A test of your prowess, the endless gauntlet - a continuation.

[CNFish]

The troll falls to the ground, it looks seemingly dead it has few burn Mark's here and there from the fire attacks but nothing major. The wolves stand about oorth and robina as Bertie and jon join the rest of the group.

Their is also a deer carcass laying some 20 ft away, its ripped beyond any reasonable means, but a fresh corpse is likely to attract other predators.

[wilphe]

Robina will pitch in smacking it with her sword

Oorth if you are still capable could you finish this please? Or give the sword to me?

There is a look of concern on her face

Spoiler: Kill it with fire

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A regenerating creature that has been rendered unconscious through nonlethal damage can be killed with a coup de grace. The attack cannot be of a type that automatically converts to nonlethal damage.

Or we just keep it in subdual whilst one of us whacks it with the greatsword

[finaldooms]

Till I'm sure the troll is dead il keep doing a coupdegrace ( and give people time to heal me)

Should count as all lethal damage if I read that spoiler right due to fire blade

( so 33x2 and 6 fire on my first coup)

[CNFish]

I wont beat around the Bush with it. You easily coup de grace the troll with fire. Effectively killing it. As oorth calms down from the rage however he suddenly loses his footing and falls over unconscious

[DwarvenWarCorgi]

Wand of CLW on oorth twice
(1d8+1)[5]
(1d8+1)[2]
39 charges left

[finaldooms]

As the troll dies orth drops since his anger abates! (-1/38)

Bertie pokes him a few times and he recovers ( I think it was 7?) So he is now at 6/38

[CNFish]

Experience for troll is 600

The party still has about an hour's walk left before they reach the area common to trolls foot

[finaldooms]

Orth gets ready to limp inwards in obvious pain

im..not sure I can handle doing that again actually...

[JonMarker2]

this is a place holder.

After watching the troll fall and everyone dog pile.
Comes running in. Oorth?!? What is this berserk mood?

Kicking myself for that very wide shot on a sitting troll.

This time tying a few rags from my explores' outfit to like 10 arrows, before we get into a big fight.

To Robina: Over here. I need a better plan than to let my allies rush in, if an arrow can help resolve combat faster, that is great. Still I think I need more practice or it is time to upgrade my equipment, somehow. Also I prefer knives to back of enemies I don't know the strength of.

To everyone: Can I have the troll head?

[wilphe]

im..not sure I can handle doing that again actually...

Well I hope you don't have to. Where the hell is Jon? I'm getting very tired of him plinking from a safe distance whenever we have a fight

(1d20)[5] Search +5 to see if the troll has anything

[wilphe]

Spoiler: Experience for troll is 600

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Takes us to Level 5 on 10,000 exactly

[DwarvenWarCorgi]

Another clw for oorth (1d8+1)[5]

[finaldooms]

Lol..11/38 now

[wilphe]

Robina looks over the other deer carcass for any salvageable meat, taking a few cuts if she can

(1d20)[17] Survival +8

Help me move this please Jon

She pitches the carcass over the cliff edge

[wilphe]

Spoiler: Jon

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I need a better plan than to let my allies rush in, if an arrow can help resolve combat faster, that is great. Still I think I need more practice or it is time to upgrade my equipment, somehow. Also I prefer knives to back of enemies I don't know the strength of.

Well in no particular order:

1) We aren't sure what character you want to have, because the way you've played Jon doesn't tally with the choices on the sheet or his equipment. You've made

a) Sneak Attack. That only works on archery if you can get within 30' and the enemy is flat footed. In melee you can get it with flanking, which also gives the person you are flanking with a bonus to hit

b) Swashbuckler is a melee class

c) You have a +1 keen shortsword on the equipment list that you don't have on your sheet, this might be your issue. Because that is as good a weapon as Oorth has (+2 equivalent)

You should be attacking with that at +8 (+3 BAB, +3 DEX + 1 magic +1 Weapon Focus) and with more damage than the +4 and 1d6 you have on sheet for your current weapon. I think damage should be 1d6 +1STR +1 Magic = 1d6+2, and with double the crit range


Indeed if you don't want to go melee than it's not clear what either a level of rouge or swashbuckler will o for you.

Another level of rouge will give you Sneak attack +2d6, trap sense +1, but as noted you do't use sneak attack when that's basically the rouge's signature class feature

Another level of swashbuckler will give you

Insightful Strike (Ex): At 3rd level, a swashbuckler becomes able to place her finesse attacks where they deal greater damage. She applies her Intelligence bonus (if any) as a bonus on damage rolls (in addition to any Strength bonus she may have) with any light weapon, as well as any other weapon that can be used with Weapon Finesse, such as a rapier, whip, or spiked chain. Targets immune to sneak attacks or critical hits are immune to the swashbuckler's insightful strike. A swashbuckler cannot use this ability when wearing medium or heavy armor or when carrying a medium or heavy load

But that only applies in melee with a light weapon, like a shortsword.


