Pethjun keeps slicing away at the onyx hound with her rapier!

Attack 1d20+10
Damage 1d4+6

—-

Pethjun misses.

Fazgyn cuts the blue fetching down, steps in and severy injures the pink fetchling as well.

Athrax goes full defensive and stands up, provoking

Bite: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (10) + 9 = 19 Hits for Damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Athrax then steps away.

I missed that red dying also added Pethjun in this initiative block...

Pethjun
green
brown
Hats
Round 4
Blue
Varanog
Skyrahk
pink
yellow
hound
Athrax Total defense
Fazgyn

Magic item? I am a little confused here. The only hat Varanog wears is the silver crown listed on his char sheet, and it is not magical.

"M..m..m...my crown?" Varanog stutters in reply.

Oops, my mistake, it's the Hat of Disguise from Engashez Hats wants...

Engashez and Fazgyn can deduct that the portal must be in the nearby section of sewer once connected to an unfinished section of underground tunnels.

Hats joins the conversation
"If you give me the nice hat I will join you!" he says to Varanog.

For the price of a (in this scenario not very useful) magic item you get a combat monster

So she killed her own father, but as she was under the influence of the plant, she isn't guilty of murder?

"Good to see you have come to your senses. Aram Zey and other pathfinders aren't Gods."

cognatogen, investigative mind and heightened awareness running, so

1. A diplomacy or kn religion
1a: 1d20 + 17 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 17 + 4 + 2 = 27
1b: 1d20 + 17 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 17 + 4 + 2 = 42

2. A diplomacy or kn planes
2a: 1d20 + 17 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 17 + 4 + 2 = 33
2b: 1d20 + 17 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 17 + 4 + 2 = 26

3. A diplomacy or kn nobility
3a: 1d20 + 17 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 17 + 4 + 2 = 29
3b: 1d20 + 17 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 17 + 4 + 2 = 42

4. A diplomacy or kn history
4a: 1d20 + 17 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 17 + 4 + 2 = 38
4b: 1d20 + 17 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 17 + 4 + 2 = 26

Two times the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything :-D

Depends on initiative order I guess. If the order was as posted then Tarragon does not get an extra attack this round as he would not jhave known to delay.

In a F2F game people would talk more and just say "I'm going to cast haste in a combat situation, so delay". As the GM said on discord, he's fine with Tarragon and the Professor having the extra attack.

With the different timezones of the players it's almost impossible to coordinate tactics within a reasonable time without some leniency from the GM. :-)

"Please stop attacking. There's a time for sparring, but the Pathfinder's motto clearly state: Explore, Cooperate and Report and you are doing none of this!"

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (8) + 19 = 27

A PC who has played Pathfinder Society Scenario #10-00 The Hao Jin Cataclysm or who succeeds at a DC 25 Knowledge (local) check

The professor has played #10-00 The Hao Jin Cataclysm

Isn't there a specific term for the large number of slides in an Erik Mona presentation? I believe a banquet a few years ago that term was coined....

Was it 'Monalithic'?

Christian Dragos wrote:

Jared Thaler - Personal Opinion wrote:

Except if you encountered the greater version in the high tier, you never encounter the lesser, and thus it is crossed off.

No no no! This is exactly my point!

I'll try to dig the ruling up. It was explicitly stated that if you found the greater versions, the lesser versions were available!

Please! Show me where this was stated!
That wasn't how it was back in the day.

In 5+ years of editing the PFS1 guide, I have never come across that rule. Certainly it was not a rule any of us on the guide team intentionally added.

The partially charged wands one would be especially problematic...

I'm quite sure this rule was once in effect and that it's older than 5 years.

Although Thunderstealer is quite happy with his age, a bit of extra youth is always welcome. We've been in this dungeon for more than 6 years :-P

I think we could handle 2 encounters at the same time with this party :-P

(Except for the boss encounter, as she is quite powerful)

Been > 24 hours. Let's keep things moving.

I blame SkålCon

"Gold is better than bronze." Inkwell whispers to the party

"The Storm, that is probably my card!" Inkwell whipsers to the party.

re: missing out damage: just want to put it out there that this group has had a very easy time so far and if we don’t do the most optimal thing from time to time — especially for the sake of helping one another out in a bottling situation — that’s ok.

Generally, if an important moment arrives and you can squeeze a bit more out based on another player’s expertise, I am cool retconning that in. But that important moment isn’t today.

Also the damage done was precisely enough to beat the creature, although it didn't realize that immediately! :-P

I will bot if needed in a couple hours when time permits. I’m also happy if any player wants to step up and volunteer to fo so as well, and it's needed at this point.

I'll step up then as Fung has been up for more than 24 hours (and the character hasn't posted in more than 48 hours, so player might be busy with real life)

Fung will move into the room, climb to 15' and airblast snake 1.

air blast: 1d20 + 10 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (18) + 10 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 34 dmg: 4d6 + 11 + 1 + 4 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (3, 3, 2, 1) + 11 + 1 + 4 + 1 + 1 = 27

Lya flashes a warm smile "Lovely to meet you Lilybeth. I never had the chance to meet your uncle. Did you ever manage to find out what happened to him?"

