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Not sure if my PC's are going to go this route after all, but after letting them know about dhampirs....they all want to play one each. Initially, I was for it...until I read the adventure I remembered something:

Dhampir are like undead in terms of healing, and a lot of items are potions of cure and the like. Yeah, I'm sure I could just replace them with potions of inflict, but I don't think it makes sense in game/story terms (there were once living people in the ruins and they'd benefit from healing potions, and also I don't see clerics of Pharasma making a bunch of undead-healing potions).

I'm probably going to tell them only one, maybe two, dhampirs - just to save everyone a headache in terms of healing thier characters - but I want to see what other people think.

Ok; I want to run the AP for a group, though I have a question about how the spelling of Varrisanna's name works.

Thanks ^^

Sorry if this came up in posts past, but how does Pathfinder handle racial bonuses/penalties by stats? Are they stingy in upping Strength at the cost of 2 penalties?

Is this in the Core book, am I'm just missing it?

Is there a player's handbook for the adventure path? Sort of like what the Savage Tide had?
My PC's would like some material to base their characters on.

Is there a "player's handbook" for their PC's; mainly for the purpose of character creation and the like (similar to what Savage Tide did)?

Has anyone used this location as a side adventure?
One of my players invariable goes for the "build a castle [and then take over the world at the end of the campaign]" shtick with about every character. I have decided to allow them to "find" a suitable place for a base outsider of Cauldron; unless they try to dig an entrance back to the Malachite Fortress or Jzaldrine, I thought this abandoned keep might be a cool side quest.

Obviously I'm going to make them work for their base, but I'm having trouble figuing out the currant tenants; so far I decided against frost giants, devils, demons...

I just wanted to see what other people did.

I bought my Shackled City adventure path off of eBay; was there supposed to be maps of all the dungeons?
I noticed Jzaldrine has location numbers, that is why I'm asking.

It mentions that Occipitus was once part of Celestia; but as what?
An 8th layer, or just a chunk of one of the 7 layers?

I just bought the campaign book and plan on running it in a few months. One person in my group (running the Savage Tide path)recommended not allowing splatbooks (or not to many).

What kind of things should I not allow (as game shattering power gaming)?
So far I've said the 'Complete' series is fine (Scoundrel and Champion pending).