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check out potion of E.P.Running "The Blakros Matrimony" this weekend, the enlarged Amiri clone crit with her huge bastard sword for 61 damage in the 3-4 subtier. Amazingly, the guy was still standing at -7 with Diehard. On her next turn, she crit AGAIN! That guy was just a smear on the grass at that point.Yes. It was a good day to be had by all. At first I was worried that the Enlarge Person spell would be to slow for use in combat sense it has a 1 round casting time but what happened this weekend has assured me it was a good pick for a first level character buffer spell. Just need to get a quicken spell meta magic rod in the future, but by then I will have other buffs.
True, but I think I prefer people to buy their own potions than me having to buy it for them. I already manned up for an oil of daylight after having two ridiculous events of the darkness spell hurting the party, so my party members can use their own dang gold for spell buff potions.
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yeah, true. I didn't realize it was for other people, I thought you were buffing yourself. (I've seen a fighter who had a wand of E.P. to hand out when there was a caster at the table... he didn't even have UMD.)True, but I think I prefer people to buy their own potions than me having to buy it for them. I already manned up for an oil of daylight after having two ridiculous events of the darkness spell hurting the party, so my party members can use their own dang gold for spell buff potions.check out potion of E.P.Running "The Blakros Matrimony" this weekend, the enlarged Amiri clone crit with her huge bastard sword for 61 damage in the 3-4 subtier. Amazingly, the guy was still standing at -7 with Diehard. On her next turn, she crit AGAIN! That guy was just a smear on the grass at that point.Yes. It was a good day to be had by all. At first I was worried that the Enlarge Person spell would be to slow for use in combat sense it has a 1 round casting time but what happened this weekend has assured me it was a good pick for a first level character buffer spell. Just need to get a quicken spell meta magic rod in the future, but by then I will have other buffs.
"Target: one humanoid creature" the spell says. So yeah, fun times casting it on a barbarian who already has a large sized bastard sword.
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"Target: one humanoid creature" the spell says. So yeah, fun times casting it on a barbarian who already has a large sized bastard sword.yeah, true. I didn't realize it was for other people, I thought you were buffing yourself. (I've seen a fighter who had a wand of E.P. to hand out when there was a caster at the table... he didn't even have UMD.)True, but I think I prefer people to buy their own potions than me having to buy it for them. I already manned up for an oil of daylight after having two ridiculous events of the darkness spell hurting the party, so my party members can use their own dang gold for spell buff potions.check out potion of E.P.Running "The Blakros Matrimony" this weekend, the enlarged Amiri clone crit with her huge bastard sword for 61 damage in the 3-4 subtier. Amazingly, the guy was still standing at -7 with Diehard. On her next turn, she crit AGAIN! That guy was just a smear on the grass at that point.Yes. It was a good day to be had by all. At first I was worried that the Enlarge Person spell would be to slow for use in combat sense it has a 1 round casting time but what happened this weekend has assured me it was a good pick for a first level character buffer spell. Just need to get a quicken spell meta magic rod in the future, but by then I will have other buffs.
Not quite sure what the issue is that you would be referring to.
As the bastard sword resizes with the target of the EP, it would still be the one size category larger, making it two-handed and a -2 to hit.
So still usable, and would actually be a wash, other than damage dice, and a littel extra Strength damage.
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During last night's Siege of the Diamond City event at Phoenix Comicon, I ran the Seeker table to great effect. One of the best player moments came when the rogue, prone after being channeled back to consciousness, struck the beast standing over him with his rapier with a critical hit. Sneak attack was dealt thanks to a flank from the barbarian, and the dragon was slain, pierced through the heart.
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While playing The Dalsine Affair, my paladin killed the BBEG by breaking a chair over the back of his head.
My elven ranger uses a curve blade (18-20 threat range). From level 1 through 5, he hit exactly 1 critical hit (he never even had another threat in more attacks than I can count). This one critical was hitting an imp over the head with a chair...power attack + species enemy, and it actually ended up being a my finest strike, in spite of damage reduction.
