Hellknight Hill: Bumblebrashers! (Inactive)

Game Master Joana

20/20 hindsight I have not - thanks for the confirm Joana... one wonders if perhaps...

'We're going on a bear hunt'?

In the interests of giving credit where it is due, the Bumblebrashers' map was drawn by 3Doubloons and offered up in the Age of Ashes subforum for other GMs to use.

Posting to all my games: My grandmother died Sunday and I'm not in a great headspace for posting. Plus I have to travel home for the funeral, help with arrangements, that sort of thing.

I'll try to get a few posts in, particularly if my character needs to do something in order for the party to move forward, but probably won't manage much in the way of RP or helping with decision-making for the rest of the week. Please bot as needed. I hope to be back in form by next Monday.

I'm so sorry, Ever_Anon. Take the time you need, and we'll look after Aronida.

Sorry for your loss, Aronida.

Really sorry to hear that. I hope your trip home is a comforting time with your family and a chance to remember her.

Condolences from this part of down under as well Ever_Anon.

My condolences, Aronida. Take all the time you need.

Can we make a kind of check to recognize what Pib and Zarf are, from Warbal's description?

Secret rolls were pretty low for the whole party. If you want to guess what a goblin-sized creature with scales that claims to be a dragon is, feel free to let your PC speculate.

I note we still have some hit points below max in the group. Let's double-check our healing options in the new edition to make sure we're not leaving anything on the table.

Your eight hours of rest give you each Con modifier x level (which is just one, in this case) of natural healing.

Anyone with Medicine trained and healer's tools can attempt a DC 15 check to restore lost hit points to a party member. Happy to retcon this to happening during the feast/before sleep.

Also, I don't know if Revka and/or Darla had any healing spells left after the fight, but they could have expended those before resting as well.

I took my healing from a nights sleep, but could definitely have used some attention prior to bed if anyone can treat wounds or cast healing spells on me. :)

That's a very good point to mention, Joana. Revka was just 1 hit point down. With a night's sleep, she's full. She also had one heal spell left. She'll use that on Gellius, since the other's seem full or near-full on health already.

Healing: 1d8 + 8 ⇒ (6) + 8 = 14

Thanks, Revka. :)

This week has been fullnof medical emergencies and ive only got my phone which is why im not posting.

Its all good and nothing to stress over but would you mind bottingvme until the weekend please joana?

Sure, Steve. Hope everything's okay.

Sure, Steve. Hope everything's okay.

Yep. Kust much more time consuming than expected.

Thanks for your patience everyone - sorry I went silent. I am really bad at typing on my phone..

My mother-in-law has gone totally blind with cataracts and given the corona virus is likely to close some “elective surgery” beds in somebhospitals, I’ve spent the last week jumping through hoops to get her first eye treated sooner rather than later. We’ve had all the tests and measurements now and the operation is booked for a few weeks time. ironically, the surgery itself is likely to be far less disruptive than the preliminary stuff.

I'm sorry to hear that, Steve. I hope it works out and the surgery can go forward as planned. Take care.

... Gellius had occupied the prime-backstabbing position

Oops. I’m afraid I’ve been playing 5E a bit much, flanking isn’t necessary for sneak attack there...I’m out of practise.

Heh - 'tis no worries. As much as anything I was mentally working through whether I was flanking or not :)

I'm not sure I've ever seen such a stellar run of Acrobatics rolls.

I'm assuming we would have had our weapons drawn, but if that's incorrect then swap out Hunt Prey for Draw Weapon and ignore the precision damage.

Sure, you're all aware you're entering a dangerous area that may have not-dragons; no reason you wouldn't have weapons ready.

As some of you might know, I don’t have home internet access, walking instead to my local library to use their free wifi. Currently, I have a wifi hotspot on loan. The loan expires today, and while I don’t have to return it until the start of May, as I understand it the hotspot shuts down automatically when your loan period ends. With the library closed “until further notice”—‘til early April at the very least—I may be unable to post for the foreseeable future. If this happens, please bot my PC or have them step “offstage” temporarily if that’s more convenient.

Hopefully my hotspot keeps working and there won’t be an interruption in my ability to post…but if it doesn’t, my state’s pretty much in lockdown mode for God knows how long and I have no good posting options. I’m looking into assisted/emergency internet access, but the application process takes some time.

I’m hoping I’ll post to games as usual tomorrow, but if I can’t…Stay safe and I’ll get back in touch when I can.

I hope it'll all work out for you, Darla. Stay safe.

On the off chance that first hit is a crit... it would be another 14+1d6 damage...

Yeah, with flanking, that's two hits, one critical. For a total of 48 damage, I believe? I honestly didn't bother adding it. :P

I think that was a good object lesson in how bad an idea it is to move right next to your enemy in 2e and let them use all their actions eviscerating you. Unfortunately, the birds were just not bright enough to realize that.

I hope they don't shut you down, Profession Smith. You'd think they'd make an exception in times like this when people don't have any options. I know some broadband companies have committed to not cutting off anyone who can't pay their bill for a couple of months. Then again, if it shuts itself off automatically, it might not have occurred to anyone to go in and put the effort into changing the way things work before heading home for the duration.

