[PFS] Iron Gods - The Divinity Drive - Sanctioned Content by GM Upaynao (Inactive)

Game Master Upaynao

Agata wrote:

8. I will also attempt to UMD a scroll of Nine Lives to cast it on Agata (just before entering).

I am pretty sure this is a carfolk racial spell from ARG and therefore locked to them. I think you can burn a race boon now to access their options but that might be limited to racial heritage shenanigans.

It's definitely a catfolk only spell, but that's why I need to UMD (to emulate the race). Or are you saying that I can't purchase a scroll of a catfolk spell without a catfolk boon? I guess that would make sense - hadn't thought about that before. A pity if that's the case because it's a great spell!

Agata wrote:

Ok, some further notes about buffs before we enter the Mount. I'll also add this info the the Google doc:

1. Marduk, if you have the slots, would you also be able to cast Barkskin on Sweet Mawd? And can you cast Stoneskin on Agata? (I'll pay the 250 component cost).

2. In addition to the previously noted spells cast the night before we enter the Mount, Agata will also cast Delay Pain on herself and 4 of the other PCs (whichever 4 of the PCs and/or companions it seems most useful to).

Did you want the barkskin on Mawd instead of Agata? Did you have an extend charge to spare to extend it?

I will add Agata to the stoneskin list.

Yes, barkskin on Mawd is probably a better idea, thanks.

And yes, I'll use an Extend charge for barkskin instead of for longarm.

Urko Gallonica wrote:

Agata wrote:

8. I will also attempt to UMD a scroll of Nine Lives to cast it on Agata (just before entering).

I am pretty sure this is a carfolk racial spell from ARG and therefore locked to them. I think you can burn a race boon now to access their options but that might be limited to racial heritage shenanigans.

It's definitely a catfolk only spell, but that's why I need to UMD (to emulate the race). Or are you saying that I can't purchase a scroll of a catfolk spell without a catfolk boon? I guess that would make sense - hadn't thought about that before. A pity if that's the case because it's a great spell!

Yep, additional resources locks ARG racial options to members of those races only generally.

SEE HERE

Agata wrote:

Urko Gallonica wrote:

Agata wrote:

8. I will also attempt to UMD a scroll of Nine Lives to cast it on Agata (just before entering).

I am pretty sure this is a carfolk racial spell from ARG and therefore locked to them. I think you can burn a race boon now to access their options but that might be limited to racial heritage shenanigans.

It's definitely a catfolk only spell, but that's why I need to UMD (to emulate the race). Or are you saying that I can't purchase a scroll of a catfolk spell without a catfolk boon? I guess that would make sense - hadn't thought about that before. A pity if that's the case because it's a great spell!

Yep, additional resources locks ARG racial options to members of those races only generally.

SEE HERE

I didn't realize this applied to something like a scroll where you would be UMD-ing to emulate the race, but it makes sense. Thanks for the tip.

Based on the realization that it's going to take us a half-day to get to the Mount, I've updated the buff list once again:

tl; dr: I will not be casting Delay Pain on the party members. Hopefully it won't matter...

Dropped some of the spells that I was going to cast the night before: Enchantment Foil, Spite (Bestow Curse), Delay Pain, Greater Callback, and moved some others to casting when we enter the Mount (Mage Armor, Merge with Familiar, Greater False Life, Overland Flight). Also dropped Nine Lives due to it not being legal.

Sorry for the continual revisions! Looking forward to getting in there and seeing what we find!

Sorry, I've had a summer cold knocking me on my ass and into Dayquil land. I'll happily take the Countless Eyes, Agata, and a Heroism (with my own lesser rod of extend) if you're down.

OK, if it is a 12 hour trip Urko will pick up another lesser extend rod and move some spells to being cast on entry to the Mount. Buff list is updated.

I have moved greater magic weapon to being cast on entry, this will only be on Miranda's rapier and Hugo's choice of one weapon.

At this rate I think extend spell might be my next feat.

Just realized that I never added Sweet Mawd's alias to this. I think that posting here will do that?

... Hmm, it seems not. Will someone please tell me what I need to do to have her alias appear in our list of characters? Sorry, I'm a PbP newb!

Also, Nalshene, did you want Heroism? If not I'll put it on my familiar but I currently have one casting allocated for you.

