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So if I have to buy a hardcover book to get those files digitally as a bonus pdf then hell yeah, I'd be very happy to do so.

With the release date for this product fast approaching, are there any plans for a PDF version of the book? Will there be any advantage for people who have it pre-ordered?

Where can I command or find these miniatures in France or in Europe ?

Ilmakis, they are currently available as a pre-order on LudikBazar. It definitely looks like anyone should be able to get them in France.

Why not an updated release of Shackled City, Age of Worms, and Savage Tide?

Wizards of the Coast actually holds the rights for those three, so they're out of the question anyway.

This should now display correctly.

While you're at it… I have the "Never hold anything" option selected and I see "GameMastery Map Pack: Palace Print Edition" shipping on its own mid-December (after the Heroes & Monsters subscription, but before the official Paizo stuff for December).

(My understanding is that "Never hold anything" should single out the Heroes & Monsters products, and leave all Paizo books together. I think that's what Vic Wertz wrote some time ago.)

There are no protections on the PDFs stopping you from printing them.

However, it may be something I saw at Lulu.com when printing the Adventure Path's Player's Guides. Their automatic system just flat out refuses to work with password protected PDF files, which yours are.

How does the design of the book look in comparison to other CoC books?

As a book that is published in digital format only (it looks like patrons were able to pre-order print copies, but other people just have the PDF option), it might be worth noting that it looks bad on the iPad (the background image repeated on every page being displayed on the bottom half of the page only).

I spent the better part of yesterday uploading on Lulu the Adventure Paths Player's Guide that Paizo no longer prints (as private books visible by me only, so no need to go look for them). Fine-tuning the covers to make the things look like books was the worst part of it. A last check and I guess I'll be able to have the books on my shelves at last.

I had to spend a day to make things look like they should, when I'm used to just adding things to my sidecart at Paizo. I'm disappointed that Paizo just doesn't provide a simple way to have their PDFs printed professionally.
I'm disappointed that the watermarks will appear on my physical copies. If Paizo officially supported print on demand, I guess there would be no need for watermarks on the physical copies.
I'm disappointed that Paizo won't see a cent from my printing, which means they won't know I would have gladly paid for physical copies of the books.
I hope the quality of the books will be good, because otherwise, I'll be even more disappointed I had to go through all this ordeal to have physical copies of the books.

So, lots of disappointment that (in my sense) could be alleviated. Yes, I read Vic Wertz's post up there, but I don't feel we're arguing over the same thing. His post feels like he's making a point over the quality of print on demand books vs. Paizo printed books. I'm arguing for a "Print on Demand" link on small, less than 32-pages booklets like the Player's Guide or Pathfinder Society scenarios that have never been available as printed books anyway.

(By the way, I found two books on Lulu that shouldn't be there (some people who wanted private copies and wrongly set public access?): GameMastery Guide and Crucible of Chaos.)

There's been a problem on the Product Schedule for a week now, where some items are listed twice. My guess is that separate entries are listed for the print and PDF versions of the same product.

Let me (Again) heartily recommend bookdepository.com for all Canadians. I've had nothing except good experiences with them. They're a bit slow (as they themselves admit) but they're very reliable

Well… The thing is, Amazon bought Book Depository this summer.

I've updated the image to reflect the finished product, and added sample images of both sides.

For some reason, I don't see the sample images (Safari 5.0.6 on Mac OS X Leopard).

Ultimate Gear ... hope this books will make us all forget Adventurer's Armory ever existed.

It's funny because I'm sure the fact that Adventurer's Armory exists and is as big a commercial hit (it's at its third printing after all) is a big reason why Ultimate Equipment is happening.

That didn't work for the third, who ended up reinstalling his system's "Thawte Premium Server CA" Root 2 certificate from Thawte's site (https://www.thawte.com/roots/).

I'm this third and this solved my problem two weeks ago. Though I'll admit reinstalling a root certificate makes you feel a bit geeky.

I discovered yesterday that I get the same kind of message on MacUpdate Promo. This one's not even issued by Thawte, so the problem is probably not directly related to Paizo. I don't really care for MacUpdate Promo, so I didn't try yet to reinstall a GeoTrust certificate.

The differences in price are probably due to different VAT rates in the individual countries.

VAT for books in France is only at 5,5%, so there must be something else.

WOOT! My copy of "A Dance With Dragons" was just sent on its way by Amazon Germany. Two weeks early!

Hey, that's really kind of strange coming from a company as high profile as Amazon.

