GM Lari's Black Waters (Inactive)

Game Master Dhenn

After an Andoren village is razed by the Hydra's Fang, a renegade Chelish slaver-ship, outrage threatens the stability of both nations. You and your fellow Pathfinders are sent to capture the Fang before the Inner Sea is pitched into political frenzy.

If you could check in here that'd be great. I'll try to fill any vacancies from my other threads, and do public recruitment if need be. We can start as soon as we have six, so either late this week or early next.

M'kay...

Checking in!

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In order to accommodate all the original players as we get started, I'm going to run Black Waters to get us started. If that poses a conflict for anyone, please let me know.

Currently we have:

Sweet! Very excited about Black Waters! I am still 1st level, but will be 2nd level after this one.

BTW, apparently changing the campaign name also broke the link to he thread. I found it by going through the campaigns under your alias :)

Still level 1. Need to buy my gear, but I'll do that right now. I think I already added the money in, so it shouldn't take long.

I also need to make purchases. Still weighing whether or not I'm happy with the concept, though I've two more scenarios to figure that out. Thinking of going for something a bit more support-y.

Can you open the gameplay thread for dotting?

Thanks!

Your wish is my command.

Hello, companions!

I'll have a full profile up soon.

FYI, Lilyth supports with buffs and heals, but deals martial damage primarily with AoOs and a reach weapon. Teamwork, or lack thereof, greatly influences the number of AoOs provoked by foes. It helps to think of this effect as a Blade Barrier trap active only during the enemy movement phase. Your clever tactical actions can often give Lilyth additional hard-hitting attacks. Standing behind or beside her, with a readied action to move in and attack anything that gets in melee with her, once it provokes AoOs can be a really helpful tactic.

Player: PatheticWretch
Character: Fatham
PFS# 132076-28
Faction Scarab Sages

No day job.

Hello, companions!

I'll have a full profile up soon.

FYI, Lilyth supports with buffs and heals, but deals martial damage primarily with AoOs and a reach weapon. Teamwork, or lack thereof, greatly influences the number of AoOs provoked by foes. It helps to think of this effect as a Blade Barrier trap active only during the enemy movement phase. Your clever tactical actions can often give Lilyth additional hard-hitting attacks. Standing behind or beside her, with a readied action to move in and attack anything that gets in melee with her, once it provokes AoOs can be a really helpful tactic.

Haha. That's basically exactly as I rebuilt Milarandei last night owing to not wanting to commit to spending PP for a good bow just yet.

Is that the full party? If so, I'll probably shift to bard or rogue.

Player: Jamesui
Character: Milarandei Qetra
Race: Elf or Half-Elf
Class: Rogue or Bard
Day Job: Will know later!
Faction: Grand Lodge
ID: 182235-5

This is the full party, though doubling up on classes never hurt anyone. Play what you like, whether that's Bard, Rogue, or Cleric.

hah! Never played a cleric like this, though I have seen several. thought I'd give it a try.

Doubling up never hurt anyone, but neither did a little diversity. I think bardic performance would go a long way with this group, frankly.

Updated my character. Purchases:

Wayfinder 250g
Wand of Mage Armor 2PP
Light Crossbow 35g
Sold Heavy Crossbow for 50g

I added a wand of cure light wounds for 2PP and a free sling.

Even though they no longer have any mechanical effect, I'm actually going to add the old faction missions back into this one, as some of the information within plays a recurring role in the future. Those will be posted tonight or tomorrow.

GM Lari, I would like to do as Akhenethys suggested: Spend my 2pp on the darkwood bow (+3 Str).

That would give me nearly all my money to spend, so can afford the wayfinder after all.

Looks like I'm going to need some fancy clothes, though. :)

Sounds good to me.

Exactly how far away we are from the end depends a bit on how you choose to handle things, though one way or the other the end is near. So it's time to get cracking on end of game paperwork.

If your PFS # and other important information isn't already above or on your character profile, please post it here now. Day jobs can be rolled as well.

Those with ghoul fever will be handled once we're truly done with scenario content.

