GM G's Frostfur Captives

[GM G]

This is the discussion thread for my Mists of Mwangi game that will start early January 2014

[Silas Garman]

Ugly crotchety Tiefling alchemist reporting for duty! Looking forward to the game, and Happy New Year all! Still need to do a bit of character editing for new gear, etc., should get to tonight.

[Silas V. Garman]

I'm going to switch over to using my proper PFS alias if that is alright? I've completed all adjustments, purchased a Wand of Infernal Healing with PP, and changed the martial weapon proficiency to Glaive-Guisarme - because its slightly lighter and I had such awful luck with my bardiche :p

[Sterelin McKeaough]

Still updating my charcater but excited about the next Scenario.

[GM G]

Is perfectly fine with me Silas.

Are you aware that you can get a full refund for your bardiche as long as you are still lvl 1 as that falls under the rebuilding rules? After that the shops will only refund 50%.

I will start open recruitment next week, game will probably start quickly after that. If you know persons that would like to join feel free to invite them. There is probably one person that will join, so still (at most) 3 open places)

[Wyeth Riceak]

Greets to all and thank you, GM, for welcoming me into your game.

Apologies for the delay; losing power yesterday threw my schedule off a bit! Wyeth's profile needs some cleanup still, but I wanted to go ahead and post up so you'd know I'm still alive. Should have everything squared away in short order.

Thanks again; seriously looking forward to this!

[Silas V. Garman]

Silas stares at the vials before him muttering, "A curative, a bit of certainty, and a escape clause, yes, yes, I suppose they will have to do..."

All ready to go.

[Marduk the Pale]

Greetings all, and thank you GM for the opportunity.

[Silas V. Garman]

Pleased to have you Marduk :) I look forwards to playing with you.

[GM G]

Silas, would you be so kind to include important info (like HP and AC) in your classes field, like you have in your other alias? thanks!

[Silas V. Garman]

Done, and done :)

[Marduk the Pale]

That should indeed be a look forward to Silas.
Is Silas a follower of Asmodeus by any chance?

:)

[Wyeth Riceak]

Hail and well met, Marduk the Pale!

[Silas V. Garman]

Oh, and welcome aboard, Wyeth, sure I posted that before :)

[Wyeth Riceak]

No worries, Silas. :o)

[Coronoides]

Greetings to friends old and new. I'll update my character very, very soon.

[GM G]

Coronoides, can you also include your equipment on your profile?

Thanks!

[Saitama]

"This is where we're meeting, right?", asks the short, bald man in thick leather armor.

[Saitama]

The melee output of this group is fairly staggering. This pleases muscle priest.

[Marduk the Pale]

A fellow follower of Irori..
"Greetings brother Saitama. Where do you come from?"

[GM G]

We are waiting for Coronoides to update his profile (and include equipment on it) and then we will be of. Sorry for the delay.

[Saitama]

"Qiu City in Quain.", replies Saitama. "You have an Irori pleasing grace to you, and fair muscular muscularliness to boot!"

[Wyeth Riceak]

Just FYI, I probably won't be able to post during the day tomorrow through Friday. No issues evenings and possibly early mornings, though.

[Marduk the Pale]

"Hm, i am less bulky than my other half-kin.
I come from Kalmharn city, in the mahajanapada of Hal'Han, at te Vudra peninsula. A pleasant coincidence meeting a fellow disciple of Irori."

[Saitama]

"Calmharm city in the maharajapanda? That seems very strange.", scratching his bald head in confusion.

"But yes, the god of muscles is obviously pleased with my efforts, putting me together with another believer of beefitude and other prime examples of muscularity!"

[Wyeth Riceak]

Wyeth looks down at himself, and then at the warpriest. "There are many stronger than me in the Kingdom of Man, but thank you for the compliment." He takes a step towards Saitama and extends his hand in greeting. "Wyeth."

He's a somewhat scruffy-looking elfish fellow: beard stubble, disheveled hair, (what you can see of it under the animal skeleton he's wearing as a helm), bare feet... or rather bare foot, as his left leg is absent, a metal prosthetic standing in its stead.

(Those of you offended by chibi should look away now. For the rest, here is his chibiform avatar which is otherwise a fairly good representation.)

[Marduk the Pale]

"Saitama, the vast Vedra peninsula is on the continent of Casmaron.
If i remember correctly from a written tome of one of the monks who has traveled much, Quain is at the continent of Tian Xia, is it not?

Our homes are much seperated by the ocean."

@ Wyeth, offended? It's funny. It's more likely to get called cute if any of us were japanese girls though. :)
But i'm quite certain none of us are.

[Saitama]

Shaking the elfish fellow's hand, Saitama nods in approval.

"That is correct, Marduk. The god of punch is quite revered there."

[Sterelin McKeaough]

A Szcarni fortune teller has set up a table in the far corner of the bar and is conducting Harrowings for a few patrons while a parrot on his shoulder makes funny comments on his dire forcasts of the future.

[Marduk the Pale]

The half-orc shakes Wyeth's hand.
"Hello."

@ Sterelin, so is the bird a parrot or a hawk? Or is it a shapeshifting bird?

[Sterelin McKeaough]

Parrot.

[GM G]

And suddenly you are all whisked into Venture Captain Adril Hestram’s office.

