Here is Zorblag's Dromite Tactician (Battle Medic) who could step in as a healer/support long term either replacing Krat (skill monkey/striker,) or, if need be I could play both at table one while we get things going. I think that at this point I'm happy enough with both builds that I can play whichever is more convenient for the table.
I don't know if it's in the character creation details, but the Spheres classes had been decided against for character creation earlier. I guess I'd assume that would go for archetypes as well (as adding a Spheres archetype is essentially just making something a Spheres class.)
Krat is now upgraded and ready to go. I've added a couple traits and taken away drawbacks, added a bit more vigor, and now have the circuitbreaker archetype, though it doesn't do that much. It's mostly the same Krat as before. Let me know if anything looks off! Now I'm taking a look at a tactician.
I think that with the new build rules and a free archetype I'll probably just teak Krat slightly. Adding the Circuit Breaker archetype to what I've got now would fit the setting well enough I think. I think I'm also going to see what I can put together for a Dromite Tactician (Battle Medic) just to see what I think of it and then decide which to play. I should have time to put that together by tomorrow or Monday at the latest as we're starting at level 1. Rolls:
From that first set I can make a 18, 16, 16, 14, 14, 10 spread, so let's plan on that.
Sounds good! Just making sure I wasn't missing something! I've changed up the talents to match the new alteration sphere changes and now I can throw a dagger at an enemy and try to turn them into a fish, not because it's particularly effective, but because it's fun.
There's nothing I desperately need from this batch of treasure, though holding onto the potions of pass without trace might come in handy for the future, and anyone who uses arrows regularly should probably grab those seeking arrows or sleep arrows just to have them.
Just as a heads up, I'll be taking my daughters camping this next week so I probably won't be able to post Monday through Friday. If Krat manages to get down to join the others then he'll follow along quietly. The group can have him be sneaky and check things out if they like, but hopefully I'll be back in time to help with anything major that might come up!
One ability I think we could benefit from as a group would likely be some version of speak with the dead (given Krauz's Oath against Mercy we're not going to be able to ask survivors of battles questions very often.) I haven't done an exhaustive search of SoP, but I do know gravetongue from the Death Sphere doesn't do it (it just lets you learn what the corpse knows after it died.) Vhinservun can cast it via scroll (and once per day she could not use the scroll, but rather a third level spell slot, though there's likely to be competition for that ability from other scrolls.) But that's not really something that would work as an extract anyhow as the target is a corpse rather than a player. I assume you're looking at the instill talents from Spheres of power; that's the mechanism that I'm aware of that really lets you use SoP as potion-like stuff. The Alteration sphere has a bunch of potentially interesting stuff (which has the benefit of combining a number of effects into one instillation.) Fate motifs are nice in that they do a number of potentially interesting things and have a duration of an hour per caster level. I don't have any particular recommendations beyond that though, whatever seems fun to play around with is probably worth it!
Joke's on them. Krauz works better when he's not out in direct sunlight!
Hearing the voice order an attack Kazu focuses on the enemies he's detected up the southern slop. Losing himself in a rage and letting out a battle cry to strengthen the resolve of his comrades, he then focuses on his arm and warps above the head of one of the archers lurking up the slope to the south. Stance (the one listed as current before combat started): Primal Warrior Stance (attacks count as two size categories larger)
(hits)
Using Reaper's Momentum to make an free attack after reducing an enemy to 0 hp.
Using Reaper's Momentum again (can only use twice per round) to make a free attack after reducing an enemy to 0 hp.
Using Advancing Carnage to attack an enemy adjacent to the first one attacked (the one to the SW, 1st use of up to 4).
