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Sounds like your player wants to play a fighter with Paladin powers, if he knowingly lied and he's already breaking his oaths. Also, like mentioned why does he want to start a lawful neutral town and not a lawful good.

If they get closer to each other does this not mean that they are actually moving on their initiative?

They decapitate each other, die simultaneous, end of match in my book

Like the titel says, please cancel my Pathfinder Tales Subscription.

You could try and adapt the vitality and wound points from Unearthed Arcana (which are in the srd)

I have to agree, it is a bit heavy on the DM PC, but so are most adventures where you have to travel with named characters. On the one hand they need to be resilient enough so that an orc that passes by the PC does not just behead them but on the other hand they need to be weak enough to not outshine the heroes.

I'll be running this one probably after my Rise of the Runelords but the kids will just be adepts/warriors/commoners with cash to their name. Their actions will also be off camera.

I have a dislike for DM PC ever that I was a player in a group where they were weak enough to be rescued but strong enough to kick our characters behinds when we did not stick true to the book. I'll be fair that's more the DMs fault for not being able to think beyond the books.

After reading this it all makes more sense to me and I'll have to adjust my ruling to this. I've been using it wrong though in the past.

I always used it as described in your first spoiler tag. I always figured that to be the correct way.

Cast defensively fails -> casting becomes a normal cast -> receive attack of opportunity -> roll concentration check.

I could also have been wrong but if I am I am going to house rule it like thus.

The missing player's character is always in the background, fighting a creature that is also in the background. A lot of things happen in that background...

If I would have a TPK then the character is also dead though I rarely do TPK's and rather go the direction of "you wake up in the goblin's prisoner tent strapped to a pole without your items".

I just do it that way cause it is easier on me and the players. If really needed I do use his skills etc.

Like the title said, I would like to cancel my companion subscription.

This beginner box sounds similar to the experience I went through as a 9 year old. Growing from Heroquest into D&D.

Sounds ideally to start playing with my child. Sadly, 9 years too soon and in a wrong language.

Seeing that my wife is pregnant and only in week 9 at the moment I actually don't understand how anyone can be a decent adventurer while being in the first three months.

Outwards it does not alter much, she lost a few pounds but is now gaining a few pounds the big thing though is the not visible, nauseau, constant nauseau that lightens up a bit if she eats something, a piece of fruit or so is enough for a few hours. Couple that with complete fatigueu after going shopping. This is walking to the grocery store, picking everything and for her just walking back (I'm the mule). After a full days of work cause she still works she falls asleep on the couch.

IF you're even unlucky like my wife then you can add another thing to that and that's stomach cramps, in a way us men can't comprehend, which our gynaecologist said is normal due to not seeing anything wrong with the pregnancy. It's her womb expanding. Most women only have this a few days or so. Still she got ordered two weeks of bed rest cause this pain could really cripple her and make her unable to do her work. (She attends and helps senior citizens in a nursing home).

But then again, our gynaecologist also said that pregnancies differ from woman to woman.

I do not know if other subscribers or purchasers of the Adventure Path books have this problem but I've been noticing a decline in the quality of the spine bindings of my books at least.

It started around the time of Council of Thieves, part 1, 2 & 4 that I received had the first page coming loose from the rest of the book. It was not too alarming at that time since it was not too troublesome and being an abroad customer it was just not worth the time & cost invested to really complain. It also was not a problem with the issues that came since nr 4

Since then though one of the pages of part 4 loosened completely and my part 3 of the latest adventure path has the same problem.

I am not one of those people to threaten about leaving or the poor quality of the work itself due to the fact I still love my adventure path. I just ask that you talk to your printer about this, certainly since none of my issues before Council of Thieves have that problem. (Well except part 4 of my Rise of the Runelords but that's due to use)

A suggestion of me would be to make a companion from this kind of tales. I'd buy it in a heartbeat

IMHO you only need stat blocks for the first adventure, if you're buying the second without the first adventure you're already showing that you're an experienced DM. I always saw pregens as a way for new players to quickly get to playing.

I only use them to see what level my players need to be.

I know what I do with metagaming like that.

Take shalelu and kaven's character, level them up to a threat to the pc by taking one of the nastiest PrC I can find and throw them at them in the next adventure when they assault the fortress of the stone giants. Or you could have them hunt for the characters after all, it's a ranger and a rogue.

They should know that former allies can become new enemies after enough torture. Nothing like a destroyed mind makes a nice chaotic villain.

Why does everything have to have rules?

Just treat the first wife as your queen and every other wife is just another fun evening in the week. Till in two years then it's another divide of your paycheck (/jk)

I never really understood the "it goes to fast" element of an Adventure Path. Sure it can go fast but it's a series of events that lead to the culmination of such power. Isn't that what it's all about? PC getting thrown into events that are so much over their heads that they adapt and thus grow in power themselves?

Yes you could build in, and here a year goes by between events but that's still not really pacing their growth because the events that give them their power are still going to happen pretty much in quick order.

