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My players were doing a follow-up on some investigative work in the Technic Siege.
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Carrion Crown-
Through investigative knowledges, we find out it has Hardness 10. We have had very little chance to damage this thing, so we were going to run for it- the door where we encountered it was locked anyways.
But my magus had another idea- i'm going to grapple this thing.
Succeed.
The witch pulls out a length of rope. GM asks, "what are you doing with the rope?"
Witch replies "tie it up."
looking up rule, only i could tie it up and only once it's pinned.
my turn, roll to maintain- succeed. Roll to pin- succeed!
The GM is getting very irate with my plan- because by all definitions of "tie up" a Scythe all I was doing was nothing more than wrapping the rope around the scythe. How was that going to prevent the Scythe from doing anything else?
My turn comes- "I tied up the Scythe!"
The GM looks me dirty in the eye, "If that thing ever gets loose, it's going to auto-crit you for max damage."
And for the rest of the encounter, I had a very persistent animated Scythe fall me around the interior of Harrowstone.
At least I gave it a nice bow.
We also encountered some animated/haunted manacleds crawling around a room. More knowledges told us the same "Hardness 10" made this fight unwinnable. A quick perception told us there was nothing of value in the room, so we just closed the door and walked away.
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The party busts into a room and starts looking for an invisible, flying thing tossing lightning around the room.
The enlarged fighter takes the foxform kitsune and starts playing "UPSABABY" trying to get the kitsune on the thing or within 5 feet of it. Much laughter and discussion of parabella arcs followed.
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Another from wonderful RI:
Due to a lucky crit in the 3rd round, the Azlanti construct goes down. The person who had been piloting it's consciousness goes flooding back into her body, which is not the equivalent of two turns away from the control orb.
As she begins making her way there, they other payers begin thinking "We need to distract Demon King-Kong". After some debate as to whether they really want to do this, the Bolt Ace takes the reins and says "Screw it, I'm shooting it on my turn". His turn comes and... He hits the touch AC. Doesn't do any damage because EVERYONE is level one or two. And I, who had been planning on having the giant CR "way-too-high" just smash the remains of the constuct for a couple rounds must now either break immersion, or break a player. However, it does have dimension door.
"The Creature looks at you with glowering hate. And then it disappears. However you feel a warm breath on the back of your neck."
"... OH GOD, IS IT RIGHT BEHIND ME?"
The ape had moved to a spot where it now threatened 3 characters.
No, noone died. The dice worked with me for once.
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Me: Roll a Reflex save.
GM: 19. What's this for?
Me: Resinous Skin. His longsword is stuck to me now.
Another player: How much does that weigh? Are you encumbered now?
Me: I'm sure I'll be fine, I have Ant Haul on.
Frantic nerd-math ensues. 256 lbs. is the weight of a gargantuan longsword, if anyone was curious. Table is laughing at this news.
Me: Crap. Max load is 240. Hrm....Defensively cast, succeed, disintegrate the sword. Quickened teleport to where I was going.
Table breaks into hysterics over that choice of disintegrate to fix the problem.
Yup, encumbrance still matters at level 18.
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I was running a recent module that contained an area of subjective gravity - this means you need to enforce your will to 'control' the direction of gravity.
Most of the characters were doing fine apart from the pre-gen barbarian. They jumped into the area and failed to exert their will enough - a random direction dice later and they were back out of the room on their backside exactly where they started but with a nice new bruise for their effort.
Jump to the end of the encounter and the same character was the final person to leave the room. In spite they decided to spit at the room - the random dice gods decided that gravity would fling the projectile back at them...
The entire table cracked up!
Fun times :D
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The Confirmation keeps giving once in a while...
We were running two games for a prospective new player to show them the ropes, and two of the players were my housemates, one of whom was playing her ifrit cavalier. She'd been in a few scenarios already and my housemate was using her one second-level playthrough of the scenario, so said cavalier was decked out in a brand new full plate. She charged ahead to protect Janira from the minotaur, stepped onto the log, and promptly fell off.
