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The easy solution for you is to simply not buy the product, then.

--Erik

The product in itself is an interesting product and it was something I was very interested in getting but the decision on how to distribute it is what has upset me, and the only reason I am so upset is it is a product I was looking forward to. By the way these posts are example on why I love this company so much and this will not change my opinion on what a great company Paizo is, your quick response to people concerns even if you can't help them is a great thing, keep it up!

We felt the lower price-point on the 11-card packs meant that more people could pick up the packs without having to drop $10, so they could try it out, and see if they liked them.

You don't need all the cards to use the Item Packs. In fact, it is so utilitarian that you can pick up one pack, or twenty packs, and get use out of it. In the Hero's Hoard set, there are over 15 different potion cards alone (each with their own unique illustration). We created multiple different versions of items that are commonly found (potions, swords, scrolls, etc.) and have single instances of items that are rarely found (like the Spiked Chain). Buying multiple packs gives you more of the commonly found items, which seemed the best way to distribute the cards. You'll never have cards you don't need, because we're not telling you it's a +1 Wooden Shield. It can be any kind of wooden shield. If you give...

Yes but Say I wanted every card, I would have to spend alot of money to get every card and that is where my problem is. Why can you not offer a full set free of the foil cards like Basebeall cards for example, they sell random card packs and most now have special incerts in them but you also have the option to buy the whole set with out the inserts at a resonable price as long as you get them before collectors push up the price. Ofcourse baseball cards or a more of an investment thing than this is so I would expect a resonable price to be a lot lower for these then they are for baseball cards.

We've just announced a significant change to the format of the upcoming GameMastery Item Pack 2.

We initially solicited the product as a fixed 54-card deck; it will now be sold as 11-card boster packs and 12-pack booster displays. This format will allow gamers to easily acquire multiple copies of common items while also providing interesting rare items in a more limited ratio.

Check out the revised product listing for more details.

(Item Pack 1 has not changed format.)

Let me explain why I am not happy about this, by using some math.

Let’s start with Item pack 1: 54 cards for 9.95 and you get all the cards, and if I want more of them I can buy it again and still get all the cards.

Now Item Pack 2: you decided to go for random with equally common cards of 110 cards 1 pack of 10 cards cost 3.49. If I wanted the whole set to be safe I would have to order 20 packs and if I am lucky I will get all 110 cards with a bunch of extra I will not need for a total of 69.80. That is a lot of money compared to the first pack (108 cards, 2 sets for 19.90)for a product that frankly is not worth that amount, Basically a Picture on a card with no rules on them what so ever, but ooh I will have 20 foil cards.

This is the same reason I hate WotC Minis, They are great minis but cost way to much for the product.

Paizo I love your products, especially Dungeon & Dragon and stuff related to them but your gamemaster series I am not a fan of, though the map series may have merit

Of course that is just my opinion and I am sure others will disagree and they are free to.

I never had any books stolen..luckily (Plenty of dice though) But a friend of mine once had a bunch of hulligans torch his car that was parked in his driveway detroying all his RPG books that he left in there. He was not happy.. Less happy about the books then the car..

950 lbs of RPG books!!! Wow!

I have about 100-150 more books now..Give or take a few.. Luckily I am allowed 10000 lbs to my next base.

That being said, yes, good thing your books were recovered. Also remings me of the "You know you're a gamer when..."

"...Losing your dice bag would be a serious financial blow."

and

"...you own your own weight in rulebooks."

A little bit off subject, but you mentioned your weight in books.. I am in the military and when you go to different bases you are allowed a certain amount of weight depending on your rank, so Here I am thinking the 500 lbs was more then enough to deliver all my stuff over seas and have no problem... well when my stuff finally got to me I ended up being over weight on stuff... the big thing was the 950 pounds worth of RPG books that I brought with me. oops... Now I have to pay them for all the extra weight.. DOH!

I Bang my head against the table until my head is bleeding and the blood is flowing over my eyes so I am in a blood haze to prepare the death about to rain upon the enemy.

