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when does the df version become available
PDFs generally go on sale about two weeks after subscriber shipments go out or around when the books show up in retail stores after they go through the distribution pipeline. I'd say around the middle of the month on this one, but the Paizo guys can probably give you a more precise date.
Let me start off by saying I love love love the pathfinder adventure path. The quality of your products, particularly the adventure path's is second to none!
That being said, please Paizo get rid of the set piece adventure and please return to giving us 10 pages of material that is directly related to the storyline. I know we have the option of running this material in our campaign but I would rather have material that is directly related to the story and not have to come up with an idea of why my pc's would bother going on Captain Grudge's ship.
Mr Baron
(Pathfinder Adventure Path Charter Subscriber; Roleplaying Game, Campaign Setting, Modules Subscriber)
I liked the combats, the roleplaying, and I loved the plot overall.
But I'm not a fan of these set-piece adventures. It feels like they're just taking up space or killing time. This one certainly felt that way. Ship battles are nothing new, any ameuteur DM could create something identical. I kind of felt the same way about the set-piece in #14.
So I'm a little curious... is there a better explanation as to why Greater Teleport doesn't permit travel between planets? As it stands the explanation presented under the 'Spells' category doesn't make much sense and seems like a weak attempt to restrict such travel only to those capable of casting ninth level spells. Mainly because the arguments provided are virtually all rendered null and void by the fact that teleportation takes the traveler through the astral plane. It doesn't require comprehending the distance or speed of the planet, nor does the magic go through actual space to get there (and thus cannot be diffused) so is it just to make sure that lower level travel between the planets is restricted to gates? Or is there, perhaps, a better explanation?
Don't get me wrong, I love the article, but the given explanation is weak from a flavor and mechanical explanation.
I tend to agree that the argument against Greater Teleport being able to transport people to the other planets feels a bit weak. It does give DMs who don't want to take their campaign there an out, though. I think it would be more logical to assume that wizards don't teleport to the other planets because they aren't aware of them, or have no good reason to go, rather than put up a "rules wall" to prevent it.
Still, I too love the article, as a whole.
If you want greater teleport to allow planetary travel in your game, go for it!
We decided to set it up the way we did to make interplanetary travel less easy to do with spells, so that travelers would need to seek out other types of travel (portals, spaceships, whatever) to get from planet to planet. That, and teleporting across such immense distances is a HUGE step up from going from continent to continent, and it just felt right to prevent such power from being something you could achieve at anything lower than very high level.
If you want greater teleport to allow planetary travel in your game, go for it!
We decided to set it up the way we did to make interplanetary travel less easy to do with spells, so that travelers would need to seek out other types of travel (portals, spaceships, whatever) to get from planet to planet. That, and teleporting across such immense distances is a HUGE step up from going from continent to continent, and it just felt right to prevent such power from being something you could achieve at anything lower than very high level.
I get where you're coming from on that sir. I was thinking that Greater Teleport allowed for interplanar travel, and based on that assumption I didn't think traveling to another planet was more powerful than traveling to another plane of reality. I seem to be confusing 3e's Greater Teleport with the old Teleport Without Error from 2e. That happens to old fogies like me sometimes. :)
If you want greater teleport to allow planetary travel in your game, go for it!
We decided to set it up the way we did to make interplanetary travel less easy to do with spells, so that travelers would need to seek out other types of travel (portals, spaceships, whatever) to get from planet to planet. That, and teleporting across such immense distances is a HUGE step up from going from continent to continent, and it just felt right to prevent such power from being something you could achieve at anything lower than very high level.
I understand. Were I to run a campaign involving the planets I might do the same or perhaps go the Forgotten Realms Underdark route wherein you cannot teleport there due to the radiation. Have that act as the little caveat in the spell description mentioning that magical and physical energy might hamper teleportation magics.
