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The difficulty with Pathfinder is the rule set is enormous so knowing how to successfully bot every class or build is hard even for experienced players. This is compounded by feat and equipment choices that may not be obvious from a quick perusal of a character sheet.
That being said the range of a Hex is only 30 feet so at this point that really is not an option for Vladek as he is about 100 feet away from the Nemhain.
Force damage is often the best against incorporeal creatures. I would recommend that his familiar use a Magic Missile against the Nemhain and that Vladek fire off a Lightning Bolt. He can easily 5' step and zap the beast! :)
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Apologies for not getting back to you sooner; do recall that I've taken to swearing off Internet use on Saturdays.
Interesting choices you made; but given that neither of them worked out very well (I would never have given my Ward Hex to someone who already has a resistance bonus to saving throws and/or deflection bonus to AC), would it be too late to retcon at least Vladek's action? I'll stick with Qadathra gearing up his call lightning wand (I don't think he's ever used it before!); as for me, I would indeed have tried starting with my Retribution Hex (DC 25), since it doesn't appear anyone else has done anything to weaken her Will save, and I have another idea that could be very effective, but has a lower save DC.
Let me know what you say to this, then I will see about my turn this new round.
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You can retcon if you wish Vladek. I would’ve used your high-level lightning spell but didn’t want to burn the slot as you don’t know what you might be facing elsewhere and it’s a powerful spell; and you weren’t in range of the hexes I would’ve liked to have used...
I admittedly don’t play casters and, as I’ve said, I don’t like to delay characters as it could end up hurting some of the other PCs...so I won’t be too efficient at botting casters unless I’m given pretty explicit instructions...
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@Vladek - Your character is out of range for Retribution anyways as your character is 100' away. Using it against the Nemhain is only 50% likely to work anyways due to its incorporeal status. Add in the fact that it gets a Will save (typically an Undead's best save) and it is very unlikely to work. The real kicker is that even if it does work it is only effective against Melee attacks and the Nemhain is using ranged touch attacks to deliver its spells. :)
@GM Otha - Asking players to leave a line in their character sheet to bot their characters is a good idea going forward. Without instructions they cannot really complain about what you might do. :)
Don't worry so much about PCs getting hurt. We are Seeker level now and should be able to handle ourselves (I hope).
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I am SO TEMPTED to wish for +1 INT...I mean, look at my sheet, as is I'm one shy of 30!
I figure there MUST be...some better way to do that, though, some way where it isn't just ONE player who gets to do that.
Of course, there's always Ro-Sham-Bo....
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That is not how it works in PFS.
There is a specific PFS rule on spell effects:
All spells and effects end at the end of an adventure with the following exceptions.
I GM'd a scenario with a Wish and it has very specific (and greatly toned down) benefits for PFS purposes.
If you wish to buy the Luck Blade afterwards, you may, but none of us get the "free use of the item during the scenario" to snag a +1 inherent bonus to a stat. Or increased gold. Or any other lasting benefit. Therefore, the GM need not roll to see who gets it. We can all buy it with our gold like any other item.
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Daathiel - I have played in at least three scenarios with a possibility of a Wish. In all cases the possibility of an inherent +1 to an ability score was an option as written as a boon in the chronicle sheet. Obviously Inherent bonuses will need to carry over or Tomes or Wishes would have no value! :)
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Actually one of them is a Season X scenario and the other is a Seeker-level scenario that you will want to play as it is good fun with a great boon. Just to say both boons do cost Prestige so they are not free but well worth it. I will spoil it just in case players do not wish to know. :)
In terms of using the Luck Blade to get a free Wish in-game to get a free permanent bonus you are probably right. That would just be too good to be true. :)
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Well, if the Chronicle Sheet for this module gives the possibility of an inherent bonus, then so it is. I just wouldn't expect the use of an in-scenario item (a Luck Blade, a Tome, whatever) to give a "free" benefit, but only to make it available for purchase. PFS is pretty strict on using WBL to keep the characters in close parity, and a random die roll to give one lucky PC a 25,000 GP perk would be wildly out of line with literally everything else PFS does on WBL.
