I was hoping you wouldn't kill her. She is a very interesting NPC. In my RL version of this campaign the wizard just cast phantasmal killer and killed her turn 1....I was sad.
I always down for keeping interesting NPCs alive.
Hey all, just wanted to let you know that I'm heading to Florida for vacation/visit family (my mother is having a hysterectomy and colon resection on 3/9 to take out some cancer) on 3/11 and will be gone until 3/18. I will not have any of my resources with me so my activity will likely be minimal to nil during that time!
Sorry, work has been insane the past couple of weeks. I'm catching up now.
just realized I totally forgot about the barbarian woman -_-
Just to let you know, the past week and the next 3-4 weeks I have been focusing on final projects for college.
So if I have not post for couple of days when its my turn, feel free to bot me.
Sorry I am letting this go so slow I am just so dam busy lately when I do have time to check pathfinder I only check were there are new post. If nothing new was posted I don't look into it until I notice it has been a while then I assume it's because your waiting on me. Right now I think we are just missing Tessai but normally I should have bot her by now.
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All, I am on vacation and traveling starting tomorrow morning for 2 weeks. I hope to have some connectivity while traveling, especially during the first week of the trip, but please bot me when needed to move the game along. During that time my posts may be shorter as I may be posting from my phone.
Sorry, guys, but work has gotten ridiculous in the past couple of months. I'm reducing my number of games on the boards and am going to try to catch back up here.
You've been great, thanks. I especially appreciated you catching the Fey Foundling thing for the healing.
If Staunton is still up after this round, I'll spend a Full Round Action with Spell Binder and get another Haste going for us.
Of the magic items, the Rapier and the Amulet are of interest to me.
Tessai could use the Armor or Amulet upgrade and/or the Belt or Headband.
What's the deal with Soulshear?
I would need to know who picks it up actually.
Does it register as Evil with Detect Evil?
It does not.
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Tzad just got that great armor so he will wait to see who wants what. I guess he could use the belt of con but he is not a front liner and will let someone else have it. If he were proficient with a glaive he might be tempted to use it to do the reach cleric thing but he would be poor compared to the other damage dealers and its just not how he is built. Not worth a feat. He could also use the amulet, but again, not super needed. He seems to seldom be attacked. Of the two the belt makes more sense as it adds to his hit point total, allowing him to heal more with his life links.
Soulshear is quite special for one it doesn't necessarily have to be a glaive since at it's base it is a +2 Transformative Glaive with a few added on special abilities.
Tzad getting the Belt to boost his life links makes sense.
Tessai already has Radiance; she doesn't need Soulshear. Maybe Aeron could take it?
Maybe Tess could take the Armor since Aeron already wears full plate and Aeron could take the Amulet since he doesn't have a natural armor bonus yet.
Then Tess and Tzad can flip a coin for the Headband.
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Tzad will gladly take the belt but someone else might make better use of it. I say Aeron gets the belt until he wants to trade it in for a belt of strength. It looks like he is not wearing a belt at the moment. You can have the headband Tess. Tzad has a channeling doodad that takes the same slot.
Soulshear, hmm. I looked up Transformative. So it could become a spear. But again its a temptation to do the wrong thing. Tzad will at best be average at damage dealing in a party where others excel at it. And he would have to put down his nifty shield that counts as his holy symbol and loose 4 points of AC. Plus he already has that armor and is feeling like someone else should get some nice things.
Either the full plate or amulet would give Aeron the same AC bonus.
Transformative would allow it to become any medium two-handed weapon, correct? If that is the case, Aeron could turn it into a Falchion. As is, it is only an extra +1, depending on what the other abilities are, it might be better to sell it, since transformative is such an expensive ability.
I think that Tzad should have the belt, as he takes half of Aeron's damage, and Aeron already has more HP than him.
I would love to have that bow and arrows if you guys don't mind.
I think Varn will pass on pretty much everything. I don't see anything that he can use from this... That being said, I feel that I could really benefit from picking up something from the group loot leftovers when we sell everything.
So tomorrow it will have been three years since I started running games on Paizo.
I want to take a moment to thank all you for being a part of my game and for sticking around even when my busy schedule prevents me from posting as often as I would like.
Since I started on Paizo I have run 13 games. One made it to a successful conclusion, one ended in a TPK, 4 disbanded and 7 are still ongoing.
Since we began I have moved three times and changed jobs three times (and possibly another career change in the next few weeks as well) got a girlfriend (been together a year now) had surgery and two deaths in the family and my sister got married and had a baby. Been a busy couple years lol.
Again thank you for sticking around and while I may need to take some time off here and there I will always be back to keep it moving along so long as people are willing to play. I enjoy creating these stories with you and seeing how players react to the challenges I give them gives me great joy.
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Ah. Life. Seems to happen to all of us if we are not careful.
I am enjoying the game. I hope you can tell from my posts. There are times I wish we could push a little faster and other times I struggle to keep up.
I appreciate you running. If you ever need more players for your other games let me know.
Thanks for running the game, DM. 3 years of active DMing is a pretty good anniversary.
Either the full plate or amulet would give Aeron the same AC bonus.
