GM Doug's Path Of Kings [Outpost IV] (Inactive)

Game Master Doug Hahn

Welcome!

As recruitment opens I will post sign-in info.

If you haven't played with me before, please take a moment to glance at my GM profile and review expectations; it's mostly standard stuff.

— Doug

GM Early access is open tomorrow! In addition to the standard sign-in info, I ask players to fill out a player reference sheet with tokens, and a macros spreadsheet to bootstrap secret checks and initiative for the GM.

________________
SIGN IN:
Character Name:
Character Level:
PFS Number:
Character Number:
Faction:
Earn Income Task:
Earn Income Roll:
Earn Income GP:
Things I need to know about your character (e.g. Uncommon abilities/ancestries/items):

Please calculate your own earn income after you roll; you can use the Earn Income Calculator on AoN to assist if needed.

________________
MARCHING ORDER & TOKENS:
Put your token on the Player Reference Slide — this Google Slides presentation will also have the maps for our game, and is where we will track Hero Points, marching order, pronouns, and the like.

________________
MACROS
Follow the instructions on the Macros Reference Sheet — this will help bootstrap critical game components like group initiative, perception, and secret rolls. It's a bit of upfront work but it really helps in the long-run, especially because I am running multiple games during this con.

Let me know if you have any questions, or need help! I'm happy to help you create a token, or fill out the sheet if needed.

— Doug

________________
SIGN IN:
Character Name: Ionic Saltbeard
Character Level: 3
PFS Number: 108507
Character Number: 2002
Faction: Horizon Hunters
Earn Income Task: Lore Sailing
Earn Income Roll: Sailing Lore: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (15) + 6 = 21
Earn Income GP: 1.6 gp
Things I need to know about your character (e.g. Uncommon abilities/ancestries/items): Just a basic flurry ranger dwarf. He has underwater marauder and hefty hauling.

Character name: Farzin Maaravi
PFS number:51995
Character number:2002
Character level: 3
Character Faction: Vigilant Seal
Downtime and Result: Underworld Lore: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7
Earn Income GP: 0

________________
SIGN IN:
Character Name: Jayma
Character Level: 3
PFS Number: 2380483
Character Number: 2003
Faction: Horizon Hunters
Earn Income Task: Performance Task level 1, DC 15
Earn Income Roll: Performance (Earn Income): 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (8) + 9 = 17 (trained)
Earn Income GP: 1.6gp
Things I need to know about your character: Feats: Read Lips & Empathetic Plea.

Jayma has a white ermine familiar named Twyl who might post separately from time to time.

Standard disclaimer:

I'm currently living in Spain and as such, may have strange posting times compared to the rest of you. If other PbP adventures I've played in are anything to go by, most of you are likely to be posting from North America somewhere. I am some 9 hours ahead of Pacific time and 6 hours ahead of Eastern time, so I go to bed sometime in your mid-afternoon and get up sometime in the very early morning.

Character Name: Chulyin the Spirit Talker
Character Level: 4
PFS Number: 230524
Character Number: 2001
Faction: Vigilant Seal
Downtime Task: Cursebreaker (downtime) "crafting"
Earn Income Roll: Nature (E): 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (8) + 11 = 19
Earn Income GP: +4 gp to Wand of Heal (1st)
Things I need to know about your character (e.g. Uncommon abilities/ancestries/items):

If it comes up, Chulyin and his allies have resistance evil 2.

Character Name: Sun Fire Boom-Boom
Character Level: 4
PFS Number: 757
Character Number: 2004
Faction: Horizon Hunters
Earn Income Task: 12 days Earn Income storied talent lvl 4, DC 19
Earn Income Roll: 8 days E: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (12) + 14 = 26
4 days E: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (2) + 14 = 16
Earn Income GP: 6.8gp
Things: Former Aspis background is technically uncommon, as are bard focus spells.

Looks like everything is coming together here, with some familiar faces!

