Happy to run this! If you haven't played with me before, please take a moment to glance at my GM profile to review style and expectations; it's mostly standard stuff.
— Doug
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SIGNING IN
1. Sign in on RPG Chronicles for chronicle generation and reporting.
2. Put your token on the maps & character reference slides.
3. Enter your Perception, default Exploration Activity, and any secret rolls you want me making for you on the macros sheets. There is an example sheet in there too.
I will be tracking hero points with a Spreadsheet — please note in the discussion here if you have a campaign coin and who you're giving any glyph hero points to.
In the jungles of the Mwangi Expanse, a large group of Pathfinders stands ready to travel beyond a magical gateway whose mysteries stymied a group of the Pathfinder Society's founders.
What lies beyond the doorway is also the crux of the plot of an ancient evil fey, the Thorned Monarch.
Will the Pathfinders unlock lost fey magic, restore buried secrets from the Society's history, and purge the world of the Monarch's evil — or will they fall before the fey's minions and tricks?
"…it is miss labeled when we are looking for something called an errata, and it's in a tab called the FAQ, which right now doesn't function as written it functions as the errata, so you might as well call it that."
Usability just means how easy an interface is to use. Some people on the forums have found the FAQ pages difficult to navigate. I believe this NNG article sums up the core issues at stake (as well as why accordion menus may be an acceptable use case for some). Here is a collection of feedback gathered from elsewhere:
Drakvamp wrote:
"Burying something you want the community to access more often, at the bottom of a menu tab, is not good menu design…"
Pirate Rob]"As a perfectly normal and average Pirate Rob, despite not getting mobile scrolling frozen I find the page nearly unusable on mobile and an unwieldily pain to use on desktop."
"No... I JUST did this to find something and it was quick to find what I was looking for. You start at the bottom dropdown and work your way up and that took maybe a second or two. Ctrl f and shifting through took another few seconds. So maybe 10-15 seconds to find what I waned. If that's too long, I don' know what to tell you."
Some users have pointed out issues with the code. These are not always replicable for all users.
BigNorseWolf wrote:
Graystone wrote:
"No... I JUST did this to find something and it was quick to find what I was looking for. You start at the bottom dropdown and work your way up and that took maybe a second or two."
"Tried this. Click Interstellar species no problem. Click An actual FAQ question and open it, the screen breaks.
Firefox broke after one FAQ. Chrome broke after 4 ish."
"Yep, it's completely broken on (my) Firefox: when you open one list, it doesn't allow you to scroll up or down anymore at all, even if you close the list. Only reloading helps."
"There's something weird going on with pages that have collapsible menus. At a certain point, everything locks up and you can't scroll up or down, preventing you from reading everything on the page.
The phenomenon seems to be rather prevalent with the PFS pages, which have a lot of collapsible menus.
I've tried it on both my desktop and on my phone, in Chrome, and it happens on both devices. I've heard other people having similar issues as well, so it's not just me."
I personally have a really hard time navigating the page with a screen reader (while I am not visually disabled I do try to test things as a blind user at times). The accordion menus on the Org Play FaQ pages seem excessive whereas the Pathfinder FaQs hide mountains of text in unordered lists behind single accordion buttons.
Dennis Muldoon wrote:
Graystone wrote:
"AGAIN, my point is that there is virtually no difference between no hidden content and hidden content that can be unhidden in seconds"
"This is only true if it can truly be unhidden in seconds for everyone, which I highly doubt is the case here. For instance, I suspect the current setup is more challenging if you're searching for something on that page using a screen reader."
A Lighthouse audit found accordion button aria attributes do not match their roles. Screenshot. In addition, multiple navigation landmarks with the same parent region are not distinguished from one another because they have the same "" label.
Semantics
Heading elements are not always in a sequentially-descending order.
Visually Hidden Content is Picked up by Assistive Devices
The PFS/SFS FaQs contain hidden sharing buttons. They are set to transparent color with CSS, meaning they are visually hidden but picked up by screen readers.
