PF2 - Fall of Plaguestone

Game Master Nevynxxx

Hi, I'm looking for up to 6 players to play Fall of Plaguestone.

A group of new adventurers travelling through the village of Etran’s Folly—also known as Plaguestone—must come together to solve the murder of a friend. What starts as a simple investigation quickly turns sinister with the discovery of forbidden alchemy, mutant animals, and a nearby forest rotting away due to a mysterious blight.

It becomes clear that if these heroes don’t intervene to stop whatever evil is brewing, the fall of Plaguestone is all but certain! The Fall of Plaguestone is the first standalone adventure for Pathfinder Second Edition, designed for 1st-level characters. It tells the story of how a group of strangers band together to form a group of adventurers while saving the town of Etran’s Folly from a terrifying fate, serving as a perfect introduction to a new Pathfinder campaign!

I'm looking for players who can post 1/day, ideally uk/eu but not vital. I'm looking for people who will abide by a couple of formatting rules for combat/initiative posts, that will be posted in the discussion thread. Nothing too onerous, just to make my life as gm easier tracking wise. But I will insist, so you should know that up front.

As for me, I'm able to post every week day, and sometimes on the weekend too. I have been running games on here on and off for years now, and I'm not going anywhere soon.

I wouldn't mind giving PF2 a try. What are your character creation requirements?

Character creation: Standard ABC by the book.

Is this game played for PFS2 credit?

mishima's crunch in profile. Human Thief.

Will get some background/personality up after reading on Plaguestone a bit.

Is this game played for PFS2 credit?

I wasn't planning on doing. It's possible if we get a group of people that want to.

Is there any more info on the starting town somewhere? Found this...

That’s plenty. You learn more as you go. You start the adventure with a caravan and end up (hopefully) being drawn into the towns problems. It’s better if you’re not from there to know much.

I’ll go into that more once we have some players and can start to work on characters. It’s a good one for the characters to know each other at the start, so cooperative character building will be encouraged.

Ah, alrighty then. Was going to be a native from there (for the street urchin Lore background) but will just go with another city.

Ill toss my hat in the ring. Have a PFS character I could plug and play.

if you decide on against Ill whip one up.

Perhaps a Paladin.

Nevynxxx! What's up bud?!

I think I'd be up for throwing my name in this one. But I'm not a PFS guy and have no desire for it. So I guess if most want to go that route then I can just back on out, no harm no foul. Of course, I still got to figure out what the heck I want to run and then go through the process of putting something together and then get chosen so it may not even matter anyway. :P

Anyhoo, how long you going to keep this one open?

I'd like to submit my application - full character in Profile. Will adhere to any / all formatting rules. +1 vote for PFS credit.

That said, this character already played through part of this AP, got promoted to 2nd level, when our game suddenly broke down. I understand if this is a dealbreaker. If not, hat in the ring!

Nevynxxx! What's up bud?!

I think I'd be up for throwing my name in this one. But I'm not a PFS guy and have no desire for it. So I guess if most want to go that route then I can just back on out, no harm no foul. Of course, I still got to figure out what the heck I want to run and then go through the process of putting something together and then get chosen so it may not even matter anyway. :P

Anyhoo, how long you going to keep this one open?

I'll keep a track of how many people want to go the PFS route vs not. But if the table is legal but I don';t report for one person, well, it's not exactly a huge issue!

I'll leave open until I've got enough people. I'm not going to pick based on the characters though so don't worry too much about thgat. We'll do character creation next.

That said, this character already played through part of this AP, got promoted to 2nd level, when our game suddenly broke down. I understand if this is a dealbreaker. If not, hat in the ring!

I'm not too worried about that so long as you can separate character and player knowledge. Out of interest could you PM me with what you remember getting up to?

This is a module, rather than an AP so I expect a year or so to fully run through.

I would be down for this. No particular character in mind so if you're thinking of doing character creation together I can do whatever. I'm indifferent on society, I'll take a chronicle if they're being handed out but I just wanna get some 2e on so if not that's fine.

Id personally prefer no PFS. No offense but most of those games run here aren't really the RP experience I am looking for.

Something like this I would think would be in campaign mode, assuming that's still a thing in 2e. Which is a little different from playing something made for society and I doubt it would affect the rp experience whether given society credit or not. But I could be wrong there.

I am definitely interested in participating in this. I have an idea for a Cloistered Cleric or a Wizard that I will put together for your review

I'd be interested in playing as well. I'm new to PbP on this site but have been playing PbP on myth-weavers for close to decade.

That's 9 people interested so far, and I'll max out at 6.

If things go how they normally do with this, one or two of the interested parties will have disappeared before I actually start, but we shall see.

It's 10am now, I'll leave this open until 8pm, then throw the names in a hat and pull out some players. If any of those don't respond in 48 hours, I'll start pm-ing people who missed out.

