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How does the shaman cast Shield (a self-only spell) on the kitsune?I suspect it was shield of faith given shield isn't on the shaman list.
neither is Shield of Faith on the Shaman spell list, unless i opt for the Human's FCB and grab it.
But the gm let it slide as my Shaman was in no way a Melee character, nor was she going to take on this baddie that had pretty much felled her party.Tis why i opted to run with her Touch of the Grave ability to inflict the last bit of damage.
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21...dm shows up anf starts off with, how well are you faniliar with the rules for raise dead?Goes hand-in-hand with "I hope everyone has 16PP handy."
Yes that is one of my favorite Adele albums too
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"So who are you, what do you look like, and what are you doing as you travel throught he desert?" (one of our stock "getting to know the party montages)
"Human. Average.
"... where are you from. How are you dressed?
"Human. Average.
Sigh, alright, next player (who wasn't paying attention at all)
"... where are you from. How are you dressed?
"Human. Average.
*headdeskheadesk*
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I am in the desert, riding my horse with no name."So who are you, what do you look like, and what are you doing as you travel throught he desert?" (one of our stock "getting to know the party montages)
"Human. Average.
"... where are you from. How are you dressed?
"Human. Average.
Sigh, alright, next player (who wasn't paying attention at all)
"... where are you from. How are you dressed?
"Human. Average.
*headdeskheadesk*
I bet it feels good to be out of the rain.
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At least until the desert turns to sea. Then you're back to the same old problem.
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I bet it feels good to be out of the rain.I am in the desert, riding my horse with no name."So who are you, what do you look like, and what are you doing as you travel throught he desert?" (one of our stock "getting to know the party montages)
"Human. Average.
"... where are you from. How are you dressed?
"Human. Average.
Sigh, alright, next player (who wasn't paying attention at all)
"... where are you from. How are you dressed?
"Human. Average.
*headdeskheadesk*
In the desert, you can't remember your name.
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How does the shaman cast Shield (a self-only spell) on the kitsune?I suspect it was shield of faith given shield isn't on the shaman list.
2000gp item? Cracked Purple Prism Ioun Stone. There is always a way.
http://archivesofnethys.com/MagicWondrousDisplay.aspx?FinalName=Ioun%20Ston e%20Vibrant%20Purple%20Prism
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"Human. Average.
At least you know they are playing a human...Was about half way through last session when I learned that our non-social horsechopper wielding barbarian was actually a half-orc. His roleplaying was fine, but neither the player nor his miniture would lead people to assume his character was a half-orc.
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I've had way too many sessions where we didn't do character intros at the start of the session. As a GM, I always ask the players to introduce their PCs. As a player, I try to suggest it if the GM doesn't, but it doesn't always happen. It just amazes me that I have to. Almost nobody around here besides myself think of it if I don't bring it up.
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I've had way too many sessions where we didn't do character intros at the start of the session. As a GM, I always ask the players to introduce their PCs. As a player, I try to suggest it if the GM doesn't, but it doesn't always happen. It just amazes me that I have to. Almost nobody around here besides myself think of it if I don't bring it up.
You and me, both, Fromper. I love that part, on either side of the screen!
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You know you're in trouble when...
"Okay, character introductions. I'm playing my necromancer."
*Player 2 introduces himself.*
*Player 3 introduces himself.*
"Let's pick a pregen we've never picked before. Let's try the Inquisitor."
"Huh, she's actually pretty sweet."
"Who's she an Inquisitor of?"
"Pharasma."
*Necromancer starts to get shifty.*
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I know I'd be intimidated a bit having the OPC at my table. Especially when they're awesome -- I'd be terrified of messing something up.
Meh - I've messed up in front of the OPC before. She takes it well. Most people who've been playing PFS for a while know that no one's going to be perfect and that we're all going to have lapses in the rules occasionally. I'm actually more worried about running for a group of random people I've never met than I am for big names in PFS.
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You know you're in trouble when...
"Okay, character introductions. I'm playing my necromancer."
*Player 2 introduces himself.*
*Player 3 introduces himself.*
"Let's pick a pregen we've never picked before. Let's try the Inquisitor."
"Huh, she's actually pretty sweet."
"Who's she an Inquisitor of?"
"Pharasma."
*Necromancer starts to get shifty.*
Which still may be better than what character they were choosing to play. Some PCs through game play or design have stuff that keeps them from accepting other view points.
If someone put a diablist at a table with my Tanglebriar Demonslayer I'd be highly tempted to do the same thing even if it was pick up Seelah for party balance, she has a more "I don't like it but I can live with it" viewpoint -- ala some of the reasoning in Hellknight novel.
Regional Venture-Coordinator, Appalachia
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"So who are you, what do you look like, and what are you doing as you travel throught he desert?" (one of our stock "getting to know the party montages)
"Human. Average.
"... where are you from. How are you dressed?
"Human. Average.
Sigh, alright, next player (who wasn't paying attention at all)
"... where are you from. How are you dressed?
"Human. Average.
*headdeskheadesk*
Probably my most embarassing con experience was going to origins with one of my old D&D buddies and having him go basically just read his sheet. The GM tried to draw actual character details out of him only to be rebuffed by "uhh, he has a sword and is uhh knowledge: the planes"
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Probably my most embarassing con experience was going to origins with one of my old D&D buddies and having him go basically just read his sheet. The GM tried to draw actual character details out of him only to be rebuffed by "uhh, he has a sword and is uhh knowledge: the planes"
Equally embarrassing is when the GM prods the party to introduce themselves to the other party members, give a brief little bit of character and roleplay, and you're the only one at the table that's actually... roleplayed the character you're introducing, and everyone else does the "Um.. *insert Race/Class/Level Here*" thing.
