Cottonseed PFS PbP (2E)

Game Master Redelia

Ahoy gang! I've fallen in love with Pathfinder and I'm itching to get into some games. I've been unable to find any local ones, and before GM'ing myself I'd love to try my hand at a short PBP jaunt.

Let me join my virtual voice with those sending warm welcomes your way, Kabello! This is indeed the right place to learn about Pathfinder and PFs, particularly for Play-by-Post games ("PbP"). For those new to games on these boards, I would direct you to the handy slides about our Play-by-Post Lodges, which can be found at this link. In it you will find links to our sister lodges for PbP on Discord and Myth-Weavers as well as links to some helpful guides for PbP and other useful links.

For "real time" VTT online games, I recommend that you join and search Warhorn, which can be found here. Unfortunately, I understand that Warhorn will be shutting down in mid-June. Until then, however, it remains a great way to find online and face-to-face games for Pathfinder.

Much of the recruitment for adventures run on these boards via PbP is done in this thread, although recruiting is a little slow at the moment due to our latest online PbP convention wrapping up.

For more Play-by-Post games as well as online VTT, there is also PaizoCon Online 2024. You can get your tickets and link to the Discord to ask questions about games at the convention here.

As for adventures for beginners, there is the Pathfinder Beginner Box, which contains a fun, solid adventure specifically designed for newcomers to the game. Even better, each time you play through it, you can earn "experience" that can be applied to a legal PFS player character.

If there is interest, I would be happy to offer to run a table of that adventure on these boards in early June (after PaizoCon Online concludes). The adventure comes in two parts, which are connected, but can be played separately. Each adventure is designed to take roughly 4 hours to complete, which ends up being about 4-6 weeks times via PbP.

I would be delighted to save a seat for you and for any other players new to Pathfinder and/or PbP.

Unfortunately PaizoCon is coming up shortly, so it might remain on the slow side.
(Although if you want to buy a ticket to PaizoCon, the con has pbp games.)
This recruitment thread is often very active, but for those special events the recruiting is done elsewhere so it has periodic slowdowns.

I've found that Organized Play is an excellent fit for pbp. It sounds like you're familiar with pbp? If I'm reading that right, I'm sure you're familiar with one of the major problems it has. Everything is slow and takes a while, so it's inevitable that something will happen, and you have slowdowns and loss of momentum and player attrition, and most pbp games never make it to a conclusion.

Society functions as a series of one-shots. Any given game has an ending and is relatively short, but then you can just play another with the same character. Or take a break for a while. Great fit!

The Quest I'm recruiting for is an especially short game. Quests are shorter than Scenarios--this one is designed to take about an hour at a table, which should translate to less than two weeks pbp.

If you'd like to sign up, feel free. If you'd like to sign up and you don't understand the sign-in form because you're new to this, just let me know and I can help you with that.

Have you signed up for Organized Play yet (looks like you have)? Do you have a character? You can either create your own character, or get started using one of the iconic pre-gens.

(Oh, and a tip for using this forum, which actually has some pretty useful pbp tools: You can make any game thread accessible from the "Campaigns" tab in your profile by joining the game, which you do just by posting in the Gameplay thread. That's why this Lodge is built as a game--so it has a Gameplay thread and you can easily add it to your Campaigns. If you don't have anything you want to post there, that's okay because it still works if you delete the post. You can just post a single character and then delete it to join the campaign and easily access the Lodge.)

Be nice to have more people accessing the Gameplay for the Lodges. My characters get lonely

Warhorn is shutting down? :-(

Any word on why, or if there’s a similar resource available?

Warhorn is a one-person operation, and that person is unable to continue supporting it.

I've heard that there are efforts for someone else to take it over, but nothing definitive yet.

Recruiting for a hopefully speedy run of the Repeatable Quest Series 2 #14 Swordlord's Challenge in support of the Battlecry! playtest.

Replayers welcome and even encouraged. I'd like to run this pretty light on RP and focus on trying out the playtest builds, both as players of them and as teammates.

In order to ensure there's some balance to the party, I'll allow up to 2 Commanders AND up to 2 Guardians. That way there's room for at least 2 other classes at least, and room for some folks that can't or don't want to build playtest characters.

I'd also like to run this in the high-tier as a test of the level 3 playtest builds rather than just level 1. See the Lorespire Playtest Rules page for details on making a level 3 character.

I'd suggest also using messageboard "aliases" instead of committing a character name to a short playtest PBP run, but that's up to you.

Recruitment Thread.

Reposting this to keep it on the front page and give an update. We've got 4 PCs so far, with room for two more still. Planning to start on Monday, but I'm flexible.

