Reign of Winter (Inactive)

Game Master Just a Mort

Dismissal is a specialized spell. It is useless against most creatures.

I don't expect it to work against undead, constructs, or any number of other types of creatures. I do expect it to be somewhat effective against the specific type of creature it is meant to work against.

Failing more than half the time is not effective. It is almost as bad as ghostbane dirge -- another specialized spell that looks great until you realize that there is a 50% miss chance against incorporeal creatures. Even if you make it past the 50% chance, there is still a saving throw against it.

Well, at least now I know the spell is nearly useless. I can fill that slot with something less specialized and more useful tomorrow.

There's no 50% against incorporeal creatures now. What happens is that all spells have half their damage v incorp. Ghostbane dirge problem is it triggers off will, which undead have good saves off...

We'll put it as 10 min to get in, 10 min to search for Dimitri's gun, 10 min to the watch towers and examining them, and another 10 min for the tank since you were poking through its remains. So we're at 40 min since entering prison camp for the duration of buffs.

Also please heal when moving between encounters, thx.

There's no 50% against incorporeal creatures now. What happens is that all spells have half their damage v incorp. Ghostbane dirge problem is it triggers off will, which undead have good saves off...

That isn't the way I read the Universal Monster Rules.

Incorporeal (Ex) An incorporeal creature has no physical body. It can be harmed only by other incorporeal creatures, magic weapons or creatures that strike as magic weapons, and spells, spell-like abilities, or supernatural abilities. It is immune to all nonmagical attack forms. Even when hit by spells or magic weapons, it takes only half damage from a corporeal source (except for channel energy). Although it is not a magical attack, holy water can affect incorporeal undead. Corporeal spells and effects that do not cause damage only have a 50% chance of affecting an incorporeal creature. Force spells and effects, such as from a magic missile, affect an incorporeal creature normally.

Italics and bolding added. Ghostbane Dirge does not have the force descriptor and does not cause damage.

What am I missing?

Dohs. I screwed up, then. I always thought it was just half damage, and other stuff ran as per normal. Anyway Greta is down 46hp.

Also on the end of the round pit save, I swear I did do the save and the roll was a - 13 +11 total 24. Not sure why it didn't show up but I think boards were wonky last night.

Anyway, Dmitri should probably be able to finish the job, since we're looking at half Hp left

Waiting for some responses, if none, I'll just move to the next area.

I've given you a response :-)

GM off for dinner!

BTW start preparing your 14th level character sheet.

Am I correct in thinking Crummock never healed Mr. Whiskers except possibly with the Mass Cure?

Also, four inanimate dreams? What the heck were the writers thinking!

Didn't he heal everyone? Bah go retcon your heals...

Been away from the computer for four hours doing a transport for work, I will retcon a little of the stuff going on when I post, so having said that, a quick question.

The first dream panicked Einar, would he have hung around and waited till the third dream confused him?

The confusion roll 100%: 1d100 ⇒ 62 Deal 1d8 points of damage + Str modifier to self with item in hand.
oddly enough he would have dropped the hammer due to 'panicked' so I guess he will claw himself

Would Einar have:
1: ran,
2: ran while hurting himself,
3: stood there and hurt himself ignoring being panicked?

They all acted at once - you only act on *your* turn.

Technically, I think you only run away if you get 'act normally' on your Confusion roll. Basically, we have lost our fighter for this combat :-/

Yes on Crummock's interpretation - with the prisoners let me think about it a bit on how to resolve it.

If I happen to be a little trollish(for this combat), my apologies, but I'm just RPing the BBEG.

Prisoners - I was more or less prepared for Crummock's reaction since it would probably be what I would have done in his shoes. That said, I don't go around making life hard for players who want to do good deeds.

You can lock them up at the outer regions, safer would be to bring them back to the Hut. But we're talking about 30 casualties so it'll be a logistical issue - which I guess you lot need to sort out

The Hut will let you bring them in and it's inhabitants won't bother them. Zorka can pull out sleeping potions to keep them out of things until you can fix matters.

I have no issues with that.

They all acted at once - you only act on *your* turn.

Technically, I think you only run away if you get 'act normally' on your Confusion roll. Basically, we have lost our fighter for this combat :-/

so '3': stand there hurting himself, ignoring being panicked.

