DM Carbide's PFS Emerald Spire

Game Master John Woodford

I got a wand of CLW. Get a different wand. You can always have healing from mine and it will make the group more versatile.

IMHO, don't get Sleep. The DC will be minimum, it still takes a full round, and won't be effective past the next level or two.

Kragnor has a good point. Maybe one of us should get an infernal healing wand for out of combat use, and everyone else can get other stuff... like one of mage armor, perhaps?

That's actually a good idea.

Since we're in this for the long haul, how about we coordinate.

Wand of CLW x2
Wand of Infernal Healing x2
Wand of Mage Armor x1
Wand of Bless x1

That should sustain us for a couple levels.

Melody's all leveled up!

I got her a wand of cure light, which seems the most appropriate as the cleric. I will warn you that Melody will not approve of infernal healing.

I spent 95% of her money on scrolls for every occasion. I've never played a cleric before but we had a girl back in Bloomington who loved clerics and I've seen her scroll library come in handy before so I'm starting to build mine up as well.

I'm likely the only one who can cast infernal healing, so I'll get that one - unless Melody will disapprove so strongly that I should not do so? Though I may end up carrying a couple of the wands, I guess - mage armor, most likely.

CLW is taken care of with Kragnor and Melody... I can pick up mage armor or bless (doesn't matter since I can't use either).

I just meant Melody won't use infernal healing on herself and will frown on those who do choose to use it.

Get a wand of mage armor for yourself, Eva. I might pick up a wand of bless later. For now I'll prepare it and also have a few scrolls as backup.

Got the IH wand (don't tell Melody!) and am all done leveling. I'm happy to use the mage armor wand on any and all who would like it. It'll free up a spell slot for me, also, which could come in handy.

If it won't cause any undue hardship to the group, I'd like to forgo buying a wand this time around to save up for a vanity.

I'm working on leveling up now.

Okay, we'll do without the second IH wand for now.

Since Melody mentioned picking up scrolls of bless, maybe Asvald will pick up a wand of shield of faith. Each charge only lasts a minute but that +2 AC would be pretty sweet at these low levels.

I'll trade you a charge of mage armor for one of shield of faith.

Would anyone else like mage armor?

Done.

Though we've got to talk Melody and Senja into doing the wanding.

Post level 5ish Asvald will be wanting regular mage armors.

Chronicle sheets are on their way via PM. Let me know when you get yours, and if there are any problems with it.

Got mine. It looks like we missed a bunch of stuff. Did Clanky's arm get blown up?

Nope. It was in the barracks room to start with, and the cleric grabbed it on the way out.

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Ok, Kali is leveled up.

We don't need a signed Land Rush chronicle sheet to use the hexes later, do we?

I'll send them out later in any case.

Sorry I didn't get a chance to post anything tonight; my mom had a TIA earlier today. She's doing fine but is in hospital tonight, and I'll be going up to see her tomorrow. Will post when I have time.

I'm sorry to hear that Carbide, I hope she has a speedy recovery.

I had to look that up. Sounds like a major scare. My dad had a stroke a couple years back and I remember the worry it put us all under. Best wishes.

Sorry to hear that. Don't worry about us, we'll be here when you get back.

Sorry to hear about your mom, Carbide, glad she's okay.

She's doing much better; just waiting on getting her wrist fixed. She'd broken it when she had the TIA and fell. Prognosis is excellent. No weakness, the slight facial paralysis and slurring she had yesterday is gone, and she was walking normally today. My daughter and I went up and spent a few hours visiting. I'll miss FlatCon tomorrow, but it was worth it.

Very glad to hear she's okay.

So, I take it the weekends are bad for most everyone? I'd move forward, but we're still waiting for the results of Senja's spellcraft check, I think.

Weekends are fine for me, usually. Unless I'm out camping with bears.

It happens more often than you'd think.

DM? :)

Still here, though the weekend was something of a loss and my employers actually expected me to do some work today instead of make game posts. Tomorrow should be a bit more reasonable.

Heads up: I'll be on a work trip from tomorrow afternoon to Monday night. I think I'll still be able to post at least once/day but just in case I'm holding things up, feel free to bot me.

