Welcome and thanks for signing up for this run of "Pact World Warriors" for Gameday VIII folks!
First off, I'd like to introduce myself a bit to those of you who haven't played with me before. I'm GM Mjolbeard. I've been playing SFS since its debut, much of which has included PBP as a venue. I highly value the game, and love to do as much as I can to throw in a lot of role-play with my roll-play, as the saying goes. With that in mind, here are a few expectations that I will hold for myself as well as my players in this game:
In order to make sure I am sticking as close as possible to the way you would want your character to be played, please include Botting Instructions in your character's profile, including descriptions of your usual strategies and dice macros for your most common combat actions.
We will begin play with the start of Gameday VIII on August 26, but in the meantime, please do me a favor and post the information for your character requested below using the template I've provided. This will make things easier for me when it comes time for reporting and putting together chronicles, so this is for your benefit too! You can also dot in on the Gameplay thread with your character of choice.
Player Name:
Character Name:
SFS#:
Starting XP:
Starting Fame:
Starting Reputation with Slotted Faction:
Starting Credits:
Day Job Rolls (if applicable):
Special Notes/Abilities: Please describe any special mechanical considerations I should keep in mind here.
With all that out of the way, all that remains is for me to say thanks again for joining me, and happy gaming!
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Hello and thank you for running!
Player Name: Joey Martin
Character Name: Elwin
SFS#: 73425-702
Starting XP:0
Starting Fame:6
Starting Reputation with Slotted Faction:4
Starting Credits: 1496 (may spend some between now and then. :) )
Day Job Rolls (if applicable): none
Special Notes/Abilities:Nothing really extraordinary.
Edit: This reminded me I need to update the online sheet. Still level 1 here. :)
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Player Name: therealthom
Character Name: Khwam Sinb
SFS#: 90661-705
Starting XP: 1
Starting Fame: 2
Starting Reputation with Slotted Faction: 2 (dataphiles) {also 1 with Exo-Guardians}
Starting Credits: 809
Day Job Rolls (if applicable): Not applicable
Special Notes/Abilities: Khwam's most notable feature is a complete lack of Get 'em.
Will do, Kuey! Let me know if you still see notifications for some reason.
Player Name: Emediation
Character Name:Rich Gallant
SFS#:2373190-702
Starting XP:0
Starting Fame:0
Starting Reputation with Slotted Faction:
Starting Credits:249
Day Job Rolls (if applicable):n/a
Special Notes/Abilities: not that I am aware of!
We'll be starting on Monday, August 26--that's in only five days!!!
Over the next couple days, I'll be getting our Google Slides for the scenario set up so we can be ready to roll on Monday. In meantime, if you all want to hop into Gameplay and start chatting/talking about what your PCs are doing pre-briefing, feel free to do so!
I'm looking forward to playing with you all very soon!
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Player Name: Blake's Tiger (Tim M)
Character Name: Hesperrio
SFS#: 230524-703
Starting XP: 4
Starting Fame: 8
Starting Reputation with Wayfinders: 10
Starting Credits:
Day Job Rolls (if applicable):
Special Notes/Abilities: Evasion, Trap Spotter (automatic Perception check at +7 to find Traps when passing within 10 ft of them)
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Player Name: DoubleGold
Character Name: Ziamat
SFS#: 135676-714
Starting XP: 2 (It was a Dming credit in case you're wondering there Tixylix, he didn't play without you).
Starting Fame: 4
Starting Reputation with Slotted Faction: SS-JA: 4
Starting Credits: 1598
Day Job Rolls (if applicable): NA
Special Notes/Abilities: He has a bond with Tixylix. The two can communicate telepathically 30 feet. When init is rolled for both me and Tixylix, we both act at the higher init of us two. (see Dragonkin's racial bond ability).
Hey folks! In case you somehow missed it, the Online OP team has decided to postpone the start of Gameday VIII until September 9, due to delays in scenario support for the GMs. I can attest that, personally, I did not get my copy of this scenario until earlier this week, which, while it would be theoretically possible for me to prep in time for the start of the convention on Monday, is not an amount the amount of time I'd prefer to have.
So what do we do in the meantime?
Well, a couple of you have already checked in with your character information--thank you! Now that that part is done, feel free to go ahead and hop into the Gameplay thread and introduce yourselves to one another in character.
Thanks for your patience during this delay, folks! Looking forward to playing with you in September!
Can someone point me to instructions on how to add stats to my character like everyone else? I've hunted but can't seem to find anything! Thank you!
