GM Nomadical's Show Must Go On (Inactive)

Game Master Nomadical

Three players so far, but we'll wait to see who joins from the other session to decide if/when we open for recruitment.

In the meantime, please let me know:

Have you GM'd or played this quest #20 Dacilane's Academy Show Must Go On)?

Has this character played or gotten GM credit for either #4-16 Dacilane Academy’s First Great Prank War OR #3-18 Dacilane Academy’s Delightful Disaster?

Has this character played or gotten GM credit for any other Dacilane Academy scenario?

As much as I would like to, I don't want to count on finishing before Outpost starts on 2 March, so please plan accordingly for character selection.

Dotting in.

I have not played nor GMed this quest. This character does not have a chronicle for S04-16 and S03-18, or any Dacilane Academy scenario.

Checking in.

Have not played or GM'ed this quest.

Depending on what tier, I could bring a PC with player credit to 02-09 (Seven Secrets of Dacilane Academy). I have played the other 2 Dacilane scenarios but both PCs are out of range for this quest (04-16 is a 3-6 IIRC).

No worries on outpost. :)

Hi! Jack hasn’t played any Dacilane scenario. Never heard of this one until you mentioned it.

Checking in. Have not played nor GMed this one. Melenia has not played any scenarios or quest relating to Dacilane Academy.

Gameplay thread is open so you can dot-and-delete, or introduce yourselves as needed.

Please sign in to the RPGChronicles sheet so we can see tier and CP, then we'll get started.

Break a leg, as they say in the theater!

Have you GM'd or played this quest #20 Dacilane's Academy Show Must Go On)? No

Has this character played or gotten GM credit for either #4-16 Dacilane Academy’s First Great Prank War OR #3-18 Dacilane Academy’s Delightful Disaster? No

Has this character played or gotten GM credit for any other Dacilane Academy scenario? No

Froggy here. Sam's a bit busy so I thought I'd drop in and see my friends at Dacilane Academy again.

I have not played this quest at all.

I have played 04-16 and 03-18 but not with this character.

I have played Seven Secrets of Dacilane Academy (02-09) with this character.

4 glyphs to share. :)

Alrighty, we've got tickets and a full house, so let's open the curtain and get this show started!

A level 4, a pair of 3's and a pair of 2's puts us at 20 CP, in the bottom of the high tier with no level bumps.

Gnimish hands out a shiny coin to each of the other party members, so everyone starts with 2 hero points.

Lastly, cause I forgot to ask, does anyone have any special always-on abilities that I need to account for like trap finding, etc?

Just the sometimes there investigator's Pursue a Lead bonus that only the GM knows if it should apply.

btw, GM, just so you know -- my 03-06 during outpost is a formal eval game. Thanks for being part of the milestone :)

btw, GM, just so you know -- my 03-06 during outpost is a formal eval game. Thanks for being part of the milestone :)

GAH! That should have required a disclosure beforehand! Now I'll have to bring my most broken and complicated character for you to adjudicate around.

Kidding. Glad to help. Nice start though. I'm going to have to [s]steal[/i] be inspired by your intro posts. They're nice and succinct and cover pretty much everything.

For those wondering, there's no "senior agent" in the published scenario. It was just a way to get you to do intro's if needed without having J already in the mix. I like to open my Gameplay thread with something that gives the players a place to do intros. I hate opening the thread blindly and getting the standard post "In the darkest corner of the bar, the swarthy elf sits unnoticed sipping his ale until he introduces himself." Then it turns out the scenario starts on the deck of a ship. It's too jarring and disconnected for me. Though at other times, the writer just jumps right in with a wall of exposition dialogue from the VC as they did here. So "she" was just there to liven up the opening post a bit.

Amestra Veen is my highest level PF1 character.

Hey Schek, how do you feel about friendly fire? I might area-effect this swarm

No problem, go ahead.

Just so everyone knows, we're waiting for Gnimish. I'd rather not bot him, as he specifically said, "A spell comes to his lips but he hangs back until he finds a target..." I don't know what spell, and the tactical situation may have changed his intention anyway.

I will be unavailable as I will be out of town for a vacation from February 21 (Friday) to February 25 (Tuesday). Kindly bot me if necessary. Botting instructions can be found spoilered in my character's profile.

Does non-lethal damage recover more quickly? I thought it did (an hour?), but I checked the rules, and didn’t see anything about this.

I don’t think there is any rule about recovery from nonlethal damage. Anyway, just checking the game. I am using phone, and I have a decent internet in the place where I am at the moment.

No, you're right there is not rule about non-lethal healing differently. I might have been misremembering from 1e.

I'm sorry for my unexpected and unannounced absence. I know how disrupting that is.

