Adventure 1, Session 1 - The plot unfolds...

FEED BACK!!! –
Give it! Some of you already have, and I thank you for it. I'll take general feedback as well as specific stuff. Examples help. If you aren't having fun, I'm not doing my job. Too much ROLL playing and not enough ROLE playing? My descriptions weak and without feeling? NPC voices all sound alike? My email's insipid and stupid? Just let me know.

Character Build –
Before the next session you are free to tweak your character's skills and feats. There MAY be one more opportunity to do this before I hand over the DM chair. No guarantees. I don't want you to feel stuck with an uninformed/bad decision for the rest of your character's life. However, before we begin adventure 2, you will have to live with what you picked (unless the next DM is very nice).

Alignment –
There's a brief description of each alignment in the Pathfinder book starting on page 121. Read about the alignments. Alignment isn't hard and fast, it's a guideline for your character's behavior. You are free to change your alignment. You can RP your character anyway you want. Only Sam and John are significantly restricted by their alignment (Mike to a lesser degree).

I may use your alignment against you in an RP way.
"Although you didn't want to kill him, you feel justified in his death. You know that the law can be bought around here, but you cannot." Or, "You try to ignore the screaming child, but it's cries tear at your heart. You give the mother a few silver to feed her starving babe." Or, "Turning the him into the authorities is the only thing you could do. Losing a hand is the penalty for stealing, even if it was just bread."

I won't MAKE you do anything (3 silver won't make a big difference in game terms), but I may leverage your RP alignment to motivate, reward, or punish you for sticking to it.

Rage –
I'm torn. I think we can do this one of two ways: (Suggestions welcome!!!)
1) Blind Rage – You mostly unaware of your surroundings, you need to make a will-save for things to click.
a. Standard Rage Penalties
b. If someone yelled "Don't go through the archway" while you are enraged and chasing a guy who just ran through it
c. Be lead into a fairly obvious ambush while chasing someone
d. To notice that someone has surrendered
e. To notice your friends need help while you are engaged in melee
f. To ready or delay an action
g. To use a non-thrown ranged weapon
2) Reckless Rage – You are aware of your surroundings but generally don't care about your own safety
a. Standard Rage penalties
b. Will saves only for Read/Delay and non-thrown ranged weapons

Mike, you are free to do one or the other (or an agreed upon 3rd choice). I don’t need to know immediately, but this will affect how the NPC's rage as well.


Power Level –
To easy? The encounter with the Black Horses was supposed to be a wee bit more challenging. I ran it by the book (complete with surrender when they thought you'd use lethal force). I think it was less of a challenge than the module intended. Partially cause we started at level 2 and partially because of Pathfinder.

I'm going to tune the next encounter a bit based on this light, please give feedback.


Story/Summary/Saga –
I'll write up the plot summary to date, as well as what the NPCs have done. I'd still like for a bit about what your character has done. Successes and at least one failure if/when possible. IE: "Cut a man sized crab in half with one swing. But ran up the stairs in to a dark hall way and wiffed a mook 3 times in a row." I think this makes the characters more real, and is usually humorous to boot.

This can be one sentence, or a paragraph. Up to you.