One change--Vera learns Detect Thoughts instead of Resist Energy as it seems more on-brand.
Sorry never put her changes here. Her alias is updated.
Magda Level 5
HP: 6
she gets speak with familiar, feat was extra hex (ward of the city), third level spells now
skills um... diplomacy, perception, sense motive, stealth, survival all went up, I think she increased sense motive as well, maybe heal.
backgrund was two points in merchant.
Keeping life as her wandering spirit at the moment for channeling.
Totally forgot--Vera learns her very first non-Wizard divination spell at level 5: Mental Block.
Ahead of our planned watery explorations, Vera finds a friendly neighborhood wizard to teach her magical new forms of mobility and communication!
She learns slipstream, elemental speech, spider climb, touch of the sea for 195gp (which is about half her current liquid wealth).
Magda's spells for tomorrow
. . 3rd—remove disease, water breathing; hold person[S] (DC 18) or neutralize poison[S]
. . 2nd—barkskin (2), bull's strength; lesser restoration[S] or summon swarm[S]
. . 1st—bless, ears of the city, endure elements, heightened awareness[ACG], monkey fish[ACG]; charm person[S] (DC 16) or detect undead[S]
. . 0 (at will)—guidance, know direction, light, mending
I will be largely unavailable starting tomorrow until the following Monday, so about the next 10 days. I may be able to check in briefly on my phone but won't be able to do any long or complicated posts. Please GMPC me as needed.
Sorry I'm here and following along...but I just don't think Marcus can help much in a pure social skill flex situation like this.
It’s okay. I have him doing assists when relevant.
Remember that a good RP could give a circumstance bonus, so feel free to try if you want.
Heads up that I will be on holiday from September 10th to September 26th. Please bot Yazi as you see fit.
@Yazi - I got you a flank, go nuts.
@All - I managed to get through Girrigz and use up his parry as well, he's somewhat vulnerable.
Hmm, I wonder if I should go for a disarm. I'd be swinging for the fences for sure, but if it landed he would be BONED.
To all of my games:
As predicted with the holidays coming up, my posting will become sporadic until the new year rolls around. I will still be checking in at infrequent times, but I cannot commit to checking daily. Please ping me on Discord if a response is needed, or GMPC me as necessary.
level six for a shaman is relatively boring. More spells to memorize and more skills, that's all. Still awesome, just not much to fret over.
1 more 2nd level spell(wild instinct), 1 more 3rd level spell(remove disease)
diplomacy, perception, stealth, and survival all went up 1, and heal went up 2
background skills: merchant 2
Also, more bab and +1 to all saves!!!!!!!!!
As a reminder level to 6 plz.
+5HP
+1BAB
+1 Fort/Will/Ref
Skills: K. Arcana, K. Local, K. Planes, Sense Motive x2, Spellcraft, Sleight of Hand x2
Spells: Haste, Suggestion
Vera also learns Daylight from a scroll.
+8HP
Skills: 9 ranks, +2 background*]
+1 Acrobatics
+1 Bluff
+2 Climb
+1 Disable Device
+2 Escape Artist
+2 Linguistics* (Infernal, Skald)
+1 Perception
+1 Stealth
Rogue's Edge (disable device)
Marcus Level 6
HP: 6 (average) +2 (con) +1 (favored class) = +9 hp
BaB: +1
Saves: All +1
Class Features: Bonus Feat (Greater Overrun), Armored Vigor (increases)
Skill Ranks: keeping my max skills maxed out...picking up craft (alchemy) as well, and put a rank into linguistics to learn undercommon
Main thing about this level is that feat, which means if I knock somebody down when overrunning them, they will provoke, which allows myself and anybody else within reach (Erasmo & Yazi especially) a free attack. And Yazi already has combat reflexes so it could get nuts!
As I mentioned in Discord, Vera will make the following minor adjustments:
+1 Linguistics, -1 Sleight of Hand
Languages: Celestial
Yazi's level 6 is also pretty boring:
+ 8 HP (5 hit die, +2 con, +1 FCB)
Skills: Acrobatics (x2), Diplomacy, Knowledge religion, Craft (tattoo), Lore (Shoanti)
Spells: Purify Food and Drink, Remove Disease.
