Mothman's Adventures in Darkmoon Vale game

Game Master Mothman

Or just get a dutch oven off ebay and do it over BBQ coals. Weigh a ton but do the job!

I've also seen carboard box covered in foil.

Ohh. Dutch oven!

I just saw At the Drive-In play at the Enmore (in Sydney), great show ... but it's late and I have work in the morning. Off to bed, and may or may not find time to update the game tomorrow.

Eljoy can't see the forest for the trees.

Anor and Oliver are up next.

This was so apropos.

After managing to spend a day at PaizoConUK on Saturday, I have it in my head to run some society games.... I have the entire of season 6 thanks to the humble bundle ready to download...

I remember a few of us did this a few years ago, and it worked quite well? Anyone interested? When I get back from my week away next week....

I have not paid much attention to Society games, but I could be persuaded to try it with folks I know.

The little I have seen was overwhelmed by munchkins playing rocket tag and turned me off to looking further. I have faith that's not how this group rolls.

Ok, this encounter is not going so well for Eljoy. I didn't expect to have one character go beyond range of others easily being able to assist, and it is not helped by good GM rolls and poor PC rolls. As I don't, as a rule, like killing off characters via random encounters, I would suggest that everyone needs to focus their efforts on assisting Eljoy, and/or killing or scaring off the snake!

Meh, easy come, easy go.

PC death happens.

Of to spend a week in a tent in deepest, darkest Norfolk. Please bot Anor in the mean time. She'll generally Misfortune, cackle, shoot with crossbow and repeat in combat....

I'm looking at kicking off a Pathfinder Society PbP. Some of us have done this in the past and the short society modules work quite well for PbP as they are quite short so go pretty quick.

I'm looking for willing victims^w participants to play. I have the list of scenarios I own below, and I'm signing up to the society module subscrition, so I'll have all of season 8 as they release to play with too....

I think trying to run through season 6 as much as possible, sticking other stuff in is may favored option. Although that quest (a set of 6 modules starting at L1) looks quite interestng too.

Anyone interested please PM me, so we don't totally threadjack these discussions!

Season-Number: Name

• 1-47: The Darkest Vengeance
  
• 1-51: The City of Strangers—Part I The Shadow Gambit
  
• 2-21: The Dalsine Affair
  
• 6-01: Trial by Machine
  
• 6-02: The Silver Mount Collection
  
• 6-03: The Technic Siege
  
• 6-04: Beacon Below
  
• 6-05: Slave Ships of Absalom
  
• 6-06: Hall of the Flesh Eaters
  
• 6-07: Valley of Veiled Flame
  
• 6-08: The Segang Expedition
  
• 6-09: By Way of Bloodcove
  
• 6-10: The Wounded Wisp
  
• 6-11: The Slave Master's Mirror
  
• 6-12: Scions of the Sky Key, Part 1
  
• 6-13: Of Kirin and Kraken
  
• 6-14: Scions of the Sky Key, Part 2
  
• 6-15: The Overflow Archives
  
• 6-16: Scions of the Sky Key, Part 3
  
• 6-17: Fires of Karamoss
  
• 6-18: From Under Ice
  
• 6-19: Test of Tar Kuata
  
• 6-20: Returned to Sky
  
• 6-21: Tapestry's Toil
  
• 6-22: Out of Anarchy
  
• 6-23: The Darkest Abduction
  
• 7-01-Between the Lines
  
• 8--Pathfinder Society Quest: Honor's Echo
  
• 8-01: Portent's Peril
  
• 8-02: Ward Asunder
  
• 8-03: Captives of Toil
  

Discussion thread for those interested, Mother's and Aubs could you post in there to dot it please?

Nevynxxx's PFS PbP Discussion Thread

It is Census night here in Australia - it is compulsory to take part (fines apply if you don't), and in their wisdom the Australian Bureau of Statistics has decided to make the Census online for the first time this year, rather than a paper form as per previous years (I think we do it every 4 years).

Hmmm, didn't think that through, did they? Most of Australia (theoretically) trying to get on their website at the same time? Maybe they should have checked with the government department who is responsible for rolling out the National Broadband Network (and screwing it up).

I have been trying for the past hour and keep getting timed out, or an error screen which tells me to 'try again in 15 minutes'. Their help line has a recorded message which says there is a 'high volume of calls. Please call back on the 10th of August' (ie, tomorrow AFTER census night). At least they add that you won't be fined if you are unable to complete the census tonight.

Seriously, what did they think was going to happen?

LMAO... That sounds like an awesome way to piss off your entire country.

Yeah, I predict more than a few sarcastic Census responses. This will no doubt be as good as the time two or three census' ago when a significant portion of the country listed 'Jedi' as their religion.

