[PbP Gameday VI] GM Dennis - #8-99 Solstice Scar (Session 2; Tier 1-2) (Inactive)

Game Master Dennis Muldoon

Barring a FAQ or something saying otherwise, I think casting a standard-action spell occupies your hand for that whole turn. You could, IMO, two-hand swing on AoOs and such between rounds, and obviously on any round you weren't casting.

@Oiur: Heh, just stumbled over one of them and you seem to be right, it’s very much one of those debates. (Leading me to believe there’s nothing remotely close to a concensus.

And I’m really not looking to get into a rules discussion over free actions and the precise meaning of the word wielding, I’m just thrilled to have found something nifty to use with a class I thought I knew pretty well.

Aid token heading to your table.

***Token #2***
Passing Aid Token to: Dennis
Current Boosts:
Timely Inspiration (boosted by Oiur)
Provide Knowledge: Arcana (Hard0 (boosted by Heorn)

Oh my... That our token. Haha.

This friday, I can't be there.

Ok. I'll bot your character if your turn comes up.

Is our aid token still waiting on us to use/boost?

Is our aid token still waiting on us to use/boost?

Yes it is. You should use it soon and pass it on.

Sorry.

I will to be bot for all the week I think.

Good HALLOWEEN!

Dennis, could you bot me for tonight? Just run up and smash with a hammer. Probably use moment of greatness on the attack roll for a +1 over the usual.

Sure.

Got things sorted out after all, thanks!

Won’t be able to post anything substantial for a bit but: oh dip, that hurt! Oiur’s at 2 out of 11 hp

JUSTICE FLAME!, if and when you're back and ready to go let me know and I'll stop botting you.

Haska, If you fear to miss, you could aim the Ground. You would a 5 radius spread with splash damage. (You add your intelligence on this.)

Yes, I think I will have to resort to that when cover and melee penalties are involved. That was not my best course of action there and I paid the price for being greedy. Thanks for reminding me to play the character and not high risk poker. I did what you explain above all through first level. I thought those days were behind me now that Haska has precise bomb, but it still is the better safer option sometimes.

I don't know what your plan is for your build, but I <3 Alchemists, and if you'll allow me to opine having just retired one, I have a few suggestions to help tip the risk/reward balance in your favor:

I highly recommend getting yourself a copy of Adventurer's Armory ($3 on Paizo right now!) and taking the Splash Weapon Mastery feat. I wish I had taken it about 5 levels before I did. The ability to adjust your miss-direction roll by +1 or -1 can cover for a lot of things, and reducing the range penalty to -1/increment is awesome. Add in that you get an extra square of splash damage and it's almost like three feats in one.

Also cool is the 12gp bombchucker (if you have a copy of Monster Codex), as it makes your range increments 30ft instead of 20, allowing you to throw at the enemies in the back, away from your frontline allies, more easily.

Go tent!

Diplomacy being one of my best skills, I also vote tent!

I did not know about either of those, the feat or the boombchucker thing. I will have to step up and get those. The Adventurers Armory...Monster Codex are not something I own currently.

The Adventurer's Armory especially is cheap and has a fair amount of good stuff in it.

what skills would one need to use to aid someone?

Whatever is listed. If you are trying to aid someone influencing Jala, for instance, you would roll one of the skills listed in the "Influence skills" section on Jala. I'll allow the person aiding to roll any of the skills listed, not necessarily the same one that the person they are aiding is rolling.

Nuts, Oiur's combined Str and Con are 29. But I bet JUSTICE FLAME! could fit the bill!

I'm going to let everyone else go this round before I bot JUSTICE FLAME! I keep hoping CuriousTrout will return and take over again.

When I will have à computer, i Will Do the roll

Twomorrow (and Maybe tonight...) I will need to be bot.

again. bot twomorrow.

again. bot twomorrow.

More like today in fact.

@Gayel Nord: No problem. Let me know when you're back.

Our deadline was extended due to the site issues, but I still need to report it today so they can wrap up the PbP Gameday. If there are any changes I'll get the reporting changed, but I'm going to roll boons right now so I can do the basic reporting. Boon on a 19 or 20:

Haska boon?: 1d20 ⇒ 19 Boon!
Oiur boon?: 1d20 ⇒ 11
Stonelance boon?: 1d20 ⇒ 17
Babine boon?: 1d20 ⇒ 15
Alphonze boon?: 1d20 ⇒ 11
JUSTICE FLAME! boon?: 1d20 ⇒ 8
GM Dennis boon?: 1d20 ⇒ 17

Haska boon selection: 1d4 ⇒ 1

Haska, please PM me your email address or post it here so I can submit it with the reporting. GM Lorenzo will email you your boon.

