[PFS]GM Dennis' #6-18 - From Under Ice (closed) (Inactive)

Game Master Dennis Muldoon

Discuss the things under the ice here.

This is the character I would like to play with! I need to update her stats to second level. She is an amnesiac psychic.

When you have your character chosen and updated and whatnot, please post the following:

1) Player name
2) Character name
3) PFS number - character number
4) Day job roll

For those of you new to PbP, the format to roll dice is [dice=Profession (Haberdasher)]1d20+5[/dice

If you close that last square bracket, it will automatically roll, and look like this: Profession (Haberdasher): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (15) + 5 = 20

Similarly, you write spoilers with the spoiler tag: [spoiler=statblock]Hidden writing here[/spoiler

Bold text us usually used for in-character speech:
[b]"Surrender, villain, or be destroyed!"[/b

Italics is used for internal character monologue:
[i]I wonder what that thing is....[/i

Out of character discussion within the Gameplay thread, such as mechanical description of what you are doing, is done with the OOC tag:
[ooc]Move action to move adjacent to my foe, standard action to swing my longsword at them.[/ooc

There are a few others you can see in the "How to format your text" spoiler, below the posting window.

Those posts look like this with the brackets closed:

Similarly, you write spoilers with the spoiler tag:

Bold text us usually used for in-character speech:
"Surrender, villain, or be destroyed!"

Italics is used for internal character monologue:
I wonder what that thing is....

Out of character discussion within the Gameplay thread, such as mechanical description of what you are doing, is done with the OOC tag:
Move action to move adjacent to my foe, standard action to swing my longsword at them.

All of this will become pretty clear once we start playing, but I'm happy to answer any other PbP questions you might have, as is Kate.

Thanks for including me! Been meaning to try PbP for a while and haven't quite had the chance.

I'll be making a skald, and should be able to stat them up within the next day or so!

Hey all, if I play a character in a php, I can't play them in society play, right? How long do we think this pbp will take? One month? That will help me decide who to play.

The last one I ran (Consortium Compact) took almost exactly a month. It depends on how frequently everyone posts. I would love to get it done before the PbP special starts in early October (I'm running a table).

That brings up another question: My usual expectation is one post/day from each player during the week and one or two per weekend (certainly feel free to post more, but that's a target). Does that sound ok? It's totally fair to have days where you're out of town, or otherwise not able to post. It's nice to post bot instructions in that case, telling us what your character would do, especially if that happens in the middle of combat.

And to answer your question, yes, if your character is in a PbP game, you can't play them F2F. You can, however, apply F2F GM credits to them during that time. You hold them until the PbP game is over, then they apply.

Okay, cool. Thanks Dennis. I basically have 2 characters in tier. My level 3 swashbuckler, Cisco. And my level 2 spellslinger, Rowdy "The Honey Badger" Copperpelt. I should be able to part with one them for a month!

Doug Henderson
Rowdy "The Honey Badger" Copperpelt
51995-19
Profession (Gunsmith): 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (18) + 4 = 22

Kate Baker
Eugressia Biogon (That's U-gress-ee-uh, not U-gresh-uh)
215650-9
No day job

Forgot to ask for faction, too. Just to confirm, Rowdy is Liberty's Edge and Eugressia is Scarab Sages?

Yup!

Yes sir!

Have the character built, but don't have a name or a setup on Paizo. Shoanti skald, probably plain 'ol Grand Lodge.

Cool. When you get it finished and ready to go, post your details here and an in-character introduction in the Gameplay thread.

Hey all! Ahh, I'm so excited for this game! Thanks again Dennis for getting this going! I'm a little intimidated by the format though. I'm not sure I fully understand how to post... And are we picking different colors for our dialogue, or are we all using black?

We all have the same color, because the posts are going to contain your name anyway. Here's a game Kate and I are in as an example: http://paizo.com/campaigns/TheMoarCoreTour/gameplay&page=7#329

I'll also make an example player post below:

"Mongo smash!" Mongo charges at his opponent, bringing his longsword down in a brutal strike:

attack, charge, power attack: 1d20 + 7 + 2 - 1 ⇒ (15) + 7 + 2 - 1 = 23
damage, power attack: 1d8 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 4 + 2 = 8

That'll teach 'im to mess with my friends!

If that didn't hit, we're all in big trouble.

The bold is character speech, using the [b ][/b ] tags. The regular black text is just regular text.

The green is dice rolling, formatted like [dice=attack, charge, power attack ]1d20+7+2-1[/dice ]

The italics are internal monologue, using the [i ][/i ] tags.

The blue is out of character chatter, using the [ooc ][/ooc ] tags. Small comments like that can go in the Gameplay tab. Larger/longer discussions should go in the Discussion tab.

To make those tags work, just omit the spaces I put in them.

Thanks Dennis. That's helpful. How did you get all of your character info to show up under your name?

If you click on the character name, you can see how it's formatted. You put most of it into the race and classes/levels lines.

There's an helpful template here

PS, it probably won't come up from a player's side, but you can hyperlink using the [url ] tag, as such:

[url=https://www.website.fake ]text[/url ]

Useful if you want to link to a rule or PRD entry for your character, I suppose.

Also, don't let that hold you up from getting started. It can make things more convenient, but is not necessary to start.

Awesome, thanks Dennis!

Andrew Mullen
Oiur (like if you say the word foyer but you're not French)
182256-2
Perform (Sing): 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (15) + 6 = 21

Those look great, guys, thanks. Doug, I loved your intro - even funnier in its expanded form than it was at the table on Thursday!

