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Signed-up players, in your first post here in Discussion, please include the following information.
Your name for the Chronicle:
Character's name for the Chronicle:
Org play id number with character number (xxxxxxx-200x):
Faction slotted:
Day Job/Crafting Roll/No Roll (rolling Crafting, Performance or any Lore):
Whether you are field-commissioned: (Y/N)
Any other information you think the GM or the other players might need to know, e.g. your time zone and posting schedule, or anything about your character that will affect game-mechanics in an unusual way.
I am in the Pacific time zone (west coast USA) and will normally be able to post at the beginning and end of my day.
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More on the player: have been playing PF since 2015. Played a bit of Vampire the Masquerade, 5e and did a bit of IRL PFS. I have GM'd 1E and currently GM and play in 2E games. Rise of the Runelords converted to 2E is my GM game and Age of Ashes is what I PC in.
Looking forward to the in depth and pace of Play by Post.
Field-commissioned?: N?
It's the alternative to putting 3 points into the schools of Pathfinder training. Trade-off is 50% more downtime for fewer free items, as you don't have that social network of old classmates that needs to be maintained.
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Player: Michael Riley
Character's name for the Chronicle:Dorian 'The Hammer' Gravendak
Org play id number with character number (1947-2005):
Faction slotted: Vigilant Seal
Day Job/Crafting Roll/No Roll (rolling Crafting, Performance or any Lore): Medicine: +4
Whether you are field-commissioned: N (put three in swords)
Time Zone: Arizona...we are different ;) but either Mountain or Pacific depending on the time of year. Mid day posts for me too.
Nice intros, all! The usual convention - and the one most people are more comfortable with as far as reading PbP posts - is to use the third-person point of view, i.e. "CharacterName stands on a chair and sings". I'm don't really object personally if you prefer to use first-person ("I stand on a chair and sing"), but many, many PbPers will ask you to only use third-person so let's stick to that convention here to build up that muscle.
In his post, Ornaculus demonstrated the use of a hook - offering another player something to respond to - by asking Dorian if he wanted to fly. Dorian responded very appropriately, in the process revealing an aspect of his stalwart dwarven personality. You can use this technique liberally in all your games but it's especially vital in PbP! It does requires cooperation on both ends of course - being conscious about deliberately involving the other characters, as well as carefully reading other peoples' posts to notice when such an offer has been made, and responding to it. It can be discouraging for an offer to be ignored!
Just waiting on Filtune to show up.
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I saw that Redd procured from items from her school. Is that something that is done at the beginning of every PFS Adventure?
Ornaculus would definitely invest all three points into the Spells school, so that means I can select two from the following?:
(Burning hands, charm, fear, harm, heal, mage armor, magic fang, magic missile, magic weapon, soothe)
I think Hero Lab already gave me the Assurance feat.
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Sorry this has been a bit confusing. Signed up for Katrina/numbat's game, but I guess I got a different Gm? Shurg
Player Name : Justin B
Character's name for the Chronicle: Filtune Gracefoot
Org play id number with character number 55177-2002 EA
Day Job/Crafting Roll/No Roll : NA
Whether you are field-commissioned: N
Time Zone - California
Will post my attempt at a introduction lol
I saw that Redd procured from items from her school. Is that something that is done at the beginning of every PFS Adventure?
Ornaculus would definitely invest all three points into the Spells school, so that means I can select two from the following?:
(Burning hands, charm, fear, harm, heal, mage armor, magic fang, magic missile, magic weapon, soothe)I think Hero Lab already gave me the Assurance feat.
Yes, you can select two items and they can come from the Spells list or the All-Schools list. Though you can personally only use scrolls that are on your spellcasting tradition's list, you can always take items that someone else in your party can use and give those to them to use.
Sorry this has been a bit confusing. Signed up for Katrina/numbat's game, but I guess I got a different Gm? Shurg
We split the group into 3 tables, so numbat recruited more GMs to run the other tables.
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@Filtune, I'm confused with your introduction. Are there multiple people that make up Filtune? You used they a lot and it was confusing since I thought we could only play one character?
