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Thanks for your messages Hmm!
To the whole group here a question as I have never received a GM boon before.
- Can we get the boons above if we roll 20/19 on the boon rolls after our game or what is the method for the different boon?
- How are the above boons related to the Regional Support Program - do the games we GM during Gameday qualify for checking boxes?
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- How are the above boons related to the Regional Support Program - do the games we GM during Gameday qualify for checking boxes?Thanks
Online games do not currently have access to the Regional Support Program. Beyond that, games at convention (such as this is even if it called a gameday) do not qualify for RSP checkmarks.
As far as the GM boon, that is a reward for GMing a game, the only way to receive it is to GM a game, the other boons, which GMs also roll for, can be obtained by anyone through a die roll at the end of the game.
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Nowruz, everyone who GMs for the convention gets one GM boon, no matter how many games they GM.
Player boons are different, and everyone who participates in a Gameday game has a chance at one. Every player (and for this, the GM is considered a player) should roll a d20 to see if they get a player boon. More exact instructions are included in the email that Hmm sent to all GMs.
If you are a GM and are not getting those emails, please send me a private message and we'll get that fixed.
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There were lots of GM emails posted for Play-by-Post Gameday over the course of the Paizo blackout.
Here is the single most important message that I posted:
OUR NEW DATES
Session One specials begin again on 8/24. They end 10/4.
Session Two (including the Session Two special) begins on 10/6.
The entire PBP Gameday ends on 11/20.
If you think that any other of my GM emails should be posted here, let me know.
It's good to be back!
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Hello All —
This went out in an email to GMs:
UPDATES TO OUR 8-99 C SPECIAL
I have been in consultation with Tonya and John Compton about Solstice Scar, and all of our missed days. John Compton has given us his blessing to skip entirely the first section (aka ‘Part 3’) of 8-99 C. Most of your players have played it already, and given our extraordinary circumstances, he’s letting us drop it! When we restart again, we will magically fast forward to Part 4! GMs, this is something that you can prep while you are waiting for us to come back up. This should get us all back on track for the PFS Special.
BUT HILARY, WHAT ABOUT THE SFS SPECIAL, 1-99?
We’re in consultation with Tonya, John and Thursty to see if any adaptions can be made. It’s much trickier, and I am reluctant to skip any of it. So we’re talking through ideas.
YOU SAID SOMETHING ABOUT A SAMSARAN CONTEST?
Well... To be truthful, I didn’t. Debug Amp did! He wants to throw a Samsaran contest on #pbp_gameday_vii channel of http://pfschat.com — our Paizo Blackout News Station.
Since we are all in dire need of something to do.... Time for another episode of Win Debug's Unused Boons! This episode: Past Lives!
Do you have any dead characters? As in PFS/SFS marked as dead? Tell me about their deaths! Do you have a horrible living/dead ratio? Do you have any glorious ends? Embarrassing demises?
A Samsaran boon awaits you! I intend to keep this one open for a while, so put WDUB in your message so I can search on them.
And... that’s it for this update. I am, as always, your VC.
Love you folks.
Venture-Agent, Minnesota
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Hello Awesome GMs —
Sorry for the length of this email. I promise it’ll be worth your time!
This has probably been the most challenging convention that we’ve ever run — rolling Paizo outages, uncertainty, delays in specials and other games and howls of frustration every time those goblins or that ysoki mechanic have been seen.
Perhaps even more frustrating have been those bits of brief and tantalizing up-time. If you’re in the wrong time zone, it is easy to miss those rare moments of up.
We’re up right now, which is great! But we need to lay plans for what happens if Paizo goes blank on us again.
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EXAMINING OPTIONS
With so much downtime, we’ve been looking at a bunch of options that suck.
Cancel the special? Make specials from two sessions overlap? Extend this convention past Thanksgiving? Organize a mass exodus off Paizo — and then where? And what about those who refuse to leave? How many players and GMs do we lose? Or worse, the question we’re asking already: are we losing players and GMs now? None of these were good choices.
