Bristor Gwin's page

Looks good to me - thanks for doing this so quickly. See y'all around on the boards I hope.

Let me echo Arch - a fitting capstone for my -01, and thanks to all for making it so.

GM Lorenzo, you handled the complexities of high level play masterfully. I'll always be on the lookout for you tables.

And thanks to Hendric and Peter Zarr for quarterbacking us through a harrowing set of encounters!

Seeing danger all around him, Bristor uses his superior mobility, freedom of movement, and ability to teleport short distances to rescue fellow Pathfinders caught in the tentacle, and to help others move forward through the shrinking pathways.

Thanks to the protection of Cayden Caliean and his own ability to excel via teamwork, he’s able to shrug of the rushing negative energy and help direct his comrades on the safest paths.
Fortitude save: 1d20 + 26 ⇒ (8) + 26 = 34
Perception: 1d20 + 28 ⇒ (10) + 28 = 38

When he finally reaches the surface, away from the worst of the necromantic taint the Gallowspire has to offer, he takes a moment to empty his flask on the ground, leaving a last drink for those who did not make it, but helped secure this victory.

Regarding Downtime, Sir Hendric earned 20gp, and Bristor is foregoing a Day Job roll in order to recoup Prestige (how much?).

Just 1 Prestige. Ain't what it used to be :)

Reflex save w/ many many buffs including Shake it Off: 1d20 + 21 ⇒ (13) + 21 = 34 vs. DC 21. Has ring of evasion so should be no dmg

Bristor roars in victory at seeing the massive undead shrivel up like a bug on flagstones.

Shrugging off the wave of negative energy, Bristor says simply, “My turn!”

He activates greater bane against undead, clicks his heels for a bit of supernatural speed, and starts to carve into the extraplanar monstrosity.

Attack 1: +4 good lifesurge keen falchion, PA, judgment, haste, greater bane, luck, heroism: 1d20 + 25 - 4 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 25 - 4 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 2 = 38
dmg 1? Greater bane & d6 sonic damage : 2d4 + 30 + 4d6 + 1d6 ⇒ (2, 3) + 30 + (1, 4, 1, 5) + (6) = 52

Extra full BAB attack from haste:
Attack 2: +4 good lifesurge keen falchion, PA, judgment, haste, greater bane, luck, heroism: 1d20 + 25 - 4 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 25 - 4 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 2 = 36
dmg 2? Greater bane & d6 sonic damage : 2d4 + 30 + 4d6 + 1d6 ⇒ (2, 4) + 30 + (1, 3, 4, 5) + (3) = 52

Attack 3: +4 good lifesurge keen falchion, PA, judgment, haste, greater bane, luck, heroism: 1d20 + 20 - 4 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (18) + 20 - 4 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 2 = 44
dmg 3? Greater bane & d6 sonic damage : 2d4 + 30 + 4d6 + 1d6 ⇒ (3, 1) + 30 + (2, 3, 3, 5) + (4) = 51

Attack 4: +4 good lifesurge keen falchion, PA, judgment, haste, greater bane, luck, heroism: 1d20 + 15 - 4 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 15 - 4 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 2 = 24
dmg 4? Greater bane & d6 sonic damage : 2d4 + 30 + 4d6 + 1d6 ⇒ (4, 2) + 30 + (1, 6, 2, 4) + (5) = 54

Attack #3 crit confirm?
Attack 3 confirmation?: +4 good lifesurge keen falchion, PA, judgment, haste, greater bane, luck, heroism: 1d20 + 20 - 4 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 20 - 4 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 2 = 28
crit dmg 3?: 2d4 + 30 ⇒ (3, 2) + 30 = 35

Will save w/ heroism, sacred purity, lifesurge: 1d20 + 21 + 2 + 4 + 4 ⇒ (18) + 21 + 2 + 4 + 4 = 49

With Stalwart ablility, take no damage on a save

Was just coming here to point out the same thing!

