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This sounds amazingly fun and flavorful! I'm super excited!
So, we make all 8 choices in one post, all spoilered. Correct?

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This is going to be great, I'm going to try and not even look at my own checks. Hopefully I don't botch the formatting on a roll or I'd never know.

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Ok, it's posted, if you see that anything is messed up, I can correct it (if you let me know). I haven't looked at my own rolls!
Also, I do have the inspired trait, so I can reroll a skill check if need be for free once a day, I guess maybe you can add that in if I botched anything terribly?

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I am missing something on the fruit... I don't see how to do that, or what to do. Is it one of the normal checks?

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I have no idea! It's a thing, that's all I can say!

GM Damo |

I am missing something on the fruit... I don't see how to do that, or what to do. Is it one of the normal checks?
You perhaps missed this amidst one of my text walls:
In order to retrieve the fruit, a Pathfinder must elect to roll the obstacle check twice and take the lower result as well as succeed at a DC 18 Acrobatics or Climb check to snatch the pear. If you want to do this, let me know and I’ll make the extra rolls for you.
Your intention is stated, and I'll roll for you (as well as for your second obstacle roll).

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Awesome, thanks! I thought I read that somewhere, just couldn't find it again....
-Posted with Wayfinder

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I assume that we cannot cast a buff spell before making our checks?

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What about swift actions (Arcane Pool Point)

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Ok, looking over the DCs, these are the rolls I need with those DCs: 19, 21, 17, 17, 16, 26, 18, 17. Is this a joke?

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I know but when I tell my grandkids I was playing this PbP and there was this awesome dinosaur chasing me, and they say how did you get away, I will have to say that I muffed all my skill checks and assisted this drunk priest guy. Boring!

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The drunken priest needed:
18 17 15 19 (can's succeed) 16 17 to pass any of them.
He failed in all cases.
Best rolls were when he had the worst chance. SIGH.

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I haven't even looked at my own rolls yet! I can't wait to see what happens!

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And me with no Ki points.... This should be interesting... :)
That chase scene was AWESOME!!! So cool and flavorful. I thought the "all at once" rolls was genius too. So much better than 'dragging it out' Ha! as if...

GM Damo |

Sorry! Didn't mean to make you have to spend so much time looking it up. I did research, but I couldn't find anything when I did.
It didn't take that long to look up, mostly mentioning it for future's sake - and because sometimes I do spend quite a bit of time. After all, I don't want to stiff you guys! This is actually part of a larger thing that I've been thinking of for a while now to help me spend less time on GM posts. I'll be taking tips, too, but was going to wait until the upcoming hiatus.
As an aside, pretty much anything you do in Pathfinder takes a standard action unless otherwise specified.
As I said, I don't mean to complain. I'm sure I've done this to our GMs in the past. I just want us to improve on it going forwards. It's all good.

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No worries! I didn't think you were complaining. I had actually not heard of the standard action activation thing before... Which is odd... But now I know!
In general I like to try to look everything up and understand how things are supposed to work, just to save everyone time. Plus at a live table, having to stop all the time for rules discussions is frustrating for other players. You spend so much time already on the posts, I feel bad if I make you spend even more!
-Posted with Wayfinder

GM Damo |

It's funny about the standard action. There are so many other types of action these days, it hardly gets a look in anymore. So much is a move, swift, fast, immediate, full-round that it's very easy to forget that there's a "default" action in Pathfinder. I guess that's the problem with including so many rules additions, modifications, exceptions and the like for your advanced classes. It's easy for players to get bogged down in the details and forget that the base classes (and the base options) used to be a lot simpler.
You know you play too much PbP when...
You actually have a philosophical view on standard actions.

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"@ GM Damo:" quick question, did the peon knock down the ladder Ibid picked up, or was that a different ladder?

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I was just wondering because it looks like he is on the opposite platform, and the bridge had been shot out which separates where his platform is and where our ladder is against the opposite platform. Basically, I thought there would be a gap (or a climb check) before he could get to our ladder, but I realize now I wasn't clear where I set it up!
No worries either way, I just wanted to make sure I understood. Thanks!

