DL's Anvil of Fire Redux

Game Master Death-Lok

Ouch, Yolanda!

Will save: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (12) + 13 = 25

Grymm shakes off the dragon's fear aura. I'm up after Edmond and Yolanda in Round 2.

Will Save: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (9) + 12 = 21 some decent rolls would be nice

Shaken by watching the savage dragon's ferocity as it tears into Yolanda, Edmond's legs tremble a bit as he tries to stamp down the fear rising inside him.

Seeing no other option as the Lavafish and the Dragon are so spread out, Edmond moves forward 30 feet, standing between Xenovia and Yolanda. "Sorry Grymm, hang in there for a little bit longer,"

Edmond casts Haste, getting Himself, Yolanda, Xenovia and Eclipse with the quickening magic.

Haste , 13 rounds. I gotta say, I wasn't prepared for us to start off fighting this nasty of a Dragon. Had definitely prepped a more eclectic collection of spells.

Since 10' square maps are confusing, I have converted map to 5' squares. Here is the scaled version of the entire cavern: Map. And this is the zoomed in version: Current Combat Map. I also uploaded the book image of Tesherat.

Everyone, please remember that you have Heroism which affects your saves. Yolanda, your AC should be 30 I think as I cast shield of faith on your for an extra +4.

Will save: 1d20 + 13 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 13 + 2 = 20

Xenovia quails a little in the face of the dragon.

Eclipse growls at the massive dragon threatening the group.

Will save, valiant steed: 1d20 + 8 + 4 ⇒ (12) + 8 + 4 = 24

and she is not afraid!

with Heroism I make my will save, so Edmond isn’t shaken at least.

Will save: 1d20 + 14 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 14 + 4 = 25

Yolanda and Grymm are up.

Devastated by the dragon's attack, and feeling the waves of fear emanating from the beast, Yolanda calls upon her goddess to heal her wounds.

Cure Critical Wounds (Defensive casting-DC23: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (11) + 17 = 28)
4d8 + 13 ⇒ (5, 8, 5, 3) + 13 = 34

Fervor (swift action): 4d6 ⇒ (1, 2, 1, 4) = 8

Current HP: 56/146

Round 2: Grymm

Shaking off the fear effect, Grymm full-attacks the dragon protected by mirror images!
Attack: 1d20 + 28 ⇒ (16) + 28 = 44
Damage: 2d6 + 27 ⇒ (4, 6) + 27 = 37
Attack: 1d20 + 23 ⇒ (5) + 23 = 28
Damage: 2d6 + 27 ⇒ (2, 5) + 27 = 34
Attack: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (15) + 18 = 33
Damage: 2d6 + 27 ⇒ (4, 6) + 27 = 37

Current attack bonuses:
Hammer Power Attack: +28/+23/+18 (+1 trait vs. giants/+2 sacred bonus to hit vs. giants)
Attack: +13 base + 8 Str + 2 Weapon Focus + 5 Weapon Training + 2 weapon + 2 heroism - 4 power attack
Hammer Power Attack Damage: 2d6+27 (+2 sacred bonus vs. giants)
Damage: +8 Str + 8 power attack + 2 weapon + 4 feats (weapon spec + greater weapon spec) +5 weapon training
Current AC: 39/17/36 (43 vs. giants)
AC: 10 base + 12 armor (+3 Full plate) + 3 Dex + 2 Natural (mutagen) + 8 shield (+2 heavy shield + 4 enhancement + 2 feats (shield focus + greater) + 4 deflection (shield of faith)
Saves: Fort +15 Reflex +18 Will +14 (+3 vs. fear); +4 vs. effects that cause you to lose your grip on weapons, +3 vs. poison, +5 vs. spells and spell-like abilities
Fort: 8 base + 3 Con + 2 cloak + 2 heroism
Reflex: 4 base + 3 Dex +2 cloak + 2 heroism + 5 weapon training (fighter's reflexes) + 2 feat
Will: +4 base + 1 Will + 2 cloak + 2 heroism + 3 armed bravery + 2 feat
HP: 134/134

1d6 ⇒ 5...Grymm's first attack strikes an image.
His next 2 attacks also take out images as they are near misses.
There are now 3 images of the dragon left.

Round 2: Pyropiscis
The snake-like creature lunges at Eclipse from 15' away, but misses by a mile!

Attack: 1d20 ⇒ 5 --- miss!

Xeno and Eclipse are up!

Xenovia gently kneads Eclipse with her knees, turning away from the strange Lungfish monstrosity. Quickly moving across the cavern floor they reach Yolanda. Xenovia carefully invokes a powerful prayer of healing, soothing energy flowing from her to Yolanda.

Xenovia is at AC36. Eclipse is at AC43. This reflects Xenovia being shaken and both of them being Hasted by Edmond.

AoO against Eclipse: 1d20 ⇒ 9 --- miss! The creature does not have Combat reflexes.

Round 2: Tesherat!
Angered by Xeno's move and heal, the dragon moves NW 5' and snakes its head to unleash its mighty breath weapon on the party, catching all involved! "Burn in hell!"

