GM Rotation, The COREageous Crew

Game Master Pete H.

I PM’d Faldon today. If no word back anywhere I will message our alternate option early Monday.

Smart call about healing. We are thin right now without some of our dip classes.

PM’d our alternate option, they should post here if available.

Hi, everyone! Thank you so much for inviting me. Before joining, I must clarify a point for you about my plans. About twice a year, I go on a retreats for two or three weeks to meditate and do yoga. The peculiarity of this event is that I'm there without the Internet (btw as well as without TV/radio etc too, like all the participants). The nearest trip will be from the end of July. Effectively, I would consider that from July 25 to August 22, I will not participate in the games.

On the one hand, such trips of mine do not lead to my disappearance - there are games on this forum that I have been participating in for several years (and one that I have been running for a year). On the other hand, you invite a player who will take a break for one month in a month. This may not be very convenient .)

So let's clarify once again, do you want me at this table now or are we waiting for the next time.

PS The next such trip (after this summer) will be on New Year's Eve or even next spring, that is, not soon.

‘Eκάτη: Welcome! And don't worry - if you are going to post as usual I'm positive that we can complete the Confirmation - the scenario I just started to run - until July 24th. That's 5 weeks, and as the other players here have a quite fast and consistent posting rate, we should manage to finish it without problems before you leave.
The scenario even has an optional encounter, so I can check our time left and decide if we skip it or not. :-)

Please whip up your cleric (or any other character you want to play) and introduce him/her in Gameplay.

I will second that welcome. I also feel that a planned break like yours should be easily worked around.

Hello and welcome!
I am currently resting my feet from schlepping teenagers around the Six Flags. I will third and say I have full confidence we can finish before your retreat, or close enough anyway. Glad to have you along and looking forward to it! ^_^

I stole this earlier post from kaervek78 who did all the hard work. Then I did a little updating.

GM TOP: Elf Eldritch Knight, Fighter/Wizard frontliner/arcane buffer

bluedove: Druid, frontliner/scout/healer in a pinch

phaeton_nz: fighter, frontliner; maybe wizard(arcane caster?)

Luke_Parry: gish - probably a Ranger/Diviner/Eldritch Knight, frontliner/arcane self-buffer

John Woodford: half-elf finesse fighter with maybe a couple of levels in rogue, frontliner/scout/disabler

kaervek78: dwarven cleric of Desna (with the Luck and Travel domains), divine caster/support

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The player we lost was a bard with maybe a dip into rogue or at least get disable device, but we don’t ’need’ a bard to replace them. A second cleric would be very useful, especially for this scenario when our current cleric is GM’ing. We have a lot of melee too, but as our players diversify a bit that may hopefully take care of itself. I expect my PC to get a lot more combat versatility once he gets a casting class. I think a few of us are still deciding what routes to take.

The most important thing to me at least is to play a PC I am excited about or will have fun with. I have seen (and been) bored players give up on a PC they couldn’t connect with just because they played a PC they didn’t enjoy for a group that needed a ‘role’ filled.

Great, thanks a lot! I am glad to join your company. Give me about 16 hours and I'll come in with a new core character.

Welcome aboard mate.

I thought for a long time between a celestial sorcerer and a cleric (with the same image), so far I took the latter, but fortunately there is still time before level 2, I can change it.

I plan to specialize in channel energy and summoning creatures. And I'll also be able to pick locks and traps, just like a rogue.

OOC

...here are other followers of Kelinahat among the Pathfinders, including Her most powerful priest alive, Kaleb Vesperra.

I want to share it with you. Venture-captain Kaleb Vesperra (Warpriest (Cult Leader) 10 / Mystery Cultist 10) is the first of my two characters that I got to level 20 in the PFS. As you understand, he is the priest of Kelinahat (and my first character in Pathfinder in principle). And also... In one PFS scenario for levels 12-15, there is a NPC, female dwarf inquisitor of Kelinahat. She's a Pathfinder, and as far as I remember, she's even related to Janira .)

OOC

Nal wrote:

...here are other followers of Kelinahat among the Pathfinders, including Her most powerful priest alive, Kaleb Vesperra.