"Yes, he was abducted in aether so to speak. A party of very capable pathfinders managed to free him. However, the ordeal did take its toll and he decided to retire from the Pathfinder Society. So now it's up to me to uphold the family legacy."

We start tomorrow!

Please let me know what pregen you want to use.

Seelah is my go to pregen as she is quite decent and versatile. As I already have my familiar and my summons I think it would not be wise for me to also control the pregen.

I've asked some PbP veterans if they want to join, as I'd prefer "real characters", so I hope one or more of them are interested.

My timezone is Amsterdam, which differs 9 hours from SF, so I would appreciate it if the GM would roll saves for me when needed (it's the same virtual dice anyway :-P )

Although it is not stated as such, in the Pathfinder Comic Origins Valeros, Merisiel, Kyra, Seoni, and Harsk are given field commissions by Venture Captain Shiela Heidmar.

"Your stories have proven your character as well as your combat prowess. You'll need both to bring honor to the society and to survive, of course"

Aurus stands for a second, agog at the smooth way this is going.

"So... it would be very bad for, say, devils to have The Infernal Incantation."

The Sea witch looks at Aurus then speaks to Nemrok.

Steven Lau wrote:

Michael Sayre wrote:

and new PFS dwarves have a clan dagger as part of their starting load-out.

Lol, sounds like we are playing a video game.

I actually learned how to play D&D during my time in the Army, so I have a tendency to use military terms when talking about characters and tactics :)

One of the first things I ever had published was a 3pp class called the battle lord that had a bunch of military themes and inspirations in it.

This is funny as Steven is actually still military (If I'm not mistaken). I guess airforce uses different terminology and/or that they play more video games! :-D

It is especially difficult because the main obstacle I've had finding someone to buy my pledge has been the fact that ND IS STILL INVOLVED WITH SHIPPING. Potentially interested people don't trust them to ship a blasted thing at this point.

You could try and find someone in the EU.

Another question: What happens with the UK if Brexit hits?

Ok, one of my PCs (Sparky Fantastico) was briefly returned to the lodge. As he doesn't want to waste an action, he's using his wand of Haste (cl5) on himself before being returned.

If the Head GM allows and there are other pathfinders there that are going back as well, he would like to include up to 4 of them in the haste, so they would arrive back in the Tapestry with 4 rounds of haste left.

I think that one was already used the very first combat by Narayan

Beat back the invaders from the Astral Plane

GM Auke wrote:

cowering

I knew that I should have kept the reroll. Errgh 1stE CONDITIONS!

D4 rounds cowering is less bad than d4 minutes paralyzed.

It takes a goblin 5 years to reach maturity.

"Yes, it is true that goblins tried to burn down Sandpoint, but that was two generations ago! You can't blame me, even my parents weren't born at that time!"

As for getting you the scenario...I'm afraid I don't have any update. I know Hmm is working on it, so hopefully the answer is 'soon'.

As an RVC I can see the Con Support Backlog has almost caught up and that Play-by-Post Gameday VIII is on the top of the list (together with 5 other conventions) and will likely receive their support today.

The downside to the grenadier archetype being...

You can't do other archetypes like mindchemist.

If you want to save bombs to go nova vs the big bad, you can just use regular alchemical stuff like acid instead, which isn't even that expensive as you craft those for 1/3 of the cost.

Prep spells:

(cast yesterday: Spellstaff(Roaming Pit))

Communal Airwalk (All)
Barkskin (Thunderstealer, Belcher, Nilfyr)
Delay Poison (All)
Life Bubble (All)
Longstider (Thunderstealer, Belcher)
Heightened Awareness (Thunderstealer)
Greater Magic Fang (Thunderstealer, Belcher)
Freedom of Movement (Thunderstealer)
Certain Grip (Nilfyr)

If Thunderstealer and Belcher could both have Mage armor and Heroism, that would really be appreciated.

Now also added the Silver Mount Collection chronicles!

Inkwell turns to the grappled Lilybeth.

"Don't worry my friend, I'll get you out of there!"

The diminutive dragon lands on the conjurer's shoulder and teleports them both just outside the pit.
Specialty Stowaway ability to Dimensional Steps (4 squares left, 2 squares up, so 2x2x(4+2)=24)

Lilybeth looks at her bleeding leg and torn trousers and then turns her gaze at the bone construct. Her voice sounds quite menacing as she declares

"Now you will face my wrath!"

Without any of those annoying villagers or snow giants around I can finally tap into the darker side of magic!

Lilybeth grins as she calls forth dark energies that coalesce into the form of a large ape-headed daemon.
Summon Monster V (Standard Action due to Acadamae Graduate) for a Ceustodaemon (available due to the Ring of Summoning Affinity, Daemon) Fortitude DC20: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (18) + 11 = 29 Succes!

