The Moar Core Tour (Inactive)

Game Master BretI

Profession (Hunter): 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12

Profession (librarian): 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (17) + 6 = 23

Perform Sing: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 11

Damiar tries the Gnomish Polka Beat but it eludes her. “I just can’t find any fire in this.”

Alright, I think that's everyone with a day job. HERE are your chronicles. Let me know if I made any mistakes.

And just to make reporting easier next time, here's an updated list of reporting info:

Garif Stonetoe
80015-16
Silver Crusade

Damiar Apastron
149000-7
Dark Archive

Rees Kovu
86776-7
Grand Lodge

Iovo Apastron
141981-19
Dark Archive

Verrix
35179-22
Silver Crusade

Shieara Enric
PFS 192133-18
Liberty's Edge

Phinellippa Dioptrice
215650-15
Grand Lodge

Kleines Johann
215589-17
Silver Crusade

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Moar Core Tour
Event # 156,169

Just too late to edit it, I realized I should have included player names. Let's try this again:

Khelreddin
Garif Stonetoe
80015-16
Silver Crusade

Hmm
Damiar Apastron
149000-7
Dark Archive

Oladon
Rees Kovu
86776-7
Grand Lodge

BretI
Iovo Apastron
141981-19
Dark Archive

rknop
Verrix
35179-22
Silver Crusade

Lady Ladile
Shieara Enric
PFS 192133-18
Liberty's Edge

Kate Baker
Phinellippa Dioptrice
215650-15
Grand Lodge

Dennis Muldoon
Kleines Johann
215589-17
Silver Crusade

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Moar Core Tour
Event # 156,169

My chronicle looks good, thank you!

OMG. I need an atonement for getting servants to open that window. IT'S ALL MY FAULT.

Re: delaying, this is good for me. I'm about to drive out to MN (Park Rapids, for those who know the area), where my wife has been staying with her ailing mom. I'll be gone 10 days.

I'd be happy to run Horn of Aroden via VTT. Indeed, I would like, as much as possible, to do my GMing for the Moar Core Tour via VTT, as I fear that I'm really not going to be the best one at keeping up with a PbP (based on recent experience).

Works for me, if we can find a time that works for everyone.

Hey all, I’m back! Thanks for botting Garif and Nico through the end of the scenario. I like the idea of waiting a moment to start the next game, since I’ll be away at PaizoCon as well.

I’d be up for a VTT also. Maybe we do a Doodle poll or something similar for scheduling it?

Welcome back! I've never done a VTT (and to be honest am a little nervous about it) but I'm still willing to give it a try if it'll work easier for Rob that way. My work schedule is bizarre but hopefully I'll be able to find a time that works for everyone else :)

VTT is awesome. You'll love it.

My life is very complicated right now because my mother-in-law is dying. I'm currently out of town with my wife dealing with that. These aren't the sorts of thing one schedules, and there will be memorial services and such. I don't know when I'll get home, and I might be able to run a game from here. I should know more by the end of PaizoCon; I'll update all of you then.

-Rob

I’m sorry that you’re having to deal with all that, Rob!

Yes, I'm sorry too, Rob. I'll keep you and your family in my prayers.

Hey guys, I hope everyone has had a pleasant (or at least tolerable) holiday weekend :)

And for those not in the States, I hope you've had a pleasant regular weekend :)

Hey guys -- how was PaizoCon? This was the first one I've missed in six or seven years.

I'm AWOL until this weekend, driving home Sunday/Monday. I'm partway through prepping a Roll20 campaign for "The Horn of Aroden". I can be ready by the middle of next week. Is there an evening that would work to play that scenario? Wednesdays and Fridays are better for me, although I *may* have scheduled my Reign of Winter campaign for Friday the 8th. I'm off at a gameday all day on Saturday the 9th.

-Rob

PaizoCon was awesome! I believe four of us were there, and I got to play with everyone but Hmm, who I hung out with some to make up for it. Played in some great games, including a playtest of PF2. Took Saturday afternoon off and did a really cool escape room in Seattle with some friends. Won the trivia contest (carried by my son and others on the team, mostly)! You were definitely missed, Rob - I found myself scanning the big PFS room several times wondering where you were.

As to a Roll20 game, I think my schedule is pretty open, though we will have some time zone challenges to contend with. I don't know where Ladile lives, but the rest of us represent all four time zones in the continental US - so it may be a late night for you eastern people if we play on a weeknight.

