Kingmaker

Game Master Galahad0430

I really need to take Knowledge Religion next level. Since it's Erastil, would Knowledge Nature help?

I really need to take Knowledge Religion next level. Since it's Erastil, would Knowledge Nature help?

There's nothing to really know except that it is a shrine of Erastil.

As with the well, you find another loose stone that hides a small cubbyhole. It is apparent that this would have been extremely hard to spot while the shrine was maintained, but the weathering and decay have made the hidden space more obvious. Inside you find more notes in the same handwriting as before.

"I went to the old Temple of the Elk today. Wicked, gloomy place now. Just like my soul--it used to shine once, now it is hollow and horrible."

Did he spy on me? Maybe I should lock him up? No, leave him be. What can he do, the useless coward. Just whimper and hide."

After you find and read the notes, Another ghostly figure appears. Pyros immediately recognizes her as the nymph that appeared to him in what he thought was a dream his first night at Oleg's, right before the mysterious fog appeared.

"I have been waiting for you. The flowers, the birds, the wind all told me you would come. Oh my poor flowers, they will perish soon in this fog..."

I guess this was supposed to go in gameplay instead? :)

Lol, I didn't realize...

looks like Shayn was actually the last person to touch the notes, so she could have picked them up and brought them along

looks like Shayn was actually the last person to touch the notes, so she could have picked them up and brought them along.

Hey guys! Got a bit of a rough couple days at work. Sorry for the lack of posting - it'll normalize by Monday. @GM, please feel free to bot me until then. Thanks guys and I'll be back soon :)

I'll post in 4 hours. Linzi knows the notes, but I was just trying to give some PC flavor and character weakness reveal.

Totally Out off game, but I LOVE the fact that Gygax included a rule where all PC's have a bar of soap on their person. Like soap is a free and unencumbered slot. I don't know the full folklore behind it, but I always smile at the quirkiness of it.
As an homage to Gygax/or original D & D, I try to include one bar of soap reference in any of my games. Just once, and then I put the old joke back in the toolbag.

Faerin wrote:

"That isn't actually East."

Hey IceRose! What do you think about all this? You got any special powers you are going to unleash at the Elk Ministry? or the Wapiti Worship Center?

And in a bizarre irony, in a Reign of Winter game I'm in, my ranger's Dire Elk animal companion is named Wapiti

Loving it!!! That is crazy.... I'm also enthralled about how your ranger has a gnarly animal companion. That gore has to be fabulous.

Encountered him in the wild. Party took down the wolves hunting him, then I rolled nat 20 on handle animal. After a whole level of having him travel with us I took Boon companion when I leveled to get a druid level companion instead of Ranger normal.

GM ruled he was young so slightly downgraded stats. Next level (7) he goes up to full Megaloceros stats. I also trained him so I ride him, and next level I'll take mounted archery.

Hi team! I will be travelling for the upcoming days for work (yes, irk! In Covid times!) and should be back by Friday. I'll try to keep an eye here and update as possible, but don't let me hold the action if I slow down a little bit. Cheers!

Updated level; besides the typical spells, HP, saves, skills, etc., got the hex Frozen Caress and the revelation Freezing Spells.

+1 BAB
+1 Reflex save
2nd level spells (1+1)
Mediator's Ear (+1 Sense Motive/Diplomacy)
4+Int skill points

Feat:Trying to decide between

Fey spell lore: (Add 0—dancing lights, 1st—lesser confusion, 2nd—charm person, 3rd—invisibility, 4th—bestow curse, 5th—charm monster, 6th—major curse, 7th—cloak of dreams, 8th—insanity, 9th—irresistible dance. to druid list)

and

Green Faith Acolyte: Spells you cast that deal damage, channel negative energy, or otherwise harm life do not hurt normal or magical plants. In addition, whenever you cast a spell that utilizes, heals, or enhances normal or magical plants (such as entangle or plant growth), you cast the spell at +1 caster level.

Almost want to retrain Hebalist alternate class feature for Plant Domain, but it takes 8 days in-game and requires finding a druid with that domain and training with them, which isn't really going to work

@Faerin: Are you going for the prestige class? If yes, then I'd go with the second feat. Otherwise, maybe some metamagic feat? Let me know what roles you want to fill and if you want help (my apologies in case you don't).

@GM: Are we using the elephant in the room rules? I was under the impression we were, but I can disable it from my sheet if not. It doesn't make much difference in my particular build to be honest.

@All: I'm building Shayn towards the "Winter Witch" prestige class. There are still some levels to go before she can go in it, but that's kind of the ultimate goal (which is obvious I assume!). Regardless, I'll try to get her to get more evocation on her list, but the first levels are a little strange. At the end of the day I want her to be able to blast, but she will always have crowd control/debuffing in her core (being a witch) and as a switch role when needed. If you guys feel there's another niche I could help with, please let me know and I'll check on how to adapt the build, or maybe rethink her spell list. Cheers!

@ Shayn, yes, we are using the Elephant in the Room Feat Tax rules.

@Ekun, Power Attack isn't a feat anymore, it is a regular combat ability now.

Reading through the Prestige class, it kind of feels very thematically fitting to taking on the High Priest role making the Kingdom religion the Green Faith.

The lack of any real mechanical effect for the Archdruid and Grand Druid levels bugs me a bit though but at that point it's practically moot since I wouldn't be able to take the Prestige class until level 6, we'll be high enough that it doesn't really matter

HP: 1d8 ⇒ 6

HP: 1d8 ⇒ 3

Sorry folks, been kinda scatterbrained (not to mention busy) the last few days. I’ll get Pyros updated tomorrow.

