GM Blake's PF2 Extinction Curse Campaign

Game Master Blake's Tiger

I will be at a convention this weekend. I will likely still be able to post at least once a day.

If something is waiting on my character, please feel free to Bot me.

I will be at the same convention!

So why are we facing a 9th level DC at level 5?

DC 26 is more than Very Hard for level 5.

We may have to let it run its course and hope to heal through it and then spend a few days recovering.

So why are we facing a 9th level DC at level 5?

DC 26 is more than Very Hard for level 5.

Without giving too much away, and assuming the authors put this much thought into it, the maximal consequences are entirely reversible with healing and time, so it gives you a choice: do I press on and do what we're planning to do now or leave and come back later to do it.

Just a little frustrating when I have a much higher chance of crit failure than success.

It looks like we have four people trained in medicine.

Since we are high enough level where we have a reasonable shot at Aid in a skill, we should have two people treat the poison while the other two attempt to Aid each of them.

Ephraim, Rulean Leaf and Nabi all have the skill.

According to the spreadsheet, the highest skills belong to Leaf and Rulean.

Let’s figure out who should roll and who should aid against the poison affecting Clover and Rulean.

Also the loot sheet seems to show us having three antidotes. Probably time to drink two of them.

I'm the one non-Medicine person in the group?

Oh, I hadn’t noticed that Clover didn’t have it set to show GM.

Yes, it seems you are the only one not trained in Medicine. Don’t worry, having a variety of skills in the group is useful.

Hey Nabi,

I believe we are supposed to keep games here strictly PG. The last couple of your posts have wandered into territory that I’m not sure everyone would be comfortable with.

I think the most recent one may have wandered over the line of what these forums allow.

If you have already cleared this sort of stuff with Clover, that is good.

Regardless, I think we need to make sure the group is alright with this sort of content.

Sorry.
I can't edit my text.

I apologise if anyone feels offended.

I will do my best to be PG now.

I'm coming to the post and discussion late, but, yes, please keep things PG. This is also especially important when referencing other player's characters in suggestive situations.

For myself, I know that I don't want to read overly suggestive and certainly not explicit things, nor do I want my son wandering up behind (as he does often enough) me and asking, for example, what that particular word means.

I, again, apologises, to everyone and to our female players first.

Thanks for the apology, Nabi. I hope this response is not seen as an attack on someone who already apologized, but... I want to make it clear where I think the problem lies.

It's not about the sexuality for me: it's about consent, agency and collaboration. I've played in two game groups with PG-naughty ratings: they had lots of innuendo and adult humor. If you're going to have that sort of content, everyone in the group has to agree to ground rules and boundaries. We did not do that here.

But the biggest thing that bothered me was my own actions. I was seriously bothered by your first post, but I didn't want to rock the boat, so instead I made a jokey post about Song's lack of medical skills in order to distract us all from that uncomfortable post. Then... I was so triggered by the second post that I couldn't bring myself to say anything. I had to take a couple days to process it...

In other words, I did not stand up for my fellow player when this happened in game, and it really, really bugs me that I didn't speak up.

I'm sorry Clover for not speaking out.

Hmm

I just assumed y'all had something worked out on the side. I don't personally mind racy content now and then as long as everyone opts in, consents etc but all my games gravitate to PG(13?) anyway for the reasons listed above.

Thanks everyone for openly bringing up this discussion, and for being mature and accepting of feedback Nabi.

That is what I appreciate about this group!

I think I'll take some time off this game, maybe until the 15th March.

Please bot me as needed.

I feel really ashamed by my own words, and under no circumstances I should have spoken that way. The worst being that, in a table game, I would probably have made the same joke. My humor can be quite provocative, and I didn't think about the impact of my words, or about asking consent about the joke.

I didn't see it as some flirtatious attempt, it was just, from Nabi POV, the pleasure of making a joke in a stressful situation, to release the stress. I wrote the text, didn't even took a second to re-read my words, to consider the situation, the emotions of the other character.

Believe me, Hmm, I understand your POV. I'm very deeply sorry about how I acted. This in not the man I am everyday. This is surely not the man I want to become. I want to stay respectful of women, of people. I'm pretty sure, even if that is no excuse, that my carelessness is linked to me being in a rough place mentally and emotionnally since a few months, but I do have to take care of other's emotions too.

Saddest thing to me is to have maybe (probably!) hurted Lady Ladile, who I like and respect.

Okay. So. First thing I want to say is that my lack of response over in Gameplay (until today) wasn't due to anything Nabi posted - I've just been busy and a bit under the weather so I've slacked on checking the forums.

(Feeling better today so I'm catching up + taking care of other stuff related to the upcoming Outpost.)

Having caught up on everything, I feel like the most important points have already been covered. While I'm personally not opposed to some flirtatious, racy RP from time to time, I definitely agree that it's always best to check in with the other players first to make sure that everyone is good with it. For what it's worth, I do appreciate the apologies but I'm also not upset with Nabi or anyone else here - I've either known each of you forum-wise long enough to trust your intentions or your good reputation precedes you, so I view all of this as honest mistakes instead of anything intentionally malicious. The important thing is that we've talked it out and made sure that everyone is on the same page now.

So...no hard feelings from me and hugs/side-hugs/high-fives/fist-bumps, whichever suits you, to all. Let's game and have fun :)

Checking in; work has been busy the last few days but starting tonight I've got some time off. I'm currently sitting at the optometrist with dilated pupils so bear with me for a little bit longer and I'll try to get a post up later this evening :)

RP and such aside, if it's definitely easier for Nabi to do what she does if at least one of us stands still and engages the thing (or at least tries to) then I'll start having Clover or Snowy do so on their next turn.

