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Good luck to everyone!

Alright so this is a rough draft of the unchained rogue's crunch. I'm think of shifting a couple things around including the specific drawback (debating still if I want to grab the infamous drawback). Once it is finished I'll put it to the alias I have set aside for inspection.

Alright so I've been putting the rogue together and i had a couple of questions about the mechanics rules you want to use:

1. Is the unchained version available? I'm really only asking cause free weapon finesse.

2. Are drawbacks available to be taken? Specifically I have an idea with the character's backstory and a drawback that fits it pretty well. Fine either way because I'll roleplay it but just curious if I should put it on there.

3. On the backgrounds more specifically: I tend to try and give GMs things to work with in my characters' backstories. Like antagonists or things to encourage more development and hopefully interesting and personal encounters throughout a campaign. With the rogue for instance I kind of like the idea of the character being the child of a traitor to the crusades (either true/willing or not up to you) and having to both redeem their own name through deeds and heroism; as well as, perhaps, having to eventually confront their parent over their misdeeds. So the question is essentially around your gming style and how much you want to add or tweak to build the campaign.

Ok, could I get a roll call of everyone who's still here and willing to play with the following:

- Rolled stats. Roll two arrays of 4d6 drop lowest. If both your stat arrays are less than 20 pt buy you may use that point buy to form your character.

- Any paizo allowed. Note that this AP is notoriously easy. Feel fee to play something not at all on the Munchkin's Top 10 build list. I will be tailoring the AP to match our party so no worries about bringing things down.

- Starting gold: Rolled

- Traits: Two, one must be campaign specific

- No Evil alignments. You're the good guys here.

- Background: It would be nice if, but it is not strictly required that, you have some connection to Kenabres. Please read the players guide. If you don't have it, it can be downloaded for free here on Paizo's site.

I am still here and very interested in playing this campaign with each of the rules listed.

Stat array 1:

I'll probably be using the second stat block and bring back the rogue I had or perhaps a cleric of some kind.

And for those two classes gold:
Gold for rogue: 4d6 ⇒ (1, 2, 4, 3) = 10 100
Gold for cleric: 4d6 ⇒ (1, 4, 3, 2) = 10 100

What kind of game were you looking for? Any special rules or alternate options?

Personally I'd just like to try and play through the story of the game. I enjoy games that have a balance between combat and roleplaying. I've played sessions that are nothing but combat and sessions where no one even rolled a dice once and so long as the story and characters are progressing I will be having fun.

As for special rules or options: I'll generally play with any rules the gm wants to run with. There are some I don't like such as fumble and crit decks with extreme penalties on them but even those I can play in games with them and overlook their presence.

Alright, so as I said in subject, I am a player that wants to see the story of WotR through to the end and am looking for a group and, equally important, gm who share the same zeal. Prefer PbP but if times and schedules can be worked out I'll do roll20 or discord etc.

Full disclosure I've had several false starts in this campaign as both player and gm but each time I've tried things have fallen apart before getting into the meat of the story. With that said I will avoid using any previous knowledge or experience for an advantage.

With that said, I'd be more than happy to help out q prospective gm in any way that I can, even purchasing the pdfs of the books if needed.

Trouble is, with that many players, any combat situation is going to take three times as long to resolve.

Try harder to split the group into two parties with two DMs. Really.

This is not really an option namely because some of the party are in the military and are being shuffled around to different bases in the coming months. And the entire party kind of wants a game with everyone in it until they leave which is also why I don't want to keep them under-leveled because of the fact that when they leave I'd either have to do a big power level for the remaining players or they'd get killed off pretty quickly.

I've started taking some measures to keep things moving in combat situations namely telling people to have their actions planned ahead of time and ready to begin executing them right away so that I can get through everyone in a reasonable amount of time.

Alright let me start off by saying that I don't consider myself an inexperienced GM but I've been put into a situation where I'm not 100% certain of how to handle a game I was asked to run.