Ready

Folks, I'm not trying to go out of my way to frustrate you.

I'm just trying to role-play this intelligent creature as I imagine it reacting to a group of unknown, hostile intruders. It thinks it has time on its side and the terrain inside its lair is more advantageous than the exposed, open terrain outside its lair.

Totally get it, was just trying to express why I felt deflated and without a strong sense of urgency myself.

boon? 1d20 ⇒ 2

Having reached a semblance of a plan, Bristor gives Hendric freedom of movement.

Ok, I'm on board.

No idea. Seems like a silly situation. In the heads of the characters we are just keeping things busy while allies disrupt a ritual, right? So we are actually doing our job in that sense. In the larger "game" of the special, it sounds like the house is in trouble of not getting enough successes - was kind of hoping that'd get resolved while we were setting up to fight but no luck I guess. Anyway, that's taken the wind out of my sails. Someone tell me what to do. I'm willing to run in there en masse if that's what people want to do.

I don't have many ranged options. I could drop a flame strike on it at range and that's about it.

Since we are in a wait and see, figured I'd ask this clarifying question now. I learned it has some DR overcome by silver and/or? good. So a weapon that has a +5 equivalent bonus to it should overcome it because that is high enough to overcome both silver (+3needed) and aligned (+5 needed). If so I don't need to worry about smiting judgment since Bristor's falchion is +6 equiv (+4 and lifesurge which is +2)

Bristor casts resounding blow on his falchion, and tightens his grip, waiting for the creature to appear.

Reacting to the presence of a gargantuan extraplanar undead, Bristor moves back into the larger cavern, using air walk to stand in the air over the lip of the gorge. He calls on Cayden to activate another set of judgments, drawing on justice, purity and smiting, before casting freedom of movement on himself.

Kn(religion) w/ moster lore: 1d20 + 17 + 5 ⇒ (19) + 17 + 5 = 41
Resistances, special attacks

“Cayden’s cups! It’s a nightcrawler. Seems like nothing but a maze of small rooms here, best to back out into the cavern to fight it.”

"Bite your tongue, Wynn! The gods like to laugh at such statements."

ditto

Kn(religion): 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (4) + 17 = 21

"Huh, that's Chaldira Zuzaristan, a halfling god of battle, luck, and mischief. Why would the Tyrant secret it away? How could it harm him?"

A prim kitsune, in what were once clearly elegant robes that are now spattered with blood and gore, moves through the dark halls of the Gallowspire. One hand covers his nose and mouth with a monogramed handkerchief, while the other holds a wand that he uses to heal wounds of his fellow Pathfinders.

4d6 ⇒ (2, 1, 4, 6) = 13

Through their telepatic bond: " On three! One . . . two . . . three!

Consider yourself hero-fied!

Onward!

Bristor gathers everyone around and casts telepathic bond again. “Peter, you were right. The creatures here can be smart, so let’s speak telepathically.” He will also take a nip from the flask at his hip, embuing him with a little extra heroism and also cast see invisibility again.

Duh, forgot about air walk – happy to ride a dragon, or let Julian ride and walk. Also happy to give out a keen edge and a heroism if anyone would like. Also I think I'm fully healed, based on the 2 LoH and the wand use.

Bristor catches his breath, takes one more hit from Peter's wand, and then suggests, "Let's get up on that ridge and find the relic. Peter, do you have more of your magical delivery service available?"

wand: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

Phew - that is definitely one of the most intense fights I've ever encountered. I have new appreciation for the power of summoning! Nice work team.

Taking a heartbeat to orient himself after the dimension door, Bristor gazes up at the towering undead behemoth. “I’ve seen and killed bigger.”, he boasts. He channels divine energy into his falchion, giving Greater Bane Undead and then does a full hasted attack.

