DM Brainiac's Tyrant's Grasp (COMPLETE!) (Inactive)

Game Master Brainiac

@DM Brainiac: just realised that Ellie and Allie were flanking Mrs P - there's no way she can hit us both with the color spray spell (I hope, I hope!)

She could 5 foot step back and angle it to hit both of you.

Not to be "that guy," but if you look at the templates you can see that with a 15 ft cone it's not straightforward to see how she could have hit both of us from a flanking position, with or without a 5ft step.

Okay, she will have to move around then. Allie and Ellie can take an AoO before the spell hits them.

Elka still has her actions for this round. Remember silver will stop Pedipalp's regeneration.

Ah, derp, I thought we had her and was waiting for a post from you! Will post right away.

Inquisitor: 4

BAB +1
HP +5

Fort +1
Will +1

+1 Wis

Judgements: 2/day

Spells Castable:

+2 2nd level per day

New Spells:
Inflict Moderate Wounds
Weapon of Awe

Skills: 8

Diplomacy +1, Intimidate +1, Knowledge (arcana) +1, Knowledge (planes) +1, Knowledge (religion) +1, Perception +1, Sense Motive +1, Survival +1

Background Skills: 2

Knowledge (history) +1, Linguistics +1 (dwarvish)

Oracle 3

BAB +1
HP +5
Fort/Ref +1

+1 Dex

+1 1st level spell/day.
+1 1st level spell known.

Skills: +1 Knw Arcana, +2 Knw Planes, +1 Diplomacy, +2 Handle Animal.

Changing Reaper Mystery to Lunar.
Revelation.
(1)Change Reaper's Grasp for Prophetic Armour: You are so in tune with your primal nature that your instincts often act to save you from danger that your civilized mind isn’t even aware of. You may use your Charisma modifier (instead of your Dexterity modifier) as part of your Armor Class and all Reflex saving throws. Your armor’s maximum Dexterity bonus applies to your Charisma, instead.
(3)Primal Companion: You gain the service of a faithful animal of the night. You can select from a bear, boar, crocodile, shark, tiger, or wolf. This animal functions as a druid’s animal companion, using your oracle level as your effective druid level.

@Brainiac: I assume I won't get the animal companion until we escape the Boneyard?

Correct.

I'll post Elká's leveling overview later tonight or otherwise tomorrow morning. The only real choice I have is a slayer talent and I was thinking of going for a ranger style feat - but everything feels pretty meh. Going from 1d4 to 1d6? Rend for an additional 1d6 if both attacks manage to hit?

Weapon Focus claws or powerful sneak via rogue talents? Both good options. Imp nat attack is good too. :)

I'm going to take Improved Trip - I'm not having casters schlep around the battlefield just as they please any more.

That said, they say that it's the unsuccessful generals who are always trying to fight the previous battle rather than the next one :/

I'll do the full level-up tomorrow.

Thank you all for your indulgence in my little RP fest. I thought something as significant as changing mystery probably deserved a little IC explanation.

Allie is now more vampire than ever! :D

Hi all - just to let you know that a few weeks back my work pattern changed and I'm now going to have difficulty posting much on Mon, Weds and Thurs.

I will do my best on Mon/Wed/Thurs to post in-combat stuff to keep the game moving, but it will most likely be just a dice roll and a couple lines of text - anything like long RP, exposition, replies to PMs, etc. is going to have to be on other days.

I'm not dropping out, and I'm certainly NOT abandoning the games I'm running. But posting from me has been a lot slower than previously for a while now and I wanted to post the explanation.

Hope that's ok. I will do my best not to be 'that person' who slows everything up :)

... replies to PMs, etc. is going to have to be on other days.

*pout*

What rotten timing.

Oh well. Life happens. Hopefully the new work pattern is a step up. :)

Thanks - and thanks for the PM, it was awesome and it deserves a better reply than I can craft right now :/

Patience ;)

(not a vampire's virtue, I grant you)

I don't know about others, but definitely not Gabbi's strong suit.

Remember the time when I had to sit on you so you wouldn't open our birthday presents early?

*sighs*

Good times...

Ulrich isn't patient, he's the doctor.

Working on level up now

Necromancer 4
Favoured racial, +1 spell known, must be 1 lvl lower than maximum

+5hp
+1 Bab
+1 Will
+1 Intelligence (now at 19)

+1 1st lvl spell slot
+1 2nd lvl spell slot

+3 new spells known (includes favoured): False Life, Blindness/Deafness, Enlarge Person

+9 skills: Heal, K.Arcana, K.Planes, K.Religion, Perception x2, Spellcraft, Artistry (drawing), Perform (sing)

Familiar 4

Hp now 12
+1 Bab
+1 Will

+9 skills: Heal, K.Arcana, K.Planes, K.Religion, Perception x2, Spellcraft, Artistry (drawing), Perform (sing)

Fighter (Lore Warden) 4

+1 Strength
+1 BAB
+1 Fort
+8 hit points

Bonus Fighter Feat: Improved Trip

Adventuring skills

Knowledge (arcana)
Knowledge (dungeoneering)
Knowledge (local)
Knowledge (planes)
Knowlede (religion)

Background skills

Knowledge (geography)
Knowledge (nobility)

EDIT: Also, my Power Attack damage goes from +3 to +6! Woot!

