[Outpost] GM Nefreet's Heroes for Highdelve! (Inactive)

Game Master Nefreet

Greetings, everyone!!

This is the OOC Discussion thread for the Pathfinder Module: Heroes for Highdelve. It's a fun, quick, light-hearted adventure, and it's my sincerest hope that you have a good time! Thank you in advance for your interest!

A little about me:

I've been GMing for 20+ years, and I've been with PFS since 2012. I have 40+ characters, 12 of them retired, and over 300 tables GMed, but I'm still rather new to PbP. Through the course of this adventure if you have any critiques or suggestions for how I can run a better PbP please feel free to send me a PM!

A little about the game:

This Module assumes that players use one of four special pregenerated characters. I have provided links to each of them above. You are not required to use one of these Pregens, however, and may instead play your own 1st- or 2nd-level character if that would make you more comfortable. The rewards do differ depending on which option you choose, and the authors recommend using the Pregens for story purposes, but in the end we’re all here to have fun, and I want to leave the decision up to you.

This Module is "replayable", which in Society terms means that you can play/GM it any number of times and apply credit each time to a different 1st level PC. You may also assign credit to a 2nd level PC once for playing, and once for GMing. With that in mind, go ahead and copy/paste the following "sign-in sheet" below, and we'll get started shortly! Oh, and feel free to ask any OOC questions here as well.

Good luck!!

PLAYER: (your real name or forum handle)
PFS ID#: (the number for the PC receiving credit)
PREGEN or PC: (whichever you'd like to use)

Hi!

PLAYER: Auke Teeninga
PFS ID#: 710-14
PREGEN or PC: Meraina, the Cheerful Human Sorcerer (Unless someone else really wants to play her)

I've been playing for quite a while and have played about a dozen and GMed a handful of PbPs.

I really like this guide to playing PbPs.

Also IMHO initiative in PbPs works best as block initiative. AKA in a block of PCs the actions are handled in order of posting (unless specificly asking otherwise). This really speeds up play, as there is less waiting for people to check in.

I’d like to call dibs on the ranger, I’ll make an alias for it later tonight or in the morning.

PLAYER: friendly sauce
PFS ID#: 64043-15
PREGEN: Brialla

I’ve been playing pathfinder since 2011 and Pfs since 2012 and I play locally with Nefreet. This will be my second pbp. I’ve got about 70 games gmed for pfs and this will be my 15th character with 5 characters retired.

Would love to call dibs on the dwarf fighter. Sounds like a good pregen. I have been a long time fanboy and player of dnd, pathfinder and a ton of other tabletop games. I have played so far three pcs that ive made, all only have one or two sessions done, so still relatively new to pbp. Love everything about it so far, and cant wait to adventure with some real veterans. Thanks for having me! Nice to meet everyone

-Marc aka. diharhan

PLAYER: Diharhan
PFS ID#: 291822
PREGEN: Torgen

Welcome aboard, Marc!

I see your ID# is 291822. Which character number do you want to apply credit towards? It can be any 1st- or 2nd-level PC.

OMG awesome! didn't realize my other pcs would get the credit. cool cool cool.

291822-3

Yep! The super exciting thing about this is it's the first third party Module sanctioned for use in Pathfinder Society.

The downside is that there's no PDF, so I'm still transcribing everything for use here. But once I have everything I plan on running it regularly.

While we're waiting for our last player, feel free to read my first post in the Gameplay tab and post your introduction =)

OutPost doesn't officially start until Monday, but I probably won't be available to post anything for the next couple days. Just wanted to give you guys a heads up.

Tomorrow I work until 6pm, and then run my Starfinder AP until 11pm. Saturday I'll be playing the All for Immortality trilogy from 9am until midnight.

But feel free to discuss anything amongst yourselves.

Yep! The super exciting thing about this is it's the first third party Module sanctioned for use in Pathfinder Society.

"Third Party". It was still written by a Paizo Employee and uses a Paizo flipmat, it was just published for GenCon.

We're still waiting for one more player to check in, but I won't be able to post anything more detailed until later Monday night anyways (work shift change).

If it ends up just being the three of you I can ghost the Half-orc pregen.

[OOC] Ran out of time making the sheet for the pregen (Birthday weekend, march 5th also happens to be my big 30th) Was surprised by family coming into town. If its okay with the DM, ill roll with my other already made pc Garr. He just finished his first chronicle, honors edge, the prequeal I believe to this scenario, so its fitting.

Player:Diharhan
PFS ID#291822-1
PC: Garr Nesteruk

Sure thing!

When I initially played this, two of the other players wanted to use their own characters (since the Module blurb states you can). They were new to Society, and really enjoyed what they had created. But the GM pretty much intimidated them to use a Pregen, and I was horrified. They never got into the story, and their run through was blasé.

So I vowed to let players choose going forward ^_^

A note to everyone else: you don't need to create a header with your stats if you don't want to. That's why I linked the Pregens at the top of the page. This is supposed to be beginner friendly, and I figured that instructing how to do a header was a bit much.

Diharhan, in that case you happened upon the Golden Wings Inn and Tavern on your return trip from your previous mission, where you received a sending spell from Master of Scrolls Kreighton Shaine:

Greetings! Please, enjoy some R&R at Highdelve's Brightbloom Jubilee! Excellent opportunity to also be a quasi-representative for the Society while you're there, since Highdelve doesn't-

Thank you so much! Cant wait to kick off outpost! What a great bday present lol

Question for anyone who may know since I have such a multitude of experienced players before me..

