Strange Aeons, with GM Pendrak

Game Master karlprosek

That system for spell DCs seems more reasonable. Thanks!

It looks like you've based the Streamlined Combat Options on The Elephant in the Room's No Feat Tax rules. One change that they suggested that you might have overlooked because it wasn't in the original draft is the feat Unarmed Combatant (from this page):

When this article was first written, we had omitted it by accident. We have since created the Unarmed Combatant feat in our feat tree, which merges Improved Grapple and Improved Unarmed Strike:

Unarmed Combatant
You are skilled at grappling and fighting while unarmed.

Benefit: You are considered to be armed even when unarmed—you do not provoke attacks of opportunity when you attack foes while unarmed. Your unarmed strikes can deal lethal or nonlethal damage, at your choice.

You do not provoke an attack of opportunity when performing a grapple combat maneuver. In addition, you receive a +2 bonus on checks made to grapple a foe. You also receive a +2 bonus to your Combat Maneuver Defense whenever an opponent tries to grapple you.

Normal: Without this feat, you are considered unarmed when attacking with an unarmed strike, and you can deal only nonlethal damage with such an attack. You provoke an attack of opportunity when performing a grapple combat maneuver.

Would you be willing to allow that feat to replace Improved Unarmed Strike and Improved Grapple, since those feats are not incorporated into Deft Maneuvers or Powerful Maneuvers?

Oh, I also usually do 25 point buy; I just noticed the creation guidelines were for 20 point buy. Does anybody NOT want to do 25 point buy?

Yeah, that's where I got them from, BL. I hadn't seen that they put out an update, thanks. I'll add Unarmed Combatant to the list of consolidated feats.

Cool, thanks GM! I'm fine with going up to 25 point buy.

5 extra pts? I think I'll live :)

Alico "Harrow" Destane is gonna bow out. Rest of the party, it was fun! Best of luck surviving this nightmare.

Halloo! I'm one of the players who'll be joining! I haven't put much on my profile yet, but I will when I get a spare moment amid the holiday madness. I'm very pleased to make your acquaintance!

Bye, Harrow, we'll miss you! :/

And welcome Desdemona!

Hello!

I am also one of the players who will be joining (at least, I hope I am. I would be SO surprised to discover that I am two of them).

I also haven't put Reine's stats and background up yet (need to do some tweaking first), but should have her ready to rock in the next few days.

Welcome and good bye Harrow!

Hoy Hoy!

I will also be joining, but I too will be delayed by holiday madness. Should have stats and everything necessary up to delve into some eldritch madness instead in the next few days.

Pleasure meeting you all! Looking forward to this game!

adjusted strength up two points and added Iron Will feat to replace power attack.

ready to proceed when group in assembled.

I adjusted my Constitution by five points and changed Improved Unarmed Strike to Unarmed Combatant. Not much of a change, really. :)

Can't wait to see what the new characters look like!

Mechanical and Equipment Whatsits are finally sorted out, just tinkering with backstory now. Considering the nature of how this campaign starts, however, I am ready to play and can fill in details as we go!

OK, new PCs will come in either when the existing team returns to the refugee camp at the chapel (they were there but weren't introduced and the existing PCs didn't notice them) or they will be in the next section of the asylum.

I'll have an IC post for the existing PCs in the administrator's office shortly.

I am checking in, but haven't updated my character yet.
Christmas travels are taking up much of my time.
I am having difficulty spending 5 points, become a little better at the one thing you are already good at, or a little better at 3 different other things. Hmmmm.

I will try to update everything as soon as I can.

Reine is ready, I believe.

I'm good to go

I rebuilt on my Mythweavers sheet (also linked from my alias profile) but haven't fixed the actual alias text yet. For future reference, the Mythweavers sheet is generally more updated than my forum profile, so if there are conflicts between the two, the former is probably right.

Just throwing this out there, GM, but Xander also made the same Know checks as Miniel, and actually got a higher result. Fair to say he knows what she does?

Oh damn, sorry, Xander. Yeah, Xander has the same information.

All PCs are on the map now. You guys can click on your PC's icon and move it around the map yourselves, now or in combat.

