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Acolyte on the right of the Aroden pic: Why do I have to be the one to hold the sword by the blade? I'm going to lose a finger again, and I won't be able to cast regeneration for levels yet. How come I don't get to hold the star like Sister Beatrice? That's nice and safe and not Owwwww, dang it, there goes the first one, and red shows on these robes so much!

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Serious question...
Why do pawn sets come out so late after their source material? The pawns for Bestiary 5 are scheduled to release 6 months after the book, and AP pawns usually come out months after an AP has started.
Do GMs who run APs and use pawns wait until the appropriate pawns arrive before beginning the AP?

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Serious question...
Why do pawn sets come out so late after their source material? The pawns for Bestiary 5 are scheduled to release 6 months after the book, and AP pawns usually come out months after an AP has started.
Do GMs who run APs and use pawns wait until the appropriate pawns arrive before beginning the AP?
The primary reason is that we have to wait until all of the final art for the source book is in. In the case of the APs, it means we can't even start putting the pawn collection together until we've sent the last volume of an AP to the printer.
In addition, pawn sets are a bit more complicated than a print book, what with the die-cut sheets, boxes, bases, etc., so they take more time in production.

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Can we get any information about that awesome-looking little goblin there? If he/she an occultist? I WANT ONE OF THOSE PUPPETS!!
It's obviously Banjo's influence upon the world of Golarion... His grasp is extending through the planes and through the stars to encompass EVERYTHING!

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cartmanbeck wrote:Can we get any information about that awesome-looking little goblin there? If he/she an occultist? I WANT ONE OF THOSE PUPPETS!!It's obviously Banjo's influence upon the world of Golarion... His grasp is extending through the planes and through the stars to encompass EVERYTHING!
To encompass a hatchet and a couple of sausages to say the least!
Ruyan.

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Any chance we can at least know which of those books Tup is from, so that we can make sure to get it? :-D
Tup is one of characters in the retrospective collection of NPCs in Song of Silver. He is the RotRL NPC.

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Nope; Tup was not in Runelords.
Pathfinder 100 has a 32 or so page article that presents a "bonus NPC" for each of the Adventure Paths that came before Hell's Rebels, each brand new, each written by one of the authors of the Adventure Path the NPC is appearing in. Tup was written by Richard Pett, I believe, who wrote the 2nd installment of Runelords. Each of these brand new NPCs is given full stats and details, along with info on how they can fit into the AP that inspired them or other APs that they might fit well into.

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All right, having read up...
Yes.
Tup is my favorite iconic.
The text goes above and beyond the visual.
A goblin pyromaniac who does puppet shows while kinda-sorta passing as a gnome. Who rides a sheep.
He will not only be the Terrible Tup at my table... he might just become Tup the Unkillable.

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All right, having read up...
Yes.
Tup is my favorite iconic.
The text goes above and beyond the visual.
A goblin pyromaniac who does puppet shows while kinda-sorta passing as a gnome. Who rides a sheep.
He will not only be the Terrible Tup at my table... he might just become Tup the Unkillable.
Agreed, Tup is the best character in the history of characters.
Note, though, that he is NOT an iconic. That has a specific definition. He's just a named NPC.