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I did go well, for the party. ; p
Party of 6, low-tier with one 3rd level PC. Starship boons adding speed and poor Initiative rolls by the Susumu's Sword kept prevented use of the battering ram beyond a single occasion. Having learned of the ramming prow with their skill checks, they had two engineers on the ship, one dedicated to boosting the engines each round.
The party was actually kind of annoyed that they couldn't just fly past the enemy ship to the planet. I reminded them that Arvin had suggested a "bloodless fight" as a display of power and that the Gideron ship would likely follow them to the colony and bombard it from space, so they remained to fight and nearly disabled the ship. This was a first starship combat for a couple of the players, so this section went long.
They then made very short work of the goblins, who also had a low Initiative. This, I didn't mind as it helped make up some lost time.
Like we did, they pretty much headed straight for the room with the ja noi. The ja noi got had actually rolled a good hit on a PC, until I noticed the tactics kept it from attacking the first round. This gave a fast PC time with jump jets the chance to close with the ja noi and keep him occupied.
Once the tashtari were taken care of, the battle ended quickly.
I made a second tactics error with another threat, originally revealing them with the intent to use hit-and-run tactics on the party among the corridors. I, then, realized that their dulled mental faculties did not allow for the more nuanced strategy I had been formulating, so I just had them attack head on.
After the starship combat, the spiders was certainly the longest battle.
They also said they had fun, and I had the ja noi monologue-ing, at least, before his demise (I had even suggested that they might want to knock him out, but they were determined to bring lethal force to bear) so it was a good time by all.
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re. Prone and ranged combat, I’ve been thinking about an Ysoki and Barricade
Since you can fire and drop prone as free behind your barricade and get full cover the kip up as a swift...
I imagine that could be fun
I use Barricade to avoid AoOs in melee
Sonce Barricade gives cover and cover prevents AoOs so you can fire point blank w/o provoking...
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Oh, didn't think of Casting!
Yes, that'd work.
As I said, I had taken for a ranged fighter, and used it to gain a bit of AC in fights.
Then I got boxed in a corner... and realized that since "The barricade grants partial cover against attacks with line of effect that pass through it. " and "If you have cover relative to an enemy, it can’t make an attack of opportunity against you." you can shoot w/o AoO for a couple rounds at least.
Would work the same for a caster... good idea.
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Just a heads up. I've been up for almost 24hrs now. Grandmother in the hospital and decision has been made to put her on hospice.
I'll try to post when my turn comes up but in case I'm slow, feel free to bot me. I'd attack yellow with gauntlet if it's still up. If not I'd move towards T1 side of red.
Would stay in graviton mode.
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With that done, get ready for the boss fight!
Sorry for having done the turn by turn and ended up wasting time, but at the start of the fight I thought it would be tough, and wanted to make sure things went point by point.
Then, once started, I saw the swoop hammer was unwieldy and realized it was not going to be a problem for you (even more so with the fact that it can't make AoOs! Which I'd forgotten, as you saw).
I don't know why they put "tough" adversaries and then gimp them to make the fights pointless, but so be it.
Ours is not to reason why...
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Forgot this 1/2 way through (so the flying makes sense even with possible low ceiling):
over the ages, making the scenarios it plays out more elaborate with every iteration. The puppets and floor make the raised western portion of the room difficult terrain.
So no charge from THE Umbral Dawn, and probably no attack that quick from "Jack"... doesn't change much anyhow, might have taken lasted 1 or 2 rounds more max', and taken 1 more of you out , but that's max'.
So, didn't spoil your victory!
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Since I was reading up on Cover & Flanking & Threatening, I wanted to ask something that I've been wondering for a while, as well as something I just now realized:
• The CRB (p. 253/254) tells you what cover is.
Then states that when you have cover you get no AoOs.
Then, below, goes on to explain what types of cover there are (soft, partial, improved...).
So, my take on this is that the "no AoOs w. cover" applies to all kinds of cover (cover in general).
Because it comes first, as a general rule, before stating which types of cover there are. And because it does not specify that some types of cover do not block AoOs (and they would have, since Improved Cover has to block AoOs so they would have said which cover does or does not if they wanted to allow some to block and others not to).
Just asking because I've been asked this, mainly, I think, because of Pathfinder rules (which have specific things for various types of cover
Do you have the same take on this?
• re. Flanking: I re-read the rules, and found nothing at all other than do you flank or not depending on where you are positioned, and that you must threaten (which cover does not block). So cover seems to do nothing re. flanking (other than AC etc. as usual).
The thing I just realized:
Soft Cover (p. 254 CRB)
Creatures, even enemies, between you and the source of an effect provide you with cover against ranged attacks, giving you a +4 bonus to AC. However, soft cover provides no bonus to Reflex saves, nor does soft cover allow you to attempt a Stealth check.
Other than the depressing though that it does not help to Stealth... what does the part provide you with cover against ranged attacks, giving you a +4 bonus to AC mean to you guys?
I had not picked up on that, but it seems to me that it does not apply to Melee.Correct?
So that w. reach, you can hit through Soft Cover w/o -4 to hit (well, +4 AC to enemy)?
(I know I, probably like a lot of people, have Pathfinder automatisms in place, so I thought it was -4 to hit).
What do you think?
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We have a few more days before Outpost, so can people, if possible, try to post at least once daily (a morning & evening post or such would be great) so that we can finish it up.
I prepared chronicle sheets already to get them out right away so people can get into their Outpost games... if all goes well!
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NOBODY DIED! YAY!
(I thought we were gonna lose "Jack"... but half-dead half-orcs cannot die!).
I just posted the ---> chronicle sheets <--- (@Spanner: you have two, your sheet + the 701) .
You do not get the Victory over Authority Boon, and lose some credits (for the spaceship combat).
All the rest is fine.
Tell me if you have problems with your sheet and I'll try to amend it a.s.a.p..
Can you just give me an "okay" post, each of you, that way I can close the game down once I know all are good w. their chronicles.
Thanks a lot for playing with me and putting up with my game mastering...
Be safe and happy all, and roll high (except when you are DMing).
Hope to see you around, maybe in Outpost 2!
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Everything on the chronicle looks good.
Thank you for GMing. This was a pretty tough scenario. There was kind of a perfect storm of conditions to make this deadly; I think we just barely qualified for the high tier; we were plagued by a streak of bad die rolls in parts; and on top of everything else this scenario seems to genuinely have some tougher stuff in it then I've seen.