The Gossip Board mk 2

[VySaika]

Looks good.

[Merc]

Post that PrC, Dune!

[Anastasia]

I will in a bit.

[Iron Dragoon]

Dune, post of inquiry: Any possible way Thyan could get something like the Item Creation - Brew Potion feat or ability? Seems to me survivalist guy should know how to mix up herbs and stuff.

Maybe some kind of rule mod to use my Survival skill and brew up something that's of lesser strength or something? Same materials, still effective, but not as refined?

[Merc]

Brew Potion doesn't do much if you don't have access to the spells needed to make the potions.

What you probably actually want is Craft (Alchemy). While it's a lot more multi-purpose than just healing, that actually works out for your benefit as you can make stuff like tanglefoot bags and that sort of things (as you said, survivalist dude), and that's probably where doing stuff with herbs that doesn't require personal magic would fit under.

[Iron Dragoon]

See, I looked under Craft and for things that have Alchemy the special note says, "You must be a spellcaster to craft any of these items." But it just lists Acid, Alchemist's Fire, Tanglefoot Bag, ect.

And something like that seems a bit too formal for what I'm going for. I'm looking for stuff more like hedge doctor/village mid-wife/healer type stuff. Folk remedy style stuff. Won't ever be as good as the formal alchemist stuff or anything, but things I can where I can go, "Oh, someone has a fever? I know a moss for that. Someone has an infection? Milkweed for that. Someone's poisoned? Oh, I know how to bleed and poultice that."

While I know this is something of a moot point considering we now have Healbot-Gate, it's something that fits thematically, and I think might be useful if we ever get separated or something.

[Merc]

Oh, hrm, I was sure alchemy didn't require spellcasting, but guess it does. Splatbook alchemical items never have that note, it only appears in the PHB/SRD.

I'd have said you still qualified as a ranger, but you traded your spellcasting for Deadeye.

[VySaika]

Sounds like what you want is covered under the Heal skill. Or Profession(Herbalist), if you want to focus on specifically herb lore. But yeah, Heal covers all the treatments for illnesses/poisons/etc as a general rule.

[Anastasia]

Sounds like what you want is covered under the Heal skill. Or Profession(Herbalist), if you want to focus on specifically herb lore. But yeah, Heal covers all the treatments for illnesses/poisons/etc as a general rule.

That could work. Heal covers a lot more heal-y sort of things, while herbalist would cover things such as compounds and non-medicinal related herbcraft.

[Iron Dragoon]

Sounds good. I'll talk to you about it a bit before I start fiddling with numbers, though.

[Anastasia]

Sure, grab me whenever you're back or post it here. Whatever.

[Anastasia]

Okay. Following your retreat, what will you guys be doing?

Also, as you do, you notice the sense of the shard ahead vanishes. Now you can faintly feel one above and behind you.

[Yuthirin]

Christ, he's moving. We'll be ready for him next time.

Anybody got spells that remove ability damage?

[VySaika]

We need to rest and re-prepare spells. If you can even do that on the Astral...

[Iron Dragoon]

I'll be cowering in fear after having the mindflayer do what the order people wanted to do to me.

Other than that.. I suppose trying to find a place to hole up and heal back to 100% before trying to follow the shard. And finding many more +will items. *MANY MORE.*

Seriously though, at the point, what're our options, really? All we can do is follow the shard unless we somehow come across a town or something (if they even exist in Astral).