She then spent the majority of the battle (at least three or four rounds) trying to get back into the fight, because despite having a high Strength score and a rank in Swim, the ACP and cold (perhaps even mountain-brook cold) dice meant she just couldn't roll high enough to get out of the creek. At least one round was spent entirely submerged (I ruled a Medium character in full plate would be too heavy to start drifting downstream) and two others were spent standing up, yelling "I've got this!" at the rest of the party, and then falling over again after another failed check.
That ifrit already hated water, but by jove, now she has a reason to.
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I'm not a big fan of the scenario. The final boss is way too brutal for fresh level ones.
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I ran Among the Dead for my playgroup last night.
Funny things happened when they encountered the Fortune-Spurned cultists-
The whole table was up in arms- "No CMB check?! No Save?! What the hell does this guy have!?"
Second cultist, one HP away from death, called down a bat swarm.
Third cultist, "do you want to meet the master?" I told the player, as i rolled some percentile, "on a 100% you fall through the floor."
He didn't fall through the floor, just into a pit.
It was fun messing with Calamitous Mishap ability.
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From Consortium Compact
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"Prove that you are all Pathfinders" said the village elder
*players all look around, realizing no one actually has a wayfinder*
*I sheepishly pull out my wallet, and take out the PFS member card that I printed because i kept forgetting the number and pass it to the GM*
"Everything looks in order here, you have the right credentials"
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Another little tale from our dark corner of the world.
In an scenario involving a remote village filled with Nagaji, we are informed that two factions who detest each other come out to face each other in combat every day at the sound of the gong.
At this revelation we pause. "So Iammars... what you are saying is that we could solve this problem by stealing the gong?" A sordid plan is quickly concocted where we could turn my druid invisible, have him snatch the gong and bind it to himself and then shapeshift... taking the gong along with him.
-Where did the gong go?
-I don't know let'sss assk the foreignersss.
-I have no idea what you are talking about. Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong. That is a normal noise for tigers in Mwangi.
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Curse of the Riven Sky: A Tale of the Slow Fighter.
Recently, we through this high tier module: two Hungry Ghost monks (one heavily trip-oriented), a Rage Chemist, a Sunder-based Oracle, a dwarven "come get me, giants!" tank, and... a fighter.
Long story short- between the Oracle sundering armor and weapons left and right, the trip-based monk getting two AoO's off each trip [Greater Trip/Vicious Stomp] during trip-happy flurries, my own monk flurrying, and the Rage Chemist hulking on the foes in the fray- the two fighters nigh got a hit off. [When they did, they hit hard... tis what Fighters do.]
The funny part came from a "pity hand-off" my monk sent to the fighter. In the midst of combat, my monk used Punishing Kick to knock a foe closer to the fighter, then moving to continue the flurry.
I tried to play it off as i was confident in my ally's ability to deal with the enemies, it came off as "here, you deal with this" while the two monks and rage chemist were deep in the midst of combat.
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Players kept failing their saves against a Calm Emotions aura. The players were seriously considering using Blistering Invective on themselves to keep them from getting stun-locked. That was an interesting fight.
If it's the fight I think you're talking about, I definitely had someone digging their own grave for several rounds last time I ran it. Probably my favorite monster tactic to date.
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"So we know there's an 'ancient and terrible evil' behind these doors. How do we tackle it?"
"All right, beefcake guy with the terribly low Will save, you open the door, then run back to us in this bigger room so it comes to us, instead of we coming to it."
"Sounds good. Here, I'll tap everyone with this Wand of Protection from Evil, just in case."
Their plan was sound, they just didn't count on a non-evil creature charming the first (and only) PC it saw and leaning in for a kiss. Poor bastards were even so far away they couldn't even run up to the guy to pull him back in a single move.
