Oh, also, if it's below freezing today, Verene will be back in the cold-weather clothing. I'll rework her gear carried to make her stuff still a light load.
It is indeed below freezing out.
I have a question about the cold (and apologies if you’ve already addressed this). In the games I’ve run, and most of the ones I’ve played in, characters/creatures with cold resistance don’t have to worry about the effects of cold whether until/unless it’s cold enough that they could actually take damage from it, but (afaik) there’s no clear ruling from paizo about how that’s supposed to work… how are you handling that for this game?
Hm, that is a good question. My general thought is that it blocks the nonlethal damage you get from hot (for fire) or cold (for, well, cold) environmental effects. Meaning that usually, they won't get hit by it at all, even if they fail the save. There's a 1/6 chance that characters with cold resistance 5 would take the nonlethal each time they fail the Fort save vs. cold, which would hit them with the fatigued condition as well.
Does this sound reasonable to everyone? It's mostly just my head-rules for this stuff. Of course, since you're probably not going to be spending hours at a time outdoors in the cold, it probably won't be quite as problematic as it might be in, say, Kingmaker or Ironfang Invasion.
I've never played a Pathfinder game where extreme temperature rules came into play, but your head-rules sound the same as what my DM used for a 3.5 game set in the jungle.
Okay, let's see if there's a pearl of power (1st) or cloak of resistance +1 available!
Okay, looks like I'm getting a snazzy new cloak. Do I need to roll for a scroll of lesser restoration?
Correction that may affect everyone: I was wrong about the wand prices. For some reason I had it in my head that a fully charged wand of a L1 wizard or cleric spell is 700 gp, but it's actually 750. So the CLW wand is 150 gp per person, not 140, and the shield one is 250 per person, not 233. Sorry for the error.
Also, GM: if Elyda gave us the ring of climbing, did she also leave us the scrolls of cause fear and comprehend languages, and the wand of longstrider?
Sorry, no posts from me today or tomorrow. Posting will resume as normal Sunday night my time.
I'd say she kept the first scroll and the wand, because those would come in handy against the cultists, while the second scroll wouldn't help as much.
You're good.
Slight update for shopping:
-Masterwork backpack for carrying capacity: 50 g
-Backup coldiron scimitar: 30 g
-Wand of true strike with 6 charges: 90 g
-Smoked goggles, 2 x spring loaded wrist sheathe: 30 g.
-Oil of bless weapon: 50 g.
-2 x alchemist's fire 40 g.
-2 x acid flask: 20 g.
-20 x durable coldiron bolt 4 g.
=314
+Scroll of resist energy 125 g, given to Merixia to use.
+ Scroll of make whole 125 g
2 x oil of bless weapon 100 g.
+wand of grease, 6 charges 90 g.
=754 g, saves 176 g for later.
Spells prepped for today are chill touch x 3, colour spray x 1.
@Verene/Thesius which of us carries the shield wand?
I figured Elliot would carry the shield wand since he's most likely to need it at a moment's notice. Just remember, if we have time to prepare for a fight, he should hand it off to Thesius before he or Verene use it, since Thesius needs to spend a few rounds to activate it and the duration is only 10 rounds. And, you added the two magic weapon scrolls we already had to your inventory, yes?
Also, I don't know that this will affect your purchasing decisions, but the standard price for a scroll of a 2nd-level spell is 150 gp, not 125 gp. The wands also cost a bit more than I originally thought, as described above.
+1 buckler -1155g
Cold Weather gear -8g
20x cold iron arrows -2g
2x holy water -50g
2x alchemist's fire -40g
2x potion (divine favor) -100g
I had 207g from before, so I think (including throwing in for the cure wand) that leaves me with 330g.
Ah, true on the scrolls. -50 g then, leaves 126 g.
Azira or Thesius want to weigh in on where we should go first? Other than that and picking up some rope, I think we're probably good to go. Rope weighs ten pounds and Elyda was the person who had some before, so I think we have none right now.
I just chimed in for Thesius. I've made the adjustments to coinage as well. No need to apologize, I appreciate you doing the foot work.
I agree that rope/manacles would be a good addition. Upon seeing the additional requests, it seemed to make since they prepare for such things.
I chimed in too. Thesius’ plan sounds good to me, and we should get some rope just in case, yeah.
Sounds like the plan is to go to Topaz Solutions, Tower of Estrod, then Nyserian Manor?
That sounds solid to me.
Merixia's shopping list:
One share in a fully charged wand of CLW - 150 gp
Cloak of resistance +1 - 1000 gp
Scroll of lesser restoration x2 - 300 gp
Antitoxin x1 - 50 gp
Holy water x2 - 50 gp
Total - 1550/1603.7 gp
Also received a scroll of resist energy from Elliot. Thanks! And if you want me to carry the rope, Merixia can easily carry a couple of those without a problem.
If I don't post tonight, I apologize. I've caught a bit of a cold, and am feeling a tad off.
Feel better, and take a COVID test just to make sure it's nothing serious!
Daily spells updated on my profile.
Merixia Pentarian: battle priestess, healer, and pack mule.
You forgot ‘snuggling storyteller’.
