Shadows of the Sand (Inactive)

Game Master caster4life

Am I still mounted?

Sure.

Tried to post before bed but got some forum goblins.

Traveling and shouldn't try to work map, etc on phone. Will post tonight most likely.

I'm on vacation through December 2. I can probably still post, but don't hesitate to bot me if there are any issues.

Bye. Have a great time!

Sorry about the delay. Some friends ended up staying the whole weekend after Thanksgiving, which I didn't expect. Was fun, though!

Amari, you're right about reach templates, which helps you for an AoO but not the original attack. My correction is that he hits you from 20 ft away before moving.

Lo, I need a breakdown of that disarm roll as it beats his CMD by a small amount. The +1 is bardic inspiration, +8 is the weapon itself, +4 is from outflank, but where's the +2 come from since that wasn't the AoO, which you said you'd hold until later? If it was the AoO, then you don't get the +4 from outflank as Serenity wasn't in flanking position yet and didn't threaten him to give the +4 from paired opportunists.

Sorry to delay resolution more but I've had more time to look at the details of the situation here, which really matter!

Dazzling Blade spell.

Nice call!

Fell ill during international travels, I'll be fine, but please bot me for now.

Oh no, get well soon!

If it were not for straining our luck, I'd ask our GM whether he resolved Zaz' grease she cast under the bad-guy...
While it certainly would be so much easier to stab'n'shoot him, if he had fallen prone, I'd rather take the lucky dice we had just now ;-)

Tactics (cont.):
I think it will be very risky to follow the man in there.
With zero sight, his lethal strikes and a mage at his back (not to mention that there may be traps or additional mooks in there), it sounds really dangerous to follow him in.
Of course, I lack ideas of how to approach other than to pepper them with ranged attacks, best from high ground they cannot easily reach.

Ah I missed the great. It kept nagging at my mind what Zaza had done. But yes I'll keep things as they are via the Gygax method:

Dice rolling noises

Yep he made his save.

Not changing my actions, but we may be able to approach with a little more confidence.
I still plan to circle and attack from an unexpected direction.
But maybe that's not entirely necessary.

Mhhh maybe flankinflg around wasn't such a good idea after all...^^

I want to heal Amari. Do I need to make climb checks to go next to him?

Yes. DC 15 without a rope. It will take a move action to attempt either way and a success will get you up there.

very busy weekend inbound.
Probably no post this WE.

Thanks for the heads up, Amari. Lots of holiday stuff going on right now.

Oh come on guys, this is getting ridiculous ^^
@Shadow: Can I withdraw from up here towards Lo & Serenity?
Probably not because I need to climb... but isn't climbing 'moving' as well?
A bit puzzled about this, but gut says no, and I really should have thought about the enemy being a summoner and pestering me with summons before climbing up here o.O
Another question:
Can I change target mid-flurry?
So e.g. send two arrows against the bug and my third against the caster?

You can withdraw while climbing, IMO. And I'm fine with splitting flurry targets.

Agreed this fight is kind of nuts but this guy is a professional and is doing his best to complete his mission and survive.

To be honest dont think the caster showing up on the map was the issue just hard when we cant see elevations to help determine spacing and reach.

Gotcha.

Will be away from the internet the 28th and 29th for an anniversary trip. I'll be back to playing on the 30th.

With family right now but will calc return time, rewards, etc and update your progress ASAP.

I imagined it to be located in a rather far-off region with very few big inhabited places around - far from the closest official 'government', so any seddler nearby would have to rely on them for protection. Maybe not too far from the Taldan border as the closeness implies semi-frequent problems the Monastery defends against.
What would fit best?

I put it in the desert to the west as that's a pretty dang deserted part of Qadira.

I think our loot situation is getting a little disorganized. I consider this primarily a player responsibility but I'm keeping an eye on it and doing something when it seems like I should, as is the case right now. Has anyone been recording loot that hasn't been distributed yet? What about loot that hasn't been IDed yet? Should we create sections in the spreadsheet for this? Right now it looks like the spreadsheet has had some stuff added to it but hasn't been cleaned or arranged in months. I don't want you guys to be under-equipped just because the quartermaster roll wasn't clarified.

I'm shameless about incentivizing my players to take on OOC duties like being quartermaster. How about this? Whoever takes on the role of quartermaster gets an extra skill rank per level? Now that means the role has serious responsibility to organize the spreadsheet and make sure all loot is accounted for up until the point of allocating it to an individual.

