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Setting the course for your business or your department can be broken out simply enough. Here in ZooCrew central, I usually stick to the tried and true 3 step formula: Strategy, Structure (people or organization), and Execution (or "Process" if you'd like).
Alan Mulally, one of my business heroes, does it slightly differently. He says to set the vision, create the plan, and then work the plan hard. If you haven't read the book American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford, do yourself a favor and get it. It's great.
American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford. Must read. Don't argue with me, just read it and thank me later.
Two years ago when we started the journey to rejuvenate the Callaway brand, we followed a formula quite like this one. We wanted to be the most aspirational AND the most accessible company in golf.
We talked about executing this using "Alt-marketing," which was just a way of demarcating the lines between the traditional, familiar, and formulaic with what would become our own unique multimedia, newsroom/morning show approach. And then of course, we worked and have worked this plan to the best of our abilities. Some more diligently than others (relax, @HashtagChad, it was just a joke!)
Alt-Marketing at It's Finest. The Callawaygolf.com Homepage.
But this column isn't about the Callaway brand or our business. No, it's about something much more important…all of our golf games!
To improve in the game, I think we all need to do the exact same thing we'd do if we were trying to excel in business. What kind of player do we hope to become (our vision), how do we plan to get there (complete with metrics), and then work that plan aggressively and with a great level of commitment.
Let's take me for an example, and believe me, this pains me to admit this. Last year, I wanted to become a much better player. To me, that meant I wanted to dramatically improve my fundamentals and be able to consistently score in the mid 70s, irrespective of tees and venue.
I was starting about 5 or 6 shots worse than that. So in essence, I wanted to trim about 3 or 4 shots off my index. I was starting around a 7 index, so that meant I would end 2013 around a 3 index. Not only that, but I was going to document my journey on my web column.
So how did I do?
Well, in a word, FAIL.
Ouch. Haven't seen one of these since college.
Ok, let me elaborate on that. I started strongly, taking several lessons and really working hard on my game. I could see some very real results, not so much in my scores necessarily, but in my ball striking and the consistency of my golf swing. I could definitely feel myself improving and certain aspects of my game got significantly better.
But then about mid year, I was traveling a lot more for the pirate ship job, was playing a lot less, and was certainly not practicing nearly as much as I should have. And my instructor, "The Man" Randy Peterson, was seeing less of me at the Ely Callaway Performance Center.
"The Man" is committed to helping me. Is his student ready?
Overall, my index dropped only a shot, anchored mostly by my very poor putting. One. Stupid. Shot.
I hate golf.
Wait, no, I LOVE GOLF!
So here we go again. In order to get somewhere, you have to first know where you want to go. And now I restate and recommit to a vision of Harry Arnett as a much better golfer.
I begin 2014 as a mediocre 6.5 index. Still plenty good enough to crush any basement dwelling internet golfer in my singles match in last year's Grandaddy event (sorry, Hawk), but not nearly the type of player I'd like to be.
In 2014, I would like to cut my index from a 6.5 to a 3.5 and be a much more confident, more consistent, and better player.
How will I do it?
-Continue my lesson path and see "The Man" at least once a month, with a stretch goal of being twice per month.
-Practice golf 2 times per week, 40 minutes minimum.
-Focus on the proper impact mechanics and creating a proper release of the golf club, initiated by the lower body.
-Create and practice a putting routine to duplicate on the golf course
-Improve my sand game so that I can get up and down at least 1/3 of the time (now how's that for a reachable goal?)
-Improve my overall flexibility (not sure how but @sdrhicg is trying to talk me into yoga).
-Play at least 50 rounds of golf in 2014 (I hit this goal right on the number in 2013).
-Go on a golf trip to Ireland (this isn't related to being a better player, but if I don't put it in there, it will never happen and I'm dying to go at least once in my life).
Did you notice that each bullet actually has something in there that is actionable and measurable? This is critical. I think I failed to do that last year. No wonder I didn't accomplish my goal. How do you know you've arrived if you have no idea where you were going in the first place?
What are your golf goals for 2014 and how will you stick to it?
Tweet me @HarryArnettCG. Let's discuss.

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NEWPORT BEACH – A collision on board the Balboa Island Ferry shoved a minivan into the water on Friday morning, starting the clock on a rescue of two young children and their parents as the vehicle went under.
Witnesses said the family – visiting from Taiwan — had only a few minutes to escape before the van sank in about 15 feet of water. A ferry worker jumped into the water and swam to help as two boaters pulled alongside the sinking van and helped the family out.
"Please get out my girl," the father told boater Skip Staats as he guided his small dinghy alongside the van. Staats said he reached into the van's rear window and unbuckled the girl from her car seat.
A young boy then clambered over the seat and climbed into his dinghy. The father pulled himself feet first through the driver's side window as another boater pulled alongside the passenger side.
That boater, James Donoghue, helped the mother get out about 20 seconds before the van went under. He asked if she was ok. "She said yes," he said, "and then she looked me square in the eye and said, 'But that was a rental car.'"
Witnesses said a black Mercedes-Benz accelerated as it boarded the ferry, ramming the minivan and driving it through a metal safety arm and into the water. The driver of the Mercedes told investigators the accelerator stuck, said Jennifer Schulz, a spokeswoman for the Newport Beach Fire Department. Police said the driver, who they identified as Lisa Rene-Blaisure Waite, 47, of Balboa Island, was not cited.
Her Mercedes was left teetering from the front of the ferry but was later pulled back. The minivan floated upright for a few minutes before it nosed down and sank, witnesses said. Ferry workers threw life vests to the family, and one jumped into the water, swam to the van and helped guide the family out.
"It floated just long enough to get them out," Staats said. "They didn't even get wet."
The family is from Taiwan and was vacationing in Orange County before heading to San Diego, Schulz said. On Friday, the parents, Kuo-Hsuan Chang and Lung-Hsn Chu, were taking their children – 4-year-old son Ko Chan Chang and a 6-year-old daughter Ping Chung Chang – to go whale watching when they boarded the ferry.
"Did I do something wrong," Staats said the father asked when he climbed into his dinghy. "This is our first time in Newport Beach."
Police said nobody was hurt in the accident, which happened shortly after 9 a.m. on the Balboa Island side of the crossing. The ferry started service in 1919 and travels between the island and the Balboa Peninsula. It appeared to have stopped service after the accident.
The minivan came to rest upside-down under about 15 feet of water. A floating crane hoisted it to the surface several hours later.
According to the Newport Beach Police Association, an officer called the rental car agency where the family got the van in an attempt to arrange for a replacement vehicle, but the agency refused to provide another vehicle or refund the family's 10 days of rental fees.
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A Game of Thrones
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Here is the first volume in George R. R. Martin's magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already hailed as a classic, George R. R. Martin's stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction.
Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom's protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens.
Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal; a tribe of fierce wildlings carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne; and a determined woman undertakes the most treacherous of journeys. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.
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text: This web site is named after Blaven, a mountain on the misty Isle of Skye. Blaven, or Blà Bheinn to use its proper Gaelic name, is widely recognised as one of the most beautiful and photogenic mountains in Scotland.On this site you will discover photographs and information about Blaven and the surrounding area, including the nearby crofting community of Torrin.For a relatively remote and thinly populated part of the United Kingdom the Isle of Skye is steeped in history and rich in myths. You can get a taste for this on the seven mile journey from the town of Broadford to Blaven. Also drink the views from the webcams in and around the island. Finally there is some general information and useful web links for Skye.This web site was last updated on Sunday, 26 November 2017.


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After The Storm.
A rainbow sets up in the sky over the Australian bush after an afternoon storm passes through.
Tree Ferns In A Misty Gully
Groves of Tree Ferns grow abundantly in the shady moist gullies of the Great Otway National Park, Australia. Their majestic fronds add an interesting texture to the understory of this Mountain Ash forest.
Forest Shades Of Green
Tree ferns grow prolifically and gracefully in the understory of forests of the Otway Ranges in Victoria, Australia. Moss and orchids growing on branches of black wattle trees provide an interesting texture for the wild bush environment.
