Welcome!
I'd really like everyone to post at least once a day, though I understand real life happens. If you expect to be away for a short period please provide notice. Please also include a 'bot me' spoiler.
Chronicle information
In order to fill out a chronicle for you please provide the following information:
Player name:
Character name:
OPF #:
Character #:
Faction:
If you have games planned with the same character between now and the start of Outpost you may wait to provide the following details:
Number for this Chronicle:
Starting XP:
Initial Fame:
Reputation with you slotted faction:
Day Job roll, other downtime activity, or note that you have none:
Character Profiles
Please have a profile header displaying a brief overview of your character's current status. At minimum this should include current/max SP, HP, RP, EAC, KAC, and saves.
In the character profile, please include a complete stat block, or if you prefer to use an external character sheet please provide a link to it.
If you want examples, the PbP GM Kit has the pre-generated characters done in BB Code. Use those as a general guideline.
Botting
Please include instructions in your profile and a general tactics in case someone else needs to bot your character. I highly recommend this include the dice expressions used for common actions. Again see the PbP Kit link above if you are unfamiliar with this.
If there are resources you don't mind being used up by botting, please say so. If there are resources you never want someone using, please say that as well.
If you prefer, you may specify who you want to run your character when you can't post.
Creating a bot structure can help with your own posts as well. Assuming you put complete dice expressions in the botting directions, it makes it easy to cut and paste.
Initiative in PbP
I will roll all Initiative checks for PCs and NPCs, sort them, and organize them into blocks. I will bold the names of characters that should act. I will take NPC actions in order and may use a single roll for multiple NPCs or delay an NPC in order to make them act in a group.
When it is your turn to act, please post. Do not wait for someone else to post just because they had a higher Initiative. If you know what you want to do but want to wait for someone else's action to go off first, just say so.
I (and most other PbP GMs) do grouped Initiative in order to keep the adventure moving. In PbP people will have different posting schedules and often live in different time zones, Waiting for posts in order could make a single round of combat take days to resolve.
Within the rules, it is as if everyone within the same Initiative block delayed until they could post.
Rules Questions
GMs are only omniscient inside the game world, in the real world we are human (or other sentient species) and that means we do make mistakes. If there are rules concerns, please raise them in the discussion thread rather than the gameplay thread so we can all learn.
Thanks and I look forward to playing with you!
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Player name: Ietsuna
Character name: Oda Umox
OPF #: 204993
Character #: 703
Faction: Acquisitives
Number for this Chronicle: 12
Starting XP: 11
Initial Fame: 26
Reputation with you slotted faction: 23
Day Job roll, other downtime activity, or note that you have none:
Oda is mute. Her vocal cords were damaged and she does not speak. She has taken a rank in Culture in order to learn Common Sign. If no-one understands sign then she communicates out of combat via her datapad and in combat with gestures, stomps and facial expressions. If that causes issues please let me know.
No problem.
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Player name:IanH
Character name: Tara Greenleaf Envoy 3 (icon) Dancer
OPF #:135557-
Character #:702
Faction: 2nd seekers{Luwazi}
Number for this Chronicle:7
Starting XP:6
Initial Fame:12
Reputation with you slotted faction:12
Day Job roll, other downtime activity, or note that you have none:
Tara is an accomplished diplomat but is not unknown to throw in a veiled threat into her negotiations when necessary.
She prefers to keep out of direct combat but aids her companions as much as she can with her skills....
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Player name: Jones228
Character name: Kat5e
OPF #: 2362267
Character #: 701
Faction: Aquisitives
Number for this Chronicle: 11
Starting XP: 10
Initial Fame: 24
Reputation with you slotted faction: 21
Day Job roll:
Kat is a stern and tough android security contractor who considers the safety and well being of her crew her first priority. She employs a vocal modulator to better communicate, and while she has been known to crack a smile or joke with her team, she can quickly drop into her pre-programmed subroutines when dealing with mission objectives.
Looking forward to this scenario, always wanted to play. I did listen to it as a podcast last year, but I don't think that will have any effect on how I will play it because my memory is terrible and it was mostly background noise while I was working on a hot roof.
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Player name: eijel
Character name: Meme Nom Mimosil Homus Jul of Clan Sultri
OPF #: 279868
Character #: 705
Faction: Acquisitives
Number for this Chronicle: 3
Starting XP: 2
Initial Fame: 4
Reputation with you slotted faction: 3
Day Job roll, other downtime activity, or note that you have none:
Meme is an up-and-coming vid personality that likes to share tips of body building and gettin' swole. He's gregarious outside of combat and likes to get up close and personal during combat. He's constantly filming in order to use the footage for his vids.
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Player name: Tigerkralle
Character name: Rhys Dawnstep
OPF #: 71203
Character #: 706
Faction: Exo-Guardians
Number for this Chronicle: 2
Starting XP: 1
Initial Fame: 2
Reputation with you slotted faction: 2
Day Job roll, other downtime activity, or note that you have none: Includes equipment.
Rhys is a strange looking human and a follower of Sarenrae. She does have powers which can clearly be granted by Sarenrae but also another deity which concers Rhys in her darker moments, but then again it matters how and against who she uses her powers.
