paizo.com Recent Posts by Bryan Stiltzpaizo.com Recent Posts by Bryan Stiltz2024-03-27T17:53:28Z2024-03-27T17:53:28ZRe: Forums/PaizoCon: General Discussion: Reaper - How To Paint Bones Class???Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2pb57?Reaper-How-To-Paint-Bones-Class#392015-08-01T19:18:19Z2014-05-15T21:56:47Z<p>Although this thread was begun last year, and I'm doing a bit of threadomancy, Reaper will be at PaizoCon 2014 as well, Myself and freelance painter Shannon Stiltz. We will be running the paint and take and will be available for painting tips and advice throughout the show.</p>
<p>We do not have any official classes or panels lined up, but will be more than happy to teach you what we know at the Paint and take area!</p>Although this thread was begun last year, and I'm doing a bit of threadomancy, Reaper will be at PaizoCon 2014 as well, Myself and freelance painter Shannon Stiltz. We will be running the paint and take and will be available for painting tips and advice throughout the show.
We do not have any official classes or panels lined up, but will be more than happy to teach you what we know at the Paint and take area!Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2014-05-15T21:56:47ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder Adventure Path: General Discussion: [Spoilers] LGBTIQ NPC Couples Almost too CommonBryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2qtez&page=3?Spoilers-LGBTIQ-NPC-Couples-Almost-too-Common#1072014-04-10T21:53:46Z2014-04-09T22:20:19Z<p>I live in Texas where it's not always easy to admit to being bisexual or to having gay or trans friends, because of the omnipresent risk of violence or scorn, to say nothing of the never-ending sermon.</p>
<p>Paizo's fiction represents a fantasy world - yes, but in this regard fantasy is as much "dream and hope" as make-believe. It is a world where LGBTQ characters do not have to afraid or ashamed, and the example it provides to the Heterosexual, CISgendered people of the world may be overlooked or missed (or worse, feared and reviled) but to the LGBTQ readers and gamers, the message is overwhelmingly positive and accepting, something that is really hard to find, and means a lot to us. </p>
<p>This is why LGBTQ role models are important.</p>I live in Texas where it's not always easy to admit to being bisexual or to having gay or trans friends, because of the omnipresent risk of violence or scorn, to say nothing of the never-ending sermon.
Paizo's fiction represents a fantasy world - yes, but in this regard fantasy is as much "dream and hope" as make-believe. It is a world where LGBTQ characters do not have to afraid or ashamed, and the example it provides to the Heterosexual, CISgendered people of the world may be overlooked or...Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2014-04-09T22:20:19ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder Adventure Path: General Discussion: How many Adventure Paths have you finished?Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2nuqj&page=3?How-many-Adventure-Paths-have-you-finished#1042014-04-05T23:42:54Z2014-03-24T22:45:08Z<p>Kingmaker, as GM - finished.
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Carrion Crown, as Player - Finished.
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Serpent's Skull as GM - Finished.
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Way of the Wicked (by Fire Mountain Games) Books 1-3. As GM</p>
<p>Skull & Shackles, as player, currently in Book 5.
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Carrion Crown - as GM, just started, still in Book 1. Hoping my experiences as player will help me be a better GM than I was when I ran Serpent's Skull.</p>Kingmaker, as GM - finished.
Carrion Crown, as Player - Finished.
Serpent's Skull as GM - Finished.
Way of the Wicked (by Fire Mountain Games) Books 1-3. As GM
Skull & Shackles, as player, currently in Book 5.
Carrion Crown - as GM, just started, still in Book 1. Hoping my experiences as player will help me be a better GM than I was when I ran Serpent's Skull.Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2014-03-24T22:45:08ZRe: Forums: Carrion Crown: Letters from the main villainBryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2q1jb&page=2?Letters-from-the-main-villain#642017-04-23T14:16:25Z2014-03-24T22:19:33Z<p>@LokiThief - I love it! I'll be adapting these as well!</p>
<p>I'm making a few changes based on advice here, so some adaptation is necessary, but the tone of that final Book 5 letter is perfect!</p>@LokiThief - I love it! I'll be adapting these as well!
I'm making a few changes based on advice here, so some adaptation is necessary, but the tone of that final Book 5 letter is perfect!Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2014-03-24T22:19:33ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder Adventure Path: General Discussion: Essays/discussions on running an Adventure Path?Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2qsxt?Essaysdiscussions-on-running-an-Adventure-Path#62014-04-06T01:01:37Z2014-03-21T21:55:30Z<p>Read each individual book in the path. My preferred method is to read each book twice. At this stage, I am looking to see who the book works - how elements at the end of the book are presaged by elements at the start, how to use the events, where to point the PCs, etc. My primary focus here is on mastering the content of the one book by itself, six different times.</p>
<p>Then, a third time, I will read each book in order, one after the other, specifically looking for how the books connect. Is there something in book 3 that was hinted at in book one, or something on book 6 that was important to make sure the PCs got an item in book 2? Make sure you know what parts of a book connect that book to the next book, or some other future book. </p>
<p>I put sticky notes in my books to remind me what parts are presaging future events, and to make sure not to skip those. After this, I hit the forum for the AP in question and see what problems people have, or neat player handouts they have come up with.</p>
<p>For Serpent's Skull, Kingmaker, and (soon) Carrion Crown, I have found the resources players created and potential pitfalls they point out to be invaluable. Knowing what encounters are too easy or too hard can be difficult from the read through, and the members here can not only find plot holes, but invent the most amazing solutions.</p>
<p>You're already 99% of the way there - you've found the resources of the forums, and you're asking for advice. </p>
<p>One final thought - if you get something "wrong", don't stress about it. Just change it so now the thing works the way you said it did. That guy isn't a villain anymore. That house isn't there in your version. The PCs likely won't know, and as long as the "job" that the element you changed is still done by somebody or something, it won't matter in the the long run.</p>
<p>Also, have fun!</p>Read each individual book in the path. My preferred method is to read each book twice. At this stage, I am looking to see who the book works - how elements at the end of the book are presaged by elements at the start, how to use the events, where to point the PCs, etc. My primary focus here is on mastering the content of the one book by itself, six different times.
Then, a third time, I will read each book in order, one after the other, specifically looking for how the books connect. Is...Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2014-03-21T21:55:30ZRe: Forums: Wrath of the Righteous: General problems with adventure paths and how mythic WoTR interacts with themBryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2qsrv&page=2?General-problems-with-adventure-paths-and-how#912014-03-22T00:26:53Z2014-03-21T21:12:09Z<p>I don't know about the OP, but I know when i begin an AP I always start by going to these boards and seeing what encounters are muy lethal, and which ones are cakewalks, and what plot holes have been discovered, or what advice means changing one paragraph in the book makes it 10x cooler.</p>
<p>The Paizo team do a great job, but it's never perfect, and I learned form Kingmaker (the first AP I ran) that to expect to be able to open the book and just read it and do not adjustments of events, monster stats, or tactics would be very unsatisfying. </p>
<p>I'm not telling anybody how to play their game, but at my table, I assume an AP is a very well fleshed out outline of suggested events, encounters, and interconnected backstories and motivations, and sometimes I need to move, add, or delete things to make it fit better, and to make it fit the events of previous sessions.</p>
<p>Which was all relevant in response to the OP's concerns about the AP not being flexible enough to cope with various things, but not so relevant to the above discussion.</p>I don't know about the OP, but I know when i begin an AP I always start by going to these boards and seeing what encounters are muy lethal, and which ones are cakewalks, and what plot holes have been discovered, or what advice means changing one paragraph in the book makes it 10x cooler.
The Paizo team do a great job, but it's never perfect, and I learned form Kingmaker (the first AP I ran) that to expect to be able to open the book and just read it and do not adjustments of events, monster...Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2014-03-21T21:12:09ZRe: Forums: Carrion Crown: Letters from the main villainBryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2q1jb&page=2?Letters-from-the-main-villain#592017-04-23T14:47:39Z2014-03-21T16:15:28Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">GeeSeeBee wrote:</div><blockquote><p> I've never posted to forums before, but I wanted to share this letter I had my players find at the end of the 2nd module.</p>
<p>•• spoiler omitted •• </blockquote><p>I wil be blatantly stealing much of this letter as well.
<p>Do you or Yossarin have more letters to share? The snarky, arrogant, but almost enamored of his enemies tone entrances me.</p>GeeSeeBee wrote:I've never posted to forums before, but I wanted to share this letter I had my players find at the end of the 2nd module.
** spoiler omitted **
I wil be blatantly stealing much of this letter as well. Do you or Yossarin have more letters to share? The snarky, arrogant, but almost enamored of his enemies tone entrances me.Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2014-03-21T16:15:28ZRe: Forums: Carrion Crown: Letters from the main villainBryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2q1jb&page=2?Letters-from-the-main-villain#582018-11-22T03:27:20Z2014-03-21T16:11:52Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Yossarin wrote:</div><blockquote>"When first I embarked upon this mission of mercy for mankind, I was simply doing it by rote. Going through the motions as I had designed them with little to no variation. Your intervention has sparked a sensation I have not felt in my work for years - passion. And for that, I am eternally grateful, no matter which of us succeeds in our ambitions. All of my work and all of the sacrifices I have made are justified by your valiant pursuit. Know that, should I best you, I will not let your sacrifices be in vain. You are all hereby guaranteed a place in a newer, quieter, more peaceful world, one where death can never touch you. Should you best me, know that I will die content in the knowledge that I have already made my mark upon the world. Through you." </blockquote><p>I particularly enjoy your characterization and have blatantly stolen your words above for my personal campaign.
<p>I would be honored if you would post other letters for me to blatantly steal and enable my laziness.</p>Yossarin wrote:"When first I embarked upon this mission of mercy for mankind, I was simply doing it by rote. Going through the motions as I had designed them with little to no variation. Your intervention has sparked a sensation I have not felt in my work for years - passion. And for that, I am eternally grateful, no matter which of us succeeds in our ambitions. All of my work and all of the sacrifices I have made are justified by your valiant pursuit. Know that, should I best you, I will not...Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2014-03-21T16:11:52ZRe: Forums: Mummy's Mask: Opinions on the new fiction format (Possible spoilers)Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2qsvn?Opinions-on-the-new-fiction-format#322014-04-08T16:40:34Z2014-03-21T16:08:51Z<p>Based on this thread, declaring a new format, I checked out the MM book. The new format is more likely to encourage me to read the story, because it has the map. That by itself makes it more useful to me as a GM than I personally feel the fiction alone did, and makes me more likely to experience the content. This is as someone who has actually never read the fiction in a single AP.</p>Based on this thread, declaring a new format, I checked out the MM book. The new format is more likely to encourage me to read the story, because it has the map. That by itself makes it more useful to me as a GM than I personally feel the fiction alone did, and makes me more likely to experience the content. This is as someone who has actually never read the fiction in a single AP.Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2014-03-21T16:08:51ZRe: Forums: Rules Questions: Can you "trip" him?Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2qqig&page=13?Can-you-trip-him#6042014-03-20T23:10:50Z2014-03-20T23:10:50Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">fretgod99 wrote:</div><blockquote><p> Can I use the trip attempt to make the character <i>prone again</i>.</p>
<p>Being most generous to you, that's the extent of the question. So there'd be no reason to deny a trip attempt using Meteor Hammer's trip/drag or the Seven Branched Swords trip/flat-footed functions.</p>
<p>I am accusing you of presuming what my intent is. Your position is that I want to be able to allow unending trip attacks provoked by Greater Trip. Please tell me where, in any of my posts, I have said anything remotely to that end?</p>
<p>The purpose of the FAQ is to avoid disallowing a character to stand up from prone. It is not addressing whether a prone character can be attacked with a trip. </blockquote><p><a href="http://paizo.com/paizo/faq/v5748nruor1fm#v5748eaic9n8a" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://paizo.com/paizo/faq/v5748nruor1fm#v5748eaic9n8a</a>
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"Trip: When a prone character stands up and provokes an attack of opportunity, can I use that attack to trip the character again?"</p>
<p>This is precisely as I had quoted it, and precisely what it says.</p>
<p>When I said the only reason to argue is "blah blah blah" I was stating my opinion, and the "you" used within that context was, at that time, a vague general "you" oriented to no poster in particular. </p>
<p>In this case, however, I am currently speaking directly to you, Fretgod.</p>
<p>What I care about is the words of the question, and the words that you (Fretgod) repeatedly claim to be there simply are not. The FAQ does not use the phrase "to make the character prone again". You have added those words for purposes about which I shall refrain from speculating, although I suspect world domination to be the ultimate goal of anyone I meet, as a rule of thumb. NOTE: The You in the preceding post refers specifically to you, Mr. Fretgod, as in "Fretgod has added in words that do not actually appear on the FAQ"</p>
<p>I shall also point out that this is the second re-phrasing of the question you have presented to me, which once again, fails to be the words of the actual question. Twice now you have tried to convince me, contrary to the evidence, that the question in the FAQ which I have helpfully linked is something other than what it actually is.</p>fretgod99 wrote:Can I use the trip attempt to make the character prone again.
Being most generous to you, that's the extent of the question. So there'd be no reason to deny a trip attempt using Meteor Hammer's trip/drag or the Seven Branched Swords trip/flat-footed functions.
I am accusing you of presuming what my intent is. Your position is that I want to be able to allow unending trip attacks provoked by Greater Trip. Please tell me where, in any of my posts, I have said anything remotely...Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2014-03-20T23:10:50ZRe: Forums: Rules Questions: Can you "trip" him?Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2qqig&page=13?Can-you-trip-him#6012014-03-20T22:41:50Z2014-03-20T22:41:50Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">fretgod99 wrote:</div><blockquote> The bottom line is the context of the question is "Does a trip attempt on a character standing up prevent that character from standing up". It goes no further than that. And other statements from Jason Buhlman himself show his stating that you can make a trip attempt against a prone character, but that the net effect is nil.</blockquote><p>Anything in quotation marks is a copy/paste. No sleight of hand on my typing.
<p>You say the question is:
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"Does a trip attempt on a character standing up prevent that character from standing up"</p>
<p>This strikes me as odd, since the question clearly actually is:
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"When a prone character stands up and provokes an attack of opportunity, can I use that attack to trip the character again? "</p>
<p>these are not the same question. What you are saying the question is, is not what it is. I have evidence to back up my claim. Here we go, to the clipboard!</p>
<p>It is
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"When a prone character stands up and provokes an attack of opportunity, can I use that attack to trip the character again? "</p>
<p>it is not
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"Does a trip attempt on a character standing up prevent that character from standing up"</p>
<p>when I copy/paste the question in the FAQ I pretty clearly see
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"Trip: When a prone character stands up and provokes an attack of opportunity, can I use that attack to trip the character again? "</p>
<p>Shall We compare them one more time?
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"When a prone character stands up and provokes an attack of opportunity, can I use that attack to trip the character again? "
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"Does a trip attempt on a character standing up prevent that character from standing up"</p>
<p>Sing it with me, little kiddies: "one of these things is not like the other..."</p>
<p>It is clearly not the same question. Somehow in two previous posts I have copy/paste the exact same question and you have seen an entirely different question than the one I posted. </p>
<p>now, before you accuse me of presuming to tell you what you think the question is, remember, I copied it form your posts. These are your words, "Does a trip attempt on a character standing up prevent that character from standing up" and these are the FAQ words: ""When a prone character stands up and provokes an attack of opportunity, can I use that attack to trip the character again? "</p>fretgod99 wrote:The bottom line is the context of the question is "Does a trip attempt on a character standing up prevent that character from standing up". It goes no further than that. And other statements from Jason Buhlman himself show his stating that you can make a trip attempt against a prone character, but that the net effect is nil.
