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my unimportant opinion: Honestly, if nothing else, I haven't even looked at PF2, because I know PF1 so well. I have the SRD so throroughly committed to memory that my group finds it faster to ask me things then look them up, and I can create basically any charecter concept I could ever want to play.
Why would I want to give up the flexibility of the sheer number of options of PF1 for something more restrictive, barebones, and that seems... less optimizable. Like that attack at a -10 thing you said. If that's nearly a surefire miss, that seems insane to me. Because in regular pathfinder, that's your third ieritive, and it means that if you only hit on a 20, your main attack is only hitting on a 10+, thus meaning your attacks are halriously unreliable. Reliability is my biggest thing when making a charecter. I hate it when perfectly good tactical plans are thwarted just because the dice say so. Nat 1's already provide more then enough of that.
I'm alive, as much as retail is trying to defeat me.
I hope things work out well. I will definatly miss all you guys, overall. Been a good time for the most part, but my anxiety over the game, when it did happen, was far too prolonged for my own good. You've all been wonderful, and I wish I was more able to stay motivated and avoid my stupid depressive anxiety spirals. But with players as good as you, I should hope you have little trouble finding new games.
I'm glad this got you a charecter you liked, and I hope it serves you well in another game. If you find a new game for her, I'd like to hear about it, if you don't mind telling me. Regardless! Good luck.
And the same to you!
I have, unfortunately, come to the conclusion that I really can't keep doing this. Even if i were to work up the energy again, I think my anxiety would lead be back down to these issues. I don't think I'm really cut out for play by post DMing as a result. Thank you, again, for parting on good terms.
Thank you, all. I'm going to take a while off, then see if I can muster some energy for this again, and make a decision then. Your Thank you all for your kind words and patience- it really helps.
So. Why are my posts so insanely infrequent? Well, here we go. I have rather crippling anxiety. It's my problem, I try and deal with it quietly. But sometimes, it gets the better of me. And by sometimes, I mean often. Lately, and often before, I would get stuck in a loop where I would worry myself to exhaustion about posting, because I'm letting people down, then not post because I was exhausted, piling up guilt and exhaustion as I kept the group waiting longer and longer. I'm not sure I have the energy for this, anymore. I want to hear what you all think. I could keep going, understanding there's no time pressure.
I just can't keep doing it like this. I was dwelling on how long I take to post while I was at work today to the point of it distracting me. This is *purely* my problem, and I'm not blaming anyone else. I just need to talk about this before I just end up uncerminuoisly ceasing to post entierly.
I donmo what to say. Don't usually read stories I'm not involved in, so I've no idea what's going on, and it's been so long I barely remember how to write my charecters. Sorry for not posting much, as a result.
the jaw of the creature is maimed and shattered, before it's eyes are coated in sludge, dropping lawazi and frantically rubbing it's face on the ground to remove the substance.
entering the room, several teiflings can be seen and heard gambling at the table. Severed humanoid ears and fingers are being used as gambling chips. They haven't seen you.
Lina, you want to make your presence known or look in without anyone in potentially noticing? If you're trying to make sure people inside don't notice, stealth please
the front door's lock clicks open, the inside now able to be entered, assumedly.
No need to keep rolling diplomacy
If this isn't clear, the first check succeeded in making him more friendly to you.
soon enough, the howler falls too, the battlefeild finally falling silent. The armored man, for now, is quietly leaning on his spear.
Alive and kicking again?
only the howler and the armored man remains, the howler closing in on lina and attacking, and the armored man watching and leaning on his spear.
the second leg shatters under overwhelming force, and the creature staggers, bowing it's head without it's front two legs. It snaps at lawazi, attempting to snatch him.
I actually didn't notice that, for the last thing, thanks for catching that. So azlana doesn't have to make the save.
If lina doesn't have a visible holy symbol, redirect sunder to her chain shirt.
