Male N Dwarf from Qadira - usually talking business or about the past | Flame Spirit Shaman (Speaker for the Past) 9 | HP 98/98 + 12/12 Temp HP | Resistance Fire 10 | Now: AC25 / AC 27 vs evil, Normal: AC 22 T 10 FF 22 | CMB +4, CMD 14 | F: +11, R: +6, W: +17 | Init: +0 | Perc: +20, SM: +19, Dipl.: +24 | Reroll 1/1 | Chaldira trait reroll 1/1 | Knowledge 8/8 | Darkvision 60ft | Speed 20ft | Active condition: heroism, barkskin, magic vs evil, heightened awareness
Male N Half-Elf Wizard 7|Buffs:Haste, Mage Armor, Shield, Protection from Evil, Mirror Image, False Life, Blood Boiling Pill, Light (Dagger blade). | HP 62/62 Temp HP 11/11|AC 20 (22 vs Evil) Incorp T 20(22) T 12(14) FF 18(20) |4 Images|CMB +4 CMD 15|F +6 R +5 W +6,+2 vs Enchantment/Cold,+1 vs Evil/Fear/Confusion|INIT +14|PER +23 Low Light Vision SM+2|Speed 60'|Resist 10 Negative Energy Damage
Resources:
Shirt Re-roll 1/1, Pearl of Power 1st 1/6, Four Leaf Clover 3/3, Force Missiles: 9/9,+1 Knowledge 1/1|Spells 1st 6/7, 2nd 5/6,3rd 1/4 4th 3/3
Your group successfully completed your primary mission.
Primary:
You needed to recover at least two of the three Shining Crusade texts, you got all three. You also needed to recover the Lines of Succession text which you did.
Secondary Success conditions:
Your group successfully completed your secondary mission.
Secondary:
You needed to accomplish four of the following:
* escape the library without alerting the Lion Blades,
* avoid combat with any Lion Blades,
* avoid giving away Princess Eutropia's letter,
* recover all three of the Shining Crusade texts,
* accumulate at least 11 Deception points (accumulating 15 or more Deception points counts as two conditions).
You had a 50% chance of failing to gain one of the Shining Crusade texts since it was in the room with the book swarm. One of the four books was part of the swarm, fortunately it wasn’t one of the two relating to the Shining Crusade in that room.
I would have to do a detailed review of deception points, but I do not think you accumulated enough to pass that task. Deception points were a measure of how well you covered your tracks. Things like Toral covering the tracks, Igor and Iacopo placing the books back, not stealing the vials from the desk in the secret room all helped with the deception points.
Had you avoided the book swarm or used less fire against it and repaired the books that would have also helped quite a bit. When I played through it, our group detected the pages ruffling and our oracle did an augury. Based on the augury we never opened that cabinet.
I have also seen groups able to defeat it with blunt weapons, but I do not believe that your group could have. The bleed damage in that swarm can be very nasty!
You also earned the boon for Glorymane, an intelligent Lion’s Shield.
Good job, everyone!
If no one immediately needs these characters for another game, I will most likely get chronicles out by Thursday. I have another game that has just recently completed that I also need to do chronicles for and have some other things that I need to get done by Wednesday.
If you do have another game lined up and need them before that, let me know and I will try to get them out sooner.
Male N Dwarf from Qadira - usually talking business or about the past | Flame Spirit Shaman (Speaker for the Past) 9 | HP 98/98 + 12/12 Temp HP | Resistance Fire 10 | Now: AC25 / AC 27 vs evil, Normal: AC 22 T 10 FF 22 | CMB +4, CMD 14 | F: +11, R: +6, W: +17 | Init: +0 | Perc: +20, SM: +19, Dipl.: +24 | Reroll 1/1 | Chaldira trait reroll 1/1 | Knowledge 8/8 | Darkvision 60ft | Speed 20ft | Active condition: heroism, barkskin, magic vs evil, heightened awareness
alternate portrait | Female Half-Orc Paladin (Holy Tactician) 2 / Skald (Dragon Skald) 1 | HP:24*/24* | AC:21*/11*/20* | CMD:17*/16* (+1 vs grapple) | Saves: F8*/R3/W7* (+2 vs fear effects; additional +2 to 1st fear save/day) | Init:1 | Senses: Darkvision, Perception:5 | Sense Motive:4 | Speed in Armor: 20' | Raging Songs 5/5 | Lvl.1 Spells 2/2 | Messenger bag reroll 1/1 | Faction Pin 1/1 | Active Conditions: None
Huzzah! I'm so very excited for an intelligent shield! Thankee kindly GM! What a fun (and confusing, lol) adventure! I think this is probably the only session where I have never even drawn my weapon... well ok to be fair I probably drew it while I was running toward the mysterious sound, I just didn't have time to do anything about it til it was already dead, lol
And just in case anyone is curious, my moniker is because she hums her own battle song (headcanon its Indiana Jones, lol) when fighting.... because her next level is going to be in SKALD. :D
Awesome it was a blast even if my crusader was out of his element. It is nice to see some different mission styles and systems in play. They are often hit or miss but this one works well enough in PbP.
Thanks for bearing with us as we worked out the details, I know we got a little lost in the details at times (especially me).
No rush on the Chronicle. I am enjoying my # of games dwindling down on the backend of the convention and this guy has a particular set of scenarios he wants to play, mostly all the Silver Crusade ones. Looks like the next ones are 5-04, 5-105-19, 9-18, 10-12.
