[ACG] [CaG] Season of the Runelords by zeroth_hour (Inactive)

Game Master zeroth_hour

Here's the discussion thread!

Hey everyone, still setting everything up.

Sounds good! Very excited to try Reiko and to see the other characters in action!

Sounds good! Very excited to try Reiko and to see the other characters in action!

Looking forward to play this as well and meeting the others as well. I was able to recruit a friend and my brother to play in this. Just to get an idea of where the 3 of us stand, here is some info:

Zalarian
Pathfinder Adventure Experience: I recently inherited RotRL with all 6 adventure packs and S&S with half of the adventure packs. I have played the first couple of scenarios of each a few times. Also played the digital version.
PFSACG Experience: This will be my first time playing in PFSACG. I played Pathfinder RPG organized play many years ago and likely the reason I already had a Paizo account. After just learning about this, I am looking to organize a PFSACG group at a local store and have just begun the process. I have played and organized adventures in older organized play games such as LFR and LG and played both of those online using map and chat tools.
PBP and Paizo Forum Experience: Only began using forums. Using the aliases and profiles is a new experience me but once started using it it seems pretty cool. I was initially bummed that avatars had to use pre-selected ones and the search capabilities need enhancements but I became a happy camper once I installed the chrome Paizo forum plugin another poster submitted.
Google Sheet Experience: Have only casually used sheets in the past. Since I am proficient with Excel and programming, I recently did make some tweaks to one of the deck sheets to include changes such as some dupe and error checking of cards.

TheGreatNateO
Pathfinder Adventure Experience: He has played several times with me using the sets above and the first couple of scenarios. I believe he also played the digital version.
PFSACG Experience: This will be his first time playing in PFSACG. He did find the process of finding information scattered as I had to have him sign up at Paizo, download documents from Paizo such as character sheets and card lists, and rules and the like, follow a thread, the Flaxseed document, and learn how to use the sheet program. I spent a session with him to help create his deck as well as using the spreadsheet. I don't believe he has any organized play experience but has played RPGs in the past.
PBP and Paizo Forum Experience: He recently signed up for this.
Google Sheet Experience: From what I can tell, has only occasionally used sheets but should be fine.

Jake_Bloom
Pathfinder Adventure Experience: He has never played a F2F game od P. He started going through the tutorial on the digital version.
PFSACG Experience: First for him as well as well as providing him the firehose of information. I also spent a session with him to help create his deck as well as using the spreadsheet. His organized play experience has been limited to only a few times when we played online for LFR.
PBP and Paizo Forum Experience: He recently signed up for this.
Google Sheet Experience: From what I can tell, has only occasionally used sheets but should be fine.

Sounds good! Very excited to try Reiko and to see the other characters in action!

Looking forward to play this as well and meeting the others as well. I was able to recruit a friend and my brother to play in this. Just to get an idea of where the 3 of us stand, here is some info:

Zalarian
Pathfinder Adventure Experience: I recently inherited RotRL with all 6 adventure packs and S&S with half of the adventure packs. I have played the first couple of scenarios of each a few times. Also played the digital version.
PFSACG Experience: This will be my first time playing in PFSACG. I played Pathfinder RPG organized play many years ago and likely the reason I already had a Paizo account. After just learning about this, I am looking to organize a PFSACG group at a local store and have just begun the process. I have played and organized adventures in older organized play games such as LFR and LG and played both of those online using map and chat tools.
PBP and Paizo Forum Experience: Only began using forums. Using the aliases and profiles is a new experience me but once started using it it seems pretty cool. I was initially bummed that avatars had to use pre-selected ones and the search capabilities need enhancements but I became a happy camper once I installed the chrome Paizo forum plugin another poster submitted.
Google Sheet Experience: Have only casually used sheets in the past. Since I am proficient with Excel and programming, I recently did make some tweaks to one of the deck sheets to include changes such as some dupe and error checking of cards.