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My elven ranger uses a curve blade (18-20 threat range). From level 1 through 5, he hit exactly 1 critical hit (he never even had another threat in more attacks than I can count). This one critical was hitting an imp over the head with a chair...power attack + species enemy, and it actually ended up being a my finest strike, in spite of damage reduction.While playing The Dalsine Affair, my paladin killed the BBEG by breaking a chair over the back of his head.
Not PFS, but I used to play in an AD&D campaign, where the NPC Paladin (used to round out our party to 4 characters) was mainly noteable because the only time he could reliably hit anything was when he was using my character's backpack as a weapon.
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Um, I once bit something so hard that it literally exploded, we thought he was joking when he asked for reflex saves, until the damage got rolled. That counts, right? I maintain a list of things that I have bitten for the Sczarni, including Pure Legionnaires and divs and ghouls and ghuls. Also, when people ask me to introduce myself, I explain that I "solve" "problems" for my older cousin Guaril.
On a semi-related note, a Pairaka div tried to use her feminine wiles to put the whammy and me and my fellow Pathfinders. I responded by tring to beat her upside the head with a prayer mat. She tried to fly away, I had a drink and followed her. We had a scuffle in the air, and she tried to give me a hug. I didn't appreciate it, so I gave her the beak. Once I knocked her out, I flew her back to the ground, tied her back up to the pillar we found her tied up to, gagged her, and shaved her head to teach her what happens when she tries to mess with the Sczarni.
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Hmm, here's a couple gems...
The Frostfur Captives
Fast forward to the last fight, I remember the flask. In the last rounds the BBEG has used a building entrance as a choke point, causing some of the players to not have anything to do. The barbarian chooses this time to look behind him at the goblins. All but one were running around. The other was popping a squat, which after a poor % roll detonated, giving the poor goblin the worst case of hemorrhoids in his life and setting the surrounding area on fire. That goblin earned the name "Fire Sh*tter" chanted by the other goblins wildly as the rest of the party put out the fire and stabilized 'ol F.S.
Different Scenario I don't want to provide details for.
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I LOVE running this one, especially when the party gets to the inn and I get to roleplay as the old ladies.
Ive run this one around 7 times, and I think I am pretty good at convincing the players that the little old ladies are actually a coven of witches.
The one the players can see when they walk in the door is standing behind a large pot while chopping up some kind of meat with a large cleaver. Her apron is covered in blood. Her tiny dog (think chihuahua) is chewing on a bone much larger than it is. (Know Nature to identify the bone as being from a deer, or Heal to know it isnt from a humanoid).
Her sisters come in from the kitchen. One has red stains clear up to her elbows (she's making jam). The other is covered in blonde hair (corn silk).
Normally, the players want to keep an eye on them while they make dinner, so one person gets left behind, who I quickly position in the kitchen between the two sisters and make sure to mention the large knives nearby.
All that while using a frail old lady voice and holding my hands above the table, having them shake slightly when I do anything with them.
More than once it has resulted in the players attacking them.
"Congratulations, you just murdered an old woman. Her sisters begin crying, and one is clutching her chest like she is having a heart attack. Are you trained in Heal?"
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So a favorite gm of mine sets up a player to "go acquire all the others for a module introduction." He speaks separately for a few minutes and they both return, so Golden where can they find you in Absolom. The player has a Tengu.
Where else, the second floor of the Calistrian temple in a room marked "furry." The player drops his jaw. As I see the Tengu I say, sorry wrong room "Feathers" is across the hall at the end of the corridor.