I want to share it with you. Venture-captain Kaleb Vesperra (Warpriest (Cult Leader) 10 / Mystery Cultist 10) is the first of my two characters that I got to level 20 in the PFS. As you understand, he is the priest of Kelinahat (and my first character in Pathfinder in principle). And also... In one PFS scenario for levels 12-15, there is a NPC, female dwarf inquisitor of Kelinahat. She's a Pathfinder, and as far as I remember, she's even related to Janira .)

Based on the blog post that Luke linked to earlier in the Discussion thread, it appears that Core clerics and paladins are limited to the twenty deities in the Core rulebook. The relevant post is HERE, but it's from 2015; there may have been something more recent that overrode it, though.

Darn!

Obviously, not everyone knows about this rule, since I have already met paladin of empyreal lord in core game! And there was no one who would make a remark on this topic, which tells me that the other players/GM didn't know either .)

Well, thank you. It's very good that I found out about it now, and not after 10 games. It could have been a really big disappointment.

I'll change the class to a celestial sorcerer. Everything else - appearance, presentation, background, religiosity - will remain the same.

I am glad you had a couple routes to go with your character.

Huh, I'm very glad too .)

Quick question - is there no FCB for core characters? (It seems that there is not, but what if suddenly I missed something and there is the same exception as for the traits?)

The FCB you can get are the 'standard' ones - so a bonus skill point, or hit point, per level.

Oh, right. I've just checked and found that I'm using this for my other core character. Thank you all for the tips!

It bothers me that things like this are so hard to find, or at least hard to find clearly laid out. As far as I can tell there's no FAQ for the Core campaign.

Here's the link to the Slides: The Corageous Confirmation
I also put it in my header.

@GM TOP: Please swap them in up top. Thanks!

@Everyone: Please check the Tracking Sheet (page 2 of the slides) and correct anything that needs correction, e.g. Day Job rolls. Thanks!

I'll wait until tomorrow evening to give you an opportunity to post and change spells (if you want to), then we will continue with the journey on the next ingame day.
If everyone posts a "good to go" before tomorrow evening, I'll try to update sooner.

Paloma doesn't have a day job, and without vanities, likely never will. Also, it's not every mission that takes us into the wilds where a survival check for sustenance is even an option, so I was hoping to take advantage of it here and at least be frugal where it makes sense.

Will happily forget it and mark off rations though if the GM doesn't approve. ^_^

Sorry, I didn't specify - I was aiming at blue (and at the moment of the cast, it didn't have a cover yet).

Sorry, I didn't specify - I was aiming at blue (and at the moment of the cast, it didn't have a cover yet).

No worries, as ray of frost has a range of 25 ft + 5 ft/2 levels it wasn't hard to deduct which wolf was your target. ;-)

Nal, are you a cleric or a sorcerer? Your header still says cleric of Kelinahat.

Nal Pavleth's class is sorcerer (with the celestial bloodline).

Hello everyone! You can see this message in several games. This week is extremely stressful for me, and I will participate in the games very sporadically. Feel free to bot me when you need to.

Does anyone else look at the bundle of cloth?

(looks through the profiles) Huh. A wizard without ranks in spellcraft - that's interesting... ;-)

Well, it looks like Nal Pavleth is the only party member that has a chance to identify it (Spellcraft +6). I think it would be reasonable for him to be interested in a magic item and check it out.

Does anyone else want to bot him (for this check) or should I do it?
What's the (unwritten) policy here?

He said we could BOT him, so...

Spellcraft: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (19) + 6 = 25.

I'm sorry, I just realized that Nal doesn't know the cantrip [i]detect magic[/s]. Therefore, he cannot identify it via Spellcraft...

I'm sorry, I just realized that Nal doesn't know the cantrip detect magic. Therefore, he cannot identify it via Spellcraft...

Ah darn, if we had collaborated more closely Nal could have passed on the Light spell since Paloma keeps it up due to her woefully inadequate human vision. Oh well, we collected it anyway. XD

Just a heads up: My availability this weekend is limited - I may not be able to post an update before Monday.

Hello everyone, friends! I have sorted out my affairs, the life situation has more or less settled down and on Tuesday I will return to active participation in all the games. I hope you've been doing well here without me .)

Paloma offered it for someone else to look at but then we determined no one had the means to identify it, so I think she still as it. Unless there was something in Janira's bag that could help?

