PFS1e 6-19 Test of Tar Kuata (KS)

Game Master phaeton_nz

Discuss away.

I should probably mention something for any unaware of this:

I make it a rule these days to slow down my Internet use SAT-MON, especially Monday, so please expect that and be patient.

I was unaware of this I am not sure about the rest of the group. So the rest of the days should be reasonably timely is what I am hearing?

I was going to make an avatar C3P0'ed, the upset etiquette droid in response to your r2-fu about etiquette and posting, and how the gnome should be fired for lax duties.

I'll be away for 48 hours--please bot as needed.

Not going to waste peoples time with sirlicks in combat. IF charm person is allowed I would try to charm him into letting me win because I have been sad and it would cheer me up.

How do the duels work? Are we rolling Initiative, etc., or is there another mechanism?

Yes, it's a standard fight - and it's all of you against the monk.

All of us at one time? Well the least I could do is inspire courage for all and flag bearer (+2+2)

I'm away this weekend--please bot as necessary, thanks.

Aramaya gets hit by the torrent of water but stands her ground...

It's no surprise she'd have a very good CMD, but not even a single square in the face of a roll of '27', seriously?!?

Incidentally, Subotai, the Scarab is Tiny and also airborne, so despite what it may look like, it shouldn't be in your way.

Finally, just to be clear, I 5-foot stepped after my attack.

I forgot my inspire courage is now +2+2 and flagbearer adds 1/1 so it should be +3+3 within 30

Sadrib, you're higher-level than me, take the Incense - HOWEVER, it's far from clear that we'd need to compete for its benefits...but that's only if we've had time to use it on the way to the mine (did we, DM???).

Subotai can take one of the rings but feels they would be better used on spellcasting classes that are not as adept at physical activities as martial classes.

Very thoughtful! If nobody else wants to bid, I will take either or both Rings!

The Phylactery? I certainly don't need it.

Ok. I will take it. Although, honestly, right now I have memorized only one spell that would benefit from it.

For what it's worth, I considered healing The Shining Knight, but I don't have the healing power it would take to avoid an "I get back up, but I get knocked down again...pissin' the niiight awayyy" scenario. Sadrib, can you cover him?

DM: A couple of things:

A) For future reference, would you permit us to apply alchemical power components to spells from wands and scrolls? I have seen it ruled both ways in the past.

B) I am currently wearing the Scarab as an amulet; under the circumstances, I am hoping that means you'd be willing to consider it an object rather than creature for purposes of these damage-waves? The text does seem to at least leave this interpretation open. Of course, I could be wrong that negative energy affects Constructs to begin with, which would make the question conveniently moot (for now).

The scenario doesn't say but would it be more hilarious if it did?

"Hilarious"? I'm not so sure about that, but for want of finding any other "Dwarven warhammer" like you described, I've been wondering if it's one of these.

BTW, I've taken the liberty of giving everyone who didn't already have one (i.e. everyone but Subotai) a distinctive colored boundary; hope everyone finds theirs fitting!

Sirlicks, what is your alignment (your character pages could use some work)?

It looks like ALL the rest of us are Good-aligned (barring The Shining Knight undergoing a conveniently-timed personality-shift?), which of course has presently become a considerable liability. If you're not, stepping up to the front might be a very cunning move.

Sirlicks is N. Almost zero combat ability and hardly any ac. Bring up front will negate any spell casting on my part for glitterdust etc.

The Shining Knight really needs to meet my Cavalier one of these days....

BTW, DM, including an initiative-roster in your posts (with players' names in bold when it's their turn and such, and effect/damage-tracking too) would be very helpful. At the moment, I'm puzzled as to why Klara's gotten another turn since my last post, but not me; she's the only one below me in initiative.

I still need to know whether my Scarab is being affected by these Negative waves: There are two reasons it might be exempt (A: presently functioning as a magic item around my neck, and/or B: being a Construct), but I don't actually know for sure.

I'm going to say it's not being affected.

Thank you very much (it'd be in trouble otherwise!).

May I ask which of the two reasons spare it? If Constructs are immune to "X Energy" attacks in general, that makes sense, but would also be news to me.

Sirlicks, are you actually airborne? You said something about "flying" earlier, but maybe you didn't mean it literally; it's important to know, because I have an idea that would involve being in your current square.

Yes I am mounted on my mauler shimmerwing dragonfly familiar.

@Alexis: If it's helpful, just on the negative energy damage vs constructs bit, I think the weight of authority says no. Construct traits provide immunity to ability damage, ability drain, bleed, disease, death effects, fatigue, exhaustion, energy drain, nonlethal damage, necromancy effects, paralysis, poison, sleep effects, stunning, any effect that requires a Fortitude save (unless it also works on objects or is harmless), and all mind-affecting effects (including charms, compulsions, morale effects, patterns, and phantasms).

Negative energy damage isn't on that list per se, but a lot of GMs consider it a type of "necromancy effect" on the list.

There's also this FAQ which essentially says positive and negative energy only apply to living (or undead) creatures.

Yes I am mounted on my mauler shimmerwing dragonfly familiar.

That should have its own icon on the map.

Added token for dragonfly though it hides me now.

GoogleDocs treats all the images as being in a certain "line" (imagine yourself staring headlong at a train; if the track is straight, you can only see the front-car). If you right-click any given token, you'll get a long options menu, one of which allows you to change the "Order" of the tokens on the screen. The easiest thing to do would be to select your own image via the yellow corner there, go to the "Order" option, and within that, "Bring to Front".

My apologies for my absence. I had an unexpected death in the family i had to deal with. i will catch up later today.

Sorry to hear it; those have been going around, haven't they (not that Death's ever exactly been known to RSVP)?

Thanks I did not know that!

Some DMs allow Bardsong and such to apply to damage rolls made with spells so long as they require attack rolls; subtract 3 from that if you're not one of them.

I think that you refer to this, which is the FAQs and is official thus: Weapon Attacks and Special Abilities

Am I correct in recalling supernatural abilities (e.g. Channeling) cannot be disrupted? I'd been considering readying an attack to disrupt, but I don't recall these guys casting even a single spell among them yet.

Also:

[Dice=Will save]1d20+5 Hp: 35/41

Not that it matters given Sadrib's Channel perfectly countered the last one, but are you aware you failed that save? Or was that your hit point total before then (in which case you'd be there again now)?

Also, what's the story behind her surname? I have a character from Korvosa; maybe they should adventure together sometime.

I failed the save, but armor's Deathless-quality negates first 10 points of negative energy.

Surname is same as hometown. I haven't developed that any further, as its been a while since I last played this character.

@DM, for the record, Starburn is opposed by Fortitude, not Will.

It wouldn't have mattered. The Green Knight was down to 1hp.