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Here are all pregens with pbp chat sheet.

Google drive link.


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Thanks so much!! Looking forward to the game!


I'm Hiding In Your Closet wrote:
grimdog73 wrote:
is it an evergreen?
Seconded.

Hey! Scenario 8-06 is not an evergreen.

See here for a practical guide to evergreens.


GM Roll4initiative wrote:

It's that spooky time of year so I'm going to be GMing the spooky themed scenario #8-06 Reaping What We Sow (tier 1-5).

Anita and Fiendy are new to PFS1e PbP and played in my Hao Jin Cataclysm PFS1e Special for Gameday. They have first dibs on the first two spots, if they're interested. I'm looking for 4 more players to round out the party. I'll have a recruitment thread up in the next couple days and hope to start on Monday, Oct. 27th.

Thanks a lot for GMing! I would love to join. :-D I have several level 1-2 characters that I could play with depending on the party composition.


I'm Hiding In Your Closet wrote:


I, for one, have never even touched 2E!
I invested wayyy too much in 3.X books, with wayyy too little gameplay to show for it, to want to have anything to do with calling backsies on backward-compatibility (let alone my issues with some of their other decisions)!

"Heroes for Highdelve"? Was that...a-ha...so it was!

Wow! Yes! A long time ago that I GMed that. And remember this run of yours?

And I honestly have also never touched a 2E game. Too old for change or maybe just too invested in 1E. ;-)


Hello GM Wolf,
Just wanted to inform you that for the character background I’m thinking about a female Elf with the name Evera Aerendyl. Evera is a follower of Erastil who’s originally from Rostland. She travelled around the Inner Sea for some time and now she is turning to the Stolen Lands.

Do you have any plans on how to incorporate a new character so that I can include that in the background story?

Her build would be a ranged bow Magus to satisfy the party needs for archery and arcane support.

I saw in the recruitment that for 7th level characters you have 15000 gp starting funds with 8000 maximum per item. Does that change with me starting at 8th level?

Thanks!


Thanks GM! After two years of RPG absence I’m glad to cope with one class to be honest so Gestalt can wait a long, long time.

Stat rolls as requested here:

5d6 ⇒ (4, 5, 6, 3, 5) = 23 16
5d6 ⇒ (3, 4, 6, 6, 6) = 25 18
5d6 ⇒ (6, 5, 2, 6, 6) = 25 18
5d6 ⇒ (4, 5, 1, 5, 4) = 19 14
5d6 ⇒ (6, 4, 4, 1, 2) = 17 14
5d6 ⇒ (2, 2, 2, 3, 3) = 12 lowest
5d6 ⇒ (3, 4, 4, 2, 6) = 19 14

I’ll put something together asap for your review GM Wolf.

Thanks


Of course, Ulricha! That makes sense. Then let me check what I can out together to satisfy the party needs.

@GM Wolf: I saw the rules for character generation in the Recruitment thread. Would you like me to roll stats there or here?

Thanks again!


Thanks for the warm welcome! :-)

I’ll wait for the others to comment as well.


Dear all, I very much hope that you are all well.

I had an exchange with GM Wolf and Chyrone about the great game that you have built together, and I expressed my interest to join your adventure.

I am grateful to GM Wolf for providing me the opportunity to talk to you to see what would be a good fit for your party.

I was advised to prepare options:
a) Frontline melee character with a charisma based touch
b) Full intelligence based arcane caster
c) Archer, rather not fully martial, but with some basic casting abilities

Maybe you could provide some guidance so that I can think about it?

Thanks for your consideration.

Best,
Noral


Colin_Mercer wrote:
noral wrote:

@Colin: Your name sounds familiar, but I’m honestly not sure if we played together.

I played in your Heroes of Highdelve game back in 2022, and was invited to your GM rotation game. But I guess that's when you start your PFS hiatus so there wasn't any new game (that I'm aware of).

I was a PFS newbie last time we talked, and now I'm 5 stars GM + Venture Agent. How time flies...

