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

Game Master Lady Ladile

More on my homebrew use of scenarios...

I regularly steal sections of adventures whole cloth for my home games... or at least the maps.

Most of my Golarion homebrew has been in Varisia, and I've used more Season 4 scenarios than any other season. I didn't see too many from that season on the list.

Andoran/Liberty’s Edge
Cairn of Shadows (5-9)
Captives of Toil (5-9)
Fury of the Final Blade (7-11)
Returned to Sky (7-11)
School of Spirits (1-5)
Shadow’s Last Stand Part 1 - At Shadow’s Door (1-7)
Shadow’s Last Stand Part 2 - Web of Corruption (1-7)
The Paths We Choose (3-7)
The Stranger Within (5-9)
Valley of Veiled Flame (5-9)

Cheliax/Dark Archive
Beacon Below (7-11)
Cairn of Shadows (5-9)
Call of the Copper Gate (3-7)
Oath of the Overwatched (5-9)
Orders from the Gate (5-9)
Port Godless (5-9)
The Paths We Choose (3-7)
Torrent's Last Will (7-11)

Mendev/Worldwound
Assault on the Wound (3-7)
Scars of the Third Crusade (1-5)
The Traitor's Lodge (3-7)
The Wardstone Patrol (3-7)
Thralls of the Shattered God (5-9)
Weapon in the Rift (5-9)

Mwangi
By Way of Bloodcove (3-7)
Dead Man's Debt (1-5)
Encounter at the Drowning Stones (7-11)
Lyrics of Extinction (7-11)
Scions of the Sky Key Part 3: The Golden Guardian (1-5)
Scions of the Sky Key Part 2: The Kaava Quarry (1-5)
Scions of the Sky Key Part 1: On Sharrowsmith’s Trail (1-5)
Signs in Senghor (1-5)
The Bloodcove Blockade (3-7)
The Ghol-Gan Heresy (7-11)
The Technic Siege (5-9)

Planar Scenarios
Abducted in Aether (7-11)
Graves of Crystalmaw Pass (3-7)
Raid on the Cloudborne Keep (5-9)
The Shores of Heaven (1-5)
Torrent's Last Will (7-11)
Treacherous Waves (3-7)
Unleashing the Untouchable (12-15)

Silver Crusade
Clash in Kaimuko Wood (5-9)
Raid on the Cloudborne Keep (5-9)
Returned to Sky (7-11)
Scars of the Third Crusade (1-5)
Shrine of the Sacred Tempest (1-5)
The Shores of Heaven (1-5)
Thralls of the Shattered God (5-9)
Treacherous Waves (3-7)
Valley of Veiled Flame (5-9)
Weapon in the Rift (5-9)

Tian Xia
House of Harmonious Wisdom (1st Evergreen)
Of Kirin and Kraken (7-11)
Red Harvest (7-11)
The Haunting of Hinojai (5-9)
Way of the Kirin (3-7)
What Sleeps in Stone (7-11)

Misc.
The Twisted Circle (1-5)
Labyrinth of Hungry Ghosts (3-7)

Possible Replays?
Library of the Lion (1-5)
Birthright Betrayed (1-5)
Ungrounded but Unbroken (1-5)
Tyranny of the Winds, Part I (1-5) *(Gummy Bear previously played)
Tyranny of the Winds, Part II (1-5)
Tyranny of the Winds, Part III (3-7)
To Seal the Shadow (1-5) *(Gummy Bear previously played)

Will check the others

I have the same as Gummy: 2+2 recharges and 2 non- rechargable for 6.

I'm willing to spend them all for this campaign.

I forgot that I had played 5-22: Scars of the Third Crusade. I'm not super keen on replaying that one. It's a murder mystery so I'd be keeping quiet for a whole bunch of the scenario.

I'll look for some 1-5s...

EDIT: I think I forgot your original question. Shores of Heaven is the only thing I'm dying to replay. The others were ones thst were so good that I wouldn't blink replaying.

Anything in Garund would be cool, as far as themes go: Mwangi, Holomog, Thuvia, Osirion, Geb... I forget, there's several countries on Garund. Or any archeological/ancient ruins delving adventure. :)

9-04: The Unseen Inclusion
Oh, none of us have played the Sun Orchid Scheme, 7-21, I heard that's a good one.
6-08: The Segang Expedition might be fun.

Sorry I’ve been slow to post... I’ve had a headache for a couple days that’s making it tough to spend much time looking at phone/computer screens. I’ll try to post soon but feel free to bot me if needed.

