GM Otha's Tower of the Ironwood Watch (Inactive)

Game Master Otha

Hi, welcome to Tower of the Ironwood Watch. We'll be playing at low tier and I aim to have us finished up before Outpost II starts. This doesn't appear to be a very long scenario and I can usually post several times a day, if needed...

I've been playing PFS PBP for over two years now and I've GM'ed a handful of sessions here. I'm sure most of you have been playing longer than I. And undoubtedly, most of you probably know the rules better than I so, if you see me make a mistake, don't hesitate to call me on it. I don't have much of an ego to bruise and I have no problem retconning if I screw up...

As of now, we have Izlin Greymantle, the Revered Master Poh, and Azrael the Talon. I'll hold off on recruiting the rest of the party till tomorrow to see if Yogadragon can join us...

Please post your PFS info here at your leisure:

Player Name:
Character Name:
PFS ID#:
Faction:
Day Job Roll:
Normal or Slow Progression:

Please dot and delete in the Gameplay thread. Also at your leisure, you can put your Initiative and Perception mods in the block on side 1, along with a preferred marching order:

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Player Name: supervillan
Character Name: Revered Master Poh
PFS ID#: 75577-11
Faction: liberty's edge
Day Job Roll: perform oratory bad advice: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2
Normal or Slow Progression: normal

Poh's place is on the frontline, but he is a support character mainly. He uses Advice (inspire courage) and Bodyguard + Helpful to keep the rest of the front line going. He works well with melee characters, and can protect squishies too.

Player Name: TriShadow
Character Name: Izlin Greymantle
PFS ID#: 151777-19
Faction: Dark Acrchive
Day Job Roll: Craft Alchemy: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (16) + 11 = 27
Normal or Slow Progression: Normal

Yogadragon just pm'ed me that his only in tier character is in a session so I'm opening recruitment for the other spots. He did say he'd play a pregen if I couldn't fill out the party...

I have a level 6 character that I'm applying a rebuild boon too that I'd be interested in using. I'll be posting with him shortly once I finish his rebuild within the hour.

Player Name: zer0darkfire
Character Name: Nix the Elf (for reporting) Jactus Waller (in game)
PFS ID#: 193338-3
Faction: Grand Lodge
Day Job Roll: None planned
Normal or Slow Progression: Normal

I can play with a GM star replay if that's ok.

Player Name: qstor
Character Name: Dermot
PFS ID#: 2072-32
Faction: Silver Crusade
Day Job Roll: NA
Normal or Slow Progression: Normal

Cool, both of you are in! You can dot and delete in the Gameplay thread at your leisure...

Player Name: Chaosorbit
Character Name: Sirrah Lakewell
PFS ID#: 90071-7
Faction: Liberty's Edge
Day Job Roll: Will roll once I double check my mod
Normal or Slow Progression: Normal

Lvl 6 - Need to update my profile which I will by tonight.

Great, you're in and that completes the party...I'll post the introductory post in the Gameplay thread this afternoon...

Player Name: DM Livgin
Character Name: Lord Zomo Al-Hadir
PFS ID#: 156828-12
Faction: Sovereign Court
Day Job Roll: Need to check my chronicles first.
Normal or Slow Progression: Normal

I saw the recruitment post, mind if I join?

Nevermind, I posted too slow.

Sorry Zomo...if anyone drops out, I'll contact you...

Player Name: zer0darkfire
Character Name: Nix the Elf (for reporting) Jactus Waller (in game)
PFS ID#: 193338-3
Faction: Grand Lodge
Day Job Roll: profession Librarian: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (18) + 9 = 27
Normal or Slow Progression: Normal

Here's my day job

Profession (sailor): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (2) + 7 = 9

Just awaiting our last player to check-in before we move on...I'll send a PM to make sure he's still planning on joining us...

Thanks for running this!

Player Name: Batpony
Character Name: Azarel the Talon
PFS ID#: 222036-10
Faction: liberty's edge
Day Job Roll: None
Normal or Slow Progression: normal

Azrael is pretty much an evasive front liner with a thirst for vengeance against the demon horde!

@masterPoh Just in case you haven't seen this archetype stacking guide for monk yet guide link. I reference it often when making a new monk PC.

I hadn't seen that, thanks. I've previously used the simple chart at the foot of the Monk class description on d20pfsrd.com for a stacking guide.

Azrael's profile is up to date now! Apologies GM, slipped my mind completely about it.

No worries, Azrael...

My wife and I are going out of town for a getaway Presidents Day weekend (US holiday) and I might not be able to post Saturday morning till Sunday night. Please bot me

No worries, Dermot, hope you have/had a good time...

