Hrugor Gurstweld

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**** Pathfinder Society GM. 99 posts (102 including aliases). 4 reviews. No lists. 1 wishlist. 31 Organized Play characters.


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This might be where I start subscribing again to the APs!

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Paizo sure loves their oozes. As a GM, I approve.
As a player, I still have trauma from the Ssssssslithering.

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This either looks like it would be a terrible idea to play with my warpriest, or an awesome idea.

Probably both.

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I cannot believe I missed this post. Hope it's all going well!

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Pathfinders are throwing a party? Nothing could possiblie go wrong.

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Great, but if that skull says his name is Morte, I'm checking my back for tattoos.

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Well, looks like Sir Valen, Knight Reclaimant Liberator Champion of Arazni might get some serious use out of this book!

And even if he doesn't, it sounds great.

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When my son was young, we'd grab some minis, I'd draw some rooms on a Paizo flip-mat, and we'd just have them go at it. I'm pretty sure Optimus Prime made an appearance at one point.

The Astral Giant was his favorite mini. I don't remember much about it, but I do remember just spending time with him in my lap, in our guestroom, at the corner desk, rolling dice, making up rules.

Now he sends me the most ridiculous memes through discord, and he wants to play a mind flayer of some kind in our game with my brother and my brother's daughter.

I'm so grateful.

Scarab Sages 4/5 ****

Should I be concerned that Arioch's symbol is being used? I'm not sure I can handle all that Chaos.

Scarab Sages 4/5 ****

I know that the "GMs purchasing boons" bug is a known thing, but is it possible to essentially act as though it's working? As in, keeping record of it and purchasing the boon when it gets fixed?

I have finished running book 1 of EC, and would love to put my Shoony into play.

Alternatively, is there an ETA on the fix?

Scarab Sages 4/5 ****

So I feel like my wizard with his familiar and MC witch with his spell-giving familiar will be ok. I'd probably never use the witch familiar--I'd only use my better wizard familiar.

Scarab Sages 4/5 ****

I would say the language is unclear enough that I now do not how to move forward with one of my characters. He's a GM baby, so I can wait, but the point is, I'm not sure what to do.

Class: Wizard with familiar thesis

Archetype: MC Witch

The idea for the character is a Miskatonic Professor who just MAY have spent a little too much time letting the abyss look back at him, so now, rather than having access to only arcane spells, there's some occult goodness, too.

But--if I can only have one minion/AC/whatever, I don't even know if this is actually playable.

I also don't have a problem with players have only one extra thing in the combat--I GM enough to be moderately irritated when one player's turn takes 20 minutes while everyone else's takes 5. With the above character, I'd never bother using the MC witch familiar do anything--but I need it in game so I have access to my spells.

tl;dr I hope the language about allies, minions, etc gets cleared up. I think there's been a lot of good editing in the online guide so far, and I'm optimistic.

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I love PFS 2. The scenarios have been so engaging. Not gonna lie--you had me as a complete convert at The Mosquito Witch (my favorite adventure in at least the past 10 Years).

I'm not surprised to see changes in Organized Play, as the system is still new, kinks and bus are being worked out, etc. There are, ah, other systems that have had MUCH more radical changes made, for sure. I do echo some of the frustration about, well, dropping the change to fame on the player base. It's a bit unclear as to why I should be no longer awarding fame--what exactly is replacing it? I'm not privy to all the VO discussions, so I don't really know what's going on, and I can't tell my players anything.

I realize that this is going to sound like a criticism, and I suppose it is, but--

Paizo isn't exactly known for its website capability.

I don't understand why we'd want the website to handle more complexity, when it historically hasn't been able to handle its current level of complexity.

Who cares what I think? It really doesn't matter. But Paizo hasn't demonstrated the credibility that gives the player base confidence in its website being the final arbiter of Organized Play. I hope that, moving forward, it can.

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I'm torn between "Cool! I know lot of people like summoners" And "oh god, not again. There goes the game, just like last time". I doubt it will work like that. My scars are still healing :D

Scarab Sages 4/5 ****

Oh right, RSP was for possibly earning those seasonal boons. But everyone got a chance at that, right? It wasn't that GMs got MORE chances.

Scarab Sages 4/5 ****

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Nefreet, I'm not sure where you're getting the idea that a weekly game ever qualified for any special bonus for running games. It never did for PFS1, and so far hasn't for PFS2. I have NO experience with Starfinder, so I can't speak to that.

My understanding (limited though it may be) is that running a game at a 'regular' event would give typical AcP.

Running at a local con or special event would be the next tier.

Running at GenCon, PaizoCon, PaizoConUK, and maybe Origins, would be the top tier.

I understand that second tier could be spelled out better. I would be surprised if any RVC would consider a consistent weekly recurring game in a store a 'special event'. I don't think that was ever implied, nor intended.

Scarab Sages 4/5 ****

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Yep, really appreciate the short fiction! Also, SUPER stoked about all three of these!

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Alright. Rule one. Go kill the thing. Rule two. Go take its stuff.

Congratulations for your completion of the murder-hobo training.

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Rysky, isn't it ALWAYS Valsin?

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Might have to import some Royal Homeland Constabulary folks from Zeitgeist for this!

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Folks, I have a question about the haunt in the demiplane. It seems really easy to get rid of. Someone with master proficiency or higher makes a 38 religion check and the haunt is gone for an hour. Is that 1 action? And then have an hour to crit.

Does it just take one check to disable the haunt?

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Performance pieces, eh?

Sounds like a BLAST! I'm totally up for helping that happen online if it can. Otherwise, I look forward to helping up in physical space.

Scarab Sages 4/5 ****

I cannot find anything else about this. I wanted to craft some alchemical items at the end of the last scenario I played. However, I didn't have enough cash to pay for the half of the items.

