Gameday VII: The Segang Expedition (Inactive)

Game Master Pathmaker

Welcome:

Chess / Gyrand Brawler 1 Damage Dealer
Caro Cogitatus / Ezekias Silverthane Magus 2 Front Line
Bruno Romero / Fifi Vanaash Paladin 1 Vanguard
Kolhe004/Naruda Burada Witch 2 Magicks
Lupulus / Teke Kineticist 1 Damage (electric)

I'd like for the players to start roleplaying in the Gameplay, get familiar with each other, mingle, build camaraderie, buy gear.

You can ask mission specific questions of the NPCs, although their responses will be withheld until officially start of gameday.

Of course, any discussion here.

Hi GM! Could I bring a different character? I have a barbarian and a pyrokineticist that I could bring (and would prefer). Let me know.

Cool thanks GM. I'll put up something more detailed in gameplay later.
In case I forget, I'm spending my first 2 PP on my wand of CLW.

Gyrand - yes.

I'd like for every one to play whatever they want vs need of party. Much funner even if everyone was the same class, ie five thugs.

Here's my pet peeve, which is borrowed from GM Tyranius.

*Roleplay, complete with interior monologue and meaningful interactions with the team.
*Character over Class.

That's for the first session, right? The group starting on august?

Yes this is first session 8/13

I'd like to bring T'Shar to the mix instead of Gyrand - T'Shar is an Ifrit Pyrokineticist 1 :)

I am looking forward to playing! Thank you for picking me! I still need to level this character up to level two, but I should be able to get that done this week.

Ditto - looks like a good group! We're still 4 weeks away so pace yourselves. Anyone played this scenario before?

This is me if interested- http://paizo.com/people/Pathmaker

I've sent several message to Fifi Vanaash, no response yet, fyi. Hope he shows or we'll go with back up list.

Two Kineticists...excellent.

I have a level 4 Water Kineticist...All we would have needed would have been Earth and maybe a bard or mesmerist to be Heart and we could have been the Planeteers.

No regrets though.

Would wood (positive blast) maybe count as heart? Haha

adsapiens/ T'Shar = Pyrokineticist 1
Caro Cogitatus / Ezekias Silverthane = Magus 2
Kolhe004/Naruda Burada = Witch 2
Lupulus / Teke = Aerokineticist 1

OUT: Bruno Romero / Fifi Vanaash Paladin 1 Vanguard
IN: GM Ietsuna / Ito Sor = Paladin 1

Lost a paladin - gained a paladin!

Nice balanced group: 2 front line, 1 debuff, 2 ranged

Just giving a check in - less than 2 weeks to start!

Looking forward to it.

I find it almost comical how the Gameday kills all new game for a month as GMs don't want to overlap the running burden. Then when it hits, everybody burns out for 3-4 months and comes back after the new year.

There may be a 6th player joining us. Nonetheless we'll start on time.

Bought wand of CLW with 2 PP

Second scenario gear rebuild:

Purchases since last adventure:

-1PP Wayfinder; Mwk Rapier -320gp, Wand CLW -2PP

Even if you don't buy gear, just say No Purchase. When i have all six, we'll move on!

Reminder the house rule on posting rate - at least one post within 24 hour of your last post, else you are skipped. Example, you post at 1pm, GM post at 11pm, you now have 14 hours to post by 1pm the following day. This window also shortens to half once you are skipped. Unless you inform of absence, which is totally cool, I can bot you.

(GM's most active posting days would be Monday through Friday; Sat/Sun posting will be light, as little as one post.)

Naruda is going to buy an anti-plague and two alchemist fires.

Purchases:
+1 Glaive 2308gp
Spring-loaded wrist sheath 5gp
Spring-loaded wrist sheath 5gp
Scroll of blade lash x4 100gp
Scroll of shield x2 50gp
Scroll of monkeyfish x2 50gp
Scroll of deadeye’s lore x2 50gp

No purchase

Gear buying closed, characters locked.

It appears that Valsin intentionally chose 6 Pathfinders, ALL of whom have zero Survival skills to send into a jungle.

Maybe Valsin is teaching us all a valuable lesson on the importance of paying attention during Pathfinder wilderness survival class?

What could go wrong?

Hey team! Sorry about the lack of updates - Paizo’s outage unfortunately was combined with some issues here at work and I’m having to put out some fires. I should go back to normal posting next week. Please feel free to bot me!

Outage Boon: Whenever there is a pbp outage, cross off roleplaying for the week.

If this site goes down again, I've set up a Google Doc where we can continue to game.

Supposedly the site is stable according to paizo mail.

Can I get all PCs to check in please.

checking in

I am here

Your illustrious leader is here. ;-)

Checking in.

Good grief.

Okay, I finished tuning up the database for you...hey, where did everybody go?

This server thing is getting intolerable

What are your thoughts?

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Hilary Moon Murphy <hilarymoonmurphy@gmail.com>
To: Hilary Moon Murphy <hmm@orgplayonline.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 1, 2018 9:22 AM
Subject: PBP Gameday VII — GM Email 14 — How to Keep Playing, Even During Downtime

Hello Awesome GMs —

Sorry for the length of this email. I promise it’ll be worth your time!