In fact, my treasure list shows him as having the following:

JON
+1 Shortbow 2330
Ring of Protection +1 2000
+1 Keen Shortsword 8310
+1 Dagger with a poison compartment 2,302

14,942

Of those only the Poison dagger is on your sheet, unless the Ring is that +1 Misc to AC (it should be under deflection)

So are also using a mundane bow rather than the magic one.

The bow should be +3 BAB +3 DEX +1 MAGIC =+7 and do 1d6+1, not +4

That's not as good as the shortsword, but it's certainly better than what you are doing

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Really I think we have an expectation from Jon's build that he will go to melee and try to flank at least sometimes, and from looking at the above he is much better at that than the figures on your sheet indicate

[CNFish]

I'm assuming jon helps robina, and they pitch the deer carcass over the mountain side as the body tumbles down the echoes can be heard of it thudding around and finally hitting the base of the mountain floor beneath. But not before robina grabs a couple venison chunks for food.

The party then continues onward up the mountain.

[JonMarker2]

{happy father's day}

I will assist and get bloody. Let us not wear this blood for too long. Thinking about how we are now skirting a battlefield and also a possible troll nest, while wearing easy prey scent.

[finaldooms]

While trudging along orth moves close to Bertie! I know we are trying to save I
the healing. But I'm still really hurting ...any chance I could have a few more heals? orth visibly winces as the path is not smooth (23/50) hp

[DwarvenWarCorgi]

(Sorry, still working a lot, plus my wifes bday yesterday on top of Father's Day)

but if you're covered in troll blood, wont you smell like a troll?

Clw wand for oorth (1d8+1)[7]
(1d8+1)[7]

[JonMarker2]

I visibly smear the troll blood over any deer blood I've got on and give Bertie the medieval equivalent of a thumbs up.

[wilphe]

If you want the head you can have it, but you are carrying it.

Robina moves up, and keeps close to Oorth

[finaldooms]

Orth wrinkles his nose at the blood and starts to look visibly better but not quite as normal (37/50)

I think your stick might be broken? It seems to not be working as well

[finaldooms]

Bertie rolled ooc for more healing ( I think it was +15)

After a few more pokes and prods from the healing stick orth FINALLY looks as good as new (50/50)

ahh that's better
.now if we run into another troll I can maybe do that 1 more time, although I'd rather a real plan that is more than I stand still like a target
Shall we discuss while moving onwards?

Ow that's hard to read
"ahh that's better
.now if we run into another troll I can maybe do that 1 more time, although I'd rather a real plan that is more than I stand still like a target
Shall we discuss while moving onwards?"

Also that was what? 6 -8 charges for a heal this time?

[JonMarker2]

Hey, Robina...you were learning from X about what it takes to be a ranger and track things by scent and by traces left behind, so should we follow where the troll came from, or should we walk away from this area. Oh. Yeah and if we smell like trolls, the trolls would leave us alone, right?

I feel like a twit, smearing the blood all over me first without confirming my actions, but that is within my nature.

As for you Oorth, why don't I be the one to draw the next troll in and you can rage behind it?

[wilphe]

I can try and stun it with magic, the timing didn’t work quite like that last time.

Also if we have Jon flanking it should go down faster. Not sure what Bertie can do, probably you can wait until he has summons before charging?

[wilphe]

not much tracking I can do, this seems to be a narrow ledge without too many options

As for blood, xivlir didn’t cover much about trolls but I think we all stink anyway. None of us have changed clothes or bathed since this whole thing began

[finaldooms]

I mean..the discussion was taking a while and the troll looked nearly done so i..just sped up our options is all

Getting some help with flanking a troll would help alot, since they take so much damage I'd like to get some help hitting where it hurts , also when I rage it's a little hard keeping track of what you caster people are doing

But next time il try to wait to swing till Bertie either summons things or you blow rainbows at them

[DwarvenWarCorgi]

Stephen can track by smell, if you guys want to find where the troll came from. Heck, it's so foul I can almost smell where it came from


Edit:on that note, I didnt double check, but I dont think Stephen gained anything new this level anyway, afb atm, I'll check later

[CNFish]

The party moves on and talks amongst themselves. After about half an hour of walking they still havent seen anymore trolls or any signs of the flower they are looking for.

Listen checks!

[wilphe]

(1d20)[4] Listen +2 / +4 if human