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Verrix is: 35179-22, Silver Crusade.
For his day job, he ponders deeply on the divine will of Apsu, and on the nature of dragonkind. It doesn't pay very well, but he does occasionally get to sit on top of a rock and look around making growling noises as if he were surveying his demesne.
As for what's next: let's roll!
Is GRR the one we're doing as a Gameday game?
I've put my name down for a couple of scenarios on the spreadsheet, and labeled them "VTT". These are ones where I have a Roll20 table I've used before. (I will need to update them, as the character sheets are almost certainly all broken....)
I'd also be happy to jump in on an earlier one. The current plan has Dennis GMing three times before my first one.... If you like I could take, say, Stolen Heir.
Feel free to post any last words with Uori or Janira; I'll get chronicle sheets up tonight or tomorrow.
Chronicle sheets! Get 'em while they're hot.
I started to report, but it looks like Garif, Rees, and Iovo are registered as RPG characters, not PFC. Before I hit save and potentially make all our characters show up as RPG, is there a way to fix that?
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Oops, guess I clicked on the wrong button when I registered him, had been a while since I did a core character registration. I think I could fix it by making a slight change to his name and registering him as a new character, but it would be nice to just have it fixed by the powers that be. I think I've read that it's hard to get that done, if it can be done at all, but I'll defer to others' knowledge of that question.
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I had one character that went the wrong way because I gave the GM a wrong PFS # once... I've more or less resigned to him never being reported again, as GMs won't want to include him and pollute the rest of the table with RPGness.
Hmm, can VCs and VLs twiddle this, or does it require a Paizo person to do it?
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If it can't be fixed, Garif, Rees and I would need to switch to a different character which means all our posts would be from a different alias. Given that, I would prefer we wait to see if we get a quick response Monday.
I would like to avoid posting from two different aliases for Glass River Rescue.
I'll go with group consensus.
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Speaking of names, I have to share a great one that my son, Simon (who almost all of you know, now that I think on it) came up with. For our first Starfinder game, he made an android envoy whose full name is Billboard Unit T-62, or 'Bill' for short. He's a walking advertisement with Profession (billboard), with digital messages that flash across his skin. When he uses his various buffs on other party members, he says things like 'This targeting enhancement brought to you by Absalom Drive Repair'. When he introduces himself, he says, for example, 'For the next 37 minutes, I will be known as Aballon Heavy-Duty Solar Protection Cream, but you can call me Bill.' It's truly a brilliant character.
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I swear I saw that somewhere, but now I can't find it anywhere official. So maybe it was me remembering something else. Bah. It's not on the Pirate familiars blog, in campaign clarifications or the FAQ.
Assume that I misremembered, and accept my profound apologies. Can Coquelicot be a raven? Although traditionally described as black, their feathers reflect all the colors around them.
I feel terrible. A librarian, not fact-checking. They'll kick me out of the Legion of Super Librarians.
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If everyone could fill in their Initiative and Perception values on the first page of the Maps & Handouts slides, it will make my life easier later.
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Oh! Oh! My Beggar's Pearl mission made me a hero of the Five Kings region.
Let me see if I can find that chronicle sheet...
Oh, here it is!
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Hero of the Five Kings: For helping Torvic (and thus dwarves everywhere) find the Gallery of Wonders, you have gained a small amount of fame with the dwarves of the Five Kings Mountains. When dealing with any dwarf from that region from now on, you gain a +2 circumstance bonus on all Charisma-based checks.
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I have now added a boons spoiler to Damiar's sheet, and next level I will learn dwarven. I would have this level, but it was not an elvish racial bonus language and skill points were tight.
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We didn't talk about norms or anything when we launched this thing, but I have one I'd like to bring up:
In this current situation, there was a party decision to be made (do we stop and let the inspectors on board?). My general thought as a (fairly new, as far as PbP is concerned) GM is that once a majority of PCs have agreed (in this case it was 4/6), that's enough to move on. I don't want players to feel like the game's being played without them, though, especially since I know Hilary and Brett were at a con this weekend. So, what does everyone think? How do you handle that as a PbP GM, and do you think we should come up with an agreed-upon benchmark for when to move on with a decision point?
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Does the answer change if we have previously played or GMed the scenario?
I have both played and GMed this scenario in the standard campaign. At a normal table, that causes me to hold back in order for those who haven't to decide. I don't know how many of the players here have played this before.
I am willing to go with 4/6 since that is what I would do at a face-to-face game at a table. The character would in that case perhaps voice their descent or acquiescence but it is my feeling that as a Pathfinder the general rule should be we never undermine each other and we should abide a group decision.
Now to go read Gameplay...
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Agreed. If 4/6 have agreed to a path, the GM should feel free to move along.
If one of the rest of us disagrees, but didn't post in time, I suggest we all agree to be gracious. We can post our character's disagreement, but not an actual attempt to reopen the discussion. It may be that your character had an argument that would have changed minds, and that it the argument may have changed things at a live table. However, given the PbP format, we understand that some things will just go differently. (And that's not always a bad thing; there are some definite advantages to PbP, particularly with respect to characterization.)
I've seen multiple PbPs die, or at least drag tremendously, because the GM was waiting for input from everybody on every point before moving things along. (I've been guilty of this as GM myself, too.)
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I'm sorely tempted to argue the opposing view, just to be contrary and so we don't reach 4/6 right away, but I find I can't: I completely agree with Iovo, Rees and Verrix. Momentum matters, PbP is a bit different from a RL table, and we're going to have various degrees of player knowledge as we go along, so let's get a majority and keep rolling!
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@GM Dennis,
Could you please recheck the initiative order here? I'm confused as to why I'm so low in the order.
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Sorry, I see what happened there. I rolled initiative, made the list, then for some reason put my attack rolls for the enemies above the initiative block, which changed the rolls. The order I typed out is based on the pre-change rolls.
If it's all the same to you, I think the easiest thing to do is to roll with the order we have, since that was the result of the original rolls, and I already rolled attacks for them.
Sorry, silly new-PbP-GM mistake. Won't happen again.