MiniGM's Curse of the Crimson Throne E6 (Inactive)

Game Master Vuvu

This is where we discuss stuff

Welcome. Those of you already joining please review the remaining candidates. I suspect I will be taking 2 more, maybe 3.

Please post two or three sentences about how you see your play style with this character so I can assign you gear

You are also welcome to make a post in the GP thread if you would like as you wake up

Please take a look at the way I have created the stat and skill line for this avatar. Please do that for your characters as well. This allows combat to go faster and for me to bot you easier as needed.

Bot-line should be set up properly.

Kara is a melee warrior. Focus Weapon means she can cast spells, even when her hands are full, so long as she's wielding Inner Fire (or other longswords, I suppose), so she'll definitely be hiding behind a shield most of the time. Her dex is low, and heavy armor is expensive, so the extra protection is definitely worth the tradeoff. She can heal, in a tight spot, but prefers to be at the frontline, doling out blows.

As for armor, she wears whatever is regulation among the City Guard.

Donnen is a rogue with two-weapon fighting - so, besides the dagger, I guess I'd need another light weapon.

It's important for Donnen to be able to feint (which he does based in INT, not CHA) well, flank and all those roguish rogue things.

He probably needs more armor (something light... He has a +4 dex right now) :)

Kazadarin is a switch hitter ranger. Bow until melle range then in your face with his Great club. Will aim to be using medium armor at some point as his main focus will be as a front line combatant. Secondary will be stealth and back up to the rouge in Disable device.

Hmm. While we've technically started, would you allow me to move some stat points around?

Basically I'd like to do

16, 12, 14, 10, 15, 14

Instead of

17, 8, 14, 10, 16, 14.

yes thats fine

donnen1d50 ⇒ 2 gold 1d50 ⇒ 49 silver 2d100 ⇒ (71, 44) = 115 copper
Kaz 1d50 ⇒ 30 gold 1d50 ⇒ 46silver 2d100 ⇒ (16, 12) = 28 copper

Darry is a stalwart fellow always ready to charge into the fray with his faithful hound. . . that being said. I see him hanging back and using his sling to it utmost effectiveness, reserving his ability to charge into melee for when his friends are either getting overwhelmed, or when something needs to go down quickly. He is well aware he is but a halfling, and as courageous as he might be, Tall folk do have a slight advantage on him. (though that recklass trait means he will charge into things more often than not)

Will have the statline up sometime tonight hopefully.

I look forward to gaming with you all!

It did occur to me that some of us probably know one another, For instance, I am sure Darry has run across Kara a time or two amongst the guard

curious that you aren't going with the warslinger halfling trait

oh im dumb you do

is he a charge in with a lance or more cautious type? I am thinking the lance?

Indeed the lance. :) like I said im plan on starting ranged and trying to stay there, but.. being recklass i cant imagine he stays there long.

(in truth i expect the first time an ally recieves a telling blow on the frontline its a god save the queen charge sort of moment)

Awesome thanks, will have everything all filled out soon!

@GM: Is the Mithril Dagger in my list the "Dagger of Secrets" I stole or is it my offhand dagger? Otherwise, would you give me its stats?

It's just a mithril dagger.

Functions as a MW dagger weighs half as much and counts as silver w no damage minus

Oh, I meant the stats of the "dagger of secrets", so I can add on the hero lab sheet :)

oh. right now it is just a +1 dagger

I set you up to duel wield :)

In addition to your vitals and skills please add a tracker for "harrow points".

Thanks Mini! I edited my sheet to include all gear and the harrow points. Some points:

1 - Are we ignoring encumbrance? Because if we're not, my gear will make me heavily encumbered :(

2 - I didn't find the acid flasks and masterwork stealth tools in Hero Lab, so I added them as custom valuables. Not sure what's their practical effect though (I can imagine the acid flasks as some throwables maybe?)

Acid flask is a d6 throwable splash weapon. Weird it's not in there

MW stealth gives +2 strealth.

Not ignoring encumbrance so I guess you will have to pick and choose what you carry :)

I added a small spoiler in the end with the items he's carrying with him. He's leaving everything else in Korvosa itself, at home (since he's a local).

How much does the MW Stealth tools weight? And the acid flasks?

The backpack isn't masterwork, right?

not MW

Acid flaks wegh 1 pound just like an alchemist fire

im shocked its not in your hero lab, that makes no sense

How do harrow points work?

I'll explain once we have everyone

Donnen please update you statlines as shown in this profile.

Kaz please put your skills in one

Which day is it in-game?

Wealday

Wednesday if we use our calendar :)

I will put my skills in a spoiler when I get on my computer later tonight. My phone is not cooperating.

Hmm. Those thugs, could I feasibly run them down? Keeping in mind that I'm on 20ft speed, but I might be able to intercept them if they come close by.

They are heading your way. so yes you could easily get them

Thanks for the selection and I look forward to this game, guys.

Gene (Eugeni's nickname to some friends) tends to get in the middle of things and attack mercilessly. He's pretty focused on his revenge at the moment. However, he will still be intelligent about the way he goes about it. Also, he will use his dexterity and nimbleness to his advantage.

How does the judical system of Korvosa work? In most countries, you can generally be convicted if an officer says (well, testifies, but same thing, really) he saw you do something, but I'm not quite sure if that's the case here.