I can't help but wonder why these elements have been obfuscated. If they were meant to be removed they should also be flagged as aria-hidden. That said, direct-linking a FAQ item would be a super useful feature!
Search Results
Results UX
The search expands accordions and then fades out the rest of the text to leave the results highlighted in the foreground. This means you have to scroll around a lot on the page to locate your result (gif example).
This makes it really difficult to locate what you want, especially if there are multiple results in multiple FaQs.
Fuzzy search or autocomplete may also be useful as a search for "flick" yields no results but "flickmace" gets you to the errata 4 entry. Many users may not know the exact keyword they want (I suspect most users would not know their exact keyword).
Color Contrast
Search highlights relevant key words but the `match` css is red (#ff0000), which is too low contrast for small text on a white background (3.69:1; WCAG 2.0 level AA requires a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1 for small text like this). Adding simple CSS to highlight that class with a yellow background-color would help.
Red is also a problem color for red/green colorblind people such as myself. This is an issue I have on play-by-post as well because the dice roller is a small green font on white background.
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I have intentionally left my own opinions or ideas for solutions out of the conversation for now. Usability is about more than one person's subjective opinion or even a small sample size of one person or group. Accessibility is much more than just passing an automated checker.
It would be amazing if more people need to share their experiences, so we can better understand one another. Hopefully, the Paizo team would be interested in hearing about this stuff.
The two-column layout is a stable of TTRPG publications, but it often makes using a screen reader or extracting text difficult because columns are not consistently recognized by software. here is an example from a recent publication demonstrating this. This is an extremely common issue I've come across, and it's one applicable in all gaming environments.
In addition, the watermark that appears on every page on Paizo PDFs gets picked up by screen readers and text-to-speech programs, but it should be flagged as decorative just like you would a running head in a textbook.
I would love to be able to download simple, one-column, accessible, PDFs. I'm not even disabled, I just want to copy text for handouts or use a text-to-speech program while prepping games. I cannot imagine how difficult this must be for those who truly depend on screen readers. Maybe there is some other solution I don't see.
That said, my own experience is that two-column, structured documents are very difficult to create as readers are often inconsistent, and building accessible and structured PDFs takes effort, time, and testing. Things I am sure many users here will inform me that Paizo devs don't have the time or budget for.
However, I wanted to discuss this here and see if others would find value in this.
Some of the treasures such as cordelia’s construct key are rather complex and can summon other creatures on top of having multiple activations, so it's a long handout. I'd recommend printing only what you're gonna use.
After King Merlokrep was defeated by human adventurers decades ago, the Truescale Kobolds were routed. His amazing, extra spiky crown was stolen away by the pinkskins! This crown is a relic of awe, and legends say only the truest of all kobolds can bring the Crown of the Kobold King back home.
That was a long time ago. Generations of kobolds have come and gone. Your clan slowly reformed… digging new tunnels, fighting monsters in the dark, laying cunning traps, and making a home for themselves. Indeed, the Truly True Truescales have finally carved out enough tunnels to have a real home again!
Of course, it's far from perfect. At times your friends perish in haphazard mining excavations… but that is the price you have to pay to acquire hoards of shiny treasure; there's also a new kobold in town annoying everyone with sermons about some pinkskin named "Iomedae," but everyone puts up with her ravings… for now.
Worse still, Queen Qweenzeenk was recently coronated, but her consort slipped on the dais steps and poked out her eye with the ceremonial spear. Her rule may be ill-starred.
Finally, and worst of all, the horrible Pinkskins above have cleared so much forest they've moved near your territory. Trees crash and saws buzz above the tunnels, making a huge racket. The pinkskins kill any kobolds on sight — for such petty crimes as taking a salted fish! They're all horrible.
Everything is changing. Someone needs to fix these problems, or the Truly True Truescales may have to go find a new home all over again! Are there any Truly True Truescales true enough to step up and help their people?
