[PF2/Farol] Bounties are all around (Inactive)

Game Master Farol

Chronicle looks fine :)

I've enjoyed the game. You've done a great job Farol! :)

Awesome, in that case, I reported the game. Live long and prosper, wait that is the wrong story....

Redeux, I've changed the campaign to have your link in there. I kept the link for B3 out of sentiment ;)

The PC is a Storm Druid. He was and potentially will be a Wild Druid, but given our team composition, I don't mind trying Storm first. With the way he is building, he can soak few hits and I gave him close-range spells. Skill-wise he has Medicine, Religion, Nature. The character sheet is linked and should be visible

Slide 2 in the presentation is filled.

Bjorn the Blade reminds me of Boris from Guy Ritchie's movie: Snatch.

Why do they call him the bullet dodger?
Because he dodges bullets! :D

Anschluss rips down the notice to make space for their own notice.

"WANTED - TRAITOR TO THE MIDNIGHT LORD

Seeking Emdi Emmay, a deserter from the Nidalese army. Alive preferred. Last seen cavorting with the infamous 'Pathfinder Society.'"

Rangi leans towards Anschluss and wispers

"I know where Emdi is ..."

Watery Soup is hunting his own PC, lol!

FIN! CHRONICLES HERE

Session has been reported. Let me know if you see anything needs fixing on the chronicles. Hope you had fun, this was a bit more straight forward of a bounty. Some spoilers if you care

Next up from the proposed order is Watery Soup

Chronicle looks good. Thanks for running it GM redeux, I enjoyed this bounty. Nice and simple, the fight had some elements making it something else than just exchanging blows

Fun bounty indeed, even though Jraal went down! Chronicle looks good.

Fun bounty! My Chronicle looks good.

1. LOL sweet Iomedae the Bounties are hard to find in the store! The Search function doesn't work and they're under "Adventures."

2. There are 9 Bounties now. I was tempted to run B9 just because, but B7 involves an alchemist, and I have a big 'ol soft spot for alchemists. THOU SHALT HELP THY NEIGHBORHOOD ALCHEMIST!

3. I'll plan for a start on Monday? Maybe earlier if nobody's making adjustments to their characters or anything.

I am fine with starting as soon as you are. I will try another session with this build, but maybe will pick up heal spell ;) If we find more kobold hating enemies :D

Sounds good! I am fine to start whenever, No changes to Zenith

Well, if we're all ready to start, I have no objections to starting. Having an extra weekend would be good. I'll get the map up and I'm going to assume everyone reuses their PFS information and icons.

Farol, can you add this link to the header?

B07 Cleanup Duty

Link is added, Btw. I begin to appreciate the map that you add to the slides with the location of the scenario. I need to get into a habit of doing that.

You are more than welcome to use as much or as little of my blank template as you like.

I don't own the LOWG, so I don't have an "official" world map. The official map in there is a lot nicer, and it has the official regional designations, e.g., "Saga Lands" instead of "Varisia" and "Land of the Linnorm Kings". A few places that didn't exist on older maps - like Vidrian and Thassilon - aren't on my map.

Sorry guys, my son was sick and work was crazy!
I'm getting back to my usual posting rate.

No worries Ilmakis, I hope your son is better now.

Jraal, your Acrobatics modifier is listed as +45, which is ... unlikely. :)

Rangi and Jraal, can you please give me a Default Exploration Activity (what you're doing by default)?

Oops! Updated it. It's actually +46. (Actually, it's a +5)

And Jraal will be scouting around.

Soooo ... I think I'm an idiot for not noticing this earlier, but we're a group of 5. If everyone takes a turn GMing, we will have 5 XP total (4 from playing an 1 from GMing). Are we planning to run 4 or 5?

Also, we were attempting to finish before PaizoCon, correct? I don't have any plans with Anschluss, but some of you might have plans with your characters. Wanted to be respectful of that.

I'm fine with running either 4 or 5.

