Session Guide

This thread serves as a guide to run a session in Anchor's End, and also a short guide on how Arcadia Recon Charter works. This thread also grants basic privileges from FirstMate to all DM to certain aspects, given that they agree to follow the guide presented here.

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Introduction

Anchor's End is the central city of the colony, the home of and also where the main port exists. It serves as a central hub of the campaign where the headquarters of Arcadia Recon Charter stands. It is also the default home of all Player Characters (PC). Due to its unique shared world, several precautionary moves are needed to prevent paradoxes to happen.

One way to prevent paradox is to keep things blur, and each player is responsible to have their character somehow preventing paradoxes, even by adding layers of suspensions of disbelief. By keeping the details blurred (especially time and space), PC can have some buffers to prevent paradox when there is a conflicting time or space with other players.

Another matter about the shared world is, no events may bleed out to wider area or impact, especially in time and space. This could make running urban session in Anchor's End a big challenge, but that is the use of Compound: each DM can have their own Compound inside the large-but-not-crowded city.

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HQ of Arcadia Recon Charter

The HQ of the Pathfinder Society Arcadia Recon Charter is a relatively nondescript ex-manor of some sort, called the Arcadia Lodge. It is understaffed, but usually there is always a secretary who is standby on their shift to help with mission registrations, executions, payments, and other bureaucratic works. Usually a Hell Knight or a couple of Armigers also standby nearby at all times, to prevent bad things happen to the fledgling adventurer's guild.

As stated before, one of the most important thing in using a shared world is preventing paradoxes, and it can be done by avoiding pinpointing time and space. Keeping things blur and by not making your character standby at the HQ is one thing, and it is player's responsibility to provide the character with internal and external motivations to do so. Basically, if somehow a PC is stuck at this place and creating paradox to others, whatever the reason, it is player's mistake and also their responsibility.

DM who use the HQ as starting point or closing point of adventure should also be cautious, especially in the case of Parallel Sessions. Please avoid pinpointing certain date and time; it is better to keep it blur, by saying "around Day x or x+1", in example, and by keeping things brief on the HQ.

DMs can also have their own unique Secretary of Society. They are basically a certain NPC who helps the PCs to deal with the many paperwork and such, but has low knowledge on everything else. In addition to Secretary of Society, DMs can have their own one unique Hell Knight and/or a couple of Armigers; their number should be less than 3 total for all time. Their role is to prevent random bad things to happen.

Further, since the HQ is an extremely shared common ground, that even a single detail could affect other DMs. Therefore, please remind each other for not making or requesting any details (even simple matter like how many chairs or what is the color of window), and most importantly: no memorable or influential event may happen around the HQ. Some DMs might tempted to use it as some plot point, or accident, or event, or treacherous secretary, and so on. The basic rule of this is: No. Immediate retcon and possible stern consequences for those who ignore this rule. Please use your own Compound for such matters, and keep it contained to your Compound, and you must make sure there is zero possibility of the problems bled out.

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Compound

As a total opposite of the HQ, a Compound is where the DM has more freedom as they can control (according to their ranks, and of course no epic nor planar events or other extraordinary out of setting matters). They have their own mortal laws, they can have their own law enforcement groups, and so on. It is highly advised to use Compound instead of HQ inside a session, except with prior permissions from FirstMate.

To make a Compound, a DM must first consult with FirstMate. Upon approval, they must post the description of the Compound, as a reply to this thread.

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Items and Supplies

Regardless anything, there are several hard rules regarding supplies that can be bought anywhere in Anchor's End. This is to standardize how supplies in Anchor's End is not always well-stocked, and that sometimes PC cannot just buy or sell their wares easily.

Finding Merchant
Before buying or selling one kind of goods, a PC must spend few hours of perusing the city utilizing the Gather Information activity (Diplomacy check). For consumables, PC must also declare the quantity of the same goods, from 1 to 10. Please follow the DC of the table, with the Task Level equals to the item, and task difficulty is Hard (+2) for Common item; you cannot interact with nameless NPC to buy or sell Uncommon or Rare item in Anchor's End. You cannot find seller or buyer to items with level equal to or higher than Anchor's End current level.

• Critical Success
• Success
• Failure
• Critical Failure

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Basic Housing

This thread serves as a guide on living costs at Anchor's End.

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Introduction

There are plenty of abandoned houses and cheap rents at Anchor's End. Therefore, the costs for living at Anchor's End is adjusted, with additional notes. There are several grade of living, with their costs and quality of life too. For a basic guide, please check the Cost of Living page. It is fully your responsibility for accounting the housing.

Subsistence
You live at an abandoned decrepit small room, barely fitting for living. It could be a small shelter under a bridge, an empty room on an alley, and the likes. You eat basic gruel from the charity, or make-do of whatever you can find, including fishing off the dirty shores.
Weekly: 2sp (7 days)
Monthly: 1gp (until the same date next month)
Yearly: 12gp (until the same date and month next year)

5 days package: 15cp
10 days package: 3sp


Comfortable
You live at an abandoned small house or a normal small inn room, decent enough for living. You eat normal food from the dining hall, or can obtain relatively fresh and healthy food.
Weekly: 1gp (7 days)
Monthly: 4gp (until the same date next month)
Yearly: 52gp (until the same date and month next year)

5 days package: 7sp 5cp
10 days package: 15sp


Fine
You live at a nice house or a good suite at a luxury inn. You eat high quality food from restaurants, or can obtain fresh, healthy, and delicious food.
Weekly: 30gp
Monthly: 130gp
Yearly: 1600gp

5 days package: 25gp
10 days package: 50gp


Extravagant
Not Available at Anchor's End.

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Compound: Shurelia Compound

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This is a compound acting as an intermediatory between Anchor's End and Aurora Forest.

It was once abandoned due to the 'Apocalypse', but now has been revitalized, due to the statement of the Holy Woman of Aurora Forest, as a reconnection between Aurora Forest and Anchor's End, and to ease the travelers going to Aurora Forest.

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Information

You can gain all the normal informations regarding the Downtimes, Areas, Market, and Housing of Aurora Forest as mentioned in Aurora Forest Thread.

No special information may be gained from this Compound.

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Trades

Currently, there are no trades here. Even if there are, it will follow the same rules as the Anchor's End.

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Special Downtime

You can start Special Downtime from here, if the Special Downtime allows you to.