HP: 1d10 ⇒ 4 Uh, are doing minimum of half rounded up?

yes, roll or half rounded up, whichever is better.

2d6 ⇒ (2, 6) = 8

Okay, so going with Green Faith Acolyte. Are we likely to have a decent bit of down-time at any point. Still considering retraining Herbalist feature to Plant Domain.

I initially took Herbalist because with this setting I wasn't sure how likely we were to have access to healing, potions, stuff like that at low level. Hasn't been too bad so far, and I think Plant domain might be more useful in the longrun, especially with Green Faith boosts.

Will choose Cleave instead GM.

Adding 1 HP to character as I originally rolled 1 under half.

Ok, so:

+1 BAB
+8 HP (6+2)
+1 Reflex, +1 Will
+1 rank to the following skills (new bonus in parentheses): Acrobatics(+8), Climb(+2), Diplomacy(+5, from Headband), Intimidate(+11), Perception(+8), Swim(+2)
From VMC: Arcane Pool: At 3rd level, he gains the arcane pool class feature as a magus of his character level – 2.

Also @ Galahad0430 Did you see my question?

Are we likely to have a decent bit of down-time at any point. Still considering retraining Herbalist feature to Plant Domain.

I initially took Herbalist because with this setting I wasn't sure how likely we were to have access to healing, potions, stuff like that at low level. Hasn't been too bad so far, and I think Plant domain might be more useful in the long-run, especially with Green Faith boosts.

Also @ Galahad0430 Did you see my question?

Faerin Cordova wrote:

Are we likely to have a decent bit of down-time at any point. Still considering retraining Herbalist feature to Plant Domain.

I initially took Herbalist because with this setting I wasn't sure how likely we were to have access to healing, potions, stuff like that at low level. Hasn't been too bad so far, and I think Plant domain might be more useful in the long-run, especially with Green Faith boosts.

You have 3 months to get the Stag Lord. After that, you will begin kingdom management and you will have lots of periods of downtime then.

+1 to Ekun! Monster damage there. Now THAT is a coup de grace at 3rd level. We sleep 'em, and you serve up Louisiana Creole Frog legs!

:) Ugh and here I was supposed to go to New Orleans right as COVID hit and cancelled everything hehe

That sucks.

We should sell off whatever we need to unload, everyone claim anything from loot that you would want or need and we distribute the rest.

If your name's next to it and it's crossed off, make sure you have it down on your character sheet.

I went to the treasure list. I don't see anything that Linzi needs. She was already magic heavy compared to people, so others can choose to grab needed items.

If no one else is going to take that Ring of Protection, I will.

I can't seem to find the Explorer's Belt on HeroLab. What source is it from?

Link - there are probably items that are AP or video game specific.

You're pretty much 100% melee so you needs the AC boost. Besides I already have one, and the other casters in the group have more AC sell options than you do

If no one else is going to take that Ring of Protection, I will.

I can't seem to find the Explorer's Belt on HeroLab. What source is it from?

Yeah, it came in-game as a bonus for pre-orders only.

This belt grants its wearer a +2 enhancement bonus to Constitution and a +2 resistance bonus on saving throws against disease, fatigue and exhaustion. (Melee character can definitely use the extra hp)

Okay so Potions: Do we want to distribute or keep the healing/restorative ones in the group pile to be used as needed?

6 CLW
3 CMW
4 Lesser Restoration
2 Vanish
1 Barkskin

Fortunate Charm - Once per day, this good luck charm allows the wearer to reroll a single skill check or concentration check after the success or failure of the original roll is known.

Charm of Fate - The first time each day that the wearer fails a saving throw, the charm of fate causes the wearer to instead successfully save if the roll was missed by 5 or less. If the saving throw was missed by 6 or more, the charm’s daily use is expended to no effect.

I assume we're selling the +1 Estoc? If so once potion distribution is done, we'll split gold and we're good.

I'm all for keeping the potions.

Ekun, could you use the Estoc? I think you need the EWP to use it one-handed, but you should be able to two-hand it just fine.

Ekun will likely pass on the estoc. He has a better longsword.

You also had a +1 Orc Double Axe

Pretty sure we'll sell that too.

Happy Thanksgiving all!
For this year, I am THANKFUL for a year that brought my characters:
Brother Butterfly is thankful-- for a lot of sex along the Encartan Sea.
Atium is thankful -- for a team of friends. Once a displaced loner, now within a family of five.
Zane is thankful -- for actually becoming as great and famous as he always imagined he was; and then dying in a glorious fireball.
Lord Bronin Dohari is thankful -- for a Feathermage and two other forcefully spirited females that have shown him that women *might* be just as capable as men in this world.
Linzi is thankful -- that she's just about pegged down all her companions with a nickname she likes. She's still desperately searching for a tame name, but that will come in time.

and the player (me)-- is thankful to all these players and the GM's that make these stories and developments in my character(s) possible. It's not lost on me that not one of the things I'm thankful for are written into an adventure, or a magic item, but borne out of skillful PC and GM interactions.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

Ok so keeping the healing and restorative potions in the group pot just to use as needed.

If we sell the Estoc and Double axe ( at half price) we've got 5880 cash to split and there's the mithral dagger

Just to finish up the bookkeeping before we set out again, I'd like to claim the Charm of Fate. (surviving a botched save is always a good thing)

Any takers for the Fortunate charm? (reroll a skill check 1/day)

Those two are unfortunately similarly named.

Just checking in on the board. Making certain everyone is good this holiday.

Props to Faerin for helping with treasure distribution.

All great here. Hope you all had a good holiday!