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I would ban it, unless you develop an alternate schism within the shark god's worshippers; could be interesting to have a different aspect that is long lost in history and have the PC be an alternate/opposed to you know who.

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i would think the higher level one, based on prior versions and drafts. Also, from a game balance perspective.

Yeah. I didn't like the art on Mr. H and Eric Lofgren was available, so...

I think the product could be made even better with internal PDF linking, if at all possible, primarily due to the sandboxy structure.

Coltaine wrote:

Razor Coast is amazing, innovative, beautiful, creative and...it blows me away. I love everything about it. I think it sets a new standard for adventure design; it's exactly what I have wanted as an experienced GM; it was well worth the wait! Thank you all, especially Lou; your love shines through.

Dude. Wow. Thank you. I'm so glad you like it.

It's perfect for my GMing style (most of nick's stuff is). Soo...when are you guys going to work on Ebon Shroud? There is a certain female NPC from that that I dearly want to see done justice...;) Oh, and i found it interesting that Mr.H looks different in the current version of RC.

Razor Coast is amazing, innovative, beautiful, creative and...it blows me away. I love everything about it. I think it sets a new standard for adventure design; it's exactly what I have wanted as an experienced GM; it was well worth the wait! Thank you all, especially Lou; your love shines through.

That's it. The Mysteries of the Razor Sea Indulgence also fits well with that adventure. I also introduced some of the NPCs on the Sea Voyage; I.e Jalamar.

Can anyone tell me what the other adventures are outside of the ones described in the product description?

Thanael wrote:

brvheart wrote:

Sort of a narrow range. Will need something to take them to 5th then.

Lets make a list of usable module!

I'll start with:
The Horn of Geryon (level 1)

One of the indulgences (16 page pdf releases which are being updated to PF) is a 1st level adventure.

I used the fantastic 3rd edition adventure,Maiden Voyage- the party is a group of settlers journeying to Port Shaw. Some of the indulgences work very well as well within such a Trans-oceanic journey.

Edition warring, part XXXIIII

This one might not be fully baked, but it is indeed, the most creative and exciting of the proposal; I personally value those two qualities in a proposal more than how complete the proposal might be! I want this developed, and as such you'll get my vote.

FYI Wulfgang has done a "lost city" adventure exceptionally well within a 32 page count (Crucible of Chaos). The more i think of it, elements of this adventure also reminds me of another Wulfgang adventure a bit as well (From Shore to Sea).

I really love Freeport. But, at this point my home game players are burned out on pirate themed stuff. We played the 3.5 version of Freeport 2009-2010 time frame, and are now playing Skulls and Shackles. I'm a big fan of Green Ronin material, just this doesn't appleal to my group of players at this time. And by the way this also applies to Razor Coast, which we won't be playing due to the same pirate theme fatigue.

Razor Coast is not really Piratey; a lot of it is more about colonialism and ancient evils.

Oddly, i dreamt about Bill Webb last night (he was an older bespectacled gentleman who my girlfriend was argoing with), and i find this in my inbox...hmmm

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hedgeknight wrote:

In celebration...

RELEASE THE KRAKEN!!

Went out and got a 1.5 gallon and cracked it open at tonight's game to celebrate! Announced the new campaign for 2-3 weeks after it's release. We are going to double DM it.

Funn, I have been GMing "Razor Coast" for 2 years! :) Can't wait to see what the actual finished product looks like and how far i have deviated from the setting, especially with some of the major NPCs.

You are a great designer Nick. I have worked in all of your dungeon adventures into my ongoing Razor Coast Campaign (I am running it based on your 40 or so pagea of pre pre draft....and I threw in some buried Old Ones etc.) oh and one of your preview characters from Ebon Shroud has also made her way to the coast to wreck some vampiric badness. Keep writing and I will keep running it.

What do the original subscribers who haven't asked for a refund get?

A,B, D, E- heck, i'll take it in whatever form its in currently.

Looks great; id love it if there were further expansions that drilled down even further.

FYI i agree that this is an awesome product. In fact, there is so much stuff there that i might never fully read through it.

Coltaine wrote:

Please add bookmarks!

Hey Coltain, like End says, the PDF does have bookmarks ... are you saying yours doesn't?

Correct. It looks like the PDF up on Paizo has no bookmarks. I think End noted something similar in his review for the supplement to this book as well.

Please add bookmarks!

Must buy for sure...i have missed the loguishness, not to mention the Argesta Awesome.

