Smaar Janderfut

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Feel better soon, man <3

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Greetings Program!

Hope you don't mind someone who's a bit rusty with SF1 :P

I've got a 5 Skyfire Centurion Mystic Vlaka, a 7 Biohacker Bear, an 8 Space Pirate Skittermander Soldier engine-of-death, or a 7 Battle Leader Mystic Kasatha Hellknight.

...That said, I only have PbP sheets built for the Vlaka and the Bear (I have Roll20 sheets for the other two but I'd have to find time to convert them to PbP format), so one of those two would be my preference for ease of setup, so long as they fit the rest of the party. The bear is very technically proficient, and can shoot everyone up with performance-enhancing drugs, so that's my leaning unless that pushes us into high-tier when folks would rather play low.

Thoughts?

Edit: I'm even more heavily leaning towards the biohacker bear now that I remember that he's a Starwright and can also juice up vehicles! So I'll bring that unless folks really want to go low tier.

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Huzzah!

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Shay Snow wrote:

I’ve been asked several times if the Venture-Gossip archetype is legal for Society play.

:)

That's not a no, Shay :P

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Cassi wrote:

Well, I know what archetype I am now. Thanks Shay! XD

That rt5rrmn is so cute. Definitey a fey creature. Just a little guy; not out to fascinate you at all. Nope, no forcing you to do his bidding (that bidding is definitely "give me the good scritches").

You are absolutely that archetype, Cassi :P

I honestly hope that becomes PFS-Legal through a boon or something!

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This sounds amazing!

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rainzax wrote:
eachtoxicwolf wrote:
Tomppa wrote:
eachtoxicwolf wrote:
Is the exemplar class allowed in Pathfinder Society? The boon text I can see says "exemplar multiclass archetype" which to me implies archetype rather than class

Character options

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All Pathfinder agents have access to the rare exemplar class. The exemplar archetype is only available as a boon from the Boon Store.
Thanks. I feel a bit silly now

You are not the only silly.

Does this mean a new player's first character can be an Exemplar?

(And that only the Multiclass Archetype must be purchased with AcP?)

Just keep an eye on that important note on the boon page for the archetype:

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Can only be purchased once per player.

Emphasis mine.

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Hilary Moon Murphy wrote:
Cassi wrote:

Welp, I'm excited by the return to Arniselle. Now, where's that choir of Morlamaws to sing me Under The Sea?

Oh, a Shan work! I'm sure that will be fun!

I am also excited by the return to Arniselle. Everything Rigby does is awesome.

And a quest by Shan Wolf sounds awesome as well.

I am also going to say that I had the privilege of playing Shimmerstone Mine with Jenny at SkalCon, and it ROCKED. (And now I'm wondering how many geologic puns I can make before Jenny shuts me down.) Bring your A game though - it's tough!

That sounds like a slippery slope, indeed.

Speaking of which, what a great slate of writers in this preview! There's certainly a big conglomerate of gneiss adventuring going on in our near future!

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Alex Speidel wrote:
Moximus wrote:

My only problem with this one is that it's for level 10! Do we get pre-gens for level 10, or do I need to make some up for my drop-in players?

We will not be creating 10th- or 15th-level pregens for the Starfinder Playtest.

What are the OPF rules for creating 10th- or 15th-level characters for these adventures (namely, in terms of wealth)? The https://paizo.com/organizedplay/policies page only covers playtesting through levels 1, 3, and 5.

Thanks!

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Alex Speidel wrote:
Mr. Fred wrote:
But what about side battles with Treasure bundle ? Should I give them the TB or not , oes it mean that If I am late in my time keeping or just let the player have fun where that want to have fun, they should get a penalty in TB. Battles with a direct plot implication shouldn't be skipped, and though they can be easily identifiable, I wonder if we shouldn't tag them in the future to ensure that they happens always at any table)

In general, GMs should not completely skip encounters that are not tagged as optional (ignoring any encounter the players manage to circumvent by being clever). The only reason I would give a blanket signoff to do so is in the event of a store's imminent closure or a convention slot ending.

With that in mind: if an encounter was skipped for any reason that gave treasure bundles, players should not be punished for this, and should be awarded the treasure bundles at the end of the adventure.

Could this language please be added to the new proposal somehow?

With PF2 scenarios often being written to run longer than 5 hours, and with stores in some regions still only giving PFS games hard 4 hour game slots, this is a "scenario" that regularly occurs in the wild.

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This looks like a fantastic series of changes that will do wonders for the program!

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If you don't want to use rpgchronicles, you can use pdf-related websites (such as https://www.ilovepdf.com/) to extract the chronicle sheet and then fill it in using a pdf-reader program (Adobe, NitroReader, take your pick).

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That was a fun read! Huzzah Owen!

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I am zo very excited for this one!

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Congratulations Zackery and Jess!!

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Congratulations Landon and Eric!

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The story of the Scoured Stars was one of (if not the) finest sci-fi campaign I've ever had the pleasure of taking part in. I cannot recommend this enough!

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This sounds amazing!

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Congratulations Bill and Brad!!

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Important distinction that may have been missed because of where the initial quote began:

Curse Breaker wrote:
You have been entrusted with an accursed item from the Society’s vaults, and you can spend your time in the Grand Lodge patiently unraveling its malign influence. When you acquire this boon, choose a permanent magic item of your level or lower to which you have access. You can spend Downtime erasing the item’s stubborn curse...

When you buy/use* the boon, you can start working towards a single magic item. Because specific > general, the boon specifically allows you to do this.

