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6th grade - Sir Departure (An Arthur ripoff that somehow gained the ability to teleport at will)

Gauntlet

BattleAxe

And various other weapon/armor deviations . . . ugh

Happy Birthday, Roberta Flack! What a weird 71 years it’s been! Hope you’re well.

She's still alive? I thought someone would have killed her softly by now.

I read a fair number of Dark Horse comics. Have you guys ever thought of putting out a RotRL or Pathfinder inspired comic, possibly teaming up with DH?

The DH artists are pretty good, and they really put out some quality stuff. You could even do a rendition of a Gamemastery Module (like, Entombed with the Pharoahs) using the iconics as the protagonists.

Or...even a comic for Eando's adventures, or a comic tracing Valeros' early adventures or upbringing. You guys have created such a rich world, the possibilities are endless.

You could start with a small limited print run, like 3 or 5 issues, to see how well it sells.

I for one would definitely pick this up. Aside from me, would anyone else be interested in such a thing?

Who would have thought he'd have replied a month later huh eyebite? And the man's possibly getting back into the mix because of you! How sweet is that. :)

I know!

Necromancer Games' free adventure The Wizard's Amulet is a fantastic, basic feeling adventure for beginners. It will really convey the classic feel of iconic D&D to your noob friends.

Sweet! Good to see you're still producing stuff JC!

I thought Elfwhisper was awesome, I would love to see your work in the pages of Pathfinder.

Damn, I'm glad I asked now.

I wrote the chapters on mass slaughter and sexf~&~ing, respectively.

There, I fixed it for you Nicky.

:D

Oh, ye gods, do I love Low-level play.

Me too. PCs aren't decked out in umpteen magical items and don't have adventure breaking powers/spells/abilities, etc. They are forced to rely on their wits, not their equipment or latest splatbook superpower. Life is cheap and death is always just a good dice roll away. PCs are just as likely to kill their opponents as they are to go down in a heap. I heart low level play.

villains dont have to be archmages, overwhelming numbers, or a strength score of 30- they just need a bad hat and a 'gator

I totally agree.

Really looking forward to seeing this guy in action.

I wonder if he talks with a cajun accent? Or has a wad of "chaw" in his mouth, and he spits black goop frequently? He just looks dirty, and it's awesome.

Wow.

We actually had a good, close game.

I think a gnome druid would be awesome. It matches with their close relationship to fey and all things wild. It would be a great showcase for Golarion gnomes. Maybe he or she is painted in blue woad, and carries bits of animal bones on him like quasi-magical fetishes.

Human monk....always cool. I liked Paizo's STAP monk iconic, can't wait to see what else they pull out of their hat.

Weighing in late here, I'm glad Scribe gave Rodney some props here.

For a long time, it has been a permeating sentiment that "the people at WotC don't care about us, blah blah blah." It was also wondered aloud by many whether any "WotC folk" ever perused these boards.

I've skimmed over your multiple posts Rodney, and seriously, thank you.

Amidst all the 4e furor, it's really nice to read something honest and plainly stated by someone in the know. I think you've done wonders in terms of quashing some of the anti-4e hysteria that has been clogging up these boards for some time.

I can understand the requests for anonymity, but really, I think one of the main aims of this contest was to develop/discover new talent, and build a small fan base for the Superstars so people actually *buy* the adventure that's produced.

The adventure created will be based on the adventure outline submitted. I don't think removing the names of the contestants is an option at this point.

Honestly, I expect big things from all 4 of the finalists, regardless of the actual winner. I've also seen some real standouts in the other finalists, and hope to see their work published later on as well.

how can i subscribe to either dungeon or dragon magazine? This information would be greatly appreciated. I'm interested in D&D, and would like to participate in the discussions on these magazines.

Thank you for your help

ooh, I'm sorry to be the one to break this to you, but the print run for both magazines has ended. Paizo was producing them under a license from Wizards of the Coast (the company that owns the intellectual property rights to D&D). Those licenses were pulled some time ago.

Paizo now produces the amazing Pathfinder series, and Wolfgang Baur (whose name you might be familiar with from many adventures in the pages of Dungeon magazine) has started the excellent Kobold Quarterly.

Wizards of the Coast has something now called "Dragon" but it's online only, not a print magazine, is only accessible on their website, and thus far has been very underwhelming in terms of quality.

Hope that helps. You kind of came in at the end of an era my friend.

But, welcome to the boards in any event!

EDIT: Of course, you can still attempt to pick up and collect back issues of Dragon and Dungeon through the Paizo store.

I like the savage bard for flavor reasons. The urban druid has seen a lot of NPC use in some of my games. In a similar vein, I came up with an urban druid variant that a PC used in an urban mini-campaign.

I like the concept of the variant monk styles, so I also came up with a new monk style.

Those are the real standouts for me.

But here I was hoping for Korvosan Guard to be cool. It's unfortunate that they're just Stormtroopers... canon fodder for the heroes.

