Tower of the Last Baron [Fizzled...] (Inactive)

Game Master mishima

For fleshing out player connections and general tomfoolery...

I heartily recommend you all, or at least most of you, know each other before the adventure begins. This is a short module, (maybe 4-5 days max of Golarian time) and so developing interpersonal relationships as we go probably isn't going to work. I could be wrong though, just a recommendation.

Some minor backstory elements might include ties to the Andoran army. To be specific, General Dakovya knows you by name and based on whatever he thinks he knows elects to send you on an important task. You could also just be a mercenary though, or maybe you're a spy infiltrating the Andoran army...or something more complicated.

Also if everyone could follow the link above my portrait and verify they can access the slide, and move their pawn on the map with whatever your primary device is.

hi there. Eveyrything good with the map.

Hey, The Map is working.

Sweet, if you guys are statted and leveled feel free to jump in on gameplay. If crunch not quite done just avoid rolling for the moment.

Looked at Noya's and Nysha's Alignment, there could be some nice RPing from their arguments...

As long as you don't stand in the way between me and my hard earned money, everything should be fine.

Just checking in...

As long as you don't stand in the way between me and my hard earned money, everything should be fine.

That generally might not be a problem.

Why do you say that, Noya? What kind of gal is she?

Ok. He should be good to go, other than equipment.
I will do that tomorrow after work.

Nice, you guys have quite the toolkit at your disposal. :)

I am happy with him.

He is skilled in espionage, with a dab of assassination...I see him as James Bondish.

Well then the Dakovya character in gameplay is your "M".

Nice!

Map is good to go for me as well. Just finishing up background details now.

So, do we want to take the approach that we know each other? If so, have we been a team for a long time, only recently, etc?

Or just follow the PFS-style - we all got called by the Important Person to take on an important assignment.

Again I think it would be convenient that you at least somewhat know each other. You all have similar skillsets, perhaps you have heard of each others work if not directly associated.

Paizo was down for me for about 15 hours just now. Was I the only one?

You were not the only one, I could see the forums and sub-forums, but was not able to access the threads

The page have been down a lot lately.

The page have been down a lot lately.

I'm starting to think they might be hosting the site on a Windows server.

I think they are doing a major revision to the forum as a whole, so the issues will last for a while.

It's been flaky for the past few weeks, which is about the same time the NSA tools got leaked.....
So I think it is more due to hacking attempts towards the site then revisions.
But who knows we could both be right, and or we could both be wrong.

Yeesh...

Same on my end. I feel like I have lots of catching up to do in-game! Weekends, especially Sundays get pretty busy with family activities.

And we're planning to move at the end of the month, so packing and sorting, etc.

Anyway, I will get at least one post up later on today later.

The site has been wacky.

Every time i look at this game, i hear the theme song from Mission Impossible...

No worries, weekends are always slow even when the site is actually functioning. ;)

edit: Yeah this module is a rogues dream. Has a cool cover art, I'll throw it in the slides.

Hmmm...we don't have a trapper, do we?

You can surely find masterwork trap crafting tools in camp. Likewise some completed trap kits. Just name something you want and roll percentile. If the roll is 25 or higher its there. That goes for any mundane object.

I am thinking of posing as an aristocracy sympathizer. I heard that this Baron was the last true highborn that refuses to bend to the people.

I need to research a bit but thats my idea thus far...

...any questions.

Sounds like a good/interesting plan to me. Vendikon is not the only aristocrat in Piren's Bluff, though he is the only one with ruling power. You've also no doubt heard of Dreyxor Almir, Scion of the House Almir. Their mining operations are a major source of wealth/employment for the area. There are some others that would require nobility checks or talking to someone who knew the score.

I'm really starting to hate the board's flakiness of late...

Same. I'm going to try staying logged in since some people are reporting that only the unsecured site (http) is going down whereas the secured (https) is reachable. If you're logged in you get the secured.

Also I still think its a great place for PBP games.

Anyways hope you don't feel rushed or behind, just trying to keep it interesting/moving.

@Virgil

Would Johua Naran bring a maid with him where ever he went?

Cause if So Noya could disguise herself as Johua Naran's maid.