And that reminds me, I need to register for PaizoCon. No concrete plans for Jraal as of now for PaizoCon.

The plan was to play 4 and GM 1 yes. So if you want to do it with 1 PC it would give 5 XP, 20 GP, and eternal glory in 5 different villages.

I don't participate in PaizoCon so I am not bound by it. But I am fine either way. We can stop after the next one if we feel like it.

From my end, I am good with continuing.

@Jraal

You may consider changing your line to:

Male LG Kobold the small Barbarian 1

:P

I have no plans for Zenith and am good to continue playing or pausing/finishing for paizocon if someone needs. Playing 4 / running 1 doesn't bother me. I put my GM xp on Zenith and will deal with the odd XP.

If the odd XP amount on one character freaks you out a bit, here's a little secret if you want to be an XP munchkin. At the moment you can get to level 4 with just repeatable content.

Damn! Readied action takes your reaction!

Somehow that fact never occurred to me. So no champion glimpses, no shield blocks, etc.

Huh, what an interesting learning

Yeah, it's fairly subtle in the Ready action but it's in there. I didn't make that connection until the other month. Of course if you have a way to get an extra reaction like champions/rogues/etc do then some of this can be alleviated eventually if you really wanted.

Papa Samedi has not posted in a few days. I've PMed him and will wait a bit to see if he responds.

sounds good

I'm dropping Papa Samedi from initiative and he can jump back in if he returns soon. I can add the oracle pregen if you need 4, or you can push on with 3.

No particular preference here.

Yeah, if there is no big boss in this bounty I am fine with 3 of us. I hope that Papa Samedi will show up

I hope he's okay and his son is okay. :(

That's all, folks!

Chronicles for Zenith, Rangi, and Jraal are here. I'm not sure what to do about Samedi, advice appreciated.

Thank you! Chronicle looks good. Unsure what to do about Samedi.

Is it my turn to GM? Any suggestions on Bounties?

The rules for this are covered here. It would somewhat depend on what reason is given when returned (medical emergencies could get full credit, for instance). For other reasons the guide doesn't give info on how to handle it for something shorter than a scenario. The scenario rules are essentially give credit for the part that was played. Looks like we started on the 10th, finished on 21st and had ~2 days of waiting so lets say 9 days and Samedi posted on 1/3 of that. Also participated in 1/3 the combats. Probably not enough for credit, but this may be influenced by whatever was the issue that has come up.

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Otherwise, thanks for running! Chronicle looks good.

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Re: Next bounty. B8, B4, and B5 are fun ones from what I've played. I haven't played B9 yet so can't give an opinion on that. Really though most of them are fine with 4 players. The few that have issues is because with 5 or 6 players get scaled a little too hard (B1, B2, and B6 kind of fall into that category)

Chronicle looks good! Thanks for running it, I really enjoyed it!

Regarding bounties, I am fine with anything outside of B2 ;)

Now a question if Papa Samedi will not come back, do we want to bring the fourth one? Or play as 3 (with pregen if needed)?

I think I'll do Bounty 4: Cat's Cradle. Will work on the updating the slides tonight and hopefully an intro as well.

For the fourth player, I'm fine with a pregen in the mean time.

Okay, here are the slides for Cat's Cradle. Just copied/pasted the last slides - hope you don't mind! Make sure everything looks right.

Also, should we go for a pregen? Any suggestions?

Url updated to include Gm Mauve link.

With regards to pregen: any range would do, the Oracle is cool.

Oracle would be cool, it would also be easier to re-integrate Samedi if he comes back.

Anschluss's gender has crystallized in my mind as male, so he's going to use he/him pronouns from now on. Sorry for any confusion this causes in the upcoming adventure, since I originally introduced him as nonbinary.

I'm deeply sorry for my silence the past days. My wife hurt her back, my son is starting to have his first teeth and wakes up regularly twice a night and work is still crazy... So between work, doing the chores, taking care of my 7month old son, I wasn't able to connect and play.
I've tried my best but it just wasn't physically possible.

