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Also, I'd like to note that my characters are all from Tian Xia, so the first name-last name order is reversed.

Hence, my family name (or clan name as all my characters belong to a ninja clan) is Hannya and my given name is Jubei.

Where do I lookup pricing and availability of masterwork and other items?

A masterwork rapier would be nice.

Mwk is 300 gp more than the usual cost of the item

Hmm... I think I will pick up a masterwork rapier then. Is that +1 on just the attack or damage too?

Hmm... I think I will pick up a masterwork rapier then. Is that +1 on just the attack or damage too?

Just the attack I believe.

you can find most of the prices on the left hand side under the PRD link

Go to PRD

Just attack rolls

I'm gonna give our two new guys til Wednesday to join in, if not I'll open it up to new recruits again (still don't want two chars to a player)

Almost Wed and no word - maybe a good idea to get the replacement thread going just in case?

Ill be gone most of the day tommorow, wont be around till about 10 est

Yep, I'm gonna post for two new players, one of them a healer of some sort. Hate to do that to the two that had chimed in, but gotta do what we gotta do.

Just in case, you guys might want to look into some potions of CLW...

Hi, all -

Just introducing myself as a new member - Zaigan, male aasimar cleric of Kofusachi. Looking forward to it!

Zaigan, please check the character creation guide, you need to stick to the standard races I'm afraid

Sorry about that... I'll figure something else out then!

Greetings. Allow me to introduce Fedryn Mannorac. Fedryn is actually the character I intend to play in Pathfinder Online but I'm using Society to give him a grounding and figure out his kinks.

Fedryn was born and raised in the River Kingdoms, but after coming across a Signifier being accosted by bandits decided to sign up with the Hellknights at Fort Inevitable. The Hellknights were, understandably, reluctant to believe that this country boy was truly wanting to sign up with the Hellknights so they asked him to prove himself which he is planning to do by signing up with the Pathfinders and assisting the Paracountess where he can.

A bit convoluted I know, but it shares the common history that the two Fedryns will have (in PFO, he won't have joined the Pathfinders) but they'll share a common history and it'll let me figure out how I want to play him.

Anyway, I did the sheet in Hero Lab and exported to BBCode to put in the alias. Is all well with it? He's a Ranger who'll go Two-Handed for his combat style.

Welcome -- I look forward to ranging up the place and hacking bad guys apart with greataxes together.

Not that I would try to show up another ranger [incidentally, my bow is bigger than yours :P ;)], but I did notice a thing or two about your sheet -- it looks like your profile has DEX 15/CON 12/INT 10/WIS 14 and your HeroLab output says DEX 12/CON 15/INT 14/WIS 10 - you might want to adjust the one that is not accurate. Also, some of the skill bonuses might be off (climb, acrobatics, escape artist look like they should be higher, for instance, but I could be wrong).

(Doug here.)

I have to work up the character details, but I'm now building a female human cleric of either Desna or Gozreh from the Mwangi Expanse. Details coming very soon.

Sorry about the false start with the aasimar. I'm so new to PFS (but not to Pathfinder) that I'm sure I'll have a couple of missteps like that - thanks in advance for your patience! :)

Thanks for pointing that out. Everything squares up now. The reason the skills are lower is because Hero Lab takes into account your ACP.

It'll be interesting to see how our Rangers differ, although Fedryn will be looking to get into the Hellknight prestige class as early as he can.

Looking good guys, welcome!

Go ahead and post toward the gameplay, assume you've been with the group the whole time and we'll go from there.

I expect to have us off and running by the weekend, and the RP here at the party done by then....assuming we can get the posts going.

Welcome. Its nice to have more people in between me and the bad guys :)

Introducing Marisan, female human (Mwangi) cleric of Gozreh 1. Hope everything checks out stat-wise in her profile.

I'll need a few days to fill out her backstory, as I hope to pick up the Mwangi Expanse sourcebook soon.

I'm not sure what I have to do to get listed as a player/character on those tabs, or to have this PBP listed as a session since I registered her with PFS. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hey Marisan, you just need to post in the gameplay thread as your character.

You'll get it listed as a session once we finish...assuming I'm doing things right :)

Thanks, all!

Oh yeah, the session will get listed against your character once it is reported.

