Coming from someone who's experienced the parts you're skipping...consider yourselves fortunate.
Turinized evil oracle bird thing....uh-uh
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True that. Best time I've had as a player was with our Serpents Skull team. My gnome illusionist, dwarf ranger/horizon walker, elf rogue, and a drug addled bard. Everyone maxed stealth, and we snuck up on almost everything, even without all the invisibility's. Glorious.
If Sir Turin is including the as-written Jade Regent NPCs, there's plenty of "after action" healing available from some Clerics & a Bard. That doesn't really fix the in-combat problem, but hey, if you coordinate your stealth tactics and alpha strike everything, you can pull off some amazing things. (I know, it may be tough for this group to do so...but anything's possible, right? :) )
How about "Apache Joe"? And his sidekick could be "Paleface"?
And then just make sure he's a murderous, cunning, conniving SOB with a knife.
Summoners can really shine when they focus their offensive stuff through their Eidolon (or summoned critters) and allow their spells to buff them / provide easier battles for the rest of the team. Having haste at spell level 2 is pretty key there, too. Will they have the raw arcane power of a Wizard or Sorcerer? No. But they have other tricks up their sleeves. Besides, a well-prepared summoner with scrolls/wands/potions and a tough eidolon is quite ahead of the game with regards to "action economy". Finally, being able to simply feed disposable troops into the meatgrinder can take the teeth out of a LOT of harder encounters, since you can "soak" the big hits from the baddies with non-PC meatshields.
I wish I had money...
Hey all, have you considered making a Google group type thing? That way it'll log everyone's contributions & be easier to read/collate than a bunch of email conversations. Plus, the journalling transcription to Paizo.com would be easier.
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Om nom nom... Yummy yummy adventurers...
Moar Cthulthu! Er.... Wrong thread. Oh well, go kill some PCs! Ia! Ia! Ftang!
I have a fever... And the only cure is... Moar CULTIST!!!!
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All glory to the Old Ones! Praise them! May all you foolish "investigators" meet such favorable attention from the gods of chance! Your flesh sustains our people while your souls and sanity empowers the Old Ones! Ia!
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Ia!! Ia!! Cthulhu ftagh'n!! Ia!! Ia!! Cthulhu ftagh'n!!
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