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I've got the same issue, even with the facebook site: unfortunately, you'd think a metropolis like Los Angeles would have Society or even just a regular dedicated Pathfinder group. After talking with the officers around here though, we realized there aren't any yet! Shocking right?? They all take place well outside the city limits, way to far to drive especially in our traffic. I'll be crossing my fingers for this Meetup with interest!
Good morning! Mine would go to Hetra Hallhewer, # 131510-1.
Now I get it. For some reason I was thinking we were on the topmost floor. That answers that!
Good morning gang! I believe the stairs here on the top are just leading down, and aren't blocking my shot to the dog? Or are there railings or such that might impair me? (I'd probably still fire, even if so.) For enemies to run up those stairs, would they be exiting them up here to the east or the west? Should I wait for Poog before I keep going?
Revvy thank you for that Osirion faction mummy trait answer. I didn't want to hijack the poor man's thread with a thank you there.
Thank you guys!! I'd been stocking up on the PDFs so far, but all this talk about the glories of the ISWG sure sound like the best way to go is hardcover! Ahh....pretty...... :D
Ah I see!
Many apologies yet again. This is my first play-by-post, which I started at the same time as one other. With that other, we don't have permissions to move the map tokens; that DM means well but never seems to put us in the right squares, and I was starting to assume that's just how PBP games went. (I spent the last few rounds thinking I was inside a tavern, but he thinks I'm standing outside in the street!) In my last turn, with the failed firecracker, I'd meant to move adjacent to the spider. When I noticed that I was far back on the map for the following round, I didn't realize I could move my token in this campaign! I just ran with it and spent this turn moving up again. I was wondering why I was so far back...it turns out, it's because of me! :D If I am considered adjacent to the spider on the current round, my plan was to spend a move action to draw the Gorge of Gluttons and my standard action to attack it. If that's in effect and time hasn't progressed too much, here are the combat rolls for that attack:
Though if not, I'm happy to remain where I am and say I tried to throw the firework too far away, thus helping to explain its collosal failure. Apologies again, I thought the DM had to move the tokens like in my other game! I'll be sure to move mine in the future.
Apologies, just realized that I'm not sure if Mog's bottle hit! She can try her tactic wherever the fire happens to be. That's crazy women for you. Something I know a little something about.
So far I've got a wedding-veiled gobliness for a one-shot PFS, and a xenophobic celtic ranger in over her head. I think the ranger might be a one-shot too. I'm starting to get excited about one being planned elsewhere, but if that goes through it won't even start for quite awhile. I haven't quite been able to find what I've been looking for just yet. I got in touch with the Los Angeles Society peeps here and on Facebook, but it turns out that the closest regular games are well outside the city limits. (Those familiar with LA know our traffic; if you don't, take your traffic and multiply it by three!) We're trying to start one up now, but there's only been one hint of a nibble so far. I can't believe a big place like LA has no PFS. I've heard we also have no football team, but unlike that, this is actually important. I'm still hoping to play my dwarven quarryman in PFS, hopefully in person or a VTT. With PBP-PFS in mind I made a bit of a challenge but I think she'd be suitable for PBP play, where I have time to write out witty responses. (Also heard from several that PFS doesn't have time for RP, unless it's PBP?) I might consider switching her out of PFS as the trait and feat selection is very limited, and that might make her challenging to, er, make. :) Mostly I thought it best to keep my newer characters to the Golarion lore whether or not they're PFS so if one campaign happens to not work out for any reason, then I won't lose the character. I've read, oh gosh... of homebrew setting lore over the last few weeks, and most of those games didn't end up starting. :\ It just felt like a lot of homework to no effect, especially since I still haven't learned about Golarion yet, am I making any sense? In a perfect world, I'd find a group that met in person or through Fantasy Grounds once every week or two. We'd play through as many of the previous PFS seasons as we could just to see the story; if no one wanted to DM all the time we'd share the duty, probably each taking a Path. (I like DMing as long as I'm not the only one doing it.) In addition to this I'd do monthly PFS sessions for the current season, and possibly check out what the conventions are all about. That's my perfect world, and it's surprisingly difficult to find anything like it! It's turning out to be a super strange feeling, where you can go out and do some LA night life stuff and get folks together (maybe even a ton of folks) for a party or bar or something, but I can't organize one group for Pathfinder? Seriously?! I really thought that difficulty would ramp the other direction. :D Truth to tell, I was actually a bit arrogant (innocent as it was). I just came in assuming "a girl can find a group, no problem." Hasn't really worked out that way though, which is awesome for societal progress but not so good for me right now! :D
Howdy folks! I just wanted to give a heads up that I'll be helping a friend move; I won't be back for 8 - 16 hours somewhere, so you might not see me post again today. Good thing I woke up early to fit one in... .....ho ha......heh............*cough* If things are lively today, feel free to either ignore Reta or involve her. If she ended up winning this challenge after the results are in then I wasn't going to even attempt the next challenge anyway, so feel free to move on without me.