A skull with glowing eyes was among the many objects which recently turned up in the Pathfinder Society's vaults, and none of the other objects are quite so talkative as this one! In fact, the skull isn't an object at all, but a person. The Society isn't sure who, or what, they are, and the skull seems to have lost their memories. Nonetheless, the skulls request—no, insists—that the Society return them to their former glory at once!
Grand Archivist Zarta Dralneen has determined that the skull is from Quantium, the magic-filled capital of Nex. She dispatches a group of Pathfinders to conduct a simple research mission and guide the skull around the city, hoping to jar the skull's memories and learn the truth.
"See the world," they said. "Simple research mission," they said.
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You're sailing South on the Obari Ocean, en route to Quantium. The Society covered your expenses for the voyage, asking you to keep your wayfinders and other signs of affiliation with the Society under wraps, and to travel aboard a low-profile merchant vessel to avoid attention.
Though the journey is free, it is unpleasant; about the rickety Opportune, you must contend with uncomfortable bunks and dusty provisions — not to mention the creaky, leaky ship lurching across the waves.
Please introduce your characters! How are you coping with this journey? How do you feel about visiting the majestic city of Nex… that is, assuming the Opportune doesn't sink en route?
1. How do you pronounce Zykyryz? I'm going to say "Ziick-yirrr-yeez"
2. "She heard from Sebnet that a recent Pathfinder mission involved eliminating a smuggling ring operating under the city, and that the conflict had spread up to the surface in this area." — what scenario is this? I've run almost all the 2e scenarios but I'm not such what this refers to.
Welcome! We can use Discord for discussion but I will put important links here.
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We will use Google Slides for our tactical maps. I will add artwork and maps and handouts as we go. For now, I like to provide a character reference slide for everyone. This functions like a table tent would at a live table, and you can out your artwork and other reference info on it. I will also track hero points on this handout. The is a marching order handout on Slide 2 of the presentation, go ahead and put your token there.
I suspect Eleanor has 3 or 4 glyphs and Josh has one, and iff Dennis is playing he has 4. So we can assume everyone will start with 2 hero points for now.
Venture-Captain Bjersig Torrsen has set out the call for a group of Pathfinders to compete in a race known as the Balgirdtrek. Taking place in the Land of the Linnorm Kings, this race is an annual event that includes participants from both the Varki and Ulfen people of the region. Bjersig hopes that by having the PCs participate, they might not only bolster the Society's reputation in the Saga Lands, but also document this exciting event. Although the Society has the organizers' official permission, some of the Ulfen competitors in particular see the Pathfinders' participation as an intrusion on their time-honored pastime. The true challenge of this race is not monsters or villains, but the harsh nature of the grueling marathon itself.
Dot in here with your PC. You can delete the post after you dot in — the game will then appear on your Camapigns page, which is located at https://paizo.com/people/YourUserName/campaigns For example, my campaign page is at https://paizo.com/people/DougHahn/campaigns.
Don't have any questions or feedback at this time.
I made a half-page handout for exploration group activities, with each terrain type from the scenario included. I also included Vantage Point and Subsist DCs for each terrain type where relevant. Finally, I converted the base exploration rules into another half-page handout.
When I pick avatars for characters I go through every page by hand because the filters are out of date. It's a major roadblock to me because the site conks out all the time and I lose my place in the galleries. All too often, the process can take hours.
Thanks for your interest in this game. Very excited to GM the special! If you haven't gamed with me on the Paizo boards, take a look at my GM Profile to get a feel for my style and expectations.
Having made several recent forays into a set of unearthed ruins in the volcanic region of Droskar’s Crag, the Pathfinder Society has uncovered what could be an access point to the lost dwarven city of Raseri Kanton. Pathfinder agents from across Golarion have come to support the Society’s latest large-scale endeavor. However, the Aspis Consortium have also begun exploring the ruins, so it’s a race to see who can reach Raseri Kanton first!
