"Stealthy champion of Lissala" (LE god) Alignment: Chaotic Neutral. I guess he's just going through a phase.
Liam throws 3 quick chops at the swordsman starting with a glancing blow, following with a miss and finally finding a chink in the man's armor and ending his life.
The sarcophagus continues to shake and glow. Knowledge Arcana or Spellcraft please.
The only foe currently visible is trapped in the air elemental but we are going to stay in initiative until at least the end of the round.
PS. If you end your turn in the mist, please make a will save.
Initiative:
Baltar
Malinor
Hugo
Fletch & Rom
Black Swordsman2
Hound3
Ezrek
Liam
Baltar, Malinor, Hugo, and Fletch & Rom are now up.
If/When something combaty emerges from the sarcophagus we will be rolling new initiatives.
Looking around, Fletch sees the pedestal next to the west wall contains about a dozen crystal shards, each with a different Thassilonian rune. You were told to find and break your token to go home.
The tall stone altar has what appears to be a book of prayers, some incense, various magical reagents. Additionally embedded into the altar's surface is a large flawless emerald.
Standard action + Appraise could tell you more about the emerald, as might detect magic and several rounds of concentration if anybody is curious. Or if somebody has an appropriate profession etc.
" Agreed Liam. If you are ready, I will have my wind servant release him. Also we should probably each take our shard before we touch the sarcophagus.. "
I healed the wolf some earlier...can do more once we finish this last foe.
On the word from Liam, that will be the trigger for Hugo to tell the elemental to release and attack the black swordsman.
Male Halfling Cleric of Besmara (Cloistered Cleric) 12
I will delay to see what happens. Since a few of my spells are on short duration, would you mind telling me how many rounds passed once we enter combat again?
I've been the Hound to track rounds. We are currently on round 3 of this combat. Don't forget that timers on whirlwind and buffs etc still tick down while delaying.
Initiative:
Hugo - Delay
Baltar - Delay Malinor
Black Swordsman2
Hound3
Ezrek
Liam
Fletch - Ready to shoot
Romulus
This one unfortunately is blurry and Liam's first blow misses but the other 2 connect.
Confirming with a 1:
I am under the impression that a 1 does not confirm criticals.
To find out if it's a critical hit, you immediately make an attempt to "confirm" the critical hit—another attack roll with all the same modifiers as the attack roll you just made. If the confirmation roll also results in a hit against the target's AC, your original hit is a critical hit.
A natural 1 (the d20 comes up 1) on an attack roll is always a miss.
A confirmation roll is an attack roll, meaning a natural 1 does not result in a hit.
I didn't see anything in the FAQ and don't feel 100% confident, so am happy to entertain links etc to why it does confirm.
GM Dice:
1d100 ⇒ 2 1d100 ⇒ 92 1d100 ⇒ 95
Initiative:
Hugo
Baltar
Malinor
Ezrek
Fletch
Romulus
Black Swordsman2 <slow/prone>
Hound4
Air Elemental <slow>
Liam
Hugo, Baltar, Malinor, Ezren, Fletch and Romulus are all up.
Male Halfling Cleric of Besmara (Cloistered Cleric) 12
Where does it say that critical confirmations can't auto-fail on a natural 1, or auto-succeed on a 20? CRB says the second roll is also an attack roll against the target's AC to determine a crit, so that is subject to 1's and 20's.
This one unfortunately is blurry and Liam's first blow misses but the other 2 connect.
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I think you're right. Wow, I'm sorry I've been such a goof on the rules. I play in Chicago with the old Venture Captain, and he always let us confirm on 1's if our Attack roll was high enough. But I scanned the rules forums and I can't find anywhere where that is a real rule. I
I defer to you and am going to get a free beer for pointing out a rules misinterpretation to my former VC haha!
No worries, you guys just don't get to see all the mistakes I make, like when I accidentally swapped the initiative of the two swordsmen in the dark and missed out on an attack.
Can I see him from where I am standing? If I can I shoot him a bunch. If I cannot then I will move myself to where I can see him and only use the first roll for one attack. Multishot, Rapid Shot, Cluster Shot, Deadly Aim, Point Blank Shot.
