Wrath of the Righteous (Inactive)

Game Master Kevin O'Rourke 440

Ok. So...Legendary Items. At tier 2 I’ll pick one up. It gets 1 Ability per tier, up to 3. After that Legendary Item must be Chosen again. So my plan:

Tier 2: Pick up legendary item. Gain 2 abilities, and choose spellcasting both times. This gets a total of 10 points. A spell costs it’s level in points for 1/day. Paying twice for a spell makes it 3/day.

Using Sorcerer spell list

Tier 1+2 Spellcasting: 3x See Invisibility (4 points) 3x Glitterdust (4 points) 1x Swift Girding (1 point) 1x Mount (1 point)

This should handle some of our problems facing invisible enemies. It’ll let me see them and then expose them. Swift girding might be useful given our heavy armor builds. And mount just means less walking!

Tier 3 Spellcasting: 1x Fly (3 points) 1x Bull’s Strength (2 points)

So with this I should be able to catch flying foes. And extra strength is always nice.

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And that’s it for now. Won’t get anything else until tier 5 or so and that is way too far in the future.

How is that for spell selection? Should I swap fly for dispel magic?

Um, my wolf mount has blind-fight.

Arrows! Sariel also has glitterdust 1/day.

Off the top of my head... at 15th level I'll sprout angelic wings and be able to fly for 15 minutes a day.

Cause Claire's like... SUPER holy and stuff!

Not sure what other options I have, or what mythic abilities might help, but I don't have time to check right now.

Those are great questions Kaeldron.

I think the whole party should have cold iron ranged options for now, but work on ways to get access to flight. Boots of flight a thought.

To all my games: I will be traveling now until July 1. I will have limited access to my computer and phone and will post as I am able, but please bot me as needed. Thanks!

I'll push things along tomorrow, give people a chance to respond.

Sorry for the lack of notice. I'm really sick. It'll be another few days before I can post consistently.

Thanks.

Take care Claire!

Yeah, feel better soon.

I hope ye are feeling better soon.

Oooh - intrigue!

I imagine Fredric is nowhere near these events. While his perception is awful, I've ensured that he's difficult to lie to successfully.

Okay, I'm back! It appears we've been successful in mass combat and are currently waiting to see if Claire joins the army of darkness.

That would *really* change the tone of the campaign

Is this is a good time to mention I have a -1 to Sense Motive...? I'm like... the BEST person to interrogate someone. Ever.

Given that she is charmed I don’t think it would matter much. Now if charm ended *then* it would really come into play

Are the rest of us close enough to hear?

Not without perception checks... and she might start shutting up if she thinks ye are trying to.

Fair.

What were those Devotion points for from earlier in The Kite?

Oh they ended up getting ye permanent bonuses...

If you'll recall a post on May 30th in each spoiler contained.

"+2 bonus to a skill of her choice.
5 permanent hit points.
+2 increase to an ability score of her choice."

Ah, okay. I do remember the post, but I didn't realize it was tied to the Devotion points. Thanks.

Same here. Good to know!

People have no doubt noted my posting rate going down, sorry about that. I have some health stuff going on but only short term. I'll try to keep up as best I can but bot me if needed.

Hahaha. The last thing we want is Claire or Alistair taking over GM duties. I think we'll practise our patience instead of botting you, thanks.

No worries on the delayed post rate. Take all the time you need.

No need to apologise Kevin. Take care of yourself. We will be patient.

I want my money back.No worries, Kevin.

Sorry to hear! Take your time.

From July 25th through until the end of July I'm going to be busy and very unlikely to post. We've got family coming into town. The week after that I'll be working towards a very important deadline and won't be posting as often as usual. Feel free to bot or skip me as needed. I'll check in when I can.

Thanks!

Davok just used the mythic ability advance. In this situation, it works like this:

Everybody gets a free 30 foot move action or a free 5 foot step. This happens immediately on Davok's initiative. This allows Davok and Claire to move in and get a full round of attacks.

Then the ghouls go. If Kaeldron, Sariel, or Frederic have moved right up to the ghouls, the ghouls might take their full round attacks, so consider staying ten feet away and having the ghouls spend a move action to come to them.

Then the other three PCs go. If the ghouls did not move up, then the PCs will have to spend a move action to reach melee range. Obviously, Sariel cares less about this.

Sorry if I'm over-explaining the obvious. I just don't want people to miss that they have this free move action.

Very well done! As the ghouls barely beat me in Initiative I burnt a Mythic point to increase said Initiative roll. So in conjunction with your ability, I’ll get full attacks before them.

Nicely, nicley timed Davok! Hitting hard is great and all. But you have to be in position to do it first. :D

Thanks!

