Scummer D&D

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we're playing 3 hrs from this post

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extra spell slot at each spell level

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here we go

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Summary:

PCs are joined by Who4 the wizard. They sleep through the most of the scorching rays of the desert sun. They see a group of hooded figures approach the dunes, so they follow them, but they lose track of them inside the dunes. After hours of fruitless searching, they see couple miners with smuggled books. Mo'ak tackles them to the ground, but before they could interrogate them, a fireball incinerates them and the smuggled goods. White, robed figures are darting around invisibly in the dunes, shooting rays of electricity into the PCs. PCs retaliate and kill them.

They camp away from the dunes, but they notice that there are a group coming after them, so they begin to move away. They wonder around the desert, trying to lose the groups. They eventually arrive at the AA mining entrance. Isaac try to convince them to let the PCs in, but miner guards tell them to scram. When Mo'ak joins them, miners flee into the mine. Isaac shoots one of them with his eldritch blast. Party camp outside, not too far from the mines.

At daybreak, PCs are joined by Kirtha Velvetin. Kirtha goes and talks to the miners at the mining entrance, and meets Ivan. They smooth things over, and Kirtha manages to convince Ivan to loan them a guide to take them to the Carifey Camp. They walk across the desert, but are ambushed by a giant scorpion. Who4 is taken low, but they take it down. They arrive at the camp of the Crescent Moon tribe. Kirtha makes the necessary knowledge checks to understand their customs, and she convinces the chieftain Zito the One-Armed to let the PCs stay. Zito extends them hospitality and asks them to join the tribe in their Half-Moon Celebration, which is happening in 3 days.

Kirtha meets Marangal, daughter of Zito, and asks about the celebration. The Half-Moon celebration is done in honor of their patron angel vanquishing an ancient evil vampire from long past. Isaac tries to tell tall tales, but the tribespeople don't listen to him. There are a group of female sword dancers practicing, and PCs try and spectacularly fail trying to copy them. Later, Mo'ak and Teela gets invited to a landshark hunting expedition by a group of tribal hunters, to which they agree enthusiastically. They head over to the area near the mines and successfully hunt a landshark, which they bring back to the camp.

Next week, we'll do the Half-Moon celebration event.

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quadz, can you move the posts starting from 382 to a new thread, and give me mod priv?

I would like to organize the cutscenes, summaries, and links to char sheets to the first page.

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<3

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PCs meeting Marangal, daughter of Zito the One-Armed, for the first time:

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OP updated with things.

Please check it out!

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where were you when marangal introduced herself?

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hey guys the other group moved their sat session this week to sunday

So early session again this week? From noon to 3pm pst?

what do you guys think

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how did your RL session go

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how did your RL session go

Grease is such a fun spell.

RL D&D SO GREAT YOU GUYS

we killed some goblins tonight

You guys need to tell me how it went down.

Also, we will be holding the this week's session from noon to 3 PM pst.

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I ran similar campaigns back in middle school, and while I wouldn't say the campaigns or my DMing skills back then were of high quality by any means, my friends and I had tons of fun for hours at end.

Can you give me info on party comp, playstyles for each PC, level and equipment progression, NPC interactions and plot, frequency/complexity/difficult of the combat encounters, etc?

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that sounds amazing

I hope you gave some good pointers to notsci, quadz

being a monk is suffering

QQ RIP shadow 2015

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well some folks say Lorick is hiding under a rock just to preserve his status as the last surviving member of the original party

what say you

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Str 18, boosting Str at lv 4 and 8. (Dex for rogue)
No critical hits. No power attack. Barbarian is raging, and Rogue is sneak attacking.
Fighter, Barbarian, and Paladin are using a Greatsword.
Ranger is using a Longsword and a Shortsword.
Monk is using fists.
Cleric is using a Heavy Mace.
Rogue is using a Shortsword.



Every class is now rolling with equal attack roll bonus. (Fighter/Barb/Ranger/Paladin are using Power Attack)

Wizards & Sorcerers base damage scale about 1d6/level.

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Happy Birthday Tbone

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We are playing 2 hrs and 3 min from this post

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get on it's adventure time

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Summary.

The PCs awake. Tomorrow is the day of the Half-Moon celebrations, and there are much work to be done. Miners led by St Harriet enters the camp. They are here to participate in the festival, and they brought crates of fireworks for the tribe's entertainment. St Harriet also asks Chief Zito for his daughter's hand in marriage, which Zito defers to the ancient customary duel. Marangal and St Harriet will duel at sundown. No magic is allowed, and St Harriet is not allowed to use any lethal weapons. If Marangal wins, then St Harriet is deemed unworthy, and will not be given a second chance. Marangal does't really like the idea of getting married to St Harriet, and she will be fighting with all her might.

At sundown, the duel commences after each combatants are checked for any magic. At first, Marangal seems to have the upper hand, as she disappears in and out of view, striking at Harriet's vital spots. After taking some damage, Harriet dove forward, grabbed invisible Marangal, wrestled her to the ground, and chained her arms down with his manacles. Harriet emerges victorious, and Zito acknowledges Harriet's engagement with his daughter.

Right before Harriet dove forward and caught Marangal, Isaac noticed that there was a flash of magical aura around Harriet, of divination school. He notified his team members, and PCs began to suspect that Harriet somehow employed magic to cheat in his duel. They pondered a bit more, and night fell.

During the night, Lorick was awakened by sounds of people moving about. He peeked outside and saw that the tribe guards were gathered around their Chieftain's tent. He asked what was going on, but the guard told him to remain in his tent. Lorick woke up the rest of the PCs, and Who4 cast invisibility on Lorick, who turned into a snake. Lorick slithered into Zito's tent, and saw the one-armed chief lying in pool of his own blood. Alarmed, Lorick slithered away to check on Harriet's tent. Harriet and his miners were all sound asleep, with no evidence of foul play. Lorick went back to his tent to relay all this to rest of the PCs. A soft knock and a plea for help from the tribal guards prompted Lorick, Teela, and Isaac to investigate what happened, and maybe save the chieftain's life. With a cast of Detect Poison and a fantastic Wisdom check, Teela managed to identify the poison. It is from an evil plant that lives in the jungle. It feeds on blood of the sentient creatures, and its poison makes its wounds unstaunchable. She cast delay poison and cure spells on the dying chieftain, only to watch the spells fail. Potions weren't working on him either. And Zito passed away.

Next morning, when the guard went to wake up Marangal of the tragedy that has happened last night, he discovered the dead bodies of her attendants, and a note in Draconic on Marangal's bed. It says to bring 20 members of the tribe in chains to the dunes, if they wanted to see Marangal ever again. Enraged, the tribe began discussion of what to do. St Harriet, after having read the letter, proposed that he and 19 of the best warriors of the tribe turn themselves in with fake chains on and hidden weapons, and rescue Marangal. PCs were not thrilled by this idea, but the plan received overwhelming praise from the angry tribe. PCs decided to send Who4, Isaac, Lorick, Milo the Kirtha's owl familiar, and Caled the giant eagle to tail the group, and to provide aid when needed.

