[Gameday X] PFS2 #3-01 Intro: Year of Shattered Sanctuaries (Tier 1-4) (Inactive)

Game Master cmlobue

This is the Discussion Thread for a Tier 1-4 table of Pathfinder Society 2E Scenario #3-01: Intro: Year of Shattered Sanctuaries to be run as part of Gameday X!

Start date is September 6, 2021.

Recruitment will be open at the date specified by the VO Staff and will be completed by a Sign-up sheet provided for the event.

Yarr, used my early am signups for a slot here.

Mighty Glacier checking in. Looks like I'll be playing with my 2nd-level rogue, Jack♢ (pronounced Jack of Diamonds), 150675-2001.

(I'm still figuring out which of my characters goes on which Gameday scenario, but I'm fairly confident I'm sending Jack♢ here, given that he's technically my highest-level character and this looks to be a high-subtier game. Still, I reserve the right to make last-minute character switches.)

Dancing Sunbeam, monk, checking in.

Rannarix, ranger, checking in!

Francine "The Fiery" Quickfingers, swashbuckler, checking in!

I'll be joining this game, but I'm still undecided on a character. I've signed up for multiple games with mixed levels, so I'm just waiting to see if anything crystallizes.

Possibilities:

- Thevenin Serkat, leshy (seaweed) oracle (tempest) 1
- Potipher Perkins, human (skilled) witch (Baba Yaga) 3
- Anschluss, kayal (liminal) ranger (precision) 2*
- Merian Seiche, azarketi (thalassic) magus** 1
- Ananaki of Sumer, lizardfolk rogue (mastermind) 1
- Pei Min, human bard 1

* - pending credit from pregen
** - pending purchase of Secrets of Magic

I think character sheets for everyone except Pei Min are up. Merian is currently listed as a fighter.

Right now I've tentatively slotted Potipher, so I'm going to dot in with her.

Game just dropped, so I can post the SIGN UP SHEET.

Now to see what Paizo has for you...

Slides are now up. Please add your token, perception and initiative to slide 2 and fill out the sign up sheet if you have not already.

How do you make the slide layout portrait instead of landscape? I couldn't find the setting to do that...

Not sure how you made the tokens circles, so I didn't.

We are now one week out from game. Please add your information to slide 2 and fill out the sign in sheet if you have not already. This is how I determine what challenges to give you as well as send you your chronicle sheets after game. Also, if you have any GM glyphs, you can give one hero point to another character per glyph (no character may get more than one hero point in this manner).

Feel free to introduce yourselves in the Gameplay thread. The briefing will take place next Monday.

Rannarix, I use Roll Advantage to make circular tokens, but it is not necessary.

Rannarix: Made your token into a circle.

Thanks, Sun Fire! I've used crop image many times but never noticed you could use a circle! Kewl!

I will be bringing a new character, Bechamel Mornay. Can you delete Potipher Perkins from the active characters list?

Just as a quick note for full disclosure, I have played but not GMed or read this one.

Just a few hours until game time. Just a bit of prep I need from some of you:

Dancing Sunbeam / Rannarix

Please enter your information into the SIGN IN SHEET

Sun Fire Boom Boom

Please dot into the GAMEPLAY THREAD

Bechamel / Dancing Sunbeam

Please add your token, Perception and Initiative to SLIDE 2

Looks like it will be 17 challenge points, so low subtier.

Signed in and token added.

They actually used names from Pathfinder Tales... Count Varian Jeggare is from the novels...

Before you set off, remember that you have at least one Hero Point each, and that you get equipment from your School if you have one.

For my school item I took a potion of minor healing

I have two GM glyphs, and will give extra Hero Points to the lowest level characters.

1 Dancing Sunbeam, 2 Fiery Fran, 3 Rannarix: 1d3 ⇒ 2
1 Dancing Sunbeam, 2 Rannarix: 1d2 ⇒ 2

Fiery Fran and Rannarix start with an extra Hero Point.

Thanks for the glyph!

For my school item, it's a minor healing potion (as Fran can't really afford anything else right now)

We'll go with Bechamel and Sunbeam with mine then.

Thanks! Minor Healing, here too.

Just as a small rules note, persistent damage rolls each time, not once when it applies.

Persistent Damage

Thank you. We'll use my rolls as the first instance and carry on from there.

One Hero Point imported directly from Nantucket to Sun Fire Boom Boom for that inspirational limerick.

So if I do a Fascinating Performance, I just have to be within sight of my enemy? I don't have to be adjacent? I try to tumble through because my Acrobatics is higher but in future I can probably dance (or sing) my way into panache...

Nothing about Fascinating Performance requires you to be adjacent. It's just harder in combat.

but to acquire panache all I have to do is roll higher than my enemy's will DC... even if the target is not fascinated...

@Dancing Sunbeam - There is no downtime built into this scenario, so whatever healing the party has is all you get. Fortunately, many of you will have free healing potions from your school.

@FieryFran - Yes, you can obtain panache that way.

Unfortunately, Fran is one of the characters I have who didn't take medicine as a skill. It kinda increases the variety that way...

From scanning character sheets, Jack of Diamonds has +5 Medicine but no healer's tools, and Bechamel has +4 Medicine and healer's tools. We can Treat Wounds if we have 20 minutes.

From scanning character sheets, Jack of Diamonds has +5 Medicine but no healer's tools,

Yeah, though I am a skill monkey and Medicine is one of the best skills in the game, my 10 Str isn't too happy about carrying around a med kit. (Gotta leave some space for all that loot I'm thieving, see?)

"With our task here done where should we go next? Taldor? Cheliax?" Dancing Sunbeam asks she gingerly touches her wounds. Do we get healed in between tasks?

I got the impression that our job with the Blakros isn't finished until we check out the abandoned tavern.

I bought 3 potions of healing(minor) for 12 Gp.

I will only be buying 1 potion of healing (minor)

Should we deal with the mosquitos?

I think so, even made a little song about it.

I'll be attending GenCon Online for the next four days, so please don't expect much of me.

Sunbeam: I've been practicing my Magus action economy and I think your last turn is 4 actions. If I'm wrong I'd love to hear though.

(shield, stance, acid splash(2))

You are right, I miscounted. I'll skip on the Shield. Just Cast Acid Splash then go into the stance.

I just realized I didn't specify which bloodsucker I was dancing for... Can I reuse that roll for either green or yellow (green is my first choice in case both are still alive).

Yes, you can dance at whoever you want, and the roll is plenty high.

That bloodsucker is thirsty!. It drained me dry.

Francine, what you do not smell is called a Hero Point. It is odorless, tasteless, dissolves instantly in liquid, and is among the more deadlier poisons known to man. All right. Where is the Hero Point? The battle of wits has begun. It ends when you decide and we both drink, and find out who is right...

Are you the type of GM that would put the Hero Point in your own cup?!

I actually read Bechamel's comment first and wondered what the heck he was talking about... then I read the GM's... That is awesome! :)

Thanks for the hero point :)

Giving people with a torch a yellow border, and working on the lighting for the slides. You have about a round to do things before initiative happens.

uh oh...

Can a new wayfinder cast a light spell? Basically I've got a handful of characters that just got their wayfinders.