Sorry, forgot you didn't use Drawbacks. And yeah, they often seem to be almost more of a benefit rather than a drawback huh?
The source for the psionic traits can be found at this link. The book referenced is the Psionics Expanded: Advanced Psionics Guide. If you don't approve it that's fine of course. That's why I asked.
Yes for traits but no for Psionic and Magic. One or the other.
Will post today
I don't like to often weigh in on character choices, but I feel it might be beneficial to point out a few choices you all have made. Again, it is your game and you are free to do what you want within the rules.
The current situation is you are battling a band of orcs.
The blue orc is dead, but not before it was left with a clear shot at Christaph,
The red and yellow orc are stunned and blinded,
The orange orc is fleeing,
Which leaves the green orc, which just attacked Kazushi.
So who did you attack? - The stunned and blinded red orc and the fleeing orange orc which I have removed from the map. Why not the only current threat - the green orc?
Kazushi you are not arguing, at least not yet. Always feel free to ask questions especially combat related. I will have a look over rounds again to see if it was still stunned. However, you posted combat actions twice when it wasn't your turn, now that it is your turn, please post your questions and your actions. PbP takes too long with a back and forth.
You all have the encounter firmly in hand so don't sweat it.
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So who did you attack? - The stunned and blinded red orc and the fleeing orange orc which I have removed from the map. Why not the only current threat - the green orc?
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Where's fun in that?
Kazushi you are not arguing, at least not yet. Always feel free to ask questions especially combat related. I will have a look over rounds again to see if it was still stunned. However, you posted combat actions twice when it wasn't your turn, now that it is your turn, please post your questions and your actions. PbP takes too long with a back and forth.
I posted my action.
I did look at the actions to establish if the green orc was stunned, first before going there and then again before questioning the attack. So yes, I believe it was stunned so couldn't hit me.
I said I was sorry about making a mess of one of my posts. :)
Doh.
Didn't even cross my mind.
The caravan guards advance towards the Ophiduan farmer only to discover that he is as dead as the pair of swine next to him. The orange orc must have delivered a killing blow before fleeing.
Tactically, you were at a disadvantage with the line of orc warriors. The fungal stun vial was a great move or it would have occurred sooner.
Let me know when you are ready to move on.
I love the image of Cristaph asking the corpse all these questions while we all stand around
"erm, chritaph...
I love the image of Cristaph asking the corpse all these questions while we all stand around
"erm, chritaph...
Hahaha! Obviously when he is unresponsive I will not continue! But yes, funny image!
So to summarize, we have just picked up 8 potions of CLW, 4 potions of enlarge person, 4 chain shirts, 4 saps, and 4 warhammers. I will take the chainshirt off of our prisoner. Loading up the wagon, loading up the wagon ... :D
Everyone loves the wagon!
Devastating touch is a supernatural class ability that bestows a, standard action, melee touch attack.
RaW, by my reckoning, require a weapon in order to Coup de Grace but I throw myself on the mercy of our (needless to say, wonderful!) GM...
When I read that Squirm is just gonna go ahead and kill the orc, I literally said "Damn" out loud! I was so surprised! I'm fine with it, I was just expecting he was actually gonna give it the 'honorable' death thing.
It's awfully convenient, admitted.
Well, the orcs were not exactly pleasant creatures.
We are out of combat, and honestly the visualization of you coup de grace with a nightmare is kinds cool. Run with it.
As they approach, the see a typical one-story farmhouse. There is still a live pig in a wooden pen squealing loudly.
As the raid on the farm ended in murder, as serious crime, it should be fairly easy to convince the pig to inform us what happened. Pigs are, after all, notorious squealers.
Very punny.
"I'm not much of a tracker, sorry."
[dice=Survival]1d20+4
No, you are not. :(
So you are on Firm Ground DC 15, and it is -1 per three characters, so the DC to follow them is 14.
If you are not trained in this skill, you can make untrained checks to find tracks, but you can follow them only if the DC for the task is 10 or lower.
