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Well, I am out of work as of today.

Please CANCEL my Pathfinder Roleplaying Game subscription.

Please suspend (for now) my Adventure Path subscription - how long can it stay suspended for before it either activates again or cancels?

Hi Paizo website crew,

I’ve noticed recently several accounts have been spamming the forums with unsolicited and irrelevant advertising material. I flagged one such dedicated thread in the off topic forum a few days ago, today an account ‘fghfgj’ has been posting advertising material into other threads (no other posts for this account except today’s advertising posts). I’ve flagged one such post, and humbly request that the account be blocked and all its posts be deleted.

Not sure if there’s anything that can be done to stop such accounts and posts in future?

I’ve noticed recently when editing a profile, it comes up with text on the screen similar to this: [UserProfile, id: 60]

This text has been appearing for quite a while, but I don’t think it always did. Just wondering what it means? If the number is 60, was I the sixtieth person to fill out a profile, or the sixtieth person to create a forum account, or something else entirely (mysterious programmy stuff)?

Nice!

Hey Gary, I went to create a new alias on my account today and got a message that ‘that avatar name is already in use’. However, when I did a search of ‘Users’ on the site with that name there were no results.

It’s no big deal; the alias I was planning to create was just a joke one, and the moment has passed, but I’m curious to know under what circumstances the alias name would be unavailable but wouldn’t show up in a search of users?

Hi Customer Service dudes and dudettes,

I just read Sara Marie’s post regarding December subscription shipments. I noticed that they will start shipping on December 8.

Is it possible that you could delay shipment of my copy of Bestiary 3 from my RPG subscription until the next AP volume ships in January?

Chances are, based on normal shipping times, if the Bestiary ships on December 8 or anytime in the next week or so from then, no one will be at the delivery address when it arrives (and for a week or two afterwards), and the package would be two big to fit in the mailbox.

Thanks in advance.

I wasn’t able to find a definitive answer to this question with a search of the messageboards; can a Bladebound Magus’ black blade be enchanted additionally to the enhancements and abilities on the ‘Black Blade Progression’ table using the Craft Magic Arms and Armour feat?

Ok ... maybe I’m just stupid or blind, but I can’t seem to find where / how to add a subscription to the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game line. If I go to the main page for say Pathfinder Modules or Pathfinder Campaign Setting I see, plain as day, in big lettering right in the middle of the page an option to add a subscription for those products, but I get nothing like that when I go to the Pathfinder RPG main page.

Assuming I’m not stupid or blind I suspect this may have something to do with me having previously been a subscriber to this line but cancelling my subscription – would this be the case?

My copy of Adventure Path number 51 was waiting for me in the mailbox today ... and to my dismay the envelope appeared to be in quite a bad state – three of the corners were bent, there was a big crease down the middle of the envelope where it appeared someone had tried to bend or fold it, and the whole thing was kind of warped.

I dreaded to think what the book inside would look like ... but when I opened it, the book was in almost perfect condition, with just a very slight bend to one of the corners of the front cover. Not bad for a soft-cover book inside a pretty badly mangled envelope!

So this is a long way of saying good work on your choice of envelopes Paizo!

Just heard, see here.

Nirvana’s Nevermind was released 20 years ago this weekend. Man I feel old.

I never heard Bleach prior to Nevermind’s release, being pretty young / on the wrong side of the world. I first heard Nevermind when I was 14, it must have been late 1991. Prior to that my musical tastes varied mainly between mainstream radio friendly pop, and older stuff my parents listened to (The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkle, Chris de Burgh ...)

We had some distant relatives from the US staying with us, I came home one day and this music was playing – Nirvana’s Nevermind, my American uncle had brought along a copy on cassette tape. I was fascinated, this music spoke to me. Totally changed my musical tastes and opened me up to a whole world of music I had never before explored.

I didn't notice a thread for this one - is anyone watching it? If so, what do you think?

I've caught a few episodes and am quite enjoying it almost despite myself (the depiction of vampires initially seemed a bit 'Twilighty' to me, and it being a US remake of a British series wasn't a big selling point).

Hello Customer Service guys and dolls.

So I received part of order 1749653 yesterday – Ultimate Magic and Jade Regent 1, but not Carrion Crown 6. When I went and checked my emails I realised that Carrion Crown 6 had shipped on the same day but in a separate package, not sure why but I’m guessing it was to optimise postage costs.

So the problem now a day later is that Carrion Crown 6 has not arrived. I’m not too worried yet, as it’s only just been the twenty days, but my packages do normally come well within that limit, and as the two packages shipped on the same day I would expect they would arrive on the same day.