Here's hoping you feel better soon, Slyvak!

@GM Ladile: I haven't got any games scheduled, so I'm free to play all the scenarios you've listed.

@Sylvak - As I said elsewhere, take care and I hope you feel better soon!

@Theodric - Thank you for your honesty! I trust the folks who will be burning replays and/or have read some of the scenarios for other purposes not to metagame :)

Okay, so looks like Scions of the Sky Key trilogy is out unless Hepsubia has some replays burning a hole in her pocket; same for Library of the Lion. However, it looks like we're good to go through the entire Tyranny of the Winds trilogy since Zithembe & Kiango are willing and interested in spending replays for the parts they've already done! Same for To Seal the Shadow.

(By the way, do *not* feel pressured to burn a replay if you don't want to - this goes for anyone who might have one!)

If there's not a lot of interest in Scars of the Third Crusade I can strike that one off the list and certainly add Sun Orchid Scheme and Segang Expedition!

Also hoping to maybe sneak in some fey/whimsy sort of scenarios for Ylva's benefit (also because they're fun) but some of my immediate go-tos are currently off the table like Overflow Archives and Down the Verdant Path. Scourge of the Farheavens does take you up into Iobaria and it's a 1-5; that one might be fun :)

Won't be much active until 12th of July, bot me as needed

Both Sun Orchid Scheme and Segang Expedition are great scenarios for PbP! I've ran them both and they were really fun, but there's no way I'd be able to do Sun Orchid Scheme justice in person. Anyhoo, I think they would both be great additions and I'm totally fine with striking Scars of the Third Crusade to get them. :)

If you need help looking for fey/whimsy (I do love fey,) I'll have a look later on to see if there's anything I can suggest.

GM Ladile, would you be able to post the updated scenario list when you get the chance? :)

Hopefully that'll help? :)

Thanks, it does and will! :)

Everyone *but* Tupp:

I have a feeling I'll be seeing that a lot. :)

Hey, thanks for your patience! We had a couple days here in the mid to high 90s (around 36 celcius, I think) and I am not well suited for the heat. I rarely wear more than a sweatshirt even in those (in)famous Buffalo snow storms, but apparently doing anything at all when its really hot out will give me heat exhaustion. It took a while to get over the dehydration that came with that but I'm feeling much better now and should have a post up tonight.

I'm going to be out of town for the weekend but I should be able to post regularly from my phone.

Re: Janira's pack

Hep has all the alchemical weapons not taken by anyone else, I think.

^Noted!

Also, out of gas for tonight guys but I have tomorrow (Friday) off so I'll update in the morning and as needed throughout the day.

Updated the 'Janira's Goody Bag' spoiler to reflect who is carrying what :)

Okay so I've gone over the scenarios on the list that'd be available to play and came up with a rough 'order' to go in:

That's just a rough outline of course and always subject to change. It's also possible to squeeze in more scenarios if everyone wanted to play slow-track but that'd basically have to be a unanimous decision. Thoughts?

Looks good to me. I wouldn't mind playing slow track if the others want to, either.

I don't think doing the entire campaign slow track is a good idea... It's 33 scenarios at normal, and if you estimate an average 2 months per scenario we're at a 5+ year commitment. You bump that to 66, and, well, I haven't even been married that long yet. ;)

However, on more concrete issues, I'm already slow tracking to burn off some of my lead. With those scenario thresholds (playing 1-5s at 5th, 3-7s at 7th), I'm going to need to slow track more. I don't mind doing that--I wanted a safety buffer for my rare chronicle, which is why I used a number with so much GM credit--but it would be a while before the entire party could slow track without pushing me out for a scenario or two.

Hah! Good point on the speed; I probably run at a slightly more sedate pace than a lot of PFS GMs anyway so slow-tracking may not be a good idea after all.

If the scenario thresholds are going to cause more scheduling issues I can adjust the order as needed. This is my first time trying to plan out scenarios in advance so bear with me :)

Looks great! I love that we'll have an extended expedition into the worldwound halfway through.

