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Eric Hinkle wrote:

I like the brief descriptions you give the sample characters. Pity it had to be pushed back to January though. I'll be going to something called 'Further Confusion' in January and was hoping to take this book in particular along to see if I could turn anyone on to Paizo/Pathfinder; I've already made a few converts.

But as others have said, better 'late and good' than 'fast and bad'.

Furry! *glom* I thought I was all alone on these boards!

* -- Just kidding.

Gorbacz wrote:

+1 for Dungeons of Golarion ! (But please, nothing like that horrible Dungeon book from WotC that came out in the dying days of 3.5)

You mean Dungeonscape? Which was written by Paizo's own lead designer Jason Bulmahn?

BTW, if anyone has a copy of the book, can they let us know what the section on the Irrisen city is like?

I like the brief descriptions you give the sample characters. Pity it had to be pushed back to January though. I'll be going to something called 'Further Confusion' in January and was hoping to take this book in particular along to see if I could turn anyone on to Paizo/Pathfinder; I've already made a few converts.

But as others have said, better 'late and good' than 'fast and bad'.

Wait, so after the Empire gets beaten and the Sith are trounced and the Jedi return to protect the galaxy... the Empire takes over, the Sith kill all the Jedi and then enslave everyone?

Wow. Is this Star Wars or Warhammer 40K?

I'm already eager to see the Inquisitor and Cavalier classes. This looks like it'll be great.

I'm already eager to see what they show us with Sargava.

*grin*

ButI hope we get some good old-fashioned Haggard/Burroughs/Charles Saunders-style goodness with this! What am I saying 'hope' for, this is Paizo, of course it'll rock.

*Does the dance of joy*

Thank you so much, Paizo.

Meh! Adventurers never worried about attacking dungeons filled hordes of bloodthirsty halflings.

And more on topic, I really like this. I never wanted to play/use half-orcs before seeing Pathfinder's version.

Hmm, maybe we can hope for a 'Gnolls of Golarion' in the future?

Jared Ouimette wrote:

The big question is...will there be a Volume 3?

I certainly hope so. We've got plans for more than 3 volumes in this series, in fact... so hopefully we'll do a lot more in the series!

The Zooamourous Breeder feat allows you to be one of the parents when breeding two creatures together. if you are female, you can carry it in your womb too!

Then again, all those crazy monster-breeding mages gotta get someone to mother their precious little abominations.

Thank you for the links, Mister Daigle. They're very helpful!

I'd love to see more information covering the charming city of Kaer Maga and its delightfully twisted inhabitants! More info on the bloatmages and the troll augurs would be nice too, though I think they've actually been covered in both the Campaign Setting and Classic Monsters Revisited.

As for goverment in Kaer Maga, I get the idea that it's run by a collection of criminal gangs, dangerous monsters, even more dangerous mages, and assorted nogoodniks of all varieties. Sort of like Skullport under Waterdeep.

Just how much information does the module give on the vile city of Kaer Maga?

David Icke!
Ex Crystal Palace goalkeeper turned Son of God.

Ummm... I probably don't want to know, but what kind of feat is "Zooamorous Breeder"? From what it sounds like, it means one that lets you have sex with animals and bear their young?

Might be fine for Lamashtans, I suppose.

Eric Hinkle wrote:

Am I mistaken, or did I once see something to the effect of how inside the city of Whitethrone there's a magical effect that allows worgs and winter wolves to walk around as humans?

No, you are not. It was in this blog post.

Another movie that I found was creepy when I was a kid was Children of the Corn.

It should've been corny, but for some reason it worked.

Another good film was The Car. Heck, you don't need demons; some maniac driving around in an armored sedan, deliberately driving over people for the laughs, is scary enough! And ye gods, that last bit with the demonic face and the return of the Car... flying down a city street at a bunch of schoolchildren!

Okay, now ya got me going.

Day of the Animals and Prophecy:The Monster Movie both seriously creeped me out. Especially the latter film; remember the turned-inside-out mutant bear with its brains running down over its face. Ga-ross!

The 70's made-for-TV movie Gargoyles was splendidly creepy.

I once saw a 3-D B&W movie called The Mask that was insanely creepy and strange.

The Skull's last few moments creeped me out, when the floating skull of the Marquis De Sade slowly, so slowly, approaches Peter Cushing's throat.

Did anyone here ever see an English film, directed by Jacques Torneur, titled Night of the Demon? That film has some truly flesh-crawling moments.

My two favorites would be:

1) When Holden is in the hallway at the hotel and he starts hearing the weird music, accompanied by this very faint chiming or jingling noise... along with heavy footsteps, slowly growing louder and louder and LOUDER until...

