[PbP Gameday XII] Year of the Shadow Lodge - GM Thread (Inactive)

Game Master Lady Ladile

Code Gray is active now I think.

Yes indeed, all tables should now have a post from me indicating Code Gray status. Almost there... :)

Reminder to GMs: code white probably killed off some Charvuind when it was declared. And even new ones have only half HP.

Do the copies of Charvion appear with full complement of spells?

It's moot at this point, because any time now we will get a house GM post ending the fight.

Okay folks, every table should have a post from me that concludes the adventure! Thank you very much for volunteering your time and energy to GM and/or fill in as backup :)

Reporting instructions as well as information about 1E boons can be found in the email that Bigrin sent out to all Gameday GMs at the start of the convention; if you did not receive this email or have lost track of it (check those spam folders), please let me know!

I was actually coming on here to ask how we do Chronicles and boons. It appears I lost track of the email or accidentally deleted it. I only have the one about making sure there are links to our game in the sign up list.

^No worries! Here are the relevant parts (and links):

Reporting Links
We will be using RPG Chronicles for signup management and reporting. If you have an RPG Chronicles account, you can manage signups and chronicle generation (including emailing chronicles to your players) simply by logging into your existing RPG Chronicles account and using the Gameday XII event code (2713068).

If you do not have an RPG Chronicles account or don’t wish to create one, no problem. Simply click the link below to report as a “guest GM”.

https://www.rpgchronicles.net/events/664d9dd5-ae45-421f-9347-2184b0b31374/r eport-session

For more information about using RPG Chronicles for reporting, please check out: https://tinyurl.com/RPGCGMEventReporting

Door Prizes
Paizo has graciously offered up prize vouchers for Gameday, and we will be randomly drawing winners from a pool of all players and GMs for reported games. These vouchers will need to be emailed, so please encourage your players to fill in their emails when signing up so that we can get them their prizes when they win.

We also have a set of boons for our PFS1 players. Each GM and Player of a PFS1 game has a 10% chance to win one of our lovely boons at random. Have everyone at your table roll a d20 and a roll of 1 or 20 wins. Please select the prize won in the dropdown field on the RPGChronicles report (page 2 if you are using RPGChronicles for signups), and make sure they filled in their email addresses so we can send them out.

GM AcP/Boons
Our SFS and PFS2 GMs will get the normal bonus multipliers for AcP for a Premier+ Event. our PFS1 GMs will have the choice between two boons:

A - Race boons for grippli, skinwalker, catfolk (pick one)
B - Race boons for triaxian, lashunta, android (pick one)

If you have any questions about the reporting, game setup, or anything else, please don't hesitate to reach out to me, or any of your standard PBP VOs via email or DM.
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You can also find the same information about reporting in this post here in the Gameday XII announcement thread :)

Is anybody else having an issue with the "prize won dropdown" in RPGChronicles? I am not seeing it.

Thanks for organizing this, GM L!

Once everyone has reported their sessions, we can start that discussion about a PF1e special for Outpost. It looked like there was some potential interest on some of the Discord servers, but the folks who would have been interested in playing/running didn't notice when some of us posted about it. So that's a thing to try to get in front of next time.

I'll try to get my Chronicles out tomorrow.

Didn't see the discussion on the Discord but sure, I'd be happy to have a crack at another special.

A ton of thanks to GM Ladile from myself & my players for House GMing and organizing this Special!

Is there any other way to report to Paizo about this game? I didn't use RPG Chronicles, just collected the information in the Recruitment Thread.

Or should I set up an entry and get them to enter details there?

There's a section on using RPG Chronicles to report as a Guest GM if you don't have an account and don't want to make one.

*edit*

The link for reporting as a guest GM is --> Guest Reporting. You'd just manually enter the character information yourself, similar to if you were reporting directly to the Paizo website.

I am also having trouble figuring out the boon drop down (4 of us got 20's on the rolls.)

I ended up just putting the information in the reporting notes field. I had two twenties and one natural one at my table.

^I've passed the lack-of-dropdown issue on to Bigrin; for now, if you haven't already, go ahead and put the relevant information for boon winners in the field for reporting notes.

He's also been made aware of some issues with the reporting for CORE games and is looking into that as per --> here.

Since it seems to all be over but a few minor adjustments to chronicles, let's talk about specials for Outpost next year. I've got a list of possibilities, along with the last time they were run in PbP:

3-99 Blood under Absalom (GameDay X)
4-99 Race for the Runecarved Key (GameDay XI)
5-S Siege of the Diamond City (RetroCon, early 2019)
6-00 Legacy of the Stonelords (RetroCon, early 2019)
6-97 Siege of Serpents (GameDay IV)
7-00 The Sky Key Solution (GameDay IX)
8-00 The Cosmic Captive (RetroCon, early 2019)
9-00 Assault on Absalom (GameDay VII)
10-00 The Hao Jin Cataclysm (GameDay VIII, mid 2019)
10-98 Siege of Gallowspire (Outpost III, early 2020)

If we go only by length of time since they were run in an online event, Siege of Serpents is the clear choice. Next is Assault on Absalom, which hasn't been run for five years. Following that are the three RetroCon specials (Siege of the Diamond City, Legacy of the Stonelords, Cosmic Captive) that won't have been run for five years by the time Outpost comes around. What are everyone's thoughts?

