I will move you on to the last room of the cabin early this evening.
Hero points to Nandipha and Lucius for interacting with the NPCs in a couple of fun scenes!
Some day, maybe you will need to spend them. Hero points will reset between parts.
We are nearing the end of part 1. You will level up once you clear out the outer buildings. We'll take a couple of days off between parts for RP and leveling, but you can start thinking about your next steps for progression now.
Side note: I've been playing it fast and loose with these Wild Empathy checks; technically, you can only make requests to Friendly or Helpful creatures, so Nandipha should have had to make more checks (Improve attitude, then request). However, I get the impression that the party isn't too interested in fighting these animals. I don't mind exchanging creepy-crawlies for small story moments, and I hope you don't either! Plus, it's so rare to see WIld Empathy ACTUALLY be useful.
Part 1 is written to be for newer players and GMs coming out of the Beginner's Box so it's very easy (the only Severe encounter is Finley, and I would probably be very upset if you outright attacked them before at least trying to solve their problem), but Part 2 and 3 will ramp up the difficulty to that of a standard module's.
I’m fine with it. I’m used to PFS short cutting diplomacy rules. :)
I am amused that this is the first nature-loving character who does not care that much if her wild empathy checks go off or not. If they work, great. If they don't, well those creatures were given a chance and fights are fun too.
Yeah. I find fighting spiders and rats for the dozenth time rather boring from either side of the gm screen!
Might be my colorblindness, but I am having a hard time seeing lines on this map, by the way. In case anyone else is having trouble, part 2's maps will be better.
It looks like we missed healing after the spider battle.
Also, Hilary is working today so it might be a while before we see an update from Nandipha.
"Should fix up Baux and Nandipha."
That was supposed to be my trigger for our hand-waved healing. I think Doug's been assuming we heal between encounters unless we take a significant amount of damage.
Biltri could have healed up both of you and recharged his FP in 40 minutes.
You healed up. Sorry, I usually mean to hand wave it if there’s no time crunch since you have lay in hands and some event medicine too.
I imagine Nandipha’s 20 and Carrot’s 1 as Nandipha blocking the slime by shoving Carros in the way. ;)
Never!
Carrot's jumped in the way! It is always jumping around, never stays still.
:)
Thank you for pointing that out to me. I retconned, realizing that Carrots does not have effective attacks here.
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Lucius, you use devise stratagem against a specific target. If you don’t like the roll you can make an attack against a different target with a normal roll.
I'm thinking of Olli. Scalliwings are called out as often wanting to "assist" spellcasters as familiars, and I think the module is set up to give you an opportunity to have a familiar. Why else would they have added such a creature!? However, there isn't an actual Scalliwing familiar.
I think she should have Speech and Flight required, which leaves you with 0 master abilities if you take the familiar master archetype (however, those are still good abilities).
Perhaps Olli can also use some of her spell-like abilities like invisibility, but independently and out of combat.
I'm also open to any ideas you have! I want Ollie to be a little better (but not too much better — yet) than a typical familiar since she is special.
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Nandipha doesn't need Master Abilities or combat abilities. What she needs is another friend with a feathered tail who can help with the fishing and who will get along with Carrots. Will Ollie allow Nandipha and Carrots to move into to her room? We seem to be short on bedrooms in this lodge.
Sure!
I’ll level either late tonight or tomorrow. I have a game tonight.
I think we can pick up Monday or even Tuesday without losing steam. We FLEW through part 1 (we finished in 1 4-hour session in the local group too; it just goes quick).
Toughness (+3 HP, Recovery DC 9+dying) or Fleet (+5 ft move)
I'm also considering retraining Raging Intimidation for Sudden Charge. But maybe that first boar encounter scarred me.
Nandipha leveled. Skill Increase in Survival, General Skill in Fleet. Two third level spells added.
You guys are so fast!
We can shoot for kicking off p2 tomorrow afternoon.
Sounds good!
Baux is leveled up.
I split the difference.
I took Toughness and retrained Raging Intimidation for Sudden Charge.
x 1 day
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Don’t see why not; you can also retrain like Nandipha did. It’s mostly a chance to roleay a little.
That said, since this is Campaign mode I can always throw an elite template on enemies if that 4sp throws off module balance :p
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Would you mind if I traded out the Tanning Lore from my background to Cooking Lore? Cooking Lore is more flavorful.
Thats fine.
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Would you mind if I traded out the Tanning Lore from my background to Cooking Lore? Cooking Lore is more flavorful.Really? That's where you went with that?
Puns are a capital offense on Sothis, I am sure of it.
Yes, and part of the punishment is having to be the opening act for a circus!
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"Alright, if you be certain we not missing information, let's go then."
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so no horses? :D
When the horses were asked to carry us, I heard they said "Neigh!"
This is a new part, so hero points are reset to one each. Make sure your macros are updated too!
I think Lucius is shorting himself a few HP... shouldn't you have 6+8*3=30?[dice=Reflex Save]1d20+8
[dice=Reflex Save]1d20+8
Lucius is not able to dodge the fire! And then he's mauled by the hell hound!
That seems correct to me as well. Edited the post.
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Hero point to Dethor for 'healing' Lucius with the power of math!
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I assigned myself the single Healing Potion II instead of trying to tease out the bulk healing potions.
There are a couple more healing potions on there too. Maybe Dethor and Nandipha can take them.
Avert Gaze is an action in 2e; +2 bonus on your save against Gaze attacks. You probably need to ID the creature to do this or see what it does in action as you failed the knowledge check on the petrified centaur.
Didn't there use to be a map?