[PFS2_Luke_Parry] 2-06: The Crashing Wave (Inactive)

Game Master Luke_Parry

It appears that there is no longer a limit to slotting of regular boons. You are now limited to only two ally boons (like hireling) and one advanced boon. I could be missing something though, the players guide isn't always clear.

You can only have 1 Hireling, 1 Advanced and 1 Promotional, but any number of others.

And there are no more faction boons. You simply select a faction at the beginning of the adventure.

That's a pity that there are no faction boons anymore. But do they boons from fraction we have bought with fame be still in use? Dran'Thor has a good one very useful.

By the way, thank you for the gift.

There is an entire section of "retired" boons that no longer function. Consensus is that you're just out of luck if you have one. Adventures no longer award Fame, and all Fame that you have now disappears by the end of the year.

PLAYER: The Sesquipedalian Thaumaturge
CHARACTER: Jasariel
PFS ID#: 270872-2002
STARTING XP: 40
Item Purchases: striking rune (65 gp)
STARTING GOLD after purchases: 65.23

Herbalism Lore DC 16 to Earn Income: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (9) + 6 = 15
3cp x 8 = .32 gp

BOONS:
Faction: Verdant Wheel
Sand Slide (3 uses)
Cryptid Scholar (3 uses)
Doom Averted
Wayfinder
Amateur Genealogist (2 uses)
Big Game Hunter (3 uses)
Light in the Dark
Narsen's Web
Team Player (3 uses)
Engraved Wayfinder

Scenario Consumables: scroll of restoration

PLAYER: RePete
CHARACTER: Gedrim Cueva
PFS ID#: 126566-2003
STARTING XP: 17 (level 2)
STARTING FAME: 17
Starting Funds: 48g 13s 40c

BOONS:
Faction - Grand Archive Champion
General - Big Game Hunter
General - Naren’s Web
General - Doom Averted

DOWNTIME:
Lore (Academia)(Trained): 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (19) + 8 = 27
Crit = 2s per day

SCHOOL ITEMS:
*Lesser Healing potion
*Scroll of Magic Missile

It's also only one Schools item now =(

And what about boons from fraction boons section which should be bought with the online points now. If we have already bought them with fame do we still have them or do we need to buy them again with the new system?

I haven’t found anything about the boon buying system and how or if it works. I’m not going to mess with it right now because I expect it isn’t finished... judging based upon how many times the play test boon system got changed and updated.

You don't have to re-purchase boons you already earned.

Ouf, better for me.

Alright, I am now home for a few days, so I have had a chance to create / scan chronicles for the last one.

Please download them at your earliest convenience :-)

? I am not sure where you are coming from, Farryn - Fin-Thir *is* Wounded 1 (he stabilised due to critting his Recovery check), whilst Papa is currently Dying 2 (due to being dropped by a crit...?

I was posting that FYI for my allies, the GM had everything managed perfectly. I see now my post was worded poorly. My concern came from the fact that last round my allies didn’t heal anyone out of fear another Crit would put the player at dying 4, killing them. But in reality another Crit would have only put them at dying 3. All that said, it wasn’t a bad idea to skip a heal there but we are starting to drop like flies.

No worries.

Sorry for the confusion on my part :-)

In other news, a game that I just reported flipped me over to 4 glyphs :-)

Now I just have to focus on trying to hunt down those 10 'Specials' that I need to run ;-)

Congratulations!

Dang, nice!

Congratulations!

I asked Tyranius, and #2-00 will be offered during the next Outpost ^_^

Dang! Grats GM. You're making quick work of those glyphs.

@Nefreet: Great. I'll keep an eye out for it. As promised, I will be happy to run a table for all of you.

@Gedrim: Heh. Well, it probably helps that I only GM PF2 - it means that for every Con I 'attend', I usually add another 7 tables to my 'count' ;-)

Alright, links for chronicle sheets for 'Catastrophe's Spark' have now been PM'ed out.

As always, please download them at your earliest convenience.

Now, feel free to check-in for the next one (which is a 3-6) :-)

DC is level 7 and Gedrim is still 3 xp away from level 3 (level 4 with applied GM credit at that point) so I'll be bringing a pregen.

PLAYER: RePete
CHARACTER: Gedrim Cueva
PFS ID#: 126566-2003
STARTING XP: 21 (level 2)

2-04: Catastrophe's Spark

PLAYER: Pete H.
CHARACTER: Farryn Sarjyre
PFS ID#: 123584-2003
STARTING XP: 45 (lvl 4)

Items Purchased: Pendant of the Occult (60g)
STARTING GP after purchases: 45.52g

BOONS:

PLAYER: The Sesquipedalian Thaumaturge
CHARACTER: Jasariel
PFS ID#: 270872-2002
STARTING XP: 48
Item Purchases: minor sturdy shield (100 gp)
STARTING GOLD after purchases: 77.15

Herbalism Lore DC 18 to Earn Income: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (11) + 7 = 18
5sp x 8 = 4 gp

BOONS:
Faction: Verdant Wheel
Sand Slide (3 uses)
Cryptid Scholar (3 uses)
Doom Averted
Wayfinder
Amateur Genealogist (2 uses)
Big Game Hunter (3 uses)
Light in the Dark
Narsen's Web
Team Player (3 uses)
Engraved Wayfinder

Scenario Consumables: scroll of heroism

Signing in for 2-04: The Path of Kings

PLAYER: Nefreet
CHARACTER: Hannah
PFS ID#: 66548-2002

Downtime: Off-Hours Study to finish learning Sylvan!

