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Game Master Tacticslion

There are a lot of posts.

If I've counted right, you guys will see something insane, like, ~24 posts; all but one are mine.

I targeted things so you can instead start at the top of page 13, and just follow links below, ignoring everything else.

Former plant-lady, now amulet/ring
The stats on the smoke as a spell
The stats on the smoke as a (drug, poison)
Mope as spirit totem (steed)

You may ignore all else.

Start here for the full list.

The reason there are so many posts is that I created a series of "easy-to-quote" posts so you can keep the formatting on the other posts by merely quoting. It is for convenience, in other words, and can be ignored until needed or wanted.

This post was sent as a PM to each of you.

But yeah he's totally ready. At first level how tough can it be?

Well, I remember an introductory scenario (i.e. for level 1 PCs) for Living Greyhawk, where the end boss was a Sea Wolf, and the party did not have access to silver weapons... which made the DR 10/Silver a nightmare to wade through...

Oof! That'd be a really rough one!

(Also: A wild Luke has appeared! It's super-effective! Hi, Luke, good seeing you!)

EDIT: boooooooooooother. My internet right now. >.<

Anyway: I didn't actually PM you, Luke. Sorry!
(I grabbed Inarus and Usawoti off the next-to-last Gameplay page, because I already had that open for various reasons.)

Right. So: I'm out! G'night everybody~!

I think I understand the nature of the item now. I better keep it since it seems to be a double edged kind of thing. Now how am I going to explain to the maiden of my new friend...

Oh!

*Throws a pokeball at TL*

*ponders what kind of pokemon - Persian?*

Sorry, I'm a yellow, red and blue pokemon player primarily. Latest version I played was gold, so I am not in touch with the newer ones. That's being said there aren't any lion pokemons in the versions I know.

There's meowth, persian, mew, mewtwo...but I don't know anymore cat like types off hand...

I don't think that the smoke would have affected us that much except for miss chance, if Usawoti had been properly prepared.

Honestly it'll just get us to get delay poison up 24/7 , which I already suggested. As I said, humans don't get it sometimes, even if you smack them with big sticks ;)

But again, I'm paranoid, and from the earlier description of the tower, poisonous gases were involved, so...

Again, I honestly believe I have seen more Pathfinder then he has, even if I only started playing in 2012. Also, I would like to think I am smarter then the average pathfinder. And I can be a tad unorthodox at times, despite my generally lawful nature.

I try to think of every possibility...

Robert Henry wrote:

But yeah he's totally ready. At first level how tough can it be?

Well, I remember an introductory scenario (i.e. for level 1 PCs) for Living Greyhawk, where the end boss was a Sea Wolf, and the party did not have access to silver weapons... which made the DR 10/Silver a nightmare to wade through...

LOL, I meant how tough can it be to have a first level character ready... I still do mine by hand, er, by computer...

Again, I honestly believe I have seen more Pathfinder then he has, even if I only started playing in 2012. Also, I would like to think I am smarter then the average pathfinder. And I can be a tad unorthodox at times, despite my generally lawful nature.

I try to think of every possibility...

I'm at June of 2014, and I've only played on-line, Started in a game with Luke with a character named Ting I believe you've met him ;)

But I still think like melee class, so a buff against poison seems situational to me. I would rather us the spell for offence.

I believe that's one of the reasons you determined and rightly so ;) that I fit in "The Real Man" Trope/category ;)

edit Hey Tacticslion I'm not ignoring the myriad of posts requesting feedback I'm just still looking at the differences and trying to digest the information.

Well - I suppose you've never been grappled in black tentacles and had a cloudkill spell thrown over you, have you? Or had a stinking cloud on you, either, have you?

Again as a melee class you probably wouldn't fail the stinking cloud fort save, but cloudkill is a different story since its con damage every round.

Delay poison is a level 2 spell. Each turn you spend nauseated or whatever is a turn you're doing nothing.

If you're talking about offensive stuff - actually your DCs are too low for serious offence work. You'd want to have at least 22-24 of your casting stat for offensive work. And spell focus (whatever you like), Greater spell focus(more whatever you like), to boot.

That being said, bulls strength always works I suppose, +4 str enhancement for me to beat more stuff up could help.

I'll tell you I'm biased against evocation business(unless you dip 1 level of cross blooded sorc), and believe that damage should be generally handled with a big stick. Fire seeds is maybe one of the only spells that can cut it, but no I do NOT want to be anywhere near the explosion when it goes off...

Evocation (+) Dazing spell can own.

Otherwise... notsomuch. :D

(There's a lion dog in later games, but I'm from the older series myself; soooo... I forget what it's called.)

We will not talk about dazing spell. And not about wayang spell hunter and magical lineage used at the same time. :P Or sacred Geometry.

Yes, I studied evocation before. My Nagaji Aspirant actually did Wayang Spell Hunter and Magical Lineage just for Moar Fireballs. And Many Many Fireballs.