Anything in quotation marks is a copy/paste. No sleight of hand on my typing. You say the question is:
"Does a trip attempt on a character standing up...Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2014-03-20T22:41:50ZRe: Forums: Rules Questions: Can you "trip" him?Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2qqig&page=12?Can-you-trip-him#5952014-03-20T21:41:28Z2014-03-20T21:41:28Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">fretgod99 wrote:</div><blockquote><p>No, that's not the question that was being asked. The question that was being asked is, "If I use a trip attack to trip a character standing up from prone, does that mean I knocked the character back down from standing up or does the character still get to stand up after I've used my attack?"</p>
<p>You're saying the question is, "Can I use a trip attack on a character that is prone?" That was not the question. </blockquote><p>The Question:
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When a prone character stands up and provokes an attack of opportunity, can I use that attack to trip the character again?
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No.
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—Jason Bulmahn, 08/14/10</p>
<p>This is far more straightforward than you seem to think it is. Note that I have edited only the answer and not the question. The question IS NOT, as you claim, "Can I prevent a prone character from standing up by making a trip attack against them?". If you insist on rephrasing the question, it could be rephrased as "Can I make a trip attack against a prone character as part of the AoO they trigger when attempting to stand." However, I am not basing my comments on this second version, but on the version Bulmahn posted in the FAQ, which is "When a prone character stands up and provokes an attack of opportunity, can I use that attack to trip the character again?"</p>
<p>The only reason to argue at this point is because you want the cheese of being able to trigger AoOs from many party members instead of being relegated to using only your normal attack. </p>
<p>Can I make an opportunity attack as a trip to trip a prone character? NO. This is precisely the question, and precisely the answer given by Jason.
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Can I make a (non-opportunity) trip attack to trip a prone character? NO.
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There is absolutely no game reason why a trip attack would be allowed against a prone character as a normal action but not as an AoO. </p>
<p>This has been addressed by a Dev. Arguing that it has not is counter-productive.</p>fretgod99 wrote:No, that's not the question that was being asked. The question that was being asked is, "If I use a trip attack to trip a character standing up from prone, does that mean I knocked the character back down from standing up or does the character still get to stand up after I've used my attack?"
You're saying the question is, "Can I use a trip attack on a character that is prone?" That was not the question.
The Question:
When a prone character stands up and provokes an attack...Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2014-03-20T21:41:28ZRe: Forums: Rules Questions: Can you "trip" him?Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2qqig&page=12?Can-you-trip-him#5882014-03-20T20:22:23Z2014-03-20T20:22:23Z<p>OOPS. I see that your Meteor Hammer Question was re: snakes and oozes, not re: prone targets.</p>
<p>The part of my reply about it not being allowed on prone targets is therefore invalid, and I apologize.</p>OOPS. I see that your Meteor Hammer Question was re: snakes and oozes, not re: prone targets.
The part of my reply about it not being allowed on prone targets is therefore invalid, and I apologize.Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2014-03-20T20:22:23ZRe: Forums: Rules Questions: Can you "trip" him?Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2qqig&page=12?Can-you-trip-him#5872014-03-20T20:17:47Z2014-03-20T20:17:47Z<p>I'm not saying that - I'm pointing out that Jason said that one could not make [an] attack to trip the [prone] character.</p>
<p>This does not preclude other types of attacks being made, but <i>trip attacks</i> were specifically called out and forbidden against already prone targets. </p>
<p>re: meteor hammer
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Benefit: If you succeed at a trip attempt with a meteor hammer, you can drag your opponent 5 feet closer to you rather than knocking her prone.</p>
<p>As I interpret the two-letter word "no", you cannot make a <i>trip attempt</i> (also known as <i>a trip attack</i>, also phrased above as <i>an attack to trip</i>) against the prone character, meteor hammer does not give you the ability to make trip attacks/attempts against prone targets. It lets you generate a different result (in this case, a drag) other than "knocking her prone". </p>
<p>Not that from a flavor and rule-of-cool standpoint I think it shouldn't be allowed, but according to Buhlman, you cannot make the trip attempt, and I interpret that to mean that you could not, therefore effect the drag result.</p>
<p>Purely for rule-of-cool, in a Non-PFS home game, I would personally allow the drag option.</p>
<p>Again, many people are asking for a Dev to clarify, and 100% of my point, whether I agree or disagree, is that a Dev, in fact, already has.</p>I'm not saying that - I'm pointing out that Jason said that one could not make [an] attack to trip the [prone] character.
This does not preclude other types of attacks being made, but trip attacks were specifically called out and forbidden against already prone targets.
re: meteor hammer
Benefit: If you succeed at a trip attempt with a meteor hammer, you can drag your opponent 5 feet closer to you rather than knocking her prone.
As I interpret the two-letter word "no", you cannot make a...Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2014-03-20T20:17:47ZRe: Forums: Rules Questions: Can you "trip" him?Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2qqig&page=12?Can-you-trip-him#5852014-03-20T19:20:57Z2014-03-20T19:20:57Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">fretgod99 wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Elbedor wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Kazaan wrote:</div><blockquote>Show me one rule that says prone characters can't be tripped.</blockquote><p>Would this apply?
<div class="messageboard-quotee">FAQ wrote:</div><blockquote><p>Trip: When a prone character stands up and provokes an attack of opportunity, can I use that attack to trip the character again?</p>
<p>No. The attack of opportunity is triggered before the action that triggered it is resolved. In this case, the target is still prone when the attack of opportunity occurs (and you get the normal bonuses when making such an attack). Since the trip combat maneuver does not prevent the target's action, the target then stands up.</p>
<p>—Jason Bulmahn, 08/14/10 </blockquote></blockquote>Not really. As was mentioned above, the answer does seem sort of contradictory. But the ultimate effect of the FAQ is that tripping a creature rising from prone does not prevent the creature from rising from prone. It does not necessarily mean that you cannot still attempt to trip said creature. On that point it's a bit ambiguous. </blockquote><p>It's not even a little ambiguous. Some very minor edits follow:
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<div class="messageboard-quotee">FAQ wrote:</div><blockquote><p>Trip: When a prone character stands up and provokes an attack of opportunity, can I use that attack to trip the character again?</p>
<p>No. (explanation of why)</p>
<p>—Jason Bulmahn, 08/14/10 </blockquote><p>Can you make a trip attack against a prone character? No. This is not ambiguous. Bulmahn already answered this.
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The only time it's ambiguous if if you think "can I make a trip attack against a prone character?" is not the same question as "Can I use that attack to trip a prone character?" They are the same question, because an we call 'using an attack to trip a character' a 'trip attack'.</p>fretgod99 wrote:Elbedor wrote: Kazaan wrote:Show me one rule that says prone characters can't be tripped.
Would this apply? FAQ wrote:Trip: When a prone character stands up and provokes an attack of opportunity, can I use that attack to trip the character again?
No. The attack of opportunity is triggered before the action that triggered it is resolved. In this case, the target is still prone when the attack of opportunity occurs (and you get the normal bonuses when making such an attack)....Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2014-03-20T19:20:57ZRe: Forums: Advice: Paladin= game ruinersBryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2qr72&page=3?Paladin-game-ruiners#1082014-03-07T17:13:30Z2014-03-06T21:04:43Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Starbuck_II wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Orfamay Quest wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Cardinal Chunder wrote:</div><blockquote> Surely all this depends on that particular deities code that the paladin follows?</blockquote>A good deity would not demand evil actions (such as smite on sight) from his followers. A neutral deity might demand them, but a good paladin of such a deity would not obey those demands. </blockquote>Torag requires Smite on Sight. Strangely Pathfinder made him LG despite his code. </blockquote><p>Funny that priests of Torag live in Absalom, which also has priests of Asmodeus and yet they never seem to be killing each other on sight.Starbuck_II wrote:Orfamay Quest wrote: Cardinal Chunder wrote: Surely all this depends on that particular deities code that the paladin follows?
A good deity would not demand evil actions (such as smite on sight) from his followers. A neutral deity might demand them, but a good paladin of such a deity would not obey those demands. Torag requires Smite on Sight. Strangely Pathfinder made him LG despite his code. Funny that priests of Torag live in Absalom, which also has priests of Asmodeus...Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2014-03-06T21:04:43ZRe: Forums: Advice: Paladin= game ruinersBryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2qr72&page=3?Paladin-game-ruiners#1072014-03-07T23:40:13Z2014-03-06T21:03:20Z<p>Any Good character would be riddled with doubt and self-loathing for taking another life so casually. No one with a good alignment can take a life easily or carelessly and walk away saying "but he glowed as evil when I detected evil". this is what GOOD means - a respect for the sanctity of life and of others.</p>
<p>A paladin has a duty to oppose Evil, and sometimes that means they must take a life. In RPGs like Pathfinder, this happens in fact disturbingly often to our party of murderhobos. But "oppose Evil" does not mean "smite on sight".</p>
<p>If you have a character that is doing this, they need to be stopped. This needs to be addressed at the player level, so the player understands that even in made-up-world, this is not how the righteous behave. Somebody else brought up that redemption fails, and sometimes they do more evil - yes. Your paladin will have to live knowing that because they did good, evil yet lives. but this is better than for them to do evil to stop evil.</p>Any Good character would be riddled with doubt and self-loathing for taking another life so casually. No one with a good alignment can take a life easily or carelessly and walk away saying "but he glowed as evil when I detected evil". this is what GOOD means - a respect for the sanctity of life and of others.
A paladin has a duty to oppose Evil, and sometimes that means they must take a life. In RPGs like Pathfinder, this happens in fact disturbingly often to our party of murderhobos. But...Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2014-03-06T21:03:20ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder First Edition: General Discussion: Whatever happened to the classic races?Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2qri3&page=2?Whatever-happened-to-the-classic-races#922014-03-06T17:31:10Z2014-03-06T17:31:10Z<p>I play non humans, but usually stick to core races personally. </p>
<p>And I agree with the above that the reason all the weirdo's group together is the same reason all the 'members of group' stick together in real life. How many HS lunch tables did you see where the jocks and nerds and goth kids and punks and stoners didn't clique-up?</p>
<p>Of course my band of non-human fire-headed monkey people banded together. The cool kids never let us sit at their table.</p>I play non humans, but usually stick to core races personally.
And I agree with the above that the reason all the weirdo's group together is the same reason all the 'members of group' stick together in real life. How many HS lunch tables did you see where the jocks and nerds and goth kids and punks and stoners didn't clique-up?
Of course my band of non-human fire-headed monkey people banded together. The cool kids never let us sit at their table.Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2014-03-06T17:31:10ZRe: Forums: Miniatures: Speaking of Reaper Bones Kickstarters...Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2q2em&page=6?Speaking-of-Reaper-Bones-Kickstarters#2572013-10-15T18:27:48Z2013-10-15T18:27:48Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Robert Hawkshaw wrote:</div><blockquote> There's no improved mount / leadership cohort equivalent feat in pathfinder? </blockquote><p>I once had a halfling character spend all his gold on a scroll of Awaken, and had my dog that I had bought at character creation awakened, and at the same time I took the Leadership Feat and my GM allowed my to declare my Awakened Dog to be my cohort. I somehow do not think that such a thing is PFS legal though.Robert Hawkshaw wrote:There's no improved mount / leadership cohort equivalent feat in pathfinder?
I once had a halfling character spend all his gold on a scroll of Awaken, and had my dog that I had bought at character creation awakened, and at the same time I took the Leadership Feat and my GM allowed my to declare my Awakened Dog to be my cohort. I somehow do not think that such a thing is PFS legal though.Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2013-10-15T18:27:48ZRe: Forums: Advice: Ideas for Alternative Horsemen of the ApocalypseBryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2q60i?Ideas-for-Alternative-Horsemen-of-the-Apocalypse#72013-09-16T04:19:43Z2013-09-16T04:19:43Z<p>Awesome ideas!</p>Awesome ideas!Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2013-09-16T04:19:43ZForums: Advice: Ideas for Alternative Horsemen of the ApocalypseBryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2q60i?Ideas-for-Alternative-Horsemen-of-the-Apocalypse#12013-09-16T02:42:39Z2013-09-16T02:42:39Z<p>I'm designing a campaign I want to GM where the PCs will need to become the Horsemen of the Apocalypse. This is not going to be set in Golarion, but will use Pathfinder rules in a homebrew world that is fairly standard - my own gods, my own nations, but typical Fantasy RPG fare. If it could work on Golarion, it;s probably acceptable for my game.</p>
<p>Ultimately, the problem I have is that I have more than 4 players, and I want them all to have a Horseman they can be. I have a list of ideas for alternative Horsemen, some of which are just synonyms of the traditional Western Four Horsemen, but I'd like some better ideas.</p>
<p>I already have, for example, broken Pestilence into Pestilence (Disease/Plague) and Infestation (Plague of Locusts/insects) and Pollution.</p>I'm designing a campaign I want to GM where the PCs will need to become the Horsemen of the Apocalypse. This is not going to be set in Golarion, but will use Pathfinder rules in a homebrew world that is fairly standard - my own gods, my own nations, but typical Fantasy RPG fare. If it could work on Golarion, it;s probably acceptable for my game.
Ultimately, the problem I have is that I have more than 4 players, and I want them all to have a Horseman they can be. I have a list of ideas for...Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2013-09-16T02:42:39ZRe: Forums: Miniatures: Have you locked in your Reaper Kickstarter order?Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2oyau&page=7?Have-you-locked-in-your-Reaper-Kickstarter-order#3242013-03-21T19:55:36Z2013-03-21T19:55:36Z<p>I'm almost ready to start shipping, but the biggest real news is that after crunching numbers, my estimate of this only taking 3 weeks was stupidly optimistic. This is going to take at least 5 weeks, and possibly longer. Add to that ReaperCon happening in the middle of that fulfillment, which is going to halt everything for at least a week while we do that...</p>I'm almost ready to start shipping, but the biggest real news is that after crunching numbers, my estimate of this only taking 3 weeks was stupidly optimistic. This is going to take at least 5 weeks, and possibly longer. Add to that ReaperCon happening in the middle of that fulfillment, which is going to halt everything for at least a week while we do that...Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2013-03-21T19:55:36ZRe: Forums: Miniatures: Have you locked in your Reaper Kickstarter order?Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2oyau&page=6?Have-you-locked-in-your-Reaper-Kickstarter-order#2872013-02-21T23:31:35Z2013-02-21T23:31:35Z<p>I should also add in response to Dennis' suggestion that we ship the "vampire only" orders first to clear room - there were less than a full pallet of those, so we'd clear a partial pallet. Most people got something that's on the next shipment.</p>
<p>There's a LOT to consider as we complete the planning so that shipping can begin, and it's been an interesting ride!</p>
<p>We're anticipating shipping to take about 3 weeks from day one to end right now, although we all know that plans sometimes don't end up like they did on paper, so things may still change.</p>
<p>At this time, we're looking at finalizing an exact start date for shipping in March.</p>I should also add in response to Dennis' suggestion that we ship the "vampire only" orders first to clear room - there were less than a full pallet of those, so we'd clear a partial pallet. Most people got something that's on the next shipment.
There's a LOT to consider as we complete the planning so that shipping can begin, and it's been an interesting ride!
