DrGabe's Pathfinder Society Game (Inactive)

Game Master DrGabe

Slypher continues his impressive martial display with his enhanced staff.
Staff 1: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 2 = 15, Damage: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9
Staff 1: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 2 = 22, Damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8
Crit Confirm: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (18) + 2 = 20, Damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4
Like a boss.

PS - if the first hit kills the goblin, I guess instead of the 2nd I'd like to use a move to advance to the next goblin up.

And I think Osric went out of turn, so skip him for the moment.

Aasif drops his shortbow and moves to Pai Song and the goblin threatening her. "Away, foul ruiner of profit!" he shouts. As he arrives Aasif tries to kick up enough dust to get the goblin's attention and provoke an opening for Pai.

Aid Another: 1d20 ⇒ 9

Slypher's first swing missed as the goblin ducked at the last possible second. But it set up a particularly brutal second attack that decapitates the goblin.

Initiative Order: Pai, Aasif, Jostrum, Sorin, Goblins, Slypher, Osric
Pai, please explain your move in more detail to me. Is roll marked "CHA" supposed to be an attack? What about the next two rolls?
Osric, no you went in turn. Its all good.

Jostrum draws back and looses another arrow, aiming for the goblin to the right up in the balcony.

Attack: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 27
Damage: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

Wow, two crit threats in a row

Crit Confirm: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (19) + 7 = 26
Crit Damage: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9
Crit Damage: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7

The roll marked CHA was a CHA check to get the charmed goblin to do something, possibily against his former companions. Then followed a byte attack against the goblin next to me, the ooc text was the description of the snake poison my byte transfers on a hit, if it would have hit and at the end my temporary status, AC with mage armor and my HP. Will mark it more clearly next time.

Pai Song takes another byte at the goblin, then moves back behind Aasif.

Byte Attack: 1d20 ⇒ 15

Pai- I understand now, thanks.

Jostrum's arrow pierces the Charmed goblin in the eye ending whatever friendship it had with Pai.
Pai's fanged attack actually hits, thanks to the bonus from Aasif. Go ahead and roll damage

Sorin, the Goblins.

Damn...sorry Pai, wasn't thinking when I choose a target. My bad.

1d4 ⇒ 2

The goblin is now affected by Poison DC 12; frequency 1/round for 6 rounds; effect 1 Con damage; cure 1 save

A bit sick yesterday. Need to take it out on goblin skulls.

Map isn't loading at work. Sorin will just move to whatever goblin remains on the ground and attack.

attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (16) + 4 = 20
damage: 2d6 + 4 ⇒ (4, 6) + 4 = 14

That is more like it!
If there are no valid targets, he will use a shortbow, which is only +3 (hit AC 19) and 1d6 ⇒ 6 damage.

Con Save: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7
Pai, do you really want to move? It will provoke an AoO. For now, I'll assume that you will just step 5 feet.

Pai's poisonous fangs dig deep into the goblins arm, the skin starting to necrose instantly.
In return, the goblin strikes at her.
Attack: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4, but the attack misses by a mile.

Sorin ended the life of one of the goblins, but the other is still there and fighting.
Attack: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 2 = 10, but is too distraught about its short lifespan to hit.

Poison Check: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (19) + 3 = 22, the poison starts to fade.

MAP
PC's Turn!

Pai Song casts Daze (DC 14)on the nearest Goblin.

Jostrum fits another arrow, draws back the bowstring, and takes aim at the goblin directly in front of him. He draws in a breath, and lets it out slowly, Seemed to work before and let's the arrow fly.

Attack: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (10) + 7 = 17
Damage: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

Edit: ninja'd by Pai.

After Jostrum shoots, Osric steps west, and shoots the western goblin

1d20 + 3 ⇒ (13) + 3 = 16 to hit
1d8 ⇒ 8 for any damage

Jostrum and Osric fill the room with arrows and the last two goblins crash down to the ground. Breathless, the explorers look to each other and tend to their wounds.

Pai- hold your daze spell, you might need it later on!
We are out of combat.

Daze is a cantrip i can do without end, so no problem. It´s nice on low levels because it´s only going to affect creatures with 4HD, but i could do it every round.

Slypher smiles at his handywork, but then scowls as he sees Sorin has done something very comparable.
"Everyone alive? Osric? Pai? ...new guy?"

"I am most unhurt, Master Xen." Aasif walks over to Slypher, bows with a flourish and tries to grab his hand to shake it. "I am known to be the most humble merchant Aasif Spicetongue! Truthful adventurer of great renown and ability. At your service, Master Xen." Then he strides off to collect his shortbow.

Jostrum begins to explore the room, looking for exits. After that he will check the bodies.