Using Advancing Carnage to attack an enemy adjacent to the last one attacked with advancing carnage (2nd use of up to 4)
Second attack from Monk Weapon Training
Using Advancing Carnage to attack an enemy adjacent to the last one attacked with advancing carnage (3nd use of up to 4)
Using Advancing Carnage to attack an enemy adjacent to the last one attacked with advancing carnage (4th use of up to 4)
That should take out the one below Kazu, the one to his west, the one to his southwest, the one to his south, and the one to his southeast. The one to his east has 2 hp. Kazu's AC for the round is 35 (-2 from berserking, +3 from tight focus)
As he turns to look for a way down into the newly formed chasm Krat sees Eleven_Zee_Alpha tumble into the pit below. Swearing under his breath he turns to Transient. "If you think you can climb down now without a fall like that check on her as quick as you can." Turning back to the crowd the "kobold" calls out, "You all heard Seer Zorotaer! He knew we had a purpose and it was down there. I don't know what that purpose is yet, but we'll need to attend to the one who just fell quickly so that we can get to it and avoid the doom the Seer hinted at. I need someone to bring some rope and I need it now!"
Krat watches the elder ophiduan's entrance with interest, but then his eyes narrow when he seems to be singling out their group. Glancing around quickly to make sure he's not mistaken, he's then taken by surprise as the earth begins to shake and throw himself to the ground to avoid being knocked over by anything else. When the shaking has stopped, as Eleven_Zee_Alpha and interact with Zorotaer and those around him, his words echo in Krat's ears, "The ground will split and the Flow will be torn asunder! All will be lost... Unless... you, you! And... And you and you! ... Cut the strings ..." Given his status as a revered seer Krat decides to take Zorotaer at his word and looks around frantically to see if there's any evidence that the shaking of the earth has opened up some sort of chasm in the ground or if there's anything that might be classified as a string that there wasn't before (it seems unlikely he'll find the strings right away, but splitting ground would fit in with the scene quite well.)
@Soto, one thing I'll add to that archetype is that if you have free feat available you can take Channel Life which would let you use any of the spell like abilities as part of your channel. You'd still pay the cost and it would only affect one person unless you spent the extra SP to have it affect more than one, in which case it would affect everyone the channel does. It'd be a way to combine some healing/restoring functions in terms of action economy. @Krauz, the obvious sources of AC for you are Natural Armor, Deflection and Shield. You're wearing armor now which only gives you 1 AC over what you'd get from the Defense Bonus you'd get for not wearing it (and the defense bonus would catch up next level), so it might or might not be an efficient use of gold (though I know you reference it in your backstory.) A ring of protection or amulet of natural armor would both add some if you can afford them by switching out equipment. If you can find a way to get either two feats or a feat and a talent in you could pick up Shield Focus (or the talent Shield Expert) and Unhindering Shield you could pick up a +1 Mithral Buckler would give you +3 shield bonus to AC without any penalties to attack or casting spells. Others are using Oaths to get some bonuses to AC without having to pay for them which is making them higher than they would otherwise be. In Kolvar's case he's actually applying the Enhanced Defenses to the Defense Bonus when as far as I can tell it's supposed to be applied to a shield or suit or armor (or clothing if you're using armor AC and not wearing armor like a standard Monk.) The Defense bonus specifically says it's there to replace the need to add enhancement bonuses to armor, so by default it wouldn't apply to that, though it's up to Sebecloki how he wants the mechanisms to interact here. In Rhûnn's case he's getting Str to AC as natural armor that says it doesn't stack with other sources of Natural armor from muscles of steel (listed as Str to AC in his character sheet) so it's not clear that the NA he's getting from Inhuman resilience would also apply (though that one is an enhancemnt bonus to NA, so it's more likely to as you can usually apply enhancment bonuses on top of other bonuses.) With the hitpoints we've got probably high healing is going to be enough to offset getting hit, so you're probably OK regardless, but those are some thoughts from my end.