I’ll tell you what we’re not doing. We’re not cancelling the specials and we’re not giving up. We need to find a way to keep gaming through the downtime, and stay engaged.
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WAIT. DID YOU SAY ‘KEEP GAMING’ THROUGH THE DOWNTIME, HILARY?
Yep. Redelia (aka our VL) came up with an amazing idea that we in PBP Gameday VII are now suggesting to you.
Remember those alternate modes of communication that I asked you all to set up? I am hoping that most or many of you have a group Hangout, email group, discord or some other backup for your group.
I also figure that most of you GMs have a backup Google doc where you keep posts in progress.
We’re going to relax the rule that says you can only game on our forums, and encourage all groups to keep moving even during downtime. Most gameplay is expected to be on Paizo forums, but google hangouts or discord channels can be used to keep posting during the outages. As soon as Paizo is back up, the GM is expected to summarize what happened in the chat on the Paizo forums. (I’ve been experimenting with this with one of my groups, and they even sometimes copy their posts from the hangout to a shared google doc for me, making such summaries easy for me to edit and post back on Paizo when we go live.)
Hangouts allow dice expressions (except in mobile) and Discord can do dice with various dice roller apps. Other players can roll for mobile-only players if needed.
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BUT HILARY, WHAT ABOUT PEOPLE WHO AREN’T ON GMAIL AND THUS DON’T SEE HANGOUTS?
Encourage them to get the Hangouts App. It works on almost all smart phones. You can even enable a link (under the add people icon) that you can email to them to help them join you.
Or if you have a group with old tech, do the game via email and a shared google doc to record everything. Hangouts is just preferred because people can see / hear notifications, and it seems to speed groups up that have and use them. Discord is also acceptable, though some works ban it. Find a solution that works for your group.
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HOW DO YOU ROLL DICE ON HANGOUTS?
In Google Hangouts on desktop type /roll2d6 for two 6-sided dice - you can set how many dice and how many sides (including d20).
Note this does not work in mobile, so you may have to have players bot each other. It’s clunky, but it’s an option. (Or... If you trust the player, you can even let them roll real dice and report the result back. I trust that you will use this option wisely and only in more challenging circumstances.)
OTHER LOGISTICS while we’re still up
Ask your players to make off site copies of their character sheets!
Create a shared google drive for your players where those can be stowed, if needed, along with your google slides.
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HOW DOES THIS WORK WITH THE SPECIALS? WHAT ABOUT SUCCESSES AND OVERSEER ANNOUNCEMENTS?
We are likely going to create GM channels for the special off Paizo on to Discord so that we can have our HQ for the specials somewhere stable.
Meanwhile, the reporting of successes is on a google sheet. You can still report your success in downtime. We will send special condition announcements out through email, and then follow up with posting on individual threads once the game is up.
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LET’S KEEP GAMING
I say, let’s keep gaming. You don’t have to move off Paizo completely. Many of us are attracted to feature of having a different alias for each character. But let’s use those backup channels and keep going. We can keep our players engaged. We can keep ourselves from bouncing off the walls. We can make progress, and make the most use of uptime.
Questions? Comments? Tell us on our downtime channel, #pbp_gameday_vii at http://PFSchat.com.
I am your VC,
Hmm
Discord can do dicerolling via bot commands, and even more complex stuff, rather than a separate app, though the bot does need hosted somewhere.
I'm not really into PbP, is there any VTT?
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So this is my first PbP Gameday event as a GM, and I'm wondering how firm the deadlines are, given the instability that the Paizo boards experienced.
My two adventures are underway now, but I'm concerned that even with a 10/6 end date, I've only got a month to finish them. Do we have some leeway there? And is it confirmed that session 2 begins on 10/6 now?
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GM West, you do not have to finish your scenarios by Oct 6. We are aware that games will spill over into slot 2 and that is fine. We want all games to be finished before Thanksgiving, that is a hard deadline.
