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Purple Dragon Knight wrote:

A proper Banner need not only be physically meek, but also mentally unnattractive... he's the Charisma 7 Int 18 of Marvel's world. His flashing smile never got him out of a Thunderbolt missile lock situation...

The problem with that is such people fall into a different category.......terrible actors. You can't carry a movie worth watching with an uncharismatic actor playing the main character.

Two words: Rick Moranis

He was always my pick for Banner

Thanks for the comments all.

Vic Confirmed uncommon goblin mystic and 'other goblin'

mdt wrote:

Ravingdork wrote:

Why are people allowing so few belt pouches? Isn't it possible to fit, like, ten of those things on a belt?

Depends on the belt pouch. If you're talking about one of those things that holds a wallet, then yes, you can fit 10 of those on. If you're talking about a fanny pack type belt pouch, then no, you can't fit 10 of them on.

Considering the listed amount a belt pouch can hold, I believe the intention was a fannypack type pouch, not a wallet sized pouch.

If you are a big adventurer, and are using relatively small fanny packs, you could probably fit 10 of them around your waste. I recognize how some people would see that as "stretching it a bit" though (pun intended).

Also, there is no listing anywhere in the RAW stating how much a belt pouch (or, really, any other mundane container) can hold.

it also depends on your character, a wizard's waist is a lot smaller than a fighter built like a Mack Truck

I know this isn't ebay, but anybody looking for references on me as a seller, here's a link to my ebay feedback.

I can vouch for ghettowedge, i won a auction or two of his

Wow, quite the necro here.

But while we're on the subject, do you have to be wearing the necklace to chuck a bead? Or can you pull it out of your pack and chuck a bead without putting it on first?

Note that it does not take up the "neck" magic item slot.

I would say this is an RPG ruleing and not a PFS ruleing, and thus should go on the RPG forum

Gina Starr 248 wrote:

First of all, I'll apologize because I'm sure these questions are answered somewhere...I just don't have the time to search.

Replay rules: There's a lot of scenarios I've ran that I haven't played, but someone last night told me that if you gm a scenario, you can't play it afterwards for credit. Is that true?

No, that's not true. For any given scenario, you can get credit twice: once for playing and once for GMing. However, these two credits have to be applied to different characters. (And in the case of the player credit, it has to be applied to the character that you played, obviously.)

As Jiggy said, this is not true any more, it used to be true durign the first version of GM credit

gbonehead wrote:

All the proper names are, but I'm pretty sure Paizo didn't pull the "product identity monster" stunt like WoTC did.

It's primarily Golarion and Golarion-related content that's product identity - they've tried to keep all actual game rules (including monsters AND monster names) as OGL.

Yes, that's what I was wondering.

Certain monsters like the Sandpoint Devil need to be renamed, since Sandpoint is product identity, even if the creature isn't. Also there are two creatures that were released in adventure paths that are not OGL. The Deep Crow and the creature that the displacer beast were based on (forgot it's name). These two are not creatures that paizo has the rights to, beyond the issues that they appeared in, so they cannot make them open content.

Okay, what's up with the Flumph?

The Flumph caused an entire pathfinder book to be written (Misfit monsters redeemed) and has a large cult following on these boards as a interesting creature that if played right is a very memorable encounter.

GreatKhanArtist wrote:

Swarms.

+4

But please, please, please go with the one-square swarm minis that are really really flat so other minis will stand on them, not with the pile of spinosaurus poo that WoTC did with the rat swarm from Unhallowed.

See, I never liked the medium swarms, and have never once used them. On the other hand I've used the large rat and large spider swarm dozens of times

Bit harsh.

To keep his word the Paladin cannot volunteer the information to the city and should answer "I cannot answer that question" if asked about it. Paladins are not expected to destroy all evil, if they were how would evil be redeemed?

What god does the paladin worship? What is their code of conduct? (see the "Faiths of Purity" book to see examples)

I'd use a Google Spreadsheet. Share it among your local players or GMs. Have a row for each scenario, a column for each player, and just put an X in the cell as people play it. Then look for an empty row and play that scenario.

This is what we do... this way you can change the color fo the box for GM credit, and X it off for play credit

Are you confirming that the two goblins will be packaged together, instead of one goblin with the gnome and the other one with the dire rat?

