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A discussion I was having with Ben Bruck, combined with flipping through the Game Mastery Guide's NPC Gallery on the PRD and re-reading certain Kingmaker volumes, has led me to build incredibly stupid (yet technically effective) mass combat armies. The problem is, now I can't stop doing it. I encourage you to join along. Maybe your kingdom needs fields of barmaids or an elite cadre of prisoners, too. Here's a couple examples: ILLAGE DIOT ORDE CR 1
LITE RISONER ADRE CR 2
OURING INSTREL ROUPE CR 1
AVE OF OOKERS CR 9
EDIT: After talking to Booms, I have added the following: H ONKEYS CR 4
I'd assume that if - IF - Paizo would touch this, it'd be in some kinda epic-level book. as mentioned before, the ascended gods were above and beyond even 20th level when they ascended via their various means, even if only inferred in the reading. Now me, I've never had my PCs go beyond 21st (good ol' Savage Tide made it to the 21st-level mark), and I dunno if I'd want them to, 'cept maybe as a wacky one-shot where they tear through a series of BBEGs in the way that old 1st-Ed folks would pit Demogorgon against Orcus when they were eight years old. I think, though, that any or all of these godhood-ascension details will be left vague for GMs and players to discover together. You could easily decide that once your PCs hit 20th, they can go on a quest or whatnot to prove their divine right to ascension. The Irori way is prolly less quest than, "off you go to further your studies and hone your skills, and blah blah blazing star rises from the heavens blah blah pick your domains so your next PC can worship your last PC." As to the OP's query about handling ascension: no one in my game, so far's I've seen, has shown a lick of interest in becoming a god, save a buddy of mine back when we were ten, and we just had him kill a god. We hand-waved pretty much everything back then. If they did, I'd work something out between them and me. If they wanna quest for it, I'd make a whole quest deal. If they just wanna have their PC become a god so's their other PCs can become devotees of said god, well, that's just picking domains and whatnot, maybe write up some deets on the god's mortal exploits and whatnot. I see more interesting options in playing the first breed of new-god loyalists in a world full of established faiths trying to figure out how you're gonna muscle into their established placement in faith and society than a guy bench-pressing the Tarrasque and pissing in Lamashtu's eye. Just a thought, though. I'm-a gon' eat this pizza.
I keep forgetting about you crazy kids until I get lost and stumble into your room, as I've done I think at every PaizoCon you've run it so far. I intend to do so this time as well, if only to keep the tradition alive. One of these days I'll run "Antipaladin in Heaven" and give you guys a run for your money, I do so swear. :D
This makes me sad... I so WANT! Well, there's a baby-eating contest up in Hudsonville, MA. $5,000 top prize to the first place winner, $1,000 for second, and $500 for third. If you can stuff an infant or two into your gorge without puking, you'll stand a good chance of coming home with enough cash for the trip. Good ol' Hudsonville. Always there when you need to make a buck.
Side note: Tiny Coffee Golem's technique with the <i>explosive runes</i> was used to amazing effect in my old Savage Tide game for a certain stone head. I don't recall how many dice of force damage were thrown from multiple <i>explosive runes</i> going off, but I think the counting up took a few minutes. And the kitchen floor.
Our kingdon name and capital city were hard to come by; my group has a hard time even coming up with their character's names, so when I giddily exclaim, "LET'S NAME THE KINGDOM!" they all kinda twiddle thumbs. Lucky for us, we had an in-game in-joke to work off of: a sign left in the trapped glade announcing the reclamation of all the traps by "The Bears." It ties in extra-nice with our ruler being from that Brevic noble house with a bear as the coat of arms. So without further ado: Kingdom of Urseine (a combination of Ursus and the Seine river; so, basically "Bear River" in our mutated minds)
If one of our players has his druthers, there will also be a Stabbingtown or a Pokeville sometime. Did I mention we all have the brain worms?
I'm taking an impromptu poll to see if anyone would shed tears of scarlet if the generic gnolls (hereafter referred to as "generignolls") can from earlier stuff. Named and leveled gnolls get the new ert, but the outta-the-box guys get stuff from PF 19 and 20. Any beefs? And thanks for the positive reviews! I'm hoping to fix the low reviews back when the set was, like, 1/12th the size. Glad you liked the Unchosen, bignate. I came THIS close to re-drawing them, but that could just be the usual artistic dissatisfaction.
John Mangrum, sir, you're doing the Lord's work in here. I've added this thread to my bookmarks, and have been diligently grabbing stats since I found it, about three hours ago. I'm willing to offer recompense in the form of artwork for the diligent efforts you've provided, BTW. This has been an amazing resource. We can talk details soon enough, if you're interested.
So, been working on the upcoming third set of LoF minis (no, seriously!), and I took a quick break to whip up a copy of the Scroll of Kakishon. It's sized to be 11" x 17" if printed out at 300 DPI, so it should make a pretty sweet handout for some PCs to discover, I hope. Anyhoo. Enough jabber. Here's the link to its home on dA; just hit the "Download" button, and be prepared to wait a bit. It's pretty big. Hope y'all enjoy it!
