BobJones 5-02 Wardstone Patrol (Classic) Tier 3-4 (Inactive)

Game Master TheBobJones

Feel free to dot in :)

I never "dot". ;-)

Xûll, I believe, is fully leveled and ready (I had him done up for merchant's wake). I'll check him over to be sure before we really get stuck into it.

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For you all to ponder, we will be running this with a Level 3 Bloodrager, Level 3 Fighter, Level 3 Cavalier, Level 3 Druid, and a Level 4 Hunter. You seem to be a bit light on potential casting. I could open recruitment for a 6th, and seems like we will have the time. Feel free to discuss and let me know.

And check the Campaign Tab for NPC pictures.

Do we really need a caster? Xûll has Knowledge (arcana) at a whopping +4, so we're covered on that front. ;-)

Seriously, though, are we going to miss one? We have someone who can use the wand, and enough alchemist's fire to blow up the Pathfinder lodge. At 3rd level, a wizard-type doesn't add that much to the mix. We just need to make sure we're equipped with bows / spears / javelins / whatever so we can get ranged attacks in.

You have proven that you can dish out the DPR, and no you don't need anything. Just wondering if you wanted a bit more balanced party. This is me just talking, not me as a GM saying "I just read the mod and boy if no one can <insert spellcaster ability>, you are all going to autofail."

Honestly I made that comment before I even read the encounters Currently I am just reading the first one now

Don't forget that Sun's primary ability is Lightning Arc, and you are in the Worldwound.

Dell Xull is here, so that is at least a +1billion to every roll of his dice :).

I need to level up my character and make sure I log all my things. i have a lot of money on this character so I'll need to figure out col things to do with it I think...

Take your time Sun, we have to wait for one of our games to finish for Vox (Augustus) to start.

Might I suggest cold iron, holy water, and some scrolls to deal with demons.

1d20 ⇒ 20

Ha! Classic Xûll.

Showoff

GM terrible rolls: 1d20 ⇒ 1

Noted! when I buy my new stuff I will make sure to buy some.

Ok, so we are waiting on the Forstfur Gobs to be done, at this current pace we have between 2-4 weeks. I am fine waiting, but if other are not please feel free to discuss.

Sun once you are updated I will fill in my missing modifiers. As of right now, everyone stats should be correct. Please check out the Campaign Tab and let me know of errors/omission/abilities I didn't see on your Character Sheet so I can make a note of that.

Also, and I will do one more read through, I do not believe that you need cold weather gear, and I am not sure why he told you too. I will let you know when I complete my next read through and allow you to retcon that purchase for full gold, why loose 4 gp for nothing?

I am ok with waiting so Vox can participate.

Thanks for that, on the cold weather gear!

Can Vox play anyway? So long as your chronicle comes out after Jack's one, should be fine.

My estimate is 4-6 weeks at this rate. Hopefully Jack's work life slows down soon! ;-)

Oh, and I can wait, too.

Can Vox play anyway? So long as your chronicle comes out after Jack's one, should be fine.

Can't be in 2 games at once.

So that is 3 votes for wait, and the motion passes! Once Sun is updated, I can mark this inactive if you want so it doesn't clog up, or I can leave it open. I just don't want to go too far in case we have to alter something.

I'd prefer you keep it open. It doesn't bother me to have an extra game open, and you don't have to remember to go back and reactivate it.

I'm actually in favor of deactivation. I only have 3 games - unlike some ;-) - and it's not too hard to remember to reactivate it. I can always remind you. I'll go with whatever you prefer, GM, but if you want a vote, that's mine.

Deactivating is fine with me. I am working on my updates to Sun now (yay for life getting in the way as usual)

All purchased, will be uploaded shortly. Cold iron Scimitar, scrolls of bless weapon (yay good aligned!) and some holy water per your suggestions. I still have not cemented where I want to focus my character in terms of feats and such, so just kind of winging it. Anyone have any sweet suggests? Kind of leaning towards lightning and air spells theme, but that is as far as I have gotten...

Sun is uploaded and all official and stuff! All my skils should be in his stat block. Broke down and put a rank into Bluff as we seem to keep trying to convince everybody you guys are my body guards :-p

Thanks Sun. I have my tables updated.

Next up, marching order.

Pooka then Xûll in front for sure! Don't want to block his charges and he has a better AC. :-)

I would prefer to be second, since you have a 30 ft move speed.

Slow poke. Sure thing. ;-)

Thanks!

Back row works for me as always. I am just a pesky caster type anyways :-p

Just realized I never fitted into the discussion thread... Dof... Inactive anyways :)

As for Pooka and Wardstone, I would consider that a "non-starter" Steve, meaning you don't apply it to Pooka afterwards... and unless you play it with Pooka at level 5, you don't apply it at all.