I was asked to run an adventure path for my local group of players and because of extenuating circumstances I can't use the usual method of splitting the group and alternating weeks. So, I've wound up with a table of 9-10 players.

We started last week and I started to notice a trend, the party was simply curb-stomping every single intro encounter even the ones designed to be more challenging at the beginning. And while I don't mind them beating the encounters, the game will quickly become stale if I do nothing to attempt to find a middle ground because they are killing enemies before they get to act half the time. Again, don't want to be the killer gm in this game but when there is a challenge I want it to be a legitimate challenge.

What I'm thinking of doing is maxing hit die for all enemies the party encounter and giving slight buffs to make them tougher or doubling the size of the encounters. But my concern is overshooting in the other direction while I am attempting to correct.

For ease here is what I generally have:
A human wordcaster sorcerer
a kitsune druid
A fighter/rogue archer (not sure on race)
Aasimar Oracle
Orc Sacred Grimoire Inquisitor
Human Monk of the Open Palm
Skinwalker Feral Hunter
Orc Paladin
Human? Cleric

The initiative idea is fine by me as well as what else you outlined. I am good with the role-playing aspects as well and have no problem making sure if I am saying something in character to actually try and flesh out the characters words rather than just make a roll of the dice.

Though do you have a problem with us rolling the die in advance and then using the result to describe our actions or intentions.

I'd be okay with keeping the list on a google doc that I'll make editable by everyone with the link so everyone can access or edit it as they desire.

I'm more than okay with the way you describe handling the rolls I've played under GMs of all types and personalities so adapting isn't hard its just a matter of knowing what to expect.

I don't mind being the one to set it up or keep track of it, was just curious how we wanted to do that.

Also a question for the group as a whole: How do we, once we are in the game, want to keep track of party loot?

I haven't played in many games on here but it should be possible to set up something to keep track of it.

The rogue suggests invisibility

I do not know. I haven't ever really run a game on here and I've only played in one short-lived campaign.

I feel the same way as Andygal.

I'm okay if you want to use 3pp materials if you want to. I probably won't but I think if it tells a good story then it is probably okay with going to additional rules or a gm adding his own things into it.

So I went ahead and made the crunch of the characters I have in mind based on those rules in your profile:

Rogue character primary application

Cleric character in case no one else wants to do a primary healer.

I'll be adding the backstory ideas that I have in mind for each of them, will probably message you with them or post them here when I get the chance to do so.

I will rephrase my earlier statement and I'll go ahead and offer to play a rogue for the party. I have an idea in my head that I could go with depending on what the specifics are. Of course, I'll remain open to playing any class depending on what the group specifically needs but for now I'll put in for playing a rogue.

If selected though I'd like to go through with you at somepoint and work to create a backstory that not only fits with the setting and story of Wrath of the Righteous but will also align my character with the rest of the party and give you plot points on my character you can bring up if you so desire.

Thanks for the offer! None of those will be dealbreakers for me and I will do everything I can to post multiple times per day but I should be able to at the very least post once a day. I'm thinking a rogue of some sort depending on what your after or a cleric going towards the exalted prestige class.

I would be interested in joining a potential game as a player I have a few ideas for characters bouncing around and I could see myself finally putting one into practice if someone were willing to pick up the GM mantle and run with it.

First, a little backstory: I am GMing "Shattered Star" and the PCs are currently all level 9 or 10. The PC in question has been in the game for 2 or 3 sessions (he came in after the original PC died). Admittedly, I didn't check his character sheet before allowing him to bring in the cleric. He claims to be neutral good but doesn't play like it. I have warned him once already and I'm not sure when I should start dishing out punishment for opposing his deity.

This PC is playing a Dwarf Cleric of Sarenrae but refuses to use a scimitar, "because I'm a dwarf I'm using a warhammer." For other deities I wouldn't be so hung up on the favored weapon but because Sarenrae's faith is so heavily focused on use of the scimitar it seems to me that refusing the scimitar (or any sword for that matter) is strictly against her teachings and that the cleric should be punished in some way. It's worth noting that he doesn't even own a scimitar.

