yes its very good still, My 9th level bloodrager mythic tier 3 on a 20pt buy in a home wrath of the righteous game was doing 4d6+70something+2d6bane with mythic improved critical so on a crit with the greatsword it was 210+dice damage and could vital strike 2 times a round with mythic initiative and able to do 2 standard actions a round for a mythic point. Encounters became very short. It is still really good and powerful.
I also plan on taking Vital Strike because all martial artist know how or eventually know how to hit vitals. After all, you are not going to win a fight without hitting vitals.
Sneak attack is already exactly the same flavor as vital strike and you already got that. It's unfortunately much further away than I thought, but once I pick up Golden Commander's stance you'll be able to sneak attack much more reliably.
CT, is Quassine understanding any of the common or can make any details of the words spoken by either the Marshals or the Dwarf Skiff pilot?
Xanya will pass it on
No, the languages are just too different. You can use linguistics to start establishing a base though. As with the goatling efforts, you will start with very crude concepts basically trying to learn very basic words. This is hard through context without translation, so if someone helps convey some of the concepts it may work, but it takes a LOT of exposure to piece if together. Now of course Quassine is a genius with 20 Int, and skill in linguistics so it will take less time, but certainly over the course of a few conversations you will be getting maybe a few pronouns, and some of the basic pronunciation and pace and word flow, possibly sentence structure.
Xanya is also a genius and will also try to learn common for next level. I think I'll also pick up terran or celestial.
Kiki will need you to teach her :)
Change and synergy ...
Quassine is ditching the goggles for a hooded monk outfit that looks more like a Jedi Knight outfit except it has no metal on it - sashes and tie strings like a traditional Gi are used instead of buckles, it is made from better materials, and made into one piece instead of 2 to 3 pieces like a Jedi Knight outfit. The reason for this is a hooded robe look with more mobility and to keep it one item.
Training Synergies and how we know each other more than just seeing each other in the dorm, cafeteria, or hallway ...
Synergy with Xanya - Once in a while, Quassine would sit in alchemy classes although most of his training came from working in the Goodwin Labs hence the underground Chemistry archetype.
Synergy with Kiki - Were in clandestine classes together.
Synergy with Hippy Dragon Boy - In Arcane studies together since Arcanist is a hybrid class.
Synergy with Goliath - In monk training together. It is always great to spar with a larger opponent because it makes you stronger, faster, humble, and fight harder.
Anything to add?
@CT - What was the quantity of each item I made or are they just beginning to take shape? Do you need me to roll?
What exactly are you making?
Quassine will work on all the backpacks, instead of just tying on straps, he is going to secure the leather straps through the basket weaving and eventually to the leather itself for extra strength since straps are one of the weak points. He will be making them all masterwork backpacks if possible.
Sorry about today. This just got lost in all I had to do. It's way to late here now :(. I'll try to pick up things and do better going forward.
To make masterwork backpacks you need better materials, and the wicker baskets you have can't be made into masterwork. The task (using unchained rules) I would consider simple (DC 10). You can make 1gp of prgoress a day, but the process you are doing you can probably accomplish everyone's packs since you are just reinforcing them.
Making a masterwork backpack is a DC 20 task.
Ok, that is fine, what do you want me to do? Roll?
or 22 of I don't get the +2 bonus for tools/
Sorry about today. This just got lost in all I had to do. It's way to late here now :(. I'll try to pick up things and do better going forward.
Wasn't worried, real life always takes priority.
@CT - Can we please add Silkweave to the list of special materials?
Thanks!
How long do we have to craft? I thought we arrived late? It seems weird to me that we can start crafting expensive items like masterwork backpacks, but if so I would like to start crafting Cryxial's saddle. IMHO there are tons of items that are more important than upgrading our backpacks to masterworks. Goliath already got enough carrying capacity to carry the entire team and all gear we might buy for a long long while.
I won't be able to post (much)(or at all) for the next 3 weeks, bot me as needed
Quassine only sleeps 2hours so he has time to craft while we sleep, but if the hammering wakes me up we may have issues :)
He was just adjusting the strap on the wicker basktets to be stronger and more useful. A DC 10 effort that he did overnight. Taking 10, you don't even need to roll for success, but higher rolls indicate double, triple etc progress, and in his case he was able to accomplish the task easily.
As stated he cannot make them masterwork due to lack of appropriate resources.
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@Kiki: Ok, hope you can check in here and there though.
Quassine only sleeps 2hours so he has time to craft while we sleep, but if the hammering wakes me up we may have issues :)
Ah, that's nice. Sadly I'm not picking up infusions until 4th level to give him crafter's fortune...
@Quassine: Are you picking up craft wonderous etc? It sounds like you'll be easily able to craft even with little to no downtime. I guess it depends on if we get resources, but it could be very useful. Though of course a question then becomes, how much do we save for the dragon turtle and how much do we craft for ourselves...
I was planning on taking Craft Magic Item feats. Unless we receive loads of treasure, let's focus on the Turtle because he may be our portal for Twin Mind?
I was planning on taking Craft Magic Item feats. Unless we receive loads of treasure, let's focus on the Turtle because he may be our portal for Twin Mind?
The turtle already said he wasn't going to give us twin mind.
But yeah, we have no idea when we actually get treasure. Craft Wonderous will save us more money the sooner we get it though. It's great that we have someone that plans to get it :). I think craft wonderous will be much more important than the other crafting feats since only Xanya and Kiki actually wears armor and we all get weapon enchantments for free.
