Ongoing PFS campaign. (Inactive)

Game Master Chyrone

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I'll PM a few others to see if they're interested.

Great, thanks.

Hi, GM Chyro sent me a PM…

Lukaas is a Bard Lvl 4. I ought to check if he's updated with his last mission's gold

Here my updates:

Upgrades Msw rapier to +1 rapier (2000 Gp)
Upgrades Msw chain shirt to +1 chain shirt (1000 gp)
buy +1 cloak of resistance (1000 gp)

Still have 1045 GP left so I can buy a CLW wand if needed

Ready when you are

Hey guys,

Sorry for the delay of the start. I'll kick off tonight.

just to be sure before I post: am I in?

Oui.

I'll finish tidying up Mordel's character sheet. Note the avatars are currently broken so no image.

GM, do you want to recruit further players? Two more on Flexseed might make sense?

I'm fine with either, we can do 4 or 5/6

Then let’s recruit two more players GM please! Thanks!

Molos would love to jump in.

Hope it is cool that I posted here in the thread.

Welcome.

I'd be interested in playing as well!

Soo.... is that okay? :-p

Yes.

Noticed just now,

Theo, the game is tier 4-5, but you are lvl 3. That means you are playing between tiers, thus reward will also be according to that.

Your THP should be 3, instead of 4. Kinetic ward is THP = kineticist level.

I'm aware that I'll be getting OOS rewards. I put one burn into my Kinetic Ward which increased it by another 1/2 level (and more importantly activated my Elemental Overflow)

Also, am I understanding that I broke her charm by walking nearby?

No, it will get broken if any hostile actions are taken against her, which will have happened now that Toral used sleep hex.

Thinking aloud for party comment and discussion (prior to the party arriving to the first bidding):

So I take it we need to work out the budget each of the bidders has then which properties they are most interested in and encourage them to outbid Myro for that land.

I would assume Myro's effective budget will go up as the properties narrow as it will be split less ways?

So really we need to try to get a relative worth of everyone and get the least wealthy (in respect to this if not total) to bid the highest on the cheapest property and progress upwards to try to keep Myro outstaked each time.

Am missing anything? This sounds complex enough as it is.

Allow me to relieve you of worry, they all have a fictive budget, allowing for a set amount of purchased at auction.

Hello GM, I am sorry but I just realised that Toral is already 5th level. :-/ I will level him up asap.

Sorry for the mid-game change.

Char sheet updated.

One questions GM: Is it ok to cast 'heightened awareness' regularly over the course of the day for these negotiations?

No issue with that, but from next event on.

Best to keep it from getting noticed.

Since Passad is also bidding, he is a valid target as well.

Sorry, tired from work today again, will try to think and post tomorrow.

each of one can do a know check/sense motive/diplo roll first. But is it for one bidder or all the bidders together (and Joe Bidden, if he's passing by)?

Here are my best skills
Diplomacy +11 (+12 if female)
All knowledge at +8 (including Bard's knowledge mod)
Sense Motive+5
(Bluff+9, because sometimes the truth isn't enough)

You choose 1 bidder to focus on with a roll. More attempts are available during the next hosted events.

Hi GM, one other question: I know from other social encounters that for every 5 above the DC it counts as an additional success. Any rule like this here? Just trying to assess the DCs for Dioplomacy as I would shift to other skills if that is too high. Thanks

Went through the PDF, and there was a mention of it.

First off,
No matter how many PCs speak to the same NPC, only one check to influence
that NPC can be attempted during that phase. Additional checks serve as aid another attempts tied to the principal check.

Beating by 5 or more gets you a question to discover either an interest of theirs (useful check), strength (something less likely to work), or weakness (topic that provides circumstance bonus, if used as part of your speech)

If beating by 10 or more, which seems to be the case atm, you can choose between getting a discovery as per above, or for your influence attempt to count as 2 successful influence checks.

Ahh, never encountered this mechanism before. :-)

Seems like this is even more complicated then some other social scenarios.

Kudos to you for having to control all that. :-D

Then two successes please.

Excellent choice.

