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I found the ability (The Brave). It would be helpful if you would post that when you use it.

Kordak tries to get the point across to the "squirrel-rabbit-foxes".

Nature: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (18) + 5 = 23

He starts pantomiming and he thinks for a moment the creatures might understand.

lilythium wrote:

"Actually, GM Valen… if you ever decide to run 1-12 The Burden of Envy again, I’d love to join! but I'll be honored to join any adventure you'll offer."

The honor is mine...

By request, now recruiting for a table of Pathfinder Society Scenario #1-12: Burden's Envy. This is a Pathfinder Society Scenario designed for 1st-through 4th-level characters.

I would ask for the present time that only those who consider themselves to be new players sign up.

Two seats are reserved for lilythium and drakkonflye.

Sign-ups can be done here. After you sign-up, feel free to dot-and-delete in the Gameplay thread. Should you have any questions, feel free to post them here, in the Discussion thread for the table, or via PM.

After November 4th, any unclaimed seats will be made available on a first signed-up, first seated basis.

This is a really fun scenario. It was one of the first ones I played.

"So... Kordak, I've never met a dwarf before. What are the favorite pranks of your culture?"

"Pranks?! Bah! If you have time for pranks you have time to work. We would never!

You get a strong sense that he's the all work and no play type.

To the merchants he asks.
"What do you mean by stuck? Is the fog too thick to move through or do you walk and get no closer to the village?"

Estes misses completely. Emmanuel tries to grab the devils, but she just wriggles out of his grasp.

Manny slices at the devil as she moves away, but it does little damage.

Hirondelle RS: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (9) + 18 = 27

The goblin, narrowly misses as well.

Actually that would have hit due to courageous anthem, but even rolling max damage on a normal hit would not do enough to take out the devil.

Once out of reach of the Pathfinders, the devil teleports away.

There are domes of each color in this room, purple, red and green. What remains of the one devil that did not escape is a purple crystal key.

It is quiet here, with few ways to access these rooms, you figure it is safe to rest until you are healed.

Hero point for Hirondelle.

Marta decides to wait for the creatures to close in before trying a more explosive solution. She uses some rudimentary time magic to accelerate Makie.

◆◆ Cast a Spell (Haste)

Reflex (Marta): 1d20 + 20 ⇒ (8) + 20 = 28

Marta winces before focusing her magic to try to disable Riftcarver.

◆◆ Cast a spell (Dispel Magic, rank 5)
Counteract: 1d20 + 20 ⇒ (12) + 20 = 32

Success, counteract rank 6

Marta then takes cover behind a tree and Everness follows (independent)

◆ Stride

Marta is mildly annoyed by the situation.

"Calm down Jorsal! You're being just as brash as the goblin here. If we were really working for Hesla, we'd have had plenty of opportunity to do more harm than give you mild irritation. Why don't you go dunk your head and then report to Zarta as she directed?"

GM, keep in mind when doing secret checks that Rysk has Keen Recollection. which gives him a bonus to recall knowledge with any lore skill. Since Lores tend to have a lower DC than other skills, it might still be Rysk's best chance of success,

A man in fine attire has been standing back for the time being. He could stand to spend some time in the sun as his pale skin looks ashen and sickly. His breathing is slow, almost deliberate as if he were on the brink of death. Yet still, his movements are graceful, refined without the rigor of death.

"A stranger shore upon this I alight. Glowing with warmth most palpable. A paradise to the visitor and bounty to its inhabitants."

"Allow me the honor of an introduction. I am Aleksandr Ostenoff once famed thespian of the opera houses of Caliphas. Now here I am far away from home both in distance and in culture, seeking the balance between life and death, the flux betwixt myself and my beloved."

Aleksandr extends a hand, the outline of a rose appears on the back of his hand and fills itself in as if a tattoo were being magically inked before your very eyes. A ripple appears in the air as the aether roils though the breach. A slender hand, ghostly but with a similar tattoo reaches through the rift. Aleksander grasps the hand and pulls the spirit through. She stand nearly as tall as the beaming man who summoned her. her dress is just as fashionable and her features denote an obvious auivarian heritage.

"This is Imelia, an maestra of the opera tragically cut down in her prime. Though the chill touch of death has tinged her voice with righteous anger, confuse her not for some banshee. For the life I have given flows through her as much as the curse which have taken upon myself through me."

"Imelia, it is time to play our part once again..."

"Just keep to the path and watch out for the trees!"

With no further questions, Lande takes a Lesser Healing Potion and waits for the others.

Leap

It took me a bit to get this going as it starts with a combat encounter. I finally had enough time to get everything together.