Generalist Consumable: 2x Lesser Healing Potion

Signing in for 2-04: The Path of Kings

PLAYER: J.G.
CHARACTER: Ukh
PFS ID#: 212081-2003

All the Boons!:
Tarnbreaker Champion
Traveler of the Spirit road (3x)
Legacy of the Gorget
Fane's Friend
Sand Slide (3x)
Secrets of the Jistkan Alchemists (2x)
Light in the dark
Nrasen's web
River Kingdom Politician
Wayfinder Connections
Waters of Warlock's Barrow (1x)
Doom averted (1x)
Amateur genealogist (2x)
Fruit basket (1x)

Downtime. Earn money. Crafting. Task lvl 3. DC 17: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (16) + 15 = 31
Crit.: 5sp x 8 = 4gp

Scroll consumable: 2x Lesser Healing Potion

Signing in for 2-04: The Path of Kings

PLAYER: Julien
CHARACTER: Dranald
PFS ID#: 293201-2002

All the Boons!:
Team player (3x)
Engraved wayfinder
Tarnbreaker Champion
Traveler of the Spirit road (3x)
Big game hunter (3x)
River Kingdom Politician
Waters of Warlock's Barrow (1x)
Doom averted (1x)
Amateur genealogist (2x)
Fruit basket (1x)
Nexian Researcher (3x)

Downtime. Earn money. Bargain hunter. Task lvl 3. DC 17: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (6) + 10 = 16
Failure: 8cp x 8 = 64cp

Spell consumable: Scroll of heal

Well. My sincerest apologies if the group tpks due to Hannah's orders. I didn't know the "unbordered" troll was tougher. I figured they were all the same, and nuking that one first seemed like the best strategy for breaking the circle flank =(

No I think the errors were due to cast spell and stride without paying attention to the AoO.

The one without border has its token turned on the other side to make it different.

@Ukh: Correct.

Thematically, it would be difficult to tell the trolls apart - they are the same size, and have the same equipment; the unbordered one is just... tougher... The lack of the border and the flipped token was supposed to be the subtle hint that it might be different.

That said, I doubt this will be a TPK (although you will almost certainly 'lose' the combat, at this point in time) - remember, this is part of a larger battle for the town, so the trolls are incredibly unlikely to stand around to (essentially) coup-de-grace you, when there are other townsfolk to chase after (or at least, the scenario certainly doesn't say they do, so I won't have them do it). If it was just you versus them in a dungeon/lair, it would be a different story, of course.

It doesn't even affect either the primary or secondary success conditions - you will just lose a couple of treasure bundles.

To be fair to you guys, though, this is the first combat you have had in PF2 thus far, where *all* the enemies had AoOs...

Losing initiative to allow them to set the battlefield was really bad. All having AoO’s is also very rough. Literally everything Farryn does provokes, so even if he Stepped his Heal or Bomb would provoke right after.

If we die, it happens. We have ACP or even usable Fame for Rezzes.

Alright, chronicle sheets have now been sent out. As always, please download them at your earliest convenience.

For those who are curious:

The friendship/enmity of the Ranchers is only acquired if you crit-succeed or crit-fail on your attempts to talk with them.

The item access is only acquired if you crit-succeed on the attempt to convince the guard captain suffering from major depression to come back to town.

Please check in for the next scenario, which is a 1-4 :-)

Signing in for 2-05: Balancing the Scales

PLAYER: Nefreet
CHARACTER: Papa Svirf
PFS ID#: 66548-2009
Faction: Vigilant Seal

Earn Income, Mining Lore (E), DC 14: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 12 (8 copper)

Swords Consumable: Silversheen

Purchasing a new Steel Shield for this scenario.

2-05: Balancing the Scales (New PC!)

PLAYER: Pete H.
CHARACTER: Fairmount Catskin
PFS ID#: 123584-2004
STARTING XP: 8 (lvl 1)

Items Purchased: Nothing
STARTING GP: 29.8g

BOONS:

2-05 Balancing the Scales

PLAYER: RePete
CHARACTER: Gedrim Cueva
PFS ID#: 126566-2003
STARTING XP: 21 (level 2)

BOONS:
Faction - Grand Archive Champion
General - Big Game Hunter
General - Naren’s Web
General - Doom Averted

DOWNTIME:
Lore (Academia) DC14(Trained): 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (11) + 8 = 19
Success: 5c per day = 40c

SCHOOL ITEM:
*Scroll of Burning Hands

I think I'll be sitting this one out, as I don't have a low enough level character or the time to make one right now, and I'd rather not use a pregen. Best of luck, and I'll create a new character at some point relatively soon so I can play in future 1-4s.

