Sorry I’ve been slow to post... I’ve had a headache for a couple days that’s making it tough to spend much time looking at phone/computer screens. I’ll try to post soon but feel free to bot me if needed.
Same here. I've got a feeling that we're going to need Teldon soon. :)
Won't be much active until 12th of July, bot me as needed
Hey, thanks for your patience (and concern)! We had a couple days here in the mid to high 90s (around 36-37 C, I think) and I am not well suited for the heat. I rarely wear more than a sweatshirt even in those (in)famous Buffalo snow storms, but apparently doing anything at all when its really hot out will give me heat exhaustion. It took a while to get over the dehydration that came with that but I'm feeling much better now and should have a post up tonight.
Hi, folks.
Sorry for disappearing again. I was at an outdoor music festival Thu-Sun of last week. I was set to pick up again Monday, but routine medical exam turned up something potentially scary. I spent Monday at the hospital having tests run, and I've not been in much of a gaming mood as I wait for the results.
I hope to pick things up again soon, regardless.
Take care Lady Z
Yes please! There's things back in Magnimar Joanna would very much like to do!
Sorry to hold up the climax with a tactics question, but with the door in the way, do I have line of effect to "Sorshen" from where I am? Can I hit her with a blast, assuming I use extended range?
Sorry to hold up the climax with a tactics question, but with the door in the way, do I have line of effect to "Sorshen" from where I am? Can I hit her with a blast, assuming I use extended range?
Crack on... whatever works - Teldon can swing the door open as far as whatever allows you to do your thang!!!
Folks, my holidays appear to have crept up on me with little time to think about PbP - sadly, it seems that I will going old-school and will have no wi-fi for a week... long story short, I'm not going to be in a position to post anything until the 13th August... so, hope you all enjoy a bit of summer - if you are in the Northern Hemisphere... and I'll see you on the flip-side!!!
Have fun! Joanna will just be here waiting to open a can of angelic butt-whoop on !!Sorshen.
Hello - are we past the dark side of the Moon yet? That was an interesting few days of not much happening on the website... giving it a couple of days before I start moving things forwards - people may not have seen the glorious return of the website (and who knows how stable it is anyway) plus it is the August bank holiday here (and elsewhere in the world?) so folks may have other things going on...
...but how is everyone?
I'm around, sick and tired from work, but around. Hoping to get out of this rut.
I'm back from dropping my daughter off at college to start her first year.
And the site appears to be back up!!
I'm ready to resume play when you are, Zed!
...and we appear to be back online!!! Feels like we have lost the entire summer (although part of that is down to vacations, etc!!!) so let's forge onwards...
Ah, it feels good to finally smite this face-sucking trollop!
Sorry- took me a little while to realize the boards were back up
No worries... the default assumption through August has been that they weren't!!!! Most of my games are only just flickering back into life now - and I wouldn't be entirely surprised if I've lost a couple of folks along the way...
Hi, folks.
I am going on vacation tomorrow, and will be gone for a little more than a week. I'm not planning to post here while I'm away.
I should be back on 9/30.
GM Zed: Please bot Ziomarra as needed while I'm away.
Thanks!
Yup. Enjoy the vacation!
Yeah, enjoy your hols... by the time you return there should only be one Sorshen beneath the Lady's Light - but which one?!?!!???
Okay, as per this post, I'm planning on retraining a couple fo feats. GM Zed, how much gold do I need to spend on that? Based on your reply, I don't have to go through finding a master and just need to retrain as part of leveling up, right? I'm also planning on taking Fighter(Unbreakable) for my 7th level class, not that I think that'll affect anything besides Joanna.
I'm also glad we're almost done here because I want the old Halli back already! I'm tired of playing paranoid Halli and want to have the mischievous puppy back.
I'm back from vacation. We had a wonderful time!
Warpriest 7
+1 Bab
1L3 Spell
Skills (5)
Diplomacy +2
Know Religion+1
Healing +2
Feat
How do you feel about Craft Magic items feats?
