So...um...Jamir (and everyone I guess) your Damphir isn't planing on being evil is it? Cause I'd really like to play a Paladin...and well I'm not that good and looking the other way in character or not. Even a neutral Vampire spawn will present challenges when I get channel. (i kinda figure in an AP full of undead and constructs...that selective channel is a somewhat wasted feat.) Just want to sort out, potential obstacles, before we encounter them. If no one is evil...I think it will work. But, if someone wants to play evil like really bad...we'll have to have a roll off or something.
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So...um...Jamir (and everyone I guess) your Damphir isn't planing on being evil is it? Cause I'd really like to play a Paladin...and well I'm not that good and looking the other way in character or not. Even a neutral Vampire spawn will present challenges when I get channel. (i kinda figure in an AP full of undead and constructs...that selective channel is a somewhat wasted feat.) Just want to sort out, potential obstacles, before we encounter them. If no one is evil...I think it will work. But, if someone wants to play evil like really bad...we'll have to have a roll off or something.
No, Alezandru will be a true neutral follower of Pharasma. There won’t be a problem with channeling except when you are specifically channeling to harm undead, in which case I would ask that you avoid including him in your pally’s range where possible; I expect he’ll manage when you can't avoid him. And while he will be a blood-sucking half-abomination, i’m setting him up to feast on the blood of the recently deceased (not called out as being an evil act), not the living (which is).
Despite having four divine casters, only Torvald’s inquisitor will have inflict wounds spells on his spell list, so I hope he will be able/willing to use the wand Alezandru plans to buy. Otherwise, he’ll need to buy and ask Jawhar’s wizard to carry a wand of infernal healing, and I would think that your character would be squicked by that.
So...um...Jamir (and everyone I guess) your Damphir isn't planing on being evil is it? Cause I'd really like to play a Paladin...and well I'm not that good and looking the other way in character or not. Even a neutral Vampire spawn will present challenges when I get channel. (i kinda figure in an AP full of undead and constructs...that selective channel is a somewhat wasted feat.) Just want to sort out, potential obstacles, before we encounter them. If no one is evil...I think it will work. But, if someone wants to play evil like really bad...we'll have to have a roll off or something.No, Alezandru will be a true neutral follower of Pharasma. There won’t be a problem with channeling except when you are specifically channeling to harm undead, in which case I would ask that you avoid including him in your pally’s range where possible; I expect he’ll manage when you can't avoid him. And while he will be a blood-sucking half-abomination, i’m setting him up to feast on the blood of the recently deceased (not called out as being an evil act), not the living (which is).
Despite having four divine casters, only Torvald’s inquisitor will have inflict wounds spells on his spell list, so I hope he will be able/willing to use the wand Alezandru plans to buy. Otherwise, he’ll need to buy and ask Jawhar’s wizard to carry a wand of infernal healing, and I would think that your character would be squicked by that.
It will make for interesting roll-play. I think it's all good as long as no one is evil in the party. Otherwise the roll-play turns in to us against us instead of us against the world. I'm not saying we have to be the perfect team..but, it sure makes other parts of the game go smoother when the players are co-operating on most levels.
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I'll be neutral, no objection to Infernal Healing here. Still not sure why draining and utilizing the blood of an evil creature is considered evil...
But, if the pally won't like it, he won't like it.
My dhampir is a Kinslayer for that reason. Uses his judgements for healing constantly and can inflict himself.
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I'll be neutral, no objection to Infernal Healing here. Still not sure why draining and utilizing the blood of an evil creature is considered evil...
But, if the pally won't like it, he won't like it.
My dhampir is a Kinslayer for that reason. Uses his judgements for healing constantly and can inflict himself.
I’ve been intrigued by the hunter hybrid class since I bought the ACG - I always liked the idea of the druid, but the higher spell levels aren’t very exciting, and I am less interested in wild shape than an effective melee team up with an animal companion. But some spellcasting is a must - you have no idea how hard it is not to have Jamir take a level of bard as soon as he can now now now. Hunter is the happy medium for what I want in this character: having 2/3 spellcasting and full progression for the animal companion, combined with bonus teamwork feats (which seem as though they are woefully underutilized), looks like a lot of fun. My first version of Alezandru’s build included a level of Sanguine bloodline sorcerer to get the blood drinking plus infernal healing on the spell list, but it was too much of a diversion. I’m going to take a second level dip in Ranger (Dungeon Rover) instead, and blow two feats on Exotic & Eldritch Heritage to get the same ability without losing +1 BAB.
