Revered Master Poh's page

Poh was on the Bonekeep 1 mission with Aroden up there ^ and would like to do part 2 as well :)

Poh's in the same boat as Aroden, so I'm also keen to hear campaign leadership's decision.

Chronicle looks good, thanks.

I take it that the GP award is based on the number of encounters completed, hence was set by the approach taken to run this in PbP?

I certainly hope that there are further runs of the Bonekeep scenarios on these boards, and I'd love Poh to complete the series. I'd also be keen to run them if the GM stars barrier is lifted. (Since I pretty much only GM in PbP it's going to be a long while before I get up to 4 stars).

Wow! I agree, I think we had the alchemist in trouble :)

How was that pair of encounters set up? It looks like one big open room - does the alchemist watch from hiding or something?

And good going, team! We were pretty solid I thought.

Hmmm, spoilers gained a grey background today.

They have indeed. I'm not a fan, it's not easier to read. Wonder if they put anything about it on the website tech threads?

Unrelated to that - this combat is more complex than a lot of tier 10-11 fights I've seen!

Thanks for following up with the research / links whilst I was sleeping and working :)

Aroden is also right about the alchemist not being able to fly off - unless she can do so as a swift or free action :o

So the alchemist provokes an AoO from Poh for making a ranged attack whilst threatened... and a prone creature can't make ranged attacks... and you can attempt a trip as an AoO. If Poh trips the alchemist with his AoO then I think her bomb attack is prevented.

As the alchemist goes for her vials and chemicals, Poh tries to sweep her legs...

Poh already made 4 AoO rolls under spoiler above, anticipating Bodyguard rolls. Since no enemy attacks have triggered Bodyguard yet, I would take the first of those spoilered rolls. This works out as follows:

trip AoO, haste, ic, heroism, prayer, rolled 15: 15 + 12 + 1 + 2 + 2 + 1 = 33
concealment: 1d100 ⇒ 67

And I hope that lands her on her backside so she spills her bomb!

Yeeeoowch! Both the alchemist and the golem are heavy hitters.

We've really got to focus fire.

I missed the Prayer too! +1 to Poh's attack and damage, and Trip and Save. Prayer is good!

monkeyboon?: 1d20 ⇒ 1

"Thin their ranksh! Hit them in the headsh!"

Fort vs disease: 1d20 + 14 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 14 + 5 = 26

Poh staggers towards the ratfolk bomber, but turns his icy fists first on the rat-demon caught between him and Pig.

Drunken ki stagger is a 5' move as a swift action that does not provoke.

elemental fist vs yellow, haste, ic, heroism, flank: 1d20 + 11 + 1 + 2 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 11 + 1 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 25cold iron magic ki damage: 1d8 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 1 + 2 = 5cold damage: 2d6 + 5 ⇒ (6, 6) + 5 = 17

The Revered Master then uses his increased speed to reach out towards the bomber, attempting to catch her by the tail and drag her down.

trip vs bomber, haste, ic, heroism: 1d20 + 12 + 1 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 12 + 1 + 2 + 2 = 22

The combat manoeuvre provokes from the bomber, if she is able to take an AoO

This is round 2 of lingering performance.

Fort vs Disease (rat): 1d20 + 14 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 14 + 5 = 24
Reflex vs bomb: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (5) + 14 = 19 = 4 damage

Drain that ring, Aroden! Blast all the rat monsters with it. 3d6 force damage should go through any resistances.

Don't forget Inspire Courage is running - this is Lingering Performance round 1 of 2

bodyguard pig: 1d20 ⇒ 13 if not a 1, Pig's flatfooted AC becomes 31 and the demon's attack misses.

Poh reaches out with his elemental powers - but instead of smashing the demon rats in the face he pours ice under yellow-rat's feet!

trip vs yellow, true strike, heroism, haste, ic: 1d20 + 12 + 20 + 2 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 12 + 20 + 2 + 1 + 2 = 47

This costs a use of elemental fist but means Poh strikes with 10' reach. Sadly you can only use elemental fist once per round so no haste attack. If Yellow has reach then Poh provokes.

"Go, Vrothum! Hit them in the headsh!"

