Wrath of the morally flexible

Game Master Mightypion

Placeholder for discussion.

"Dobby, Dobby"

I mean...

"YARTAK!!!"

Translation: "Thanks for the selection. I need to put all statistics under the alias name."

Welcome, I also encourage you to think creatively what you did, in terms of survival, resistance etc, in the last 3 days since Terendelev died.

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The projection stopped and Saph stooped, picked up the arm of the dead body, and started once more to drag once more.

Welcome, I also encourage you to think creatively what you did, in terms of survival, resistance etc, in the last 3 days since Terendelev died.

Trying to recover from the shock of the loss of such a powerful guardian and ally, Constantine tried to save any he could find and dispatch any abyssal foes. Scavenging wasn't completely out of his nature; despite being a Paladin his childhood in Cheliax was far from comfortable. Picking through garbage, taking things from dead shopkeepers and craftsman, while unseemly for most paladins, was necessary for survival. Perhaps the dirt on his armor and clothes was befitting his reduced station. Connecting with other survivors, foraging for food and water, locating weapons and other supplies, he hoped there was some sort of regrouping area or staging point for other survivors.

I am proposing specific story beats for some, eventually all characters, you can also propose some to me.

All story beats will basically include a "frenemy", possibly an optional sideboss etc.

You can also propose some of your own! Just pm me.

Dotting in! Will get a post up later!

Putting his skills as both a bodyguard, and a soldier to use, as well as a strong desire to survive this crusade, Sigrat would have attached himself to the highest profile caster and serve as a bodyguard. He excels at breaking chargers with his halberd, and can soften up the toughest of foes with his challenge, which causes the target to take a (admittedly small) penalty to their saves vs spells. Sigrat may not be the smartest, but he's damn tough, and is a good soldier.

(Not quite at the point where I can invalidate ranged attacks towards me and adjacent allies yet, but I'll get there! And at this level +4 to AC with bodyguard is nothing to sneeze at.)

Welcome, I also encourage you to think creatively what you did, in terms of survival, resistance etc, in the last 3 days since Terendelev died.

Survival is not something new for Sahala. She found herself a cavalier of dubious morality as a bodyguard (having slept with him and charmed him with magic, of course). A little later, in a skirmish with cultists and demons, he was killed, but she managed to escape again. Survive, survive, survive... Nothing new for the always persecuted tiefling witch.

UPD I wrote this before I read post from Sigrat. Funny .)
Hmmmm...
Perhaps Sahala already has plans that he will take the place of the fallen bodyguard.

Ok, your starting position is anywhere within the yellow area (you do see the 2 yellow lines, your can play your characters anywhere south east of them). You have a surprise round, and then the actual initiative order starts.

Note: All enemies are currently entangled, the wagon is also entangled, and it was being drawn by the 2 melee mooks.

Double note:
@Sigrat
I am ignoring the FAQ on bodyguard which makes it mostly useless, so bodyguard away.
The dumb thing is that, to bodyguard according to the FAQ, the enemy who attacks cannot be in cover, but typically, whoever you are seeking to bodyguard will be between you and the foe, giving the foe cover.
Are you OK with me rolling the AoO for you? Also, are you certain about your stat spread of 10 dex 14 wis? It will be a bit before you get mythic combat reflexes.

Once I have it though, I won't need dex again :) Attacks of opportunity for ever and ever. Perhaps he is beginning to get a little old, and stiffer than he used to be. Go ahead and roll the AoO for me; I'll say that as a default you can make the check. Remember that the helpful trait means if he succeeds on an AC 10 to hit check, he adds 4 to AC instead of 2. I'm looking into other ways to make that scale as well...

Wont need dex again, "laughs villainously in initiative and reflex saves", the ones I remember for aid another need various dipping in cavalier, or for using gloves of arcane striking you would need to be a bloodrager (as they can get arcane strike at level 5, and mythic arcane strike is legit great, as it is kind of martial flexibiliy because nothing stops you from adding training enchancements).

I'm already VMC cavalier, but for order of the staff instead of the dragon. This will still be useful as an additional rider on my aid another checks though! The ring of tactical precision and benevolent armor also help. Initiative I will admit may be a slight problem, but it's mythic; either we go first or I'm hopelessly outmatched either way. And as far as reflex saves, I do plan on picking up spellcut some day... :) I hope to not get Worf'd as often as the eponymous character though!

It works, partly because I want to avoid the "Ok people suspected of being a Succubus, lets see if enlarge person works on you!" thing

Okay, that's twisted... :P

Rules as written it works, since you dont change your creature type apart from a few specific situations.

I get that was your intention DM, avoiding a long wade into battle, but Sigrat would have been waiting far away to avoid making too much noise. Sure I could have started closer, but I kind of like the ducking from caster to caster until he makes it to the front approach! It feels fun, even if it isn't efficient.

Oh, general GMing style of me:

1: There are really hard fights, in which I pull no punches whatsorever.
These are advertized with big red "optional fights, enter at your own risk" signs, or "boss fight" signs. Unless you go out of your way in terms of annoying powerful entities, I am not out to kill you.

2: Do not hesitate to PM me or spoiler me funny ideas and unusual solutions to any problem! We are not playing warhammer fantasy against each other! The worst that can happen is a PM with "no, thats not going to work but keep it coming!".

