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#6-19 Test of Tar Kuata
A Pathfinder Society Scenario designed for levels 3-7
Players, Please make a post I and include the following information!
Player’s Forum handle:
Character Name:
PFS#:
Race/Class(es)/Level(s):
Faction:
Day Job Roll, if any:
1) What special / unusual rules, boons, or corner cases should I know about regarding your character?
2) What are your strengths, interests, or skill sets outside of combat?
3) What are your go-to combat tactics?
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Character Name: Seb Stills
PFS#: 69739-8
Race/Class(es)/Level(s): Male Human (Varisian) Hunter (Courtly Hunter) 3 / Paladin (Gray Paladin) of Abadar 1
Faction: Sovereign Court
Day Job Roll:
1) What special / unusual rules, boons, or corner cases should I know about regarding your character?
Seb has an ape animal companion who can switch back and forth between a large ape and a tiny monkey as a standard action; the ape is also treated as a familiar in terms of his INT, and he uses Seb's skill ranks for his own.
2) What are your strengths, interests, or skill sets outside of combat?
Seb thrives out of combat, and focuses on social interactions, aided by his ape.
3) What are your go-to combat tactics?
Seb is a tank in combat, and flanks with his ape to increase his chances to hit even when using Combat Expertise.
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1) What special / unusual rules, boons, or corner cases should I know about regarding your character?
None that I can think of
2) What are your strengths, interests, or skill sets outside of combat?
He tends to be a charmer but also an investigator. He can lock pick if necessary and likes to scout.
3) What are your go-to combat tactics?
He tends to like to flank, and flips in and out to create flanks for his party members. He has a really high acrobatics check so he is pretty good and it. He also will throw his shuriken and alchemist fires and stuff like that to disorient his foes.
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Took the last spot, I hope this is ok.
Player’s Forum handle: Baerlie
Character Name: Piety Angelbane
PFS#: 123480-6
Race/Class(es)/Level(s): Tiefling Witch 4
Faction: Dark Archive
Day Job Roll:
Piety is very intelligent. He speaks six languages and has a broad knowledge in several fields. During combat Piety stays in the back and assists his comrades with hexes.
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Player Name: Tusk the Half-Orc
Character Name: Garduk the Unteachable
Race/Class and Level: Half-Orc (Shaman’s Apprentice; Frostkin); Arcanist (Occultist) 3
PFS#: 199504-7
Faction: Dark Archive
Day Job Roll:
I’ll add answers to your questions here & the Bot Me! info to Garduk’s profile page this evening (6-7 hours from now).
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Character Name: Kulga Gruenakslag
PFS#: 182453-3
Race/Class(es)/Level(s): Dwarf Slayer 5
Faction: Sovereign Court
Day Job Roll:
1) What special / unusual rules, boons, or corner cases should I know about regarding your character?
Kulga's a relatively straightforward axe & shield warrior type (though more skillsy than most)
Her weird boons are:
Kulga can coach up to seven other creatures (the party) in Stealth. For the duration of the adventure they'll get a +4 bonus on Stealth checks, and they halve their armor check penalty for Stealth.
She also has a +1 insight bonus on saving throws against spells, spell-like abilities, and effects of creatures with the fire subtype and against spells with the fire descriptor.
2) What are your strengths, interests, or skill sets outside of combat?
Kulga is more of a fighter than a talker, though she rarely makes a fool of herself (can't total lower than a 19 on Diplomacy). Despite not being an expert at influencing people, she's a keen student of humanoid nature, and in general keeps her eyes open.
3) What are your go-to combat tactics?
Kulga tries to get a flank with an ally, or slam her opponent against a wall to knock them prone
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Character Name: Omar Posada
PFS#: 9884-11
Race/Class(es)/Level(s): Male Halfelf Skald-5
Faction: Scarab Sages (for now I guess)
Day Job Roll:
[b]1) What special / unusual rules, boons, or corner cases should I know about regarding your character?
Typical skald, no special boons unless we are in dire circumstances, then I would have to dig. Most are bonus to save. Maybe cast invis or some odd spell.