This looks great, though I am glad I have the previous version. Not running Legacy anymore, but my group is playing in Katapesh, so these are all welcome. :) I'm seriously considering, with Liz's say-so, putting the old sets I did up on my DeviantART page for free. I'll have to dig 'em off my computer, though. Wonder if I still got all the old files. Hmm...
This looks great, though I am glad I have the previous version. Not running Legacy anymore, but my group is playing in Katapesh, so these are all welcome. :) The next one should be especially pleasing then, what with all the non-combatant Katapesh residents like Rayhan, that cleric of Abadar, and whatnot. I personally have gotten a lot of use out of various minis sets from all the contributors. Crystal's brigands from the first Kingmaker set get used a lot as general human thugs, and everyone loves the goblin cook from Callous Jack's earlier stuff.
Great job on the issue as always, everyone, and now that due to an odd snafu I got two issues, I can leave one on my gaming table and have the other bronzed. That works, right? Bronzing articles? My only complaint: as we can ALL agree on, that Ashton guy is the best artist ever. He needs to do the cover for Wayfinder #7, so he can have a published cover art credit. I mean, sure, Crystal's great, what with her art degree and design chops and getting her name in every product Paizo makes now, but I understand there's still some fans in outer Mongolia that are a bit hazy on how awesome that Ashton guy is. We need to rectify that, I think. :D
Assuming I can get the ticket to PaizoCon, and a hotel room (we stay at a hotel about five minutes' walk from Con-ville now, since it's A:) dirt cheap, B:) still allows smoking rooms, and C:) has a kitchen nook for easy prep of foodstuffs), AND airfare, I hope to run something. Alas, something tells me I'll be unsure of my attendance until mere days before the Con, so while I plan on running "Dungeon Keepers II: Orv-Gone Trail," I don't wanna leave people sitting in an empty slot if I find myself dead on the road from a failed hitch-hiking attempt. So, my consolation prize: IF I make it, I will get in touch with all y'all folks and run SPONTANEOUS N'WAH GAMING ACTION in one of the open gaming rooms. Orv-Gone Trail, my 4E Mecha game, maybe something completely random. We'll see, depending on interest and my own availability/being alive. :D
Awesomeness. I'm not even playing Pathfinder at the moment but these are so generically useful I'm buying big time. Paizo, it is not possible for you to make enough of these! We're all workin' hard to make as many as possible, I promise you. And my sentiments exactly. Can't have enough cheap-o minis. :D
I think it comes down to what we get assigned by Liz but for the record, CC is not on the top of my list. :) So it's all yours N'wah! Alrighty! :D I'd love to do Jade Regent above Carrion Crown, but as I'm gonna run Carrion Crown, I might end up doing art anyways. Might as well make it available for everyone. :D
I've got all the old files, if you lost yours. I can prolly send them to you. Or maybe I'll post up the old art on dA or something. Lemme check with Liz, but it probably won't affect sales too much if the old stuff were available for free. I mean, for most folks, paying $5 for all the minis vs. getting a few of them free isn't going to affect their purchase decision. I'll have to leave it to CJ and Crystal whether or not they want their old stuff floating around pro bono, though, as mentioned above, if you got the old Katapeshi Caravan set, it's still available for download. You just get extras of all the caravan folks on top of everything else. I, too, loved Crystal's Dashki- enough so that my version's basically just the same in my style. :D Maybe the next recognizable fighter-type guy will have oversized forearms, to make up for it? :D
Is there any way to see what these look like printed out in comparison to actual minis? As soon as I print out my full set- which should be soon- I'll take some photos and upload them on DeviantART. I'll post links once I do. Might also do the same for the sets of CJ's I've got access to. We'll see how much I can print out. Side note- I framed the PF 19 cover. It comes out pretty darn good. Might make decent art for barren living room walls. :D
Crystal Frasier's finishing up Kingmaker; I'm hoping for Carrion Crown, but Liz wants us to finish off our respective APs before moving on to new territory, so my money's on CJ, if he wants that one. He's a wily fellow, so who knows what he might pick next.
Do you have a link to your side biz minis? I may have them all, having been a patron for a lot of Open Design and Rite Publishing projects, I may have most of them already. Just wondering if there are any I've missed. Fo' sho'. Here's the list: Open Design's Tales of the Old Margreve Paper Minis More coming, I promise. :D
Full set list, for those inclined to such things (and as I've learned, who isn't):
* Rombard (Tiny-sized goat bebe)
* 3-D Dust Digger * 3-D Giant Mamba (Huge-sized snake) * 4 DIFFERENT Gnolls
* 2 Fire Elementals (shaped like flaming winged angels)
* Kardswann
* 4 Giant Tarantulas (Medium-sized spider)
...ANNNDDD A PAAARTRIIIDGE INNN A PEAR TREEEEEE! :D
The update is awesome, but doesn't it kind of negate the need for a separate Caravan mini pack? Well, unless you like Crystal's better. Plus, if you already got the caravan, you've also got camels and the herders. I didn't do them. :P Not that I'm complaining, I already got my moneys worth out of these. I look forward to more releases in the future! Yeah, Liz has got me working on the rest of LoF, so more updates, and the finalization of the AP, to come. Plus, I've also got my own mini side-biz. So, y'know, new stuff coming there as well. :D
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