Actually, I promised simple, so here's an archetype that you could add no matter what else you're doing with your build. You'll fight like normal and cast the spells added like normal. It gives you a small additional smite option (which lasts one attack, costs an immediate action and will usually be usable once per fight,) and gives you some more healing and restoration spells. Let me know if it all makes sense or if anything looks like you'd hate to have it. While no where near optimized, it should be pretty easy to use to supplement the rest of what you're doing. Valiant Champion Archetype (healing specialized): Martial Focus: You start each day with Martial Focus. It can be expended to take 13 on any single Fortitude or Reflex save (like take 10, but you automatically roll a 13 instead) or used for your Insightful Strike. You recover martial focus after 1 minute of rest, taking the total defense action, or Using Focusing Grasp. Insightful Strike (Su) Whenever the valiant champion would successfully damage a creature, he may, as an immediate action, determine if the creature is evi (as if using Detect Evil.) If the creature is evil, he may expend her martial focus to smite the creature as a free action that can be taken even when it is not her turn, applying the benefits of her smite evil ability to the creature as normal for the attack. Focusing Grasp The valiant champion can use her lay on hands ability on herself as a move action to regain her martial focus, in addition to healing normally. Talents These are a set of talents (all from the Life Sphere) which will let you do some more healing and be very good at removing detrimental conditions. Casting Tradition: Life Sphere
Spherecasting: What can you do? All the effects below are subject to Spell Resistance and count as spells, so might be resisted with a DC 12 + Cha bonus Will save. A save negates all but the Cure action and halves the healing from Cure. This might matter if someone has an oath against magic or you’re healing an unwilling creature for some other reason. All of the standard actions below will grant the target +30 to all movement speeds for 1 minute or until they take damage from either failing a saving throw or being hit with an attack roll. All the standard actions affect 1 creature within 25 feet, but you can spend 1 extra SP on any of them to affect up to 3 creatures (still within 25 feet) Spell Pool: Each day you gain a spell pool of 12 + Cha bonus spell points to use on the following Actions. New Standard Casting Actions (basically your new spells): Break Enchantment: Movement + Spend 1 SP to remove all magic from the target that has a duration. This may be used against curses including cursed equipment, although it does not remove the curse from the equipment and instead suppresses the effect long enough for the item to be removed. Instead of a saving throw, you must succeed at a magic skill check against each magical effect in order to remove it. You may choose not to remove certain effects if you so desire (for example, you may target only harmful effects and not beneficial ones). This counts as using the break enchantment or remove curse spell against those spells and effects that specify they can only be removed through those spells. This has no effect on other instantaneous effects. Cure: Movement + Spend 1 SP heal 1d8 + 20 damage. Invigorate: Movement + Spend 0 SP give 4 temporary HP (up to their max HP at most.) Restore Body: Movement + Spend 1 SP to remove the battered, fatigued, exhausted, sickened, and nauseated conditions, and and you may attempt a magic skill check (1d20 + 8) against the DC of any poison or disease the target is suffering from. On a success, this removes that poison or disease from the target. This does not reverse damage the target may have suffered from the poison or disease (such as ability damage), but it does stop the poison or disease from causing any more. Restore Capacity: Movement + Spend 1 SP to allow target to make an immediate Escape Artist Check with +4 Circumstance bonus against any applicable condition, remove the stunned condition, remove lessening of movement speed or removal of movement type or loss of power of speech. If the target is paralyzed you may attempt a magic skill check (1d20 +8) agains the DC to remove the paralysis. Restore Mind: Movement + Spend 1 SP to remove all of confusion, the dazzled, dazed, shaken, frightened, panicked, and staggered conditions, blindness, deafness, loss of other senses (tremorsense, blindsense, etc …) and cure 1d4 points of sanity damage. Restore Soul: Movement + Spend 1 SP to cure all ability damage as well as all ability drain to one ability score. Target is also cured of 1 temporary negative level or suppress 1 permanent negative level for 4 minutes.
This all sounds good, I just need a compilation when you're all done so I have something to work w/ when I throw references to this stuff into the campaign. Here's what I've got so far for the Companions of the Broken Band. I think that I've got all the current completed builds, but if I missed anyone do let me know (Vargarn's not in there because he's been replaced by Avira I think.) If anyone wants to be able to edit the document just send me a request and I'll give permission, and if anyone's not happy with how I wrote anything up or characterized anything do let me know!
I suppose the other option for gestalt would be to have one psionic class and one path of war, though I don't know if that would actually fill the roles that might be missing (Krat would almost certainly want to gestalt into Harbinger for example.)
It seems like we have at least 4 or 5 still about and interested in playing at this point, so I wonder if gestalt is really needed? I guess of the two options I'd prefer some minor gestalt option to cover things that aren't just now (mostly healing if Gigar is gone, though he was actively fairly recently, so I'm not convinced we've lost him,) to new recruits for now.
