u/BrasilianRengo

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Long story short. Our party stoneward singer became a basically a spin on magnified one, a fused of cultivation in a journey to the nightwatcher. That gave him the progression surge tree.

We wanted to create a combo talent between the new surges. Since the player main surge right now is tension, i wanted to focus on this one first

What do you guys think would be a interesting talent mashing those 2 surges ? I'm blanking on ideias

(If you have a ideia mashing all 3, or just cohesion + progression, do share as well please. I'm accepting anything)

Edit: ignore the ? On the title lol

We are gonna play a short adventure on the system to test the system. It's our first time playing/first time gming it. Everyone just picked whatever they found cool and we didn't really discuss party composition. It ended up like this:

Also i didn't actually read most of the other player classes, i skimmed them and went by null because it felt like the coolest so i don't actually know much about them.

I made a Hakaan Null Metakinetic

The others are, from what i can gather:

Memenok Talent

Revenant Dragon knight Fire Elementalist

Dragon Knight Shadow (he mentioned being melee but i imagine a rogue is not much of a frontline/stays there?)

And

"Ranged Tactician" lol, didn't give further details yet besides that.

How screwed i'am ?

The adventure is defending a city from a invasion of undeads

So, this is both sharing the history but also being a bit lost of what to do... I ended the session right after combat ended and needed some advice of how do i even proceed the adventure now.

So, here is what happened:

Party is:
Stoneward Warrior
Windrunner Warrior
Trutchwatcher Surgeon
Skybreaker Agent

Ylt was giving his speech, Teryn challenged him, all usual, because of previous choices across the chapter, 3 bandits of the 6 were removed from that combat, they also successfully won the conversation with kaiana beforehand. both skybreaker and the windrunner had already infused themselves with gravitation during the speech.

combat started

Windrunner decided to go fast, he beelined for ylt instantly with flying ace with his hammer + momentum, hitting him for 13 damage even with ylt dodging. Both archers missed their immoblizing shots against his 17 physical defense and Kaiana reaction to give restrained as well. He used gravitation as his second action sending ylt flying 40 fts on the air from his dais so that he would fall directly on the middle of the platform when it ran out.

Ylt used his boss action to shoot the stone pillar and collapse the platform, it made the trutchwatcher prone but it also hurt his allies more than the party.

Fast turns of the npcs went, mostly just shooting and striking at the players, to some mild usefullness but nothing particularly impactful, ylt cleared the restrained with a focus but that's still left him in the air, he shot a stone spear at the windrunner but missed even after gaining advantage thanks to dodge reaction and unstable footing

In players slow turn, they made 2 of the bandits uncouncious but didn't kill them, stoneward enhanced and hit the spearmaster with tension, and they all positioned themselves around the place where ylt was gonna fall. Ylt tries to shot a bunch of stonespears as boss actions to make use of the specific bonus effect of the combat that allows him to do so as 1 action,

New round at round 2. The windrunner starts his fast turn instantly and Ylt falls, taking 23 from a 60 ft fall after the platform plummeted 15 feets more when it broke, the windrunner flies with flying ace again to hit a now prone ylt, the archers have no reaction for immobilizing shot (they used on the players slow turns, but one missed and the other got turned into a miss by tension parry) and managed to hit twice for 11+12 damage. Ylt retaliates with a honorblade strike against the trutchwatcher as a boss action which hits and almost downs her. The skybreaker goes right after, uses risky behavior to raise the stakes and uses division, the trutchwatcher uses his reaction to aid, so he gets a opportunity and hits, maximizes the damage... and that was it, ylt is dead. Desintegrated.

The stoneward was quickly to pick the honorblade and intimidate the other remaining bandits to drop their weapons and to avoid unnecessary bloodshed and remaining bandits after that, Kaiana was in shock by ylt brutality by plunging the platform down with his allies still there and from the previous doubts the party made her have in the previous conversation, and in shock with his...very sudden death, but after a bit of conversation on the trutchwatcher part and some good rolls she relented, specially after seeing the party didn't kill *any* of the bandits in the chapter...

So.... while i'm proud... and very shocked... wtf do i do now lol ?

I have seem some people saying and rumors that the series is ending in 30 chapters. Is that true ? Was that something revealed/leaked somewhere ?

So, the Event Horizon Spell seems to be currently a bit confusing, to not say badly written, and i'm wondering whats the spell is supposed to do

The spell is a burst spell with a duration, like a lot of others spells similar to it, like rainbow fumarole, visions of danger, frozen fog, corrosive haze, awaken entropy, and a lot of others.

the spell also seems to be clearly trying to represent a absurd magical feat of creating a small black hole, which for a rank 10 spell, would make you think the spell REMAINS there, as the duration implies it does... however, the spell seems to either be missing text, or be very weirdly written, since the spell don't actually has the info you would expect of when does a creature repeats the save, or if even is supposed to remain there at all!

how do you guys think the spell is supposed to work ? is the duration a mistake ? (that would still make a very strange choice of making the summon a black hole spell be a fire and forgot "instantaneous aoe blast that instantly disappear right after") was the playtest version any different/clearer in how it worked ?

Hey, i started reading the books recently from a recomendation from a friend. I'm almost finishing reading book 2 Soulsmith and... HOW THE FUCK A BUNCH OF JADES KILLED YERIN MASTER ?

I keep coming back to that and this feels such a big... weird plot hole ? Maybe not plot hole but like, they just had a conversation talking about how Iron bodies are actually different, and yerin mentions casually "Oh yeah. My master told me my iron body don't make a lot of difference UNTIL YOU ARE ATLEAST UNDERLORD."

And them eithan is also glazing yerin Master at every mention and like... ok the guy got poisoned and attack in his sleep....

HOW???????? YERIN SEEMS LIKE WOULD NEVER FALL TO THAT AND THIS GUY SEEMS LIKE A GOD COMPARED TO THE OTHERS WE HAVE SEEM LOL.

I'm so confused.