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The four cloud giants posted on the upper towers pick up boulders and begin to hurl them at the Mighty Ones!

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Another hurls a boulder at Ogon Fox... Rock 1d20+12 strikes for 2d6+18 bludgeoning damage! ... *WHUMP!!* The missile bounces off the kitsune's left thigh!

I am going to use Ally Shield! Johann and I both took this teamwork feat forever ago but haven't used it yet:

Reflex vs the lightning breath DC 18: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (16) + 15 = 31

The Fox skillfully dodges the young blue wyrm's lightning breath, and ducks behind Johann, as well, when a boulder is coming his way!

With the kelpie in flooded chamber 2:
Goldslip huffs when the kelpie says she'd be happy with a nixie or naiad for a snack. "Well, listen--I don't mind bringing you some fish if it would help you feel better, because I'd like to be friends. But I have other friends here in Last Hill, and if you ever try to eat anyone we don't approve of being eaten, it won't just be my friendship you're losing. Snowball would freeze you and gnaw on you, Cindy would haunt your dreams, Sendi would run you through with her blade, Bob would crush you or dissolve you, and who knows what Piedmontina would come up with to deal with you. So...be nice, okay?"

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On her way out of Last Hill when we're leaving for the naiad community:
Goldslip was walking past one of the goblin junk piles when she noticed a slight gleam from something buried in it. Carefully she removes several pieces of junk to work her way down to it, and she uncovers a violin that somehow still has something of a finish on its beautiful wood, despite its surroundings. And nearby is a bow to go with it. Goldslip picks up both, and as she sets the bow to string and sounds her first note, she changes. Her arms thicken a little, her hips become a bit narrower while her shoulders become a bit broader. Goldslip's skin lightens from its green to more of a pale blue, and as Goldslip's hair changes to white, a white beard also grows suddenly from his chin. Goldslip looks down at his body in surprise and murmurs, "This is strange," in a voice several pitches lower than it had been before.

Thanks to her lucidity from moments before, Slow Bob heals even faster! Life link takes 5 damage from Bob.

Goldslip's focus narrows as she sees her one true enemy: the doll!

short sword, bless: 1d20 + 6 + 1 ⇒ (17) + 6 + 1 = 24
piercing damage: 1d4 - 2 ⇒ (4) - 2 = 2

The nixie draws her short sword and thrusts it at Cindy, striking hard porcelain!

Goldslip steps up to the still-paralyzed barbarian next to Gorthug's remains. He doesn't have a good view of her face in the darkness, but the look in her eyes is darker than that surrounding blackness, a look of vengeance and murder.

The strange nixie reloads her crossbow as she stares at the man, but she also spares a moment to kindle a link to Snowball.

5ft step, move action to reload, standard action to initiate life link. Next round: coup de grace with the crossbow. Straight 2d6 won't be very impressive damage, but anyway...

GM Monster to go. ;)

I've always had the sense that situations tend to involve enemies up close and personal more often than not, so typically your 30 feet of vision is fine.

It also improves to 60 feet at some point, I think. But my curse progression will be very slow since oracle levels are always going to be less than half of my build with our focus on monster templates.

So far, I'm okay with it. This is the first time in this game that Goldslip's vision has proved to be seriously limiting.

RP/story wise, I also find it very interesting. Even when the oracle's range of vision has grown considerably, she still never gets to see the sky, or a view of a far off mountain range. Now that's what I call a curse!

Ah poor Goldslip! There will be other challenges better suited to you! Like buying the scrolls that were largely responsible for Cinder's death.

Out of character, I'm not worried at all (as long as me slowing the party down doesn't become an annoyance to other players!). This just seemed an appropriate reaction for Goldslip. =)

I think we all might be fine in the dark, except for Sevren. I vote for continuing on.

As the evening darkens into night, Goldslip looks up at the young man they have been guiding and protecting all day. "We can keep going, Sevren, if you'll be okay. I can give you some light to see your path by."

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (10) + 10 = 20
"What if I told you an embarrassing story about Snowball?" the nixie asks as her burns heal back up.

Goldslip sits with Cinder and, while his wounds heal, she tells him about how Snowball scrabbled and bit at the intruders but could barely leave a mark on them with her teeth and claws.

Sorry, Snowball! ^.^

Keante just put together a nice list of what races and classes have been submitted, and what haven't been. It is a great place to go if someone is still considering how they could make something different than the other submissions. It is in the linked spreadsheet.

