DM Brainiac's Return of the Runelords (COMPLETED!) (Inactive)

Game Master Brainiac

Assuming that this was the 'you're done with this dungeon' moment/loot haul I'm totalling loot.

Lesser burning metamagic rod, three scrolls wrapped with black ribbon (cone of cold, contagious flame, and leashed shackles), a ring of forcefangs (already contains 2 charges), a wand of force punch (9 charges), a wand of wall of fire (4 charges), and a blue silk drawstring pouch containing five beads of force.

+1 hide armour

4 keys (worth 1000 each)

2 Abyssal Runestones (minor artefacts - priceless?)

That's everything from this trip - I'll do prices in the morning unless someone else does them first! :D

Oracle: 8th

BAB +1
Will +1
Cha +1

HP +5

New Spells:
Light, Blessing of Fervor, Cure Critical Wounds, River of Wind

Additional Castings:
+2 3rd/day, +4 4th/day

Skills: +7
Diplomacy +1, Heal +1, Intimidate +1, Knowledge (nature) +1, Knowledge (planes) +1, Sense Motive +1, Spellcraft +1

Background Skills: +2
Knowledge (history) +1, Perform (sing) +1

Psychic: 8th Level

+6 HP
+1 BAB
+1 Will

+1 Int

+1 3rd level spell per day
+3 4th level spells per day

Gained Spells:
Freedom of Movement (Discipline spell)
Confusion
Resist Energy Communal (FCB)

Skill Points: Psychic +2, Int +4
Spellcraft, Perception, Sense Motive, Knowledge Religion, Knowledge Nature, Knowledge Arcana

Background Skill Points: +2
Knowledge History, Knowledge Nobility.

Lesser burning metamagic rod 4.5k, three scrolls wrapped with black ribbon (cone of cold, contagious flame, and leashed shackles), a ring of forcefangs (already contains 2 charges) 4k, a wand of force punch (9 charges), a wand of wall of fire (4 charges), and a blue silk drawstring pouch containing five beads of force 5*3k=15k.

+1 hide armour 510

4 keys (worth 1000 each)

2 Abyssal Runestones (minor artefacts - priceless?)

You gather the following treasure from the Forges of Wrath: 13,000 gp worth of gems, bloodletting kukri 3154, boulderhead mace 3406.

Gems/Gold etc: 17,000/5 = 3400 each.

Total = 9514gp.

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Total since last in Magnimar: 9514+6797.5 = 16,311.5gp each.

This includes ALL the items we've found so if there's anything you want just say so and deduct its sale price from your cut of the loot.

Shen will carry the Runestones in her extra-d belt pouches for now. :)

@GM: If I take the Ring of Forcefangs can I use focused force to empower the missiles? The items says you can expend charges to cast' and FF says 'when you cast' so I'm thinking maybe?

Unchained Rogue 3

+1 Dex

+1 BAB
+1 Fort, Will saves

+9 hit points (5 class, +2 Con, +1 favored class, +1 Toughness feat)

Skills: +1 each of: Acrobatics, Climb, Disable Device, Intimidate, Knowledge (dungeoneering), Knowledge (local), Perception, Stealth, Survival, Swim; Appraise, Knowledge (engineering)

Class features: Finesse Training - Bastard sword (add Dex to damage)
Danger Sense +1

Shenuska, you can use focused force with the ring.

Unless someone wants to fight me for it, I'll take the Ring of Forcefangs then.

Don't look at Nime, she's a total pacifist. :)

I think I'm going to have her save up for a staff of healing. Replace her spear with it.

It's kind of funny, she now has an iterative attack and she's only attacked with her spear twice so far? And that's counting the confusion attack against Shenuska.

Well don't I feel special...

I'm thinking about working towards making a golem - Iron maybe. Could be mighty helpful if we're going to face high level spellcasters, but its going to cost the earth!

(ex) Pally 4, +1 STR, +1 BAB, +1 to Fort and Will, +8 HP, can now channel and cast and smite twice a day, FCB goes into +1 resistance vs negative energy. Skills go into Dip, Intimidate, K. Religion, K. Planar, Background skills in P. Soldier and Fisherman.