Unlikely to be used...I hope.
Spell Kenning is a new feature...so being able to cast any 3rd level spell once/day...probably handy.
2) What are your strengths, interests, or skill sets outside of combat?
Outside combat, he has bardic knowledge for all skills. He still sings power ballads and is otherwise a glory seeker.
He will not leave anyone behind at any cost.
3) What are your go-to combat tactics?
In combat he uses rage-song to boost himself and any willing allies into a frenzy. Not so popular with the more cerebral of the party, but the rogues and warriors tend to like his singing (and rage powers).
Reach weapon in combat.
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Seb Stills - I was looking at your character sheet for information on your how your ape animal companion can switch back and forth between a large ape and a tiny monkey? (pup shape???) Unfortunately the character details for Seb Stills are pretty sparse. I assume you'll be adding more detail soon, or have a link to the character sheet.
Yes! I'll have it all updated (this weekend, most likely).
FWIW for now, that ability is called "Subtle Companion"
Subtle Companion (Su) At 2nd level, a courtly hunter can transform her animal companion into a similar Tiny animal to allow it hide easily or even blend in and act as a spy. For instance, a tiger could be transformed into a housecat, a wolf could be transformed into a Tiny dog, a dire bat could be transformed into a Tiny flying fox, and so on. This functions as a polymorph effect, and the animal companion gains a +2 size bonus to Dexterity and a –4 size penalty to Strength (use the polymorph table to adjust its ability score if the animal companion is larger than Medium). As a standard action, the courtly hunter can touch her animal companion to transform it.
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Hey there! Lucky number 7 here! Thanks to GM Glyn for allowing me to join you folks, and to all of you for letting me join the fun. I promise I'll do my best to make it worth your while! That said, here's my stuff...
Player’s Forum handle: Mjolbeard89
Character Name: Friar Robun
PFS#: 177216-3
Race/Class(es)/Level(s): Human (Keleshite) Life Oracle of Sarenrae 4
Faction: Grand Lodge
Day Job Roll, if any:
1) What special / unusual rules, boons, or corner cases should I know about regarding your character?
I have the Spirit Boost revelation, which means that, when I use a healing spell and grant you HP exceeding your max HP, you keep the excess as Temp HP for 4 rounds.
2) What are your strengths, interests, or skill sets outside of combat?
Despite having a high Charisma, Friar Robun is no Face. He has the Wasting oracle curse, so he suffers pretty hardcore on Diplomacy rolls. He does bring a few knowledge skill to the table, though. Almost certainly not as much as our Arcanist will bring, but he can at least try to aid on History, Nature, Planes, and Religion rolls.
3) What are your go-to combat tactics?
Friar Robun is built primarily as a Heal-bot, so he'll likely start out by picking one or two front liners to grant his Life Link revelation to so he can suck up some of the damage they take, stay in the back, and heal himself to keep alive. He also has a few buffs he can throw down, and even a couple of offensive spells if push comes to shove. The one thing he will definitely try to stay away from is melee combat. That is definitely not his jam.
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I quite enjoy it! They make for pretty impressive healers (though I’ll admit I probably haven’t built the optimized healer with Robun, nor do I have the tactics down to a science). The best part to me, and what makes them stand out from clerics, are the curses and revelations. There’s a lot of flavor baked in just from those two class features.
The other nice thing about them over clerics is that they’re not dependent on both charisma and wisdom to have a strong build. You can really concentrate on Cha and get pretty impressive DCs going.
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Sorry to have taken so long to respond to these - it was a rough week at work.
1) What special / unusual rules, boons, or corner cases should I know about regarding your character? The occultist arcanist archetype has standard action, minutes-per-level SLA summoning. If he summons an elemental, it receives temporary hit points equal to the level of the spell used to summon it, from the Outsider Ties faction trait (currently this means 2 temporary HP). Garduk's most-used racial ability is orc ferocity (squishy caster is squishy).
2) What are your strengths, interests, or skill sets outside of combat?
