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Is there any chance, to get a view of the new poster map?
I am a comics subscriber, but I am willing to buy this HC, if the map is cool enough.
But without knowing how it looks, I rather not buy the HC.
So, a small preview would be awesome. Any chance, that might happen?!

Dryder wrote:

I really loved the small FR books which were called "Volo's Guide to "X"".

Those were awesome. Such books for Golarion - instant buy!

See here, for what I mean.

Hey! Lisa and I were two of the three editors on that book. (I have learned so much since then...)

That you've learned so much since then does mean what? That you think those books are great, or rather not?! Do you think such a product would be a possibility for Golarion/Paizo? :)

I really loved the small FR books which were called "Volo's Guide to "X"".
Those were awesome. Such books for Golarion - instant buy!

See here, for what I mean.

Ahm... is the book already on its way, or should I've it already in my mail?!

GregH, I will send an eMail to the developer. I had been in contact with him already...
Glad, you like the App!

Ok, I've found a sidebar, explaining stuff about the flood. And thank you all, for your answers!

I am sorry, If you got trouble with your players, because of the title of this thread, Deanoth. But I don't really know how to adress my question using other words.
There are other threads as well which give away enough for observant players. I put the spoiler in there, in case more stuff gets adressed, or, if other GMs might tell me how they haven done or plan to do the tsunami.

I only have to tell my players to stay away from the given AP forum for as long as the campaign lasts, and that was never a problem for them.
Again, sorry!

Thanx a ton, guys! Very helpful answers!

In the last part, Magnimar gets hit by a huge tsunami, and parts of the city are destroyed.
Has it been said somewhere, how Sandpoint, Windsong Abbey and other localities are hit by that tsunami?

Is there an organization of witch-hunters or hunters of supernatural beings, demons, etc...?!

bwatford, I have one question about Dundjinni.
Why is it, that I so often see Dundjinni maps on the internet which miss a grid. Is it, because the maker thinks they look better without?

I found a great, great map for Shattered Star #1, but again without grid, mich makes them almost useless.

I had this once with my hp-printer. After I installed a post-script driver it worked. You might try this. Those drivers are normally free to have on the companies homepage.

bwatford, thank you so much for sharing these maps! They look great and will make Hook Mountain a so much better experience for my players! THX!

I would add a rival group and put the whole AP on a timer. Let the PCs know, that their rivals are pro-runelords, and that they are fast gathering information on the shards. Everytime your PCs are going to rest, let them think about it twice - shall they really waste time, or just plough through the coming dungeons, to stay ahead of their rivals.

Maybe add weather and strange happenings regarding magic, making Wind walk and teleport spells hard to cast.
Snow could fall throughout Varisia, and maybe, somehow, the rivals found out about the location of the final shard...

To tie in TOWER OF THE LAST BARON, I did the following

My preference would be to do it as a big hardcover mega-adventure or even a boxed set...

A boxed s... *faints*

I am all for a SHADOWS UNDER SANDPOINT product - pleeease....!

Anyway, the backmatter is the only reason I buy the comics - so awesome. I love such bits and pieces of information.
Since I've read that easteregg in Burnt Offerings about Lamashtus plans for Varisia, I am always on the lookout for more infos - and today, there's the Paizo blog... Thanx, James!

Are there Mythic Powers which can be aquired through a pact with outerworldly creatures?
If so, what are the consequences if my pc don't hold up to the pact?

Does having mythic powers make you lonely, because ordinary people dont't want to - or just plainly fear to hang around with you?

Do mythic characters seek each other out? Do they somehow know of each other?

"There can be only one!" Rules for absorbing Mythic powers!

I like Castle. Most of the actors don't look like they are playing roles, it comes really natural.
Anyway - just to keep pressure on them...

did I mention FIRELFY?! :)

The Fades
and, which still hurts the most...
FIREFLY!!!
Oh, and Bonanza :) (just kidding) But is there any other series with 14(!) Seasons?

Did I mention FIREFLY, already?!

iOS, iPad only.

Anyone had any experiences with Initiativeboard?
I use this App for a while now, and think, its one of the best, if not the best Ini tracker out there.

Hp, Dex, different campaigns, custom conditions, save/load option, etc...

If you don't know it, check it out.

Ahm, one question.
I cancled my sub on the PF-tales and suddenly the frame around my avata is missing.
Why? I had it before I subscribed to the tales?
Not that it matters, I am just curious...

Single-author-APs? Yeah, would be cool, but not managable, at least, not on a monthly basis, as it was already explained above.
BUT, I think the new 64-page modules will be exactly what I am looking for! The first module will get pcs from 1st to 6th, and it is written by a single author. Maybe, there will be follow up to modules from the same author, which picks up the story, and get us from 6th to 10th, or so.
Modules are also not such a huge commitement on time, as the APs.

