I'm not quite sure about starting up in significant org play again, but I really like how some of these plot points sound. Hope to see some high level scenarios to let me keep playing some of my old favorites.
One thing to Consider... Lasmashtu might not be mentioned because perhaps she *Penned* these false prophecies... I feel like it could be significant that she was left out completely but it doesn't have to be that shes the one that dies.
I always was a little suspicious of that beast from Erastil's prophecy and the references to nightmares. I agree with this stance...
I'll take it one step further. These were all abandoned plans. Lamashtu is the killer. This wouldn't be the first god she killed, and honestly, it'd be nice to have her have some proper villain behavior.
I’d be pretty pissed if they killed off Shelyn. She’s been used as a poster child of PF’s queer rep, and it’d be obnoxiously edgy to kill her off given her role in the pantheon.
I don't like this take, as I feel like it diminishes Shelyn as a character. Yes, it's easy to show her artwork with Sarenrae and Desna to a queer person and say "Poly Lesbians=Pathfinder Good" but if you presented me with the same characters with the same dynamic and told me nothing bad and permanent would ever happen to them under threat of being edgy or "burying the gays" I'd roll my eyes. If there are no stakes, there isn't really much of a conflict. No conflict means there isn't a story. I've played Pathfinder long enough to know is representation everywhere. I've stat at multiple Pathfinder Society tables with brand new players and explained to them about Kyra and Merisiel when they're picking their first characters. If you read adventures, a lot of NPCs are highlighted for their different sexualities, romantic attractions, or gender status, even if it's not relevant to the adventure. I don't think anyone should be off the table just because they're queer rep.
The LGBT experience can be a messy one. Sometimes tragic things happen, and we don't get to keep the happiness we find. For me, Lamashtu represents my queer experience more than anyone in The Prismatic Ray, to the point where I have her holy symbol tattooed on me. While I don't want anything to happen to her, that's the way the story plays out sometimes. It won't diminish my fondness for her (if anything, it might strengthen it), and I won't call out Paizo for having an agenda, good or bad, behind the selection besides trying to tell a compelling story.
It's been confirmed the Prismatic Ray is going to be shaken up. I know many people are calling for more members to be added, but I foresee a character leaving or being replaced. My current main theory is that Zon-Kuthon dies and Shelyn becomes more distant overall in grief or in pursuit of answers.
I feel like Numeria is an undersold aspect of the Inner Sea region. Expedition to the Barrier Peaks is one of the most iconic heroic fantasy adventures of all time, and instead of one dungeon, we have an entire nation. There's so much you can do: robots, aliens, androids, and it works within the setting rather than just being an isolated one off. Even Casandalee is right there. It's my second favorite area of the Inner Sea, and I'd love to see it more, even if it's just Org Play bounties/scenarios and one off adventures as a litmus test.
Is Nixret supposed to be an iconic? If so, what class and ancestry?
I believe Nixret was created just for this story, but she may have made a cameo earlier that I can't recall. She's a kobold from the Sewer Dragon tribe.
If you're unaware, the Sewer Dragons reside under Absalom. You meet them in a few scenarios from PFS1 and again 2-05 from PFS2. They're extremely close with the Pathfinder Society, and it's not uncommon for members to become Pathfinders.
Pretty sure they left around the 2015-16 time frame. Baldman Game's runs their AL content For Gen Con, Past Time Events runs their Magic stuff. Other than their in-house conventions, I think they only show for like the Paxes and Gary Con anymore.
Hmmm. A bit more restrictive than I was expecting. I wasn't expecting any of the undead archetypes and skeleton I was expecting 160+ ACP, but I feel like Hallowed Necromancer really fills in a playstyle gap that the campaign is missing. And I may have wanted to turn my lost pet into a ghost familiar.
I'm excited for a special that doesn't directly tie into the metaplot, but still touches upon past scenarios. I'm also happy to have one the character that played those scenarios be the most irl convention friendly and not risk of leveling out.
Anyone want to have a meetup where we play the specials together akin to the lan parties of yore? Maybe even try to get in the same table(s) to simulate the in person experience with a virtual GM?
The Seattle area lodges tend to congregate on the Emerald Lodge discord server found here: https://discord.gg/hnsYuHe As of right now, it's purely online as I don't believe any store in the area is having in-person play.
