Welcome! This is a "by request" run of PFS Scenario 4-19 for Core characters! Sign up via this Google Sheet.
I expect on average one post a day during the week, and at least one post over the weekend. I generally check in 1-2 times a day to respond to questions and update, particularly during combats, but that can go up or down based on how busy I am at work. If you are not in a US time zone, let me know so I have an idea of when to expect to hear from you (and so I can put another pin in my "where are my players from" map! :) ). If you know you're going to be out for an extended period, let me know and provide some sort of botting instructions.
For chronicles, please post the following information in this format (it helps me to keep organized to have everyone do it the same way):
Player Name:
Character Name:
PFS ID#:
Faction:
Character level (for subtier determination):
Normal or Slow track:
Day Job check or Downtime activity:
Please post an in-character introduction in the Gameplay thread, and an out-of-character one here. It will help me to have a heads-up on any particularly high skill checks, attacks, or AC, or special abilities that may be unusual.
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Player Name: Massee
Character Name: Ironshanks Magee
PFS ID#: 202046-8
Faction: Grand Lodge
Character level (for subtier determination): 4th
Normal or Slow track: Normal
Day Job check or Downtime activity: Hollering at kids on his lawn.
Ironshanks is a stereotypical dwarven fighter. Axe and shield, high AC. Grouchy, and older. He likes to sunder weapons if appropriate.
Sounds good. :)
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Thank you for your consideration.
Player Name: TriShadow
Character Name: Korum of the Silver Eyed Wolf
PFS ID#: 151777-18
Faction: Darchive
Character level (for subtier determination): 2
Normal or Slow track: Normal
Day Job check or Downtime activity: One day
I also have a 4th level CORE "ninja" (Fighter/Rogue 2/ Monk) if we decide to play up.
For the record, I too have played this in standard. Happy to take a back seat in the decision making.
Hey, TriShadow! You hadn't filled in the google doc sign in form, so I wasn't sure if you were going to make it! :)
If you play your 2nd level, the APL will be 2.5, and the party can choose to play low tier, or play high tier with 4 player adjustment. If you play your 4th level, the APL will be 2.8, so we will be high tier with 4 player adjustment.
Other players, state your preference.
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Player Name: Helikon
Character Name: Flaith Festung
PFS ID#: 50731-24
Faction: Souvereign court
Character level (for subtier determination): 2
Normal or Slow track: normal
Day Job check or Downtime activity:
Only tiny problem, she is locked for another 24 hours, at the final battle of her current assgnement.
Waiting for Zordlon Moonsilver to check in, and I have a list going for a second table. I'm going to give a little longer to see if more people show interest, then may do one table high tier and the other low tier, if the levels work out right for it. Plan to get started some time over the weekend most likely.
OK, I currently have 10 players signed up. Sorting by level, we have
4 Ironshanks Magee
4 Hannar the Wild
3 Lady Alya De Qill
3 Bemmer Anvilbrow
2 Flaith
2 Zordlon Moonsilver
2 Seebonickk
2 Xusius Xometh
2 Korum
1 Moria Dolar
With this set, I'm thinking of putting the top four together with the option of playing either tier 4-5 as four players or tier 1-2 as six; the remainder would be solidly playing tier 1-2 as six players.
Does that work for everyone? Would anyone prefer to change characters to switch tier?
Actually, I generally prefer to split 10 people as 6 and 4, as 5 characters don't get the "4 player adjustment", so have the same challenge that six would.
Regardless, I'll go however the players prefer.
I'll give a little longer for everyone to respond. Tomorrow afternoon or evening (USA Pacific time) I'll set up the second campaign thread and get things rolling. Thanks for bearing with the delay, everyone. I wasn't expecting such a large response to this one. ;-)
Nope, you are right ... I hadn't reviewed the list carefully.
GM Panic, this is a Core game, do you have a core character to play?
Korum, if you weould prefer to play your 4th level character, go ahead. If GM Panic doesn't have another character, we'll have a table of 5 anyway.
OK, looks like that gives us 9 players. If TriShadow swaps to their 4th level character, that gives us
Table 1 - Tier 1-2, no adjustment
Roxxie613 / Moria Dolar (1)
Xathos of Varisia / Xusius Xometh (2)
qstor / Seebonickk (2)
Z..D.. / Zordlon Moonsilver (2)
Helikon / Flaith (2)
Table 2 - Tier 4-5, 4 player adjustment
Massee / Ironshanks Magee (4)
TriShadow / ? (4)
philipjcormier / Hannar the Wild (4)
Ietsuna / Bemmer Anvilbrow (3)
I'll get Table 2 set up, then post a link. Once that is done, we can get started!