TheGreatNateO
Pathfinder Adventure Experience: He has played several times with me using the sets above and the first couple of scenarios. I believe he also played the digital version.
PFSACG Experience: This will be his first time playing in PFSACG. He did find the process of finding information scattered as I had to have him sign up at Paizo, download documents from Paizo such as character sheets and card lists, and rules and the like, follow a thread, the Flaxseed document, and learn how to use the sheet program. I spent a session with him to help create his deck as well as using the spreadsheet. I don't believe he has any organized play experience but has played RPGs in the past.
PBP and Paizo Forum Experience: He recently signed up for this.
Google Sheet Experience: From what I can tell, has only occasionally used sheets but should be fine.

Jake_Bloom
Pathfinder Adventure Experience: He has never played a F2F game of Pathfinder Adventures. He started going through the tutorial on the digital version.
PFSACG Experience: First for him as well as well as providing him the firehose of information. I also spent a session with him to help create his deck as well as using the spreadsheet. His organized play experience has been limited to only a few times when we played online for LFR.
PBP and Paizo Forum Experience: He recently signed up for this.
Google Sheet Experience: From what I can tell, has only occasionally used sheets but should be fine.

Initial scenario post is up! This is to show the locations so you can see where you want to start.

Please introduce yourselves in the gameplay thread with your character, powers and initial deck list eg http://paizo.com/campaigns/ACGCaGSoFFSeasonOfFactionsFavorAdventure1/gamepl ay#3

How much you want to post "in-character" is really up to your comfort level. If you're interested then by all means, but don't let it be a hindrance to gameplay.

Are people interested in establishing a Google Hangouts for the group? I've found it was useful to do this so that people don't miss their turn, can ask questions about gameplay, ask for blessings and so forth. However, if not everyone wants to have one then I won't set one up.

I am randomizing a turn order unless you want to do it a different way unanimously, in which case I will defer to you.

eddiephlash: 1d1000 ⇒ 458
Zalarian: 1d1000 ⇒ 630
TheGreatNateO: 1d1000 ⇒ 823
Jake_Bloom: 1d1000 ⇒ 901

So Jake_Bloom, TheGreatNateO, Zalarian, then eddiephlash

I'm up for Google Hangouts. It works really well in my other campaign.

Pathfinder Adventure Experience: Played through the entire RotR adventure path IRL with a group of 6. One of the most fun tabletop experiences I've ever had. I've played just about every character in the original game to some extent. Lots of time also spent on the app version. I recently picked up MM box set and have been enjoying that a bunch!

PFSACG Experience: Check out my other game, started during OutPost, and ongoing: http://paizo.com/campaigns/ACGOutPostIHawkmoon269sSeasonOfFactionsFavorAdve nture1ChasingYellowSailsTable1/gameplay&page=last
I play Athnul, the martial expert Monk, on a very diverse team consisting of a goblin, a lizardman, a ratman, and a couple of us weird humans. We are about half way through the season of faction's favor.

I'll talk about my own Pathfinder ACG experience since everyone else shared:

Pathfinder Card Game AP experience: I bought the original set during PAX West 2014, when one of the local PFS people demoed to me at the very end of the convention. I was hooked.
I played through RotR with a bunch of friends, and we loved it. However we also had really busy schedules and couldn't make it and we dropped off at the end of AD2. I continued because I loved it, but I've actually never played an AP past AD4 (discounting the app, which I've played to end of AD5)

PFSACG experience: one of the VLs in my region decided to try Season of the Shackles when it released. We finished the whole Season but my VL didn't really want to play further, so I found another group and started to run games and conventions. My local group is 8 people now (playing through Faction's Favor).

Let's go ahead and have a Hangouts setup...I used Hangouts to show how the sheet worked so we should be good to go.

I have a hangouts set up now. Waiting for everyone to sign in and report their deck and starting locations, and we should be good to go!

Looks like locations and starting decks have been posted. I will be talking to Jake_Bloom soon to walk him through his first turn to post.

Radillo - The Old Light
Harsk - Woods
Meliski - The Old Light
Reiko - Goblin Fortress

With respect to hangouts, I didn't see an email for an invite. Is there somewhere else I should check for the hangouts connection info?

Hm, I added the email in the sign up sheet . Let me try again and if you use a different email PM me the details

We have (drumroll please) rewards!