2) After Holden visits Karswell's mansion at night (and gets scratched bloody by a black cat that turns into a leopard). He decides to leave through the surrounding woods even after Karswell warns him against it. He hears the music again and sees a ball of fiery smoke floating after him -- accompanied by giant smoking hoofprints stamping into the dirt.

And then there's William Castle's Thirteen Ghosts. Saw it when I was a kid, it scared me white!

Am I mistaken, or did I once see something to the effect of how inside the city of Whitethrone there's a magical effect that allows worgs and winter wolves to walk around as humans?

Because if not, then I now have a perfectly horrid idea about a visitor falling in love with a local woman (and vice-versa). They leave the city, and when he turns to kiss his lady-love...

He finds himself embracing a giant white wolfess. Possibly one who's batting her eyes at him, wagging her tail, and making little "Wuff!" noises at him...

In many 3e products, slavery is a buzzword for evil.

Now, I believe in basic human freedoms, and I think slavery is reprehensible. But I do think that "slavery == evil" runs counter to the attitudes throughout much of human history toward slavery. When it gets a little too preachy (e.g. only the drow could be evil enough to hold slaves) it runs counter to the traditions of fantasy literature.

Paizo appears to have adopted a quasi-historical attitude where slavery itself is not evil in a social context that accepts it, but other things (such as how slaves are treated) can be evil. I think this is much closer to the treatment the issue receives in fantasy literature. It should still be a terrible thing, but it should be pervasive enough to feel real, otherwise it becomes a parody of actual hardship.

So yes, I'd like to see such a module, with a healthy dose of Paizoan grit. Could there be a better place than Katapesh?

Though a devilish part of me wonders about trying something that apparently happened to some 19th century European travelers and explorers -- they find someone about to brutally beat, or even kill, a child/young woman. When they intervened, they were told that "Oh, no, they're just beating a slave. It's quite legal to kill them."

The travelers on several occasions would then buy the slave for themselves (in some places, freeing a slave with no ability to support themselves was very illegal), ultimately freeing them a few stops later when they were far away from their former owner.

I just wondered about using that as a way to introduce a new cohort or follower, or even just a local guide with some built-in hooks for future stories.

Huh, I was thinking on a Andoren character who was a war orphan (as I recall, the burned-down orphanage from Darkmoon Vale was filled with kids who'd lost their parents to the goblin hordes; and there is that order of female diabolic monks in Isger). Well, I can say that his family and some others lived in a small fortified steading close to the Andoran/Isger/Kalistocracy border; who knows, maybe the family farm ended up like Roarkes Drift in Zulu!

I've read a few references on this conflict, mostly in the "Falcon's Hollow" mini-campaign and the "Guide to Darkmoon Vale". Has there been anything more said anywhere else as to what happened, or why? Judging from what I've read apparently hordes of goblinkin just surged out of their lairs and attacked everyone they met.

For that matter, how many nations were affected? I think it hit Andoran, Isger, the Kalistocracy of Druma, and the dwarves of the Five Kings Mountains. Was it just a local war, or was it more widespread?

Thanks for any answers.

The only thing I can remember about Isger right now is the comment made in Pathfinder #8 under the Bestiary entry for the Daughter of Urgathoa about the "Wight Mother of Isger".

Hopefully with permission, I quote: Tentacled and monstrously beautiful, the unliving martyr Illcayna Alonnor has led the Pallid Princess's cult in Isger for more than a century. Having sacrificed herself to an uncontrolled legion of wights, the young priestess spontaneously resurrected and led the undead to consume the entire hamlet of Finder's Gulch -- including the living members of the cult of Urgathoa there. Today, the Wight Mother's almost entirely undead cult plagues western Isger, a mutated and magically altered legion of deathless minions following the direction of her massive clawed hand.

Sure sounds like western Isger has a problem they need some heroes to deal with.

Well, from the sound of it, everyone likes the Iomedae article. Since the Pathfinder AP articles covering the deities of Golarion are among my favorites, I may have to pick up AP #26 before much longer.

Hopefully not before my ordered (through Borders) copy of Fortress of the Stone Giants shows up, though.

Just what the heck is drow fleshwarping, anyway? I get the idea that it's a kind of magical gengineering used to create monsters.

We had a meeting yesterday discussing the role of the Pathfinder Modules line and how we can improve it. We kicked around a few ideas, but we'd like your input as well (especially subscribers and people who would become subscribers if the Modules line gave you more that you were looking for).

