Two PC's dropped in the reinvented Gate Guardian encounter. Ysera was a beast.
Thank you so much. This is amazing stuff!!!
So I think my group has been doing Ranged Study/Studied Strike + Seeking weapon incorrectly. I think that it should be that Seeking only negates the miss chance for the attack, but they are still technically concealed, so the precision damage from Studied Strike cannot be applied. You know they are there in the smoke/fog/magic effect, and you won't miss, but you still can't be precise in putting one into their liver. Does this sound right? Currently, Seeking has been allowing Studied Strike damage to apply, which I think is wrong. I am the DM so I get to make the call, but figured I would toss this out for opinions.
I swapped the Count for Kendra (who moved to Caliphas with AA after book 1, as he was a family friend and colleague of the Prof.), because I made the Raven's Head mace important due to the fact that it once struck the Whispering Tyrant, and has his blood permanently stained upon it. Since the PC's have the mace, AA needed some other source of the blood, and he discovered that Lorrimor's daughter was actually a direct descendant of the Tyrant. Now, in my game, I have a changeling priestess that Lorrimor adopted and sent to her clerical monastery before the "call" that changelings get was received, allowing her to resist becoming a hag. This is the daughter that has the blood of the tyrant, and not Kendra, but AA doesn't know that. He thought that the favored daughter (Kendra) was the chosen one, and kidnapped her for her relation. That critical flaw is what will make the CC reagent not perfect and his resulting transformation going nuts at the end of the Adventure. Still hashing out details, but it helped me tie the adventures together some more.
I was going to have all correspondence from AA signed with a sigil instead of his name/initials. I made his sigil a web like design that is actually an AA. Crude paint version: http://imgur.com/7skadMK |
