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Slides are up for perception, initiative, and marching order.
Hi, so I’m level 6 with Eltran after all.
Forgot a GM credit from a module.
Can only level up in a week when I’m back from vacation.
But can start the briefing.
Any objections to starting the briefing before that time? No pressure, just taking input.
I could use more info on the slides, but we have at least through the briefing for that :)
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Hello GM, just a couple of points regarding my character’s build:
He has four stacking archetypes:
CLASS ABILITIES - BARD 6 - Chronicler of Worlds, Speaker of the Palatine Eye, Voice of Brigh & Sound Striker Archetypes *
BARD CLASS DETAILS
BARD Archetype: CHRONICLER OF WORLDS
BARD Archetype: SOUND STRIKER
BARD Archetype: SPEAKER OF THE PALATINE EYE
BARD Archetype: VOICE OF BRIGH
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I have VC confirmation that all archetypes stack.
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Eltran casts psychic spells and uses int for all bard abilities.
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He also has a magic item ‘three reasons to live’ via a chronicle sheet that increases levels for bardic performance. If a bard uses the horn to start a bardic performance, all effects of that performance are calculated as if the bard were 6 levels higher. This doesn’t grant the bard access to new bardic performances; it only enhances those to which the bard already has access.
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Hello everyone! If there is still an open seat for this game, I would like to join. Luisila said to mention that I was her online friend that she mentioned. I have two characters I could bring. I have a level 6 negative channelling cleric who focuses on throwing fireballs, and who also is good at bluff and diplomacy. I have a level 7 two weapon fighting slayer who is good at finding traps and has a little diplomacy. Which would be better for your current group of characters?
Hi PAZ!
Great to have the chance to game with you again!
Our frontline at the moment are both level 5s, so it'd be cool if you could bring Dusk.
He will do wonders for our damage output, and allow Chunhua to hang back to shoot arrows and protect the casters.
My approval is pretty light. Assuming you have a valid PFS character the open spot is here. Whoever fills that in gets it :)
Hello GM, just a couple of points regarding my character’s build:
Digesting this... I'm familiar with how archetypes that replace mutually exclusive features can be taken together. The clarification on replacing mutually exclusive sub-features is helpful (never thought of that).
Four archetypes is a neat trick :) Yeah wow, they truly replace different bard features and specific performances. You've gutted the bard class with four archetypes.
Seriously though, thanks for the heads up :)
A planar-themed bard going to the Plane of Earth makes a lot of sense.
Now for the Three Reasons to Live item... this makes sense. This is the most wild bard build I've encountered. I'm looking forward to seeing him in action.
No worries. The explanation post did the trick :)
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My approval is pretty light. Assuming you have a valid PFS character the open spot is here. Whoever fills that in gets it :)
Thank you! I put my information into RPGchronicles.
Nah, it was enough. These guys really are not hostile to start with. They just want to keep finding gems to nom.
That's totally cool. The only issue that might arise from that (I suppose) is if your roll is not great but I can't take the 10. I guess that was actually the case here (but overall the team beat the DC, so no issue).
Diplomacy in the moment is generally never going to be the situation for a taken 10.
The DC depends on how tricky the device is. If the check succeeds, you disable the device. If it fails by 4 or less, you have failed but can try again. If you fail by 5 or more, something goes wrong. If the device is a trap, you trigger it. If you’re attempting some sort of sabotage, you think the device is disabled, but it still works normally.
The emphasized text isn't specific to traps. It isn't specific about what goes wrong, but I suppose it could be something like jamming the lock with broken-off bits of lock picks.
I might have this wrong, but I've always read this as the penalty being no retry on sufficiently severe failure.
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I will move us forward tomorrow. I'm quickly fading :)
Very good :)
Yeah, but it's stone shape, not stone consuming, so where is the stone that previously occupied the tunnel going? It would have to be just above the surface and would look kind of like the ruts of dirt in your back yard that moles make (but even more obvious here, I think).
In addition to the above, this is right too. A full tunnel at that distance isn't possible in 4 charges.
Finally there is the bridge to cross, so you'd have to either cross the bridge with stealth and start the tunnel on the floor on the other side, OR descend into the ravine (which doesn't seem easy/safe), and start the tunnel in the opposite face of the ravine just below the surface. Overall it doesn't seem practical.
I scanned some past threads for this scenario and couldn't find much usage of the wand, but I imagine it could be used to creatively build obstacles on the field of battle, or for stealth cover before?
Looks like we're cooking with a plan. Just some detail questions on Dhovahk's earth glide and then we can see how this goes.
No worries. Our pace right now is pretty good, but hopefully not too aggressive. If somebody feels like they're being left behind, absolutely let me know.
Yeah, Dusk would know that it doesn't.
The scenario doesn't exhaustively describe the mechanics of how the activity works within combat (only that you can do it once per round). It also doesn't give a stat block for Grave Treader :/ (bleh).
Based on the vagueness of that I'm ruling that those at the alter keep their DEX AC, are not defenseless, do no provoke, etc.
Now to Fascinate in the midst of an already-ongoing battle.
...The distraction of a nearby combat or other dangers prevents this ability from working...
...Any potential threat to the target allows the target to make a new saving throw against the effect. Any obvious threat, such as someone drawing a weapon, casting a spell, or aiming a weapon at the target, automatically breaks the effect.
So, purely RAW:
- any further drawing of weapons-not-already-drawn would break the effect for both of them (because it does not specifying "at target" or anything about specific targets).- any aiming at (including attack) would break the effect for the specific target only (because that trigger does state this, weirdly inconsistent).
Honestly the first line in the quote above would suggest it should simply be impossible in the general combat/threat situation, but then it goes on to specify conditions within battle. Specific beats general, yada yada.
Interesting that the general text and overriding specific text appear in the same ability. The Internet debates I could find did not help. There are many passionate opinions that it should just never work in combat at all (I read as: in initiative), and seemingly equally many that it should work early in combat or until one of the conditions above pops off.
A Voice of Brigh can use Brigh’s calming voice to pacify constructs. This functions as the fascinate bardic performance except it can target only constructs...
The archetype replacement performance ability doesn't seem to undo any of those constraints, so we keep the above.
So there you have it. I rule that it works but will very likely be quickly broken with hostile actions.
No worries. Interesting problem :) The archetype didn't even create the problem. Most of the debates and threads I found were just about Fascinate itself.