PFS First Steps: I, II, & III (Group 1) (Inactive)

Game Master Dakcenturi

Sigh. Anyone know another way to reach Trippen? It's been a week since his last post.

Anyone try to PM him here on the boards?

Yeah, I did last week and again this week. No response other than his post last week.

Bummer - sounds like a PbP drop-out to me. Too bad.

Yeah was going to move on today if I hadn't seen anything. We can try and find a replacement for the next session if you all want.

We are nearing the end of this scenario so please provide me with your PFS #s. Also, anyone that might need to step away from the next scenario let me know and I can look for replacements. I've PMed Trippen and if I don't get a reponse by the end of this I'll look for a replacement there.

Pathfinder # is 80015.

Pathfinder# 2312-10

Rilmor #40644-1

Dayjob 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 14

First Trippen (more than a week since last post), now Callanto (one week since last post) . Things are going to move pretty slowly if we can't get people to post at least 1/day.

Yeah, I was beginning to worry about Callanto too. Just looked at his and Trippen's profiles, and neither one really posts aside from those aliases, so it's hard to tell whether they've just bailed on this game, dropped off the boards altogether, been abducted by extra-dimensional beings or what.

Hrm.

Well we can do some re-recruitment for part two soon or if people have lost interest we can call it once this scenario is finished.

Can we skip/accelerate Trippen's turn?

Well we can do some re-recruitment for part two soon or if people have lost interest we can call it once this scenario is finished.

I'd like to continue if everyone else is up to it, but I can also live with it if we call the game.

If I can get my chronicle sheet by this weekend, I could play Part III live on Monday evening.

I'm game to keep going - it would be Terrill, Omar and Polami left, correct? (If we lose Rilmor to a RL game.) We could recruit a couple more players easily enough.

If the majority want to bail, though, I can live with that too.

Ready to go for part 2.

Omar spends 2PP to get a greenwood MW STR+2 composite longbow.

I'll be retraining (still doing some tweaking and testing out a few different builds) and I'll likely use 2 PP to get a Wand of Cure Light Wounds, but I can take care of that on the Chronicle Sheet myself.

So this is my first PFS game. Having done some reading, I understand what Omar is talking about, using 2 PP to get an item worth up to 750 gp, and I'll likely do the same.

Rilmor (or anyone) - what is retraining about? How does it work?

From the "Guide to Pathfinder Society Organized Play":

1st-Level Character Retraining

Pathfinder Society is all about player choices and living
with those choices once you’ve made them. However, at the
start of a Pathfinder’s career, you are allowed to adjust your
character before settling in for the long haul. Before you
level up a character for the first time, you may change any
aspect of it except its Pathfinder Society Number. Changes
may only be made between adventures and before playing
as a character above 1st level. Any exceptions will be noted
in the Pathfinder Society FAQ. You are able to keep all
treasure, Prestige Points, special boons, and XP that you
have earned and apply them to the character once you
retrain as long as the character meets the criteria above.

I've seen people play 3 different characters at 1st level in 3 different adventures then decide which one they like for 2nd level.

Yeah as Rilmor noted. I'm currently playing in a PFS First steps 1-3 I retrained between 1 and 2, though I like my build now much better so I'll likely keep it.

It's just a way to make sure you have the character you want to really play for the long haul before it gets locked in once you hit level 2.

Polami I didn't see your PFS number can I get that?

Terrill you PFS doesn't have a trailing number, is this your first character so that it would be 80015-1?

Thanks for the info, Rilmor - missed that bit of the PFS guide, and it's pretty sweeping in its scope.

I'm trying to decide how complete a re-build to do. We're pretty archery-heavy at the moment, might try to move more towards melee, not sure if that means staying inquisitor or not. And that could all change if we pick up other players.

@Dak - Yes, this is my first PFS character, so I guess that would be the number.
Would you plan to add 2 players in re-recruitment?

If it is Rilmor, Omar, Polami and Terrill moving forward we could go just as that but there is room for up to two more. Minimum table size is 4.

Polami, forgot you PMed me, got the number :)

Chronicle Sheet - Callanto

Chronicle Sheet - Omar

Chronicle Sheet - Polami

Chronicle Sheet - Rilmor

Chronicle Sheet - Terrill

Chronicle Sheet - Trippen

I'd rejoin on early Tuesday if possible (doing Part III live on Monday evening and Part II with you guys). Otherwise, go ahead and find a replacement for me.

GM Dak, is there a reason you filled out the player bits (like Current Prestige and Items Bought)?

You can change those fields, just trying to help out filling them ahead of time although I didn't think I did the Item's bought field. In any case, the fields that are greyed out are the ones I have to put in and are no longer editable.

Hi GM Dak, team-

I'd love to participate. Per GM Dak's request, here is my character info:

PF ID# 85950-1
Magda is a level 1 lava gnome cleric of Sarenrae of the Healing Flame. Domains are Healing and Fire. Magda has completed one PFS scenario, "The Rise of the Goblin Guild". My usual play style with Magda is very team oriented. I'm available all day Tuesday, and hope to be able to join the group. I don't know which medium we'll use for online play. Here's the full character sheet: http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=564731

On an unrelated note, I plan to start GMing PFS scenarios on Roll20 using voice chat.

