"I should probably check in that Lisi went over that whole 'servants of the divine taste bad' discussion with the warglets ..."
OMG - after I kill Voz I am going to convert the bookstore!
Wait for it ... Bravestone Day Care!I cannot WAIT for the City Council campaign now!
Lol!!! *slams head on desk several times*
Javell rises from his desk, a huge red mark on his forehead goes over to the table, grabs the white flag, raises it high, and waves it while thinking all the while, I'm just trying to get Joran on his first freaking official DATE with Trinil! ;)
"I should probably check in that Lisi went over that whole 'servants of the divine taste bad' discussion with the warglets ..."
OMG - after I kill Voz I am going to convert the bookstore!
Wait for it ... Bravestone Day Care!I cannot WAIT for the City Council campaign now!
Lol!!! *slams head on desk several times*
Javell rises from his desk, a huge red mark on his forehead goes over to the table, grabs the white flag, raises it high, and waves it while thinking all the while, I'm just trying to get Joran on his first freaking official DATE with Trinil! ;)
Dude, leave the whole munchausen thing out of it: if you're trying to say Joran wants to run for City Council first, it is TOTALLY cool. I get it. I would want to be a power player before I proposed too, and Cev is totally a lover not a fighter ...
(k, technically that's an outright lie because he prayed to be a champion, not a cleric)
The point here is flexibility, planning, and preservation of your desk.
Cevendyll will totally switch gears and try to see if there's a graphic artist in Breachill OR maybe hire a whole group of people who can cast Presitigation to paint campaign slogans on walls. We're all set.
Voz's Emporium of Evil becomes Braveston for City Council Headquarters!
Sulee watches as the battle rages with a mixture of apprehension and fierce pride. "This is quite the group of people we have gotten together with. Voz and this mercenary crew seem pretty tough. I don't think they actually stand a chance though."
"Would be nice to be actually able to help though." Sulee picks a blade of grass and absentmindedly shreds it into strips.
Isn't there some way that we can help Sulee get some skin in the game?
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Hell yea, Sulee can ride a little cart pulled by the Warglets. Ben Hur style.
At higher levels (character level 11) she will be able to do a slight bit more. I can give her one spell to cast each day, though it will be 5 spell levels lower than max. So probably not damage spells, but something like Bless or Ray of Enfeeblement.
But yeah, I think that PF2 over-compensated for the shenanigans that people could get familiars to do in PF1. In PF2 they are pretty much explicitly forbidden from doing much of anything useful in combat. Forbidden from making Strikes of any form, and forbidden from using items.
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Some DMs are out to get their players.
I am the self-loathing DM that tries to play the bad guys well, but then becomes a nervous wreck when they succeed at hurting the PCs. One of you better save Yasami.
Yeah, being a GM is hard. You are one of the players and this is a cooperative game, so you really should be on the same team with the players. But you are also playing the antagonists and enemies of the story, and those characters are very much enemies of the player's characters. Not easy to do both.
Damn, girl! You roll like you mean it!
So folks - who's doing the next campaign when we all die here? It will probably be hard to maintain Fern's level. Any takers?
Yasami's Riposte reaction would happen, but Yasami's spot in initiative changes for going down. She will be in the block right before the Hobgoblin. The purpose for that is to give the rest of us more time to help before she has to make Dying checks or take any recurring damage.
Ah good call Caiten!
I have a feeling someone may need a Glimpse of Redemption.
Give me just a moment to catch up ...
I will smite you. You wanna get smote?
I will smite you. You wanna get smote?
Are there antibiotics for that?
If there are, sure ;)
It is a line from Moana.
Minor notes:
The damage resistance applies to the triggering damage, so it wouldn't affect later attacks even if the damage type matches. The Enfeebled condition may lower the damage though.
Resist All applies to all damage types separately. So if the weapon did both Piercing and Fire damage it would reduce both by the resistance amount. Precision damage adds to existing damage though rather than creating a separate type, so Resist All doesn't apply to that separately. Same with weapon runes or Rage damage - it increases the damage of the same type.
Damn, girl! You roll like you mean it!
So folks - who's doing the next campaign when we all die here? It will probably be hard to maintain Fern's level. Any takers?
We are NOT all dying here! 'Nuff said.
I actually think the tide of the battle turned when Lisi cast Cloud of Ash on the archers in the one corner and Dario made a couple of headshots on the archers in the other corner. We have a couple of scary enemies here, but I don't think they will outlast all of us. One is at half HP already and the other is a spellcaster.
Yeah those Dario kill shots have been HUGE.
Still working on what to do here. What I'm thinking is gonna be a HUGE gamble though. Ah well, here goes nothing...
Nice one, Oren! I REALLY hope Joran's 19 finished her off and maybe you can switch that attack to the skeleton.
But if Joran's 19 didn't do it then that 15 of yours DEFINITELY did. She's DONE! One way or another.
I know Voz has those freaking Acid Arrows but that hobgoblin is a stinking Cuisinart.
