Okay, sorry for the delay. Getting settled in and getting some writing done. But I'll update today!
New game post up!
What's the group preference for this "interrogation?" Would you all like to roleplay through it question and answer style or would you prefer me to summarize a scene taking into account the questions that have been posed along with the methodology of bribing Ekkie with food and offering her membership in the PCs "gang?"
Maybe you missed it Nightfeather, but Travis uses "detect evil" on the creature formally known as Ekkie. ;)
I did miss it, thanks. Keep in mind that according to the "Detect" table at p. 266 of the Core Rulebook aligned creatures (except for undead and outsiders) of less than 4 HD have no auras at all.
Actually, I revisited the rules on detect evil and now I'm not so sure. I went ahead and told you that Ekkie detects as evil, though I'm not positive about that ruling (well, I'm positive she detects as evil, I'm just not positive I should have told you).
The number of auras is one. Or would be if they had auras. Gah, it's poorly worded.
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About detect evil
You are correct that Ekkie, if she were a goblin of 4HD or less would not detect as evil, because her taint is not strong enough.
Apparantly, if she were an undead of 2HD+ or outsider or cleric of 1HD+, she would detect as faint.
If she does not detect, no problem.
Since/if she does, Travis will start to look at her (slightly) differently.
The problem with the various detect spells that key off detect evil for their description is the seeming incongruency between the spell(s) description and the Detect Chaos/Evil/Good/Law table.
They're spells that yield increasingly detailed results over a number of rounds, as described in the body text of detect evil. In Round One, the "information revealed" is given as "the presence or absence of evil," full stop. Nothing about auras and their strength.
The table, however, indicates that non-outsider, non-undead creatures of less than four Hit Dice have "none" as the strength of their "aura power."
It seemed likely to me that I wasn't the first one to have this question before so I searched the message boards. Lot of differing opinions, but no definitive rulings that I found.
Hey, Mihajlo, it's been four days since you posted in the game thread, looks like. Everything okay?
All: we're getting ready to enter underground exploration mode. Study those light rules! Things are going to start happening a little more quickly, I think.
Once we hear from Rutilus we can head into the sewers.
Doesn't that sound fun? ;)
Rutilus is traveling this week on business. We may not hear from him until the weekend.
As he responsibly and helpfully posted in this very thread, in a message which I read right past.
Sorry, Mihajlo! My bad!
You others suppose he would mind if we moved forward, at least to the point where Rutilus would need to be making some crucial decision?
Sorry for my "lateness" boys and girls. I finally got home, and am reading through my "backlog" (I am involved in several PbP's here), so I will start posting regularly very soon.
Welcome back buddy, from all my alter egos.
Yes, welcome back!
Hmmm. Let me see if I've got some switch toggled wrong.
Okay, I think it should work now.
Tomorrow's my travel day home from Mexico, where I've had a fantastic and productive working vacation. Hopefully I'll be able to sneak in a post in the morning if one is called for, but it might be Sunday before I make another appearance.
12 hours of planes, trains, and automobiles later (well, followed by ten hours of sleep), I am home again home again.
Let's review the light and vision rules.
All the PCs except Jory have normal vision, and therefore cannot see in the dark. Jory can see 60 feet in the dark, but nothing beyond that.
The light spell Khain is keeping active on Manzcar's shield radiates normal light to a radius of 20 feet and then dim light to a further radius of 40 feet.
The sunrod Khain is holding radiates normal light to a radius of 30 feet and then dim light to a further radius of 60 feet.
In normal light, you can all see normally. The only thing to remember is that you may not use Stealth in normal light unless you are invisible or have some kind of cover.
Creatures within dim light with normal vision can see somewhat. Creatures within dim light have cover (20% miss chance in combat) from those without darkvision or the ability to see in darkness.
I have updated the map so that areas of normal light are in light gray, areas of dim light are in darker gray, and areas where you cannot see (except for Jory) are black. I will let Jory know via PM whenever he sees something unusual that is outside the range of what the rest of you can see. Note that right now all he sees is the sewage tunnel extending in either direction as far as his vision allows.
Note also that whenever you roll to hit a creature in dim light, as the goblin you can see right now currently is, in addition to rolling to hit and possible damage, you should also roll 1d100, and on results of 20 or lower you have missed due to concealment no matter what your attack roll.
Do the two people holding light sources in particular understand the map, and do you feel comfortable changing the "fill colors" of the cells to reflect normal and dim light radiating from your sources? If not, don't worry about it, I can keep up with it.
Is all this clear, and does it map on to everyone else's understanding of the light and vision rules at pp. 172-174 of the Core Rulebook?
The maps, by the way, have chat functionality if you want to make use of that to coordinate tactics or just, y'know, chat. If you see that there are other viewers of the map listed in the upper right hand corner, just click the little toggle arrow to the left of where it says "X other viewers" and a chat window should come up.
Double ouch! That's how you kill a goblin!
I am gonna die
I am gonna die
Now, now, you only took five points of damage. And you've still got all your friends up top to help you!
I'll try to remember to post a link to the map at least every couple of messages, but just in case you need it and don't see it on a quick scan, I've posted it permanently as Lair of the Nightsoil Marauders with the Magnimar and Heidmarch Manor maps under the Campaign Info thread.