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RPG Superstar 2010 Top 16. Goblin Squad Member. RPG Superstar 6 Season Star Voter, 7 Season Star Voter. ********* Venture-Captain, Pennsylvania—Allentown & Bethlehem 120 posts (2,865 including aliases). 1 review. No lists. 2 wishlists. 67 Organized Play characters. 6 aliases.


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Gru'Gar wrote:
Checking in

I should have 2-3 at least 2-3 characters in range. I'll look through my stuff and pick one to use. Likly Candidates are Alanar Lylat, Ifrit Warpriest of the black butterfly, Cerviche merfolk bloodrager, or Magical Trevor Magus/Rogue

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Tyranius wrote:
Shifty wrote:

Venture Captain Observation Games

I am now 109 games in (110 about to hit) and need to start collecting my 3 VC evaluated games.

Guide to Organised Play:Starfinder Society wrote:


Complete 3 observation games in the presence of a venture captain, a regional venture-coordinator, or a member of the Paizo Organized Play staff.

'In the presence of' is a strange descriptor for a PbP game though.

/casts summon Venture Critter.

I can observe for you if you would like :)

Did someone say all vo table?

yeah i know they need to be different games.

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BigNorseWolf wrote:
Does mepacon in PA have an organized play setup this year?

Yes. I'll be in charge of PFS/SFS again this year. Schedule is made and will be going up soon.

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boon: 1d20 ⇒ 2

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GM Ewok wrote:
Flex, would you like me to update your chronicle and re-upload it? (I can, but it might take a day or two.)

If its not too much bother. I can just as easily screen cap this thread and keep it with the sheet in case some audits.

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Yeah that is what is normally done in most PFS/SFS scenarios. Usually only the custom maps get put in the back. But you don't need to have an exact map. You can get a blank make (Or a toll of gridded wrapping paper) and sketch out the map you need. I've amassed a large collection of the flip maps, but still end up drawing the ocassional newer map i dont yet have, or custom maps.

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It's a wondrous item so I default to use activated unless otherwise specified. As far as I know thats how the PFS GMs adjacent to my region rule it as well. It's also priced like a Use Activated item.

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1) They are available under the community use packages as a bundle called Starfinder Society Pregrens

2) The Pathfinder Society Page will probably have a landing page for reporting SFS events as well. You Create apage for your event there and at the end of the event you type in the information including you player number (as the GM) and the numbers of your other players.

3) Your pace will quickly outstrip the available material unless you different games have unique players there are currently 5 scenarios available and one AP volume (which is good for 2-4 sessions depending on how it is run.)

They are only releasing 1 new scenario a month and I think AP volume are every other month.

Consider frequently rerunning the quest pack and 1-01 since both are playable. Keep an eye on the product pages so you know what scenarios are coming up and their level range.

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after the rewards for this sceanario ill be spending 16pp on raise dead.

1280gp per Restoration

I have more than enough cash to pay for them.
my last sheet was a module so I have like 3K i didn't really get to spend before the session. Though i doubt anything i would have spend it on would have made up for the blood lose or helped me avoid the hits.

I will certainly accept any donations and I'll say that i still had a blast with you all despite the death. Good times. I hope to play with some of you again online or in person should the chance ever arise.

The boon is called against the consortium,
once per sceanario when you defeat a named aspis agent or thwart the agents plans, record the agents name below

So i would just need the agents name and GM initials on the sheet since I can;t have the boon signed for real.

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I'll check it again when i get home. Its called aspis hunter or something like that from gencon 2015. When you defeat a number of named aspis agents you get a permenant boon against them.

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nope, 322, Rataji, and Joilrin or however you spell the artists name.

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boon!?: 1d20 ⇒ 3

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GM Grog wrote:

Tier 8-9

Tavarius (cleric 9)
Fatima (magus 8)
Ruprecht (alchemist 8)
GM Grog (fighter 9)
Jason (cleric 9)

Hell has no fury like a Hellknight Scorned!!!
Ready and waiting for stuff and things

Tier 8-9

Tavarius (cleric 9)
Fatima (magus 8)
Ruprecht (alchemist 8)
GM Grog (fighter 9)
Jason (cleric 9)

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I have a Cleric 9 or a Court Bard 9 I'd like to add to the pile

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You know there are a bunch of things in this errata that are things like rephrasing how often class features can be used. Going from when this wears off the target is immune to being only targeted once per day. Which I'm sure is what was intended but the way things were worded it makes it seem like you could spam the ability for as long as the creature was still effected. I'm assuming that wasn't the intention hence the errata. When every ability for the class is phrased that way its a lot of changed. I actually printed the errata and just started writing them into my hardcopy while watching tv. There are some sections ill be cutting out and pasting in because they are extensive, but mostly it was line out this word change it to this word. Add this work at the end remove this sentence. I'm not that bothered btu i understand those who are.