Rhys is proud to be part of the Exo-Guardians and supports her fellow Society Agents as best as she can.
I do have gamemastered this scenario a loooooonnng time ago. Right at the moment only a few things came to my mind but in the game im sure a few memories will crawl back to the surface but not all.^^
So a soldier, envoy, mechanic, vanguard, and mystic; a good mix. Looks like you'll be playing high tier. It's now the 16th in some parts of the world so I'll get the first post up shortly.
I sent Oda a PM. Hopefully they are not in a location currently without electricity, or otherwise dealing with serious IRL concerns. I'll give them another day to respond as their absence will impact play tier (and need for 4 player adjustments when we get to encounters). If they haven't responded by about this time tomorrow I'll move on and try to be accommodating should they show up later.
Hope they are doing okay.
Ah summertime for you then.
Glad it was just a glitch which hopefully does not get worse or repeats itself.
I am here. I posted a couple of days ago but my post disappeared, and again yesterday. Maybe I am bad at forums, lol.
Nah, Paizo is bad at technology.
Yes, sorry Kat5e would have recognized Philt too. You can have the arm with you.
You've pretty much exhausted what you can learn with Recall Knowledge for the moment. I gave Meme the bit about BioBoost because I thought it fit his theme well. If any of you are familiar with GNC that's pretty much how I picture BioBoost. They sell lots of supplements with dubious claims about being able to help pump you up.
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That's okay i was just asking.
Not sure my charcter has a reason to participated in the conversation with Philt.
I do have a feat which makes my aid another potential better, but standing on the side feels better right now.
And well @Tara your Expertise die really helped you out there and the boon could also be helpful who knows?
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We don't know what awaits us in there and i am not sure if we get the whole picture for our and Philt's investigations if we left out the other locations or don't asking around on the Freemarkets.
I managed to forget a word changing the meaning, corrected now.
Sorry for the filler a bit desperate to let you who you have not played or gamemastered this before decide instead of me!
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Is everyone still with us? I took the request to post at least once per day to heart!
I am worried to not get this done with, it's not a replayable and has not really started.
Not sure how long the roleplaying part without stuff like skill challenges and combat will continue but without participation it will take ages. Botting for combat is set by all of us, but the roleplaying part is taking ages for this group.
Sure i stalled at the beginning and just posted stuff for roleplaying alone not pushing the game really along. Still afraid to steer the group with the memory of the time i have gamemastered this. My memory just needs a few hints and then waaay more then i anticipated is coming back!
I am worried if this campaign continues to crawl this slowly.
Thank you for being active. I'm trying to give everyone a chance to post especially on the weekend. Don't worry we'll finish, you just skipped a lot of roleplay in the investigation but nothing of consequence, and the end of the con is almost 2 months away. I would appreciate if everyone could post daily though even if you don't have much to contribute, if you post something I'm not left wondering if I should wait a little bit longer.
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I am inexperienced when it comes to play by post so i am getting nervous because of that.
If we still have a chance to get this done without having to rush then i am okay with that.
Two play by post sessions so far for me. The play by discord had a faster flow due to being on discord and the other session parallel was with you Jones228 aka Kat5e and we had more players being chatty like me. That was my impression for Withering World with you Jones228.
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I was going to make a joke about Rhys looking familiar at the beginning of the scenario but decided to keep it in character! I remember having to keep my foot on the gas pedal in that scenario because it's fairly long, and we just finished in time. Glad I didn't totally scare you off pbp lol.
I have been meaning to try discord because of the notifications about posts, but haven't taken the time to figure it out yet.
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I would also like to add I'm sorry that most of this adventure so far has been so much more suited to a diplomat than a warrior I'm sure this will switch very quickly and my role will take a back seat at that point.
Remember many skills can be aided untrained just by getting 10 or more on a dice roll.
Hope the rest of you Guy's are still here.
Just post something because we will need your specialty soon.
For information last time Tara threw a grenade she hit more of her side than the enemy.
A negative on skills won't remove a positive will add.
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Let us keep rolling. I will contribute to all decisons and not stall on purpose anymore, we should have enough ingame hints for a clear direction.
I don't have anything i can contribute to gameplay today.
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Board seems to be the habitat of a Computer Glitch Gremlin or so. This post war nearly eaten by that glitch.
I am used to the weird behaviour that my post does not show up for me aber submit and i have to refresh/click in the link for our campaign again.
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I would love to assist but all the drafts in my head will mention the missing people right now. And Tara has kept the options to herself for now.
Curse the little Skittermander on my shoulder whispering to me i should help.^^ Tactful Advisor will be the first feat for my Skittermander i think. I will build a Skittermander in the future.
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@GM Xain
Do we need to have the credits right now or will we just get less money on the chronicle sheet?
My character has 529 Credits on her credstick so i don't have a problem right now with providing the money.
If you still count Meme and Oda as part of the group that means 50 Credits for each character. That's just a standard Healing Serum MK1.
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Oops! I've just noticed I spent my credits to buy amour at the end of my last adventure so I currently have just over 200 credits.
