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Hello everyone and welcome to Level 1 of the Emerald Spire. I have a few requests of you before we get started.
Please make sure you status bar is updated with your basic details: HP, AC, Saves, Init bonus, Perc bonus, and any active effects I should know about.
Please make sure your profile is up to date with your latest character sheet. I would appreciate any botting instructions there as well, should the need arise.
Please navigate to the Character Details spreadsheet. The yellow fields are for you to fill out. This will make chronicles easier to build and generate some rolling blocks for me.
I expect a post per day and one over the weekend. If you have real-life stuff happens that keeps you from committing to this cadence, please let me know via Discussion or PM.
In this discussion thread please describe any mechanic or tactic I should know about: i.e. reach, immunity to X, mounts, familiars, etc. Also give me your day job roll here and drop the gold into the Character Details sheet up top.
Please see the intro post in Gameplay and feel free to introduce yourselves.
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Kasumi's got no day job (yet), and for botting tactics she'll generally prefer to Daze (DC 17) if she can and avoid melee range. If she's already Dazed all relevant opponents, she'll draw her crossbow and shoot if she's outside of range (+2, 1d8, 19-20) or take Full Defense if she's backed into a corner and wait for someone more deadly to fight for her, if available.
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Dumpy's a dwarf... with all the stuff that comes with that, and took the domain option over the animal companion... so no pet to worry about.
He does have light sensitivity, so outside in daylight, he will take some penalties on attack rolls.
Also no day job to speak of.
Otherwise, nothing too exciting.
As for the spreadsheet... I do not appear to have permission to edit it.
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Nel's botting will probably be to activate False Flanker as a free action during the turn of the front liner who will have the mental implant from her. On that person's turn, an image of Nel appears on the other side of that ally's foe to provide flank.
During her actual turn, she will either try to put enemies to sleep or load/shoot her crossbow.
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Rumple has the undead bloodline and has taken alternate racial traits. But the biggest thing is that he has the Necromantic Affinity feat. That means damage caused by inflict spells heals me as if I were an undead creature, but I also take damage from cure spells.
Perception: The +2 in the status bar only applies if my familiar is close to me
AC: +1 dodge bonus vs undead
Saves:
+2 trait bonus on saving throws against fear and death effects
+2 bonus on saving throws made to resist spells and effects that utilize negative energy, cause negative levels, or cause ability damage, ability drain, or ability penalties
Alternate Racial Traits
Barrow Warden: Dwarves with this racial trait gain a +1 bonus on attack rolls and a +1 dodge bonus to their AC against undead. This racial trait replaces defensive training and hatred.
Shadowplay: Some illusionists are experts in manipulating light and darkness. Characters with this trait cast spells with the darkness, light, or shadowUM descriptor at +1 caster level. Dwarves can take this trait in place of greed.
Unstoppable: Some dwarves train from a young age to outlast orcs on the battlefield. They gain Toughness as a bonus feat and a +1 racial bonus on Fortitude saves. This racial trait replaces hardy.
Stability: Dwarves gain a +4 racial bonus to their Combat Maneuver Defense when resisting a bull rush or trip attempt while standing on the ground.
Barrow Scholar: Dwarves with this racial trait gain a +2 racial bonus on Knowledge (religion) checks to identify undead and can attempt them untrained. This racial trait replaces stonecunning.
Shadowhunter: Those who understand the connection between shadows and the Negative Energy Plane know how to fight the spirits of darkness. Characters with this trait deal 50% weapon damage to incorporeal creatures when using nonmagical weapons (including natural and unarmed attacks), as if using magic weapons. They also gain a +2 bonus on saving throws to remove negative levels, and recover physical ability damage from attacks by undead creatures at a rate of 2 points per ability score per day (rather than the normal 1 point per ability score per day). Dwarves can take this trait in place of weapon familiarity.
Bloodline Arcana: Some undead are susceptible to your mind-affecting spells. Corporeal undead that were once humanoids are treated as humanoids for the purposes of determining which spells affect them.
Bloodline Familiar: Undead—Unliving Physiology (Su): The familiar is alive, but is treated as undead for all effects that affect undead differently from living creatures, such as cure spells and channeled energy.
Botting Instructions (will also be added to char sheet):
Rumple plans to stay in the back. For most fights (ie, excluding simple ones), he'll cast snapdragon fireworks (CL=3!) and then spam his wand of magic missle. Although he is always looking for an opportunity to use Grasping Corpse.
