Many of us have been there. Don't sweat it and take your time.
Take all the time you need. God knows I've been. Life gets a little silly around the holidays.
Janna: one obvious question for the mindprobe: What makes Jaklyn a "betrayer".
Apologies, I have a lot of stuff going on today specifically and I won't be able to get a post in.
Okay, things are gonna be really really busy for me these next 2 weeks, so I’ll kinda be sporadic and, unfortunately, my PbPs will likely be the things taking the hit.
Next Monday (1/19) I’ll be out of town and likely won’t be able to get a post in.
I also have a very important event happening on 1/22, and a LOT of my energy will be dedicated toward that during these next 2 weeks. I will DEFINITELY not be able to get a post in on 1/22 and might have to take some days here and there of not posting so I don’t burn myself out.
I will try to communicate to the best of my ability if I can or cannot post on a given day. This event on 1/22 is one that I’ve been preparing for (perhaps unhealthily, if I’m being honest) for several months and it’s essentially a “Priority 0” in my life right now.
Please be patient with me. I apologize that I’ve been more sporadic these past few months. I promise things will get better once this situation passes.
Mostly waiting on Janna to see if she had anything else to ask with her last two questions of mind probe. But otherwise, from the sounds of things, y’all are planning to leave Behezamine here because “we’re not here to betray Jakalyn’s trust,” yes?
Finally, did anyone want to do anything with the swords Blood-Drinker and Fleshrender that y’all found?
Anyway, if nobody has anything else to ask Behezamine, then y'all only have the portal left, so I would like to ask how y'all plan to prepare to go through a door that was described as "on a scale of one to ten [with how much heat there is], the answer is 'yes'"?
I would like to ask how y'all plan to prepare to go through a door that was described as "on a scale of one to ten [with how much heat there is], the answer is 'yes'"?
Janna has Energy Mutagens she could make with quick alchemy, but they only last for 10 minutes so I'm not sure how useful they'd be. We could open the door, get Yujin to dip her toes in and see what we're dealing with and then plan it out based on the results? If she instantly disintegrates we've made a huge mistake
The unique swords are cool. Yujin would use them but only if no one else wants them first. Yujin doesn't melee that much so it'd be better with someone who does in my opinion.
Mostly waiting on Janna to see if she had anything else to ask with her last two questions of mind probe. But otherwise, from the sounds of things, y’all are planning to leave Behezamine here because “we’re not here to betray Jakalyn’s trust,” yes?
Yes
Finally, did anyone want to do anything with the swords Blood-Drinker and Fleshrender that y’all found?
Suryo has two specialized blades already, but more importantly I think somebody with dual-wield / twinning feats should get first crack at the pair (since they seem to be complementary).
Janna has Energy Mutagens she could make with quick alchemy, but they only last for 10 minutes so I'm not sure how useful they'd be. We could open the door, get Yujin to dip her toes in and see what we're dealing with and then plan it out based on the results? If she instantly disintegrates we've made a huge mistake
I think that test is a good start.
I think 10 minutes on the mutagens is enough. Yujin unfortunately does not have any spells to increase anyone's fire resistance.
I suppose if she rested she could do them using Advanced Alchemy and then they'd last an hour, but it's probably worth doing a test first. If it's more like severe or extreme heat we'd be looking more at something like Environmental Endurance, and for that we'd want to pop out and get some scrolls I suppose.
Finally, did anyone want to do anything with the swords Blood-Drinker and Fleshrender that y’all found?
Ajoran's functionality is tied pretty closely to what he's holding, which precludes the fancy twin blades from use in anything beyond 'awkward emergency' so I'll happily let someone else take them.
Well, maybe Suryo should take those blades then. In that case, would someone like the searing blade in exchange? Maybe storm flash too. Suryo have 5 blades seems absurd.
Based on the image, I assume you turned into a sovereign dragon? I ask because if you transformed into a type of divine dragon (sovereign is occult), then you’d also get resistance 10 to spirit, vitality, and void.
Yes, I know I can pick different dragons to turn into, but thematically, Yujin will turn into a sovereign dragon probably every time. Her draconic bloodline is from a sovereign dragon is it feels most natural for her.
She gets resist 10 mental from it.
No no no, you'd only get the "Tradition Resistance" if the tradition of the dragon you choose AND the tradition of magic you CAST IT WITH match. You chose an occult dragon with a divine spell, so you wouldn't get the "Tradition Resistance"
That's dumb but you are right. 2E is needlessly complicated a lot of times. I'll still stick with the dragon I chose. I doubt these enemies will be doing mental damage anyway.
