If you have a problem with living in a tyranny then I've got to wonder where you live.
I'm British, my country has been ruled by a privileged elite for hundreds of years but I get by.
Lots of countries have had semi-permanent border wars in the past, even now South Korea is not an unremmiting hellhole just because they are at-war with North Korea.
People happily live in difficult weather/food conditions all of the time.
And stressing about Varisia? The Shoanti are about as 'preparing for war' with Cheliax as the Americans are 'preparing for war' with the French.
Maybe we need to find out what your criteria for "nice place to live" is. Right now I'm getting the impression that modern-Scandinavia-or-bust is your criteria.
I think you're somewhat misinformed overall - both the Inner Sea and the Dragon Empires have plenty of places that are desirable to live in.
Where? The Pathfinder Wiki made every nation sound at least gloomy if not downright horrifying. None of them were devoid of problems that would plague the citizenry, whether internal or external.
I just checked the wiki and it said...
You'd have more to go on if you bought the books.
Honestly, though, I would happily spend time living in these places in the Inner Sea region:
Absalom
Andoran
Cheliax
Druma
Hermea
Kyonin
Land of the Linnorm Kings
Molthune
Nirmathas
Numeria
Qadira
Realm of the Mammoth Lords
Taldor
Varisia
Alkenstar
Jalmeray
Katapesh
Mwangi
Osirion
Rahadoum
Thuvia
Obviously, none of them are perfect but I just checked with reality and it turns out that the place where I currently live isn't perfect either: I get by.
Let's take Andoran as an example, you don't want to live in a small selection of isolated communities dominated by a logging consortium but elsewhere seems rather pleasant.
Or how about Nirmathas, yes there is border strife but it is in many ways a haven of peace and personal freedom.
etc. etc.
There seems to be an inescapable law of diminishing returns with monster books.
I have no interest in a Bestiary 4.
An NPC book that is referenced for character stats in APs and Modules to save space would be great. Especially if it had some of those tricky high-level NPCs.
I use the GMG and Rival Guide but could do with more.
To be honest, I don't think it would kill anyone for Paizo to 'only' produce two rules hardcovers next year.
You should be able to change the name of the campaign to "GM Elberion runs..." the same way you changed the "now recruiting" part.
Done that, but it still says Game Master GeraintElberion, and it is linked to my GeraintElberion forum identity (i.e. GeraintElberion is the top pick in the Post As box, I have to dig out GM Elberion.
I'm really not being very clear today: doesn't bode well for GMing...
A different player's guide so that you don't all make piratical scallywags.
Nice elves, lots of them.
A complete re-write of book 5.
That said, if you could do those things then this AP would be a blast. APs 1-3 are awesome but poorly linked, 4 is strange but fascinating and 6 looks like a piece of trippy wonderfulness.
Point #1 - I think you mean, you want to change the Alias you have posted under for previous posts? Or do you mean you want to change the title of your thread to "GM Elberion runs...".
The first, you may be able to go back and edit your post.
The Second, I think someone on the webpage staff will need to do that. Or just start a new thread with the correct title, and leave a message in the previous thread that the game thread has changed.
I want to change it to "GM Elberion runs..." I should have been clearer.
I'm not sure about the first question but as to the second:
Click on the Campain Info tab when viewing any of the campaign threads ie. your recruitment thread. Near the top right will be a link saying Edit This Campaign, click the link and that will give you access to change that "now recruiting" to whatever you want.
I used my main forum idenitity for my game bu want to change it to my GM Elberion alias, would that be possible?
Similarly, I described the game as 'now recruting...' but can't figure out how to change that game description (which will obviously have to change soon).
It's also hard to maintain a fighting force when your number one export is 'famine'.
Precisely. Having a million soldiers isn't enough. You need to feed them, arm them, maintain and repair their equipment, train them, and so on.
On the eve of the first battle you just jam the radio signals and blast over loudspeakers that SK will grant 100% amnesty for anyone who lays down their weapons, along with a hot meal.
One question: will there be much overlap with the beginner's box?
If a monster is in the Beginner Box AND the Pathfinder RPG Bestiary, there's a good chance there will be crossover. But keep in mind that one of the three sheets in the Beginner Box was all player characters (plus one Large monster), and the BB had stuff like serpentfolk that aren't in the main monster book.
When there's crossover and when we have the opportunity, we may use different art to make it a "different" skeleton, or what have you.
Honestly, alignment should be made as fuzzy as possible, which means a bit in the main rules and then leave it.
Otherwise you end up restricting most players and giving leverage to people who want to argue brokkedeebrokken corner cases.
