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Welcome to the discussion thread of King of the Storval Stairs that I'll be running for Gameday VIII, starting up on August 26th. You can dot and delete in the Gameplay thread at your leisure. You can also post your PFS info when you get a chance, along with any special abilities you think I might need to be aware of...
Player Name:
Character Name:
PFS ID#:
Faction:
Progess (Standard or Slow):
Day Job Roll (if applicable):
We've got a while before we start but feel free to ask any questions here or talk about your characters in the meantime...
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I'll add a character sheet before the game starts - Will be at GenCon, so next couple of weeks will be busy.
Things to be aware of for Philetius:
* He has the War Sight revelation, so will roll twice and take the better on any initiative rolls.
* He has Combat Reflexes with a reach weapon, and an additional 5 feet when raging for 10 ft natural, 15 ft with the lucerne hammer, 15 ft natural, 20 feet when LongArm is up.
* He's a Ganzi, so will use his Quibble ability to give a reroll to anyone who rolls a nat 1 on a save within 30 feet of him.
* Lame Oracle curse means he is immune to Fatigue, so can drop/enter rage at will.
Player Name: CigarPete
Character Name: Philetius Everette Luhn III
PFS: 52875-9
Faction: Dark Archive
Progress: Standard
Day Job: Slacker
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Player Name:Joey Martin
Character Name: Arie D'Nostica
PFS ID#: 73425-3
Faction: Exchange
Progess (Standard or Slow): Standard
Day Job Roll (if applicable):
Arie is your classic 'face' type character.
In combat she is pure support. With the various Inspires stacked with spells like Haste she adds to the entire parties abilities and she is full of spells to force rerolls of saves, add to attack/skill checks and such.
Edit: She just made 9th her last adventure. I'll have the online sheet updated before the game starts.
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Got under 3 weeks to go, so I've posted the Maps/Slides link at the top of the page and also in my GM header. Link posted below as well:
King of the Storval Stairs Slides
You can list your preferred marching order on the slides at your leisure...also double-check the Initiative and Perception blocks to make sure I got those right...
I think Rogar Valertis is the only one who hasn't checked in here yet...
Keos, you might want to dot and delete the Gameplay thread so you'll get new post notifications in your Campaign profile...
Philetius, notice you don't have an avatar for your character header; that's fine but I need some kind of icon to represent you on the maps so please let me know what you'd like...
Feel free to ask any questions and/or get to know your fellow players here while we wait to get started. I think Zaarah is the only one that I've GM'ed before so I'll be posting again soon just to give you an idea of my GM'ing style...
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Phil rolls twice and takes the better for all initiative rolls.
I added an avatar image, and dropped a token on to the page - I've not seen any way to upload a token or other image to use as an avatar. If you don't want to use my token as it's different from the avatar, my avatar would also be fine.
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One week till we start! Made an intro post in the Gameplay thread so you can introduce your characters and hobnob at your leisure till we start in earnest next Monday...
I think Zaarah is the only one I’ve GM’ed before so I’ll give the rest of you a bit of what you can expect from me. I don’t pretend to know everything when it comes to Pathfinder rules; most of you likely have been playing longer and know the rules better than I. If, more likely when, I err, call me on it as you see it and I’ll fix it; I have no qualms about retconning if I screw something up. You won’t hurt my feelings as I like to think I don’t have much of an ego. My main goal is that everyone will enjoy themselves and have fun.
As a GM, I usually post at least two or three times a day, sometimes more, and try to keep things moving along. I don’t expect that much posting from my players, although you’re welcome to do so if you wish, but I’d appreciate if you could post at least once a day and once over the weekends. Real life comes first though so please let me know, if possible, when you may have a hard time posting. If I have to bot you, I’ll check your profile for botting instructions; lacking that, I’ll bot you conservatively equally considering the best interests of the character and the party.
As far as initiative goes during combat...for those players in the same initiative block, I usually play things out in post order as opposed to initiative order as I’ve found that moves the combat along more quickly. But if it’s a situation where it’s more beneficial to the party to play the block in initiative order, I will do so.
Looking forward to running y’all through this scenario...
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Sorry everyone, if you haven’t heard, it looks like Gameday has been pushed back for two weeks. Tyranius posted this over in the Flaxseed Lounge:
Hey Everyone,
I have some unfortunate news. I regret to inform you all that we will have to postpone Gameday VIII by 2 weeks.