Wow!! Kudos to you!! That’s crazy and great that you’re holding on to PF1 as it really is a system that I personally enjoy a lot!!


grimdog73 wrote:
oh i have...i was just messing around

Ha ha!! I was thinking “Whaaat?!?” … but then I saw your second post. ;-) We’ve probably played dozens of games together.

Purple Dragon Knight wrote:
grimdog73 wrote:
noral...noral....name sounds vaguely familiar....
There is a 99% chance you have played with him alongside one of his Katsu family characters before! :)

Ahh!! GM PDK!! I’m still thinking back to your Hell’s Rebels run which was absolutely phenomenal!! Thanks again for that.

Watery Soup wrote:

*Waves to Noral*

I don't play PF1 any more, but there's a steady stream of games that get started and finished.

Hey!! Super sad! :-( Loved our games together.


Thanks for the nice welcome and the information!

I’ll definitely check out the sites here regularly now. ;-)


Thank you both for the quick reply!

@Ansha: Ohh, I can remember Way of the Kirin! :-D

@Colin: Your name sounds familiar, but I’m honestly not sure if we played together.

I’ll definitely wait to see if anyone starts a game in the near future.


Hi everyone,
I hope you’re all doing well.

Just came back from a long Pathfinder break of more than two years. Actually tried to join a pbp Gameday game in March but had not realized that it’s a Core game so it didn’t happen.

Just wanted to know if Pathfinder 1st edition games are still being played at all on these forums? I saw that the Recruitment page is quite empty.

Have a great week!

Best,
Noral / GM Nowruz


Found the link to apply. :-)

I’ll bring Sakura.


Mhazruk Kruhl wrote:
Out of town till the 20th then will start looking at the module ahead and making slides for my portion. Ill still post as a character till then. I also have some Gameday obligations but that will be fine to balance.

Thanks again!! If you need anything please let us know!!


Hi guys, I see you started without me and I am really busy at the moment so please continue. I will join you in the next one. Thanks again GM and sorry!


I would love to join and thanks for this memorial game.

I would propose 5-01 which also involves Valsin.

Thanks


Thanks for everything GM EbonFist! Super ready for this one. :-)

I’ll wait to see party composition to decide if I’ll come in with Taariik (front striker) or Kioshi (Wizard).


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On no! I really hope that he recovers soon!!


Hello everyone, I’m going to be on vacation for two weeks starting Sunday so please put me on delay or bot me.

Thanks


Ahh sorry Shifty!

But thanks!!

To be honest I definitely would not come in with Taariik but with my Silver Crusade character. Give me two days please to level him up to level 9.

Thanks!


Hello GM, I am super sorry but I have to retreat from the game. :-/

I will delete my name from the signup sheet.

Have a great game everyone!


I am sorry but I cannot come up with a good character at the moment so I will not join. Have fun!!


I would also join! ;-)

I will decide in the next days what to play.

Thanks!!


I am retreating from the recruitment. Have fun everyone!


So we’re going high tier?

If yes then I have to bring my level 5 cleric of Horus.

You know what I’ll bring that character anyway so it doesn’t matter which tier.

But I haven’t played her in pbp so need to create the profile this week.


Very interested! Thanks! Will work on a character in the next week.


Maybe it would be possible to choose more of their existing alternate racial traits on top? I think the Genasi are also quite different in abilities as they can have different heritages so 4 rp flexibility would allow a little more creativity. :-)

But I really like your thinking around creating races equal in power level. Thanks


Thanks for the document GM. ;-)

May I ask how to fill up the race points exactly for the Genasi? Do we just choose additional abilities ourselves? Thanks


Definitely looking forward to that! ;-)

Thanks again for GMing!


Totally makes sense GM! ;)

Mournland it is!


Thanks Philo,

noral | Usgar | Shifter Bloodrager | Amnesiac Shifter following the Traveler that seeks adventure to jumpstart his memory

Hello GM, due to the fact that I am not really well versed with the campaign setting, I thought that it is reasonable to assume that my character, Usgar, was hit by a magical force during a storm that somehow erased his memory. This way I can genuinely learn about the campaign setting together with the other characters during the development of our adventures.