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Was just reminded of this one:
Playing a scenario where the darkness of the environment was a major factor. We have my ninja(with a wand of Darkvision), a monk, and alchemist, and i believe the cleric pregen. We find the BBEG, who we didn't know was the BBEG and not just another crony, inside a room with only one exit. BBEG casts Deeper Darkness, and now we can see nothing. Ninja and alchemist stack on either side of the door and whisper plans in Infernal, which we are sure the enemy can;t understand. Monk decides to run into the room alone, despite not knowing what as going on in there. Alchemist says, "I shut the door." Que monk going down in one round to multiple enemies we didn't know where in there. I announce that if anything comes out that door I am stabbing it. Cleric readies to heal if the door opens. When the door opens, channel energy goes off and the monk then jumps up on his turn and runs out the door. My readied action goes off and I drop him again. Two short rounds later the fight is over and the cleric begins to heal people.
A few weeks later with the same ninja and monk the monk goes down to falling bits of ceiling. Instant dead. ninja uses his faction trait to suck up the monk's soul for some much(barely) needed healing. I did help pay for the character's resurrection both times, and the player does much better now. It's still an ongoing joke around our lodge though.
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Last night: party of 5 plus one Phantom. Everyone except the Mesmerist gets Confused by the BBEG. A slapfight breaks out between the phantom and the Rogue. Rogue gets one sneak attack off, then they barely hit each other anymore due to boosted AC (the phantom got some lucky hits in, though). The Spiritualist, a Grippli, gets to act normally for a bit and sees me (a Slayer) being confused and decided to draw aggro. He asks, "do you have any ranged weapons" "Yeah, a few javelins." He draws me away from the group and hurls a book at me while sticking to the ceiling. My turn, I have to attack him, I go, "Sorry, you didn't ask me about my reach weapons," and proceeded to chase him with a lucerne hammer. Due to the layout of the room, all he has to do is five-foot step away and I have to spend an entire move action chasing him. All the while, the BBEG and Mesmerist are trading blows and hurling spells at each other until the Confusion runs out. A well-timed Blindness from the Mesmerist puts the BBEG out of commission.
Luckily, no one died, but a few got pretty close. I even used a reroll boon to negate a crit on the Grippli so I didn't insta-kill him. So, imagine a Wayang Rogue and a phantom slapping each other silly, a maniac chasing a frog on the ceiling, a Halfling being dazed by a Hypnotic Pattern somewhere in the room, and a Nagaji and a blind human trying to hit each other. I was imaginging the Benny Hill song playing in the background.
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Last night: party of 5 plus one Phantom. Everyone except the Mesmerist gets Confused by the BBEG. A slapfight breaks out between the phantom and the Rogue. Rogue gets one sneak attack off, then they barely hit each other anymore due to boosted AC (the phantom got some lucky hits in, though). The Spiritualist, a Grippli, gets to act normally for a bit and sees me (a Slayer) being confused and decided to draw aggro. He asks, "do you have any ranged weapons" "Yeah, a few javelins." He draws me away from the group and hurls a book at me while sticking to the ceiling. My turn, I have to attack him, I go, "Sorry, you didn't ask me about my reach weapons," and proceeded to chase him with a lucerne hammer. Due to the layout of the room, all he has to do is five-foot step away and I have to spend an entire move action chasing him. All the while, the BBEG and Mesmerist are trading blows and hurling spells at each other until the Confusion runs out. A well-timed Blindness from the Mesmerist puts the BBEG out of commission.
Luckily, no one died, but a few got pretty close. I even used a reroll boon to negate a crit on the Grippli so I didn't insta-kill him. So, imagine a Wayang Rogue and a phantom slapping each other silly, a maniac chasing a frog on the ceiling, a Halfling being dazed by a Hypnotic Pattern somewhere in the room, and a Nagaji and a blind human trying to hit each other. I was imaginging the Benny Hill song playing in the background.
Dont forget the fascination.
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All the while, the BBEG and Mesmerist are trading blows and hurling spells at each other until the Confusion runs out. A well-timed Blindness from the Mesmerist puts the BBEG out of commission.
So I blinded the BBEG, and started attacking him. But I'm a vexing dardevil, so I started to feint the target. GM goes: "But he has no dex, because he's blind".
"Yeah, but my cool powers only work if the the feint is succesful"Sap: 1D6+1D8.
Basically I was tapping the BBEG on the left shoulder, and laid into him from the right. Taptap. Bonk. Taptap. Bonk
Meanwhile the rest of the crew gets fascinated as well. I remark that I can remove the fascinate status...but won't, since in that state the confusement spell doesn't make them hurt each other, or themselves...
