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Please let me have the usual details here:
Player name
Character name
PFS number
Faction
Day job
Slow track?
Whenever you guys are ready you can make a gameplay post, perhaps explaining how you come to be in Kaer Maga? Maybe you traveled with Aurora and the Gearwright brothers to escape the prejudices of Ilsurian? Or you might have made your own way to the City of Strangers.
I will link in the Pathfinder Society to the mission introduction.
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Player name: Tim M (Blake's Tiger)
Character name Onye Dawon
PFS number 230524-43
Faction Concordance of Elements
Day job N/A
Slow track? Yes, Slow
Onye has Martial Flexibility from Brawler, and I favor using Dedicated Adversary when I can.
Onye has the medium's spirit ability, spirit surge, and lesser spirit power from the Prowler at World's End Bloodrager archetype.
He is also very poor right now. Like absurdly poor. So if I am going to need to spend money in this module, let me know now and I'll un-buy my very expensive new weapon. :)
Level 3 is too high Otha. This is tier 1-2. You can make a brand new character of course. If you do then I encourage the use of weird and wonderful race boons, but it's not mandatory :)
Onwe, no need for lots of shopping here. This is a module suitable for level 1 PCs (though I think some encounters would be very difficult for a party comprised solely of neophytes).
As is his Phantom.
Aurora and Demm will be fun together :D
Where is the catfolk article? I don't think I've read it at all.
I've added a marching order slide (slide 3), please populate it with your tokens.
The gang's all here, let's get on with the show :)
"Yes, yes. It am end of the world. Where am we going?"
I think he's quite funny :)
Phantom scouting, relevant texts:
What these features mean is that Djahan needs to maintain line of effect to his phantom; line of effect can be broken for 1 round at a time, but any more than that and the phantom goes back to the ethereal. The phantom and Djahan can communicate with each other at any time as long as they are on the same plane, which will allow the phantom to tell Djahan what it sees.
The phantom potentially gives you a big advantage in terms of scouting, but it's also possible that if it goes ghosting ahead it will trigger encounters and initiative will begin without the party knowing what's going on.
In practice we're going to need to establish some sort of Standard Operating Procedure for exploration - does someone go ahead, does the phantom go ahead, etc. I encourage this with all PbP dungeon crawls though.
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Thanks GM!
That is exactly the reason I was mentioning this.
Line of Effect: A line of effect is a straight, unblocked path that indicates what a spell can affect. A line of effect is canceled by a solid barrier. It's like line of sight for ranged weapons, except that it's not blocked by fog, darkness, and other factors that limit normal sight.
Especially because line of effect can only be broken for 1 round that means that the phantom can only go through a wall and come back with a double move and then report what it saw.
The group that saw the phantom can then of course buff and prepare. Initiative would then be rolled when the groups really encounter each other, right? Or that depends on how long the time difference is?
It depends ;)
Initiative is rolled "at the start of battle" (core rulebook p178); assuming that you're not sending the phantom to attack but to scout ahead, combat will only begin if it's detected by a hostile creature - that will trigger initiative. If the phantom is detected halfway through a 'move through the door and come back' out-of-combat move action what happens?
We roll initiative - the phantom is a party member and has encountered a hostile. It will almost certainly need to use its action to get back within line of effect to Djahan, or Djahan will need to take actions to achieve the same. The 1 round of 'away time' strictly speaking starts from when line of effect is broken, and if that's the same time that initiative is triggered then you've got till the end of Combat Round 1 to get back.
If the phantom doesn't encounter any hostiles - even if there are other creatures - then we don't roll initiative.
This may create encounters that begin with the party on one side of a wall or a locked door and hostiles on the other. That's ok. Sometimes one side or the other will open the door. Sometimes neither side will be able to get to the other, and "combat" won't last very long.
If strange cases come up as we go we can discuss them here.
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I wasn't really certain how it would work. If a wizard is under the effects of Mage Armor, aren't they are still able to cast and be affected by spells like Blink and Ethereal Jaunt? I guess more research on the boards is needed. Better to have these things figured out now than in the middle of some dire situation.
I had a brief look earlier. Mainly very old threads on the Rules board, and mainly (from what I saw) concluding that mage armour does not prevent incorporeal movement through objects.
I know of a certain tier 7-11 scenario featuring an incorporeal enemy who has mage armour and shield spells up at the start of combat. The (very detailed) combat notes for the encounter do not suggest that the enemy is prevented from moving through walls or floors - and indeed I had them do that when I ran the scenario.
The particular rule for incorporeals (the Universal Monster Ability) says that an incorporeal can pass through solid objects (but must remain adjacent to the object's exterior) and cannot pass through force effects. I don't see anything in that rule that leads me to conclude that an incorporeal "wearing" a force effect can't use its ability to pass through a solid object.
I also like Demm's reasoning.
Gameplay update coming this evening btw.
Well, Luminous Form is pretty difficult to adjudicate in conjunction with magical darkness.
Luminous Form is Supernatural, so it's magical in nature. But the equivalent lights mentioned in the description are all mundane and there's no equivalent spell levels, so I don't think it can counter/dispel any kind of magical darkness.
I'll update Gameplay tomorrow, gotta get some sleep now :)
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No enemy is yet apparent.
Plus, I have not seen a description or had a chance to roll Perception. But when I can...
I don't think there is anything to see, but nobody without darkvision knows that those with darkvision can't see anything either.
But Demm is talking smack in a stressful situation, so he's reaping the rewards.
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Well, Luminous Form is pretty difficult to adjudicate in conjunction with magical darkness.
Luminous Form is Supernatural, so it's magical in nature. But the equivalent lights mentioned in the description are all mundane and there's no equivalent spell levels, so I don't think it can counter/dispel any kind of magical darkness.
That's fine, figured it was worth a shot :)
Data has darkvision, but hitting the creature with an arrow when it is so far up a spiral stair is a big ask.
Tactical Talk: If he knew that space between Tsmara and Djahan was free, I would move him there. If he had known that space was free, he wouldn't have had to waste time climbing.
Given that the stairs are difficult terrain, walking up them would be no faster than your 15' climb speed.
Whenever you want to co-ordinate positions, feel free to use this Discussion thread or the Discord chat to do so - just as you might discuss around a face to face table.
I do love the imagery of a snarling catfolk climbing up the walls though :)
I love that we made 128 Gameplay posts before the first encounter, and we haven't even made it to the first room of the "dungeon" yet!
Who says you can't do roleplay on a dungeon-crawl huh?
Seriously you guys are great to pbp with :)
Not sure I know what improved cover is...unless it's cover + soft cover...but does Data's Deadeye Bowman trait help with that at all? If not, I need to quit firing...
Improved Cover: In some cases, such as attacking a target hiding behind an arrowslit, cover may provide a greater bonus to AC and Reflex saves. In such situations, the normal cover bonuses to AC and Reflex saves can be doubled (to +8 and +4, respectively). A creature with this improved cover effectively gains improved evasion against any attack to which the Reflex save bonus applies. Furthermore, improved cover provides a +10 bonus on Stealth checks.
Short answer, +8AC.
You're firing up a spiral staircase. The only way you might see a part of the darkmantle at all is if a tentacle goes over the side.
A nat 20 will still hit - but you may need to conserve arrows.