Logsig's PFS2 #1-01 The Absalom Initiation (March 2020) (Inactive)

Game Master logsig

Friends! I'm a terrible wizard and have no offensive cantrips prepared!!!!

If these shadows don't disappear, I may have to burning hands them into oblivion with my scroll.

This is learning lesson for both myself and ol' Ornac.

Edit: Admittedly, this is my first Wizard character. I've always played spontaneous casters....

Lol. I looked at your spells, and figured you were trying out a more pacifist wizard concept, since you seemed to have deliberately avoided taking any of them. But if that wasn't the case, Ornaculus' first mission will have opened his eyes to the dangers of adventuring. :)

That's sort of my intent, but I think he'll at least pick up one cantrip after feeling helpless on his first big mission.

Also, yay! cue the FinalFantasy vistory music! Everyone raises their arms repeatedly.

Ornaculus loots the research assistants.... jk,jk

Doh. Knew I was missing something.

I will be buying healers tools for Filtune at the end of the adventure, or if possible during the adventure in Absalom.

Yep, you can buy 'em now if you want.

I will pick one up in the morning before heading to westgate. :)

Ornaculus:

You were given a salve to de-petrify the Pathfinder, so you won't have to carry a statue back to the Lodge.

Wizards can learn spells from other PC wizards you meet, or from written materials (spellbooks or scrolls). This is a Downtime activity that requires time and money, as well as a skill check (Arcana for wizards). Rules for learning spells are HERE. Most GMs will allow you to Learn a Spell if you have the required materials, whenever the party has some free time, before a night's rest, or at the end of an adventure. Note that if you fail the skill check, you can't attempt to learn that spell until you level up again.

In PFS specifically, you have a unique source of "free" scrolls to learn spells from - the spell scrolls that are available as Pathfinder Training items at the beginning of each adventure.

Ornaculus can certainly study Tavvar's books/scrolls flavor-wise, but her ritual doesn't have a stat block that you can use in-game, so mechanically you don't get to actually learn that ritual.

Redd:

Scoundrel rogue is certainly less straightforward to play but please don't feel like you have to retrain simply because of this one scenario. I've seen very successful "pure" Scoundrel rogues whose feint has been a real force-multiplier (admittedly, this is more obvious in parties with multiple martials, and at levels where you have a reasonable percentage of critting the feint).

I thought a spell caster would've been difficult to play in my first PbP. I now realize that isn't the case. Especially when we can have hours between posts to figure out or decide what to do. I like playing bards.

I like playing bards too! The PF2 bard is pretty awesome.

Sorry I was absent today, had to go to work (which was unexpected but a good thing..) then ran a game afterwords. That got me beat and will need to pick this up in the morning / tom afternoon.

For now I would like to delay my turn into after Redds.

Using the salve on the monster in the top right is probably a bad idea right? could it be intelligent and help us? Lol. Asking for a friend.

Using the salve on the monster in the top right is probably a bad idea right? could it be intelligent and help us? Lol. Asking for a friend.

No! We need it to de-petrify the pathfinder we're looking for.

Are we allowed to look at our old secret rolls after getting the info from the GM? Like, can I now look to see what my roll for "gather info" from last Wednesday was? The suspense is killing me!

Are we allowed to look at our old secret rolls after getting the info from the GM? Like, can I now look to see what my roll for "gather info" from last Wednesday was? The suspense is killing me!

Lol, sure. Knowing whether you rolled well or not (e.g. crit fail = wrong info) doesn't have consequences at this point.

But how much fun would it be to unleash that beast?!?
I always try to look for little things like that to get creative. I would only do this in an Emergency of course. ;)

I was not sure If I suppose to move and increase my "bless radius" in the google slide. (Or if this is something usually only the GM does). What works best for in the future? :)

I was not sure If I suppose to move and increase my "bless radius" in the google slide. (Or if this is something usually only the GM does). What works best for in the future? :)

I'm perfectly happy with you moving your own tokens and setting your bless radius!

If a GM doesn't want you changing things, they could set the slides to read-only, I guess. I imagine if a GM had strong views in that direction, they would lay down the law at the start of the game. I've never met one who did, though. It's much more common that the GM wants the players to move their own stuff but the player isn't able to (because of the phone or whatever device they are using).

Note that Google slides (or any similar docs) have a Version History function that you can use to see what changes happened in the past, in the unlikely event that an issue arises.

Sweet! I figured that was the case but wanted to make sure. :)

I might of goofed.

I ran some quests the other day (Q1 + Q4) and Filtune was the only character that I have that could of gotten credit. I credited the chronicles to her. Looking at it, she might not of been a "legal" character to apply to, because she is still in this game.

Is it ok to just save the 2 chronicles and "apply" them after this one?

Will keep better bookkeeping next time xD

You are totally okay since it's GM credit - Filtune wasn't playing in those quests.

You can always assign GM credit to a char that is playing in an ongoing adventure - but you do not actually apply the credit (XP, etc) to that char until it finishes the ongoing adventure.

Just as GM Logsig said. While you can not play a character in two games at once, you can GM and assign the credit to a character in a PbP game, holding the chronicle sheet/s to apply after the game in play is complete and that chronicle is applied.

