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Working on preping this now and I thought I would come here with questions. 1. Do you tell the PCs which checks are easy/standard/hard?
Thanks.
I will say that I started GM'ing during PF1 strictly for the chance to get a race boon. I think the ACP system has less incentive to get people to GM because over time you will get enough ACP for that shinny uncommon/rare ancestry. That being said, every character you make will not be able to have a uncommon ancestry without GMing.
James, I had heard some of that from podcast interviews or seminar recordings. And when the PCs have much more to explore, it is going to take them longer. I was just wandering how long it would take to go through.
Just my thoughts on what Nefreet already listed having played and/or GM'ed all of these but quest #5.
Doom of Cassomir is one of my all time favorites and have run it 5 times, but I don't really see it as "spooky".
Pathfinder Society Intro: Year of Shattered Sanctuaries is the introduction to the ongoing story of the Year of Shattered Sanctuaries. It’s also the first scenario in a four-part arc detailing the events taking place in and around the Society's headquarters at the Grand Lodge in Absalom, the City of Lost Omens. Other arcs explore other locations across the Inner Sea region. While the arcs can be played in any order, it’s recommended that players experience the scenarios within each individual arc in order, and this scenario is a natural starting point for the Year 3 metaplot. That sound so exciting! I love getting a good story arc. It great for those of us that play and/or GM everything. That being said, if you have a new person at the table we need to help them to enjoy the story too, even if they are coming in halfway through the arc.
We already have so many repeatable options that I think the campaign could choose to under-provision 1-4s for a season or two if they wish for story telling purposes/ If we get another 3-6 repeatable (for 3 total), again you start to need fewer of them in each season. It would be pretty easy to have season 4 for instance be almost entirely 5-8/7-10/9-12s, with a capstone 11-14 if they wanted to build up that part of the pyramid before refreshing the lower levels again. That's great for all of us who have played all of the scenarios since PF2 released (and GM'ed a fair number too), but that does not take into account new players who are coming into the community as time goes by. Offer them older 1-4's you say? Well then that is going to segregate them from the experienced player base. And what if you only have 1 or 2 new people join your local group? Its better to have a healthy amount of lower level scenarios so that you are able to keep a healthy growing community.
I'm guessing the last of the 1e APs are also on the list.We now have a project for it and it is on the radar for those staff involved in sanctioning. We've got a heavy lift over the next few months (Dev Ark, Fly Free or Die, LO: Mwangi, Tech Revolution, Malevolence, 2 One-Shots, Galaxy Exploration Manual, and Fists of the Ruby Phoenix) so expect it after the last of that batch. I think they are on a separate list labeled "Soon™"
I was GM'ing a game of The Lions of Katapesh last night; though players positioning and a crit from one of the cats poor Merisiel our iconic Rogue went down without anybody able to get to her. She hit dying 4 just as the ranger PC got the killing longbow shot on the cat. Somebody asked if Merisiel gets a hero point at the start like all the PCs. Still being in the middle of the scenario and the player not wanting to be down a party member we paused a did some searches of the inter-webs but could not find an answer. I went with the players favor, but was not 100% sold on it.
I started playing pathfinder in fall of 2017 when PFS was already mature. We would never play scenarios in any order let alone in the same season back to back. And it was always had to get a feel for the overall world. Last year when everything turned virtual, my local VA decided to start going though season 8 in order because it was his favorite story arc. We are currently though #8-12 and I am really enjoying the story connections. Our local group has a range of character to fit all of the different tiers so that has helped too.So, you can play them in any order you want; it is fun to run them in a logical order, either by season of topic (like those about Blakros Museum).
If he has GM credits then he might not be making a lvl 1 character.
We weren't even told what skills we can use, but it is kind of obvious with physical skill challenges.I think this is actually much more important - I do believe that in many skill challenges, you should know which skills you can use. Exceptions are skill challenges where there is a specific mechanic (like Discovery in Influence encounters) that is used for figuring out which skills can be used. Should you let the players know what skills to use in discovery? Or are you discovering additional skills that can be used for more discovery?
As somebody who is now just going to write this information onto my sheets, because that is where I keep that information, I was wondering if there had been any official comment on why they took these boxes away? Was there any discussion with the community before they went in this direction? And is there any second thoughts about putting them back?
