Fairly close.
Nope, no final encounter. That's it. This one was just an "errand" scenario, like Khamul said. I can assure you that the next two don't follow that trend.
There seems to be "somewhat" of a trend, having scenarios with little or no combats. (i.e. Library of the Lion, this one, ....) I don't mind it, personally. It seems more in line, flavorwise, with what Pathfinders would be doing.
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Nope, no final encounter. That's it. This one was just an "errand" scenario, like Khamul said. I can assure you that the next two don't follow that trend.
There seems to be "somewhat" of a trend, having scenarios with little or no combats. (i.e. Library of the Lion, this one, ....) I don't mind it, personally. It seems more in line, flavorwise, with what Pathfinders would be doing.
With Bonekeep being really combat-focused, some people were calling for more RP- or skill-focused scenarios and even thought the PFS leadership said they weren't going to do that (at least that's the last I heard a few months ago), it seems they actually have been doing that. This season has had a lot more RP/skill scenarios. I personally enjoy scenarios like that, I thought this one was pretty neat. Part II is probably better though, in my opinion.
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Before I forget:
You are an expert researcher, but some of your greatest discoveries come from the first-hand accounts of your companions and not from musty tomes. At the beginning of scenario, you may select a fellow party member. Up to once during that scenario, if that character tells you of his or her exploits in an earlier adventure that your character has not played, document the name of the scenario, the agent's name, and that player's Pathfinder Society number on a line below. For every three stories you collect in this way, you gain a permanent +1 bonus to one Knowledge skill of your choice; you may not choose the same Knowledge skill twice. If you successfully fill all 30 lines below, you gain a +1 inherent bonus to your Intelligence score.
IMPORTANT: When sharing these stories, endeavor to avoid important spoilers.
Khamul has played in:
04-18 The Veteran's Vault
00-01 Silent Tide
00-24 Decline of Glory
05-01 The Glass River Rescue
00-23 Tide of Morning And he has already been told about:
03-01 Frostfur Captives
00-14 The Many Fortunes of Grandmaster Torch
Reminder that I still need someone to help me out with this. I just need to know your character number and a scenario they have played that is not already listed above.
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Well I appreciate the attempts at more RP and skill based scenarios, there should be at least 1 decent combat encounter. It's kinda lame that the only enemy was a 1 hd viper. For instance the remaining statue could have been a construct that came to life which would make an appropriate and cool encounter. Titus and Corb(I assume) have been bored through this entire thing.
Well, there was an opportunity to fight with the Madam and her sandman, she was a sorcerer who was supposed to spam Color Sprays, but since Corb was Sczarni, his secondary incentive was to settle things without violence.
Blame it on Corb.....
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Well, Khamul's not really a skill monkey or built for this sort of thing but he still worked out and I had fun with it. I just always make sure that my characters have something to do outside of combat-that's just as important to me at least. And we also had the Red Mantis thugs to deal with, don't forget about them.
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"There was this keep full of rats out in the middle of nowhere that a few colleagues and I were sent out to explore. We risked our lives combating a powerful creature seemingly made of shadows to recover knowledge and rare items from within."
Thanks. I'll save that one for Part II. I can only do one per scenario.
Well, I thought I would wrap this up last night, but have apparently caught my kid's cold and it hit me hard last night. Summary coming and I'll get out Chronicles. I'm thinking I'll just continues in this thread for the next two.
GM hint: The next one has some pretty cool boons at the end, that carry over to the third, so make sure whoever you bring to the second is going to be in the third part. (It's not a deal breaker, but it is assumed your playing through all three with the same.)
Part Two is Tier 1-5, while Part 3 is 3-7 (I think). Like I said, it's not a deal breaker, but you understands what I mean after we finish the second part.
This has been reported and I just sent out chronicles.
For those in DD, Pirate Rob did a wealth calculation about applying the sheets, if your interested.
The three normal chronicle sheets are just like modules, encompass 3 levels, provide 3xp and 4PP:
p1: 1-3
p2: 3-5
p3: 5-7
If you choose to apply all 3 sheets to the same character you get an additional bonus sheet (also worth 3xp, 4pp) to apply at level 2, 4 or 6.
