JD's Abomination Vaults

Game Master Jack Daniels

How big is the drake? What are the odds we can trick it into entering the exact square it needs to to set off the snare?

Oh hey, was thinking this weekend, do you guys know if there are any “must buy” items for a cleric in the game, available for our relatively meager gold right now?

How big is the drake? What are the odds we can trick it into entering the exact square it needs to to set off the snare?

I'd wager at our level we shouldn't face anything larger than 10x10ft. Tricking it shouldn't be hard. Per its description, it's more ferocious than smart, it would be just a question of standing in front of the snare (as long as it doesn't breathe acid first).

Don't know about 2e items, I'm still new at it.

It looks like in order to set a snare you need a snare kit and the Snare Crafting feat unless GM makes an exception. Personally to me even with an exception it seems like a lot of bother to deal 2d8 piercing damage that allows a basic saving throw

The drake is medium-sized.

My vote is to sell the snare. 2d8 damage is not worth is for a feat and all the work involved.

Sell.

Early wish: Happy New Year to all! Thank you for your participation and making this game fun!

Yes, same to everyone!

Hope you have a wonderful New Year’s!

The game has been great so far!

Cheers!

Cheers to all, wishing you the best in the new year!

Sorry for the delay everyone. Just got back home from the trip and we're still organizing things. Don't count on me for 2 or 3 days. If all goes well, I'll manage to post.

@Hagrym Battle Medicine requires you to be adjacent to the patient if that's what you meant by Battle Magic.

Sorry, yep, that’s what I meant. Okay, thanks for the answer. I’m not getting that close this round. I’ll post another action in a few.

I have 2 questions: 1 - In the case where a combat restarts like this, do I have to reenter the stance? (Stances general rules state that it lasts until the end of this encounter) 2 - Does this pass to the next round? I mean, the requirement says that "You used your most recent action this turn to Cast a Spell or make a Spellstrike." If my last action in a round is to cast a spell or make a spellstrike, does this mean that I qualify for the stance in the first action of the next round?

1) Stances end when the encounter ends, so personally I would say since new initiatives were rolled for battling the spider thing, the previous stance had ended and you'd have to re-enter it, but the ruling is of course up to the GM.

2) The requirement says "You used your most recent action this turn to Cast a Spell or make a Spellstrike." It wouldn't specify "this turn" if it was intended to let you enter it with a spell cast the previous round so unfortunately, the spell really does have to be cast in the same round you act to enter the stance.

Thanks Jon. That makes a lot of sense.

Damn, this Arcane Cascade seems worthless. IT's so much of a hassle to use it and when you do, it's minimal benefits, even considering the extra benefit from the hybrid study.

Arcane Cascade benefit strongly depends on Hybrid study. Some are good, some suck

Damn, this Arcane Cascade seems worthless. IT's so much of a hassle to use it and when you do, it's minimal benefits, even considering the extra benefit from the hybrid study.

It looks like Shield is a 1-action cantrip. Instead of Raising a Shield each turn, for the first turn you could do Shield + Arcane Cascade and then have 1 action left over to use to move or Strike or whatever. It looks like you're raising your shield every turn anyway; may as well cast it the first turn to qualify for Arcane Cascade.

That's a smart way to look at it. Also, if I ever get swift action spells (don't know enough about 2e to know if there are any), this may get even easier.

Out of interest, do you treat Esoteric Lore with the Unspecific Lore DC adjustment?
There's no final ruling about it, but the discussions go back to the beginning of PF 2e, when the Bard with Bardic Lore got introduced.

Out of interest, do you treat Esoteric Lore with the Unspecific Lore DC adjustment?

There's no final ruling about it, but the discussions go back to the beginning of PF 2e, when the Bard with Bardic Lore got introduced.

Yes

Recall Knowledge sucks in a PBP forum format. Waiting for an answer to decide on possible actions delays combat by a day :(

Recall Knowledge sucks in a PBP forum format. Waiting for an answer to decide on possible actions delays combat by a day :(

I agree. Unless as a default action, you will do an RK check on your turn every time you fight a new enemy, I could roll the check for you and give you the info. However, you'd be spending an action each round on that. Up to you.

