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[moons-and-dices]

Open Pathfinder Campaign

HEY YOU YEAH YOU You ever wanted to play Pf2e but never were able to because your GM was too into DND or just because you didn't find anyone to GM it?

WELL! i have the fix to your issues

I'm opening up Six (0/6) Seats on the Pathfinder 2e adventure path of Kingmaker, an adventure path focused on exploration and roleplay potential which has the players go from level 1 to 20. Exploring lands never before charted and raising a kingdom from nothing.

If that sounds up your alley, consider signing up!

This IS A paid campaign. I have been a GM for 7+ years and I can guarantee a professional-grade experience.

The campaign cost is 5 USD per player per session! And to alleviate any concerns, no player can buy items, etc. The cost is just so I can spend more time working on the campaign, weaving your characters into the narrative, and giving it a lot more time and care.

As for scheduling, once at least 4 seats are filled, we can start selecting a date that works for all players interested.

This campaign is extremely open and welcoming to anyone who hasn't tried PF2e before or is wanting to switch from 5e! Or anyone who wants a cool adventure to rock on. Both beginners AND veterans will have plenty of chance to play and enjoy it, so don't be afraid!

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Discord: brightbluemoona

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If you can't join please Reblog that'd help a lot <3

[cthulhumystery]

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[annieqattheperipheral]

[the-physicality]

I think today would be a good day to announce a head coach…

[gunthermunch]

Hii Ai! I was wondering if you have a portfolio? And how do you choose which pieces to put there?

i dont have a portfolio because i struggle with my style changing constantly (or thats what i feel) but since my area is character design my idea is to make some character sheets and lineups using the munches or my other ocs

[luna-the-cretar]

So apparently our store isn’t making enough money for corporates liking (from my understanding, I think we’re essentially breaking even), so now they’re essentially cutting everyone’s hours in half (except for the managers)

Which is already incredibly annoying, but also they’re already only scheduling the THREE EMPLOYEES as part-time because of course they are, so they’re cutting even THAT in half. And since I only make $10/hr (yeah, I know, it’s bullshit), I’m essentially making pennies now because of corporate greed

[ozziesjester]

my manager possibly getting in trouble for not giving us breaks is the best news ive heard all week

[gwendolinechristie]

I need to make like $600 more a month in a way that doesn’t make me want to die.

[scoringeffects]

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[runawaymun]

maybe i’m getting like, old or smth but I just got asked to submit to a 1-way interview and I was like ???? and it turns out that it’s just that the company can’t be arsed to sit down for an actual 3 minute phone call so they want you to essentially submit an audition tape

[stereax]

[victorluvsalice]

AU Thursday: Valicer In The Dark -- Duskwall Slang

Since we did a VITD lookbook yesterday, I figured we might as well keep the train going today and talk a little bit about some of the worldbuilding I've done for the Valicer In The Dark version of Duskwall (the main setting of Blades In The Dark). Specifically, I've decided to share the short list of slang that I've come up with for people to use! Because that's always fun, right? :) The first entry on this list is taken from the book itself (page 42, specifically) and adapted a little bit, but all the rest are purely my own invention:

-->“Flashing a/their/your Coin” and variants – making an ostentatious display of wealth, to the disgust of everyone around them (the term "Coin" itself is in fact slang for a large sum of money, taken from the days when the Imperial treasury would actually mint large solid gold coins intended to cover major transactions; most people these days rely on small silver pieces called "slugs"). Example: “You spent all that money on THAT outfit? Really flashing your Coin, huh?”

-->“Moving to Six Towers” – indicates that the person said to be moving was previously rich and important, but has fallen on extremely hard times and is on the verge of ruin (referencing the fact that Six Towers USED to be one of the richest neighborhoods in the city, but has turned into a bit of a slum with most of the nobility previously living there moving into Brightstone). Example: “The Everglots’ leviathan ship hasn’t had a good haul in six months. Think they’ll be moving to Six Towers soon.”

-->“Scavenging in the Lost District” – indicates that the person said to be scavenging is taking an INCREDIBLE risk in the hopes of getting a high reward (due to the Lost District being an abandoned neighborhood outside the lightning barrier keeping the city safe and guarded by the Spirit Wardens...but also having many lost riches within its bounds). Example: “You want to rob Lord Mayor Powerwallet? Talk about scavenging in the Lost District!”

-->“Living Coin to Coin” – living paycheck to paycheck, as the average weekly wage in Duskwall is equivalent to a Coin’s worth of money. Example: “Poor old Tom – what with his sick mother and five children needing feeding, he’s living Coin to Coin.”