We're anticipating shipping to take about 3 weeks from day one to end right now, although we all know that plans sometimes don't end...Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2013-02-21T23:31:35ZRe: Forums/PaizoCon: General Discussion: Reaper - How To Paint Bones Class???Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2pb57?Reaper-How-To-Paint-Bones-Class#82014-05-17T00:09:21Z2013-02-21T23:26:04Z<p>We are still working out the details of our PaizoCon presence. I am sure we'd love to do a Bones class, and I know that we will have Bones at the Paint and Take with instructors there, at the very least, if we cannot muster up a class.</p>We are still working out the details of our PaizoCon presence. I am sure we'd love to do a Bones class, and I know that we will have Bones at the Paint and Take with instructors there, at the very least, if we cannot muster up a class.Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2013-02-21T23:26:04ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Way of the Wicked—Book #2: Call Forth Darkness (PFRPG)Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/products/btpy8tmr/discuss&page=9?Way-of-the-Wicked-Book-2-Call-Forth-Darkness#4312013-01-14T15:14:02Z2013-01-14T15:14:02Z<p>Play report!
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[Spoiler omitted]Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2013-01-14T15:14:02ZRe: Forums: Miniatures: Have you locked in your Reaper Kickstarter order?Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2oyau&page=5?Have-you-locked-in-your-Reaper-Kickstarter-order#2422013-01-03T23:58:34Z2013-01-03T23:58:34Z<p>We are still working out the details of our PaizoCon presence. I am sure we'd love to do a Bones class, and I know that we will have Bones at the Paint and Take with instructors there.</p>
<p>I'll keep you guys posted.</p>We are still working out the details of our PaizoCon presence. I am sure we'd love to do a Bones class, and I know that we will have Bones at the Paint and Take with instructors there.
I'll keep you guys posted.Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2013-01-03T23:58:34ZRe: Forums: Miniatures: Have you locked in your Reaper Kickstarter order?Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2oyau&page=5?Have-you-locked-in-your-Reaper-Kickstarter-order#2392012-12-27T22:25:22Z2012-12-27T22:25:22Z<p>@Fromper - you could also check out our tutorials and how-to's on the Reaper Forums. We're very helpful with teaching newcomers to the hobby over there.</p>@Fromper - you could also check out our tutorials and how-to's on the Reaper Forums. We're very helpful with teaching newcomers to the hobby over there.Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2012-12-27T22:25:22ZRe: Forums: Miniatures: Have you locked in your Reaper Kickstarter order?Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2oyau&page=5?Have-you-locked-in-your-Reaper-Kickstarter-order#2292012-12-20T17:08:42Z2012-12-20T17:08:42Z<p>I look so tired in that video... •sigh•</p>
<p>Ed had suggested that I open everything, until I reminded him that when Michael and I opened the baggies inside to glue them to the black runner in the opening crawl, it took the two of us about 45 minutes, and as impressive as that is, nobody wanted to see a 45 minute video of me cutting open bags.</p>I look so tired in that video... *sigh*
Ed had suggested that I open everything, until I reminded him that when Michael and I opened the baggies inside to glue them to the black runner in the opening crawl, it took the two of us about 45 minutes, and as impressive as that is, nobody wanted to see a 45 minute video of me cutting open bags.Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2012-12-20T17:08:42ZRe: Forums: Miniatures: What is the point of resin?Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2p9gp?What-is-the-point-of-resin#82014-11-12T06:51:33Z2012-12-14T15:22:36Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">DeathQuaker wrote:</div><blockquote> Yep. If you want a really lovely, super detailed mini, it will definitely look best in resin over another material. </blockquote><p>I see this a lot, and it's one of my pet peeves. I call BS. Sorry, but here you go:
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I have worked in the manufacturing of figures for over a decade. The material in which the figures are cast makes no difference in terms of detail. The molds are both exactly as capable of picking up as minute a detail as you can see with any magnifier that is reasonable to use at the table (3x, 10x, etc.). The materials involved are both exactly as capable of reflecting that detail. A tool mark of 1/1000th an inch is just as visible on the finished product of both materials. The ONLY place resin is superior (and I'll qualify this away, too, in a moment) is in thickness. </p>
<p>What???? Explaining. if you have a large, thin, flat surface, like a Dragon's wing, for example, it's much easier to get the resin to fill out that shape, as it stays liquid longer and can be more easily forced to flow into the shape by rotating the mold, etc. Pewter has a low melting (and conversely, freezing) point and we work with it at about 650º F. It freezes when it gets to 450º F. It loses those 200ºF in about 15 seconds. Inside a centrifugal caster, such as we use at Reaper, if it left any air pockets (or the much cooler mold froze the metal over the very thin membrane before it had completely filled in the piece) then it won't work. For me, trying to fill out anything with a surface area larger than 2-3 inches but thinner than 1mm is next to impossible in just 15 seconds. With Resin, you have a slightly longer working time, and aren't usually spin-casting, but tap casting, and can make that work better. Heck, If I had 2 minutes, instead of 15 seconds, I could make it work in metal, too.</p>
<p>So resin makes really large thin pieces better. Dragonwings, etc. Usually. I know that, for instance, the upcoming Clockwork Dragon for the kickstarter, rather than make the prototype wings out of metal, we had them made in resin, precisely because they were too thin to be feasible in pewter.</p>
<p>But I said I'd qualify that away, and I shall. If I can heat the mold up above 400º F, which takes a LOT of effort, I can keep the metal from freezing for several minutes. It will severely damage the mold, but will enable me to cast what is, under normal conditions, impossible otherwise. We could have manages to make those wings in pewter, but it would have taken hours. </p>
<p>So why does everybody say resin holds more detail than pewter? Marketing is one part of it. The resin people work very hard to convince you of this. the other is Sculpting. When you know your piece is going to be sculpt in resin, you tend to put more really thin bits - the hair fine filigree, the thin membranes, etc. because they THINK that it will show up better. I can tell you that as far as filigree, surface textures of less than .5mm are no different to me than if there were no texture. You take a green, cover it with human hair, and when I cast it, the hair will still be perfectly visible. It's if you make a membrane of hair, then I can't really do it.</p>
<p>Show me a resin piece that isn't a membranous object that I could not replicate given the legal right to make, and I'll eat my hat. But I'll swear up and down that that's the difference (other than price) between pewter and resin. Membranes. NOT detail.</p>
<p>I'll get off my soapbox now.</p>DeathQuaker wrote:Yep. If you want a really lovely, super detailed mini, it will definitely look best in resin over another material.
I see this a lot, and it's one of my pet peeves. I call BS. Sorry, but here you go:
I have worked in the manufacturing of figures for over a decade. The material in which the figures are cast makes no difference in terms of detail. The molds are both exactly as capable of picking up as minute a detail as you can see with any magnifier that is reasonable to...Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2012-12-14T15:22:36ZRe: Forums: Miniatures: So the Reaper Kickstarter was awesome but...Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2orh0?So-the-Reaper-Kickstarter-was-awesome-but#432012-12-14T15:02:31Z2012-12-14T15:02:31Z<p>I will continue to advocate that it's really really hard to find bases cheaper than a US Penny (if you live in the US). Failing that, a US Nickel. If you can otherwise find bases for LESS than a penny apiece, I'd love to know!</p>I will continue to advocate that it's really really hard to find bases cheaper than a US Penny (if you live in the US). Failing that, a US Nickel. If you can otherwise find bases for LESS than a penny apiece, I'd love to know!Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2012-12-14T15:02:31ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Way of the Wicked—Book #1: Knot of Thorns (PFRPG)Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/products/btpy8tmp/discuss&page=20?Way-of-the-Wicked-Book-1-Knot-of-Thorns#9642012-12-14T14:59:29Z2012-12-14T14:59:29Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">gustavo iglesias wrote:</div><blockquote><p> The praise is well deserved. This is a wonderful, open ended adventure.</p>
<p>Just take a look to the different reports. Every group finish the adventure in a different way. The challenges are well designed, you have several options, most encounters can be solved out of combat, and you can choose stealth, bluff, magic, or front fight in most of the situations. I take that as a sign of a well designed adventure.</p>
<p>To Bryan: I'm happy you find the Dark Favor interesting :). </blockquote><p>Thanks! I was looking for a way to introduce a dark version of Hero Points, and after reading your post, it hit me! I'm pretty sure for the next group to run this one I'll use the same conceit - no Dark Favors at first, until they either achieve similar things or otherwise please Asmodeus in a more liturgical sense!gustavo iglesias wrote:The praise is well deserved. This is a wonderful, open ended adventure.
Just take a look to the different reports. Every group finish the adventure in a different way. The challenges are well designed, you have several options, most encounters can be solved out of combat, and you can choose stealth, bluff, magic, or front fight in most of the situations. I take that as a sign of a well designed adventure.
To Bryan: I'm happy you find the Dark Favor interesting :).
...Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2012-12-14T14:59:29ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Way of the Wicked—Book #1: Knot of Thorns (PFRPG)Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/products/btpy8tmp/discuss&page=20?Way-of-the-Wicked-Book-1-Knot-of-Thorns#9592012-12-13T23:21:05Z2012-12-13T22:08:26Z<p>Play report!
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<p>Major Kudos to you, Gary, for a wonder time running this so far, I'm happy to continue to support FMG!</p>Play report!
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Major Kudos to you, Gary, for a wonder time running this so far, I'm happy to continue to support FMG!Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2012-12-13T22:08:26ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Way of the Wicked—Book #1: Knot of Thorns (PFRPG)Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/products/btpy8tmp/discuss&page=19?Way-of-the-Wicked-Book-1-Knot-of-Thorns#9402012-12-06T21:26:07Z2012-12-06T20:33:00Z<p>Play report!
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[Spoiler omitted]Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2012-12-06T20:33:00ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Way of the Wicked—Book #1: Knot of Thorns (PFRPG)Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/products/btpy8tmp/discuss&page=19?Way-of-the-Wicked-Book-1-Knot-of-Thorns#9372012-12-05T21:37:11Z2012-12-05T21:37:11Z<p>Kybryn: could you maybe introduce a suspect to take the fall for the PC's so that the alert level drops? Make it easy for the PCs to frame an NPC or group of them? </p>
<p>I also like the fire and poisoning the well ideas.</p>Kybryn: could you maybe introduce a suspect to take the fall for the PC's so that the alert level drops? Make it easy for the PCs to frame an NPC or group of them?
I also like the fire and poisoning the well ideas.Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2012-12-05T21:37:11ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Way of the Wicked—Book #1: Knot of Thorns (PFRPG)Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/products/btpy8tmp/discuss&page=19?Way-of-the-Wicked-Book-1-Knot-of-Thorns#9172012-11-30T20:11:25Z2012-11-30T20:11:25Z<p>That's a good idea! I think I'm going to use the Emergency rations thing next week, and also allow a "second save" for the remaining people. </p>
<p>Gary, I've never poisoned 70 people either, so you may be very right. It just felt kind of low, you know, it was an ungood bellyfeel...</p>That's a good idea! I think I'm going to use the Emergency rations thing next week, and also allow a "second save" for the remaining people.
Gary, I've never poisoned 70 people either, so you may be very right. It just felt kind of low, you know, it was an ungood bellyfeel...Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2012-11-30T20:11:25ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Way of the Wicked—Book #1: Knot of Thorns (PFRPG)Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/products/btpy8tmp/discuss&page=19?Way-of-the-Wicked-Book-1-Knot-of-Thorns#9142012-11-30T15:41:17Z2012-11-30T15:41:17Z<p>Battle report, this week!
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[Spoiler omitted]Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2012-11-30T15:41:17ZRe: Forums/Mythic Adventures Playtest: General Discussion: A few concerns with mythic rulesBryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2p609?A-few-concerns-with-mythic-rules#122012-11-27T17:13:23Z2012-11-27T17:13:23Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">YawarFiesta wrote:</div><blockquote> Mythic power to modify your rolls is not a boon when you are required to use it against every foe.</blockquote><p>I think that's the point - your Mythic Character CAN survive against that Foe because he has that Mythic power to use against the foe - a "normal" character would never face that beast, it would eliminate them, and their village. Hearkens back to classic Hercules, etc.YawarFiesta wrote:Mythic power to modify your rolls is not a boon when you are required to use it against every foe.
I think that's the point - your Mythic Character CAN survive against that Foe because he has that Mythic power to use against the foe - a "normal" character would never face that beast, it would eliminate them, and their village. Hearkens back to classic Hercules, etc.Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2012-11-27T17:13:23ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Way of the Wicked—Book #1: Knot of Thorns (PFRPG)Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/products/btpy8tmp/discuss&page=19?Way-of-the-Wicked-Book-1-Knot-of-Thorns#9072012-11-27T16:36:43Z2012-11-27T16:36:43Z<p>I'm a bit late with our Game Report from last week:
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[Spoiler omitted]Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2012-11-27T16:36:43ZRe: Forums/Mythic Adventures Playtest: General Discussion: Summoning and Mythic RulesBryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2p6yz?Summoning-and-Mythic-Rules#32012-11-27T00:00:07Z2012-11-27T00:00:07Z<p>Eugene: Can you elaborate on precisely how they became obsolete, and what might help?</p>Eugene: Can you elaborate on precisely how they became obsolete, and what might help?Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2012-11-27T00:00:07ZRe: Forums/Paizo: General Discussion: Binder for adventure pathBryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2p4ld?Binder-for-adventure-path#162012-11-08T17:36:01Z2012-11-08T17:36:01Z<p>Looks similar to the various Magazine storage/display boxes at Ikea or other home-furnishing stores. The big stickler is the precise dimensions. And of course the art. If you have the PDFs, you could do a color print of your favorite art, and that might solve some of that. My quick measurements of the APs I have suggests that a width of 1.5" would hold 7 AP books, which should be enough for 6 AP books, the player's guide, and the other splat-book that ties into the AP, like Pirates of the Inner Sea, etc.</p>
<p>A quick google search comes up with <a href="
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http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/239883/Pacon-70percent-Recycled-Corru gated-Magazine-Holders/;jsessionid=0000YQOTJxZmiZIY_zoqxGo26bK:13ddpq53l#fi rstTab" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">These</a> at 6 for $16.50, in assorted colors (Color coded for your AP needs!) but they're 3 1/8", so about 2 APs wide each, not one.</p>
<p>likewise <a href="http://www.amazon.com/COLORFUL-MAGAZINE-FILE-HOLDERS-SET/dp/B003NG0XWI/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1352395806&sr=8-10&keywords=magazine+holders+cardboard" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> these </a> are also 3" not 1.5", but you get 12for $33-35, so about $3 each, and you can color code them again, to suit the path, and then print custom stickers.</p>
<p>I was not able to turn up anything smaller than 3", though. Anybody else?</p>Looks similar to the various Magazine storage/display boxes at Ikea or other home-furnishing stores. The big stickler is the precise dimensions. And of course the art. If you have the PDFs, you could do a color print of your favorite art, and that might solve some of that. My quick measurements of the APs I have suggests that a width of 1.5" would hold 7 AP books, which should be enough for 6 AP books, the player's guide, and the other splat-book that ties into the AP, like Pirates of the...Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2012-11-08T17:36:01ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Campaign (OGL)Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/products/btpy8x64/discuss&page=2?Pathfinder-Roleplaying-Game-Ultimate-Campaign#572012-11-05T21:52:48Z2012-11-05T21:52:48Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Quote:</div><blockquote> Innovative new story feats that tie your character’s background and experiences into the game, giving players goals to accomplish for even greater rewards. </blockquote><p>When I read this, I wonder how it works:
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you gain the ability X from the feat, and if you accomplish Goal Y, then the feat grants you Ability X AND Ability Z, </p>
<p>or if you accomplish Goal Y you now Qualify for Feat 2 which gives you ability Z.</p>
<p>Any details you can share at this point in development?</p>Quote:Innovative new story feats that tie your character’s background and experiences into the game, giving players goals to accomplish for even greater rewards.
