[AP] Iron Gods by GM Rutseg

Game Master Balacertar

Numeria has a long history of mystery and wonder buried under its rugged landscape, for on that one fateful night thousands of years ago, the Rain of Stars scarred the land. The fragmented remnants of a non identified object from beyond the stars fell from the sky, scattering strange technological ruins and deadly perils across the land. Today, these sites are feared by the barbaric tribes and coveted by the sinister spellcasters of the Technic League. Yet something worse than brutish berserker or super-science wizard has risen to power in these hidden technological halls. The Iron Gods are ready to make their presence known, and if they are not opposed by the region’s newest heroes, a scourge unlike any the Inner Sea has seen will arise!

Welcome to the Iron Gods AP! Welcome to Numeria, Land of Fallen Stars!

Published between August 2014 and January 2015, Iron Gods was the 15th AP published under the Pathfinder monthly seal, and the first one to feature technological gear becoming the germ for Starfinder.

Not being a lover of sci-fi in my epic fantasy games, playing Iron Gods in these boards has been an absolute blast for the last 5 years.

Now, I present my intention to run the full campaign for a group of 5 valiant players under the Pathfinder rules.

And because such an epic goal requires epic meddlers, rascals, scavengers, mercenaries, adventurers, heroes, I summon to this thread you, the Called Ones.

This will be a trip I hope we will not forget, in the good sense, and I expect it will bring fun, grandeur and respite from the constraints of our daily lives.

Some resources for your reference:
- Iron Gods Player's Guide, the official starting point for you adventurers.
- Iron Gods Player's Guide Extension where you can find the Creation Rules, Houserules and Expectations, the Technology Crash Guide, and a brief introduction to Numeria's History.
- Torch's Gazetteer includes all you need to know about Torch.

If you have problems coming up with a background or personality for your character, I can recommend Ash’s Guide to RPG Personality & Background. It is often rewarding to discover your character organically, but you can find really good material in that web page.

As you know, we have a Slack channel for more direct back and forth chat, but if you want to discuss something that requires more in-depth writing, or you need to share some information that should stand the pass of time, or if you simply cannot reach to the chat, please feel free to write here whatever pleases you. At the least we will use this thread to post level advancement information.

^Up, at the top of the page, you will find links to the current map, the treasure sheet and whatever other information it might be important for the current chapter.

Without more preamble, lights on! Have fun! Be Heroes! Or not! But enjoy our time together! :)

I've setup a tracking sheet for us, which you can see linked at the top of the page. It's not quite fully done yet, and I don't know how much we're going to use of it.

We'll track loot at the very least and I'm offering to handle that unless one of you wants to take on that task. Happy to give it up, though I am going to need those hero points it brings I fear...

I'll finalize the sheet once everyone has posted and I have all the character names for the tracking.

Not sure if this is one of those "one success and you're immune for a time" saves, so I rolled with the less favorable assumption.

Unfortunately gaze attacks general rule says a success does not save you against next rounds attacks, and there is nothing specific in the monster to overrule this.

Also, can anyone use a wand of cure light wounds in this group? I’d like to buy one as the nano-guns are really expensive, if someone can use it. If not, we’ll have to get a another tech thing if we can even find one. GM - what’s the availability of either a wand of CLW or a brown nanogun healing thingy.

Sure! The temple of Brigh has one on stock and can craft more, that and hypoguns, once they finish their important job on new containers for waste disposal, that is.

Rhor has plenty of UMD (and more coming) and can activate a wand of CLW.

...0 gp leftover starting monies
+108 gp first payout
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.108 gp to spend

.108 gp to spend

.108 gp

Two mage armor scrolls for me! So +108 gp - 50 gp = 58 gp

If you accept, you will be directed to an armory at the lower floor of the manor. It is well stocked with masterwork versions of all basic martial and simple weapons "Please, pick one each of you."

Would like a masterwork composite longbow of +3 strength. Is that possible?

Oh you half-elf know to push the limits eh!

There are no such bows in the armory, but there are masterwok composite longbows and I do allow to use craft to improve the pull of an already existing composite bow adding +Str with the usual costs.

Yes, that's fine. Will take a normal masterwork composite longbow. That'll be great.

..18 gp to spend

...18 gp to spend

.1292 gp to spend

.1292 gp to spend

@DmRutSeg how long to prepare an Alkali Flask ?

By the craft skill rules it would take a week at the least unless you have instant alchemy or a similar ability. I think that does not even have much sense, I would say it should follow similar rules to magic items crafting, so 8 hours per each 1000 gp, and only 2 hours for items worth less than 250 golds. Well armor and other bulky objects probably should need more, realistically, so let's add an extra 8 hours work for each 10 lbs weight.

I have added such rule to the list of campaign houserules in the Player Guide Extension.

Thank you!

I'm currently on the road, but should be able to get leveled up tomorrow.

.1292 gp to spend

-..20 gp 2*acid flask
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.1272.0 to spend

Level up to 3:
Quiggong Sensei Monk 3
+6 HP
+1 BAB
+6 Skills (+2 background): Heal x2, KN Eng, Perception, Sense Motive, Stealth
Feat: Mantis Style
Class Features: Still Mind (+2 saves vs. enchantment), Maneuver Training (use monk level in place of BAB for CMB)

Very much looking forward to getting to the point where I can use Advice/inspire without having to ration it carefully, though that's still a while off. In the mean time, my support presence is going to rely on stunning fist, flanking, and being a warm body that dodges attacks that could hit other people.

