PbP GameDay 2: PFS Intro 1: First Steps—Part I: In Service to Lore (1-2) (Inactive)

Game Master Justin L. Warren

I assign you with...a gnome cavalier! Good luck with that!

I do want to thank everyone for their pretty epic reactions to Belroar falling, hopefully he was an interesting character.

He was mate. It was a lot of fun to play in a table with Belroar.

I get all knowledge and will at least put 1 rank into all of them as I level.

I may rework my monk in the coming days...not sure if he has "lasting" power in the long term. The super high AC is good for low levels but at higher levels I can't maintain the disgusting high AC lol.

I may stay monk but just make his more battle minded and melee oriented. I Belroar lite if you will lol. Idk what I am gonna do yet. I may run him thru this game and make the final call at level 2

You know.. if you let me have a riding dog and allow it in dungeon areas...it's intriguing.

As a Ki mystic I get a +2 to all knowledge checks as long as I have a Ki point in my pool but that isn't till 3rd level.

Halfling Cavalier. I was planning on taking a wolf, later to dog or boar. Is that going to be an issue?

In another game, we had a halfling cavalier who had a riding dog. I hadn't realized that the dog could fight as well. I don't know if the halfling was riding the dog at the time, but they were definitely both there for some below-ground combats.

How about a half orc or dwarf wizard that specializes in divination or abjuration and tosses out evocation and conjuration :P

You'll see me forget to switch characters and post on a elven wizard. Right now, I am not interested in another wizard, mine is running in 2nd Darkness and I'll just say...SR sucks. I plan to run another, interested in a magus, also. But I think we have most spell casting covered.

So long as you're prepared with ways to lift or drop your mount down ladders and so forth in dungeons, the Small mounted characters are actually pretty easy to handle since their mount is still Medium. A halfling on a wolf is pretty cool. Have you seen the Order of the Paw? Going Order of the Dragon would help with "wilderness" skills too.

The biggest issues for a small sized cavalier are transporting your mount in and out of dungeons as was mentioned, and dealing with the lack of room to do charges or ride by attacks on smaller maps. In my experience, there's not a lot of open maps with smooth terrain in PFS. If you're going to do a cavalier though, small sized is definitely the way to do it for reasons the others mentioned.

AKA Belroar

If no one objects, I'd like to go with this ranger. He gives us a few extra options with some knowledge skills, has a wand of cure light wounds and is 1.2, so he'll be on level with everyone else. Plus he was my first PFS character. I think he covers some areas we might could use. Not that the party has a ton of holes.

It looks fine to me, how much experience does Halkale have thus far?

He's done First Steps #2 and the Prince of Augustana.

He'll have the same experience as everyone else in this campaign when we finish this scenario, so that works well.

We're at the end of the scenario, so if you have a Day Job roll please make it. I'll have the Chronicle sheets out in the next few days.

If you have any purchases you want placed on the Chronicle Sheet please let me know.

Also, Valik and Melufiuos, how would you like to pay for your Remove Disease? (1 pp or 150 gp)

Mel will spend the gold to be cured, if we get 2pp, they are going straight into a wand of CLW.

No dayjob, Mel spends his time drinking and chasing girls (after a period of morning for his hulking bud).

No day job for Moadis yet. Should we roll something for the gameday boon?

So what happens to Belroar and his stuff? Oh have fun dragging the big guy somewhere to be buried, he's quite large.

day job: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (4) + 8 = 12

I will spend the gold for remove disease.

Boon Rolls

Aurelia: 1d20 ⇒ 15
Belroar: 1d20 ⇒ 6
GM Harker: 1d20 ⇒ 16
Melufiuos: 1d20 ⇒ 1
Moadis: 1d20 ⇒ 5
Ophelia: 1d20 ⇒ 8
Valik: 1d20 ⇒ 12

Congratulations, Melufiuos! You won a boon. Please roll a 1d4 to determine which one it will be.

Belroar, I'm afraid all of the character's stuff just goes away. From a role-playing standpoint, I would say it's given to the next of kin, or liquidated and given to a local temple of Gorum if there isn't any next of kin. Since you have a better idea of his character background than I do, I'll leave that up to you.

LOL, I win with a 1. The die must have thought I was still in combat.
Boon: 1d4 ⇒ 4

I'm assuming the organizers will send you the chronicle sheet for this via email sometime after I report the game.

Quick question about the boon. What does the “hard mode” option for a scenario means?

Certain scenarios offer Hard Mode versions, 04-26 The Waking Rune is one of them, and I believe there is at least another offered in Season 5.

Chronicle sheets have been sent out to the emails you've provided me. If I missed a purchase or you decide on one later, please feel free to add them to the sheets and your Inventory Tracking Sheet. I'll be sending the reporting information to the organizers of the Gameday as soon as I finish this post.

I'll start The Penumbral Accords in a few days on our original thread. If you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions in the meantime, you can direct them there or private message me directly.

My gold doesn't show the cost for remove disease, I will adjust accordingly :)

Yeah, typically I'll just write down the money spent for the removal of a condition and let you do the math in case there's any purchases you want to add after receiving the sheet.

I fixed it on my virtual $ tracker, can't think of any other purchases.

I can't remember if I have asked this it not but here it goes:

I took Heurloom weapon - Sansetsukon ( for proficiency) can I buy another Sansetsukon like a MWK or silver one and still be proficient or is it only for the "trait" version?

I believe the trait only gives proficiency with the specific weapon you received with the trait (i.e., not with other versions of the same type of weapon). If that's problematic, at least you can still retrain for free.

Oh well, thought I would ask.

My apologies for disappearing the last few days, university is giving me hell lately. I received the Chronicle though, so thank you!