Just got home. Will probably post tomorrow as I'll need GM guidance first.
Obviously I want to get out of sword range, which is a move action. Debating between directing Mr. Snuggles to attack or doing my now copyrighted Intimidate move.
If it was completely my animal to control I could have him attack and also do the Intimidate, but if it's still up in the air I have to choose since directing it through Handle Animal and Intimidate would each take up my standard action.
Heading to pass out in my very own bed but if you can let me know whether I can do both or just one, I'll post in the morning.
Cindy, mechanically this is your animal companion so it's a free action to handle it. Story-wise, you're just befriending it but I'm not going to penalize you for that. You can have him attack. In fact, go ahead and please take him over since I'm not entirely sure what his statblock should be. And use an alias for him as you desire.
Yay! A frosty welcome for our new teammate!
Yay I get to use the "pretend this is a picture of a real bear even though it looks like a teddy bear" alias!!!
I like yours, but I wanted to be thematic. Doll monster gets Teddy Bear companion. The picture is how she sees it not what it really looks like.
I hope the barbarian chooses to use nonlethal on its "ally" if it hits the bear. Poor Mister Snuggles is very one-shot-able D:
Yeah bears aren't usually in that much risk of that, but these guys hitting for 2,187,499 damage per swing are rough
not 2,147,483,647 damage? It's a number so big that you might get a negative number if you add one to it :3
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Makes sense. If you're doing deity-level damage, you might just heal instead. who knows how those puny mortals work. Their brains and body would just overflow if they saw how the world really works.
I thought to myself, this party almost always walks slowly through its encounters, highly resistant to what normal enemies can do but slow at taking those enemies out. So why not throw a bunch of glass cannons at them? Sure these barbs have good hp but their AC is atrocious and they hurt themselves every time they use those vicious longswords.
Oh I'm thoroughly enjoying this fight. My only frustration with it is I had no SLAs left after the last one since it took so long amd we're still in the same day. That's more my fault than anything else though.
I’m enjoying watching it. And have resisted the temptation to any more last minute tinkering with the replacement.
You should tinker right up to the point they enter play.
You should tinker right up to the point they enter play.
Agreed. I have even been known to continue tinkering through initial game RP and then ask for GM permission to change things that I haven't utilized yet 2 days in LOL
Come on guys, kill this...uhm...guy.
@GM: how are you doing? :3
Doing well! Baby and wife are enjoying a morning nap so I get to update combat!
Yay!
Also, yay! Snowball critted for 13!
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Why is Snowball's max crit 14?
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itty bitty little fangs.
How's everybody doing with all the pandemic fun?
Game really slowing down so I hope everyone is ok.
I’m doing good. Gorthug just has a bad case of the dead.
Things are good here. The government here (Serbia) is being very proactive, and we've got pretty strong restrictions, but everyone is glad that they're in place.
Yeah my wife just had a baby so I'm not very on top of my "botting slow players" game.
CONGRATULATIONS!
That is a very worthwhile reason for delays. 100% fine with waiting while you spend time with the wife and little one.
Everything is fine at my house, other than the change in routine (working from home started Monday) throwing me off. I didn't realize that I hadn't logged in here in a while.
There's that one GM with a mustache that let's people take double actions in one round when they get skipped :3
Waiting on a couple people to see what happens with the remaining upright guy, before I decide to help fight or help bear.
lol, somehow my 'snaps' became 'staps' xD
WHY WON'T THEY DIE!!!!?
Because our party comp was Gorthug DPS and everyone else utility/crowd control. And sadly my DPS did not include any tanking. That and undead die at 0HP so no healing was possible
there's probably a way to get Bob some attack bonus...
my character just needs a rebuild entirely
If it helps...
Base CR 2 Gelatinous Orb (Tiny!)
https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/oozes/gelatinous-orb/
Str (10) Dex (17) Con (20) Wis (1) Cha (1)
CR 1 Id Ooze
https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/templates/id-ooze-cr-1/
Str (10) Dex (21) Con (24) Int (10) Wis (7) Cha (7)
CR 1 Mutant Creature
https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/templates/mutant-creatur e-cr-1/
* Mental Armor (mage armor) and Telepathy
* Deformity of Choice. Poor ability maybe for Str 6?
Str (8) Dex (25) Con (28) Int (8) Wis (7) Cha (7)
Kineticist Telekinetic (1)
* lvl 1 feat of choice
* Kinetic Whip Infusion (Your close combat attack is now your blast and you have reach so you don’t provoke when attacking)
* Still have 30ft range attack
Now you are a ranged damage and close combat dealer. In close combat you now have +11 Hit and do 1d6+8 base damage +1d4 acid damage. And I think that you will have AC25. I think with whip infusion you can even keep a shield inside of you. It just means that you won’t be able to get AOOs.
I think this keeps the Bob feel while upping his damage potential and defenses
I think once Bob and Snowball grow into more damaging combatants, our party will have a good balance. It just takes a while to get there :)
That and most of our damaging attacks right now are single-target. There were a couple of rounds with these barbarians where a fireball, or even a burning hands would have sped this combat up significantly.
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Thanks for the break down Gorthug, but I want to keep Bob as a cube, and eventually become so big that I can engulf 4 and maybe 8 enemies at the same time. Probably combining it with barbarian for extra HP and speed. It will take time though. Certainly having a little time off for retraining will help.
However, I was looking at id ooze previously as a way to boost my intelligence. It is 3pp though, so depends if GM Monster wants to allow it. I think it is OP so maybe would require a scale back. (basically it gets +6 in nearly all attributes which is too much for a single level imo)
Bob, are you talking about this id ooze or a template?
Yeah that's probably a little too much. I'm a little confused about whether or not id ooze grants additional feats. Let's say that it does not. Let's also change the ability score increases to +4 except you can get one +6 since it doesn't grant +2 nat armor or +4 to str the way advanced would.
Just want to reiterate, that Tina has no evidence that her brother is involved, except for good old-fashioned paranoia.
Are there any -1 CR templates out there besides the one that makes you a size smaller?
Young doesn’t count as -1 as per these campaign rules. Drunk and repeatedly drain count.
Goldslip - can I just get you to state you would use your lifelink on the bear if Tina;s cleric did't heal him enough? Otherwise he's chilling unconscious behind us as we move on.
Under campaign info:
“Young characters (mechanically young) count the same in terms of CR as other characters. NPC classes count the same as other classes.”
I read that as the young template being CR0