I believe a channel positive energy healed some of the party for 5 points of healing...
Boar's is on ten hit points...
You are entirely correct. I am tracking everyone's hp on a small pad of notes. The pad got full, so when that particular channel went off, I transferred everyone's totals, adding 5 hp. Except I forgot to add 5 to Bear'f. With subsequent healing, Bear'f is now at full hp.
That's perfectly fine. I haven't had a chance to move the initiative order forward yet.
I'm going to run XP the way I run my home game of Rise of the Runelords - that is, each PC earns the same amount of XP over time. It averages out over time as everyone's availability changes and it ensures that everyone progresses at the same speed.
In this first award of XP for a newly created character just for this adventure (Professor and Denge fall into this category for sure), each PC gets 1,263 xp. If you're using a character created for this adventure, apply that normally - you're more than halfway to 2nd level.
If you're using a Pathfinder character adapted for this adventure (I think Rafaelis, Bear'f, and Albern fall into this category), that character's PFS experience and its experience for the purposes of this adventure now diverge. Keep track of the PFS experience separately. You will receive a chronicle sheet you can apply to the PFS-legal version of your character (or another PFS legal character, at your discretion) once you complete the first section of Dragon's Demand.
For the Dragon's Demand version of your adapted PFS PC, you started with the minimum XP necessary for your level, plus 1/3 of the difference between your current level and the next level for every 1 PFS XP your character has (or 1/6 of the difference for every 1/2 PFS XP for a PFS character on slow advancement).
For example, if your adapted PFS character was 2nd level with 4 XP, your characters started with 2,000 xp (minimum for 2nd level at slow advancement) plus 1/3 of 3,000 (the difference between 2nd and 3rd level) or 1,000 XP. In other words, your character started with 3,000 xp and just gained 1,263 more for a total of 4,263 xp.
By this method a character that had 5 PFS XP going into this adventure advances to 3rd level right now.
If there are any questions, please feel free to ask.
Albern is a new character.
I am a bit confused, mostly due to lack of context.
I may have missed some of the prelude but we have (had) the option to use leveled PFS in this adventure, and convert to traditional XP progression? Is that how I am interpreting your statement?
This advancement is independent of PFS character progression from applying chronicle credit?
Also, were the mithral weapons intended to be loaners, or treasure? (seems a little rich for treasure at this level)
Are you using any party die rollers (perception, sense motive, etc.?) If your are, my perception advanced to +6
Albern is a new character.
I am a bit confused, mostly due to lack of context.
I may have missed some of the prelude but we have (had) the option to use leveled PFS in this adventure, and convert to traditional XP progression? Is that how I am interpreting your statement?
This advancement is independent of PFS character progression from applying chronicle credit?
No, my instructions were to start new characters, but I got the impression that some players hadn't. Rather than delay the start, I let them do it. That having happened, I have to account for it somehow. I'm sorry for the confusion it is causing. It just seemed the best decision at the time, and the experience differences were quite minor.
For new characters, it is easy, you have 1,263 xp.
Everyone will get chronicles as the game advances. The first one comes at the end of the first part of Dragon's Demand. We're still in the hook, not even really in the adventure.
Also, were the mithral weapons intended to be loaners, or treasure? (seems a little rich for treasure at this level)
That is something you will have to take up with Mr. Gribb.
Are you using any party die rollers (perception, sense motive, etc.?) If your are, my perception advanced to +6
I'm not sure what a party die roller is. We're on medium advancement, so as a new character, you only have 1,263 xp and are still first level. Unless something else changed, your Perception should still be the same.
I've written this introduction to get you to 2nd level before the body of the adventure starts. Another couple of encounters should safely see you to 2nd level.
OK. So what I understand here is that I started at first level with one PFS adventure under my belt which translates to 667 XP. We just gained 1,263 XP for our feats of derring do for a grand total of 1,930 XP. Oh so close! I need to find a bug to squash or something.
So close! Everyone will probably advance to 2nd level relatively soon. The differences in amounts of experience points should be so low that everyone starts leveling very close to one another.
Sorry, I was having a flatulent cerebellum. 1k is not enough to advance. Pardon my enthusiasm.
By party dice roller, I just mean a set of rolls for our party perception, initiative, sense motive; anything a gm might desire.
For instance:
My game
Sorry, I was having a flatulent cerebellum. 1k is not enough to advance. Pardon my enthusiasm.
By party dice roller, I just mean a set of rolls for our party perception, initiative, sense motive; anything a gm might desire.
