[OSP] GM PaleDim's PFS#10-10 The Shattered Shield CORE [Tier 1-5] (Inactive)

Game Master PaleDim

Welcome core players! Please fill out your character's information on slide 3, and place yourself in the party's marching order on slide 2.

If you'd like to make a day job roll you can do so here.

Once I see everybody is checked in, I'll get us started over in the game play thread.

Average Party Level is 3 (rounded from 2.67). There is at least one character in the higher 4-5 sub-tier, so it looks like we need to play at that level.

Profession (soldier): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9

Profession: Clerk: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 27

No day job.

Great! We have 5/6 here already. I've pinged the last player but I'm going to go ahead and make the first post tonight to let you guys introduce your characters and get going.

Welcome core players! Please fill out your character's information on slide 3, and place yourself in the party's marching order on slide 2.

If you'd like to make a day job roll you can do so here.

Hello, I still need information from Hootie Bell and Ahmandé on the slides! Thank you!

No Day Job roll.

Botting: Ever willing to scout ahead and be fearless despite her will saves. Ranged weapons is her preferred mode but she's not averse into wading straight in melee to get her sneak attacks.
Disable Device +7

It seems like we've lost player "Bernard", so I'm going to open recruitment to allow the final slot to be filled.

Apologies, I'm going to have to pass on the game. Please take my name off of bhoth submitions. I'm too busy irl atm.

I'm going to fly to PaizoCon this afternoon! So my posting rate will be slow till monday evening :)
If needed, bot me.

Same for me (PaizoCon) except I'm driving.

Chicago is a little far from Seattle to do that :P

No problem Bernard! Perhaps we'll play another time.

Thanks for letting me know Gratius. PaizoCon is a big deal, so I can simply keep an expectation of a slow start until after the weekend.

I live in Seattle... so why am I not going (?!?)

So just to be clear, since our discussion has mostly been about wands and spell casting: are curing potions contraband as well?

I think I'll have Yangrit pick up a healer's kit, just in case. That'll be 50gp taken from my character sheet.

Not getting notifications of activity in the gameplay thread so I didn't see it was going! Catching up now while sitting in my hotel room waiting for the con to start tomorrow morning.

Yeah, PaleDim? Why aren't you here?

Yes, curing potions would be at issue just as well.

Just pointing out this other language from the guide. Not sure if it changes that ruling, but it's the only relevant language that might:

Pathfinder Society Roleplaying Guild Guide Version 10.0 - Potions, Scrolls, and Wands p.21 wrote:

For the sake of simplicity, there is no difference between an arcane, divine, or psychic scroll or wand; thus, a bard and cleric can both use the same scroll of cure moderate wounds.

No, that's in a paragraph about the available of such items on chronicle sheets, simply ensuring that they are obtainable and usable for classes with the spell on their spell list.

For everybody's reference, here is the relevant text:

All potions, scrolls, wands, and other consumables are made by clerics, druids, or wizards in Pathfinder Society Roleplaying Guild play.

This basically restricts CLW (in items) to the divine version, disallowing the bard and witch's arcane version (again, only in items, obviously their own casting ability is still there).

Again though, I think with discrete usage you'll be fine. There will be times when no prying eyes are present :)

Welcome core players! Please fill out your character's information on slide 3, and place yourself in the party's marching order on slide 2.

If you'd like to make a day job roll you can do so here.

Aldran, when you get a moment fill out the slides per the above post.

Okay folks, I hate to do this but can everybody PM me with your email addresses. We've been told to report OSP games early, and we don't roll for boons here. They will do the randomizing after I report it and email you if you've won a boon. Try to get this to me asap so that I can report the game quickly!

Hey folks! I'm sure you seen some posts around the forums about this, but just in case you missed it:

Per this post (and others like it) Paizo is doing some maintenance tomorrow and so we'll likely be unable to post for a good chunk of the day. My usual expectation is one post per weekday, but if some folks miss tomorrow due to the outage it's fine.

Hi team! Festival season is upon us; I am going to be camping in the woods without cell service from now through Sunday PM. Please bot me as necessary!

Thanks for letting us know, and most of all have fun out there!

Have fun!

Day job: Profession: Miner: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9

Hi! Just a heads up, I'll be away this weekend on a camping trip from Saturday early morning until mid-day Sunday (US/Pacific time). I'll be unable to post while I'm out there, but able to resume Sunday afternoon (so really only 1.5d away). This should be the only absence of your GM during this scenario :)

Enjoy your trip!