Swift to enter Marid Style, standard attack.

Pig and Vrothum starting next round Poh can join in the melee against the rats by 5' stepping into an empty square then drunken staggering back after his attack - or he can just strike once with reach from the second rank. But we'll have to see where the alchemist is before deciding priority I think :o

Happy for Aroden to position Poh since he's D-dooring.

"I am ready, shtudents. Remember: hit them in the headsh!"

Poh gives advice, and focuses his ki.

Immediately before the D-door, Poh activates advice (inspire courage +2; a move action for Poh) and True Strike (ki power); Lingering Performance will mean Inspire Courage is in effect from the off.

Anyone any good at stealth? Do we have Invisibility or a summons that might pinpoint the alchemist/mage's location?

Poh has a moderate Stealth bonus and could try sneaking. He could also go in Gaseous Form which might grant a bonus (none is specified in the spell description but as a floaty cloud you're not making much sound).

If these are not options, I'd suggest Dim-dooring right into Area 9 from where we are now, taking the slowest party members whilst the rest of us run up the passageway. Hit us with another Haste first and everyone should be able to get into melee pretty darn quick. There might even be time for Poh to pop up a True Strike before the off.

"The bag! The bag in the chest! Go get it."

"Closing on the alchemisht is a good plan, but beware the golem! You shay it needs adamantine or bludgeons to destroy. Khugron's weapon is well suited to fighting it, but all our warriors save for Pig have bludgeons.

I musht shtand with my shtudents, whatever trials they face. I can grapple a mage effectively. Golems not so much. But the magic-user will want range. She will have heard this fight. She will be ready. It would be ideal if we can send a scout."

"Huh, you set all the traps off you big oaf!" Poh chides Khugron.
"Might as well go and get that bag out of the chest, quick!"

cure light wounds wand: 7d8 + 7 ⇒ (8, 5, 3, 4, 6, 3, 6) + 7 = 42 leaves Poh at 71/73hp.

Whilst the wand (in Mun's hands no doubt) does its work, Poh fills up on luglurch ale.

With the last demon rat cornered, Poh holds position to better defend his students. The Revered Master launches a combination of icy punches and cold iron at the monster...

elemental fist, haste, heroism, ic: 1d20 + 11 + 1 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 11 + 1 + 2 + 2 = 31magic damage: 1d8 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 1 + 2 = 4cold damage: 2d6 + 5 ⇒ (6, 3) + 5 = 14
temple sword, haste, heroism, ic: 1d20 + 11 + 1 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 11 + 1 + 2 + 2 = 28cold iron damage: 1d8 - 1 + 2 ⇒ (7) - 1 + 2 = 8

Lingering performance running again. Spend 1 ki and a swift on ki dodge.

"Hit them in the headsh I shaid! The headsh!"

Mun and Selune seem to have forgotten Inspire Courage ;)

Poh's Bodyguard ability blocks the first hit on Vrothum (the yellow bite) but not the second yellow claw, which I assume is meant for Vrothum because yellow can't reach Poh. Also GM you added a +12 bonus for yellow's flank on it's first claw attack :D

"Hurry up shtudents! Hit them in the headsh!"

Poh keeps purple rat-demon busy, now drawing his cold iron sword to threaten the monster with while he exhorts his students to get a move on!

Move to draw sword, Move to activate Advice (Inspire Courage +2) again, and a swift and 1 ki on ki dodge.

Fort vs Disease: 1d20 + 14 + 5 ⇒ (9) + 14 + 5 = 28

"Hit them in the headsh! The headsh!"

Poh staggers about, punching rats. First Pink, then Cyan if pink drops

punch, haste, ic, flank: 1d20 + 11 + 1 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 11 + 1 + 2 + 2 = 31damage: 1d8 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 1 + 2 = 11
punch, haste, ic, flank: 1d20 + 11 + 1 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 11 + 1 + 2 + 2 = 28damage: 1d8 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 1 + 2 = 7

Spend 1 ki on ki dodge to improve AC by 4. Bodyguard to protect adjacent allies.

"Come on - get in here, lots of ratsh for you all!"