-->“Only good for mushrooms” – indicates that the thing being talked about is absolute shit. Example: “Don’t order the ‘special ale’ at the Withered Talon, it’s only good for mushrooms.”

-->“You want to call the crows?” – equivalent of “You want to get us killed?” in response to a risky course of action (referencing the Deathseeker crows that find corpses for the Spirit Wardens). Example: “You want to FIGHT Lord Mayor Powerwallet’s bodyguards? You want to call the crows?!”

-->“Barrowcleft approved” – indicates the item in question is homemade but of very high quality (Barrowcleft being a poor, rural neighborhood with one of the best, and fairest, markets in the city). Example – “You carved this yourself? Why, this is Barrowcleft approved work and no mistake!”

-->“Dust Day fare” – an extremely meager meal made from poor-quality ingredients, referencing the popular nickname for the fifth day of the week from Charhollow, which itself references the fact that poor people’s food stores are the thinnest on this day. Example – “Canal water soup with potato peelings. This is Dust Day fare, all right.”

-->“Crit Six/rolled a crit six” – means that something is exceedingly good, or that something that you have done has succeeded beyond your wildest dreams; references the most popular dice game in Duskwall, where rolling double sixes is an automatic win. Example – “I went to open the safe, and I rolled a crit six – the door practically came off in my hands!”

-->“Welcher” – a term for someone who hires a criminal or crew for a job, and then not only refuses to pay them, but actively tries to murder them (directly or otherwise) to avoid doing so. Only one of the highest leaders of the most well-known crews may declare someone a Welcher, and then only after receiving sufficient proof, as the term is a death sentence – the scoundrels of Duskwall do not take kindly to their clients trying to stiff them, in both senses of the word. Example: “All right, I’ve seen enough – I’m ready to declare that Lord E.A. Bethesda is a Welcher. Hope he’s prepared for every scoundrel in the city coming for his ass...”

Further updates to come if and when I think of more stuff! Which I probably will, as this is fun. :)

[hundredsofsmallbirds]

i have to get business casual clothes in the next 16hrs cause turns out i have an interview tomorrow lmaoooo

[thespacelizard]

There’s only three of them….. all that chaos and there’s only three. Incredible. You said they were super over leveled, what level were they when all this mess was going on? Also, were the Underdark and Nine Hells sections of their story homebrewed stuff, or did you sort of weave from one module to another?

Also, I instantly have more sympathy for the wizard(‘s player) because I, too, have accidentally caused war crimes because I didn’t think through the implications of a particular spell before letting it fly. My condolences. It happens to all of us eventually.

I’ve heard of the Alexandrian Remix! Now that you’ve run it twice, do you think you’d ever run DH differently or is it one of those situations where now the “unmodded” version of the game feels incomplete without the extra content? I understand the desire to run all of the baddies at once, though. Even while planning a mostly vanilla DH game, I’m struggling to stick to just one. I’m thinking Manshoon is gonna be the final BBEG because we love evil wizards in this house, but I couldn’t resist throwing Jarlaxle in there as a faction ally (he’s been my Blorbo too since I first read the books as a teenager) and the Xanathar Guild as early game fake-out villains until Manshoon starts making big moves. 

Which means we’re also going to be seeing a lot of the Blackstaff! Even if the party ends up siding with other factions, our genasi wizard is under her supervision and she works closely with one of our half-drow’s adopted parents (who is also, maybe, secretly, a masked lord) so she’s gonna be showing up… often. Hopefully my group doesn’t give her quite as many headaches as OSHA, but I wouldn’t be surprised because every D&D party is its own brand of chaos. 

Re: the half-drow kids, honestly, Jax is (Jerry Springer voice) NOT the father, but they’re not gonna know that at first. I’m planting red herrings that point towards him because one of the half-drow kids (Dorea, ranger) is on a Mamma Mia style mission to find her bio dad and I know she’s going to latch onto him. The other one (Senzo, paladin of Eilistraee) is less worried about figuring that out because he’s already a Dad himself and mostly focused on trying to get his kid out of Menzoberranzan. I imagine though, that even Jarlaxle had to do some quick math in his head like “wait…” 

Having one of your PCs be a secret Manshoon baby is one of those plot twists that I don’t think anyone would have anticipated. How did that reveal go, and what ended up happening to Manshoon in that game? Did HE know about the kid, maybe try and pull a “join me and we can rule together” etc? Or did the party just skip to clapping a set of magic handcuffs on him? 

