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Hey everyone - Happy PaizoCon 2021!!
Hello and welcome to this level 3-6 scenario! I'm Dink, your GM. Please answer the following:
Player Name:
Character Name:
Character Level:
PFS Number:
Faction:
Normal or Slow XP:
Downtime (please go ahead and make your roll if you know what you want to do):
Special (please list anything special about your character that you want me as the GM, or other characters, to know - for example, "Everyone calls me Dubs" or "I deal non-lethal damage by default"):
Miscellaneous administrative stuff (ignore if you don't know what these are):
Are you new to RPGs, new to PF2, new to PFS2, or new to PbP?
Have you GMed this scenario before?:
GM Glyphs:
Mentor Boons offered:
Thanks!
-GM Dink
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Player Name: Carolyn
Character Name: Trita Ram
Character Lvl: 5
PFS#: 2382746-2006
Faction: Horizon Hunters
Normal XP
Downtime:
I'm blind; so, if you're using, for example, google for pics of maps, etc., I'll need descriptions of them and, more specifically, descriptions of locations of PCs and NPCs during combat. For example, "player A is 30' directly in front of you attacking ogre 1 (player A is blocking LOS with the ogre 1). At your 3 o'clock approximately 5' away is player B firing arrows at ogre 2 that is at your 2 o'clock approximately 40' away...."
If you have any questions, let me know.
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Player Name: Will MB
Character Name: Garnet (and Rockett)
Character Level: 3
PFS Number: 209280-2005
Faction: Verdant Wheel
Normal or Slow XP: Normal XP
Downtime:
Garnet is a gnome, and has a non-combat familiar named Rockett. Rockett is a raccoon that carries a small guitar and plays vigorously while Garnet is doing swashbuckler things. Important: Rockett has no Performance bonus, so you can imagine what this guitar playing sounds like.
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I'm trying to figure who each of you is based on the Warhorn sign-ups:
Jérôme Guisolan
Julien Guisolan
Douglas Davidson - is this Johnny Sniper 2?
Gnome - is this Trita Ram?
William Murakami-Brundage
I think we're just awaiting one more.....either Julien or Jérôme
So far, once our 5th player surfaces, it looks like we're a minimum of 15 challenge points (low tier), but we might be a maximum of 19 challenge points (high tier). I'll keep y'all posted.
If Drasn'Thil happens to know the other J.G. signed up on the Warhorn, a gentle nudge for them to check in would be excellent and thank you!
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Well now....with the addition of Dranald, it looks like we are HIGH TIER! (19 challenge points). That means that the following adjustment is needed for Garnet, our 3rd level swashbuckling gnome.
It'll be useful to use mentor boons on Garnet, if anyone has one.
This will be a play by post adventure, so the odds that we'll complete this during the PaizoCon convention is exceedingly low, so I'll just preface the game by stating that. Trita Ram, thanks for helping me to make this experience as equally accessible for all our players. I'll be standing by in this Discussion thread (or in our Discord channel) for feedback and suggestions.
Discord channel, you say? Why yes, here's the invite to our channel Come on in and say HI! I find it works a touch better than the forums for things of pressing importance.
I'll be shoving this ship into the water in a few hours, so watch this space. Happy gaming!!!
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I have Rugged Mentor and I'm giving it to Garnet. Just so everyone knows what it does:
"While working with less experienced Pathfinder allies, you provide important insights that keep your less experienced colleagues safe from harm. For any PCs benefiting from a Level Bump and whose levels are lower than yours, you increase the Level Bump’s modifier to saving throws to 2."
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Apologies, y'all. I've been gaming my face off running PF2 games via Roll20 at PaizoCon. I've finished my runs and now am fully ready to jump back into PbP land.
Thanks for your patience.
I think that's why they (PaizoCon) said that pbp's wouldn't begin until the day after Paizo Con ends (i.e. 6/1); so, GMs wouldn't be even more overloaded playing both live and pbp events.
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Dran’thil, the issue with the kitchen is that you’re in someone’s home. Murder hobos go ahead and storm around without social graces, but we aren’t murder hobos, are we?
You don’t know where the kitchen is. You don’t know where a bedroom is. The description of the two rooms of the Tarsolu family home have been given to you. If you’d like to find out more, I would invite you to roleplay.
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Johnny has -1 diplomacy, but a 12 to stealth to sneak into other rooms unnoticed, but he has to be careful who he talks to. +10 to perception as well, so he makes a better investigator. We should plan out ahead of time, who would do what most of the time.
Johnny will talk to at most one person, but that is about it.
