ok, great. I haven't actually played with a witch in the party before, I wasn't sure what it might look like.
Wow! First combat! First bullet! Excitement! Cheer! Go go party! :D
The player's guide define some rules for walking in the snow. Are they applicable here? Is the road clear enough so we can 5 ft step over it?
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I will be sure to point out when environmental hazards begin. this area has snow on it, but this is the edge of the area that has been affected by the weird weather. the snow here is just barely covering the ground and so gives no penalties to movement.
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three things real quick for combats:
1. be sure to specify which creature you are targeting, especially when there are multiples of the same kind of creature. Either by base color or location.
2. I'm not trying to rush you Graedra by posting again before you got a chance to post. I will interject extra GM posts into combats pretty often, usually to give the result of an enemy needing to make a save, an enemy going down, etc. the party moves pretty much simultaneously in PbP, and it is good to know if something another player did might affect your choices.
3. I really love the stat tracker at the bottom of combat posts. My GM in my Jade Regent PbP started it and it is super helpful. I'll keep track of any damage or effects I think are on each of you (but please track in your own headers as well!). I will also track the info you know about enemies.
there are 3 stats on the tracker that will get filled in as you fight. the HP section will show how much damage the creature has taken. if there is a '?' it means some sort of DR/resistance is in play. so the red zombie is showing 19? damage, not all of that went through.
The second field shows AC. no, the blue zombie doesn't have a whopping 20 AC. this field will show the lowest to-hit that succeeded against the creature already.
Status is pretty obvious, any effects you guys lay down on them will be shown there, with a duration if one applies. can also include dead/dying
If you all feel that this thing is more trouble than it is worth let me know, but as a player I have liked it a lot
The stat tracker is incredibly useful.
Shadowrun is so much fun. I despise running it though.
The only way to play is to run it. How else are you ever going to see Delta ware?
Nah, trying to keep in mind combat rules, hacking rules, and magic rules all at the same time is too much work for me. My brain gets tired from it real fast. Doesn't help that most of my players do minimal reading so I can't rely on their support for knowing the rules.
That being said, I haven't touched the newest edition yet so I have no idea how good or bad it is.
Well, we survived to our first combat with losing one healing pot (thanks Letita for that one).
Samuel cannot use medium armor, but if there is someone in the group interested, I think it will be a good thing taking that Taldan breastplate with us too.
Yes, you guys handled that combat very well. Table 2 is still in the middle of their first combat. 2 zombies are still up, and one party member just went into negative HP...
go go Nature Fang and animal companion! I'm expecting to get my face stomped in in a little bit though, for sure. Thankfully, Endurance will help with this section some.
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Well, I bought snowshoes, justifying them by stating I'm VERY on the move, coming from thw mountains in the north, I thought it only logical...
I'm not impeeded as much by the snow, but you all are. Seeing that it will be an issue to fire ranged weapons, I'm willing to go back.
As for medium armor, I'm limited to the druid's armor limits. Nothing made of metal, up to medium.
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Okay, I know it's just a autocorrect error, but Greadra's "lingerie scent of zombies" is just too funny.
That would have made the fight against the vile undead waaaaay more disturbing.
So what Alec and Baradim think of the chest? If someone else says to leave it be, it will be enough to convince Samuel to not take the risk of it being a trap.
I got a high Perception roll, but I usually like to take 20 before opening such kind of containers. Also when opening doors in a dungeon, unless the group is pressed of to move through. Which brings me the doubt of how do you want to manage those things.
Locked/trapped doors and chests tend to consume plenty of time in PbP for something not very exciting. I have seen all kinds of approaches. From assuming take 20's or take 10's before opening such things, to let the GM do the Perception rolls when they are needed, or even the Disable Device checks so the group is not waiting a couple of days of GM and trapper messaging back and forth waiting for each other rolls and feedback.
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I'll have a post up later tonight, got my own game to run for tonight!
To me the bigger question is about scouting and sneaking. Most dungeon crawls or trap searching live or die by the scout's posting in PbP. I don't think you can take 20 when looking for traps due to the risk of failure.
Alec can handle traps from a mechanic stand point but from a character development aspect, he's not ready for that. I really want to explore an evolution of an ordinary man stepping into something more, someone drawn into something bigger than themselves and forced to grow.
Alec hasn't fought anything other than animals so a lot of what he does will be a learning experience. A lot of encounters with things will be his first time.
He's also somewhat withdrawn. While capable of performing as a forward scout, he's pretty much just following along right now.
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Greadra is the type of person to always be wary, having been ambushed more than once, she sees a chest juat sitting there and imediately gets the ambush chills.
If you can't post, Greadra covers most of the scout problems, with almost similar levels. I just don't have danger sense.
I can track, spot, and sneak... With the usual armor issues. By the Faith, I really need a better suit of armor. The first moment we come across some good light armor, greadra is gonna pounce all over that. I value stealth quite a bit, even jf I don't have sneak attack, thw ability to attack first as a suprise is always better...
