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Hey all!

I kinda want to close Lady Gabrielle out as a Taldor purist, so can she earn 0 Fame with the Sovereign Court if possible?

Meanwhile, boon?: 1d20 ⇒ 17


Meranthi wrote:
But in terms of society legal content, I'm guessing you won't have much of anything for Gabrielle.

Yeah, I might just have to clone her for 2nd Ed or look at joining an AP.


Hey everyone! I'm slowly getting back into the groove of this PbP thing thanks to @Redelia. I'm also totally clueless about paizo.com since I haven't been here in a very long time.

I'm kicking around a little GMing experiment... Does anyone have a list of the sanctioned material beyond the PFS scenarios? Including level ranges if possible?


GM Redelia wrote:

PFS1 is not defunct. We still report scenarios on Paizo's website, and even still get boons from Paizo for our conventions. There are not new scenarios or books, but recently more APs have been given chronicle sheets.

Flaxseed lodge is still active, and PFS1 only. It's quiet right now because of GameDay, but I expect that soon recruitment will pick back up.

Oh wow! I'll have a look at that Flaxseed Lodge, thanks! There's been zero PFS, 2 or 1, in my country since the pandemic started, and digging up what I needed just to join this table, like the Guide to PFS PDF itself, was such an ordeal that I assumed the campaign was fan-run. There's nothing on Paizo.com itself about PFS1E but a link to the old messageboard, not even a link to First Steps 1 or The Confirmation.


@Falling Rock so even though PFS1E is defunct, Paizo is still governing it?


Sure, just let me play 33 scenarios with a Core Bard real quick here :(

Unless, and since Eyes Part 1 was that damn good... Am I able to access my mountain of GM credit from the pre-Core days and make a Core character?


Wrath of the Righteous and Return of the Runelords sound fun!

Lady Gabrielle ended up going through Eyes of the Ten for 13.2, then APs and mods to 19.2, and now here.

Now that PFS1E is kind of defunct, how do individual GMs feel about playing loose with the level caps? I would love to have Lady Gabrielle interact with the NPCs of Passing the Torch.


Yeah, Siege was after my time... Does it go all the way to 19th?

I'm just relishing the prospect of playing Lady Gabrielle again after all these years of dormancy. I'll take anything!


Dropping out of character...

My main frustrations with this whole special is that we were rushed through the interactions with the scenario itself and weren't really allowed to employ creative solutions. This was a Tier 1-5 scenario in how constrained we were in what methods we could employ! It's as if no effort was made to support anything beyond that, other than a couple lines of text!

If that's an okay approach for specials, then why don't they do the same with every scenario, just slap on a couple lines of text and have everything be 1-20?

And then, as insult to injury, we got rushed through the interactive pieces, and now, with weeks to spare, there's just nothing left you the GM are allowed to present to us, at all? That's awful!

-Matt


It means you have ten posts to lock in your avatar's name, here "Cazic Thule." How to change portraits? Umm... good question.


@James, I'm scared of rolling dice too, since it's been so long for me. Don't worry!

So is that tearing up by Cazic an ooc comment or something for us to play off of in-character?


So, armed with all this information, are we going to banter in the Gameplay thread, or what? Let's do this!


Hey everyone! My lady's reporting info is 2351-4.

So a bit of background. I haven't played Pathfinder 1E in a very long time, and PFS1E in even longer. Back in 2014, I had leveled a character all the way up to 19 2/3rds, and I GMed this special twice, feeling pretty accomplished that I got someone over the finish line, but I held out hope that maybe, just maybe, I'd get to play a 19th-level module or Special or something, so I never actually applied the GM Chronicle, because, well, if Paizo presented an opportunity, I had GM credit in my back pocket. But then I moved and never got to play PFS again.

Flash forward to now, I'm dipping my toes into 2nd Ed play by Discord, and what's this? Runecarved Key, *and there's a high table?* No way!

Honestly, I'm just ecstatic at the chance to roleplay the character again. I know this is high-level 1E and how efficient PCs are at vaporising baddies. But that's okay, because I mainly just want to try the persona on again, with the character coming out of PC retirement knowing that she's an incredibly talented and capable aristocrat (ignore those Ninja levels on her character sheet, that's just a records issue. Bureaucracy, am I right?)

I'll be playing Lady Gabrielle d'Apcher... Think Bruce Wayne crossed with Black Widow, but in an Alexandre Dumas novel that has finally gotten its anime reincarnation on Netflix. If that sounds like a Mary Sue, well, when your skill bonuses are as high as hers, the comparison can't be helped. She's basically an Exalted PC at this point; she can balance on tightropes, leap over tall buildings, beat Sherlock Holmes in pub quizzes, speak in six million forms of communication, talk the Worldwound into closing itself up, bring down the house as an opera soprano... but don't expect her to punch through walls. Or cook. That's what servants are for.

Thing is, Lady Gabrielle knows that superhuman feats at the grocery market tend to make people a little uneasy. So like our pal Bruce (Wayne, not Lee), she puts on a persona of talented-but-mortal. Respect and admiration are helpful, but fear is not. Amongst the Pathfinder Society, she passes herself off as unarmed, capable, but not comically weak. Ignore that ladies' fan she clutches obsessively; it's just for show and totally not made of mithral blades within the imported silk cloth.

As for game mechanics, I'm going to need some time with Archives of Nethys, because it's been a loooong time, and she's got a bunch of cash from finishing up Rise of the Runelords.

