DLS PFS 4x21 - Way of the Kirin (Inactive)

Game Master Bardez

This is the out-of-character discussion thread.

One thing I'd like to point out is that a play-by-post formatting thread worth taking a look at is DH's Guide to Play By Post gaming.

Also worth note is that if you want auditable dice rolls, you could try Invisible Castle, but I'm not too worried about you guys doing so.

I meant to scan my sheets before I left.

Since we have actually gamed together before, are we making the assumption that our chars have also been on mission together before and thus already know each other? Thats my assumption but I don't want to assume.

Woot, Piggie is in the cloud.

Well, I dunno if Riken and Gorgowzowa have actually been played together or not; I stopped session tracking a while back. I want to say yes, since you've opted to play him after our new First Steps characters were created, and cwmjr has preferred Gorgowzowa.

Aside from that, what's to say that they haven't met at the Lodge in Absolom between scenarios anyway?

Now, if they get along... that's another RP issue altogether. ;)

Since Rilendo's going for the Spanish translation text, I'd like to point out that Google Translate offers a better translation of Pathfinders than "pioneros" ("pioneers"):
"los Conquistadores". It's both forward and reverse translatable, according to Google Translate. And it fits quite well.

I was going through that IC fiasco, tried to register twice, etc., and found this... [dice] Do you know of a reason not to use that?

So, which of us is going to reverse engineer the paizo message board to create a freaking phone app to play this on the crapper? This site is not mobile friendly at all...

hrm. Didn't know that the [dice] tag actually rolled for you; thought it was something you manually specify the result of.

I was thinking we might drop the IC url inside a dice tag. But, fug it. Let's go with the [dice] tag.

Tiers and math time. I am referencing the Guide to Pathfinder Society Organized Play (version 4.3, page 33 under "Determining Subtiers").

So, looking at the level totals, we have Gorgowzowa at 4; Rilendo at 5; Riken Utherson at 5; and Dae-Lhach Nestaron at 5. This would average out to (4 + 5 + 5 + 5) = 19; at four characters, 19 ÷ 4 = 4.75; rounding this APL to the nearest whole number per the algorithm, we're at 5, neatly between tiers.

So... play up to 6-7 or play down to 3-4? This decision has to be unanimous. I'm supposed to point out dangers of higher tier than you're leveled for, harder DCs, more lethal encounters, blah blah blah.

I'm ok to play up. I have a healing wand with plenty of charges left.

If you combine the dice and the IC url, it tries to roll the text of the link, but it parses out the =, so mine was like 1d20+822, for like 828 when I tried it. It seemed to keep the roll even if you previewed and changed text, etc, as I was testing it, so it might work vs. IC. I just never got an email from IC.

I say we play down, since none of us are even in the upper tier, but I'm open for discussion.

I'll point out that this is probably your last chance to play up for the higher tier's gold due to rule change.

But, yeah, playing with the dice tag was neat. You can't do division in it though (I tried parentheses with the tier and division):

"(4 + 5 + 5 + 5) / 4"
Average Party Level: 4 + 5 + 5 + 54 = 68

and "(4 + 5 + 5 + 5) ÷ 4"
Average Party Level: 4 + 5 + 5 + 54 = 68

But the post previewing the roll, editing the post and so on retaining the value is neat, but you can still force rerolls. But that's no different from using IC to roll 100 times and just posting the roll you actually like.

Just like you RV guys to miss a deadline... ducks fish slap

Hey, I was told off-board that someone wanted to take actions. They didn't take them.

Lol

Sorry for the posting delay; with my wife's 21st birthday being Saturday followed by my mother's birthday on Sunday = no posting until tonight

Also, thanks, guys, for keeping the posts coming. It keeps the game flowing even if there's a GM delay.

I love the Dae Lhach in-character/out-of-character post. That is all.

K. GM updates have been posted. This is starting to gear up as fun.

Feel free to roll any rolls for me to speed up play. They can't be any worse than the ones this and ic have done. You have my sheet, I think. Still trying to figure out a way to get alerts now that Google reader is defunct.

Heh.

Did you guys see that the new Guide for Org. Play is out? It takes effect Aug. 14. Last page is an inventory/consumables tracker. Check boxes for wands, could be applied to ammo.

Ok, so, Debt of the Kirin from First Steps. I recall the jade katana had the Debt of the Kirin documents, correct? In our group's play through, as I recall (as does cwmjr), pebcakerror was kind enough for the BBEG to drop the katana (or maybe Gorgowzowa disarmed him?). And then we had the choice: Give them to Qadira (we didn't), give them to Amara Li (we did) or keep them ourselves (we didn't), correct? I swear that we gave them to Amara Li...