Tessai will take the armor, then. She'll get a decent bump out of moving up to full plate.
Can someone put up the link to the party loot list, please?
just post what you want and I'll update it. Less confusion this way.
I've been having a great time with your game, Merc! I cannot believe it's been that long since you've been GMing here!
Also, Varn already has a Blessed Book (in the event the one posted wasn't a double posted item). Varn will gladly take the Wand of Nondetection and the Scroll of Dimension Door. Everything else I think would be better off in the hands of the other PCs. That said... given the amount of cash we just raked in... I will really like to find something for Varn to purchase and create with his Creation feat.
OK, I'll give up on the amulet.
Instead, I'll take the frost rapier, the boots of elvenkind, and the throwing returning handaxe.
Othello, there's an Efficient Quiver on there, too, so if you're taking the bow and arrows you should grab that.
Tzad, do you want the Pearl of Power (lvl 2)? If not, Tess will take it.
Tessai will take the +3 spiked full plate and Cha headband. She doesn't have any ranged weapons, so if nobody else wants them she could take the Javelins of Lightning. And given how many levels she's lost recently she could stand to grab that potion of Lesser Restoration.
That puts her +1 breastplate on the list to sell.
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Take its Tess. Tzad has made out pretty well with the armor and belt. Plus as a spontaneous caster he cannot use a pearl.
Tzad can always cast Lesser restoration as long as he has spell slots available. Tessai could also cast it as its a first level spell for pallys. But its a 3 round cast, making it hard to do in combat. The potion is nice as its a single standard action to drink. Also note that it does nothing for lost levels. It restores 1d4 point of temp ability damage (not drain) to a single stat and removes fatigue. I think it also converts exhaustion to fatigue.
I didn't see that, thanks Tessai.
Ok, will update the loot list. Make sure to add the items to your profiles
Aeron will temporarily wear the ghost touch full plate, since from Vhane's notes there is a shadow demon in the lower levels, but we'll sell that after the adventure. The +3 adjustment isn't worth it.
I hate to be a bother, but I wouldn't mind getting a little extra cash sent my way since Varn turned down a lot of gear... I wouldn't mind spending the time and money to upgrade his Headband of Vast Intellect up to a +4 bonus. Also, if you guys start making a list of Wondrous Items you'd like we can start on that... Varn does have a Crafting feat after all...
We have 40-50k in cash and stuff to sell at the moment. Sounds like we will have the opportunity to buy and sell stuff once we have finished clearing the keep.
What suggest is that at that time, everyone does a quick tally of their character wealth (any items they have, but don't want will go back into the pool for sale) and dole out coin to help boost people at the lower end (eg Varn).
It won't be perfect and there will always be peaks and valleys (some of us have artifacts), but it will help to counteract the randomness of loot.
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I am good with that but recommend we value found items at their sale value in this total. That will both encourage keeping found items and more accurately represent what the party would get if we sold the item for gold. Just assume we sold them and a party member was the buyer.
Tzadkiel has a gp value of 61000. Much of that is in three items that the party has found. They are:
1) Armor of the Pious - 23,300
2) Belt of Mighty Con +4 - 16,000
3) Pink and Green Sphere Ioun Stone - 8000
This totals 47300. If we take half for those items his total is still 37350.
I am not sure the Pink and Green Sphere Ioun Stone is worth keeping at even half its value of 4000 and certainly not if we are going to value things at full purchase price of 8000. Should we sell it? If so that drops his total to 53000 or 33350 for half value for found items.
He also has a +1 Breastplate that can be sold for 675 gold.
Should we count consumables in that such as wands/scrolls? If so, I'll have to double check the value of my wands based on the number of charges and such. Otherwise Varn's whole price value is; Cold Iron Longsword +1 @ 2330gp, Bracers of Armor +1 @ 1000gp, Cloak of Resistance +2 @ 4000gp, Headband of Vast Intellect +2 @ 4000gp, and Blessed Book @ 12500gp. For value of 33830gp before cutting the value. That Blessed Book really adds a lot of value...
I'm thinking we might as well sell that Longsword, because I haven't used it since before we ascended to mythic. If Varn ever runs out spells/abilities to the point where he's hacking something with a sword... We are probably effed anyway.
It doesn't really matter whether we cut the value in half or not, it's just for general comparison purposes.
Conversely, we could just look to see how everyone is doing in terms of their big 6 items and try to fill in the gaps. Those are the most important ones and I don't think anyone should be penalized because they have a randomly expensive, but useful item.
eg: Aeron:
Weapon: +1
Armour: +1
Cloak of resistance: +2
Ring of Prot: +1
Stat booster: +0
amulet of NA: +2
Leaving out consumables and non-magic items...
+1 chain shirt, (1,100 gp)
+1 cold iron rapier, (2,040 gp)
+1 frost rapier, (8,020 gp)
+1 returning throwing axe, (8,008 gp)
boots of elvenkind, (2,500 gp)
cloak of resistance +1, (1,000 gp)
ring of protection +1, (2,000 gp)
Herolab says my total gear value is $30,121.
Looking into it you guys should be level 9 as you enter the lower dungeon so you can level up before we proceed. (assume you levelled before you rested)