[I] the howler, upon seeing lina's holy symbols, snarls and backs up a bit, before releasing a horrid howl, grating and sounding somewhat reminiscent of grinding glass. Some of it's wounds stitch up from the healing, but it seems to be alone in this, among the demons, as the varmleks don't seem to heal. Anguis shifts in posture in response to the positive energy, and looks to azalina. He doesn't do anything this round.
Meanwhile, the varmlek seems to swell with some sort of irritation at lina, gripping it's blade tight in both hands before taking a swing at lina's holy symbol.
The cultist hanna is fighting
the leg shatters and falls apart, the beast staggers, and mist wafts out from the shards. the beast inhales heavily and breathes out a similar, yet much colder mist around.
there's a deafening crack as a wave of cold emanates from the creature as it wraps itself in the storm, turning to a coat of ice and mist. The storm the creature was creating seems to be gone, leaving vision clear in the area for the first time. The creature lowers it's head to nearly ground level, shifts stance, and readies itself.
the varmlek attacking uerto finally falls, but the varmlek attacking shayde doesn't much seem to care about the most recent damage it sustained.
the cultist misses again, hands shaking, while anguis impales another.
I think I can work with that. I'll have to do quite a bit of revision to some of the plans for the small party, but I'm already getting some ideas.
If I'm running it for so few people, I'm gonna need to know what to start adjusting to.
So, I've been thinking. What do you all want to see out of this game?
Sorry for not getting to it yesterday, but Pazio being down was during the time window I had to post
The blinded varmlek shakes out the black gunk in it's eyes, it's strange body nearly causing the attack to fail, but the blade did manage to actually connect with some of the wretched creature's actual innards.
The varmlek that burst out of it's host body burrows into the ground.
And the howler keeps missing. The other varmlek steps up to stalker, and takes it's shot at the shadow beast.
None of them seem to be learning thier lesson. The varmlek, full of arrows, seems to decide that the magic missles are more annoying then the arrows, because it moves over to attack uerto.
Hmm. Ugh, i honestly am not sure what to do here. I'll try and press on so long as we have some interested people.
I'm honestly stumped here. It kinda seems like interest has dwindled. And it's 100% my fault, for being so slow.
Uerto, you already knocked two of those out, you know
both of the recently summoned dretches drop unconcious, though the varmlek remains unaffected, before two more arrows sink into it's flesh. The varmlek still seems only somewhat annoyed, dispite looking a bit like a pincushion. It steps closer and strikes at azlana again.
The fight between demon cultists continues, anguis killing the howler.
The remaining varmleks attempt to fight, but end up utterly useless, unable to hit thier targets, and the attempt at summoning from one utterly fails.
The howler can't seem to strike at stalker properly, but it doesn't seem to understand that this isn't really working.
Shayde?
Roy? Gin? It's been two weeks. Are the rest of you still into this game, rivit, luca, lawazi?
I still am alive, so that's an upside. It's bitter cold up here, currently at -15. Beyond that, I'm doing alright. Have a pathfinder game with a friend, and it's the first one besides this one I've got to play in years.
the varmlek hanna was attacking drops, but is soon standing again after the varmlek keeping it's distance heals it with a necrotic spell, also healing the wounds from shayde on the other varmlek. the varmlek near azalana steps back and calls to the abyss to summon a pair of dretches. cultists attempt to attack hanna, and end up attacking the wall. the howlers keep attacking their marks, biting into them. the varmlek that was downed carefully crawls away before bursting out of the corpse it's in with a horrid display of gore.
anquis stabs the howler, embedding another quill in himself.
It's cold iron.
demons and cultists coalesce from every angle around the museum. One cultist falls, lina cuts into a vermlek, azalina falls the wounded howler, uerto hits another howler with a ray of singing light, but just as soon as those in the back feel a moment of relief, from the previously dark room emerges yet another vermlek, getting in lina's face. anguis gets torn into after stabbing a vermlek, but he still doesn't react or much seem to care.
Anguis lunges at the hideously obese worm-man, stabbing it firmly before wrenching his spear out of the beast.
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