[3.x]Call to Adventure: Secrets of the Fire Swamp

radthemad4 · Post by **radthemad4** » Thu Jun 30, 2016 4:29 am

Might as well ask what the nature of the favor the stone eater needs is. If it's say, constructing a stone building or digging a ditch or tunnel, Orr will happily sub in.

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Thu Jun 30, 2016 4:51 am

radthemad4 wrote:Might as well ask what the nature of the favor the stone eater needs is. If it's say, constructing a stone building or digging a ditch or tunnel, Orr will happily sub in.

The Stone-Eater wants Archimedes to find a "flesh supplicant" for "bacchanal rites" which implies (to me at least) bizarre sex fueled by drunken revelry and religious fervor. Archimedes is unfit on the merit that he is entirely made of metal.

radthemad4 · Post by **radthemad4** » Thu Jun 30, 2016 5:05 am

Oh okay. I had no idea what that meant and didn't think to google it. Probably not a good idea with Orr's Con score.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Fri Jul 01, 2016 3:11 pm

GOing to be away for the weekend again, so we'll pick this back up Monday night-ish.

radthemad4 · Post by **radthemad4** » Tue Jul 12, 2016 1:40 am

We're waiting on Malogos to finish summoning a familiar right?

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Tue Jul 12, 2016 1:43 am

I was waiting on you deciding whether or not the pack-lizards were acceptable, and Archimedes as to whether he was going to try and get a participant for the bacchanal rites so he could afford the magic amulet.

radthemad4 · Post by **radthemad4** » Tue Jul 12, 2016 1:45 am

Ah, sorry, my bad. Yes, Pack Lizards are awesome!

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Tue Jul 12, 2016 2:05 am

Archimedes is going to try, he's just not sure how to approach it yet.

radthemad4 · Post by **radthemad4** » Tue Jul 12, 2016 2:16 am

Could you ask if the drunken sex is particularly er... unhealthy?

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Tue Jul 12, 2016 3:12 am

Sure.

radthemad4 · Post by **radthemad4** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 6:18 am

Is Orr aware of the current conversation?

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 9:38 am

Orr is wrangling pack-lizards, but I'm sure he can overhear it if he wants to.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 9:38 pm

So...whatchall doin'? I mean, Malagris is summoning his skeleton dude. Orr has his pack-lizards.

radthemad4 · Post by **radthemad4** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 9:51 pm

I think we're ready to head out to meet the basilisk

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Sat Jul 23, 2016 12:10 am

Gentle reminder: building the skeletal minion takes 24 hours according to the class feature.

CapnTthePirateG · Post by **CapnTthePirateG** » Sat Jul 23, 2016 8:01 am

Hence my lack of posts - looked like you were doing things in the 24 hours.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Sun Jul 24, 2016 11:15 pm

The bacchanal rites are happening this in-game night, to answer Orr's question.

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Thu Jul 28, 2016 2:04 pm

OK, that was actually a pretty good deal since Archimedes still has a Constitution of 18 after the penalty.

Can Archimedes still wear the wyrmfang amulet along with the triskelion or does he have to take the former off (the triskelion presumably takes the same amulet slot, if we're using body slots)

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Thu Jul 28, 2016 3:18 pm

Same slot.

radthemad4 · Post by **radthemad4** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 2:17 pm

Yeah that massive Wisdom boost'll probably sort of help make up for the Arcane Spell failure thing. Any ideas on how to reduce that though?

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 2:52 pm

Well partially it depends on whether we can add more splatbook material when leveling up (and I can see AH going either way on that quite reasonably.)

The best core solution would just be to take combat spells that have no somatic components (and thus no chance of spell failure.) I have enough slots that I can just risk failing on low I'm probably taking Blindness/Deafness as my 2nd level spell next level for that reason.

If I weren't a sorcerer then I could get a lot out of still spell but having to take a full-round action and a higher spell slot kind of sucks. Still might be worth it though.

For non-core material:

Whispercast (from lords of madness) trades a 2nd level slot and a swift action to auto-still any spell of 5th or lower (so basically anything I'll probably ever cast in this game) I cast. Which is essentially like still spell, but I keep my move action and spend a 1st level spell slot instead, and at higher levels is strictly better than still spell for sorcerers.

A level of spellsword (complete warrior) reduces ASF by 10% without losing any spellcasting, although I'd understand not wanting to allow a multiclassing fix prestige class in a gestalt game. Even if it is allowed it has a bunch of prerequisites I'd need to meet and I'd still have a failure chance of 40% so it doesn't seem worth it.

There are also some alternate class features and feats that ignore spell failure from light/medium (possibly heavy somewhere) armor but since the spell failure comes from a magical effect and not armor I don't think that would work.

radthemad4 · Post by **radthemad4** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 3:03 pm

Since Kaelik's Tome Errata is in use, the Subtle Spell feat can let you use spells one lower than your max without somatic components without increasing spell level.

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 8:59 pm

Kaelik's metamagic rules wrote:Spontaneous casters and SLA users must choose which metamagic feats to apply when they cast them. Spontaneous spellcasters don't take longer to cast spells with metamagic feats. That's just silly.

Kickass.

Of course that's only when I next get a feat, which won't be for a while.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Tue Aug 02, 2016 12:42 am

Blindfolds are cheap (the Weavers make a selection of...specialized silk gear), and small hand mirrors of polished bronze are available, but you'll want to mark off how many you're buying of the latter before you get to Basilisk Country.

radthemad4 · Post by **radthemad4** » Tue Aug 02, 2016 5:16 pm

How much do bronze mirrors cost? Small, steel mirrors that weigh half a pound cost 10 GP according to the SRD.