Cause every maid is a ninja or is it the other way around....

Apologies, I meant to respond to you about that exact thing. I agree with that idea. At the least, a scribe or other business associate.

I just wanted to be clear of our plan before I post again: Are we all now going as part of "Joshua's" retinue?

I'm sure I can play the part of bodyguard - my rapier-wielding half-elf might fit better as a noble's man than a humble merchant's anyway.

Might as well, will be easier/more convincing to stay together once inside. Get's my vote.

It does make sense.

A CLW wand with 50 charges is 750gp. The party was just handed 10,000 gp on top of the 6000 you each used during character creation. If you want to split it evenly, its 187.5 gp per person.

Oh, for some reasons I thought we could not use it before the mission.

I just wanted to be clear of our plan before I post again: Are we all now going as part of "Joshua's" retinue?

It's ok for me. We can stay together that way, although the negative side is that in case one of us is discovered it would draw to the attention to rest of us.

My fault Nysha, to be clear its totally usable now. But if you dont say, get a huge bag of coins now, you still have that credit usable at Andoran aligned banks. It would probably be easiest to say you purchased the wand here in the camp before the carriage leaves. Later, inside Piren's Bluff, you might have to risk giving your name up or make some covert correspondence with the besieging forces. But again, it isn't something I want to blow up in your faces, not a gotcha, etc. Its 2,500 for each of you to use for whatever now or later.

And what kind of things are avaliable before we leave?

Name something mundane, roll percentile. If its 25 or above its there.

For something a besieging army would obviously have that roll isn't necessary. I'm putting the CLW wand in this category.

For magic items the percentile rule is the same (Name it in a post, roll, success its purchasable), but there is a cap of 200gp (per item).

Along those same lines, the rules limit/cap what a merchant can give you in coin for an item you sell. For hamlets, its 1000gp.

Failure on one of these rolls means you have to wait a week to shop at the army camp again. I'm basically treating it like a hamlet settlement but with slightly tighter mundane object availability. Piren's Bluff will have similar rules (these are the standard pathfinder rules) however I'm just now noticing that when this module was written, some numbers were a little different. Ie, in modern times, Piren's Bluff is actually a village not a hamlet as I've been saying. Oh well lol.

If theres something you really, really, want that doesnt fit into the above somehow just let me know, im pretty easy going.

As example of the percentile rules for settlements in action, Hi, im mister wizard. I would like to buy a dimension door scroll. Its 800 gp so might be available to a settlement of small town size or higher. Lets see if I can actually find it:

Shopping: 1d100 ⇒ 66

Dope, that result beats a 24 so its here and I purchase it. If it had failed, I wouldn't get to roll again for another merchant in town. That roll represents shopping in the entire settlement. I would have had to have waited a week to try again.

edit: Messed up some numbers like I always do, rofl. When in doubt: Settlements.

edit2: FYI, off the top of my head, theres only one other rule that interacts with these settlement rules. Its the black market connections rogue talent, which enables you to increase the size of a settlement for item availability and buyback price. Neat.

SO, uhm, wand of CLW?

%: 1d100 ⇒ 38

Yep its there, 187.5 gp per person splitting it 4 ways. I'm not going to track your gold/inventory for you but I will track whatever found loot there is on booty slide.

I recommend google sheets for PC inventories. You can do 3 columns: name, value, weight and set the spreadsheet to total automatically at the bottom. Not a requirement just suggesting.

I will subtract that amount for a party wand.

Also i need to consider purchasing something from the camp but need a bit to decide if allow to back track a purchase?

No problem, we're still getting started. You'll be able to buy stuff from town as well.

In general you guys can just tell me what you bought in a post and note it on your sheet. Unless you feel like RPing some haggling or have something special in mind it probably isn't worth spending time on.

Look up Psychic Magic on prd under Components.

Even spells with no component at all are noticeable for people around.

Just scanned the new magic rules in Unchained, but i didn't notice anything like that? Where is that rule?

http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2syn8&page=3?Identifying-a-Spells-with-Spel lcraft#124

That is not a rule. It is a thread where people are voicing their opinions on their interpretation of a rule, attempting to connect visible casting and using spellcraft.