I always think it is telling to try to pay tribute to someone in their own style: so something like...
He had the kind of fatuous, wide-ranging self-importance that only results from a certain kind of minor public school education. Often, he managed to inveigle himself into the company of some of the brightest minds; wherein his restless tongue could win him favour and reward that his rather wearying intellect did not fully deserve.
Putting together a ranger for your consideration (2 versions, one 25pt half-elf, one 15pt half-celestial) and wandering what monsters predominate in the region?
With all of the teasers in RotRL it might be neat to have them meet/battle the Sandpoint Devil.
Might be more interesting to have to sneak into its lair when it is absent and get something.
You could also play a reverse-Foxglove. One of the sisters could have cleared and redeemed/rebuilt the Manor and have a major sense of antagonism to the old PCs (and their children) but becomes a real ally later on.
With the hardcover coming out, I am considering running a sequel campaign to Rise. My RotRL group defeated Karzoug, then pseudo-retired intending to continue to thwart Alaznist, who awakened shortly before they headed up to Xin-Shalast.
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There are a couple of things that happened. First, one friend is running Jade Regent, which is set approximately 5 yrs after my Rise campaign ended. Second, another friend is running Curse of the Crimson Throne, taking place approximately the same time. We all want it to be in the same world, with the things that happened in past campaigns to exist in current ones.
Now, I have considered running the sequel a good 15 years past the end of my Rise campaign. (Mostly, in part, to allowing one player to play his old PC's son.) I am also considering the final antagonist to be either Xanderghul, Sorshen, or possibly Alaznist (assuming she somehow avoided the "wrath" of the former PCs) but am undecided as to which.
Has anyone else decided to run a sequel, and what did you do? I am looking for ideas that I may not have thought of yet. I have several months before I would undertake this task, but I want to get a good foundation to build this campaign upon. Many thanks!
The Shattered Star is a forthcoming Adventure Path. It appears that it will be a kind of sequel to Rise of the Runelords.
I still find the premise (and name) of "sin magic" to be silly and sound like a "not-so-good borderline porn fanfic" involving mind control (lust is ALWAYS highlighted among sins) but that's just me...
That seems a fairly odd statement, given the sins which are highlighted in RotRL.
Spoiler:
greed
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all the rest
These forums are so biased against new players like me, havent found a game yet. :/
Grats on those chosen!
Some thoughts, from someone who is sometimes succesful
Spoiler:
-You could try fully statting up your character, it will reassure some GMs that you know what you're doing with the system.
-Don't enter the same character for every game, tailor your choices.
-Read the info the GM references: you can see that this GM referenced the Sandpoint sourcebooks and many of the people posting in this thread used that information.
-Tone down the florid prose: many GMs are very articulate and will notice errors in grammar, syntax or word choice which can be made more easily if you are pushing the language (i.e. penchant for empathy?)
-Be patient and be a friendly face, even when you miss out
Okay so very late last night I made my final decisions for filling the Ruins of Thassilon party. First of all I'd like to thank everyone who showed an interest in my game and to say this was not an easy choice.
I understand that PBP frequently have player turnover due to unexpected interruptions of real life. If that should happen here several of you would be high on my list of people (and character's) to fill in.
Kiprin, Kip, Lomelack sails with the Nameless: a fishing boat out of Sandpoint which used to be called the Soaring Swallow after a carving made on the prow by Jervais Stoot, when the carving was hacked off the boat lost its name but not its memories - It is run by a dour old shiphand who lost his wife to Stoot's cruel knife.
Kip has sailed with him for a few years after growing up an orphan at the Turnadock: Kip loved to sneak out and wander Sandpoint at night but he was never reckless (or perhaps brave) enough to engage in the petty crimes of some if his night-creeping peers.
As he grew older Kip was listless and unambitious, not entering into any formal apprenticeship or building relations with an adults who might take him under their wing. Only pressure from the mayor and academy persuaded anyone to take Kip on rather than leaving him doing odd jobs and bumming around town.
Strangely, Kip took to the seas. He enjoys the healthy exercise, blunt camaraderie and quiet respect that comes with the boat and the crew.
Kip also loves Sandpoint, although he doesn't know it, he might grumble about this and that but he has never been tempted on a boat which took him more than a few days sail away and has never had the chance to visit friends or family from outside of the region. He can't even imagine leaving, Sandpoint is a part of his sense of self.
Kip is agile, quick with his hands and useful with small devices: all very useful aboard ship and in doing odd jobs on land. His understanding of the dark places is known only to his old Turandock Academy friends and his knife skills have mostly been practised upon the delicate anatomy of fish.
