The Dire GM's "First Steps" in PFS PbP (Inactive)

Game Master CanisDirus

Just putting this here for everyone to see I'm going to ask Mike to Bot me for a bit just because of RL stupidity.

Hang in there! Whatever happens I'll send some of my best wishes and positive vibes your way. Hope to see you back soon!

Ya can've a charge of mine, but I cannae cast it fer ye.

Am I correct in thinking Bumi is offering Kegan a charge from a wand of CLW?

If so, I am grateful. Kegan can either attempt the UMD himself, or either Zot or Einn should be able to automatically activate it.

Bumi Gruntek wrote:

Ya can've a charge of mine, but I cannae cast it fer ye.

Am I correct in thinking Bumi is offering Kegan a charge from a wand of CLW?

If so, I am grateful. Kegan can either attempt the UMD himself, or either Zot or Einn should be able to automatically activate it.

Sorry yes, he is replying to offer you a charge off his wand (in fact already marked it off), but telling you he can't use it himself. ]

(you can have a charge of mine, but I cannot cast it for you)

Thanks, just wanted to double-check.

PLEASE Do not worry about the discharge, meant to post earlier though had a very busy weekend and taking on a ton of OT at work. Will try to get a post in later today, but please assume that after throwing the rats into the water that I had used Channel Positive Energy. I had meant to do it before but completely spaced it!

Heal-bot for hire! Remember? :P I hope it isn't to late though, jumping straight into combat after I had just thought about the whole Crate situation was a bit of a surprise this morning. Caught me a bit off guard!

Since we are nearing the end of our game, please submit the following information here on the Discussion thread:

Player Name:
Character Name:
PFS / Character #:
Faction:
(If any) Day Job Roll:

Thanks very much!

Player Name: Bret
Character Name: Kegan
PFS/Character #: 141981-12
Faction: Dark Archives
Day Job: None

Do the texts we found count as Named Texts for Dark Archive faction journal cards?

Do the texts we found count as Named Texts for Dark Archive faction journal cards?

Yep! :)

Player Name: Betty
Character Name: Einn Emberstrands
PFS / Character #: 95342-20
Faction: Sovereign Court
(If any) Day Job Roll: Performance (singing): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (5) + 7 = 12

I don't think I'm alone in this, what is the next game we should expect from awesome GM such as yourself on this?

Player Name: Chris Lorando
Character Name: Zot Trouvaelir
PFS / Character #: 25260-4
Faction: Silver Crusade
Day Job Roll: Profession: Cook: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (2) + 9 = 11

Player: Joe Ducey
Character: Bumi Gruntek
PFS# 132377-17
Faction Exchange
Day Job roll: Miner: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (16) + 6 = 22

Coulda sworn I did this already

Just to clarify:

Silver Crusade Faction card: "Accept the surrender of an enemy combatant (other than an evil outsider or undead creature), and ensure his fair treatment until he can be safely released, ransomed, or delivered to authorities for justice. Alternatively, allow an enemy combatant with no means of escape to flee without further harm."

Our Witch does or does not qualify for this? Seems as though there was no combat, and thus no chances of this being the case? Either way been having a blast. Really excited to see how this ends!

And wow Bumi! Great Day Job Roll! Seems as though Einn and I aren't at our peak performances this game. :P

Between the Alchemist fire and that most recent CLW, seems to me you are doing just fine Zot.

Well... Desna does provide in the most dire of situations, doesn't she? I'll defer to her amazing favor this game and hope that I may continue to serve her well in the coming moments! And I dare say, healing +8 HP after you lost just the same, talk about a come back!

Hopefully fortune shall favor us in the coming offense as well, can't let that Barbarian keep smashing us around like that! I dare say I am enjoying this exchange indeed.

Now given all the confusion earlier in the game with my "Bit of Luck" confusion, I wonder if the wonderful Dire GM would allow just ONE more use of my Bit of Luck... though I won't push my limits. Just enjoying seeing you all use Desna's favor in such artistically magnificent ways! Haha!

Glad to just be here having fun with all of you. I'll admit an interesting situation we find ourselves in.

Now given all the confusion earlier in the game with my "Bit of Luck" confusion, I wonder if the wonderful Dire GM would allow just ONE more use of my Bit of Luck.

Sure.

Zot Trouvaelir wrote:

...Dire GM would allow just ONE more use of my Bit of Luck...

Sure.

Thanks Dire GM! I'll have to work up a really great dish to express my gratitude! You know, the kind we aren't launching you into a large pile of that is. I am to please! Haha!

Player Name: Aaron Porter
Character Name: Steve Irwin
PFS / Character #: 193226 - 6
Faction: DA
(If any) Day Job Roll: N/A

Thanks very much!

Got a rules question for the GM.

Using Acrobatics to avoid an Attack of Opportunity when moving through multiple people, is it a single roll against each CMD with adjustments, or do I roll once for each opponent?

Second complication: If I spend a panache on Derring Do, do I get the extra d6 added for use against all the opponents?

