Broken Golarion

Game Master Monkeygod

Yep

Took the day off, more or less, from posting. No real reason, just chilled and hung out with friends on Twitch.

Will get up a post for ya'll tomorrow, or Friday at the *absolute* latest.

Posting this to all my games, so sorry if you see it multiple times:

This week both my office and I personally are going to be moving. It's been crazy busy and I am not going to be able to post until Monday at the earliest. Please bot me if I am in your game, and if you are in a game I am running, I will get a post up as soon as possible.

Thank you for your patience.

Just an update:

I am working on the recap post, but it is long. I took some sensible liberties with your characters, but nothing out of the norm for them.

I hope to have it up late tonight, but if not, tomorrow for sure.

Edit: Godwyn, you appear to not have actually chosen an alignment for Alignment Channel.

I look forward to it!

And oh...it was a feat tax. I never planned to use it...I’ll need to look up the rules again before I make that choice.

Ya know, I noticed something interesting while doing this write up:

Godywn and Drystan are(as I believe is evident) two sides of the same coin. Both are holy warriors, with Godwyn much more defensive based, and Drystan being combat oriented.

However, it occurred to me that Lian and Karen are also similar(to each other). Both work with people, Karen healing and taking care of them physically. Lian on the other hand, boosts their spirits and morale, as well as easing their fears, worries and concerns. Karen focuses on the body, while Lian handles the mind and spirit.

That's a nice cool little accidental coincidence! :) And one I might use to further the story now that I've had this revelation.

If we pick two new recruits and make their themes "Wind" and "Fire" we could play some cool music.

Wasn't feeling the best tonight, so have just been curled up under my blanket, snuggling my puppers, watching friends on Twitch.

However, I'm taking a trip into NYC this weekend, to visit my bro, and I'm not taking my laptop with me(for ease of travel), so new post won't be till Monday or possibly Tues.

@Ametist: Lol.

I am back now, btw.

Soo, my above 'I am not feeling the best tonight' turned into 'I ended up sick and didn't do much all weekend'...

Also, I got my brand new gaming laptop today, several days+ early. However, it was kinda crazy here, as we had the guy come by to fix the furnace/pump, so I could get heat in the basement. As I have a rather protective puppers, I was banished up to my mom's bedroom with the doggo for the whole afternoon, meaning I didn't get much of anything done today.

Gonna head to bed soon, and tomorrow is slated to be busy during the day as none of the errands we had wanted to today got done. Hopefully I will be able to finish up the react post tomorrow night. It's about half way done.

Decided to post in pieces, as I'm not quite finished, and I don't want to make everyone wait.

I need to finish up Lian, then move on to Drystan and Ametis.

<Seal of Approval>

Enjoying reading these. Thanks for the effort!

Supercool! Godwyn can now say he defeated a Wraith without the need to roll a single die xD

See my mega post. Rolled *alot* of dice against it. Page 21 of gameplay. Took 8 rounds of combat

Ahhh, I thought that was a different one, lol.

My cold has kicked my creativity in the nether region over the last few days. I will try to finish up my recap over the next few days.

no worries. It's that time of year.

I got most of Lian's recap done last week, added a bit more last night, and now just need a way to wrap it all up.

So I am posting from work:

Apologies about not posting sooner, but I have been down internet wise for roughly a week, and will not have internet back up yet for a week or so.

This means that I haven't had internet for the last 4 days (as we had 4 days off at my work for the holiday).

It's been...an experience where I learned that I use the internet more than I thought I did.

With all of that being said, I will try to post from work as I can, but if I am in your game, please bot me as needed.

If I am running your game, please bear with me while I try to post when I can. Hopefully, sooner than better, but I want to be up front about this issue.

again, I apologize about the delay.

Hello all,

I am terribly sorry for the incredible delay in posting here. The holidays were a little crazy, including my 95 yr old grandmother who I live with going to the hospital Christmas night(she's okay, just had some weird issue with swallowing her food, plus a cold that was kicking her butt).

However, I've also been distracted by recruitments for other games(including an awesome RotRL, which is a game I've been dying and trying to play to completion for years now. Also been playing the new Kingmaker comp game, which is freaking awesome and starting streaming that game on Twitch this week, hoping to hit affiliate and hopefully begin making some money.

Long story short, I suck, and kinda forgot about this game, especially since there's been no posts here in discussion since the 26th.

I am still very much here, but I would totally understand if ya'll are done with this game, and my disappearing act.

I'm still here.

As am I

Still here

The stable boy jumps awake. Huh? What? Oh. Ya. I'm here!

I am posting this to all of my games, so apologies if you see this multiple times:

Unfortunately, I have some bad news.

A combination of work-related stuff has lead to me having to take some time off from the forums. I am, in all honesty, going to need to be gone for several months, as I am going to be travelling for extended periods of time (weeks or more) and I'll likely not have good access to the internet.

As I am not someone who would want to have you all sit and wait for me here, I am going to be withdrawing/closing all of my open forum games.