How many rounds does the 'panic' and the 'confusion' last?

Same duration for fear + confusion - 12 rounds.

Einar/Crummock - go ahead and correct me on drug usage. Your GM is not a medical student. I know jack about drugs(I just did some really quick lookup on google), and I do NOT care for recreational drugs as a person. Alcohol being the exception, of course.

It's around after WW1, and chances are no we won't be getting the pricy stuff down here.

My guess is that you can knock someone out with an overdose of Morphine - but what do I know, I didn't even take biology at school...>.<

It's probably medically unsafe and all kinds of stuff but oh well.

I know Chloroform doesn't work like it does in criminal movies.

"In 1865 as a direct result of the criminal reputation chloroform had gained, medical journal The Lancet offered a "permanent scientific reputation" to anyone who could demonstrate "instantaneous insensibility" using chloroform, and as of 2015 no such demonstration has been forthcoming."

You're supposed to hold the cloth on the person's face for at least 5 minutes...

Oh and please don't smack me for any history butchered while the module was run - I didn't take a degree in History, nor do I have any knowledge on Russia history. Think of it as alternate timelines, if you will.

Yes Einar, deep breaths...

Honestly I'm more interested in watching animal planet and national geographic for fluffy, cuddly animals when it comes to documentaries. Occasionally I may watch a how do they do it episode on discovery channel but my brother is the history buff, not me.

Guys – I kinda need your corporation – I’m trying to run two combat rounds/day. Ok – I’m insane. But what’s new? I’d expect you guys to have figured that out by now :P

All these calculations are under GMT +8 time. I will try to clear my “night’s backlog” – before 8 am in my morning. If I do wake up late, it should be done before 9 am, or latest 10 am.

I generally stay up till 10.30 pm at night and if Mr Whiskers posts early, I may be able to attend to his post before my bedtime. If not, I can always deal with it in the morning (like I do with Crummock’s early morning (4 am my time) posts).

I need you guys to try to make double posts/day for combat, one in your morning, one in your night. I’ll try to keep things running fast in combat so you’ll generally have something to do for morning and night posts.

Currently waiting on Mr Whisker’s actions, but since he’s asleep we’ll just wait till my night.

Well, my peak posting time is 1700-2300 local time, but I usually try to check before I go to work in the morning, as well (so, usually 0700-0745).

Also, I have uploaded Dimitri's profile; it turns out I was short-changing him a little on his damage output ;-)

+ ? GMT - Australia has multiple timezones so I need to run the calculations.

Also = +13 would not have passed the second confusion, so technically Dimitri would be confused unless he had iron will etc. 7+13= 20, you needed DC 21.

It should be +15 Vs Enchantment effects (which Confusion is)...

Can, that is fine. Also after this combat I will give you some additional information (since I was not aware Dimitri had perception +28).

It's all good - I'm sorry it took me a while to upload all of it - Winter is, oddly enough, the busy season at work...

Re: Morphine:
You can certainly use it as a sedative, but you *really* need to be careful; in the doses needed to knock someone out completely, it can cause serious respiratory depression, resulting in the user dying (that's why benzodiazepines are generally used as sedatives today).

it would be Einar's opinion that the best way to help these people would be to destroy the things hurting them.

He would be very much against stopping in the middle of a raid to rescue one primary person, to help secondary priorities. It would take hours to get them resituated, and they would loose whatever surprise element they had.

We can come back and help them after we clear the camp. The thing feeding on them probably only does so at night.

Do you want me to post in game on the discussion or was what Einar said enough to present his opinion?

I think what Crummock said pretty much killed the idea. If we can't fix any of them right now, moving them isn't the right answer.

We are on the last round of this combat.

Crummock can reroll his will save - using borrowed fortune, and can possibly get a dispel/remove fear off you. Otherwise yes, poof into the Hut, which is or is not a bad idea all things considered.

One inanimate dream is bad. Four is insane. Four all acting before the whole group is a good recipe for a TPK.

You really shouldn't group initiative on creatures with that high a CR, especially when they have one-shot kill abilities.

Well - nothing happened on the PKs! And they're down a dream. So that's good news.

They're advanced animated dreams btw. I realized I didn't factor in the AC bonus from advanced template and the increase in hp earlier.