They followed from great heights above, and saw that a hooded man approach the group, and led them to a hidden underground area through a well-hidden trap door. They descended and began to investigate. They heard some bangings and screams, so they open the trap door and follow through. The PCs find none of the group, but they do find a large chamber underground. There are evidence of the group being led here, but tracks become to ruffled to track elsewhere. Furthermore, there were bits of blood and nails on the walls. They search the area for awhile, and eventually find a hidden gate mechanism that would trap anyone inside the large chamber. With the aid of a summoned earth elemental, they also find a secret door. Lorick turns the door into mud and slice through, only to find a second set of metal doors behind it. When they open it, they saw 4 pools full of what looks like blood, crates and lab benches, and a wide chamber leading deeper in. There were 4 robed figures who were each positioned next to a well. They all launched fireballs at the PCs when the PCs entered, incinerating the PCs.

Spoiler: Ridiculous Fireball Damage rolls

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My condolences to the dead 3 PCs.

I have updated the OP.

Please remake characters at lv 6 + 800 xp, and link them here.

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I had a great time today. You guys are pretty fun to watch. We should stream our games and let other people watch too.

I think we are going to be playing from noon to 3 PM PST from now on, by the way.

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Sounds like you had a lot of fun!

I rather not voice if that's ok.

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If you guys end up doing it, can you guys record the session?

I wanna see it afterwards.

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Spellthief isn't a bad pick per se, but it's has a pretty high skill floor iirc

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Spellthief isn't a bad pick per se, but it's has a pretty high skill floor iirc

Well if you aren't facing anyone with magic, pretty useless. It doesn't get a lot of spellslots to act on it's own.

...

I take it that you haven't played as a spellthief before.

By far the biggest advantage of spellthieves is granting a second outlet for your party's primary mage, by stealing his spells prior to combat.

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Yeah....

Spellthieves don't actually get to steal spells from NPCs that much, unfortunately.

It's too unreliable and too risky.

Your opening round is much more effective if you let your primary mage become a doublecaster, instead of trying to steal a spell.

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TBone might steal your spells Who

for greater cause etc

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lameeee

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tbone, why daggerspell shaper? I'm curious

it seems like you're falling behind 2 levels in casting and losing some hp for like 2d6 sneak attack and some skill points

I dunno if that's a good trade to make

druid spells are nice

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alright

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Jaunt lets you interrupt and reposition, but the person who was interrupted isn't forced to follow through the interrupted action since your reposition technically takes place before he makes his action.

which means it does not let you auto-dodge attacks/spells, but you can do some clever things.

for example of a player trying to abuse jaunt, if someone charges you, you can't just say "I jaunt 10ft to the right" and watch him charge into an empty space. Instead, he'll get to take back the charge and do something else, like maybe charge to your new position.

an example of better usage of jaunt might be to blink behind a nearby wall when you see someone try to charge you/cast a spell at you, and force him to do something else.

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You cannot drop an ability score below 3.

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Majority of combat for campaign 3 were in open though, not in dungeons.

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Isabella Delacroix, LG Human Knight 6

If you are worried about your Will saves, there is a feat in Player's Handbook 2 called Steadfast Determination that lets you use your Con mod in place of your Wis mod for will saves.

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also, I added a picture to my character sheet

Should I use your new picture for your character token in roll20?

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ok dudes

I updated the pics and added the new characters

please update your init modifiers and check that you have access etc at some point before sat

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Ladies and gentlemen.

We will be playing from noon to 3 PM pst on saturday.

Please confirm your participation.

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GuyInFreezer will be joining us tomorrow, playing as Marangal, Daughter of Zito the One-armed, who has barely escaped from her captors in the dunes, and trekked across the desert back to her tribe as fast as her feet would allow.

She brings dire news. It seems that the robed figures of the dunes are massing for an attack on the tribe. With the strongest warriors of the tribe gone, the timing cannot be worse.

What will our heroes do?

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We will start 2 hours and 53 minutes from this post.

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Who, did you link your new character?

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list is in OP

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Summary

In hearing the news that their lives were in danger, miners pack up and flee back to their mining compound. At urge of Marangal, the desert tribespeople abandon their homes to flee toward the compound as well. The PCs prepare for battle by hiding in the abandoned tents. The invading mages arrive, flying 200ft above, and bombard the tents with fireballs. After burning down the tents, they quickly track down the refugees who haven't made it very far and roast them with fireballs. PCs try to heal up as best they can, and see St Harriet return with one of the bandits to the camp. They confront him, and he seems rather unpleasantly surprised to find the PCs still alive. They engage in combat. Castien and his animal companion rush down Harriet, but Harriet relies on his thick plate armor to shrug off their hits, and deal crushing blows to Castien. Mo'ak and Teela rush out of their tents to help Castien, while Who locked down the wizard with stinking cloud and sleet storm. Harriet proves to be a monstrous adversity, as he chops down Castien and moves on to Teela, the half-orc siblings managed to deal some blows to him, and Marangal materializes behind him to finish him with series of devastating sneak attacks. Isa manages to trough through the sleet storm to execute the wizard.

PCs find letters on St Harriet. These letters expose Harriet as the one who planned the assassination of Zito and kidnapping of Mara to draw the tribe's best warriors into a trap, and then destroying the tribe and making it look like the mining guild did it. Once the wreckage of the tribe was found by the other tribes of the desert, it would be only matter of time until the tribes went to war with the mining guild, which is what St Harriet wanted. Letters also mention that the scholar, Lala Ducks, was useful in raising a garden of some sorts. There is no direct mention of this in the letters, but it is implied that the bandits were growing something underground, something very dangerous.

The PCs heal up and check out where the bandits attacked the refugees. The scene is very brutal, as bandits made sure to leave non alive. Most bodies were blown to bits with fireballs and chain explosions from the fireworks inside the crates miners were carrying. As they were investigating, they get ambushed by 5 bandits once more. Isa stepped forward and dared them to attack her, while Teela cast shield other on Isa. Isa proceeds to survive 3 direct fireballs centered on her, and they proceed to chop down the bandits one by one. Then, they returned to the compound to notify the guildmaster of St Harriet's true nature. The manager Tony is rather surprised to hear this, and decides that having a bandit group of this power nearby poses a danger to their operation, and hires the PCs to eliminate the bandit threat once and for all.

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By the way, everyone should use macros!

They are amazing.

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Two questions:
1. Does the camp have a library of some kind I can copy spells from for the standard fee?
2. PHB says it usually costs 50 gp x spell level to copy from another wizard's spellbook, but scrolls only cost 25 gp x spell level. Why are scrolls much cheaper?

