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HP: 61/61, AC 23/23/23, F+5, R+15, W+4, speed 40ft, Perception +10, init +9, Darkvision 60ft, low light vision, scent

Grats Hmm, and everyone else on the 5 stars list.

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Redelia wrote:
Our wonderful Venture Captain Hmm has her fifth star! I know she has been working hard toward this as a specific goal for a while now, so it's time to celebrate!

"Et was my honour to be present at ze historic occasion!"

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Congratulations, Hmm and all the other newly-minted 5-star GMs!

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CG male Elf Mage 4/Fighter 4/Archer 2
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|AC 16, T 16, FF 11|HP: 48/48|F +5, R +7, W +7 (+2 vs Enchantment/red dragon breath)|Init +5, Perc +21|CMB +11 CMD 24|11/11 Prescience, 1/1 Pearl, 1/1 Arcane Bond

Has anyone seen SkipperD/DM Skipper around?

I need a fresh link to my Chronicle for a game that concluded in April.

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Hello! Looking at dipping my big toe into the play by post gaming and getting started with something low-tier. I am experienced player and 2 star GM so I know my way around PFS, just thought I would try out something new again! Hopefully something I could jump in on soon...

Silver Crusade

Venture Lieutenant, Play by Post (online)

Have you tried a PM, Zeno? If so, and you get no answer for about a week, send one of us (i.e. the PbP Venture Officers) a private message, and we'll try to help you out.

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CG male Elf Mage 4/Fighter 4/Archer 2
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|AC 16, T 16, FF 11|HP: 48/48|F +5, R +7, W +7 (+2 vs Enchantment/red dragon breath)|Init +5, Perc +21|CMB +11 CMD 24|11/11 Prescience, 1/1 Pearl, 1/1 Arcane Bond
Redelia wrote:
Have you tried a PM, Zeno?

I've indeed already done that, so we'll see.

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Congrats Hilary!

Silver Crusade

Venture Lieutenant, Play by Post (online)

Are any of you wonderful Flaxseeders going to be at Origins next week? I'll be there, and would like to know who to keep an eye out for. Maybe even try to get people together at some point.


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-KARSH- wrote:
Hello! Looking at dipping my big toe into the play by post gaming and getting started with something low-tier. I am experienced player and 2 star GM so I know my way around PFS, just thought I would try out something new again! Hopefully something I could jump in on soon...

^ Hey Flaxseeders, can you keep an eye out for a game for this newcomer?

Thanks!

Hmm

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Grats Hmm!

I enjoyed the table for Solstice Scar(C) you ran at PaizoCon very much. I heard you got your star just the days before, or possibly the day of(there were a few day that blurred together). That is such a huge accomplishment in my eyes, as it takes a ton of work, especially since you do so much on these boards.

Not only Congrats, but thank you as well!


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You’re the best, Hmm! Congrats!

Grand Lodge

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Female CG Half-elf Cleric 15 | HP 168/168 | AC 24, T 15, F 19 | CMB +13, CMD 28 (29 grapple) | F +21, R +16, W +23 (+2 vs enchantments) | Init +10 | Perc +28, SM +7 | Speed 30 ft | 5/5 Channels | 9/9 BoL | 2/2 GF | Active conditions: none

✩✩✩✩✩ Woo Hoo!

Red Masks and Squox Ears for all!!

(Also, hi Sargon Greymore!)

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Conratz on the achievement


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Huzzah! Nicely done HMM. Also thanks for the slides tip Meloriel, I will give that a try.


Congrats on the 5th star, Hmm


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Wooohooo Hmm!!! Congratulations!


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Redelia wrote:
Are any of you wonderful Flaxseeders going to be at Origins next week? I'll be there, and would like to know who to keep an eye out for. Maybe even try to get people together at some point.

I'll be at Origins! I'll be running a table of school of spirits.

EDIT: At 1:30 on Saturday.

Sovereign Court

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Redelia wrote:

Hey, everyone, I have a happy announcement to make. I'd like to point everyone's attention to the list of five star GM's here.

Our wonderful Venture Captain Hmm has her fifth star! I know she has been working hard toward this as a specific goal for a while now, so it's time to celebrate!

Congrats Hmmm!!!!

You deserve that 5th Star after all your hard work!!!

Congratuations!


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A pentasolar congrats to all the newly minted 5-stars! I to got to enjoy Hmm's Solstice Scar (C) table. She was dressed exactly like her iconic avatar. Thank you for all you bring to the community.


Venture Lieutenant Play by Post PBP GM kit
-KARSH- wrote:

Hello! Looking at dipping my big toe into the play by post gaming and getting started with something low-tier. I am experienced player and 2 star GM so I know my way around PFS, just thought I would try out something new again! Hopefully something I could jump in on soon...

Welcome Karsh!

The recruitment thread is where new games are usually announced, so keep an eye on that one.

The Flaxseed main page has a lot of information about play by post. I recommend that you read the parts in section "How to Play Play-by-Post" to get some basic insight in how it is usually done.

Feel free to ask anything, we are here to help you get into a game asap.

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Congratulations, HMM!


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Congratulations Hmm!

