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Okay, let's remove 4-08 from the mix. Here is what we have left, plus other repeatables.

2-23 Agent's Obligation
5-01 Year of Unfettered Exploration
5-02 Blackwood Lost
5-04 Equal Exchanges

As for 5-03, Heidmarch Heist, it is a 5-8. So y'all will have to wait on that one or play it with other characters.

Roark Thunderbird wrote:

04-08 - I'm waiting to play it with you and Bret, actually. Isn't that the 2nd part of the one we played with Farol?

Yes, that is the follow on to 4-04 To Seek the Heart of Calamity that Tess and Brekovi played with your character Meadow, Farol was the GM.

I hadn’t realized you were waiting to play it with us.

I would gladly play alongside Meadow (or GM for her again). It is Brekovi that wants to finish out the adventure because it is in Thuvia. I’m not sure if Tess will have time with her wanting to fight undead. :)

Tess wants to fight undead and needs to stay the level she is in order to not miss a priceless undead fighting opportunity.

I think enough people were willing to use replays to include #2-18 Fanciful March of Urwal (3-6). I had just requested we not do it until we were 4th level.

We also have the various repeatables like Lost on the Spirit Road, Lions of Katapesh and Tarnbreaker’s Trail that I think were open.

Roark Thunderbird wrote:

04-08 - I'm waiting to play it with you and Bret, actually. Isn't that the 2nd part of the one we played with Farol?

Yes, that is the follow on to 4-04 To Seek the Heart of Calamity that Tess and Brekovi played with your character Meadow, Farol was the GM.

I hadn’t realized you were waiting to play it with us.

I would gladly play alongside Meadow (or GM for her again). It is Brekovi that wants to finish out the adventure because it is in Thuvia. I’m not sure if Tess will have time with her wanting to fight undead. :)

I'm not Meadow. I'm Isaku Beru. (Japanese transliteration of Isaac Bell. From the Clive Cussler series of the same name).

BretI wrote:

Roark Thunderbird wrote:

04-08 - I'm waiting to play it with you and Bret, actually. Isn't that the 2nd part of the one we played with Farol?

Yes, that is the follow on to 4-04 To Seek the Heart of Calamity that Tess and Brekovi played with your character Meadow, Farol was the GM.

I hadn’t realized you were waiting to play it with us.

I would gladly play alongside Meadow (or GM for her again). It is Brekovi that wants to finish out the adventure because it is in Thuvia. I’m not sure if Tess will have time with her wanting to fight undead. :)

Tess wants to fight undead and needs to stay the level she is in order to not miss a priceless undead fighting opportunity.

Which undead you looking to do? If it's 03-09 (Secluded Siege), that's a 5-8.

Tess wants to play 5-05 Island of Vibrant Dead, which is a 3-6 coming in October. So she is on ice so that she can play that.

After that, she wants to play 3-09 Secluded Siege & 4-09 Killer in the Golden Mask, which are both 5-8s.

Tess loves fighting undead, or having moral conundrums where she has to deal with polite undead she can't kill. Fun times.

Here is what we have left, plus other repeatables.

2-18 Fanciful March (3-6)
2-23 Agent's Obligation (3-6)
5-01 Year of Unfettered Exploration (1-4)
5-02 Blackwood Lost (3-6)
5-04 Equal Exchanges (1-4)

★ --- ★ --- ★ --- ★

Let's put them in order.

1-07 Flooded King's Court
5-01 Year of Unfettered Exploration
5-04 Equal Exchanges or a Repeatable

Then whichever of the 3-6s catches our fancy?

I'm not Meadow. I'm Isaku Beru. (Japanese transliteration of Isaac Bell. From the Clive Cussler series of the same name).

Oops, <need a chagrined emoji> my mistake. I haven’t read any Clive Cussier so didn’t realize that your character was based on a different fictional character.

In any case, yes that is the scenario. Brekovi still wants to play it. I would gladly get together with Isaku for that.

