Now up to level 2 and ready to venture further into the depths of the Island, my all-human group consists of:

-Malachious Valeros, Lv2 'Two Handed' Fighter
Proffessional adventurer and sword for hire.

-Kren Croshaw, Lv2 Alchemist
An explorer from Cheliax, seeks new samples and puzzles to solve.

-Tavor, Lv2 Summoner
Mwangi Colonist with a pet extra-planar Tricerotops called 'Oscar'.
(real name unpronounceable...)

-Jensen Daimond, Lv2 Oracle
Seeks the mysteries of 'Life' energy in the lands he travels through.

My group started last week, and the group I'm running the adventure for consists of:

Miro, the irritating halfling ranger who was sent on an errand with "Precious Cargo" just to get him away from home.

Zelijka, the half-orc, half-Mwangi druid with a "miniature" (medium sized) T.Rex companion.

Ruven, a half-elf rogue escaping from a bandit group in Varisia and hiring onto the Jenivere's crew looking for adventure.

Lint, a half-elf elemental (fire) sorcerer along for the ride from the Shackles.

and

"Gunner", a half-elf barbarian pirate who sheathes his swords in his shoulders while attempting to climb cliffs, because he can.

Just had our first session tonight. It is pretty much everyone's first time playing any sort of tabletop RPG.

I'm impressed at everyone's willingness to come together and make up great backstories and everyone had a great time.

Cast of Characters:

Seldlon of the Vial - LN Elf Alchemist. Researcher and bomb lover. Tends to find complex solutions to simple problems. Boarded in Magnimar.

Deirdre MacRaith - NG Half Elf Druid. Never fit in or felt at home anywhere. Left Varisia on the first boat out to a new place. Hopes of one day finding her elven mother and bringing the murderer of her father to justice. She has a pet tiger named Balor.

Olondir Onyxbeard - CG Dwarven Barbarian (Invulnerable Rager). The sole survivor of his clan after an attack by drow. He left with a few gallons of ale and 10 bars of soap for Sargava in hopes of finding himself and one day hopes to avenge his fallen comrades.

Piper (Pippenweed?) - LN Halfling Bard (savage skald). Poor guy left his halfling village to the big city of Riddleport. Got stuck working at a pub where he was always abused and made fun of. Inspired by an adventurer named Tomas and the comics of Grognak the Barbarian, he set off for Sargava for treasure, glory and adventure. Digs nature and smokes fleyleaf "for musical inspiration." He likes slings.

Next week, we will be getting another player. She will be playing a human witch but she hasn't sent me a name or backstory or anything just yet.

They just visited the wreck of the Jenivere and set up camp.Too bad the late afternoon rains and the transportation of so much food to their camp attracted 4 hungry dire rats.

We just began Serpent's Skull last night, and I get to play, rather than GM!!!

Our cast of characters, thus far:

Meekra, Elven Rogue.

Foggerton Brasshammer, Dwarf Ranger (Guide Variant)

Elian Falconsflight, Half-Elf Bard

Ginnie Weasely, Halfling Witch

Metaphor Sadface, Gnome Illusionist

So far, we've made friends with everyone we shipwrecked with, have acquired pets, treasure, and sent ghosts away, and in general rock the casbah hard.

My group consists almost entirely of Barbarians. Boy am I lucky.

Phaetor - Half Elf Wizard
Cherhan - Half Elf Barbarian
Grulsh - Half Elf Barbarian
Raeyodan - Half Elf Barbarian/Druid
Ropopo - Half Elf Barbarian/Rogue

May the Gods help us.

My group consists almost entirely of Barbarians. Boy am I lucky.

Phaetor - Half Elf Wizard
Cherhan - Half Elf Barbarian
Grulsh - Half Elf Barbarian
Raeyodan - Half Elf Barbarian/Druid
Ropopo - Half Elf Barbarian/Rogue

May the Gods help us.

LOL! And they're all half-elves! At least they chose appropriate sounding names. ;-)

My group consists almost entirely of Barbarians. Boy am I lucky.

Phaetor - Half Elf Wizard
Cherhan - Half Elf Barbarian
Grulsh - Half Elf Barbarian
Raeyodan - Half Elf Barbarian/Druid
Ropopo - Half Elf Barbarian/Rogue

May the Gods help us.