Hoping to get a fun scene in in Magnimar, will post tomorrow.

I was gonna say Theo'd take the burning metamagic rod but, having read what Burning Spell does, I don't think the extra damage it deals would be worth the extra action economy work involved in juggling it and the empowering rod. He's getting more bonus damage on his fire spells just from his bloodline arcana.

Dragon Disciple 2

+9 HP
+1 BAB
+1 All Saves

+1 Charisma

+1 3rd level spell per day
+3 4th level spells per day

Gained Spells:
Ray of Frost
Greater Invisibility

Skill Points: Dragon Disciple +2, Int +1, Human +1
Spellcraft, Perception, Intimidate, Knowledge Arcana

Class Features:
Ability Boost (+2 STR)
Bloodline Feat (Toughness)
Dragon Bite

@Calendula: have you been reading Brainiacs Tyrant's Grasp game by any chance? :)

No, sorry. I'm guessing there's a golem with a like objectively stupid name?

I'm real behind in reading all the games I read anyhow, I think I'm only current on Brainiac's Signal of Screams game (because my wife is in it and I love reading their writing even tho I haven't started reading their new game).

More like a companion tiger with the intimidating name of Cuddles. ;)

Calendula spends 5,430 on two magic items, will reveal them next in game post, probably.

Does anyone else find it strange that oracles don't get weapon proficiency with their deities favored weapon? Clerics do.

Granted, it's not like Nime's going to be poking people with a pole-arm any time soon (at least intentionally).

Oracle's arent necessarily servants of deities or even religious whereas clerics are, so I suggest that it makes sense that way. You could be an atheist oracle who draws their power from the spiritual bonds of your community - diesnt imply a favoured weapon. :) Besides, they have the battle mystery.

Still need actions from Rudrik, Shenuska, and Theo.

Since I've just finished watching the Newsroom, Shen is now being played by Olivia Munn. :)

I Approve!

Shen, I didn't realize the half-elf in your backstory was your Sihedron hero. In that case, just ignore what Ayavah said about her.

Sorry - it wasn't entirely clear was it? :)

Do you want to do anything else before heading to the Gecko piling?

If no one else seems inclined, in a rare show of planning, Nime will purchase eight bottles of holy water (25gp ea) and distribute two each to everyone else.

Then I guess we're ready to explore the Gecko piling.

Shenuska will purchase a scroll of Hide From Undead at CL5, so it'll effect the whole group. (Not quite sure on cost for that.)

From a 5th level caster, that would normally cost 125 gp.

Thank you! :)

Okay, short on time today but I will post tomorrow morning.

Nime, if somebody else makes the religion check, they can tell you the creatures are undead and hold person won't work on them.

Thanks for allowing that, she has no idea what they are.

Some day, she'll actually put points in Knowledge (religion).

Okay; the weirdness I mentioned with all my Pathfinder sheets? It's not just limited to the ones I'm actively using. All of the older ones, and even the blank version that hasn't been edited since late 2017 have all had their Spell Database pages replaced with magical items. What's more; it even happened to the originals that the creator hosts on his own Google Drive.

I get the feeling that the Spell DB page was not simply something filled in by hand or copy-pasted, but was actively drawing its contents from another website, probably the d20pfsrd (given that the spellcasting page also included links to the spells on that site). And something has happened to that page that has wiped or altered the contents of the Spell DB page of the spreadsheet.

I haven't had this come up before, but can Theo cast fly on Calendula and not have it disappear off of Rudrik?

Sorry, missed this question yesterday!

You can have multiple instances of fly running simultaneously. There is no limit to how many you can have active at once.

Calendula may post assuming Theo will cast fly on her.

Hey Everyone,

I'm off to Italy for a week! Yay! I'll try and post when I can but it won't be as regular as normal. I'm sure you'll be (mostly) fine without me. :)

How far is the far end of the circle?

It's a 10 foot circle. You can attack the creature in melee with your stretchy arms and it will be unable to retaliate. I will assume you slay it after you finish dealing with the confusion effects.