Under normal conditions, you'd probably want to hit up Phoenix Comics and Games on Broadway. It's a great comic shop with decent event space. Mox Bellevue is also worth a trip at least once.
Going back to the original question, I don't think so. My first lodge formed at the start of season 6. It was in the middle of nowhere with 8 active to semi-active players. Any con with GM support was 2.5+ hours away and often required an overnight trip. A lot of players felt it was unfair to have to pay out of pocket to attend a con, and then also have to GM for race boons, so they didn't. We also had players who refused outright to GM even at a local level. For those players, with their perspective, non-common races are more available than ever before.
Yes, other races opened up as time went on back in 1e, and I believe this will continue until 2e.In the moment, however, as long as you're participating in org play, you're still progressing toward unlocking something, even if you don't have the time to prep, can't play regularly, or otherwise feel uncomfortable GM'ing. You can have a kobold and play 20 games, 10 con or RSP games, or 7 premium support games for your first locked uncommon.
After playing 2e for about a year, an associate on a discord server asked me to GM an AP as a favor. I said sure, but after about 2 weeks, I regretted it. I completed the first chapter, then work got in the way and I was somewhat thankful for it. It was the final nail in the coffin for 1e.
I think 2e has a much better gauge on the power-threat level. Play feels more powerful across levels, but also the threats feel in accordance with that power. I (almost) never feel anything anything is unfair or a cakewalk on either side of the screen.
I occasionally miss my dips and multiple archetypes, but I don't think I'll be going back, and I know 5e isn't for me. Maybe Starfinder org play because I feel like they've had some good stories, I'm still interested in other non-D&D/PF games since they scratch a different itch.
Those are the bugs/workarounds I'm aware of. If none of those apply, report the issue to pfsreportingerrors@paizo.com. include the event code, session number, your paizo id, character number and details of what you were trying to buy, but getting rejected.
Thanks. None of those worked, unfortunately. I suspect it is because it's 2-00 and the multiple tiers. Sending an email now.
We had an interesting discussion over on my local PFS lodge's discord and thought I would bring it up to a wider audience.
A number of spells and effects target a living creature. The basic question is do the rules make an unseen servant be a living creature?
We had an incident where a GM ruled that a haunt did not trigger for a US but did for someone's familiar, and it it ended up killing said familiar; the basis for this was the idea of the haunt triggering on a living creature. While we're generally fine with the ruling in the moment, there has been much discussion on the subject, and we're in 3 camps.
1. Because it is classified as a creature and does not have any trait that says otherwise, it is living.
2. Because it is classified as a creature but otherwise does not have a trait that indicates it is living, that it is not a living creature.
3. The fringe that says it has a creature stat block just because it is a conjuration spell and can be damaged, but otherwise it should probably not be considered a creature and instead just a targetable mobile blob of force energy.
So, my characters tend to be inspired random bits that get rattled together in my head and see what falls out. I'm going to use -2001-2004 as some examples.
My -2001 is inspired by the former aspis agent background. One has to ask themselves, who would pivot from starting as Aspis to being Pathfinder. Someone repentent? Maybe, but why not join something like the Knights of Lastwall. Someone irreverant? I'd argue this as being more likely. So, we pick the ranger, and what can a ranger be irreverant to without actively harming the party or being a jerk to a potential novice gm? Their animal companion. So I tend to tell people not to heal it, offer to sacrifice it for minimal advantage, boot it during introductions, etc. I half joke about picking up trick magic device just for a wand of final sacrifice, and explode the damn thing just to save on travel expenses every couple of scenarios.
My -2002 is loosely inspired by the idea of we're living in a simulation. He argues that since Casandalee's ascension, the likelihood of all these major upheavals across the inner sea happening in such rapid succession is almost zero, and as such, it must be a simulation. He frees people from this simulation with negative energy to offset the energy in the simulation.
My -2003 is inspired by my one of my favorite songs from a musical and a very solid pun.
My -2004, should a certain something should be sanctioned, will be about as close to a literal cartoon character you can get.
Still pending. Luckily I live close enough that if it ships tomorrow, I'll probably still get it in time for Gen Con. Hells, I'd road trip up to the warehouse if it helped expedite things.
