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Greetings everyone.
Do you think a "sandbox game" would be doable in the Lost Omens setting?
I want to play a solo sandbox campaign, but I'm not sure what to do.
Thank you in advance for your time and answers.

Note: I'm not going to play Kingmaker, I've already played it as a CRPG.

Please feel free to dot-and-delete while waiting for the start of the adventure.

"Out-Of-Character" discussions.

During your stay at the Grand Lodge in Absalom you've been invited to an audience in the Venture-Captain's office. The door is closed when you arrive, no sound come from the room.

Please feel free to introduce your character and make your acquaintance with each other.

Hey all, how's it going?

Recently I dived headfirst into PbP games, both as PC and as GM, but it's starting to become complicated juggling all those tables at the same time. I don't want to leave any of that, I have plenty of spare time to play in all of them, but I don't know how to organize them to keep them under better control.

As of now I have my Chrome window always open with pinned tabs for each GSlides I'm using, AoN, Paizo, HLO, and Google Translate; I check the forum almost every hour I'm at my desktop, focusing the view on my active threads, but I start messing a bit my characters and mostly my GM's threads.

What do you use to organize your campaigns? Beside Paizo Campaign Tools extension, are you using any other software to keep track of your PbP games here on the boards?

Thank you in advance for your help and time.

"Out-Of-Character" discussions.

The shaded gardens outside the Sandswept Hall provide a welcome respite from the sweltering midday sun. Venture-Captain Norden Balentiir reaches up to one of the date palms overhead, pulling down a bunch of ripe fruit to share with the table. They’re good for much more than shade, my friends. But I did not call you here to enjoy my garden. A few months ago, I finally received confirmation that we would be able to execute one of the last excavation permits issued by the Osiriani government. The site is a desert location where the dunes have shifted,  revealing the beginnings of a staircase leading down beneath the sands.

The Osiriani government is protective of its cultural history, and with recent changes in their stance on allowing foreign archaeologists to work inside their borders, I wasn’t sure this permit would even stand. The bureaucracy was rather slow this time around, but it turns out we were approved before they stopped issuing permits. I’ve already secured your provisions, including camels, tents, food, water, tools to perform the excavation, and a map to the site. As you know, it may take many weeks to clear the site of debris. The desert can be unforgiving, so don’t hesitate to return here to rest as needed.

The government has already sent guards to oversee the site and protect against any potential thieves. Remember—keeping up a good reputation in Osirion is vital to the Pathfinder Society’s continued presence here. Don’t antagonize the guards.

"Out-Of-Character" discussions.

Please enter the following information

Player Name: [Your Name Here]
Character Name: [CHARNAME]
Organized Play #: [XXXXX]
Character #: [X]
Faction: [Your Faction Here]
Day Job Check: [Your Skill Check Here]

One spot is reserved for @NotEspi. Will start the Quest on Monday, May 9, 2022, or as soon as the table gets filled with six PCs, whichever comes first.

I don't understand if this is an issue on my end or the site's, but almost every time I post on the forums it takes several refreshes to see what I posted (30 to 60 seconds usually). That's a bit inconvenient, since it may lead someone to think their post hasn't been sent, making them post more and creating duplicates. I've already cleared my cache, but it didn't change much.

Also sometimes I get a blank page with a danger sign on the upper left, saying something about backtracking too much, when I try to post or edit something. What can I do about this?

Thank you in advance for your help and time.

The young heroes of the town of Kassen are ready for their coming-of-age ceremony, an old tradition in which they retrieve a piece of the eternal flame burning in the tomb of the town's founder. Yet when they arrive there, they find only the corpses of their fellow townsfolk, dead bandits, and mysterious animated skeletons. The novice heroes must brave the traps and perils of the Crypt of the Everflame, discover the source of the corruption that has awakened an ancient evil, and defeat a menace that seeks vengeance against Kassen and its people.

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The first time I tried to run this module here on the boards was in 2019, but unfortunately I had to step down from the role of GM because of some health issues. Now that I'm back with a huge deal of spare time I thought I could give this a second chance.

