The Great (Pathfinder) Society...in Magnimar! (Inactive)

Game Master Eric Swanson

While her companions are trying to break the filament, Carmina lets out a terrifying battle-cry and starts charging towards the dwarf-eating monster, teeth flashing as she runs.

Charge to AW 86 and bite.

Um, Carmina dear, I think the Cavefisher is up too high for you to reach...

edit: Just glad you were able to get back with us & I hope your hunting foray proves productive.

second edit: I should have posted this earlier, but I PM'ed Horvus over the holidays & he seems to be feeling at least a bit better, although he, like me, is not a terribly 'holiday happy' kind of person. He is also on the hunt for the elusive 'good job' it seems.

Carmina: Yamyra is correct, the cave fisher is about 35' off the ground perched on a ledge in the cavern wall. I will give you 24 hours to post a revised action before I move things along.

As for the job hunting situations everyone is in nowadays, due to the political tones involved with such, I won't say anything except good luck and don't give up!

So, reading through the crossed out part of Carmina's post, did anyone else get a mental image of Carmina out in the African Savannah, armed with naught but teeth and claw, hunting the elusive gazelle, or more likely, lions and rhinos? After all, where is the sport if they can't kill you too?

I'm excited to continue our dungeon crawl into the more "exciting" floors of the dungeon, now!

Feel better soon, Irnk! And good luck with your midterm as well.

Happy groundhog day everyone!

OK I assume you are all ready to go then? I will resume this tomorrow then. If you forget anything then just post it here in the discussion thread and we can ret-con it.

I'm already to go as well, though Gared would ask for a mage armor spell on himself as well.

Once again I must apologize for the map situation. My friend who hosts the wiki where I post the maps you see is having PC issues again. I understand if you don't want to sign up for G+ so I will describe the chamber here: It is a 40' by 40' octagonal room with doors in the center of each of the compass points. The statue occupied the exact center of the room, with the larva on the opposite side approximately 30' away.

I'm guessing since it's 30' away but we still can see it clearly enough to be concerned about it, it's larger than human sized?

OK guys I have found another place to post the maps that will be more easily accessed. Try this link out and let me know if you have any problems accessing it.

MAP

DM Eric, were you waiting until my action in the initiative round to move me? I should be at H54 on the map.

Yeah, I was afraid of that, but as Yamyra has no Knowledge (Planes), she wouldn't know. Now she does.

And knowing is half the battle!

I like this one the most. If a stranger tells you not to do as a stranger says, then what do you do?

Also, one of the kids changes shirt and ethnicity in the middle of the video.

Does that negate Yamyra's action as well? Considering she wouldn't have cast the spell on herself if she didn't have to.

Yeah, you don't have to cast that spell if you don't want to. I just assumed you would cast it even if combat ended.

Can Gared aid another on a spell craft check? I fan definitely imagine him knowing some old peice of dwarven or halfling lore that helps a more practiced mage remember something useful about a particular bit of magic.

Gared: Yes I will allow an Aid Another check, as long as you are also able to cast Detect Magic.

I only need the Spellcraft check to know what it is, right? I can still tell What school it is without it, correct?

Yeah it is fairly obvious this is an abjuration spell.

Fair enough. Gared actually doesn't know detect magic, so he won't be any help in this case unless read magic would be a fair substitute.

Ok, now I'm starting to see some of the arguments about Eidolon's...

Of course, it could just as much be an argument about Enlarge Person... Though I seem to recall a few threads about that being a bit overpowered as a 1st level buff spell as well.

How do the rest of you guys feel? Please let me know if you feel as though Me/Fancy are hogging the spotlight.

Do I even need to make a Knowledge (arcana) check to recall that Summoned beings don't leave a corpse when 'killed'? Because that is the first place my thoughts are going.

My philosophy has been while Summoners (and their Eidolon companions) may be more powerful as compared to other classes out there, it has not bothered me inasmuch you do not have a front line fighter in your group. So Fancy fills that role admirably. Going back to the days of Original DnD, there have been overpowered classes like the magic-user and the monk.

