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That was pretty funny.

I've never read any of the fiction, but I don't object to it being there. I almost never read the fiction back in the old days of Dragon either, though I remember a few enjoyable short stories.

The backmatter articles that get most use from me are the rules subsystems ones (things like diseases from back in CotCT or the Kingmaker stuff or that kind of thing) and I do use the Bestiaries.

How about their family/comedy westerns like Hot Lead and Cold Feet, The Apple Dumpling Gang, The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again or their modern-day equivalents like The North Avenue Irregulars? Seems like we used to watch those on old-school movie projectors at church overnights or family nights, though I'm pretty sure I saw some of them at the drive-in.

Jason Nelson wrote:

Also, +1 to WOOOO!!! for Neil getting to come!

Seconded.

:)

Strange side story: I broke my hip in a strange accident when I was 13 years old. I developed a case of degenerative arthritis in the joint, and messed up the growth plate, resulting in one leg being shorter than the other and walking with distinct limp.

The Doctor's told me a few weeks ago that its time for a total hip replacement. But they can restore my leg length and grant me a complete and normal range of motion. I said "Let's get it done so I'll be recovered in time for July!"

So at PaizoCon 2011, I'm going to walk normally for the first time in 31 years! And my wife agreed to come to do some sight seeing in Seattle.

I can hardly wait. :D

Seconded to the good news for you too!

CURSE YOU!!!!!!

Hey wait, I don't get royalties. One-time contract fee.

Oh well. In that case dontcaredontcaredontcare... :)

Ewwwww.

That is all.

Also, +1 to WOOOO!!! for Neil getting to come!

Neil Spicer wrote:

Book'em, Dan-o! I'm so there! Again!

Can't wait to check out the new location...

Next up: Hotel reservations, airline reservations, event planning, game planning, and...oh, yes...clearing all that with my wife. :-D

Sheesh, I have to clear all that stuff with my HUSBAND. And considering we are apparently going to be in Glacier NP until the 7th ... *sob*

Someone convince my husband he wants to go to PaizoCON for his bday and our anniversary, hmmm?

Too funny, that weekend is MY birthday and anniversary too!

Jason. ta for that....i had a feeling it wouldnt be an original idea!!

Hey, good ideas are good ideas, wherever they originate!

I also sketched out a Worldwound campaign in the entry for Storasta in Lost Cities of Golarion; you might pick up that book if you want to see about 1500-ish words on the subject.

I threw out a quick notion for a Worldwound AP a while back as well. It was over here.

Viva la Crusade! :)

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I'd be all over it!

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If you want super-LG, Legacy of Fire is your best bet plot-wise. If you wanted to do a lot of work, you could reflavor it and drop it into a pseudo-Europe campaign, perhaps replacing the genies with faerie creatures (keep their stats the same, just reskin them with different descriptions).

Jade Regent also works very well as an LG AP.

Those are your best bets, and alas but they are the LEAST European APs that there are. Perhaps the future may hold new possibilities. I've been banging the drum for a Worldwound AP and hope we'll see one soon. I was also disappointed they dropped the plan for a dragons AP, as I'd love to see that happen.

I'd say yeah, she gets sucked out on the instant of death. You could also make the argument that the Storm Sphere is essentially an artifact and that its binding up with Katiyana's mind/body/spirit would supersede and break through ordinary magic like Sanctify Corpse.

But... if you want to make the trip easier and void the entire rest of my beautiful happy lovely adventure... *sniff* *sob*... well you just go ahead... :( If you were trying to make a poor writer cry, well, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! *single silent tear*

As was posted elsewhere on the boards when the book came out, this was just a clean miss by me - I thought I had traded out all the ki-related class features for the martial artist but flat-out forgot about abundant step.

I believe my suggestion at that time was to replace it with an improved pain points ability, increasing the bonuses from that ability by +1. Nothing particularly sexy, but if you tell your GM that's what the author suggested, maybe he/she'd give you a break and let you have it.