How long should I leave it before I push the panic button?

Thanks guys, have a good weekend.

Hi Guys,

This beginner box looks pretty cool (and I really commend Paizo for doing it), but I have no real need for it at the moment, and the postage is killer – it looks as if the postage cost will be about 1.5 times the cost of the product.

As such I’d like to cancel my RPG subscription for the moment, thanks.

I just purchased a gift certificate, intending it for another paizo.com customer. I was expecting that at some point during checkout there would be an option for me to put in a message and send the certificate to another account, but if there was I completely missed it ... so I now have a gift certificate, apparently from myself and for myself, in my account and I’m not sure how to get it to the person it was meant to be for. The intended recipient DOES have a paizo.com account, I just didn’t notice an option during checkout to send it or credit it to them (or type a message).

Please help?

Hey PMG, I don't know how new it is, but I like what happens now when you hover over an alias of someone who's main avatar(s) is (are) also aliases (aliai?)

Hope that makes some sense.

Hi Paizonians.

I’m looking for a good dungeon adventure (from Dungeon magazine) from the 3.5 era (preferably, although I could go 3.0). Ideally it should be a smallish or compact dungeon that can be completed in one session – either a whole adventure or a dungeon that forms one site of an adventure.

Somewhere in the 8th to 11th level range.

Bonus points if it is a remnant of an ancient civilisation and/or features ‘unusual’ monsters – aberrations, outsiders and constructs are all good.

Can anyone recommend anything like that?

Hi Paizonians.

I’m looking for a good dungeon from a Pathfinder product, preferably lifted out of the Adventure Paths. Ideally it should be a smallish or compact dungeon that can be completed in one session. Rules can be 3.5 or PFRPG.

Somewhere in the 8th to 11th level range.

Bonus points if it is a remnant of an ancient civilisation and/or features ‘unusual’ monsters – aberrations, outsiders and constructs are all good.

Can anyone recommend anything like that?

I made a post that included a spoiler in one thread – Ith’s PFS pbp

When I look at the post (either in preview or final version) I see the post as it is supposed to look; a small line of text, then several paragraphs of text which is hidden by a spoiler until the button is clicked on. However, one of the other players in this play by post game could apparently see the ‘spoilered’ text without clicking on the spoiler button.

I tried deleted the post and re-posting it from where I had originally typed it up in Word – same result (looked fine to me, the other player could see the spoilered text).

Post was made using a PFS character alias. It was typed in Word then copy / pasted into the thread as is my habit. I am using Internet Explorer 8.

I have deleted the post as it contained information that is not meant to be read by other players in the game (we are playing a PFS scenario and the spoilered info is to do with a faction mission). However, I will repost exactly as it appeared in the post below this one.

This is weird ...

Probably NSFW.

I’d watch it with the sound off, unless you are a fan of Lady Gaga. The song is pretty awful (IMO) but the video is freakywrong, especially the first three minutes or so. Oh and one of Sebastian’s stablemates makes a very left field cameo.

If a druid casts faerie fire in an area where there is an invisible creature ... and the creature is outlined by the glow as per the spell description ... and then, on its next turn the creature moves outside of the area that the spell was cast (the five foot radius) ... does it remain outlined by the faerie fire for the duration of the spell?

I assume that the answer is yes, and that is how I have ruled it in the past, but I’m not certain.

I’ve got a plot idea for a PF game involving some fey. I’m wondering if anyone can point me towards some type of low CR evil fey that utilise illusions (spells, spell-like abilities or supernatural abilities). Preferably something that has been statted up somewhere for PF, or in a 3.5 or OGL source failing that. I am drawing a bit of a mental blank.

Also, anyone know if rusalka have been statted up anywhere in a PF or OGL source? I think they were in one of the 3.5 D&D books, was it Frostburn? Don’t think I have ready access to that one though.

A little over a year ago, our group began playing a highly modified version of Cure of the Crimson Throne using the Pathfinder rule set (with some house rules). For a while several members of the group were very good at keeping in-character campaign journals – you can see them here.

... And then we all got a bit lazy, or time-poor. But, from the beginning we have been pretty good at keeping session summaries. The amount of detail that these summaries go into has varied somewhat, but we have some sort of summary for (just about) every session. I thought I’d start posting those summaries here for anyone interested in following our group’s continuing adventures.

