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Hi, I spoke with Ginga and he said it would be ok to run alternate Thursdays and that he currently is involved with enough games at the moment so will sit this one out.

As it stands, there's five of us wanting to play. So, when do we start.

Maybe we could open up some discussion about which character types etc we'd like to play?

I quite fancy having a go at a sorcerer.

Right as we have four players we can start next Thursday.
As for classes if you want to start making them before hand may be best to talk about it here.

I'll put the game in the calender later.

I would classify myself as a newbie but have played some Pathfinder games in the past. I would like to join the group and am available Thursday evenings. I was thinking of a Monk or Paladin- basically nothing with too many magic spells to remember to use or prepare.

Right I've put the first game up in the calender for the 29th.

As for character types, from reading the adventure through the following may be of use:

Arcane caster, Divine caster, Melee types would be useful. Later on (when you get into the city of Tsar itself) someone with some trap finding ability would be of help.
A Paladin would be good (especially when you get into Tsar as it was the city of Orcus)

I've just uploaded the Desolation map to the files section of the site. This is the map that the characters would have when your sent out from Bard's Gate.

Would people rather use the first session to build their characters, or would you rather to create your characters prior to the game?

"we can start next Thursday"

Make it so!

Okay: Character Classes... Well I figured since I'm only just learning the rules I’d be better off sticking to a ‘Guy with a sword’-style class (i.e. ‘Fighter’ or something.) Having said that, I have no problem with playing a combat-focussed Rogue either - I just don’t know Pathfinder well enough to put together a tight build at level 7. As for these Arcane / Divine Casters – well tbh the names don't mean a lot to me.

Re: the first session - what can I say... I can have a go at putting a character together before next thursday but chances are I will still need to go over details / problems at the start of the session anyway... Apart from that I'm all for getting on with the adventure asap. (In fact if there is a pre-gen floating around somewhere that can be artfully editted then that would probably be the cleanest solution.)

Hi Tim,

If you want to put together a character before the game that's cool. (I'm likely to be at Vague Connections from about 6ish so if you wanted to go over your character prior to the game)
You may find Pathfinder SRD useful.

If you wanted I could put together a pre-gen fighter character for you if you wanted.

Perhaps if we come to the session with a rough idea of what we'd like to play, we can try and balance the characters and the party during the first session. Also we will need to roll stats (or are we point buying?) and this will affect the characters slightly.

It looks like four of us are confirmed for this thursday, so far. I'm excited.

Hi Ding,

Good idea, if you all come up with the basic outline of the charicters you'd like to play, and on the first session we will create them. (With luck we will be able to get the first encounter in as well)

Will be going with rolling stats. I tend to like the 4d6 per stat (drop the worst dice). I do tend to have a house rule of no stat under 10. (So re-rolling any stat under 10).

Hit points wise, first level you get max hit points. For levels after that you have the choice of roll or take half.
(eg for a fighter, 1st level 10 (+ con modifier + favored class as applicable). Then 2nd level (an higher)you can either:
a) roll a d10 or
b) Take 6
(in either case + con Mod+ favored class as applicable))

Hi all,

I have a slight problem (already) in that I have plans this coming Thursday (it's a one off, I swear!). They've been set in stone for quite some time so I can't really get out of it. Would everyone be majorly pissed if we started the Thursday after (5th)? Sorry to spanner up the workings so soon after asking you guys to form a group...

Having had a quick look through the posts here I don't think anyone's volunteered to play a Cleric yet, so I'm happy to do that, unless having a Cleric and a Paladin would be too divine-heavy.

I could move it to the 5th, however I'd prefer not to. The reasoning for this is that would mean that I'm DM'ing two nights in a row. I'd prefer (if possible) to alternate this game with the Kingmaker game that I run.

However if I'm outvoted by everyone I will move it to the 5th.
Melociraptor if we kept the game at next Thursday I do not think that you'd miss out too much as I envisage the first session to mostly be spent in character generation.

Gotcha. That's ok, character gen I can do by myself if you're happy to trust my rolling.

No worries. I'll trust you in your dice rolling. (Although if you come along with a stat line of all 18s and max hit points I may be a little suspicious )

Ha, duly noted.

I'll have more of a think about what class I'd like to go with... has anyone else decided for sure?

I'm going for a sorcerer, possibly with the undead bloodline, looking into de-buffing the enemy and maybe a little offensive. Chaotic neutral alignment. Not sure what race yet, maybe gnome.

Tonbo is still talking about a paladin as far as I know.

Hope that helps a little.

Hmm, I'm thinking I'd like to try either cleric or fighter (unbreakable). I've played a ranger and a rogue and I'd like to give something different a go... But I'm happy to go with the general consensus of the group when it comes to balancing the party.

Looks like we have a Paladin, a sorcerer, maybe a cleric.
I think its possible to make an effective fighting Cleric (which would help out with the fighting and healing).

I'm not sure how a Paladin would react to an undead bloodline sorcerer, but sounds good.

When you get to the city of Tsar, someone may want to take a level in a trap finding class. However there is an alternative method of trap finding... send in a heavily armoured high HP fighter type

Well unless our Wise and Benevolent DM advises otherwise I’m still in for ‘Fighter’.

Fighter, Paladin, Cleric and Sorcerer sounds like a plan to me.

On the subject of traps and such I’d imagine that someone who isn’t wearing Heavy Armour might be best, and if our Cleric goes all Kali-esque, blessing with one hand whilst destroying demons with the other then... does that leave the Sorcerer..?

Just wondering: there must be other important skills that the party would benefit by having a specialist in that we could spread around a bit? I mean it’d be a pretty poor state of affairs if we finally fight our way to Tsar only to realise that no-one can read any of the local lingo or something.

Ding said: "looking into de-buffing the enemy"
Honestly, dude, that does sound slightly kinky.

The Desolation area is a an out door based area to explore, so skills wise, the likes of Survival, Knowledge (Geography), (local) and (history) will not hurt.

From reading through I do not remember many (if any) bodies of water so the Swim skill is probably not one to be high on your list of skills.

You do have the The Camp where you can rest up in the Inn and sell things off were needed.
You could, if you wish, look into the Craft skills (and related feats).

(Just hope the Paladin isn't going to be very much "all evil must die on site"... that could cause errm interesting effects in The Camp)

Hey, thanks for the info.

My main point of reference for all this is "what would I do in Stormbringer". Obviously some of this will translate into Pathfinder, some won’t.

I mean my first impressions of the campaign are that the ‘Pathfinder Society’ must have been smoking some pretty far out stuff, sending just four people to sort this place out. There's either one Epic story or a very long obituary in the making here.