Ok, here is Table 2. You four please check in over there.
I still need to get Xusius checked in over here, then we can start up the low tier group.
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I am here. Sorry, we were at the hospital late last night and I didn't get to see the info until just now.
Player Name: Xathos of Varisia
Character Name: Xusius Xometh
PFS ID#: 205984-11
Faction: Grand Lodge
Character level (for subtier determination): 2
Normal or Slow track: Normal
Day Job check or Downtime activity:
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Apologies that I had not yet done this.
Player Name: Jacob S
Character Name: Moria Dolar
PFS ID#: 2362167-4
Faction: Grand Lodge
Character level (for subtier determination): 1
Normal or Slow track: Normal
Day Job check or Downtime activity:
Nothing particularly abnormal here. I do have an alias for raging and fatigued that I intend on using, if that's allowed?
Wow, hope things are better for you seeon, Xathos!
There are times in the story where asking for a check would give away that something is happening, so instead of rolling secretly I am going to have everyone make several checks in advance. This way, you can also let me know of any situational modifiers that might apply, and can also flag a check as something you would spend a reroll on. In the latter case, give me a second check, and when the time comes, I will tell you if your re-roll got spent.
Please fill out each of the checks below, and mark "N/A" on knowledge skills you lack.
Perception #1:
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Knowledge (local):
Knowledge (planes):
Knowledge (history):
Knowledge (arcana or planes, pick one):
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Perception #1:
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Knowledge (local):
Knowledge (planes): NA
Knowledge (history): NA
Knowledge (arcana or planes, pick one):
Knowledge (planes): NA
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Thank you! She had total knee reconstruction four weeks ago. Her other leg is swollen and that's because she can't walk around yet. Should be okay, but they wanted to check for blood clots. Went back today for a doppler scan and waiting for results.
Need those rolls from Flaith!
I have PMed Flaith. If I don't hear back by tomorrow, we'll move on without her as four players.
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Sorry all, was on a unexpected businesstrip
Player Name: Helikon
Character Name: Flaith Festung
PFS ID#: 50731-24
Faction: Souvereign court
Character level (for subtier determination): 2
Normal or Slow track: normal
Day Job check or Downtime activity:
Please fill out each of the checks below, and mark "N/A" on knowledge skills you lack.
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Perception #2:
Perception #3:
Perception #4:
Perception #5:
Knowledge (local):
Knowledge (planes):
Knowledge (history):
Knowledge (arcana or planes, pick one):
Knowledge (planes):
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This weekend is PaizoCon, so I will be post seldom if at all between Friday morning and Monday evening. There is a chance I might check in Saturday evening, but it's not guaranteed.
Recovering from the convention, may post tonight if my brain has enough cycles. If not, could be Wednesday, as Tuesday may have "catch up from the days off" issues.
I didn't go to the banquet, but if you watch twitter for the hashtag #MyPathfinderSpoiler you can see what's been "leaked". Apparently Buhlman stated that the entire core rulebook was reworked after the playtest, so I'm hoping that the issues I had with it have been improved.
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He said that in a Know Direction podcast a few months ago. Based on the pieces I've seen I think PF2 is going to be a hit. I'm sure the diehards won't accept it, but there's nothing that can change their opinions. They will just have to continue being limited to PFS1 or SFS and that's fine. It is pretty apparent that Paizo needs to rejuvenate Pathfinder and attract more players from outside the current base like 5e has. If they don't do that, then PF will become a niche rule set.
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I'm the main GM and organizer of two events. I've been speaking with the players and they're pretty open-minded about it. I'm not going to just stop scheduling PFS1 sessions. We just won't have enough PFS2 content to switch completely over and no one wants that to happen anyway. We'll just offer both 1 and 2 and go from there. One event has no SFS while the other one has a big contingent.
I really see PFS2 as a means to bring an entirely new batch of players into our game play as well as to bring some of the former players back who burnt out on PFS1.
As for the diehards, every time they start their whining I start talking about how PF is nothing but a derivative of AD&D which I played and ran back in 1979, so if they want to stick with the original rules set I can run AD&D 1e. They can't counter that. Most of it comes down to them not wanting to change or not being able to play some completely screwed up characters that unfortunately exist in PFS1 due to the poor way the d20 math was able to handle expansion of PF1 rules.
I scrolled through the posts on Twitter with the #MyPathfinderSpoiler hashtag, and saw several things that make me hopeful - the thing I liked least in the playtest was how skills work, and it seems like there may have been some changes that will help.
Diving into work now, I hope to post this afternoon if things go well. ;-)