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Painlord wrote:

Andrea Brandt wrote:

I hope you're happy, Pain. But you still have to have someone else get you coffee. I'm busy, keeping time and prepping a lovely mug to gather all the BoneKeep Tears.

Sheesh. I like the avatar that wasn't making claims upon my unborn tears.

Can we go back to that one?

She's become a monster!

She's critting seven-year olds, making their nine-year old brother cry, and then brutally murdering characters. If I hadn't killed Jerry's character with an errant bomb, I'm sure Andi would have! She certainly didn't hesitate to kill Scott's character.

I'm not sure the bomb was errant.

There is no handedness in Pathfinder. The two-weapon fighting penalties only apply if you take an extra attack with the second weapon. In this example, the character can take an AOO with the dagger if someone came close enough to provoke and would not take the two-weapon fighting penalties. See this FAQ entry.

Heroes' Feast, particularly the 3.5 version.

Mage Armor and False Life. If you are going back to 3.5, the Heart spells from Complete Mage were good (Air, Earth, Fire, and Water).

It is called "Faction Guide"

There are certain scenarios where you pray that a specific faction is is represented in the group. A Chelaxian Paladin is delicious for this. I'd frankly not force an atonement. He may be squeamish ahead of time, but in the moment it accomplishes good (freeing bound souls) and works toward establishing law. He just doesn't want it to get too out of hand.

When we played, we discussed whether or not my Andoran Oracle of Cayden Cailean or our Chelaxian Sorceress should address the crowd. We went with the sorceress. Her speech opened with, "Peasants of Galt, Cheliax has deigned to bless you..." Then the scroll was read. My oracle kept saying, "That's not at all what I would have said!"

It sounded better than "Rabble of Galt..."

Select your character’s class and race from the choices offered in the Core Rulebook. You may also select aasimar, tengu, or tiefling as your character’s race with access to the proper Additional Resources book. Additional class and race options from resources like the Pathfinder RPG Advanced Player’s Guide, Pathfinder RPG Ultimate Magic, Pathfinder RPG Ultimate Combat, Pathfinder RPG Advanced Race Guide, and Pathfinder Campaign Setting: The Inner Sea World Guide are generally available with few or no alterations, as well.

The only legal race choices are from the Core Rulebook and aasimar, tengu, and tiefling, unless you have a convention boon allowing you to play another race. The section you quoted regarding class and race options refers to things such as archetypes, alternate racial traits, etc. Goblins are NOT legal for play.

The Undead Lord archetype is banned. See Additional Resources.

Specifically,

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Magic

Anyone playing the magus playtest version must have updated his or her character as of 5/19/11. The following are NOT legal for play:
Alternate class abilities: alchemical simulacrum discovery, alchemical zombie discovery, doppelganger simulacrum discovery, and greater alchemical simulacrum discovery are not legal for play.
Archetypes: broodmaster summoner, clone master alchemist, gravewalker witch, pack lord druid, master summoner, reincarnated druid, synthesist summoner, undead lord cleric, vivisectionist alchemist archetypes are not legal for play.

There has not been an OFFICAL change so there should not be any table variation.

Being a frequenter of a store that utilizes a table fee, I feel the need to chime in here. I should note that the store I play at charges a table fee for all games, not just for when we run PFS.

An establishment charging a fee for table time, as many have already addressed, is not a new thing. In fact, in my (possibly limited) experience, it has become quite common, as many gamers are choosing to purchase their products online for cheaper than retail prices - which they certainly have the right to do - but this does hurt the neighborhood game stores. It hurts some more, some less.

To compensate for this, many local game stores request a table fee. It is (basically) compensation for you taking up space in their store for a certain amount of time. I know in my personal experience, my FLGS is very busy, and when we are charged for PFS play, it is essentially ensuring us a table on one of their busy nights.

The table fee is not intended to be the ploy of some jerk store owner trying to make a few extra bucks off of gamers. It is simply a means to ensure they are making money on the night that 5+ players are taking up space in their establishment.

What the store DOES with the table fee varies. My store, in the case of PFS, pools the money together and the GM/table decides how it will be spent. If we have new players, we buy them dice. If we have a player who has been playing for awhile but still lacks a core book, we will buy him the book. (These decisions are left up to GM and table discretion).

The only issue I see with the implications of the OP's first post is that the store owner in his case is claiming the fee is for Paizo. If the owner said something like "To play PFS here, you have to pay $5" it is open to interpretation, but I personally do not interpret that as "I am a PFS representative from Paizo and we charge universally for gameplay."

TLDR; The store has a right to charge you for table space in their establishment. If you do not want to pay $5 to play there, start up a PFS...

