GM Fnord's PFS First Steps (Inactive)

Game Master Aoth Anskuld

Meta-chat here.

Can we talk about meta-chat here?

Yes, but you can't talk about talking about it, so now we're both banned.

So if you're both banned...does that mean I'm talking to myself?

No

Here and ready to start

Ice - I think we're in a battle for most intimidating visage.

First gameplay post is up, feel free to partake. Outside of combat it's free form, but I want everybody to at least get a chance to chime in before you leave the current location.

How is that for 5 CHA?
Decided to make Jory LG and used Wisdom Made flesh for Use Magic Device to make Jory an idiot savant with magic devices.

Not bad on the 5CHA. :D I like how you're portraying him to understand what's happening... after he says things. Shows his >5 INT. :)

Wisdom in the Flesh can only apply to a physical (Str, Dex, Con) based skill. UMD is charisma. If there's actually a different thing called Wisdom Made Flesh, I can't find it, so it's probably not PFS legal. :)

Edited my post a little for verisimilitude. I can't very well read a letter if someone doesn't pass it to me, can I? :) Not while being polite, anyway.

I have added your list of tasks and a link to the map of Absalom to the campaign info tab.

Feel free to discuss among yourselves in character the order you'd like to perform the tasks (or at least, what you want to do first), and how you'd like to get around. As a couple of ideas, the most common way to get around would of course be walking, but you can also hire coaches (carry up to 4 comfortably).

Now is also the time in character to decide if there's any equipment you may want to buy that you think you will want today; because you're in Absalom, you can still buy stuff before you start your tasks.

I am good to go!

I'd like to keep the skills free form and fast by the way, so when you want to make a diplomacy or knowledge check, or anything like that, just go ahead and include the roll and I'll follow up with what you get. For group rolls I'll just roll for everybody if it's automatic. When in doubt, just include a dice roll, and I'll handle the results.

Drawing your observer was a great creative idea, and I will be awarding a bonus based on that at some point in the distant future. :) Good thinking.

I did spend the money on writing utensils. And I did have to prove I was literate after my bold claims.

The dice are trying to kill me.

How about the first carriage with two of us arrive with the story of two orphans after disembarking and walking the last block on foot. The next carriage can arrive later.

We can try that approach for investigative purposes.

That sounds good.

Sorry for all that in one post. In PbP I try to throw as much content out there to save time. Please let me know if it bothers anyone.

By the way, first rule of meta chat is no talking about meta chat :-)

Personally I appreciate the detail. I'd put forth more myself but need to retire for the evening, lest this head cold sap all my INT.

No problem -- will keep the story as vibrant as only a surly dwarf can.

The conclusion of the divided party time probably won't happen until sometime tomorrow, I'd like to give everybody else time to participate in either the dwarf ruse or the rest of the party investigating.

The splitting up and ruse was another unexpected bit of creativity btw, and it's requiring me to do some actual GMing rather than sticking to a script, so good job again.

Man, you guys are hard to keep up with!

Sorry about that--I'll get off the stage. The dwarven ruse was bold in its simplicity, but a little poor in its execution.

Well the GM fell for it, and probably ended up giving away some information that was supposed to be much harder to get. :)

Nah; no worries...enjoying it thoroughly! Indeed...never send cotton-mouthed dwarves to do the work of honey-tongued pointy-ears. She's onto us; let's bash her!

Sorry, wasn't able to get on and keep up last night, I'll jump in when it seems appropriate.

Hey all, just want to give a headsup that I'm not going to be able to make half a dozen posts per day for a couple days; head cold seems to be something worse. Will try to keep up though.

Tal and Ice have earned themselves a sizable bonus on social skills involving Millie. Good work.

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Hey all, just want to give a headsup that I'm not going to be able to make half a dozen posts per day for a couple days; head cold seems to be something worse. Will try to keep up though.

Yikes...doesn't sound fun at all. Hope you feel better soon.

Well done so far all. If my PC was more of a social butterfly, I would be right there with you. My worth will truly demonstrate itself when the blood starts flowing!

I'm not spoiling anything by telling you that there is indeed combat in this scenario, never fear. You just chose a much more social task to start with. I have never seen a pathfinder scenario that had none at all. :)

Oh...I fully anticipate it!

Meetings in the office today so I probably won't be able to post until I get home.

Arg, somehow the ooc text after the dice rolls isn't marked as such. I don't want to edit the post because I don't know if that'll edit my dice rolls.

You can safely edit posts with dice rolls, and it will never change the rolls. You can also preview to see what the rolls are, so that you can roleplay accordingly if you know what it takes for success/failure. We just have to assume nobody will try to metagame that. :)

Don't worry about cleaning up the markup though, you're fine.

Good to know you can edit a post without affecting the die rolls...more than a few times a day I'm posting from my phone so I've created a few formatting errors myself!

I really want to keep things moving, as it looks like it's about to get interesting, but it's best to let others have a turn too. :) So I'll hold off for now.

I would have to suggest keeping in mind the actual goal as written, and how much longer you want to focus on this one minor task. Your team has already gathered quite a lot of information for Zadrian.

i won't be posting a whole lot over the weekend, so roll on without me as much as you need to. Will get back to it Monday for sure.

I'll slow it back down again when we reach more important interactions again. Thanks for the heads up.

I think the pace was fine. As GM it is a difficult call sometimes when to summarize the action and push on. This encounter seemed just right.

Thanks. I'm trying to sort of keep it to a similar level to what we would do in a real life session, and since the entire scenario is intended to be finished in 4 hours, each of these tasks wouldn't be hugely detailed.

I erred on the side of trying to stay out of the way and let you guys do a lot more roleplay, just because you guys were being really creative with it. So, I hope you guys found it as fun as I did. :) I had a venture-captain friend of mine check out the action and he was as impressed with the RP as I was, so good job.

The roleplay freedom is greatly appreciated, so thank you. :D Everything has been quite fun so far. I can tell you that Tiann will be much less insistent now that she's done her thing for the temple. Maybe even agreeable!

In a strictly OOC sense I'm sort of looking forward to a combat encounter to see how well I structured my build. I suppose we'll see sooner or later, eh?

Build doesn't look unreasonable to me. I'm not super keen on prepping CLW due to spontaneous casting, but at least it's the domain slot - if your other level 1 domain spell is really useless, it's probably worth prepping the heal, since you can't spontaneously cast using the domain slot.