Great, thank you! I think I figured it out.
Hey folks! Sorry for the slow start, but things have gotten exceedingly and unexpectedly busy. I won't be able to post until tomorrow to move us along.
To make sure we don't have any big delays like this moving forward, I'm going to be working on pre-writing some posts for more story-based scenes like this.
Apologies again, and thanks for your patience!
Sorry for the absence, guys. Two very hard days at work and my parents are visiting. May not be able to post regularly until Sunday night.
Thanks for slotting your boons!
New post will be up in the next few hours.
Hey guys! Very sorry. It's been a stupid week and a half. I'm gonna give this another serious effort, but I know I'm going to have another pretty busy couple weeks starting Friday.
With that in mind, here's my commitment: I will give it my absolute best effort to post at least once a day, though this might often have to be pretty plain in content (I hope I've given you some indication by now that I like to actually give my posts some character). If I'm not able to maintain a 1/day posting rate, I will attempt one post every two days, sometimes excluding weekends, as that's ironically a more difficult time for me to get posts in. If I can't keep up a 1 post/2 days posting rate, I will seek another GM for you guys, as I don't want to leave you all in the lurch with your characters stalled in a scenario and without the credit and potential boons you deserve.
I know how crappy it can be to get stuck like this as a player, and I apologize for my lackluster performance as your GM. I am committed to making sure you guys get your credit, though, so let's do this!
1. I moved Khwam's token into the lava where he would have fallen in. You certainly do have the option to work together to help Khwam out.
2. The scenario doesn't really specify, but it does note that it is only a DC5 Athletics check to climb out of the lava and onto a platform, so I'm going to agree that the platforms are sticking just a foot or so above the surface of the lava.
Bear in mind, Khwam will continue to take damage from the lava each round, so even if he spends a Resolve to stabilize, he will immediately take damage again and will once again be dying. I'll roll the damage at the end of Khwam's turn, so he'll have a chance to stabilize each round. Even if he does stabilize, though, he might still die from massive damage if the lava deals more damage than his maximum HP total. He only has 10 HP, and the lava damage is 3d6, so it's very possible for him to die outright if he doesn't get help.
Now that we have the stakes stated a little more clearly, let's see what you guys come up with!
I haven't seen a smurf in years. I'd forgotten all about them.
Busy day at work today. Will get a post up this evening (in the next few hours).
...smurf
Boon Roll time! Winners on a 19-20!
No winners this time! Sorry folks.
I'd like to add a personal note of gratitude to Khwam's player for his graciousness around Khwam's death, as well as regret that it happened in the first place. I hope you feel I gave ample opportunity for Khwam to survive the encounter, and that you feel he went out in a way that was true to the character.
I'd also like to express my admiration for the other players who did everything they could to go back and help Khwam as long as possible, even going as far as risking their own PCs' safety to do what they could to help.
This has been a very drawn out play experience, largely due to my personal delays, but you all have held strong and made this a great game so far, and I look forward to finishing strong with all of you!
With all that being said, we also haven't heard from Rich in quite a while (over a month now). I sent him a PM a couple weeks ago and haven't heard back. With that in mind, I am going to drop him from the scenario so there won't be any burden of having to bot him on myself or any of you.
We'll pick up with the next challenge once I get a check in post from everyone letting me know what you're doing during the break. PLEASE NOTE: If I don't hear from you that you're spending the time and RP to heal up, you will not be considered to have full health for any future challenges. Please make sure you know where you are at with HP and SP. I think everyone took damage at some point in the obstacle course. Make sure you're accounting for it.
That's a very generous offer, JM. I do appreciate it, but will gratefully decline. This is only Khwam's second adventure and I can just start him over with a new number if I'd like.
Ziamat, do you have a special ability that allows your staff's block property to function even on a missed attack? Based on how I'm reading the description for that weapon property, it sounds like you only get the boost to AC on a hit with the weapon.
When you successfully strike a target with a melee attack using such a weapon, you gain a +1 enhancement bonus to your AC for 1 round against melee attacks from that target.
Because the word "successfully" is included in that description, I would interpret the property as functioning only when you hit your target, since missing your target would pretty clearly be considered an unsuccessful strike. Let me know if you have some additional information I'm missing, or if you have some other ability that allows the block property to work every time.
Thanks!
Okay! Just making sure I'm not missing out. I've got a PC that takes advantage of the Block property as well, and I'd love if he could get that benefit every time he attacked with it! :)
Merry Christmas, all. I hope you're cooking with gas.