Lots of things at high levels usually have derpy reflex saves. But that is a very specialized build and the moment you run into a red dragon, you're screwed ;)

The very first time I used a dazing aqueous orb(I used a lesser dazing rod), I felt like the kid bringing a gun to a knife fight >.< It can trivalise older PFS scenarios, and a dazing aqueous orb is even more controllable in area of effect as opposed to a fireball which is a huge blast. Also, you don't have to worry about SR issues. But again you can't hit undead/flying creatures.

I still need to think of my level 4 bard spell. I'm considering Cure Critical Wounds or Echolocation.

Echolocation is more...practical in the sense its a V spell only so it doesn't have any issues being cast with armor on. Unfortunately I suspect I may be tempted to abuse deeper darkness + echolocation/ obscuring mist + echolocation etc >.<

Talk about banning it in my games and abusing it in another...arrrggghhh.

Bad Mort. Smack!

I've wondered out of scientific curiosity, what would happen if you used shadow conjuration for mage armor :P

Watched Part 1 - I always knew it was the plagues that killed the Incas, Aztecs, but had no idea why plagues the existed. I always speculated it was because the west did more travelling - so they had more exposure to diseases, so they didn't catch whatever there was in America. And also how much animals fastfoward the process of civilisation.

Funnily enough the Inca Pyramids have some similarities with Egyptian ones. I don't think anyone ever figured out why...

Part 2 is interesting. I didn't realize that there were actually checklists for animal domestication. I thought you just urm...grabbed any animal you could catch...

just lurking around

Hi GDM, feel free to lurk!

Do you know him? Yeah I was watching the youtube videos- still not anywhere close to done. I really should be going to bed.

Do you know him? Yeah I was watching the youtube videos- still not anywhere close to done. I really should be going to bed.

nope, just being polite, the good news is it was Sat. night so no rush for work tomorrow!

just lurking around

Terquem! Nice to have you!

(He's a cool guy.)

Pardon my controlled anarchy!

All: I'm sorry, but today's time budget is really full.

I've got Precana to do (where my wife and I teach couples preparing to get married), and church, and cleanup, and then making dinner!

Today has been crazy-busy already!

I'll see if I can get to posting later, but no promises: I may be running my RL game tonight, for the first time in a few days, and it's been a while so Indont wish to miss that chance!

edit Hey Tacticslion I'm not ignoring the myriad of posts requesting feedback I'm just still looking at the differences and trying to digest the information.

No problem. I understand!

That was church: now for lunch...!

(Feeding two children is not as easy as it might sound...)

Lunch... which time zone are you in?

Well, okay, it's more like "dinner" (I'm EST), but, you know.

Well, okay, you probably don't. See, our day has been very weird, so, you know.

Well, okay, you probably don't; see...

So how is everyone today? Good?

(Dinner accomplished. Now I've ~9 minutes before night-night boys...)

Im cool but rushing off for class. Im supposed to go in 15 min and I woke up late this morning. And I haven't had breakfast yet.

I had just assumed you were in EST or CST but had to ask, just in case.

My day? It's just a Saturday. I'm still not entirely used to helping my mom so much, but it's not hard, just time consuming. I've always known my patience was suspect, this just proves it...

On to the gaming thread...

Let me know if you think I should pass, say, 1d10+5 minutes in-game...

Let me know if you think I should pass, say, 1d10+5 minutes in-game...

Does that mean run the clock while were twiddling our thumbs? Since Uswoti took the time to skin the dragon while the 'vampire groot' was feeding, so we used up time anyway, the conversation could be taking place then.

Now if passing time in game means something else, then, well, uummm...

if you want to?

A little of both.

It should have taken you some solid time, technically speaking, to properly skin and prepare the dragon.

I, uh... forgot. >.<

But mostly I meant if you wanted that time to pass while you travel, as that seems to be the thing that's happening (a very big, pushy dragon is encouraging that... ;D)

I'm ready to move after we skinned and made bracelets and stuff, and preferably after heals, but I can deal with the no time to heal part.

Didn't you already get healed something like 109 hp?

And weren't you pushing to "go now" as it were?

Or am I misunderstanding?

(That's possible. :D)

Sorry. I thought there was a post saying don't key in the healing yet. As in can go down the tunnel.

Usawoti - if you want to tell me about Caulborns, I can knowledge check it. But since its not done in character, I can't knowledge check it.

ok I will go edit my post

Oh! It seems a passage has interrupted your conversation!

... except it really doesn't need to have interrupted your conversation. Please carry on. GM enjoys this sort of thing. :D

That... was actually a really cool idea you had, Usawoti. I'm sorry to have shot it down so quickly, but the thing had already had most of it's internal bits eaten, leaving only about half it's internal body-mass, and a number of external pieces.

