[PFS] bluedove's #33: Assault on the Kingdom of the Impossible (Inactive)

Game Master bluedove

The following players have been selected to play in this campaign.

SkipperD
caps
Yours is mined
miteke
Sethran
Belondia

To better facilitate getting chronicles out to everyone quickly once we are done, please reply to this thread with the following form filled out.

Player name: (as you would prefer to see it listed)
Character name:
PFS number:
Faction:
Day Job? (Yes or No)
Email: (you may spoiler, space out, or PM this if you prefer it not be shared on the boards)

You may roll day jobs now, if you prefer, or wait until we are nearing the end of the scenario. If you do not roll it before I am filling in sheets, I will complete it as if you had taken ten on the roll. You will have an opportunity to make purchases after the briefing. Please feel free to ask any questions you have and let's have a good game all!

Player name: Andreas F
Character name: Lyan Firesoul
PFS number: 35574-15
Faction: Liberty's Edge
Day Job: No
Email:

Player name: Yours is mined
Character name: Antonella Schiavo
PFS number: 69095-4
Faction: Silver Crusade
Day Job? No

Hi GM bluedove!

Thank-you for having me. Antonella is on slow track for XP, PP and gold.

Do you mind me asking how you do your maps?

Howdy, miteke! This is Luisila’s player.

Player name: Sethran
Character name: Killia
PFS number: 34762 - 12
Faction: Sovereign Court
Day Job? Yes - Caravan diplomacy: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (2) + 11 = 13
Email:

Player name: caps
Character name: Peribras Sandlock
PFS number: 137974-3
Faction: Grand Lodge
Day Job? Might be rolling for Grand Lodge faction card--we will see how the mission goes

I was out super late last night helping my brother move so I'm a little behind this morning.

I'll try to get an introductory post up sometime today.

GM, a few things you should know about Peribras: his favored enemy is human, so that may apply to some checks you roll for him behind the screen. More likely to be relevant to your rolls is that his favored terrain is Urban, so he gets +2 to initiative and a bunch of skills in Urban environments. Darkpaw shares in all of these (although only Perception is likely to be relevant, see below)

He is a big fan of animals and has an absurd number of pets.

Per PFS rules he can only have one pet in combat at a time. Since he prefers to ride Ash, the war pony, that is his combat pet unless something happens to it or we go someplace it refuses to go. In that case he would take Darkpaw, the wolf.

However, Darkpaw the Wolf and Ben the guard dog are still around. They both have scent, low-light vision, and their perception scores are +6 and +8, respectively. Ash also has scent and low-light vision and his perception is +5.

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Player name: Belondia
Character name: Jirelle
PFS number: N/A - Pregen
Faction: Grand Lodge

"Jirelle" it looks to me like Antonella took the wayfinder already, although looking at the timestamps, I doubt you saw that before you made your post.

You have besmirched my honor, Mademoiselle!

I shall ask K, L, P: 1d3 ⇒ 3 Peribras to be my second!

Yeah that's my bad everyone. You can have the fakefinder, it's all yours :') I noticed far too late to ammend my mistakes v.v

Hi GM bluedove!

Thank-you for having me. Antonella is on slow track for XP, PP and gold.

Do you mind me asking how you do your maps?

Howdy, miteke! This is Luisila’s player.

Slow track, eh? That's a first for me! Noted.

I use Google Slides so I can add extra images for flavor. I've added a link to the Campaign tab so you'll be able to see it atop every page and here it is again.

~MAPS~

Just showing Waman's Map so far, but more will be added soon. Also placed blank dice blocks so everyone can fill in with their relevant bonus. If you have pets or whatnot, fill one in for them too.

@Peribras, your favoreds and pets are noted.

Uh huh. Slow Track is basically just half gold, XP and PP. I find it handy for keeping my PCs’ levels reasonably spaced so that I have a different one for each tier.

It used to be that you had to keep Slow Track for an entire level, but now you can make that decision on a scenario-by-scenario basis.

Info is completed and your maps look great!

I like the idea of doing slow pace after level 4-5 or so. That's when things start to get really fun from a character crunch perspective.

My only concern is that I might run out of legal scenarios quicker that way.