Not PFS, but I think this fits the mood:
I'm gming a online game. One of my PC's has spikes on his armor, and is being attacked by a shadow creature (custom build for this game). Well, I have this policy of critical fails for monsters, designed to add a little humor to some tense moments. Which leads us to the PC grappling with the shadow creature, and the creature not only failing its CMD defense constantly, but critically failing. So I had the creature keep piercing itself on the pc's armor spikes. Well, none of the other PC's were able to land a hit on this thing, but the grappling pc manages to kill it using his armored spikes and my bad dice rolls.
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Well we played Master of the Fallen Fortress. Party of 5 characters, all new except my Calistran bard, who's been through the confirmation.
GM decides that I'm recruiting a group of newbies for an off the books mission to rescue the missing Pathfinder.
When we find the chained up Pathfinder, I say "I told you if you wanted chained up, come to temple!"
Later I'm asked how I know him, "Well after my confirmation, he, James is and myself all celebrated. We got to know each other very well that night..."
Two players got it but the GM and the 13 year old remained blissfully unaware of the implied three way celebrations sex.
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Here is a story of a crazy ending to a session I ran.
So, the players get a house that seemed a little sketchy in Absalom. Everyone goes to bed except one players who ended up spotting a red glowing light beneath the floor boards. The elf checks it by prying floor boards out and dropping down to get a better look, only see she landed in a large room with a bright pulsating pentagram. Before you know it the others scramble down to check it out...to then see a nemesis-demon slowly come out of the floor.
Everyone ran, except the monk and the cleric. The cleric managed to stop the demon from coming all the way out and they had a discussion as to what was going on. Well, to sum that up, the demon was sent to kill them and the only way to get out of it was to give up one of their favorite NPC friends, a smart ass goblin wizard named Ghorble. Since they didn't agree the demon begins coming out.
The monk decided "F**k it" and drew from the deck of many things for the second time that day to see if they can get a miracle out of it. Well, he already had two wishes left to use. His first card, the Skull. Well now that this level 4 monk had summoned a reaper to take his life he asks me. "Can I wish it away", I reply "the most you can do with that wish is to wish it away....for a few seconds." He agrees and I roll a d20 to see how many seconds he has. I rolled a 20. Now, within these 20 seconds. Goes up to the demon offers that if the demon kills the reaper for him, he will wish Ghorble to be teleported there in 3 days. The demon said he'll go talk to his boss. As he did, the reaper appears. Now some magical way this lvl 4 monk managed to continuously stun the reaper while waiting, only to then have the demon come back to agree with the deal and proceeded to kill two reapers without taking a scratch.
And that my friends, was a crazy adrenaline filled night as that was going down!
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A tale of Lily trying to resolve things by her usual method of "talking hurts less than fighting", for better or for worse :)
Unfortunately, we get a bit to eager to get him secured, and the attempt to tie him up breaks the Charm just after we get back in the boat and cast off. We're not far from the dock yet, and he is yelling loud enough to alert the dock guards, who then also start yelling. Meanwhile, he starts channeling negative energy, with all of us stuck in a confined space with him. Not my greatest plan.
He gets beat on for a couple of rounds as the boat slowly moves away from the dock, and the guards start pelting us with arrows. Their lack of Precise Shot combined with Lily being the only one not in melee at the time resulted in an attempt to pincushion her; she only gets hit once, but it's a crit, which when combined with the channeling has her down to about 5hp. I hit the deck, falling prone inside the boat, and hit myself with a wand. The cleric goes down during this round, but we're still getting nailed by arrows, and it gets back around to my turn.
"I poke my head above the edge of the boat and yell out 'We took out your boss - don't make us come back for you!'. <Rolls Intimidate> Then, to emphasize my point... I duck back down under the edge of the boat."
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I'm playing with 4-5 other people with my level 3 gnome sorcerer, we're on a boat and about 70ft away on shore 5-6 bandits on horses show up, all have bows. I rolled highest on initiative and much to the surprise of these cloaked highwaymen from the boat they were looking to waylay a gnome with reddish-gold hair, like elm leaves in autumn, waves his hands and a barely imperceptible bolt bursts forth whereupon it splits in three and kills their leader. He then asks, with an unsettingly wide grin on his face, "Who else wants to play?" No one wanted to play with me.