The list of characters as they appeared in the first session (along with the board names of their players where appropriate) is as follows:
Agon Deparle –male half-elf variant Fighter, a member of the Korvosan Guard (played by Mister Deparle)
Ariadnae Merivanchi – female human Cleric (Pharasma), member of a minor noble family of Korvosa and junior cleric of the Church of Pharasma (played by The 8th Dwarf)
Marcus Merivanchi – male human Noble, member of a minor noble family of Korvosa (played by The Ordinary Kraken)
Marianna Merivanchi – female human Wizard, member of a minor noble family of Korvosa (played by Chubbs McGee)
Osric Geldheim – male dwarf Rogue, an (dis)honest businessman of Korvosa (played by Norian)
Tain Locus – male human Paladin (Abadar), paladin at the Bank of Abadar (played by Mothman)

Ok, so I know the chemosit is based on the real world cryptid of the same name, but the description, picture and ‘alternate’ name (Ape-Bear) had me thinking of that old ‘classic’ the Gorilla-Bear!

Who said Paizo doesn’t like Deadline Monsters?

Does this mean we might yet see the Starfishpanda raise its loveable mutant head in Jade Regent?

More seriously, I am enjoying the monsters (old and new, including the chemosit) in this AP so far.

... on the Wikipedia front page.

The original module that is.

Just thought I'd share the love.

I’ve noticed recently that a lot of people seem to be making double posts (the same post shows up twice). Today this problem has struck me – all the posts I’ve made in the last few hours* have taken an unusually long time to post (at least several minutes). When they do show up, the same post shows up twice, time stamped from a few seconds to a few minutes apart. If I try to delete one of the posts it doesn’t seem to let me.

Just thought you guys might want to know about this if you weren’t aware.

*except this one apparently.

Hi guys, I received my notification email that this order would be shipping soon about two weeks back, I noticed that the order is still pending. Are there any problems with it? I’m assuming something is caught up in customs or otherwise delayed prior to getting to Paizo, but if there is any problem at my end, please let me know.

I’m hoping this order is charged to my card soon, before the Aussie dollar starts falling against the US dollar again! For the last couple of weeks the exchange rate has been great!

Has anyone seen this story? LINK

An evangelical church in Florida is holding an event to publically burn a copy (multiple copies?) of the Koran on the anniversary of 9/11.

How can anyone think that this is a good idea?

I can emphatically understand people being traumatised, saddened, angered etc at the events of that day and those responsible. I can understand people transferring that anger from those directly responsible to all Islamic extremists.

But how does burning a Koran help anyone or serve any good purpose? How does this even send a warning like the guy in the article seems to claim? Why do people on both sides want to keep passions and hatreds enflamed?

Also, to be pedantic, if this is happening in one church in Florida, can the guy really call it International Burn a Koran Day?

Anyway, I am not looking for comments expressing hatred to anyone (please do not post such), I just wanted to vent and express my disbelief and sadness at human stupidity and hatred.

Whoa ... that's heavy.

Yay!

Whohoo!

So we know that at least a few of the River Kings and rulers have spies in each other’s cities, and most PC Kingdoms are going to have a Spymaster. Has anyone got any rules or thoughts on how to go about letting the players plant spies in foreign cities, what advantage having such spies might give them, and how to judge whether spies discover any useful information, whether they get caught etc.? Conversely, how can the players go about trying to root out any foreign spies that might infiltrate their own kingdom?

Should this sort of stuff be handwaved, or handled very abstractly as GM fiat? Should there be some sort of random table or dice roll to determine success of spies? Should the PCs be paying gold or BPs to maintain spies in foreign kingdoms, or should any costs be simply part of Kingdom upkeep (assuming you have a spymaster)?

Anyone seen this yet? Any good? Or are the Losers the B-Team?

Anyone else having issues with Paizo.com at the moment? I'm getting really slow loading pages, occasional 'messageboards not available' messages, dots keep disappearing etc.

EDIT: and the moment I post this thread it seems to all be back to normal ...

By the RAW, do wearable Wondrous Items (boots, robes, cloaks, belts etc) come sized to fit a particular creature size (eg, small, medium, large etc), or do they re-size to fit – one size fits all?

For example, if one were to loot a magic robe from a dead derro, could a medium sized character wear it?

Great stuff!

Some great artists we have here. Congrats to the winner and runners up!

I'd be happy to see more comps like this.

Wow, Order 1389990 only shipped a week ago, and I got it today – awesome! Should I thank Paizo or the postal service? (Well, thanks either way!) It even beat my regular subscription order, which shipped a week earlier.

I normally select the standard mail service, which says it takes 12-20 days in transit (and its normally closer to 20 days than 12); did I inadvertently select a different mailing preference for this order, or was there something else I did differently that would have caused it to ship so much more quickly than my usual subscription order (so that I can do it again)?

