Mivon Watch Guard

Game Master GM_Solspiral

Haven't heard from Fluffball or Milo in a bit perhaps the site changes?

Amelia, no WONDER your dancing was ... off. Luck on the save!

LOL, too much work, not enough play for Amelia lately as an attorney (and my forgetting about the preview window same dice result thing..)

Also you folk have my wife to thank for Amelia, she loves police procedurals and crime dramas...I just live with her, but seems it soaks in after a bit. ;)

I know the feeling, I married an Attorney, with a fondness for similar shows.

And work is FINALLY, starting to slow down for the day.

Amelia's company provided security guard checking in.

Ha...I get the night off.

I'll give fluffball the weekend to surface before giving his spot to an alternate.

We shall pause til Monday.

Makes sense.... They're still active elsewhere on the forums as of yesterday...

I have to apologize- one of my close family friends had a stroke on Tuesday, and I've kind of struggled to keep up here (as well as other campaigns) as a result. She's about as fine as one can expect after a stroke, and they got her home yesterday, so I should be fine from here on out- but if ya'll feel the need to boot me anyways, that's fair. I should, however, be fine from here on out. There's been a lot of activity in this group, so I'm going to read through it now and get a post up soon.

Welcome back, glad to hear your friend is doing alright. Not GMing here, but for my part I see no reason to boot Fluff.

Extenuating circumstances and all.

@Fluffy RL happens, sorry to hear about your family friend. Of course you're good to continue, I wanted to make sure gang was all together before moving into combat.

I will post this evening narrating through the 3 rounds of actions and getting things rolling. The barmaids are a Vishkanya girl gang with the racial traits to make them look more human and the feat that gives them a sleep venom. They and the bartender will be acting same round as the gang comes in.

Since their objectives are not murder the guard and are more like grab and go the combat is actually likely to be short and possibly turn into a chase scene. This can go a great many complex ways so we shall see.

@Hoch if I tweaked Detectives requirements to something more Wis-centric would that have more appeal?

Yeah, that sounds more like something Hock would be interested in going for...a more lone wold sort of position, but still having to function within a group...

Chelaxian standoff yo... ;)

::grumble:: My charge would get herself into trouble at the place it seems least likely...and where I am not.

They better not dock my pay...the firm sent her to the fancy shindig in the first place and told me to take the night off.

Lawyers...

@Hoch making some alterations to make this more flexible and wis friendly

Detective
Requirements Perception and Sense Motive in class skills with at least 3 ranks, Int 12 or Wis 12 minimum.
Trainees are issued Traveler's Any Tool, Eyes of the Eagle, sleeves of many garments, and an ioun torch.
Full members
-trade in their sleeves for a hat of disguise and reconnaissance gloves
-get +1 languages per rank in linguistics
-Access to the Investigator’s library which can add a +10 to knowledge checks
-Can either swap Int for Wis on perception, survival tracking, and sense motive checks or Wis for int on knowledge skill checks.
OR
-Can use Wisdom bonus in place of Int for bonus skill points.
-half price potions and scrolls

Looks good!! Like being able to swap WIS and INT for skills and more skill points!!

Just like to say that "Merciful head-butt" is pure gold....you can't BUY stuff like that. I laughed so hard it hurt. Well played Sven, well played!

Milo you're up. If we get through the day without action then your action will be moved to bistander innit.

Just like to say that "Merciful head-butt" is pure gold....you can't BUY stuff like that. I laughed so hard it hurt. Well played Sven, well played!

Thank you. :)

While I know that it would have made much more sense mechanically to have the merciful enchantment be on his shield (it'd do much more damage. The headbutt is 1d4+1d6+7 damage. If it was on the shield it would have been 3d6+10 damage), the image struck me as golden.

I just like the idea of the dwarf stomping on someone's foot, then grabbing them by the shirt and headbutting them into submission.

Owww, the foot stomp is a good height counter for the stout folk, I approve!

She? Might want to check/reroll your cutlass damage. I believe you rolled the wrong die type.

Aye, actually She, you ended up rolling a 1d20 rather than a 1d6 for weapon base damage (likely copied your dice string and forgot to change 20 to 6 :) )

Changing how I worded the rest of my actions and totally failed to spot silly damage. I'm a bit surprised I hit with that attack roll, actually.