@Nefreet, you know I'd completely forgotten to have season 6 on my radar. There's actually a pretty good chance that I won't have much time for in-person gaming until this summer anyway. I will look into the 20 path, thank you! @Andreas, that sounds great! I love lore books...and you can't be called Compass Rose without a love of maps. :D Thank you to all the lovely folks who helped me figure out PFS legal nobility! ^_^
@Chris, thank you I will definitely pour over it again! @BigNorseWolf, that's exactly how I've been doing mine so far too :)
Oh no, they aren't?! Eek! You're absolutely right, she had the "Sentimental" drawback to pine over her former life. Thank you so much for catching it!
@pH unbalanced, oh neat! What a very useful site! @Cheapy, totally. There are other things I'd prefer to own first (a love of dwarves and a lack of money) so I wanted to make sure it was definitely in there and legal before I took the plunge and bought it. I feared it might be huddling right before or after that section if they were divided up into categories or something. @Jiggy, yikes I did not know that! Thanks for the tip!
Ah, many thanks to you all! :) Yes, I'm definitely a bit concerned about being an Oracle...I thought they'd be Wisdom! But I've never seen the class before (newbie) and it looked neat. If my math isn't, er...too off, I could raise CHA +1 every four levels, so as long as I start with no lower than 14, by lv 20 I could cast 9th level divine spells. I also read that CHA turns into the sort of "life force" for undead, which she would be slowly becoming to some extent. It's enough for my brain's rationalization, though I would love an even lower CHA. Options like "Bruising Intellect" to use INT for talky talk skills...now that would be Tyrion! Mutants and Masterminds 3.0 handles it best, I think. They changed Charisma's name to "Presence," to reflect the same skills in a mean or ugly character as well.
Hi gang, are you allowed to play a noble / aristocrat in legal Society play? I have been excited about a new concept, though I have minor concerns to its viability, and major concerns to its legality. I always favor RP over effectiveness, but I would very much like a legal PFS character if it is possible to do so. In particular, I was actually hoping to find out if the Noble Scion feat was allowed. According to the official listing, many of the feats from pages 284 - 289 of the Inner Sea World Guide are allowed, but there's a few other books I'd rather buy first unless this feat does qualify. Could someone who already owns the ISWG let me know what page Noble Scion lives on? That's the only bit of info I need to finish solving the riddle, thanks! By extension, I should mention that I have no desire in the prestige class of the same name, or anything like that. Even this feat does nothing for my build and is just for roleplay, and a means to establish with any DM that I actually am a noble instead of merely trying to say that I'm one. By that same extension I would pick any legal traits that signify me as a member of the nobilty. I'm going for the challenge of a Tyrion Lannister type: charisma skills with no charisma, a sullied noble with few tangible rewards except for the RP opportunities. Perhaps excuses to better bribe or intimidate. Hoping it's legal but wanted to check; many thanks for all your help! Suggestions are welcome. ~Megan
Oh!! :O You know I'd heard about the time frame (4 hours or so, right?) but I'd been assuming that allotted for RP. Shoot. Thanks DarkPhoenixx, that is definitely food for thought.
I really appreciate your response, Sarpadian. I would like to meet you in the middle too. I know that I already finalized my stats, but if it's all right with GDM, I'd like to propose the following changes to my character as well. 1) I'll get rid of the net and future plans for it entirely. Just because she's a thrower doesn't mean she needs to throw that. I'll stick with spears. I'll change out those aspects of her character sheet, and replace her net feat with a swamp one. 2) When I reach level 2, I will probably skip two-weapon fighting in favor of the two-handed ranger option, or ranged if any of that stuff works with spears (I don't believe so). 3) I appreciate your talk of the wood armor. My thought was mine was primitive, perhaps made of the same stock of the bog, and while normally weak to fire I imagine dunking myself into the murk would give it a temporary resistance. Mostly, I like how there's no swim penalty due to it being buoyant. 4) Apologies on lore-friendly, I didn't mean your class. I meant I'd used a race that was native to his campaign setting. But as DM he fully allowed ideas from outside that, and I have no right to second guess him or you. ~Megan
Good morning John. I do have my very first Society character, a humble dwarven laborer soon to be thrust into the wider world. I'm finalizing her sheet today. (My original thought had been to play her a lot in person: I have a miniature in the mail, and I'm getting a set of metal dice with dwarven runes...that she'll only roll when using a proud, dwarven-make weapon!) I was hoping to play her online as well through a VTT, though I'd be happy to try out PBP for the first time. Though that will always be the lowest on my list, behind meeting in person (Los Angeles) and playing realtime online. I have been lucky enough to get the last spot in a We Be Goblins, and I've been told that it uses pre-gen gobbies and you can transfer the chronicle. I might possibly make a second PFS char, since I'm not sure if I like the idea of my dwarf leveling up without me! ;) Do you happen to know of any group that might take me, John? Had a bit of bad luck since I've arrived, though the folks are warm and welcoming.
