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I am in need of some GM advice. I have a weekly adventure path group which I GM. This weekly group had to shift to a virtual tabletop over a year ago using Google Hangout due to the distances we've moved over the years. This group is made up of people that have been friends and have been role-playing for over 20 years.

I also maintain a bi-monthly face to face session with a different AP with the same group of people. What I have found is a significant difference between the level of RP between the two groups. The VT group has seemed to adopt a "video game" mentality when moving through the AP, while the face to face group seems to RP much more, and in general just have more fun. This is no doubt a common bi-product of the virtual vs face to face space.

I am looking for ways to incentivize RP with my virtual group. Are there any reward systems anyone uses to promote deeper RP? I don't want to use XP as an incentive as I tend to follow the AP's suggested progression paths. Thanks for any assistance you can provide!

I've begun running WOTR, and one of my players is working towards the mythic build below. Utilizing a few feats and relatively low end gear, he is able to generate nearly 1,000 damage with a single strike at level 15/M 4. I'm looking to the community to scrutinize. Are we interpreting something incorrectly or is this for real?

Level: 14 druid/1 ranger

Feats: Power Attack, Shapeshifting Hunter, Shaping Focus, Vital Strike, Improved Vital Strike

Spell/ability effects in effect: Wild Shape (Beast Form III, behemoth hippopotamus), strongjaw, greater magic fang

Strength Score:
15 (base score from point buy)
+1 (leveling progression)
+4 (belt of giant strength +4)
+6 (Wild Shape (see above))
=28 Total Str

Damage:
4D8 (base weapon dice for bite attack)
+4D8 (additional weapon dice for strongjaw effect)
+16D8 (additional weapon dice for improved vital strike)
=24D8 Total weapon dice (24-192 damage)
+13 (Str mod x 1.5)
+9 (Power Attack)
+3 (greater magic fang)
=37-217 Total Damage
(+2 to +8 if favored enemy)

Now, let's look at the exact same druid with as little as four mythic levels added:

Additional Feats: Mythic Power Attack, Mythic Vital Strike
Additional Strength: +4 (mythic ability increases)

Damage:
4D8 (base weapon dice for bite attack)
+4D8 (additional weapon dice for strongjaw effect)
+16D8 (additional weapon dice for improved vital strike)
=24D8 Total weapon dice (24-192 damage)

16 (Str mod x 1.5)
+13 (Mythic Power Attack)
+3 (greater magic fang)
=32 static bonuses to damage
+768 (Mythic (Improved) Vital Strike (32 x 24))
=824-992 Total Damage
(+50 to +200 if favored enemy (static favored enemy bonuses x 24))

There you have it, almost a thousand damage in a single attack - never mind other spell effects, the animal companion, summonable allies, better itemization, a suboptimal pre-item Str score, other feats... and a free grab attack paired with the bite. Is this for real?

Hello Pathfinder Community!

As a long time GM, I have often fielded complaints from my players that as they advance through the adventure paths, their party wealth seems to be well below the suggested wealth level as indicated by the PH table. Obviously there are outside factors impacting this, such as resurrection costs, crafting, missing rooms and items, etc. Despite this, I wanted a way to track their progression, as well as a way for them to easily keep track of their own inventories. As a result, created the following spreadsheet:

Spreadsheet

Tab 1 is a blank form for a level 2 party, and tab 2 is a filled in example for a level 7 party.

I'm looking for feedback, advice, and suggestions from the community to tweak or improve the tracking form. Any thoughts?

Has anyone substituted Crucible of Chaos in place of book #3? Excited to run books 4-6, but not impressed with book 3 overall. Looking swap it out. What I am mainly interested in is how smoothly this would work? Does the xp line up?