Yesteryear’s Hope is dedicated to the memory of Jack Brown, a passionate and much beloved member of our Organized Play community who passed away in 2023. It’s our honor to bring one of Jack’s memorable characters into this adventure as one of the three special guests that you can show around the festival. Much thanks to Hilary Moon Murphy, to Thurston Hillman, and especially to Jack’s family for letting us introduce Jack’s character Lucius to the world.
A FITTING TRIBUTE TO A TRUE ULFEN RAT. MAY HIS MEMORY NEVER FADE, MAY HIS LIFE BE AN INSPIRATION TO OTHERS, MAY JACK BE THE GOAL FOR WHICH ALL ULFEN ASPIRE.
THUNDERLIPS! WILL STAND GUARD FOR LUCIUS; NOW AND FOREVER.
I have toned down his description based on how others reacted. I have also reigned in the stupidity of both him and his familiar based on others at the table. He’s a big dumb barbarian that happens to wear silken ceremonial armor of a certain cut.
In addition (as some of the developers already know), I'd love to see an unarmored combat option. Ideally class-agnostic, but if it had to be class-specific, barbarian would be the one. ^_^
Take a 1d4 and put it on 1 when you rage and advance the number as you keep raging: when you flip it to 4 you're fatigued. Seems super simple to track.
What is the rule or guidelibe if we wish to drop a game late (such as of we find unscheduled activities like the Delvs I read about)
There will be a corkboard in the center bit at Paizocon that people can pin unwanted/needed/conflicting tickets to and others can come by and take them
I lost the corkboard :( but we used a table last year near the delves and that seemed to work out well.
I know that several of my fellow local VOs would have a blast with this sort of opportunity to generate content. I think the QC problems are a little bit overblown...
My biggest concerns would be the possible departure from accepted Golarion canon and the temptation to fall into fanservice.
I'm playing in Minnesota and while the Minnesota crew is a great bunch of folks (love you guys!), if that leadership is responsible for the creation and oversight of our regional content, I fear those mission briefings from Venture-Captain THUNDERLIPS! and how "Lucious" Lucius Vizinni might repurpose Absolam's Grand Lodge.
And I think a lot of Secondary Success Conditions might involve drink and drinking.
Mission:THUNDERLIPS!:
SIR THUNDERLIPS!, Knight Captain, Eagle Knight, strides down the halls of Skyreach. A chicken struts beside him. THUNDERLIPS! whistles the jaunty notes of a traditional Ulfen drinking song. One hand carries his earthbreaker, TONDERNOTTER, the other a wooden keg, papers sand-witched between both arms and his silky glowing blond chest pelt. He nods at you all gathered in his office; "The Not-So-Restful Pathfinder Retreat."
"GOOD MORNING PATHFINDERS!" the tall Ulfen bellows as he sets the keg on the table and rests his trusty hammer against his chair.
"YOU ALL WERE SELECTED FOR A MISSION OF UTMOST IMPORTANCE. THE HALL OF THE DRUNKEN HERO REACHED OUT FOR OUR HELP FOR A RATHER DELICATE MANNER. SOMEONE OR SOMETHING IS POISONING THE BEER SERVED IN THE HALL. THIS HAS CAUSED A CRISIS OF FAITH AMONG THE FAITHFUL. SO FAR THEIR DIVINATIONS HAVE REVEALED NOTHING MORE THAN JUDICIOUS USES OF LESSER RESTORATION TO REMOVE THEIR HANGOVERS. THE PRIESTS HAVE PRODUCED A LIST OF POSSIBLE SUSPECTS.Give players handout #1: A cleric of Abadar, a warpriest of Calistria, a hop farmer, and Nigel Aldain
"INVESTIGATE THESE PEOPLE AND DETERMINE IF ANY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS SACRIL-, SACROLO-, THIS BLASPHEMY AGAINST A HOLY BEVERAGE MORE THAN JUST A BREAKFAST DRINK."