Hello players!
We have received the final piece of our convention support, the special convention player rewards!
First off, if you are a BRAND-NEW player to the Adventure Card Guild (as in, the character you're using in your game is your #XXXX-1001 and you have not played any other characters in organized play) you can assign the Welcome to Pathfinder Reward to that character:
Society Initiate: You may only assign this reward to the first PFSACG character that you create. At the end of a scenario, if your character is dead, you may cross this reward off; your character is no longer dead. If you have a role card, you may instead cross this reward off to gain a card feat.

In addition, EVERY player AND box runner is going to have a 10% chance after each scenario of scoring a reward. These rewards can be assigned to any of your PFSACG characters... they don't have to apply to the character you were using. If you roll a 1 or a 20 on your d20 roll at the end of a scenario, you'll get to choose from any one of the following faction rewards:

Note about faction rewards: Faction rewards are a special type of benefit tied to the factions that use their considerable influence within the Pathfinder Society to pursue their own agendas. You may apply no more than one faction reward to a given character at one time. You may use no more than one power from a faction reward per scenario. Each faction reward specifies additional requirements that, once fulfilled, grant additional uses of the reward’s power. Once you have used all of the powers from a faction reward, including the powers that have additional requirements, you may assign another faction reward to that character.

Player Reward 1: Concordance Faction Reward
[ ] [ ] Elemental Scholar (The Concordance Faction Reward): You may check a box that precedes this reward to reduce Acid, Cold, Electricity, Fire, or Poison damage dealt to you by 2.
You may use this reward up to 2 additional times if you fulfill the following requirements. When you fulfill the requirement, check the box that precedes it; when you use the reward, cross that line off.
[ ] Exceed the difficulty of a check to acquire a card that has the Acid, Cold, Electricity, Elemental, Fire, or Poison trait by 6 or more.
[ ] Exceed the difficulty of a check to defeat a monster that has the Elemental trait by 6 or more.

Player Reward 2: Dark Archive Reward
[ ] Collector of Wonders (Dark Archive Faction Reward): On your turn, you may check the box that precedes this reward to draw an item that has the Alchemical or Magic trait or a spell from the box.
You may use this reward up to 2 additional times if you fulfill the following requirements. When you fulfill the requirement, check the box that precedes it; when you use the reward, cross that line off.
[ ] Acquire a boon that has the Book trait, a boon that lists Knowledge in its check to acquire, or a spell.
[ ] Succeed at a Knowledge check to defeat a bane.

Player Reward 3: Grand Lodge Reward
[ ] [ ] Society Agent (Grand Lodge Faction Reward): You may check an unchecked box that precedes this reward to automatically succeed at your check to temporarily close a location.
You may use this reward up to 2 additional times if you fulfill the following requirements. When you fulfill the requirement, check the box that precedes it; when you use the reward, cross that line off.
[ ] Acquire an ally that lists Diplomacy in its check to acquire.
[ ] Close a location on the first turn of a scenario.

Player Reward 4: Liberty's Edge Reward
[ ] [ ] Freedom Fighter (Liberty’s Edge Faction Reward): After you roll on your Charisma check, Diplomacy check, or check attempted before you act, check a box that precedes this reward to add or subtract 1 die; take the new result.
You may use this reward up to 2 additional times if you fulfill the following requirements. When you fulfill the requirement, check the box that precedes it; when you use the reward, cross that line off.
[ ] Defeat a monster that has the Captain or Gnoll trait.
[ ] Succeed at a Charisma or Diplomacy non-combat check to defeat a villain or a henchman.

Player Reward 5: The Exchange Reward
[ ] Master of Trade (Exchange Faction Reward): After the roll on your check to acquire a weapon, an armor, or an item, check the box that precedes this reward to add 1d6; take the new result.
You may use this reward up to 2 additional times if you fulfill the following requirements. When you fulfill the requirement, check the box that precedes it; when you use the reward, cross that line off.
[ ] All of the cards offered by a trader you visit have an adventure deck number lower than that of the current scenario.
[ ] Succeed at a Craft non-combat check to acquire or defeat.

