GM Ladile's TL;DR: A Pathfinder Society Campaign

Game Master Lady Ladile

Enjoy your vacation, Maria!

Per earlier request, added a 'Player's Notes' link up at the top of the campaign page. It's currently blank but everyone should be able to contribute to it as desired.

Apologies all - I am moving this weekend and will have limited availability (and energy) to post until Monday. Don't be afraid to bot the Grandfrogger or keep things moving while I am out.

No worries! Between this weekend being PaizoCon Online *and* a holiday weekend here in the States (where things are beginning to open up & folks are starting to get out again), I wouldn't be surprised if forum posting largely drops from now until Monday/Tuesday.

So in light of that, no one should feel obligated to post this weekend if they've got other things to be doing. I'm off work (aside from tonight) so I'll be around to respond to any posts as necessary but folks should absolutely feel free to take the weekend off if they want :)

I can keep adding the Spiritual Parlay as a conditional modifier, or could I have a list of NPCs with Types? Mostly, I just need to know any that are elemental, fey, or outsiders. Presumably none are undead.

I added a list of the dignitaries to the player notes page, with a very brief description of them.

I feel like they tried really hard to shoehorn a skill check into this encounter for non-social characters. I mean, she was flying a kite. Indoors. At a formal gala. And there was a tree? On the Plane of Air. I'm not sold, but hey, Hep did awesome, so there's that.

I ain't called the Totally Awesome Lil"Hep for nuthin".

It's a park, I think. And it is in an area set up somewhat for land-bound creatures ;)

Yeah. I recall there's a map, or maybe the GM made it up last time I played, and it's an outdoor park with a tree/trees.

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gives a sideway look at Holan-Ji, with an added suspicious smile for even more mystery

She is definitely imagining skinning you and using your hide to make a kite.

Whhhhaaaaatttt??? She wouldn't!

Would she?

On second thought, she just might.

I better watch my tail, and sleep with one eye open.

Yeah. I recall there's a map, or maybe the GM made it up last time I played, and it's an outdoor park with a tree/trees.

No map in the scenario for this particular event so your GM probably dug one up themselves. But yeah, the gala is at an outdoor park :)

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gives a sideway look at Holan-Ji, with an added suspicious smile for even more mystery

She is definitely imagining skinning you and using your hide to make a kite.

Well that took a dark turn XD

Update either later tonight if work permits or tomorrow :)

Just found a pic showing Totally Awesome Lil"Hep and Holan Ji dancing here (first pic)

Just found a pic showing Totally Awesome Lil"Hep and Holan Ji dancing here (first pic)

Awwwww!!!!! That's so perfect! Thanks for that.

Apologies for the delays folks; Tuesday & Wednesday proved busier than expected in regards to getting stuff in order for my trip. I'll be heading out of town today for a convention and won't be back until Monday afternoon. I won't make any guarantees about posting but I will say that I'll have my Chromebook with me and probably won't completely fill my schedule up with games, soooo...we'll see!

Back from my trip & now back to our (mostly) regularly scheduled programming :)

The con went well; played a lot more board games this time around which was actually a really nice change of pace, partly because they're only scheduled for half of a slot instead of a full slot. After taking one entire slot off at ScareFest '19 I've decided that I'll probably never schedule myself for a full day of activities at a convention ever again. Downtime is important!

It was also nice to see some con friends for the first two in two years as well as a bunch of regular faces in general. The weather was beautiful and sunny and HOT and I bought way more swag than I'd initially planned to buy. The final tally of being asked 'So where are you from?' was 5, which happens enough when I travel that I've decided to start keeping track just for my own amusement.

and the Darwin award goes to...

When he discovers that the sky barrier is made of electricity (and ignoring the actual fluid mechanics of a stream of water for the sake of comedy).

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and the Darwin award goes to...

When he discovers that the sky barrier is made of electricity (and ignoring the actual fluid mechanics of a stream of water for the sake of comedy).

Yeeeessssss

Comedy would also allow the sky barrier to be a massive burst of wind back in his face. :P

Not feelin' the love here, folks....

Physical comedy at your expense is proof of love (if my children are any example). :)

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and the Darwin award goes to...

When he discovers that the sky barrier is made of electricity (and ignoring the actual fluid mechanics of a stream of water for the sake of comedy).

Pretty sure Mythbusters tested this one but I can't remember which episode it was >.>

Since I can't remember if the order does or does not matter, I won't make a suggestion, but I'll second the first color choice each time there's a choice.

To save a little time, I'll tell you that order does not matter here - if it did, you would've already found clues/hints indicating such :)

Aight... I'm wondering something about the stone/barrier puzzle. IS there some sort of penalty for getting it wrong? If not, then it is the worst possible puzzle in the world as you could just keep trying until you get it right. There aren't even that many combinations.

I think it blows up at you like a fireball if you do it wrong.

I was planning to take a couple of paladin levels with Effie - but the acting with honour part of the paladin code is hard. Effie strongly believes in responsibility, duty and protecting those weaker than herself. Keeping her word is no problem - if she gives it.

If she does take holy oaths she's going to have to really work hard at keeping them. Which is as it should be I suppose.

From what I can tell, we 100% gave our word we would not take anything out of the library. That was the agreement to be allowed in, even if we didn't verbally state our agreement with the rule.