Ideas we discussed at the meeting included:

* more high-level adventures (especially ones you could run after finishing an Adventure Path)

* larger adventures, like "supermodules" (though we aren't sure how we'd fit that into the line, which currently only has 32-page adventures)

* prequels or parallel adventures relating to an AP, so your players (who may or may not be playing the same PCs you have active in that AP) get additional information or another perspective on the events of that AP

* similar to the previous item, but tied to your PCs (such as "you activate a mysterious device and find your souls transported into the bodies of these other people, and you can't return to your own body until you've resolved the adventure with the possessed bodies")

* even more unusual one-off adventures, like "everyone plays a goblin" (whether you're defending your lair or going on a raid)

And let me add another vote for the 'adventure on the other planets in Golarion's solar system'. I love swords-and-planet stories, and I think it's a shame that D&D never did any modules to cover the idea.

I have run a year-long campaign set in Darkmoon Vale, using modified versions of Hollow's Last Hope and Carnival of Tears, for starters. The Dungeon adventures "Wingclipper's Revenge" fits in nicely with the fey presence in the woods north of Falcon's Hollow (a conflict I built up throughout the campaign), and "Cry Wolf" (also from Dungeon) fits in well because of the towns natural dislike for wolves.

The book just arrived, and only a date after my birthday. Thanks, Paizo!

BTW, considering that the books is supposed to be "damaged", it looks to be in better shape than some books I've seen being sold on the shelves in bookstores. Great job and thanks.

Though now, after reading the intro, I am wondering just what was cut to keep Nick out of jail protect our tender eyes. :D

The book was just shipped according to a recent e-mail. Thanks.

BTW, is there any way to track the progress of an order made through the store? I.e., like the whole "your shipment is now in Outer Saskatchewan and will be routed through Little America tomorrow" stuff you can get from FedEx?

ithuriel wrote:

Out of stock?! Nooooo! It hasn't even released yet! I foolishly had it in my cart forgetting that I hadn't finalized the order. And now it is gone.

It is in stock for me...hummm. We have plenty of copies on hand, so don't worry about it being out of stock. Order away!

-Lisa

I don't like Quadira...

don't take me wrong... the books i top level

I don't like the country... as a player :P
its to much Persia in both attitude and flavor, while I like the flavor... the attitude goes agaisnt what we believe.

We woudl happily fight agaisnt Quadira any time of the week!

Sorry, just rambling. But I am glad that Pathfinder is using this country.

Eric Hinkle wrote:

Uggh -- I just put it together. The decadent 'civilized' court, the name of the country, and the depicted Kellid in the Golarion campaign guide. It's a 'civilized' Cimmeria, isn't it?

Does that really surprise you? Howard's work is probably in the top 5... maybe even the top 3 literary inspirations for Golarion, after all. For D&D, for that matter... things like frost giants and remorhazes and the barbarian class and the word "Stygia" and so on... Howard's influence is pretty strong.

Actually... I really really REALLY want to some day set an adventure path in Numeria. So wherever you heard that we weren't ever planning on expanding things there had faulty information. "Expedition to the Barrier Peaks" is one of my favorite adventures from the old days, and the concept of "Conan fighting robots" is too awesome to leave alone forever.

And in any case, there's 45 or so regions in the setting. Even if we took pains to do one adventure path per region, that'll take us over two decades to visit EVERY location. Eventually... we might just do one set in Alkenstar. It's not NEARLY as high on the list as most other locations, though. And as I said above, chances of seeing an AP set in Numeria within the next few years are actually quite high.

Uggh -- I just put it together. The decadent 'civilized' court, the name of the country, and the depicted Kellid in the Golarion campaign guide. It's a 'civilized' Cimmeria, isn't it?

Say, just saw the description about the issue in question, and it said something about a bestiary guide with 'five new wolves' in it. I'm a wolf fan myself, and I'd like to know: just what can be revealed about these wolves here?

Eric Hinkle wrote:

Can one dare to hope that mroe of Mister Merritt's works will see reprint through Planet Stories?

We'll see. If we can make a profit on this book, there will likely be more.

If.

--Erik

Eric Hinkle wrote:

HI all,

Just would like to know something -- I order my Paizo books from this site with prepaid Visa debit cards. When I do so, I get something like an extra $2-3 slapped down on top of the book price + S&H. What's more, it only happens when I order books through Paizo.

I thought this was some sort of fee Paizo took until just today, when (after some problems with an order which will hopefully be settled soon) I talked to customer service and found out that Paizo knows nothing about it.

Why does it cost more to order books through Paizo as compared to Amazon or Noble Knight?

I've never heard of this before. Can you contact the bank on which the card is drawn, and ask them why they're charging the fee? Perhaps there's something we can do to avoid it in the future.

Truth be told, I figured it was some kind of fee or tax charged by the state of Washington.

Eric Hinkle wrote:

Wait, wait -- I just ordered the non-mint copy of this that was for sale (at least it was yesterday), there was a problem with my payment (for some reason only the PDF got authorized, and it tried to hit my debit card twice over for the AP... so it got an 'insufficient funds' response and my buy was refused, though the money for it is still in electronic limbo), I was told to wait until 'Tuesday or Wednesday for this to clear up' and now I find out it's gone?