Kip is a Chaotic Good Rogue.
I have left his friendships and the ship's crew deliberately vague to help fit with the story
"Those pesky North Koreans are spoiling it for everyone" [/shakes fist].
To be honest, the political situation is probably so Machiavelian (sp?) and strange that we can't pretend to know the ins and outs. Perhaps the South Korean government has made a good move, or...
We call that game Chinese whispers in Australia as well....
You are right GE - characterising your opponent as crazy - primitive, crazy - religious nutters or crazy stupid is a good way to get stuck fighting a couple of wars that costs thousands of talented young lives, billions of dollars, pushes your country into a financial crisis, deepens the divisions between rich and poor and fractures the cohesiveness of the country overall.
The last Korean war was a draw.... and the scale of potential devastation if something were to kick off this time around would be world shattering.
The best thing to do is to be on your guard, dont start anything but be ready to finish it if it does happen,
The people I feel most sorry for is you average North Korean citizen, they are starving, cold and have no hope.
America doesn't need to get involved. Unless China gets involved, which I doubt, South Korea can take North Korea by itself. The disparity between their militaries and supporting economies is too much for the North to handle. Personally, I feel that North Korea's murders of South Korean citizens need to stop. The South needs to warn them that if it continues, there will be a war. They should not allow the North to get away with firing upon and killing their people. War isn't a good thing, but neither is tolerating repeated attacks.
Hey didn't those attacks happen after that thing, and during that other thing, which was precipitated by that other thing that was influenced by those other things and and and Oh My God Maybe Things Are Not Quite So Simple As All That!
Did you notice how violence between North and South escalated after a conservative government in the south took a harder stance? And how that harder stance was part of a international response to the NK nuclear testing? And how NK nuclear testing is driven by many factors, including a desire for security from international military intervention.
And did you notice how my above paragraph was a gross over-simplification of a complex political situation?
The situation on the Korean border may be complex but, no worries, at least the relationship between the US and China is the kind of simple thing which can be explained in a few lines.
International trade is incredibly complex and inter-related, economics reflects fluid and developing situations all over the world.
And...
Oh, sod it.
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em!
My pension is getting more expensive because some bozo on Wall Street decided to make a quick buck and buy a Ferrari!
I agree with both these points. The DM is god. He creates the world you are privleged enough to enjoy. He puts in the hours of work so you can come to game hyped up on Mountain Dew and Cheetos to play your epic narly warrior dude. He creates the world, the fights, the npcs... everything.
I buy and run Paizo stuff.
I don't invent the world or put in hours of work: I just enjoy reading Paizo books and would read them even if I had no players.
Does this mean then, that I am not 'god' but Paizo is?
I'm worried about this thread, I really am... I don't think it has enough smurfs.
South Korea neddlessly provokes North Korea with tower of lights near border?
Same story, different schtick.
Interesting how the OP has raised the lingustic stakes with 'threatens', a few more 'chinese-whispers' and it'll be Nuclear Winter.
An important story and a non-story all at once: poor North Koreans.
North Korea shouldn't be taking it as provocation. They are lights. Not only that, but they have no right to complain about South Koreans lights after sinking a South Korean warship and shelling South Korean citizens. In the last couple years, they've murdered at least 60 South Korean citizens.
Plus, what is North Korea's warning of "unexpected consequences" if not a threat?
As for China, I'm willing to bet they'll stay neutral if this one comes to blows.
'Chinese whispers' is the only name I know for the game where you whisper an idea around a campfire and see how it has changed by the end of the line. Anyway...
Regardless of what you or I think North Korea should do, I think we should grant the South Korean government a modicum of intelligence.
If you have a crazy dog and you leave a child alone with it, you don't only blame the dog for being crazy.
You're absolutely right to imply that North Korea has a terrible government, the things they have done to their own people are even more terrible than the sporadic killing of South Koreans.
South Korea also need to be reasonable: they took down the tower because it caused tensions, then they put it up again? That's not common sense, it's political manipulation: they're goading the North.
My point? This situation, like most political situations, is never going to be as simple as: "Those pesky North Koreans are spoiling it for everyone" [/shakes fist].
To be honest, the political situation is probably so Machiavelian (sp?) and strange that we can't pretend to know the ins and outs. Perhaps the South Korean government has made a good move, or perhaps it has made a bad one... I have no idea and I doubt most of us could.
It's complicated and Crash, bang, wallop! Oh, what a crazy lot those commies are! is an unhelpful way to explore the issue.
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