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I am going to be running the Swallowtail festival this evening. At my table I will have 3 friends (mid 30s to 40s) playing a Monk, a Wizard, a Sorcerer, and my Fiancé, also mid 30s, who is playing a"white wizard" (half elven Life Oracle) with high charisma wisdom low dex str, and her son who is playing a gnome rogue (CRB) with high charisma, low str, and bluff, diplomacy, sense motive, perception, and disable device.....and I have thrown in a "GM PC" who is a dwarven fighter (axe and shield) to help round out the party.
Party
monk
sorcerer
wizard
oracle (life)
rogue
fighter
The last gaming session they made their characters together, and I ran them through the "relics" mini quest from the beginner box bash to get their feet wet adventuring.
Now this session I am planning for them to have to go around Sand Point to various merchants..and have to role play selling and negotiating the price with the black smith to sell weapons and armor, a curio shop to sell unholy symbol etc...I want to introduce them to Sand point so they might care a bit about the town they are defending.
I also plan to have the Swallowtail festival begin in the morning, and open with games....Ie Tug of war...3 legged races.....hopping about in sacks etc...
are there any "carnival" type things they might have in sand point ? rides ? games of chance?
What would you suggest?
Just at the end of lunch time I plan to have the goblins attack.
Now an ac 16 goblin can take a 1st level party forever to kill with bad dice rolls.
What are some fun antics the goblins could do to make the fight a little easier for the pcs.?
My Fiancé is familiar with Final Fantasy and vampire the masquerade, but this is her first time playing pathfinder
Her son, 10, plays lots of video games like fallout 4, ro blocks, mine craft, mortal combat, call of duty etc. This is his first time playing Pathfinder as well.
So I want to portray the goblins as funny, comical, kind of crazy, and vicious little creatures but I don't want to upset my fiancé's son. Am I being overly concerned?
What what would you suggest I have the goblins do?
Thank you
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Ever watch Gremlins? or Gremlins II?
In my opinion, those are Paizo's goblins. Right down to a similar appearance.
If you watch them, you'll see that they think violence is funny, even if it happens to one of their own. Hell, even if it happens to themselves - they still laugh (before dying).
They also have no real concept of self-preservation. They don't ever think twice about doing dangerous things, no matter how lethal the consequences.
So, during your festival, have them do dangerously stupid things.
If your worried the PCs are about to lose - have one attack another and fight amongst themselves (lethally).
Have one drink an alchemist fire, cause she thinks its a potion and then have the rest spend a round laughing uncontrollably at the result.
and if your worried about the 'rating' of their antics - just keep them focused on property damage and mayhem rather than vicious attacks on people/animals.
Hope this helps
It's been a while, but if I remember right, I played the goblins as having no common sense and doing stuff for no other reason than "it seemed like a good idea at the time"
For examples
I had a goblin climb a building, then try to jump down and attack, only to stumble at the last second and fall face first into the ground and break his neck.
I also had one climb headfirst into a water barrel to escape the party, get stuck, and eventually drown.
One goblin stole another goblins weapon, mid fight, because it was more shiny.