Pathfinder 16 & 17 - Good sections, but…
Hey look! I’m not dead!
That’s right, this writeup will include two sessions. This is for two reasons. First, it will get us up to date. Second, the last session was rather short.
Present for both of these sessions:
- Nox, Changeling Swordsage
- Reza, Dwarf Cleric
- Nonnie, Halfling Sorcerer
- Eretri, Aasimar Warlock
So, we teleport as close as we can get to the destination. This means the giant landmark at the base of the Storval Plateau, the Storval Stair.
Pathfinder 15 - Holy fuck, it’s a dragon!
Now that we’re finished with Book 3 of the adventure path, I want to make my feelings about this campaign series clear. Book 2, as anyone who reads the site regularly knows, had some serious issues, both in the writing and in the monster balance. Some of these were to the point that I was almost ready to give up on the adventure path altogether.
And then we hit Book 3, the Hook Mountain Massacre. Though it isn’t the type of adventure I’d run regularly (it’s a bit too… disturbing at times), this book saved the path for me. It’s creepy, flavourful, fun, and just plain awesome. The writing is great, the monsters are great (including the second Lamia Matriarch), and Nicolas Logue is one warped writer.
As such, the game is still going strong. Book 4 looks to be pretty solid as well. We should be done it this weekend, and aside from one minor issue (which I’ll go into next post), I have yet to see any major problems.
Present this session:
- Nox, Changeling Swordsage
- Nonnie, Halfling Sorcerer
- Reza, Dwarven Cleric
- Thorbar, Dwarven Barbarian
- Eretri, Aasimar Warlock
The party had decided to stay in Fort Prefect, their new home. The winter passes, cold but enjoyable. They enjoy their much-deserved downtime.
Pathfinder 14, part 2 - We finally bought a boat!
Yep. This session was 8 hours long, and finished off Book 3 (and thus half of the adventure path), and the fact we got a boat is my title highlight. Damn straight!
So, with the town saved and the floodgates opened, the party set about rebuilding their newfound fort. Within a couple days, they had a visitor.
A tiny, high-pitched visitor.
Zipping into the fort came a tiny winged man. A hyperactive, worried pixie.
Named Yap.
He was worried about his mistress, who has fallen into some deep depression since her lover disappeared. He came to the PCs because they were friends with the lover.
The party, however, has no idea what he’s talking about.
…until they ask what kind of creature this mistress is.
Pathfinder 13 - “Okay, so this candy bowl is a church…”
Continuing from last time, we began this game by rolling initiative.
Characters present:
- Nox, Changeling Swordsage
- Nonnie, Halfling Sorcerer
- Reza, Dwarven Cleric, played by another friend
- Thorbar, Dwarven Barbarian
- Ristan, Half-Elf Bard
- Eretri, Aasimar Warlock
Yeah, that’s right, we got full attendance (with one temporary substitution) on Mother’s Day. Impressive? Sad? Maybe a bit of both?
Initiative is rolled, and we start the fight against the Ogre Sorceress and her guard.
Pathfinder 12 - Fort of Ogre Decapitation
Well, these reports are still one session behind, since I’ve been getting used to a different work schedule this week. I plan on getting them current again asap.
In any case, we left out group as they were investigating the barn belonging to the inbred ogrekin. With this, they have gotten past the worst of the disturbingness, as far as I can tell, but the rest of the adventure is also quite good, so on we go.
The adventure continued on Star Wars Day. Present this session:
- Nox, Changeling Swordsage
- Reza, Dwarf Cleric
- Thorbar, Dwarf Barbarian
- Ristan, Half-Elf Bard
- and introducing Eretri, female Aasimar Warlock (male player, ran Ristan last game)
Nonnie was missing due to vehicle issues.
Anyways, the barn consisted of two rooms, the first of which had three drunk (passed out) ogrekin. The second contained a cage. In the cage were three unconscious humans.
