Of Kings and Commoners - Kingmaker AP

Game Master RPGGGM

Hej, Dwarves are not really impacted by armor or encumbrance. So Durgan could do a regular high jump with Illthir on top - then she could do a high jump while he's at the top of his jump.

Maybe that could help you get far enough up to see?

Durgan can do a lot of things decently well.

Let's see... his Acrobatics checks to jump would start at +1, then take a -5 ACP. At least he doesn't have the -4 for 20' speed (his base speed is 30' thanks to Travel Domain). But that is a net -4 anyway, which means that to make a standing high jump of 1' (DC 8) he needs to roll a 12+.

Now if he were to dip Order of the Hammer cavalier he could add his Str bonus to jump checks. But really Order of the Hammer is about getting Inspiring Flex (the most hilariously awesome power ever) at level 15, which is not a dip.

Yeah, but you just need a combined total of 10 feet.
And rolling below the needed 12+ would have no ill effect.
Say you roll good enough for 1 feet, and Illthir manages another 2 - with her base height and your base height stacked on top -
Dwarves are usually almost 4 feet and Half-Elves a bit over 5 feet.

So your combined towering height would already be almost 9 feet(she doesn't stand on your head, but the shoulders, I'd suspect)
Adding one more from your jump puts you at the height of the maze, and if Illthir manages another 2, she might get a small glance, at least on the layout.

But all that pales in comparison to Inspiring Flex, which I agree is hilarious and did not even know before. Thanks for bringing that to my attention. I will SO build an NPC doing that into any campaign of high enough level.

"It can be done." says the serious elf.

With a bit of luck, we can pool enough "10% off your next cursed maze" coupons from answering the imp to trap whomever sprung this on us in a green thorny hellscape for a long time :D

Re - Cleric Smacking

Flank and maybe some bits more ... If we were really paranoid we should compare her channel heal dice to expected cleric bab :D

Re - Post

Saw a shiny new 9 as I went to close down for the day. Should have checked earlier for sure! But I shall sleep on my hammer smack, maybe that'll improve the dice, and be back tomorrow :)

Mother Vorst is of roughly the same rank as Archbanker Barasav and the head of the regional Pharasman church in Brevoy--something Durgan would know given his knowledge of local religion.

Re song - there's 3 rounds left in the tank. Unfortunately it *sounds* like there may be more big monsters left, so I will attempt to save those. Unless things go pear-shaped ...

Well more acutely pear-shaped :p

Apologies, I thought I had posted already.
Alas, I'll be visiting family for a few days and won't have internet. Just wanted to give notification.

Thanks for the heads up.
I'll give Fergus a little bit and then get us rolling.
I'm a bit surprised there are no comments on the music for this fight. ;)

I'll admit I've been a bad skald and haven't checked this one. Clearly that was a mistake :d

Heading out the door. I'll handled the clap back when I get back tonight.

I am going to Disney World from tomorrow through the 12th of November. Please bot me as needed and I will try to check in as often as possible.

My schedule is a little wrecked today because of "democracy" and stuff.
I know, I know, 'priorities', right? Well hopefully everyone who has the chance to vote today already did, or is still going to, and I'll see everyone back here tomorrow.

Mm was hoping pink would step up so 3 people could stab it. But maybe it's dead and that won't matter ... Odds of Illthir noticing such a think if it happens :)?

Be back later tonight.

So, I don't mean to be greedy, but are we close to leveling up?
It has been over 3 years IRL and quite a lot has happened in the game.

Well we *could* ask the efreeti for more exp. Surely nothing bad could come from it :D

(Just wanted to preempt this terrible idea I had^^)

So, I don't mean to be greedy, but are we close to leveling up?

It has been over 3 years IRL and quite a lot has happened in the game.

Yes.

Oh no, wizard ego inflation. Dangerous things! :p

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Let's take a quick ooc stock of things.

Zokon hasn't shown up yet, so we might want to drop him off somewhere. Perhaps leave a few of the NPCs somewhere as well to make things more managable?

Illthir might need/want a brief pause/detour to grab her gear. She's nearly out of juice, but a reach pokey stick can do wonder for combat options!

If you aren't binding Efreeti to your will for unlimited wishes by level 9, are you even really power gaming?

Also There's been a death in my family, just giving a heads up that I won't be available for a few days.

Sorry to hear this, Fergus. Blessings be with you and your family.

My condolences. I hope things work out as well as they can :/

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Re wish shenanigans - man I was really racking my brain for some good wordplay there, though it ended up moot due to failed knowledge rolls anyhow.

Also There's been a death in my family, just giving a heads up that I won't be available for a few days.

Condolences on your loss. It's especially tough during the holidays.

Just got my new phone up and running after laundering my former phone last Friday. Sorry for the break.

I'll have the maps and next post up after work tonight. Let me know if you're character is doing anything in particular in the house aside from grabbing things from your rooms and noting that there is still a lich standing at the top of the third story stair.

Also condolences from me.

As for the lich and our gear - can we grab the lich as well?
Or only after Eldiocesan shows up and unlocks that part of the map?

@Powergaming: specifically attempted to avoid it, but I guess I can replicate a good old restoration/alchemy/enchanting loop...oh wait, we are not in Skyrim are we?

Yeah, I think Fergus was being facetious. I can't imagine anybody actually enjoys games with Efreeti binding at L9 (or simulacrum sno-cone wish machines). Sounds terrible.

So much of the optimization stuff I see on the forums I take to be people just pointing out the flaws in the system, rather than actually intending to play that way. But I could be wrong. Maybe some people do that.