I get it Effie, it sucks sometimes and Maria is more than happy to bend morals in certain situations. Like uh, lying to prevent a fight so no one dies in the immediate confrontation that follows. And yes, picking and choosing which morals to follow is dangerous. It's also a thing that every single person does.

But stealing a book from a library is so dang against her beliefs it's really hard for her to bend, especially since there is no immediate greater evil to stop.

But it seems we are also being given a workaround as we have a different book to pursue now so this one isn't even necessary. So if we want to leave and check that place out, Maria is cool with that. She'll just try to come back later to finish her copy just in case it is needed at some point.

I think it blows up at you like a fireball if you do it wrong.

Yep. Do it wrong or touch the barrier* and it blows up like a fireball, doing the appropriate elemental damage (fire, cold, etc.) based on which barrier it is.

*If a plane-touched of the appropriate element touches a barrier, it'll instead automatically drop - but the scenario doesn't really give any good way to know that or figure it out. But Effie could've simply lowered the red barrier by touching it, for example.

But it seems we are also being given a workaround as we have a different book to pursue now so this one isn't even necessary.

Yep once again. Sorry Mario, but the princess information is in another castle library!

"je n'ai qu'une parole. C'est pour cela que je suis bien obligé de la reprendre!"
"surtout si je veux pouvoir la redonner"

("Le souper", E.MOLINARO, par Fouché et Tailleyrand)

"My word is my bond. That's why I must break it sometimes"
"Mainly because you want to be free to give it again"

Sooo.... It actually might have blown up with a blast of electricity if peeing on it had counted as touching it? Yikes! Then, thank you very very much for ruling that it didn't count. (With a nod of thanks to MythBusters, also.)

Re: Paladin Codes, many of the deities have specific Codes which supplement the basic code. For instance Torag's code allows misleading others when necessary in the service of her (the paladin's) people. Not likely that Effie would become a Paladin of Torag, but there might be a god whose Code aligned more naturally with Effie's mindset.

I've had a mooch at paladin codes in Inner Sea Gods. Shelyn fits quite well - and she has a servitor who is a juggler too!

Ideally I'd like to find an in-character reason for taking paladin oaths. We had a Torag warpriest and a Sarenrae cleric in the party previously. Torag doesn't suit Effie. Sarenrae is possible - though Effie doesn't like fire!

I think I may go for Shelyn, perhaps with a personal modification of the common Shelynite code: "Life is beautiful and cherished. I will preserve life rather than take it, even if I must deceive in order to save." An extension of "I come first with a rose..."

Sorry, big day today, I'll post this week end or you can bot me as needed If I don't post before saturday evening

^No worries, Hep! I'll probably try to post about like usual this weekend but it's also my weekend to work as well as being a holiday weekend here so...you may not miss much :)

Love the pic on your link (the first one, with the woman walking on birds).

Makes me think of a scene of "the Cats returns " from Studio Ghibli, where the heroes escape by walking on ravens making some stairs in the skies

It's a bit mechanical--both editions of the game have their issues with mixing lethal and non-lethal damage--but once we tag one with a significant amount of non-lethal damage, they can be beat down the rest of the way with lethal damage (unless you fully unload and overshoot).

Edition confusion on NL penalty: my to hit was 23, not 25.

Other note: You only get more than one AOO if you have Combat Reflexes.

May I borrow Holan-Ji's dice?

FYI: I'll be leaving on vacation this Saturday for a week. I expect to have wifi, but plan on posting once a day in the late evening.

Thanks for the notice, Zith!

On my end of things, we had company over this evening and while it was fun, such things tend to drain my batteries pretty quick. So I'll look to get an update posted tomorrow.

For those that may not check the lodges very often, the announcement thread for PbP Gameday X went up yesterday afternoon! You can find it here:

PbP Gameday X Announcement

If you want to GM, be sure to get your games submitted sooner rather than later!

Normally I like to run something spooky (or spoopy) during Gameday but those of you with sharp eyes will see that I'm House GM for the PF1e special this time around. On top of that, I'll still be running for our group here and I expect I'll also be in the middle of GMing Day of the Demon for a round-robin 1e group that I'm in by the time con start rolls around. So I'll have to give it a think on whether or not I want to take on any additional GMing.

I shall sign up to play the special :)

Also I will run Shores of Heaven - that was a fine scenario when we played it (and Effie's introduction to the group).

Have fun herding cats! ;)

If I was sure I had the time, I would try to GM..

I'm running pfs1 2-11 (Core) and will definitely join in on the pfs1 special.

Have fun herding cats! ;)

MEOW!

I signed up to run the 1ed Special, guess that makes me one of Lady's cats. Though I'm not sure how they pick or assign GMs.

And I might try to get in on Effie's table of Shores of Heaven. I've never played that.

Shores of Heaven is a wonderful scenario - I would highly recommend playing it!

Yeah, we reference it quite a bit in this group. It had quite a few great RP moments for everyone.

Shores of Heaven is a great scenario, yes! I'm actually debating if I want to burn a replay to play it again or not.

*edit for Effie* Sure thing! :D

May I borrow (copy) your excellent set of slides when I run it please, GM Ladile?

Just realised that Ranginori would be a legal deity option for Effie going paladin :o

(The option becomes available to all my characters via a boon).

Hey, wow, we're almost done with this scenario! Huzzah! :D