Wow. You've just given me such an Eighties direct-to-video, starring professional wrestlers, bad fantasy movie flashback.

You must find a way to work Jack Palance into your game.

InsideOwt wrote:

My group consists almost entirely of Barbarians. Boy am I lucky.

Phaetor - Half Elf Wizard
Cherhan - Half Elf Barbarian
Grulsh - Half Elf Barbarian
Raeyodan - Half Elf Barbarian/Druid
Ropopo - Half Elf Barbarian/Rogue

May the Gods help us.

LOL! And they're all half-elves! At least they chose appropriate sounding names. ;-)

What more could a girl ask for?

Just started this one today! Since I've only got three players, I rolled up a GMPC to hopefully even the odds a little. So we have:

Calliope -- The GMPC. Cleric of Gozreh, was helping transport halfling slaves out of Chelliax via the Bellflower network, but they left to become pirates in the Shackles.

Kilroy -- Gnome Archivist Bard, came aboard in the Shackles, has a scholarly interest in the Mwangi Expanse, has proved surprisingly useful in lecturing monsters.

Valentina (Val) and Benedict (Ben) -- Brother and sister bounty-hunting team (she's a sniper rogue and he's a fighter) who were bringing Jask in on behalf of the Sargavan government.

So far they have made friends with everyone but Ishirou (and even he's indifferent), warmed up enough to Jask to take his manacles off and after a couple of days even gave him back most of his stuff, and got Sasha her baby dinosaur. (They also killed the other baby dinosaurs in the nest for meat. And the mommy dinosaur. And a snake and the bats I threw at them. Okay, I don't think they actually ate the bats, but they probably would have tried.) They also explored the Jenivere and two of the other ships, though sadly not the interesting ones.

I'm hoping to get them to the Brine Demon next session.

After the original castaways died in a TPK, a new group arrived on Smuggler's Shiv after coming through a magic portal from one of the ruined castles outside Absalom.

Melkesideck - NG Dwarf Rogue
Riandur Ryodan - CG Elf Evoker
Jason - NG Cleric of Iomedae
Edward McGinty-Armstrong - LE Half-orc Zen Archer Monk
(Name redacted as it's a pun on the F word) - LG Dwarf Fighter

Gelik and Aerys are the only survivors of the Jenivere. Jask was captured by the vegepygmies and died from disease after being fed their fungus, Sasha was eaten by dimorphodons, and Ishirou was beheaded by Narak Voad the wererat.

Just started this one today! Since I've only got three players, I rolled up a GMPC to hopefully even the odds a little. So we have:

Calliope -- The GMPC. Cleric of Gozreh, was helping transport halfling slaves out of Chelliax via the Bellflower network, but they left to become pirates in the Shackles.

Kilroy -- Gnome Archivist Bard, came aboard in the Shackles, has a scholarly interest in the Mwangi Expanse, has proved surprisingly useful in lecturing monsters.

Valentina (Val) and Benedict (Ben) -- Brother and sister bounty-hunting team (she's a sniper rogue and he's a fighter) who were bringing Jask in on behalf of the Sargavan government.

So far they have made friends with everyone but Ishirou (and even he's indifferent), warmed up enough to Jask to take his manacles off and after a couple of days even gave him back most of his stuff, and got Sasha her baby dinosaur. (They also killed the other baby dinosaurs in the nest for meat. And the mommy dinosaur. And a snake and the bats I threw at them. Okay, I don't think they actually ate the bats, but they probably would have tried.) They also explored the Jenivere and two of the other ships, though sadly not the interesting ones.

I'm hoping to get them to the Brine Demon next session.

Nice group. My party did eat the bats...they are barbarians after all.

