Here is a summary of changes for level 2. After we rest, of course ;)
+1 BAB, +1 Fort, +1 Ref
Discovery (Su) - Precise bombs
Poison Resistance (Ex)
Poison Use (Ex)+1 to all previously selected skills.
EVERYONE I have listed a summary of potions, alchemical items, and poisons that Arjun can craft and their prices in my profile. You may have to scroll down a bit, since I have his Level 1 and Level 2 profiles both on the page until we rest.
1d8
Just a note you will have difficulty accessing, during the duration of this chapter, some of the more exotic items on your list (purple worm extract for example :)). You will also need to consider your use of crafting time carefully as events may occur whether your ready for them or not. That said, I like for you to make full use of your class abilities and skills and you will have full opportunity to craft whatever you want after the chapter.
Oh I am sure I will pay for one level of good luck with 2 levels of 1's. I don't really like rolling but the barbarian has the most to gain from being lucky on d12's since his average is a puny 7 compared to the other characters.
Just a note you will have difficulty accessing, during the duration of this chapter, some of the more exotic items on your list (purple worm extract for example :)). You will also need to consider your use of crafting time carefully as events may occur whether your ready for them or not. That said, I like for you to make full use of your class abilities and skills and you will have full opportunity to craft whatever you want after the chapter.
I just listed all of them without really focusing on what might be available. I think financial limitations will prevent us from using most of the poisons on the list, anyway. Perhaps Arjun will be able to find a Katapeshi equivalent to some of the items that aren't in the desert? But that is for a bit down the road.
I did the same for my goblin inquisitor, Maysalkirii- but want wrath eventually for the level 12 effect (which is awesome...)
And considering the bloody wake of butchered enemies in Maysalkirii's wake, I would say... IT'S SUPER EFFECTIVE!
I'll take half instead of roll since that is what i would have done anyway. The roll was just incase we didn't have another option.
Level Two
Barbarian -- I've decided to go ahead and take the Superstitious archetype, but nothing kicks in until level 3. She gains Uncanny Dodge.
Rage power -- Superstition
HP -- . Well, you live by the dice, you die by the dice. :P I'll put her favored class bonus in HP for one more.
Skill points: Acrobatics, Climb, Intimidate, Perception
I had a feeling Nuveril would be going superstitious. Bummer about the roll.
Its been years since I've rolled for hp. I did it in Alex's SS game on impulse and while I was waiting for the page to load I swear my heart sped up. I don't think I can handle the stress trying again.
+1
Assuming the town is infested with pugwampis and gnolls, taking a look around first would probably be advisable.
Well stocked = 6 healing kits (60 uses).
If you managed to get down to the last few you may have difficulty but you can take what you want until then.
I'll also let you restock ranged ammunition within reason.
You have six weeks worth of food and three weeks worth of water (I assume Linah restocks this daily while she is present) for the full group.
Just a note for Arjun's levelling. As you obviously know there is an awful lot of enemies that have resistance to fire in the AP generally and in this chapter. I was just thinking that Arjun may find things tough going in the big fights at least until he hits level 4 and can change the energy type of his bombs.
Just a thought.
** spoiler omitted **
Fine by me you won't actually level until morning. I just totted up the list of major enemies that have fire resistance in this chapter and its pretty impressive (although others may have some issues too). You may only be 4th level for the final fight depending on how things go.
Besides Grall has heaps of hit points he can take it :)
As Dan suggested, let's plan how we want to handle things here.
I think we would be best off to do a small recon mission to better understand what we are up against. Obviously we need to be prepared to silence anyone/anything that sees us that would threaten our mission.
This sounds reasonable.
We really don't have a whole lot of stealth in the party do we? That is why Grall suggested ambushing a scouting party assuming there are any. We could watch from some distance and determine that within a day I hope. We could then learn what forces there are and how there are arrayed in the town. If we are spotted, the whole place will be up in arms by the next day.
We could then determine our next steps after we get the information fomr a smaller group?
I slipped this in as part of the infodump but I just want to make it perfectly clear that you should have clear line of sight from the large opening on the second level of the chapel (where some of the pugs were shooting from) to the town (which is only 1.75 miles or so away). You will be able to see at least the southern aspect of the town from there as up here in the hills you are quite a bit higher than the highest point in the town(the battle market).
So you could obtain quite a bit of information about movements in the town without leaving the monastery. And Dashki has volunteered to keep such a watch.
Of course what that won't give you that a closer scout would are things like: knowledge of the route from the monastery, points of view from other aspects including things blocked by the hill etc etc
I don't know... Sajan is fairly stealthy. Nuveril must have a fair amount, being small. Arjun has two ranks in it for a +4. Khalid puts most of us to shame with +7 armoured...
The only member of team clanky is Linah, and possibly you Grall ;)
With the leather armor equipped i'll at least have a Stealth check of +1. And if i can get a heavy shield to equip should things go bad i'll at least be at AC15. Although i have little faith in my luck with the stealth rolls so i think this character is forever apart of team clanky.
Scout the next morning sounds good.
Sorry, guys; today's been nuts. This is the first chance I've had to get online, and I have to leave again in 15 minutes. I'll get caught up on the game thread in a few hours when I can breathe. :)
OK just a general note from me as I foreshadowed above. TBH on the whole the lot of you have less familiarity with the AP than I thought. Tanner aside I think I had the most which makes things easier for me.
