GM BigBusMan's Rise of the Run Lords and Beyond

Game Master Fedorian Silverleaf

I have been speaking with Ameiko at length about the towns history, walking the town and watching the people, and trying to understand my role in future events.

Sacerdos departs the boneyard with his new comrades, the Robe of Bones secured safely in his satchel, his hand resting on the hilt of his bastard sword hilt where his holy symbol is engraved. As they arrive back at the Rusty Dragon, the cleric deviates from the group and heads for the stairs.

When they look questioningly in his direction, a smile forms on Sacerdos’ face that doesn’t touch his eyes. ”Go ahead, my friends. I wish to retire to my quarters and commune a while with my Lord Ragathiel.” The cleric looks to the stairs and begins climbing. ”I’ll join you soon.”

Once in his room, the cleric lights the lanterns in his room and sets about preparing a space on the ground for his daily prayers. Before him he lays his trusty sword and alongside that, the Robe of Bones he and his companions had discovered. Withdrawing his holy symbol from about his neck and closing his eyes, Sacerdos prays to Empyreal Lord Ragathiel for clarity and fortitude.

After an hour of prayer, he takes a flask of water from within the pockets of his satchel and casts Bless upon it. Then proceeds with a ritual to hopefully cleanse the taint upon the Robe of Bones, sprinkling it with the now Holy Water and asking that Ragathiel protect his hands as he and the team seek to know the vile garment’s origins...and hopefully its former owner.

That accomplished, Sacerdos gathers his things, refolding the robe of bones into his satchel and douses the lanterns in the room. He heads down stairs and rejoins his friends.

Downstairs, he sees them gathered at the table but troubling to see was the absence of Lorillon. Sacerdos finds a seat at the table and orders up some food and cider. All around him, the denizens of Sandpoint are working out the day’s events and leveraging food and drink to climb their way back to normalcy.

As Sacerdos observes the comings and goings, he casts a divine net among the people, seeking perhaps one or more among them that may have connection to the evil worming its way through the town. Those involved had to know something of interest existed in that tomb...perhaps someone here may be in alignment with our enemies.

Sacerdos leans back in his seat, sipping at his cider and casts Detect Evil and allows the spell to drift throughout the room.

The man at the table immediately turns bright red in the face as Katrin hands him the satchel, still embarrassed by his performance earlier in the day he looks at the ground and hands the satchel back to her..

"'aye Lass, you bested me..and taught me a lesson today..'tis only fair that you keep it.."

he then quickly gets up and leaves the Inn.

As the rest of the group Sits at the table enjoying themselves, Ameiko comes over and serves some drinks and platters of food, she then sets a sizable leather pouch down in the middle of the table along with a scroll.

"Mr. Foxglove sends his apologies, he was unfortunately not able to make a meeting with you tonight, however he asks that I give you this and let you know that he would like to meet with you sometime tomorrow."

She watches the man leave and sighs. She then opens the satchel and transfers the funds into her money purse. Once she gets this done she listens to Ameiko and says, "Thanks Ameiko." and then takes the pouch, opens it and then proceeds to count the money inside and divide it as evenly as possible among the party members.

"Katrin, you are generous to a fault, but if you must give your takings to this group, why not place it in our group takings so that we can get something for the whole company? I am convinced that we should seek out a wand that magically heals against the day that Sacerdos is incapacitated."

Bedlam swallows his mug of ale.

He nods at Katrin as Anders speaks.

Aye, we be needing some group things and we might as well start a fund now.

"It's yours but the group wand is good."

Katrin says to Anders, "Well whatever works best for all involved. If you think this should go into the group funds then we'll put it where it belongs. As you're an honest sorts Anders I'll let you carry it."

She gathers the gold and puts it back into the pouch and hands it to him.

"I too am satisfied with the arrangement." Sacerdos reaches across the table and drew forth the scroll. "Now let's see what Mr. Foxglove has to say..."

He opens the scroll...

...releasing Hastur the Unnamed...ahhh!!!

Reaching for the scroll, but Sacerdos grabs it first.

Open it. I am curious what has prevented Foxglove from meeting us.

Thank you kindly Ameiko. Was Foxglove looking healthy or was anything amiss?

I think I read it wrong. Katrin was counting out the money in the pouch, not the money given to her by the arm wrestling guy, so..yeah. sorry.

I think I read it wrong first,but never mind. I'll let you take the blame for it if you like. I'm nice like that.