How about Yorlak the Butcher, a Graveknight that the Companions defeated some time ago only to have Sir Falgorn claim his armor as his own and then be killed by it when Yorlak's rejuvination kicked in a week later (another Companion lost, alas!) Yorlak, a particularly brutal mercenary captain in life, had been the undead lord of a keep that the Companions cleared out back in the day, but since being defeated and coming back he's now become the field general for some more powerful enemy that we won't know yet (which Sebecloki can do whatever he'd like with.) Of course Yorlak's grown more powerful himself, and is now in command of some formidable forces so he'll be a challenge in and of himself the next time we cross paths.
So for group planning purposes, I went with the Companions of the Broken Band for the name of our mercenary company in my backstory because someone else had used that. Is that something that everyone is happy with? Does anyone fancy being the initial member of the group that's survived all the (mis)adventures so far and recruited the rest of us over the years? Further, we're collectively supposed to have three persistent enemies that our group has managed to aquire over the years. I've tentatively put an aboleth (unnamed, but I'm sure we could come up with a good one,) in my backstory, but I'm not wedded to it if someone else has a better plan (though for long term enemies I think an aboleth is up there.)
Yeah, we'll cover things for a bit while you focus on RL. Your health is much more important than the game! When you're up for being back we'll be thrilled to have you!
@Transient, you're lurking and following us based on the post from before. Why not be in the alley behind the merchant depot that we're about to try to sneak into? You could offer to draw any attention away from the Gigar carrying Eleven_Zee_Alpha over his shoulder for reasons that we don't understand and we could go from there perhaps?
I'm fine with you taking the adventure where ever it makes the most sense to you and from whatever sources you like. Other than working with psionics instead of magic as the supernatural force in the world and more lizards and insects than mammals (not that you can tell from our characters,) I don't have that many expectations you can shatter by using multiple sources.
So I'm fine with whatever division happens, but Eleven_Zee_Alpha, Gigar and Krat have a potential start to a connection and would probably make a fine group with a fourth (perhaps ideally a melee type, so Transient or Tai Pao Leng?) thrown in.
Krat the Brutal is here. Other than fixing the formatting from the recruitment thread there are no changes, but let me know if anything looks off.
By AC bonus do you mean the defense bonus or the bonus you get from armor? I mean the defense bonus we're (potentially) using in place of armor. It's not clear that the ABP armor attunement would interact with it. By default I think it wouldn't, but the purpose of the armor bonus is to allow for armor-free swashbuckling action, so I'm hoping that we can enhance it with ABP.
So from the second set of those (the best by just a bit I think) I'd have 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 5, 5, 5, 5, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3, 2 Perhaps an 18, 18, 16, 16, 12, 9 My first inclination would be to roll up a Blue Cryptic, but if Today ... was looking at Cryptic already I might explore some other options. Maybe a Tactician of some sort would augment the rest of the group nicely. I'll see what I can come up with in the next couple days.
First up, the important bit. I have no issue at all with what you're saying. We're going to put different spins on some of the topics, but you're describing your preferences and I'm describing mine. That they don't match up exactly is absolutely fine. For your second point, as someone who doesn't and hasn't used HeroLab, it's not a major consideration for me, but I can see why it would shape your preference. For flexibility vs. power, I agree that for some classes adding the ability to cast any spell from your spell list is a nice boost in flexibility. If you're including, for example, a wizard or cleric as part of your gestalt that's a really nice boost for different things you can do with an swift action. It increases with level and it's also not the only way that Mythic can increase flexibility, but gets to be less of a flexibility bonus for gestalts that don't pick as varied a spell list (6 level caster, characters without a spell list at all, etc ...) I think that adding an entirely new classes set of abilities (spells, powers, whatever comes with the class,) will usually trump that flexibility for me, but mileage will certainly vary from build to build. For the swift action bottleneck, you're certainly right that it's a thing. For some classes it comes up even before you try to add anything like mystic, gestalt, morestalt or whatever (Warpriest springs immediately to mind, but I'm sure there are plenty of others.) If you're talking about mystic and adding the ability to cast any spell, that's going to eat the swift action just as much as any class ability would. Not being able to gain extra swift actions in (almost) any way is one of the big limiters on any of the characters we'd be building using these expanded rule sets. I guess that when I talk about the extra classes adding flexibility, I'm not expecting to use them all at the same time, but having more options to deal with a variety of situations. There are bonuses that will simply get added all the time (I view that as more of a power boost,) but having more tools to deal with different types of obstacles, or more limited shot abilities to spread out over the day is where the extra class features shine for me.
