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I understand and feel the same way. Kayak and fishing are starting to call me.

I need to get out of the house. Finally, get a day off from the madness of Home Depot and the weather is nice. Going to make picnic lunch and head up to the mountains with the wife. My luck the volcano will explode. I will post something later tonight or in the morning.

Everyone have a good day, be safe, and stay healthy.

I am going to run a short one-shot that might turn into more depending on how it goes. To keep this simple please crack open a core rulebook and make a character. 20 buy point and average starting wealth. I will keep this open until Sunday night and pick a crew on Monday.

You walk into the Lastwall Recruiting Center and behind the desk you see the recruiting officer.
The first thing you notice is how good he looks. Not a hair is out of place on his military haircut. His uniform is pressed and clean. Every button and medal is polished to a high-gloss finish.

He stands up and smiles at you. His teeth are so white that you are sure that they glow in the dark.

"Welcome to the recruiting center. You look like you would make a fine solider in Lastwall's army. I am sure that we have an open posting for your class in our ranks. But first tell me what brings you in today."

Please keep your response in a spoiler. Nobody else should know why you are here.

Checking in from my phone. I will be home in a few hours to go over everything.

Carson watches as the birds fly off.

"Oh! Those birds."

"You are a wise queen. Before I can agree I must consult with my companions."

Julio turns to check with the rest of the group.

This is why I put a rank in Knowledge:Women

How do you feel about retraining? Particularly, retraining feats that are good at low level play but loose their usefulness at high level play?

I would not feel right about it. That would be like saying, "This character was good at low level but now I am going to switch to this one because it is better at high level."

Is this specifically in like, Golarion? Or just general hume-centric fantasy?

I covered that somewhere back on page one. It has turned out rather well. The people who have submitted characters here have built the world for me.

My vision of the world would be like Europe, Asia, Africa about 1400 AD.
I am giving you creative license to make up your kingdom. Give it a name, a climate, and a general political type. It will not really be important to the overall game but it will make interaction with each other fun and give me something to work with. None of you should know each other but you will have all heard of where you come from. The world economy is good with all kingdoms having well established trade routes with each other and there has not been any major wars in several hundred years. All the races in the CRB are represented in the world and have kingdoms of their own mixed in with the human kingdoms.

Does this help?

I would like to run a game that I have been thinking about. I have the hook all set up and will be using published material, but I am not going to tell anyone what it is. I love random. Tell people what the adventure is and they gear up to beat it. Let’s see some characters get thrown into an adventure that they have to complete or die.
So here is what I need from you:

1. This adventure is for humans only.

2. You are the son/grandson or daughter/granddaughter to a king, emperor, duke. You are in line for the throne, but not near the top. Let’s say 3rd or 4th in line. Are you just happy to be where you are in the line? Are you trying move up the line? Are there others further down the line trying to climb over you to get to the top.

3. Character build is 25 point buy system.

4. Average starting gold x5

5. Material to draw from it as follows:

-Core Rule Book
-Advanced Players Guild (no Summoner or Witch)
-Pathfinder Unchained for classes. I will also be using Background Skills. It gives me something to work with when hooking your character into the adventure or give you bonuses down the road.
-Ultimate Combat but no gunslingers, ninjas, or samurai. Archetypes give your character a little more depth and give me some more to work with.
-Ultimate Magic
-Ultimate Equipment

I am not sure when I am going to start but it should be by the end December. I have never recruited before so I am not sure how it is going to go. Let me know if I missed anything.

Rego is healed and the rest of the day goes by uneventful

Carrion Crown recap

You all arrived in town and went to the funeral. There you found that some of the people in town did not think highly of the professor and thought that he was into necromancy and was the source of several strange things that had happened around town.

The reading of the will and the clues that you found have made you believe that the professor was murdered by a group called the Whispering Way. It seems that the professor was trying to find out what they were doing at the old prison but got caught and killed.
The will stipulated that you had to wait in town for a month before you can deliver a package of books the Embreth Daramid at the Lepidstadt University. You have gone through the professor’s journal and personal belongings looking for clues about what the happened to him.
You have been looking into the prison and its violent past. You have come to realize that the haunting events in town may have some bearing on the haunted history of the prison.