Bedlam watches the exchange, looking as if he could bite.

So, we be gitting stood-up!

To Ameiko:
Was Foxglove is any distress, did he look healthy?

Ameiko says to Carrion:

"Besides looking very tired, I believe Mr. Foxglove was in good health and spirits this evening.

-Inside the pouch you find 700 GP-

Sacerdos unfurls the parchment and reads:

To the Group of Adventurer's that Saved me,

Sincerly,
Aldern Foxglove

-end letter-

Bedlam smiles as the coins are counted.

Well, it looks as if we be getting a Wand!

I concur that would be an intelligent choice for us as a group.

"A boar hunt! Now that's something I'ed look forward to. Once we see this Aldern Foxglove again I'm going to take part in this hunting expedition. I have not have freshly cooked boar in a good while."

"Well, I haven't been on a boar hunt since I was a lad! I shall look forward to it."

Sacerdos rolls up the scroll and places it next to the pouch of gold. "First, let's look in on the local talismonger or even the temple, see if we can't acquire that wand. If I slip from the horse and crack my fool head, then you'll need an alternative to Lord Ragathiel's healing." He cracks a smile that slowly fades as he looks back to he scroll.

"As for this boar hunt...I'm not much good at the sport, but perhaps we can leverage the time afield to continue our investigations."

The boar hunt will commence next week, this week the Team spends the week doing odd jobs around town, helping out the Sheriff and buying whatever supplies they need while gathering information and preparing themselves for later adventures, feel free to continue to RP if you want..sorry i dont have enough time to get a lot of detain in this week..I will be Better next week..=}

Bedlam spends the next week scouting the town.

He travels all-around it, searching especially its parameter.

He wants to know the ways into/out of the town.

Anders spends the week speaking to the people of the town, trying to get a sense of who does what. he also looks out for a wand of cure light wounds that can be purchased with group booty.

If Bedlam doesn't mind the company, Sacerdos will go with him on his scouting efforts. He's eager to keep the investigation going.

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Also, Sacerdos will want to visit the local talismonger/apothecary to investigate the robe of bones. Sacerdos wants to know if there's any identifying marks on the garment that may hint as to its origins and who might have been using it.

Katrin decides to use her time wisely. She asks around town for information in hopes of finding any information on the human that might be working with the goblin as well as leads of where the goblins come from. Beyond that she goes earn some coin through using her Profession: Solider skill to work with the watch and assist them in fighting crime and keeping the peace in the town.

Gather Information: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7
Profession Solider: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (14) + 4 = 18

Bedlam welcomes the cleric along in his parameter marches.

Mayhaps, ye be bringing a mug--or three--with ye?

I walk around town, and listen for rumors and information about the goblin attacks. I do search for more information regarding the church burning 5 years earlier and the family involved.

Everyone please make your way back to the Rusty Dragon, We will be starting fresh from there, You can discuss what you have seen or learned with each other, I will go back through and keep reading to see if there was any questions that I need to answer, but wanted us to get moving again.

After what seems like a long time of wandering the city, the group meets back at the Rusty dragon to discuss what they have learned.

Anders was Successful at finding a wand merchant who had a wand of cure light wounds, and after a very pleasant conversation and a fair amount of haggling he is able to obtain for the group a wand with 50 charges for the very low price of 187GP..75% off the normal retail value..the Merchant will be staying at the rusty dragon as well, and the wand will be available for purchase should the group decide to buy it.

Bedlam after much wandering and searching has gained a pretty good knowledge of the local area and the town, as such he gains a +2 bonus to all knowledge Local/geography checks while in town.

Sacerdos learns after having the robe of bones checked out that it is a very crudely made robe that still has very faint necromantic power, although all of the robes patches have been used up. There were no identifiable markings to suggest who the robe may have belonged to or who made it, the talismonger suggested that anyone with a basic understanding of necromancy, could have made the robe, but does not have any ideas of who in town that could be.

Katrin goes about town doing odds and ends for the local law enforcement including helping to rid a house of a wayward goblin that had terrorized a small boy, killed the family dof and done some nasty damage to the father while he was trying to pull the blasted thing out from under the floorboards, for her efforts she earned 250GP.

Carrion hears rumors of a local shop owners daughter shacking up with a local saw mill worker, quite a scandel in some peoples view, he also hears that strange things have been going on lately around the area of the glass works, and that a strange Elven ranger has been spotted outside of town.

