Arcanium

Game Master BloodWolven

Yes! Zaidel's eyes bulge as he quickly takes the lovely Pan flute. "Here. Trade you for this cell phone?!"

Davin how are you doing the spellcraft checks with detect magic to identify items?

"I would love to have a cell phone once again! All I got was this Paper notebook and a simple ring." He relents.

Davin how are you doing the spellcraft checks with detect magic to identify items?

I'm not. I'm casting the spell to determine if they are magical via whether they have an aura or not. If they are, I can roll Spellcraft.

Detect Magic 1st round will tell me if they are magic items or not.

If they are, a DC 15+caster level of the item Spellcraft check lets me identify them.

Huh. A cursed Scroll of Wish. That can only end well.

Well at the moment Jonathan only knows it is a scroll and Davin or others with detect magic can tell you it is magical.

Jon I will let you have a nice leather scroll case to hold it too!

GM Wolf wrote:

Davin how are you doing the spellcraft checks with detect magic to identify items?

I'm not. I'm casting the spell to determine if they are magical via whether they have an aura or not. If they are, I can roll Spellcraft.

Detect Magic 1st round will tell me if they are magic items or not.

If they are, a DC 15+caster level of the item Spellcraft check lets me identify them.

Yes you are correct but you haven't made any checks to identify them. Thats what I meant.

Yeah, I'm just trying to see if they have an aura or not.

I will offer to look over everybody's items, so once I know which are magical, I will roll my Spellcraft checks(I don't wanna just roll a bunch, especially since I can potentially re-roll via my Luck ability).

I'll start with the flute, then Zaidel's items(since we're trading), then Jon's(since I offered him the potion). Locke 4th(since he's my friendo), after that, whoever wants me to try and ID their items.

Is my lizard magical? :D

Whoa, that seems like a question Zaidel should answer :P lol

Wolf, you had mentioned that it was okay for me to select one type of creature I can turn into without needing some form of material component for. If that's still the case, I think I'll go the simple route, and pick animal. It might be more powerful and badass to pick something like dragon or giant, but I think it'll be more fun to have to hunt down those components.

Would also be okay if I could change my shape to something different during the duration? Ie, if I'm a cat, I could become a raven, and then a horse?

Yup, yep, and yes. Davin that sounds gravy.

I mean how hard would it be to get some dragon poo Davin? There is one flying over you right now. It's the worse way a character ever died was being hit by a dragon who was cursed with the spell contagion and proceeded to drop flaming poo upon them at the same time as flaming vomit...

Also Zaidel, just messing with you man.

Also I left out "I've heard of getting some wicked licks in with your axe back in the day for a musician but this is ridiculous!"

Also Zaidel, just messing with you man.

It's cool. That was funny! Zaidel can take it, and dish it out! 0.0

Still nothing from Davin... oh well... let's go to Round 4!

Seriously folks some of my highest pet peeves!
I post in gameplay just a OOC and have nothing that adds to gameplay...
I post my actions but I choose not to label which round I am posting for...
Yup! Oh and leaving a game without doing anything with your character. Yeah sure the DM will take care of it!
Just a bit of sarcasm there if you didn't pick up on it!

I have had one H3ll of a day and we are about ready to do round four, and yet Davin has only posted for the first round.

Seriously ask questions!!!!!!!! Get CLARIFICATION here before posting in gameplay!!!!!

Davin there was about 40 wolves that you could see in the clearing, there are more. The other casters or lower level characters all took to the trees. Round 2: Which you get to go first before you get swarmed by 6 or more wolves. So fly away little bird!

Sorry, I had a rough last few days IRL, and was about to post an attack, but then saw I had been swarmed.

Davin's current AC is 16: 13 base+6 natural armor -3 Dex from size(it drops his dex down to 8). If I cast Mage Armor to boost my AC to 18, would that negate most of the attacks?

If not, away we fly!

Davin's present AC is 21 and has 123 hp or some absurd number like that. When you change into something you take those stats, you don't change them. As worded by your super power.

Davin's present AC is 21 and has 123 hp or some absurd number like that. When you change into something you take those stats, you don't change them. As worded by your super power.

OH!! I totally thought it worked **exactly** like Greater Polymorph this whole time!

I'm dumb, lol.

I will be busy most of today, as it's really nice out weather wise, and my mom wants to start getting the yard ready for the spring. I'm just checking in here before heading out.

Zaidel your movement will provoke AoO first...

No worries Davin, I mean we could do greater polymorph but the way you worded your ability you would gain all of the abilities of the chosen form. If the spell runs out and you revert to your normal form you apply all the damage after DR to Davin the human.

OK, so I'm down again.

I feel like I've screwed up my HP somewhere. I thought 24 was pretty solid, with a Con of 18, for a bard at level 2, but I got wiped out in one round and looking around I'm seeing HP in the 50-100 range. Did I miss a rule or something where our HP got boosted? I know my AC is crap, but I'll sort that out when we head back to town and get some new gear.

With the influx of cash your group should get geared up easily. When Jacen transforms he takes the hp of the target animal, humming bird 1 hp, mastodon 123 hp. Locke already has a template which you can gain with a wish. Niversal's construct has DR 10/magic and has double his hp. Jade is a 6th level NPC as is Gin. They are here to help you accomplish this task. Yes 24 hp is great for a 2nd level bard. But no one is a dedicated healer and many of us don't have any healing abilities.