Glad to be here! Thank you so much for GMing!


Hi everyone!

Does anyone know of some good places to purchase 1E Pathfinder products in the UK, particularly the Adventure Paths?

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I've been out of the game for a long time, but I'd dust off my Chronicles and fly to a convention if I got to play my favorite high-level character for a weekend and witness an epic conclusion to the campaign. I'll even set aside the vacation time needed to bring her up to date with all the errata that's probably come out.

-Matt


Hey there! I would love to lurk and make peanut-gallery comments if that's OK. I have been out of the game for awhile, and I have a great feeling about War For the Crown and this group!


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I just dropped in after a long while to see what's been happening in Paizoland, and whoa! This is the campaign I've been wanting to see since forever! Whoever is responsible for coming up with this, you've found my Awesome Button and this might be, after so many years of role playing, be what finally pushes it.

I guess all I need now is a new gaming group...

-Matt


I'm glad I was shown this thread. I made it up to 20th level in PFS with a fan-using character.

Just think simply, I'd say. Simply and practically. Drop your average damage by a whopping one, and you can carry your weapon everywhere, not present a threat to anyone, obey rules of etiquette, and never have to explain to your GM how you have a weapon strapped to your back while having dinner.

On top of not looking like a silly murderhobo.

-Matt


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My auto insurer won't insure me anymore because my daily commute "frequently includes CR20+ encounters" (his words). #level20problems


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No one will play darts with me, because I only miss the bullseye 5% of the time. #level20problems


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My calves hurt because I had to take the stairs. There were no windows on the eighth floor for me to jump or fly up to. #level20problems


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I've been receiving morale bonuses for so long that I can't imagine going through life without magically-induced motivation. #level20problems


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I look Leadership. Now I have more followers than Asmodeus, and he's jealous. #level20problems


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My 20th-level PFS character has Rumormonger.

-Matt

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I like how the Phaedra piece goes the distance and includes ioun stones, items that like 99% of Pathfinders have but 0.1% of character art shows.

-Matt


I agree! I've got my RSS feed app set to these forum topics, so I am ready to go when you are!

-Matt


Hi there.


I just remembered... I know there's been some errata since we went on hiatus. And since I am playing a non-caster, Lady Gabrielle most likely got blasted by it. I may have to make a few changes as a result.

Oh... Did Unchained get any errata or clarifications?

-Matt


Present!


How are things going? Any word on the restart?

-Matt


Present! Hurray, you're back! I'm really glad to hear about your new job!

-Matt

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The players don't have to know that! Just let them think they are being totally unique and creative, no matter what path they are following.

-Matt

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Doesn't that fall under "Reward Creative Solutions?"

-Matt


Hey everyone! I was thinking about RPGs and Pathfinder recently, so I thought I'd check in with everybody and see how autumn is treating all of you. I haven't gotten to play in anything for quite awhile... How have the rest of your games been going? Any cool Pathfinder stories?

-Matt

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I believe Andrew Shumate has one as well. I think we have enough for a special table of something. Anything...

-Matt

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Nefreet wrote:


There are currently two known and confirmed level 20 PFS characters. You could be the third!

There is another?

-Matt


A feint chain requires fewer feats. I do like what you came up with, though.

-Matt

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Who is Princess Eutropia's mother?

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Why is the profoundness of a question measured by the asker's ability to confound with words? Is it the question that is profound, or is it an abstraction created by the speaker?

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How does one ask a creature a question that is pondered by a person?

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What sort of check does the target of Bewildering Koan have to make?


OK, cool. Thanks, James!

-Matt


Are people in Golarion able to seriously worship multiple deities with different alignments? Or are they confined to only one?

-Matt


Off the top of my head...

Spider Climb, Haste, Antimagic Field, Mind Blank, Nondetection and other divination-fooling effects, AoE effects, Heroism and other buff spells... Lots of things.

-Matt


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If it were a feat, it would fall into the same trash heap as Jawbreaker or that feat from Ultimate Combat, the one inspired by Fellowship of the Ring.

I think a good rule of thumb here would be "if you liked this one-second shot from a movie, don't make a feat around it."

Also, this is Ultimate Intrigue, the book about skills and how to make extensive use of them. It would be silly if the book were full of classes, archetypes, feats, and spells.

-Matt

P.S. If you want to start addressing the martial/caster disparity, stop making so many feats! Feats for everything only contributes to the problem!


I am loving how awesome the Rogue has been in all three writeups. The awesomeness really seems to come down to... Letting skills do cool things.

-Matt


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Unrefined thought here...

The Free Parking Fallacy

This fallacy refers to the notion that a game is poorly designed, when the perceived problem occurs as a result of using house rules. An example would be a GM who claims that the Stealth skill is poorly designed because opposed Stealth vs Perception rolls are too swingy, when that same GM disallows taking 10 on Stealth checks.

-Matt


I've been thinking about this thread, and I want to reiterate the "no full casters" recommendation. One of the reasons I've been thinking about is that full casters, more often than not, can only participate in the story by casting things. So, they are often locked into interacting with your world in ways that are very disruptive.

Meanwhile, non-full casters have other options for interacting with the story, like skills (ex: Bard, Inquisitor) or through physical combat (ex: Magus, Warpriest). They don't have to resort to casting spells in every scene, so they are most often less disruptive to your story.

Just a thought.

-Matt


I played a bunch of Guild Wars 2 and Netrunner over the weekend.

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