GM Tarondor's Tomb of the Iron Medusa (Inactive)

Game Master Tarondor

Here's where we'll talk about your characters. Once you have them straight, we'll open the game up to recruitment and bring in the other players.

Patrick, you said you wanted either a ranger or a fighter. Please decide which.

Gabe, what sort of character would you like to play?

Hi!
Scott if we need a couple of more players I still know a few that are active on the Paizo boards.

I like playing anything, especially weird or heavily flavored pc's. is there a flavor that would work?

It's a dungeon crawl and only a dungeon crawl. So social PC's are going to be disadvantaged versus other builds. That's one reason I was pushing Dragon's Demand - it has a lot of different types of challenges.

I also know lots of players here, of course. :-)

I'm going to go opposite of my usual rogue-y, special teams type of character. I'm going to play a prototypical fighter. He's a former foot soldier, possibly with some sort of war-time disability, and he left the service in some sort of shame. Something public he can't hide. Maybe he was branded with a big C on his jaw for cowardice or something.

Could this be played for PFS credit?

Only if you have a 14th level PFS character...

I'll do a wizard then. I don't have a 14th.. yet :)

Gabe, I gave it some thought. This game is for you guys, so if you want to invite some friends (no more than three!), that's okay with me.

If you guys want a PFS game, I'm happy to run Dragon's Demand.

Gabe and Patrick, please provide completed characters by Sunday, March 5th.

What are your character creation guidelines -- do you have a link? It's been a while since I've whipped one up at level 1, much less level 14. I recall rolling ability scores and having them e-mailed to you from a specific web page?

This Sunday might be a bridge too far for me, but I will try.

Actually, it might be quicker than I think. There are all sorts of Pathfinder character generators out there I can use to guide me (verifying rule compliance, of course). Do you have a preferred one?

Nope. I use Hero Lab, but that can be very expensive.

So... yeah. 14th level is not a usual level to start with. It's very high.

I'm going to once again recommend we start with a low-level game and build our way up!

If we go with 14th level, you can use 20 points to build your character and can have 185,000 gp worth of gear, no single item of which may be worth more than 90,000 gp.

Then let's do Dragon's Demand. I don't have, and I didn't detect any powerfully strong leanings toward Iron Medusa from Gabe. I just picked one in the interest of moving along and was mildly motivated by the idea of skipping the low-level grind.

I'm good either way. I just detect that you guys aren't going to move quickly and maybe building a 14th-level character from the ground up is going to take awhile.

For my own money, Dragon's Demand is the more complex story and therefore more interesting. But I can see the fun in jumping right into a high-level dungeon crawl, too.

I want you guys to be happy with your choice. I'm just taking part in the conversation, not trying to direct where it goes.

Perhaps we should shoot for a solid middle ground and go for a level 7-8-9 sort of adventure?

Really, it's up to you guys.

Dragons Demand sounds to be a better choice. Patrick, if you haven't played Much Pathfinder, 14th level will be daunting. We could certainly do it, but...

Scott, I'll reach to one guy that I know wants to play more PF. You've met him at GenCon before.

If you want to do Dragon's Demand, decide if you want to play it for Pathfinder Society credit.

Patrick, the game would proceed exactly the same either way, only (assuming you're not already in the Pathfinder Society), you'd need to go [url=http://paizo.com/pathfinderSociety]HERE[/ooc], download the Roleplaying Guild Guide (don't worry too much about that - it's just a "nice to have" for this game) and follow the "create a character" link to get a PFS number and register a new character. You can change all the details but the name later, so don't worry about locking yourself in.

Gabe: I played Pathfinder for a couple (few?) years with Scott. D&D/3.5E/D20 has just been off my radar for a long while and I'm a little more than rusty.

I like the idea of playing at a 7-9 level, but if it's too much trouble (or not possible) to scale up Dragon's Demand, I am all-in for the grind.

I do have a PFS number, but not a character. I can work on one this weekend.

Dragon's Demand: Let's do it.

Yes, it would be a pain in the ass to scale up Dragon's Demand, but there are many good 7-9 adventures we could do instead.

However, Dragon's Demand is really good and if you like we can go on from there to a middle-level game.

Dragon's Demand it is. Please make 1st level characters. Let's make them PFS characters. I could use the credit and you guys will get some nice goodies.

Patrick, I'm happy to help you with PFS offline. Shoot me an email.

Scott -- I'm e-mailing you a PDF of a draft of my fighter. I'm not 100% happy with a few of his details, so I'm going to think on it and make changes in the next day or two.

I made a few assumptions in his creation and can un-do anything that is incorrect to your starting rules (I didn't see any reference to house rules creation guidelines in our recent chatting):

I used the PCGen program from pcgen.org. Everything is Pathfinder core.

Ability score -- I point bought his stats with the "high fantasy" 25 points. Let me know if you want something different.

Equipment -- I haven't purchased anything yet. Not sure what the starting gold is.

Awaiting guidance for additional tweaking.

I'm assuming we're going to run this as a PFS game. You can use resources well beyond Core, but you don't have to. You are limited to a 20-point buy, however. Starting gold is 150 gp.

I'll go take a look at your character.

I present Zatial, wondering evoker of non-elven lands. General schmuck and troublemaker. Perhaps soon he will be able to find his way.

Gabe' PC. Hero Lab profile is up on my page. I wasn't able to get the spell book added for some reason, but I'll figure it out soon.

Do you want to do this for PFS credit?

Do you want to do this for PFS credit?

I can but it doesn't matter that much. If you want for gm credit that is cool. I'm sure the rewards are cool. :)

Pipe

I see a fighter and an evoker. I'll wait for Mr. Roll to see what he's bringing. 4 party members then?

Hello. Welcome. I recently ran this for a four-member party and I think that runs best. There are many potential allies in likely and unlikely places. I think five PCs would make this a cakewalk.

I'll be laying down some house rules and character creation rules as soon as we have our fourth checking in.

N'haaz, what is your experience level and posting availability?

Very experienced in pf and pbp. Among other things, I've run tournament finals at gencon for goodman games in 3.5 and have been playing since 1e. You and I met a few times at gencon. My availability is usually twice a day.

I'll let jellyroll1970@gmail.com decide if he wants divine or rogue since this appears to be a crawl. We both enjoy playing both, so it's a toss up.

Doug, right?

Note that we are playing Dragon's Demand, not Tomb of the Iron Medusa, so while it has crawl elements, it's not purely a dungeon crawl. I recommend somebody take some social skills!

Lol, ok we can do that. Gabe, you're the face, right? If not, we can do it.

It's not keith, no. He is the other troublemaker. I try not to attach my name to my alias.

Okay, gang, time to leave the Tomb of the Iron Medusa and head over to the brand spankin' new Dragon's Demand forum. See you there.

Patrick? Make sure you join us at the new forum.