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My understanding is I am supposed to get the PDF as well as the Foundry module.
I'm not seeing the pdf to download. In My Downloads, I have the seriel number and I was able to enable the module in foundry, but unlike everything else in My Downloads, there is no link.
Thoughts?

Yeah, in the rulebook, it's all in a paragraph that starts with Next, so it seems like it.
However, all Role feats are Power feats, correct? So if I get my role card after 2C, I can only have 2 Power feats anyway, which I've already taken as my standard Power feats, so it doesn't matter, anyway, correct?

Do you have to use your Hero Point earned from 2C before you gain your Role Card from finishing Scenario 2, or can you gain your role and then add a feat?

I got excited. And tried to cheat.
Meri can't evade because Valeros and Lem are at the Plaza watching her. So this is all null.

However, if she was playing solo, I think you're right and wrong. Her power says, "When you encounter a card..." So she has to have a card to encounter first. And once you have the card, you have to draw a second and choose one. I haven't made any rolls yet.
If I have to evade before a check, I wonder if the scenario roll happens before I evade or not. (Not that it matters, she's going to fail)

When does Merisiel's Evade come into play?
Steps I'm taking.

Meri flips the Hour. Benefaction, no effecct.
Flips over top card. Mace.
Draws another weapon. Flaming Mace (Awesome)
Chooses to encounter the Flaming Mace, banishes the Mace.
Now, since she is encountering the Flaming Mace, she has to attempt the Diplomacy check. Fails with a 1. Increase check of Flaming Mace, 10+8=18 Strength or Melee check.
Meri NOW Evades.
Flaming Mace gets shuffled into location.
Hope that Valeros encounters the Flaming Mace.

Correct steps?

Human does seem weird.
I haven't played much PACG.
Would being an elf, human or half-elf be relevant anywhere?

wkover, your summerization works really well for a player that isn't involved in tournament-level games.
I'm just going to memorize what you wrote and go with that.
Thanks a bunch, for the answer and the work on "that other thread".

But then you get into an issue of having 3 cards in discard and if I heal 1d4+1 and it's 3 then I have no card to bury, but if I only heal 2, then I have a card to bury so I can't heal, but then I have 3 cards in my discard so I can heal, etc.

At what steps can you play a Heal spell?

I knew I read that somewhere.
Thanks.

That would be my one of my few complaint. Locations seem to be especially dark and hard to make out. I don't want to critique if it's an art style choice, but if it was up for a vote, I would say lighten the dark art.

If you use the second power, discard to add 1d8 to a distant location, do you add the traits such as cold and magic?
If so, can you remove them, like the first power?

Sorry Mike. Thank you.

Sounds definitive to me. Got it. Thanks.

So, no additional dazed effects, except you can't get rid o it that turn.

So if I get hit on the head in round 1 and suffer Dazed, then get hit on the head in round 2 and suffer Dazed again, I can't get rid of Dazed until the end of round 3. Correct?

Trail says to close...Discard...a card matching your favoured card.
Lem chooses 1 card type for favoured card.
Can he choose what ever type when he is closing that location or is it the one he chose at the beginning of the game.

And along with that, does Lem choose before or after he draws his hand?

Thanks for the help.
I swear I've read the whole rule book. But as I've said, I'm all alone, so it's hard to recall it all myself.

Spyglass says

Discard to examine the top 2 cards of your location and return them in any order

So, what is the order of play if I examine a Trigger barrier?

I use the Spyglass, examine a longsword and a Shrieky Plant. Fail to defeat it. Summon a Zombie. Fail to defeat it. The summon goes away.

Now what? Does the Shrieky Plant get shuffled in, then the Longsword on top, or do both both go on top and then shuffle the deck?

And what if the Shrieky Plant was on top? Do I encounter it before examining the next card or examine both, then encounter the Shrieky Plant?

Is there a general rule that will help me in these situations?

That makes sense. Thanks GM of Anything.

I keep going back and forth on this one.
[spoil]If proficient with armor, add 1d6 to the combat check.[/spoil]
So, do I add that 1d6 to my roll to beat the check, or to the number I have to beat?
And what's the RP reason behind that? I'm not understanding it.

That's what I would think as well, but I assume that there are a few swords that are off-hand, that are intended to be played with a shield.
Maybe "after playing you cannot play two-handed or shield"
It won't happen much, no one wants 2 shields hanging around in their hands usually.

It says

Display next to a local character.

