Megan's Curse of the Crimson Throne (Inactive)

Game Master Megan Robertson

To be fair though, that pretty much is Gorum's default position, right?

Pretty much Ragathiel's as well.

Well, that's up to you. She might take exception though...

Waiting on you Megan.

Bring it.

...
The dark was his.
And he would strike when needed.
"Justice, like lightning."

~

LOLS! You just made my day... ! :)

I have a superhero I designed for a Villans & Vigilantes Game named Thunderbolt...
whose catch phrase is "Justice like Lightning!"

Villans & Vigilantes - Thunderbolt

Gave me a BIG Smile! Thanks! :)

No worries.

"Ashe is my social skill": Ebon Wings ;P

Ashe is not feeling very diplomatic with these thugs ... his patience is wearing very thin. Especially, when women are sexually harassed.. THAT INFURIATES Ashe!!!

Men who take advantage of women or hurt them merely for their own sick pleasure are worse than demons to Ashe. Such ignoble/unmanly actions puts him in a killing rage... which he realizes is unjustified in itself... but its how he feels none-the-less.

Just a tip Ebon, but from now on i would suggest you fill up your spell slots at the beginning of each day and not leave blanks.. It takes an hour for you to get new spells and we are often not gonna have the time to do that..

Also, just to make sure you all saw it and write it down i gave out 3 wands to the new comers when we started adventuring together..

Ebon-Wand of Cure Mod(2d8+3) 27/50 charges
Jaessa-Wand of Cure Serious(3d8+5) 37/50 charges and Wand of Lesser Resto 47/50 charges..

Please keep up with charges used..

I think it only takes an hour if I do them all, doesn't it? Minimum is 15 minutes? Also, I think I can use one of those slots for a summon if worst comes to worst.
Too many times I have ended up with the wrong spell load out, so I started leaving blanks until I knew what I faced.

Im not sure about a minimum.. In the Arcane Discovery, Fast Study, text it says "Or proportionately less if he only prepares some spells, with a minimum of 15 minutes of preparation", but i can find no where it says how many "some" spells are.. Perhaps its a GM Call.. Regardless its better to have the wrong spell loadout than none at all.. At least that way you can swap em for Summon Nature spells, which you can't with just blank spell slots..

When I play higher level memorized casters, especially pfs, i too will occasionally leave a spell slot open, but only ever 1 per level max.. Not 2, 3, or even 4 slots open..

When preparing spells for the day, a divine spellcaster can leave some of her spell slots open. Later during that day, she can repeat the preparation process as often as she likes. During these extra sessions of preparation, she can fill these unused spell slots. She cannot, however, abandon a previously prepared spell to replace it with another one or fill a slot that is empty because she has cast a spell in the meantime. Like the first session of the day, this preparation takes at least 15 minutes, and it takes longer if she prepares more than one-quarter of his spells.

If he wants to prepare all his spells, the process takes 1 hour. Preparing some smaller portion of his daily capacity takes a proportionally smaller amount of time, but always at least 15 minutes, the minimum time required to achieve the proper mental state.

There's a question there as to whether it is proportional to spells, or spell levels (does a level 9 spell take longer to prepare than a level 1 spell).

I hadn't realised about open slots need being swappable for SNA though! That makes a big difference. SNA is so flexible I wasn't too worried about having open slots, as I could always swap them for an SNA.

I'll try to memorise up at the next opportunity.

Also, just to make sure you all saw it and write it down i gave out 3 wands to the new comers when we started adventuring together..

Ebon-Wand of Cure Mod(2d8+3) 27/50 charges
Jaessa-Wand of Cure Serious(3d8+5) 37/50 charges and Wand of Lesser Resto 47/50 charges..

Please keep up with charges used..

The wand on my profile is the wand from the chest in #5388

That was the wand i had gave you.. Ill erase it from my profile.. U have it now..

But the wand in the chest had 30 charges. Are you sure they are the same wand? #5399 the plan was for EW to be the backup healer - I don't remember using the wand at all.
Bit worried there are two wands that are being conflated.

I might have just wrote the charges down wrong.. The cure mod and cure serious wands were both found treasure so.. I dont remember finding 2 cure mod wands..

The wand I have is the one that was in the chest that we got given at the very start of this particular phase of the adventure, if that helps.

Is there a Map of the Emperor's palace?

Yes, but it is going to take some fiddling... Trouble is, a lot of the maps provided in these APs are for the DM, they haven't considered maps for players much.

Megan, what do you wish us to do about 3.5 items, such as the cloak of charisma +2 and gauntlets of ogre power? keep them as such or convert them to pathfinder, which would be Headband of Charisma +2 and Belt of Str +2, unless the guantlets were +4..