1. No, but you can talk to Headmaster Fink.

2. Scrolls cost 25 gp x spell level x caster level. I'm not sure what you're talking about.

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Who, the reason why I thought your summoning a fiendish Huge Centipede to finish Harriet was not realistic was not because summoning a fiendish creature is an evil act (you're a wizard not a cleric; you don't have moral qualms about summoning fiends), but because Huge Centipedes have measly +5 on their attacks with 2d6+4 for damage.

In general, summons have garbage attack/damage/AC/HP/everything. (summon nature's ally is in fact bit stronger which is hilarious)

Honestly, the best use of summons is to get things to trigger traps for you.

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quadz, you're not adding 1.5 times your Str mod to your damage.

Also, get a masterwork greataxe, man. They cost measly 320g and your party can afford like couple dozen of those.

Under rage, with a masterwork greataxe, Mo'ak has +7 BAB + 6 Str + 1 enhancement (from masterwork weapon) + 1 from Weapon Focus for total of +15 to hit, and damage of 1d12 + 9 (Str mod) + 2 (Weapon Spec).

You can full power attack and still have better to-hit bonus than the centipede and an avg of 31.5 damage per swing.

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yep

+1 enhancement bonus to hit

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Uh maybe it would be a good idea for me to explain how weapons and their upgrades work

You have a mundane weapon that is mundane. It gives no bonus but it is dirt cheap.

Masterwork weapon cost 300g more, but it gives you +1 enhancement bonus on attack rolls.

All magic weapons are of masterwork quality. (if magic got turned off, they are still just as good as masterwork weapons)

+1 Weapons cost 2000g more than masterwork weapons, but they give you +1 enhancement bonus on attack and damage rolls.
+2 Weapons cost 8000g more than masterwork weapons, but they give you +2 enhancement bonus on attack and damage rolls.
+3 Weapons cost 18000g more than masterwork weapons, but they give you +3 enhancement bonus on attack and damage rolls.
+4 Weapons cost 32000g more than masterwork weapons, but they give you +4 enhancement bonus on attack and damage rolls.

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DandDwiki lied to me, it told me they did 3d6+4 damage. Looking at other sources confirms that you are correct though, so Celestial bison was better for the higher attack bonus.

Also, does Headmaster Fink know any of the following spells:
Rope Trick
Evard's Black Tentacles
Solid Fog
Enervation
Dimension Door
Greater Invisibility
?

Don't use D&D Wiki for anything. Bunch of bad players make a habit of writing in things they want in there and try to use it as evidence to convince their DMs that they are right.

Headmaster Fink isn't going to share his spell list with you without reasons. You will have to make it worth his time.

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Can he allow me to copy any of those from his spell book for the standard fee of 50 gp/spell level?

Actually nevermind about greater invisibility I don't need to know that one.

The price listed in the PHB isn't realistic, since most wizards would rather keep their spell list private than to make what is basically pocket change.

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I am very probably interested in looking a a stock of magic weapons from somewhere - what type of magics can one do to a weapon? And are there drawbacks to magicking a weapon?

DMG pg. 223 lists the available enchantments for weapons.

There aren't really drawbacks to enchanting a weapon, other than its high gold cost.

For cost, enchantment and abilities of a weapon add.

For example, Hana has a +1 Frost Greatsword. Frost is a +1 enchantment. This means that Hana's greatsword is a +2 Greatsword for all intents and purposes when determining the price of the weapon.

If you were to buy a +1 Frost Greatsword, it would cost as just as much as +2 Greatsword, which is 8350g.

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I actually wanted to ask how you decided on which school to specialize in, and which schools to ban.

There are notoriously MANY schools of thoughts when it comes to specializing/focus-specializing.

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but eh, my character will die eventually and when he does his brother can bar Necromancy.

I wish you would take your character a little more seriously...

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Where did Hana pick up this weapon anyway?

From the dragon hoard iirc.

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but eh, my character will die eventually and when he does his brother can bar Necromancy.

I wish you would take your character a little more seriously...

I would, but he keeps dying.

Come on, dude.

This game is more fun when you do more immersion.

Treat your characters with more respect.

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Yes. You guys are at the compound right now, and is able to buy these items.

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Is Who keeping the spellbooks Harriet smuggled out from the guild, or are you guys returning them?

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They are guild-issued spellbooks. You will not be able to find buyers for them in a legitimate market. I suggest contacting the black market if you are determined to sell them.

It's up to you to decide when to attack. (This campaign isn't static, however. Things will be happening, whether you guys are there or not.)

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I already copied the spells

uh did you pay for this

just checking

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Trying to get the times organized for the session on sat.

We might have to cancel this weeks session.

I will keep you posted.

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Trying to get the times organized for the session on sat.

We might have to cancel this weeks session.

I will keep you posted.

D&D is cancelled for this week. I will be playing with my other group instead in our usual time slot, since I haven't played with them in awhile.

Hopefully, we can play next weekend.

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Hello, players, I'm gearing up for yet another exciting dnd session.

How are your availability for this week's Sunday?

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It would be early time. Noon to 3PM pst.

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yes sunday

I need to leave my saturday open this week I think

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Ok, we will be playing on Sunday from noon to 3pm pst.

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yes

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Someone else write the summary please.

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You guys were awesome today!

I seriously commend Hana for sticking to her guns/alignment/faith and seeing Ivan through all the way in his dangerous mission. (he would have certainly been killed if he went there alone..... and probably returned to haunt you guys as a vampire mage in near future, which would have been absolutely terrifying in both story and mechanics. Can you imagine having to explain the situation to Isana when she woke up? )

I do agree with the bandits first, and the vampire second prioritization. Bandits without their leader (Harriet) is pretty much easy XP/gold just waiting to be picked up, especially now that they had a hefty bounty placed on them by the guildmaster.

The combat part went pretty smoothly. For Hana, I think dual prep'ing resist energy over shield other would probably have been a better choice. Poor Mo'ak took so many fireballs to his face and I felt so bad for him! (Meanwhile, Isa tanked like 6 fireballs to the face and took... 2 damage?) Having two shield others active could have been disastrous, since at that point you are at serious risk of death just from damage synchronization from your shield others. (the point of shield other is to split damage among players, not to concentrate them on the poor cleric!)

I noticed that getting vision was a problem, since you guys were only able to see maybe half of the chamber at any given point. (I think it could have been alleviated if GIF moved ahead bit further with his glowing sword, but doing that unbuffed other than invis is an incredibly risky move, since you're just one spell away from getting detected and blown to bits)

Who's spell selection was pretty on point today. The bandit wizards really didn't have any answer to Evard's tentacles. Had you guys fought them in the open, they would have fly on and would have been immune to Evard's, but they were caught indoors and without fly. (Trivia: If the PCs left the camp and missed Harriet, he would have directed an ambush in the dunes with his bandits, instead of just waiting inside the hideout for death like the leaderless bandits did.)

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there are infinite number of cool dnd/fantasy pictures on the web far as I can tell

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Hello, players.

