GM Euan's Rise of the Runelords (Inactive)

Game Master Euan

Last lvl: Jan 14, 2022.

Hasslo and Izomandakus - don't forget to level up to 10. If you have, let me know so I can check it over. Thanks!

I've had zero time this week to level up. Will get to it tonight though.

Seamus Passeri wrote:

"Besides the angry fey, I don't think it's smart to start a forest fire in the middle of the forest."

Kast gives Seamus a look, wondering if they hadn’t just spent a bunch of time in a swampy canoe together.

”Well, this much more angry haunted swamp then a forest, and so I tend to agree with you, but if the fey are dead, and the area is completely corrupt then fire might be the best option.”

lol, my bad "Start a swamp fire in the middle of a swamp" doesn't roll off the tongue like 'forest fire' :)

Here's Rastaf. Still finishing him up, but I thought you'd like to check him out.

Level Up!

I do believe you should now be level 11.

Please note the things that have changed or been added, and put it all in a spoiler so those who don't want to know your build can remain in the dark. For those of you with character sheets off site, please send me your updated sheets for reference if applicable. If it's the 'same' sheet, no need, just let me know when you're done updating it so I can give a once over. Thanks.

You gain all of your new abilities right away, including new spells and the like. However, you do not regain what you’ve already used/cast for today. It’s not a rest exactly, just a gain.

Each level I’ll be examining your characters for sins and virtues that you might exemplify for that level. Just things that struck me as, well, perhaps a little heroic, or selfish as the case may be. There is no specific gain or loss for this tracking until very late in the game, and then it’s more a question of how you’re treated. So having a lot of any particular virtue or sin shouldn’t concern you, or even give you hope.

- Greed for Izomandakus taking the poor giants spellbook - leaving him with nothing!

- Kindness to Kast for not rubbing it in as he handled the mountain with ease (thanks to endure elements and air walk among other things).

- Generosity to Valena for sacrificing a level to power the Skull's Crossing Dam and for buying boats.

- Kindness to Seamus for being willing to set a Pit Fiend loose on the world for the service it already rendered for the region.

If you feel I’ve missed something - not captured some event more significant than the one I have - please let me know. This is pretty subjective, and I’m not always grabbing something obvious, but it’ll help me keep on the lookout for things I might have otherwise missed.

Kast wishes no additional items from the treasure sheet.

In terms of group items, his scroll of remove blindness replaced, along with a few scrolls of heal and 2 of restoration and 2 of break enchantment.

Val, you track the wands, do we need more?

- Kindness to Seamus for being willing to set a Pit Fiend loose on the world for the service it already rendered for the region.

Wow. I don’t think I quite recall this moment in the same way.

Kast wishes no additional items from the treasure sheet.

In terms of group items, his scroll of remove blindness replaced, along with a few scrolls of heal and 2 of restoration and 2 of break enchantment.

Val, you track the wands, do we need more?

Yep, two more by my estimation to be safe

- Kindness to Seamus for being willing to set a Pit Fiend loose on the world for the service it already rendered for the region.

If you feel I’ve missed something - not captured some event more significant than the one I have - please let me know. This is pretty subjective, and I’m not always grabbing something obvious, but it’ll help me keep on the lookout for things I might have otherwise missed.

I'm with Kast I don't think this really happened either. The only thing that sticks out in my mind was Seamus playing his lute for the people of Turtleback Ferry. Then, here lately, totally forgetting to thank/repay Kast for healing his blindness.

Oh if Izo doesn't want the Enervation wand, I'll take it. It's on my spell list so I don't even need to UMD it

Yeah, I was just going back as well to pick something more real then my dim and incorrect memories. :)

I lean more toward the Luting as it's something you do regularly. Hard to say where it falls exactly, but Generosity seems to fit.

Generosity seems to fit.

Or wanting to repay kindness in kind, but however you feel it should go.

The church he did to repay the priests kindness and to help the folks feel better. The bar was as much to calm his nerves and feel like himself as it was to let the folks have a good time.

In actuality, Seamus is selfish, he likes himself more when he's nice to people.

Kast will let others opine on the shopping list in gameplay.

Last lvl: Mar 3, 2022.

