EM - [PFS] Baby It's Cold Outside (Inactive)

Game Master Evil Minion

Welcome folks!

This will not start until Gameday V gets underway, so a bit of time.

We will be in the low tier... Penelope, that means you will end up out of tier for most of this... not sure if that's an issue for you or not.

We are of course starting with Frozen Fingers of Midnight (from season 0)!

If you want, and are sure you'll be in come the 27th, fill in some basic info for me, starting with:

Your Name:
Character Name:
PFS#
Faction:

I'd appreciate it if everyone can put a basic character sheet in their profile alias for easy reference to things. If you need help with this, let me know.

Since we've lots of times, I will take a moment to check them all over, see if there are any obvious hiccups that jump out at me.

Your Name: JAF0
Character Name: Wei Tchak
PFS#52335-12
Faction: grand lodge

everything is in his profile...

can you activate gameplay just so we can dot (AND DELETE THE DOT!) so this thread appears in our campaign page? thanks if you can.

Done!

What are the effects of being out of tier? I don't mind playing my cleric but if Nella is skewing things high for everyone else I can always bring in a different character at 1st level if it would be easier :)

None at the moment. Her level has no impact on the tier at present.

Your Name: Eric Swanson
PFS #: 13977-2
Character Name: Masym Daleare
Faction: Liberty's Edge

Okay, after having had the math explained to me I'll stick with playing Nella through these scenarios :)

Player Name: Lady Ladile
Character Name: Penelope 'Nella' Tabor
PFS #: 192133-1
Faction: Silver Crusade

Am going through doing a quick audit of folks characters as they come in.
Will send each of you a pm if I spot anything obvious or have a question.

Its lower level, so not so hard to do =)
(I once had a GM point out that I'd never bothered to buy any clothing.)

Your Name: Eric Sklavos
Character Name: "Dead-Eye" Jones
PFS# 165646-3
Faction: Silver Crusade

Thanks for running this!

Your Name: Mike Noel
Character Name: Malusha
PFS# 212182-3
Faction: Scarab Sages

My character sheet should be attached to the profile. If I didn't do that right, please let me know.

Looking forward to this. It will be tons of fun.

Are you looking for any introduction-type RP in the gameplay thread yet?

Am not allowed to officially start until the 27th, but RP is permitted in the gameplay thread before that (including introductions, et al) as you are left waiting for the VC to show up in his office.

Afraid I'm gonna have to drop out before we start. Job situation may be changing and I don't want to get into the game and quit half-way through. Sorry about this!

That's ok, Deko. Thanks for considering!

Will go see who else wishes to fill in from those who applied

Dotting

OK, we have 6 folks tentatively checked in! (Phoebee is replacing Deko's mesmerist)

Figured I'd post some expectations and the like now. In case folks feel they can't meet them, it still leaves lots of time to find something more suitable.

As I may have mentioned, this will be my first go at GMing a PbP ... (have played many, and GM'd over the table many times... but first time in this format, so will be some adjustments as we go.) So feel free to ask questions and make comments and suggestions as we go that will help improve the experience for all!
Will use GoogleSlides for maps and such (figured out how that works over the weekend) ... and even sorted out how to do the chronicles, though not necessarily how to distribute them yet (might get emails from you guys for this later). (anyone have any thoughts on making the chronicles fillable pdf forms?)

I'm intending to run a bunch of scenarios in a row and will attempt to make the transitions between them as fluid as possible. This will occasionally mean I will need to change up some of the intro text a bit from the stand alone scenarios (including who is delivering the information), as well as some text in the middle to avoid temporal confusion (we'll be going season 0, 3, 2, 2, 6, 2 possibly), but nothing too major beyond that. It does say I can 'paraphrase' the info =) I'm taking that to heart.
The first two, at least, should fall easily withing Gameday5 (possibly more depending on how we progress) and will be reported as such. After that it will continue normally, til we're done or you guys decide to stop!

The goal of course being to make it seem like a small campaign over a couple of levels. How well it turns out, remains to be seen!

I would also like to keep them moving at a reasonably good clip (nothing like long delays to kill momentum). So expect reasonable posting rates from you guys as well.
Although once a day posting at a minimum will be expected, more is encouraged (especially during combats). Given that checking to see if there are new posts is a simple as clicking on a bookmark, I don't see it as a big time commitment to at least check to see if there is a need to post anything.

That being said, I am hoping for a lot of good RP opportunities... so encourage everyone to embrace the concept and setup. (Good to see folks posting in the gameplay thread already, getting introduced!)

Excited to do this thing! 19 days can't go by fast enough!

suggestion: pdf or jpg format for chronicles.. anything but png

I can almost all the time post more than once a day... but occasionally may be limited to a particular time of day, like evening or morning..

and don't need to bookmark.. once we've posted in the gameplay, the game shows up in our campaign listing and I don't know about the rest of you, my campaigns page is ALWAYS open.

Ya, am doing pdf.

I just realized, while I was figuring out how to do it (for free), that I could make many of the fields form fillable text fields.
So you guys could then fill in the values for chronicle #, accumulated xp/PP/gold et al, right in the pdf, and not need to use a pen at all (or worry about illegible handwriting)
Hmm.. though unsure on purchases... I'll have to ponder that section.

Not sure if that'd be good or not, but liked the thought while I was playing with it, so was thinking of trying it out on you guys. =)

Truth be told, I'm not really sure how PbP GMs go about handling their chronicles because in my limited experience it seems to vary. In some cases there was an actual signature from the GM so I can only assume the chronicles were filled out manually and scanned and converted to PDF form. In other cases it looked like all the fields had been filled out with typeface so there's probably some sort of PDF software that lets you do that. Either way is fine with me :)

Re: posting speed - I can commit to at least 1/day on work days and more on my days off unless I've got some other commitment (which isn't often). My work schedule is wonky though in that I work both days and nights (I'm on GMT -6) as needed so you're likely to see posts from me at all sorts of hours.

