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please reprint this one with you new reprints!!! PLEASE

I have plenty to say, but there are just too many people with their own agenda, and closed minds that cannot even hear an opposing point of view, so it's pointless.

saw this at my local game shop today. looked really good in person.

Congratulations!! Nice job.

no news on the pathfinder gamespace?

Why would the Wizrd ban all wood? No one would be able to make bows, shields or arrows, much less fire to cook and keep people warm. The fiitter needs to mind his own business and just get to work tailoring clothes.

I've had a few issues over the years (damaged books, wrong book, print or binding errors). Paizo Customer Service ALWAYS fixed the problem with 100% satisfaction. Considering the number of products and orders, the percentage of errors is extremely small.

Just finished the book and really enjoyed it. Same goes for Plague of Shadows. Looking forward to more.

I want to start a Pathfinder/Golarion campaign soon. Most of the players are not at all familiar with Golarion. I would like to run a series of short one-shot atventures (preferably single session) that show factions, history, nations, gods, setting flavor.

One reason is that we will probably use 13th age mechanics, and I'd like the players to get a chance to run a few different character classes to get a feel for what they want their PC to be.
Second is I want them to get an idea of what the setting is all about.

Also, I'm trying to figure out IF i'm going to use the Icon rules at all, and if so, what should golarions 13 Icons be (actually doesn't HAVE to be 13). Any suggestions?

I was thinking of reinacting some kind of Galt revolutionary session involving the guillotines. Maybe some kind of brief Osirion pyramid crawl. What other historic events would lend themselves to one-shots?

(forgive my writing style, just typing off the top of my head.)

on ebay right now.

Can we have a combined version in the pdf just like the one in the sample pic?

I have one for sale. It will go to the highest offer.

Group in Lakewood CA looking for 1-3 more players. Thomasbrumm2000@yahoo.com

We have a group of 4 (sometimes 5) that play at my house in Lakewood CA. We are looking for 2-3 players for various games.

We are currently playing 4th Edition Gardmore Abby game.
We are looking to try out 13th Age RPG.
I am big on Pathfinder, the rest of the group is just okay with it.
We have tried some Marvel RPG, and FFG Star Wars.
We occassionally do board games like Lords of Waterdeep, Castle Ravenloft, etc.

I like and own some X-Wing miniatures and would like to get into more.

We are all mid/late 30's or older. We rarely drink, no smokers in the group right now, but we could accommodate that.

Currently, we are playing on Wednesday evenings 6pm-1030pm

Send me a PM if interested.

I'd be down for such a compilation or two.

I was hoping that someone could tell me in what order the stories of Varian Jeggare and Radovan occour in.

I have read "Prince of Wolves" and am about 1/2 way thru "Master of Devils"

I know "Husks" takes place immediately before "Master of Devils", but where do the other stories fit in??

Looks great!

Great use of the Flip Mat format!! Looking VERY forward to this one.

"There are still months to go until May, I'd suggest changing this to a map pack format or scrapping this and going with something else. Seeing everything laid out at once ruins the 1 type of dungeon it's designed for, and it's not usable with anything else."

I agree, but it's probably too late.

Flip Mat "Battlefield" looks awesome, and is EXACTLY where this line of products should go.

The side with the circular chambers is ok, but a bit too specific/situational.

The other side with all the colorful rooms would have made a great "Map Pack" product, where you could pick and choose and use them sparingly. All together on one big labyrinth.. not for me.

That said, I'm not a fan of the big, multi-room labyrinth in the flip mat line. I think the flip mats work best for BIG locations. Map packs work good for smaller locations. I have on occasion cut and pasted single rooms from the various Dungeon flip mats and printed them up as single rooms, to great success, but I'm kind of defeating some of the purpose of the flipmat (in my opinion.)

Wow, those look awful. sorry.

All good advice.

The knowledge check to identify monsters and their abilities is annoying as well. 1st & 2nd level characters identifying Quasits and Sinspawn on sight pushes belief a little, but I try not to take away things they should get as written.

Another Mage, Thanks for the advise. I DO try to anticipate their "metagaming" tendencies, but it adds another layer of difficulty to an already tough system to run. Having to add an extra two layers of anti-metagame to everything is going to get tiresome quick.

I may want to watch some YouTube videos of game play to see how the transition from non-combat to combat flows with other groups.

So after a good 2 year break from GMing (with the exception of a couple one-shot adventures), I've started running Rise of The Runelords. A few problems have cropped up, and I am wondering how to handle these situations.

