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The Roll20 link is in the Campaign Info tab. Either submit Roll20 tokens here or via PM.
My paizo pic is fine for a token. Also thanks for running!
Hello, everyone. Just dotting for now.
d20 will eventually become 2d20. Dotting. Will work on an avatar.
Hello, hello. Thank you for the invite! It's much appreciated. Anyhow, if anyone has any questions about Elyssa feel free to ask.
As for the Roll20 token I'll follow the dear Doctor's example and say you can use Elyssa's Paizo avatar for the token.
My picture is also fine for the token, and thanks for running this, GM!
Added one into Roll20 myself, since the Paizo avatar is missing the scar.
It is my absolute pleasure to run this for y'all. Strange Aeons is one of my favorite APs and I've an itch to roleplay. As much as I'd like to be a player, I have more fun GMing, knowing others are playing and having fun. Do feel free to ask me anything, my office doors are open, my dear patients~
Question: Am I missing something, or are most of our characters going to very much prefer to avoid melee?
'cause it'll be hilarious if we're all running away whenever something scary comes at us with claws or fangs or something. "Retreat, retreat, retreat!"
Yes, this is a primarily ranged party.
Ethyl seems like the one melee combatant. Vivisectionist are like rogues, but they can buff themselves. Currently playing a character that will take levels in Vivisectionist-Mindchemist, and currently have one in the Tyrant's Grasp campaign I'm a player in. It's harder to get off ranged Sneak Attack than it is to get off a melee attack.
Oops, I need to roll for how many pages extra my spells take up in my grimoire.
Oof.
Lol, cool. I like a party with a weakness. Maybe I'll have to lean into improvised weapons to more reliably get sneak attack.
You could always try Feinting, it's the main route my rogue uses... granted, she's a Kitsune Trickster so pulling it off reliably is the bread-and-butter of her build. (CHA+INT bluff with 18 INT 16 CHA is a bit absurd).
Also, Alvar, I think you're missing a few languages? 2 from Tiefling, 5 bonus languages, and 1 from Linguistics.
Huh. So I am. I also just realized I had 1 HP below what it should've been, so all sorts of little errors happening.
Oh, btw, who is Martin V on Roll20?
You could always try Feinting, it's the main route my rogue uses... granted, she's a Kitsune Trickster so pulling it off reliably is the bread-and-butter of her build. (CHA+INT bluff with 18 INT 16 CHA is a bit absurd).
I'd probably have to change two traits, a feat, and redo my skills to get that to work. And even then I wouldn't be great at it. I'm not opposed to it if you think I should. But I don't want to change my character without permission from GM Nightmare too.
Edit: Clever wordplay trait lets me use int for bluff, and I'm sure there's another trait I could take to get trained in bluff and a small bonus. Imp. Init would change to deft maneuvers to get it as a move action.
Edit: Witty repartee is the other trait.
I'm not suggesting it myself, just wasn't sure you knew it was an option since it doesn't seem to be widely used (for good reason, probably)
If we'd been using Elephant in the Room for the game where I played Meneas the Cowl, I'd have been using feinting a lot. As it was, I couldn't justify the Combat Expertise to get to Improved Feint to myself.
I could eventually get Snap Shot... but that'll come online at level 6.
Yeah its a lot more accessible with Elephant.
Yeah, Elephant is good for this kind of thing. It's sad Vanish isn't on the Alchemist list, though.
It is touch, though, so someone else could toss it on her. Not as immediately useful, admittedly, since alchemists don't need verbal/somatic components, if I recall rightly.
Oh, btw, who is Martin V on Roll20?
That'd be me.
Oh, btw, who is Martin V on Roll20?That'd be me.
Thankies
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On second thought I think I'd rather not change my character right now. Between +9 init, stealth, and catch off guard I should be able to reliably get sneak off a couple of times each combat.
ThankiesOh, btw, who is Martin V on Roll20?That'd be me.
No trouble. Was just setting up.
