DM B's PFS PbP By Way of Bloodcove (Inactive)

Game Master Beckett

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1.) Revvy Bitterleaf
2.) Daveak Bringer of Destruction
3.) GM Aarvid
4.) Oykiv
5.) SodiumTelluride
6.) Slicertool

A few metagamy notes (without me having ready the scenario yet). 1.) It does take place in the Mwangi Expanse (which is sort of a mixture of Africa/Australia in Golarion). Dress appropriately. Endure Elements?

2.) At least 1 player NEEDS to have a Wayfinder for this one. Apparently there have been a few cases where no one even bothered to ask, and at one point you simply can not progress without it, leading to auto mission failure. Just in case, a basic Wayfinder is 250gp AT THE START of the scenario. As long as one character has it, (not slotted), we can ignore this.

3.) This one is noted at being a pretty big open sandbox, and also involves a lot of choices from the players as to how things progress, both in the sense of more or less combats (or any), and other things (I have not read it yet). So, just be warned, and also, please be as specific and direct about your actions as intentions as possible. (I don't need to worry much about it from most of you, but just a reminder that it helps in the long run).

Part of the reason I ask for comments at the end is to improve, and one of the comments that stuck with me is that it was difficult to follow along with the game due to the time frame, and hard to remember what you where there for, who did what, etc. . . So, I'm going to make an effort to do periodic updates and a summary of events (posted at the top of the page) for this one to see if that helps.

Checking in.

Since it's 3-7 I'll bring Caith again. He just leveled to 5, so adding a lvl of barbarian making him lvl 5

And Caith still has a wand of endure elements from a couple of scenario's ago and owns a wayfinder.

Likewise, since it is 3-7 I will stick with Roderick 4th Alchemist. He owns a wayfinder as well.

Here. Post more later

Garret can cast endure elements and is level 6.

If we´re going to play low level, I would bring Maldrek, a level 4 wizard who can help a lot with knowledge checks, but not so much healing people.

Morning Beckett.

I'll be running a pregen rogue since my real rogue is just shy of being qualified for this one.

@Garret My opinion; play the character you think you will have the most fun playing, but I'm not going to say no to a cleric who can heal me when needed ;)

Lets see who we have:

1.) Revvy Bitterleaf
2.) Daveak Bringer of Destruction
3.) GM Aarvid
4.) Oykiv
5.) SodiumTelluride
6.) Slicertool

Alright, I'll take a look to see if ST is still in and we can get started soon. Please make sure to head over to the Gameplay and Recruitment threads.

Ok, it looks like the PM for ST never went through. Resent, so I have resent it and hopefully we can start soon.

Alright, Sodium has dropped out, so I've extended a seat to the first person in that had asked in the Recruiment thread.

I'm mostly ready to go, so please head over to the Recruitment thread and drop your info, and check into the Gameplay thread.

I want to start tonight or tomorrow if we can.

Hi, thanks for the offer, I would very much like to join you on this adventure. Avril is a mounted summoner. Sadly I'm 300 GP short of buying Feather Steps Slippers which looks like they would be handy on this mission.

I´m learning endure elements for this scenario. Also I´m thinking in romeve my prepared "Scorching ray" for something more useful, but not sure about what. Is there anyone wants? (Don´t mind to spent gold to learn it).

We are just waiting on everyone to post their information right? PfSnumber etc.

@Maldrek: Seems like you are the only caster, the rest of us can likely provide plenty of damage, but it might be nice to have access to some control as well. In roughly my order of recomendation: Glitterdust, Burst of Radiance, create pit, web, dust of twilight, blindness etc. Of course we would probably all appreciate buffs like strength boost, but given we have so many melee types already(everyone except you?) I think it's better to cover other areas instead.

I agree with Avril's list. But not all are melee focus.

Roderick is more of a stay back and hurl bombs, so not a front-liner unless forced to do so. :)

Well all except you, but you are still mostly damage focused, or am I mistaken about that? With your bombs we'll hopefully be able to handle any swarms we encouter, which is nice because I'm guess that is quite likely.

