Lucendar's Legacy of Fire PbP

Game Master Lucendar

So, for when the time comes to upgrade:

Level 7: Wizard (Evoker)
Languages: add Abyssal
Hit Points: add 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9
Add feat: Craft Wondrous Items
Add 9 skill points: Appraise, K: Arcana, K: Geography, K: Nature, K: Planes (2), Linguistics, Perception, Spellcraft.
Spells Memorized: Add 1 1st, 2+1 4th.
Add to spellbook: Black Tentacles, Wall of Ice.

Looks good, Dumah. With the amount of evil outsiders we have come across lately, maxing out Knowledge: planes seems prudent.

And some more battlefield control spells will definitely come in handy.

If and when we get time to craft stuff, Jameena has a short wish-list.

Good point, Jameena. Let's see what Lucendar thinks about that.

Sure, work on the character. I will try and get you in soon. In the meantime, waiting for everyone to finish leveling up before continuing.

I'll get a character together tonight Lucndar.

Gerald wrote:

Good point, Jameena. Let's see what Lucendar thinks about that.

Sure, work on the character. I will try and get you in soon. In the meantime, waiting for everyone to finish leveling up before continuing.

Lets finish up the tomb, then go back to the statue room once more and rest there. We can officially level during the rest.

Lucendar wrote:

Gerald wrote:

Good point, Jameena. Let's see what Lucendar thinks about that.

Sure, work on the character. I will try and get you in soon. In the meantime, waiting for everyone to finish leveling up before continuing.

Lets finish up the tomb, then go back to the statue room once more and rest there. We can officially level during the rest.

I agree we need to find out the source of the magic that drew us here and see what if any treasures we find are. I think the fast resting magic of the room is used up, so I think we will have to go back to the surface to rest.

Jameena, I put Outflank as my feat for this level but if you choose to go another way I'd like to know so I can change it to something else. Since Eli's tactic is to always try to get a flank, that extra +2 would come in handy for me. However if you decide that something else works better for your character, I have some other feats in mind that will help me too.

I'm still undecided between Outflank and Enforcer. If Quzman picks up Outflank too, that will of course be even effective.

Okay, got my witch statted up. I'll try and get it posted this evening...

[righteous paladin]A witch? A foul practitioner of dark magic, consorting with denizens of the nether planes? Such a person must be cleansed by fire!![/righteous paladin]

Can't wait to meet him/her :-)

Just because you use a great deal of Necromancy magic, that doesn't make you eveil, does it? LOL

Ok, here is Gerald's witch. I will roll for the hps, and if Lucendar is ok with it, I have bought a few scrolls to see if she can teach her familiar the spells. I'll roll the spellcraft checks here as well.

I still have to change the backstory, and I need a bit of help levelling the animal companion as I have never done that before, if someone doesn't mind.

Hps 6d6 ⇒ (5, 4, 6, 6, 4, 6) = 31

Dang, she's healthy!

Here are the spellcrafts for the scrolls:

Black Tentacles 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (16) + 15 = 31
Neutralize Poison 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (20) + 15 = 35
Speak with Dead 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (2) + 15 = 17
Stinking Cloud 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (6) + 15 = 21
Heroism 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (8) + 15 = 23
False Life 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (4) + 15 = 19
See Invisibility 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (10) + 15 = 25

So I learned them all except Speak with Dead, if Lucendar is okay with gaining a few spells that way...

I'm back and getting caught back up...I gotta say, OUCH. Sorry Ty, but that was an intense fight. I'll see about leveling Quzman up. Outflank is a definite possibility if Eli/Jameena were thinking of it.

HP:1d10 ⇒ 6

I have a nasty feeling about Quzman opening that coffin. Anyone got a Remove Curse or Break Enchantment handy?

I'll try to get the background up this morning.

A basic background is up that I have not tailored to be specific to the campaign. I want to hold off doing that until Lucendar says how he wants to introduce the character...if she is a captive, it would be simple, or if she is another adventurer looking for the scroll that might work as well. I will wait to finish her until the boss advises.

The captive storyline is not going to work and neither is the looking for the scroll angle. Gerald, need some idea as to motivations and why a witch would be in the desert?

I opened up a thread in the advice section on how to be a better healer for the group: Link

The rest of you are more than welcome to read and comment. Hopefully, I'll get some good tips to keep everyone in better health.

The captive storyline is not going to work and neither is the looking for the scroll angle. Gerald, need some idea as to motivations and why a witch would be in the desert?

I just saw your post DM. Let me think on it. Anyone got any ideas?!

Sorry I have been slacking real life is really getting the best of me. This is an extremely busy semester with two students, a family, and my iternship. I will try to keep up as best as I can.