I'm a TTRPG player since 2002, started with D&D3E and its subsequent Editions, but found out in 2015 that Pathfinder was more of my taste. I've tried DMing in the past, I wasn't very successful, but now that I'm trying it here on PbP I'm really having a blast.

What I'm looking for here is to spend some good time with likely-minded individuals to create a nice narrative, have fun, and grow poth as gamers and as persons.

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Character Creation Summary
System: Pathfinder First Edition;
Starting Level: 1st Level;
Ability Scores: 20 Point Buy;
Races: Core only;
Alignment: Any non-evil;
Classes: Core only;
Optional Rules: Background skills, Character traits;
Starting Wealth: 10 gp; you start your adventure with just your weapons (one or two melee light or one handed weapons or a two handed weapon, and a ranged weapon plus ammunitions, none worth more than 75 gp), an armor worth 50 gp or less (and a shield, optionally), and your class items (common musical instrument, holly and mistletoe, spell component pouch, thieves' tools, wizard's spellbook, wooden holy symbol);
Hit Points: Max at 1st level, average for subsequent levels;
Background: 2-3 paragraphs minimum; your characters are all coming from Kassen, and they know this year is their turn to retrieve the Everflame from Kassen's crypt; every character will have a mentor from the village determined by its chosen class, which should be included in their backstory;
Posting Expectations: 1 post per 24 hours during weekdays (Mon-Fri), 1 post every 48 hours during weekends (Sat-Sun), no obligations during festivities.

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I’ll be accepting 4-6 characters at the table. I'll be keeping the recruitment open until 11:59pm of Sunday, May 8, 2022. If at that date there won't be enough player to start, I'll wait a bit longer, until 11:59pm of Tuesday, May 10, 2022.

Please enter the following information:

Player Name: [Your Name Here]
Character Name: [CHARNAME]
Organized Play #: [XXXXX]
Character #: [Y]
Faction: [Your Faction Here]
Day Job Check: [Your Skill Check Here]

Two spots are already reserved, looking for 2-4 more people to start.

You have been stationed at the Grand Lodge in Absalom, awaiting assignment for a mission of utmost importance. Things finally seemed in motion when Venture-Captain Drandle Dreng sent out a summons for available agents. Specialized in the history of Absalom, Dreng is known for putting off-duty agents to work on sundry tasks when he finds them resting within the city’s limits.
Coming to the meeting place—an odd choice of venue, as it is a street corner far from the Grand Lodge—a lone beggar garbed in baggy robes approaches. The only figure visible in the constant drizzle, the beggar sticks out his hands for currency.
Have you any coin to spare, fine folk?
The question hangs in the air for only a scant moment before the figure pulls back his hood to reveal the wizened face of Venture-Captain Drandle Dreng. He gives a crooked smile, soaked head to toe from his unprotected time in the rain. His clothes smell faintly of cabbage.
Sorry about that, he says with a wink. I always like to play a little joke on agents when I stumble across them during my jaunts into town. Now, why did I summon you fine folk here again…? Dreng shakes his head from side to side, as though trying to knock water out of his ears, despite the constant downpour.
Ah yes, the Wounded Wisp! I’m undercover now and can’t stray far from the site I’m watching, but I need someone to retrieve a package for me from that fine establishment. It’s among Absalom’s most storied taverns, you see, and one that holds a special place of privilege in the Society’s lore as the place where the organization began. Well, I could drone on and on about it, but standing out in the rain is doing none of us any favors. As if anticipating agreement, the bedraggled venture-captain produces a small slip of folded paper from one of his many stitched pockets. Dreng quickly shows a glimpse of the page’s contents: a map detailing the location of the Wounded Wisp bar.
The bartender is a woman by the name of Heryn Gale, a fine lady who came to own the Wisp after the passing of her father from—oh, bah, it’s really getting too cold for me to give a proper history lesson! If you could just go to the Wisp, and tell Heryn you’re there to pick up my parcel, it would be most appreciated. I’ll be around here for several more hours at least.

Please feel free to introduce your characters to one another and make a bit of roleplay while on your way to the tavern.

