If we ever want to play this, everyone needs to create a new 1st level character. (The particulars and listed below.)
Here again for your reading pleasure are my thoughts on the module.
The Dragon’s Demand
I plan to run a new Pathfinder module, the Dragon’s Demand. This will be a several month adventure which will take your characters from 1stto as high as 7th level. I am willing to start running this as soon as 10/15/13 but folks will need to have their characters made. We can play this continuously from beginning to end or we can play it in parts with other stuff in between. We will see how things go. There are three chapters in the module. Chapter one will take you from 1st to 3rd. Chapter two will take you from 3rd to well into 4th. Chapter 3 can take you from 4th to 7th.
Character Creation:Charters should be 1st level. For ability scores use a 25 point buy. Hit points will be max at first level. Each level after will be average for you hit die plus your constitution bonus. You will have 150 GP to buy your starting gear.
The Hook: A man named Silas Gribb offers you a job as caravan guards. You will start the game in north central Taldor within the Verduran Forest traveling south from the city of Wispil, a gnome town which provides most of the kingdom’s woodcraft and timber.
PFS Credit: We will be playing this adventure in Campaign Mode. This means that you will play a non-PFS character but you can assign PFS credit for playing to a PFS character or characters of your choice. (You could make your character to be an alternate version of your PFS character if you like.)
At the completion of the adventure, there are three chronicles that can be earned and applied to PFS characters. The first is for characters leveled 1-3. The second is for characters leveled 3-5. The third is for characters leveled 5-7. These can be applied to the same character or multiple characters. If applied to the same character you will earn a bonus chronicle which can be applied to a 2nd, 4th or 6thlevel character. Each chronicle is worth 3 XP, 4 PP and has gold, boons and items available upon them.
In my estimation, the optimum way to apply these chronicles is to a 2nd level character. You would apply the 1stchronicle (taking you to 3rd), then the 2nd chronicle (taking you to 4th), then the bonus chronicle (taking you to 5th) and lastly applying the 3rd chronicle (taking you to 6th).
I made a Tiefling paladin for this. I'm not married to the idea. What races are legal to play?
ReplyDeleteI am open. Not sure I have any restrictions on race/class.
DeleteOOOHHH, I wanna play a half-celestial, half-drow with the robot template! Can I??
DeleteIf Daves playing that, I want to play the half giant/half goblin paladin with the dhampir tempplate.
DeleteIf I let you guys play those, I would have to let Kelly play a parrot.
DeleteAn EVIL parrot?
DeleteMore likely indifferent or crazy.
DeleteI made a character up for this a year ago. I don't remember what it was.
ReplyDeleteSo I'll play the class no one else wants.
That means everyone will have to get going on making up a guy.
This is a longer module. I have read the first part and could start running it after everyone has a character. I might break up the full run allowing other systems to be played and/or other GMs to run..
ReplyDeleteSo... has anyone made real characters for this yet? Everyone needs to have one before we can start playing.
ReplyDeleteOnce again, the guys that actually read the blog are not the problem. It's not like this is on-deck, though. We have plenty of time to brow-beat them on Tuesdays
ReplyDeleteIt could be the next for PFS credit thing I run if folks get characters created.
ReplyDeleteI am doing electronic brow beating.
ReplyDeletecan i play a goblin raised by halflings, who is a cleric/alchemist?
ReplyDeleteAre you being serious? If so, probably not the best choice. Not sure that anyone would hire a goblin as a caravan guard.
DeleteThe adventure takes place in or around the nations of Galt, Andoran and Taldor.
Remember we are talking 1st level characters to start.
Any problem with a strix arcanist
ReplyDeleteAre u being serious? Its hard to tell in print, especially with your brand of "humor."
DeleteI would guess the answer is no, for the same reason goblin was rejected
racism lives in pathfinder.
Deleteremember the old dwarf/elf thing...we got past that.
Big difference between dwarf/elf and letting a racial enemy into your group.
DeleteYes I'm serious
DeleteIt seems like the hatered is more one sided. I don't think humans really care that much, they just treated them like Indians.
DeleteAnd goblins as a race are EVIL and annoying.
and the goblin I made up was raised by halflings and is not evil.
DeleteI was referring to the race in general, not an individual. I think a goblin would be neat, but I also think we need to hear Keith's take on this.
DeleteWe did hear from keith, he said a goblin would not be hired for the job.
DeleteSorry, when I was looking at this thread I did not see Keith's reply. It was one level up.
DeleteOMG. I found a monkey race. I think I'll switch to a Vanara slayer. OOOHK!
ReplyDeleteBut some white races might not like him....
DeleteNooka not care! Nooka strong! Nooks guard caravan better than anybody! OOK!
ReplyDeleteI spent 2 hours making up my guy....
DeleteI just want to run an old fashioned fantasy game. I really do not want this to become the misfit zoo. (The Sunday game already has that sort of feel.)
ReplyDeleteIf you guys want to play a bunch of out there characters, we can arrange something for that but I do not know when or what that would be just yet. Hold onto your guys and we will find a place for them.
Out of curiosity, why do you really want to play the fringe races? Is it for Role Playing purposes or the mechanical benefits that the races provide?
I was doing it as a fun role playing opportunity. I can just as easily play something boring and vanilla. it just won't be as fun.
DeleteI wanted to play a vanara because monkey
ReplyDeleteno! bad monkey! you have to play a PFS pregen clone.
DeleteThats the knee jerk response. Naturally we're gonna want to play races not allowed in PFS. Except for David; he was just trying to sneak a broken character in, like he always does.
Deletei wasn't even going for broken, i just wanted to play the fool and act up a bit, with a funny voice.
Deletemaybe i'll play a halfling (raised by goblins...)
No Dave I wasn't going for broken. There are much better races for that. I thought it would be cool to play. The art work for the race made them look neat and having a grudge against humanity seemed interesting.
DeleteKind of like enjoying playing goblins in we be goblins.
I agree with Dave in that I've played most of the races that ate avalible and I'm interested in. To include assimar tiefling and that new lizard race.
I guess you guys are not seeing it from my side as a GM. Having one or two characters with rare races can be fun and interesting. Having everyone be an odd ball is distracting and annoying. The game/story tends to get lost in the circus. In some cases the story just breaks.
ReplyDeleteFrom my experience too, the rare races tend to be more powerful than the base races. They have lots of upside and very little to no downside.
If all three of you want to play something oddball what do you think the odds are that Alan and Kelly will want to as well? I would say that it is pretty high.
Keith I understand if this module is the wrong venue for this.
ReplyDeleteI think part of the problem is that we have a whole book with a lot of cool race that we haven't tried. And since we always play society we are locked into the same races all the time.
If you look at the three of us we are usually trying different classes. I think that it is more a desire for variety and a way to change things up that is the driving force here.
Trying to bludgeon this back into life...
ReplyDeleteI can get Randy to make a character. There will be mistakes in it, but at least he'll have a character with a background. I can make Kelly a character. The real roadblock here is Alan, AKA He That Hems and Haws and Cannot Make a Decision Even at Gunpoint, AKA Metagamer Drag-down, AKA Not How That Works, AKA The Pneumatic Sneezer. If we can get that guy to bring a fully assembled character to the table we could get this little campaign off the ground.
You sir, have keen insight...
ReplyDeleteYou sir, have keen insight...
ReplyDeletenot a misfit zoo. good thinking. can we apply the chronicle to a core character? and since not misfit zoo, the lizard it out.
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