since Craggark asked so nicely, I'll keep it on my Tagline for the remainder of this game. Just wondering did anyone but me, notice how close Craggark came to dying that last combat? If the Mimic suceeds in the grapple check there was a better than 50% chance Craggark was Dead Dead...not just unconscious. That creature had 'constrict' which means i basically doubled my natural attack damage (in this case a slam). The slam was 1d8+6 (in case you missed it the first time the mimic laid a hurt on him) that means avg. dmg was 21hp! Craggark only has 21hp and he was already at -15hp...Yeah it was that close...If I had rolled an '8' or better on the CMB check...chances are this group would still be in shock from Craggark's sudden visit to Pharasma.
Torvald wasn't joking...this dungeon is tough...wouldn't blame you guys for turning around and bugging out..Then again...if you did defeat it!
You know me I won't pull punches. You wouldn't want me too anyway. But, seriously...this is a tough nut to crack...something to think about.
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Oh, I noticed, GM. I noticed that none of my colleagues engaged the mimic in melee combat either, preventing me from making use of my Dirty Fighting feat by flanking with me (dirty look at Jamir).
Where did that bow even come from? Who are you, Jamir? WHO ARE YOU??
(All tongue in cheek. Except my concern for that bow.)
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Oh, I noticed, GM. I noticed that none of my colleagues engaged the mimic in melee combat either, preventing me from making use of my Dirty Fighting feat by flanking with me (dirty look at Jamir).
Where did that bow even come from? Who are you, Jamir? WHO ARE YOU??
(All tongue in cheek. Except my concern for that bow.)
Hey, without that bow, the mimic would have had 1 more hit point at the end of the round? Who knows what could have happened?
Yeah, sorry about that. I had the bow last game, too - I used it in the first combat. I just decided that the sling staff wasn’t working out because it took too long to load. I had it out here because Jawhar was at the sarcophagus with you, and without knowing where the threat was coming from, I didn’t want to have us all bunched up in one place. But if Myth hadn’t crit with his shot and then Lia finished it off, Jamir would have dropped the bow and run up there. Of course, you’d have been mimic munch by then. So next time I’ll try to stay closer to the likely threat.
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Mimics are CR4 if memory serves, and we DID just amble into an ancient king's deathtrap of a burial site. From a modern perspective Pathfinder deserve whatever bad stuff happens to them, what with the grave-robbing for fun and profit n' stuff.
In one of my face to face games we're doing a modified-for-Pathfinder "Tomb of Annihilation" run, and I have a wild dwarf (I like dwarves, okay?!) Primal Companion Hunter with an allosaurus companion/mount and HOLY WOW is it powerful! The ability to give it Climb, or Swim, or a higher-damage bite or whatever else on the fly is crazy useful and easily worth giving up the Animal Totems ability.
And Jamir, my inquisitor of Thoth would be fine with healing you with an Inflict Light Wounds wand.
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Thanks - that will make things much simpler.
(I like dwarves, okay?!)
We all have our preferences! I like half-orcs (my other two current PbP games are with half-orc characters, and more than half of the characters I make when just theorycrafting on Hero Lab are half-orcs), half-elves, and halflings. Anything with "half" in the name.
(I like dwarves, okay?!)
In first Ed. I leaned towards elves and half elves. Also one of my favorite 3rd. ed characters was an elf. (got him up to 9th lv!) But, in Pathfinder home games and the end of 3.5, seems I went with a lot of humans. As for PFS I have 8 characters 4 human, 2 1/2 orcs, 2 Dwarfs. My first PFS character was an 1/2 Orc but I deleted him before ever having played one game with him. (rather generic 1/2 orc Barbarian)
There is an interesting thing that has happened since I've started playing PFS. I used to play characters that almost exclusively have had a lot of skill points to spread around. But, I've branched out some since I've picked up PFS and can proudly say I have several 'low-average' skill characters. I've kinda found when my skills don't define me...I actually make more effort to define the charaacters personality.
My Bloodrager and Cleric Fighter are two favorite character's personality wise. And even though my cantankerous Dwarf Wizard has some skills due to an intelligence bonus . He kinda qualifies (only 2 skill point per lv) and he's quickly become my 3rd favorite.