Greets all. I'm new to PFS but not to Pathfinder and RPGs. It looks like I'll be joining you all thanks to a message from GM Dak.

I'm going to be playing....something. I'll be creating the character this morning and submitting to the GM for approval.

I'm currently in two other PbP games, one which appears to have stalled with my original level 1 character I made, but I am going to keep that one to the side for now. The other PbP game I am playing a pregen.

I am an IT manager and have the luck of being able to post pretty much all day long during the week, so I am pretty active during the day on the boards as well as in the PbP games.

Thanks again to Dak for the invite and I look forward to playing with you all!

Real quick to help me with my character, it looks like the party currently consists of a gnome cleric, human fighter, human inquisitor, and human weapon master? The half orc cleric is dropping?

Any skill areas that seem to be lacking for the party?

I will likely be playing an arcane caster based on the party makeup and the fact that I haven't played one in ages.

Welcome aboard!

Arcane caster would be great. We lost our Rogue so we're probably light on Stealth, Disable Device, etc. My social skills are passable, but I don't think we have a real face either.

I think Rilmor (the half-orc cleric) is still playing -- he just won't be doing Part 3 with us.

The only things I'm planning on buying between missions are a potion of CLW and two vials of Alchemists Fire.

We are also very light in the melee department, as Omar is all about his bow, and Terrill is also an archer. I'm not wedded to playing a ranged role, though, so I may do some rebuilding of him so Polami won't be our entire front line. Unless one of our clerics plans to tank up, that is.

@GM Dak - are we getting rolling again on Tuesday or so? I'll try to do some revision to Terrill before then.

Go ahead and play without me. I would like to look at different cleric builds and it looks like I'll be very busy with other things starting this week.

Chad here, I present Grisbane Holgrim, Summoner. While I can't do much in the way of disable device and stealth, he should help not only fill the arcane roll but also provide some front line support in the form of summons or his Eidolon, Ozi.

Hi again, all! Nice to hear what people are planning. It does sound like the group is weak on front line fighters. With AC19 and 11 HP my cleric, Magda, can stand on the front line for a little while but, with NO useful weapons, she doesn't belong there. Oh, and Magda does have diplomacy and decent charisma, but that's still not worth much at level one. I hope someone plays a tank! Anyway, sounds like fun.

I'd like to know when is our proposed start time, if we roll on Tuesday. Also, will this game be on Roll20 here: https://app.roll20.net/campaigns/details/93453/pfs-first-steps-part-1-in-se rvice-to-lore-group-1

I'm available all day Tuesday, but I'd like to be able to pencil in an approximate time.

Also, which voice chat system do y'all use? Games flow SO much better with a voice chat overlay on top of text chat, but if it's not planned in advance then sometimes people have technical trouble. I'm good on ALL methods, I just want to know which one we'll use.

@Kronin - We actually only use Roll20 for the map and positioning of PCs - otherwise it's a Play-by-Post, so there isn't a set time.

And I am changing my inquisitor around to play more of a front-line role, so we should have a decent mix of ranged, melee, arcane and divine. We may be a bit short on skill monkeys, but we can't have everything.

Thanks for the explanation. I've never played a PbP game before. There's always a first time.

No problem - I find them to be a lot of fun. Info on the basics of PbP can be found here.

Yes, we'll start up tomorrow afternoon/evening.

If the party feels that the group would benefit from a skill monkey rather than a summoner I would be happy to change. I have both a Bard and a Rogue built for PFS that I havent used yet.

I'm glad to play whatever you all feel is needed the most. It sounds like we have a pretty good amount of melee/ranged folks so a bard might actually be a better bet. Still can lend some arcane support as well.

Thoughts before we get down to crunch time?

I would say a skill monkey would be useful, but we can manage without if you'd rather play your summoner. If you do switch, the bard would probably fill a couple of useful niches, as you say.

I have made a bunch of changes to Terrill - he's now pretty well-suited to fill a front-line melee role. In addition to changing his race, stats, feats, etc., I bought him some nicer armor with the gold we got, and I used 2 PP to get a MW Elven curve blade.

Weighing the pros and cons I'm going to stick with the summoner. Bard would give me a couple of useful skills, but in the end would prove to be a little underwhelming I believe. You just can't have your cake and eat it too sometimes I guess :)

Summonwrmis Fine, easily Films the ro,e as a Front line fighter

Awesome post, Omar. :p

Awesome post, Omar. :p

What is the URL of the PbP thread when the game starts?

Just click on the Gameplay tab at the top of this discussion board, right under where it says PFS First Steps: I, II, & III (Group 1).

New Roll20 link for the new scenario. Updated at top of game as well.

Link

Once again please let me know who you are so I can assign you to your tokens. Magda I need a pic for your token. Also can you please fill out your character stats so they show under your name like the others. This is done by filling the info into the Classes/Levels part of your characters profile.