I am starting *CLASSIC* recruitment for running a PbP Pathfinder Society adventure, #6-04 The Beacon Below (level 7-11 only). This will be an open recruitment.
If you have played other PFS scenarios, then PbP is the same but running with play-by-post rules. This adventure will 'lock' in a PFS character for about 8 weeks if posting daily. Pre-generated PFS characters are also acceptable.
For players not familiar with PFS or posting here, I'll post a few guidelines.
You need a legal *CLASSIC* PFS (Pathfinder Society) character. PFS information is here.
Post your legal character. (Paizo People --> Aliases).
You must be able to post about 1-2 times per day for 7-9 weeks (exceptions can be arranged ahead of time).
I do not require your previous Chronicle Sheets unless you have unusual races or boons. I assume you will be honest with me and your fellow players. If a question of an item or race comes up, I may ask to know where and how you got said item.
Maps will be posted through google docs. Please make sure you can access this service if you sign up.
Recruitment will open now and will close once I have enough players to start (probably early next week). I will use a random lottery if we get more interest than slots.
If there are any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me.
Please post your character's profile with level and class for consideration. I appreciate good back stories and party RP. I will list alternates if we have any no shows.
LoL - that was quick. :-)
Greetings, Luisila. I was still posting the roster in the Flaxseed Lodge. As one of my favorite GM's, I will gladly hold you a spot.
As to the high-tier part, that was my hope, but we shall see who arrives to Dora's muster.
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I am interested. This character is about finished with the scenario he is in currently, and he should be ready to play in your game by the start time.
He is a level seven kitsune knife master unchained rogue, and I love roleplaying him when I get the opportunity. He is from a family that immigrated to Absalom from Minkai, and is a first generation Golarionite in his family. He adventures because he loves the thrill, and tries to help his aging parents as best he can with his income since they are older and cannot work as well as they used to.
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I have a L11 Switch-hitting Ranger Belaros Gladomain.
He once was captured and tortured by the Aspis Consortium (permanent 1 point loss to CON). He later sacrificed himself for another pathfinder when they found an ooze. At this point an ex-lover who was an Elf was notified. Unbeknownst to Belaros, his lover had twin girls. Unbeknownst to the lover and offspring, they don't know he got better.
I have a L8 human sorceress. Paris Hilton type...very beautiful, not so smart and disgusting, smelly things are a big turn off.
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I'm interested (hello again, Takkit!). I have suitable for this a level 9 Witch (who, like Takkit, is staring down a final encounter, although much less frightening than the one he's in), a level 9 Summoner, and a level 7 Alchemist (both free and ready right now).
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I have a L8 human sorceress. Paris Hilton type...very beautiful, not so smart and disgusting, smelly things are a big turn off.
*sigh* This is one of the reasons I hated the decision to make Sorcerers Charisma-based ever since I first opened up the 3.0 Player's Handbook - not because it deliberately okayed this concept itself, but because it was inevitably interpreted that way. Stupid people should NOT be capable of magic, okay??? Besides, [redacted name of loser whom nobody should know and doesn't even deserve to be satirized] is a Commoner with a Charisma of 9 - Charisma represents personal strength, not superficial beauty (which she doesn't even have). Also, the whole point of being a PC is that you're an individual of a certain ineffable but unmistakable superior quality, NOT trash or mediocrity - those people are NPCs.
Don't get me started on Blizzard Entertainment thinking it was funny (or something) to feces up their own once-beautiful World of Warcraft with that and other insults to their player base and themselves....
Dotting with interest. I have a level 10 barbarian or a level 11 monk both of which need to be updated.
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I'm interested (hello again, Takkit!). I have suitable for this a level 9 Witch (who, like Takkit, is staring down a final encounter, although much less frightening than the one he's in), a level 9 Summoner, and a level 7 Alchemist (both free and ready right now).
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I have a L8 human sorceress. Paris Hilton type...very beautiful, not so smart and disgusting, smelly things are a big turn off.*sigh* This is one of the reasons I hated the decision to make Sorcerers Charisma-based ever since I first opened up the 3.0 Player's Handbook - not because it deliberately okayed this concept itself, but because it was inevitably interpreted that way. Stupid people should NOT be capable of magic, okay??? Besides, [redacted name of loser whom nobody should know and doesn't even deserve to be satirized] is a Commoner with a Charisma of 9 - Charisma represents personal strength, not superficial beauty (which she doesn't even have). Also, the whole point of being a PC is that you're an individual of a certain ineffable but unmistakable superior quality, NOT trash or mediocrity - those people are NPCs.
Don't get me started on Blizzard Entertainment thinking it was funny (or something) to feces up their own once-beautiful World of Warcraft with that and other insults to their player base and themselves....
