DM Beckett's "CITY OF STRANGERS" PFS PbP (3-4) (Inactive)

Game Master Beckett

Please put your out of character, or non-game related chatting here.

Also, can you please post your character's:

1.) Player name (or nickname)
2.) Character Name
3.) Complete PFS Number
4.) Faction
5.) Day Job Roll (if you have one)

6.) And finally any default actions you want to do if you can't post for a while.

Filios
Jake Hargrove
44418-2
No Day Job Roll

Charge, Furious Focus, Power Attack, and Cleave if possible.

Gerald
Pai Kromnite
12445-5
Grand Lodge faction
No day job
Use wand of 3rd level Magic Missiles. Currently 40 charges remaining.

Hello everybody!

1) CampinCarl
2) Tiasar Auvrelth
3) 60687-3
4) Grand Lodge
5) Profession (Teacher): 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (12) + 6 = 18
6) a) If enemies are grouped together: Color spray or sleep or burning hands
b) One person is particularly dangerous: Ear-piercing scream
c) Cleaning up mooks: Longbow or acid splash (acid splash usually used for DR enemies like undead)

Hi Jake, we meet again!

What's up, Tiasar - good to see ya! We need some Arcane in the higher Tier. is that where you are slotted?

Indeed, I just powered through a session that got me to level 3 and I'm excited to get back into the fray! Picking up augment summoning in addition to 2nd level spells is going to be a significant power boost! Also I decided after fighting a batch of undead - again - that Tiasar is practically required to have a rank in knowledge (religion). I see you've been busy as well getting up to level 3, how have you been?

Good, of course, you know we are busy over in RA together with Malcolm and Desmond. I sent you a PM on the Slayer Class.

I really am nerding out about the ACG classes. Arcanist, slayer, investigator, and warpriest in particular. Investigator is hands down my new favorite skillmonkey.

Feng reporting in I will get my friend ready by this weekend

22306-7

i will trip or disarm when needed using fighting defencive action with crane style to block attacks

no day job

I like the last version of the arcanist and the shaman quite a bit as well. I've not delved too much into the other ACG classes yet.

So 4 out of the 5 present. As soon as Xiaobo's friend shows up I'm mostly ready to kick this off.

I am Xiabos friend i apologise for being late. i have limited internet access and will be posting most on wayfinder. I will be playing this ranger because my Barbarian i was going to use is too high a level now.

My sociaty number is 22308-1
Andoran
Day job: Arrow making
Day job: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12
Xiabo will post if i can not

Ok, go ahead and jump over to the gameplay thread and lets get this going.

Oh man I just realized Xiaobo is level 7, he's going to roll over any enemies we run into.

No. I am a combat controller I trip and disarm party does rest lol

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I don't have a flurry of blows to hit someone 4 times lol

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It shouldn't be too bad, really. If I recall, he is designed more to trip and disarm mostly, and like I mentioned, this one isn't too heavy on combat.

Hey Xiaobo, just a head's up. It looks like they changed the way one of your Feats works. Crane Wing style.

HERE is the link.

It looks like it got pretty nerfed.

Sorry Xiaobo, but honestly THANK GOD. Crane Wing style is on my soft-ban list because of how ridiculously powerful it is. There are way too many OP characters that take a 2 level dip into monk just to pick that up.

It wasn't that powerful though...I could block a crit once a round bit the attack counted as hit..so any creature with 2 attacks and a rend...Yea I can block 1 but he still gets a rend.

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Now when fighting def I get +7 against 1 attack and +3 against all others

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I am ok with change as long as I can swap the feat for free

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shouldnt you be able to swap it out bc the feat has changed?...im not quite sure how that works

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I freaking hope so I know what freeway I will take... Joe will this change for our game or after.

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Yah, they said that all changes must take place immediately for PbP, (not that it should matter for you being so high level). As far as the Feat swaps, I'm not sure. I'm sure they will say soon, if they have not already.

so according to guide to organized play i can retrain for free i will retrain it for viscous stomp i believe let me check but i think that is what i want

Yah, currently there seems to be a debate. It looks like you can legally swap out Crane Style/Crane Wing, because that did change, but not Crane Riposte, because that Feat did not itself change.

I'm thinking right now the best idea is to just keep what you have, and once they say for sure, switch out as you like. And a +4 vs one attack is not terrible, honestly.

Also, how's the daughter, (I'm assuming) doing?

