Glass River Rescue by TheBobJones (Inactive)

Game Master TheBobJones

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Ok, so we should have 4 confirmed - you all want to run with the 4 and the 4 player adjustment or do you want me to recruit 2 more? I am cool either way.

Been reading over the adventure, and there are 2 BIG info dumps. I have some scene setting already prepped. There are 2 success conditions and some variability on faction boons. I am still trying to figure out how to share these with the PCs without directly telling you. I may have to be a little heavy handed in the RP, and possible just directly tell you although that is a last resort.

In the meantime, enjoy this crap hole of a tavern I have placed you in. {insert evil laugh} - so hot cat-women in here.

Important, please make sure your tag lines are updated.

Damo's character here... Sorry for the delay on dotting in - missed the link on the word "dot"! ;-)

My personal preference is for the 4 character adjustment. Keep an ear out for other players, and if things prove too hairy for 4, we can always recruit for the next scenario.

Let me know if you need more (or less) on my tag line.

I am good with 4. Did Sun ever confirm with you ? I need to update my sheet after the goblins chronicle, let me know if you need anything else on my tagline.

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He has not. If you could pm him the link that would be great. Once the other 2 dot in and vote on 4 or 6 we'll start.

Good Morning! Sorry for the giant delay in posting, life is a squirmy little bugger at times.

Any class that would be helpful to the group? I haven't rolled this toon out yet, so we have the opportunity to tailor him to the party.

Also, I'm good with 4. Sounds fun to me.

Hey there Sun, great to meet you. Looking forward to some fun of a different kind. I changed Xûll from a sorcerer into a bloodrager before leveling up to 2. Ever since the Advanced Class Guide was released at Gen Con, I'm just not feeling the base classes anymore!

I was thinking a bloodrager would be a maniac wielding a two-handed weapon, but then I already had one of those.

Xûll, I think, is going to be calm and collected right up until the exact instant he enters his blood rage. Can't wait.

Glad that everyone had a chance to dot in.

Before we begin we have 2 options:

1) go with the 4 we have and I will make the 4-player adjustment.
Pro we can start right away
Con might be more fun with more

2) I can recruit 2 more
Pro some better party diversity but I don't see this as a huge issue
Con takes time

Xull & Pooka vote 4-party.

Regardless I have a non-sanctioned vinyet going on the gameplay quickly followed by the official beginning. Instead of the dreaded player handout we will "flashback" for info dump #1. Then we will "flash forward" to info dump #2.

Any class that would be helpful to the group? I haven't rolled this toon out yet, so we have the opportunity to tailor him to the party.

Also, I'm good with 4. Sounds fun to me.

Plenty of time. Just have the character 100% by info dump #2.

Good Morning! Sorry for the giant delay in posting, life is a squirmy little bugger at times.

No worries. Happy to have you. My only requiremt is at least 1 post per day once we start. If you have a seperate alias for an AC make surre to dot it in too.

Cool. At least Sun is a druid - so he can help my wand of Cure Light Wounds get its whore on and heal everyone. ;-)

Anyone else have a CLW wand?

Pooka learned his lesson last mission and has a wand, I am good with it normal sharing of charges

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Thanks!

I plan on spending some prestige to get a CLW wand, and anything else that sound suitably flashy and shiny i just have to have. I should have it done tonight for review.

Posting for me will be limited during work hours (8am - 6pm-ish) but I should be able to keep up outside of that time frame.

All set, level 2 and ready to go! No animal companion, chose the elemental affinity style for a change of pace.

I am good with a 4 member squad, for me vote.

Ok so that is 3/4 for 4 and the vote carries. Once Augustus checks into the tavern, we will quickly wrap up this interlude, and move quickly into what is supposed to be a player handout.

Ok, Augustus will be a Slayer (class). And I'll update the Paizo character sheet this evening when I have my computer, but I have him all rolled up currently (just not the electronic stats to show-off yet). I'll be posting in the gameplay thread this morning.

4 players all the way!