Learning moment - read everything several times and think about numbers before posting

New spell Greese kinda like Grease but a little more Geezy

I have noticed that a good rule of thumb is to focus on your dice string expressions in IC post, you can always change everything else after you submit, but that bit of course you can't. May have learned that through some poor dancing LOL.

Before I forget - might be away from the computer all day on Wednesday, it's my wedding anniversary

@ Andy Brown Early congrats to you Sir!

BTW, I would like to say, well done Watch PC's, well done!

Congratulations Andy!

Congrats to Andy

So gang, unfortunately it seems Hoch is dropping out.

We seem to as a group have a bit of a Wisdom and Investigation weakness so I'm likely to invite a replacement.

Was there anyone form the recruitment thread you guys were hoping to play with? Basically I'm allowing for some player input here.

I also learned some tricks for our next combat as I'm clear that the mapping situation caused some headaches.

Google docs is good for mapping I've found. Copy the map you want into the drawings section. Copy the players icons, make it editable by anyone with the link and they can move themselves where they wish to be.

That’d be my suggestion too.
Also, good job everyone on that last Combat :)

On the front of the refilling of ranks... I took a quick look over the recruitment thread, and Alma (the ghost), seemed the most intriguing from a technical standpoint, and might fit... the others I had been curious about withdrew, or were barely more than an interest dot, or were drawn off of the Echo Bonded archetype, which had it's problem of being not easy to look up.

You had said you had a couple of Alternates in mind?

On the subject of maps ... I like maps! But I think we managed well, with a little extra work all around.

Sorry guys I'll post again tomorrow, just a little burnt out from work.

So I do downtime or between the cases with various threads that may or may not come up later. As an Urban game you're free to roleplay and touch on the various threads I'll be weaving or we can do little side scenes.

My next intended adventure was going to be a Murder Mystery but as you lost your party Wisdom and do not yet have an investigator type I'm going to go with a different plot. Jeff is likely going to fill out out with an investigator type prolly staying with Amellia but we will see. Until then I'm not going to penalize you with plot you are not at all built for.

Murder Mysteries are fun ... but, well, Alan's super limited into what he can help with other than interrogation, and even then he needs someone to detect lies before learning Abadar's Truthtelling at level 4... And even then, that's 1 spell/day.

Amelia could possible be convinced to join the Watch, though possibly a package deal with a certain Half-Orc (up to Frank of course), and competing with her salary from a big time law firm could be tricky. Nothing wrong with "Lawful Ambitious" IMHO ;).

Owww...did someone just propose a dust-up...!?

I do have a plan just been a bit busy at work. Basically I'm going to start havign "murder scenes" and there's going to be a mix of PC and NPC partners to investigate the scenes and I'll tailor it so each of you have an opportunity to be useful (i.e. let the Paladin use his charisma to talk to witnesses for example.)

I think we have lost Fluffy I'm sad to say. Good news we have a replacement player.

Took a break for that as being down 2 and having no investigator type character was going to be annoying.

Licitus feel free to introduce your character.

Jeff you can bring in both but once combat starts basically lawyer lady has no actions.

That'll give you 2 solid investigators and a ranged helper.

The Circus was supposed to introduce a bad scene... I'll make adjustments. I hope Fluffy's player is okay

Hope so as well.

Allow me to introduce Roedar, a cleric with an investigator bent. I'll give more info in a bit, when I have a little more time, but I wanted to get this to you.

I've read the gameplay and discussion to this point, and I'm excited to join in. Excellent role play and first encounter!

Welcome!

Thanks!

Roedar will provide support and, hopefully, help prepare us for battle and catching the bad guys. He is interested in researching those who abuse their power over others and bringing them to justice.

He also has a certain affinity for rats, even sounding like one when fighting.

Here's to Roedar meshing well and lots of enjoyment!

Welcome to the Squad

Do investigator cadets have any access to the library? Perhaps with supervision?

Do investigator cadets have any access to the library? Perhaps with supervision?

It's mostly an arcane library so it's usually of limited use to non-twinklefoots but they can get a guest pass and take reesponsibility for your actions in said library.

ahh, ok. I was hoping the knowledge checks in general could be researched in the library. To the streets, then!

This should prove useful for you Roedar (for basic Golarion stuff)

https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Pathfinder_Wiki

Thanks for the link. Looks like I get that +10 for library access, after all!