Male N Dwarf from Qadira - usually talking business or about the past | Flame Spirit Shaman (Speaker for the Past) 9 | HP 98/98 + 12/12 Temp HP | Resistance Fire 10 | Now: AC25 / AC 27 vs evil, Normal: AC 22 T 10 FF 22 | CMB +4, CMD 14 | F: +11, R: +6, W: +17 | Init: +0 | Perc: +20, SM: +19, Dipl.: +24 | Reroll 1/1 | Chaldira trait reroll 1/1 | Knowledge 8/8 | Darkvision 60ft | Speed 20ft | Active condition: heroism, barkskin, magic vs evil, heightened awareness
The game will be open for early GM signup on August 05, 2020 and general signup on August 12, 2020. I plan to take people on a First Come, First Serve basis and will be limiting it to a table of six. The game will not start until September 01, 2020.
I will expect everyone to post in on the Discussion thread between a week and three days before the start of the game. That allows me to know that everyone is ready.
Since sometimes players fail to show, I would not mind having one or two extras signed up. I will be offering seats to them if someone drops or fails to show up.
This is an infiltration mission into a library to do research. You will want to keep that in mind when you choose your character.
Pathfinder LO Special Edition, PF Special Edition Subscriber
Do you think a Warpriest (Sword & Board) would be too much of a liability? He spent most of his life in Mendev so this seems interesting, he could prepare spells to help and has a skill check blessing. I can always wait to apply it to him through GMing and choose someone else.
I’m not recognizing which blessing you are referring to as a skill check blessing.
Anything you can bring in terms of skills, class features, or magic to find information will be valuable here. A sneaky mindset also helps. It is a scenario where the more battles you get into, the worse you are doing. That said, there are still battles required if you are to complete all of your objectives.
That said, not every member of the group needs to have library research skills. There are other skills that come up. Inventive use of class abilities or spells is encouraged.
I would say sign up with the character you most want to play but have a backup in case the group seems light on skills.
This is the character, so I will sign up on him and see how the group builds.
Nobility blessing can give a +2 morale to skill checks for 1 minute. I can use it 4 times a day. With Guidance +1 competence I can help with short term skill checks pretty well. Looking through spells I can prepare for the mission, Kreighton's Perusal looks like it could be a nice one.
Sounds fun and I like a challenge in roleplaying, crusaders need to learn too. Haha.
Tsuan would be interested. She's not that great at research but she's good at sneaking around. She can speak Infernal, which may or may not be useful.
Caveat: Tsuan is currently locked in another campaign. We are in the BBE battle so it's likely we'll be done (or dead) by the week's end, but just wanted to be up front about it.
I didn't check this thread yesterday, but wanted to correct before things crystallize. Tsuan is 3(.2) right now, but has several unapplied GM credits - she's going to catapult up to level 5 after her current adventure. I think we're still high tier with the adjustment, though
(but barely).
Given Khouri's strong interest, I'm willing to withdraw to give my seat to her if she hasn't signed up for anything else.
Khouri did ask to be contacted if anyone dropped. If you do drop, they would have dibs on the seat. I will leave it up to you if you want to do that or not.
Alright, hope to see you around another time Tsuan!
Looks like we have:
Elris, warpriest 2
Igor with Walter the toad, alchemist 1/ wizard 3, total 4
Stefan, warpriest 1
Toral, shaman 5
Iacopo, psychic 3
Khouri's character, unknown class 1
16/6 = 2.667 = 3. Still High Tier, Four Player adjustment.
Khouri, I would really like you to state what character you are bringing.
Since we have so many Divine characters, if the group would rather I can play a pregen and then just apply the chronicle sheet to this character instead. Not counting divine classes, I'm most familiar with the Rogue or Magus class - I leave it up to the party.
Player name: Mage of the Wyrmkin
Character name: Igor Ivantoe
OPF #:115226
Character #:10
Faction:Grand Lodge
Day Job roll (or a note that you have no day job): Craft-Alchemy (Take 10 - 26) for 50 gold.
Just a note. My familiar is not an active participant in combat so he simply grants Alertness and +3 hit points but cannot take actions or be a target of spells or effects.
Ehhh, looking at all of your characters in more focus, it doesn't look like we have anyone with decent Charisma? Also since the title is about a library, I was thinking maybe a Bard would be a better fit for the party?
If y'all don't think that's as big of a concern as traps and locked doors, then I will totally stay as the Pregen Merisiel Rogue.
Also, do I need to... do anything to prove I own the items for the Organized Play Accessory Perks? Like send you a link to a pic or something? Or is it just taken on trust? Idk
Unless it is really rare or I have some reason to question it, I take it on faith you own what you say you own. Just tell me what you are gaining the perk from. Other GMs may require more.
The 5th level oracle would pull the group firmly into high tier.
Previously the group was looking at high tier 4 player adjustment. We have a level 1 and level 2 character in the group, but both previously said they were willing to play high tier.
If needed I do also have some unused 1st-level martial characters, a cavalier and a bloodrager (as i just realized the options I provided above are pretty caster-heavy).
Otherwise I am happy to play this oracle, just trying to be flexible :)
Go to discussion and work with the group on which character you will play. As long as none object, you can play the oracle. It would make the APL 4, so high tier 6 player rather than high tier 4 player.