Please feel free to discuss anything out-of-character here.

Three spots reserved for @noral, @Gilthanis, and @TriShadow.

Hello everyone.

I've managed to get my hands on two interesting books, DM Yourself and DM Yourselves. It's been more than a month now, and I still haven't managed to start a solo campaign. Thus I thought "Why not play RotRL with a GMless group?", and now I'm here wondering if there would be enough people interested to form a 4-men party and tackle this AP I had in my closet (literally) for years now. If I manage to find three other people interested in this little project I will put up a recruitment thread while I re-read those two books (since they're not created with PbP in mind I need to read them thoroughly to see if there's any need for adaptation).

Thank you in advance for your time.

So, it's half past 1am on this boring Saturday, and bored as I am I came up with this weird thought.

I've been flirting with the idea of soloing Rise of the Runelords for more than a month, but never found enough interest to actually start the project. I have the adventure, I made the party, I read DM Yourself and DM Yourselves to learn how to play solo or masterless, I've even prepared the whole first module on Roll20, but something is stopping me from starting my lonely adventure in the world of make believe.

So I thought "Why not playing the adventure with other people masterless?", and the idea seemed intriguing, but I don't really feel ready to play that way on VTT. So I wondered if playing an AP masterless on PbP would be something possible or just a completely foolish idea.

What do you guys think? Am I a visionary or just mad in the head? Do you have any suggestion for such a game?

Thank you in advance for your answers and time.

I know the adventure takes place in 4714 AR, but on which month an day does it start? Is there a set date? Or is it "at the GM's discretion"?

Hello everyone.

I'm looking for good conversions to PF1E for the Dragon Magazine's APs that Paizo wrote for D&D3E, The Shackled City, The Age of Worms, and Savage Tide. Can anyone help me find them?

Thank you in advance for your help and time.

Hey, nice people of Golarion! I have a question to which you might be able to answer, and if not at least discuss about it and help me make a decision.
I was thinking of running a Solo Campaign using DM Yourself and DM Yourselves by Tom Scutt, as an exercise for GMing and creative writing (I plan to keep some kind of blog about it), but I can't decide which Module or Adventure Path to play. At first I was thinking of playing Rise of the Runelords, but having played 1.5 books of that AP I think it wouldn't be a "genuine" experience. I thought about playing the Price of Immortality series of Modules, but having read most of the first two parts years ago for GMing a group of noobs feels less interesting as well. Council of Thieves was another choice I thought about, but it doesn't look very interesting.
What should I run to play pretend all by myself? Should I look into other APs/Modules? Maybe the older APs set in Greyhawk? Or just go with RotRL even if the first parts are kind of "spoiled"?
I would like to discuss this with you, to clear my head and take a decision

I have a good amount of PDFs on the site (just bought the bundle from Humble Bundle), and I'm trying to get some friends into PbP games, can I "lend" them my books to create some PFS-legal characters?

Thank you in advance for your time and answers.

It's a lazy afternoon at Gray Falls Lodge. Not many Pathfinders are currently visiting the lodge located in the River Kingdoms, and the few who are staying for some amount of time are mainly holed up in their rooms, or out exploring the nearby wilderness, which is said to be inhabited by many fey.
At the moment the cafeteria is nearly desert and only a handful of customers are spending their time in the large room. Lazily one of the attendants of the lodge enters the room with a roll of paper and a hammer in his hands, and a nail pending from his lips; he approaches the large notice board on the wall and hangs the paper to it with a few thudding hits of the hammer. He then slowly goes back where he came from, yawning widely while reaching the doors.
The new notice is nothing flashy, but since all the other notes and bills hanged are asking for very menial tasks at best Pathfinders might find this new one at least interesting.

Players are now free to introduce their characters, interact between them and with the environment.
On the top of the page there's a Map & Pictures link to the Google Slides file we will use to track characters' information, combat maps, and handouts.
Thank you again for participating in this little project of mine, I hope we will all have a good time!