I really hope that I put her in the dirt. If I did, then I'll have to do some Chronomancy and try to take a swing at Voz. If I didn't, then at least the hobgoblin is Frightened and maybe Dario can pop a shot off on her.
That first attack did it for sure. She DID NOT have 34 hit points left. No doubt in my mind.
I wanted to take down that stupid skeleton with his dumb 1 hp but it was just too difficult to ignore the hobgoblin. She's tearing us apart with those blades.
I've been bribing the dice roller as much as I can but I swear, it is getting expensive now folks... :P
Yeah, see. I leave for a few hours to help some friends pack up and you guys have killed nearly everything. :D
I've been bribing the dice roller as much as I can but I swear, it is getting expensive now folks... :P
Yeah, see. I leave for a few hours to help some friends pack up and you guys have killed nearly everything. :D
Just a merc and a hobgoblin really.
We still have 2 more mercs up north, a 1 freaking hit point skeleton who's about to bash Joran and/or Cev into oblivion, and let's not forget the Acid Arrow Queen who is destroying us by continually blasting us left and right with her aforementioned title.
And there are four images of her we have to get through before we can even touch her. (I don't know how mirror image works in this one exactly).
We're down 2 soldiers and outside of Oren and yourself, the rest of us are so beat up that it's not gonna take much to drop us. Especially from those stupid archers. Gosh, I can't believe how deadly those archers are. Every first hit is 2-14 damage. Brutal.
But enough of the good news. :P
Seriously though, I'm really hoping Joran's hit dropped the hobgoblin and then Oren's attack can be diverted elsewhere. That's gonna be interesting and could very well make a big difference depending.
But even if Joran's hit doesn't drop her, Oren's hit did. And then he can divert his intimidate to Voz I would guess. Maybe at the merc and his stupid arrows to just the northeast of him.
Dario's shots have been absolutely critical. You talk about coming through in a pinch. That's been fun to watch. :)
Seriously though, I'm really hoping Joran's hit dropped the hobgoblin and then Oren's attack can be diverted elsewhere. That's gonna be interesting and could very well make a big difference depending.
But even if Joran's hit doesn't drop her, Oren's hit did. And then he can divert his intimidate to Voz I would guess. Maybe at the merc and his stupid arrows to just the northeast of him.
It took Alak hitting it once and me blasting it with a spell - both in low double digits of damage - in order to bring it down to about half health. I'm suspecting that the two of you brought it down, but it will take both attacks.
Dario's shots have been absolutely critical. You talk about coming through in a pinch. That's been fun to watch. :)
Yeah it is.
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The damage resistance applies to the triggering damage, so it wouldn't affect later attacks even if the damage type matches. The Enfeebled condition may lower the damage though.
Ah, my brain read "triggering damage type" and not "triggering damage" and was thinking successive hits would still be covered. As for enfeebled 2, I was brain farting that finesse was dex for attack AND damage which it isn't -- it would have been 6 less damage then, yes? 2 from each of the three hits? I can't remember what Yasami was at before the hits, does she?
Does it make sense to bot Cev's reaction moving forward, or do we want him to cite it every time it's needed?
Give me some training wheels for a while and when the situation would apply, just make a note about it by name at the end of your actions like "↺ Glimpse of Redemption" and once I've done it a few times I should start to remember. I'll apply it to whichever attack hits hardest.
I really hope that I put her in the dirt. If I did, then I'll have to do some Chronomancy and try to take a swing at Voz. If I didn't, then at least the hobgoblin is Frightened and maybe Dario can pop a shot off on her.
Oren's first shot finished her, so if you want to chronomancy and go for Voz instead that's fine with me!
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it would have been 6 less damage then, yes? 2 from each of the three hits? I can't remember what Yasami was at before the hits, does she?
It would be 5 off the first hit from the damage resistance, but enfeebled only gets applied afterwards. So 4 less damage on those second two hits - but that damage penalty would also double on crits.
One nice thing about PBP is that the record of everything that happened is in here. Give me a minute and I can sort through and tally up previous events.
The skeletal champion under the southern platform ignores Alak once he drops, turning his attention to the nearest threat, Yasami.
strike 1: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (20) + 10 = 30(crit)
strike 2: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 11
strike 3: 1d20 ⇒ 14
damage to Yasami: 2d8 + 4 ⇒ (4, 8) + 4 = 16
The hobgoblin smirks at Yasami, seeing what she hopes will be another easy, lonesome target. (hunt prey)
rapier: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (11) + 13 = 24
dagger: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (16) + 10 = 26 Flurry reduces MAP
damage to Yasami: 2d6 + 3 + 1d4 + 3 ⇒ (3, 4) + 3 + (1) + 3 = 14
Assuming full health at the start of the battle:
44 - 16 - 14 = 14.
Seeing that Yasami is suffering most, Cevendyl moves in close to the action, and prays to his goddess to bathe his hands in energy before he heals his friend.
