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Herald... Xaan do you want to give them more reasons to actually NOT develope Alkenstar?

if yes, you are going by the right road :P

My ideas are for my game. I don't force my twisted visions on Paizo. :P

Otherwise Smurf would be a core race....

Your digital camera....seriously, you want to have pictures for the memories of all the great times.

I have an extra big memory card in mine, and it takes video too! I may be no Josh Frost, but I do have pictures of all years of PaizoCon thus far.

That's a idea, perhaps we should do a flicker of PaizoCon. Chances are that everyone there will get more than a few other PaizonCon attendees in thier pictures and that would be an easy way to share.

James Jacobs wrote:

As of this point... there are no airships in Golarion. I'm pretty sure there won't be airships in there anytime soon, either.

Alkenstar should create non-magical dirigibles, very steam punk...they would be good for watching over the wastes...

Passenger dirigibles wouldn't be very safe, given the fragility of dirigibles, while they might have some use, they would be oddities rather than economic powerhouses, imagine a dirigible versus a dragon...even a baby.

Actually I can't imagine to many Dragons in the mana wastes, YMMV.

But the thought of a blimp starting out from Alkenstar setting out to the mana wastes. to do a quick look for lost magic items and then beat a hasty retreat back to Alkenstar actually shounds like a really cool adventure.

Hmmm....

We had our first real frustrating encounter with the "impossible" PA last night.

I understand that one of the missions is supposed to be more difficult, heck I don't even mind the concept, but we had a situation where we had to suspend disbelief when we couldn't do the required task.

The adventure in question is:

** spoiler omitted **

Our faction mission required us to obtain, in secret, a macguffin during the adventure. The requirement of the module specified a DC 20 Sleight of Hand check. When we encountered the item in question a fight broke out in the room.

On the first round on combat our cleric ran across the room to tend to the unconscious carrier of said macguffin. He was 60 feet away from the next two nearest party members (also of the same faction) and a good 70 feet from the nearest non-faction party member. Line of sight was at least partially blocked by a web spell cast in the room. Even with this, somehow, the cleric was unable to take the item without being noticed because it required a skill check on a skill he couldn't use untrained. My character couldn't even do it while invisible because I couldn't use the skill untrained. Keep in mind during all of this a fight is going on and nobody is paying attention to the creature in question. We wound up succeeding anyway when the entire damn party goes over to examine the individual and our party's rogue (also of our faction) does in fact make the successful check...while everybody is watching.

It's things like this that make the difficult faction PA's frustrating. The only real fix I can think of is that it needs to be outright clarified that a good method of approaching each situation can bypass the skill check requirement, because as it stands right now, our invisible line-of-sight blocked person during combat can't do something that only a rogue can do in plain sight of everybody while being observed.

In situations like this I have always handwaved the Skill Check if there was no observing PC or NPC.

Many people have had to make 2nd characters and find themselve in the 3rd to 4th range so, I'm not sure that you are in that bad of a spot. Not to mention that there should be a few GMs out there with GM reward characters that will be in that range as well. (I have a 4th Level character myself) I think we will be able to accomidate you well at Gen Con. If for nothing else, if you end up in table with some people playing pregens that are the right level.

GenCon is the Convention Granddaddy, so we shouldn't have any issues.

Please do not eat my brains.

Eating my brains will maybe killid me.
Dead goblins are not laughing goblins.
I want to be a laughing goblin, not a dead goblin.

I appreciate your consideration in this matter.

My, my. Your brains look yummy.....

It is surprizingly difficult to kill a creepy, naked man in a hot tub.

Creepy!, he's dead sexy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Any schedules for Departures?

I leave Monday morning. Swinetrekkie not for a couple of days later as she will be joining family for a Alaskan Cruise.

I'm in favor of what ever allows me to get affordable legal PDFs in the first place. If being locked is what allows that to happen, I'm in favor of that.

