"I assume you are not dragon hunting mercenaries?"

I find myself tempted to say something along the lines of "Were you looking for some? Trouble with an Ex or something?".

Haha XD

"The only trouble I'd have with an Ex, would be that... well.. maybe not that important."

What is the refill rate for a pool of Ki, such as referenced by Inner Strength under various Martial Arts?

Restores as Attribute damage. So, 1 a day, 2 if you do nothing but bed rest IIRC.

If you want to pull a lot of martial arts stunts, you can buy Mana with the Resilience option, Specialized and Corrupted / Only for Resilience, Only to power Martial Arts Occult Powers (2 CP) and Rite of Chi with +4 Bonus Uses, Specialized and Corrupted / only to restore mana, only for the Martial Arts Resilience pool above (4 CP).

That way you can afford to pull off several martial arts stunts in every fight. Given the number of special options that can give you, it's probably well worth it once your martial arts skills are high enough.

How much Mana does that 2 cp give you, and what is the Rite of Chi?

So as not to clutter the IC with OOC stuff.

I apologize, Khorolf, I misunderstood your intent. Typically you do/say things with Khorolf that seem..well a bit boneheaded, seemingly to play up your barbarian sterotype, typically Raven ends up sighing and being exasperated (wanting to have a traumatized teenager stab you is one great example) so I assumed this was my cue to be exasperated and sigh.

The creatures turned to goo? (Other than the splattered mess we made, I myst have missed that detail.)

The rest of the fight was handled by us dealing with them. Cutting about two weeks of combat to get us to rp and continue^^

You misunderstand my concern. 'Turning to goo' is something that happened in a previous fight in some mines. Are these creatures related to the extradimensional blob we defeated before?

Ah well, my bad then. The post I saw from the GM only said...



No mentioning of goo until Khorolf said it. At least from my point of view, maybe I missed the perception check.

Got lucky and got a 26.

Is the monstrosity bipedal or hybrid animal? Does it have a tail (or similar appendage) that one can run up from behind?

Is close enough. 6-ish legs...
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How high up is the center body? Are there any trees or hills still standing that might give me a higher launch point for a Light Foot Leap Attack?

40'-50'

Plenty of trees, you are in a forest. Be a hefty athletics roll, but certainly doable as a hero.

I'm beginning to wonder who is more insane, Khorolf, or John...

I guess subtle GM hints are ineffective, time to take out the clue bat...



Taking on the beast at your current level would be the same as Frodo from the Shire taking on Smaug. A direct frontal assault would be akin to a suicidal effort. (Not every threat needs to be met with violence, there are some things best to avoid to achieve your goals - The beast is NOT the curse, it is a MANIFESTATION of the curse).


Given the current make-up of the group, it is certainly feasible that you could come up with a plan to deal with it. But is that the best time use of your resources?

Apologies frendos, but I had a massive derp moment, and totally forgot to read about our traveling base aka Gerad's Wagon O Wonder. However, I read it over tonight, thanks to the recent link for Lara.

I see there's currently five bedrooms, but there's two new PCs, so idk if Lara and I will have our own rooms or not.

Also, I see there's shrines in the lowest level. Would Thal be able to have a shrine dedicated to Selune added in?

Finally, I notice the whole place adds all sorts of skill bonuses to various crafts, professions, etc.

I'm thinking Thal will be a blend of cleric, druid, and witch, with powers and abilities based around the moon, healing, lycanthropes, animals, etc.

I currently have yet to chose my 5 skills for my ranks in Background, so I was wondering what all everybody already has for those skills?

Well, Gerad has the larger bedroom - it is his house - so the five rooms are guest bedrooms. At the moment, that's one for each active character. Gerad can add more rooms and features - but he's using Siddhisyoga to purchase such things, meaning that he has to sacrifice treasure (of some sort) to pay for what he adds. We're currently using the Pathfinder downtime rules for costs of new facilities, so adding various "rooms" is relatively quick, simple, and cheap (although adding more extradimensional space is a bit pricey) - but we'll need to find some more money (or have some downtime to generate some) first.

For a shrine, that was noted back in the main adventure thread in post 199:



The basic shrine setup (with the base bonuses listed for the house and the shrines) costs 400 GP, I was intending to add some special functions later, but that will cost more, so it was awaiting more treasure. If it matters any, "Lucha" is one of Selune's various aliases, although it was mostly popular in Netheril, about one and a half millennia past. For good or ill, Gerad is a seer, and more than a bit unfocused in time.

Finally, I wouldn't worry too much about what background skills you have. John covers most of the alchemy, armor, and weapons crafting type skills (and makes occult gadgets), Khorolf does brewing, leatherworking, carpentry, exhibition wrestling, and various other wilderness/barbarian type skills, Raven (I think; he may opt to provide more accurate information)) crafts charms and totems and fetishes and such, and Gerad's basic tricks are 1) spirit channeling and 2) skill-based magic - so he has an awful lot of skills. Those tricks have a relatively low ceiling on raw power, but they grant access to it fairly early - which I will admit is my favorite sort of character; one with an immense array of midrange tricks which must be used cleverly.

So take whatever fits your character. We have most of the basics covered.

I'm currently on my phone, so I can't (easily) see what skills I have.

Regarding beds, I'm fine with sharing a bed if needed, or just lay down on the floor on some blankets or pillows or, traditionally, coins and treasure.

John's Background skills are

Craft: Weaponsmith, Craft: Armorsmith, Craft: Blacksmithing,
Craft: Alchemy, Profession: Herbalist

He can build a cot near his forge and give up his bedroom for either of the ladies (though the dragon lady intrigues him more).

Raven deals with spirits mostly through Orm his spirit fetch, but he is a blaster and doesn't have any background skills :P

So craft away my happy little friends.

Raven is a Fey Warlock (if you want to use 3.5 equivalencies) so dealing with spirits, blasting things and doing a lot of witch craft :D He is one of my older characters so he's not super optimized except for blasting (thanks to Thoth!)

Ah, I was mostly guessing based on the assumption that you made most of your own trinkets, talismans, and gizmos. Don't worry! We'll just have to find a disposable enemy and give you a skill transplant...

Hm. I wonder if we can actually do that?

Yeah... It exists in some books in various forms. Rituals, powers, etc.

I'll take this...or we can whip up some kind of link between us all that lets us lend 'skills'

Do we not level up in this game? lol

I feel like just waiting till your next level and droppin a few skill points into background is probably the easier path...