Thanks for the heads-up about timezone, Jayma. I'm on the West Coast as are some of the other players here. Won't be a problem at all.

Looking forward to this!

SIGN IN:
Character Name: Fafrd the Grey Mouse
Character Level: Ranger 5
PFS Number: 788
Character Number: 2002
Faction: Envoy's Alliance
Earn Income Task: Earn Income
Earn Income Roll: scouting lore: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (5) + 9 = 14
Earn Income GP: 0.64gp
Things I need to know about your character (e.g. Uncommon abilities/ancestries/items):

- Campaign Service Award (+1 Hero Point that I can share)
- 2 Glyphs
- Hireling: +9 Society, PFS Lore, Engineering Lore Streetwise
- Skillful Mentor

Fafrd is also a combat medic with Continual Recover (so HIS treat wounds have no cooldown), and he has assurance with Medicine, so he usually will just take a 19 on the roll, especially if treating with Continual Recovery.

Chulyin has Continual Recovery but not Assurance, although he can only Crit Fail on a 1 and has a Crying Angel pendant.

Healing should be pretty easy then.

We're nearing go time! I like to check in a few days before the game with the current roster. Right now this is looking like a low-tier table with 6 players, though this can change before the con if anyone has last-minute changes. Looks like a well-balanced table too, as Fafhred brings frontline capability.

1. Ionic — Ranger 3 = 2 ChP
2. Farzin — Sorcerer 4 = 3 ChP I believe Farzin will hit 4 on Monday, before the con
3. Jayma — Sorcerer 3= 2 ChP
4. Chulyin — Druid 4= 3 ChP
5. Sun Fire Boom Boom — Bard 3 = 2 ChP
6. Fafrd the Grey Mouser — Ranger 5 = 4 ChP A fellow Fritz Leiber fan!
-----------
16 ChP

This puts us in low tier because we currently have 6 players.

It looks like only Ionic Saltbeard and Jayma have filled in the macros spreadsheet, and several players need to put your info on the reference slide too (Chulyin I added your tokens from our last game to the top slide). Please endeavor to do so before we begin on February 16!

As always let me know if you have any questions. Looking forward to running this one!

Ionic can front line as well. Not as well as Fafrd due to level differences, but the dwarf likes his melee weapons.

Done.

Interesting new macro sheet.

Reaction (Recognize Spell)

[ooc]Auto-identify Primal Level 4 or lower, All Others 2 or lower[/ooc
[dice=Recognize Spell]1d20[/dice
[ooc]+11 Primal, +9 Divine, +8 Arcana & Occult[/ooc

Done.

Interesting new macro sheet.

Hopefully its easier than what I used to do. Thanks for the reaction macro here too!

Ionic is scouting for the group, so don't forget that nice +1 to initiative!

Chulyin has Continual Recovery but not Assurance, although he can only Crit Fail on a 1 and has a Crying Angel pendant.

One thing we noticed today. This does not work on treat wounds, but only on first aid.

I filled out the macro sheet for you, Fafrd — you're searching for now — and the character reference for both you and Boom-Booom… including tokens.

Now, I know for a fact that each of you have a glyph or two, so don't forget to hand out those extra hero points!

Thanks... was a bit burned out today post-CotN.

getting things set up

I have 2 glyphs... plus campaign coin.

Character Name: Fafrd the Grey Mouse
Character Level: 5
PFS Number: 788
Character Number: 2002
Faction: Envoy's Alliance
Earn Income Task: Earn Income
Earn Income Roll: scouting lore: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (7) + 9 = 16
Earn Income GP: 0.64gp

Special things?
He has his mentor boon(free now), and hireling (society, PF lore, engineering lore, Streetwise)

Out of curiousity,how many CP do we have?

Out of curiousity,how many CP do we have?

It's now noted on the reference sheet, and broken down above!

Opps, Sun Fire is actually lvl 4 not 3. Meaning 17 CP, which is still low tier for 6 PCs.