Ummm They are not in good terms with the Stormblades... they got into a fist fight with them and wiped them up... My adventure group got arested and flogged in public... They are still sore about that and are always looking for ways to get back at the stormblades *But the ranger had a crush on Cora*

Maybe they had friends, as you said the Striders, Jenya, others who can try something.

Maybe the two paralysed are not killed outright but given as amusement for other creatures, sold as slaves, kept as hostages.

I was thinking of Using the Striders in conjuction with another PC (one of the players missed this game). What is odd about this battle was that all saving throw fails was the result of 1s.

So it took all of 4 rounds for the Beholder to wipe out My group.

Round 1- Ranger Dead from finger of death
Round 2- Rogue Asleep from Sleep ray, Wizard Paralyzed from spit.
Round 3- Bard Paralyzed from Spit
Round 4- Barbarian Distergrated (Rolled a 1 on save, he needed a 2)

So what did the rest of the you guys do after a full party wipe?

I was thinking of sending in the Striders on a rescue mission for the ones that Survived but were taken down.

-Dragnmoon

I don't know if this has been mentioned yet, I didn't see it in any of the threads, and I wanted to point it out for those DM's who haven't gotten this far in the AP yet.

The Cathedral of Wee Jas has an unhallow effect with an invisiblity purge tied into it that affects the entire cathedral. It says so in the last bulleted list of effects just before the details of the doors and walls- "Invisibility purge throughout the entire Cathedral." It also mentions the unhallow effect in the aura section of the room with Ike.

Yet Ike Iverson's tactics have him using a scroll of invisibility on himself. Why?? I just eliminated that part of his tactics which had him finish his buffing session a round early.

It is Mentioned in the description in the HC of SCAP that the purge Invisibility effect does not effect Followers of We Jas (Which was nice for one PC in my group who is a cleric (We Jas)/Wizard/Necro).

Hi I'm getting ready to run a 2nd edition D&D game and would like some help.

Frist I have ran 2nd edition games for a long time. They have just all been off the top of my head as we play, but would like to run a premade game.
Anybody have a good sugestion as a good 2nd edition modual to run?
Thanks all

There are a Ton of them. You should look in Pazios Online Shop they sell 2nd edition books in PDF format. Some good game were. The Vecna Adventures (Vecna Lives!, Vecna Reborn, and DIE Vecna, DIE), also Return to the Tomb of Horros, Return to Whit Plume Mountain, and the Rod of seven Parts. There are many other adventures tha are good to but those were some of my favorites.

-Dragnmoon

Would anybody like to post their experiences with the chapter on Zenith Trajectory? Good, bad, neutral?

If you skipped it, let me know why!

I ran this adventure but the group was ill prepared for it. We lost 3 of the 5 PCs. And they skipped much of the adventure because of the deaths. Luckily they were still able to get Zenith out, but they never ran into the mummy or the dragon. We lost one to the Demon(devil?) and another to the assassin and the last to the invisible stalker.

christian mazel wrote:

There:

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which sub-board?

Here is a Link For Ya

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I would probably write up and give the character a new background for that time. A half-remembered feral time in which he is taken over by his new form. Only clips and memories of the times after he woke up, covered in blood and mud, not knowing what he may of done. His brain blocks out even much of that to protect itself from the horrors that took place. Play it up as a mysterious past he needs to investigate.

Sean Mahoney

That is how I orginally was planning on doing it, but I have a few fears.

1. He will enjoy it too much and embrace being evil and disrupt the game (He has done that in the past)
2. He won't like that I screwed with his PC while he was gone.

This is how I orginally was going to play it out. Do the thing you were talking about then Have the law finally catch up to him with help from one of the many enimies the group has made (Allybashers, Stromblades, Ebon Traid, Stormblades noble Parents, Cagewrights, etc.). Now I was thinking that the law may not be sure who is the Lycanthrope in the group, especially since it is a well known rumor that one of the group was one( Recently one of the group also became Lycanthrope, werebabbon and they cured him in a very public place, Church of St. Cuthbert)And they arrest the whole group until the discover who is the lycanthrope. sooner or later the do dicover who it is and he is brought forth for justice. Now this is where it can go a few ways and here was another problem i had. The group does have a way of curing him since they found a way in the pass, but would curing him make in difference in the eye of the court? To me this is what i saw the most logical way this would go specially with all the enimies the group has had. This is why I did not like it, because all this would have happened because he was not there to get the PC cured before this all started. Everyone else in the group was new to the adventure group and did not even know his PC well (all new players) in fact have not gone on any adventures with him, so they would not have kept a close eye on him to stop it from getting that far. And like I said above even if i decided not to go that route and have the law not know about him, I would be afraid that he would love that he is playing an evil PC and disrupt the group like he has doen in the pass.