Generally I try not to murderhobo you lot. Which was one of the reasons why I ask for max hp - so I don't hit people once they're down.

so if the creatures that cast the spells or spell like ability are dead/gone, does the spell/ability stop, or does Einar wait the whole 12 rounds?

Wait till we're done for confusion. For fear- if you can no longer see the target that feared you, you are free to act however you wish.

Reminds me of the time I nearly died in black tentacles after the enemy caster who cast it was already dead.

Stopping for some RP. Also - I'll be going out with my friends later for dinner so I won't post till quite late - prolly 9+ pm.

I don't want to move to next room F3, because I'm going out with friends,so I'm not too keen in running a combat.

Is everyone clear what you need to do regarding the world anchors?

yeah, I didn't even see the door for the kitchen... this way we can have some other comments before we interrupt the 'dinner party' in game that is, we don't want to interrupt you going out with friends ;)

Going out of the kitchen door just leads to the back of the building, inner courtyard again. What I can give, I try to give.

Ok - I had dinner with my friends. Didn't drink, then on my way back picked up a sake at the supermarket, drank all 300ml of it at 10% alcohol pretty quickly...so yes you might have a slightly tipsy GM at this point of time.

it looks like Einar didn't have time to draw the +1 ghost touched longsword before the AOO, oh well, Mister Whiskers, got them out anyway, Maybe with this many weapons I should get the feat quickdraw

The saves for the neg levels will come 24 hours later - chances are you'll pass them and it won't become permanent neg levels, so nothing permanent done anyway. Or Crummock could take a nap, hit you with restoration from life spirit.

I think its one book of Greater extended summoning (evil), and 8 other books - so 8k total for the other books.

1)A copy of the fifteenth-century illuminated manuscript Aurora Consurgens
2)the book of Eibon
3)the infernal hierarchies of Johann Weyer De Praestigiss Daemonum
4)Collin de Pinacy’s illustrated 1863 edition of Dictionnaire infernal
5)an ancient of copy of the Key of Solomon
6)the Greek fire and gunpowder manual Liber Ignium
7)Aleister Crowley’s The Book of Lies
8)Allan Kardec’s Le Livre des Mediums.

I hate it when they give me all the titles lumped together. No, I haven't been reading ANY of those books. Philosophy ain't me thing.

In the process of resetting spells for the next day.

So, I would like to add the following spells to my spellbooks:
5th: Grand Destiny
3rd: Battering Blast

If others request it:
2nd: Force Sword

I'm also trying to decide if summoning Giant Celestial Wasps is worthwhile. They would have smite to get past DR, but I'm not sure if that allows injury to incorporeal creatures. We have been hitting way too many incorporeal creatures here!

Comments, suggestions welcome.

Edit to add: Would also like to add Burst of Radiance to the spell list.

Would take Force Sword in it's place if it was requested.

Crummock: Do you wish to take several days off adventuring to fix everyone up or just fix Patel and Anton, set off the next day. There will be no repercussions, however you choose.

Smite does not help you injure incorps. You need a magic weapon.

Anyway - just describe where you want to get into the camp (where you left off?) - and your methods of getting in.

I am going out later so I won't be available for updates, probably will be evening (5+) when I can update.

hey, FYI, I'm off Friday and Saturday so my posing may be off a little, please bot Einar, when appropriate he will use the ghost touched longsword.

Gimme the PA attack modifiers for it. Lazy to do maths. Oh I may be out till 6 today so it's even later then I thought. Exams over, I'm fwee so catching up with as many people as possible! Parteh!

Looks like Battering Blast is in a book I don't have the source for. I'll figure out a different spell for there.

I dun care. I don't need you to have a source book as long as it is available for me to check on D20pfsrd or archive of nethys. This is not pfs.

I care because I want the HL records to reflect the character. Tough enough keeping things straight without adding complications there.

Up to you. I don't trust HL to do my character sheets because I am a luddite and distrust technology. And HL gets things wrong too.

There may be no repercussions, but Crummock doesn't know that, so I wouldn't operate on the assumption that it would work.

I am happy to keep adventuring the day I 'fix' Einar, and Heal Dimitri's two friends.

I say we pick up where we left off, but with the difference that we go in loaded for bear, and ready to deal with incorporeals.