Most important, i´m unharmed. Thanks for your kind care Slypher. I´m impressed by both your and Sorins martial power. This would could have ended bad without you two. Let´s check if that goblins carry so much alchemists fire like the last we encountered.

Osric will cast detect magic and scan the room, not expecting to find anything. And then he will check the goblins.

Sorin gives a quick thumbs-up to Pai before tossing the greatsword on his shoulder and turning to scan the room.

Perception: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11

Looking around the explorers find that the the statues along with their scaffolding would make a relatively easy climb to the balcony. You can see that the goblins kept ropes tied to the rail to make life easier, but they are coiled up.
In the southeast corner of the room is an exit. The door is a simple stone door, just like the one that lead into this room.
But that all pales to the large door that leads to the south. It imminates strong magic. There are seven thumb-sized sockets embedded in the door, arranged in a ring around a starburst design.

This door is so magical, i don´t even know how to describe it. Those sockets, it looks like something needs to be fit in there to open the door. Well since we don´t have it, we won´t go through there any time soon. Someone wants to climb up there and check the balcony? Else i suggest we take that way back over there.

Osric will study the pattern at the magical door, and even sketch it with rough dimensions. He hopes to be able to remember what it looks like later when he sees the key. Is it possible it is one "key" will fit the pattern?

I agree with Pai on the direction. Hopefully Aasif or Sorin can climb up and check out the balcony.

"Master Sarus, I will happily try to climb up this most exquisite of balconies."
climb: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (17) + 3 = 20

Aasif is easily able to climb up to the balcony. Other than the dead goblins on the floor, you find anything of interest here. There are three exits though- Northwest, Southwest, and Northeast.

Pai and Osric are able to study the door and make a copy of it for later. However, its secrets still elude them.

Correction... the goblins each have a bow and sword. They also carry some gold, jewelry, and one potion of cure light wounds.

"Excellent. Potions. I would like to take one...does anybody mind?" Sorin asks, holding the vial in his hand.

As long as you stay between me and whatever we might else encounter in this place, go ahead, serve yourself Pai Song says with a smile.

"I think I'll take one of those as well." Slypher then looks around and considers which path they should take next. "Anyone have a preference of which way first?"

I´m afraid there is only one potion. You could undress, rub yourselves with this oil and wrestle for it. It might be enjoyable to watch.

We move on....through a door we can open.

Sorin winks at Pai as he shoves the potion into his belt.

"How about we go up? It looks like there are more doors upstairs...and frankly, one way is as good as another."

I think we should take the door back there. That´s where the goblins probably came from and exploration should be done logically, so let´s go there.

Slypher shrugs, having no preference, and starts off in the direction Pai indicates ? with his torch in hand.

Sweet- we are splitting the party! Just kidding, which way do you all want to go? All three of the other doors look to easily be opened.

Not sure which way Pai meant, but right-hand-rule indicates Northwest.

I meant that open door on the ground floor in the southeast corner that was mentioned bfore th big door with the sockets. Guess first is always the most obvious.

Aye, let's just take the door here on the first level

Sorin shrugs, one way being as good as another, and follows Slypher.

I keep hearing the SE door, that is the way we can go.
The explorers leave the statue room and head into a winding hallway. The narrow passage widens out into a room here before continuing. Piles of sand and rubble fill the corners of the room, and the sound of splashing water can be heard from the east (away from you).

Perception Checks

Perception: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (8) + 12 = 20

perception: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3

Perception: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (11) - 1 = 10

Wait! Don't move! Jostrum shouts suddenly. He sees that two of the flagstones in the center of the floor are somewhat depressed. Its possible they are trapped. Usually, stepping on one of the tiles will trigger the trap.

Disable Device if you like. The safer, but more boring approach would be to walk around these floor tiles.

Jostrum takes a piece of chalk and traces the outline or the tiles that appear to be trapped. Here he says, pointing to one side of the chalk line, it is safe to walk. The other side...not so much. Now let's see about disabling this thing. He reaches in his pack and removes a sets a tools, then gets down on his belly and begins manipulating the tiles.

Disable Device: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (2) + 12 = 14

Pai Song takes some steps back, placing herself behind someone else.

Slypher prepares to hit anything that might pop out of...
somehow he doesn't feel prepared.

Arching an eyebrow, Pai watches Slyphers quirks as he grips his staff in different ways, seemingly wanting to hit the trap.

Welcome to the Frostfur Captives PFS play-by-post game. I follow the PFS rules to best of my ability, however since we are playing in a PbP environment there are a few extra things to be aware of.
Please make note of the brackets for formatting your post. See the "How to Format Your Text" button below. If posting in game thoughts, etc just use plain type. Out of Character (ooc) text needs the brackets-ooc-closedbrackets. Use the Dice brackets for posting your rolls. If you need/want to post something that isn't really OOC, then you can post it here in the Discussion thread.

