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Note that our party is two rogues and four spellcasters, and one of the rogues is Level 5 (presumably with a bump since we're high tier).
Well, fudgcicles!
Jayma really does best with a full range of meat shields in front of her, so she appreciates Nina volunteering to act in that capacity ;-). Is anyone else willing to step up to protect her? I literally can't remember the last time Jayma got within melee range of a bad guy.
FYI, Jayma has the Rugged Mentor boon so that any PCs benefiting from a Level Bump can increase the Level Bump’s modifier to saving throws by 2 instead of 1 (a PC can only benefit from two mentor boons though).
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Drak (and anyone else), if you have offensive options, you're always free to use them on the assumption that Nina will heal you. She has heal as her signature spell and her Angelic Halo (15') will bump the healing. She also has Vital Beacon up and has Assurance to hit the Expert level Battle Medicine, so she can do a lot of 1-action healing.
Nina has very little in the way of offense, so if she doesn't have anyone to heal, she's just going to be casting daze a lot. heh
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I'll try to concentrate on the mouthers. I'll hardly hurt the shadows at all, as they will likely be immune to sneak attacks.
I can also use combat medicine if necessary. I should have done that this round sorry, didn't read the discussion until after posting.
If I don't drop the red one on the first attack, happy to use expert/assurance battle medicine on Drak to heal instead of recalling knowledge.
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Alright, I've made a tracker for this combat. This is what I have.
Origin Target Roll Result HP
Green Nina 22 Miss -15
Green Nina 23 Miss -14
Red Fernardo 21 Miss -20
Red Fernardo 25 Hit -16 1d4 bleed
Cyan Drak 30 Hit -22
Cyan Drak 34 Crit -40
Yellow Teja 30 Hit -19
Yellow Teja 21 Miss -15
Green Jayma 15 Miss -18
Green Jayma 13 Miss -15
Green Jayma 21 Miss -16
Drak Drak Heal 10
Drak Drak Heal 14
Green Fernardo 20 Miss -20
Green Fernardo 21 Miss -14
Green Fernardo 7 Miss -18
Cyan Drak 28 Hit -26
Cyan Drak 21 Miss -17
Cyan Drak 19 Miss -15
Yellow Teja 20 Miss -24
Yellow Teja 20 Miss -11
Marigold Drak Heal 14
This puts the party at
Drak: 28/78
Fernardo: 63/80 (plus 1d4 bleed - you forgot a flat check at the end of your turn)
Jayma: 67/67
Marigold: 53/53 (this doesn't look like you applied the level bump, did you forget or decline?)
Nina: 64/64
Teja: 59/78
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Drak has the pearly white spindle aeon stone slotted in his Wayfinder, and the resonant power gives him Resist 1 Negative, so he is a little better off.
Also, Marigold healed him during her last turn for 14, and that puts us pretty close. With the 23 that just went off, he should be at 64/78, I think
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OPF site appears to be down, but if I recall correctly, standard Level Bump is +1 to basically everything that adds Level, and then one Level's worth of HP (should be 8+CON for you).
In addition, Nina offered the Skillful Mentor boon (+2 to skills instead of +1) and Jayma offered the Rugged Mentor boon (+2 to saves instead of +1). So you should have 62 max HP for this adventure, and various +1s and +2s.
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In about 12 hours I will be starting a road trip that will take me from Valencia, Spain, to Florence, Italy. I will be on the road Friday, Saturday and Sunday and will only be able to post in the evenings once I get to my hotels (so around midday in the US). Just wanted to let you know that I may not be posting as often or as voluminously this weekend.
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I am deliberately holding up my Will save and Diplomacy check because there are many things that need to be clarified.
1. Grapple does have Critical Success conditions. Link
Critical Success Your target is restrained until the end of your next turn unless you move or your target Escapes.
Success Your target is grabbed until the end of your next turn unless you move or your target Escapes.
This distinction is important, because ...
2. Restrained doesn't allow any manipulate actions other than Escape or Force Open. Link Grabbed does allow other actions, but with a DC 5 flat check. Link
Manipulate is important because ...
3. Disable a Device has the manipulate trait. Link
Given the nature of the Disable checks, it seems reasonable that the GM should waive the flat checks, but it should be addressed.