The player tends to not care about anything else Sarenrae stands for (compassion, peace, redemption). He is 100% a murder-hobo type of player and takes the "kill first, ask questions later" to the extreme as in "ok I stabilize/heal/raise dead the person, we ask it questions then kill it again". He's obviously not against torturing creatures for information.

So, the real questions I need help with are:
1) Can a cleric of Sarenrae actually get away with not using a scimitar?

2) I know I can give him small punishments from Sarenrae such as "temporary, unexplained sunburn or blindness" but does not using the scimitar warrant that?

3) How quickly will alignment change and which steps should it go to? If he's "NG" does it go in 1 step increments e.g. NG-N-NE or would his actions take him straight to NE/CE?

4) How many warnings should I give the player before his alignment actually is changed (potentially jeopardizing his class abilities)?

Edit:
I don't want to have him out-right change is deity because I feel like that would take too long in-game. I'm not aware of...

1. Yes. You can use any weapon you feel is appropriate to the character.

2) Why would Sarenrae mind? Are they blatantly disregarding the tenets of her faith or simply not using a scimitar in favor of some other weapon? Why are they using the other weapon?

I am currently playing a Ranger 1/Cleric of Sarenrae 8 in a game who favors the use of a greataxe. She carries a scimitar as a homage to her goddess but she was taught by her father (a character I previously played in the same world) to wield a greataxe and make her way through the wilderness while she studied the faith from her mother (The other character I played with the leadership feat). Do you think a goddess would punish my character for honoring her heritage and where she came from when my character is devout enough to carry her word and light to the world? While my character is trying to carry Sarenrae's name forward? It seems a little capricious for a goddess of redemption and forgiveness.

3) Why is wielding a weapon a alignment infraction? If so how can you justify paladins having to be lawful good?

From the Core Rulebook:
Lawful Good: A lawful good character acts as a good person is expected or required to act. She combines a commitment to oppose evil with the discipline to fight relentlessly. She tells the truth, keeps her word, helps those in need, and speaks out against injustice. A lawful good character hates to see the guilty go unpunished.

Lawful good combines honor with compassion.

Neutral Good: A neutral good character does the best that a good person can do. He is devoted to helping others. He works with kings and magistrates but does not feel beholden to them.

Neutral good means doing what is good and right without bias for or against order.

Chaotic Good: A chaotic good character acts as his conscience directs him with little regard for what others expect of him. He makes his own way, but he's kind and benevolent. He believes in goodness and right but has little use for laws and regulations. He hates it when people try to intimidate others and tell them what to do. He follows his own moral compass, which, although good, may not agree with that of society.

Chaotic good combines a good heart with a free spirit.

Lawful Neutral: A lawful neutral character acts as law, tradition, or a personal code directs her. Order and organization are paramount. She may believe in personal order and live by a code or standard, or she may believe in order for all and favor a strong, organized government.

Lawful neutral means you are reliable and honorable without being a zealot.

Neutral: A neutral character does what seems to be a good idea. She doesn't feel strongly one way or the other when it comes to good vs. evil or law vs. chaos (and thus neutral is sometimes called "true neutral"). Most neutral characters exhibit a lack of conviction or bias rather than a commitment to neutrality. Such a character probably thinks of good as better than evil—after all, she would rather have good neighbors and rulers than evil ones. Still, she's not personally committed to upholding good in any abstract or universal way.

Some neutral characters, on the other hand, commit themselves philosophically to neutrality. They see good, evil, law, and chaos as prejudices and dangerous extremes. They advocate the middle way of neutrality as the best, most balanced road in the long run.

Neutral means you act naturally in any situation, without prejudice or compulsion.

