GM Red's Down the Blighted Path (Inactive)

Game Master GM Red

Been a busy day, I'll have a post up tomorrow.
Yizzik, was your perception check while walking into the Redoubt or while still outside?

I'd say walking in while looking for traps/ambushes. In character he wouldn't assume there were any outside the door he couldn't easily spot.

I have a fifth player who would like to join us. He's an Oracle with an interesting history of well, insanity, I suppose. If you guys are okay with it, I'll work him into our story and he can join us. Would you be okay with this?

Whatever

Was that a "sure, why not" whatever or a "not really" whatever? :)
It's okay to say no if you guys are set on our current group. It's up to you really.

I'm good with it ^^ more never hurts me and an Oracle is always a good help

The first one, sorry was at work and a single word answer was quicker, lol

Okay, so that's two.
Hinata? Vingold? Care for an Oracle to join us?

I think our party size is small enough to hold another player.

Good evening team. Pleased to make your acquaintance.

Looks like I have to be ok with it, Hey I guess

Sorry, I figured you wouldn't mind. I need to keep the game moving and I waited a few days to see if everyone was okay with it. If you actually have an issue with Lilly joining, PM me, I'll figure something out.

Hmm....do i need to bring tribute, to appease the fox for approval? :)

It's fine was just kind of sudden is all

Delayed by the 7 hour text game I decided to run on Roll20 last night... I'll have a post up shortly.

Very effective against those skeletons, nice.

Lilly/Chyrone, trip succeeded so no AoO for moving and I moved your token where you had your arrows pointed to.

Very busy today, please DMPC as needed. Here's my priority list for this fight:

1) Keep people alive, if somebody gets low I'll heal them.
2) Aid other people's to hit.
3) Trip enemies.

I'll wait for you. I'm traveling until Sunday night so I may not be able to get a full post up until then.

I recall my 1st time with this PC meeting a dwarf for the 1st time.

Don't worry, she won't call dwarves short bearded elves. ;)

Heh, well, I'd dare say not. They are more akin to those blasted gnomes (not the fey kind mind) than an elf.

I was confused about that before. It's still a form of Kinetic Blast, which is an SLA, so it provokes... but that RAW specifically says Kinetic Blade doesn't.

Yeah, I remember back in the beginning of the playtest there eas confusion about that, and I thought that it did. But, after having someone else tell me elsewhere in the message boards that Mark (designer) said it didn't without special language, which I took to be the "additional" in the ability text... anyway, went looking and found a post by Jason (lead designer) who flat out says it doesn't provoke.

So I guess I was wrong. I'll keep the damage as punishment for that if you want.

That's alright, no damage. If it doesn't provoke, it doesn't provoke.

And now I have to go back and see what damage I have taken was from attacks of opportunity.

The only other one I see is from the earlier skeleton battle in town. You took 9 damage (after DR) from an AoO.

*nods* That's what I'm seeing too, alright.

That said, I did notice that you missed an AoO that was provoked when I used his flat earth blast, when Vingold attempted a trip.

Ooh boy. Okay, I'll be a lot more careful with AoOs and infusions going forward. No point in "backrolling" stuff now.

Alright, again, sorry about the confusion.

Sorry for the delays and absences in my posting. I have now completely moved into my new apartment and just went through orientation for my internship. It seems I will have a pretty normal 40 hour work week, a 9-5 job (eastern time) for Monday-Friday. So my posting will mostly be in the evenings and weekends, although I usually play with my local group on Sunday. Thanks for bearing with me through this time of change.

Not a problem and congrats.
That sounds a lot like my schedule!

Okay so... don't ask me how I forgot this, I'm already kicking myself and asking mysrlf the same question. Was making a character for a RL game and got to the favored class bonuses and... well, long story short realised I had never done that with ol' Glorgrim here.

Now, I don't want to give myself more health or randomly wind up with ranks in skills he didn't have already when I submitted him. That pretty much leaves me with the kineticist favored bonus for dwarves.

