GM Deneve's The Fall of Plaguestone (PFS 2e) (Inactive)

Game Master redeux

I have a few questions regarding the house. Is the per-day home restoration cost only applicable to the Repair tasks? If we're going to prepare meals in the house do we need pots, pans, etc.? How much cleaning did the caravan crew manage? Per the task descriptions, the estate has to be cleaned before we can sleep there...with what's been done, can we stay there tonight?

Sorry, really busy today. I'll move the story forward and answer that question either later today or tonight. Sorry.

@John: Restoration costs only applies to repair tasks. The house is abandoned, but still has things. The furniture is in bad shape, as it hasn't seen use in 20 years, most of it rotted as it, but not all of it. You would find pots and pans, and thanks to Pepper, you can now wash them.

The caravan crew, and Valor and Pepper cleaned up about half the estate. I'd say it makes sense they're done with the living quarters. You can sleep there, and recover HP without penalties if you share rooms.

Fatigued is a real pain in 2E, so I'm fine out of character with waiting for Simon to rest up, even if Deerslicer grouses about it a bit. I can scout the Dead Willow house, in case Hallod leaves before everybody is ready to go. If we're at 2 pm, and wait 8 hours for rest, I assume that I'll be okay to start at 10 pm without a rest. Not sure if anybody else in the group (except Simon) is particularly Stealthy, so probably everyone else can just rest for that time.

Although I think I missed it if Kunsheng treated my dog bite.

Aw, what about my leg? *sad pout*

You get no love from Sinan or Kunsheng. :( But if either of them would like to heal Gamble, please go ahead.

Sorry about that...I've had some busy days, and working through 15-20 involved posts at the end of the day I've missed some things. (Currently slacking off during a telecon.)

"You won't sit still," Sinan deadpans.

In my headcancon, Pepper grows a small branch from like her shoulder, then plucks the berry from it and shoves it at whichever human needs it every time she casts Goodberry. It's both terrifying and sweet and maybe a little gross. But nothing anyone ever says will convince me otherwise.

At the very beginning this was actually discussed by Eric and me, but I nixed it, because I'm a bad person. But hey, at least I don't maim my allies!

It's out of love

I choose to believe that is true...

Sinan al-Razima wrote:

"You won't sit still," Sinan deadpans.

In my headcancon, Pepper grows a small branch from like her shoulder, then plucks the berry from it and shoves it at whichever human needs it every time she casts Goodberry. It's both terrifying and sweet and maybe a little gross. But nothing anyone ever says will convince me otherwise.

That's right out of Alan Moore's Swamp Thing.

yess!

On the map, I moved Sinan to the front door, and me, Gracie, Pepper, and Simon to the back window along the path. That's the correct back window, isn't it?

Congrats! You're level 2! You obtained a total of 1,010 xp. Please set your current XP to 10, as once you reach 1,000 xp, you reduce xp by 1,000 on leveling up.

Maybe now I'll be able to use more deadly traps to make sure you don't detect them so easily. :p

we're so gonna die.

Since some of us will have more spells, should we wait till we rest again to prepare them?

If you add a little tune to it and shake some maracas, it doesn't sound so bad. Just imagine Gamble doing it :P

♪♫ "We're so gonna die! We're so gonna die!" ♫♪

Nah, I don't think so, you guys have survived worse, and I'm not like Troy Lavallee who takes joy in trying to kill his players.

I've updated my header but not my profile yet.

Updated header and profile. I took Monster Hunter as my Class Feat and Experienced Tracker.

If Kunsheng takes the Quick Repair skill feat, will that shorten the time to fix the estate?

I took Healing Hands to make magical healing a d10 and Assurance for medicine to never fail a medicine check again for treat wounds.

My understanding of the Assurance skill feat is that your check result is 10 + your proficiency bonus (i.e., level plus 2 if you're Trained, etc.). So for Sinan you'd get an automatic result of 14, but Treat Wounds has a base DC of 15. Did I miss an erratum on that?

Just a question, Sinan: do you have Expert Medicine? Because I believe that @level 2 Assurance w. a Trained Skill would be a 14, so not useful for Treat Wounds/Battle Medicine (you never fail w. Expert @lvl 1 or 2, or lvl 3 w. Trained - I think).

Pepper: Jinx!

Simon will take the HP and proficiency increases now, but (with everyone's permission, or at least non-objection), his Dedication Feat is going to kick in over time.

GM: As I was updating my tagline, I realized that I have had two mistakes listed there for the entirety of Level 1. One is that my Fortitude save has been listed at +4, when it should have been +3; the other is that my Initiative was listed as +9, when it should have been the same as my Perception (+7). Both of these were correct on my sheet (I moved 12 Con to 12 Str and took Toughness instead of Incredible Initiative to offset) but I guess I forgot to update my tagline. Let me know if there's an appropriate pennance that I should do.