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Luckily, Lady Deathpriest and I had the right idea - that thing's got a gut of fire, flanks of ice, and mouthparts like an iron maiden, but a mind of clay. Luckier still, her curses (BOTH!) worked (whereas mine failing has the silver lining of us not needing to all stay in daunting proximity to it)! Crit happens, and that's what happened to Tomas. Our adversary has demonstrated her worthiness, but as things stand now, I wouldn't be too worried. :)
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Luckily, Lady Deathpriest and I had the right idea - that thing's got a gut of fire, flanks of ice, and mouthparts like an iron maiden, but a mind of clay. Luckier still, her curses (BOTH!) worked (whereas mine failing has the silver lining of us not needing to all stay in daunting proximity to it)! Crit happens, and that's what happened to Tomas. Our adversary has demonstrated her worthiness, but as things stand now, I wouldn't be too worried. :)
Yeah, I'm hoping it comes to us so I can get a flank in without provoking, and hit it with that bleed damage. Lucky for us you two had those spells ready. I'm thinking I may retrain out the long arm SLA for vanish.
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Hmmm, dotting with interest *waves at the faces I know-- hey Luisila ;) *
I... have a lot of PBP games right now and I probably shouldn't take on another one but I don't know when I'll next get a chance to pick up this scenario... >___>
Level 10 Witch, Level 10 Cleric, Level 11 Druid, or Level 10 Bard-barian. Would probably lean towards the druid (this alias, but she's not up to date from the last scenario she played just yet), though, of course, Conan and Luisila are a team to be reckoned with... ;)
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Hmmm, dotting with interest *waves at the faces I know-- hey Luisila ;) *
I... have a lot of PBP games right now and I probably shouldn't take on another one but I don't know when I'll next get a chance to pick up this scenario... >___>
Level 10 Witch, Level 10 Cleric, Level 11 Druid, or Level 10 Bard-barian. Would probably lean towards the druid (this alias, but she's not up to date from the last scenario she played just yet), though, of course, Conan and Luisila are a team to be reckoned with... ;)
What's up Conan? We were in Hellknight's Feast with Luisila together. Haha. Strange seeing so many familiar faces wanting into the same game. :)
Yes, I remember Takkit :D Luisila and Conan just played together in another one since then, haha.
....hm maybe I'll app with Conan.
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It looks like we have more than a full table evincing interest, so we may not all get in anyway; I'd worry about tier considerations once the party is decided.
Also, IHIYC, your opinion on 'stupid people shouldn't be able to do magic' is, well, exactly that: your opinion, as the game explicitly allows for non-Int/non-Wis-based casting, and for primal or innate magic that may be poorly understood by the characters using it, and tons of other things you apparently disapprove of. Friendly advice, maybe don't slam on someone's obviously-intended-to-be-humorous play concept before you potentially wind up in a game with them?
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Okay GM, this is Dien, officially putting forth Conan for this game for your consideration (barbarian/bard/dragon disciple, level 10) (so no Magna). He is now up to date with his last scenario purchases/etc. He is a booming-voiced half-elf, with some Ulfen on his father's side. He was formerly a slave who was freed by a Pathfinder raid on the Chelish slave galley he was in, and has become a very idealistic fellow with noble ideas of right and wrong. He also believes that laughter is the best medicine, and has taken it upon himself to cheer up his fellow field agents, who often seem to be a dour and disgruntled lot, through the application of comedy. (Poor, poor Luisila.)
"FELLOW FIELD AGENTS.... A BLIND ORACLE WALKS INTO A BAR.... THEN A CHAIR... THEN THE WALL!"
Interested, looking at high tier. Gotta run right now, I'll expound on the options lzter tonight.
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"A BLIND ORACLE WALKS INTO A BAR.... THEN A CHAIR... THEN THE WALL!"
Luisila looks up from the Book of Joy, and peers over the top of her (Calidamn!) reading glasses.
She gives a spell-dismissing flourish of her hand, forefinger hooked liked a wasp’s buz’ness end.
“Sorry. Did you say something, Conan?”
Another wave and a few elven syllables later, she returns her neb to the holy text.
Wow. This is a greater response than I expected. I will run A lottery for the 5 remaining spots tonight. I unfortunately cannot run two tables at this time.
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I have a L8 human sorceress. Paris Hilton type...very beautiful, not so smart and disgusting, smelly things are a big turn off.
*sigh* This is one of the reasons I hated the decision to make Sorcerers Charisma-based ever since I first opened up the 3.0 Player's Handbook - not because it deliberately okayed this concept itself, but because it was inevitably interpreted that way. Stupid people should NOT be capable of magic, okay??? Besides, [redacted name of loser whom nobody should know and doesn't even deserve to be satirized] is a Commoner with a Charisma of 9 - Charisma represents personal strength, not superficial beauty (which she doesn't even have). Also, the whole point of being a PC is that you're an individual of a certain ineffable but unmistakable superior quality, NOT trash or mediocrity - those people are NPCs.