Character background :

Usgar lived in the Eldeen Reaches and was part of a small shifter community of Gorebrutes, those shifters which are loud and aggressive even for their kind. These shifters even are more likely to threaten violence than most other shifter individuals … maybe that is because of their connection to the Wereboars of the past.

Nobody knows what exactly caused the incident, but the amnesia that Usgar suffered from the magical force that hit him, gave Usgar the powers associated with his bloodline and forced him to leave his home in the Eldeen Reaches because he had to escape the unbearable environment where everyone believed to know Usgar although he did not know himself anymore.

Usgar still feels an anger inside of him because the loss of his memories and that is sometimes hard to control but that is also paired with an uncontrollable lust to travel and seek something beyond his reach.

But Usgar also was clearly advised that beyond his community he has to control himself because the past crusade of the silver flame makes it especially important for him to not constantly escalate situations so that that those that are still feeling uneasy among shifters don’t continue the prosecution of his race instead of chasing real lycanthropes.

He has now recently left his home and although he has no clue about religion, something inside of him feels that the Traveler is pushing him onwards … where to l he does not know but he remains ready for the journey yet to come!


Thanks!

I am reading more about shifters in Eberron to create a background. ;)

I hope the character below is ok?

Character initial draft:

CN Male Medium Skinwalker Wereboar-Kin (Humanoid Shapeshifter)

Bloodrager 1 (Blood Conduit, Shapeshifter Bloodline)

_________________________________________________________________

-- STATS --

Str: 18, Dex: 14, Con: 18*, Int: 7, Wis: 12, Cha: 9

* 16 if not in wereboar form.
_________________________________________________________________

–– SAVES ––

Fortitude: +6 (Con +4, Bloodrager +2)
Reflex: +2 (Dex +2, Bloodrager +0)
Will: +1 (Wis +1, Bloodrager +0)

_________________________________________________________________

–– COMBAT ––

Ranged to hit: +3 (BAB +1, Dex +2)
Melee to hit: +5 (BAB +1, Str +4)

~

CMB: +5 (BAB +1, Str +4)

Speed: 30 ft.

Initiative: +2 (Dex +2)

_________________________________________________________________

–– AC / CMD ––

• AC 18, T 12, FF 16 (Dex +2, Breastplate +6)
• Armor Check Penalty - 4: Breastplate -4

CMD: 17 (BAB +1, Str +4, Dex +2)

_________________________________________________________________

–– SKILLS ––

Handle Animal +2 (Rank 0, Cha +0, Racial +2)
Perception +7 (Rank 1, Class +3, Wis +1, Racial +2)

Survival +5 (Rank 1, Class +3, Wis +1)
Swim +4 (Rank 1, Class +3, Str +4, ACP -4)

Skill Points

Lvl 1 Bloodrager: 3 = 1 lvls x 3 (4 Bloodrager - 2 Int + 1 Favored Class Bonus)

TOTAL: 3 Skill Points

Languages:
• Racial: Common

_________________________________________________________________

–– LIMITED ABILITIES––

• Bloodrager RAGE 8 = 4 + Con +4 + Bloodrager Lvl beyond 1
_________________________________________________________________

–– HIT POINTS ––
Lvl 1 - 14 Hit Points: 10 Bloodrager + Con +4

TOTAL - 14 Hit Points

_________________________________________________________________

–– GOLD ––

22 gp
_________________________________________________________________

–– GEAR ––

Breatplate
Morningstar
Backpack
Compass
Snorkel masterwork
Bardiche
Earplugs
Smoked Goggles
Whistle signal
Potion of Touch of Sea in Potion Sponge
Oil of ‘Unwelcome Halo’
Vermin repellent
Smelling Salts
Air Crystal
Antiplague
Antipoison
3 x Acid

_________________________________________________________________

–– TRAITS ––
• COMMUNITY-MINDED (Region: Rahadoum) While some pray to the gods for mercy or prosperity, you follow a different tack—you believe in improving the lives of those around you through earnest labor and the efforts of you and your community. Your hard-earned discipline and the candor of your words affect all who bear witness. Any morale bonuses you confer upon your allies through your own abilities or spells last 2 additional rounds.
• FATE’s FAVORED (Faith): The fates watch over you. Whenever you are under the effect of a luck bonus of any kind, that bonus increases by 1.