..2506.2 gp to spend

...2506.2 gp to spend

..26362.2 gp to spend
...+675.0 gp sell nualia's stain/tummy armor (selling when new armor is avail)
..-6000.0 gp to upgrade stat item
..+1000.0 gp sell amulet
..+2000.0 gp sell belt
.-22400.0 gp celestial armor
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...1637.2 gp to spend

Everyone in the room, including Seamus, gained a +2 morale bonus to attacks and skill checks. The music lingers in the mind for 24 hours…

hmmm, with Seamus 'performance' skill at + 19 this means with the + 2 that it's + 21, so if he 'takes 10' when he performs, its a + 31. So if he performs the music every night before we go to sleep ....hm....

Ahhh, sorry. I close that particular oddity in my games. I thought I said so somewhere, but I can't find it now...

Those with reach get 'full' reach. Two squares in every direction - even diagonally. No blind spots.

I couldn't remember, that's why I asked in Slack. NO biggie, So he will attack from the square I have him in, tumble and get a single attack.

Hey Rastaf, I appreciate your desire to get Seamus healed up. Val also has a wand, if she uses it in the 7th and 8th rounds then we can all double move in the 9th and 10th, instead of Izomandakus and Val getting there way before Rastaf and Seamus.

I'd recommend not deciding what your doing in further rounds, until we know what other folks are doing.

As you wish. We could both heal you and keep up the pace.

Boys, I’m right here. If you want to talk about what I’m going to do, just message me on slack, please :)

..26362.2 gp to spend

...+675.0 gp sell nualia's stain/tummy armor (selling when new armor is avail)
..-6000.0 gp to upgrade stat item
..+1000.0 gp sell amulet
..+2000.0 gp sell belt
.-22400.0 gp celestial armor
---------
...1637.2 gp to spend

...1637.2 gp to spend

....737.2 gp to spend

....737.2 gp to spend

Level Up!

I do believe you should now be level 12. It’s slightly early, but I always found it weird to level up in the middle of an adventuring day. This also gives you a certain amount of flexibility to plan your next steps.

Please note the things that have changed or been added, and put it all in a spoiler so those who don't want to know your build can remain in the dark. For those of you with character sheets off site, please send me your updated sheets for reference if applicable. If it's the 'same' sheet, no need, just let me know when you're done updating it so I can give a once over. Thanks.

You gain all of your new abilities right away, including new spells and the like. However, you do not regain what you’ve already used/cast for today. It’s not a rest exactly, just a gain.

Each level I’ll be examining your characters for sins and virtues that you might exemplify for that level. Just things that struck me as, well, perhaps a little heroic, or selfish as the case may be. There is no specific gain or loss for this tracking until very late in the game, and then it’s more a question of how you’re treated. So having a lot of any particular virtue or sin shouldn’t concern you, or even give you hope.

Zeal to Izomandakus for teleporting the party all over the region to speed their response to the giants, gather gear in Magnimar, etc.
Zeal to Kast for his never-ending hope that the establishment will have a good solution to the problems of the region. There were other things too, but this always makes me chuckle.
Charity to Rastaf for giving generously of his healing (to NPCs as well as PCs), his Wind Walk, and of course the freakin' Raise Dead! I've played a number of healers and have never used that spell in a campaign that I can recall.
Generosity to Valena for paying to raise the Sheriff.
Generosity to Seamus for paying to raise the Sheriff.

If you feel I’ve missed something - not captured some event more significant than the one I have - please let me know. This is pretty subjective, and I’m not always grabbing something obvious, but it’ll help me keep on the lookout for things I might have otherwise missed. And of course I’ve made mistakes in the past. :)

Val would also like to purchase two new potions of fly to replace the one she expended

2374 gp 7 sp 7 cp
-1500 gp
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874 gp 7 sp 7 cp

Last lvl: Apr 25, 2022.

Charity to Rastaf for giving generously of his healing (to NPCs as well as PCs), his Wind Walk, and of course the freakin' Raise Dead! I've played a number of healers and have never used that spell in a campaign that I can recall.

I have, but only on PCs. This is a first, but I love it. I haven't played a lot of clerics.

Seamus's concern for him was obvious to Rastaf. That was enough.
There are clerics who would charge for casting that spell. Rastaf thinks that's blasphemous.
Why wouldn't you raise a good person when someone hands you the diamond to do it?

Rastaf never met the sheriff until he got here. The advantage to us is that he's not dead, and still has all the knowledge and connections he had when he died, and Warren is still #2. Sandpoint isn't too fundamentally different, as a result.

Rastaf's efforts to heal and console were good, but not great. Some people just don't like half orcs, and he's used to that.