Also, Alphonze, I think since you were figuring out character stuff, I didn't get your chronicle information. Can you please give me:

1) Player name
2) Character name
3) Faction
4) PFS number-character number
5) Day job check (if any)

Greeeit
Alphonze Estaban
Dark Archive
264092-3
Craft(Woodworking): 1d20 + 6 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 6 + 5 = 15 (We got a +5 day job bonus somewhere during the adventure, or am I imagining things?)

You did, from one of the orcs you influenced. I'll add that to everyone else's check as well.

Man, I really hate to add to the hectic ending. I have a camping trip with my son and other Boy Scouts for the next 4 days. We think there will not be cell service in the national park. Please bot me as necessary. Haska will throw bombs as he has 6 remaining. He should probably throw at squares and just hit with splashs, He can exclude up to 3 squares for splash effects. damage is 4 or DC14 for half with his mutagen he is +7 or +8 with PBS. I feel bad for asking as you are already botting so many. Sorry, and thank! I will check in Tuesday night when I return.

No worries. The game was originally scheduled to end today, and it's not like we checked everyone's availability before extending it. I'll do my best to bot Haska well.

I’m giving it a day before meatspace claims yet another one. I’m thinking Stonelance, I’ve got a good feeling about him.

On a completely different note, we seem to be finishing up before the other society scenario I’m playing, so creating a new character may possibly have been a good choice.

Here are your chronicle sheets. Let me know if you spot a mistake. I added the +5 you earned from the orcs to your day job checks already.

Thanks for playing everyone. This was my first crack at running a special, and I appreciate your patience. I hope you had fun, despite the site issues.

Just wanted to say I thoroughly enjoyed this scenario. Thank you for running it GM Dennis. Hope to see you around on the boards. You can bet I will try and sign up for your games in the future.

Thanks everyone. It was fun even if Haska can't hit the side of a barn with his bombs. You all really took up my slack. Thanks,

I wish folks'd been able to participate more consistently (not faulting anyone, I certainly had trouble too!), 'cause when we did we had a cool group with a good mix of personalities.

No worries on the bombs—until part of the way through this one, Oiur hadn't landed any attacks in 2.5 scenarios~

Thanks for running, Dennis, and for keeping on trucking with so much botting!

Like the others I’d also like to say thanks for the adventure. I had a great time and hope to see people around. Sorry for all the fuss at the start (We actually managed to finish this adventore before the other one).

And hey, now I'm level 2! I can finally move and draw a weapon in the same turn, which'll be nice since starting a raging song is still a standard.

I have my fun. I would like to excuse myself for my lack of presence. (Great boting denis!)

You are, I think, the last pbp i will had played with before a long time.

Thanks you for your patience.

P.S. Will any of you will try to buy the dagger? I don't this is possible to buy it in the normal lifetime of the society even with the reduction.

On a different note, what can one spend prestige on, and do you have to tell anyone when you do?

You can spend one prestige point to acquire for free any one item worth up to 150gp, or spend two prestige on anything up to 750gp. You can only make one such purchase per chronicle sheet. My first two prestige on most characters goes to a wand of cure light wounds, because it's my opinion that every PFS character should have their own healing resources to spend, even if that means handing their wand to the cleric as asking to be beaten with it.

As for who you should tell....that's an area of table variation. At the very least you need to record it on your Inventory Tracking Sheet for that character. I hear that some GMs will ask if you made any purchases between scenarios, although I never do and I don't think I've ever actually had a GM ask me as a player.

You can also spend prestige on spellcasting services, should you need it, such as Raise Dead, Restoration, Remove Disease, etc. There's a chart on page 22 of the Guild Guide that lists what you can spend prestige on and the prices.

P.S. Will any of you will try to buy the dagger? I don't this is possible to buy it in the normal lifetime of the society even with the reduction.

Yeah, it seems prohibitively expensive. I wonder if you had a character with something like 11 levels of GM credit, so you'd never had to buy anything in the mean time. But then, that only works if you GMed the different versions of the special, rather than played them. Still, there are modules and such you can play after 12th level, so I suppose you may be able to buy it and use it eventually.

I will try to gm all the bonekeep on the high tier and put the chronicle sheet on Babine and look for cost reduction boon. In fact, I know one who would be very thematic for the dagger.

Also make sure you do all of the versions of this scenario with the same character (#8-99 version B comes out in January, I think). The dagger will get cheaper and cheaper for each 8-99 chronicle you have on that character.

I think I heard they are retiring this special or at least part A. Is it replaced by B or is B the only one playable after the retiring date? Anyone know the plan?

My understanding is that the special will be used multiple times but that yeah it's got version A, B, C etc. Which definitely fits the plot snippets we saw here (yearly ceremony and what have you)

I haven't heard anything about retiring it, but it wouldn't surprise me. I know the new version comes out around January.