Wrath of the Righteous - Solo - Snake Charmer (Inactive)

Game Master Kiora Atua

This is a discussion thread for all your burning OOC discussion.

Just a quick aside, to keep things moving quickly, if you need your party members to do something that involves a roll out of combat, such as a cast a healing spell on you, or make a skill check, just go ahead and roll for them rather than going through the process of asking them in character and having me RP an affirmative reply and rolling.

Example: Combat has ended, but you're still hurt, and want Badwe to heal you with one of his Channel Positive Energy uses for the day. Rather than going "Badwe, could you please patch me up a bit?" and waiting for me to respond with a dice roll, you can just roll it for him and describe the action like, "Badwe notices that Karis is still wounded, so he Channels Positive Energy [dice expression here]."

I can promise you that they won't stand around dumbly out of combat waiting for your direction, they will make some skill checks on their own. However, I do want you to take a leadership style position in the group, so do not expect them to autonomously do everything on their own. For example, if you are confronted with say, a strange holy symbol, sometimes Badwe will just go ahead and roll Knowledge Religion and tell you what it is based on the check. Other times, I will wait for you to ask him.

I think that sounds like a good way to work things. I don't think they'll refuse her requests. At least, when she's not being a complete brat. In general, I like that kind of shared control of the secondary party members. Once we get into the game, the details will evolve to something that works for both of us.

E-mail sent for the obsidian portal stuff :) hope you like it.

I really like the art in this book, and it seems such a waste for only GMs to see it...

Any chance of putting that link in the campaign info tab, for easy reference?

Gotcha! Also: I assigned Karis as your PC on the wiki. Make sure it lets you edit stuff now for me.

Hurray a fight! This is my first fight ever through a pbp, so let me know if I can streamline the process better for you.

Art of Khorramzadeh and Terendelev is up on the wiki. Khorramzadeh in particular is totally awesome looking.

I see what you mean about the art in this AP.

We'll see what we can do about this dretch.

Added Anevia and Horgus to the wiki.

Cool. I'll check them out.

and FWIW, I'm still making up Karis as I go along. She's just revealed a streak of altruism I hadn't been aware of, though she seems to be managing to hide the fact that she's doing the right thing behind a lot of sputtering anger.

Haha, I expect you to work on her as you go :) It usually takes awhile to really find a character's "voice" if that makes any sense.

She's great, I love her so much. I really admire that you're embracing the low charisma aspect of her character. She's gonna save the world, whether the world wants her to or not!

I have another solo game going alongside yours, and its awesome how different you are already, despite both picking up martial-focused characters. The other PC is quickly making friends, but she's a paladin, so that's kind of their gig. Well, not with Gwerm. He's ah, a special one... but he's my favorite since it's fun to test what good heroes are willing to put up with ;)

I'm sure this merry band will make Karis' journey back to the surface a memorable one, if anything.

Clarification on the scale magic item:

The scale can be used three times per day to cast Resist Energy against either cold or electricity. It is attuned to Karis, so only she can use it, but she can use it on another target if she likes. She doesn't have to make a check, she just instinctively knows how to use it and what it does. It grants 30 points of resist energy and the buff lasts 170 minutes.

Standard action to use, cold OR electricity, I assume?

Is your other campaign getting ahead of this one?

I'd kind of like to look in and see, but I don't want to accidentally spoiler anything.

Yes, standard action, cold OR electricity. It doesn't stack with other effects that grant resist energy (such as tiefling racial), and you can't cast it twice on the same person to have cold AND electricity, the 2nd cast would overwrite the first one.

The other campaign is only slightly ahead. His character has picked a tunnel and moved on to a new room. You post more often though, so I expect you to overtake them soon. He is only ahead because we skipped the festival (player had done the festival in multiple pbp WotR games before only to have the game fall apart as soon as they arrived in the underground).

