Schweet!

Will this be written by Michael Kortes?

Schweet!

Will this be written by Michael Kortes?

Awesome! (and now of course I can see his name on the product page. Doh!)

Not sure about the title myself but this has been a great week for fans of Osirion (and judging by the reactions there are lots of us).

For the record, I'm not that big a fan of Oririon; I'm a fan of Kortes' work. I facy that his writing's the reason that most people liked J1 so much.

Having said that, another race against another evil band of opponents? As a motif, really, I think enough GameMastery adventures have run that riff.

Thank you for listening to us fans. You have a poll to ask what sequels we want and here it is - by popular demand. I want to be the first to say - we want even more. I am loving everything you have done since beginning Pathfinder.

With a release of November 2008, I'm assuming this will be a 3.5 adventure?

Gotta wonder how they're going to (successfully) do a sequel to a 3.5 adventure (in November!) with 4e on its way.

Hmmm...

With a release of November 2008, I'm assuming this will be a 3.5 adventure?

I love Osirion, but this sounds less like a sequel and more like the exact same game.

For the record, I'm not that big a fan of Oririon; I'm a fan of Kortes' work. I facy that his writing's the reason that most people liked J1 so much.

Having said that, another race against another evil band of opponents? As a motif, really, I think enough GameMastery adventures have run that riff.

Having said that, another race against another evil band of opponents?

I just wanted to say that the fact that people are concerned about overlap and J4’s direction this early on means a lot to me. For what it’s worth I’d also like to say I am in agreement with the views expressed above. So are the Paizo guys involved and they actually looked into this independently quite some time back.

I’m not sure how much can be said this early in the schedule, but J4 will have a new shtick – no race against an NPC party this time. Hopefully it will prove to be something you will agree is relatively fresh.

There will, however, still be similarities. You should count on that part of the adventure will involve another pyramid exploration. And curses – definitely more curses. Also, those who played through the original will likely be well familiar with the Four Pharaohs of Ascension.

Right..what if you killed the other guys in the first one?

Anyways, thanks again to you all for your thoughts and impressions on this – always very valuable.

Michael Kortes, aka Ask A Shoanti...

Without detracting from this Product discussion, let me say how much I am enjoying running everyone in J1 right now. It looks very much like certain members of the Expeditionary will survive and be looking for revenge. That aside, I am glad that their living is not implicit in this adventure. I had a major close call that made me move things around a bit, but incredibly left the two villains in question captured instead of killed. I'd love to share with everyone interested in both of these modules here...

J1 Campaign Journal

Even more amazingly is that the people I gathered are none other than forum regulars Pygon, Daigle, Lilith and Eyebite to play in this. It has been a doozy of an adventure so far.

I also wanted to add that the Auction was a great and fun mechanic. I had my players wondering what the hell was going on when the underbids starting coming in on the really valuable items. I certainly hope to see more great scenes like this in the future.

After J1 is complete, this party will be set aside as another one of us GMs a different adventure, then we rotate through again. Once it comes time for my turn once again, this is the adventure our lucky party is going to tackle. Hopefully with some recurring villains and other issues that pull the storyline of both adventures together to form an epic.

Thanks again!

Yasha

Ask a Shoanti, I have a simple content question for you...

Thanks again.

Heya Yasha,

As a lowly contributor I never know for sure what will make the final cut in a final print product. Things gets removed, changed or enhanced due to space restrictions (or urp - quality control) and sometimes at the last moment. So I can’t make any definitive representations here. I’d be smarter to say nothing, but I love talking about this particular topic:

Have a good one.

FYI it's still in there. :)

FYI it's still in there. :)

Time to sacrifice some bounty to the development gods.

Ahhhh....was there some fear that those elements might be cut after Edward Scissorhands the Editor was finished?

Glad to know those mysterious and interesting elements have remained in the story.

I haven't been buying the modules (I can't really justify the cost for the page count, even with how awesome the art and writing is) but jeez are you guys doing a good job of heightening my interest.

I haven't been buying the modules (I can't really justify the cost for the page count, even with how awesome the art and writing is) but jeez are you guys doing a good job of heightening my interest.

I'm making with the looking forward to this very much.

The new art reminded me that I need to obsess over Osirion some more too.

Yes! Awesome! Playing Entombed with the Pharaos right now. Hurry up!

I love the new cover art!

While Kortes is indeed a fine writer, I think the reason J1 was so popular was because of its setting as well. There are a lot of us who love the setting.

Who did the cover art?

aye
the cover is great
mmm i need to elarn more of Orision, i have a few players that would love the setting...
going agaisnt evil archeologist... so much indiana jones.... they will love it...

Having said that, another race against another evil band of opponents? As a motif, really, I think enough GameMastery adventures have run that riff.