EDIT: Here is my original post on the subject (search the boards for "abundant step, martial artist, jason nelson")

I was looking at my original turnover for the martial artist, and I just flat missed putting in an ability swap for abundant step. I left in high jump as a class ability on purpose, because even without ki it also gives you the auto-running start and the +level bonus to jumping, which is pretty nice. Abundant step, though, that was just a clean "oops."

If you want a simple and wholly unofficial fix for this, simply replace abundant step with an another bonus monk feat (like the ones you get at 1, 2, 6, 10, etc.).

Alternatively, you could give the martial artist:

Improved Pain Points (Ex): At 12th level, a martial artist's bonus from his pain points ability increases to +2. This ability replaces abundant step.

For an official ruling on what should replace abundant step (which clearly makes no sense for the ki-less martial artist), however, FAQ this post and/or post in the UC Errata thread and ask for the official answer.

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Dire Wraiths can shapeshift.

So can Popuppians! :)

I think the art and layout on Jade Regent were simply amazing, the best I've seen in any AP. The maps were mind-blowingly cool.

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Dave's = faves .

Damn iPhone autocorrect.

In the immortal words of Cheech & Chong: "Dave's not here, man!" :)

There weren’t too many stellar ones. The vampire one was good. I liked the commercial-in-a-commercial one for VW where the dog loses weight to be able to run with the car and then it shows the Mos Eisley cantina and the aliens are watching it and the Vader kid chokes out the one bar patron who makes a comment. I also like the Kia one where the guy gets too much dream dust from the sand man and is dreaming about racing the car with all of the models and Motley Crue playing Kickstart My Heart and then he busts into the chick’s dream where she’s riding the horse and gets her. The Stamos yogurt one was funny too.

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I actually forgot about that one. I thought it was terrific, and had a nice message. No, really. The idea is the sandman hits his wife with the dream dust and she has this sort of mundane Fabio-romance dream. He gets the mega-supercharged "GUY DREAM" but partway through he jumps off the script, ignoring the stadium full of hoochies and Motley Crue-fueled drag race to go and find his wife, because that's his REAL dream girl. Awwww... very sweet. :)

<------- jumps on the little to no subsystem bandwagon.

While "running in the background" usually works, there are entire volumes of APs which would require a significant overhaul on the part of the GM. For instance KM #5 and JR #3.
There's Alot of hexes in KM5 that are mass combat hexes, I'd probably have to insert a mini dungeon in another hex to make up the xp difference. Same with caravaning in JR3 that huge journey is almost all using the caravan rules.

Kingmaker is still my favorite along with Runelords, but if I ever ran it book 5 would take Alot of work in my part.

Ironic that I wrote both of those. Maybe I should've included more crazy subsystem stuff in End of Eternity or the as-yet-unnamed future project so I could go for the trifecta (or both for the superfecta!). :)

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Ross Byers wrote:

2) He's going to say 'she was messing with my stuff, and you would have done the same.'

If Redcloak understands Xykon, which I think he does, he would use this line.

And it defeats a Zone of Truth, because it is absolutely true.

Good call both of you.

Also I feel bad for that poor roach in the last panel.

The demon roaches are awesome. :)

SIX? Ouch. Poor guy indeed. THISCLOSE to getting turned into a wight himself!

Payoff at the end? Priceless.

Yeah, didn't see that one coming! :)

I think overall I was partial to the one with the supermodel in red and black that ended up being some kind of car ad. Apparently not a very effective one, since I don't remember what car it was (something European, with a scorpion. Fiat maybe?), but the lady was certainly hawt! :)

I also am a longtime fan of the absurdly cute Coke polar bears, and I enjoyed those ones.

I didn't include them because I figured if the demon were driven out, he wouldn't have much motivation to actually fight the PCs any more and combat would be over. I'm not sure if that intention was carried through in the final text.

However, as you suggest he could be recruited to fight FOR them, and I could've included an unpossessed stat block for him (the demon-possessed template from Advanced Bestiary is a somewhat complicated one, but it wouldn't have been too hard to include a base stats paragraph in his stat block).

Sorry for the omission.

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HERE is Jason Nelson's post on RAI as he, the author, intended it to be.