Putting the repeatables here:
S01-06 Lost in the Spirit Road (1-4)
S01-10 Tarnbreaker's Trail (1-4)
S01-14 Lions of Katapesh (1-4)
S03-01 Intro: Year of Shattered Sanctuaries (1-4)
S05-01 Intro: Year of Unfettered Exploration (1-4)
S01-23 Star-Crossed Court (3-6)
S02-06 The Crashing Wave (3-6)
S03-13 Guardian's Covenant (3-6)
S04-07 A Most Wondrous Exchange! (5-8)

And some 1 xp bounties/quests:
Q01 The Sandstone Secret (1-4)
Q04 Port Peril Pub Crawl (1-4)
B20 Burden in Bloodcove (3)
B21 Against the Unliving (3)
Q09 Wayfinder Origins (3-6)

Q15 is out next month. It's also a 1-4 Repeatable.

Tess wants to play 5-05 Island of Vibrant Dead, which is a 3-6 coming in October. So she is on ice so that she can play that.

After that, she wants to play 3-09 Secluded Siege & 4-09 Killer in the Golden Mask, which are both 5-8s.

Tess loves fighting undead, or having moral conundrums where she has to deal with polite undead she can't kill. Fun times.

I have both -09's ready (sort of) :)

Here is what we have left, plus other repeatables.

2-18 Fanciful March (3-6)
2-23 Agent's Obligation (3-6)
5-01 Year of Unfettered Exploration (1-4)
5-02 Blackwood Lost (3-6)
5-04 Equal Exchanges (1-4)

★ --- ★ --- ★ --- ★

Let's put them in order.

1-07 Flooded King's Court
5-01 Year of Unfettered Exploration
5-04 Equal Exchanges or a Repeatable

Then whichever of the 3-6s catches our fancy?

Sounds good to me! I'm willing to take either #5-01 after this one or I can do #5-04 after someone else runs #5-01. And by then we should be well enough into autumn/winter that Stitch can run #1-14 Lions of Katapesh like he talked about.

I've also got Nicole added to our tracker group so that should be everyone.

With all this talk about killing undead I ought to run March of the Dead (independent of this group rotation) so Hmm can apply the chronicle to Tess ;)

If you run March of the Dead, I'm willing to spend a replay to well, replay it. I'd like to replay some of the games I played on Discord because I don't remember anything :)

As for character creation -- my early characters were mostly concepts I wanted to try. I tend to gravitate toward monks for some reason, though I've found I like playing flexible support characters (bards, monks, rogues). I'm actually quite impressed with players like Hmm who have a whole history for the character... :)

Roark is a direct "copy" (well, not totally) of Jason Keeley's Roark from Band of Bravos.

Isaku Beru is from Clive Cussler's series of the same name. I wanted to try the Investigator class but couldn't come up with a name. I liked the character type and made up 2 more (Zhamie Zhapp and Purrlock Holmes; then I insulted the tengus of Golarion by creating a druid named Ducktor Watson :) ).

My rogue Sam Seed (from Lady Ladile's Q14 during Paizocon) is actually inspired by Fran Rosemont (though Sam is casting rogue as opposed to a Witch).

So long story short -- my characters are usually what catches my fancy at that time :)

With all this talk about killing undead I ought to run March of the Dead (independent of this group rotation) so Hmm can apply the chronicle to Tess ;)

Tess has already played March of the Dead, but never GMed it.

Fran Rosemont wrote:

With all this talk about killing undead I ought to run March of the Dead (independent of this group rotation) so Hmm can apply the chronicle to Tess ;)

Tess has already played March of the Dead, but never GMed it.

Heh! I should've figured :)

I actually *would* like to run it but it's an idea probably best tabled until after Gameday is done.
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Thanks for the insight about your characters and how they came to be, folks!

I'm probably going to make cribs of my other two favorite 1e PCs (Palomia & Soddy-Daisy) at some point, which means making a human summoner and a leshy alchemist. Much like how Bret doesn't repeat ancestries, I try not to repeat classes. I've got a name for a future third leshy character but I need to figure out the rest.

