GM Worg's Fall of Plaguestone 2E (Inactive)

Game Master Kyle "Worg" H

Leveled Up.
Took Monk Dedication and Group Impression

I am still debating my choices. Will decide by tomorrow.

Finished leveling

Combat Climber as a skill feat
Domain Initiate(fire) as a cleric feat
Gain a Focus Point, 9 HP, extra 1st level spell slot

Question: Would Courtly Graces be at all useful in this module?

The odds are not in favor for this feat.

A lot of diversity in the group levels, I am liking this.

Screech is leveled up.
Possiibly not the greatest of all choices in how i did things, but we'll see.

Gobil, Hulgur, and Allania should get a magic weapon. To do this, we will have to sell the alchemical reagent.

Don't think we have enough for all three. We are about 9 gold short from that it looks like.

GM is under work craziness. Will attempt to get a post in tonight or tomorrow.

As an aside, Gobil, how did you make the action marks?

I actually saw someone else use them (it may have been Allania) then I copied them to a sticky note on my desktop. Lol.

While that crit may look nasty, the good news is you guys are actually getting to close to vanquishing red.

FYI. My wi-fi adapter on my PC is dying. I'm going to try to switch to a hardwired connection, but it may take a day or two. I may be silent for a bit. Please bot as necessary.

Good luck!

This is what we have for funds.

Current Funding

Anybody able to cast scroll of heals? If not we can pick up some minor healing potions. But if someone is able to cast the heal spell we can get a few bigger heals off for the same price.

It's a divine spell, I can cast it.

Ey. Been preoccupied. With a house refinancing going on, been extremely busy with making sure my house looks as nice as possible.

Suggested Purchases:

That works for me.

Sounds good to me as well!

Sounds good! Can't have too much healing.

More to keep you all up is quite welcome.

Agreed!

Today is the big day for me. Either my house passes appraisal, or I can kiss my assets goodbye Not really. Either way, here's hoping this works out!

Good Luck!

Alright, inspection went incredibly well!
Now I can return to a regular posting schedule.

Oof indeed. I think Allania is dying 2 and bleeding. We may only have a round to deal with that before she expires and Hulgur is likely going to go down at the end of his turn too.

Do we have any healing left in the party? If not, it's not looking good.

She's not quite down if she uses shield block.

I have one more spell, I think. Would prefer to not use it, but we also have potions and such, right?

It is the medicine skill we REALLY need.

Yup, currently Dying 2 due to the crit. Luckily her initiative moves to just before the ooze so you will have a moment to get to her. She could easily die this round if she fails her flat roll.

Oh true, thanks! Yes, she will use shield block. Her shield is destroyed but she got a couple of attacks in and is now Dying 1 instead.

So, we go past level 2 in this adventure. But if I remember correctly, we only get 12 XP total, right? Looking for clarification because I'm very excited to hobgoblin.

Hulgur is updated.

Skill Increase: Athletics (expert)
General Feat: Canny Acumen (fortitude)
Skill Feat: Powerful Leap

So, we go past level 2 in this adventure. But if I remember correctly, we only get 12 XP total, right? Looking for clarification because I'm very excited to hobgoblin.

Correct, only 12xp. Unfortunately the module boosts its challenge difficulty to 3 after this.

Okay, sounds good. Not sure if I'll wait for this Chronicle before I break down and start playing mine.

Skill Increase: Arcana to expert
General Feat: Canny Acumen (Perception)
Spells: See Invisibility and Summon Elemental

Is Allania conscious and not bleeding anymore?

Skill Increase: Athletics --> Expert
Feat: Toughness

Is Allania conscious and not bleeding anymore?

Yes, for all intents and purposes, you are back on your feet.

Skill Increase: Nature -> Expert
Feat: -> Natural Medicine
Ability: Deny Advantage

Okay, not botching first aid checks any more. That's been driving me crazy.

Skill increase: Medicine --> Expert
Feat: --> Assurance(Medicine)
Second Doctrine: Trained in Martial Weapons
2nd level spells(with Divine Font moving up to 2nd level)

Finishing up Screech.

Skill increase, Performance to expert
Signature spells: Sooth, Sonic Burst
New spells: Sonic Burst, Spiritual Weapon
Feat: Trick Magic Item (just in case)

Though about assurance in Performance instead, and could be swayed

What are our current resources?

I think problem with just adding a potency rune without a striking rune is that the weapon is no longer a valid target for magic weapon.

So usually I hold off on upgrading weapons until +1 striking is a possibility.

Previously from part 1.
27 gold, 28 Silver, 4 Copper, and 50 gold worth of Alchemical Reagents

Part 2 loot.
20gp of alchemical reagents.
A small stash of coins worth 18 gp and a fine set of silver scales worth 30 gp
Two Orc Knuckle Daggers (Disarm, Agile) 1d6 + Strength
4 Lesser Acid Flasks
4 Lesser Alchemist Fires
4 Lesser Bottled Lightning
4 Minor Elixir of Life
5 Bulk worth of plundered items valued at 100gp to a collector but 25gp to the caravan.

So in the end you have..
45 gold, 28 silver, 4 Copper, 105gp worth of plundered objects.
A lot of potions and two Knuckle Daggers.

I don't need much in terms of scrolls. Maybe one with Dispel Magic, or some other catchall. I think a +1 Striking Rune would be a better investment for someone, and that'll take a good percent of our cash.

+1 striking is level 4 I believe. A couple +1 runes will last multiple fights where the magic weapon spell will only last us 1.

+1 striking is 100gp, and that's if we can get a striking rune. Is that possible, Worg?

If not, We could drop some funds into several scrolls of Magic Weapon.

Likewise, I would want a scroll of Dispel Magic in the group, as well as a couple 1st level Heal scrolls, Just in case.

Yeah, when I was looking at funds it seemed the +1 Striking Handwraps for me would be too hefty a price.

The utility and healing of scrolls sounds good though.

So I think we need to make a choice as a group.

I think getting Gobil +1 handwraps is a good idea if they are available.

That leaves Allania's blade and perhaps shield as well as Hulgur's staff that could be enchanted. It looks like we could afford to ehance 2 other items if we could get the handwraps but that would burn through most of our funds. So the need for magic weapon might not completely go away.

Bort's wagon of supplies unfortunately doesn't have a +1 Rune of Striking, but they do have plenty of scrolls of magic weapon.

Since we do have plenty of folks that can cast magic weapon, that might be our best choice. Oils of potency could also be used, since they last for a full minute.

At this point, I am questioning my choice of not giving Screech an alchemist dedication, with all of the bombs!

The bombs should go to martials, as they are martial weapons. And we should make use of them.

We should divide out the elixirs of life, to everyone but Screech. He doesn't tend to get in melee.

Here's a suggestion, now that we have a 3rd level caster.

30gp 3x Level 2 heal scroll (emergency healing GOOD)
10gp 3x Magic Weapon scroll
10gp 3x Magic Missile scroll (mostly so that Screech can do a little more consistent damage, when it gets critical)

That's 50gp, which we can sell 2 bottled lightning and cover.

This will increase our combat potential a good deal, I think, and goes a long way to saving Screech's spells for healing (Sooth) instead of attacking. For some reason, I think we'll need that.

With two decent healers (Merin and Screech) we should be in pretty good shape.

GM, any way you can list out the potions remaining? Or by those, you meant the bombs?

EDIT for bulk discount!

I meant the bombs, my bad.

I'm not seeing any tactically good option here.

If I move to engage, I get swarmed. If I move to where I won't get swarmed, I leave the casters open to getting rushed.

We probably should have spent the round moving somewhere to create a bottleneck.