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Friday Night Pathfiner Returns: Pathfinder Horror on Roll20

It has been a long time coming, but my Friday night Pathfinder game is restarting.  This time, because I know the move is coming up, I am starting a game online in Roll20.  I am running a Pathfinder horror game.

I was lucky to get a solid party of 4 with another joining in the next month or so.

I am trying out a lot of things at once on this game, so it is going to be a big learning experience.  Here are some of the new stuff in the mix:

  • Roll20.net is new, which I have used slightly before, but has gotten a lot better.  It has really been a breeze to use it to set things up so for.  I even got a subscription so I could get dynamic lighting and help support them.
  • DCC-style level "0" characters are a new concept for me.  In my case, I had everyone make two level 1 characters, but nerfed them just slightly by requiring a drawback for every trait and by requiring two skill points to be spent on a profession.  15 point build too, to keep things weak.  I have guaranteed my players that not more than one of the two will make it to second level.
  • Big negatives for dying -- if you lose your characters, you have to build a new one at 1 level lower than the party with 2 fewer points each time in the point build.  This should get people to avoid dying.
  • Sanity, which I will be tracking separately as a GM, is also new for me.  I am going to use all sorts of sanity-boggling things so that the description of what is going on to one character and to another character may not be the same.
  • "Connected" characters that have to have family, friends, and other people around they care about, as a basis for causing all sorts of horror.
  • Breaking out the mundane rules:  food, water, drowning, suffocating, torches.  There is nothing scarier wandering hopelessly in a place with too little food, water, and light, fighting the environment around you.  It will be like the first season of Stargate Universe.
  • This will be the first time I used the Golarion setting in a campaign.  Luckily I just received the "Into the Darklands" book today.
  • Horror is truly new to me, so I've been reading the 4th Edition GURPS book on Horror.  It has a very good outline of everything to consider in the horror domain.
It all gets started this coming Friday, so we'll see how it goes.


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