The person in the middle of the room is Administrator Losandro, the purple ring around her is the fog spewing out of her mouth.

Character sheet is finalized now, background and all. Cannot wait to join in on the eldritch fun!

Character sheet ready, apart from hit points - I missed how we're handling those?

Previous GM had them do "average, rounded up" beyond 1st.

I'd probably prefer if everyone just took average rounded up.

Thanks, Reine!

Des is good to go!

I was thinking about the incense and the doctor, but all the information Broom has received so far has indicated that the doctor is gone and only this weird zombie body remains

That's fair. As far as you guys know, she's dead and is just a shell for a planar rift. But if the PCs are really serious about trying to figure out whether she's mentally alive or dead, there is the option. Up to you guys.

it probably won't hurt to try... right? unless communicating telepathically with such an entity tears our feeble brains asunder :)

Heh. That's what Will saves are for. :)

Is this a good time to appear...? :D

I was going to wait until the current party finished with the Administrator, but depending on how they decide to end this scene we might get new PCs earlier. Now would still be just a tad early, though, sorry.

So what's the move here? Kill her, leave her, try to mentally contact her, pick her pockets, poke her with a stick to see if she moves, what?

I'm gonna give it another day or two and then if there's no PC action with respect to Losandro by Friday we'll move on. The default is going to be that the PCs leave peacefully without approaching or making a further attempt to contact her.

Hey GM, could we possibly learn at least our real names from this experience? I'm always having to constantly look back through previous posts to figure out who I am addressing. :)

Haha. Me too, so that's fine with me. Let's say that your memories all also unlocked your PC's name.

sweet :) Good idea!

Intro post for new PCs coming up!

The incense is still present in the room.
Minds may accidentally become melded a few moments after the new people arrive. It should give a good reason why we trust these new people so readily considering our earlier doppleganger encounters =)

Thanks, Mashiki. I hadn't thought about that, but you're totally right.

Also, I forgot to put this in the intro post, but the current PCs recognize these three new PCs as also having been chained up for sale in the slave market.

Posted at the same time, there, Broom, haha. I quickly edited my post to flow with yours, as it seems we had similar ideas but it works best if Broom steps in first.

Does anyone else use FeedDemon? Mine has completely stopped updating, and I don't know why. (It doesn't appear to be the usual "let's delete all the feed addresses" problem.) Is it an issue with Paizo's RSS feeds? Who knows?

I use Feedly on desktop and Flym on mobile. The former has no problems (though it's almost uselessly slow because of its dumbass updating algorithms) but the latter stopped updating all Paizo feeds months ago, and I can't get it to start again. No idea why.

I use Blogtrottr, and mine also stopped updating last week. I suspect it's a problem with Paizo's site. :(

Well, in a way that's a relief - then there's some hope it may begin working again once they update the site again.

I cannot seem to select Adelar to move him on the map? Are there like needed permissions, or?

Looks like Google considers the black circle a solid object so you can't click the individual icons through it. You'll need to click on the circle, move it, click on your icon, move it, then move the circle back.

Sorry about that.

Yeah, that's one of the problems with using Google Sheets.

Also, it'd probably be easier for you to roll initiative for us, considering that it looks like you're already rolling saves for us.

Yeah. I'll go ahead and just delete the circle now.

I usually let you guys roll but I needed to see if the guys and Reine could beat the monster's Stealth check and if Xander disbelieved the illusion to post. If you guys as a group would prefer that I do all the rolls, that's fine, but let me know.

On damage, I don't tell you the monsters' HP but I will post a general status description. Minor damage means the monster has taken less than 25% of its total HP in damage, Moderate damage is 26-50% damage, Major damage is 51-75% damage, and Massive damage is 76%-99% damage. I'll also post status effects so we can all keep track of them.

(init: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 3 = 11)

Adelar's Initiative: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (20) + 3 = 23

Karl, I'm cool with you rolling Init for the party, as I think that will actually prevent hanging the game waiting for individual init rolls.

The same applies for unknown (passive) Perception checks, and probably saving throws, too.

I prefer to roll my own skill checks, attacks and damage though.