I'll post the tasks next time round, I just wanted to check that I've answered all the questions
So, I had been thinking, I don't really have a reason to roll-a-Sense-Motive on any of the things Lady Martella Lotheed has said, so I didn't bother with the rolls.
It could be just a slight difference in play styles that all different groups have. If something seems 'off' to me -- or if an incorrect assumption would devastate me -- I'll attempt the roll.
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No, the point of the tags is that you don't need to roll in a lot of cases, which is why I'm presenting the information in spoilers for you :)
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I think for anyone who has played more conventional RPGs for as long as some of us have, the idea that you don't roll dice is faintly heretical... but oddly appealing.
(Wow, I never thought I would say something like, 'Meh, I don't want to know the political issues, just want to support someone I trust to know them for me.') First very big difference between PC and Player!
I'm really enjoing the interplay between you all :)
Hope everyone had a good weekend!
This week I have to do a little extra in my leisure-time preparing for two Halloween parties and far more importantly, my Halloween one-shot adventure. But I should still be able to post here almost as regularly.
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Good luck with the oneshot. I made a spooky oneshot last weekend myself. Very short, just to showcase pf2e system to a few friends who stayed with 1e. Not that anything is wrong with that, but they just never dipped their toes into 2e, so we did that.
We did a caravan stopped on the road by a flood, eventually did some food hunting in spooky woods, and ultimately being attacked by a very localised cordyceps-like infestation of wildlife.
The cook was the first to succumb to the spores.
Fun times.
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Awesome. That's a little like what my one-shot is.
While based loosely on the 'Call of Cthulhu' full campaign "Beyond the Mountains of Madness", I changed the BBEG-like encounter to a more 'Lovecraftian-Malgoth'. The canon location is Antarctica which I'm placing in Greyhawk's Land of Black Ice (significantly apropos), and the 'Call of Cthulhu' climax/conclusion is that after the PCs have traveled to (Antarctica) and become tainted with The Malgoth, become carriers or 'incubators' of 'It', they realize that the only way to prevent The Malgoth from spreading to the entire Plane is to make sure The Malgoth stays where it has crash-landed in Antarctica, The Land of Black Ice, effectively hibernating-- too cold, too frozen to spread. If The Malgoth roots or pollen or seeds spread beyond The Land of Black Ice (warmer climate) it will grow and eventually destroy the entire Plane. (Canonically The Malgoth is an Abyssal Tree whose roots, pollen and vines/branches spread out almost taking over the entire Abyss -- let alone a single Prime Material Plane. Dozens of ancient Lords of The Abyss died trying to stop it, ages ago.) Thus, the PCs are sent to The Land of Black Ice to find out what crashed there from The Dark Tapestry, realize it's The Malgoth, observe that they are now carriers/incubators of the cordyceps-like, Lovecraftian, Abyssal horror -- and must choose to stay in The Land of Black ice, burn their ship, and eventually freeze to death in order to keep it hibernating. PCs choosing suicide over fighting to the death. Ayup. Very much more 'Call of Cthulhu' than 'Pathfinder'!
That sounds amazing! I haven't had a tabletop group in so long now... hard work to run because you don't have the leisure of thinking time that PbP offers you but the spontaneity can work in your favour as well. It sounds like your group is in for an amazingly fun time :)
@Shamsi - I never played the Last of Us video game, but the series absolutely destroyed me. Just the word "cordyceps" gives me the shivers now!
@Oldcastle - That sound like a fun few sessions of play. Will that be a weekend-long game?
@Darrel - I didn't play it either. It seems fun, though a bit linear. But I understand it's more of an interactive story, so if that's what people like, no harm no foul.
The infestation wasn't really turning people into predators or anything. More like they were being 'pulled' towards this large clearing in the middle of the forest where they just lay down and die on a large pile of fauna, becoming nutrients for the fungus.
Ah man, Darrel, that sucks that you don't have a dinner-table group. I couldn't imagine. (PbP is so slow). Do you just live in a small city with few options plus a super busy life?
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As for the Halloween one-shot, it'll just be Sunday night, a quick 5-hour session with pre-gen PCs. Normally we do our regular game and also a Halloween special. This year, blech, the group is canceling our regular game session for the Halloween special, and having a Friday party and Saturday party. My vote, of course, was for three game sessions this weekend. But alas, it's one game and two costume parties.
In case you haven't heard, the site will go offline soon and it will take a few days until it works again.
Thanks Apemantus - I used to have a group but getting together gradually went from weekly to fortnightly to whenever, and we ultimately just stopped by (mostly) unspoken agreement. I'm also pretty busy with my work and other life stuff so I'm not sure where I would fit a group in right now!