Over the past few months, whenever I go to download a file from ‘My Downloads’, all the files seem to have the message ‘Contacting Personalizer. Check back in a minute.’

Typically its some 5 or 10 minutes before checking back seems to do anything, and then, when the ‘Personalize this file’ link is finally available, and I click on it … it goes back to ‘Contacting Personalizer. Check back in a minute.’ Cycle repeats, sometimes several times before I can finally personalize and download.

I do not think I am trying to download at particularly high traffic times (but maybe I am?), for example I rarely try to download something as soon as it has been released (for me its usually at least a couple of weeks later).

Is there anything that I or Paizo can do to speed up this process? Thanks in advance.

Hello all. Can anyone advise on any PFS scenarios set in an urban environment (Korvosa would be great, but any city that’s not too dissimilar will do) that might be appropriate for character levels 3 – 5? A dungeon that could be easily linked with an urban setting my also work.

I need to run a short side quest (no more than one session) set in (or under) Korvosa for some of the players in our Curse of the Crimson Throne campaign.

This is not a pbp game, I’ve set up a thread as a way for some of the players in my RL game and I to sort out downtime issues etc.

The little dot that appears beside threads that I have posted in recently keeps disappearing from several threads that I post in regularly (or occasionally but recently).

Dots will be gone, they come back if I post in a thread, but next time I load the page they are gone again (sometimes – it seems a bit random). The problem has been going on for a few days.

This is happening over a range of threads and forums, but the main problems ones are ‘Aubrey’s Eberron Campaign’ and ‘Aubrey’s Rise of the Runelords Campaign’ in Play By Post.

Any fix for this?

Is this any good? My instincts say no, but I seem to remember someone telling me a while back that it was.

It’s on free to air on Friday night, I want to figure out if its worth setting the recorder for.

I received the My Little Cthulhu I ordered in record time - something like 7 or 8 days in transit. Not sure how much that had to do with the goblins, but thanks anyway - and thanks for the Christmas card!

Hi Cosmo and all the customer service imps. Hope you're all having a lovely lead up to the holiday season?

Holidays approaching have reminded me that there's a very good chance no-one will be at the address I normally get my subscriptions shipped to at the time Order 1314193 is likely to arrive. I've changed my shipping address for this order (it should now be set to an address at Leichhardt rather than the usual one at Ultimo) - will this stuff things up too badly at this stage, given that I got the email yesterday saying that the order is about to ship?

Let me know if there's any problem,
cheers,
Moth

So I finally got my order today (I understand the hold up was with the AP issue being delayed). The box was delivered at work, and it was with great anticipation that I opened it when my lunch break finally arrived.

I thought the box felt a little light … hmmm, slight concern. Get rid of the packing foam, admire the cover of What Lies in Dust, then pick it up to reveal the Bestiary beneath.

Or not.

No Bestiary! You sent me the Pathfinder RPG GM Screen instead! Now, I’m sure it’s a fantastic product, but not quite what I was after … reckon you can send me the Bestiary instead?

In all seriousness, the “In This Package” bit of the invoice lists the Bestiary Hardcover, but it was the GM Screen and not the Bestiary that was sent. I’m happy to return the GM screen, but I’d really, really like my Bestiary.

~sigh~ Maybe this time I won’t set it to ship with my subscription.

Thanks in advance for your help,
Moth

Cool!

So I noticed today that Council of Thieves #3 is listed as shipping 'late November or early December', which is a little frustrating when we got the last one in September. It's probably just as (or far more) frustrating for you guys as it is for me, so I won't belabour the point.

My question is, I've ordered the Bestiary and set to ship it along with the adventure path to save on shipping. I'm concerned that it might be out of stock or something by the time its ready to ship and I'll miss out - how likely is that?

What is the cheapest shipping option I can get for the Bestiary to my listed delivery address if I go ahead and ship it seperately now (the Aussie dollar is pretty good against the US dollar today - who knows how low it might have slipped by early December)?

Hey customer service gods and goddesses, just noticed that the Bestiary that I ordered was moved from order 1267291 to order 1274387 (yeah, I know, I was notified almost two weeks ago, I’m not very good at checking my emails…)

Just wondering why and what that means? I assume it’s ‘cos the Bestiary isn’t in stock at the moment or something. Any idea when it will ship and what this change will do to the postage? No drama, just wondering.

Cheers, Moth.

Heh heh heh.

That Glabrezu totally pwnd Valeros.

You deserve that beer Jason!