Pathfinder 11 - Burned into my brain
Okay, it’s been a while since I updated these. This session took place on April 27. I’ll post the latest session (May 4) in a day or two.
So, to start off, the cast this week:
- Reza, Dwarven Cleric
- Nonnie, Halfling Sorcerer
- Thorbar, Dwarven Barbarian
- Ristan, Half-Elf Bard, played by proxy
Ristan’s player was missing, as was Nox’s. Another player, who will be joining us for the summer, was here, and he ran Ristan for this session. The latest session saw him create his own character for the summer.
For this session, the party was joined by Shalelu, the elf ranger from Burnt Offerings (book 1), who wished to accompany the group to the ranger outpost, Fort Rannick.
Pathfinder 10 - Evil, nasty clockses, we hates them!
Well, this past session ended up going quite well. Good combat, a bit of roleplaying, and a decent feeling of danger as well.
It took quite some effort to get there, though.
Warning to all reading this, this writeup will be half DM log, half rant. I’ll try to contain the rant to sidebars, so feel free to skip them if you don’t care, don’t want to become disenfranchised with the Pathfinder series and Paizo, or dislike mechanical discussions.
As per usual, let’s start with roll call. Present this week:
- Nox, Changeling Swordsage
- Nonnie, Chaotic Evil Halfling Psychopath Sorcerer
- Reza, Dwarven Cleric of Desna
- Thorbar, Dwarf Barbarian
- Ristan, Half-Elf Bard
So, we started where we left off last time. Actually, that’s a lie. We started this session with Reza and I going through spells. This being her first cleric (and most of the players being relative newbies), she was inexperienced with spell selection, and unaware of the benefits of scrolls. As such, Reza now has more generally-useful spells prepared each day, with her big thematic-but-less-general ones (calm emotions, consecrate, speak with dead) on scrolls. I believe she was much happier with her character’s performance this time.
Pathfinder 9 - Utter confusion
Y’know, I had meant to get this up around Wednesday. Stupid rest of life making me busy.
In any case, the game last week went surprisingly well.
I say surprisingly, because I had done pretty much no prep until about an hour before the game. Projects and assignments were keeping me far too busy. So on Sunday morning, I began to prep.
Withing 5 minutes, people began arriving. On the one day when I wanted people to be late, everyone was early. Fate has a cruel sense of humour, eh?
Anyways, I managed to skim what I needed before we began to play, but I was still worried things would bomb out.
I guess I need to put more faith in my ability to run things on the fly, though, because the game actually went pretty well.
Everyone was present this time.
Now, last time, we left off with the group headed to Magnimar, the big city.
Pathfinder 8 - Late Post, with Conan O’GameTomorrow
Yeah, so, we had a game two weeks ago…
‘Bout time I got around to writing about it, eh?
Cast:
- Nonnie, Halfling Sorcerer
- Nox, Changeling Swordsage
- Reza, Dwarven Cleric
- Thorbar, Dwarven Barbarian
- Ristan, Half-Elf Bard
So, yeah, everyone.
I’m going to go through a bit fast. A lot, while flavourful and interesting, wouldn’t make a good read, so I’ll skim it. Also, it’s late.
In any case, it was an interesting juxtaposition of a game.
Creepy murder, haunting, and seriousness, right alongside complete random sillyness from the players.
The interesting thing? Both emotions ended up being felt.
Pathfinder 7 - Garycon ‘08
Holy crap. It’s been way too long since the last post. Stupid university projects and their… stupidness… yeah…
In any case, Garycon ‘08 was last weekend.
Characters present:
- Nox, Changeling Swordsage
- Reza, Dwarf Cleric
- Thorbar, Dwarf Barbarian
- Ristan, Half-Elf Bard
Missing: Nonnie, Halfling Sorcerer.
We played a regular-length session. Somehow, though, it felt like we just didn’t get as much done as normal. And some of the things we did get done just didn’t feel as substantial.
In any case, as the game starts, Read more