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Who else here is running the comic store invasion adventures? I'll be giving them a try tomorrow night.
The first adventure annoyed me a little bit for prep due to the sheer number of statblocks involved in such a short adventure, but allow my annoyance to be your gain, since I've uploaded all the statblocks to the GM Shared Prep Site here. It seems interesting though, and there's certainly a lot going on in it.
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Whoops, meant this to go up in GM discussion. Looks like it wasn't a huge list of events anyhow. You're all definitely welcome! Of course, after staying up late to get it done, the store owner emailed me asking to postpone the event for a week....but I think that's okay! More time to get the word out.
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I ended up running both scenarios/encounters tonight at Ground Zero Comics and Games in Omaha, Nebaska to a table of four during each one. The Comic Store Defense was a lot of fun, there was a lot for the players to do with this scenario and the madcap antics of the goblins went over well. The scenario never seemed out of hand for the players, even with only the four PC's. The PC's enjoyed smashing the fourth wall, and during the rogue's turn off from the will save from the CRB he got to enjoy checking out his level progression. This first party was fighter, gunslinger, barbarian, and rogue.
The Tavern Brawl, on the other hand, can be incredibly brutal on a less than full party. The monk, ranger, druid, and bard barely scraped through this encounter, and it took quite a while for them to make it past this. The opposition got in some pretty tough hits right off the bat, so I had the NPC cleric in the scenario pop off a channel to help he PC's before succumbing to the effects of the idol. I had the barkeep take a couple of extra turns of helping the PC's before she succumbed to the effects of the idol. The barmaids ended up dropping one of the NPC's before the sorcerer hit them with cause fear. When people run this, I recommend making sure there are six for this, even if it means rounding out the party with either GM PC's, or letting someone control an extra pregen. After the scenario, everyone, myself included were tired and ready for the scenario to be over. The stat blocks were a bit much to handle, I'm really glad I spent yesterday combing over the stat blocks and prepping.
EDIT: I was somewhat dismayed by the less than stellar turnout, but hopefully we'll have better turnout on Saturday before our gameday. One question came up though, can a player play through these more than once and still earn chronicles for them? I told people I didn't see why they wouldn't bee able to since they give no gold, exp, or PP, but that I wasn't sure and I would make sure and check before Saturday.
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At the end of the "Getting Credit" section there is this line: Under no circumstances should a single player
receive more than one of each Chronicle sheet. I suppose it doesn't specify if that is "ever" or "for playing once" but I'd lean towards the more restrictive option.
Good to hear the report though! I was kind of wondering how throwing multiple level 3-5 enemies at the PCs in quick succession would turn out..sounds like that can be mitigated a bit though.
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At the end of the "Getting Credit" section there is this line: Under no circumstances should a single player
receive more than one of each Chronicle sheet. I suppose it doesn't specify if that is "ever" or "for playing once" but I'd lean towards the more restrictive option.Good to hear the report though! I was kind of wondering how throwing multiple level 3-5 enemies at the PCs in quick succession would turn out..sounds like that can be mitigated a bit though.
Yeah, my bad. I glossed over that while I prepping for this. I'll make sure my players know.
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Who else here is running the comic store invasion adventures? I'll be giving them a try tomorrow night.
The first adventure annoyed me a little bit for prep due to the sheer number of statblocks involved in such a short adventure, but allow my annoyance to be your gain, since I've uploaded all the statblocks to the GM Shared Prep Site here. It seems interesting though, and there's certainly a lot going on in it.
Zefig - We are more than happy to benefit from your annoyance in this instance. Getting ready to run this on Saturday. Thank you, kindly!
Venture-Captain, California—San Francisco Bay Area South & West
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This is exclusive to comic stores for about a month, right?
Apparently we don't have any participating comic stores in our area :-(
So if any of our local players want to try out this adventure, I assume they'll have to wait until it's more freely available.
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This is exclusive to comic stores for about a month, right?Apparently we don't have any participating comic stores in our area :-(
So if any of our local players want to try out this adventure, I assume they'll have to wait until it's more freely available.
Do none of the stores stock the pathfinder comic? If they do, you may still be able to contact them and arrange an event yourself. That's what I did with mine...I don't think there was any initiative by the comic publishers for this or anything. Not sure if it will be freely available after the month. I figured it was a limited time frame event like the beginner box bash.