If at the end of the adventure I receive my share of money (I.E. treasure bundles), I would have had enough money.

So my question is about the timing of events. Do I receive my money, and then make my downtime rolls (either dayjob or crafting).

Narratively, it makes sense to receive your money and THEN be able to do your crafting. However, I also understand that everything has to be done before you receive your chronicle sheet.

Is there an actual ruling about this, written down somewhere? It's not really that serious--I'll just start crafting them on my next scenario--but I would like to know if there is some order to these things.

Thanks!

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Does anyone know what the two extra abilities listed for the soulbound ruin do? They aren't listed in the stat block in the back.

Scarab Sages 4/5 ****

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Rich, thanks for posting all the help, and BNW, thanks for the guide you wrote. Maybe I'll see you guys online again sometime soon.

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Great, thanks! Yep, I can see the two higher ups waiting for the party to come to them. When I was reading the maps, I just noticed how close the rooms were.

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Is there any "real world" reason the rakshasa and laslunn wouldn't run into the room to reinforce the poisoners in the quarry? They'd have to hear it!

Scarab Sages 4/5 ****

DrParty I also never had my subscription filled. I bought both scenarios yesterday independently as well. Not sure what happened.

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Does the metaplot tag indicate that this is part of a series, or is that referencing an ongoing plot of the season?

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When will I be able to download this if I have the subscription?

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Thanks folks! I was clearly looking in the wrong part.

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Part of the rewards in Cypress indicate 5 silver ingots and 4 mithral chunks. Is there a monetary value for those?

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I'm fairly certain there are wind environment effects, but the scenario doesn't make it entirely clear if it's just for the one effect in the last combat, or through the entire last combat. I read it as describing the one, localized effect. That made archers feel less useless.

Also, telekinetic projectile is hilarious.

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Mr. Compton, I really think you guys have been hitting it out of the park with PFS2 scenarios. I've never (well, I don't think I have...I'm getting older, and, well....) written a review before. I didn't go into all the details, but this scenario is incredibly good. I really am looking to run it more often.

I feel like these scenarios have been doing a great job of combining the new mechanics with really good stories, and stories are why I personally play RPGs. Yeah, yeah, I know there are some proof-reading mistakes that probably make it through, but whatever.

Maybe this sounds weird (and maybe I've had too much bourbon tonight [is that even possible?]), but I'm really proud of the PF2 folks at Paizo. I freakin' love it. I've run all of the high level PFS scenarios, several times, and I got really burnt out. I'm really enjoying what's been done so far for PF2, and PF2s, and I'm looking forward to all the great things to come.

OK, time to finish my coke and bourbon. Sigh....it's Beam, not Maker's, but it'll do, pig, it'll do.

Scarab Sages 4/5 ****

I can't find how many actions the extruder gets. Is it three? So it spits out three "oozes" each round?

Scarab Sages 4/5 ****

Hmm, I probably should actually report my games so I can get my glyph :)

Wait, that means actually reading things and learning where to report those. I'm so far behind. I might start considering myself a Luddite.

Also...get off my lawn

JCM

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I had thought that uncommon races would be available based on achievement points.

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I can't believe how disappointed I am in you all. Not a single mention of the Tom Sawyer reference. Kids these days.

Also...get off my lawn.

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Has anyone started a GM Discussion page for PFS2?

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Definitely still showing as unavailable for me, as well.

Scarab Sages 4/5 ****

Aha! My very own Randy received his 5th star! Way to go! I'd like to thank him for running all the post EotT games so that the Firebomber, Hellknight, and Paladin could reunite. It's not the same without your sparkly ranger, though. Seriously, thanks for the sacrifice, Randy!

Scarab Sages 4/5 ****

I'm really interested in getting that Feather touch monk archtype available in PFS. In fact, it seems the PERFECT archtype for a group of people that (supposedly) more interested in the exploration than the killing.

Edit: well, poop, my stars aren't showing. Oh well.

Scarab Sages 4/5 ****

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Pretty much the only thing I'd want to do is have a subtotal at the bottom of the gold before money spent.

Scarab Sages 4/5 ****

As I've learned recently first hand, if we're that concerned about farmers, how about just not letting them sit at your table?

Scarab Sages 4/5 ****

And I completely disagree with the assessment that replay killed 4E. I loved 4E, but I was (am) in the minority. LFR was killed because way too many people hated 4E--not because of replay.

Also, and this is EXTREMELY significant--there were NO rewards for DMing in 4E. NONE.

OK, I've changed my mind. The complete lack of rewards for DMing in 4E was what killed OP. Also, people hated it.

Scarab Sages 4/5 ****

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My problem with people hating on option four is as follows--

1E will effectively be a "dead" campaign. As an organized play format, it will NEVER grow, no matter replay or not. Would replay truly make GMs quite 1E? Wouldn't they likely already quit to move on to SFS and 2E?

As a collaboration, what if we keep the current replay model, then, after season 1 of 2E comes to a close, unlimited replay opens up?

Scarab Sages 4/5 ****

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As a soon to be 4 star GM who was hoping to get to 5 (I probably still could)...

I prefer a complete reset for 2E. Leave the 1E stars in place, but they don't really have any effect on 2E.

The Stars is an actual mechanic in 1E--you can't run some adventures until you have 4 stars. I understand the reasoning behind that *is* system mastery. It would make no sense to have those for a system that no one has mastered yet.

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I'm sure your cleric would be very useful and helpful. Connections to any of the deities in the player's guide would be pretty great, especially the Rose

I just found out about the Hunter with the courtly archetype. I REALLY would like to play one of these in Hell's Rebels myself. Just a thought.

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Totally unrelated, but is there going to be word this week on volunteering for Origins?


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