Hi everyone, I'm coming back from a long hiatus and checking out PF2e. I'm slowly getting up to speed on some of the new tools people are using since 2018 too. Are there any spreadsheets or new tools that people use widely that aren't on the PBP guides? Also, if anyone has a beginner scenario like the Second Confirmation starting up soon I'd love to be considered.
Hello there. I received notification that the order shipped July 15th and on the tracking information through UPS-MI, it was inducted into the USPS system July 19th and delivered to the post office July 20th. Now it seems the post office is saying they never received it, and UPS-MI is stating that it made it to the post office. Is there anything Paizo can do in this situation?
Hey everyone, Dystopian here. My real name is John. Psyched to start gaming with everyone! I've played Pathfinder for a long time, but just started getting into Society play last year. Most of my characters are around level 2, with one at 6 at the moment. Heck, if we all created characters we could link them somehow, like a noble family from Taldor?
Hi, I've been lurking here for a bit (I'm a big fan of core play) while trying to land on a character I feel is worthwhile to play here, something I've always wanted to play, and I think I've settled on a bard. I've always wanted to play a bard that tells an epic throughout their adventures, adding to the story each time he uses his performance to aid his fellows. I should have a backstory and character profile up in a few hours. Is that OK, or am I too late?
Going to throw my two concepts in as well. Please see below for the characters and their details: Lotke Brevant:
Human (Ulfen) N ninja (frozen shadow) 1 Story: Lotke has been a henchman all his life. A boisterous, stupid Ulfen, he bounced around from orphanage to orphanage as a child, then gang to gang, then cult to cult, most recently a cult of Tien killers calling itself the Frozen Shadows. When a group of adventurers smashed through their hideout in the Land of Linnorm Kings and left him for dead, he went to ground in a small town where no one would think to look for him and began hiring out his services as an enforcer and assassin. He is desperate to find someone new to work for, literally asking anyone, even the baker or woodcutter, if they need help killing someone. Mechanics: Lotke is a loud, simple-minded Ulfen ninja. He uses simple farming tools like sickles to rip into his foes due to not really understanding the intricacies of martial weapons.
Mirima Culdrif + Bonefeather: Half-elf CN unchained summoner (fey-caller) 1 Story: Mirima was born from a tryst between a Taldane noble and an elf of the nearby forest. These children are sometimes sent to special boarding houses where they are cared for in groups without their parents' shame being known. In one such house, Mirima grew. The children of the house had a chant they sung every night, channeling their anger at their cruel house-mother. One such night, the children managed to call something from the fey world, a creature calling itself 'Bonefeather'. It began to torment the house-mother in turn, keeping her up all night hearing ghostly voices (using its ghost sound ability). She soon went insane and left the house forever. Unbeknownst to Mirima, who thought it simply good luck, but she had struck an alien bargain with the creature. The two have been inseparable ever since. Mirima, or Miri to her friends, is charismatic and jovial most times, with a shock of red hair flowing over pointed ears. Bonefeather is a gaunt, hunched bipedal creature, with pale green skin and its face hidden by the skull and horns of an unknown animal. They travel about the Inner Sea, seeking to learn more about the magic that connects them. Mechanics: Mirima prefers to cast from the back, using her spells to aid her inscrutable fey companion. Bonefeather uses its ghost sound ability to create strange laughter or unfamiliar rhythms before closing in to destroy its foes. It prefers its victims to be unsettled before they go unconscious.
Sho and Zyxtyvia both miss with their strikes, but Aoife manages to connect. The monk in the green garb manages to stave off the effects of the blow, however. GM Rolls:
Fortitude Save: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 2 = 18 Bold may act.
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Looking to gauge interest in a play-by-post Mutant City Blues game set in Detroit. This will be a short investigation to test the waters; if interest continues, I will look into running more with the same team. I am a new GM to pbp, but have played F2F for the last 7 years or so, and have GM'ed a few investigations in MCB before. Mutant City Blues is a police procedural game with mutant powers thrown in as a twist. It's CSI/Law & Order meets X-Men. Here is the description pulled from the book: "Ten years ago, 1% of the population gained mutant powers. 1% of the citizens means 1% of the criminals! You're the cops who clean up the mess. Ever since the Sudden Mutation Event, people have been able to fly. Phase through walls. Read minds. Shoot bolts of energy from their fingertips. Walk into dreams. As members of the elite Heightened Crime Investigation Unit, you and your fellow detectives solve crimes involving the city’s mutant community. When a mutant power is used to kill, you catch the case. When it’s a mutant victim in the chalk outline, you get the call. And when it comes time for a fight, you deploy your own extraordinary abilities to even the odds."