Which would be (currently) +5/3 points of damage on earth blasts. Which effectively just means +1 to damage. I'm not expecting retroactive effects or anything, and if you'd rather I just keep forgetting the FCB that's fine too.

I really can't help but feel I've made a bit of a mess with this character for some reason.

That's okay, I've done similar stuff and I haven't exactly looked over everyone's sheet with a fine toothed comb, so I didn't notice either.

Go ahead and apply the FCB bonus for the extra 1/3 point of damage per level.

For what it's worth, I think Ravens give a bonus to appraise checks and dwarves have a bonus when appraise is rolled on non magical items.. I know it wouldn't have mattered in this case, just something to note.

I think I traded that out for a different racial trait honestly

Been socializing more than I prefer this weekend. I'll update tomorrow.

It looks like this module was just sanctioned for PFS play. It's too bad for those that play Society, because your characters are probably not PFS legal. =\

Although, reading the rules they released, there's this:

Alternatively, you may play the entirety of Down the

Blighted Path, afterward receiving credit for playing the
sanctioned portions of the adventure as if you had played
a pregenerated character. In this case, GMs running
the module are not bound to the rules of the Pathfinder
Society Roleplaying Guild campaign (such as 20-point
buy, unavailability of hero points, etc.) when running the
campaign or the sanctioned portion of the adventure.
Pathfinder Society characters and characters playing in
this alternative format may not play in the same adventure

I think we can probably use that!

I don't care for PFS anymore, so no worries from my end.

Never played society since it banned so much stuff, I prefer the freedom of custom games so not a big deal to me but cool they are adding more

Vingold, just curious, what made you dislike PFS?
Everyone minmaxing? That it didn't really have a cohesive story? Or just the restrictions?

Although I disagree with many things they do, I still think it's a good organization that brings a lot of fun to a lot of people.

That being said....
All of what you said,
'Sanctioned' GMs who have no idea what they're doing,
The ability to play rare races has to be traded like a rare product,
High level play does not exist.

Those are mostly just grievances, but my true issue is that PFS games have to be run in such a manner that you don't get to explore the PCs characters. You're just stat blocks, mincing through other stat blocks like the murder hobos you are.

I do play, and GM, PFS.

I am glad to have a group i GM for, that have been together from lvl 1 and we're 2 XP from lvl 6, with one or two sometimes skipping a mission.
They're a team and friends, what else could i ask for?

Other than the complaints I had, I enjoy PFS. Level 1 play bothers me because it's too dependent on rolling well and less on tactics, and especially in scenarios with BBEGs (I'm looking at you, Confirmation), it's too easy for a TPK to happen.

I still play and GM it because scenarios are short and quick to get through, leaving you with the opportunity to play with several different GMs and several groups of players.

Chyrone, I'll have a chronicle for you (and anyone else who wants one) after the game, although we are still a ways away from finishing. The first part is about half done at this point.

You're forgetting 1st steps part 1, the infamous Ledford mainly.

I played that with my arcanist a few weeks ago. It went a lot better than expected. Our barbarian charged one of the allies, and I used grease and knocked Ledford and another down, then we just kept chipping away.
I don't think Led got a single strike in... Probably a good thing if he rages for a +5 attack bonus at level 1.

Yup, he gave the paladin of the fore mentioned team a fear of great-axes, after a 1 hit KO.

Come on, guys, don't be afraid of a few harmless doors :)
You can, of course, roll Perception or use Detect Magic to attempt to hear/sense what's through them.

Glorgrim, are you still around? I haven't seen a post in quite a few days.
Absences are fine (considering my 2 month disappearance), just let me know so I can bot your actions if needed.

With 1 resisted, 1 blabbering, 1 doing fine, 1 self inflicted harm....that leaves fox girl Hinata to attack another.

Well, hopefully not, but the train's been getting like it. :)