When I read this, I wonder how it works:
you gain the ability X from the feat, and if you accomplish Goal Y, then the feat grants you Ability X AND Ability Z, or if you accomplish Goal Y you now Qualify for Feat 2 which gives you ability Z.
Any details you can share at this point in development?Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2012-11-05T21:52:48ZRe: Forums: Miniatures: Have you locked in your Reaper Kickstarter order?Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2oyau&page=5?Have-you-locked-in-your-Reaper-Kickstarter-order#2032012-11-01T16:29:50Z2012-11-01T16:29:50Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">DeathQuaker wrote:</div><blockquote><p>4) While I'm on the subject, discussions of mini painting in miniatures focused forums are also helpful, such as Privateer Press's Website or DakkaDakka (the latter are a slightly more volatile bunch mind, but good hobbyists).
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</blockquote><p>And Reaper's own Forums...DeathQuaker wrote:4) While I'm on the subject, discussions of mini painting in miniatures focused forums are also helpful, such as Privateer Press's Website or DakkaDakka (the latter are a slightly more volatile bunch mind, but good hobbyists).
And Reaper's own Forums...Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2012-11-01T16:29:50ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Way of the Wicked—Book #1: Knot of Thorns (PFRPG)Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/products/btpy8tmp/discuss&page=17?Way-of-the-Wicked-Book-1-Knot-of-Thorns#8242012-10-29T20:13:17Z2012-10-29T20:13:17Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Fire Mountain Games wrote:</div><blockquote><p> Bryan,</p>
<p>The Watch Wall is not a physical wall. It is dozen defensive castles/watchtowers that control every viable crossing point that connects the savage north to the borderlands in the south.</p>
<p>That is the Watch Wall.</p>
<p>Gary McBride
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<a href="http://www.firemountaingames.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Fire Mountain Games</a>
<br />
Check out our kickstarter! <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/730004812/creature-cards-monstrous-playing-cards-for-games-o" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Creature Cards</a>
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</blockquote><p>So the Watch Wall at Balentyne, as elsewhere, is the place at which it is possible to enter the kingdom, fording the river elsewhere is unviable. Ok, I'd pictured a very Great Wall of China, with keeps and towers, but this is more like the series of keeps in LotR that alert Gondor and Rohan of trouble from Mordor.
<p>Thanks for your reply!!</p>Fire Mountain Games wrote:Bryan,
The Watch Wall is not a physical wall. It is dozen defensive castles/watchtowers that control every viable crossing point that connects the savage north to the borderlands in the south.
That is the Watch Wall.
Gary McBride
Fire Mountain Games
Check out our kickstarter! Creature Cards
So the Watch Wall at Balentyne, as elsewhere, is the place at which it is possible to enter the kingdom, fording the river elsewhere is unviable. Ok, I'd pictured a very Great...Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2012-10-29T20:13:17ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Way of the Wicked—Book #1: Knot of Thorns (PFRPG)Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/products/btpy8tmp/discuss&page=17?Way-of-the-Wicked-Book-1-Knot-of-Thorns#8152012-10-27T23:57:44Z2012-10-27T20:56:59Z<p>Gary, I need your help!</p>
<p>I'm working on drawing out Balentyne on Gaming Paper, and it's going well. But I have encountered a problem, or at least a confusion with the map.
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[Spoiler omitted]</p>
<p>I await your reply!</p>
<p>Thanks,
<br />
Bryan</p>Gary, I need your help!
I'm working on drawing out Balentyne on Gaming Paper, and it's going well. But I have encountered a problem, or at least a confusion with the map.
[Spoiler omitted]
I await your reply!
Thanks,
BryanBryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2012-10-27T20:56:59ZRe: Forums: Advice: How do I make up a character name I don't despise?Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2p3d2?How-do-I-make-up-a-character-name-I-dont-despise#422012-10-25T18:05:25Z2012-10-25T18:05:25Z<p>Take a word. Dragon.
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Change a Letter. Eragon!</p>
<p>Word. Elantra (my car)
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Letter. Elanera! Elandra! </p>
<p>Takes some work to make it work, but it works, too!</p>Take a word. Dragon.
Change a Letter. Eragon!
Word. Elantra (my car)
Letter. Elanera! Elandra!
Takes some work to make it work, but it works, too!Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2012-10-25T18:05:25ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Way of the Wicked—Book #1: Knot of Thorns (PFRPG)Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/products/btpy8tmp/discuss&page=17?Way-of-the-Wicked-Book-1-Knot-of-Thorns#8112012-10-25T17:39:23Z2012-10-25T17:39:23Z<p>Session 3 Report!
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Having a great time! Can't wait for next week!</p>Session 3 Report!
[Spoiler omitted]
Having a great time! Can't wait for next week!Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2012-10-25T17:39:23ZRe: Forums: Skull & Shackles: Beauties of the sea, what be Her name?Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2oei2?Beauties-of-the-sea-what-be-Her-name#442012-11-08T04:37:08Z2012-10-19T17:30:51Z<p>We haven't gotten there yet, but I want "The Buxom Broadsides".</p>We haven't gotten there yet, but I want "The Buxom Broadsides".Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2012-10-19T17:30:51ZRe: Forums: Skull & Shackles: If you're playing it now, how far are you?Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2p1zu?If-youre-playing-it-now-how-far-are-you#142012-10-19T17:23:34Z2012-10-19T17:23:34Z<p>Last night was session one.</p>
<p>I have no idea how far we made it, but I get drunk a lot after working each day.</p>Last night was session one.
I have no idea how far we made it, but I get drunk a lot after working each day.Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2012-10-19T17:23:34ZRe: Forums: Skull & Shackles: If you're playing it now, how far are you?Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2p1zu?If-youre-playing-it-now-how-far-are-you#132012-10-19T17:23:12Z2012-10-19T17:23:12Z<p>Last night was session one.</p>
<p>I have no idea how far we made it, but I get drunk a lot after working each day.</p>Last night was session one.
I have no idea how far we made it, but I get drunk a lot after working each day.Bryan Stiltz (Reaper Miniatures)2012-10-19T17:23:12ZRe: Forums/Lost Omens Campaign Setting: General Discussion: Atheism, Agnosticism, and Ancestor Worship in GolarionReaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2md2p?Atheism-Agnosticism-and-Ancestor-Worship-in#272016-10-10T16:49:16Z2011-06-07T19:03:07Z<p>My 2 cents:</p>
<p>Atheists on Golarion are practitioners of Athiesm - A, a prefix meaning without, and Theism, meaning 'faith in a god'. (loose translations, I'm not an English major). Thus an atheist professes worship of no god. "Do they exist? Sure. Are they powerful? Yes. Am I going to give them one copper shekel or one sheaf of wheat as an offering, a request for power, or a thanks for the harvest? No. My hands sowed, tended, reaped. My belly gets the grain, and those in my community if I choose to sell, barter, or share. Gozreh wants my bloody wheat, he can come get some, I've got a bushel left that he can have before winter if he'll give me a fair price."</p>
<p>Agnostics are unsure which gods are right. Which ones are worthy of devoted worship - or, at an extreme, unsure that any of them, with their petty squabbles and tawdry backstories are any better than ordinary people that happen to be able to level mountain ranges - and frankly, 4 of them are ordinary people that have that power level.</p>
<p>This will not of course end the debate, but it's how I use it in my games.</p>My 2 cents:
Atheists on Golarion are practitioners of Athiesm - A, a prefix meaning without, and Theism, meaning 'faith in a god'. (loose translations, I'm not an English major). Thus an atheist professes worship of no god. "Do they exist? Sure. Are they powerful? Yes. Am I going to give them one copper shekel or one sheaf of wheat as an offering, a request for power, or a thanks for the harvest? No. My hands sowed, tended, reaped. My belly gets the grain, and those in my community if I...Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-06-07T19:03:07ZRe: Forums: Miniatures: Tour of Reaper Casting worksReaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2mdbo?Tour-of-Reaper-Casting-works#22011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-06-07T18:47:17Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Robert Hawkshaw wrote:</div><blockquote><p> I was messing around on the intertubes and found this, a tour of Reaper's casting works. It's neat if you have 15 free minutes.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3HqXSEUFac" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3HqXSEUFac</a></p>
<p></blockquote><p>WooHoo! I'm on YouTube!
<p>//waits patiently for the money to start rolling in//</p>Robert Hawkshaw wrote:I was messing around on the intertubes and found this, a tour of Reaper's casting works. It's neat if you have 15 free minutes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3HqXSEUFac
WooHoo! I'm on YouTube! //waits patiently for the money to start rolling in//Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-06-07T18:47:17ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Pathfinder Miniatures: Stag LordReaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/products/btpy8j2m/discuss?Pathfinder-Miniatures-Stag-Lord#132011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-06-07T15:06:58Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Matthew Winn wrote:</div><blockquote>Can we expect it soon? I'm about two months away from starting my KM game and I would need to receive and paint it first. </blockquote><p>I know that this week, we're shipping these to distribution:
</p>
60067___Nyrissa, Dryad Queen by Derek Schubert $8.99
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60070___Velmarius Elazarin by Julie Guthrie $6.49
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60074___Serpentfolk Warrior by Julie Guthrie $6.29
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60076___Gray Gardener by Patrick Keith $6.99</p>
<p>Which has a Kingmaker figure, a Serpent Skull, one Inner Sea figure for use in all Golarion games, and one figure (I am ashamed to admit)I'm not sure about the Product origin for.</p>
<p>Stag Lord was originally slated for May but did not arrive from the sculptor on time. I would expect it to be the 4th selection for June (which originally the Gray Gardener was to be released in June, so this is one that came in early). Dirty secret: Sometimes a sculptor turns in a green late, and we have to do that.</p>
<div class="messageboard-quotee">Elucidarian wrote:</div><blockquote><p> I'm sure your customers would love (hint, hint) to see a page with just a rough time line for releases. At least the order in which they'll come out, if not actual dates. Is that feasible?</p>
<p>I would really like to purchase Vordakai, Cyclops Lich, but only if I can get by the time my players reach Kingmaker Part 3. They're about to begin Part 2. </blockquote><p>I show these for June:
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60075 King Castruccio Irovetti
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60077 Baba Yaga
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60078 Khavith, Serpentfolk Evoker</p>
<p>July:
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60079 Lyrie Akenja
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60080 Pathfinder Agent
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60081 Runelord Alaznist
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60082 Vordakai, Cyclops Lich</p>
<p>August:
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60083 Samurai
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60084 Ninja
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60085 Gunslinger
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60086 Ameiko Kaijitsu</p>
<p>Also note that the August product release is linked somewhat to some upcoming product that will be relevant at the time of the model releases....</p>Matthew Winn wrote:Can we expect it soon? I'm about two months away from starting my KM game and I would need to receive and paint it first.
I know that this week, we're shipping these to distribution:
60067___Nyrissa, Dryad Queen by Derek Schubert $8.99
60070___Velmarius Elazarin by Julie Guthrie $6.49
60074___Serpentfolk Warrior by Julie Guthrie $6.29
60076___Gray Gardener by Patrick Keith $6.99Which has a Kingmaker figure, a Serpent Skull, one Inner Sea figure for use in all Golarion...Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-06-07T15:06:58ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder First Edition: General Discussion: Getting use out of Ultimate MagicReaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2m962&page=9?Getting-use-out-of-Ultimate-Magic#4282011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-06-07T00:08:46Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Sean K Reynolds wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Nemitri wrote:</div><blockquote> vow of poverty should be renamed vow of sucking. </blockquote>Yeah, funny thing about poverty, it sucks. </blockquote><p>+1Sean K Reynolds wrote:Nemitri wrote: vow of poverty should be renamed vow of sucking.
Yeah, funny thing about poverty, it sucks. +1Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-06-07T00:08:46ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Pathfinder Miniatures: Stag LordReaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/products/btpy8j2m/discuss?Pathfinder-Miniatures-Stag-Lord#92011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-06-06T17:16:11Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Elucidarian wrote:</div><blockquote><p> Wouldn't you sell more AP minis if players could get them by the time the the correlating AP issue is shipped?</p>
<p>Why are the AP minis coming out so late?</p>
<p>Is it because the minis line is still relatively new and yet to be streamlined? Do you wait until you know if a character is well-received before its commissioned? </blockquote><p>This is so much a more complex question with a harder answer than it sounds.
<p>Let me give the simple answer of: Paizo has hundreds of awesome figure art we at Reaper are using to make these figures. If we focus only on the new AP stuff, the hundreds of awesome figures that came before will be obvious in their absence. What we are trying to create is a useful mix of 'New and relevant to current audiences, and inclusive of the really cool stuff from the past'</p>
<p>Stag Lord might be a year too late for a lot of you. But somebody out there is just about to begin Kingmaker, and that GM will be happy.</p>Elucidarian wrote:Wouldn't you sell more AP minis if players could get them by the time the the correlating AP issue is shipped?
Why are the AP minis coming out so late?
Is it because the minis line is still relatively new and yet to be streamlined? Do you wait until you know if a character is well-received before its commissioned?
This is so much a more complex question with a harder answer than it sounds. Let me give the simple answer of: Paizo has hundreds of awesome figure art we at...Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-06-06T17:16:11ZRe: Forums: Rules Questions: Marvelous pigments - how marvelous are they?Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2md54?Marvelous-pigments-how-marvelous-are-they#22011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-06-06T17:08:01Z<p>Our party got one of these and painted a set of ladders and a door.</p>
<p>The ladders got us down a pit and back up without falling in, and the door got us out of a room with no exits.</p>
<p>As a GM, I would not have allowed the door to create a tunnel behind it, but as it was on a normal wall, the door replaced that section of wall.</p>
<p>I'm not sure how I would rule on using pigments to create "negative space". Holes, pits, tunnels, etc. It works in Roadrunner cartoons, but I'm playing Kingmaker, not Toon.</p>
<p>My opinion right now is that I'd rule that the pigments can create positive items, but not empty space. Or if empty space were argued convincingly enough, that it would have to be a) small and b) higher DC. drawing a realistic tunnel on a page is hard. Just look at deviant art...</p>Our party got one of these and painted a set of ladders and a door.
The ladders got us down a pit and back up without falling in, and the door got us out of a room with no exits.
As a GM, I would not have allowed the door to create a tunnel behind it, but as it was on a normal wall, the door replaced that section of wall.
I'm not sure how I would rule on using pigments to create "negative space". Holes, pits, tunnels, etc. It works in Roadrunner cartoons, but I'm playing Kingmaker, not
...Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-06-06T17:08:01ZRe: Forums: Miniatures: Paizo minis, and minis in generalReaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2mbjb&page=3?Paizo-minis-and-minis-in-general#1052011-06-11T20:04:42Z2011-06-06T17:01:49Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Brian E. Harris wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Enpeze wrote:</div><blockquote><p> Well I guess sooner or later the mini business will change to CAD file sellers instead of selling real pewter or plastic minis. 3D printers will take it over. They will be cheaper in some years and everybody can print their favorite minis out by themselves. (not prepainted of course...)</p>
<p>Eg recently in Austria there has been introduced a 3D printer for only 1200 Euro and the size of a coffee-machine.</p>
<p>http://diepresse.com/home/techscience/hightech/662754/TU-Wien-entwickelt-kl einsten-3DDrucker-der-Welt </blockquote><p>Someday, those 3D printers will even produce decent enough quality output to produce minis, too.