Respectfully, I disagree. They're only *just stormtroopers* if you portray them as *just stormtroopers.*

In a similar vein, the Paizo staff got some flack early on for their portrayal of the first batch of iconics - i.e. that they didn't have flashy new feats and weren't built to the most optimal/munchkin standards.

I like the way they took a very "basic" approach, used mainly core materials, and yet built highly distinguished and interesting characters.

SirUrza wrote:

That's a little disappointing to hear since I like such prestige classes and think it makes the Korvosan Guard different then any old army soldier. Making the prestige the requirement for being in the Korvosan Guard would be a mistake, but there's no reason that a prestige class can't be the provider of benefits.

Do we really need a prestige class for every job available to every person in a campaign setting? Where do we stop? Besides, the point of the Korvosan Guard is that they ARE "just" normal army soldiers. Only with a spiffy name. Sable Company marines are just rangers (elite because they use the elite array and are usually higher level) who can take a feat at 6th level that gives them hippogriff animal companions. *shrug* That's pretty much it.

See, this is an approach I could come to adore.

I'm _sick_ of prestige classes. You can customize a character so much with *just* distinct equipment, backstory, etc.

You don't need a prestige class for every little role in the world.

Sweet. That's what I was hoping to hear.

Thanks guys!

An entire PF adventure path devoted to psionics is not going to happen. We'll continue to look for a way of putting out something psionic-related that won't kill our bottom line, though. :)

Yikes, an entire Psionic AP would not be my cup of tea (and wouldn't be for alooooot of other folks I'm guessing.)

But, I would like to see (**Very Sparingly**) the occasional use of psionics in Golarion.

With all the Cthulu references that have already slipped in, one of the freaky monsters That Should Not Be that somehow slip into our reality could have psionic powers.

Some tear in the fabric of reality produces an alien menace from some dark, twisted Far Realm. It exhibits magic unlike anything anyone has ever seen or heard of before. One singular monster in an entire 6 part AP with psionic powers might be a good way to shake things up, and even the psionic haters out there couldn't really complain. (As long as enough information was printed so that anyone could run the monster effectively and comfortably, regardless of their comfort level with psionics.)

And this is coming from a guy that doesn't really like psionics at all. I just think it would be a fresh twist, and I would love to be able to stare at an overconfident player and tell them that dispel magic _simply_does_not_work_.

I just have a quick question (sorry if this has been answered before, I did some quick searching but couldn't find an answer).

I loved RotRL and want to keep the ball rolling into CotCT.

I subscribed to PF #1-6, do I need to re-up my subscription? Or will I automatically keep receiving more PF goodness?

Nice variant, DP.

Logically, though, the 12th iconic really needs to be someone who can cover caster duties. We know the group will be a barbarian (beatstick), monk (skillmonkey), and druid (divine caster), which leaves them short an arcanist.

Given how much Paizo seems to like Green Ronin's stuff, I wonder if we're going to see a base class from the Advanced Player's Manual make an appearance - eldritch weaver, anyone?

It doesn't necessarily have to be a new class. We might just see another wizard or sorcerer iconic.

Reading Glasses

When worn, these glasses allow the wearer to decipher magical text as though he was affected by a read magic spell.
Faint universal; CL 1st; Craft wondrous item, Read Magic; 300 gp

This price assumes that it is usable as many times per day as you want. You just put on the glasses and are able to read magic. The price could be reduced if it were a 1/day item, but I certainly wouldn't make them like that.

I like the item, but I think the pricing is off. I think it would cost closer to 1,000 gp. as a permanent item. Also, an interesting twist might be that the prism material component required is part of the eyeglass material itself.

And if eyeglasses are too anachronistic for your D&D, this could easily be a single lens too. YMMV

secretturchinman wrote:

Bards - Let me sing a song of inspiration? The single most lame aspect of Dungeon & Dragons. Period.

Let me reiterate: Bards are lame.

In 3.5, yeah....they kind of got the short end of the stick. They have potential though.

Here's to hoping they aren't as lame in 4e.

Blackfeather Cloak

These long, elegant cloaks are made entirely of black Corvus feathers, complete with a high crested collar that doubles as a hood. Rare and sacred to many shamans of the plains, these cloaks are often symbols of elite religious status.

Any character wearing a Blackfeather Cloak may use the spell feather fall once per day. Additionally, once per day the wearer may fill the skies with a torrent of scattered black down, forming a nearly impenetrable cloud of feathers that obscures vision. The effects are identical to the spell obscuring mist.

Faint conjuration and transmutation; CL 2nd; Craft Wondrous Item, feather fall , obscuring mist; Price 800 gp; Weight 3 lbs.

There are films I can watch only late at night like that, but that Bloodrayne flick was actually unwatchable. It made Michael Dudikoff films look like King Lear.

I've often thought of the American Ninja series (all 47 of them) as a modern day Othello.

Awesome.

This is the first one I've read as well. This will be a tough act to follow. Very very well done.

There can be only one.

And it is Osirion.

Wow. The map looks great. I really like how the world is slowly taking shape.

