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The Refuge of Time
When: Saturday, April 9, 2016, 7am MDT (GMT-6)
Where: Roll20 + Google+ Hangout
Who: PCs can be between levels 7 and 11, sub-tiers 7-8 and 10-11, must be Core campaign characters
What: In the ruins of a fallen empire built on the power of sin lies the key to awakening a great evil from a time long gone. The Pathfinder Society isn't the only organization seeking this potent artifact, however, and the result of failure could mean disaster for the whole of Varisia and beyond.

To RSVP, please send me an e-mail at ssior [dot] 27 [at] gmail [dot] com with:
Your name
Character name
PFS##-#
Faction
Class and level
Token image if you have one

I will keep a running list of sign-ups updated here as I get the chance throughout the weekend.
****Only sign-ups e-mailed directly to me will be accepted****

Full table for the time being. Still taking alternates should anyone not show!

1) Prethen - Fighting Wizard 5
2) Dave S. - Paladin 6
3) Michael E. - Cleric 3
4) Lucian C. - Rogue 6
5) Luke B - Ranger 5
6) Joe K. - Ranger 6

Still plenty of room left! Remember, if you have played this in the standard campaign, you are able to play it again for Core credit!

1) Bruce G. - Cleric 5 OR Fighting Wizard 5
2) Paul J. - Cleric/Bard 4
3) Dave S. - Paladin 6
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6)

#5-02 The Wardstone Patrol
When: Saturday, March 26, 2016, 7am MDT (GMT-7) 
Where: Roll20 + Google+ Hangout 
Who: PCs can be of level 3 thru 7, sub-tiers 3-4 and 6-7, must be Core campaign characters
What: All-out war has erupted on the long-contested border between the crusader nation of Mendev and the demon-infested Worldwound. With the magical defenses that once held the demons at bay failing, defense of the region now falls to small patrols of mobile soldiers to resupply, reinforce, and communicate between the border's many fortresses and outposts. With so much at stake, the Pathfinder Society has enlisted many of its agents to assist in the war effort, both to protect its own interests and to prevent the onrushing tide of demonic attackers from plunging the entire Inner Sea region into chaos. On one such wardstone patrol, however, the party may find itself facing an enemy of an entirely different nature.

To RSVP, please send me an e-mail at ssior [dot] 27 [at] gmail [dot] com with: 
Your name 
Character name 
PFS##-# 
Faction 
Class and level 
Token image if you have one

I will keep a running list of sign-ups updated here as I get the chance throughout the weekend.
****Only sign-ups e-mailed directly to me will be accepted****

Bumping. We still have an open slot available for Saturday morning!

Table update!

Cleric 4
Bard 1/Cleric 3
Fighter 3
Fighter 1/Sorc 2
Paladin 3

Little bump and posting current line-up:

Cleric 4
Bard 1/Cleric 3
Fighter 3
Fighter 1/Sorc 2

Two more slots open for this Free RPG Day scenario.

Risen From The Sands
When: Saturday, January 23, 2016, 7am MDT (GMT-7) 
Where: Roll20 + Google+ Hangout 
Who: PCs can be level 3 or 4, must be Core campaign characters* 
What: The deserts of Osirion—land of pharaohs and ancient tombs—hide not just untold wonders, but also unspeakable dangers. When the vast sand dunes part to reveal the ancient pyramid of the legendary Pharaoh of Sphinxes, glory seekers from across many nations race toward it, each fighting to be the first to claim its wonders. But the storied pharaoh doesn't rest quietly within this monument, and his tomb was designed to slaughter any who would dare trespass.

A band of bold adventurers are the first to arrive, and stand poised to claim what’s risen from the sands—but they're unaware of the doom that lurks inside. With daring on their side and strange, rarely seen powers at their disposal, the heroes may be the only force capable of containing the force of evil within and defeating its curse!

To RSVP, please send me an e-mail at ssior [dot] 27 [at] gmail [dot] com with: 
Your name 
Character name 
PFS##-# 
Faction 
Class and level 
Token image if you have one

I will keep a list of sign-ups and reply directly to you noting your RSVP.
****Only sign-ups e-mailed directly to me will be accepted****

*Yes, this is a 2-4 scenario. However, given the lethality inherent with this scenario, and the fact that I don't want another PC death on my hands just yet, I am highly recommending (read: limiting) there be no lvl 2 characters.

It was that reason, Kludde, that made me go for folio rerolls rather than shirt rerolls...

I can go to the high tier table with Celfwyn. Think I'd rather play him anyway, haha. Linky? (Never mind, found it. Silly me.)

Dotted there.

Dotting interest! Alchemist 5 or Zen Archer 2. Since there seem to be a few low levels, likely the archer.

Mark L. Crowell wrote:

So as a 4 star gm... how do i go about getting this to run now that Gen con has ended.

We've started to add those to qualifying GMs' downloads. I would expect the process to be done within a week or two.

As a more recent 4-star GM, I expect I'm further down the list for that, so shall be patient. Don't need it till next month anyway. Thankfully, PbP has little lead time needed =)

Question: Why are there two different start dates for the Siege of Serpents special? Did I miss this being explained somewhere? =\

1. Arguably, yes.
2. No. They are bought as a set.
3. No, because you are dead.
4. Unlikely, since they would have to get to you (move action), remove your gloves (at least a move action, probably a standard to actually take them off your form), put them on (move action?), then use them (whoops, no actions are left).
5. Animal companions cannot activate magic items, though they can benefit from passive bonuses (amulet of natural armour, belt of physical perfection, etc).

Right, Benjamin. You should up it to three/day!

4-star GM volunteering for the specials (as posted in the cross-post).

Emerald Spire - Balanced.
Thornkeep - Tough, sometimes brutal, otherwise fair if you play well. (EDIT- Just recalled my playthrough with a fresh lvl 1 Core character.... yeah, brutal might be a good point. We were lucky mostly, just not when it counted. Definitely want a prepared, balanced party.)
Bonekeep - Hide yo' kids, hide yo' wives, and hide yo' husbands, cause they be killin' errbody roun' here!
Or something to that effect.

Signed up for the season opener! Hope I make the raffle. Will be nice to dust off some of these low levelers.

In this case, it's simply I've already played it. Don't know how many others that applies to.

Signed up as well. Since Steven_Evil's bringin' a knife master, I'll keep to my polearm master as originally listed.

Indeed. Most, if not all, PFS recruitment is handled on those forums. Keep an eye out for all region and locations.

On the Paizo boards, the thread below is kind of the epicenter of PbP (Play By Post) games. The GM's running these games almost never post upcoming games on the PFS boards as they have their own waiting list for games they are going to run.

That's because there's almost no point since they all tend to fill up by those already in the thread.

Yes, sadly most games fill up very quickly, whether for live VTT games or PbP games. I would highly recommend setting alerts if possible for PFSOC (though you will get a LOT of notices), or just keep an eye on the thread Nebten linked above for PbP. Sometimes the games start right when they fill up, other times they take a short time to start.

Either way, it is a great way to get into online playing.

The hurdle I come across is most VO's will either handwave it with a "oh, you know, this and that" while others will avoid the question altogether. It's like they're sworn to secrecy, hahaha. I mean, there's the obvious adjudicate and arbitrate and be a reliable reference, and maintaining the community, but how deep does that go? Like I said, what goes on behind the curtain?

I have always wondered what exactly the VO's' duties were. All that behind-the-scenes stuff.

Just like "register your character" is the only way I know of to get to the part where I report scenarios I GMed. This website could be more newbie-friendly.

Pathfinder Society Logo on left side of screen > My Pathfinder Society > [Sign in] > GM/Event Coordinator tab. You can report from there. That's how I do it. Don't think I've ever gone through the register your character link.

I will agree that the Additional Resources page is difficult to get to, requiring way too many clicks. Thankfully, I visit it so often that Google Chrome automatically brings it up when I type "addit". Actually, now that I think about it, that's kinda sad.

The biggest issue I have with it beyond being hard to get to is the conflicting wording. At the top, it says "If a product does not appear on this list, then it is not considered legal for play."
Yet many things I've wanted to look at are saying "These things are legal except..."
Would it not be simpler to say "these things are not allowed in play"? That's what's itemized in half the listings anyway...

Yet, for whatever reason, Crafter's Fortune works for Day Jobs. Weird, eh?

I want that boon.... Maybe next weekend at the local con.
(Don't have anything to trade for it, so the trading thread not a viable option.)

If you read it... it says all material is legal except what it notes... says it right under the title of the book in the AR .... go for it... be the sky pirate you always yearned to be

That's what I originally thought.

I think he'd be better suited to just tying a bunch of helium balloons to his ship and calling it good that way. Wants an upgrade, after all.

Say that a character has 50,000 gp burning a hole in his haversack and more than 49 Fame points. Would he be able to purchase an airship from Ultimate Combat? Additional resources says nothing about the vehicles in Chapter 4.

My sailor recently rode in one during a Seeker arc and now is turning green with envy. He won't stop pestering me until I get an answer. Make it stop, please! I beg of you!

*Throws fist in air for beating EF, Sior. and MT to the post!

I was outside running errands with the family! You beat me this time, meser, but rest assured.... it'll likely happen again.

Just trying to spread the question to all available resources. Also, my search-fu is weak for this one.

Given: A wolf animal companion can trip with a successful bite attack.
Given: The spell lockjaw grants the grab ability to a natural attack.

Question: If one casts Lockjaw on the animal companion which can already trip, are they able to grab as well as trip, or must they do one or the other. If the first, in which order does it perform those actions? Trip then grab? Grab then trip? Player's choice?

Clarification needed!

If I ever say that one cannot take 10 or take 20, I always give a reason for it.

- Can't take 20 because it is something in the moment, not one lasting a minute.
- Can't take 10 because you can't take 10 to aid another.
- Can't take 10 because you're getting sneak attacked in the kidneys by the velociraptor rogue in the Mwangi tallgrass. *drops bucket of dice*

You know, things like that.

What is the price of a Stingchuck?

I'm guessing the price is the 9 pound weight to one, honestly...

Are they PFS legal?

Apparently, by the additional resources page...

Where do the severed heads come from?

Kindly donated by the Aspis Consortium ;-)

1) Complete chronicle sheet! Best part is it always applies to your character's level, regardless of whether you ran high or low sub-tier. If your character is out of tier, they get the out of tier gold and only the low sub-tier options for items and the like.

2) Yes, one character cannot have two sheets from the same scenario. You can, however, play it with another character.

3) I am not familiar with the Spire sheets, but it sounds like you can do either, as long as the character you are applying it to is within the level range of the sheet.

4) If you only have a table of 3 players, you will have to run the game playing a pre-generated character (likely Keira). Regardless, you will still only get one chronicle sheet for running the game. You cannot insert your own character to help out the party.

5) The only downside to applying GM credit to a PC is the fact that it is one more game which you cannot enjoy playing your character. Personally, this sometimes leads to me not making smart purchases (not having a cold iron weapon at level 7, for instance...). But if done properly, the only damage is not being able to play it as long since it'll level up through GM credit and not player credit.

as if the creature's size had increased by one category.

as if the creature were two sizes larger than it actually is

Per the FAQ, they are the same type of bonus and only the greater is used. They do not stack.

The same is true of effective size increases (which includes “deal damage as if they were one size category larger than they actually are,” “your damage die type increases by one step,” and similar language). They don’t stack with each other, just take the biggest one.

I just hope he sees it here.

Improved Natural Attack and Strong Jaw do not stack, sadly. Both up the effective size, so you only take the larger one (in this case, Strong Jaw, I believe.)

Never did play We Be Goblins Too. Guess I should while I can. Shifty, could you please pencil me in if ye need bodies for WBG2?

As noted on the spreadsheet, Shifty, I changed my character to a Vishkanya melee samurai. Finally dusting off the race boon from near two years ago. Looking forward to the 11th.

From what I've been told, yes. The stipulation is that you can only have one chronicle from GM credits (repeatable modules and scenarios excluded, of course). When you get it, whether on your first or seventh run through, is not specified.

Clever!

Sior wrote:

My druid/hunter's first two prestige purchases were dragonhide armour followed by a DW composite longbow. By the end of the next scenario, she had enough to add adaptive to it. That's just what I did, so it is possible. Should I have perhaps gone for a wand? Maybe. But she was GM'ed right up through 5th or 7th lvl, so it didn't matter much to me.

Pretty sure that the bow needs to be +1 before you can add the Adaptive quality to it [though I suppose that you could've acquired the gold needed to do both by that point]. You'll also need to keep the full value of the weapon in mind & have the requisite Fame to allow the purchase.

To this day I had missed that somehow! Seems so obvious now. Thank you for pointing that out.

Not worried about it for this character, however, since she's been GM credited up to legal levels anyway. Did I buy it before I shoulda? Yeah. Did it matter for any game? Nah. Will just have to be more mindful next time.

My druid/hunter's first two prestige purchases were dragonhide armour followed by a DW composite longbow. By the end of the next scenario, she had enough to add adaptive to it. That's just what I did, so it is possible. Should I have perhaps gone for a wand? Maybe. But she was GM'ed right up through 5th or 7th lvl, so it didn't matter much to me.

Aye, I'm seeing all slots full with a couple WL open. Looking forward to starting. (If there are any drops, I'm fine with going in with 4.)

Back in the day, Roll20 was notorious for cutting out when bandwidth got high. This meant a lot of lag between connections at certain times of the day. You can't chat in text, can't use voice or video (yes, Roll20 allows video), and certainly can't use the tabletop.

Using G+ allows you to keep talking while Roll20 gets fixed, usually taking anywhere between 5-20 minutes, sometimes longer.

G+ is a reliable voice-chat system which, as indicated, can interface to some degree with Roll20 (though I personally never used that interface). Additionally, it is free and can be as bandwidth-hogging as you want it to be with video and effects to your heart's content.

I cannot speak to the current state of Roll20's voice and video options as most are still in the habit of using G+, self included. But it is pretty much not putting all your eggs in one basket, so to speak. If one fails, you already have a contingency.

Does G+ have its drawbacks? Of course. Sometimes it just lags, mutes, or up and kicks you out. But at least it is bearable and/or infrequent.

1. Bruce G. - Paladin 10
2. Don T. - Warpriest 11
3. Chad R. - Rngr Paladin 8
4. Corey C. - Zen Archer Ranger 11
5. Andrew W. - Wizard Bloatmage 11
6. Richard B. - Fighter/Monk/Sorcerer 11
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Alt 1. Lorraine H. - Gunslinger 10 OR Oracle 10

1. Gerald C. - Bard 1
2. Rob B. - Barbarian 3
3. Sean E. - Ranger 1
4. Dave W. - Barbarian Sorcerer 3
5. Greg M. - Wizard 2
6. Craig H. - Monk 1

15 minutes to game time! Hopefully people will pop in shortly.

Major update! Still room on this one!

1. Didier S. - Archanist 5
2. David K. - Archanist 3
3. Joshua J. - Sorcerer Rogue 3
4. Sean E. - Swash/Fighter/Paladin 3
5. Scott F. - Inquisitor Cavalier 6
6. YOU! Maybe?

Minor update:

1. Gerald C. - Bard 2 (Still need token.)
2. Rob B. - Barbarian 3
3. Sean E. - Ranger 1
4. Dave W. - Barbarian Sorcerer 4
5. Paul J. - Wizard Cleric 4
6. Greg M. - Wizard 1

Alternates:
1. David C. - Barbarian 3
2. Craig H. - Monk 1