Hey gang, hopefully you know how this works. Post here with the following:
Player Name:
Character Name:
Character Number:
Level:
Slotted Faction:
Downtime:
In addition, please include your AC, HP, and saving throw modifiers in your header, in whatever format most pleases you. I'll default to using your character's avatar for battle maps, but if you have a preferred image, link that in your post as well.
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Hello, and glad to be here! My profile is almost entirely complete, I just need to buy armor.
Player Name: Crunch
Character Name: Kazikli
Character Number: 150618-2006
Level: 2
Slotted Faction: Verdant Wheel
Downtime:
Trigger: You would fail (but don’t critically fail) a Reflex save to avoid a trap’s effects
Effect: You Step and then Drop Prone in your new location. You gain a +2 circumstance bonus to your triggering Reflex save. If this would have been enough to resist the trap’s effects initially, you succeed at the save instead.
▫ ▫ ▫ One-Who-Waits Your trials in the burgeoning monastery of Unforgiving Fire have given you an edge in overcoming physical challenges. Whenever you roll a critical failure on an Acrobatics or Athletics check, you can check a box next to this boon as a free action to get a failure instead (the GM can tell you if this wouldn’t change the outcome of the check so you do not waste this ability).
▫ ▫ ▫ Traveler of the Spirit Road You have traveled the pathways near the Forest of Spirits and not only managed to avoid losing your way, but even befriended some of the local kami. The kami’s blessing follows you now and protects you from bad luck. Whenever you would critically fail a check to Hide, Sneak, Sense Direction, or Track while in a forested area, you may check a box next to this boon as a free action to treat that check as a failure instead.
I've just added a gameplay thread, please dot and delete.
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Player Name: DoubleGold
Character Name: Zac Freelan 2
Character Number: 135675-2001
Level: 2
Slotted Faction: Horizon Hunters
Downtime:
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Hi, just swapping in from the other table.
Player Name: B Viggers
Character Name: Teja Khellekdottir
Character Number: 100387-2001
Level: 2
Slotted Faction: Grand Archive
Downtime: 22 (https://paizo.com/campaigns/v5748p75ivl14/discussion#2 - Note downtime boon - level 3 task (5sp)
Lastwall debt[b] (diplomacy or religion at 4+ level; no boxes ticked; can recall knowledge(undead) without ticking a box)
[b]Sandslide (3 uses):[b] You would fail (but don’t critically fail) a reflex save to avoid a trap. Step and drop prone in new location. +2 circumstance bonus to triggering reflex. If that would make a difference,you made the save
[b]Engraved Wayinder (Slotless): To celebrate your success as a Pathinder agent, Janira gave you a compass lid engraved with your name and a Glyph of the Open Road, symbol of the Pathinder Society. You can attach this lid to any compass, including a wayinder, to personalize it
Society Connections (Downtime): Your connections with leaders within the Pathinder Society help you ind opportunities, both new missions and support for your other endeavors. Check the box that precedes this boon when you Earn Income during Downtime to attempt a task of level 3. If you critically fail the check, you still earn the result of a failure for that task. (one unchecked box - using this time)
Cryptid Scholar (Untyped Boon): Your experiences with the Mosquito Witch have inspired you to research strange creatures. When you Recall Knowledge to identify a rare or unique creature, you can use the following reaction:
[reaction] (fortune) Uses 3 □□□ Trigger You attempt to Recall Knowledge to identify a creature you can see; Effect You roll the skill check twice and use the better result.
Trained in all skills.
Your bonuses for any of the following that you're at least trained in: Perception +6, Arcana +7, Deception +6, Lore (academia & PF society) +7, Medicine +4, Nature +4, Occultism +9, Religion +4, Society +7, Stealth +7 and Thievery +7, with any special modifiers you have to certain uses of that skill included.
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Player Name: Watery Soup
Character Name: Emdi Emmay
Character Number: 2358909-2002
Level: 2
Slotted Faction: Radiant Oath
Downtime: Raves! You guys gotta check out my underground rave! It's gonna be sick! Meet up by the docks, and someone will lead you to where the rave will be. Oh, yeah, I guess I have to roll or something.
It's gonna be sick!