Sacred Armor +1:Sacred Armor (Su): At 7th level, the warpriest gains the ability to enhance his armor (but not shields) with divine power as a swift action. This ability grants the armor a +1 enhancement bonus.
Physical Prowess +2 STR
I probably won’t have time to actually level up until Friday but I’m looking over stuff now. Instead of a feat I get a magus arcana (from VMC Magus) and I’m debating between arcane accuracy (which lets me add my +5 Int bonus to attack rolls for 1 round if I spend an arcane point) or a familiar (which might be more fun, especially as sort of a manifestation of his relationship with Briana, but probably isn’t as useful... although, I could get a pretty big bump to perception from it). Other than that, I just have to pick an investigator talent and a pair of 3rd level formulae to learn and everything else is just adding a point to something and updating the new total.
@Arsith- so far I don’t think we’ve ever had enough downtime to craft anything significant (so you might want to consider that in your decision)
Welcome back Zee, and that post has me curious about what's going to happen next.
Welcome back Zee, and that post has me curious about what's going to happen next.
Me too! I'm kind of ad-libbing this!
Alright... a little crowd sourcing... I’m hemming and hawing a bit on deciding between fun/cool/interesting abilities and stuff that will actually help in combat; I welcome any feedback on the following 2 decisions.
Magus Arcana
Arcane Accuracy- I have 7 or 8 arcane points and usually only use 2 or 3 each day (to up the enhancement bonus on my spear), so 3 or 4 times a day I could give myself an extra +5 to hit for 1 round...
or
Familiar- I’d take a cat for the RP with Briana/Rowenna, but I’d give it the figment archetype so it would actually be sort of a magical manifestation of my own mind. It would have some flexibility in terms of abilities (because the archetype gets a small pool of evolution points) but I would mostly use it to pump up my perception check
Investigator Talent
Empathy- I’d get to roll twice and take the better result whenever I rolled sense motive (which is maybe less useful for me since I always take 10 if allowed) and once per day I could spend 1 inspiration to read someone’s mind as if using detect thoughts
or
Inspired Expertise- whenever I successfully ID enemies I could spend 1 inspiration point to grant everyone +4 to hit for one round (which could potentially make for a very successful first round of combat)
or
Item Lore- I could ID magic items as if using detect magic... which sounds kind of lame but I can’t actually cast detect magic at all, and even though an item that let you use it won’t be super expensive (if you could find it) it would probably be a while before I had enough extra gold for something like that
I think I’m kind of leaning towards splitting the difference and going with familiar for the arcana and inspired expertise for the talent but, like I said, input would be appreciated!
I'm with Lady Ladile on this one. Jo could certainly take advantage of that boost when power attacking.
Teldon: I would agree with Briana and Jo for your L7 options. It would be interesting for Teldon to have an imaginary friend that everyone can see!
I am working on updating Ziomarra for L7.
One thing I need to figure out is how to remove her two permanent negative levels... Can anyone cast restoration now?
Zed... I have a question about leveling up and the cleric variant multiclass options...
The level 7 secondary ability for VMC cleric is "channel energy". Unfortunately, I didn't read the fine print when I was making my calculations: The effective character level is "level -6", meaning that I'd be doing a 1d6 channel energy. The amount of energy channeled will advance with level, but will always be a very minor ability compared to the character level and appropriate threats.
Would it be OK if I took regular feats instead of swapping out the Channel Energy and Improved Channel Energy VMC secondary abilities?
Let me know!
Options I'm considering...
For my new hex, I'm thinking of Disguise. This allows her to use disguide self for up to 6 hours per day, in one-hour increments. I was thinking that would be useful to appear as her old self when interacting with people who used to know her... plus all the normal advantages of that spell.
Thoughts?
That sounds like it'd be a winner to me.
I'm going to get Jo updates this weekend. Unless told otherwise, I'm working under the assumption that it's okay to swap out the feats that I mentioned way back in January.
