The bluedove's perch

[Otiophon]

Hi All, I'll be on a short vacation to the coast this Wednesday through Friday and will have less computer access, so feel free to GMPC me if I hold things up.

[bluedove]

My apologies for the slowness. I may resort to very abbreviated posts to get back up to speed. Seems like every time I carve out some time to work, the paizo boards are no-go. >_<

Thanks for your patience!

[Shifty]

Thursday night here, Friday afternoon I will be going away for the weekend and there will be little to no internet access.... I'll run with none if last time was any indication, except under this one particular tree. Maybe the tree still works.

[Shifty]

Ok guys I'm off, back in a couple of days!

[Shifty]

Friday night here. Saturday morning I am heading up into the mountains for a lovely stroll and the local Hippy festival - back Sunday afternoon!

[Grimaldus]

Nice! Bang some bongos or strum a guitar and think of us killing things =)

[Li Shuo]

Sorry for the lack of posts. #2 baby and mother still in hospital and doing fine, but #1 baby has a viral infection and dad (me) has another, unrelated viral infection that leaves me exhausted. It's been a tough few days. I'll be back soon.

[Maedhros Nargothrond]

Bluedove, did you already send out chronicles?

[bluedove]

I'm sorry, I have not yet! I'm still getting 2 of the groups through the final combat and once I have everyone finished and reported, I will get to the chronicles. I may scan a handwritten one to save on time.

I will go ahead and tell you that the only item it will feature is a
wand of detect secret doors - 5 charges for 75gp.
Gold for tier 1-2 = 506 and tier 3-4 = 1279.

I promise I will get these wrapped up before the end of the gameday event, and my apologies again for the delays. Once I have the chronicles out, I will need a 2 week break before resuming with part 4 to get my laptop repaired.

[bluedove]

Oh, and it's a good time to make your boon rolls and day job rolls if you have them. I will roll a block of boon rolls for anyone who has gone MIA at the end, and you can opt to be included in that if you prefer.

['Hellion' Svetlana Irriseni]

BOON 1d20 ⇒ 20
Job 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (10) + 3 = 13 (Professional 'sports entertainer')

Huzzah!

Boon 3 weapon training please.

[Frindlikh Ardig]

boon roll: 1d20 ⇒ 4
Day Job, Craft Weapon: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (15) + 6 = 21
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The player behind Mujenbai has gone strangely missing from my games, and shifty's as well. Only clue is a message reporting a missing passport in Paris (he's in the UK normally). Let's hope he's well.

Shifty: kudos on picking up that Library game! (and was it Tektike that picked up the other one?)

[Shifty]

No worries, they were so close it seemed wrong not to. I was losing sleep on their behalf…

And Tektite grabbed the other table and sorted them out.

[Selter Sago de'Morcaine PFS]

Selter doesn't yet have a day job.
Not sure what you mean by a boon roll but it looks like the others are making a d20 roll. So...
boon: 1d20 ⇒ 3

[Jorag]

Ditto on Boon, but rollin'!

Boon, boon, boon, boon, I want you in my room...: 1d20 ⇒ 2

Well...Last three rolls have been 4, 3, 2

If the next one is a 1, Im blaming Illuminati!

[Grimaldus]

boonie!: 1d20 ⇒ 4

Day job rolled in gameplay thread...

["Ka"]

Boooooon!: 1d20 ⇒ 7 The most powerful mystic number!!

[Tanselle Bashir]

Boon: 1d20 ⇒ 3

Tanselle's day job roll is in gameplay thread.

[Walter das Sombras]

Is anyone else unable to change avatar pictures right now?

[Maedhros Nargothrond]

day job, boon: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (7) + 9 = 161d20 ⇒ 7

[Marco Vail]

No day job.
Boon: 1d20 ⇒ 12

[Tresca Versei]

Day job time!
Craft- Alchemy: 1d20 + 4 + 2 + 3 + 5 ⇒ (11) + 4 + 2 + 3 + 5 = 25
(INT +2 rank, +3 (class skill), +5 (crafter's fortune extract))

I'm not sure I know what a boon roll is, but rolling one because peer pressure!
Boon-tastic: 1d20 ⇒ 10

[Odo the Bold]

I'm not sure what exactly the boon roll is for off the top of my head but I'm game to toss a d20.

Boon roll: 1d20 ⇒ 16

[Li Shuo]

Booooooon!: 1d20 ⇒ 15

[Otiophon]

Spooooooooon!: 1d20 ⇒ 16
The Tick's battle cry, but also my boon roll.

[Frindlikh Ardig]

Not in the face! Not in the face!

[Kurse]

Kurse will pop and lock to improve his boon chance.

Perform dance: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (16) + 5 = 21

Looking good now for the boon.

boon: 1d20 ⇒ 15

He'll just take the pop and lock money.
Though the avatar is perfectly looking at that boon roll in shock and disappointment.