I will go ahead and change it... the plus 4 is only to one attack... i will be taking viscous stomp as to replace it

my daughter is good but if your talking about the ER i had a solder black out when walking up the stairs i had to take him in

I am looking at making a druid...is there a feat that makes my animal companion better I was looking yesterday and didn't find one so I thought I would ask

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So, basically at this point it is very open. There are a lot of things you can try to do, and a lot of options open to you. You can use the house as a temp HQ, for example, or find somewhere else to stay, but you have the feeling that you may be here for a few days at least, just trying to get some leads. You could also at this point rest, and switch out some spells, possibly try Divinations for clues.

This part onwards is basically a big sandbox, and now very much player run.

[ooc]so I have a question on a character I am making, I am making a druid and want to take aspect of the beast, Do I have wait till I get the wild shape ability or can i take it at level 1...a ranger from what I have been told can use a wand of cure light wounds at lvl 1 just because it's on his spell list even though he doesn't get it till level 4...would this work the same

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so I have a question on a character I am making, I am making a druid and want to take aspect of the beast, Do I have wait till I get the wild shape ability or can i take it at level 1...a ranger from what I have been told can use a wand of cure light wounds at lvl 1 just because it's on his spell list even though he doesn't get it till level 4...would this work the same

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Because it has Wild Shape as a Prereq, you need to actually have that ability before you can select the Feat. It's different than the Ranger Spellcasting, as even though they can not cast anything until later, they still have the Spell list from level 1 on. Druids do not have Wildshape until later.

You can also check these out for some tips:

HERE

HERE and part 2 & part 3

Broken Zenith's page has a list of most of the Guides out there, some (including mine) are heavily opinionated and based on individual play style, so may not work for what you are looking for.

So, I was debating on how I wanted to do this. If you didn't know, this was the first time that the Shadow Lodge was revealed. At the time, there where hints that there was a hidden Lodge, but no one really knew. However, ***, things have changed a lot since then, with the Shadow Lodge becoming more common and popular, and then even "going away", so in some ways it makes little sense, as the scenarios assume that no one knows anything about the Shadow Lodge, (which didn't exist really yet). So, I figure I'll keep it the Shadow Lodge, which has mostly vanished now as a faction, and change it a bit to be some of the ex-Pathfinders that have decided to leave the Pathfinders, trying to reform their own Lodge, (but not really the same Shadow Lodge you may be used to). Using the name to spread confusion, but with some key differences.

*** - The Shadow Lodge is still around, just not as a Faction you can choose as a Player. A lot of people are really angry about that, and how "Rivalry's End" turned out (I know I am, and one of my characters is still purely Shadow Lodge in mindset, and plans to reform it as a faction that looks out for Pathfinders himself). However, just recently another Scenario "Destiny of the Sands part 1" has come out that might be changing that all up a bit. So, it might turn out to work really, really well after all. . .

So, if you are confused, that's a good thing, as that was the intent of this scenario, and hopefully it will become clear as we go.

I also wanted to point out that this is running very quickly and smoothly so far. We are near the end of part 1, and part 2 starts to become more exciting, less of an intro to NPC's. So good job so far. Anyone interested in jumping to the high tier with the next Scenario? So far, (and I will need to relook at part 2 just to make sure), this one has seemed a little easy. The low tier game I am running, though, they are having some issues. :(

i dont wanna mess the game progress up so il be sitting out this encounter if thays alright il try to post up when i can

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DM Beckett - are you alive and well?

I'm alive. I just deployed, and I'm trying to get everything set up. I was having trouble getting personal internet set up, and now that I do I should be able to do more, more often. I am currently working a 24 hour shift, and my work computer has Google blocked, so in approx 4-5 hours when I get off, I can log into my computer. I apologize.

I have reported the game, and I will be working on Chronicle Sheets asap.

Who was going to continue onto the next Scenario? I know some of you wanted to drop out for other games, I just to know who is and who is not.

I have another one that i need to get to. Thanks though, and good luck!

I'm begging out, Beckett. Rah has a game ready to kick off that I am the last person in.

Thanks for running for us, though.

No worries. I understand and wish you luck. :)

There are 2 more parts to this right if so iassua and Xiabo are in

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If not I will talk to iassua and see if he wants to and I should be in either way

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There is one more part to this one.

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Where are the Chronicle Sheets?

On the way. Having issues uploading them, because I cant do it from work. Very soon, ir is just taking forever to upload.

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HERE is a link to the Chronicle Sheets.