_________________________________________________________________

–– FEATS ––
• Lvl 1 (Blood Conduit Archetype free feat): IMPROVED TRIP
• Lvl 1: EXTRA FEATURE: You are an exceptional shapechanger. Prerequisites: Con 13, skinwalker. Benefit: When you change shape to your bestial form, you may choose one additional feature from those listed in your shapechange ability and gain that benefit while in bestial form. Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. Its effects stack.__

_______________________________________________________________

–– CLASS ABILITIES ––

BLOODRAGER

BLOOD CONDUIT Archetype

SHAPECHANGER Bloodline

_________________________________________________________________

— SKINWALKER Wereboar-Kin (Ragebred) RACIAL TRAITS --

These skinwalkers are known for their fiery tempers and stubborn streaks, features that have earned them respect in remote corners of Garund, Cheliax, and Varisia as freedom fighters.

• Str: +2 Strength, –2 Charisma (+2 Constitution while shapechanged)
• TYPE: Humanoid (Shapechanger)
• SIZE: Medium
• SPEED: 30 feet
• Low-Light Vision: Skinwalkers can see twice as far as humans can in dim light.
• Alternate Skill Modifiers: +2 Handle Animal, +2 Perception
• Alternate Spell-Like Ability: Speak with animals (pigs and boars only) 3/day

• Change Shape (Su): A skinwalker can change shape to a bestial form as a standard action. While in this form, a skinwalker also takes on an animalistic feature that provides a special effect. Each time a skinwalker assumes bestial form, he can choose to gain one of the available bestial features. These benefits last until the skinwalker returns to his humanoid form as a swift action. A skinwalker must first return to his humanoid form before changing to bestial form again to change benefits.
• Bestial Features: a) +10 foot racial bonus to base speed, b) Gore attack that deals 1d6 points of damage; c) 2 hoof attacks that each deal 1d4 points of damage; d) Scent to a range of 30 feet

• LANGUAGES: Skinwalkers all begin play speaking Common. Skinwalkers with high Intelligence scores can choose any languages they want (except secret languages, such as Druidic).

–– BACKGROUND ––


Thanks for the reply! You are absolutely right.

For me the most important thing is that we all have fun! Being in a play by post game means that I had the opportunity to look into the history of your characters and that I of course have assessed for myself if this is a group that I would like to play in and the answer is definitely yes! :-)

I have a long history in the play by post community and I have played many different characters from lawful good paladins to chaotic evil anti-paladins and all alignments in between. If you like then you can just randomly choose a character of mine in my aliases and see how I roleplay.

I currently mostly play PFS and more and more for me the main problem of PFS is that it is hard to build a relationship between characters because after each scenario everything changes!

A common history is important to really get into the setting and to connect to the other characters so that we somehow shape the campaign based on our individual characteristics and decisions.

That’s why I would like to join this group!

I hope this helps to understand me better. ;-D

~

In terms of character creation I really tried to build a character in almost every class and almost every race to just see what I like and I have to admit that I a very much favor the plane touched races as well as dwarves and Kitsune. :-D I have no idea why … I assume that’s taste?


Hello everyone,
Thanks a lot for the consideration to play together with you!

I completely understand the reservations that were stated and I really think that you’re a great group.

I understand from Khamul’s post that you need 1) healing, 2) knowledge/face and 3) support spells.

