[PFS2_Luke_Parry] 2-06: The Crashing Wave (Inactive)

Game Master Luke_Parry

Gotcha. Thanks GM

Happy to help :-)

I think the biggest problem with this encounter, is the Hardness :-/

Once it 'cracks', things go down-hill for the constructs rather quickly ;-)

Ooooooh. Gotcha.

Anyone got any more magic missiles?

Yeah... I wouldn't use those until the hardness cracks...

Oops...not my brightest moment.

Shouldn't it have chased after Mara instead when she moved to get to Deshacerla?

You moved around, not away...

Sorry Bair - you keep making yourself a prime target :-/

It happens, bad RNG is bad. I think we've had a chunk of crits this game too, it's just been crazy overall.

So, we are playing High Tier with 4 player adjustment, right? That would explain some of the damages and such.

Defintely picking up Alchemist Fire after this. What Goblin am I without the ability to burn stuff??

Could pick one up off the body of not yet dead yet Bair.

+16 to hit and then 4d8+12... How to survive, please?

The 4d8+12 was a Crit, although with +16 to-hit that damage is likely to happen again.

Yes, you are playing high tier; the challenge point system is a little bonkers, I am afraid...

...personally, I think the power jump from Tier 1-2 to Tier 3-4 is not consistent between scenarios; this one is a particularly egregious example of erring on the side of more difficulty (although if multiple PCs were tossing around, for example, a lot of fire, that could potentially result in quite a different outcome).

Especially when ranged attacks aren't an option due to DR.

Let's talk tactics. Is everyone fine with luring it away from Bair, then having Deshacerla or Dran'Thor rushing in to heal him?

This thing probably has AoOs like the previous ones.

Only the creatures in the first encounter (that looked like Fighters) had AoOs.

In the second one, the creatures had a reaction that allowed them to move closer when someone retreated from them.

*cough* I may have deliberately put it next to Bair, so that when/if he wakes up, he can attack it more easily ;-)

Alrighty!

Is everyone wishing to continue with the next Quest?

I should be able to get chronicles done when I come home from work.

Thank you! It was a tough one.

Yes, the quest or the goblin one. The important is to play.

We lived! HOORAY! (I was genuinely worried there for a bit.)

I'm all for continuing until we run out of scenarios/quests.

Good to go onto the next whatever, this group is quite fun to play with. Bair got rocked that session, here's to hoping the next goes a bit easier!

Thank you for GMing again!

I'd prefer the Goblin scenario first. At Slow Speed that'll level me right to 5. I can then play the Quest with a brand new Level 1 of some sort.

I’m happy to keep going with either the scenario or the quest.

Quite glad we survived as well. Death by tree would not have been the most heroic way to go.

YASHUDDA SEENDA SIZADAH TREAH DOUGH, WAS YUUUUGE!!!

I'll support a vote for the goblin scenario next as well so Thorax can hit five in style.

Alright then - I'll get things started :-)

I'm all for continuing as well.

Purchase limits for items are character level +1
However if it's on a Chronicle, its character level +2, right?

Not quite:

Purchasing Guidelines

You can always purchase the following items so long as you’re in a settlement of at least 5,000 residents (and scenarios may sometimes provide additional allowances or limitations):

•Any common equipment in sanctioned Pathfinder content with an item level equal to or less than your character’s level (minimum 2).
•Any uncommon equipment in sanctioned Pathfinder content with an item level equal to or less than your character’s level (minimum 2); your character must have access to this uncommon equipment such as through meeting its Access condition.
•Any equipment listed on your character’s Chronicle sheets with an item level equal to or less than your character’s level + 2. Some items found on Chronicle sheets are available for purchase only a limited number of times.

So, items of up to your CL +2 if on a chronicle sheet; otherwise it is just up to CL (not +1).

Got it. Thanks.

So...no staves for the little gnome yet

Alright, chronicles have now been sent out :-)

Please post updated reporting details for the next session.

