Yeah, I'd like the keep the Low Templar, if not here, then updated elsewhere.

Maybe a prestige class for the "philosophies" that were presented in the original PCCS?

Hmm. If you have the developer hours spare, someone could always expand on the rules for bloatmages... :)

Hmm. If you have the developer hours spare, someone could always expand on the rules for bloatmages... :)

Way ahead of you.

AKA: There's no way we could release a book called "Guide to Kaer-Maga" without going into pretty deep detail about the most well-known and most-requested-for-more-rules-about elements of that city.

Woo-hoo!

:)
Although I feel you're putting unfair pressure on me here to acquire the Kaer-Maga guide which will mean something else has to go from my bookshelf.

:)

Although I feel you're putting unfair pressure on me here to acquire the Kaer-Maga guide which will mean something else has to go from my bookshelf.

You just need a bigger bookshelf is all.

He's lucky he can get his stuff in a bookshelf.After 36 years of gaming I'm occupying every spare cubic foot of house space with my collection

Charles Evans 25 wrote:

:)

Although I feel you're putting unfair pressure on me here to acquire the Kaer-Maga guide which will mean something else has to go from my bookshelf.

You just need a bigger bookshelf is all.

Or a bigger hard drive. Support Paizo's green pdfs.

James Jacobs wrote:

Charles Evans 25 wrote:

:)

Although I feel you're putting unfair pressure on me here to acquire the Kaer-Maga guide which will mean something else has to go from my bookshelf.

You just need a bigger bookshelf is all.

Or a bigger hard drive. Support Paizo's green pdfs.

I love my books... and I hate trees! ;P

Yeah, I generally prefer paper, if I have to choose. But we've got to help the shelf-challenged. Ya know, like dwarves to short to have tall shelves.

Yeah, I generally prefer paper, if I have to choose. But we've got to help the shelf-challenged. Ya know, like dwarves to short to have tall shelves.

I just have to say very funny Mairkurion...and it is made all the funnier because my bf's favorite class to play is just that...Dwarves. ROFL. And seconded get another bookshelf...or support the green PDF's. I like both, but I love trees Asgetrion.

About being Dwarf and short he says
1)Don't buy tall bookshelves
OR
2)Play a class with an animal companion (quadriped preferred) and use them as your step-stool.

Hey, LBR (Angela?), I'm always happy to entertain.

Hey, LBR (Angela?), I'm always happy to entertain.

Yes it's Angela :-)

Welcome to the boards, Angela!

Welcome to the boards, Angela!

Thanks. I've been wathcing them for quite a while now. I started GM'ing PFS about a month ago and found myself having to start posting. The community here is GREAT. Not all my posts are necessarily mine... as I spend more time on the boards than the bf does I find myself posting for him too. LOL. Any chance you are going to PaizoCon?

James Jacobs wrote:

Charles Evans 25 wrote:

:)

Although I feel you're putting unfair pressure on me here to acquire the Kaer-Maga guide which will mean something else has to go from my bookshelf.

You just need a bigger bookshelf is all.

Or a bigger hard drive. Support Paizo's green pdfs.

Yes but pdfs eat electricity which eats rocks, and if too much electricity eats too much rocks we run out of planet to stand on.

So, the least planet-destroying option is to make space by getting rid of things so I have space for more books and/or bookshelves (and trees are replaceable anyway, whereas rocks are a lot less so) but the problem is WHAT DO I GET RID OF????
Or maybe I could find some way to sleep standing up or suspended in mid-air... Hmmm.

There's a strict no-Texans policy at PaizoCon this year.

There's a strict no-Texans policy at PaizoCon this year.

Doing That or nuking it from obit are the only ways to be sure

There's a strict no-Texans policy at PaizoCon this year.

You guys and yr hate make sad. : (

Yeah, I generally prefer paper, if I have to choose. But we've got to help the shelf-challenged. Ya know, like dwarves to short to have tall shelves.

Well, according to the PF RPG rulebook we're medium-sized... so let's be caruful with those comments about height, right? If a shelf is too tall, I can always use my axe to make it shorter... or command my Imp Consular servants to get me the books! ;)

Mairkurion {tm} wrote:

Yeah, I generally prefer paper, if I have to choose. But we've got to help the shelf-challenged. Ya know, like dwarves to short to have tall shelves.

I just have to say very funny Mairkurion...and it is made all the funnier because my bf's favorite class to play is just that...Dwarves. ROFL. And seconded get another bookshelf...or support the green PDF's. I like both, but I love trees Asgetrion.

About being Dwarf and short he says
1)Don't buy tall bookshelves
OR
2)Play a class with an animal companion (quadriped preferred) and use them as your step-stool.

As I already posted, I prefer using my fiendish servants! And that's just one of the perks of being Evil... want to see for yourself? Just sign this contract with your blood, and I'll promise you won't regret it! ;)

He's lucky he can get his stuff in a bookshelf.After 36 years of gaming I'm occupying every spare cubic foot of house space with my collection

These guys should be able to help you out, then. ;-)

I would have an issue if there was a Venture-Capt. PrC. As cool as it would be it sets a standard on Venture Captain’s having the same traits.