Was just reminded of this one:
Playing a scenario where the darkness of the environment was a major factor. We have my ninja(with a wand of Darkvision), a monk, and alchemist, and i believe the cleric pregen. We find the BBEG, who we didn't know was the BBEG and not just another crony, inside a room with only one exit. BBEG casts Deeper Darkness, and now we can see nothing. Ninja and alchemist stack on either side of the door and whisper plans in Infernal, which we are sure the enemy can;t understand. Monk decides to run into the room alone, despite not knowing what as going on in there. Alchemist says, "I shut the door." Que monk going down in one round to multiple enemies we didn't know where in there. I announce that if anything comes out that door I am stabbing it. Cleric readies to heal if the door opens. When the door opens, channel energy goes off and the monk then jumps up on his turn and runs out the door. My readied action goes off and I drop him again. Two short rounds later the fight is over and the cleric begins to heal people.
A few weeks later with the same ninja and monk the monk goes down to falling bits of ceiling. Instant dead. ninja uses his faction trait to suck up the monk's soul for some
much(barely) needed healing. I did help pay for the character's resurrection both times, and the player does much better now. It's still an ongoing joke around our lodge though.
In my defense I had only been playing for somewhere around 5-6 months and that was my second character. Still funny looking back though, definitely grown as a player.
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Heresy of Man, P2
GM: Roll five fort saves!
Barbarian: *rolls nat 1 on the first.* passes the rest
GM: The Beetle burrows into your skin, and you take 2 Con damage.
Barbarian: WTF? Get these things off of me!
GM: ... wait, you have DR right? Nevermind, the beetles can't penetrate your skin. Damn.
Barbarian: Okay, good. um... How do i get these off of me?
Alchemist [me]: Move away from the party...
Barbarian: Why?
Alchemist: The less people i have to exclude from my bomb, the better.
Barbarian: WTH dude! You're going to blow me up?!
GM: Beetles are still trying to burrow into your skin.
Alchemist: I can blow them up, without blowing you up. *Precise Bombs*
One bomb and disgruntled GM later, the scarabs are dead without infesting any other players.
Further into Catacombs. We see corpses. One looks like an ally we're looking for.
(Underleveled) Hunter and Alchemist run up to check on him.
"Ally" turns over, reveals a holy symbol and "Roll Will Save for half damage!"
*Rolls initiative, rolls high.*
Alchemist: WTF dude? *slams bomb on undead's head, excluding myself, hunter and his snow leopard.
*lackey in splash radius, rolls for reflex save.
GM: And he... takes no damage. Evasion.
Alchemist: ... Zombie Monks?!
Further into Catacombs.
Alchemist at 51/54 HP.
Gets maulled by big bad. Bite, 2 claws, Rend, and Fire damage per hit.
GM: You take 54 damage. [now at -3/54, 13 Con (+10 Con Retail Incentive)]
[Table] Damn!
Alchemist: And i'm down.
Next turn: W00t Spontaneous Healing. Up to 2/54. W00t Sipping Jacket w/ CMW stored on it. Heals 10, now 12/54. Um. needs to move so Swashbuckler can get flanking. Full Defensive, Stand from Prone. Provokes, gets smacked for 10.
Many Shock Bombs and rounds of Spontaneous Healing later, Big Bad is dead, and party licks wounds- Hunter mourns loss of Snow Leopard. Hey, lvl 5 playing up in a t5-9.
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Party runs into weird critter which I recognize & describe for the sake of those unfamiliar with it.
"Imagine an Aranea that's traveled the Far Realms, coming back warped and much stronger."
Later, in a significant fight...
We fight an Aranea that's traveled the Far Realms, and has come back warped and much stronger.
Awkward thing is, nobody noticed, including myself until later. :(
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The party is swarmed by morlocks, as is often the case in early season scenarios. The low man on the totem pole, an alchemist, triggered the ambush and eats a flurry of sneak attacks.