<p>I am far from impressed with any samples that I've seen or have been exhibited from these deals. </blockquote><p>We spend a lot more time than most people• researching all the variant ways a mini can be made. To that end, we buy CAD minis from different 3-d rapid-printers and such every few months. We are very intrigued by the technology, and really do hope that some day, we can harness it as we now harness fire and lightning.
<p>Right now, the figures that we get don't quite have the quality of a hand-sculpt. </p>
<p>That's not to say there aren't some computer generated models that work- there are plenty. But the desktop 3-d printer technology is not there yet.</p>
<p>•I have to guess this is true, really. It is possible that you spend more time than I do worrying about the future of the miniatures biz. If that is so, we may need counseling, and perhaps could consider a group rate....</p>Brian E. Harris wrote:Enpeze wrote:Well I guess sooner or later the mini business will change to CAD file sellers instead of selling real pewter or plastic minis. 3D printers will take it over. They will be cheaper in some years and everybody can print their favorite minis out by themselves. (not prepainted of course...)
Eg recently in Austria there has been introduced a 3D printer for only 1200 Euro and the size of a coffee-machine.
...Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-06-06T17:01:49ZRe: Forums: Miniatures: Pathfinder Pre-Painted Plastic MinisReaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2mb07&page=9?Pathfinder-PrePainted-Plastic-Minis#4342011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-06-06T16:55:37Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">gbonehead wrote:</div><blockquote>I don't think the Reaper section of the store even mentions Asylum; I'm guessing that Reaper doesn't want any confusion between their unpainted metals and their prepainted plastics. </blockquote><p>There was a LOT of confusion when we first launched the LE plastics, about which brands were going to "convert" to PPPM (NONE, all lines we had then and have now are either/or, and none that started as one ever changed to the other), which were being "replaced" etc. (NONE, while we have cancelled some licensed properties in the past, and do occasionally prune our selection down, no product line has been cancelled wholecloth since the LE line was introduced, and cetrainly none were "repalced" by it).
<p>So yeah, we try to keep the brands Asylum and Reaper clear and distinct. </p>
<p>And I feel the way you do about pogs. If you're struggling for cash it might be cheaper, as you can get dozens for the same cost as 1 3d figure, but it's not (MY OPINION) the best solution for character and tactical representation. Likewise, Monopoly tokens, dice, and coins, all of which are perfectly reasonable, but none of which are "the ideal solution". </p>
<p>Bear in mind my bias, however.</p>gbonehead wrote:I don't think the Reaper section of the store even mentions Asylum; I'm guessing that Reaper doesn't want any confusion between their unpainted metals and their prepainted plastics.
There was a LOT of confusion when we first launched the LE plastics, about which brands were going to "convert" to PPPM (NONE, all lines we had then and have now are either/or, and none that started as one ever changed to the other), which were being "replaced" etc. (NONE, while we have cancelled...Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-06-06T16:55:37ZRe: Forums: Kingmaker: Miniature SuggestionReaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2mcua?Miniature-Suggestion#72011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-06-06T00:22:27Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Brian McDaniel wrote:</div><blockquote> Just to be clear, I'm looking for something suitable for a huge sized miniature. I've already got a couple large sized owlbears. </blockquote><p>The http://www.reapermini.com/FigureFinder#detail/14614 Owlbear is significantly larger than the other 3. It could easily be placed on a 3x3 base, although it won't fill the entire 3x3 footprint, it fills more like 3x 1.5. You'll have to use at least SOME imagination.
<p>It is, IMHO, the best owlbear mini I have ever seen.</p>
<p>I may, of course, be biased.</p>Brian McDaniel wrote:Just to be clear, I'm looking for something suitable for a huge sized miniature. I've already got a couple large sized owlbears.
The http://www.reapermini.com/FigureFinder#detail/14614 Owlbear is significantly larger than the other 3. It could easily be placed on a 3x3 base, although it won't fill the entire 3x3 footprint, it fills more like 3x 1.5. You'll have to use at least SOME imagination. It is, IMHO, the best owlbear mini I have ever seen.
I may, of course, be...Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-06-06T00:22:27ZRe: Forums: Miniatures: Pathfinder Pre-Painted Plastic MinisReaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2mb07&page=8?Pathfinder-PrePainted-Plastic-Minis#3832011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-06-03T22:08:48Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">KaeYoss wrote:</div><blockquote><p> What do you have planned for the line? You should definitely do a marilith. I have the metal one, but I haven't painted it yet, don't know when I will, and we really need a pretty marilith. The DDM one was way beyond ugly.</p>
<p>Also, I have this metal fury which I think is from Reaper. </p>
<p>And some spellcasters. We definitely need some of those.</p>
<p>And mosnters. And everything else! :) </blockquote><p>I'm in the loop a little - I sit in on about a third of the LE planning meetings. But 99% of the time, I'm too busy on the production floor cranking out unpainted metal miniatures. I am a chair on the board that helps vote on which of the offerings up for consideration will go to the prototyping stage, but I'm not very deeply involved with LE as a whole.
<p>With that disclaimer, We're looking at 6 non-dinosaur releases this fall, I'm pretty sure it's got wolves, a wizard type, and some fire/acid beetles. I can't recall the other 3. I'm thinking there was a ghast or a ghoul, but I'm drawing a blank. Not being on the final committee, I have no notes to refer to, I'm just trying to recall the voting process.</p>
<p>Some of the figures we showed in the past on our site never got prototyped in plastic - the version we showed was the metal copy we send to our supplier as a Master. Some of the figures got prototyped, and then voted down after that. For every 4 figures we release, we protoype 12. For every 12 we Prototype, 20 got made as Masters. </p>
<p>Plastics are a very different business model for us than the metal we've worked with for two decades, and we approach it much more cautiously - many of you could probably name a dozen or so companies and products that were sunk by pre-painteds, and I am pretty darn adamant that I not be one of them.</p>
<p>If you're at PaizoCon, Origins, or GenCon, I'd love to talk in person. (this goes for any of you, not just KaeYoss.)</p>KaeYoss wrote:What do you have planned for the line? You should definitely do a marilith. I have the metal one, but I haven't painted it yet, don't know when I will, and we really need a pretty marilith. The DDM one was way beyond ugly.
Also, I have this metal fury which I think is from Reaper.
And some spellcasters. We definitely need some of those.
And mosnters. And everything else! :)
I'm in the loop a little - I sit in on about a third of the LE planning meetings. But 99% of the time,...Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-06-03T22:08:48ZRe: Forums: Miniatures: Paizo minis, and minis in generalReaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2mbjb&page=2?Paizo-minis-and-minis-in-general#982011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-06-03T21:57:39Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Dragnmoon wrote:</div><blockquote> Reaperbryan since you are paying attention here, I will tell you there is one thing stoping me from buying your Pre Painted Minis, The Bases, they Drive me crazy, they are way to small and the minis constantly fall, and are not really sized for 3.5 size rules very well. </blockquote><p>We are working to improve the tipping issue in future releases - one poster on our forum suggested gluing them to pennies. They cost only $.01 each, which is cheaper than any other basing material he could think of, and provided enough bottom-weight to stick 'em down.
<p>As for sizing, we battle with scale creep and with base sizes - sometimes to make the figures dynamic and impressively built, we sacrifice a little of the "strictly 100% accurate" in terms of game rules. Then again, we're also trying to be universal, these aren't specific to 3.x/Pathfinder/4e. And while most people can agree on the size of a horse, a werewolf in "crinos" form is anywhere from normal human sized (teen wolf) to 12 feet (White Wolf). D&D/Pathfinder's interpretation is just one, and our artists are artists, and sometimes do what pleases them.</p>Dragnmoon wrote:Reaperbryan since you are paying attention here, I will tell you there is one thing stoping me from buying your Pre Painted Minis, The Bases, they Drive me crazy, they are way to small and the minis constantly fall, and are not really sized for 3.5 size rules very well.
We are working to improve the tipping issue in future releases - one poster on our forum suggested gluing them to pennies. They cost only $.01 each, which is cheaper than any other basing material he could...Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-06-03T21:57:39ZRe: Forums: Miniatures: Paizo minis, and minis in generalReaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2mbjb&page=2?Paizo-minis-and-minis-in-general#892011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-06-03T16:13:50Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Pale wrote:</div><blockquote><p> I'm a firm believer that supporting the competition to keep it healthy and to keep product top-notch is a much healthier and desirable attitude, as well as a more long-term successful scheme, than making the largest amount of money that you can in the shortest time possible.</p>
<p>I think that my ideals have been proven to work by Paizo, themselves. </blockquote><p>I like to think that we follow a similar business model, given that our figures are the cheapest New Figures in the business, (there's a company that re-releases expired licenses, and he can do cheaper than us because he has fewer up-front costs, but that's neither here nor there). I also like to think that that's one reason why Paizo approached us about doing their figures. Quality Product, consumer-friendly price, consumer-friendly customer service, and respect for the hobby.Pale wrote:I'm a firm believer that supporting the competition to keep it healthy and to keep product top-notch is a much healthier and desirable attitude, as well as a more long-term successful scheme, than making the largest amount of money that you can in the shortest time possible.
I think that my ideals have been proven to work by Paizo, themselves.
I like to think that we follow a similar business model, given that our figures are the cheapest New Figures in the business, (there's a...Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-06-03T16:13:50ZRe: Forums/PaizoCon: General Discussion: Attending the Meet and Eat 2011?Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lsvv&page=3?Attending-the-Meet-and-Eat-2011#1162011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-06-03T16:09:47Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Majuba wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Reaperbryan wrote:</div><blockquote> Is this within walking distance of the Coast Bellevue? I'd like to go, but we're relegating to walking distance or cab rides, and I'd rather save my $$ for the food everybody here tells me is so amazing! </blockquote>Yes, definitely. It's a short walk even if you get slightly lost walking over w/out the crowd to guide you :) </blockquote><p>Thanks!Majuba wrote:Reaperbryan wrote: Is this within walking distance of the Coast Bellevue? I'd like to go, but we're relegating to walking distance or cab rides, and I'd rather save my $$ for the food everybody here tells me is so amazing!
Yes, definitely. It's a short walk even if you get slightly lost walking over w/out the crowd to guide you :) Thanks!Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-06-03T16:09:47ZRe: Forums/PaizoCon: General Discussion: Attending the Meet and Eat 2011?Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lsvv&page=3?Attending-the-Meet-and-Eat-2011#1142011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-06-03T13:41:13Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Timitius wrote:</div><blockquote><p> Our reservation is in, and the space is BOOKED! We will have a good amount of additional space this year, in antici.........pation of about 100 people attending.</p>
<p>The specifics:</p>
<p>PaizoCon Meet and Eat </p>
<p>At:</p>
<p>Crab Pot-Bellevue
<br />
2 Lake Bellevue Drive
<br />
Bellevue, WA 98005</p>
<p>Starting at 6 pm, ending at 9 pm-ish.</p>
<p>Orders will be on separate checks, and the 20% gratuity will be automatically added to the bill.</p>
<p>Oh, and as of this post....35 attending thus far.</p>
<p></blockquote><p>Is this within walking distance of the Coast Bellevue? I'd like to go, but we're relegating to walking distance or cab rides, and I'd rather save my $$ for the food everybody here tells me is so amazing!Timitius wrote:Our reservation is in, and the space is BOOKED! We will have a good amount of additional space this year, in antici.........pation of about 100 people attending.
The specifics:
PaizoCon Meet and Eat
At:
Crab Pot-Bellevue
2 Lake Bellevue Drive
Bellevue, WA 98005
Starting at 6 pm, ending at 9 pm-ish.
Orders will be on separate checks, and the 20% gratuity will be automatically added to the bill.
Oh, and as of this post....35 attending thus far.
Is this within walking...Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-06-03T13:41:13ZRe: Forums: Miniatures: Pathfinder Pre-Painted Plastic MinisReaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2mb07&page=8?Pathfinder-PrePainted-Plastic-Minis#3542011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-06-03T04:50:03Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">PaladinRS wrote:</div><blockquote>The people who use miniatures are going to want to paint miniatures. </blockquote><p>As the bread-and-butter of my company, i certainly hope that demand for unpainted metal figures is high. But I can tell you there •IS• a demand for pre-painted plastics, because we sell those, too.
<div class="messageboard-quotee">PaladinRS wrote:</div><blockquote>And they are all going to want to play Warhammer. Because its pretty much the best miniature game out there.</blockquote><p>Really? Because most of the people I know that buy the Pathfinder Minis or the Dark Heaven, Chronoscope, or Warlord Minis we sell play D&D, Pathfinder, or some other tabletop RPG.
<p>Minis are only for Warhammer? They don't even MAKE metal miniatures anymore...</p>PaladinRS wrote:The people who use miniatures are going to want to paint miniatures.
As the bread-and-butter of my company, i certainly hope that demand for unpainted metal figures is high. But I can tell you there *IS* a demand for pre-painted plastics, because we sell those, too. PaladinRS wrote:And they are all going to want to play Warhammer. Because its pretty much the best miniature game out there.
Really? Because most of the people I know that buy the Pathfinder Minis or the Dark...Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-06-03T04:50:03ZRe: Forums: Miniatures: Paizo minis, and minis in generalReaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2mbjb&page=2?Paizo-minis-and-minis-in-general#832011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-06-02T20:40:41Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Dark_Mistress wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">KaeYoss wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Reaperbryan wrote:</div><blockquote><br />
<br />
Have they been the holy grail of minis? No. There's thousands of people that don't even know LE exists.</blockquote><p>If there's only thousands of people that don't know of LE, I'm saying you're doing very well. Because I'd guess that there's billions of people who don't know about Pathfinder. :P
<p>Don't get me wrong - I'm a big fan. I get all the LE minis (except the dinosaurs). Love the rats, by the way. </blockquote>Well I was one of the ones that didn't know. This is the first I knew about it. The funny thing is I had heard of the Legendary Encounters but didn't know they was prepainted plastic mini's. </blockquote><p>The comment I heard once described the product as "the best kept secret in the miniatures industry" ••sadface••Dark_Mistress wrote:KaeYoss wrote: Reaperbryan wrote:
Have they been the holy grail of minis? No. There's thousands of people that don't even know LE exists.