I am actually running two groups (What did I get myself into!) Here is the first group. I will post the second group later:

Jig-wren-doh, Gnome Cleric of Gozreh
Crusher, Half-Orc Barbarian
Jaqen, Human Rogue
Jasper, Human Sorcerer
Traine dan Tocan, Human Ranger of Gozreh

- Irina "the scarlet" Oyeghirn, female Halfling Jinx Arcane Sorceress (sister to Berod Oyeghirn, the Black Raven of Freedom) : a few feet of cute and air-headed bimbo, loyally though cowardly served by her raven familiar Liberty who should soon become more intelligent than his mistress (not a hard feat by far)

- Andree, female Half-Elf Inquisitor of Milani (though she claims to follow Aroden), somewhat tempted by a dip in Rogue : trigger-happy, hater of capitalism/imperialism and the Establishment in all its shapes, paranoid verging on psycho. Her being born and raised in Galt is no excuse

- Narok and Natok, twin male Half-Orcs "Diplomats" (ie Barbarian/Fighters with the Amplified Rage feat), born and raised in an Orc tribe and destined to fight the Lizard Who Will Eat The Moon. In the meantime, they revel in all things Orcish (killing, drinking, breaking things, picking fights, getting "close" to the female PCs)

- Whatshername, female Half-Elf Ranger with the Archery style, en route to become the unwilling but de facto leader/face of the party

- Forgothisname, male Half-Elf Druid/Monk who just loves collecting bits and pieces of interesting flora and fauna (especially of the venomous/poisonous sort)

Together, they are the Half-pack

Tom Qadim wrote:

Just curious to see the PC party combinations other DMs are working with.

Here's our group:

Klem - CN Male Human Barbarian
Corvinna - CN Female Human Witch (And her Raven Familiar Corvex)
Death Blossom (yes really ;) ) - CG Female Human Rogue
Sanjian - LG Male Human Monk
Erethon - CG Male Elf Ranger
Jonas - CN Male Human Necro-Sorcerer

You forgot

Wallaby - Goodish Gnome Tinker Cleric
Jonny Dingo - CG Human Monk/Fight

My group consists of:
Pick - mwangi human bard (sandman) boarded in Bloodcove. He's searching for his lost parents and such.

Sir thomas   Human ranger boarded in quint. This players story makes me shake my head so I'm going to basically ignore it and hope he is joking.

Bren Thornpicker    Halfling oracle of life.   Scholar trait, boarded in cheliax. Wants to learn about ancient ruins and make money, possibly be a pathfinder, though he worships pharasma and has some weird idea about uniting the philosophies of life and death or something, may be going for a necromancer concept or a mystic thug with sorcerer. Kind of out there...

Makoa Shadowtusk  half-Orc ninja. Boarded in illzmagorti. He mentioned being in a situation similar to Ishirou, so the two may get along or hate each other being very similar in concept, also being tian helps (as he's half tian human as well as Orc). Has also expressed interest at being a red mantis assassin at one point which could make book 2 interesting.

Vargus, an ulfen human who worships torag, he has yet to make his character but is looking at either paladin or fighter.

Martzig Verstasis, a gnome cleric of Serenrea who boarded in kintargo. He is on a sacred pilgrimage of some undecided nature.

We also have 1 or 2 possible other players, but I'm not holding my breath. 1 will be an elf ranger almost guaranteed, the other will probably be a cleric. Neither will be in the game long or more than a few times as 1 is going into the military, and the other is his wife (my sister).

- Andree, female Half-Elf Inquisitor of Milani (though she claims to follow Aroden), somewhat tempted by a dip in Rogue : trigger-happy, hater of capitalism/imperialism and the Establishment in all its shapes, paranoid verging on psycho. Her being born and raised in Galt is no excuse

WHAT ? What do you mean "Paranoid Bordering on Psycho" ????

I KNEW I could not trust you. You're just like all the others. I HATE YOU NOWWWW !!!!

Besides you could not trust that

And Hey ! I did not spend one night in the tent with two drunken half-orcs. I am a woman of principles !

Besides ...

You are just mean to me ! I Hate you now !

Starting this adventure path next Friday, trying to do some of the boat RP stuff via emails (our group uses a "10 Things Other Party Members Would Know About Your Character" questionnaire to speed things up a bit too.

At any rate, our current party members are:

Summer - Human Female Zen Archer Monk, she hails from Windsong Abbey.

Nino - Human Male Druid Mystic (based off Treatmonks Druid Handbook, he has no animal companion and focuses on spell-casting.

Morgrym Stouthammer - Dwarven sword and board combat style ranger (gmpc)

Unnamed Gnome Oracle of the Heavens with the Warden of Nature alternate Trait and haunted (by fey spirits trying to get her to return to the first world).

Unnamed Dwarven Bard (outcast who can't grow a beard (or shaves it each day, the player hasn't decided), shunned for his lack of facial hair, he spends more time affiliating with non-dwarves.

