[PFS_CORE_Aerondor] Bonekeep level 1 (3-7) Nostalgiacon- Tier 6-7 (Inactive)

Game Master Aerondor

This is a CORE table. Please double check your CORE status.

If you are currently in a game or expect to apply a GM chronicle before play, hold off putting in the information.

To make my life easier when it comes to filling in chronicles, if you could each put in a single post with:

Chronicle: What chronicle number this is for the character
History: What scenarios has the character completed? (or been credited with); any other chronicles (special boons etc)
Name:(the player) real name (as you have it appear on your chronicle sheets)
AKA: Character name
Faction: Your faction
PFS: # for the character
XP: starting XP, Note if Slow track!
Prestige: Starting prestige
Fame: Starting Fame
Gold: Starting wealth you bring into the adventure. This should be the total on your previous chronicle. If you want to buy any new stuff... see further on.
Day job: include the roll or that you don't have one. If you want to use a reroll at the end just note here you may want to use a reroll. If you don't include a roll I'll be assuming you take ten. Add the actual gold amount if you want to save me looking it up...
Spend: If you want to buy anything before the scenario starts (apart from your initial 150gp if you are a new character) include it here. This will appear in the "items bought" and/or "items sold" part of the chronicle.

Try to hold off actual discussion here until we have one post per character with those details (makes life easy for me to make the chronicles for you all at the end).

Please add an Icon for your character to the map. If you don't know how, let me know and I'll help. Also dot into the gameplay thread, or just hang around and RP there if you like.

Chronicle: will be number 13 for this character
History: #5-08, #3-09, #0-04, #1-35, #1-45, #8-12, #5-15, #2-21, #10-02, #10-01, #10-12, #0-49
Name: Mark M.
AKA: Hádanka de'Morcaine
Faction: Grand Lodge
PFS: 30504-07
XP: 12 (not going slow)
Prestige: 8
Fame: 20
Gold: 33pp, 9gp, 4sp, & 8cp
Day job: craft tattoo: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (2) + 8 = 10 blech! that is what, 5 I think
Spend: probably should, but I can't think what else atm.

Chronicle: will be number 18 for this character
History: #0-01, #0-02, #0-04, #0-14, #4-01, #5-2, #5-12, #6-15, #6-97, #7-00, #7-10, #7-12, #10-05, #10-07, Year of the Shadow Lodge Special, Blood Under Absalom Special.
Name: Gerald
AKA: Pau
Faction: Sovreign Court
PFS: 12445-12
XP: 17
Prestige: 25
Fame: 33
Gold: 4769
Day job: none.
Spend: TBD

Chronicle: 18
History: All listed at end of profile.
Name: C. Dragos
AKA: Belladonna (or Bella)
Faction: Liberty's Edge
PFS#: 17148-11
XP: 17
Prestige: 31
Fame: 33
Gold: Will make purchases later (see below). Prestige may change as well.
Day job: Profession (merchant): 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (3) + 8 = 11
Spend: Will make purchases sometime before game begins and record purchases on last chronicle & ITS.

Updated profile with new purchases & current gold, prestige, and fame.

Thanks again for GMing!

Chronicle: 9

Chronicle: #17 for this character
History: 5-4, 3-5, 7-14, 7-16, 7-18, The Godsmouth Heresy, 8-7, 91 (Battle of Bloodmarch Hill), 6-12, 6-14, 6-16, 2-1, 2-2, 4-24, The Gauntlet.
Name:Edmund Birnbryer
AKA: Two Blades in the Shadows
Faction: Liberty's Edge
PFS: 66136-8
XP: 19
Prestige: 26
Fame: 33
Gold: 14,903
Day job: Gambler: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (12) + 5 = 17 10 gp
Spend: Pending.

Chronicle: 19
History: 7-00, Intro 1: First Steps Pt 1, 5-08, 8-99A, Godsmouth Heresy, 8-22, 8-99B, 8-99C, 9-00, 6-00, 8-99D, 6-12, 6-14, 6-16, 10-00, 2-01, 2-02, 2-03
Name: John Woodford
AKA: Tere di Montefeltro
Faction: Liberty's Edge
PFS: 67750-11
XP: 19
Prestige: 29
Fame: 34
Gold: TBD; I have to find one recent chronicle
Day job: Perform (Dance) day job check: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6 (1 gp)
Spend: TBD

Purchases
Boots of Striding and Springing 5,500
Upgrade adamantine light mace to +1 Undead bane 8,000
Travellers Any-tool (See email for access) 250

Total 13,750

Hopefully you are all ready and dotted in for the 9th.

