Pip Hip Hooray's page

Hello, I'm Pip. You can look at me to see what a fully statted botting spoiler looks like!

Though feel free to skip skills and saves, since those should have been taken care of by the Macros sheet.

I think we all love the bonus skill feats we got at Level 5.

"Ooh... Check out the current blog for year 5 Updates!" Pip bounces around, excitedly.

"So many ancestries (and heritages) are becoming free: aasimars, changelings, tengu, tieflings and ysoki!" Pip waves. "Hello, new friends!"

Alex Speidel put up a thread where you can suggest ACP boon additions to the boon store:

Official Pathfinder Society Boon Request Thread

Suggest a boon, or better yet, favorite the boon suggestions that you would like to see added.

Anyone interested in playing 04-15 (In Glorious Battle)? Contemplating setting it up since it appears very straightforward...

I am going to wait until my next writing gig is in... So probably September. But I'm interested then!

There is a really good list of the Boons available maintained by Doug H.

Watery Soup, that game sounds beyond awesome. I hope there is much magic ahead for everyone in that adventure!

I've thrown sparkles into the air with Prestidigitation in Society games, and no one has ever said I could not.

"Hello, this is Pip from the Envoy's Alliance Legal Defense Fund. Please thank the Tech Team for fixing our badges!"

The more appreciative the community is, the more motivated the tech team is to fixing our issues!

I do love how characters grow over time. This character, Pip, started out as a Barrister because it was a charisma background that sounded like it made for fun roleplay and I was making a bard. I decided that she had a mwangi background because of the avatar I found -- cool green hair and a nice bronze skin tone. The facial features matched too.

Since she was going into the Envoy's Alliance faction (the faction devoted to helping other Pathfinders), I always have her introduce herself this way: "My name's Pip, and I'm from the Envoy's Alliance Legal Defense Fund. I'll be your legal representation today."

Soon, I was using Legal Lore everywhere I went, and when I got a riding dog, I named him Bailiff. Later, when I was playing in one of Doug's games, we went to Bhopan and I realized that was where Pip's grandmother was from. Especially since everyone in Pip's family loves and talks to animals.

Being in Bhopan led to Pip getting more fey-flavor, and turning part-dryad. She's been growing and changing ever since, even though her base is all Core Rulebook. I like it when a character has a grounded profession that I can lean into, and when they're from somewhere really specific. Pip isn't just from Absalom, she's from the Westgate neighborhood where her family has been training Badgers for years, as pet badgers (so long as they are leashed) are allowed everywhere in Absalom. Sometimes the best backstories are simple ones.

Since there are often criminals, bad guys and illegal activity happening in scenarios, my defense lawyer, Pip, has either had opportunities to use her lore or straight up found opportunities to use her Legal Lore. There have been trials where I got to use Legal Lore in making arguments, or in asking for leniency for an ally who got caught or framed. I believe that I have found a use for Legal Lore in over half the scenarios Pip has been involved with.

I prefer to show my new players how to use Tupperbox more than just give them the guide, as not everyone is comfortable using a command line. This is a quick rundown I gave to my new Beginner Box players. Link is Google Slides.

Tupperbox Quick Rundown

That was quite helpful, thank you.

I've never used it either, but the RfC Guide describes the Tupper bot. I wouldn't mind trying it sometime (maybe in a bounty?)

I've been GMing on the Paizo forums for about a year now and am comfortable with it. I played one game on Discord a while back and it seemed to drag on, much like Pirate Rob's Experience.

I found the PbP GM's Kit very useful in getting started on the Forums. I have had a hard time finding a similar repository for playing/running on Discord. I'll be trying Discord again during Outpost VI, so I am currently looking for all the info I need to be a good player on Discord.

Is there a repository of how to run/play information on Discord available that I have missed?

The Guide to PBP Lodges has these suggestions on it:

As you can tell from Pip, it's okay to have a detailed botting spoiler, so long as it is organized.

I absolutely insist on botting spoilers!

They do not have to be as complete as Pip's here, but they help everyone stay focused! You can click on Pip's profile to see a botting spoiler.

"Also wondering what kind of task the other initiates got upon their return without their hangovers..."

Here's a link to GM Ash's Recruitment Thread.