Of course I'm the type of dm that does nog give xp through monster killing but rather the dm that says: "now you level". This allows me to throw some adventures in between without having them outgrow an AP.

That's probably why I am still in adventure 3 of the RotR :p

I know I am picking on a stupid thing, but seriously, nobody's drawing Harsk running around in a snowy field with an unbuttoned shirt and a fur loincloth.

Maybe they'll do that for next year's card.

In any event, the Jade Regent adventure path is more or less tied to an Asian-Themed book's release. Either that or we try to cover everything that Asia has to offer in the back half of 6 volumes of Pathfinder, which for numerous reasons is a poor idea.

Still while I would love this Jade Regent AP, I'm not too keen on having to buy extra books beyond the Pathfinder RPG/Bestiary/Gamemaster Guide. Those three I see as a necessary investment for the PF RPG.

From the get go it was always stated that everything you would need to succesfully pull off an AP is included in the AP books. The moment I need to buy supplements to get the complete deal for an AP is the moment that in (_my_ opinion) the AP is losing it's attractiveness to me.

Still while it's my opinion I can only guess that I'm not the only one that thinks about it this way. This is probably that fine line that Paizo needs to walk with its AP line.

Physical ability to operate telephone, computer hardware/software including keyboard, and 10-key, ability to type, to sit for extended periods of time, and occasionally to lift/carry up to 20 pounds.

What kind of editing do you guys do?!

I wouldn't mind it starting at level 1 again, put it a bit in the future where the heroes can be connected to the original group that defeated Karzoug. Maybe those heroes, knowing that runelords exist, used all their acquired wealth to fund an organization. An organization looking for information on the whereabouts of the other Runelords. They would try and contain them before the would awaken and endanger Varisia again.

I myself would also like to inform as to the status of my order. As my companion book (Cheliax) has been put to go with #28. I also have not yet received the confirmation that my recent issue, together with the other items I have ordered and should be receiving with them, has not been shipped yet.

Concerning order: Paizo Order #1280195

If at all possible I would also like to have the companion be a part of that order. (If however this is too much of a hassle at this time please feel free to keep it to go with #28)

Thanks, about the map folio, it was a mistake on my end. My PC subscription said that the next item to ship with Pathfinder AP was the Map Folio so I thought I would be getting that one even if I cancelled my subscription.

Could you cancel my Pathfinder Chronicles subscription and take out the Crimson Tide Map Folio?

Thank you!

I'll bump this to top then so someone at paizo sees this.

Dearest, dear super Customer Support (sucking up might help).

I lost the rulebook to my Harrow Cards set, is there any way to get this as a pdf or doc? I don't need it pretty, I just need the rules.

thanks

If only gen con would move to Belgium :p

Have to pipe in as well, so far the biggest reason to keep a subscription is the free pdf. So far I am kinda grunting everytime I get sent a package. The benefits of a subscription are slowly fading. The previous packaging and posting was a godsend. Now it's almost doubling what I buy.

The other thing is with the raise of the shipping cost comes a possibility with bigger packages of rising up to an extra customs charge

Elves, color coded for your convenience. Will Drizzt also become brown? You know, a marketing ploy could also be part of it, by the elves getting a human racial color they are now able to make a Drizzt movie without putting too much in make up or cgi. Drizzt can now be played by .... Wesley Snipes :p

Blade 5: Drizzt's Legacy

I remember the first such set piece to be a part of pathfinder 1 so I'm not too scared. Remember the catacombs of wrath, in the text it literally says to have the pc's visit it later since it might be too hard for them now.

I'm looking forward to the Drow AP and it's set pieces. :)

And if they suck, Paizo will know from their masses.

I'm having a problem with the rules regarding DR. Problem explanation by example:

A Barghest has 10/silver DR.
Does this mean that
a) A magical weapon (every +1 magic sword) and silver weapons overcome this DR
b) Only silver weapons, magical or non magical weapons overcome this DR.

Now I'm thinking that a is the solution, but if that's true, is there any reason at all to not just get a +1 magic sword instead of sometimes try to find the weapon you need to overcome the DR?

Then send an e-mail instead of posting on the forum if the answers from the userbase aren't good enough. When you post on a forum you'll mostly get userbase answers. It's what I do when I need an answer from someone at Paizo and they allways answer within 24 hours. (That's my personal experience.)

If you would have searched the forums you would have noticed that Paizo said that there are 2 things why they made Pathfinder RPG.

1. It is to keep 3.5 going when the PHB and DMG go out of stock. The Pathfinder RPG should replace these books to it's best abilities.
2. There is one BIG difference to notice. It is an updated version of 3.5 with other words, there are rule changes, it is not going to be an exact copy of the current books. They wanted to customize 3.5 to befit Pathfinder the best so not everything is going to stay the same. Kinda how 3.5 is and is not 3.0

edit: 1st paragraph is not intended as an attack.

Well, if you make magic missile usable at will, you need some balancing factor, like a to-hit roll. Having an unlimited capacity for attack spells that hit unerringly would be the death of game balance.