It is fun though to poke at the system and see if it cracks. Just maybe not in actual games :D

I have found there to be a certain segment of gamers who play 'competitively'. Some of this has to do with video games and thoughts of DPS (damage per second) and such. I suspect though that this sort of thing is a 'phase'.

Merry christmas to those whom want it :)

Happy Hanukkah, and Festivus too!

OH! And Crystalhue! Everyone give their Zonzon dolls a big hug.

For the first, second and third day of pathfinder-mas the dice roller gave to me - tons of bad rolls :p

Maybe the creepy god dolls is the better plan.

Well then let's hope for a Happy New (Dice) Year.

Well, at least there may be cool fireworks :)

Happy belated winter solstice, or whatever people celebrate this time of year where you're all from :)

Got Corona and was out of business for a couple days. But I expect to be able to go back to posting tomorrow or by the weekend, just checking in for now.

Also, that is clearly a voodoo-puppet of my Zon-Zon. What did you do to him? The poor guy :(

greetings all, Things are calming down now (sorry about being away, things never settled after they went crazy) So, I'm hoping to get back into the swing of PbP over the course of the coming week.

Sorry for the unplanned break. I spent the post-Christmas week with my family and just got back today. I will post tomorrow.

Didn't even need to send the moose to get the göögle-rocks to view the clip :p

I'm giving Alia a hair bit longer to post.

Ah well. With low HP and no spells I'm a bit short of options. I considered just stepping up and stabbing up, but it would likely down me in one hit. (can't miss with +16 versus my 17 AC currently, and 2d8+5 takes 14 HP on an average roll.) - and it would be worse if not and he decides to strike me again while at 1 or 2 HP...

I also realized I won't find the wand of enlarge person, as scarlet took it with her. I believed there was a scroll, but the only one i found on me was shield, which I suspect is better than nothing.

While he is out cold, I would definitely have borrowed Zonkies "Darkwood Composite Longbow +1 (+3 Str) " which is a clear upgrade over my own nonmagical composite(+2 STR) one. :P

All that said, yeah, I got one ray of enfeeblement left.
I dunno about how the others status is, but from my perspective, we'll have to hunker down and rest soon, and hope whoever we are opting to rescue is smart enough to hide and/or hunker down somewhere as well, because, otherwise this is turning into a TPK by attrition and escalation.

But maybe you guys still got plenty of juice, in which case don't mind me, I'll take the back position and try to pew-pew to help out because there's precious little I can reasonably do right now.

All that said, yeah, I got one ray of enfeeblement left.

I dunno about how the others status is, but from my perspective, we'll have to hunker down and rest soon, and hope whoever we are opting to rescue is smart enough to hide and/or hunker down somewhere as well, because, otherwise this is turning into a TPK by attrition and escalation.

But maybe you guys still got plenty of juice, in which case don't mind me, I'll take the back position and try to pew-pew to help out because there's precious little I can reasonably do right now.

I'm with you. I was ready to hunker down and rest a while ago. This day has been an eternity.

Durgan is out of Channels and very low on spells. He probably can't do much damage to this thing. Will wait to see what everyone else does but it's not looking good.

Yes. Though it would have been more helpful to raise such points before we kicked off our current encounter with mr glass :p

We will probably have to take a nap after this one one way or another, hopefully not in the dirt.

Will crack open the emergency song rations for Illthirs next turn and hope we win in 3 turns. Also move to flank if possible, so we have some bonuses. And then we hope the critter is brittle :)

@GM - why would Durgan not have gotten a surprise round action? He made the Perception check. I only didn't post because he wasn't bolded. His Init was lower than the golem, but it's not like the surprise round ends when the golem acts. You jumped right to Round 1 before posting a Surprise Round tracker with Durgan bolded.

@All - Durgan might be able to fight this if other PCs keep healing him and cast buffing spells (not sure what Fergus has left). Durgan has a Wand of CLW others can use. Or we can retreat. The NPCs (who are higher level than us) are using Total Defense.

@GM - why would Durgan not have gotten a surprise round action? He made the Perception check. I only didn't post because he wasn't bolded. His Init was lower than the golem, but it's not like the surprise round ends when the golem acts. You jumped right to Round 1 before posting a Surprise Round tracker with Durgan bolded.

Lemme go back and double check when I get home and can do it on a bigger screen.

Serena is at full hit points, but I doubt she can last more than a few swings against this thing. We need a better plan.

Song roll to shatter it .p?

Serena is at full hit points, but I doubt she can last more than a few swings against this thing. We need a better plan.

How many Channels and Lay on Hands does Serena have left?

If Dool has Haste, we might have a shot at this.
Also, Illthir's Glitterdust can affect golems, presuming she has any spell slots left.

Non-magical energy attacks (e.g. Alechemist's Fire) work well on golems.

Perhaps someone could shout for Mother Vorst...

No spell slots left I'm afraid. Just a bunch of utility scrolls on that front. Who wants Darkvision :p?

What is happening to me: I am asking for a pass for the next few days. On Tuesday, my father-in-law collapsed and went into heart failure. They revived him and took him to the ICU where he has been since. Yesterday evening, he was talking and sitting up and asking for water when we left visiting hours. We no sooner got home when they called to tell us that he had coded again (this is the fourth time in as many days). He is currently in cascading organ failure. We have him on dialysis to try to clear his kidneys and jump-start his metabolism, but right now, the only thing keeping him alive is the ventilator and the pacemaker they put in. I don't know how long this will go on, but I ask if I fall behind, you be understanding.