Legacy of Fire (Inactive)

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Congrats. I love babies! My youngest cousin is only two weeks old. They are so tiny. I like to hold them.

Hey folks, it seems that we might be back after a lengthy website outage.

I'm keen to get you guys to (at least) the end of this scenario. Would the six of you let me know that you're still interested?

Thanks,
Your GM

I'm definitely still interested if the rest are.

I hope I didn't ever give off the impression that I wasn't interested, because I've definitely been loving this!

Uh, yeah! Why wouldn't I want to keep playing? Rab-rab is amazing! And this is lots of fun.

Min is my favourite character. And I have a lot of fun characters. I want to keep playing.

Yup! Happy to keep playing.

Hello everyone. This weekend is Thanksgiving so my family and I will very likely be unable to fit in a post. Feel free to bot us if needed. We’ll be back to regular posting on Tuesday. Thanks for understanding, and I hope you have a great weekend!

Thanksgiving? Please explain...I thought Thanksgiving was in November...

Americans celebrate Thanksgiving in November (I do not know why). I'm Canadian. We celebrate Thanksgiving the second Monday in October and have a lovely long weekend. I have a big family and lots to pack in, so we'll be busy nearly the entire time.

Same here!

*fist bump!*

Half canadian, I live in the US now, but happy thanksgiving to you all!

I feel so left out, having no thanks to give from the Netherlands! Everyone have a fantastic time!

You are not left out Razif! We are thankful you all play with us.

Also, I have never heard of the Netherlands before now because I have not learned much geography yet in school. But I wanted to look it up so my Mom helped me look and it looks beautiful. You have a very nice home. Is it a nice place to live?

I agree with Min - the Netherlands is a beautiful place. I've visited before.

Have you heard of New Zealand, Min? That's where I am.

We don't have Thanksgiving here, but I'm American and celebrate it here for everyone else's benefit.

And cool! I learned something new! I didn't know Canadian Thanksgiving was in October.

Happy Thanksgiving! Is there going to be turkey? What do you normally eat at Thanksgiving?

Thank you, Min! It's a very nice place to live. It's very flat, so when you go out for a run or bike ride, there's lots of fields with cows and sheep, and you can see other towns in the distance.

Having lived there for all my life, I think it's a little too flat though, and I really like mountains! I imagine you guys in Canada are a bit more lucky when it comes to that, haha!

I'm going to have very limited access to a computer from now until Monday, so please bot me if I'm holding anything up.

I did not know of New Zealand but my Mom said it was pretty so I looked it up. Wow! It is super pretty! We also eat turkey for Thanksgiving. And ham and potatoes and pumpkin pie. And other stuff.

I know that Canada has mountains but I have never seen them. We live in the prairies so it is very flat where I live too! And we live in a pretty big city, I think. I would like to travel across Canada and see other places but I am too little right now. I have a field trip to a nearby forest soon though so I am excited for that. I hope I get to look for animal prints in the snow. That is fun. Maybe I will see a deer.

We're back and ready to get rolling! Thanks for your patience.

No worries! Happy Turkey Day leftovers!

Hope you all had a good thanksgiving!

I do love the fact that the party could not come to a unanimous decision on the moral question poised to them by the Princess. Wonderful role-playing, all of you.

I do apologise for not being as consistent with posting as I would have liked in the past 2 weeks. I'm one of the GMs for the current PbP (play-by-post) GameDay Convention special, Assault on Absalom, and as it's a time-oriented event, my posts there are a necessary priority. Just a word of reassurance that this game means a lot to me.

That sounds like a challenge, good luck! I think everyone will agree you've been doing a fantastic job on this campaign, and no one can blame you for rearranging your priorities for a while.

It might be best if Drael goes first, since he has low-light vision and can quickly activate his wayfinder if the party gets ambushed, in addition to being our main frontline fighter anyway.

Rab-rab and Jack-jack will go in the middle of the group.

Sorry, a super busy weekend creeped up on us. Min probably won't get a post in until tomorrow evening.

No worries. Take your time.

