Class: Bard (Songhealer)
Step Selection: C
+9 skill ranks
+1 to Diplomacy (from 1 to 2)
+1 to Heal (from 1 to 2)
+1 to Perform: Sing (from 1 to 2)
+1 to Knowledge: Religion (from 1 to 2)
+2 to Knowledge: Arcana (from 0 to 2)
+2 to Knowledge: Local (from 0 to 2)
+1 to Sense Motive (from 0 to 1)
Step Selection: D
Bardic knowledge: +1 to Knowledge Skill checks, all checks can be made untrained.
Bardic Performance: 8 rounds per day
Spells: Cantrips, 2 firsts per day
New spells known: Ghost Sound (DC 14), Lullaby (DC 14), Message, Prestidigitation, Charm Person (DC 15), Inspirational Boost
I'm planning to try breaking in the town hall by night to have a look at those forbidden archives (although I'll probably have to wait for nighttime).
Oh dear, here's hoping my little side-trek doesn't take until then. I'd probably have to try to convince you not to do that. Seeing as how I just explained how we're the good guys, etc. to a town elder. LOL!
Class Selection: Barbarian
Step selection: A
HD increase: 1
HP increase: , so I'll take average (7)+1 for 8 + 2= 10 HP gained
BAB increase: +1
Step Selection: D
Uncanny Dodge
Rage Power: Superstition
Edit: So (this is new to me), should the Favored Class benefit come from Step D? I'm applying it to HP.
Hmm. Favoured Class isn't touched by the house rules...
How about this: You decide your favoured class bonus at the beginning of the new level steps:
If you choose HP, you gain its bonus when you select progression A;
If you choose a skill point, you gain its bonus when you select progression C;
If you choose the racial alternative, you gain its bonus when you select progression D.
If you don't want to decide right away, you can hold it off until you gain your complete level.
How does that sound?
I'll give it a shot too.
Class selection: Sorcerer
Step Selection: A
HD: +1
HP Current Total:
BAB: +1
Step Selection: D
Class Features:
Spells per Day: Level 1;5
New 0 Level Spell: Message
Favored Class Bonus: (From APG if acceptable) New 0 Level Spell: Ray of Frost
I'll hold on posting in the IC thread until i see how much Kendra was helped by my mad research skillz. With that roll, I probably helped her avoid a bad paper cut by helping her turn a page or something... :)
I might usher you and Viktor out so you can roleplay, otherwise you're stuck for 4 hours in-character, heh.
Here's mine:
Class Selection: Magus
Step Selection A
HD +1
HP +(favored class)
BAB +1
Step Selection D
Spellstrike
Spells/day: 0-4 1-3
New Spells:
Magic Missile
True Strike
I feel as though I should explain a little more about myself: why I'm running so many campaigns, how I find time, why my posting schedule can be a little sporadic, ect.
I'm unemployed. I'm diagnosed with BPD, a diagnosis I first got this spring. I've struggled psychologically with angst, existentialism, mood swings, confidence, emotional instability, compulsions, obsessions, social phobia, agoraphobia, trust, self-harm and suicidal thoughts for most of my childhood and adolescence, which caused me to drop out of high school, to be institutionalised in a mental hospital, ect.
I'm currently 22 and coping with life a lot better than I thought I ever would - though there are mornings when I wake up and I can't draw motivation to do much, and sometimes there are periods of time where I'm essentially catatonic and unable to do much with any enthuse. I recently had such a period.
Having said that, I ask that we don't put too much focus on my mental health, or that you don't worry too much. I'm getting somewhere in life and am for the most part content and happy. Still, I am in charge of this game, and the more you know and understand about my sometimes sporadic nature, the better we can communicate.
As mentioned, I also struggle with agoraphobia - something I combat as often as I can. I often get invited for board games or roleplaying games at a friend's place, usually spontaneously - and because it is usually in my best self-interest to get out of my apartment and socialise, I often do so. This is part of why I sometimes may vanish for several hours during hours I usually post.
In two-and-a-half weeks, my studies begin. I will be attending university. Depending on how rough the courses are, and how often I have class, this may affect the campaigns - but I will still try my best to post daily.
Having come to the Paizo forums and taken on the task of being a DM has done me wonders. It makes me content, it gives me purpose, and most of all, it keeps me busy. I am stressed - the positive kind of stress. I feel grateful too, for having found such great people and players to write and tell a story with. So I wish to thank you all.
I apologise if me divulging this makes you feel uncomfortable.
Not at all. Several of my friends IRL have been diagnosed with a variety of anxiety or depression disorders, as well as several family members, and I know the very real challenges they present in life. I would imagine messageboards such as these could be very useful in building up social confidence, and i'm glad you're making yourself go places as well.
Yeah, I have to agree with Aerys.
I empathize with you. I too have had some motivational issues, and there were days where I wouldn't even leave the house, just killing time and doing nothing productive at all (like watching tv, etc).
I now find purpose in trying to finish my university (history major with a focus on medieval), having found finally a subject which plays off my personal interests. I wish wholeheartedly that you find yours, even if that means less posting ;)
Thank you for the kind words. Admittedly, what I'm about to study is not within my interests at all (managerial economics), but it is undoubtedly practical - and the only available course where I live. I can't sit at home doing nothing for another year.