Player Reward 6: Silver Crusade Reward
[ ] [ ] Cleanser of Abominations (Silver Crusade Faction Reward): On your turn, you may check an unchecked box that precedes this reward to banish a scourge or a card that has the Curse trait.
You may use this reward up to 2 additional times if you fulfill the following requirements. When you fulfill the requirement, check the box that precedes it; when you use the reward, cross that line off.
[ ] Defeat a villain or henchman that has the Demon, Fiend, or Undead trait.
[ ] Play a card that shuffles at least 1 card from another character’s discard pile into his deck.

Player Reward 7: Sovereign Court Reward
[ ] [ ] Lawful Citizen (Sovereign Court Faction Reward): You may check an unchecked box that precedes this reward to evade a monster you encounter or to ignore a power that would move you.
You may use this reward up to 2 additional times if you fulfill the following requirements. When you fulfill the requirement, check the box that precedes it; when you use the reward, cross that line off.
[ ] Succeed at a check required to move.
[ ] Bury or banish an armor to reduce all damage dealt to you to 0.

This is the first online ACG event where we've been able to give out rewards like this, so I'm SUPER excited to offer them to you all! Good luck, and I hope each of you wins at least one!!

Roll for a boon: 1d20 ⇒ 12

Meliski Roll for a boon: 1d20 ⇒ 17

Harsk Roll for Boon: 1d20 ⇒ 14

I've been playing a monk in a different PSACG game, so I don't qualify for the first thing.

Scenario Reward: 1d20 ⇒ 3

Radillo Roll for Boon: 1d20 ⇒ 6

Rolling after The Problem with Dragons.

Boon Roll after scenario: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (6) + 0 = 6

Roll #2:

Boon: 1d20 ⇒ 12

Harsk Roll for Boon #2: 1d20 ⇒ 12

Boon?: 1d20 ⇒ 9 No boon.

Boon?: 1d20 ⇒ 16

Meliski Boon Roll after scenario: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (9) + 0 = 9

Boon?: 1d20 ⇒ 9 No boon

Harsk Roll for Boon #3: 1d20 ⇒ 20 Yes for Boon!!!

Roll #3:

Boon?: 1d20 ⇒ 8

Radillo Boon Roll:

Boon Roll: 1d20 ⇒ 4

I am selecting for my boon - Silver Crusade Reward
[ ] [ ] Cleanser of Abominations (Silver Crusade Faction Reward): On your turn, you may check an unchecked box that precedes this reward to banish a scourge or a card that has the Curse trait.
You may use this reward up to 2 additional times if you fulfill the following requirements. When you fulfill the requirement, check the box that precedes it; when you use the reward, cross that line off.
[ ] Defeat a villain or henchman that has the Demon, Fiend, or Undead trait.
[ ] Play a card that shuffles at least 1 card from another character’s discard pile into his deck.

I am assigning the Boon to Harsk (341416-1001)

I was able to to fulfill both requirements to use the Silver Crusade Faction Reward: Cleanser of Abominations, 2 additional times. For a total of 4 uses.

Meliski has decided to join the ranks of the Liberty's Edge. Should he come across any gnolls, captains, or enigmatic enemies, he will be sure to tell the Edge what happened in order to gain more prestige and faster promotions.

Do we still get to roll for boons?

Boon check 2-1D: 1d20 ⇒ 15 Nada

roll 5 for boon: 1d20 ⇒ 1

Hoody Hoo! I got a boon! I will select Liberty's Edge and apply to character 1001 Meliski.

Roll 4 for Boon: 1d20 ⇒ 5 No Boon today

Harsk Roll for Boon #4: 1d20 ⇒ 16 - No Boon

roll for 2-1D: 1d20 ⇒ 2

Hello my dear box runners and players!

I’d first like to say thank you so much for participating in the first Cards Against Gnomanity event. It’s truly been a fantastic showing by our burgeoning online community, and the box runners should be commended for putting up with a system that is still having some major wrinkles ironed out.

Cards Against Gnomanity officially ends this coming Sunday, August 12th, at 11:59 PM Eastern time. If you have a game ongoing that you’d like to continue past this time, that’s fine with us, but any game that ends after 11:59 will not be counted as being part of this event. However, we have another event that is starting up RIGHT AFTER this one! I’m talking about Play-By-Post Gameday VII. This event will include the multi-table special Assault on Absalom in slot 2, which runs from October 1st-November 12th. As of this moment, there are two slots left at tables for that special on the ACG side, so if you haven’t signed up yet, go check out the Specials Sign-up Sheet.