Travelling Down A Bush Track
This bush track winds through a stand of Mountain Ash in the heavily timbered forests of the Great Otway National Park. Not knowing what awaits around the next corner, the wet misty day gives the forest a feeling of mysterious foreboding.
Mountain Ash Reaching To The Sky
Strips of bark fall away from a symmetrical group of young Mountain Ash trees as they grow upwards to the sky through an undergrowth of Black Wattle in the Great Otway National Park, Victoria, Australia.
Pointing The Way
On the slopes of Mount Goliath in the Mount Evans Wilderness Area near Denver, Colorado, USA, the gnarled skeleton of a dead Bristlecone Pine tree stands where it has for many hundreds of years. Some of these trees at Mount Goliath are believed to be over 1,700 years old while some in California are over 3,000 years.
Nature's Ancient Sentinels
Still standing guard but finally yielding to the test of time and harsh alpine conditions, these ancient bristle-cone pines leave behind their twisted skeletons among new growth on the slopes of Mount Goliath in the Mount Evans Wilderness near Denver, Colorado. Bristle-cone pines are thought to be the oldest of living single-organisms on earth. Some of these trees at Mount Goliath are believed to be over 1,700 years old while some in California are over 3,000 years.
Standing Strong
After a long life withstanding the ravages of savage weather conditions, this Bristle Cone Pine tree finally perished on the slopes of Mount Goliath, Colorado, USA. Nevertheless, its sturdy trunk will remain for many more years as a testament to wilderness survival. Some Bristle Cone Pines in this area are over 1,000 years old.
Fabulous Fall Colors
As the seasons change, deciduous trees change their leaf color to provide a brilliant display of nature's beauty in Denver, Colorado, USA.
A Garden Splendor
A mixture of garden plants, (including broad leaved Coleus and Brunnera, vines of Clematis, Vinca and Euonymus), surround a colorful patch of Impatiens flowers growing in Denver, Colorado, USA.
After An Autumn Snow Storm
Blue skies return after an early snow storm brings a taste of the winter to come to the garden. Tree branches, still cloaked with leaves showing their changing colours, bend under the weight of the fallen snow.
A Mountain Wildflower Meledy
Thriving in a meadow seepage area on the side of Pawnee Peak in the Indian Peaks Wilderness of Colorado, USA, this patch of wildflowers shows vibrantly against the grasses. Flowering here are Elephant Heads (Purple), Paintbrush (Pink), Bistort (White), Cinquefoil (Yellow) and some Sedges.
An Alpine Sunflower Blooms
Acclimated to a life in a harsh alpine environment, this Alpine Sunflower, (Tetraneuris spp.), survives and thrives in the tundra vegetation at the top of Kingston Peak, (12,147 ft / 3,702 m), Colorado, USA.
An Aster Wildflower Bloom
An inflorescence of one of the many Aster species within the Asteraceae family that is commonly found flowering during the mid-summer months throughout the high country of Colorado, USA.
An Alpine Rock Garden.
Sheltering among boulders in a gully on the slopes of Mount Kingstone in Colorado, USA, Sub-alpine Daisies (Erigeron spp) and yellow Alpine Hulsea... (Hulsea spp), grow abundently and create a natural wildflower garden.
Apple Tree Blossoms
Spring time blossoms emerge from a shoot sprouting from the trunk of a white-flowering ornamental apple tree in Denver, Colorado, USA. While it's an unusual place to find flowers, this tree trunk had suffered winter snow damage. By sprouting the beginnings of a new branch, this flowering shoot was nature's response to injury.
Cottonwood Trees In Sandhill Country
Seemingly out of place on the prairie, this group of cottonwood trees interrupts the rolling, otherwise treeless, landscape of the "sandhill country" grasslands near Sutherland, Nebraska, USA
Ponderosa Pines Along Lake Tahoe
A group of Ponderosa Pine trees growing on a rocky headland jutting into Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA are reflected in the clear waters below. Trees growing on the far bank of the lake are reflected in the still waters beyond the headland.
A Fireplace Creek Waterfall
The afternoon sun lights a hardy ponderosa pine tree in the Yosemite National Park while a waterfall on Fireplace Creek, full with springtime snow-melt waters, thunders into the Merced River valley below.
The Upper And Lower Yosemite Falls
The atomized waters and mist at the base of the Upper Yosemite Falls reform in the mid-fall gorge before they plummet once again, over the lip of Lower Yosemite Falls into the Merced River below.
Green and Gold
As winter approaches, the leaves of Aspen trees in the high country of Colorado , USA, change from their summer green into brilliant golden yellow colors. They provide breathtaking contrasts with the surrounding evergreen forrests of Blue Spruce and Lodgepole pine trees.
Kenosha Pass In Gold
Surrounded by Aspen trees displaying their characteristic gold leaves in full autumn colours, a stand of pine trees competes for a place to survive on Kenosha Pass, Colorado, USA
A Misty Mountain Morning
As winter approaches, Aspen trees and scrub oak brush on the hill sides begin to show their golden colours on a cloudy day in the high country near Vail, Colorado, USA.
Along Pine Creek In Autumn
A hike along Pine Creek near Aspen, Colorado, USA, reveals striking views of ridge lines, rugged terrain, creeks and clear waters rushing over cascades. The yellow autumn foliage of Aspen Trees contrasts with the vivid blue Colorado skies. At the far end of the watershed, Cathedral Peak reaches into the sky.
Shade And Sun In Autumn
Snows from a brief overnight autumn storm have already melted away on the sunny side of a gully in Genesee, Colorado, USA, while the stand of pine trees growing on the shaded side of the gully were still covered with a dusting of snow.
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History of Arch Linux
The early years
Judd Vinet, a Canadian programmer and occasional guitarist, began developing Arch Linux in early 2001. Its first formal release, Arch Linux 0.1, was on March 11, 2002. Inspired by the elegant simplicity of Slackware, Polish Linux Distribution, and CRUX, and yet disappointed with their lack of package management at the time; Vinet built his own distribution on similar principles as those distros. But, he also wrote a package management program called pacman, to automatically handle package installation, removal, and upgrades.
The middle years
The early Arch community grew steadily, as evidenced by this chart of forum posts, users, and bug reports. Moreover, it was from its early days known as an open, friendly, and helpful community.
The dawning of the age of A. Griffin
In late 2007, Judd Vinet retired from active participation as an Arch developer, and smoothly transferred the reins over to American programmer Aaron Griffin, aka Phrakture, who remains the lead Arch developer to this day.
Over the years, the Arch community continued to grow and mature, and has recently received an unusual amount of attention and review for a Linux distro of its modest size.
Arch developers remain unpaid, part-time volunteers, and there are no prospects for monetizing Arch Linux, so it will remain free in all senses of the word. Those curious to peruse more detail about Arch's development history can browse the Arch entry in the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.


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Thursday, January 6, 2011
Posted by Rot at 6:54 AM
Labels: allankcrain, flickr.com, photography, skeletons
4 comments:
- MorbidMariah said...
There's something very very creepy about this little guy. Kinda makes my skin crawl just a little.
- January 6, 2011 at 9:37 PM
- Rot said...
Agreed. It's the kind of thing you'd see hanging in the woods just as you hear someone behind you... raising a shovel behind your head.
- January 7, 2011 at 6:21 AM
- Arcane said...
A strange looking skeleton hanging from on old shack in the woods as the sun goes down. Really lovin this picture.
- January 7, 2011 at 10:01 AM
- Anonymous said...
Reminds me of the opening of Halloween 4..awesome.
- January 9, 2011 at 12:20 PM
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Happy Halloween. It is the time of the year that signals the start of a sugar fiesta that lasts till New Year. This year, I decided to go slow on the candy corn; I am going to attack the jelly beans and dark chocolate instead. This came about because I came across the inspirational story of Taylor LeBarron, who used his love for video games to lose 150 pounds.