[ ] [ ] [ ] 1-06 Lost on the Spirit Road (GM) (Traveler of the Spirit Road): Whenever you would critically fail a check to Hide, Sneak, Sense Direction, or Track while in a forested area, you may check a box next to this boon as a free action to treat that check as a failure instead.
[ ] 1-01 The Absalom Initiation (Society Connections): Check the box that precedes this boon when you Earn Income during Downtime to attempt a task of level 1. If you critically fail the check, you still earn the result of a failure for that task.
[dice=Emdi Perception]1d20+5[/dice
[dice=Emdi Arcana]1d20+0[/dice
[dice=Emdi Deception]1d20+2[/dice
[dice=Emdi Shadow Plane Lore]1d20+4[/dice
[dice=Emdi Medicine]1d20+5[/dice
[dice=Emdi Nature]1d20+1[/dice
[dice=Emdi Occultism]1d20+4[/dice
[dice=Emdi Religion]1d20+5[/dice
[dice=Emdi Society]1d20+0[/dice
[dice=Emdi Stealth]1d20+8[/dice
[dice=Emdi Thievery]1d20+4[/dice
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Player: pjrogers
Character: Bubba Payne
PFS: 226993-2002
Level: 1
Faction: Horizon Hunters
Earn Income (12 days due to Field Commission):
No boons to slot.
I went back and forth on which character to bring - Bubba here or my 3rd level monk. What sealed the deal was
(1) seeing Emdi who Bubba just adventured with (I imagine they stagger in together, both very hung over).
(2) and also seeing Silberg as one of the players, who as a GM ran Siege of the Diamond City for Bubba's big half-sister Candi.
Putting a note for myself that we're playing low tier with 6 player adjustment and a level bump.
Putting a note for myself that we're playing low tier with 6 player adjustment and a level bump.Should we be applying this level bump to our PCs? I'm still getting the hang of 2e so I'm not totally clear on all of its elements
No, the level bump is to the adventure. Basically every PFS2 adventure is balanced for 4 people of the lowest level of the subtier (so 4 level 1s in the 1-2 and 4 level 3s in the 3-4). If there are more than that or they're higher level, then I make adjustments accordingly.
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But every once in a while, I like to pull out my harmonica, play a few chords, and see if anyone joins in my makeshift improv quartet that is ...
... MEANWHILE.
Sure thing Kazikli, there's a lot to keep track of. Bubba, thanks for the heads up.
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No, the level bump is to the adventure. Basically every PFS2 adventure is balanced for 4 people of the lowest level of the subtier (so 4 level 1s in the 1-2 and 4 level 3s in the 3-4). If there are more than that or they're higher level, then I make adjustments accordingly.Putting a note for myself that we're playing low tier with 6 player adjustment and a level bump.Should we be applying this level bump to our PCs? I'm still getting the hang of 2e so I'm not totally clear on all of its elements
Just checking on something... I thought that this scenario was supposed to have scaling built in... not using the Guide versions. I seem to remember this was supposed to have the newer mechanics.
If so, then the scenario should not be getting a level bump.
You are absolutely correct about that Heyou. I've not been especially active in PFS this season until recently, so I misunderstood that. That did make your last fights slightly harder (I believe one hit that should have been a crit, and one miss that should have been a hit), so as my apology I'm awarding every PC a hero point.
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You are absolutely correct about that Heyou. I've not been especially active in PFS this season until recently, so I misunderstood that. That did make your last fights slightly harder (I believe one hit that should have been a crit, and one miss that should have been a hit), so as my apology I'm awarding every PC a hero point.
Thank you.
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I was poking around and I found a build guide to the champion. I started reading it and I laugh-cried because it's very clear the author didn't like ranged champions.
I looked at the author - "FedoraFerret." Wait, that name sounds familiar ... isn't that ... Emdi's current GM? LOL
Noyce.
Truth be told, I agree with you. But whatever, Emdi was created in my mind before the CRB came out and he's gonna be an archer from Nidal, dammit, even if he kind of sucks at the one thing his class was designed for.
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I was poking around and I found a build guide to the champion. I started reading it and I laugh-cried because it's very clear the author didn't like ranged champions.
I looked at the author - "FedoraFerret." Wait, that name sounds familiar ... isn't that ... Emdi's current GM? LOL
Noyce.
Truth be told, I agree with you. But whatever, Emdi was created in my mind before the CRB came out and he's gonna be an archer from Nidal, dammit, even if he kind of sucks at the one thing his class was designed for.