That, and I just can't understand how they set their prices among the European stores. If I understand correctly, you can pre-order the book at Amazon.de for EUR15,95 (Bantam edition). The same edition is at EUR24,72 at Amazon.fr, and it isn't even available for pre-order at Amazon.it.

Go figure…

Quote:

Print editions will be available exclusively on paizo.com beginning June 20, 2011.

How do I read that? I have the pdf-version, but the print option is not available to me.

Are they sold already?

They're not sold out. My guess is that while the release date for the PDF can be automated (they do it every month), a switch must be switched on to make the physical release available for people to buy it.

So we'll likely have to wait until the morning in Redmond (probably in about 6-10 hours).

Is there anything in the book on minor human ethnicities, like the Caldaru, Lergeni, skraelings, etc.?

A quick search of the PDF version of this book seems to indicate that none of those three are mentioned.

A small number of older PDFs were made available for free on wizards.com over the years. (I couldn't tell you how to find them, assuming they're even still there, but somebody else might be able to.)

These items are still available through the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.

Okay… So you need to leave the cap on the blade. Then, you can screw/unscrew the top metal part of the knife to tighten/release the blade in place.

Anyone knows how this is supposed to be used? I just can't find a way to secure the blade safely in the knife. No matter how many times I turn the handle, the blade just keeps falling when in use.

Am I doing something wrong, or is it really designed to just barely hold the blade in place?

Now that you point it out, I also always find a bit confusing the monthly email I get announcing my subscriptions will ship in the next week or so (like the one I got a few hours ago). With all the things I subscribe to, it is weird to have it begin like this:

Thank you for your continuing support of GameMastery Cards!

In the next week or so, we're expecting to ship GameMastery Item Cards: Carrion Crown Deck, the next product of your subscription.

It probably should cite all the products I'm going to receive, or none at all, but why single out the GameMastery Cards subscription?

This is a tax write off right ?

My understanding of the eBay help page for this topic says "no, it's not."

Can we expect special care given to the shipping of this article? I remember the book shipping on the original release date got special treatment (such as extra protection against bent corners).

Thanks!

I can't believe the auctions are set to ship to the United States only.

You're usually great at taking care of your international fan base, so I hope this is just an error. If it's not, well… it's sad.

The guy who starts playing a year from now and wants some mats and tiles for his games will be pretty much out of luck, as half of the choices look like they will be gone for good.

As a collector, I feel your pain: I barely got the now out of stock flip-mats and map packs.

As a player, you shouldn't worry much. When a flip-mat or a map pack gets out of stock, Paizo usually releases a new version that is basically another take on the same setting (woodlands -> forest, tavern -> country inn, wizard's tower -> magic academy, dungeon chambers -> dungeon sites, etc.)

I'll post back what I can find on pages 151-348 after reading them.

Here are the errors I found reading through the second part of the book:

• p211: She ran no more than a quarter of a mile before she
saw the marks beside river. -> She ran no more than a quarter of a mile before she
saw the marks beside the river.
• p238: “Welcome to Whitethone,” said a voice -> “Welcome to Whitethrone,” said a voice
• p291: “No,” admitted Jadrek. -> “No,” admitted Declan.
• p305: “I’m wizard, not a witch. -> “I’m a wizard, not a witch.
• p333: Mareska raised her staff -> Mareshka raised her staff

I hope this helps!

I do have one complaint (with the Cards line in general), the packaging. The dang cardboard tab that sticks up at the back of the box makes it hard to open a deck without tearing the box. I assume it's a cost savings over the old box wrapped in plastic, but the 'traditional' card box is so much more easy to not damage.

I found that gently lifting the top of the box with the flat of a letter opener's blade (or a knife if you don't have that, but a knife cuts, so be careful) will open the box without damage.

Of course, if people don't know already how careful you are with your items, they'll ask questions…

I started the book yesterday and found four typos in the prologue. I didn't think about writing them down along the way and at the end of the prologue, I could only remember three. Then I continued reading and didn't find quite so many in the next chapters and didn't commit them to memory. I'm half way through the book now and the errors are really not so frequent as in the prologue. So I thought "Well, it happens.", and didn't write them down.

But I just unpacked my monthly subscription package and found the free-please-give-it-to-someone-who-cares copy of Prince of Wolves. And this new copy is… a second printing ("Second printing January 2011")!

So…

1) Congratulations on the second printing of Prince of Wolves!
2) Seeing as you plan on reprinting the books, i should really have written down these typos.

So far, I remember :
"Woods burns," she persisted. (p29) -> "Wood burns," she persisted.
unable able to comprehend (p31) -> unable to comprehend
"Liv drinks goat's milk," Ellsaif said firmly. (p32) -> "Liv drinks goat's milk," Ellasif said firmly.