This would place our new dates for Gameday at: 09 Sept 2019 - 17 Nov 2019
WHAT IS GOING ON? WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?
As most of you are aware, the majority of the GM’s have not received their scenario support for the Convention to include a good portion of the Specials. With Tonya occupied by other duties this weekend, we realized as a team that we are very unlikely to see the remainder of scenario support drop by Monday the 26th. Multiple avenues were discussed and what seems to be the best solution is to push Gameday back by two weeks. This will allow enough time for the GM’s to receive their scenarios and prep them.
BUT WHAT IF WE ALREADY HAVE OUR SCENARIOS, CAN WE START THEM?
Please hold off until the new start date to be able to eligible for your boon rewards. I understand this is a large inconvenience, we are doing everything we can to make this work. Part of that is to have everyone one the same start / end times rather than scattered.
We apologize for the inconvenience that this may cause, but we want all our GMs to have a chance to shine.
HOW DO I NOTIFY MY PLAYERS?
Go ahead and post the news to your tables. Feel free to copy this email if you wish. We will be posting notices in all the PBP lodges as well as the Gameday VIII Announcement page.
I know this is not what we hoped to do, and I’m sorry. Thank you for understanding that we’re scrambling to fix this.
If you have any other questions please don’t be afraid to ask.
-Tyranius
Even though I already owned the scenario, they want everyone to wait till the new date...
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With the characters we have currently, we are solidly high tier. Even if you go with a level 7, we will be high with 4 player adjustment at 9.5 APL. Basically, play what you want.
Current party:
Arie Bard 9
Rogar Fighter 10
Philetius Bloodrager/Oracle 11
Seldanna Witch 10
Keos Ranger 10
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@GM Otha, before we start, I will be adding the Vicious enhancement to my hammer, Tim. I will be using a psychic significance boon to reduce the cost by 10% (I've checked all the boxes, max reduction is 200gp/lvl, so 2200), so upgrading from a +3 (+1 Shocking Furious) to a +4 (+1 Shocking Furious Vicious), normally 14,000gp, will be 12,600gp.
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I can cast Commune and potentially learn a significant deal about this scenario. It costs only 500gp for incense and a holy water.
School divination; Level cleric/oracle 5, inquisitor 5, shaman 5
CASTING
Casting Time 10 minutes
Components V, S, M (holy or unholy water and incense worth 500 gp), DF
EFFECT
Range personal
Target you
Duration 1 round/level
You contact your deity--or agents thereof--and ask questions that can be answered by a simple yes or no. (A cleric of no particular deity contacts a philosophically allied deity.) You are allowed one such question per caster level. The answers given are correct within the limits of the entity's knowledge. "Unclear" is a legitimate answer, because powerful beings of the Outer Planes are not necessarily omniscient. In cases where a one-word answer would be misleading or contrary to the deity's interests, a short phrase (five words or less) may be given as an answer instead.
The spell, at best, provides information to aid character decisions. The entities contacted structure their answers to further their own purposes. If you lag, discuss the answers, or go off to do anything else, the spell ends.
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@GM Otha - Sorry to derail the gameplay thread. The critical piece of information embedded in middle of the paragraph is an exceptional feature of PF.
They have no choice/randomness in the matter. The spell is specific that if they are attacked, they attack back.
Any confused character who is attacked automatically attacks its attackers on its next turn, as long as it is still confused when its turn comes.
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GM, this is very much an area that is open to your discretion as far as I can see. It's not been resolved on the forums by anyone official. I can see it falling both ways and being totally reasonable.
It sounds like you think I should be able to get out of the radius of the spell, but not get off my AoO, which I think is a good call. Let's move forward with that.
Total sidebar - James Jacobs said in his ask me anyt rules questions thread in 2012 that movement from a Surprising Charge provokes as normal, which is not something I had ever thought about or played with.
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That's a wrap! I'll report this session and have your Chronicles to you tomorrow...
Enjoyed running this for you. First time GM'ing a 10-11 tier session and I learned a lot from y'all; with all your mods, buffs, and special abilities, I sometime lost track of some of it so thank you for your reminders and your patience!