GM Blake's PF2 Extinction Curse Campaign

Game Master Blake's Tiger

Bot me. I'll sing, shoot or cast soothe.

I can post for myself now -- past the obnoxious Tuesday-Wednesday work combo.

Yes: the gravedigger's AC is higher than the worm's.

Your poppet is immune to bleed, death effects, disease, doomed, drained, fatigued, healing, necromancy, nonlethal attacks, paralyzed, poison, sickened, and unconscious.

Not sure if that was a Harm spell, but it may be Splinters is immune.

It's Harm. Noted. I'll forget, I'm sure. Just remind me each time. :)

Refunded Rulean one action because his stalwart companions downed the demon before Round 4.

No, no... not even it can withstand 2 natural 20s in a row. Nice show!

Thanks for catching that I hadn't included Magic Weapon in my attacks!

Vermlek identification

Demons.

Now, the way she's been going, if Clover had tried to identify them, you'd probably think they are aberrations.

Yeah, based on the majority of the RK rolls she's gotten Clover doesn't know what she's talking about and probably shouldn't be trusted :P

Clover, do you know that the beast you call a badger is, in fact, a big fat squirrel?

Yeah, based on the majority of the RK rolls she's gotten Clover doesn't know what she's talking about and probably shouldn't be trusted :P

She is doing better than a certain dwarf in a different campaign. :)

Barely!

It's raining Hero Points because your GM feels like he has failed you.

Since I did not create a reasonable, universally applied system to track Hero Points, I am setting everyone's Hero Points to 2 as of now.

There is now a link to your Hero Points in the Campaign header.

Failing us? That seems a bit extreme. We all forget to offer Hero Points to our Players.

Yes. I'm intentionally being melodramatic for comedic effect. But I should have created a tracking system, and I do feel bad. There are going to be a lot more Hero Point additions and subtractions for the duration of even 1 book of an AP than a PFS scenario, so I should have set something formal up at the start. :)

Might want to just set story points where you award hero points. That would likely be less bookkeeping and reasonably fair.

Might want to just set story points where you award hero points. That would likely be less bookkeeping and reasonably fair.

That is a completely reasonable suggestion that I am entirely likely to mess up. :)

Alright, everyone needs to find out what works for them. I know that some tricks that other GMs use don’t work for me.

Can't get in my post today; tired after GMing. Ephie will follow everyone's lead!

The way this week has gone (the weekend was so chill!), I'm lucky I got a post in yesterday. Haven't ever stayed so long since I was a fellow...

I gave you the church interior description "early." The book intends for you to safely walk in and see the demons in their distraction. I said, "My players were definitely peak through the holes in the glass," so I wrote that out. Feel free to enter with them unaware and try to sneak up on them.

Yeah, I've ran into that before :)

Scenario/module/whatever assumes PCs do <X>.

Me: Lol no my players aren't gonna do that.

I was picturing something more cool like some of us busting in through windows. . .

Clover critically failed her religion check and doesn't realize the Abadaran church will totally bill them for the damages. ;)

Let me know if you want to Hide before your designated battle starter does something. Who is your designated battle starter for this fight? Rulean?

Can this count as Scouting to give +1 to everyone’s initiative?

Since you can't actually surprise anyone with a spell--barring some feat I've yet bothered to discover--yes, you're still scouting. I'd imagine it as directing everyone where to go and trying to time when to attack.

Ephie is ready!

So I’m going to be busy with PaizoCon this weekend. I will probably be able to do some updates but not with any regularity. GMing 3 slots, playing 3 slots will keep me busy.

Bot as needed,

Same!

I will be GMing on the overnights and playing a few slots, so I might be sporadic as well.

Does "Coup de Grace" still works in PF2?

Taking damage while Dying increases your Dying level by one (two on a critical hit), but that is when you're Dying, which is typically a condition only for PCs/familiars/animal companions/significant story NPCs. There is no advantage to attacking something that is Dead such as in this case.

The benefit of invisibility is that it remains Hidden even if you manage to find its square through Seeking, which requires a DC 11 to successfully attack.

Leaf reported to my PaizoCon table that he is having computer problems. You may just want to bot him.

Hmm

Sorry, forgot this when casting the Heal spell.

Rulean has Communal Healing so he would have also healed 2 hp when he healed Ephie. Also, for Ephie I thought the wounded went away if you healed someone to full HP.

Treat Wounds removes Wounded, even if you do not heal to max.

Other healing (magical, alchemical, battle medicine) must both bring you to max and rest for 10 minutes.

EDIT: Will bot Leaf shortly.

+1 Hero Point to Ephraim for his standing his ground against the demon

By the way, with the normal mechanics for PF2 the difficulty of giving aid is 20. The difficulty of this task is 20. It is just as hard to Aid as to do the task.

A roll of 10 or less on the Aid would be a critical failure. That would give a -1 circumstance penalty to the roll. If you don't have a good chance of success, you could actually hurt the person attempting the check.

Finally, the bonus from Aid is a circumstance bonus. In the normal rules, it never helps to have more than one person Aid unless you are fishing for a critical success.

* The consequences of lying demons failing their Recall Knowledge check. :)

You can try to crack the door and peak with a Sneak action, which leaves the door in a position to require an Interact to open fully, or shoo everyone not sneaky out of the way and try to open the door surreptitiously with a Sneak action.

Or you can just open the door and see what happens.

Please bot me this weekend! Thank you!

Does "restricted line of sight" mean no targeting spells that require reflex saves, and penalties on attack rolls?

Beyond the cover bonuses, it's only a reminder to pay attention to where the door actually is and make sure you have a line of sight to what you want to target. Effie can target the pugwampi's fine.

I Think I can shoot from my position, that I have a LOF on the big bad wolf.

But Am I right, GM?

Yes

I’ll move us forward a little later this morning. Didn’t get to the office early enough to slide the post in.

Damn goblins! I'm bawling my eyes out after those two natural 20s that will stay unused!

Apologies to Nabi. I had meant to post this correction earlier but it slipped my mind during the formatting of the next round's post:

Crossbows--like in PF1--require an action to reload. Heavy crossbows require 2 actions, just for additional information.

So your round 1 actions would have been Recall Knowledge, Shoot, Reload, and your round 2 actions would be Stride, Shoot, Reload. 2 bolts used.

I was wondering too. I supposed that you could only shoot once with a crossbow, but I'm still lacking precise knowledge of PF2 Rules.

At least I hit!

That you did, indeed. :)

To go a little deeper into the rules, the ranged weapons have a statistic called Reload. A -- means it's not something you can reload, usually a thrown weapon, a 0 means it takes no actions like firing a bow, a 1 means it takes 1 action, and a 2 means it takes 2 actions.

I'm... just going to stare at the Internet for a while... :>

Well, that's the end of combat.