[AP] The Shackled City Adventure Path by GM Rutseg (Inactive)

Game Master Balacertar

Perfect ending for me, Maxim's last eloquence :)

Congrats folks!

I am sorry I could not play through to the end but awesome to see how it ended.

Hope everyone is doing well.

Hi Kythel! Feel free to add an ending post on the Gameplay for Kythel! :)

I still have to put the closing post myself, I have been delaying that and now I am struggling with life and not in the creative mindset to write such relevant post, but it will come. One day.

Hello everyone! How are you doing?

I have been trying to close up this campaign for a long time now, but as time passed it was more difficult for me to find the words that would do justice to what was done in the course of this epic adventure.

We started this adventure in 2016, that is more than seven years ago. So many things have changed in that period of time, that has seen me change jobs and work in three different companies, with all the ups and downs on time availability to devote here, but most notably I became married and just recently became father of one precious girl.

For as small as it can sound in comparison, I still count this campaign as one of those little but great achievements that bring me joy in this life. I have to thank you for all the time we have shared here, it was unique, and I am happy for this shared experience and to have this written result makes it even more fulfilling, for I know I can come back and remember more clearly some of those moments.

Thanks everyone, and I hope you are having a good time on whatever moment of your life you stand :)

I will now mark as closed the campaign. Maybe in a few days so everyone can see this message.

Hey GM Rutseg, I will absolutely read that Epilogue you posted today. I was glad to play a minor part in this very long campaign, congrats again folks!

It's pretty crazy that it was 7 years, I know my life is so fundamentally different than it was 7 years ago as well.

Congrats on the new baby! My new wife just had a new baby too. My oldest is 10 so it's quite wild to see one holding the other :-)

Not only can our GM recreate with a great, long-running storytelling adventure, he can also procreate!! With what I can only hope is a beautiful, bearded dwarven girl ;)

Congrats, Papa! Who knows, maybe we'll see your spawn show up at one of our PbPs down the line...

My eldest spawn is just about to head off to university. And when we started this, he wasn't even at highschool. Lives move. Day by day they don't seem to change, but when you look back a few years... well.

This is definitely the highlight campaign of my PBP playing career. Long term, character development, fun, fights, respectful disagreements and an epic storyline that took us from orphans and rat catchers to legends.

Well done Rutseg and my fellow players. Congratulations on your wife and baby girl. These things improve lives (well, they improved mine!).

Marriage! You may have been married longer than you realise...

Considering this group is mostly intact (people are still on the boards) I wonder if it makes sense to try another campaign, I'd be willing to run and give Rutseg a chance to play. I guess the question is, what AP would interest the group assuming there is any interest. :-)

You will always pique my interest, when I hear the rumblings of another chance to roleplay with you fine folks... As for APs, I've run through several by now, so I'm open for others to voice their desires, and can chirp if I've already seen behind the curtain.

*peeks in*

I'm currently at a con in the mountains of NC so I haven't had much time to really say what I want to say but I do have a moment to pop in and say that I'm here and watching. I'll try to post something a bit deeper and more meaningful in a day or two... :)

Thanks a lot for the offering Storyteller Shadow! That is very generous. If my time was countless I would definitely dive in :D

Right now I am seeing my time stretching with new responsibilities. I play in three fast moving campaigns at the moment, one of them as a GM, plus a few slow paced ones more. My plan is to take a serious one only after my Legacy of Fire and Rise of the Runelords campaigns wrap up, and to just take one on place to reduce my load.

That said, if I was to chose an AP to play, I have been hoping for Ironfang Invasion for a while. Although there are a few more I would not mind playing (despite all my play in recent years, I have only participated in like half of them [15 of 27 it seems]).

And I count with a couple sleeping campaigns to reactivate sooner or later ;)

Apologies on in missing this - we've had some terrible storms here in Scotland courteousy of Storm Babet and locally where I am we were at the epicentre. However all is good here - work and life continue to be balanced and I too am working toward running a game here on the boards (bastardised version of 5E).

Right - where to begin - firstly congrats on your new baba GMR, and it warms my heart (like a good dwarven whisky) to see all my illustrious collaborators and friends gathered together once more. I'd be interested Storyteller - sharing a virtual table with any number of you would be an honour :)

Finally echoing Surabar - this was without doubt a mighty undertaking executed brilliantly by some stalwart creatives in you lot. The prep paid so much dividends in investment and development of the characters throughout and I still reference this game in posts as a yardstick as an archetype on what a pbp should be.

