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Hey, I am trying to get to the webpage for the pathfinderrpg (http://www.paizo.com/pathfinderRPG). It keeps redirecting me to the main Paizo page.

One of my players is playing a Neutral (True) cleric of a Neutral (True) god or animals, wilderness and protector of small settlements. He has selected to channel negative energy.

One tactic that has become used by the group is for the cleric to pop into the middle of a mass of creatures, using dimension leap or dimension door, and channel negative energy. Hey, great tactic, works well. No problem there.

In the past session, the group came upon ruins in a forest, and upon scouting the forest, they found some humanoids in the ruins. The humanoids had a reputation for being violent, but the group had not run into them before. After much discussion, they decided to attack without any attempt at diplomacy. There was a group of the humanoids hanging out by a well in the middle of the day. Some were napping in the sun, and others were playing games with each other. None of them had weapons out, and they were completely ignorant of the party who was hidden in the woods.

Cleric dimension doors in and channels negative energy, killing 5 of the 6 low hit dice humanoids.

Later in the session, they ran into another group...similar situation, the humanoids were unaware of the party, with no weapons drawn. Cleric dimension doors in and channels, killing 5 of 9 of the low hit dice humanoids.

Question being... does this call for an ill omen to warn the cleric that he is treading a fine line?

I am playing in a group whose characters are having to head north to retrieve some things taken by a barbarian tribe. We're going in with diplomatic tactics, but not expecting that will work. If it comes down to combat, what are some really effective tactics against barbarians?

My first thought is fight defensively until their rage wears out and they are fatigued.

Second thought, what effects and abilities could fatigue them, and cause them to prematurely end their rage? Touch of Fatigue? OK but the wizard won't like getting toe-to-toe with a frothing-at-the-mouth, big, fur-loincloth-clad, shield-chewing monster :)

Discuss :)

We have just started the war against the dark ones in Celwynvian. Interesting question came up last night. As it is more difficult to cast spells against those wearing noquil armor, how does the friendly cleric cast cure spells or buff spells on the dwarves fighter in noquil full plate? We didn't have an official answer so we made it up. We decided the caster needed to make a spell craft check with the DC of 10 + spell level + 2. If the an official ruling on this?

Not sure if this has been asked before, but I am looking for stats on a Hippogryph for a Sable Company Marine. I am not finding the stats in the Bestiary. Could someone point me in the correct direction?

Thanks!

We are six intrepid citizens of Korvosa who recently learned that we all were tied together through a criminal named Lamm. We are looking for a GM to step up and assist us in telling the story of the Curse of the Crimson Throne. Our previous GM got sick and has not been heard of in several weeks. We are currently in the middle or assaulting Lamm's hideout.

If there is a daring GM who would be interested in stepping up to the plate and running for us, we can offer you our eternal gratitude. I don't have a first-born child, but you can have that too :)

The OOC thread is here

The IC Thread is here

Hey All,

I just took over a Hellfrost game here on the boards. I'd like to get another player to play a lorekeeper type. I hate playing a character in the games I run.

Character should be made as per SWEX rules, with the addition of the Hellfrost players guide information. Please add 5 experience, and give your character one advance.

If you are interested, post your character concept in this thread.

OK So several years ago I bought RPGXplorer, which allows you to create characters for 3.5. They have the nifty feature of being able to enter new content.

Along comes Pathfinder and the rules for character creation change. RPGX hasn't caught up to them yet.

Does anyoneknow another software package that allows for creation of Pathfinder characters?

My question...does the sword come separate or do you need to paint his face around the sword?

Unfortunately, I am finding myself in a position where I need to ask to have my subscription to Pathfinder cancelled. This is nto a quality issue. You guys do great work. I am trying to reduce my monthly expenditures.

Thanks

C

Good Evening,

I just received this shipment and there is a problem with the hardcover Delta Green hardcover book. The binding is almost entirely ripped away from the main portion of the book in back.

Please advise on how this should be returned for a new copy

Thanks

Chris Manos

What size is it?

Back in Dragon 355, you had a list of music for Savage Tide. Most I can Guess at composer or Source, but some....like "Main Title", are a bit vauge. Any way you could post the composers of the 31 pieces?

Thanks.

Chris

OK I checked my subscriptions to see if my issue of Pathfinder 1 had shipped and it isn't listed. It did list Pathfinder 2 as shipping Sept 2007, but there is nothing about Pathfinder 1. Is this an oversight or do I have to do some form of arcane ritual to get Issue #1?

Now where am I going to find goats blood and silver powder at this time of day?

Howdy,

Just received my Penultimate Dragon issue and noticed it was forwarded from my previous address. I changed my Addres on the site about 5 weeks ago. I want to confirm that the new address is in place and that the issue of Dragon was shipped before the address change was registered.

Drop me a line!