You have too many different VCs out there to define it into on super class.

Not to mention that no active, adventuring PC could really be a Venture Captain. Staying in one place, managing a region's Pathfinders, reporting up the chain of command...

Becoming a Venture Captain requires more than just deciding to take a level in a prestige class. And Venture Captains are not all the same; they've all got their own specialties.

A Venture Captain prestige class doesn't make sense, in other words. Similar to how a "King" prestige class doesn't make sense.

He's lucky he can get his stuff in a bookshelf.After 36 years of gaming I'm occupying every spare cubic foot of house space with my collection

These guys should be able to help you out, then. ;-)

Whoa. At first I thought it was a joke.

As for me ... I just have lots of stuff in banker's boxes :(

(and milk crates, and copier boxes, and ...)

My biggest issue right now is what to do with all my minis.

Becoming a Venture Captain requires more than just deciding to take a level in a prestige class. And Venture Captains are not all the same; they've all got their own specialties.

A Venture Captain prestige class doesn't make sense, in other words. Similar to how a "King" prestige class doesn't make sense.

And this is why I love Paizo. WotC seemed to adopt the attitude that every single specialty/profession that could be imagined withing a fantasy world needed it's own prestige class. I'm sure some people loved that, but to me it was just unnecessary bloat. They would publish a book, and while there was just barely enough good stuff in it to make me interested (and sometimes enough for me to buy) I felt that the majority of most of the book was filled with such bloat. The environmental books were a great example. They could have taken all the actually useful info from the series and put it all in one single book.

James Jacobs wrote:

Becoming a Venture Captain requires more than just deciding to take a level in a prestige class. And Venture Captains are not all the same; they've all got their own specialties.

A Venture Captain prestige class doesn't make sense, in other words. Similar to how a "King" prestige class doesn't make sense.

And this is why I love Paizo. WotC seemed to adopt the attitude that every single specialty/profession that could be imagined withing a fantasy world needed it's own prestige class.

Yeah, imagine if there was a prestige class devoted to being a pirate in The Shackles. Ridiculous!

;-)

Kthulhu wrote:

James Jacobs wrote:

Becoming a Venture Captain requires more than just deciding to take a level in a prestige class. And Venture Captains are not all the same; they've all got their own specialties.

A Venture Captain prestige class doesn't make sense, in other words. Similar to how a "King" prestige class doesn't make sense.

And this is why I love Paizo. WotC seemed to adopt the attitude that every single specialty/profession that could be imagined withing a fantasy world needed it's own prestige class.

Yeah, imagine if there was a prestige class devoted to being a pirate in The Shackles. Ridiculous!

;-)

It certainly IS ridiculous. Which is why that prestige class is going away in the reprinted book.

hogarth wrote:

Kthulhu wrote:

And this is why I love Paizo. WotC seemed to adopt the attitude that every single specialty/profession that could be imagined withing a fantasy world needed it's own prestige class.

Yeah, imagine if there was a prestige class devoted to being a pirate in The Shackles. Ridiculous!

;-)

It certainly IS ridiculous. Which is why that prestige class is going away in the reprinted book.

An excellent decision. But it goes to show that even the great folks at Paizo can make the same mistakes as WotC did (on occasion, anyways).

Gee thanks Hogarth....we can still live in the house and I do weed stuff..about every 5 years or so.

And my tag should tell you why I'm going to have to weed out my 3.5 stuff soon..

I mean who needs the Forgotten Realms any more...we have Golarion.

The Venture Captain suggestion was a moment of Madness I admit..I'm sort of glad the low templar looks like being kept.

firbolg wrote:

James Jacobs wrote:

Asgetrion wrote:

Even if I love my Pathfinder CS, I'm glad that this and the map folio are coming out! :)

James, will the cover stay the same, or are you going to replace it with new art?

It's getting a new cover by Wayne. The book's going to look VERY different than the current one.

Good to hear- can we please get a decent scan for the cover this time? The last one was just so anti-aliased, it was downright off putting :)

Nah. I was thinking this one would be so pixellated you could use it as a battlemat.

touche, sir.

Actually, a divine spellcaster type prestige class would probably be a GREAT idea. Hmmmm...

Brightness Seeker would be my vote! I'd say it was a little underpowered in 3.5 and worse now that the base classes are stronger. It still wouldn't need much than some pet progression and maybe two spellcaster bumps (3 if it's +1 level of druid, but it should probably be more inclusive).

It's also got one of my favorite prestige class art pieces. The daivrat and the living monolith also have some good art pieces, but the lion's blade mustache is as bad as Clark Kent and his stupid glasses. Also, the LB looks like Wild Stallions rejected him, so he wields a sword instead of an air guitar.

[puppy eyes]

May we still have the "fighter college" option? My fighters have so much more self esteem now that they have degrees from Korvosa State.
On a serious note, I really like the fighter education option. But I understand if you feel the need to send fighters back to G.E.D. status.

I LOVE the fighter college option (For those who dont have the 1st Campaign Guide, it basically allows you to drop the extra feat fighters get at first level to get 4 skill points/ level instead of 2/ level and it adds a few more class skills. It's a good tradeoff and allows you to build a fighter who can hold their own better in non-combat roleplaying situations. Great for Fighters without a lot of INT. And it encourages single-class roleplaying fighters...

