[OPVI] PF2e B12 - Somewhere Below (P7) (Inactive)

Game Master UncleFroggy

I asked the same question today on Find the Path. The answer I got was "as written, it is permitted".

Bardic Lore
Your studies make you informed on every subject. You are trained in Bardic Lore, a special Lore skill that can be used only to Recall Knowledge, but on any topic. If you have legendary proficiency in Occultism, you gain expert proficiency in Bardic Lore, but you can’t increase your proficiency rank in Bardic Lore by any other means.

Esoteric Lore
Your experience with the unknown, as well as the tales you've exchanged with other thaumaturges, has taught you about strange phenomena of every kind. You become trained in Esoteric Lore, a special lore skill that can be used to Recall Knowledge regarding haunts, curses, and creatures of any type, but that can't be used to Recall Knowledge of other topics. Unlike a normal Lore skill, you use Charisma as your modifier on Esoteric Lore checks. You also gain the Dubious Knowledge skill feat.

Going forward, I'll allow Esoteric for downtime.

Thank you. I have always seen the esoteric lore accepted for earn income until now (for me and other players thaumaturges)

Ok, so, I'm in a dilemma for efficiency, since Ash is intelligenter than me.

Should I... ?
1. ◆◆◆ Heal
2. ◆◆ Heal Cath, ◆ Guide Bitty
3. ◆◆ Heal Cath, ◆ Increase Bless to 10 ft
4. ◆◆ Daze Blue, ◆ Increase Bless
5. ◆◆ Daze Blue, ◆ Guide Bitty
6. ◆◆ Stabilize Cath (to save Heal for later), ◆ Increase Bless
7. ◆◆ Stabilize Cath (to save Heal for later), ◆ Guide Bitty

I'm a bit more inclined towards 7.

The ephemeral words of another Fervor Witch resonates in Ashun's mind.

◆◆Heal Cath since the crocodile's mouth is otherwise occupied. Cath can get back into the fight or leave the dangerous area with less risk of reaction attacks.

From there: increase Bless, Guidance for Bitty's escape, or Stoke to increase damage are all good choices.

I'm going to start buying scrolls to copy prepare for these kinds of situations.
How much does copying a spell cost? And since Fervor is Divine (right?), is there anything I can copy to talk to animals?

By copying a scroll you are meaning to learn it, yes? Witch actually has two options for that, though with PFS wealth accounting it may be different.

One option is simply to give the scroll to your familiar. They will consume the scroll - which doesn't necessarily mean to eat it, just that it is consumed like other consumable items. Then the familiar knows that spell and you can prepare it. This would cost the standard price for the scroll. For a 1st level spell that would be 4 GP.

The other option is to use the Learn a Spell rules to create a crude copy of the spell that you can give to your familiar instead of the actual scroll. This can also be used to learn spells directly from another Witch instead of from a scroll. The cost and the skill check DC is based on the spell level being learned. For a 1st level spell it is 2 GP and a DC 15 Religion check.

Unfortunately, Speak With Animals is Primal only. It may be possible to use Comprehend Language, but that is a bit questionable.

There is also Kinspeech, but that requires being level 6. And you have to have a familiar that matches the species you are trying to talk to, and know in the morning that it is going to be needed.

Incidentally, I don't think I had you select your school consumables. You can do so retroactively -- and I think you're going to need them...

just for spice, I was tempted to have the croc talk back "OR WHAT?!" :)

I really need to finish my potion batch soon so I can administer them in these situations.
/sad

Incidentally, I don't think I had you select your school consumables. You can do so retroactively -- and I think you're going to need them...

This is our first 4-point scenario then?

And the consumables are these standard ones or these school replacement ones, yes?

Looks like I have a Minor Healing Potion in either case.

Konbu will take the default of a minor healing potion.

Folks may want to check out the new blog about the Pathfinder Society Year 5 Rule Updates!

We'll be having free aasimars, changelings, tengu, tieflings and ysoki, and they just dropped the cost for geniekin, meaning that Barak and Bitty will have lots of friends joining them in society!

Oooh, so the hag name was Aslynn
I was in doubt between changeling and tiefling because of the appearance, but decided on changeling because of the current adventures I wanted to play.