Orthos wrote:

I suppose my players are hardly normal, heh.

I guess it comes down to personal preference. I like the "supernatural, water-magic-neutralizing fire desert" idea and would probably make use of it myself, but I could see how some other DMs would not care for it. And as you say, nothing is forcing the players to not go the long way around.

There is no problem with the idea itself. The problems and conflicts arise with how and when you decide to tell your player about it.

Scenario 1 - Before going into the desert, you let the players make various knowledge and survival checks to give them hints that magic may not work normally and they should take mundane precautions.

Scenario 2 - The players get 7 days into the desert, they are running low on water, they try to use create water, and the DM tells them out of the blue that it doesn't work.

Scenario 2 is a lot more likely to end up with a DM getting shivved.

+1

DMs should definately use senario 1. If for nothing at all, it should give the players a cold chill down thioer spine to let them know just what kind of danger they might be facing.

{Name} {#inParty} {WeekDay} {Time}

Majuba.... - 2 - Wednesday - 06:35pm
Jared O... - 1 - Wednesday - Evening
swinetreki - 2?- Wednesday - 11:00pm
Marc Radle - 2 - Thursday - Evening
AdamDaigle - 1 - Thursday - 08:10pm
Benchak... - 1 - Thursday - 9:55AM
Zylphryx.. - 1 - Thursday - 09:00pm
MiniPedler - 1 - Friday - 06:39pm
Pain - 1 - Thursday - 10:40pm

Majuba.... - 2 - Wednesday - 06:35pm

Jared O... - 1 - Wednesday - Evening
Swinetreki and Herald - 2- Wednesday - 11:00pm
Marc Radle - 2 - Thursday - Evening
AdamDaigle - 1 - Thursday - 08:10pm
Benchak... - 1 - Thursday - 9:55AM
Zylphryx.. - 1 - Thursday - 09:00pm
MiniPedler - 1 - Friday - 06:39pm
Pain - 1 - Thursday - 10:40pm

I can tell since you're asking questions about this that it could be very wonky, and it will. Doug Doug and Hogarth have it right. Have him roll a 1st level character.

Herald wrote:

This sounds so shady...

Dear Wayfinder,
I never thought that something like this would ever happen to me....

Yep. Shows our minds are in the gutter... XD

As the saying goes...

"We'are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars"

Oscar Wilde

Herald wrote:

Enevhar Aldarion wrote:

Joshua J. Frost wrote:

I also strongly disagree that our modifications to the rules to keep our OP balanced is a house rule, but that's an argument I'd rather not have in the 2.2 FAQ.

Technically, Josh, anything not done exactly by the core rules would be a house rule, even when your house contains the entire world. ;-)

Since it's a rule that extend beyond to more than one's actual home game, and by extension, more than one DM, I'd have to agree with Josh.

Yet Josh has called himself the head GM for the PFS, so my "obvious because of the wink" tease still stands. :) ;-) :)

Doh' missed the wink...

I just want to know when we'll see Grandmaster Torch's stat block, since everyone in my area wants him dead. It's very frustrating to swing at an armor class of [absent]. How hard should it be to kill a naked guy in a hot tub?

I think that's the best thing about him...Some NPCs should be unkillable and untouchable.

The chart is eaiser to use.

Formulas aren't, they are always a source of confusion in games. I can be in a middle of a convention and ask someone to tel me what the DC is of the spell they are casting and I'll get a blank look as they try and remember 10 + Spell Level + attribute bonus. I can't tell you how many times players that have been in the game for 5 or more years and they will give me an answer of 10 + Caster level + something,...something....

And as far as variables, the scroll should be the minimums. If a bard is trying to by a bard scroll, then it is a scroll for a bard and it's at basic mimimum for the scroll to be created.

Simple.

Unless indicated as a special item that can be purchaced on a chronicle sheet, all scrolls are considered to be basic versions.