Alright, then. Hi everyone, this is your local insane witch reporting for duty. Lovely to be here, nice to meet you, thanks for the vote of confidence and am looking forward to spiraling into down to be left alone with our own thoughts. The intrusive bastards. What if...?
Okay, right off the bat: Heh. Violant, do you play exclusively gunslingers or something? Every game I see you in, I swear.
Oh right, forgot catch-off guard is a feat.
No I don't exclusively play Gunslingers. You just ran into me there. Currently also playing two Wizards and a Rogue-Investigator-Alchemist. Tend to have a backlog of mechanical ideas I like to base characters on, a few of them were gunslingers. I am now, funnily, out of backlog gunslinger ideas.
There's no Inventor in 1e so I went with the next best thing here besides maybe Empiricist, but there were already two Vivisectionists whose toes I would be stepping on.
This one will probably veer into Warpriest for levels once I get past DEX to damage, though.
Well, every game I've been with you so far. But I'm just messing with you. OR AM I?
Anyway, regarding the party being a cowardly one, we have disadvantage on attack rolls against us, so that's something. Just, eh, stay within 30 ft of me.
Alvar also has about... 30 rounds of +1 deflection AC to everyone in 10' of them, so that could help. But it's probably gonna be fine. I'm sure.
Out of curiosity, is anyone planning on taking craft wondrous items? Since we have 3 full casters, I thought it may be a relevant question.
I didn't plan on it initially, but may reconsider if it's required.
I do have one question. Since Warpriest gets Weapon Focus, am I allowed to substitute in a different feat once I take a singular level of Warpriest at level 2? (Taking it there so as to kick off the Weapon of the Chosen featline as early as possible) Iosif will probably be the closest one to the front barring Ethyl, since he has a pretty beefy AC. He'd have more CON, but the dice were not kind.
I do have one question. Since Warpriest gets Weapon Focus, am I allowed to substitute in a different feat once I take a singular level of Warpriest at level 2? Iosif will probably be the closest one to the front barring Ethyl, since he has a pretty beefy AC. He'd have more CON, but the dice were not kind.
I'll allow it .
Alright. Now to think of what feat to pick...
Out of curiosity, is anyone planning on taking craft wondrous items? Since we have 3 full casters, I thought it may be a relevant question.
I didn't plan on it initially, but may reconsider if it's required.
I've debated doing so, to enchant Alvar's bonded amulet, but no solid plans at the moment.
I've debated doing so, to enchant Alvar's bonded amulet, but no solid plans at the moment.Out of curiosity, is anyone planning on taking craft wondrous items? Since we have 3 full casters, I thought it may be a relevant question.
I didn't plan on it initially, but may reconsider if it's required.
You don't need the feat to enchant a bonded object, just meet the feat requirements. But I won't complain if you get the feat because I'd like an amulet we're not likely to find laying around.
That's on me for not reading carefully! But yeah, I might go for it.
I can still rename this profile if you need a new character, gm.
No need, keep the character as is. This is all part of the AP.
Yeah I know. Just pulling your leg.
:p XD
Are we using block initiative for more regular fights?
If you mean do I have all enemies on one initiative, then I'm not sure yet. I've GMed both ways.
I meant grouping the players whose initiatve rolls are close to speed things up. Instead of having them post in order.
So instead of the current initiave order, everyone would be up at once unless there's an enemy initiative in the middlr.
That's a great idea, we will go forward with that. So Ethyl and Iosif, then Alvar and back around to Elyssa
Yeah. I thought this specific fight might be warranting something else given that they immediately know Elyssa's a witch.
I don't know what to do without targets and with a singular bullet though, so Iosif probably is going to investigate.
There are no viable targets, right?
Not that you can see, no.
What I typically do is what Iosif suggests, with the possible addition of summarizing the whole initiative block in the order of initiative rather than posts (sometimes, I'm growing flexible on this) so as to make clear the order of events. I'm open to however you want to handle it, though.