Interesting terminology bigd. I get exactly what you mean; a lot of the old school trilogies and boxed sets, be it Saltmarsh, Night Below, or Elemental Evil, were set up thi way. They were anchor points to the campaign, without taking up the entire campaign, and giving the GM flexibility within the design space. My face was the trilogy based on the Illithiad.

Currently, there are few, if any adventures designed this way. I think the best bet is to piecemeal the various paizo and third party adventure paths. The are some longer adventures out there too like the gaming paper one....citadel of pain, and also the breaking of frostor nargar; both excellent anchoring adventures.

Tito? Is he italian?

He is a farty old cthulu apparently.

James Jacobs wrote:

Erik Freund wrote:

No offense to Tito, but you should totally have contracted out Tom Phillips to do this one. Would have been amazing.

Maybe bring back the whole set-piece idea from the early APs and have him do one of those in this issue?

Well... no offense to Tom Phillips, but he's never written an Adventure Path installment before. And after having been burned pretty badly in the past in assigning something as enormous and complex and difficult as an Adventure Path installment to authors we've not worked with before and having semi-disasters result, I've adopted the policy of "only one new author per AP, and said new author must first prove himself by writing several other things for us first."

Which is Mike Shel in this case—he's writing the second adventure.

And set pieces aren't coming back.

Tito, on the other hand, has been writing Adventure Path installments for longer than Pathfinder's been around.

You forgot "Tito Leati is awesome" and "Tito Leati does the best handouts"!

Tito is da awesome; The Champion''s Belt

I hear lots of great things from pretty much everyone who has actually playtested the game.

DSRMT,

An interesting idea.

NOBLE HOUSE -- There are many noble houses both great and small within the ancient drow vault-city of Tezzarathane, but yours is definitely one of the lesser. This will be the generation where that changes. You play a band of young drow nobles, inheritors of a legacy of evil and vengeance.

At once both an urban campaign and a game of underground exploration, you begin as young drow earning your place in the cutthroat world of the dark elves. Rise to power, conquer the uncharted depths of the earth, raid the surface and become masters of Tezzarathane. Loyal to no one but yourself, your House and its dark demon-gods, are you ruthless enough to become lords and ladies of the realms below?

The PCs would all be drow -- a race diversied and given more options via the trait system. This would be an adventure path that spans centuries as it charts the life of a band of drow noble siblings fighting to secure their dominance in drow society.

It would have a kingmaker-esque aspect -- the Noble House itself would be a character. This adventure path would feature major interaction (via both combat and RP) with the aboleth. And of course at least one drow civil war is inevitable. Very sandbox, there would be literally no limits to what wickedness your house could undertake.

In order to allow for interparty cooperation, your house requires a blood oath to not harm those of your kin. There would be a minor competive element -- only one of you can be Matriarch/Patriarch at a time after all. But each of you would have a say in how the Noble House is controlled (one of you is the master of assassins, one is the master of the household guard, etc.).

Another thing -- drow are demon worshippers. Rather than specify which demon lord (or lady) you worship, there would be a simple subsystem for specifying what makes your favorite otherworldly abomination unique. This is your houses' Patron and though we would provide a few samples, ultimately it will be up to the PCs...

I believe variants of this idea already exist in 3.5 e

I think its a great idea, though you might want to expand on the dwarves only focus. It could be reclaiming a dwarven hall but doesnt have to be a dwarven party- for example, Jade Regent has a similar trope.

A good part of it could be explorative, ala Night Below, and also making allies; perhaps there are "lost dwarves," elves, deep gnomes, drow etc. all down there doing their own thing, you might even throw in unrelated dungeons ala Lost Caverns of Tsojicanth.

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I think a combination of themes would work well too. For example:

Underdark dwarven city under seige; this would include the war theme, exploration ( recover weapons), diplomacy (recruit allies), reconaissance and sabotage, and lots of combat.

I think the history of the game can give you some great ideas for adventure paths:

- Something full of history, evil and dungeony like Temple of Elemental Evil

- Something that starts small and goes big like the Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh Trilogy

- Something with great adversaries and confrontational like Against the Slavelords

-Something explorative and underdarky, like to The Night Below Boxed set

- Something Sandboxy like the Keep on the Borderlands

I think all of these provide you with broad ideas that are nostalgic, flavorful, and sucessful; they can provide lots of great inspiration for new adventure paths.