* When the original boon was first created, you had to buy it each time you wanted to use it - the change to allowing it to be used for multiple items is something new to me.

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Looking forward to both of these!

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Hilary Moon Murphy wrote:

Another question. Will you be including Play-by-Post tables again this year?

Hmm

PaizoCon will indeed be hosting Play-by-Post events this year. For now, just indicate your interest in GMing for that program in the notes at the end of the application, and we'll get the rest sorted!

Mike Bramnik
PaizoCon OC

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Hurray!

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Excited to see how Star's story goes! :)

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Local players have been hoping for to more PFS Razmiran content for years. Folks are going to be excited about this one!

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Very excited to see how this all turns out! :)
(You could say that's a no-brainer, coming from me?)

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I had hoped to post an update before my flight back to the states but it apparently wasn't in the cards. I'll post once I'm back home, but feel free to post and roll the listed checks in the meantime.

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RL > Game, always. You take care of you and leave the game for when you can.

I'm checking to see if I can poke a friend to help GM stuff for me while I'm traveling. I just had to spend the last day reformatting my computer from scratch...for travel plans as well as mental health I do not recommend doing this two days before an international trip ><

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Just fyi our internet has been down for the last 3 hours. I've had my next post ready to go but I'm not sure how much longer I'll be able to stay awake. If comcast doesn't end its so-called "scheduled" maintenance (despite no such schedule being made available to their customers, apparently) soon, I'll have to push it to after I wake up. Apologies for the unexpected delays this week ><

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No worries - it happens!

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Take care and have fun, all!

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Everything looks good here. Thank you for GMing, Jim! Great playing with all of you!

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I will mention, however, that the full scoured stars set will be reprinted with updates next year in the newly announced AP...just saying :P

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I have also never done Data Purge

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Session 97 (PF2 #3-17) is now full. Thank you!

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GM, Jim gave you the wrong opf # :-P

He's now using 861!

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These all look amazing! I can't wait for my players to experience them all!

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I'm flexible, and cool with whatever even if I didn't make it in time. No worries :)

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Farol poked me as well, and with so many friendly faces here, I guess I bent to peer pressure for a change :P

Assuming there's still room: Care for a level 10 healer mystic who is proud to have never had anyone die under their watch? He's the one I've played through most of the higher-level stuff in season 2.

Otherwise I have a level 7 biohacker bear, a level 7 skittermander space pirate soldier, or a level 7 hellknight signifer mystic who is more battle-oriented (but whom I could not use for ~3 days since I'm playing him in 2 days at a live game).

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You are both spot-on, and for future reference, the full list can be found here: https://paizo.com/organizedplay/perks

Quote:

Vestments: T-shirts, messenger bags/backpacks, jackets or hoodies, or similar apparel; permanent tattoos of Paizo-related iconography; or cosplay of a Paizo-related character, such as an iconic character, NPC or similar.

Worn Accessory: Lapel pin or button, hat or ballcap, lanyard, or similar small worn accessory.

Rules Reference: Character folio, reference or condition card deck, or similar published item with game reference material. Excludes published rulebooks or Adventures.

Other Item: Any other qualifying item such as officially produced dice, keychains, plush characters, or other merchandise brought to the table.

Campaign Service Coin: an award given out to exemplary volunteers; a Campaign Service Coin cannot qualify for any other category and instead offers its own benefits.

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Tibal Šega wrote:

You wrote the Arclord that never was? Oh, I am SO down for playing that. I really want to play that with my summoner from Nex who has a bone to pick with Sebnet for sending him out on all of these month long missions to set up new lodges!

Thank you for running this and I hope we can play together again.

Your only advance warning for #4-05:

Even I lost track of how many puns I wrote into that adventure before my final turnover! ;)

Muwuahahahaha!

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All chronicles have been sent!
(4/5 on Discord 1/5 in email)

Again, thank you for playing! I hope you all enjoyed! I'll leave the game threads open for a bit in case you want to keep RP going or have any questions for me.

Thank you all for joining me for playing in the first two adventures I authored for organized play! Maybe you'd like to do something like this again later this year? ;)

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Congratulations Olivier, Derek, and Nathan!!! Thank you for all your hard work and GMing for our community!

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My roommate's cat is named Parrot :)

This is in part because she likes to perch on or over your shoulder begging for food, and also because her meows are high-pitched screeching sounds like the croak of a parrot, and you can often hear her from the other side of the house even over noise-cancelling headphones. My regular players on VTT games will often say "hi Parrot" when they hear her before I do!

Hence, "distracting parrot" :P

Her on a "quiet" day
(Google Photos link ~> 11 second video with sound)

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Posting from phone - another day off the rails, but I will get us updated in the next few hours.

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Posting from phone - another day off the rails, but I will get us updated in the next few hours.

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Posting from phone - another day off the rails, but I will get us updated in the next few hours.

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Funny story - if you can guess what the inspiration for the "distracting parrot" obstacle is, you get a hero point.

Jim and anybody else who knows me in real-life cannot answer :P

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Anock wrote:
You mentioned them in this post, but they haven't shown up in Discussion since then. I haven't combed through the Gameplay tab yet to check.

Yep, looks like I never sent them. Although, you mentioned you were going to PM me your contact info for your sheet, so I'll still need that for yours :)

I'll take care of these in a few minutes.

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I need to apologize for not posting over the last few days. I've been dealing with an emergency with my cat's health. You have my word that I will have a full update posted within the next few hours.

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