Stormcrow's Return of the Runelords

Game Master stormcrow27

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Discussion: Thurin has the best beard of the group. <eyes Mossbeard warily>

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Greetings!

I swapped some things around to have disable device, my percpetion sucks at +3 though.

Discussion: Thurin has the best beard of the group. <eyes Mossbeard warily>

Moving to Lorel he asks, "pray tell, what does thee use for Shampoo?".

Whipsering to himself "please dont say goblin piss, mixed with vinegar and starch, I actually fell for that once..." as he touches his own long flowing blond hair.

OOC: Eric has -1 sense motive.
Feel free to subtly or non so subtly troll/prank the hell out of him.

"For shampoo?" Lorel Thinks a moment, stunned by the question. "I don't know, I just wash in the river. I'm quickly tiring of having this long hair, I was thinking of shaving it off, actually."

Apparently Eric said deep in thoughts
some are just blessed, I for one need to apply specific lotions, or my hair gets sticky.
Can you imagine the pain when you do a massive overhead smash on a Zombie with a Lucerne Hammer but your hair sticks to your hammer and you nearly end up ripping your own head off because of physical things like conservation of impulse? I definitly recommend pony tails during actual fighting! I seriously shouldnt have used that "scroll of fabolous hair protection" without fully considering possible drawbacks.

Eric continues absentmindedly holding his neck with his left hand.

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The platinum-blonde haired man watches his exchange from a far and begins to feel self-conscious about his own appearance.
I represent the office of the port-governor, after all.

Hmm. A skald plus a dinosaur animal companion.

Could work.

I think, past level 1, your animal companion will be the only one who will always accept rage, other then myself I guess.

Thurin and Koshon may be accepting in under some conditions (like when they are not planning to use their abilities in this turn), I dont see our casters ever accepting rage because why would they.

I do hit far harder then a Bard (Str 20 when furious with 2 handed reach) and am a passable area defender with 3 AoOs.
I of course have grease because why would I possibly not?

In my view, if we can "outshoot" enemies and force them to come to us, we have 2 reach attackers, 2 decent melees (Dino friend and Thurin) and grease.
I am packing a Sling for some opportunistic ranged stuff (I hit with +2 for 5-9 damage, actually strictly better then a longbow, because I do get STR to damage here, much cheaper then a longbow too), although I eventually plan to go for Javelins ar throwing axes for ranged stuff.

Grandfather Mossbeard is mostly melee as well. The Goliath druid archetype is all about transforming into big monsters.

It'll be a while before he catches up to the dino tho.

I got 26 gold left, open for suggestions.

I got 26 gold left, open for suggestions.

Don't look at me, I'm new to PF1. I've played both 3.5 and PF2, but this is only about my third time with the middle step.

Maybe I will just splurge on chalk (make markings) oil bottles (set things on fire). Or shield + 1 handed weapon to have the option of having 18ish AC if I need to frontline.

Edit: Grabbed myself a heavy wooden shield and a scimitar, I can now also frontline at AC 10+4+2+2=18. After I grab a breastplate to replace my hide armor my AC becomes 18/20 where it will stay for a while.

I will prefer fighting with my lucerne hammer though, Reac, AoOs with reach and far more damage.

Sanity Check: do I have an insane number of gear I that would get awkward:
1 Lucerne Hammer, 1 Scimitar, 1 shield 1 sling, nope, less stuff then I was carriying during German Army time, but definitly annoying to lugg around at all time. However, Eric has 18 Base strength, my real life me does not so it should be fine.

As I see it, a breastplate is like wearing army body armor + helmet. The Greathammer is probably equivalent to an M16 with extra ammo. And a backup weapon with fighter’s kit is pretty similar to a filled ruck sack. Given how much I hated ruck marches, it just goes to show how adventurers are in good shape.

So yeah. Agreed. Your PC isn’t any more over burdened than a modern soldier.

Apologies for the whole 'fashionably late' posting-thing; likewise glad to be here. :)

Thurin Foehammer wrote:

Discussion: Thurin has the best beard of the group. <eyes Mossbeard warily>

Well met mighty Son of the Earth, my name is Eric, I for one would willing concede thy claim, if though are willing to join me in my assessment of having the most fabulous male hair in the group, nodding to Lorel and Morelda, our charming ladies being of course beyond any competition!