I want to thank everyone who I have had the pleasure to game with over the last couple of years here, as I have immensely enjoyed my time on the forums, and hopefully, once my work stabilizes, I will be able to rejoin the community.

Thank you again for your time and energy, and I am sorry that I won't be able to keep things moving forward in any of the games that I am running.

With the loss of Karen, and Drystan being MIA, we're down to 3 players. Wanted to give Drystan time to chime in, but they may have gotten sick of my lack of regular posting, which is absolutely understandable.

If every one is still around, we can either try and recruit some replacement players or sadly we can end the game.

Which would suck, as I just stumbled upon a really awesome subplot.

Still here. The game is awesome. Not so happy with my PC, but it's really worthy. Would be sad to not advance through the story more.

Still here. The game is awesome. Not so happy with my PC, but it's really worthy. Would be sad to not advance through the story more.

Ametist, you joined later, right?

Which means you missed one of initial posts about people's characters:

*IF* you're not having *fun* or not happy with your PC, you can absolutely re-work it.

In fact, due to the main concept of each PC dying and being brought back to life, it makes even more sense of such a re-work to happen in this game than others.

If you're 'not so happy with your pc', let's work on that. If ya want a full rebuild(brand new class, race, godbound selections, the whole works) we can totally make that work.

If ya just need to 're-train' some choices that ya made, but are more or less happy with the core concept/build, we can totally make that happen too.

Do not keep playing a PC that you are unhappy with, just cuz. We can rebuild him, we have the technology.

Still here as well. Any idea of what rebuild you want? Rework the one you have or a new one?

Ah, I'm quite happy with my background. I found out (the hard way), though, that Kineticists suck (and that's starting at 8th with extra shenannigans, I can't imagine being one at 1st). Maybe it's just because I'm new at it and haven't had the proper continuity, who knows.

Anyway, as I was saying, the background is cool, both of the PC and the game, and I would love to continue.

I’m actually finding my Kineticist in a different game to be a powerhouse. But then again, that’s with a party that isn’t 100% optimized.

So...some ideas. First, you have the Earth Word. That handles most of the Kineticist utility already. So, for an easy switch...

https://www.d20pfsrd.com/alternative-rule-systems/occult-adventures/occult- classes/kineticist/archetypes/paizo-llc-kineticist-archetypes/elemental-ann ihilator-kineticist-archetype/

Lose all utility. And your blasts are only 1d8. But! Full BaB and combat feats work with blasts.

Now, for an interesting build path. VMC Magus!

You’re utility remains roughly the same. But you’re damage shoots up due to full BaB and feats. Such as rapid shot and many shot. You’re blast is also a two handed weapon now!

And if 1d8 damage is too low, go VMC Fighter. At lvl11 you get Weapon Training. By lvl13 you can take the feat advanced weapon training to get sacred weapon. That means lvl13 your blasts become 1d10, at lvl15 they become 2d6 and lvl20 2d8.

Not bad, I’d say. It’s basically a better version of an archer build.

Okay, thinking this over, what's the role you want Ametist to fulfill?

Lian is the face, Godwyn is the tank, Karen was the healer, and Drystan is the dps.

Whatcha want for Ametist? Full support? Battle field control? A solid mix of support and damage?

I don't personally know the Kineticist at all, but I know it's one of those hit or miss classes.

Some people absolutely love the class, whereas others not so much.

Let's see if we can find a way to make you love the class, and character.

Or, if you really want, feel free to fully rework him. I don't want you playing a class you feel sucks.

Hey guys. I'd stopped checking in regularly since it looked like the game was dead/dying. I'm still around, ready to get rolling again.

Whatever the rest feel is in need, I don't care. It's already very difficult to not step on anyone's toes, most of the roles being covered.

Anyway, it's not too important right now. Let's see first if we enough to keep on pounding, and then I'll have another go at making Ametist mechanically sound.

Onward HO! I'd ask for help with my build, but, well, spoilers. ;D

Also still here.

Thank you for all the advice, folks. I've been having a look and really can't find an easy solution without altering Ametist's background too much (and I don't want that). On top of that, I don't really know which role should I cover. Is there anything you guys feel we're missing? Is PF like WoW, Where if every role is covered then you just add extra DPSs? xD

Kinda, yes. But it's also up to the GMs to make sure they're isn't a situation where your party can't advance because oops, one of you didn't make a rogue. Don't worry too much about the role.

My concern for roles is not because we might find ourselves stalled, it's because I hate overlapping, specially when PF doesn't really do a good job balancing classes that are designed to fulfill the same job.

Well, this game has stalled. At the moment the players who are available include:

Godwyn: Tank (melee)
Drystan: DPS (melee)
Lian: Arcane
Ametist: DPS (ranged)

So overall, it's a balanced team. And kinetisits are just fine when it comes to ranged DPS. The only thing you may want to do is optimize your ranged damage. But even if you don't, a kineticist can put on a world of hurt.