Hey Sarpadian. :) As a newbie I have a lot to learn about PBP and party variance, as my small groups of friends never really provided such a wealth of differing and exciting ideas all coming together. I was trying not to say anything (sincere apologies) but for you what's an experiment is an awful lot like the character I already made for the game, down to the feats and gear. I don't mean to knock on him or anything, I'm sure you've been excited to play him for awhile, but I spent a long time working really hard on my version and making her lore-friendly (assuredly, way more strict than she needed to be, or even should have been!) I don't fault a frog man for excelling in swamp terrain, but I based an entire ranger off that concept and she's still not as good at moving through or surviving that environment as your non-ranger is. She'll never be, and it's taken so much wind out of my sails that I'm kinda not sure if I should stick around, you know? We're both two-weapon net adept featers in wooden armor. I can try it since you and GDM are both cool with it, I certainly don't want to rock that rowboat we're both supposed to be coming in on. But this is more than a statistics thing for me: right now I don't feel unique from a story / rp perspective. I'm really sorry but I felt the need to bring it up before play actually started, particuarlly since Diarmal should be entitled to replace his family trait if I bow out.
Well as the token girl, I do like playing the token girl when I can. I've never seen one like Reta, though! :D She's forced to wear the corset on account of that big balloon head making turtlenecks an impossibility. Let's do this! (I'll make a sheet for her right now.)
Hmm, me thinks the search continues! One of them won't start until June, and another is going to be quite short. I'll keep my eye out on the recruitment forum, but if anyone happens to have a Pathfinder or Society campaign (preferably in straight Golarion, as I'm still trying to learn the lore for it).
Hi everyone! I'm actually happy to play any goblin, so if you'd like individual ones, feel free to give me whatever's left. (If not I'll just pick one.)
My fav fantasy artists are Jeff Easley, John Howe and Michael Whelan - especially his cover for Second Foundation - though I couldn't even begin to figure out how to make something like they do. I often have to emulate cartoon styles, though, so I'm sure I could tackle Foglio. Jackson even moreso. I'm in the final stages of trying to get a new job, but let me wrestle with that for the next few weeks and then I'll know what any new contracts could say (some are very strict about working on "competitive" intellectual property, which is their fancy way of saying no). Commisions could come in the form of super amazing loot and XP for me and just me and nobody else. Me.
Apologies, finally just saw that you were talking about a third campaign. Hello, Megan! And my train of thought probably got a bit derailed, I'd actually meant to say that I might be juggling too much. Let me read up on some of the lore for these other games; once those characters are established, maybe I can be much more on auto-pilot for them and wrap my head around another world haha
Hi Red, I draw often though my styles are very limited. For most of the last decade I worked at Mattel, and pretty much everything I drew was for Pixar and Disney things. Some WB and Nick cartoons. I'm definitely only a cartoonist, though, and about the most "hardcore" I'm able to get is like a Disney Afternoon level. I take occasional forays into actual illustration for fun, but they never come out well. (Not by my art school / career standards.) They'd probably be decent enough for an RPG unless you wanted to sell it. Mostly it's a matter of free time; between assignments now I'm trying to do all the characters for my superhero campaign in a Bruce Timm style. I hear you on adding twists and making something your own! I'm worried about stretching myself too thin and signing up for too much when I haven't actually played Pathfinder or PBP yet (and I'm still really hoping to find realtime games, PFS games, or best both) but these are the first ideas off the top of my head: Godhood - Ranger/Horizon Walker (actually, where I had ended up in that attempt above). A mortal human woman, not knowing that she is (possibly one of the many) children from some passionate night between Cayden Cailean and Desna. She'd have her mother's love of travel and a bit of her father's infamous luck, shown through ranger and feat options that let you reroll a die. Would not be able to cast any actual magic. Becomes so adept at wandering throughout the planes (Doctor Who style?) that she finds herself slipping between, and can Dimension Door often. A decent excuse for a party dimension vehicle if one is needed. No ambitions yet other than a love of travel. Dark Fairytale - I'm ashamed that nothing is springing to mind, because this is exactly the sort of thing I have to come up with for a living. Sounds simple enough though: a twisted take on a classic tale? Put the grim into the Brothers Grimm?