Effectively, LazarX's last statement is the gist of Jason's post.

-- david
Papa.DRB

I used wording in writing it that I thought was clear, but in the end it was not. I've explained how it should have been reworded to clarify.

HOWEVER, my restatement is not official, and Paizo has never seen fit to alter or clarify the wording in print. If you're asking how it should work, and I tell you, then it's my opinion, and only that, that continuing to insist on the "you get it at 4th, then it gets worse at 6th" interpretation is being willfully obtuse.

The wording in the printed text is sufficiently ambiguous to allow that interpretation, though it is not sufficiently clear to DEMAND that interpretation. I think you're being silly, but that's just me. If you and your group are having fun with it, then it's your game bro. Enjoy it!

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Nastassja Kinski
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Wallace Shawn

(hey, he's VERY well known to nerds!)

"You're that smart?"
"Let me put it this way: You ever hear of Plato? Aristotle? SOCRATES?"
"Yes."
"Morons!"

When we turned over our class sections for Ultimate Combat, we were supposed to also send through 5-10 feat kernels. The actual feats themselves ended up being developed by another crew of folks from those kernels.

For the tetori, since they were fairly central to the class, those kernels I wrote were pretty much full-text feat descriptions (though without pretty formatting), but at some point during the development process those feats got changed or axed.

As to what they did, I'm sure I posted more details somewhere before, but Crushing Embrace let you do more damage with grappling I think, Twin Lock let you grapple two people at once, and Backbreaker was exactly what it says on the tin. I actually included a number of crippling-type effects as ideas for monk stuff and barbarian rage powers, but in the end almost all ended up getting either axed or smoothed out into ability damage and similar stuff rather than "no, your ARM is LITERALLY ripped off, DEAL WITH IT!" and the like. :)

In any case, as noted above SRM has delivered the official errata on the subject, so done and done! BTW, I quite agree that being able to pull an inverted suplex submission hold on a ghost is pretty frickin rad. :)

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Hi, I'm looking for the Interactive Maps that are in the First part of this adventure, the 4th books are easy enough to draw, so I'm not overly concerned there but the Dragon's cave just has me baflled. I'm sure that I can try to run the Necropolis without little confusion.

Which is why I'm here because I am completely confused about the Dragon's Lair. I assume that the cave drops into the Glacial Rift which means the PC's will be hanging on ropes, helpless as the dragon attacks them, that or she attacks in her lair area of the cave which is an enclosed space. Unless the PC's drive her outside but I just don't know how to run it and was seeking advice.

You are correct; the dragon's lair is laid out vertically. PCs may be flying, levitating, climbing, hanging on ropes, or may climb down and land inside one of the horizontal caves opening off either side of the rift. By all means feel free to take advantage of that in the dragon's combat tactics! :)

I had actually originally written it with several younger dragons in the rift, Vegsundvaag's brood (and one more that would return home at a certain interval after the combat, in case PCs decided to get clever and rest in the "now it's perfectly safe" dragon lair with the dead dragons), but simplification ensued...

Exactly right. Redcloak is flashing his new Chessmaster skillz.

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No. Because the dirt just gets moved out; it doesn't get kept out. Creating a tunnel through dirt requires shoring up the weight of the tunnel's ceiling, which the spell doesn't provide. You could make a hole through an earthen embankment, but if it doesn't go all the way to the top, the dirt above will collapse under its own weight and fill the space you just excavated.

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Biobeast wrote:

James Jacobs wrote:

Biobeast wrote:

I'm curious why there isn't a separate product for NPC's stats in which there is no room to stat out within the AP. The core AP could still be used but there is somehting else that can be used as a companion. Maybe not a print edition but a PDF version that costs maybe something like $5.99 to non-subscribers and free to subscribers. I would buy it for sure. In Kingmaker I would have spent a pretty penny on seeing stats for Loy, Oleg, Svetlana, Lord Varn, etc.

I know you do this for maps, but some map products are worth it and some aren't. Kingmakers was critical, SS was nice, but I had no need for the CC maps (so I didn't buy the CC maps).