I am taking applications for this game here. Please see my profile regarding post expectations and overall style to ensure a good fit!
As this is the highest-tier scenario currently offered in PFS, I want to try and make it a special experience for everyone involved. To that end I am recruiting a balanced party who can proactively focus on this scenario, keep things positive in the face of challenging encounters, and collaborate successfully.
Please post with the PC you want to bring, tell me something interesting about them, and let me know how many other games you're signing up for in the special. I want people who will be engaged with the material; this means posting at least once a day and checking in on the threads multiple times a day.
I will be choosing applicants based on fit, party balance, and availability to focus on this game. To hold up my end of the bargain I will be GMing fewer scenarios this gameday to focus only on this game and (hopefully) the special. We’ll lock things in as fast as we can.
I will post RPG Chronicles info here when we're done recruiting. I also have a character macros sheet I ask player to fill out, and a reference slides sheet.
The scrollmaster Effeflinn Whyst is never seen outside the libraries of the Pathfinder Society’s Grand Lodge. She speaks only in ancient songs and rhymes, and some claim that she has memorized every book in the archives. Kreighton Shaine, the enigmatic Master of Scrolls, avoids her at all costs. The two elves clearly share some history, but no one has ever learned their story.
When Effeflinn suddenly rushes through a portal in the Grand Lodge, and Kreighton goes in after her, the Society organizes an expedition into the mysterious and deadly caverns on the other side of the portal. Where have the scrollmasters gone? What secrets have they kept, and why? The Society is going to need its best agents to face the dangers and solve the mysteries in the Cavern of the Sundered Song.
- Encrypted / Decrypted letter from the Peddler (I encrypted it according to what the scenario says)
- Letters to minions (Letter to Cole about previous targets, and letter about meeting place) (I made these up)
- Chase handouts with skills listed in order of ascending difficulty
Ran this today; the party did just about as well as possible, skipping all the combats they could and it ran in 5.5 hours. This was expected in a high-tier game, but making a note here in case it helps others with scheduling.
I'd also recommend GMs take careful note about fleeing thresholds, as I made a mistake on the first combat and it lasted a bit longer than it should. (I would love to see this on the statblock page somewhere!)
Page 8 wrote:
If the group earns at least as many Truce Points as half the number of PCs (rounded down)
1. Fill in the macros sheet here — each PC has a tab. Check "Send to GM" for all skills you are comfortable with me using for secret checks like recall knowledge.
2. Fill in the character reference here with your PCs' tokens and marching order. We'll hand out extra hero points for PFS glyphs and campaign coins too because I want to recognize everyone's efforts.
3. Sign in here. You must include your exact XP for the PC you are putting the credit on. It will be 8 XP / 20 bundles. You can sign in when we get close to the end.
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Character Building
• Please use Treasure for new Characters (either the item array or lump sum) for your gear; you are level 3.
• I want to use Ancestral Paragon for this as well, essentially giving everyone an extra ancestry feat. Just a little something extra to build with since we won't be leveling during the module!
• Uncommon options from rule or campaign settings books are fine; anything rare or from an AP should be cleared with me first.
Centuries ago, the massive Shining Crusade destroyed the Whispering Tyrant Tar-Baphon, an incredibly powerful lich. Knowing he might someday return, the Whispering Tyrant’s foes sealed his remains away under his old tower, Gallowspire, and formed the nation of Lastwall to guard his crumbling edifice for centuries… until three years ago, when the Tyrant was reborn. In a matter of weeks, the furious lich laid waste to Lastwall. The lost nation, now known as the Gravelands, is a haunted and desolate place overrun with undead. On the edge of the Gravelands, someone from the tiny village of Fiorna’s Faith sends a desperate message…
Building an automaton. I can't find much in current LO offerings beyond what's already on Pathfinderwiki.