Never! Just let me know if I'm getting too serious with her.
Ah I'm starting to see! Thanks Killer. You'd think that someone who loves dwarves and rangers would know how to be patient, but I often get antsy and hungry for more. More! I think it best to start off slow, but thanks to the kind folks from this thread I've now got 3 games starting up, including a fierce Scottish elf. Quote that will forever haunt me and prevent me from winning political office: "Scottish elf. Because the only good elf is a dwarf."
I'm definitely looking forward to the RP. Do you know how aggravating it is to hear one of your players say "I do Diplomacy." Okay, but what do you say? "I don't have to say anything, I do Diplomacy. See, look at that roll!" And shortly thereafter, their Supers game had Green Lantern threatening all the innocent citizens of my city, because reasons. I want you to understand that I need this. I am willing to kill for it. Any dorks standing in the way of my RP are just so much meat to me. Do Diplomacy...gyah. Gyah. No.
Wise counsel!
Hi there Aleron. I'm shocked that I'm so new to Pathfinder, since I had played 3.5 for so long...and everything I've heard about 4.0 makes me want to shake my tiny fists and the uncaring entertainment gods. While I'll probably always prefer realtime pen-and-papering, I'd found myself bothered for the last couple years. My high school / college / work friends only ever wanted me to DM: partially because I often write or do character design for a living, but mostly because they are being super lazy bums. Even trying to get them to run a store-bought scenario is like pulling teeth. As much as I like DMing I prefer playing, and the little I'd been able to scrape together - Lovecraft and the like - was good but left little chance for leveling over the long term. I like seeing the character grow if I can, regardless of how slow it is. About a week ago I decided to finally give up on finding it through my RL friends and try my luck online. Er, somehow. I wasn't yet sure what that meant. While trying to plan out a Horizon Walker, I accidently came across its Pathfinder version. I liked where I'd ended up and decided to get the lay of the land (much like a Horizon Walker). You're all impressed, I can tell. Lucky too. It's exceedingly rare to meet someone with such elegance, beauty and humility. Very long story short, I've never tried PBP before. I'm excited about it, though I'm harboring a little worry that a "post a day" speed will leave me hungry (I'm used to playing 2.5 - 4 hour sessions). I'm most excited about legal Society play, followed by Society PBP, but I would still be quite happy to play a homebrew in any capacity. I'm mostly thinking about how many different settings I'll have to learn the lore for, since official Pathfinder or Society all share just the one. (It's not that I dislike homebrew worlds or anything.) I use Fantasy Grounds a lot, and I've used Roll20 enough to know my way around.
Thank you! I've started to buy a collection of PDFs through this site for PFS. Mostly dealing with dwarves or rangers. Megan loves dwarves and rangers, and Megan will surely love Harsk, despite the lack-of-love I've caught hints of. (Seriously, what's not to love?!)
My latent Scottish DNA - and an old character idea - are starting to bubble to the surface when you mention bogs. Would a ranger with a focus on swampy environments be okay to play, or would that make any of your encounters too lopsided? I certainly wouldn't want to rock the boat, I just haven't heard "bog" in awhile. If allowed, would such a character live on Ibalnd?
Broken Prince, I just discovered the vanities! I think my humble laborer needs only a membership at Torag's Temple, and perhaps a dwarven-make casing for the wayfinder. You other races know nothing of durable craftsmanship. I could throw this dwarven-make computer out the window at a passing car and be assured of its sturdy contruction! I could not say the same for the car. Kyshkumen, thank you so much for the advice. It hadn't even occurred to me, but it certainly makes a lot of sense now! I do love how there is an official record that is tracked. I'm a little worried about character death, but old school pen-and-paper and modern day Dark Souls have hopefully toughened me up to the prospect.
Apologies for the incredibly newbie question, but as far as the PRDs are concerned, does anything in this table of contents generally count? Things like the Advanced Race or Players Guides? No worries if not, I'm usually prone to pick a classic races anyway. I just wanted to make sure I learn what PRD entails, since I see it mentioned often! I think the word "advanced" is throwing me off.
Newbie not fully sure of forum recruiting protocol, but I wanted to save a spot as I'd been speaking about this with GDM on another thread. Making someone as we speak!
Cayzle, I just emailed you. GDM, I'll sign up right away!