As for the start of slot 2 games: please work with your players what the best startdate for everyone is (I assume you are not running the special)
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I'm not running a special (that would have been too much for me on my first rodeo!) Thanks for the info, Gerard. I'll post in my Session 2 Recruitment tabs about start dates.
Follow up question, since some players involved in Session 1 are headed right into a Session 2 game with the same character, what are the rules about overlap? Has the issues with Paizo given any leeway with that? For example, if a PC is just finishing up a final battle in Session 1, can I go ahead and allow same character to play Session 2 when Oct 6th rolls around?
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Good question. The answer is no, someone is not allowed to play in a scenario until that character is done with the previous one. The only overlap that we allow is overlap in character introduction.
So what you can do is get the characters already in a waiting room, ready to receive their briefing. As soon as the scenario is ended you can then post the briefing.
Note again that it is not necessary to start exactly on October 6. The slots in PBP games are more to give people an idea when their character should be available again than hard deadlines. A scenario could take a bit longer, a GM could go missing and even the paizo forums could come crashing down.
Personally I try not to sign up for a game if my character is currently in a scenario. There is nothing wrong with having a lot of characters simultaneously, that is one of the joys of PbP!
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Hi everyone!
I've just heard that there's going to be a category five hurricane hitting my area around Thursday. I've never actually experienced a hurricane before, but the internet tells me that power outages are entirely normally, so I wanted to make sure that I made sure my tables were okay while I'm out.
I'm hoping that if the power does go out, it'll come back quickly, but I also don't want to make any assumptions about the situation because, again, I've never done this before.
That said, could I get someone to look in on and possibly sub for my games in the event that I'm unable to do things?
I'm running The Wounded Wisp (6-10) and The Cost of Enlightenment (9-01). @_@
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Category 5 hurricanes are bad news. Power outages may be the least of your worries. Depending upon the area in which you live, flooding becomes a real possibility. If there are any sort of evacuation orders, whether mandatory or voluntary, please heed them if at all possible.
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Hiyami, seems like the least I can do to help out here. Will you PM me and send me the links to your games? I will keep watch over them until you can return to playing safely.
Praying for you guys on the coast. My daughter is supposed to go to school in Charleston next year, so we are watching carefully from Nashville area.
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Hello Awesome GMs!
Apparently I was too good a correspondent during the outage, because some GMs worried that they had missed emails! Well, don’t fret! We still have you listed. Yay!
IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
EVENT #686641
Main Listing: PbPGameday.com.
Reporting Link: https://pbpgameday.com/reporting.php
When: August 13, 2018-November 12th, 2018
Some important dates for the Specials!
SOLSTICE SCAR ends on September 26th
SCOURED STARS INVASION ends on September 28th
ASSAULT ON ABSALOM begins October 1st
NOTE: Tell us what GM boon you earned: Ganzi (PFS), Ferran / Woikio (SFS), or ACG in the note field when you report your game!
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That’s right, we made changes to the special timelines so they are both due to finish ON TIME.
For those of you in other games, I hope things are going okay. We actually had two games finish and report — one on Paizo, and one on Mythweavers — both chapters of Adventure Paths. But I’m aware that we had a rocky start to this gameday, and that many of you lost quite a bit of posting time.
Interestingly at least one of our other forums —RPGgeek— has had intermittent downtime outages this week as they are upgrading. (Sigh. Right after Paizo recovered!)
We’re planning on doing a mid-point survey for players and GMs with email 16 in order to get a better pulse on how everyone is doing so far. Look for it in a few days.
Meanwhile, if your game is lagging behind, see below!
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HILARY’S TIPS FOR SPEEDING GAMES BACK UP
I wanted to wait to share some of these until we had forum stability back. Well, we’ve been up for 11 days, so it’s time!
★ --- ONE. POST YOURSELF --- ★
Keep posting, and prodding. Also... communicate that you want to pick up the pace, and that you need their help to do it. If nothing’s happening in Gameplay and you must wait, use discussion or your group’s hangout and tell a joke or talk about your dog. Get them talking and interacting with you.