I've just discovered while reading about the Dark Archive remaster (Psychic nerfs boo) that I've been using the Shadow Signet with amped psi cantrips illegally:
...you can't apply both an amp and a metamagic ability to a cantrip at the same time
Since the Shadow Signet is a metmagic/spellshape effect I shouldn't have been combining them, sorry!
On the plus side I've been leaning on the side of not using it recently since I'm mostly having to guess and the target is frequently off-guard, but I did use it a fair amount on the gorumites.
For my penance it sounds like I'm going to get a downgrade of Imaginary Weapon down to d6s.
I've just discovered while reading about the Dark Archive remaster (Psychic nerfs boo)
I do not like the sound of that :/
Honestly, I feel like the nerfs were kinda necessary. Every time I see imaginary weapon go off, my first instinct always is “that seems like a LOT of damage on a non-crit.” It’ll basically just change from an average of 88 damage per blade to 72 per blade. That is a decrease, but I still think that it’s formidable.
Yes I do think d6s are probably right for Imaginary Weapon, and I like that it's Force now (I think anyway, I don't have the remaster pdf).
I was secretly hoping for a little buff in exchange for the psychic losing their unique double-refocus ability in the remaster now since they more-or-less gave it to everyone. Unleash with initiative had been my hope, or some other benefit on the first round. I miss all the Detect Thoughts you could cast from 1e. Never mind though, I still think it's a great class.
Note to self... why did I not take the Prepare rogue feat.
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So, in order to account for the altitude difference, you would need to be another 5 feet over, so you would need to get into Rhysaphine’s aura.
Instead of doing that, can I just run off the north edge to the platform and drop? With Cat Fall, I can drop 50 ft. safely.
By all means.
I...didn't even think about that...
I think I'll save that counteract check until right as Soleil would/wouldn't resurrect.
Reviewing my spells, I think I may have shorted myself on the spells known that I am supposed to have. Can you please check if you get a chance?
Under spell repertoire, it says: "At 2nd level, you select another 1st-rank spell; at 3rd level, you select two 2nd-rank spells, and so on."
But I was reading that this is a mistake, and it should say at 3rd level, you select three 2nd-rank spells, and so on."
Xavier, you know the rules better than me, so just see if I need any corrections or not. Maybe it doesn't.
I believe this is our last level!
Avenger 17
Ancestry feat Dissolution's Sovereignty
Class features Agile Mind: Successes on Will are crit successes instead.
Sneak attack: 4d6
Skill increase Intimidation to Legendary
Skill feat Scare to Death
Need to remember to use this before the adventure is up
Once per adventure, you can ask the voice you believe to be a deity for orders and get some kind of instruction—you never get any kind of explanation, simply a command to go somewhere or do something. Following those commands isn’t always safe, but it’s usually interesting.
Well, maybe Suryo should take those blades then. In that case, would someone like the searing blade in exchange? Maybe storm flash too. Suryo have 5 blades seems absurd.
I never resolved this. I don't mind suryo taking them, but would someone else like storm flash then?
Ok, I broke it down might look a little jumbled.
Removing the extra Signature and Gifted Power Spells, my spell list looks like the following:
Cantrips:
Detect Magic
Illuminate
Needle Darts
Prestidigitation
Rousing Splash
Ignition (M)
Figment (R)
Gouging Claw (R)
Level 1:
Heal (S)
Helpful Steps
Breathe Fire (M)
Sleep (D)
Illusory Disguise (R)
Level 2:
Cauterize Wounds
Sound Body (S)
Water Breathing
Blazing Bolt (M)
Level 3:
Impending Doom (S)
Lotus Walk
Fireball (M)
Paralyze (R)
Level 4:
Bloodspray Curse
Divine Wrath
Sanguine Mist (S)
Translocate (D)
Level 5:
Breath of Life
Dispel Magic (S)
Wall of Flesh
Dreaming Potential (D)
Level 6:
Blinding Fury
Divine Immolation (S)
Truesight
Level 7:
Execute
Shock to the System
Sunburst (S)
Level 8:
Dragon Form
Raise Dead (S)
Vampiric Exsanguination
This is the breakdown of where the spells came from:
Base Spells
Cantrips: (5 spells) detect magic, illuminate, needle darts, prestidigitation, rousing splash
1st (4 spells) helpful steps, heal (signature) (missing 2?)