The store charging is not the issue. It is the store saying charging a table fee is required by PFS organized play as well as saying that the store owner is a Venture Officer when he or she is not. Those are the issues, not charging for a table.

From the conclusion of First Steps, Part I:

Success Conditions

In order for the PCs to earn their Prestige Point for
completing the adventure, they must have completed at
least three of the four tasks on Ambrus Valsin’s list.
Faction Missions

There are no faction-specific missions in this scenario,
as PCs playing through the First Steps series have not
yet chosen factions, so any PC who meets the scenario’s
success conditions earns a second Prestige Point for
completing the scenario. When a PC earns her third
Chronicle (after completing A Vision of Betrayal), all
previously earned prestige will be reported to her
chosen faction.

It is clearly intended that the PCs will earn two prestige points as long as they completed three of the four tasks.

I will make the trip as well. As far as locations, you may want to see if a local community center has rooms available or if the library has rooms that could be used for this. Another possibility is a restaurant with a larger "banquet" room, such as Coco's or IHOP. I know from going to networking groups that meet at such places that often you just need to agree to buy dinner and they will give you the room.

Alex Draconis wrote:

little monsters

???

I guess there are a few monsters below huge, you're welcome to show them all the pain you want.

Despite Will Johnson's comments about Eric Brittain nearly TPKing them, I saw through, and defeated, the sneaky plot to get softy Eric Brittain to GM the first part to help you guys out.

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On a more serious note I expect the adventure to be, tough, challenging, rewarding and a lot of fun. I think you guys can do it, although you will need to be on top of your game. I am honored to be running Eyes of the Ten for some of BAPS finest.

I am very much looking forward to it.

I have five active characters and all have purchased a CLW wand within the first three scenarios. Typically, it is after the first one assuming that 2 PA has been earned. Even if the character cannot use it, someone else can.

If you work in the South Bay Area, Legends in Cupertino and GameKastle in Santa Clara run games on a regular basis.

We have setup a Yahoo group for PFS members that play at a particular store. I would like to post a copy of the current organized play guide (Version 4.0) in the "Files" section of that group so people can readily access it. Two questions: First, is there a way to get a non-watermarked version of the guide and, second, if not, can I use my personalized version and post it for others to download? I know I cannot do this with scenarios, but am not sure if there would be any restrictions with regard to the play guide.

I am going to be up in Ashland July 6th through 9th and was wondering if there were any games going on.

Nullpunkt wrote:

Spacelard wrote:

I've had a look and I can't find a satisfactory answer or I can't make out what is being said.

If you are FF can you make an AoO if you haven't got Combat Reflexes?

You already said it, only when you have Combat Reflexes. See here under Normal.

Ah okay...me not so dumb :D

You can also make an AoO prior to acting in the round if you have the Uncanny Dodge class feature, since you are not flat-footed. See under Flat-Footed.

I know this has been discussed previously, but I was wondering if the developers had changed their minds about not allowing vital strike to be used on a charge. The reason for this comes from the Inner Sea World Guide. Specifically, on page 315, under the Treerazer entry, it states:

Treerazer begins most combats by casting time stop and raising an antiplant shell to prevent plant creatures (including creatures under the effect of his aura of corruption) from approaching. If he has time, he also creates walls of thorns and summons demons (usually four nalfeshnees and 12 hezrous). In melee, Treerazer gleefully takes up Blackaxe and makes full attacks against the closest foe, or Greater Vital Strikes if he’s forced to move or charge.

Either they have changed their minds about Vital Strike and charging (and not told anyone) or this was a mistake and needs to be corrected in a future update. I would just like it cleared up.

Jerry

Since this is a PFS character, I would spend two PA to get a Wand of Cure Light Wounds that you will have others use on you for healing. I feel that it is one of the first, if not the first, purchase you should make with PA.

It's best to always try to stick to the scenario as written, especially when it comes to tactics.

Thanks for the quick response.

I am getting ready to run this on Monday and have one question. It is a DC 17 Perception check to notice the ghast to the left of the entrance to the room he is in. Why wouldn't the ghast, assuming he was aware of the party, move to his spot and then attempt a stealth check while they were trying to open the door? At tier 6-7, his Stealth bonus is +16, I believe. Is it the stench that somehow lowers the DC of the check? Would it be wrong to have the ghast make a stealth check instead of relying on the static DC 17 Perception check?

For those that are interested, there will be a PFS presence at KublaCon over Memorial Day weekend. You can sign up to attend KublaCon here: http://www.kublacon.com/ . Once you have done this, you can sign up for PFS games at the Warhorn site: http://www.warhorn.net/kublacon2010/.

Any plans for a Pathfinder presence at KublaCon over Memorial Day Weekend?