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I like the new classes with additional choices and customization. I also see class complication usually being in the build, and complication sort of "fades away" as play begins.

Points for the Barbarian's rage powers in playtest so far with my group has not been to any detrement. Personally, yes, I would prefer to avoid "power point"-based class mechanics and find a way to allow the Barbarian to choose other abilities to trigger with a rage besides using points...but at the moment it's pretty slick and confined to that one class, so I'll live.

-DM Jeff

Just throwing in my 2 cents that my group so far liked the rules as presented for Favored Class in the BETA and would like to see it in the final as well.

-DM Jeff

I went hunting through the BETA for a list of languages to verify that the four elemental languages got merged... but I can't seem to find it. Does this table of languages still exist?

The list they might be working off of is on page 220-221 of the Golarion campaign setting hardcover book. Also on page 16 of the Gazeteer. I don't recall seeing the list in the BETA anywhere.

-DM Jeff

Knowing it will be a wait, I still can't argue that this will help them focus on the book one stage at a time, so that's cool.

-DM Jeff

Just curious, today's the day! Do orders placed today still count as current or still waiting? The item still shows as a preorder.

-DM Jeff

Guys that are total jack-holes have the easiest time attracting women. Yeah, I don't get it either.

Really interesting phenomenon, isn't it. The world may never know.

-DM Jeff

I totally agree with you. I'm blaming it all on Bill Slavicsek too.

None of you even suspect someone at Hasbro told him to jump and he jumped?

-DM Jeff

Edit: Yeah, I blame him too, by the way.

Totally understood (and well put). Any snafus for the beta playtest are still forgiven as it evolves and get polished up over the next 8 months!

-DM Jeff

Then this is a placeholder until we get to the magic chapter. On page 360 at the top it says:

"A staff has 50 charges when created."

And then a couple paragraphs down...

"Staves hold a maximum of 10 charges."

-DM Jeff

We just started CotCT last week and will be using Beta now that its out. I'm not converting any other parts of the module to Beta really, save for XP and skills. James said that would work out just fine, and I trust the man's judgment. :)

That's the boat I'm about to sail on as well. I may do minor work to help out a classed NPC gain a couple PF class abilities but otherwise use it as-written.

-DM Jeff

Not sure if this goes here either, but the "polymorph problems" sidebar appears twice verbatim, on page 160 and 171.

-DM Jeff

Free at last, free at last, thank gawds allmighty we're free at last.

THANK YOU!

-DM Jeff

To add to DM Jeff's comment, I'm fairly certain MM2 isn't generally OGL.

Correct, just the two Necro monsters. The rest is closed.

If someone's taking legal advise from an internet forum from someone who professes to not be a lawyer*, then they've got bigger issues.

Stranger things have happened. Isn't that how FF got into trouble in the first place? ;-)

-DM Jeff

I thought MM2 had an OGL in the back. Atleast it should if they had some Necro monsters in there. The rest of the monsters aren't open content, but the book should still have an OGL, yes?

That's correct, the OGL in the back is for the 2 Necro monsters only. I didn't want to see another bizarre accident like what happened to Fast-Forward!

-DM Jeff

We got our notice last night the Beta's we ordered were on their way. This is silly, my wife and I weren't even this jittery and excited for 3e in 2000!

-DM Jeff

FOR THOSE GETTING THE BOOK AT GEN CON: Please be sure to wear your PAIZO shirts and explain PRPG to everyone you meet. Tell them, "3.5 Never Dies." Tell them, wotc isn't the only game in town (literally).

I do my part. I save all my Paizo catalogs they send with my orders and include one in all the EBAY items I sell!

-DM Jeff

I plan to introduce them in the first adventure. There are rummors of a special bodyguard for the Queen that the king had agreed to set up and is being trained at a location outside Korvosa.

Close to what I'm planning. When they pay a little visit to the Queen I'm going to have a whole field of them training off to the side of the castle grounds for a good visual.

-DM Jeff

Hi all !

Hi Kate, welcome to the Paizo community!

The group I play with is both intelligent and well balanced {and by this I mean people who are successful adults who have many differing passions and interests outside of the hobby but come together for the love of the game and each other} and am quite lucky to be part of their circle.

That's the best type of group to have, hold it dear!

While I have unrequited love for our campaign world I have just recently gotten the urge to dm for the first time and run my group through a separate campaign.

You've just taken your first step into a larger world. Congrats!

