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Yeah! Thanks Lilith, great link! My take couldn't provide the dark folk with enough time to degenerate anyways. And since Azlanti ruins can be found in Varisia as well, everything fits quite well.

Has anybody thought about the place / role / origin of the dark folk on golarion? I would love to let them appear in my CotCT campagne, so under Korvosa.

My first thought was to link them to Cheliax. Perhaps are the dark stalkers descendend from a human noble family and the dark creepers were their very good treated halfling servants, before they were driven into the Darklands by the devil worshippers after Aroden's death.

Aureus wrote:

I haven't been getting any email regarding PF#27! :(

I have just created your PF#27 order, and you should have just received your email.

Thanks,
cos

I haven't been getting any email regarding PF#27! :(

Has anybody read or played it yet? I would love to read a review.

BTW I guess the attackers from space are shambling mounts. ; )

Sorry for hijacking this thread one more time: The Pathfinderwiki says LG,LN,LE for allowed alignments for an Abadarian cleric: Wiki

It's easy to play a true neutral cleric of a lawful neutral deity; that's only one step away. You could have a lawful good, lawful neutral, lawful evil, or true neutral cleric.

LB

But thanks, Lady Bluehawk. : )

After switching from Beta to Final our group looks like this:

Oswin (LN male human fighter 2)

Teshk (N male half-orc rogue 2)

Thassilo, Son of Varg the Great (N male human [Ulfen] bard 2)

Thorbar Donnerhammer (N male dwarf cleric 2 of Abadar)
As I type this, I think about the possibility to play a true neutral cleric of a lawful neutral deity...

Bakkalaureus Janus Hydarian / Master Mortalis (N male human [Chelaxian] sorcerer [aberrant bloodline] 2)
That's me. As he is the Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde type of character, I am really looking forward to the Alchemist in the Advanced Player's Guide.

Well we had the same problem last night during our CotCT-session, but I guess you already know. ; )

No seriously, has anybody a clue? Doom is used during creation at CL 5th, so would it really be 5 minutes?

A blackguard base class is just what I was waiting for. I am not that into paladins with other alignments than LG, but for those who want to play one...

I don't really care for such a class, although I think it's kind of just to have gods of other alignments have their martial champions as well.

Really anxiously about the Anti-Paladin,

David

Hey, thanks to all so far! This discussion is quite interesting! Good arguments in every direction, it's gettin trickier and trickier. Now I have to form my position, but it's really hard. Stick to high elf would work great I think. +4 Int-and-Elven Magic-super elven casters would be really mighty, but hey we're talking gray elves! Masked Mordant Spire elves! A weak, sick elf who can call down powers unseen elsewhere ist somewhat intriguing...

Planning to use a gray elf or better Mordant Spire elf in our next session, I wonder what about them would differ from the 3.5 version.

The 3.5 SRD says:

Gray Elf Traits (Ex)
These traits are in addition to the high elf traits.

+2 Intelligence, -2 Strength

+2 Dexterity, +2 Intelligence, –2 Constitution: Elves are nimble, both in body and mind, but their form is frail.

Thank you, Cosmo! : )

... , cancel my Pathfinder Chronicles Subscription, so I can subscribe to the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Thank You.

It's there, not very big and not in the skill section. Page 148, last line under the Aid Another heading.

Now I've found something:

In the last sentence of the Use Magic Device skill of the Beta:

You can’t aid another on Use Magic Device checks. Only the user of the item may attempt such a check.

I wonder wether there is the Aid Another-action regarding skill checks in the PRPG (Beta). Can anybody help? I haven't found it.

Can't say anything concrete just yet, but yes to one or more of those things. :)

Aureus wrote:

Anything new on Oriental Pathfinders? Sourcebook, supplement or module?

Yes. Nothing set in stone, but it's in the works, out there on the horizon....

Which one will it be rule supplement, Tian Xia sourcebook or fitting this section of the boards Pathfinder Module?

(Actually I am hoping for all three and an AP! : )

Anything new on Oriental Pathfinders? Sourcebook, supplement or module?

I don't know... seems like an awfully long walk. Guess you'll just have to wait to find out what's going on with Pathfinder's 7th Adventure Path. Gen Con 2010 isn't THAT far off. :P

An AP starting in Varisia and taking off to Tian-Xia would be EXACTLY my cup of tea!!! Especially in combination with an Oriental Adventures rules supplement for the PRPG by Logue and McArtor *hint hint*!!!

Wants: Adventure from 15-20th set in Varisia tying together the characters and plots from the first three Pathfinder APs.

Me and everyone else, right?

I would love to come back to Varisia for higher level play. Although I wouldn't be interested in an entire epic level AP set there. The idea to tie the first three APs together and make a final stand for Varisa is great!

I planed to do something similar, but I wanted to tie CotCT (our current campaign) and LoF (hopefully our next) together. I saw a war between Korvosa (Lorthact and summoned devils etc.) and Magnimar (the water spirit from the Seer's Stone and golems etc.) mixed with the remaining villains of CotCT and RotR. No SD, as I am a player in that AP at the moment.