Born, brought up and still living in NYC...pretty much anything you can think of, you can find! Some options:

- Various museums-Guggenheim, Museum of Sex, The Whitney(american art), Museum of Art and Design, International Center of Photography, the Frick

-Exhibits; Discovery Times Square (Terra Cota Warriors), Bodies Exhibit ( South Street- SeaPort- fab place to hang out too)

-Parks- Bronx Zoo, Bronx Botanical Garden, Prospect Park

- Churches; My fav is St. John the Divine Cathedral on 110th; now considered the largest church in the world

- other stuff; just walk around. Manhattan is pretty easy to navigate (if going north, the street numbers increase, when going west the avenue numbers increase...). Lots of food and also all kinds of events.

What are your interests? I am sure there is plenty of stuff that's you'd enjoy

The PCs stand as the stalwart defenders of a newly settled colony against an oncoming invasion lead by a Witch Coven. As such, I need specific tasks that the PCs can acomplish to help fortify the defenses/ make their contribution active. Some criteria for consideration are:

PRE BATTLE-

Find new allies
Find helpful resources
Gather Intelligence about the enemy/or the converse
Sabotage the enemy/or the converse

DURING BATTLE:

Fight specific threats
Rally troops
Prevent key personnel from being killed
Assasinate key enemy leaders or implement intelligent strategy for victory.

I need help with adding details and specificity to any of the above/or anything else that all of your devious minds can come up with. A few plot points of note:

-Ancient Beings lie chained and dormant at the settlement site- an old prison, unknown to most.

- No plant life grows where the settlement is though the settlement is surrounded by an ancient forest

- Pirates abound the coast line

- The PCs suspect certain NPCs to be traitors

- The PCs work for the most dispicable man who is in charge, despite their distate for this (they agreed to this to pull together the alliance of natives, settlers and others).

You can also point me to any published sources as well ( i believe one of the savage tide adventures deal with a similar topic, as an example).

Thank you in advance!

-Forest Fire (source and nature up to you)
-Vengeful Forest Spirit
-Maurauding Beasts
-Logging Company/big business encroachment
-Flood

I have hunted down every Nick Logue adventure, and incorporated them all into my "Razor Coast" campaign, including the entire Chimes at Midnight Arc, Blackmaw etc. Interestingly, the only product i have been unable to get a hand on is Blood of the Gorgon (looks longingly at Wulfgang); even subscribed to the midgard setting patronage so that i could purchase it. Alas, such an option was not available.

Thanks End & Lou. FYI, Nick, if you have access to your harddrive, i might be able to recover the files from it. I have lots of friends who work in computer forensics.

Welcome back Nick. Your talent and spirit have been sorely missed more than anything. The fact is that none of us are as alone as we think we are.

A lot of the anger towards you, i think, comes from the fact that you have a lot of fans who love what you do. You are exceptional as a RPG Designer- there are very few, if any, who are as talented and creative as you. I think we've all missed your work. It's like finding your favorite restaurant closed with no other recourse.

Lou, you are just an outstanding guy! I think those in your life are very blessed to have such a kind, responsible gentleman.

Quick question; is it possible to get the pdf of Razor Coast for those that ordered it?

ShadowcatX wrote:

No worries man. I just wanted to have an idea of when I should check.

I got close, then we had some fun and games wrestling the shop database into shape to retrofit Downloads into existing orders. Update here:

http://redbrickllc.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=390

The Pathfinder PDF placeholder will be updated with the real thing tomorrow evening. It's almost ready to roll, but I need to grab some sleep and I have work tomorrow (day).

We will be using placeholders in the future to ensure that we don't have to hack orders to insert download links.

So many lessons learned from this exercise. Thank you all for your patience and support as we roll through each unanticipated surprise.

Will you have the PDF available through the Paizo Store as well?

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The Great City AP has some very good higher level urban adventures. Breaking of Forstor Nagar, Citadel of Pain and Coliseum are all outstanding as well.

I think you might be missing a bunch of stuff from Open Design, for example, Midgard.

Chuck Wright wrote:

How heavily will these draw upon the original titles? I know that a lot of work has to be done on the crunch side but should we be expecting fresh material from the fluff as well or no?

I'm good either way. :D

Books like Denizens won't have new fluff; most of our new fluff will be all-original books, such as the Adventure Campaigns and new creature/Horror books.

What levels are the adventure paths for? I take it that the classes will be new and unique from Pathfinder? Any hints on what the adventure is about?

I love Earthdawn. I am looking forward to how magic and some of the classes are treated, as well as Horrors.

