Pirate Rob |
Is Rasuna a Pathfinder, or just studying the Maze with their permission etc?
She says "“I’m an elementalist working out of the Grand Lodge, and Venture-Captain Ambrus Valsin gave me permission to study the disturbances we’ve been seeing lately. I didn’t expect to end up in this situation!”
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Various Rewards:
"If at least half the PCs succeed at their retuning check, the raw energy responds to their desire, so long as it’s unanimous."
Do I just ask the players if their characters want a diplomatic boon or a combat boon, and then provide nothing unless they hive the same answer? I'm a little puzzled by the expectation here.
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Plane of Metal:
Folded Hounds can get the speeds and strikes of animal forms. I've included them in the spoiler below.
Bear Speed 30 feet; Melee [one-action] jaws, Damage 2d8 piercing; Melee [one-action] claw (agile), Damage 1d8 slashing.
Bull Speed 30 feet; Melee [one-action] horn, Damage 2d8 piercing.
Canine Speed 40 feet; Melee [one-action] jaws, Damage 2d8 piercing.
Cat Speed 40 feet; Melee [one-action] jaws, Damage 2d6 piercing; Melee [one-action] claw (agile), Damage 1d10 slashing.
Deer Speed 50 feet; Melee [one-action] antler, Damage 2d6 piercing.
Frog Speed 25 feet, swim Speed 25 feet; Melee [one-action] jaws, Damage 2d6 bludgeoning; Melee [one-action] tongue (reach 15 feet), Damage 2d4 bludgeoning.
Shark swim Speed 35 feet; Melee [one-action] jaws, Damage 2d8 piercing; breathe underwater but not in air.
Snake Speed 20 feet, climb Speed 20 feet, swim Speed 20 feet; Melee [one-action] fangs, Damage 2d4 piercing plus 1d6 poison.
Rust Beetle gains a rust cloud aura (as metal wisp) but Metal Wisps are not statted anywhere in the scenario.
So this text might be useful: Rust Cloud A metal wisp is constantly surrounded by a cloud of rust flakes that cause it to be concealed from creatures more than 5 feet away from it.
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Plane of Fire:
Please read the chase rules as the scenario incorrectly describes them.
"Each round, the PCs face a fresh challenge unique to one area of the Incandescent Terrace"
That's not true. PCs advance in a chase when they accumulate enough points, potentially mid round.
The Development then goes on to say "Development: After the flame flowers, Farah leads PCs through a small cave behind a lavafall that’s spilling over a basalt cliff. If the group earned at least 3 Chase Points per PC, they make it before the lavafall spatters explosively"
So I guess it is just 1 obstacle per round, and the chase points listed in each round are actually not relevant, and instead we've removed the one bit of agency in a chase which is choosing what order to have PCs try and overcome each obstacle.
It feels like whomever wrote this encounter did not understand the chase rules.
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Plane of Water:
I pity the party with a troublemaking goblin or gnome etc who doesn't follow instructions well and picks up the shell before the party gets all bubbled and causes some of them to drown since it takes a minute to turn the shell back on.