Attack 1: +4 good lifesurge keen falchion, PA, judgment, haste, outflank, greater bane: 1d20 + 25 - 4 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (17) + 25 - 4 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 2 = 47
dmg 1? Greater bane & precise strike : 2d4 + 30 + 4d6 + 1d6 ⇒ (3, 2) + 30 + (2, 4, 6, 5) + (6) = 58

Extra full BAB attack from haste:
Attack 2: +4 good lifesurge keen falchion, PA, judgment, haste, outflank, greater bane: 1d20 + 25 - 4 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 25 - 4 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 2 = 34
dmg 2? Greater bane & precise strike : 2d4 + 30 + 4d6 + 1d6 ⇒ (4, 4) + 30 + (3, 4, 4, 1) + (2) = 52

Attack 3: +4 good lifesurge keen falchion, PA, judgment, haste, outflank, greater bane: 1d20 + 20 - 4 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (11) + 20 - 4 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 2 = 36
dmg 3? Greater bane & precise strike : 2d4 + 30 + 4d6 + 1d6 ⇒ (4, 1) + 30 + (4, 5, 1, 4) + (3) = 52

Attack 4: +4 good lifesurge keen falchion, PA, judgment, haste, outflank, greater bane: 1d20 + 15 - 4 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 15 - 4 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 2 = 21
dmg 4? Greater bane & precise strike : 2d4 + 30 + 4d6 + 1d6 ⇒ (2, 2) + 30 + (6, 5, 1, 4) + (5) = 55

Crit Confirm for Attack #1?
Attack 1: +4 good lifesurge keen falchion, PA, judgment, haste, outflank, greater bane: 1d20 + 25 - 4 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 25 - 4 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 2 = 46
crit dmg 1?: 2d4 + 30 ⇒ (2, 3) + 30 = 35

If confirmed, lifesurge weapon also flashes positive energy and heals Bristor for half of 1d8 ⇒ 5 hp

That positioning looks good. I'm not sure when I'll have time today to put a post together, but I'll do it as soon as I'm able. I'll start now but my daughter's lego attention span may wane before I finish. :)

I can effectively teleport next to green next turn, but then I'd only have 1 attack and that's not going to be enough to take it down, but if everyone focuses fire it might be enough.

So is the plan to just try to nuke them down one at a time vs. this constant river of healing? Getting rid of those ghosts certainly helps, but that eye beam is brutal.

Finally free of the staggering cold, Bristor is eager to get in to the fight, but one more strategic step might help matters more, so he moves into what seems a good position and then casts judgment light. A cascade of colors erupts from him, basking everyone within 30 feet in rays of blue, white and silver light.

Think I get Hendric, Sentry, Peter, Julian, Grayish Cassian and Green Vulpinal, but frankly I’m losing my ability to read the map

Ah - yes I had had the window open and last post I saw was Arch's. Easy fix - give the deathward to Sentry.

Sorry, did we cross post? I failed to see that - last I saw you were charging the giant one I thought. Trying to keep up with work and childcare means I'm not as careful as I should be.

Believe Bristor is staggered this round and then done? Rolled a 1 on that d4

“Cayden, lend me strength and bravery for this fight.” Bristor switches his judgment of destruction to that of smiting, making his weapon good-aligned. These seem like the kinds of horrors that this would help with. And then he’ll cast death ward on Archemennon before he moves away.

Clutch arrow, Wynn.

I don't know what I was thinking - guess conflated energy drain and ability drain in my mind. With this river of healing for them, no idea how to defeat them. Seems impossible. I guess if we focus fire and are able get them out of the river while turning off any other regen they have (got impression from write up that the Nemhain have regen on top of river regen).

Death ward description, two bolded sentences seem most important:
"The subject gains a +4 morale bonus on saves against all death spells and magical death effects. The subject is granted a save to negate such effects even if one is not normally allowed. The subject is immune to energy drain and any negative energy effects, including channeled negative energy.

This spell does not remove negative levels that the subject has already gained, but it does remove the penalties from negative levels for the duration of its effect.

