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Ser Willem, having been busy dealing with Taldane affairs, was finally assigned to visit the Flaxseed Lodge, as he was told this was the place to find more work to continue his service. He brushes a hand through his short blonde hair as he enters the main area of the lodge and is bewildered by the sheer number of other Pathfinder here. He would definitely find work here.
Our Emerald Spire group (CORE) is looking for one more member to join the team for the next (4th) level, which is Godhome, available for 3rd-5th level characters. The group plans to continue to level 5 afterwards.
We're just filling 1 slot. The group has a melee cleric, rogue and archer. If there are multiple sign-ups, we'll confer on the best fit for the opening. Please be sure you can post 1-2 times per day on weekdays.
@Tyranus... bummer I didn't see this earlier looks like a full table I am in the process of transferring my pen and paper level 10 Barbarian into PbP format and will be looking for some high tier scenarios to play.
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A small gnome walks slowly into the Lodge. Her right leg hitches with each step slowing her down. She's followed by a wolf.
Faybella glares at anyone who suggests the wolf leave. "Wolfie is very well trained. He knows lots of tricks, and hasn't eaten anyone I didn't tell him to in at least...let me think...three no four months. He was provoked beyond bearing then. He's not a dog, and doesn't like to be called one."
She continues across the room to the notice boards. She pulls up a chair to make reading the notices easier. Let's see. Anything for a new Pathfinder available right now?
A man of Taldan origin steps into the lodge. He has several notable features, among which his bold sideburns and drab livery. "Hear ye, hear ye," he starts reading from a paper in a very nasal and droning voice. "I have the 'pleasure' to recruit six of you for an internship in Varisia, with the Heidmarch lodge in Magnimar. Previous experience in the field is not necessary, I've been instructed to say. (They're sending fresh recruits off to everywhere these days, it seems.) Ahem... Your first assignment would be the looting - pardon - exploration of an erstwhile Pathfinder's personal vault."
"Thereafter, there may be an assignment dealing with a circus of some sort. I wasn't told of the details. You'd have to ask Mr. and Mrs. Heidmarch when you see them."
After this monotonous declaration the man stays on stage, gazing off into the distance. He has a pen at the ready, to take names for the shortlist.
It is NOT evergreen.
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An attractive redhead walks up to offer her name to the Taldan recruiting for the Heidmarch lodge. She is not particularly well-armed or armored (studded leather, with a club and sling), but after talking with the recruiter, she points to a table and gestures. A strange humanoid figure walks over carrying some spears. As he clears the smokey center of the room and approaches, he can be seen to have the face of a tiger, with strong arms and legs, claws, and Minkai armor. But once he is close enough to be seen properly, the recruiter sees he has fur that appears to be the same as is often used to simulate fur in stuffed animals given to children. Indeed, the creature's face has buttons for eyes, each with an ornate stylized Minkai butterfly embossed. The same emblem appeared in a larger disk on the creature's breastplate and then the recruiter noticed what he had assumed was a tattoo on the woman's forehead was really the same emblem which seemed to be magically embedded in her forehead.
"Hy am Nona Petran. Diz iz Katzu, my h'eidolon. Ver Hy go, he goz." She speaks with a distinct Ustalav accent.
The recruiter places her name on the list and adds a "+1" note. As she returns with her eidolon and pulls out a Harrow deck to play Harrow solitaire at the table, the recruiter notes how young she looks, but the eidolon had an air of something ancient.
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Generally race boons are given out to GMs of larger events, mostly conventions and the occasional game day and the available boons rotate on a quarterly basis.
Tieflings (and Aasimar) that were played while the race was open can still be played, but no new tieflings can be created without a boon. In order to be grandfathered, the tiefling had to have at least 1 XP prior to August 14, 2014.
The Taldan man with the sideburns looks at his list of names with a detached and bored look, then closes his eyes and jots down his pen four time. "Right. It took a rigorous selection process, but Heidmarch Manor has a new team of Pathfinders on retinue," he drones. "Yay them..."
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So that leaves 5 players who didn't make the table right? I've already played Veteran's Vault before, but if someone can show me the ropes on how to run PBP on the Paizo forum (I usually run on Myth-Weavers), I might be able to run a second table to pick up the players that were left off.
There are several general purpose guides to GMing on Paizo messageboards here. This one covers a broad range of topics, including how to set up the thread.
If you mainly need to know the nuts and bolts of how to get a thread started, look at the "2.1 Creating the World" for what to do first as GM and what the players do.
Post something back here once you've set up the thread and make the invite, plus maybe send a private message (PM) to make sure the prospective players you want to join are aware of your offer.
I'm not sure what, if anything, you have to do to make the game an official PFS game, but at a minimum, you'll have to have the chronicle sheets to give out, usually via e-mail or posting on something like Google Docs. I think the PFS GM has to report the results in some official way so appropriate updates can be made. I've never done any of that, but obviously lots of other posters to this thread have.
Most games I've played and my own PBP campaign use a shared document on something like Google Docs for things like maps and handouts. If you create a new Google drawing, you can then paste the map and individual tokens for the PCs, NPCs, and other props. You can then post a link that players can click to open the doc and anyone can move things around to indicate where his/her character moves. Just be sure the option is checked that gives people who click on the link permission to edit.
Anything else you need to know?
"Hmm? A mission? And it's not in Kaer Maga? I'm in!" I was another of those 5. I've got some PbP GM experience, which is basically do whatever Dungeon Master S does. As far as mapping is concerned, as a player I like google slides so I can move my tokens on my phone. As a GM I prefer google drawings because it's much easier to work with. If you use google drawings, expect people to narrate actions and not move their tokens. If you use slides, expect to spend extra time re-sizing and chopping up the maps. I personally use google drawings when I GM because I find it easier to just make 1 giant map for dungeons and cover up parts, then just delete the covering blocks as the party goes. It keeps the scenario moving forward nicely and makes my life easier. I have no problem moving people's tokens for them if they narrate their action, so it all works out in the end.
Thank you sir! Everything posted thus far is great advice. I really don't have much to add.
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To get around the problem of people being unable to update Google drawing from their phones, I added a marker square that forms the origin of a coordinate axis system so that each square can be referred to by a pair of coordinates. It sounds complicated but it works well enough once people understand how it works.
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Rilia sighs heavily and looks about the crowded taproom looking for someone attractive and in need of a religious experience.
She keeps an eye on but stays clear of the mapper's guild seated across from her. Their discussion seemed as crazy as a bag of stoats. She was of course no stranger to cartography being a traveling bard, but 'players'? 'Phones'? 'Googles'? Crazy as a bagful of stoats.
A cloaked and hooded figure enters the Lodge... "I am looking for one recruit to join an established group of Pathfinders upon several missions to prove your worth to The Society! For those of you ready for your Confirmation, step forward and you shall be accepted."
The figure waves at the figure. "Welcome to the fold. Right this way..."
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The door opens with a chill wind as an Elf with platinum-blond hair, ice-blue eyes, fine white physician's garb and a hefty black bag, and...something chilling and unnatural in the way he carries himself enters the lodge. He takes a moderately comfortable seat in the corner, reclines in a manner that could barely be called 'relaxing,' and from a pocket, he removes what appears to be a motley, deep-black chess pieces, and begins staring at it in inscrutable contemplation....
If anyone's going to be running a level 1 compatible scenario in the near future, or needs a replacement character, I'm interested in running a couple level 1s.