Good question. I don't mind, really.

To my mind it doesn't really matter if it's a cloak or a headband, it is the power embued in them that is significant. I doubt every magical crafter who wants to make a charisma-enhancing item reaches for a headband. Some must use something else... consider if you were making one for a noble lady, she probably wouldn't want a headband, she'd prefer a necklace or a brooch.

The gauntlets of ogre power are +2, so directly equivalent to the belt of strength. Again, if you'd rather have a belt than gauntlets we can change it.

Just keep an eye on your slots.

Right on.. Ive always been cool when people are crafting to let them make stuff however they wanted as long as the correct price was paid for it..

The time has come, the walrus said
To think of many things
Of love and string and sealing wax
And cabbages and kings
And whether seas are boiling hot
Or whether pigs have wings...

And more importantly: IT'S LEVEL UP TIME!!

Well that didn't take long.. 2nd attack here i come!

Level up time? Wow, that was fast!
Guess that's why it is good to come in half way through an adventure :)

'Ding' Holy Vindicator!

Holy Vindicator?
For only 1 llevel right? Paladin's give up soooo much for multiclassing. I can see how Vindicator's Shield is appealing. But really with sooo many LOH hp I never needed to.

This is Str Ranger. Check out my Level 13 sacred Servant Pally. He kicks mega a$$. No where near as well rounded as Ashe is but the 10 rds of WEAPON MASTER power and the Call Planar Ally for a Movanic Diva is mega Awesome.

HP: 1d8 ⇒ 7

:)

Sacred Bonuses [which is what the Vindicator's shield grants] add to CMD and effectively every other level as my channel positive energy goes up... so does my AC / CMD! I don't need to heal myself.. I rarely get hit.. and almost NEVER critted!

The Aura of Resolve you give up as the Sacred Servant... turns a paladin's mind into a fortress.. unshakable even by the most powerful of mind effecting effects. The paladin is simply immune.

Ashe is built around being... basically just plain invulnerable to harm.. but too dangerous to think one can ignore him! His smite evil is quite devastating.. and he's only 7th level right now.

Imagine what his AC and damage will be once he has combined a Phalytery of Positive Channeling {for an additional +50% cost only} with his upgraded Headband of Alluring Charisma +4 at level 13? That's a +8 Sacred Bonus to AC and CMD!

Not that I'm exactly sure how far this AP will go.. but I DO intend to make levels of Holy Vindictor... but only after Ashe has gotten a total of 12 levels in paladin.

I'll be interested to see how it goes.

Paladin advances channel energy at the same rate as HV, so 1 level is actually all you need if you just want the Sacred Bonuses.

as for Aura of Resolve. Great Power. but barring 1's unlikely to be needed.
Ashe's and Daniel's saves are in auto pass territory.
and there is a wayfinder+Ioun stone combo that grants almost as much protection.

I like the different builds though.
Ashe is a Pure Tank. Heaps of AC and a Big Gun
Daniel is a Self Propelled Artillary Gun, Lower AC and All Firepower. (The Movanic Deva spamming Holy Smite and acting as a heal battery for the party is also sweet.)

Pretty Sure I am sorted for levelling.

Learned 2 new 3rd level spells.
Stinking Cloud and Monstrous Physique. (gonna start rocking a Gargoyle form for extra attacks)

an extra 2nd and 3rd level slot.
few more skills
+1 BAB (got my second attack now)

I'll be interested to see how it goes.

Paladin advances channel energy at the same rate as HV, so 1 level is actually all you need if you just want the Sacred Bonuses.

as for Aura of Resolve. Great Power. but barring 1's unlikely to be needed.
Ashe's and Daniel's saves are in auto pass territory.
and there is a wayfinder+Ioun stone combo that grants almost as much protection.

I like the different builds though.
Ashe is a Pure Tank. Heaps of AC and a Big Gun
Daniel is a Self Propelled Artillary Gun, Lower AC and All Firepower. (The Movanic Deva spamming Holy Smite and acting as a heal battery for the party is also sweet.)

Lol! Yeah I know about that Ioun stone Wayfinder combo... its on my list to acquire. Its 'why', besides the fact Ashe is a Pathfinder ... that is why I'm carrying a wayfinder at all. I just didn't have the cash to get the Clear Spindle Ioun Stone with my last purchsaes. I'd also like to get my hands on a Nacreous grey sphere Ioun stone.. but that is really a luxury.

If Ashe EVER earns even just a single Mythic level .. I'll not need the Nacreous stone as Ashe will already then be unaging.. and no longer constrained by time so he can continue hunting evil ...literally forever; until something kills him that is!

Okay, I think Ebon is good to go.
Figured I can't fill the new spell slots till he gets 15 minutes.
Let's do this!

