[PFS2 / GMGlyn] 1–09: Star-Crossed Voyages & 1-23: Star-Crossed Court (Inactive)

Game Master GHembree

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Player Name:
Character Name:
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PFS / SFS ID Number:
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Player Name: Quentin Coldwater
Character Name: Arlo Rumble
Character Level: 3
Perception Modifier: +9 (trained)
PFS / SFS ID Number: 127656-2002
Faction: Verdant Wheel
Day Job Roll: Day Job, DC15, Gozreh Lore: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7
Society Mod: +0 (untrained)
Nature Mod: +9 (trained)

Default Exploration: Search

Player Name: JamesMartin
Character Name: Phineas Hatt
Character Level: 4
Perception Modifier: +6 trained
PFS / SFS ID Number: 1904-2002
Faction: Grand Archive
Day Job Roll: Earn Income, Performance: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (14) + 10 = 24
Society Mod: +9
Nature Mod: +6

Default Exploration: Investigate

Excellent we have four players signed up (room for 2 more). We will get started with the briefing once everyone has posted.

Please post/dot in the game tab as well. Good chance to introduce and describe your character.

Arlo Rumble Cleric 3
Xun Saburo Bard 3
Phineas Hatt Sorcerer 4
Azel Druid 5

Player Name: Farol
Character Name: Xun Saburo
Character Level: Bard 3
Perception Modifier: +8
PFS / SFS ID Number: 2359780-2002
Faction: Grand Archive
Day Job Roll: Perception, task level 1, DC15: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (3) + 10 = 13 Failure so 2 cp per day * 8 = 1.6 sp :(
Society Mod: +1 (untrained)
Nature Mod: + 6 (trained)

Default Exploration: Scout

Hey Phineas!, Hey Arlo. Good to see you both!

And the most important Hi @Gm Glyn, thanks for running this game for us!

Likewise, Xun! I did recently take a boon that may be of assistance to everyone who is level 3. Which should be Arlo and Xun so far.

Mentor, Magical
Prerequisites: Liked by Grand Archive
While working with less experienced Pathfinder allies, you provide key spellcasting insights that augment your colleagues’ magic. Any PCs benefiting from a Level Bump and whose levels are lower than yours can prepare one additional spell of their highest-level spell slot or cast one additional spell of their highest-level spell slot. When casting spells of a magical tradition that is the same as the tradition you use for spellcasting, the affected PC also increases the Level Bump’s modifier to spell DCs to 2.

Normal A Level Bump increases a PC’s spell DCs by 1, and it does not grant any additional spells prepared or spell slots.

Special A PC can only benefit from two mentor boons.

Hi Xun! Good to see you again!

I think the mentor boons only apply when we get a level bump, which I believe is only when we play high tier. Which, at the moment, does not seem the case.
(Please correct me if I'm wrong.)

Hmm, not sure! I'll do some research.

Hi Xun! Good to see you again!

I think the mentor boons only apply when we get a level bump, which I believe is only when we play high tier. Which, at the moment, does not seem the case.
(Please correct me if I'm wrong.)

Yes, the mentor boons only apply when there is a level bump due to disparity in levels of characters.

Player Name: Madscientistworking
Character Name: Azel
Character Level: 5
Perception Modifier: 13
PFS / SFS ID Number: 59724-2006
Faction: Verdant Wheel
Day Job Roll: sailing lore: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (1) + 7 = 8
Society Mod: 0
Nature Mod: 13

Default Exploration: Searching
Note: Slow tracking as to not level up between these two sessions.

I'll have the profile updated and completed tonight. I just need to finish a few other things before.

Hey @Madscientistworking, good to see you again. I see you have 'a thing' for green races that can hold their ground in the thick of combat.

Wow, this will be one spell heavy team ;)

Like I said in the signup sheet, I can also bring a level 4 Ranger, if we want a bit of a frontline, though I'm curious to see how this goes. :)

Azel works as a frontliner. Now was she intended to be a frontliner? No. But she can wade into combat if need be.

Good everyone signed in has checked in and posted. All the character sheets look good.

Challenge points total is 11 which is in the lower tier 3-4 with no level-bumps.

Looks like a good group!

Also, I'm a one-glyph GM, so I can hand out a Hero Point to someone. I tend to roll randomly, so I don't favour anyone in particular.
Hero Point: 1d4 ⇒ 3

Hero Point goes to Phineas!

Right I have two so everyone but me gets an extra.

Hero Points allocation noted.

Preparation for me:

School item: I'll grab a Scroll of Restoration.

Spell preparation:
0: Daze, Guidance, Light, Shield, Stabilize
1: Create Water, Fear, Sanctuary
2: Calm Emotions, Sudden Blight

Druid 0: Electric Arc, Ray of Frost

@Arlo with regards to animal shape and casting. I read some posts about Wild Druids. It seems that:

- As an animal, you can't speak which means that you can't cast any spell that has a verbal tag
- some animals don't have hands and manipulating with paws can be questionable => you can't cast any spells that have a somatic tag.

So for the most part the decision is: you can't cast when in a changed form.

