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Please cancel my AP subscription. Keep my other subscriptions open though.

Thanks,
Dennis

True, but the rules should be set up in such a way that a GM has to TRY to be a jerk. With the Ranger Favored Enemy as it is in the rules, he can be a jerk without even meaning to. *Points to the above posts that mention GM's completely forgetting about Ranger favored enemies*

As for the GM/ player feeling it's "cheating", get over it. The professional game designers at Paizo feel this is appropriate stuff to divulge to players. They sell what are considered the best adventure paths in the industry. Maybe they know a little about what is appropriate?

In the PLAYERS GUIDE for Council of Thieves it has the following paragraphs:

A ranger’s best choices for favored enemies in Council
of Thieves are (listed alphabetically): humanoid (human),
outsider (lawful), outsider (evil), outsider (native), undead.
Good secondary choices include aberration, animal,
construct, fey, humanoid (giant), magical beast, and
monstrous humanoid. Opportunities to fight all monster
types occur in the Adventure Path, but the ones listed
above are most common.
A ranger’s best choice for favored terrains are urban
and underground. Good secondary choices include forest,
mountain/hills, swamp, or water. Other favored terrain
choices are poor selections for the Council of Thieves
Adventure Path.

I get the point folks are trying to make about it being wonky and I used to feel that way but then I realized that this is a cooperative game and the GM is supposed to be helping the players make effective characters. Think of picking the characters first favored enemy as part of building his backstory.

... nice.

They have secretly mentioned all the important playtesters names in the 24th word of the chapter headers. Check Page 29 as an example.

Zark wrote:

DM_Blake wrote:

Skeletons don't even have tendons or muscle, yet they can walk and wield weapons.

It was just an example. They do have legs and hands and knees and elbows etc.

Well, true, but the minute you start saying "OK, your rogue sneak attack's the skeleton and chops off its leg." is the same minute you'll hear "Sweet! Now I'm going to use that move on an orc. And a dragon! And..."

Even so, if you've ever played an encounter where skeletons keep fighting when they have been cut in half and they are dragging their bodies across the floor with one arm and swinging their femur at you... it's pretty cool. (but totally house ruled)

I would like to suspend my Chronicles Subscription for a few months.

thanks!

Dennis

My Blog on it

post is up. Thanks guys

I'm still enjoying the beta... I am a little nervous that some of the change I really like might go away

Hmm... I'm not sure the reviewer is above is completely unbiased ;)

No problem Ross

Good luck, good to see someone we know and like moving in to the Vacant Paizo spot!

I'll Volunteer to GM a game or 2. I haven't done PFS before though so I'll have to figure that bit out.

Do I get to pick my slots? I would prefer Friday Afternoon and Sunday AM.

Not interested in critical heals :)

Rob, it's not any more rolling than the current system. I would say that you can only crit or fumble the first roll and that affects the entire casting.

Someone should be able to smurf it to page 31.

Pax Veritas wrote:

A bunch of smurfin' nonsense

Smurf me more!

Bummer!

Thanks for running it while you could Uber!

Just a quick comment, while I was reading characters I noticed Lucious and Savrah both have miscalculations on HP. Should be Max Class HP+ Racial Bonus+Con.

Racial is 6 for both human and elf I think... check the beta.

I didn't catch any other goofs and I'm generally not going over stuff with a fine toothed comb but I just happened across that.

Overall seems like a good party mix.

Ok sorry for not having character up yet got her done and i'll post her tommorow morning.

don't worry it's not the evil character i'll save it for a neutral group.

the only thing i would like is to be able to take a leopard as a first level druid animal companion,i'd just reduce the stats significantly?
and call it a younger leopard.

looking forward to it!

sorry again for the delay=(

No worries on the wait... Looks like Monday is the soonest I'll have the PDF anyhow.

Looks like everyone's character except Apathy... I haven't had much chance to look them over, but I don't foresee any issues. Word is the AP ships on Monday. I figure I'll put the first official post up and start the campaign thread then. I'm going to be out of town until then so I might be slow responding to questions until then.

I was gonna say you got my scraps but I wouldn't mind having any of this crew as players. I seriously thought about trying to give it a go with 8 players but... this is better.

Do i have to take a campaign trait? none of them suit my background=(

Ultimately the campaign traits serve as a way to help players get in both time and character motivation. There is a pretty decent amount of flex in the traits and I'll let you bend them even more. Ultimately, if you can't make one of those work I have to wonder if your character is going to work in the party.