Hi everyone, I've started a Slumbering Tsar game and we're two sessions in. For this campaign, I restricted character creation to core-only with a system of unlocking new things (abilities, spells, classes) as they probe deeper into Tsar. One player, however, has challenged this decision, stating that it is a power play to keep the playing field uneven between the player characters and the opposition due to the fact that there are creatures converted from Tome of Horrors and Creature Collection III. The player had a character die in the first session, and repeatedly called attention to anything that was not core afterward, and in the session that followed. What I don't want is this to fester and grow into something more severe, compounded by each character death. I have talked to him a few times since, but I wonder if anyone else has dealt with this before. Any advice for moving forward?
So we're about halfway done with this module, and my players are having a blast. One thing that popped up during the last session was that they found the Spoiler: alchemical golem, Artephius. They deciphered from the schematics what would be needed to rebuild it, and when it came to the part of the brain, the bard piped up and said he might put his own brain in it. I think I'm going to use the old 'yes,but...' strategy and require will saves so that his brain can overpower the golem's programming/spirit/whatever.
So 1) is this feasible? And 2) what happens if he succeeds? I can see a few ways of handling this. Use Artephius's stat block as a base and give him bard levels (can alchemical golems even cast magic?). Or create a new race using the race builder for constructs and alter his race. Or create a template and slap it on him. Advice would be greatly appreciated.
After reading through the books, I think I'm in the "likely never to run this" camp. The reason for me is that it feels like there is a disconnect between the aims and philosophies underlying the AP. A big part of the life of a pirate is freedom, which conflicts with the claustrophobic nature of a dungeon crawl, and the overall tone of paizo's writers leans heavily toward the dungeon more than anything else. I'm not saying they're necessarily bad, or that no one else could possibly have fun with this AP. Just that for me to run it would mean heavily modifying it to the point that I might as well write my own.
Fire Mountain Games wrote:
Spartacus is one of my favorite shows; I love to watch how the fortunes of the characters rise and fall in relation to one another, because they're tied so heavily together. I think a gladiatorial campaign would need a cohesiveness to it throughout the adventures so it doesn't become this string of empty bouts. It's one of the things I like best about WotW. I wrote an outline for the first adventure for this kind of campaign, but I haven't gotten back to it. If anyone can write the heck out of it, it'd be Gary.
Ruloc wrote:
Incredible. I think I stared at my computer, dumbstruck, for at least a minute upon seeing this. It's exactly what I was looking for. You, sir, are an extremely talented artist. Thanks again for doing this.
Hey, just stumbled onto this thread and I've got to say, the art here is pretty amazing. I'd like to get your take on a character I'll be running in Skull & Shackles in the next few weeks. His name is Vaidan Cross, the Seaflame. He is a human Pyromancer, and wears a porcelain mask over a burn-scarred face, with scraggly raven hair, a black coat jangling with pirate jewelry, and a slight hunch in his back. Kind of like a fire-obsessed Joker. Thanks for doing this!
Secondsight wrote:
I hear Green Ronin will be coming out with its own fantasy setting for the AGE system in 2013, one not tied to the Dragon Age setting.
Fire Mountain Games wrote:
I was thinking of something quite similar: Spoiler: Godsmouth Heresy looks like a great intro, and easy to place too. I won't be running Way of the Wicked until the summer so that should give me plenty of time to plan. The mansion and cults are great ideas. I'll probably shine the mansion in a kind of Resident Evil light for the good guys (maybe one of the nascent monsters has grown bold in Thorn's absence and decided to become king of the manor, ordering the rest of his/her motley assortment around!).
The bugbear war also has some great opportunities for heroics. I'm guessing there are thorps and hamlets in harms way after Balentyne burns? A high ranking cleric in the Holy Order of Saint Macarius has relatives there, perhaps, and cannot go himself to save them? Show off the horrors of war and such, and I can take advantage of the power that sparks from that narrative movement as evil rises and good falls, with the characters at the epicenter. Hmmm...Now you've got me thinking seriously about it. It's madness I tell you! But it could work... Thanks for the suggestions Gary, and keep up the great work. This should be an interesting summer, regardless.
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