[PFS_CORE_Aerondor] 02-Special Year of the Shadow Lodge [Tier 5-9] (Inactive)

Game Master Aerondor

Hey everyone. I just got word that our network at school is down tomorrow (my grades are due Friday, good thing I didn't procrastinate!) I'm also closing on a house and moving this weekend.

I'll try my best to post what I can, when I can. I'll be back to my normal speed Monday, even moreso since my students will be taking finals.

Since this is a special and is strictly timed, this will be a priority for me.

No worries. The pace at the start is reasonably easy.

If you are not around, I'll have you skulk and flank.

Oh man, I just realized I totally messed up the History check. I was looking at the wrong Knowledge skill. Both Alvin's and Riddy's checks should have been 4 lower as Knowledge (History) isn't as high as others.

The difference Alvin failed it completely and Riddy got the DC 20 but not DC 25. Woops, sorry, but honest mistake, heh. Thought I'd at least point it out though. I try so hard to make my characters crystal-clear and audit them so they are accurate, but then I mess up something simple like reading the wrong skill. XD

Doesn't really matter. The perception check to see the creatures is pretty low. Honest mistakes happen.

This time tomorrow I will be saying goodbye to reliable internet for a week please feel free to bot Kyra as needed

I'm going to be without internet for the day, so please bot Lem if needed to keep things moving.

Most of the other tables are wrapping up. The Classic 8 - 9 table hasn't even started really. If we are lucky we will advance tonight but I'm guessing tomorrow.

The other tables I'm playing at are making slightly heavier weather of it than you guys.

The guide specifically states you can do things like drop spells on other players if they consent to it, and it sounds like Ragnar consented to Alvin fireballing on top of the snake. He made the foolish mistake of saying "It's fine, I have evasion."

Relevant Text: (Page 19 of the Guide to Organized Play - Season 7)
In short, you can never
voluntarily use your character to kill another character—
without their consent.

I wasn't expecting Hugsy to make the save though it was worth trying. And yes I gave my consent. Kyra may wind up saving Hugsy regardless.

Are you going to do a post for Ragnar's attacks?

If Kyra is the last to go, I'll NPC her and do a channel.

If you don't want to rewind as per my last post Kyra can dump the cure critical on Hugsy this round I just don't want to keep spamming channels when we don't really need to (dangerously close to famous last words I know)

That's fine. Channel is an easy thing for me to GM-NPC Kyra into doing, and works at range which is handy. I also don't like choosing specific spells for folk to cast, as that may remove specific options they want later.

Sometimes a rollback may be too hard or impractical for other reasons, but in this situation it wasn't too mad.

Between many many alchemist fires, being set on fire 5 times, being fireballed, and thrashing around on the ground I'm gonna say Hugsy's novelty hat is gone. When this is all over I may buy him a real one.

Since we have been in a holding pattern for a few days it may be worthwhile to PM the players to let them know we have progressed.

It's the weekend, most folk will be back on Monday and check their subscribed threads.

If I get a good steer from folk about how they want to approach this, we can do it by majority vote.

Thorn there are a couple of things you can do when faced with incorporeal undead that are cheaper then just buying ghost touch weapons.
Holy Water works on them. You have to pour it on them but it works. You have UMD so you could use a wand of Mage Armor on the tanks or a wand of Magic Missile. Remember that you get +2 to the UMD roll if you have activated it before. And our local Rogue has an interesting gimmick: A wand of acid splash. You can do a ranged touch attack and add your sneak attack damage if they are flatfooted. And since it is conjuration you don't need to roll to bypass DR with the wand.

Yeah I... unfortunately didn't bring that stuff. Hence the unprepared bit.

While we are at a lull, does anyone have ideas as to useful things Lem can do beyond Inspire during combat? He doesn't have many spells, so I usually can't use those, and his swordplay feels pretty useless. This is a new character class to me, so I could use ideas.

The bardic increase is awesome.

That being said aiding and flanking are ALWAYS welcome.