I updated my credit card information on my subscriptions but my first Pathfinder Battles case (LA) is still stuck in pending, saying “This order needs a valid payment method”. (Order 12425864) But this is the same card that worked just fine for the next Battles case (COLO) and Lost Omens: Legends Now I have tried to subscribe to PFS scenarios but the cart is going back to using the old credit card number and is not giving an option to change it to the new one.
If my mount and I both have Distracting Charge feat either by taking it or the Cavalier's Tactician ability, if the first one I roll whether Character or mount hits with the attack, does the other get the bonus? Benefit: When your ally with this feat uses the charge action and hits, you gain a +2 bonus on your next attack roll against the target of that charge. This bonus must be used before your ally’s next turn, or it is lost.
I played 1-00 last October at Nuke Con with John Compton as GM. He told us at that time we had the option to hold the chronicle until our characters were lvl 5, which at least some of the table did. I know he had just moved over to Starfinder at the time, but I also would trust his knowledge of the intent.
Another question, would hypnotic aroma affect my allies?
As a swift action, an aromaphile can use unique aspects of ghoran biology to release intoxicating aromas in a 10-foot-radius burst centered on him. All creatures within this area, as well as creatures with scent within 30 feet, take a –2 penalty on Will saving throws. This penalty becomes –3 at 8th level. The aroma hovers around the aromaphile, moving with him, and lasts for 1 minute. The hypnotic aroma must be inhaled to be effective, and creatures that choose to hold their breath, do not breathe, or are immune to inhaled poisons are immune to its effect.
My halfling Cavalier 7, Paladin 1 has a little over 10k gold in his pocket and looking for advice on what my next purchase should be. He is all about getting the charge off with Ride-by-Attack, and Wheeling Charge. My current list of gear:
Should I upgrade my Lance to +3 or is there something else I should do? Is there something out there I should be saving up for? Maybe a headband of Charisma is in order?
I would agree, you would be an inquisitor lvl 6 for purposes of bane, but you have given up bane, and therefore the baldric would do nothing for you. If you were a inquisitor without an architype, you would be good to go but that is not the case here.
So did the playtest points get rolled over into the AcP? And are the PtP boons no longer available?I know they posted a PDF of what the Playtest Boons were supposed to be, but that PDF had the word "SAMPLE" watermarked on them. I, like many others, waited to spend Playtest Points to be able to get a printable PDF for my character that didn't have that stamp. I'm hoping that when they get printable PDFs to work for ACP, that they'll restore the same for those Playtest Points. I knew there was a reason I had not used my PtP and forgot what it was. That "sample" watermark is what held me back.
I will merely add to the chorus that this way of announcing is way more fun, and hopefully about the same amount of work. I agree, this was fun to read, except that the first time I read it I thought it was going to link real life with the fiction and somebody was announcing that they were leaving Paizo. If Ambrus does step down, I do hope that it will play out some way in a scenario and I look forward to that.
This is all really good discussion, but no one is commenting on the the topic of the post.... Is that any different than it always is? But to your topic, I think it would be reasonable to reward a GM who volunteered and preped for a Con slot even if the table does not make.
We can't assume all non-core ancestries are going to be behind a boon. Only that Uncommon and Rare ancestries will be behind a boon. There may be a ancestry in the upcoming APG that the design team would consider a common race. Or maybe that Tengu is uncommon, but is common to Tien, and being from Tien get access. There may be an ancestry that becomes common in the ranks of the Pathfinder Society the way that Izalguuns have become always available in Starfinder. We are still early in the system and only 3 non-core ancestries have been released; we don't know what the path ahead holds.
So in the Omaha area, many of the stores are closing their gaming space, and I keep getting these "wonderful" emails from Gary telling me the sessions are canceled.
I did 1-11 Flames of Rebellion at a Con recently. Somebody had their complete collection of flip mats and map tiles there for us to use. When the map tiles were offered to me, I jumped on the offer. I had just been planning on drawing it out on a blank map. But anybody who has GM’ed or played it can attest that the tiles make it much better for at least that scenario. This being my 1st experience with the tiles, I have to say that they are very fiddly and left a bad taste. Easy to bump and move around. Using the same one multiple time in the scenario, flipping through them trying to find the right one. Just not a fan.
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