...Technically the AP wants you to start the game underground and just recap the festival but most GMs I've read about (me included) hate that. I think it's to protect a player from stupidly charging the Storm King and getting killed but I don't think I've met a player who would be that dumb.

You haven't met the guys I play with in RL. To their credit, though, it's not that they're too dumb to realize it's suicide, they just like rolling up new characters a lot.

Added Aravashnial to the wiki. That fancy-pants staff he's got in the picture is just a masterwork quarterstaff, sorry if it got your hopes up, haha.

1. Sorry for the delay, life gets hectic.
2. Not sure how you want to handle the maggot-assault. From my POV, it's pretty much just flavor, but I can certainly understand that it might call for a check (or an initiative roll, if Horgus is feeling reckless) or some kind.
3. I assume the 500gp is off the table now. I see that I'm going to have to look for other sources of income with Karis as group leader.
4. I'm trying to mostly leave Badwe, etc in your hands out of combat. I suppose they could make some sort of roll to try to salvage Horgus's good will, but it doesn't seem likely to succeed.

It's not a big deal :)

Can pretty much assume, haha! At least he's not particularly threatening, as far as enemies go.

I'm keeping up with them, but for decisions that could possibly impact the overall story (such as befriending people/making enemies) I'm trying to keep that in your hands. So I'd rather you do diplomacy/intimidate/bluff. I'm also not comfortable with expending party resources (such as bardic performance or cleric channels, craft checks, or in the future things like potions) without your explicit go ahead, since that has combat repercussions.

I'm comfortable with autonomously doing stuff like knowledge rolls, heal checks, survival, UMD or sense motive. The odd perception if Karis manages to roll really low.

That all makes good sense.

We'll let Horgus be Horgus for now. I think I'm more curious than afraid about the repercussions. This king of thinking is probably why Karis is no longer welcome to train with the other crusaders' kids.

Whoops forgot the map. I'm dumb.

Map link

You know... I really didn't mean to name Bearclaw after a pastry.

Hahaha I thought it was intentional, because they are delicious ;)

They are ... and he is ... but you know, the easy old orc name recipe ... take a vicious predator and the part that he hurts you with (boartusk, wolffang etc)

Oh and regards to $$$ don't worry about it, this AP is...extremely generous about WBL. It won't feel like that at first, naturally. But once stuff starts picking up speed around book 2-3 it just rains gear.

I think the intention here was that good PCs would donate money to non-combat stuff (like, say, repairing the city you live in that demon's just ransacked and providing food to the poorer denizens).

But what appears to happen, at least from my reading the AP boards, is PCs getting WBL*3 or without even crafting fairly easily. Cuz why spend gold on NPCs when you can spend it on you??

So consider this a hint, to, y'know, not worry about doing some cool flavorful stuff with all dat dough. Once you're sufficiently blinged out of course ;)

I'm really not worrying about the $$$$. I'm really a big fan of a very huzzah! style of play (hard to guess, I know) and my RL table has a compulsive looter. It works out great. I never think about the gp until one day he says we've got 50k, and I start thinking how to spend it.

This will save me from sending Marina down the item creation route, though.

It's a bit like running a BBEG with minions. I'm going to have to find a way to make the minions count for more.

First, though, we're going to do something really, really awful to Horgus.

Haha, you're doing fine. This cockroach battle has held me enthralled in a way I didn't expect.

Awwww poor Gwerm! Well, not really.

Ha. I was going to look at the other campaign to see how it was doing and realized you were the GM for the Andoran campaign. I'm going to look over the character and try to up the ante a little, because that looks like a lot of fun. [/brownnose]

Haha! :)

Other campaign ended, player decided to join a regular Wrath of the Righteous instead :(

Oh well, gives me more time to make this one more badass ;)

Oh man, 2 whole pages of campaign *dances*

Hey thurr!

I added a bunch of stuff to the wiki. Specifically: a link for magic items, locations, and a list of objectives to keep stuff straight.

