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So what we are trying to solve is can a bard who is around the corner use countersong to counter a fireball that he can't see with his auditory performance.

Does he need to be able to identify the spell being cast?

So, assuming the following

-Sorcerer level 20
-Quicken Metamagic feat
-Maximize Metamagic feat
-Empower Metamagic feat
-Spell Perfection: Battering Blast
-Mythic tiers (Archmage)
-3 Path Abilities of Arcane Metamastery

Round Zero
-Swift action to activate Arcane Metamastery picking Maximize Metamagic

Round 1
-Apply Maximize metamagic with Arcane Metamastery (no change in casting time or spell slot)
-Apply Empower Metamagic with Spell Perfection (no change in casting time, spell slot would be 9 or less, no change in spell slot)
- Spell casts as a standard action level 3 slot

-Swift action
-Apply Quicken Spell with Spell Perfection (no change in spell slot but spell must end up as 9 or lower including quickens +4)
-Apply Maximize Metamagic with Arcane Metamastery (no change in casting time or spell slot)
-Apply Empower Metamagic: increases spell slot by 2, would make spell casting a full round action but quicken keeps it swift
-final spell slot is: 3 + 4 Quicken + 2 Empowered (Maximize does not count against)=9 so Spell Perfection can work and brings final slot down to 5

End result

1 round use a standard to cast Maximized Empowered Battering Blast for a level 3 slot, and again as a Swift action for a Quickened Maximized Empowered Battering Blast with a level 5 slot.

Is that the correct interpretation?

So during, but more after a session I argued a few points with GM. Neither of us has convinced the other so I wanted to see what an outside consensus was.

1. How much do your characters know about items in their world. Specifically when taking a prisoner would they know to remove any rings or cloaks that might be magical until they can have someone detect magic on the items.

2. Tactical forethought. If a character with a low Int but average wisdom chased off after an enemy and came to a T junction is it reasonable for them to stop and suspecting a possible flanking ambush wait and set up their own ambush. For this one ignore the “depends on the actual character” as the conversation dealt with mental stats.

3. Expediting game play. For this I had my primary weapon destroyed at the end of a session and knowing about spells that could repair it looked them up to determine that our cleric could indeed do it after resting. Since some other players don’t level up and choose spells in between sessions, eating into gameplay I was hoping to save a 2 minute conversation asking if anyone could fix it, waiting while everyone checks their spell lists and determining that the cleric could. The GM felt that my going straight to the cleric next session and asking if he could magically repair it was too metagamey even after my explanation.

I’m not looking for any kind of “I told you so” out of this I just want to see if there are lots of people who feel that these would be meta gaming, or if they would be reasonable

Either way the friendship is fine we weren’t mad and the game proceeded on.

I'm looking to put a "festival" of sorts in between books 1 and 2 to give the PC's some time to enjoy the city and to help.... spread money around..... I was planning on giving the PC's each a number of "Action Points" and a list of the days events and they can choose to participate in whichever events (or none at all) they want. One of the ones I'm most keen on is a sort of scavenger hunt to help give the PC's a sense of the city that they are going to need to care about. Where there are say 10 locations and each group that is participating is given one of the clues and must solve the riddle, reach the destination, collect whatever token, (like a wooden rabbit or something) is there to prove they found the correct place and return it to the main stage to receive the next clue down and so on until the first team solves all 10.

For example;

"Gold is my head, Gold is my tail. I make my home amongst the Sails"

-Would refer to the bank of Abadar, since a Korvosan gold coin is called a Gold Sail

As far as locations go I was thinking of;

The Bank of Abadar
The Acadamae (Or the Gilded Orrery)
The Iron Works
The Temple of Aroden (Or Exemplary Execrables)
The Pantheon of Many
The Great Tomb of Leadership
Kendall Amphitheater (Or Gatefoot)
The Marble Dome
Orsini Academy
Avenue of Arms

Any help figuring out some neat riddles would be greatly appreciated. Bonus points if the riddle uses Korvosan lore (The naming of the Kendall Amphitheater) to reward players who have read the Korvosan history primer I made. Any PC making a Knowledge:Local, or an Int check will also "figure out" the clue if they are stumped. With rerolls every in game 30 minutes.