Well, when Cashel looked through Janira's bag, he also found a scroll of Identify...

Would you like to have the bundle of cloth identified before moving forward from the pit? If Nal casts it, he has a very high chance to succeed.

Sorry, people, I had a few very busy days with too little sleep.
I promise I will post an update tomorrow.

In the meantime, you can think about this:

Well, when Cashel looked through Janira's bag, he also found a scroll of Identify...

Would you like to have the bundle of cloth identified before moving forward from the pit? If Nal casts it, he has a very high chance to succeed.

Hey everyone! Life has made adjustments to my plans and I am not going to the retreat. Alas, a close family member has been in the hospital for a month and my help is needed here. On the other hand, it means that for now I won't miss out on our games .)

Sorry to hear that... Glad we get to keep you, but sorry it's under such sad circumstances. I hope your family member is better soon!

Sorry to hear that... Glad we get to keep you, but sorry it's under such sad circumstances. I hope your family member is better soon!

+1

Sorry to keep you waiting, everyone. :-/
I had a few (unexpectedly) very busy days this week and didn't have the energy to write a post.
I promise that I will post an update on Friday (tomorrow) as I have the afternoon off.

I'm about to leave for a 2-week vacation, and will be slow to post. If you need to bot Paul, in a fight he'll go for flanks and try to keep his line of retreat open.

Noted. Have a nice vacation, Paul!

Ryul has my vote for taking the ring of protection since he has the lowest AC of our frontliners.

@GM, what sort of DC are we looking at to long jump the stream at it's narrowest point? (due south of Paloma and Cheeper)

Asking for a friend... ᓚᘏᗢ

The scenario says that the stream is about 10 feet wide, so I'd say - although it looks more narrow - the DC for a long jump is 10.
That's still nothing for your friend. ;-)

As we are close to wrapping on this one, I thought we might start considering what is next. I noticed Nal hasn't marked the Scenario Tracking spreadsheet above yet, so that might be a good idea so we can identify scenarios we can all still play.

I'll volunteer to run 6-10: The Wounded Wisp (1-2) since those who have played it can still take advantage of it being Evergreen at level 1.

Would it be possible to enter it into the upcoming Gameday with a pre-filled table, or is that not allowed?

Not played it Core so I believe I'm okay at Level 2.

Would it be possible to enter it into the upcoming Gameday with a pre-filled table, or is that not allowed?

The Wounded Wisp sounds good to me. And it is definitely possible to have a pre-filled game - just put it in the category GM Choice/Lottery and write in the Recruitment thread something like GM Valen did HERE.

@GM

Characters with low-light vision have eyes that are so sensitive to light that they can see twice as far as normal in dim light. Low-light vision is color vision. A spellcaster with low-light vision can read a scroll as long as even the tiniest candle flame is next to him as a source of light. Characters with low-light vision can see outdoors on a moonlit night as well as they can during the day.

Not Nal's circumstance anyway, but Raul is right.

I noticed Nal hasn't marked the Scenario Tracking spreadsheet above yet, so that might be a good idea so we can identify scenarios we can all still play.

Hmm, I may have missed the link to this document, I'm sorry.

By the way, I would like to play two more games with this character before GMing. It is possible that I will want to radically change something in Nal - I wanted to play as a cleric of Kelinahat and as it turned out celestial sorcerer does not quite satisfy me.

Scenario Tracking is next to maps and slides at the top of the game. Just basically fill in any games you have played as Core and I can update the list so we know what ones are easy to pick from.

We can definitely give you at least two scenarios more of playing as I can easily que up to GM after Paloma.

It was nat1 on my RL Perception .)
Thanks!

@Nal Pavleth: Thanks for the info! I stand corrected! This rule text is shortened in the elf racial traits...

For reference, here's the link to the complete Rule:
PRPG Core Rulebook pg. 565
Characters with low-light vision have eyes that are so sensitive to light that they can see twice as far as normal in dim light. Low-light vision is color vision. A spellcaster with low-light vision can read a scroll as long as even the tiniest candle flame is next to him as a source of light. Characters with low-light vision can see outdoors on a moonlit night as well as they can during the day.

Oh yes, the feature of PF1e is that after many years of playing, you're still constantly learning something new. I learned something new about counterspell just this week, for example .)