Coltaine wrote:

What kind of highlighted it to me was when i had a few folks who were looking for games who would only play in APs. I found that a bit odd at first, then chalked it up to uniform game experience, or a specific type of adventure that they might be looking for. However, i later came to realize that a couple of the folks appeared to be intimately familiar with APs based on their postings here and elsewhere.

On a personal note, I much prefer to play in adventure paths because I've been in too many really shoddy home brew campaigns. :-)

Blah. It's easy to run a non shoddy campaign; all you need are ninjas, dinosaurs, pirates and Sharks. Oh, and monkeys; if nothing else is working, toss a monkey at the party. :)

I hear ya though; hence the "uniform game experience" comment.

If you're surreptitiously reading an adventure path in order to gain an advantage, that's cheating.

If you have some previous knowledge of an adventure path and you're up front about it and you're trying not to let it affect your gameplay, that's not cheating.

I don't know enough about your friends' cases to comment on which category they would fall into.

They've said that some of the folks in their games appear to know where to look for stuff, and exactly what to do in situations that you wouldnt necessarily know without intimate knowledge of the APs.

What kind of highlighted it to me was when i had a few folks who were looking for games who would only play in APs. I found that a bit odd at first, then chalked it up to uniform game experience, or a specific type of adventure that they might be looking for. However, i later came to realize that a couple of the folks appeared to be intimately familiar with APs based on their postings here and elsewhere.

The group that i play in is quite diverse, with some of the people playing in other groups as well. My campaign is a homebrew, and we were discussing the different adventure paths since 5 of the other campaigns that the different folks play in are all adventure paths. I have found the general interest in people wanting to play adventure paths to be very high and attributed this to an AP guarenteeing a uniform play experience with a promise to advance to higher levels.

Some of the others though, noted another factor; that they had observed the other players in their group to have intimate familiarity with the adventures to the point where they seemed to intuit where the hidden treasure was, or what to do next on a consistent basis. In a way, their characters were able to advance and suceed without challenge. Tangentially, i noted that some of the players in some of these groups appear to frequent these forums a lot and also appear to be reading up APs on a regular basis, and even appear to be subscribers. Personally, it rubs me the wrong way. Do others find any validity to this observation?

Got a question about this AP. Does it provide advanced stats for the core NPC's or even just Ameiko? Is she expected to be heavily involved in the final campaign pieces (i.e. travelling with party and participating actively) or is she only effectively a level 6 or 7 NPC at the end?

No- no advance stats, though advancing is mentioned

All the PC related NPCs are supposed to be taking an active role, though it is only mentioned.

Yes, it does sound like there will be a lot of "dm talking to himself" moments, unless some tweaks are made.

Re- the review. I want to point out that the adventure explains that the encounters are harder than expected because the NPCs that help the PCs are supposed to be involved in the encounters. Conversely, that's a lot of NPCs for the DM to manage, considering that there are a lot of complex NPC bad guys as well. Running this adventure will require a LOT of prep time.

Zen79 wrote:

I got it!!!

Gone reading...

Anyone else having trouble / delays with their shipment? I just checked my tracking # and it's scheduled to arrive on FEB 06, and it supposedly shipped on JAN 18. I live in northern california, so not sure why UPS hates me so.

I do have my download PDF copy (yay subscription!). I absolutely love the magic tea set wondrous item. I love that it is a Diplomacy Check (though Perform might be more fun) to activate. And my wife is playing a Maesto Sorceror as a Geisha, so it works perfectly.

Maybe due to bad weather? I dunno, i just got mine yesterday, and it looked like it had been a few places and the main label was blank though there was a smaller label on the top corner.

Zaister has a good point - if we want to pay a price that would allow a profit (and potentially help make KUG the start of a product line, rather than a stand alone product), can there be a way to at least willingly pay more than the break even price?

I am in for this as well. You are a class act, and i would love to support your endevors with additional $ if possible. Have you considered a kickstarter or something similar? Heck, i'll give you money for free. That's how much i appreciate all the kindness and consideration you have shown.

You are the GM; make the call. Sounds like you know what you want to decide.

I have gotten it once upon a time; it is a very well done, but niche product that i found no real use for, but always did want to use. It might work well for NPCs especially.

Let them run with it. Reskin encounters where applicable, let them take the lead, be it, sink, swim, or get stuck on Azlanti ruins, or being broke sinking their money into a foolhardy ocean voyage. There are plenty of adventures out there that can be used if you are short on time. Most of all, have fun.