I'm thinking of either playing D&D on saturday noon to 3 PM pst, or sunday same time this weekend.

Please list your available times this weekend. Thanks.

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I'm leaning towards sunday, because my RL group has really funky schedules on sunday.

But if they cancel this week, I'm going to move it to saturday.

I'll keep you guys posted.

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We're nearing end of our current campaign arc. The vampire of the legends has risen again, and the heroes are going to put an end to her. (hopefully)

I think I want to reset after finishing this campaign and start anew, back at lv 1s. That would probably be where you'd want to join in.

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We will be playing on sunday.

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uh you mean for next campaign?

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I recommend waiting until I present the next campaign setting.

I'd also recommend talking over with other PCs for character creation.

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Are you familiar with the myth-weavers character sheet?

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The site myth-weavers have a great character sheet functionality.

Click on some of the characters in the OP and check it out!

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playing in 33 minutes

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adventure time fools

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Summary

PCs return to get paid by Tony. After paying them, Tony asks for the PC's help in clearing out the vampire from the mines. He already sent a task squad comprised of Headmaster Fink, Head of Security Na Choma, and bunch of capable miners to flush out the vampire, but Tony would rather hedge his bets. PCs agree, rest up and buy undead hunting gear with their loot, and make their way towards the mines.

They don't see anyone outside, so they march in bravely. They quickly find out that the task force has been unsuccessful, and now they must fight against now undead-miners, and mind controlled miners. They cut through and eventually meet mind controlled Fink and undead Choma. The vampire forces Fink to cast a giant channeled pyroburst that envelopes everything, including himself and the monsters, and PCs barely stabilize Fink. The rest of the expedition seems to have been killed. Fink is out of spells, so PCs let him go and begin to buff themselves for the upcoming fight with Vintell, the Wicked.

PCs arrive and find her just sitting on her sarcophagi, casually chatting with the PCs. Combat ensues. Mo'ak runs up and swings at the vampire, but she turns out to be merely an illusion. Two of the mind controlled miners stand up from two other sarcophagi, and fireball the party. The vampire debuffs Isa and Mo'ak, and steps backwards from Mo'ak's might swings... into Evard's Black Tentacles cast by Who. Marangal and Isa takes care of the mind controlled miners, but the vampire blinks out of the tentacles and drops Mo'ak in 1 turn. Who casts celerity and burrows time from the future to save Mo'ak, forcing the vampire to turn gaseous and go after Who. Meanwhile, Isa and Marangal begin to stalk the gaseous Vampire, while Teela made a beeline for her brother Mo'ak to heal him back up. Vampire materializes to catch Who, but Mo'ak, who is back up, wades through the tentacles to beat down the vampire, and Marangal's blade finished her off.

Vampire's form became translucent, and she faded back into her coffin. She admitted that it was a good fight, but promised to be back, even if it took her thousand years. PCs sharpened the wooden grip of Mo'ak's greataxe, and drove it straight through her heart, dusting her.

Campaign end.

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I would like to restart at lv 1, so start thinking about what kind of character you want to play!

Next campaign is going to start out as fairly standard dungeon crawl, and switch over to murder mystery plot revolving around a noble family.

I need a PC volunteer who want to roleplay as member of the said noble family.

We will not be playing next week, since it will take awhile for me to write the campaign.

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yes

quadz actually did more damage to the vampire than rest of the party combined times two

strength-based problem solving

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wow

casually sandbagging the final encounter of the final campaign

still deals over 70% damage to the boss by himself

what a beast

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I highly suggest going through the divine feats in PHB2, and Complete Warrior/Champion.

Paladins generally distinguish themselves from fighters through uses of Smite Evil, and divine feats that allows you to burn through your turn undead attempts for combat bonuses.

I also suggest giving up your mount for the Charging Smite Alternate Class Feature in PHB2.

Also, everyone, note that I'm banning Complete Divine, except for the Divine Metamagic feat.

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Swashbuckler's main weakness is her damage output.

Most common way to address this problem is to mix rogue levels into your build, and taking the feat Daring Outlaw.

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I recommend getting rid of the odd ability scores for evens where applicable. (i.e. switch from 13, 13 to 14, 12)

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Nah, you won't.

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uh we are not playing this week tbone

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Hi, Cheetory6.

Looks like you're well on your way in character creation! Here is a list of things to finish.

Your

size

is

Medium

.

Your

hit dice

is

1d8

as a cleric. Your

total hp

is maximum hit dice + Con modifier, which is 8 + 1, or

9

.

Heavy mace

is a

bludgeoning

weapon, not a piercing weapon.

Don't forget to fill out your

base saves

on page 1! As a cleric, your base saves are:

Fort +2, Ref +0, and Will +2

.

Don't forget to assign

skill points

on page 2! As a lv 1 Human Cleric, you have total of

12

skill points to assign. 4 is the maximum number of ranks you can buy at lv 1 for class skills, and 2 for cross-class skills. Spending 1 point will get you 1 rank in a class skill, or 0.5 rank in a cross-class skill.

Pick two

domains

and write it down at top of your spells list. As a cleric of pelor, your domain choices are:

Good, Healing, Strength, and Sun.

Keep track of number of

turn undead

attempts you have. You can do this 3 + Cha modifier per day, or

3/day

.

You should fill out your

spells per day

in page 3. (as a lv 1 cleric, your spells per day are

3/1+1

, or 3 0th-level spells, 1 1st-level spell, and 1 domain 1st-level spell)

Your

bonus spells

are dependent on your Wisdom score. Your wisdom score is 15, which grants you

one additional 1st-level spell per day

. (and an additional 2nd-level spell per day, when you gain access to them)

Find me in d&d stuffs chatroom on site chat if you need help or have questions.

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"do you even till"

-epic level commoner

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i bet your teammates cant even till

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Spoiler: Campaign 4 begins

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thanks for letting me know

I think I can do either sat or sun this weekend so it shouldn't be a problem

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Hello, players.

If you haven't done so yet, please lock-in your characters and link the char sheet in-thread. (please use myth-weaver version)

I am also going to advise and encourage inter-party communication for character creation, since party composition is a rather important factor in determining effectiveness and success of the party that can't be changed much once the characters are locked in.

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I'm half tempted to make a Commoner right now.

It's an interesting thought exercise to see what would it take to bring commoner class up to a viable level.

I think all 18s and triple to quadruple experience gain will do the trick?

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but do they even till

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o btw, Hanasawa will be playing as Avina Lunagard, who comes from a very notable family in-game, and many of the plots will be orbiting her.

(don't let her die)

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inb4 tpk at 1st encounter

too much cabbage

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-4 attack penalty improvised weapon

do you even till

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you can use anything to kill

and on the other extreme, I once saw a crazy min-maxed hulking hurler build that used really loose interpretation of certain rules

he went around throwing things size of asteroids and moons at people

my friend who plays warforged barb/fighter would often use a goblin he grappled as a weapon to kill other goblins (surprisingly efficient, since the impact kills both the target and the weapon)

you can use

anything

to kill (also, with enough STR, you can do some weird shit that ends up working)

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Hana, I think you left your sheet on private. Change it to public please.

