I'm puzzling mine out. Thanks for making the cloak! I'll RP some thanks from Flik as well. I think we've been sharing the healing duties in an interesting way, but I'm hoping to pick up some condition removal to help out with that and maybe some more in-combat actions.
GM, would you mind if I retrained some spells to cover that? Normally bards can only do it every 5 levels, but I'd like to adjust a little if you don't mind.
Paladin 8
Strength +1
HP +15
Fort +1
Will +1
CMB +2
CMD +2
Heal +1
Perception +1
Knowledge (History) +1
Knowledge (Geography) +1
Bonus HP
No worries, take your time!
Unchained Monk 8
Str +1
HP +8
Fort +1
Ref +1
BA +1
Skills +1
+1 Stunning Fist/day, +1 Ki Point
New Ki Power: Abundant Step
Sorry to hear that. Take as much time as you need!
Take your time Tealk. We're not going anywhere. ;)
I'll be going out of town this afternoon for the holidays and will be gone through Sunday. Posts will be sporadic until Monday morning.
We all have to survive this encounter so that Remy, Borgol, Corla & Fergus can double date!
We all have to survive this encounter so that Remy, Borgol, Corla & Fergus can double date!
Agreed!
I support this idea. :)
It'll be a few years before Maddie is interested in anything other than a book, so she'll be staying in the library in all of this. ;)
Sorry I wasn't that much help in that fight. I'm getting crushed at work right now. Great work showing the strength of PBP in running multiple simultaneous encounters!
I feel bad for anyone trying to outrun a hasted monk.
The speed boost from haste doesnt stack with the monk fast movement bonus, alas. Still, +30 feet is better than +20 feet. :)
I thought being a monk bumped yout base speed - it's an enhancement bonus? That sucks, means a hasted barb can outrun you.
Seems odd to me that you have an "enchantment" bonus as an extraordinary ability, but hey. I'm have dim memories of taking about this back during playtest, now that I say that.
So, with the fancy cloak upgrade that Maddie crafted for me (thanks again!) I can lay down some raging song, which is probably going to be my back-up play if I don't get Naturalist going.
I wanted to give you all a head's up, since it can change your stats if you accept it. (I'll be giving raging song as a 4th-level skald.)
Inspired Rage (Su): At 1st level, affected allies gain a +2 morale bonus to Strength and Constitution and a +1 morale bonus on Will saving throws, but also take a –1 penalty to AC. While under the effects of inspired rage, allies other than the skald cannot use any Charisma-, Dexterity-, or Intelligence-based skills (except Acrobatics, Fly, Intimidate, and Ride) or any ability that requires patience or concentration. At 4th level and every 4 levels thereafter, the song’s bonuses on Will saves increase by 1; the penalty to AC doesn’t change.
So, +3 Strength and Constitution, +2 morale on Will saves, -1 AC.
If you accept, you'll also get the Lesser Celestial Totem rage power: While raging, the barbarian benefits from increased magical healing. Whenever she is subject to a spell that cures hit point damage, she heals 1 additional point of damage per caster level. In the case of non-spell healing effects (such as channeled energy or lay on hands), she heals a number of additional points equal to the class level of the character performing the magical healing. This does not affect fast healing or regeneration.
I'll be off for the holidays, everyone - not back 'til Monday (sorry, meant to send a pre-warning, I usually do).
..and by back, I mean back online. It's not travel, it's toddler. ;)
Happy Holidays, everyone.
As a heads up, I am off work tomorrow through Friday. Posting will be sporadic until I return to work Monday morning.
Just realized I had only half updated my profile after leveling up. Whoops! Fixed now.
I have returned!
I wonder what finally changed that let me log in again.
Sorry, y'all. It's the last week of the semester at school and things are crazy!
Also, sorry about the chaos beast. Gnome can't leave well enough alone.
I think we're waiting on the GM here! Hope all is well!
Still here and waiting...
Getting a little worried, now.
So, do we start assuming we've been orphaned and should start seeking a replacement GM?
Too bad as GM Tealk did such an excellent job!
I would be willing to continue on with the campaign with a replacement GM.
I'd be potentially willing to take over as GM and run Remy as a GMPC for now, in the hope that Tealk returns soon.
That would be awesome. Tealk is playing in one of my games and has been MIA as well. I'm sure they are really busy right now; hopefully they will be back.