I deleted your signup.

Reflex: 1d20 + 21 ⇒ (20) + 21 = 41

Rex brushes away the divine flames with a wave of his arm, shielding himself from being burned by sheer coolness of his personality.

Rex uses a vial of alchmeical substance to quickly enhance a bolt which he loads into his crossbow while staring down the wounded hound.

He squeezes the trigger of his weapon.

◆ Quick Alchemy - Greater Elemental Ammunition (Cold) - 4 versatile vials remaining

Note:This action happens only if people adjacent to red are OK with the possibility of taking 3 cold splash damage. If anyone objects, use coating rune to apply oil of swiftness instead.
◆ Ranconteur's Reload - Reload and Demoralize (red)
Intimidation (Intimidating Glare): 1d20 + 23 ⇒ (17) + 23 = 40
◆ Strike (red)
Alchemical Crossbow: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (14) + 22 = 36
Piercing: 3d8 + 3 ⇒ (4, 5, 5) + 3 = 17 plus 3 cold splash and 3d4 persistent cold if no one adjacent objects.

Yes. Chronicles will be going out in a day or two.

I'll give Tess a Hero Point for her valiant effort.

Since the creatures have been identified, I'm going to let you do that over Xun. Undead are immune to effects with the death trait, which Vision of Death has. Since undead PCs have a specific rule that immunity to death does not make them immune to other effects of an ability, I have to conclude that the general rule for monstrous undead is that it does make them completely immune.

Sorry everyone, my bronchitis flared up really bad over the weekend. I haven't slept in about two days. I don't think I can post more than die rolls and basic dialogue until I get a bit better. I'll try not to hold things up.

Sorry everyone, my bronchitis flared up really bad over the weekend. I haven't slept in about two days. I don't think I can post until I get a little bit better.

I'm fighting a case of bronchitis. I'll try to update tomorrow when I'm a bit less tired.

Except Alex specifically said that even class features reprinted with the same name are to be treated as errata and that oracles would likely be broken as a result unless they rebuild.

Remaster Clarifications post

"I don't know much about magic. What little I have comes naturally. I was just made that way."

Still no scaling for the moldersoul's decompose ability. That's disappointing.

But it does potentially grind things to a halt. How long does the GM wait for people to declare if they are going to react or not?

Chronicles for Outpost I believe are automated.

The GM is still responsible for creating and sending chronicles. The reporting his handled by the convention staff, but not the chronicles.

You sure you have the correct Thievery DC? 26 is a level 9 DC which seems really high for subtier 3-4, even for a hazard.

I can use my campaign coin hero point to allow her to reroll. I mentioned it at the beginning, but you never put it in your tracker.

I had to swap Olov and Unusk's positions. It looks like Rhaegal moved on the map before posting their turn which led to Olov's post (and actions) coming in first and him ending up in a square that Rhaegal would have still occupied.

As Olov closes, Red attacks.

↺ Reactive Strike
Halberd: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (5) + 18 = 23

The orc ducks the strike and slashes into the smaller construct before healing Samna.

Rhaegal takes the the air and tries to blast the tall construct.

Reflex: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (5) + 14 = 19

Resist Physical 5

Unusk joins the fight but misses.

Map: Slide 4

⚠️Red (51 damage) - Reaction used
✅Scratch
Olov
Rhaegal (64/66 hp)
✅Jinlong (56/56 hp)
✅Samna (48/74 hp) - Black attached, off-guard, +2 AC
Unusk (49/77 hp) - Wounded 1
⚠️Black (55 damage) - Attached to Samna, off-guard

Rhaegal becomes engrossed in some of Omira's childhood memories and an embarrassing one at that.

"Stick to the relevant memories ONLY," a frustrated Omira booms in her own head.

Memory Points: -1 (unless Rhaegal wants to spend a hero point).

Yes, but it sounds like either Presbyterian or Episcopalian, which are religions. I admit I stretched the sound for the bad joke.

True story, my wife and I are Episcopalians. When a friend of hers was asking what her denomination was, my wife blurted out pescatarian.

Correct. I subscribed on November 1st. I sent an email but have got no response thus far.

But why do they have to operate this way? Why only authorize once a month? Is this a manual process? It shouldn't be. If you can authorize payment on October 27th, why can't you authorize payment on November 1st?

I don't recall seeing an option to ship as soon as possible when I subscribed. It certainly wasn't clearly presented if it was there.

If fact this is what it says when I go to my subscriptions page.

You do not have a non-Paizo subscription.

(If you only have monthly subscriptions, your non-subscription items will always ship with the earliest monthly shipment.)

I have no ability to select another shipment option.