What will the goblin mystic be packaged with?

since there are 4 goblins in the set and 6 smalls (Erik has said this at least 3 times) I'm guessing the goblin mystic is with another goblin that we don't know about yet

Do Venture-lieutenants have a set group of responsibilities? or is it just to help out the local VC in their home area?

How does everyone feel if their was an off-shoot competition, similar to RPG Superstar, but involving conceptual design?

Each Round could be a new assignment, maybe even written conceptual tasks as well as rendering such descriptions. As the rounds progress the assignments become more difficult and challenging. Tasks could range from drawing single characters to smaller scenes, to overland maps, and finally your epic battle shots!! etc,...

I am interested to hear what the amazing Paizo community has to say regarding this matter, as well as any members of the Paizo staff. This is a game I love and this could be another way to involve the gaming community. Game on friends!!

*shrug* the art community has done well by taking free commissions on the gamer talk section and posting links to the results (thats how butterfrog got his start, and now he does a good amount of the open design art)

Here

Can someone fix links please?

fixed

Hi guys, i have a very small and maybe easy question for you all, if my party just use the dagger-raktavanra as a silver dagger and make any identify, does it always keep on reporting to Vimanda?

Thank you for any help!!!

Many campaigns have had them use the dagger until they fight the akrona's later in the AP. I actually added the ability to counterspell to the knife, just to keep the parties curiousity up. It would continue reporting to her until they kill her, at which time it should reveal itself. This allows Vimanda to act as a knowledgeable opponent. She would have been studying the PCs fighting styles from the reports of the dagger and be ready (Prepped the best spells/scrolls she can for fighting the party, planned her environment and tactics to suit the environment, ect).

I also have probably over 1,000 DDM minis, but I'm more than happy to pick up more of the same so long as they have that cool Pathfinder look to them. I *do* wish the Orcs were gray and the Goblins were tan, but meh, I'll deal. I'm also a bit underwhelmed by the look of the first Lizardman and wish it looked more like the one in the Beastiary, but I guess they can't all be little gems.

They used the art in pathfinder 33 (I think) for this piece

I'd just as soon see day job rolls be eliminated. I've never actually seen anyone use or even reference their day job during the course of a module. Instead, the module is over, everyone (but me) rolls a d20 and announces how much money they made.

my ranger is a walking stock carver... This is how I get my chronicles to the PFS by carving them in code into a walking stick. As I go throughout the module, I look for wood and objects to carve into the stick (horns/teeth from animals and magical creatures are the #1 thing I collect) Makes for some interesting RP

Near the end of the Age of Worms AP there are some interesting foods....

"Prince of Redhand"** spoiler omitted **
Dungeon 131 or 2?

You could add
chuul legs,
broiled flumph,
gug burgers, all kinds of yummy stuff.

Man, all this talk is making me hungry for elf flesh (served on a bed of dwarf beard).

I think I may insert the bartender into my current CotCT campaign, and see how people take to him.

Jigsaw shark and Sargavin boar are both also mentioned as food sources in the ISWG

Gotta cook'em all?

Jusr think of the menu:

(all meat is cooked over a med fire elemental, and stored in an ice elemental freezer)

Appitizers:
Kraken calimari
Froghmoth legs
assassin vine/shambling mound/yellow musk creeper salad
Raptor sliders

Main Course:
Donkey Rat
Cockatrice and griffon(Fried/grilled/ect as a chicken sustitute)
cockatrice egg omelet
Chimera Flank steak
Choice cut dragon meat
Owlbear (would you cook it like a bird or a steak?)
Hell hound (comes cooked, just needs to be heated up)
Hydra Neck (capture one alive, a neck is cut off every time someone orders)

Desert:
Gelatinous cube pieces for dessert

Personally, I've always had a soft spot for adventures that showcase the pleasure activities of the area - be it gambling, knivesies, blood pig....

