Yeah, my home group just started a home-brew campaign that i am actually DMing.
I haven't DMed in almost 2 years, but i enjoyed the first session.
We only have 4 players--2 new to PF and 1 of them new to RPGs.
I have them up crossing the border into Mendev.
There is a Human Skald, Dwarven Ranger[Trapper], Female Human Hunter, and a 1/2 Elf Bard.
I think it will be a good group.
I have room for another if anyone wants to make the drive...lol!
Sure, sign me up! You'll probably have to 'bot me' for, well, probably forever, unless we take a vacation that way someday... Hmm. Better just make an NPC or henchman/hireling/cohort with some variation of the name Norine/Norna/Naurin/Knorrin.
I think I might, in a few months, see about doing a live PFS game as a GM, although I have my first face-to-face PFS game scheduled for this Friday. I only have one character free (a 4th level cleric) but I thought I might also play a pregen - Kyra is always needed, although I'd have to get used to not having a good range of equipment.
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Unlikely I'll be there unless you're playing in north Alberta, but the offer is appreciated! ;) I should go back to writing some games. If I keep it to short things like mini-series or stand alone games rather than whole campaigns I can do well. The problem is I try to write campaigns with over-ambitious ideas which can get... difficult to keep going into the high levels.
I went to my first F2F PFS game last night. Only one really odd individual, but he was sitting next to me (to be fair, he might have been thinking the same thing).
It wasn't too challenging since it was an early-season scenario and we had a party of 7 for most of it, but we did 'play up' to tier 4-5 and had a fair number of 1st level pregens. It also was undead heavy and we had two Sun-domain clerics, myself and a Kyra, so that helped. The GM also didn't know that incorporeal undead are "immune to all nonmagical attack forms" in addition to the 50% business, and I didn't want to argue and seem argumentative to the detriment of the party, so that made it easier. (Side note: Since alchemist's are "infusing them with their magical reserves to create powerful bombs that they can hurl at their enemies", do they count as magical weapons for going against incorporeal undead?)
One good point was that, after seeing the level of GM preparation and rules knowledge, I don't feel so daunted about GMing one myself someday.
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Alchemist bombs are like spells -- they do half damage to incorporeals, unless they're doing force damage.
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Congrats Matt!
I really want to find a PFS group that is around me. I e-mailed the VC of our region and he said that there is one forming a new group in a week.
I tried to look the location up on Warhorn, but the link failed, so I e-mailed the VC back...lol.
Hopefully, there is a response waiting, but I have you guys as priority!
And no, bombs are not consider "good" or "magic" to bypass DR.
Yeah, both of the emails for the local VC and VL were bad, and the Facebook page wasn't being maintained, but there was a link to a site on the Facebook page that worked.
There actually were, I think, four tables, and it probably could have been five with more GMs and/or slightly smaller groups, so it was a pretty big group of people.
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I'll GMPC Turan tonight if he hasn't moved. I put up a new pic with what people will see if they run out into they courtyard. You can just pretend you don't know exactly where things are until you do so.
I haven't figured out, however, how to make the picture larger right off, although I did rediscover the Control-+ and Control-- (minus) that will enlarge or shrink everything on the page, respectively. Also, clicking on the picture will make it full size, since it is sometimes shrunk to fit the page a bit.
I need to get the kid outside and then run errands, but I'll post again later tonight.
Hi all, since we are possibly close to the end, perhaps we should get any Day Job rolls and Boon rolls out of the way.
So, in order, roll for your Day Job (if you have one) and then for the Boon. I am emailing Herman for the details of the boons and rolling for them (I must have deleted the email accidentally), but I know that you aren't supposed to edit the post with the roll once you've made it.
Good luck!
Also, we won't be able to get The Confirmation done before the end of the gameday, I don't think, so what would people like to do next? Any ideas? That one or another one?
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Herman's Rolls:
SIGH....
To check for a Boon winner, just roll 1d20. Natural 20 means you get to choose from the 4 player boons; Natural one means your GM randomizes one to you. If you win, make sure Matt has your email address because it is sent from the Online VC's after the Gameday ends.
Oh, snap! Lucky me!!! Matt, I just sent you email, so you should have my address to report...
As for what to play next, I really think I am going to take a brief hiatus from playing in Pbp and concentrate on my DMing instead. My campaigns have all been suffering lately and I'd like to make that right.
Good luck to all!
Hey, Herman, Thanks for clarifying about rolling for the boon.
Also, I completely understand about your taking a hiatus from playing; as you know, I keep declining various games - including some of yours - myself, trying to keep enough time and energy to contribute a little GMing, too. I'll probably continue with this group and recruit a replacement, then (since I like to have a full table), but you be welcome in my group(s) if you want to play some more again!
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With patience and persistence Turan crafts some fine baskets to sell at the market.
Day Job
Boon
As to what to play next I'm easy. Also I'm still willing and able to sponsor whatever game we'd go through next.
Farg just slugged his way through a module (Fangwood Keep) and will be level 4.
I think I will be doing my rebuild on Turan which will leave him at level 2 (using credit from a second character). He'd be a monk 1 Barbarian 1 then. Maybe if I get a cool boon I'd also consider doing something totally different here.
Oh well.
