Total Defense Action to achieve Martial Focus.
You would already have Martial Focus, so you don't have to spend your turn in Total Defense if you don't want to.
Characters gain their martial focus after a minute of rest, or by taking the total defense action. You may not by any means regain focus more than once per round.
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Once you have gained martial focus, you remain focused until you expend your focus, become unconscious, or go to sleep (or enter a meditative trance).
So, basically, as long as you have had a minute outside of combat (or other stressed situation) since the last time you expended your focus, you have martial focus. If a battle interrupts your sleep, you won't have had focus while you were unconscious/asleep and you won't have had a full minute awake in a "restful" situation yet, so that's about the only time that you would start a battle without having your focus already.
I haven't heard from Unthinker (Legonor) on Discord since Monday...we'll move on for now and he can jump in if/when he gets back.
Oh, they're not goblins! =)
Also, Rick/Jereru, what damage type are you dealing with those? And are you targeting a single creature with both blasts or doing one blast at each?
Woops, sorry. Targeting one of them. On the damage type, the Ki Blast states it's bludgeoning AND piercing.
Hi all, sorry for the week-long pause. I am buying a house and moving in 2 weeks, so things are pretty hectic at the moment. Once the move is done I will have more time to devote to games than I did even before things started getting so busy.
Anyway, let me get a post up. =)
No problems GM!
such is life!
Just a quick heads-up: my wife's going through some serious medical stuff at the moment, and it's occupying almost all of my time and energy. As such, I won't be posting a whole lot for a while. I'll do my best to check in every couple days, but feel free to bot me if necessary. I don't want to hold everyone else up on my account.
Take care both of you!
Thanks again for your patience! Monday (when all my RL craziness settles down) is not far away anymore--I don't think I'll get our next gameplay post in until then.
I think that makes this a good opportunity to welcome in dwilhelmi, who just barely missed our recruitment to begin with. I haven't heard anything from UnThinker (Legonor) in a month now, so I think we're down to 5 people, and this will make it 6.
Oh! I did set up a Discord server for this if anyone cares to chat over there: link
Hello peoples! Thanks for the invite. Love a good spheres game. I'll get caught up on gameplay and start kicking around characters! Any specific needs come to mind for party balance?
Hello peoples! Thanks for the invite. Love a good spheres game. I'll get caught up on gameplay and start kicking around characters! Any specific needs come to mind for party balance?
Take a look at the character spreadsheets, for sure, to get an idea of what everyone can do. The link is under campaign info.
I hopped onto the Discord server; I'm already on there a lot, so I'm glad you have one! Question for the GM - are we limited to Core spheres material only, or can we use stuff from released handbooks and such too?
Right now, I'm leaning toward a melee-focused shifter, likely a dwarf but not positive on that yet. Could also do a Destruction-focused incanter or elementalist, if that is preferred, but it seemed like the group was a little more squishy-based already and a BSF of some kind would be most useful. My favorite spheres are Time and Warp, but I see you already have a Master of Time and Space, so you probably don't need a second! :D
150GP starting wealth?
Max wealth for your class, and any Spheres sources are free game. You can even use stuff from a handbook that's still in playtest and not yet released if you want, although I'd like to approve any of those particular options first.
My build will take a bit more to really get going. XD I'll start getting flashbangs at 2nd level, and can begin adding new explosive effects at 3rd. The Scholar's basically a mundane alchemist. I do, however, have decent out-of-combat healing.
Kpu'Unde is a Master of Time and Space in training.
Who needs Sphere Powers? I'm doing fine just with a glaive. ;)
Check out the blog post with a fantastic picture of Sandpoint....
Howdy folks, just about got my character wrapped up here. Don't have appearance/background typed out, but the quick soundbyte is that Nerak is a finder of things what need found, and a killer of things what need killed. A tracker and hunter by trade, Nerak is relatively more confident and less angry than many half-orcs, and is utterly unconcerned with what society thinks as a whole. More to follow.
Mechanically, he is a shifter who, for right now, focuses largely on size changing to Large with his greataxe to cut things in half, or changing into a Small animal with scent to track things. He can also use some old fashion Divination to find things if the scent thing doesn't play out.
Background and appearance added, and also updated my character sheet to add the Martial Shifter archetype which gives me the Scout and Sniper spheres as well. Ready to roll!
Awesome. Glad to have you joining us. =)
As promised, I am working on getting us underway again with a new Gameplay post.
I still have a TON of unpacking to do. Ugh.
We can skip the introductions if folks like... ;)
Sphere DCs are 10 + 1/2 caster level + casting ability modifier (found on the Using Spheres of Power page). I'm assuming Dusk chose Charisma for her casting ability (as well as her practitioner ability), so for you at this level that is 10 + 0 + 3 = 13. As you level up, your caster level for Life, Death, and Fate will be higher than for any other spheres you might pick up (hedgewitch is normally a Mid-Caster but Triple Goddess is a High-Caster for those 3 spheres), so your DCs will be different between them.