This scenario also wraps up the Debt of the Kirin boon. Now, if I'm correct and we gave them to Amara Li, I am going to play this a certain way in which she includes the PCs as holders of the debt. If, on the other hand, we completely bombed it (but why would cwmjr and I both recall having given them to Amara Li?), then no one has it and oh, well.

I'm just trying to jog everyone's memory on that scenario...

EDIT: Apparently Stryder vaguely recalls this as well. It seems to me that 'yeah, we got it, then gave it to Amara Li' is what happened, but, I want to make sure there's a consensus as to that between the matching set between those that played our First Steps game and those that didn't.

As I recall, one player had the documents (cwmjr?) and didn't initially intend to give them up. Another player kind of seized the opportunity and forced the hand at the end of the scenario. So I to recall that you gave the documents to Amara.

I want to say he disarmed and wanted to keep but the rest of us talked him into turning them over. Anyway, my wife also backed that story with her version (surprised that she remembered!, so I think we will carry on with that).

I don't recall wanting to keep them, but I'm pretty sure there was a disagreement on to whom to give the documents. And, this was the one with the festival or what not. :)

Meta-gaming: The time remaining until the Golden League march is over is one encounter. There are 3 encounters after that, with an optional 4th encounter. so... 4 or 5 encounters left.

FYI, Pathfinder Kirin entry can be found in Bestiary 3, page 168. Not MLP.

Sorry I fell off the radar this week. Its been another one of those crazy 80 weeks to try to get stuff done so they'll let me leave.

Sorry I fell off the radar this week. Its been another one of those crazy 80 weeks to try to get stuff done so they'll let me leave.

I thought you quit that job. Just take a knee and put in 40.

They informed me that the employment contract I signed says I have to give 30 days notice. In order for them to not hold me to that I have to get my current projects done. So I gotta get the projects done at all cost so they'll let me leave.

Nice. See you next month.

Dude, pebcake, are you a sub contractor there or an employee? What can they possibly have on you that you can't leave? And how can you be working 80+ hours and them not paying you crap loads? I'd bet you aren't exempt, even if they are marking you as so. Seriously, what do they have on you? lol.

Rolls initiative for 12 bad guys.

This is your last chance to declare that you guys are playing up.

:)

lol

Riken, can you move your character's saves &tc. to your About rather than your class levels? Kind of distracting as it is.

I saw a bunch people putting stats up there in other PBP forms. I've pasted the stat blocks in the about section.

Can you move the link to the map into the campaign description. I can't keep track of which post its in.

I put it in the Full Description, not the Short Description.

It can be found on the Campaign Info tab.

I've seen the map link up top (in the Short Description) and it always looks janky when I see that in PBP threads.

save the map locally+

save the map locally+

GM already does this :)

Let me know if 2 rounds / day seems like too much or if you guys object to GM controlling the character if you don't post. Silence is tacit agreement to the plan as proposed.

silence

OK, so Rilendo's attack are odd. There's a masterwork longsword, 18 STR, 5 levels of fighter and a (maybe) masterwork shield.

Longsword attack should be at +10, which he has (+5 BAB, +4 STR, +1 masterwork). The damage should be +4 (+4 STR). The shield should be an attack at +9 (+5 BAB, +4 STR)*. The damage for the shield should also be at +4 (+4 STR). Am I missing something on the math, here? Are there other variables at play that I don't see?

* Why even a masterwork shield probably doesn't get +1 to attack: Unless you bought the shield as a masterwork shield and as a masterwork weapon, in which case it would have cost +450 gp for masterwork. Pathfinder treats weapon-and-shield items like double weapons, where you have to enchant each quality separately. So you could have a +5 shield with no enchantment on it, or a +2 shield and a +7 weapon, really. That's part of what I found out when trying to get tekko-kagi priced out for PFS play.

Is there TWF?

With TWF, each is at -2 from those totals, and the shield is "off hand", so only half the str bonus on damage.

Sword
To hit:
+5bab, +4str, +1mw, -2TWF
Damage:
+4str

Shield
To hit:
+5bab, +4str, -2TWF
Damage:
+2str with off hand.

WooHoo, on my way to GenCon!!!

PSTFU, K, THX.

Text me about the paper terrain booth, yo!

Double Slice feat allows full str bonus on damage.

Nice.

I'm about to head for Chicago for a few days. I'll probably be posting only once a day and late at night.

so you're increasing your postings? Sweet!

I'll have you know that twice now I went to write up my post and discovered the GM had taken a turn on my behalf after I went to preview it. So :P