GM Chadius: 1-05 Trailblazer's Bounty (Alpha Squad) (Inactive)

Game Master chadius

1. Please post at least once a day. If you are absent for 24 hours I'll send you a PM. If you're missing for 36 hours I'll mark you inactive and your Player Character will simply delay - that's not fun!

2. Under your name, please add a stat block, so I can quickly find your stats and keep the game moving. You can edit your character's Race, Class/Levels and Gender fields to include information such as:

- Hit Points
- AC
- Saving Throws
- Perception Bonus

3. What about Secret Rolls? Pathfinder 2nd ed has a lot of secret rolls the GM is supposed to make for the players, so the PCs can't react to a bad roll. Any skill with the Secret tag should be rolled privately. If I show the DC, feel free to make the roll openly. Otherwise, there are 2 ways to do this in my games:

- You can say which skill and which bonus you want to apply. (Example: "I use Occultism +5 to investigate the skull's mystic origin.")
- Or you spoiler your dice roll and everyone sticks to the honor system of not opening it.

If you haven't added Pathfinder specific equipment, I suggest you look at the PFS 2 Society rules, in particular the Pathfinder Training section.

Once you have your character selected, please post this information:

Player name: (OPTIONAL. you, the person on Earth)
Character name: (the PC you are playing in Golarion)
Class/Level:
PFS number: (It should look something like 133608-2001.)
Faction:
XP:
Money: (usually written in GP)
Earn Income: (feel free to roll it. Also mention any feats that may impact your job roll.)
Perception Bonus:
Initiative Bonus:

PFS School Items: (Optional, See this chart for your options)
Slotted Boons: (Optional, you can determine this after the mission briefing)

Player name: Alex Woods (As a VO, my name is out on the site anyway. so hello all :) )
Character name: Edogawa Rannpou (pronounced eh-doh-guh-wuh ran-poe)
Class/Level: Investigator with Alchemist dedication/2
PFS number: 34281-2009
Faction: Grand Archive
XP: 17
Money: 23.1 GP
Earn Income: 8 days worth... Lore Underworld: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (2) + 8 = 10
Perception Bonus: +7
Initiative Bonus: +7

PFS School Items: Potency Crystal
Slotted Boons: Ratfolk Ancestry boon, Dhampir Versatile Heritage Boon, Bequeathal of Uncommon item from 34281-2001 Boon.

Checkin in!

Player name: GM Red
Character name: Flunk Wright
Class/Level: Sorcerer 2
PFS number: 205498-2001
Faction: Envoy's Alliance
XP: 16
Money: 80.98
Earn Income: Legal Lore: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (11) + 7 = 18
Perception Bonus: +3
Initiative Bonus: +3

Slotted Boons: Nexian Resarcher

Halfling magus with a sling, ready for action! [as the Family Feud theme plays]

Player name: Quen Pah
Character name: Gavin Sureshot
Class/Level: Magus 1
PFS number: 43330-2012
Faction: Horizon Hunters
XP: 1 :)
Money: 6 gp, 15 sp
Earn Income: xrafting 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7
Perception Bonus: +4
Initiative Bonus: +4

scroll of burning hands

Welcome, everyone. Thanks for checking in.

I placed your icons in a random order on slide 2. Please rearrange them in your preferred order (or at least make sure you can edit the slides.)

Once that's done, feel free to check out the >gameplay thread< while we wait for the next person to check in.

Player name: Eric Parker
Character name: Tavin Sunward
Class/Level: Champion/3
PFS number: 20781-2008
Faction: Radiant Oath
XP: 29
Money: 53.62 GP
Earn Income: Herbalism Lore +6 Trained Herbalism to Earn income: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9
Perception Bonus: +8
Initiative Bonus: +8

PFS School Items: 2 minor Healing Potions
Slotted Boons: Tarnbreaker Champion, Traveler of the Spirit Road, Big Game Hunter, Wayfinder, Engraved Wayfinder

Heya guys! Is it still possible to join?

Player name: Ron
Character name: Guide to the Beyond
Class/Level: Cleric 1
PFS number: 73433-2002
Faction: Horizon
XP: 0
Money: 7 gp
Earn Income: Labor: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (17) + 3 = 20
Perception Bonus: +7
Initiative Bonus: +7

PFS School Items: one lesser healing portion
Slotted Boons: None

When you get to Hero Point distrubution, I have three GM Glyphs to distribute. They should go to the three lowest level characters

Time to give out your hero points and select your boons. Everyone starts with 1.

Gavin and Guide to the Beyond are both level 1, so per Tavin's wishes they start with 2.

Flunk & Edogawa are level 2, though- who will you give the last one to, Tavin?