About this, I realized that my lists of races and classes were not very well updated because I was going off of the spreadsheet for people's race/class selections and a lot weren't filled in.

Now I have spent some time going through the thread and I have a lot more updated in the rows of that first page on the spreadsheet, and then the race/class lists on the second page updated accordingly.

Anyway, if you're working on a character for this, it will help everyone's planning if you can check on that spreadsheet and make sure your row looks correct. They're in alphabetical order by player name (not character/alias name). If there isn't a row with your name on it, then go ahead and add one.

link to spreadsheet

Bahaha I can see this as a movie scene, now--the camera is looking straight down a wide hallway with no one in it. At the far end, on the left side, you see a door open and the Fox dashes out and starts running down the hallway toward the camera. A couple seconds later, this huge spider woman crashes through the same doorway, skidding across the floor and then bouncing a little off of the wall on the right before beginning to run toward the camera, herself, in pursuit of the Fox...

"Honey? WHERE are my subterfuge pants?"

I mean, with the new playtest classes out, are you sure that Caloo doesn't want to respec into a biohacker...? 0:)

I had no idea this was coming! Yes. Yes I do want that.

So with that: All in favor of siding with the AAF for the moment? All opposed?

Caloo thinks Jink and Blask will become stronger if they choose to throw off the hold Slivvy has on them by taking this opportunity with the AAF. So that's my vote.

I'll leave it to you, MJ, how many guards I can catch in a 15ft cone. I have my move action available to position myself as best I can before casting, and I'm willing to provoke attacks of opportunity during the movement--since those will occur before I cast, they won't affect my casting of the spell, unless there is ongoing damage involved.

Seeing the onrush of guards, the Ogon Fox splays out his fingers and casts burning hands on a swath of them. DC 17 Reflex save for half damage.

Concentration to cast defensively at DC 17: 1d20 + 6 + 6 ⇒ (12) + 6 + 6 = 24
Fire damage: 5d4 ⇒ (2, 1, 4, 2, 3) = 12

Oh! But don't forget to roll 20% miss chance on any attacks against me, because I have blur. Same goes for Zag, Johann, Lucius, and Wulfgar.

After quickly sizing up the strangers before him, the orc notices the nearby harem girls and his smile grows. "Are any of you married?" he asks.

Little did the Pope and Flamel know that they might be enabling Zagathoth the Virile to sire many more children, even in far-removed locales...

Physical Science: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (2) + 9 = 11
No dice!

"Oooooo, I hate ladders!" Caloo complains.

I'm always on the lookout for games that welcome use of Spheres material, and I decided it's probably time I offer to lead such a game myself.

At least in this one aspect, I am very narrowly focused: I want this to be a Spheres game. That means everyone would be playing a class published in Spheres of Power, Spheres of Might, or Champions of the Spheres (all of which can be seen on that wiki I linked above). The only exceptions would be if you are playing one of Paizo's classes with an archetype which is published in one of the Spheres books. This means that the standard style of magic will not exist in the game.

Another thing to note: I do pretty much all of my posting on mobile, so I am not interested in dealing with maps. We can run without them.

As for the many other aspects of the game, I want to put them up for discussion. I own Rise of the Runelords, so we could run that AP (I would probably be pretty fast and loose with the plot, though; and of course a lot of things would feel different because of the Spheres classes). I'm also open to creating more of a sandbox game, though I would expect your help with overall planning of the game in that case. We're probably going to stick to Golarion as a setting because I'm familiar with it, but I might be persuaded otherwise if people have strong feelings about doing something different.

At this stage (interest check), things really are wide open. Talk to me about what you'd like to see.

If people like to lay out character builds, why not do the same with computers?

I was working on a scholarly Starfinder character and after looking at the library chips from Pact Worlds, I envisioned her with a computer worn on her arm with a nice little keyboard and enough slots to hold all 5 library chips at once (I don't picture a comm unit as having slots for more than one or two, or having much of a keyboard).

Then I thought that perhaps people have built computers within the rules already, such that I could grab a layout someone else has already worked out.

I'm mainly looking for a summary of the computer's tier, what modules you added, plus any other additions you wanted to fit into it, and a description of the computer. I'm hoping we'll end up with a quite a few shared in here for everyone's benefit.

Caloo eyes the huge tentacles bursting from the sand, and then the buggy of the party's would-be murderers.