I'm the GM for our group. They are comprised of the following PCs using hero points and 25 point buy.

Yamas - Human Mawangi Druid and his monkey animal companion. First time player.
Jax - Half Orc Barbarian.
Isa - Mawangi Wild Elf Rogue.

They made good class choices for such a small party. We were hoping for 4 or 5 players but two folks couldn't commit. :(

The group just hit level 2 last night. I need to be careful on XP so they don't level uber-fast. They have been fairly direct in their approach so far, not going for sideline issues, and their XP is on track.

If they were obsessive about every possible encounter, they could easily move up too rapidly. XP is a major concern for me with only 3 PCs in this adventure. They can handle the encounters. One player is very creative so that helps. One is a powergamer so that helps. The new guy is new, so he is doing things a seasoned player wouldn't think of. (no preconceived notions) That helps too. :)

... and 25 point buy.

Make that 20 point buy....

Clan Stoneheart of Varisia's Janderhoff (all dwarves):

Thirsk Stoneheart - Cleric of Torag
Dogun Stoneheart - Cave Druid & Son of Thirsk
Irving "Rockbrow" Stoneheart - Barbarian, Nephew of Thirsk, Cousin of Dogun
Wenvil "Slowbleed" Stoneheart - Rogue Poisoner, Nephew of Thirsk, Cousin of Dogun, Brother of Irving

Finished our second session last night. Dwarves stuck on a hot island can be prickly at best.

The Castaways

Arames: Human Fighter, Archer, Qadiran, Boarded in Cheliax, young man seeking fortune and fame.
Istuion Mithrennon : Elf Evoker(Divination & Illusion), bat familiar
Eden Midnight: Human(Taldane) Transmuter, from Riddleport, Boarded in Magnimar, Relic Hunter, Parrot(Raven) Familiar
Navya: Human Rogue(Poisoner) from the Shackles, Escaping her old life
Juliet: Gnome "Haunted" Oracle of Life, From Sandpoint.

They are 4th now, trying to understand the pictographs of the temple under the Cannibal Village. Navya died to the Mother last game and now Juliet and the Dryad will use the scroll to bring her back. Then it is off for some revenge.

We have reach 3rd level now and are investigating red mountain.

Tia Lee: The monk has proved very effective with his shuriken. He has just taken deadly aim.

Valden Holt the Dwarf Druid now has a tyrannasaur Animal Companion

Toomba the sorcerer has the aberrant bloodline so has just gained long limbs. Is now going to touch spells. His mage armour has been very useful. I do not think he has cast it on him self yet, monks and Animal Companions like it a lot.

Gardura, the dwarven inquisitor use a Great Axe to deverstating effect.

I'm a player in this campaign, and our group consists of the following people:

* Fadil Madeki (CG male human ranger [guide]): Fadil is of the Calderu people in Senghor and is traveling to Eleder after getting into trouble with a powerful noble in the city. This is my PC.

* Morvius Rothe (CN male human magus [bladebound]): A chelaxian minor noble from Westcrown who's looking to make his fortune in Sargava.

* Shexie Meiren (CN female human witch): A tian scholar who's traveling around the Mwangi.

Greetings all,
We've played about 8 sessions so far, and it has been much fun! Frustrating at times, but always fun!
Our group (in order of boarding the Jenivere):

• Wulfgang von Bismark - Andoran inquisitor. Out to rid the world of 'heretics'. Apparenlty thought the jungles of Mawangi would be a good place to start.
  
• Kogrok - half Orc paladin of Iomedae. Fresh out of the academy, the church sends him with escort to Eledar to offer his service.
  
• Grumbul - Dwarven monk of the Sacred Mountain. Escort to Kogrok; thereby the church gets rid of two oddballs at once.
  
• Erasamus - Human fire mage. From Ollo, in The Shackles. Dreadlocks...rum...what did you expect, a frost mage?
  
• Roar - Human fighter. We later learned of his family in Eledar...and his thing for redheads.
  
• Halima - Mawangi Elf ranger. Very outgoing and vocal. Unfraid of new environments...but there is something kinda spooky about the way her eyes give off their own light at times...
  
• Malcolm - Elf...?meatsack? We hardly got to know him, having met him already stranded on the Shiv. He was killed by Ieana. Player now plays Gustav, a Sargavan agent attached to the group.
  