Two issues that end up being linked together are XP and plot. In short in the AP as written there is insufficient XP to level up the characters by normal progression. The AP fills these XP gaps with various sidequests. For a PBP with months for a chapter even at a fast posting rate I would rather focus on the plot giving side time for character sub-plots rather than do sidequests.
The net result of that is I'd rather do your levelling manually keeping you at about the right level for the stage of the plot. This should end up being somewhere in the middle of medium and fast advancement by RAW.
The other thing I wanted to mention is pacing. Its been a bit of a deluge of posts over the last week (in large part from me). Thats mostly been in part getting things where I want them and laying some of the seeds for the subplots I want to introduce. We should have a somewhat less frantic pace moving forward. If people have issues ie too fast, too slow etc then please speak up.
Edit: Last can I have a volunteer for loot list maintainer on the site.
Anyone GMing in three or more games is excused :)
I can be the gold comptroller...but it comes with a few stipulations:
1. I am very exact, almost anally so as Alex can attest too.
2. Everyone gets the same share no matter what items seem to make sense for folks. They can take an item, but it comes out of their share and that means less treasure later to even it out if necessary.
3. We establish a "party fund" equal to one share. That means everyone gets a little less but we have plenty of gold for party items such as wands, party scrolls, and such. It is working great for my tabletop game and another PBP I am in.
If you guys are okay with this I can start the current treasure list.
I am fine with these stipulations, as well. ;)
Sounds good to me.
okay, sounds like we have enough for me to take it on. Will work up our first sheet to date and let you guys know when it is posted on the shared site...as long as I can post it. Do you still need to figure out how to let us edit the site or add files?
I've opened up all the settings that are available. Can you see if you have an option to add a file?
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No- you have to do it this way.
Click the box that says 'More Actions' at the top.
Click manage site.
Click 'share this site'.
Then you add people via the pop up box- and define them as 'can view, can edit, or owner'.
Currently the site is viewable by everyone but we have no edit permissions.
email- alexkilcoyne@hotmail.com
No, nothing yet. With Google Sites you need to specifically add email addresses for those who can upload files and edit pages.
tanner (dot) m (dot) nielsen (at) gmail (dot) com
Aha I see now thanks. I didn't realise you needed to enter email addresses. Alex and Tanner should have edit rights now can everyone else please send me their log in addresses for google sites and I will add you all.
It might be a good idea for people to maintain a backup of their characters on the site as well but no hurry.
ldeterman (at) hotmail (dot) com
Yep, good to go.
email: pjuppe |at| gmail |dot| com
OK we should be good now.
Plus I've uploaded an updated monastery (which I did last night and then forgot all about).
I can be the gold comptroller...but it comes with a few stipulations:
1. I am very exact, almost anally so as Alex can attest too.
2. Everyone gets the same share no matter what items seem to make sense for folks. They can take an item, but it comes out of their share and that means less treasure later to even it out if necessary.
3. We establish a "party fund" equal to one share. That means everyone gets a little less but we have plenty of gold for party items such as wands, party scrolls, and such. It is working great for my tabletop game and another PBP I am in.If you guys are okay with this I can start the current treasure list.
So how will this work with Khalid's new toy? My (limited) understanding is that it is equal parts relic/legacy weapon and plot device. Does it count against his treasure share or as a party item?
Tempest scales up every few levels.
Few things on peoples sheets:
- I can't see +8 on Arjun's initiative was there improved initiative factored in and then taken back out
- For Linah is she 1FC hp and 1FC skill ? Masterwork leather needs to be recorded.
- Sajan's perception has old wisdom factored in and I make the hp 22 (8 + 5 + 4 + 3 + 2)
Fixed.
So how will this work with Khalid's new toy? My (limited) understanding is that it is equal parts relic/legacy weapon and plot device. Does it count against his treasure share or as a party item?I can be the gold comptroller...but it comes with a few stipulations:
1. I am very exact, almost anally so as Alex can attest too.
2. Everyone gets the same share no matter what items seem to make sense for folks. They can take an item, but it comes out of their share and that means less treasure later to even it out if necessary.
3. We establish a "party fund" equal to one share. That means everyone gets a little less but we have plenty of gold for party items such as wands, party scrolls, and such. It is working great for my tabletop game and another PBP I am in.If you guys are okay with this I can start the current treasure list.
You voted me the comptroller now you must live with my decision...here is the good and the bad...unless overuled by the GM of course...
Khalid's new toy counts as an item that he has to pay for as it is now. If it is a +1 frost scimitar as dug up, then this comes out of his share, all 8,315gp of it.I have heard a little about these items and their "scaling" but in my opinion once Khalid has "paid" the initial cost for this item it is now his and no other shares are carged to him if it changes into something else. Whatever this scaling is, I am sure that it will all work out in the wash and/or good for the group.
Sorry if you don't like it, please send a letter to your local cleric to protest...
DanE Fixed.
Grall *grumble grumble* Fair enough. ;)
Everyone After a conversation with Dan, I have changed my Precise Bombs discovery to Frost Bomb due to the number of fire-based creatures who will be immune to my regular explosives.
You voted me the comptroller now you must live with my decision...here is the good and the bad...unless overuled by the GM of course...Khalid's new toy counts as an item that he has to pay for as it is now. If it is a +1 frost scimitar as dug up, then this comes out of his share, all 8,315gp of it.
Not a protest, just a correction. Right now Tempest is only a +1 scimitar, not a +1 frost scimitar.