(1) Move 25', (2) CAST
YASAMI=+12hp, +2AC (1rd)
Healing: 14 + 12 = 26
The hobgoblin, still rattled by Joran, continues trying to press her advantage on Yasami, hoping to dispatch her before moving on to the big men with large weapons. hunt prey still active from last round
rapier: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (17) + 13 = 30
dagger: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (18) + 10 = 28
dagger: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (20) + 8 = 28 Oh god why am I rolling so HIGH =(
total damage to Yasami: 2d6 + 3 + 1d4 + 3 + 2d4 + 6 ⇒ (6, 5) + 3 + (1) + 3 + (2, 4) + 6 = 30
This is where things change. -5 on the first hit (or crit) damage, -2 on the second hit damage, -2 on the damage from the crit before it is doubled, so -4 in total.
Total damage reduction from Glimpse of Redemption = -11 damage.
Remaining damage = 30 - 11 = 19
Yasami's current HP: 26 - 19 = 7 !! A positive number.
I really hope that I put her in the dirt. If I did, then I'll have to do some Chronomancy and try to take a swing at Voz. If I didn't, then at least the hobgoblin is Frightened and maybe Dario can pop a shot off on her.Oren's first shot finished her, so if you want to chronomancy and go for Voz instead that's fine with me!
I will! Can't hurt to give it a shot!
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Okay! So Yasami is totally still up. Math is hard, and Caiten is awesome. And on future instances of the best reaction ability of all time, I'll make sure they get taken into consideration correctly, so we don't have to retcon. =)
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And on future instances of the best reaction ability of all time,
Yeah, no joke there. Glimpse of Redemption does a surprisingly massive amount of damage negation. Liberating Step is about the same, but is a lot more fiddly to use.
One one hand - thank you for helping. On the other - I wanted an RP moment.
HOWEVER, it is salvageable.
Okay! So Yasami is totally still up. Math is hard, and Caiten is awesome. And on future instances of the best reaction ability of all time, I'll make sure they get taken into consideration correctly, so we don't have to retcon. =)
I would just like to go on record as saying that I am super glad that K10 isn't distracted by the arrogant h8ers who dissed him. Yeah, I'm a little selfish like that ;)
and on that note, I'm catching up.
Do we need to glimpse anyone yet?
One one hand - thank you for helping. On the other - I wanted an RP moment.
HOWEVER, it is salvageable.
Sorry. I do love some good RP of failures too.
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Sorry. I do love some good RP of failures too.One one hand - thank you for helping. On the other - I wanted an RP moment.
HOWEVER, it is salvageable.
Like I said - salvageable. Pretty happy with that one, actually.
Sorry. I do love some good RP of failures too.One one hand - thank you for helping. On the other - I wanted an RP moment.
HOWEVER, it is salvageable.
Like I said - salvageable. Pretty happy with that one, actually.
I for sure thought so and thought it was a massive Champion-sized FAIL
So for the moment it seems, failure averted
Looking at the map, I can't help but think that Rocco & Shadow deserve lunch ;)
Between Patrick Stewart and Thriller, I am dying irl, Yasami. XD
Hey Fern, can Lisi reach that merchant high up north with Electric Arc and Reach Spell? I drew a line of sight line, but I'm not sure what with him seeking cover (was that him?) and the trees, that I actually have a shot.
The cover gives him a bonus on his reflex save, but yep, you have line of sight. And I know you meant mercenary but now I am picturing some poor misguided fellow trying to see something from the treetops and getting decimated by adventurers.
:D Very Holy Grail of me. I suppose the word root is similar--they are both for hire.
K ... well ... I guess Cev can look around for Ashton Kutcher because it feels like we're being punked.
How did I work a whole shift and there are no posts? I haven't looked at the news either: did California really drift away from the US but no one told us?
Hope everyone is good :)
Ahem. Shhhh... Nobody tell him.
All is good, man. Absolutely no tectonic movement in western americas.
On an unrealted topic, did you ever consider buying a boat? Doesn't have to be big, just a little rowboat to start.
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I am safely landlocked in the unfortunate land of Ohio, so I'm all set until the next ice age flattens us again.
Fridays I have an irl game and I tend to get sucked into prepping for it when I'd normally be posting =) Remedying that now...
I am safely landlocked in the unfortunate land of Ohio, so I'm all set until the next ice age flattens us again.
Fridays I have an irl game and I tend to get sucked into prepping for it when I'd normally be posting =) Remedying that now...
Ah. My wife and I were worried that you had been poisoned by the sewer gas. :P
IRL game seems like a much better reason to be posting slow.
California remains connected to the rest o' the country...er...geographically at least. As for other stuff...
Voz watched Yasami's little act for the barest of moments. "Oh my gods. I can't believe you people were too much for the mercs." (In combat fascinating performance has to crit to succeed and it did not. It met my personal Will DC though and cracked my up.)
Normally, yes.
However, I have focused fascination feat (swashy battle stripper dancer feat), which allows that on a regular success.
https://2e.aonprd.com/Feats.aspx?ID=1516
So. Gotcha? I get panache?
Which would also mean she doesn't get to use concentrate actions. Not sure if that particular spell is one of those.
I'm sorry. Yours was a long post.