The Moar Core Tour (Inactive)

Game Master BretI

If no one objects, I am going to contact Customer Support about transferring this campaign from Rob to me.

That would allow me to update the campaign information and keep a link to the most recent mission briefing there. With the whole thing in a single thread, it is really easy to lose track of the mission briefings.

Sounds good.

Sounds like a plan to me!

Also Happy Birthday Dennis :D

Alright, I've launched the next one! I'm glad to get this up and running again. If you would, please fill in your Perception and Initiative modifiers on the map deck HERE (also linked in my tagline as "DWK4").

Hey all, I wasn't getting notifications. I realize that I need to level Damiar!

Hmm

I'm a dingus; I need to level up as well! I'll try and get that done before I go to bed tomorrow morning.

Okay, all leveled up!

Okay, all leveled up!

Yay! Better spells!

Once Damiar's all set I'll move you along.

Sorry for the delay, folks, I had a job interview yesterday and ran out of time. I'll get us moved along a little later today.

I'll be camping Monday to Wednesday, so won't be posting during that time. Bot me as needed.

Hey guys, I'm headed off to AVL Scarefest tomorrow and won't be back until Monday. While my time isn't booked solid I have no idea what the internet situation will be so my posting here may be slow or nonexistent until I return.

(I wanted to try and make one round of updates tonight but noooooo, internet is not being cooperative and my patience is limited.)

So, please feel free to bot or delay Shieara as necessary, if necessary :)

Wrangled some free time tonight so thought I'd check in; thanks for the bot GM :)

I'm back from beautiful Montreat, NC!

(Technically I got back late Sunday night but I had other stuff come up that kept me busy most of yesterday.)

Had fun at the convention but it has been SO nice to sleep in my own bed again :)

*edit* Thanks again for the bot; apologies for the holdup!

No worries. Thanks for taking care of that, Bret.

Lol, early season scenarios, where the way to make an encounter harder is to add more of the low-level mooks.

There's absolutely nothing like one's own bed, is there?

I have sent in the request for the campaign to be moved to me and received the Customer Service autoresponse confirming receipt of the e-mail. Customer Service is very busy, so it may take a little bit of time before they make the change.

Happy Halloween! The temperature tanked here today; it was mid 60s when I got home from work this morning and now it's mid 30s and spitting precipitation.

Brr!

Oh and as of 2:30 this afternoon we officially own our own (and first) home. Can't move in just yet as the sellers requested another two weeks to get moved out but still - we own a home :D

Congratulations!

Congrats on the new home! I hope you really like it.

Congrats, Ladile! That's great news!

Here in California, the fires are burning a bit less intensely, so I'd call our forecast pretty good.

Congrats!

So, is it time for the party to run?

I don’t think we can win this fight.

The creature gets two attacks per round at double our best attack bonus, does an average of 21 damage per hit, has DR 5 and probably has reach. I don’t know how many hit points it has, but it just did as nearly as much damage in one round as we have done the whole battle against it.

I just realized that we were forced into high tier. Normally we would have had a choice, but with it being a season 1 scenario, the rules are go high tier. Without a hard hitter, I don’t think we can handle this.

You're in tier 3-4. This is one of those early scenarios that had 1-2, 3-4, and 6-7. In 6-7 it would be a huge elemental.

This is a tough fight, and it's also a particularly bad match-up for this party as constructed. Kleines would probably have been helpful here. That said, Phinellippa's wand of magic missile is your best weapon against it so far.

Heads up, I'm headed on a trip and unsure whether I'll be able to post for the next few days. Likely back to normal posting on Wednesday, 11/6.

To answer a few questions from the Gameplay thread:

On the campaign page, I have swapped level 3 and 4 since we changed plans. I also added a link to the start of the current scenario in the short campaign information that displays at the top of each page.

Would people like any other changes in the Campaign? It would take a bit of work, but I could go back and do links to the start of each mission if people think they would use that.

Do we know what the Bell does or how it works? Is this something where a bard could perform a cheery song and have all the derros start dancing and releasing prisoners? What does this do?

I wish I had more info for you. 'It's magical', 'it's a relic', and the name bell of obedience are the extent of the information provided by the scenario. Given that it's in the prison, I think it's fair to assume it has some sort of compulsion effect that could be used to control prisoners.

Does the scenario say what metal it is made out of? I just discovered that Archives of Nethys has an entry on Bells of Obedience.

It doesn't, but based on that list I would guess Oak or Stone. Those makes most sense to me in a prison, anyway.

I will be traveling Tuesday to Friday of this week. I should still be able to post some, but will be less regular about it.

Kate, I'm assuming that like me you are hip-deep in writing contracts right now, so Damiar helped Phin cross. I'm sure whatever you are working on will be awesome as always.

Hilary and I will have limited data access over the next three days (Sunday through Tuesday) starting tomorrow afternoon. We should be able to update each evening and morning.

What Bret said!

Also, Garif... Damiar would not intentionally snub you but you have to admit that the cat is cuter and more charismatic. She'll get you cleaned up when we get past the next section.

Hmm

Also, Garif... Damiar would not intentionally snub you but you have to admit that the cat is cuter and more charismatic. She'll get you cleaned up when we get past the next section.

I know, just having fun with it. I especially liked the idea of Nico, who didn't get gross, wanting to be cleaned up, and then feeling like the magical cleaning wasn't really clean enough - for a cat.

...then feeling like the magical cleaning wasn't really clean enough - for a cat.

Something wrong with that?

Are Thief Takers the title for the Swift Prison guards?

yeah, sorry. One of the types of prison guards.

Ack! Terrible luck for Iovo with those rolls, and with this thing beating her in initiative.

Fort saves are definitely a problem for her.

Good thing remove disease is only 1 PP!

Sorry for the sluggish posting; moving, work, and winter malaise got me busy and feeling a little down. At least the moving part should be largely done after Saturday so hopefully service will improve starting next week.

No worries. Sorry I skipped you!

Ugh, I hate having a monster attack a helpless animal companion :( It's that or have it duck back around the corner, though, which I think would be worse.

Dang! I had forgotten you can continue a full attack with a 5’ step between it.

By the way, you are allowed to miss any time now.

It only has 4 HD, but 2 of them are from Barbarian class levels, so it has quite a few hit points. You have it about halfway down right now (and have missed its AC by 1 several times now).

Does that mean it had been raging this whole time? How does that even work for an Undead since it doesn’t have a Con score?

It's an excellent question. It's a tough thing, because it's the threat presented in the adventure, but it's not a legally-built creature.

Happy Thanksgiving and/or Happy Thursday! I hope you all have a grand day no matter what you do or who you spend it with :)

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

Back at you, Shieara, and happy Thanksgiving to all! I’ll be spending it at the beach as usual, even though it’s supposed to be cold ( for California definitions of cold), hoping to see Kate and Dennis there too!