Chaotic Neutral: A chaotic neutral character follows his whims. He is an individualist first and last. He values his own liberty but doesn't strive to protect others' freedom. He avoids authority, resents restrictions, and challenges traditions. A chaotic neutral character does not intentionally disrupt organizations as part of a campaign of anarchy. To do so, he would have to be motivated either by good (and a desire to liberate others) or evil (and a desire to make those others suffer). A chaotic neutral character may be unpredictable, but his behavior is not totally random. He is not as likely to jump off a bridge as he is to cross it.

Chaotic neutral represents freedom from both society's restrictions and a do-gooder's zeal.

Lawful Evil: A lawful evil villain methodically takes what he wants within the limits of his code of conduct without regard for whom it hurts. He cares about tradition, loyalty, and order, but not about freedom, dignity, or life. He plays by the rules but without mercy or compassion. He is comfortable in a hierarchy and would like to rule, but is willing to serve. He condemns others not according to their actions but according to race, religion, homeland, or social rank. He is loath to break laws or promises.

This reluctance comes partly from his nature and partly because he depends on order to protect himself from those who oppose him on moral grounds. Some lawful evil villains have particular taboos, such as not killing in cold blood (but having underlings do it) or not letting children come to harm (if it can be helped). They imagine that these compunctions put them above unprincipled villains.

Some lawful evil people and creatures commit themselves to evil with a zeal like that of a crusader committed to good. Beyond being willing to hurt others for their own ends, they take pleasure in spreading evil as an end unto itself. They may also see doing evil as part of a duty to an evil deity or master.

Lawful evil represents methodical, intentional, and organized evil.

Neutral Evil: A neutral evil villain does whatever she can get away with. She is out for herself, pure and simple. She sheds no tears for those she kills, whether for profit, sport, or convenience. She has no love of order and holds no illusions that following laws, traditions, or codes would make her any better or more noble. On the other hand, she doesn't have the restless nature or love of conflict that a chaotic evil villain has.

Some neutral evil villains hold up evil as an ideal, committing evil for its own sake. Most often, such villains are devoted to evil deities or secret societies.

Neutral evil represents pure evil without honor and without variation.

Chaotic Evil: A chaotic evil character does what his greed, hatred, and lust for destruction drive him to do. He is vicious, arbitrarily violent, and unpredictable. If he is simply out for whatever he can get, he is ruthless and brutal. If he is committed to the spread of evil and chaos, he is even worse. Thankfully, his plans are haphazard, and any groups he joins or forms are likely to be poorly organized. Typically, chaotic evil people can be made to work together only by force, and their leader lasts only as long as he can thwart attempts to topple or assassinate him.

Chaotic evil represents the destruction not only of beauty and life, but also of the order on which beauty and life depend.

4) It depends upon the actions of the character and the severity of them.

I did attempt to send you a message about Emilia's backstory to get some input.

Is it acceptable to roll on the charts in Blood of Angels to replace the Aasimar spell-like ability with a different one?

I have always wanted to play this adventure path through to the end and would like to put myself into consideration to join. I have played before however, each group has fallen apart due to various reasons and I've never been able to get much past the first book.

Character Sheet

For your consideration. It is a little rough right now I do fully intend on fleshing it out a little bit more but its just a concept I've had floating around in my head for a few weeks and I finally decided to make it and see if I could play it in a game.

At this point there isn't much that isn't broken and Paizo seems intent on keeping it that way. If you want a more balanced campaign you really need to limit the selection to pretty much CRB and that will generally work. Not that there aren't broken builds in the CRb because there are they are just harder to make than something like the ACG or Ultimate Intrigue.

Congrats Christopher.

Thanks for the link. I tried to run a search for it last night and all I found in the admittedly short period of time was a reference to the pregens gear being able to be sold if the pregen died to revive that character I believe. I feel a lot better about ruling the way I did then.

It was someone who did not have a level appropriate character for the adventure. They were running the 4th level Samurai pregen.

Alright this question was posed to me last night after a local PFS gathering and although I handled it in a way that I felt was appropriate but I was curious what the rest of the community thought about the issue.