[Marduk the Pale]

Venture captain looks like he's had a couple too many down his drain.

[Wyeth Riceak]

Hehe... Marduk, the "offended" thing is sort of a private joke. Our local group uses d20 Pro for mapping/melee management, and players are responsible for providing their own avatars.

When I created a sadistic Varisian Vitalist, I looked all over the place for art I could use, but nothing really captured the "vibe" I wanted for Ralfael. As an interim measure I went to the Gaia resource site and built this guy so at least the clothing, gear, and scowl/attitude would be right until I could find a good picture.

Well, that seemed to bother the GM no end. He tried every way from Sunday to get me to use a different avatar. I thought him reacting so strongly was amusing; at one point he even said, "I won't be able to take your character seriously." :oP

Enjoying his reaction immensely, I of course refused to budge. In fact, I decided to give up looking for other art altogether, because it was so much fun watching him trying to cope with a kawaii avatar. And at that point I adopted a "tradition" of creating a chibiform image for my characters whenever possible.

I figure there's a tiny chance that someday, somewhere, I might run into someone else who finds chibi avatars "offensive," so I include the disclaimer both as a joke and as fair warning. ;o)

[Marduk the Pale]

May that day you be accompanied by a japanese girl then, for forementioned reasons.

[Wyeth Riceak]

Keep a careful eye on me the first few melees, GM. This is my first time with a reach weapon, and I'm new to tripping as well. Mistakes are likely until I get the hang of things. Thanks!

[GM G]

Thanks for the warning, will do

[Marduk the Pale]

I fear to view the GM's next rolls. :P
Half the party is/or will be next round....dead :/

[Wyeth Riceak]

Ya know, I coulda sworn I asked the GM if this scenario was appropriate for a fresh-off-the-sheet 1st Level character. And I'm pretty sure the reply was that it's "a nice, rather straight forward scenario that is perfectly suited for a brand new PC." :oP

"Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs..." -- John McClane, Die Hard

(Marduk, don't throw in the towel, buddy... we're not dead yet. "It's just a flesh wound!")

[Silas V. Garman]

I was just about to retire to!

[GM G]

The enemy got lucky on initiative and on attack / damage rolls. I do hope that you all leave the museum on your own feet.

You know how it is supposed to go in heroic movies: there must be a setback that the hero can overcome.

[Marduk the Pale]

Yeah....but in said heroic movies the group doesn't outright die in their first taste of combat. They won't overcome it then. :D

Plus...if you want us to get out on our own feet.....that leaves an option to bolt it, or tpk :D

[Wyeth Riceak]

There's also the third option of being victorious. Wyeth can self-heal so he's not out of the picture yet. If his attacker misses next round or is distracted (thanks, Saitama) then he's got a shot at survival and can soon get Sterelin back on his feet (if he doesn't take a coup de grace).

(I know the advice is usually to not heal during combat, but in this case it restores some of our firepower.)

We got slammed hard because of surprise combined with nasty die rolls. I'm not ready to assume that's the way the whole fight will go just yet!

[Wyeth Riceak]

GM G wrote:

Tables are higher ground and can not be 5ft stepped on from the ground.

(Emphasis added.) Maybe I'm mistaken, but I thought Silas was asking about 5' stepping past the corner of the table, i.e. from G9 to H8. Normally a no-no, but the tables are pictured as not filling the width of the square.

Since I have the same question for different reasons, I'll ask explicitly: Is a 5' step from I7 to J6 possible, or is it blocked by table? Normally it wouldn't be possible but, again, the table as drawn doesn't extend to the lower right corner of I6, so I'm not sure. Thanks!

[GM G]

Ok, I completely misread Silas question. Sorry about that, as a minor compensation the skeleton in G9 will not take a 5 ft step.

Relevant rule from PRD wrote:

You can't move diagonally past a corner (even by taking a 5-foot step).

My opinion: there should be a difference between stepping past the corner of a wall (M7-N6, ignore the table) or past the corner of a table (M6-N5, do not ignore the table). However the rule does not give me any room for interpretation.

I want to keep things WYSIWYG so here is my ruling for this game: all furniture should be treated as shown, so diagonal movement between I7 to J6 is possible, no corner there. Diagonal movement between M6 and N5 is not allowed: clear corner. The ruling about tables being higher ground can be forgotten, let's not overcomplicate things.

Sorry for the confusion I caused, thanks Wyeth for bringing this up!

[Silas V. Garman]

I really should not try reading ruling while drunk, I 'll try again tomorrow!

[Sterelin McKeaough]

Wow... this party is cursed! Cursed I tell you!

[GM G]

Don't let your parot post for you!

[Marduk the Pale]

Curses Sterelin, stop talking about being cursed :), have the parrot go for the ghoul's eyes, yaah!!

[Wyeth Riceak]

OT: Silas, does the Grenadier archetype work pretty well for you? I'm running my first-ever Alchemist in another game, and I went with a Pyromaniac Lava Gnome Grenadier, but it's not clear yet if that was a wise choice.

Though I gotta say I love the whole Lava Gnome vibe:

SRD wrote:

Lava gnomes are considered hot-tempered and dangerously unstable even by other gnomes.

Hehe... you don't get between the enemy and an unstable pyromaniac hopped up on mutagens and carrying a pocket full of fire bombs if you want to live! ;o)