Oddly I ended up playing instead of running this. My friend's running it now (Using my books).

Our group consists of:

• Belkyn Shroudwalker, Half-elf Cleric of Pharasma. Tries to be nuetral and honest, but tends to find himself overruled by the chaotic actions of his fellow castaways.
  
• Ethan the Beautific, Chelish Bard with luxurious blonde locks. (running gag)
  
• Rycke the Iron chef of Smuggler's Shiv, Ulfen Barbarian who rarely rages and is more of a defender than a brawler. Also an amazing cook using mostly snakes and various land animals. He describes cooking as his "passion".
  
• Faleed the Ever-changing, Kelish Pistolero Gunslinger. A dirty ex-pirate who seems to have a knack blending in with others and bluffing his way through things.... (This is me by the way)
  

Been alot of fun so far...

Just started running this last week. First session went pretty good. They're still stumbling around on the Shiv, trying to follow the coastline south-southwest.

The party is as follows:

Akker Silver Claw, Shoanti Druid, with his bear companion Bellow. Favored by the Shoanti spirit ancestors by visions and a silver bear claw found in his rite of passage; the spirits are now guiding him south. Going to focus on wildshape when he gets it.
Vanua, Oread Monk of the Sacred Mountain, paid her trip south as a bodyguard to the ship's "valuable cargo."
Korgoth, Shoanti Barbarian, prophet of Gorum, heading south to act as a missionary for Gorum by taking the Gorumskagat to the southern lands. He's also more metal than the rest of the group combined. Heading towards Oracle > Rage Prophet.
Hauk, Half-Orc Fighter, member of the Jenivere's crew.
Aldis Stein, Half-Elf Wizard, a city boy from Absalom who's leaving home to explore the Mwangi Expanse with wide-eyed enthusiasm. Hoping to one day join the Pathfinder Society.
Erethemos, Elven Summoner, with his imaginary friend turned Eidolon Lash, heading south as a member of the Jenivere's crew.

I'm GMing this in a PbP game here: http://www.myth-weavers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=20074
I am starting with 2 groups of 8 castaways (each a couple miles on either side of the wreck) with another guy co-GMing and running the day-to-day stuff in one of the groups while I do the mapping and graphics and run the day-to-day action for my group. We started last week so one group is at the morning of day 2 and the other is still in the evening of day 1.

I ran this with a prologue aboard Jenivere where the characters got to meet each other and had a chance to talk with the various NPCs, including the doomed ones. That was a fantastic move for a PbP game - I basically invited all the applicants to start talking with the NPCs and each other right away so I got an idea about their posting abilities and frequency right away.

Group 1:
Sariel - Elven Wave Mystery Oracless
Hawkler - Half-elven bow ranger
Japheth - Human Monk (well optimized for damage, crew member)
Lilianna - Gnome bardess
(NPCs - Jask, Sasha, Gelik)

They had a miserable first night and the three women, Sasha, Sariel and Lilianna just had a blow-out after Hawkler got super bossy trying to get a shelter built.

Group 2:
Cask - Dwarven Cleric of Gozreh
Tyranthius - Forlorn Elven Rogue
Kark - Half-orc barbarian (crew member)
Olo - Nature Mystery Oracle (stowaway, ex-slave)
(NPCs - Ishirou, Aerys, Sava (my co-GM's original character, a Tarzan-like halfling barbarian)

They did some good exploring but didn't do much about a shelter or food so they're going to be cold, wet and on rations right away.

20 point buy, Core and APG rules only.

After the campaign I ran dried up after the first book, I didn't think I'd ever do Serpent's Skull again. Then one of the other people in my gaming group decided they wanted to GM it and so now I get to play. Yay. I am doing my best to pretend I know nothing about anything :)

Our guys are:

-- Brother Urs of the Loyal Order of Urist, my dwarven weapons adept monk with a staff (who is rocking the whole Friar Tuck look instead of the normal monk outfit.) He was a sailor on the Jenivere. He is currently convinced the [spoiler with wings] is the Splatter Man due to his own convoluted logic. He likes punching things.
-- Kilroy, the gnome archivist bard that my husband played in the Serpent's Skull that never finished, only aged up to Old for this new one. He can and will lecture at the drop of a hat and is basically the only face we've got.
-- Sellis, an asimar Starsoul sorcerer whose reactions to most things are Mage Armor followed by Minute Meteors. It keeps working, though, so he may be onto something.
-- Bellonna, a shapeshifting ranger who I think is either human or half-elf? She's a tall one, anyway. Urs gave her one of his extra staffs so she'd have a melee weapon.
-- Onixia, an oread druid, and her pet leopard. The GM nearly killed her twice in one session, but he's a killer GM so I suppose this should be expected.