1 for Flunk and 2 for Edogawa: 1d2 ⇒ 1

Flunk gets the other extra Hero Point

Boons:

Traveler of the Spirit Road

I just saw my post never posted. I, too, have two glyphs I would've handed out. I'd have given one to Tavin, and the other to Flunk (I rolled in my original post.. .previewed the roll.. .forgot to submit. much fail.)

Thanks for the HPs!

@Tavin: Thanks for the hero point!

@GM: Sorry about messing up the Ready rules. Just started with PF2 and I guess I'm still a little too used to PF1.

@Gavin: How are you using Electric Arc with your weapon? I am playing a Gozreh Magus who focuses on lightning spells and I thought you could only use spells with attack rolls.

@guide is correct. Spellstrike requires the spell to have an attack roll. Which electric arc does not.

Gavin, feel free to retcon your actions.

Tavin, the swarm moved before you did, so I would say you don't get a chance to react.

Retcon posted.

Isn't balancing usually an Acrobatics check?

I went ahead and changed out some of his spells for those that require an attack roll to use, to be more magus like :)

Isn't balancing usually an Acrobatics check?

Yes... but, climbing is Athletics. So, since we are climbing a snowbank, keeping our balance, either would have made sense to have us roll... author could have even made us roll both

Agreed. I suspect part of the wording problem is that this is an early scenario. The author may not have had the final skill actions when they worded a climb check to include balancing. Climbing is definitely Athletics, but balance is more Acrobatics.

It may be better for one of you to go up first, and then extend a rope down to the others. This will help your teammates' Athletics checks. Also if that one person tries and fails, only they suffer the consequences.

As the individual with protection from cold beyond his clothing. Edogawa would volunteer for that

Does anyone have a spell to help make sure we can all go up safely?

I checked and I don't see any first level divine spells that would help.

:(

It is almost like the dice gods hate us lol

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy T-Day all! *bock bock*

Right, I was gonna ask this weekend, but the site was a mess.

We have 2 hero points up for grabs. Please nominate the 2 people you wish to get points. You can either hide them in a spoiler, or PM me with your votes.

Let's try to get these votes within 48 hours.

I have two (if i counted correctly!), so I will pass these to two others.

Just to clarify, I'm giving 2 points away. So feel free to pick people who should get them.

Well, I will also vote for other than myself, and from there, anyone who has 1 or 0.

I nominate Tavin and Guide.

I vote Tavin and Gavin!

Give 'em to Edogawa and Guide.

I will join Edogawa in voting other than myself, anyone who has 0 or 1.

This is definitely not the right mission for Guide, haha.

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Made some good rolls, so maybe it's Guide's time to shine!

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@Gavin: What is the Stealth roll for?

Tavin and Edogawa, have a Hero Point.

Is there even a point to the halfling being here? It is almost as if my rolls are are counting for nothing.

Well, it happened that this particular scenario is very skill heavy, and leans particularly towards Athletics/Survival/Wilderness-related lore. We can't expect an adventurer to be prepared for absolutely every scenario, can we? .. Can we? :)

The way I see it is at least we do have companions in the party who can make these checks. I am sure we will all have a time to shine at one point or another.

I understand that, it just seems to me that the DM is not paying attention to my rolls, it would be nice to know if I succeed or fail or contribute to the group's success. Otherwise, it feels like I am rolling just to roll.

@Gavin: My apologies, Gavin. A lot of your rolls arrived after the party had already succeeded at a task, so I basically wrote "the party has succeeded." Several members had failed to beat the DCs, so I didn't bother writing those failures. If you can describe what Gavin is trying to do when you make the skill checks, that will give me a chance to describe the results of the roll. Otherwise I don't have much to work with.

@Guide: I tend to give a lot of information away with Recall Knowledge rolls, since it costs an action in combat and I've met some very restrictive GMs who didn't tell me anything useful. I hope that was enough info.

@Party: The Athletics/Survival checks represent your overall progress through the mountain trail and offer chances to earn more discovery points. Your rolls were not good enough, but there's 1 more chance later on.

Now, let's go kill a Warg.

Thank you. One more question, who late is late, I try to post daily.

Posting once a day is great, that's what I'm looking for. I'll make sure to include everyone's results from here - it's no fun to feel left out and that's my fault.

It goes back to the old halfling outrider and the cavalier archetype :)

I don't know if I missed something, but how did Edogawa know those vials were Elixirs of Life? I don't see a spoiler for them.

Edogawa carries his own elixirs of life, so he can heal himself. He handed one of his elixirs to Tavin.

Then he rolled a 28 to identify the loot, and it turns out the loot also happens to be elixirs of life.

Funny coincidence.