If the character levels somewhere in the process, rewards and downtime a calculated based on the character's level when the chronicle is applied.

Sweet! I knew you could not play the character but was not sure on the GM credit. Thanks for the clarification! :)

came here to say that this week is a rough one for me. I'm on-call for work and may be addressing work issues on top of my normal work... leaving me little time for PF2e... :(
Please bot me until I chime back in.

Ill need to fill out a chronicle sheet I guess. I was holding off til the end of the this 'campaign' but I reckon its a on the spot thing. Wheres a link to the chronicle sheet?

Ill need to fill out a chronicle sheet I guess. I was holding off til the end of the this 'campaign' but I reckon its a on the spot thing. Wheres a link to the chronicle sheet?

The GM fills out the chronicle sheet for you then will email it to you when the game is finished. You just fill in the gold, xp, and fame total from past sheets.

Unless you are quitting now and want only partial rewards.

Dorian 'The Hammer' Gravendak wrote:

Ill need to fill out a chronicle sheet I guess. I was holding off til the end of the this 'campaign' but I reckon its a on the spot thing. Wheres a link to the chronicle sheet?

The GM fills out the chronicle sheet for you then will email it to you when the game is finished. You just fill in the gold, xp, and fame total from past sheets.

Unless you are quitting now and want only partial rewards.

Could you clarify what you mean, Michael/Dorian?

Oh just thought I read Filtune's notes and thought oh am I forgetting to dosomething. Thats all

Oh just thought I read Filtune's notes and thought oh am I forgetting to dosomething. Thats all

Ah, ok. You're fine!

Which direction is Ornaculus facing while detecting magic? I'm assuming left is west and to the right (into the room with door D) is east. Is it possible to put a compass rose on the map?

Detect Magic is a 30-foot emanation around the caster and is non-directional. Cast at first level, Ornaculus doesn't get any other info other than presence of magic (excluding any magic sources he is already aware of).

I've put a compass rose on the map.

Awesome, thanks!

Guys, Should we just go counter-clockwise from room D? That's my suggestion.

exactly my thought.

Just received a notification that I can't access the slides and it sent an email to the creator, probably you, Logsig.

Just received a notification that I can't access the slides and it sent an email to the creator, probably you, Logsig.

Weird, I haven't changed the access rights, and it still says anyone with the link can edit, but I shared it out to your gmail address explicitly as well.

Is anyone else having trouble accessing the slides through the link under my avatar name?

No business as usual for Dorian

I WAS POSSESSED!!

That was fitting in so many ways.... lol
Thanks for the bot folks. Work was super hectic.

Interesting. A rogue/cleric of Chaldira? Redd contemplates the possibilities.

Oops. My Nature & occultism checks were supposed to be secret checks, right?

Oops. My Nature & occultism checks were supposed to be secret checks, right?

No problem, I made the relevant checks behind the GM screen.

Awesome. Thanks.

re: turn order.

I thought PbP generally goes in block initiative order.
i.e. because Dorian, Redd, and Ornaculus are in the same "block" they can go all together.

This is how my other PbP game is run so apologies if I confused the two.
I think it works out ok this time around though.

Unless Dorain does something wild that matters for order of operations....

I had to "delay" since you were casting a spell on Redd. Totally doesn't matter, I guess. My initiative would be after Dorian & Ornac now, and the 3 of us go before the creature. I'm not used to "block" initiative yet.

All good!

@Dorian

Flanking now gives the creature the Flat Footed condition. Which lowers it's AC by 2.

In case anyone has a question about how 10-ft reach works:

Unlike with measuring most distances, 10-foot reach can reach 2 squares diagonally. Reach greater than 10 feet is measured normally; 20-foot reach can reach

3 squares diagonally, 25-foot reach can reach 4, and so on.

Just to clarify, a natural 20 is usually a critical but not guaranteed. A natural 20 increases the success level by one, a natural 1 decreases the success level by 1.

Just to clarify, a natural 20 is usually a critical but not guaranteed. A natural 20 increases the success level by one, a natural 1 decreases the success level by 1.

Yep. I've seen this happen where the modifier was low enough that (20 + modifier) was a failure numerically, and the nat-20 made it just a normal success.

All, please make your downtime rolls (Craft, any Lore or Perform) in your next post.

Good session everyone!
Thank you GM Logsig!!

TBH, not entirely sure I like the PFS format for PbP but I do like 2e as a system.
The pacing seemed a bit fast compared to other games that I'm part of.
Is that normal for PFS games?
I recall in person PFS games being wrapped up quickly since time is a finite resource, but had hopes this format would have allowed for more RP options.

To be fair this could be a case of numbat having a super high amount of interest and having to find GMs on the fly means Logsi wasn't necessarily prepping for a while (please don't take that the wrong way!! I really did enjoy. Just observing some of things I experienced)

Just to clarify, a natural 20 is usually a critical but not guaranteed. A natural 20 increases the success level by one, a natural 1 decreases the success level by 1.

O.O

Whoopsie! I didn't know about the nat 20 increasing the success level.

This was awesome! I had such a great time. Thank you, Numbat, Logsig, Dorian, Filtune, and Ornaculus!

I hope to adventure with you all again in the future!