GM Jhaeman's "The Prince of Augustana" (Inactive)

Game Master Jhaeman

General Notes:

I try to post every day to keep things moving, and if you can keep a similar pace, that would be great. We all have real life interruptions of course, so if you can't post and we're in the middle of something like a combat, please give me bot instructions or I'll assume your PC does Total Defense.

Please place a good array of information in your character header. Knowing your PC's AC, Perception mod, Initiative mod, etc., saves me a lot of time when doing posts. If you need help figuring out how to format that, we can help you.

If you want to earn extra GM love, posting a full character sheet in your profile is great. That way I can look stuff up and answer my own "how did they do that?" questions. Related, if you have some crazy weird or complicated build and want to explain anything, here's a good place.

You'll need a picture of your character for the grid scenes.

Finally, role-playing is good! Please give your PC some personality and engage with the other PCs and NPCs. I'll gently move us along if we're dwelling too much in one part of the scenario.
Any questions, ask away!

A point of order: my character's given name is Tsuan. Lai is her family name - in Lung-Wa culture, the family name is the first name, and the given name is the last name.

She will definitely correct anyone who refers to her as Lai.

I've just realised Seldiir hasn't posted at all yet. I'm going to PM them, and otherwise we'll go with the alternate.

Who is the last person on our rope anyway? Lol.

Sorry for the delay, I forgot to dot-and-delete

Okay, I've placed you in a marching order as close to your wishes as I could. This encounter is on Slide # 3.

Jhaeman, I never updated you on what I wanted to buy at the alchemist's shop. Two alchemist's fire for abtotal of 40gp. I can't seem to edit my profile on my phone and I haven't made it to my computer yet to do so (show), but I should be able to this afternoon.

Sounds good, thanks.

Evelyn, do you have a special ability to Take 10 with Acrobatics while in combat? It might be a Swashbuckler thing, I don't know. If not, you'd normally have to actually roll--though if your Acrobatics mod is +9, you'll automatically succeed anyway vs. a DC 10 to jump over one square one of water. It will matter if you're trying to jump over more than one square of water (DC is double the distance covered for a long jump). Technically, you can't get a running start to lower the DC because you'd need to move at least 10' in a straight line before jumping and I don't think there's room.

She could use 'derring-do' to add +1d6 to her acrobatics check.

As for taking ten, perhaps it depends on your definition of "in immediate danger or distracted"?

Taking 10: When your character is not in immediate danger or distracted, you may choose to take 10. Instead of rolling 1d20 for the skill check, calculate your result as if you had rolled a 10. For many routine tasks, taking 10 makes them automatically successful. Distractions or threats (such as combat) make it impossible for a character to take 10. In most cases, taking 10 is purely a safety measure—you know (or expect) that an average roll will succeed but fear that a poor roll might fail, so you elect to settle for the average roll (a 10). Taking 10 is especially useful in situations where a particularly high roll wouldn’t help.[/squote]

Still new to pfs, there is no real point in taking their equipment is there? Or could we sell them before the adventure ends? I don't recall.

No real point--you don't get to keep anything you take, and your gold on the Chronicle isn't affected. The only reason is if you see something you want to use just for the rest of the scenario. Finding consumables can be good, though.

Although I'm going to move us along, please feel free to note here if you're taking any of the alchemical supplies. Remember, they disappear at the end of the scenario, so feel free to use them now and have some fun :)

Its almost Christmas. This will be my last post until the 26th. Goona visit family and be on a tablet. Posting will be problimatic at best. So, best to enjoy time with loved ones!

Y'all have a great holiday!

Cyfarchion y tymor!

This is just the usual friendly reminder to everyone to make sure you mark off consumables (potions, wand charges, oils, etc.) and to keep your tagline updated if you've taken damage, have ongoing conditions or buffs, etc. Thanks!

Today's my birthday (there's fireworks and everything!), so I'll likely be away from the keyboard for a day or two.

Lol! Happy birthday

Enjoy your special day! And Fireworks! Woot!!!!

Woohoo!

We've still got a bit to go, obviously, but we've entered the final lap. It's a good time to double-check the information you gave me for Chronicles (in the Recruitment thread) and to roll Day Job checks here. If there's anything else special I need to note on Chronicles, please let me know.

Profession (cartographer): 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12

Special notes: if Tsuan kills any of the demons personally, she's going to behead it and keep it as a trophy. Not sure if that needs to be in the Chronicle or not. She has a doppleganger head from her last adventure that was not Chronicled but I've just put it in her character sheet as a decorative item with a weight of 2 lbs.

Even if she doesn't kill it personally, she may keep a trophy anyway because ... well, how many chances will she have to get her hands on a demon head?

In PFS? Plenty!

No day job for me.

No day job for me. I misread the rules when creating Bahram.

Tsuan, officially you don't keep anything found within the adventure--just what you purchase using gold--so I won't write it on the Chronicle. Unofficially, I don't think any GM will mind if you "own" a demon's head purely for RP flavour and don't try to get any mechanical advantage out of it.

We'll see how many she collects before it becomes an encumberance issue.

Good teamwork on the rescue guys, and I liked the clever grappling hook idea!

Evelyn and Onu, did you want to roll a Day Job check? I see you have ranks in a profession skill and a craft skill respectively.

Excellent work everyone! You met the primary success condition (confirming the non-existence of a portal) and the secondary success condition (defeating Randalan and at least half of the Steel Wyvern thugs). You earned all of the gold and all of the items in your sub-tier. It was a pleasure to GM for you, and I really enjoyed the role-playing you brought to the game.

I'll report the results and have Chronicles ready by tomorrow.

Some of you were wondering earlier about the disease checks for falling into the sewer water. That was to avoid contracting filth fever. Because it has a 1d3 day onset time and you finished the scenario without resting overnight, it didn't affect you. I think technically we should go through the process of clearing the condition, but I'm going to assume success for a few reasons: 1) the save DC is quite low and (with someone aiding your chances by taking 10 on Heal) the chances of failing the necessary saves to cure yourself are very small; 2) the disease has no permanent effects apart from the remote possibility of death if you fail enough saves to take Constitution damage equal to your Con score (keeping in mind that you'd recover 1-2 points of Con damage each day through bedrest); 3) there are special tonics on your Chronicle that give you extra saves; and 4) I've already mostly filled out the Chronicles and don't want to have to re-do them!

Either our posts crossed or that was the fastest response ever!

Thanks for GMing, it was lots of fun.

Ok, the session has now been reported and Chronicles can be downloaded here. If there are any problems, just let me know and I'll fix them up.

Thanks, Jhaeman!

It was a good time, thanks everyone.

Good scenario, it was run very well!

I have a correction on my chronical sheet. I gave you the wrong total for my starting gold. It should have been 1,023. I only listed the starting gold from my second adventure without adding the gold from my first. My apologies. Also, I would like to spend 2 pp to purchase a wand of clw so that I can be like all of the other cool kids.

Gaining my third experience point, I will be gaining a level (for the first time in pfs!) Is there any other record keeping I need to do with you before this session closes out Jhaeman?

No worries Bahram, I can fix that up for you. It will take until early next week as I have to use the scanner at work and it's the beginning of a long weekend where I live. But I've made myself a note and will PM you when it's ready. Congrats on levelling up!

Bahram, I've sent you a PM.

Everyone else, I'm setting this campaign to inactive, but if you need anything, just PM me.