I've received the special rules, which essentially limit the number of encounters that you may participate in during the game. No need for me to share the graphic details!

There is one very special rule.

The threat of character death is very real in this event, but the potential rewards are greater as a result. You will be able to, as a table, decide to leave the event at any time should it become too deadly for you, except when engaged in combat. If this is not the type of event for you, now is the time to back out.

I'm getting quite nervous. I'm considering selling my +1 crossbow back (with a one-time boon that lets me sell back an item at 75%) since I have a returning starknife now and stock up on more scrolls.

I suspect (apart from encounter difficulty) that one of the reasons the scenarios have a high death rate is the sheer number. While you can back out at any stage, the urge to do "just one more" is high. And everyone is quite used to spreading their spells/hp etc over four encounters - and when you start to hit the fifth, and sixth and seventh...

This is likely less an issue for you as I have been given a hard limit on the number of encounters you may complete - to counter the difference between the normal five hour table limit and PBPs forty days.

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For levels we have:
Belladonna 6
Pau 6
Hadanka 5
Shen 6
Tere 7
Two-blades 7

Making us solidly high tier.

I personally would have liked to receive a maximum number of rounds of combat instead of a limit of encounters.

Looking forward to starting! ;-)

We should prepare standard procedures like detect magic, detecting traps and disabling traps etc.

Max number of rounds of combat is an awesome idea! Too bad they didn't think of that.

I GM'd this looong ago and the last 2 combats were brutal. The party were all people at a Con that didn't know each other so they didn't know how to coordinate tactics with each other. Also, half the players had pre-gens and had no idea how some of the pre-gen's abilities worked. I even went easy on a couple combats but it still ended up a TPK.

How far in did they get? It sounds like it was a case of "just one more room".

I have added a map deck, with a slide on it for your standard travelling order in a 5 or 10' wide passage/doorway.

If you could put yourself in the order you wish the lightning bolt to hit you wish to travel, that would be much appreciated.

When I click on the map link, it prompts to send an email to request access.

Request for access has been sent.

Ditto.

Permissions updated. Fingers crossed.

Not sure what timezone the con runs in, but it is Monday the 10th down where I am sitting.

Still Sunday here in Denver, Colorado.

Oh well, it is the 10th GMT now, so I've put up the initial post.

With movement in this special, could you please leave a track that shows which squares you have moved through. From time to time it may be important.

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We should prepare standard procedures like detect magic, detecting traps and disabling traps etc.

Hadanka is, so far, a pretty vanilla barbarian. Strong, hits hard, moderate AC, etc...

Should probably be near the front, but no tank or scout am I.

Tere starts with 4235 gp, and is going to spend 3000 gp of that to get his cloak of resistance enhanced from +1 to +2.

Two-Blades hit the statue using the head of the weapon, not the shaft, and, the statue isn't targeting him with a sunder attempt, T.B is attacking it.

Actually that is quite reasonable. Lets roll with that.

Something weird is going on. Every single post I have made so far gets eaten/disappears. Luckily, I write all of my posts beforehand in a notepad app and just copy/paste. Sometimes the post shows up after closing the windows and opening the thread back up. I'll try restarting my phone to see if that helps.

I don't own a computer, btw. I do everything on my phone.

I tend to reload the page after posting, and my post is normally there. I think the Paizo forums just take a slightly longer time to update than the browser refresh from your actual post. Earlier today I needed to do a refresh twice before my post turned up.

Of course sometimes the post really is eaten. Then the copy/paste routine is essential.

It has done this in the past. I'm currently in 3 other PbP games and it's not doing the same thing in those. Ugh. I'm just a bit annoyed. Maybe a redo of the shortcut link to this game might help.

Pau, you do realise that with your BAB at +4 your PA should be at -2 to hit and +4 to damage,. not -1, +2. I'm running with your figures for this round, but you may want to update for next.