I mentioned the time-limit thing, but, you know, if it weren't for the body-mass issue, I'd actually probably be fine with it. In fact, I'm going to go edit that post to that effect.

In that case, something like a reincarnate or resurrection would work, but raise dead is kind of out of luck. :/

is the hide laying about anywhere?

Yes.

The hide, scales, and bones have been neatly separated and then more or less just cast aside and frosted over (though not as thoroughly frozen as the meat).

The meat has been thoroughly cut into big-but-manageable steaks.

Actually, the other problem, since Usawoti has lost two levels he can't cast anything from the 6 th level spell list anyway.

Also I am running out of steam, sitting here falling asleep at my computer so I need to go to bed. I will get up for a little while in the morning and post then go back to sleep, sorry for slowing the game down tonight ;(

Hm. You got any form of restoration?

Also, for the record on brass dragons, "old" is a huge size creature (like Inarus, actually), and that kind generally look like this.

Also I am running out of steam, sitting here falling asleep at my computer so I need to go to bed. I will get up for a little while in the morning and post then go back to sleep, sorry for slowing the game down tonight ;(

Woah, my dude! You're fine! I understand (and have been there myself)! You're not doing anything wrong. Go sleep and find peace! Rest well! :)

Oh dear. I just yelled more insults.

Im cool but rushing off for class. Im supposed to go in 15 min and I woke up late this morning. And I haven't had breakfast yet.

Relax! We're cool.

And now, sorry for the delay, I was going to respond and got distracted...

** spoiler omitted **

On that...

broken
mending

... so mending can, hypothetically, repair broken stuff.

... buuu~uuut regardless of all of that, the problem is that you're just too big, now. It'd be like trying to fit a five-year-old's shirt on you.

There are definitely patches where it still covers, and that's nice, and certainly helps, but over-all it's just a bunch of loose, smaller pieces of metal, rather than a single cohesive thing anymore - it's just too small. To really "fix" it, you'd need to more or less break it all off, and then it wouldn't be doing you any good. To have it for you at full functionality, you'd need to find a lot more stuff, and put it all back together in a larger size - you are, after all, twice the size you used to be!

(Do note what I sent you about the check penalty and the acp; as it's effectively no longer the heavy armor it used to be, you can now ignore those.)

Oh dear. I just yelled more insults.

You, uh... you have heard of this thing called "Diplomacy"... right...? ;P :D

They're threatening each other with all those nasty threats. Maybe that might get them to clear off so we may pass? :P

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... then:

Awesome!

Okay, I'm going to make a ruling and use it now, but here's a question: how does Intimidate work against multiple creatures? Does it? Or are you stuck one-at-a-timing it?

I find the descriptions a little vague.

Either way: how do we (as a group) wish to handle or rule it?

You can only intimidate a single creature(Unless you have the feat dazzling display). Pick one, and let me intimidate it. Unfortunately I can't really see in the mist clearly which one I'm intimidating but oh well ;)

... now:

They're threatening each other with all those nasty threats. Maybe that might get them to clear off so we may pass? :P

... hhhhrrrrrmmmmmm...

ಠ_ಠ

That being said, I have a soft spot for bear animal companions in pathfinder. I think many people overlook the humble bear, going for big cats and rocs. They’re actually quite cool in their own way, and I’ve ever had a lunar oracle riding a bear wielding a longspear. Yep, Bear Calvary. I was also supposed to find out what the effect of form of the dragon(ancient lorekeeper archetype), had on bears…

Do you get a dragonbear?

You get a bear shaped like a dragon. XD

(But seriously, there is no exception made for creature type. Hypothetically an awakened bear alchemist, magus, or sorcerer/wizard could totally cast this on himself.)

Again…I have this soft spot for fluffy friends…

Doesn't everyone?!

(No. They don't. XD)

BTW I don't really care much for dinosaurs, or insect animal companions. Bleh.

But... but... but... what about fat bird t-rex?!

Sorry. I thought there was a post saying don't key in the healing yet. As in can go down the tunnel.

Also, after thinking about it, I understand the miscommunication.

I was trying to indicate, "Don't sit down for a sleepy-time, yet." instead of "Don't get hp back." but I can see where it might have looked like the latter. Whoops!

I mean yeah I suppose I could try to sneak(with invis), but huge - theres a possibility that I actually need the passageway clear to move, and I can't move if something gets in the way, which isnt hard for something huge.

And running into a battlezone of 4 with crossfire can be dangerous.

Not saying that yelling out like that wasn't, but hell, at least it was cool :P

Then yes, even if I know its theoratically not possible to intimidate something, I can't really help that, in a way. But that's probably the bard side coming out. And probably where all that smart-@ss comments come from.

Or maybe not. I'm snarky as a player even.

Its a bit like trying to put yourself out as the biggest fish in the sea.

We're cool. I was mostly just poking mild fun at you.

(I'm a GM - we're allowed to taunt players that way, sometimes. ;D)