GM Doug's Flooded King's Court [Outpost III] (Inactive)

Game Master Doug Hahn

Yep. I removed Hmm a bit earlier!

Calling Packet! We need you to be royal for us!

Sorry folks, I don't mean to delay things. I generally have a window to post in between 9pm and midnight PST, once work is over and my kids are in bed.

A little gnome traipses in with a prompter.

King Zusgut will be played by Packet

Ulthun will be played by Ogren
Grenek will be played by Gurmire
Siathorn & Mitzli will be played by Pip and Bailiff
Crimsi will be played by Lirabelle
Pizzaz will be played by Shwurk

Pizazz / Shwurk is up, then Grenek / Gurmire and then Pizazz / Shwurk again for a groan.

Our script is on the slide or here.

Now it is Ulthun / Ogren, then Zusgut / Packet, then Grenek / Gurmire again!

"WOOOOOF!"

And after that, it is Pip and me, the bestest dog ever!

Sorry to make you guys wait. I had a busy morning today.

The little gnome continues prompting.

King Zusgut will be played by Packet

Ulthun will be played by Ogren
Grenek will be played by Gurmire
Siathorn & Mitzli will be played by Pip and Bailiff
Crimsi will be played by Lirabelle
Pizzaz will be played by Shwurk

Pizazz / Shwurk is up, then Crimsi / Lirabelle, Zusgut / Packet and then ALL OF US!

Our script is on the slide or here.

Everyone but Ogren. :'(

You can totally improv a line about the great goblin heroes. The crowd will love it. By the way, your performance as Ulthun has been masterful!

Was gming tonight and beat… I'll move you on tomorrow morning!

I like this Championing-In-Tandem strategy; have a hero point, Lirabelle and Orgren!

Does it? I've never heard that before. It doesn't say anything about damage being halved on a success in the spell description, which was what I've been going off of

Re: Daze

You cloud the target's mind and daze it with a mental jolt. The jolt deals mental damage equal to your spellcasting ability modifier; the target must attempt a basic Will save. If the target critically fails the save, it is also stunned 1.

Basic saves succeed for 1/2 damage. My reading of the spell is that the damage is a basic save and if you crit fail the extra thing happens.

If I'm wrong me know, still learning the ins-and-outs of 2e, but this is how I understand the spell works!

*shrug* You've done way more 2nd ed than me, this is just the first time I've heard of it

I agree, the Basic saves are a short hand for dealing with the damage from spells. They have made it a general rule.

If it says Basic save, the damage depends on their save result.

Do I get an extra bonus with the campaign service re-roll? I'll use it regardless!

That's what we do at tables with Al, adding his stars. We also allow for a second reroll on the same check as it's an exception to the "only one hero point spent per check" general rule since the coin trumps all and it isn't technically a fortune effect.

Anyway just dropping the note here in case others see another way to run Campaign Coins. It's definitely a niche thing!

Is there such a thing as Reposition? I moved up 5’ and have one action left. I would love to be able to move Ogren out of chomping range.

Not to my knowledge, but there are Dragging rules. It's a measly 50' / minute depending on bulk. This works out to exactly 5 feet per 3 Actions (in other words, a full round to drag a creature 5 feet).

I would also think you need an interact action to grab on to the creature.

So, it's possible to grab Orgren this round, then get him away next round.

Alright, that is too slow. I really wanted him out of the monsters reach faster than that.

I believe I am one action short of being able to heal him this round as well. I need an Interact action to draw a potion or elixir, a stride to move the 5’, and another interact to force feed the potion.

If I don’t move, I could throw another bomb at -5. That would make it difficult to hit the hungry lizard. Rereading the Alchemical Bomb section, they don’t mention targeting an area so all I do is the splash damage,

I have moved my character back to where it was as I check the rules, see if I can’t come up with a better option within the rules.

Wait, there's a sewer lore? Good grief I think I need to make a character with that now!

Bardic Lore lets you wildcard any legal lore to recall knowledge.

I would say Sewer Lore is appropriate under this classification:

Lore about a specific terrain (Mountain Lore, River Lore, etc.)

Take the Animal Whisperer for rodents and you could get Sewer Lore as part of the background. :)

But apparently hermits, nomads or scouts could also take sewer lore as well. A sewer druid hermit sounds like a lot of fun to play... If sewers are not civilization enough to avoid the wild druid anathema.

I improv or add Lores for bards with Bardic Lore the to use in my games. There's probably a lore for nearly every general topic. Sewer seemed appropriate to me as well.

Bardic Lore is lots of fun!

Bardic Lore is awesome!

GMing tonight. Will probably not update till afterwards or tomorrow so everyone has a chance to catch up. This is an interesting scene!