With the world's population set to reach seven billion on October 31, 2011 aka today (check our post about it), it is a good time to take a look at one of the greatest threats that the tech-savvy population of the world is susceptible to, called obesity, and ask ourselves if there is a way where we can have our cake and eat it too.
For example, apparently you can loose weight using your love for video games. I don't mean the Wii Fit type. Taylor LeBarron, author of Cutting Myself in Half: 150 Pounds Lost, One Byte at a Time tells the fascinating story of how he lost half his body weight by turning his love for video games into a motivational tool. He created his own game called UFG (Ultimate Fitness Game) with which he kept track of all his activities and food habits.
Taylor LeBaron has been quoted describing UFG as follows.
"Since I love video games, I approached my weight issue the same way I learn a new game. When I get a new video game, one of the first things I do is check out the opponents to see what I'm up against. When I know the enemies, I can create a plan of attack."
It has the same aspects of a video game. You have enemies, you have allies, and you have money. You have to play smart; otherwise, you run out of your money. Your score needs to be high at the end of the day.
Here are some of his tips
Tip #1 Keep your weight off by improving your self confidence.
Tip #2 Start your fitness program with the right attitude and follow up by making a serious fitness plan that lasts for the rest of your life.
Tip #3 Remember that getting fit is what counts.
Tip #4 Start eating right and exercising more often.
Tip #5 Remember that long term is the key. Fitness needs to be part of your routine.
Taylor LeBarron has his own Website at http://www.cuttingmyselfinhalf.com/


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Promoting equal rights and protections for disabled persons around the world sounds like a great idea. But let's take a closer look at what the treaty actually says and how it would impact the United States. Here are some of our most serious concerns.
- The CRPD could threaten homeschooling rights and parental rights. It would surrender parents and caregivers' decision-making ability on behalf of their disabled children to unelected and unaccountable UN bureaucrats.
- The CRPD would override existing state laws, seriously damaging states' rights.
- The CRPD would surrender our nation's sovereignty to unelected bureaucrats.
This treaty is unnecessary for the United States to sign. The U.S. is the world leader in protecting the rights of those with disabilities. Through our 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act and 1997 Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, we already provide as much or more protection for the disabled than the CRPD.Read the FAQs >>


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On the adding tags issue. I say it's ok how it is. You either make your own tags, and risk under tagging or tagging things wrong, and get reported (this is the part that really depends on the community) or you let others tag pictures for you, taking the risk of OTHERS tagging your picture wrong (again, depends on the community). Tagging can be, and will be abused no matter the system it works by. Because the flaw isn't in the tagging system.
Also, some better "education" on tagging could really help. I'm sure I'm not the only one who has no real idea how to tag a picture properly or right. And the "Tags and you" article only seemed to make me realise I tag even worse than I thought.


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How do I qualify?
- Any student admitted to Felician University, who discloses an existing disability, and can substantiate such a disability is entitled to the appropriate "reasonable accommodations" and service provided by the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities.
To whom do I disclose my disability(ies) and am I obligated to do so?
A student may, at the time of application, elect to disclose a disabling condition to an admission counselor. However, there is no statute of limitations on the time for disclosure; a student may disclose his or her condition to any administrator or faculty member at any time. The disclosing student will be directed to contact the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities as soon as possible in order to substantiate the disability. A student is under no obligation to disclose a disability; and such information may not be solicited from any member of the University community.
Once I have disclosed my disability(ies), what is the next step?
- A student who has disclosed the existence of a disability should then contact the Office of Services for Student with Disabilities. The Office is located on the Rutherford Campus in Room 5 Sister Theresa Mary Martin Hall lower level. The phone number is 201. 559- 3190 or 201. 559- 3191.
What should I bring with me?
A student with a disability, who wishes to receive the appropriate and reasonable accommodations to which she/he is entitled under section 504, should bring current documentation to support their request. This may include: The most recent reports of a school psychologist, learning disability specialist and IEP (Individual Education Plan) or 504 Plan from high school (documentation should be within 3 years of the current date) and/or
- The most recent report of a psychiatrist, certified medical practitioner or clinical psychologist (documentation should be dated within the current year).
What will the Coordinator of Services for Students with Disabilities do with my records?
- The substantiating documents will be photocopied and the original returned to the student. A brief interview will be conducted during which, in conjunction with the evidence of the supporting documents, the "reasonable" accommodations and modifications necessary to enable the student to "fully and equally participate" in the course offered at the University will be identified. If the student's disability (ies) includes physical and/or psychological areas, the student's case will be reviewed by a committee that consists of the appropriate professionals. The Coordinator will then present the recommendations to the student and together they will identify courses in which the student will need accommodations. A confidential file will then be recreated for the student containing a copy of the supporting documents, Section 504 Education Intervention Plan, course schedule, as well as the specific accommodations deemed appropriate for compliance with Section 504 of the ADA.
How will instructors know that I require accommodations?
At the university level, by law it is the student's responsibility to notify the institution of any accommodations and/or academic adjustments appropriate to ensure equal access to programs and services. At the beginning of each academic semester, students who desire accommodations meet with the Coordinator of Services for Students with Disabilities to discuss which accommodations and/or academic adjustments are necessary in a particular course or courses. An Accommodation Request Form is completed and given to the student for that particular class or classes. It is the student's responsibility to provide the instructor with the form documenting the accommodations. The instructor will not act without this form. A student may choose to reveal specific information about the nature of his/her disability, and may do so directly, or can provide written consent for the Coordinator to communicate with a faculty member.
What are the typical "reasonable accommodations" provided for students with disabilities at Felician University?
- The "reasonable accommodations" most commonly afforded students with disabilities at Felician University are as follows: Extended time on major test and exams.
- The provision of an alternate site for administration on major tests and exams.
- The use of a tape recorder or student note taker for lectures.
- The use of a calculator for computation problems on math and science tests and exams, and
- The use of a word processor or laptop for in class essay exams and tests.
The student's disability must warrant the specific accommodation(s) and such accommodation(s) must comply with the provisions of the ADA (1990) and the section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (1973).
Are there tutorial services provided by the University?
- Yes. Every student attending Felician University is able to register for and receive tutorial assistance with courses in the major discipline at the Center for Learning, located on the second floor of Kirby Hall (Room 222). In addition, every student at Felician University is able to receive tutorial support from the Writing Lab which is also located on the second floor of Kirby Hall (Room 225) and the Math Lab which is located in Room #4 on the lower level of Sister Theresa Mary Martin Hall.
Does Felician University provide a learning disabilities program?
Felician University does NOT provide a learning disabilities program. The Office of Services for Student with Disabilities is not a comprehensive learning disability program. There are no special classes or modified programs for students with disabilities, however, support services and accommodations are provided to eligible students with a variety of disabilities who request them after they are admitted to the University.
Does Felician University provide learning disabilities testing?
- No. However, the Coordinator can conduct an interview and screening for current Felician students to determine if there is evidence that a comprehensive evaluation is warranted. The Coordinator can refer the student to community resources for more comprehensive testing. The student is responsible for the cost of any recommended learning disability assessment.
Will my transcript indicate affiliation with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities?
- No. Affiliation with this office is confidential and not part of a student's official academic record.
Contact Information
Carolyn Mitchell Kehayan, MA., LDTC
Kirby Hall
Lodi Campus Room 104
Phone: 201-559-6050 / 201- 559-6052


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- lock_layer timed out (is the CPU pegged?)...
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I have now judged PFS tables three times and each time there has been at least one point during the session that has been a great moment for the players.
1. and 2. In Service to Lore
3. and my personal favorite so far comes from: To Delve the Dungeon Deep
Anyone else have any great table moments where the party prevailed or didn't at a critical point?
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Blood Under Absalom, tier 10-11.