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"@ Finarin:" I apologize for being such a nudge here, but you put the ladder against the tree housing the elder hut, correct? And then will be climbing past dingus?
I just want to make sure I know where the ladder is and if I should climb it or shoot from the ground.

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So this fight might be one of the most visually fun, map-interactive, not-just-your-ho-hum-2-round-hack-and-slash fights we have had yet... I think. Close second is Gunari doing a cannonball through a ship deck.
I LOVE IT! So much going on tactically, so much to interact with and get around on the map. It feels so 3D too with the ladder/bridges, platforms. This might be my new favorite encounter to date. As long as we don't die.
I real-life cringed at the description of poor Dingus. fiveknives must be especially cruel for a man to willingly die following orders than to risk death being handed to him by such a cruel master... yeesh.
Also...
Cyrus <= disappearing flea trick
possibly underrated, but one of the most fun parts about following combat and the combat tracker is these fun tidbits.

GM Damo |

Day Job rolls please. Also tell me about any non-wand consumables you used that I may have missed. That is all I require.
6 of you get 1 charge each, leaving 4 charges. These uneven charges go to:
1d6 ⇒ 4 -- Gunari
1d5 ⇒ 1 -- Amaranti
1d4 ⇒ 1 -- Cyrus
1d3 ⇒ 2 -- Ibid
Also... I'd love to run an encounter with Mother T-Rex (a-la one of Marvel Comics' less well-known series) entitled:
What if...?
The Drongos fought T-Rex?
Who's in?

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I'm in
Twerking: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 2 = 21
I used alchemical fire x1, lesser restoration x2/5
is it funnier now that you know what I look like?

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I actually was wondering the same thing, Damien, with the effectiveness of this group. I'd be game.
Perform Sing: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (18) + 11 = 29
1 CLW Wand use.

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@Damo what the heck. It should be over quickly. ;)

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I'm in ! Can we have buffs on? :)
No day job. Marking off two wand charges

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I'm in, of course!
Ibid: Day Job Roll
knowledge(local): 1d20 + 10 + 1d6 ⇒ (20) + 10 + (1) = 31

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Also, I'd like to add the following spells to my spell book:
Ablative Barrier
Defensive Shock
Flaming Sphere
Stone Call
at 60 each, that is 240gp
Thanks Gunari!!!

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Holy s@@& - reading up on spells, look at this one!

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Oooh, I had an arcanist (Ravenloft class, not the new one) in Carrion Crown (which was run in a Pathfinder Ravenloft port by Ryan Naylor) who used that a few times! Creepy doesn't begin to describe how that felt when I did it!

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Holy s$$* - reading up on spells, look at this one!
Yeah, there is a reason that Mike Brock banned it :D

GM Damo |

Not for creepiness reasons! Man, there's plenty of creepy sh•t in PFS - including the First Steps meeting with Zarta Dralneen where she essentially tells the PCs that she loves screwing new agents, implying that Valsin sends them to her with this purpose in mind! The players then get to beat on the imp (that she for some reason keeps in her bedroom) with her silver bondage gear.
Pretty sure that spell would have been banned from PFS because it allows you to get a spell added to your spell book without expending the GP (which breaks PFS ethos).

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Actually, it is the fact that you have to drink the blood of a sentient creature (and typically will be cannibalism). I don't have a link to the post, else I would link it.
Mike's been pretty straightforward with the morality that he wants in the campaign (including no Profession: Torturer - as he has stated that torture is an evil act)

GM Damo |

Really, it is for moral reasons? Wow. In that case, I could argue all day about the lack of morality in certain PFS situations, but totally won't even get into that! Wow is all I will say. Wow.
Oh, and I've kissed my kids boo-boos before, and pretty sure some blood has gone into my mouth and gone on to eventually enter my stomach. I wonder where it becomes cannibalism? Probably some time before the "pint of blood" stage. ;-)
Actually, wow... and is animate dead legal for PFS?

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It looks like it. I don't see his question. He is probably tied up at the moment.