Ogre, how about faction feats from the Pathfinder Society guide? I'm specifically thinking of Dervish and Scimitar Master from the Qadira faction. (Don't really want to be a Qadiran Pathfinder, but I like the feats and the flavor.)

Ogre, are Tieflings still ECL +1? Human will work, otherwise.)

Screw it i'll roll LE rogue, i've been toying with the character idea for too long now!

and i think i have an idea to get him friends with the good aligned
chars=)

also whenever you can post the campaign traits would be great=)

Yoda might move them in which case you can probably find them here:
Character Options

What you get there is what I think is legal for me to repost... I'm not entirely sure what I can post to be honest. You need to flesh those out a bit and I can help you with more details if you need it.

Ross Byers wrote:

If I play a sorcerer, I'm looking at the Blue Dragon, Fire Element, or Infernal bloodlines. Since Flash wants to make a fire-aligned sorceror, that would lead me to the other two.

I am soooo in a Sorcerer kick at the moment. The Bloodlines have seriously made them my favourite Class. I have all kinds of Sorcerer concepts running around in my head. Five of my PbP characters I have made (well 6 including this one) have Sorcerer thrown in somewhere in their build.

Blue Dragon Disciple was going to be my first choice. I also thought about a "fish out of water" Silver Dragon Disciple as well, but then I remembered the Vudrani Fire Monk concept I had thought up but didn't get a chance to play with, so I threw that into the pot. The character will primarily be Melee, even though there will be Sorcerer levels in the mix.

Oh and hey we have 3 RPG Superstars in this game... that should make things Dazzle! ;)

i suppose i might take my Le rogue in another PBP sometime if theres no other choice, and roll a good char,

also i don't have the players guide

i have a good question for the trait and campaign trait im taking rich parent and duskwalker agent...

now as a fighter ave start gold is 175...do i add the bonus from the duskwalker agent to the 175 making it 350+ 900 (rich parent)=1250

or do i add it to the bonus of
1075 (fighter ave + 900 rich parent) x 2(duskwalker agent) making it 2150

I don't have a problem with evil alignments but I know at least one character was talking LG cleric so the question is can you get along reasonably well? What is going to motivate a group with alignments all over the board to stay together?

In any case I'm not an alignment nazi, play what you want.

Any questions or discussion about the campaign should go here.

Rules info:[list]

I thought about this and I think I'm going to stick with the first 6. That would be Agognon, Ross, Rob, Apathy, flash_cxxi, and Nasserath

I plan on putting the first post up Monday morning so if everyone could have their characters ready to go by then it would be great.

Discussion thread is here

Alternates are: Robin, Mark Thomas, and Seeker.
Sorry guys, I would love to take everyone but I think logistics would be a mess. I'll post up here if I need any more people.

I was thinkng of a Monk, only because I have been toying with a concept for a little while. But it is (not wholly, but at least in flavour) dependent on some Feats from PHB2.

I'm going to start a Legacy of Fire play by post campaign. I would like a faster paced group if possible.

Also, if players give me enough information I might play 2 rounds of an encounter to speed things along when I think it's reasonable.

The game will be using the Pathfinder RPG rules and any Paizo sources. WotC supplements are on a case-by-case basis (but I'm pretty reasonable so if you want it ask).

Rules info:
15 point buy
Racial hit points
Average starting gold
All races have favored class "any" (chosen at first level)
Characters get 1 trait plus one campaign trait.
(Traits supplement )

If you don't have access to the players guide for the campaign traits let me know and we'll work something out.

I'll take up to 6 players and the game starts... in a couple weeks when I get AP#19 :)

I was thinking it's small enough a miniature/ gaming gear swap would be cool. I'm not sure how that might work out.

0gre wrote:

Is it too late to switch my subscription to monthly and combine order 1147360 with the other order due in a couple weeks? Either way is fine but I'd prefer to wait and save the shipping cost.

I have moved the order back into your sidecart, and changed your combined shipping method to "Hold for Monthly Shipment". It should wait for the monthly shipment, but this is a fairly willful part of the automated system, so I can't really guarantee that it won't ship anyway.

Thanks,
cos

Is it too late to switch my subscription to monthly and combine order 1147360 with the other order due in a couple weeks? Either way is fine but I'd prefer to wait and save the shipping cost.

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