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It heals 5 at the start of its turn, and any time it is dealt slashing or piercing damage. So 5 when hit, then 5 on its turn.
I would read the reactive regeneration not being turned off by acid or fire, so parties really want to get out the bludgeoning weapons unless they have someone that can do single large hits.
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OK so, two questions:
#1 so the sequence is Sheila's map, Tidewatcher, cave entrance, hole in the floor revealing tunnels, door and priest?
#2 the book trap for A1 has an option to reduce player gold if the players don't "trigger, disable,bypass" it. What other options are there?
Sorry, this will be my second scenario in PF i have run as DM so I am feeling a little unprepared and confused.
#1 sounds correct to me off the top of my head.
Re: #2, having talked a little bit more about this, it's a little messy and unclear. There are three words that matter here: trigger, disable, and bypass. We know what two of them mean: trigger and disable. So what's bypass?
My assumption is that bypass in this context refers to an occasional feature of traps: a bypass switch that lets an individual do something without setting the trap off, without disabling the trap. This trap doesn't have one of those.
So it would seem to me that the intention is that the party must interact with the trap in some way. Most parties are going to either walk into it or disable it; I wouldn't worry too too much about the case where a party of teleportation specialists detect the trap and then shift past it or something.
And even in that case, it's up to you to determine whether that constitutes a creative solution, and find another way to get the party the books and loot. There's a library, so it's not hard to find another place to stash the trap loot in that case.
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Ran this tuesday, and we also had a Chakram wielder. But the party only got one question on their collective dungeoneering checks, and used it on special attacks.
So, they never really figured out how the regeneration worked. The chakrams were delicious growth points. But they tried backing it into the entrance hallway. Somehow in the sloshing around and growing, the (very tanky) dwarf got separated from the party and stuck between 2 oozes with no way around. He reliably hit, and did some net damage... at the cost of growth points.
Eventually the rest of the party took down one ooze (skald used a hammer)... and then we found that not a single person in the party had fire or acid of any kind. One had flint and steel, so they used that to light some gear on fire, then used that on the downed ooze. I pretty much called the fight then, even though the other ooze was still barely up.
By this point though, the other ooze was gargantuan, and filled the hallway. They found the dwarf squashed against the wall, hiding behind his tower shield.
One of the players made use of their True Dragon Kobold pregen. And decided they really disliked goblins. The party started to negotiate with Grib a bit... then the kobold went over and smashed up a vat (getting nicely exposed in the process). By the end I think everyone but the dwarf had gotten some mutations.
The queen almost wiped the party. There was a major bottleneck between the dwarf and a sinspawn for a while, but eventually the party actually came into the room, and I was able to actually hit things. And everyone but the dwarf started dropping fast. The cleric did her job though, and everyone pulled through.
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Ok, I am prepping this to run on Wednesday.
Looking at the map the two doors from A8 which are greyed out look like they are supposed to be secret doors but no DC is provided for them. Are these just regular doors leading to the ground floor section or are they supposed to be secret?
Yeah, those passageways don't "read" right at first. The room labeled A8 has two levels to it. (The ceiling is 30 feet high, the stone walkway is 15 feet up, and the sand is at ground level.) The passageways in gray are not secret; that's how the map is labeling passages connecting the lower level of A8. Note the stairs from the hallway into A8 seem to head up, and the stairs from A10 to A8 also ascend.
From the box text in A8, those passages are referred to by:
Barred metal doors lead out from the lower level to the west and south.
In A9, that passage is referred to by:
A single metal door opens to the east
I don't believe the door in the unmarked hallway is described, but I'd consider it similar to the one in A9.
I have to say I'm glad they're not secret--I would not have wanted to edit those out of the image before I showed it to players.
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What do you mean by "something like a charm"? I'll try to answer, but I'm not positive I understand what you're trying to describe.
For some context, this is from the mission briefing:
“I sent word to our allies in Magnimar of what we’d found. I contacted Sheila Heidmarch specifically because I have heard that under her direction, the Pathfinders have made fair dealings with the Shoanti, laid the spirit of an ancient symbol of peace to rest, and stopped a Runelord from rising once again.
“Five days ago, a priest named Julian arrived from Magnimar and claimed he could seal the door. He worships a good god of monuments, he said, and was confident he could succeed. I have not seen him since, however, so I do not know what has happened.”
In professional English writing (I'm not sure how it works in other languages), the closing quotation mark is omitted if the quotation continues into the next paragraph. The missing the quotation mark here shows that the same speaker from the first paragraph continues to speak in the second paragraph.
Regarding the part after "The Shoanti," it's a list of things the Society has done, equivalent to this:
I contacted Sheila Heidmarch specifically because I have heard that under her direction:
- the Pathfinders have made fair dealings with the Shoanti
- laid the spirit of an ancient symbol of peace to rest
- stopped a Runelord from rising once again
Does that help a little bit?
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My son and I are running side-by-side tables of this scenario tonight in tier 4-5, and there seem to be a couple of errors in Grib’s statblock (pp. 12-13).
If Grib feels combat is imminent, he drinks his mutagen to increase his Dexterity and his extracts of false life and expeditious retreat; he also charges a vial of alchemist's fire within his explosion pocket. The benefits of these abilities are included in his statistics.
Speed 30 ft.
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Alchemist Extracts Prepared (CL 5th; concentration +8)
2nd - fire breath, lesser restoration, resist energy
1st - cure light wounds (2), enlarge person, expeditious retreat, true strike
1. I think this is just a typo - his speed should be 60' due to expeditious retreat, not 30', right?
2. Grib doesn't have false life prepared. Should we just replace one of his 2nd level prepared extracts with it? If so, I'd probably drop lesser restoration, as it isn't used in his tactics and (depending on the PCs he's facing) he is more likely to need to worry about energy damage than a few points of ability damage.3. It looks like he has one too many 1st level extracts prepared. A 5th level alchemist should get four level 1 extracts, plus 1 bonus extract due to his intelligence score, right? I could drop enlarge person, as he probably won't want to be a bigger target. Given his line of work, it makes sense to keep both prepared CLW slots.
Any suggestions would be welcome. We'll have a couple of teenagers who've played Pathfinder before (home games, not PFS), a couple more who play 5E, and a couple of parents who played AD&D 25-30 years ago.