People are already pissed this time around, as the ABS has decided to keep people's personal information linked to their Census responses for longer than previously (so the govt can data mine it of course), and because you have to request a special (online) form ahead of time if you want to declare your gender as something other than 'male' or 'female' (or either of those if it wasn't the gender you were born with I think). Way to not marginalise people.

Yeah, there's a woman I follow on twitter who's using song lyrics to suggest more sensible census questions.

I apologize for any delays on my part. I am off this week, so will be limited in how often I can spend time on the computer.

The next three weeks I am on a work schedule non-conducive to steady posting, so I will try to post when I can (could be as bad as once a week), but my player posts will be likely more frequent than my GM posts based on the amount of time each one takes.

Sigh, filled out my entire census and then couldn't submit or save it, and lost it all.

Sounds like the rollout of Obamacare in the States. The online systems completely folded under the load. Incredibly lame.

Nothing in the treasure that Adalwin particularly wants. He could possibly use the short bow, though tossing up the pros and cons of a master work short bow vs a generic long bow. If someone else wants it that makes the decision easier.

Who's good with a bow? Eljoy's primarily melee.

Reekis could use a shortbow, if he prefers it in place of his light crossbow.

Nothing is small-sized and my proficiencies are limited, so I plan to sit this treasure discussion out.

There's a little bit of small sized treasure in the later part of this adventure - nothing much in this early part I'm afraid. The next adventure has a bit more!

The shortbow might be useful for Reekis but it won't be especially as he has a STR penalty and would do less damage. So we can put it in party treasure for later resale.

Just to let you know that from this Friday evening I will on holiday for a week. I will be in the Scottish Highlands (though the bit nearest to Glasgow) and therefore unlikely to be able to post in this time.

I think I'll experiment with this vacation thing as well. From Friday through to next Saturday, I probably won't have web access. Please run Eljoy as needed.

Have good holidays you two.

There's a little bit of small sized treasure in the later part of this adventure - nothing much in this early part I'm afraid. The next adventure has a bit more!

Oh, I'm not concerned. Just needed to answer so you knew I had looked and was intentionally quiet. "This page left intentionally blank." sort of thing.

OK, that's me until next week.

I'm off grid from when I leave here this eve until Tuesday.

Hi all, I'm doing a sponsored walk round 13 of the bridges over the River Thames in London on the 9th of October. If you would like to sponsor me, the link is here. Many thanks for your generosity (and may worms coil in the privy parts of those who fail to sponsor me).

I have embarked on my annual autumn excursion to Someplace Else(TM) and so my availability and access may not be what they generally are. It looks like I should be able to post in the evenings, but can make no guarantees, so please feel free to bot Jasper as necessary.

I should be able to resume normal activity after the 17th.

Have fun PR.

So far, so good - 10 hours of drive time/mealtime/stretch the legs time and we found our little rental without getting lost. And it's tucked away in a pretty out-of-the-way corner of a pretty out-of-the-way little town.

Today, we walk the town and let our bodies acclimate to the altitude. It's about 5000' elevation higher than we are used to. (I'm supposed to be putting this away, not posting, shhh.)

Sounds idyllic! Have fun PR.

The awarding of xp from the cauldron reminds me - I think I am missing some. Did we get any for the hobgoblin? The pit trap? The enormous snake we avoided on the trail? The apparent fey incident in the night?

Yes, yes, no, yes

XP Tracking page

Nevynxxx is keeping track of it here, but there might be something missing, let me check.

Ok, I think Nevynxxx is missing 100 xp on the xp tracker. There were two 'snake' encounters (one with the constrictor and possible fey at night, one with the tatzlwyrm at the big tree), each worth 100 xp. Everything else seems to be there.

Ah! Ok, will add them in.

Looks like the post mentioning XP was one of the ones eaten by the post monster. No problem. All up to date now.

I'll be off grid this weekend from sometime this afternoon until Monday morning. Cub Camp with 500 attendees..... That's not scary, is it?

Depends if they get hungry.

I'll be off grid this weekend from sometime this afternoon until Monday morning. Cub Camp with 500 attendees..... That's not scary, is it?

Hope it is a good weekend.

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Nevynxxx wrote:

I'll be off grid this weekend from sometime this afternoon until Monday morning. Cub Camp with 500 attendees..... That's not scary, is it?

Hope it is a good weekend.

Awesome weekend, but knackered now!

Guys, I will be away for the next few days; internet access will be iffy – posting will be limited to evenings (if at all).

Have a good time, Mothman!

And - lost my dot on the gameplay thread. I thought it was really slow. I'll catch up and post soon.

I'm away on a long weekend from tomorrow, back Monday evening.

Not sure what my internet access will be like over the weekend, moving house. Feel free to play Adalwin as necessary.