Garr has shifting rage, which is beast shape 1 instead of rage.
While in bear form, per the spell I get +2str, +2 Natural AC.
Do these bonuses stack with what a medium-sized bears natural ac would already be (and if so how do i find that out), or is my AC while in bear form simply my dex mod plus 2 NA?

You would effectively have the appearance of a bear and you would gain str +2, NAC +2, scent, low light vision, and 2 claws and a bite attack using your strength for the atk and dmg modifiers. Also you cannot speak while a bear, unless one of us has speak to animals. Also you can talk to other bears.

Thank you so much, most of the guides online were of mixed answers.

One last thing, do I use my or the bears movement speed?

The Bear's.

You even gain +10 to Disguise should anyone assume you're not an actual Bear.

Oh, and since this is the OOC Discussion thread, no need for the extra [OOC] tag ^_^

Do we have a 4th player?

I invited someone to replace our previous #4.

PLAYER: Justicar Alaric
PFS ID#: 185613-8
PREGEN or PC: kiliuk

Welcome aboard!

PLAYER: Scott tomlinson
PFS ID#: will be char 3 but haven't made him yet will later today
PREGEN or PC: pc will make later today

hope this is acceptable

Darius! hey buddy! Warren moon from our other campaign! happy to have you aboard

Darius! hey buddy! Warren moon from our other campaign! happy to have you aboard

well. if I get in looks like there may be too many people for me to fit in

Greetings, Scott!

VC Hmm had told me to invite another player to be #4, since you hadn't checked in by the end of Day 1. With you that puts us at 5, and the Module is really designed for 4. BUT!, since we have a mix of Pregens and PCs I think that's fine.

Welcome aboard!

*sets a few high CR traps to dissuade a 6th from showing up*

Lmao, Nefreet I appreciate and salute your flexibility, Scott's new like myself but really catching on. Thanks for having us, promise to have fun and rp my soul out haha

ok I will create my character now before bed, I would not have minded if I wasn't allowed, would have been my fault. This new layout still has me a bit confused

I am almost done with my character, human wizard air elementalist spirit whisperer but not sure on my spirit as yet and it is way past bedtime

Heya, meant to post this morning but had a coworker call in sick. Working another 12er. Will hopefully post again tonight, or if I pass out again then tomorrow morning ^_^

Question for gm or anyone who knows. I despise that barbarians have to be neutral, and I view Garr after his previous chronicles and personality as a gentle giant, one who obeys the law. After reading I find nothing, what's involved in shifting alignment?

There is no requirement for Barbarians to be neutral. They just can't be Lawful ^_^

Changing alignment is generally free anyways.

Do I need to mark the change at the end of the module on my sheet? And thank you. Fits the character more imo

I can type it in for you if you want ^_^

Chaotic Good or Neutral Good?

Ah I was meaning the jump to Lawful. Is that possible, or not so for a barbarian? I was wanting to make a law abiding barbarian if possible

The requirements of being a Barbarian are "Any nonlawful".

So basically, since PFS doesn't allow Evil, your only 4 choices are:

Maybe someone can help me. I'm trying to draw a transparent shape, ideally an oval, behind the rock to the north of you. It represents a 20' radius area of dim light.

I see the option for transparency, but it doesn't seem to do anything...

Maybe someone can help me. I'm trying to draw a transparent shape, ideally an oval, behind the rock to the north of you. It represents a 20' radius area of dim light.

I see the option for transparency, but it doesn't seem to do anything...

Created a transparent .png for you and added it to the map. You can move and resize it as needed.

GM Nefreet wrote:

Maybe someone can help me. I'm trying to draw a transparent shape, ideally an oval, behind the rock to the north of you. It represents a 20' radius area of dim light.

I see the option for transparency, but it doesn't seem to do anything...

Created a transparent .png for you and added it to the map. You can move and resize it as needed.

Added a second .png as I don't know if the dim light is darker or lighter than the current lightsettings! ;-)

Thank you!

Outside it's bright light. The area to the north of the rock is roughly two steps "darker" than bright light ;-)

I love the enemy tokens. The fact that they look like Hollywood models or something similar is making it realllly hard not go murder hobo on them hahahha. Love the map, very clean. Best one I have seen so far. *Tips hat to GM

Lol, thank you!

They are indeed celebrities ^_^

They are Presley and Kaia Gerber. They're like 18 years old. Their mother is Cindy Crawford.

The whole family are brand ambassadors for the company I work for, so I see their faces every day.

I shall slay them in your honor LMAO

Cindy's kids are giving us the business haha

That +3 to-hit is no joke!

Congratulations, everyone!

Feel free to conclude any role-play you want to inside the cave. I have some special box text for when you exit.

I'll have Chronicles up either tonight or tomorrow ^_^

If your character has a Day Job, go ahead and roll it here.

Perform comedy: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (9) + 5 = 14
Reroll: 1d20 + 5 + 5 ⇒ (20) + 5 + 5 = 30

Can I just get my chronicle next time i see you?

Sure!

Coming over this Sunday?