Also, it's not important now, but my understanding from playing a zen archer monk with Deadly Aim is that when flurrying, for the purposes of Power Attack or Deadly Aim a monk's BAB is their level. So when Pau hits L8, his flurry PA will be at -3/+6, while his nonflurry unarmed attacks will still be at -2/+4.

Oh, good point. Is that FAQed somewhere, because the wording could certainly be interpreted in either way.

Now I want to check he has all his bonuses and isn't missing anything...

+6 (level given flurry)
-2 (flurry)
+5 (str)
Then
+1 (bless)
+2 (flank)
-2 (power attack)
and
+1 (enlarged strength) cancelling out
-1 (size penalty to attack from enlarge)
For a total of
roll +10

Which is what it has netted out to. Well done Pau.

It's in the FAQ, and in theory the link should be HERE.

Nice. Thanks for the link. Have to remember that for Oggil, if I ever play him again.

Just as an FYI (and a couple of you already know this, because you were in the game), the last adventure Tere was on was Rebel's Ransom. If you're not familiar with it, it's also a dungeon crawl, also a dungeon supposedly abandoned for some time, and also (though this is metagaming) written by Jason Bulmahn. The party got through that one by dint of taking their time; carefully preparing for traps, puzzles, and monsters; and generally going slowly. Unless there's an in-game reason to hurry, Tere won't.

There is absolutely no in-character reason to hurry. At least at the moment. Queue evil GM cackle.

And Rebel's Ransom was pretty brutal. I don't know what the CR of the fights was, but we pretty much went into each one fully rested and with all powers available and they were still tough.

Sorry for silence; lots of meetings at work today, plus a small-scale reenactment of "The Overflow Archives" in my office.

Okay, that actually got a giggle out loud from me.

Not fun to live through though.

I recall getting woken up at 2am once because of a flood in a data centre. That was not fun either.

Mine was nowhere near that bad, although I've probably lost some papers. The office next to mine was soaked, though--it was their HVAC unit that had leaked, and the custodians vacuumed about 80 L of water out of the rug. The occupant hadn't been on site since the lockdown started. I think they'll be in tomorrow to check their stuff, though, and their desk and bookshelf are not salvageable. Particle board with plastic fake veneer over it does not hold up well to water.

Sorry folks, Rl has been kicking my butt lately. Work isn't going well and my Dad has a fairly bad case of Covid.
I will try to do better, but no promises. Feel free to bot me if I'm holding things up.
Hadanka tries to sneak up on bad guys when possible (though he really isn't very sneaky yet), then typical barbarian rush in to smash.

Sorry to hear about your dad, Hadanka. Just take care! We'll cover for ya.

Don't worry about it Hadanka. Real Life is the most important, we'll keep things ticking on. When you have time jump back in.

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An on a separate note, there is about to be a situation with multiple overlapping damage auras. My understanding is that they do effectively stack. Only rules reference I can find is here

If someone else has a different understanding, now is a good time to sing out.

Unfortunately, that's my understanding as well.

I've revised my thinking about not being able to get past a squeezing creature. That seems an unnecessary complication of an already complicated encounter.

As I mentioned in Gameplay, a PC can squeeze past others as long as their movement allows it (just can't end move in another's space). It's even in the rules that you linked.

After the last skeleton explodes, Bella is planning on running up to T.B. with her wand of cure light wounds. I want to save the rest of my channels for later on.

Those skeletons were tough!

I get the impression that "Those <fill-in-the-blank>s were tough!" is going to apply to every room in this place.

Well, it was a CR9 encounter. You got them out of their room, if I was evil, I'd have left them in there with that other cold aura.

I'm heading off for a few days. Should be back Monday. I might get another post in before I leave, but not sure.

Be good to get that healing sorted.

Well folks, my parent seem to have fully recovered from Covid and I've recovered from taking care of them.

You want me back in or have you progressed too far without me? I completely understand if you have.

Well folks, my parent seem to have fully recovered from Covid and I've recovered from taking care of them.

You want me back in or have you progressed too far without me? I completely understand if you have.

Welcome back! Looks like you & I are in three games together currently. Lol.

We want you back in.

I've tracked extra resources you have spent - 6 charges from your CLW wand.

You have also used a total of six rounds of rage now (although I may have missed one. However all errors are in the customers favor, so lets so with six).