As a reminder, Erasmo and Yazi get equivalent commendations for their service to the city. The absence of said commendations makes no sense - if they were playing from the start they'd have them.
I'll be travelling to Portugal for the next couple of weeks, so my posting ability will be limited.
I am travelling for work for several weeks with a strange schedule so might have trouble as well
Marcus Level 7!
HP: 6 (average) +2 (con) +1 (favored class) = +9 hp
BaB: +1
Skill Ranks: keeping my max skills maxed out, 2 points to be determined
Feat: Painful Collision
Class Features: Armor Training (as level 11 due to custom item)
- This bumps my current DR 2/- to 3/- (while wearing heavy armor)
- For my new armor specialization, I'm torn between taking Armored Master into Poised Bearing (which would allow me to maneuver against bigger targets), Armored Sprint (Run feat and armor counts as medium for running), or Master Armorer (would let Marcus craft magic armor which can make us all more defensive for half price). Thoughts?
Right now I'm leaning against Poised Bearing because I can still naturally maneuver large creatures and we haven't dealt with anything bigger than that. Armored Sprint would make Marcus incredibly difficult to escape in a foot race (maybe recent events make me biased here). Master Armorer would be a team decision and would let me craft things for everybody. There's also options for just straight up boosting my AC or initiative via it, which are always welcome numerical bonuses.
Also, are there any good languages that would be advantageous to pick up?
Per Discord I'm going to take intimidating prowess instead of painful collision and will be using armor specialization to treat my BaB as my ranks in intimidate. Combined that moves Intimidate up to +14, so Marcus is now useful socially!
Yazi level 7:
- Oracle (FCB +1 HP)
- Ancestor's Council (6/day): +2 to one ally within 30 feet (attack, save, ability or skill roll)
- Spells: remove disease, communal protection from evil, prayer
- Feat: Extra Revelation -> War Sight (roll twice for initiative and take whichever, always acts in the surprise round)
- buncha skills
Vera Level 7
Arcanist 7:
+6 HP
Feat: Improved Familiar - Majenko the House Drake. (Susan the Snake retires to a life of comfort.)
Skills: K. Arcana, K. Engineering, K. History, K. Planes, K. Religion x2 Sense Motive, Spellcraft
Arcanist Exploit: Potent Magic
Spells Known: Gallant Inspiration, Communal Resist Energy, Invisibility Sphere
Please note Gallant Inspiration is now on my spell list and will be memorized most days. If you fail a save or miss and attack and want to use it, and Vera has an immediate action available, you have permission to declare that it is used and add 2d4 to your roll. You are doing me a favor by acting instead of waiting for me to check on the PbP!
Magda the level seven SHAMAN OF THE SLUMS
+6 hit points
Keen Scent feat, making her biggish orc nose useful
diplomacy, perception (+22 now), sense motive, heal, stealth, survival
profession merchant, profession cook
Cat can now talk to other cats
4rth level spells!
Still awesome!
Here's Olenna, or at least a draft of her! I still need to square away some purchases (for the formula book), but this is basically her.
I invite any feedback!
Vera has a scroll of Dimension Door that she would gladly blow to catch this guy. So one option is for people to gather around me and for me to teleport us.
I don't have access to Discord at the moment. Maybe in a bit.
A heads up that I'll be travelling from October 24th until November 10th, so my posting rate will decrease.
Vera's planned spells memorized, subject to comments:
3rd: Communal Resist Energy, Haste
2nd: Command Undead, Gallant Inspiration, Glitterdust
1st: Burning Hands, Chill Touch, Liberating Command, Mental Block, Vanish
0th: Dancing Lights, Detect Fiendish Presence, Detect Magic, Ghost Sound, Message, Open/Close, Prestidigitation
I would vote for something else instead of command undead, seems a niche choice. If it does come up it's powerful though.
