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 165 posts. Organized Play character for Kristev.
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F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
I'm not losing her barbarian level. I just choose not to bring her to level 2 in it - ever. I've used my rule book to see if I prefer her as a barbarian/ranger or barbarian/druid. I prefer the druid. I'd rather have the druidic language and the stormburst power from the weather domain than the increased skill points and battle training from the ranger, having been through both.
So the updates to Cathryn are that her fortitude and will have been bolstered, she now has training in healing, Dwarven, a slight improvement to most of her scores, and the ability to cast a small number of druid spells, mainly Goodberry and Speak with Animals.
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
"So Pathfinders get the job done while Aspis does not. All right."
She keeps her wonders about whether or not either of them truly does any real good to herself and ponders what comes next.
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
Which do you guys think is better, as I believe three campaigns is the standard for reaching level 2. Should she become a master of the tracker's art (ranger), to improve her battle abilities, or become a wonderworker (druid) and truly revive her lost people in herself?
I have no wish to continue on as a barbarian with her. Now that she's been around others, she can be trained, albeit in a wilderness class.
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
Cathryn will take her attack of opportunity, quietly cursing herself for her failure.
Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (14) + 4 = 18
Damage: 1d3 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4 (Unarmed.)
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
A bit out of game, and I'm not leaving this one, but what's required if I wanted to run my own game, separate from this one?
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
Cathryn watches with disgust as one of her rare actual hits is dismissed effortlessly.
What's the point of my lowering myself to fight if I can't even inflict a wound? Clearly I should try something else.
Dropping her scimitar at Radagast's feet, she moves through the men and goes to the opponent, deciding to attempt to take away his advantage.
If needs be, for the sake of everyone, this is the end for both of us," she warns to the opponent.
She attempts to grapple him so that he can neither attack nor use any further potions, even if this does put her at risk of an attack of op. from him. Basically, this is a grapple variant. She means to hold him, especially his arms, in place so that if he tries to use a potion, spell, or weapon, she will not allow it.
Combat maneuver: Grapple: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (13) + 4 = 17
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
Cathryn will join the others in the attack.
Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (14) + 4 = 18
Damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
Cathryn will continue to attempt her attack, but if they show that they wish to withdraw, she will allow it after her attack.
Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
Cathryn tries to attack her adversary again.
Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
Personally, I'm just glad she actually hit someone.
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
Cathryn doesn't even notice the paltry attack against her, instead keeping her focus on helping in the fight.
Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (18) + 4 = 22
Critical threat confirmation: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (18) + 4 = 22
Damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4
Aren't scimitars just delightful?
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
"Please forgive me, Grandmother," Cathryn pleads.
Then she gets mad at the mere suggestion that she and the others be pushed out of the way and loses her temper, becoming enraged.
Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (20) + 4 = 24 Abandoning defensive style and -2 AC.
Wow. Critical threat. Crit confirm: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6 Should have known it was too good to be true with her.
Damage if any: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
Deciding that the fishing net is not her best move yet, she joins Radagast at his side, seeking to protect him and her comrades.
Attack in defensive style: 1d20 - 3 ⇒ (14) - 3 = 11 +3 AC.
Damage (if any): 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
Day Job: Perform: Epic storytelling.: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (20) + 3 = 23
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
She'll go next to Beorin, and when she gets there, she'll prepare the net as a ranged weapon to throw it on anyone who comes into the room.
"Too bad we don't have anything itchy or painful or toxic to apply to the net for the person it lands on."
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
I think I've been doing her math wrong. She has -1 to attack and + 1 to AC when she uses her Combat expertise, which she nearly always does. And a further -4 because she fights defensively, but with a +2 to AC. This results in a +3 to AC and -5 to attack. But you guys may be right. I'd forgotten that she does get a base attack bonus, so adding in her strength score (12/+1), I should have only been -3ing her attacks, not -4ing.
Attack: 1d20 - 3 ⇒ (15) - 3 = 12
Damage (if any): 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6
She continues her attempt to protect Irisus, and herself, with her scimitar.
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
Perception: 1d20 - 4 ⇒ (15) - 4 = 11 +3 to AC.
Cathryn continues until she reaches Irisus' enemy, then she attacks in her defensive style. She is, of course, more interested in protecting Irisus than harming the poor beast, but at least now it has something else to go after.
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
Cathryn drags her net behind her as she decides it is time to enter the fight and protect her comrades. She moves toward Irisius, guessing him to be the most endangered.
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
Cathryn watches with amazement as Radagast defeats the leader in one swing.
What a group. They have no need of my protection. They have no need of me at all.
Intimidate assist check: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (1) + 0 = 1
-2 for her lousy charisma, but +2 for her being a half-orc.
"You are already ill and now your leader has fallen. Surrender is most logical."
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
If that's the best position for her to be in to ambush these jerks, then that's what she'll do. Wait on the bridge for someone to walk underneath her.
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
Sometimes I wonder if humanoid life is even worth saving, she thinks to herself with sadness and resignation.
"Would you boys help me? If we can immobilize them, even if just for a moment or so, we can at least disarm them. Either way, advantage is ours."
She pulls out her fishing net and goes up to the door, trying to create a trap of some kind with it. Probably a drop-trap or just plain having it on the floor to yank out from under them would be best.
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
Sorry. I'd thought she'd rolled an 18, not an 8.
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
Know: Survival: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (16) + 6 = 22
Cathryn marvels at the sixth mural, pointing it out for the men.
