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Currently my favorate APs are (in order):

RotRL
LoF
CotCT
SD

I'm not judging CoT until all adventures are out.

Of course, I might be biased because I'm fond of gnolls and efreet.

Playtest pdf page 11 wrote:

The following foci are just some of those that will appear in the Pathfinder RPG Advanced Player’s Guide. As the playtest continues, other foci will be made available through the messageboards at paizo.com.

Point 1) As far as consistant damage output, we're talking averages here...lets consider a 10 round combat at fairly low levels. The enemy has an AC of 20. The Two Handed Ranger has a +10 to strike once (for 2d6+9 damage, average 16). The TWF Ranger has a +8 to strike twice per round (1d6+6/1d6+3, average 9.5 and 6.5).

In that combat, the TWF Ranger should hit an average of 8 times. 1/2 the primary hand, 1/2 the secondary hand. Total damage should average 64

The Two handed weapon Ranger should hit an average of 5 times. Total damage should average 80.

If you weight the damage using a standard weighting method used in economics to factor reliablity into the equation(i.e. taking the natural log of the damage), and using the same assumptions of your above example, the greatsword ranger will deal a weighted damage of approximately 3.47 (per round) where as the dual shortsword ranger will deal a weighted damage of 4.29 (per round).

QED

Is this only a sampling of the Oracle's Foci, or the complete list?

In no particular order:

Erik Mona/James Jacobs
Richard Pett
Nicolous Logue
Steven S. Greer
Jason Bulmahn
F. Wesley Schneider

Support:
Wolfgang Baur
Sean K. Reynolds

Next week?

But I want it now!

(j/k, well, not really)

Using Channel Smite is a swift action, so you can only do it once per turn. If you have additional attacks, does it apply only to all of them or just one?

How does Channel Positive Energy work with a Cleric/Paladin multiclass? Do they just count as separate abilities? Would the cleric chanel use the cleric level to determine how many dice are rolls with SV DC = 10 + 1/2 cleric level + Cha bonus?

What type of action is it to activate/deactivate Nimbus of Light (Cleric Sun Domain ability)?

Expanded Summon Monster/Nature's Ally lists.

It shipped!

As usual for subscription shipments like this one for the Bestiary, there are literally thousands and thousands of packages to ship out and they only get out the door one at a time, so somebody has to be first and somebody has to be last. We try to do it as quickly as is feasible, but we are down one warehouse hand this week due to sickness, so it is bad timing in terms of us getting everything out the door really quickly. But, as anybody who has been here for a while knows, Vic, Jeff and myself will be putting long hours in the warehouse to get everything out the door as quickly as possible. Hang in there!

-Lisa

Yeah, but my Bestiary is supposed to ship by itself, and it's still Pending. :-(

And I want my PDF now!

*Sigh*, mine is still "Pending"

I really hate that word.

MerrikCale wrote:

Set wrote:

seekerofshadowlight wrote:

But hummm A haberdasher may not fit. We will not speak of just how I know what that word is, but I know Shudder

Zippers can be pretty nasty, eh?

Have you seen There's Something About Mary?

We've got a bleeder!

B mostly.

Here are some thoughts I have:

The Old Courthouse is located in Old Korvosa. Crimes occuring in Old Korvosa were held there as opposed to the Longacre Building in North Point. Ten years ago, it was shut down as per the adventure and its operations were folded into the Longacre Building.

Also, I'm thinking of replacing Cole with Grau, blending their backstories as needed.

I'm thinking of running Hangman's Noose in the middle of Edge of Anarchy to give my PCs some much needed XP and get them up to 3rd level before continuing the adventure. Has anyone else done this?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Hey...I didn't enter the city because of a problem I was experiencing. My problem was of the female kind and I ran out of Birch wood absorption plugs. Guys just don't understand...

Koz Blacktoes wrote:

He even drank my piss!

You must have known in pointing me to this thread that I would want to know the full story behind this scrumptious urophagia. Please provide, gentle scribe.

Utak, sorry you were unable to join us. If you change your mind, you know where to find me.

Well, if anyone else is reading this, I still have one or two seats open.

Bah, I want my Undead :-)

How does one get to the balcony overlooking Area 45? Is there supposed to be a door to Area 54?

Golarion has serpentfolk; they'll be statted out in "Into the Darklands." They'll be similar to the ones from the Freeport setting, since they draw on the same pulp inspirations (Lovecraft, Howard, etc.).

F. Wesley Schneider wrote:

Dude. You think I'm going to let an opportunity like this just pass by? Scoff. Just you wait! ^_~

Any other opportunities I can facilitate for you? ^_^

Sadly I sent 2 emails to Pendragon saying he could join. I'm afraid you just got bumped.

Helna

Female Dwarf Cleric 1 (Norgorber)
LE Medium humanoid (Dwarf)
Init -1; Senses darkvision 60 ft; Listen +3, Spot +3

DEFENSE
AC 15, touch 9, flat-footed 15
(+4 armor, +2 shield, -1 Dex)
hp 11 (1d8+3)
Fort +5, Ref -1, Will +5 (+2 racial SV vs. Poison and Spells)
Defensive Abilities +4 Dodge AC vs. Giants

OFFENSE
Spd 20 ft.
Melee wahammer +1 (1d8+1/x3)
Special Attacks rebuke undead 4/day (+1, 2d6+2)
Spells Prepared (CL 1st, CL 2nd for divination and evil spells)
1st--cure light wounds, detect secret doors (D), shield of faith
0--detect magic, lgiht, resistnace

STATISTICS
Str 12, Dex 8, Con 16, Int 14, Wis 16, Cha 12
Base Atk +0, Grp +1
Feats Martial Weapon Proficiency (warhammer)
Skills Appraise +2 (+4 stone or metal), Craft +2 (+4 stone or metal), Knowledge (history) +6, Knowledge (local) +6, Knowledge (religion) +6, Knowledge (the planes) +6
Languages Common, Dwarf, Goblin, Terran
SQ stability, stonecunning, weapon familiarity
Gear scale mail, heavy steel shield, warhammer, standard adventurer's kit, wooden holy symbol, 27 gp

Sorry, was away for the holiday weekend. I'm still interested, and will get you Helna's stats shortly.