I'll post back what I can find on pages 151-348 after reading them.

Please, please, please, find a way to make the watermark on the PDF file unobtrusive for those of us that want to have the poster reprinted as a single and unfolded piece. Please.

So, the borders of the four quadrants overlap. Which is perfect for what I want to do.

Cool!

Does anyone know where I can find a list to help identify which set my miniatures are from?

If it's Star Wars minis lists you're looking for, there's the Dantooine DB.

I was able to add the Adventure Path subscription finally after being pretty persistent and clicking on any link I could find with the subscription.

It's true that currently (on my Mac running Safari 5.0.3), clicking on any "Start with this Product" button on any subscription page doesn't add anything to the shopping cart.

That, plus there's no way to buy a subscription for the Player Companion and Tales from their respective (Companion, Tales) pages.

A question for anyone who may own one of these bags: How many dice sets can it contain?

I have the "Elven" version of this bag. You can stuff it with 8 seven-dice sets.

You'll have to do a knot with the strings to prevent it from opening by itself, though (same problem whatever the number of dice sets in it, actually).

Tambryn wrote:

Then again, perhaps each quadrant has 8 panels.

That.

Please, please, please, find a way to make the watermark on the PDF file unobtrusive for those of us that want to have the poster reprinted as a single and unfolded piece. Please.

Fayries wrote:

There was no pull-out map in Burnt Offerings.

Thanks for that - then there is a listing on abebooks.co.uk where someone is trying to inflate the price by claiming that there is.

The only thing that could qualify as "pull-out maps" would be the Pathfinder Chronicles: Rise of the Runelords Map Folio, but that's a separate product.

Mail me, if you still want to sell that. Address is on profile. I've had a saved search on Ebay for a while which occasionally lists auctions in the USA but didn't notify me of yours. I'll investigate.

Mail has been sent.

Edit: Or not… Since I got an "Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender" notice, I guess that your "My email comes from google dot com." really means I should send it to gmail.com and not google.com?

The price jumps steeply if the copies of Burn Offerings are described as 'new' or 'mint, includes pull-out map'.

I understand people willing to pay more for a "new" copy, but what's "mint, includes pull-out map"? There was no pull-out map in Burnt Offerings.

I'm looking at about £200 to get #1,3,5 second-hand in good condition and shipped to the UK. I think I'm just going to print from my PDF copies and buy a thermal binding machine.

Which is sad and makes me wonder how hard people are really looking for copies of Burnt Offerings. I had a new ("new" being really absolutely perfect) copy on sale two weeks ago on eBay France for 29 euros (+ 6-8 euros for worldwide shipping), and I got exactly zero bids, and zero people following the sale.

It was just a matter of checking the "Worldwide" checkbox on eBay UK or eBay US to see it appear there.

I'm wondering now if it's worth the hassle of listing it directly on eBay UK (which would allow me to cross list it on eBay US) or if people in truth are not interested enough.

Very nice! I'm looking for a base to put mine on; what size did you go for? It looks like 50mm, but I'm not sure.

I have some Iron Halo bases, they're from New Zealand and have turned out nicely.

Thanks!

I also found bases at Scibor Miniatures (another Polish company) and at Taban Miniatures (in France).

Hey! Thanks for the links.

Though I'm buying a lot of Reaper miniatures, I'm actually disappointed by their selection of "scenic" bases.

Micro Art Studio's bases are really cool, though some of them are so cluttered as to leaving me wondering where you're supposed to put the mini. They are based in Poland (which could be nice for shipping rates) and their selection is just huge. They can paint their bases for you, which is a nice touch, and have a nice tutorial showing how to mount metal models on the bases. But as you said, they're not exactly cheap.

The Games Workshop link actually came out really fine, and in my own language, which is a nice touch. These guys know how to make an international web site! The tutorial is indeed interesting. I'll have to think about what I really want for my miniatures.

Thanks!

I'm new to all this miniature painting stuff, but I noticed that what really makes a miniature stand out is not only a good paint job, but also having a pretty base.

It looks like I could either do some flocking on the default plastic base of my miniatures, or buy some metal or resin bases, sculpted to resemble timber, slate, lava, or whatever. Some of these sculpted bases look really cool, actually, and I'd like to go that way (I understand I'll have to paint the bases, and do some cutting and gluing).

I've found two suppliers for the moment: Dark Art Miniatures in the UK and Back 2 Base-ix in Australia. Both of them seem to have cool products.