Not to necro, but can I get an interpretation of the hazard in Encounter B's crit fail result. It says the PC loses 1d4 actions worth of air, but suffocation seems to be a round by round action, and the actions you take on your turn determine how many rounds you lose
Would I shave it off the end (lose 3 actions=lose 1 round, but nothing before that) or would I deny them actions on their next turn?
I trawled through the PFS2 Guide and I couldn't find a similar statement. But I think it would be good to add it, since GMs do get Downtime and boons like Curse Breaker and Crafter's Workshop are mandatory to slot until you finish the crafting process.
The only thing relevant I could find it the example text for applying multiple chronicle sheets. Emphasis mine.
Pathfinder Society Guide to Play (second edition) wrote:
Example: Aubrey is a GM. Over the course of a convention, she runs four scenarios, and she assigns all four of them to the same character, Kyralos. Before any of these Chronicle sheets, Kyralos had just reached level 3. Aubrey applies Chronicle sheets to Kyralos one at a time. She wants to spend all of her Downtime to Earn Income, using her Scribing Lore. For the first three Chronicle sheets, Kyralos is level 3, and her bonus on Scribing Lore is +5. She doesn’t have any special boons or rewards that help her find better tasks, but she can always find tasks of up to her level -2, as described in the Downtime section of this guide. So Kyra finds three level 1 tasks and rolls three Scribing Lore checks against DC 15, the standard DC for a level 1 task on page 503 of the Core Rulebook. For her next Chronicle sheet, Kyralos is level 4. Aubrey levels up Kyralos to 4, which increases Kyralos’s bonus on Scribing Lore to +6, and allows her to always find level 2 tasks. Now Aubrey rolls one check at +6 against a DC of 16. While her chances of success are the same in this particular example, this level 2 task lets Kyra earn more money.
I assume the intent is there, but it's such a piece of minutiae
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So, here's a bit of an oddball question I haven't been able to find a direct answer on, or any discussion really. Are GM's able to slot boons for their GM credit characters?
Obviously, it wouldn't affect play, but it may affect downtime as a GM. A lot of boons can offer different downtime activities, such as off-hours study or practiced medicine. I think getting some clarification on this topic would really help.
I ran it now a second time. The group was very happy until - well - they failed on the last part after managing everything else. Only got 2 out of 5. So overall - zero fame. One player felt pretty personal about it and at least one other regular of mine chalked it up as 'experience' but you heard between the lines a certain disappointment.
Group 2 player here. We definitely had a below par composition for this adventure. None of us were social characters, only one intelligent character, and none of us had the lores.
The biggest impact for me, and likely the rest of the players, was the fact that there's such a disconnect between the first 80% of the adventure where you earn your treasure and the last 20% where you earn your fame and prestige. We did extremely well during the combat encounters and diplomacy checks but hit a bad patch of randomization during the critical part making a lot of it feel pointless. I think it would have gone over between if the first set fame and prestige was either 3/5 -or- both diplomats and second was 5/5 or 3/5 and both diplomats.
When I do get around to running this, I might add a bit of dialogue letting the pc's know just how important the meeting is compared to anything that might happen before it to prevent any feelsbad.
Instead of changing tier cutoffs, has it been consider giving every player in the lower tier a level bump if it's within a certain range?
Player's numbers would be higher, but they wouldn't be as effective if they were truly in tier due to not having the same number of class feats, spells, etc.
Point of clarification: Since the AP's are strictly campaign mode this edition, do we have to play the entirety of the campaign to earn any of the sheets, or can you play piecemeal?
Combat:
Base Attack Bonus: +1
Melee Attack Bonus: +4 (1 BAB+ 3 Str)
Range Attack Bonus: +1 (1 BAB+ 0 Dex)
Combat Maneuver Bonus: 4 (1 BAB 3 Str) CM DC: 14 (10+ 1 Base + 3 Str + 0 Dex)
Morning Star +4 (1d8+3/20/P+B)
Dagger +4/+1 (1d4+3/19-20/S-P)
Sling +1 (1d4+3/20/B)
Racial Traits:
Ability Score Racial Traits:+2 Str
Half-orc characters gain a +2 bonus to one ability score of their choice at creation to represent their varied nature.+2 Type:
Half-orcs are Humanoid creatures with both the human and orc subtypes.