So, the Night of Ashes takes place "in late Arodus, 4715 AR", and the protest in Aria Park takes place two weeks after Barzillai Thrune is appointed Lord-Mayor of Kintargo. But what's the exact starting day of the adventure? I don't think it could be the day the first module was released (September 2, 2015, which translates to Day 2, Month of Rova, Year 4715 in the Absalom Reckoning calendar), since it's too close to the end of Arodus. Can anyone please give me some pointers?

Thank you in advance for your time and answers.

Hello everyone.

I've found this handy link to a spreadsheet with useful macros for PF2E games. Is there anything similar for 1st Edition games?

Thank you in advance for your help and time.

"Out-Of-Character" discussions.

Hello everyone.
A wise man once singed "You Get What You Give", so I thought (with some higher help) that maybe if I want to play more PF1E PbP I should run more PF1E PbP. So here I am, trying my hand with The Silverhex Chronicles, just to wet my toes in the ocean.
This would be my very first time GMing a PbP game. I've tried at least once before, but some health issues stopped me before even starting the game. Now I feel better, and I'm determined to start this adventure and finish it.
This will be a "first come, first served" kind of recruitment. The Quest is aimed toward players new to Organized Play, but I doubt there will be many newbies here wanting to play 1st Edition games. Anyway everyone is well accepted at the table, and if you're an experienced player please keep in mind that this is my first attempt at this kind of thing, so be gentle and don't hurt me too much. Also any advice would be very welcome.
The only thing I ask to my future players is this: if you want to play at my table you have to run a PbP game yourself using PF1E rules. You can run another PFS Quest (nice), a PFS Scenario (good), a Module (awesome), or even an AP (wonderful). You can run it while playing this Quest, or wait until it's finished. I'm asking this to get some more life in the PF1E PbP scene, which is kind of diminished since the release of the new Edition.

So, if you agree with my humble request, welcome on board. I will start the game in a week/as soon as there are six other players (whichever comes first) and I've finished prepping everything.

Hello everyone.

Roughly once a year I come back to this wonderful place to get my TTRPG fix with some PbP. Since finding someone running an entire AP is pretty hard I settle for some PFS1E scenarios. I've been said that there's an event ongoing right now (Outpost V), and I saw the announcement for PaizoCon Online 2022. I was a bit saddened by the fact that there are very few 1E tables in these events now. I understand that now Paizo wants to push its main product as much as possible, I don't blame them for this, but will this mean that organized online play for the First Edition is dying, or even already dead? I really like PFS1E, mostly because it lets me take advantage of my Hero Lab Classic with all the Paizo books I've paid for it (that's hundreds of gold pieces), while for PFS2E I'll need to pay a subscription for Hero Lab Online, something I can't do anymore.

Should I give up with 1E and completely switch to 2E?

Thank you in advance for your answers and time.

Hello everyone.

I would like to play some of the official APs by myself. I have my good reasons for wanting to do that, so please avoid replies like "you should find a group of friends" or "it is a social game". I know that, thank you. I've already visited r/Solo_Roleplay, bit didn't found anything related to PF1E.

Thank you in advance for your help and time.

Hello everyone.
I'm a long time role-player (started back in 2002) and want to dip my toes in GMing once again, but since I can't find a group in the real world or on a virtual tabletop I thought that PbP could be the right medium to get back behind the GM screen.
I've played a couple of very brief adventures here on the forums, always as a PC, but know almost nothing about how to GM PbP games. I've just bought Pathfinder Society Quest #1A: The Sandstone Secret since it seems the perfect entry point for this project.
I'm looking for someone who can help me get on the right track, give me some advice about how to run a game, which tools to use, things like those. Obviously I'll read Painlord's Guide to PbP GMing: Make Your World a Better Place once again, but was hoping to get some more "fresh" assistance.
Thank you in advance for your help and time.

PS: this isn't the first time I try to GM using PbP, the last time I tried I was planning to run an adventure from level 1 to 7, but the amount of work scared me and had to leave the project; hopefully this time will be different, since I'm trying to do something smaller, but if you have any advice about how to deal with anxiety in these cases you'll probably save my life!