Spears and Lorilon are at the rusty dragon when the group arrives back, both looking very forlorn, and not in the best of spirits.

After a busy week, talking to many people, Anders is looking forward to a chat with the rest of the company. He orders a drink and sits at his customary place, offering a brief prayer to Alseta, and looks around. Only Lorilon and Spears are in evidence, but they look so glum he has to speak.
"Hey, guys, why the long faces? what's up?"

Bedlam enters the Rusty Dragon, views his companions and decides on joining them.

Well, me been all over this area and
i don't see nothing absolutely wrong with the layout.

He nods to a serving girl for some ale.

I believe that we be needing more leads.

Katrin walks into the location dressed in a new breastplate armour and wearing a tabard of the Sandpoint watch. She says to the group, "I spent the week working with the watch. Looks like there was a goblin straggler hiding in one of the homes in town. I make swift work of it before it got a chance to take a bite out of the man of the house. Beyond that I whipped the watch into shape and gave them some instructions on how to properly wield a weapon. The men of this town wouldn't last a day in the northlands with their lackluster training. Beyond that I found no further information on the man the goblins mentioned was behind the raid. Looks like we are at a dead end at the moment."

Bought a breastplate armor with some of my gold and traded out my old scale mail for 1/2 it's value.

Sacerdos arrives back at the tavern, a frown on his face. Half a dozen people later and he'd not uncovered anything of real value on the robe of bones. He looks ready to head upstairs to his room when he spots the gathering group in the common room. The cleric diverts and joins them.

"Unfortunately, that much is true, brave Katrin." Sacerdos takes a seat next to the Ulfen warrior, dropping his bag next to his chair. "I've found little in the way of information centered on the accursed robe of bones. Anyone with knowledge of necromancy could have fashioned it, for it is not of the best quality." his eyes drift to the bag next to him. "If no one objects, I'd like to burn it in a purging fire. Be rid of the evil thing."

"That sounds like a good plan. My lady of Doors would never approve of such evil."

"I have found a merchant willing to sell a wand that cures light wounds for only 187gp, if we are all agreed i will go ahead and purchase it for the group."

"Has anyone heard anything about these goblins? If someone was using them, they would know who it was."

Bedlam smiles and nods at Anders.

Aye, that be a fine purchase.

Anyone hear about the glass works? Some strange activities have been occurring there. I will find more information on the glass works.

An elven ranger is running around the outskirts of town, and that may be providence. We shall see. Perhaps we can find this ranger during the boar hunt, or we could have a look.

"Perhaps we should all go and investigate the glass works. If something funny is going on there, we need to find out about it."

Katrin nods to Anders and says, "Yea the Glassworks is a pretty prosperous business here in Sandpoint. It might be prudent to take a look to see if there is anything amiss going on there."

Glad to see someone had actually uncovered something of use, Sacerdos rests his hands on the table and says, "A good next step visiting the glassworks." The cleric shoulders his pack, already contemplating the sermon he'd write as part of the ceremony to burn the robe of bones and destroy it properly.

"As for this elven ranger," he looks to Katrin. "If he proves to be ally, perhaps he may have some insights into dangers lurking in the woods around Sandpoint."

Bedlam stands up.

Aye, this sounds like it be a good place to poke around!

I am the only one to state what I did or learned while waiting for Foxglove? At least I am progressing the plot.

If it is a consensus, which it appears to be, I suppose it is the next logical place in our grand adventure. Let us see what fate is to bring.

What did you all learn about, anything exciting, or at least personally useful?

Bedlam looks to Hawthorne.

Be a long round round tis town!

Anders goes and finds the merchant, paying the agreed price for the wand.

(sorry its taken me so long to reply, I had to download all the books and stuff again, and have been working a ton as well, I need to read the AP again tonight to get caught up and will post a more lengthy reply tomorrow I cant remember if we are ready to go to the glassworks or not yet)

The group is now in possession of a wand of cure light wounds..which they obtained for a great price!

Looking at the wand, Katrin says "Excellent. With a wand in our possession we should be well stocked on healing for quite a while."

Bedlam smirks at the hopeful comment...

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Hello,

This will be my first attempt at GMing a PBP campaign, I am fairly new to Pathfinder, but I loved the "other game" back in the 80's and 90's. I've been playing with my kids at home now for a couple months and want to hone my GM skills, so I thought I would try and do this. Id love to have several new players, but will take whatever I can get, I am very active and I am on and will post several times a day, so Id like players that can also be active, and will stay for the long haul..maybe even past ROTRL and into further adventures. I'm not exactly sure how this all works, but if I have enough interest i want to start playing by Sunday night or Monday.