But, I like the idea of toyrobot better! So I would be really really great to see something like that!

Aureus: It will be open for patronage the entire time we are producing it, and it will go on sale as a retail product at the exact same price as a patronage, and you get none of the extras. Of course we have to meet the threshold goal for that to happen.

Mr. Baron: Thanks.

EDIT: Oh, and am I right reading from your posts it will be fully (not 3.5 OGL) PRPG compatible?

seekerofshadowlight wrote:

well pathfinder gives 2 plus one to either , Str, Dex or Con. And one to Int, Wis or Cha.I would not give str and dex as that is not how the core races are set up.-

Seekerofshadowlight is correct, Pathfinder as a default assumes one physical bonus, one mental bonus, and a penalty for ability scores. Generally the physical ability bonuses and penalties are unchanged from 3.x, while the mental ability score bonus corresponds to the casting stat of the favored casting class. This is essentially an effort to make every race equally likely to be some form of caster as well as some sort of melee/stealth class.

That said, you don't have to agree with that philosophy in your home game, if you are the DM, you can change whatever you like. However, if you are going to make Litorians more physically oriented, consider doing the same with the other "classic fighter races", the Dwarf and Half-Orc so that they remain equally appealing choices for Fighters and Barbarians.

However, I do stand by my +2 Dex, +2 Wis, -2 Int modifiers, as it makes them quite excellent rangers, which is perfect for a hunting culture.

-C. Robert Brown

@Robert Ranting:

I really really like your take on the PRPG litorian!

Without your knowledge and eceperience with the rules and prodects from Malhavoc Press, I would modify to the following:

Litorian
Medium Humanoid
+2 Dex, +2 Str, -2 Int
Base Speed: 40 feet*
Low light vision
+2 to Intimidate and Survival checks
Keen Senses: Litorians enjoy a +2 bonus to all sight, sound, and scent based Perception checks.
Weapon Familiarity: Litorians treat all weapons with the word "litorian" in the name as martial weapons.
Hatred: Litorians enjoy a +1 bonus to all attack rolls against gnolls and flinds.
Favored Class: Ranger
Languages: Common, Litorian
Bonus Languages: Sylvan, Gnoll

*Although I am pretty unsure wether this is balanced!

Thank you verrry much, so far!

Yeah! I've just seen this one! Thanks for the link anyway!

If I had the money, I would be more than glad to join the project. The litorians are really turning into my favorite new race or non core race. :)

BTW does anybody know if one can buy these open design projects later on (when one has some money to spend)?

Oh, are there no official rakasta stats in 3.5? In Races of the Wild was the catfolk AFAIK. But litorians are surely great stand ins!

I said:

Don't want to hijack the thread, but...

Erik Mona mentioned these two cool races in another thread and I ran close to hijacking this thread, so I continue here:

Ptolus is meant to be modular, so it's easy to fit it in just about everywhere. Even in Golarion there's some weird stuff like litorians and sibbecai along the coast of Garund (which is why I suggested Geb). If you don't like those elments even in Ptolus, they are easily ignored.

with another cry for "official" litorians:

And let me add another vote to Aureus for official Litorian support.

Nope. Golarion's got its races pretty much set in stone at this point, and adding new races to that mix has to be done carefully so that you don't have something where a huge populace appears out of nowhere. Home games, of course, can put any races they want into the world, but the ones we've established right now are pretty much the ones we're sticking with and like the most.

Not the answer I would have loved to hear, but fair enough. I don't have a problem with no official litorians and sibbecai in golarion. I simply stick with the IIRC "the farther one goes down south, the stranger golarion gets!" rule.

There should be strange, bestial, but civilized humanoids in my LoF-campaign in the shadows of Garund's great cities and ruins. (Once it finally starts)

They should remain mystirous, but exist. I would be hesitant to allow them as PC race. Perhaps they are planar travelers and tie Golarion to the world of Monte Cook. This planar aspect would fit the theme of this AP from what I know at the moment.

Perhaps we can hope for a PRPG version of these two great (new) races! :)

Ptolus is meant to be modular, so it's easy to fit it in just about everywhere. Even in Golarion there's some weird stuff like litorians and sibbecai along the coast of Garund (which is why I suggested Geb). If you don't like those elments even in Ptolus, they are easily ignored.

The 2D-minis are GREAT! I got the information email (ad) and checked in to Paizo, bought them both and wished we would finish CotCT to start LoF the next session. It was simply a no brainer! We had to have them.

Thanks for the great work Immora and N'wah (hopefully spelled correctly)!!!

Thank you Chinchbug! Our players always had problems imagining Vekkers' Cabbin, so I just posted a link to your work in our PBP-forum and soon those dark times of sorrows shall disappear. Thanks, man!

We have just finished Edge and I or better the PC have the same (mentioned) problem: the value of their equipment doesn't match their power level (4 at the moment).