Maybe consider a ranger dedication archetype, which might help some?
And play what you want. Every character doesn’t have to be optimized.
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I was poking around and I found a build guide to the champion. I started reading it and I laugh-cried because it's very clear the author didn't like ranged champions.
I looked at the author - "FedoraFerret." Wait, that name sounds familiar ... isn't that ... Emdi's current GM? LOL
Noyce.
Truth be told, I agree with you. But whatever, Emdi was created in my mind before the CRB came out and he's gonna be an archer from Nidal, dammit, even if he kind of sucks at the one thing his class was designed for.
Maybe consider a ranger dedication archetype, which might help some?
And play what you want. Every character doesn’t have to be optimized.
Hear! Hear! Bubba is trying to be a skald-like melee bard, which is probably suboptimum in PF2e.
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Of course, this is coming from someone who is playing a sub-optimal chirurgeon alchemist... in almost every way, bombers are statistically better*. But this made more sense for the character I wanted to play.
* including not having to do splash to anyone but your target, and getting more books per reagent.
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Every character doesn’t have to be optimized.
In my case, NONE of my characters are optimized. XD
I have a bomber alchemist, that everyone says sucks (I wouldn't say she sucks, but I definitely understand the sentiment). Stuck at 2d6 damage for the next 8 levels! Yay!
There's Emdi, created backstory-first - the Uskwood showed up in one of my homebrew campaigns and I joked that we should hold a rave there, and then when PF2 allowed NG champions I immediately merged my idea of playing a raver of Shelyn with my idea of playing an archer kicked out of the military. Oh, there's no Divine Ally for archers? Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!
Then there's a divine sorcerer, created in response to something someone said to me at a convention when I lamented the fact that the entire party was relying on my 14 CHA to single-handedly pull throuvh every social encounter - "you can create a viable character with all combat skills and no social skills but you can't create a viable character with no combat skills and all social skills." Challenge accepted! Divine sorcerer who wears Fine Clothes as her primary armor.
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No one really gets much more than 2 dice of damage until much higher levels, so I wouldn't sweat it.
Still, I really like Heyou!, so I won't be changing him except as he organically progresses. Hoping a little that there will be some better options coming for Chirurgeons, but I won't sweat it if there are not.
Will likely be focusing more on getting his craft skill up to expert/master, so that he can heal better, as well as craft better.
Also hoping the debate over the verbiage of treat wounds and how it interacts when other skills are replaced gets cleared up (don't expect it to, though).
I was poking around and I found a build guide to the champion. I started reading it and I laugh-cried because it's very clear the author didn't like ranged champions.
I looked at the author - "FedoraFerret." Wait, that name sounds familiar ... isn't that ... Emdi's current GM? LOL
Noyce.
Truth be told, I agree with you. But whatever, Emdi was created in my mind before the CRB came out and he's gonna be an archer from Nidal, dammit, even if he kind of sucks at the one thing his class was designed for.
Hah. Yeah, I feel you. My guides are written with optimization in mind because that's generally what people are looking for with guides, and a lot of my frustration with ranged champions is just the lack of options despite me and many others shouting from the rooftops during the playtest that they would be nice to have, please. There's nothing wrong with throwing optimization to the wind in the name of character though, I've done that multiple times.
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GM, I think when you reported the game early, you did it as 1-03 Escaping the Grave. Does anyone else see this or is it 1-04 over there?
Edit: I'd like to change what I'm doing with my Downtime. I'm going to spend 7 days retraining my Champion Dedication for Magic Warrior Dedication. Seems equally thematic in a different way and I want to try natural attacks with Kazikli. That'll leave me 1 day of Earn Income for 5 copper.
Whoops, my mistake. I'll email them and have that fixed ASAP.
Once again, thank you guys for playing. Please let me know if there are any problems with your chronicles, I'm not well versed in GMing PFS2 just yet and particularly not over PbP. If there aren't any problems, let me know when you've gotten your sheet.
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Looks great, thanks!
Emdi invites everyone to an underground rave. "It's gonna be sick! Meet at the docks - we're still looking for a place to hold it, but it'll probably be in the sewers somewhere with good acoustics. Prep dancing lights if you have it. I'll send someone to the docks to lead you to the final location."