He also has a number of scrolls and potions that he does not hesitate to use (I expect to go broke doing that :( )
If he is being attacked (especially via ranged weapons), he'll pull out his palelight torch (if we are in normal light conditions)
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Switching to Sayuki from Kasumi!
Sayuki's botting instructions:
She'll move into flanking if she can (+1d6 SA), but that's naturally difficult sometimes with a reach weapon. Alternately, she'll stand in front of the squishier party members and ready a trip-- if it succeeds, they're on the floor, and if not, she gets a +2 to her AoO.
I've never played a character like this so this is guesswork at this point.
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If you're playing Unchained Rogue my suggestions is minor magic acid splash and major magic vanish. Acid splash at will is awesome and you no longer need reach weapons. Vanish is self-explanatory awesome as well: I use it to position my flank in first round with my ratfolk Urogue then I unleash with claw, claw, bite, tail attack (4 sneak attacks is not bad for low level PC!) Even if you don't play the multiple attacks arms race, vanish is all kinds of awesome. It saved my PC's life pretty much in EVERY GAME I PLAYED! :)
If you play the reach weapon game, I think gang up and phalanx formation feats would be wonderful additions for a sneak attacker.
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Thanks for the advice! I'm definitely sticking with reach weapons (nangseon are AWESOME), but I'm going to be making Kasumi and Sayuki very much play into their archetypes-- so Minor Magic and Major Magic are must-haves, but might not be spent on attack cantrips. Vanish is a very likely candidate, though. I'll take note of those feats as well :D
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Aragar is a warpriest of Smiad, the archon empyreal lord who charges his followers to slay all evil dragons, although it would be many levels before he would face any so for now he focuses on taking down evil in general. Haven’t quite got a firm grasp on his personality yet beyond beyond typical “paladinish”.
Aragar wields two kukris and aims to fish crits. As a warpriest he has the war mind blessing (giving +1 to AC, +1 to attack or +10 movement which he can change every round for 1 min) or inspiring word (+2 to one save, attack or skill). These he can activate 4 times a day as standard action. He also has 3 fervor a day which allows him to either heal himself or others, or cast a self spell as a swift action.
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I don't Sneak Attack, but I do have the Dirty Fighter trait, so if I'm in melee, I'll try to flank, and attack with both my weapons if I can (or just my kukri if something's particularly hard to hit, or just my kunai against enemies like skeletons that resist blades) - but my damage potential being rather piddly for the moment, I'm just as likely to toss chakra, or best of all, go the full-3-Stooges on the enemy with Dirty Trick maneuvers. I've got a few flasks of acid in case of swarms, and a Traveler's Any-Tool in case of who-knows-what.
I don't Sneak Attack, but I do have the Dirty Fighter trait, so if I'm in melee, I'll try to flank, and attack with both my weapons if I can (or just my kukri if something's particularly hard to hit, or just my kunai against enemies like skeletons that resist blades) - but my damage potential being rather piddly for the moment, I'm just as likely to toss chakra, or best of all, go the full-3-Stooges on the enemy with Dirty Trick maneuvers. I've got a few flasks of acid in case of swarms, and a Traveler's Any-Tool in case of who-knows-what.
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Hoping not to split the party... juuuuust want to peek if we can. Honestly, seeing that the hall is empty is good data and I'm satisfied with it if need be.
That said, if the concealed entrance is just one room over, my recommendation would be for us to have one half go through it while the rogues come at it from the other side. Pincer attack, tons of flanking, tasty stuff!
...Assuming there are enemies, of course, but I have yet to run a scenario that didn't have something nasty to poke.
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Darned shame I can't be a True Professional rather than Phantom Thief; would've suited this character much better.
What might the rest of you think? Do you like one better than the other?
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If you have a light source on you in this instance it would allow you to see the adjacent space and not suffer a miss chance. In the case you are attacking in total darkness, yes they would benefit from Total Concealment.
Total Concealment
If you have line of effect to a target but not line of sight, he is considered to have total concealment from you. You can’t attack an opponent that has total concealment, though you can attack into a square that you think he occupies. A successful attack into a square occupied by an enemy with total concealment has a 50% miss chance (instead of the normal 20% miss chance for an opponent with concealment).
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Gotcha. Just clarifying because-- if I understand correctly-- Dumpy is currently holding the light source (since I need two hands to wield my spear, unless you rule that I can carry an everburning torch in my kitsune-form muzzle and benefit from it). Goblins would be around the corner from him.
At present, I'm just having her poke what she can see anyway-- a readied attack plus a +2AoO means she should julienne an incoming goblin as long as she doesn't roll terribly anyway.