DM, have you seen that you can now create the game campaigns. I did it for the games I am in and from my avatar page i can link quickly to all the games I am in or am running as long as other DM does it too. I am finding it saves me a lot of time and helps me quickly see when more people have posted to the thread. You should check it out. I puts tabs for the game thread, discussion thread, posting members ect at the top to make managing the game super easy.

Also I am trying to post in the main thread, but for some reason all the posts are "missing". I will keep trying.

Thanks, MD. I linked all of my campaigns under my alias. Appreciate the advice.

Thanks for linking them, it will make it easier for me to keep up.

Finally was able to post in the thread. Don't know why I couldn't see it earlier.

I am leaving town for the weekend to be in a friends wedding. I will have my laptop with me but not sure how my internet connectivity will be.

If you have to NPC Eli, my goal is to keep inspiring and kill the troglodyte feinting to lower his ac and get the sneak attack bonus. Once he is dead helping heal others and then finishing off the Jinn.

Given the current situation of the party, I do not feel comfortable DMPCing Eli, unless the group has a consensus of what he should do on his round. If not, I guess we have to wait for Eli's return.

It's not looking great for the good guys right now...come on, team!

I posted Dumah's action in the main thread, but it doesn't show for me unless I go into Dumah's profile and look at the posts there. Strange.

Odd, I found your post Dumah and replied to it but your post still does not appear.

Hmmmm....I really hope the badguy is in the right square, Dumah. I understand how you don't want to waste True Strike, and it is going to be awesome if you hit him - but there are six possible squares to pick from, and you use all the remaining charges in the ring.

With glitterdust, you would have been certain to get him, or with a minor adjustment in aim cover five out of six possible squares and hit the trog too. And you still have your arcane bond to use another true strike after you make sure he can't hide again.

I'm sorry if this comes off a bit grumpy, but I just think it is too much of a gamble to try and hit the right square - and it IS Jameena's pretty behind on the line here who will get the pleasure of yet another sneak attack if you miss.

You certainly don't come off as grumpy; it is perfectly understandable.

My concern was that this guys defenses seem to be quite high and therefore likely to shrug off the blinding effect of the glitterdust. And even if I made him visible with glitterdust, it still wouldn't have stopped him from sneak attacking Jameena with his feint ability. Making him visible would have only prevented a SA on Jameena if Eli, Quzman or Jameena herself could have finished him in the next action. With Quzman blind, Jameena apparently disarmed and the trog still able to engage Eli, I didn't think the chances were good of that next attack being prevented.

With the True Strike/Ring of Ram/Black Tentacles combination, I thought there was a good chance of hitting. Yes, he could have stepped to any of those adjancent squares after going invisible, but he seemed quite arrogant and intent on Jameena, and I was hoping he'd consider invisibility defense enough. If he was in that square, the ring damage or a tentacles grapple might have stopped him, but at the least the bull rush would move him far enough away that he couldn't SA.

I also originally hadn't intended to use the True Strike on the rogue; I was hoping to get the trog out of the fight completely by knocking him into the tentacles. But with the changes since Dumah's last turn, I changed priorities for him. And I certainly wouldn't have minded letting the True Strike fizzle out unused if I thought I had something better to deal with the tactical situation.

Anyway, that's what I was thinking when I made that decision. I wasn't trying to be deliberately obtuse.

Thanks for the insight into your thought process, Mark. I can certainly see the logic of your thinking, and the combination of True Strike and the ring is pretty brilliant (I figured you'd use it with Scorching Ray, actually).

Let's hope you hit him.

Ok, guys. We really have to pull together and work as a team to get out of this one.

- Quzman, hopefully you can get in position to hand your scimitar off to me. You can afford to eat an AoO if you have to.

- Eli, with our Outflank feats, getting a flank on Zayifid is absolutely crucial. Ignore the trog for now. We should focus everything on getting Zayifid neutralized first.

By the way, we hit 5000 posts, in case anyone didn't notice....

In the intensity of the fight, I hadn't noticed blowing past 5000. And still going strong!!!*

LOL..you could always avoid it but giving up the Scroll, remember?

And wouldn't you have been surprised if we did just hand over the scroll.

And who knows? Maybe we would have except for, you know...

I doubted you would hand it over but now that Quzman is blind and basically ineffective, the troglodyte is barely scratched, and Jameena is close to dropping again, you might want to think about it....or you could make a heroic comeback with extremely great die rolls! But sometimes relying on the luck of the die gets you all killed. But know that if you give up the Scroll, the campaign does not end. It all really depends on how stubborn you are!

OK...since Quzman was right next to Zaif when he attacked and spoke to Jameena would he know where he was?

To Jameena, if I could have noticed him, I can try a full attack with blindness issues, or try to toss the scimitar your way. What do you think?