The Wiki also has the BB Code stuff for profiles, and you may wanna check that out. It has a standard format suitable for Paizo's board, including a section for sphere talents that lets you note the DCs by Sphere so you can keep them all straight. o wo/
Thanks for the info folks!
I'm going on a trip from Friday night to the following Thursday night. Not sure how much if any I'll be able to post. Bot as needed. Thanks!
Hi all! It sounds like Legonor (played by Unthinker) is ready to come back--he's probably going to run into you all at the Rusty Dragon, having been fighting creatures like you all did, but in a different area of town.
*pixeled face* "Welcome back, Legonor!"
Hooray!
Howdy guys thanks for having me back. Gonna do a little reading to get my head back into the campaign but Im looking forward to it.
GM?
Ah. Just saw the Discord discussion, GM will be back soon!!!
Hi all--FYI, I'm probably out for the weekend at this point--next post is not likely until Monday.
I've started using a mind mapping tool to lay out some connections and ideas I'm going to work on for this game--it's something I can't share with you because of NPC details that should remain hidden. The PC half of my web is looking pretty thin so far, though. So, I wanted to prompt you all, if you have any hooks or ideas in mind, anything at all that you'd like to see happen in our game for your character, please send me a PM and let me know.
Estria, as her title here on the boards suggests, is around mainly to study ye olde ruins. Anything involving those will be a good hook for her. XD
* Dusk is a three-fold aspect of a god or goddess, but she has no idea which. Likely not Pharasma, given Dusk's affinity with undead.
* Dusk's glaive is an heirloom, but she doesn't know whose.
* Dusk arrived in Sandpoint prior to the festival, but apparently has been to a Swallowtail Festival once before and
Little had changed since she was here as a young girl, visiting her now dead uncle and aunt - they were itinerants, and only passing through themselves, but still, she felt a certain...fondness for the place.
* Dusk is bound by time in a way she does not understand. She has no control over time and feels oddly peculiar about K'pu. For some reason.
Posting this to all my games, so sorry if you see it multiple times:
This week both my office and I personally are going to be moving. It's been crazy busy and I am not going to be able to post until Monday at the earliest. Please bot me if I am in your game, and if you are in a game I am running, I will get a post up as soon as possible.
Thank you for your patience.
Hey all: iamjacks000 is brand new to the Paizo boards, and I invited him to join our game.
You may have noticed Brommyl/Whack-A-Rogue and Legonor/Unthinker haven't posted for a while. Whack-A-Rogue let me know he needed to withdraw from our game. Unthinker I believe is just not remaining active on the boards.
So, I figured it was time to bring in another player. I believe all of the Spheres material is brand new to iamjacks000, so he may need some assistance building his character.
Well, I'm happy to help explain things. ^^
Also, feel free to join our Discord channel. o wo/ We can help you learn the Spheres material much faster there.
Second the suggestion to join the Discord - so so so much easier to ask questions and learn Spheres things
Welcome!
I do want to note that the party has so far not discussed with anyone that they saw the symbol of the Tickwood Hag on that gremlin. It was not brought up in the conversation with Sheriff Hemlock, for example.
We forgot to, but it seems now is the time.
Hi all!
I know that latest post from me doesn't move us at all yet--I will get another post out soon to do so, but I figured I could at least make replies to your parts of the conversation now.
I haven't heard anything from iamjacks000 yet--maybe he's thinking he has to have his character prepared before making a post here. I'll send him another message.
From reading that thread I didn't get the feeling they were certain about much to be honest.
In the picture linked under my username, the Sandpoint Garrison is the castle-like building in the northwest section of the town--it is not far southeast of the Old Light. In the map linked under my username, it is location #10.
By the way, if you are viewing the map--on the right I added a comment with all the labels. It only shows the first few lines of the comment until you click on it to expand it.
Not that you would likely do it right at this very moment since you're going to talk to the sheriff about pressing matters--but take a gander at the places on that Sandpoint map, and if anything catches your interest and you want to visit just let me know.
Hi all--I was hoping to post in Gameplay again now that I'm back home and Christmas is done. Work is especially crazy, though, so it will have to wait another day or two.
You may have noticed I welcomed a few additional players in a new recruitment. A couple of them have joined the Discord server and one is working on a dwarven mageknight character. The third is still busy with the holiday season, I'm sure.
So I am posting from work:
Apologies about not posting sooner, but I have been down internet wise for roughly a week, and will not have internet back up yet for a week or so.
This means that I haven't had internet for the last 4 days (as we had 4 days off at my work for the holiday).
It's been...an experience where I learned that I use the internet more than I thought I did.
With all of that being said, I will try to post from work as I can, but if I am in your game, please bot me as needed.
If I am running your game, please bear with me while I try to post when I can. Hopefully, sooner than better, but I want to be up front about this issue.
again, I apologize about the delay.