VampByDay’s PFS2e 2-11 Pathfinder Trials (Inactive)

Game Master VampByDay

Discussion thread.

FYI: I'll be leaving on vacation this Saturday for a week. I expect to have wifi, but plan on posting once a day in the late evening.

Notes on Battle Oracle

Each time initiative is about to be rolled and Isurus has at least 1 Focus Point to spend, he will cast Call to Arms. This is a reaction with the trigger, "You are about to roll for initiative."

Each ally gains +2 initiative and 1 temporary hit point lasting 1 minute.

Unless they changed the ruling, Isurus is not his own ally, so he neither gains the bonus nor the temporary hit point.

This will also drop his AC and saving throws by 2 until he has a chance to attempt a Strike.

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Once he's used 2 focus points in a day, he'll have fast healing 1 during combat.

Hello all!
Thanks for setting this up, and having me...

Nice to see Battle Oracle in a game.

Exploration Activities:
I can change Kyra from Detect Magic (another took that) to Investigate, or Scout (I can imagine Isurus being Scout?!).

Yes. He'll probably have the lowest Perception, so shall ironically scout.

The +1 circumstance bonus stacks with call to arms' +2 status.

Nice!

Switching to Investigate, then (can change again if someone else wants that).

I promise Samna is nowhere near as sour as this avatar makes her look. Sheesh.

I'll probably either be Searching or Avoiding Notice, depending on the situation.

Dyner can use Detect Magic if needed. She could also just go with Avoid Notice and roll with her higher stealth skill.

Jaxon doesn't have a natural exploration activity, but Search is probably good for him.

Does you start with the standard school item in Pathfinder Trials?

EDIT: If so, I'm taking a Scroll of Heal (1).

Yes, this counts as a normal scenario, so everyone starts with either a minor healing potion or a school item. Maybe you got one as a gift for doing good in training recently.

Kyra is a do-gooder! xD

I put a Minor Healing Potion on her belt to be used on her if when she goes down...

Oh, and do we distribute Glyph Hero Points and such?

I'll give my Glyph hero point to Jaxon. Rogues need extra rolls.

Alaric will take a Minor Healing Potion.

As for Hero Points:

Thank you, Alaric.
I have 3 Glyphs, so I can give one each to Alaric, Isurus, and Samna Tranth.

Dyner doesn't have any glyphs or campaign coins.

She will take a scroll of heal for right now as well.

I have two glyph hero points to give out as well. Is that enough to get everyone up to 2?

If I did my counting right, yes.

Should be...
Jaxon has 2, 1 starting and 1 from Isurus
Alaric has 3, 1 starting, 1 campaign coin and 1 from Kyra
Isurus has 2, 1 starting and 1 from Kyra
Kyra has 2, 1 starting and 1 from Alaric
You, Samna, have 2, 1 starting and 1 from Kyra
And Dyber has 1 from starting.

So an extra two would mean everyone can have 2 and 2 people can have 3.

... We might want to add a slide or images of coins to the slides so we can have visual representation, it makes tracking this significantly easier.

Additionally, if you want, there's a really useful Google sheets for collecting and making macros for secret checks. Bit faster than asking each time. This was originally made by GM Doug but used and spread with permission.

You can only ever get +1 from Glyphs if I recall correctly.

Oop, double checking the guide and yup, you would be right.

Nice! Thanks for sharing the hero points, everyone!

I understand our task to be:

Obtain the amulet from the creature described by Kreighton, in the order he requests. So we want to obtain one from an aeon first.

Simple mugging. You know, it would be interesting to have an option to use thievery with Strength to represent this type of action vs pickpocketing.

Non-lethal damage to the top of the skull?

Having been a part of designing a (ultimately not very good) game system that involved "Waylay" as a skill/action and "Assassination" as a skill/action, single roll incapacitation is not particularly easy to balance and certainly not at 1st level.

That aside, we were supposed to do this task without violence.

I guess I'm just thinking of a "Take by force" action. Maybe it's just Athletics? Disarm?

Lol, found that funny, the one you were most worried about was the easiest. From the book: “ As soon as the PCs suggest that he might be their current target, he shoves the amulet in their faces, telling them to hurry up and take it already.”

That is funny.

re. the next step in the Round Robin: 01.01 - The Absalom Initiation, everyone will be bringing level 1 PCs, correct?

Correct

Yes

I will possibly be bringing a level 2 PC if he finishes up with a quest or making a new one if he doesn't.