"Ahem!" Pip comes in and waves to the Leadership Team.

"Hello Lord Alex et al.!" Pip is a barrister, and knows that it is important to use legal terms like 'et al' whenever possible. "The Party of the First Part, me, would like to request that the Party of the Second Part, the Organized Play Foundation, herewith support a special beginners celebratory event for the Parties of the Third Part, known herein as former players of Dungeons & Dragons 5E."

In other words, can we have an Official Welcoming Event?

We'll miss you, Tyranius. Thanks so much for your work and leadership. Congratulations, Bigrin!

After I played the adventure that allowed me to become part-dryad with a fey influence feat, I really thought about purchasing the Adopted Ancestry I boon to become adopted by Leshies. After all, I have tons of leaves twining through my hair and around my limbs now. However, I realized that Pip's gnomish family back in the Absalom's Westgate quarter might feel disappointed if she did, especially since they have been such a loving and important influence on her life. So, Pip is just a very feychild fey gnome with a lot of dryad in her.

Me too. When I had begun the adventure, Pip's back story had included a mwangi grandmother that had been exiled from her homeland. And then... The deeper that I got into the adventure, the more that I realized that Pip's grandmother must have come from Bhopan! It just totally fit the backstory I had given Pip.

That pair of adventures totally changed my perception of who Pip was. Of course I have taken the Bhopanese feats that were available on her. I too hope to return to Bhopan, and hope the adventure is high enough in level that Pip can play it.

Man, that is a nice change for warpriests!

Being a person is a good first step!

Take care, Rob! Sleep well and get better!

Pip picked up a riding dog, Bailiff, as her very first purchase in PFS. Bailiff's job isn't to carry Pip, Bailiff's job is to carry Pip's stuff so she doesn't get encumbered. At the start of every combat, Pip inspires courage and orders Bailiff to hide.

However, Bailiff has seen more social time than many animal companions. I play a lot of PBP, so I've just had fun having Bailiff be a dog, doing doggy things. I've been very happy with my decision to have Bailiff be a part of Pip's storyline.

"The pay of interns is, um, pretty bad," Pip admits. "So 8 days of work when you start out is about 4 silver pieces in total. But it can get better."

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At higher levels, Pip is now pulling from the Level 6 Earned Income, where her successes total 2 gold a day, because her Legal Lore is Expert (and above.) When she crit succeeds, which happens sometimes because she is a Master at Legal Lore now, she earns income from the next level up, which is 2.5 gold a day. This means that she regularly at Level 6 earns either 16 gp or 20 gp.

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If she were a Horizon Hunter, she could become a Storied Talent and earn income of her own level, Level 8, but she's too loyal to Envoy's Alliance to do that.

"You sure do!" a little brown gnome waves at the new half-orc recruit. "Add the gold you got at the end of the session to your 15 starter gold! Welcome! Let us know if there are other questions you have!"

Oh, that is cool! I did not know that.

I cannot wait to meet the chatty skull. I'm already getting Dresden flashbacks!

Pip glances up at the PFS side. "A 9-12 scenario, with a gnome in it? Where do I sign up?"

A green-haired gnome wanders into the discussion. "Welcome, new Pathfinder! " She waves at AnVee. "Maybe someday we can adventure together."

The Cottonseed Lodge is awesome! This character's name is Pip, and she's played in a number of games that were arranged through there.

I have a character sheet that you can see if you click my avatar. It's only one of the ways that you can design your character sheet on here, but hopefully it can give you ideas on how you want to organize the information yourself.

Though there are other ways to deal with bulk item limits. One of my first major purchases for Pip, was Bailiff, her riding dog. She never rides him, but since he can carry her, it logically followed for me that he could carry Pip's heaviest pieces of gear in his saddle bags. Plus, Bailiff has been a surprisingly good companion, if a cowardly one, since his first impulse when bandits attack is to run and hide.

Another Kate Baker masterpiece? I am excited!

Oh, I missed that! I shall have to look in the Bin myself!

Thanks GM! I suppose it is time to close up shop?

"Then we can ask the audience to give us a hand!"

I think it would have been scarier if it lasted more rounds. I am glad that whatever we did shortened the time it could finger us.