Assuming you apply all to the same character here's the possible results:
Character starts at level 1:
p1, Bonus sheet at 2, p3, leaving your character at level 4, with p3 pending for when you reach level 5.
Character starts at level 2:
p1, p2, bonus sheet at 4, p3, character reaches level 6 with all sheets assigned
Character starts at level 3:
p1, p2, p3, bonus sheet at 6, character reaches level 7 with all sheets assigned.
As a note the bonus sheet comes with significantly less gold than normal to help balance out the extra gold from "playing up".
Detailed Wealth Calculations:
Normal Wealth Distribution (Assuming playing only modules at the middle level)
lvl : wealth : total earned after leveling
1 : 1398 : 1398
2 : 1536 : 3943
3 : 3711 : 6645
4 : 4800 : 11445
5 : 6756 : 18201
6 : 8712 : 26913
DD starting at level 1:
Ending at level 4 with 7,336gp which is above the expected 6,645gp. After playing at level 4, and then applying p3 you end up at level 6 with 20,848 which is above the expected 18,201 by ~14.5%
DD starting at level 2:
Ending at level 6 with: 17,946 which is just below the expected 18,201 by ~1.4%
DD starting at level 3:
Ending at level 7 with 24486 which is below the expected 26913 by 9%
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Yeah, I can't imagine your fellows in WotR will be comfortable with undead minions.
To be fair, Khamul is not totally comfortable with it either; that's why he was exiled from Geb. But he sees it as a 'fight fire with fire' situation and so uses them as tools if he has the opportunity. But if someone else in the party isn't comfortable with that, he's more than willing to command them to stand still while everyone beats them into oblivion. But if no one minds, he will just command them to open doors, etc for us in case of traps and they can even act as meat shields if we need to throw them around in combat. But once their use has been exhausted he will be quick to destroy them in disgust.
Quick Note: I'm taking my kids camping today. Most likely, will not have any meaningful posts up until Sun. evening.
I will be gone, yet again, this weekend. Leaving in an hour and will return tomorrow night. I'll update tomorrow night.
Day Jobs would be appropriate at this time.
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If permitted, Corb will copy the following spells from the now-mythic necromancer:
Comprehend Languages
Crafter's Fortune
Identify
My T10 is 16, which covers 1st levels (which all of these are) and the end cost is 30 gp.
Corb is also willing to show his Alchemy Book to Kamul, who can't do anything with "Mix some of blue bottle with the duck on it with 5 bits of soul power. Put the little model of the target as a garnish."
Thanks for running!
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Mythic is on the PRD as well. Now I have one character to send up two levels and am super tempted to get Corb to 3rd to actually use these boons and Mythic Power Attack. Coincidentally enough, I have to run something PFS since our coordinator/main DM for S&S is going to a wedding this weekend and thus got scheduled for Thursday work. I might actually have a credit for him to get him to 3rd...
If everyone would sound off when ready to proceed and leveled, what have you, I'll get the next intro posted. No hurry. I have had only time to scan the next scenario.
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I do not need to level or purchase anything but have not looked at the mythic stuff yet. I will do so tonight/tomorrow though.
I wasn't sure if I'd have time this week with some major revisions and additions to my thesis that need to be done, but I've had a mixed blessing from my adviser. I thought he expected all the changes by next week, which would have meant several all-nighters this week to even get close. I misunderstood though and he doesn't expect the defense to be until later this summer. That's good because it gives me more time but sucks because I was hoping to be done with this project by the time I left Bloomington.
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Yep, I'll take care of the mythic stuff tomorrow (hopefully in the morning). I thought about doing it tonight but I've had a long day and am just now catching up on all my games. I can't decide if I want to go Archmage or Champion. At this level Khamul doesn't really get enough spells/day so he's more fighter than wizard so I'm not sure if Archmage will be worth it. I'll have to look into what they both can offer me.
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Ok, MYTHIC KHAMUL should be ready to go. I went with Archmage, as it seemed to give me the most useful abilities and makes my piddly magic actually worthwhile now. Khamul's mythic feats aren't too exciting (Spell Focus and Weapon Focus) because none of his other feats seemed particularly useful in mythic version, at least for just this one scenario.