DaWay's PFS First Steps (Group 1) (Inactive)

Game Master DaWay

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Shinkeer reporting in.

Vanyel checking in.

It might take me a day or two to check everyone's sheet and make sure it's legal. If experience PFS people want to volunteer to help it would be greatly appreciated.

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Eying everyone as he walks in, the fair-skinned man bows politely, never lowering his eyes. "Greetings. I am Mathias of the Kelythis family. You will find me a viable companion on our journey today, but I expect the same from you."

We're in!

Pass the whiskey!

Brother Felinros ambles up to the table and pulls out a bottle of whiskey saying with a glassy-eyed grin, "Its time for worship for those who wish it, and I'd suggest that you all look like sinners in need of baptism. Caylen told me that I'd be finding companions to drink and adventure with and I guess that's you lot. I lost me old Harrowing, so that blessing is off, but the blessing of the Spirit is one we can all enjoy before whatever dangers we face."

With that Felinros begins to pass around what you assumed, correctly, was his holy symbol - a large covered flagon worn around his neck. He twists the cover open, and you see it that flagon too is full of whiskey and the good Brother is looking to share with his new compatriots.

"...Thank you, Priest."

Arjunta sips the whiskey and cracks a smile. He still doesn't say much more than that, though.

Bald and bull-like, Zoltan ambles up to the bar where the priest prepares the blessing. Cayden bless us! It is good to have a man o' the cloth here with us, and a fellow Varisian no less! Make it a double for me, seems ta clear my head a bit. The large man downs a large swig, the flask looking small in the grasp of Zoltan's tattooed, meaty hand. Ahhh...now I be's ready to travel! The man's voice booms across the room.

"A bit early to celebrate, isn't it Caylenite? We haven't even been given our assignment.", questions the Chelaxian with a raised eyebrow.

The tall elf quirks the corner of his mouth in a lopsided smile. "The sun rose this morning, and that's enough of a cause celebre for the devoted Caydenite. Or so I have been assured."

Shaking his head, Mathias reaches over for the flask and takes a sip, eyeballing the others near him and gauging them.

Hmmm... the elf seems to be the only other worth a stimulating conversation. A couple of meatshields, though the Shoanti looks to have a better head on his broad shoulders. Tengu is a wildcard; guess the Society is letting 'bout anyone in to fill in numbers after the Shadow Lodge debacle. And a pilgrim for some divine support. Useful, although I'm sure he'll be an earful.

"Caylenites are usually too capricious for my blood... but I can't argue with their taste in drinks."

"There is a goodly difference between worship and celebration, this is simply a blessing on our prospects not a celebration of our assured success. The Lucky Drunk only blesses a journey that begin with the right state of mind." And with that, the good Brother takes a swig and passes the cup.

"As long as that state of mind is 'success', then all will be well... I have to admit, I'm not well versed Cayden Cailean. What do representatives of the Lucky Drunk title themselves as?"

A tengu walks in and sets his battered looking firearm standing in the corner. He approaches the group. Greetings, I am Shinkeer, could I partake of the.."festivities"?

"Of course! Cayden is free with his his blessings and all our companions are welcome to them. The journey always goes better with a drink to start the way..."

at the doctors now so I am posting from my phone. Will update what people need to do based on what i've seen and the help rendered. expect a post from me tonight. As soon as everyone has fixed their characters we may begin.

ok for this group, still needs some attention. I apologize been a long day with work and the kiddo, and I found out I have a hairline fracture on my femur. Stupid ice. Silver lining, more time to devote to the game for a couple days.

Shinkeer Aswander You're good to go

Arjunta I need what character this is for you. Also I have 12 gp left for you, you show 3 gp.

Thanks to Shinkeer for the help.

Brother Felinros. No glaring mistakes unless I've missed something you're good.

Zoltan Ceasescu. Two things, I am not sure if Perform Gladiator is PFS legal, and I believe you're "racial" language would be Shoanti not Varisian. Otherwise I think you are good.

Vanyel. Looks good.

Mathias Kelythis. I cannot remember if Chelish is a language or they use infernal, either way you get that as a free language at character creation because it is your regional language. Otherwise I think you are good.

I will change Arjunta's GP.

This is my first official PFS character.

@DaWay: First off...owww! RE: Femur fracture; that seriously sucks.

This is my first PFS PC too, so mistakes were bound to happen. I'll re-look traits then, since that is where perform came from. One of his traits (Varisian Wanderer) states that he can get a Perform skill as a class skill. Perform (other) is an option on the PFS varient of Herolab, so I selected that and made the "other" gladiator. But maybe Perform (Other) is not allowable in PFS. Not really a big deal, just wanted to bring out his showmanship a bit.

