GM Zero/GL's Giantslayer! (Inactive)

Game Master GM_Grandlounge

I DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE I WAS MAKING THYSTE NICE UNTIL LIDIA QUESTIONED IT

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ;n;

I just can't write characters who aren't sweethearts apparently ;n;

@Grandlounge

With your permission I would like ot clear the loot sheet and have us distribute 2230.596 gp to each player.

Yep. That is fine with me.

I will do sheets next weekend, hopefully.

OK, everyone take 2230.598 more coinage.

With the extra cash Ben gets a Minor Bag of Holding and a Wand of cure light wounds.

That reminds me. Buying cold weather outfit too. Do animal companions need that sort of thing too?

Note: Ben's init dropped to a +0 because of the troll form lowering his dex.

+4 str and -2 dex does not seem like all that great of a boost :(

Wait until you hit with a bite, two claws and then Rend and get all that bonus damage (since you'll also be more likely to hit.)

Yep, probably right. For Ben, at least, strength is much more important than dex.

No rend to level 12 I believe but there is a two-headed gaint somewhere for bite bite claw claw.

I saw the two headed troll and was tempted to take it. But I decided against the mini-max and went for the druid troll. A troll fury has druid abilities and it just made more sense for him to know about and mimic one.

Yep it is a great choice. Once the goliath druid gets regn it gets very silly.

@GM: Are we going to receive chronicle sheets? I am applying the credit to another character so that would be great.

Here the character information in case that works:

Player: noral
Character: Suussmaar
PFS-ID: 314670-15
Faction: Dark Archive
Progression: Standard
Day job: N/a

Hi GM, it would be awesome if we could get the chronicle sheets. Thanks for everything!!

Sorry life has been insane. I will try to do them later today.

I only have info for 2 people and I need three to report. Here is the chronicle with my info filled out. Save a copy and fill out the top. Once three people have done that and one more has posted their info and I can report it.

Link Here

For Lidia, use PFS# 45919-31 (Alora)

Thanks for everything GM! It says 2 pp on the sheet but I think it is 4, correct?

Thanks! Just to verify, which character of mine did you apply the two chronicles too? I thought it was Cheswick, but I do not see anything applied to him.

You can apply mine to 143948-10 Ylosani.

Ben, none yet because I could not report the game with only 2 people's numbers.

Kioshi, the sheet in the link should be fixed for you.

Back in January of 2020 you gave the first chronicle sheet to Cheswick. I confirmed that because his Id is on this sheet. The problem is that when I go to my organized play and look at the sessions assigned to him it isn't there. So I wondered if it was assigned elsewhere or not assigned yet.

I will double-check.

Edit: I checked. I was not the one to fill those out or report them.

Aha! That makes sense.

Anyone else's character get credit for the chronicle?

Honestly, I'm at a point where I have no idea what I'm doing with my PFS PC's and the ones that could take it all are in groups and probably shouldn't surge forward like that.

I never worry about the online stuff. If I get the chronicle sheet I don't even check on the online reporting.

I probably should, though since ACP matters for PF2.

Will have a post up tomorrow I'm under the weather tonight

Don’t worry about timing GM!! ;-)

We will be warping up this section of the book with the end of dungeon RP feel free to interact with each other, or NPCs, finish exploring and the like. Also, level up to 8!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow. 8!

Just a question: Can we increase the difficulty of the encounters? I really have the feeling that all opponents are falling so easily. ;)

When I played through Giantslayer, our GM had to maximize and empower the HP of all the enemies to scale them up. (double hp + 50% more after)

Scaling in Pathfinder 1e is pretty difficult though.

I like that idea. Just bump up HP or double minions or add +2 to all their damage or something.

Kind of funny how we're all playing purposely-beefed-up characters and are now complaining that it's too easy! ;P

Please do not make them harder. That may have looked easy but Ulretha was down to 40% HP and had a debuff on him for a bit.

That probably doesn't sound too bad but a bad round or two and he could have been down. And we still don't have much in the way of healing so, if we end up in a slog we still risk encounter fatigue.

In the alternative I would suggest that we revert to standard advancement for our characters going forward so that we're not quite so beefy.

Also, I'm lazy and trying to remember what the exact rules are is an effort for me.

On a side note, as a GM for PFS, I find it very common for the PC's to steamroll their opponents. Only rarely do I run an encounter that lasts more than 2 or 3 rounds and even more rarely do I manage to down one of the characters. I've never killed one.

Giants usually have plenty of hit point already. Let's not take off the seatbelts just because this speed bump wasn't too bad. :)

Ben is leveled up. Just a bunch of number crunching as he did not gain anything new, just more of stuff.

APs are generally designed for most encounters to be easy. Then you have APB, your starts extra feats etc. These types of encounters only get had when an ability comes up that you are unprepared for (the invisible dragonfly is a good example). The fort was easy because you basically only did 2 of 20 fights.

For now, I would recommend that if you want a greater challenge, make decisions in character to facilitate that.

1) Don't bring NPCs into dungeons. For example 'let's not bring a ghost down into this holy place it may desecrate it'.
2) Don't take any NPCs into the fights. Send them on a scouting mission I can reward you with info for not having had them in the party.
3) Take the hard way. Make RP decisions that cause you to fight more without rest.

These options will allow you to balance the game. Should those fail I will build some encounters that will mess you up.

Oh ya I technically levelled you a fight or so early because it was the weekend and I thought that would be convenient for everyone, so you might find the next fight easy

Lidia is level 8.

I have not been applying ABP to my animal companion. Should I be?

Thanks for everything GM!

I think 1-3 are great suggestions!

What do the others think?

Sure, certainly the one about leaving the NPCs. With our menagerie less is better.

Thyste ain't gonna love Option 3, but that doesn't mean she can't be outvoted ;P

But yeah, could also theoretically be less afraid of splitting the party now and then-- not like "opposite sides of the world" splitting, but "you guys search the room on the left and we'll check the room on the right" stuff.

'Course, that works better in F2F sometimes...

Lidia is level 8.

I have not been applying ABP to my animal companion. Should I be?

I don't think the default rules do apply to animals. If the previous allowed it you are still free to do it of course.

I think we discussed it as not applying to animals when we realized that the Hyena Squad would be unstoppable :P

I agree with Thyste. Nor did they benefit from the bonus feats.

That sounds right.

So are we headed out to a city to sell the loot? And then do we head on in to find the next giant's lair?

You could double back it would add three days there and three days back if you wanted to sell things. You are still three days out from the Minderhall's Valley. Then your trek through the valley for an unknown amount of time.

Well, I don't really need to stock up on anything so I am fine going on if everyone else is.

Yes, I don’t need anything either. So we can continue!

Ben, none yet because I could not report the game with only 2 people's numbers.

Kioshi, the sheet in the link should be fixed for you.

Hi GM, it would be great if you could report the last part of the AP as I learned that you can report an AP with only 2 players.

I heavily rely on the reporting on the Paizo page to keep track :-)

Thanks

Thank for the reminder. I should be able to get to it tomorrow night.