GM TOP #0-16: To Scale the Dragon (Core) (Inactive)

Game Master Pete H.

Once a group is chosen, more information will be posted here.

Checking in

Welcome!

We are waiting to hear when Red Reverend will be free.

I will start working on the slides and prepping the scenario. I collect player and character info on those slides too, so I do not need anything else from anyone yet.

I got a PM from RR. It may be a couple weeks, depending on how quickly his outpost game wraps up.

Which is sorta good because I am busy at home and work, so it will give me time to set everything up.

We are still waiting for RR to finish up their outpost game, but everyone else can check into my spreadsheet.

Spreadsheet Linky

Please fill in your chronicle details on page one and your character info on page two. I will have a link to these slides in my profile header and at the top of the page. We will use these slides for maps and any handouts as well.

day job: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (5) + 14 = 19 if reroll available at the end will consider using it.

I'm on holiday right now, but I will do it when I get home, either in Sunday or on Monday!

Bella does some wheelin' & dealin' with the local merchants:
Profession (merchant): 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (17) + 8 = 25, 50 gp

I filled the slides!

Thank you all for filling in your info.

I am keeping a loose eye on Red Reverend’s game and I believe they just started the final fight, so I’d guess a week or so and we will be starting. Hopefully!

Alright, here we go! At least with the start-ish. Red Reverend is waiting on his chronicle but his scenario is done. I just need his and Miriel’s info on the slides. And everyone is welcome to start off in gameplay. Y’all are welcome to do introductions, make purchases as allowed in gameplay, and chat a bit about things if you wish.

We won’t approach the waystation until everyone is ready to go though.

Perform (wind): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9

I am still waiting on two players to fill out slides one and two.

Profession (Butcher): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (13) + 7 = 20

Is the dog sled big enough for five of us to ride on? Or will some of us be walking alongside?

I think we are getting three sleds, one for every two of us.

Khellek is right. It will be up to you who is picked for the drivers and passengers.

Dog sled rules on how to use them are also on the slides pgs 2-3 for easy reference.

So, Khellek has +2 to handle animal.
Bella +2
RR +2
Ezren +0 and
Miriel +2

Given there are five of us, only two won't be driving.

Ezren obviously has to be a rider.
I'm going to suggest that Miriel as our primary warrior probably should also be a rider rather than having her hands tied up driving.

That just leaves the questions of who will be driving each of them, and who will be driving alone.

Letting you all know I am still here. Had a rough stretch at work this last week and then the holiday weekend and today I caught up on a lot of house stuff. Tomorrow I should be able to carve out some time to progress the story.

Hi everyone!

I'll be on holidays from July 25th to August 2nd. Posting will be possible but limited, and I won't have access to maps

Please bot me if needed, especially in fights!

I will be traveling with no access to the boards until Tuesday. Please both the Reverend as necessary.

I will be traveling from August 7 - 13 and will have limited access to the boards. I will try to keep up but bot the Reverend if necessary. Best not to have him channel anywhere near the other Pathfinders.

I was going to do Extended Heroism on Miriel and myself with the third likely Belladonna as I think she is more likely to go into combat than RR or Ezren.
However if RR or Ezren thinks they are a better candidate happy happy to reconsider.

Bella has a returning starknife and she'll be flying about. She will also be summoning Lite-Brite to Aid everyone in combat.

Heroism helps with the attacks rather than defenses. I'll stick with them three.

Could we tie them up if they are calm? Is that a "hostile action"?

It is somewhat against the religious teachings to kill creatures that didn't show any aggression against the team. I'm not sure if you can drop the calm emotions from one target at a time, but that would give us the upper hand and the enemies had the choice to attack or flee after the calm is dropped.

We could take a ready action and then drop the calm, and if they attack, stop it with the readied action.

I like that approach.

They aren’t helpless so to tie them up you would have to at minimum grapple them first which would break the spell. Dropping the spell would definitely have to be all of them, not just one of them.

Other than that, morally, it isn’t a bad plan to just ready actions and then drop it to see what happens.

I was planning on dropping the spell/cease concentrating, so I could summon light bright.

Busy weekend here, I’ll try to post later today.

I am in the middle of a four day stretch of 12 hr shifts, so I am not sure when I will post. Just giving a heads up.

It's been along time since I played or GMed this, and I don't want to look... are we close to completion? I had Khellek signed up for gameday and just realised we are getting darn close.

About a little over halfway. But you have also cranked through the first two combats very efficiently. So we might get there?

Gameday is in a week, so we'd have to be extremely efficient from here out.

That soon? Eesh. Hadn’t paid attention. A week is unlikely.

Fyi, we will definitely not finish before the start of game day on September 4th.

Thanks for letting me know. The GM has asked for an estimate on how long we have to go, but I'm assuming it is a couple of weeks if we are only half way.

I have hope that two weeks is it, but this group/game goes slow periodically.

That is my last haste. I hope this is the last combat!

I'm guessing more than three hours have past, so the extended heroisms are all worn off?

Oh yeah, it’s been more than three hours. Good question.

Anyone have faction journal card questions as we near the end of this scenario?

No named texts? And I guess there are no scholars around to try and convert.
No planes or demi-planes involved today?
And I assume neither the ioun stone (or whatever) nor the bones count as a unique magic item to deliver safely to the society (although now I think about it, the bones are part of some magical ritual are they not? Would that count?)

No luck on any of that (these bones aren’t magical) and the society isn’t going to need your help with the ritual, which will be done later. Yeah, they are jerks like that sometimes.

Guess I am down to just having enough ranks in a knowledge skill.

Anyone have rerolls and want to use them on their dayjob checks, get em done!

Ezren, are you applying this pregen credit to a level 1 PC or holding it for a lvl 7?

Got a job worth 20 gp all lined up.

Holding it, thank you!

Chronicles are here!

Waiting to post Khellek's chronicle for him to reroll that dayjob. If others also have rerolls and get better results, I can quickly update them.

Also, everyone check their sheets over. I have been known to make a mistake here or there when filling them out.

Bella, just wanted to double check that your faction is Grand Lodge and not Liberty's Edge.

dayjob reroll, T10,stars: 10 + 14 + 4 = 28

Thanks very much for the game.

Oops. Bella is Liberty's Edge as noted in the little symbol next to her name. That will definitely need to be changed for reporting.

Great game, everyone! I had a really great time playing with you all!