This has probably been the most challenging convention that we’ve ever run — rolling Paizo outages, uncertainty, delays in specials and other games and howls of frustration every time those goblins or that ysoki mechanic have been seen.

Perhaps even more frustrating have been those bits of brief and tantalizing up-time. If you’re in the wrong time zone, it is easy to miss those rare moments of up.

We’re up right now, which is great! But we need to lay plans for what happens if Paizo goes blank on us again.

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EXAMINING OPTIONS

With so much downtime, we’ve been looking at a bunch of options that suck.

Cancel the special? Make specials from two sessions overlap? Extend this convention past Thanksgiving? Organize a mass exodus off Paizo — and then where? And what about those who refuse to leave? How many players and GMs do we lose? Or worse, the question we’re asking already: are we losing players and GMs now?

I’ll tell you what we’re not doing. We’re not cancelling the specials and we’re not giving up. We need to find a way to keep gaming through the downtime, and stay engaged.

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WAIT. DID YOU SAY ‘KEEP GAMING’ THROUGH THE DOWNTIME, HILARY?

Yep. Redelia (aka our VL) came up with an amazing idea that we in PBP Gameday VII are now suggesting to you.

Remember those alternate modes of communication that I asked you all to set up? I am hoping that most or many of you have a group Hangout, email group, discord or some other backup for your group.

I also figure that most of you GMs have a backup Google doc where you keep posts in progress.

We’re going to relax the rule that says you can only game on our forums, and encourage all groups to keep moving even during downtime. Most gameplay is expected to be on Paizo forums, but google hangouts or discord channels can be used to keep posting during the outages. As soon as Paizo is back up, the GM is expected to summarize what happened in the chat on the Paizo forums. (I’ve been experimenting with this with one of my groups, and they even sometimes copy their posts from the hangout to a shared google doc for me, making such summaries easy for me to edit and post back on Paizo when we go live.)

Hangouts allow dice expressions (except in mobile) and Discord can do dice with various dice roller apps. Other players can roll for mobile-only players if needed.

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BUT HILARY, WHAT ABOUT PEOPLE WHO AREN’T ON GMAIL AND THUS DON’T SEE HANGOUTS?

Encourage them to get the Hangouts App. It works on almost all smart phones. You can even enable a link (under the add people icon) that you can email to them to help them join you.

Or if you have a group with old tech, do the game via email and a shared google doc to record everything. Hangouts is just preferred because people can see / hear notifications, and it seems to speed groups up that have and use them. Discord is also acceptable, though some works ban it. Find a solution that works for your group.

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HOW DO YOU ROLL DICE ON HANGOUTS?

In Google Hangouts on desktop type /roll2d6 for two 6-sided dice - you can set how many dice and how many sides (including d20).

Note this does not work in mobile, so you may have to have players bot each other. It’s clunky, but it’s an option. (Or... If you trust the player, you can even let them roll real dice and report the result back. I trust that you will use this option wisely and only in more challenging circumstances.)

OTHER LOGISTICS while we’re still up

Ask your players to make off site copies of their character sheets!

Create a shared google drive for your players where those can be stowed, if needed, along with your google slides.

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HOW DOES THIS WORK WITH THE SPECIALS? WHAT ABOUT SUCCESSES AND OVERSEER ANNOUNCEMENTS?

We are likely going to create GM channels for the special off Paizo on to Discord so that we can have our HQ for the specials somewhere stable.

Meanwhile, the reporting of successes is on a google sheet. You can still report your success in downtime. We will send special condition announcements out through email, and then follow up with posting on individual threads once the game is up.

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LET’S KEEP GAMING

I say, let’s keep gaming. You don’t have to move off Paizo completely. Many of us are attracted to feature of having a different alias for each character. But let’s use those backup channels and keep going. We can keep our players engaged. We can keep ourselves from bouncing off the walls. We can make progress, and make the most use of uptime.

Questions? Comments? Tell us on our downtime channel, #pbp_gameday_vii at http://PFSchat.com.

I am your VC,

Hmm

I am very easy going. I will do whatever the majority wants. I do have google.

Thanks Ito, site seems stable for now - we'll revisit if else.

It's Labor Day in America, BBQs etc. Take your time posting today.

As we are in the third encounter, I must regretfully drop TShar from this table.

Yeah I'm pretty ok taking the downtime as it comes, but if things go real bad I'll post a contact in your slides

It isn't labour day here is Australia :) Enjoy your holiday, BBQ and all the good things.

Hi gang, I've got family in the hospital, standby.

Best wishes for you & your family, GM. Real Life comes first.

Yeah, have my best as well. And thanks for giving us the heads up too.

Thanks guys, elderly pneumonia, stable for now.

A fast recovery to your family member.

Thoughts?

Tomorrow will be day 30 of GameDay. Despite the website being down for 2 weeks, I think we're making good progress through the Scenario. We've really only had about 14 days of full gameplay. Most of the other games I'm playing are still meandering through the intro narrative of who-how-why. Our table is about 2/3rd through the entire.