So, I hope, the "64ers" will fill that gap!

I always rule it this way, that,

If you wouldn't even hit the target's AC with a nat. 20 and a 20 comes up, than you hit, but you don't confirm for a critical!

Oh, and I just observed that, the value you enter for a players AC will be saved in all following entries for the other AC values and saves...

GringoireDM, would it be possible, to add an option to the hit points, where I can set them as I like, or a max hp option, according to the monsters hd?

I really like the update, thanx!

Somehow, I suddenly can't open my saved Battles anymore. As soon as I hit a Battle to open it, the App is shutting down, returning to the homescreen...on iPhone5 as well as on iPad3.

For rewarding the whole group, I came up with the idea of giving hero points, or those great flashback cards from paizo.

Adamantine Dragon wrote:

Token XP awards potentially create disparity between player characters and can be frequent causes for accusations of GM favoritism.

Arbitrary XP awards based on GM whim might cause players to wonder how to play to please the GM, as opposed to simply playing their characters.

Counting XP risks having players thinking about their next level instead of playing to their current abilities.

To address your points:

- I haven't had any accusations of favouritism - the GM has to be seen as impartial and players will accept whatever decisions are handed down.
- I keep track of awards so as to keep disparity to a minimum - current disparity in my campaign is 50XP. Disparity might widen as the campaign goes on but so does XP required for next level, so it tends to even

Both are valid points, but my experince showed me, that "bonus xp" can cause problems.

So I found myself in the situation, that I could constantly award the first two players and having a really hard time awarding the other two at all. The level-gap would be too huge in an ongoing campaign.
All enjoy playing Pathfinder, nobody does it wrong or right. If you have a very introverted player, he/she even might come to the conclusion (wrongly), that he/she is playing the game wrong because other players get bonus xp.
I didn't want that to happen at anytime with any of my players, which was one of the reasons I dumped xp.

On a side note:
The single AP chapters even tell us by now, at which point players are expected to be which specific level.

And thanx, guys, for your answers!

Well, your party has a goal, that's cool. I always like it, when I know what to do.
Is it important,or neccessary, that the ghost will be laid to rest? If not, and the pcs fail, the ghost might finally become angry and attack the party, bringing the dungeon to an end as well, even if not the prefered one.

I know, it's been said a hundred times, but it can,t be said enough: Paizo's customer service is awesome!

They never make a fuss about anything.
Canceling a subscription is so easy! I am german, and canceling a sub here in Germany is a huge pain!
You have to cancle a certain amount of time beforehand, otherwise the sub get's extended another year automatically.
With Paizo? Just shoot them an eMail, and - done!

So, again, thank you for being so awesomely fuss-free, down-to-earth and uncomplicated as you are!

Ok, I've read so many posts asking about which advancement track to use, what to change for parties of more, or less than 4 pcs, and what encounters to use, to not fall behind, that I started to wonder, how many of you guys take xps serious?!
I know, they have to be in the rules-system, but I don't use them at all!

I always tell my players, that they will level up, when the time is right regarding my campaign-planning. It's so much easier to plan a campaign, and it makes it easier to insert other stuff, which is not part of an AP, for example.

In the end, it's not GM vs players, so my players know that I won't cheat them, or keep them less effective against opponents on purpose.

How do you guys do XPs? Do you use them as precisely as possible, or any other way?

Those are cool ideas as well! And I am tempted to do those also. Varisia just has so much awesome stuff by now, which is great. I fear, though, that one can't use all in one campaign. But not using XPs, instead just telling my players when their pcs level up, helps tremednously.

I love to read what others come up with, when it comes to those campaigns and society scenarios set in Varisia.

I wonder, if both companies have already talked about that possibility?!

I have only five players, so I have two faces, which are no longer recognizeable. This way, I have two options for new pcs.
I hope this will be enough. But in case it will not, I can still rule, that there have been other scrolls, and an accompanying text, where the seer explained his visions. Those texts are unfortunately lost in time....
I thought long about using this idea or not, but in the end, I thought it good enough to go with the option of two deaths.
Normally, that is enough for this experienced group in our campaigns.

APs?!

- Andoran
- Geb and Nex
- undead AP
- the idea of two adventures a year, continuing the APs sound cool - part 7 of 6 it was called...

And regarding adaptability of Andoran: I always found it the easiest country to adapt to other campaign settings.

Ok, Xin will be last... Maybe Karzoug has the last Shard in his city...?!
Anyway, thanx for the info, Brandon.

