Trail of the Apprentice [Private]

Game Master PorterMacShack

I had a nice holiday! I hope everyone did as Well! I am ready when everyone else is.

Just got off the bus to end a car-plane-train-bus day! Ready to go and will catch up on my posts shortly.

Glad we leveled! I'll work on updating my character sometime tomorrow.

Hank and Cammy are leveled and ready!

Apologies, I'm dragging behind updating Phedran's character sheet, but that'll only come into play for combat purposes - I'm good to continue for playing out the story, and surely I'll have things ironed out before the next encounter.

I am in the same boat as Phedran

I got a new cantrip and another level 1 spell slot :)! Now to allot my skill points...

I am assuming we are doing the no rolling for HP system (d10 = 6 hp) since no one has rolled. I personally prefer the no roll system (though this character has been rolling like a monster) just wanted to make sure I did it correctly.

I also did the average, assuming that's okay with MacShack.

Also, for MacShack - any consumable gains (HP, spells, bombs, etc) I just added to the maximum, but kept my current totals. Unless we *DING!* to max on level up, or we handwave that by camping in the story, just let us know.

I rolled a 3 irl and took it as I wasn't sure. I'll leave it to the dm, idk what people normally do

I took average hp m'self, but would be happy to roll--also happy to "Ding" or not ding.

Hey, I got Sofia/Darren's message to us--I for one would be very happy to see Sofia again.

Fortunately, Sofia is just on reconnaissance around the back of the cave (MacShack didn't have us stumble across her body in a ditch... not that I have ever done that as DM...). And it sounds like our guy could use some good ol' roleplaying escapist fun.

I would also be happy to have Sofia back. No hard feelings at all! We took a long time fighting those rats and with the holiday rush Sofia has not missed much.

If you guys want, I can step out so our group isn't over tuned. I can keep Karthurg ready if you need me again. I will stick around if you don't mind, but I understand that a too big of a group can make it less fun. Just let me know what you want!

I don't think you leaving makes much sense. I think the too many people effect is mitigated by PbP as a format, and would be sad to lose Karthurg.

Yeah if the DM is okay with five I am!

I’d be happy to keep all five.
About HP, take the average, and feel free to ding up to max HP.

Hello everyone - thanks for the support. As long as Phedran and Karthurg are okay with it also. You folks are awesome....

I’ll have a read through the play tomorrow - GM, let me know what you need me to do. Not sure what ‘Ding’ means....

I believe it's a reference to this fine installment of the brilliant Order of the Stick comic, though the joke might be older (and even the comic's pretty old at this point, I think the panel references 3.5 rules? 3.0?).

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0124.html

edit: confirmed, Order of the Stick started its first strip with the shift from 3.0 to 3.5, so there ya go.

thanks Hank - the link goes to Paizo though :-)

Once we get going I’ve got an idea as to why Sofia got stuck around the other side of the cave from an RP perspective.

GM - I assume Sofia is staying at Level 1 for now which I’m cool with.

Heheh, I always copy-paste the example URL, must have screwed up the formatting a bit.

Not Paizo

Oh, I am more than okay with Sofia's return. Just getting around to catching up on messages now, so it was quite the welcome surprise. :)

Thanks Phedran - really will make it up to you fine folks.

Nice to meet you Sofia! Glad to have you back. Also, Karthurg is leveled and ready to go!

Just signed up for GM school

Whoa, what's that? Is that real or a metaphor?

It’s a real thing, organised by GM Redalia via the Flaxseed Lodge on the Messaging board. I’m GM’ing a Starfinder society scenario and the other players are experienced GM’s and wannabe GM’s. Showing me how to create campaigns, maps etc. I’d like to repay the faith of you all one day by GM’ing either a Pathfinder or Starfinder campaign :-)

That sounds pretty cool, and yeah, I've got the PbP GM itch myself as my in-person games have wound down. Two very different pleasures, those of playing and those of running.

I just stated running the starfinder adventure path with a group of friends on the boards. If I didn't I was going to sign up for that school to. And I would love to play with you as the GM at some point. My game amount is full for now though. I am playing a PFS, SFS, GMing a long game, and this and I cant add another anytime soon.

I learned that I like GMing more on the boards than I do in real life. It allows me to set the scene more than I would get to in real life and think about what to do rather than snap decisions.