Last scenario I played we managed to use 21 charges of wand of infernal healing. Hopefully we'll use less resources here...

So do all of you know each other IRL?

I know Thoril, the one that's still not posted, but I've run games for and with everyone here pretty often.

What sort of pace do you expect this game to run at? I generally prefer 1+ post per day, but I'm fine with a slower pace as well. Less than a post per week is a bit little though.

I don´t know them in RL, but I´ve played several PBP games with DM Beckett, Roderick and Caith.

The pace is something about 1 per day, but sometimes we have to wait.

@DM Beckett: Two things to take in account about Maldrek; he always act in surprise rounds and he can cast Deathwatch at will, so if you don´t mind we can consider to be on always.

Wow still here sorry about the delay. This game never appeared on any of my current games.

It never does unless you post in gameplay.

What sort of pace do you expect this game to run at? I generally prefer 1+ post per day, but I'm fine with a slower pace as well. Less than a post per week is a bit little though.

Normally, I try myself to get in a few posts a day. However, right now, I am currently deployed, and between long hours I can not account for in advance, and poor internet it tends to vary. I'll give it my best shot to post and check in as much as possible. I also know that Thoril is deployed as well, but we are not at the same place or even time zones.

I just wanted to take a quick moment to explain how I run combats, <Copy/Pasted from an old game>.

Below is a typical example of the Initiative Roster.

ROUND 1
Quint (), Dumm (), Senach (), Skerdo (), & Anduss ()
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Chelish Thug 1 (), Chelish Thug 2 (), Chelish Thug 3 (),
Chelish Thug 4 (), Chelish Thug 5 (), & Chelish Thug 6 ()
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Quartz ()

You may notice that everyone has a () near their name. I simply use this to give an indication of any pertinent conditions that might apply, as well as to show any damage that everyone has take over the entire combat. (PLEASE NOTE, THIS DOES NOT INDICATE A CHARACTERS CURRENT HEALTH< JUST THE AMOUNT OF DAMAGE THEY HAVE TAKEN THIS COMBAT). So, later on, the Init might look more like:

ROUND 3
<Party Bless, +1 Att/Save vs Fear -> R7>
Quint (), Dumm (), Senach (-7), Skerdo (), & Anduss (Ready Attack)
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Chelish Thug 1 (prone), Chelish Thug 2 (-16), Chelish Thug 4 (),
Chelish Thug 5 (asleep), & Chelish Thug 6 ()
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Quartz (charging)

In this case, it means that Senach has taken 7 points of damage, NOT that Senach is at -7 HP and near death.

You might also notice a few conditions or notes in there, like Thug 1 is prone and Quarts charged. It's just to help everyone remember some of the things going on, round by round.

Another thing I do is BOLD everyone that is currently up next. Normally the init isn't as binary as this, but I do roll everything out in the open. So, everyone whose name is bolded can act. It's okay to post out of order, and I will go through and place everyone's actions in order as we go through the round, either making minor alterations or asking you if you want to do something different if something changes between the time you post and your actual turn comes up.

Now, that being said, it does help A LOT, if everyone can offer an alternative action if there is ever any questions, and also to be as descriptive and proactive as possible. It also really helps if, when anyone uses any spells, or even uncommon Feats, if you could make a quick link to it on the PRD or a similar site, and also include things like what Save is involved, what is the DC, and what happens on a success/failure. I understand that this is not always easy to do, at work or from your phone, so it's okay to not do it ever single time. But, if you can, please do. At the very least, post the Save and DC, as well as the intention.

For example: Inflict Light Wounds to the Face!!! (Will DC 14 for Half)

<Party Bless, +1 Att/Save vs Fear -> R7>

I also try to add these in when I can, and the effect is not too long or complicated, as a reminder to all. Typically, I expect everyone to remember and apply all the buffs affecting them, but if you forget, that's fine. I generally do not mind rewinding a little bit to fix things. Now, that being said, two combats back is a little too late.