ProTip 1 if you use Hangouts: When you make a GM Post, tell them in the Hangout. You will not believe how much this will speed up some groups.
ProTip 2: Want to know if they are all there? Have them roll 1d20 for their player boons. Roll a d20. A 19 or a 20 wins a boon. If you or a player win, do another roll for each winner.
For ACG: Let them pick which one you get.
For PFS/Playtest: Roll a d4 to determine which one you get.
For Starfinder: Roll a d2 to determine which one you get.
There should be a drop down in the reporting form where you can mark who won what boons.
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Waiting on a player? Bot their skill check or combat roll. Keep it moving. Get buy-in, and you can have your players bot each other.
One thing that I often do when speeding a game up is bot the last person in combat if against a single adversary, so that the whole team can then enjoy their turn in combat again. Warn your players if you plan to use that tactic, and be fair about it, but it will speed things up.
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For this Gameday, consider games that are less than 1/3 complete to be ones from which disappeared players may be dropped without foul, and new players recruited.
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If you’ve been out for days, it’s easy to lose track of the story. Give your players a breadcrumb trail and let them gobble it up. Offer summaries of what has gone before.
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Have NPCs address the player characters directly. Taunt them. Involve them. Present dilemmas and ask, “What do you do now?”
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Oh, and a special message for all those in the path of Hurricane Florence. Our hearts go out to you. Stay safe!
Hugs,
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Hi Folks,
Thanks to the great folks here, I have the opportunity to run a "Play by Discord" table in the Assault on Absalom special with the new Roll for Combat Lodge. It will be a single 1-2 table with a few of our newer PFS players, but there is still room for more. And if we get enough interest and some experience, we will surely have more Play by Discord format tables in future conventions.
Roll for Combat Discord Invite
Once you're there, look for me (@GM BBlackwood), check out the #pathfinder-society and #starfinder-society channels, declare your interest in playing/running games, see games already going, enjoy the Podcasts, and have fun.
I'll keep an eye out here for interest, so feel free to message me questions, and hope to see some new faces there,
Gum B, aka BBlackwood
Is there more complete text on the GD7 boons? E.g., I don't know what the two benefits for Celestial Traveler are.
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***Official Announcement***
Due to the site outages early during Gameday, we are moving the end of Gameday to November 19. We encourage GMs of games that are supposed to start on October 1 to find a start date between October 1 and October 15 that works for them and their players.
This announcement applies to normal games, not tables of Assault on Absalom. Tables of the special will still start on October 1, and should follow instructions from Overseer Dennis.
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Is there more complete text on the GD7 boons? E.g., I don't know what the two benefits for Celestial Traveler are.
Usually I have folks reference Mike Eshleman’s excellent PFS & SFS boon list, but I don’t see Celestial Traveler referenced there yet.
So here is that boon text.
Between your missions for the Pathfinder Society, you seek opportunities to connect with the Upper Planes. You may spend your downtime and 4 PP to travel to either Nirvana or Elysium. If you do so, you may select one of the following benefits, crossing the other off your Chronicle sheet.
▫ Celestial Spark: You gain a +1 bonus on saving throws against the spells and spell-like abilities of outsiders with the evil subtype. Additionally, you may check the box that precedes this boon to send forth a surge of channeled energy that harms evil outsiders, as you were a cleric of your level with the Alignment Channel feat. If you already possess the Alignment Channel feat for evil outsiders, you may instead check the box to increase the damage you deal by 2d6.
Planar Conduit: You have infused your body, mind, and soul with the plane’s essence. You gain access to the Planar Infusion, Improved Planar Infusion, and Greater Planar Infusion feats for Nirvana and Elysium (Pathfinder RPG Planar Adventures 31) as if the feats appeared on the Additional Resources page.
Thank you! Now I get to tell my lucky players what they got! Two players at my table were fortunate to get boons, and they both rolled this one.
