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Hey guys, sorry about the long silence from me. I've sort of withdrawn from most of my regular life for the last month or so.

I am going to try to get myself going again.

Hope it gets easier for you. Let us know if there is anything we can do to help.

Oh, you bastard, you're turning this into a Dead Rising escort mission.

I don't believe you can target squares with 'target: creature' spells, only attack rolls.

Ah, you are correct. Magic section states you must be able to see or touch someone to target them with spells that don't require attack rolls. So maybe you could target an invisible creature if you can reach out and touch it? Which would probably provoke an AoO if it was a foe? Expect table variation.

Chomper lurks in the doorway like a massive tentacled teacher for his unsuspecting students.

Huh. Not sure how I managed to do it, but I read the situation as being one guy opening the door to us and talking with another across the way and more heavily injured.

I'm cool with moving forward.

I am always a proponent of playing up when given the choice, but no one said I was smart. Either way, that's my vote.

If I join in it'll have to be with my Summoner 7, which would push it into high tier. Are there any objections? It would also be my first PbP, so no hard feelings if you'd rather I sit out on this one.

You were pretty great yourself, Mizkitty. I just wish we had more time to hang out. Maybe next year Cyzzane and I can be GMs instead of HQ, and thus do some actual gaming with you.

Oh, and yeah, TOZ is my bio-bro. Cyzzane is still best sister evar though.

Well, I still haven't been able to find it, but thank you. I'll keep looking.

A few months back I found a web diagram/bubble plot/flow chart that showed what scenarios were connected by key story points or NPCs. Unfortunately, I didn't bother to save it and have since been unable to find it. Does anyone know what I'm referring to/have something similar that they could share?
Many of my friends say they don't like the idea of PFS because they can't follow the meta-story very well. I'd like to use such a diagram to quickly reference what scenarios to run for them that will give a more cohesive feeling to the world.

An interesting situation came up recently. I run an summoner with an eidolon that is designed to look like a chain-chomp. As such, it does not have any limb evolutions. While I was aware that they could not wield weapons without said evolution, according to the GM my eidolon also would not be able to use the disable device skill, or at least wouldn't be able to use the tools and would take a penalty. I couldn't really find any information one way or another in searching the forum/prd, so what do you all think? What actions are hampered by a lack of the limb (arms) evolution?

Good show Expax!

Something to keep in mind, there are 1st level scenarios that you can play multiple times for credit (First Steps 1 through 3 and We Be Goblins for example), assuming you apply it to different characters each time. I believe that GMing those multiple times gives you credit just as if you had played it with a level 1.

Considering that there is a specific No you can't do this from campaign head...this is NOT RAI. It is very much RAW that you messing with other people's faction mission is indeed against the PFS don't be a jerk rule. So yeah, don't do it...period.

I haven't had the time to read over everything in the forums so far (read: 8 total posts to date), so all I had to work with is the GtOP. Hopefully, the next update to it will clarify just what aspects the community feels to be under the bullying clause so that other semi-new folks will have a better understanding. Especially given the way people talk about how certain factions, Cheliax and Andoran specifically, feel about one another. Is there a master thread of things that the campaign heads have stated that haven't necessarily made it into the rules errata yet? (The stickies and additional resources pages don't seem to cover it, though I could be blind.)

Deliberately sabatoging faction mission, even if it is what your character would do, is explicitly violating the rules of PFS.

Reading over the Guide to Organized Play, I find I have to disagree with this statement. Undermining someone's faction mission may be considered illegal as RAI, but not RAW. While it could fall under the No Bullying Rule, I would think it only applies if your character would not have had any reason to do so. "Oh, you disappeared during the last combat for unexplained reasons and I almost got killed? Hell no you can't have this thing we found" would be a completely legitimate action to take.

In this particular example I do find the other players to be at fault, but my feeling is that the GM should have allowed it and forced an alignment change. Sure, the fighter might not have had much of a problem with it, but the cleric certainly would have.

I literally BROKE EVEN on gold, meaning this entire debacle was for nothing but 1 EXP.

My condolences for finding some bad players, and I hope you don't think the community at large is like this. Maybe some in person play might be better if you can find it? How is it you only got EXP though? Did the entire group fail the overall mission as well? If so, you can take some solace in knowing that they only got 1 prestige themselves.

Even though a scenario or module presents the GM with some set factors (tactics, room layout, creatures, etc), its still all rests with the GM to present and play those factors with his own spin and style. You can have two different people GM the same scenario and have two entirely different levels of difficulty in the fights. That's part of the reason why each reoccurance of a scenario is an entirely different experience.

I can't agree with this enough. A perfect example is the Temple of Empyreal Enlightenment. My group made it through that without ever seeing half of the bad things we could have. It was still completely enjoyable, but nothing of a challenge. Discussing it later with TriOmegaZero, I found out about all kinds of nasties that we missed due to the timing of player choices and the fact the the GM hadn't had time to prepare before hand. As much as I appreciated his willingness to run a scenario he wasn't completely familiar with, I wish it had been a different one.

The only time I have played up was during The Hydra Fang Incident. I was using my gnome barbarian, and we were doing fairly well. We rushed on without snagging loot though, so one of our heavy hitters decided to stay behind and search the bodies without telling everyone else (I think it had to do with his faction mission), which meant that I couldn't just hang out and avoid combat. I ended up getting mauled viciously by a Seacat after falling into the water near it. 2 hp left, I stuck my hook hammer in his eye for a 4x critical. Had I fallen from its first attack, or not gotten lucky with an uncommonly powerful critical, it would have dragged me off to be eaten.

Moral of the story? There are a lot of variables, and playing up is likely to get someone killed, even if you have a large party.

One thing that has always bothered me about names in fictional settings... why don't we have two people with the same first name?

I've worked in an office with 3 people named John. Out of 5 people.

And please-please-please pick a name I can say... one that is easy for me to read and remember.

if your PCs name is 15 characters long and has more X's and Q's then vowels... please try to understand when I call you "Bob".

I have heard that the most common first name in the world is
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and the most common last name?

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I was very disappointed to learn that David and Wong are not the most common first and last names respectively.

Y'know, that's the thing. I've never understood the naming conventions of almost all the races, unless they have names like Bloodmaw or Barkskin or something. Can someone explain them to me?

I don't have my rulebooks on hand, so I can't be sure, but I believe that there are detailed descriptions of how the racial names work in them. If not, I know there are sample names in them that you can extrapolate other names from, and there are explanations in the companion guides for races (Gnomes of Golarion for example). Sorry I can't give you more details off the top of my head.

So basically, as long as there is 1 conscious PC after the combat, then everyone eventually wakes up. If the party is all dropped below 0, but left alive, that is when things get interesting.

I would assume that, given the errata that adds "Heal" to the list of purchasable services, if all party members are unconscious but stable then they would have to pay, either with the 660 gp (pooled or not) or with the 2 prestige, for the service to wake someone up who would then be able to tend to the others and allow them to heal. Any pc's who are bleeding out when their attackers leave them be would be required to make their stabilization checks before leaving the table, either stopping the flow of blood or dying.

*sighs* Some of the people at PaizoCon...

Of course, my brother and his friends were little better.

We try.

Generally speaking, I find that any name can be used, so long as you have a reason for it. The different races have name conventions, so you can easily design a name that fits, but if you have a backstory that justifies what you chose then it should be fine (like my human named gnome).