While reading the Inner sea world guide information on the Donkey rat I had a adventure idea I though was really interesting. What if someone was opening a high end restaurant/tavern in a city, but didn't really like the aristocrats and politics of nobility. They get help from the PCs to go hunt creatures like the donkey rat, that are tasty, but frowned upon. As the PCs level, they can be contacted to hunt creatures for the restaurant's 'specials'. Who else is going to harvest enough cockatrices to serve a city's nobility for a week? You know the queen just asked if we could serve red dragon steaks at her coronation, and the PCs are the only ones who can hunt down a red dragon.

Normally hunting these things a lot would put you behind the wealth table... but they're selling the meat back to the resturant

D&D miniatures got fewer and fewer of my dollars because I didn't need or want a 27th version of a Dwarf with Axe, a 3rd version of a Harpy, or a Giant riding an Elephant. Get the monsters from the main monster books DONE, and keep retreads to a minimum.

*shrug* they need to mix the two for a few reasons. 1) some of the D&D monsters don't look like the Pathfinder ones 2) there are people who started with pathfinder who don't have your or my 20 skeletons to choose from. 3) things like the harpies - there are 3 harpy scults in &D minis. 2 of them are rare, and the 3rd is ugly. I only have the ugly one (and I have over 2000 minis, 950+ unique sculpts) so just because you or I might not want something, doesn't mean the market doesn't - I could do without any humans.... but I still want Karzoug and Ameiko... not because they're human, but because of their unique personalities. I also want the iconics for PFS people playing pregens

Thank you.

If I may one more request. What would my shipping be for the October subscription shipment? As of right now it is blank with no estimate.

Trying to decide if the subscription with the shipping for the box set is cheaper than buying it at a LGS and then buying the PDF's separately.

Thank you for your time on this!

mine shows @ 13.... but that also includes tome of horrors, so is more than most

as for super rares, where is this coming from? I can't find any sign of this. Didi I miss something?

It looks like that sentence from the blog was taken down.

when the gazetteer came out I asked Erik about globes, and he said maybe when enough campaign settings sold... well the 3.5 campaign setting is sold out- is that enough? I think the chat transcript is still saved somewhere....

James supposedly has a beach ball he used magic marker on to make into a globe (can that be a blog post?) in his office

The Watch Officer will easily double as a Watch Guard, human fighter, or any kind of "mook" warrior.

Erik, this is the second time you've mentioned a manticore when talking about this set (the other was one of the Gencon interviews) should we take that to mean there is one as a large in this set?

and unlike some other games gnomes don't strike me as monster material.

This is prolly due to the... outrage RPGers had with DDM minis never releasing gnome minis

While looking over my pending subscription order I noticed that the next (late October) shipment is scheduled to be shipped UPS ground. All my other shipments are standard postal delivery and my default choice is the same, so why is this being shipped UPS?

Also regarding the pending order from September. I have recieved everything but the PFS Faction shirt and when I checked I see that it is not sscheduled to ship with the October order either. When I click on the link to the T-shirt it no longer shows that the XL size is available for purchase. If you are out of stock on the shirt, just refund me my money and lets move on.

I see that you are a RPG subscriber, as well as some other lines. The beginner box weighs in at almost 4 pounds by itself, after packaging it is most likly over 4 pounds this means that UPS is cheaper to ship this shipment than the us postal service, if they will take it at all. THis has happened before - always when a hardcover comes out (I think the core rulebook, original campaign setting, and the inner sea world guide are other examples)

Thanks for that. I'm wondering then, are the printing presses the kind Benjamin Franklin would have used. The kind where it took a good day to print as many copies as you needed for your subscribers? Or are they more in...

I think one of the blogs had a picture of a Golarion printing press, you might be able to use that to guesstimate this information

As a datum:

Several of our local players attended Gen Con and won boons there. At the next monthly store session, we had a table of a dhampyr, a tiefling, a tengu, and a half-orc ninja. It was Monster Squad, invading the Kingdom of the Impossible.

I strongly suspect that, come this April, that's what most low-level PFS OP parties will look like.