Well for now there are a rogue 1, a champion and a wizard 2. I think Dranald and me should choose both lvl 2 characters so it's better for all. I can bring a barbarian 2 and Dranald a sorcerer 2 but he doesn't know the heal spell. What do you think?

That sounds good!

Unless you both brought level 4's, you would still be a low tier party.

Play whatever you want :-P

PLAYER: J.G.
CHARACTER: Dran'Thil
PFS ID#: 212081-2004

Downtime. Earn income. Mining. Task 0. DC 14: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (11) + 5 = 16
Success. So 8 x 5cp = 4 sp

BOONS:
Faction Boon: Envoy Alliance
Society Connections
Traveler of the Spirits Road
Sand slide
Touched by the storm
Engraved wayfinder
Big Game hunter
Tarnbreaker champion

Consumable: Crystal of potency

PLAYER: Julien
CHARACTER: Garad
PFS ID#: 293201-2003
STARTING XP: 20

Downtime. Earn income. Architecture Lore. Society connection. Task lvl 3. DC 17:1d20 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 4 = 23
Success. So 8 x 5sp = 4 gp

BOONS:
Faction Boon: Grand Archive
Society connections
Touched by the storm
Sand Slide
Traveler of the Spirit Road
Wayfinder
Engraved Wayfinder
Academic Conference
Big game hunter
Secrets of the Jistkan alchemists
Legacy of the Gorget

I take the scroll of heal as consumable. So we have something even if not a lot.

I missed my Roc in the last game...

Alright, I will have the chronicles out later today.

Please check in for the next one ASAP - the next scenario (a 3-6) is essentially a combat interactive (to the extent that the briefing is literally interrupted by the first combat), so I need to know what PCs everyone is playing before I make my first post :-P

I'll be playing Hannah. About to sit down to watch Mandalorian so I'll sign-in later tonight ^_^

Signing in for 2-06: The Crashing Wave

PLAYER: Nefreet
CHARACTER: Hannah
PFS ID#: 66548-2002

Downtime: Off-Hours Study to begin learning Dwarven

Generalist Consumable: 2x Lesser Healing Potion

PLAYER: Julien
CHARACTER: Dranald
PFS ID#: 293201-2002
STARTING XP: 60

Downtime. Earn income. Performance. Task lvl 4. DC 18:1d20 + 11 ⇒ (13) + 11 = 24
Success. 7sp x 8 = 5.6 gp

BOONS:
Team player (3x)
Engraved wayfinder
Tarnbreaker Champion
Traveler of the Spirit road (3x)
Big game hunter (3x)
River Kingdom Politician
Waters of Warlock's Barrow (1x)
Doom averted (1x)
Amateur genealogist (2x)
Fruit basket (1x)
Nexian Researcher (3x)

Consumable: scroll of heal

NEW: retributive strike reaction

I read the pitch and I'm asking myself how it will work for the alchemists throwing bombs underwater. I'm asking this because with Farryn and Ukh in the party it won't be a fun experience if both can't throw any bomb.

Farryn will go regardless, I have no one else in level range. Will do check in later.

Alchemist Fire is useless, and Acid Flasks are of limited utility. Literally every other type of bomb is fine :-P

To summarise:

AQUATIC COMBAT:

• You’re flat-footed unless you have a swim Speed.
• You gain resistance 5 to acid and fire.
• You take a –2 circumstance penalty to melee slashing or bludgeoning attacks that pass through water.
• Ranged attacks that deal bludgeoning or slashing damage automatically miss if the attacker or target is underwater, and piercing ranged attacks made by an underwater creature or against an underwater target have their range increments halved.
• You can’t cast fire spells or use actions with the fire trait underwater.
• At the GM’s discretion, some ground-based actions might not work underwater or while floating.

So I play with Ukh. I check later as I want to craft something during downtime.

There are 5th Level Pregens available if you want to play something different.

I'm glad this is repeatable, because I have a Level 2 "Wereshark" Barbarian with a Swim Speed.

I will also admit, I have been excited for this scenario for a while. Sahuagin are probably my favorite villainous humanoid. I've read all of the Sea Devils Forgotten Realms books and used to own all of the AD&D supplements about them. I even have this laminated poster showing their life cycle from hatchling to the most epic four-armed king!

Most GMs and plots, sadly, don't account for their rich history. Which I'm always prepared for. But I'm hoping PF2 gives them a chance to shine as more than bloodraging devourers.