After some research through the church archives, city records, and local history you have found name of four prisoners with violent past.

Father Charlatan (Sefick Corvin) was a con artist who used faith as a mask to bilk the faithful out of money. His scheme was exposed and while trying to make his escape killed several city guards.

The Lopper (Vance Saetressle) stalked his victims for days before finding the right moment to strike. He would emerge when they were alone and savagely behead them.

The Mosswater Marauder (Ispin Onyxcudgel) killed his wife in a fit of jealous rage when he found out that she was seeing another man. He smashed her skull with a hammer. Wracked with shame and guilt he became convinced that if he could rebuild her skull he could bring her back from the dead. The problem was that one of the pieces was missing. He went on to kill 20 people by bashing their heads in to see if he could find a piece that would fit.

The Piper of Illmarsh (real name unknown) would taunt his victims with a mournful dirge on his flute. He would eventually find a way to poison their food with lich dust. He would then take his paralyzed victim and allow his pet stirges to drink their blood.

While doing all of the research you also found a cache of supplies that was hidden in the graveyard by the church of Pharasma. The current clergy don’t seem to know anything about it. You found evidence that the professor had visited the location and had taken some of the supplies to the prison.

You have also been investigating the vandalized memorial. The letters that have appeared seem to be spelling out the name of the warden’s wife, VESORIANNA. So far three letters have appeared on the memorial. The fourth letter appeared on the door of the sheriff’s office.

Perception: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6

Carson stares dreamily at the mayor. "I do love a woman with authority. I wonder if she has a boyfriend or a husband. Wait! Where are we?"

linguistic: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (18) + 6 = 24

"This writing looks so familiar but I just can not figure it out."

HOUSE RULE #1 (I may have more later)

I always thought magical healing should be more powerful. Nothing sucks more than when you are about to die, you drink a healing potion and then roll a 1 on the die.

I have boosted it so that healing does at least half. If normal healing is d8 then in my system it is 4 + d4. If it is 3d8 then it would be 12 + 3d4. If it is 2d8+2 then it would be 8+2d4+2.

Does that make sense?

That's what I get for rushing before I leave for work.

I have a Halfling Medium in the works. It's a match made in heaven.

A small medium at large. lol

Welcome back. I guess I will take the leader role here to get things moving since no one else has jumped in yet.

Philgor continues moving until he is in front of Yvogga.

"That will be for the authorities to decide but I will take you to them. You will have to be bound and blindfolded first. What do your companion want to do? Leave or go with you."

I always am on edge when I have a character that I want to play in a particular AP. When it shows up in the recruitment page I scramble to make him meet the creation rules, double check the backstory again and then wait, hoping that this will be the time that he gets picked.

Just to be sure I know what I can hit and what squares I threaten I map this chart. Let me know if it needs to be changed.

Reach with Enlarge

I like the idea of the flaming logs but I don't know if it is enough got really get them burning without some more oil.

Dundin research pole arms. With enlarge they are great. Grab a long spear. Brace=Double damage when readied against a charge. Reach=lots of AoA as they move thru the threaten squares to reach us. When they get close drop it and grab your axe.

Okay the plan as I see it is that Brampton, Dundin, and Omast hold the line with reach weapons. Brampton has one more enlarge potion he will drink just before the orcs break through.

Jace, Sogan, Adir, and Tuzak support and make ready the logs and boulder.

Delia and Leria stay back and use ranged and alchemical weapons to cover us.

Brampton will give the Alchemist Fire, Bottled Lightning,and Liquid Ice to Delia and Leria. I have two of each so you guys each get one set.
He will give his two tanglefoot bags to Adir.

My guess is that the waves will get progressively harder so let's not waste all our cool stuff on the early attacks.

Does this sound good?

Amboy Yacolt is ready

Here is my submission.
I have not picked gear yet but I think I have everything else.
Let me know if you see anything you want me to update.

"Rawr", Philgor roars while swinging over the top of Olive.

Power Attack: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (14) + 6 = 20
Damage: 1d10 + 7 ⇒ (1) + 7 = 8