I am interested! I'm new to PbP but experienced with Pathfinder. I have a few characters in mind, but can be pretty flexible with character creation.

I’d like to play as well. I haven’t played a 2E game yet. The PC I’m most excited to play is a Golden Erinyes monk coming to the town to find orphans for the monastery, but I’m flexible and willing to play another concept. Oh I’m not on UK/EU time if that at all influences your decision. Thanks for the opportunity.

I forgot to mention that I am also not on UK/EU time. East coast US, so about 5 hours off, I think.

I'm interested too. A human liberator of Desna.

this is my PFS character. if Im picked. if you need a non-PFS Im fairly open what about a Dwarven Rogue? for non -PFS. or Human Liberator? Or Half Elven Sorceror

this is Dread by the way

i would be interested

Ok, a little later than expected. So we have:

# Player
1 Mishima
2 Cyber Mephit
3 Chipluck
4 Dread
5 Javel
6 Rainzax/Laurel
7 eggellis
8 datham
9 bdubs
10 Esha
11 Sha'ir
12 Queen Pah

Feels like the fairest way to resolve that is to do some random rolling.

Player 1: 1d12 ⇒ 2 => Cyber Mephit
Player 2: 1d11 ⇒ 6 => eggellis
Player 3: 1d10 ⇒ 8 => Esha
Player 4: 1d9 ⇒ 7 => bdubs
Player 5: 1d8 ⇒ 7 => Sha'ir
Player 6: 1d7 ⇒ 1 => Mishima

The discussion thread is here. Let's move there for character creation.

Sorry to everyone who didn't get in. I'll PM if there are any dropouts in the near future.

You had me on the list twice (as mishima and alias Chipluck) which may have skewed things unfairly in my favor.

So, I'll drop. There are others who likely want in more than me, anyways.

You had me on the list twice (as mishima and alias Chipluck) which may have skewed things unfairly in my favor.

So, I'll drop. There are others who likely want in more than me, anyways.

That's very gracious of you!

Player 6: 1d7 ⇒ 3 => Rainzax/Laurel

Man that is totally a clever way to do it. Makes it much simpler. Good idea, bud.

Until next time - because there's ALWAYS a next time ;) - have fun and be good! :)

Hey, are you all looking for another player?

I've run the module, but never played it. I'll be careful not to reveal any secrets, if you'll have me. ;D

Obviously will defer to GM for final decision, but, here is the Quick Summary of what's happened so far:

*Merry band of stowaways jump a Wagon headed through Plaguestone captained by one Bort
*Stopping the night, what should have been a lovely evening turns into a Murder Mystery: Bort's been poisoned!
*Determined to get the bottom of it, players have spoken with Innkeeper, a couple of her workers, and Bort's former teamsters
*Negotiating to rifle through the deceased's remaining possessions, we stumble across "shady" dealings with a mysterious "H"
*We confront a man named named "Hallod" (aka "H"!?!) at the Inn - things are tense and maybe ready to pop off!

Let me know if I missed anything?
Cheers!

Hi, I hear you need some players. I would love to jump in if possible.

I'm not clear on who left, but checking the character tab, am I seeing right that you have a lot of muscle (champion/monk/barbarian/ranger)?

I tend to play prepared spellcasters, but the character and personalities vary. I can come up with something pretty quickly (today) if it's agreed that is what is needed.

I've also been kicking around the idea of a ratfolk investigator (working title "Inspector Cheese", but I'll think of something better than that if I go with that character, before joining play :) ).

Honesty I'm flexible, I tend to *not* play muscly types, but as I see that's fairly covered.

We currently have 3 Active players - a Barbarian ("Esha"), a Champion ("Calvus"), and a Ranger ("Laurel").

A Fourth player - our Cleric ("Oosa") - hasn't posted since the "Bee Incident" a few weeks ago.

Finally, we lost a Fifth player - our Bard ("Tezadwax") - around the time we Met the Sheriff somewhere in the middle of summer.

The rest of the Aliases you see in Characters are "Oopses". It is currently just us three and GM.

Oh wow. All of the muscle is left. So essentially you could use anything but that (and a cleric). If I'm reading the "so far" bit right, it does sound like an investigator could be great fit (thought it would be my first time playing one, vs. wizard/sorcerer which I play all of the time :) )

GM: since these are not PFS characters, how do you feel about non-core ancestries?

Hey, Nev...

I saw the advertisement for recruiting replacement players. I've started pursuing PFS credit with an investigator from Ustalav, which I could bring in. He's still 1st level. You can check his alias above for background and prior PFS scenarios he's participated in to get a feel for his personality.

Hey, Nev...

I saw the advertisement for recruiting replacement players. I've started pursuing PFS credit with an investigator from Ustalav, which I could bring in. He's still 1st level. You can check his alias above for background and prior PFS scenarios he's participated in to get a feel for his personality.