I don't want Tealk to think we're pushing him out or anything, but I also don't want the game to die -- so Brainiac taking over as a short-term solution works for me -- and we can have another chat about the longer-term if Tealk doesn't return.
Alright, I’ll post a combat update tomorrow morning then.
Ok, so Vindicator 3:
- +1 BAB
- +1 Fort
- +1 Will
- Faith Healing (Empower)
- 3 Skills (Stealth, Perception, DD)
- +1 to Effective Cleric Level (Channel): 5 (3d6)
- +2 to Effective Cleric Level (Spellcasting): 5
- Feat: Prestigious Spellcaster
(Also, BAB is now 8, so PA bumps).
Side note: I had to resist the urge to take Invisibility Purge as a level 3 spell (it's so useful!) because of Maddie -- so I took Holy Javelin instead (with Prayer as the Domain Spell)
HP +15
Perception +1
Heal +1
Knowledge (History) +1
Knowledge (Geography) +1
Bonus HP
Mercy: Poison
Feat: Selective Channel
Levels!
-Numbers. Or something. I have a lot of them
-5th level spellsssss! Wohoo! Taking Overland Flight and Wall of Force at this level.
-Feat! Taking Arcane Discovery: Opposition Research (Divination) at long last. Finally, I can Detect Magic! Probably some other stuff, too. It just doesn't fit Maddie's personality to not have the learning school.
Unchained Monk 9
+8 HP
+1 Will
+1 Base Attack
Improved Evasion
+30 ft. speed
Style Strike: Defensive Spin
Feat: Improved Critical (unarmed strike)
Bard 9
I improved some skills, but the biggest things I got were the Last Rites feat (bard needs something against undead!) and the Hymn of Restorative Harmonics bardic masterpiece.
You can use this feat’s benefit once per day, plus an additional time per day for every 5 ranks you have in Knowledge (planes). In addition, the amount of damage you deal with this ability increases by 1d6 for every 5 ranks you have in Knowledge (planes).
In addition, anyone who observed this performance gains the effects of delay poison at a caster level equal to your bard level.
Use: 3 bardic performance rounds.
Action: 1 full round.
Let me know what purchases (if any) you wish to make and how you want to set up around the tenement to defend it.
Well, since we're too little to cast Guards and Wards, and it only lasts level hours anyway....
I'm thinking we should invest in some traps - magical and mundane - and some alarms.
I'm also thinking we want to trace a magic circle around the scrolls so we can trigger it when we need to and keep summoned creatures out.
Borgol can cast a few Augurys to ask, basically, if it would be a good idea to ward certain areas - which should help us narrow our focus at least a little.
I think it's almost 100% necessary to have a dimensional anchor ready to stop the baddies from grabbing and teleporting away.
So, that said -- I have a few ideas:
* A wand of Alarm would let us (and the guards) know when someone's coming - from a wand it only lasts 2 hours, but we'd have 50 of 'em.
* Glyph of Warding is permanent until discharged - and can be triggered to a password -- that is to say, we can make it so it doesn't blast anyone who's supposed to be there. Also, it can do Sonic damage which is (a) hard to resist, and (b) likely to serve as an alarm for us. However, Borgol can only cast 1 - and it's 200gp in materials. So a scroll for additional wards would be 575 (because of the materials) -- think it's worth snagging a few for choke points, but probably too expensive to do too many of them.
* Bear Traps and caltrops are considerably cheaper - but caltrops would need to be placed (something Maddie could likely do invisibly if we have alarms, as above) -- while bear traps would need to be hidden (likely via illusions).
Another idea would be to keep a non-detection effect on the scrolls -- preventing them from being tracked magically, so that might help us keep attackers off-balance (could even try to hide them with an illusion that makes the vault look empty) -- but there, again, the issue is duration.
I like all of those ideas, Borgol. We could get a scroll of guards and wards and have Maddie cast it--it would be a pretty easy caster level check for her.
(I was also thinking how funny it would be if we set up a forbiddance in their hideout, but--alas--out of reach for us, I think.)
We could also use something like magic aura to hide them in a room full of illusionary scrolls and/or mundane scrolls.
There are also tripline traps - portable bolt, pull-cord grenade, etc. -- which would also be useful in this case.
I *do* like the idea of using magic aura-s to mislead, though.
I will be out of town on a camping trip from 4/10 through 4/17. I will be unable to post until the following Monday.