GM Friendly Sauce's Core 10-16: What the Helms Hide (Inactive)

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Joyce and Jack, Can I get both of your Initiatives and Perceptions please.

The rest of you, please let me know if the numbers I have for you for initiative and perception are correct.

Thanks

I think I will go for a human illusion wizard for my first CORE character. Nothing fancy. First time playing wizard as well.

Dump CHA and STR and pump that INT to 20. Taking trait for UMD class skill and initiative; 1 rank in all monster identification knowledge, spellcraft, and perception; take illusion school and ban enchantment and necromancy. Feat will be improved init, spell focus(illusion) from wizard, and greater spell focus(illusion) from human. My gut feeling is there will be a lot of conjurer in CORE so I want to be different, thus illusionist. Gonna take a rat familiar for fort save.

Wow, CORE character are so....not complicated that I can summerize my whole character in 1 paragraph.

Anyway, Joyce's perception will be +1, since I don't think there's a trait to make it a class skill.
Initiative will be +8 (2dex 2trait 4 feat).

With familiar near +6 per (almost always)

+9 in shadows / dark

Wow, CORE character are so....not complicated that I can summerize my whole character in 1 paragraph.

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This is what some of the older adventures to fun in Core, some chronical sheets unlock mechanics, races, ect not otherwise available in Core mode.

With familiar near +6 per (almost always)

+9 in shadows / dark

I will update you to +6 and do my best to make changes if it is dark or if for whatever reason you say your familiar is not in reach; Just let me know if I forget or need to adjust it.

Ok we are live, the Gameplay thread is open

I'm in and showing you why I have a 7 charisma.

Initiative +4, Perception +1

Initiative +4, Perception +7

Note to the wizards: remember writing spell is time consuming (1h), need a Spellcraft check (DC 15+spell level), and cost gold (5 gp for a L1 spell)

GM: with my 8 Prestige, I'll buy a CLW wand for 2 pt. It can be handy, as we have only a drud among us

I will buy one too if I cant get a wand of infernal healing.

I will try to add obscuring mist if we have time to the book as shield is an opposition school.

I will try to scribe Magic Missile and Summon Monster 1 (Charm Person is opposition school) if time allow, which is 20gp.

You have plenty of time right now, its presumably taken a few weeks to get you all together, a few more hours or days of prep and research wont hurt.

Scribe your spells!

Shukara Melkamnet and Brazia's Lilac still haven't posted in the Gameplay but this ended up coalescing very quickly for a PBB so I'll give them until saturday morning EST to look into adding Qstor, who has asked in the recruitment thread if we are still open. (not a fan of 7 player tables, especially in pbp so I'll put them in reserve for now)

That brings us to my botting policy; I'll usually bot your actions in "combat" 24 hours after your turn, or 48 if its the weekend. if it is out of combat I will try to hold off on botting you unless it is required to move the story along.

On the other end of things, I will try my darnest to post a minimum of once every 24 hours as needed.

If we don't hear from someone in 72 hours I'll PM them to see if everything is ok.

Core doesn’t allow infernal healing jank!!

I like it even more!!

Sorry, didn't see there was a Gameplay thread.

Simplicity is what I like about Core. No crazy half-elf/half-angel gunslinger/inquisitors who can see invisibility and also ignore difficult terrain*. Everybody's characters are a lot easier to understand.

* Not hating-- this exactly describes my -1 character. Just proving my point.

I've moved the plot along to the museum but feel free to continue/wrap up your conversations; as long as your Ok with it I'll give Qstor till the start of the first combat to post before we lock it in to you 5.

The Map is posted, let me know if you aren't able to move your icon but it should be set to anyone with the link can edit.

EDIT: I also just got word that Qstor will not be joining us so I think we are set at the 5 of you.

I'll be out of town for most of today so I probably won't get a post up until tonight around 8 central time, but we are also waiting on Corgrim to post. If he hasn't posted by tonight I'll bot him to move us along.

Joyce, are you able to put your character stats like saves, HP, speed, AC's ect in your header?

Jack, can you included your Speed and AC in yours?

Oops, totally forgot about that. Will do that right now.

Thank you :D

Nasty swarm combat box has been checked! now we can really have some fun haha

OK maybe Tannivh is too annoying now.

3 18s

So full disclosure, despite how rough the swarms were, you actually have enough discovery points already for this quest to get all the info once you "research". Once 3/5 of you have posted your rolls I'll probably just move us along to the next phase of the adventure.

Can we take 10, or 20, during the research? as long as we aren't under attack or stressful situation?

Taking 10 is fine

Outside of IDing the ring, that concludes the first quest of the adventure! I should have a post for the second quest up by the end of today

It looks like we haven't heard from Lilac since last Friday so I went ahead and messaged them to see if everything is ok.

I'm here, just had a busy couple of days.

Ok glad to hear it and hope everything is ok!

Favoriting Tannivh's condescending posts are only enouraging him :-)

Jack? Apprentice? Presumably taking a level of wizard still counts as Core. Could be amusing.

Probably not a good idea, what would be amusing is to get a pointy wizard hat and mages robes to wear on top of your armor.

That way the enemy thinks they are going after a squishy and not a tank!!

Tannivh is dressed in plain clothes, because wizards tend to be targets. But, we could deck you out in full wizard look a like mode.

Favoriting Tannivh's condescending posts are only enouraging him :-)

I was taught to always favorite a post that at least got a "ha" or even just an exhale out of me, since we arent at the table its the only way to let someone know "that was funny" or " i like that".

I also try to favorite any crits or just good RP I see as well.

Probably not a good idea, what would be amusing is to get a pointy wizard hat and mages robes to wear on top of your armor.

That way the enemy thinks they are going after a squishy and not a tank!!

Tannivh is dressed in plain clothes, because wizards tend to be targets. But, we could deck you out in full wizard look a like mode.

Jack, Core eldritch knight? I think they are one of the prestige classes in core?

Jack, Core eldritch knight? I think they are one of the prestige classes in core?

It is, but it's more of a wizard that dipped fighter than a fighter that dipped wizard (at least in terms of the levels you need). But you could totally play it as a soldier who's like "I can't get this spell to... screw it I'm swinging a sword."

I got so many nat 1 that I feel like I should stick to aid other with the +9 skill.

@Jack,

Can you include your AC in your Header?

Hey all, I've had a bit of a cold this weekend so I'll try to have a post up by noon central tomorrow; It sounds like Tannivh is casting light and Corgrim has a sunrod? Any other light sources? the cave is completely dark.

Sorry about that. That, and a few other things, added to profile.

No light source here.

Yep, I have light prepared.

Tannivh has no light he delegated

Joyce will have light spell as well.

And I just GMed this scenario on the previous weekend. So I will let others takes the lead from now on since I've gone through the scenario already.

It looks Lilac's token was moved, but I don't see a post for them.

@Lilac, did the site maybe eat your post?

@everyone else, I'm gonna give the benefit of the doubt the site might have eaten their post and will wait 1 more day to bot them since the slide is telling me the last edit was 3 days ago.

No, I got halfway through posting, got pulled away to something else, then forgot to go back to it -.-

No problem haha

Tannivh then crushes a cricket and casts a sleep spell on the goblins.

Dc 15 will

Finally get to cast Color Spray as a illusionist

For Handout #4, each of you get to embody one of Eylysia's companions. Mechanically that means that you each have to pick one(1) of the companions to embody and only 1 each, with no repeats.

Each companion has special abilities that can be used during the combat.

Once everyone has posted a choice I'll roll initiative and we can get started.

Myrin Goldeneye
CLW once per encounter