Yeah, chime in in a month or two; maybe catch you back in the next game! Take care!
And everyone else.. busy weekend for me, will update tonight or tomorrow morning!
Hey guys (everyone by Raevin and Mivvy since you're in another group that'll eventually hit it)!
So, I'm running the Thornkeep final level, Sanctum of a Lost Age, as a PbP, but I'd like to have a 6th player in my current 5 PC table.
The tier for it is 6-8, and as a module it grants 3XP and 4PP.
If you have a legal PFS PC and are interested, please let me know!
2 other groups actually!
<--- Dirty dirty GM.
Yeah; although do any of you know an interested participant.
And sorry for the delay all; work's eating my up my time the past couple of days and wife's heading out of time for the weekend. Tomorrow for sure (just SO much text to enter).
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Well as it happens, I was just trading emails with one of our local GMs the first of the week. He's been doing some local PFSing (as a player) and was talking about trying some PbP to get a feel for what PFS is like in this venue.
Dunno if he's played this scenario yet -- he doesn't list his games in his aliases here -- but I know he has at least two 2nd Level PFS PCs. I'll ping him and point him this way.
Cool!
Ahhh thank you for letting us know! Hopefully you can join us for a future adventure :)
@Wyeth: If you're friend's available, share the link! Otherwise I'll check some of my other PbPs.
No worries. We'll see how things go until a 6th comes in!
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I heard through another player in this group (Wyeth) that there is an opening in a low level PbP PFS game. I've not done PbP but have lots of experience as a player and GM and I'm very familiar with PF rules. Looking at the players lining up, it looks like my best contribution would be Benson, a second level Fighter/Rogue (Pirate). He's a finesse fighter with some rogue skills, aiming toward the Sword Lord Archetype and prestige class. A personable fellow recently back from Tien looking for more adventure.
My schedule should allow daily posting.
Howdy Benson! Welcome to the party :) Read up what happened and the situation and PM me with any questions. Awaiting some more replies from others before posting again.
It's easier to assume you were with the party. Thus pick a location and try to mingle :)
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(You don't have to [ooc] in the Discussion thread.)
I can only go by what I've been told and experienced. I'd say in roughly half of the PFS scenarios I've played so far, we've been explicitly cautioned to keep our wayfinders out of sight and to not be obvious as to our Pathfinder connections. My PCs aren't paranoid about it, but Tuich doesn't wear her wayfinder (it's in her pack), and Wyeth wouldn't either if he had one.
Maybe those with greater experience will weigh in with more authoritative views. But I've generally found it's harder to get the cat back into the bag, and blending into the crowd lets one get away with more. :o)
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My experience is has been different. In the 8 games I've played, Pathfinders have never encountered hostility such that we had to hide our affiliation. In most cases, the people's attitude toward us improved when they learned we were Pathfinders. My reading of the Paizo literature, such as the Inner Sea Guide, gives me a similar impression. Only certain governements who fear their secrets may be uncovered or their people inspired to revolt fear and oppress Pathfinders.
These are not named, but I expect some would be Cheliax, Nidal, Geb, Irrisen, Isger, Nurmia, and Razmiran, all places where strangers need to be wary anyway, Pathfinders or otherwise. Places like Absolom, Andoran, Taldan, Qadira, Osirion, Rahadoum, Varisia, and the nations around Lake Encarthan (except Rasmiran and Ustalav) I would expect no need to hide one's Pathfinder status unless, like our mission, there are special circumstances.
In any case, Benson is no fool, so if the party suggests keeping the wayfinder hidden, he will oblige. But he'd also probably share his experiences and the above opinion.
Indeed, there are a few times where discretion is suggested... and in this case, it was explicitly mentioned.
I think Wyeth's thought process is correct. Sometimes, it is better to announce your status and intentions right off the bat. Many times, though, not announcing your true affiliation can give someone a more natural perception of you.
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I hope this isn't too long.
You've never met Garedon, have you. :o)
For those who don't care to follow the link -- to an exposition so painful the player had to follow each paragraph with an OOC explanation of what the PC was actually saying -- here's a brief (for Garedon!) sample of his speaking style:
"Another secret door, which is somewhat confusing to me - although why, precisely, it is so to me I am not sure, thus adding a layer of confusion to the analysis - excepting perhaps that it seems that a set of chambers would, to my mind, not normally have concealed entryways at both ends, if ends they be, except if they constituted a secret way from one set of chambers to another (which seems unlikely given the purpose of the ossuary complex) or if they constituted an increasingly protected and hidden sequence of chambers (which is supported in likelihood by the apparent asymmetry of the contents of the chambers and their protections and concealments so far, suggesting an expected, unidirectional path resulting in deeper ingress). If the latter, especially - or perhaps the latter latter: I seem to have lost track... - then we may be facing a significantly more rewarding, profound, or disturbing mystery beyond this door. ... or perhaps just a hallway or otherwise innocuous room, in the former case."
Benson is tame by comparison. :oD
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Point taken.
If the sentences are long because they are just running along with no clear plan and poor grammar and lots of conjunctions without ever finishing the original thought, or drifting off to other topics, like starting talking about a plan of attack and then shifting over to the breakfast he had that morning and why that sort of breakfast might be better for a different plan of attack, that is true.
But I tend to form complicated thoughts, of the sort one mostly sees in written essays, and then put them forth as something someone might say spur of the moment. I also tend to use a lot of big words, so I'm trying to keep Benson a bit more salt of the earth in his manner of speaking.
He was raised on a ship after all, some would say a pirate ship, although he preferred the term privateer, since they had the permission of the Andoran government to raid slaving ships because slaving ships are, you know, highly unegalitarian, so that they were really liberators when you look at it that way, which is how Benson would have looked at it, since after all, he was on the ship. :)
Rolling for Kenji
ignore this... lol
rolling for a new character - just needed a board to roll it on, lol... this is Raevin, btw.