DC 25 Reflex save or take 72 fire damage!

Edmond, Grymm, and Yolanda are up! Please roll Reflex your saves on your next post to avoid manipulating the rolls. If you fail to roll the saves on your next post, I will rule that you auto-fail the roll. I am just trying to avoid dice manipulation. Thanks!

reflex save: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (17) + 9 = 26 Thank Nethys

Scorched from the lava breath spewing from the maw of the dragon, Edmond feels most of protection from energy nearing the end of its charge. Moving to the right to get a clear a shot and still holding his Metamagic Rod of Cold in his hand he channels the energy into a spell, unleashing a crackling, screaming icy lightning bolt,

Metamagicing my Empowered Lightning Bolt, while in a 5th level spell slot, the spell is still considered a 3rd level spell and uses my 3rd level spell DC's. So I'm using a charge of my metamagic rod to turn it into a Cold, Empowered Lightning Bolt.

Reflex Save DC 22 or take. . .: 10d6 ⇒ (5, 5, 6, 5, 5, 4, 3, 6, 4, 4) = 47 47 * 1.5 = 70

Looking the dragon in the eye, speaking to it directly in Draconic, "wux siofme yth ornla dah charge sari dout duil sjek yth jahen ti jaunus yth tiliw amid wux, fueryon?"

Reflex save: 1d20 + 16 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 16 + 2 = 34

Grymm raises his shield just in time to soften the blow of the magma dragon's breath weapon. 68 points off 120 fire protection.

Round 3: Grymm

Grymm snarkily responds, "Hell, ha! You didn't even singe my nose hairs!" He full-attacks the dragon.

Attack: 1d20 + 28 ⇒ (14) + 28 = 42
Damage: 2d6 + 27 ⇒ (1, 6) + 27 = 34
Attack: 1d20 + 23 ⇒ (4) + 23 = 27
Damage: 2d6 + 27 ⇒ (1, 4) + 27 = 32
Attack: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (3) + 18 = 21
Damage: 2d6 + 27 ⇒ (6, 4) + 27 = 37

AC:39

Edmond, please remember Heroism, its a really important buff. Haste also adds to reflex saves.

Xenovia tries to evade the flames!

Reflex, heroism, haste, shaken: 1d20 + 16 + 2 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (15) + 16 + 2 + 1 - 2 = 32

and does so!

36 points off the fire protection. Grymm, you saved so should only lose the same amount.

Eclipse also tries to duck away.

Reflex, heroism, haste, evasion: 1d20 + 13 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (18) + 13 + 2 + 1 = 34

and easily evades the whole blast!

No damage due to evasion

Edmond's empowered lightning bolt strikes the dragon harmlessly. The dragon laughs at the puny wizard's magic.

SR roll: 1d20 + 13 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 13 + 4 = 21 ---- fails to penetrate!

Grymm's 1st attack: 1d3 ⇒ 2 ---- strikes an image.
His second and 3rd attacks miss by a lot, so the dragon still has one mirror image left.

Yolanda's Reflex save and actions are up.

Reflex Save: 1d20 + 10 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 10 + 2 = 22

Feeling the strength coming back into her body, she gives Xen and quick nod before suddenly being swallowed in a wave of fire!

Yolanda will take full damage as she failed the save...not too sure how much fire protection she has left..sorry

Still smoldering from the flames, the priestess turns to the dragon, and with a shout strikes at the beast.

Attack: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (5) + 18 = 23
Damage: 1d10 + 6 + 1d6 ⇒ (10) + 6 + (5) = 21

Attack: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (8) + 18 = 26
Damage: 1d10 + 6 + 1d6 ⇒ (9) + 6 + (3) = 18

Attack: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (7) + 13 = 20
Damage: 1d10 + 6 + 1d6 ⇒ (9) + 6 + (5) = 20

Round 3: Pyropiscis

As Eclipse and Xenovia fled, the serpent-like lungfish attacks the next closest enemy: Edmond!

Attack: 1d20 ⇒ 11 --- hits!
Damage: 2d8 + 12 ⇒ (5, 3) + 12 = 20 plus 2d6 ⇒ (4, 3) = 7 fire
Grapple: 1d20 + 24 ⇒ (18) + 24 = 42 --- grappled.

Eclipse and Xenovia are up.

Combat Map

All of Yolanda's attacks failed to strike the dragon and worse still, do not dispel his last mirror image either.

I am back!

As the lungfish grabs Edmond Xenovia calls out a magical phrase, trying to free him!

Before her turn Xenovia takes an immediate action to cast Liberating Command giving Edmond an escape attempt with a +20 bonus to the check. However, this may not be necessary as I gave everyone one of my talismans of freedom at the start when I was given the ring. If Edmond is wearing it then he isnt grabbed and I dont need to free him but I need to know what the position is before deciding my actions.

Also, I no longer see the fish thing on the map.

Okay, since Edmond does not have any magic items in the neck slot, we will say that he was wearing the talisman and it activated when the pyro-fish tried to grapple him. He still took the 20 damage. Combat Map has been updated also. Sorry about that. Still your turn, Xeno.