No worries. I understand that your life in particular gets pretty hectic at times.

Oh, I missed the "a" in the first sentence of mechanics and the second sentence. :(

EDIT: So how many PCs participate in a given challenge?

Yeah, I hate this 3-successes-before-3-failures mechanic. It's fine at a F2F table, but it's hard even on a VTT, and near impossible in PBP. Anyone know a good way to execute this without it taking a month?

Everyone participates, and you need to have 3 PCs "succeed" (which means that individual PC gets 3-successes-before-3-failures).

So, Jack rolled 3 times on a DC 15 Performance, and got 2 Successes and 1 Failure. But he needs to keep rolling until he gets 3 of a kind.

Gnimish used his Hero Point to pull off a Crit Success which counts as 2 successes for him, then rolled 2 Failures, then got his third Success.

Pawero has 1 Success, and needs 2 more before he gets 3 Failure results.

And Schek and Melania (who seems to have disappeared?) need to roll still.

I got three successes; the Performance DC is 15.

As for how to do the rolls, I think your suggestion was fine (add one dice statement at a time). It’s a little more time-consuming than a regular post, but not that much.

I got three successes; the Performance DC is 15.

So you did. I should really learn how to read my own posts {head slap}.

And now that Melania has rolled her 3 successes, You've had 3 PCs succeed and that challenge is complete. Standby while I set up the next one....

My hit on Umberweed was a crit

It looks like he might have resist bludgeon 5. Crit did 16, tracker shows -11.

It looks like he might have resist bludgeon 5. Crit did 16, tracker shows -11.

I think he took 8 from my hit, and 3 from Gnimish (saved for half)

My hit on Umberweed was a crit

Yep. I only looked at the total, not the die, so I saw 30, which is 1 shy of a Crit, and didn't notice the Nat 20. I'll add the 8 missing damage. Thanks for keeping me honest.

You gonna do any other quest after this? Like, oh, I don't know, Q22 or 23? :)

Not right away, sorry. I've realized (again) that I don't like trying to GM two PBP tables at once. I'm running one for Outpost, and then I'm running a table for PaizoCon Online PBP. I've also started running weekly tables in Foundry, but will have to take a break for a few weeks coming up due to some travel issues.

I don't know how those PBP GM's that run multiple tables simultaneously (and are playing in other games, too) do it. Seriously, how long do you spend on PBP each day?

What you running for Paizocon?

When I lived in Boston from '97-'07 I used to play postcard (email after that) chess. Each tournament was either a quad (4 players, double round robin, 6 games) or a 7-player single RR format. So I got used to playing 15+ chess games simultaneously. PbP isn't that much different. :)

Hears a loud crash as everyone's jaw hits the floor

What you running for Paizocon?

#6-15 Lost and Forgotten, Tier 5-8. And I'll try to get in to play one scenario also.

When I lived in Boston from '97-'07 I used to play postcard (email after that) chess. Each tournament was either a quad (4 players, double round robin, 6 games) or a 7-player single RR format. So I got used to playing 15+ chess games simultaneously. PbP isn't that much different. :)

Hears a loud crash as everyone's jaw hits the floor

Yeah, you heard that all the way from BKK!

I'll try to sign up for that one. I've got 06-08 (Upon Wheels and Rime; 1-4) and 06-12 (Burning of Greensteeples; 3-6) for Paizocon.

My number of Correspondence Chess games was closer to 30 because of email and server-based games...

I'll try to sign up for that one. I've got 06-08 (Upon Wheels and Rime; 1-4) and 06-12 (Burning of Greensteeples; 3-6) for Paizocon.

My number of Correspondence Chess games was closer to 30 because of email and server-based games...

Likewise. Just depends on which ones I end up playing in VTT before the con starts.

And, we're done! You should already have your chronicles, and it's been reported. Please let me know if there's any errors. Otherwise I'll close this campaign in a few day's time.

It's been a pleasure. I look forward to playing with all of you again at some point.

Thanks for running! This was a lot of fun!

Good game everyone!

No chronicle yet. Did you email it or is it shared somewhere?

Gnimish does some stand-up comedy for the Dacilane Academy students as well as the fey caravan.

Performance(Comedy): 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (1) + 11 = 12

And gets pelted by rotting tomatoes...

Chronicle looks good. Schek is now level 4! Thank you for the fun game.

Chronicle looks good. Thanks for the game everyone!

Thanks a ton, Nomadical!
Thanks everyone! :)

Thank you again, Nomadical. And to everyone for a fun table.

Forgot my Earn Income roll:

Earn Income (Forest Terrain Lore): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8 Failure: 4 cp