When you get a moment, please do a couple more things for me:

1) I don't need the whole tag line setup (though you'll find it useful), but I would like you to add your ACs, CMD, and HP/HP for me to reference. The game will move a lot faster if I don't have to wait for you to tell me if something hits every round.

2) Please fill in your initiative and perception in the code block on the Maps & Handouts slide (also linked at the top of the page). I've put an example of what it should look like. These are so I can copy and past a whole block to roll initiative/perception checks (generally the GM will roll all initiatives in PbP, and some perception checks).

Done, done, and 1st gameplay post made (o'-')b

Perfect, thanks.

Hello Everyone!,

At last… my new character is set up.

Overall, everything sounds great; I would love to aim for completing the scenario in a month's time. I will be traveling for a day or two this month, but should still be able to post. Typically I can post more than once per day otherwise.

My thrush familiar, Irp, may be doing lots of talking.

I'll post an intro in the game thread this afternoon — setting my first PBP character up took a bit longer than I thought it would. Please let me know if you need anything else, Dennis.

This is going to be fun!

Player Info

Doug Hahn
Ibb
232159-7
No day job

Initiative & Perception

Testing to see if my sats show up under my name now.
Success!

Doug (Hahn), is your Irp going to stay with you, or will it be flying around? Also, if it's going to be doing a lot of talking, consider making an Alias for Irp from your 'My Account' page. That way you can give it an avatar and post as it.

Irp is almost always with Ibb.

That's an excellent idea about making another alias for Irp; I wish I saw your suggestion before posting! I will do that tomorrow -- he does a lot of talking, egomaniac that he is.

Thanks, Dennis.

Here's an example of how Kate has used an alias for an animal companion (Lisianthus & Dewberry on this thread): http://paizo.com/campaigns/DMKhelsTapestrysToil/gameplay&page=2#88

Let me know if that last post was too long or hard to parse! Hopefully the TL;DR at the end breaks it into useful action items.

Helpful tip from Kate: write your post, including dice rolls, then hit preview. The preview will show the roll results, which you can then use to finish your post. When you hit submit the final post'll have the same roll results as the preview!

Smart, thanks for the tip!
I thought your post was just fine. I'm also feeling like I have to hold back or I'll write really long posts.
But I'm happy to read along. That's part of the pleasure.

Yeah, I oughta scale back. Easy to go overboard!
Profession (sailor): 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (12) + 0 = 12
I think that means I won't next time?

I didn't think it was too long, Oiur. If you're enjoying it, write some long-ish posts, I say :) This group is a bit writerly and lots of fun — might as well enjoy it to the max!

I also noticed, as mentioned above, that the preview feature saves your roll, which I really appreciate. I like to edit heavily sometimes, and would be unhappy if rolls were altered.

Also, Ibb/Irp have no day job. I'm not sure if there's an official ruling on whether familiars can actually roll for day jobs. I will give Irp a few ranks in oratory later on if that's legit.

I didn't think it was too long, Oiur. If you're enjoying it, write some long-ish posts, I say :) This group is a bit writerly and lots of fun — might as well enjoy it to the max!

Yeah, I like when players bring lots of personality to their posts. I suspect they will get shorter if/when we move into combat, but enjoy it when you can. Those of you I've played with before have always been some of my favorite role-players, and that's something I am looking forward to with this group.

I also noticed, as mentioned above, that the preview feature saves your roll, which I really appreciate. I like to edit heavily sometimes, and would be unhappy if rolls were altered.

You also have 1 hour to edit posts after you post them. Doing so will also not change your dice rolls.

Hey, can I ask what people's inspiration was for their characters? We've got a pretty interesting group and I'm always curious about why players make the characters they do. Like, why that particular combination of race, class, whatever?

Many PFS players around here play characters who have a goofy buddy comedy routine; I thought I'd try it.

Also, I wanted to play a mechanically simple hard-hitting melee character who can dump int and still be fun to roleplay out of combat. (I think the "optimized" Eldritch Guardian uses its familiar as a combat buddy instead of as a knowledge repo, but this seems more fun to me). Also the idea of the familiar being a figment of Ibb's own mind is interesting; maybe he has some repressed genius locked away somewhere, waiting to be tapped.

What about you, Doug?

Many PFS players around here play characters who have a goofy buddy comedy routine; I thought I'd try it.

Yeah, because it's SO FUN!

I've always liked playing DEX/CHA heroes, so rogues have always been my favorite class. I think there's something about playing high risk/high reward characters that appeals to me. Get in, get out, hopefully without a scratch. I like some narrative tension at the gaming table I guess. (Although you can certainly argue that rogues are high risk, low reward ;p) A magical rogue is something I've wanted to play for a long time, so when I read the Eldritch Scoundrel archetype I tucked it away for the future. (I've already got 2 rogues and a ninja going, as well as a swashbuckler...) Then I got this Spellslinger boon and I started poking around at possible builds. I don't normally play casters, at least not full casters, but something about the theme inspired me, this idea of someone tricking out their gun all magically. The basic advice was to take one level wizard and then switch to a different spell casting class. Immediately I thought of attaching it to that caster rogue. The rest of the details just kind of fell together.

I think we should put together a party where all the characters have the word Eldritch in their archtype!

I feel the same way, but about bards. I feel like I am going to end up having 10 different bard characters at some point.

I really want to make a rogue-type character… I always get really into concepts for archetypes like the false medium and charlatan — more intrigue than PFS smashing.