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Yeah, book one of Shattered Star took us about 6 months to get through with four dedicated posters. And that AP is the mother of all dungeon crawls. My Jade Regent game has been moving a bit slower but we've still made decent progress in the past couple months. That one's not quite as extensive of a dungeon-crawl so it's going a little quicker.
Book 1 of Reign of Winter sort of has an outdoor dungeon crawl, book 2 is mostly an outdoor travel book, book 3 is a massive dungeon, book 4 is a giant battle flanked by two short dungeon-y things. Just started looking at 5 as we'll hit it in another week or two.
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Spoke to Jesse, he told me that there are likely games that are reporting on time but still playing thru the modules. That seems like cheating to me.
He also said that they originally were going to start a new gameday at the end of this month but it looks like it will be the beginning of March instead. He said that there was discussion about extending the time to play for APs and modules so that might something that will happen in the next one.
He also told me about a special module that they were going to have an event for (I can't recall the name of it), where six tables play with a common goal and need to stay in sync. Sounds like a cool idea.
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He's probably talking about doing one of the specials. You have to have a certain number of tables to do the season specials and most of them have timed sections ('you have 45 minutes to finish this encounter' sort of deal) so that all tables are at the same part of the story.
Sounds cool but I honestly don't think it would work logistically over PbP. GMs and groups just have such different posting rates, some groups would be waiting around for weeks for the next section and other groups will be scrambling to finish. If they were to try I probably wouldn't participate just so I could avoid the headache.
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Yes, I would highly recommend playing Siege of the Diamond City if you get the chance. It was a blast at GenCon, especially at the high-tier table.
I've also played Race for the Runecarved Key, which was a lot of fun and I GM'd the season 2 special, whatever that was called (something Shadow Lodge). I'm playing in the season 3 special at our local con in a couple weeks, that should be a good time although I know nothing about it.
FWIW, I (briefly) considered just reporting and continuing to play. (Incidentally, that doesn't *seem like* cheating, it *is* cheating.) And I couldn't in good conscience ask people to break the rules like that. Which is why I actively explored other options.
Glad we're we're all in for the whole thing. :-)
Sorry, guys, work has me buried today. I will get something up this evening, tho it may be late.
I dunno if Beleg moved his pog or not.
And thanks, I missed that part. So yeah, the bowman is tied up for sure, and the other...hmm, there are those mirror images to consider. So we'll say he managed to tie up the bowman. The wand is already on the floor once the caster was stunned.
FYI, I'm heading out of town to a convention starting tomorrow evening. I might have a chance to update on occasion, but it'll be sporadic through Sunday.
(I know Carl's player will be at Winter War with me...what about you other Midwestern-ites, Beleg and Ander?)
I too live in Indiana (northern), but I won't be at Winter War. I will, however, be at Who's Yer Con. I figure the game will be over by then. :-)
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No, I won't be there. I'm going to be on the road all day tomorrow for an interview at OSU. Then interviews at University of Wisconsin a couple weeks later and Graduate Recruitment Weekend at IU two weeks after that. I'm starting to get busy with traveling this spring.
I think I'm actually free the weekend of Who's Yer Con but I didn't sign up to GM anything and almost everything they are running is from seasons 4 and 5 and I've already played all those. The only thing I could play is Bonekeep and I don't have a death wish so I'd rather not do that. So there's really nothing I can play there. Becca hasn't decided if she still wants to go because she can play quite a few but she had some bad GMs last year and didn't have much fun as a result.
I live in South Bend. We have active PFS in town and they also have one going in Portage if you wanted to try some new FtF groups over the Summer before you head to grad school.
Well, you guys all suck. :-P
Ah, well. Another time, I suppose. LOL
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Yeah, Bloomington has a great group that I've been involved with for a couple of years. I knew we had a couple of groups up north but when I go home it's normally only for a couple weeks so I used to just take time off from F2F PFS. But I'll be in LaPorte for several months this summer so I'll have to get involved in one of those groups. LaPorte is not too far from either of those places.
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@GM: I know, right? Lol. I still don't know if we're going to make it to GenCon. At most we might just come down for the PFS special.
We are very close to finishing, yes.
Beyond the room you guys are in, there are a couple more encounters that I frankly have no problem skipping since you guys already have your encounters in and have hit the chronicle gold. One is a more-or-less random sea creature and the other...well, as a player I hate shadows, and I'm not much more fond of them as a GM; but we can run it if you want.
Either way, a hard stop on January 31 is fine by me, as I think Maddie has another game lined up.
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Ah, found it.
Activating a magic item is a standard action unless the item description indicates otherwise. However, the casting time of a spell is the time required to activate the same power in an item, regardless of the type of magic item, unless the item description specifically states otherwise.
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Yeah, Beleg's got two of them and I assumed that it was used the way you used it (just grab the pearl and use it to recast a spell) but I've also seen people use it outside of combat to 'reprepare' a spell they had cast (as if it took a standard to reprepare and then you can recast the spell. I've never been sure on which way is correct.