So the situation stemmed from a S happens moment when the BBEG crits the paladin of the party with 2 nat 20s and puts him well below his Con score. The player didn't have enough prestige or cash on hand to bring the character back so its recorded as dead.

However, at this point another player suggested the party sells off all of the pre-gens gear to buy a raise dead spell for the paladin. Now I know the rules state that you can do this in the instance of the pre-gen dying but what about to save another character?

My thoughts are this: The pre-gen is brought in to allow someone without a level appropriate character to play and should be viewed as a character in their own right and are not just a slush fund for the party to use at their whim.

At the same time I see their point of view to an extent in that a pre-gens stuff all goes away at the end of the adventure and no one ever has to worry about tracking it and the parties at the store usually decide to use the pre-gens consumables before their own which I have allowed in the past and no one really wants a character to die to just a fluke of luck even though it happens.

So I am curious what the community thinks about this issue and about pre-gens in general. And should I have allowed them to sell all of the gear for the raise dead?

Inquistor broke the don't be a dick rule. He basically pvp'd. I'd have had his god rebuke his powers and require an atonement.

We are talking about the same class right?

Grim and determined, the inquisitor roots out enemies of the faith, using trickery and guile when righteousness and purity is not enough. Although inquisitors are dedicated to a deity, they are above many of the normal rules and conventions of the church. They answer to their deity and their own sense of justice alone, and are willing to take extreme measures to meet their goals.

Role: Inquisitors tend to move from place to place, chasing down enemies and researching emerging threats. As a result, they often travel with others, if for no other reason than to mask their presence. Inquisitors work with members of their faith whenever possible, but even such allies are not above suspicion.

And as DesolateHarmony pointed out, necromancers are considered to be the enemy of the church of Pharasma. It would be similar to him casting a spell in the presence of a follower of Sarenrae or Iomedae. They are playing their character's alignment to the best of their ability within the confines of Society rules.

This is an issue that should be resolved out of character before the scenario begins. Someone or both has to give otherwise you will hit this barrier each time.

I would not be able to do Saturdays unfortunately. I have an IRL star wars game that starts at 1-2 CST and runs to about 6-7 then we play this new game called Malefaux or through the breach or something like that. But if you are running on Sunday's I would love to join.

I would like to have my name considered for this game.

While it should generally be the GMs choice as to who can play at his table, the decision to exclude any player from a table or session must not be taken lightly. Pathfinder Society is meant to be an inclusive and fun activity for all people involved and as a way to introduce people into the game or groups.

Simply put, if your GM is turning people away capriciously then they should not be GMing for PFS because they are failing to comply with the spirit of PFS. If you feel this is the case, first discuss the reasoning with the GM and if his explanation is insufficient take it to the event coordinator or up to your local Venture Officer.

Thank you. I look forward to continuing to build Pfs in Central Arkansas.

I'd like to apologize for my inactivity. I got caught up in and distracted by events in real life, but I am back and will do better at keeping up with posts.

Congrats on the honeymoon! I hope you stay safe and enjoy your trip with the new spouse. Merry Christmas/ Happy Hanukkah/ Happy Holidays to you and safe travels.

I don't think so. I was just trying to respond in character to the sheer number of them.

Okay I am looking for some ideas for a couple of Feats for my new Dragon character.

Due to real life schedules some of my gaming group has been pulled away from the table and during the meantime the GM has decided to run a side story of our campaign featuring the dragons of his world. He has framed it as similar to a Council of Wyrms game and we have all built dragons.

We all started with Adult dragons of various types that we chose, I specifically went Silver and we added 1d10 class levels to it or spend 2 levels to age up to a maximum of Old. I chose to take the 6 levels of Paladin to kind of fit with the story.

After building it, mostly to the Adult Silver Dragon in the Bestiary, I noticed a pair of feats (Iron will and Lightning Reflexes) which I found didn't do that much for me (Fort: 36 Reflex: 26 WILL: 35 without them) and was wondering if there might be some suggestions as to what would be good replacements for those feats.

