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*dusts self off*

Two options I approve of:

1) Characters get wealth based on their own subtier unless they fall between the subtiers in which case they receive wealth based on subtier played. Item and boon access would still be granted based on subtier played.

2) Characters receive wealth based on their level. Each chronicle would list 5 different fixed amounts of gold. Item and boon access would still be granted based on subtier played.

I think both of these options fix the "wealth" by level issues, but we would need improved high subtier item access or boons to provide a bit more incentive to play up when given the option.

This is... disturbing.

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A good GM will bring a container to the table sufficiently large enough to hold all of the tears produced at the table.

No comment.

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This becomes a moot point if you simply kill off the AC before they can become socially inappropriate.

As Mike said 1 resurrection and 2 raise dead's but also a UMD'd scroll of breath of life on the cleric and Mike's Living Monolith got a really great deal on his armor with determination on it. I think it triggered 5 times :). So there could have been 6 more deaths.

On a side note, if you ever sit at a table that Kyle is running, and you think he is trying help he isn't! He is that diobalical! Great table of players and Kyle's running was a great epic experience. Thanks everyone that played and Kyle for running it.

Would you like to use your reroll?

MUHUHAHAHAHAHA!

It approaches...

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I vote that you gouge out their eyes and drain their tear ducts.

Care Baird wrote:

I'll run a 20-person table for the special occasion.

That 5 tables worth of pre-season-4. Just quintuple the monsters, too.

No need to add monsters. I'll do just fine with what's written and 20 players. >:)

I'll run a 20-person table for the special occasion.

I invariably play up when offered the chance

Invariably, eh? Please, have a seat at my table. :)

And possibly because an enemy might sunder your regular gun, but not your adamantine gun (though honestly why make a sundering NPC without an adamantine weapon...)

Who would be evil enough to sunder your gun on an AoO? >:)

I prefer to drink the tears in front of the surviving players. It sets the mood for the next encounter.

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And then once they play enough to get attached to their precious little snowflake, you POUNCE! Destroy them! Rip out their heart and shove it down their throat! RAWR!

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Care Baird is requesting a custom table with fullers inside the edges to shunt the tears of his players into a martini glass below.

My dining room table already has this installed.

Todd Morgan wrote:

I don't care about improving my 'game' but that's because you can't improve upon perfection.

Must be nice living outside the confines of reality. You must be huffing the same stuff Baird does.

Except that I huffed enough "stuff" to actually transcend your puny reality and become something so much more...

Option K) I snap my fingers and the entire group of players implode leaving nothing but their Mt. Dew and Doritos behind.

Next group of players?

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Huh. Here I thought that *I* was the ultimate GM test...

Grimcleaver wrote:

Jiggy wrote:

What happened to "awesome"?

Eh. The guy's got flaws, who doesn't?

No one.

Hmm?

brutal in the hands of a good GM.

My ears were burning.

Tear up his chronicle sheets and use them to soak up his tears!

...or do what Bob suggest. Whichever works best for you.

Is ignoring this thread, because he wasn't mentioned...even by people in his region.

Let my childish pouting begin!

If this thread has taught me anything, you have to kill a lot of PCs to find some who like you. :-)

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Care Baird wrote:

What kind of evil S.O.B. would write something like this?!

*holds up a mirror in front of Care Baird*

*turns to stone*

What kind of evil S.O.B. would write something like this?!

Scott Young wrote:

Thurston Hillman is a great GM as well - he ran my first PFS game, his scenario "The Infernal Vault". Always great to be run by the sceanrio authour.

He's a filthy liar. Don't sit at my table. It is filled with nothing but tears and pain. Sometimes candy... :)

Stop trying to copy me. Those tears are mine!

If I ever GM Nosig, the entire scenario is going to be one long chase scene and no one at the table will be allowed to take 10 on anything.

Charging PCs at higher levels make me chuckle.

I think if a character shows up at my table with a build he doesn't think I'll understand, he should be prepared for a beating. He's welcome to bring his weapon of choice.

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Back when we first started GMing (any of us), we had far less knowledge of rules than we currently do.

Speak for yourself, I was born with all the knowledge.

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Bring whatever cheese you want to the table. The end result will still be the same.

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Kyle Baird wrote:

I am thankful the vast majority of my PFS experiences don't mimic the experiences on the Paizo Messageboards. :-)

Wait, so you're saying you wouldn't like it if I broke into song while at your table?

I wouldn't mind as long as it was at your character's funeral service.

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And as I understand it, at least one of those PCs is now 12th level and waiting to play Eyes of the Ten. :)

Excellllent.

Mmmm... Fudge.

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I am thankful for all the delicious tears I've consumed over the past 3+ years.

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6) Definitely for the 1st time with a PC and probably for the 2nd and 3rd, try to talk the table into ‘playing up.’

Yes... try to play up. Please, send them to my table. Those season 0's and 1's are easy-peasy. :-)

More seriously though, I wish more GMs weren't be afraid to A) warn players wanting to play up that they won't hold back just because they're first level and B) actually take a shot or two at those 1st level characters when they try to hide behind the appropriately tiered characters. Keep in mind that you need usually need to do over 20 damage to completely kill a first level character.

I've had some pretty epic tables where the party spends significant time and resources keeping those 1st level characters conscious.

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The GMs have relatively few resources in PFS scenarios with which to be ruthelessly efficient.

Yes. I have problems with not being ruthless enough.

Haven't died yet.

It's coming.

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Kill them all in the surprise round and you won't have to worry about this.

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Don't fear, those 4 tables who survived were all 1st level. I try to make it a point not to kill n00bs. I prefer to let them get invested in their characters before crushing their hopes and dreams.

Chris, on the other hand, timed it perfectly. He waited for those characters to get to 3rd and 4th level. A perfect blend of "investment" and "can't afford a raise dead." Well done Mortakiller.

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At my table, I reroll you!

What is this garbage about Marius being too afraid to show up in Magnimar? Some lame excuse about spell research?

Eight days from now I'll be feasting on the tears of nearly 500 dead PCs!

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While I agree some classes needed to go, the glee at which the community is watching them depart deeply saddens me. I enjoy an inclusive community, not one that laughs while others characters burn.

What if we enjoy watching all PCs burn equally?

I've been called an inappropriately sized weapon before.

Jiggy wrote:

ask the GMs I've pissed off with my "godlike powers").

Grrrr.

'Course, I have bad games, both as a player and as a GM.

Sorry 'bout that. ;)

C'mon guys! You don't want to play at my table for part 2? :(

Come play at my table, hargoyle!

For example, you can get raise dead cast on your post-Baird body for ~5k gold or 16PP

Not sure raise dead is going to help you..

Ah crap. Cake? Say it isn't so!