"You don't have to outrun the mountain eel," Caloo recites the old maxim, "just the slowest prey." He then whirls his hand-things about and mutters unintelligibly, casting Grease on the steering wheel held by the dwarf.

DC 14 Reflex save to negate. If he fails he loses his grip on the wheel. To regain his grasp the following round he would need to make a new save. And I imagine anyone else trying to grab the wheel would have to make the same save. But if the dwarf makes the first one, then the grease never actually comes into being on the wheel. That's how I'm imagining it.

"I suppose we should look surprised when the creature bursts out, shouldn't we?" Caloo wonders out loud. He practices a couple times what goes for a surprised facial expression among bantrids--a slight widening of their several little mouth-holes. "How was that?" he asks everyone.

Mogawg bolts up in bed when he hears the commotion outside. He goes to make sure Chompy is up. "Chompy, get up! First customers for our trading post are outside the gate, but I can't understand their longshanks words!"

I really need to learn Common at 2nd level. *facepalm*

Botting Caloo

Out of spells, the bantrid draws a pistol and opens fire on the still-standing mook facing Kindu.

[dice=Pew! Pew!]1d20+2
[dice=Damage]1d4

The shot scores true, and she screams out in rage and pain.

Thanks for botting--I'm still not back up to speed after a very busy Memorial Day weekend (including a wedding and lots of traveling in the car).

"Wait... am I Vesk 1 or Vesk 2? I wanna be Vesk 1."

"Oooooooooh you could be Vesk Prime!" Caloo chimes in excitedly.

Caloo comes rolling around a corner, into the scene with Glitch (and Kitty), Kindu, and the street urchin. Seeing the kid, Caloo rushes up to him. He speaks quickly in his excitement: "Oh! Good! You must be one of the local kids that Padre pays, is that right? I've heard some people like that he's throwing money around in the neighborhood, but then the ones who have lost their homes and livelihoods can't really share that sentiment, can they? Anyway, can you help us get in touch with Padre?"
Diplomacy: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (18) + 0 = 18

Bahaha! I'm rolling well on these Diplomacy checks with a +0 modifier!

Oh! I might be okay on my Life Science check after all!
"Reduce the DC of Life Science checks to identify biotech augmentations and to recall knowledge about famous biotech corporations and researchers by 5."

It's certainly not complete, but here's a glimpse of what I have so far for my cavalier:

I'm giving this Central Casting: Heroes of Legend book a run...

So we have a kalashtar who was born to nobility, the second born among 3 children total. Despite being a noble family (and having the special title Warden of the Mountains), they were poor. This character was a legitimate child of this noble family, but by some weird circumstances was born in a brothel, specifically noted also to be the home of non-humans. Probably for reasons related to these same bizarre circumstances, the noble family did not keep this child, and left him to fend for himself, and so he grew up destitute. The child was taken in and raised by a couple, one a baker and one a farmer.

When the child was 9 years old, he was taken on by a sheriff who needed all the friends he could get. The sheriff grew to love the child as his own, and after some time, he introduced the character to his ward, a girl close to the character's age. The character fell in love with this girl as they continued to grow up together, and at some point they get married.

At some point a common soldier perceives an insult from the sheriff (the character's patron) and a deadly hostile rivalry results. At one point this soldier threatens the character's life.

At age 17 some kind of kalashtar-specific event occurs (the book has tables to roll on here for elves, dwarves, etc. but doesn't account for Eberron races, so we'll have to come up with something).

At age 18 the character runs from home to a faraway land. At this point the character is still a child (not even an adolescent) by kalashtar reckoning...I'm not sure how to reconcile this yet with the whole bit about marrying the sheriff's ward.

At age 29, rivals force the character and his wife to move to a new locale.

At age 40 (just reached adulthood, and presumably immediately before this game begins), a deadly disease wipes out the town the character is living in, but he and his wife are among the few survivors.

The character is suspicious, humorous, even-tempered, and possessed of leadership qualities. He's neither good-aligned, nor evil. I'm going to say his alignment is Lawful Neutral. Oh! Almost forgot that he knows how to play some musical instrument...

I'm going to stop here--if you do set up a recruitment, I can try to finish fleshing all this out.

"to all targets." -> it's not a bonus to a single attack

So a single attack can have multiple targets--I don't see how that's relevant. It says "you can make a single ranged attack that deals additional damage," therefore it is a single attack.

There's the famous all-barbarian party of this story:
http://imgur.com/r/gaming/V7XIS