Multishot:1d20 + 18 ⇒ (9) + 18 = 271d8 + 16 ⇒ (4) + 16 = 202d6 + 2 ⇒ (3, 3) + 2 = 8+2 to hit if he is human and add the extra damage dice. Rapid Shot:1d20 + 18 ⇒ (2) + 18 = 201d8 + 16 ⇒ (4) + 16 = 202d6 + 2 ⇒ (3, 1) + 2 = 6+2 to hit if he is human and add the extra damage dice. Secondary Shot:1d20 + 13 ⇒ (1) + 13 = 141d8 + 16 ⇒ (7) + 16 = 232d6 + 2 ⇒ (4, 1) + 2 = 7+2 to hit if he is human and add the extra damage dice.
Air elemental is currently slowed and spent it's turn bringing the swordsman out. Good news is on it's next turn the slow will be gone and it can full attack then. You can act now though Hugo.
Male Human Ranger 14 (Freebooter and Skirmisher) - HP 122/130, AC 29/T: 16/FF: 25 - Perception +19 - F: +14/ R: +14/ W: +8* - CMB: +18 - CMD: 34, Speed: 30*, Init. +4
Fletch looks up, confused for a moment, then smiles. "Oh, okay," he says. "Romulus, kill! he says, pointing at the enemy. The big dire wolf rushes forward, snapping its jaws. Meanwhile, Fletch draws his greatsword with a single flick of his wrist and slams it down on the emerald.
Ezrek: That emerald is sheer perfection, probably worth at least 200,000 gold. Probably being used as some sort of magical something but you're not sure what.
Hugo does indeed have an adamantine axe but if those chops did not even scratch the gem, then the axe probably will not either. But you are welcome to try. What about sticking it in a haversack?
"Maybe it is involved in this ritual. We may need to remove it from this place if we cannot destroy it. However that coffin is probably going to be an issue soon. "
Hugo will start with his listed.preps unless there are other suggested actions.
The elemental had 10 rounds starting from round 2 of combat. What round are we in when the black sword fell?.
Male Human Ranger 14 (Freebooter and Skirmisher) - HP 122/130, AC 29/T: 16/FF: 25 - Perception +19 - F: +14/ R: +14/ W: +8* - CMB: +18 - CMD: 34, Speed: 30*, Init. +4
Hugo - You're right. If Fletch didn't scratch it, that Emerald has a hardness of at least 20, meaning that adamantine weapons will do no good. They only ignore hardness less than 20. Does anyone have a sonic attack?
End of round 4, your next actions will be your 5th.
Baltar examines the flawless emerald, and determines that while not magical itself, it is an important ritual component.
Round 5: Everybody is up. (Time is precious so I will leave us in rounds at the moment, although there are currently no foes. If/when a new encounter happens, initiative will be rolled again.)
time for me to go collect some delicious player tears in Bone keep.
AC28(38)/T18(22)/F23(33)/CMD32(38)||HP202[136]|F:+15(18);R:+17(21);W+11|Percept. +23(+31 trapspotter)|Init.+5(+9) Human Alchemist (Cryptbreaker) 16
I am afraid I have nothing that would have an effect.
Exrek begins preparing his extracts and mutagen.
I have an extra haste extract that someone could use and if I take the time to recharge my shield extracts, I would have an extra two of those as well.
Since I am pretty sure that the Lord was not an outsider and it seems likely that he is in the case I move back, sheathe my evil outsider bane bow, quick draw the human bane and hope the thing doesn't explode too much when he pops out.
I have returned from Gamehole Con! Thank you everybody for your patience. I did TPK my Waking Rune table there, so hopefully for you guys I've got it out of my system for awhile.
Ezrek:Examining the Emerald with the ammount of detail I gave took a stand action but here's what a brief glimpse of what looks interesting in the gear of the fallen..
Obvious items of likely value on the Lashmistress:
Fancy Whip
Light steel shield in the shape of a sihedron
Ironwood amulet on a chain of brambles
Green cloak
Crystal headband
Diamond studded gold ring
Sapphire encrusted silver ring
No Items on the Naga
The swordsmen are well equipped with nice chain shirts and greatswords along with matching bramble amulets. They also have brass rings and dramatic black cloaks along with 20 normal arrows each.
Round 5:
Hugo casts Death Ward Can only draw one of the scrolls. Let me know if you're prefer to have silence or sound burst out.