The only thing you might want to be sure to grab is kinetic healing. You have enough HP to handle the burn. While Godwyn can regenerate his wounds, others PCs can't. Having someone around who can patch everyone up in a pinch would be pretty useful.

I meant stalled as in the situation above, "we can't follow these tracks" or "we cannot enter the BBEG's lair because we don't have a rogue".

I guess I will stick with it as it is, maybe changing the archetype and some selections.

In PF, there's not strictly 3 roles(tank, healer, dps).

You have skill based roles like face(somebody with a high Cha, and focused on the social skills of bluff, diplomacy, intimidate, sense motive, etc), the more general skill monkey(One of the classes like rogue or bard who have tons of skill points all over the place), and stealth/trap finders(bluff, disable device, disguise, stealth, etc).

You also have battlefield controllers, which can be casters or melee classes. If they are casters, they focus on the wall spells, pit spells, cloud spells, various entangle spells, etc.

If it's a melee class, they focus on maneuvers like trip, bull rush, reposition, and other things that let them control their enemies position on the battlefield.

There's other roles but those 4 are the one that sprang to mind.

I'll be working on getting up a post later today for this. I still plan on finishing the recap posts for Ametist and Drystan, but I have something in mind to give you all something to do in the meantime.

Hey all,

Completely forgot to mention this before. Lots on my mind lately, as I'm struggling with trying to make a living(can't really work on my feet due to injuries), as well as various other things going on in my life right(mostly good, but some not so much). This is also why I have yet to post in game. Been a bit of a busy/rough(ish) week.

Anyways, due to the excellent RP you all gave me for the week off, plus the general awesome RP you've all displayed throughout the game,

You each may gain either one lesser or greater gift in one of your current words

Or, a lesser gift in a brand new word.

Glad to see you are around! Looking forward to the scene change and getting momentum going again. Really enjoy this campaign

Also...

Greater Word Shattering Hand: Commit Effort. Your melee damage rolls and Fray dice are always the maximum possible. You can destroy barriers as thick as five feet of stonework in front of you in one round’s action, smashing them with a blow or as part of your movement action. Magical substances may resist this power.

Too good not to take

For gift, I'll go 'cornucopian blessing,' nicely cut out logistic/food problems down. As long as I commit an effort, a specific container can put out up to 10 tons of an agricultural substance per day.

Can use it to make food for our refugees.

GM: So my Word makes my attack’s go from:

21-30 normal and 23-42 evil to being 30/42. That’s huge.

I had an idea for a custom word, if you like it.

+1 BaB (making him 1 BaB per level), Iterative attacks are at full BaB, and can full attack when he moved with sword word.

So instead of hitting like a truck (Sir Drystan does that) Godwyn would instead be very accurate.

What do you think?

I can't believe I never asked you guys this before, and I feel kinda dumb for having only just thought of it, however:

Can I get an outline for each of your characters similar to sidebar for Desna?

Obviously, titles aren't super important currently, but if you have any in mind for your PC to eventually be known by feel free to provide them.

You also don't have any form of home plane at the moment, so don't worry about that. However, much like with titles, if you have a particular plane or even a place on Golarion you would like to make your home, include that as well.

Alignment should be super simple.

Areas of concern are one of the more important sections. Don't worry about overlapping with existing deities, or outsiders, as they may or may not be alive or active.

While worshipers could eventually be important, you don't have to list them right now, unless you definitely plan on attracting them/establishing a church/cult.

Domains and subdomains are also rather key, as they'll help me get a better idea about your PCs and what they hold near and dear.

Favored weapon should likewise be kinda easy.

Symbol, scared animal and scared color(s) are also optional, unless again you have ideas already in mind for them :)

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All of this info will go a long way towards helping me craft better and more personal story arcs for each of you. The more info you can give me, the better :)

Potential Titles
* The bleeding warrior
* Blade of the matyr
* He who endures

Adjective
* Vindicator

Home
* TBD

Alignment
* Lawful Good (emphasis on good)

Area of Concerns
* Protection
* Healing
* Sacrifice

Worshipers
* I picture him inspiring an order of knights. Made up out of paladins, warpriests, and (among dwarves) rangers. They travel, healing the sick and protecting those in need. During times of peace they protect isolated settlements and assist travelers/pilgrims. During times of war they safe-guard refugees.

Domains
* Good (Agathion subdomain)
* Healing (Restoration subdomain)
* Travel (Exploration subdomain)
* Protection (Defense subdomain)

Favored Weapon
* Halberd (Like him, his followers use halberd and shield)

Symbol
* Full helm with tears of blood

Sacred Animal
* Dog (what else so zealously and with such self sacrifice will guard you?)

Sacred Colors
* Red/White

Should I do one?
It might be an interesting exercise.

Should I do one?

It might be an interesting exercise.

Sure, why not? :)

Feel free to PM it to me, if ya want it kept private....