However, there could be shapes in which there should not be such restrictions: Monkeys are perfectly capable of using their hands just as good as any human can. 1-action heal is only a somatic spell which means you don't have to speak to cast it. But probably it will be a discussion with the GM ;)

Yeah, I figured as much. So it's pretty much the same as in PF1. Thanks for confirming. :)

Just for the record, my comment was tongue in the cheek. I've spent two cantrips attacking the thing and Azel did 3 times more damage than Xun did ;) (partially due to level 3 vs lvl 5)

Just outside of talking, what is left of bard ;)

Thought so, but some banter is always fun. :)

I figured you weren't upset. It's just that its worth acknowledging that doing a 1/4 of the total damage done to a monster isn't insignificant especially since given the disparity.

@Phineas - you used Animal form right? Are you making bludgeoning damage?

Fists do bludgeoning traditionally, yes.

Chronicles are posted {here}

As always let me know if any on the Chronicles needs to be changed.

I had a great time GMing for the group!

Player Name: JamesMartin

Character Name: Phineas Hatt
Character Level: 4
Perception Modifier: +6 trained
PFS / SFS ID Number: 1904-2002
Faction: Grand Archive
Day Job Roll: [dice=Earn Income, Performance]1d20+10
Society Mod: +9
Nature Mod: +6

Default Exploration: Investigate

Please double-check the character number for Phineas Hatt, when reporting the game 2002 show a different name and when I typed in the name it showed 2003 as the character number.

Thank you for the game! I look forward to the next one. :)
Though the chronicle seems to have a mutually exclusive boon, should we cross off one?

Now I saw that I made a day job saying: Perception (it was supposed to be Performance ;)) Either way the rest looks good.

I had a blast playing this scenario with you all. No only as our team was a bit unorthodox: Druid, Cleric, Sorcerer, and Bard. We are only missing a Wizzard to have all of the spellcasters. But RP wise it was enjoyable, despite the low level I found Xun relevant to the scenario and outcomes of encounters (sometimes with big discrepancy of levels the balance is a bit off).

Thank you for the game and I can't wait to play the second one!

Yeah, an all-caster team seems much more doable in PF2. And yeah, I think everyone had a chance to shine, so that's good. :)

Fists do bludgeoning traditionally, yes.

Sorry, I forgot to explain what I was after. I was hoping that the gargoyle had something like stone skin which gives resistance but not to bludgeoning damage. In your posts, I saw you did not include the type of damage that your attacks made. So I wanted to bring it to attention, but as Gm did not react I assumed it is resistant to all types of damage.

The gargoyle had resistance 7 physical.

Chronicles are posted {here}

As always let me know if any on the Chronicles needs to be changed.

I had a great time GMing for the group!

Thanks it was a fun game. I did want to slowtrack this scenario so I wouldn't level up for the next scenario. Outside of that looks good.

Also yes all spellcaster parties are doable for the most part in Pathfinder 2e. Especially, in regards to the last combat where spellcasting helped bypass its damage resistance.

GM Glyn wrote:

Chronicles are posted {here}

As always let me know if any on the Chronicles needs to be changed.

I had a great time GMing for the group!

Thanks it was a fun game. I did want to slowtrack this scenario so I wouldn't level up for the next scenario. Outside of that looks good.

If it doesn't mess with tier, I don't mind you leveling up.

Yeah as long as it doesn't screw up the tier I would take the level up. That's why I was slow tracking in the first place.

Parties with challenge points of 15 or less always play in the lower level range

Did anyone else level up?

Currently
Azel 6th = 6cp
Arlo 3rd = 2cp
Xun 3rd = 2cp
Phin 4th = 3cp
total = 13cp lower teir.

Azel it no problem for me to fix the Chronicle and edit the reporting, just let me know.

If that is it then don't change anything. I just don't want to be that person who brings a spellcaster and drives the party up.

I get that. The only thing is that we might get higher CP enemies, but that's much less severe than going up to high tier.

I don't level up, so everything's okay for me.

Yes, Phin is -2003. My bad!

On my sheet, did I gain any treasure from the adventure; it's just showing the day job money.

Thanks!

On my sheet, did I gain any treasure from the adventure; it's just showing the day job money.

Thanks!

You should have treasure on there. You gain access to the scroll staff which is a pretty cool uncommon weapon.

Right, except on my sheet there's no GP earned in that field.

Right, except on my sheet there's no GP earned in that field.

When I opened your chronicle from dropbox I can see the GP earned

No, I see it as well. Phineas has day job money, but no "regular" money.

Face-palm. Sorry, you are right. I've mistaken a hobbit for a gnome. I opened Arlo's chronicle thinking that it was Phineas.

I will alert People for the Ethical Treatment of Gnomes immediately. Expect a sternly worded reprimand from the First World.

I will alert People for the Ethical Treatment of Gnomes immediately. Expect a sternly worded reprimand from the First World.

After a quick investigation the dwarf assistant paymaster was found to be cooking the books. He has been reassigned to mucking the dragon pens.

Your Chronicle sheet has been corrected.
I apologize for the mistake.

I plan to post the start of part-2 on Sunday June-6.

Starting of 1-23 Star-Crossed Court

Please select any school-supplied items.

and Allocate any hero points from glyphs.

I'll ask for day jobs near the end of the scenario.

Regular buy-list:
Lesser Darkvision Elixir x2 (12 gp)
Feather Token Ladder (3 gp)

Hero point from glyph:
Random roll!: 1d4 ⇒ 4
Xun gets my glyph Hero Point.

School item:
Level 2 scroll of Dispel Magic.