For instance:
My game
No problem! I'm glad your enthusiastic!
Thank you for the dice roller link. I will definitely do that. I've just been keeping it in a random Word document so far.
I'm using a PFS PC that is already second and I believe I'm reading your post correctly now 3rd (as he has 5xp)...
I'll send you through a new .por tonight when I get in from work...
This is my first play by post game and I'm enjoying it...
I'm very glad you're enjoying it!
There's no rush, I assume you'll be interacting with the halflings and Mr. Gribb for another day or two here in real life before we get down to anything that will depend on level-based stuff.
Oh, can I donate my reroll to one of the dogs? At this level, it's more fun to live by the seat of your pants anyways :)
Oh, can I donate my reroll to one of the dogs? At this level, it's more fun to live by the seat of your pants anyways :)
I just feel silly having a reroll. I prefer to have my killed by lightning bolts in narrow hallways sometimes :)
Sorry Art, both I and my character were tired and went to bed before having the chance to speak to our halfling friends. Perhaps in the morning, I am sure that Gribb will sleep in late if he was doing pesh.
I'm curious how they knew about the weres. That seems like highly specific intelligence.
My character, however, is way more interested in that cool pinecone on the tree that looks like a person.
I'm at a con (Conception) for the next five days... It's going to be pretty full on... I will post but it might be a little delayed...
No problem. Have a terrific time!
Sorry everyone, I have not posted much this week yet because I've been drowning in stuff to do to get ready for Winter Fantasy and OrcCon, in addition to normal real life stuff.
Please feel free to continue to talk to the forgotten one. I'll post an update tonight just after this post. I probably won't be able to post again until Monday, though.
Art
Bah, I'm still slow! I'm awfully sorry about that. My desktop computer has been dying the past two days, and I've been trying to fix it. Tonight Dell warranty support told me it is officially dead. It's getting a new motherboard and two new hard drives tomorrow or Thursday, and I get the joyous duty of reloading the system and all the software the night before the big convention!
Unfortunately, that means I won't be able to post much before a week from today. I'll try, but no guarantees. This netbook is a bit hard to use. The heel of my thumb keeps hitting the touchpad, sending the cursor flying. I'll try installing my mouse and keyboard to get it more functional.
So spell-likes are back to being not spells (and not gateways to early entry classes/feats). Guess I should retrain arcane strike.
This is a home game (at least in my
mind), so Art's call.
You can leave it the way it is, Jake. The everchanging FAQ is one of the few things I don't like about PFS.
I'm sorry I've been so slow to post. Thank you for being patient. My computer up an died last week. Dell replaced both the motherboard and both hard drives in my RAID array. It's been a slow process getting everything functioning again. I didn't realize until just now that I'd lost my RSS feeds (and thus automatic updates when you guys post).
I'll post now, but I'll be visiting family in Arizona this weekend, so I will only get to post here and there while I'm there.
Pathfinder in general, perhaps. I wouldn't necessarily say it is specific to PFS. Better then 4e was on the matter, though.
I believe he is being distracted by his Supreme Court case.
I'm so sorry. Posting in Dragon's Demand has been on the to do list for days! I did get caught up in my Supreme Court case last week. Between cons and visiting my parents and my computer crash and dental work and some other stuff going on, I've had a really hard time catching up.
And of course the universe noticed on Friday and decided to give me a whopping sinus infection that has been messing with my head. The medicine for it messes with my blood sugar, too, which also messes with my head. So, I haven't been terribly useful for the last four days.
I'll work on a substantive post right now to get things going again.
I know I've apologized like more than five times, but I really like this game and I feel terrible that I've neglected it so much over the past few weeks. Thanks for being patient!
(But be forewarned, I still have sudafed-head, which tends to affect my typing.)
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Well, the case died last Monday when the Court denied certiorari (the fancy Latin that boils down to they have too much on their plate to make room for this just now). I've been prepping it for return to the state court system and bumming that what might've been my one shot at having a case before the Court has come and gone.
There is a weird silver lining. The fact that my client let a NY firm poach brief-writing duties on the very last brief leaves the possibility that if I had gotten to write the brief, as I had done all the others, the case might've been picked up. So at least I'm not getting the stink eye on this one, and I am not sitting here wondering what else I could have done to make it happen.
Good old Art, having his cases not quite making it the the supreme court. Just like old times.
Pfft, I leave out entire words, duplicate words, use strange grammar. I wouldn't worry about it. It would be nice if we all had editors in our pockets, but we don't.