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Season of Ghosts: Earth & Wood Kineticist level 8-12

Level 8 Class feat: Drifting Pollen. Yet another way to debuff enemies. Stacks with off-guard, which I can easily do by flanking, and frightened, which our swashbuckler and sorceress can do. This then increase the chance of critically succeeding in inflicting prone condition on them via some Impulses. However, since affects all creatures within my aura, I will retrain Level 4's Tumbling Lumber to Safe Elements and retrain Level 5's Calcifying Sand to Tumbling Lumber. I'm getting rid of the Calcifying Sand because of its Overflow trait i.e. if triggered, it will stop my Kinetic Aura and so Drifting Pollen will disappear too. Since it will not be my turn (it's a Reaction), I cannot reactive my aura immediately thereafter. Skill feat: Mortaling Healing. Increased potential healing from Treat Wounds. Level 9   Skill increase: Master in Athletics. Ancestry Feat: Mountain's Stoutness. Increased tankiness and survivability. Gate's Thresshold: Expand the Portal -> Ea...

Season of Ghosts: Earth & Wood Kineticist level 2-7

Level 2 Class feat: Tremor. Range AOE that can knock prone enemies on critical success. Regardless of enemies' rolls, the burst area becomes difficult terrain. Prone enemies are off-guard and take -2 circumstance penalty to attack roll. So enemies are easier for us to attack while this makes them harder to attack us. They can stand to get rid of the prone condition but that will eat one of their 3 actions. Skill feat: Assurance in Medicine. Helps to auto-succeed in Medicine check to Treat Wound when it's upgraded at the next level. Level 3 Skill increase: Expert in Medicine. With proficiency bonus +7, I auto-succeed when Treat Wound because of Assurance in Medicine. General feat: Fleet. Speed increases from 20ft to 25ft. Positioning is crucial if I want to melee. Level 4 Class feat: Tumbling Lumber. Similar to Tremor but its AOE is retangular and requires Reflex save instead of Fortitude save. So the choice of which of these impulse to use is mainly dependent on which save the ...

Season of Ghosts: Earth & Wood Kineticist level 1

So, I thought of ways to support my melee teammates. Right after first session, I asked GM's permission to change from single gate earth kineticist to dual-gate earth & wood kineticist simply to grab Timber Sentinel from wood element.  We're now level three and based on the various encounters we had so far, I came up with the following build up to level 12 (expected last level of the campaign). I'll set out my plan on how to use this build to help my party in this campaign. Level 1 Ancestry: Dwarf Dwarf has high hit points and boost Constitution (primary statistic for kineticist), Wisdom (high Will save is good and also main stat for Medicine) and one ability score of your choice. The flaw is a minus one Charisma, which isn't important for this build. Heritage: Aiuvarin Picked this so that later I can pick the ancestry feat to increase speed. Ancestry feat: Unburdened Iron A great feat as it lets you ignore the reduction to speed from any armor. The deduction in red...

Season of Ghosts: which build?

For sometime now, Ban and join had accepted invitation to join an acquaintance's discord server mainly for ttrpg games that he runs. Later, upon my suggestion, Ban and I attended one-shot sessions of a couple of games. Signed up for a third but that was canceled because of lack of players. Despite having tried more systems, I'm still partial towards DnD's system. However, when the GM announced that he was looking for players for Season of Ghosts, an adventure path for Pathfinder 2e (now Remastered version), I decided to sign up for it after Ban agreed to do so too. It's the closest to DnD system and I had some experience with Pathfinder 1 from playing Wrath of the Righteous crpg, with lots of help and guidance from Ban. I am aware that Pathfinder is way more complicated than DnD. One great thing about Pathfinder is that there are free character builders that incorporate nearly everything in the game. The one we're using is Pathbuilder 2e. It is only the animal compa...

Krispy Kreme Hogwarts

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Is the Harry Potter still popular currently? Incidentally, I'm now playing Hogwarts Legacy, which is aready two years old. Regarding these donuts, I find that I don't like such doughnuts (American donuts?) because they're too sweet. Plan doughnut with some sugar is the best.

Twentieth session for thumb/wrist

This session was 3 weeks after the last . About a week before it, I started to be aware of which actions trigger pain or twinge: Slight pain when hand on a mat, slightly behind me, pointing backward and body leaned slightly towards it. Slight pain when dicing chicken. Noticeably lesser t han previously . Twinge at base of thumb when doing the shoulder stretch using the wall. Twinge when wiping face with towel but I now think it occurs only in the morning. Overall, it's better: triggered less often and pain intensity is much less. As usual, Lee examined the hand and arm, prodded/massaged them while getting feedback from me until finally the pain was reduced to mere twinge. He concluded that it might be posture issue. Something to do with my neck and being slightly hunched when I sat up. All exercises remained the same except replace the chest/back stretch (point (3) here ) with the following: Both arms straight out in front with hands making the thumbs' up sign. Raise arms up a...

The missing seats

After sorting out the retiming mess more than a month ago, I was checking my phone's photo album to make sure I screenshot all the relevant flights and hotels for our trip to Australia. This is just in case there's problem opening the relevant apps later to show the booking reference numbers (I don't print out anything). Apparently I had yet to screenshot the reserved seats. So I wanted to do that but then noticed that seats were not selected for the KUL-SIN leg on the MAS flight. I checked and confirmed that seats were reserved on the original SIA flight and so by right I should be given seats upon transfer to the MAS flight. So, once again, I used the live chat feature in the SIA app to get help. The first CSO checked and then told me that I should use the same booking reference number in the MAS app, which I did, and then asked, "Anything else by the way?" I was dumbfounded. I succintly asked why my reserved seats disappear upon the transfer and then they lost...