2nd (4 spells) cauterize wounds, water breathing, sound body (signature) (missing 1?)
3rd (4 spells) lotus walk, impending doom (signature) (missing 2?)
4th (4 spells) bloodspray curse, divine wrath, sanguine mist (signature) (missing 1?)
5th (4 spells) breath of life, wall of flesh, dispel magic (signature) (missing 1?)
6th (4 spells) blinding fury, true sight, divine immolation (signature) (missing 1?
7th (4 spells) execute, shock to the system, sunburst (signature) (missing 1?
8th (4 spells) dragon form, vampiric exsanguination, raise dead (signature) (missing 1?)
Mystery Spells
Cantrip: ignition
1st breathe fire
2nd blazing bolt
3rd fireball
Domain Spells (3 spells)
1st sleep
4th translocate
5th dreaming potential
Basic Red Mantis Magic
Catrips: (2 spells) figment, gouging claw
1st (1 spell) illusory disguise
2nd (1 spell) (missing 1?)
3rd (1 spell) paralyze
So I think I’m missing:
Two 1st level spells
One 2nd level spell
Two 3rd level spells
One 4th level spell
One 5th level spell
One 6th level spell
One 7th level spell
One 8th level spell
And one 2nd level red mantis spell
I think I thought I should have been getting 3 spells known at each level but now I think it should have been 4.
And the reason I'm missing an extra 1st and 3rd level spell is because I think I misunderstood Basic Red Mantis Magic. I replaced an oracle spell known with a red mantis spell, but I now think the spells from Red Mantis Magic should be in addition to my oracle spells known.
Please let me know if this is correct.
Regardless of the spell stuff, the rest of my leveling up is:
9th level spells: foresight, massacre (signature), voracious gestalt (assuming I get 3 spells)
Ancestry feat: form of the dragon
Extreme curse: cursebound max increases to 4
Greater mysterious resolve: Your proficiency rank for Will saves increases to legendary. When you roll a success on a Will save, you get a critical success instead. When you roll a critical failure on a Will save, you get a failure instead. When you fail a Will save against a damaging effect, you take half damage.
Skill Increase: Athletics to Master
I'll get the character sheet fixed up when I get a chance.
I don't want Storm Flash.
Janna gets Fortress of Will at 17 (crit fails gives fail on will saves, half damage on fail)
Legendary in Occultism (so she can give +4 on Recall the Teachings)
Her new spells are Bilocation from her Conscious Mind which sounds quite situational, and Phantasmagoria which sounds pretty dangerous.
I'm away visiting family for the weekend so I've updated her summary bar but I'll have to wait till I'm home tomorrow to fill in the rest of her character sheet.
I also don't want Storm Flash Suryo. It's a super cool item and I half think it's worth taking just to be able to shoot a lightning bolt, but Janna needs a free hand to battle medicine or do alchemy so she'd end up dropping it.
No worries. Just had to check because Suryo has grown an absurd collection of blades if he takes those last two (5!!)
GM I take it i can't transfer runes from my other weapons on the specific/unique weapons?
I also still have the searing blade and Suryo's personal +2 greater striking sawtooth sabre with keen/wounding.
Ajoran has leveled up! Notable changes include
+12 HP
Class DC to Master
Skill Increases: Stealth ot legendary, Religion to legendary (Thaumaturgic Mastery)
Ancestry feat: Eternal Wings
Implement Paragon: Tome. While holding his tome, Ajoran can always roll a skill check for initiative against creatures or haunts using Esoteric Lore. If he does, he gains a +3 circumstance bonus to your initiative roll.
The initiate benefit's circumstance bonus to Recall Knowledge from holding his tome increases from +1 to +2. When he succeeds at the Recall Knowledge check granted by the tome's adept benefit, the bonus applies to all attack rolls he makse before the start of his next turn, not just your next one. Lastly, when he gains temporary skill proficiencies, both are legendary.
Janna gets Fortress of Will at 17 (crit fails gives fail on will saves, half damage on fail)
Legendary in Occultism (so she can give +4 on Recall the Teachings)
Her new spells are Bilocation from her Conscious Mind which sounds quite situational, and Phantasmagoria which sounds pretty dangerous.I'm away visiting family for the weekend so I've updated her summary bar but I'll have to wait till I'm home tomorrow to fill in the rest of her character sheet.
