PbP GameDay 4: PFS #5-08 The Confirmation (Inactive)

Game Master Wilmannator

Welcome back! Good timing; I decided to check to see if you were back while on my lunch break.

Janira having a lower initiative than the Minotaur is... unfortunate... Hopefully I can distract it, though sadly too far away to actually Fascinate it (though that Will save is iffy anyway.)

If only I had a giant red cape to swirl (red hiding the blood better)

@ GM Damo:Fine by me, I wasn't looking forwards to trudging through that underground river encounter.

Onto the minotaur!

I think that Grease Success calls for a bardic "I'm participating!"

I honestly didn't think that would work (less than 50% shot), but given enough saves, he had to fail *something* eventually.

Presumably Boris' attack gets +1 damage from the Inspire... though it would provoke for going through the Minotaur's threatened area.

I was looking inspire courage over and it reads "weapon damage", so I erred on the side of caution.

And yeah, I'm expecting to get smacked by an AoO. Lunge is on my potential feat list.

Just curious about why you didn't deliver the spell through a weapon! I'm not familiar with the hex crafter... does that archetype do away with the regular magus schtick?

You cannot spellstrike until level 2. Edited because my own grammar hurt my brain.

Also, for another reason to deliver the touch, often times, the difference between AC and Touch AC is pretty significant.

Well, I only get spellstrike at 2nd level. Until then I can "dual-wield" a weapon and a spell with spell combat

Ninja'd by by Jillia.

And as for hex crafter, it just allows me to choose hexes instead of magus arcana. I just cannot recall spell for arcane points, which is rough, but otherwise, I think it gives the class more versatility. Especially with that AC issue I'm trying to figure out.

I suppose I could just get the prehensile hair hex and use Boris's chest patch to heroically wield his blade... at a distance.

Ah. I forget just how badly magi suffer until later levels. As you were. Just thought I'd ask. ;-)

For as much as I (the player) know that grappling the minotaur is a REALLY bad idea, I REALLY wanted it to happen. Ah well.

For as much as I (the player) know that grappling the minotaur is a REALLY bad idea, I REALLY wanted it to happen. Ah well.

Now, now. You mess with the bull, you get the horns.

Brob, you've run this too many times! ;-)

Great job everyone. I'll get chronicles out tonight if I can.

Steve and I have often commented during this that you guys (here and on table 2) are playing like PbP pros. You post regularly, everything goes smoothly with the mechanics, your posts are beautifully descriptive and you always move the action along.

It was an absolute dream to run for all of you, and thank you for playing!

I won't lie, this was much more fun than I had anticipated. I was dreading it a little, but thought it would at least be a way to get some extra, more casual gameplay in. But it really is a blast!

Also, 20ft move with no skills or ranged weapons really sucks. I need to fix that.

Yeah. That's the one thing about this fight; it's really hard on melee with low movement speeds. It's almost better to fight the minotaur at the beginning (when you don't need to charge across the river) if that's the case.

I honestly wasn't sure if that last attack was needed, but there was still a chance he could have killed someone with a gore crit, so I opted for my reroll and apparently flashy finish ;)

Yeah, the last encounter really sucks with slow movement and melee only. It's really designed to take the fighters out of it.

The optimal tactic for your party would have been to hang back and let the ranged guys do their thing while waiting for the minotaur to cross the river. That forgoes the roleplaying bit of wanting to save Janira, of course!

Speaking of, someone should heal her on the gameplay... she's still gravely injured. ;-)

Boon Roll Time!

Using the exact template provided by the online VC.

GM: 1d20 ⇒ 2
Boris: 1d20 ⇒ 13
Brob: 1d20 ⇒ 1
Jillia: 1d20 ⇒ 20
Markus: 1d20 ⇒ 14
rin: 1d20 ⇒ 11
Varus: 1d20 ⇒ 11

Boon of players choice on a natural roll of 1 or 20
**Re-Rolls not allowed on boons**

More on my next post.

Congratulations Brob and Jillia!

You get to choose a boon! I will PM you both with the list of choices.

Hey everyone, your chronicles are here!