Size:
Half-orcs are Medium creatures and thus have no bonuses or penalties due to their size.
Base Speed:
Half-orcs have a base speed of 30 feet.
Languages:
Half-orcs begin play speaking Common and Orc. Half-orcs with high Intelligence scores can choose from the following: Abyssal, Draconic, Giant, Gnoll, and Goblin. See the Linguistics skill page for more information about these languages.
Feat and Skill Racial Traits
Shaman's Apprentice
Half-orcs with this trait gain Endurance as a bonus feat. This racial trait replaces the intimidating trait.
Weapon Familiarity:
Half-orcs are proficient with greataxes and falchions and treat any weapon with the word “orc” in its name as a martial weapon.
Sacred Tattoo
Many half-orcs decorate themselves with tattoos, piercings, and ritual scarification, which they consider sacred markings. Half-orcs with this racial trait gain a +1 luck bonus on all saving throws. This racial trait replaces orc ferocity.
Darkvision:
Half-orcs can see in the dark up to 60 feet.
Orc Blood:
Half-orcs count as both humans and orcs for any effect related to race.
Cleric:
Weapon and Armor Proficiency
Clerics are proficient with all simple weapons, light armor, medium armor, and shields (except tower shields). Clerics are also proficient with the favored weapon of their deities. Starknife
Aura (Ex) Chaotic Good
A cleric of a chaotic, evil, good, or lawful deity has a particularly powerful aura corresponding to the deity's alignment (see detect evil for details).
Channel Energy (Su) 1d6
Regardless of alignment, any cleric can release a wave of energy by channeling the power of her faith through her holy symbol. This energy can be used to cause or heal damage, depending on the type of energy channeled and the creatures targeted. A good cleric channels positive energy and can choose to deal damage to undead creatures or to heal living creatures. Channeling energy causes a burst that affects all creatures of one type (either undead or living) in a 30-foot radius centered on the cleric. The amount of damage dealt or healed is equal to 1d6 points of damage plus 1d6 points of damage for every two cleric levels beyond 1st (2d6 at 3rd, 3d6 at 5th, and so on). Creatures that take damage from channeled energy receive a Will save to halve the damage. The DC of this save is equal to 10 + 1/2 the cleric's level + the cleric's Charisma modifier. Creatures healed by channel energy cannot exceed their maximum hit point total—all excess healing is lost. A cleric may channel energy a number of times per day equal to 3 + her Charisma modifier. This is a standard action that does not provoke an attack of opportunity. A cleric can choose whether or not to include herself in this effect. A cleric must be able to present her holy symbol to use this ability.
Spells
A cleric casts divine spells which are drawn from the cleric spell list. Her alignment, however, may restrict her from casting certain spells opposed to her moral or ethical beliefs; see Chaotic, Evil, Good, and Lawful Spells. A cleric must choose and prepare her spells in advance. To prepare or cast a spell, a cleric must have a Wisdom score equal to at least 10 + the spell level. The Difficulty Class for a saving throw against a cleric's spell is 10 + the spell level + the cleric's Wisdom modifier. Like other spellcasters, a cleric can cast only a certain number of spells of each spell level per day. Her base daily spell allotment is given on Table: Cleric. In addition, she receives bonus spells per day if she has a high Wisdom score (see Table: Ability Modifiers and Bonus Spells). Clerics meditate or pray for their spells. Each cleric must choose a time at which she must spend 1 hour each day in quiet contemplation or supplication to regain her daily allotment of spells. Time spent resting has no effect on whether a cleric can prepare spells. A cleric may prepare and cast any spell on the cleric spell list, provided that she can cast spells of that level, but she must choose which spells to prepare during her daily meditation.
Chaotic, Evil, Good, and Lawful Spells:
A cleric can't cast spells of an alignment opposed to her own or her deity's (if she has one). Spells associated with particular alignments are indicated by the chaotic, evil, good, and lawful descriptors in their spell descriptions.
Orisons
Clerics can prepare a number of orisons, or 0-level spells, each day, as noted on Table: Cleric under “Spells per day.” These spells are treated like any other spell, but they are not expended when cast and may be used again.