If at any time you have a question, please feel free to ask. :)

Am I the only one with a wand of infernal healing? I guess I have enough charges though.

@Thoril: You haven't listed your class abilities on your profile that I can find, what bloodline are you?

Reading through everything now!

Edit #1: when I click on the map for Bloodcove it comes up "Trouble in Tamran"

Edit #2: what's our APL?

It was 3-4, but I'll need to recalculate it with you and after I hear from one other.

It is 4,333. If Maldrek "el liberto" switches to Garret C. we'll be at 4,666 which I believe is still low tier, right? I'm fine with playing high tier, but if we have a decision I would leave it to Toril seeing as he is the lowest level among us.

I am fine with either. If we play up I will drop the large great ax for a normal 1 and be fine. I am the abyssal bloodline. I will update it later today.

-Posted with Wayfinder

Am I the only one with a wand of infernal healing? I guess I have enough charges though.

@GM, since it doesn't look like anyone can use the wand of cure light wounds I own. Is it ok if I spend 2 prestige to buy a wand of infernal healing to split the charges of healing, seems only fair to do so.

I have one as well

@ Avril, Do you know if Boon companion would work for a mount. I really like you build but would want to go a little different route with it. Calvalier instead of summoner but dont know if the boon companion feat works with mounts even though they follow "This mount functions as a druid's animal companion, using the cavalier's level as his effective druid level." I just dont know if it would qualify for feats that affect it as such.

Are we playing with 7 people as there are 7 people in player tab not including gm.

Slice was the one that posted with the cleric pregen. I am JW

Is any of us trained in bluff?

Maldrek it isn´t, but thanks to a trait he can check at +5

If we are actually guarding a legit package being delivered from an actual company and you are the actual consultant we wont need bluff as we are being truthfull lol

None of us have any classes high on social skills.

Just means things will be interesting. For me, I mean. You are all going to die.

Please don't use a lot of characters, for example ==== etc after each other in a row in a post. It screws up the screen on mobile.

I think it was the broken link that messed up the previous page.

I have finally gotten word from Slicertool who will not be able to join. So, it's a 6 person party, and that does put us in the 3-4 Subtier.

So, I'll be moving onwards now.

GM I am in a few games with you and i post here instead of in all lol.
I have had family emergency come up and may be unavalable starting wed until I get back from it. i will also be heading stateside this week right before i leave. I wanted to give you a heads up incase i cant post. It wont be more than 2 weeks. but i am taking emergency leave to take care of it.

Sorry for not posting over the weekend, I'll post sometime later today.

Playing an infiltration mission without anyone capable of doing any sort of infiltration... Yeah...

Holy crap! So, I'm just going to say from now on you are "Laying Low", because you are pretty close to ending he scenario early already, and there are still more checks to go. Sorry Caith and Thoril, you are both screwed (on skills) no matter what. But, sometimes the party mix just isn't right and sometimes you fail a mission. For skill checks, I'm going to count Cryxial as Aid Another, because there are penalties for failure as a group.

I 100% blame the scenario, not us. This is not how social skills in Pathfinder are intended or expected to work.

I'm actually just happy ending it now, if you all are.

I'll be giving this a low rating on the product page in hopes of steering others away from it.

Sometimes the challenge is making due with the cards you are dealt in a random party. Sometimes the mix is sugar and cake, sometimes the mix is lemons. We just need to make lemonade :-)

Its not over yet, nor is it too late. :)

Looks like we should have brought stuff like disguise self spells/extracts...

I'm out of town the 12th thru the 15th (DunDraCon!). I won't be able to update much during that time, except sporadically using my phone.

Hey everyone. I apologize for disappearing. I've had something pretty major happen and I'm trying really hard to deal with it and protect another soldier. I can't really go into much details, but it's pretty important. I've been dealing with that a lot recently and just have not had the time to get online much. I want to apologize to everyone, and I hope I can get back here soon.