Anything else would be considered a custom item and that's not allowed in PFS rules. (afaik)

This sounds so shady...

Dear Wayfinder,
I never thought that something like this would ever happen to me....

WOW, Grandmater Torch is becoming one of my favorite NPCs in PFS.

Can I reserve for myself and my wife swine trekie?

Joshua J. Frost wrote:

I also strongly disagree that our modifications to the rules to keep our OP balanced is a house rule, but that's an argument I'd rather not have in the 2.2 FAQ.

Technically, Josh, anything not done exactly by the core rules would be a house rule, even when your house contains the entire world. ;-)

Since it's a rule that extend beyond to more than one's actual home game, and by extention, more than one DM, I'd have to agree with Josh.

I too don't understand what the big deal is. No one has ever complained in any of the games I run. I and I have a grand total of about 10 semi regular players.

How hard is it to read a chart and see what the GP cost is. It's certainly easier that rembering the formula you stated.

I agree 25 is as far as i go.

Most NPCs and Monsters are built on 15 point buys.

(And I thought this dead horse was going to be taken to another thread so the rest of us didn't have to watch it being beaten...again...and again....and again...)

+1

Mirror, Mirror wrote:

Seriously? When things don't go the way you think they will, you say "Wtf? That's crap"?

Yes, when things suddenly change for no particular reason at all without any warning, my response is not to go along with it without questioning.

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LMAO

I take it yours is. Have fun with that

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And the description there was of the water evaporating, so you COULD sweat, it would work just fine, and you COULD keep water in sealed containers.

Shall we teleport the water from the sealed container to our stomachs?

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It's really a very silly obsticle, one covered in depth in Sandstorm, and a cantrip at that.

*face palm*

Don't give in to the trolls, dude.

I am pleased that they are adding built-in PDF bookshelf capabilities into the iBook app and adding the ability to sync PDFs onto the phone. Depending on how well the PDFs view on it, I may be taking up a sizable portion of the storage on my phone for my Paizo library.

Most of the other bells and whistles are nice, but with the exception of the nicer camera, I probably won't take advantage of most of them.

Yea, I'm rather hoping that the bookshelf up date comes sooner than later. I have my paizo PDFs loaded on my iPad and I hate that it drops some of my font characters.

I assume that when the PDF support comes out in iBooks that issue will be resolved.

I'm loving my iPad except for this issue.

sadly its not adjecent to the original desert. It makes a five foot step and smites you!

It just went from bad to worse.

It's not a sinkhole, it's a "piping feature"

The way I read the rules, you'd need to show proof of purchase in order to use the material in the books. But without that, you'd be welcome to play the character at my table, just without any of the supplemental equipment / feats / spells garnered from those books.

I have to agree with Chris here. I'm not really comfortable with photocopies. But I am willing to accept that your using a spouse's/parent's PDF of a book.

I want to use Play, play, play as much as the next guy, but I also want to be fair to Paizo. They are due what the IP is worth and they ask a fair price.

Are we using the max hit points for 1st level and rolling the rest?

I did max for first and 1/2+2 for all the rest of my levels.

Herald wrote:

Do your home work.

I did, and it doesn't have one. But you buy a cable to convert the i-connector though if you have yet more money to spend...

Mighty revisionist of you, and since you don't seem to know what your talking about let's get the facts straight. There is something called the camera connection kit. It goes for $30 dollars and it provides two port connectors that are hard plastic and metal that connect to the port on the bottom of the iPad. The connectors allow you to add data from a USB drive and a MMC.

So thats what it is, lets look back to what you said.

That'll be the gizmo that you can't connect a USB stick to and won't take DVD's...

So what I said was valid, and what you said was a lie or just flat out inaccurate. So once again do your homework, or have the common sense to get it right.

thenorthman wrote:

iPad....works good with Goodreader....or at least it has for me.

Sean

That'll be the gizmo that you can't connect a USB stick to and won't take DVD's... ;)

That would be the gizmo that you can connect to USB. Do your home work.