Garidan Hemlock wrote:

Recall Knowledge sucks in a PBP forum format. Waiting for an answer to decide on possible actions delays combat by a day :(

I agree. Unless as a default action, you will do an RK check on your turn every time you fight a new enemy, I could roll the check for you and give you the info. However, you'd be spending an action each round on that. Up to you.

You could always spoiler the information so if he decided he didn't want to use the action he wouldn't have to commit ahead of time

Garidan Hemlock wrote:

Recall Knowledge sucks in a PBP forum format. Waiting for an answer to decide on possible actions delays combat by a day :(

I agree. Unless as a default action, you will do an RK check on your turn every time you fight a new enemy, I could roll the check for you and give you the info. However, you'd be spending an action each round on that. Up to you.

Well, we can agree that my first action of every combat will always be Exploit Vulnerability against the most prevelant enemy. And if I fail the standard DC, I will do it again. If there's another (boss-like) enemy, I will use another RK action on that.

I suspect I’ll be out most of the day tomorrow and Thursday as I’ve got a week from hell at work. Friday should be back to normal, assuming I don’t fail a save versus more work! So bot me as needed. Thanks!

No problem, thanks for the heads up!

Sorry all, been battling the flu. I will update this weekend.

Okay, I am back!

Hope you feel better, GM!

Feel better GM

Appreciate everyone's patience. I am back.

What's everyone's default Exploration activity?

Garidan will always be Investigating.
In addtion, his lantern implement also let's him be Searching for stuff within 20 ft.
(GM rolls a secret check to find traps, environmental hazards, haunts, and secrets (such as secret doors). The GM rolls each time a given hazard or secret comes within 20 feet of you and within the lantern's bright light.)

Pen is always going shield first, face second. (Defend)

Jon either has his arcane senses open for detecting magic Detect Magic (he has detect magic as an innate cantrip from his background) or Scout (everyone gets +1 circumstance bonus to initiative) if someone else wants to detect magic.

Unfortunately my innate Detect Magic is not automatically heightened and its heightening is tied to my skill in Arcana. I'm probably going to focus on increasing Athletics, Intimidation, and Thievery so I'm guessing I'll be stuck with the level 1 version most (if not all) of the campaign.

Hagrym could do the magic detecting for us.

Mac will always be searching (+8/+10 on stonework).

5ft steps are what I miss most about 1e...

You can still do them for 1 action

@GM how did my demoralize attempt go?

@GM how did my demoralize attempt go?

Sorry, I forgot about that. You just missed it, since the devil does not speak Common.

You can still do them for 1 action

Exactly, they used to be free actions. As a sparkling targe magus, I'm already action starved as is.

At least the monsters don't get free 5' steps either.

Hey @GM, on my turn could I try a Trip maneuver on the monster to yank it to the ground with my whip? It has the [trip] trait

Yes, Jon, you can knock a flying target prone, according to the rules.
Prone

Gotcha. I couldn't find anything about flying creatures under Trip and didn't think to look at prone.

I'll post my turn when I get home tonight around 1030 PST but I wanted to confirm the monster already had a 10' reach being a Large creature, so with the glaive its reach is 15' now.

Not sure about 2e but in 1e some Large creatures didn't actually have greater reach than Medium ones.

Correct, the minotaur has 15' reach with the glaive. However, in 2E, very few creatures have reactive strike, so unlike 1E, there are no AoOs for moving in close.

They just dropped the remastered gunslinger into Pathbuilder and it looks like they simplified Munitions Crafter. (No other changes I can figure)

Legacy: reagents = level/day, basic 0th level ammo is made in batches of 10; bombs and other ammo is made in batches of 2

Remaster: reagents = 4 + ½ level/day, all types of ammo are made in batches of 4, bombs 1 at a time

This will make it much easier to try out elemental ammo. In fact, if you don't spend the 1 action to Activate alchemical ammunition, it acts the same as basic ammo, so there's never a reason to craft basic as far as I can see.

@GM: Can I switch to the remastered version at my next daily preparations?

Yes, Jon, that's cool.

I just came down with a fever so I didn't know how my posting will be for the next few days. Feel free to bot me to keep things moving. Jon is willing to keep disarming these things until he has to use a hero point to avoid death, then he'll probably vote for alternate options.

Feel better!

@GM What happened when I failed one of my Fort saves versus the venom?