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I’ll try to get back when I can.
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I’ve had something unexpected come up; I’m going to be offline for a while entirely not sure how long. I’ll try to get back when I can.
I’ve had something unexpected come up; I’m going to be offline for a while entirely not sure how long. I’ll try to get back when I can.
Ivar steps back and drinks his potion. Ichabod blast at them again:
Finishing one! Adweard's strike finishes the second, and only the necromancer, his summons, and whatever is upstairs remain! Vaux stabilizes! Turn Order:
Status:
Purple: 1 rounds remaining
The Necromancer begins summoning again! The champion steps up to swing at Adweard:
Turn Order:
Status:
Red: -13
Purple: 1 rounds remaining
Relzak hits and Eldric hits once; the Spriggan Lord does not appear intimidated. Ghostwind misses the smaller spriggan. The Spriggn lord attempts to break the grapple:
The small Spriggans attack again with their flank restored- At Ghostwind
At Elric
Turn order:
Status:
Spriggan Lord: -52
"Escorting a delegation? No true Nictari would give these dogs the time of day." "I am a pawn to nothing, and no one! The Nictari faithful will rise and smite you from the Fair Lands!" "Any Nictari who would join or even treat with your kind is the true traitor to the Nictari people- be he peasant or the Rex Nictarum himself!" It becomes very clear that this Nitari is not swayed by intimidation, by clever arguments, or by trickery; he continues down this kind of like of zealotry.
When I’m at my computer I’ll look at the Paladin archetypes that take out spellcastinf and modify one of them to be appropriate for anti-Paladin.
Ghostwind critically hits the Spriggan Lord! The size small gnomes position to flank!
At Eldric:
The Lord Strikes once at Eldric:
And once at Relzak:
Handerbald touches Ghostwind healing him bringing him back awake, but leaving him prone. Griselda manages to grapple the Spriggan Lord, constricting him! Turn order:
Status:
Spriggan Lord: -30
Adweard hits, though her poking weapon is slightly less effective! One skeleton attacks the fire elemental:
with two strikes it takes the elemental out!
It continues the assault moving on to Adweard:
The other begins attacking Vaux:
Turn Order:
Status:
Red: -13
Blue: 3 rounds remaining
”you dogs stole Nictari land- I’d rather die a thousand times than turn traitor to my people! You’ll get nothing from me!”
Vaux's attacks strike, but not doing bludgeoning damage, they fail to penetrate. Turn Order:
Status:
Red: -3
Blue: 3 rounds remaining
Griselda heals Relzak. Thanks to the flank, Relzak narrowly hits the Spriggan lord, but the larger creature is not intimidated by him. But Eldric's strikes are not as well aimed and clank uselessly off his armor. Turn order:
Status: Relzak: 18/36
Spriggan Lord: -6
The Nictari spits in Maurie's face, "Kill me, torture me- what do you want to know? You are trespasser on Nitari lands! I am Gartnait mac Echdaht, Clan Echdaht, all the good it will do ye to know a dead man's name."
Yes you can have retroactively gotten a CLW wand either half or full whichever you decide. Yes, sorry I meant to say knowledge local but it slipped me mind, and now I’ve written myself into a corner where I have to come up with several (at least) of the tribes clans and septs for the Nictari- games always take you places you didn’t anticipate!
Round 3
The summoned creature also misses the armored skeleton! Round 4
Turn Order:
Status:
Red: -3
Blue: 3 rounds remaining
Round 2
Griselda cures Eldric. Relzak misses. Eldric hits three times, finishing the (formerly red) Spriggan. With several quick attack, Ghostwind finishes the (formerly blue) Spriggan! Round 3
The Spriggan Lord charges Relzak
Turn order:
Status: Relzak: 10/36
They don't have any scrolls, but do have the typical Nictari tattoos covering their bodies- you could identify them by tribe, clan, and sept with just a little knowledge of Nictari culture
Oh jeez- disregard; this is what I get for checking things while moving around! Very Easy to Accidentally Read Mythic Bless off this link SO JUST to saves vs. fear and attack, not damage, but if anyone figured it in already I won't retcon it out.
This is just the ordinary Bless spel which is +1 to attacks, weapon damage, and all saves.
FYI I'm traveling, so I will be away from my computer and likely not able to do a full update until Sunday afternoon/evening.
Round 3
Vaux moves foward and easily hits, but his slashing/piercing claw fails to damage the skeleton! The "human skeleton" advances towards Vaux, while above the necromancer finishes casting, and another "human skeleton" appears- this time directly in front of Ichabod and attacks!
Turn Order:
Status:
Red: -3
Blue: 3 rounds remaining
Yes, I will ensure that actions are taken for all characters. FYI- I'm traveling for the holiday so I probably will not update again until Sunday evening, though I will inevitably be watching from my phone.
Round 2 the door is swing open and a burning hands cast, but it could only hit one of the gnomes and he dodge part of it. Griselda attempts to grapple, but the size large spriggan is too strong for her! Relzak steps into the door, and the two small sized ones unload their crossbows at him!
Then he strikes hard at one of the size large ones! Eldric steps in and hits the other large one! The size large swing at Eldric:
And Relzak:
The size small ones cast scare (DC 12 Will) at Eldric and Relzak. The Spriggan Lord stands back, morningstar readied to attack anyone foolish enough to move to him. Turn order:
Status:
Relzak: 33/36
FYI, I'm traveling this weakened will probably not have a full update until late SUnday.
You properly bury the slain, and wake up the still living Nictari. . .
