Curse of the Crimson Throne

Game Master Whack-a-Rogue

Congratulations on defeating the leader of the Red Mantis Assassins. This is a great time to level up. ;-)

Level 15! <rolls up sleeves>

HP: +6 (base) + 6 (con) = +12 (171 total)
Saves: None from class, +1 from ABP (resistance)
BaB: +1
Skills: +4
Background Feat that I missed from lvl 14: Skill Focus Perception
Lvl 15 Feat: Arcane Strike
FCB Monk: Reduce the hardness of any object made of clay, stone, or metal by 1 whenever the object is struck by the monk's unarmed strike (hardness now reduced by 15!)

Monk 15:
+1 DR: DR/4 (Adamantine)
Combat Talent (if allowed): Perfect Attunement - As long as you have martial focus, you gain tremorsense with a range of 15 feet. At base attack bonus +11 and every 4 base attack bonus higher, the range of your tremorsense increases by 15 feet.

Sorcerer 15:
Bloodline Power: Aura of Protection (Su) (requires 15th level): You project an aura of power and goodness and that gives strength to you and your allies. While you are conscious, you and allies who can see you gain a +4 morale bonus to all saving throws.

Sphere Talent: Break Enchantment (I think that you mentioned that we will be stopping at lvl 16 or 17? Next lvl he will meet the perquisites for 'Make Whole' which is a great capstone ability)

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Mistakes I noticed:

Alteration: " A caster may grant up to 1 trait + 1 per 5 caster levels and cannot grant the same trait more than once unless the trait indicates it may be granted multiple times."

I was only using 1 (Dodge for +2 AC). I should have 4! Therefore, will be using spending 2 spell points for reapply permanent, adding these:

* Initiative: The target gains quickened reactions, granting a +4 competence bonus to initiative.

* Uncanny Dodge: The target gains extraordinary reactions, granting uncanny dodge as the rogue ability. The target is no longer flat-footed at the start of combat nor loses Dexterity to AC against invisible attackers. If the target is granted this trait a second time or already has the uncanny dodge ability from another source, they instead gain improved uncanny dodge as the rogue ability. The target can no longer be flanked. This defense denies a rogue the ability to sneak attack the target by flanking, unless the attacker has at least four more rogue levels than the target has Hit Dice.

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Main Changes:
* Improved Uncanny Dodge (alteration)
* +4 Initiative (alteration)
* +4 damage (arcane strike)
* +4 morale bonus to saves for Torsten and Usawoti (bloodline), with +1 (resistance) for +5 total
* +1 DR (DR4/adamantine)
* Tremorsense 25ft (open hand talent)

If all of this is kosher, and I didn't make any mistakes, I'll get the profile updated. All in all, a good level!

wow, done already... about the only thing I know is the fifteenth level feat will be exotic weapon: bastard sword (or that group or whatever) My wife too the day off so I don't know that I'm going to get a lot done today and the weekends are always busy, hopefully I'll get Usawoti updated on Monday.

I tend to map most of this out in advance. So when the time comes to level up, there isn't much thought process left.

If you want exotic weapon: bastard sword, then I'd advise taking extra combat talent for the equipment sphere.

Knightly Training (discipline)
You gain proficiency with the greatsword, halberd, heavy flail, heavy pick, light flail, light pick, lance, longsword, shortsword, and warhammer, and may wield the bastard sword and estoc, but only as two-handed martial weapons. When performing a charge, you only suffer a -1 penalty to your AC rather than -2.
(I think that this would net you bastard sword, estoc, and better charging)

Duelist Training (discipline)
You gain proficiency with the bastard sword, butterfly knife, double chicken saber, dual blade, dueling sword, estoc, greatsword, longsword, pistol, rapier, shortsword and swordbreaker dagger.

Gallowglass Training (discipline) [High. HB]
You gain proficiency with the deer horn knife, greatsword, halberd, light shields, longbow, longsword, musket, pistol, shortbow, and shortsword, and may wield the bastard sword as a two-handed martial weapon.

Custom Training (discipline)
Select 5 weapons; you gain proficiency with the selected weapons. Exotic weapons count as two weapons against your total (so you could gain 1 exotic weapon proficiency and proficiency in 3 martial or simple weapons, or proficiency in 2 exotic weapons and 1 martial or simple weapon). You may take this talent multiple times, selecting new weapons each time.

