Hey all!

I've got a few days off to travel and celebrate an anniversary, so I'll get a story post up tomorrow morning to corral everyone into the next scene, then I'll give another story update next week.

Hmmm, so here's a question for you, Wolf: Saur wants to make up for their tardiness, so he wants to try to really bunker down and work at this to try to succeed here. So what he's going to want to do is take a moment to ask Alandri what kinds of fish live in here that would be particularly valuable to her. And then he's going to want to Hunt Prey in order to try to find the more valuable ones specifically if any exist, using the Seek action.

Would finding and watching his target using that help him in his attempt to acquire his fish in any way? Or would this just be rolling dice for no real benefit? If there's no mechanical benefit, that's still probably what he'd do for flavor, but I just won't bother rolling the dice for that and just stick with another skill check, probably using his Stealth to hide in the water and wait for his chance to snatch whatever fish he can

I'm also assuming that his Forager feat doesn't apply here, since we're not Subsisting, right?

Working on a post, would there be anyone else around by the river/on the way there? Tanr wouldn't be very eager to dive into the river himself, and would much rather try to talk someone else into doing it for him! B)

Also, err, DM, would it be a major inconvenience if I did change Tanraeth name out for something else? Mostly due to the character list needing an update if I do (I'll edit my previous post to match). The similarity is starting to bother me more and more as I keep mistyping the name, haha.

@Digizel I love where your head is with this.

1. Yes, Saur can Hunt Prey (he's a hunter after all!). That will give Saur a +2 to his Survival check.
2. For Saur's Foraging feat, sure you're not Subsisting, but story-wise there is not a difference in my mind between Saur fishing for himself/the group and Saur fishing to fulfill a task. You can use Forager for this. (This will be in effect off his Stealth roll below)

"While using Survival to Subsist, if you roll any result worse than a success, you get a success. On a success, you can provide subsistence living for yourself and four additional creatures, and on a critical success, you can take care of twice as many additional creatures. You can choose to support half the number of creatures with a comfortable living."

2. Is Saur Trained or an Expert in Survival? Forager lists a larger haul for Expert.
3. Roll Survival to find the fish that are particularly valuable to Alandri. (You get a +2 circumstance bonus to this roll for Hunt Prey), a success can give you a +1 (success) or +2 (crit) bonus to your Stealth check to capture the fish.
4. Roll Stealth to see if Saur can stand perfectly still to let the fish swim toward him, in the perfect location. (Success will catch 1 fish normally, 2 for a Forager. Crit would catch 2 fish, 4 for a Forager.) <- If Saur is an expert, double the Forager success amount.

UPDATE:
Here's the DC for your Survival roll so you can write a post around it's success (for your Stealth).
DC: 8

@Vertigo Sure, Tanraeth can see that there are some other people around the river. If he wants to approach them and engage with them, feel free!

Also, it's no trouble to rename your character. Just let me know what you'd like to change it to!

So, I'm just getting back to Guild, and I'm not sure how the dice work. I'll be rolling Tripkee Lore, since their PC2 entry talks about their fishing habits. If that won't fly, probably Crafting to use some Frost Vials for dynamite fishing.

@Digizel I love where your head is with this.

1. Yes, Saur can Hunt Prey (he's a hunter after all!). That will give Saur a +2 to his Survival check.
2. For Saur's Foraging feat, sure you're not Subsisting, but story-wise there is not a difference in my mind between Saur fishing for himself/the group and Saur fishing to fulfill a task. You can use Forager for this. (This will be in effect off his Stealth roll below)

"While using Survival to Subsist, if you roll any result worse than a success, you get a success. On a success, you can provide subsistence living for yourself and four additional creatures, and on a critical success, you can take care of twice as many additional creatures. You can choose to support half the number of creatures with a comfortable living."

2. Is Saur Trained or an Expert in Survival? Forager lists a larger haul for Expert.
3. Roll Survival to find the fish that are particularly valuable to Alandri. (You get a +2 circumstance bonus to this roll for Hunt Prey), a success can give you a +1 (success) or +2 (crit) bonus to your Stealth check to capture the fish.
4. Roll Stealth to see if Saur can stand perfectly still to let the fish swim toward him, in the perfect location. (Success will catch 1 fish normally, 2 for a Forager. Crit would catch 2 fish, 4 for a Forager.) <- If Saur is an expert, double the Forager success amount. But for now, I will just write about the result of his Survival and his Stealth attempt and await the official word~

UPDATE:
Here's the DC for your Survival roll so you can write a post around it's success (for your Stealth).
DC: 8

1 & 2. Ah very well then, if that's fine by you, then it's fine by me~ Saur is not an Expert in Survival at Level 1, but he did get Trained in it from the same place he got the Forager feat: his Scout Background, but I don't think the ability to boost that above Trained is possible yet

3. Survival roll is an 11. Dang, had more than a 50% chance to crit this one, but if I had to roll low, I'm glad it's here. I'll take a standard success then~

4. Now for the important check, with a +1 bonus from the Survival check, his Stealth roll is: 15. A bit of a low roll, but at least the result is pretty good overall.