He's never pulled the "You're alive because of me!" card, and he never will.

He just gets respect, and people listen to him when he bothers to speak.

It'll be a couple days, but he'll be leveled.

Rastaf is the new guy. He wanted to strategize spellcasting, but he's OK with just bopping in and winging it.

He's used to that, too. He lived.

Rastaf is the new guy. He wanted to strategize spellcasting, but he's OK with just bopping in and winging it.

He's used to that, too. He lived.

Yes, he did. Acquitted himself very well in defending Sandpoint. Keep being Rastaf.

Heavy storms last night, we've got no power or internet so posting on my phone. Hopefully it will be up and running soon, bot me as needed.

Heavy storms last night, we've got no power or internet so posting on my phone. Hopefully it will be up and running soon, bot me as needed.

You playing Ting Ting in Rappan Athuk? I play Lefty.

yep, I play Ting, did you just figure that out :)

It looks like a tornado crossed the northern part of our county, knocked out power for 15,000 or so. Probably won't get power back till tomorrow. My wife had to check on her mom so I brought the laptop along.

I'm on my wife's laptop instead of my desktop, so I don't have any of my sticky notes or quick info. I don't want to leave combat hanging but I'm going to keep it simple first round and try to move behind the 'mummy' As soon as my power is back I'll move on the map.

The electric company is telling folks they should have everyone’s power back by Friday. So I am using my wife’s work laptop to post from my mother-in-laws house. All of my documents and such are on my desk top at home, so I apologize if the posts are a little simplistic. I’m trying to squeeze what I normally take all day to do in a couple of hours.

Val I almost wish you had let him be paralyzed so I wouldn't have to worry about combat for a couple of days. My wife and the moms are watching "The Last Holiday" So I have about an hour to calculate an attack.

Sorry >_< I just wanted to play it safe since we are at a high enough level that things might have tactics to coup de grace if they catch you paralyzed

Look at it this way, you are becoming more productive! You can invest the extra time on baking cinnamon cookies so wife and mom can eat delicious cookies while watching their favorite show, they might even give you extra time :D

Hope things become more comfortable for you soon.

My internet is out, and I'm moving. Maybe a week, maybe 3. Bot me as needed.

Hmmm, it’s been four days, still no power, went to the mother-in-laws for a couple of hours to do laundry, so will get a post up…

Level Up!

I do believe you should now be level 13.

Please note the things that have changed or been added, and put it all in a spoiler so those who don't want to know your build can remain in the dark. For those of you with character sheets off site, please send me your updated sheets for reference if applicable. If it's the 'same' sheet, no need, just let me know when you're done updating it so I can give a once over. Thanks.

You gain all of your new abilities right away, including new spells and the like. However, you do not regain what you’ve already used/cast for today. It’s not a rest exactly, just a gain.

Each level I’ll be examining your characters for sins and virtues that you might exemplify for that level. Just things that struck me as, well, perhaps a little heroic, or selfish as the case may be. There is no specific gain or loss for this tracking until very late in the game, and then it’s more a question of how you’re treated. So having a lot of any particular virtue or sin shouldn’t concern you, or even give you hope.

- Greed to Izomandakus for buying the Scarnetti manor for a tenth its value.
- Humility to Kast for not rubbing it in when most of the party fell and he air walked down in the first tower.
- Zeal to Rastaf for learning giant just to threaten one in his own language (link).
- I can't believe this is the first Gluttony to Valena for drinking while lying back on the dragon's hoard, and pretty much all the time!
- Zeal to Seamus for scouting the giant camps, at (possibly) great risk to himself.

I should also give you all a sloth for not opening the adamantine scroll tube (link) early on. You're going to enjoy the contents of that! In fairness, it is a devil to open.

If you feel I’ve missed something - not captured some event more significant than the one I have - please let me know. This is pretty subjective, and I’m not always grabbing something obvious, but it’ll help me keep on the lookout for things I might have otherwise missed. And of course I’ve made mistakes in the past. :)

Also, no rush on the leveling up. It happens after you use the Therassic library for the first time.

Can't argue with that sloth at all. Lol. Sounds about right.

I'm brain dead this day and may take a day or two to update my yahoo.

Can't argue with that sloth at all. Lol. Sounds about right.

"There are two ways to bypass this. One is to make five DC 40 disable device checks. The other is to know Thassilonian, and make five DC 20 intelligence checks."

Beyond my paygrade. We were in a bit of a hurry.