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Jeremy - the "Raging Beast" link goes to the Forgeborn - Ironborn thread.

** spoiler omitted **...

Stealing bits of your spoiler, my groups on book 2 currently, though I'm running From Shore to Sea as an interlude.

My PCs were actually pretty okay with Harrigan when they left the Wormwood. Thought he was a decent captain who just delegated responsibility too much to Plugg and Scourge. Granted they also had a healthy fear of him as a crew member was accused of rather unpleasant actions on the ship and Harrigan pulled out a deck sweeper, shot the offender in the chest, tossed him overboard and then ordered everyone to get back to work unless they wished to join him.

I used the Cook to instill fear of Harrigan into the PCs following their mutiny on the Man's Promise. Harrigan has been using sendings to pass messages to the Cook on how he'll hunt them down for stealing his ship. Also, sayings like "you better hope the Chelish find you before I do" right after they encounter the Dominator is another good way to do it.

I can't wait for this, even though I likely won't get to use most of the stuff in this book the material alone is worth having for planning and plotting.

Going into the last 5 days and Realm Works needs your (Yes, you! Over there behind the keyboard... no slinking away...) help to make the final push for funding. Lots of information updates and some helpful usage videos to look at. If you're at all a fan of Hero Labs or any other character generation software, then you know how useful planning software of that kind can be to keep your game running smoothly. Realm Works is the logical next step when it comes to DM planning!

After watching the video I ran out and snagged 3 of the Plano 3-28 boxes, I must say they work wonderfully. I fit the Bestiary and Beginner Boxes in with room to spare so I may go back through and do a bit of separation as going alphabetical leaves me plenty of space. I plan on picking up a 4th box over the weekend to store the Skull & Shackles and Rise of the Runelords pawn sets in, as it looks like I'll be able to fit those in their own box. Anyway, kudos!

Just spit-balling a few ideas:
Perhaps a pledge level to pitch a region/culture?
If you're doing chapter splash page art again: pledge to have your character included in one of the drawings?
If you can manage to grab WAR for another cover: pledge to have your character on the cover (I know this one went FAST on the Ultimate Psionics drive).

For stretch goals:
Additional fiction pieces set in the campaign setting.
A piece on how to integrate Third Dawn into a Planescape or Spelljammer -esque campaign, what challenges would be faced in a world where your magic suddenly doesn't work quite right (if at all!).

Is that *listed* in an Alchemist's Kit? I checked. It isn't.

That's a pretty big hole in ye old job description. It's almost as bad as the one about alcohol and Alchemist's Kindness.

The Adventurer's Armory has a weapon called a Syringe Spear. It is quite literally a syringe on the end of a stick, runs 100gp.

Partnering with the Grand Temple of Jing is a fantastic way to promote both projects. Hope there are more who jump in on this, adds a fantastic value!

Having only skimmed through it I can say this is a most impressive piece of work. Even though the running theme bounces between Ulfen and Shackles I can certainly say you've given me a good deal of material to think about and work with for the Skull & Shackles game I'm running right now. Awesome work!

New update email from LWD gives a good breakdown of what the cloud service will be. Re-posting here both to give this thread a move back to the front but also to let others know about this as I know Kickstarter updates can be odd at times.

We've received quite a few questions regarding the role the cloud will play for Realm Works. Our goal with this update is to provide some additional clarity on the service and how you’ll be able to use it.

When people think of the "cloud", they often think of services like Dropbox and Google Drive, where they can conveniently store a bunch of files and retrieve them whenever they want. However, the Realm Works "cloud" is significantly different from services like those. If you're assuming that the Realm Works cloud will be nothing more than file storage, you're overlooking an incredible resource. There's a whole new world of possibilities available once your campaign enters the Realm Works cloud:

* It's every detail of your entire campaign individually managed and woven together for instant searching and filtering online.
* It's the ability to review your campaign via a web browser, using any device you own.
* It's making notes and jotting down new ideas for your campaign while you're at work, at school, or at a friend's house.
* It's enabling your players to have full access to everything they've learned through play, including the revealed areas of maps, at their convenience and with no additional work on your part.
* It's eliminating the need for separately created player handouts, as everything they know is readily available to them.
* It's allowing players who miss a session to get a full recap prior to the next session, instantly and automatically.
* It's sharing content you've created with others.
* It's having a wealth of pre-created NPCs, magic items, encounters, and more – fully searchable to locate and drop into your game whenever you need them.
* It's being able to find entire pre-created adventures and settings ready for use, with the ability to quickly import that content into your campaign and then seamlessly integrate it, however you deem appropriate for your game.
* It’s also a backup of your campaigns in the event of a computer failure, like simple cloud storage services.

As you can see, the Realm Works cloud will offer far broader capabilities than simple data storage and backup.

While the cloud conveys all these benefits, Realm Works does not require you to utilize the cloud. You can still reveal material to players during the game, print what you need for handouts, and leverage the reveal history at the start of games. For some gaming groups, this will be more than sufficient, and no cloud support is necessary for this usage model.

The choice is entirely up to you. We just want to be sure you're fully informed when making your choice.

- The Lone Wolf Development Team

Listen, the ToB has great material- except no limits. So you just need to fix this. I did giving the different classes maneuvers per day like spells and giving them ki polls that they could use like a Magnus's arcane pool. However my player freaked after the change and refused to play the class after word so I can't say for a fact the changed worked. Still, if you give me time to dig up these remakes of mine I would be willing to hand them over to the community as a hole.

If you have them on hand could you post those conversions for the boards to peruse?

It's hard to believe that level 20+, hyper-intelligent wizards who have lived for hundreds of years would make choices that are sooo sub-optimal as to waste a feat on polearm proficiency. Shouldn't they know better???

One of them is even a blaster for crying out loud.

-Skeld

Who's to say they didn't just use wish for the proficiency or build in a special ability for their weapons that grants proficiency when wielded? Aren't the badges of office minor artifacts in their own right? No need to waste a feat when you have MAGIC!

Just over 46% to the goal and 22 days to go!
Lots of info on the comments page so check out there as well when you give this one a gander.

Oh this will be another fantastic one-shot to run! No mention of The Towering Gruk though... my player will be sad his Goblin Barbarian didn't survive the aftermath of the first module.

Keeping track of this as well since my players have had a few run ins with Contract Devils as of late and they're currently using a contractual injunction to keep one of them off their back... to say he doesn't like that is putting it mildly.

Just as a note, this latest version seems to have disabled user content such as the d20pfsrd Psionics Unleashed datafiles.

Also: I'm getting the following errors:
File: PFRPG_Bestiary2_Variants.user (line 93) - Thing - Duplicate record encountered('rYrthak')
File: PFRPG_Bestiary2_Variants.user (line 159) - Thing - Duplicate record encountered('rYrtBlind')
File: PFRPG_Bestiary2_Variants.user (line 169) - Thing - Duplicate record encountered('rYrtExplo')

From the amount of prep work I did last weekend I can certainly say that this program would have been massively helpful, looking forward to it!

I really like this take on a champion of nature/the fey. I will admit before voting of the items ended I was entertaining a similar concept, so I'm probably a bit bias. I always enjoy alternatives to the Paladin code as I feel the class is a great vehicle for "devoted champions" but the Lawful Good restriction does at times cause issues. It was certainly a risk to change the alignment to Chaotic Good given the number of threads on the forums that debate back and forth the Paladin alignment restrictions but in this case I think it served you well.

Did you ever get Amazon to work for you, Rondor?

I'm in! I've been waiting for this.

That's all good stuff. Our Scourge was a lecher and a rapist - its what got him killed long before the mutiny. He carried the ring because he made whores in brothels wear it when he visited them.

I did something similar with Scourge, though "an example" was made of him and he ended up at the bottom of the ocean before the party could find the ring.

For Owlbear:

As for Plugg:

I actually find the Mythic Flaws to be a very thematic addition to the game and fits well with the concept behind what I think Paizo is envisioning "Mythic" to be. The benefit one gains for choosing a flaw is the Mythic powers themselves.