This for me translates to an Oracle with the Lore mystery who can:
1) spontaneously convert any spell into a cure spell,
2) has all knowledge skills as class skills and can use charisma instead of int as modifier plus is charisma based and has diplomacy so can be a face, and
3) has access to a lot of support/utility spells.

~

I did not know if you want me to post a potential background/personality already as the role/mechanics seemed to be important to you.

~

In case you have any suggestions or remarks then I’m of course super open for that. ;-)

~

Stat roll in case the concept is ok :

stat roll : 4d6 ⇒ (5, 1, 2, 5) = 13 12
stat roll : 4d6 ⇒ (5, 2, 5, 4) = 16 14
stat roll : 4d6 ⇒ (6, 6, 3, 5) = 20 17
stat roll : 4d6 ⇒ (3, 4, 6, 3) = 16 13
stat roll : 4d6 ⇒ (3, 5, 4, 2) = 14 12
stat roll : 4d6 ⇒ (5, 5, 2, 4) = 16 14


Hello! So I know PF first edition rules very well but I really have little clue about Eberron. :-)

But I’m willing to learn.

~

I watched a couple of YouTube videos and like the setting. :-)

The shifters are interesting. So I’m thinking about a Skinwalker Wereboar Bloodrager.

Is that ok?

Thanks


Ah, I thought deadline is today. Then have fun everyone! ;-)


Glad that all is better.

And very interested!!


Hello everyone, I just discovered this recruitment and the idea sounds great! :-D

I only have one day so I’ll be speedy to create a character and background until tomorrow!!


Please don’t worry! Thanks for GMing!! :-D


All the best!!!!


Thanks everyone!!

Clebsch RoW wrote:

No problem with the timing. RL always comes first. The party is just about to begin a new fight which will probably take a week or two to resolve.

Use that time to work up your character and establish the Pazio alias with the details of the character in the profile. I prefer players follow the Paizo format for statistics (see the introduction to the Bestiary for the statistics order and formatting instructions). Anything else you want in the profile can come after that. It helps if any unusual features of the PC have links to an SRD description of the feature or else a section after the main statistics that is a copy/paste of the relevant rules. That makes it quicker for me to get answers to questions about how a feature works.

** spoiler omitted **

Let me know if you have questions about character creation guidelines.

Perfect GM, I will start to build the character profile based on the monster stat format!

GM:

Thanks again GM! So I will assume as you outlined that Seke came into the maiden with other adventurers and that this group got captured by the hags and her servants, one of whom is supposed to be protecting the complex but where Seke has noticed that they have ulterior motives of a political nature with the main warden although Seke does not know what exactly.

Seke is as you outlined the last surviving member of the adventuring group as some of her companions were slain in the initial combat with the hags and others became victims of the hag's cruel passions for torturing and then eating their captives. Seke is truly exhausted and a little bit traumatized. She does not know why she is still alive but she assumes that she is either the last to be eaten or perhaps is being kept alive for some other reason.

I hope I summarized it ok?


Absolutely, I just want to get a feeling for your characters.


Yes thanks. I usually don’t let work capture me like this. ;-)

So is it okay for you guys of I read the backgrounds that you have in your profiles?


Clebsch RoW wrote:
noral wrote:

Hello GM,

thank you very much for your time spent on this topic and I really appreciate your thoughts regarding the Wayang character that I proposed. These are all very valid points and questions!!

I will put the next section with some explanations in spoilers because I don’t know if that is news to the rest of the party although you’ve progressed in the AP.

I haven't closed the door on the Wayang. I just want to see an interesting story hook to account for the unlikely presence on an unlikely mission.

This is true of whatever character you want to run. Consider the following points:

** spoiler omitted **...

Thanks again for the patience! ;-) Please see below in the spoiler thoughts and answers to your questions and suggestions!

GM:

So the character's name is Seke Tiiz and she is a female Wayang. Here is her char sheet for your reference. I just took that out of my binder and scanned it. But more important are the answers to your questions:

GM wrote:


• The character must have a reason to find and rescue Baba Yaga to return her and allow her to reestablish the usual order and replace the current queen. This could be a desire to prevent Golarian turning into the Hoth system or it could be devotion to Baba Yaga or hatred of the present queen or a combination of these.