Here an example of a guy Ibid and I gamed with before joining up with this group. I thought he was pretty good at a kind of 'island style' orcish. At least thats the way I read it.

I think personally the easiest way to do it is just make it as 'phonetic' as possible. Then the way it sounds in my head when I read it is pretty much exactly the way you pictured it coming out when you typed it. As far as syntax and grammer... I think you are doing fine.

The hardest part is maintaining the whole style. The way I try to do this is pick a few things to do, and always do it. Those 'things' could be a certain type of word, or specific word, and always just leave it out of the sentence. Or always use the same word in a specific syntax, for example:

when describing someone or something, you always say 'be' instead of 'is/are/am' : "You be short halfling! Harhar!" "Me be thirsty" "Dat hole be deep..."

If you pick just a few quirks, it makes it easier to stick to. I have a dwarf who always says ye, yer when referring to other people. Thats about the only thing I change, but its easier to keep track of because its the one thing I try to make sure I consistently change.

Does any of that make sense? It does in my head....

Great advice! I actually do that with Sheeba. Triple every "r".

Xûll has the whole "me" instead of "I" thing, but I'll find a few more. Damn English and its inconsistent rules. Makes it tricky to mess with them consistently. Also damn the new ducking autocorrect (wow, typed ducking and it auto corrected to fūckinf - wtf). Where and how it chooses what to replace and capitalize, I've got no idea.

Ok, Augustus will be a Slayer (class). And I'll update the Paizo character sheet this evening when I have my computer, but I have him all rolled up currently (just not the electronic stats to show-off yet). I'll be posting in the gameplay thread this morning.

4 players all the way!

Cool - Trask jr. Some very cool options in that class.

Ok so please post the following:

Character Name:
Your Name:
PFS #:
Faction:
Chronicle for this character:
Day Job roll:

and Perception/Int/Saves unless they are current in your tagline.

There are faction specific boons in this one ....

Character Name: Pooka Bladespinner
Your Name: Steve Hanis
PFS #: 133958-1
Faction: Liberty's Edge
Chronicle for this character: 6th
Day Job roll: Day Job, Handle Animal via Farmstead Vanity: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (14) + 10 = 24

Woohoo! Dinging level 3 after this! And I have an emerald spire chronicle to give this guy when he hits level 4 that will whisk him immediatly to level 5! ... Why is leveling characters so much fun? I'll never know...

Character Name: Augustus Aeyon
Your Name: Chris L.
PFS #: 141231-5
Faction: Grand Lodge
Chronicle for this character: currently has 1 chronicle, this will be #2
Day Job roll: none

Perception +4, initiative +2, Fort +4, Refl +4, Will +0

Character Name: Xûll
Your Name: William Gates
PFS #: 135100-3
Faction: The Exchange (Qadira)
Chronicle for this character: 4
Day Job roll: No day job, but I have this boon...

Treasure Map: You recently inherited or purchased a map that promises buried riches to any adventurer willing to follow its convoluted instructions. When you would roll a Day Job check, you may instead check one of the boxes. Upon checking the third box, you uncover the hidden cache, earning you a number of gold pieces equal to 150x your current character level. You may spend 4 PP to acquire another promising map and reuse this boon; if you choose not to do so upon checking the final box on the Chronicle sheet, cross the entire boon of the Chronicle sheet. You may only use one Treasure Map at a time.

One box is already checked. Please just print it out, check it (sign it) and scan it with my chronicle sheet for this scenario.

Xull is in search for some hidden treasure!

Now, that's a useful boon. Stupid other one that you linked to in the Zedroom!

Anyway, the boon and all my chronicle sheets are now sorted out: Xûll Chronicles & ITS

I've also finalized Xûll's stat block on his online profile. He's got over 1,000 gp unspent so I will probably do a little shopping once we've been briefed on the scenario (maybe some bladeguard, more holy water and other cool supplies).

