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Hi,
Prepare for a somewhat rambling but I think needed post about the first special to be run in Perth , Western Australia.
For a bit of background. Callum Prior is the Venture Captain of the Perth branch of the PFS. Hes constantly working on expanding Pathfinder in our state /city and managed to get us a location at Good Games ( a great store with a lot of game space on a Sunday).
We like many groups have struggled somewhat with people signing up but not turning up and for a while it looked like we might struggle to get enough players for tables (in the end we had 27/30 sign up).
I started playing in August of Last year and started to run games back in January. I must admit I prefer running to playing. We have a pretty good local core of GM's and those spots were filled (so I got to play)
I had played in the previous special in Melbourne earlier this year. If I'm brutally honest I cant say it was my favorite scenario at Arcanacon and in looking back... it felt very similar to Diamond City in the city under siege feel/city under attack.
I decided to run with Nesim, my Qadiran Paladin of Neshen who had just made 3 (at the 3/4). He's not an optimised character ( I struggled to build them) and I was a little concerned (Years ago at a different special, a long time player who I had known commented that you should always try and have a character in the top of a tier or if you are just between play down.. they could be deadly). In hindsight I probably would of been better of running a different character.
Callum was walking around giving us updates on the fate of Neroysan and it appeared our table wasnt doing too badly. That is of course until a later act where we came up against a strange Minotaur Demon on the battlements. The resource push and drain wasnt too bad, we had at least 3 characters capable of using CLW. None of us could handle a Large Greataxe though. A Nasty weapon at any tier , my Paladin was Crit'd then had 3 6's roll on the first of 3 rolls. He was dead right there (ended up going from 28 to -29 in a round.
As luck (or bad luck had it) I had the only character die in the special. As Im sure anyone who reads this feels .. a little sad/ bitter to lose a character ( as a fresh level 3 he was never gonna have the prestige to come back). However he went out fighting Demons which is how it was probably always gonna go. Ive moved on (and he was mostly a gm credit character). Sadly it's pushed me to more optimised version.
Enough about me. The Special. The other tables (of which were mostly Tier 1-2) were going well. We had a lot of new players who seemed to enjoy themselves and will hopefully come back for more. Callum ran it well, the gms knew their business and everyone got a very slick Chronicle sheet.
In Essence this is just me saying a big long thankyou to Callum for the event, to Jason for killing my character (thanks :) ) and to all the other players for a great table.
Lets just not do it on Fathers Day next time! :)