Right, so I've updated the loot sheet with a bit of new information. I added the potions we got from Chief Sull (distributing 1 potion of healing to each party member, and putting the 3 potions of lesser restoration on Petsha for now, though if anyone else wants to carry them they're more than welcome to.) I've added a column in the Item section to indicate who is holding the item. That's separate from who's using the items so that the scroll of remove fear or the potions we've found now aren't counting towards the shares of the person holding them, but we still know where everything is. I split items up as seemed to make some sense to me (so, for example, Fley has the potion of invisibility,) but we can absolutely find other places for them. I assumed that Ardriel and Petsha would sell their old chain shirts when they replaced them with the masterwork ones. For items we find in the future, it'll be easy enough to change the status from whoever was using them to sold, but for starting gear (which doesn't show up on items,) I simply added the items to the crafted/purchased column with a negative cost (so that the money is going back to the pool of money we have to spend.) This should also handle how we're tracking items that we purchase and then sell back in the future if we want to do it that way. Right now I'm assuming that consumable items should not count against a character's share of the treasure. They're counting to our total value as we could sell them if we needed to, but once they're used that value will go away. When we purchase or craft things like that in the future I assume that they'll come out of the group share that we've created, but we can discuss that further if people like. As far as purchasing items from the group shares, right now the spreadsheet isn't tracking that exactly. Instead it tracks how much value each person has from the treasure we've found, or what's been purchased otherwise. There's a bonus for using items that we find or craft built in, in that they contribute half of their value the character's share. There's also a tab of the currently available gold that doesn't assume that we've split it up among the party. By my thinking, for example, if at some point we had enough for Leothar to purchase an appropriate suit of armor he should go ahead an purchase that without needing to wait until he's personally saved enough for the share. As long as we're keeping the track of the value each person has from the general treasure and we work together to keep the party in general well equipped. If there's a dispute about spending the money, then the obvious default tie-breaker would be that the character who has less value so far would make that decision, though I hope we can avoid needing that to be a huge issue and mostly just play nice and take turns with the cool loot. Perhaps I'm being overly idealistic.
So rather than cluttering up the game thread with what we're going to try to sell, would anyone like any of the following items? They're the ones that I assume it makes the most sense to sell if we're not going to immediately use. Flint and steel
It sounded like Ian would use the masterwork warhammer if no one else wanted it, and that Ardriel would use one of the masterwork chain shirts. I would probably upgrade my chain shirt to masterwork as well if no one else would make use of it. I'm inclined to sell the rest now (as well as at least the chain shirt I was wearing before upgrading,) unless someone sees something they'd use. I also saw that Leothar would purchase a masterwork buckler if one was available. I'm fine with that. Are there other immediate purchases anyone would like to make?
I'd probably make an AI Empiricist for this setting. He seeks knowledge not because he hopes it will give answers that are satisfying or that things will fit together to make the world make sense, but because it's another sort of toil. Surely someone needs to understand how things work, and even if they don't he doesn't have a greater purpose to work for, so he might as well do this. Having said that, how common is alchemy? Are alchemical items commonplace or are they more along the line of the arcane? I assume that potions, mutagens and extracts would be as rare as arcane magic, but items like smokesticks and defoliant might be less unusual?
I've updated the loot sheet (and added a column so that we can more easily find the posts where things were first introduced in case we need to later on.) I'm not tracking on the sheet where the potions currently are and am leaving that to players to record on character sheets. I'm also assuming that we did take the ring off the Hecuva back at the temple; we would have checked in for magic back when Ardriel did the potions I assume, though we didn't mention it. There are a few items now that could use more examining (the ring, the statuette, the spellbook.) In any case, if you see anything out of place, do still let me know!