Communal Resist Energy is also a gamble, but I feel like it's a good one since we are expecting spellcasters and that can be a gamechanger.
Command Undead could become my default Burst of Radiance. The gamble is whether cultists of Urgathoa have undead lying around. I memorized Chill Touch for the same reason. Chill Touch is potentially enough for the purpose of undead-specific stuff.
Communal Resist Energy could work if we're dealing with alchemists, but that was super speculative. I have other options including:
Daylight, Fly, Invisibility Sphere, Water Breathing, Suggestion
Suggestion is my default because it's in-character and has OOC uses, but I think our next phase is not very diplomatic in nature.
Ohhhhhh, hmm, that's a fair point. I didn't consider the Urgathoa angle. So yeah I can definitely see keeping it.
I don't imagine fly would be of much use given we plan on going down, presumably underground. Water breathing...eh, more of a "scroll" spell. Invisibility sphere could be useful but our party is very kick in the door style and not very stealthy. Daylight could be a gamechanger if they use darkness on us, but I think our new lamplighter would have that covered?
Here’s the small amount of loot you got.
leather armor 10 x 4/2
mwk club, 300 x 4/2
a magical mask
healer’s kit 50 x4/2
full plate 1500 x 2/2
heavy steel shield 20 x 2/2
composite longbow with 20 arrows 400 x2/2
longsword 15 x2/2
Total 2655
Cost of resources bought
Antiplague x5 - 250 gp
Linament x5 - 5 gp
Wand of lesser restoration -4500
Total 4755
Need 2100 to get the rest of the cost of the wand if folks want to chip in.
Then make sure your aliases are updated. I will run the next days events per the aliases and the previously established requested actions.
Marcus said he’d put in 500.
Vera sells her Hat of Disguise to fund her Restoration spell.
Hi all. I want to apologize for my extended absence. First things first, I fully intend to keep up with the campaign if you’ll still have me. Second, I’ll offer an explanation. (Posting this to all of my currently active campaigns).
I wish I could say that there was one big thing, but instead it was a lot of small to medium things. Physical and mental health problems, almost 20% of my waking hours spent traveling in the last month and a half, some work-related woes, the stress of the holidays, internet outages, writer’s block, etc. In the few times that I had sufficient time and energy to even look at the Paizo boards, I found myself overwhelmed by the high number of new posts and was experiencing terrific guilt and anxiety about having missed so much. I have been composing this message for a couple of days now, trying to provide a semblance of apology.
And now I am trying to catch up in earnest.
Thank you for your patience with me, especially those who reached out here or on Discord. I tried my best to respond as I was able, but I know I missed some of you.
I'm entering a busy period at work that may keep me tied up until February 12 (Super Bowl Sunday). I'll still try to check in and post, but I can't guarantee I'll make a consistent appearance. Please feel free to bot me.
Good luck! Remember to breathe occasional :)
FYI, I'm entering a busy period through April 7. Apologies for the delay, and please feel free to bot me if desired.
Loads o treasure - will give spellbooks later - remove anything already sold/accounted for and count charges used of wands (including usage of wands already found).
Olenna should only get temple treasure share because she came in at a higher wealth than everyone else.
Masterwork breastplate,
+1 vicious scythe,
belt of mighty constitution +2,
cloak of resistance +2,
headband of inspired wisdom +2,
onyx unholy symbol of Urgathoa worth 200 gp,
27 gp, 3 sp, 3 cp
two grim candelabras made from human hands encased in silver (worth 150 gp each),
several sticks of exotic incense (worth a total of 450 gp),
a wand of cure serious wounds with 37 charges,
a wand of remove disease (8 charges),
a scroll of restoration,
a scroll of raise dead, and
three blocks of incense of meditation.
4 masterwork greataxes
G7
12 bottles of midnight wine worth 14 gp each, a robe of bones still bearing a human skeleton and a wolf skeleton, and
a rune-etched onyx sculpture of a skull worth 35 gp
11 pp, 40 gp, 58 sp, and 160 cp.