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It sounds like we're going to lock in Sunday Noon to 3PM PST for D&D.

I'm thinking of starting an hour earlier and playing for 4 hours. (11AM to 3PM PST)

Please let me know if the early start won't work for you.

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hmm

how about playing till noon to 4 pm pst

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ugghh I thought your sunday was freer than your saturday

[FakeGod]

I can do Sunday if we return to our original time...

oh, when you said "original time", you meant 3 to 6pm PST

but that time frame pushes most of europe into past midnight...

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hey who can you do 11 am PST to 3PM PST?

I have a freer schedule than usual this weekend and I want to take advantage of it

[FakeGod]

Alright, let's go for 11 to 3 PM PST Sunday. T Bone can join us midway.

#excitement

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Drink half what you normally drink and drink lots of water

problem solved

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Different edition.

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For favored enemy, I would recommend Humanoid (Goblinoid).

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Your Base Attack Bonus is +1.

Your base saves are Fort +2, Ref +2, Will +0.

You start with total of (6+1+1) x 4 = 32 skill points.

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ConMan, I highly recommend taking Precise Shot feat instead of Stealthy.

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Hey guys, I think I may have incorrectly informed you guys how the line of sight works.

Creatures don't block LOS.

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Both looks good. Don't forget your alignment, Jackal.

A bold choice in picking bastard sword as your primary weapon.

Are you planning on going into Exotic Weapon Master?

(easy PrC, and a single level of it fixes the reduced damage problem resulting from one-handed weapon power attack)

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Oh, and don't forget to pick an image for your characters.

I will be using your ms avatar as the default.

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The OP has been updated!

New campaign has been set up!

You may explore/set up char sheets and macros, etc.

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go make a macro (upper right cogwheel thing) and copy and paste:

&{template:DnD35Attack} {{pcflag=true}} {{name=Avina}} {{subtags=attacks with a pistol}} {{attack1=hitting AC[[1d20cs20 +3 ]]}} {{critconfirm1=Crit?:[[1d20cs20 +3 ]]}} {{damage1=for [[1d6]] dmg}}

into the macro

adjust as necessary

find me on d&d stuffs if you have questions

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Oh, and don't forget to pick an image for your characters.

@Jackal & ConMan

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We will be playing in 4 hrs and 30 minutes from this post.

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I have to manually give you vision in roll20, and I can't do that unless you joined the campaign.

All you're gonna see is a black screen I think. (with nice guildhouse? music and fireplace burning sounds)

I still need a char image for Jackal.

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No, 2PM EST.

DST happened overnight, fix your clocks, etc.

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We're playing in 2hrs and 7 min from this post.

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I cant do anything until i get back on my comp

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I don't believe you added me to the game yet.

you need to join the campaign in roll20 before I can do anything

go click on the game link in the OP

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Campaign begins.

Avina's group of ragtag adventurers start down the road into the Ariri Woods, toward the town of Bord. The Goodwill shipping and their escorts were traveling from Bord to Lorinshire nearly a week ago, and they decided to investigate. They get ambushed by some spiders, and Kat gets poisoned. They continue on to the crossroads where the road splits into two, north towards the town of Bord, and south towards the port city of Las Verisa, Avina's hometown. The crossroads are an unwelcome sight, full of destroyed caravans belonging to the Goodwill shipping. While they were investigating the area, a hobgoblin came out of the woods and demanded their surrender, declaring that his army of goblins had them surrounded. Karl, a ranger with favored enemy as goblinoids, immediately shoots him with an arrow, triggering a fight. Due to heavy numbers disadvantage, the heroes risk it all in a boss rush, and they charge down the hobgoblin leader.

The hobgoblin goes down in one turn, and some of the goblins panic and run. On the other side of the map, Avina gets caught by 4 goblins and drops unconscious. Kel leaves Karl and Who to deal with the flanking goblins to go help Avina. Lor scares away few more goblins while Kat dealt with the ones brave enough to face her. Eventually, goblins were routed, and the PCs caught a couple of them for questioning.

After some intimidation, goblins revealed that they have indeed attacked the Goodwill shipping few days ago. Their hideout is located southwest from the crossroads, in the long abandoned monastery. They were ruled by a ogre leader. The raiding party found the caravans undefended, so they stole all the shipments and took the traders as slaves. After some more intimidation from Avina and her gun, they whispered about a monster living deep inside the Monastery's basement, and if they didn't feed it with slaves, it would rise up to kill them. The party took them back to Lorinshire and handed them over to the local authorities.

Next day, they spent most of the daylight traveling to the abandoned monastery. By the time they got there, it has gotten dark. They light torches and begin to explore the monastery, and then they heard some goblins coming in. The PCs holed themselves up in a room and closed the doors, ready to jump on the goblins when they came through. Instead, they heard loud dragging sounds near the both doors, followed by a spark and BOOM. The doors both blasted apart. Goblins pored through, but the PCs held their line and fended them off. With well-placed greases and Kel's chokepointing aided by sanctuary, the goblins and hobgoblins were defeated. PCs were left in a pretty bad shape, and they decided to explore the outer buildings first and save the basement adventure for the next day. They mostly found old crates and linen, but in the third building, they found a secret staircase leading below. After much discussion, they decided to camp in the woods south from the monastery. They kept watches in shifts, and with some lucky rolls, were able to fend off a weird spider-human thing from causing them harm.

It is now morning, and the heroes are ready to explore what lies beneath the crumbling old monastery.

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you need Craft Taxidermy

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"I thought we had a fighter."

-famous last lines shared by many ill-fated parties just starting to venture out

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Someone or me should keep a compilation of hilarious quotes from the sessions IMO

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alrighty then

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Sunday PST 11AM to 2PM?

I dunno

when are you guys available

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I think Sunday Noon to 3 PM PST works better for me.

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He picked scribe scroll and alertness iirc

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indeed

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guys remember that we are playing noon to 3pm pst on sundady (tomorrow)

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we are starting in 4hrs and 30 minutes

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Hey Cheetory

You should fill in your spells per day

it's on page 4 of the char sheet on mythweavers under Spell Saves

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we are starting in 1 hr and 34 minutes

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alright let's go

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Summary

Party returns to the abandoned monastery and travels down the the larger set of staircase. They open some doors and run into the guards that were supposed to have been guarding the shipments. Their captain, James, explains to them that they are currently sieging the goblins, and that their envoy has already came to negotiate the release of the stolen goods in exchange of the adventurers leaving. Guards seem injured and are wary. There are some explosives they have commandeered off of the goblins, and they have been set up at the corridor to discourage goblins from attacking them. A quiet and shifty human accountant named Arthur is in charge of setting up the explosives, and the crossbow sniper in second in command named Raelin has been listening for goblin's approach.