First off, Doors.
The party has no rogue, but even if they did, I'm not sure we wouldn't have the same problem. A door stands between the party of adventurers and the next location they intend to go to. Here is how the dialog between GM and Players might go:
GM: "Ok, you are in front of the tower, about 20' from the front door."
Player: "Is the door locked?"
GM: "How are you going to determine that?"
Player: "Well, does it have a lock on it?"
GM: "You are all about 20' away from the front door, are all of you going to go right up to the door, or just one of you, to examine the door".
Players: "we draw our weapons and get ready for a fight, the Oracle goes up to the front door"
GM: "it's a sturdy wooden door, there is a keyhole below the knob."
Oracle Player: "Is it locked?"
GM: "How are you going to determine that?"
Oracle Player: "I search for traps" (rolls D20) "a 19 perception!!"
GM: "hang on, you don't get to roll that. Tell me you are searching for traps, and your Perception modifier, I'll roll and tell you if you found anything."
Players: (roll eyes) fine, I search, +5 perception.
GM: (rolls) "you don't notice any traps."
Oracle: "Is the door locked?"
GM: "I don't want to start assuming your actions, you step up and turn the door knob?"
Players: "For crying out loud!!! The heck with it, I scream a battle cry and kick the door down!!! Do we have to play out every detail!?!?!"
GM: "What do you want me to do, just cut scene narrate everything until initiative is rolled? Let's do it your way, you all are standing in front of the tower, Oracle runs up to the door and grabs the door knob. Electricity courses thru him from the door knob, and a pit trap opens below his feet. Then, you're all going to say "wait, we would have done things differently, we wouldn't just run up to the door like that"

So, if I prompt them for checks and ask for details, they start metagaming taking combat formation and triple searching everything.

Next, combat positioning and initiative.
We use miniatures and always some sort of drawn out combat grid. In one example, the PC's finish off a monster in a cavern. PC miniatures are spread out from whatever their last position in combat was before the monster died. One PC picks up his miniature and moves it to one of the walls that has something interesting carved into it. Another is drinking a healing potion, the rest are doing nothing. A bad guy, who heard the battle, sneaks to one of the cave entrances next to a big stalagmite and points his bow at two of the PCs who are near each other. Bad guys position near the Stalagmite is perfect, has two lightly armored PC's in line of site, one ranged PC is totally blocked by the Stalagmite and one fighter type is farthest away with a stalagmite of his own blocking line of site and providing an obstacle from charging. The bad guy announces "Drop your weapons!!!"
But now everyone grabs their miniatures, "oh that's not where I would be, I'd be over here somewhere" "Oh yeah, I would have been closer, like here." Now, they are in perfect tactical position, and the bad guy would be foolish to ambush them in this circumstance. I say "wait, you didn't say that you were moving anywhere, where your miniature is is where you are." Players respond: "You should have asked us where we are at before you started the encounter." After some resistance from me, they get frustrated and say "fine! that's where I am! I guess I had packed up all my weapons in my backpack too! Maybe I should be prone at the guys feet! Whatever!"

So, I try to launch a surprise encounter and NOW everyone wants to be specific about their position NOW that they KNOW something is going to happen. I tried to explain to them that my asking for their exact positions would be an obvious tip off that it was important and something was going to happen. They would then "metagame" and try to take advantage.

Other than having some fairly troublesome players to deal with, what else can I do to not have to go thru this every time?

(And sorry for my sub par writing skills... no my strong suit.)

My print book is messed up. pages are out of order. Details to come.

I'll ad an extra $5 to my pledge. Not much I know but if everyone does at least that it could get us dangerously close.

The D20 Everquest RPG Players Handbook had a great mechanic for weapon speed. Lighter, quicker weapons gave you access to your iterative attacks earlier (+4/+1 for example), slower weapons would get iterative attacks later (+6/+1 for example). ...where under normal rules, you would get that second attack at +5 BAB. (+5/+1)

Trying to figure out how to talk my group into using this rule without making it sound like even more math to keep track of.

"That's it for this week! Next week we'll take a look at some more key NPCs from the Shattered Star Adventure Path!

Also next week, we'll reveal additional details about a special convention-season promotional repaint goblin figure that we'll be distributing throughout 2013! Backers of the Pathfinder Online Kickstarter Campaign at the Goblin Squad level and above will get a certificate to receive this figure FREE at Gen Con. So come on back and check it out, this is definitely a figure you will not want to miss!

See you in seven days!"

Lame.

looks good, will check it out asap

Looking at the PDF version (and even on these mini preview images, the Paizo Flip-Map Thornkeep logo is printed on the upper left corner. It a few cases, that logo is in the middle of a room/encounter area. That is crazy wrong.