In the one I ran
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Yes I played that one as well. Actually there are quite a few good ones with toned down wishes now that I think about it. I really recommend that you peek at my spoiler above. Those are two really good scenarios to play and not just to mine the wishes.
Now that I think about it more you must be right. Unless it is stated on the chronicle sheet as a boon you will not be able to keep it unless you pay for it.
In a way this is better and we will feel much better using the Wish in-game if we know that we cannot keep it for latter. :)
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In general I would agree with that statement. The Exchange provides a good opportunity to stretch your wealth with The Master of Trade Prestige award alone (10% Discount on almost any item 1/adventure). There are also several profitable faction rewards that are worth way more than +2 on a day job roll.
In general a trait like Reactionary, Magical Lineage or Fate's Fortune are many times better than any bonus to a day job roll so I will take their idea of OP with a grain of salt but I understand the point you are making. ;)
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Just an FYI on the luck blade/wish...
I asked a couple of experienced GMs that I've played under about this...and they didn't have a definitive answer either. One mentioned whenever he saw a wish within a scenario, it was listed on the Chronicle Sheet...
One of the GM's referred me to the PFS guide where it said:
spells are restricted to just the module unless it involves some kind of healing/repairing damage/removing harmful conditions... From reading this literally, I'm guessing maybe it'd be good for anything like deaths/catastrophic events in this module but not for things like increasing ability scores permanently (beyond this module)...
Both of them advised me to ask GM Tyranius about this and I have a query into him now; I'll pass on when I hear back...
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Another of my PCs was built for a PFS Teamwork Experiment - a PBP party that would try to see just how good the feats could be.
He was made before Auspicious Birth came out, and the feat can only be taken at first level. He does have a Ring of Tactical Precision, but the effects would stack.
As it is, he's a Ftr9 with Solo Tactics to power an enhanced Shake It Off, Shield Wall, Scion of the Lost Empire, Blood for the Empire, Lastwall Phalanx, and Escape Route. The last two being shareable. Works pretty well for a sword-and-board human fighter.
But yeah, Auspicious Birth would have been nice.
I do have Conjunction on my non-PFS Tyrant's Grasp PC, and the extra +1 from Shake it Off has saved the party barbarian a few times.
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My PFS Cav17 has gotten a lot of use out of Escape Route and Coordinated Charge.
His swift action economy is a disaster, but when it all works out, Coordinated Charge is fantastic. And he has several of the teamwork feats that my Ftr9 has, all of which I love.
I've actually never bothered with the AOO feats (like Outflank or Paired Opportunists) as I think they are harder to implement in PbP, but I think they too are quite strong.
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@GM Otha - So as not to clog up the game thread I am moving the discussion here. :)
Daathiel might disagree with me but I think we can let the current combat situation stand as our characters have taken their actions prior to retreating to the rug room and the combat results against the bone devils would have been the same regardless of our characters being flat footed or not.
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In terms of senses:
1)Echolocation provides Blind Sight. An excellent full description of Blind Sight is explained in the CRB and the Bestiary (You should read both sections in both books). Blind Sight is a continuous sense that requires no effort and allows the user to automatically detect creatures within your line of effect. So effectively it is 360 degrees sense (due to the line of effect rules). This would prevent an invisible creature from ever sneaking up on someone with this ability unless they were intangible.
This is just good to know going forward. :)
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Awesome guys, thanks. The scenario states that the bone devils try to surround the party and this was the only plausible way I could see it happening...
So y’all wouldn’t have seen ‘em till you entered the room...and since you had already each did a standard action before moving, you wouldn’t have been able to prevent their attacks but you would’ve seen their coming, right? Either way, I’ll make a note about echolocation in future encounters that it gives 360’ sight...
FWIW, I don’t think these guys will give you much trouble, regardless...