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Back and catching up. A long flight from Japan so I'm a little jet-lagged, but I'm working on it.

Fort: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7
Bicks has never tasted anything so hot is his life. One he gathers a minicom of composure he tries to further the conversation. "When one is breeding plants you have to keep a cutting of the original strain growing. You do this so you can see how the new cultivars differ. We need good comparisons to make rational judgements. Rebellions are bloody so is rulership. It is it matters that the end result bears more fruit."

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 19 + 1d6 ⇒ (3) + 19 + (1) = 23

Thank GM. I hope I'm back on track in the game and in life. Fully recovered from covid and finally caught back up with work and house stuff (left a lot of job half done). Thank you all for picking up my slack!

"Poking and shooting it a few extra times seems like a fine idea. I'm light I spells that can finish it off."

"Please Lolito take it."

Hey all,

I will be away for a week and a half for vacation. I will see you all when I get back. Bot me if need be.

Oh cool. I forgot that mesmerist ability. I will have a full post soon than.

Hey all my grandmother in terminal and likely will die in the next few days. This is why I have been away. I will likely be able to start posting again in a week or so. I’m sure you understand what I mena without me having to spell it out. Sorry for the inconvenience. I hope you all understand

I'm ok with discord. Knowing me I will be a little inconsistent in posting until I get it worked into my routine. That is just how my brain works but I'm a pretty consistent poster so I won't slow things down.

My PC will have served under Grognar (battle oracle dual cursed), my PC who completed Rise of the Runlord and his son is Erond Niroden (evangelist cleric of Erastil), help reform Sihedron and must live with that.

The first draft of a quick character sketch.

I'm going to flip around some of the obvious assumptions of the trait because that is more fun. In this case, the scion is the father rather than the more obvious son. He was a former low-ranking military officer who enlisted more because of a family tradition than any more noble reason. This took him away from his family for long stretches of time. In his mind, this resulted in his son becoming bookish and obsessed with Thassilonian archology. Though he gets along with his son, his son's immense magical power, responsibilities in the Pathfinder society, and fame make him the one who is now rarely around. Cats in the cradle and the silver spoon. Hector, nearly sixty, has spent the last ten years in Varisia learning Thassilonian and reading about the Runelords trying to understand his son better. After retiring from his post, he bought a small cabin just outside of Roderic’s Cove though he is in the city nearly every day for this thing or that. Or more likely to chat with people. Hector seems to live off the land and odd jobs primarily and lives a simple existence...

Hector Niroden (Nature Fang Druid) with his Ron the firepelt cougar (Ron is short for Erond).

I'm working on finalizing a charter sheet.

Starting GP: 2d6 ⇒ (4, 6) = 10

I think I'm going with scion of legend for my campaign trait. It works with the character concept I'm putting together.

I will get to them later this week. I will post here and DM you to be sure you get them.

Leira. Loved the final post.

I don't get to mess with high-level silliness ofter and I wanted to see what I could do that still lets everyone have their fun.

"Friends, this is the last and only chance we have to change the world forever. Let's not let it slip through our figures."

Time stop: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Sid will cast a quickened haste on the group.

Then he will cast time stop.

Sid cast Summon monster 6 summoning a Lillend Azata who hides but starts inspiring the group. Then cast Greater invisibility on himself.

He will say, "I need more time." to activate psychic asylum contigency. He will memorize duplicate familiar, and summon monster 9 then cast it to call Trumpet Archon to our aid.

The Trump Arcon cast bear’s endurance, on Zavier

Inspire competence +3

Thanks for playing with us. See you around the boards.

Alyn will take the ring of protection. If no one else wants it.

Light level for Lupe he got 3rd level spells and Bless equipment. Channel went up.

Wolf Two got in harm's way. Gnasher try to stay near him so he can take some hits for you.

I will get my sheet up tomorrow. Sorry, all it was a holiday weekend here. The first where we could see family. Also, I bought a house so I'm a little behind in the rest of my life.

Gallant will hold the line and keep Sid and Leira safe.

