PFS: Tomb of the Iron Medusa (Inactive)

Game Master drbuzzard

The notorious Taldan aristocrats of House Adella died out nearly two hundred years ago. After rising to prominence during the crusade against the Whispering Tyrant, the Adellas were especially famous for their contributions to the Grand Campaign against despised Qadira. Known to produce scions with extraordinary talent for swordplay and sorcery, the house grew in influence, wealth, and notoriety before collapsing under the weight of its own arrogance in the 46th century ar. The Adellas were so despised by the time of their demise that all public record of the family was stricken from imperial annals, and anyone tainted by its blood was stripped of aristocratic status. All that now remains of the once-great house is the long-hidden tomb where the Adellas’ greatest secrets have avoided plunder for generations.

I'm looking to run this module for PFS sanctioned players. It's a 13-15 adventure. We have 4 players in so far, and would like more. For the table to be PFS valid everyone has to have a PFS legal player in the level range. Pregens are not available, and you cannot just cook up a character to play.

So if you happen to be interested and satisfy the listed criteria, let me know.

Currenlty a Bard, a Bardbarian, Eldritch Knight and Wizard

Dr Buzzard, we should also post in:

http://paizo.com/paizo/messageboards/paizoPublishing/pathfinder/pathfinderS ociety/grandLodgeOnlinePlay

PFS specific online play.

Ok, posted there as well.

Yo..

Well I WAS interested... then I saw the level range. I don't have one that high yet! (Slow process as I very rarely get to play. Sad times)

Yea you have to have a retired character pretty much

Yeah, I don't know that we're pulling from the largest pool, both retired PFS, and willing to play via PbP.

its ok, I sent out an email to some iving people, though not confident they will join. I think between woo and lithuan and avoreal we can rocket tag it again.

What we lose in tankiness with Vars we make up for it with Crowd Control from Vuvu. Unless we fave a butt load of undead or constructs. Shadwo conjuration and Evocation adds a bit of versatility even then.

It just wont be as fast as the last module was

Yea i might just have to memorize more summon monsters.. I picked up VII, so between it and VI i should be able to summon up quite a devestating army.. We have Woo's Sum 2 wand we should have traps covered.. Worst case we all should have the PP for a recovery team lol..
Right now i have 1 of each memorized.. we'll j ust see how it goes..

All in all i think we should wait till later today or tm and give someone a chance to join up..

Ah i see you have a few summoning options too Vuvu.. Surely we'll be fine with no tank or dedicated healer :0..

And before a you say anything yes i know Woo has a ton of Hp, he does not have a ton of Ac, so i would consider him a meatshield, not a tank..

I could get a summon lvl 1 wand for trap finding

Duhwoo has a fresh wand of summon II for trap finding. Spend your money elsewhere.

I did. Blew most of it on making my headband +6 cha and int and adding wounding to my whip. I have like 4500 left to blow on consumables we might need. I am taking suggestions

A Page of Spell Knowledge 1 with the spell Saving Finale (1000 gp)

Scrolls such as Invigorate (25) Feather Step (25) Heroism (150) Silence (150) Restoration (800) Heal (1650)

As an aside, I believe you may be mistakenly stacking competence bonuses from Circlet of Persuasion and Bracers of the Glib Performer. They overlap.

oooo you are probably right. Hmm maybe I dont want to buy the bracers then. only thing I bought before running the last mod.

i am not familar with the pages of spell knowledge. how do they work? just give you a new spell?

ah found the page of knowledge. totally worth 1000

snagging a scroll of heal, scroll of restoration, saving finale page, runestone of power level 2, and not getting the bracers

re uploading my sheet

Im surprised you dont have good hope on your list.. It would stack with your inspire to grant a +5 hit/dam bonus total.. Its a total group buff as well..

Some other great spells to think about..

1st-Timely Inspiration-At your level is a +2 to hit right when you need it.. Will be +3 next level..
-Saving Finale-Looks like you got the spell page so i wont tell you how awesome this spell is. It works on everyone btw..

2nd-Heroism-Why do you not have this? Prob the best 2nd level spell from any spell list..

3rd-Good Hope-Already talked about this... Possibly the best 3rd level buff spell in the game.. I say prob because haste gets some votes..
-Arcane Concordance-In a group of arcane casters you will be loved..

4th-The only one i would mention that you dont have is Dem Door.. FOr obvious reasons..

5th-Greater Heroism-Same as heroism but better.. Sad it doesnt last as long..

With all this in mind i would have spent the reamining cash on a few spell pages.. 1 each for saving finale and timely inspiration, 1 on heroism, and 1 on Good Hope.. That would be 15k total.. You can also spend PP to retrain spells..

This is all my opinion, take it for what you want lol..

I'd say the best 2nd level spell is haste (summoner list). It does beat heroism.

Well i wasnt talking about the cheat class that should be banned in all ways.. lol..

And yet I have still seen people make lousy characters with summoners.