I think I have the stat lines set up.

Play style: On his own, Aison would rather talk his way out of trouble than fight. If it does come down to combat he'll try to escape by use of his various magical tricks. Failing that he's pretty good with a crossbow, and as a last resort he has a holdout dagger or two on his person most of the time.

As part of a group he'll look to bring good fortune to his comrades, plink away with a crossbow, and bring bad luck and inconvenience to the bad guys.

Should I also be waking up over on the gameplay thread?

Just went back through the Guide to Korvosa, and I actually can't find anything about that.

It is an interesting place. Laws are strict as are punishments. They also REALLY revere their law. So I am inclined to say that JUST your word is not enough to get them convicted. There would have to be a trial. That said you could get them locked up for a bit.

if someone knows that I am missing something let me know, but until then I am inclined to go with that

both gene and Aison can make a gp post. Alison, working on your gear now.

once you post I Will tell you about your cards

Just went back through the Guide to Korvosa, and I actually can't find anything about that.

It is an interesting place. Laws are strict as are punishments. They also REALLY revere their law. So I am inclined to say that JUST your word is not enough to get them convicted. There would have to be a trial. That said you could get them locked up for a bit.

if someone knows that I am missing something let me know, but until then I am inclined to go with that

Hmm. Would you prefer if I let them go? Right now it'd probably make things less complicated game-play wise, but that's an OOC consideration. IC, I'm leaning towards her reaction to be to beat them up and take them down to the station, probably trying to get ahold of whoever they treathened as a witness.

MiniGM wrote:

Just went back through the Guide to Korvosa, and I actually can't find anything about that.

It is an interesting place. Laws are strict as are punishments. They also REALLY revere their law. So I am inclined to say that JUST your word is not enough to get them convicted. There would have to be a trial. That said you could get them locked up for a bit.

if someone knows that I am missing something let me know, but until then I am inclined to go with that

Hmm. Would you prefer if I let them go? Right now it'd probably make things less complicated game-play wise, but that's an OOC consideration. IC, I'm leaning towards her reaction to be to beat them up and take them down to the station, probably trying to get ahold of whoever they treathened as a witness.

100% up to you! If you wanna dive into that, we can, if you would rather just move on to the house you can.

Okay. I'm always a bit hesitant on hopping off on my own little tangent if the GM wants us to go somewhere.

MiniGM: Swag acquired! I added it on my profile. When I head outside I'll note what I take with me on there. If you'd prefer I set it up to show up automatically with the stats somewhere please let me know.

Also, just to confirm: no second level hex for the unsworn shaman? The class features from the pfs rd are:

It seems like if they'd just made it say 'this ability replaces hex' everything would've been fine. As is, it says it 'alters' hex,which of course is a stupid thing to say, as it doesn't say what parts to retain and what parts to toss - indeed, it's possible to argue that you should just keep all your static hexes.

I am choosing to read it as you get a hex at 2 but it comes from one of your spirits. Seems like you have a more limited choice of hex

Or I could be convinced that it changes everyday...

Also you can just out a star next to what you carry.

I'll trust you :)

It's kind of amazing how sloppy their drafting is, but I think the double dipping is easy enough to shoot down: the archetype alters the fourth level hex from a static hex into a flexible hex.

Keeping the second level static hex keeps the hex count the same between the regular shaman and the unsworn shaman (regular shaman: 2, 4, flex 6; unsworn: 2, flex 1, 4). The regular shaman gets earlier entry into all of the class features. Does that make the unsworn shaman too good? I don't know. Paizo puts a very high value on flexibility (see: wizard vs sorceror) so I suspect that if they ever clarified they would take all the static hexes away, but I don't think keeping the 2/10 hexes is inherently crazy.

I like the archetype because it lets you get mileage out of the sub-optimal hexes that you would never choose to be stuck with long-term. I think it makes for a fun character even if it isn't a great min-max archetype.

ETA: spirit hex at 2 is fine with me. If that's the case then it kind of has to change since the spirit can change (unless you want me to split spirit and hex, but that would be exploit city). If you want a static hex from the generic shaman list that's cool too.

It's kind of amazing how sloppy their drafting is, but I think the double dipping is easy enough to shoot down: the archetype alters the fourth level hex from a static hex into a flexible hex.

Keeping the second level static hex keeps the hex count the same between the regular shaman and the unsworn shaman (regular shaman: 2, 4, flex 6; unsworn: 2, flex 1, 4). The regular shaman gets earlier entry into all of the class features. Does that make the unsworn shaman too good? I don't know. Paizo puts a very high value on flexibility (see: wizard vs sorceror) so I suspect that if they ever clarified they would take all the static hexes away, but I don't think keeping the 2/10 hexes is inherently crazy.

I like the archetype because it lets you get mileage out of the sub-optimal hexes that you would never choose to be stuck with long-term. I think it makes for a fun character even if it isn't a great min-max archetype.

ETA: spirit hex at 2 is fine with me. If that's the case then it kind of has to change since the spirit can change (unless you want me to split spirit and hex, but that would be exploit city). If you want a static hex from the generic shaman list that's cool too.

Technically, it does change something that happens at second level too, though.