Got it Relzak- The way I usually run parry and riposte in pbp is to have the player spoiler the rolls with a condition that triggers whether they is it- first melee attack against me:
Put your three rolls (parry, riposte, damage here) Can set the condition however you want- maybe you only want to use it if a particular enemy attacks or if you’re flanked or whatever, but just put the contingency in there and if it doesn’t come up you don’t use the panache -!that way I can resolve the parry with the whole round.
Everyone can act now and Handerbald can act for both rounds.
I mean- I think we all have seen the way games go when running published material where there is never a challenge, no question of players ever being at risk, and the biggest question is who will get the best shot in during the round and a half that combat lasts- I’ve been DMing for 25 years now, and in pathfinder 1 specifically for almost a decade- so trust me that I am not tuning these actions to kill players (since starting play by post I’ve only actually killed a single character, and that quite recently based on an insane crit). These won’t be in during these first encounters (already have that fully planned and statted), but I think you’ll see what it looks like shortly after that- and it’s especially designed for situations where there are no “mooks”- so that you don’t have to find an excuse for the big dumb beast to have underlings just to drag it to a third round before the players win without a scratch.
So- in my eternal quest to make interesting and interactive combat scenarios, I’ve decided to incorporate two of the very few good things from 5th edition to those of my games which are still in early stages including this one. Those are- lair and legendary actions. For anyone who hasn’t dabbled in fifth Ed, these are special actions that some enemies get in order to counteract the dreadful action economy that makes what should be “challenging” enemies end up missing twice before dying without having to make them so much higher cr than the party that they become unkillable or tpk machines. Lair actions happen only when you are fighting an enemy in their “lair” or home- hence the name. They happen on initiative 20 always, one per round. Legendary actions are actions powerful foes can take throughout the round (jumping in to take them after any action)- they usually have several options and 3 actions worth to take per round, with some actions taking two or all three of those. These are in addition to existing AOOs and reactions that I might craft onto monsters other ways. I just wanted to let everyone know so whenever I spring this on you in combat the first time you aren’t surprised, confused, and angered.
So- in my eternal quest to make interesting and interactive combat scenarios, I’ve decided to incorporate two of the very few good things from 5th edition to those of my games which are still in early stages including this one. Those are- lair and legendary actions. For anyone who hasn’t dabbled in fifth Ed, these are special actions that some enemies get in order to counteract the dreadful action economy that makes what should be “challenging” enemies end up missing twice before dying without having to make them so much higher cr than the party that they become unkillable or tpk machines. Lair actions happen only when you are fighting an enemy in their “lair” or home- hence the name. They happen on initiative 20 always, one per round. Legendary actions are actions powerful foes can take throughout the round (jumping in to take them after any action)- they usually have several options and 3 actions worth to take per round, with some actions taking two or all three of those. These are in addition to existing AOOs and reactions that I might craft onto monsters other ways. I just wanted to let everyone know so whenever I spring this on you in combat the first time you aren’t surprised, confused, and angered.
So- in my eternal quest to make interesting and interactive combat scenarios, I’ve decided to incorporate two of the very few good things from 5th edition to those of my games which are still in early stages including this one. Those are- lair and legendary actions. For anyone who hasn’t dabbled in fifth Ed, these are special actions that some enemies get in order to counteract the dreadful action economy that makes what should be “challenging” enemies end up missing twice before dying without having to make them so much higher cr than the party that they become unkillable or tpk machines. Lair actions happen only when you are fighting an enemy in their “lair” or home- hence the name. They happen on initiative 20 always, one per round. Legendary actions are actions powerful foes can take throughout the round (jumping in to take them after any action)- they usually have several options and 3 actions worth to take per round, with some actions taking two or all three of those. These are in addition to existing AOOs and reactions that I might craft onto monsters other ways. I just wanted to let everyone know so whenever I spring this on you in combat the first time you aren’t surprised, confused, and angered.
Round 2
Round 3
The other two advance, attacking the closest target (the elemental):
Turn Order:
Status:
Red: taking burn damage.
Round 1
Inside, whatever the Spriggans are doing, they do but do not come out. Turn order:
Addanc narrowly hits, and Finja drops the final Nictari inconcious.
Addanc: 30/36 Looking around, the path of this group seems easy to follow, if you wanted to. . .
Also to clarify when I say something like I did this round (pending Vaud, then Ichabod and Adweard”) all the people I mention should post actions - my “then” is just to convey order the actions happen in, I’ll resolve them in initiative order regardless of post order So right now still pending Ichabod and Adweard. Those of you who’ve played with me before know my tics and how I phrase things, but just trying to explain till we get into the swing of the game.
Sorry Ivar- I read your intent as withdraw there if you’d have done otherwise please feel free to change it- or to adjust your final position.
Round 2
Frank withdraws, and as he does you see a creature walking down the stairs, and hear more chanting for summoning above. Round 3
Turn Order:
Red -18 Status:
Maurice traps the other Nictari after his phantom intimidates him. Addanc misses again. Finja hits, finishing the injured one. Alvero hits with a telekinetic attack. Grym continues inspiring. The final Nictari continues his ill fated attack with his broken spear:
Turn Order:
Addanc: 30/36 Nictari: -2
Round 2
Adweard rushes forward. Two more of the skeletons come lumbering down the stairs! The necromancer has obviously finished animating the ones you saw he was working on! The other two attack, lashing out with four claws each at Ivar!
Turn Order:
Status:
Red -10
Init:
Round 1
Turn order:
While Alvero destroys the other's weapon. Grym casts bless. The Nictari try again to attack:
Turn Order:
Addanc: 30/36
”the Spriggan Lord recognizes no borders, not kings, no Tharbenia nor otherwise here- this whole island is Spriggan Land by divine right, and we shall kill any who say otherwise.”
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