It's my duty as GM to know as much as possible about characters in my games. What they can/cannot do, all the possible permutations of their actions.
Basically to part the mists of time, to see what the future holds.
Actually even as a player I'll check out the team as well. Again most people don't care for my unsolicited advice.
Ouch! You hurt my feelings, Einar!
But I don't do random things. I always do things for a purpose.
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K my results are out. I have now graduated with a bachelor of law degree(2nd upper) =)
Congratulations :-)
Thank you =)
I should say something witty involving rule lawyers and actual lawyers but I'm a little too tired for that now...
Heh.
So, in that case, I will start summoning some Planetars for the free Raise Deads and free Greater Restorations, by way of celebration...? ;-)
Actually for raise dead, the cheapest one is the akhana.
Greater restoration, I haven't actually done research for that one yet...
Wait. Maybe I should celebrate by getting myself drunk. But d@mn alcohol is so expensive here:(
Yes. Planetars also have the advantage of being in the original Bestiary, so it can't even be claimed that they are 'cheesy'...
I agree, the Akhana is theoretically cheaper, but the Planetar can raise several people, as well as removing both negative levels from one person, so it works out as being more cost-effective (although you *do* need the Greater version of the spell to summon one, whilst the Akhana can be accessed by the 'normal' version, so it is available earlier).
Congratulations Mort, and evidently there is a nasty surprise waiting in gameplay?
Guess I will go read it now.
Nah. Nothing too drastic - I just decided to go 'all out' since, apparently, the BBEG of this section is behind the next door ;-)
Yeah, seems that way.
Might have wanted to do the calling someplace other than right outside the door. Hopefully Mort will allow that -- especially since then we could overlap that time with the time that Einar spent on the door.
Eh I am not going to have the door open on you. Not all the time I will be that charitable though.
So is there a reason we didn't ask for the True Seeing on someone? Mr. Whiskers doesn't have his Arcane Sight or See Invisibility anymore.
Ack! That got left off the list when I was re-formatting it.
That would definitely have been on Crummock's list :-)
It evidently is still too early in the morning to properly plan, especially with the remainder of a cold.
Would you mind if Mr. Whiskers casts Ice Body and Communal Resist Elements, Cold as preparation as well?
Hrmmm Meh. Well you did have a chance to buff, I'll say no. But since you beat them in init, you can get some of it out anyway.
Right, guess I didn't do them then.
I would rather prevent them from acting if possible.
That works too =) It's actually Crummock's prefered way of doing things.
About ice storm:
Great magical hailstones pound down upon casting this spell, dealing 3d6 points of bludgeoning damage and 2d6 points of cold damage to every creature in the area. This damage only occurs once, when the spell is cast. For the remaining duration of the spell, heavy snow and sleet rains down in the area. Creatures inside this area take a -4 penalty on Perception skill checks and the entire area is treated as difficult terrain. At the end of the duration, the snow and hail disappear, leaving no after-effects (other than the damage dealt).
Heavy snow is described in weather section?
Wall of ice has 57 hp, FYI, extends all the way to the ceiling.
Also not DR/good.
Confused. More than likely it is the head cold interfering.
Why does Einar have four negative levels?
The witch clawed him and drained his life force.
Each claw gives 2 new levels, if it helps...
I posted in the morning, then did all the saves with the *redacted* stuff going on. Then realized I forgot to mention it.
Black tentacles would also deal 1d6+4 damage(I'll count it as spell damage and not subject to DR), but they have fast healing so I didn't bother roll for the damage either.
I suppose if I wanted to be witty, I'd say because Einar is a negative level magnate and deals with negative levels?
Black tentacles would also deal 1d6+4 damage(I'll count it as spell damage and not subject to DR), but they have fast healing so I didn't bother roll for the damage either.
That is a lot of fast healing!
I mean I could roll the damage and say later they heal up, but yeah, additional typing and clutter><. Also, Mr Whiskers, you're up, and I'm off for lunch with colleague soon so I probably won't be doing much here.
For why doesn't the black tentacles grapple this time round: they're no longer targeting flat-footed cmd.
I try to keep track of as of as many things as possible, but if I miss out stuff, sorry. Really. I'm human too :(
One good example was Einar and greater heroism. I didn't realize I derped till later.
Another was forgetting Mr Whiskers had spell penetration.
The third was forgetting to tell all of you about the negative levels and thinking I did it.
And I'm spending my weekend cleaning up my aunts place lol.
Crummock maybe we should talk about interactions of ice storm - I honestly thought it would obscure LOS - that's why the selection was made. If it wasn't that way then another action would have been taken. Urgh there's a lot of rewinding to do if so...
See my gameplay post - it is all good :-)
Mr Whiskers - mind this part on interactions with mage sword:
If the sword goes beyond the spell range from you, goes out of your sight, or you are not directing it, it returns to you and hovers.
I don't think you have LOS to it now with a wall of ice in the way.
BTW does Greta continue breaking walls and going in? Or what?
@GM Mort: I Ninja'ed your post in the Gameplay thread ;-)
To be fair, Wall of Stone doesn't explicitly say that attackers auto-hit it (like Wall of Ice does), so I suppose that a natural 1 does still miss it...?
Yeah so I thought all walls were alike ><
I think we are waiting for Mr Whiskers to wake up ;-)
Hopefully, in the interim, I have distracted two of them from targeting you...
Mr Whiskers - mind this part on interactions with mage sword:
If the sword goes beyond the spell range from you, goes out of your sight, or you are not directing it, it returns to you and hovers.
I don't think you have LOS to it now with a wall of ice in the way.
Just bot me.
I've been doing a miserable job anyways and am too sick to figure out what to do.
I'm sure you'll do a better job anyways.
Going home to draw walls. Apparently you can't draw a decent one on phone.
Chances are the place will be walled up. I'm trying to see if its a legal cast or not and obstacles.
The problem is Bol is 5d8+20. I don't think anything can help at - 125 or so. Red is at full, and Dimitri can see her.
You can walk around the wall, but there's one part you need to squeeze since you're. Large.
The wall stretched all the way to the ceiling.
... am too sick to figure out what to do.I hope you get feeling better!
I'm a little better now. Still not fully recovered, hopefully by Thursday or Friday. The coughing, runny nose, concentration have all improved.
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Trying to update for what has happened.
First thing to note is that both Mort and I have been missing the effect of one of my buff spells, Fire Shield.
Fortunately I had remembered to cast that, so
The flames are warm to the touch. You take only half damage from cold-based attacks. If such an attack allows a Reflex save for half damage, you take no damage on a successful saving throw.
Updates:
At full hit points before battleTake only 12-5+6/2 = 10 damage rather than 13 from Ice Storm because of Fire Shield.
Use a 7th level slot and Arcane Reservoir point for Wall of Force
Use a 7th level slot for Dragon's Breath
Takes only 45/2 = 22 damage from Wall of Ice because of Fire Shield.
Down a total of 32 hit points of which 12 were temporary, two 7th level spell slots and 1 AR.
I have updated Mr. Whisker's tracking based on the above. Corrections welcome.
That brings us to Einar trying to kill himself in spite of the GM giving him protection.
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Questions that came up in rereading.
How is someone using a two-handed weapon when grappled?
How did I do two standard actions in the same turn?. Rereading the spell, it is a standard action to target. Are you saying since I didn't change targets it didn't take a standard action?
I did answer one of my own questions. Originally I had wondered how Velikas had fired at Crummock without provoking from Einar. Then I realized that the Wall of Force was in the way.
I don't think we can go back and redo any of these if they are errors -- it would change too much. At this point I'm asking in case there is something I don't understand.