If it's not too much trouble, considering the situation, I'd like to wait out Uzma's action and have Razif act accordingly.

Ok - waiting on Uzma. Uzma?

Sorry! Family with family and kids... Posting shortly!

Harvesting Poisons

The Monster Hunter's Handbook has some good things to say about harvesting poison from venomous creatures - the only place that this is mentioned in any Pathfinder books so far. I'll adapt from that source for my ruling.

First off, allow me to introduce you all to a new magic item that would be useful in harvesting poison:

POISON SPONGE
PRICE 150 GP
WEIGHT 1 lb.
This spongy sac has a permeable membrane that can absorb, distill, and store toxins. When harvesting parts (see Harvest Parts on page 24) from a poisonous creature, you can use a poison sponge to harvest and store one dose of the creature’s poison instead. The DC to harvest poison is equal to 20 + the creature’s CR, and the poison retains its potency for 3 days. A successful check stores a single dose of the creature’s poison in the sponge, which you can then apply like any poison. Poison sponges become saturated over time, imposing a cumulative –2 penalty on checks to harvest poison each subsequent time they are used.

The 'Harvest Parts' feat mentioned here is a new feat that I'm going to hand-wave over, but it does identify both Craft (Alchemy) and Heal as two pre-requisite skills for the feat. That's what we'll use for potential harvesting, along with a modification of the rules mentioned in the 'Poison Sponge' entry.

In other words, in order to try to harvest poison from the spider, you would need to make a successful Craft Alchemy or Heal check with a DC of 20 + the creature's CR. The poison will remain good for 1d3 days (unless you do something to it, like a further Craft Alchemy check to preserve it). If you beat the check by 5 or more, then you extract one extra dose of the poison. Unless you have a class feature that protects you from poison (i.e. alchemist), you run the risk of poisoning yourself if you fail the check by 5 or more.

How does all of this sound?

Sounds good! Also:

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

My kids will be far too busy to make a post tonight, as they'll be out trick or treating as a rabbit and a dragon.

One guess who's the rabbit...

Have a good night, guys!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Thanks! It was fun!

I was the bunny!

You two are adorable.

Haha. Thanks.

I'll explain what I did with the 'Passive Stealth' check.

No one specifically said that they were going to use stealth, but multiple insinuations were made that people wanted to stay quiet. Because you were moving as a group, I figured that we would use the lowest Stealth modifier (Layaali, that's you at a +0) modified by someone assisting her (via Aid Another for a +2) to give us the lowest possible modified roll for the group passive Stealth check. I rolled a natural 20 on that check; you can make of that what you will (hint: that was a good thing).

If everyone in the group had agreed to move stealthily, then I would have had the group 'Take 10' again using the lowest possible individual modifier (+2). If anyone had decided to break away from the group and scout ahead on their own, then that would have been the time for individual stealth checks.

I may repeat this rule for 'Passive Perception' checks as a group in the future, but I think it works best for stealth. Does that sound fair (for when you're acting as a group)?

Yup, sounds good!

Yup! In fact, I think that I'll do the same from now on in my own campaign...

Yeah, I really like that idea. Definitely fine using it going forward.

Yeah this is pretty elegant, I hope you don't mind me borrowing that one for my games too, haha!

Hi guys! My family's heading into a super busy weekend. Although we might have a chance to post Saturday, it's more likely we won't be able to post again until Monday. Sorry to hold up the game. Feel free to bot us if necessary.

Thanks!

No worries! We can hold the game for now, as the gnomes racing off to the other building on the far side of the river is the current main action of the party.

Thanks for letting us know. Happy weekend!

I'll actually be out of town this weekend as well, so that's great timing.

Thanks! We have lots of birthdays to celebrate.

Hi all! I will be putting in 14-hour days at work this week and next weekend, and I will be AFK most of the time, so please play Uzma in my stead! I'll be back online on Tuesday the 20th...

I will bot you so good you'll never want to miss a day again!

...She means that in the nicest way possible.

That has to be the funniest thing I’ve read on here in many a moon, if not ever.

Bravo!

(Uzma, we love you.)