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"This is me speaking," the character spoke. But you won't hear my thoughts.

I'm going to make a Bluff check so the thought police doesn't catch the character thinking.

Bluff: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (11) + 5 = 16

This is how I'll format my posts. If you do it differently, just make sure that each component (action, speech, thought, OoC, dice rolls) is distinct.

Otherwise, welcome to the group! Once everyone has posted at least once to the gameplay thread, we'll get started.

You stand before the doors of the Moot House, a museum of Licktoad heroics — inside lie trophies like stolen weapons, shiny treasures, and the pickled bodies of dozens of animals (mostly dogs). This is a treasure trove of everything a goblin could want, yet no goblin dares take anything.

This is because his Mighty Girthness, Chief Rendwattle Gutwad also dwells within these doors. He is the best leader the Licktoad tribe has seen since the last, weak ruler was killed (by Chief Gutwad). You know that the words that come out of his mouth are so mighty that they frighten away all the words in the heads of lesser goblins such as yourselves. If you only were as awesome as Chief Gutwad one day! Only chief advisor Slorb can handle the chief's words without fainting.

However, Slorb is late! As boredom sets in, you notice that you're not the only goblin loitering around the Moot House this morning.

Feel free to introduce yourselves. You have all either grown up here or lived here for a long time, so you should already know and have some preconceived opinions about each other.

You are goblins of the Licktoad tribe, deep in the Brinestump Marsh. When you discovered one of your own could write — stealing the words from your heads, cursing the tribe with bad luck! — you did what any good goblin woud do: you branded his face with his precious letters, ran him out of town, and took all of his stuff. But that's where things got interesting, because just before you were going to burn down the hut, Chief Gutwad found a weird box within the building. Inside was a map and a lot of fireworks — fireworks that you immediately used to burn the hut down. The next morning, Gutwad declared a feast tonight to drive away any lingering bad luck from Scribbleface’s poor decisions.

But perhaps even more exciting, all of you have been secretly invited to meet at Chief Gutwad’s Moot House. Why would the chief want to speak to you? It can only mean that he’s got an important mission… one that the other goblins of the tribe couldn’t pull off. This could be your chance to go down in Licktoad history!

Hello! I am recruiting four players for Pathfinder Module: We Be Goblins!. Though I’ve both GMed and played Pathfinder for about two years, this is my first time GMing a play-by-post game. I intend to run a full Adventure Path on these forums at some point in the future, so towards that end I want to get some experience with play-by-post and find people I can invite to future games.

Players who wish to receive Pathfinder Society credit for playing through We Be Goblins! must use one of the pregenerated goblin PCs provided in the adventure.

If enough people want to play this module with pregenerated characters for Pathfinder Society credit, I will hand out chronicle sheets once the game ends.

General Expectations
I'm going to hold you to the same standards that I hold myself to: I expect you to post as often as is needed, adjusting to the pace of the group, as need be. I plan to post at least once per day. When you do post, I expect you to push the game forward. If our pacing changes to the point of negatively impacting your ability to keep up, I hope and expect that you will talk to me earlier rather than later. I promise to do the same if our positions are reversed. (Thanks, Painlord!)

When necessary, we will be using ditzie.com for a battle map.

Character Creation
You can choose to play a pregenerated character (available here) or create your own 1st-level character according to the following guidelines.

Race: Goblin.

Ability Scores: Use the Standard Fantasy (15 points) purchase system or the elite array (15, 14, 13, 12, 10, 8).

Sources: Any Paizo.

Special: Describe your character’s appearance and personality, then write a goblin song for your character. Prove that you are the gobliniest of them all.

Deadline
I will close recruitment on Monday, 21st of March, 2016.