Remember, Paizo's number one rule is Play! My number one rule is HAVE FUN!
So lets do that!

Is this thread for group A or B or is this ooc a combo thread for both groups?

This should be the discussion thread for Group A only, I would think.

Would group A care to weigh in on my character choice? It's basically:
1) Tanky barb with good HP named Brik
2) Sorcerer that's not useless in close combat named Tortella
3) Staff magus that hits people with a stick, twice, named Slypher.

Just Group A Ruprecht.

Here is the makeup for right now:

Group A
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There are already a Ranger, Gunslinger and a Barbarian as i see, so might be the staff magus a little bit more focussing on debuff and controll could be a good one, but its of course up to you.

This is my first play by post, how will this go on?
One post a day? Then wait untill everyone posted?
(Would be fine for me)

Dr. Gabe, i would like to make a minor change to Pai Song, i forgot about this at creation.

1. Add the "Gift of tongues" racial trait replacing "defensive training" and "hatred"
2. Replace the trait "Theoratical Magician" with "Etymologist".
3. Take the favored class bonus as a skill point.

This would give me -2 on spellcrafting and -1 hit points, but add 3 languages and make linguistics a class skill. I think it´s actually important someone loving to use diplomacy and casting charm a lot can speak a lot of languages.

Please let me know if that is ok.

Also i would like to know in which region this starts, so i can take the language there maybe?

I already chose the spells that Slypher knows, and they aren't really buff/debuffs. I think I'll actually go with Brik, since nobody else in the party has good AC/HP.

EDIT: Although Slypher does have the knowledge skills. Those might come in handy. And grease always comes in handy.
Hm...

Kurama, I'm intrigued to see the Vow of Silence played out;)

Pai, typically I like to post 1-2 times per day. The pace is much slower than a typical face to face game. But I have found these sorts of games (PFS scenarios) to advance quicker than say a homebrew or even an Adventure Path.
As far as your character goes, I don't mind any changes, but once we get started for real here in a day or so, you need to stick to your guns. The scenarios change drastically from one to another. That being said, its hard to give advice on builds. Play what is fun to you is usually the best advice.

Kurama, I love what you are doing here... but I believe you should be in Group B. http://paizo.com/campaigns/DrGabesFrostfurCaptivesGroupB/gameplay. :)

I apoligize. didnt think I would be chosen with so many good apps. I will round out the character after I get off of work.

I've noticed some of you have been posting die rolls that are unlabeled. Something you might consider is incorporating the label into your roll. For instance, instead of saying:
"Slypher swings at the goblin" 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (10) + 4 = 14 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7
You might say:
"Slypher swings at the goblin" Quarterstaff: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (14) + 4 = 18 Damage: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9
You can do that by adding "=label" after "dice" in the first set of brackets. For instance {dice=Quarterstaff}.
It's also good to add an {ooc} after your dice if you want to explain your modifiers (like if you're striking for 1d6+20, that's good to explain). For instance,
Quarterstaff: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 2 = 9 Atk -2 for TWF Damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9 +STR main hand
Quarterstaff: 1d20 + 4 - 2 ⇒ (3) + 4 - 2 = 5 TWF penalty Damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3 +1/2 STR off-hand

Just some friendly tips to help you make your rolls more informative.

Thanks^^

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.
Our non-American friends may see a slight slow down in posting the next several days. Enjoy the time with your family and try to not to eat too much!

I'll still be posting, perhaps a bit slower, perhaps not.

Have a nice time!

Guys it´s very easy when we help each other to accomplish faction missions. I have by far the best Diplomacy i guess and probably most CHA skills here. You just need to ask and tell me what to do and i help you. But please help too with aid another.

This is Scenario has a few faction missions which at this point are going to near impossible to complete (you'll need very high rolls and then with some luck with modifiers). This is one of my complaints about many of the missions where it comes down to a dice roll or perhaps a dice roll of a fellow player.

What irritates me is the the DC is set across all levels of play, 1-5 which makes a huge difference in your chances for success.

Anyway, I've been affected by these rules as a player and a GM, so I know it sucks pretty hard.

But... for the sake of time, I am going to ask to move on. As Andoran has made three attempts at their mission and failed each time, I don't think that you will be able to complete the mission. There is an additional penalty because of the signal fire being lit. It makes completing missions very hard here in the village.

Ok i see, then let´s move on.

Inflict Serious? We're fighting a 5th-level witch? As first level PCs? Really?

Yup... I'll explain once the fight is over. It still doesn't make much sense, but I'll explain.