Yeah, I’m really hoping to create a cool canvas for people. Ive just started a regular Roll20 Pathfinder game which is quite fun. Definitely got the bug. :-).

By the way, I’m Darren in real life, 42, live in the UK. Pleasure to meet you.

Hi GM - could you add my token to the map for me? Not sure how to do it

Sorry, forgot to do that. It's on there now.

Thanks :-)

Yeah, I’m really hoping to create a cool canvas for people. Ive just started a regular Roll20 Pathfinder game which is quite fun. Definitely got the bug. :-).

By the way, I’m Darren in real life, 42, live in the UK. Pleasure to meet you.

Sorry I missed this, I am Dylan and I live in Ohio right now for graduate school but I am from the Buffalo area, New York.

Just finished grad school m'self, best luck with it! I'm in Seattle and from Virginia.

Kingston, Ontario, Canada here; (just north of New York, northeastern most tip of Lake Ontario. Halfway between Toronto and Ottawa/Montreal.)

London, Ontario (right in the path of the snow streamers from Lake Huron)

http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/coreRulebook/spells/divineFavor.html#div ine-favor

It says level 1 Paladin on here - can someone help me understand where I’m getting it wrong on the spells? Apologies GM!

Again, the beloved and wise comic strip Order of the Stick has a strip devoted to satirizing this very problem:

The comic.

The relevant part is the last panel, where Vaarsuvius the Wizard says "But if I go down a level, I will lose my spell level." Because, for some unknown reason, everything is called a level in this game.

Your character level (one) and your access to level one spells have nothing to do with each other. Yep.

So if you go check out "Paladin" the class, you'll see that they have a list of "spells per day" on their big chart thing. You don't get any until character level 4--when you get (probably) one level one spell. Even though it says "zero" on the chart. Because even if you get zero spells, you get a bonus spell for having enough charisma.

Yep, it says zero but almost every conceivable paladin gets one. But not 'till character level 4. Rangers are the same way. Compare the chart to Wizard or Sorerer etc., you'll see that they get spells at character level one (at spell level one) and then get spell level two spells at character level three for the Wiz, four for the Sorc.

And the madness rolls merrily along. Hope that helps!

Ironically this was a discussion I had on Saturday when I played with my face-to-face group and a new player was playing a paladin. The partial spell caster classes get confusing like that but Hank explained it well. If you have any more questions, feel free to ask!

Sofia realises she was just about to cave in Karthurg's skull because she looked at the map on her phone and just saw an orc. Luckily, she realised the error of her ways...or more specfically, the GM did. Sofia shoots Karthurg an apologetic look and shrugs her shoulders

Hi guys - about to get on a long haul flight to India. Will be there a week and if internet connection is okay, will update but feel free to bot me if needed. Sofia has Masterwork club and Longsword, plus a sling.

Speak soon Pathfinders!

Have a nice trip. If you are there for work, find time to enjoy the culture and if you are going to there for pleasure I hope you have a great time!

What ^ said! Where are you going, if you don't mind me asking? I love hearing about travel, don't get to do a lot of it myself.

All work and little play. Two days in Delhi and then three days in Mumbai Will share some photos when back!

Hey crew:

I'm running a PbP campaign set in Frog God Games' famously brutal megadungeon, Rappan Athuk. We're just at the beginning, but one player has dropped out and another seems to be wavering. I'm hoping to find someone who is willing to post every day (or so) to fill in for the one who dropped, and who can hopefully inspire the less-frequent posters to get off their duffs a bit--any of you fine folks interested? I'd be happy to have any of you aboard! That goes for you too, MacShack. I thought I'd check before recruiting strangers to a campaign that already has some issues.

It might be fun to build some crazy narrative-integrated backstory that slowly gets revealed to the others as we play? That's optional, of course. And Rappan Athuk tends to kill a lot of characters, so maybe best if we don't start with our best ideas.

Take a look if you're curious!

Sorry, my game load is pretty full. I am in this one, a Starfinder Society one, I run a Starfinder AP, and generally a pathfinder society (but have been off for almost 3 weeks... games have been slow). But thanks for the offer!

No worries! I just would rather rope in a friend than go to strangers... looks like I'll be recruiting from the field.

I forgot to mention this after the last fight, but Sofia is up to level 2 now.