Caldovan Marches 2022

Game Master rando1000

Yep, pretty much waiting on Djack to give a heads up on what he saw. I kinda thought that's why you asked about the Message cantrip for some reason, hah.

Yep, pretty much waiting on Djack to give a heads up on what he saw.

That was my impression. Was getting ready to post the info for him.

Uret Jet wrote:

Yep, pretty much waiting on Djack to give a heads up on what he saw.

That was my impression. Was getting ready to post the info for him.

My bad!

I never noted a range weapon for Djack. Wierd... oh well.

How much difficulty terrain? Can Djack get a charge in? Any chance of flanking with one of the eagles?

Fine feathers flanking friends...

Quite the aid, them eagles!

You know, I keep thinking to myself that she sounds more like a Shaman than a Cleric. Eh, is what it is!

Djack has to take his time for the first 5' (counts as 10') and thus cannot charge; but I think you can (just) make it to flank with one of the surviving Eagles.

Djack & Djill? <<< Link

Thoughts?

Nice! Looks swell.

Thoughts?

Very nice.

I haven't heard back from Quince's player regarding posting, so I'll bot Quince until and unless the player shows up again.

If by chance the player does not return, I'll open up the Recruitment thread again and see if we can get another player or two.

Hoping all is well with them, and that my brain-fart lack of posting didn't drive them away!

And, does that mean we have an opening for one player? Since you were to recruit for one or two?

Hoping all is well with them, and that my brain-fart lack of posting didn't drive them away!

Doubtful. Louxman was quite busy with RL stuff last they posted; I assume that is related to the lack of appearance. So I still hold out hope if things get better they might return.

And, does that mean we have an opening for one player? Since you were to recruit for one or two?

Well right now I'm botting Spizz and Quince. If one returns we can carry on as is; I don't mind botting one. But two starts to feel like I'm doing a significant portion of the action. And a new player might prefer to play an arcane caster over a melee type.

If you (or any of the players) know someone who might be interested, we can reach out to them first before opening recruitment.

That said, I'd like to finish up this adventure with the party we have, rather than try and shoe-horn a new character in. So any new players won't be happening probably until December sometime, would be my guess.

Thanks and OK.

I think this is the round I should be nauseated. Limited to a move action. Was just getting away. Stick with that.

I will, but I disagree. You acted first before Initiative, got sickened, then initiative happened, then you got hit with nausea in Round 1 (before your Round 1 action), took no action, and now it's Round 2. You should be able to act in Round 2, as the nausea would have lasted from the creature's attack in Round 1 to the creature's attack in Round 2. That's happened.

Oh... didn't realize I skipped round 1. I'm all confused. Thanks for the clarity.

But (not to consolidate things further) could I have used an AoO to Bodyguard Quince?

Bodyguard - use AoO to aid another - improving adjacent ally’s AC.

EDIT: maybe he could have but, Q's AC is listed as 15.

Now that I understand, I wouldn't mind humbly taking an attack and then moving away. Please and thank you.

Now that I understand, I wouldn't mind humbly taking an attack and then moving away. Please and thank you.

Yes, go ahead by all means.

EDIT: maybe he could have but, Q's AC is listed as 15.

And yes, you could have, but you are correct that it would have had no effect; Quince was solidly hit both times. Fortunately, at least he made his save against nausea.

Thanks!

Of note* Djack doesn't have a magical weapon.

Thanks!

Of note* Djack doesn't have a magical weapon.

Thanks. I'm aware. He's still doing damage, just not as much as he would otherwise.

Tonight at sunset starts Yom Kippur. As such, I probably won't be posting again until sometime Tuesday. Have a good one.

Tzom kal!

Oof, was the HP I gave Quince not enough to keep him up then?

Oof, was the HP I gave Quince not enough to keep him up then?

Yeah, unfortunately. He took at total of 17 and 11, or 28 total. He has 21 HP, so that would have put him at -7, but because of the 6 HP, he's at -1.