Very, Very Cool!

washington post article

If you look close at the walls of the hole you can see dark stains marking the boundary of collapse for the underground tunnel (or fissure) that goes in a specific direction under other buildings. This begins as a hole and becomes a long fissure in the earth as it empties into the cavern.

66 feet wide at surface
100 feet deep? (that is merely to the top of the collapse debris) maybe the cavern itself is 300 feet deep.

I had a bad feeling about that. Now comes the question on how to deal with it. If they get hit with more hard rain, there is a potential for more damage to the whole block.

That hole will be problem for quite some time and for the people of that city, thats a shame.

If this was out in the countryside, this would be pretty cool because it could stablize and be explorable. Who knows what you could find in that cavern. I wonder if anyone knew it was ther?

To get things rolling, I could go ahead and make a Cleric.

Rezdave wrote:

Herald wrote:

When you have a sinkhole in a subdivision, filling with concrete is generally how they handle it. Same goes for roadways and the like.

Roads I guess I can understand, but in my experience when a sinkhole ate a house they owner took the insurance pay-out and the neighbors gained a "community water feature".

R.

depends your scenario is that a sinkhole ate the house, a lot of times you can get lucky and fill a sinkhole before it eats the house. If thats the case then they try to fill it. and even if it eats a house they still have to attempt to at least plug it enough to stop the growth because sinkholes can continue to grow. If that neighbor doesn't plug that sinkhole his home can join the community water feature. But your right about one thing, if your house is lost to a sinkhole its actually cheaper to take the payout and get a new house than to try and repair the house you lost. I don't know where you're located but in florida a sinkhole that starts small can grow into something massive.

Even if there is a payout and the homeowner moves the city often steps in to handle the issue one way or another.

Herald wrote:

As someone who has lived in Florida his whole life, they already have my sympathy. Your point is already taken.

And as someone who has seen plenty of sinkholes in his own state, looking at that thing actually makes my blood run cold. It wouldn't be hard to see that half of that city block could be destroyed before it stablizes. Typically here in Florida they like to fill sinkholes with concrete. I can't imagine what filling in a sinkhole of that magnatude would take.

I lived a long time in FL, too. Never heard of filling a sink-hole with concrete. In every area I've been having a sinkhole means you have a depression, a pit or a new pond in the ground, depending upon the size.

R.

When you have a sinkhole in a subdivision, filling with concrete is generally how they handle it. Same goes for roadways and the like. You have to make double sure that ground won't move again.

Escher table:
roll d6
1-3) refer to the entry below
4-6) refer to the entry above

Smurf Table:
Roll 4 D20
4 Papa Smurf
5 Vanity Smurf
6 Smurfette
7 Hefty Smurf
8 Brainy Smurf
9 Grouchy Smurf
10 Dreamy Smurf
11 Clumsy Smurf
12 Greedy Smurf
13 Handy Smurf
14 Chef Smurf
15 Scaredy Smurf
16 Tracker Smurf
17 Sloppy Smurf
18 Harmony Smurf
19 Painter Smurf
20 Poet Smurf
21 Baby Smurf
22 Natural Smurf
23 Snappy Smurfling
24 Slouchy Smurfling
25 Grandpa Smurf
26 Farmer Smurf
27 Sassette Smurfling
28 Alchemist Smurf
29 Timid Smurf
30 Architect Smurf
31 Baker Smurf
32 Clockwork Smurf
33 Clockwork Smurfette
34 Dabbler Smurf
35 Doctor Smurf
36 Dopey Smurf
37 Enamored Smurf
38 Finance Smurf
39 King Smurf
40 Lazy Smurf
41 Mango Smurf
42 Miner Smurf
43 Nanny Smurf
44 Nosy Smurf
45 Editor Smurf
46 Reflection Smurf
47 Reporter Smurf
48 Sneezy Smurf
49 Stinky Smurf
50 Sweepy Smurf
51 Tailor Smurf
52 Weakling Smurf
53 Wild Smurf
54 Weepy Smurf
55 Tuffy Smurf
56 Wooly Smurf
57 Nurse Smurf
58 Lucky Smurf
59 Lumberjack Smurf
60 Pastrycook Smurf
61 Cook Smurf
62 Navigator Smurf
63 Fisher Smurf
64 Hunter Smurf
65 Marco Smurf
66 Flighty Smurf
67 Gutsy Smurf
68-75 Roll twice ignoring this result or higher
76-80 Gargamel