If there's only thousands of people that don't know of LE, I'm saying you're doing very well. Because I'd guess that there's billions of people who don't know about Pathfinder. :P Don't get me wrong - I'm a big fan. I get all the LE minis (except the dinosaurs). Love the rats, by the way. Well I was one of the ones that didn't know....Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-06-02T20:40:41ZRe: Forums: Advice: The Geiger Paladin: How do you handle him?Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2mcgl&page=2?The-Geiger-Paladin-How-do-you-handle-him#732011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-06-02T20:31:08Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Kevin Andrew Murphy wrote:</div><blockquote><p> Fortunately, your character is Lawful, so get him on the Law rather than the Goodness aspect, though question that too. If he says he detects Evil from you, freely admit that you are no angel but also that you never pretended to be otherwise, and state that all men have their virtues and their sins. If he admits that he is using a paladin's Detect Evil ability to Detect Evil from you, mention that this is an invasion of privacy, which is itself an evil act. Not the greatest of sins, certainly, but not the smallest either.</p>
<p>Ask the paladin if he had just cause to inspect your aura and moreover if he was doing so under some legal authority and if so which. Remind him that presumption of innocence is the cornerstone of justice (which is LG by another name) whereas presumption of guilt is the cornerstone of tyranny (LE) and ask him which of those two alignments he serves. Tell him the tale of the inquisitor who, in his zeal to find diabolic witches marked with the devil's mark, spied upon a group of virtuous maidens while they bathed, leading to their suicide and ruin, not to mention the inquisitor having his eyes struck out on the order of the Katapeshi judge, who wisely remarked that just as men who violate chastity should be made eunuchs so they can never sin that way again, just so should those who willfully violate modesty and peep into the privacy of the harem be made blind so they may never act on such temptation again.</p>
<p>Those who read auras without permission or even just cause? What would the wise Saranraen judge say about them?</p>
<p>Mention that justice is nothing, however, if it is not tempered by mercy, and magnanimously say that you will forgive him his trespass this once if he will swear by all that is holy that he will not violate your privacy so again.</p>
<p>If he presses you that you really have done something evil and wicked, tell him that your sins are your own, but the only one you will submit to be judged by is Lady Pharasma when you die. Mention—truthfully—that the paladin's shining... </blockquote><p>+1Kevin Andrew Murphy wrote:Fortunately, your character is Lawful, so get him on the Law rather than the Goodness aspect, though question that too. If he says he detects Evil from you, freely admit that you are no angel but also that you never pretended to be otherwise, and state that all men have their virtues and their sins. If he admits that he is using a paladin's Detect Evil ability to Detect Evil from you, mention that this is an invasion of privacy, which is itself an evil act. Not the...Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-06-02T20:31:08ZRe: Forums: Advice: The Geiger Paladin: How do you handle him?Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2mcgl&page=2?The-Geiger-Paladin-How-do-you-handle-him#722011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-06-02T20:29:53Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Matthew Morris wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Kevin Andrew Murphy wrote:</div><blockquote><p> Basically, talk him around enough that he decides to take you on as a project to redeem a sinner while you work on him and see how long it takes you to get him to fall. After all, once he's an ex-paladin, he won't be quite so problematic and will likely end up a more tractable Lawful Neutral.
</p>
</blockquote><p>Thank you, this made me laugh out loud.
<p>As to the Paladin/Player, part of the •fun• of LE is using the law against him. Ask him what crime you've committed, who appointed him judge/jury executioner, etc. Bug him for last rites for •everything• he kills, make him donate to the needy, etc. Volunteer him for things "Why yes, madam, if your doxies can withstand the lectures on virtue, I'm sure my holy companion will use his mercies to cure disease, for no charge." etc. Bascially, if he wants to play an aspect of the paladin to make your life difficult, use the class to make his life difficult.</p>
<p>At the same time, you should sacrifice •some• resources for your own good. Donate to some orphanages, offer to use your (non-icky) spells to help a community, etc. If the townsfolk love you, it doesn't matter how much of an evil bastard you really are. I was able to do this with Shadrach, taking short term risks, to allow me to (literally) get away with murder later.
<br />
•• spoiler omitted •• </blockquote><p>+1Matthew Morris wrote:Kevin Andrew Murphy wrote:Basically, talk him around enough that he decides to take you on as a project to redeem a sinner while you work on him and see how long it takes you to get him to fall. After all, once he's an ex-paladin, he won't be quite so problematic and will likely end up a more tractable Lawful Neutral.
Thank you, this made me laugh out loud. As to the Paladin/Player, part of the *fun* of LE is using the law against him. Ask him what crime you've...Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-06-02T20:29:53ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder First Edition: General Discussion: Do you refer to Pathfinder as D&D?Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2mcjj?Do-you-refer-to-Pathfinder-as-DD#132011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-06-02T20:21:05Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Cartigan wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Mairkurion {tm} wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Evil Lincoln wrote:</div><blockquote> I often ponder questions like this when I am Xeroxing my Kleenexes. </blockquote>I hope you had a coke fresh from the fridge while you were doing that. </blockquote>I bet he googled how to do it. </blockquote><p>And then used a Q-tip to clean the Xerox Machine.
<p>Also, Guilty. I refer to my Kingmaker game as "My D&D Game" when I don't call it "my Kingmaker Game". </p>
<p>Oh, and I have a full set of Pathfinder and D&D 4e Books. I do refer to 4e as 4e, and not as D&D though...</p>Cartigan wrote:Mairkurion {tm} wrote: Evil Lincoln wrote: I often ponder questions like this when I am Xeroxing my Kleenexes.
I hope you had a coke fresh from the fridge while you were doing that. I bet he googled how to do it. And then used a Q-tip to clean the Xerox Machine. Also, Guilty. I refer to my Kingmaker game as "My D&D Game" when I don't call it "my Kingmaker Game".
Oh, and I have a full set of Pathfinder and D&D 4e Books. I do refer to 4e as 4e, and not as D&D though...Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-06-02T20:21:05ZRe: Forums: Miniatures: Paizo minis, and minis in generalReaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2mbjb&page=2?Paizo-minis-and-minis-in-general#802011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-06-02T20:11:48Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Brian E. Harris wrote:</div><blockquote><p> Reaperbryan:</p>
<p>Who paints your pre-paints, out of curiosity? I've always wondered if this is a machine process, or if there's some outsourced group of painters? </blockquote><p>There's a mask that is applied and sprayed on. We don't do the process in house, so I'm not sure, but I am told that it's all robots/spray masks. I would not be surprised if there wasn't a step involving humans and a paintbrush, but our supplier tells us this isn't the case.Brian E. Harris wrote:Reaperbryan:
Who paints your pre-paints, out of curiosity? I've always wondered if this is a machine process, or if there's some outsourced group of painters?
There's a mask that is applied and sprayed on. We don't do the process in house, so I'm not sure, but I am told that it's all robots/spray masks. I would not be surprised if there wasn't a step involving humans and a paintbrush, but our supplier tells us this isn't the case.Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-06-02T20:11:48ZRe: Forums: Miniatures: Paizo minis, and minis in generalReaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2mbjb&page=2?Paizo-minis-and-minis-in-general#752011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-06-02T15:18:44Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Brian E. Harris wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Pale wrote:</div><blockquote><p> Man, I didn't even think of the cost of oil equating to plastic costs (a big ol' "dur" on me for that).</p>
<p>Soo... pre-painted metal minis would be a more economically viable product, then? </blockquote>In low volumes, quite likely. </blockquote><p>Hm, look at me, linking to a competitor! Bad representative of Reaper Miniatures!
<p>Nevertheless, I give you:
<br />
http://www.frpgames.com/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=27270</p>
<p>Crystal Caste made these 5 packs of pre-painted metal figures for ~20 USD. They are mostly on clearance racks, now, despite a good level of painting and good quality for the price.</p>
<p>My guess is CC has the same problem we face with our Legendary Encounters line. The secondary market for DDM has made consumers think that a mini should cost a dollar, and $4-5 each is "outrageous".</p>
<p>c'est la vie.</p>Brian E. Harris wrote:Pale wrote:Man, I didn't even think of the cost of oil equating to plastic costs (a big ol' "dur" on me for that).
Soo... pre-painted metal minis would be a more economically viable product, then?
In low volumes, quite likely. Hm, look at me, linking to a competitor! Bad representative of Reaper Miniatures! Nevertheless, I give you:
http://www.frpgames.com/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=27270
Crystal Caste made these 5 packs of pre-painted metal figures for ~20 USD. They...Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-06-02T15:18:44ZRe: Forums: Miniatures: Paizo minis, and minis in generalReaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2mbjb&page=2?Paizo-minis-and-minis-in-general#742011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-06-02T15:08:18Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">PsychoticWarrior wrote:</div><blockquote><p> [</p>
<p>I take it you're a rep from Reaper Miniatures then? Cool. </blockquote><p>Ah, yes. I'm sorry, I go by ReaperBryan on so many forums that sometimes I forget to intorduce myself.
<p>I am Bryan Stiltz, can be reached at bryan at reapermini dot com if you need verification. (Hey, there's some clown on the paizo forums that says he's you, goes by Reaperbryan, is he you?). I am Reaper Miniatures Production Manager. It is my job to interfere at every level with the productivity of the workers, in theory helping them make the correct quantity of the correct part numbers at the highest standard of quality in the timeliest of fashions. I am sure they would tell you it is my job to stand over them and fuss about something they never even noticed and I should just chillax before I have an aneurism.</p>
<p>I'm only tertially involved with the Pathifinder pewter miniatures, in that I make them, although what gets made and all that is above my pay grade. </p>
<p>Thanks for the support - yeah, for 9 years now I've been listening to the doom and gloom prophesies on the internet every time an announcement is made. Plastic will kill pewter minis. p-65 will kill pewter minis. Paper minis will kill pewter minis. Pewter Minis would be easier to paint if they were not so small. ad inifnitum.</p>
<p>Anybody wants to talk minis directly with me, I will be attending PaizoCon as I did last year, look for me near the Paint and Take.</p>PsychoticWarrior wrote:[
I take it you're a rep from Reaper Miniatures then? Cool.
Ah, yes. I'm sorry, I go by ReaperBryan on so many forums that sometimes I forget to intorduce myself. I am Bryan Stiltz, can be reached at bryan at reapermini dot com if you need verification. (Hey, there's some clown on the paizo forums that says he's you, goes by Reaperbryan, is he you?). I am Reaper Miniatures Production Manager. It is my job to interfere at every level with the productivity of the...Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-06-02T15:08:18ZRe: Forums: Miniatures: Pathfinder Pre-Painted Plastic MinisReaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2mb07&page=6?Pathfinder-PrePainted-Plastic-Minis#2542011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-05-31T03:49:10Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Liz Courts wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Karelzarath wrote:</div><blockquote> Does that strictly take into account maximum encounter size with a given enemy or is that the sum total of enemies? For example, if there are 18 spriggans in the AP, but the party never encounters more than, say, 4 at a time, does that count for 4 or 18? </blockquote>Don't know about Bryan's list, but mine are the "number encountered at a time". So, in your example above, 4 spriggans. </blockquote><p>Same. Max needed for any given encounter. So for the example, the box would have 4 Spriggans.Liz Courts wrote:Karelzarath wrote: Does that strictly take into account maximum encounter size with a given enemy or is that the sum total of enemies? For example, if there are 18 spriggans in the AP, but the party never encounters more than, say, 4 at a time, does that count for 4 or 18?
Don't know about Bryan's list, but mine are the "number encountered at a time". So, in your example above, 4 spriggans. Same. Max needed for any given encounter. So for the example, the box would have 4...Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-05-31T03:49:10ZRe: Forums: Miniatures: Paizo minis, and minis in generalReaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2mbjb&page=2?Paizo-minis-and-minis-in-general#552011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-05-30T23:41:56Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Mandor wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Pale wrote:</div><blockquote> I'm happy that Reaper has already implemented my genius idea! ;) </blockquote><p>While it's been a good business model for Reaper•, 41 minis over 4 years is a lousy model for GMs. It works best as a small supplement to the DDM line. But then, buying Horrorclix singles (I have 37 unique pieces) is also a good small supplement to the DDM line
<p>•As a note, Reaper is one of the "good" companies (like Paizo) with great products and a great relationship with their customers. Reaper making a profit and remaining strong financially is a good thing for the games industry. </blockquote><p>As the line grows, its sales grow, and as the economy stabilizes, its sales grow, and we are able to turn that growth into further line growth. We're working on 6 more models for this year, which will be our first year of more than 4 models added since inception.
<p>(not the movie)</p>
<p>Yeah, it's slow, and we hear that a lot. And it looks sometimes like we're not listening, because we're not speeding it up as fast as we're being told to. Heck, I don't know how many times I've had this exact conversation on our forums. But thanks for the consitued support - you will see that support return back to you as we grow all our products - plastic and metal, licensed and not.</p>Mandor wrote:Pale wrote: I'm happy that Reaper has already implemented my genius idea! ;)
While it's been a good business model for Reaper*, 41 minis over 4 years is a lousy model for GMs. It works best as a small supplement to the DDM line. But then, buying Horrorclix singles (I have 37 unique pieces) is also a good small supplement to the DDM line *As a note, Reaper is one of the "good" companies (like Paizo) with great products and a great relationship with their customers. Reaper making...Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-05-30T23:41:56ZRe: Forums: Miniatures: Paizo minis, and minis in generalReaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2mbjb?Paizo-minis-and-minis-in-general#482011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-05-30T01:52:09Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">DeathQuaker wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Triga wrote:</div><blockquote><br />
<br />
OK let me rephrase, the masses do not posses the skill to paint in a high quality fashion, also the money to buy large amount of pewter minis and the time to paint them, so that you have a monster manual of them, well thats a bit much.</p>
<p>The market for cheap mass produced minis is there. And if they can be painted and still sold at a reasonable price point, the market for them is even bigger.
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</blockquote><p>One thing I think you're not picking up on is that <i>making pre-painted plastic minis is expensive</i>. It is VERY hard to make a profit on them.
<p>Case in point: Reaper Miniature has a line of NON-random, pre-painted plastic minis called <a href="http://www.reapermini.com/LegendaryEncounters" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Legendary Encounters</a>. (Also mentioned elsewhere in this thread). When Legendary Encounters first came out, there was great hope that they would fill in a great need for non blind miniature packs. Many miniature fans (including myself, though I am a metal minis collector) thought they would sell very well.</p>
<p>Thing is? They haven't sold well (to the best of my knowledge). They started coming out in 2007 and there's only 35 items in the line now (some of which are out of stock) because they just weren't selling.
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</blockquote><p>Um.. the reason they are out of stock is because they are selling. Very well, in fact. Better than our ability to resupply them, it turns out. We've gone through 4 full print tuns in four years, just released 4 new models, and are about to release 4 more.
<p>Have they been the holy grail of minis? No. There's thousands of people that don't even know LE exists. Legendary Encounters is the marketing style the OP is asking for, but the volume isn't quite there yet, in terms of # of mini choices for the consumer. But it's getting there! We're making them happen, but we've all seen plastic come and go, and take companies down with them. We're trying to do this right, and not sink our ship, which has been the leading name in metal figures for two decades. </p>
<p>Don't forget also that the launch of this line came right before the recession began. We had battle plans, and we had to make changes, and it has been frustrating for all of us, both as consumers and as the manufacturer.</p>
<p>Oh, And I think I can say there is a market for pewter figures - It's kind of my job to make them, and I sell a few million each year ;)</p>DeathQuaker wrote:Triga wrote:
OK let me rephrase, the masses do not posses the skill to paint in a high quality fashion, also the money to buy large amount of pewter minis and the time to paint them, so that you have a monster manual of them, well thats a bit much.The market for cheap mass produced minis is there. And if they can be painted and still sold at a reasonable price point, the market for them is even bigger.
One thing I think you're not picking up on is that making pre-painted...Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-05-30T01:52:09ZRe: Forums: Miniatures: Pathfinder Pre-Painted Plastic MinisReaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2mb07&page=5?Pathfinder-PrePainted-Plastic-Minis#2102011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-05-27T20:04:26Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Liz Courts wrote:</div><blockquote><p> In case people are interested...</p>
<p>A single AP volume can contain anywhere between roughly 40 to almost 150 enemies that might require a miniature for battlemat play. So far, I think Legacy of Fire's "The Impossible Eye" has the most encounters in it that I've found.