Lucerne hammer, eh? Looks like we are teh suck for ranged attacks. Who wants to pick up a masterwork composite longbow? Xûll can, but raging + ranged breaks my mind, so he'd have to do it from close in.

When he gets to level 4, he can start to pick up some ranged options (from his sorcerer parent class)... but I'd like to focus on spells that give me melee buffs (and no saves for my enemies!).

Chances are we won't need a ranged focus if each of us has a ranged option. I have a sling, Sun has some ranged touch attacks. You could probably pick up a spear as a backup weapon, which can be thrown. I think we will be ok. (famous last words)

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@ Xull that is fantastic. I will check the box and sign.

Oh yea, where did you get that boon from? That is Awesome! I want one :) Probably a GM boon right? All the more incentive...

Nah, GM boons tend to be race boons and that kinda level. It was a player boon. 2 tokens at GenCon 2014 (get 1 token per table you play at, turn in 2 for a boon, random on a d20 roll... all rolls get a boon).

Character Name: Sun Desin
Your Name: Jason H.
PFS #: 143436-1
Faction: Dark Archives
Chronicle for this character: 4th
Day Job roll: Herbalist Day Job: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (4) + 8 = 12

All other data is located in tagline.

Chances are we won't need a ranged focus if each of us has a ranged option. I have a sling, Sun has some ranged touch attacks. You could probably pick up a spear as a backup weapon, which can be thrown. I think we will be ok. (famous last words)

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Yup, my trusty sling and my spells are ranged, though they won't do much damage very quickly. I do have a lightning touch attack that is fun to use, but only a d6 each time.

Ok - So random question. How does one find out the details of what boons might be available to GMs should they run games during certain events? That Sylph race looks cool, I remember you saying that is the boon the GM gets for running the gameday games. I am getting more and more enticed to run some PFS...

Granted, I am not sure if I will be able to pull off PbP GM'ing... (It would take far more time daily than I currently spend, and my wife already gives me looks...) but I could certainly pull off a (planned) live game.... Seems like it could be worth it for the boons...

The boons, the boons!

You only get the boons at events. You could definitely stick your hand up for GMing at GenCon. The man to ask about all that is Jack, as I've only ever GMed at the PbP GameDay event. For that one, the Sylph boon was announced after GMs had signed up and the GameDay had begun (November 5 to be precise). I'm fairly certain it's different for live events.

If you'll be at GenCon anyway, may as well put your hand up for GMing a table or two! I'm pretty sure I will. Paizo.com or GenCon's website will have more details.

Sorry for my delay in posting. My diplomacy skill seems to have disappeared. Trying to track it down. It used to be a class skill that I had ranks in. Just trying to figure out where in the sorcerer-to-bloodrager transition it went away! Can't very well have an Exchange faction PC without diplomacy (or at least appraise)! It'd be like a Sovereign Court faction PC without Knowledge (nobility)! Glad you got that sorted, Finarin. I know mechanically it's not the best, but can't be beat for flavor.

Har Har ;). I think that we can both agree functionally Finarin is ill suited for the Sovereign Court. I just like the role-playing flavor. That was a good suggestions to bring him more 'in-line'.

Obviously Diplomacy will be a useful skill in this scenario.

Have a bit of fun role-playing, it is important to get a handle on Passad and the dwarves before you all set out.

Okay, found it. I dumped my Intelligence a little, which caused me to have too many skill points spent. Additionally, I was toying with traits and had mistakenly replaced my "Upstanding" faction trait with "Focused mind" (y'know, even though I can't even cast spells right now). This made it look like diplomacy wasn't a class skill for Xûll and I absent-mindedly just removed those ranks.

Otherwise this part of his background makes no sense:

Xûll is now skillfully furthering Shoanti trade interests, using the Pathfinder Society to do so.

*Phew.*

I've retro-fitted my character to include it back in (removing one rank each from survival and knowledge (arcana). I love playing around in Hero Lab, but sometimes I forget not to save! Makes me almost wish for pen-and-paper again. Well, actually, nah. F•cking love Hero Lab.