The Roster:
Alexander Damocles, Sorcerer 9/Oracle of Lore 1/Paladin 1
Sarai, Sorc 11
LT, Monk 11
Doomed Barbarian, Barbarian 8
We grind it out to the final fight, and the Barbarian and the Sorc short their will save on Glitterdust. And then 3 water elementals show up. The monk can't grapple em, but he can try to hold em off (with DR, he isn't doing much here...). Which leaves me to do something. Dispel magic on the glitterdust for the Sorc so she can cast spells to actually hurt stuff (I'm a buffer, and those elementals sure didn't need a buff!). Kissed the caster level *EXACTLY*. Had a boon for signiture spell on my Dispel Magic, which is what saved that. Sorc begins to selective fireball the hell out of the room. Barbarian gets dropped through his stoneskin to the floor, and stabilizes. Damocles and Sarai manage to smack the suckers to death using some magic missiles and some nifty defensive casting. Huzzah, we win! K, bring up the barbarian, get ready to claim our prize....but why are we in init? Oh. Cause an elder fire elemental showed up...who has DR to block all of the monks attacks. Monk total defense, Casters just spam magic missile. Elder Fire Elemental gets taken out after 5-6 rounds (poor barbaran could only hide in the back). Drop it, low level crows about its lesser elemental victory. We shout back "Elder elemental, magic missile only. SUCK EM!". So, surely we won now, right? I mean, we're only mostly dead and running low on....aww hell. Monks. 3 of em. Sarai hastes, our Monk goes to tangle up two, and the barbarian and I start wailing on one monk (Note, nothing in this fight has been able to be targeted by my smite). We can't really hit the effing monk, and their reflex saves won't let the offensive sorc fireball them. So.....MAGIC MISSILE TIME! Barbarian goes down again, but stabilizes. So...yeah. Crap. Damocles, in just a robe, now tanks a monk, swinging his sword a few times but mostly body blocking for the Sorc who is dropping maximized magic missiles. My last magic missile takes out our monk. Our monk manages to kill off one of theirs, and then we start spamming the last one. Our monk grinds him down with a punishing flurry of blows and a bleed effect that really added up. Our table finished our set of monks first, triggering a cascading effect of lower challenges for the rest of the tables, who dropped theirs to end it before a 2nd wave of monks could hit us.
We ended it with our monk at 10 HP and 10 points of DR left in his stone skin. And me at 17 hit points, and a decent stone skin left, but will within flurry range to drop. A party, set up for a nasty challenge, overcame through sheer bloody determination, spells, and 43 charges from a cure light wand.
|Myron Pauls
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I once ran a group of 4 low-level clerics through City of Strangers, Part 1 & 2. It was an interesting couple of sessions. They all had decent armour, and low attack bonuses, so the typical combat went something like this:
Enemy: "Misses."
Cleric 1: "I swing, and miss."
Cleric 2: "I swing, and miss."
Cleric 3: "I swing, and miss."
Cleric 4: "I swing, and miss."
Enemy: "Misses."
Cleric 1: "I swing, and miss."
Cleric 2: "I swing, and miss."
Cleric 3: "I swing, and miss."
Cleric 4: "I swing, and miss."
Enemy: "Hits cleric #2 for 4 points of damage."
Cleric 1: "I channel positive energy, de-selecting the enemy. Six points back to everyone."
Cleric 2: "I swing, and miss."
Cleric 3: "I swing, and miss."
Cleric 4: "I swing, and miss."
Enemy: "Misses."
Cleric 1: "I swing, and miss."
Cleric 2: "I swing, and miss."
Cleric 3: "I swing, and hit! 2 points damage."
Cleric 4: "I swing, and miss."
Etc, etc.
I think each scenario took about 6 hours to play, but everyone had fun. It sped up a bit when they got the hang of aiding another on attack rolls, but I think they had an average DPR of 5 for the entire party.
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My favorite moment had to be playing a scenario with a couple of very enthusiastic brothers who were both under 10. Both were playing rogues. At one point, having maneuvered into flanking positions, they both cheered and yelled, "Alright, we got him in a rogue sandwich!" and punctuated that sentence with a high five.
That sheer glee in the game is precious and amazing to partake in -- even if second-hand.
|Lady Ophelia
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Intros 2
Me: Silver Crusader Cleric of Gozreh
Lineup: Alchemist, Fighter, Monk
GM: Points to poster above--Sarta (my gaming hero for his awesomeness.)
So we take the trade agreements, and when Amara Li asks if we find any trade agreements I just straight up tell her no.
Sense Motive: 10 vs. my bluff of NAT 20!!
The entire party desperately tried to give me away as a result so they could take it and sell it, but upon hearing that they would receive nothing for their work in comparison to what the Society will do for them, they quickly realized that I was in the right and gave in. :D
In the end on my chronicle sheet, Sarta wrote on my chronicle sheet "Silver Tongued". So now I have deemed her Miss Ondrea Stormslayer, the "Silver Tongued" Cleric of Gozreh, member of the Silver Crusade!
In the end, I am reminded why the Intros Series is one of the most fun and insane adventures in Pathfinder Society.
|The Lord
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Blood Under Absalom
The Theater
Four man party, me as an Undeadlord (before the nerf)
So i dress up my undead companion along with the rest of our group to make us a five man troupe. Given clubs and told not to do lethal damage to our opponents as they can't do any to us. We get on stage and I send "Nigeal" to the other side. With a decent disguise check and them failing their perception checks, they think he's a normal person and begin wailing on him. Yea me an another member of the team play to the crowd while the other members make short work of the opposing troupe.
That same game, we climb down into the graveyard to face the monk that will let us into the final area. Our GM has an elaborate set up, the board is made of sty. with much detail, has had made mini of the gong we are to ring, a custom monk. I mean A+ on the visuals here. Combat begins, I win Init. and have my "Nigeal" go first. He charges and crits. I then confirm the crit. with another 20. My companion is wielding a scythe, I roll damage, max damage. This is at a Con so their are still some people getting read the description of the room and then the hear the move on signal.
|Jiggy RPG Superstar 2015 Top 32, RPG Superstar 2012 Top 32
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My party was protecting an NPC in a building as the (corrupt) town guard demanded entry and threatened to break in and kill us all. The party had the main door well prepared, so I took my heavily-armored fighter over to the side door. Wanting to fight on my terms instead of theirs, I opened the door and stood in the doorway as the captain of the guard came to engage me one-on-one.
After a couple of swings, a pair of ghouls approached outside.
I wished the BBEG luck, and closed the door on both him and the ghouls.
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The party is in persuit of the BBE, and get to a building with two NPC guards outside. Uthdan barbarian types. Plainly they do not want to persue the BBE into the building, and so we push our "Face" PC to the front to tell them that we'll handle it.
Well... the "Face" in this party is my wifes Aasimar Cleric - who is 5+ months "with child". She steps forward and says - "Boys, relax, have a beer, we have this one easily handled." and brushs past the Barbarian guards, followed by the rest of the party, 2 of whom are halflings.
Yeah, this fight was handled by the women and children - and one of the ladies was pregnant.
|Gwaihir Scout
We Be Goblins.
The rogue has been badly poisoned, and essentially sits out the fighting in the final area. The BBEG proceeds to wipe the floor with the other three. The rogue enters the fray by leaping down onto the BBEG's animal compaion, knocking it out, and barely manages to get a potion down the cleric's throat. After a long drawn-out battle that had the fighter going down multiple times, they finally win without losing anybody.
|Walter Sheppard Regional Venture-Coordinator, Northwest aka WalterGM
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My party was protecting an NPC in a building as the (corrupt) town guard demanded entry and threatened to break in and kill us all. The party had the main door well prepared, so I took my heavily-armored fighter over to the side door. Wanting to fight on my terms instead of theirs, I opened the door and stood in the doorway as the captain of the guard came to engage me one-on-one.
After a couple of swings, a pair of ghouls approached outside.
I wished the BBEG luck, and closed the door on both him and the ghouls.
This reminds me of a good one.
Underground tunnel system. We open the door to see some derro and mites with large jars. The jars are filled with centipedes, enough of em to drop two swarms on my fighter. I rush further into the hall, bottlenecking all the NPCs from getting into the room.
I start getting eaten alive, and the cleric throws up a wind wall to keep the swarms out of the room. My Andoran companions cry out that they need a mite alive, so I keep soaking the swarm and pick up the unconscious faction mission NPC and throw him back towards the group. The derro have been unloading crossbows into me, but can't hit s$~&, so after another round of failed attacks on their part, I step back through the door.
