Welcome! I am excited about this game, in general the feel should be like a comic book, or an 80's action movie. Lots of one liners-I might even give bonuses for good one liners-intraparty banter etc.
Above all this game should be silly and fun. It is not slapstick, that is further than I am looking to go, after all you are doing something important. But the characters are strange by nature of the build rules and we will play with that.
Everyone check out the campaign info, if you haven't already, and let me add one more thing here. I will rule this to the point that if you are to use a fireball and it would hit a party member as well and it would put them below 75% health it will simply not work and you will lose your action, and spell slot.
We will not be getting deep into the combat and all for at least a few posts so if you want to work together and alter your builds a bit-whether that be skills or classes or gear please do so.
One liners and no PVP, got it. Excited to get started!
Make sure you all have skills covered,
I have Diplomacy, Knowledge(Planes) and Perception covered, dabbling slightly in Knowledge (Religion) , and Profession(Merchant) and Sense Motive .
I can provide a little healing, but mostly out of combat - Seif-al-Din is primarily a self-buffing melee fighter.
Arthus is very good at:
Diplomacy
Intimidate
Perception
Sense Motive
He is trained in:
Climb
Intimidate
Knowledge (religion)
Spellcraft
Survival
Swim
Will get my alias made later today.
Ok, it's built.
Skills, in the main, are:
Stealth
Perception
Survival
knowledge nature
Disable Device (with trapfinding so I can disable magical traps)
I can also do acrobatics, climb and swim well enough. I dabble in a few other skills (knowledges granted by classes, intimidate, heal).
Kixzik is good (17+) at:
Acrobatics,
Craft (alchemy)
Disable Device
Perception
Spellcraft
Stealth
Knowledge (arcana)
He's trained (12+) at:
Appraise
Diplomacy
Linguistics
Kixzik also has all the knowledges covered to +14 (go mindchemist!) out of combat and at +22 in combat.
i forrgot to mention that when I phone post I will often use a dice app I have, so you will not see the rolls, I will also use it when I do not want you to know that I am rolling dice.
if everyone could make sure there saves, AC and anything else I need to know about it in their profile, under their name. That would be great.
Remember the HP scores on the battle map, linked above are gospel!!
Do you have a particular formatting you prefer for our headers?
Definitely not impending combat.
nope not at all
its pathfinder it is always combat pending
Seif, I missed this. How do you have 3rd level spells?
Holy Vindicator prestige class adds to your divine caster level.
Ahhh. I just couldn't figure it out
As Arthur says, via Holy Vindicator :-)
so there is a reason i require things in the stat line folks. not trying to upset anyone, but that is why I posted you must put things in the stat line, also why I have posted that the map is the gospel, for HP
Sometimes it is an easy change like the suli acid resistance. No Problem. But the surprise round thing, would have altered the entire attack, he would not have whirlwind, he would have focused on a flatfooted fellow.
you all will get the same benefit when I invariably make an error with a bad guy.
As I did with the fellow that you have already killed.
We are cluttering up gameplay with way too much ooc talk.
For some reason I thought the paladin version of detect evil was a swift action. In that case I'll just detect and move up, not attacking.
Energy attacks deal half damage to most objects. Divide the damage by 2 before applying the object's hardness. Some energy types might be particularly effective against certain objects, subject to GM discretion. For example, fire might do full damage against parchment, cloth, and other objects that burn easily. Sonic might do full damage against glass and crystal objects.
The first is armor (Arthur doesn't have a shield).
Since my full plate is +2 and made of steel, is has a hardness of 14. That means it will ignore the first 28 points of damage.
It has an armor bonus of 11. Since the HP of armor heavy armor is it's AC x5 x2, that means it has 110 HP.
In conclusion, my armor takes 5 points of damage out of it's health pool of 110. I'll get the scratches buffed out later.
There is a character limit but it's pretty big - I just use spoilers to keep from cluttering each post.
I have to agree with Zephyr. I'm not trying to usurp your authority in your game, but there's only so much information we can put in our header without it being very cluttered. Perhaps some time spent going through each character and requesting what you want to see in our headers would fix this issue?
Anything that I MUST know to run a combat
Dr
Resistance
Always act in surprise
Look at the space for fizzy here. The space is there
And if you want to be combative about it zephyr yea you do. But as I said I punish myself as well
The elf you killed, I had changed his build to include +4 con and not dex as well as changing out a useless feat for toughness. I removed the dex ac bonus but forgot to add the others. So he shouldn't have been dead.
I run a fair game. I punish myself as much or more. Now as I said in the original post I will not argue w players if this type of thing will kill your fun then I apologize, but it is how I run my games.
I think that it is reasonable to put in certain things that influence what the GM does - noting spells active, resistances, or the ability to never be surprised, for example, but stuff that only affects what the player does (such as having a bonus on a certain type of saving throw, which the player will put into their roll), does not need to be.
For the record, I have no objection to adding to the stat line - although mine is looking a tad long ;-)
EDIT: Ninja'ed by the GM!
There's no conflict here, only some miscommunication. Your players were not sure everything that you wanted in the stat line, and I think most of us were used to our GMs looking at our character sheets to check for abilities. Now we know what's expected in our stat lines so let's move on.
Fair enough. I tend to get uppity when unfair or punished starts getting thrown around. It gets me hot under the collar. Perhaps more than it should. The purpose of this first combat is to figure these things out. The risk of you dying is very low in this barring a crit fest.
Oh the crux of throwing orcs at a low level party. When one of them gets a crit with his greataxe and rolls max damage, suddenly there is a very dead character.
Yea the only risk was a triple crit by the bowman
Also this is the first party I have ever run that would not have attacked already by the time the rogue showed up, so that raised the risk a scoach
Well, to be fair, those of us who aren't paladins are still not sure they're evil. I mean, we just found some folks taking shelter in a cave and then someone coming back to them saw a bunch of heavily armed people loitering outside the camp without declaring their presence.
That's an ambush in my book.
You are speaking like a human not an pathfinder player
I was pleasantly surprised you responded w logic, if not normalcy by saying hello
Hey, they could have been shapeshifted orcs, hellknights, evil dragons trying to lull bold adventurers into complancency!
Plus Kixzik is a goblin and if they were good adventurers they might kill him on sight.
I thought it was all about that bass. Gotta do a quick household chore then I'll send puppy lizard in to bite off the head of the caster.
I have one trick left up my sleeve, two if the caster lives
That caster won't make it next round, especially if he's evil (still waiting on the result of that BTW).
Is detect evil a free action? I know back in the day it could be on all the time.
He's evil.
The GM already posted that the caster was evil.
Bah. I was hoping he had missed it cause I wasn't going to go back and retcon!!
For paladins it's at will, he can concentrate on something for three rounds to determine aura strength as a move action.
Detect Evil is an at will Paladin ability (meaning that it is a standard action to activate, and requires concentration to maintain). Paladins then have the ability to, as a move action, focus on one specific creature/object within the area of effect, and determine whether they are evil/strength of the aura (as if they had concentrated for three rounds).
Basically, a paladin can spend a full round action (standard to activate, move to focus) to determine whether something is evil, rather than having to spend three rounds to do so.
I see. In any case this one is evil. The poor headless elf wasn't
He's got no head for picking traveling companions.
It's hard to get a-head in life with friends like these...
Sometimes his friends just make him lose his head.
Head today, gone tomorrow...
see those done at the time of the kill would totally have earned a bonus