Ok, so I just want to make sure I am on the same page, because I don't want to screw this up.

I need to apply all of my chronicles (ie, the 3 pregen sheets from WBG2, Snows of Summer, and True Dragons) before I "start" Wardstone patrol, right?

This actually works out ok (though I will just have to re-work some of my purchases that were originally planned for this scenario before we start...)

That is correct! All lined up and in a row.

Sweet! I will get that taken care of tonight. That is, if my wife doesn't threaten to throw something at me for all the time I have spent this week already updating/creating/etc on hero lab and paizo.

This will definitely put me at level 5 for this scenario then, so Pooka will be out of tier. Hopefully I don't break the scenario and make it too easy...

Also, just to verify, it isn't a terrible pain to transfer the snows of summer chronicle to pooka is it? If it is, I can skip that. Otherwise I will go on the assumption that it is ok.

Man, I totally forgot about transferring that. It's not a pain. Can you please email me about it, though? I need a bit more time than I have now to sort it out.

Please also send me Pooka's PFS number and faction so I can report it properly.

Ok - Belay that order! I just emailed you again, but I can't apply snows of summer to Pooka, he is level 4, and snows of summer is a 1-2 chronicle.

I have Pooka updated (finally) in hero lab - had to completely rebuild because the profile was somehow all fubar'd. I have it all figured out now, I am sure. I just need to get my profile updated, but that will take some additional time I don't have tonight, so I will have to get it tomorrow.

Sorry for the confusion!

Ok - Pooka is updated.

I found some not so minor discrepancies in Luna, my bonded mount when I was making the corrections. The good news is, I was accidentally using a less powerful version of the dog somehow (I blame herolab) and I wasn't smart enough to catch it. All is fixed now though, sheets should be accurate. I have some minor editing to do on the gear and such so it is more readable, but otherwise Pooka is officially ready to ride!

And totally not kidding about the wagon. For a "melee" fighter (I prefer rocket fighter... as I rocket across the battlefield back and forth) Pooka doesn't have the greatest strength, and Full plate is heavy. So between his new squire, and his wagon, he won't have to carry very much anymore.

Which means, neither do you! Enjoy the luxuries of traveling light while the wagon does all the hard work.

So we have Pooka, Anthrax, and Xull. Anyone else from the Zebroom, or PirateRob? Let me know so if I have to open up recruitment, I can.

Oh, I thought you were going to contact Pirate Rob. Want me to? You should pop up an ad on the Zedroom to see... hopefully they'll read it. ;-)

I'm happy to run as a group of 4-5 if it comes to that. There should be a 4-player adjustment available for this scenario.

I will throw it up, but if you could PM him, as I don't 'know' him I would appreciate it.

Done. Hope he pops on to say "hi"!

Yarrr.

As always I appreciate the invite but unfortunately I've already played Wardstone Patrol.

Heh. I figured that was a strong possibility for one such as you! No problems and thanks for the reply.

Oh well. Hope we game together soon, Pirate Rob!

I would like to throw out the possibility of inviting Deussu and one or two others. In the games I've played with him, he has done a pretty super job. Thoughts?

Happy to, if he'll game with me again! Just wondering about his posting frequency, though. Is it at least daily?

Check out GM Rutseg's The Confirmation (under my alias Reed Hofstatler). He is Eveline Bleakrock. Probably the most active poster in the game.

Color me impressed (on quality and quantity). Just wanted to check. Absolutely fine by me... again, if he's okay with gaming with me after my insensitive comments on the Zedroom.

What better way to make amends ... Could you please PM him Chris - probably played this though.

Any progress? I will open recruitment on Thursday if we don't get anybody - all dotted in players are welcome to weigh in.

Just heard back from two of them. One yay, one nay. The other has not responded so far. I'd anticipate needing two more, by the looks of things. Or going 4-player adjustment.

I would personally prefer 4-player adjustment to open recruitment for two players (mostly so we can start sooner) but if we get 5, I'd say pick up one random.

Lufien told me to join. So here I am. (I see familiar names, too)

I need to copy the character sheet from a regional wiki to Paizo's messageboards, and I'm not going to do that at 1 am, so until morning it is.

Welcome, sir!

Hey Deussu / Delzden! So glad to get a second chance to play with you. Can't wait to bash some things with you. Cavalier, fighter, fighter... looks like my bloodrager is the "caster" of the group!

Erm, GM, you know the adventure... if you think we need two caster types or at least someone who can wave our happy-sticks with efficacy, then maybe I should revoke my last comment and we should recruit... I think we could probably use a barbarian and a monk (unchained of course). Definitely not anyone with skills or magic or ranged abilities. Party balance is for chumps. Actually, with a Lore Warden we might actually pass a knowledge check or two for once. ;-)