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That inspire, especially when matched with machine gun Ragnar is really good. plus ten in raw damage, and figure an extra 10% hits over misses as well. And then add in the same bonus on the others.

If you have 2 second level spells left heroism on Thorn and Ragnar would counteract the negative levels for 70 minutes (140 minutes with lesser extend meta magic rod)

Bards are great buffers but finding things they can do in combat is half the battle especially with the pregen

Ragnar only gets 5 attacks when hasted. But yes Inspire and Heroism are both ideal on characters with multiple attacks. The fact that Heroism adds to skills and saves is a big bonus.
I really like that Bards get Heroism as a 2nd level spell because it isn't competing with a lot of other good 2nd level spells. While Wizards can take it as a 3rd level spell but rarely do because there are so many good options at that level.

Some bards will skip Heroism because Good Hope is also a morale bonus but it hits the whole party and adds to more things. But 3rd level is a crowded level for bards also since they have use for Dispel Magic, Haste, See Invisibility, and believe it or not Tiny Hut. Blocking line of sight for your enemies but not your allies can have a big effect vs casters and ranged attackers.

I have three level 2 spells left, so I would be happy to use one on each of those who have been negative levelled. I'll go ask in character in gameplay.

How does the lesser extend metamagic wand work? It looks like it doubles the duration of the spell. Does the spell still use up a slot one higher?

By the way, thanks for helping me through some of this. My experience is almost all below level 5, so many of the rules and objects that don't come into play until higher level are unfamiliar.

No worries at all!

The beauty of the rod is that it DOESN'T increase the level of the spell. You can use it on 3 spells each day, but no spell above 3rd level.

Right. You use the rod and a 2nd level slot and Heroism will last 140 minutes. Lesser Extend metamagic rod only costs 3,000 gold and doubles the duration of any 3rd level or less spell 3 times per day. Since most of the best buffs in the game are 3rd level or less and last either 10 minutes per level or 1 hour per level it is a great buy.

Just a reminder to GM Aerondor that while Heroism counteracts most of the effects of the level drains it doesn't add to ability checks so our initiative rolls will be 2 lower.

I know you have provided the information above, but there is an online reporting form for everyone as this is a multi table special.

In terms of the "Table GM and Rules" select (Core) Aerondor T5-9

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1HV82B350bDmGefGAEKNxAxVu4JHjK_1zWAo3KYIPMw s/viewform?c=0&w=1

It sounds like there is a chance of player boons from this. Hurrah!

Sorry, the file you have requested does not exist.

Make sure that you have the correct URL and that the owner of the file hasn't deleted it.

Lets try that again..
Link

My apologies, I never did do this:

Chronicle: 1824-16
Name:Christopher Marsh
AKA: Thorn the Savvy
Faction: The xchange
PFS: # for the character
XP: 17
Prestige: Starting prestige
Fame: Starting Fame
Gold: 2,406
Day job: NONE
Spend: None
History:

07-15 The Deepmarket Deception
Ruins of Bonekeep Level 2
07-07 Trouble in Tamran
02-19 Shades of Ice 3
05-16 Destiny of the Sands 3
02-17 Shades of Ice 2
05-15 Destiny of the Sands 2
02-15 Shades of Ice 1
02-02 Before the Dawn 1
05-12 Destiny of the Sands 1
00-04 The Frozen Fingers of Midnight
02-01 Before the Dawn 1
00-08 Slave Pits of Absalom
00-03 Murder on the Silken Caravan
00-01 Silent Tide
00-02 The Hydra's Fang Incident

While it doesn't effect Ragnar there are multiple ways in PFS to earn more then 150 gold for a Day Job. I imagine it can be fixed by posting about it in the comment section of the form.

Especially if you are in The Exchange!

I have to say that between Hugsy up close and Ragnar at range, I don't fancy our BBEGs chances that much.

After the beating I've taken in some of my other games lately.... it'll be a welcome breath of fresh air!