I guess one of you guys gets a hero point back by this point. Whoever is at zero Hero points can regain one.

Question for the GM: it is announced we are to have some 10 minutes between waves. The CRB says the Cleric can refocus while doing service toward their causes (noting that for example Good clerics can heal).
Healing is one of Sarenrae's domains-- so, if Kyra takes 10 minutes to heal or be healed, would that allow her to at the same time regain 1 Focus Point (to see how to conserve them or not)?

Table side talk for my fellows (if okay to do so? If not I'll just go w. what I had in mind): having only 1 Magic Weapon spell prepared, Kyra intended to keep it for just before the 3rd wave, thinking that one might be the toughest. And was thinking of casting on Samna, who could make the most attacks per round w. Flurry.

Back from vacation (with my mind 25% intact), so I'll be back to a mostly normal reading and posting rate. Slightly slower as I catch up on tasks that accrued.

EDIT: Re: Kyra' - I think we'll have a better idea after the first combat how this will play out, but rationing our resources is reasonable.

Question for the GM: it is announced we are to have some 10 minutes between waves. The CRB says the Cleric can refocus while doing service toward their causes (noting that for example Good clerics can heal).

Healing is one of Sarenrae's domains-- so, if Kyra takes 10 minutes to heal or be healed, would that allow her to at the same time regain 1 Focus Point (to see how to conserve them or not)?

Table side talk for my fellows (if okay to do so? If not I'll just go w. what I had in mind): having only 1 Magic Weapon spell prepared, Kyra intended to keep it for just before the 3rd wave, thinking that one might be the toughest. And was thinking of casting on Samna, who could make the most attacks per round w. Flurry.

You spend 10 minutes performing deeds to restore your magical connection. This restores 1 Focus Point to your focus pool. The deeds you need to perform are specified in the class or ability that gives you your focus spells. These deeds can usually overlap with other tasks that relate to the source of your focus spells. For instance, a cleric with focus spells from a good deity can usually Refocus while tending the wounds of their allies, and a wizard of the illusionist school might be able to Refocus while attempting to Identify Magic of the illusion school.

Seems so!

I guess one of you guys gets a hero point back by this point. Whoever is at zero Hero points can regain one.

By the way, nobody was at 0. Both Dyner and I spent one, leaving us at 1 each. Everyone else appears to have either 2 or 1 and a Campaign Coin.

Did not re-check but I am quite sure Kyra spent one too (on Stealth I think), but is also at 1 left.

Dyner hasn't spent one. Samna implied but never specified what she was doing with her glyph points.

Well in that case I’ll give one to:

Random: 1d3 ⇒ 2

Isurus

Thank you :)

Ha ha!
The "Draw Sling - Load Sling - Fire Sling" litany went so well with the sneer on Jaxon's avatar's face!

Argh! I went through the trouble of making a summoned creature alias and then went and posted as Isuris. Bleh.

Argh! I went through the trouble of making a summoned creature alias and then went and posted as Isuris. Bleh.

Oh (((

You don’t take the dying condition here.

Yes. And I think myself quite fortunate that I stumbled upon this interaction in such a safe encounter, else I could have been in quite some danger.

Critical fail -> Dying 2 -> Fast Healing -> Wounded 1 -> Persistent Damage -> Dying 2 and onward if I did not end the persistent damage (or find a way to heal myself).

However, I misrecalled Persistent damage coming at the start of my turn when it happens at the end of my turn, so I do have my actions to take. I'd love to ret-con the natural 20 to end the persistent as an assisted recovery check, but that's probably too ret-con-y/meta-game-y.

Went with attack over healing this round, to try to get some nice persistent dam' from Alaric!

Magic Weapon cannot be cast on a Monk for their unarmed attacks, right?
(has to be Magic Fang?)

I think that's great. I can use a fighting fan, but I'm going to go with ranged attacks to hopefully avoid the attacks of opportunity.

I think it does have to be magic fang. I wish standing up didn't take an action, cause Dyner would love to use her prepared Burning Hands spell soon.

Duh-- completely forgot you use weapons.
Got stuck on trying to remember if Unarmed Monk attacks are weapons or not-weapons for spells like Magic Weapon...

It's been over an hour for Guidance on Alaric, and some 40 minutes I think (or more?) for Samna.
Will we be at your next place in more than 20 minutes? (to see if Samna can get Guidance again)

Sure, that’s fine.