Shadlah's level-up
- Physical Prowess: I'm not sure what to do here - Con seems like the obvious choice, but I've been having a hard time hitting lately. Is that because we've just had a string of high-AC enemies and I've been rolling like trash, or is my to-hit actually terrible?
- +1 to BAB (total +5)
- Expanded element: Earth is the obvious choice here. That gives Shadlah Metal blast (burn 2; bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage; 8d6+14+CON damage) and an infusion or utility wild talent of her choice (I chose the Snake infusion, allowing her to blasts to follow a path of up to 120 feet, allowing her to avoid cover - useful, since we have so much melee in this party!)
- Skill points: Perception, Climb (x2), Acrobatics, Knowledge (dungeoneering), Appraise, Craft (sculpture)
- Feat: Weapon focus: kinetic blast. Yaaaaay. Niiiiiice and boring.
- Burn: now takes 7 points of nonlethal damage when accepting burn, and can accept up to 9 points per day.
ok, I think I'm all leveled (although I'll have to add a stat block for my familiar) here goes:
ABP: physical prowess- +2 Con
+1 BAB
+13 HP (+5 HD, +1 Con; +7 from Con increase)
Skills (13): +1 to bluff, disable device, knowledge [arcana, dungeoneering, local, nature, religion, planes], linguistics, perception, sense motive, spellcraft, and use magic device
language: aquan
Background Skills (2): knowledge [history], and craft [illustration]
Talent: inspired expertise
Arcana: familiar
- Swapped Shield Focus and Weapon Versatility for Weapon Focus (Greatsword) and Power Attack
- Took Additional Traits
-- Removed Sheltered Disadvantage
--Took Armor Expert
- Took Fighter(Unbreakable)
- Took +2 DEX for the ABP
- Took 2 ranks in Perception
- Took 1 rank in Diplomacy, Perform(Dance), and Profession(Cook)
And here's Jo's new stats.
Josephina Annabella Whitehall
Female human (Chelaxian) fighter (unbreakable) 1/paladin 6 (Pathfinder RPG Ultimate Combat 49)
LG Medium humanoid (human)
Init +2; Senses Perception +3
Aura courage (10 ft.)
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Defense
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AC 22, touch 12, flat-footed 21 (+10 armor, +1 deflection, +1 Dex)
hp 59 (7d10+13)
Fort +12, Ref +8, Will +10
Immune disease, fear
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Offense
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Speed 30 ft. (20 ft. in armor)
Melee +1 longsword +13/+8 (1d8+7/19-20) or
. . gauntlet (from armor) +11/+6 (1d3+4) or
. . heavy shield bash +11/+6 (1d4+4) or
. . heavy shield bash +11/+6 (1d4+4) or
. . mwk keen longsword +13/+8 (1d8+4/17-20) or
. . unarmed strike +11/+6 (1d3+4 nonlethal)
Ranged light crossbow +9 (1d8/19-20)
Special Attacks channel positive energy 4/day (DC 16, 3d6), smite evil 2/day (+3 attack and AC, +6 damage)
Paladin Spell-Like Abilities (CL 6th; concentration +9)
. . At will—detect evil
Paladin Spells Prepared (CL 3rd; concentration +6)
. . 1st—cure light wounds (2)
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Statistics
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Str 18, Dex 14, Con 13, Int 10, Wis 13, Cha 16
Base Atk +7; CMB +11; CMD 24
Feats Additional Traits, Diehard, Endurance, Extra Lay on Hands, Power Attack, Weapon Focus (greatsword), Weapon Focus (longsword)
Traits alabaster outcast, armor expert, mediator, sacred touch
Skills Acrobatics -1 (-5 to jump), Appraise +1, Diplomacy +14, Handle Animal +7, Heal +7, Knowledge (nobility) +5, Knowledge (religion) +5, Linguistics +3, Perception +3, Perform (dance) +5, Perform (sing) +8, Profession (cook) +6, Ride +1, Sense Motive +6
Languages Celestial, Common, Thassilonian, Varisian
SQ divine bond (mount), lay on hands 8/day (3d6), mercies (diseased, shaken)
Other Gear breastplate, full plate, heavy steel shield, heavy wooden shield, mwk longsword, light crossbow, mwk keen longsword, ring of feather falling, bedroll, blanket[APG], cleric's vestments, explorer's outfit (2), masterwork backpack[APG], noble's outfit, signet ring, silver holy symbol of Iomedae, waterskin, 14 gp, 4 sp
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Special Abilities
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Animal Companion Link (Ex) Handle or push Animal Companion faster, +4 to checks vs. them.