Edit: Also, Simon has Assurance (Medicine) but is Expert in Medicine so his Assurance value is 16.

Yep, you guys are right. Worth it for me to try something else- especially with Simon already having it

How do you get a skill to Expert at level 2? I thought you couldn't boost skills to Expert until the level 3 skill increase.

I also feel like this group needs to stop adventuring and found a hospital.

Thematically, Student of the Canon fits best- especially with the questions that have come up religiously

Rogues start getting the skill bumps at Level 2. They also get skill feats at odd levels.

I also feel like this group needs to stop adventuring and found a hospital.

That's why I'm not bothering to take Soothe. I'll probably take Summon Fey instead.

@Deerslicer: may I ask what the Immune to Treat Wounds (24 hours) on your avatar means?
If it is Battle Medicine, you should only be immune to the person who performed it on you not from all sources (different people can do it to you, each 1/day).
If it is Treat Wounds, it should not be 1 day.

re. Expert in Skills, as said, all Rogues can up to Expert at level 2.
Or anyone w. Archetypes that give such choices of Expert.

Elves should be able to start @Expert at level 1, w. Ancestry allowing Archetypes @lvl 1.

Pepper communes with the spirits, and out there in the First World, her Familiar Beltza becomes quite stronger.
"One all this is over and I leave Plaguestone, I will find a body for you, Beltza, and you can come back, and fly, and we can talk! Have patience!"

The problem is that, while communing with the Spirits, a lot of them entered Pepper's mind, and whisper to her all the time.
"Do this-- no, do that-- This is what that is!-- NO! That is what this is!"
Pepper cannot tell what is correct from what is wrong anymore... but at least she knows things all the time!

Went with my plan for Enhanced (dead) Familiar ; and I took Dubious Knowledge

One extra 1st level spell per day... and that is it.

I think others were Drained too?
If so, we lose another HP vs. our max, and the Fort' saves are @-2 and not -1 etc..

Bloodseekers have a special limit on their Drained effect: it goes away with any healing applied.

Well, you should know that does not work on Leshies!
Otherwise why do I still have the drained condition?! Huh!

Thanks!

Pepper finally feels better.
Though she now feels scorn for the inept bloodseekers

Wow, so many posts!

@Kunsheng, Quick Repair and Repair is for items. I wouldn't say it would help that much in repairing the walls.

@Simon, it's fine. Just have the corrected tagline, I imagine most mistakes are human error and I've been making and will be making them too, so don't fret.

@Pepper, Draining should have gone away with any healing you received.

Edit. Gamble beat me to it.

I love that Simon is probably having an existential crisis of "Oh crap, what did I just do?"
And despite all evidence otherwise, Sinan is just "Oh yeah, Valor's a cleric. That tracks." casting doubt on Sinan's assumptions to date

I think Simon's initial assumption is that Sinan had a glowing scimitar that he accidentally turned on.

I'm so enjoying playing with you guys like you have no idea.

That reminds me, I was going to try to join your Evoking Day adventure, but I realized I don't have any PF2 characters remotely close to 3rd level.

Apparently, I'm a bad VL :) Made my 5th star a couple years ago, I'm 3 specials away from my 5th Nova, but I've only run a handful of PF2 games and including this one, played in 2. Mind you, PF2 is my favorite iteration of D20 rules, so there's really no excuse.

@Sinan: you can always sign w. up offering to play a pre-gen (levels 3 and 5 are available for some now).

I thought of that, but it loses my favorite part, diving into a character I really like that I made. There’ll be more opportunities:)

@Pepper: Thanks for that clarification. I keep getting the rules and limitations of Treat Wounds & Battle Medicine confused.

I'm sorry, I've been really insensitive about this, but are any of you colorblind?

Not I.

Argh. That was a pain to edit my profile. I don't know what gets up with this site when saving profiles. Edit>Cut>Paste>Save and it tells me too much time has elapsed. :P

I know, tell me about it. It does that to me not only with my profile, but even with the previews at times.

I think I now have the reflex to automatically save before posting.

I believe I am okay w. colors.

Nope, not colorblind.

Do you guys have any tips or go-to places to learn about doing maps and tokens on google drive? I haven't run anything on the boards before, but next week I want to start to prep to run the new 1-4 SFS adventure on the boards. Cincinnati is expected to stay closed for a couple more months at least, so I won't get to run my new adventure in meatspace when it releases next week.

But on the boards? Yeah that could be really fun and inspire some real roleplay in a mostly combat scenario.

I'm not colorblind, either.

I have lots of tips but I've been too lazy to write up a guide.

However, I believe one of the VAs has a generic PbP guide that covers some of those features. I'll go look.

EDIT: No. I was wrong. I really should get around to making that guide...