Once again I salute you all my friends... Skal!

On one hand, I'd love to have another long term game like this. On the other, I know it can be really hard to recapture a particular type of "magic" as it flows between games. I also know I have less free time than I did seven years ago. Still feels odd saying that number.

I've not much experience with the latest version of PFS, although I'm playing it a bit more than I was a couple of years ago. Nor do I have a good feel for the various APs that are available.

I know there was a kind-of-follow-on to Shackled City, maybe that was Legacy of Fire?

Were you thinking of PF1 or FP2 for your game?

PF1, I do not own, nor will I ever own PF2. Not because I have any feeling one way or another towards the system, but because I have invested quite a great deal of resources into D&D 3.5 and Pathfinder 1E and I no longer have any desire to spend serious resources on a new rules set of any kind.

My last big purchase was on the old Kult books from the 90s (expensive because they are all out of print) and I have yet to read any of them because of the sudden turn my life took a few years back.

That said, I would probably not be running anything released in the last several years. I own a few of the APs Rise of the Runelords, Strange Aeons, Skull and Shackles, Savage Tide (3.5), Curse of the Crimson Throne, and a few more I cannot remember offhand. I own Age of Worms but I've already run and finished that for table top a while back so I wouldn't be interested in doing that again.

Another idea I started, but was never able to finish (among many ideas that were ongoing PbP projects that blew up several years ago due to again, RL circumstances) as I lost all of the players was a Ravenloft campaign that brought the PCs through the various realms from level 1 through high level where those who survived would finally escape.

I remember playing the original Ravenloft. It was an odd mix of very scary, very cool, and then unusually funny (some of the tombstones!)

Nuff said... colour me potentially interested. Some things may depend on how busy I get with various things. Once you have a firm idea of the AP or campaign structure I'll have a think and see if a character kind of jumps out at me or if RL is beating me over the head with a too-busy stick.

I'd be down for a Ravenloft Campaign Storyteller Shadow - like JJ remember playing the original I6 module back in the halcyon days of yore.

Was indeed a mix of dread, heroics and misfortunes with some awesome story mechanics and maps.

My hard-as-hobnails Half-Ogre Fighter Roach was hellbent on meeting Barovia's lord head on when we played it in the 80s...

I think Strange Aeons mixed with Ravenloft would be quite interesting... it would need some reworking and I'd want to plot it out ahead of time so it flows well mixing the AP with some of the more traditional mods and realms.

Though I've largely ceased participating in PF1 things, I'd be willing to entertain an exception for something like Strange Aeons/Carrion Crown/Ravenloft shenanigans - especially with this group of people, who have proven to be wonderful to game with as well as pretty reliable posters outside of any major RL curveballs :)

Though I've largely ceased participating in PF1 things, I'd be willing to entertain an exception for something like Strange Aeons/Carrion Crown/Ravenloft shenanigans - especially with this group of people, who have proven to be wonderful to game with as well as pretty reliable posters outside of any major RL curveballs :)

Funny, I was looking at Carrion Crown after I posted yesterday!

If everyone is on board with that idea, I would absolutely run it. Though I will need a few months to get it together as I need to read (and in some instances re read) some of the items and we are trying to close on a house so it's going to be hectic until early 2024.

I think the starting point would be a core world, what one matters little to me, Golarion, Oerth, Faerun, Krynn, (though I don't think Athas makes sense I am fine with that if that's what the PCs want) whichever you all like. Of course, you could all also be from different worlds as well.

It's been a while since I played in anything other than Golarion, and about thirty years since I played in Kyrnn. Pretty familiar with Greyhawk and forgotten realms though.

No particular preference on the setting, though Golarion and FR are the only two I'm really familiar with and have actually played in. My knowledge of Krynn is limited to the Dragonlance Chronicles books.

Carrion Crown/Ravenloft mashup sounds amazing - so would be down for that - especially in such esteemed company :) - worth waiting for so take your time to prep SS.

Re: setting - Golarian works - Barovia would potentially fit seamlessly into Ustalav, but FR, Greyhawk, Mystara are all olde stomping grounds.

Once the mists roll in it won't matter where we are :o

Or were.

Great, I will dig out my Pathfinder APs BEFORE I move, just packed them in anticipation of moving last week.

Hopefully I can synthesize these two APs and existing 2ED modules into something pretty damned memorable.

Instead of continuing to clutter up this thread, I'll start a new one:

Ravenloft Crown of Aeons

At GM Aerondor's request, I set up a Gameplay thread to dot into here.