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Salve a tutti,

Sto cercando due giocatori per allestire un tavolo virtuale per giocare a Pathfinder. Per ora ho trovato altri due ragazzi interessati al progetto, e sto cercando di raggiungere un numero minimo di cinque persone per poter iniziare a definire il gruppo. L'idea è di conoscerci inizialmente attraverso brevi avventure, per poi passare a contenuti più interessanti come gli Adventure Path.

Per quanto mi riguarda conosco abbastanza bene il regolamento di PF1E, mentre mi sono riavvicinato da poco a quello di PF2E, ed ho da pochissimo iniziato a giocarlo in uno scenario PFS giocato in PbP. Dunque non è importante sapere bene uno o entrambi i regolamenti, tutti sono benvenuti, veterani o novizi, l'importante è divertirsi insieme. L'unica cosa davvero importante è la serietà delle persone, mi aspetto di trovare gente seria e adulta che sappia divertirsi al tavolo da gioco rispettando tutti i partecipanti.

Sono disponibile a rispondere alle domande di chiunque fosse interessato al progetto, sia qui su questo thread, sia su Discord—il mio username è DiazExMachina#2287—, sia su Telegram al seguente link. Detto questo spero di ricevere almeno un paio di risposte, nel frattempo auguro a tutti buon gioco.

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Hello everyone,

I'm looking for two players to set up a virtual table to play Pathfinder. For now I have found two other guys interested in the project, and I am trying to reach a minimum number of five people in order to start defining the group. The idea is to get to know us initially through short adventures, and then move on to more interesting content such as Adventure Paths

As far as I'm concerned, I know the rules of PF1E quite well, while I have recently approached that of PF2E, and I have recently started playing it in a PFS scenario played in PbP. So it is not important to know one or both rules well, everyone is welcome, veterans or novices, the important thing is to have fun together. The only really important thing is the seriousness of the people, I expect to find serious and adult people who can have fun at the game table respecting all the participants.

I am available to answer questions from anyone interested in the project, both here on this thread and on Discord—my username is DiazExMachina#2287—, and on Telegram to the following link. Having said that I hope to receive at least a couple of answers, in the meantime I wish everyone a good game.

Hello everyone.

I was just curious, why are (almost) all the icons from PFS2E missing from the forums? I mean, those little icons that appear before the user's nickname in the boards. Is there a specific reason? I tried to see if it was just my browser (Google Chrome) that was acting strange, but they are missing also on Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge. Mine is just a curiosity, I bet the tech team who's making all this thing work has more pressing matters to attend to than some missing icons.

Thank you in advance for your time and answers.

Almost 200 years ago, when the land that was to become Nirmathas was still a vassal of the empire of Cheliax, the northern reaches of the Fangwood were a wild and untamed place. The crusades that laid low the Whispering Tyrant to the north were a distant memory, and those who remained were intent upon keeping the orcs of Belkzen and the remaining undead from Ustalav in check. As a result, the great forest was full of danger, from marauding orcs to deadly predators, making it unsafe for merchants hoping to trade with the growing community of Skelt in the foothills of the Mindspin Mountains to the west.

Feel free to role-play one or two days before the start of the adventure.

Welcome to the Discussion thread for our adventure.

First of all, thank you again for applying to this adventure, I hope we will have a good time playing together!

Now, let's get down to business.

First of all, I would like to create a Telegram group to chat with all of you, both about the adventure itself and also about any other shenanigans that comes into your mind (memes, funny videos, and other weirdness connected to RPGs). That would create a stronger bond between the players, and also allows everyone to be more reachable than if using only the boards. If you all agree with this request please send me a PM with your Telegram user name and I will create the group.

Second, character creation. I've already told you that we will only use the Core Rulebook and the Character Traits Web Enhancement to build your PCs. What I would like to do also is limiting some minor options a bit further, applying to the character creation the rules of the Pathfinder Society Core Campaign. I don't want to make this adventure a PFS scenario, but I think that some core options wouldn't really fit in the adventure, and so I want to restrict them. Namely, the Item Creation feats and the Leadership feats won't be available for the adventure (this will make the Hedge Magician and the Natural-Born Leader traits useless). Now, let's see in the detail what you will be working with:

-Standard (20) Point-Buy system;
-Only core races;
-Only core classes*;
-Non-evil alignment only;
-Max hit points at first level, 50%+1 at subsequent levels (4 for d6, 5 for d8, 6 for d10, 7 for d12);
-0gp starting wealth**.