I've got a link to a potential loot sheet in my header now. I've tried to make it mostly automated so that there's not a lot we have to do other than entering what we've found, its value (or for items the sell value) and what's currently being done with it. It in theory lets us know what an approximate share of the treasure would look like value-wise, and where everyone is sitting. I'm not all that worried about who's going to get the valuable stuff in this case, but the sheet should do the tracking in any case. If anyone has changes they would like to see do let me know (or you're welcome to make them as anyone can edit it.) I'm also happy to answer any questions if anything there isn't clear. The second sheet is just there to do some calculations behind the scenes, so you can leave it alone.
Congratulations to those selected! Have a fun game!
Well, the term comes more from a wandering band of driftless adventurers who go around "solving" problems by killing everything they encounter. They're the hobos doing the murdering, not a party who murders hobos.
I'm inclined to leave them unconscious rather than dead. At least for sentient enemies. Especially in this bit where we're trying to get them to move on out rather than kill them. Were this a more typical murderhobo party then death would be simpler, but I think we're more nuanced than that (I hope at least.)
Pajet nods. "That sounds like a plan to me. Oh, and I might have picked up a couple things on our way here. Nex and Ekaitz, you might make use of this scroll. It seems divine in nature and from what I can tell that's up your alley. There's also this amulet here which looks interesting. Near as I can tell it can protect the wearer for demonic possession and the like. Does anyone feel like they might be in immediate danger of such things?" The gnome passes the scroll over to whichever of Nex or Ekaitz acts to take it first and holds the amulet of life protection up for all to see. Should anyone express interest she'll hand it over without reservation. "Now then, where did that half-orc get to I wonder. Think he'll be excited to try to route some bandits?"
As Yantri approaches the meek looking worker at the front desk she takes in all she can of the shop, it's contents and workers, trying hard to figure out the purpose of anything she doesn't immediately recognize (which, given her experience, is most of the equipment.) When she reaches the woman she gives an awkward bow and introduces herself. "Good afternoon your ladyship. I'm new in town and trying to orient myself, but I've been assured on good authority that you'd be the best option to help me with a project that I'm working on. You see, the duchess, Lady Origena Devy, has asked my friends and I to do a bit of scouting that might be a bit dangerous, and I was hoping that I could do a little work on this musket that I've put together to help make it more reliable." As she speaks, the dwarf pulls out Penance, being careful to keep it aimed at the ground at all times and presents it to Phaedra for inspection if she's willing to take a look. "I know that it's pretty rough work, and I'm hoping that you, or whoever the most familiar with such things in your shop might be, will be able to give some professional guidance."
So at this point those rolls are very makeable for both Ethana and Lady Zal-Azra. Given that they seem busy IRL I'd support making the rolls for them at this point to move things along. Without using any resources (I don't know the characters well enough to know if they have resources that would help,) it'd be something like
Right, easy I said.
Ah, there were the easy parts. In any case, if you'd take those as proxy rolls for Ethana who's busy with finals or like to make your own, I'm all for seeing what we can do to get back to moving again. Exciting times are on the horizon!
I'm switching to this avatar just so we don't have two characters with the same one. Sorry for any confusion for those that have been with me in the other thread!
Here's to the end being in sight! Given our posting rate as a group jut now I think we'll make do with what you can get us. Best of luck and let us know if we can help in any way!
Yantri's attention is focused on the tunnel, but when the bars slide down she briefly turns back to watch and nod. As she turns back towards the tunnel she sees Sheridan moving towards the chests. Having learned that the Ifrit's attention is prone to wander she calls out a reminder. "Nice work there with the bars, but don't forget to check the chests for traps before you start poking at the locks."
I sadly don't have precise shot yet (as point blank shot is the prerequisite,) so cover and in melee do both apply. I do wonder if the monster (I'm assuming ghoul) moved before attacking Stone though. If it was right there at the front of the tunnel and didn't need to move then it doesn't help, but if it did move so it should probably have only gotten one claw attack in. If so, that one probably missed and that makes things better for him.