Typical responsibility paralysis...
I could give it a go somewhere around 7/8th when I go back to work schedule.

I do most of my posing from work when I have downtime and unfortunately googledocs is blocked by their firewall.

Ok no worries. I bet somebody will want the job.

I don't actually want the job but I may take it for the greater good.

Before I do that, I believe we've traveled for 7 days so we should easily be able to figure out what these unidentified items are. Zaza has a +6 spellcraft modifier.

A belt: 7d20 ⇒ (7, 17, 2, 19, 16, 19, 11) = 91 (19)
A headband: 7d20 ⇒ (2, 18, 17, 13, 2, 12, 20) = 84 (20)
A book of strange, arcane scribblings: 7d20 ⇒ (3, 11, 16, 6, 1, 15, 16) = 68 (16)
A nice vest: 7d20 ⇒ (7, 4, 1, 8, 8, 5, 1) = 34 (8? really?)

Belt of strength, headband of charisma, a spell book containing:

Levitate, protection from evil, jump, longstrider, reduce person, web, and detect evil.

Who knows what the vest is? ;)

I certainly don't.

As to the bookkeeping, I'm afraid I'd only be able to do it infrequently at best. My life is rather hectic right now and I'm having enough trouble just keeping up with my posting duties.

No worries, Hadha. I expect someone will be interested in the job in order to get the skill ranks. It's looking like Amari or Zaza right now but maybe Agaban will want it since he plays a 2 rank class.

I'll update it when I can. Like now.

Added the Loot above, marked magic equipment like this and added a date updated section to better know if it needs to be updated or not.

Thanks, Lo! Do you want to be official quartermaster or did you just want to help out this once?

Cool, thank you Lo'Laan! I added a couple of items in there--500 gold, "a nice set of half-plate," and "a nice dagger on each combatant".

Is that masterwork daggers and masterwork half-plate?

Appraise: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7. I'm sure it must be at least masterwork now.

I can try for some reason was thinking Zaza was doing it before the holidays and most likely that was when it got a little outdated...think I did an appraise check before but just in case.

Appraise: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (12) + 6 = 18

And as far as the quartermaster job I can try but generally only able to check once a day since work blocked paizo, but let me know otherwise going to leave it alone currently.

No worries. Once a day is great for posting.

Sounds like Zaza or Amari should take the quartermaster job.

Sure, I'll take the job. I feel ready to do it! Can I donate the extra skill point to Agaban anyway? Clerics have it rough on skill points.

Er, so anyone remember what the deal is with our 1,000 gold promissory note? Is that with our friendly quartermaster we're meeting now?

Are we allowed to sell the 2,000 gp contraband to said quartermaster or do we need to offload that elsewhere?

Also, Zaza is taking the Headband of Charisma +2. Who wants the Belt of Strength +2? And are spellbooks sold for half the cost of the spells therein (assuming they were scrolls)?

If we can answer these questions, I'll be able to calculate the gold everyone gets on top of the reward from our last mission.

Sure I won't say no to generosity and giving Agaban the skill ranks.

Didn't you guys already redeem that note? I don't remember. Yes you can sell the contraband. You confiscated it legally.

I wouldn't sell the spellbook yet if I were you.

Once upon a time, I made this post with some suggestions on dividing loot and claiming gold. Did people update their sheets accordingly? I know I didn't, so basically I think none of the loot has been distributed yet. Someone tell me if I'm wrong and they claimed a share.

If I'm right, everyone gets 1,511.7 gp in loot. Along with 2,250 gp each in mission rewards, that's a total of 3,761.7 gp, which is quite a nice sum.

I used & updated my sheet from that post.
But afterwards... I only noted down the DEX belt I took... nothing else.

Yay money!
What kind of gear tends to be available here at the base?

I used & updated my sheet from that post.

But afterwards... I only noted down the DEX belt I took... nothing else.

Alright, well if you took the 632.12 gold from the previous post, then subtract that from the 3,761.7, which will give you 3,129.58 additional gp.

In addition to the Dex +2 belt, I have in my notes that you got the Amulet of Natural Armor +1. Which for all I know would've been pretty useful during that last fight. Although, do you want the second +2 Str belt? If so, I think Lo should get the Amulet.

Ask.
Exotic stuff has to be ordered and will come online after the next mission.
You know the drill from rappan attuk :-)

Took care of the gold but forgot about the potions.