Marcos Farabellus requests the presence of the following Pathfinders to meet the Swordlord’s Challenge and test out the capabilities of some new Commanders and Guardians:

Tepin (Michael Hallet) = Commander
Knab the Knave (rainzax) = Guardian
Ulfgar Ironhead (Ebonfist) = Ranger
Mannak (Marjim Marc Arafiles) = Guardian
Locke Aldori (Blake’s Tiger) = Swordlord Rogue (that’ll be interesting!)
Dran'Thal (J.G) = Magus

Please check into the Discussion thread and then introduce yourselves in gameplay.

Only 1 Week Left!
GMs, with only 1 week left in Outpost VII play, you should be winding down your tables (assuming you aren’t already finished) and getting them ready for reporting by our HQ crew. Hopefully you are in a good place to finish by the May 13 end date, but if not, please go ahead and mark your tables Ready for Reporting by May 13 so we can wrap up the convention in time for Paizocon. Then, finish your games as soon as you can. If you need assistance in pushing your game to the finish, please contact your PBP lodge Venture Officers.

Only 1 Week Left!

GMs, with only 1 week left in Outpost VII play, you should be winding down your tables (assuming you aren’t already finished) and getting them ready for reporting by our HQ crew. Hopefully you are in a good place to finish by the May 13 end date, but if not, please go ahead and mark your tables Ready for Reporting by May 13 so we can wrap up the convention in time for Paizocon. Then, finish your games as soon as you can. If you need assistance in pushing your game to the finish, please contact your PBP lodge Venture Officers.

I just wanted to say--I like your screen name. :) Tlazocamahti/matétera bá.

Now recruiting for Ques #3: Grehunde's Gorget

A Pathfinder Society Quest designed for levels 1–4 (subtiers 1–2 and 3–4).

Venture-Captain Bjersig Torrsen calls the PCs north to the town of Iceferry in the frigid Land of the Linnorm Kings. There, Bjersig informs the Pathfinders that he has a request from the family of a storied and long-dead Linnorm King. The family's patriarch, the warrior Hlavard Grenskuldr, appears to have perished in a shipwreck while wearing the family's heirloom, the gorget of the Linnorm King Grehunde the Sunchaser. For one hundred generations the family has passed this heirloom down from parent to child, until Hlavard sought to wear it on a journey to Valenhall as Grehunde herself had intended to do before perishing with the task unfinished. Unwilling to leave the relic to rust away in a watery grave, Hlavard's family has requested the Pathfinder Society's assistance in locating the shipwreck and retrieving the family treasure.

Written by Kate Baker.

Scenario tags: None

Sign up >HERE<.

Would the following Pathfinders please report to Iceferry:

Gameplaythread HERE.

Recruiting for PFS2 1-23 Star Crossed Court (3-6) Repeatable

Please follow link for recruitment information etc.

Recruiting for PFS2 1-23 Star Crossed Court (3-6) Repeatable

Please follow link for recruitment information etc.

All set,

Grabbed

Dave/Welby
phaezon/Betel
Froggy/Shayla
Isis/Boltblade.

See the rest of you next time.

Closing Weekend!
Okay GMs, this is the closing weekend for Outpost. Most of you have already wrapped up your games and reported by now (great job, by the way), but we still have about 30 games still going. Please wrap these up as soon as possible so your players can get ready for the next adventure.

Even if it looks like you won’t finish the gameplay by May 13 we are asking you to go ahead and report your games by the deadline so that we can finish up the admin stuff and close out the convention before Paizocon. Please help us by getting these last few games reported. Thanks again for stepping up to run games. It is greatly appreciated!

That's a Wrap!
154 games were reported, split almost evenly between GM Choice and First Come First Served recruitment. 60+ GMs ran the games and hundreds of players joined them. What a great turnout!

Once the last few games get reported, we will be mailing out randomly drawn prize vouchers, so make your offerings to the gods of chance, and may fortune be on your side.

We want to hear your feedback, so please fill out this feedback form. Let us know what you liked, and how we can improve in the future. This form is anonymous, but if you want us to get back to you, please let us know how (paizo forum message, discord DM, or email).

Feedback Form

(Yes, the form says Outpost VI.)

Thank you all for participating in Outpost VII - The Allies We Made Along the Way, and be on the lookout for the next PBP event, Gameday XIII, coming this fall.

Haha question 3…

Looking for two to four more players to join me in a bounty, B09 Fishing in Anthusis. If you are interested, head over to this Recruitment Link.

I'm opening a table for 1-07: Flooded King's Court. This is a scenario for level 1-4 characters. Come to Absalom! Entertain a king! Explore stinky sewers! There is a follow up scenario if you're level 3 or above.