Please download them and let me know when you have them. Also let me know if I've stuffed anything up. When you've got your chrons and Brob sends me his email address, I'll get the game reported.

Thanks everyone for playing... and it's not quite over yet. Kreighton Shaine wants his report. ;-)

Chronicle downloaded. I've had a great time, it's reinforced my love of PbP and it's been a great first real PFS experience.

Thanks Damo, and thanks to everyone else for helping make this a great game.

Chonicle downloaded. Level 2!

I'll echo Markus's sentiment. This was pretty awesome. (Awesome enough that I'm already in another PbP game and signed up for a third.)

To Damo: Mad props for putting up with all of our shenanigans.

Also, to Markus: Equally mad props for dealing with a bunch of PFS vets (most of whom had already played/ran the scenario(!)) like a pro.

Thanks Jillia. Everyone was great, there was no evidence that this wasn't peoples' first time!

Hey all! Session reported. Thanks for letting me know you've picked up your chronicles - please continue to do so.

Markus, no problems with the faction reward attempt, nothing to note since you had already not taken a day job check (and didn't pass), right?

Now, for the boons and the online reporting... it has typically taken a long time before the sessions have been reported properly and the boons have come out a week or two after GameDay ends. Don't make any plans for your boons just yet! ;-)

Hopefully this time round it will be quicker, but don't rely on it.

On a more positive note, I had a blast. Thank you again everyone for playing... and we've still got wrap-up if you want it!

Chronicle Sheet downloaded!

I had a really great time, and I would love to continue on and be more involved in PbP.

Thank you all for putting up with my (embarrassing and repeated) mistakes!

Thank you GM Damo for taking the time to run this, and thank you again for the opportunity.

I hope I will see you all in another PbP; I'm looking to play in another with Boris! Hopefully I get to play on with all of you!

I'm actually thinking of trying my hand at running a PbP game at some point soon, perhaps First Steps 1, after I get a couple of IRL things in order. This has been a lot of fun.

Now, on to preparing The Waking Rune for this afternoon...

Good luck! Should be easy right? For you to TPK I mean. :P

Dunno. These guys have some tricks... though I'm worried they won't bring enough consumables ;)

Dunno. These guys have some tricks... though I'm worried they won't bring enough consumables ;)

My team went in with about 21k worth of consumables (each). And it was still a ridiculous fight.

Try not to get <redacted>.

Oh, and PM me if anyone has interested in First Steps 1. I'll try to get something together by this weekend depending on how my con-prep goes

I'm definitely interested. PM incoming!

I'm also interested in more PFS PbP! I'm hooked!

Okay, so Paizo has been sapping my PbP time. I had two big chunks yesterday set aside, and a big chunk today set aside for some lovely updates. Unfortunately, the site was down at every single one of those times. I see there are new posts, so I can only assume Paizo had it out for me.

I will post a wrap-up post tomorrow by midday at the latest and then close the thread down a little later (probably Tuesday).

I would apologize for my absence, but it was not my fault. Hope you guys didn't have the same experience.

It's been on and off. Something funky is going on over there. Pretty sure it has something to do with the possible development of What We Be Goblins For!

Are you GMing anything else for GDIV? Or in general?

It's been on and off. Something funky is going on over there. Pretty sure it has something to do with the possible development of What We Be Goblins For!

Are you GMing anything else for GDIV? Or in general?

It's been off and on; luckily I've been getting pretty good at typing up posts in notepad ;)

I also have my chronicle sheet. Thanks again! I had a blast!

I've got my regular two games that I'm still GMing (Reign of Winter AP and a custom campaign based on the classic D&D module: Isle of Dread). Nothing more for the GameDay. Check in with Steve's Table (scroll up a few posts) if you want some more PbP. One of those guys is starting up a game. I'm sure you could PM them for an invite.

Yeah, I'll try PMing people. Also, as after this weekend I'm going to need to try racking up Specials towards a Fifth star, I'm going to test the waters with a (6-97) Siege of Serpents run as well. (Overprepared to GM that in person for Dragon-con ;))

This campaign is CLOSED and will no longer be monitored.

Thank you again to everyone for discussing.