In a bit more depth: The concept of the "epic" or "mythic" character, dating as far back as Greek mythology, and likely before as stories get stolen and recycled throughout society, is that the hero's downfall is also related to the thing that makes them great. That is to say by having a flaw and overcoming it they are a "mythic" character up until the point when destiny catches up to them, thus the flaw. Examples of this are seen through literature.

Achilles' heel, one of the more famous ones, comes from the source of his invulnerability; as a child he was dipped in the River Styx and he had to be held by his heel so he could be dipped in, thus his heel is his weakness.

Samson's great strength came from his hair, when it was cut off he was powerless until it regrew.

The one I've seen quoted a few times on these forums is Baldur from Norse mythology who was invulnerable to everything except his greatest weakness, mistletoe. His death to an arrow (in some versions a sword) made of mistletoe was the "Material Weakness" flaw exactly.

Other ones I can think of off the top of my head come from more modern sources: Hulk has Furious Rage; Kratos has Hubris; Popeye has Food Dependency(Spinach) <- honestly think about that one.

So in summation, I thing the Flaws are fantastic and should add a new dimension to your character, because otherwise it's like saying "I don't want to play Superman if I have to have a weakness to kryptonite." (Quote stolen from a friend who was talking about Mythic Flaws)

Stumbling back in here but Alton is fantastic for a halfling!

*drool* Do want... Oh! And just in time for my birthday.

Psicrystals are fantastic, you should really look into the bonuses you can gain with them and then look at the Psycrystal staff as well as Setting Stones. The Psicrystal staff is on the same page but I can't create a link for some reason.

While you can wear the armor you would suffer a penalty on all attack rolls as well as Dex and Str based checks.

In the home stretch guys, let's finish strong!

It keeps going and going and going and going...

A plug from Paizo can mean only good things.

Perhaps some pregenerated NPCs similar to the chapter in the Gamemastery Guide or the upcoming NPC codex? Things that can be easily dropped in. I also agree on the gem dragon front as those are awesome.

And this is more of a "hey does this work" thing but some clarification on if <i>Fold Space</i> (and the Elocator class feature that emulates it) is intended to allow you to qualify for the Dimension Agility chain from Ultimate Combat. It just strikes me as something Elocators would excel at as a combat style.

Well glad I did not buy psionics expanded. As I want to get the combined edition. So Feb 2013 for those who kickstarted the project. Any idea when we will be able to buy it in stores?

Initially estimated the date was February 2013, but with all the added content it'll likely be pushed back to March or April. I should note that through the kickstarter is the only guaranteed way to get a color copy of the book as Jeremy said the print run for color is expensive and thus will be limited (not to be confused with the limited edition run).

I've only had time to skim the adventure so far but what I've seen is phenomenal, the attention to detail is fantastic and I can't wait to spring this on my players.

Support TPK, you know you want to!

Oh god I need your help! What image was used for the Storm Giant in this set, because if it's the male Leonidus looking mfer from the Beastiary I will buy this set even thought I already own the majority of the RotRL mini and x2 Beastiary boxes. If it's purple haired mc'dumblookingchain shirt though... No thank you sir!

I'll have to disappoint then because the set uses the purple-haired female as the art for the Storm Giants.

OK Finally. Liked and messaged.

requested the The Sinister Secrets of Silvermote [Adventure]
cause it looks bad ass!

I eagerly await the same one and then the sinister planning of how to spring it on my players can begin!

Got mine today, which is amazing because it wasn't supposed to ship until Friday! The quality continues to amaze. I especially like the variety in images for monsters that have duplicates.

Man, TPK stuff and cookies, the Dark Side is hard to resist.

Ever since a local shepherd brought back a silvered Cavian skull

Wait wait wait... so that's where my skull ended up?

Does the ROTRL Pawn collection assume that we have the NPC Codex pawn collection? I notice a lot of NPCs missing.

The only thing it assumes you have is the Bestiary Box.

