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nice psionic! i am going to be playing a Ninja character so i can use the rogue icon.

This will be the thread in which we conduct our combat.

any questions, comments, etc...... should be used posted on the discussion thread related to this thread

go for it psionic!

we were also going to use http://roll20.net/ for our mapping

all i did was click on the link at the top of the recruitment thread to create an adventure thread from the recruitment thread. nothing from pazio as far as i know.....still trying to figure this all out

alright, i started the combat thread & the discussion thread. not sure if i can invite you guys or if you can just join?

this is the thread intended for all discussions, comments or questions related to the NEWB combat practice thread

This will be the thread in which we conduct our combat.

any questions, comments, etc...... should be used not the discussion thread related to this thread

well, in that case i'll start the combat thread and at some point i can pass the reigns to psychic and/or psionic

its all good faelax! come around when you get time. this is about having fun and not an obligation

OK, i will toss up a couple of quick examplar type characters, just to show what can be done.

awesome!

Is there any particular character someone would want to see created/played?

I would happily assist the GM as needed, or create a sample character to showcase particular rules (CMB, for example).

i don't think we have a healer or magic user yet....

as far as GM'ing. it sounds good to me. this isn't really too formal so we were going to all take turns GM'ing to get a hang of the mechanics. faelex is putting together some combats and was going to post them yesterday but i understand things can get busy. so lets give him at least today to get this combat thread up

Hey guys, life got in the way and I haven't been able to stat my.character up. I'm going to sit the first combat scenario out and come in later if that's ok.

its all good. just hang around. hopefully we can just keep turning over battles and you can join whenever.

My schedule is pretty open the rest of the week. So faelax you can start the combat thread whenever your ready....

BoJengo wrote:

i think the medium can be a bit intimidating for most to take the initiative to get started. if they a user friendly entry level way to get familiar with the system it would only grow the community.

I've been playing RPGs since the late 80s and I find Pathfinder a little confusing...I was hoping if I could see some example characters, how feats work, etc I could pick it up. I have a ton of stupid questions watching might answer. If I could ask questions on occasion I'd appreciate it.

this thread is going to be all about the learning process, the more questions the better. I think what we will do is have a combat thread just purely for combat with a seperate discussion thread so we can all communicate.

(BTW I'm going to investigate starting a PF Novice Combat Training Arena by making a thread and see if i can't get some traction on it...)

sounds good! i bet it would be really popular. seems like pazio should hire people to do this to get more involved in the community. i think the medium can be a bit intimidating for most to take the initiative to get started. if they a user friendly entry level way to get familiar with the system it would only grow the community. i can see a big shift taking place, back to these type of games after people get sick of playing shallow video games that are more eye candy then substance.

DM Faelax, BoJengo, TrueChaos, psychic machinery, Tor Sasun, Oceanshieldwolf, & jasonwire. (thanks for bringing that up ocean cuz i overlooked him without the avatar)

i'm really liking the ninja class, if not i might go with a cleric.

so far we have DM Faelax, BoJengo, TrueChaos & psychic machinery? Tor Sasun are you in as well? and shizzle will be the backup QB ;)

if anyone is interested please just let us know

@BoJengo: I've been thinking of creating something like this for a little while now - are you interested in creating a constant NEWB combat arena? It could keep turning over new combats as needed...

Personally my PF-combat is rusty, and my understanding of some of the grittier techniques is poor - I'd love to see a mentor-led approach that shows the die-rolls, the reasoning, the math etc....

that sounds like a really good idea. not sure of the logistics of it but i love the concept.

for sure jason! we haven't finalized anything yet. still just getting things together.

so i guess the next step is to start picking characters & rolling for attributes or should we set a certain amount of points? and do we do that in this thread or wait for the combat thread? not sure how this all works....

faelax, a little of everything. i figure the first battle could just be the basics so we could get familiar with the way combat resolves and then start to add creatures that have different abilities like poison, grapple, etc.... so maybe a goblin group first then giant spiders then maybe face some magic users, etc....

psychic, sounds good. that might be a good idea for us all to get a chance to run different battles in order to get some experience. i really like the idea of GM'ing a game but would hate to put everyone thru the pain of waiting for me to figure things out. sounds like a good idea

lets let faelex design the first couple of battles for us and then after that we can all take turns. sound good?

roll20 looks cool! without any objection we'll use that for our maps then

and faelax, you are more then welcome to join our campaign once we start......

also what do you recommend we do for mapping? i heard map tools is good? http://www.maptools.org/ or is there a better system?

sounds good guys!

Seranov, i'll keep you updated

Nazard, either way.

Faelax, sounds good. someone with experience is definitely a welcomed invite. i think we should start with just a basic 3v3 or 4v4 scenario against goblins. nothing too complex then eventually evolve to into specific combat situations. so if you want to walk us thru this whole process it would be appreciated. what would be the first step? for me to create a campaign thread from this thread? how do i make you the GM?

Cool, Seranov.....we'll just take it step by step & solve problems as they come up. waiting on at least one of my buddies to get on here and then we can start running some different scenarios.

i am not sure how this all works, but i got a message stating that since i started this thread that i can use this thread to start a campaign thread. so i might be able to bring you start over to the other thread? but i saw on others recruiting post that the GM wanted everyones emails so he could invite them? or maybe it was so he could send them a map?

i am think we can start with a basic square map and use a coordinate system. A-Z & 1-##? i know others use the free map tools. we will have to explore all options as we get there