Quote: The cowardly trope is not "anti-team" Has no one played at a table where a player has their character run from fights because "it's what my character would do", then has surprised pikachu face when the party ditches them in the next town, and the player is asked to make a replacement character? Why would any group of adventurers keep taking along a person who never has the party's back?
Male Drow (noble) 14 Ranger
My thought would be continue as if things played out as Lyn described, and continue on Agartha at Avalon. Keep some of the NPCs for familiarity.
Male Drow (noble) 14 Ranger
lynora wrote:
LMAO makes total sense. I think more fun will be her learning to deal with herself from the other side ;)
Male Drow (noble) 14 Ranger
Thoughts n stuff: Lynora wrote: So the beauty of being a non-linear existence is that Ephebe can pretty much continue her “mortal” existence as long as she damn well pleases. While still also being every when at once doing her job as Time. I had a bad moment at first when Krays and Ephebe got together when I was all like oh no, is this gonna end in a terrible tragedy? But then I worked through the actual logic of it and realized that it totally didn’t have to be. Also, Ephebe would be unphased by Krays going any amount of dark side. Honestly, I think it’s easy to forget that An is the one who was raised by Tam and Aananda. Ephebe was raised by demons. You really can’t scare her off with this stuff. :) Oh, I remember that stuff. The whole "im not really her" convo was a kind of a bomb drop. I mean, she was who Krays fell in love with so it really didn't matter to him. But in the past the couple of times he started slipping, she did draw him back. Lynora wrote: Oof. Nala is the character I genuinely feel the most sorry for in all this. There is no truly happy ending for her. She inherits the mantle of Winter Queen when the Others take out her mom. She can’t get out of it. Especially when they need to fight the Others. Even after the dust settles, she’s stuck as the winter queen. I’m assuming that Ryuzo would at least try to stay with her. But yeah, it totally bites and there’s not a way out for her. The best she can do is try to reform the system as much as possible, but like, honestly she has a not great ending. :( Damn, that is sad. And like the complete opposite of what she wanted. I hope at least that by that point, she had gotten her other issues resolved so she could handle that without fear. As far as Ryuzo...he would have stayed as long as he could. He would not, however, fulfill the roles of the Winter Knight. He wouldn't be able to live with himself, no matter how much he loved Nala. If she was able to change the system, then it's more likely he'd remain with her. Egads. Champion of Luck and Winter Queen? Wow.
Male Drow (noble) 14 Ranger
Ahh ok I missread some of that then, good to know!
more questions:
With Ephebe being Kronos 2.0, how much freedom would she have to be present as a mother? Would that be a permanent good bye situation for Krays and the kids? How would the Ryuzo/Nala situation pan out, assuming neither of them dies? I know the Others really freaked her out, more than most... For my characters... Krays' future is entirely dependent on how far he'd feel he had to go to protect anyone in his family, but especially Ephebe and the kids. I could see him going a bit darkside on our enemies, Ephebe is always able to pull him back though, so it would not have been for long. Ghalen would have stuck by Tyrrin's side no matter what. After Ehos' death...I had planned for that to shake him a bit, enough for him to completely lose his hesitance in fighting against the Empire directly. He was already working with Jiminy a bit, but he would have gone all in, and lead spec op units against IPSD incursions. Unless Keme would have wanted to stay and fight, Gennosuke would have tried to get him and Alys as far from Agartha as possible. If he faced any pushback, or either of them refused to leave, he would have called in the rest of his clan to directly aid in the conflict, and fought hard. I think most of my other characters were pretty much retired, or became NPcs to an extent.
Male Drow (noble) 14 Ranger
its great to hear from you Lyn :) I can just imagine that it would have taken another 4 years of real time play to finish all that up, too.
I guess I have a few questions...
in case others don't want to know:
Would the kids have hatched prior to all of this? Made it out?
Did you plan for Agartha itself to not survive the conflict? Who takes over the Empire? Any main character deaths you planned for? I guess thats it for now.
breithauptclan wrote:
It just says "status bonus". Is that untyped? breithauptclan wrote: One at a time, yes. This isn't even a Dual Class thing - plenty of classes - especially Monk - can get several stances to use. But starting a new one ends any existing stance. This is what I thought. Thanks for confirming.
If both classes give a similar class feature (at the same level or not), even though they are named differently (ie vivacious speed and incredible movement) they do not stack, correct?
I'm pretty sure I already know the answer to these, just making sure I'm not missing some nuance or special circumstance somewhere...
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Monkeygod wrote:
Oh, yeah this is definitely a thing, and we all expect fudging. What we would not expect is a creature that suddenly has a dc 75 save or die ability in the name of challenge.
Male Drow (noble) 14 Ranger
GM DarkLightHitomi wrote:
I’m about to be offended on my GM’s behalf. You’re making a lot of assumptions about how he runs things that aren’t true. I’m also starting to get jealous of the perfect in all circumstances table you apparently play at. Kudos.I think that if in order to never get tired of PF1E all of these things needs to be perfect, I don’t need to make my case any further.
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GM DarkLightHitomi wrote:
Hit points of enemies doubled and later tripled, AC increased by 10 or more, saves/stats increased, monsters given class levels or made gestalt if they had them already, minions added, etc. All of this wasn't quite enough to offset the party's action economy.
It's fine. YMMV. We've gotten all the mileage we feel we needed to.
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