* Classes from the Core Rulebook have the following alterations.
Cleric: The abilities of clerics with certain domains or who worship Irori are as follows.
-Clerics with the Nobility domain get the Persuasive feat at 8th level instead of the Leadership feat;
-Clerics with the Rune domain receive Spell Focus at 1st level instead of Scribe Scroll;
-Clerics who worship Irori receive Improved Unarmed Strike as a bonus feat so they can use their deity’s favored weapon (unarmed strike) without provoking attacks of opportunity.
Druid: Druids with the Nobility domain get the Persuasive feat at 8th level instead of the Leadership feat.
Wizard: Wizards receive Spell Focus at 1st level instead of Scribe Scroll. Only items listed as always available (see page 21 of the Pathfinder Society Roleplaying Guild Guide) can be selected as the free bonded object granted to a wizard at 1st level.

** You will start your journey with the barely minimum: a belt pouch, weapons (one or two melee and one ranged plus ammunition) costing no more than 50gp each, an armor costing no more than 50gp, and class items as fitting for your class (a common musical instrument for a bard, a wooden holy symbol for a cleric or paladin, holly and mistletoe for a druid, thieves' tools for a rogue, a spellbook for a wizard, and a spell component pouch for every spellcaster except sorcerers). This means that the trait Rich Parents is useless.

Third, a recommendation on party composition. I know you are all experienced players and probably already know what a successful party would look like, and I don't want to put any more restriction on what you want to create, but I just ask you please to avoid to select the same class more than once, if you can. This is because I think it will help us all to have a more heterogeneous party, and will also benefit me, having to learn more about more classes (even if I know the base classes pretty well), and you, letting you out of your comfort zone in case you will have to select something you don't usually play. But, if you find a really, really convincing motivation why two or more of you should play the same class, then I will allow that, but you must know that it's really hard to convince me.

If you all agree with this terms, then welcome to this new adventure! I will soon write down a post with more informations about your starting town and the NPCs you will find there (the adventure assumes you are all native of the town of Kassen in Nirmathas, so knowing a bit about your hometown would indeed prove useful for character creation).

PS: I will use Roll20 for maps and tokens, mostly because I know fairly well how it works and also because I have the maps already prepared there from a previous playthrough.

Hello everyone.

I'm trying to get some friends into the PbP format, but some of them don't want to commit for too long for their first adventure. I thought I could run them through "Hollow's Last Hope", since it's pretty brief and gives the opportunity to continue the adventure with the subsequent modules, but some of those friends will only play along if we use the new Second Edition rules.

How hard would it be to convert the adventure from 3.5 to PF2? Is it even possible? I know there are at least two monster in the adventure which don't appear in the new Bestiary, would it still be possible to update them?

Thank you in advance for your answers.

Every autumn, a few of the townsfolk from Kassen make a pilgrimage to the Crypt of the Everflame to light a lantern from the eternal flame that burns over the tomb of the town's founder and bring it back home, where it is preserved all winter, a symbol of the town’s resilience. Most years, the town mayor and a group of dignitaries perform this quest. Every few years, however, a handful of younger townsfolk are given the honor of lighting the lantern. Many see this as a passage into adulthood, a taste of adventure before settling down to work and marriage.

In summary

• -This is my first campaign as a PbP GM;
• -Looking for six players, both newbies and veterans;
• -Only the Core Rulebook and the Character Traits Web Enhancement allowed;
• -Able to post at least once every 24h;
• -Writing from the GMT+2 time zone;
• -The players will build the party after being chosen;
• -Recruitment will close on Saturday, 24/08/2019;
• -Post not following the instructions about how to apply will most probably not been taken into consideration.

Please, if you have any question about the adventure or about recruitment feel free to ask here, the answer may be useful to other people as well.