[ooc]2nd round of lingering performance.

You're hasted, so I think you're speed is 70' Vrothum?

There's room in front of Pig now that Poh's made some space, but you might risk AoOs?

"Demonsh! They look like rat-men but they're demonsh."

Poh calls back over his shoulder to his students.

"Ignore the swarm, it's jusht a distraction! The real enemy is here!"

fort vs disease: 1d20 + 14 + 5 - 2 ⇒ (2) + 14 + 5 - 2 = 19

Poh's advice lingers keeping benefit of Inspire Courage +2 for all

Poh lashes out with fists of ice:

marid strike vs black rat, haste, ic: 1d20 + 11 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 11 + 1 + 2 = 21damage: 1d8 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 1 + 2 = 8cold damage: 2d6 + 5 ⇒ (2, 4) + 5 = 11
unarmed strike vs rat, haste, ic: 1d20 + 11 + 2 ⇒ (17) + 11 + 2 = 30damage: 1d8 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 1 + 2 = 7

The second attack will go to black if it's not dropped by the first, or red if it is. Provided black rat is killed, Poh then takes a 5' step followed by a drunken stagger - which is effectively a 5' step taken as a swift action that does not provoke - to move into flank with Pig. I've placed a greyscale token where Poh will end up.

If black rat isn't dead, Poh will spend his swift action differently.

"Get over here shtudents!"

GM, I take it Poh's jewel is glowing now?

Fort vs disease: 1d20 + 14 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 14 + 5 = 24

"Onwardsh! Hit them in the headsh!"

Poh staggers past Khurgron and the rats to protect Pig.

Plenty of move to get there under Haste. I have put Poh on the map to the side, and copied Pig's token too.

Starts advice (Inspire Courage +2), one move action, and a swift to enter Marid Style

The rat swarm will probably take 1/2 damage from weapon attacks (we'll see what Khugron has managed). Rats are big enough.

Only doors we know about are the ones to the area Aroden wasn't able to scout - who knows what's on the other side. Best not to combine encounters, generally, but this fog and the swarm I think originate from the rat-people immediately south of us and we are effectively encountering them now.

"Go forwards or backwarsh! Which is it, shtudents?!"

Posted in Discussion - think we should probably try to coordinate.

Group decision:

We either go forwards, straight through the fog and out the other side into the "rat room", or we retreat and allow the fog to dissipate (or maybe Mun dispels it).

Either way, worst thing to do looks like to sit in it.

Views?

"It's the rat-men that worry me. If they have magic, or alchemy, every moment we delay may make their position stronger."

They're not on the map of the room with the chest, but they're only just to the south of that room.

GM, just in case it becomes relevant, here's the text of the chronicle sheet magic item that Poh carries:

Diamond of Demon Seeking: when any creature of the demon subtype comes within 30 feet of this flawless gem, it glows with a blood-red radiance as the light spell. The diamond does not reveal invisible or otherwise hidden demons, but rather simply alerts the wielder to their presence. Spells or effects that protect a demon from divination or alter a demon's alignment prevent a diamond of demon seeking from detecting a demon under such an effect.

Consider Poh to be holding the diamond in his hand.

"Eh. Good Pig. But I think perhaps the demon rats might have heard the big feller smash the chest up."

Three rat-like fiendish humanoids and six dire rats just to the south of us - expect them to be preparing already.

"You want to look at your toys, or go catch the rats now?"

Placed Poh behind Khugron. Total defence.

"Stand well back, shtudents!"

Nobody needs to be in the trap room until after the Dispels have been tried. We can verify their success or failure with Detect Magic. Does Aroden still have Arcane Sight running?

"I leave it to you to decide which spell to attempt removal of. The scroll of Magic Shircle that I provided will protect against many mental attacks, and is a long-lasting defence."

Either Dispel the enchantment, and send Pig or another volunteer to trigger the boom (although not all Evocations are booms :o ), or Dispel the evocation, and Poh will brave the enchantment with a Magic Circle vs Evil cast on him.

Mun also has Dispel, so it's worth trying for both.

Poh fills his tankard and drains it. "I can go down there. Hold thish rope, Pig, and if I cry out or pull I hard on the rope then haul me back up!"