Personally, thats why I play, to interact with and sometimes kill non humans. the fact that the bar has been swayed much further toward kill and away from interact has been my biggest pet peeve about Golarion - I hate adventuring with humans, if I wanted to do that, I'd go hiking a mountain and not sitting at a table. </rant>

Inner Sea World Guide, pg 257 - so the books could be about anything....they could even contain hidden messages in the text or images, think The 9th Gate

One of the sidebars in the guide to Ketapesh is for Farouq. in that sidebar it mentions that 'bookwriters of Ketapesh' worte many versions of Legends of Lucky Farouq If you want a incomplete list of titles mentioned in pathfinder books see The list of works wiki page, it has plays/books/songs/ect

Fitting an army through one would be like fitting a 6 lane freeway through one lane; there'd be a LOT of backup and it'd take forever. Meanwhile, the folks you're trying to invade can react to deal with you.

sounds like a job for two guards with attacks of opportunities and combat reflexes... maybe a few extra to switch out when current guard runs out of AOO

Drejk wrote:

Matthew Winn wrote:

yeah... I was kind of embarrassed. I learned to use a little less slang words in my emails after that. The funny thing is, she thought it was so funny she didn't bother telling me this alternate meaning until I'd done it about ten times or so...

So, she told you what you actually done only after 10th or so time? She must have been very amused.

My poking is apparently very amusing...

;-)

I think it's funny that 10 of the 21 comments are about the image and have nothing to do with the story itself.

Looks great! I'm a huge fan of the unique mini. That's a fine Tengu you have there. Where'd you get the head?

a plague doctor maybe?

A strong offense may be more valuable than a strong defense in many cases, but after a while, the odds will catch up with you and you may find yourself wishing you had a stronger defense.

There are encounters where a strong offense is the best defense. There are also encounters where a strong defense is better. There are even encounters that diplomacy is the best defense. in other words as far as the game is concerned there's no "best" in all situations.

Lady Ophelia, I agree with a lot of your post, but I also feel that in any group of 7, there is one person who ends up quieter than they would be in a smaller group. This limits their fun and the roleplaying that the whole group experiences... As a quiet-minded person, I like playing outgoing characaters, as its not Me and that disconnect is a good amount of extra fun. in a 7 person table, there is almost always someone louder/more controlling of a personality than me in real life, which makes me act as though I am intimidated (usually I'm not, but if I'm spoken over with the same idea, I suddenly have nothing to add to the conversation..)

Is this thread about canvassing opinion, or is it an announcement of a done deal?

I want to make sure to get feedback from the fanbase without undue influence.

This is to get the community's thoughts at a proposed change

Joko PO wrote:

Callarek wrote:

** spoiler omitted **

Could you provide the relevant text from the Scenario? (in spoiler tags) I do not own that series, but would be interested to see how the writers framed the situation you describe.

** spoiler omitted **

Thats actually first steps part 1

Cpt_kirstov wrote:

Email never came in ... I have to update my credit card information anyway in the next few weeks when I activate my new one, so wasn't too concerned, but wanted to make sure it was something you were aware of, in case it started happening to others

Really? I did send the email out (at least it's in my "sent mail" folder). You may want to double-check your junkmail settings to ensure that emails from customer.service@paizo.com are able to make it to your inbox.

No matter, really. Adding a new credit card to your account should take care of it.

Thanks,
cos

Thanks Cos, I found it, I must have double-clicked delete on the webmail.

I'm sending you an email about this... check your inbox! :)

Thanks,
cos

Email never came in ... I have to update my credit card information anyway in the next few weeks when I activate my new one, so wasn't too concerned, but wanted to make sure it was something you were aware of, in case it started happening to others

These scenarios do not need to be played in order, but players who do them out of order should be cautioned not to spoil anything if they've already played Part 4. They could play a different character in every Part if they wanted, or just use the same one. As far as I know NO scenario series must be played in sequence. It just diminishes the flavor experience.

I thought that part 4 was the only one that did explicitly say that players must have played the past 3 (although, the way it's written, it shouldn't be an issue if they play part 4 without part 3)

When going to make a purchase, I noticed that my credit card that I have used fro every single purchase on this site is no longer selectable. poking around, I found it is still in the subscriptions area, just not when I click the select payment method button during checkout. I know it was there last month when I bought Tome of Horrors....

If one small goblin is rare, and all smalls are packed in twos, then there is another small rare out there.