Eric Smiles at Thurin before bowing with a flourish to Lorel and Morelda.

Moving to Lorel he asks, "pray tell, what does thee use for Shampoo?".

Whipsering to himself "please dont say goblin piss, mixed with vinegar and starch, I actually fell for that once..." as he touches his own long flowing blond hair.

Scott "Lorel" Millerson wrote:

"For shampoo?" Lorel Thinks a moment, stunned by the question. "I don't know, I just wash in the river. I'm quickly tiring of having this long hair, I was thinking of shaving it off, actually."

Eric de St. Cyr wrote:

Apparently Eric said deep in thoughts

some are just blessed, I for one need to apply specific lotions, or my hair gets sticky.
Can you imagine the pain when you do a massive overhead smash on a Zombie with a Lucerne Hammer but your hair sticks to your hammer and you nearly end up ripping your own head off because of physical things like conservation of impulse? I definitly recommend pony tails during actual fighting! I seriously shouldnt have used that "scroll of fabolous hair protection" without fully considering possible drawbacks.

Eric continues absentmindedly holding his neck with his left hand.

Koshon wrote:

The platinum-blonde haired man watches his exchange from a far and begins to feel self-conscious about his own appearance.

At Lorel's mention of wanting to shave off her entire hair, Morelda semi-gasps out, "Noooo, you really don't have to go that far with your hair; possibly a hair pin or two plus an entirely good hair band- the really stretchy kind... maybe braiding it up? You don't want to look like you're ready to join up with the Grey Maidens now."

Then sheepishly remembering that Eric is still present- awaiting a more workable answer, Morelda quickly adds in, "Magic is the best for things like that, especially if there's no riverbank or an inn nearby; prestidigitation is great for that kind of thing; but the Kalistocrats have this Really neat spell, Fastidiousness, that just about works as well.", almost as an afterthought.

I got 26 gold left, open for suggestions.

Not sure on how our GM wants to handle the whole Circle Market Bargain-shopping part in the Return of the Runelords Player's Guide [lucky page 13]... but with a d20 roll, you can get 10% off a particular chosen item indicated by your roll. ;)

I have no idea how psionics work how to to best operate alongside psionic characters, so yeah that would be great indeed :).

With Soulknives, they're really not all that different from your average Gloomblade Fighter/Phantom Blade Spiritualists [Soulknives conjuring up their own weapons before it became fashionable!]; with my Wizard, I opted to take some aspects from a Psion [psionic wizard-type that's point-based] with the alternate power listing and access. ;)

A lot less actually.

Like, we had a really dumb effing march where my roughly 60 kg arse was lugging around: "Komplettzuladung", like, the fat backpack with 3 extra uniforms for no reason whatsorever other then Basic training has to suck, at roughly 30ish kg, a roughly 10 kg radio (probably so outdated the Russians, I mean Redland, can not hack it because their hacking tools are too modern, I foolishly said that I spoke 3 languages, cue permanent lug the radio around job for our battery), my G-36 (pretty light, 3,5 kg or so), Flack jacket (6ish kg, but ironically made everything lighter because it stopped the backpack and radio straps from cutting into my trainee flesh), ammunition and all that stuff, and the effing sleeping roll which I didnt managed to affix properly and which was boinking my helmeted head every other step.

Joys of basic training yesyes.

Good thing, if your job is partly to load 45kg shells into a tank artillery piece (thank the gods for the continued existence of my back that I scored high in accuracy and math and was thus switched into targetter instead of loader), while weighing 55-60kg at the start of basic training well, yeah I gained a fair bit of muscle mass.

Other good thing, after basic training, we very rarely actually had to manually load, because our PzH2000 is relatively modern and autoloads the ammunition, but you have to manually load the propellant charge (which is pretty light and not a big deal).

At Lorel's mention of wanting to shave off her entire hair, Morelda semi-gasps out, "Noooo, you really...

Lorel Blushes. "I don't know how to braid my hair. Or to use a hair pin. But I'll try it."