I also don't want Storm Flash Suryo. It's a super cool item and I half think it's worth taking just to be able to shoot a lightning bolt, but Janna needs a free hand to battle medicine or do alchemy so she'd end up dropping it.
I've updated my full sheet now. I did notice the ancestry feat is called Shory Aerialist, and while common she technically doesn't qualify for it since she can't actually cast Fly, she is just constantly affected by it, but hopefully we can handwave that as I feel like getting better at flying seems like a natural consequence of flying constantly and a it does very little.
Reviewing my spells, I think I may have shorted myself on the spells known that I am supposed to have. Can you please check if you get a chance?
Under spell repertoire, it says: "At 2nd level, you select another 1st-rank spell; at 3rd level, you select two 2nd-rank spells, and so on."
But I was reading that this is a mistake, and it should say at 3rd level, you select three 2nd-rank spells, and so on."
Xavier, you know the rules better than me, so just see if I need any corrections or not. Maybe it doesn't.
I believe this is a recurring thing that people have been trying to push for an erratum on. Oracle was originally a 3-spell-slot-per-rank class and it was changed to 4-slot in the Remaster, but I think they forgot to update the wording.
I would say it works like this:
For Red Mantis spells: you have 2 cantrips, and 1 slot of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd rank. These are prepared slots that can used to prepare any divine spell OR any spell listed in the Red Mantis Magic School
For Oracle spell repertoire: You have 5 cantrips of your choice and 4 spells per rank in your repertoire of your choice. THEN you have spells added from your mystery (ignition, breathe fire, blazing bolt, and fireball) and Divine Access (you chose Desna, so sleep, translocate, and dreaming potential [though I’d let you choose illusory scene instead, as per the PFS note])
So for Oracle repertoire:
Cantrips 6 (ignition plus 5 others)
1st-rank 6 (breathe fire, sleep, plus 4 others)
2nd-rank 5 (blazing bolt plus 4 others)
3rd-rank 5 (fireball plus 4 others)
4th-rank 5 (translocate plus 4 others)
5th-rank through 8th-rank 4 (your choice)
9th-rank 3 (your choice)
So
Pick 1 more cantrip
Pick 2 more 1st-rank spells
Pick 1 more 2nd-rank spell (and choose a Red Mantis spell to prepare in your 2nd-rank slot)
Pick 2 more 3rd-rank spells
Pick 1 more 4th-rank spell
Pick 1 more 5th-rank spell
Pick 1 more 6th-rank spell
Pick 1 more 7th-rank spell
Pick 1 more 8th-rank spell
Pick 3 9th-rank spells from your level-up to 17.
I've updated my full sheet now. I did notice the ancestry feat is called Shory Aerialist, and while common she technically doesn't qualify for it since she can't actually cast Fly, she is just constantly affected by it, but hopefully we can handwave that as I feel like getting better at flying seems like a natural consequence of flying constantly and a it does very little.
Yeah, I'd agree with that assessment regarding Shory Aerialist.
Thanks for the clarification. I'll have the revised spell list this afternoon.
Ok, the missing spells I'm taking are:
1: Bless, Bane
2: Blazing Armory, Mist (Red Mantis)
3: Focusing Hum, Chilling Darkness
4: Restoration (4th)
5: Banishment
6: Divine Wrath (6th)
7: Resist Energy (7th)
8: Safe Passage (8th)
I already have 5 cantrips plus ignition, so I don't need any more cantrips.
I'll update my character sheet with them.
Alright, went through the Dark Archive remaster, and just a couple notes to the psychic and thaumaturge:
Janna
Imaginary weapon: changes to d6s and force damage
Distortion lens 5-foot burst instead of 5-foot square. Locks in place when you amp it.
Ajoran
Resolve --> Disciplined Mind
Greater Resolve --> Perfected Mind
Juggernaut --> Earned Resilience
Otherwise, everything else works as they have been before.
Today's been a lot; I'm not gonna be able to get a post in.
I’m very confident that Janna will be able to making getting out of the ravine easier for him due to psychic teleportation shenanigans.
I've been brainstorming this and I'm having a little difficulty! Can I clarify the rules on flying and falling?
If Janna teleports to above Ajoran, does she fall immediately or at the end of her turn? I was thinking of a quick teleport (Amped Warp Step) followed by a spell (Collective Transposition) but I'm getting confused with the rules. I know I can Fly and cast a spell, but I'm unsure about the double spell idea. Warp Step would normally be a double Fly anyway, but the Amped version says you just teleport :/
Anyway here's my plan. It also depends on being able to grab hold of the ravine walls and I'm not sure if that's practical either.