I have changed my vision for Davok's role so many times in this campaign based on how events have played out and what the party needs. I wasn't planning on taking Mythic Marshal, but when three out of the five of us had already picked mythic Champion -- and based on other decisions that I had already made for Davok -- I chose the path I did and hope to have fun with it.

I'll try and remember to find and create a map marker for Anaba tonight. Google Drive is blocked at my work, again, and I'm not going to try and create a marker on my phone using the Slides app.

I’ve heard that Marshal is under powered. But here, it’s an all Paladin party. Even Sariel needs good line of sight to function. Advance is a huge boon for us to get out of choke points and to reach back line enemies.

For example. Enemy spell caster is 80ft away. Davok uses Advance. Kaeldron is now 60ft away. Kaeldron moves 30ft thanks to his VMC, and does a Mythic Fleet Charge. He gets into combat on round 1 and gets to make 2 attacks.

The battlefield control is probably going to be essential as we go up in levels.

Yeah, I've heard the same thing about Marshal, but I think that more options is almost always a good choice. With an NPC and a mount, Marshal seemed like the more appropriate option. And I've already played a Mythic Guardian up to tier 2.

I could have gone with the Dual Path feat like you did, but despite my comment about more options, I really like to focus on character mechanics when it makes sense.

Champion was the only path that made sense for the way I envisioned Fredric. Utterly single-minded in the annihilation of demon-kind in hand-to-hand combat. Powerful but inflexible in many ways.

I strongly suspect marshal will turn out to make the party overall stronger than yet another champion.

Thanks for the support, Fred!

Surge on Initiative test, so he can go before the ghouls: 1d6 ⇒ 1

Oh, hey! I missed this, earlier! Kaeldron used Surge and he rolled poorly! Davok also has this Marshal Path ability:

Focus (Su): Your mighty and inspiring presence enhances the power of your companions' heroic surges. Whenever a mythic ally that is within 30 feet uses the surge ability, it rolls its bonus die twice and takes the higher result.

This is on all the time!

Nice!

1d6 ⇒ 6

Ha! How perfect is that? :D

Quote:

Focus (Su): Your mighty and inspiring presence enhances the power of your companions' heroic surges. Whenever a mythic ally that is within 30 feet uses the surge ability, it rolls its bonus die twice and takes the higher result.

This is on all the time!

Oh.

OH!

I approve!

It'll be tomorrow before I can get a post in. Please bot me as needed! (this applies to all my games). Thanks!

I'll try and remember to find and create a map marker for Anaba tonight. Google Drive is blocked at my work, again, and I'm not going to try and create a marker on my phone using the Slides app.

Anaba's marker has been added.

*shakes fist at Davok!* And I would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for that meddling half orc.

I have run three mythic campaigns and to be honest I disagree about Marshal. It's not as direct but comboing with certain classes or having a decently sized group it's great. You're doing both in this case so I approve. If you lean into the support angle you're not the heaviest hitting guy but everyone loves having you around. It pairs very nicely with Paladin and Bard in my experience.

Clarion Call is great against a boss... the round count might seem small but with a mythic party wailing on them it's usually more than sufficient. Now everyone in this group has smite but sometimes they are tapped out already or you're close to it and know this isn't the main boss.

Advance as you've already shown is amazing for getting people lined up. You're rarely going to be the main direct damage dealer but are such a big force multiplier after a while the group as a whole becomes far more dangerous. Some people don't like that style of play but to me it's a lot of fun... unless people take you for granted. In which case favouring them with less of the Marshal sauce makes them reconsider how much more of a badasss they are when you're not backing in for them.

Hi! I’m back and posting now. Just a reminder that over the next week I’ll be posting less often than normal. If you’re ever waiting on me feel free to bot me.

Thanks!

I wouldn’t mind having the knight’s pennon hang from Kaeldron’s spear. Anyone object?

Sounds apt to me!

Might not get to post tomorrow btw.

Damn! Bane + Smite, with heroism added for good measure? Paladins can push out some fairly decent damage.

Very nice!

Right now I’m running a paladin campaign for my kids, aged 8 and 7. My son made a paladin whose goal is to destroy all evil, and my daughter made a paladin who wanted to protect all good.

In the game they captured an orc. The boyo decided he wanted to kill it, because the orc was evil. My daughter wanted to let it go because it promised that it wouldn’t be bad anymore. Almost broke the campaign as each kid declared that they were doing ‘good’ and wouldn’t back down. Even when they used detect evil, my daughter said that didn’t matter, as you can be evil without doing evil things.

My point? That it’s funny how lawful good can take on such very different meanings. Also reminded me of the party here, which runs the gambit of “Smiting for Ragathiel!” to “Sparkly heart magic.”

Sounds like if you were running 2e she'd be playing a NG Redeemer Champion as opposed to a Paladin Champion.