Triumph of the Tusk - Diplomats become Heroes!

How to prepare

Definitely need a solid microphone in a quiet room. I don't generally play with webcam but am not opposed to it. You will need to be basically familiar with the PF2e rules, but of course our players will chat in-server to figure out characters and the like. You do need a Foundry Forge account (it's free!) and a decent video card to run the game on the browser-based Foundry Forge.

What I provide

Fully moduled-up Foundry Virtual Tabletop persistent server (so if you need to go in to edit your character or review your notes, you can do that--no need to wait for me to spin up a server). Musicbot to play incidental music, battle music from video game and cinema sources. An honest attempt at distinct characters and voices. Just a real willingness to hit my players in the feels at low moments in a way that I think is memorable rather than disheartening (my players agree I promise!). Quick, tactical combat along with the flexibility to make improvised actions based on expert guidance (notably Seifter's "It doesn't have to be a feat to let you do it, just because there is a feat for it doesn't mean you can't do it without). A friendly and quite active Discord server chatting about new developments in PF2e/SF2e (it's all I run), builds, spells, etc

Gameplay details

X-cards are always installed into the Foundry interface. Clicking the button on your token menu will pop up an anonymous X card that signals to the GM and other players that it is time to stop this course of action and move on to the next scene. Notably, I have never had anyone hit the X-card in one of my games (other than by accident) though it has been there since very early on. Session 0 will be done mostly to check character completion and run through existing in-character relationships; I expect a lot of backstory creation and the like to be done outside of game time and likely well ahead of time!

Content warnings

Safety tools used

How will character creation work

Characters are 3rd level. I have yet to decide whether to run with Free Archetype for this campaign (will have to wait until I see the books) but generally you will get *something* a little extra cool. The Player's Guide (https://downloads.paizo.com/TriumphOfTheTusk_PlayersGuide.pdf) gives some guidance for character creation; note both new classes from War of the Immortals, Animist and Exemplar are recommended classes. Character creation can be done on pathbuilder or in-server--you should have a pretty good idea of who you're playing pre-session 0.

Combat / Tactics

High

Roleplay

Medium

Puzzles

Low

Experience level

Beginner