I have access to a myriad of supplements ranging from 1st ed D&D to Pendragon to MERP all ready for me to dissect and draw upon for inspiration and run whole epic story arcs, but I need help in placing them and converting them to become part of Golarion.

Let us know a sampling of your collection specifics and I'm sure everyone will have ideas on placement or conversion. If you haven't checked out Darkmoon vale and the couple D0 and D1 modules they are a great start for the world.

-DM Jeff

Of all the books in 3.5, only 2 are OGL: Unearthed Arcana and MM2.

Ulp! Quick aside, MM2 is not OGL. It reprints two Necromancer Games monsters and they are open but the rest of the book (WotC's monsters) is not. FYI!

And, ultimate_illusionist, WELCOME to Paizo's boards!

-DM Jeff

d4

1) Pixie playing
2) Norker snorkling
3) Fail Snail flaying
4) Orc (with pie) eating

-DM Jeff

*wanting to say something ... wanting to say something ... not allowed to say anything ... not saying anything*

Good...good...now is a time for quiet...soon, soon.

-DM Jeff

Wow, big thread. Has anyone commented about how there are essentially d20 humanoid minion rules in Mongoose's "Ultimate NPC's" book? Of course, there is also a chance I'm the only one who owns this book...

-DM Jeff

It's pretty good. I still like Jack Nicolson's Joker better. And, why does Bale, as soon as he dons the mask, try to do a "Dirty Harry with throat cancer" impression?

-DM Jeff

I'm sticking with D&D 3.5, and I wanted to thank the folks at Wizards for maintaining the tremendous archive section of their website.

Indeed. I am in the boat you are, and asked on EN World months back if they would be taking it down and Scott Rouse said no way. So we should have it accessable for quite a while.

-DM Jeff

It's because you ordered a copy separately after you created your subscription, and we fulfilled the non-subscription one. I just connected that one up to your subscription, though, and gave you the PDF.

Goofy me, and awesome you. THANK YOU Vic!

-DM Jeff

Me too! And thanks for the info. That's OK, I'm a patient man, to a point. ;-)

-DM Jeff

11 Pages of posts?! I can't sift through all that. Short question: since the HC isn't part of any subscription, but I got it through Paizo anyway, do I get a PDF?

I'm just asking because all my other items show up as PDF downloads once I get notice that the hardcopies shipped, and this one didn't do dat.

-DM Jeff

If there really are only about 750 game stores lift alive, maybe a simple small flyer to all reminding them of who Paizo is and what they are doing is in order.

Or an Email.

-DM Jeff

Cosmo does an amazing job in customer support. The few issues I have had were resolved almost immediately.

And while I'll agree with everything said here so far, I'd like to also tip my hat to Cosmo and the fine work he does.

-DM Jeff

If you don't mind spending a little, the d20 books "Empire" and "Guilds" from AEG deal a lot with this sort of gaming.

-DM Jeff

Some of these are truly fantastic ideas. Methinks the production schedule for flip-mats might have to move to one a month. :-)

-DM Jeff

Clark has always made it very clear that he will support the latest version of D&D, which in his mind is 4th ed.

And, in my mind Pathfinder is the "latest version". I will stick by my original ideals. I was sad to let my Necromancer purchases wane in the event they went with a game I don't intend to play. But I will most certainly be the first to ante up and support them again when I see the first Necromancer-Pathfinder product.

My very best wishes to Clark in keeping Necro alive and supporting what, in my opinion anyway, IS the new version of D&D.

-DM Jeff

Complete Dungeon Master

Races of Giants

Feat Compendium

Negative Arcana (book for playing D&D with no spellcasting classes)

Sorry no funny entries! :-)

-DM Jeff

Edit: Cool, new page.

76 Pages, by Nicolas Logue

Artwork is color & B&W shaded and art and layout remind me a bit of a Ravenloft feel, but unique. The font isn't large, and the pages are packed with info.

Statblocks are Paizo style through and through. They are called out in shaded columns on the pages where they are needed, this organization is suberb.

Maps are also color and easy to read. And, wow, the big one on page 28 has an awesome feel to it!

There's a few new monstersand player handouts.

Someone was a patron for me but never read it, is sponsoring it for me as a birthday present. I can't figure out how to thank him, the more I see of this the more impressed I am. Now to give it a good, solid read.

Certainly if Mr. Baur and company continue this project I'll be jumping on board for the next one.