Who did the cover art?

I've updated the product description.

I developed this adventure, and summarizing it as "a race against another group" isn't really accurate.

And totally aside, I think everyone's going to dig the Hor-Kep-Ra. That's all I'm gonna say. :)

Curse you Sean K. Reynolds! As if I needed more heightening of my anticipation of this module!

Unfortunately, my group (Daigle, Lilith, Pygon and Eyebite, your truly as the GM) is on hiatus...about 1 session from completing J1. Schedule conflicts, I hate you. We are having an absolute blast with it. I am definitely expecting great things from J4.

I am still very much looking forward to running this as a sequel to J1 though, provided we can get those recent scheduling kinks taken care of.

And totally aside, I think everyone's going to dig the Hor-Kep-Ra. That's all I'm gonna say. :)

;)

Her hairspray seems to have been set on fire by the desert sun.

The "headlock" photo on the blog is simply stunning!

Kudos!

How effective would putting a mummy in a headlock really be though? "I have you now! All the blood will rush to your head and.......wait.........why are my arms turning black and dessicated?"

Silly paladin, headlocks are for people, not undead!

How effective would putting a mummy in a headlock really be though? "I have you now! All the blood will rush to your head and.......wait.........why are my arms turning black and dessicated?"

Silly paladin, headlocks are for people, not undead!

True regarding the immunity to disease, but Lem there looks like he's about to make a "Bardic Bathroom" check rather than attack :)

OK, this module turned out to way better than I imagined - I'm just not an Osirionophile. However, Michael Kortes has delivered an incredible adventure full of interesting plots, unique characters, memorable encounters and some great mechanics. Being a mathematician, I really dig this one!

Hey thanks DF! It’s always great to hear the adventures are getting read and enjoyed.

Glad the math-content resonated. Here’s to the Pharaoh of Numbers: making adventurer’s lives miserable since c. -1527.

Very dissapointed with this module and how linear it is, with little, if any room for PC choice; it feels as if events happen in a certain manner regardless of what the PCs do. One of my biggest pet peeves as a GM.

I really enjoyed reading through this module, and can't wait to run it for my group. I love the Egyptian flavor of Osirion - one of my favorite realms in PF.

Very dissapointed with this module and how linear it is, with little, if any room for PC choice; it feels as if events happen in a certain manner regardless of what the PCs do. One of my biggest pet peeves as a GM.

However, it seems to me there are plenty of opportunities for the PCs to be creative at the dig, and how they behave in the beginning will affect their reception when they come out.

The adventure is also amazingly cinematic. I've had "The Pact Stone Pyramid: The Movie" running through my head ever since I read it.

Anyone know if Paizo have a spare 20 million dollars to fund a low budget fantasy film? If not, did Michael retain the movie rights?

Very dissapointed with this module and how linear it is, with little, if any room for PC choice; it feels as if events happen in a certain manner regardless of what the PCs do. One of my biggest pet peeves as a GM.

a friend of mine got the J1 and say its really good, he plans on DM it to one of his tables and i am encouraginghim to run it also to our Online "table" for better effect i bought J4 as a christmas present for himin an intent to cajole him to run both this adventures to us :D

i so much want to try my mercenary in the hot lands of Osirion... i will tell you how it goes for us :D

Very dissapointed with this module and how linear it is, with little, if any room for PC choice; it feels as if events happen in a certain manner regardless of what the PCs do. One of my biggest pet peeves as a GM.

Anyone know if Paizo have a spare 20 million dollars to fund a low budget fantasy film? If not, did Michael retain the movie rights?

a friend of mine got the J1 and say its really good, he plans on DM it to one of his tables and i am encouraginghim to run it also to our Online "table" for better effect i bought J4 as a christmas present for himin an intent to cajole him to run both this adventures to us :D

i so much want to try my mercenary in the hot lands of Osirion... i will tell you how it goes for us :D

I really enjoyed reading through this module, and can't wait to run it for my group. I love the Egyptian flavor of Osirion - one of my favorite realms in PF.

Especially if your players come up with a cool new way to slow down the dig in the opening chapter. My egomaniacal players claim that even though they ran it first their sabotage stunts were the bomb and cannot be topped. I told them I would keep an eye out to see if there were reports of different or even crazier ideas.

Mwahaha....

We'll see what sort of Madness the ChatGroup can come up with when I subject them to it! Mwahahah

Checklist: (curses!)
__J4: Pact Stone Pyramid
__Guide to Osirion
__Guide to Absalom

Considering my group was based from Absalom and I try for major immersion...

Hmm...should get interesting.

just wanted to say this module is crazy. while most of the pyramid is not that great, IMHO, the digsite subotage and the finalle of the adventure are awesome. the pyramid is the bulk of the advanture, though, which is regretable.