A lot less actually.

Like, we had a really dumb effing march where my roughly 60 kg arse was lugging around: "Komplettzuladung", like, the fat backpack with 3 extra uniforms for no reason whatsorever other then Basic training has to suck, at roughly 30ish kg, a roughly 10 kg radio (probably so outdated the Russians, I mean Redland, can not hack it because their hacking tools are too modern, I foolishly said that I spoke 3 languages, cue permanent lug the radio around job for our battery), my G-36 (pretty light, 3,5 kg or so), Flack jacket (6ish kg, but ironically made everything lighter because it stopped the backpack and radio straps from cutting into my trainee flesh), ammunition and all that stuff, and the effing sleeping roll which I didnt managed to affix properly and which was boinking my helmeted head every other step.

Joys of basic training yesyes.

Good thing, if your job is partly to load 45kg shells into a tank artillery piece (thank the gods for the continued existence of my back that I scored high in accuracy and math and was thus switched into targetter instead of loader), while weighing 55-60kg at the start of basic training well, yeah I gained a fair bit of muscle mass.

Other good thing, after basic training, we very rarely actually had to manually load, because our PzH2000 is relatively modern and autoloads the ammunition, but you have to manually load the propellant charge (which is pretty light and not a big deal).

You were in a PzH2000? Cool. I was FDC in a Paladin unit. Similar vehicles. Wasn't a gunbunny myself, just went in for trouble shooting. Was glad that I didn't have to be part of the loading process. Doubly so when I moved to a towed-howitzer unit (artillery support for mountain infantry). I can really see how it would build muscle, but at the same time f-your back.

Predistigation

Eric says considering what else he can offer. Dancing lights would be unlikely to impress a mage much, grease was clearly a most ungentlemanly thing, the lady was in excellent health and thus had no need for cure light wounds, message, detect magic and mage hand would also fail to impress a skilled practicioner of the arcane.

You were in a PzH2000? Cool. I was FDC in a Paladin unit. Similar vehicles. Wasn't a gunbunny myself, just went in for trouble shooting. Was glad that I didn't have to be part of the loading process. Doubly so when I moved to a towed-howitzer unit (artillery support for mountain infantry). I can really see how it would build muscle, but at the same time f-your back.

Gunbunny? Interesting, our term in German for ourself was "HaubitzenHONK", with "HONK" being a abbrevation for "Hauptschüler ohne Nennenswerte Kenntnisse", "Haubitze" being "Howitzer" the latter basically being offical german for "dumb, no education or useful knowledge".

We were pretty happy about not being in a Paladin, because the poor souls their have to effing load the shells all the time, rather then some of the time. Also, being in a PZH2000 is pretty cool in terms of ehhhm, "overcompensation", its pretty comfortable inside too.

We had a tough as nails, but also really wise and prudent "Hauptfeldwebel" (Master seargent? The guy was basically like, softly running half the batallion though and just like, knew everything, everyone, and never raised his voice) who was former NVA ("Nationale Volks-Armee" East German army, not North Vietnamese one), and who, having served in a Soviet Akhatziya, then in a American/German M109GA3 and then in a PzH2000 was like "Yay, we got our old rate of fire from back when we were Warsaw pact back".

The Russians are not a tank army, they are an artillery army that also likes tanks.

What I found interesting was that our stuff rarely broke down. PzH was kind of new when I served in 2003 (thats a long time ago now lol), but we took it out daily for a month or 2 and it didnt mess up. Everyone was pretty surprised about this.

Also, wrong alias in the post above, Eric totally is not a level 14/Mythic trickster 6 Succubus with a legendary magic Soviet Sniper rifle.

Like, Mythic rules being what they are, "she" could probably solo the adventure on account of mythic undeteactable, because this apparently allows you to RAW, be still fully steathy when you shoot people in the face at point blank range with a flamethrower while singing the Soviet National anthem at the top of your lungs. Yes, mythic rules, very well considered.

Always find it interesting how things can be so different and yet the same across cultures.

