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An epic magic school adventure! | Stength of Thousands| PF2e
You've been granted the opportunity to study at the greatest magic school in the world, but before long you will need to protect your new home!
$20.00
/ Session
Details
Weekly / Wednesday - 11:30 PM UTC
Feb 18 / Session 12
Session Duration / 3–3.5 hours
4 / 6 Seats Filled
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Schedule
Meet your party members
4/6
About the adventure
You have been admitted to Magaambya, the most ancient and respected magic school in the world of Golarion. Here you will make new friends from across the world, learn about different traditions of magic, and make your own mark on history by contributing to it's never ending study. How will shape your path from student to teacher at this legendary insitution? Strenght of Thousands is full length (level 1-20) campaign. Pathfinder is a crunchy and tactical system, but SoT leans a little more into the roleplaying side, so if you love interacting with NPCs, solving mysteries, and thinking "in-character" about how to handle situations outside of combat, this is a very strong adventure path. And as a fresh student learning magic, it's a great way to be introduced to the Pathfinder system and world! Magaambya is located in the Mwgani Expanse, esentially Golarion's equivalent of Africa. Although focused on spellcasting any class will have a chance to shine in this adventure thanks to an archtype that players can select at level 2.
Game style
Roleplay Heavy
Game themes
Meet the Game Master
4.9
(23)
1 year on StartPlaying
102 games hosted
Highly rated for: Creativity, Teacher, Inclusive
Average response time: 3 hours
Response rate: 100%
About me
I have been game mastering for a little over five years, starting with Dungeons and Dragons 5e, and then running Blades in the Dark, and then Pathfinder 2e, which I am currently focusing on. I have happily been the forever GM of my group, and have loved expanding my social circles, learning both the mechanics of systems and the soft skills of GMing, and putting them together to give friends old and new a chance to enjoy the combination of epic fantasy, improv comedy, and tactical creativity that only TTRPG's can provide. I am excited for a chance to GM for a new audience and look forward to helping players create stories they will always remember.
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Creating your character
We will create a character at session 0! No experience is necessary, but feel free to come with a character already in mind! For player's familiar with PF2e, I plan to use the free Archtype rule, though for this adventure it's strongly reccomended you take either Wizard or Druid. Pathbuilder is a great tool for building your character (and can be imported into Foundry, the VTT we will use) https://pathbuilder2e.com/app.html
The party is currently: Human Wizard Anandi Animist Azarketi Water Kinetecist Catfolk Inventor Human Summoner. Apart from Free Archtype at the request a player we are using ancestry paragon.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
Having a mic will be important, a webcam is nice, but not required. I plan to run the game on my Discord, so an account on that will be needed. Please check out the 8 page players guide! https://downloads.paizo.com/Strength%20of%20Thousands%20Players%20Guide.pdf
What Zach M brings to the table
will host the game on my Discord and Foundry Virtual Table Top. I will use VTT maps designed for Foundry. I have also downloaded and tried out various quality of life modules for Foundry that enhance the experience with things like easier targeting, and animations for spells and attacks for a more immersive experience. I love enhancing the tone of a scene with appropriate music choices. You can expect some interesting and evocative choices to always help keep you as engaged and immersed in the story as possible. I am not a professional voice actor, but I do my best to give NPC's distinctive voices and speaking styles and give players something to play off of in social encounters. I believe it's fair to say I am a skilled improviser who is able to make alterations to the game on the fly, or to better work with character backstory concepts, so feel free to be as creative as you like!
Equipment needed to play
Internet
Computer
Microphone
Platforms used
Safety
How Zach M creates a safe table
Any lines players give me will not be crossed. While different safety tools can and will be used, the X card will be the primary way to avoid triggering content. I will never ask why an X card is used, but I may ask players to specify what specific content caused the X card to be raised. I expect all players to be respectful of each other. Apart from noted triggering content I wil not tolerate sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, ect.
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