Flaxseed Lodge (PFS1)

Game Master Redelia

Nicely done! That is fast. I am halfway through leading 3 groups through book 1, and I think it is moving pretty well - but I expect this to take a lot longer than 11 months!

No more ap by pbp for me, it hasnt worked out for me as a player at all :(

11 months for an entire AP, your party was no joke! I joined a PbP of Shattered Star once, after 10 months we were only in book 2 and I'd stopped enjoying it by then.

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I'd love to do another AP here in PbP. I think Shattered Star took us, hmm, about 3 and half years? I really enjoyed seeing a PC go from a noob all the way to level 18 though.

I am super excited to announce that after having started the Giantslayer AP as a pbp 11 months ago, I have successfully completed all 6 books as GM.

Congratulations Treppa, Kyshkumen, Khellerin, Oladin & Picciui for sticking with me through all 6 books to end The Storm Tyrant's reign of terror.

RIP Doug Sherwood paladin of Aroden who was slain by a critical lightning strike from The Storm Tyrant himself.

Pirate Rob,

Would you be willing to come by Granta's GM School discussion thread and talk about the experience?

Hmm

I've never tried an AP in PBP. I think PFS scenarios are the perfect length for PBP games, and I don't know if I'd even want to do a module, let alone a full adventure path.

But for in person play, the Rise of the Runelords group that I'm GMing is about half way through the 6th book, more than 3.5 years after we started. I'm hoping to finish by the end of the year.

I started Gming a PBP of Giantslayer when it first came out in 2015. We are now a quarter of the way through Book 5 and going strong.

AP's can be great fun when you're lucky enough to find a good group. I'm in a Second Darkness campaign that I think is wrapping up soon after 2 years of PbP play, and I'm in Tyranius' Giantslayer which has been moving along at a decent pace as well.

I think the trick to finding a group that works is to be really picky about which AP's you apply for. Usually, the longer a person has been a member of the forums, the more likely they are to finish an AP. Many new GM's and players that try to run AP's are not prepared for the 1+ years of everyday commitment. My own run of Hell's Rebel's failed for the same reason.

That's not to say new comers can't be successful, but I find a lot of campaigns that ended were from plays eager to start their PbP GM career with a bang.

Pirate Rob,

Would you be willing to come by Granta's GM School discussion thread and talk about the experience?

Hmm

+1 to this^^^^^

I have found in the few that I am running and in that it is less about the GM themselves and more about the players ( all of them) making consistent posts that push the story.

Tyranius, we'd love to have you come by Granta's school too. Please, come talk with us!

Hmm

I am super excited to announce that after having started the Giantslayer AP as a pbp 11 months ago, I have successfully completed all 6 books as GM.

Congratulations Treppa, Kyshkumen, Khellerin, Oladin & Picciui for sticking with me through all 6 books to end The Storm Tyrant's reign of terror.

RIP Doug Sherwood paladin of Aroden who was slain by a critical lightning strike from The Storm Tyrant himself.

Congratulations that's awesome. What an awesome group of committed players and GM that must have been. I'm a little jealous.

Geez, 11 months of rl play barely got us halfway through book 2 of RotRL.

Remember, it is more than just finishing. The journey is pointless if you are not enjoying it.

I'm in three APs at the moment
Legacy of Fire, Been going since the start of 2014 and we are coming to the end of book 2. Played on a different forum with the focus on quality posts rather than rapidly moving through combat. We have had I think a complete turn over in characters since the first encounter, but a generally steady group for the last couple of years. Played at RPGcrossing (granddaddy to mythweavers for those who know of that site)

Shackled City, I think we are in book 3 now (level 6 anyway) going since the start of 2016. A really good group there. We started overweight with characters, I think we dropped two and picked up one extra. Really good progress and fun RP too.

Hells Rebels. I think we are just starting book 2. Started late 2015, I joined about a year ago. I'm still struggling a bit with my character for this one to be honest, having a hard time settling into what she is/will be. Which after a year probably means I made some bad decisions at the beginning.

