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SIGN UP HERE - post will be updated with current attendees. Subtier determined by level of players. Currently 3-4. Your mission takes you to the Taldan capital city of Oppara where the intricate web of political intrigue and ages-old religious conflicts threaten the Pathfinder Society’s presence in the land. When Baron Jacquo Dalsine’s cousin is implicated in a recent attack on Society allies, the situation becomes even tighter for the Pathfinders, and at the end of the day some members of the Dalsine family may not get out unscathed. Written by Alex Greenshields. This scenario is designed for play in Pathfinder Society Organized Play, but can easily be adapted for use with any world. This scenario is compliant with the Open Game License (OGL) and is suitable for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Players:
Roll20 game and G+ hangout will be shown tomorrow.
According to fabricate you'd need to have base materials to make the item. You'd have to have a load of adamantine in order to fabricate the full plate. So you aren't just paying a craft cost of 1/3 there. However, I do think there are a few instances it's probably going to be used for cash flow. I'm going to specifically ban cash flow crafting unless a profession check is used. That's why we have craft/profession. Making money buying material, crafting, and selling crap is not why I DM for people. Go play EVE or something is what I'd tell them.
Thank you, that is helpful. Any other advice or design quotes from the developers on this balance issue would be appreciated. At this point, I'm likely to just go with what feels right to me and if the players can't accept it we won't play. PF is a different game than 3.5 and I'm not going to break PF for the sake of nostalgia. There is plenty of opportunity to break PF as it is.
All, I am an experienced DM but I could really use some advice on how to deal with an issue. A group has asked me to consider DM'ing a homebrew PF campaign, but they like high magic, high powered campaigns (very high stats, items, etc.) They are veterans of 3.5 and want to relive those days as well. That includes ways to break the crafting system. I've been told they want to do things like stacking +AC items of insight, luck, sacred, deflection, natural, etc to get up to ridiculous AC. I would have no problem with these things if it wasn't for the fact that Paizo got rid of body slot shenanigans by aligning all of the (even more slots than we used to have) into single slots and charging markups for stacking effects. Has anyone here dealt with someone trying to revive broken portions of 3.5 crafting? What PF rules/resources are available for me to challenge this practice beyond simple DM fiat? Thus far, I'm considering making items double cost if they are different slot than typically aligned. I'm looking for any advice to add sanity to this in a campaign that will already a bit overpowered making encounter building difficult to balance.
Darius, I'm struggling with what to say here. I, of course, feel terrible that we couldn't accommodate you coming in late. I would like you to keep a couple things in mind that you may not know. 1) A module takes two or three 4-5 hour sessions to complete. I am doing it in two 2.5 hour sessions. There is very little time to wiggle as it is. If someone doesn't show, I have to get started without them. If there is a wait lister, I have to let them in and get started. It's not fair to the rest to delay. 2) Very few DMs post the game well over an hour in advance so people can set up macros and ask questions. I do this as a courtesy for players who need help with either the venue or the game mechanics. Posting it even earlier is not my responsibility to do, as the link is not available until I create the hangout session. I cannot do that while I'm at work or eating an early dinner. 3) Like any other table top, Roll20 GMs will work with you if late if they know something about it. I checked my e-mail, PMs, this thread, and Facebook for the other area I post games in multiple times as the game was getting going. I was worried about what to do with your spot the longer we went with no word. With no information from you on your log-in problems until you came in 20 minutes late, I had no other recourse than to believe you weren't showing up and I had to get started. This "no call, no show" is not easy on me either as a DM. I don't like giving spots away. Please consider this, GMs want you at the table, just let us know and your spot is secured as long as feasible. I hope you continue to participate in these online tabletop games, and I'm very sorry you had so many issues getting in.