[bluedove]

Boon Roll for Marla: 1d20 ⇒ 15
Boon Roll for Mujenbai: 1d20 ⇒ 13
Boon Roll for GM: 1d20 ⇒ 1 Random Selection: 1d4 ⇒ 1

Day Job Roll for Marla: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11

Ok, I am reporting today and just realized I don't have email addresses for my new players, "Ka" and Maedhros. Also if you want your player name filled in, let me know what you'd like there, otherwise I have to put in "Anonymous" if I haven't gleaned at least your first name by now.

[bluedove]

Ok, have reported Gamma and Alpha sessions, still need emails from my 2 new Betas, but I have confirmed the reporting deadline is NOT today, it is the 9th. ^_^

[Otiophon]

Thanks for another great game, by the way! :-) I realize that I've probably been remiss in saying so.

[Li Shuo]

Thanks, Bluedove!

[DM Kludde]

Many thanks! Great effort juggling three tables!

[bluedove]

Forgot Mujenbai's Trapper Day Job: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 6 = 13

I was sorry to hear he dropped all over, hope he is alright.

And yes, the new tunnel is just a lead in for part 4. The text even says:
"The tunnel system is beyond the scope of this scenario and finding it now does nothing to prevent the plot of Rules of the Swift." (Part 4)

Churning out Chronicles now, hopefully get them all emailed out tomorrow. I will get the word out when I'm ready to start Part 4, still waiting on repairs.

[Kurse]

Thanks for running, looking forward to part 4. I think it is the best out of the series.

[Shifty]

Cheers BD.
Glad it doesn't start today, horribly hung over from the ball last night.

[Jorag]

What everyone else said, thanks for running :)

Im surprised noone has yet elaborated on what Boons are.

[Shifty]

here - all you need to know :)

[Jorag]

Eeh, im not even gonna note mine. Sounds like its 5 prestige for a +1 to charisma skill checks and a one use only bonus against demons....

Bleh.

Thanks for the link though.

EDIT: Wait, there are only four total? So you need a 1 or a 20 to actually get anything?

[Kurse]

There are four different boons to choose from. The VO's have copies for anyone that rolls a 20 to get their choice, or a 1 for a random one.

[bluedove]

Huzzah! Chronicles are completed and emailed out. No one make fun of my handwriting or my pink post-its! =P

And yes, the boon rolls were mostly for naught here, but as I understand it, all reported players will be entered for a digital boon drawing as well, so it's still a possibility. ^_^

Now here's a question... since we used a special Gameday reporting tool, do we also report the games here on the Paizo site? Or would that cause a double record once the VO's process the gameday sessions?

[Jorag]

What annoys me about boons is, from what I can tell, its a small chance to get something that doesnt do much at all. Seems a bit pointless, like getting socks for christmas.

[DM Kludde]

That would cause a double record. Just report the game in the reporting tool, and the online VO's will do the reporting on the paizo site (and yes, they're entering 130+ games by hand, it seems - remind me to buy them a drink when I see them)

[Kurse]

Jorag wrote:

What annoys me about boons is, from what I can tell, its a small chance to get something that doesnt do much at all. Seems a bit pointless, like getting socks for christmas.

The really good ones like the race boons go to the GMs.

[Otiophon]

Jorag wrote:

What annoys me about boons is, from what I can tell, its a small chance to get something that doesnt do much at all. Seems a bit pointless, like getting socks for christmas.

Yeah, the boons were pretty insignificant and not very interesting. The GM boon is to get to play an oread, like last time's boon to get to play an ifrit, which doesn't do me any good as I have zero interest in either race.

["Ka"]

Sheet received. It looks alright! Thanks for running dove!

I'll return when you want to start the next part. Has anyone else find the challenge to be too easy?

[Maedhros Nargothrond]

Thanks, Bluedove, I got my chronicle. Ka, the earlier seasons, especially 0, 1, and 2, are often easier than most of the later seasons because they were balanced for parties of 4 instead of 6.

[Otiophon]

Mostly as Maedhros said, plus the common opinion that later classes are potentially more powerful (alchemist, summoner), and more optimized builds are available with the explosion of feats and traits.

We had a fair amount of difficulty with the spiders and derro, IMO - not mortal, but still tough, even with a fair amount of prep for swarms. Those ACs are hard still hard to hit!

A character could have easily been lost in the last combat with a Hold Person and then a skeleton potentially performing a CDG with no one able to prevent it, based on the narrow layout (if skeletons are smart enough to do so). We were lucky in that the first person through was a tiefling, and so not vulnerable to Hold Person spells.

[Jorag]

hehe, Jamie, your signature gave me a good little laugh. To be clear, my own signature looks like im 8. With that said, the way it goes from classy and proper in your first name to "weeh" in your last name is funny to me :)

[Shifty]

I've had some great player boons.

Extra races, treasure maps etc.

Also note, they are tradeable, if you don't want them I am sure we can rehome them fairly quickly for you :)

["Ka"]

Well, I didn't got a 20, nor a 1, so I'll just withdraw to my little void of cheerlessness for now ^_^