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Hey, I'm going to be dming my first pfs game and while reading through the scenario noticed that most of the maps used are actually able to purchase and was wondering if there were some that were widely used that I could purchase. I can't believe no one said the Basic flipmap. It allows you to draw anything.
I agree this is one of those crazy threads that will eventually end in it being locked and people getting upset because one side offends the other. So lets just leave it at this: The skill is Profession(XXXXXX). I couldn't care less what the (xxxxxx) is, just tell me the roll if it is for a Day Job. That happens "off screen" and I can not adjudicate what your character does between sessions. That being said, I have had characters want a circumstance bonus because they have a certain profession. I.E. a Profession (Florist) might get a circumstance bonus to help with a Knowledge(Nature) roll to identify a type of flower. At that point it becomes an issue if you have something questionable as your profession, and I might not allow you to use it.
Gary Con is an annual game convention held every March in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, to honor the memory of the father of role-playing games, E. Gary Gygax. Their focus is on the one thing Gary loved most: gaming! We will have PFS running all weekend long. Check out the schedule and signup at their website. Event registration will go live soon.
We are happy to announce that the Pathfinder Society of Milwaukee will be running a full slate of games at Anime Milwaukee on February 14th-16th. We will be running mainly low level older scenarios, but we will also have the two latest releases. Signup for the convention at Anime Milwaukee Signup for events here Warhorn Signup
Also, when you complete a scenario with no encounters, at least no combat encounters, you still get your XP. I have seen this in two different scenarios with two different parties. There is no rule to the number of encounters in a scenarios. I do not know where you got the idea that it is three. Several older scenarios had 4 or 5 or possibly more. The rule is 1 XP per Scenario. If you run out of time or for some reason the main objective can not be completed, such as a TPK, then to get your 1 XP, you need to have completed at least 3 encounters.
The funny part about this is that there are certain combat qualities that are required. Or at least expected by your table mates. Some things require combat monkeys and some things require someone who can read. My complaint is there should be more things that require skill checks. Maybe then we would see less Min/Max combat characters. If you expect the bard to carry a ranged weapon and hit something in combat, you should also expect the fighter to have at least one knowledge skill.
When is Conflagration? Conflagration, at least the one in Milwaukee as there appears to be a few in other areas, is usually the 3rd or 4th weekend in February.
That's great. Thanks for volunteering. I will be submitting a list of the GMs, so you can just pick your badge up when you get there. You do not need to buy one and get reimbursed.
The Midwinter Gaming Convention started as a LARP convention in Milwaukee and has steadily expanded to boardgames and miniatures games. This year they are focusing on adding more tabletop RPGs. We are happy to announce we will be running PFS from Thursday evening to Sunday morning. Please register for the convention here. Register for events on Warhorn. As always, we are also seeking GMs to help run games.
The guys from Cold Iron Conventions who run some of our conventions in Milwaukee will be running StuffedCows this year down in Chicago at the College of DuPage. There will be PFS and LFR on Friday, Saturday and Sunday after Thanksgiving. Register Here.
We had a great convention this weekend and exceeded our goal of 50 tables. I would like to thank all of the Wisconsin and Illinois Venture-Officers that came out along with all the GMs that came and ran games to help make this a great event. As always the Cold Iron Convention people put on a well organized convention full of hours of great games.
Chris ran his 300th game this past weekend at our convention in Milwaukee. Please join me in congratulating him on this huge accomplishment. Chris, thanks again for driving up to Milwaukee and helping with our convention. But, also thanks for the other 299 games you have ran in the past that has helped the Pathfinder Society grow at the conventions that you travel to throughout the Midwest.
Yes, it is still the rule. If I had a player that had created their character with two from the same category, I would have them replace one of them with a legal trait from a different category. The feat you mean is Additional Traits, and it specifies that the traits must be from different categories also. So by taking it once, you would end up with four traits from four different categories. Ninja'd by a Ninja
Locally (same region as Belafon), I can think of one player that has 3 total scenarios left to play for credit, and a second one who probably has 5-6 left to play for credit. Those are all actually a mix of tiers.Older players love the high-tier stuff and new players look forward to it.I'm an older player (my PFS number is 4 digits: 1045) and I've played as much as I can find a table to play. Yet I still have a lot of old modules in 7-11 range I can play for credit. Are there older players who have ran out of 7-11 modules or 5-9 modules to play for credit? I have a few (5-6) players that have only this months scenarios to play. I personally have only about 10, and most of them are seasons 0 and 1, level 7-11 scenarios. This is not most players though. I am actually scheduling a new con for January that will have all 27 tables as 1-5 or 1. These are mainly new players and I think that is where the growth is. And as stated before, to these new players, all the old scenarios are actually new content.
Chris, I think he is talking mainly for newer players that may not have purchased them as they didn't seem worth it. But that is a good point, any of the old stuff would not generate as much revenue as a new product. It also should not cost as much to update it though.
In prior years, when there were three less people we had 4 scenarios released at Gencon plus a special not 3 like this year.
Don't get me wrong, Bonekeep is awesome and I appreciate all that Paizo has done and has planned for it, but I think that really ate into development time for the special and the first three season 5 scenarios. Agree. Bonekeep is awesome, and I love that Jason is doing content for PFS, but it did seem to mess up the regular pipeline and I don't feel it was worth it. For the Uber-player that plays everything, yes, but not for the casual player.
In this specific scenario I believe the box text describing the hallway would make any team paying attention go strait to the end room. Had it happen twice back when the scenario came out. It removes the other encounters, but the players should still go back and check everything.
I see the new module that is due in December(?), Wardens of the Reborn Forge, is for 12-15. Could that be used as the new Seeker arc? Then we could focus on 1-5 instead of the Seeker arc. Not that I don't love Seekers, I have three and want them to be able to do something. I just think their play style works better for home groups and not game days or conventions.
Not sure if there is much going on in Platteville. Your best bet might be the games Mat Starch has in Madison or Mark Mastej runs some stuff in La Crosse. There might also be some games in Dubuque, but I am uncertain. Or the best alternative is to start up your own game day when you find some gamers in the area. We would enjoy getting more of a presence in that corner of the state.
Yeah, money weight (50 coins/pound) is a rule of the game, not just something invented by HeroLab.For example, money weight in herolab. Money wieght will skew everything. BEWARE MONNEY WEIGHT!One of the evilest things I've concocted was to give the players a horde of 100,000pp, in copper pieces... But it does not have to be carried as coins. Gems, dust, whatever....
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