I'll probably take a couple of scenarios on the slow track after hitting level two to put me on par with the brand new characters, but yeah, a whole campaign on slow might be a little tricky. Although, you never know, when we get nearer the end, I bet we'll all want to start slow tracking games just to keep the campaign going that little bit longer. :)

P.S. I haven't mentioned this yet, but I also love the name of the campaign! So happy to be a part of this. :)

That looks like a fantastic spread! What I really like is how we (at least on first glance) go to a bunch of different areas across the earlier areas but then revisit them when we are higher level! It'll be really cool to visit areas again with different powers at our disposal :D

I'd prefer to not slow track the group. I <3 you all, but leveling is a fun process for me and PbP is slow enough as it is! Honestly, if we want to keep going with the group after we "retire" from the Society, we could just try to play with different characters together and maybe even a GM rotation! :) or, you know, play through seeker levels.

Yeah- I’m with Kiango, leveling is fun and I’d like to maybe do it more than once a year, lol.

Glad you guys are excited! And the nice thing about PFS is that you know when you'll level - every three scenarios on Normal track :)

Now that I've got a little more time (again) I did want to add that I'm glad folks like the campaign name - a bit of poking fun at myself since a lot of my GM posts tend to be on the wordy side of things :)

As far as the scenario 'route' is concerned, yes, that's sort of what I was going for! I tried to schedule scenarios in such a manner that you naturally segue from one to another by region; the planar scenarios are wild cards since I figured after heading back to the Material from a different plane you can more or less get plopped down wherever you want and/or need to be.

(Side note - there are a LOT more Tian Xia scenarios then I'd realized.)

Campaign route looks great to me!

And sorry for disappearing: My personal life got unexpectedly busy just as I got a "drop everything and do this" project dumped in my lap at work.

Hey folks, got called in to work tonight on somewhat-short notice so updates here and elsewhere will be delayed a bit to either later tonight or tomorrow morning.

Hang in there! Idk about you, but last minute changes are really annoying for me. *Nacho Libre voice* YOU CAN DO IT!

Haha, thanks!

In other news, the last (and only other time) that I ran this, my group decided to try eating the wall lichen. I'm not sure if the current shenanigans here are better or worse than that :P

Better! Of course! Thank you for letting me indulge my inner silliness

Same here. I think Hepsubia and Ylva are going to be trouble once they get to know each other. I really hope there's a scenario where we have to infiltrate some place fancy. I've got something I really want to try.

Not a problem! While I *do* want us to move along at a halfway-decent pace, I also don't want folks to feel like they can't indulge in some silly (or serious) bits of character interaction :)

Haha, I have no idea which aspect that would be for, but eating the wall lichen is definitely an interesting choice. :)

Huh, isn't that how the Derro went made according to the game's canon?

Hehe, I think that was more than just lichen. :)

In other news. I'll be moving home (and country) from the 31st of July and not only will I be unavailable during all the time spent travelling, I won't be able to post until I have managed to get the internet connected to my new house. I don't know how long I'll be dark, but please feel free to bot me (GM or Players) while I'm gone. There are rough botting instructions in Tupp's profile.

No worries, Tupp! I'll bot you as needed and hopefully you won't miss *too* much while you're moving :)

Good luck with your move! Safe travels!

Thanks! :)

By the way, for those here who might have a character in the 3-7 range, would any of you be interested in a game of #8-19 Treacherous Waves for the upcoming Gameday? My local VA & their SO asked if I would run it for them, partly so the SO can try playing in PbP mode. When I've got PbP newbies at a table I like to cherry-pick the rest of the table just a bit for folks who I know can and will help show the new folks a good time :)

Hey, I think I wasn't clear on what I was doing. Ylva is cutting down into the square with the column.from the square Hepsubia was in. She should be able to get past by squeezing unless I'm missing something.

Ah okay, I read it as you trying to actually move through the enemy space and thus getting shut down due to the failed Acrobatics check. Will adjust the post.

I've got a Level 5 medium that I could use or maybe a couple level 3s to choose from.

Got a Bard 4 and a Cleric 3, if that helps

I think I have a level 7 cleric of Asmodeus. I'd have to check his level for sure (might be level 8), but he can be quite the a~!@!!#. I'd play him down of course, but even a little but of that may be off-putting to someone learning the ropes.

Interesting....I believe they're bringing a swashbuckler and vigilante in the 4-5 range, respectively. But if all three of you would be interested then that'd make 5 people :)

What would the APL be? I'm not a huge fan of playing out of tier tbh, but I have no issue playing a pregen instead.

EDIT: Oh wait! I have two level 5 fighters! Haha! AND a cleric of Sarenrae at level 4! Don't ask how I missed THREE of my own characters on the first pass, but I apparently managed.

it's true we could play some pregens too, if needed

Hey, so sorry for the lull! I should be back to regular posting now.