Things take a much more grimmer shape after the PCs talk to Raelin, however. Raelin warily explained to them that it was due to the Captain's laziness that the guards were lagging behind the shipping carts, and to cover up this mistake and protect his record, the captain has led them on this suicide mission to recover the goods, to cover up what really happened. Raelin expects many more goblins than the optimistic estimation of 20, but she and the guards are sticking with their captain for now. The PCs try exploring the passages to the east, and run into some goblins. They cut their way through and regroup at the guard's camp.

Night falls, and the goblin envoy, a spellcaster, approaches with his cadre of guards. Arthur went up to negotiate with him, and it seemed that the negotiations went well. The goblins agreed to return the stolen goods if the guards left. Everyone packed up and begin to leave, but Arthur had other plans. He drank an invisibility potion, and then lit the bombs set up in the corridor as the group left, killing many and injuring the rest. With the goblins swarming in, the PCs had no choice but to grab the wounded and retreat up the hidden staircase. They quickly clogged up the stairway with old crates and trekked through the night back to Lorinshire.

PCs refreshed themselves and returned to the monastery. They decided to check out a room they haven't explored before, and ran into a group of goblins, including the goblin envoy. They were planning to cut the PCs off and surround them from behind, but the PCs caught them instead. PCs managed to quickly put down the opposition, as the goblin war drums begin to rumble and the remaining goblins swarmed in through the only exit. After delaying them with a well placed grease at a chokepoint, No Two threw his torch at the goblin bomb carrier, which exploded and took out the rest of the goblin horde. Large footsteps indicated that something big was coming, so the PCs quickly got ready for another fight. The ogre stepped in and smashed Kel into the ground his giant tree trunk, all while tanking a barrage of arrows and bullets. As he raised his tree trunk to smash Katherine down, No Two cast

backbiter

, turning the attack back on his attacker and splattering his brain out.

With their leader dead, rest of the goblins routed, and the PCs were able to return the missing shipments and earn their reward, as well as a sizable loot.

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There is a decision to be made in regarding the campaign.

We can either go directly into the next segment of the campaign, which involves Avina finally graduating from her school and heading back to her home city to find out why have the monthly allotment of money stopped coming from home.

Or we can clear out the abandoned monastery.

Let me know what you would prefer.

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Just read the logs, that was great.

Did I get exp+loot because my character was there, or did I not get it because I wasn't there?

you get xp and either 300g or a masterwork weapon

[FakeGod]

your wizard won init but rolled a 1 on his attack roll on his ray of enfeeblement btw

it was very unexpected but it didn't matter ultimately because you had the second ace up your sleeve

[FakeGod]

Does the main plot progress without us if we do a sidequest?

Not for this. The next part of the campaign begins with Avina's graduation and her decision to go back to her hometown.

Clearing out the dungeon can be done supposedly before Avina's graduation at some point.

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Shot on the run worth taking?

Edit - don't meet requirements

Shot on the run sucks.

If you're serious about going archery ranger, I'd recommend start looking into getting higher str and getting str-adjusted composite longbows.

Just keep in mind that you need to boost your damage in every way you can think of.

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whichever class you want

Brian can carry anything

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We will be playing noon to 3PM PST on sunday I believe

please list your availabilities

p.s. this will probably be a short session, since we are just clearing out the dungeon

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tbone when our schedules match once more we will embark on glorious adventures

until then, you're on the bench

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I realllllly doubt we'll take up the three whole hours this session.

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Available base classes, listed by

books

we are playing with: (current classes of the 6 main PCs in the party are listed)

Player's Handbook 1

:

Barbarian
Bard
Cleric - Cheetory6
Druid
Fighter
Monk
Paladin - Brian Skies
Ranger - ConManMick
Rogue
Sorcerer
Wizard - Who

Player's Handbook 2

:

Beguiler
Dragon Shaman
Duskblade
Knight

Complete Arcane

:

Warlock
Warmage
Wujen

Complete Adventurer

:

Ninja
Scout
Spellthief

Complete Warrior

:

Hexblade
Samurai
Swashbuckler - GuyInFreezer

Other

:

Gun Mage - Hanasawa

[FakeGod]

pixiv fantasia has some amazing pictures

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we are playing 4 hours and 44 minutes from this post

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get on PCs

it's time to adventure

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Summary

Party adventures deep into the abandoned monastery once more. They find a large number of coffins and eaten corpses and grow alarmed. They move ahead and find a magic circle on the ground. No Two disrupts it by scratching out a rune. Nothing happens. They explore the next room and finds it full of human-sized spiders. Spiders surround them, but they managed to cut their way out. One of the spiders tried to flee below by triggering the magic circle and opening a secret passage, but Avina blows its brain out.

They adventure down the passage and find a large cavern. They venture around and realize that they are not alone. Spiders swarm them, and they begin to cut them down. A gigantic 15ft by 15ft spider erupts into the fray, so Who locks it down with Web. They clean up the other spiders while the spider boss forces its way through the web. It makes it out eventually and attacks the party, but couple channeled shots from Avina and myriad of fire damage it suffered while PCs hurled torches at it in Web brings it down.

Party finds a decent number of corpses of unknown creatures in its lair. No Two tried to extract some poison, but gets poisoned instead and drops helpless. PCs help each other back to Lorinshire, along with the goods.

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Spoiler: Act 2 Start

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Stop being obnoxious.

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Your character looks fine, Jackel.

I recommend asking for some cash from your party members to set out with better gear.

edit: I would also ask Who and Cheetory whether they are okay with you stealing spells off them.

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your feats aren't actually that important jackel

just make sure you take master spellthief when it becomes available

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jackel, please do get an image for your character tho

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We are playing noon to 3pm PST on sunday.

We will begin Act 2 of the campaign.

I will see you then.

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We play in 4 hours and 43 minutes from this post

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log on everyone

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Summary

PCs head out to Las Verisa. They say good-bye to Raelin at the crossroads. She is going to Bord to find her fortune. PCs come across a hill where a couple of merchants, Billybob and Steve, were in trouble. They lost control of their cart on the hill and it rammed into a rock at the base of the hill, trapping their horse. Their cries for help attracted an owlbear, who proceeded to murder the horse for lunch. PCs intervened as quick as they can, launching spells, arrows and bullets at the owlbear. As Lor and Kat engaged the beast, second owlbear jumped out behind them, but was subdued by No Two's Ray of Enfeeblement. They wrap up the encounter without much trouble. Billybob and Steve are grateful, and they invite them to travel with them. They are also on their way to Las Verisa, and they were hoping to make it to the roadside inn named Gerard's House. The inn opened couple months ago, and it's famous for hiring reformed ex convicts as staff, which keeps the bandits away.

