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Thanks! Where is it found? I can't believe i missed this important bit of information!
Thanks for all the well wishes, everyone! I would especially like to thank VC Richard Loh for his generous and unstinting support and the hard work of the VLs in Singapore, Adriaan van Wijk and Simone Seow, without whom it would not have been possible to muster so many [-]victims[/-] players to [-]slaughter[/-] play these scenarios! ;)
You really gotta motor if you want to do that. While I think it's possible to finish a PbF game in 3 weeks, and I suspect there are some that do that, it's going to be very rare. It's a factor of 4 faster than the typical ones I've seen. Not a problem for me. The PBF regulars post pretty often and since we'll be targeting Season 0s, I don't expect combat encounters to drag. 23 Sept is quite doable. I already have 3 players indicate interest, which meets quorum to form a table. Once the VC gives the go ahead, we'll kick off. Hopefully the VC will respond quickly.
Well, Mr Brock, it was not my intention to delve into the minutiae, and it is certainly not my intention to impose my book keeping system to anyone else's. I speak from my personal experience after completing the ITS for 3 of my PCs. For each PC I maintain:
I'll grant you that writing one sentence onto one ITS sheet may not seem to take more than a minute. However, I take some pride in being organized and I do make it a point to cross check that entry against the Expenses Spreadsheet, the Chronicle Sheet and possibly the Spellbook as well, just to be sure that if/when I am audited, records are consistent and in order. And that's for one item. I took an average of about 60-90 seconds to check all that for one item. My PCs are at L8x2 and L9 and each has some 60-80 entries in the "above 25gp" range (yes, I love masterwork tools, scrolls and all manner of alchemical power components and consumables). Going through those 3 PCs took me 4 hours plus today, and I have quite a few more to go (granted that these are not as advanced, but there are a few in the level 3 to 5 range). Based on past experience, I do occasionally spot calculation or recording errors in my records and I will spend some time to rectify these records. This can take anywhere between 15 minutes to about an hour to rectify and to check the records again for consistency. Perhaps I'll grant you that the average player may not be as prone to OCD as myself, perhaps requiring half the time. That is still easily 2 hours or more per player. Multiplied against all the PFS players, current and future, I'd think that this amounts to a significant chunk of man hours. I personally did not derive any pleasure from the time spent and I'd be curious to hear if anyone actually found the task enjoyable. Personally I wondered why PFS would impose this unpleasant task on everyone just to make it easier to catch the minority of the players who fail to keep proper records? Why punish all of us for the mistakes of the few? And personally I wonder if further forms will be foisted on us in the future if some other form of information needs to be tracked more accurately in the future. If the problem is that the minority of the players are not keeping proper records, let's think of a way to manage the situation without imposing an additional tax on everyone's time. Perhaps some players need help keeping proper records. Perhaps experienced players/GMs can volunteer to look check on newer players. Perhaps a system for voluntary audits by players can be set up. If the players with poor records had a problem keeping records currently, I would imagine requiring them to fill out an additional form may not be the best way to help them. For the majority of us who already make the effort to maintain proper records, perhaps we can spend the time which would have been spent filling out the ITS to help the minority. Now THAT would be something worth doing.
Please reconsider making ITS a mandatory requirement. I would like to think that most PFS players keep track of their inventory in some fashion already. Imposing an additional obligation to maintain an additional ITS (or multiple ITSs) for each PC is an added obligation on each player. I can appreciate that some players do not keep track of their inventory in a fashion which is clearly and easily audited, and the new ITS requirement is aimed at these folks. But why impose an additional requirement on all the other folks who already maintain healthy records? Would a requirement in the Guide to have "all players maintain clear and organised inventory records in a manner which is easily audited" suffice? Some have commented that it doesn't take very much time to fill out an ITS "X minutes for a level Y PC" etc. But this is an ongoing mandatory requirement per PC, per scenario/module. All that additional time adds up to hours, and to save, what? 4 minutes during an audit that may not happen all? Please ask yourself these questions before making the ITS requirement "live" How does this additional ITS requirement make the game more fun? And why does the solution for what should be a little problem lead to increasing the workload on ALL the players? Is PFS about having fun or filling out forms forms and more forms? If not, why add one more now?
On the same topic, do the following apply to dayjob rolls? 1) +10 competence bonus to skill check from Natural Divination "Natural Divination (Ex): ... Alternatively, by observing and interpreting the flights of birds, you may apply a +10 competence bonus on any one skill check. ..." 2) +4 morale bonus from the Legalistic oracle curse "once per day, you can make a vow to yourself that grants a +4 morale bonus on any one roll you make while trying to fulfill a promise made to another individual." Thanks in advance! |