That said, I hope to see many post in this thread, and be able to form a nice group of people to play with for quite a long time!

Hello everyone.

I'm pondering about GMing my first PbP adventure here on the forums, and I was thinking of running Hollow's Last Hope, because it's pretty brief and (aside from the quick conversion) looks pretty simple. I know it could be used as a prequel to the module Crown of the Kobold King, but something confounds me. On the book is written:

BEFORE THE KOBOLD KING

Aside from being its own adventure, Hollow’s Last Hope works well as a prelude to GameMastery Module D1: Crown of the Kobold King. [u]GMs interested in running this adventure as part of Crown of the Kobold King can remove all elements of the disease afflicting Falcon’s Hollow and instead use the encounters in Darkmoon Vale and in the ruins above the kobolds’ lair as supplementary encounters.[/u] Containing its own complete adventure and extensive details on the town of Falcon’s Hollow, Nicolas Logue’s Crown of the Kobold King is available now at your favorite local game store and online at paizo.com.

What do they mean with the underlined sentence? Does HLH just become a part of CotKK? How should I run them? Since I want something fast and easy as my first adventure to GM, should I run HLH as is? And since I'll have to convert the module(s) anyway, should I convert them to PF1 or try and go for PF2?

Thank you in advance for your answers.

Hello everyone.

I'm fairly new to the PbP scene, I'm actually playing in a couple games and waiting for GameDay VIII to start to play some PFS. I would really like to play more though, but it seems that there are not many GMs wanting to run the adventures I'd like to play.

On another thread a user told me that "someone should step up and start GMing", and sincerely I thought he was right. There are some adventures I want to GM, but I'm reluctant to start GM in PbP because I've read it's more difficult than GMing F2F games.

Now, I admit that the difficulty is not the only problem in this matter: I have issues with my attention span, something I'm working on with my psychiatrist (yes, I see a psychiatrist and I don't feel ashamed about that), will probably need to take some sort of meds to help my concentration. This, combined with the feeling that I'll be the worst GM in the universe (even if I've already GMd some IRL and VTT games and even been called "the best GM there is") are things that are holding me back from GMing on these messageboards.

I've already read Painlord's Guide, and think that with some experience on the field I should be able to become a decent GM (even if, as I've said, my inferiority complex states otherwise), but still the fear of failure is present and oppressing.

Now that I have explained to you my problems I ask you: should I start GMing now, or should I wait for the right, better time? Maybe I could start with a brief module (my idea from the start), and with the help of a more experienced GM?

Thank you in advance for your answers.

Hello everyone.

I was wondering, will we ever see a module series such as the "Price of Immortality" one for the second edition? Or maybe a conversion of those modules for the new rules?

I've always thought those adventures were a great way to introduce people to the game, and I would love one day to be able to run them for this new edition.

Hello everyone.

I'm creating a character for an upcoming Age of Ashes campaign, but I'm a bit confused about its possible ethnicity. I want to make it a native of Breachill, but have just found out that Chelish is no longer a viable option for a human character's ethnicity. What happened to the proud people of Cheliax and its vassal nation, Isger? Have they been wiped out from the face of the world? And if I couldn't chose Chelish as an ethnicity for my Isgeri character, which other ethnicity could work?

Thank you in advance for your answers.

Hello everyone.

I'm creating a character for a RotRL PbP campaign, and while searching for something interesting I've found the bloodrider archetype for the bloodrager. Since I've never played a mounted character I thought it would be interesting to give it a try, but I'm concerned that the character wouldn't use mounted combat frequently. I know that one campaign trait gives you a fully equipped, combat trained heavy horse, but I don't really know if this AP will let my character really shine with his mounted maneuvers.

Can you help me decide whether a mounted character would fit in this campaign?

Thank you in advance for your help.

Hello everyone.

Now that 2nd Edition is officially out is there any GM planning to run either the Age of Ashes AP or The Fall of Plaguestone Module? Or are we all still too busy with the upcoming GameDay VIII?

Thank you in advance for your answers.

