Dragonsage47's page

I found Jade regent,just from the reading, very disjointed. I would much rather have had an AP that was set in the East, not one where we spent half the adventure just getting there. Again my opinion but my group and I were so looking forward to the path until we received it and realized it was a double fish out of water campaign... First any Asian themed character start as fish out of water and then by the 4th installment the western theme characters become the fish.

The 3rd adventure in the Jade Regent path is almost exclusively travel time with snippets of adventure along the way. Not exactly epic, though the part about the Monoliths at the top of the world (avoiding spoilers)and the mystery surrounding them is a nice touch, I'd love to have seen that as an in depth adventure instead of a sideshow. The caravan subsystem is not very good, IMO the subsystem games have been a bit of a flop but I have noticed they are going away so I won't belabor that issue.

We were hoping and still are for a Campaign set exclusively in Dragon Empires

Again I'd like to point out I like fluff but I want it to truly be VERY relevant to the adventure and not feel like filler.

I actually am starting to like the way that the Players Companions Campaigns Settings are fleshing out regions, races etc.. and that's how I'd like to see the fluff dealt with so my adventures have the crunch and my fluff and splat are a bit more optional. By the way I subscribe to both and use most of it as my Campaign is set in Golarion currently (I did find the book on Knights a little too fluffy and extraneous but loved the Books of the Damned series. Kudos on those)

Lets not forget that nearly a quarter of each Adventure path is devoted to fluff. I like fluff, fluff can be very cool BUT it isn't always necessary and at some point with the amount of fluff in each piece of the AP adds up to being what amounts to a whole extra installment of fluff. With the short stories removed and the "new" monsters and such trimmed a little bit. With the fluff being more concise and relevant to the actual story line I believe 50 pages could be trimmed. While I enjoyed the article on Groetus in the Shattered Star it didn't really need to be there, also some of the side hooks could have been summarized instead of being given a couple of pages each.

I played in A Night Below, it was nice but I wasn't privy to the books as a player.

the GDQ series really wasn't that Sparse once you got into the Underdark, D 1 and 2, and Queen of the Demon Web Pits (1e) were full of info and pretty detailed, it was just focused directly on things that pertained to the actual adventure. I guess I just want more crunch and less fluff, or at least fluff that REALLY matters, like Stat blocks, items, tables and magic that actually appear in the adventure.

Also before you tell me how hard it is to write and keep up with a real job, I completely understand that, it takes will and discipline and btw I was a contributor with Necromancer Games, so I have a couple credits of my own under my belt.

Ok... So I have a Magus, with Craft Wand. I wanna use the Wand Strike Spell to create permanent Wands out of Masterwork Daggers. A Dagger, Dart, or Stiletto basically fits the size and shape of a wand.

The Wand Strike spell allows a wand to be subsumed into a weapon for a duration. Wouldn't it be feasible if a little outside the box to make a Weapon into a wand as long as there were no enchantments getting in the way as long as the creator new the Spell Wand Strike and had the ability to Craft Wands?

I'd like opinions BUT a Ruling from one of the POWERS THAT BE!!!! would be spectacular as my Magus is soon to be in said position.

THNX

DS

Actually I would say the reason is because classically speaking Charisma has always been the purview of Paladins. Even the example Paladins given in the original D&D were characters known more for their conviction and personality than for their wisdom...Lancelot, Gawain, Roland and even King Arthur. These characters embody the idea of the Paladin and all were strong of faith and personality but not always Wise... and no I'm not talking out my rear... I get most of this from Gygax himself... AD&D PHB and early editions of Dragon from articles written by Roger Moore one of D&D's great earlier contributors. 3.5 D&D as well as Pathfinder just added a mechanic to make it fit into their gamescape and thus keep it from being a dump stat like it is for so many other classes.

Are the Stats for the Scizore accurate, d10 Damage and Piercing damage? Seems that the picture of the weapon and its description would lend itself to a slashing weapon and it seems that that d10 damage for a one handed martial weapon. I checked the reprint PDF version and found that it hadn't been changed. Would love a semi official ruling... or interesting opinions... specious conjecture...probably unavoidable...but hey I like the +1 Shield Bonus if you don't attack with it... I'm envisioning a magus in the Shackles with this as his primary early on...possibly as a prosthesis or a fake one... I love an ace in the hole like a hand no one knew I had!

Of course recent statistics are showing that Mexicans are returning to mexico in growing numbers bc the GDP of Mexico is growing faster than ours

http://www.startribune.com/world/148614575.html

Also I live in a state...Tennessee with a much lower cost of living than the national average... 60k in Tennesse makes you in the upper income whereas the same 60k in Cali or New York puts you barely above poverty, so as usual the babbling about cost of living not matter is complete and utter BS, even gas, rent and food are significantly cheaper here than many states... usually Blue states btw, the idea that the difference in cost of living is an insignificant statistic is moronic, I have lived in Chicago and SoCal as well, the difference is night and day.

NO NO ... those aren't REALLY energy jobs, didn't you notice the guy earlier who is an EXPERT, those jobs are @ Mickey D's and minimum wage, just like my CSM job for a Computer firm that was a bad job and I didn't need anyway so it was ok when it went oversea's... you gotta have the right lingo here... ENERGY JOB, equals slinging High Caloric intake to the masses for the production of ATP for cell work, and CSM means evil bastard who puts you on hold for to long, those aren't good jobs bc they aren't union jobs or supported by the DNC...sheesh

We never use point buy unless the whole system is point buy...ala GURPS

Not only did the Democrat Congress tell them to, they threatened to shut them down if they didn't give the loans... Thank you Barney Frank and the Democrat majority, oh yeah lets not forget that in 2005 Bush's econ advisers told his admin that this was a fiasco waiting to happen and when he put it to the democrat congress...they ignored the warnings... but keep on blaming bush...who btw I never voted for...but I also don't believe in passing the buck like the Dems do