Ready here as well

Quick char-gen quesiton if anyone else has seen it: Where is the Mechanikal Familiar feat, if it does exist?  I know its on the revised Arcane Mechanik as a class ability, but its listed as a feat under the servitors section of Liber Mechanika and I can't find the listing.

@ Tristan: It's a fifth level special ability of the arcane mechanic. The details are on page 42 of Liber Mechanika. As I understand it you build a servitor and bond it as a familiar. You wind up with a steam powered friend (or wind up partner, or a battery operated buddy). If it gets destroyed there's a good chance the cortex is ok and you can replace the body so it's harder to kill than normal. I also don't think you lose exp even if the cortex is trashed, but you don't get the bonuses for an animal type so it kind of evens out.

Damn, thats what I thought, its a misprint.  In liber under Servitors it lists that you can gain a Mechanikal Familiar through either a feat or a class ability, so it could be used with a cerebral relay to reduce the ASF on a mechanikal arm.  Scratch that idea.

Also, since we do have two other Gun Mages: how much do magelock weapons cost, and can the quality be put on any gun?

According to the books, a magelock small pistol price would start at 650 GP, while a military one would have a minimum price of 800 GP... But my editions may be a little bit dated (they're translated ones...).

Hey Tristan, it does say something about sacrificing spell levels to remove the spell failure altogether for a time period. So you could spend one 0 level spell to remove the failure percentage for long enough to finish a fight maybe.

Yeah I saw that one, was pretty meh about it since gun mages get so few spells/day.  Will prob wind up going another route

The prices Nicollo quoted are the ones I'm going with. Consider them 'basic models' without any bells and whistles.


Yes, the book does mention a Mekanical Familiar feat, but then they seem to have forgotten to add it (or else they changed their minds and then forgot to remove the reference).

The way I see it, in order for it to be a 5th level ability, it has to be an Improved Familiar or whatever euphemism you want to use, since a Sorcerer and Wizard can get a familiar at 1st level, but it's only a basic familiar.

So, Tristan, if you want a Mekanical Familiar, I can work up the feat for you.

In reply to GM StarMaster (msg # 99):

Heh nah its alright, was only interested in it for the mech arm stuff, and even then that was just some playing around really.  Already have the rest of my stuff in the works, shouldn't be too long until im done.

Okay, working through my items, have a question: In liber mechanika under table 2-3 mechanikal item design patterns, it lists 5 for accumulator space and 1 standard/2 light for rune plates under one-handed medium weapons.  I'm assuming that should be reversed so a medium one-handed weapon can hold 1 standard or 2 light accumulators and 5 Rune Plates?

Having computer problems, not serious yet, just damn annoying. Explorer seems to be having problems dealing with RPoL. All of a sudden the Explorer window crashes and wipes out my post. I was in the middle of a long post Monday when it did it. I'm trying to reconstruct it.

RL is getting in the way. I've been helping a friend chauffeur his mom to her daily hospital visits. That tends to chew up a lot of my time. Hopefully, I'll get to it tomorrow, but certainly by Friday (barring any new RL problems).

Take care of RL stuff, I'm just glad you're still around and the games still running.

Yeah... that.  Good luck with your computer (and other RL duties), GM.  Come back to us when you can.

Thanks. I'm not gone, though, just struggling to do posts in my usual timely manner.

I'm not entirely sure I understood how the bonus for training #8 works. Do we invent a synergy between two skills that originally do not have a synergy bonus?

That's exactly what you do. You are inventing a new synergy! And it doesn't even have to make sense! The military seldom does.

If you were a civilian lifeguard, they'll assign you to the pool... either the motor pool or the secretary pool!

Guys, I'm having a little bit of problem in the electronics department. My computer has decided that it was due time to abandon this cruel life, and I have a really hard time in convincing him otherwise. In real life, I work 60h a week, and there's not much time left to find someone who can repair the thing, so there's a real possibility that until I solve this issue, my posting rate will be not as good as it has been. Sorry for the troubles.

Cap'n mentioned we'd be with a skeleton crew...who exactly is on this tub, besides ourselves?

The skeleton crew consists of the captain and 6 crewmen.

The ship will operate on sail most of the time to conserve its coal.

In reply to GM StarMaster (msg # 110):

All male?  Marco didn't know he was signing up to be a monk. ;)

Sorry for the too fast and infrequent post, but ?I haven't yet solved the computer issue. I've already ordered a new, and it may arrive next week, so I guess I'll be returning to my normal posting rate soon.

Hey, in relation to your latest House Rule...

IE
Natural 20 + no confirm = max damage.
Natural 20 + confirm = Max damage * Multiplier..

What about this in regards to Sneak Attack damage? Different entirely? or same thing?

Question re: the guy Creswick and I are fighting:

1.) Are we flanking this guy, so Creswick should add his Sneak Attack damage?

2.) Does Creswick deal enough damage to put him down?

This will influence my actions for this round; I'm holding my action until Creswick's.

The rule is that the critical multiplier doesn't apply to Sneak Attack damage, but I think that's silly (even if I understand their rationale), so if you are rolling dice for a Sneak Attack and critical, the Sneak Attack does max damage and is multiplied.

Otherwise it's a nit-picky rule that gives me a headache.
This message was last edited by the GM at 01:15, Tue 18 Mar 2014.