"Nice work Kane. Seems that your kindness to the suffering and your memory paid off handily. You're showing your bravery too. It's good to have you with us here." Yantri looks to the rest of the group. "Now that we know the pass phrase we can probably get people in any time we please. Do we want to send a scout, Sheridan or I as we can see the best in this environment, to see if the room seems safe? Or do we want to get everyone in and start poking around when we're sure we've got the numbers to take anything that might jump out at us. So far I haven't seen any indications that the kobolds have been here. I don't know what to expect past this or if it's going to lead us to whatever brought the tower down today, but there's clearly been enough danger to proceed with our eyes wide open."
Right, here's some work on my best guesses for the sub-abilities and what they will affect. I looked at the reference document to make educated guesses where I could, but some things (like Charisma for Use Magic Device, which I don't really think should be charisma based to begin with,) I'm just taking wild guesses. The bonus abilities per day based on stat I used the passives for, partially because they tend to be less used and partially because it made sense for Stamina in particular, but perhaps they should be active or a mix. I'm happy to have any changes made, but I figured I could just in and start some of the work. If there are other bonuses and penalties that should be added in then do add them! Ability Sub-score modifiers: Skills Acrobatics (Balance) Appraise (Reason) Autohypnosis (Willpower) Bluff (Appearance) Climb (Stamina) Craft (Reason) Diplomacy (Leadership) Disable Device (Aim) Disguise (Appearance) Escape Artist (Aim) Fly (Balance) Handle Animal (Leadership) Heal (Intuition) Intimidate (Appearance) Knowledge: All (Knowledge) Linguistics (Knowledge) Perception (Intuition) Perform (Appearance) Profession (Intuition) Ride (Balance) Sense Motive (Intuition) Sleight of Hand (Aim) Spellcraft (Reason) Stealth (Balance) Survival (Intuition) Swim (Stamina) Use Magic Device (Leadership) Other uses
I'm too lazy to look it up, but are we talking goblin ninjas in the comic? That's an early one. I can't wait till we go up a level. Or down one? It's so confusing.
So if Surtur needs a cover story for where he's coming from, I might suggest that we take what's actually happening and use as much of it as possible. He's left the traditional tribal lands as the efforts his people were making to reclaim them weren't working. Instead he's been wandering the past couple years assembling a team specifically designed to take out the threat. After assembling the team here from all over the region (mostly not in the dragon's lands, but it might be suspicious if none of us came from there,) he's just finished hiring the mercenaries that will come with and is making his first move. @Surtur, I think that Kulwa is likely to confront us fairly early after we get there. He won't be out fighting the Mantids and reading between the lines he's likely to want a share of our take to leave us in relative peace. I could be wrong, but I think we'll need to do something about dealing with him (even if it's paying him the protection money,) almost from the start.
Histrok's Arrival: Upon being ushered into the series of chambers, the Hobgoblin glances around. Histrok, gray-skinned and ever so slightly stooped, isn't physically impressive for a hobgoblin, being neither heavily muscled nor tall or imposing in any way. When walking, little effort for stepping softly seems to be made, either by intention or because the typical hobgoblin skill simply isn't there. Dressed in a simple cloak with travel clothes beneath, Histrok carries an unadorned scroll case tucked under one arm.
As the hobgoblin's gaze takes in ones surroundings, one sets off fairly directly in the direction of Surtur, not hurrying, but with purpose. When Histrok is about 5 feet away from the large human, one gives a shallow bow. "Leader Surtur I assume? It's good to meet you. I am Histrok, presenting myself to you on behalf of the Dragon. I am to provide support in finding the truth, from people and from the land, using my experience, my magic and with help from the Spirits of my Ancenstors. It is hoped that I will be able to help inform the decisions you make decisions in your expedition. My knowledge is your knowledge to use as you see fit, and I will do my best to determine in advance any threats that might beset our group. "Is there any way I can offer my services at this time, or shall I adjourn to the table to await the full gathering?" Histrok looks towards Sutur, not holding his gaze, but awaiting a response.
Sheesh. I think that most of the time I'll be able to spell Antonio. Not that last one though. Sorry!
As she reloads her musket, Yantri mutters under her breath, "Good, I knew it would work this time." |
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