I don't mind paying the biggest portion if the rest can't or don't want to contribute just need to put together another 50 credits...
My hope is that if we can get a lead to the halflings friend it will give us more info on if these are the implants were looking for.
As a party you would need to have the credits in advance (which doesn't look like a problem) as you haven't actually earned any from this scenario yet. You definitely can and should split the cost evenly though and if anyone is short owe the party out of credits for this mission. It increasingly looks like Meme and Oda are MIA though. I've pinged both and if they don't respond soon Arvin is going to reassign an iconic to this mission, I'm not botting two PCs through an entire mission, so think about who you would like to have join you. I don't think any of the level 4 pregens have enough credits to cover 250 themselves but most should be able to chip in 1/4.
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I can pay the 250 Credits all on my own, but i am happy to just pay 62 to 63 Credits!
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I agree we lost the firepower and melee damage dealers. Our Vanguard was also level 1 but well a Vanguard. Vanguards do want to get a bit of damage to get entropy points.
As the squishy lowlevel 1 playing up, please put a melee between me and whatever comes our way. ;) Knowing how Society Scenarios are structured there will be combat.
So the iconic Vanguard, i am not sure because the newer iconics are... well new and not well known.
Since there is no Starship Combat i think the Solarion is also an option.
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So please a melee focused pregen who can withstand a few hits. I don't care as long as i survive with my level 1!
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I only had a glance at the iconic Vanguard he seems to be pretty good in melee and Kat5e is decent at ranged combat and i have my Magic Missiles. So ranged should be covered and the Vanguard is melee only and maybe some close distance thrown weapons. (Only skimmed over the gear.)
I would love to have someone give a try with Life Science for that augmentation but if we only look for being general good at combat the Soldier is our girl. Vanguard has more skills to offer and Life Science is the skill we lack.
Prioritiy 1: Vanguard
Priority 2: Soldier
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Oh i mean, in my game the Pregen would roll and since we can't aid that would be it. If one of us is capable to assist pretty sure with our bumpy game so far one roll out of line should be okay.
If the Pregen beats the DC we will get more information if not, so be it.
My idea for an assist for Liefe Science would be a textmessage from Tara to the new assigned Agent with Tara's personal scientific opinion about that malfunctioning augmentation. I mean we need to get at least a call and the 'phone number' of the substitute agent.
This quarantine and play by post gaming made me so chatty it's unbelievable. The more we don't move mechanically forward throught the encounter the more i engage roleplaying. One post per day at least and my posts are getting longer.
I never saw people dropping out of games so early and two at the same time afer game has started. This could change the APL and needs adjustments for number of players.
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Oh well our team had not really that much Life Science at all. Good bye dear mason jar with mysterious augmentation!
I should have read the the stats for the Pregens first before spontaneously responding. I like Vanguards.
Okay, just because i am level 1 and playing up i did not move directly to the door just in case. Level 1 is still squishy no matter how you build your character.
Inspiring Boost is a Standard action so you can't Inspire and Attack unless Tara has some ability I am unaware of.
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Inspiring Boost is a Standard action so you can't Inspire and Attack unless Tara has some ability I am unaware of.
That's my fault sorry I had assumed it was a move action as a player in another game called it a full round action to do both I can see now that's not the case.
As inspiring boosts the first I took ignore the shot. I can't shoot for toffee anyway.
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More bad news for Inspiring Boost.
As a standard action, you can signal an ally within 30 feet who has taken damage from any attack made by a significant enemy (see page 242) at any point after your last turn ended.
So Obozaya got hit and you can use Inspiring Boost, but i doubt that Kat5e took any damages since your last turn after you 'healed' Obozaya.
And firing a ranged weapon in melee reach of enemies is still a bad idea, because that can provoke an attack of opportunity.
I hold back my spells because well the formula for Society Scenarios tells me there will still be a bossfight and this can't be the bossfight...
So i might have to use my second spell and go in the last fight with only one spell. No spellgems i used the credits from the first chronicle/mission for weapon fusions.
Level 0 spells fitting for doing damage require me to roll an attack with +1... this character was not designed for combat. *sigh*
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Just started an Envoy and i had to read up a bit.
So i have to pay attention to whom i am helping because if two characters are low and one is retreating and did not take any damage at all after i had helped another character first then i can't help the second character until the second character takes damage again...
My understanding is ally takes damage from significant enemy i can use Inspiring Boost. Another ally is low and could really use my Inspiring Boost but there was no damage since the end of my last turn to that ally. Well my ally sadly needs to take a hit form a significant ally before i can use my Inspiring Boost.
So a group with two Envoys and both having Inspiring Boost works well. Not working until 10 minute rest for regaining Stamina is worded to from that specific Envoy. And i saw two Envoys in action in one group! Stamina did not go down that fast.^^
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To not clock up gameplay.
Once an ally has benefited from your inspiring boost, that ally can’t gain the benefits of your inspiring boost again until he takes a 10-minute rest to recover Stamina Points.
With he they mean the ally. So you don't need to spend a Resolve Point Tara.
And Someone used the wrong alias and changed it back in edit window... We got one more player. ;)