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OK, a few issues with Guide to the River Kingdoms.
It would be nice for each section to have a little picture showing WHERE in the RK it is, so we don;t have to keep flipping to the front and playing Where's Waldo.
This ties into the second problem, some of the places are mis-described in the book.
For example, page 45: Scrawny Crossing.
First Sentence: At the edge of an abandoned ferry crossing in the Eastern River Kingdoms...
But don't look for it there on the map. Look in the east all you want, but on the map, Scrawny Crossing is about as far WEST in the River Kingdoms that you can go and still be in the River Kingdoms.
There is at least one other instance of this in the book (I'll need to re-read it again) but it made it tough to find the places on the map.
Other than that, a great book. And at least I had something to do in the airport waiting for the bumped flight. Trying to find Scrawny Crossing took some time...
It would be nice for each section to have a little picture showing WHERE in the RK it is, so we don;t have to keep flipping to the front and playing Where's Waldo.
I'd certainly love for them to make more books formatted like the Guide to Korvosa. It had nice little mini maps for quick reference.
There is at least one other instance of this in the book (I'll need to re-read it again) but it made it tough to find the places on the map.
Mossbridge or Mossriver or something like that. Dang, already starting to forget. -_-
It would be nice for each section to have a little picture showing WHERE in the RK it is, so we don;t have to keep flipping to the front and playing Where's Waldo.
Even though doing that would mean less text content for that kingdom's entry? Especially for the one-page kingdoms?
This ties into the second problem, some of the places are mis-described in the book.
For example, page 45: Scrawny Crossing.
First Sentence: At the edge of an abandoned ferry crossing in the Eastern River Kingdoms...
But don't look for it there on the map. Look in the east all you want, but on the map, Scrawny Crossing is about as far WEST in the River Kingdoms that you can go and still be in the River Kingdoms.
Oops, that's my fault. I mean, James Jacobs' fault!!
I got my copy of the book today. Seems to be a very good one. A lot of variety in it, that´s for sure.
My group will start Kingmaker in a few weeks. I´m the GM. I wonder, how much of the material in the this guide I can use. There´s only a small section covering the Stolen Lands. And I got the impression, that nearly all of the campaign will take place in that region. Does that mean, that most of the guide will be useless? No Lambreth, no Sevenarches? These are some of the coolest places in all of the River Kingdoms. It would be a pity, if they´re completely left out of the six adventures.
I got my copy of the book today. Seems to be a very good one. A lot of variety in it, that´s for sure.
My group will start Kingmaker in a few weeks. I´m the GM. I wonder, how much of the material in the this guide I can use. There´s only a small section covering the Stolen Lands. And I got the impression, that nearly all of the campaign will take place in that region. Does that mean, that most of the guide will be useless? No Lambreth, no Sevenarches? These are some of the coolest places in all of the River Kingdoms. It would be a pity, if they´re completely left out of the six adventures.
While elements from other River Kingdoms will pop up in Kingmaker now and then, the entire AP takes place in the Stolen Lands and parts of Pitax. The Kingmaker AP isn't intended to give a tour of the River Kingdoms.
The main action of the AP takes place in the Stolen Lands and in
There are a few references to or appearances by people from other RKs, and there is so much downtime built into the campaign that PCs certainly have the opportunity to explore the other RKs as much as you would like them to; you might even want to reward them for their efforts with boosts to their kingdom's Economy score for establishing trade routes or friendly relations with other RKs, but the core of the AP is about the PCs establishing their own kingdom in the Stolen Lands, not a travelogue of the other RKs.
What was the release date for this? It seems to be the only Pathfinder Chronicle to date that I do not have. I also can't figure out why I haven't received it automatically with my subscription if it has already released.
Tam
Tam:
It was shipped out in February. Did you get an email in February saying that we were going to ship it? You should post in the Customer Service thread and ask Cos or Sara Marie to check into this for you. Sounds like a sub that got lost in the system for some reason.
-Lisa
I got my copy of the book today. Seems to be a very good one. A lot of variety in it, that´s for sure.
My group will start Kingmaker in a few weeks. I´m the GM. I wonder, how much of the material in the this guide I can use. There´s only a small section covering the Stolen Lands. And I got the impression, that nearly all of the campaign will take place in that region. Does that mean, that most of the guide will be useless? No Lambreth, no Sevenarches? These are some of the coolest places in all of the River Kingdoms. It would be a pity, if they´re completely left out of the six adventures.
P.S. Glad to hear you're a Lambreth fan!
I just started reading this, and I located this thread in order to post a comment very much like this one...
I do want to point out that the guy on pg. 2 seems to have made quite the faux pas as far as the Six River Freedoms go.
...except that I got the impression that woman was a slave BEFORE the old king was killed. I wanted to post the question of how the previous king got away with such a blatant violation of the fifth freedom, but it looks like others may interpret that picture differently.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
I just started reading this, and I located this thread in order to post a comment very much like this one...
I do want to point out that the guy on pg. 2 seems to have made quite the faux pas as far as the Six River Freedoms go....except that I got the impression that woman was a slave BEFORE the old king was killed. I wanted to post the question of how the previous king got away with such a blatant violation of the fifth freedom, but it looks like others may interpret that picture differently.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
Well... rules ARE made to be broken, after all.
I just got this book and was a bit disappointed at the lack of maps. Besides the overall map of the area, there is nothing else. I was hoping for 'zoomed in' maps of the individual areas & towns. Is there such a thing for this region? Do all Chronicles guides have only one region map?
Some Chronicles books have lots of maps ("Heart of the Jungle is one example). Some do not. "Guide to the River Kingdoms" would certainly have benefited from a number of zoomed in maps, I agree, but scheduling and the fact that we had to fit ALL of the river kingdoms into the book more or less conspired to make including maps of each individual kingdom impossible. We would have had to extend the size of the book up to 96 pages and the price up to something like $25.00 if we included all those extra maps, and neither of those was a workable option (we're not sure customers would buy a $25 softcover book enough to justify its printing, and more to the point we didn't have the resources or time to add 32 pages with a LOT of maps to the book).