In another part of the scenario another ship was approaching ours a little to close for comfort, the GM asked if anybody had KNOW(Nobility), we didn't, we asked if we could make a perception check to see how many people were on deck. There were somewhere between 7 and 9 combatants (can't remember exactly) and the ship could hold either 100 or 200 crew and rowers. Anyway they are starting to over take us and everyone else is trying to come up with a plan to slow them down or take them on. I ask the GM to inform me when the ship gets within 400ft. He and my party asks why, I tell them I am going to hit the enemy ships mast with my scroll of fireball that I bought off a chronicle sheet. This just goes to prove that the correct application of force can solve any problem.
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Playing a 10-11 and we encountered a couple flying archer types, so my cleric of Desna casts air walk on an ally with a sword and assumed things would take care of themselves. A couple rounds later two party members are unconscious and the enemies are barely hurt. So Joe, Devout of Desna, casts animate object to create a flying stone dragon and rides it into battle. A few rounds later one archer is plane shifted elsewhere and the stone dragon has the other one pinned to the ground so the muscle can finish it off. Joe doesn't like to flex his divine might, but I really like it when he gets a chance.
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Phantom Phenomena- Monolith
The Murlock had been trying to deter the Cleric and Barbarian from sealing it's home. I asked the barbarian what it wanted to do-
"I'm going to ready an action to grapple with murlock."
While the cleric readied to shut the lid, the murlock jumped at the waiting barbarian... and was grappled.
"What you going to do?" i asked the barbarian
After maintaining the grapple, "I throw the <murlock> down the hole!"
The Barbarian slam-dunked the murlock back down into it's den.
Kortos Envoy
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A group of four are going through 2-15: Shades of Ice 1, low tier. (Archer 3, Cleric 2, Rogue 1, Fighter 1).
He tosses his dice on the table, both show 20s. He tries to not confirm, is unsuccessful, kills both of them (8 hp each!), nonlethal to lethal to dead. Neither make their Will Save.
"These are a little too potent," he remarks, switching to normal arrows for the rest of the (admittedly short) fight.
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From Under Ice
To avoid any player from getting singled out while panicked, the Summoner played "Whack-a-mole" with his Earth Elemental.
Four earth elementals up and down, we recovered and finished the job.
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I may have told this one...
Shades of Ice II. Playing my bard, Miroslav Elvanna. We go in and are trying to get into Whitethrone. GM asks how we're going to sneak in.
"Who's sneaking? I'm walking right up to the gate?"
*rest of the party* "We're going to wait right over here while he gets killed."
Guard: State your business!
Me: Who are you to talk to me that way? I am Miroslav Elvanna Here to visit family.
GM: Oh s~~*, you're Jadwiga, aren't you?
Me: Yup.
Guard: Sorry sir, go on in, enjoy your stay and please don't report me.
Rest of the party muttering various evil words in my direction.
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Playing a 10-11 and we encountered a couple flying archer types, so my cleric of Desna casts air walk on an ally with a sword and assumed things would take care of themselves. A couple rounds later two party members are unconscious and the enemies are barely hurt. So Joe, Devout of Desna, casts animate object to create a flying stone dragon and rides it into battle. A few rounds later one archer is plane shifted elsewhere and the stone dragon has the other one pinned to the ground so the muscle can finish it off. Joe doesn't like to flex his divine might, but I really like it when he gets a chance.
Every time Joe casts animate object it's always a fun spectacle for the rest of the table.
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Ever play an Evergreen with a person who has several stars as a DM and boons from Cons? Not the DM, another player.
The Confirmation:
Our player was a big bad Demon-Spawn Tiefling Occultist who wore Hellknight Plate. I was a humble Dwarf Cleric.
