⚔ Battlecry! Playtest @ #1-14 "Lions of Katapesh" ⚔ (Inactive)

Game Master rainzax

Amiri PFS placeholder wrote:

"Time's a wastin', Troupe. We've got skulls to claim."

Ah yes!

GM rainzax wrote:

6) Propose a name for the Troupe here in Discussion (and vote for the one you like best)!

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Ok fine, I will totally vote for Amiri's Angels now because Amiri would find it funny.

Well, this is going to... go. I was hoping for more ideas. :)

I vote for my own, Far from Home, then.

Glyph Hero points to our playtest characters.
1 to Natalu
1 to Kaya

So Quigiq, if I got 3 GM glpys and you have 2, that covers everyone.
I'll vote for my own, Lion Hunters.

Um.

First name with two votes!

I’m tracking everyone hero points in my GM alias.

Well, I didn't come up with anything clever, either. Far From Home?

+1 Hero Point for Qigiq.

Frost, if you are up to it, go ahead and play catch up so we can settle out Tier!

=)

Hello, everyone! I'm back and slowly getting back into the games.

It looks like everyone is at level 3 and 4. I will bring a remastered level 4 druid of the animal order for this game. And I have two gylphs to share.

I think we have enough of those.

Challenge Points:

Levels 3/3/3/4/4 = 4+4+4+6+6 = 24 Challenge Points = High Tier

So current Skill Challenge is DC 18.

Yes, I wasn't home yet.
And then I, er, fell asleep. But that only takes a moment. Done now.

And another animal companion. Okay, Oso is my sixth squadmate. That's my limit; any more and I'd have to be selective.

Oh, uh, I know I said I took my hands off the sword, but I'd like to make it clear that by default, Amiri has her hands on her sword. Especially since we are hostile territory right now. I'll deal with the clumsy 1 hopefully with Guardian support. Didn't think this was worth making a post IC over, but just setting it out there.

Thinking Commander may be a little annoying in pbp granting actions to others. Might be a class I avoid on the boards once it's release. But for now, Onward!

You may end up being proved correct.

In the meantime, even if we gotta pause more times than seems feasible or fun just to resolve interrupting free actions and reactions, I am committed to the possible annoyance for the Playtest.

=)

Qigiq's exploration activity is Searching, at least until the final map.

Provisions: scroll of resist energy

Would you say that putting out fires "requires greater intelligence" and is an action animal companions can't do?

Natalu wrote:

Thinking Commander may be a little annoying in pbp granting actions to others. Might be a class I avoid on the boards once it's release. But for now, Onward!

You may end up being proved correct.

In the meantime, even if we gotta pause more times than seems feasible or fun just to resolve interrupting free actions and reactions, I am committed to the possible annoyance for the Playtest.

=)

I'm doing my part to speed things up! I'm taking a leaf out of the book of a Fighter in my campaign and just pre-rolling reactions in case they happen. For instance, I've prerolled a Strike Hard in case Natalu asks me to do so.

Also Amiri just posted. The Blue cart was extinguished and she runs up to Blue to hopefully smack him.

Would you say that putting out fires "requires greater intelligence" and is an action animal companions can't do?

My gut says yes - but you are a Commander…

Hero Point to Far From Home to Amiri or Natalu?: 1d6 ⇒ 1 Amiri

Kaya - you posted twice in a row - I am going to ignore your second post.

When your turn comes back around the initiative block, go ahead and start over.

I will signal who is "up" both in my combat tracker (using bold) as well as at the end of by GM posts (using bold ooc).

=)

Huh, It says I'm up? Was I not meant to be bolded in your last post, 2 posts above mine?

Look at the last 5-7 posts to observe what happened.

One of those was your most recent turn.

Edit: I see what happened - I signaled everyone using bold text - my fault. Still gunna wait for the next go-around and give you a clean slate.

=)

Which is now!

But, notice the battlefield has changed.

Go ahead and redo your whole turn Kaya - my apologies again.

=)

Good shot Kaya! Really making the ranged Guardian meme work, I see. Hopefully, Amiri has murdered another bandit with her turn.

Nat is currently mounted. Terror birds are Large even as young companions.

Mounts usually are, or at least have the option, so you can actually use them as mounts at first level.

Anything extra on a crit?

Yes I will double that for you!

Long day - getting a post up!

If someone could give me a Stride I could probably reach Black Bandit leader...wink wink nudge nudge?

Can't do a Stride. Can I offer a Strike if you're already in position?

I can't get into position. At best, I end up like 10 feet away from Black. I'd need someone to Shove Black into my reach.

Show movement on map, wasn't sure if moving by that rock was difficult terrain…

Answered in my combat tracker!

Alright, Moved 2 squares to the right as that is far as he would get on a doublemove, I wasn't sure if the rock had to occupy the whole square or even more than half the square for it to count as difficult terrain.

My rule of thumb is "half or more."

If half or more of the square is Bush, treat it as Bush.
If half or more of the square is Rock, treat is as Rock.

Etc.

Going to give 24 hours for Natalu’s allies to respond to his tactical post!

Going to give everyone 24 hours to post and roll.

Then I'll give you options to choose from, and we'll use "quorum of two" to press on from there!

A clear quorum.

I will move us along in the next day or so!

But first…

I forgot marching order. Pick a position:

ABCD
EFGH
JKLM

Moving this direction >>>

Put me at A, B, C, or D. Just as long as I'm next to Kaya.

Tandang is fine at F position.

E then. With Prindle at, uh, GHLM. Nat keeps his bow out and Investigate.

(Unless it's a long walk. Then Nat would ride Prindle in the back and Defend with sword and shield out.)

With Prindle needing to fit, I'll go B.

I’ll give it until next morning (12 hours?) to allow Kaya to Step if she wants and Tandang to do his turn…

Then the lions go.

Ok, made a post under the assumption that my No Escape reaction activated (since commanders give me an extra reaction to perform a tactic that does not eat into my own) and that my temp hp ate some of that critical damage. If the No Escape reaction did not in fact proc, let me know and I'll redo my turn.

No Escape triggered.

Commanders do not automatically give free Reactions to everyone though!

True, but I only have one tactic that uses a reaction, and it's single-target and two actions.
So all of mine are effectively free. I didn't do that on purpose, it just worked out that way.

Pincer Attack users free actions anyway.

Did we have an overnight rest, or is this the same day as the bandit attack?

Same day.

Team went right off!

Thank you :)

Long day, will update this afternoon or evening!

Sorry about Orange gang - Casually and quickly checking, I thought Nat's "Strike Hard" missed, leaving it standing, but upon closer look it turns out I didn't add both the Frightened and the Guiding Shot factors to the attack - exactly enough to hit (and kill).

Please take back your actions and roll dice anew - we are down to one lion on the other side of the rock.

Qigiq, if Orange was a factor in you tapping your Font, feel free to take that back too - I kept it in the tracker for now...

=)

I had originally debated 3-action healing but didn't want to get orange. I'll leave it as is--Amiri will need those HP eventually--and change the Strike for Stride to move the battle closer.

GM - and players - remind me what happens when there's a critfail on the monster Grab/Knockdown action. Does the monster suffer the critfail effects of a failed grab/athletics check?