My wife is better, work still demanding and the teeth still not fully there, but trying my best to come back.

Again, I'm very sorry for my absence and sometime, even doing your best is not enough. I'm trying to catch up.

I will not be able to GM anything before PaizoCon.

I'm really glad to hear you're okay. I worried that your last message was "my son is sick" and then silence. :( It was one of those "shit, shit, shit" feelings.

I've got two kids. They're 10 and 8 now but I remember those days.

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I'm happy to discuss Bounty 7 whenever you feel ready to.

Glad things are better. Real life should always come first so don't sweat it!

Do you want to join this bounty? We are just about to start the first combat. Were planning on running the oracle pregen Korakai but Samedi can just replace him if you want.

Yeah, I am glad that you are fine Papa Samedi. It always stresses me when someone turns silent.

Now we play Bounty 4, we can discuss if you want to GM after we are done with this bounty. (no pressure).

Glad to hear from you Papa Samedi, and hope things continue to get better. Take care of yourself.

Yes, I would love to join :)

@Zenith, I haven't really looked at the Swashbuckler class in depth. Reading up on Confident Finisher and the Finisher trait.

"Once you use a finisher, you can't use any actions that have the attack trait for the rest of your turn."

So you wouldn't be able to strike after using your Confident Finisher right? Or do you have a way to attack after using the finisher?

Ilmakis & CO - would we want to play 5th bounty? I am asking for 3 reasons:
1. Ilmakis - do you have the possibility, availability, energy and all that to run a bounty after we finish the b4?
2. Given Watery Soup revelation that it will give us 5 XP making it Pathfinder-odd number ;)

I volunteered Rangi to a combo game of 2-01 and 2-03 as I skipped almost completely season 2 early games. I can swap him for my Investigator if we want to keep on the bounty.

We could also do something wild and decide that we want to play 8 bounties to make the XP count more round, in which case I will definitely leave Rangi in the bounty hunter group.

I am asking for your opinion as the initial deal sounded: we GM 1 and play 4. So beyond free text please vote for one of the options

Option 1 - we end this adventure after finishing the current bounty 4 Cat's Cradle
Option 2 - we follow the contract to the letter and play one more bounty
Option 3 - omg Farol you are a genius! Let's play 8 bounties

@Zenith, I haven't really looked at the Swashbuckler class in depth. Reading up on Confident Finisher and the Finisher trait.

Finisher Trait wrote:

"Once you use a finisher, you can't use any actions that have the attack trait for the rest of your turn."

So you wouldn't be able to strike after using your Confident Finisher right? Or do you have a way to attack after using the finisher?

Huh, i vaguely recall reading that and then forgot. this is my first time playing a swashbuckler! Thanks for catching this! I intentionally didnt finisher on the first round because I didn't want to finish with a MAP. So for Round2 I would've just Finished -> tumbled twice trying to get panache, or however you want to handle that is also fine. Sorry for the misplay.

I did go through my posts and this is the first time I did it wrong i think. In the other sessions was finishing with a MAP but someone (outside of this game) suggested that I should not finish with MAP so i was going to give that a try.

thanks again!

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RE: whats next-- Zenith is good with whatever. 4 Xp is fine, odd XP is fine, and continuing is also fine.

I'm okay with 4 XP if Ilmakis can't GM (in addition to family stuff, he's *friendly cough* running a Fall of Plaguestone campaign so I know he has a lot on his plate).

I'm okay with odd XP.

I'm okay with 8 Bounties, but I'd probably leave Anschluss with 4 XP (I had planned to give him my Beginner's Box XP) and bring an 8 XP Baba Yaga witch. Full disclosure: the witch is suuuper weak at level 1, even by my standards, which are pretty low. I had planned to bump her to level 2 using GM credit only because I wasn't sure how fun she would be ... for others, that is. I'd have a blast being semi-useless.