| Vodalian |
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... and had a great time! We were playing abomination vaults and I joined on level 3. I have maxed intimidate and all the coercion feats as well as bard dedication.
We are a party of 4 but barbarian couldn't attend so we were 3: human fighter, (human looking) wizard medic (gave a hint he's not human but didn't want it to be revealed yet), goblin alchemist. Also there was a ghoul level 3 npc helping us. Goblin alchemist and I were new to the system.
The good: The encounters were varied and monsters interesting (1 haunt, one fight against +2 enemy and one fight against +3 enemy). I felt my character was effective and I could do a lot of stuff: double slice, intimidate, coerce, bull horn cantrip to boost intimidate and shield cantrip to defend myself. Risky surgery with assurance from wizard seemed really effective, healed me to full after going to half hp from haunt. In combat he couldn't really hit anything with produce flame though, he got one nice call from the grave off.
The bad: The alchemist and wizard were struggling.
fighter: 37 + frightened 1
wizard: 5 + sickened 1
ghoul npc: 20 + paralyze
alchemist: 0 (didn't want to use splash since it would hit ally)
The +3 monster we encountered after this was a wood golem. Our alchemist was mvp here, doing (2d6) on miss. Once he ran out of reagents our GM allowed our wizard to fast-forward cheese the golem by opening door + produce flame + ally closes door to finish him off, since he wouldn't chase outside the room. All in all:
fighter: 11
alchemist: 42
ghoul npc: 6
wizard: 0 during actual combat, 36 over 4-5 rolls after GM allowed us to end combat and cheese using the door.
The alchemist didn't really seem to have any skill actions and even the second bomb throw each turn seemed a waste (except vs the golem), wizard had +1 striking crossbow but didn't hit with it once.
All in all I had a good time but I don't know if my allies did.