But neat! I may try aasimar next, seems interesting from what I read. But because of Bitty I would love to try out geniekin if I have the points to.

I've already got one - an undine. I'm still deciding what ancestry my aquatic kineticist is going to be.

I want to try out a martial class.
All my past PF characters were casters

A tiefling hex witch on PF1
A human artificer when PF2 launched (does this count as caster?)
A kitsune oracle a few months ago when I started playing with friends
Now Ashun, and I got a pyromaniac kobold druid also mostly done.

Mayhaps a geniekin monk or a aasimar barbarian? dunno

Swashbuckler is fun to play... Monks too... Investigators are also fun (and because of the high intelligence, you could take a caster dedication on the side :) )

Bitty's brother slinks into the thread. "Man, if you needed a high intelligence to take a caster dedication, I'd be in trouble."

Sylph gnome fighter, planning to take Wyrmblessed sorcerer at Level Two.

hey Barak, you're supposed to be with Heather somewhere else! :)

Now might not be a good time for Barak to know that Bitty's out cold...

Just checking that we know how thaumaturge works. Failure on the roll is all that is needed to get Personal Antithesis and enable the Amulet reaction. Loompecker can certainly try it again for a better result if wanted.

I'll be getting a post tonight. Comic Con is taking a lot of my time.

I am on a trip this weekend.

Bitty suggests the following route:

Red Dot (because Bee is there already.)
Purple Diamond
Blue Rectangle
Yellow Sun

Sounds fine with me.

Sounds good! Sorry, still no power at the home!

Big typhoon here. Lost power last night. Thankfully it came back early this morning...

GM Tiger and Cath, I hope you're both okay.

As for how I do dungeon exploration in my PBP games, I generally ask my players to draw a line all the way through the dungeon of their routes in advance. If a room can be narrated, I just narrate them through until the party reaches the next encounter. This bypasses the dithering that can happen in PBP of "which way should we go now?" and let's me keep things moving.

Hmm

Updates tomorrow. I'm fine. Thanks, Bitty. :)

I'm doing okay. Not having power at the house, and the electric company not doing anything until the city gets involved irks me greatly, but it's out of my hands unfortunately.

Thanks Bitty!

btw, we're in the last part of the adventure... who's next? :)

I should hopefully be getting things somewhat finished up later tonight during work.

what you running, Cath? :)

It was suggested that I run 4-01 Intro: Year of Boundless Wonder. Looks like it's a repeatable too!

Looks like it'll have to be someone other than Bun... he just played it...

I just GMed it.

5-01? That should be dropping soon.

Although I could do 4-01 with Konbu.

I could play 4-01. I did it with a different character, but it is repeatable.

Loompecker has already played 4-01. So I’ll need to take another character

Updates tomorrow -- have a bad case of hay fever. Kinda hard to type while sneezing every 5 seconds... must be the seaweed... ;)

Let's hope it's not filth fever gained from a cinder rat...

I can also check about 5-01 and see if I can prepare that if it's available.

Scratch that, looks like the pdfs aren't available until the 30th.

Cath, you ready with 04-01? If you need more time I can always do 99-01. :)

When we do 5-01 I'm hoping for a run with excellent roleplay. I'm an elemental creature after all, and 5-01 promises elemental stuff.

I have not played 4-01 with Bitty yet.

Loompecker, that still was good enough to trigger a Personal Antithesis if you want to use weapons. Exploit Vulnerability is not like the Investigator's Strategic Strike. It works even on failures.

I should be all set by this Friday!

We're near the end of the adventure. So if you'd like your downtimes with your chronicles, go ahead and roll them.

Cath - if you're using rpg chronicles, please give me a link so I can link it up top. Also if you have maps/slides you'd like to use... :)

"I's rolling downtime for GM"

Crafting: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (9) + 11 = 20

lore(Great Old Ones): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (9) + 5 = 14

Lore (Plane of Air): 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (19) + 6 = 25

"Oooh, people are attending my Planar Lore classes now that the Pathfinder Society is visiting the elemental planes again!"

Crafting (Alchemy): 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (14) + 8 = 22

Well, I already spent Heal and Bless on the crocs, so...