Any resources out there on this, as well as the history of that region (Rahadoum and such)? Happy to purchase a 1e AP (no need to worry about spoilers), or other source book.
• Sign in
• Character reference Slides — add your tokens and shiny snazzy campaign coins (congrats Dennis)! Everyone will start with 2 hero points as there are prolific GMs in this group, and this is already included.
• Character macros — grab a tab on the sheet and fill it in Happy to help if you need assistance. This is where I bootstrap secret checks and such.
I always wanted to play a puppetmaster magus in 1e and never got a chance. Also, the party needs a Face.
How would you make one in 2e? I’m looking at laughing shadow magus chassis, expansive spellstrike, and all-in on Captivator feats and starting with 16 charisma on an elf (+dex, int, cha).
Witch dedication is probably more efficient to get access to Occult spells, but the captivator feats more closely align with the 1e archetype (and the fast-tracked expert casting track is cool).
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Build starts at 10 for a module and ends at 13/14:
2: Expansive Spellstrike
4: Captivator Dedication
6: Captivating Intensity
8: Heightened Captivation for Heroism
10: Expert Captivatot casting (Gurts losing the 10 laughing shadow feat)
12: Dimensional Disappearance
14: Effortless Captivation (sustain hideous laughter as a free action)
Captivator Spells:
0: Daze, Infections Enthusiasm
1: Lose the Path
2: Hideous Laughter (remove AOOs even on success so I can spells strike!)
3: Heroism (Heightened when I access level 6 spells at 12)
4: Confusion (I wanna just spellstrike to confuse someone)
5: Synesthesia
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I don’t know if there’s any code to crack other than “just admit your magus will always be sub-optimized if you want to also use charisma."
A couple of months ago I started a website collecting some player guides that I felt were missing from the community, as well as some excellent docs written by another VO.
Then I started wondering why we were doing all this work alone when there are smart people on these boards already writing awesome guides.
I’d love to collaborate on some open-source docs, specifically designed to help out new players! So, I am sharing this project with the world and inviting anyone to join in.
The guides need editing help all around. They also need fresh ideas from people who are subject matter experts (especially in VTTs like Foundry). Anyone can contribute — either with the writing, editing, or technical details. To make edits you don't even need to know any code, just Markdown. (If you used Reddit before you probably know enough Markdown; it's easier than Paizo forum code!)
It's easy to submit an edit. It's then reviewed before being published, so you don't even have to worry about breaking anything. All you need is a GitHub account and you're a few of mouse clicks away from helping out:
How to make edits:
1. Make a GitHub account.
2. Click on the little pencil tool when you hover over a heading area
3. Click Fork this Repository (basically, make a copy of the site)
4. Edit the document
5. Scroll down to Proposed Changes and add a title for your proposed change, and some text as to why
6. Click Propose Changes
7. Click Create Pull Request (this is just a fancy way of telling the authors to review your changes)
8. I will review and approve or reject your change with a reason why
9. The change will be merged into the master document and published
10. Give yourself a Hero Point for helping the community
Tying to bring some positivity to the top of forum
In-person play is picking up in our area, and it's so great to make new friends and reconnect with old friends.
Last week I gamed with someone I hadn't seen in over 2 years. We also have a couple of really awesome new locals coming into the store too. I find myself genuinely happy when I'm on the way to the FLGS, in a way that was missing from online games.
What's something you're enjoying about Org Play lately?
Viltydus has a strong knack for assigning tasks that glorify his pupils and allow them to use their strengths to achieve success.
I loved the narrative prompt to choose tasks that the PCs are actually good at, as sometimes GMs do the opposite thing for repeatables. The other advice on choosing the encounters is excellent, too.
Running this ins a 6-hour session at the FLGS next weekend. Finishing my read-through today and I anticipate needing to run an efficient session.
Has anyone run this yet?