We had some side treks before we started Seven Days and one of them was a bank robbery. To be more accurate it was grand armored cart theft. Two PC wanted to get some of their vaulted money from the Bank of Abadar and witnessed the attack of several ghoules on the temple guard and a armored cart with lots of money. When they fought the undead the cart suddenly moved. The ghoule jumped on it, the PC jumped on it. And the cart raced south. Again they fought the ghoules to get to the driver, a black robed man with a huge scythe.

They couldn't stop him before he drove the cart into the river, but the next time we play the Bank pays them some money in gratitute for defending the temple. And this amount should balance their Character Wealth again.

The Golarion Goblin!

With Burnt Offerings, Mr. Jacobs has given the goblin the most unique spin of any low level monster, ever!

Thank you, Dave. And rest in adventurous peace.

Does it contain information on a certain blue dragon featured in the CotCT-AP?

We are playing SD online and I am a player, not a GM.

It's some time that we started, but we are still level 1.

Using the PRPG Beta rules the group looks like this:

Lynwerd Tomerrik Wellenbrecher (CN male halfling rogue 1)

Oswin (LN male human fighter 1)

Thassilo, Son of Varg the Great (N male human [Ulfen] bard 1)

Bakkalaureus Janus Hydarian / Master Mortalis (N male human [Chelaxian] sorcerer [aberrant bloodline] 1)
This is me! Janus doesn't know that he can cast spells, but in danger he becomes Master Mortalis and turns wild!

There are stats for the flind in the Tome of Horrors by Necromancer Games.

Paizo, please please send me my package! :)

The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss.

Oh yes, I love those and have read, I think, almost all RvG wrote (genuine Chinese detective stories I have passed as I'm not sure if they have ever been translated).

Right now I'd say that The Red Pavilion is my favorite...

A fantastic series all in all though!

We play very slowly. Our CotCT campaign almost exactly lasts one year now and we are at the beginning of Seven Days to the Grave. A session takes about 4-6 hours. We come together very seldomly and had three side treks, yet. We are using the PRPG and its fast xp progression.

Unclear... but unlikely. Lorthact is pretty small potatoes compared to the names that the Book of the Damned is mostly concerned with.

And yeah, I do really hope for a vol. II on demons! (why the hell devils for vol. I anyway?)

Will Lorthact be explored in this book? : )

In our CotCT campaign there are two wings of the Urgathoa cult within Korvosa.

One organized and some individuals that have their own goals.

When a half-orc villain from our RotR campaign comes to Korvosa, he works with some of these minor davotees of the Pallid Princess. Some living some undead. A lurking strangler and his zombie minions and a bone cobbler with his skeletons. The half-orc robbed a bank transporter with the help of ghoules and drove it into the river. The PC couldn't stop him, so he bought a lot of onyx for the money that was salvaged from the bottom of the Jeggare by the undead.

As he hates Iomedae's followers more than anything else (his mother was a paladin in her service) he plans to animate all the dead bodies in the Tomb of Leadership and raze the only shrine dedicated to the Inheritor.

The more organized, more subtile part of the cult is in great danger to get uncovered if such a thing would happen, so Lady Andaisin will have to get the half-orc out of the way.

I introduced the Grey Maidens at the end of Edge in epilogue and during a chat with Grau Soldado. The captain mentioned that Queen Ileosa is searching for willing maidens to form her own palace guard and special unit.

So one of my players a female Varisian fighter wants to join and see what the queen is up to!

IMHO she won't pass the tests of loyalty to the queen and Sabina knows that she is an agent of the Korvosan Guard, so she very likely to disappear. But that would be somewhat hard, wouldn't it?

As she will be alone in the castle, perhaps two Grey Maidens try (half heartedly on my part) to catch her and pu her in the dungeons below. I don't know...

Any suggestion?

I don't want to hijack this thread but:

My party just dealt with Devargo and left. The Cayden Cailean priest has a reason to return. He lost his holy weapon - a magical rapier, of course! - in a game of Three Towers in Eel's End.

We will start 7 Days sometime in february , but there is already some prison break on my schedule, too.

Before CotCT we played RotRL. Due to organizational problems we had to quit that campaign and the structure of CotCT suits our needs much more better.

RISE OF THE RUNELORDS SPOILERS TO FOLLOW:

So I am very interested in your Dreamland, Immora. Any more details? The idea to make them fight shaowy doubles there is great, too!

On prison break:

RISE OF THE RUNELORDS SPOILERS AGAIN:

Oriental Adventures. This book should cover culture-specific rules for all of Asia, not just the Far East: Persia, India, China, Mongolia, Korea, Japan, everything in between. There'd better be samurai, ninjas, great walls, spirits, genies, and four-armed gods with avatars and shaktis all in the same book.

High-Tech Handbook. Rules for steampunk, modern, and futuristic technology, each with its own chapter and genre overview. Guns, vehicles, radiation, mutations, surgery, cyborgs, computers, virtual reality, mad science. New tech-related base classes and races. (Tinker gnomes? Warforged?) New alien and/or artificial monsters.

Thanks Epic Meepo. :D

Great great great work! Really. My English is just too bad to express what mean with "great". Just THE way to go. I really like everything about your art Immora!