>1-07 Signup Link<

I'm opening a table for 5-05: The Island of the Vibrant Dead. This is a scenario for level 3-6 characters. It's the follow up to 1-07, so if you've played that already you can meet an NPC from that story and check out a lively land with a dungeon crawl to die for.

>5-05 Signup Link<

I'm opening a table for 1-07: Flooded King's Court. This is a scenario for level 1-4 characters. Come to Absalom! Entertain a king! Explore stinky sewers! There is a follow up scenario if you're level 3 or above.

>1-07 Signup Link<

Is this part of the Piazocon online events?

Neither 1-07 or 5-05 is part of Paizocon. So if you sign up don't expect to use that character at Paizocon.

chadius wrote:

I'm opening a table for 1-07: Flooded King's Court. This is a scenario for level 1-4 characters. Come to Absalom! Entertain a king! Explore stinky sewers! There is a follow up scenario if you're level 3 or above.

>1-07 Signup Link<

Is this part of the Piazocon online events?

Paizocon also has its own signup page -- you also need to buy a ticket to play in Paizocon.

I'm opening a table for 1-07: Flooded King's Court. This is a scenario for level 1-4 characters. Come to Absalom! Entertain a king! Explore stinky sewers! There is a follow up scenario if you're level 3 or above.

>1-07 Signup Link<

And signup is full.

>CLICK HERE< to join the discussion thread.

I'm opening a table for 5-05: The Island of the Vibrant Dead. This is a scenario for level 3-6 characters. It's the follow up to 1-07, so if you've played that already you can meet an NPC from that story and check out a lively land with a dungeon crawl to die for.

>5-05 Signup Link<

And signup is full.

>CLICK HERE< to join the discussion thread.

I need at least three brave Pathfinders to participate in my Paizocon Offering for:
05-03 Heidmarch Heist (5-8; non-repeatable).

The PCs are tasked with escorting a valuable item slated to be gifted to a powerful potential ally of the Pathfinder Society, but as they are being briefed on their mission, an unknown thief is pulling off a heist within Heidmarch manor, and the item the PCs were to escort has been stolen just as Venture-Captain Shiela Heidmarch goes to show them the item. The PCs much pick up the thief's trail in a race across Magnimar to recover the treasure they haven't even had the opportunity to see, much less guard.

Written by Hilary Moon Murphy

Interested parties must first purchase a ticket before signing up to join.

This was a great scenario :) Cannot apply to play it again, but Arfsnarf recommends any who haven't give it a go.

05-03 Heidmarch Heist table has officially been cancelled at Paizocon.

One more Battlecry! Playtest run otherwise you gotta wait till 2025.

Recruitment Here for "The Absalom Initiation": LINK

=)

05-03 Heidmarch Heist table has officially been cancelled at Paizocon.

if you run it again, I'm interested.

This was a great scenario :) Cannot apply to play it again, but Arfsnarf recommends any who haven't give it a go.

Well, you can play it with a different character... but it won't be the same without the Clacky Rock! :)

When is Paizocon finished?

It has - a day or so ago.

Okay. Anyone up for a game? ^_^

I'd like a Season 2 Quest if possible please - one of my PCs needs one to get the xp back to a multiple of 4. Already played the Witch Queen's Dollhouse.

Let me see what I have.

Dang, I only have series 1 quests...

Paizocon pbp just started.

Ah, when do you need to post results by?

If the only thing stopping you from GMing a series 2 quest is the lack of ownership, I'm happy to buy 1 (or more for you)

I'd love to play either of the new ones -- 17 or 18 which I haven't had a chance to look through yet...

Haha, thanks Rob! If you buy me one, I would be happy to run it for you, Tiger, and Phaeton. Then we could get one or two more and make it a table! Shall we do one of the new ones?

Room for one more?

There's 16/17/18 for you. Had a $15 voucher that needed to be used on a single order and nothing I particurally needed from the Paizo store.

Thank you so much! I think, per Phaeton's request, I will start with 17, since they did 16. I can run 16 after.

@Jack, absolutely! We can take one more after Jack, if anyone is interested!

EDIT: Give me a couple of days to go over the quest and get things set up.

Of course I'm interested...

count me in for 17. I'll play 16 if you can keep another seat open for Halgur's bard :)

Okay, I created the link for the RPG Chronicle signup. Will the following players proceed to signup?

phaeton_nz
Pirate Rob
GM Tiger
Blackfeather Jack
Ira Kroll
Uncle Froggy

Froggy, phaeton will not be joining us for 16, after this Quest we can do that one and I will save a spot for Halgur's bard!

"Thounds thuper!"

Halgur, you made me snort!

Phaeton_nz, I noticed that your entry shows that you are at 14 xp. Did you need 1 or 2 XP? Just checking because I need to know if I am saving a space for you in Quest 18.

2 xp.