Domains
A cleric's deity influences her alignment, what magic she can perform, her values, and how others see her. A cleric chooses two domains from among those belonging to her deity.
Luck Domain
Granted Powers: You are infused with luck, and your mere presence can spread good fortune.
Bit of Luck (Sp):
You can touch a willing creature as a standard action, giving it a bit of luck. For the next round, any time the target rolls a d20, he may roll twice and take the more favorable result. You can use this ability a number of times per day equal to 3 + your Wisdom modifier.
Good Fortune (Ex):
At 6th level, as an immediate action, you can reroll any one d20 roll you have just made before the results of the roll are revealed. You must take the result of the reroll, even if it's worse than the original roll. You can use this ability once per day at 6th level, and one additional time per day for every six cleric levels beyond 6th.
Domain Spells: 1st—true strike, 2nd—aid, 3rd—protection from energy, 4th—freedom of movement, 5th—break enchantment, 6th—mislead, 7th—spell turning, 8th—moment of prescience, 9th—miracle.
Travel Domain
Granted Powers: You are an explorer and find enlightenment in the simple joy of travel, be it by foot or conveyance or magic. Increase your base speed by 10 feet.
Agile Feet (Su):
As a free action, you can gain increased mobility for 1 round. For the next round, you ignore all difficult terrain and do not take any penalties for moving through it. You can use this ability a number of times per day equal to 3 + your Wisdom modifier.
Dimensional Hop (Sp):
At 8th level, you can teleport up to 10 feet per cleric level per day as a move action. This teleportation must be used in 5-foot increments and such movement does not provoke attacks of opportunity. You must have line of sight to your destination to use this ability. You can bring other willing creatures with you, but you must expend an equal amount of distance for each creature brought.
Domain Spells: 1st—longstrider, 2nd—locate object, 3rd—fly, 4th—dimension door, 5th—teleport, 6th—find the path, 7th—teleport (greater), 8th—phase door, 9th—astral projection.
Spontaneous Casting
A good cleric can channel stored spell energy into healing spells that she did not prepare ahead of time. The cleric can “lose” any prepared spell that is not an orison or domain spell in order to cast any cure spell of the same spell level or lower (a cure spell is any spell with “cure” in its name).
Bonus Languages
A cleric's bonus language options include Celestial, Abyssal, and Infernal (the languages of good, chaotic evil, and lawful evil outsiders, respectively). These choices are in addition to the bonus languages available to the character because of her race.
Feats, Traits &Skills:
Feats:
Selective Channeling
If you channel you can exclude up to Cha-Modifier creatures from your channels
Endurance
Benefit: You gain a +4 bonus on the following checks and saves: Swim checks made to resist nonlethal damage from exhaustion; Constitution checks made to continue running; Constitution checks made to avoid nonlethal damage from a forced march; Constitution checks made to hold your breath; Constitution checks made to avoid nonlethal damage from starvation or thirst; Fortitude saves made to avoid nonlethal damage from hot or cold environments; and Fortitude saves made to resist damage from suffocation. You may sleep in light or medium armor without becoming fatigued.
Life is rarely nice to half-breeds. Born to a captured human woman, raped and raped again by her slaver Brocken was born as a poor lost soul. The dirt, the brutality, one learns at an early age that you need strength or guile to learn in an orc barren. Brocken had booth. Also a lot of common sense, not something often seen in orcish society. It makes your live easier, but can make you life also a lot harder. Brocken was taken by the barrens shaman “Blood-is-Wisdom”as apprentice, together with 5 other younglings at the age of 5. Seven years later, there was only Brocken left. The others had succumbed to regular beatings, little food, scaring and worse. One day Brocken was tasked to gather water from a special pond. He never returned to the barren. Running as fast as he could he escaped from his hard life.
His hard life had never broken his decency his mercy and sometimes… the gods reward you.
He was found by a traveling cleric of desna, who at first could not understand what his goddess had in mind for him, doubting the wisdom of accepting an half-bred as acolyte. But the hard life had made Brocken determined, and given him unparalleled endurance.
For many, many moons they traveled together, walking old paths and finding new. After his acolyteship was over Brocken chose