There's also some classes I'm looking forward to playing that I've never played.
1. The Paladin (so many editions...never played this class once as a PC! [I did realize I had played a Paladin once as a GMPC up to 4th lv])
2. War priest! Am playing Oloch pregen in an Outpost game...this guy rocks! So excited to put my own twist on this class!
3. Occultist : the mechanics and flavor of this class are right up my alley...Also been listing to the 'Glass Cannon' Patreon feed...and one of the players has been playing a low level occultist seems like an adequate character with a lot of flavor potential.
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GM, I noted in your spoiler tag to Lia that you said "no one searched that last room". I had thought that previously as well, but I reviewed the posts and:
The dwarf begins a careful examination around the chamber. "We should carefully look around for whatever threats might be present. Darts firing from the walls, poisonous gasses, floor spikes, destructive glyphs...all the usual dangers! Then we can open the sarcophagus!"
Perception: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (20) + 8 = 28
Now, Torvald searched the room before the encounter with the mimic, but he got a natural 20! He didn't say he was searching for traps specifically, but a natural 20 is a natural 20, right?
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Oh yes - I was simply commenting on the idea that "no one searched the last room". I thought that to myself as Craggark was following everyone into this chariot room, but then amended my original post after hunting and finding Torvald's post that I quoted indicating that he had searched the room.
Just in case there was something to that last room apart from the mimic.
there was nothing in the room besides the mimic and the doors...and I thought I made it clear that I knew Torvald searched the room by revealing the doors upon his search check. Anyway nothing else in the room. I was just mentioning to Analia that no one hung around the room for a lengthy period of time between the time she cast hers spell and they entered the next encounter area
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Thanks, you too!
I'm not saying I've had caramel chocolate matzoh crunch for breakfast for the last two days, but I'm not saying I didn't, either. But I haven't raided the kids' Easter basket yet, so that's something.
Also, I know I'll probably miss it later, but I admit that one of the benefits of having teenagers is not having to get up at 5am on Easter morning to hide eggs all over the house.
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I think I've just enjoyed my last lazy Easter morning for a while. Our little one is 16 months old and her mother was beating herself up for not hiding eggs for her in the lawn this year.
(checking out the recipe for caramel chocolate matzoh crunch)
(considering religious conversion)
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Gang, the GM just asked us again if we’re going back to go over the unexplored parts of the areas we have passed through. Anybody want to reconsider? Not every dungeon crawl lets you go out the way you came in. In game, everyone is concerned about the lack of loot - going back to make sure we didn’t miss anything would not be totally out of character.
Please don’t read anything in to my asking you, which direction... truthfully you should go whichever direction your characters are inclined to go.
LOL u guys r funny...just out of curiosity (and don't spoil it for the others) has anyone read this? or ran it before? (doesn't mater if you have...all of you guys are excellent at suspending your meta knowledge for the sake of game play...it's one of the true joys of running stuff for this group.)
just throwing this out there because although I had already downloaded it, I hadn't really looked at the boons on the chronicle of this one. Upshot is they're pretty good boons! Don't get too excited because they're only a couple of them and both are one time use...but both are Really good one time use boons. The gold offered and the items are pretty good too.
LOL make sure you live to collect your rewards guys! They're pretty good on this one! muhha ha! *evil GM smirk*
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”Boons? Pah! GLORY is all the reward a true Pathfinder needs for a job well done!”
”Well, glory and some gold. To defray expenses, you know. And occasionally to upgrade the adventuring apparatus. Yes, GLORY AND GOLD!”
”Also fame, of course. Because with fame comes more important and adventurous assignments! And better missions lead to more GLORY! AND GOLD! AND FAME!”
”Not that I would turn down a truly valuable boon, of course. Boons put the seasoning of true friendship on the nourishing meal of GLORY! With the balancing side dishes of GOLD AND FAME! GLORY AND GOLD AND FAME AND BOONS!"
"Right then. What were we talking about? Why yes, I would like more ale, thank you."
So after looking over the thread provided by Jamir, I’m going to rule in this case an aid another on knowledge check is allowed . However, I do disagree with all do respect Hillary Moon Murphy’s interpretation of the feat given as an example. I’ll explain my ruling in a post later today; for now yes the contents of the spoiler are yours