As far as other potential ancestries I'm looking at, I've got Catfolk, Shoony, Poppet and Skeleton (that this is even possible now makes me laugh and laugh and laugh). I've also got enough Starfinder AcP that I could purchase a System Traveler boon for an Android. So many possibilities :)

If anyone's played with my Quickfinger siblings (Shayna, Shayla, Francine) - It actually started with the first 2: I decided to make them twins because I couldn't come up with a storyline for them. Shayna is a bard, Shayla a rogue. Shayna is the responsible one and went into business. The other is a happy go lucky urchin who always got into trouble. I came up with Francine because I wanted to try the swashbuckler style and again needed a background so why not -- made her the elder sister... :)

So it's either what tickles my fancy at the time or if I need a convenient background storyline... and usually if I like someone else's concept I'm going to try to copy it... :)

Too many messages, can't read them all. I'm fine with any scenarios we decide to play.

For making characters, it's always concept first. Then I try to see if I can fit them into Pathfinder. I made too many PF1 characters that just languished. I love Play-by-Post for character writing (solo RPG helps as well) but it's slow for running character stats. So I tend to get super picky when it's time to create new characters.

I've had this idea for a half-siren explorer in my head for years, and it's only with the Kineticist that I've really been able to express her abilities properly. Strix Undine is close enough. I burned a lot of AcP yesterday.

Bella here is a a "Punchy Disney Princess" idea I've had since the 1e Brawler. But I couldn't figure out how to make unarmed strikes work in PF1 (there's no real way to fight unarmed well without dipping into Monk) so she stayed on the back burner. Khiari was her own PF1 character as I tried to approximate a fey, but it never worked out. In PF2 unarmed strikes aren't a death sentence, and Summoners can bring fey eidolons, so I get to have my cake and eat it too.

sheesh... I never even noticed the same last name between Jiggo and Swayaah... :)

So many posts! A fun discussion on motivations and creative spark. I have no issues going with the same ancestry.. obviously with my Dwarven crew. I'd also have no issues going with multiple inventors.. they have such a broad range of routes and trees. I could play a dozen inventors and they'd be all pretty different.

*I'd also really like to make a skeletal archer! They have so many fun ancestry feats to not enjoy.

So I wonder what the best way to organize this play is... it would take far too long to get people to post their lines in order. Thoughts GM?

I turned down a game of 2-23 this week so that I could play it with this group. So let's get this plan into list in the short description at the top of this campaign so that we don't forget it.

★ --- ★ --- ★ --- ★

Let's put them in order.

1-07 Flooded King's Court (1-4)
5-01 Year of Unfettered Exploration (1-4) Ladile

Group becomes Level 4
5-04 Equal Exchanges (1-4) Hmm
1-14 Lions of Katapesh (1-4) Massee
2-18 Fanciful March (3-6) GM Tiger

Group becomes Level 5
2-23 Agent's Obligation (3-6) ??

Since we already have the list of games played in Campaign Info, perhaps putting it there would make more sense? The only problem with that is there is exactly one person who can edit it there.

If we aren’t doing that, we should defiantly just put it in a spreadsheet or doc and link to it.

The list looks good to me.

So I wonder what the best way to organize this play is... it would take far too long to get people to post their lines in order. Thoughts GM?

I’m not sure this works for everyone, but what I did was put each line in a spoiler.

If the GM doesn’t mind, this allows them to reassemble the play via cut and paste while allowing us to each put our own spin on our lines.

I want the list of future scenarios out and blatant so that we all remember what we planned to do and don't sign on to those games with other PCs.

Unless someone beats me to it, I don't mind making the document when I get back home in a couple of hours. We'll still have to have chadius link it at the top of the page for us but at least I can set it up where any of us can make edits.

I've added our schedule to the Campaign Info tab. This is a great idea, Clover!

Better late than never, I also made a document of the same thing which can be found here ----> Longroads Game Schedule

Perhaps a bit redundant to have it in two places *but* if it helps remind people that they need to be mindful of what they decide to play elsewhere, I'm all for it. Provided everyone remembers to check either location, of course...