PLAYER: Pete H.
CHARACTER: Bair Mann
PFS ID#: 123584-2001
STARTING XP: 17
STARTING FAME: 15

Items Purchased: Minor Healing Potion (4g), Minor Elixir of life (3g), Frost Vial Bomb (3g)
STARTING GP after purchases: 10 copper 15 silver 18 gold 0 platinum

BOONS:

PLAYER: RePete
CHARACTER: Deshacerla
PFS ID#: 126566-2001
STARTING XP: 18
STARTING FAME: 16
STARTING GP: 0 copper 12 silver 76 gold 0 platinum
BOONS:

PLAYER: J.G.
CHARACTER: Dran'Thor
PFS#: 212081-2001
STARTING XP: 22
STARTING FAME: 20

STARTING GP: 59.6 gold

BOONS:
Faction - Verdant Wheel
Advanced - Naturalist
General - Touched by the Storm
General - Experience Mountaineer
General - Sand slide

Slotless - Engraved Wayfinder
Slotless - One-Who-Waits
Slotless - Beginnings and Endings

Downtime Lost of the Spirit Road:
Craft, Black adder venom DC 16: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (4) + 8 = 12 Failed, raw materials saved
Two days after:
Craft, Black adder venom DC 16: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (9) + 8 = 17
Remains 4 days, so 1.2 gp saved

Wanted to buy Alchemist Fire, but it's listed as a martial weapon... So it looks like Rogues are untrained in throwing Alchemist Fire?

Signing in for Flooded King's Court (NOT going Slow Speed for this one):

PLAYER: Nefreet
CHARACTER: Thorax Toothlicker
PFS ID#: 66548-2001
STARTING XP: 46
STARTING FAME: 30
STARTING GP: 8gp, 9sp, 8cp
BOONS:

PLAYER: Ever_Anon
CHARACTER: Mara Spintho
PFS ID#: 2364939-2001
STARTING XP: 22
STARTING FAME: 18
STARTING GP: 74gp, 7sp, 8cp

BOONS:
Faction: Grand Archive Champion
Advanced: Touched by the Storm
Generic: Experienced Mountaineer
Generic: Sand Slide
Generic: Team Player

Earn Income roll for 1-07:

Library Lore (DC14): 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12 Failure, so 8cp earned.

PLAYER: The Sesquipedalian Thaumaturge
CHARACTER: Adalan Mussara
PFS #: 270872-2001
STARTING XP: 18
STARTING FAME: 14
STARTING GP: 68.2

Earn Income (Academia Lore, DC 14): 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 9

BOONS:
Faction: Vigilant Seal Champion
Advanced: Resist Corruption
General: Sand Slide
General: Touched by the Storm
General: Wayfinder
Slotless: Engraved Wayfinder
Slotless: One-Who-Waits

I must admit, I am quite amused that the man who is, canonically, the highest-ranking member of Lastwall's military left alive (and is supposed to be a 'player' in Absalom's politics), is currently stuck working as Thorax's indentured servant ;-)

And I'm never checking a box on that Boon, either ^_^

Also, to be clear: The damage to Thorax is from two crits :-/

@Thorax: Sorry!

O.O

Hey, anyone else in the party would have been knocked down - instead, our plucky little Goblin Hero took a beating, and stayed standing ;-)

Out of curiosity, who here *hasn't* played 1-00: Origin of the Open Road?

Already played but it is replayable Onex

I have not. Forgot to respond earlier for some reason.

@Dran'Thor: Are you sure that it is replayable? It doesn't have the 'Repeatable' tag, either in the scenario itself, or on the product page...

But the Chronicles say that it can be applied to any Character lvl 1 to 5 who hasn’t got it yet.

Maybe that is referring to not being able to apply a GM chronicle and a player Chronicle to the same PC?

Maybe yes. I don’t have the Chronicles on hand

We still have the quest to play also

Oh, I wasn't suggesting playing that instead of something else (especially since you have to use pregens for it); it would have been an additional game ;-)

Next up is still planned to be the Quest :-D