Whatever happens please understand that I'm not a GM-vs-the-players style of game-runner. This scenario has some serious imbalances and plot holes :/ I will do my best to balance against them because I do want this to be enjoyable and successful.

Running away is always an option. lol

FYI: I'll be on vacation from July 7-22. It is possible that I may be able to post periodically, but it's not guaranteed.

Hi all! I had an extended weekend trip outside of cell service, and forgot to notify my games before I left. I'm back now, and will be checking in and posting in all of my games hopefully tonight but definitely by tomorrow (Wed). Thanks for any botting you've done, and sorry for my unexpected absence!

no problem! welcome back. As you can see, your teammates delivered the mummy an epic defeat, and thank goodness you got that casting off grease off before your trip :)

Happy 4TH everyone.

Heads up folks, I'm headed out for some travel tomorrow. I expect to be able to post once a day, at least, *except* for maybe the flying days (tomorrow being one). I think they'll mostly fall on weekends so we'll be able to keep things moving at one post per weekend, but I expect I'll be able to do fine.

Just FYI in case I slow down a bit for some reason.

I just started a new job today. Until the training and acclimation settle down, my posting will be somewhat erratic, probably shifting from mornings to evenings (EDT) until I have a better feel for things.

Here's hoping you have the best supervisor/manager ever!

No problem Ahmande. Thanks for letting us know! Hope the transition goes smoothy!

Hello folks, with gameday announced and a start-date of August 26th, know that I'll do my best to ensure this game ends by then, freeing up your characters for any signups there!

I ran this scenario for Outpost II, so I have a good idea about its timing. Currently, I think we're on a decent pace for this to be reasonable. If the posts slow down and I think the pace is in danger, I'll let all of you know ;)

I see a couple of different opinions in gameplay, so maybe take some space here and get consensus about which items are important at all to you and strategies on how to proceed based on whether you even get any of the early items.

Aldran Recall that to participate you do need a bidders banner and the team only has one. So the bids you listed, do you want to run with those only after the team declines an item?

I'm fine with whatever items the party wishes to bid on as long as we have enough gold to get the shard.

Bidding the minimum and getting the item seems fine.

That works for me GM. I will be using the credit chit to add to the party amount to bid on the shard.

So we have 10 banks notes of 1000 gp each. So that's 10,000 Gp. We should keep 60-75 percent for the shard. That leaves us 2500 to 4000 gp to use to buy something/s else. Our mission is to gain the shard and if we can get a few more items. I am thinking that this place will be raided before the shard can be bought and having some items (cheap ones) to turn over to the watch may go along way to keep our names clear. It's just hard to say what Items to bid on when we have no idea what the starting bids are looking like. When the first item went for 2500 gp and this one is at 1250 gp. I don't know how many we might get.
I think the shard will start at like 6000 gp, so we might need to go as high as 8000 gp. I have 1000 gp of my personal monies to put in the pot if need be.

If we get raided, I'm leaving the fighting to the rest of you as I loot the place.

Win win in Hootie's book.
Save the gold. Get the items.

Haha! Hootie, that's all good in my book, though Yangrit would want you to turn it over to the authorities if that happens.

Anyhoo, I say we do low bids on a few items first, leaving about 7000gp for the shard (in line with Aldran's preferences). Yangrit has 500gp available that she can donate if needed.

Okay, then any try at the current item? Or move onto the next and start using Aldran's list as a seed for the important ones?

I think it is a good idea to put a starting bid on items. We want to deplete the money of other bidders, IMHO. Some of them might even run out of money. Do we know that any of them have any specific interests?

Do we know that any of them have any specific interests?

Nah, they weren't talking.

For reference:

He goes as high at 600 gp Phylactery of faithfulness, 1200 gp for the staff of healing, 600 gp Eldas’s platinum drafting tools, 600 gp for Incense of meditation.

I'm in favor of bidding for the clockwork statue of Brigh (currently bidding) because I think none of them will start at less than 1000gp. They're asking 1250gp for it, but I'd bid 1100gp. What does everyone else say?

I'm good with that. I think the general strategy discussed here is good.

Okay, then head back to gameplay and use that bidder's banner :)

I'm super tempted to jump in with a bid for 4k or something outrageous.