"So this looks like a map of sorts of the ruins we're in. Notice how it changes over time, getting more and more elaborate."
Know: Nature: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8
Cathryn then points at the ninth mural.
"Finally, something I understand. That's a gargoyle. They can pretend to be statues. There were a few in the ruins in the forest where I come from. They change with their architecture, and you must always be wary around one."
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
"And still more battles. Was this one necessary, as so many aren't? And if it was, who decided that?"
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
"Isn't it interesting how history is always subject to larger forces, and destiny looking like mere chance. Humanoids are not at the center of things."
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
"Your basilisk, whom you call Stinkeye, lives. He is in a room by himself, but he lives. He was not even harmed. See for yourselves if you wish to. And please, think about where we are. A fight in this room is gravely unwise. I, for one, do not wish to die in a room due to collapsing pillars. Do you? I should think not. Since your god no longer sees us as enemies, why should you? In fact, if you were to help us, we could be on our way and well out of here, perhaps even bringing back with us that man who has done so much damage in his insatiable quest."
Diplomacy: 1d20 - 2 ⇒ (11) - 2 = 9
Cathryn is becoming more and more disgusted with Sharrowsmith with each passing event.
She moves to the position she feels best allows her to protect her allies, and enters her defensive battle style, but delays attack so as to intercept an attack on one of her allies if she can.
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
Cathryn tries her hand at knowing what they are looking at.
Knowledge: Nature: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 11
Then Cathryn, using her knack for epic story-telling, will explain to the Kobolds what the group has been doing from day one, hoping that they will understand as she explains the group's actions and motives.
Perform: Oratory (epic story-telling): 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (20) - 1 = 19
She is trying to be diplomatic, while at the same time keeping all eyes off of Radagast and his actions.
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
Cathryn takes a position where she can protect the men if a fight is called for.
"Why are you angry with us and is there any way that we can reconcile with you?" she asks.
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
Cathryn is impressed with the place, accepting it as a draconic temple of some kind.
If needed, she will repeat Radagast's words in Draconic.
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
"I'd like to have it. I collected all those plants before because I want to learn how to make medicine from them like some of the women, and one very strange man, in my tribe did. Why not add that to my collection?"
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
Cathryn, though she doesn't have Heal as a skill, will try to remember what she knew from the great healers of her tribe.
Heal: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (17) + 2 = 19
"Definitely an infirmary. Quite a few of the wonderworkers in my tribe, especially women, focused themselves almost exclusively on the art of curing wounds. Some, I remember, had even learned how to better the art by sacred words. This place looks like our compound.
"The point though, is that if this place was used as a medical center of the dwarves, then this must have been part of a larger dwarven compound in ages past. I've seldom seen hospitals set up in the wilderness all on their own."
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
"I'm sorry, little friend," Cathryn says to the basilisk once the door is closed.
She will join Radagast as a protective agent, and is taking 10 on perception checks.
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
"Or they have something more pressing going on that they didn't mention to us."
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
"Just tell me what you want me to do."
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
"Everyone behind me. If I fall you've lost nothing, but should any of you fall, the loss is tragic."
Cathryn then moves to where she will be best able to protect the others and insert herself between them and any attacker.
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
"I merely meant that my personal force and magnetism tend to be rather underwhelming. No matter. Beorin, one day remind me to instruct you in the tongue of dragons."
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
"Yes. It just shouldn't be me doing it directly because my personality tends to be a bit, well, lacking."
Then she folds her hands and bows.
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
"If you guys want me to take it, I will, but it wouldn't feel right to me. He's still living, or so we should presume. Were he to see me using his sword, or should it be damaged, what would he say?"
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
"Turns things to stone and excretes stone-seeming waste. Very earth-related to me."
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
Cathryn wonders what they mean by too long, as she dons her blindfold.
"He sounds like a wonderful defense mechanism all by himself," she muses.
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
"Is there a blinding source of light in there, or is there something taboo that is not to be seen?"
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
Cathryn is pleased at the diplomatic way this has played out. It's no surprise to her, since she speaks Draconic too. And she will speak to them in Draconic.
"Beorin here, the priest, is a dwarf, not a human. Irisus is a human. There are many differences between them. I understand. It can be very confusing. But I have travelled with these people enough to know that they are not malevolent in their intentions."
Cathryn will then introduce the party to the kobolds.
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
Cathryn follows, knowing it is probably best to let the rogue lead the way this time, but ready to come to the front to protect her friends if they need her.
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
I don't even know what that is. I assume it's a campaign, but I'm pretty sure I haven't played it.
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
"Do you want help?" Cathryn whispered to him.
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
"This is quite a lot of trouble to go through just to prevent others from following. I wonder what's being defended here."
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
Cathryn nods. She would have liked to try to climb the rubble, but the wiser course would be to try to find another way.
"Tempting as it is to follow him directly, it's probably more prudent that we be fully together in life and limb when we do find him. So, I suggest we take the safer path."
F Half-Orc Barbarian 1, Druid 1
"Boys, I found something," Cathryn remarks, alerting the men as she collects the note and the wands and potions. "Wands and potions. Yes, I know what those are. Grandmother made them. But I couldn't guess what they do, or what he's doing with them. Could be stolen, or the spoils of battle."
She listens as Irisus reads the note.
"Yes. The note raises all kinds of questions for me as well."
She will then search the place again, this time looking for evidence that may give us an idea of when the last person (other than us) was here.
Taking ten results in twelve.
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