No worries GM, feel better soon!
I hope you get to feeling better soon.
I'm going to try to keep up this week, but will be at a convention starting Thursday and returning on Sunday. If you need to move things forward, feel free to bot Thesius.
Thanks for letting us know, Thesius.
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I'm planning on bringing my Chromebook with me and depending on how busy they have me, I might be checking in regularly still. I'm not quite sure how busy the new position they have me in will be, but plenty of interesting costumes to be seen since it's an anime convention.
Currently, the white-lined quasit is fifteen feet up, and the other is more like three. However, that may change on their turn.
Why is Selective Channeling dependent on Cha rather than Wis? Why, Paizo?
They decided clerics weren't multiple-ability-dependent enough already, I guess. :/
Yeah, I feel your pain :( Usually when I make a cleric I just don't bother with the feat. Especially without lifelink, I see channel as more of an out of combat healing tool. In combat, usually when I do need to channel, which is quite rare, I can either position myself to negate healing most enemies or the group can focus fire one target enough to where it benefits us more. It does suck however when you come into the rare situation like this where you have a lot of injured npc's along with injured enemies and the party itself is fine.
Incidentally, Legendary games made a modern rework of the cleric where they based channels on wis and built selective channel into it inherently at the cost of removing spontaneous cure conversion (instead spontaneous cast goes to the domain spells, with the reworked healing domain still having the healing spells if you want them). That's a pretty awesome design/rework I still hope to play someday.
Selective Channeling is a handy feat to have when you need it, but when you don't, there're quite a few more consistent feats to take. The cleric in my other game took it, but she's also more Charisma focused than Merixia. In part, that's 'cause it's Hell's Rebels, where Cha helps a fair bit more.
Nevertheless, I hear you.
Nice rolls, Elliot! Shaken and flanking with Merixia probably cancel each other out on the to-hit rolls, too.
That is one very dead quasit. No need even to finish it off - its fast healing's done.
Woohoo, go Elliot! Slice and dice!
@GM: Yeah, I would definitely want more Cha in Hell's Rebels. I figured I could safely dump Cha and take a racial penalty in WotR, we have Thesius and now Azira for the Diplomacy checks. Merixia smites the wicked and heals the not-wicked, that's her job. :P It's weird that Hellspawn have a Cha penalty when devils are supposed to be all about tempting people to the dark side, but I'm not complaining. Unless you're going for the social skills or a Cha-based caster, Cha is a good dump stat.
Dang, I should have remembered my own advice about fighting magic users at range, and held onto Verene's crossbow shot against the quasit as a readied action if it started to use magic or move. Then it might have lost the try at invisibility. Oh well, will remember for next time.
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I learned that one the hard way playing an archery ranger in a fight against a hag coven. The lead hag managed to charm our vigilante before I wised up and waited for them to start casting before making the shot. So we got to fight the coven, their marsh giant son, and several of their changeling daughters while down a party member.
Ouch! Yeah, I remembered with the dretches the other day but forgot here. Will do better in the future.
Azira, Verene is no good at Sense Motive, but she's maintaining concentration on keeping detect fiendish presence up as a 60' cone in front of her until further notice, so we will know if one of them is possessed, a transformed demon, or a much higher level demon-lord-servant than any of them seem to be. Also, their behavior doesn't seem that suspicious for traumatized noncombatants forced into fighting by demons much stronger than they are. No guarantees, of course.
Not on Verene's mind right now, but before we forget: is there anything useful on the quasit Elliot killed?
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A lot of blood, probably, along with the letter 'E' seared onto the skin ;)
Hm, might be a few teeth or a tongue, though. She wanted to start a collection!
More seriously, no, she had nothing of value.
Busy weekend. I'll be trying to get a post up tonight.
Apologies for the delay. I did not wind back up in my hotel pretty much until this morning so I'm running a bit behind. I'll be back home tonight though and will have plenty of time to get caught up.
Glad to hear it, Thesius. Hope you had fun!
Sorry again for the delays. I did not wind up home until about 2 this morning. Was spending time with the family making sure everything was good.
I'm getting caught up today and a post will be forthcoming. Thanks for the patience.
Real life always comes first, Thesius. Don't worry about it. :)
Of course, hope you had a good time, Thesius!
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It was good. Just long. I wound up sleeping most of yesterday to help with the fatigue.
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General magical trapfinding is still a bit out (Four levels), but I do plan on having Thesius pick up a Aram Zey's Focus next level so he can still have the ability to attempt them in the meantime. Even give himself a bit of a boost on the checks.
@Merixia- is your shield light or heavy? Heavy shields are tricky for casters but with light shields you can hold something with your shield hand, which means you can temporarily pass your weapon to that hand as a free action, cast your spell, and pass it back as a free action (unless that was changed and I missed it, or our GM wants to change it).
@Everyone- I'm sorry if my posting is a little slow/spotty, I'm trying to keep up but my job is a smouldering dumpster fire.
Oof, good luck, Azira. Hope things improve for you.
Anyone have a firm decision on how to handle this unexpected development?
I hope things calm down Azira. That's never a fun spot to be in.
I was giving some time for responses, but planning on moving us forward later if none came about.