Valerya, unless you had a specific purpose in mind with wandering around town, I'll simply advance the hour. Aerys and Viktor, you're still stuck for another 3 hours, I'm afraid.
I'll be fine with that. Also, I won't be here past a few hours from now. I have an IRL game to go to.
I'll keep checking in throughout today
Not a problem. I actually wanted to have a moment to talk to Venedictos and get to know him better but that didn't work out quite the way I meant.
Sorry. Fat guy had to take a nap.
No problem. It's actually going on fine RP-wise; she's trying to reach out and establish a connection to other people but her manners and antisocial behavior makes it difficult.
Asocial or antisocial? The latter's what psychopaths are. (extreme layman's terms)
I'll advance the plot now. Can't have it stall this way.
Aerys will take Step Selection C
3 skill ranks
+1 to Bluff (from 1 to 2)
+1 to Knowledge: Arcana (from 1 to 2)
+1 to Use Magic Device (from 1 to 2)
Torsten will take step B:
Fort: +5 (from +4)
Ref: +2 (from +2)
Will: +0 (from +0)
Heh. Well, what may or may not happen later today (in-character) may or may not require me to spoiler everything for each individual player...
Having said that, I will reveal that you can research everything in the Lorrimor manse (with a lower bonus, might I add), and that, if you spend 8 hours (together) in a co-operative take 20, you would uncover everything else that needs to be researched. Of course, that leaves an entire day with nothing but research - and who knows, opportunities may be a'knockin' in Ravengro too.
Also, completely random d4 dice roll coming up.
You guys want to go ahead & (attempt to) spend a day in research? Then we're prepared for a trip to harrowstone tomorrow?
You guys want to go ahead & (attempt to) spend a day in research? Then we're prepared for a trip to harrowstone tomorrow?
Sounds good to me.
Sure. Although Torsten "researching" is kind of a funny concept. I'll get the books from the high shelves and carry them around for you and whatnot.
Class: Songhealer (Bard)
Step A:
HD 1d8
hp: (favoured class bonus) Don't like that roll, I guess I'll take average plus 1 (5) plus my FC bonus. Is that how it works, or is average 4?
BAB: +0
24 hours of research is fine with Venedictos, too! Put on the tea and brandy, Kendra!!
Average +1, so yes. 5 + FC, if you put it in HP.
I choose Step C
6 points
Acrobatics - 1 (4 ->5)
Kn:Arcana - 1 (7 ->8)
Perf:Dance - 1 (0 ->1)
Spellcraft - 1 (7 ->8)
Stealth - 1 (4 ->5)
UMD - 1 (3 ->4)
Also, the night will have events and the likes (OMFG SPOILER) so do focus on the current eve and not tomorrow's activities in-character.
Do we need knowledge checks to look for the books we need? Or is it more of a perception check as we're searching?
Step A:
HD increase: +1
HP increase:
BAB increase: +1
Wouldn't want to be that onion!
It would be a perception check with an insane DC to single out books - or a knowledge (arcane), knowledge (religion), knowledge (history) and/or knowledge (local) with a slightly lower DC to find what appears to be a section of the library that contains the topic you're looking for. Cannot be an untrained check. Success would give you a circumstance modifier on tomorrow's researching check.
With Gen Con over, I will from here-on and out reinforce the 1/day post requirement. If you know you cannot post, give me a heads-up here.
I also double-checked and don't believe I posted my email in this thread. If you ever need to get a hold of me for whatever reason, questions, concerns, my email is:
likegreyskies at gmail dot com
So what about that insane DC?
Do you want to end the day or are you going to start your research tonight?
How far outside of town is Harrowstone? If we'd be seen entering, we might want to just go ahead and wait on the research until tomorrow, when Kendra is feeling better (hopefully) and can fill us in on the contents of the red book. Then we can enter harrowstone at night when we won't set the whole town talking.
I'm also starting to wonder if we should try using the planchette thing to divine some answers regarding harrowstone?
That could work, although I'm not sure we have anyone who could use the blasted thing.
Might just be a use magic device check. Kendra seemed familiar with it - maybe tomorrow we should ask her about it again.
Let me post the actual description text for both the Haunt Siphon and Spirit Planchette. I should have done this earlier. I forgot, and for that I apologise.
Aura faint necromancy; CL 3rd
Slot none; Price 400 gp; Weight 1 lb.
Description
These glass vials are held within stylized cold-iron casings etched with strange runes, necromantic designs, or other eldritch markings. Within the vial roils a small wisp of white vapor, churning as if caught in a miniature vortex of air.