That means we can't follow any tracks. :(
I guess we should just have another look around the farmhouse and if we don't find anything continue. Maybe free the pig, otherwise it will starve to death.
Not going to lie to you. Squirm would love to come back here later on, I don't know how travel'ey the adventure is going to be but we could have our own base in the woods!
Honestly, I thought one of you had Survival as a skill, maybe it was Kenax
Skills? What are they?
Can you fight them?
I believe you can scare them away... Maybe I did.
Waiting to hear what you all want to do next ....
I was waiting to hear an answer to what Squirm claims to see about a pattern?
As Squirm's post was an Aid - I took it as more of an flavor post than anything else.
Regardless, you see footprints that you cannot track. Nothing more really.
As Squirm's post was an Aid - I took it as more of an flavor post than anything else.
This.
I was just storytelling.
I think we should get back to the journey as my in game post says.
Me too.
I was sure I clicked "Submit Post" yesterday... Whatever.
Sorry for not posting and sorry again but I won't be able to post until Monday, at least - the part-time I took turned out to be quite time consuming. But that's just for two more days. Three max.
Something seems weird here. Its a 10ft deep hole, could be a pitfall.
But its huge! 20ft across means someone shifted an awful lot of earth! Should we investigate the pit? Squirm will be happy to be lowered down.
I guess it can't hurt. And should not take too long. My guess is we won't find out much, but there is not much downside.
Traveling today. Will update tomorrow.
Psionic characters need 8 hours of "rest" (not necessarily sleep) I'm guessing being on watch is not restful.
For each interruption during the "rest" we add 1 hour to this time. (UP p131)
If everyone has these same requirements then we can get everyone rested in 12.5 hours with three shifts
1)4.5hrs rest/3.5hrs watch/4.5hrs rest
2)4.5hrs watch/8hrs rest
3)8hrs rest/4.5hours watch
or something else... sorry if i went a bit far there...
But there are 4 of us.
Kazushi as a spontaneous spellcaster needs 8 hours, but it does not need to be uninterrupted.
4 watches of 2 hours 15 min should do it.
Also, your characters don't know this, but as an Elan I only need 4 hrs of a trance-like meditative state to count as my full 8 hrs of rest. :)
There are 5 of us :P
I'll take first watch
Then Kazushi...
...and Christaph (In either order)
Then Aidan...
... and Neils (In either order)
2.5 hours each watch should cover us all?
Sounds fine to me.
Ok I messed up.
The watch order seems sensible enough.
But Christaph only needs 4 hours sleep. And the psychics need 8 hours uninterrupted sleep.
how about-
1st Squirm- 2 hours
2nd Kazushi 2 hours
3rd Christaph (whoever that is :P)4 hours
4th Aidan and Neils 2 hours.
Fine by me. I'm easy to get along with for the most part. Kazushi, you tell Illiam I said that ok? Hahahaha! Just kidding! Don't tell him or it might start some fight going again!
Illiam is not so bad, or he does not mean to be.
But if he thinks he is right he will argue about it forever. And he just says you are wrong, no diplomacy. It is possible he is on the autistic spectrum. High functioning autistics can be very intelligent and technically minded, but don't get social rules.
He got up my nose at one time as well.
It is possible he is on the autistic spectrum. High functioning autistics can be very intelligent and technically minded, but don't get social rules.
Just a quick note on this, remember this is a public forum, one with a very useful search function. In my years on Paizo, there have been two instances when someone has searched themselves that I know of.
The first instance, one of my friends had made some negative comments about someone else, that person searched themselves out, read what was written about him/her, and called my friend out. Luckily everything was handled in a mature fashion and we actually gamed together a bit before drifting off.
The second instance a quiet popular PbP player searched themselves out and found I had named dropped him/her, sent me a nice PM about a game we had played together.
Please take it for what it is, just a suggestion to keep conversations like this private.
Noted. And definitely worth bearing in mind.
From the GM desk ...
I have noticed a considerable drop in posting rate. Thought it would be a good time to check in. Everyone still here? Anything I can do to help?
I'm here.