[PFS] DM Kludde's 5-01 The Glass River Rescue (Inactive)

Game Master Kludde

This is the discussion thread for the Glass River Rescue. Please use this thread for out-of-scenario roleplaying, rule discussion and general banter.

You are in the manor home of Temel Passad, a prominent Kalistocrat. You await his arrival while being served the finest Chelish wine and delicate sweetmeats. You have been handed a letter by Venture-Captain Ambrus Valsin, which you can discuss freely.

Some public service announcements: please use regular text for in-character posting, 'ooc' tagged text (blue) for out-of-character talk, bold for speech, italic for thoughts.

I'm ok with using conditions in a post (if this, then that), but please put the conditional part in a spoiler tag. The same goes for actions that are taken in advance, because they may influence the action of the other character.

So, for instance:

And finally, have fun! This looks like a module that's going to be full of suspense, with good roleplaying opportunities - so looking forward to it.

Confirming participation! Finalizing Shayla's background, etc.

Confirming, I think for now I'm going to leave background up in the air, as this is more of the start to what she would consider a boring life before being accepted into the pathfinders organization. I look forwards to helping out as much as possible in both combat and out of it.

Hereby the sheet once more, with a minor change. (Chaotic Good instead of Neutral Good.)
I also wrote a background, and a bit about personality and appearance.

Confirming for Alia: thanks for having me along!

I'll work on finalizing Alia's second level later today, as well as probably purchasing a Wand of Cure Light Wounds, but this won't be until much later today, as I am braving the maddening crowds to do a little Christmas shopping in, later this morning.

Cool I'll set her up the way you like.

Ok, mostly done. I am still dithering about domain choice, and I need to tally up money and PA, but otherwise, Alia stands ready!

1. Seiomi Telanaa - Investigator 1 - Confirmed
2. Shayla Amye - Ranger 1 - Confirmed
3. Alia Charybdis - Cleric 2 - Confirmed
4. Orik Fistbreaker - Fighter 1 - Cancelled
5. Artair Ceilteach - Ranger 1 - Pending
6. Cedrick - Alchemist 2 - Pending
7 .Zalanda - Wizard 1 - Confirmed

That means we have four players and are good to go. I'll launch the gameplay thread, and allow Artair and Credrick until the start of the first combat encounter (which should allow for some time) to drop in.

Gahk, at the moment half of our team is looking kinda squishy. Does not bode well.

Or at least it doesn't until I remember this is PFS and that the scenario won't be a meat grinder like what I'm used to in home games X.X

Still this is a very different character for me, Brains with low brawn. I'm not even used to this 14 ac at lvl 1 yet -.-

Not to worry, PFS adapts its encounters difficulties to level and number of players. If you had 50 gp left, I would recommend a potion of cure light wounds as a backup plan, though.

And hey, you've got the classic Smash-Heal-Sneak-Blast party configuration...

I do have a question that does mostly apply to a Pbp style game. For investigator, the way you use your Inspiration, is that you choose to roll a 1d6, after you have rolled, but before you have seen the results. Now while that rule is perfectly doable in a home game, it''s a bit strange for pbp as as soon as you type in the roll, you get results with no way to hide your own roll's results.

I would assume the work around being just make the choice to do this before the roll, as that makes more sense anyways for a sudden burst of focus and insight, but I still need to run it past the dm just to make sure how exactly it would be played.

The way I read it, there is some leeway in interpreting "results are revealed":

This choice is made after the check is rolled and before the results are revealed.

I'm interpreting this as:

-You roll the check, see the number
-You decide whether you want to add 1d6
-You sit back and relax until I tell you whether you succeeded or not.

There will be some circumstances where I give you the DC in advance - I'll put you on the honour system in that case.

Derp. I feel stupid now, not results as in what I rolled but results in weather It was a pass or fail.

I feel incredibly stupid now ~.~

Alia, just curious, why the #2 behind your name?

Gah, first roll of the game and it's a low number. Still combined skill bonus and inspiration pull it back up to decent levels.

Seiomi will always find out more than Shayla, haha.

The power of a well learned woman will always trump over a well trained one.