G8 and G13
14 scythes
14 +1 breastplates
36 potions of clw
+1 glamered studded leather
Alchemist's fire x4
Crossbow bolts x17
Eldritch Scoundrel Spellbook (value later)
Flint and steel
Manacles, masterwork
Masterwork dagger
Masterwork hand crossbow
Money
Pesh x4
Potion of invisibility x1
Potion of remove disease
Screaming bolt x2Sealing wax
Smoke bomb x4
stolen jewelry
Thieves' tools, masterwork
Wand of animate dead (4 charges)
Wand of cat's grace (9 charges)
Wand of sculpt corpse (5 charges)
115 gp
+1 human-bane rapier
+1 mithral chain shirt
Amulet of natural armor +1
button key for lift to area G1
Magic Flask
Headband of vast intelligence +2 (Sense Motive)
Investigator Formula Book
Potion of remove disease
Extensive notes on blood veil
Stagger-proof boots (1/day)
200 gp
scroll of teleport,
wand of magic missile (CL 3rd, 43 charges); +1 dagger,
belt of mighty constitution +2,
cloak of resistance +1,
headband of vast intelligence +2 (Spellcraft)
ring of protection +1,
unguent of timelessness (6),
mwk thieves’ tools,
fine mortician’s tools (worth 100 gp) ,
6 black onyxes (worth 150 gp),
spellbook (contains all cantrips save those of the illusion and transmutation schools plus detect thoughts, grease, ice storm, magic missile, and 2d4 additional spells of your choice for each level from 1st to 4th),
extensive notes on blood veil,
50 gp, 5 sp
G3
enough Queen’s Physician robes and other accouterments to outfit 20 doctors in this room. The collected clothes, boots, canes, and other accessories are well made and only slightly used, so each set is worth 5 gp.
two plaguebringer’s masks
four healer’s kits and
23 black onyx gems worth 50 gp each.
At the back of the cabinet are four identical flasks, all of cure light wounds.
Gray Maidens (Earlier and G2)
8 Full plate
8 Heavy steel shield
8 Longsword
8 composite longbow (+4 strength)
Queens Physicians (G8 and earlier)
8 Healer's kit
8 Leather armor
8 Masterwork light mace
8 Plaguebringer's mask (Blood Veil)
F3
Treasure: A thorough search of the loading dock takes nearly half an hour and requires a successful DC 20 Perception check. Those who take the time, though, are rewarded with a crate of elegant silk Vudrani clothes, such as robes, saris, stoles, turbans, and the like. One of the saris is bloodstained and marred by a jagged gash. Aside from this damage, the brightly patterned garb is collectively worth 300 gp.
D3
a rusty, pathetically jingling lockbox behind the counter. Opening the container requires a successful DC 20 Disable Device check, which reveals 2 gp, 8 sp, 22 cp, a silver tooth worth 1 gp, and a brass key shaped like the symbol of Abadar and bearing the number 261. A PC who succeeds at a DC 16 Knowledge (local or religion) check recognizes the key as belonging to a private deposit box at an Abadaran temple.
If taken to a clerk at the Grand Vault of Abadar, the key leads a priest to fetch Giotorri’s life savings and his effects from his youthful days: 68 gp, a set of masterwork thieves’ tools, a pair of boots of striding and springing, and a sheaf of papers detailing the creation of dozens of poorly designed toys.
Three leather pouches hold a combined total of 15 pp and 300 gp, all of Ustalavic minting; a ring of jumping sculpted to look like intertwined brass spider legs; and a set of bone pipes of haunting.
Other Rewards (equivalent obtained from Vendra for making her rich with a nonviolent approach)
wand of charm person (14 charges),
wand of remove disease (3 charges),
giant wasp poison (2);
dagger,
circlet of persuasion,
silver and violet earrings and bracelets (worth 180 gp in all)
4 +1 chain shirt, light steel shield, mwk hand crossbow (10 bolts), mwk greatsword, 12 gp
exotic perfumes worth 800 gp.