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Oh yeah, because more games (seem) to be run at lower tier, I agree running out of playable scenarios on slow track at say, 7-11 is a concern.

Just as an example … I finished a 2-part sub-tier 6-7 with a (starting) Level 7.2 PC on slow track. If I hadn’t done slow track, she would have levelled out of Tier at the end of the Part One.

Player name: miteke
Character name: Kitoro
PFS number: 141936-7
Faction: Dark Archive
Day Job? Performance comedy +8

Apologies for the delay, today is my daughter's birthday. I thought I might be able to find some time to update, but it's looking unlikely at this point.

If you all could make sure your perception and initiative bonuses are filled in on the second slide of the MAPS, that would help things go more quickly when I get some time.

Ooh, sounds like combat is coming.

My stuff is in, unless you want my combat animal to have a separate initiative block.

My stuff is in too.

All good!

Many happy returns to bluefledgling.

Thank you! She just turned 7 and is very excited about it. ^_^

I did manage to get you guys an update before turning in. And now, my pillow is calling.

So cool. I have two girls under 12.

G'night!

Some crap happened in my life. I expect to still post daily, but it may be that I am unable to do so. Regardless, I will not be as frequent as a poster until this crap is resolved. Do not hesitate to bot me when necessary.

Some crap happened in my life. I expect to still post daily, but it may be that I am unable to do so. Regardless, I will not be as frequent as a poster until this crap is resolved. Do not hesitate to bot me when necessary.

Sorry to hear that, it's never fun when crap happens. But don't worry about the game, we are making good progress and if we don't hear from you by the time I can sit down to update, I'll bot your actions. Hope things get better soon!

Well, depending on the variant of crap, I hope it gets better. Or grows irrelevant as time goes on. But if that's not possible then I hope you're alright.

If you can't post, don't stress yourself. Sort you out first.

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Also, crap, forgot to leave my email...

Joel.wilkinson92@gmail.com

Antonella and Peribras, did you mean to move that for in? If it's safe to that far then I'll move in too, but we were at the edge

My presumption is that if Peribras's Perception check of 20 would reveal something that might stop him from getting there, the GM will inform me and adjust his token to wherever it was that he he was standing when he spotted it. If there's nothing to worry about it saves us the time of advancing the token to each new position.

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Very true. Shall follow suit

Ignore the second half of my post... Thought the other one died on less damage. Missed how much blue's total actually was

That's not all that missed... ^_~

Judging from the scenario, you are expected to still have some of the archers to deal with along with these monks. But you guys did well with diplomacy and Peribras and Darkpaw eliminated one in surprise, which is very lucky.

You're all making this look like a cake walk! =P

It might have been a better move to just 5' step back and pick up the sling staff, but Peribras didn't feel like being out of the fight for a whole 6+ seconds.

FWIW, I think your tactic was sound. Once combat starts, anything that delays 'primary damage-dealing' PCs from landing a blow on the enemy (drinking potions, buff spells, difficult terrain, flight, etc) seems to favor the other side.

Team work + GM who allows creative solutions = GOOD GAME ;)

^_^

Update will be a little late today. Have to haul my kids to an appointment out of town. Weather is a little rough and we had a power outage yesterday so hopefully that won't happen again.

Arrrr matey, it's part of her backstory. She got off Mediogalti by stowing away on a pirate vessel. So it was either be a pirate for a while or fish bait. The character was created originally to be part of the pirate AP but she failed to get in but I kept the backstory.

I really like the character (and Kane) and the way you portray her is very convincing.

Marta seemed a bit more … not sure what the right word is, uptight maybe? I dunno if it’s because you’ve had more time in PbP or Kit’s personality is more familiar to you, but I can believe she's real.

Bravo!

Kit wrote:

Arrrr matey, it's part of her backstory. She got off Mediogalti by stowing away on a pirate vessel. So it was either be a pirate for a while or fish bait. The character was created originally to be part of the pirate AP but she failed to get in but I kept the backstory.

I really like the character (and Kane) and the way you portray her is very convincing.

Marta seemed a bit more … not sure what the right word is, uptight maybe? I dunno if it’s because you’ve had more time in PbP or Kit’s personality is more familiar to you, but I can believe she's real.

Bravo!