I'll be at a Con and a family wedding (two separate events, sadly) starting Thursday afternoon through late Saturday, so won't be posting much during that time. Asvald will likely be busy some of that time as well, since he'll be at the PFS table with me.

I'll be out of town tonight and tomorrow, so will not be able to post much. Since Senja and Melody also have limited availability, let's get back to this late Sunday or Monday.

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If you have a folio or t-shirt reroll, do you get three of them per module (i.e., one per XP)? Or is it still just one per session?

That's a good question. I've always seen it run once/module even if the module is played over several 'sessions'. Even though Emerald Spire is one giant module (technically), it would probably be once per chronicle sheet/level/sanctioned component.

Beginning on Saturday, I'll be on a two-week work trip. I will still be able to post most days, but my schedule, internet access and time zone will all be very different, so posting may be a bit erratic.

I may be a little scarce today; I have to babysit a couple of QA auditors for whom English is a second language, and I don't know how much handholding they'll need.

And Eva had the 1,000th post in the gameplay thread!

This is just a reminder that I'll be leaving for my honeymoon in New Zealand tomorrow and will be gone until January 13. Hopefully I will have time to check in a few times while I'm gone but if I'm holding things up go ahead and bot me. I'll be back in full force in mid January! Thanks everyone!

Enjoy the trip, and no throwing rings into volcanoes!

I won't be posting much today (Wednesday) due to a roadtrip... and will likely be down to 1/day posting after that until about the 4th or 5th.

No problem; I've been occupied, too. Spouse and I spent the majority of the past two days on our feet in the kitchen, and I only screwed up two things. Well, actually the same thing twice, and both times it's been salvageable. And now we have a whole pile of leftovers for the next several days--salmon cooked in white wine with garlic, ginger, lemon, and onions; Slovenian dumplings stuffed with scrambled egg; onion/paprika gravy for the dumplings; potato-corn chowder; pork roast; shortbread; toffee bars; brownies; Russian tea cakes; homemade bread; and Slovenian sweet nut bread. I didn't get on the computer today until just a few minutes ago. Hope you're all having a great Christmas, or whatever holiday you celebrate.

Ha! My mother and grandmother used to make potica (I'm assuming that is the nutbread your talking about) when I was younger. It was awesome.

Yup! My wife learned from her father, who learned from his mother; she was from near Ljubljana.

Sounds yummy, Carbide. I cooked an all-day brisket, made barbecue sauce, and watched the snow fall in the mountains outside Santa Fe, where I'm visiting family.

It's a winter wonderland here at the moment, has a very Christmas feel.

That brisket also sounds good. I used to get out to that area for work, but haven't had to for the past few years.

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And I'll be on the road today, but should have a post up tonight.

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That's kind of the problem...as the trap is described, even though they provide a DC to disarm (which you make exactly), there isn't really anything to disable. So I'm going to make something up.

To be honest, I'm not a huge fan of the PF trap system for this reason. It's mostly "roll perception. . . you see it. . . you disable it." Kinda boring. I'd prefer if there was no Perception DC (or the DC was to notice something like a wire or lever or crack in the floor) and disabling it required more than just a Disable roll. Maybe you have to figure out how it works first or create your own in-character means of disabling it and the roll is to see if you had a steady hand while doing it. You can sort of make the PF system work like that in homegames if you want but that's not the way it's designed. It's almost too simple in design (not something I say often in the PF/DnD system).

Back in the States on the 13th! And then my posting will be more regular. At least Melody is a back seat character anyways so it doesn't look like I'm holding things up too much.

I ran across a discussion yesterday about the way one of the other levels plays in PFS, and apparently the optimal way for Good characters to get through it only gives the party 1 XP and very little loot. This kind of screws up the order of normal/slow advancement needed to get through the whole thing with a single character. When we reach that level, and if you get through it that way, I'll run a couple of side adventures to get you back on track. At least, for those of you who haven't played just about everything out there (*cough* Melody *cough*). If that's a problem, you can use GM credit instead.

I haven't been following the discussions about this module so I don't know what you're referring to but Melody could always take a back seat to the other's decisions. Or if we do only end up with 1 XP, I can always put some GM credit on her. Because yeah, I've played just about everything.

Long day at and after work; will get a post up tomorrow sometime.