Setting aside the exact timing, how about we try to pick a day that will work? Here is a Doodle poll that might help us sort this out.

I doubt we could be going before 6 or 6:30 Pacific time on a weeknight, which I'd imagine is a little late for those of you farther east. Could we add a few time options on that doodle poll? Maybe have multiple boxes for different start times each day?

Sorry to hear about your mother-in-law, Rob. Hang in there!

As for PaizoCon, I once again had a great time. Probably over scheduled myself, but I did get to play in the special, Ashes of Discovery, and Live Exploration Extreme! All three were great! HMM and I also played in Erik Keith’s fun little romp called Plucker and Gale vs. Evil.

If I put up some sort of trip report, I’ll link it here. We just got off the train this morning, so there is a bit of unpacking and such to be done.

June 8th will NOT work, but we might be able to make a different Friday work. If we can’t start until 8:30pm Pacific, maybe we could schedule it over to nights?

We can't do Friday the 15th, could maybe do Friday the 22nd. I like the idea of splitting it over two nights.

Let's see...I'm in Tennessee, so CST for me.

June 1st I'm free.
June 5th I work but will be home by 9:30 PM or so CST and free for the rest of the night.
June 6th I'm free.
June 7th through the 11th I will be out of town at a convention. I should be back by early afternoon/evening on the 11th and could play that night.
June 12th & 13th I'm free.

I don't know my work schedule anywhere past the 13th of June (because the schedule isn't made yet) but if I get enough advance notice I could possibly ask for certain days/nights off from work. Since I don't work a set schedule my times and days working/days off are all over the place but I *tend* to have Sundays free most often.

I doubt we could be going before 6 or 6:30 Pacific time on a weeknight, which I'd imagine is a little late for those of you farther east. Could we add a few time options on that doodle poll? Maybe have multiple boxes for different start times each day?

Yeah, I thought about trying to put in times, but had no idea how to bound the problem beyond the fact that time zones will make it tricky, so I took the coward's way out and left it general.

Given the time constraints already expressed, it sounds like it'll be two weeknight sessions or have to happen on a weekend. So if we just use the poll to indicate what days it's possible to play, we can try to hash out times based on that. I've added a bunch of additional days on to the poll - let's assume weeknights would be a 6:30 Pacific Time (9:30 Eastern) start, and weekends will be a juggle. If someone wants to make the poll more detailed, I think anyone can edit it by clicking on 'More' above the poll title.

If we're going to start that late, then I can do Tue/Thu ; my softball games should easily be done by them. Checked myself off on the Doodle. Sunday the 10th is looking like a possibility. How would you guys feel about doing it early on Sunday, say 10AM Pacific / 1PM Eastern?

Unfortunately, I have work until 5-6pm Pacific on the 10th, setting up summer camp.

Unfortunately, I have work until 5-6pm Pacific on the 10th, setting up summer camp.

You've got June 10 marked in the poll as a day you could play. Is that an error, or is there some time that day you could play?

I could play in the evening (after 6pm Pacific). I put a note, though looking at it again I could have been more clear.

Or I could have gone to the bottom and read your note...

I think I've got my current availability based on what I know of my upcoming work schedule and travel added to the poll.

Well, the good news is we've got everyone but Kate's availability on the poll. The bad news is there is no date in the next 3 weeks that works for all of us.

We could juggle the order of scenarios and schedule our first VTT for a bit later, see if that makes it work better for everyone. The Disappeared is a 1-5, so we could get started on a PbP of that and work on VTT scheduling during that run. Or we wait a few weeks to find a date we can all do and stay with our original order. Or someone comes up with some other brilliant plan I'm not thinking of.

Thoughts?

Honestly, I think the Disappeared might be better suited to VTT than to PbP. Maybe we should switch which scenario we're doing VTT for?

I would really like to be third level before The Disappeared. As I recall, that one can be challenging. Fun, but challenging.

It looks like Thursday and Sunday are the most likely days for this. Could we extend the calendar out another week? Would we be able to finish it all in one day on a Sunday?

I would have to go back through the thread to see what pace we have kept, but generally I expect a scenario to run between six and 10 weeks in PbP. Unless it is going to be that long before we can schedule the VTT, we aren’t falling behind by waiting.

It'd be nice to get ahead of schedule though; I had hoped that the occasional VTT game would allow us to move along a little faster than pure PBP.