As of right now I have: Flyby Attack, Hover, Improved Initiative, Multiattack, Weapon Focus (Bite), Power Attack, Leadership, Improved Natural Armor, Toughness, Vital Strike.

I was thinking about possibly a skill focus but the one things I would take it in (Diplomacy or Knowledge Religion) I have high enough ranks in to succeed at all checks unless I roll a Nat 1 (auto-fail) so it didn't seem to be the right choice.

I think the GM would prefer to keep things to the main books, ie CRB, APG, UC, UM, UE, Bestiary 1. So if you have any suggestions please let me know!

It's going alright so far. Nothing you can do about all these low dice rolls.

Hearing the sounds of combat Katrina moves forward taking care not to fall on the treacherous planks of the docks keeping her shield at the ready.

Katrina double moves (at half speed so 20 ft total) forward from her location at M17 to M13.

Thank you for giving me the chance! I'm excited to be a part of the campaign!

Good luck to everyone!

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Okay this is what I was able to write up for a backstory. Still tweaking and amending but this is basically it.

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Holy Wall of Text BATMAN! Could you please edit this back-story into a manageable format? All that I can read now is: IAMABLOCKOFTEXTFEARME!

Sorry about that copied it over from the myth-weaver's character sheet. I'll try to edit the format down and try to make a new one in the event that fails.

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Thank you for formatting. I know that it can be quiet a daunting task. So far everything looks to be in order, the only point of clarification I need is which district does Katrina live in? Does she live in the church, or does she rent a small apartment somewhere in the city?

I appreciate the clarification.

Right now she would lives in the church itself.

I would be willing to apply and by extension join. But I would like to know more about the story that you have in mind to tell. As a player I'm in it for a good story and a good time. I have fun no matter how I'm playing so I can roll with any story. I like the good ole fashioned high adventure grand-quest type long campaigns but thats just one type of game and it doesn't always work for everyone.

I'll just go ahead and post the renamings here. They also have different origins but same teachings and such.

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I will go ahead and change the deities' name to Kamila then to take these changes into account.

Traskus wrote:

Okay this is what I was able to write up for a backstory. Still tweaking and amending but this is basically it.

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Holy Wall of Text BATMAN! Could you please edit this back-story into a manageable format? All that I can read now is: IAMABLOCKOFTEXTFEARME!

Sorry about that copied it over from the myth-weaver's character sheet. I'll try to edit the format down and try to make a new one in the event that fails.

I hope that makes it a little easier to read but if it doesn't I tried to make a shorter less intensive version below as a timeline.

Okay this is what I was able to write up for a backstory. Still tweaking and amending but this is basically it.

Here are the numbers for my Tower-Shield fighter I'll post a more detailed backstory when I get a chance along with the ranger.

Character #1: Decimus

I would like to join in the game. Right now I am divided as what to play but I have a few ideas. My current thoughts are between a fighter (tower-shield specialist if allowed) who was accused of Desertion when he left his unit of devout Mitran followers behind to die while he saw a chance for something greater, resulting in half the unit being wiped out. This character would be interested in creating a name for himself and finding a worthy challenge for his skills. His motivation ultimately would be to prove himself as a worthy champion and secure himself a place guarding the leaders of the next order. Obviously this would be a 'tank' styled character for the group to frontline and provide a distraction for the other characters to do their thing.

My second idea kind of stems around the concept of a bounty-hunter who killed one of his marks instead of bringing them in alive as the bounty wanted. Of course this would probably mean he went to an extreme where it became premeditated and killed a helpless individual rather than a fleeing suspect, probably dropping them off a building or shooting him in the back. This character would probably be in it more for the wealth that overthrowing the kingdom could provide along with the notoriety. This I would built to be an archer and possibly make it a ranger (more likely) or hunter (much less likely) class with a level or two in rogue later on.

Character #1:

Character #2: