In most cases I would only recommend the core characters. The reason for the core are:
Vaethic Pleaseletmehit.Idon'twanttobetheonlyonenotsmitingthefoes Vaethic's sword cane whips out again, leaving a bloody gash in the bandit.
"Take that!"
Lol. You totally crit! That's an autosuccess! You have to stay now!
Arkapallus Aulamaxa
Mentioned family members:
Father - Elgin Aulamaxa - Patron of the Kintargo Opera Mother - Calseinica Jhaltero - Very minor branch of the family Aunt - Visbaronetess Delour Aulamaxa renowned Diva in Westcrown, suddenly turned cold towards my mother about the time of the unpleasantness down in Westcrown and their tiefling problem. Other mentioned people:
Jhalston - Son of the Majordomo Marliak - Daughter of Cook Vercel - Stablemaster/Disciplinarian Dame Professer Erlinia Leroung - Music teacher at the Alabaster Academy and sometime lover
Fireday, 31 Kuthona 4699
OOC:
The last time Visbaronetess Delour Aulamaxa visited, she stormed off in a rage after using her high note to shatter most of the glassware. This is when she found out Arkapallus was a tiefling.Around this time a few of Arkapallus tiefling features start to manifest. The Visbaronetess is a famous Opera singer and played a minor part in Council of Thieves - she hates tieflings. Oathday, 22 Gozran 4704
OOC:
A minor member of the Thrune government visited Kintargo, and it was Elgin’s turn to host a grand society ball to honor the Thrune family. Arkapallus at 11 would have much prefered hunting turtles with the servant children in the evening.
Sunday, 21 Rova 4708
Spoiler:
After church services, rebellious early teen bored out of his mind in the long and boring ceremonies of the official Church of Asmodeus Toilday, 17 Erastus 4710
OOC:
Arkapallus has been having trysts with the Cook’s daughter in the stables hayloft for a while, this time they were caught in the act by Elgrin himself. He sent the Cook and her daughter away for beguiling his heir and son. Wealday, 1 Arodus 4710
OOC:
As Jhalston and Arkapallus were rough housing after dueling practice, Jhalston blames Arkapallus for Marliak being sent away. Jhalston had a crush on Marliak and his jealousy led to him telling Arkapallus’ father about the sneaking off to the stables. In a rage Arkapallus beat Jhalston nearly to death with his fists in a rage. Oathday, 7 Sarenith 4712
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Arkapallus is not terribly bright, and while school educated him he couldn’t be bothered to care much. Erlinia Leroung a young noblewoman teacher of music at the Alabaster Academy was his favorite class for the learning to play the wooden flute(annoys his parents-they wanted an actor) and the after class “activities” Starday, 11 Lamashan 4714 1st RULE: You do not talk about FIGHT CLUB.
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Finding that he enjoyed using his fist on Jhalston he has secretly been meeting and creating underground fighting clubs in Kintargo. Oathday 5 Calistril 4715
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Moved out to a small noble’s apartment and spends his late afternoons girl watching and being seen as a “Noble” should, he then makes his way to a fighting club to try and release his devils… Fireday, 14 Arodus 4715
As this is a city/urban based campaign some things work a little different than adventuring in the wilds How are we handling Cost of Living?
The Cost of Living table needs a custom one added between Average and Wealthy, something like Comfortable or Noble slumming it. 25 gp/month with nonmagical item up to 2g and meals/taxes up to 4g. What say you Hell's GM? Is there any other mundane record keeping stuff we are going to hand wave or ignore?
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Looks like I rolled Doubt.
Just doing my part. I don't have a list of what I have available to trade on hand. Though nothing fantastic. I give most of my boons away at local gamedays to those unable to make trips to conventions, or for people who have cool ideas for a build and need a boon.
I would like to point out that the core assumption doesn't mean you don't need to "own" a core rulebook. It generally means that we don't need to ask you to see it for rule questions. If you are actively advertising you do not have one, you may be asked to leave a table. There is an exception for brand new players, and that length of when a new player is not new anymore is not a specific time line, it would be up to the local VO or GMs judgement...
The event organizer has no control over people being jerks at the tables, the only people with that control are the "jerks" themselves. 1 table events are very common, due to space, community, and more probably willing GMs. To try and pass blame for someone's bad behavior on to the people who arrange and probably GM these games is insulting.
At Paizocon, I talked with John about this. The sense I got was that Andrew is right, not likely before October. I've been running it for a while and we should finish up book 3 mid August, we might be able to get sheets for books 4-6! I hope. A player I would love to have played with us, refused partially because of the no chronicle sheet issue. This is too bad, since the AP is awesome.
Gary I have to say I admire your tenacity, even though I disagree with the need for this plan. And with Socalwarhammers post, I'm feeling the need to do book audits at our local game nights. Think Nefreet and I should have a local chat about that, and include our VC.
As a VO, my job is not to verify your book purchases. I have a multitude of other things to do as Pirate Rob mentioned. This thread is the same as the last bunch of threads that Nefreet posted campaign leaderships responses too. There are solutions, you don't like them. From the previous threads it seems that most of the Venture Officers that have chosen to chime in are also supportive of the current rulings. To sum it up, I do not want to be the Paizo book police.
We didn't get in line until almost 7 last year and it looked like an hour line at least. As soon as 7AM hit, the line moved and really never stopped moving. We were through it in less than 15 min. Their won't be a problem making 8AM games. You will probably even have time to shop in the store as well. The hotel unlocking rooms for the lottery games was the real problem, we started late because of that.