I have no objection to getting a little ahead of schedule. I was just pointing out that waiting for the VTT doesn’t necessarily put us behind where we would be via PbP. The problem is it does require we all be online at the same time.

So, should we concentrate on finding a Sunday that will work for everyone, or is there another day that we might be able to fit into everyone’s schedule?

The farther out we can schedule, the better. Our weekends tend to fill up pretty quick, and being on the west coast our weekday availability starts pretty late.

It's the opposite of far out, but our Sunday this weekend just freed up. Any chance we could work something out for this weekend?

I would really like to be third level before The Disappeared. As I recall, that one can be challenging. Fun, but challenging.

We could switch which one is VTT, do Horn of Aroden now via PbP, and then try scheduling VTT again when we get to The Disappeared.

It's the opposite of far out, but our Sunday this weekend just freed up. Any chance we could work something out for this weekend?

Hilary’s daughter is having her graduation party Sunday. I expect she will be very busy between that and the graduation on Friday.

I'm working this Sunday as well and won't be home until about 9:30 pm CST :\

As soon as I get my next schedule (management usually plans them out a month at a time) I will post my availability here!

*edit* And I'm also fine with going ahead and running Horn of Aroden now via PbP and trying for VTT with The Disappeared or another scenario; whatever works best for everyone.

Ah well, figured it was a longshot for this weekend but worth trying.

This weekend is shot for me. Tomorrow (Saturday) is Alyson's mom's memorial service, and Sunday/Monday we're driving home.

I can do this Sunday, but that's rather moot at this point. Good idea to take a shot at it!

I've extended the poll's end date out by a week, but I'm camping most of that last week of June, so it won't change my availability much - though I think it adds a couple of Sundays I can do.

As I've said already, I'm also good with changing which one we do via VTT, whether by changing the order of scenarios or the order of how we play them.

By the way, I didn't want to mess with the GM spreadsheet but I'm pretty well a clean slate for Core stuff in regards to both having GMed and having played. And I'm also happy to take my turn at GMing something somewhere within the rotation - just let me know when/what might work best :)

I don't remember anyone being particularly tied to most of the scenarios, unless they've played it in core already. I know for me, personally, I haven't played any of them in core and I'm not married to GMing any of the ones I signed up for. I like GMing, and am happy to do a bunch of them, but if you want any of the ones I signed up for, feel free.

Understood! I just wanted to offer since it seemed like there was something of a rotation happening so that everyone gets chances to play. It might be a bit before I'd be in a good position to run a game for this group (long story involving current GM commitments and offering to be a steady PFS GM for some folks) but I didn't want to come in as a 7th player and freeload if everyone else is taking turns running for the group :)

I'm back in town, two weeks later than expected.

It looks like we failed to find a time to run Horn of Aroden in VTT, so we should start it up here. Who wants to GM it? It says "Hmm?" on the spreadsheet. I started reading it in anticipation of running it as a VTT, and would be willing to GM it here, but I am a little worried that I won't keep the pace up to what's expected here....

As we approach The Wardstone Patrol, I would like to plan ahead enough so we can play *that* one in VTT with me as GM. I've already got a Roll 20 campaign created for it (though it's been long enough that the character sheets have probably changed so much that I'll have to redo them).

In the one VTT I did on Fantasy Grounds, there was a way to export from HeroLab to a web site that did a convertion and paste that into the site. It was sort of slick.

If you are looking to use the Pathfinder character sheet on there, I can inquire as to what the site was. I know that both Hilary and I use HeroLab. I suspect others do as well.

I use HeroLab also, though I find that there isn't really a need for character sheets to be shared on VTT. If the GM wants to see the character sheets before a game, (s)he can just look at the PC's profile from this campaign. But maybe I'm missing your point, Iovo.

Anyway, I agree that it would be good to start Horn of Aroden here, given our scheduling difficulties. Since there are a couple of other possible GM's, I won't throw my hat in the ring for this one - but someone should step up and make it go!

The main advantage of the import is getting the buttons working, although I still had some problems there. It importing all the spell text can also be nice.

I currently only have one GM PbP in progress, Solstice Scar B.

I could run Horn of Aroden if people want.

Sounds good to me, Bret!

And I also use HeroLab :)

Sounds good to me, too. Thanks Bret.

I should be able to get things started tomorrow. Just reading the scenario now.