You have two more doors to explore. Let me know which one you want to check out first.

The left one! :D

Wow... remind me to never become less pretty when Nime's around!

Please tell me that you don't really believe that Nime was considering killing him because he was ugly.

No, but... :P

Note that blessing of fervor and haste do not stack.

Still, smorgasboard of buff options ;) And haste effectively gives lesser versions of everything that BoF does, so you can select the best from BoF without sacrificing the rest.

Hey, Mel brought Zhi a ring specifically so that didn't happen any more! :P

Exactly! And Nime doesn't even need a ring. You'll actually have to talk to her to find out what's going on in her pretty blue head. :)

In all honesty, trying to read Nime's thoughts would probably be an exercise in confusion. Her head isn't organized like other people's. If you haven't already guessed, she thinks ... differently. :) :)

Just need Rudrik's actions.

Smashing the skull will prevent the ghost from rejuvenating but you will still have to destroy her.

LOOT

Poisoners Gloves [2500]
+1 Comp Shortbow (+5 Str) [1515]
Key of Lockjamming [200]
1800gp curiosities from the vampire.

Total: 6015. So shares of 1203 each.

Shen 9.

+6 HP
+1 Fort/Ref

Telepathic Bond 1/day as an SLA (must include self). Can expend 4th slots or higher to cast it (using metamagic if desired).

+1d8 Healing from Physical Purge.

Skills: +1 Per/SM/Splcrft/Knw N/Knw Loc/Knw Geo/Knw En. +2 Knw Arc.

Feat: Quicken Spell.

Feat: Spell Penetration

Casting: +1 2nd, 3rd & 4th level spell known. +1 3rd from Human FCB.
+1 3rd and 4th level spell slots

Spells: Silence, Fly, Slow, Break Enchantment.

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@Brainiac: how long will it take Shen to read the golem manual? Doing the calculations I think that she could start building it now. (The book provides the spells required - which seems to get around the CL requirement. Then she just has to pass the craft checks which is fairly easy. Take 10 + 6 Int (using Foxes Cunning) + 5 from manual = 21 which is the DC. If she puts a skill rank into it it becomes even easier.

The only major issue is the cost at 16k each for parts. Unless of course you want to rule that the golem only adds +5 CL or something (which seems reasonable) and therefore we couldn't begin before level 11?

Can't think of what to post IC at the moment and it's getting late, but I finished levelling Theo so I'll post that now while I think of it.

Dragon Disciple 3
+10 HP

Breath Weapon - 30ft cone of fire, 9d6 damage, DC16 Reflex Save for half damage, usable twice a day (normally once but, since I entered the PrC a level later than originally intended, I'm getting it from both Dragon Disciple and the Sorcerer bloodline, with the former specifically saying you get an extra use of it when you get it from both)

Bloodline resistances increase - additional point of natural armour, fire resistance is now 10

Skills: +1 Intimidate, +1 Know Arcana, +1 Perception, +1 Spellcraft, +1 UMD

Feat: Spell Penetration

Casting: +1 2nd, 3rd & 4th level spell known
+1 3rd and 4th level spell slots

New Spells: Fear (Bloodline), False Life, Dispel Magic, Black Tentacles

Oracle: 9

HP +5
Fort +1
Ref +1

Feat: ???

Spell Castings Gained:
+1 3rd, +1 4th

Spells Gained:
Remove Paralysis
Dispel Magic
Restoration

Skills:
Diplomacy +1, Healing +1, Intimidate +1, Knowledge (history) +1, Knowledge (religion) +2, Knowledge (planes) +1, Perform (sing) +1, Sense Motive +1

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Can anyone think of any particular feats I should look at for Nime?

Rudrik: Rogue 3/Fighter 6

+9 hit points
+1 BAB
+1 to all saves

Skills: +1 each of: Acrobatics, Disable Device, Perception, Stealth; Handle Animal, Profession (driver)

Feats: Weapon Specialization: Bastard Sword (fighter bonus feat); Improved Bravery