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With so many copies of him this could be a long fight. Hugsy needs a 17 on the die to approach him and I may run out of arrows before I find the right one. Buy Kyra still has healing so we should be alright.

Excellent game everyone thanks all round ( including that shifty looking character that kept jumping into our game thread )

Please assign credit to level 1 character Omrijka 9251-29 with 500 gold

So clean up. I'll repeat some of the earlier information so that you don't have to check multiple posts.

This will be chronicle # 21

My name: Edward McGee
Character name: Ragnar Sorvino
PFS #: 145373 - 9
Faction: The Exchange

Starting XP: 20
Starting prestige: 17
Starting Fame: 40
Starting gold: 608.4

Level 7, normal track, day job of 150 gold.

My choice on the chronicle

Selling: Nothing
Buying: Wayfinder 1 prestige point (Reduced cost via chronicle #1)
60 cold iron arrows 6 gold
20 silver arrows 42 gold
1 large awesome hat with a strap 10 gold. I did promise Hugsy that I would get him a new one.

On my season 7 faction card I'll be checking off "Earn at least 50 gold on a day job."

And consumables used was 3 charges of mage armor and 4 charges of CLW wand.

Oooh, boons.. Everyone's favorite time!

Ragnar: 1d20 ⇒ 12
Alvin: 1d20 ⇒ 14
Godfrey: 1d20 ⇒ 11
Thorn: 1d20 ⇒ 17
Lem: 1d20 ⇒ 13
Kyra: 1d20 ⇒ 20
GM: 1d20 ⇒ 13

Kyra! I'll send you a PM with the options.

I'll try to do chronicles today, but it is a birthday party, so may not happen.

Oh. And gold spent 100 gold to cover the material costs for Kyra's kind offer to cast Restoration.

Not sure how boon trading normally works but if anyone gets the Custom Order boon and doesn't need it I would like to trade for it. If I'm really lucky I'll get a boon from this that you want and we might be able to talk Aerondor into switching our boons.

Kyra, it looks like you have yet to fill in the form. This is necessary for event reporting - and in particular for your boon to be emailed to you!

This is a CORE table. Please check, and then DOUBLE CHECK that the character you put down is registered as a CORE character with Paizo.

To make my life easier when it comes to filling in chronicles, if you could each put in a single post with:

If you are currently in a game or expect to apply a GM chronicle before play, hold off putting in the information.

Chronicle: 3
History: Mists of mwangi 05 , wounded wisp 6-0
Name:(the player) Jeff cook
AKA: Omrijka
Faction: Your faction sov court
PFS: 9251-29
XP: starting XP, 2
Prestige: Starting prestige 4
Fame: Starting Fame 4
Gold: Starting wealth you bring into the adventure. This should be the total on your previous chronicle. If you want to buy any new stuff... see further on. 1000
Day job: include the roll or that you don't have one. If you want to use a reroll at the end just note here you may want to use a reroll. If you don't include a roll I'll be assuming you take ten. None
Spend: If you want to buy anything before the scenario starts (apart from your initial 150gp if you are a new character) include it here. This will appear in the "items bought" and/or "items sold" part of the chronicle.no spends

Try to hold off actual discussion here until we have one post per character with those details (makes life easy for me to make the chronicles for you all at the end).

Session nr 10 has been reported: everyone at normal advancement.

Please let me know if I need to adjust anything. Thanks Aerondor for running and players for playing!

GM: I don't have a character number for applying credit (but I found your PFS-ID...). Please PM me if you want to receive the credit.

Sorry for the delay, but Chronciles are now up. I have also linked them above.

Please check they are okay. I don't think anyone is running slow, but if you are I'll need to edit it for you.

Looks good! Thank you. Ready to close the thread when you are.

Thanks again, great run!

I'd like to use the 500 gold for a first level character for Omrijka / Kyra please

That is fine, you just use the chronicle as normal but take the 500 gold rather than the listed amount. You still get the boon, but it is not usable until 7th level.

When do we find out what boons we got?