. If the check succeeds, multiply your check result by the DC. If the result × the DC equals the price of the item in sp, then you have completed the item. (If the result × the DC equals double or triple the price of the item in silver pieces, then you've completed the task in one-half or one-third of the time. Other multiples of the DC reduce the time in the same manner.) If the result × the DC doesn't equal the price, then it represents the progress you've made this week. Record the result and make a new Craft check for the next week. Each week, you make more progress until your total reaches the price of the item in silver pieces.
Create Masterwork Items: You can make a masterwork item: a weapon, suit of armor, shield, or tool that conveys a bonus on its use through its exceptional craftsmanship. To create a masterwork item, you create the masterwork component as if it were a separate item in addition to the standard item. The masterwork component has its own price (300 gp for a weapon or 150 gp for a suit of armor or a shield, see Equipment for the price of other masterwork tools) and a Craft DC of 20. Once both the standard component and the masterwork component are completed, the masterwork item is finished. The cost you pay for the masterwork component is one-third of the given amount, just as it is for the cost in raw materials.
I believe you are correct Quince. You were likely in the hexes above the temple of the stag. About noon on day 61, you should get to the temple.