Everyone can get to the game through google hangouts as long as they've already clicked the link above joining my Roll20 campaign. The game is currently up. Please make macros for initiative and attack / damage. Saves and knowledge are a bonus. Macro is best done something like this: attacks [[1d20+4]] for [[1d8+3]] damage or thinks about the arcane [[1d20+8]] you can type to me until the game starts, when I will turn on my mic. Cheers! Google Hangout Link: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/gs3xiamasoavupb7ofocrrqmgaa
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Some notes: To play you will need to e-mail me your character name/race/class/level and your initiative modifier. I will need your PFS number (including the -1, 2, etc) and your faction. Please do this before tomorrow's game so I can prep my sheets. Darius, You will need to sign up on my Roll20 campaign. It's simple, free, and quick. Then, before the game begins (typically 1.5-2 hours beforehand) I will post a link here to the google hangout so that everyone can join the campaign page through G+, which will allow us the video and voice chat functionality. Roll20 will run as an 'app' inside G+. My Roll20 Campaign:
https://app.roll20.net/join/380406/MmDpww My E-mail for Character Info:
zain60@hotmail.com G+ link will be posted on the morrow!
An adventure for [2nd-4th]-level characters For decades, the tiny village of Ravenmoor has existed quietly on the upper reaches of the Lampblack River, far from the centers of civilization in Varisia. Linked to the outside world only by an overgrown, mostly forgotten trail, the villagers are comfortable with their isolation. Their ways are humble, quaint, and at times odd, and when travelers come, they find the town awkward and unmemorable. Certainly, the lack of a village inn, the oppressive humidity, and the bug-infested moors and swamps that surround the village do little to encourage visitors. When a clerk in the city of Magnimar discovers that, due to a clerical error, the village of Ravenmoor hasn’t paid taxes in years, a tax collector is sent to the distant community to settle accounts with its mayor. When the tax collector fails to return, however, a group of adventurers must travel to the town during its Founders’ Feast celebration to investigate his disappearance. Did he really make off with the taxes for himself, as the villagers suspect? Or did he never make it out of Ravenmoor at all? It features a terrifying adventure set in a rural village in the frontier realm of Varisia, and a brand-new monster eager to torment and frighten unsuspecting adventurers. Written by Brandon Hodge Reminder/Disclaimer - you MUST attend both nights (probably until 1030-11 EDT) to receive credit. ROSTER:
Please sign up here with character name, class, level and any role information you want to share. If you cannot commit to both days, please also say so and I'll put you on the wait list.
The Pathfinder Society has discovered a new Aspis Consortium base in the pirate city of Riddleport and sends a small team of agents to infiltrate the rival cell disguised as newly hired mercenaries from Magnimar. After proving their value to the Aspis Consortium by carrying out a number of tasks throughout the City of Cyphers, the Pathfinders can learn the location of one of the consortium's local allies and ensure that the support the Aspis Consortium is counting on from their friends won't come. Roster
Please post if interested with character name, class, level, and role. I'll ask for more info next week when I post the campaign and hangout invite. See you then! R/
1. Zelanys (Oracle 1) - Melee
Please go here: Hangout Link:
https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/gsbeqjpohf3zfccjc24rspa2g4a Roll20 Invite Link:
https://app.roll20.net/join/380406/MmDpww The game is being set up right now and you are welcome to log in and set macros while I do that. I will start at 805 assuming we have 3-4 for the legal table.
Almost all Pathfinders undergo extensive training for three or more years to learn the tricks of the trade, and their last test before graduating from the ranks of the initiates to the status of a full Pathfinder agent is the Confirmation, a special research project that involves considerable fieldwork and is designed to simulate the initiates' future work as a Pathfinder. Even the noteworthy field commissioned agents sometimes participate in such trials as a way to familiarize themselves with the Pathfinder Society’s rules and expectations. Although Confirmation is typically an individual affair, the society recently discovered a site on the Isle of Kortos that would be perfect for initiates but perhaps too dangerous to handle alone. Successfully uncovering this site’s secrets will not only contribute to the society’s body of knowledge but shape the exciting careers ahead for each of the prospective agents. Current Roster:
Last minute, but I'm running Confirmation tomorrow. Let me know if you want in. I will start the event with the first person who signs up and shows up. I will start at 8:05 with a legal table unless someone tells me they are arriving a few minutes late. Please respond with character name/class/level/role and I will add you first come first served. R/
Current Roster:
Sylas dropped, so Sczvaile you're in. Please read above for instructions. I still don't have character info (faction, init, etc etc etc) and tokens for most of you.