I'm jealous for when you say that your stuff rarely broke down. Our shyt was always broken. I drove an M113 APC, and that thing was the worst. Went into the field once and there had been a fire inside that was never really fixed. And the Paladins...a few of them were real bottom of the barrel quality. I used to joke that the best way to defeat ISIS was to air drop our equipment and let them have it. That said, at least I never popped tracks. Saw others who did and it did not look like fun to fix it.

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Also I am *NOT* convinced that Eric isn't a 14/Mythic trickster 6 Succubus with a legendary magic Soviet Sniper rifle. Until I see ironclad proof that he isn't, I will remain wary.

Well, PZH2000s have been built in the late 90s, early 2000s, Paladins are literally from the Vietnam War.

M113 APCs were considered a joke in the Bundeswehr. Most were exchanged for Marders (who are also showing their teeth) and there was much rejoicing. Not as much rejoicing as there was in the Russian armed forces when the US air force essentially retired the A-10 Warthog (as the basically most "Soviet" part of the US arsenal, the Russians tended to respect it. Regarding it as a Sturmovik equivalent made fit for relatively modern warfare), but still plenty.

M113s are also really old.

Russian kit is sometimes completely hilarious.
Like, in the current conflict in Ukraine, the seperatist actually managed to get some T-34s that were emplaced at the entrance of cementaries and WW2 memorials up and running (these were in some cases literally build in WW2).
These did not last very long though, unsurprisingly (T-34 ergonomics and observation are total crap, you are unironically better of on foot on a modern battlefield), but yeah, tells you something about engineering.
On the other hand, modern Russian kit is sometimes less durable.
Oh, I am half Russian half German, and hilarious enough have close relatives who formerly were in the Russian armed forces, Russian military police force etc.
My guess is, if you put 10 random US soldiers, and 10 random Russians Soldat in the same bar, the odds of a bar brawl are probably still less then the odds of spontaneous fraternization. Grunts be Grunts everywhere.

Did you btw. knew that there was a pre WW2 era design proposal for a tank, where the drivers machine gun was replaced with a chainsaw? It got nixed before it ever saw Stalins desk (and would have been very very stupid to boot), but yeah, peak Soviet engineering.

I can recommend Kubinka tank museum in Moscow, very cool guide (at least I had one), I asked him some question (in extremely german accented Russian), he answered those, asked some back, which I could actually answer because I have knowledge WW2 in the mid 15s, I made some slight fun my German overengineering tendencies which was well received and basically...

we ended in a bar, the dude invited his grandpa who was a WW2 veteran, and all got very very drunk.

Moscow.txt

Lorel Blushes. "I don't know how to braid my hair. Or to use a hair pin. But I'll try it."

Unsure if she should even speculate upon the reasons for why Lorel would respond the way that she did, Morelda opted to brush that off for now and instead replied with, "It'll be fine- I'm sure that you'll pick it up right away. I don't happen to have anything like those on me at the moment to spare... I know, maybe Audrahni could have some extras lying around- either that or the Circle Market; they're bound to have something that you could use."

Sadly mylady, I do not have this spell, I can however mend things, perhaps we can setup some kind of trade or exchange?

Eric says considering what else he can offer. Dancing lights would be unlikely to impress a mage much, grease was clearly a most ungentlemanly thing, the lady was in excellent health and thus had no need for cure light wounds, message, detect magic and mage hand would also fail to impress a skilled practicioner of the arcane.

Eric de St. Cyr wrote:

Also, wrong alias in the post above, Eric totally is not a level 14/Mythic trickster 6 Succubus with a legendary magic Soviet Sniper rifle.

Pausing to look over the fabulously coiffuered, armor-clad Galtan gent, Morelda's previous estimation of Eric had increased greatly upon mention of his spell-crafting ability. "Why, I'd be more than happy to trade spells with a fellow practitioner of the Arcane arts; um, I'm actually not as well-versed in things pertaining to Illusions or Necromancy though- Desil made certain of that about the latter. I do know a bit about Mind-crafting and Mind-magics though... it's quite the rage over at the Twilight Academy."

If Eric could pose as such as being a gun-toting, Mythical powered Succubus, then Morelda would have to conclude that he possesses enormous Illusionary-based magicks. ;)

Also I am *NOT* convinced that Eric isn't a 14/Mythic trickster 6 Succubus with a legendary magic Soviet Sniper rifle. Until I see ironclad proof that he isn't, I will remain wary.