Regardless, I think or hope it will still be beneficial.
EDIT: Looking back, he did not directly deny it to me but said he maybe able to help. If it does not come from him, the turtle may point us down the path to twin mind.
Regardless, I think or hope it will still be beneficial.
EDIT: Looking back, he did not directly deny it to me but said he maybe able to help. If it does not come from him, the turtle may point us down the path to twin mind.
Paying the turtle is still kinda our number 1 goal yeah. Really unfortunate we didn't ask exactly how much money it needs though.
Quassine only sleeps 2hours so he has time to craft while we sleep, but if the hammering wakes me up we may have issues :)
Goliath, do you hear much at the SCA after a day worth's of frolicking, heavy fighting, or whatever you do in the SCA? From experience in both the military and the SCA, most likely not, I am almost certain that Goliath would sleep through Quassine's leather working ... :-)
Yeah normal events can get quiet early sometime, but at war the drums will go till sunup some time :)
@CT - Can we please add Silkweave to the list of special materials?
Thanks!
I had intended the materials to be only for weapons primarily. Since silkweave doesn't do anything other than halve the weight and seem cool and awesome, we can just say your hooded monk robe is already made of silkweave and not worry about it.
I had intended the materials to be only for weapons primarily. Since silkweave doesn't do anything other than halve the weight and seem cool and awesome, we can just say your hooded monk robe is already made of silkweave and not worry about it.@CT - Can we please add Silkweave to the list of special materials?
Thanks!
Cool, thanks!
Formulating posts.
In the meantime, in response to Quassine, this is Simon .
WARNING: Picture with one word of adult language, for those at work.
LMAO, too funny! Ok, Butter-gator.
So, what do people think about swearing allegiance? Honestly I don't think it's a good idea. I don't want to serve this dwarven thain forever.
There is also the chance of course that the dwarves are the bad guys in this and the giants are the good ones. The black ice might be some caused by some atrocity committed by the dwarves.
I don't like it as well.
So uh yeah, aiding diplomacy is an incredible mechanic in this game. All of you have really good chance of succeeding and +8 is a huge bonus to my already great score...
Sorry for splitting it in two posts, so you have to write up text for two parts in order to provide aid.
@CaveToad: I find that the mechanics of cooperative skills like diplomacy doesn't work all that great in pbp. I've got a couple suggestions for how this can be solved:
The most common solution I've seen is to just have everyone roll, then the GM just takes the highest as the "real" roll and counts everything else as aid. This is incredible kind to the players, maybe overly so. It does deal with the problem of someone with a lower diplomacy score posting before the "high diplomacy" person and having to do any number of things that lead to feel bad scenarios. These scenarios include waiting even though you want to post and have something cool to post due to mechanics, posting and "ruining" the team's chance of making the check and making people who don't feel the skill feel like they can't contribute as much. This could work if it's accompanied by higher DCs. Then people don't have to worry about the difference between checks and aid and the play just flows all that much smoother.
The second solution would be to just play as given, but if the diplomacy check isn't high enough, wait a bit to give people an opportunity to aid the primary diplomacy person. This works closer to the mechanics of normal pathfinder, but still includes some of the feel bad scenarios from above.
@Simon: Love that aid post :).
Any time. ;)
Goliath can not give fealty until Goodwin is found. He is a questing knight :)
If Goliath has such a huge desire to serve someone Xanya would happily accept his service :p. I think it's better than serving an NPC. It seems as if he would have sworn himself to the Thain if not for Goodwin.
Kiki won't swear fealty either
LOL, our diplomacy score is up to 31 ... :-)
Xayna's 23 and each of our assists +8.
Let's see what cavetoad says to this spectacle. The score would have been much higher if we all aided one of the really high rolls though...
Shrugs, 31 is high and hindsight is 20/20, I surely didn't know that Kiki was going to roll a 20.
Despite our GM seemingly having taken the weekend off I really like the pace we kept this past week. Hopefully we'll keep going that way forward, or maybe even better? ;)
Keep in mind that diplomacy takes at least a minute to make a roll. Typically that will be a verbal exchange of at least a few sentences and so on. You can't just say a few words and bust out the diplomacy rolls. It does help of course if you are gracious and have appropriate greetings, but those alone only form the start. Typically I would think there would be a reply and then a reaction against it etc. Keep it in mind as these sort of interactions come up :)
Keep in mind that diplomacy takes at least a minute to make a roll. Typically that will be a verbal exchange of at least a few sentences and so on. You can't just say a few words and bust out the diplomacy rolls. It does help of course if you are gracious and have appropriate greetings, but those alone only form the start. Typically I would think there would be a reply and then a reaction against it etc. Keep it in mind as these sort of interactions come up :)
I agree, normally it would be a lot of back and forth. The nature of pbp makes this a lot harder though. Big monologues might be the natural way of speech, but they are better than waiting several weeks for back and forth. Of course if we are all online at the same time then back and forth is great. It's hard to know that in advance though. Still, we should try to do more back and forth, even if it means that things moves somewhat slowly ;).
Well, I also assume there may be more mannerisms and other things possibly said to facilitate, and allow a little bit of fuzziness and hand waving.
Seems like the majority is for heading out on some mission. Not all that surprising given that I at least don't see that much to preparing the defenses of the castle... Is Hawke in the room?
No he is out with his scouting team.
Just waiting for Xanya and Simon to get a chance to chime in, obviously busy today.