Illiana Soranna, halfling ranger. Undergrad at the Lepidstadt University. Researching for her thesis.

Jezebel the Precious, valkyrie fighter. A covetous minx. Recently hired by the Aspis Consortium to escort a large, iron-banded crate to Eledar.

Sang-Drax, half-orc/half-dragon. On the run from his evil red dragon step-father. Was drugged and put into a large, iron-banded crate bound for Eledar.

Yar!

...and the 5 NPC's, of course.

~P

Just ran the second session of my Fantasy Craft rendition of Smuggler's Shiv with the party having fought off the sea scorpions on the beach, figured out where they were and explored the wreck of the Jenevire.

Ravna: female human Intelligent Fencer Priest of Cayden Cailean, angling for Swashbuckler. Showy, acrobatic, permanently buzzed. Armed with a Rapier and a large tankard (buckler). Think Paladin of Freedom in 3.5 terms. Native of Andoran.

Theomund Ringstrand: male human Wise Summoner Mage. Child of merchants whose parents disappeared. Raised in Andoran and is a patriot. Seeking to make his fortune and maybe learn his parent's fate. Accompanied by an prissy Avoral (his Eidolon). Has a crush on Hope. Carries (and can use) a sword cane. Think Summoner with a bit of Bard in PF.

Hope Lanter: female human Agile Outdoorsman Soldier, aiming for Beastmaster. Daughter of Steel Falcons, on leave from the Andoran military while she deals with a family commitment. Accompanied by her war dog and falcon. Archer, and a scary one at that. Closest to a Ranger in PF terms.

Brand Truenorth: male human Nimble Rogue Burglar. Raised in Greengold, a bit naive about the world outside his home city. Looking for adventure, fortune, and glory. Has a pile of navigation and expedition gear he doesn't know how to use. Favors the mace. Closest to a Rogue in PF.

Indigo Penbryn, male Saurian Shield-bearer Lancer. Lizardfolk cavalier, mounted shield and spear fighter. Raised in Absalom by an eccentric wizard. Traveling the world following his death with his choccobo (cough) axe-beak mount, Under the Stars. Cultured accent and noble demenor, rarely uses his natural weapons. Very much the old 'native raised in Europe' schtick.

Peter Vandermeer: male human Charismatic Cleric Explorer. Think Indiana Jones if the Dr in Dr Jones was an MD. Atheist and an Int based Martial artist. He's already saved Brand from snake venom and demonstrated why sea scorpions should not crowd the good doctor. It was messy. For the bugs. Also from Andoran, we think. Doesn't really fit well into Pathfinder terms.

Yeah, Eleder's going to be... let's go with 'fun' with this party.

As a player here this is the only thread im reading in here. Our GM is running this with alot of players, all encounters and such have been adjusted to a +2 or 3 CL.

Human Tower Shield Specalist, fights with a rapier or scimitar or curved elven bladed (at -4) using his wpn finese and multiple AoO's to hold the line, he has dreams but being a dragon diciple, but his cha wont even allow him to cast cantrips.

Human Ranger, fights with duel long swords. wears studded leather.
Half Elven Druid. fights with scimitar and brass knuckles and a buckler.
Half Elven Inquisitioner. repeating crossbow and scimitar.
Halfling Cleric, scimitar and shield or throws stones.
Elven Ninja, kitana and shurekin.
Elven Cavalier of the Tomb, dreams of being an arcane knight.
+ 1 more but i cant remember what he is.

everyone has a long bow or comp long bow.

Were all 3rd, our DM is not allowing us to multiclass into any class that is not played by a PC while we are on this island. At 4th we can take something that one of our fellow castaways is, and 5th once we get off the island anyway we can be whatever we want. He hates multiclassing though so we only get half hps of the new class vs full of our main class.

We almost all follow saernrae (SP)