PFS by PbP scenario TBD (Inactive)

Game Master Brayden Green

speedy recovery Varian

Best of luck Varian, enjoy your porridge!

I think you should post... it'd be interesting to see what comes up :P

lol... i'll do my best... surgery is in 3 hours from now... (9:45 am pacific time)

Hey, fellow Paizonauts!

I can't keep up with pbp any more. Life is just too hectic right now.

I've really enjoyed the game, you guys and gals are great; my replacement better be wicked awesome.

Alas, you will be missed!

I'll send you a chronicle sheet by the end of the week.

Hey guys, I'm going out of town for a business trip for a few days. I may have internet access, but I probably won't do much. I'll post when I can and should return Sept 30th.

No fun! But travel safe!

Safe travels and I hope you also have some fun ;-)

You guys are almost done with this level of the dungeon! Also, PbP Gameday 3 is coming up just around the corner. I'd be happy to run the next floor for you for that... but we will have to recruit :( So far, only Varian, Shilyn, Deaglan, and Lirianne are active. Worse, Deaglan needs to be level 5 for the next floor and while Deaglan will get a level for this... you're going to need some GM credits to apply to make the difference.

Alternatively, I can just run a different scenario and recruit the last 2 seats.

So let me know what you would prefer or if either is good for you. If you would prefer to play a normal scenario, please list to me a few suggestions you'd like to play. I'll come up with some ideas of my own if majority of you go that route.

This is a fairly well balanced party. I think we could probably do a module and 4 players, and then finish up the next two parts.

I'll be switching back for Mahasi, so you've your arcane there. One or more of the fightery type should pick up an adamantine weapon though. It is true, however, another front-liner type would be nice. I'm sure we can find someone.

If I might be so bold as to make a recommendation to Shilyn, you might wish to get damaging ranged touch spell; with such a thing you can use sneak attack at distance. Popular choices are
0th - acid splash, ray of frost ( level)
1st - snowball http://www.archivesofnethys.com/SpellDisplay.aspx?ItemName=Snowball

You can also use your sneak attack in combination with shadowstrike, although it will be nonlethal sneak damage.

Actually, I think Shilyn retraining her sorceror level with either bard or magus as both classes allow casting in armor and could grant some useful benefits for her.

There is always arcane armor training :)

Nevermind, it requires caster level of 3! Annoying...

I believer that your idea bears merit :)

Unfortunately I do not have the GM credit available to push Deaglan to level 5. A module sounds like a good idea. Fangwood Keep seems to be perfect for our level range.

However there is one catch with that one: I will GM it myself in online GD3, so will have quite good knowledge of the module. I do not mind (that much) as Deaglan is not the most knowledgeable dwarf. However it's only fair to mention it.

I can do the following modules:

Carrion Hill
City of Golden Death

Both are 4-6.

I will run Midnight Mirror at the drop of a hat. It is level 4 and soooooo good. (I have run it online before).

all those mentioned are good for me.

I'd rather not do a normal module due to the fact that I'm not sure if we can complete a standard module within the time frame (the Thornkeep levels tend to go by quickly due to the overall lower number of events and encounters).

That being said, I am open up to suggestion. I'll take a look at Fangwood. Another option is of course Emerald Spire, although I can understand the reluctance in just doing a single level there without going back to it.

For right now, here are my suggestions:

Carrion Hill (I have the PDF of it and the creepy vibe is perfect to start of PbP GD3 if I feel like doing a module)
Silver Mount Collection (3-7 with more Blakros Museum goodness!)
Among the Dead/Among the Living double pack (1-7 with creepiness; they can go by pretty fast and both scenarios can be run over the time period)

I'll reread Carrion Hill to see if I feel comfortable pushing that out for the PbP GameDay, but review the options and let me know how you feel!

I am going to be the difficult one here, due to a fairly large number of adventures I've played. My vote would be Carrion Hill. Long times don't bother me overmuch.

I am available to run many things as well if you want a break.

Hmmm perhaps. I'll take a look later again and see how that looks.

I have not played any of the mentioned modules, so am fine with everything.

Alright, I'm going to TRY and see if we can power through Carrion Hill. You guys are at the last encounter and I don't foresee any deaths, so I'll work on to hand out by next week :)

That being said, some family stuff came up so I won't be posting much from Thursday to Sunday.

Would you like me to put a recruiting post up?

Zerg rush! Sure. With a name like Carrion Hill, a cleric would be a nice complement to the oracle.

Actually, I think Shilyn retraining her sorceror level with either bard or magus as both classes allow casting in armor and could grant some useful benefits for her.

Interesting recommendations and definitely something to think about.

Bards and magus' (magi?) however, still incur the casting penalties for non-bardic spells..

"A multiclass bard still incurs the normal arcane spell failure chance for
arcane spells received from other classes."

"A multiclass magus still incurs the normal arcane spell failure chance for arcane spells received from other classes."

Since Shi is part sorceress (thanks to a run-in with a shadow.. literally), the armor penalty is still there. Because she's cast more of late than practice her rogue combat skills, i'll probably pick up one more level of sorc which will give me a couple more zero-level spells (and hopefully some offensive power in that vein).

She's still discovering what effects that shadow had on her.. so who knows where it'll lead.. (plot twists?)

BPC was referring to using the retraining to replace the sorcerer level, not take a complementary class. However, it's clear for character development reasons you prefer to keep the sorcerer one.

One common things to help for casting without spell failure:
- Take "no somatic" spells - these do not suffer from arcane spell failure (that is, problems with armor). Such spells include:
0th:
*Flare
1st:
*Feather Fall (recommended)
*Hold Portal
*Liberating Command
*True Strike (recommended)
*Ventriloquism

There are some higher level spells as well, but you would have to take 4 levels in sorcerer to worry about those.

Hence the problem. Shi's character concept is that her mother was a sorceress and father a scout (rogue). She was 'daddy's girl' of sorts as she loved sneaking in the woods and riding horses more than studying magic.. so she became a rogue but had latent magic (started with wiz mark as being the only spell she could ever 'master' so to speak). Her encounter with the shadow kind of brought out her latent magic and since it was a 'shadow', it linked her spells to the shadow realm (sorc blood line if you will).

So yes.. keeping with the character concept.. she's stuck with armor interference (or go full 'squishy'). We'll see how she develops as she grows. :)

Well, you look to be rolling with basic studded leather. Spend 2 prestige to pick up a wand of mage armor - 50 charges, each one will give your +4 armor for 1 hour, plenty of time to get through many dungeons (and you'll never use up all 50 charges). Ditch the studded leather.

It's a solution of sorts. :) If you ever get lots o' money, pick up bracers of armor +5 or +6.

Another possibility, since rogues don't have a whole lot of swift action stuff, is to get the Armor Training Feat as you gain a few more sorcerer levels. With that and a mithral chain shirt, that'll negate your armor check penalty.

Course the Wand o' Mage Armor is a fairly useful idea too.

Hey guys! So I created a new thread for the campaign as this was Brayden's thread originally and it's finally time to leave it be. Please go to this thread as the new campaign thread for not only the Carrion Hill game but for finishing up Thornkeep.

I also put in a recruitment thread to get one more PC to join the four of you. In this case, I'm going to let you know of the candidates and let you vote on who should enter the fray. The deadline I'm putting for submission is Oct 30th and give you guys until Nov 2nd to decide then get started on the 3rd.

Chronicles will go out by tomorrow so you can fully level, but everyone is getting 3XP, 4PP, and 4800 gp.

Did you want to retire this thread?

I can't, it's actually someone else's.

I'm in another game with Brayden - I'll mention it to him.