Alright gang, we are nearly at the end of this scenario. Thanks, I had a blast running the game and I hope you also had fun playing.
If you are interested, I will be running another game that will start at the conclusion of this one. If there are any scenarios that you are interested in playing (or ones you don't want to play), please let me know.

I'm definitely interested. Anything, but Dalsine Affair, Severing Ties, Fallen Fortress, Decline of Glory, or Gods Market.

I'm thinking about starting the low level Season 4 scenarios. That sound good?

Yeah! For sure. Maybe help out some ailing factions?

So I am traveling to Okinawa for 1 day. So I will be off the internet for the next four days as I lose time with all the travel.

Yay.

As for the scenarios, works for me.

Oh, that looks fun! Travel safe, and have a blast.
We'll put on autobot until you get back.

I´m in too! Its really funny!

I can't recall what I've played atm, but most first-level things should be fine.

Rise of the Goblin Guild ?

Playing that now actually.

Good to know, I was thinking of that one actually. I'll actually start looking at scenarios tonight and post some suggestions later.

Slypher- is your current character playing Rise of the Goblin Guild? Or do you have an alt to run through it? It looks like that is what everyone (all three groups actually) is wanting to do.

I'm in it with Beckett as Leonel Goldscale, my barbarian. If that's what everyone else wants to do, that's fine. I'm working on picking up more shadowrun anyway.

I am back. Finally...

So where are we in the initiative order?

Welcome back. Actually, it is your go!

Well done all, we are essentially done. If your PC has some business to take care of or want to add some RP elements, or ask further story questions feel free to post in the Game Play section.

This scenario is over and I'll be working on Chronicle Sheets this weekend. I'll need you to PM me your email address and I'll get them to you soon.
If you are making a day job roll please post that here.

For those interested, you get 502 gp and may purchase a Potion of Bull's Strength for 300gp.

The next Scenario will be 4-01 The Rise of the Goblin Guild and I hope to start in the next few days. Since Alonzo hasn't posted in over a month, I am going to open recruitment to fill his place.
Slypher, please let me know if you want to play with an alt or skip out on the next scenario. If you decide to skip out, I'll make sure that we get you in for the next scenario!

Any questions, feel free to ask!

Totally carried you guys that scenario.

jk. I figured high-INT, low-CHA = arrogant jerk with a stick. I like how Slypher is taking form.

Since I'll have credit for Goblin Guild pretty soon, I'd be playing it just for kicks. I'd be 100% fine with that, but I figure you'll have players scrambling for credit. If not, I'll certainly throw someone in with this lot.

Oh, and if you don't like asking for email addresses, you can share via box.com, for instance. You can PM players the link with no personal contact information exchanged! Y'know, if you wanna.

Chronicle Sheets have been sent out!
Except for Slypher, Sorin, and Alonzo because I don't have your PFS character numbers.

Slypher, I don't know about box.com (though I do use Drop Box all the time). Let me know what is easiest for you to get... you know once you give me your PFS number! :)

When do we address purchases? Here or the next game thread? As far as equipment, can you assume that you leave unneeded equip. at the Lodge, such as furs and snowshoes ect... or do you have to sell or carry?

Can we perhaps just go on in this thread? It´s already linked and so on :)
Or will you open up a new one Dr. Gabe?

Selling stuff is at 50% right?

We will keep using this thread. I really confused the other groups by renaming them from the scenario name to Group B and Group C. :)
Sell is 50% of purchase price. Assume that you will be able to do so before we start the next scenario.
Good question on where you keep things... for now I guess assume that you have a locker at the Lodge.

You'll have a dwarf joining your party soon. He will be taking Alonzo's spot.

Huzah! I hear that your friendly local healer Osric is now second level. Now I can use the loaded virtual dice and not feel so bad!

Going through the threads I found one about excess gear here. The way I read it, the consensus is at the very least you have some sort of locker in the Lodge to stow extra gear.

Cool find. I'd be very inclined to agree with you. its one of those weird things that is concerning at low levels, and at higher levels you could really care less about!
But for our concerns, yes, you have a locker at the Lodge!

Hi all, I will play Dorgrin, a dwarf crossbowman. I play pbp regularly but this will be my first game on the Paizo site.

Welcome Dorgrin, glad to have ya aboard.

Hi Dorgin. Welcome to the game. Just so you know, Slypher is a jerk. That's just how I play him. Don't take personal offense. He's useful enough to compensate for being annoying.

Gabe, I've switched out my feats to make him legal now. Toughness in, weapon focus out. All is well (afaik).

Hi Dorgrin! Nice to meet a dwarf!
I´m a enchantress who can charm some monsters^^