Ya, I did some research, and its all over the map how folks do it.
Though the print it off, fill it out, and scan it method seems popular... just seems like a lot of work and tree killing (and requires a scanner!)
Many have premium pdf editors in their own right... but I'm a skinflint!
Doesn't help that the Paizo pdfs are protected such that you can't easily extract just the chronicle from the pdf.

I found a free web site pdf editor, to which I can upload the scenario pdf... then I can delete all the pages but the last one (which is the chronicle) and edit that. Then save the finished product back to my local drive. I think it will work out well, with no foliage or pocketbooks harmed in the making of!

Though my ability to do a signature with a mouse on a screen is somewhat lacking =) But close enough for government work! Hopefully I just have to get it looking good once... than can copy it from there.

I print mine out and store them in file with the character sheet so I have them with me when I go to face to face games or cons, so filling them out by hand works for me since I have to print it anyway.... I do save the drafts in folders on my computer but they are always incomplete because most DMs have just filled in thebasic stuff and left the rest for the players to do (all the math and stuff, starting numbers, and such.

Forgot to add, sorry to see Deko have to go but it's nice to see you Phoebee :)

Do the PCs know anything about the upcoming task? Was there an announcement that they responded to that might give them some idea that they are heading north (to the cold)?

Nope. You have nothing that indicates that.

And (ooc) there won't be even after you get going.... just a routine task in town as far as you're aware.

^ Thanks for that tidbit; will adjust my spells and gear as not so appropriate once the start time gets a little closer :3

Ah true. Yes, no in character reason really to have such things prepared!

Speaking of preparedness, if any of us want to do any shopping before we kick off do you want us to be working on that now or wait until maybe a week or a few days before the start date?

Shrug, not too worried about it one way or the other.

Am eager to start, but the 27th is so far away. =)

6 days to go time.

If you've not gotten me your PFS info yet, please do so (Think only Phoebee is missing).

Also, be sure to finalize any pre-scenario purchasing and the like.

I'd like purchase the following off one of my chronicle sheets (links to said chronicle sheets in Nella's profile):

She'd also like to pick up:

Dagger (2gp)
Alchemist's Fire x3 (60gp)
Spring-Loaded Wrist Sheath (5gp)
Holy Water x2 (50gp)
Potion of Darkvision (300gp)
Cold Iron Crossbow Bolts x20 (4gp)
Wand of Bless (2PP)

I think that's everything...there are too many choices on things to buy >.>

Your Name: Jason Rodarte
Character Name: Phoebee
PFS# 43330-11
Faction: Liberty's Edge

Two questions:

1) should we buy any mundane gear and low-level stuff (e.g. CLW potions) now or wait till the official start?

2) Does anyone besides Malusha know Osiriani?

1) Buy what you'd like now if you know what that is.
Once it starts... though you might have a better idea of what you might need, you never know how rushed you'll be...

2) Believe so... you're the only native of the desert =)

Time between scenarios is considered more or less indefinite so there's always time to shop between scenarios for things (taking into account your Fame level, available gold, etc. etc. of course). From what I have heard/been told, once a scenario officially starts you may or may not have time to shop for additional supplies while it's in progress.

And no Osiriani here; Nella is Magnimar born and bred! Though she had a friend who took off to Osirion for a grand adventure that she sadly couldn't join in on so she might have lots of questions for Malusha about his homeland :D

Also, shopping during a scenario has to take community size into account for what might be available.

Not an issue if you're in Absalom.
Might be if you're in Turtleback Ferry.

(And no, I'm not sure where that is... just recall reading the name somewhere!)

Turtleback Ferry is basically in the middle of nowhere (and I think primarily accessed by river travel) so you picked a good comparison to pair with Absalom :3

Being first level with little money is sad, it makes the bard play sad songs, to make you cry...

I think I'm going to change the alias I'm using for this.

Realized I like to search on my name to find threads I've been posting in... and suddenly there's alot more posts to weed through, if I use this alias for the GM stuff too =)

Also, realize its helpful to have a profile image attached to the GM alias too.

So will be making a GM alias shortly and use that from this point forward.

Looks like I already bought stuff. :-) Guess I didn't remember that.

So is it just Phoebee and Malusha for whom this will be their first scenario?

Note: new alias!

Yes. She is a new character

Phoebee and Malusha, could you guys put a quick stat summary on your characters like the others have.

Does not need to be quite as extensive as some... HP, AC, CMD, Saves, Init, and perception are mainly what I'd like to see there.

If you're not sure how its just adding the extra text to the Class or Race section on your profile

Done. Let me know if you need or want more.

Quick question, I was in a CORE game that did this scenario can I still do this as this is a non-core game? I hadn't realized it until I read the opening commentary, the DM never listed which adventure we were doing.

He still has yet to fill out the credit sheet for the CORE game.

Yes you get credit for both. Core games and standard games count as separate scenarios.

Yes, you can get credit once in core and once in regular for playing.

But I did list the adventures! =) ... its even the title of the campaign at the moment.

No, the other DM just said it would be a core game

Is that better for the stat block?

As an FYI I'm working night shift the next three nights (tonight, Friday, Saturday) and sleeping during the day so my posting rates will likely drop during the time. I'll try and catch up/keep up as best as I can but feel free to bot Nella as needed to keep things moving along.

Her combat actions will largely be defensive; at the start of combat or right before (if it's a situation she can plan for) she'll use a charge from her Wand of Bless and then largely use Blessing of the Faithful or her spells as necessary. GM has permission to use her other consumables if it makes sense or if the situation is dire!

No problems Nella. Thanks for the heads up.