DM Panic's Emerald Spire Alternate Universe (Inactive)

Game Master wakedown

Discussion for the side-run of Emerald Spire level 1...

I'm zeroing in on two choices:

1) A human bard, focused on the whip for tripping.
2) An elven transmuter, hopefully I can make her an Eldritch Knight someday.

Both would be melee types, but they need time before entering combat. So they are probably secondary frontliners.

If it helps any, Zarina is a halfling bard that uses a whip for aiding others. She has little offense herself - although her first mission (the Wounded Wisp), she was the last party member standing, and luckily the only opponent left was a mage who was out of spells. Took like 5 rounds for one of them to finally put the other down!

It was rather sad...

Still, I think she has promise!

Sounds like I should experiment on an elven transmuter, then. Off to the lab!

This is the character I was planning to bring - he was originally designed for an Emerald Spire CORE 24 hour marathon that fell through, so he *should* be fairly survivable :-)

That's 3 of the 5 of us... hoping for check-in from the other 2... will ping 'em.

This transmuter is difficult to build, but that's half the fun, I guess. I'm still deciding on Ranger/Wizard or Fighter/Wizard.

inb4 she gets one-shotted

I recommend ranger... I have a fighter / wizard and lack of skills is killing me!

I believe we're waiting on Mr. Marsh to complete PJP/Fuzzfoot's run o Shades of Ice I on Kayanor.

Then, Lari/dhenn has a 2nd level core PC who's available, and he was checking on that... there might have been some play for in-person play to argument leveling to 3rd.

Again, no rush here to start, just getting ducks in a row.

Are you talking for this level 1 run? Shades of ice is going to take some time to complete yet. They are close to done with part 2, but he may want to continue with part 3. If not, that's ok - but I still think part 2 is a week or more to finish up, unless they get really lucky and the paizo boards stop failing so much...

Yep, the "Alternative Level 1 Level-up Run".

Shrug. Questions only for him when he checks in.

Alright, got my character set up. He'll start off as a not very wise Ranger.

I'll ping our two missing GMs by PM again, just so we can set a tentative start date here.

Sounds good :-)

Shoot. I'm sorry guys, I have to drop. My bandwidth hit its limit and school is starting to kick my but. I feel really bad about it, but I've reached my game limit for the next couple of months. :-( I know that leaves you in a lurch...

No lurch at all! We had 5 folks tentatively flagged and ES is easily handled by (intended for?) 4 players.

Thanks guys! I do look forward to seeing everyone in games elsewhere though!

I assume this just sort of dried up, but Zora is now free for the upper level one...

I'll ping GM Lari again since he expressed interest. Ideally we have 4-5 to make it a run.

If everyone ends up with 3rd level Core PCs free, we can skip the re-run of level 1.

Lari's stretched thin at this stage.

Which means we could go back to simply resuming Emerald Spire at Level 4 versus the level-up game. I believe Maiden is just starting Destiny Part 3, so we could would to line up at the end of that and see who else we could rustle up for Core gaming from Flaxseed at that point?

This'd mean we could resume discussion here

Ideally, I need to get 1xp on a character to bring my preferred option up to level 3.

That said, if that is not feasible, I do have other options.

Ah, for some reason I figured you had several options among your dozens of characters. I suppose another option besides Emerald Spire Level 1 redux would be a 1-5 scenario run in Core in the interim.

Those usually are fairly easy to fill and by selecting the right one, the timing can match Maiden's Destiny III run.

Unfortunately, the problem is that the vast majority of my CORE characters are level 2 or less, and the ones that *aren't* are locked up in existing games ;-)

I do have Zora sitting idle for Maiden's return, but happy to do level 1 with Zarina or another scenario to help get Giovanni the level he needs.

I have a level 1 and level 2 CORE characters we can use to help Giovanni get to level 3, if needed.

Do you guys have any requests? I'd likely look for a 1-5 that runs faster rather than slower, for whatever that means. :)

Well, we could always hop into the 5-8 Confirmation if you want fast and predictable.

Of the Standard scenarios I've been in, these were relatively fast:

The Merchant's Wake
The Penumbral Accords
Black Waters
Mists of Mwangi
Trouble in Tamran

Confirmation, The Merchant's Wake, and The Penumbral Accords would all be fine by me.

I could do any of those, but Penumbral would be my preference.

Let's go with Penumbral then. It's an easy run and I've already run it in Classic via PbP so I have all the maps cut in Photoshop for PbP!

I'll recruit a few more players via Flaxseed (after sticking your names into it) on Wed or Thurs this week and update here with a link to the game.

I am going to be scarce for the next 3 days. I might check in from mobile, but my posts will be few and far between until Monday. Thank you for your patience!

Tax prep weekend, so looking at starting recruitment Monday.

Recruitment is up on Flaxseed.

Check in here

Sorry, I am out. I totally got confused between games, and just started Penumbral with a different core character. (I mark them down as I start, so didn't notice the overlap until I went to check in and the description was TOO familiar.)

I suppose I could play for no credit, but if someone else wants the spot, they should have it.

Ack! No worries. We'll loop you back in when we continue Emerald Spire!

Here's an update on where we're at.

Giovanni is in the home stretch of Penumbral Accords, which I believe will give him the XP needed to hit 3rd level.

Zora is ready and available to start ES4.

Maiden is in the home stretch of Destiny of Sands Part III.

Since everyone will qualify to play, I'm going to shut down this thread/game which was intended for an alternate ES1 run. We can then work to recruit a player for the last spot.