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I'm very keen. What are the requirements? PFS? More than willing to adapt and build a character to suit.

I'm going to withdraw.

I'm very keen. I will level up a fighting rogue that I have for this. Be back soon with the details.

ShadowyFox:
What posting rate will your players maintain?
Have your players done PbP before?
Knowing that PbP is rather slow to progress through the material, are your players either truly in it for the long haul, or prepared to only get through one or two books of the AP?

I'm not 100% ready to commit to GMing, but these are some of the questions a GM would be thinking?

The first 15 days is a free trial, then it's a few cents under $15 per month, with a bit of discount for buying time in six or twelve month blocks.

Thank you. I saw the 15 days free - that is very easy to find, but nothing about ongoing costs. That is a reasonable subscription fee.

At the risk of looking like a noob: how much is it? I've just spent a few minutes clicking through the goblinworks website but cannot find a pricing schedule anywhere...

Nothing too much to fear than as the GM.

Thanks. But how much can it hold?

I should have said: We are using the PFS level 7 pregens. The Kineticist doesn't give us all the info we want:

Internal Buffer

As a full-round action, Yoon can accept 1 point of
burn to add 1 point to her buffer. When she would otherwise accept
burn, she can spend this point to avoid accepting 1 point of burn.
Points spent from Yoon’s buffer do not activate or augment her
elemental overflow.

Can I suffer the Burn for Internal Buffer one day and still have the buffered one available the next? Can I build up the Internal Buffer over a few days?

"All hail Razmir." Quinn does his best to sound enthusiastic though he really just wants a steak or stew or a dozen roast potatoes. And a pouch full of silver.

"Flames? You musta walked too slow."

Good idea.

Hey Gm DaWay, I'm building a Dwarven wizard with the soldier background and was hoping you would allow me to roll for starting gold so I can start with the standard issue armour and weapons he was given in the army.

4d4 ⇒ (2, 4, 3, 2) = 11 x10= 110 gp

"Gah! Faunra, don't hit me! A little higher, just little bit higher."

As you level up, could you also tell us all some of the highlights that level 2 means for your character. This will help the players to work to each others strengths. It will also help me as GM.

Thanks for the feedback.

One of the things I have recognised is that I am not as good as describing what is in my head as I would like to be. I have trouble getting my descriptions into a GM post.

For example, Kadaxin was meant to be a boss fight, but I don't think I made that clear. He was also meant to be an orc as another indication of a boss-fight, but I wrote goblin in my notes then transferred that mistake to the game.

The elves were coming at the end of that round regardless of how the fight went. Tobold put Kadaxin to -3 (from memory) with his final acid squirt.

In terms of balance, Kadaxin was meant to be very challenging. I chose to add the wolf-mount when there were four players so I am very glad Tobold took care of it early on. Khazak took a great chunk of Kadaxin's hit points, but with his lay-on-hands ability as a swift action when healing himself Kadaxin was always going to fight to the death - though that was not his intention. He had 36 hp, and returned 16 hp to himself through healing.

I wanted the elves to come along to save the day (whether or not you won) just as happened in the book. The elves are now an opportunity to rest a moment and reappraise what your mission is and what to do next. And to heal. The elves heal you back to full hit points.

I think I would like to stick with three players - I will need to craft encounters more carefully for the rogue, cleric, sorcerer combo that we have.

DING! Level up!

Time to re-evaluate.

Have you enjoyed the game?
Frankly I am very impressed that you three were still around to resurrect the game.

Do you enjoy three players? Do you want four or more?
Personally, I have found only three players to be much less of a chore than larger groups. However, I will reconsider this if you want more players. I am concerned that as we approach the holiday season we will have one or more players (or GM) need to drop out for a time, perhaps weeks and weeks on end as one after the other needs time out.

Do you enjoy the game? Is it what you expected? Is it what you want?
RPG is most fun when everybody has the same expectations of the game. I wanted to run a pretty harsh game. I had no intention of pulling punches; in fact I was annoyed that I couldn't kill Peony when it seemed that her player was no longer around. If you've ever played the Lord of the Ring Living Card Game you'll understand the harsh reality of failing solo scenarios again and again, particularly at first. That is more or less the idea I had in mind for running a LotR game; very difficult to achieve at first. I chose Kadaxin as a difficult encounter quite deliberately.

Please discuss with the aim of creating a better game for all of us.

One player was looking to run it himself, but now I am offering to do so.

I want to switch things around a bit so that it is still a bit of a mystery for him.

Here's some first thoughts, though I am here to ask you for something better.

Ameiko and Tsuto are both evil, and the exchange of letters and kidnapping is all a ruse to ambush the PCs.

The shopkeeper's daughter is later revealed to be Nualia.

Sherrif Hemlock takes on Aldern Foxglove's role, though Aldern still becomes obsessed with one of the PCs. Hemlock flirts mildly with a PC.

Have you got something better for me?

I think Peony has left the pbp realm, there has been no posts from that account since mid-August. I could recruit for one more or we could continue on with three. Either way, I'd like to finish this combat first.

What should we do about Peony right now? I could GM-PC her, or one of you could play her, or some other option... what do you think?

Good luck. I found moving to be terrible.

Okay, so who wants to resurrect this game?

I'll be working on some new material to reignite the flame and restarting on Monday.

1d4 ⇒ 3
1d6 ⇒ 5

I'm good with that.

If I have troubles you can drop by my house to show me.

Is this basically a Pathfinder version of Radiance RPG?

