GM Ladile's TL;DR: A Pathfinder Society Campaign

Game Master Lady Ladile

Yeeeessss XD I was given a goblin bard in one of the AP's I was running in a face to face game. His method of Perform was ambiguous, so I gave him a saxophone and Careless Whisper was his go to song for Inspire Courage. It was fantastic, he just writhed on the floor playing his little heart out while the PC's fought his goblin brethren. The players lost it XD

Hehe, that sounds awesome! Goblins were made to be bards. :)

Thanks for the welcome back, folks!

No, no. I wasn't planning on joining the playtest. I was just having a little fun imagining the kinds of antics that a couple of overly-amorous goblins could get up to.

And Kiango, that is just too awesome for words. :D

Oh! Haha, okay, that makes sense :)

I'm still getting a handle on Pooka's personality but I couldn't resist when you mentioned goblin strippers :P

Alrighty! There's still some wrap-up to do but as far as reporting and chronicle purposes are concerned, we're finished with The Confirmation - huzzah!

Everyone can find a PDF of their chronicle sheet for this scenario using >>this link<<. You can print a physical copy of your sheet if you like or you can save it to your computer or on Google Drive or wherever else you store your electronic documents. Any or all of those options are fine, just as long as you maintain a copy of it somewhere. I'll also keep a copy of them on my own Google Drive, should someone misplace theirs. Please look them over and if you have any questions for me or any corrections that I need to make, let me know!

I also went ahead and reported the game on the Paizo site as well, since the next few days will be busyish for me and I wanted to go ahead and get the bookkeeping done while I had some quiet time.

As we work on wrapping up the scenario, please feel free to let me know what you thought (here or via PM or other means) as well as share any constructive criticism you might have. This is also a good time for folks to bow out if anyone has come to the conclusion that Society play isn't really for them or if life is too busy and you need to cut back on games or for any other reason you might have. Of course I hope that everyone will be interested in continuing on but I did want to point out that the points between scenarios are good places for folks to hop in and out if necessary :)

On slow track, I should only get 1 Prestige (half of two).

Everything is great so far! I'm definitely down with staying on. :)

*facepalm* And I actually remembered to do the exp right for slow track, too! Okay, I'll get that fixed in a few minutes :)

I saw the XP was correct,so I was like, "Did I forget something about this scenario's prestige?" :)

is "it was a great game, as always" considered constructive critiscism?

Cause it's all I have to say.

^Hey, 'don't change anything' is just as valid of a response as anything else :)

And Zithembe, you should now have an updated chronicle under the link posted above!

It's ALWAYS a pleasure to play with you, as a GM or as a player, Lady L.

I'm not afraid to say it.

You're doing great. I would try to offer something more, but I'm with Hepsubia on this one.

I will say that this last fight is going to be haunting Ylva for a while. I don't think getting knocked out of two fights, twice in one of them, without accomplishing anything is going to do her any favors.

Hey all- so sorry for falling silent at the end there! I’ve been sick all week and haven’t been able to think very clearly. Hopefully I’ll be caught up on my games by tonight. Also, I enjoyed as much of the adventure as I was really there for and look forward to being more present for the next one!

Very fun game, Lady Ladile!!

Sorry for going silent since Tuesday: I've been really busy this week, and have only had short windows for PbP posting... and it seems that either the Paizo site was down entirely, or it wouldn't accept new forum posts when I tried to post.

This was my fourth PFS game ever, and my first on a PbP.

So... as a PFS relative newbie: How, exactly, does advancement work?

And how does one acquire items from the chronicle sheets? Is it just, "spend the gold, cross off the item?"

Great game as always Lady Ladile! I know it's not terribly constructive, but all I can do is echo everyone else's thoughts, the game was great and I can't wait for the next one. Plus I promise not to disappear for two weeks next time... Assuming that Paizo works when during my posting hours that is. ;)

As for your questions, Theodric, I believe I can help you out. In PFS, you level up every 3XP (which is typically every three scenarios) and items on the sheet are deemed always available for purchase for that character from now on, unless it states otherwise (it says something like 'limit x' which means you can only purchase it x times.) So yes, spend the gold, but don't cross off the item unless it says it is limited. ;)

In the Players Guide there is also an explanation about what items are always available. Beyond chronicle sheet items and what is deemed always available per the guide, the rest of your purchases are dictated by your Fame score. The relationship between Fame and purchase limits is also in the guide, basically the more Fame you have, the more expensive a single item you purchase can be.

Looks like Tupp and Kiango already did a good job of answering questions for me - thanks guys! Hopefully those answers make sense but if not, ask away and one of us will do our best to explain.

And I'm glad that everyone had a good time, despite site outages and other RL busyness that cropped up for some of you, and I'm glad to hear that everyone seems on board to continue onward to our next scenario - School of Spirits! It'll probably be a couple of days before we officially begin it as I don't want to rush the wrap-up of The Confirmation and it'll also take me just a little bit to get the maps and slides prepped and ready to go but I'll make an announcement post here in Discussion once we're officially ready to begin :)

Reminder to all: I have run School of Spirits so I'll be taking a backseat on decision making.