We encountered the Water-Filled Pit.
Dwarf: "Dwarves don't swim" as I take out my rope and begin hammering a piton into the ground.
Tiefling: "Don't waste your piton, this is no problem" as he clicks his heels together, thinks happy thoughts, and boosts his movement speed to 50. He makes a running leap over the pit and Rolls a 2. Now in the water he must try to swim and gets no bonus from fast movement speed. Wearing plate armor, he sinks like a rock.
Dwarf: Once I'm done hammering in the piton I'll affix the rope to it and drop it in the water for the idiot.
The DM who was clearly having fun with this: "The rope floats on top of the water since you didn't tie anything heavy to the end of it".
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School of Spirits
He goes into a big schpeil about the property value of the school ruins, and all the ghosts that still remained within were depreciating the property value. I had the ghost roll a will save- nat 1. The ghost died of boredom.
Later, when the party encountered a mandagora, the Vishkanya w/Sleep Venom in the party coyly agreed to the mandagora's toll. It failed it's will save and fell asleep. He was promptly slain by the bored barbarian.
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I'm not gonna spoiler this bit because it's super minor, but don't read on if you feel like tiny background things in Realm of the Fellnight Queen might bother you.
So, wayyy back in season 3(iirc), NiTessine ran us through this module, very speedily I might add. In the very beginning there's a box social alongside the wedding reception the first act happens to be set in where the players can bid for bakeries. The winner gets to eat their choice bit while chatting with its baker - one of several bridesmaids. Very romantic, such grace, much nom.
Anyway, our Cleric of Asmodeus, Crosis, decided to participate(my Ranger of Dagon was off drinking the free mead that was somehow free to Pathfinders as well, the Daemon-worshipping archer decided to fish and our monk was about to show the wedding goers some dance moves. Yes, it was one of those groups).
Pretty soon a fight for a certain pumpkin bread turned into a fierce bidding war. For Crosis' opponent, I mean. For our Cleric it was just Tuesday. He paid 50 freakin' gold for the bread, swallowed it and went on to say: "Ah, the sweet taste of victory. The bread's ok too". The opponent steamed so much we nearly faced an apocalypse. Because of pumpkin bread.
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This is an old one, from First Steps part 2: To Delve a dungeon deep.
Kobolds: "FOR THE FIRELORD!!!"
I cast burning hands and roll a natural 20 on intimidation.
Kobolds: "YOU ARE THE FIRELORD!!!"
I suddenly had a new tribe of kobold worshippers to help us in the last fight. XD
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Not my table, but a friend's. He was very happy he came up with it.
During a scenario, he had to portray a militiaman who was overworked and ill-equipped, though the scenario didn't offer any descriptions. He made up a Halfling with medium-sized longspear and a medium-sized helmet that kept falling over his face. He worked 20-hour shifts and kept appearing in the background wherever the party went. At some point, they went inside a cook's house, and the cook went to serve food to everyone. He also put a plate on the windowsill, and a few moments later just a helmet and a spear appeared in the window, grabbed the plate, and left.
I'm not doing it any justice, but it's a great "you had to be there"-moment. The players still talk about it.
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Playing a high level mission, kill a colossal dragon, was disappointed to find out that it was not the big bad boss, just unlucky enough to think we were edible... So we still have a mission to accomplish and no time to enjoy the prestige and glory of dragon killing... So the wizard slaps a 'property of X' note on one of its horns and teleports the corpse to the Grand Lodge Quad...
Looking back, that's not how teleport works, but was still funny as hell, and the day a colossal dragon corpse popped on to the Grand Lodge lawn will remain in the local fluff.
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Drow of the Darklands Pyramid
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Had a paladin's Stegosauras mount thrown at my skald...rear end first.
He then had the traumatic memory of this incident purged from his mind (any further explanation would require a spoiler tag) and now doesn't understand how he picked up the nickname "Stegolas".