The Moar Core Tour (Inactive)

Game Master BretI

How right you are, Damiar, spells are so much simpler in Core!

I was pondering what sort of wand to get for Garif, and a couple of other ideas popped off the very simple Core list: magic stone and produce flame. The first would give my sling attacks a little more oomph, and I'd get three attacks from one casting of it. The second would let me make ranged energy attacks, but I'd have to cast it one round and then make the ranged touch attack the next - easier to hit, but two standard actions to get a single fire attack. I am sort of leaning toward magic stone, because I like the idea of Garif casting a spell on a rock, but would value input from y'all.

Magic stone is very thematic.

And thematically appropriate, too!

Kate's druid uses produce flame in every game she plays, it seems, even at mid levels.

Hey guys, this week has been... well, a week. I haven't digested the messages starting Stolen Heir yet, but I should be able to tomorrow (Friday) night if I fail to tonight.

Thanks for the update, Verrix! We'll be here. :)

And we probably won't finish recovering the nobility's coiffures before this weekend.

So, you're probably wondering, Hilary, are you ever going to make that call to Customer Service? Well, I did. And though Sharaya was delighted to talk to me, she told me that she cannot convert characters from PFS Regular to CORE. The only person who can do that is... Tonya.

So... I need to email Tonya as she gets back.

Again.

* Head Bonk *

Why have they designed so many things to only go through Tonya?

Hmm

Nothing could possibly go wrong.

VACATION NOTICE

My spouse is kidnapping me to San Antonio for our 20th Wedding Anniversary, and apparently we're leaving tomorrow!

Will I be able to do posts from the hotel in San Antonio? I have no idea. I may be able to advance the game at a post a day, or I may go into radio silence.

We'll be gone from October 22-27.

Bot me, please!

Hmm

Have fun, Bret and Hmm!

It is just HMM and her husband that are going to San Antonio.

Don't worry, others have been confused by that as well.

I too have become confused.

I've always had a little trouble with that "gather information during the briefing" thing. When GMing, I sometimes present it to players as "here's what you heard will you were on your way here". Other times, I call for the Knowledge (local), and allow them to hit the streets and gather info after the meeting if they wish.

Heh, I hear you.

Like many things in Pathfinder, it's an abstraction; somehow at some time, your character figured out from others that... <insert factoids here>.

I too have become confused.

Tell you what, I will help demystify you at PaizoCon... Or in a private email. Life is complicated sometimes. Especially mine.

Hugs,
Damiar

It's gonna take serious intervention for me to be able to make it to PaizoCon again this year, I fear. Finances aren't great....

Private email then...

I did not realize until now that my post from last night disappeared in the site crash. Sorry about that. I usually try not to make you wait.

Hmm

Wow!

I’ve been having trouble getting into the boards recently. Hopefully they will stay up for a little bit!

Yeah, I just got on. Have had trouble for the last couple of days.

Unfortunately, looks like our troubles aren't quite over yet, either... I'm still experiencing some issues.

I normally do my updates from my iPad.

The latest map appears to be a Google Drawing, and I can't seem to manipulate it from my iPad. It will display it, but I can't seem to correctly select my avatar and move it.

I was able to move it using the browser on my laptop.

Is anyone else having problems with the map and avatars?

I haven't had any trouble from my laptop, haven't tried from my phone.

Speaking of the map, can we get a link to it, either at the top of the page (Rob, I think that would have to be you), or in your bio line, Oladon? Once we get a page into this encounter it's going to become more annoying to scroll back and find it.

Sorry, I've been meaning to include the link with each post... though having it in the header of the campaign would be nice, too.

Rather not put it in my alias header.

You can put it in your alias header and then take it out when the game is over. That’s what I do.

Count me as another person who cannot move in Google Drawings. Slideshows work fine for me.

Hmm

When we started this whole adventure arc, the plan was to put map links in our alias headers, since only one of us would be able to edit the campaign page. Now Oladon is resisting this and the whole grand Moar Core Tour is going to come crashing down!

Oh, woe is us!

(In other words, a link in the alias header would be appreciated by me and my wayward panther.)

Hmm... if Garif happens to die in this encounter, he won't be able to complain about there not being a map in my header anymore, right?

You could TPK the whole party and no one would be able to compain about maps in the alias headers!

Muahahahahaha.

It would also shorten this campaign by a lot...

Thanks for adding the header.

Hugs
Hmm

Good news! Our client launch is finally over (and very successfully so), and things should be calming down a bit for me.

Those who haven't played with me before (almost all of you!) probably don't know how much it has pained me to barely be able to manage this crawling pace. I'm a firm believer in PbPs not having to be a slow medium of play... but with that said, sometimes real life does interfere with that ideal. So I'm sorry for the pace up to now, and hope we can get it moving nicely again!

I will continue to be busy into the middle of next week (still in Puerto Rico), but should be able to dive back in at a decent pace for a bit after that.

So... you launched your client?

Into space?

Something like that!

"Aim for the stars, client, aim for the stars!"

We will save the cat!

Hmm

We will save the cat!

Yay! Such thoughtful adventuring companions!

(Would a large dish of cream be too much to ask while you’re at it? Not too cold, please. )

That and raw fish! There must be some around here, even in wine country!

Or a tasty bird! Perhaps with black feathers?

Damiar puts a sheet over CoCo’s head.

“Nope. There’s no birds here!”

I will be out of town from this Thursday until Monday for a convention. Expect that the updates will be slower, but I should be able to get at least one update in each day.

Kate and I will also be out of town for a convention this weekend, so same goes for us.

Pretty sick today. Will try to update later, if I'm feeling better.

Any update on the CORE/Standard reporting issue? The Gameday VI reporting deadline is coming up and I haven't reported Glass River yet.

Any update on the CORE/Standard reporting issue? The Gameday VI reporting deadline is coming up and I haven't reported Glass River yet.

Report them now.

Evidently fixing the characters is more involved than we were first led to believe.

Just report all of the games and allow it to error out on the characters that are RPG instead of core. It will not show us the correct prestige on those characters, but should handle everything else correctly.

I hope you feel better, Oladon!

Sorry, guys, life is really piling up on me right now. I'm 27 messages behind at the moment; I will *try* to catch up tonight, but I'm treading water and gasping.

Aid Another, Verrix treading water: 1d20 ⇒ 13

Hang in there! You’ve got friends!

Thanks for the update, Verrix. Try not to inhale water!

In case it helps, you should know that most of those new posts are one-liners and clarifications. :)

Yep, it’s the holidays. We’re all underwater.

Blub, blub.

I'll likely be slow to post for the next couple of weeks as well, I'm now in Mendocino working on the cleanup after the northern California wildfires, heading home Dec 13th or so. I have internet access, but am working 80-hour weeks - but there might be calm moments when I can post!

We’re not getting anywhere, so it’s time for the brick though the window approach.

I like it. I was getting ready to do the same thing, but didn't want to mess up your play.

You know, Oladon is playing to my known weakness for tea. It may not be hard to figure this out, as I have two tea-themed bards and one tea-themed envoy.... Still the GM is evil!

Hmm