If it hasnt been a problem at your table and you arn't playing PFS, I'm thinking it shouldn't be that much of a concern.

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Gary Stegall wrote:
If I am posting in the wrong area I apologize, I've done some searching into how to become a venture captain and other such things... I am trying to organize players in my area and I was looking for some advice as to what I can do to be more involved in the community and earn GM stars, etc because I would love to be more involved in cons and such.. Ive played for a while now and hope to do more. Thank you all!

This is the wrong sub forum but it has been flaged so I'm sure it will get moved.

If you havn't looked here yet,
http://paizo.com/pathfinderSociety/getInvolved
that would be good.
While there are benefits to being a VO you certainly don't need to be to get things moving in your area. I started organizing things well before I became the VL for my area.

My advice on getting started is
1) Find a space that is willing or even happy to have you.
2) be consistent.
3) Start with the free quests as demos and bring lots of pregens.
4) Don't be worried if your tables dont get going right away. Just being in you event regularly and visibility you can start gathering people if you have a few friends who are interested try to convince them to come with you if it will get you a minimum table.

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To those about to doodle, we salute you!

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You have definitely left PFS better then when you arrive. Best wishes to you and your family.

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"Snakes.... why did it have to be snakes?"
Seriously cool stuff. I think I am loving the non-AP sets more and more.

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I don't even know what to say. Rick was one of the first few people to GM a PFS game for me. It was at Fall Mepacon maybe 5 years ago. Quest for Perfection Part 2. I just wish I had gotten the chance to play at a table with him one more time. He will be missed.

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laraqua wrote:
So Season 5 seemed to gear up to the Pathfinders getting into Sky Citadel Jormurdun but then it never eventuates. There seems to be no adventures in Season 5 that deal with entering it nor any adventures in Season 6 that mention it. Did something happen in one of the scenarios - perhaps The Paths We Choose - that prevent it? I'm happy for spoilers. I just need to know what happened with it.

The season 6 opener 6-00 which is a multi-table special event deals with it.

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I am willing to take personal responsibility for the existence of the swarm blooded template. Just be glad the sample critter wasn't a Mi-Go. "IT BLEEDS SPIDERS!"

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I I would love to be involved in something like this.

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Kadin wrote:
Am I supposed to know what any of these mean?

You don't yet as these happened in earlier portions of the campaign, but as time goes by Siren might be told about or overhear about some of them.

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Joe suggested we create a message board thread for well, loose threads. So here it is. To name a few there are,

The Lizardfolk Tribe
The Kobold Reservation
The mysterious dead unicorn
The crazy potion guy
The cackling witch in the swamp
The Boggard and his Slurk

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Congratulations to all of those who made it in to the top 32 as well as the alternates. Now to go look at all the cool stuff I didn't see while voting! Good luck with your monsters.

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Saffire wrote:
Ok so, I play pathfinder and I'm kind of new at it still. One of our players said he was doing this contest so I started looking into it the other day and after reading this thread I decided to give it a shot. So there ya go, another female in the rpg superstar :D

Go for it. I had been playing PF for less than a year when I made top 32 in 2010. I also completely skipped 3.5 so I was studying mechanics as I went. It was an awesome experience and goes to show if you have creative ideas you can make it.

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Victor Zajic wrote:
Why is this item so expensive? It takes up the head slot, which a rod doesn't, and only works on Evocation. Shouldn't these limitations lowers it's cost relative to the 9,000gp rod it emulated? casting Rage 1/day is pretty awful for casters, too.

I don't have the item in front of my at the moment, but rage probably adds substantially to the cost even if it isnt a great option for many casters. The formula for unlimited use of a spell is from 1800-2000*spell level*caster level. Since it is only one use a day you divide by five. Even assuming minimum caster level on the item and treating it as a command word rather than use activated that is (1800*3*5)/5 or 5700gp. Things get wonky if one also applies the rules for non-standard slot(rod into a helm) and additional abilities. That said sometimes pricing wondrous items is more art then since, but I think this us likely well priced for what it can do. It is not a bad option for a battle cleric or maybe a Magus. I don't recall if the rage is self only or not. In either case it is a good thematic fit to the Runelord of Wrath.

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Chaosorbit wrote:
Shifty wrote:

So:

Mists of the Mwangi
Voice in the Void
Penumbral accords
Echoes of the overwatched

then,

Matrimony
Disappeared
Fortress of the Nail
Veterans Vault
(all before 6)

I have all that in order?

Where would the Diamond gate go?

Also thinking of running my homegroup through these. We like the flexibility of the scenerios but also like a continuing plot lines these seem to give us both.

