This will be the discussion thread for my table of PFS # 6-09: By Way of Bloodcove, which will be played in the 3-4 subtier of this tier 3-7 adventure.
If you are interested in playing in this game, please post in this thread using the alias for the character you will be playing, and provide the following information:
Forum Name Pendrak
PFS # 75956
Day Job Roll
Faction Aspis Consortium
XP 0
I prefer players to have their character sheet neatly formatted in the profile of their alias (no external links), and I require at minimum Perception, AC, and Initiative to be posted in the Classes/Levels area of your profile such that it can be seen with each of your posts on that alias. I will be selecting six players on a primarily first come, first served basis, but may hand-pick depending on a number of factors.
Thank you again for picking this up!
Not a problem, I was planning on grabbing at least one more game. And anyway, I wanted to run more mid to low-level games, as most of my PFS GMing experience is very low level games. I'm volunteering at GenCon this year, and while I have lots of in-person GMing experience outside of PFS (and about a dozen sessions of PFS in person), I don't have a ton of PFS experience in general, so I figured jumping into PbP PFS GMing might be a good way to immerse myself in the process more fully.
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Yeah, I just started society play about a year ago myself but have been playing pathfinder in person in homebrew games for as long as I can remember. I recently moved away from my normal group so I turned to PbP and society play seems to be the only games that survive on here. So I started playing. I haven't GMed for it yet but have thought about giving it a try.
Glad to get Nigel out there again to be in a new adventure. He is fun to play!
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Huzzah! I second Nigel's thanks. I was starting to wonder if Kahwen was going to get to play any more.
Forum Name EbonFist
PFS# 143948 - 9
Day Job Roll
Faction Grand Lodge
XP 6
Here's the boon Kahwen has that makes Drandle Drenge aware of his existence, just in case.
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I have played with both Nigel and Kahwen on their last adventure. I would happily continue the fun with anything in the tier 3-4. I rarely make the hour drive through traffic to play face to face and I started pbp about 2 years ago. Haska was my first non pregen pbp character and he will probably be considered humdrum for an alchemist, but I enjoy his cheerfulness.
Forum Name: Wydroe
PFS#: 165069-11
Day Job Roll:
XP: 6 but still need to level him
Purchases at start: wand of cure light wounds for 2PP
As long as we have a week, I think I can get Haska set to go. My plan is to get him comepletely updated by Monday night.
This is shaping up quite nicely. I wanted to wait to start this until my Sun Orchid Scheme game comes to an end, but they're in the final stretch and it really just depends on how quickly they post, but I would expect it to be done in 2-5 days. I'd say at the latest we'll start next Friday, but possibly before if everyone is ready.
So, we have:
Haska O'Wydroe, CG male elf alchemist 3, of the Grand Lodge faction
Kahwen, LN male tengu rogue (swordmaster) 3, of the Grand Lodge faction
Thaia Rossenvelt, LN female Chelaxian gunslinger (musket master) 2/evoker 1, of the Sovereign Court faction
Nigel Flit, CG male gnome summoner 3, of the Exchange faction
Awesome, looks like we're full.
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If between mission purchases are allowed, here are the ones Kahwen will make.
+1 Bonus to Mithral Chain Shirt - 1000 GP.
Silvered Light Mace (because he didn't have a light weapon last mission and was entangled by tentacles for half a minute or more) 25 GP
Learn Draconic thanks to "Triumph Over Scales" Boon from Solistice Scar B - 2PP
Inherited Vanity for Wayfinder with 1PP discount from "Confirmed Field Agent" Boon from Confirmation - 2PP.
Musical Vanity for Wayfinder with 1PP discount from "Confirmed Field Agent" Boon from Confirmation - 3PP
Total GP expense - 1,025
Total PP expense - 7
A lot, I know, but I just saved up enough/did the math for what I wanted done.
Let me know if this isn't copacetic.
If between mission purchases are allowed, here are the ones Kahwen will make.
All looks good to me.
I believe I'm ready to get this going, if you guys are.
I'll go ahead and send out PMs to remind everyone, and get a post up in the gameplay thread, so feel free to jump in when I have that up, for some introductions and roleplay.
Edit: Also...why is everything in this thread in bold by default now?
Just waiting for Nigel's intro, and I'll move on.
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Hey guys, sorry to do this so early but I'm going on a gaming retreat tomorrow. I'll have internet access but it will likely be by phone, and I'll be gaming about 15 hours per day so expect my posting to be sparse and brief.
If necessary, feel free to skip/bot me.
No problem. That sounds awesome, by the way.
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Kahwen suddenly gives all of his things to Thaia.
He might, actually. If she could convince him it was better for the Society.
And it is an awesome weekend. The only downside is riding 8 hours into the Missouri mountains to get where we're going. The upside of that is I'm riding with 2 guys I only see once a year so there's a lot of talk along the way.
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By the rules Thaia is not really built for the "merchant" Hiding Out in Bloodcove mini-game. Yeah so if you want to be a merchant you can't wear weapons, or clothing, or magic items, and you have to hop everywhere on one leg, and shout "All hail King Torg!" anytime some says the word "Too" and only "Too". If they say "To" or "Two" and a person pretending to be a merchant shouts "All hail King Torg!" there are additional penalties....