Yes, she is a cleric.

Helna Stonefist had always been an outcast amongst dwarvenkind. On a routine training patrol, Helna’s company was ambushed by the Thistletop goblins. Helna did the worst thing any dwarf could do in such a situation—she surrendered. The goblins didn't know what to do with her at first and many wanted to just kill her anyway, but a priest of Norgorber named Ghorg stayed their hands and took her under his wing. He revealed to her the "secret" history behind the Age of Darkness, painting the dwarves as the barbarians that brought low a great goblin empire. Helna, who already burned with hatred for her own kind, bought into his skewed story. Under Ghorg's influence, Ripnugget fell in with Nualia and company (who were quite surprised to find a dwarf living amongst the goblins, much to the dismay of Gogmurt. Ghorg recently died of mysterious causes, but Helna knows Gogmurt is to blame for his death, and she is biding her time to get revenge on the druid.

OOC: First!!!

Any particular character sheet you want us to use?

I'm interested as well. I'm thinking a goblin-sympathetic dwarf character, probably a cleric of Norgorber.

Does Nick Logue ever sleep?

I'm half-way through the book, and I already can't wait for the sequel. :-)

This will save me a lot of money on buying those pesky 4e books from WotC. Which is good, because between Pathfinder and its associated lines, Paizo is really cutting into my budget.

So are we going to get wallpapers for the Crimson Throne AP as well?

Can't wait for Pathfinder #7!!!

1) I do not plan to convert to 4.0 in the near future. I may down the line, or I may hold out until 5th edition.

2) I will most likely continue to purchase Paizo products, with the posible exception ofthe GameMastery line. That said, if I need to start making some cutbacks, I would be more likely to stop purchasing 4.0 products than 3.5.

3) I will definately continue to purchase Pathfinder and Pathfinder Chronicles products if Paizo stays 3.5. I will most likely continue purchasing GameMastery modules as well.

Just bobbed over to the GR site and ordered the d20 guide to Freeport. Paid an extra 8 dollars for the PDF download, because I'm impatient and want to look at it NOW, dangit!

This got me thinking how spoiled I am by subscriptions with Paizo. I considered $8.00 on a one shot item worth it, but the mind boggles at paying $8.00 a month for that month's worth of PDFs. Instead, by subscribing I get the PDFs free, in addition to the yummy print stock.

KQ spoiled me the same way (even though I forgot to DL my copy of KQ3 and the link disappeared. *sob*)

It's got my vote!

Peter David's Sir Apropos of Nothing Trilogy
Steven Erikson's Malazon Series
George R. R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire Series
China Mieville's Bas Lag Trilogy
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Series

It's got my vote!

Will I buy it? Yes.

Will I play it? Possibly.

Will I DM it? Not in the near future. I'm not ending or converting my 3.5 games, nor do I particularly want to run game in different systems.

You had me at Nicolas Logue

I'm sticking with 3.5 as I have too much invested to switch to a new edition. I'm not going to scrap my Savage Tide game for instance, and 4e is not very Savage Tide friendly with the big changes they are making to demons. I also don't want to run games using two different systems, but I am willing to play in a 4e game.

That said, I might borrow some new ideas from 4e (like giving zombies a trip attack for example). If Paizo were to come out with a 3.75 edition, I could see switching to that assuming it was much more conversion friendly.

But if Pathfinder doesn't switch to 4e...well, I'll have plenty of adventures to run until 5e comes along.

I paged through it at Barnes and Noble. It was disgustingly thin, and didn't appear to be worthwile in my opinion.

Heh. Really, I'd love to guys, but really, I can't do it. It's just too f&!*ing sick. I feel dirty for writing it even. f&!*ing sick. Horribly sick. I just re-read some of it thinking I might post a tidbit, and I threw up in my mouth a little. I write a lot these days, and I quickly forget what I've written, and after re-reading the original section on Jeppo, Sugar and Hograth, I was like: "Why Nick!? Why did you write that!!!"

The uncut version would drive you MAD!

MAD!

tribeof1 wrote:

Frankly, I'm not surprised that WotC appears to be dragging their feet on bringing third party publishers into the loop in time for launch -- I don't think they want any company on the shelves early on. Really, what benefit is there for them?

Well, for starters, it would get every person on this thread who says "I'll do what Paizo does" to convert to the new system.

And, as it turns out, there are a lot more people in that boat than I would have expected.

--Erik

Considering that Paizo has put out better material than WotC has in recent memory (other than a couple like Fiendish Codex I and Expedition to the Ruins of Castle Greyhawk--I wonder what happened to those guys :-), it's a no brainer for me if it becomes a choice between WotC or Paizo. If you guys come out with your OGL for 3.75 for companies like say Green Ronin (I love me Freeport), all the better.

Wait, $10-15 per month!

That's insane.