I don't want a monthly subscription. I want an as soon as it is available subscription.

Why would you ship something before you know the payment will go through?

My issue specifically is that they sidecarted my Player Core to ship with my next AP shipment in 2 to 3 weeks and gave me no option to have them ship separately as soon as they are available.

I have another idea. How about I can buy the PDF now and when the subscription order ships for it, they refund the PDF price? No, that's not an option either.

1) He paid for the PDF and you didn't

2) Most months you'd have got it before it went on sale.
3) Even this month, the vast majority of people got it before release date.

There is no reason why this shouldn't be automated. Releasing the product should trigger the billing of subscriptions and dropping of the PDF after payment. This is not the sort of process that should require manual intervention in 2023.

If that's not good enough, don't subscribe. Close the subscription at Customer services and pay for the PDF.

Which means Paizo will lose out on sales, not just of this book, but of others. Because if I have to cancel my physical rulebook subscription, I will go back to PDFs only.

Exactly. They sidecarted mine to ship with the next AP volume in 2 to 3 weeks. Not happy about it.

Alleron takes a moment to enchant his crossbow before firing at the thief mocking them.

◆◆ Cast a Spell (magic weapon)
◆ Strike

Attack: 1d20 + 6 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 6 + 1 = 26
Piercing: 2d10 ⇒ (6, 4) = 10

PurpleGoldYeezus, You didn't take your full turn. In PF2 you get 3 actions per round.

Drawing a weapon requires the Interact action.
Attacking with it requires the Strike action.

You used 2 actions and have 1 left.

A common third action for bards is Inspire Courage. It's a cantrip, so you can do it every round and it gives all allies within 60 feet +1 to attack and damage for 1 round.

This sounds like an excellent place for PCs to pick up their adventuring careers after Abomination Vaults.

Due to some personal issues I am unable to continue with this game. If you would like, I will try to find a replacement GM.

During the checks you would have discovered that you had to move closer to Aslynn in order to distract her. She wasn't responding to anyone that wasn't right in front of her as if her field of perception was very small.

Rose's shot grazes the giant rat, drawing a small trickle of blood. No Surprise Attack. The encounter setup really only allowed for Perception-based initiative as you had to react to the appearance of the rats from out of nowhere.

Looks like a rat the size of a horse. Probably can transmit disease. (Recall: Failure)

One swarm moves toward Lokaloka. Perhaps they like pickles. They bite and scratch her while looking for some.

◆ Stride
◆ Swarming Bites piercing: 1d6 ⇒ 4 (DC 17 basic Reflex)
◆ Swarming Bites piercing: 1d6 ⇒ 1 (DC 17 basic Reflex)

The giant rat moves to engage Ysoldt.

◆ Stride
◆ Jaws Strike: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (5) + 12 = 17
◆ Jaws Strike: 1d20 + 12 - 5 ⇒ (14) + 12 - 5 = 21 piercing: 1d10 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9

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Status

Rose
Swarm (blue)
R.O.U.S (yellow) - 3 damage
Niaglade
Lokaloka - 2 DC 17 Reflex saves (+ DC 14 Fort save for each Reflex save that fails)
Ysoldt (26/35 hp) - DC 14 Fort save
Swarm (red)

Everyone except Rose is up.
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I recommend using a log sheet like this one to keep track of your characters. When you get a chronicle, put the information in your log, this way you have something to refer back to if the chronicles become confusing.

Sorry everyone, I've been sick lately. I'll try to catch up soon.

Might be better for me to use Pathfinder Society Lore +6 rather than Occultism. Lore skills usually have a lower DC and I have the same bonus.

Aleksandr studies the letter Professor Whitegourd offered.

True Strike ignores concealment.

Not only do they not get expert proficiency in attacks with their blasts until level 7, they can't start out with an 18 in their attack stat unlike other martial classes.

It's the exact same issues that the warpriest has.

Lande has the Scout dedication so you probably want him scouting as it doubles the bonus. Lande also has Pilgrim's Token so if he ties an enemy on initiative, Lande goes first.

Looks like we have seven people here.

Aleksandr boost Imelia as she moves up. She tries to skewer the floating head once as Aleksandr protects her from counterattack.

◆ Act Together
Aleksandr ◆ Cast a Spell (Boost Eidolon)
Imelia ◆ Stride
◆ Imelia Strike
Attack: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (5) + 10 = 15Piercing: 1d6 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 + 2 = 5
◆ Aleksandr Cast a Spell (Protect Companion)

I'll be performing at a concert on Saturday and Sunday is Mother's Day, so my posting will be spotty the rest of this week.