Double points if as a result the GM keeps looking to your character for role-play opportunities (and impart information) even if your character is dumber than a bulging sack of rocks...
EDIT: Triple points if you were out drinking the night before and got less than three hours of sleep to recover from that...
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I've had more than one GM Baby that I realized I had no idea how I wanted to play when the GM had introduction done.
A couple real deer in the headlights moments but I have gotten a few gems out of the improv (a certain bard of mine calls himself THE LION OF SOUTH TALDOR because I had not actually decided what to do with him and then just randomly decided he looked like a LION and that's why he believed he was nobility with no proof.)
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"So the train wasn't running so I had to take another train via a different train, just like everyone else who had to reroute. And because the train system was out of whack they had only half the train, so it was basically sardines in a can."
"So who are you playing today?"
*picks up pawn of orc with ridiculous orcish double axe*
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Sun. Morning GenCon
GM "Hi, I'm a 4 star GM and this is my 8th time Gming this con, but only the 3rd time this scenario - at least 1 one of those groups didn't TPK"
Seconds later
GM "Alright, I need to know if anybody has Evasion, (thing no one at table knows about), (thing on one at the table knows about), (thing no one at the table knows about), basically anything that's always on and might help your PCs survive."
A couple of hours later as the party is getting mauled in "easy encounter"
GM (with dawning horror) "Wait how long have you been playing Pathfinder?"
Player 1 "Two months"
Player 2 "The same"
Player 3 Mute, dazed stare
Player 4 (hiding on floor under table)"Meep"
Player 5 "I started here at GenCon on Thurs. night"
Player 6 No answer stares off into the distance
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"So the train wasn't running so I had to take another train via a different train, just like everyone else who had to reroute. And because the train system was out of whack they had only half the train, so it was basically sardines in a can."
"So who are you playing today?"
*picks up pawn of orc with ridiculous orcish double axe*
Sorry Lau!
Ditto. Its wands or busts at least half the time at 7+Hah, yeah, I mean, I think it's at least 80% of the time here. There's no need for clerics when you have enough damage, or enough cool magic. Just takes a long time to heal up out of combat.
If you can't do top tier damage and heal everyone simutaneously you're doing it wrong.
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Sorry Lau!"So the train wasn't running so I had to take another train via a different train, just like everyone else who had to reroute. And because the train system was out of whack they had only half the train, so it was basically sardines in a can."
"So who are you playing today?"
*picks up pawn of orc with ridiculous orcish double axe*
Not your fault. The character worked slightly better than I'd anticipated actually. The d8 damage dice mattered more than I expected.
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Sun. Morning GenCon
GM "Hi, I'm a 4 star GM and this is my 8th time Gming this con, but only the 3rd time this scenario - at least 1 one of those groups didn't TPK"
Seconds later
GM "Alright, I need to know if anybody has Evasion, (thing no one at table knows about), (thing on one at the table knows about), (thing no one at the table knows about), basically anything that's always on and might help your PCs survive."
A couple of hours later as the party is getting mauled in "easy encounter"
GM (with dawning horror) "Wait how long have you been playing Pathfinder?"
Player 1 "Two months"
Player 2 "The same"
Player 3 Mute, dazed stare
Player 4 (hiding on floor under table)"Meep"
Player 5 "I started here at GenCon on Thurs. night"
Player 6 No answer stares off into the distance
Saturday Mornng, GenCOn
GM: ZZZZZzzzzZZZZzzz
Player 1: Hi, this(player 2) is my son. This is our second game but a friend helped us build these characters last night.
Player 2: I can't wait to get started.
GM: *wakes up* I haven't ran this one before but I prepped it last night.
Player 3: *sigh*
GM: I'm just going to let you all do whatever and just go along with it. That's my GM style.
Players 1&2: Ok, cool!
Player 3: *sigh* Whatever
Player 4:(me) *growls and mummbles under breath*
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When you sit down with John Compton and realize you suddenly aren't 100% sure you interpreted a rule correctly during your character creation.I would love the opportunity to sit at a table with John or any of the Paizo leadership.
This reminds me of a funny, true story from a few years ago.
Back when Mike Brock was the campaign coordinator for PFS, he showed up to a convention that I was attending with my former regular group. We did one of the big, multi-table specials at that con, with maybe 15-20 tables, and the highest level group would get to play with Mike as their table GM.
Our group had actually split up when a couple of us (including me) had moved away from the area, and this was sort of a reunion thing for us nearly a year later. So we decided for the big interactive special, which had a level 12+ sub-tier, we would reunite our level 13/14 PCs that had gone all the way from level 1 through Eyes of the Ten together.
Just one problem: One of my friends had a paladin of Aroden. She had gotten that PC all the way to level 13 and past Eyes of the Ten before Paizo added the rule that paladins are required to have a legal deity in PFS. So the character had been legal until that rules change, but was now illegal. And that was such an essential part of the character's personality that she didn't want to change it, even after I pointed out the problem.
So our group decided that playing with Mike Brock would be a bad idea, since he'd shoot down her illegal character and force her to change it. So even though we were the highest level group (some of them had played a module to hit level 14 after the group broke up, so my level 13 was actually the low level guy), we told the coordinator that we wanted to play with our friend at the second table as our GM, just to avoid Mike Brock.