GM Endless Forms' PFS 06-98 Serpent's Rise (Inactive)

Game Master Mike Tuholski

Hello everyone! I will get the pregens loaded later. We are not starting until September 19, which is the first day of Gameday 4.

Put me down for this one, unless work goes completely insane in the next month or so (if it does, I'll let you know). Thanks for running!

Sign me up!

Put me down! I really thought this was cool scenario to run.

I'm in the same boat as John, count me in. Not it!

I'll play in this!

I'd like to claim the last spot!

Yep, looks like this one filled up fast! All six ready to go. I already have the PDF since I was supposed to run it at GenCon so I will get the pregens loaded sometime later today and you can fight over who gets what.

Do you just want to roll randomly for who gets what?

I know who I'd like to play, but in truth, all six are pretty cool and well constructed.

I will embrace whoever!

When I get them up I was going to suggest everyone rank their top three and we can roll for ties, with the loser getting their second choice.

Fair enough. I'm easy.

Bah, I don't care, I just wanna play. You guys choose who you want and I'll take what's left!

Ok, here they are!

I guess you can either rank your top choices or just fight over who gets what. Go!

Choices:
1) Marnarius
2) Shohiraj
3) Zurnzal

1) 322
2) Joliryn
3) Zurnzal

1) 322 (The awesome-est)
2) Rataji
3) Shohiraj

322 reminded me of a character played by Lordzum (who hasn't been active on the boards for some time).

1) Shohiraj
2) Zurnzal
3) Marnarius

All right, it seems the others don't have a preference.

1=BS, 2=Tek: 1d2 ⇒ 1

BS wins so he gets to play 322 and Tek will get his second choice of Rataji.

John called Marnarius and Rah called Shohiraj.

So it looks like Zurnzal and Joliryn are left over I think. Neb and Rycky can fight or roll over who gets which one.

Actually, those were the two I was going for.

Joliryn is my number 1, Zurnzal is #2

Guess I get Zurnzal!

Starting tomorrow!

Oh, forgot about this. Guess I'll take a look at my character tomorrow...

I am leaving for vacation to North Carolina tomorrow evening and I will be gone until the 4th of October. I should still be able to update every day, but some days might prove inconsistent.

I am going camping next week from Tuesday until the following Monday. I will have my smart phone, but posting will be limited to probably once every other day.

These characters are short on backup weapons, I see.

I don't even think my character was built with a purpose in mind. 14 strength and 14 dexterity with only 18 Charisma by level 7. Her DCs for spells are pretty bad. :( And that's mostly what she's got to play with.

They also really messed up her point buy. Essentially, they spent more on Charisma in the point buy, then used her 4th level bonus on either Strength or Constitution to even out the score. :(

The PFS leadership has always said they purposefully don't optimize their pregens but sometimes it feels like they go out of their way to make them suboptimal for some reason.

Marnarius is actually a pretty decent combatant--I've got no complaints on that score, although it'll be nice once we start fighting enemies that are susceptible to poison. It's just that he's got his sword and his bow, and that's it. Not even a backup dagger, as far as I can tell.

I got four daggers for ya! I could let you have them or 322 can use them for 1d4+2 damage!

322 has very thematic spells, but lacks good, no save options. Especially for a caster with good Dex and Str, she has 0 no-save Touch Attacks to make the most of her low DCs and high +hit.

Frustrating when looking at her kit to think that most monsters have a 50% chance to resist her spells, thus making her waste her actions and resources for nothing.

Is each weapon special or is it just a flavorful description of a +2 Vicious weapon?

If the former, what do the scythe and mace do, since Marnarius chose the longsword?

Nothing special, it's just a flavorful description of the weapons you can choose.

It occurs to me that this scenario is the only time that players can do something they've probably fantasized about for their PFS careers: beat the snot out of Aram Zey. Note that we haven't had to fight Kreighton Shaine, or any of the other common VCs who hand out assignments.

Also, EF, assuming we survive this fight, how much more do we have to do before we wrap up?

Aram Zey wasn't that bad for me. There was one of my PFS characters who disliked some female VC, but I can't remember who the VC was.

Also, EF, assuming we survive this fight, how much more do we have to do before we wrap up?

Just this fight and then RP some wrap-up. Sorry this has been taking so long, especially this last fight. If things go well we'll be done soon. If they don't go well we'll also be done soon ;)

I got the chronicle sheet. Thanks for running!