While Displayed...
When they suffer damage, banish to reduce the damage to 0.
If Proficient...

Who needs to be proficient to recover? The player who displayed the card on the other local player, or the player who took 0 damage?

It seems to me that if both of Valeros' shields say play freely, that I can play both of them, because neither have the 2-handed trait.
Is this correct?

So I could use the Sage to try to recover a spell? That makes sense as Kyra is still paralyzed, the sage is helping her.
Thanks.

A bane says, "If Undefeated, end your turn."
Can Kyra still use a character power that says, "At the end of your turn, ..."

But if you are playing Curse, you're adding in the Core cards as well, right? So there will still be 2 different Basilisks in a level 3 Curse Adventure, and 2 different Gargoyles in a level 4 Curse Adventure.

And finally, I downloaded the Deck List, not the Card List, that's why I didn't have quantities.
Thanks all.

I'll have to decide if I want to buy a class deck then before this event.
Thank you for the answers though.

It's great to have the Deck list, but it's unhelpful if it doesn't tell you the amount for each card.
Which cards are supposed to have duplicates and how many? Anyone know? I think I'm missing some blessings.

Thanks so much.
My first question is, do I have to own a class deck, or can I use a starting deck from the Core set?

I'm really interested.
But I'm really confused.
Is there a primer for PbP PACG?
I don't even know what it means to dot a thread.
Am I too new to do this?
I own, RotR, signed by Mike Selinker, and the Expansion Add-on.
I also own Core and Crimson, and I'm playing those solo.
Help me out, please.

I'm with Jenceslav, I'm not sure we got an answer.

Does that work for Seelah as well?

When you attempt a check before acting, you may use Divine instead of any listed skill.

All checks she makes with that power add the divine trait, yes?

And for Lini, and her first power, by using Survival, does that make it a survival check and and anything that modifies a survival check can be added, like a bat?

Warhammer: when do you choose to reload to ignore the after acting powers?
Options are when you reveal or when you apply after acting effects? The first would be before damage, the second would be after damage. Thoughts?

There All-seeing Eye. Blessing 3
When this is the hour, when you would examine the top card of a location, you may examine the top 2.

If I use detect evil, I look at 2 cards, but do I only encounter if the top card is a monster, or if either card I examined is a monster?

The Story Banes are on the back of the Wildcards.

Story Bane Roster: Each Adventure Path includes 1 or more of these cards, providing a categorized list of story banes for that Adventure Path. ...

The story bane roster for The Dragon’s Demand is on the back of the wildcard The Onslaughts.

I'm going to leave feedback for the handbook here.
ICON on page 3 is on the wrong side of the card.

Full Plate: so you display the armor, then draw it back to your hand when you take combat damage. This allows you to discard for other damage, correct?
It's this the point of drawing this card after displaying it?

Further Adventures is the divider you are wanting to use.

Can Seelah use both of her character powers on the same check? Make a check a Divine check AND add a d4 plus the magic trait?
I'm afraid of the answer.

Also on Seelah converting a check to Divine. It says listed trait, does that mean listed on her card? Meaning she can roll a d8 for a Dexterity check (because Dexterity is on her card) but she can't roll a d8 for acrobatics, because that's not on there. Once in awhile, an acrobatics check is easier than a Dex check so I thought I would clarify.

Finally, can a moderate move this thread to the rules section? Sorry.

You're all right on top of this. Thank you. I'll keep playing and keep asking questions.
The art is solid (but I'm not keen on the squiggles that end up on top of every character's head).
The rules are, despite my questions, tight.
The quick start is a great product.
Thanks to everyone who worked on it.

Campsite-can you recharge a displayed boon?

Armor in general: if something does damage to all local characters, only 1 character can use an armour card, correct? The others would have to use some other kind of card to prevent the damage?

I play by myself so I have no one else to bounce questions off of, so I'm doing it here.

Sage's Journal: on my check against a story bane, I can reveal or bury, but not both, correct?

Noxious Bomb: says you may ignore the monster's after acting power. What if the monster says Each local character? Does the noxious bomb ignore for all local characters or just the character that played it?

Lady Despair (blessing): as the hour, and only 2 characters at a location, is "a random local character" the other character, or are both characters randomized?

Tell us more. Tell us more!
How does it play? Compared to the original is it smoother, better, how is the art in person? Is it more cooperative?
What's your favourite new character?

This is the relaunch. It's releasing this month at various times depending where you got it from. Mine should be here by Sunday.