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An entire AP has significantly more than that. The Kingmaker Adventure Path has over 600 possible minis required for it, and that's not even taking into account random encounters. </blockquote><p>We had a similar question on our forums when we announced the Pathfinder lIcensed metal figures. Someone asked if we would do a boxed set of all the figures needed to run an AP.
<p>On a lark, Ed & I sat down and crunched numbers. Just to Run Kingmaker :the Stolen land required over 100 miniatures, and at projected MSRP would cost over $400. </p>
<p>And that's just one book of the AP.</p>
<p>And yes, I have that list if anybody needs it.</p>Liz Courts wrote:In case people are interested...
A single AP volume can contain anywhere between roughly 40 to almost 150 enemies that might require a miniature for battlemat play. So far, I think Legacy of Fire's "The Impossible Eye" has the most encounters in it that I've found.
An entire AP has significantly more than that. The Kingmaker Adventure Path has over 600 possible minis required for it, and that's not even taking into account random encounters.
We had a similar question on our...Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-05-27T20:04:26ZRe: Forums: Local Play: Pathfinder Society Convention ListReaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lzb4&page=2?Pathfinder-Society-Convention-List#792011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-05-05T15:40:45Z<p>ReaperCon 2011 will have 3 tables running society mods all weekend, May 19-22, Denton TX</p>ReaperCon 2011 will have 3 tables running society mods all weekend, May 19-22, Denton TXReaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-05-05T15:40:45ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder First Edition: General Discussion: Would you nerf your character and the party for roleplaying fun?Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2m6zs?Would-you-nerf-your-character-and-the-party#442011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-05-01T22:24:23Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">rando1000 wrote:</div><blockquote> I wouldn't bother playing with any group that required me to be completely "optimized". Such a game just wouldn't be fun for me. I think as long as your group isn't one of those, you should be fine. </blockquote><p>+1rando1000 wrote:I wouldn't bother playing with any group that required me to be completely "optimized". Such a game just wouldn't be fun for me. I think as long as your group isn't one of those, you should be fine.
+1Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-05-01T22:24:23ZRe: Forums: Miniatures: How do I keep Reaper miniatures from falling over?Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2m6tg?How-do-I-keep-Reaper-miniatures-from-falling#142011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-04-29T19:57:58Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Sean K Reynolds wrote:</div><blockquote><p> Washers washers washers.</p>
<p>They're heavy, so they lower the center of gravity and make it less likely the mini tips over.</p>
<p>That weight gives the mini a good heft, even if it's a plastic or resin mini.</p>
<p>They're commonly available.</p>
<p>You can buy them singly at hardware stores if you just need a few.</p>
<p>You can buy a big box at a discount.</p>
<p>They're available in many sizes (from Small to Large), and the default is a grid-friendly 1" diameter.</p>
<p>If you put the shiny side down, they slide nicely (though I prefer the flat side down).</p>
<p>They're ferrous, so you can use them with <a href="http://www.aleatools.com/Default.asp" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Alea tools magnetic bases</a>.</p>
<p>They're durable as hell.</p>
<p></blockquote><p>A nickel is cheaper. Pennies even more so.
<p>We recommend using a blade to cut off any excess metal on the underside of the figure that is a result of the casting process. If you have files, you can then file the base smooth. If the base is slightly bent, with flat tipped pliers, you should be able to bend it back into shape. Gluing these to a prepared base, such as the ones we sell, or Litko, GW, etc., or even to a washer, penny, or other flat object will help with stability on models that are top-heavy or have narrow bases. Superglue should do the trick quite nicely.</p>Sean K Reynolds wrote:Washers washers washers.
They're heavy, so they lower the center of gravity and make it less likely the mini tips over.
That weight gives the mini a good heft, even if it's a plastic or resin mini.
They're commonly available.
You can buy them singly at hardware stores if you just need a few.
You can buy a big box at a discount.
They're available in many sizes (from Small to Large), and the default is a grid-friendly 1" diameter.
If you put the shiny side down,...Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-04-29T19:57:58ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: My new character sheets for PathfinderReaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lbkj&page=3?My-new-character-sheets-for-Pathfinder#1452011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-04-27T23:32:02Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">sadie wrote:</div><blockquote><p> I'm quite sure the files are on the server, so something must have gone wrong when you downloaded them. Did you download them directly, or did you check them out with subversion?</p>
<p>Since my hard disk died a week back, I need to re-download the entire project anyway (among hundreds of other things), so I can't oblige right now. I suggest you try downloading them again. </blockquote><p>Tried again, different browser, it works. •sigh•
<p>Thank you for doing this! I'm mostly modifying them to be US Letter/Landscape, because I personally prefer that, even though I know it's less popular overall.</p>sadie wrote:I'm quite sure the files are on the server, so something must have gone wrong when you downloaded them. Did you download them directly, or did you check them out with subversion?
Since my hard disk died a week back, I need to re-download the entire project anyway (among hundreds of other things), so I can't oblige right now. I suggest you try downloading them again.
Tried again, different browser, it works. *sigh* Thank you for doing this! I'm mostly modifying them to be US...Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-04-27T23:32:02ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: My new character sheets for PathfinderReaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lbkj&page=3?My-new-character-sheets-for-Pathfinder#1432011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-04-27T03:16:21Z<p>Sadie - most of the AI files are showing a 0 bytes, and won't open. A few will, but Character Info, Combat, and a few others won't. If I give you my e-mail can you send me those core files?</p>
<p>bryan at reapermini dot com</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>Sadie - most of the AI files are showing a 0 bytes, and won't open. A few will, but Character Info, Combat, and a few others won't. If I give you my e-mail can you send me those core files?
bryan at reapermini dot com
Thanks!Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-04-27T03:16:21ZRe: Forums/Lost Omens Campaign Setting: General Discussion: Lich Phylacteries & Defensive MeasuresReaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2m4mc&page=2?Lich-Phylacteries-Defensive-Measures#962011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-04-26T22:52:13Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Chris Mortika wrote:</div><blockquote><p> Are we looking at this from a lich-as-player-character perspective, or from a GM's perspective?</p>
<p>As a player, I can come up with some hiding places that are pretty much fool-proof. </p>
<p>As a GM, I want a lich's phylactery to be:
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<ul><li><i>Certainly findable after one or two passes.</i> After the arch-villain returns once or twice, the party should be able to realize that he keeps coming from the serpentfolk city of Ilmurea. Kill him before he leaves there, and trace his phylactery to the filthy morlock warrens beneath the training academy.
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<li><i>Remote enough to allow the vulnerable lich to reform.</i> That's the big problem I see with "a gold dragon's skull" or "the crown of the King of Varisia." A gold dragon will notice a lich forming next to her, and will kill it over and over. Any kingdom that allows a nascent lich to reassemble itself next to the sovereign has to be a pretty nasty kingdom.
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<li><i>Hidden in a place where the search will be a fun adventure.</i>
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<li><i>Representative of some aspect of the lich's personality.</i> The best thing about the flour keg is that it tells you something about the personality of the witch. On the other hand, what does it say about a mage who keeps his phylactery and a chest full of money and useful magic items in a locked chest at the bottom of the sea? What sort of genii-binding mystic bargains with efreet to keep his phylactery secure in the City of Brass?</ul></p>
<p>If the party is going proactively lich-hunting, an outstanding Gather Information check or some magical divinations ought to guide them on their way to attempt to retrieve the phylactery before confronting its owner. </blockquote><p>+1Chris Mortika wrote:Are we looking at this from a lich-as-player-character perspective, or from a GM's perspective?
As a player, I can come up with some hiding places that are pretty much fool-proof.
As a GM, I want a lich's phylactery to be:
Certainly findable after one or two passes. After the arch-villain returns once or twice, the party should be able to realize that he keeps coming from the serpentfolk city of Ilmurea. Kill him before he leaves there, and trace his phylactery to the...Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-04-26T22:52:13ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: My new character sheets for PathfinderReaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lbkj&page=3?My-new-character-sheets-for-Pathfinder#1422011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-04-26T18:20:45Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">sadie wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Reaperbryan wrote:</div><blockquote><p> I do some graphic design work, and if you don't mind, I'm gonna grab your open source files and make some sheets of my own based of your work - as you've said (and my group has taught me whenever i try to make sheets for them) what one player wants in a sheet isn't what everybody else will want. </p>
<p>Still, You've added some innovative features (the money block was my favorite) that I'd like to begin adding to my own things.</p>
<p>Thank you for all the work so far! </blockquote><p>Go ahead! If you make changes that you think other people might like or that might be worth incorporating into my sheets, feel free to post it back here.
<p>Just remember the terms of the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/artistic-license-2.0.php" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">license</a>: if you publish sheets based on my work, you should be honest about where that work came from. </blockquote><p>I don't intend to publish them, although I'll be happy to send you my files once I'm "done" (are we ever really done tweaking?)
<p>These are really because I've spent 25 years searching for the "perfect" sheet... a LOT come really close, and I've never seen or made the Perfect one yet...But man, it's fun to try!</p>sadie wrote:Reaperbryan wrote:I do some graphic design work, and if you don't mind, I'm gonna grab your open source files and make some sheets of my own based of your work - as you've said (and my group has taught me whenever i try to make sheets for them) what one player wants in a sheet isn't what everybody else will want.
Still, You've added some innovative features (the money block was my favorite) that I'd like to begin adding to my own things.
Thank you for all the work so far!
Go...Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-04-26T18:20:45ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: My new character sheets for PathfinderReaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lbkj&page=3?My-new-character-sheets-for-Pathfinder#1392011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-04-22T20:02:25Z<p>I do some graphic design work, and if you don't mind, I'm gonna grab your open source files and make some sheets of my own based of your work - as you've said (and my group has taught me whenever i try to make sheets for them) what one player wants in a sheet isn't what everybody else will want. </p>
<p>Still, You've added some innovative features (the money block was my favorite) that I'd like to begin adding to my own things.</p>
<p>Thank you for all the work so far!</p>I do some graphic design work, and if you don't mind, I'm gonna grab your open source files and make some sheets of my own based of your work - as you've said (and my group has taught me whenever i try to make sheets for them) what one player wants in a sheet isn't what everybody else will want.
Still, You've added some innovative features (the money block was my favorite) that I'd like to begin adding to my own things.
Thank you for all the work so far!Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-04-22T20:02:25ZRe: Forums: Round 2: Words of Power Discussion: Old spells done via wordsReaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2liqz?Old-spells-done-via-words#252011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-04-22T16:08:51Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Cold Napalm wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Selgard wrote:</div><blockquote><p> I am not saying there may not be some slow time- just that it can be compensated for with preparation on part of the player.</p>
<p>-S </blockquote>SOME players maybe...but a good majority of the players I play with, no, this will cause a pretty large slowdown. Even for prep casters, now you have to look up 3 effects instead of 1 spell. For spont casters...oh dear god. </blockquote><p>Players such as myself, who adored the flexibility of Ars Magica, Mage:The Ascension, etc., we WILL spend all the extra time developing a dozen readily available rotes from our existing words. Plus, a hundred new rotes/spells/word combinations will be posted on these forums within days of this going live for all(published). No effort needed - copy + paste!
<p>And players for whom that's a lot of work, well, it's not like Wizard and Sorcerer get deleted... this is just an option for people that want it, and not a mandate. One can avoid the headaches by not trying the system if you don't think it's a good fit for your style, or banning it as a GM if you know that it's beyond your group.</p>Cold Napalm wrote:Selgard wrote:I am not saying there may not be some slow time- just that it can be compensated for with preparation on part of the player.
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SOME players maybe...but a good majority of the players I play with, no, this will cause a pretty large slowdown. Even for prep casters, now you have to look up 3 effects instead of 1 spell. For spont casters...oh dear god. Players such as myself, who adored the flexibility of Ars Magica, Mage:The Ascension, etc., we WILL spend all...Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-04-22T16:08:51ZRe: Forums: Rules Questions: Unaware of Favored Enemy?Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2m5f1?Unaware-of-Favored-Enemy#222011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-04-20T15:04:42Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">the eel wrote:</div><blockquote><p>If a ranger is unaware that the foe they're fighting is a favored enemy ( which I think is a rare case), as the GM, I'd just adjust their rolls "behind the screen" for them. That way no one can cheese it as a creature identifier. I routinely add or subtract bonuses behind the screen when the players aren't aware of a particular situation.[\quote]</p>
<div class="messageboard-quotee">yeti1069 wrote:</div><blockquote>Maybe allow a Sense Motive check when the players notice that the ranger is having an easier time/is being more effective against the foe than others are in order for the ranger to realize that he's been fighting as though he were battling a <insert favored enemy>?</blockquote><p>Both. GM add in the bonuses "behind the screens" and after a few rounds of the bonus, let the PC discover them on his/her own.the eel wrote:If a ranger is unaware that the foe they're fighting is a favored enemy ( which I think is a rare case), as the GM, I'd just adjust their rolls "behind the screen" for them. That way no one can cheese it as a creature identifier. I routinely add or subtract bonuses behind the screen when the players aren't aware of a particular situation.[\quote]
yeti1069 wrote:Maybe allow a Sense Motive check when the players notice that the ranger is having an easier time/is being more...Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-04-20T15:04:42ZRe: Forums: Homebrew and House Rules: Naming the +sReaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2m49n?Naming-the-s#502011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-04-18T21:54:32Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">lastknightleft wrote:</div><blockquote><p> So the more I thought about +1 being runic the more I liked it, the only troubling thing is that it implies that each +1 weapon has runes on it...</p>
<p>Flavor to the rescue</p>
<p>as says any educated crafter, "runic weapons don't necessarily bear runes, it just so happens that in their heyday when magic enchanting of blades was in it's infancy the first weapons to be crafted were done so by inscribing certain runes on the weapons. As learning progressed we got past the days where you even needed a rune on a weapon for it to be magical, but by that point there were many weapons that had already been crafted with runes and to the layman a magic weapon was identified by the presence of runes (although that was also an easy way for scam artist to pass off mundane blades as magical). Add to that the fact that inscribing runes is still the easiest form of enchanting, so much so that even hedge-wizards and cultists can do it, and the fact that runes inscribing commonly can't create the stronger enchantments the other classes of enchanting allow, and you have the reason that the lowest tier is still referred to as runic to this day." </blockquote><p>Nice explanation
<p>+1</p>lastknightleft wrote:So the more I thought about +1 being runic the more I liked it, the only troubling thing is that it implies that each +1 weapon has runes on it...