Also a possibility, if GM allows, is a full attack and then drop the scimitar in the square ahead of us as a free action. That's probably pushing it for a blind man though.

OK...since Quzman was right next to Zaif when he attacked and spoke to Jameena would he know where he was?

To Jameena, if I could have noticed him, I can try a full attack with blindness issues, or try to toss the scimitar your way. What do you think?

Also a possibility, if GM allows, is a full attack and then drop the scimitar in the square ahead of us as a free action. That's probably pushing it for a blind man though.

Yes, Quzman knows the square where the Janni is, so I would allow a full attack with no movement, with concealment of course. If you drop the scimitar as a free action, you drop it in your square only.

I would advice against Quzman trying to full attack for the same reason I wanted Dumah to use glitterdust over the ring: we can't afford to waste actions right now.

Quzman can get off five attacks, but each with a 50% miss chance and a +11 to hit on the best attacks. In contrast, Jameena has +18 to hit on her best attack, and does more damage due to her smite.

And Jameena really can't afford to draw an AoO picking up the scimitar - or even worse, having Zayifid snatch it.

Jameena can also not afford to let herself be sneak-attacked any more. So the best option for her may be to kite Zayifid, making an attack and moving away, eating the AoO, but with dex bonus to AC and no SA.

As noted, I really think it is critical for us to get Jameena back in the fight - and she needs a scimitar to take advantage of her Dervish Dance - and for her and Eli to flank Zayifid for the Outflank bonus and chance for a AoO from a crit. We should be able to do this with our hasteed movement.

Hmmm....If Quzman decides to try the full attack, Jameena should be able to reach Ty's body and pick up one of his weapons. It won't be a scimitar, but it will get her back in the fight.

Hmmm....If Quzman decides to try the full attack, Jameena should be able to reach Ty's body and pick up one of his weapons. It won't be a scimitar, but it will get her back in the fight.

Sorry for the delay. I think I'll go with this, as I can't get to you to get the weapon to you, and it's going to be one of the few points I'll be able to make a possible difference. Also, if you can get Ty's ax, I'll be able to provide a flank for you before Eli gets over.

Ok, that was less than impressive.

Let's see what Eli can do.

This is really quite ironic - we are carrying a virtual arsenal: two kukri from the goblin, the carrion king's axe, the magic longspear, Ty's axe, the axe from the tomb and a collection of spare daggers, But Jameena is not carrying ONE of these weapons. Stupid 10 STR.

Eli, how would you feel about lending me Tempest? If you hand it off, I can make three smite attacks against Zayifid with flank from Quzman. That should give us a good chance of dropping him.

Eli wouldn't hand off Tempest, he sees it as some kind of magical power that choose him and that he is the one blessed/cursed to carry it.

Well, oh Chosen of Vardishal...any bright ideas?

Lucendar, a ruling question for you.

I'm considering casting Unseen Servant. Does it require anything other than a free action to give it a command? Does it act on its own initiative or mine? If it acts on mine, do I have to wait a full round before it can take its first action? Does it get a normal range of actions in a turn (i.e. a move and a standard)?

Thanks!

Lucendar, a ruling question for you.

I'm considering casting Unseen Servant. Does it require anything other than a free action to give it a command? Does it act on its own initiative or mine? If it acts on mine, do I have to wait a full round before it can take its first action? Does it get a normal range of actions in a turn (i.e. a move and a standard)?

Thanks!

Ok, after thinking about it...

1. Free action to command
2. It would act on your initiative count, after you.
3. The first round it is summoned it can do a move or standard, not both
4. On subsequent rounds, a standard and move

Thank you. I posted an action based on your interpretation of the spell. Which is pretty much what I was thinking, but I just wanted to be sure.

Thank you. I posted an action based on your interpretation of the spell. Which is pretty much what I was thinking, but I just wanted to be sure.

Yeah, but you misread the part where it could only take a move or standard in the first round, not both. Picking up the weapon is a move so that would be the servant's only action this round. He could not take it to Jameena this round. You may edit your action...again, if you wish.

Can't you step as part of a move action where you aren't actually moving?

Take 5-Foot Step
You can move 5 feet in any round when you don't perform any other kind of movement. Taking this 5-foot step never provokes an attack of opportunity. You can't take more than one 5-foot step in a round, and you can't take a 5-foot step in the same round that you move any distance.

Thank you for giving me the option to revise, but Dumah would have the servant pick it up and stay in its square, still offering it to her. At least it gets it off the floor where our nimble Janni friend can't get it easily.

Sorry for the late notice, but my wife and I are going out of town tomorrow morning, and will not be back till late on Sunday. Feel free to DMNPC if you feel up to it, but I'll check if I get the opportunity (but I don't think I'll get much of a chance).