GM Ewok wrote:

Let me start by saying: I don't want to start a fight, I am genuinely curious.

I have recently seen a few GMs who use Google Drawings instead of Google Slides. Personally, I use Slides for my games as it allows mobile users to interact with the map. So, I am curious.

For those who GM with Google Drawings for maps: Why did you make the decision to use that over Slides?

Again, not trying to be antagonistic. I just want to make sure I am using the best platform for my games.

Like Hmm I post almost exclusively via mobile, so Slides is a must for me. I recognize that Drawings has a few advantages, but most of the disadvantages of slides do have workarounds, while Drawings has no workaround for mobile.

However, I find it difficult to make GM posts from mobile. Do you have any tips, Ewok, Hmm, and other mobile-posting GMs? I want to keep my games moving but I also want to go into a certain amount of summary and put things in my own words. How do you do it? Maybe I'm just overdoing it; some great GMs I've played with (I'm looking at you, Shifty) keep their posts very terse. I just don't know how to be that terse.

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GM Lorenzo wrote:
.... Not quite the 'fire-and-forget' simplicity of a single link to the first slide in your GM tagline, but I think it's worth it. I view it as a courtesy to my players, making their life that much simpler.

But what about those people who like the challenge of scrolling up 40 posts to the top of the page to click on the functionally 6 pt font-size, non-bold, three-letter-word Map link there that you can't access (because it is not there) once you've started typing your one round novella? I'm pretty sure it's an Olympic sport of some sort (at least for those gamers attending the Olympics).

I'm not bitter or anything. ;)

I for one like engaging maps (click the links above, and take a look--in particular the slide 5's in both games. I'm sort of proud of them. They save me a thousand words each).

Whoa! Can I clone your confirmation slides for my own use? Do you keep all your slides from previous games?


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Although I’m posting from a mobile format, almost all of my posts come from an iPad with a Bluetooth keyboard. One thing that I do a lot is compose longer posts in Google Docs. I also keep copies of my initiative combat tracker there, which I update and then copy paste into the Paizo site.

Having copies of all my macros in google docs really helps the process for me.

Hmm


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ANNOUNCEMENT REGARDING FREE RPG DAY OFFERINGS: Skittershot and We Be 5uper Goblins

Hello All.

I am going to ask that you do not offer games of Skittershot or We Be 5uper Goblins that have a start date before July 1st (when those games become publically downloadable on the Paizo site.) Free RPG Day is not free to the retailers who agree to participate. They pay handsomely for giveaway boxes for their patrons, and in return they’re offered a period of exclusivity for Free RPG Day games.

I’d like us to honor the intent of that exclusivity period. If you pick up a module from a retailer, you may of course offer a privately recruited home game of it on the Paizo forums, just like a GM anywhere might do so for his home group. If you choose to do so, please... do not announce it here.

Both Skittershot and We Be 5uper Goblins are adorable. I’m hoping that you’ll all enjoy playing them once the exclusivity period ends!

Thank you so much,
Hmm

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Slides

GM Socrates,

GMing from phone isn't easy, but I do have some tips! If you don't have keyboard shortcuts, make some TODAY! For example, when I type "sp " my phone autocorrects to [spoiler=   ] or "di " turns to    : 1d20 ⇒ 17. I have those set up for all of the forum tags. Actually, that's pretty helpful for everyone who plays on mobile. Not just GMs.

I also save the initiative, perception and combat tracker text blocks in my phone notes. Also, I'll often save the dice rolls for opponents to make combats a little smoother.

As for being terse, that varies by group. If I have a good group using lots of description and role play, I feel like I need to recap and rephrase a lot less.


Female Goblin Fighter 4 | hp 38 | AC 21, T 14, FF 18 | CMD 16 | F +6, R +4, W +2 (+1 vs fear) | Init +3 | Spd 30' | Intim +2, Perc +8, Ride +10, SensM +1, Stlth +10

"NO NEED WAIT! 5UPER ICONIC FIGHTER AM HERE! FIGHT NOW!!!"


What is the premise for Skittershot? Please, no spoilers, just looking to get an idea of what it is about (ie We Be Goblins is a slice of life story about four goblin heroes).

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Gummy Bear wrote:
What is the premise for Skittershot? Please, no spoilers, just looking to get an idea of what it is about (ie We Be Goblins is a slice of life story about four goblin heroes).

Paizo page for it

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I haven’t tried GMing a PbP yet, but I have been playing for about 18 months, and 80-90% of the time I am posting from an iPad or even my phone. Slides, as has been said before, works well enough for moving my token on the maps - it took some getting used to, but after a bit I got the hang of it - but it is painful to enter text onto a slide formatted as a table when GMs use it for tracking initiative, skill modifiers, etc. Sheets is much simpler.

For drafting my posts, I use the excellent iOS app Drafts (now on v. 5), which syncs between my iPad and iPhone and allows the creation of custom keys. I put together keys for the full set of the BBCode tags for the Paizo boards, and with an external keyboard, it is faster to bang out a post on my iPad than it is on my laptop; using the on-screen keyboard, it’s a draw.