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Alright, I don't have the DM instructions in my inbox for the boons and my games are almost over. My email is dgrdavidson@yahoo.com
If someone could resend. Unless yahoo puts that stuff in my spam, then it would be harder for me to find/get to.
That email address has been on our mailing list from the beginning. I resent three emails but you may need to check your spam filters.
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Is there more complete text on the GD7 boons? E.g., I don't know what the two benefits for Celestial Traveler are.Usually I have folks reference Mike Eshleman’s excellent PFS & SFS boon list, but I don’t see Celestial Traveler referenced there yet.
So here is that boon text.
** spoiler omitted **
Sorry, I've been a bit too busy to update that list. When things calm down a bit I'll certainly enter what I have.
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Alright, I don't have the DM instructions in my inbox for the boons and my games are almost over. My email is dgrdavidson@yahoo.com
If someone could resend. Unless yahoo puts that stuff in my spam, then it would be harder for me to find/get to.That email address has been on our mailing list from the beginning. I resent three emails but you may need to check your spam filters.
Hmm
Got it, thanks.
The only question is, it doesn't say what they do.For example
SFS Boons
Mining Laser (starship boon)
Emergency Resupply (starship boon) but doesn't give the details of these.
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Alright, I don't have the DM instructions in my inbox for the boons and my games are almost over. My email is dgrdavidson@yahoo.com
If someone could resend. Unless yahoo puts that stuff in my spam, then it would be harder for me to find/get to.That email address has been on our mailing list from the beginning. I resent three emails but you may need to check your spam filters.
Hmm
Got it, thanks.
The only question is, it doesn't say what they do.
For example
SFS Boons
Mining Laser (starship boon)
Emergency Resupply (starship boon) but doesn't give the details of these.
Usually people only see them when they win them. Still, here’s the information if you have a curious player who won one of these.
Benefit: When this boon is slotted, selected one starship weapon with the limited fire special property on the group’s starship. Once during a starship combat, when the selected weapon runs out of shots, you can immediately reload the weapon back to its full number of shots. When you choose to do this, cross this boon off the Chronicle sheet.
Benefit: When this boon is slotted, select one light weapon onboard your starship. Replace this weapon with a mining laser (Starfinder Pact Worlds 153). This new weapon must go in the same arc as the replaced weapon.
Special: You do not need to worry about the PCU and BP difference between the original weapon and this weapon when slotting this boon.
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Hey Awesome PBPers!
Hope all your games are going well. This is just a short note to let you know about two things: an extension on the end of Gameday and our midpoint survey.
THING ONE:
PBP GAMEDAY EXTENSION to November 19th!
Due to the site outages early during Gameday, we are moving the end of Gameday to November 19. We encourage GMs of games that are supposed to start on October 1 to find a start date between October 1 and October 15 that works for them and their players.
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THING TWO:
MIDPOINT SURVEY
Please take this survey and ask your table mates to do so as well! We want to know how you are all doing!
Love,
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Hello! I need a bit of assistance. I've got a player who has signed up for one of my tables. Looks like someone who is brand new, which is no problem.
However, as far as I can tell, this individual hasn't posted since June 28 and there is no option to PM this person on their profile page.
Can anyone advise on how to contact slicer11x?
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Table 198 is full, but Table 199 just had a last second opening as a player withdrew!
Open seat for SFS #1-14: Star Sugar Heartlove!!! (tier 3-6) here!
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Hello everybody,
Do you know the wording on the ‘Traveler in an Unstable Timeline’ boon?
Thanks
Here you go!
▫ Replay: Your experiences no longer conform to the true history of Golarion. You may replay a single scenario you have already completed, though you must use a different character than the one you first played the adventure with.
▫ Retrain: You may check the box next to this boon to instantly retrain one retrainable class feature or feat your character has already chosen without paying any retraining costs. This cannot be a class feature or feat that serves as a prerequisite for another class feature or feat your character possesses. You must keep a copy of this boon with the character that received this benefit.
Wait a moment, so you don't get to play any particular scenerio once per character, it is actually once per player? (for credit anyway)
