GM Cellion's Dawn of Flame AP

Game Master Cellion

Perhaps take a cue from history (and Pathfinder 1e's final AP) and call it the Radiant Fire?

I just cackled out loud at that one, Bel.

Constructed in the ship foundries of Aballon, I give you...the RCS A Series Of Unlikely Explanations

Nice!

I also like a phrase from Flint's background, the RCS An Excess of Shenanigans

Radiant Fire and Radiant Voyager seem a bit more...respectable, though.

Want to put it to a vote?

BTW, I'm going to run with Flint's suggestion about how you guys all ended up on the As-Yet-Unnamed starship making its way to the Burning Archipelago. We can refine details on the go.

Radiant Fire, for me. I love the idea of TB finding out his mega superweapon winds up sharing a name with a busted up freighter.

First gameplay post is up! Time for pseudo-introductions :P

CUE THE MUSIC! B)

Google Translate from Arabic if anyone wants to know what Flint said in Ignan...

I did. That's a hell of a swear...

Totally agree, but we need some hint from the sensors, people's culture checks, or a communication with the sunship that 1-the monster from the portal is really the 'bad guy' and 2-we have a chance in hades against either one of them (in a relative tactical sense).

Oh, I know. That's why I didn't have Belmarniss just gun it towards the whale straightaway. ;)

Incidentally after reading this tweet I can't imagine Belmarniss sounding like ANYTHING but Corinne Kempa (Leliana for you Dragon Age players out there)!

The reply about how drow aren't *naturally* arrogant, they work hard for their arrogance is so Sammad.

Flip and Burn or Evade? What would you recommend?

Oh dear.

Let's do it!!

Live footage of the Radiant Fire

This might be more accurate footage...

It flew eventually! Or, at least, half of it did.

Remember to put a trajectory on the map, you've got 10 hexes of movement this turn.

We don't crash because I rolled a nat 1?

Nah, the punishment for failing it is that it still gets a free attack against us and also that our missile battery is out of position and can't fire (since we won't be able to turn enough to get back around).

With 10 hexes you should be able to turn just enough to get it back in the forward arc—turn at hex 6 in its hex and every hex after, and it should work.

Edit: I put some arrows on to show what I mean.

I think that's what we should do, yes...sorry for the choke there...*sweatdrop*

I probably misunderstood the maneuverability rules. I thought we had to have 1 turn of forward movement between each turn.

Yes, but you start out with five hexes forward, then move/turn (6), move/turn(7), move/turn(8), move/turn(9), move/turn(10). 5 Turns gets us just barely back around for the whale in our forward arc...depending how the whale moves, of course.

Marisol @ everyone else on the crew

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! >:(

I can sympathize, believe me. Mari might be rolling hot but another character of mine literally has not rolled above a 6.

I suppose on the positive side, maybe it looks like our propulsion is heavily damaged...

Now your propulsion is actually damaged! You guys are looking hot!

;)

Sorry for sucking at the pilot role right out of the gate...I'll admit I don't know much about how to strategize for it. Like I've said before, in Cellion's other game that I'm in, my guy mostly just mans the flak cannon.

Sorry for sucking at the pilot role right out of the gate...I'll admit I don't know much about how to strategize for it. Like I've said before, in Cellion's other game that I'm in, my guy mostly just mans the flak cannon.

Can't help bad rolls. And it takes a bit to get used to the piloting rules. Hopefully Flint helped without toooooo much micromanagement. We'll get better...

...and that was an awesome combat once we got close in and started hitting!

You did fine! Piloting is tricky to begin with and the dice refused to cooperate with you.

I'm referring more to my not really knowing how best to fly the darn thing. I was RELYING on Flint's micromanagement to know where to go on the map and how to get there.

It was an introductory encounter, no worries! You'll learn as we go, no problem.

For what it's worth I think you did fine.

I know, though both Belmarniss and me as her player are kind of perfectionists...

I think it went pretty great! It was a tense scene, felt punchy & dangerous and had a sweet cinematic conclusion! Very promising start to the campaign :)

I think it went pretty great! It was a tense scene, felt punchy & dangerous and had a sweet cinematic conclusion! Very promising start to the campaign :)

Glad you liked it! This encounter is one I wrote myself :D

As an aspiring adventure writer, I figured I'd test myself to make something a bit special to get us started. I would really appreciate feedback on the following if you have any thoughts:

Ordyt wrote:

I think it went pretty great! It was a tense scene, felt punchy & dangerous and had a sweet cinematic conclusion! Very promising start to the campaign :)

Glad you liked it! This encounter is one I wrote myself :D

As an aspiring adventure writer, I figured I'd test myself to make something a bit special to get us started. I would really appreciate feedback on the following if you have any thoughts:

Anything that wasn't clear in the encounter

Anything you particularly liked or didn't care for in the scene

How much agency you felt you had in the proceedings.
(In case its not clear from how the encounter went - how well you guys did in this fight has a real impact - one you'll see soon.)

I'm thinking of submitting this (or a reskinned version of this encounter) to either the Wayfinder magazine, or at least to the GM thread for this campaign. So any feedback you guys have will help me put another layer of polish :>

So I pretty much liked all of it. The surprise and uncertainty, allowing us to decide to engage then giving us the push from the station to help. An unusual battle to rescue & hold while waiting for reinforcements. Our early rolls didn't help, but that increased the tension until we did the bold maneuver flyby and your descriptions were on point!

We were so close to dodging that last salvo too, and we probably would have if the Captain were more specific about wanting extra speed out of the glitching engines (2 more hexes may have put us out of short range, giving the whale the extra -2 we needed to have it miss). We are all learning how to work together as a crew and that was a fabulous start to the adventure!

Only one piece of advice for people like me (highly tactical approach to combat). It would have been nice to have a "shadow" of each ship where it started the round, a path it took to its ending position, and the regular icon at the ending position. That was the only thing somewhat unclear, as the whale moved last and it was difficult to reconcile the new ship positioning to the old position last round with no way to look back at the previous positioning...Maybe the ship with the solid border and facing at its final position, a consistent arrow or line color matching the ship border showing the path taken, and a dashed ship border icon where the starting position and facing was?

Hey Cellion! I'll PM you my feedback to to minimize clutter on the Discussion thread, but you've already gotten the quick version.

I have been thinking of trying to do some freelance adventure writing too, so good on you for going forward with it!

GAH! I spend one day at work and go to a union hearing and things go crazy!

Always in favor of going to your union's meetings/events!

Sorry for the double-post. There was a lot to respond to.

Seriously?! The same crummy roll twice in a row?!

Does the map look a bit off for anyone else? On my end it looks like Ordyt is inside of a wall and we're all in the wrong room.

Someone nudged the heck out of the map. It happens sometimes for folks trying to play on mobile. I've fixed it.

I'm starting to think Belmarniss has been cursed by the dice roller.

Well, at least it didn't take it out on your reflex save.

As a heads up, I will be traveling from October 19 through the 26th. I'll still have access to my phone and such, but just in case I'm hard to get a hold of I wanted to make sure you all knew well ahead of time.

No prob Marisol.

Making my Mysticism checks here, since quoting your big post would be a lot of hassle.

Mysticism - Me Only: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (17) + 4 = 21
Mysticism - Typhix Description: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10