I am actually thinking of removing ALL undead encounters from part 1 except the plague zombie(s) trapped in the room in the inn, and just using it to slowly ramp up the atmosphere. (I personally enjoy the "slow burn" kind of horror movie). Thoughts on that?
How long did it take your group? Any GM tips? How did your players enjoy it?
Never even opened the box for Book of the Dead. It's just sitting in closet.
I know this topic has been discussed before and the answer was essentially "We won't ever do a PDF-only subscription because then we would't sell hardback books."
That answer is from 2010. Today, I suspect that a significant portion of Paizo's audience prefers PDFs and doesn't even want physical books. I donate all my books to the local gaming community these days, but even then they see little use as everyone seems to prefer PDFs now. In the end, it's a bit of extra work to pretend I'm not wasting a lot of paper.
Every community is different, so this may not be the case everywhere. I think there's also a strong contingent of people who like the hardbacks (perhaps more so in this digital age).
Has Paizo's stance evolved over the last 12 years? "We must give our customers something we don't want, otherwise we will go out of business" may be a flawed business model.
Another idea might be to opt out of physical books. I'd pay the same… I just don't want the hardback books.
When a group of Pathfinders sent to establish a presence at the Society's new lodge in Sedeq, Qadira, failed to report back, the Society sent a second group to investigate. When they arrived, they found the lodge in disrepair. A powerful genie confronted them, demanding that if they ever wanted to see the missing Pathfinders again, the Pathfinders must complete three tasks for the genie's cruel master!
With the tasks completed and the missing Pathfinders safe and sound, it is now time to prepare the lodge for a grand opening celebration. Important figures from all across Qadira have been invited to attend—including some potential allies—and the Society is counting on its agents to ensure the event goes off without a hitch. The Society's future in Qadira may depend on the success, or failure, of this event!
Unfortunately, the Society's hidden enemy is well aware of the celebration's importance. Outraged by the Society's success in reclaiming the lodge, he has once again laid a trap for the Pathfinders and their guests. One way or another, he intends to exact a terrible price.
Fury's Toll is part of the ongoing story of the Year of Shattered Sanctuaries. It is the second scenario in a two-part arc detailing the events befalling a Pathfinder Society lodge in the nation of Qadira. The first part of this arc is Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-08: Foundation's Price. Other arcs explore other locations across the Inner Sea. While the arcs can be played in any order, it is recommended that players experience the scenarios within each individual arc in order.
I don't know if I fully understand the Independent changes in the APG Errata:
APG Page 146 wrote:
Independent: In an encounter, if you don’t Command your familiar, it still gains 1 action each round. Typically, you still decide how it spends that action, but, the GM might determine that your familiar chooses its own tactics rather than performing your preferred action. This doesn’t work with valet or similar abilities that require a command, if you’re capable of riding your familiar, or similar situations.
So I think this means Independent cannot work if you are capable of riding your familiar — even if you’re not currently riding it. Is this intended?
It seems a bit harsh; I wonder if the intent is instead "while the familiar is being ridden."
I am just looking to fully understand this change before I crush some corgi hearts.
Following their recent successes in aiding the government of Qadira with apprehending an errant genie-binder, the Pathfinder Society earned the right to establish a new lodge in the port city of Sedeq! With the construction of the site complete, the Society sent a group to formally begin operations from the new edifice.
They never arrived.
With city officials threatening to auction off the new building should the Pathfinder Society neglect to occupy it, the Society sends a backup group of Pathfinders to investigate the lodge…
One of the most urgent letters to reach the Grand Lodge in the recent flood of troubling correspondence contained grim news indeed: a renowned Pathfinder Venture-Captain vital to the Society's operations in the oppressive nation of Cheliax has gone missing! Fearing the worst, the Society dispatches experienced agents to the venture-captain's home in search of any clue as to what might have happened.
We will use this gameplay thread for the second part, too.
Please fill out Slide 4 on the handouts with your PC's token art and pronouns, and the macros. If you want different art than what is on the Paizo boards that is fine by me.