Just dot and delete the post in the gameplay thread using Sweet Maud.

Just dot and delete the post in the gameplay thread using Sweet Maud.

That did the trick. Thanks.

Go ahead and use it on your familiar, Agata. Thanks though!

Sorry, I've had a summer cold knocking me on my ass and into Dayquil land. I'll happily take the Countless Eyes, Agata, and a Heroism (with my own lesser rod of extend) if you're down.

@Miranda: Yep, done.

Thanks Agata!

Belatedly: Lucky Number: 1d20 ⇒ 6

After some reflection, I would prefer if you just updated your statblocks to include the buffed values for any saves, temp HP, AC and so forth. You can place the unbuffed value between parentheses if you want.

Edit: Or vice-versa (aka Hugo, you're fine, don't touch a thing)

Ok, can someone please guide me about how to place myself on the map? Is one of the icons that is already on the map mine or do I need to add one (and if so, how)? And how do I move the icons - just drag and drop? Sorry - complete PbP newb question.

You add your own icon. Go to Insert - Image, pick one from your machine and hit select.

It will probably be huge when you add it to the page. Highlight it and then drag from one of the corners to get the right size. You can then drag and drop it where you want.

I will double check the saves are updated but AC and HP should be right

Ok, I think I've done this correctly except that I tried to make the icons circles but couldn't figure out how to do that.

My stat lines should include all my buffs (except Heightened Awareness or anything else that might or might not be up at any given time).

Another question: is there any obvious way to tell which icons are our party members (other than recognizing their images)? Or which icons correspond to which NPCs?

Another question: is there some way (other than just refreshing the webpage) to be notified when someone has posted something new?

Do you have the Paizo Forum Tool - PbP browser plugin? (Highlights changes, but not exactly what you are seeking but very useful for several reasons)

Tool

Also, I am not sure what happens if you use an RSS reader and subscribe to the thread. I do not know of emailer. I think Android has an app too...but not sure how that works.

As for making circles of your character token, it's really easy in Google Drawings at least-- select your picture, then from the toolbar select "crop image", it's towards the right-hand side of the toolbar and looks like two overlapping Ls. That'll get you a dropdown from which you can select Shapes -> Circle.

I like colored outlines on my chars too (see Miranda in burgundy right now) but the GM may want to save colors for identifying the baddies etc.

Yeah, I usually save the colors for bad guys. Sorry!

As for who is your party member; typically the icon they use will be the same as the one they have on the forums. Otherwise, it can help to ask who is who.

For this PbP, you can identify your party members by looking at who is in the area marked for PCs. They will be using the same icons for the remainder of the adventure, barring something extreme.

Ok, thanks y'all. I've gotten the chrome plug-in but haven't figured out what to do with it yet. Let me know if you have any suggestions.

And the Google Drawings suggestion was just what I needed, though it looks like someone went ahead and made my tokens into circles before I did. Thanks, someone!

@GM: if possible, will you please clarify about how the lack of the Technologist feat will affect us? I recall there was some debate about that awhile back but I'm vague about the exact details. Does being treated as "untrained" mean that we cannot attempt Disable Device checks (trained only) and cannot get higher than 10 on Knowledge checks? Not asking for any spoilers, just wanting to know if I should be bothering with Knowledge checks.

Unless someone has bardic knowledge, or something along those lines that allows you to make certain checks untrained, you will be capped at 10 on knowledges and won't be able to use Disable Device.

I may not get a chance to post again until Monday, going on a short camping trip. I might be able to before then, but if you wind up waiting on me, feel free to bot.

Heroes' Feast was marked down as having been cast the morning of your journey to Silver Mount. Even if getting there took less time, at this point it probably ran out.

That makes sense. Hugo would cast it each morning, but only good for 12 hours
I guess it also means we could be pushing towards a long day and fatigue at some point.

Sweet Mawd can (1/day) play a song for a minute and relieve fatigue/exhaustion if that becomes an issue.

GM, for the sake of tracking all our buffs, is it correct to say that a) it took 12 hours to get to the entrance of the Mount (so if we left at 9am, we entered at 9pm)? and b) how long would you say it's been since we entered?

