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Vina, I like your concept but want to go over a few mechanics.
You are a medium creature 'riding' a medium 'mount'. Normally this only possible with the undersized mount feat. Do you think the Tree Hanger feat is an appropriate work around to that?
Do you intend to use the ride rules for other interactions the come from this? The feat has no commentary on this, but the feat speaks only on hanging from objects.
If you provide guidance on how to handle the rules interactions here, I'll try to use your reasonable interpretations.
Ok, we will run it entirely by ear, answering questions as they come up.
No harm will come of running with it this game but there are several questions to be answered if you are planning to stick with that concept. I'd be happy to go through them with you as we go, so that you have answers and recommendations for all future GMs.
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Semi-related issue, but hopefully not too tricky in practice. Janus Too (the familiar) is Small sized. Janus will normally carry him around outside of combat, on account of the familiar having a paltry 10' land speed. I don't think of that as anything like riding. A dwarf caiman irl is about 4 feet long and weighs around 14lbs, so its weight is a non-issue for Janus. Obviously it's physically possible for Vina to hang off a branch, and it's physically possible for a very strong human to carry a 14lb crocodile under his arm (I've got a cat about that weight, though I don't carry him around much and I'm not terribly strong). But creatures aren't supposed to be able to share squares unless they are either 2 or more size categories apart or they are mount and rider.
I think this is a case of letting good sense govern play, without needing a special rule.
Janus, Most things out of combat get the hand wave, it is the life and death edge of combat that will get the second look. All the grid mechanics are built around the assumption of combat, they are nearly irrelevant outside combat.
I assume he hops down at the start of combat?
Downside of the system that the dwarf caiman and a great dane are mechanically the same size.
Yes, I'll run separate initiatives. From what I've seen it is not disruptive in pbp.
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Player: Aldizog
Character: Mohag the Wanderer
PFS Number: 108731-9
Faction: Grand Lodge
Day Job:
Nothing too mechanically odd about him. Will use the Inspired trait and/or Inexplicable Luck if there is a skill check that just has to be made (once per day for each option). And will use Bit of Luck on other PCs.
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This is most definitely something that falls into the area of GM table variation.
Although I think that this is a cute idea, I see several problems with it:
- As Korolan notes, by the wording of the feat, you’ll fall off the tree everytime it moves.
- As DM Livgin notes, you are a medium creature essentially riding a medium creature.
- There are also encumbrance issues from your little sapling trying to carry you. Unless you are hitting it with ant haul all the time, this just does not seem viable.
- There’s also potential combat advantages that can arise from sharing the same square as your companion.
I hesitate to make rulings on Pathfinder grey areas that might affect the whole region of online play. When VC’s make home rules for their region that can cause confusion for their players when they play elsewhere, and lead to inevitable arguments of “but it’s always been done this way!”
So I will only state that if you were the player at my table, I would not allow the sapling version of this tree to carry you from place to place — adorable as this is. However, if you just want to stay in one spot, hanging from your tree without either of you moving, that would be fine. Keep in mind that with the sapling’s strength of 15, it would be encumbered by holding you up.
I’m sorry that I cannot provide more clarity here. Hope that your Vanara has lots of fun climbing other things in Silverhex!
Yours,
Hmm
Our local Lodge had a Treesinger Druid years ago. He modeled his own trees (because they kept dying, but that's a different story), and he always included a tree swing (a reskinned Exotic Saddle). Once your sapling gets to large size, maybe you could do the same?
Adorable!
Janus, inquisitors do use divine focuses. So will need a holy symbol in many cases.
Take a second to get familiar with the journal. We will head to the mausoleum Friday or when our sixth, Herman Lacosta, arrives.
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Is that the holy symbol of Aroden? On a Samsaran? How interesting. I wonder if he knows that Aroden Reincarnated fellow.
Hilarious!
I've been wanting to do an Arodenite for a while. I was pounding my head against the wall for a Samsaran theme when it hit me that in a past life he could have actually worshipped Aroden when he was alive.
So I tossed in some research on Azlanti material and voilà!
There is a default marching order in the first slide of the maps. Feel free to change it at any time.
Thanks, I'll find a way to change that.
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Fixed, you should be able to edit now.
To the west, in the direction the tracks go stands a tall alabaster tomb evoking a past age of Galtan architecture, including a ten-foot spire atop a broad dome. Its awnings teem with sculpted white raptors. An iron gate bears the motto, “Last to Fall.”
As you look to the west you catch a glimpse of a platinum haired woman as she ducks back behind a fifteen foot wide mausoleum. On the other side of mausoleum you see a flash of a well groomed tail as a horse hiding behind the mausoleum swats away a fly.
Sorry, posting from mobile. My mistake.
Work has me on the road today, so i'll have posts up in about 5 hours.
Great googlie mooglie. A busy day at work and I miss a ton of posts.
I feel the same way!
Quick quiz: Who has played this quest before? Feel free to PM me if you want to keep it private.
Thanks everyone, my greatest fear is having an evergreen table that stalls out because everyone has played it before so does not want to volunteer solutions to a puzzle...
Some NPCs are just irrational people. You guys are doing great.