Also, the table on the slide for successes was made on a quick basis, the amount of columns does not represent the actual number of each bidder's required successes.

I still get the feeling we aren't quite doing the it right party strategy wise.

I am assuming we are supposed to work out some information to guide us somewhat.

But it more seems like we want to try to work out which person we want to buy each spot then hit them with an influence check each event. So we shouldn't really be ganging up as you can only influence that person once per event....?

It's easier done f2f, true.

I played this at a con and, when we analyzed their interests/sensitivities, we each took a target. We had 5 turns to each convince someone. My fighter, at lvl 1, managed to get along well with Vayde.
But true, Lukaas' roll would do well with Passad.

@ Sheperd, it is a little easier than that. Mechanically, you need but score successes, finding out their favorite district is part of a success/RP.

My humble advice, take another look at the descriptions Passad gave of them, and the slide with their info. Pair up however you think will match skills best to convince the bidders, their background considered. Irithe is but 1 check away from going for the wharf, Toral or Lukaas could seal that deal, sort to speak, with ghose diplomacy mods.

Courts of Abstinenece: Many people, Cheliax, Hellknights -> Cyran (lawful planes)
Wharf: -> Irith (in progress)
Prophets Burg: elite, fancy
Scriptum: libraries, religion -> Vayde?
Working End: Industrial, Illegal trade, outside nations, greed.

So we have 5 bidders including Myroscope, and 5 districts. Do we know who can afford 2 districts? Maybe Temel getting cash from Working End to afford it and get that and Prophets Burg?

Assuming that Mordel has acquired a rapport with Vayde with his oratory then he will attempt to progress the Scriptum to Vayde.

In relation to Sheperd's post above,
They have a fictive budget, but are able to purchase (and each interested in a specific) district. Though in the end, they will only bid for what they are interested in. (and potentially the wharf, through some motivated pathfinders)

I have positive news, something i read after checking something else, but do apologize the GM for missing it, if you please. :)

The PCs can, when making an influence attempt, use matching skills to persuade the NPC. If an NPC's influence skills checks [see 2 matching knowledge skills or a social skill] fails with one skill, they may attempt a 2nd with the other relevant skill.

This will still only result in a single successfull influence attempt, with the same restriction as per earlier, that any further checks made by other PCs are considered aid another to a roll made by the first PC to speak with them.

Could we have a bit more information on what the table is exactly trying to tell us? The checks for the wharf make sense, but what are the "V"s? A success, a double success?

There is a bid announcer, but do we know who is bidding on each place? Or is it everyone and we are expected to be trying Sense Motives etc to find which place is each bidders "real" areas of interest?

A V is a regular success.

All bidders' districts of interest would be discovered through fishing for info, aka analyze/discovery rolls.
And the auctioneer will be announcing soon, indeed.

Ah ok. But didn’t we have some double successes?

Cyran in round 3, deduce by 1, courtesy of Myrosype.
Irith in round 3.

Wow. So we have the wharf.

But we haven’t convinced anybody yet. :-(

How many auctions are still happening?

So we need to get successes on Vayde, Irith, and Cyran.

Guys. We need to focus now. If you know that a kn or profession works then use that and now sense motive anymore because we need successes! ;-)

Can a knowledge planes check help again or have I got all I can get from that check?

@ Toral, just one more social event after this.

@ Molos, you can make more planes talk, certainly.
You haven't exhausted such a broad topic in just that one break earlier on.

Er, I assume Temel is also a bidder? We have to convince him also?

Well he did state he'd be bidding.

The more you persuade the better.

But we only have one show after this.
Let’s concentrate on those three first.

Frankly speaking, i'm not too worried. Your diplomacy's scoring points.
Though how many successes do each particular bidder need, is the big question. :3

Was that a 3 you wanted to inconspicuously communicate?! :-)

Nope. Just saying that whether it be 3, 4 or 5, your diplomacy rolls are hot enough to make good progress.

So if we take the average of your three options then this is 4 successes needed.

Then based on the current slide deck we need two more for irith, Vayde and the elf. And we have only one more event. :-(