Not the GM, but: These adventures are sanctioned in campaign mode. You can play them on a character that you create just for the game and them apply the credit (12 XP) to one of your characters when you are done.

I don't mind playing a caster or a skills-y character. I was thinking some kind of oracle, maybe with a dash of alchemist? But, if you want a straight cleric or other caster, I'm fine with that too. What level would our characters be starting as?

We are all 1st level.

Also, with little more than our starting 150 bucks (silver).

...These adventures are sanctioned in campaign mode. You can play them on a character that you create just for the game and them apply the credit (12 XP) to one of your characters when you are done.

I'm still learning the nuances of PFS organized play and this is my first (and only character) for PF2 PFS, so thanks for educating me a bit. So, any character created just for this game? I assume it doesn't have to be a PFS character? Or does it also have to be created under PFS rules for the credit to then apply to this one?

Matt Morris wrote:

...These adventures are sanctioned in campaign mode. You can play them on a character that you create just for the game and them apply the credit (12 XP) to one of your characters when you are done.

I'm still learning the nuances of PFS organized play and this is my first (and only character) for PF2 PFS, so thanks for educating me a bit. So, any character created just for this game? I assume it doesn't have to be a PFS character? Or does it also have to be created under PFS rules for the credit to then apply to this one?

Oh, no worries. They have changed how adventures are sanctioned from PF1. Characters can be created under whatever rules the GM sets, they don't need to be PFS legal.

All that said, Elien, if you were set on investigator I'm still happy to go a different way (likely Wizard).

As soon as I hear back from the GM on allowed ancestries, I should have something up quickly.

Hi,

In case you're still looking for someone to join the investigation of Bort's murder (and the rest of the adventure of course), I'd be interested to join.

Similar to Matt, I've GMed this adventure before, so I don't want to take spots from players that would be completely new to the adventure. If by any chance there's a spot left, however, I'll gladly take that seat.

I'm playing on UTC+1, in case that's relevant.
/K

Wow, that was a lot of posts in a not very long time!

It feels to me that (certainly at this point in the adventure when a lot of focus is on discovering the town and the people in it) that taking on people who have run the adventure wouldn't be good for your enjoyment.

As I'm not 100% sure we've lost Oosa, I don't want to take on more than 2 players.

So that makes it fairly easy to offer a space to PaleDim and Elien/Neil. Don't worry about the PFS stuff, as others have said, it wont matter until we get to the end of the adventure. I can walk you through it then.

Create characters as you see fit, so long as it's in the SRD I'm comfortable with it.

Thanks, Nev. Can I actually play Elien (my only PFS character currently), or do I need to roll up someone completely new in order for the PFS credit to be applied to Elien when the adventure is complete? The reason I ask is because 1) I do want the credit to ultimately apply to Elien, and 2) this particular adventure seems to call quite loudly for an investigator, and that's the exact class I'm using for him. So, it would seem kind of odd/strange to roll up another investigator for this campaign just to be able to apply the credit to my current one. In case you can't tell, PFS rules are still a bit of an enigma to me (but I'm learning). :)

Room for one more?

Yeah, nothing stopping you using that character at all, as far as I know.

Sorry Queen, think we are back up to full strength now.

Yeah, nothing stopping you using that character at all, as far as I know.

Very good. I'll stick with Elien then. I've been having fun with him in a couple of online PFS scenarios so far, and I'd like to keep him going thru this mystery, as well.

Thanks GM! I'll have something prospective up tonight. Eilen, since you're going investigator, I'll stick with wizard.

It feels to me that (certainly at this point in the adventure when a lot of focus is on discovering the town and the people in it) that taking on people who have run the adventure wouldn't be good for your enjoyment.

Okay, no worries. Thanks for considering and enjoy the adventure everyone!

/K

Good people of the recruitment thread! I come cap in hand to your door again.

We have just completed part one of a three-part module, and one of our fellows has chosen this time to retire as an adventurer.

It feels like a good time in game to recruit another two players.

Before putting your hat in the ring, please do read the Campaign Info page. I look for at least 1 post a day during the week, a bit more flexible on the weekend. I'll ask others to run your character's actions in combat if 48-72 hours go from the time I've asked for your post.

That said, I tend to ask for groups of people to act and then put the results together. Have a look in the game thread if you want to see what I mean. We just got out of a meaty combat.

Finally, I'll try to give preference to people who've been unsuccessful in getting into this game in the past.

Go!

Hi, I'd like to throw my name into the hat for consideration. I've never used the forums on the Paizo site before. I have a little experience with PbP on myth-weavers, but nothing that has ever lasted too long without falling apart. I wanted to check out the forums here to see if there were more opportunities for 2E, since I haven't gotten to play it nearly as much as I would like.

If I'm reading correctly, it looks like you currently have a wizard, an oracle, and a barbarian? I was thinking champion if I get picked.