Sorry for the delay in posting. I may not be able to make a full post today. I'm in mobile and it is real hard to do a GM post like that.
For trap finding perception rolls I don't allow taking 20, because a failure will often trigger the trap.
I will usually roll perception for the group when entering a new area, unless someone is ranging ahead.
At this point recovering a few extra hit points savors as good as a confirmed critical :)
Wow! That's an incredibly difficult level 1 adventure.
The Tatzlwyrm could have killed anyone of us with his pounce ability (pounce and constrict are brutal abilities). No need for bad luck critical, just a couple of good rolls with his three attacks and Samuel (or anyone else in the group) would be dead.
Now we have three creatures able to fly. With the snow storm it would be nearly impossible for any level 1 archer to hit one at a distance. And in addition they can use the most combat breaking level 1 spell in the game, the color spray. Being three the odds of a TPK are very high for most tables, unless the group counts with very high Will saves or the GM is very good at knowing when to break.
This is going to be very tough o_O
The XP will be super worth it. I had heard that the beginning of Reign of Winter was exceptionally brutal.
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Well This game is Infamous for being hard. And I know why...
A group of zombies, the Tazlewurm, And fey... Ugh.
I do believe this where it's morale system comes into play. Most of the creatures flee after half of them are dead and such. It might be a good idea just to focus on one or two of them, pick them off one by one.
Oh! Greadra! You could pick up and use Baradim's falchion! You're a half-orc too and that would cut through their DR (hopefully)
This AP has definitely earned a reputation for being brutal at early levels. the entirety of level 1 is a series of tough encounters that could potentially kill a player if the dice swing much off of the average. Once you hit level 2 things start feeling a bit better, but the difficulty is still higher than other APs.
It's a tough balance. I am running a RL Curse of The Crimson Throne game right now, and my players were getting bored with the encounters in book 1. most of them are against core race fighter x/ rogue x npcs with plenty of time to rest between events. This one has you jumping from monster to monster with very few simple combats. I'm not sure which is better. I personally enjoy that this AP has so many interesting enemies, but I know it is tough on the players...
We will see how the dice treat us. Here is hoping we'll get some good rolls in at least. :D
I guess it's some kind of druidic code.
The snow in the ground prevents us from charging, isn't it?
yes, the snow makes it all difficult terrain
Jeez, staggered effects too? We'll be back soonish guys! :D
Would Cold Resistance 2 from the campaign trait protect me at all from be Staggered?
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no, the cold resistance just prevents 2 points of cold damage. this is 1 point of piercing damage from the arrow, and an extra effect. ice elemntals have a similar ability that causes a save when taking cold damage. that would be prevented if your resistance of 2 was enough to prevent all of the cold damage from an elemental, but since this ability just triggers when hit by the fey (weapons or natural attacks), cold resistance doesn't come into play
Greadra, Having moved over bardim for a reason, Grabs the druid's Falshon and drops her shield. With a roar she swings the two handed weapon at the tiny red sprite [dice=Attack]1d20+4
But her luck has run short, and without her shield she's more exposed.
It's also a move action to drop the shield.
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Really? A free action to drop a weapon or item, but a move action to drop a shield?
Seems kinda stupid. I mean I get it if the shield is strapped to my arm, but it's a light wooden shield with little more than a single firm handle to it's name.
... Well I do suppose I'd have to toss it to the side, but I could also just reason that if opening and closing my hand is a free action then I should be able to just open my shield hand...
God, stupid rules are stupid, but whatever. GERRRRR!!!
Might as well have just bashed with the shield and clawed the sucker
I think it depends on the shield? Heavy shields are strapped to the arm, so it makes sense more effort is required to shuck it off. Same for bucklers. But I think light shields are just held by the hand.
But I could be wrong.
Indeed all shields require strapping and that is a move action to don or remove you can then drop it as a free action. Curiously enough the tower shield is the only one that does not cite strapping, but again that might have sense.
The quickdraw shield can reduced that to a swift action combined with a move (provided you have BAB+1), or a free action if you have quick draw.
That is the fasted you can get it done.
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Samuel will not get far, he will just try to get profit of his musket range, but he will remain on sight distance of the group. He will probably only have the chance of one last shot, in case he is able to spot the creature. So probably you want to RP the others starting to wake up from the colorful strings of hell :)
Hey all. I am going to be going on a very long road trip tomorrow, driving from Austin to Albuquerque. I will likely not post anything at all tomorrow, or if I do it will be very short
Have a nice trip Red Sun! I hope it's holidays stuff ;)
Is it just me or did our campaign just turn red?
Yes, our campaign has definitely turned red all of sudden...
seems to just be this one? weird. never seen that happen before
I have been inspecting the code. It seems the campaign title is injected in the html css class attribute. Because there is a "red" class in Paizo's CSS, everything is colored with red.
They should be looking urgently there, because it has potential for injection.
Well, I object to this color. It should be ice blue or nothing at all!