Attack Bite BSP: 1d20 + 24 ⇒ (15) + 24 = 39
Damage: 1d8 + 19 ⇒ (6) + 19 = 25

Attack Claw SP: 1d20 + 24 ⇒ (18) + 24 = 42
Damage: 1d6 + 20 ⇒ (1) + 20 = 21

Attack Claw SP: 1d20 + 24 ⇒ (20) + 24 = 44
Damage: 1d6 + 20 ⇒ (6) + 20 = 26

Attack Claw SP: 1d20 + 24 ⇒ (9) + 24 = 33
Damage: 1d6 + 20 ⇒ (2) + 20 = 22

Attack Claw SP: 1d20 + 24 ⇒ (7) + 24 = 31
Damage: 1d6 + 20 ⇒ (6) + 20 = 26

Attack Gore P: 1d20 + 24 ⇒ (16) + 24 = 40
Damage: 1d4 + 20 ⇒ (3) + 20 = 23
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Confirmation Claw SP: 1d20 + 24 ⇒ (1) + 24 = 25
Damage: 1d6 + 20 ⇒ (2) + 20 = 22

I will take the amulet and ring if others are ok with that. I can't use the armours and I tend to get hit right after Gnasher.

Thanks for the patience guys the move is done I should be back to regular posting.

I do not. I have not gotten that far yet but It seems like a good suggestion and if I ever run it I will have a flying island full of giants land in it.

"Penith is a very talented heal and Trevor is a doctor and I do my healing. If you die in this group you did something very wrong."

Senn will detect magic and look around the room.

I'm fine with skipping the BP. That said I think it is an amazing rule in concept. For me, the problem was not the idea but the having to ask about every feat. If it was 'look at these guides the feats cost 2 points per star" then it would be great. As it is, it is too much work and I don't find the rating to power particularly predictable with either the general consensus on the forums or the value in optimization threads so I have never been able to guess the values correctly.

yep

Alyn is inclined to stay with the group heading toward the dock.

"Shit. Trick stick with Lara and protect her. If you can't fight any longer track them and stay out of the range of their weapons. When they stop come find us so we can go after them."

Sorry all, heat wave, power outages, second vaccine put me out of commission for a couple of days.

"Room by room I think. If we can talk people into leaving or free some slaves as we have in the past let's do it but I think it is kill and hide until we get to the top."

I have no issue with a bloodrager wrecking house. Actaully I'm very happy to not be the primary damage dealer! I have to buff, make the diplomacy rolls, heal, tank, cover stuff like DR and ghost, and still do some damage so I can't be amazing at any one thing. Later I can use spells to be better cater my role to the situation but low levels get tight.

"That's the long and short of it. There are stage fogs that chase you, plenty of things that try to eat and stab you, spooky forests and much more. If you are still interested we need the hands."

Sid says in giant, "Yep friends we are here to help and those chains need to stay so we can. Would you be so kind as to keep them in place until we can meet with the Storm Tyrant? Once we are I'm sure he will send updated orders."

Aid: 1d20 - 3 ⇒ (14) - 3 = 11

"It seems we are nearing the end of our journey. Our final goal is in sight. Though, I believe that there are still some significant challenges before us it has been an honour travelling with you all. I will do everything I can to ensure we make it out alive and victorious. But, should I die I would be remiss to have not said this has been the best work I have ever done and none of it would have been possible with you."

"Running in and yelling at people as worked so far. What me to start a dialogue that will likely lead to a fight?"

No need to defend RP decisions. I get where they are coming from. It always becomes clear in the RP. But, before anyone makes a decision, as a GM I have to start to think about what will happen next. I think it will likely go 'this' way then it goes 'that' way. I was only trying to express my surprise, not any criticism. Apologies if that did not come across. Some player zig, others zag, you all zog on me sometimes and that is a good thing.

Ulretha there is fresh meat available please attack the person you think is tastiest (consider this a partial charge surprise round because everyone is very nonchalant about cannibalism).

You are an odd group. Fun but odd. Any NPC says, "hey could you possibly be overreacting", or "can you do that chore you agreed to do" and everyone throws a fit or starts complaining. Corpse eating, "well another day at the office." I'm getting whiplash.

right before we resolved it anyway!

Ya I think it was literally the next die roll.

Thanks for the feedback. The next book is low on NPCs but I will do what I can. You guys don't leave a lot of people alive but I will try to find NPCs to bring back.

If you guys don't mind the travel and can find the space to RP I will make as many opportunities as possible.

Generally with a high Wis druid. You would go small for wild shape and become unhittable then rain down terror from the sky. It is a build that can hit high 20s AC and fly an level 4 long before most other build have the option. For this natural spell, spell focus, spell pen (but you have Sr no options), and a rod of persistent spell. A third level persistent spell has the DC of approximately a 7/8th level spell. They are a steal at 9000. Bouncing is amazing if you have good single target spells again rod is best.