...they are playing little tricks and ...
I was a bit confused as well. As a suggestion, maybe instead of using 'them' & 'they', use Filtune's name?
"Filtune sneaks behind the ogre" sounds better than "They sneak behind the ogre". Especially in a pbp with limited visuals.
It may just take some getting used to on my part if you do the latter.
not sure what Dorians choices would be for items? boons? he took 3 swords. was trying to find it again...
So, with 3 points in Swords: you can take two level 1 Pathfinder Training items from anything in the Swords list or the All-Schools list. (The list is here for ease of reference.)
From the Swords list, the most common item I see people taking is the potency crystal. This is most useful when you already have a pretty good chance to hit. The one-use potency crystal will give you a small bonus to hit and an extra die of damage for the one Strike you use it on.
There are some decent choices in the All-Schools list for this level. If you suspect there's going to be eeeeevil things, holy water is a good choice; if you're wary of poisons or disease, there's the antidote or antiplague. If you have no other ideas, you can't really go wrong with the minor healing potion.
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@Filtune, I'm confused with your introduction. Are there multiple people that make up Filtune? You used they a lot and it was confusing since I thought we could only play one character?
...they are playing little tricks and ...I was a bit confused as well. As a suggestion, maybe instead of using 'them' & 'they', use Filtune's name?
"Filtune sneaks behind the ogre" sounds better than "They sneak behind the ogre". Especially in a pbp with limited visuals.
It may just take some getting used to on my part if you do the latter.
The use (and understanding) of singular they/them is pretty much normal around my neck of the woods. Of course, differences in use of language pop up a lot in PbP, especially with the ability to play with people from all over the world, so it's always good to politely clarify intention if you're unsure.
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Sorry If i am causing confusion.
I am trying something a bit different with this character, The inspiration for Filtune is vaguely based on the idea of a Third Gender/Shamen/Healer in various Native American / Mesoamerican cultures. Filtune is a Jaric halfling from the Barrier Wall mountains which is a tribe based culture so i thought it would fit a Cleric of the tribe.
If it is that big of deal I can just pick a gender and use that for the PBP. Otherwise I will do my best to make sure it is not too confusing. And yes it does not help I am terrible with grammar xD
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No worries, Jib! Play your character the way you want. To help me learn pbp, I've been reading old pbp threads of PFS scenarios I GM'd in the past for tabletop games. All the different play-styles out there are quite varied.
One game I was reading had a blind player (not a PC) that had a way for the text of the other players to be audible. Each player had to describe where their PC was in relation to the blind player's PC by way of imagining a clockface. They would have to picture the blind player's PC as being in the center of the clockface then one player would write "I'm at 9 o'clock, 60 ft away." Another player would write "I'm at 2 o'clock, 30 ft away." And so on. It was very interesting and a great way to learn a different way of playing a pbp.
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I agree with Redd! Play your PC how you want. I just may ask for clarification of a post if it's confusing to myself.
On the blind player, note. That's a pretty awesome way to describe things for someone without sight. It's also very literal and explicit. I might have to pick up that as a way of description.
Filtune, which faction are you representing? Or have you not yet decided?
So, for the three seperate checks, two of them being Society checks, I'm assuming we make all three checks in a single post so it doesn't clutter up the board. I'll give it a shot and try some role-playing added in.
Yep, all 3 in one post.
Minor note regarding Redd's nudge to Dorian: Eando isn't a Venture-Captain, he's a faction leader. In some ways, that's a more rarified position of power, as there are only a few faction leaders, compared to the larger number of Venture-Captains.
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Technically, Ready spends two Actions to later perform a single Action (or a Free Action). For this reason, you can't Ready to cast most spells, which consume two or more Actions.
I'm choosing to interpret Ornaculus' intention for a "readied" action more loosely, outside of encounter mode.
Waiting to see if Filtune has anything to say. If not, I'll move things along tonight.
Sure has been quiet around here... [listens to crickets] I sent Dorian a ping.
Botting Dorian to keep things moving.