I love drafts! Great app to draft posts on mobile. Still working on my first GM on slides, but I know I will miss drawings to a degree. Tusk, do not hesitate to fire up a board to GM. I have had nothing but great experiences on PbP boards. We are very lucky to have such a great and supportive community here.


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Thanks for the tips on keyboard shortcuts. I'm an android user (tablet and phone) so I'll have to find a way to do it with that.

What separates Drafts from Google Keep or Evernote? Evernote has a lot of bells and whistles that can make it a lot of steps to get to actually writing a note, but Keep is very simple.

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@Wicked Brew - Just starting Redalia's PbP GM school now!

@GM Socrates -
Drafts is where you start writing, not where you use or store the finished product (although in fact you can just leave your drafts in the app and it stores them and backs them up to iCloud). It is plain text only (with Markdown support, for those who use it), and lets you create automated "actions" to process the text when you're ready. Examples:
- convert draft into an email without specifying the recipient, with the first line as the subject;
- convert draft into an email to my assistant, with the first line as the subject;
- convert draft into an Evernote note in my default notebook, with the first line as the note title;
- convert draft into an Evernote note in my Pathfinder notebook, with the first line as the note title, tagged ROTRL for my home Runelords campaign;
- save draft to Dropbox;
- convert draft to calendar appointment;
- send draft as text message to my wife;
- open draft in MS Word for iOS;
- copy draft to clipboard, etc.

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when does mustering/GM recruitment start for the August Game day? Just wondering...

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Want to try PbF on RPGG? Check out my profile for more info!

The VO crew has been working on the announcement this week so I imagine it will be soon. I don’t have a hard and fast day for you but I suspect the coming week after Origins is a good bet.

Dark Archive

Male Half-Elf Swashbuckler 1 |AC 16, T 14, FF 12 | HP: 12/12 | F +1, R +6, W 0 (+2 vs Enchantment Spells/Effects | Immune to Sleep Effects) | Init +6, Perc +4 | CMB +1 CMD 15 | Panache 4/4

Hey everyone, just popping in to say it looks like there's a stellar community here and I'm looking forward to getting into a game sometime in the near future.

I've done lots of Pathfinder before, some via PBP on other sites and lots at my home table but this will be my first foray into PFS so I'm hoping to really nail it hahaha.

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Welcome Velthas! It's always nice to have another enthusiast join the group. If you haven't yet, make an in character post in the gameplay tab of this thread, that way you can go to your campaign page (which I highly recommend bookmarking) and see when a thread has been updated.

Some of the best GMs in PbP frequent here and I am sure it won't be long before you are role playing it up and having a great time. Keep checking the recruitment page. In fact, often if you ask, some GMs will come along and run something for you just to get you involved. There are plenty of beginning scenarios that are offered regularly.

Again, welcome, and I look forward to your stories.


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Qstor wrote:
when does mustering/GM recruitment start for the August Game day? Just wondering...

ANNOUNCING PBP GAMEDAY VII!

Yay!

Grand Lodge

Rusthenge || Spell Templates | Starship Roles | ◆◇↺

Yay!

Silver Crusade

Venture Lieutenant, Play by Post (online)

Happy dance!


Venture Lieutenant Play by Post PBP GM kit

Yay!!


Ruby Phoenix Tournament Games I've Played (Session Tracker)

Yay! I can't wait for Solstice Scar C! And Assault on Absalom! And my first Starfinder game day!

Can someone with access to 9th level spells make it August, already?

Scarab Sages

...is a worthless concept ...is a cynical scam gestalt Ghul Lord/Warlock/Truenamer/Psychic/Wild Mage
GM Hmm wrote:
Qstor wrote:
when does mustering/GM recruitment start for the August Game day? Just wondering...

ANNOUNCING PBP GAMEDAY VII!

Yay!

Here we go again...!

Grand Lodge

Venture Lieutenant, California-North Coast | Lake County Warhorn | Konocti-Con

WOOT!!!


male human

I apologize if this comes across disrespectful, but would it be possible to have the upcoming games listed if they are Standard/Core and/or repeatable to those of us that aren't experts?

Lantern Lodge

SFS 05-99 BftB

Core normally gets called out - and in the gameday it appears in the listing. If someone doesn't say Core it is by default standard.

Often GMs mention if the scenario is an evergreen, but we don't always remember. I for one will try to remember to do so.

Scarab Sages

...is a worthless concept ...is a cynical scam gestalt Ghul Lord/Warlock/Truenamer/Psychic/Wild Mage

We interrupt your regularly-scheduled hoo-ha to bring you the following unplanned hoo-ha:

I need a bit of help. I played "Serpent's Ire" under a very flaky DM who hasn't posted since April, and he assigned credit to my Witch, when it should have gone to my Alchemist. Can someone please rectify this?

Silver Crusade

Venture Lieutenant, Play by Post (online)

IHiYC, please PM me things like event name and number, your PFS number, and the character numbers, and I'll see what I can do. I should be able to either fix it or request help from someone who can.

Do you need help with the chronicle also, or just with reporting?


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^^^

That is why I LOVE our PBP Officers. They just be awesome!

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^^^
AGREED! The most responsive and overall great group around.

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