Timely inspiration is dubious for a high level vanilla bard. It is a competence bonus - it does not stack with song effects. Better for alternate class bards.

Having both good hope and heroism is not a great choice for a spontaneous caster - again, bonuses don't stack (both morale). One or the other is better. I favor heroism myself, due to it's duration. Lithuan can prepare extra if desired.

i chose not to do good hope because i found it boring. everyone i play with has haste so i dont. Vuvu is all about flash so that is how I built him.

and gallant inspiration is actually very usefull still. you just have to roll well. last time i played him in eyes of the ten that spell actually saved a tpk against the phoenix twice.

made an acro test succeed and confirmed a crit

An optimizer I am not. Heck just look at his feats and you can see that.

well that and he was my first character so i was kind of all over the map

i might have a monk who wants to join us. let rocket tag commence

I could probably talk a sick gunslinger in, but I'm not sure I want to GM over that sort of carnage.

cant be worse than the carnage i just judged

You have no idea. Duh and Vars didn't really kill anything in Eyes of the Ten because the Gunslinger did it all (and some from Lithuan).

GWF, Cluster Shot, Improved Precise shot.

Pick two...

For your build? Heck for any build.

Cluster shot, improved precise shot. That's not even close.

Alright, here are my counter-argument. Feel free to tear them apart.

• Imp. Precise Shot: Already have seeker on the bow, which half the feat. Between flight and magic, I usually have enough maneuverability to reposition around cover (Corridors are still problematic, of course)
  
• Cluster shot: have cold iron, good, adamantine, silver, piercing and blunt on tap. Still, it would help with elementals & other critters with "DR/-", for when I fail the knowledge checks, and those occasional fights with good outsiders.
  
• As an EK, my BAB is low, so it's nice to get it up a bit with GWF
  

You are probably right though. I will pick it all up eventually.

GWF is 1 point. Imp Precise shot saves you from being 4 down. Seeking doesn't have any bearing on cover. Sure, you can usually avoid it, but taking a -4 hit when you can't avoid the cover is a large hit.

Now I can see your argument for no cluster shot, and archers are usually flexible enough to be able to wing it on different arrow flavors. However as you said, there are those critters with DR/- as well as not knowing what you actually need sometimes. Heck, assuming you keep playing clustered is your way around DR/epic.

it doesnt really matter sine Vuvu's modus operandi is that he did it all by himself anyhow when he retells the tales later on.

:)

buzz, any issues getting the google drive maps set up? you are welcome to use the one we were usng for academy if you like, just have to delete the other maps

I haven't given it a shot yet. I'm still giving recruitment time even if I have little hope. That's really code for 'I'm being lazy'.

I agree with the others.. Clustered Shots and Imp Precise shot.. Adamantine arrows are expensive, silver do 1 less damaage.. Its easy to just fire normal and save some cash with clustered shots..

Improved Precise shot should be taken asap by any archer imo.. On the basis the others have already layed out..

If your not worried about having numerous types of arrows then GWF over Clustered Shots..

As far as the Gunslinger goes ive never seen a high level one in action, so my vote would be him over a monk.. Either would be cool though..

Actually I did mention the game to the gunslinger, and if he doesn't show, I'll be happier. I really have no desire to run a game for a thoroughly broken (but legal) pistolero build. I will not make an effort to remind or encourage him.

While you may think we brutalized you last game, Vuvu, (I believe socks in pillowcases was mentioned), this would be the scene from Deliverance we all try not to remember.

i see.

buzz have you checked out the FAQ on free actions lately? the devs there basically say it is to reign in the gunslinger. It reminds DM's that they have the right to say enough is enough on free actions.

BTW adamantine blanch is much cheaper and has been confirmed to last through scenarios

I prefer the monk. Free trapfinding ;)

If I gut a pistolero with a free action nerf it would only be fair to do it to Lithuan as well (as reloading a bow requires free action drawing of arrows). I don't much care for arbitrary GM nerfs to fix a broken design decision(especially in a living campaign).

The nerf that gunslingers need to eliminating the double barrel weapons.

The devs actually mention that it is not intends for bows. In any event it doesn't matter to me :). Just thought I would point it out . Anyhow hopefully my buddy will bring his monk. He has never played pbp so we will see

If they said that, then I'm far less impressed. I'm a firm believer in sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. If they cannot figure out how to balance a class, making balance an arbitrary decision by GMs is a bad idea.

I'll see if I can find that section.

yea a couple things going around. another is discussion of banning the weapon cord. mike brock said he was going to follow the thread, but that he has been debating it.

Man, way of the wicked sounds fun.

Where did that come from?

Oh, just browsing the threads and bored ;)

Ive tried to get into like 5 WoW camps with no luck.. I agree it sounds fun being the ultimate bad guy.. The other one i've always wanted to play is S&S but again hose are hard to get into..

I'm in a wotw myself it's fun. My goblin got killed it was sad

I was trying to convince someone to work towards Lich for WotW in the advice forum yesterday.

we have someone who is a dhampir and is becoming a full vampire