The party witch sees him go unconscious and decides a confusion spell is in order now that the only PC in the spell area is out of the fight. A number of morlocks fail saves, as well as the alchemist.
The merciful healer sees his ally bleeding and surrounded by confused morlocks and moves to rebuke death. This unfortunately brings the alchemist to 0HP.
Over the next two rounds, both the alchemist and one of the morlocks rolls 'damage self' on their turn, bludgeoning themselves unconscious in their confusion.
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The party is swarmed by morlocks, as is often the case in early season scenarios. The low man on the totem pole, an alchemist, triggered the ambush and eats a flurry of sneak attacks.
The party witch sees him go unconscious and decides a confusion spell is in order now that the only PC in the spell area is out of the fight. A number of morlocks fail saves, as well as the alchemist.
The merciful healer sees his ally bleeding and surrounded by confused morlocks and moves to rebuke death. This unfortunately brings the alchemist to 0HP.
Over the next two rounds, both the alchemist and one of the morlocks rolls 'damage self' on their turn, bludgeoning themselves unconscious in their confusion.
that got me to chuckle...
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Too many to list from gad-con. Writng some before sleep erases them.
FINALLY got to bellyrub a colossal centipede.
"you're feeding it a pig?
"eyup
"that you just carry around with you?
"eyup" shows multiple pig purchases on chronicle sheets.
"Why...?"
"Palms flat.. because at this level the werewolf kibble isn't really a full meal"
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A bard passing out bane vs evil outsiders.. in the world wound.
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casts murderous command. Watches him hit an ally.
"Nice shot! totally worth the 75 gold i paid you!"
*some of his party starts to look at him suspiciously*
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foxform fighter does a running jump and climbs onto the flying enemies head with amazing acrobatics
..preist waves a hand and dismisses him, sending fox plummeting to the ground.
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"I am a leaf in the wind...
"you DO remember how that ended right?
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A sentient scrying crystal said that when it was alive it liked to explode
"welcome to the society!" *hangs wayfinder on it*
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NPC are you prophets?
PC 1 "is that with an ff or a ph?
DM *long pause* ph
PC2 "I don't know, one second. PROPHET HUDDLE"
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"you just carry around a familiar satchel?
"Yes. For irresponsible pet owners." *tap tap taps pointy stick
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My witch still carries her crab in a bucket because aquarium balls are so prohibitively expensive and heavy...
"you just carry around a familiar satchel?"Yes. For irresponsible pet owners." *tap tap taps pointy stick
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I don't have any siblings. This posed a challenge this weekend at a con, when I finally got to play my martial multiclass monstrosity (bloodrager/fighter/swashbuckler at level 3) in From the Tome of Righteous Repose. She's the older sister of my housemate's blackblade magus and they got to adventure together for the first time. They're both martial classes, sylphs, and apparently nightmares to be around.
Our party was rounded out by a mask-wearing oread monk and the pregen bard. The tone of the game was immediately set by us rolling Knowledge rolls at the start of the scenario: Lem rolled bardic knowledge and my character proceeded to comment "Lem, get back under the table". It went downhill from there. Our characters ran around the dungeon, killing everything in sight within a few rounds and shamelessly using Lem as a wand holder. At one point, my character got fatigued, so we went and napped in front of the dungeon door to make sure nobody could escape with our sweet loots. At another, the monk went unconscious and the magus pulled his mask off to feed him a potion... and just as the mask came off and we saw the oread's weird bishonen face for the first time, Lem managed to heal him back into consciousness, causing the monk to panic and punch the magus hovering over him in the face.
Due to circumstances (and the relative stupidity of all characters present) we ended up finishing in two hours with 0 PP. Everyone enjoyed the game immensely.
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My witch still carries her crab in a bucket because aquarium balls are so prohibitively expensive and heavy...
"you just carry around a familiar satchel?"Yes. For irresponsible pet owners." *tap tap taps pointy stick
That reminds me, my Grippli carries his familiar in a familiar satchel. Problem is, Gripplis are between one and a half and two feet tall, and so are typical Tiny creatures. I have no idea how I'm lugging around a familiar in a bag the same size as me.