My question is there is a lot of museum runs I can see my party being excited to go back for a second go round. But when they get called to head to the museum a third time, I might get some resistence.

So if you had to leave one of the museum crawls out of the rotation which one would you skip? Which one contains the least crucial story elements that just can't be missed?

Also assuming we play Accords and Echoes what is the correct order? I see it both ways in this thread.

Thanks in advance for the advice.

While it is fun, I would leave voice in the void until later. You can still do it, but it is a 1-7 So it offers you some flexibility to do it later. However it has some tie to Echos of the overwatched. Those two make sense in either order though. They kind of have some background details that inform one anther based on the history of the museum building and the original owner before it was turned into a museum by the Blackros family

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Matthew Morris wrote:

I'd also recommend The Devil We Know series. Not only is it in Taldor, (huzzah) but if your PCs didn't know/hate the Aspis before...

Aside: It also allows me to get in my Andoran digs. "You'll need to go into the sewers. Look out for spiders, rats, Andorans and other vermin."

I just played part 4 for the first time having neaver read it. I'd run the first 2 parts several times and read part 3 many times, but never managed to feel the need to prep part 4. I just couldn't eem to get a group all the way through. Needless to say, my kind-hearted and fun loving Kistune Magus is going to be a borderline sociopath when it comes to Aspis agents.

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As someone who runs a high school gaming club and a PFS GM, I will likely order several of these. I know I can only help advise so many players at once and I constantly have new players.

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Wow! Truly amazing. Congratulations to you all.

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Congratulation Art!

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Congratulations. Mod sounds very cool. I look forward to it.

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Congratulations! I am sure it is well deserved.

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Awesome. Congratulations.

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This will likely make the schedule for Spring Mepacon in Clarks Summit, PA.
It will also be scheduled for a game day in May in my region.

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Cool. This was my first Dreamation. It was a blast.

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Tom Carpenter wrote:

Hey Jason, way to go!

Now you don't need to ask me all those annoying questions every gameday...

:)

But I have so much fun trying to read between the lines. I guess I better practice saying, "I can neither confirm nor deny those allegations."

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I'll actually be at Dreamation June. Though I am planning on attending the Spring Mepacon. I missed Fall due to a commitment to a workshop (on educational games no less). I'm very excited to be able to help PFS expand in my area.

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Congratulation to everyone who made it to the top 32 as well at the 4 alternates. This is some awesome stuff, I look forward to seeing what you all come up with for round 2.

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Wow. Just wow.

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I don't know if this counts as a gripe, but I can say from experience, if you have a round where you work up someone else's idea, do all you can to make it your own. I took the wrong direction with this ("well if I was free lancing and given an assignment with some really good stuff already written I shouldn't throw that out.") and it cost me. Of course that means I didn't make it far enough to be permanently disqualified. Might be time to make a come back.

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At conventions, you have to tell people that you talk to Pathfinder about that "you don't work for Paizo".

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James Jacobs wrote:
Tels wrote:
The Thing from Beyond the Edge wrote:
doctor_wu wrote:
The Thing from Beyond the Edge wrote:

James hasn't answered any questions since Tuesday. He must have something or other going on.

:D

Gencon.
Yeah, I know. That's why the big smilie. :D

Methinks James is tuckered out...

... and now I suddenly have a picture of James in his hotel room, wearing Paizo Golem jammies and snuggling with his Goblin plushie.

There's something wrong with me...

While Gen Con is indeed exhausting, and does indeed leave me with very little time to do idle stuff like answering questions on these boards... my lack of easy access to the internet is also a reason that I didn't answer many questions over the past few days.

Now that I'm home sick with Con Crud, though... that's a different situation entirely.

Sorry to hear it got you. Get better soon James.

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It's clear from the chronicle that Quests give no experience or gold. I am assuming that no prestige is awarded either. Is that correct?

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It makes sense as a way to try out new writers and will be a nice way to add more material for PFS demos and people who want some PFS goodness but only have a little time. Though it does mean my efforts on sceanario ideas to pitch for Season 4 are mostly writing exercises now. Oh well, time to come up with some Quest ideas!

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This might be a weird question, but any chance that the Paizo released content as far as adventures go could be sanctioned for PFS? I have some students in the high school club i advise learning the ropes of pathfinder with the first steps modules for PFS, but I have at least one rookie GM and he and his player might benefit from playing around with the beginners box, it would be nice if their PFS characters could get credit somehow. Seems like a long shot with the way the product is designed, but I figured it couldn't hurt to toss the idea out.

*ninja'd*

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Sigh. Another awesome west cost con I can't get to. :P Awesome that you guys are going to be there though. It would be sweet if you made it to Pax East in a year or two.