This seems more like a hazing than a game. ;)
I'm not sure why you would have to leave weapons behind if say the merchants were gun-runners, or knife salesmen. The same goes for magical items if the merchants were selling such. Nor would everyone have to be a "merchant" some like the rather uncouth Woodthorne could be the merchant's native bearer, guide, guard, or worker. I could see some of the limits put on it if we were being invited to a fancy, rich-merchants-only clam bake down at Mar-a-Lago but otherwise it seems a bit odd. (I'm guessing the author of the scenario was a big fan of Pathfinder and Dog the Bounty Hunter and not much else.)
I'm still for merchant (if only because a third of the party has that as their actual profession) if we can figure some way around the (weird) limits imposed on the choice.
For the record, Thaia is terrible at diplomacy, good at appraise and doesn't wear armor, but would be hard-pressed to hide her musket. As it is her arcane focus (a cheap cheesy way of getting a masterwork musket at a low level, I know), she really can't cast spells without it.
If we go all Dog the Bounty Hunter, she's awesome at intimidate, but absolutely lousy at disguise. She would think this to be a terrible idea for herself (not seeing herself as 'motley' in the least), but that it could have possibilities for rest of the party. Yes, they certainly seem 'motley' enough.
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Likewise Thaia has enough in the way of funds to purchase a wand of disguise self (obviously only of use to the arcane casters in the party, and those with UMD), a wand of disguise weapon, or even a hat of disguise if necessary, and the city we are currently in, Nantambu, is probably large enough to allow her to buy one or two of them.
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I can go without my armor and weapons, but Nigel sucks at the all the mentioned skills. Would profession merchant be a suitable replacement for the merchant option? Lastly, could we be a group of merchants with a few hired bounty hunters? So some of us can go and pretend to be merchants and the rest back the disguise or intimidate checks and can carry our weapons?
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I think we aught to vote for the one approach.
Haska votes for posing as merchants using his appraise skill. I am sure merchants carry daggers. His rapier is not that important. A backpack of bombs won't be anything unusual for an alchemical wears salesmen.
If he is out voted and forced to pose as a bounty hunter, he will purchase a disguise kit and use an extract or two of disguise self to move between areas. That would still be crappy in the long term situations and okay when I guess right and use my extract prior to when I role bad.
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I don't know exactly the bounds but the paragraph above lying low indicates each individual type of cover story will increase the dc by 1.
I am not sure way the overall cover can't. Be merchants, but merchants with body guards, buyers or slaves ect. I think the other positions would just require a disguise check. When I played 2-10?? Blood cove something before our merchant group had guards and slaves. Not sure if that was penalized or not. It is more realistic.
Anyway lets make the best of trying to work within the parameters and let the dice fall where they may.
Velinov doesn't have any skills to support one or the other, but I believe his craft-painting/drawing skill would make more sense for merchant merchandise. I guess GM Pendrek will have to decide if that can be used.
I won't allow you to use Craft for the merchant role, but you could go in as an artist. It would count as an additional role, however.
Would profession merchant be a suitable replacement for the merchant option? Lastly, could we be a group of merchants with a few hired bounty hunters?
Yes, I'd allow Profession (merchant) for the merchant role.
I don't know exactly the bounds but the paragraph above lying low indicates each individual type of cover story will increase the dc by 1.
I am not sure way the overall cover can't. Be merchants, but merchants with body guards, buyers or slaves ect. I think the other positions would just require a disguise check. When I played 2-10?? Blood cove something before our merchant group had guards and slaves. Not sure if that was penalized or not. It is more realistic.
I ran PFS #2-01: Before the Dawn—Part I: The Bloodcove Disguise, but it was a while ago, so I went back and looked it up to see if this was right. Looks like the Awareness system is almost exactly the same as in this one, with one exception: in that adventure, the entire group was required to pick the same role. Your GM must have missed that part when you played it. So this one is actually slightly more flexible.
I agree that these mini-games sometimes don't make the most sense, but, at least in PFS, we have to go with it as written.
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"It's not like people wouldn't recognize me in public after all." Thaia says self-importantly.
Technically, Thaia could just go in as a merchant (it's not really a disguise in her case), and if anyone tags her for a Society member she can just claim she's gone rogue. But, I'm guessing that is a bit beyond the scope of the scenario's parameters.
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How about we have one group laying low and one group acting as merchants? Then we've just got a +1 to both DC's.
Does everyone have decent Stealth, Knowledge Local, Appraise, Diplomacy or Profession (Merchant)?
The laying low group could keep the weapons for the merchant group, since it seems like, at a meta-game level, we'll be getting back together for each encounter.
I know it might be out of character for Thaia to hand over her musket to someone, but she can think of it as having a servant carrying it around for her until she needs it.
A gun caddy as it were.
"I need my 9mm iron." *snaps fingers insistently.*
And in case it isn't apparent, I'm officially back.
Either way, Velinov will vote for merchant... I guess serving as the commodity?
There isn't any benefit other than letting you use other skills. It gives the GM leeway to allow other roles that make sense, and I'd say artist would fall into that, allowing you to make Craft or Perform skill checks. But like I said, it'd be one more additional role, adding +1 to the DC.
So, it sounds like we have:
Thaia- Merchant, Profession (merchant) +8
Woodthorne- Merchant, Diplomacy +9
Nigel- Merchant, Profession (merchant) +9
Velinov- Merchant, Appraise +5
Haska- Merchant, Appraise +8
Kahwen- Lying low (keeping the group's weapons), Stealth +13
Does anyone want to make any changes, or are we good to go with that setup?
You could go with a third role and let Velinov do his Craft (paintings) or Craft (drawings), which are +11 each, at a total of +2 to the DC.