Lets run with it, I had fun writing this, I hope you have fun reading :) GM, you can cut of the 4 wall breaking whenever you want

A very confused looking huge Soviet Soldier, with 4 additional clockwork arms bearing various flamethrowers, artillery shells and Chainsaws, and whose actual hands wield a looted MG-42 suddenly materializes out of an abyssal portal and asks

"OK Сука Blyad" He speaks looking at the group.

Who of you be a dwarf named "Thurin Foehammer"? You all be kind of smallish..." I Am of having Telegram for him.

Clearly incapable of distinguishing between dwarfs, or perhaps thinking that Grandfather mossbeard must be the leader on account of having a dinosaur and thus clearly being innately superior, he hands grandfather mossbeard a finely perfumed letter, before shouting
До свидания! I need make quick remove tentacles or Shamira sets ass of mine on fire again.Blyad! and disappearing into a puff of Abyssal smoke.

The letter reads:

Dear Sir,

bluff: 1d20 + 37 ⇒ (18) + 37 = 55
34 CHA, bluff as class skill and +8 to bluff racial ahahaha

Eric is looking around slackjawed.

I have no idea what is going on!

Also, I am totally not drunk!

bluff: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 6 = 13
Liliya could not bluff that badly even if she rolled a 1!

Lorel Blushes. "I don't know how to braid my hair. Or to use a hair pin. But I'll try it."

Oh, Madmoiselle, hair pins are pretty easy, braids are relatively involved. I can show vou how.. approachin Morel but suddenly remembering that he is Galtese, and in Galt there are many rumors about foreigners having strange hangups concerning acceptable bounds of bodily contact between male and females.

Running with randomly inserting french words when they are very close to english anyway

Scott "Lorel" Millerson wrote:

Lorel Blushes. "I don't know how to braid my hair. Or to use a hair pin. But I'll try it."

Oh, Madmoiselle, hair pins are pretty easy, braids are relatively involved. I can show vou how.. approachin Morel but suddenly remembering that he is Galtese, and in Galt there are many rumors about foreigners having strange hangups concerning acceptable bounds of bodily contact between male and females.

I could uhm paint une image perhaps?

"Could you show me with your hair?" Lorel doesn't want to risk getting a braid she doesn't know how to undo in her hair.

Oui of course, une moment He looks at Morelda and waves her over.
Mademoiselle Morelda?
May I perhaps humbly ask for your assistance in this of fashionable queste?
From experience, it is far easier to braid someone else then to braid oneself, Perhaps Mademoiselle Morelda could show it to Mademoiselle Lorel using my hair, and then Mademoiselle Lorel could attempt it herself on my hair under Madmoiselle Moreldas tutelage?

Eric says to Morelda while straightening out his hairdo and shaking his lustrous mane, worthy of a swedish power metal band member, out in preperation.

Nodding to both Eric and Lorel, Morelda replies to Eric's invitation to help demonstrate about having one's hair done in a braid, "I'll be more than happy to help demonstrate how a braid is done."

Sauntering over towards the right of the taller, lustrously maned Galtan's side, Morelda motions Lorel to head over towards Eric's left side. "We can start out with me showing you how the braiding is done- all under the good supervision of Eric's guidance, of course."

Reaching out her hand towards Eric's hair but not touching until Lorel is close enough nearby to watch and the Galtan gent gives his expressed permission to begin.

As a dude with an life time average hair length of roughly 3 cm, my knowledge of braids is rather limited, but wikipedia and google to the rescue.

Mademoisselle, go ahead, perhaps une simple Andoran(English) style braid?
Moving his own hands to the neck of his hair,
in essence, vou divide the hair in 3 parts, and bind them around each other, not too tightly, in this fashion . Personally, I use my right hand to control the leading sub-braid and the third subbraid, while my left hand controls the second one, but this is une matter of prerefence.
Having demonstratively done a slight simple braid of about 3 cms length, Eric quickly undoes it.
Dont be shy madmoiselles, while not as tough as Monsieur Foehammer, who by the way sports some nice braidwork in his most excellently kept beard, I nevertheless doubt I will fall over dead from 2 charming madmoiselles messing with moi hair, unless either of you is une Succubus in une cunning disguise. He smiles gently and invitingly, rather trustingly not believing that either Lorel or Morelda are Succubi.