Option #3 seems like the best option to me. It's hard to say for sure because we don't know the numbers.

In the end I vote for whatever option lets me play PF V1 the most.

I had a physical copy, I was looking for the PDF so I can print up the maps. If I can't get the PDF of the adventure can I please have the Map image. If I have to scan it and print it off the scan its going going to look like blurry ass.

Also one prep question
Are there stats with feats/tricks for Poog's animal companion or should I just do my own?

Edit
Also I think the +5 tome has the wrong price. The price listed is for the +4 version, +5 should be 137,500 I think.

Thanks John. I for one will be glad to see the gloves gone.

Congratulations Marc!

You have put in a amazing effort to earn your 5th star and support pfs.

Welcome to the club!

Mike and all the development team thank you for the continued efforts. Alot of what you do is thankless stuff and cat herding but you keep striving to improve pfs and are taking the feedback to heart by having major meeting like this.

Looking forward to more info on the changes to come.

Also ban gunslingers pls

So with paizocon only a couple of days away I thought I would post a topic to discussing some of the ways for GM's to run games in the big room better. I was at paizocon last year so most of my ideas come from that experience but I am hopeful that other people will comment with ideas that they have found at other con's and that as GM’s we can strive to make each experience fun.

~Noise control/GMing in a noisy room~

*if you try to shout over all the tables around you the whole convention your voice will be very stressed before the first day ends and it’s going to affect you the rest of the weekend and not be fun. So tips to cut down on the noise.

*Print the venture office briefing. Give everyone a chance to read it then take it back. At the start of every game you are surrounded by people trying to read block text clearly. If you don't have to fight to be heard all the players will understand the mission and it will make transitioning into the adventure smoother.

*Print the Knowledge check information and let the player who makes the check convey the information to the group. It helps to get the players interacting with each other early on and encourage them to do so in character.

*Look at the person you are speaking to!!!! Try not to get stuck sitting with your head down reading text. Your voice will not carry as well and you will end up having to repeat yourself a lot.

*Keep control of the chatter. If your whole table is talking all the time all at once you’re going to have a hard time hearing and being heard and the tables around you will be negatively affected.

~Auditing players pre game~

*one thing you should not do is spend the first half hour of a game slot pouring through character sheets and chronicles looking for mistakes. You end up losing a lot of game time and it can come across very adversarial. Here are some of my recommendations.

*As players make player introductions look over character sheets/hero labs and their inventory tracking sheet. Ask questions about any ability’s you don’t understand as your reading it and try to get a basic understanding of what the character is and does. You don’t need to know every trick, it’s the players job to understand the character and be able to explain it.

*Have a copy of the additional resources printed and if you have to cross reference something ask a 3rd party player to do it so that you can keep things moving. Make sure that the player is not using something like d20pfsrd or herolabs as the source for abilities and items but don’t make it into a witch hunt. Ideally you should be able to do this as the introductions happen.

*Check to see if they know what they should have for a bonus to hit, damage, concentration check etc. Get a sense of what they do best, if it seems high ask how.

*Ask questions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and one of the best ones would be does this character have aspects that have been subject to table variation and try to sort those out before the game starts. Let the player know where you stand on a rule beforehand and it will save on rules discussion that bring the game to a crawl mid game.

~Common mistakes~

*Chronicles or inventory sheets not filled out properly

*Gun Slingers continuing to double dip in the bonus dex damage.

*Cleric’s that take extra channel more than once.

*Mounts with barding and items but not the feats to wear or use them.

*People in medium or heavy encumbrance but not taking the penalties or even calculating the encumbrance weight they are at.

*Zen Archer trying to use rapid shot & many shot during a flurry of arrows

~Time saving~

It can be very easy to lose track of time. Some season 5 games are hard to get done in the time slot. Here are some tips.

*If the player has a mount or companion or summoned creature make sure they have access to the stat block for it and can have it at the ready. If they are taking an excessive amount of time offer a warning but be prepared to take the creature over as GM. You can’t let Fluffy the Wonder Bison take 5 min to resolve a turn.

*When in combat inform players of the order and give advanced warning so that they can plan out their actions ahead of time. Be prepared to put players that are indecisive on delay if needed but give them a fair warning before doing so.

*Ask players to roll all the damage dice at the same time as the too hit.

Fill out the bottom part of the chronicles beforehand to save you some time finishing the end of the game.