Very glad I put that idea forward now since if I'd rolled that 3 on the die for a total of 10 for my Stealth, I probably would've failed the check outright unless it is just that easy of a roll xD But if that 15 is a success, then I'm presuming Saur will be coming back with 2 of those particularly valuable fish for Alandri~

But for now, I'll just write up my post for his tracking success and await the official result from the official post~

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So, I'm just getting back to Guild, and I'm not sure how the dice work. I'll be rolling Tripkee Lore, since their PC2 entry talks about their fishing habits. If that won't fly, probably Crafting to use some Frost Vials for dynamite fishing.

For your viewing pleasure, I give you Digizel the Bui's RPG Dice Tutorial™~

@clanjos Sorry for the late reply. Do you want to Recall Knowledge? I can roll your Tripkee lore to see if Starfinger remembers anything about fishing that might help here.

Or you can roll a Crafting check, or both!

Let me know. If you do want that Recall Knowledge I'll give you the info here.

I'll get an update out soon!

Will be posting tomorrow!

Sounds good! Just an FYI, I'm headed out on a work trip to Montreal this weekend and all of next week. I may have time to write some posts while I'm there, but since it's a work thing it's a little uncertain. I'll check back here as I am able. I return week after next.

"If you like, I'll give you a chance for extra credit or engagement with Alandri. There might even be a hero point or XP in it for you depending on your character's performance."

Think you could elaborate on this a bit, out of curiosity? I wanted to make a post, but caught this at the end and was kinda confused as I read it a couple times. Is this just, like...extra bits of dialogue or something? What kind of extra credit and engagement are we referring to here?

@Digizel Sure. At this point, the three of you (Saur, Stargazer, and Jenk) have spent most of the morning catching your respective fish for Alandri. Tanraeth still needs to reply and roll for his manipulation to have someone fish for him. To allow him more time to RP and roll, I'm giving the three of you one last shot to either RP with Alandri or keep fishing or call it a morning and sip some coffee before Alandri officially packs it up.

Alandri is very happy with all three of you for catching 2 fish each. Ecstatic. There's no need to keep pushing yourself, but depending on what you want to do now, I could set a higher DC and perhaps you could learn something or do something to award yourself some little extra something.

Go wild, or sit back, as we await Tanraeth's move.

Essentially I want to keep you engaged as we wait.

Yuh, sorry for the wait, was a super busy weekend so couldn't get to it! Hoping to post soon, but for now, here's the roll so I can incorporate into the post. Did a diplomacy: request for a total of 10 (oof). Will be using Nudging Whisper though, if that helps any!

@Digizel Sure. At this point, the three of you (Saur, Stargazer, and Jenk) have spent most of the morning catching your respective fish for Alandri. Tanraeth still needs to reply and roll for his manipulation to have someone fish for him. To allow him more time to RP and roll, I'm giving the three of you one last shot to either RP with Alandri or keep fishing or call it a morning and sip some coffee before Alandri officially packs it up.

Alandri is very happy with all three of you for catching 2 fish each. Ecstatic. There's no need to keep pushing yourself, but depending on what you want to do now, I could set a higher DC and perhaps you could learn something or do something to award yourself some little extra something.

Go wild, or sit back, as we await Tanraeth's move.

Essentially I want to keep you engaged as we wait.

Gotcha, thanks! So given that Saur is putting everything he has into impressing Alandri to make up for their tardiness, he is probably going to go right back to fishing again to try to get more to present her with if that's fine.

Do you want me to do the same pair of checks as last time, or just stick with the Stealth check with the +1 bonus? Or just do raw Stealth this time?

So, for the name change, I was thinking of going with Elaeshor.

Also, posted an attempt.

Hey all! I'm back in the saddle and will be reading through the game to see what's happened while I was away. I'm planning on getting replies up today, but I'll say today or tomorrow to pad myself.

Also, Patientbean has recovered and may bring Fleur back to the adventuring group!

Thanks for everyone's patience. I know this was a long break.

@Vertigo I'm having trouble finding the feat you mentioned "Nudging Whisper." I'm looking in PC1 and PC2 and on archive of Nethys, but I've had no luck. Could you give me the source?

I have yet to look at your post, but I wanted to get up to speed here first.

@Digizel Are you thinking that Saur will continue his stealthy approach with a second try? If so, you can set another stealth roll with a +1 and a higher DC this time. If you want to try something new, let me know!

@Vertigo I'm having trouble finding the feat you mentioned "Nudging Whisper." I'm looking in PC1 and PC2 and on archive of Nethys, but I've had no luck. Could you give me the source?

I have yet to look at your post, but I wanted to get up to speed here first.

Sure! It's from his Kitsune ancestry, here's a screenshot from the Pathbuilder site. It lists LO:TXCG as the source, which seems to be a book called Lost Omens: Tian Xia Character Guide. Looking it up, it's apparently pretty new? Had no idea, just saw it in the builder, ha.