Clover right about now.

Will look to get a post up shortly~

Haven't seen him take an AOO yet right?

You've seen him take 2 AOOs.

When Leaf acts, they should probably Battle Medicine or use the Healer’s Gloves on Nabi.

When Leaf acts, they should probably Battle Medicine or use the Healer’s Gloves on Nabi.

Why don't you go ahead and bot him? I'll move Nabi in closer.

Doug not paying attention

Eh, I'll deal with it. What I get for being distracted by the special :p It happens at the table sometimes, it happens in PbP!

I would cast shield then Step Strike if that's OK, blocking on AOO. Really want to provide the flank for the melee PC as I believe that is somethingn it's even a spell caster's responsibility to do when needed.

Shield first should always be first in order of operations but if you don't wanna let me retcon that… all good. Ephie will block the next attack. Though the pick crit may have distracted our friend here.

Heh. I was going to take it upon myself to make your shield spell be first if you hadn't gotten back to the thread to realize your mistake. :)

I've been forgetting the other half of his spell, which is reducing all damage by 5 that isn't already reduced by 10..

So can we tell that a spell is responsible for resisting some of the damage?

Yes. He's been fading in and out of reality since he cast it on round 1.

Hey,

just to say I have taken my decision and I'm bowing out of the game.

Thank you.

I’m sorry to hear that. Hopefully it’s not just because of one misstep; it happens to everyone. It also honestly feels like 2e hasn’t really "clicked" for you (if that impression is off, apologies).

Hope to see you in a game on the boards some time.

Sorry to see you go, Nabi.

you're right on second edition, it's not my stuff, I don't really enjoy it, and find it too complex.

but the "misstep"*, as you gently call it, is the main reason. The less said about it, the better.

Good game to all.

*for which I have no one to blame but myself.

Nabi, we all make errors. You don't have to leave. Making a mistake is a very human thing to do.

Thank you for playing with us, Nabi. It's true that you don't have to leave, but you also don't have to stay. I respect your decision and the feelings behind it, whatever they may be.

I have also felt as though you haven't been enjoying the 2E experience, and there's no reason to try to tough it out. Not everyone likes every game system, and that's OK. I know from personal experience trying to hang in there on a PbP campaign out of principle in a system for which I had lost interest can be the opposite of fun.

All that said, I'll wait a few days before unlinking this campaign from your alias.

I'll miss you if you go, Nabi, but I also understand if you'd prefer to leave.

I'll also echo GM Blake's sentiment re: your 2E experience - there's definitely no need to force yourself to keep going if you're not enjoying the experience.

From 1st to 2d Edition, Pathfinder become, IMO, way too complicated without enough added fun.

I tried, these last day, to post something, anything. But everytime, I froze at the idea of posting words that could be perceived as inappropriate.

Trust was broken between players, by my fault. And trust never really come back, I know it. Because I don't trust me enough myself to honestly say "It won't happen again." That's my kind of humor IRL, maybe I put too much of myself in Nabi, someone who likes to play with words, someone who likes to flirt with the limits. But when you flirt too much with the limits, you will cross them sooner or later. It happened IRL for me too.

So it's better to part ways, so you can find somone you can trust to play with.

I understand and appreciate the maturity of your self reflection.

Well, I'm 50 y/o IRL, maybe that helps. ;-)

I probably woundn't have reacted the same way in my twenties.

One last apology, before I go, to our female players. They deserve it.

I didn't realize it had been so long since Song's post. I must have gotten swept up by work. My apologies.

Oh thank goodness the Hideous Laughter worked. Taking away its reactions will help a lot.

I was really hoping for a weakness to good…

Ah! Ha. Yes, Weakness Good 5. Resist 5 All. He's still up, though.

EDIT: I should have read Gameplay first. Ephie killed him.

GM Blake --

I was wondering if we could consider trying out Automatic Bonus Progression since we're all 5th level and there's been hardly any striking runes. Would it complicate things too much?

Hmm

1. Apologies for not closing up the encounter yet. I've been on call this week, and there have been some grave cases.

2. Review what loot you want to sell vs. keep/move runes around on and then see whether you still think you guys need that. You have ~750 gp of loot, a great deal of which is unassigned. And you have plenty of time to move runes around.

Special is winding down soon, house is about 1/2 way there on the final encounter, and I will then be back with more focus.

So this particular series of events/encounter was on a timer. Certain events happened on certain days, so if you had returned to rest and recover from the yellow mold, it would have allowed other dramatic events to happen. However, by choosing to press forward, you took a risk and ended the danger before any of your crew could be hurt.

I've reached out to Wei Ji as best as I'm able to see if he's OK.

I'll shelve Leaf and retire Nabi now, so you don't have to keep botting them. Hmm has a suggestion for a replacement for Nabi.

Been a bit under the weather; catching up now. The above sounds good to me, GM. I trust everyone's judgement here when it comes to referring additional players :)

Oh, I forgot to tell you all there was a new exploration slide.

I’m going to be pretty busy for the next couple of days. I will not have time to look over the loot in detail or make anything except the most impromptu of plans.

Hmm has a suggestion for a replacement for Nabi.

Greetings. Hmm contacted me about joining. It sounds like fun to me.

I have been playing PBP in PFS with Hmm for a couple of weeks now. I have also been playing a PBP run of Age of Ashes for over a year.