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Looking at the Pearl of Power description specifically, I think the second way is correct:
"once per day on command, a pearl of power enables the possessor to recall any one spell that she had prepared and then cast that day. The spell is then prepared again, just as if it had not been cast.
So the pearl doesn't recast the spell, it just reprepares it. I'm kicking myself for not using mine earlier now to reprepare Shocking Grasp before this fight. But I guess I have point left in my arcane pool to use spell recall on it.
Since the description doesn't say anything about the action, I've always presumed it to be a standard action like all magic items.
I'm okay with ret-conning both Ander and Beleg having used their pearls before. Any other time except combat, taking part of six seconds to do something doesn't matter a whit.
I have 78 points scored. The blink spell gives you guys a 50% miss chance (only 20% for him).
Plus DR 10/magic hurts. A lot.
Frankly, I wish the miss chance was d20 based, cos a reroll would be nice. >.<
I do understand Beleg's larger point about rerolls, though in my mind it should be for SAVE THE DAY moments like this and not for Day Job checks and such. (I'm not a fan of the whole "Day Job" thing anyway, as anyone who's played with me knows...but that's a whole 'nother can of worms.)
Although the reroll system has been improved somewhat with the addition of GM stars as a modifier — it does encourage a certain amount of give-back to the community in general.
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Eh, I don't mind day jobs so much. I thought they were stupid at first but they've grown on me more as a flavor thing than anything else. And they're usually pretty insignificant in the grand scheme so I don't mind them.
My problem with rerolls is two-fold. First, you're paying for an in-game advantage, which just doesn't seem right to me. Second, I remember reading in a 'GM tips' article/post somewhere that if you want to be a fair judge, you shouldn't arbitrarily allow someone to do something that another player had to spend a feat/ability/spell/etc on. Allowing people to 'buy' rerolls is a bit unfair for people who have invested in things like Improved Iron Will, for example.
So I generally reserve my reroll only when I'm afraid other people are going to die. There have been moments when I could have died and didn't use a reroll; that's just the way the dice fell and I let it happen (this is partly a game of chance, after all). But rerolls are part of the system so if me being curmudgeonly and refusing to use part of that system is going to cause other people harm, I will relent and use it.
Pretty much, yeah, that's kind of how I view it. I usually have a reroll item I'll donate to the table when I GM, but I completely respect your point of view on that.
That said, huzzah and stuff! Success!
Anyone on slow track?
Need PFS numbers as well, either here or via PM if you prefer.
Ander requested a backstory along with a recap, which I will try to get up tonight/tomorrow.
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I thought they were stupid at first but they've grown on me more as a flavor thing than anything else. Same here. Quiven did not start with a Day Job. It wasn't until some of the RP stuff in one of the scenarios that EF ran than made me decide to pick up Craft : Sculpture. Could I use that point elsewhere? Absolutely. But it made so much sense for me to use this for Quiven.
My problem with rerolls is two-fold. First, you're paying for an in-game advantage, which just doesn't seem right to me. This is why I don't like them and also why I do not possess one. I actually want to buy a shirt but not for the reroll but more to actually wear it. Thing is, I don't really like any of the ones that are available to me. The Player Folio seems to be a waste so I won't buy it (plus I use Hero Lab).
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I have also decided that Taldor doesn't fit Beleg very well so I'd like to change his faction. As per the Guide it costs 3 x character level in PP. Now, the question that I suppose the GM can decide is does that happen when he is still level 4 or when he is level 5 (as he will be after the chronicle is applied). Either way he should have just enough with the PP we're getting from this to pay for it.
I'd like some opinions from everyone else where I should move him though. He's very pessimistic and Shadow Lodge would have suited him well if that were still around. So we've got:
- Andoran: he's from Galt so I'm not sure how that would work but maybe
Cheliax:not for him
- Grand Lodge: always a good fall back
Osirion:my personal favorite but no real connection for Beleg
Qadira:I like Qadira, but again, no connection for Beleg
Sczarni:he's not a thief or mobster!
Silver Crusade:nope
Taldor:nope
So I guess that leaves Andoran or Grand Lodge unless someone can make an argument for something else. I'm torn.
You know, the old version (4.3) of the Guide to PFS specified that there were no Day Job checks on sanctioned adventure path stuff. But that language isn't in the 5.0 guide as far as I can tell. Grr.
Beleg: I'd say Andoran would work okay. Suppose he's disillusioned with Galt — and now he's that way with Andoran. Sounds like a nice background hook to me.
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I don't think its worth the PPs to change, is it? I mean, its more for flavor than anything from what my little experience would tell me, plus I still think Taldan should work if you want it to.
Reading a little more, you could say that you followed the ideals of Darl Jubannich and fled to Andoran as he had done, which would lead into why you would be of their faction.