Ironically enough I'll even become a better tracker than you too; as one of my planned Investigator talents is to change my tracking from survival to perception; which I have craaaaaaazy amounts of. I mean, 9 at lvl 1, that's nuts with only +1 from wis.

But you will always outrank me when it comes to combat, hands down. I don't even get sneak attack until lvl 4 Xp I'm about as useful as a melee focused level 1 wizard

Ha! We'll see about that. I bet Shayla can stuff more meat up her mouth ;)

And that's awesome. I don't focus Shayla on tracking so at least we'll have someone who's good at it :)

When I first made Alia up, a friend of mine needed a cleric to heal for a party he was running. I made her up on the fly, but I have never particularly liked the picture that I had initially chosen for her. Paizo won't let you change it, however...at least as far as I can tell. So I just made up a new alias. =)

For aliases:
My Account --> Messageboard Aliases --> [Character Name] Edit --> Change (next to your character's image)

For PFS characters:
My Account --> Pathfinder Society --> Make Changes --> [Character Name] Edit --> Change (next to your character's image)

Or if you don't like the 2 next to Alia's name you could change it to a _, because when you post a message the _ will "disappear" in the line your character's name rests on.

Sweet mother of God, thank you!

Gonna change this back and make some adjustments...

Testing!

No problem, glad I was able help.

Seems to work just fine now!

Much better, thanks Shayla)

Hmmm, sleep affects multiple targets? if not which one to do you sleep first?

it affects multiple targets

If they resist it I'm ganna to have to finish them off.

DC 15 for the sleep spell up to 4 HD of creatures.

Crossing fingers here, let's see what happens :)

I'm here. The holiday weekend played havoc with my schedule. Lots of traveling.

If too much has happened already for me to jump in, I understand. Please let me know.

I'm afraid it is indeed a bit late to join in, as we are just in the first combat encounter. Sorry for that.

Wow Shyla, almost half your hp gone from a monkey's bite. Much pain, very wow.

I had hoped both of my attacks to hit, haha. Or at least one.

Luckily I got one more round before it attacks again, and that's after you guys have had your turns. Depending on how much it's hurt by then I might try my bow instead.

Try to fire a bow in melee? I think not without precise shot!

The bare mechanics:

You can actually fire a bow into melee without too much trouble, but take a -4 on to hit. Precise short eliminates that.

Of course, not everybody might appreciate trying to hit a rapidly moving target with a bow in a fray like that :)

It's not just a negative 4 to hit, if it's a miss by 4 points it has a chance to hit some of the other fighters in the fray if I remember correctly.

Hmmm, with the possibility of hitting one of us it might not be the best idea :/

Having some awful luck trying to hit the monkey -_-

Watch the baboon get a lucky max damage critical and insantly kill you right off the bat. That would suck sooo hard.

Crossing my fingers it won't happen. Best case scenario for me would be it misses and Alia gets some healing in. Though I'm really just hoping I'll at least stay conscious.

Heals are up, and Alia is in position to at least give this critter something else to strike at.

Also, when your turn is up, you should get a +2 flanking bonus on this guy, Seiomi.

I just realized I never added my constitution modifier to my HP. My HP should be 12 and not 11. Kludde, I hope you don't mind me adding it now? (Especially because my HP just went back to full anyway. Thank you Alia!)

DEAR LORD!!! This monkey is a beast! It's got over twice my hp T.T

Also the way I tried to make that sound was sorta like Sherlock Holmes slow time feature, where he predicts how exactly a situation would go before making it happen in real life.

If it survives my last attack it will have at least twice my HP. I'm so incredibly glad the enforcers went to sleep... xD

It was pretty cool! Also very befitting of the investigator class.

Huzzah! We killed the baboon! :D

Good fight! That baboon sure was a nasty piece of work. I'm loving the investigator description. But you could deduce that ;-)

Shayla was placed before Zalanda in the order we take turns, but shouldn't Zalanda's turn be before Shayla's with these rolls?

ST: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 2 = 15
SA: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7
Z: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 1 = 13
AC: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (18) + 3 = 21

It should, but I'm taking all player's turns as one group, so I listed the named in no particular order (actually in a groggy it's-six-am-so-i-just-eyeballing-the-order order). The actual order would matter for spell precedence (to see whether effects are active) and such.