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Seems like obituary threads haven't been prevalent with recent APs, but this campaign seems like a good candidate to bring them back. I haven't started my own game yet, but surely one of you monsters have to have killed a PC already, right?
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I'm curious if anyone has run the final combat at the end of book 6 yet, and how that went if so?
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Wouldn't this just be a list of everyone? :P
So far, no one survives book one boss fight that I know of.
My group did, with some creative mechanics and thinking outside the box, though I expect that from them.
So far, no one survives book one boss fight that I know of.My group did, with some creative mechanics and thinking outside the box, though I expect that from them.
Same here. The battle is not that hard when you have someone with huge damages and someone else able to give them flanking. Cavalier and Swashbuckler pummeled her with Power Attacks and that was it.
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Name: Gilkrist
Basic Deets: Male coldborn skinwalker ghost rider cavalier 8 || guardian/marshal 1
Encounter: Putrid ooze, "Last Watch," area E
How It Went Down: The party decided to begin their exploration of the Dyeworks with the warhouse rather than the storefront. With Kilibrandt's key in hand, this proved pretty simple, at least at first. As the party's only full-BAB character, Gilkrist often takes point, and so it was he who walked first up the north ramp, directly next to the dye pool where the putrid ooze hangs out. Cue combat.
The ooze pulls a nat 20 in its initiative (for a total of 19...) and acts first. It takes a solid whack at Gilkrist, hitting for around 30 damage. I actually forgot that the thing had Grab and constrict or Gil probably would have died faster, but it didn't really matter. The rest of the party jump in and start throwing damage at the ooze as fast as they can muster, but Gilkrist's own return strike manages to be a nat 1, literally the only way he could have missed hitting it. Over the next couple rounds, a routine begins: the ooze grapples someone, the medium casts liberating command to help them get free, someone moves into position against the ooze and takes an AoO, and the cycle continues. By the third round, the ooze had taken maybe 2/3 of its hp and I'd dealt out around 200 damage across about 4 PCs. After the third time someone broke free from the ooze's grapple, though, I decided it was tired of its prey slipping free and it just went back to hitting. Another swing on Gilkrist... and a crit. For 79 damage, including the acid. Gil drops to -28, only still alive because of his mythic Hard to Kill ability.
The party has both a cleric and a solar mystery oracle, so both throw cure spells at him. He gets back up, now at about 25 hp. He takes another swing, and the ooze retaliates... with another crit.
A round later, the surviving party members finished killing the ooze, recovering Gilkrist's body and taking it to Second Sword Knight Aylunna for raising. roughly 7000 gp later, Gilkrist is back and rady for action, albeit still one negative level down.
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We had two deaths in two hours a session or two ago.
Name of PC: Demetrius Valdemar
Class/Level: Dhampir Cleric of Olheon 7/Mystery Cultist 2
Adventure: Last Watch (Redoubt of the Red Crusader)
Catalyst: A nasty combination of Smite Good and Flamestrike
Story (the Gory Details): Having spent time fiddling with the front door to the redoubt, the party triggered the alarm and the antipaladins inside, as well as Evark were all buffed and ready for the heroes' arrival. Our unlucky cleric ran ahead, trying to give the party space with a Holy Smite, but all but one antipaladin made their saves. He became a prime target for their Smite Good, and was promptly finished off with a Flame Strike when the rest of the party caught up with him and gave Evark an opportunity she couldn't resist.
Fortunately for him, he's a Mystery Cultist. Olheon was not satisfied when she tried to retrieve his soul and got the body, too. She resurrected him and sent him back, with a warning that he can't expect her to do this again.
Name of PC: Maria Florea
Class/Level: Human Spiritualist (Phantom Blade) 9
Adventure: Last Watch (Redoubt of the Red Crusader)
Catalyst: Overzealousness, and the exciting combination of Smite Good on a speed weapon.
Story (the Gory Details): Hoo boy. The party smashed the the Urannag with such speed that haste still had 7 rounds on it. Keenly aware that Vigil's time was short, Maria charged straight up to Yosiduin's throne with her hasted speed, and invited a full attack. To her credit, she couldn't have anticipated that the old elf put speed on his weapon while hearing the fight next door.
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I have had 3 character deaths between 2 PCs.
--The Sorcerer wanted to tank a giant turtle at the end of book 3 by using Burning Hands.
--The Fighter died in the Bastian under Vigil, then died again in Gallowspire in the end battle with the Graveknight. It seems that cloudkill, lighting and the graveknight hitting like a truck kinda will put a stop to your day.