Opening discussion for all of you!
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Player's forum handle: bluedove
Player name: Jamie Turney (prefer my full name to appear on chronicles, please)
Character name: Daeris Moonhunter
PFS# 85152 - 2
Race/Class(es)/Level(s): Elf/Ranger(Trapper)/5
Faction: Grand Lodge
Day Job Roll, if any: Hunting Lodge(Survival): 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (20) + 9 = 29
Reposting as well with ambiguity removed and link to the Day Job roll added. Apologies that I don't have everything finished just yet, it's been a busy weekend. We finally got new mattresses for my kids delivered after being stood up earlier this month. Spent a good deal of yesterday getting the old ones out and new ones in. And then our pet ferret passed over the rainbow bridge last night. Please forgive me if I'm a bit tired and frazzled today. Have to finish band order forms and other paperwork before momma can level up her character.
I am sorry for your loss, Bluedove! And I know all about kid music-related paperwork. *Hugs!*
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Everyone, I'd like to ask you now if you have any of the following chronicles on your characters:
• Pathfinder Society Scenario #6–00: Legacy of the Stonelords
• Pathfinder Society Scenario #6–16: Scions of the Sky Key, Part 3: The Golden Guardian
• Pathfinder Society Scenario #6–19: Test of Tar Kuata
• Pathfinder Society Scenario#6–20: Returned to Sky
• Pathfinder Society Scenario #6–21: Tapestry's Toil
If you do, which ones and how many?
Also, what languages do your characters have?
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Thanks, Liddle was a rescue too. By my best guess she was nearly 9 years old, (spent 8 of them with us) which is practically ancient in ferret years. She was a sweet little jill and we had many years of happy snuggles and war-dancing together. ^_^
Daeris has not played any of those games and only speaks Common and Elven.
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Sorry for your loss bluedove; it's always hard to lose a family member / animal companion.
Cacumattus has played Scions of the Sky Key Part III: The Golden Guardian and Test of Tar Kuata, and has Returned to the Sky in his stack of pregen-character sheets to apply once he hits level 7.
He speaks Common, Gnome, Dwarven, Elven, Goblin and Sylvan, and can speak with animals 1/day.
Three pieces of the sky key!!! Nice!
Thanks for the information, everyone!
Starting next Saturday, we'll be starting this game up. However the timeline for this PbP special assumes that the group has pre-mustered and had a chance to meet... As a result, I'm opening the gameplay thread up a week early for pre-game roleplay. Go ahead, introduce yourselves and gossip.
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Test Time!
Test #1:
Can you click the Sky Key Solution Maps link and see my maps?
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Test #2:
Can you move your icon on the first slide into the icon box? If you are on a mobile device like an iPad, I recommend that you get the Google Slides App, and try this test in the slides app. The more that you can move your own pieces on the map, the better this is for me.
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Rats. Balon, what are you using for a device?
Do you have the slides app on your iphone, Reesa?
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D'oh! This is why I test things in advance! Now try!
Yay! Everyone else please try when you can!
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If you guys want to have a chance to talk a bit about what you do before the Special starts, now is your golden opportunity!
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Well, Balon's specialty is a combination of necromancy spells and swinging his wicked scythe. He carries multiple healing wands of different types and can activate them with no real issue. As soon as there is a suitable body created during combat, he'll likely raise it as a skeletal companion, which lasts 50 minutes at a time.
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In combat, Ely is basically a trip focused fighter with some neat gadget tricks. I'll mostly be trying to enlarge myself and use reach tactics to trip everything I can. I also have some access to energy damage if that comes up.
Her social skills are also pretty decent for a character without much innate Charisma.
Edit: I still need to add some pre-rolled attacks and such to my sheet in case botting is needed. Does anyone have a good example/template of that I could use?
Azara's sheet wasn't ideal... it wasn't as complete as I like, but I loved her for use in play-by-posts spoiler, which let me bot her really easily.
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Sparkle-Weave mostly uses her somewhat ineffective lightcrossbow in combat. She does have a few tricks like a couple hastes and grease. As well as summoning annoying things like small earth elementals to anchor melee or Puigwami's if I can get them in a position to only screw with our opponents.
Orin climbs around, likes pretending to be a real dragon. Will try and get in a position to bite from 10ft away while out of reach and using combat advice to give somebody big extra to hit bonuses. He's also hot strong perception and sense motive skills and tends to blurt out things he notices.
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Daeris will be intent on shopping rather than conversing and I will have her list of purchases finished before we begin.
She is a switch-hitter. This means she relies on her quickdraw feat to deal damage with her composite longbow until the enemy closes on her. Then she will drop the bow, quickdraw her elven curve-blade and mercilessly go to work with it. She is not a charge-ahead combatant, she will wait for the enemy to come to her.
Guen is a trip-baby. Daeris will keep her close and direct her to attack and then possibly re-position herself to achieve a flank, or possibly push Guen to achieve the "flank" trick if she is sure it can be done without provoking AOO's on the cat. This animal companion is the only thing on Golarion that Daeris loves, so she will not take chances with her life unnecessarily.