Flavor to the rescue
as says any educated crafter, "runic weapons don't necessarily bear runes, it just so happens that in their heyday when magic enchanting of blades was in it's infancy the first weapons to be crafted were done so by inscribing certain runes on the weapons. As learning progressed we got past the days where...Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-04-18T21:54:32ZRe: Forums: Advice: Keeping over 100 kobolds interesting!Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2m4rr?Keeping-over-100-kobolds-interesting#152011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-04-18T00:46:42Z<p>Also consider that you can vary up the actual combats with monsters other than kobolds - if the kobolds have a gladiator pit, they might have a slew of other monsters in various pens - a gelatinous cube as a keep cleaner, a few ogres, trolls, maybe even a dragon in a harness, the kobolds are trying to "tame"...</p>Also consider that you can vary up the actual combats with monsters other than kobolds - if the kobolds have a gladiator pit, they might have a slew of other monsters in various pens - a gelatinous cube as a keep cleaner, a few ogres, trolls, maybe even a dragon in a harness, the kobolds are trying to "tame"...Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-04-18T00:46:42ZRe: Forums: Rules Questions: How many classes have Cure light wounds on their spell lists?Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2m52w?How-many-classes-have-Cure-light-wounds-on#42011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-04-17T14:10:25Z<p>Cure Light</p>
<p>Core:Bard, Cleric, Druid, Paladin, Ranger. 5
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APG: Alchemist, Inquisitor, Oracle, Witch. 4.</p>
<p>I don't know about Ultimate Magic. </p>
<p>What classes cannot cast spells? If you're a gnome with Magical Linguist or Pyromaniac, all of your character sheets will have a few spells on them. That question is harder because there's more than one way to add spells to a (normally) non spellcasting class.</p>
<p>The simple, but not entirely accurate answer is
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Core: Barbarian, Fighter, Monk, Rogue
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APG: Cavalier.</p>Cure Light
Core:Bard, Cleric, Druid, Paladin, Ranger. 5
APG: Alchemist, Inquisitor, Oracle, Witch. 4.
I don't know about Ultimate Magic.
What classes cannot cast spells? If you're a gnome with Magical Linguist or Pyromaniac, all of your character sheets will have a few spells on them. That question is harder because there's more than one way to add spells to a (normally) non spellcasting class.
The simple, but not entirely accurate answer is
Core: Barbarian, Fighter, Monk, Rogue
APG:...Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-04-17T14:10:25ZRe: Forums/Lost Omens Campaign Setting: General Discussion: Five Kings Mountains: What product gets the placement of the Mounts right?Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2m50a?Five-Kings-Mountains-What-product-gets-the#32011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-04-17T13:33:07Z<p>Whichever product you, as GM, decide is the accurate map, and the other map(s) are "explorer's maps/spy's maps" that are incorrect because(insert campaign-useful-reason here).</p>
<p>Alternatively, Enevhar's answer, if you aren't comfortable with that decision.</p>Whichever product you, as GM, decide is the accurate map, and the other map(s) are "explorer's maps/spy's maps" that are incorrect because(insert campaign-useful-reason here).
Alternatively, Enevhar's answer, if you aren't comfortable with that decision.Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-04-17T13:33:07ZRe: Forums/Lost Omens Campaign Setting: General Discussion: Sarenrae and Slavery: how can they co-exist?Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2m4yv?Sarenrae-and-Slavery-how-can-they-coexist#42011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-04-16T19:23:20Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Quote:</div><blockquote> Compassion and peace are her greatest virtues</blockquote><p>Sounds like in those nations, they take a view on slavery akin to 1700's and 1800's Religious Southern US of A.
<p>"Masters, be kind to your slaves"</p>
<p>Nothing in her description precludes slavery, it precludes <i>cruelty</i>. We live in an enlightened era, and consider slavery itself cruel, but I'm sure it defenders in Qadira are quick to point out that slaves are fed, clothed, and sheltered by their masters, none of which are free. Were that person not a slave, they would be on their own, and many would starve, or suffer cruel fates at the hands of the harsh land and the beasts around them. </p>
<p>There were cultures where slaves were beaten and tormented, treated with less respect than you'd treat a hammer - a slave is a tool, not a person. And there were cultures where slaves were simply people that had a job, but no choice in the matter. With the above quote in mind, I'd suggest that Qadiran slaves are probably treated well, and the whip is reserved for punishing recalcitrant or lazy slaves, and good slaves are more like servants than true slaves.</p>Quote:Compassion and peace are her greatest virtues
Sounds like in those nations, they take a view on slavery akin to 1700's and 1800's Religious Southern US of A. "Masters, be kind to your slaves"
Nothing in her description precludes slavery, it precludes cruelty. We live in an enlightened era, and consider slavery itself cruel, but I'm sure it defenders in Qadira are quick to point out that slaves are fed, clothed, and sheltered by their masters, none of which are free. Were that person...Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-04-16T19:23:20ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder First Edition: General Discussion: Party experience vs. Character experienceReaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2m4vb?Party-experience-vs-Character-experience#252011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-04-16T18:51:18Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Evil Lincoln wrote:</div><blockquote><p> Especially if you are running an Adventure Path and you don't need XP to set the pace of advancement, this is a good technique. </p>
<p>It's not for everyone, but it is definitely a very common approach.</p>
<p>I use luck/hero points as a piecemeal reward for my players, and just level them up when they "ought" to. </blockquote><p>This is the approach I plan to use in my Kingmaker game, starting next week. They'll level to 2 at a certain point, then to 3 at a different point, so they can be level 4 when they begin book 2.
<p>If they do something that in years past I would have awarded bonus XP for, such as heroism, excellent roleplay, etc., Hero Point. Or Two.</p>
<p>I'm also considering adapting Deadlands' system of fate points, which work similar to Hero points, but in Deadlands there's 3 varieties, and each kind of point can only be spent on specific actions, but I don't want to complicate things. For most of my group, this is their first Pathfinder game.</p>
<p>I used to award individual XP, plus bonus XP when merited. I never had a character more than 1 level higher than anybody else, though, because my merit awards were +100.</p>Evil Lincoln wrote:Especially if you are running an Adventure Path and you don't need XP to set the pace of advancement, this is a good technique.
It's not for everyone, but it is definitely a very common approach.
I use luck/hero points as a piecemeal reward for my players, and just level them up when they "ought" to.
This is the approach I plan to use in my Kingmaker game, starting next week. They'll level to 2 at a certain point, then to 3 at a different point, so they can be level 4...Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-04-16T18:51:18ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder First Edition: General Discussion: Here is an Odd Question: Male WitchesReaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2m4yn?Here-is-an-Odd-Question-Male-Witches#272011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-04-16T18:30:57Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Dangleberry Tagnut wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">LazarX wrote:</div><blockquote><p> Witches don't have to be female.</p>
<p>Witches don't have to be rustic.</p>
<p>Witches don't have to be Diannic, or Wiccan.</p>
<p>Witches don't have to dwell in the woods.</blockquote><p>But they've still got the gingerbread houses, right?
<p>I been walking through this wood for hours; I can't go without my gingerbread.</p>
<p>FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, TELL ME I STILL GET MY GINGERBREAD! </blockquote><p>Gingerbread is a class feature in an upcoming Witch Prestige Class, but not a default assumption, no.
<p>You also don't automatically get warts, but as a trade off, water won't melt you automatically.</p>Dangleberry Tagnut wrote:LazarX wrote:Witches don't have to be female.
Witches don't have to be rustic.
Witches don't have to be Diannic, or Wiccan.
Witches don't have to dwell in the woods.
But they've still got the gingerbread houses, right? I been walking through this wood for hours; I can't go without my gingerbread.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, TELL ME I STILL GET MY GINGERBREAD! Gingerbread is a class feature in an upcoming Witch Prestige Class, but not a default assumption, no. You also...Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-04-16T18:30:57ZRe: Forums: Campaign Journals: My Kingmaker Campaign (Spoilers!)Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2krx1?My-Kingmaker-Campaign#312011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-04-16T17:09:05Z<p>I was sad when I finally reached the end! Congrats on the getting to the charter!</p>
<p>I wonder if my group would like to do the same thing. I'll have to ask!</p>
<p>Anyway, thanks for doing this and keep it coming!</p>I was sad when I finally reached the end! Congrats on the getting to the charter!
I wonder if my group would like to do the same thing. I'll have to ask!
Anyway, thanks for doing this and keep it coming!Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-04-16T17:09:05ZRe: Forums: Advice: Building an OracleReaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lssv?Building-an-Oracle#172011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-04-16T16:04:56Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Reaperbryan wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">james maissen wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Reaperbryan wrote:</div><blockquote> mmmm hadn't even considered deaf. That strikes me as a •very• serious drawback, for the benefit of a free slightly-better-than-normal feat. </blockquote><p>Casting all of your spells as silent without increasing the casting time?
<p>The penalty on initiative isn't that bad considering most of your actions will be reactive anyway.</p>
<p>As to the direct drawback, read lips. A later levels if you really wish, go with a level of diabolist and get a 'mouthpiece'. Could be fun.</p>
<p>-James </blockquote><p>In my college years I worked with the deaf, and have no illusions about the seriousness of the condition. I could convincingly RP it, but my RL knowledge supports my belief that it is not appropriate for my character.
<p>As a GM, I would never allow a player to simply "read lips" either. Reading lips requires adequate lighting, focus on the speaker, and clear diction from the speaker. A deaf person cannot read the entire parties lips at once, nor could they read with any accuracy monster lips - like kobold or dragon. The shapes a mouth shaped like that would make would be different. Players with helmets or masks, such as paladins or rogues, would likewise be unreadable. Beards, believe it or not, make it harder to read lips - I was asked by one girl to trim my moustache and goatee shorter because they obscured my lips. So Gandalfy wizards would be problematic. In combat, I'd never be able to understand the party, because I'd always be looking at my attacker, or if I was free from melee, I'd typically be looking at their backs as they formed a wall around their healbot. If they turned around to make their intent known to me, The GM should whack them with an AoO.</p>
<p>All that aside: Conceptually, the stealthy halfling oracle silent casting all the party buffs and heals from shadows is neat. I even looked at whether a level of Shadowdancer would benefit (it might, assuming you were ok sacrificing your highest tier of spell level. The concealment gifts of shadowdancer are... </blockquote><p>And now, after discussing this with my wife (We met in college and share the same experiences in the deaf community) she thinks that While I am accurate above, I'm being far too harsh. a 30 minute conversation later, I more-or-less have to play a deaf oracle now, to keep the peace in the house.Reaperbryan wrote:james maissen wrote: Reaperbryan wrote: mmmm hadn't even considered deaf. That strikes me as a *very* serious drawback, for the benefit of a free slightly-better-than-normal feat.
Casting all of your spells as silent without increasing the casting time? The penalty on initiative isn't that bad considering most of your actions will be reactive anyway.
As to the direct drawback, read lips. A later levels if you really wish, go with a level of diabolist and get a...Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-04-16T16:04:56ZRe: Forums: Advice: Building an OracleReaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lssv?Building-an-Oracle#162011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-04-16T15:11:25Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">james maissen wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Reaperbryan wrote:</div><blockquote> mmmm hadn't even considered deaf. That strikes me as a •very• serious drawback, for the benefit of a free slightly-better-than-normal feat. </blockquote><p>Casting all of your spells as silent without increasing the casting time?
<p>The penalty on initiative isn't that bad considering most of your actions will be reactive anyway.</p>
<p>As to the direct drawback, read lips. A later levels if you really wish, go with a level of diabolist and get a 'mouthpiece'. Could be fun.</p>
<p>-James </blockquote><p>In my college years I worked with the deaf, and have no illusions about the seriousness of the condition. I could convincingly RP it, but my RL knowledge supports my belief that it is not appropriate for my character.
<p>As a GM, I would never allow a player to simply "read lips" either. Reading lips requires adequate lighting, focus on the speaker, and clear diction from the speaker. A deaf person cannot read the entire parties lips at once, nor could they read with any accuracy monster lips - like kobold or dragon. The shapes a mouth shaped like that would make would be different. Players with helmets or masks, such as paladins or rogues, would likewise be unreadable. Beards, believe it or not, make it harder to read lips - I was asked by one girl to trim my moustache and goatee shorter because they obscured my lips. So Gandalfy wizards would be problematic. In combat, I'd never be able to understand the party, because I'd always be looking at my attacker, or if I was free from melee, I'd typically be looking at their backs as they formed a wall around their healbot. If they turned around to make their intent known to me, The GM should whack them with an AoO.</p>
<p>All that aside: Conceptually, the stealthy halfling oracle silent casting all the party buffs and heals from shadows is neat. I even looked at whether a level of Shadowdancer would benefit (it might, assuming you were ok sacrificing your highest tier of spell level. The concealment gifts of shadowdancer are nifty). I might even consider the silent casting feat eventually, and live with the increased casting time and level.</p>james maissen wrote:Reaperbryan wrote: mmmm hadn't even considered deaf. That strikes me as a *very* serious drawback, for the benefit of a free slightly-better-than-normal feat.
Casting all of your spells as silent without increasing the casting time? The penalty on initiative isn't that bad considering most of your actions will be reactive anyway.
As to the direct drawback, read lips. A later levels if you really wish, go with a level of diabolist and get a 'mouthpiece'. Could be fun.
...Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-04-16T15:11:25ZRe: Forums: Advice: Building an OracleReaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lssv?Building-an-Oracle#142011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-04-16T03:57:16Z<p>I think I'm leaning towards half-elf, using the bow option, rather than the stealth option.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice, now I just need to hammer out a spell list, and a feat tree!</p>I think I'm leaning towards half-elf, using the bow option, rather than the stealth option.
Thanks for the advice, now I just need to hammer out a spell list, and a feat tree!Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-04-16T03:57:16ZRe: Forums: Advice: Building an OracleReaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lssv?Building-an-Oracle#132011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-04-16T02:52:07Z<p>mmmm hadn't even considered deaf. That strikes me as a •very• serious drawback, for the benefit of a free slightly-better-than-normal feat.</p>mmmm hadn't even considered deaf. That strikes me as a *very* serious drawback, for the benefit of a free slightly-better-than-normal feat.Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-04-16T02:52:07ZRe: Forums: Kingmaker: Varnhold (SPOILERS! DMs Only!)Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2m4vw?Varnhold#22011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-04-15T21:28:51Z<p>You might be interested in these <a href="http://paizo.com/paizo/messageboards/paizoPublishing/pathfinder/adventurePath/kingmaker/communityCreated6PlayerKingmakerConversionChapters" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">6 player conversions for Kingmaker</a>. Every encounter is increased or revised to make it roughly equivalent in challenge to a group of 6 as it would be to a group of 4</p>You might be interested in these 6 player conversions for Kingmaker. Every encounter is increased or revised to make it roughly equivalent in challenge to a group of 6 as it would be to a group of 4Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-04-15T21:28:51ZRe: Forums: Advice: Building an OracleReaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lssv?Building-an-Oracle#112011-06-07T20:17:49Z2011-04-15T20:56:34Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Deadmanwalking wrote:</div><blockquote>You'll be an awesome healer without ever spending a Feat on it (well, maybe Selective Channeling, if you wind up doing that a lot while facing living foes...or Reach Spell, see below). </blockquote><p>So, This comment struck me, so I pulled out my CR and checked...
<p>CPE heals ALL living things in the burst. (yeah, to you all that's probably a DUH, but my players have pulled a fast one on me, and I'm new to Pathfinder, I assumed it to work on allies only.) This is going to change my Wednesday Night Pathfinder game significantly.</p>
<p>Good advice, but now I feel stupid. Oh, and I just outed myself as an idiot on your boards, so twice as dumb...</p>Deadmanwalking wrote:You'll be an awesome healer without ever spending a Feat on it (well, maybe Selective Channeling, if you wind up doing that a lot while facing living foes...or Reach Spell, see below).
So, This comment struck me, so I pulled out my CR and checked... CPE heals ALL living things in the burst. (yeah, to you all that's probably a DUH, but my players have pulled a fast one on me, and I'm new to Pathfinder, I assumed it to work on allies only.) This is going to change my...Reaperbryan (alias of Bryan Stiltz, Reaper Miniatures)2011-04-15T20:56:34Z