Ouch... on behalf of the birds. And yeah, let me never again besmirch the potential damage output of a Level 1 Rogue....

Prof Smith, I extend the same sentiments as Joana - the next few weeks/months are definitely a survival mantra as far as I can see it and hopefully organisations do their best to not be bastards at the moment and pitch in. Australia is getting pretty close to full lockdown ourselves - I think the farthest I've been from the house in a week is a quick grocery trip... home schooling is... fun?

Ouch... on behalf of the birds. And yeah, let me never again besmirch the potential damage output of a Level 1 Rogue....

Lesson learned - I won't steal your flanking spots in a hurry! :p

Good news--hotspot's still working! Keeping my fingers crossed it stays that way.

Yay!

And Gethric, that's a lot of damage. :D

Not sure whether you have a preference for what language I should use to represent Draconic?

I tend to let the first person to use a language in thread decide what it should be. In this case, I went ahead and picked Amheric.

I've added the languages we've used so far on the Campaign Info tab, for easy reference.

Getting a distinct ocker / cockney vibe from one of these kobolds...

"I told 'em, keepin a bear like, its mental eh? But you know them toothy larrikins, madder than a cut snake, few tinnies short of a six pack and a couple a roos loose in the top paddock..."

Yeah, well, see, now you're just showing up the GM because you're better at it. ;P

*makes mental note to have the next monster focus its attacks on Gethric*

My original plan was to use milestone leveling, but this is a very non-linear dungeon so I've had to go in and wrap my head around XP awards. (I don't think it's actually that difficult, but it's not like the P1e way so it feels unintuitive.) Anyone who wants to double-check that I'm going it right is more than welcome to check under the spoiler at the bottom of the Campaign Info tab and comment. It works off party level and whether the adversaries/hazards are at, above, or below party level. I don't think that looks like enough XP for the grauladon, but it's listed as a Creature 2.

EDIT: Story awards as given in the AP are way off the chart for what the CRB gives for minor/moderate/major accomplishments. I wonder if that was just because the ruleset was in flux while the AP was being written and it will settle down in the future, or if it's necessary to get APs to level 20 in the pagecount given.

Is everyone okay with sticking with the same marching order when entering a new area unless otherwise specified?

OK with me.

Yarp

Sure.

Steve, I made the assumption that you'd use your AoO there rather than let yourself be attacked with impunity.

Terrific thanks. (He didn’t want to strike first in case parley was an option - once they attack he’d definitely fight back)

I did want to press in a little further though to engage the frog thing and not clog up the entryway.. (I probably should have just identified the endpoint rather than listing the path). I also need to get better at stride/step terminology).

Sorry, you did say L12. I'll correct the map.

I got all caught up trying to figure out how to wrangle that action-triggering-a-readied-action-which-triggered-a-reaction reasonably clearly and forgot to move you any further than the triggering square. Fixed now.

really sorry. This thread stopped updating for me and I must have read too quickly. I thought we were waiting on others. :(

Not a problem on my end. I've been fighting a migraine the last two days.

Ugh, you have my sympathy. My wife gets those. They’re awful.

Eh, it's fine. Aronida really doesn't have much she can do with extra actions; the area is too small for her to maneuver.

Yeah, I hate squinchy dungeon rooms. One time, we were in a 5-foot-corridor that turned a sharp corner into a 10 x 10 room, and my PC bringing up the rear literally never laid eyes on what we were fighting until the encounter was over.

I believe the precision damage will be doubled since it would have triggered on the critical success, but am not 100% sure. The entry doesn't say anything about criticals.

In this case, particularly since the shortbow has the deadly d10 trait, it doesn't matter, but I believe that precision damage doubles with a critical. The only damage that's specifically called out as non-doubling is damage that only activates on a critical hit, like the deadly or fatal die or riders of particular weapons. Precision damage activates as long as you hit, whether it's a crit or not.

Sorry for the radio silence peeps - epic home schooling week with the bairns as the wife started a new jobby. Will be in thread once the wee terrors have abated for the eve.

We've had a few good suggestions what to do with Skorp, so let's vote OOC. You can

* let him go,
* tie him up,
* take him to the kobolds,
* take him to the Bumblebrashers,
* take him with you, or
* something else (please specify).

My vote: Take him to the Bumblebrashers.

I vote for the Bumblebashers as well.

Me too - basically put off doing anything and it make it someone else's problem. :p

Happy with the Bumbles too.

Bumblebrashers makes sense to me.

Just want to clarify what the Bumblebrashers are expecting from us. Are we supposed to do anything more than just making sure the bear's still alive?

The official mission is to make sure the level is safe for the Bumblebrashers to return home, with a sidequest of checking to make sure Big Bumble is safe.

So the ultimate goal is to bring the goblins to the bear rather then take the bear to the goblins.

You know what, Steve? I think Gellius should have gotten an Attack of Opportunity on one of those charau-ka's Climb actions, so go ahead and roll one. I wondered if it would interfere with your Parry, but it doesn't look like the AC boost ends if you attack; it lasts until the beginning of your next turn without any provisos.