Herman, your boon is/will be:
Lingering Resonance: A recent encounter with an enemy spellcaster left your body strangely receptive to spell effects. At the beginning of a scenario, you may announce that you are using this boon. The next time that you fail a saving throw against any spell or spell-like ability from an enemy spellcaster, have your GM write the name of the spell below. Choose one of the following benefits, and cross the other off your Chronicle sheet.• When you cast the listed spell, you may increase the DC of the saving throw by 2.
• When you roll a saving throw against the listed spell, you gain a +4 bonus on the save.
You may use this bonus once for free, after which you should check the box below; each additional use of the selected benefit costs 1 Prestige Point.
Just the climactic battle, that's all! Well, probably. But, have a good, safe trip! :)
Hi all, We have just one week (until July 5th) to finish this thingy up. (It might be possible for me to report the results ahead of time, going back later to make any necessary corrections, but I am not sure.)
Jani, I still need a boon roll for you. Thanks!
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Well, I had to work until 2pm today, so I wasn't able to actually participate in the F2F PFS game that started today.
They did invite me to sit in and hang out, which was nice.
I am definitely going to try to go in 2 weeks, although I will need Wuliem or Walter for it because it is a level 2-3 game.
Well, we will definitely be done with this one by then (who knows about the other one), and I'm thinking of a break after this one, so you could use Wuliem for some games.
I hope that wasn't too anti-climactic of a battle. You guys got some good hits in, though, and didn't even accidentally hit the mirror image with any good hits.
Plus, you have the right types of weapons (ranged and cold iron), and the frost bombs, while it has resistance 10 to cold, just overwhelmed it. Bane wasn't the best move, but it was in its tactics. So was Cause Fear against the most dangerous opponent, which was Hagan at that point, having just landed a good smite.
(Some have made the demon accidentally harder and had its Mass Inflict Light Wounds ability hitting everyone, while it is actually limited to 1 per caster level, and that is only level 3, even though the spell is normally a fairly high level one.)
The "juju zombie" in Tier 4-5 are the real killers in the scenario, so that was the biggest danger playing up. Defense on them is pretty good, but their offense is a killer: 1d10+10 with a +10 to hit and an 18-20 crit range can really make for a bad day.
Human juju zombie fighter (two-handed fighter) 3
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DEFENSE
AC 22, touch 13, flat-footed 19 (+6 armor, +3 Dex, +3 natural) hp 30 each ...
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Melee mwk nodachi +10 (1d10+10/18–20)
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Feats Cleave, Combat Reflexes, Improved Initiative, Power Attack, Step Up, Toughness, Weapon Focus (nodachi)
Hi all, I'm working on get the Chronicle sheets and reporting all together and the reporting for has a space for "Player Name". Now, so far, I've either put the 'player name' on the boards in that spot, or left it blank, but we people prefer me to put their Real Life name in the Player Name space? Or something else? (The reporting form does say it can be entered as "Anonymous", so it is no big deal.)
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Another thing that definitely could have made the final encounter much harder would have been if anyone had committed 'heresies', which would have protected Dakang. Each 'heresy point' would have made the player roll twice for a roll in the combat with Dakang and take the worse result one time, or up to four successive rolls for the four possible heresy points. The heresies were participating in the face inking, reciting the mantra in the meditation room, participating in the Kiss of Korada ritual in the garden, and dealing lethal damage to the aasimar bodyguards. Only Turan 'earned' even one heresy point, for reciting the mantra, and that ended up not making a difference. (Wuliem earned something, but it is not covered in game terms. ;-)
(Alternating the last and first syllables of each line produces the true meaning, which is "Bind my soul to Sifkesh"
Light combined,
My peace find;
Calm my soul,
To control;
Woes I sift,
Catching gifts
Fun as always, Matt.
I may need to use Wuliem July 13th at that F2F PFS.
You could always run a pre-gen and apply the credit to Wuliem if that helps.
They can, or you can pull the PFS legal ones from teh Pathfinder Society website here. There is a zip file there with the authentic pre-gen builds by level. Hope you get to run your own, it's more fun that way for sure. Good luck in Thornkeep!
Watch out: As it has been said, "Thornkeep is PFS set on 'Hard Mode'." The second part wasn't too bad, really, (although people certainly spent some time in the negatives) but the final monster of the third part was the one that was chewing up and spit out our 3rd level characters like an ogre high on kobolds.
That said, I am trying to advance my 3rd level Thornkeep survivor, currently at 4th level (an aasimar cleric), up to 6th so he'll be able to find a Thornkeep campaign for the 4th and 5th parts, trying to finish out the dang thing.
Good, "Dave Powell". Funny thing, but it also asks for a credit card number. I think they are moving to credit cards as being more secure that PFS numbers.
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Yeah, the shadow, on a good crit, can make another shadow out of one of party, too, so that is bad.
We had the small short sword and someone sized to use it, our wizard had disrupt undead prepared, and I had channel energies. I don't remember what else.
Imagine, though, going through with only 4 players in addition, which I remember reading somewhere was the thought for Thornkeep.
Storn, I don't think I got a Boon roll for you. Would you do a d20?
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Thanks for running this! You said you were considering running the Confirmation next?
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Hi all,
I've posted everyone's Chronicles in this folder. As always, check them over for errors and let me know!
I'll report the game with the gameday form later tonight. I'm not sure how long it will take to show up on your characters' session pages.
I haven't decided what I am going to run next or when I am going to run it. I think I will take a break for a week or two and then make a decision - perhaps waiting until the July 14th, the day after Wuliem is going to be using his character?
Thanks, Matt