Finally, Daeris is great with traps. She will stealth at full speed to scout and disable traps and look for opportunities to lay her own to ambush the enemy.
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Cacumattus is a sneaky type, likes to scout ahead, and in combat will try to move between cover taking snipe shots with crossbow and scorching rays.
In social situations he's talkative as long as he finds the conversation interesting, and he loves wordplay. He's got decent Diplomacy but terrible Sense Motive ;-)
He's fond of animals and will try to avoid hurting them if he can.
Daeris, will Guen have her own avatar and mini, or be acting in your own posts?
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EEK! It's tomorrow!
Daeris, can you get a mini for Guen soon? If she's a combat animal, I'd love to be able to represent her.
Everyone else, are you excited?
Full disclosure: I've agreed to GM at a con all Saturday, but I will try to start you off early Saturday morning, and check in when I can.
Hugs!
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We've got an overseer, Iammars. He'll be posting overseer posts in either our thread, or in in the main overseer thread and providing a link.
We'll be on a strict timer, with a certain number of days for each task. I report your successes. If we get passed an aid token, we find a way to use it fast and then pass it on to another table that needs help. The more the tokens get passed, the more good that they do!
Of course, this is my first special as a GM, so I'm crossing my fingers that I'll be able to do a good job for all of you and show you a good time!
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I placed an icon for her, she is the black cat beneath Daeris' icon. Her sheet is on her profile and I will get a stat line up for her once purchases are taken care of.
*Grrrrow*
Looking forward to it! And wow... the money really builds up when you GM credit them past a few levels... Shopping spree! =3
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I finally dug through all my chronicles and put together a list of everything Daeris can potentially make use of, although I doubt any of it is useful for this game.
The Glass River Rescue:
Crisis Averted: You rescued the dwarven emissaries and helped to mitigate a developing crisis. When the
Pathfinders’ expedition pays off, certainly the society will remember your contribution.
Expanding Trade Network: You befriended either Temel Passad or Metella Raugar, and in doing so you
began to develop a stronger trade network with the Kalistocrats or the Five Kings Mountains, respectively.
If you are a member of the Qadira faction, you are able to leverage this connection to your advantage,
gaining a +2 bonus on all Day Job checks.
News of the Diamond Sage: You learned of a figure known as the Diamond Sage, a mystic who has some
connection to Amenopheus, the Sapphire Sage. If you are a member of the Osirion faction, Amenopheus
encourages you to continue to Azir, where the Diamond Sage was last seen; the next time you travel to
Rahadoum for a Pathfinder Society mission, Amenopheus gives you a single item worth 250 gp. You do not
have to choose the item until the mission begins.
The Midnight Mauler:
Averted Mauling: By saving the half-elf courtesan Markov Rutowski in Ardis, you gain a
political favor you can trade in while in Ustalav. Within the Immortal Principality, you
may trade this political favor for any non-magical item worth up to 400 gp, including but
not limited to masterwork weapons and armor and courtier clothing and jewelry.
Master of Blades Saved: By saving the life of famed adventurer and former Master of
Blades Vonran Vilk, you have earned a permanent place in the Pathfinder Chronicles. You
gain a +4 circumstance bonus on Diplomacy and Intimidate checks when dealing with
members of the Pathfinder Society of your level or lower when you mention this boon.
The Hydra's Fang Incident:
The Chelish Embassy of Absalom recognizes you for your outstanding service to the Empire. You are
given a boon that grants you one free use of the divination spell from a Cleric of Asmodeus. You can
only use this boon in Egorian, Cheliax’s diabolical capital city.
The Andoren Embassy of Absalom regards you as an upstanding free citizen of the Republic.
Assault on the Kingdom of the Impossible:
If Zamir is coerced into joining the Pathfinder Society:
Venture-Captain Mihir presents you with a copper coin that has the sigil of the open road on one side and
the flag of Jalmeray on the other. When in Absalom or any major city (more than 5,000 residents) in Andoran,
Cheliax, Jalmeray, Osirion, Qadira, or Taldor, you can present this coin to any citizen of Jalmeray (it takes 1d4
hours to locate one) and receive a +4 circumstance bonus on any one Appraise, Diplomacy, or Knowledge (any)
skill check. You may only use this coin once per scenario.
The Traitor's Lodge:
Thurl’s Bane (Grand Lodge faction): You have uncovered Thurl’s secrets and now understand the
threat he and his unique minions pose to the Society. You have spent your free time preparing for the
inevitable confrontation by studying his constructs’ weaknesses. As a free action, you can choose one
outsider within line of sight that has the extraplanar subtype but no alignment subtype. You gain two
of the following five bonuses against that creature for 1 minute: a +1 bonus on attack rolls against the
creature, a bonus on damage rolls against that creature equal to one-third your character level (rounded
down), a +1 dodge bonus to AC against that creature’s attacks, a +1 bonus on saving throws against that
creature’s spells and abilities, or a +2 bonus on caster level checks to overcome that creature’s spell
resistance. If you have a familiar, animal companion, eidolon, or similar ally you acquired from a class
feature, you may instead grant that ally these two bonuses using your character level. When you use this
boon, cross it off your Chronicle sheet.