Sorry about that. Fixed on the sheet.

Also have my campaign coin, and handed out my 2 glyphs to Jayma/Fafrd and marked the things on the sheet.

Looks like we have 5 glyphs (2 Sun Fire, 2 Fafrd, 1 Chulyin) so I skipped myself giving Fafrd 3 and everybody else 2.

Way to do all the work. I appreciate you stepping up to do the glyph distribution. Have a hero point for that.

Now everyone has 2 :p

Fafrd the Grey Mouse wrote:

Out of curiousity,how many CP do we have?

It's now noted on the reference sheet, and broken down above!

So you are saying, scroll up.

Bah.

So much work.

And I think Sun Fire has 3 now with that one. :P

And I think Sun Fire has 3 now with that one. :P

No wonder everyone's so willing to go into the forest of trials! With all these Heroic Points, surely nothing will go wrong.

Honestly, the Forest of Trials sounds more interesting than Valenhall to Chulyin. ;)

Well, actually, Fafrd made a convincing argument as to the potential urgency of Murta's situation.

OK, that's a relief. It's hard to tell when something is character motivated or played motivated. I'm glad to hear you didn't have a personal stake in it.

To avoid cluttering up Gameplay, I'll show my work here for what Jayma is about to do to get across this ice.

The GM says that only one Balance action is required to get a feel for the ice and that the rest of the movement can be presumably be done with regular Stride actions. Given the difficult terrain, and assuming that Jayma takes the known safe route scouted by Chulyin, then we're talking about 3 move actions, or one full round.

Jayma is Acrobatics +1 (untrained), so she has a 10% chance of success, with a 45% chance of a critical failure. Sun Fire Boom Boom's +1 circumstance bonus makes this 15% vs 40%.

She has Ancestral Memories, which trains her in a skill for 1 minute and gives her a +1 status bonus for 1 round. This combined with Sun Fire Boom Boom's +1 circumstance bonus, will give her Acrobatics +8 for that one round. Chances of success vs critical failure are now 45% vs 10%. With a hero point option, this becomes 70% vs 1%. Good enough.

Hero point to Jayma for leading the negotiations!

Hero point to Jayma for leading the negotiations!

Thanks. We better be off to the forest so I can burn off some of these hero points to make room for more :)

How horrible of me to not put Chulyin's AC in marching order. Thanks for adding to the map :)

How horrible of me to not put Chulyin's AC in marching order. Thanks for adding to the map :)

The jaguar forgives you. ;)

GM Doug H, do you mind if I make a copy of that excellent macros spreadsheet to use for my own games?

GM Doug H, do you mind if I make a copy of that excellent macros spreadsheet to use for my own games?

Absolutely not. I put it on PFS prep too.

Sweet!

Courage won't stack with the guided words, but will help for everything else at least.

I apologize, Fafrd, I didn't mean to guilt you. I've forgotten about the hero point mechanic frequently, especially in PbP.

No, it is all good.

I was mostly teasing. I tend to not use my hero points, but more of a semi-conscious decision

I am running the optional because we are making good progress.

Maybe they have maps? LOL!

I take it that this the same day as the earlier Forest of Trials encounter? Did Tewakam head back to Port Valen on his own? I don’t see him with us.

My money's on NPC invulnerability.

Same day. Tewakam is hiding in the forest; he's tired and has NPC invulnerability!

Uh, oh. I think I know what these are!

And I think they aren't nearly as nasty as in PF1
(I hope)

We're making good time here. One of the games I'm playing is still in the VC intro :(

wow.

But, yeah, in 10 days we're on our 3rd encounter, not to mention the social stuff! This group's flying!

Today was the first time I woke up and there wasn't at least 7+ posts in gameplay. This group really is flying!

I like to keep rules stuff out of the gameplay thread;

3, -129HP

Clearly, that is intended to be "-29 HP."