When are you going to favorite my posts, and turn me back into a gnome?
Right and then they would have to go to every archetype/prestige class that someone complains about not getting to play and adding this line for each of those. This would then require re-reviewing hundreds of options and the cumbersome additional resources document and modifying all this.
"SsssSSssssquid! Are! Tasty!"shouts Vitreous over the booming and screeching throughout the cavern. Then he dive bombs the tentacled thing, hoping to crush it in his massive maw.
Assists!
"SSSSssSSSSSsssssSSSssssSS! I'll not let you harm them, whirlywindywoo!"hisses Vitreous. He then uses his bulk and his wings to fly directly into the whirlwind creature and attack it with all his might!
Irk. I'm running con this weekend
No worries here, just wanted to make sure everything was OK. Take the time you need!
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"Uh. umm. I think this cavern is not going to be here in about a minute or less," thinks Vitreous at the crew. He struggles with the blightning and slams it into the side of the mesa again.
"I don't think I can fit inside the pagoda in this form. You should escape with as many of the weird goblins as you can. I'll take the mesa and the cavern with me!"says Vitreous. A strong wave of determination mingled with excitement washes through the link as he relays his intentions to stay behind. The ladies will love this! The hero sacrificing himself to save everyone! They all stand their grieving and in shock, then I, back in regular form, come crawling out of the rubble! It's a surefire plan! Spitting out the blightning, Vitreous shouts out to the big fire god thingy, "Hey big guy! Lets make this exciting! We are going to go out with a bang and take all this foul necromantic doohickies with us!"
I'm a VO in Jerrum's area. Core is by no means going to replace the current games being offered. As it stands right now, we are adding a new day and time for a Core. This particular day and time is specifically setup around a few people's college and work schedule. Monday at Noon. All the regular people usually available for that slot are interested in replay and trying out Core for the challenge. Towards the end of February we might start adding Core options to the regular schedule, while the majority of the local area here is supportive of Core as an idea, there are many people not currently interested in playing it. With 3-4 play opportunities a week available for Normal PFS play, and adding a Core Option will give us 5-6 available sessions can't be too bad.
Monk was one of my first thoughts as well. I enjoyed the core mechanics, and while Quiggong is awesome, I think they will do just fine with out. I think that people are too worried about making super powered characters, I never felt that rogues and monks were bad options. Frankly, I'm looking forward to combats taking more than 1-2 rounds.
"Ssss... I wonder how long til this messSSaa collapsssess," hisses Vitreous. With that commentary and a thought about earthquakes and mesa interactions, the humongous snake with wings dive bombs one of the necro-lightning elementals.
"SSSssssssSSSsssSSSssSS!"says Vitreous still waiting to not be a humongous snake monster! Hard to woo the ladies, when they're afraid he might eat or squish them...
Thanks! Best wishes for everyone's holidays, whichever you may celebrate! Looking forward to Layla and Tac coming back!
Thanks for this informative thread Nefreet. It has solidified my mind on the whole issue. Until campaign management says otherwise this is how I'll rule and encourage the rulings in our area. Weapons, ammo, wands do not provoke in SLWS or regular wrist sheaths. Scrolls, potions, and anything else do provoke from sheaths.
So I'm almost ready to get going. We have power problems that should get fixed today that will fix the internet problems I've been having. So I'll get a detailed where we are so far post up this afternoon after the electricians fix things!
The weight of the mountain above you presses in, slowing all of your thoughts and actions. You feel lethargic as you stare into the dark paths under this great mount. The skitter of tiny feet can be heard to the north and west, as tiny creatures seem to be living their lives oblivious to the soon to be invaders...
So. I've been sorta busy. I just got made Venture Lieutenant in our PFS area, we have 1 of our 2 major conventions for our area in less than a week. I'll do better. And with the tightening up of the group things will probably move along a bit quicker. Tac will also be sporadic for a while yet. So 2 options -
I believe someone mentioned timer on the waterbreathing effect, I believe you have more than 2 hours left. That is one of the reason for the bigger progression threads I include the time.
I've seen a lot of comments/posts that indicate that there isn't interest in 12+ due to reporting or general interest. (read a bunch of these threads) I would guess that this is partly due to not actually having anything on offer that is tied to the pfs campaign. Module/AP sanctioning isn't the answer. None of that material realistically fits into the PFS gaming structure. Every module over level 8 I've run for PFS at con or otherwise has to have significant on the fly cuts to fit in to time slots. When you advertise that there is really nothing to do after level 11, you don't get after 11 play. I can see in the Greater Sacramento region at least two tables of 12-16 play a month, if offered in scenario length segments. From my con attendance within the Bay Area, I'm sure they could field 3-4 or more tables a month throughout the region of high tier play. I'm not asking for monthly 12+ scenarios, but one or two a season would sure be nice.
Lazur, notices the skulk that he noticed watching them. The skulk doesn't respond to your question. You here the slightest of mumbles, though you cannot make out anything intelligible.
Rywokit, finally comes out of the cave area covered in a rime of frost, non the worse for wear. He almost seems to be refreshed and extra hyper from the cold. "Hmm... A fire. Is there anything around here that'll burn well? Besides me that is..." Rywokit makes 17 checks just in case: Just kidding.
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