Eyes dart to and fro, before settling on the brightly feathered tengu.
GODS! HAS SHELYN HERSELF COME TO COMFORT THUNDERLIPS! IN THUNDERLIPS!'S TIME OF NEED? NOW I MUST FIGHT, MY DEAR GODDES OF LOVE, SO THAT THUNDERLIPS! MAY HAVE TIME TO LOVE THE LADIES.
Arms rise from the floor; hands, weak, grasp at the void clutching nothing; no schedule; no list of scenarios.. A low, throaty grumbling escapes the prone barbarian.
THUNDERLIPS! lays on the floor, his face even more blank than normal. His eyes bore a hole in some unseen terror from beyond the stars. His breathing is rapid and shallow.
"LADY PUSHITALITTLE MAKE HER APPEARANCE AS SOON AS SHE RECOVERS FROM INTRODUCTION OF ULFEN LINEAGE. SHE MIGHT BE FASHIONABLE IF SHE CAN FIND HER FASHION"
The room is cold. Dark. Needle pricks race up and down THUNDERLIPS!'S spine. His fingers are numb from the cold. The Abyss stares at him; its never shifting gaze absorbs all light.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" the Ulfen man-child screams.Slumping over, the barbarian reaches out a hand towards the gaping maw in the floor.
Awesome! Thanks Silbeg. Can't wait to see what's on the schedule.
Lots of classics.
I, personally, am running Hall of Drunken Heroes. Some would say it is apt.
I plan to introduce players to the nicest halflings they will ever meet.
I scrawny yet well muscle toned halfling strides into the room. "Drunken Hero's." " Are you calling me?" " That is me." "Can I help?" "I come prepared!" "I got whisky." "Mead." "Brandy." "Ale." "Whatever you need." the halfling rattles off in near seconds
Both THUNDERLIPS! and THUNDERCOCK! eye the new arrival.
”HEEEEYYYYY... YER SMALL ARENT YOU?”
Ulfen and chicken move to either side of the unsuspecting halfling.
THUNDERLIPS! looks around, nervous and sweaty. The itching grows. THUNDERLIPS!'S eyes dart around the room. He is looking for something yet his admittedly small understanding of the world can not process his feeling of existential dread.
"ARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!"
The Primal Scream echoes.
THUNDERLIPS! drops to his knees, trembling. The pattern on the stone floor loses focus. A swirling pattern replaces the floor. Falling yet not falling, eyes wide with terror, THUNDERLIPS! gazes in to the Abyss. The Abyss gazes back.
HILARY MISS ROWDINESS OF OLD FOUR UMS! CHOPCHOP! SHE SAYS THERE IS NO AIR IN THESE FOUR UMS, WHICH THUNDERLIPS! FIND HARD TO BELIEVE AS AS DEVELOPER HIGHER THAN CAPTAIN JOHN CMPTON TELLS THUNDERLIPS! AIR IS NEEDED FOR SOUND AND THUNDERLIPS! HEARS MANY THINGS IN THESE FOUR UMS.
LIKE JUST IN WOOD POND, THUNDERLIPS! READY TO BRING THE ROWDY BACK. ASK NETHER PEO-, NO... NEDE... NO... DUTCH PEOPLE? THEY SAW THUNDERLIPS!'S NEW SILK THONG IN ACTION. NEW THONG BROUGHT SOMETHING THEY SAID. THUNDERLIPS! BELIEVE IT BROUGHT THE ROWDY BACK.
AS THE... UM, UH... RES UH DENT PATHFINDER DANGEROUSLY CURIOUS MAN OF INFLUENCE THUNDERLIPS! WILL DO MORE FOR ROWDY AIR IN FOUR UMS. YOU CAN NOT BLAME THUNDERLIPS! FOR THE SMELL-O-FOUR UMS, THOUGH. IT WAS LIKE THAT WHEN THUNDERLIPS! GOT HERE.