With sloth-like reflexes, Chaance is reaching back into the recent divvy to resurrect the Masterwork Chain Shirt, and place it squarely on her inventory, deducting the appropriate pre-market resale amount from her coinage, please and thank you... :)

I believe Yambul's falchion is not enchanted, but correct me if I am wrong.

Unenchanted...you told me we had time for adamantine and such.:)

Wanted to acknowledge our magnanimous GM Rutseg for an amazing run of the Shackled City campaign, begun January 2016, finishing this month :) He's been our constant well of creativity, and I consider us all highly fortunate for him to helm Iron Gods for us. Some things go without saying, but here, I say well done, GM :)

Wow six and a half years! That's amazing.

Owww, thanks for the words, it is a hard work sometimes and it feels good knowing it is appreciated. I have learnt a lot on these boards, including tricks and ways from some of the best GMs here.

It was a collective success as well, I just put the strings there, you gathered them, chewed them and gave me back something very special while creating memorable characters. Some of their conversations, and specially the feeling they left, will stick there for a long time. Special mention to certain black ratcatcher grown a dwarven hero with a strong personality and a sharp axe ;)

I am confident to have here a similar positive shared experience!

Rūha for the save there, very well thought, even better executed :)

Rhoreen cheers Ruha and blasts Izzkvitgrk with her wand.

”Yeah! Take that Izzkvitgrk!”

Only... Izzkvitgrk is no where to be seen by Rhoreen! Shall I assume she is confusing some of the other ratfolks for the goggled gunrat? :)

Cyan ratfolk: 9 damage, mortally wounded
Black ratfolk: 10 damage, mortally wounded
Yellow ratfolk: 2 damage, slightly wounded
Pink: 11 damage, disabled, staggered
Izzkvitgrk: 29 damage, badly wounded
Meyanda: df r14, sof 5 min, bstr 5 min
Yambul: 7 damage, shield r36
Rhoreen: 12 damage
Rūha: 4 damage, mage armor 95 min
Zzvkgrogk: 5 damage

Sorry, trying to find a good target and assumed that was red rat on the map. Who is red rat if not Izzy?

If not, happy to target Meyanda then.

No problem! I think that one is Skivvkn, Izzkvitgrk has a unique image token.

Meyanda it is then!

FWIW, I'd also like to be in the running for a ranged tech firearm. Ruha's got no good ranged options to speak of, and even untrained hitting touch AC is doable.

FWIW, I'd also like to be in the running for a ranged tech firearm. Ruha's got no good ranged options to speak of, and even untrained hitting touch AC is doable.

Oh, take the Inferno pistol. Rhor was just going to use it to blow off a few fingers (maybe even those of some foes if lucky).

It's yours.

Cool, thanks!

You are welcome to use laser guns, it is part of the fun of playing this adventure after all, but remember without the Exotic Weapon Proficiency (firearms) or a similar class feature you take a -4 on the attacks! Also some feats like Deadly Aim will be needed to maintain the amount of damage meaningful as we go up in level :)

So summarizing what has been going on:

Damaged when the habitat module crashed during the Rain of Stars, the reactor’s core slowly degraded over the course of the passing centuries. In 4602 AR, after nearly 9,000 years of slow decay, the reactor’s automatic venting systems finally activated as a fail-safe against an explosion, blasting a lance of violet plasma up through the stone above and out of the top of the hill. Once the vents opened, they remained lit from that point on, forming the torch that would give the town its name. Whenever the reactor grew too unstable, it vented again (these being the sudden, periodic flare-ups of fire that lance high into the sky above the town), and in this way, it has remained relatively stable for the past century or so.

Unfortunately for Meyanda, this fail-safe prevented transmission of power to remote locations, so the android was forced to override it. Doing so, she knew, would extinguish the torch and eventually cause the reactor to explode, but she wasn’t worried about that—the time it would take for the reactor to reach this critical state would be more than enough for her power needs to be satisfied. Of a more immediate concern to the android was the fact that taking this step would alert the entire town that something was afoot. She took steps to secure her defenses before flipping the switch, so that when she finally disengaged the fail-safe and extinguished the vents, her cult was ready to defend her and the relay for the months it would take to transmit the power back home.

Remember to write down here the most relevant decisions you take during your level up to 4!

Rhor is pleased that she has learnt so much about technology for the last few days. Rhor always knew that she was wicked smart, but how quickly she's adapted to technology has been nice.

In addition, she was thrilled to be able to craft the right gizmo to make the elevator work, and has put more points into mechanical crafting in hopes of getting more use out of it.

Last Level: May 15, 2022.

RUHA: MONK Lv4 (SENSEI QINGGONG)
HP +6
BAB+1 / ALL SAVES+1
WIS+1
FCB to skillpt

UnarmedStrike damage -> d8
Ki Pool (6 points)
Ki Power (Scorching Ray, replacing slow fall)

Skills: Acrobatics, Engineering, Local, Religion, Perception, Sense Motive

Background skills: Lore (redacted), Linguistics

+Language (Androffan - I assume given the exposure and possibility for downtime, we can now pick this up?)

+Language (Androffan - I assume given the exposure and possibility for downtime, we can now pick this up?)

Yes, I assume you will spend some time researching what you have found in the habitat module and asking Chaance teaching on the language :)

I'm out camping this weekend, and unfortunately don't have reliable data at the site. I'll be back on Monday. Please bot me if needed before then.