Comments on: Pathfinder 18-21 – Fuck, it’s been a while

By: Graham

Graham — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 02:52:15 +0000

Long week, long day especially. This week and last week will be done together.

Oh, and it was more like 260 damage

You seem to really be enjoying the smiley menu. I’ll be sure to keep it when I redesign the page.

By: lookintomyeyes

lookintomyeyes — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:09:11 +0000

…Speaking of playing clerics….can we have the newest post now? The one that involves me going \” *Touch* BOOM!!!!

Hehehe, 120 damage rocks…………..

(Sorry, but that really made my game, cause I FINALLY got to use that spell properly!)

By: Graham

Graham — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:16:52 +0000

Yay! We is helping!

I have one more to go up right away.

By: Harbinger

Harbinger — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:40:19 +0000

Keep these logs up. I am a few sessions behind you running the same adventures and have learned a lot about what to do in my game from reading your logs.

By: Tommi

Tommi — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:35:06 +0000

Graham,
Good to hear. I do certainly hope that adventures with bottlenecks are a thing of the past.

By: Christine aka Nox

Christine aka Nox — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:59:17 +0000

Yay for posts! Yay for cute emoticons (which I’m sure to over-use) ! And, more on-topic, yay for diversifing somewhat away from my Desert Wind-heavy Swordsage manuvers (fire-based) before we caught up to the red dragon.

By: Graham

Graham — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:51:25 +0000

It isn’t, really, no. The writings on the wall are all actually there, and fully decipherable with no skill checks. A skill check can reveal a hint to the order, or the meaning of a certain passage.

There are a couple tricky bits to make it rhyme, such as “mirror” meaning “lake”, but they are all fairly common in english poems anyways.

Additioonally, so long as the party remembers him, there is a Thassilonian historian right in the town.

And, if all else fails, the library from earlier still provides a +30 bonus on knowledge (history) checks to confirm things.

The group really only used skill checks to confirm they got it right.

By: Tommi

Tommi — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:27:36 +0000

They find all the appropriate writings on the wall, arrange them appropriately, and (with some good knowledge checks) take off towards their destination, Lake Stormunder, and Rimeskull.

Does this only look like a choke point where a failed roll or two could stop the entire adventure, or this is actually such a thing?

Anyways. Take an animal with lots of HD, some wisdom, and low CR (elephant might be a good choice). Awaken it. Add enough druid levels. The CR is amusing, assuming awakening is around +1 CR.

By: Donny_the_DM

Donny_the_DM — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:06:11 +0000

Yay for Graham!

Sounds like a good time was had by all. Feel your pain on the (criminally) disassociated encounters. Thematic areas with matching critters may be “old hat” but it got there for a reason. Inserting completely randon shit into a game “just because” is incredibly frustrating.

Running into the temptation myself over art TPK, got a lot of work ahead of me, that’s for sure.

By: Graham

Graham — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 02:01:34 +0000

Oh, he probably wouldn’t have been a huge problem to defeat (though, like every other caster in these books, his AC was obscene). Though it did give me a good excuse to ditch running a high-ish level spellcaster, so I took it.

The party had decimated the giants, to the dragon turned tail before encountering them personally, giving a blast of flame on his way out of town.

The glabrezu failed his summon attempt, and The Scribbler was still talking to the party somewhat at that point. He came into combat with the dogs, hitting from behind and breaking his invisibility. He then dimension-doored out, and faced them in the cathedral, where there was more room to maneuver.