I think the standard ending level for this campaign is ard 14th.. Now Megan might choose to take it higher or whatev's..

I also use Gargoyle form for the gore and bite attack on my 9th level pfs magus.. Remember you gain flight and darkvision as well with it up.. And the stat bumps/NA bump..

Yeah, gotta put together a shapeshifted avatar before I use it.

Actually you should be 14th-level by the beginning of the final book... but it was written pre-Pathfinder never mind mythic stuff :)

EW is interested in cloaker bashing :)

"Let's beat some rugs"... no, no, "Let's fold some laundry!"

{Blush}.. I've read the module blurbs for the AP in the advetisements for the Curse of the Crimson Throne modules.. not anything in the actual module.. but I see we end up going to Scar Wall and develing through that..were like supposed to remove some curse fromt he curse place of legend. That seems something Worthy of a Mythic level.. but I'm just hopeful! :)

Just seen. Paizo FINALLY released a Monstrous Humanoid that has POUNCE:tikbalang CR9

For now, also gotta remember spellcombat+bladed dash is pounce anyway

Nice.. Ill have to update my Polymorph list..

thanks Ashe

Megan I got a question...

Can an existing weapon that is already magical ...be reforged/enchanted made of a different material..with say a +50% increase cost for the effective 'adding an additional enchantment' as mentioned on the CORE rule PF p. 553 "Adding New Abilities"?

Speciafically could Ashe have Dauntless Heart refogred/enchanted made of Cold Iron... without loosing all he's already invested int he enchantment in the weapon already? [ie. Not have to buy the whole sword all over again?]

With what I'm proposing it would cost {if you would allow it}, +2,000gp [additional cost to enchant Cold Iron weapons - one time cost] + Longsword-Cold Iron [30gp {cold Iron weapons cot 2x their normal versions}] + 50%

Total = 2,000gp + 30 gp + 50% = 3,045gp additional Cost to Dauntless Heart's current cost of 8,465gp. Grand total Value of weapon 11,510gp

..of course Ashe could NOT do that right now... but later.

Much latter on..possibly after we have split up any loot from the Arkona palace as I expect we will have to fight to make them release Vencarlo and Kadapopolis to us... I want to Add Holy to Ashe's Dauntless Heart.. the last enchantment.

If I can get it reforged in a new material...might as do that at the same time.

Dauntless Heart would be...

+1 Holy, Greyflame, Cold Iron Longsword-Conscreated "Paladin - Celestial Bonded" - 35,510gp Total

I've gotten a dash confused. How many snowballs did Ebon Wings use?

Ebon has used two snowballs I believe...

Fair enough.

Wasn't sure if it was surprise + round 1 or
round 1 + round 2. Would have thought the second snowball would have taken out a choker (a 14 touch attack is enough to hit most things in the game at our level) if it had been cast.

Hopefully the dice roller has finished hating me with a 3, a 1 and a 2!

The 'Adding New Abilities' section (Pathfinder RPG Core Rules p.553) talks about adding extra capabilities to an existing magic item, NOT re-making it completely in a different substance. What is Dauntless Heart made of at the moment? And how do you propose to keep it as the same sword if you want a sword made of cold iron instead of its current construction? That's what is puzzling me.

Adding 'Holy' to what's already on it, fine.

Ebon Wings - there wasn't a surprise round, they were waiting for you. And they are very nimble, but weak once you actually connect with them.

Dauntless Heart is currently made of typical mundane Steel.
I am proposing having a Cold Iron Longsword forged and ten have the Enchantments upon Dauntless Heart ritually transferred to the new Cold Iron Longsword... expending the old current physical form of Dauntless Heart as a material component to be expended in the enchantment transferal process. The "enchantment" on the current Dauntless Heart is not destroyed... just transferred to a new vessel.

It would sort of be like a paladin with the Weapon Bond re-enchanting his 'chosen weapon' with his Celestial Spirit bond... something else Ashe would have to do as well for he would be effectively destroying his old sword to enchant his 'replacement' weapon.

I'm merely asking if YOU Megan, would allow such a enchantment transferal process using the "adding new abilities" cost increase as a reasonable price for such a magical enchantment transferal process.

If you don't think its possible.. I'm cool with it and I'll just leave Ashe's sword made of mundane steel, adding holy when I can afford it.

There is always Versatile Weapon if you can work out how to make it permanent.

@Megan: totally fine with no surprise round. I probably should have held off on my first attack :)

Two snowballs it is.

If your looking for DR Bypassing the best way is to just up the enchancement.. Holy works for most higher outsiders.. I see it as very far fetched to "transfer" the essence of the weapon into a new one, i mean its not sentient is it?