"That" Sir Valeto notes "was a gift from my family to my squire. It falls now back to me, and I gift it to you, Djack, in appreciation for charging in to save me despite the danger to yourself."

Damnit, my eyes got all misty with that line.

Damnit, my eyes got all misty with that line.
EDIT: not sarcasm.

Every now and then I get the RP right.

An excellent scene :)

And I'm assuming that pulling the sucker things out stops the bleeding, or do we need a separate check for that? Rocko will also look and ask Yoltzin to help confirm that no one got diseased

Sure, she can do that after a momment. It was a pretty nice scene.

As an aside though, I would approxiate you guys keeping your HP numbers up to date for me. Helpful as the resident healer to know who needs tending most.

And I'm assuming that pulling the sucker things out stops the bleeding, or do we need a separate check for that? Rocko will also look and ask Yoltzin to help confirm that no one got diseased

Yoltzin has done a Channel Positive, so if it didn't stop when removed, it's stopped now.

As an aside though, I would approxiate you guys keeping your HP numbers up to date for me. Helpful as the resident healer to know who needs tending most.

I'm currently at full HP with your channels, but will keep better track.

Spizz is full up and updated (14/14)

Was hoping not to have to create this, but here he is. HP are up to date (still down by 8).

I was hoping to get creative with whatever summons come along :) Flanking buddies!

Or - does Djack get sneak damage because it's flat-footed, hasn't acted in combat?

This all presumes it's susceptible to precision damage.

Sorry about that, been busy past couple says. I'll give a looks at the summons list and see what I can pull up.

I must say, the odds of all of the PCs and most of the NPCs being able to attack this round were pretty low. I feel like you I go easy on you guys sometimes, but this combat COULD have gone very differently.

You can always just have another one show up.

I feel I did my part and FAILED the Will Save, like a champ! LOL.

I feel I did my part and FAILED the Will Save, like a champ! LOL.

I've got an expanded Confusion table with like 12 options, and I was rolling those results and was like "come one, this is freakin' impossible."

Sigh. Some days, dem's da dice.

I mean, just because we can attack dosnt mean it's guaranteed we'll all hit either...

Quick question about true strike. Shouldn't the +20 be on Spizz's next attack? Rules as written true strike is that it's a personal spell. Allowing another player to get the +20 almost immediately kind of breaks the power level of a 1st level spell.

If you allow it, I'm all cool with it, but then we'll all be wanting Spizz to buff us up all the time munchkin style.

And Rocko has only taken the bleed damage, putting him at 25 of 29. Honestly I think he should have taken one more 1d2 before pulling out the second sucker thingy, but I'm not complaining.

For our supposed party tank, Rocko doesn't seem to be the one up front most often drawing the attacks like he should. I need to be better about that.

Per our conversation we've worked out that you'll take +10 as an exchange for my misremembering the rules. I'm not going to quibble about a 1d2 either.

In the future if you catch an error in your favor, please just go ahead as if it's what I intended. Feel free to post about it here after, I'd like to stick close to RAW in most cases, but I also don't want to slow the game down working through these things. That's what I'd do at the table and that's how I prefer to handle such things here.

To be fair I forgot about it being a personal spell too. Amazing how useless a spell that gives +20 to attack often is, though I probably could've made use of it myself e8th my usual rolls. Next time perhaps.

Rocko for the assist and Yoltzin for the win!
Grazie, both!

Wooo!

I'm getting Ender's Game x Hellraiser vibes.

Even though Quince is 1 level down, isn't he still within 5' reach?

More specifically, Djack rolled a Nat 20, should he roll for a Critical confirmation?

:)

More specifically, Djack rolled a Nat 20, should he roll for a Critical confirmation?

:)

D'oh! Missed that. No, don't bother. You guessed correctly.

Even though Quince is 1 level down, isn't he still within 5' reach?

He is, but I was working without a map at the time. He'll be able to attack this round without movement.

I was so excited to roll a confirmation roll nefore I recalled, urgh. Why now of all times? Least it's a guaranteed hit.

You may know this...

I suspect it may have been RP.