Aura of Courage +4 (10 ft.) (Su) Allies in aura gain a morale bonus to saves vs. fear.
Detect Evil (At will) (Sp) You can use detect evil at will (as the spell).
Diehard You are stable and can choose how to act when at negative Hp.
Endurance +4 to a variety of fort saves, skill and ability checks. Sleep in L/M armor with no fatigue.
Immunity to Disease You are immune to diseases.
Immunity to Fear (Ex) You are immune to all fear effects.
Lay on Hands (3d6 hit points, 8/day) (Su) As a standard action (swift on self), touch channels positive energy and applies mercies.
Mercy (Diseased) (Su) When you use your lay on hands ability, it also removes disease, as per the remove disease spell at a caster level of your Paladin level.
Mercy (Shaken) (Su) When you use your lay on hands ability, it also removes the shaken condition.
Paladin Channel Positive Energy 3d6 (4/day, DC 16) (Su) Positive energy heals the living and harms the undead; negative has the reverse effect.
Power Attack -2/+4 You can subtract from your attack roll to add to your damage.
Share Spells with Companion (Ex) Can cast spells with a target of "you" on animal companion, as touch spells.
Smite Evil (2/day) (Su) +3 to hit, +6 to damage, +3 deflection bonus to AC when used.
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Halli CR –
Female wolf
NG Medium animal
Init +3; Senses low-light vision, scent; Perception +9
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Defense
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AC 22, touch 15, flat-footed 19 (+1 deflection, +3 Dex, +1 enhancement, +7 natural)
hp 54 (6d8+24)
Fort +9, Ref +9, Will +5 (+4 morale bonus vs. enchantment effects)
Defensive Abilities evasion
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Offense
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Speed 50 ft.
Melee unarmed strike +8 (1d3+2 nonlethal) or
. . bite +9 (1d6+4 plus trip)
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Statistics
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Str 15, Dex 17, Con 16, Int 6, Wis 14, Cha 6
Base Atk +4; CMB +8; CMD 20 (24 vs. trip)
Feats Alertness, Improved Natural Armor, Toughness
Tricks Attack, Attack, Attack Any Target, Combat Riding, Come, Defend, Down, Fetch, Guard, Heel, Hunt
Skills Acrobatics +9 (+17 to jump), Perception +9, Sense Motive +4, Stealth +7, Survival +2 (+6 when tracking by scent); Racial Modifiers +4 Survival when tracking by scent
SQ attack any target, combat riding, devotion, fetch, hunt
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Special Abilities
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Attack Any Target [Trick] The animal will attack any creature on command.
Combat Riding [Trick] The animal has been trained to bear a rider into combat.
Devotion +4 (Ex) +4 morale bonus on Will saves vs. enchantment effects.
Evasion (Ex) No damage on successful reflex save.
Fetch [Trick] The animal will get a specific object.
Hunt [Trick] Hunts or forages for food to bring to handler.
Low-Light Vision See twice as far as a human in dim light, distinguishing color and detail.
Scent (Ex) Detect opponents within 15+ ft. by sense of smell.
Trip: Bite (Ex) You can make a trip attempt on a successful attack.
On another note, how long would it take for Arsith to craft up some Mithral full plate?