Hello everyone.

I have recently created a male gnome sorcerer for PFS play, I should have used it in my very first PFS quest, but ended up rolling an half-elf investigator instead. Still, I would like to use this little fellow one day, but I can't come up with non-cliché ideas for its nature.

Some more details: it has the Eternal Hope variant racial trait, its bloodline is fey, and is using the Seeker archetype. The initial idea was that of a gnome heavily focused on pranks (it is a CN follower of the Lantern King) and the search of informations and knowledge about the First World and its fey ancestors. It wants to join the Pathfinder Society to get access to more informations and knowledge, and also to escape the Bleaching, the curse which claimed both his elderly parents recently.

As you can see there is at least an idea of what this character could be. The only problem is, I'm not sure about the prank part of his attitude. I 'm not sure I could play it effectively without becoming annoying to other players. I thought about changing it to become a CG follower of Desna to make it less mischievous, but can't really come up with decent role-play ideas fitting his build.

So, what I'm asking with this post is: can you help me brainstorming some role-play ideas for this funny little fellow?

Thank you in advance for your help.

Hello everyone.

While creating a Garundi character I discovered that such culture uses clan names instead of family names. I've searched a bit on the web and on the books, but I can't find any example of these clan names. What does a Garundi clan name sound like? Is it something like dwarven clan names, like Battlehammer or Goldshield? Or do they sound more exotic?

Thank you in advance for your answers.

Hello everyone.

Back in the days I created my first character for PFS play, mostly to see how it worked for online play. I accidentaly created a Core character (only Core Rulebook and Traits Web Enhancement available for creation), but at that time I didn't give much attention to it, because I didn't had anybody to play PFS with.

Now I'm approaching PbP play, and I want also play PFS for many reasons. At first I thought that I should delete my first character, since I won't play Core adventures, but when I tried a message informed me that such action would also delete that specific character number, and I didn't thought that was a good idea.

I have now found a PFS table which will play Ambush in Absalom. I've made a 1st level character and read a handy guide about the PFS, and found out that my first character (the number XXXXXX-1) can obtain a "Welcome Boon". The problem is, that character slot is the one with the Core character I will probably never use.

My question is: is there a way to change a character slot from Pathfinder Core (1st Edition) to Pathfinder Society? The slot I'm speaking of is perfectly new, has never been used for any kind of play. I know I could convert a Core character by playing in a Standard table, but that option won't give me the ability of creating a Standard character from scratch, which is what I want to do. Please, I just want to play with my "Welcome Boon".

Thank you in advance for your help.

Hello everyone.

I'm a PFS newbie, and am in the process of coming up with a cool character concept for my first PFS adventure, Ambush in Absalom.
The problem is, I'm quite the indecisive person. Whenever I'm presented with options to choose I get stuck thinking what would be the best fitting one for my concept.
Now, what I want to ask you is a little clarification: are the various Factions in the PFS merely a "cosmetic" choice? I mean, aside from some nice traits that they provide, what are the implications in choosing one Faction or another?

Hoping that I've made myself clear, I thank you in advance for your answers.

Hello everyone.

I'm building a school savant arcanist for the PFS─particularly for Gameday VIII─and I'm a bit stuck with the spells and feats selection.

A bit about my concept: this character is the son of a minor Ustalavic noble house who was sent to Absalom to hone his innate powers. While studying he became fascinated with the Pathfinder Society and decided to train to enter the ranks of the organization.

A bit about the stats: human (Varisian) arcanist (school savant); STR 8, DEX 12, CON 12, INT 18, WIS 13, CHA 14; specialized in the foresight school; enchantment and illusion are prohibited schools.

A bit about what I'm looking for: I need spells and feats that will both be useful and thematic. I'm not looking to minmax this character heavily, what I want is a good character I will enjoy playing in the organized play.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Hello everyone.

I have a weird─probably stupid too─question: what is the difference between Player Companion books and Campaign Setting ones? Are the first intended for players and the latter for GMs? Can I read a Campaign Setting manual when creating a PC, or should I use only Player Companion books?

Thank you in advance for your answers.