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Hello all!

Our Rise of the Runelords game is in need of 2 extra players, one of which must be a healer. We are currently in the final part of book 1, so I recommend you stop reading if you don't want any spoilers.

We are in the middle of Thistletop and the party has just hit level 4. Nualia has already been fought off (she managed to escape, apparently), but the dungeon may have... other terrors... and loot!

So, character making rules are:
- 20 point buy
- Level 4
- 3 traits, one of which can be from the RotRl player's guide, anniversary edition
- 6000gp to use as you like. You may start with items you're crafted yourself if you have crafting features built into your character

We are using Background skills, Hero Points and Elephant in the Room additional rules.

The current party is described below. I may have maimed some descriptions in my attempt to summarize them.
- Ano Clovermark: An urban bloodrager (Dex based) born and raised in Sandpoint, with family issues.
- Juriya Arima: Our resident rogue/investigator/(future) alchemist waiting to bloom from under her parents' shadow.
- Zeldrith Angothane: An eldritch scion magus that comes from the simpler parts of Magnimar, hoping to find stability in a new town.
- Donimah Southlander: A thassilonian specialist transmuter that studied due to her father's extraordinary efforts in Riddleport. She is fond of Thassilonian culture, but Sandpoint has been growing on her.

I will let this recruitment go for a week or until we have enough candidates, whichever comes last.

It is a hot day. Tomorrow is the Swallowtail festival, which means that today is the last day of summer. Despite the heat, people are all out on the streets decorating the friendly town of Sandpoint with many colors to honor Desna the best way possible.

Children laugh and paint houses and, much to their mothers' dismay, their clothes. Larz Rovanky, the town's perfectionist tanner, tries to instruct the children and even some adults how to get the perfect lines of the butterfly drawings. Arika and Aneka Avertin work hard to get everyone fed with the pastries they made with their mother, but it seems that there are more people than buns. The spirits are high. Even the usually sad wheelwright Bilivar Wheen laughs at the occasional joke. Three ships can be seen in the docks with another arriving.

Feel free to put yourselves in the town. There are two inns here for those not from Sandpoint. The Rusty Dragon Inn, more friendly to adventurers, and the White Deer, whose rooms are cleaner and more spacious and also cheaper, but isn't as popular as the Rusty Dragon due to its owner's attitude.

Hello, and welcome to my game of Rise of the Runelords!

This is the campaign that debuted Golarion as a world in the D&D3.5 era. A lot of world building happened during the development of this campaign. Now it has been reworked into Pathfinder 1e rules and improved since the original version.
Rereading some stuff to run this game made me remember how awesome and well rounded it is. Also, the final battle is really epic (and hard).

Since this game is derived from another post, much of the character creation was inherited, so that makes it easier for me. The link to the original thread is here. To also make things easier for me, I will be dropping the Automatic Bonus Progression house rules as it seems like a lot of work redoing the campaign's entire loot. Progression will be through milestones.

The reason for me to try to make things easier for me is two-fold. Firstly, I don't have a lot of experience with PbP. I will try to do my best, but constructive feedback will always be welcome and I encourage you to give me tips, especially with pacing. Secondly, I have my hands full at home with a job and a 4 months old daughter who is wonderful, but demands much of my time and attention.
This means that this will probably be a slow paced game. Especially during scene transitions, where I might have to read/come up with some stuff.

I would also like some tips for how to do battle maps, and what is usual. Do people use like a VTT or something?

Also, please present yourselves shortly and say if you've played (part of) this campaign. I'm a Brazilian dad living in Germany. My new responsibilities (read: beautiful daughter) are the reason why I had to stop going to the TTRPG meet ups in my town and have taken to PbP.

Throughout the game, to make things smoother, I will put some information behind spoilers titled with skill checks. Please only open these spoilers if you make the checks. Some spoilers will read Cumulative or Isolated. This happens when the same skill is used to open different spoilers in the same post. The Cumulative flag means that you can open all spoilers whose DC is equal to or lower than your check. In the Isolated case, a separate check is needed for each spoiler. Skill spoilers can also contain more than one skill separated by OR or AND. In the former case, you may roll both skills (if applicable) and read the spoiler if either succeeds. In the latter case, both need to succeed in order to open the spoiler.

Please let me know if there are any themes/topics which are a trigger or a general no-no to you. You can put them in a spoiler or PM them to me if you feel more comfortable.

Finally, although there is a post in the Gameplay tab, there is no rush to post. Feel free to coordinate some mechanics or backstory with your fellow teammates and make minor tweaks to your character before posting. The first few posts will be more RP centered, so if you feel your character's backstory and personality are all fleshed out, feel free to post while you tweak the mechanical stuff on the background. I'm assuming all characters are already in Sandpoint for one reason or another.

Having said that, good hunting!