Sketchpad wrote:

Random Trick or Treat

01-04: A Rock
05-08: Gelatinous Cubicals
09-12: Catgut Floss
13-16: Sugary Snack
17-20: 1d4 Gold

You forgot mung. That's the worst thing to get on Halloween.

Take it away man your freaking me out!!!!

Yes. However, nearly 200 people are reported dead and more are still missing from when Tropical Storm Agatha made landfall this weekend.

It's an impressive picture of the damage Agatha caused, but I think we should keep our gamer-enthusiasm in perspective.

Rez

As someone who has lived in Florida his whole life, they already have my sympathy. Your point is already taken.

And as someone who has seen plenty of sinkholes in his own state, looking at that thing actually makes my blood run cold. It wouldn't be hard to see that half of that city block could be destroyed before it stablizes. Typically here in Florida they like to fill sinkholes with concrete. I can't imagine what filling in a sinkhole of that magnatude would take.

Herald wrote:

The frightening thing is that the edges of a sinkhole are always very loose. The question is just how much more is the sinkhole going to take.

Basic subsidence rules: 35 degrees out from vertical measured at the bottom of the cave-in area determines the subsidence area at the surface. :P

The the only qestion is what exactly is the depth of that hole. From the pictures I can't tell if the dark area at he bottom is earth or just darkness.

Who to Blame

1: The GM
2-7: James Jacobs
8-9: Erik Mona
10-15: Jason Bullman
16-17: Wesley Schneider
18-19: Josh Frost (PFS Problems Only)
20: Your Players

1d20

Jason, I blame you for not including this table in the APG.

Fixed it for you

Who to Blame
1: The GM
2-7: James Jacobs
8-9: Erik Mona
10-15: Jason Bullman
16-17: Wesley Schneider
18: Josh Frost (PFS Problems Only)
19: Your Players
20: Favorite forum target of the week.

Can you imagine Orcs and other underdark creature swarming out of that thing?

The frightening thing is that the edges of a sinkhole are always very loose. The question is just how much more is the sinkhole going to take.

Biggest hole in the earth I have ever seen!

I can't imaging how this will get filled up. It looks like the hole gets bigger as you go deeper.

Trees:
1) The Larch
2) The Larch
3) The Larch
4) The Dire Larch

The slow and steady march to Bellevue, Washington draws roleplayer's toward thier inevitable destination, girding themselves for mortal conflict, perilious obsticals, and mind-bending mental gynastics.

Many a PC and NPC alike will perish, some quickly, some in a death of a thousand cuts, in abatoirs of entertainment that will not be satted.

To this end, there are few prizes, but there is glory. Glory shared between peers, and those that wish they could have attended. The event will only last for 2 and 1/2 days, but stories will be shared for a life time.

This is no ordinary gathering....
This is no no simple meeting of Roleplayers....

This is PaizoCon!

Gameplayers! Get ready to Roll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

F. Wesley Schneider wrote:

WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA!!! Mundane Vic! Lets ramp this back. None of this miraculous mystery pie appearing magically in the middle of a labyrinth, suggesting all manner of unspeakable ingredients, otherworldly bakers, and fiendish confectioners.

You rang? *holds out a delicious +3 Peanut Butter Pie of Awesome*

Look out....Orc!

And most importaintly...There is no cake....