Death ward does not protect against other sorts of attacks, even if those attacks might be lethal."

"Sir Hendric, if Sentry can bring you to me, I can give you death ward to protect you from these undead horrors!"

1d4 ⇒ 1 rounds of staggered

Also, due to lifesurge property on falchion, Bristor gains an additional 4 temp hp from the aid, for what that's worth

Fort save: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (2) + 22 = 24 vs. DC 31 Has Stalwart, so save means no damage or effect Dang! so rare to have a chance to make use of it, and I fail. Ugh.

“Cayden! I need your strength more than ever!” Bristor activates his judgements of purity, justice and destruction, and then clicks his heels for haste to try to move through the air with speed despite going slow since he can’t see. “Marco!” . . . “Polo!” anyone?

Thanks - and I've been meaning to say thanks to you for running this so well. Given the shenanigans we've been throwing at you, not to mention the general nutty nature of play at this level, I feel in good hands; and your recap of actions make me lol.

Bristor would re-up death ward with that 1 chance to buff.

Kn(religion) w/ moster lore on big one: 1d20 + 17 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 17 + 5 = 28

Kn(religion) w/ moster lore on two smaller ones: 1d20 + 17 + 5 ⇒ (15) + 17 + 5 = 37

happy to just use the list Peter gave for preferences, so where you left off, keep going, please.

Sorry, I need a GM call on actual time. For example, I used a rod of extend on Heroism, Countless Eyes, and a bit later Keen Edge, each for a total of 5 hours and 20 minutes. So are those up? Anything else would have expired.

Using the wand Peter graciously shares, Bristor heals his wounds.

CLW wand healing: 11d8 + 11 ⇒ (8, 3, 6, 6, 6, 6, 2, 5, 4, 4, 5) + 11 = 66 11 charges off the wand, thansk!

“Good bit of teamwork there, could have gotten ugly with a caster and brute like that.”

As they continue to explore, Bristor tries to make sense of the statues in the laboratory.

KN(religion): 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (20) + 17 = 37

"Orcus and Kabiri. Disgusting." Bristor spits at their feet.

Bristor wouldn’t mind having one of the potions of cure serious wounds handy.

He happily has Hendric don the ring and amulet, and take the point position again. :)

NP - Sometimes I can't believe I don't remember more of this stuff given how long I've been playing, and then I look something up and feel the heft of the CRB and then I don't feel so bad :) I look forward to getting to high level play in PF2 to see if it indeed is less insane Mathfinder.

"Supernatural abilities are magical but not spell-like." CRB p.554

Bristor will click his heels again for another burst of haste and then full attacks. If he brings the caster down, he’ll turn his attention to the golem.

Attack 1: +4 lifesurge keen falchion, PA, judgment, heroism, haste: 1d20 + 25 - 4 + 4 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 25 - 4 + 4 + 2 + 1 = 37
dmg 1?: 2d4 + 34 ⇒ (2, 4) + 34 = 40 oops forgot destruction judgment last round

Extra full BAB attack from haste:
Attack 2: +4 lifesurge keen falchion, PA, judgment, heroism, haste: 1d20 + 25 - 4 + 4 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 25 - 4 + 4 + 2 + 1 = 35
dmg 2?: 2d4 + 34 ⇒ (3, 4) + 34 = 41

Attack 3: +4 lifesurge keen falchion, PA, judgment, heroism, haste: 1d20 + 20 - 4 + 4 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 20 - 4 + 4 + 2 + 1 = 32
dmg 3?: 2d4 + 34 ⇒ (3, 2) + 34 = 39

Attack 4: +4 lifesurge keen falchion, PA, judgment, heroism, haste: 1d20 + 15 - 4 + 4 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 15 - 4 + 4 + 2 + 1 = 30
dmg 4?: 2d4 + 34 ⇒ (1, 3) + 34 = 38