I am currently running Pathfinder (Rise of the Runelords) in Lakewood, CA.
We are looking for 1 or 2 players to round out our group, we have 4 players and a GM.

We are all in our 30's-40's. And we are always interested in trying new systems (talk of 13th Age and Savage Worlds recently.)

I may be interested in playing AND running Pathfinder Society in the near future.

Thomas

Let me start by saying that it is hard to come across in the proper tone in a typed post. I am sure that things are very busy at Paizo, and that there are many things that go on behind the scenes that most of us Pathfinder fans will never even know about.
That said, the lack of promised Shattered Star previews is frustrating. At one point I was going to go back and document a timeline of all the missed previews over the course of the Pathfinder Battles Miniatures lifetime (and there are many), but it would have come off sounding to negative and petty.
We understand that things come up, and you missed posting on Friday. Is Friday the only day things can be posted? How about catching up on the next available day? If Erik is too busy, how about passing the job off to someone else. If you only post pictures with no text whatsoever, that would be better than nothing.
So please do not take this post in bad spirit. It comes from a big Pathfinder fan who is excited about a fine product, and has logged in faithfully every week to see the announced weekly previews, only to be let down week after week.

working now

any word on this?

It shows in my downloads but says it is not yet available.

I came across an extra one. message me if you're interested.

Aww, so no Reign of Winter minis? I could already picture the Huge or Gargantuan "Baba Yaga's Dancing Hut" mini and the accompanying Map Pack depicting the interiors.

thanks, that would be awesome!

I bought a second copy of this map pack, and also the pdf. I was considering converting the pdf to Jpeg and having it printed as a poster (mostly to eliminate the cut lines and have it in one piece).
I noticed, however, that the file with the "combined map" looks to be in much lower resolution than the individual pieces. Is this the case or are my eyes playing tricks on me? And if it is the case, why?

It's "next week"! Just saying.

Hellrift

Hell Rift

Hell's Crusade

Player Companion Ideas:

Gunslingers of Golarion
Oracles of Golarion
Witches of Golarion
Cavaliers of Golarion
Summoners of Golarion
Monks of Golarion
Alchemists of Golarion

I want new feats, gear, archtypes, spells, etc. Also nice write ups on how these classes fit into Golarion and it's varios nations.

Tomb Raiders of Osirion
...Some osirion themed archtypes, feats, spells, organizations, gear, etc.
(updated and more player-centric than the previous Osirion book).

Bards of Golarion ("Songs of the Inner Sea"?)
Rangers of Golarion

In the end though no one is forcing anyone to buy books. I see threads here and elsewhere like it's a crime for this company and other rpg companies to keep making books and a profit. It's what they as a rpg company are supposed to do. Unless your have a gun pointed to your head one does not have to purchase a new book. Tommorow I'm going to buy the Advanced Races guide, buff deck and giantes revisted. I woud love to get the Lost kingdoms book and Rise of the Runelords anniversary edition too except it's beyond my budget. I'm not going to blame Paizo because they are releasing new books. it's time fo consumers to stop find excuses on their poor spending habits and blame themselves.

Paizo needs to make a profit. To do requires releasing new product. If they do not they can't pay the bills or their employees. It's starting to get ridiculous in our hobby. The only fanbase that criticizes companies for doing what they are supposed to be doing. Releasing new product because imo their is a demand for more product from the majority of the fanabse. Our would your prefer that Paizo go under instead. I'm not saying don't give any feedback. I'm all saying complain for a proper reason. Not for Paizo and by extensions the devs fo doing their jobs correctly.

Re-read my posts. I'm not blaming or complaining. Just stating that the source material is coming out at an accelerated pace. A pace that to me and apparently some of the above posters is a little too fast. Just trying to have a friendly discussion and state some opinions.

Your heavy handed post is a bit over the top. Reel it in a little.

When I was much younger I was a movie theatre projectionist. I read tons of stuff then, those were D&D 2nd edition days though. Quality was low.

"I take it you're not a librarian, then? ;) "

Bartender actually. They wont let me read on the job.

"s long as they don't stop putting out great rulebooks and fluffbooks, I will be happy. I do avoid even becoming interested in the novels and other things, simply because what little I have can barely support the stuff I get now."

I hear you. I was skeptical about the novels, but I loved the fiction in the AP books. I've now read 3 of the novels and loved them, just starting on a fourth one. Seems like I have 5 or so more in my stack that I haven't gotten to. Takes me about two weeks minimum to finish one in my spare time.

I fortunately don't have a mortgage or car payment or kids to feed, so I have a bit of disposable income. That said my monthly subscriptions average over $100, sometimes closer to $130.