Since we've previously talked about how awesome it would be if we had someone trained in Sense Motive, I will point out that it is a class skill for Clerics, Paladins, and Rogues, just in case we meet again after our First Steps.

It's on my list for 2nd level, Redacre! I made 1st level skill choices (which are limited for clerics) based on what fit my character's concept and background.

Excellent. I will never argue with choices made for character concept. If we all stuck to optimization only (which is not to suggest that you made ANY sub-optimal choices), this would be a lame enterprise.

Just so you know, I will be on vacation from tomorrow (7/29) until Thursday (8/2). I may be able to post very occasionally but am not sure yet (and it'd be very brief as it'd be from my iPod. Please feel free to NPC Marisan as needed.

What kind of amount of good did we get? Fedryn will probably look to source a masterwork greataxe, at least.

You earned 419 on that mission. Everyone should have their sheets now, I emailed them last night.

There are some spots for you to fill in, notably purchases. For my new players this comes from your starting 150' do not use the new gold for this. To use the new gold it will go on this last sessions sheet as a starting purchase.

The older players should have 4 prestige now, new players 2.

At the end of this session that will be fixed to go into prestige and fame and everything will be corrected. Questions, on the sheets just let me know.

PFS newb question: Not sure if this was the case with anyone else, but the starting gold listed on my sheet was 444 gp, which is what I had before making a few purchases at the start of scenario 2. Should that have been 121 gp (what I had after the purchases)?

BTW, having fun with everyone!

Nope, add purchase to the sheet then you total is starting + earned - spent

Or. 121 + the 419 you got in session 2

If we finish by Friday next week, I'm debuting Jubei the next day on an RPG con!

Wow, that's quick. I can do it, but we kill all RP and go straight to go go go.

What's everyone's thoughts on this?

Jubei, you'll need to print those sheets out to take with you, or have a digital copy with you

Whoa don't rush. Just saying if it happens with the normal pace. I've got a level 9 ninja doing Deepmar anyway.

Hey guys I'm back, I'll be reading through and getting caught up, back in action shortly.

Just FYI, here's my day job (profession: fisherman) roll between sessions:

Day job: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 27

Yow!

Help me out - what's the point of the day job roll - do we get paid?

Elwyn, yes, between sessions, your character can make a day job check on a Craft, Perform, or Profession skill in which he has ranks. See either the Pathfinder Society Field Guide or the guide to pathfinder play for details.

Oh yeah, I recall seeing that - funny I should skip the section referring to work! :)

Sadly, no rankings for me in a trade, oh well, next time.

Just FYI, here's my day job (profession: fisherman) roll between sessions:

[dice=Day job]1d20+7

Yow!

No Day job checks for intro sessions, sorry. I believe the thought is your still 'raw recruits' and the society is running you ragged doing this little tasks. Once your done with the intro sessions your free to do a day job check. Basically....this IS your day job right now.

Elwyn, I think, and don't quote me because I'm no expert, that pick pocketing is a trade...

Does that mean that the first day job check would come after this session (the last of the "First Steps" sessions)? In that case, I am wondering if I can use that roll... I've already had one wasted natural 20! ;)

Also, after the last adventure, Marisan has decided to join the Andoran faction. Do you know if the fame and prestige points accrued from First Steps #2 would be "lost" since she hadn't joined the faction yet? I'm not quite sure how that all works...

Nah, go ahead and use it for after this session.

As far as fame/prestige since officially your not in a faction you don't get fame, is my understanding, you get prestige though....I'm still learning this part :)

So you should have 4 prestige at the end of this...my originals should have 6

Thanks, GM - actually, it seems as though Day Job rolls are allowed between first steps sessions:

link to thread

(Hopefully it doesn't come off that I was trying to "go over your head" with that thread. Partially I'm trying to learn about all this PFS stuff too because I may GM these in the fall myself. I've been GMing D&D 3.0/3.5/Pathfinder for about 10 years but PFS is a whole other animal in some ways.)

Like I said, of course you get a day job check....

:)

I'm sure most of you have seen it, but a new "Guide to Pathfinder Society Organized Play" has just been released ahead of GenCon. Here are the details.

Thanks Marisan...I'll have to grab that, I hadn't seen it yet.

Quick question for the GM, do you plan on continuing this group at all after we finish this mission? Just wondering because I might have another game to play Rachel in if you dont plan on running