The question really is "Do you know of other guys selling miniature bases?".

It looks like a pizza cutter attached to a pistol grip...

As this is probably inspired by the Assassin prestige class (which is illustrated by an half-orc in the core rulebook), I'd say it is a crossbow.

In the interest of being a great web store that listens to their customers, I'd be curious how you guys feel about this topic. Would you rather have the ability to combine your mat with other products or would you always want them to ship separately (in a tube)? And unfortunately there's no in between choice here either. We don't have the code to allow it.

I don't see how being a web store factors in the equation. I know I wouldn't buy from any store an item sold as new that is not in pristine condition. Whether it is a bent battlemat or a bent corner on a book or a crushed game box doesn't matter. If it is not in new condition, then it should not be sold as new.

I'd advise shipping separately, in a tube, or not shipping at all. Let the customer alone decide if the price for shipping is worth it. After all, you're already doing it (last time I checked anyway) with the Pathfinder launch poster or gaming paper (from Gaming Paper).

But that's not all—starting with Dave Gross's "The Lost Pathfinder," completed web fiction stories are also going to be available in all the same formats, downloadable for a nominal fee.

So we'll get them with smart quotes? Excellent!

The shipping weight has been adjusted... it should be much cheaper now.

Thanks a lot, Ross & Vic! And thank you to everybody for the advice.

All due respect to Paizo, no reason to have it shipped from Seattle if you're in France when any good art store should have kolinsky sable brushes (you'll want to look in the water color section).

I know it is counter-intuitive, but it is actually easier (I am sort of isolated here) and cheaper (because of the attractive dollar/euro ratio* and because I can combine with other stuff I buy at Paizo to get almost free shipping) buying from Seattle.

Of course, it will probably be 3-4 weeks before I get my things, but I'm in no hurry.

* That's why the EU doesn't like the euro being too strong: we then go to buy stuff abroad.

If you want a little bit more.

Thanks!

Yeah, still, good advice!

It's actually why I was willing to buy some Kolinsky sable brushes. I got a Citadel nylon brush when I decided to do some painting and it is just awful. After painting two minis, it is already forking and losing some of its hair (!), which makes me think it must actually be defective… It's no fun painting with it, to be sure.

This brush must be made of (heavy) iron weasel hair.

I can get the Hook Mountain Ogre #1 and the Red Dragon Pathfinder minis shipped to me in France for $6.54 (which is, admittedly, very low) but I have to pay $8.22 for this brush?

(I see the same shipping rate for a few other Reaper Kolinsky brushes.)

I'm not sure how to bring this to your attention other than by posting a thread on this section of the forum, though I feel it is really minor.

• There is a section called Miniatures for Roleplaying. I think Otherworld's Miniatures's products should appear there.
• The Featured Brands for Green Ronin Publishing are way out of date. I'd say current featured brands should rather include A Song of Ice and Fire, DC Adventures, Dragon Age, or Mutants & Masterminds.

I'll add to this post when I stumble upon other categories that need updating.

Interestingly, they are not yet sold on Q-Workshop's site, but they are available through their eBay account: Pathfinder Legacy of Fire Dice Set (shipping limited to Europe).

I guess this is some kind of weird limited pre-release before shipping the dice to distributors…

And sorry for asking about the Amazon question, but I just bought a Core Rulebook for a friend, and going to be buying another one for another friend and then the one for myself.

Be sure to post back if the copy you order at Amazon.com ends up being a 3rd printing. I'm thinking about buying another copy for my group, too.

Has anyone noticed that the PDFs don't display correctly on iPad? The capital A used in the headings doesn't show and the other letters are mispositioned around its spot. Tried with GoodReader and iBooks. Also tried on MacBook pro and had the same problem. Looks fine on my windows readers.

This is an issue that is attributed to Apple, and that Paizo is waiting for Apple to fix.

What if we're the crazy type that wants to spend several hundred dollars to get a massive 1-piece version made? Is it possible to make arrangements to purchase the art and have it done locally?

Seeing how the PDF versions of recent map folios are set at a 300dpi resolution, I guess you could just stitch the four parts of the map in the PDF and make someone print that file, and everything will be really fine.

Except for the watermark that will appear at the top and the bottom of each section…

If our distributor picks them up, we'll offer them!

I am interested in the George R. R. Martin Masterworks series by Dark Sword Miniatures, but it looks like you're no longer selling any of their minis.

Do you know if this is a temporary situation and if your distributor is going to pick up the like again? Or is this a permanent decision from Dark Sword Miniatures?