GM Ladile: Feel free to run things by me if you have any questions!

Seems like we're kinda-sorta back up at the moment! I'm currently at work but if the site remains stable and cooperative then we will tentatively resume normal operations.

However.

In the event of more shenanigans, you can find my email under a spoiler underneath the map links should you not be able to post and need to get in touch with me! Some groups are forming Hangouts chats and other means of keeping in touch during site outages but I won't insist on doing that here unless folks want to.

I managed to finally get my post in, but the site still seems a little way off of being stable. I tried to post that I'll keep my fingers crossed for no more whammies, and I got the same old error... It's a whole lot better than it has been for the last few days though, so yay!

Testing... I've only managed to get 1 post through in a dozen tries, 2 if this goes through.

Roll Call! Who's here? :)

I'm here.

Ditto. :)

Huzzah! I'll give folks a little time to trickle back in before I advance things forward once more :)

Here!

now to check if the post I tried to sneak in last time the boards were kind of working is still there...

Here! First successful post in a week!

here!

Here :)

Here!

Okay folks, I'm looking at officially starting the School of Spirits scenario around Monday/Tuesdayish - hopefully that works for everyone? :)

Sure :)

good for me!

Well that was unfortunate... Fingers crossed the boards stay up this time.

Still alive!

Okay, so given the crazy amount of instability of late and talk and rumblings elsewhere of folks moving their games to more stable places...I feel I should broach the subject here as well. Is that something folks want to consider doing or shall we stay here, come what may with the site?

I don't play on other sites for security reasons.

I just really like it here... when it works. I'm sure that it'll become stable again soon, so I'm in no rush to jump ship to another board either.

For what it's worth, I'd prefer to stay here as well but I felt it only fair to get everyone else's thoughts. I already have one non-PFS game looking at moving over to Mythweavers and the prospect of learning another website on top of Gameday and playtest stuff has me a little salty.

Mythweavers isn't too much different from Paizo. I'm giving thought to moving my game over there, but we'll see. If I do move, it'll be at the beginning of book two of the AP I'm running.

Now, I could really understand if you had a game moving to RPOL.net. That site is just plain wonky.

Now that I've got more time to comment, I will say that I do have an account over on MW since some other forum buds decided to start up a playtest game of Doomsday Dawn to pass the downtime. I'm sure it'd be fine once a person got used to the format but given that we've already got two votes against moving (with one being a hard 'no/can't do it') then we'll likely just stay here.

Just a note to say that I decided to take the rest of yesterday off from posting so as to make a fresh start of it today.

(Also, I was really tired.)

So...update shortly :)

Hey y'all, I've been working on a blog for a while and wanted to see what you guys thought. Most of the content is GURPS, but I think there's enough meat there to use in other places. You can find it at RadBoxStudio.com. If you like it and want more I can post links or a summary of what I wrote through the week.

If not, well, can't blame a guy for trying to get some feedback. :D

Okay, so instead of making a copypasta, I'm going to link a post made earlier today by VC Hmm that discusses the current state of Gameday (which School of Spirits will fall under) and possible options for keeping games moving should we have further downtime.

You can read it here.

Since moving is basically an absolute last resort (as we would lose Zithembe's player), are any of the other backup options Hmm suggested something folks would be interested in (or comfortable) exploring?

And since I think this merits it's own post (sorry for teh spamz), I'm going to give things another day or two before I start moving us forward. Partly because it's a holiday weekend here in the US, partly because I want to wait and make sure the site will stay up longer than a day or two at a time, and partly because I'm enjoying the current RP too much to rush things :)

Because this deserves it's own post too:

'I'm not that worried about it' is also an equally valid option in reference to using backup gaming methods that *don't* involve totally moving to a new website. If folks aren't in any hurry then I'm just as happy to truck along like we have been and just deal with any future site outages as they (may or may not) come.

I say this because it's easy to forget that there are folks who prefer to do their absolute best to limit their 'internet footprint' for any number of reasons or who may just not have the time to try and keep up with a bunch of additional digital noise - and I don't want to pressure anyone into anything that they're not comfortable with.

I know I can use Paizo at work, discreetly. Could I access another site, I'm not sure.

Money 438

Selling
Rapier (+10)

Buying
Traveler anytool (250)
Longsword (15)

Money left 438+10-15-250=183

Google Hangouts is fine, but given this is hopefully going to last through many website revisions, we probably should just ride the tide any time it snafus.

I'm fine with just waiting out. It's frustrating when the site goes kablooey, but then again, it is a service that is offered for free when it doesn't have to be.

That said, I wonder how rickety the code is. If it's based off of stuff written over 15 years ago, I have to wonder if it wouldn't be better to rewrite it and migrate the data.