There's a moment where the derro see me give a haggard smile, look down at the centipedes who turn to converge on them (swarms go after the closest target) and slam the door shut. We listen to them scream and get eaten for a couple of rounds, then open the door and toast the swarm.
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We Be Goblins:
The PCs fought and killed the giant spider and decided that, since Lotsalegs was so scary, they would try to "hollow out" the carcass and use it to scare off any random encounters in the swamp.
Of course, they decided that they needed to be more "spidery", so they constantly twitched the carcass's legs and yelled, "GRRAARR! I'm a spider!" as they traveled through the swamp. When they got to the fence around Vorka's ship, they had a big IC argument about whether spiders can open gates or if they should just try to climb over the fence in a "spidery" fashion.
Needless to say, Vorka was not at all surprised by the party.
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In the last fight at the Pyramid of the Dog we snuck up to the toward from the south side.
I cast Vanish and move to the base of the tower. I then Slumber the dog and then move to the base of the tower. Next I Cackle and make a readied action to Slumber the first enemy I see.
Well lucky for us the BBEG peeked over the edge and my Slumber landed. The BBEG then failed a reflex save and fell next to me. The Cleric then finished him off.
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Monte cook's Ptolus
we (11th level) started a fight with a 15th level cleric.
My paladin of Jergal (Gold god of death: weapon of choice, the scythe) acted first.
maximum power attack and smite evil on the cleric. Critical hit confirmed. (2d4+3str+2magic+11smite+22powerattack)x4 dmg.
and the cleric's head rolled over the ground.
|Jiggy RPG Superstar 2015 Top 32, RPG Superstar 2012 Top 32
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Here's a couple from when I was the GM:
I tried out a homebrew 4E campaign, and in a "practice fight" to teach my family the system, my brother wanted his warlock to pick up a handful of dirt to throw in someone's face. Seeing as the intent was to accomplish it as a single move action (so no spending time tugging or whatever) and he was standing on grass (as opposed to a pile of loose dirt), I called for a DC 5 STR check. He failed, and has yet to live it down ("the warlock who can't pick up dirt").
I ran Citadel of Flame recently, and during an intermission one of the players spontaneously thanked me for (quoting as best I can recall) "your application of the rules and knowing them so well". Felt pretty good. :)
|Kyle Baird
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|Dan Luckett
Just one proud moment.
What, not proud of making a Paladin willingly sacrifice himself to a CE god?
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GMing Rise of the Goblin Guild (no spoilers) and three dwarven brothers who work for the Szcarni are interacting with the owner of a knackery.
Dwarves: "If we solve this problem for you, what's in it for us?"
NPC: "What? I don't have anything. I'm already paying protection to three or four different gangs."
Dwarves: "Doesn't seem to be working out too well for you just now, does it?"
NPC: "Well, I suppose I could pay you back in horse jerky."
Dwarves: "Make it horse-on-a-stick, and you've got a deal."
At the end of the session, I wrote the following on each of their chronicles:
"While in Magnimar, once per session may receive one free portion of Horse-on-a-Stick from *specific vendor whose name I can't remember* per session. (No game effect.)"
You should have seen their faces light up when I handed out the chronicles.
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GMing Rise of the Goblin Guild (no spoilers) and three dwarven brothers who work for the Szcarni are interacting with the owner of a knackery.
Dwarves: "If we solve this problem for you, what's in it for us?"
NPC: "What? I don't have anything. I'm already paying protection to three or four different gangs."
Dwarves: "Doesn't seem to be working out too well for you just now, does it?"
NPC: "Well, I suppose I could pay you back in horse jerky."
Dwarves: "Make it horse-on-a-stick, and you've got a deal."
At the end of the session, I wrote the following on each of their chronicles:
"While in Magnimar, once per session may receive one free portion of Horse-on-a-Stick from *specific vendor whose name I can't remember* per session. (No game effect.)"
You should have seen their faces light up when I handed out the chronicles.
I take my hat off to you sir.Bravo, Jeff. Bravo!
|Walter Sheppard Regional Venture-Coordinator, Northwest aka WalterGM
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Here's my best story. I posted it elsewhere once before, but if you can handle it, it's worth the read.
The game was Sniper in the Deep, and all you need to know about it is that it is a mainly aquatic affair. There were four players at my 5-9 table: gnome oracle (7), gnome summoner (5), human ranger (9), and half-orc barbarian (9).
Regarding the barbarian: As a result of a previous game, the barbarian currently owned only two items – a Rod of Wonder and his +1 keen greatsword. He had been unlucky while questing through Hersey of Man pt. 3, resulting in a TPK and a guilty conscious. He sold all his other gear to paid for everyone else's raise dead, and shelved the character. Months passed, and he decided to give the character a play and see what happened.
During their second fight against a swarm of crabs, the barbarian reduced his size to tiny, and then to fine as a result of his Rod of Wonder. The fine size gave him a space of ½ a foot and a reach of 0. His AC increased by 8, stealth by 16, and CMD/CMB dropped by 8. His strength was 18. The effects lasted for 24 hours. None of his gear was reduced as well, leaving him unarmed and naked at about an inch tall. He gave all his equipment to the ranger for safe keeping.
23 hours remaining As the party is healing up from the crab fight, the barbarian dives into the waters and stealths into the sea cave. He finds it bare, save for some Macguffins, which he snatches up and returns with. The spellcasters decide to rest and recover spells. The barbarian and the ranger head to the local smithy, so he can purchase a masterwork fine sized greatsword. It is the size of a pin and deals 1d3 damage. They stay up drinking instead of sleeping.
9 hours remaining The party heads to the ship wreck. The summoner conjures a bat, and the barbarian flies in, under the radar, to scout it out. With a +26 on his stealth and rolling a natural 20 on the check, he dives off the bat and is able to swim through the entire wreck and report back what lies ahead, although he misses the lookouts on the top deck, as they were stealthing as well. He informs his friends: 3 spectral looking undead, 2 giant eels, 2 slimy humanoids, and a clerical fellow and his ghost minion.
8 hours 40 minutes remaining The party swims down stealthily, drawing the attention of the two rogues above deck. They end up getting into a fight with the specters and the rogues at the same time. In the combat, the barbarian is only using his rod, as the non magical fine sized sword cannot effect the undead – the humans having being killed off by the ranger one round after the other, but not before the oracle dies gruesomely to a pair of sneak attacks. The summoner's eidolon takes 6 negative levels and poofs, and the barbarian takes 6 as well, reducing him to around 40 HP. They finish off the undead. The begin healing up, and the summoner heads to the sea floor to resummon his pet. This draws the attention of the eels and the two skum barbarians.
8 hours 38 minutes remaining Combat starts and the three remaining players are woefully unprepared and split. The barbarian becomes the focus of the eels, who have substantial trouble hitting him. The ranger takes on the two skum, and drops after a round, getting ripped apart. The summoner goes invisible and retreats as he sees the barbarian get grabbed by an eel's bite. The eel drops the barbarian to -4, who then stabilizes. I rule that the eel then swallows the barbarian, as he is the size of a quarter. The skum take the body of the ranger below, and begin to loot him. The summoner returns to town, intending to return the next day to retrieve their bodies.
38 minutes remaining After a night of rest in the belly of the eel, the barbarian awakens with 5 hit points. His water breathing is still in effect, and his fine sized greatsword is at the ready. He just needs to wait…
0 minutes remaining The barbarian returns to size, exploding from the eels intestine (which I decide kills the poor thing) and immediately begins raging. Before him is the other eel, baffled at what is going on. They roll initiative. He wins, takes two attacks with his fine sized greatsword. He has penalties to hit, but still manages to crit on a natural 20, confirming and one shotting the other eel from bonus damage alone.
1 round of rage used He heads into the next room, bare ass naked, and sees the two skum fast asleep, recovering from the wounds the received earlier. He also sees the ranger's body and his +1 keen greatsword. He grabs the blade -- "Coup de grace! Coup de grace!" He swims to the opening at the end of the room.
Me:"You can swim up, to the surface, or down, to where the cleric was."
Him: "I swim down."
Me: "Huh?"
4 rounds of rage used Dargo Mar is praying, his ghost patrolling around outside. The skum informed him earlier that one of the interlopers had escaped, and he was hoping to catch the summoner by surprise when he returned to get his allies bodies. With that in mind, he went to bed to rest, and has recently awoken, equipped, and begun his prayer so he could prepare animate dead again -- hoping to use the ranger as another meat shield. His prayers are violently interrupted as he takes a blade through the chest. He turns to see a stark naked man covered in blood swimming over him. Before he can react, the blade cuts through him even more, dropping him to 0 health exactly. He staggers back, and casts his mightiest spell – slay living. The barbarian shrugs off the effects, steps forward, and the last thing Dargo sees before leaving this world is the steel of the sword cleaving through his skull, along with an image of the barbarian's wang burned in his mind, along with the question: "Wait, what?"
Some time later The summoner is violently awoken as his door is smashed open. Before him is a naked, sopping wet man with a sword strapped to his back. Over one shoulder he holds the two bodies of their fallen companions, with a bloated eel carcass over the other. He slams the eel body to the ground, its mouth regurgitating the various corpses stuffed within. He sets his allies to the ground and points at the summoner:
The summoner is stunned, but manages to spit out a reply. "Why...how...wait--do you have an erection?!"
It was the most outrageous, exciting, and all around fun game I've GM'd in a while, and everyone had a blast. A barbarian with 5 health killed four mobs and the BBEG, all while naked and entirely by himself. No one questioned how a barbarian the size of a thumbtack could live in the gut of an eel (don't worry about it, he had water breathing yo) -- we just rolled with it and had fun.
|Amazing Red
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This is a recent story from Pacificon, so it is fresh in my mind.
We were in the final encounter. The wizard successfully split our party due to his teleporting(high tier). We then hid out in the corner of the cavern to get out of his line of sight. There were 3 unconscious people already. One of them being the halfling gunslinger who I had to carry off the burning bridge right before it came down. So we thought we were safe since we were out of line of sight. Then the wall of fire came down and killed the druid and cleric. The fighter in the party walked out to finish fighting his summons. The wizard, being out of spells, teleported to us next round, the only spell he had left being burning hands. So my barbarian walked out of the fire, fatigued(had to exit rage to stabilize the cleric the round right before the wall of fire killed him), saw the caster, walked up and spartan-kicked(bull-rushed) him off the cliff into the deepest part of the pit. All with 10 hp left. Apparently it was 190 feet down which killed the BBEG wizard. It felt very epic and one of my proudest moments.
|Amazing Red
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At the end of the session, I wrote the following on each of their chronicles:
"While in Magnimar, once per session may receive one free portion of Horse-on-a-Stick from *specific vendor whose name I can't remember* per session. (No game effect.)"
You should have seen their faces light up when I handed out the chronicles.
I think there's another thread where Mike is asking what we want to see on our chronicles going forwards. Horse on a stick (no game effect) is far more interesting than a +2 flaming greataxe!
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Jeff Mahood wrote:
At the end of the session, I wrote the following on each of their chronicles:
"While in Magnimar, once per session may receive one free portion of Horse-on-a-Stick from *specific vendor whose name I can't remember* per session. (No game effect.)"
You should have seen their faces light up when I handed out the chronicles.
I think there's another thread where Mike is asking what we want to see on our chronicles going forwards. Horse on a stick (no game effect) is far more interesting than a +2 flaming greataxe!
I still have my peppermint flavored Cure Light Wounds Potion from <redacted>.
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Jeff Mahood wrote:
At the end of the session, I wrote the following on each of their chronicles:
"While in Magnimar, once per session may receive one free portion of Horse-on-a-Stick from *specific vendor whose name I can't remember* per session. (No game effect.)"
You should have seen their faces light up when I handed out the chronicles.
I think there's another thread where Mike is asking what we want to see on our chronicles going forwards. Horse on a stick (no game effect) is far more interesting than a +2 flaming greataxe!
To be honest, I think making sure GMs know they are allowed to add flavour bits like this to a chronicle - as well as ensuring there's time to do so - is a really important part of recruiting GMs.
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This last Dundracon, I ran a table of First Steps Part 3 for a group of 11 year olds. Before leaving the city, one asked about buying a pet. He wanted to know what the cheapest animal he could buy was. I told him that if he succeeded on a gather information roll he could find a free cat. This was definitely inspired by earlier editions of D&D, when cats were listed with horses as free.
The entire table quickly got very excited. A flurry of die rolling ensued and most everyone wound up with one. One of the unfortunates told me he was willing to pay for a trained cat. For ten gold, he wound up with a cat that knows the following tricks: Will use a litter box after a one week adjustment period to a new location, will occasionally heel when repeatedly called by name, and will occasionally play with a ball if rolled to her. All the cats were added to chronicle sheets.
Fast forward three months to KublaCon and those kids still had the cats (and were role playing with them). Even better, the owner of the "trained" cat had purchased barding for his cat.
Customizing chronicle sheets is so simple and has an amazing payout - especially for role players.
|Thomas, the Tiefling Hero!
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I played at a 7-player table where I was the only non-Osirion (well, Osirion/Grand Lodge; it was an older scenario, so they shared a mission) at the table. Between the six players who were not me, they managed to completely miss a faction mission, yet I accomplished the goal myself as a byproduct of my roleplaying, earning the six of them their Prestige point.
Enemy: "Misses."Cleric 1: "I swing, and miss."
Cleric 2: "I swing, and miss."
Cleric 3: "I swing, and miss."
Cleric 4: "I swing, and miss."
Enemy: "Misses."
Cleric 1: "I swing, and miss."
Cleric 2: "I swing, and miss."
Cleric 3: "I swing, and miss."
Cleric 4: "I swing, and miss."
Enemy: "Hits cleric #2 for 4 points of damage."
Cleric 1: "I channel positive energy, de-selecting the enemy. Six points back to everyone."
Cleric 2: "I swing, and miss."
Cleric 3: "I swing, and miss."
Cleric 4: "I swing, and miss."
Enemy: "Misses."
Cleric 1: "I swing, and miss."
Cleric 2: "I swing, and miss."
Cleric 3: "I swing, and hit! 2 points damage."
Cleric 4: "I swing, and miss."
Sounds like 85% of watching a baseball game unfold! (well, except for that damage stuff)
Had another awesome moment tonight. Vati, Sacred Shielding Light of Abadar, goes busting into the middle of the room. 6 Skeletons charge, none hit. She starts laying about her with her silver morningstar, and then the cleric walks up, channels, and no more skeletons. Tanking an entire charge and their follow up attacks? Yeah, Vati is a boss like that. WOOT!
|Mike Bramnik Venture-Captain, Indiana—Southern aka CanisDirus
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#3-07 Echoes of the Overwatched -
Characters are exploring the first level of the Tower of the Horn, and I've been having the party roll random Perception checks to make the players paranoid (also because they hadn't run afoul of the Merrow or Reefclaws yet). I mention that they see the mosaic at the far end of the northern hall (3C), when...
Player 1: "Ok, I take out my crossbow."
GM (Me): "Um, ok?"
Players 2-4: *Quizzical stares*
Player 1: "I shoot it! Does a 15 hit?"
Me: "Oook...it breaks against the wall."
Player 1: "I shoot it again - does a 19 hit?!"
Me: "Er...it too...breaks...against the wall."
Players 2-4: *Confused glances at me*
Player 1: "Dude, how hard is it to hit this thing and not the wall?"
Me: "Dude, you're shooting at the wall.
Player 1: "I thought I was shooting the mosaic?"
Me: "The mosaic is the wall! It's like a mural, a tiled-artistic wall!"
Players 2-4: *Laughing loudly*
Me: "This is like a 2D Gazebo story...this is totally going on the PFS boards!"
Maybe not a "proud" moment, but I think the players all enjoyed it :)
|Mike Bramnik Venture-Captain, Indiana—Southern aka CanisDirus
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Alright, two groups, same scenario.
So, this is my first time GMing this scenario after having played it at Paizocon. They're playing at the upper tier and manage to get down to the room with the holding cells after some... Entertaining encounters above. Due to their own placement in the hall of tablets, caught 4 of them in the explosive runes trap, much to my amusement. They waltzed right past the graven guardians thanks to wearing the amulets. I shock the everloving carp out of the barbarian in the false gate room. Oh the lulz.
Anyway, they get down to the room with the aspis guards and their dire wolf. The guards jump to arms and sick the wolf on the party while they stand back pelting them with arrows. Que awesomeness by the hurling focused barbarian and the wacky gnome bear shaman.
Druid: I ready an action to wildshape into a dire bear.
Me: O...kay?
Druid: *looks to the barbian with a grin* Toss me.
Barbarian: *big grin* OKAY! *hucks the gnome druid at the wolf*
Druid: *wildshapes into a dire bear mid-air, impacting the wolf for 4d6+ the barbarian's strength*
Wolf: HRRR?!
Wizard: *fireballs the wolf*
Wolf: *ded*
Group 2:
They get in passed everything. Once again managed to tag 3 party members with the explosive rune trap (apparently standing in a cluster together is a normal behavior for adventurers when someone's reading a magic tablet?). Waltz past the graven guardians again because of the amulets. Rogue gets shocked repeatedly by the false gate room. Their shenanigans amused the Quasit enough she showed herself to this group and offered to help in exchange for their helping her get home. They get down to the holding cells...
Once again, a wacky barbarian causes shenanigans. He went down, ripped the door off the hinges into the holding cells room. Squashes one of the aspis mooks in one hit using the door. Next turn, squashes the wolf in one hit (they played the lower tier) with the door again. The other two surrender after one heck of an intimidation roll (because, really, we were a little low on time and they weren't going to slow the PC's down for long).
They get down to face the BBEG. The fight goes on for a few rounds as they PC's figure out what's going on, two bridges are taken out with a fireball, yadda yadda.
So. Marion, the librarian barbarian, hucks the door at the BBEG, taking him from a few points away from full health (he got hit by one arrow from the cleric) all the way down to two from unconscious. D-dooring away for fear for his life, the BBEG tries to retreat out of his range. Marion, on his next turn, pulls a book from his bag and hucks it across the room at a -8 to hit at the range penalties. He hits.
Marion: *hucks door at BBEG*
BBEG: OOF! *D-door's away*
Marion: *whips out book and hucks it* LUUUUURRRRRN!
BBEG: *eyes widen in horror as he watches this book go flying across the cavern at him, almost in slo-mo before it nails him squarely between the eyes, taking him into negatives*
Quite probably the most amusing death of a BBEG I've seen in a long time.
TLDR: hurling focused barbarians are the bane of Storming the Diamond Gate's BBEG, and they really do create some of the most hilarious shenanigans.
|Kuro Poe
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Great stories! Here's a few shining moments from the career of my "Bard-Barian", Herger Storhoi (Human (Ulfen) Fighter 1/Bard X).
Tiring of the hit'n'run tactics of a small white dragon, he readies an action to grapple a dragon (and no, he does not have improved grapple). He does so, then walks him bodily into a Flaming Sphere.
DM: "But you'll take the damage too"
Herger: "So? I can take it, I'm a MAN!!"
(He had a reputation at lower levels of doing the same with swarms in his space, just breaking the alchemist's fire over his head and stating the same line.)
The party is on a raft, silently approaching a pirate ship at anchor. Tired of waiting in line to climb the rope to stealthily board the ship, he makes an Expeditious Retreat-assisted climb and acrobatics check to leap from the raft, grab the rigging, fling himself onto the deck Tarzan-style amongst the startled pirate crew and yelling "Get off my ship!!"
Herger has also (before they outlawed Intimidate-Fear stacking) forced a tower shield-weilding half-orc bodyguard to flee not one, but two encounters in a single scenario. He forced some kind of evil outsider to fly away just by flexing his massive biceps and doing his best Macho Man Randy Savage impersonation. When struck in the chest with a "sticky bomb", his response was to hack down the stack of crates his assailant was standing on, then dive onto his foe's prone body like he came off the top rope. His Perform/Oratory are speeches about how awesome he is mixed with pro-wrestler style self-aggrandizing. His Perform/Singing are songs about how awesome he is. Let's not talk about his Perform/Wind skill, as it might involve beans and/or cabbage. His ability to roll any Knowledge skill while having a single digit Int score is entertaining, to say the least.
But the best tales involve his buddy, Nyss. Herger, a huge ulfen, magic-weilding warrior of Taldor, and Nyss, the slight, magic wielding rogue (rogue/diviner/arcane trickster) of the Quadira faction, together they look and act a lot like a certain other pair from fiction...
Herger Storhoi: Men fear him! Women... well they probably do too.
|Giamo Casanunda
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The board seems a little negitive today - a bit of a downer.
So I figured I'd push this thread back to the top - it often brings a smile to hear a good story or two.
I've posted this one on a different thread, but it works here too...
My heavy armor cleric can't hit the broad side of a barn. It's the -2 from the tower shield and the fact that his strength is 10... anyway, I usually don't even try.
During character introductions, I explain that he has the Love domain, and profession matchmaker, so as he introduces himself to each PC he says in a faux french accent, "so, are you currently involved in a long term relationship?"... this often leaves players speachless (esp. female players), but moving on, he forges ahead with the introduction.
Now flash forward to the middle of a dungeon crawl and the PCs are searching a room. My cleric is against one wall in the center of the room, when a LARGE secret door opens to reveal a LARGE demon right next to my cleric. The judge says - "what do you do?" and with out missing a beat I reply "I look up at the Demon and say 'so, are you currently involved in a long term relationship?'"
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I GM'd this module about weeks ago and really liked how one of the players passed the entire Act 2: The Underdocks solo with no combat. She was a Ninja that disguised herself as a Katyia from Act 1. She was able to bluff her way pass the guards, convincing them she worked for The Consortium. She even was able to Slight of Hand the leather-bound manifest log as they left the bunker.
These poor guards have too low a Sense Motive and Perception...but was fun for everyone at the table.
|Steven Schopmeyer Venture-Captain, Arizona—Phoenix aka TriOmegaZero
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I was a last minute volunteer for Space City Con, signing up to run the entire First Steps series on Friday. (Last minute volunteer seems to be my role since Paizo Con. )
It was totally worth it to DM for the two nieces of my one player, and help coax them into the game. They were incredibly shy, and the other players had already been through the series, so we tried to get them to make decisions about where to go. From pushing dire rat minis slowly across the table while asking them what they were going to do about it, to roleplaying the old sea dog captain for them. Just a real pleasure.
|Vanessa Hoskins Contributor
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My favorite GMing moment was also from 0-02: The Hydra's Fang Incident:
When the players arrived at the ship, they managed to convince the random crew members that they were some of the new recruits (with an outstanding Diplomacy check). Once on board, they failed to impress the Captain. When the players mentioned that they were there to solve the Captain's problems, he agreed they could be of use and showed them the way down to the hold. Not wanting to admit they didn't know what the "problem" was, the players agreed. Once they were all down the hatch, the sailors closed the trapdoor and pushed a barrel over the top of it.
The players figured they might as well see what was behind the door and proceeded to fight the bloated ghouls. After a close fight, the PCs asked to be let back up, which was denied. The pirates figured after starving the PCs out for a few days they'd be too weak to fight back.
Well, the half-orc PC started to hack away at the side of the ship with his greataxe, figuring they could swim out. As soon as the Captain hears this, he sends his mates down below to take care of them before they make a hole in the side of his ship.
By the time the pirates managed to get below, almost all the PCs had escaped out the hole with great swim checks or by summoning dolphins to bring them back to the row-boat. The only one left was the pre-gen fighter who fought and killed all but one pirate, who decided it was time to retreat and leave him in there to die. Valeros chases after and takes an AOO crit which drops him to negatives and he falls off the ladder, taking more falling damage. He's now only a few hp away from bleeding to death, but he manages to stabilize.
Meanwhile the escaped PCs got back into their row boats and retrieved the stashes of alchemist fire they had bought. They spent the next several rounds rowing around the Hyrda's Fang and bombarding the deck with fire. The Captain eventually tries to escape on his own dinghy, but they light that on fire too. The captain then gives up, trading his life for promises of riches. The PCs accept, only long enough for the rogue to sneak attack him, then feed his body to the druid's raptor pet.
Not, as GM, how I thought that fight would go, but better than anything I could have anticipated.
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I've had a few really great moments, but here is my favorite, by far. I've posted this before in the Rats of Round Mountain Part I thread, so this may be familiar to some of you.
The swarm and cave-in definitely hurt them, but no one was too seriously wounded. The gug fight was a different story though. One of the clerics was dropped to -13 after rend, with his 14 CON. One party member selflessly ran through an AoO to get to the unconscious ally and hit him with a wand of CLW before expiring.
However, the most entertaining and memorable part of the scenario came at the very end.
When Xiangnuer approached the party, they had a difficult time coming to any sort of agreement in terms of proper tribute. The Halfling Alchemist offered "sexual services" and the Halfling Bard offered up a song instead of items of monetary value. This, of course, angered Xiangnuer, but gave the party one last chance to pay proper tribute. As the party went back to deciding what to give up, the Alchemist has a brilliant thought.
Alchemist: "Guys, this dragon isn't real. It's totally an illusion."
Party: "NO. It's real."
GM (Me): "Well, you'll have to interact with it in order to tell if it's an illusion or not."
Alchemist: "I've seen this before. Trust me guys, I know what I'm doing."
A little context...
He walked up and touched the dragon, telling her she wasn't real.
You have no idea how difficult it was for me to contain my laughter at this point. But, based on the fact that they had previously insulted her, especially the same player with his sexual offers, I felt that she wouldn't take such an insult so lightly as being told she doesn't really exist, especially based on the backstory provided.
So, I had them roll initiative, stating that the dragon looked pissed and incredibly unhappy that he did that to her. The Alchemist wins at initiative and proceeds to draw his weapon and Power Attack her. And missed. If he would've thrown himself down and apologized, I would've let him walk away, but I felt that he cemented himself in this combat by striking first. And thus, Grumblebelly the Halfling Alchemist was slain that day after a breath weapon, followed by a critical hit on a bite the following round.
The rest of the party stayed out of the fight, either falling prone and praising the great Xiangnuer, or going invisible and hiding. It was absolutely hilarious, and everybody was laughing hysterically, even the Alchemist player. I didn't necessarily intend to kill him, as dropping him unconscious would've been adequate in my mind. Unfortunately, he chose not to heal after the Breath Attack and the successful crit did him in. He wasn't upset though, thankfully, and the Cleric had Raise Dead along with the appropriate components on hand.
It was definitely one of the most hilarious and memorable moments I've ever had GM'ing for Pathfinder Society. I'm looking forward to the damage (and stories) to come from Part II.
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Party is about to jump into the final fight.
The Dwarven cleric, wanting to try out the new spell IronBeard, gets the druid to let him cast it on her AC - a Large T-Rex. So they burst in on the BBE and rushing into melee is a Bearded T-Rex. To make it worse - the Sorcerer in the party hits the (non-humaniod) BBE with a Hidious Laughter, and we have the following....
Judges discription went something like this - "As the doors burst open and a Large figure rushing into the room, (insert BBE name) whips around ready to respond to the thread - only to catch sight of the animal companion and collapse into gales of laughter. Hand clutching his sides the rocks back and forth, drumming his heels on the floor. Every few seconds he draws a breath - only to catch sight of the bearded lizard again and erupt all over again in giggles."
Needless to say - the fight went well for the PC's. The BBE missed the second save and it was all over from there....
I do think the AC was a little hurt by the reaction to his charge though. It was kind of a Toy Story moment.
|Tim Statler Venture-Lieutenant, Missouri—Cape Girardeau
|Paul Rees Venture-Agent, Virginia—Hampton Roads aka Darius Silverbolt
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A very long time ago a fresh set of Pathfinders attempted to play Hydra's Fang at my house.
We had four players plus me as a GM. We were all getting excited about PFS and the fact pathfinder was keeping our 3.5 book useful. (Core Rulebook wasn't out yet)
So the party get their mission from Osprey and off we go for some fun.
...then it went bad....Monte Python style...
The party get to Lubor's Imports and buys the girl in distress crying hook, line, and sinker but the party does stay outside of the office and the thugs successfully make hide checks to stay out of view flanking the door.
Finally the party wizard somehow see through her crap-tastic story and charges into the room and we go to initiative. The Big Bad Evil Girl wins the initiative and critically hits the wizard with her quarterstaff and he drops. The Thugs take their turn and stay hidden in the shadows awaiting more people to enter.
The Cleric gets all heroic and moves into the room and is hit by both longsword attacks and it knocked out as well. The remaining two players (both fighters) wade to combat and are killed in the next round as the thugs hit again with the longswords and the "wizard" critically hits with the quarterstaff again.
The rolls for the bad guys are just scary good while the players never hit anyone. The session was over in a span of 20 minutes....
We are all laughing how bad it went luck wise and the players changed their PFS #'s on the sheet to -2's and we decided to try again for the scenario. The wizard changes his PC to a rouge and the party tries again.
The were able to get past the 1st act this time but for some reason took lots of time "scouting" the place out ;-) Of coarse the RPG's gods above don't like this so when the party get to act three. The group is in small boats and are flipped by two Sahuagin. No one has ranks in swim (3.5 days Armor Check penalty was doubled for swim) and with all that armor everyone either dies by drowning or is torn apart by the Sahuagin.
So my first time GM'ing I TPK'ed the party twice in the same scenario but to be honest the whole day was a blast and we laugh about it once in a while but my players at least put 1 rank in swim now.
The game was more of an experiment to see if we liked what we saw from Paizo involving PFS. As you can see it sort of stuck with me.
|Mike Bramnik Venture-Captain, Indiana—Southern aka CanisDirus
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We Be Goblins!
The players then declared WBG their favorite scenario/module of all time, and that was all within the first 30 minutes of playing :)
So we come to a hallway and there are a bunch of goblins at the other end not really attentive. The fighter charges ahead but falls into a 15-foot long 20-foot pit with a Gelatinous Cube. The archers steps up and fires a volley. The goblins then move to the other edge of the pit and start throwing fire at us and the fighter.
I step back 15-feet and then move and jump over the pit in a rage, bull-rush two of them out of the way and am now in the middle of them.
Shadow's Last Stand—Part I: At Shadow's Door
Küssmir was a typical paladin: he was not only stupid, but also an idiot. His life accomplishments included tearing down window bars with his bare hands and smashing a glass window (golem?).
What killed him was a epic sneak attack performed by certain hobgoblin. During the surprise round very high AC protected him from the initial attack. Unfortunately on the following full round the highish initiative of 18 was not enough to beat that of the hobgoblin. Therefore Küssmir didn't see the second surprise sneak attack which critted and made a whopping 23 points of damage.
This would have killed the paladin if not the player had forgotten to use favourite class option and GM ruled that it was OK to put that to hit points on the fly. This gave one extra round for Küssmir to survive. He died on his following round because while init of 18 was not enough to beat the hobgoblin, it was barely enough to beat both of the healers in the party.
What makes the death ironic is that before the encounter Küssmir had suffered two points of damage: one from the last fight and the other from fishing things out from acid vats (faction mission). Had this damage be healed, Küssmir would still be alive and hitting. In the fight before the encounter channel energy was used. It was able to affect everybody, including monsters, besides the poor Küssmir.
As a side note the scenario took place in a cathedral. The party of 1 level characters included a cleric, a paladin, an oracle and a monk - of which no one knew anything about the religion.