Thanks for this explanation. Based on the backstory of Seke that I had detailed earlier the main motivation is the devotion to Baba Yaga and the Black Rider who had a strong influence on Seke during her youth and who she believes will explain to her the source of her powers and can be the mentors that she never had.

GM wrote:


• Involvement of the Three Riders is not absolutely necessary although that is an option. The new players recently brought in were assumed to have followed a similar track to the primary group, just through a different port in a different part of Golarian and a different Rider.

That is great! Because also Seke's story evolved in a similar way: She entered Irrisen through a gate that was opened by the cold Rider that strangely was fierce Tengu. The cold rider somehow also changed the group and gave them the mission to open a gate to a cold place from a white witch’s tower to a place where Baba Yaga had a secret weapon stored and bring that weapon back to the cold rider so that we can together free the hut of Baba Yaga. Later one of the other players felt how the cold rider actually died.

(Short excursus: I was wondering all the time why the cold rider was a Tengu and did some research and found this reference "The White Rider for Queen Urvalane appeared as a snowyfeathered tengu, wielding an oversized scythe as if it were as light as a child’s toy. Accounts from the time tell that this Rider trilled a lovely, mesmerizing song as it gleefully lopped off the heads of those deemed lacking." and that is exactly how rider was described in the story Seke was in.)

GM wrote:


• The character must be in the Maiden section of Atrosa. Atrosa was created by Baba Yaga long ago and she maintains guardians to oversee the place in her absence. The character may have been captured and forced to serve as a guardian of Atrosa, perhaps as punishment or just a whim of Baba Yaga. Or the character could be a devoted servant of Baba Yaga who serves willingly and would therefore be willing to join the PCs in their quest to locate her. Or the character might have been captured by the frost giant and centaur group. [I can give you more information on them if you want.

That also fits perfectly! I am repeating for a moment what I wrote earlier what happened to Seke after the group was in Irrisen: "[...] I think that our PCs allied with a group of humans that also worked for Baba Yaga. We followed the plan to open a gate to a frosty place outside of Irrisen and we had to invade a tower of the white witches but when we arrived the tower had already been attacked and we entered nonetheless and fought the decimated guards. We found out that a magical gate was just closed and all our PCs home locations were connected to Irrisen via magical lines and that this is also a connection for the PCs.

We then opened another gate via a ritual to this cold place outside of Irrisen and stepped through with these humans … that’s more or less where we stopped the campaign."

So this last gate that we opened could have led exactly to "the Maiden section of Atrosa" and that this area was created by Baba Yaga fits perfectly because we were guided by followers of Baba Yaga to open the gate. I very much like your option "Or the character could be a devoted servant of Baba Yaga who serves willingly and would therefore be willing to join the PCs in their quest to locate her." because is exactly what has been driving Seke continuously ... to find Baba Yaga and learn from her who and what she actually is!

GM wrote:


• There could be other options, such as the PC is just an adventurer who entered Atrosa to look for treasure and ended up trapped there.
• There are hags involved in this adventure and they sometimes create changlings which eventually become hags (usually). You could be a changling ally of the hags in this part of the dungeon. Or you could be one of their prisoner servants or a captive they plan to use for some evil purpose.

These are all very good options in case I would bring in a new character. If Seke would be allowed then the option to be a servant to Baba Yaga in Atrosa is the preferred option for me! ;-)

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I hope this helps! Just tell me what you think is the best option and I will immediately either create a new character with the "hags" background idea you outlined or level up Seke to continue her path to find Baba Yaga in the story.

Have a great weekend everyone!!


Super sorry for the delay. These were some of the most stressful weeks I’ve had at work in years. :-/

Am writing everything up tomorrow. ;-)


Sorry for the delayed response GM and fellow players. I’m on vacation and will respond latest mid next week when the first days of post-vacation stress at work are over. :-)

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