Of course I've tried lots more than didn't work out as well. In short APs are a big commitment. I've tried running a couple at rpgcrossing, but the first time I accepted too many players and just got burned out. The second time was Strange Aeons and the players never really settled into their characters. I'm not sure the PBP is a good mechanism for that AP to be honest, though I'm sure there are some folk out there who are making it work.

My problem is that PbP here is the only gaming I currently have access to (I have a few friends I've talked a bit about establishing a Skype game with, but it wouldn't be Pathfinder we'd be playing, since they're lukewarm at best toward the system).

I plan on running a table of Wounded Wisp for the upcoming gameday.

I have never gm'd pfs before (though I have gm'd plenty of home games, including some pbp, though usually test playing rules as of late).

I am currently reading through the pfs guide, and the scenerio of course.

Any advice would be helpful. I'll be adding my game to the gameday list shortly.

I've finished Skull and Shackles on these boards in about 6 months, but that took some major commitment to poast multiple times a day. I've also finished Council of Thieves but that took a lot longer at about 5 years. I wouldn't expect the former to happen again but it is possible.

Damm..I've been wanting to play the Giantslayer AP. Congratulations on finishing.

Cosmic Captive ended! I give you back 30 GMs, including me.

Yay!

Hmm

With just enough time to squeeze in another game before we go poof again for game day 6.

With that being said. I will be recruiting for another game. See recruitment thread for more details.

Thank you Hmm for overseeing the whole event! It must have been crazy with so many tables over multiple boards, but your posts really added to the epic feel of the scenario.

Know what would have made it feel epic?

Cameo by Mark Twain.

Then you should try playing with Professor F. It was like having Twain with us the whole time, only shorter and slightly more forgetful.

The following GameDay tables are full:

• 116-121
  
• 124
  
• 129
  
• 131
  
• 141

The following GameDay tables are full:

• 116-121
  
• 124
  
• 129
  
• 131
  
• 141

Thank you!

Then you should try playing with Professor F.

It was like having Twain with us the whole time, only shorter and slightly more forgetful.

"What's that you say? Is there finally a chance to hurl at our enemies an overly large ball of fi---"

Zzzzzzz....

Please mark table 67 as full. c:

What is the current way to get Core characters reverted back to Core status when there has been a mix up in reporting?

Can a venture agent help with this?

What is the current way to get Core characters reverted back to Core status when there has been a mix up in reporting?

Can a venture agent help with this?

Unfortunately, no. That's the realm of Paizo IT.

So, who / how do we go about requesting that?

Khellek, it is boring as dirt and has now happened to me yet again.

To be honest, as long as the character is in fact 'core rules compliant' does it really matter if it is 'Core' in the system? At the end of the day, the main issue is making sure you have all your chronicle sheets.

I'm to the point of setting Core on fire and never touching it again. Seriously, it is getting right on my hump.

Like I always say, chronicles trump online reporting by a hundred fold. Some GMs I have had refused to report a character because it wasn't Core in the system, but it's because people have reported games wrong by reporting the Standard version instead of Core. I still have a chronicle sheet for those characters and still consider them Core characters.

You can't control what other people put into the system, and honestly whether it's Core or not in the system really doesn't matter at all IMO.

Chronicles always trump the reporting system. This applies to both Core and if someone never reports something. People can't even look at what you've played in the reporting system short of VCs or Paizo Staff (although pretty much only Paizo IT is capable of switching a character between campaigns), so again, keep your chronicles sheets and worry about those.

In the end, for most of us it's a game and not work. ;)

It just causes a bit of grief for the GMs when they report it, so would be nice to be able to keep to clean for them.

I understand that. My profile is a total mess because I created a dummy character because GMs have forced me to do so for it to be reported since the actual account was converted to Standard. Honestly, this causes way more problem with the account, but in the end it still doesn't really matter that much to me. I have tried to get this corrected before and since some of the games are reported incorrectly as Standard and I am never getting the people who reported those games to change it, it's just going to be what it is.

It just causes a bit of grief for the GMs when they report it, so would be nice to be able to keep to clean for them.