Current Roster:
Bigmig is now in - we had a dropout. Scavaile is on the WL. Join my Roll20 Campaign HERE:
https://app.roll20.net/join/380406/MmDpww G+ Hangout HERE:
https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/g3745fnqphoqkqhhs5ho55nnxma E-Mail your character info HERE:
zain60@hotmail.com My general rule of thumb: If I have not heard from you by 5 minutes after 8PM EST, I will start the game without you. If there is a waitlisted person, they will be added in your stead. If no one is in waitlist, I just start without you and you can join at any time until we've had 3 encounters and you've essentially missed the scenario and cannot get credit. This should be a pretty cool scenario and I'm looking forward to it. To those PFS/R20 newbies, just make sure to join the campaign, THEN join the hangout 5-10 minutes before we start and check your mic/video and set up macros. If you think you will need more time for macros, (ie pre-setting your rolling of dice in the GUI, etc within Roll20) I will have the G+ hangout/campaign up until start time with my mic/video muted. Feel free to do what you need.
Current Roster:
Bigmig, please send an e-mail with requested information to the address I listed above. If we are missing a 6th by 5 minutes past start time, I will add waitlisters.
Current Roster:
Please determine character names soon, and e-mail me with PFS numbers/character names/perception and init modifiers, and factions. e-mail address: zain60@hotmail.com
Cult of Personality
I have 4 spots for this event. You must be available both nights 8-1130EST to finish up and receive a chronicle. Current participants:
Please reply to this thread with class/character name if you can commit. Once I post an updated character list contact me at my e-mail: with your PFS number/character name, faction, initiative and saves, and any pertinent information on your character like "I'm a cleric who refuses to heal, I only melee" or "I use lots of grappling."
zain60@hotmail.com R/
Unfortunately Pathfinder's creators loathe dragons and the previous prevalence in settings like Forgotten Realms. The dragon hunter's handbook is lackluster when it comes to crafting with dragon carcass. As above, I highly recommend house-ruling something very much or directly out of the Draconomicon (3.5) as it was easily one of the best sources ever done on the topic. The rules can go beyond that. I just let size be my guide (something Draconomicon did to a large degree when crafting armor) on weapons, clothing, armor, magical reagents, etc. For instance, a Huge dragon might have teeth the size of a dagger or even shortsword. It might have claws curved and suitable to turn into khopeshes, scimitars or kukris. Its skin and softer scaled portions like wing folds could make clothing for a tiny character, or a belt or other magic item slot item for a medium character. The hardened scales of a huge dragon might fully armor a medium character, or like Draconomicon suggests, scales by heavy, medium or light armor per size of creature wearing it. I also used the Artisan-crafting rules from Dragon magazine #345. Back orders or PDFs can help you there, which greatly expanded the idea of crafting in general, and give you more ideas how how to deal with exceptional materials for crafting beyond 'reduce armor check penalty by 1' If in a homebrew campaign, I suggest that every kill of an evil monstrous being or non-sentient beast become an opportunity to craft something exceptional. Even in a non-archaeology setting, it's possible to embellish. I allowed Firepelt Cougar fur to be used in a cloak and gave it bonuses to diplomacy or intimidate depending on who saw it, or negatives for people who viewed it negatively. The greatness of being a DM, especially in homebrew, is to make an adventure. Telling someone they just killed a dragon, and now if they only take a feat they can create some dinky +1 to something item, or all they get is dragon bile, etc is just plain not fun to me. What I DO try to do is create a gold tax by requiring the party to either take feats or require them to find someone suitable to make the items. If somehow that doesn't work, I will factor the size and cost of dragon-crafting into how much is left in a hoard.