I've played 3-99 Blood under Absalom but not GMed it, same with 4-99, 7-00 and 10-98.

Only GMed 9-00 Assault on Absalom.

Played and GMed 10-00, the Hao-Jin Cataclysm.

If I had to choose one for either playing or GMing, it would be 8-00 the Cosmic Captive. The intro for it has me curious, especially if it involves being off-world or really good for astro-wizards.

I've run
3-99 Blood under Absalom
4-99 Race for the Runecarved Key
8-00 The Cosmic Captive
#8-99B: The Solstice Scar, Version B

8-00 had some interesting pieces to it, but it has been five years since I ran it, so I am a little fuzzy on the details.

I remember prepping 9-00 Assault on Absalom but never ran it. My memory of it is that it was more complex in some areas than I liked, but that was a number of years ago as well.

I've lost track of what I've played.

I would be OK with running any of these

My vote is for 6-97 Siege of Serpents.

I've been running a group through all the scenarios that influenced/contributed to the story of the Hao Jin Cataclysm and it's one of the last ones I have left to run.

Of those, I've participated in most.

I've run
3-99 Blood Under Absalom
6-00 Legacy of the Stonelords
8-99 Solstice Scar, Vers D
9-00 Assault on Absalom
10-00 Hao Jin Cataclysm
10-98 Siege of Gallowspire

I've played
Year of the Shadow Lodge
5-S Siege of the Diamond City
6-97 Siege of Serpents
6-98 Serpents Rise
7-00 The Sky Key Solution

So running Siege of Serpents would be high on my list, as one that also hasn't been run in a while.

Thanks for dropping by, GM G!

I haven't played Siege of Serpents, but if that's the consensus I'll go with it.

One more vote for Siege of Serpents. I have played Version B of #8-99B: The Solstice Scar and 7-00 The Sky Key Solution.

By the way, I'm keeping tabs on this even though I've not chimed in until now. I appreciate everyone's willingness to step up so we can still offer some 1e content for our conventions :)

We still need to show 1e some love. I've been wanting to restart 1e play in our Lodge but some of them have played nearly everything and others just want to stick with 2e.

It's just as hard trying to get local Starfinder play. :(

It's great you guys have this level of enthusiasm for PF1 MTSs. This makes it much easier for me to argue to the PbP VO team that there is enough interest to run more of them... :)

Have played, run, or both
3-99 Blood under Absalom
4-99 Race for the Runecarved Key
5-S Siege of the Diamond City
6-00 Legacy of the Stonelords
6-97 Siege of Serpents
7-00 The Sky Key Solution
8-00 The Cosmic Captive
9-00 Assault on Absalom

Haven't done
10-00 The Hao Jin Cataclysm
10-98 Siege of Gallowspire

6-97 seems to be getting a lot of votes and it was pretty decent from memory. Have personally good memories from Blood Under Absalom and Siege of the Diamond City

I'm good with Siege of Serpents too. In fact, it will be my 10th Special. I can finally get that 5th Star after 13 years of 1e PFS.

This is probably the only way I'm going to get my fifth.

I am in the same boat.

This will be number 8 for me.

Thanks for passing this along, Redelia. Hopefully a PFS1E special will be part of Outpost from the start; if it gets a reasonable number of players we can pick the next one after Outpost.

I only just got my third star, and this was the first special I've GMed. Got a bit to go yet...of course, virtually all my gaming is online, and most of my GM credits are from modules and APs.

We have yet to hear from Merisal and noral...what do you two think?

I'm good with Siege of Serpents too. In fact, it will be my 10th Special. I can finally get that 5th Star after 13 years of 1e PFS.

Oddly, I think it may have been my 10th back in the day, though I ended up with way more than 10 by the time I had 150 games.

Okay folks, it seems like the conversation here is winding down for now so I'll give it another day or so and go ahead and mark this campaign inactive to clear a little space for everyone. We'll hopefully be looking at doing Siege of Serpents - which I'm also personally in favor of since we haven't offered it in quite a while - for Outpost early next year :)

Excellent! Thanks for keeping this open so we could do the planning. Also, thanks again for running the special!

I’m ok with any special and would definitely GM.

Before this thread closes, I would like to ask about when I can tell players to expect the boons that they rolled for.

And when the GM boons will go out.

I learned that only after the con is over will all boons be sent out.

Yes, boons typically only get sent out at the end of online cons :)

Ah...I forgot the con was still going.

Because...why would things keep going after I'm not involved?