Sorry, I am not sure how heroes feast has run out. A day of travel is 8 hours. It took us half a day to arrive at the entrance (4 hours) and so far we have explored the entrance area, travelled along a railway and talked to the Deacon.

Unless by half a day you mean it took us 12 hours to actually reach the entrance.

Good catch! I payed attention to the meat of the travel rules and yes, it does thing with an 8 hour day in mind.

So you have been at this for roughly four and a half hours.

OK, I will keep up heightened awareness from the wand for now at 10 minutes a go for up to an hour from when we entered.

Sounds good. Waffles still in effect for 7-ish hours.

Also, what the hell was my autocorrect doing? I can hardly understand myself.

Going to be busy over the next few days. I'm aiming to post a reply to your actions on Wednesday evening.

Sorry for the delay!

Edit: It'll be a big update.

One quick question. On the map there is some odd spiky thing next to the Deacon. What is it?

Also, I am going to be away at a convention from tomorrow afternoon until late sunday so any posting will be minimal. Given the complexity of high level combat hopefully it shouldn't be an issue.

I think the GM said the token next to the Deacon is the holy symbol of Unity where the altar is.

Spiky thing is the aforementioned holy symbol of Unity. I don't have the Photoshop skills to assemble that on the picture of an altar, so I just left it there.

As an OOC aside, this is the first time I've managed to make major image work on a party without them figuring it out. So if you'll excuse me, I'm going to shamelessly pat myself on the back.

Well done. :)

It helps that there was no real reason for us to interact directly with the creatures, and none of us got the meta-gamey idea of "I throw a stick at it." LOL.

Ugh, sorry for the silence, I've been dealing with a family member in the hospital. Going to go post right now.

So, I'm a little confused about how the order of operations happens while we're in initiative. I get that everyone who is bolded can post their actions (and that for practical reasons this just helps the game go faster), but I'm confused about what this means about when the actions take place.

For example, Sweet Mawd is about to take her turn and she is ahead of Nalshene in the initiative order. But Nalshene has already posted her action. For Sweet Mawd's purposes, has that action (and any movement) already happened? For example, if Sweet Mawd were to move past the Kytons would it provoke an AoO (assuming they had Combat Reflexes and could take an AoO while flat-footed)? Or are they already blinded when she moves? For that matter, does Sweet Mawd "know" what has happened (or is about to happen) on Nalshene's turn, or am I should I play her as if I had no idea of what is about to occur?

Similarly, if she casts a spell (she's in fact about to cast Haste), do I calculate the range of the spell based on where the characters were when her init spot came (which the map no longer reflects) or where they are at the time that I actually post her action?

Hope this question makes sense and many thanks for any clarity any of you can shed.

Technically we are still respecting everyone's initiative. Thus if Sweet Maud were to move and it is before the two bad guys keel over, then if there are any AoOs provoked, then Sweet Maud is going to have to deal with those. Thus technically you should behave as if you have no idea what people's actions are going to result in. You can take into account what they have done, as any F2F table has a certain amount of table talk (ex:"Hey, I'm going to move there, would you mind not being in that spot?"), although not abusing that is probably in the best interests of everyone.

In practice things are a little more loose. And in certain cases, it might prove simpler to calculate things like range of spells, etc on where people stand at the time of your posting.

I would suggest you try and look at how others deal with this, play it by ear and if there's something I do not like I will let you know.

Got it. Thanks for the clarification.

For future reference, Investigative Mind lets me roll twice and take the better roll for Knowledge checks up to 15 times. I'll pretty much always use this ability for learning bad guys' characteristics but may or may not for general Knowledge rolls; in this case I didn't know what we were rolling K Planes for, which is why I didn't declare that I was using it.

Also, 3/day I can use my Lore Needles to use my K Arcana bonus (+36) instead of another K check but again I'll save these uses for specific situations, so if you don't mind alerting us what the Knowledge check is for (e.g. 'give me a K Planes to know what these "monks" really are.') it'll be very helpful if you think that's reasonable.

Ugh. Life over the next half-week will be difficult for me, so expect updates, as much as I'd like to make them, to be... Well... Not made.

I'm aiming for Wednesday late morning for my next update.

We understand - life gets hectic sometimes - good luck with it all.

Not a problem, thanks for letting us know!