Even if it does make my old one obsolete, I still want this! Besides, I can always give my old copy to my friends who love playing in Golarian but prefer 3.5 to PRPG. Problem solved!

Also, the LB looks like Wild Stallions rejected him, so he wields a sword instead of an air guitar.

That's a girl. :-)

Maybe we can get "World Guide: Outter Sea" or other similar product.

I was just reading this awesome post on customs and folklore of the Flanaess (Greyhawk) and wanted to just put a bug in your ear about considering having a couple distinct little local customs like this for each region in the Inner Sea book. Sometimes in the rush to describe a region and make sure it's got a bunch of good adventure hooks, it's overlooked to put in something characters from there can use. There's a lot of Inner Sea countries where when I read the descriptions from a "I want to draw inspiration for my character" point of view, I feel like I need a little more - there's broad brush stroke "oh I could be an escaped slave since they're into slavery" stuff but a little more man-on-the-street level regional quirks would be boss.

Just noticed that this was likely to see a reprint, updating it to Pathfinder and stuff.

While I'm sure y'all have a spellchecker, I've noticed a few that snuck through in the last couple of days, and, unlike what I normally do and forget them before I even get to the next page, I wrote them down;

p 172 - Entry for Baalzebul, 'throuh the buzzing of flies'

p 214 - Entry for Aurochs, 'form the relevatively small herds' (the 'the' doesn't flow with the rest of the sentence)

p 115 - Entry for Castle Urion - 'Iomadae' should be Iomedae

p 231 - Mantis Form - not a typo, just something unclear, is the quickened fear usable only in Mantis Form? The sentence feels out of place, as if it was part of another entry that got dropped into this entry.

Will this include a full size fold out world map, such as the one provided in the back of the 3E FRCS?

Will this include a full size fold out world map, such as the one provided in the back of the 3E FRCS?

A beautiful poster map reveals the lands of the Inner Sea in all their treacherous glory.

p 231 - Mantis Form - not a typo, just something unclear, is the quickened fear usable only in Mantis Form? The sentence feels out of place, as if it was part of another entry that got dropped into this entry.

The quickened fear ability is only usable in mantis form.

As for the typos... the goal is indeed to get as many of them cleared up as possible for the new edition of the book, which will be coming out this Autumn.

Gambit wrote:

Will this include a full size fold out world map, such as the one provided in the back of the 3E FRCS?

Product Description wrote:

A beautiful poster map reveals the lands of the Inner Sea in all their treacherous glory.

Ahhh yes, apparently I havent put enough ranks in my Reading skill. Thank you Lilith.

Ahhh yes, apparently I havent put enough ranks in my Reading skill. Thank you Lilith.

No problem. *offers cookie and a beer*

Gambit wrote:

Ahhh yes, apparently I havent put enough ranks in my Reading skill. Thank you Lilith.

No problem. *offers cookie and a beer*

*nom nom nom* *gulp gulp gulp*

Ah, that hits the spot..so what are you doing in a place like this beautiful *charming smile*

I was just reading this awesome post on customs and folklore of the Flanaess (Greyhawk) and wanted to just put a bug in your ear about considering having a couple distinct little local customs like this for each region in the Inner Sea book. Sometimes in the rush to describe a region and make sure it's got a bunch of good adventure hooks, it's overlooked to put in something characters from there can use. There's a lot of Inner Sea countries where when I read the descriptions from a "I want to draw inspiration for my character" point of view, I feel like I need a little more - there's broad brush stroke "oh I could be an escaped slave since they're into slavery" stuff but a little more man-on-the-street level regional quirks would be boss.

I love stuff like that. I think it really brings nations to life. Though it might be best to see most of that stuff in chronicles and companion books, though a couple of lines for each country would be nice. Along with major exports, imports etc.

All other posts are like "if I own the old book, will I need / want the new book?" - I would like to get answer to the exact opposite. If I plan to buy the new book for sure, is there any sense in buying the old Campaign Settings right now?

All other posts are like "if I own the old book, will I need / want the new book?" - I would like to get answer to the exact opposite. If I plan to buy the new book for sure, is there any sense in buying the old Campaign Settings right now?

Well, it's nowhere near official coming from me, but my advice would be a big fat "no". There will be small bits and pieces that don't get transfered over, but overall what I've seen is that ALMOST everything from the Campaign Setting will be put into the new book, with a lot more extra added in as well. I plan on e-baying my dead-tree copy. As for my PDF...well, I will still have access to those few little bits of information that don't make the cut to the new book.

He's lucky he can get his stuff in a bookshelf.After 36 years of gaming I'm occupying every spare cubic foot of house space with my collection

No that I can sympathise with :)

All other posts are like "if I own the old book, will I need / want the new book?" - I would like to get answer to the exact opposite. If I plan to buy the new book for sure, is there any sense in buying the old Campaign Settings right now?

I got the old one:

A. To get it off the shelves so they'd print the new one :)

B. To complete my collection now.

C. Because I'm Veruca Salt (See B).