We Be Goblins Free!:
You Be Goblin Chief: You have spent so much time studying goblins that you fancy you could be their chief
if you set your mind to it. Of course, all great goblins chiefs are masters of the goblin games. As a free action,
you can gain one of the benefits below for 3 rounds. When you use this boon, cross it off your Chronicle sheet.
The Great Goblin King: One violent turn deserves another. Before you make an attack against a creature
that damaged you since the end of your last turn, you can attempt a DC 15 Perform (act, comedy, oratory,
or sing) check as a free action. If you succeed, you gain a +2 morale bonus on attack rolls and weapon
damage rolls against that creature until the beginning of your next turn.
Goblin Dog Sprint: You’re an adept runner of obstacle courses. You gain a +2 bonus on all checks made
to overcome obstacles during a chase (Pathfinder RPG Gamemastery Guide 232) as though your speed were
10 feet faster.
Burn the Dogs! Burn the Horses!: Nothing burns hotter than the fires you start. When you set a creature
on fire with a spell, alchemical weapon, or other effect, the ongoing fire damage dealt if the creature
catches on fire is increased by 1d6 during the first round it burns.
Killgull: You are especially adept at knocking flying creatures out of the air. Your first attack each round
deals an additional 1d6 damage against an airborne target, and the creature suffers a –5 penalty on Fly
checks until the beginning of your next turn.
Kaboom! Kablam!: You’re constantly finding new and deadly way to employ fireworks. You can cross
this boon off your Chronicle sheet when lighting a non-magical firework in order to double the damage
it deals and increase the DC of any saving throws made against its effects by 2.
Prestigious Goblin: Few adventurers who study goblin culture can stomach further exposure, and
through your perseverance you have earned the grudging respect of your peers. If you have the You Be
Goblin boon, the You Really Be Goblin boon, are a goblin (requiring a special Chronicle sheet), or completed
this module during the Free RPG Day 2015 event, you gain 1 additional Prestige Point when you receive this
Chronicle sheet. If you do not meet these conditions, cross this boon off the Chronicle sheet.
Squealy Mnarrrr!: The power of the Birdcruncher tribe empowers its unofficial totem beasts: the owlbear
and the pig. If you possess a class feature that permits you to take a boar as an animal companion, that boar
can channel Squealy Nord’s ferocity; the boar’s starting Charisma score is 10, and it deals an additional 1d6
damage when it makes a charge attack. If you are instead able to gain an owlbear as an animal companion,
the penalty on Handle Animal checks made to handle the owlbear companion decreases by 2 (minimum 0),
and the owlbear gains a +1 bonus on combat maneuver checks made to grapple.
Oh boy, I think I am caught up now. Whew!
Purchases:
Mithril Agile Breastplate +1....................................5400 gp
Mithril Chain Shirt Bardring +1...............................2400 gp
Upgrade Masterwork Silversheen Curveblade to +1...2000 gp
Greenwood Masterwork Composite Longbow +3/Str....850 gp
Arrows(Blunt) 20.......................................................2 gp
Potion of Cure Moderate Wounds...............................300 gp
Weapon Blanch(Adamantine)....................................100 gp
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Total spent..........................................................11052 gp
And now I'm broke.
Gold remaining........................................................292.05 gp
Thanks, Daeris.
Back from the Con, exhausted. Will get you going tomorrow.
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Sadly, the con was a brand new one that was horribly organized. It was in a location, St. Cloud, where the Minnesota PFS group is trying to make inroads -- about an hour and a half from the center of the cities. The con suffered from not having advertised us, and from putting the gaming tables right next to the stage where the con's entertainments were happening.
One guy with his stupid wolf puppet was up on stage with a mike doing high-pitched growly noises that were right in the same vocal range of the grumpy old woman that I was trying to emulate. For. One. Hour.
I was doing Phantom Phenomena, and I hustled the crowd from the very start to get tables, but soon I had people just showing up, some of them pulled in by the laughter from the last group I ran. I went from about eleven am to nine pm with only one major lunch break at two pm -- when I grabbed pizza with my current group. Some people came back to play almost every episode, and I got three of the Con's organizers to actually sit at my table for an hour or two in between work shifts.
One said, "You guys look like you're having too much fun. Can I join?"
So, I got to advertise the PFS sessions in St. Cloud, earned a cute little frog grippli, and ran so many tables that I actually was able to earn three rolled boons, which NEVER happens. I can't believe how many times I rolled a 20 in front of our Venture Lieutenant. Even nicer, several of the kids who came to play at my table managed to roll for boons! It's always nice when new people win something.
Unfortunately, most of the GMs who had prepared full scenarios had trouble having their tables make, which meant that most of them started GMing for each other, which was disheartening.
So the Con was a mixed bag. I made it work alright for myself, but it was less than ideal.
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