Have a good game. My love to the California crowd, if that is who you're playing with!

I keep forgetting to ask about it, but Ogren used his hero point before didn't he? I could have sworn I deleted it from the slide when I did use it, though, so I have no idea why it's back.

I swear I gave you and Lirabelle one each for tandem Championing with reactions in the croc fight, but I cannot find the post now.

It is entirely possible I added the tokens to the slide but forgot to post, or that an edit was lost due to Paizo website wonkiness.

Regardless, tokens on the slide are correct; you have one hero point.

Doug you are one of the best PBP GMs I have ever had. So delightful!

Ogren Bound wrote:

I keep forgetting to ask about it, but Ogren used his hero point before didn't he? I could have sworn I deleted it from the slide when I did use it, though, so I have no idea why it's back.

I swear I gave you and Lirabelle one each for tandem Championing with reactions in the croc fight, but I cannot find the post now.

It is entirely possible I added the tokens to the slide but forgot to post, or that an edit was lost due to Paizo website wonkiness.

Regardless, tokens on the slide are correct; you have one hero point.

Yay! Thank-you for the point! I thought I remembered a post where Lirabelle got one but I might have been mis-remembering the Campaign coin one. Trading reactions was fun and made me interested in playing with more champions in the future. If (or once) the dedications for neutral deities comes out it'd be fun to run an all champion party with a different reaction a character.

Also I agree with HMM in that this has been an amazing game to play in and you've been a stupendous GM!

I'm very happy you're having a good time! This is one of my favorite 2E scenarios so far, and you all have been a BLAST; I'm really glad I ended up running it for this group.

@Packet: there's no flat-footed in 2E; you get sneak because of your rogue class features which sort of represents that same concept.

Also, your short sword is Versatile (Slashing) but I assume you use the default Piercing unless otherwise noted or have been given a clue to do slashing damage.

Sure, whatever makes the most sense. I mentioned flat-footed part because the surprise attack thing has this language: On the first round of combat, if you roll Deception or Stealth for initiative, creatures that haven’t acted are flat-footed to you.
But if flat-footed isn’t actually a thing or doesn’t need to be a thing anyway, then that’s okay too.
I guess my next question then is if I rolled deception or stealth for my initiative, because if not then I don’t get the sneak damage anyway.

Yeah. There IS flat-footed, you just aren't flat automatically at the start of combat unless rogue things. I wrote that previous statement very poorly. Between playing last night, work, and prepping to gm tonight I'm barely coherent. You know the feeling :D

Doug, are you GMing anything after this? I would love to play PF2 with you again.

Nothing planned at the moment; my Fall of the Plaguestone group (which Shwurk and packet are in) is almost done after a long 6 months, so I was planning on picking up something to gm or play. I'll let you know!

Pip really is living up to her reputation as a know-it-all. She LOVES Absalom Lore.

Treasure Bundles & Chronicles

You earned all 10 bundles, and got full mission objectives, earning you 4 fame and reputation for your faction. You also did so well navigating the situation with Macron, which required discretion and wisdom, that you earn another 2 Reputation with the Vigilant Seal faction.

I'll try to have chronicles up later today or tomorrow. I hope you all had fun!

Thank you Doug for making this run so much fun!

Although this is a Vigilent Seal mission, I have been looking forward to playing it on my goblin Gurmire for quite a while. The whole team helped make it every bit as much fun as I was hoping for.

Where do you want our earn income rolls?

Where do you want our earn income rolls?

I think you rolled your day job of Arson Lore on Page 1 of the discussion, and got a 25!

I'm glad you had fun.

Thank you so much, Doug! This was so much fun!

Gurmire wrote:

Where do you want our earn income rolls?

I think you rolled your day job of Arson Lore on Page 1 of the discussion, and got a 25!

I'm glad you had fun.

That was forever ago!

Translation: I totally forgot I did it.

This was amazing! It's one of my top 5 play-by-posts!

Thank you very much for running! I had a lovely time. Sorry if Shwurk was a little quiet at times. I'm still feeling her out outside of her main shtick.

Speaking of which I totally forgot her day job

Day Job: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7

Thanks everyone! Hope to play with you again some day!

Underworld Lore: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (18) + 6 = 24

I loved playing with everyone. It was so fun to be able to see everyone's characters!

Here is a link to your chronicles: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1QlfXBhtEe0smZZQzsy1VOyQYB8jg5Rq6?us p=sharing. The game is also sent in for reporting.

Thank you so much for the wonderful group! Please PM me if you have any questions or need the chronicle checked, as I may no longer be looking at this thread on a regular basis (especially after 48 hours).

Thank you, everyone! I hope to play again soon.