I am looking forward to Eric going berserk at the next villain who messes with his hair, was not a character aspect I had in mind but it would fit well enough

Lorel watches intently. She's not so sure she isn't a succubus in disguise, actually.

As someone who, in real life, would know next to nothing about braiding hair apart from watching from afar relatives doing the braiding thing for their kids, all of that sounds pretty legit to me :).

Unfortunately, being a succubi won't come into play anytime soon before some shapeshifting spell/power gets researched by Morelda. ;)

PS. As an aside, the gameplay part of this thread is now fully active and operational. :)

PS. As an aside, the gameplay part of this thread is now fully active and operational. :)

Thanks. I had no idea.

Eric essentially talks like the MMA fighter George St. Poirier, and kind of looks like him but with very fabulous long hair.

Happy Turkey killing days across the ocean friends!

Thanks. I had no idea.

No prob, TheWaskally; glad to have given you the heads up on that. :)

Happy Turkey killing days across the ocean friends!

And Happy Post-Turkey Killing days [devourment of said Turkeys purely optional for some?] to you and yours, as well. ;)

Can we buy something for 10% and then sell it for normal half price?

There aren't any weapons Mossbeard would actually use lol

Can we buy something for 10% and then sell it for normal half price?

There aren't any weapons Mossbeard would actually use lol

Depending on what it ie, yup.

Heh, since I dun goofed twice in the actual bargain pricing and in choosing of the Prismatic Crystal as the bargain item [while it was considered as Adventuring Gear in AoN, it isn't listed in UE], should I try choosing another item to apply the previous bargain to or would it be okay to go with the 10% off the regular price of the crystal? I'll have to re-dl UE to find something else suitable instead if not.

Heh, since I dun goofed twice in the actual bargain pricing and in choosing of the Prismatic Crystal as the bargain item [while it was considered as Adventuring Gear in AoN, it isn't listed in UE], should I try choosing another item to apply the previous bargain to or would it be okay to go with the 10% off the regular price of the crystal? I'll have to re-dl UE to find something else suitable instead if not.

It's actually 90% off, since it only costs you 10% of the normal price when you get it through the market. And that's fine.

May I propose a variant rule for non lethal combat?

Instead of -4 attack penalty, but you just forgo critical hits (a 20 still hits but does not crit).

I like it narratively and mechanically because it makes non lethal possible for everyone, and does not do a crushing penalty on the "good guys".

As a science teacher irl, I'm very happy to see a feathered dinosaur. :Thumbsup: at Mossbeard.

It's actually 90% off, since it only costs you 10% of the normal price when you get it through the market. And that's fine.

Thank you, stormcrow27, and much appreciated. I guess that the Guide presumed a face-to-face, in-person gaming group as the general default with the more simpler go-to of using just Ultimate Equipment book rather than referring to online sources like AoN. :)

PS. will duly make the proper adjustments then on my profile character sheet. ;)

Someone is actually trying to make a bladed scarf build?

I applaud your bravery madmoiselle!

I am actively considering to cast grease on the brawl once it starts.

Someone is actually trying to make a bladed scarf build?

I applaud your bravery madmoiselle!

Heh, I figured that some proficiency in a bladed scarf would be just as easy to use as a dagger [especially in a grappled situation], plus... because the bladed scarf is usually "worn" like an article of clothing, it wouldn't be so easily accidentally dropped like a dagger. ;)

PS. had also considered a Shoanti-trait build [with usage of the Klar] but visually, the bladed scarf seemed to win out over for me.

I consider myself decent at munchkinning and optimizing and tried really hard to come up with a build for bladed scarfs that I would consider competitive, but came up with nothing.

Meanwhile, reach attacks with S18 with spellcasting and ferocity while also being skillmonkey on top is literally never wrong, and can essentially fit into any party.