I added to the doc. I have 04-09 and 03-09 ready (both are 5-8 so I can actually still refine it by running it outside the group.). I've been meaning to prep 02-23 (Agent's Obligation)... so let's see if I actually do it this time. :)

Can't remember who I follow to GM next in our rotation. XD

Well, 03-09 and 03-14 is a 2-part adventure. I'm fine with running both. But that's at the 5-8 tier... and Tess will probably want to play that one... :)

Without giving anything away, I will say that 04-09 is brutal. I played it for Paizocon and we almost had our heads handed to us... :)

I have already played 3-09 Secluded Siege. I expect at some point Tess will hijack my wizard to play 3-14 The Tomb Between Worlds Death Pyramid.

That said, I haven’t GMed either of them so that might work.

Since we are listing them out pretty far, I would like to play 4-99 Blessings of the Forest with Vardarel once we are 4th level or higher. I think that probably means the online convention after this one. Fortunately that one is fully repeatable.

Frost, why don't you do 02-23... :)

If we're done by Gameday, I'm doing the 3-4 for 04-99... :)

Are you trying to get us all to sign up for your table? That means that I need to put in my GM thing for PBP Gameday soon, doesn't it? How does your table look now?

EDIT

Found it. So far only GM Frost is signed up for your table. Do we all want to converge on Tiger's table? I'm a backup GM for the Blessings of the Forest special, but I don't know if that counts for early GM signup so I'd better get my DA table listed.

PbP Gameday XII Event # 2713068
When: September 4, 2023 - November 20, 2023

Although we might be able to finish FKC by the start of PbP GD XII, I think we may want to aim for the next time it is offered.

This group is capable of a fast pace, and just about everyone has played 1-07 before. We could try it if we wished.

Do we wish?

Are you trying to get us all to sign up for your table?

Nope. Just saying that if Bret wants to play 04-99 with Vardarel, if we happen to finish before GDXII he could... :)

Do we all want to converge on Tiger's table?

Hmm... why do you all look familiar... :)

I am looking to play it at 4th level or above for reasons.

Okay, so we should not do it yet. Got it.

Depending on how quickly we finish this scenario we might have to cool our heels a little before I can start #5-01, as it doesn't release until the 30th. On the bright side, I actually have the 30th & 31st off and mostly free so I should be able to get the prep done pretty quick if I get right to it.

*edit* Speaking of hopping on Gameday tables I do want to point out that while Fistful of Flowers does have pregens, you can also bring your own PFS PC if they're a leshy of 3rd level. I've already ran it for Bret & Hmm, but you know, if anyone else here is interested once general signups open... :)

I have already played 3-09 Secluded Siege. I expect at some point Tess will hijack my wizard to play 3-14 The Tomb Between Worlds Death Pyramid.

That said, I haven’t GMed either of them so that might work.

I just finished playing both. Definitely make sure you read the errata. Luckily the GM noticed early on.

I love this group -- even though half of you want to sacrifice Roark or turn him into a cat toy :)

Bret, when we first started playing, Roark was about to tackle Stitch as early as 01-01... when Stitch was suggesting Roark slept on a perch or something...

Was it a comfortable perch? :)

chokes and spits coffee all over desk...

If 02-23 (Agent's Obligation; 3-6) is still open, I'll do it. I'm already starting to prep it. I'll give the GM Chronicle to another character so that we all end up even.

Once I have power to my chicken coop I may experiment running a heat tap wrapped around my chicken's perch for any extremely cold weather events that may pop up. You should think about that Roark.

You know, Frost might want to do 02-06 (Crashing Wave)? I've never played it, even if I've run it at least thrice...

You know, Frost might want to do 02-06 (Crashing Wave)? I've never played it, even if I've run it at least thrice...

I can run that, I think. Played it once, in your game.

Did I give out Hero Points? Please nominate the 2 PCs who should get one. You can post here, or spoiler your vote, or PM me with your decision.

We all should have had 2 hero points to start. You haven’t given out any since then that I know of.

Roark and I bring 3 glyphs each. Clover (who isn’t playing this one) brings 3 glyphs. Nicole brings 1 glyph. Apologies if I missed anyone, those are the ones I know of.

I had asked how you want to track them but never got an answer on that or if you were using the macro sheet.