I'm thinking of tumbling through the first two of them. CMD should be weaker on Ledford given he is a halfling.

1 - Yes you roll for each (and take a cumulative -2 for each one after the first)

2 - That's a good one...let me look it up...

Based on my read, it would be for each check. BUT, it also says:

She can do this after she makes the check but before the result is revealed.

So you can roll and then decide afterwards if you want to add your (exploding 6s) d6 to the check.

Talk about an amazing display of Daring Do, I'm rather excited to see if you can pull this off! If so hopefully my Alchemist Fire can "soften up" the opponents enough to one of them will have to drop prone or suffer Desna's Light!

Ouch! Rolling for each makes it much more difficult!

Well, on the bright side maybe I'll get to trigger the Parry/Riposte!

Well if all else fails, I can take a step back and drop a Channel Positive Energy and use my "Beneficial Touch" Daily!

Given how this will go, hopefully that means the Reposte will hit and we can push ahead. These poor poor fools... If they really wanted a taste of my cooking there are MUCH healthier ways of going about it!

If Kegan ends up in the middle of them, don't let that prevent you from throwing alchemical fire. He would object to acid or other substances, but a mild fire is no problem for him!

Well I have one more in reserve before biting into my own "stash" and I'm honestly thinking about it. At this point depending on how things "roll" I may just drop a Touch of Luck or attempt Aid Another actions if possible. We will see where it all falls!

Thank you all for playing in my first Play-by-Post as the GM! I hope you all had a fun time, and please feel free to leave any comments or questions about how I did things here in the discussion thread. I've run games in person, on Roll20, and over mIRC/chatrooms, but never a PbP, so I'm open to any feedback.

Look for chronicle sheets in a few days - links to them will be posted both here and in the Gameplay thread.

Thank you all again!!!

I had an absolute blast, and will get working on the pastry exploding festivities to come! I must admit you stuck to it and did a splendid job. Please do consider me going forward for any efforts you may have in the future, it is not an easy task to run a PbP and you were able to finish it all the way to completion!

AND I got to enjoy playing my cook! Thank you so much!

Everyone else: This was truly an amazing game and I had a lot of fun and learned a lot. Thank you for the opportunity of allowing me to run Zot along side the rest of your characters. I truly look forward to playing with you all again in the future!

Cheers!

Question: When's the sequel start?

I'd be up for continuing with this motley bunch in more hi-jinks!

Chronicle sheets have been posted HERE

(Note that I accidentally listed tomorrow's date on them instead of yesterday's, so I'll report the scenario as complete to the site tomorrow to match)

Thank you all again for playing!!!

Question: When's the sequel start?

I'd be up for continuing with this motley bunch in more hi-jinks!

As for another game - I could possibly do that. Is there a scenario that you'd all like to play?

If we were going with the same characters, I was planning to do another evergreen and then a module on this character. Wounded Wisp or Consortium Compact would be good choices. In terms of character story, The Confirmation would be a little strange since we were just accepted into the society at the end of this one.

Edit to strike out.
By the way, my chronicle isn't signed at the bottom nor initialed for Fame and Gold. Could you please fix this, most Dire of GMs? Thank you!

Bret - not sure what you're looking at, but it's signed and initialed on my end.

Bret - not sure what you're looking at, but it's signed and initialed on my end.

I was looking in the dropbox preview. Now that I download it and look, the file has the proper signatures. It appears to be a problem in the preview on Dropbox.

Sorry for not checking more throughly first!

No worries :) Glad I'm not going crazy!

I've not done Wounded Wisp yet at all and I don't remember Consortium Compact one bit as it was run for me while I was still in the hospital on lots of pain meds (only reason I know I did play it was reported and I have a sheet).

I for one would LOVE to try a go at the Wounded Wisp. I was planning to run that for a group before, but ended up going with another scenario AND I never even downloaded the scenario.

If anything, if you want to go another round Zot would LOVE to be in line with everyone again! If so please keep me posted on if we are moving to a new forum/game.

Thanks!

I have both played and GMed Wounded Wisp, The Confirmation, and played Consortium Compact multiple times.

I try to get through level 1 with replayables.

I am GMing a session of Wounded Wisp this Wednesday. As this is my only current first level character, I would like to put the credit on him rather than start up another GM baby.

No worries, from the sound of it Dire has another game he'll be running as a PBP later and the follow up on this one has been put on hold. If you happen to need any further details let us know!

Yea, I probably won't run another one until after Thanksgiving at this point, but I'll keep everyone posted in case they want in. In the meantime I'm going to mark this game as finished/inactive, so thank you all very much again for making my first GM PbP experience a fun one!

More Grand Adventures? This time Zot bakes us all into the pie?

Question for the assembled (if anyone's still watching this space). Would any of you be interested if I decided to run more Play by Post games but for the Core (PFC) campaign? PbPs can take awhile, and I'd hate to tie up anyone's regular/normal PFS characters for long stretches of time.

...any takers?