Also, I think it would be safe to assume that the gargoyle, werewolf and minotaur are their normal sizes from the Bestiary.

either that or you won't always get the same smalls packaged together. maybe gnome/rat, maybe gnome/goblin possibly?

Cpt_kirstov wrote:

Updated Pres man's lists

(list)

Also, Human Ranger and Ettin.

Edited to reflect these, as it was still in the 1 hour timeframe, thanks!

Updated Pres man's lists

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Small:

Dire Rat

Gnome Fighter

4 Goblins (one is rare)

Medium:

Succubus

Vampire

Lich

Medusa

Half-Orc Barbarian

Seelah, Iconic Paladin

Human Ranger

Large:

Chimera

Frost Giant

Troll

Ettin

size?:

Gargoyle (confirmed here)

werewolf (confirmed here)

Minotaur (confirmed here)

Huge, Special:

Black Dragon

Just saying don't put it on the site as an item only to add the disclaimer saying "oh by the way, you need to buy an entire case of another item to be able to order this." I get "exclusivity" but this is just poorly presented. If you have to buy something else to get it why is this on the main product page for the Battles line as a separate item.

Because 1)people can buy a case without buying the black dragon

and 2)it has a different code for them to order from the distributor, so they HAVE to put it separately so that it gets ordered correctly.

And the scarcity is completely artificial, I assume on the part of WizKids. I refuse to believe that there is a sudden special black dragon plastic shortage. These types of products are based on the model of make the stuff people really want hard to get unless they buy the cheaper to make stuff they don't want. This is why I won't buy random packs of any product. I would pay a premium of this item if it were offered stand alone but if you don't want to sell it to me you lose that business and some respect as well. Sorry for me it is a matter of principal.

and you will be able to buy it individually, just not here on paizo.com (at least not right away). Each retailer decides how they going to market the black dragons in their stores. Some are grouping them with the case for free, some are allowing them to be bought with the case, similar to what paizo's doing, and others are selling them individually as a separate product. If you look around, you can most likly find someo of the third group around here somewhere

Erik Mona wrote:

They will be standing on the little pads.

Interesting. Is there a technical reason for that, or is it an art choice? I don't particularly mind them, but they seem a little odd. Mainly, I'm just curious.

I believe its a quality choice on Wizkids side: They did this with heroclix too - The plastic they use is a little more ridged than the DDM plastic, so if they have a small area where the actual body mold connects to the base, they put the pads under the feet to strengthen the mini, this prevents it from snapping off at the base upon regular use.

I was wondering how did you report the fame/prestige from those scenario. From what i'm reading, the players are supposed to get their fame/prestige from all previous scenarios played at the end of the third scenario, so do I report 0 prestige for scenario 1 & 2 and then 6 prestige for scenario 3??

I believe you report it as the grand lodge faction for now. They were working on changing the coding for these scenarios. (I could be wrong, but that's how mine from GenCon were reported)

Looks like a nice sculpt. To bad it costs a car payment to get one. No thanks. This is the kind of thing that makes me wonder if I want to continue to support Paizo. Status of my subscriptions being reconsidered.

This is a licensed product put out by wizkids.... not Paizo. Besides, I'm sure you will be able to get it for under $70 in the secondary market. The only way anyone can get it first hand is from preordering a case, that includes paizo.

My wish list for the next Heroes set:

Lem/Harsk/Seoni/Whatever

I think the rest of them are going to be in the random sets (James or Erik says something about 3 more in the next two sets)

Bbeg

Mark perhaps you could just dorp he idea of a poor NPC's, IMO NPC's should have the same WBL or greater. My reasoing is this how can a super villian be a super villian or BBG if he is whimpier than

the PC's. This would also solve the probelm of haveing cool things appear on chronicle sheets.

IF GM's use BBG's and the 2ds to whip up on the players then it would be time for the Venture captains to step in and talk to the Killer GM
We have a Killer GM in my area [Painlord] You just have to be careful when you play on his table and be on your toes and you will survive unless you run into bad old plants.

What's on all the the npcs/4=the wealth you get. They have to keep it close to the wealth by level table, so they can't deviate too much. Unless you want less NPCs and more creatures to fight, so that the entire wealth by level for the scenario is on the BBEG but then people complain he's too hard (dalsine affair)