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[Neonivek]

Also reminds me of a videogame where you are about to basically fight an unstoppable killing machine of a boss that for the most part you have no chance against, no living being does.

But not only do you have entire squads of archers fire at it, but several groups of people weaken it down before it even gets to you.

I would love to recreate that but translating "Yeah, this thing is probably not going to go down unless you do something above and beyond" to the PCs is an arduous task.

[UXLZ]

NFO, I still REALLY want you to do a PBP forum game. :v

[NullForceOmega]

I'll have to experiment with more forum games before I try to bring my personal style to the web, I'm really not sure how well it would translate.

Here, this is a SG I ran for a bit a while ago: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=138363.msg5255103#msg5255103

It was a bit simplified because I wasn't sure how things would go, but it does show a bit of my DM style.

[UXLZ]

I'll have to check it out, when I wake up.

[highmax28]

So the battle was won greatly, with minimal casualties.

The support fire group shot down any oncoming forces before they could get to them. The party fought several monsters with several NPCs they knew as allies, and the climatic battle began.

The party who was on the front lines was present, so three members, and they watch as the leader of the actual army is cut down quickly by the warlord and his mount. He holds his shield and blade in a defensive position as he swings and carves his way through the party with his mount. Tyson-chan the barbarian even turned werebear and it was looking bleak. Then, the monk I palyed with the party drops in and kicks him off the monut (no damage dealt). The warlord stabs him in the heart and using it as a fulcrum, snaps his spine by striking him as hard as he can in the chest. He then takes a two handed attack stance and ditches his shield (lowering his AC by 2 but doing a 1d10 damage die with an extra +3 to damage) and stands tall as the party starts to fight him. He almsot kills the werebear and the fighter before the fighter lands a crit and decapitates him with a clean stroke, his head slowly rolling down as his body drops.

Then the bard runs up to the monk who's body is broken entirely and he's dying. She tries to stabalize him, but fails. His exact words as he dies:

"I'm sorry we didn't get to spend much more time together, lovely... At least I can die staring into the eyes of an angel." as he pulls off one last flirtatious joke to her before he dies.

THe other casualites the party knows is the apprentice to the boss of the bard, who died protecting his master and a friend from another town who joined to aid in the battle who was a werewolf.

In the end, all the hobgoblins were slain, with minimal casualties on the party's side. Those who were slain were very unlucky or inexperienced.

A lot of prisoners from the hobgoblins stayed in town as a thank you to the people who freed them, and may soldiers, after seeing the strength of the adventurers, stayed in town to become adventurers of their own.

[BlackFlyme]

Has anyone ever had experience with playing a crafter character?

My oracle, who I've stuffed away for the time being, is a minor crafter of sorts, and is the first crafter character I've ever played. Cheaper magic items is nice, but I'm not sure if how I'm going about it is right. Though apparently you have to pay in XP to craft in D&D, which you don't have to in Pathfinder.

I've been focusing on getting my spellcraft to as high as possible, with various feats. I have tried looking up some optimized builds, but haven't found too much aside from how useful different types of items are. Though I did try to calculate how cheap I could possibly get items to be, in general. I believe I have gotten to about 75% off, with 50% being the base you get off for most magic items; 15% off from three different traits, at 5% each, assuming the DM allows more than the standard two; and another 10% from the Evangelist PrC, if you choose Torag as your patron deity.

[highmax28]

I played a 4e artificer that did nothing but craft. Guy, with the right feats and whatnot, made a level 13 item at level 8, and at level 11, he could make items for level 19s. He could never afford it, but the guy could do it easily. And the party paid him to do this because the other party crafter (who's business I aided to befriend the party when I could have easily run it into the ground) charged everyone at a huge markup.

It was stupidly silly, especially since 4e artificers get a free alchemy item per day that is equal to your level. Needless to say, the DM was happy he left the party on bad terms

[Bohandas]

What would you roll against for a character to realize that an NPC actually smells of brimstone rather than having just farted. Would that be a wisdom check? Some kind of knowledge check to know he precise smell of brimstone? Alchemy?

[Rolan7]

Honestly?  Knowledge (planes)

[Bohandas]

Well I had this idea for a character who's actually a disguised yugoloth. And I just remembered that they're supposed to smell faintly of brimstone. But then I realized that that wouldn't necessarily give them away because most people would probably just assume that they had farted.

[highmax28]

Honestly?  Knowledge (planes)

I brimstone isn't just from hell though. I think it would be a knowledge geography, as its usually associated with volcanic areas or perhaps a profession or craft check if you have some sort of job dealing with it.

In other editions, go history, investigation or similar

[Rolan7]

Ohh, a Yugoloth.
Knowledge (planes).  It's an extraplanar creature, and technically demonic (despite not being chaotic...)  The difference between its scent and a fart would require a high DC amount of planar knowledge, I'd say.
Or if someone has a great listen check (we folded listen and spot into perception, but listen is closer to smell than spot is) I'd say they could determine that it smells really bad.  Unless the party is good at separating OOC from IC, in which case go ahead and tell them it smells of sulphur.  Knowledge (planes) to determine why that matters.

Okay.  I'm not saying this is why I quit.  In fact, it's decidedly not.  But it certainly didn't help (despite me being on the divine side, which is *supposed* to be more survivable.  In this group, any melee was ultra lethal).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMLcy86bZNw

Also, I can't help but feel sentimental after splitting the party:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmMqg_GBFFA

Honestly?  Knowledge (planes)

I brimstone isn't just from hell though. I think it would be a knowledge geography, as its usually associated with volcanic areas or perhaps a profession or craft check if you have some sort of job dealing with it.

In other editions, go history, investigation or similar

Ehh yeah but why would a *person* smell like sulfur?  Only knowledge (Planes) can answer that.  I'd accept a knowledge (geography) for "This person smells like sulfur, that's unusual".

[highmax28]

He said it smells like Sulfur, NOT A FART. I answered the question, not the reason behind why they smell of it, just discerning the smell

[kilakan]

Honestly?  Knowledge (planes)

I brimstone isn't just from hell though. I think it would be a knowledge geography, as its usually associated with volcanic areas or perhaps a profession or craft check if you have some sort of job dealing with it.

In other editions, go history, investigation or similar

I'd personally say a Craft Alchemy check to know sulphur, otherwise sulphur just smells like rotting eggs to anyone who doesn't know what it is.  Maybe Knowledge religion at a high DC to know what sulphur is.

Once you actually knew it was sulphur than it'd probably be a knowledge planes roll.

[scriver]

It would be common knowledge. People wouldn't know what sulfur smell like in itself, but they'd know what rotten eggs smells like, and they'd know that sulfur and thus demons smell like rotten eggs, because of the dozens of times they've heard that in their folklore. So the questions should be "is the smell faint enough that you need to be right next to him to smell it?" and "how likely is the person to jump to the conclusion that he is a demon and as opposed to just having spilt egg on himself or let out a good fart, based on the old folk stories alone?".

Or maybe just a Knowledge (Planes) check.