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
Pathfinder 6 - Of death and helmets
Well, last weekend was the final session of Burnt Offerings, book 1 in Paizo’s Rise of the Runelords series. This wasn’t a long session, but it was still satisfying.
Present this week:
- Nox, Changeling Swordsage
- Nonnie, Halfling Sorcerer
- Reza, Dwarven Cleric
- Thorbar, Dwarven Barbarian
Missing was Ristan the Bard. His player works shifts. As such, she will be unable to attend every week for the whole game. We start around 2 pm, and usually go until around 7 or 8 pm. She will usually join us around 5 or 6 pm on her work days, it seems.
In any case, we started off right where we left off, lost hit points and all. We went south.
Pathfinder 5 - Newbs ahoy!
Short adventure this week. Two friends express interest in joining us, however, so we invited them to do so. Due to this, we spent a fair while finalising characters (and leveling up from 3 to 5) before we played. Thus, I give you this week’s roster.
- Nox, NG female Changeling Swordsage
- Nonnie, CE male Halfling Sorcerer
- Reza, CG female Dwarven Cleric
and introducing
- Thorbar, CN male Dwarven Barbarian
- Ristan, CN male Half-Elf Bard (player female)
Pathfinder 4 - Marathon session, marathon leveling
Oh, yeah. DM log. I should do that. 
So back on Sunday, we played our fourth session in the current Pathfinder game.
Characters present:
- Nox, the sex-changing, race-changing Changeling Swordsage
- Reza, the Dwarven Cleric, still getting used to this Cleric gig
- and Nonnie, the fast-talking, act-before-thinking Halfling Sorcerer
Still on the first adventure, we ended off last time after slaying the Quasit, and looting her tiny kingdom.
This time, however, we had a unique situation. Nobody had to work or go to school on Monday, due to it being Reading Week (Canada’s university spring break) as well as Louis Riel Day (Manitoba’s new February holiday).
So we did what any gaming group would do in that situation.
We gamed for as long as we could stand it!
Pathfinder 3 - In the Quasit’s lair
Sorry for the delay in posting. This week hasn’t been nearly as busy as last week, but an old friend of mine got into a disagreement with a bridge, and its good friend “the ice on the river” backed it up. She’s in the hospital, but is stable and doing well, thanks very much to passerby who stopped to help, especially to a firefighter friend of ours who happened to be there (they don’t know each other). Her sense of humour is still there, too. We all feel very lucky. Though I doubt she’ll ever read this blog, Lisa, we’re happy to have you here, and we’re all pulling for a full recovery.
But we did have a game this weekend. We were two players down, and will be for some time, for various reasons, but we played nonetheless.
This means our party is now down to three members:
- Nox, Changeling Swordsage who still has pink hair.
- Reza, Dwarven Cleric of Desna who is still getting used to this cleric thing, but is loving the Desna thing.
- and Nonnie, Halfling Psychopath… I mean Sorcerer. As you will see in the course of this writeup, Nonnie is definitely a method actor.
In any case, we started right where we left off, with the party about to head back down into the Glassworks’ basement and check out the smuggler’s tunnel that Tsuto’s notes had mentioned.
Pathfinder 2 - Yay, we fought something that isn’t a Goblin!
Welcome back, whoever is reading this.
Second game was this past weekend. A bit too short, and a bit too disorganized, but still fun.
The characters present:
- Nox/Karen, Female Changeling Swordsage
- Elias von Rasenberg, Male Human Ranger, favoured enemy: goblinoids
- Mao Swiftpaw, Female Tibbit Rogue
- Nonnie Killing van Huttington, Chaotic Evil Male Halfling Sorcerer (”Killing is my middle name”)
- and introducing Reza, Dwarven Cleric of Desna
This game had some warning signs from the start. We normally start around 2:00-ish, but nobody arrived until almost 4:00. (Not due to anyone’s fault, as morning work schedules caused trouble.) Additionally, I had homework to do for uni that night, so the session wasn’t going to be a long one.
But we also had another player join this week. Now, our group is a bit odd, both demographically and socially.
Firstly, we have 5 players, 2 male, 3 female, for a 3:3 split including myself.
Second, the makeup of the group has been in flux for a while. A few years back, schedule conflicts mandated the change of group structure, and we brought in our Tibbit’s player. A short time later, there was a falling out in the group, and both Elias’ and Mao’s players ended up leaving for a while. Eventually, Raza’s player joined up with a couple others. Those others are too busy these days, and the falling out has been over for some time, so Elias and Mao came back since we had room.
Now, what this means is that while Myself, Nox/Karen, and Nonnie have played with everyone here, Elias, Mao, and Raza have not played together yet.
As such, the night became similar to the formation of a new gaming group, where players are beginning to get used to each other. Our friend ChattyDM would call it Storming.
Distractions came up too frequently, attention spans were short, and play time was limited. I was as guilty of this as anyone, of course, but it was all still there.
That’s not to say we didn’t have a good game, however.
Pathfinder - Starting a new Campaign
Well, despite the crazy week I still managed to get enough prepped for a good 3-4 hours of play, after character generation was finished.
The characters present:
- Nox, Female Changeling Swordsage (goes by the name Karen in human form)
- Elias, Male Human Ranger, favoured enemy: goblinoids
- Mao, Female Tibbit (halfling-cat-thing) Rogue
- and Nonnie, Chaotic Evil Male Halfling Sorcerer with Black Dragon ancestry
Yeah, that’s right, a chaotic evil halfling sorcerer. My players tend to play good characters, for ease, but we figured this would be interesting. He’s definitely playing up the “self-preservation” aspect of CE, and turning into a little spellcasting Belkar.
So we started out with introducing the swallowtail festival, a reconsecration of the newly built church, after the last one was destroyed in a fire. Before I had droned on long enough to bore people (I think), the local priest signaled for everyone’s attention, and goblins attacked.