Mar. 22nd CollectorMania Saturday Game Day - (Parker)

[Russ Brown]

Holy crap my inlaws are in town this weekend. Sign me up for the afternoon slot as well.

Tim Mckennie

Hey Tim,
I just want to clarify. You are already signed up for a Noon to 4:00 pm game. By "afternoon slot" did you mean the 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm game (City of Strangers II)?

[pogie]

Yeah, sorry, the 2nd game 5PM-9PM.

[martinblake1415]

Martin Blake
Table 2 noon-4pm.  #3-26 Portal of the Sacred Rune
Either a Ranger-8 or Rogue-10.

Thanks very much.

[Russ Brown]

Hi Martin,
You are at Portal of the Sacred Rune.

Everyone,
That gives us 5 players for Portal of the Sacred Rune, leaving 1 open seat.  We also have 3 open seats for Master of the Fallen Fortress.

[dpatt1111]

Meaning that Master of the Fallen Fortress is not yet at the minimum table size to execute the module...

[Russ Brown]

The table can be run with 3 players and a pregen as an NPC if we do not get another signup.

[dpatt1111]

I would rather re-schedule it than run it with only 3 people.  It will only be my second time game-mastering.

[martinblake1415]

I would rather re-schedule it than run it with only 3 people.  It will only be my second time game-mastering.

It's easier to GM with 3 players than it is with 5 or 6.  If you only have 3 players get the players to run a PFS pre-gen and so there is no additional load on you - 3 players with 4 PCs, really no different than 4 players - in fact a little bit easier on the GM as there are only 3 players competing for the GM's attention.

[dpatt1111]

Oh, I thought I had to run the NPC.
Well, one of the guys is listed as 'tentative' so I want to manage expectations here.  It's a Free RPG day module, and as such is for 1st level characters ONLY, and it will only award 1 Prestige maximum.

I'd love to run it though.

[Enigma42091]

If you're running it, I'm playing it!

I originally set down as tentative to allow more players who would want to play an opportunity to join the table over me, but I am happy to round it out for you!

Either a Sorc or a Cleric...

--
Rob

[Russ Brown]

Thanks for confirming Rob.

[martinblake1415]

Oh, I thought I had to run the NPC.

The PFS guide does loosely say that the GM runs the NPC, but in practice most GMs hand out a pregen sheet to the players and they run the pregen.  If the players are using the pregen in an uncharacteristic way (e.g. sending Ezren the 1st level wizard into a room full of zombies first) then you could step in and make Ezren's actions a bit more in line with the character, but let the players do all of the dice rolling etc..

I'll be playing at the other table on Saturday and I have all of the PFS pregens printed out and ready to go, so the players will have a wide choice of which pregen to use.

[dpatt1111]

Cool. That was my next question - should I print them out or will someone else have them.

[Russ Brown]

As the coordinator, I always have them on hand as well.

The only paperwork you need to bring as the GM is chronicles for the players.