Poh restores his Drunken Ki. Poh has a Climb speed, so can probably get down the well quite easily.

Poh ties a silk rope around his waist and hands off two tindertwigs to the nearest non-Pig student. Everything else on Poh's person will be fine getting wet. He has an ioun torch for light which should keep orbiting even if he submerges.

"Good, good, now try not to die!"

Poh's 'encouragement' rings in the students' ears as the sensei bounds through the room to confront the last of the slimes. Lingering Performance sustains Inspire Courage.

Poh winds up a punch - his fist suddenly wreathed in lightning -

elemental fist, haste, ic, sword: 1d20 + 11 + 1 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 11 + 1 + 2 + 2 = 29damage: 1d8 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 1 + 2 = 5electricity damage: 2d6 ⇒ (5, 4) = 9
miss chance: 1d100 ⇒ 19

Looks like a miss - but if it did hit then Poh spends 1 drunken ki on Drunken Strength:

extra damage: 1d6 ⇒ 1

Poh will get out of the way for a big hitter next round.

"Yes, good! Hit them in the... you know... the oozy bit!"

Poh staggers into the room, directing his 'students' and standing ready to defend them.

fort save: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (19) + 14 = 33 +5 more if it's a poison effect

Swift to enter Marid Style, move to move, move to start Inspire Courage +2

"Your Master is right with you, shtudents!"

Poh sticks close to the front liners. Usual Bodyguard stuff, try to stay in reach of whoever's in front.

"Khugron, you go first! Big reach with hammer, shmash slimes before they know it!"

"Unlikely" Poh ventures. "It would be a red button. It would say in large letters on or nearby 'do not push the red button'. Or they'd do that thing with the two golems, only one of which can tell the truth, and you'd have to ask them a queshtun... how's it go... 'if I asked your fellow if I should press the big button would he say yes?'...

...where's my luglurch gone?"

As Khugron recovers, Poh asks Mun to employ his healing wand. Looks like only the bodyguard monk got hit, just at the end there?

clw: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9
clw: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

"You have any more detailed plan than that? Oozes lack heads to hit."

Mun, if any of our fighters get grappled by an ooze I am happy for you to use Poh's scroll of Freedom of Movement on them.

"No, Pig, we are not going that way. Wizard saw probable undead past the bars, and there is much more to explore the other way. Slimes and Rats and a trapped chest!"

The broken penalty negates the enhancement bonuses, so as long as we don't encounter any more caryatid columns, they're equivalent except for magic vs. cold iron.

There's also the limited crit range of broken weapons - always just x2 on a 20.

Get well soon Vrothum!

Pretty confident that Khugron kung-fu kicks green to bits :)

"Good, good, kick them in the shkulls!"

Poh's advice lingers in the ears of his 'students' as he rounds on the remaining statues.

unarmed strike vs purple, inspire, aroden: 1d20 + 11 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 11 + 2 + 2 = 34damage: 1d8 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 1 + 2 = 9

Poh has Lingering Performance, so enjoy +2 to attack and damage for 2 more rounds everyone.

Don't forget to include Inspire Courage :)

ETA: Inspire bonus is +2 :)

"There! The condition is there'sh a Pig in the room. Now hit them in the head, that always worksh!"

Poh staggers over to Pig's side, swaying like a drunkard thrown out of an inn. He throws a punch at the nearest statue Red.

unarmed strike, advice, heroism: 1d20 + 11 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 11 + 2 + 2 = 25magic damage: 1d8 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 1 + 2 = 8

Actions: swift to enter Marid Style, free 5' step, move to activate Advice (inspire courage +2), standard to attack.

If an adjacent ally is attacked, Poh attempts to block the blows. Poh does this against the first 4 such attacks.

"Huh. Could've probably just walked past. They didn't attack when we came in, so they're waiting for some condition like we pick up the skull or something."

I'm sure we'd have triggered it anyway :)

Probably a sensible decision Noral, thank you.

If the 4-star GM bar gets lifted and we get to run Bonekeep again in pbp, I'm up for GM-ing and I'll gladly save you a spot :)