As for the racial language, why would it be Shoanti when Varisian is his race?

according to the PRD
Perform
(Cha)

You are skilled at one form of entertainment, from singing to acting to playing an instrument. Like Craft, Knowledge, and Profession, Perform is actually a number of separate skills. You could have several Perform skills, each with its own ranks.

Each of the nine categories of the Perform skill includes a variety of methods, instruments, or techniques, a small sample of which is provided for each category below.

Act (comedy, drama, pantomime)
Comedy (buffoonery, limericks, joke-telling)
Dance (ballet, waltz, jig)
Keyboard instruments (harpsichord, piano, pipe organ)
Oratory (epic, ode, storytelling)
Percussion instruments (bells, chimes, drums, gong)
String instruments (fiddle, harp, lute, mandolin)
Wind instruments (flute, pan pipes, recorder, trumpet)
Sing (ballad, chant, melody)

So I could see gladiator being Act, Comedy, or Dance but that is just my opinion.

As for the racial language sorry got you and another character confused. Plus the profile pic got me a little confused. So it looks like you just need a PFS legal perform skill and you are good.

@DaWay: First off...owww! RE: Femur fracture; that seriously sucks.

This is my first PFS PC too, so mistakes were bound to happen. I'll re-look traits then, since that is where perform came from. One of his traits (Varisian Wanderer) states that he can get a Perform skill as a class skill. Perform (other) is an option on the PFS varient of Herolab, so I selected that and made the "other" gladiator. But maybe Perform (Other) is not allowable in PFS. Not really a big deal, just wanted to bring out his showmanship a bit.

As for the racial language, why would it be Shoanti when Varisian is his race?

Zoltan, you can take Profession other, Gladiator. At the end of the game you can make a Day Job roll for a little extra cash. The profession does nothing for you ingame though.

Just waiting on a language for Mathias.

yes, but he wants perform other not profession other. I know there is any profession you want but I only see the nine choices for perform.

Ahh, missed the trait part, thought he was going for flavor

Nah, I'll just dump Varisian Wanderer Trait for Berserker of the Society (gives 3 more rounds of rage). Makes things easier. Revision on profile will happen tonight.

They do say fighting is a deadly dance

Well, the Perform (Gladiator) idea WAS for flavor, but isn't a big deal for the character. Frankly this is more to try out PFS than for a particular flair. It's all good.

I apologize about all the book keeping guys, I know you just want to get to the game. Just have to make sure everything is correct.

No problem, DW. Today was kind of rushed for me, too--not a broken femur (ow!), but I spent most of the morning doing a safety inspection and then went home sick and spent most of the afternoon passed out. My kids have bequeathed me their cold, and the walking didn't do much good.

Incidentally, I'm posting from GMT-5 or -6, depending (US Central time zone). Where's everyone else coming from?

I'm EST

Me too (EST), but I travel sometimes. Mostly I'll be posting during the workday. Weekends will be slower.

EST

MST, can and will check this during work, and either weekend nights or mornings, and thanks for reminding me; it's Infernal as the regional bonus language.

Also, take care DaWay! Haven't had a GM die on me yet and I'll be damned if that occurs during a PbP!

ok so everyone on this thread is good to go. post will be up shortly in the gameplay thread.

and we're off.

So I am attempting to get more technilogically saavy with running pbp's. Does anyone have a way of helping me display editable maps for y'all.

Arr you using Google Drive?

no, is it user friendly?

Kinda, what are you using? I'm using Google Drive, I had to stab around for a while, but I'm not the most tech savvy. Once I got the hang of it, not too bad.

Very much so. I use the spreadsheet function, shrinking the columns so each cell is roughly square, and using the background to set square colors. Then I set sharing privileges so that anyone with the link can look at the map; see HERE for an example.

I really don't use anything. I tend to go for descriptive combat more, years of playing vampire and werewolf.

For people with heavily position-dependent abilities, it can be tough to work w/o maps. It isn't as important with Vanyel, but I have a trip monkey with a reach weapon in another PFS game who could have trouble with that approach. Unless we have someone like that in the party I'd suggest starting out w/o maps and seeing how well that works.

I have seen the spreadsheet and it definitely works. You can also copy the image from the scenario and use create drawing in Drive, then Insert Image. To paste though, you have to use Cntrl-V, just right clicking doesn't work. Took me two days to figure that out.