Thanks

Chris

OK So I shifted over the remaindder of my Dragon and Dungeon Magazine into 7 issues of Pathfinder. Somewhre I remember reading something about getting a free copy of the player's Guide. When can I expect that? Kind of jonesing for a fix of some new fun stuff.

Thanks

Chris

OK, I know it is the Isle of Dread, but does it have an actual name? I could swear it does, but have none of the Dungeons with me to look it up.

Thanks

Couple questions about Dragonmarked and item creation. I know how I would rule, but I am curious to see how others rule.

1) Can a non-dragonmarked caster read a scroll of a spell requiring a dragonmark to cast it? As written, Scribe Scroll requires the scroll creator provide the components, not the reader, but this would allow non-dragonmarked casters access to spells specifically designed for dragonmarked casters.

2) Can an Artficer emulate a dragonmark to create an item requiring a spell with the Dragonmark component? Example, can an artificer emulate the Mark of Making needed to cast Summon Marked Homunculus, to create a scroll with that spell on it?

So I am sitting here listening to Ralph Vaughan Williams [u]A Sea Symphony[/u] thinking I am going to sit my players down and have them listen to it before we start. Such fantastic music, and a copmpletely appropriate text and context.

"Away O Soul! Hoist instantly the anchor!
Cut the hawsers - haul out - shake out every sail!
Reckless O Soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me,
Sail forth, steer for the deep waters only,
for we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.
O my brave Soul!
O farther, farther sail!"

Words by Walt Whitman from Leaves of Grass
Completely and totally sublime music by Ralph Vaughan Williams

OK, so I just started looking at increasing the CRs for the NPCs in There is No Honor. First NPC I run into that the characters will be fighting...Soller Vark.

Human Warrior 2 with a 10 Int.

Looks like you forgot to put the +4 skill points at L1 and +1 skill point per level for being a human. He is 5 points low on skills.

I'll have to check the rest of them over closer, now.

OK, one of the guys at the game last time around brought his digicam and we took some pics. I wanted to post pics of the Hirst Arts walls we're using in our Age of Worm's campaign. How does one go about posting pics in the forum? I already have the pics uploaded to photobucket, I just need to know the code to put it in the topic.

Number two...some of the pictures feature a prominently displayed bottle of Frosty Adult Beverage with an interesting name. Any rules prohibiting the posting of pictures of alcoholic beverages, or alcoholic beverages with interesting double-meaning names?

So I will be playing in an AoW campaign. THis is where I will document the game.

Currently it looks like our group will consist of

Grey Elf Archivist
Dwarven Paladin
Half Orc-Barbarian
Human Fighter
Human Rogue
Elven(?) Scout
Human Sorceress

Yup...No healer. I predict much death and dismemberment.

Since my two favorite sites for rules clarifications are either blocked by my firewall at work, or had serious database crashes, I'll ask the question here.

A monk can flurry of blws with a special monk weapon.

Lets say, a quarterstaff.

Say the monk does not have TWF. Without the Flurry, the monk would be at -4/-8 to hit when using the quarterstaff. If the monk flurries with the staff, she would be at -6/-6/-8. Correct? And if she had TWF she would be at -4/-4/-4? Correct?

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Deciding to take a break between our Shackled City failure and certain death at the hands of Age of Worms, I decided to run the Eberron adventure, Shadows of the Last War, module one in a series of three adventures. Please do not discuss things that have not occurred yet, as some of my players so frequent these boards.

INTRODUCTION OF CHARACTERS

Velbur Deathseeker - Human Necromancer from Breland
Tianna Lon - Human Fighter from Cyre
Khatari - Kalashtar Monk from Adar
Jelpuir Stubblebink - Gnome Artificer from Zilargo
Gredark d'Kundarak - Dwarf Cleric of the Host from the Mror Holds
Zyx, a.k.a. Dillane - Changeling Rogue from Breland

The group was hired by Elan d'Cannith to retreive items and reseach from a Cannith facility whose location was lost when the heads of the House died in the Day of Mourning. Elan has come across information that there was a map located at a Cannith facility in Rose Quarry in what was formerly part of Cyre, and is now part of Darguun. The map needs keys to unlock its secrets. The keys are locked inside a Kundarak vault in the facility and the original key was lost in The Mourning. House Kundarak always has a spare key located at their chapterhouse in the Mror Holds. Cannith has arranged for a representative of the house, Greddark d'Kundarak to bring a key on the expedition, so that the vault may be opened.

Elan has asked his boyhood friend, Velbur Deathseeker along on the expedition, along with three others who have been working in his office as of late. The first, an artificer from Zilargo, Jelpuir Stubblebink, has been working with Cannith to exhange information on artifice issues. The second, Khatari, Elan selected as he thought she may find something along the way to help her in her Secret War. The third was a changeling, by the name of Zyx, who normally goes by the persona of an elven antiquities dealer named Dillane, who has acted as an outlet for some smaller Cannith items in the past. Elan is fully aware of his true occupation and believes his skills would be needed on the expedition.