On another note, is it just me or does the site seem slower since Paizo came back online after their scheduled maintenance yesterday? I'm getting a lot of timeouts and lag time since then...

Seconded GM Otha. I even get the maintenance thing occasionally.

Yeah, I'm getting that too, darkfire...hoping it's just a temporary thing...

Yep it's a moving at a crawl. But what i've noticed is the input is reaching Paizo, even if it returns timed out...so that's good.

I agree with Batpony re: darkness. I think for magic items we default to wizard spell level unless stipulated otherwise? Continual Flame is a level 2 wizard spell. Deeper Darkness is not on the wizard list, but is a level 3 cleric spell.

So Continual Flame is suppressed by Deeper Darkness for the duration of the Deeper Darkness.

Given that we're in a dark cavern the drow's spell creates supernatural darkness, which means nobody, drow and demons included, can see (barring unusual abilities - darkvision won't cut it).

I also have an oracle with See in Darkness and the Deeper Darkness spell. He's also deaf and can cast Silence, so he can go full sensory deprivation with no detriment to himself. Haven't actually done it in a game yet though :)

My barb oracle hasn't reach that high a level to cast deeper darkness but am so looking forward to it!

Just waiting for my bard to get Echo Location so I can drop some deeper darkness off a wand.

Are we still planning on being done by the start of Outpost?

I suspect this is the final encounter.

Are we still planning on being done by the start of Outpost?

Master Poh is right, this is the last encounter...since y'all have 'em out in the open now, don't think it'll be more than a round or two more...think we could be done by Friday...

qstor, just to confirm, if you're wanting to play Dermot during Outpost, he'll definitely be available well before that starts...I saw where you changed characters from Dermot to another in Fragments of Antiquity (I've got a character that'll be playing in that one too) and wasn't sure if you did that thinking we wouldn't be through here...

qstor, just to confirm, if you're wanting to play Dermot during Outpost, he'll definitely be available well before that starts...I saw where you changed characters from Dermot to another in Fragments of Antiquity (I've got a character that'll be playing in that one too) and wasn't sure if you did that thinking we wouldn't be through here...

ok gotcha thanks :)

Snowball and other nerfs from Ultimate Wilderness.

Enjoyed running this for y'all, hope y'all had a good time. I know all of you are more experienced with Pathfinder; also know that many of you are GMs (and much better than I). Please let me know if there's anything I could've done better and/or need to improve on. And no worries, I don't have much of an ego to bruise...

This session has been reported and your chronicles are at this link:

Tower of the Ironwood Watch Chronicles

If you find any errors with either the reporting or the chronicles, gimme a holler and I'll try to fix it pronto...

GM Otha great job! Had a blast and thought you did great. A very well run game. Thanks so much for running it and I loved the fast pace that was very nice. Chronicle and reporting look fine.

Fellow Pathfinders it's been a pleasure playing with you and a lot of fun, Cheers to all!

Echoing Sirrah's sentiments, good pacing and did really well moving us forward where necessary! I would be interested to see you take on the more recent scenarios where there's a bit more complexity in social and puzzle challenges!

I did enjoy some possible character interactions (mechanically), but we didn't get to see much of them, (to no ones fault, just the nature of the scenario), so It would be really cool if we could party up again in future!

Thanks all! I think Otha did a great job too.

Lots of great characters in this game, on BOTH sides of the screen. Otha, nice job on pacing and giving your NPC's some actual "C" (character that is).

Echoing Azrael's thoughts on playing together again. I really enjoyed my time in this scenario.

The Revered Master Poh would gladly work with this group of students again. Except maybe Horn-Face, he was just rude. Kidding ;)

Good game, all, many thanks. A nicely paced dungeon romp :)

I will see some of you in Outpost games very soon!

If y'all are interested, I'd be happy to run y'all through another one some time...maybe after Outpost? Pick a scenario that everyone can play and just let me know...

I'm in!

Ditto. Is everyone on PFS tracker?

I'll be taking a break for a bit, thanks for the offer though. Got plenty of stuff to do coming up soon.

I'm on PFS Tracker 151777

I am.

By the way, chronicle looks fine.

Thanks for the kind words, guys. I'll keep this active through the weekend, just to make sure everyone's chronicle and reporting is fine...

I'm on PFStracker as well. Whenever y'all would like to run through another one, gimme a holler and let me know what scenario would be good for everyone...and when a good time would be to start, and I'll try to make it happen...

Really enjoyed GM'ing this one as y'all were a great group. I'll see many of you during Outpost, I'm sure...till next time, good luck on your journeys!