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When you get a chance go ahead and fill out the slides with info for chronicle sheets as well as pasting an icon for character on the page with the Pathfinder Society instructions.
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Player: Zachary Seldon
Character: Anri Darkspur
Organized Play: #2366390-2004
Faction: Vigilant Seal
Downtime: > 2 silver x 8 days = 1.60 gold
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School Network > Scrolls of See Invisibility (DC 18, 2-hrs, 6.00gp ink) and Fear (DC 15, 1-hr, 2.00gp ink)
Faction Boon > Vigilant Seal Champion (free)
Generic Boons > Resist Corruption (#VS-T1), Sand Slide (#1-Q1), Valais's Assurance (#1-12)
Advanced Boon > Devil's Keep (#1-11)
As a note I'm pretty sure you can learn spells from druids and clerics too, just as long as the spells you want are also on the arcane list.
There happens to be a good chunk near the beginning with some time (~6 hours), also with the way the intro is written you should be able to prepare your spells after learning of your mission.
Also you and Zandarel may wish to exchange spells.
Even if there isn't time during the mission proper there's nothing from stopping from spending time afterwards learning spells. (Although I can think of one scenario that's an exception to that)
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Player: Jeff Chapman
Character: Zanderel Elerin
Organized Play: #77280-2002
Faction: Grand Archive
Downtime: TBD (I have Magical Shorthand, and might use the downtime to scribe a spell on the cheap. Depends on how the adventure goes)
Pathfinder School (Spells): Scroll of Dispel Magic, Minor Healing Potion
Faction Boon: Grand Archive Champion (free)
Promotional Boon: Promotional Vestments (if you'll allow this. I promise to wear a PFS shirt at least once during this adventure)
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Anri - Perhaps a better rate is a poor choice of words. First, have a look at Magical Shorthand
The pertinent bit is, "You can use downtime to learn and inscribe new spells. This works as if you were using Earn Income with the tradition’s associated skill, but instead of gaining money, you choose a spell available to you to learn and gain a discount on learning it, learning it for free if your earned income equals or exceeds its cost."
Learn a Spell is normally an Exploration activity, and doesn't have the Downtime trait. So the first the feat does is let you learn a spell using downtime. In an AP, I expect a GM would just let you do this, but PFS is all about technicalities :)
The next good thing though is that you can use (in my case) Arcana for the roll if I'm using Downtime to Learn a Spell. I have a +11, which is better than all my other skills that Earn Income. Better chance to crit the income earned. Add the fact that a crit also halves the scribing costs... Let's do the math.
I'm a level 3 wizard and I have a scroll for a 2nd level spell I want to learn. With my +11 in Arcana (I'm Expert) I roll a 17 for a 28 total. That's a crit for both the task DC for Earn Income (15 for a level 1 task) and Learn a Spell (18 for a 2nd level spell). This means that I earn the task level 2 money (3sp) AND halve the cost from 6gp to 3gp. The net cost is 2gp and 7sp.
Why this is (admittedly marginally) better is because it's my best roll and it's only one roll. My Lore skills are +9, so a slightly decreased chance of a crit on earn income. Plus, if I somehow end the scenario with a hero point, I can reroll that bad result.
Oh and you betcha we are swapping spells!
Here is the recent PFS discussion on how exactly magical shorthand works.
Short answer: nobody knows for sure but there are a couple reasonable interpretations. I'll get back to you on exactly how I think it works
Hero Points are not usable on downtime rolls. In the Ritual rules...
As with other downtime activities, fortune and misfortune effects can’t modify your checks for the ritual
Alright, no sign of our 6th, but we've still got a nice 5 so we're going to play with what we have.
We've got 14CP so we'll be playing subtier 1-2.
Our initial briefing post is now up.
Resolving my Downtime before I forget.
Fail, 8cp, CS = 8sp
Total 0.88gp
It would probably be irresponsible not to have weapons drawn heading through these woods at this point.
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Hmm the action economy in this first round is always very unsatisfying. Even with drawn weapons I need Hunt Prey for the twin takedown leaving me with to little speed to reach the target in one stride. Its almost as if it is better to just let the enemy come at you.
Am I missing something how a ranger is supposed to be played?
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Yes, but in my fist fight as ranger I learned how that is also hard to do without an AOO Skill. Or better or halforc Sorceress learned the hard way. And it did not really go better in the secomd fight where the Boss just walked right past me into the middle of the group to enjoy his huge charge bonus versus one of our rogues.
So before Level 4 even protecting people might be a problem. Right now my main purpose in protecting you is to make the wolf go through more difficult terrain (and hope thats a problem for wolves) and present a juicy menacing lump of meat and hope they fall for it, but don't hit it.