I already Have in the Story that His brother was Murdered. And I think that some of you are right that just telling him all of a sudden that he has been a wererat the last 4 months is not fair. What I am thinking of doing is just forget that he got Lycanthropy (know one knew anyway) and have that his brother was murdered by another means, maybe by some enemies of the group, especially since his brother was the leader and the group is named after him. I think that is my best course of action. Thanks all for your advice.

once he killed regardless in his confused state as a wererat,he'll remain evil until he can atone for his actions.

What I was thinking was to have him gradually return to his old self as he comes to term with what he has done. My major problem is that he has probably killed others with out even knowing and he needs to pay for that. He has even probably made eneimies over the months without even knowing. This is my problem I hate doing this stuff while the player was not here, but time did go on ingame while he was gone. He loved the character and because he went on the buisness trip it has almost come unplayable. I am trying to think of way to salavage it in a way that makes sense.

I have a slight problem. I had a player leave on a Business trip for a month and a 1/2 so he missed 4 months in game time, this leads to my problem. In His last adventure 'Drakthars Way' He contracted Lycanthropy from a wererat. Now we are about to start 'Deamonskar legacy' and it is his first game back and he does not know he is a wererat. Now I need to account for his character for 4 months. Most likely he is now Lawful Evil in an all good group, and I have not decided if he even knows he is a wererat yet (Low will save). Also in this adventure if there is an evil person in the group an important event does not happen because of that (The angel will not talk to them).
Another piece of Info is that another player left the game in game he played this characters brother, on his first changing he killed his brother but does not even know that neither does the rest of the group. What I have been doing is for the last 4 months he has been investigating his brothers murder with no luck. As this investigation he has been becoming more and more depraved, doing things he would not normally do before the disease.
My questions to all the DMs out there is that now the player is back I would like advice on how to handle the situation. Also if the disease is cured will he get his old Alignment back?

They just put it up either yesterday evening or very early this morning. I would offer to email it to you, but even the zip file is about 10 megs and my email can't send anything that big.

It can wait until I go home in a few minutes.

Mine was a Vampire: Dark Ages game me and a friend Storytelled for 5 years with a group of friends that was together for 10 years. Sadly I joined the Air Force before the game was finished and afterwards the group that was together for 10 years split up. My friends still have not forgiven me :-p, and they keep asking when I am quitting. Man, where they upset when I reenlisted. Well they are going to have to wait until 2010.

You can also check out the Wizards of the Coast website. Around Halloween the posted an updated-to-3.5 version of Tomb of Horrors. Today they have done the same for White Plume Mountain (see my thread of the same name).

I knew about Tomb of Horrors did not know about White Plume Mountain. I will have to wait to go home to check that out.. The network here blocks the wizards webpage. Thanks. Now they just need to update some more.

I call him 'The All Knowing Bearded Old Man'

What ya think a little long?

Has anyone attempted to convert some of the old 2nd edition to 3.5? I just picked up a bunch of some of my favorite old 2nd edition adventure PDFs and was thinking of converting them. Has anyone attempted this or know of some resources that can help me in this?

arrrrgggghhhhhhh, yes i just found the rule... ah damn... anyway, we will probably replay it again then... :) no escaping the mighty Dugobras this time :)

I would not suggest replaying the fight. just keep it as is and just make sure the players know you will be using the spell correctly for now on and explain why. That is what I do when I discover I was playing something wrong as a DM.