3: I do not intend for fights to be completely easy, or even just easy, unless you have earned it. In the current situation, the enemies think that they have totally and utterly won and ruined Kenabres, which is what currently makes them stupid and antagonistic.

Feel free to make the following Kn planes check as a free action (players who would innately know this and dont need a kn check have been Pmed), note, I dislike the lore as written a bit, so Sarkoris actually put up a major, impressive, if ultimatiely futile fight (think Poland in WW2, or the Volga-Bulgars against the Mongol invasion):

@Aurical
anyhing I can do to help you with your turn?

> Love: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4 SHeet says +6, which would surprise me

Sahala has Scorpion Familiar (with Divine Emissary archetype btw). I described it in the background in some detail, but I don't make a separate charsheet for it, since it usually just hides under Sahala's clothes... a lady with a surprise, yes .)

It gives +4 bonus to init, with total of +6.

Ah cool, also, mild metagaming is fine, why does Beaver-Bob-the-Cultist-Mutant-Archer have a +11 on knowledge planes? In characer, knowing about Abyssal drug trade routes is relatively rare and specific knowledge you would not expect from a cultist.

I am experimenting a bit, this new setup should make it easy to see at a glance whose turn it currently is. I do however hope that it does not clog up things too much.

Let's give it a try!

I am experimenting a bit, this new setup should make it easy to see at a glance whose turn it currently is. I do however hope that it does not clog up things too much.

I was surprised at first, and then I liked it. The main thing is to remove this list when the fight is over.

I will definitly do that.

Auric Love and Arrius are up!

Auric Love and Arrius are up!

@GM: Constantine went, he made a double move this round to get to his current position on the battle map. In the surprise round he moved from the back of the yellow square to the front while drawing his nodachi (a single move action). Sorry for the confusion.

No problem! got it

I apologize for the delay, the beginning of our adventure overlapped with a number of difficulties IRL. I will try to be more active from next week!

Random ramblings in advance:

--If I make a rules mistake against you I will always fix it. Retconning if neccessary. If it is near impossible to retcon, semi divine intervention happens to make things right.

--Dont be afraid to be "that guy" I will get rules wrong, even fairly simple ones like forgetting to add casting ability score mod to concentration checks.

--If I make a rules mistake that favors you its my own fault and stays, but gets corrected in the future things.

--I accept creative Aid anothers when it comes to diplomacy in order to aid the party face(s).

--I do skill challenges quite frequently.

Can you back stab someone who is dazed and blind?

I feel a stabby Stabby moment coming on

Blind sets up stabby goodness in most cases, dazed does not, but Mrs. Hosilla is stunned rather then dazed and stunned does!

Oh, I don't mind fixing rules mistakes, both in my favour and against me.

Speaking of rules I did not write it earlier so feel free to remove it from this attack but Constantine will use his whetstone on all of his slashing and piercing weapons to get the +1 damage on the first melee strike.

Not married to the Sigrat name, and haven't made enough posts yet to lock in the alias, I could change it if it'd help keep things organized :)

Differnt first letter would be great :)

Flipped it around, name's Targris now

I missed Loves post, update incoming!

Do you like the descriptions so far? If there is anything you would like your character to frequently do on a crit, just PM it.

In the meantime, I am running with the Saga of Sigrat-Targis, Splitter of personalities.

I like it especially the smack talk. This is when playing a paladin stinks; I don't envision them smack-talking their foes.

There are Paladins who might, Good does not neccessarily mean devoid of humor, let alone "nice", but the stereotype is definitly that bards or barbs lay down the trashtalk.

So as much as I might want to keep my mouth shut, fairness dictates that I should not. Halberd's don't have reach. I actually chose it for that very reason, being one of the few polearms without it. If you move me up 5ft more and to the right, I could still make that attack, and we wouldn't have to change much. Otherwise, I expect that cultist in front of me will also bisect nicely.

He will try haha.

GM notes: Ok, combat took about 3 weeks in real time but I think it went reasonably quickly and is probably aligned with peoples posting expetations.

General statement concerning GM NPCs (as it may come up soon):

--There is always a tradeoff between how useful they are and how much of an own agenda they have (or how volatile they are). The more useful in or out of combat, the more sneakyness and/or crazyness is there.

--You will be accompanied by different NPCs at different points, these NPC may or may not be relevant to the overall plot, or to your specific personal plots resulting from campaign traits.

--A number of these possible GMNPCs do not get along with each other, there will not be more GMNPCs in an active party then 1.

--Early on, the GM NPCs may well be mildly more powerful then the players, the possible recruits are supposed to tank some hits for you and survive the results. Once you get into mythic, that changes a lot.

@GM, It seems to me it would be better to put notes, etc. - things that we will react to in the game thread - also under the spoiler right in the game thread.

@All players, let's somehow describe the appearance of their characters? The fight has passed - it seems to be a good moment.

Descriptions would be great indeed! Also, dont worry, all of you are going to get their special items.

Added the lootlist. As for dividing it, plot relevant items go to their characters, make it reasonably fair otherwise.

Great! Thanks.

UPD What is no-daichi? Google images didn't help.

two-handed katana.