OTOH with Hunted shot I would have gotten on average 1.2 hits on my target. I a fight that only lasts 3 rounds thats a huge advantage to make up.
BTW thanks for the explosion.
I find Twin strike's action economy is a little deceptive. It's a single action attack but requires hunt prey first so quite frequently it works just like attacking twice but lets you apply your hunted prey for free. You also happen to have played 2 outdoorsy scenarios in a row which tend to have further starting distances than a scenario that say mostly takes place in an urban or dungeon environment. That said I've found movement speed to be super important on my melee characters, with 30ft feeling vastly faster/more flexible than 25 and with characters faster than that feeling awesome.
I don't know if double scimitars is key to your character concept but especially with the 16/16 str/dex you might want to consider a throwable weapon in one of your hands, like say a trident or starknife that gives you some interesting options. Especially since neither of the scimitar's traits function well when fighting with 2 weapons I'd consider replacing both. Also having an agile weapon to follow up with makes a big difference in the accuracy of follow-up attacks, especially with ranger flurry.
Assuming weapons drawn you could easily end up stride, hunt, throw in some situations and then if the monster closes you can draw, twin takedown and then either strike again or move away or whatever. Quick Draw makes this path even more appealing.
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I'll fix. I'll also now throw away the post it on the side of my monitor reminding me not to forget.
You've failed me for the last time post-it note
The rules are iffy on taking cover in partial cover situations but I have no objection to taking cover in the woods here just as we've been doing, plenty of foliage to get in the way.
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Sorry for assuming the combat was over already. I just wanted to write a small flavour post and then got carried away because my subconcious kept telling me that the combat is over.
@ Anri the once on the op of the map are a fleeing wolf and the other dead halfling, so I assume those are gone for sure.
Hey folks, while I suspect it was intended in a friendly manner...
In my opinion as gm challenging other PCs to fistacuffs is not an appropriate way to resolve a difference of opinion on how to proceed in Pathfinder Society.
The motto of the Pathfinder Society is “Explore, report, cooperate.” In keeping with the “cooperate” theme, do not engage in
character-versus-character conflict.
Not only does the action itself make me uncomfortable it serves to stifle future discussion as Anri has now threatened violence over those who disagree with them.
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If we had been at a physical table and I was on top of things I would have stopped the action when the challenge was initially presented and brought up the PFS rules, discussed the potential issues and taken a quick break before continuing.
I'd like to play as though that's what we have done, as I don't believe such a challenge fits within the framework of the Pathfinder Society.
That said it sounds like the preferred plan of the majority is to press forward. Baring any serious objections I'll move that forward this evening. (Assuming things don't go horribly off track we are rapidly approaching the end of the scenario)
If you have further issues regarding this please feel free to PM or email me. vcRob@pfsprep.com
Even with some cover from the trees you did not get high enough on your init/stealth roll to beat any of their perception DC's to become hidden.
Short answer no. You could hide and then sneak but that's a lot of work/time.
No problem, my brain has been mush all day. Gonna take a bit to recover from Con land even if it was from home
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Rules question for next turn.
I have a base speed of 25 ft. so half speed is 12.5 ft.
Movement is difficult terrain so 10ft/Step Horizontzal and 15 for the first diagonal step.
When I get only one move acttion, I cannot move 2 spaces horizontal , correct?
When I get only one move acttion, I can move 1 spaces diagonal, correct?
When I manage to succeed at multiple move actions I first add the distances and then apply it to the map correct?
@ Anri Keep hanging in there. My expected time of arrival is around Christmas. Probably next christmas but maybe the year after.
First diagonal step is 10 (5+5)
Second diagonal step is 15 (10+5)
Do note
You track your total diagonal movement across all your movement during your turn, but reset your count at the end of your turn.
In theory you make the rolls one at a time because it could matter when/where you crit fail.
12.5 feet is awkward as the 2.5 feet doesn't get you anywhere but I have no objection adding it to another stride action later that turn. (Just like if you wanted to double stride through normal difficult terrain you'd make it 5 spaces. I remember this being an explicit rule but I'm not currently finding it.)
Effectively getting you 10 feet from the first success and 15 feet from the second. (3rd success would be 10 again, and any crit success 25)
1 success gets you 1 horizontal or diagonal. (10)
A second susses then gets you a second horizontal or diagonal (25)
A 3rd success gets you another horizontal or diagonal. (35)
(Math gets more complicated with any crits)
Looks like you're 4 success away unless anything changes.
(The good news is Zanderel took the shard again meaning he's the only one effected by the bad luck curse.)
Sorry for the long answer, lemme know if this makes sense or if I've confused things further.