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What is Living Pathfinder?
Its a growing community of players and DMs who all create characters and run PBP adventures using the same set of rules. Characters can and do switch between adventures with various DMs, each adventure has a judge in place both to impartially settle any rules quibbling - has not been an issue yet - and to take over as DM should the DM be unable to continue for whatever reason. All of this should ensure that you can always get a game for your character and continue advancing.
What sources are allowed?
Core Rulebook, the APG, and The Adventurer's Armory, with the majority of the playable bestiary races available. Item crafting is banned - though you may say you crafted purchased items for RP reasons - characters will likely have slightly over average wealth per level as a rule.
What are the Character Creation rules?
Abilities are generated with 20 point buy, each character gets 2 traits, and begins with 150gp to spend.
How do I sign up?
Come along and check out the Living Pathfinder Wiki, there is a more comprehensive introduction there. We play on EnWorld so you will need to sign up there - its free and easy.
The wiki gives character creation information, tells you about the world we play in - which you are encouraged to contribute to, tells you how to submit adventure proposals as a DM, and allows you to have a nosey at existing characters.
How big is the community currently?
There are 61 existing characters, the vast majority of these are in games - 2 were created recently and are in the process of being approved - with at least four adventures currently in the approval process. We have recently had a healthy influx of DMs - or folks stepping up - though we are always looking for more!
How long has the community been going?
A few months there have already been several successfully completed adventures, and there are a number of 2nd level characters.
What Experience progression is used?
Very Fast, which is to say we use the fast progression, but also award XP - and gold - for time served. A 1st level character earns 7xp and 6gp per day, and this scales with level.
Questions?
Hopefully the Living Pathfinder Wiki will be able to answer most questions, if not fire away here and I will try to address them as soon as possible. I will try to answer some of the commoner questions here...
How do I use the various tags on EnWorld?
To put something in a spoiler use [sblock]Blahblahblah.[/sblock]
To put something in a named spoiler [sblock=Actions]Blahblahblahblah.[/sblock]
To use that grey block thing - not a good description - which I put whose up next in, etc. Its Borric is up!
To insert a link - though there is a tool for this in the top of the post box thing - its Potatoes which will show up as Potatoes on the page and be underlined and link colored.
To insert and image I believe its [img]image link[/img], but I always use the button in the tool bar for these - looks like mountains.
How do I use the EnWorld Dice Roller?
The dice roller is fairly simple. Just make your post, look at it and hit the dice roller link in the bottom right hand corner. This should bring you to the dice roller. At the top is a white box into which you type the purpose of the roll, say Sylvain's Initiative. Below this are a number of different dies, find the die you want and type in the number of times you wish to roll that die - so 1d20 for an init roll, or 5d6 for a cl 5 fireball, etc. Scroll down to the top line below the dice this has a box beside it and two selectable "buttons" put your modifier to the dice into the box and then select whether that value is positive or negative using the buttons. So if rolling init simply input your init modifier, then scroll down and hit roll - don't worry about the stuff below its rarely needed.
Important Links:
LPF Social Group sign up to see discussion, world building, and character approvals - if a judge looks your character over they will post any issues here.
The Dunn Wright InnThe recruitment tavern where you can also pop along to RP before you are ready to adventure.
Living Pathfinder WikiFind everything from character sheets, to setting info, to NPCs, etc.
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Yes they are the only sources. We will essentially only be looking at the Paizo big releases, such as the APG, AA, and the Ultimates series when they are released for inclusion not 3rd party material.
Looking forward to seeing what ou come up with! :) My user name is Aldern Foxglove over on EnWorld btw in case you have any questions, etc.
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Well the starting point for adventures is the city of Venza - think fantasy Venice and you won't be far off - a city filled with canals and in part build on islands in the sea interconnected by bridges. Merfolk are amphibious so its only the speed that's a problem, there are a number of ways to deal with this, a barbarian or travel domain cleric gets +10ft. of movement, there is the fleet feat which adds 5ft.
The only Merfolk so far is a barbarian, though I believe he's not yet been approved - he's a second character and players must either have their first character reach 2nd level or have adventured for 2 months before they can have a 2nd character. I think the judges - of which I am one - would speak to a player who wished to run a merfolk before approval and ensure they would not unduly slow a party, etc.
I would assume upping movement will be a priority for any merfolk, and though we are really too low level to have had aquatic adventures as such Venza adventures often have encounters which take place in the water. As Venza is slowly sinking aquatic creatures lairing in the sunken undercity is quite a popular motiff.
I might make my second character a merfolk stormborn sorcerer just for heck of it; if enough people make them, someone might find it worth their time to write an underwater adventure.