Because folks get really angry when faced with the idea that in order to run an adventure, the publisher is "tricking or forcing" them into buying other books. I think we're already kind of pushing the limits on what we DO assume folks buy in order to run adventures—the fact that the rules are all online for free is what lets us really get away with things like short stat blocks for critters from Bestiaries.

Part of the point of an adventure is that it has all the tools you need to do the job in the adventure. We've never quite hit that 100%, but we aim to be as close to 100% self-support as we can, and calving off important NPC stats to a separate product is going too far.

I can see that but I'm not talking about the main people needed to run the adventure. I'm talking about the NPC's that are currently not stated out. the secondary ones in which you currenly only publish name, level, race, class, & alignment

Don't suppose you have a copy of the dungeon mastery guide?

Shhhhh... the IP lawyers will hear you! That's GAMEmastery Guide, thank you very much... :)

Man that seems a little to far for my blood. It seems like there are a lot of people who play in this area so I will just continue searching for a Bremerton/Silverdale game. Thanks.

No prob. Best of luck finding a group.

How far is Seattle from Bremerton? I know that there is a ferry ride involved somewhere in there. I'm brand new to the area myself and looking for a game.

Interestingly enough, a new player in my campaign the last month or two lives in Bremerton and takes the ferry over to Seattle for the game (I think she may stay over in Seattle part of the weekend--we game on Friday--but I'm not sure about that). My house is about a mile from the Fauntleroy ferry dock, so I believe she takes that route if we're playing here or at another player's house that's also in West Seattle, but she probably takes the Bremerton-downtown Seattle ferry if we are playing out in Magnolia at one of the other player's houses.

Does it count as being in it if the show got cancelled before it ever aired? Close enough for me!

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Carla Gugino

Jason Nelson wrote:

Some people have asked in this thread about a map of the Pleasure Palace of Kakishon, where Dilix Mahad lives.

I pulled the map out of "Palace in the Sky", from Dungeon #16. When Neshari was showing the party in, he mentioned how Nex patterned the palace after one he had encountered early in his career as an adventuring wizard. It even already has a griffin stable! So far, the map hasn't been used, because the party hasn't done anything in the pleasure palace requiring a map; they are currently trying to decide who to ally with. They actually have the idea to try a diplomatic solution; even if they fail, Dillix is the only faction they actually like, so I doubt it will lead to combat at the Pleasure Palace.

Jason, what deity do you envision the cleric version of Obherak serving?

Abadar would probably make the most sense, changing his domains from Earth and Strength to Earth and Law or maybe Nobility. Or, he could be a Separatist archetype and keep Earth and Strength as domains.

Some people have asked in this thread about a map of the Pleasure Palace of Kakishon, where Dilix Mahad lives.

Earlier today I went to go see the very enjoyable Adventures of Tintin movie, and I have to say that when I saw the Sultan's palace and gardens in Bagghar, my first thought was, "wow, that's EXACTLY how I pictured Kakishon in my mind."

So, if you're looking for inspiration for what the palace grounds might look like, you'll see something very similar to what was in my head if you go to the movie.

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Yeah Given the choice I'd swap out Xill for Hounds of Tindalos. How could I forget my favourite monster?!! But Leng spiders get a lot of coverage in the Adherer article in 'Misfits Redeemed'. So it seems redundant to focus two slots on them.

Actually those were phase spiders, not Leng spiders (at least in my original turnover, though I don't think it got changed).

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I was going to go Fred Savage, but we just had The Princess Bride, so...

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I actually saw this movie at the theater. Ouch.

What Jacobs said. And also, it should be noted that unless you playtest with several different groups, playtesting doesn't always help. For instance, most of the people I game with are professional game designers, which means they're probably going to need more challenging than the average party. (And I know Jacobs plays with some folks who make my powergamer friends look like newbies...)

Hey, hey, hey... you say that like it's a bad thing... :)

That's why we rely on developers to do the math and try to catch potential issues before they make it into print. But as with everything in life--be it editing, medical procedures, contraception, or walking down the street--nothing is guaranteed, and your mileage may vary.

Tru dat.