EDIT II: How are we dividing up the loot? Allie, did you claim the +2 Con belt?

I'll have to pick up Power Attack at 5.

Alessandra has the smallest HP pool of the three of us and the lowest Fort save, so it would make sense for her to take it. It's good on anyone, but this way it shores up a possible weakness.

Fine by me. :) As I get more spells I'm going to be spending a bit longer buffing, especially if I know a fight is coming so I didn't want to take it before the two who will head straight into melee. :)

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Questions and stuff.

@GM: Are the beads of blessing and healing one use only? I can't figure out how often you can use them based on the entry on d29pfsrd.

Is there any more loot in the Scriptorium that we can find/Salighara will let us have? There was a room the ettercap was keeping us out of - anything good there for example?

@Everyone: I've updated the loot list again. Shout if theres anything there I've missed. We really really need a merchant of some sort! Or extra-D storage!

Going through the loot list I stumbled upon the Tree Feather Tokens. Maybe we can use those to cause some chaos in this otherwise serene garden. Who knows who will come around to investigate it!

The beads can be used once per day. There is no other loot in the scriptorium.

Just need Gabby's actions.

Map updated. Sorry for the delay.

I know everyone has a 'a game I was in' story, but I'm still gonna share this. ;)

In a PBEM campaign long ago, (2nd Edition D&D, mid-90s - Bohavia , if you're interested), the referee (Nick Pendrell) hated the generic concept of paladins. So each of the gods in his pantheon had their own versions of paladins (regardless of alignment). Each with their own title and purpose.

Our group had two arcane casters - a regular mage and an illusionist (mine). Neither one had the easiest personality to get along with. But, in-game, the group had to make do with what it had. One of the other characters was a paladin of the god of magic/knowledge - they were referred to as Mage-Keepers and were tasked with the protection of mages.

This paladin took her job very seriously and considered any threat to 'her' mages a direct affront to her very being. We didn't ask for her protection (and protested it on many occasions), but our desires weren't relevant. Her's was a divine appointment and we didn't get a choice. :)

I reminisce about that because Ellie reminds me tremendously of that character. In a good way.

... and thus we end the 'I remember when ...' portion of this show. :)

Was the 'Mage-Keeper' banging both mages though? :)

Decidedly not.

The other player's mage was patterned after Howard Stern and all the traits that inspires.

I've replicated my character here. Farrina is ... for lack of a better word ... broken. She/he doesn't bang anyone.

Heh, gaming anecdotes are part of why we do this! My Kingmaker players are doubtless sick of all the times I've reminisced about what my tabletop group did at such-and-such a point ;)

Also, 'banging' is not a word you want to use to Ellie unless you are using it in the context of her fighting skills.

Sorry, I'm not putting it past Gabbi to use it in some form of double entendre. ;p ;)

Allie never did get the 'staking' we talked about... :)

Not yet. There's potential for that. That scene isn't entirely finished, you know. ;)

That's a very interesting concept. I like it

I dug around and a cache of the source page can still be found here showing Nick's complete pantheon. (warning: it was a geocities page so ready your sunglasses.)

And just to clarify, I was remembering incorrectly. The paladins of Kozlo (the goddess of magic) were referred to as Mage Minders, not Mage Keepers. Not that anyone cares, but I felt a need to correct myself. :)

And after re-reading some of the events of that game, she had her hands full with us.

This may sound weird, but the ring of protection should go to the person who already has the highest AC: the way probability/dice-rolls work means that boosting, say, AC 19 to AC 20 is much, much more effective than boosting AC 10 to AC 11 - even though it's a +1 in each case.

I think Elka has the highest AC so it should go to her.

I'm fine with that, but I honestly am anything but a loot whore so if someone else wants it more, go for it =P

I'd say Ellie should have it TBH, she takes the most hits so buffing her AC is more important I think. Then we'd have 19,18 and 18 on the frontliners - which is pretty good!

That's a fair line of reasoning, yes.

I'm really not enjoying: Not getting (x new) signals when there's new posts.

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Who here is a UseMagicalDevice specialist? I don't need a scroll of false life, and I don't really have a use for the scroll of fire shield either. Both are personal spells, so I can't cast them on other people.

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I'm thinking we save the air elemental for when we encounter a boss that flies. Most of us don't have much ranged capabilities.

I don't have any UMD but I could get it, it'll run off my casting stat and fire shield would be fun for grappling! :)

Otherwise I agree with Ulrich.

The wyrwoods you defeated had 18 crossbow bolts on them if you didn't account for those already.

I haven't taken any new bolts, so if Gabbi didn't consider them, then we have ammo

Otherwise, ooo boy

Just a heads up to everyone. I'll be at Kublacon this coming weekend (Thursday through Monday). I'll have internet access, but I'm not sure how much free time I'll have to post. If I know me, I'll still try to get out at least a post a day if it's warranted, but ... *shrugs*.

Elká will move in and attack using her reach once Ellie gets into the thick of things :D

I think for once we all posted in the same combat round without GM prodding! We're finally getting the hang of this 'combat' thing! Now if only Allie could do something it'd all be perfect! :D

Lol, had a busy day yesterday but about to post now.