In updating my tagline, I realised that I made some mistakes with transcribing it, which you've copied over to your rolls in the Campaign Info tab. Saves: Please update my Fort save to +6 (+9 when raging), my Reflex save to +2, my Will save to +2 (+4 when raging). Note my sense motive is also now +1 due to my replaced trait.

Finally, I have made some additional purchases (which Xûll can complete in Absalom or Kerse, up to you):

• Alchemist's fire (additional) x 1 (20gp)
  
• Holy water (additional) x 1 (25 gp)
  
• Bladeguard x 2 (80 gp)
  
• Potion of Feather Step (50 gp)
  
• Potion of Invigorate x 2 (100 gp)
  
• Smoked goggles (10 gp)
  
• Smelling salts (25 gp)
  
• Potion of Touch of the Sea (50 gp)
  
• Elixir of thundering voice (250 gp - 1PP)
  
• Elixir of hiding (250 gp - 1PP)
  
• Air crystal (50 gp)
  
• Antiplague (50 gp)
  
• Vermin repellent x 2 (10 gp)
  
• Everburning torch (110 gp)
  

Seriously, this guide is the best! Very happy with my purchase of the Adventurer's Armory (currently cheaper than the postage - total of $7!). Of course, most of it now appears in Ultimate Equipment anyway... but Vermin repellent doesn't!

Next up? Handy haversack to keep it all in!

Thanks mate, and sorry for all the trouble! I'll try to be better next time I switch classes (which you probably won't have to GM for).

No worries about the updating the rolls, I will take care of that.

Locations of purchases doesn't matter.

Question though, I thought 1 PP = 150 gp & 2 PP = 750 gp?

Sh•t. Yes, you're right. Fek. Ah well, bye bye 500gp! Hmm. Actually, just 250gp. I'll grab only the elixir of hiding instead.

Hey, by the way, just holding off for a little while to allow the less obsessed posters to post. Need to reduce my addiction to PbP somehow... not quite sure how. Checking threads less than every half hour will probably help. Re-reading and reviewing my own posts for 5 minutes before finally hitting submit will also help.

Sorry for the delay there!

Any issues, TheBob, if we buy some skill kits? Xûll should pick up a diplomacy kit, an intimidate kit and maybe a survival kit also...

If Xull has all that money stashed away, maybe he should be the one paying the tolls on our journey? His fortune clearly contends with that of Passad :)

NO Problem. Just have all purchases done when we hit the river, which will be after you make your decision on Xer.

I'll buy all those kits. Thanks!

Pooka is all set with purchases, I had them updated before we started. After this chronicle I will probably stock up on the consumables list... still need to do that. Unless I finally have enough money for the full plate I have been itching for....

Edit: Nevermind... I wont. Might have to wait until I hit level 4, when I can apply a pre-gen credit from emerald spire (3xp in one chronicle!)

While he's at the store, Xûll also pulls out a masterwork set of perception tools (spyglass, magnifying glass, reading glasses... and a few other sundries). Totally forgot about that skill - most useful in the game! Updating my profile with the new perception very, very soon.

I love that Xull attacked straightaway! Once I see the map, I'll post what August's action is, I.e. Specifying which soldier he moves against.

Boring conversations with someone he knows he will need kill are not for Xûll. ;-)

Map isn't loading for me either.

EDIT: Loaded. No updates with positions yet, though. GM, happy for you to make whatever adjustments you need to and happy to roll again whenever.

KK - thanks for that, not sure what is up. Regardless, you put out some serious freaking damage!

Heh. You're welcome. Barbarians are all about damage output - and I put quite a bit of thought into trying to optimize this build. I'm still not sure if I've got it right, but 18 damage for an "average" roll (6 on a d10) lets me know that even if it's not fully optimized, it's farking close. ;-)

I'm here, I promise!

Heh. We do post insanely often. Let me know if you'd like me to put on the brakes a little. Obviously, having to wait my turn in combat does that for me anyway. ;-)