GM Knightmare's Therapy Sessions [Strange Aeons]

Game Master TheChelaxian

Hey all I have a cold or something and it's knocked me for a loop. I'll post as needed for responses but cutting back on pushing and flavor posts for a bit.

Get better soon, Ethyl!

As for the sanity rules, I believe we made two checks so far. On now and one when the good doctor in the cellar showed us their true colours.

So I should have 1 damage now (your roll), or should I do my roll, GM? 1d4 ⇒ 4

Haha, oh yes! Roll max amount, you beautiful imitation of a caltrop.

I'll update the post header with sanity values tomorrow.

If you want to be a Zuthite you can take your roll. And yes, I believe you only rolled checks for the first doppelganger and these undead. The zoog was not so alien that I felt it needed a check.

Apologies but I probably should declare that he uses Combat Expertise always. It is already factored in on his Tagline.

Get better soon, Ethyl!

Turns out I have covid, I am feeling much better today though but I'll probably be recovering for a couple of days yet. I'm glad I kept up with my boosters cause this is nasty.

My tagline still had mutagen included in it so the hand hit me. I've updated it correctly now.

Good luck, Ethyl. Hope you feel better soon.

... I really wish I'd prepared disrupt undead. Ah, well, next time they prepare to head out, they'll do it.

@Ethyl: 1) sorry to hear that, hope it passes quickly. 2) Yes, it was Reflex, apologies. 3) The hand attacked Iosif, not Ethyl.

Sorry to hear about your COVID, Ethyl.

And Iosif doesn't have a melee attack until level 4 when he gets the deed to whack people with the butt of his gun.

Oh, Enoch, I'm pretty sure you're supposed to use the actual point value of your scores when calculating your sanity, and not the bonuses. Otherwise it'd be possible to have 0 sanity from the start and slide into catatonia.

Who's to say he already hasn't....

Thanks! I was wondering when I looked at everyone else's.

I can't stop laughing, NotEspi! Thanks!

We're a lovable bunch aren't we? Lol

Don't forget Edge.

These dice, guys. Seriously. I'll stick to debuffs, I guess.

Remaining spells:

Cantrips - Detect Magic, Stabilise, Touch of Fatigue / + Message at will from racial stuff

Level 1 - 1 x Cure Light Wounds, 1 x Shadow Trap, 1 x Unseen Servant

I'm out. Not sure if Iosif used the potion given to him here.

Edit: A quick review of posts and I think no. So we should have that potion left. Which Enoch should use.

I don't think so? I also lost track of HP when adding sanity in.

If you shove it into his clammy shaking hands, he will drink it gratefully like it was booze.

Letting y'all get situated before you move on.

I didn't want to just drink it without Game Play involvement....

It would have been a religion check, Alvar.

Oddly enough, Iosif doesn't have religion. He went for planes and local.

If it is religion, I expect it to be shortly slain by Enoch as soon as someone realizes.

Because of being of anesica state of mind, I purposely put off his Knowledge skills until 2nd to be honest.

If it is religion, I expect it to be shortly slain by Enoch as soon as someone realizes.

Y'all made sure it was already slain. The remaining creature is supposedly normal.

Wait. Which creature are we able to identify with religion? The one we slaughtered, or the one that was left alive?

Neither since the roll was terrible but assuming its the undead looking icon in the middle that we IDd and was killed. Southern human looking man is the one left.

At least I hope so. If Enoch just straight up muders a helpless human he's an ex-paladin.

Enoch's confidence in his decision to send the undead to the Graveyard is justified as an reintroduction of his beliefs manifesting as now Pharasma is cemented by that Post.

G@%~@~nit, I keep using first person singular. It slipped through again.

I'm watching the thread. It's just Nyarai that is oblivious to the happening in the south end of the room. She is just wondering why she was shushed.

I guessed we're waiting to see what Alvar finds?

Yes,sorry folks, I'm in the midst of traveling and might be without internet for a couple of days. I'll keep y'all updated and post in Gameplay when I can.

Oh, cool. Enjoy. I was just making sure you guys are not waiting for me to react.

Health: 1d8 ⇒ 4

Warpriest time! His bullets are now treated as magic, and he has two CLWs to use.