I give all my sorc/wizards in 3.5 a wand of magic missile free of charge. I find a sorc/wiz to be pathetic enough at first level to warrant this "gift". Yes they can hit every round but most encounters feature monsters that are either several 6hp monsters or one in the 20s.

Freaking Goblins are stronger than wizards/sorcerers on their first level.

I don't normally post in these kind of threads but now for once I will say , thank you mr Gygax, because of your game I met my wife and made a lot of good friends!

Devide the large map into 4 different pages, get pages, layout on the table next to each other. Now I have a poster map and if I want them fixed to each other I scotch tape them together, if I only need the lower left corner I can use that one separately.

I myself am in a pickle with this, for me an overseas customer the fact I get the pdf's a lot earlier is worth a lot... It's time to go the account way to see if I will
a) keep the subscription
b) cancel subscription and buy pdf + books for a while.

1. I will not convert
2. I will not purchase 4e books and thus cancel my subscriptions
3. I will keep a 3rd edition subscription.

tbh I'm not even interested in conversion material, I play outhouse for half the time and I love the ease of how Pathfinder can be runned, I'm not interested in conversion notes from 4e to 3rd. I like the books I buy to have the words be what I need.

I'm in a similar spot, Tsuto got captured, interrogated and is currently in a jail. So far my plan is to have him hanged in Sandpoint because I do not think that Sandpoint sends all their prisoners to Magnimar for trial. Certainly not, I think when the evidence is so overwhelming.

I'll have him hanged while Lyrie, that human warrior are sent to sandpoint to investigate the sudden quietness of Tsuto / Quasit girl. Lyrie will want revenge on the players afterward and will ambush them when they are heading to Thistletop.

SRD:

This transformation is interrupted by sunlight, and even a daylight spell can delay death, but to reverse the transformation requires remove disease. The save DC is Constitution-based and includes a +4 racial bonus.

Keep him in the sun! or have a daylight spell on something he's holding. This will of course hammer them on the dungeon crawl of thistletop but might buy him enough time to raid that lair!

Just so you know, your CotCT players guide says Rise of the Runelords in bold statement in the Open Game License instead of Curse of the Crimson Throne. I'm thinking it might be important to change that.

Culture/races books

Like the Plot & Poison: A guidebook to drow. But first and for all about all the player races and mostly filled with fluff. How do elves live/play. It's not as right out of the phb playable as it is now. A player should know the difference between a forlorn and a true elf.

Those Golarion write ups could even be Pathfinder blogs, that way you can schedule in work time to keep it up :p

Use of battlemat in Burnt Offerings so far, once. The quasit fight and that was because it was kind of a boss fight. Placing the battlemat takes time too. I use it as rarely as possible, only in complicated fights and even then it does indeed add to much metagaming. Invisibility etc, fog spells, darkness, all dimish when used on a battlemat.

Please cancel my subscription to Planet Stories.

Why not just derive it from the 4th ones by comparing it to the second level ones? The only difference is hit points, skill ranks and the extra feat they have at 4th. Shouldn't be too hard and it might be your only option. I've been going through my gamemastery modules and so far have not discovered a 3rd level pregen.

I'm pretty interested in SP's covers, he's capable of real masterworks but I've also seen great stinkers as well. I'll miss WAR though!

The bard and potions? I'd drop a cure light wounds wand in the first adventure if I was playing with the iconics. I'd even drop such a wand if my players had a cleric so that he could use his other spells at the first couple of levels.

skimmed through it, have to say beside the adventure & karzoug that I find this one the most lacking. I don't care all that much for the beastiary in every pathfinder and it seems to me that that's the thing allways getting more page count.

Oh and wasn't this issue supposed to get a new special giant breed ecology write up?

On the up side the adventure seems to bring everything to a nice conclusion and I'm picking these up for the adventures more than anything so yay in that department!

Please cancel my gamemastery subscription. I'll be cherry picking them rather than grabing em all.

The biggest thing to take to heart is What Monte Cook said, how much will something that is offered for sale in August be playtested. The only ones that have an advantage here are the ones that managed to hire a freelancer who is a playtester to write your book like Necromancer Games has, and even then it's going out on a big limb since the rules will still be changing till April

(and that is cause I am assuming that is when you have to have your books at the printer in time for a release in June)

Once again I say, being experts in 3E does not translate as being experts in 4E. It's not that since I am a great rugby player that I suddenly am a great american football player.

Tbh, I greatly enjoy reading the blog and pathfinder but sometimes it amuses me. It says about how all dragons should have backgrounds and aren't just fodder. This raised an eyebrow from me seeing how in PF#4 there are 2 fodder dragons (not counting the one raiding the village). The giants captured 2 red dragons which they keep charmed. There isn't much known about them except for the fact that one is called lefty and the other righty.

Yes I know I'm being an ass here but it had to be said and I have a tendency to speak my mind even if it isn't in my best interest.