They made it to the Bessel Woods, which is the forest that surrounds the port city of Las Verisa. This area is fraught with danger, so the party moves as quick as they can for the inn. They are set upon by hungry wolves, but couple of rounds showed the wolves that they are messing with the wrong group of people, and they scrammed. The PCs make it to Gerard's House, where they are welcomed in. They meet the ex-convicts staff members, like the half-orc cook, Grub. They also meet a wealthy merchant named Toronto, who started hitting on Lor and Avina as soon as he set his eyes on them. After ordering expensive wine for the ladies and himself, Toronto invited them to his room if they wanted to see his jewelry collection, and then he retired to his room.

A wild-haired bounty hunter named Izzy showed up at dinner time, and introduced himself to Kat. He is a regular at this inn, and he thinks highly of what Gerard is doing. During dinner, a ragged looking scholar bursts through the doors and demanded to see Tuhin, the Black hand. Tuhin is an infamous pirate who operates off the coast of Las Verisa. On closer inspection, the scholar turns out to be Arthur, the accountant who sold the party out back in the abandoned monastery to the goblins. Karl throws his dagger at him, but misses. Arthur reveals that he has an overcoat full of explosives, and that if they didn't want him to blow them up, everyone should not move and bring him to Tuhin. Kat rises up in anger with her greatsword in her hand, but Izzy stops her, calmly dips his cigarette into the candle oil, and launches a crossbow bolt out of his hidden crossbow with the cigarette in the trajectory at Arthur. It knocks him backwards and traps him in a globe of invisible force. Arthur swears and threatens to blow everyone up, but the oil on the cigarette ignites, triggering his bombs and disintegrating him. The explosion was contained by the orb of force, and Arthur was reduced to a charred skeleton. Izzy moves him out of the doorway off to the side of the building, and decides to take a look around the grounds to make sure there aren't any more crazies wondering about.

PCs go up to their rooms to rest, but an hour later, Avina is notified that her alarm spell went off. In mere seconds afterwards, there is a loud boom in the second floor of the inn. Gerard comes up to investigate, and when he unlocks the door to Toronto's room, he saw that Toronto has been killed and lying in pool of his own blood. There is a deep puncture wound in his chest, but no bullet was found on him, or in the room. There is a small scorch mark on the door about 4ft off the ground, but door was not damaged in any other way. The window to the hallway was open, and there is a sign of an intruder having come through the window and going to Toronto's room, but the tracks stop there. There were no tracks inside the room itself. Outside tracks have been obliterated by heavy rain.

Gerard informs them that the authorities at Las Verisa will be contacted at dawn, and until then, they should stay in their rooms. He had Grub watch the corridor for PCs's safety... and to make sure that they do not escape during the night.
To make things worse, the charred skeleton outside went missing. People are whispering, and Billybob thinks Avina may have shot the merchant, since she has the only gun in the building. PCs discuss for awhile, and retired into their rooms.

[FakeGod]

you're going to leave him holding the bag?

first you rob corpses, and now you make people your accomplices

are you sure you're a paladin

[FakeGod]

tbh, playing a non-evil fallen paladin isn't too bad

you were going into kensai anyways

[FakeGod]

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

We will be playing this sunday, from noon to 3 PM pst.

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[FakeGod]

well if there are any mind flayers, you're in luck

they're not very well armored and their mind blast range is too short to fight your bow, so you can kite and kill them in 3-4 volleys

realistically, they'll probably just stun/eat your front line and then plane shift away

[FakeGod]

wow holy fuck

I just learned that swift hunter feat from complete scoundrel is amazing

it's one of those feats that let you dual class effectively (in this case ranger and scout), but in addition to stacking levels for skirmish and favored enemy, it lets you use skirmish on things normally immune to skirmish if they're your favored enemy

this is fucking game changing, and this redeems an entire class (kinda like how daring outlaw makes swashbucklers playable)

[FakeGod]

Pick someone to control kat in your absence

[FakeGod]

ConMan, you should give it some thought before entering this build

It certainly does solve the damage problem, but skirmish is only effective vs foes that are 30ft or less away

Pure ranger's biggest advantage is his range on his bow

[FakeGod]

For your new feat, I'd just recommend weapon focus on longbows.

Your level 6 feat should be improved rapid shot.

[FakeGod]

For your spells, at lv 4 you get 0 1st level spell slots, but if your wisdom is high enough, which it is, you get a bonus 1st level spell slot.

This is how you would write it in your character sheet: (the example has the spell

Arrow Mind

prepared, but not used)



pedit: Sure, I'll log on to roll20.

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Example macro:

&{template:DnD35Attack} {{pcflag=true}} {{name=Avina}} {{subtags=attacks with a pistol}} {{attack1=hitting AC[[1d20cs20 +3 ]]}} {{critconfirm1=Crit?:[[1d20cs20 +3 ]]}} {{damage1=for [[1d6]] dmg plus [[1d6]] lightning damage}}

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[FakeGod]

we're playing in 5 hours from this post

I'll control your character, Cheetory

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Log on

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Summary

It is about 6 am. It is still dark outside, but PCs got their night of rest. Lor hears a knock the door, so she answers. It is Izzy. He says Grub has fallen asleep during his watch, and he has come to warn the PCs. He tells Lor that he is an investigator from Las Verisa who have come to check out Gerard. He's been eavesdropping and gathering info all night, and he learned that Gerard and his men are planning to draw out Avina to the back and kidnap her. Izzy suggests that the PCs follow Avina out and confront the ex-convicts. Izzy individually warns each PC, except Avina. Lor goes to the window and notices that it is still drizzling. She hears someone coming up the stairs. Grub gets woken up by the sound, and notices Lor standing at the windowsill. He tells her to get back inside her room, and Lor does.

Gerard comes up the stairway, knocks on Avina's room, and lets her know that the authorities have arrived, and they have a couple of questions for her. Avina follows Gerard out, along with Grub. PCs then exit their rooms and follow them. Outside, there are no authorities. Instead, Avina ran into the group of ex-convict staff wielding weapons. Gerard tells them to not to overdo it, and steps inside. Avina prepares to fight, and is glad to see her party stumble out of the stairway and join her in combat. No Two opens with glitterdust to blind two ex-cons, while Kat rushes forward to chop one of the staff's head off. The staff were overpowered quickly, and the last surviving member, Grub, throws down his weapons and surrenders. Then, they hear a scream come from inside the inn. Avina tries to get in, but found the door locked. She shoots at the lock, but it holds. Lor gets the lock open with a natural 20, and they rush inside. They found Gerard, lying in a pool of blood, with his legs cut off. Standing over him, is Izzy, holding the two legs still wearing boots. Izzy taunts, "I'll be sure to get these boots to their rightful owner,

Marion

." And he vanishes. No Two cast detect magic to realize that Izzy has turned invisible, and casts glitterdust to reveal him, but it was too late. He has already gotten away, but everyone in the room got their mouthful of glitter.