Don't get me started on Blizzard Entertainment thinking it was funny (or something) to feces up their own once-beautiful World of Warcraft with that and other insults to their player base and themselves....
Actually I mis-spoke. I dumped wisdom and strength and intelligence is 11.
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Please allow me to try, at least partially, to explain:
I hate "that name," and others of its caliber: This recent (i.e. last 12-ish years or so, by my count) plague of big business taking talentless turds and shoving them down our throats as if in a direct act of contempt for the very concept of talent and merit; an endless parade of living insults who don't deserve to be called "celebrities" (that term, by definition, implying that someone deserves to be celebrated), and are only validated by satire. They need to be ignored, not parodied. Just about any one of us here could make INFINITELY better use, and is infinitely more deserving, of the money and fame they vacuum up for NO GOOD REASON save as some kind of orchestrated display by the plutocracy to demonstrate their ability to s@&! on the talented and intelligent with impunity. I take it very personally. It's more than a "pet peeve," certainly more than "just my opinion" (which needs to be recognized for the coy way of rudely saying "shut up" that it is, but let's put that aside for now); this is a visceral, personally damaging aspect of my very real and tragic mental illness problems of the past many years; I understand you may find my reaction inappropriate, but it is unfair to judge without recognizing where I'm actually coming from; gaming is supposed to be an escape from that kind of LCD garbage, and I get hit where it *hurts* when it gets dragged in. It's nothing personal to Saiman. Just please understand.
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Also, on a more game-restricted level, it should be noted that Charisma is explicitly stated to be "actual personal strength, not merely how one is perceived in a social setting" (after all, Cassandra of Iliad infamy would be interpreted as an Oracle - high Charisma - under Pathfinder, yet she was defined by her inability to persuade others) Sorcerers were explicitly described as getting their magic from "imagination and talent" - which to me is most certainly intelligence, and why I've wished from the beginning they'd made Sorcerer magic Intelligence-based, but since they've stuck with that, I've compromised to a limited degree and learned to interpret 3rd Edition/Pathfinder's "Charisma" as "Intelligence on a different level." So with regard to Conan's saying that Pathfinder "explicitly allows" for people with nothing going on upstairs to have magical powers, that, at least, is incorrect.
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I hate "that name," and others of its caliber: This recent (i.e. last 12-ish years or so, by my count) plague of big business taking talentless turds and shoving them down our throats as if in a direct act of contempt for the very concept of talent and merit; an endless parade of living insults who don't deserve to be called "celebrities" (that term, by definition, implying that someone deserves to be celebrated), and are only validated by satire. They need to be ignored, not parodied. Just about any one of us here could make INFINITELY better use, and is infinitely more deserving, of the money and fame they vacuum up for NO GOOD REASON save as some kind of orchestrated display by the plutocracy to demonstrate their ability to s&!* on the talented and intelligent with impunity. I take it very personally. It's more than a "pet peeve," certainly more than "just my opinion" (which needs to be recognized for the coy way of rudely saying "shut up" that it is, but let's put that aside for now); this is a visceral, personally damaging aspect of my very real and tragic mental illness problems of the past many years; I understand you may find my reaction inappropriate, but it is unfair to judge without recognizing where I'm actually coming from; gaming is supposed to be an escape from that kind of LCD garbage, and I get hit where it *hurts* when it gets dragged in. It's nothing personal to Saiman. Just please understand.
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Also, on a more game-restricted level, it should be noted that Charisma is explicitly stated to be "actual personal strength, not merely how one is perceived in a social setting" (after all, Cassandra of Iliad infamy would be interpreted as an Oracle - high Charisma - under Pathfinder, yet she was defined by her inability to persuade others) Sorcerers were explicitly described as getting their magic from "imagination and talent" - which to me is most certainly intelligence, and why I've wished from...
Excuse me, but you are being inappropriate. It is not the responsibility of other people to be aware, especially before you say anything, of your mental illnesses and to tiptoe around you as a result. What happened was this: within thirty minutes of Saiman making a casual off-hand description of his/her character by using a name that happens to punch your personal buttons, you essentially told him/her that they were playing the game wrong. (Wrong meaning: i.e., not the way you think it is supposed to be played.) You furthermore declared that THIS TERRIBLE PERSON shouldn't even deserve to be satirized-- as if you were an authority over what form of entertainment or reaction to media other people should get to indulge or amuse themselves with. You had a ridiculously over-the-top reaction to something that is a game, for fun, and you expressed it insultingly without seeming to care at all whether the player in question might have found your tone insulting and might have felt cowed from getting to play their character as a result.