Boon Rolls
Natural rolls of 1 and 20 win boons. No rerolls are allowed here. I list rolls GM first, then alphabetically by character name.
GM: 1d20 ⇒ 15
Akhenethys: 1d20 ⇒ 16
Fatham: 1d20 ⇒ 11
Kastarr: 1d20 ⇒ 10
Lilyth: 1d20 ⇒ 20
Milarandei: 1d20 ⇒ 13
Two Tall: 1d20 ⇒ 7

Lilyth is our lucky winner! I'll be PMing you with details.

Next Steps:
Thanks for sticking with this. I ended up running more games than I expected as part of the gameday, so I wasn't as fast on this one as I might have been otherwise. I'll be scaling back a bit as it comes to an end.

For those who intend to continue with early seasons, gearing up towards Eyes, could you please send me, either here or in a PM, the list of scenarios from Seasons 0, 1, and 2 that you are ineligible to play in Core campaign (i.e. ones you have played already).

This is my only Core character, so I haven't played any of those with Core.

Thanks for running that! It's been fun! :)

I'm up to continue, but I don't think I'm as engaged and engaging as I should be, so if any new players want in, I'll bow out.

Anyhow...

182235-5/Grand Lodge
Dayjob: Perform (Sing): 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (20) + 6 = 26

I'll be spending 150 gold on remove disease, I guess.

Congrats Lilyth!
Day Job: Craft (Siege Engines): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (2) + 7 = 9
Reroll Day Job (5 star GM): Craft (Siege Engines): 1d20 + 7 + 5 ⇒ (18) + 7 + 5 = 30

I need to scale back a few games. Things have gotten too nutty at work. If things slow and you have room, I may hop back in.

This is my only (now) Core character. The only non-evergreens I have played in Core are:

Only other scenario I've played is The Night March of Kalkamedes.

I've played Black Waters, Hydra's Fang Incident, Devil We Know I, Out of Anarchy, and Murder on the Silken Caravan.

Chronicles are available for download here.

Please let me know if anything needs to be corrected. This has been reported to the VO in charge of the gameday, and should be reported online fairly soon. Lilyth, your boon will arrive via email. With most of the gameday tables wrapping up, and the holidays about to get into full gear, it may take a little while, but if you don't see anything by Jan. 1st, let me know and I'll follow up.

Since several people are interested in moving on to other things, I'm not going to follow this up directly. I will be starting up a couple games over the next couple weeks, at least one of which should be core. Keep an eye on the recruitment forum and the Flaxseed threads.

I can't remember at this point. Was this run as a CORE game?

EDIT: I see from the recruitment postthat it was. My chronicle sheet doesn't have CORE stamped on it like they usually do is why I asked.

Yes. I'm not sure if that information needs to go on the chronicle but I can add t if you wish.

All of my other core sheets have CORE written in big letters at the top. I thought that was required to show that you played that scenario as core with that character

Looks great...thanks! That was a fun one, and pretty lethal at the end.

Everyone enjoy your holidays and I'll be ready to roll when everyone else is.

Thanks a ton for running.

While I agree that that was quite lethal, most of that was a very skewed roller, I think. Got pretty brutal.

Liltyh, it looks like you're right. I've replaced the sheets linked above with ones more explicit about their core-ness. I also added a copy of the holiday boon.

GM Lari, thanks again for running. If you ever need a player, keep me in mind.

The only scenarios I've played in Core are this one and the Mists of Mwangi.

I'd be glad to keep going on this, and if you need a break from GMing I'd be happy to take a turn at it.

Edit: Forgot I had a craft skill trained for a day job. Taking 10 for 19 on Craft (Alchemy).

Akhenethys, if you'd like to take over, that'd be cool with me. If you'd be continuing with the same theme (scenarios pertinent to Eyes), I can make recommendations if you wish.

A new chronicle for you has been added with day job.

I would not be able to start a new game until after new years, just because of how bust this time of year is. I was thinking perhaps a sort of alternating or round robin GMing?

I don't own any scenarios from the early seasons, currently.

-Posted with Wayfinder

I wouldn't mind taking a turn behind the GM's screen. Would have to figure out the whole reporting part of it though. And buy a scenario. That would be the easy part.

Reporting is pretty easy once you get the hang of it.

-Posted with Wayfinder

Congrats to GM Lari for winning the $10 gift card drawing.

Yes, congrats!