*Groan* So much for patience.

No worries—when you submitted you order, a copy was earmarked for you.

BTW, about how many individual copies of the 'scratch-and-bent' Pathfinder books are there? Just one each?

Wait, wait -- I just ordered the non-mint copy of this that was for sale (at least it was yesterday), there was a problem with my payment (for some reason only the PDF got authorized, and it tried to hit my debit card twice over for the AP... so it got an 'insufficient funds' response and my buy was refused, though the money for it is still in electronic limbo), I was told to wait until 'Tuesday or Wednesday for this to clear up' and now I find out it's gone?

*Groan* So much for patience.

HI all,

Just would like to know something -- I order my Paizo books from this site with prepaid Visa debit cards. When I do so, I get something like an extra $2-3 slapped down on top of the book price + S&H. What's more, it only happens when I order books through Paizo.

I thought this was some sort of fee Paizo took until just today, when (after some problems with an order which will hopefully be settled soon) I talked to customer service and found out that Paizo knows nothing about it.

Why does it cost more to order books through Paizo as compared to Amazon or Noble Knight?

PS -- I freely admit to feeling a bit annoyed over the fact that when I put my order in, I got the PDF but the physical book (non-mint Hook Mountain Massacre; give me those Logueish ogres!) is being held back due to 'insufficient funds'. Okay, it's because of a hiccup in the system, and it'll just be a few days until the cash gets released and my stuff gets mailed... but I do wish I'd known about the difficulty in ordering PDFs and physical books at once. I'll be more careful in the future. Or has that problem just happened to me?

And a big "Thanks" to Paizo for explaining everything to me when I called.

I liked in the Taldor book they talked about the armies. I find that helps a lot with the country when it comes to describing the guards and for when PC's are from that country. Especially fighters and their ilk.

So while I hope all the future ones get that same treatment, is there any chance someone from paizo could give us a overall of Osirion military. Along the lines of Taldor.

I'm especially eager to see the coverage for the Revolutionary Leagues of Galt. I have a friend who's a nut on the French Revolution, and he's been filling my ear with tons of ideas for Galt and its Perpetual Revolution.

The main one I can remember right now being, "every time a new regime comes to power in Galt, the calendar gets restarted at Year 1 of the new Republic of Perfect Virtue."

Is the art being shown now the cover art that will be used for the Planet Stories release? It looks like some lovely work -- by Hannes Bok? I know he illustrated a lot of Merritt's books.

No Belt of Masculinity/Femininity?

Yes. a thousand times yes. If you like the binder, you'll love pact magic.

Paizo link here

You get a couple of interesting races, a host of classes, a plethora of spirits and a bunch of influences. (I've caught Dune, Eberron, and Wishmaster, just to name a few)

The spells are also neat. I love sudden burial, that spell replaces sleep whenever I can get it. it's a bit more limited, but who doesn't want to suddenly trap his foes up to their necks in the ground. (insert greatclub-as-gold-club here)

Great thoughts everyone, I am currently running a series of modules set in Darkmoon Vale, (D0, 1, 1.5, E1, D4, and the Last Baron Modules), and plan on bringing in the Whispering Tyrant, the Witch of the North and then Babba Yaga. Umzilla is mentioned in D0, and in E1 Syntira the Nymph Queen of the Fey refers to the encroaching cold from the Ice Queen in the North. I've been holding out hope that Paizo might expand on this and provide us with some more crunch and fluff to expand on. IMHO this would be a great Epic AP.

Just some thoughts, good gaming,
Jeff

And if not, well, then we'll just have to make it up. ;)

Hmm the seven deadly sins sounds very tempting.

Hi all,

I hope this goes here.

One of my favorite books/classes from 3.5 was the Book of Magic, with the Binder and Pact Magic. Now I've found this site here:

Pact Magic

and they seem to have picked up WoTC's dropped torch where it comes to pact magic. And their books are Pathfinder compatible with a little work (they list a free PDF onsite for coversions). But I'd like to know if anyone here has purchased either book, and if they could give them a recommendation?

Thanks for your time.

I agree about the "Graveyard Rats", it's a great story. I also like some of the stories Kuttner did for Weird Tales, as he usually included some very dark humor and genuinely surprising twist endings. Such as one that makes you think that this fine young city couple are going to be eaten by this family of (rather over-the-top) deranged cannibal hillbillies... only to reveal that the hillbillies weren't the killers, the two kids were. "We just wanted to tell you, we always knew you weren't the vampires. How do we know? Because we are."

And there was the classic 'A Gnome There Was'.

Sey, you should write this stuff up for Wayfinder #2. It would go great in there.