I also made an excel document for tracking weight, and consumables. I've already added all your characters and all their stuff. Excel doc has been added to the campaign tab.

You might wanna check out Bearclaw and move stuff around because right now he is under Heavy Encumbrance (so he has a max dex of +1 so he shoots his crossbow at a +1 not +2 attack roll).

Also on the excel doc there is a tab for the date and time. I also have buffs on there so now you can know exactly how much time is left on Dancing Lights hahaha.

I'm happy to keep the excel doc updated because I'm insanely detail oriented and I understand that most people don't enjoy the heavy duty book-keeping aspects of the game. ;)

You never mentioned picking that torch back up but since it has so much time left on it I'm gonna say Badwe picked it up and he's standing at the rear of the group with Anevia and Aravashnial.

I love people that love keeping track of stuff. Because I'm horrible at it.

Just for clarity...

Earlier, you had said no will save was necessary if she wasn't raging. Since she made it it's not an issue, but it would be good to pin it down one way or another.

Though I'm wondering if the archetype might not be more annoying (in play) than awesome.

Ah, my bad, for some reason I thought she was raging. Thanks for that!

Also, I'm really digging the archetype.

Probably too volatile to work with actual players (unless you had all-ranged players for the rest of the group). But in solo, it just has great storytelling potential.

OK cool. I completely agree about the archetype. It's a very archetypal archetype, with a great mythic (didn't Haracles get angry and accidentally kill his wife?) feel, but really not the kind of thing you want to make other players cope with. At least, not players you like.

I try to specify when she's raging, and for ease of play, I'll try to specify when she's not.

I view her as channeling the wrath of ancient Sarkoris itself. Like the land itself is finally fighting back.

Which was completely different from all the other submissions and is why I picked you ;) The obvious character is a holy avenger, which works well, but isn't super intriguing, y'know?

I appreciate your willingness to take a chance on a poor barbarian...

I get these ideas sometimes that work, some that don't, but when there's such a strong theme, I always try to find some way to approach it differently.

NPC dramaaaaaaaa.

Trying to space it out through the dungeon so it isn't just a giant wall of exposition.

Updated the NPCs in the wiki since it needed it. Also a pic of Kenabres I didn't notice until today!

I find their drama pretty entertaining, even intriguing. Plus, I'm enjoying trying to keep Horgus alive without completely chucking Karis's personality.

Unchained is out!

I don't plan on changing anything, as mythic solo is enough to fiddle with for me, haha. I will be converting monks and rogues to the unchained monks and rogues, though. I will also use the new poisons/diseases (though tbh there aren't many of those in the AP).

However, if you would like a free retrain to Unchained Barbarian, go ahead.

If you would like to experiment with other subsystems (such as the Stamina subsystem) we can do it, I'm leaving it up to you.

Haven't looked at unchained yet, but lord knows the rogue needs some love. Is any of the stuff up on the SRD?

But the multiclassing variant seems kind of cool. Especially since power attack barbarian is more or less a 1 feat build. I wonder what a VMC from druid gets? For pure flavor, if she can turn into an angry sarkorian bear-spirit when she rages... [/drool]

Or maybe I just go ahead with the beast totem and SAY she turns into an angry sarkorian bear-spirit when she rages.

Which is sort of what the totem represents. Sigh.

Totem is awesome!

Do you want to variant multiclass into druid?

You get:

Level 1: Swear druidic oath. Learn secret druidic language. Swear to respect nature, not teach language to non-druids, forbidden from wearing metallic armor.
Level 3: Wild Empathy (druid level = character level)
Level 7: You gain an animal companion who is your level - 4.
Level 11: Your animal companion increases to be your level, not -4.
Level 15: You can wildshape into a small or medium animal twice a day for up to 1 hr/lvl.
Level 19: You can wild shape into large or tiny animals or a small elemental (per beast shape II or elemental body I) three times per day, 1 hr/lvl.