That fight you breezed through was because I rolled poorly for the imp/nupperibos initiatives so they were all flat footed, he he.

As for the Enlarge Person spell, it does take a full round to cast so that does balance it out. Still feel free to let the feeling of overconfidence fill your minds. Nothing makes a DM chuckle sadistically than an overconfident player, he he.

EDIT: Yamyra is on the correct path here....but the question remains WHO (or WHAT) summoned them?

Imps are really nasty in a fight, which we didn't really get into, and a good knowledge check and silver weapons really helped us there. It would have been a brutal fight if we'd ended up dealing with a pair of imps without knowing what they were or their vulnerability to silver, regardless of the prowess of Eidolons.

I'm not one bit worried about someone overshadowing my full spellcaster/3 natural attacks tiefling. :D

Besides, 2d6+6 while enlarged isn't even much. A greatsword-wielding barbarian could do that without being enlarged or even raging.

Hey guys, sorry for being MIA. I've been really ill this past week and it doesn't seem to be letting up. All of my available time and energy has gone to not getting too far behind in classes.

Sorry about my absence as well. I had two midterms this week, one I thought would be bad but it wasn't really, the other I thought would be easy, but it was godawful. Thankfully, now is spring break.

I may be a few days more away before I can post. have to play catch up with term papers now that I've escaped my bathroom and am able to leave the house. Feel free to bot Gared as his wary motherly self.

No problem Gared. I am just waiting on what the rest of the players wish to do here. Are you all moving on from this room and continuing eastward, or will you backtrack to the statue room and head to the magic circle room?

Yamyra is waiting on answers to her questions. Specifically, if another Knowledge (arcana) or Spellcraft check might tell her any more about the statues, particularly if touching them has a danger of 'turning them on' (i.e. if they are actually presently de-activated killer constructs)...

D'oh! I forgot that I cast Acid Splash instead of recasting Enlarge Person...

Why am I beginning to suspect that if there is an intra-party relationship developing, it's going to be between Ganer & Yamyra rather than either Carmina & Ganer or Horven & Yamyra...

I shudder in terror at the thought.

Oh good. It's not just me...

I am sure Horven will object to this...eventually, he he.

To be honest, I expect Ganer and Yamyra's relationship to develop into something more similar to what Yamyra and Carmina have, though in this case both characters would see the other as Carmina and themselves as Yamyra.

Gared & Fancy

Mark my words.

:P

My brain went there...

Why did my brain go there?..

Full beard, tall (for a dwarf), and a whole 6 charisma? What more could you want as far as sex appeal is concerned?

You're bad Carmina.

. . .Though really, if you think about it, Fancy is a Native Outsider of one sort, and Ganer is a desendant of another sort of Native Outsider, and he has a high score in Knowledge (Planes), so. . .No. I still haven't read (and Paizo will likely never declare) anything that actually states that an Eidolon is a unique, seperate entity from the Summoner that called it, as opposed to being a manifest aspect of that character's personality.

That's kind of the idea behind the Eidolon for the Summoner I'm playing, it's a giant spider that protects a character who is terrified of spiders. Kind of like a more subconscious explanation for that part on Batman Begins.

"Why bats, sir?"
"Because I fear them, Alfred, and soon my enemies will feel my dread."

You're bad Carmina.

It's the demon blood showing. :P

Nope. It's the Scarnetti. Bet ya a Gold piece.

I ROLLED A FOUR! Welp, Miss Carmina would you like to impress us with your fiendish strength here or shall we get organized and give it another go?

Also keep in mind you may take 20 on this STR check, but it will take some time and also will make some noise.

but Ganer is correct.

Ooh, I'll bet that was hard for her to admit!

@ Ganer: >:P

edit: Full disclosure; she is as much saying that because she wants to be the one to turn the crank as because she believes it...

Um, two questions.
1) Did Yamyra manage to activate her Bond Senses class ability when the explosion occurred?
2) If she did, what effect did it have on her?

Yamyra: I assume you mean the Life Link ability? To answer your question, yes Yamyra can use that ability to keep Fancy from being sent back to her home plane.