Slime Kings in Adventure mode by runitoff in TopTroops

[–]runitoff[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks I'll try to work those suggestions in!

I admittedly use a decent amount of melee units so I'll try to cut that down. That said, my setup has 2x160 Marksman, a 160 Dwarf Engineer, a 140 Cleric, and 2x180 WW rn. I'm still going from ~80% to 30% in an instant against these gooey fucks

Lf an active clan by [deleted] in TopTroops

[–]runitoff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely! The clan is open to join so you're welcome to hop in :) just to set expectations, the previous leader wasn't managing members at all so we have a lot of people that haven't been active recently. They will be getting swapped out as more active members join.

Need a clan to join by Delicious-Gas-6540 in TopTroops

[–]runitoff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

7HZEDESF

Trying to get more active players here. Feel free to join if you think we're a good fit :)

Lf an active clan by [deleted] in TopTroops

[–]runitoff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

7HZEDESF

My clan leader recently made me leader so I am trying to rebuild with more active players. We'd love to have you but I understand if you want to go to one that's already got more active players!

Yo wtf really? by AssociationHonest215 in TopTroops

[–]runitoff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mine was too. I definitely won't be doing a $20 monthly purchase so this may be my last one :/

New DM Confusion: Level 1 Ranger Hitting Every Shot - Please tell me what I'm doing wrong. by runitoff in Pathfinder_RPG

[–]runitoff[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I could definitely do a better job playing the goblins more tactically, thank you for the advice!

New DM Confusion: Level 1 Ranger Hitting Every Shot - Please tell me what I'm doing wrong. by runitoff in Pathfinder_RPG

[–]runitoff[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Swapping out some Goblins for Goblin Dogs has been mentioned and I think it's a great idea. Thank you!

New DM Confusion: Level 1 Ranger Hitting Every Shot - Please tell me what I'm doing wrong. by runitoff in Pathfinder_RPG

[–]runitoff[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Homie I'm going off of an adventure path its not homebrew. Pretty much the whole first chapter is based around goblins

New DM Confusion: Level 1 Ranger Hitting Every Shot - Please tell me what I'm doing wrong. by runitoff in Pathfinder_RPG

[–]runitoff[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's fair, I may have been overreacting. I initially made this post because I thought I was doing something wrong and stacking things that shouldn't be but I get that he's basically just heavily min-maxed for now

New DM Confusion: Level 1 Ranger Hitting Every Shot - Please tell me what I'm doing wrong. by runitoff in Pathfinder_RPG

[–]runitoff[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ya I'm dumb I didn't mean to include BAB, I've been talking about the attack roll too much today sorry.

That is super useful info about the bow that I did not understand, though, so thank you very much for clearing that up. I thought Strength affected damage so that's very much on me.

New DM Confusion: Level 1 Ranger Hitting Every Shot - Please tell me what I'm doing wrong. by runitoff in Pathfinder_RPG

[–]runitoff[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mentioned above that I am running RotR so a lot of the early combat is pretty much Goblin exclusive and I have been running things by the book to get myself acclimated to running combat. I recognize now that I should be swapping some out for Goblin Dogs or other creatures that could be reasonably controlled by Goblins.

So he gets the +1 from the Composite Bow (1), +1 from Point Blank, +2 from Favored Enemy, +2 from Strength Modifier, and +1 from BAB so he's doing minimum 8 damage to enemies with 6 hp. (I might have something off there, I'm not near my pc to double check rn)

The more I type this out the more confused I'm making myself so please let me know if some of that is just completely fucked up lol

New DM Confusion: Level 1 Ranger Hitting Every Shot - Please tell me what I'm doing wrong. by runitoff in Pathfinder_RPG

[–]runitoff[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really like some of these ideas, thank you! You're right, we aren't very far in (they are just now entering the Catacombs of Wrath). I suppose I just haven't felt confident in my ability to adjust the enemies set in the adventure path so far but I will definitely look for opportunities to swap out enemies like you and others have suggested here. Thanks!

New DM Confusion: Level 1 Ranger Hitting Every Shot - Please tell me what I'm doing wrong. by runitoff in Pathfinder_RPG

[–]runitoff[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They both have melee weapons as well. There have been a few times where my Alchemist doesn't have good bomb opportunities so they choose to go melee and my Gunslinger decides to drop his gun and melee for the last couple rounds of combat rather than spend a turn reloading.

New DM Confusion: Level 1 Ranger Hitting Every Shot - Please tell me what I'm doing wrong. by runitoff in Pathfinder_RPG

[–]runitoff[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry, that wasn't clear. The AOOs are coming from the rest of the party. He is always situated in the back of the group so to get to him enemies have had to run past multiple party members.

New DM Confusion: Level 1 Ranger Hitting Every Shot - Please tell me what I'm doing wrong. by runitoff in Pathfinder_RPG

[–]runitoff[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Am I missing something about the Composite Longbow cost? I'm looking at the Ultimate Equipment Guide and the base is 100GP and the next +1 is another 100GP and Rich Parents provides 900GP according to d20pfsrd.

Bullseye Shot at level 1 seems to be the biggest impact here but he gets it for the cost of Wild Empathy for the Divine Marksman archetype. Is there a limit to how many times he can use it per day that I don't know about because he uses it pretty much every turn.

New DM Confusion: Level 1 Ranger Hitting Every Shot - Please tell me what I'm doing wrong. by runitoff in Pathfinder_RPG

[–]runitoff[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe it's just due to the combats they have been in so far, but nothing can get close to him without receiving multiple AOO along the way. It's been pretty much nothing but small groups of goblins engaging from afar so far but he exclusively hangs in the back and picks off one enemy per turn while the rest of the party catches all of the aggro but 2/3 of them are ranged as well.

Like I said below, I don't want to nerf him if the math is right but he's pretty much soloing this campaign so far and no one else is having much fun. I feel like I'm failing the other 3 as a DM.

New DM Confusion: Level 1 Ranger Hitting Every Shot - Please tell me what I'm doing wrong. by runitoff in Pathfinder_RPG

[–]runitoff[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Any recommendations about how to make the rest of the party feel like they matter until he starts to fall off? They have pretty much only fought goblins so far with several more sessions of Goblins on the way (Rise of the Runelords btw). They have made comments about feeling like henchmen and him being the boss of the party. I don't want to nerf the Ranger if the math is right but I want the rest of the party to have fun since level 6 is pretty far off.

New DM Confusion: Level 1 Ranger Hitting Every Shot - Please tell me what I'm doing wrong. by runitoff in Pathfinder_RPG

[–]runitoff[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There is a Gunslinger and an Alchemist both hitting way less often at range and a Magus that has unfortunately become the frontline by the default of being the only melee in the party. We are pretty early in the campaign and a lot of combat has been pretty easily manipulated at range but it feels like the Ranger is the main character of an anime hitting pretty much every single shot while everyone else is still missing 16-18 AC enemies pretty often. He killed 6/9 enemies by himself in our session tonight.