Thanks! Marta IS very uptight and introspective and has a wry and subtle sense of humor. Very different personality from Kit who is a bit jaded, outgoing, and with a totally snarky humor. It's one of the challenges (and joys) of RPing to be able to play someone different than you even if you may struggle occasionally to find the groove. But for some reason from the first time I played Kit she was easy and entertaining while Marta was always more difficult and has a complicated personality I haven't totally figured out yet.

Just in case anyone is waiting to see if speaking to the construct in Vudrani will make it stand down before they act, it won't. Still need Peribras and Kitoro's actions before it is the Tiger's turn. If nothing by tonight, will delay their actions and move on.

Oh whoops, didn't realize I was up.

Yes I mean all 6 eyes. Three faces and all. I imagine with it only being large it won't exactly have afacethat can't be wrapped up by her cape.

He doesn't like mockery ):

Day job roll: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (9) + 8 = 17

Alright! I need two items still before I can get chronicles done and sent:

1) Belondia's PFS character number for the character you want the chronicle applied to.
You can either wait until the character is level four to apply it or you can apply it to a level 1 by reducing the gold, basically reducing it to a tier 1-2 chronicle. Any items or boons in the 4-5 section will only be available after the character reaches level 4.

2) Email address for miteke to send Kitoro's chronicle. You can PM it if you don't want to share it on the boards.

Thanks for running this, GM. Great game. What did you learn?

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profession, thief-catcher: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (20) + 5 = 25

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2) Email address for miteke to send Kitoro's chronicle. You can PM it if you don't want to share it on the boards.

Just use miteke with yahoo.com. Its my trash account so I freely give it out, though I do not like make it easy for a bot to pick it up.

A lot of GMs just post it in google docs or something and give out the url. Why do you prefer to email it? Honestly curious.

Just remembered that Peribras wants to teach Darkpaw the Attack II trick.

handle animal vs DC20: 10 + 12 = 22

Sacrificing the guard trick to stay under the 7 trick limit, unless I misunderstood the animal companion and handle animal rules.

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177471-7 Inquisitor Culvine please :) I'll apply it now as a T1-2 I don't know the gold or prestige difference.

Just had the difference explained to me. Screw that. Can it go to Denn instead, please.

# 177471-2 Denn

Alright, the session is reported and I am finishing up the chronicles now so they should be on their way soon.

Thanks for running this, GM. Great game. What did you learn?

Whoops, I guess I thought it would be obvious. Antonella is the first character I've seen to use special graphics characters on the forums. I was curious about them and did some digging and found there are quite a few that will display on here. Maybe you are not seeing them as you are using wayfinder? Displaying flower, clover and star here> ❁☘✯

A lot of GMs just post it in google docs or something and give out the url. Why do you prefer to email it? Honestly curious.

Habit and convenience, I guess... I've had them generated out to me using dropbox, etc and I personally hate that. (not that I complain) Email is handy and keeps it all for posterity. I try to keep good backups, but I have had the occasional laptop crash and I don't buy the data insurance or whatever it's called. But anything that I've sent or received via Gmail is still there and easily located. I've had a player contact me over a year later and need another copy of their chronicle and was able to get it to them within the hour. Google drive would work just as well, I'm sure. Email can also provide me a second means of contacting a player if they are MIA since they actually have to be looking at the boards to see a PM. Apologies if it bothers you.

And for my own chronicle:
Daeris Day Job(Survival, Hunting Lodge): 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (16) + 9 = 25

No, no. No bother. I really was just curious as it would seem to me to take more effort to track down emails and send them out rather than put them in google docs and just post a URL. You have some really good reasons which is what I was curious about.

I will try a reroll on the dayjob (sorry meant to post this much earlier)

diplomacy: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (15) + 11 = 26

Oh cool, I didn't know you get a day job when you GM. I thought I had read that wasn't allowed.

I prefer it when GMs email me the chronicles, for all the reasons Bluedove just gave.

I applied a boon called "Extra Hours" to Daeris (my elf Ranger, who I soooo regret making a Trapper... >_<) so she gets more than her fair share of my GM chronicles. That is the only thing I know of that allows the Day Job roll on a GM chronicle.

Well, I was going to say I was all done and emails were sent, but now I need to correct the Day Job roll for Killia, sooo.... =P