The Moar Core Tour (Inactive)

Game Master BretI

Garif and Nico are leveled up, aliases updated, ready to roll.

But no rush, got plenty going on...

Kleines is updated and ready, as well.

Rees is also updated and ready.

Sorry, I still have to update Phinellippa! Wednesday?

Still here, good to start once everyone is ready :)

I am already leveled.

Not exactly ready, since my inbox is nuts with the gameday, but leveled! I’ll go with the group whenever the group decides to go.

Hmm

OK, gonna get things going today!

For the sake of figuring out subtier, could everybody chime in with the current level of his or her character?

Almost certainly our APL is just shy of 3, which rounds to 3. This would normally oblige us to play up, but given that nobody is level 4 or 5, then the group can opt to play down. (If I'm remembering the rules correctly.)

Rees is level 3.

I'd vote for playing up.

Also, I technically still need to decide on his level 3 feat.

Garif is level 3.

A party of five to seven characters whose APL falls between two subtiers must play the higher tier with the four-character adjustments found throughout the scenario.

In the fringe case where there are no PCs that are high enough level to have reached the subtier level (such as a party of six 3rd-level characters), the group can decide to play the lower subtier.

Iovo is level 3.

I believe we are in the fringe case of having a choice.

I will follow Shieara’s vote, since she is only level 2.

Kleines is 3. I think everyone but Shieara is 3.

Shieara is 2nd, but I don't mind playing up :)

Also super busy day at work, will catch up when I get home in a couple hours.

Alright, let’s play up.

Hmm

I am finally leveled up!

I'm fine with playing up, since it sounds like that's what the group wants.

Mua-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!

"...No Pathfinder worth his wayfinder would never behave in such a manner."

Heh. I didn't do that on purpose. That was supposed to be "ever", of course... but my right forefinger decided all on its own that I needed to throw in a double negative to keep everybody off guard.

This is a test.

It's alive! ALIVE!

...are we back?

I hope so! Checking in :)

Crossing all the fingers we stay back!

Woo!

Checking in!

Hmm

Woohoo!

...back again?

Back again like a bad penny~

Back again like a bad penny~

...that periodically loses its rather minimal value, sometimes for extended periods.

Checking in, yes I am still here.

Back again.

I’m also here. Oladon is going backpacking for a few days, won’t be posting.

It probably won't matter, as the Paizo site is rarely up these days, but I'll be at a local con this weekend and won't be posting much.

Kate and I are at the same con.

I have to be perfectly honest, I'm hesitant to start things until I see the Paizo site show some stability. Three times over the last week or so I came in to post the next in-game post, only to find that Paizo was offline again for a few days.

That's perfectly understandable. That and with it being a holiday weekend where most folks are likely to be busy, I'm happy to wait until early next week to try and resume - provided the site remains up and stable, of course :)

Hilary and I will be offline for today and much of tomorrow.

I am going to gingerly start the game up again, in hopes that the Paizo website has actually been fixed this time.

@Phinellippa,

If you put your spellbook in your profile it will be easier to select spells to trade.

Since you use HeroLab, one way to be able to do this and have it in the copy buffer of the BBCode would be to add it to your profile area.

Are you guys cool with the style I'm using for calling out the rumors? It makes things a little more "gamey", and makes them not flow quite as well, doing that rather than integrating them into NPC dialog as you speak with them. However, I'm thinking with a PbP, where our attention spends more time during the day diverted away from the game than on the game, it'll be easier for folks to refer back to the rumors you've learned by having them called out in the text.

Yeah, I like having them separated out like that. It makes it easier to find them again when I go back to remind myself.

I'm fine with the various narrative bits being broken up as you've done it, it makes it easier to follow. What I'd also like is if you could put the OOC stuff in OOC (like when you're describing what skills are applicable or otherwise directly addressing the players) and the story stuff in regular text. I know it takes more time, and you've already had to put together long posts for this part of the scenario, so I'll understand if it's too much - but it does help it feel more like a story we're all writing together.

Same as Garif, I'm good with how things have been presented but I also have to second the request to put scenario mechanics in OOC since that makes it easier to pick out from the other text :)

Ok, will do.

Re: diplomacy checks and the sheriff:

One thing you can generally do with Diplomacy is try to improve attitudes. If this comes after just a few lines of speech, I generally think of it as representing non-verbal cues, tone of voice, etc. (and probably random pheremone emissions) that rub the person you're talking to the right way or the wrong way.

I will tend to give you small circumstance bonuses if you say the right thing (definite if the scenario says it's the right thing), or penalties if you say the wrong thing ("Like me, you piece of crap!" [rolls Diplomacy]).

As an aside: you can have brought the letters that Jorsal received with you. This will allow you to do a side-by-side handwriting comparison, now that Garif recognized it's the same.

I will be unable to post from Wednesday to next Tuesday. Please bot me.

Hmm

Hang in there, Hmm!

Guess what?! Guess what?!!!

Iovo, Garif and Rees are finally CORE characters!

Hmm

Huzzah!

I mean, hurray!

(Huzzah isn’t Core.)

Garif or Rees would need to verify, but if GMs go back into their reported scenarios, edit, save and exit then the system should then recognize the scenarios we have already played.

I did this for the two scenarios that I GMed.