I've only skimmed it but I do have a few of comments to add:

First, I'd pull it back to light and medium armor proficiency. While it strikes that the noble is a "lead from the front" kind of guy, he doesn't strike me as the one to take the blows. Seeing as he'd have a bodyguard of sorts and not be ready to "take it in the face" as it were. Perhaps add Heavy Armor proficiency as a talent they can select? Make it a prerequisite for the Armor Training talent. So the progression goes Heavy Armor -> Armor Training -> Advanced Armor Training

Secondly, the Affluent talent is ridiculously good. Take it at level two and you get a "bonus" 156750gp over the course of a noble's career, which is really nothing to sneeze at. That talent is a "must have."

Third, take a look at the Holy Tactician archetype for the paladin, as it has a number of "leadership" type abilities.

Finally, think of an alternative to the Leadership ability (at least offered as an "archetype") as I know a number of GMs that don't like the Leadership feat as it overly complicates already slow combats.

Bumping this back up to see what other happy/fun (read: insidious/devious) things sabedoriaclark has rigged up for us!

Officially passed 24k again! Yay more monsters!

Does that make it doubly official or just reofficial? Do we need a reofficiant?

In addition, we have made four limited availability slots to have your character on the GM Screen. Wayne Reynolds will not be doing the GM screen (we simply can't afford two WAR graphics), so the cost for having your character on the GM screen is lower. However, the graphic will be featured within the book itself, so you do get that added benefit, as well as all the benefits of the $300 tier.

Jeremy, I assume this means the GM screen image will show up as one of the new chapter header/opener things?

I think Andreas probably meant that the character would also be inside the book, which you mentioned in the Kickstarter update, but not in the reward description.

That would be awesome. I had kind of assumed that the characters from the cover/GM screen would get mixed in with the iconics for various new art that was needed throughout the book (chapter openers, power displays, archetypes, etc.).

I'd love to see something akin to the Paizo hardbacks where each chapter-opening graphic is accompanied by a small piece of prose about what's going on. I feel it's those little flavor items that really draw people into the system/world/game.

Apparently, there's some hidden bonus at 22k that Andreas has started hinting at the existence of, but won't actually tell us about. So it's not just the GM screen.

You have my intrigued Sir Wolf, I wish to learn more. Where might I subscribe to your newsletter?

On the down-side it gives people less time to scrape up money. On the up-side, stretch goals will have been met, making the deal that much more attractive to people who hear about it late.

I dunno. I still get the whole "I don't want science-fiction in my fantasy", as if it's every been true.

I know I wouldn't have been able to afford my pledge amount if I hadn't had such advanced notice. As it stands I have 30 days to save up to it (aka 30 days of bag lunching & avoiding an extra soda/coffee during the day).

To be fair, there are currently less than 200 supporters. While I'm glad this project is doing as well as it is, that's a depressingly small number. I'm sure there are a couple hundred thousand CRB floating around, and there's got to be tens of thousands of APGs. Yeah, some people already have Psionics Unleashed and just aren't getting the combined book, but still... this is awesome both in content and in style.

I'd like to see several thousand printed. I'd like to see Paizo ordering a few hundred for sale through their store like Tome of Horrors et al.

I mean, I'm really glad it's gone as far as it's gone. I just want Psionics to stop being the red-headed step-child.

So how do we petition this to show up as a post like the Reaper Bones thing? Might also help if it showed up on ENWorld's newsfeed/front page which I don't believe it has yet.

That's an awesome offer Dreadfox, I totally wish I could take advantage of it but alas I cannot. Regardless I wish you best of luck on it and keep up the good work!

What are 'achievements'?

Nebulous strange things that "g@mars" are always going on about... I don't quite understand it but there's this "point score" tied to it that apparently goes up.

Actually, it's just the Vancian system with bigger numbers and more math added on.

Numbers going up means we're having fun, right TOZ? I figure that's at least how achievements work...

Well, If I had the money to contribute, I would. :)

You have thirty days, school just started so time to start stealing lunch money again! ;)

What? It's how I'm funding my pledge... I mean... you saw nothing!