I love the shipping notes for Fel and Krebbyg, makes that submarine crushing incident just that little bit more tragic. I want the lieutenants to be more involved in my campaign, so Fel and Kreb are going to take a more active role in helping the party along, getting them information, helping to deal with challenges posed by rival factions, etc… Soluun is doing all of that SOME of the time, but expanding on his “extra-curricular activities" in the background and stalking/harassing the owner of Corellon’s Crown next door. Not going to lie, I asked about Fel first cause he’s my favourite of the three. Personal headcanon is that Jarlaxle gave him such powerful gender envy the first time they met that he quit his old job on the spot (I would have done the same) 

I also really love this side plot of a drow House trying to puppet the Xanathar’s guild, is that a Remix addition or something you cooked up yourself? I know you’ve made a few playlists for a few games you’ve ran or been in, did you make any for either of your DH campaigns?

god, it’s been a while. i think they were around level 10-12? something like that? i waaay over-levelled them in the first campaign arc i did which was all homebrew, and then they did Tomb of Annihilation before i sent them over to Waterdeep.

the Underdark and Nine Hells was 90% homebrew, yes! for the Hells stuff I had my own plotline that i was using, and also borrowing ideas from a 3rd party thing called Hellbound Heists. the plot was basically Glasya (my most special evil princess babydoll) was trying to overthrow her dad, and the Pcs kept getting in the way and got involved in all her plots and shit. god i miss her. she’s permanently trapped/bound in an Infernal mirror now, until she learns her lesson and is really really sorry (or figures out a way to break it. Asmo is betting on the latter. she’s his daughter, after all)

accidental war crimes are like a dnd right of passage tbh. are you even playing a spellcaster if you haven’t tried casting create water inside someone’s lungs.

i would never run DH as not the remix at this point - it really is like the unmodded version feeling incomplete. having all the villains is more work, but it makes the city feel so much more alive, and imo gives the players soooo much more to work with and play with! they have so many more options, and you don’t have to do any railroading to keep the plot intact.

the way you’ve got it set up sounds like a good move, though, to do more villains without necessarily running all of them at once - anything that gives the players More Stuff is always a fave of mine

ouagh it sounds like there’s a lot of potential for juicy juicy drama in that player group (masked lord!! yay!!). make sure Blackstaff has some ibuprofen on hand. she’s gonna need it :p

‘a Mamma Mia style mission to find her bio dad’ oh my GOD i love it. akldaj Jax having to sit there running the numbers like ‘hang on a minute…carry the decade…’

the Manshoon reveal went down SUPER well. the PC was a wizard/fighter, and I knew the player would be into that kind of thing. I had loads of stuff threaded through the campaign for him - Durnan knew his mum went into Undermountain after Manshoon but had sworn never to tell, so the PC wouldn’t go down after her and die. I had Manshoon’s simulacrum be Fem!Shoon and show up as the PC’s ‘aunt’ to try and get intel on the group. and when they confronted him in his sanctum he was absolutely pulling a ‘join me and be more powerful than you could ever grow on your own!!’

and of course the power of friendship won out and they kicked his ass, it was great

oooh, the harassing Corellon’s Crown is a good shout, i may have to steal that if i run DH again. my first lot of players never really got much involved with Solunn, but the second lot did - they had a very cool moment trying to chase him and losing him because of his magical gear - and then getting to catch him at the inn he was hiding in and take all said gear for themselves.

“Personal headcanon is that Jarlaxle gave him such powerful gender envy the first time they met that he quit his old job on the spot (I would have done the same) “ ← honestly if that isn’t the hugest of moods. meet a man too beautiful and full of Gender to comprehend, immediately quit your job to join his emo band.

the drow House puppetting the guild was my own thing! since the players had destroyed the original guild, i was like ‘there’s a power vacuum there, who have i got that would step into it?’ and wove it back into the story. i love doing shit like that in my games, it makes the world feel active and alive beyond what the players are doing. it also lets me re-use NPCs and locations rather than making up new shit all the time, which is very helpful

i don’t have a playlist for my DH campaigns, actually! (not beyond my various standard like. combat mixes for dnd). I do recommend Travis Savoie’s campaign soundtrack though (Adventure Calls | Travis Savoie), it’s soooo fucking good. I used to play it on the splashscreen in foundry whilst my players were arriving, set the mood really well

(ty for letting me ramble about dnd <3)

[purpleparrot]

if i was rich (like fuck you money rich) i would totally want to own a sports team