Just a note that I'm about to head out to work tonight but I'll hopefully be able to get an update for you guys at some point during that time, if it's quiet :)
Okay Peri, thanks for the notice! I can bot you if the need arises.
Hmm...I hope this turn of events with a talking foe? hasn't thrown folks off from posting! A little hint/nudge - you can try smooth-talking, you could try making some sort of offer and promise to make good on it later when all of this mess is resolved, you could just say 'Hell with it' and start a fight, it's really up to you folks. This encounter is a little more open to alternate measures of problem-solving and I wanted to give you that option :)
Heh, no worries! You can also tell that I posted in Discussion before reading Gameplay and thus hadn't seen Skye's most recent post. Nicely done!
If it's any consolation I'm pretty sure I forget something with every GM combat post I do; for every visible edit I make after someone points something out, there were usually one or two other things I forgot but caught and had to fix before making the post in the first place. Part of the reason I wanted to start GMing in the first place, so I could git gud :3
By the way guys, good job on basically trouncing all of the encounters up to this point. The house met all of the milestone markers for this section, which helped/helps to make subsequent encounters and this last part of Act 1 a bit easier to manage - and you all did your fair share to help make that happen! Huzzah!
It's also been fun seeing slightly more complex builds, tactics, and abilities in play and I hope everyone has been enjoying themselves thus far :)
^Aid Token information can now be found under the spoiler at the top of the campaign page! Apologies for not adding it earlier, actually.
To my understanding, using the token for a Knowledge check basically allows you to automatically succeed the check at whatever difficulty the token has been boosted to. In this case, choosing to use the token on a Knowledge check would equate into the meeting the 'Hard' DC check and potentially give you a lot of information about the topic.
To explain a little more in-depth, the special has a table of Skill and Saving Throw DCs with the numbers needed to achieve an 'Easy', 'Average', or 'Hard' result that vary depending on the group's sub-tier. Throughout the scenario text, reference is often made to the group needing to achieve some sort of result - sometimes 'Easy', sometimes 'Average', sometimes 'Hard'. When it does, I reference said table to see what number one or more of you need on the check in order to succeed at the specified difficulty.
Monster IDs, however, still depend on 10 + monster CR. For example, the owlbear mascot was a CR 8 creature. I'll have to double-check (and sadly I don't have time right now as I need to fit in a quick nap before work) but I don't see why you couldn't use the Knowledge boost to help ID a monster. I'd be inclined to allow it and let you ask a number of questions based on the number given in the Skill DCs table for a 'Hard' 5-6 sub-tier check. Does that make sense?
As your GM, I'm neutral on the subject. But if anyone is feeling left out I will say that I think there'll be more for everyone to do in the upcoming sections :)
I did, yes!
Working ye olde graveyard shift tonight guys so I'll try to move you all along as soon as I get a chance!
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"Timely Inspiration: A Pathfinder agent provides the effects of a bard’s inspire courage bardic performance for 3 rounds. In Subtiers 1–2 and 3–4, the competence bonus is +1. To Boost: Expend 3 rounds of bardic performance or similar ability. Boosted Effect: Increase the competence bonus by 1."
What about tier 5+
It's a +2.
+2 normally and now +3 with the boost! Also, if you guys don't want to use it right now or don't think you'll need it, we can always just pass it along to another table. Your call :)
Use of the Aid Token has been noted; will get it passed along to a new table :)
Yep...this group is basically the polar opposite of the group I had for Solstice Scar A back in the fall, which was largely composed of slow-moving melee beatsticks. Combats...took a bit, heh. They seemed to enjoy themselves, though :)
Also I know spell templates for these maps are a pain to come up with but earlier I found (and borrowed) a bunch that I hope will come in handy in the future. I'll look at linking them for use shortly!
Yes, you may try the same leader more than once :)
Thanks Skye, but as I mentioned elsewhere they're actually borrowed from another PbPer named Stormstrider after a random search led me to his slides. He's cool with others using them but I wanted to give him credit just the same (and have now done so on the slides themselves) :)
Hey guys, I worked last night and can't really focus to do a proper update right now so I'm going to get some sleep and then come back to it later. I'll actually resolve it in Gameplay properly after I sleep but I'll go ahead and say that Peribras' attempt to influence Jala wasn't successful in case that affects who Rallas wants to try speaking with.
Sova gags twice and hurls forth a glowing pellet. Skye catches it one hand.
Ewwww....we had to pick one of those apart in a high school biology class. Most of them had rodent bones, if anything, but the one me and my partner got had a little bird skull in it!
(I know in this case it's technically a stone and not digested food, but still...)
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Ranger's get to roll knowledges vs their favorite enemy as if the skill was trained. And I think they are both undead.
Fights like this make me want to prioritize making my weapon ghost touch. But I'll probably buy an aomf ghost touch for the rhino when I get enough gold.
My first weapon enchant will either be Keen for the 15 - 20 crit range, Since the rhino will get an aoo when Dortlin crits. Or Fortuitous for the extra attack.
Tough choice.
Thanks for the reminder re: Knowledge checks and favored enemies - and yep, I will say that all of these guys are undead. My search fu didn't really turn anything up about whether bonuses to damage (like from Broken Wing Gambit) apply to something like the shade's touch attack but since BWG says 'damage' and not 'ability damage' I'm inclined to rule that it doesn't apply in this case (if anyone was curious).
Also, thanks for bearing with me on these battles. I think I mentioned earlier that this is the highest tier that I've ran so far so mid-to-high-level play from the GM side of things is still pretty new to me. It also doesn't help that I'm way more familiar with casters than melee types so I'm more likely to forget or not be aware of something when it comes to melee shenanigans than caster shenanigans.
Ah - I just meant that if someone happened to have a spell/scroll/wand or some other means of casting it handy then you could go ahead and do that now. If not, there's a time skip of a couple days between the end of this section and the beginning of the next (new) section where someone could prep the spell and cast it.
Utilizing the Long-Term Care option for the Heal skill during the downtime would also work to speed up the process.
I have dotted into your Campaign, Ladile. Hey everyone, I'll be acting as a backup for this special sometime in April!
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Hi, Hmm.
Skye would prefer PCs hang onto as many of their resources as possible. He can Take 10 for a 20 Heal check. Long-Term Care is only a DC15.
The patient recovers hit points or ability score points (lost to ability damage) at twice the normal rate: 2 hit points per level for a full 8 hours of rest in a day, or 4 hit points per level for each full day of complete rest; 2 ability score points for a full 8 hours of rest in a day, or 4 ability score points for each full day of complete rest.
You can tend as many as six patients at a time. You need a few items and supplies (bandages, salves, and so on) that are easy to come by in settled lands. Giving long-term care counts as light activity for the healer. You cannot give long-term care to yourself.
That should take care of everyone.