As for character creation rules, they are simple:

* Pick a name. First names only are OK at this point.
* Create stats as per the 25 point buy system
* All Paizo Core races.
* All classes.
* Starting gold: 150gp
* Pick 2 traits

D&D isn't a dirty word.
I am interested. I have some aliases built already.

Pathfinder or 3.5 classes/races?

Lord Viper, great please post one of them in the discussion thread, and Saronian,Pathfinder please, as all I have is all the PF material.

I will adjust a prior lvl 1 character. It won't take long.

Excellent! I'm pretty excited to do this, I hope we get some good people here that will stay for awhile..=}

I'm good so long as internet works. I can post every day, often multiple times. My PC posted in discussion. RotRL fills quickly, so posting ASAP.

Great! let me know when you have made the adjustments you talked about.

This poor little guy has been trying for a very long time to get into a RotRL game that last more than a few weeks/month or two.

He's seen many incarnations, but he's a favorite of mine, and refuse to port the concept to another game.

That's an interesting back story and skill set, welcome aboard!

posted here and in the discussion thread. XD

Was in a game that died. I think he's set up per your instructions above. Posted more in Discussion in case you prefer it there. Thanks for considering me!

Dairkal, please check in in the discussion thread and post your character there as well ..thanks!

Sten Boulder shoulder dwarf male paladin(stonelord)
Str 14
Dex 10
Con 20
Int 10
Wis 11
Cha 10

You using aniversery addition traits?

I have a Paladin called Anders Trelassion, will need to be tweaked (was created at 3rd level, plus I want to rearrange the stats). The aim is to go 2 levels of Paladin then switch to Sorceror then go EK.

I would like to apply with this guy. I need to adjust abilities because he's based on 20 point buy. Need to verify his gold was right too. Outside of that, he should be pretty well set.

Just to make sure you understand he's a spear and shield fighter, Phalanx Soldier archetype, will allow him to one hand polearms/spears when using a shield at 3, so that's his plan.

Havocprince, you can use whatever traits you would like, I just got my hands on the anniversary addition of RotRL so I will be using that for this AP. I will try and get the anniversary players guide as well and have a quick look through of it.

Both Player's Guides are useful and available for a free download here on Paizo.com. The older guide is useful for backstory and such, the newer for updated info on the PF versions of the classes (since the original was 3.5)

Just a note, I've GM'd the first few encounters, but would love to play the AP through as a player before I GM it anymore.

I've just been building a Kaer Magan Golembuilder...
I had a couple of builds in mind, and I think one might fit.
I know you already have a lot of arcane guys, and a wizard, already though - so I figure I'd need to fit the niche they don't seem to - blasting.

I'd like to play Runelords - I've had the Anniversary AP (and carefully not read it) ever since it came out.

If there are just too many wizards, then I have got a cleric concept (Magdh), but it is a little wierd.

I think we could use some more meat shields honestly, we do seem to be very arcane heavy, with not allot of upfront muscle, the paladins may fill that roll or a healer roll, we have one rogue type, but probably could use one that has some disarm traps and disable device skills, I'm surprised at the turnout I was going to go with 6 players, but i might go with 7 if I can get a couple more non arcane caster types that want to play.

Are you looking for tanks or strikers?

Well consider Spears a tankish person. And at level 3, he'll have reach to help slow monsters toward the casters.

Also, if you aren't requiring a campaign trait, I might switch my Friends and Family one out.

Here's a melee/blaster flame oracle for your consideration:

So far i have:

Carrion Hawthorn(lord viper) - Human Soceror (destined)
Dairkal - Halfling Rogue (uncommon build)
Umbrel Char - Human Conjuror
Khalbar Bloodsong - Human Barbarian
Havocprince - Dwarf Paladin (stonelord)
Anders Trelassion - Human Paladin (wants to do sorcerer/EK)
Pierce "Spears" Friggens - Male Human Fighter (Phalanx Soldier)
Red Storm - Male Human Oracal

Loupe, Feel free to submit whatever you want for me to take a look at, a blaster would probably fit in good.

Hope this is acceptable. I have changed his background to accomaodate this campaign and given him a hook into sandpoint. let me know if you got any problems with it.

Very interested, as I am also very active on the site. Would an Urban Barbarian be considered?If so, I will submit the character and backstory tonight.