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Separately,
4. I really don't like having to be the one to look through the GM rolls and figure out what hit and what didn't. This is the GM's job. If you're having problems tracking, I suggest acquiring DougH's tracker sheet. I don't use it (I made my own prior to him releasing his) but a lot of people do, and I've heard nothing but good reviews about it.
Athletics 22 (nat 1) vs Drak DC 23 [F->CF]
Athletics 40 vs Fernardo DC 25 [CS]
Athletics 27 vs Jayma DC 22 [S]
Athletics 24 vs Marigold Level Bump DC 24 [S]
Athletics 29 vs Nina DC 22 [S]
Athletics 27 vs Teja DC 21 [S]
This is a party of spellcasters and rogues, so we have terrible Fort saves, and +21 is a very high modifier for this level. The nat 1 against Drak almost didn't crit fail - against Jayma, Nina, or Teja, 22 would have hit, which meant that a nat 1 would have only failed.
5. Circling back to the beginning of this message, I'm deliberately withholding my actions because I need to know the status of the party.
The DC 28/29 Will save is a tall order for most people - we've been super lucky that nobody who has rolled has critically failed (Nina will need a nat 14 to succeed, and she's a top-level spellcaster).
I need to decide whether Nina should cast a heal to keep people from dying (it also frequently damages haunts, so we can attack the haunt), use Diplomacy to try to stop the haunt (Nina is Master in Diplomacy with a +19, so she has a decent shot of hitting DC 33), or figure out a creative way to Escape.
If Teja's Occultism roll doesn't require a flat check, and she's succeeded in calming the haunt already, and nobody's going to die, that's cool, nothing to do then except make the save. But a lot of other decisions rides on the current status of the party.
I'll post a Will save if that's the only thing holding us up, but I'm not posting actions until other things are clearer.
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My most sincere apologies. This scenario is proving more complicated than it looks. Hopefully the post in the Gameplay thread clears this all up. I haven't seen DougH's tracking sheet - or your's Nina, but I will certainly look out for them. Got a link please? Any help or aids are most appreciated. I'll probably be taking a bit of a PFS2e GMing break after this one.
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I contacted Doug H a few weeks ago, and at that time he said the latest version is here Tracking Spreadsheet on PFSPrep
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Maybe it's just me, but I can't see any Hag on the map, just us and the 2 nightmares.
Also, if the Hag cast a spell instead of using an ability, Fernardo has a chance to ID the spell....
Recognize Spell:
**Save Failure**: You fail to recognize the spell.
**Save Success**: You correctly recognize the spell.
**Save Critical Failure**: You misidentify the spell as another spell entirely, of the GM’s choice.
**Save Critical Success**: You correctly recognize the spell and gain a +1 circumstance bonus to your Saving Throw or your AC against it.
If you are trained in the appropriate skill for the spell’s tradition and it’s a common spell of 2nd level or lower, you automatically identify it (you still roll to attempt to get a critical success, but can’t get a worse result than success). The highest level of spell you automatically identify increases to 4 if you’re an expert, 6 if you’re a master, and 10 if you’re legendary. The GM rolls a secret Arcana, Nature, Occultism, or Religion check, whichever corresponds to the tradition of the spell being cast. If you’re not trained in the skill, you can’t get a result better than failure. NOTE: Current scores are Arcane(E; 17); Nature(T; 11); Occultism(T; 13); Religion(T11)
Spell Penetration:
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At the beginning of Nina's turn
--Round 2
Nina (38/64 hp)
Green (-0 hp damage)
Teja (78/78 hp, stupified 1, Fort save vs. sickened 2)
Marigold (20/53 hp)
Red (-75 hp damage, dazzled 0/1)
Drak (51/78 hp, stupified 1, sickened 1)
Fernardo (54/80 hp, stupified 1)
Jayma (54/67 hp)
Aslynn (-0 hp damage)
Marigold, even though you're low, Nina's going to go on offense - a 3-action will heal Red. There's a 2-action 3d8+24 heal that anyone can use with Dream Points, so I think you'll be okay.
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To earn a little extra cash between missions, Jayma takes on jobs tracing the ancestry of local wealthy merchants who are hoping to find noble antecedents to lord over their rivals.
A regular success for a Master at Level 7 should be good for 2.5gp * 8 days = 20gp.