422 gp
65 pp, 112 gp, and
three empty but elegantly carved lapis lazuli perfume bottles (worth 45 gp each).
B2
22 daggers,
12 short swords,
three light crossbows,
60 crossbow bolts,
four chain shirts,
12 flasks of alchemist’s fire,
a masterwork longsword, and
a masterwork suit of chainmail.
four potions of cure moderate wounds,
a bottle of air, and
a pearl of power (2nd-level spell)
potion of bear’s endurance
+1 chain shirt,
+1 mithral rapier,
230 gp
three smokesticks,
a tanglefoot bag,
a thunderstone,
20 tindertwigs,
a bent copper trumpet bearing a pennant with the city’s coat of arms worth 120 gp,
and a complete set of masterwork carpenter’s tools.
50 pp and 38 gp, and a cloak of resistance +2 bearing an embroidered image of the unholy symbol of Urgathoa; the symbol on the cloak can be removed without harming the cloak’s magical properties with a successful DC 20 Profession (tailor) or similar check. Failure means the symbol is removed but the cloak gains the broken condition and functions as a cloak of resistance +1 until it is repaired.
The footlocker also contains a copy of Serving Your Hunger, Urgathoa’s sacred text. This book is exquisitely illuminated and bound in black silk and velvet over darkwood covers, yet its pages are ancient and fragile. The book is worth 1,500 gp. Any nonevil church in Korvosa will pay this price as a bounty in return for the book, which the clergy will either then archive (if the church is Abadar’s) or destroy (any other nonevil Korvosan church).
wand of cure moderate wounds (18 charges); +1 shortspear
Olenna will claim
Checking my list twice, it looks like I also still had 1710 gp leftover from character creation, presumably to purchase formulae and/or potions that I never did. She could have contributed to the earlier purchasing fund (such as the wand of restoration) if that wasn't fully taken care of.
Now that she has the human-bane rapier (creepy, but useful), she'll sell her normal +1 rapier and net our coffers another 1160 gp. I'm not sure how you want to indicate selling on the sheet, so I'll hold off on that.
But yeah, that's quite a nice payday. That takes me up to about 38kgp in total items, which is 5kgp more than wealth by level. Selling the +1 rapier (and perhaps the plaguebringer's mask if we think we're done with it) will bring me approximately into line with WBL standards. That's all even before thinking about the nearly 6kgp in gold leftover (a number I imagine will change as others claim).
I'll wait to think about follow-up purchases until final numbers are confirmed.
Vera is claiming a Cloak of Resistance +2. As a result, she has a Cloak of Resistance +1 going unused if someone wants it. Majenko gets a Cloak of Resistance +1!
As a reminder, per previous discussions in discord, now will be the time to level up to 8 after the upcoming rest, which is imminent.
Magda the level eight slum shaman
+1 wisdom (21 with her headband)
fcb skill
class ability: city's shroud (evasion and improved uncanny dodge), evil eyes as a hex
skills: diplomacy, perception, sense motive (+2), stealth, survival
background: cook, mechant
Level 8 oracle of hammertime.
+1 Strength
FCB +1 HP
TWO ATTACKS
Level 4 spell: Blessing of Fervor
Stuff and things
Olenna Tucca, Lv8 Lamplighter Investigator
Alchemical Illumination: Searing Light
Studied Combat +1 (+4)
Studied Strike +1d6 (+3d6)
Trapfinding +1 (+4)
BaB +1 (+6/+1 = iteratives!)
Reflex +1 (+13)
Will +1 (+8)
Con +1 (14) [Fort +1 (+7), HP +14]
FCB: +1 extract below highest level (focused scrutiny)
Extracts Per Day
Lv3: +1 (3)
Lv2: +1 (5)
Lv1: No Change (5)
Extracts Known
Lv3: +1 (resist energy (communal))
Skills +12 (Craft (alchemy), Disable Device, Knowledge (dungeoneering), Knowledge (local), Knowledge (planes), Knowledge (religion), Linguistics, Perception, Sense Motive, Spellcraft, Stealth, Use Magic Device