Gerard's body begins to shift and change into a body of a young changeling girl. Kel comes in to stabilize her, and she wakes up. She looks around and begins to cry. She explained that her name is Marion, and she has two older siblings, Halle and Gray. They are not siblings by blood, but as changelings, they had a rough past, and they decided to look out for one another. One day, Gray got hurt badly while they were being chased by an angry mob. His lungs were damaged, and they couldn't afford a doctor, so Halle asked an infamous pirate, Tuhin, for help. Tuhin had found an artifact earlier, called the Oceanic Heart. It allows the user to survive without breathing, and Tuhin has been using it to explore the sea beds. Tuhin agrees, on the condition that Halle and Gray work for him.

Tuhin's been meaning to make a raid on Las Verisa's rich warehouses for awhile, but its dock guards are strong and well-trained. He decided that he needed a diversion, and gave that task to Halle. Halle gathered information on the city's denizens, and realized that the Lunagards were away on a faraway business trip, and their only daughter, Avina, was gone to a boarding school. Halle pretended to be Avina and took over the Lunagard finances, and used the cash to begin fueling her plans. She used part of the Lunagard money to set up an inn in the Bessel Woods, and sent her younger sister Marion there in charge. She wanted to keep an eye out in case real Avina decided to return, and she wanted to keep Marion out of harm's way away from the city. When Marion realized that real Avina has returned, she tried to rough her up and detain her in the basement of the inn, but the PCs proved to be too strong, and her men were defeated. While she was distracted watching the fight, Izzy snuck up behind her and put her down, then cut off her legs, along with the boots. Marion's plans have been blown to bits, and she lost her legs. She wanted to keep real Avina away from the city to prevent Halle's plans from getting ruined, but she failed.

Marion asks Avina if she would stay away from the city anyways, but Avina refuses. Then, Marion asks the PCs to get her to a friend of hers in the city. His name is Pinay, and he runs a curio shop. He is a trustworthy person, if somewhat paranoid. Marion believes that he will be able to get her mechanical legs and help her. PCs agreed. PCs also went ahead and looted the body of the rich merchant upstairs. Avina leaves the inn in care of Grub, and the party heads into the city of Las Verisa.

[FakeGod]

Spoiler: Solution to the Toronto's locked room murder

The solution is very simple.

Izzy went outside to move the charred skeleton aside and patrol the nearby area. Toronto then went upstairs. Izzy climbed up to the 2nd floor window, went in, and knocked on Toronto's door. Toronto opens the door, thinking it's probably Gerard or one of the girls he's been hitting on, and Izzy stabs him and kills him instantly. Izzy then locks the door from the inside and closes the door. Izzy then leaves through the window, goes outside and hides the skeleton. After few hours and after PCs returned to their rooms for the night, Izzy climbs through the window again, walks in front of Toronto's door, ignites a firecracker to make a loud bang sound, and run back outside through the window. The small burn on the door was caused by the firecracker.

The body would be found inside a locked room with the key on the victim, and there is no trace of the intruder ever having set his feet inside the room, completing the "locked room murder" facade. With a higher heal check from Kel, he would have realized that the victim was killed few hours ago, as opposed to minutes. Toronto was one of the wealthy guildmasters of the Las Verisa, and he sensed (correctly) that there is some kind of raid that will soon happen, so he liquidated his assets and fled, only to be tracked down by Izzy, Tuhin's second-in-command, and be killed.

[FakeGod]

We will be playing in 12/6 Sunday noon to 3PM PST.

We are finally entering Las Verisa.

[FakeGod]

[FakeGod]

Spoiler: Keep Calm

[FakeGod]

I would recommend spectating when we play to get a feel of how we play. (you don't have to stay the whole time obv)

Also, let me tell you about size of these campaigns so you can plan ahead.

Campaign 1, 2, and 3 combined is equal to size of Campaign 4.

Campaign 4 has 3 Acts.

We finished the first Act, and we are maybe 30% through Act 2.

You might be waiting for months if you are going to wait for next campaign.

If you know D&D and how to use roll20, and you think you can make the sessions regularly, I would recommend building a character and just jumping right in.

[FakeGod]

We will be playing in four hours and 45 minutes.

[FakeGod]

bump

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Summary

First thing PCs do after getting in Las Verisa is to pawn off Toronto's gem collection. Unluckily for them, the jeweler recognized the gems as he worked on them only a week ago or so for Mr. Toronto. Kat and Lor tried their best to bluff out of the situation, but guards arrive to arrest them. Who teleports through a wall and chugs potion of invis and fly to get away, and Lor drinks potion of invis to get away. Karl also runs away in confusion, and Avina, Kat, and Kel are arrested and are taken away. In jail, they are confronted by the First Captain Gundabog. He is willing to hold them on bail: everything they own minus 5 gold. Kel takes the bail and leaves the station. Kel then gets lost in the city and begins to wildy preach about Light of Pelor and his Photons to the masses of unfaithful.

Meanwhile, No Two, Karl, and Lor meet outside the city and begin to plot to get their party out of jail. They come up with many different plans, and Lor tries to disguise herself and infiltrate the city once more. She instantly fails and gets arrested. She bails herself out though. No Two then asks Marion to shapechange into Toronto and pretend to have been attacked by frost giants and were only narrowly rescued by the party. Marion reluctantly agrees. Who managed to wheel in Marion into the police station, and Marion managed to convince the First Captain to let the PCs go. After gearing back up and rejoining the party, the PCs bring Marion to Pinay's Curio Shop, as they promised. Pinay is a paranoid gnome. He warns the party that Halle, who is pretending to be Avina, is looking for vengeance on real Avina, believing her to be Marion's killer. Gnome promises to get new legs for Marion, but there is a loud commotion outside. Pinay's assistant, named Linny, is getting arrested by Captain Gundabog. It turns out that Linny is a daughter of a circus performer, and the police was tipped off by someone that the circus was smuggling and selling opiates. Circus was raided and closed down, with most of the performers under arrest. After grilling them and failing to get any leads of where the drugs might be, Gundabog decided to question their family members, including Linny, in case they knew anything. Linny cried for help, but Pinay just watched her get taken away.

Marion declined Pinay's offer to stay with him until the legs arrive, and left with the PCs, complaining of how much a coward Pinay was. The PCs decide to investigate the circus, which was in the docks. It was closed, and so Karl tried to find some drug dealers and was in middle of negotiating when someone in a diving suit emerged from the sea. He introduced himself as the Third Captain Jin, and he explained that he was investigating the murder of the last Third Captain, Ilyius. It seems that Ilyius was shot through his neck from someone standing on the docks, but the angle is such that it's impossible for anyone standing in the boardwalks or further inland to have shot him. Jin is currently searching the seabed for any hint of underwater assassin, but he doubts that's the case, since the water is too murky to shoot someone through during the evening, which was when Ilyius was shot. He asks the PCs to keep an eye out and notify him immediately if they learn anything regarding the murder.

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