In turn, I pointed out that a) there's nothing wrong, in Pathfinder rules, with playing a caster such as Saiman has described, that this is not in fact as perfectly clear-cut as you yourself so authoritatively stated, and that b) hey, maybe you shouldn't insult other people's play choices, especially when you're about to probably wind up in a game with them. That wasn't an attempt to "shut you up," that was an attempt to show Saiman that not everyone here shares your restrictive idea of what they are allowed to play, and to also try and signal to you, relatively mildly, that you were being somewhat abrasive over this and that it didn't reflect well on you. If you didn't mean it to be "personal," maybe you could have used words that didn't explicitly make it sound like you were telling another player what they should and shouldn't be allowed to play.
In response, you are not only doubling down on your position, you're exhibiting another recent social trend that I promise you I find far more incredibly annoying than any degree of manufactured media personalities:
You're coming off as an abrasive and insulting person online who, at the very first time anyone points out 'hey, you know, maybe you're being a bit like a jerk,' you beeline for 'I CAN'T HELP IT, IT'S MY MENTAL ILLNESS.'
Seriously, if your mental illness means you can't hear the casual reference of the name of a public figure without it triggering a rant from you, then maybe you need to reevaluate whether or not you can participate in a cooperative, social-based group activity with strangers who ought not be expected to know your little quirks in advance and avoid anything that might set you off. Mental illness is not a license to be a jerk, and if you want people to extend empathy to your position and to the things that frustrate or annoy you, maybe you ought to start by displaying that empathy to others instead of looking at everything casually said as a reason for you to get on your high horse. You could absolutely have made your point about She Who Must Not be Named to Saiman without the sort of melodrama you're indulging in.
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Also, I give zero craps about what things were defined as in previous editions of the game. I am playing Pathfinder.
Scions of innately magical bloodlines, the chosen of deities, the spawn of monsters, pawns of fate and destiny, or simply flukes of fickle magic, sorcerers look within themselves for arcane prowess and draw forth might few mortals can imagine. Emboldened by lives ever threatening to be consumed by their innate powers, these magic-touched souls endlessly indulge in and refine their mysterious abilities, gradually learning how to harness their birthright and coax forth ever greater arcane feats. Just as varied as these innately powerful spellcasters' abilities and inspirations are the ways in which they choose to utilize their gifts. While some seek to control their abilities through meditation and discipline, becoming masters of their fantastic birthright, others give in to their magic, letting it rule their lives with often explosive results. Regardless, sorcerers live and breathe that which other spellcasters devote their lives to mastering, and for them magic is more than a boon or a field of study; it is life itself.
Although the gods work through many agents, perhaps none is more mysterious than the oracle. These divine vessels are granted power without their choice, selected by providence to wield powers that even they do not fully understand. Unlike a cleric, who draws her magic through devotion to a deity, oracles garner strength and power from many sources, namely those patron deities who support their ideals. Instead of worshiping a single source, oracles tend to venerate all of the gods that share their beliefs. While some see the powers of the oracle as a gift, others view them as a curse, changing the life of the chosen in unforeseen ways.
Charisma measures a character's personality, personal magnetism, ability to lead, and appearance.
Guess what? The rules of Pathfinder do allow for the concept of characters who may not be such people of immense personal gravitas that they have their **** together and are intelligent the way that you think casters MUST be. For god's sake, if someone wants to play an airhead caster whose Charisma manifests as, yes, their superficial appearance, where on earth do you get off telling them they are just having BADWRONGFUN?
Whatever, I'm done with this conversation. Feel free to rebut all you want, you can have the 'win' if that matters to you.
Will post Lottery in 1 hour for 5 open spots.
Lottery
1=Takkit Shinrou/Steven_Evil 8th
2=Saiman/Belaros 8th or 11th
3=Titan the Hunter/Feral 10th
4=I'm Hiding In Your Closet/Zeno 7th, 9th, 9th
5=Amazing Red 10th, 11th
6=Dien/Magna/Conan
7=Fredrik/Merck
8=Savage/Daxter
9=San Xiao/RainyDayNinja
10=Uncle Fred/Upaynao
11=Noisy/CurseFrogurt
=== The Dice Bot has decided ====
Luisila
Fredrik
San Xiao
Noisy
Conan
Savage
I have Uncle Fred as the 1st Alternate
Can the 6 of you post your PC info in the discussion thread. I think we are high-tier, but want to be sure.
Character:
PFS #:
Level: ?
Day Job:
Initiative: +?
Perception: +?
*** Recruitment closed for now ***