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I love seeing this stuff, John. Now, start focusing on character development.
Wholly my opinion, based on my own observations:
The one thing that has slipped from earlier seasons to now is a PC's sense of identity. Time after time when I hear people comment about the current state of factions (not complain, mind you - there is too much apathy toward current factions for it to register as an actual complaint), it is that the sense of identity got lost. When I first started playing (in Season 0, in case you're checking up on me), players got excited by what they saw as possible for their character. Anti-slaver, merchant princess, linked to the Pharoahs of old, connected to the last of the great empires, or cutting deals with the powers of Hell, your identity was solidly defined. And the faces behind those factions resonated.
Focus on characters. Get players excited by the personalities that are giving them their orders, rather than resentful of perceived slights. When Adril Hestram gave an order, people sat up and took notice. When Sheila Heidmarch became the most common face, people threw tomatoes at her.
Interestingly, the most dynamic character I've recently read giving orders is not even a Pathfinder. The lady currently in charge of the Nantambu Lodge is awesome. Let's have more like her. And let's have more factions led by people like her.
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For example, I corrected an experienced player who was using Acrobatics skill to move past an enemy & avoid an attack of opportunity even though his the character was encumbered by medium armor
Sorry to distill your post down to this, but it caught my eye. First, the full rule as written.
You cannot use Acrobatics to move past foes if your speed is reduced due to carrying a medium or heavy load or wearing medium or heavy armor. If an ability allows you to move at full speed under such conditions, you can use Acrobatics to move past foes.
Ok, you have it almost right. A few examples of how you could avoid this. You could be a dwarf in heavy armor (they are not slowed by armor!). a Mithral breastplate would be counted as light for this purpose. A fighter of sufficient level through armor training. There might be an armor enchantment that I do not know about.
In ant case, I will admit that I missed that part of the rule, so thank you for pointing it out. If you were at my table. I would hope you would (kindly) point it out, in a non-disruptive way. I will remember this, because it may, sometime, come into play at one of my tables. Thank you.
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** spoiler omitted **I love seeing this stuff, John. Now, start focusing on character development.
Wholly my opinion, based on my own observations:
The one thing that has slipped from earlier seasons to now is a PC's sense of identity. Time after time when I hear people comment about the current state of factions (not complain, mind you - there is too much apathy toward current factions for it to register as an actual complaint), it is that the sense of identity got lost. When I first started playing (in Season 0, in case you're checking up on me), players got excited by what they saw as possible for their character. Anti-slaver, merchant princess, linked to the Pharoahs of old, connected to the last of the great empires, or cutting deals with the powers of Hell, your identity was solidly defined. And the faces behind those factions resonated.
Focus on characters. Get players excited by the personalities that are giving them their orders, rather than resentful of perceived slights. When Adril Hestram gave an order, people sat up and took notice. When Sheila Heidmarch became the most common face, people threw tomatoes at her.
Interestingly, the most dynamic character I've recently read giving orders is not even a Pathfinder. The lady currently in charge of the Nantambu Lodge is awesome. Let's have more like her. And let's have more factions led by people like her.
Just to chime in on this point, my second two characters, including the character that I took to 20th level, were built around the personalities of factions. The first was a half-orc Shelynite born in Taldor with aspirations to glory. He wanted to both honor the aristocratic tradition while subverting it due to his race. The second is a down-on-his-luck private eye who desperately needed a really troublesome client. He found that client in Zarta Dralneen. I love having him complain and moan about how Zarta's not paying him enough to do this, and how he should never fall for "broads like her, the kinda girl your mom warned you about."
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Do you have enough experience with the game to try and run a table yourself? Some of the scenarios are really not that difficult for the GM.
Sorry for necroing a thread to reply --
Yes, and I should have my second GM star soonish. Unfortunately, when we have enough GMs and I'm not prepped I still wind up going home. When we lack GMs sometimes I do run cold; just did so with Midnight Mauler on Sunday and loved it (I'd enjoyed playing that scenario and it had stuck in my mind). My love of low level adventures compounds my lack of scenarios to play, as does our local inability to schedule modules but once a month or so (and I am currently far more likely to run a module than I am to get to play in one).Anyhow, I look forward to any solutions for those of us who have largely run out of scenarios to play (and I'll also note that I loved playing the new evergreen, "Wounded Wisp").