*Have Stat block organized so that you can see all the information you need before had. If they have spells or abilities you don’t know try to have those printed so that you don’t need to stop the game to reference them. Printing more than one copy can keep you from flipping back and forth.

And Finally

~Smile!~

Yes that’s right Smile. Enjoy the game you are running interact with the players, be funny give bad guys some dialog during combat, toss an insult out (By Besmaria’s barnacled arse!) expand on the flavor of text. Your sitting with a bunch of people that enjoy the same thing you do, make it fun!

If anyone else has some good ideas please post them.

Michael Brock wrote:

Kolby Sample wrote:

All hail Grandmaster Torch, bring back the Shadow Lodge

He doesn't want to come back. He is perfectly content turning info into gold.

In a certain recent scenario where you vote on the new head of [redacted], some of us considered writing him in as a third party candidate.

Played it last night and thats what I wanted to do but the gm was not really on board with the idea. So we voted for the most qualified one who has not been found hog tied in a closet in a prior scenario.

All hail Grandmaster Torch, bring back the Shadow Lodge

I present 6 mighty adventurers who bested the Waking Rune hard mode.

Nailo Tealeaf, the undefeated alchemist.
Tsemichla Tal'Nar, elven alchemist extraordinaire.
Varric Chaoswielder, The Righteousness of Iomedae.
Henric, humble servent of the Dawnflower.
Ahote Takoda, Warrior of Tamiir-Quah
Cyax the Horselord.

Despite the chalange put before these 6 they were able to overcome a 7 hour battle of wills and end the Runelord of Sloth.

Congratulations

My half orc ranger has a pteradon mount from the racial feat beast rider. I have to cast ant haul on it to make sure he stays in light load but it makes for an effective and monstrous animal compaion who is also a flying mount.

I took this feat after a pack of hill giants beat my axe beak mount to death on some stairs.

I have been running this for a few groups and this is the pace I have been seeing or expect to see for each section

Intro and Witch tower 4-5 hours
Abandoned quarry 3-4 hours
Hunclay's mannor and cave 4-5 hours
Auction and Town meeting 2 hours
Dragon slayer's tomb 3-4 hours
Creepy abbey 5-6 hours
Lair and wrap up 2 hours

So your looking at 25-30ish hours for just the enconters depending on how well you bring the town to life, side quests, breaks for food and distraction add more time as needed.

I will repost what I had said on facebook as an idea.

I think the best solution to adding tricks from the animal archive would be to create a inclusive list of the tricks an animal can learn as a seperate file and have it available to download similar to how traits are available seperate from the apg and included in the core assumption.

None know more then I the falsehood of this messenger. He is a zealot, a divine warrior in service to his goddess not some grand idealist devoting his days to the betterment of the society. I have seen who his is on his pathfinder missions, just another cowardly human who has revelled in striking down his allied pathfinders helpless to magical compulsions. I saw the glee in his eyes as his blade pierced my flesh.

He seeks to make things "better" but his lamp casts a long shadow. I have seen first hand the darkness he hides. I bit back being the first to challenge this lamplighter initiative, waiting for others to step forward before I raised my personal distrust.

Know that though elves and my kind have bleed in war in the past, I am willing to acknowledge the character of individuals who show courage. Jarenthal I salute you for stepping forward to meet this challenge. I serve the society out of no choice of my own and those that have wronged me should fear the day I am free of my bonds.

Aram bin Kaleel, the Dervish of the Dawnflower should know that I have not forgotten & his dept to me will be payed once his blood dances across my blade and his corpse lies at my feet.

Drollis spit Chewing tobacco on the paladin twice :) .....good time had by all.

My personal opinion on this matter is to try & put myself in the shoes of the creatures that are fighting for their lives. I tend to agree with your examples and have a few other instances where it has come up.

These are rare examples & I would agree that targeting downed players is not a normal part of combats I run.

If combat has moved and an evil or intelligent melee enemy is now outside the range where he can reach a standing adversary then in those rare instances they will follow the "do something useful every turn" and a downed player becomes fair game.

If an enemy has the opportunity to use a downed player as a hostage (came up in Shades of Ice part 2 last time I ran it) if the players continue to engage in combat then the downed hostage would end up paying the price.

Constructs with only one player in range,,,,this is the one really hard, one do they attack rather then move or move on to a standing foe. "Normally" I would continue to attack the closest foe regardless of condition because that's how I think they would act but I have in the past & may in the future have constructs move on to the next threatening target.