Started the Game off with 3 Players 1 NPC

Dwarf Fighter
Dwarf Rogue (Dwarfs are brothers)
Human Cleric of Pelor
and a NPC Human Bard

Latter on I lost a married couple (Human Cleric, Dwarf Fighter), and added 5 more players so the group ended up looking like this

Dwarf Rogue (Brother is dead by his own hands, Became a wererat then cured)
Half-Drow Cleric/Wizard
Neanderthal Barbarian
Elf Ranger
Elf Warmage
Human Wizard
Human Bard/Rogue (Same NPC)

Well that was my group set up until the last adventure Zenith Trajectory, 3 PCs were killed 1 was brought back, so this is the current set up.

Dwarf Rogue 8
Half-Drow Cleric of Wee Jas 3/Wizard 3/True Necromancer 2
Neanderthal Barbarian 7 (Raise dead)
Elf Ranger 8
Dwarf Fighter 7/Dwarven Defender 1
Human Favored Soul 8
Human Bard 6/Rogue 2 (Still NPC)

We are about to start The Demonskar Legacy and the group is loving it!

Im looking for a Dragon issue article that allows playable undead, particular ghost character. Someone told me that there was ghost class, racial or prc, in one of the issues. Does anyone here know which article and issue that was?

Was in a D&D Campiagn Supplement called Ghostwalk.. Also Libris Mortis another D&D Supplement Has info on Undead Characters

Is it worth getting?

From my 2nd edition times I remember it being a great adventure... with what little memory I have of that time ;-).

RPGNOW.com sells a PDF of the ROD OF SEVEN PARTS boxed set. You could check that out.

So does Paizo

What do you guys think?

I though the Lake Monster never came up out to the open in the lake?... I thought it hung out in the Area you find him in Flood Season?

I have noticed in three of my D&D books the Races of Ebberon, Lords of Madness, and the new Magic of Incarnum the paper of the books is not the same as my older books. It seems a lot lighter, thinner, and looks almost like it has been water damaged at the top or bottom. I have been browsing the book stores that I have access to in the bay area and its not just the books I own. I was wondering if anyone else has noticed this. If i'm not the only one then you have to ask your self is wizards skipping on the printing costs or just being lazy?

What I think he may mean in water damage is the paper is wavy. I have noticed alot of my newer books all the pages are wavy especially the thiner ones. I order all my books through Amazon.com

Has anyone already thought something up to use the Weapon of Legacy rules on the quarterstaff Alakast?

I was thinking About doing that But have not Written it up Yet. As

soon as I do I will share it on this Board.

-Dragnmoon

Anyone know if there are any old Greyhawk books that say anything about the area of Cauldron?

I love the Shackled City Hardcover. Any plans for a Age of Worms Hardcover in the future after it is finished in the Dungeon Mag?

nerd alarm... -.-

please just have fun with this awesome book.

Hey I was not putting down the Book... I love the Book... I was just putting out useful info and trying to get useful info back. no need to insult me. If you were upset by my orginal post I apologize

More errors Kind of..
Keygan Ghelve Pg 366 has Spells in his spell book he can not cast. That in itself is not an problem since he does not use them, but it is odd

I noticed my first errors in the Shackled City Hardcover. Pg 392-393 Fellian Shard (Half-Elf Rogue1/Cleric1); they have down Strength as a Domain for the NPC, he is a follower of Fharlaghn and Strength is not a Domain of that Deity. I looked in the original adventure in Dungeon 97 and Noticed they had Travel as his 2nd chosen Domain that is a Domain of Fharlaghn so I corrected the NPC. The other problem I noticed was that they have him using a longsword, which he is incapable of using; the same mistake was made in Dungeon 97. I corrected that by replacing the longsword with a Heavy Mace.
Anyone else notice any other errors?

I read this thread everyday, and oddly I am not even running this Adventure path. But still I have been gripped into the anticipation of when overload will come out... hmmm... maybe I am just odd that way. I do have Future plans to run This Adventure path, but that is very far ahead. Still I am sure anything that is in the Overload will be very Helpful. Thankyou Everyone at Dungeon...In advance

I am have been trying to track down the Players Handouts for Life's Bazaar with no luck. The Web Ehancements had some of them but not all. Did they release them somewhere else? Or was it just not done?