On Round 1 Janna uses Amped Warp Step (which has a range of 80 feet) to teleport to 30 feet above Ajoran and adjacent to the wall, then Collective Transposition to slingshot both of them as high as she can; 60 feet off the ground and next to the wall. My hope would be they'd both get a chance to grab hold of the wall here via Grab an Edge. I suppose if she did start falling immediately should could perhaps Grab and Edge as she started to fall and stay at 30 feet.
If that worked, then Ajoran could cast Translocate next round to get to 180 feet, then Fly the rest of the way. Janna could either do the same thing, or if she failed to grab an edge combine another Amped Warp Step with a Translocate to do the whole 200 feet on the next round.
If the whole thing doesn't work I'm not sure she can be much help to Ajoran, I believe the best she can do with a Tesseract Tunnel is 15 feet straight up this round which isn't that much help. An alternative would be Ajoran goes first and readies a Fly action after being teleported so he doesn't fall, then on his next turn he can Fly + Translocate to escape?
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I'm assuming that a flying creature who is willingly teleported by an ally outside of their turn remains flying, so long as they took an action to fly the previous turn.
Or, in this case, Ajoran has not begin his turn so he would presumably have to Fly or Hover to maintain his altitude, which could be mixed with a translocate of up to 120 feet easily enough.
And hey, as a complet eside note, can I just say that these last few scenes have been an absolute treat? I know the term 'epic' has been done to death, but I can't think of a single word to better capture the essence of this divine spectacle. I'm having a great time reading through the descriptive text.
I’m very confident that Janna will be able to making getting out of the ravine easier for him due to psychic teleportation shenanigans.I've been brainstorming this and I'm having a little difficulty! Can I clarify the rules on flying and falling?
If Janna teleports to above Ajoran, does she fall immediately or at the end of her turn? I was thinking of a quick teleport (Amped Warp Step) followed by a spell (Collective Transposition) but I'm getting confused with the rules. I know I can Fly and cast a spell, but I'm unsure about the double spell idea. Warp Step would normally be a double Fly anyway, but the Amped version says you just teleport :/
Anyway here's my plan. It also depends on being able to grab hold of the ravine walls and I'm not sure if that's practical either.
On Round 1 Janna uses Amped Warp Step (which has a range of 80 feet) to teleport to 30 feet above Ajoran and adjacent to the wall, then Collective Transposition to slingshot both of them as high as she can; 60 feet off the ground and next to the wall. My hope would be they'd both get a chance to grab hold of the wall here via Grab an Edge. I suppose if she did start falling immediately should could perhaps Grab and Edge as she started to fall and stay at 30 feet.
If that worked, then Ajoran could cast Translocate next round to get to 180 feet, then Fly the rest of the way. Janna could either do the same thing, or if she failed to grab an edge combine another Amped Warp Step with a Translocate to do the whole 200 feet on the next round.
If the whole thing doesn't work I'm not sure she can be much help to Ajoran, I believe the best she can do with a Tesseract Tunnel is 15 feet straight up this round which isn't that much help. An alternative would be Ajoran goes first and readies a Fly action after being teleported so he doesn't fall, then on his next turn he can Fly + Translocate to escape?
One would fall at the end of a turn in which they failed to use the Fly action (whether to move or just to hover).
Dang it, February!
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My bad; my assumption was that you would have Refocused while Janna was spending the multiple-10-minutes to Treat Wounds.
Oh, then I did refocus. I didn't know there was that much time in between.
◆ Temperbrand slagblade vs Yujin w/frightened 1: 1d20 + 35 ⇒ (2) + 35 = 37
Slashing Damage (doubled from crit): 3d10 + 17 ⇒ (5, 4, 6) + 17 = 32 Fire Damage (doubled from crit): 2d6 ⇒ (4, 3) = 7 The fire damage gets completely resisted.
Yujin's AC is 38. Unless I'm missing something, this should be a miss. Definitely not a crit.
Yeah...long story short, I forgot to delete a line of code I had intended to delete, so I was basically going off of a COMPLETELY different set of numbers with what Temperbrand rolled. I've posted in Gameplay correcting that and putting the correct damage values in there.
Apologies, all; I know I’m the one being waited on, but I just woke up not feeling super great and my motivation was shot. I’ll see if I can get a post in later today, but I make no promises.