I'm in for the long haul, if selected.

I won't be able to update until I get home tonight. I only need to adjust to the higher point buy and change a trait and add a little more info in crunch and fluff to be like Fedorean's. By the way, this is Halkale from the first steps campaign.

and here is his personality

Cool, Peirce, you definitely got a spot!

Cutler Go ahead and post up your character for me to look at!

Anders, I will look at your stuff here in a moment

I will continue taking applicants today and tomorrow morning till 12pm, I will then make my decisions and post the final roster by 2pm

I would like to submit my character for this game. A fighter (Polearm Master) character from Ulfen named Katrin Helgunnr. She should provide a good combat support as I built her to get tons of AOO's with her Lucre Hammer and thus keep enemies at bay as well as be a potent damage dealer with her weapon.

Katrin, Sounds good thanks, i will check her out..=}

Alright, here is Loupe - stats are in profile, I hope I did it right.

I picked a trait from anniversary player's guide (which was different to the old one as far as I can tell).
Memorised spells are in, full spell book isn't (don't want to overlap with other arcane's niches).

Note, I am assuming that the 3 spells that come with the Lore Seeker Trait are chosen when the Sorceror class is taken. If not ,I will pick them now.

Loupe and Anders, Both are looking very good..=}

Anders, can you tell me where you found the loreseeker trait so i can read up on it, i did a quick check on the pfsrd and all it says for that trait is a +2 bonus to spellcraft checks to identify magic items?..is it in ultimate magic or something?

Looking at the list of characters, we're lacking healing support in our group. The Oracle can do some healing but as only the Life Oracle has access to channeling, the fire Oracle is fairly limited. I might be willing to create a cleric if the party requires one.

Anders, can you tell me where you found the loreseeker trait so i can read up on it, i did a quick check on the pfsrd and all it says for that trait is a +2 bonus to spellcraft checks to identify magic items?..is it in ultimate magic or something?

Advanced Player Guide, campaign traits. I assumed these were the campaign traits for this campaign. If they are not, I will pick something else and rewrite the background to account for it.

Its full title is Outlander, with Lore Seeker being a sub set of that.

If push comes to shove, my Paladin can use a wand of cure light wounds, though as a frontline character (at least for the first 2 levels), he may not have time to cast in combat.

He also has the sacred touch trait, enabling him to stabilize with a touch. Again, don't know if he'll be bale to use it in combat, but it's there.

I am interested in RotRL, and would fit your support need nicely. I'm at work and can't update my character for a few hours, and will obviously change his Avater since both he and Anders have the same one.

I post 3-10 times per day and am very active. I am new to the pathfinder forums, but have played many a PBP on Enworld before some bad experiences soured me to the site.

Well the thing about having a dedicated healer is you have someone with the means to deal with Player Crippling Conditions. A wand of healing does not cure diseases, ability drain, level drain, poison, paralysis and numerous other effects that can totally screw over a character. Just my 0.02 cents on the issue.

IIRC, the stabilize touch from that SLA doesn't provoke AOO, so you could do it in melee, but it's not hard to roll a successful stabilize roll either, YMMV.

If we are going to have 7 in the group, a dedicated healer wouldn't be a horrible idea, i had even though about making Spears a cleric and just work with the shortspear as his melee weapon, but i don't want to step into a role some other character might try for.

A healer would be a good idea, i was thinking the same thing..if someone wants to create one, I think we will be going with 7

I updated the avater so you can tell us apparet now. Zander is fairly support oriented, and can help in combat with his reach weapon. Never seen a Cleric of Shelyn running around, so I thought it would have some nice novelty.

If zander wanted to turn his cleric to a healing domain or something that would work as well, but ill let you guys decide on what you want to do, Ideally I'd like to see a healer, a rouge type, 2 melee fighters, 2 ranged/caster types, and a battle field manager type..but that is open to change on what we get here, I can work with it..=}

Shelyn doesn't get healing if I remember correctly, but the stat bump from 20-25 point buy will be going ito Charisma, to get me an extra channeling, so I'll still be able to heal well.

I'm cooking up a concept for a cleric of Ragathiel. I'll try and get the stats and such posted this afternoon PST. In the meantime, here's some info on Ragathiel...
http://www.pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Ragathiel

I've got a witch from a fizzled custom ROTRL game that I'd like to submit. Have to remove a bunch of house ruley stuff first. Have her up this evening for your inspection :)