Hangout Link:
https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/g5y6lprye2hh5svyrlug3qq7oaa Game is on for tonight. The hangout is up and running if you want to log in to set up macros or anything. I will ask everyone have AT LEAST a basic macro for rolling a d20 and one for rolling damage with primary weapon. I have character/PFS info for everyone, and the two waitlisters will be allowed to log in should you choose as well to set up macros. I will ask waitlisters to leave if all 6 show up by 15 min after start.
1. Khilani (Brawler 1)
Local players have solidified their character names, we are set for tomorrow. I will send out invitations/etc tomorrow.
Also, I'd do ranged. Perhaps divine hunter paladin, an inquisitor, or some other divine class with a ranged element - or simply a cleric/oracle/etc with range dips into fighter/paladin/etc. The paladin builds I mentioned could do that. With a monk/barb/melee bard, you will have a bit of a time doing anything but watching the fight and trying to get into melee otherwise.
DrDeth gave good advice. I would go with something that you want to play, but find a way to do that and have divine/arcane utility. You have a bard, but that isn't exactly a wizard. If you want a melee or ranged type that heals, a Hospitaler paladin can work great. Want some more spellcasting ability, go Oracle/Paladin, the mix varies based on what you want, but consider Pal2/OracleX or Oracle4/PalX or Oracle1/PalX. I second DrDeth's recommendations on using domain/mystery/etc for utility. Another option would be a witch. As you mentioned, but I wouldn't go so far as to take hedge witch if you don't want to. Often, locking down enemies will really lessen the damage you all take. A Scarred-witch doctor or winter witch could work well if you want something beyond vanilla. Time patron has some nice wizardesque spells - teleport/haste. A druid is ok, but in this party I'd say no. You're really losing power as your spell slots are at such a high premium. A witch, oracle, paladin, or cleric has other things they can focus on, but you as a druid might spend a spell every fight just buffing or controlling the battlefield, etc. Go with a class that can heal that you won't LOSE effectiveness at your other primary jobs.
1. Khilani (Brawler 1)
Please send the following details to
my e-mail address::
zain60@hotmail.com Name
Include a 'token' to represent your character. Either a top down picture or a portrait token work best. Side-view pictures can be more difficult. If you'd prefer I insert one myself, just say so in the e-mail. In return I will e-mail you the link to my PFS campaign on Roll20 before we begin on the 28th.
Google Hangout is up, click here for the link!:
https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/g3rpetukj6furnbi3qgfymbuvaa I'll keep the game up until start time, feel free to log in, test macros, connectivity and voice/video. Chat to me 30 minutes before the game and I'll answer questions. I'll turn voice/video on as more people log in.
1. Khilani (Brawler 1)
Toshiru dropped out. Leganduil you are the 6th spot. Aido_Hwedo and Leganduil will need to figure out which characters you are playing and let me know. I need Dfang, Martin, Aido_Hwedo, and Leganduil to e-mail me their information on the characters they are going to play (as posted above to that e-mail address). Be sure to 'join' the PFS campaign on Roll20. Link to Roll20 Campaign:
https://app.roll20.net/join/380406/MmDpww Link to G+ Hangout will be posted later. I will have it up around an hour or so early for people to test connection. I will be on mic/video about 15 minutes before the game.
1. Khilani (Brawler 1)
Please send the following details to my e-mail address:
zain60@hotmail.com Name
Include a 'token' to represent your character. Either a top down picture or a portrait token work best. Side-view pictures can be more difficult. If you'd prefer I insert one myself, just say so in the e-mail. In return I will e-mail you the link to my PFS campaign on Roll20 before we begin on the 28th.
1. Khilani (Brawler 1)
Please send the following details to my e-mail address:
zain60@hotmail.com Name
Include a 'token' to represent your character. Either a top down picture or a portrait token work best. Side-view pictures can be more difficult. If you'd prefer I insert one myself, just say so in the e-mail. In return I will e-mail you the link to my PFS campaign on Roll20 and the Google Hangout tomorrow.
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