A tortured crusader doesn’t gain the detect evil or divine grace class features

Oh thank the gods.

HP!: 1d8 ⇒ 7 Whoot!

Yep, I think it's a good archetype for this particular group.

Level Two, Vivisectionist
+10 hp (rolled 7)
+1 BAB (risky strike and defensive stance)
+1 Fort +1 Ref
+1 1st level extracts/day
+1 formula (Endure Elements, Deathwatch (bonus))
+1 discovery - feral mutagen
+2 poison resistance
Poison use
+8 skill points, +1 Craft Alchemy, +1 Disable Device, +1 Nature, +1 Dungeoneering, +1 Nobility, +1 Perception, +2 Survival
+1 hp FCB

Level Two, Warpriest of Cixyron

+5 hp, +1 Con, +1 FCB
+0 BAB
+2 Fort +2 Will
+3 cantrips (Stabilize, Light, Guidance)
+2 1st level spells (CLW x2)
+4 skill points (Knowledge [Local, Religion, Planes], Perception)
+2 background points (Knowledge [Engineering], Craft [Alchemy])
Bonus Feat [as agreed upon earlier]: Weapon of the Chosen.

The warpriest finally has ranks in Religion, haha.

EDIT: Woops, not a half-elf.

HP roll: 1d6 ⇒ 4

Adding spells known:

Memory Lapse (Patron)
Gentle Breeze
Touch of Blindness

Adding abilities:
Ghostwalk (Su):

+1 BAB, +1 base Will

Skill points:

Acrobatics
Heal
Kn Arcana
Perception
Spellcraft
Stealth
Swim
Use Magic Device

BG skills: Kn. Planes, Linguistics

Extra language: Aklo

HP: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4 Big oof.

Adding spells to spellbook: summon monster I and gravity bow.

Extra Pages: 2d6 ⇒ (2, 3) = 5 Well, it could be worse.

Skills: + 1 to each of:
Bluff
Knowledge (arcana)
Knowledge (religion)
Knowledge (dungeoneering)
Knowledge (planes)
Knowledge (nature)
Spellcraft
Stealth

Background skills
Linguistics +1 (Learning Sylvan)
Knowledge (history)

Other stuff:
+1 BAB
+1 HP from Favored Class
+1 Will

... I think that's everything.

Enoch is level 2. I will post his changes after work.

@Iosif ha!

BG skills: Kn. Planes, Linguistics

Oh, I missed this, but I don't think Knowledge (planes) is a background skill, since you can use it to identify creatures.

Enoch the Wanderer Paladin (Tortured Crusader) 2

+10hp
+1 BaB
+6 skill ranks
+2 background ranks
+1 Fort/Will
LoHs

Not much really....lol.

It's a skill used to identify creatures, so yeah not a background skill. The only exception is Kn. Engineering, and that only woulf ever come up in Iron Gods. Robots.

Oh snap. Missed that one. I'll revise tomorrow.

Alright. I'll do Profession (Herbalist) instead of Planes. I redistributed my skill points to reflect the fact. Currently sitting at:

2 base + 5 int + 1 fcb + 2 bg skills per level for 20 total.

Heal 1
Kn Arcana 2
Kn History 1
Kn Nature 1
Kn Planes 2
Linguistics 2 (BG)
Perception 2
Profession (Herbalist) 2 (BG)
Sense Motive 1
Spellcraft 2
Stealth 2
Use Magic Device 2

I'm working on a loot sheet now that we're collecting magical items. If you claim an item please indicate in a post somewhere so we don't end up duplicating. I will share it once I've got it updated.

The split for the money is 9 gp per. Please make sure to add that to your totals.

I think Ethyl should probably get the knife, although Alvar would happily take any spares she has. They're (marginally) better at knife-throwing than at bonking with their staff. That said, I think anyone who's likely to get into melee should probably have higher priority than them

I'm about to switch to natural attacks. So the dagger won't always get used but it would be a nice back up weapon if I need to punch through DR of 10/magical.

If someone else will find it more useful by all means.

Loot!

Nothing fancy, just a list with some formulas for stuff.

Question for the group: Do you like me to expedite Identify checks for magic items/etc - ie give them to you - or do you want to have to try and make DC checks?

I will always vote for expediency.