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As Dran'Thil pointed out, no one said anything about a kitchen. The comment about "tea" (which I'm going to presume you took as discussing the kitchen) was a presumption on Dranald's part that anyone drank tea. Further, it doesn't require one to be a "Murder Hobo" to be rude; it simply requires someone to not have certain cultural norms that suggest wandering around someone's home is rude OR they could just be rude and not care about social norms OR they were just told to investigate a crime that occurred in this abode and, just like police, presume they have the run of the place so they can solve the crime. In other words, there a wide variety of reasons one might act as these characters acted but you felt the need to presume things that didn't occur and, quite frankly, act rudely toward them for playing their characters.
And, while we're at it, presuming that Garnet misread you and, therefore, giving Garnet (to be specific) what could be read as a chiding, is a bit over the top and may be the reason they left the game. Garnet could have been asking a polite question that has nothing to do with the investigation and the ACTION was Garnet's actual investigation move. This is how I took it because he rolled for the action and not the conversation....
Now, this may just be your personality or it may be due to stress of running too many games, I don't know. I would like to suggest that, before you jump down over half the players' throats, one might ask questions before presuming what people are doing or not. For example, "Garnet, I'm not clear about your actions here. Did you intend to make two investigations; in other words, was your commentary to the family, an investigational move or your character merely making small talk?" In this way, one does not appear (whether that was your intent or not) to be confrontational.
Because this game seems to be devolving into a series of miscommunications, what appear to be hostile responses from the GM, I'm bowing out as well.
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Wow.
I think I’ll need to step away from this game at this point. I apologise for having come across as rude. No excuses from my end. Perception is at least 50% correct (if not more) in my experience. I have offended at least two of my players to the point that they have decided to quit. I am embarrassed and will self-reflect here.
I do apologise to the remaining players, as well as those departed already. I will check in with those overseeing the PaizoCon games to see if a backup GM will step in on my behalf.
Thanks for coming to play; I’ll see if I can get this game restarted for you.
-Dink
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I am still enjoying the game. I myself, do have trouble with scenarios that call for investigations. If there is a Kitchen or even a bedroom, or whatever other room there is, I wouldn't have the know how to investigate without rudely walking around in character. But I'm trying to stay in character. So I for one will do things my character still does. Johnny isn't a murder hobo, and I do agree saying those going into other rooms are called murder hobos can be overboard, but my character is socially awkward and sneaky. He isn't the type to break any laws or do harm to good people, I would play him as the type to need an excuse to go into other rooms. Even if it is a poor excuse socially awkward excuse like, "hey I want something to eat, can I go into the kitchen." Or just plain sneak into the room unnoticed as it is necessary for investigations. Now he is Lawful Good, and one might say that sneaking into a room is unlawful. However, we aren't living in the modern day in age, where I can lawfully get a court order to search the room. Others might say, it is not against his alignment to sneak into another room, since it isn't breaking and entering since we are already in the house and I'm not doing it to steal stuff.
GM Dinkerty I think is doing the best he can and trying to get us to roleplay. Some people have better roleplay skills than others, and I don't know what his capabilities of roleplaying is, or what the roleplay skills of other players are. I know I'm bad with roleplay, so a scenario like this that involves investigations and talking to NPCs, I would have a hard time with. Instead of leaving Dinkerty, maybe just ask a VO politely for help. Redelia has helped me out before, maybe she can run this part and hand it back to you, or offer you advice on how to run it without offending the other players. If you feel you need to bow out and replace yourself, I understand.
I encourage the rest of you to stay, maybe things will improve, I for one am staying. Just my two cents.
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Hello all, this is Mike from the PaizoCon organizing committee (the one who is primarily coordinating play-by-post games). We've been informed about things that have come up with this table and your GM's request for a replacement.
We are already looking on getting that set up, and anticipate having your game ready to continue within the next 24 hours or so. Depending on how things look from a Paizo website-standpoint, we may want to move you to a different gameplay/campaign thread, but we should know about that by tomorrow as well.
We do apologize for the inconvenience, but we will have you all taken care of soon! In the meantime, if you need to reach us outside of the discussion thread here please send an email to paizoorgplay @ gmail.com.
Thanks, and talk with you again soon!
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For the kitchen's story, I was thinking that we were invited to investigate in the same manner as the police. So I want to find out the kitchen I go to find out the kitchen. I haven't even thought I had to ask something to anyone. It's not a roleplay issue for my part but a perception of the situation.
I also think as Johnny Sniper 2 that this should be continued. I think it's too easy to drop out especially as GM at the first contrariety. We are here to have fun and don't want to get issue for sure. But for me it wasn't at the point that all are dropping. For my part I want to finish the game.
So thank you CanisDirus to take care of us this way.
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Greetings all, I will be taking over your game to help get you guys to the deadline.
If you could everyone who is still here please fill out this Macros Link below.
This will assist us in speeding up PbP for secret rolls and initiatives. If two have indeed left then that will leave 3 people so one of you have a pregen on standby as the fourth.
Though we will see if it is needed after folks check in on the form.