Heh. Just noticed that to the east of the map, there is a country called "Galt." That's the name of a town about 15 minutes north of where I live.

I haven’t noticed very much messageboard activity from the usual Paizo staffers over the past couple of days, and the Tuesday night chat deteriorated into name calling and stone throwing without Doc Jacobs to keep things under control… (I’m joking of course).

Hope everyone and everything is ok.

Me too.

They're probably just craaaaazy busy.

I think they're all working on separate projects right now, IIRC.

This looks promising . . .

Nualia. I would love to see Nualia re-done. The art for her in PF#1 just doesn't do her justice.

...What happened to my pants?

Since Al Gore invented pants, he can take them away, can't he?

I would certainly give him bonuses to Knowledge (religion) on Lamashtu. As far as a creature's special abilities, that's not something I would reveal unless a creature has particular ties to Lamashtu, or appears in Lamashtu's mythos.

Agreed.

I might also give him nightmares.

Some things are best left undisturbed . . .

I think he looks great. Well done guys.

I'm not usually a fan of bards, but I can't wait to see how you guys develop him further.

Maybe, if his flute doubled as a weapon . . . like if a certain note is blown, a shortspear blade springs forth from the flute's end, or whenever he plays a certain shrill note, a poisoned blowgun needle is shot out . . . he has potential.

I like the mischievous look in his eye.

Dude, I'm doing the same thing.

I'll be using Open Design's Arabian Nights and Entombed with Pharaohs.

I'd be interested in hearing how the adventures ran, if you get a chance.

Head over to Wolfgang Baur's homepage, check out the Open Design #4 project - Six Arabian Nights.

Get a copy, you'll love it.

It's 6 short side trek adventures AND a city backdrop to use. They can be run as standalones, or strung together into a mini-campaign. For levels ranging 5 to 10.

Nicolas Logue wrote:

"The_PenDRaGon wrote:

...as I always say: Live fast, die young and have a good-looking corpse.

Words to live by. With my current workload...I'm definitely on that track. ;-)

Lichdom is the answer.

Yeah, Richard Pett just wrote a FANTASTIC article about Liches and you can....oh...um....whoops. Nevermind Nick.

Nah Nicky, don't quit. Take another swipe back at him.

Maybe as a by-product of Gorgon blood, the main baddy in OD#5 inadvertantly gives birth to an offal golem, named "Pett."

:D

In OD4 (Six Arabian Nights) - I think is for a variety of levels, but could be wrong.

Arabian is comprised of 6 side trek adventures, that can be either stand alone or strung together into a mini-campaign. IIRC,it spans levels 3 through 10.

Edward Gorey meets d20 = brilliant.

How much is 50,000+ words in rough page length of a product? (I know it depends on fonts and ledding and all, but I have never been good at even closely estimating this.)

Does this just kick out text at the end or is this going to by a fully published product with artwork and layout already done?

Sean Mahoney

It will be a fully rendered, professional product that is only open to patrons.

The project sounds really good.

I'm in.

But, But, it's FREE!

To speed the inevitable along, please see the following post where how "free" it is was already discussed ad nauseam.

It's so free it hurts.

*Knows full well the fact that it's free will still be brought up.*

I had that question my first day at Paizo.

They are indeed different J. Alvarezes.

For now . . .

Until they are sewn together!

Muwhwhahahahaahah

That wouldn't be Jeff Alvarez would it? Jeff is Paizo's Director of Operations, so if it's him, then I guess they have kept in touch.

I thought about that, but they have different listings on the RPG Database....so I assumed they were different people....

If they are the same person, he needs to get back to writing adventures, pronto!

Nope, you're pretty spot on Watcher.

Moral of the story: Sign. Up. Now.

:D

Last night I was flipping through some of my favorite old Dungeon mags, and I came across The Elfwhisper in Issue #90, penned by J.C. Alvarez. Elfwhisper is one of my favorite adventures - kind of an overlooked gem.

Looking Mr. Alvarez up - I see that he did another article for Dragon, and has done some work for Mongoose Publishing, but not much else I can find.

Have you guys at Paizo kept in touch with him? Any plans to ever have him write a GM module or pathfinder chapter?

(Completely random, I know - I was just wondering.)

hell shunned symbol to mark his passing. I will sever

Done. Could only pony up the $30, sorry.

I think you're going to like it.

Tentative Yes.

If the new rules system is truly better than 3.5

I will rely on Paizo for my fluff, but I'll use WotC's crunch if it's better than what I've already got.

If it's a horrible game or one I don't enjoy, then No.

Something to do tonight then :D

Awesome - you won't be disappointed. Wolfgang's genius binds the project all together, and he designed two of the six fantastic side trek adventures himself. He also had two well known industry authors each write an adventure (I won't ruin the surprise).

Valmiras (from the boards here) co-wrote another of the adventures with Wolfgang, as did I. (So, obviously I'm biased.)

Looks to be a really good set of stand alone adventures, that can be run together into an Arabian campaign if you want.