The Ceustodaemon attacks the tupilaq.
(if the tupilaq goes down, the Ceustodaemon will 5 foot step and continue his attacks on yellow.)

Power attack, Flank
Claw1: 1d20 + 13 + 2 - 3 ⇒ (20) + 13 + 2 - 3 = 32 for BS: 1d6 + 6 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 + 6 = 16
Claw2: 1d20 + 13 + 2 - 3 ⇒ (18) + 13 + 2 - 3 = 30 for BS: 1d6 + 6 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 + 6 = 16
Bite: 1d20 + 13 + 2 - 3 ⇒ (13) + 13 + 2 - 3 = 25 for BPS: 2d6 + 6 + 6 ⇒ (1, 4) + 6 + 6 = 17

Claw1 confirm: 1d20 + 13 + 2 - 3 ⇒ (13) + 13 + 2 - 3 = 25 for BS: 1d6 + 6 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 + 6 = 16

"Mason, no need to protect that thing. It should be almost immune to anything those flesh eaters can throw at it and it's disposable anyway."

John Compton wrote:

Product pages are in the web team's queue. Here's the basics of what's coming up.

May
Pathfinder Society Scenario #10–20: Countdown to Round Mountain (Tier 7–11)
Pathfinder Society Scenario #10–21: Slaver's End (Tier 5–9)

June
Pathfinder Society Scenario #10–22: Passing the Torch, Part 1: Who Wears the Mask (Tier 12–18)

July
Pathfinder Society Scenario #10–23: Passing the Torch, Part 2: Who Speaks for the Ten (Tier 12–18)

So it looks like the high tier characters get two new scenarios to cap off season 10 and PF1. But lower sub-tiers (anything under 12) sees no new content (and more pointedly, no season-cap scenario) during the last two months of season 10?

Is that the final list of content for PF1? Is there any kind of multi-table (or better yet, multi-tier single table) special to provide some kind of story cap for characters who won't pass into second edition and yet won't be able to play a tier 12+ scenario?

Asking for players (like myself) who haven't played often enough, or long enough to have a tier 12 character.

August

Rolling for BOONS, 19-20 is succes!

GM: 1d20 ⇒ 1
Aurus: 1d20 ⇒ 19
Cloudia: 1d20 ⇒ 8
Lukian: 1d20 ⇒ 1
Mao: 1d20 ⇒ 10
Ny'a: 1d20 ⇒ 19

Congrats to our paladins! :-) Lady Luck targets you as well! ;-)

Aurus: 1d4 ⇒ 1
Ny'a: 1d4 ⇒ 2

Thursty, will you be running this at Origins and how would a kind soul like myself get signed up?

Soul is the important word here. There's a market for those things you know.

Two points I want to make:

1. So, the escalation wasn't due to the PbP, it was due to the saumen kar seeing you, hailing you, you immediately casting spells and so on, and apparently continuing to ravage the animals around you. He made one Sense Motive check when LifeLover drew their wand, and realized it wasn't hostile, but then rolled a nat 1 when Lilybeth dismissed the woolly rhino. You don't know how long you've been observed, but since you do know that saumen kar see themselves as guardians of the north, and you just downed two polar bear and "disintegrated" a woolly rhino, he probably feels you're not friends of nature.

What I meant is that in a FaceToFace game, we could have potentially seen that the saumen kar didn't completely trust us yet (" the giant casually moves his axe from his shoulder into a two-handed grip.") and we might have acted differently.

Yeah, Pathfinder Society is a living campaign which has been running for more than 10 years now, so there's a lot of information, some of which is now conflicting due to the very nature of the campaign.

There's an excellent fan made guide that hopefully helps to clear things up!

8 bits is still a byte, so year of 125 bytes? ;-)

Is that really acceptable? Someone spend real money to support a charity and we cannot manage to send them a single printed piece of paper for six months or more? It really is an insult to the recipient.

As the boons need to be printed, signed, embossed, and mailed doing them in batches makes sense. However, having them send every quarter would be much better than once or twice a year IMHO.

Freedom of Movement

In addition to preventing a character from being grappled and several other nasty conditions, freedom of movement enables the target to move and attack normally while underwater. Thus, a creature benefitting from freedom of movement can swing weapons without penalties (though objects that leave its possession, like thrown weapons or ammo from ranged weapons, lose this benefit), lift objects without drag, and walk along the bottom at full speed. The creature automatically succeeds at all Swim checks as the water offers no significant resistance to its movement. If the creature has the ability to do so, it can fly or use spells like air walk to freely move around as if it were in air. Creatures who need just the movement benefits from freedom of movement without the benefits against grapple, paralysis, and magic effects that hinder movement should consider the lower-level spell free swim on page 59.

Secure the Rift

Aquila will take out his pathfinder chronicle (planes) and will assist Kramac on his Knowledge (planes) check.

Knowledge (planes): 1d20 + 6 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 6 + 2 = 24

"If anyone wants to read through this, go ahead!" He says while holding the chronicle.

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