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Is there a map somewhere? I can't seem to find it.

I'm a little confused on the order of combat. I am still waiting for the enemy to act before I can, correct?

Init: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (8) + 5 = 13

"Huh. Magic." He shrugs and cracks his neck. "Always interesting. Let's move on."

Perception: 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (6) + 19 = 25 +7 vs traps

Lucian stares at where his companions disappeared. "Huh. Neat." He glances around to see if anything in the room changed. "So want to just split the reward between us?"

As Laurel moves up, Lucian follows behind him to give him backup if necessary.

About 10 feet behind Laurel and 10 feet off to the side, invisible.

As Lucian is suddenly picked up by the outsider he gives a cry of shock. "Oi, warn a man first!" He grumbles and holds onto her as they fly up and into the keep. At the mention of magic abound Lucian grumbles, slipping on his ring of invisibility. "I'm going to stay put for now, tell me if there's anything I should know about the magic here." He takes a look around.

Perception: 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (9) + 19 = 28 +7 vs traps

I apologize for the recent silence. My week is extremely busy. Please DMPC as necessary.

Lucian grimaces. "It's always outsiders now. I miss orcs and goblins. Well I'll trust you to tell me what I need to know and where to slice. Speaking of magic, is there any in this area?"

DM, I accidentally posted with my default alias. Could you please mark it as an NPC? Thanks.

Lucian frowns. "Got any leads? I'd love to help, but I need a little something to go on."

Lucian is amused by the boasts but keeps his peace, intent on getting thoroughly drunk while he reads. But he's only starting to feel his head swim when the missing daughters are mentioned. His male curiosity piqued, he drifts over. "Why, that sounds terrible. Do you have any idea what happened to them?"

Lucian shrugs. "Retreiving a sack of gold and retreiving a magical creature are both retrieval jobs. I'll take your word for it." As always, his brusqueness is blunt.

Lucian is not nearly as invested as his divine companion. But he heard a clear job and goal that has a paycheck. "Count me in. Seems simple enough."

Right, but alchemical allocation lets you use them over and over again.

Gross.

Dot

Dot. Are we marking the last game as inactive?

Mostly done leveling up. Lucian now staggers targets that he crits, and his sneak attacks do strength damage. Also upgrades one of his weapons to be menacing and added a freaking ranged weapon.

All I need to get sneak attack damage is make a feint check, which I add 22 to. Forgoes one attack to get another potential 42d6.

Yeah, Lucien is built to be a blender. Consistent high damage until my HP hits 0.

Mythic out scales gestalt at higher tiers, but until the upper reaches it appears gestalt is more powerful.

I'm surprised the BBEG was a contract devil. I always considered them more of a roleplaying creature than a combat one.

Yup. No ranged weapon was a mistake for me. I thought the ability to fly would help cover it, but I didn't anticipate something like antilife shell.

Lucian pops back up out of invisibility and fires again.

Attack: 1d20 + 20 - 4 ⇒ (18) + 20 - 4 = 34 Vs Flat Footed
Damage: 1d8 + 1 + 7d6 ⇒ (8) + 1 + (4, 1, 4, 6, 2, 6, 5) = 37

Lucian disappears again, getting ready for another attack.

Standard action to activate ring to go invisible.

"Lucian, grab Laurel's bow and shoot it from hiding using your invisibility ring!" Tamm calls out to his companion.

"We have an invisible rogue!" He shouts, ruining the surprise ;)

Antilife shell, damn. Not an expected obstacle.

Lucian follows the advice, trusting the casters and whatever they said to inform him that he can't get near the devil. He snatches Laurel's bow, then fires off an arrow at the outsider.

Attack: 1d20 + 20 - 4 ⇒ (20) + 20 - 4 = 36
Damage: 1d8 + 1 + 7d6 ⇒ (4) + 1 + (1, 2, 6, 3, 4, 3, 5) = 29

Confirm: 1d20 + 20 - 4 ⇒ (15) + 20 - 4 = 31
Damage: 2d8 + 2 + 3 ⇒ (8, 6) + 2 + 3 = 19

Please DMPC me as necessary, my week has become very hectic.

Init: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8

I'm confused. Is the map up to date?

Lucian appears from invisibility and unleashes his tornado of steel.

Oh I forgot to roll init, sorry!

Init: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9

Sweet. I hope none of them can see invisibility.

With his ring of invisibility on Lucian used the speed boost from blessing of fervor to run as far into the room as he can, moving behind the outsiders if possible.

I have a speed weapon, so I don't particularly care. I suppose I vote for blessing of fervor in that case.

I've never been a fan of double initiative. It seems incredibly abusable to me.

As a DM, I've always found that increasing the numbers is the easiest way to balance things. Instead of an ancient red dragon, I'll do an old one with a couple fire giants. Stuff like that.

Yes, I never should have argued in the first place. No good could have come out, but the guy accusing me of cheating and whatnot which got under my skin. Heck, in the very first combat with that table they were looking up monster stats and accusing me of cheating.

Oh that really grinds my gears. Both of those. I've had to tell one of my local players unless be stops googling all his enemies I'm going to make knowledge checks absolutely brutal and not even give them enough to get a name.

Hahaha I just read through what happened. Basically it was one of those situations where RAW is wonky (since beastshaped octopus's can breath air due to the very restricted parameters of the ability). But I won't comment on it, best to let it die.

This is my rule for debating the rules. "If you think the GM has made a mistake and it's significant enough to be concerned about, bring up your point calmly and reasonably. Once. Then move on." I've had a few GMs give me, in my opinion, some unreasonable rulings, but it's their game and I'm not going to argue beyond what I specified above.

Yes I have the same basic assumption that the GM by default is not here to screw over the players. Rule 0 may be that the GM is always right, but rule -1 is that there is no game without players.

Lucian waits patiently while Raphael does spellcaster things. "Think we should return the book? We might get a reward out of it."

Moved Sazzat via his description.

Lucian steps forward and unleashes a tornado of steel on the creature.

Will: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 23 +2 vs enchant, +3 vs fear

I think that counting it as an action is very fair. Thank you.

This is ridiculous. Lucian attempts to put his arm elbow deep in the wall, what happens?

Lucian completely trusts the magic users to defend him from and inform him about magical problems. The spellcaster says the wall is fake. Lucian believes him. He walks up to the wall and attempts to put his arm through it. If one of the spellcastes lied to him, he would get bruised fingers for it.

My character trusts Raphael's word. He walks through the wall.

If we know the wall is fake, you don't need a will save. The wall if fake if you make your save or not.

A nat 1 is an automatic failure.

Lucian follows them through, also invisible.

Lucian backs out so that any area spells or attack won't hit him.

Init: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (17) + 5 = 22

Foolish old man. Lucien lets the man walk away and talks quietly to the party. "I say we leave him. This isn't our problem."