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With custom training, you could take dwarven shoanti boulder helmet. grants a +2 circumstance bonus to the wearer’s AC against critical hit confirmation rolls.

Another 2 points gets you bastard sword.

@Torsten: Everything looks fine to me. Normally I'm not a huge fan of the talents that permanently grant extraordinary senses, but since you already have lifesense through the Divination sphere, it's fine. Don't forget that the lifesense talent costs 2 spell points, though. ;-)

@Usawoti: Take your time. :-) I'd suggest selecting a different feat, however.

@Usawoti: Take your time. :-) I'd suggest selecting a different feat, however.

? curious I was assuming they would leave the sword a bastard sword and he'd need to be able to use it.

I will see if I'd made any previous notes about feats at this level

so absolutely no idea what to do here. Certainly, puts YBD's recommendation to skip focusing on the sword into a different light.

Lol I was planning to get a post up Monday (crazy weekend). But yeah this takes a bit of thought.

Two options. Retreat and come back with the sword, or fight now and see how the dice fall. I'm down for the second and it will be Torsten's default. If you want to go with the former though, I'll gladly go along with that as well.

I'm happy to fight, curious to see how much damage we can do to her without the sword...

Hey Torsten, which approach do you think will be better. For Usawoti to channel and damage as many as he can some, or focus on one combatant at a time?

It's a good question. I'm actually stuck here myself. We could...

(1) Retreat to the doorway. We are heavily outnumbered and our enemies are large. We can take away their numbers by using the terrain. Sadly, the Queen seems to be a powerful wizard herself, and this gives her plenty of time to blast away at us. But with this, you could AOE the enemies and they couldn't do much.

(2) I could grab charge through and hit the Queen straight away. I'd be surrounded by everyone, but I could get right into the thick of things. At least right now, with the enemies flat footed, they won't be able to get any AOOs against Torsten as he goes past them.

I'm really on the fence between the two. What do you think?

I like the idea of moving to the doorway, and getting hit less often, but his channel would only hit those within 30 ft. He could use channel ray to hit the queen or the destructive blast. If you charge through to hit the queen, he can move 30 ft to the red carpet and channel from there, protecting Torsten some from the onslaught with his body. I'm good either way, but moving back to a defensive position and wearing them down, hasn't quite been our style yet.

I started to post Usawoti's actions and realized I'd not gotten him to 15 level, so here we go.

Added @ 15 th lvl
ABP:
Feat: Channel Surge
Resistance +5
Ranger
+ 10 HP
+ 1 BAB,
4th studied target
Skills @ 9: + 1 to Acrobatics, Athletics, Disable Device, Influence, Knowledge (dungeoneering), (nature) Sense motive, Stealth and Survival.
Soul Weaver
Channel energy 8d6
+ 1 base caster level
+ 1 magic talent: Echoing Word

Does the feat Channel surge work with Grand Channel and Simultaneous Channeling? If not, he will take the feat Extra Channeling.

Sounds good. Yes, Channel Surge will work with those class features. It'll just get expensive if you're combining them. ;-)

yeah, three or four channel's but it may be worth it. The faster we can do the damage the quicker we're done. Since we leveled did our channel energy and spell pool go back to full?

Can't hurt to ask, right?

You haven't rested yet, so any resources are still expended. Good try, though. ;-)

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Can't blame a fellow for trying. Curious to see how the 'echoing word' works out.

@Usawoti: You need to be visible to an opponent you're trying to feint unless you have the Verbal Feint talent. Two-weapon fighting requires a full-attack action, but the Dual Attack feature from the dual-wielding sphere is an attack (Standard) action. As such, I'll ignore the klar roll this round. On a related note, Fatal Thrust requires an attack action or an AoO, so it can't be used with full-attacking.

Thank you. So blindness is another good reason to have verbal feint. I knew using a full attack action would alter things a bit I just wasn't sure how much. I should have remembered about fatal thrust, but I've gotten lazy knowing you'll correct any errors I make... I'll will try to remember the information. I'm pretty sure if not for Usawoti's benefit at least for Tribim's :)

Fun fact I learned during this combat! A human body contains 1.2-1.5 gallons of blood.

that makes sense