Rainkin

Cedox's page

Organized Play Member. 4 posts. No reviews. No lists. No wishlists. 4 Organized Play characters.


RSS

Scarab Sages

Just recently ran the 9-00 PFS special and...

SPOILER:
Level 3's all around, table is having some tough times with healing, then we get to the very end. They all choose to fight the demons with the ballista, kill them all, then decide to interrupt the ritual. The cleric proceeds to do an instant interrupt with channel divinity. Twice. The only reason he doesn't do it a third time is because victory was announced. He hadn't used any of them to heal his party, and I didn't register at all...

Scarab Sages

1 person marked this as a favorite.
Minna Hiltula wrote:

One of my favorite PFS moments is from way back in 2009.

IC: "What a horrid waste of life! No one deserves to die in this kind of weather!" (The PCs are standing in pouring rain.)
A few seconds later, OOC: "...does the guy's armor look expensive?"

...

There has also been an odd theme of hippopotamuses in the Lands of the Linnorm Kings in our local games. My druid frequently wildshapes into a behemoth hippopotamus in order to carry the party around, which is not the most conspicuous form up north, resulting in there now being several small villages in the eastern parts of that country with statues of four Pathfinders and a liger riding a huge hippopotamus. Later, we expanded this to the Trans-Varisian Hippo Express in Refuge of Time. The theme was continued by my roommate's halfling druid, whose pygmy hippopotamus was understood by locals in Trollheim to be "some sort of hairless dog".

I feel like both of these belong in a Terry Pratchett DiscWorld novel. :D

Scarab Sages

UndeadMitch wrote:
Fromper wrote:

Got my email. I noticed this interesting paragraph:

Quote:
In addition to your scheduled games, we are asking all GMs to prepare at least one of the evergreen scenarios (5-08 The Confirmation, 6-10 The Wounded Wisp, or 7-10 The Consortium Compact) or the new Gen Con 2016 quests.
I'm fine with this, but I found it interesting that First Steps 1 is no longer on that list.
I don't think they've asked people to also have First Steps prepped in the past two years I've GM'd. They've wanted it kept to the more recent evergreens. AFAIK, First Steps' ommission is not an indication of it being removed, just that they would rather people keep it to those four choices provided. Or at least that is what I am inferring.

Anybody know which of those people seem to enjoy the most? First-time GenCon GM here.

EDIT: Other than the GenCon Special, of course...

Scarab Sages

Fromper wrote:

And the hotel lottery's over. If you aren't already booked for a hotel within walking distance, you aren't going to get one.

I thought there was supposed to be waiting lists or something, but I'm not seeing how to get on to them.

And then I tried clicking on another hotel that was a few miles away, and that one disappeared from being available while I was trying to select it. Their web page is confusing enough for first timers that by the time you figure out what you're doing, the room you're trying to book is already gone. This whole system sucks.

I think I'm just about ready to give up on GenCon. It has outgrown Indianapolis, so there's no point in going until they move it to Chicago, which is the only midwestern city large enough to accommodate it. How long do you think it'll take for the people running it to realize that?

If it makes you feel any better, my hotel is 7mi away... I had bad luck on that lottery. Bleh.