Garduk likes learning languages and has picked up quite a few. He has broad knowledge skills, and travels with several heavily annotated volumes of Pathfinder Chronicles and will quickly flip through them to boost his recall (assorted bonuses to knowledge checks) if he can spare 1d4 rounds.
3) What are your go-to combat tactics?
Garduk generally summons on the first round of combat if there is more than one opponent, and tries to position the summoned creature to give Kulga (or any other front-liner) a flanking buddy. Because arcanists have fewer spells per day than either wizards or sorcerers, he tries to limit his casting to one spell per combat, especially if he thinks he may need to convert that spell slot into an arcane reservoir point. He uses scrolls and wands - and even his crossbow - to fill in the gaps. Garduk also burns through charges on his wand of shield as though they're about to reach their "use by" date, casting it early and often.
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Garduk's shopping before the scenario starts (already incorporated on his profile page):
Starting gold: 1,616.77gp
- Scroll of heightened awareness x3 - 75gp
- Scroll of create pit - 150gp
- Potion of cure light wounds - 50gp
- Add spells to spellbook from rented spellbook: heightened awareness 15gp; anticipate peril 15gp
- Pathfinder Chronicle (Knowledge (Nature)) - 50gp
- Pathfinder Chronicle (Knowledge (Local)) - 50gp
- cloak of resistance +1
Total purchases: 1,405gp
Spellcraft checks to add spells to spellbook:
- Heightened awareness [dice=Spellcraft, take 10, cheat sheath]10 + 10 + 2
- Anticipate peril [dice=Spellcraft, take 10, cheat sheath]10 + 10 + 2
(I know the cheat sheath bonus was unnecessary, but I haven't gotten a chance to use it yet.)
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Correct, Garduk has no way to give elementals not from the Plane of Earth complex commands, and as a result, prefers to summon earth and mud elementals (Marty the Mud Elemental is a personal favorite). In our last session, the GM seemed to think it was reasonable for Garduk to give simple directions to a lightning elemental with hand gestures and a whistle (nothing more complicated than "Come with me!" and "Go that way to the bad guy!") but I understand it's a gray area - whatever you think is fine with me.
Encumbrance: yes, with his pack he's at medium encumbrance. He'll drop it if he needs to - he keeps holy water, alchemist's fire, alkali flasks, and CLW potions in a bandolier - but that's where his scroll boxes are, so prefers to have it with him. If he thinks he's walking into combat and doesn't need his hands for anything else (crossbow, for example), he sometimes pulls out his box of combat scrolls in advance to have it ready.
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There are some skills, like Climb, that I never really think about taking. This scenario is making me rethink some of that!~
Gray Son, I'm not saying that I have played a halfling who got stuck hanging by his hands from a warehouse beam and couldn't pull himself up for 3 rounds, while a squad of goblins fired arrows at the rest of the party just a few feet away, but I am saying that the halfling put ranks in climb the next time he leveled up and every level since.
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For the sixth trial, Aeotsep offers the use of the merciful meta magic rod only to the players who succeeded climbing the pillar unaided. I have no problem if one of them choose the rod and hand it off to one of the less athletically included spell casters.
If you need more than one weapon that’s fine too. Only one master work weapon or meta magic rod each to those offered.
Note the wooden weapons deal non-leathal only no -4 to hit.
The meta magic merciful rod allows you to cast a total of three spells 1st-3rd level converting the damage to non-leathel.
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GM, I realize that Seb's last post was a little confusing with his reference to the rod, but he ended it with:[/ooc]
I'm understanding correctly, there's only one rod. So I'd like Kulga to be able to use a masterwork weapon, and Garduk can use the rod. Seb will use a regular version of a warhammer; he's more of a "get in the way and tank" guy anyway, not really a huge damage dealer.
So I think Garduk starts the combat with the rod (which is why he subbed Magic Missile for Stumble Gap). For his first action, Garduk will choose something that should not require the rod to stay in the rules, so that we have time to work this out. It may be a couple of hours before I have time to post, though. I just happened to look at the page but I’m heading into a meeting.