-DM Jeff

Fantastic job, well done! I will surely be using these in my upcoming game, thank you!

-DM Jeff

I think Paizo is going to need some downloadable easy-to-play 1st level characters for their Pathfinder Society games for when new players arrive at a session without a character sheet or necessarily any idea how to play.

SURE! Show off the new rules a little bit, it doesn't seem as sexy until you see it all in a new re-imaged stat block. Another vote for this good idea.

-DM Jeff

Paizo easily got my votes, and I did nods to Green Ronin and Goodman as well as City of Brass from Necromancer.

-DM Jeff

Wow, such a refreshing post I've forgotten to have my cup of coffee this morning. Well said, all!

-DM Jeff

WotC's new hobby is trying to figure out what makes money for other people, like Facebook and World of Warcraft, then produce pitiful knockoffs like Gleemax and 4e, hoping people are really as stupid as they think and will just give them money.

Better watch out, I hear Batman just made some money, so in the next D&D movie Drizz't will be masked fighting an orc king with makeup splashed all over his face.

Oh no, I hear Oprah Winfrey is pretty rich. Next we'll be seeing a new talk show where gamers deal with their frustrations with each other on a TV program hosted by a 250-pound Mialee.

-DM Jeff

Even as WotC had my childhood game by the throat and was choking the life out of it, the Paizo golem swooped in with cape flying and saved the day, my game, and my group's sanity.

Cheers to them I say!

-DM Jeff

Another vote for this as well, I've been pondering it for a while, glad someone bought it up.

-DM Jeff

Here's my plan. Yes, I do keep up with it.

I used to read Dragon and Dungeon magazines each month before the next issues came out, so reading the monthly Pathfinder Adventure path is easy. It's done a little bit at a time, sometimes daily, till the next one hits.

I make the extra time for the "Guides to this and that".

That said, I expect to take vacation time in August to do nothing but read for 2 weeks straight! ;-)

-DM Jeff

Gleemax was not cool to begin with and was crashing left and right even last year at GenCon when they tried flooding it with new members. It was supposed to replace facebook or myspace for gamers, and tripped flat on it's brain.

So, not surprised, no.

-DM Jeff

Finally collected my thoughts. Yes, it's a mess and got a lot of folks angry, me included...at first.

But now it's a really good feeling. After my current campaign I feel more free knowing I'll not have official product muck up my designs or stray drastically from my vision. I never truly let that interfere before, but now the future is truly in my and my player's hands because we'll have nothing to do with this "new Realms". I've got all the support my material from when it was still cool.

Second, that saves my money to spend on Paizo. woot

-DM Jeff

A cosmology should be evocative, mysterious, and filled with wonder and terror at the same time, and I hope to capture that sort of feel in what I come up with.

Consider trust gained. Really looking forward to this.

-DM Jeff

Well, it hasn't been in the house for more than a day and already the cat took up residence...

LINK

-DM Jeff

umm.. there's an item like this in the RPG superstars pages... i don't know how to make the links in the posts, but it's called a beacon of hope.

Got it!

Beacon of Hope
This delicate amulet is crafted in the form of a beacon lantern. Through a simple divine ritual the amulet is attuned to the bearer’s deity so that when the bearer falls unconscious or is dying, friendly creatures within 600’ can sense their location without error.
Faint Divination; CL 5th; Craft Wondrous Item, Clairaudience/Clairvoyance; Price 3,000 gp

I think this is what I must have been thinking of, thanks for the clue!

-DM Jeff

Frinds, I'm having a hard time remembering an item I swore I saw in my WotC 3.5 books.

Basically, my player wants an item that, when activated by another, will let her know he's in danger so she can go to him.

My mind is spinning, with the deathwatch spell always on, or a "braclet of friendship" I thought I saw somewhere, but I am drawing a blank. Any ideas?

-DM Jeff

Wow. 10 feet worth of movement to open a door and 5 feet worth to close it. What an elegantly simply idea. This could really help cinematic play. I think I might playtest this during my big Beta CotCT campaign next month. Good idea!

-DM Jeff

DM Jeff, Herolab doesn't randomly generate NPCs, but with their 3.5 stuff it allows for generating of NPCs(even complicated ones of different types or templates) very quickly. It really is a great program and I strongly recommend it.

Thanks Tarlane, I will have to check this out further then, good to know!

-DM Jeff