GM Worg's From Shore to Sea (Lvl 5-7) (Inactive)

Game Master Kyle "Worg" H

Hoping for the best for you Volsung.

Today is my birthday, so I might not have a chance to post until tomorrow. Apologies for the delay!

Congrats. Let us know if you get something expensive.

Happy birthday!!

Yes, happy birthday!!

joyeux anniversaire! ;)

Happy birthday

Thanks everyone! I had a lovely day

Hello GM and team,
The Organized Play Online Venture Officers have been made aware that Qstor had a Real Life situation come up and will be out for around a week. We request you be kind enough to please bot his character for the duration.
Thank you.

What is this "Real Life" you speak of?

Joking aside, I hope he's okay.

Very sorry to hear this, real world situations can be very dicey these days. I was lucky with mine about a week ago. I hope everything turns out OK.

I hope that he is ok!

I really hope that he'll be ok.

Hoping for the best, and we will take care of his character.

*facepalm*

I'm reading the description of the aquarium and I am thinking it was the observatory and I'm wondering why this observatory is an aquarium???

@GM - please disregard the bit about about the Spellcraft check.

Is all good. :)

I'm feeling better thanks!

Great news

@Dolph

Hey, I play two rangers with companions and this is like the first time I've seen a mid-range Hunter in action. I was curious about the goat (is it the Ram?). I was trying to follow the build path and I was curious about somethings. Do you mind if I ask some questions?

Sure thing! He is a ram, yeah. He has the celestial template thanks to Dolph’s divine hunter archetype

Welcome back, Darrioos! Glad to hear you are doing better!
I had you in delay, so feel free to come in and act for this combat encounter if you wish.

Cool.

It's funny. I love Rangers, but I've never had an inclining to play a Hunter. So some things I couldn't figure out...in no particular order.

1. Gore attack. It looks like the AC has the 4th level Advancement and that gives it a 1d6 on damage. Is there a reason you're only getting 1d4?

2. Stats. The Ram starts out with Str 10, Dex 17, Con 11, Int 2, Wis 14, Cha 7. Victor has:
Str 18, Dex 17, Con 13, Int 3, Wis 14, Cha 7

STR would be +4 from 4th level Advance, +2 from Druid progression. Where is the other +2.
DEX is -2 from 4th, but plus +2 from progression, so no mystery there.
CON is +2 from 4th level. Ok
INTis +1 from 4th level ability stat bump. (I did this one of mine as well)
WIS is the same
Cha is the same.

I went looking through Divine bumps and I see there is a +2 stat option.

f the divine hunter selects the animal domain, she does not gain a second animal companion upon reaching an effective cleric level of 4th. When the divine hunter would gain that ability, her animal companion instead gains two ability score increases (gaining +1 to two different ability scores or +2 to one ability score)

But I was confused about when it is available.

She gains the granted powers of this domain, using her hunter level – 2 as her cleric level for determining when the powers are gained and what effects they have.

So that seems like you have to be a Hunter 6 to get the 4th level Domain benefit of boosted animal stats.

3. Feats. Couldn't figure out the build path here. You have 5 feats, 3 from progression and 2 bonus. I see Outlank comes from Hunter at 2nd (nice because you and your companion get it, regardless of qualification). You took Light armor proficiency (I assume at lvl 1) But what did you take at 2nd level?

Power Attack would not have been an option because Victor doesn't have the 13 STR. Did you have to retrain to get this? What did it cost in terms of Prestige?

Also couldn't figure out the second bonus feat for Improved Bull Rush. Is that a skirmisher trick?

Build aside, how do you like the build? I'm impressed with the damage from a "goat." But Power attack really helps with that on account of that 150% bonus. I don't have that on m wolf and I am thinking it might be useful. I would love to get the teamwork feat for flanking despite position, but the timing with the Ranger just gives you nothing for levels at a time. Hunter definitely has the advantage there.

1. Idk where you are seeing that it has 1d6 damage at four. It says it starts at 1d3 and progresses to 1d4 at 4th from what I’m seeing on archives of nethys

2. Hunter Animal Aspects stay up indefinitely on their ACs. I leave Victor in the +2 strength one 99% of the time so I just leave it in there so I dont forget it. I took growth subdomain so i’m not getting that boost from the animal domain.

3. Improved Bull Rush is a bonus feat from the ram’s 4th level advancement. I don’t remember about power attack. I think I must retrained it? From weapon focus if I remember correctly. I just see a “retraining” payment on his ITS and I can’t think of what else it could be for. Just the standard feat retraining cost. I did most of my playing of Dolph when I made him 6 years ago so I don’t remember much other than that. I do seem to remember him not doing much damage for a while so the retraining was probably why.

The build was entirely an attempt to make a silly character from a cartoon I liked (Ed Edd and Eddy), so the effectiveness gave ground to accuracy in some areas. You could probably find a better companion for damage, and his to-hit isn’t great without ouflank.
I’m perfectly happy with it, but it’s not ideal if you are looking for optimization. A reach weapon with a higher crit range to take advantage of outflank more and a companion with either more attacks or a t-rex with a stronger single attack would probably be more optimal.

1. Ahhhh.. I was looking at Mindspin Ram and didn't even realize there was another Ram. Seems the difference explains two of my questions.

2. Oh. Didn't even know that applied to the companion. Ah yes, Bull. Nice.

Do you remember how much did you have to spend for the retrain?

Yeah, I noticed the odd avatars. DIdn't recognize their origin. From my perspective, your set-up seems quite effective in combat. I think it's funny because it does come off as a bit of joke, then you see the "goat" doing 12+ points of damage a hit. I'm thinking damn...when did goats get so dangerous...lol

Anyway, I love the schtick. "Victor, we got poachers!!!!" You might try a City Greens version too.

I'm not really an optimizer, so there is a lot of build options I am unware of. I go with builds that give me mechanics that I enjoy using. But since I occasionally GM, if I see interesting builds, I usually try to figure them out to improve my knowledge of the game. There are so many nooks and crannies you find out about when you dig into people's builds.

The avatars was me. :)

Weird gaming crossover this morning - I logged into Neverwinter this morning and ended up fighting phase spiders.

Everyone go ahead and roll for boons.
Boon!: 1d20 ⇒ 8

Boon roll: 1d20 ⇒ 19

boon: 1d20 ⇒ 9

Boon: 1d20 ⇒ 6

Roll a D4 Volsung :)

1d4 ⇒ 3

My boony is over the ocean: 1d20 ⇒ 4

Boon for the Son of a Shepherd?: 1d20 ⇒ 1

Also, Volsung, need an email address.

My stupid higher education joke for the day, Volsung will cast Circle of Active Learning to protect us before we summon the Lecturer.

1d20 ⇒ 7

I got the game reported, Volsung should be receiving a boon via email at some point.

Got it, thanks.

If I may metagame.

I'll permit it.

If I may metagame.

** spoiler omitted **

Well, that works if we can AoE all the bits. If not, we take a LOT of extra attacks.

Edwin Towerfall wrote:

If I may metagame.

** spoiler omitted **

Well, that works if we can AoE all the bits. If not, we take a LOT of extra attacks.

Yes, I know that. That's why I ask you for permission to attack.

A little work craziness, may not be able to post for the next day or so.

I am also under work craziness. I will get a post in tonight or tomorrow.

Back, seem to actually have this weekend free of work.

May be off grid for two days. If piercing damage clearly works, Las will switch to his crossbow and try and get a clear shot with no shooting penalty.

NO! Not piercing, that splits it. I was asking about precision damage.

Ok

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