Being a large target more things target you. Just saying. No one said where they were standing. It would have been nice if someone said, 'I move forward with Jon, staying at his side.' Or something, sure I could have made a map and in the future I normally will.

I would be okay with like 5 subtypes to start, and then maybe another group whenever I level? So six now?

Obviously the idea is to eventually be able to shape change into all the various types of creatures(fae, undead, dragons, plants, etc), but if you want to further limit that, I would be willing to discuss possibilities on what's fair for both of us.

That is true Zaidel you are a dedicated healer. Though you have been doing a lot of attacking rather than healing... Just saying! X)

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Let us go with 5 for right now and gain another one per odd level up. Otherwise if you have something of theirs you can turn into them. Sounds good Davin!

I have healing as a side gig and outside of combat when I take 20 on a heal check I give more HP back to the person just so you know.

Aka combat medic

GM Wolf wrote:

Davin how much damage did you take? And how much did Zaidel heal?

It depends on if I was able to have cast Mage Armor in round 2, before I was attacked the first time. If I was, my AC was 27, meaning only nat 20s hit me. If I wasn't able to, only the two 19s with flanking bonuses hit me. Same with the attacks from rounds 5&6, no 20s, and only the 19 hits if it got a flanking bonus. However, if my AC has been 27 from round 2-6, zero attacks hit me, even those with a flanking bonus, as 19+4 = 23.

Also, never tripped, as my CMD vs that is a 39.

Well that depends on the somatic and verbal components to your spell. I never heard any, not even an attempt. Now yes that was said in jest, but I am still trying to figure out how a mastodon would do that. I was leaving it in your court to post how the mastodon was able to do the spell or something.

Your AC would be a 21 with mage armor it would be a 25. Do you have some other protective gear that gives you the +2 to AC?

The +2 comes from: As the legendary sorcerer learns to tap into their magical powers, their power affirms their reality, making them harder to hurt, as if their body were more real than the world around them. The legendary sorcerer receives a untyped bonus to AC equal to their Charisma modifier or class level, whichever is lower.

As for fulfilling the somatic and verbal components of Mage Armor, I *think* as long as the creature can make movements(like stomp it's feet or sway it's trunk) and can make sounds, it can cast spells.

Even if that's not the case, and I can't cast Mage Armor, my AC is still 23, which means only the three 19s with flanking(assuming the 3rd one has such a bonus) hit.

Ok, thanks for that clarification. So then Davin only got hit three times. RAW you should get a feat that allows a caster to cast spells in other forms. I think it is used by a lot of druids. Otherwise you will need to make the specific somatic and verbal components with any shape that you take. Sounds are not the same as specific verbal components.

I also have envisioned most casters are moving their hands/arms in a specific way for each spell. That is not RAW just my thoughts on it.

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So what are you guys doing?

Heading north!

The feat is natural spell and you either retrain it or take it at lv five

You say that Jean but I haven't heard of any movement.

Apparently, I was not correct.

Well, where do we go?

Back to New Beginnings. We can shop and drop off non-combatants and then move north after and see what we can do to level up.

Alright. Hopefully New Beginnings has winter wear to sell

We can take the wolves back as raw materials and have some made, perhaps?

We can take them back to sell the hides if we want, but it takes more then a few days to tan a hide and make an outfit.

You should make a reference to skinning the hides off some of the wolves which will take a few hours for the group.

So no skinning then, okay got it.

We can take this as slow or fast as you want. If you want to skip to the next day please let us know. There isn't much more you are going to do tonight.

Though I do need people to make posts.

I plan on making a larger conversational post when I get home from work. Spoilers and everything.

Sounds good, I hope others will post too!

I have to catch up with Matthew anyways. It seems like you left him behind.

Davin you around?! Is there anyone else that we have missed for two days or more?!

Davin I need a decision on if you are going to New Beginnings with the group or staying with Locke.

37 = Jewelry (1,000 gp)

This would be the jewellery I was talking about, GM.

Ah yes, I remember now. So 1,000 for the jewelry, 500 gp, the scroll 500 gp, the greatsword... that should do nicely.

Hey all, been spending all of today celebrating Mother's Day with my mom, my 98yr old grandmother, my aunt, and her mom.

My brother, two cousins, one of their girlfriends, and myself put together a European style brunch for the moms. We just got a little bit ago(it's 4pm est), though they're still here chatting.

Probably won't get around to posting till later tonight, I just wanted to let ya'll know what's up.

Sounds like an awesome day! Have fun!

Sounds fun Davin, thanks for the update.

Just a general heads up,

I am usually not very active, posting wise, on the boards until about 8pm(now) Eastern Standard Time. I check my games upon first waking up, but unless there's some imminent need, I don't really reply till the evening. However, I also stay awake till anywhere between 4:30-6:30am(est), as I 'monitor' my 98 yr grandmother in case she needs anything during the night so my mom can get good sleeps.

So, if I haven't posted anything in 10+ hours, it's not that I'm ignoring the game, it's that I am either asleep(due to the above, I get up around 12-1pm est), or busy helping around the house.

Also, with the weather getting nicer, I'll be spending time outside setting up our yard, helping my mom with our gardens, etc. Which will cut my ability to post during the day down even more.

Did the rest of the team make to the unicorn in time to see her revive? I'm unclear.