Focusing her mind Xenovia carefully casts a spell and unleashes a barrage of magical light at the dragon, seeking to strip away its magical defences.

Defensively casting greater dispel magic targeting only the dragon.

Defensive check, DC27, shaken: 1d20 + 23 - 2 ⇒ (17) + 23 - 2 = 38
Caster level check: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (18) + 13 = 31

Assuming that succeeds it should strip off 3 buffs, starting with the highest spell level and going down from there. Greater Dispel doesnt care about SR.

Then, with a press of her knees she directs Eclipse to quickly move behind the dragon and attack.

With Haste Eclipse has a speed of 80 which is enough to get into a flank. We will provoke. Xenovia is currently AC36, Eclipse is AC43.

Scrambling across the cavern floor Eclipse moves to engage the dragon, snarling as she goes.

Xenovia's spell is successful, as she strips three of the dragon's arcane protections, including haste. However, she still has one mirror image remaining.

AoO on Xenovia as she moves in: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (11) + 22 = 33 - misses!
Mirror Image: 1d2 ⇒ 2 - Eclipse's bite strikes an image! No more images remaining.

Round 3: Tesherat!

The dragon swiftly casts a quickened Mirror Image and 8 more images appear. She then growls at Xenovia, "How dare ye mortal strip my magics from me?" She full-attacks the Oracle, focusing more on striking than inflicting massive damage. She inflicts several hits, but the oracle stands.

Full attack:
Bite: 1d20 + 27 ⇒ (9) + 27 = 36 --- hit
Damage: 2d8 + 15 ⇒ (5, 5) + 15 = 25
Claw: 1d20 + 27 ⇒ (12) + 27 = 39 --- hit
Damage: 2d6 + 10 ⇒ (4, 3) + 10 = 17
Claw: 1d20 + 27 ⇒ (20) + 27 = 47 --- threat
Confirm: 1d20 + 27 ⇒ (1) + 27 = 28 --- no
Damage: 2d6 + 10 ⇒ (5, 4) + 10 = 19
Tail Slap: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (4) + 22 = 26 --- miss
Wing: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (19) + 22 = 41
Damage: 1d8 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8
Wing: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (17) + 22 = 39
Damage: 1d8 + 5 ⇒ (8) + 5 = 13
Total damage on Xenovia: 25+17+19+8+13= 82.

Recap of Initiative Order:
Grymm
Yolanda
Edmond
Pyropiscis
Xenovia
Tesherat

Grymm, Yolanda, and Edmond are up.

Qualling slightly as the dragon bellows at her Xenovia ducks down beside Eclipse as it unleashes its attacks!

Ride check to take cover, DC15: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (13) + 12 = 25
Ride 13 ranks -1 dex +2 heroism -2 shaken. Take cover is an immediate action and gives me +4AC if it succeeds.

That takes my AC to 40 against its attacks which should reduce the damage to 27. It takes me a move action to right myself on my turn and I cannot currently cast spells or attack until I do so.

Edmond takes a five foot step away from the Pyropiscus near him, and casts a spell defensively, unsure of the creature's reach.

cast defensively DC 23: 1d20 + 26 ⇒ (10) + 26 = 36

Targeting the dragon, he uses his last Dispel Magic in an attempt to dispel the Mirror Image on the dragon, softening it up for Grymm and Yolanda to lay into the creature.

Targeted Dispel DC 11 + Dragon's CL: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (13) + 13 = 26

So if the dragon's CL for mirror image is 15 or less, then the mirror image is dispelled. Fingers crossed, Edmond needs something to go right for him this fight.

"Let's bring this dragon down!"

Unfortunately, Edmond's spell fails to dispel the dragon's Mirror Image spell.

Yolanda gears up, steadying herself within the faith of her deity, Hear my prayers, and guide my hand

She unleashes a volley of attacks with her Dorn-Derger, attempting to hit or dispel as many mirror images as she can.

Attack: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (16) + 18 = 34
damage: 1d10 + 6 + 1d6 ⇒ (2) + 6 + (6) = 14
mirror image hits on 9?: 1d9 ⇒ 6

Attack: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (14) + 18 = 32
damage: 1d10 + 6 + 1d6 ⇒ (3) + 6 + (5) = 14
mirror image hits on 8?: 1d8 ⇒ 3

Attack: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (16) + 13 = 29
damage: 1d10 + 6 + 1d6 ⇒ (3) + 6 + (2) = 11
mirror image hits on 7?: 1d7 ⇒ 5

Where are these rolls when Im playing Edmond???

Apologies, if I'm holding the game up. Had some issues at work, but I'm back.

Grymm full-attacks the dragon.

Round 4: Grymm
Attack: 1d20 + 28 ⇒ (15) + 28 = 43
Damage: 2d6 + 27 ⇒ (6, 6) + 27 = 39
Attack: 1d20 + 23 ⇒ (11) + 23 = 34
Damage: 2d6 + 27 ⇒ (6, 6) + 27 = 39
Attack: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (8) + 18 = 26
Damage: 2d6 + 27 ⇒ (5, 2) + 27 = 34
AC: 39