Lastly, Elan noticed that the expedition may be in need of some martial prowess and hired a mercenery with knowledge of Cyre and of Darguun, Tianna Lon.

The party met in the Broken Anvil to discuss terms and were immediately attacked by a warforged and 6 kobold merceneries. The warforged did not seem to have any marks of affiliation other than its forging mark in the center of its forehead, which it seemed to be in the process of scraping off. After dispaching the warforged and chasing off the mercenery kobolds, the party made a quick exit out the back door.

On their way to the docks to catch their ship, they noticed a man following them. Dillane slipped into an alley to waylay the tailer while the others went on ahead. Dillane grabbed the man and pulled him into the alley, noticing he was sweatting profusely, even more than the tropical heat should bring on. The man held up his closed fist and dropped something. The next thing Dillane knew he was coming to, laying on the alley cobblestones, with Greddark leaning over him. The dropped item was an egg shaped talisman of a strange metal.

Khatari and Velbur darted after the man as he ran out of the alley and caught him shortly. Khatari, who got to him first, knocked him to the ground. The man turned over and stared at her with completely black eyes and a voice came out of his dead mouth stating, "They will find you." Shortly after Velbur, and then the rest of the group arrived.

Alrighty then, so the Eberron Campaign setting states that druids and rangers can under no circumstances use magebred animals as animal companions. In Five Nations, it says Druids and Rangers from Breland can use magebred bears and tigers as animal companions.

I'm more apt to believe the campaign setting with the inconsistencies I have seen in other Eberron materials. Anyone care to convince me otherwise?

OK so we are going to be starting Age of Worms shortly. I have been saying for the past couple months or so I want to play a Spellthief. I have that character planned out quite well and have around 4 pages of background and character notes on the character.

Now comes the issue. Other people want to play Rogues and sneaky types so I may be dethroned from the spellthief. I'm fighting for the spellthief, but..

So. In the event that I don't plat a spellthief, I'd like to play some form of arcane caster. I don't want to go divine or martial as my last character in the Shackled City was a Cleric of Strength...very combat oriented. Decided I wanted to go the opposite direction.

I am having little ideas of 'character' for an arcane caster. I've looked at the hexblade and the warmage and they really don't fit what I would care to play. I don't think we're going to be allowed Warlock.

So now I am starting to consider a specialist necromancer. My question to y'all is, without giving away anything about the adventure path, help me build my character. We're looking at Level 1 character, 32 point build. Other than 'necromancer' I don't even have a concept for the character...where he came from, what he is good in and what he sucks in.

All input will be taken into thought.

Picture it, Narayan. Tensions are growing high as the goblins have been restless in the Southern Mark. Some say they are amassing for war. A war Narayan really can't afford right now.

Me? Why thank you for noticing me. Get the wench to bring another ale and I'll tell you a little of what is going on. I'm Lucik Malek. General ne'er-do-well, rabblerouser and rogue. Now don't sell me short, I'm also the friend and confidante of Navan, crown prince of Narayan. Not that his bodyguard or father care for me, but Navan reminds me of the little brother I lost so long ago. Maybe I can keep him alive where I couldn't my own blood.

Navan? Crown prince of Narayan. Not that he wants the throne. He'd rather be out brawling and carousing, which I can't really blame him. But with the current events teh way they are, he may be rising to the throne faster than any of us want, or expect.

Thea, the head of the prince's personal bodyguard? Heh, now there is a strong woman. Give you a run for your money and then demand correct change. She does her job well watching over Navan, but knows how to have fun. I like her fire. If I were ever to settle down....

The other players in this little tale? Oh where to start.

Anya, Magistrate of the Blind Lady, dispenser and interpreter of the laws od Marduk. She can be a bit uptight at times and I know she doesn't think highly of me. I try to give her reason not to like me. She cringes whenever I come into view, winking at her and patting her firm bottom. Her boyfriend doesn't like that, and neither does she.

Yes, her boyfriend...the elven ambassador Dryden. I don't know too much about him or why he is here, and I don't like not knowing things. Not that I have much say in things, I'm just a ruffian.

Ah yes, Erich. One of the palace guards who somehow got caught up in our little tale. Of the blood of the orcs, this one seems to bear a lot of responsibility and discipline on his shoulders. A strong companion and good to have in a fight, if not quiet. I need to make it a boint to get on his good side. Perhaps the nice bottle of wine I nicked on the way out of the city would losen him up a bit.

Bevyn is Erichs shadow. Another guardsmen caught up in our little game of Conqueror. Along with him, Thea brought 4 of the princes personal bodyguards. Able guardsmen and loyal, unfortunately I don't think they will be around long.

So you see, thats our little gang. Now, where's that wench? Have her pour me another ale to whet my whistle and I'll see about spinning the tale of how this mess all began.