We'll aim to officially start Wednesday, but please feel free to explore this scene in-characer if you like! The feelings of going away for school or the first time, being in a city like Nantambu for the first time, or getting interviewed for admission may all be interesting character moments.
Old-Mage Jatembe was the most powerful man in the world. Wherever he went, he spread hope and light to the people around him. All of the good things in the world were awed by Jatembe and came to give him secrets. All of the foul creatures declared war on him, but Jatembe stole their magic and banished them. In this way, Jatembe turned a world of ash into the beautiful land we have today, filled with fish and animals, grains and palm trees, sweet yams and red soil. The foul beasts wailed at their realms of ash and terror being transformed into rich and wonderful lands, but they all feared Jatembe.
One day, a creeping bad-luck spirit inched forth from the grass. It was too young and foolish to know its limits and thought, “I will take vengeance on Jatembe and laugh at his misery.” The spirit crawled into the nearby village and asked where Jatembe was, but no one could answer. It asked then where the riches of Jatembe were, but people said they knew of none. It asked where the spouses of Jatembe were, but the people could not name anyone he had married. It asked where the weapons of Jatembe were, but the old mage’s greatest weapon had always been the knowledge he kept in his head.
Frustrated, the little spirit demanded, “What manner of great man can this Jatembe be, if he has no riches, no wives, no husbands, no weapons, nor any children?”
Yet Jatembe had many children, the people answered, as they showed the little spirit the great city of Nantambu where thousands and thousands of students learned, worked, and helped each other by Jatembe’s words. The little spirit decided that if it couldn’t have vengeance on Jatembe, it would do so upon his children. The spirit listened until it found a voice that told it how to get inside. Following the voice, it crept into the city through the tiny cracks in the buildings’ walls, so small that even an ant would have to squeeze, but Jatembe’s students caught the spirit and tossed it out like a harmless grass snake. The spirit became terribly angry at its treatment but could do nothing on its own, and so it sought out others like itself to creep back inside and strike using the distraction of a celebration...
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This fragment of old legend is written on an illustrated scroll in the Magaambya's archives…
GMing this soon and read Book 1. I'm really excited!
One of my PCs wants to play "goth Harry Potter"; a fetching witch/druid. He asked if I would go along with the idea of a "Shadow Magaambya" (a la Shadow Absalom) as part of his backstory. He will take the mysterious benefactor background, and was supposed to attend the "Shadow Academy" but ran away and landed in the Material-Plane Magaambya instead thanks to being Sponsored by a Stranger.
I was considering that if he becomes a favorite of Koride’s he might find that she has been acquiring supplies from unscrupulous shadow-Magaambyans on the sly, in order to skirt taxes and regulations. Perhaps she can offer him a Practical Research opportunity later on… if he really earns her trust); perhaps there can also be some shadow-research stuff in the "Dubious Research" room.
For those further along, would this bit of homebrew be problematic for later in the AP? I don't want to make it the highlight of the AP, but add in depth and breath that matches his backstory and see where he takes it during downtime and such.
Any other thoughts or fun opportunities I might have missed?
Happy to pick his one up. If you haven't played with me before, please take a moment to glance at my GM profile and review style and expectations; it's mostly standard stuff.
— Doug
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SIGNING IN
1. Sign in on RPG Chronicles for chronicle generation and reporting.
2. Put your token on the maps & character reference slides.
3. Enter your Perception, default Exploration Activity, and any secret rolls you want me making for you on the macros sheet.
In the jungles of the Mwangi Expanse, a large group of Pathfinders stands ready to travel beyond a magical gateway whose mysteries stymied a group of the Pathfinder Society's founders.
What lies beyond the doorway is also the crux of the plot of an ancient evil fey, the Thorned Monarch.
Will the Pathfinders unlock lost fey magic, restore buried secrets from the Society's history, and purge the world of the Monarch's evil — or will they fall before the fey's minions and tricks?