You have respectable but not fully optimized strength. This mean accuracy not damage will be the obstacle to overcome. Magic Fang helps with this. Typically an animal companion would as well. But you have a bardy cleric in the party and a sorcerer. So your going to want inspire courage + heroism + lots of natural attacks.

If I wanted offense I would go Mammoth Hide (ISC) armor + pouncing dire tiger + inspire courage + heroism + air walk + Death from Above (Combat).

Add in Anaconda’s Coils to crank the damage more. If you find you are hitting easily then add power attack.

This is not going to be the final fight, but if characters need a rest after this one I can get us out of here.

I ways like full casters. It is the reason I'm a cleric.

Thanks for your patience. I had a job interview this morning and had a lot of prep yesterday. So it has been a slow pathfinder week. Putting together a post now.

"And yet that is the nature of many significant questions, is it not, little one?"

"I don't know much about that. But the people that ask those questions the most seem to be the ones that get the least done and I like to get things done."

To the new players Lupe and Casper get things done on mission but basically never do things for the same reason. Lupe is not smart but is wise and more charismatic than average, so Casper makes basically zero sense to him.

"Alright, so with the academics out of the way we have a couple of options. We can clear out the rest of the caves explore for anything useful to return to the pathfinder society and make sure there are no other slaves or we can use the Eidilte to get an audience with Aredil Sultur kick him in the head and bring him in for being a bag of trash. Are there any strong feelings?"

"Great! Now there is a benefit to discretion so if anyone asks if a gnome, a gnoll, some half-orcs, a gemstone lady, and a fish-man on crutches came by please tell them no."

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (11) + 11 = 22

This might be the motley-est crew I have run with, in a pathfinder game.

It's mostly just me make excuses in a bar for the other charters to join.

4d6. If you find list of size changes for weapon damage. You go up twoz steps. 3d6 to 3d8 to 4d6.

Also the regeneration of those troll forms are awesome. You can also get fire immunity at this level.

Thyste has a super natural sixth sense, sexth sense. It needs a punch up, but you get it.

If you don't want custom a masterwork item there are options that are upgrades to what you proposed.

Survival kit is +2 to all survival checks to get along in the wild, deal with severe weather, keep from getting lost, avoid natural hazards such as quicksand, and predict the weather. Plus it comes with flint and steel, a mess kit, two waterskins (enough to hold water for 1 person for 1 day), very basic maps showing major landmarks, and a small utility knife. As well as a guide to identifying flora and fauna.

Furs give you (and explicitly stack with other clothing):

The most basic of cold-weather gear, animal furs serve to keep their wearers warm. Wearing enough fur to cover the body provides a +2 bonus on Fortitude saves to resist cold weather. This does not stack with any bonuses gained from the Survival skill. Furs may supplement another outfit.

Eleric will hit the larger creature who is obviously the leader with a blood-infused burst of radiance (DC 20 Ref roll twice and take the lower).

Damage: 9d4 + 9 ⇒ (3, 4, 1, 1, 3, 2, 2, 4, 1) + 9 = 30
Duration of Blind: 1d4 ⇒ 3

"Aging, well...I guess technically we are all aging. I'm mostly drugs at this point in my life."

Bloodtusk gently places a hand on Lidia's shoulder, "It did but I'm no good with a bow. She tried to teach me, but I'm all elbows and toes when it comes to archery. She was much like you. She was scared and hurt, but came out the other side loving and protective of her friends. If you don't want to keep it, take it for now. When you are done with it come back, and do what my mother could not. Help a brutish half-orc learn to be a bit more graceful. Teach me for a few weeks so I can honor my mother's talents and then we can part ways."

One thing about the items you just received. They are of very different values based on books price but they are all around the same strength in my opinion (the most expensive might be the weakest). For that reason, they have no resale value. Otherwise, I would have just doubled Ben's wealth. Please make a note somewhere on your character sheet that if sold there is no value so you are parting with them for RP reasons.

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About the only thing that's going to offend me is if someone tries to defend or justify racism.

I have seen this and worse at PFS tables in real life. I trust this group. You all have proven to be both capable of respecting boundaries and checking in with your players. I hope I calibrated the rules to people's comfort while keeping the door open to interesting RP.