Froma GM reporting standpoint, all it does is throw up a note that the character is not core. It will still accept the submission though.

I'm to the point of setting Core on fire and never touching it again. Seriously, it is getting right on my hump.

This is pretty much why I do not do core games at all. With the amount of books available (in digital form, nonetheless), I would very likely miss non-CRB feat or class option on a character. I understand some people prefer core only rules for sake of simplicity, but:

1 - I like to have options and not limit myself when creating characters
2 - at this point, it is easier for me to look for options and NOT filter non-CRB stuff

So, who / how do we go about requesting that?

There's a button next to the session at issue. Click to Report a Problem. It opens an email to CS. It takes forever for them to fix it, if they do. That's the best way I know to let CS know that the game was reported incorrectly.

I had this issue as a player and successfully got it fixed courtesy of IronHelixx. He was very responsive and helpful. Unfortunately a GM cannot fix the issue without involving Paizo staff, but the good news is that it IS fixable if you know the right person(s) to ask.

Glad to know that is not too big of a deal for most people. My whole table of CORE campaign characters got reported as standard a while back.

The main reason I like the CORE/standard distinction is it gives me a way to replay a module. For instance, right now I'm playing Emerald Spire in CORE so I can keep it open for an opportunity to play with RL friends in Classic. Same with the season 5 PbP campaign this character is in.

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Yah, I think that one was my fault. Even though I fixed the report, not everyone got reverted back (4 out of 6 did).

But I do know that if one person is non-core, it can cause the system to convert everyone on the scenario to non-core, and that causes some concerns. It does seem to be a simple database issue, so it would be nice if there was an easier way to get it fixed, especially for online games that are pretty easy to review and verify.

And now for something completely different:

"The Solstice Scar:" Any open tables for it? Is it a special, or just another Scenario to be run whenever?

They have fixed the issue with one non core character changing the entire table to Core. Thank goodness.

Still, sometimes characters are reported wrong and things stick.

Ironhelix is going to look into this one for me.

And now for something completely different:

"The Solstice Scar:" Any open tables for it? Is it a special, or just another Scenario to be run whenever?

Sign-up Sheet is here. You can find it in GM Granta's header as well.

According the the product page it is a multi-table limited release scenario.

I'm Hiding In Your Closet wrote:

And now for something completely different:

"The Solstice Scar:" Any open tables for it? Is it a special, or just another Scenario to be run whenever?

Sign-up Sheet is here. You can find it in GM Granta's header as well.

Seems to be completely full (except for a few seats in Core, which I don't do). :/

Solstice scar is a 'time locked' special that can only be run as part of a convention. The current instalment will run from July to Dec, then it will lock down and be no longer available for play.

In January the next iteration will be released, which will run until June, then it locks and so on and so forth.

Basically it is an ongoing story in which the next chapter opens every 6 months and the only one legal to play is the current chapter.

Solstice scar is a 'time locked' special that can only be run as part of a convention. The current instalment will run from July to Dec, then it will lock down and be no longer available for play.

Oh dear - any recourse for those of us who couldn't get a 'seat' here? In-person Pathfinder Society's been dead in my area for years now.

There's a wait list in the sign-up sheet. Put yourself on there, and maybe a seat will open up. A GM will contact you if there is.

There's a wait list in the sign-up sheet. Put yourself on there, and maybe a seat will open up. A GM will contact you if there is.

Didn't notice that.

Oh dear - any recourse for those of us who couldn't get a 'seat' here? In-person Pathfinder Society's been dead in my area for years now.

Yeah mate, run a con here on the forums :p

That's what I ended up doing with the Multis to help get my Specials up for 5 star.

I understand the dead scene problem - I am running the Solstice Scar live in September, and we will be live in three capital cities (Sydney + Newcastle, Canberra, Brisbane) as well as beaming in to Auckland in New Zealand.

Not sure what the solution is, you need 15 tables for an event to be a con - but 'Scar only requires 3 tables itself to be legal. I'm running another event on the boards that will qualify as a Con, but that is likely after cut off (January 2018)