To capture a haunt’s energies within a haunt siphon, you need only twist the metal casing to open the vial in the same round that the haunt manifests (a standard action) — this can be before or after the haunt has acted. You must be within the haunt’s area of influence to use a haunt siphon. When you activate a haunt siphon, it deals 3d6 points of positive energy damage to a single haunt. If it deals enough damage to the haunt to reduce the haunt’s hit points to 0, the mist inside the haunt siphon glows green—if it does not reduce the haunt to 0 hit points, the haunt siphon is still expended and becomes nonmagical. It may take multiple haunt siphons to destroy powerful haunts. A haunt that is neutralized by a haunt siphon takes a –5 penalty on its caster level check to manifest again after its reset time passes. A haunt siphon that neutralizes a haunt can no longer be used to harm haunts, but it can be used as a grenadelike splash weapon that deals 1d6 points of negative energy damage with a direct hit. Every creature within 5 feet of the point where the haunt siphon hits takes 1 point of negative energy damage from the splash.
Construction
Requirements Craft Wondrous Item, cure moderate wounds, gentle repose; Cost 200 gp
Aura moderate divination; CL 9th
Slot none; Price 4,000 gp (brass planchette),
10,000 gp (cold iron planchette), 18,000 gp
(silver planchette); Weight 5 lbs.
Description
A spirit planchette is typically found in a wooden case along with a thin wooden board printed with numerous letters and numbers. Nonmagical versions of these divination tools can be purchased in curiosity shops (typically costing 25 gp); while these items can be used as alternative components for augury spells, only magical spirit planchettes allow users to communicate with the other side. Three types of spirit planchettes exist—brass, cold iron, and silver. Each in turn allows an increasingly potent form of divination effect to be utilized. A spirit planchette requires a board to move upon, but this “board” can be made up of letters scribed upon any smooth surface—it need not be a prepared board for a spirit planchette to work.
To use a spirit planchette, you must rest your fingers lightly upon the planchette’s surface and then concentrate on the planchette (as if maintaining a spell with a duration of concentration) for 2d6 rounds while the planchette attunes itself to the ambient spirits of the area. After this time, the planchette begins to slowly slide in random patterns across the board - at this point, questions may be asked of the spirits by any of the individuals involved in the séance. The consequences of each question asked of the spirits depends upon what type of planchette is used for the divination, as summarized on the table below. The spirits reply in a language understood by the character who asked the question, but resent such contact and give only brief answers to the questions. All questions are answered with “yes,” “no,” or “maybe,” or by spelling out a single word from the letters arranged on the board. The spirits answer each question either in the same round the question is asked (in the case of a yes, no, or maybe answer) or at a rate of one letter per round (in the case of a single word being spelled out). A spirit planchette may be used once per day—the maximum number of questions you can ask with it depends on the type of planchette being used (as detailed on the table below). Communication with spirits can be a dangerous task, for many spirits are jealous or hateful of the living. Every time a spirit planchette is used, the user must succeed on a Will save to avoid being temporarily possessed and harmed by the angry spirits. In some areas where the spirits are particularly violent or hateful (such as in Harrowstone), this Will save takes a –2 penalty. The DC of this save depends on the type of spirit planchette being used. Anyone who fails the Will save becomes confused for a number of rounds (depending on the type of planchette being used), and no answer is received. The spirits in the area are not omniscient — the GM should decide whether or not the spirits would actually know the answer to the question asked, and if they do not, the answer granted is automatically “maybe.” If the GM determines that the spirits are knowledgeable about the answer, roll d% to determine whether the spirits speak truthfully or whether they lie.
Spirit Planchettes
Planchette Type | Questions per Use | Will save DC | Confusion Duration | True Answer | Lie
Brass | 1 | 11 | 1 round | 01–60 | 61–100
Cold Iron | 3 | 15 | 2 rounds | 01–75 | 76–100
Silver | 5 | 19 | 3 rounds | 01–90 | 91–100
Construction
Requirements Craft Wondrous Item, contact other plane, speak with dead; Cost 2,000 gp (brass spirit planchette), 5,000 gp (cold iron spirit planchette), 9,000 gp (silver spirit planchette)
Updated the profile to include "quests", as it were.
I apologise for my lack of replies this evening - and I apologise once more for not advancing tonight. I just came home from a night of board games, and I am horrendously tired. I also have a stinging headache. I will advance tomorrow.
Not sure of the wisdom of using the planchette, now... O_O
Just saying, this recent development moves Torsten into the camp of "Go find and kill every last member of the Whispering Way".
DIRE STUFF!!
Wow that was harsh. It's doubly personal now!
As off-topic, though: Patcher, what program do you use to generate these maps?
Looking at the map, Aerys might have to take a couple of steps into the room to bring the professor into disrupt undead range.
I don't know much about the other adventure paths, but this one is pretty impressive.
Depending on circumstances, I either use MapTools or Photoshop for maps. The former is specifically designed for making maps. The map for the current fight is made with Maptools.
Patcher, where do you stand on the whole channel energy heals living and hurts undead versus heals living or hurts undead debate? Do you house rule the does both at the same time Pathfinder Beta rule back in?
Well, RAW and RAI I would say that you have to choose whether or not it heals the living or hurts the dead. I haven't really read the debate, though, so I don't know if this is for better or worse. If you have a link to a good discussion about it I might house-rule it once I know a little more about pros and cons of doing so.
*sneaks in*
While I found the beta ruling very logical (positive nergy does heal mortals and does hurt undead) I always thought it was overpowered, as a consequnce, I'm very happy with the new ruling.
*sneaks out*