"Herondel, once we get back to base camp, we should put on another play to reward everyone for helping us!"

"Disappointed? DISAPPOINTED?" Pip pats the giant halfling on the back. "Have you considered counseling for your death wish?" Then she considers. "The only thing I'm disappointed by is that he pulled his hand back before the rift closed. Though, I suppose as the Father of trolls, he could have grown a new one soon enough..."

She hugs everyone on the team, and then says to Hoppper with three Ps, "I hope they do select you. You're wily enough for the job!" Whistling for her dog, she calls out, "Hey Bailiff, help me bring some of these wounded Pathfinders back to base camp!"

Lore (Legal) M: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (4) + 18 = 22

Pip still picks up some clients here but with everyone packing, the volume drops a little.

Success 16 Gold

That rift is closing, right? I think we just have to hold out until it closes.

Will, ID: 1d20 + 14 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 14 + 1 = 22
Reflex, Frightened, ID: 1d20 + 15 + 1 - 1 ⇒ (4) + 15 + 1 - 1 = 19

Pip is frightened, then hit, taking 34 damage, and then falls on her rear. Knowing that being prone makes her easier to hit, she stands up, she dances...

Performance (dance), Frightened: 1d20 + 15 - 1 ⇒ (12) + 15 - 1 = 26
◇ Lingering Performance
◈ Inspire Defense

...and then shoots, but likely not well enough to hit the hand of a demon lord.

◈ Striking Short bow+I.C., Frightened: 1d20 + 11 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 11 + 1 + 1 = 26
Piercing damage: 2d6 + 1 ⇒ (3, 1) + 1 = 5
Deadly?: 1d10 ⇒ 1

To bring her own morale up, she recovers her courage as she quips, "Hey Bardyth, I think Urxehl just gave you the finger!"

"Lime cut up both me and Saliss, go show him who's boss!" Pip tells Bardyth as she pours another lesser healing potion down Ionic's throat.

Lesser Healing Potion for Ionic: 2d8 + 5 ⇒ (1, 1) + 5 = 7

She frowns as the potion produces less than the desired effect. "Sometimes I think that the ones they give out are the ones with rapidly approaching expiration dates."

◈◈◈ Magic Missile Force Damage: 6d4 + 6 ⇒ (2, 2, 4, 2, 3, 3) + 6 = 22

Pip just throws a Magic Missile at it, hoping to help weaken the spirit for everyone else.

Pip considers briefly what would do the most good... While a Magic Missile would definitely put the incorporeal spirit's nose out of joint, a fully hasted and raging Bardyth with a ghost touch weapon was something to keep in the fight. She sighs and steps through the fire and then uses a healing spell on Bardyth.

Will+ID: 1d20 + 14 + 1 ⇒ (14) + 14 + 1 = 29
Fire Damage minus resistance: 1d6 - 5 ⇒ (6) - 5 = 1

Soothe (Level 4): 4d10 + 16 ⇒ (4, 9, 6, 8) + 16 = 43

Both Inspire Courage & Defense are up thanks to Team Bard!

In your GM tracker you should note that the spirit is slowed and Bardyth hasted. We want every advantage we can get! Also, if none of us are near the trolls, can we just start skipping them in initiative?

None of the trolls can hit me, so I am going to prepost here.

Pip's feet renew their dance steps, finding the catchy beat once more to offer protection to her teammates.

Performance (dance): 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (13) + 15 = 28
◇Lingering Performance
◈ Inspire Defense

Bardyth is out of range for Pip's healing, so she heals herself this round so that she can join the fight in the next.

◈◈ Soothe (Level 4): 4d10 + 16 ⇒ (5, 8, 7, 9) + 16 = 45

Is anyone in this group planning to attend PaizoCon in person?

Fluent in so many languages, Pip studies the rune looking for ways to shift its meaning. "If I just add this curve, I can shift the meaning from Eviscerate to Exonerate!"

Occultism E, Frightened: 1d20 + 17 - 1 ⇒ (15) + 17 - 1 = 31

She then steps away to avoid the Lime troll's further ire. "Herondel, can you heal Bardyth? i think he's planning to go in."

Pip's frightened condition reduces to 0 at the end of this turn.