I will have Sheila Heidmarch attend the Swallowtail festival in Sandpoint, where she was visiting Brodert Quing to discuss their latest research regarding Thassilon. They've found a scroll from thassilonian times, with the Sihedron on it. At each point of the Sihedron is a faded, almost no longer recognizeable face of a person. When Sheila and Brodert see the PCs for the first time, they are in shock - their faces are the ones on the scroll.
The scroll actually was made by a thassilonian Seer, who had a vision of those, who would finally prevent the rise of Thassilon after Earthfall. Every Runelord got one such scroll from the seer, but after the thousand of years which have past, the scrolls are forgotten. But the Runelords still have those images memorized.

I can't wait to see my players faces, once Sheila shows them the scroll, and as a sidenote telling them, that it's over 10.000 years old... :)

This way, I hope to be able to better merge the two APs. In the end, why should'nt both Lords rise at the same time...

Thx, Trace! Your post didn't show up until now.
Yes, a page reference in the RotRLAE would've been easier.

p. 419 in the Book itself...
Sorry...

No reason to be sorry. Your App is wonderfull!
I alwas use Dex if two combatants have the same Ini. But... :)

I was just preparing Thistletop from RotRL. I make battles named after the chapters, where I choose all the monsters featured in a chapter.
I couldn't find the Giant Gecko, which should be in Bestiary 3.

I rated the App and twittered as well.
I tried it out yesterday, and I am really happy with it!
Great work, thanx!

Best wishes for a speedy recovery all the way from Germany!
Get well soon!

Dryder wrote:

Either doing Xin first, or Karzoug. I have to wait for part six of SS to finally make a decision.

My money's on Xin. You'll see. =-)

Oh man, glad to hear that. :)

I am doing the same with those two AP, because of the same reasons.
I wrote every single part of both APs on post-its together with the level range. Than I started to put them in an order which might work.
I only found a problem with the last parts of both APs. Either doing Xin first, or Karzoug. I have to wait for part six of SS to finally make a decision.

Regarding XPs: I told my players, that i won't calculate them, but just tell them when their PCs go up a level. That's far easier for planning the whole campaign.

I am just about to start RotRL again, as a DM.
I will use the Shatted Star locations as well, which I incorporated into the RotRL campaign.
Sheila is present at the Swallowtail festival, talking with Brodert about her fears of the Runelords rising again. I don't see, why these APs can't be played simultaneously.
I found a sequence of events, which hopefully works.

Playing these two APs together, makes the Shattered Star feel less a Dungeon AP, as players kind of jump between the APs...

I can write a list of the order of events, which Imcurrently plan to use.

Adam Daigle wrote:

I have a question for everyone reading this thread. Let's say an adventure didn't take up all 64 pages and there was some back matter included, what kind of material would you most like to see? What kind of material would you least like to see?

As it is, many of the previous modules included a little gazetteer of the location to adventure takes place and a new monster that was included in the adventure. Is that kind of stuff good enough or would you like to see a bit more to help you run the adventures? (Of course, the adventure is the focus here, and won't be condensed to accommodate extra material if it 's not needed.)

YES COLUMN:

1. Location gazetteers
2. Monsters from adventure - but I wouldn't want it to just be monsters (1 max)
3. Expanding the Adventure ideas (like the AP continuing the campaign stuff)
4. Important NPC write-ups
5. Tables for Knowledge checks for the adventure region - I.e. regional info that may not be tied to adventure plot specifics. Ex K:Local rumors, gossip, local laws; K:Religion regional worship practices; K:Geography specific local landmarks, etc.

NO COLUMN:
1. Fiction
2. God articles
3. Anything else not directly tied to adventure in some way
4. See #1
5. Spells
6. Feats
7. Classes (prestige classes or archetypes wouuld be acceptable if they're integral to adventure plot)

This!

Could'nt Warforged just be awakened constructs/golems?

I love Eberron, and so I used some of it's stuff in my Golarion.

For one, I used the Lightning-Rail as a relic from Thassilon.
In my RotRL campaign, the pcs found some conductor stones, which were inactive. They lead from an unknown location to Magnimar, where they continued onto the Irespan.
In the vicinity of the Irespan one can find an old Lightning Rail lying on the bottom of the ocean.

Xendrik, you can completely put somehwere in an ocean on Golarion, and use it as is. I really like Xendrik. Also, the Daelkyr are great to use in Golarion, but I didn't figure out how, yet....

I am presently thinking of using the floorplan of the Pythoness House from the Ptolus setting as Foxglove Manor, because I really like the layout of Pythoness House, which is much more...twisted.
Anybody here who has tried this allready?