Oh no, not sarcastic! Super impressive, Cayzle! And I'm sure during that missing extra day, your trickster was sneakily doing a most legendary heist. The best kind of heist...the kind no one hears about. I will try to train up in Knowledge: Wold tonight. Besides the custom options, are the rules straight Pathfinder or more inspired by them? (My own growth has been D&D 2 -> 2.5 Skills and Powers -> 3 -> 3.5 -> various D20 open license systems -> Mutants and Masterminds 3.0)
Happy to, GDM! I will keep a weather eye out for the recruitment.
Thank you Axolotl! I recently moved to mid-city so I imagine it will be easy for me to drive somewhere for a game. Like yourself I've probably got the most time for remote play, though I could certainly devote a few hours to a table top program; it's more the post-work commute I'm trying to figure out. You know our traffic. PBP is another fine option. I partially belong to a few board gaming groups or clubs and thus far, Descent has been the closest thing to pen-and-paper that I've gotten the chance to play recently. Hopefully Pathfinder and Society will let me change that. I haven't been able to find any Los Angeles events coming up yet! I was hoping one of our comic book stores might have a day, but there's none currently listed on the schedule that I could see.
Nice to meet you! I just posted in the Demand thread. I appreciate any man (or any avatar) that wears a fedora.
Hello! I'm looking for a great group and high adventure, though admittedly I'm a PBP newbie. I would not at all blame you for wanting someone with more experience, especially given Dragon's Demand...'s length (I'm assuming since it says it takes folks from 1 to 7). My Intelligence is low, but I like to think that my Wisdom is high enough to know that it's low, and I can definitely see the Wisdom in statements above. As for age I'm 35. I promise, I really never thought I'd be one of "those people," but my last MMO rp eventually turned out to be myself and three 14 year olds. The outside drama suddenly made a lot more sense, and my efforts to ward off their flirting suddenly became even more important. So I guess some age issues can crop up that I'd never even considered back when I was a young whippersnapper, loitering in people's yards and...and, um...maybe stealing the pies from their window sills? That's a thing, right? That sounds legit. I can empathize with minion difficulties; I'm GMing a superhero campaign right now, and one of the players has Multiple Man style duplication. All the juggling can be a beast. (Though I can see how they'd be handled much more easily in a PBP.) Anyway I just thought I'd raise a tentative hand, I certainly wouldn't want to intrude. If I'm not the best fit yet perhaps I'll watch your posts as you play? Psychic's offering a healer, and if PBP is anything like in-person gaming, those are far too rare to find. ;)
Hello! My name is Megan and I just took the plunge into Pathfinder. I'm super interested in taking my first char through legal Society play. If there's any way to combine both in-person and online adventures with her I'd definitely be down with that (I'm in Los Angeles, and my miniature is in the mail!) I'm also happy to make someone new just for a PBP campaign, and in that case I don't care about it being homebrew or not. I guess I probably would like to save the legal modules or adventure paths for Society things, since I might potentially be seeing them twice otherwise. I'm interested in all its Seasons, though I'm not sure if the offerings before 5 are still legal? If not, then I'd love to see those earlier modules and adventure paths somehow, too. Who I play isn't as important to me as how I play them. I think it's important to know what makes you happy, and after spending the morning reading through some of the forum threads here on Paizo, I think it's best for both of us to know that I'm not a power gamer. I'm a heavy roleplayer who gets into the camapign lore of a given setting, and I'm much more prone to pick up a feat of skill that makes sense from the story or scenario rather than something that will max out my stats (I leave my power gaming to the computer games, where there isn't any RP anyway lol). I understand the usefulness of focused builds - especially as it sounds like Society might really ramp up in difficulty each year? - but that's just not what I'm here for personally. I think I'd work best in parties where players had a similar goal, and the hope that interpersonal relationships (be them friendly or rivalrous) could form through the RPed conversations between encounters. While I'm no stranger to pen and paper (I spent the 90s in Forgotten Realms 2nd edition) I've never really played a true play-by-post before. Real time chat rooms were probably the closest to that mark. Still, I can promise you that I'm not worried about my writing skills or punctuality, as I do realtime RP in Fantasy Grounds and Roll20 quite often. I might just need a primer link on PBP's best practices. My work means that I'm mostly free on weekends, or weeknights in Pacific time (-8 UTC). I GM a lot, and while I'm looking to play for a change, I pride myself on not giving the GM any guff (because I know what it's like!) If I sense that the party is going off the rails he needs, I try to find an in-character way to nudge us back onto them. It's nice to meet you! The Pathfinder community seems really friendly from what I've gotten to see so far. Please feel free to contact me if you have any campaigns, parties looking for more members, tips for new Society players, or just to say hello. ~Megan |