If you plan to continue a game and would like sessions reported between August 13th and September 30th to count as part of GameDay VII (and therefore be eligible for ACG boon rolls), please email me at cartmanbeck@orgplayonline.com with your screenname, the link to the paizo.com forum thread where you’re running the game, and the game number in the ACG online database BEFORE Cards Against Gnomanity ends on Sunday night.

When the first slot of GameDay VII ends on September 30th, if you are running or playing in any tables of Assault on Absalom, I will ask that you try to wrap up as many of your tables as possible in order to free up time and energy to devote to the Assault on Absalom run. We want this to be a huge success! Andrew (Hawkmoon 269) will be the lead for this event, so if you have questions about how it will run, email him at hawkmoon269@orgplayonline.com.

As of now, I’m seeing 75 sessions of ACG in our reporting sheet for Cards Against Gnomanity (I’ll note that I’m behind on reporting a few sessoins myself, but will get that taken care of later today). If you have not yet filled out the reporting sheet for your games, PLEASE do so as soon as possible! Reporting Sheet

Once the event ends and we've confirmed that all sessions have been added to the reporting sheet, I'll be doing a drawing for a small number of paizo.com gift certificates. Each player and box runner will have one chance at getting these, so it doesn't matter how many games you played, you have an equal shot. I'll also be looking over the total number of convention rewards/boons that we gave out to see how close to 10% we got... if the random number generator was a bit greedy, I may randomly hand out a few more of those as well.

Thank you all again, and feel free to email me with questions.

Tyler (Box Runner Nalshene/Cartmanbeck)

Hello! Welcome to Play By Post Gameday VII. As part of the festivities for this event, we have a few rewards you can win. After your table completes a scenario, win or lose, each participant (player and/or box runner) rolls 1d20. If your result is 1 or 20, you win. Select your reward from the list below and inform your Box Runner of your choice. We’ll make sure you get the reward sent to you.

Remember, Session 1 runs from August 13th, 2018-September 30, 2018. Your table must complete the scenario between those dates to roll for a reward. During Session II (October 1-November 12th) we’ll be running the multiple table interactive special Assault on Absalom.

Box Runners: If you have any questions about how to report, please contact me.

Have fun!

Gameday VII Adventure Card Game Rewards
Season of Tapestry’s Tides Reward #1
Unconventional Firepower: You may add one weapon that has the Firearm trait and one item that has the Ammunition trait from the Gunslinger Class Deck to your box. These cards must have an adventure deck number equal to or lower than your current tier. Each time you advance a tier, you may exchange one of these cards with another card of the same type from the Gunslinger Class Deck, following the same restrictions.

Season of Tapestry’s Tides Reward #2
Burgeoning Captain: At the beginning of a scenario that uses the Skull & Shackles Base Set, you may cross out this reward to gain the skill Survival: Wisdom +2 on your checks attempted while you are on a ship and on your checks attempted against a ship until the end of the scenario.

Season of Tapestry’s Tides Reward #3
Sea Legs: When you would fail a combat check against a bane that has the Aquatic trait, you may cross out this reward to reroll the dice and add 1d6; take the new result.

Boon roll after Midwife Crisis: 1d20 ⇒ 1

A boon! I will take Sea legs and assign to 12789-1002.

Boon roll 2-1E: 1d20 ⇒ 12

2-1E boon: 1d20 ⇒ 11 Nope!

2-1E boon: 1d20 ⇒ 2 - Fail

boon roll for 2-1F: 1d20 ⇒ 9

2-1F Boon: 1d20 ⇒ 6 - No Boon

Continuing the streak.
2-1F boon: 1d20 ⇒ 15

Sneak Sneak!: 1d20 ⇒ 13 Meh.

Making boon rolls for 2-1E and 2-1F

2-1E Boon: 1d20 ⇒ 12

2-1F Boon: 1d20 ⇒ 8

I got a rock!

2-2A Boon: 1d20 ⇒ 8