If the people at Paizo are getting restless they should look at an alternate product, IMHO. Pathfinder works fine and a significant portion of their fan base comes from the edition war, let's not disenfranchise them. (I'm regretting that I mentioned the war already.)

Oh wait, they are already doing alternate products with the Adventure Card Game, Pathfinder Tales, audio books... Good move.

Okay, I'm having trouble finding time to reignite this game. I was meant to move into our new house a week ago, but the solicitors hadn't done their jobs. We expect we will move in late next week, but don't actually have a date yet. Everything is in boxes waiting to be moved, including my computer, and clothes other than shirt and tie for work. I'm amazed my kids are so patient with it all.

I am very keen to keep this game going again. Thank you for your patience.

I'm a role player, see? I have a moustache.

Yes, I'll have time to make a post very soon.

Thanks!
Actually I'm in Australia, three hours west of Sydney. Either way though, you're right, in not heading to Florida.

I might not be able to post much over the next four or five days. Or maybe I'll have lots of time. I'm going to Melbourne with my wife who is attending a conference.

I might not be able to post much over the next four or five days. Or maybe I'll have lots of time. I'm going to Melbourne with my wife who is attending a conference.

I am heading to Melbourne for the next four or five days. I'm not sure that I'll be able to post. On the other hand I might have a lot of time on my hands. I have to wait and see what happens. Either way I am very keen to keep this game going.

Thanks for the regular posting guys. The game is moving along nicely and I am rather enjoying it.

I am quit glad that I decided to go with only four players - in the past I have had bigger parties and it is a lot of work. Four players isn't too bad for a workload.

It's good to get all the crap rolls over with early on....

What about the bigger issues of a dice-roller and some way to record hit points and damage that doesn't need a computer...

Whilst refreshing My Campaigns page I found myself wishing for an alternative to PbP. Wouldn't it be great if we could get the players in our PbP games together in the same room. We'd need some way to allow them to post spontaneously, maybe permitting them to vocalise their turn, and something RL to replace the dice-roller. I'd probably even provide some food and drinks.

Anyway, that's my wishful thinking for tonight...

Haven't done a chase in a bit. Ran one in my RL game and it was a pain for the party it was so long.

That has been my experience too. I hope that it will run more smoothly in PbP, that my reinterpretation of the rules makes things clearer, and that my DCs here are about right.

Just as a suggestion you might want to do initiatives in the future as I think it speeds up things a bit, but it's up to you.

Yes, you're right. I'll go fix that now.

The chase rules in short:

Each turn choose one of the obstacle's options and attempt to overcome it to move through that obstacle.
Or
Attempt to move through two obstacles by attempting to overcome one of the checks from each of the obstacles. However, if you fail one you move through the first obstacle only. If you fail both you don't move forward at all AND you can only attempt one obstacle on your next turn.
Alternatively
You can perform some other action such as casting a spell, making a ranged attack or retrieving a potion form your pack and drinking it.

You can only make melee attacks (or similar actions) when you're at the same obstacle as your quarry at the start of your turn. You are considered to be engaged in combat with your enemy at the same obstacle. If they attempt to overcome the obstacle you do gain an Attack of Opportunity against them.

OberonViking wrote:

Grifo Hedgehopper wrote:

I guess it's time to head to Bree and tell Gandalf it was a old man with a cold... Mission complete. How much exp do we get?

Yeah! Great campaign guys, really well done.

That's the first full campaign I've played in a while.

But how much exp do we get?! Lol

20,000xp for the party.

I guess it's time to head to Bree and tell Gandalf it was a old man with a cold... Mission complete. How much exp do we get?

Yeah! Great campaign guys, really well done.

Btw, I use spoilers just to keep things clear as to who can hear and see what. I expect that all the players would read them anyway, I know I would.

So you have a 50% chance of being hindered by having Valeros there to add 1d4 in combat?

The good news is that there is a minimum: No matter how many penalties are

applied to a die roll, the result can’t be reduced *below* 0.

0 is the result of the roll and adheres to the minimum 0 rule. There is no minimum on each die.

Can you see my conflict here?

Just to be extremely precise: The minimum result for the *roll* is 0, not the minimum for each die. So if you roll a 4, a 4, and a 1, and subtract 3 from each die, you get a result of 0, not 3.

Sorry, but since the cards say ”subtract one from each die rolled", doesn't your example result in 2?

4 - 3 = 1
4 - 3 = 1
1 - 3 results in a 0
Total = 1 + 1 + 0 = 2

Khazak, I think I found your favoured class bonus in your skills, right? And I can't find anything missing in your character sheet. Thank you.

It seems Grifo and Tobold have included the Favoured Class bonus, and seeing as I would've also done this I'd like to give Khazak and Peony the opportunity to add the Favoured Class bonus too.

EDIT, page 31, it is Core.
Either way, the offer still stands, Favoured Class bonuses all round.

Peony, you have another skill point to spend, and I think you ranged attacks should be higher (forgot the size bonus perhaps), and your CMD should be one higher

Grifo, can you please include your Skills, Feat and Gear on your alias profile please. It is then just one less thing to go looking for.

Tobold, the rest of your character looks fine, thank you.

Tobold: that's a good idea. However you've missed the Small size +1 to AC.

I'm also going through your character sheet for accuracy. Please do not take offence but I will be asking about little details. And I'll get to everyone during the week.

Tobold: I think you forgot about the Small size penalty to CMB and CMD. And you AC etc is different from you profile to character sheet (I guess the profile one is correct).