Robert Hawkshaw
(Pathfinder Chronicles Superscriber; GameMastery Superscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber),
Thursday, 10:11 PM
Rowdy Scarlett wrote:
My book is still "Pending". Weird how some have already gotten the PDF and some are still waiting....
Nothing weird about it :) It takes time to ship out thousands of orders. Someone has to be first and someone has to be last.
Try being an international customer, you get to wait for the queue and then extra for the transit time. I do every time, and I'm on the same coast. Imagine how the Europeans and the Aussies feel.
<snip> Maidrayne Vox, the Mistress of Blades was formerly a Fighter 12. She is now a Fighter 3 / Ranger 3 / Hellknight 2. She lost 4 levels in this process. She is also now a centaur, having formerly been a human. Her alignment shifted from Lawful Evil to Lawful Good. <snip>
I don't remember the specific locations, but I know it was stated on the board that the reference of her being a human was incorrect, and that she is supposed to be a centaur.
I must have missed the reference to her being a human, as far back as the Hellknight sidebar in the Magnimar write up she's a centaur.
From the Guide to Korvosa Appendix: Mistress of Blades Maidrayne Vox (LE female human fighter 12), field commander of Order of the Nail.
<snip> Maidrayne Vox, the Mistress of Blades was formerly a Fighter 12. She is now a Fighter 3 / Ranger 3 / Hellknight 2. She lost 4 levels in this process. She is also now a centaur, having formerly been a human. Her alignment shifted from Lawful Evil to Lawful Good. <snip>
I don't remember the specific locations, but I know it was stated on the board that the reference of her being a human was incorrect, and that she is supposed to be a centaur.
I must have missed the reference to her being a human, as far back as the Hellknight sidebar in the Magnimar write up she's a centaur. I also missed those stats, where are they from?
I recently subscribed to the map pack line and I am looking at my november shipment and I don't see extra-dimensional spaces. Did I accidentally skip it when I subscribed in October? Or is it coming later?
I am still thinking of getting the deck, but not sure if the Notes section will be feasible... How are people writing in the area on the back? Pencil? I wouldn't think a pencil would be dark enough on that kind of a card to really read clearly. Nor would you want to use ink because they never get to use that card again unless it has that specific trait.
Since the cards are all mundane without special powers/abilities/traits on the backs, we are to fill in the Notes area with whatever unusual stats that particular weapon has (other than basic stats)?
I like the idea of the cards, but I just don't know about writing on the backs of them without risking pushing too hard with the pencil and leave a permanent line or not hard enough and can't read the writing.
For me every single forum that has one..well that area is a blight. It's cut off in it's own getto or it's corruption taints the rest of the forums. It brings in a type of poster that frankly I would rather not see here. We had some and they were rude, over bearing and down right insulting. I for one and dame glade they are gone
What an interesting statement. You have labelled me a blight and an undesireable element (because I enjoy discussing character build advice), then stereotyped me as rude, overbearing, and insulting.
I don't remember ever participating in any of that behavior, on these forums or others.
More interestingly, you were immediately "+1"'d by another poster.
Did either of you read Skeld's story regarding his bad experience visiting CO? Can either of you see a parallel?
There are certainly individuals who hang out on Optimization forums who engage in poor behavior, but it is unfair to label us all by their example, just as I refuse to label non-optimizers by yours.
Your best course of action is to just put up your handbooks and solicit feedback. Don't get bogged down here. The last 'CO boards' discussion ended in tears :)
The Xill racial description is cut off in my hardcopy of the bestiary.
"Evil and alien, the plane-shifting xills possess impressive intelligence and a totalitarian, militaristic culture all their own. Though they see most other life forms as incubators, they particularly prize phase spiders for this purpose."
Bolded portion is in the PRD, but not in the hard copy.
For some reason Adobe killed a bunch of useful functionality in version 9 of their reader. It is possible "downgrade" back to version 8. Some people also like using Foxit reader for pdfs instead of acrobat.
That isn't the point, the point is seeing "pending" going on three days. I knew I was going to have to pay more for shipping if I changed my subscription preferences to get the shipment and thus the file out faster. I was willing to accept that as a small price to pay if it was going to get me the file faster, which it hasn't.
but it is ... Seeker of secrets doesn't get too the office for at least another week, possibly 2. Those orders won't even get to pending until then. Vic said over a week ago that the bestiaries would start to go out either Tuesday or Wednesday based on the time they were scheduled to arrive in the office. Your order goes to 'pending' when they authorize your credit card, which is usually 5-7 days prior to shipping (when they know the date it will make it to the office)
When Vic suggested to change any subscriptions to "don't hold anything" that is exactly what I did. So it has nothing to do with "seekers of secrets",holding up the order - everything ships individually. So you were saying?
Had they already created an order and pre-authed your credit card for the princes/bestiary/seekers combo? You might need to get them to split the order, I don't know if the system will do it automagically.
Okay, so can anyone here give me a hand? We all know how great of an educational tool dnd is. I'm a school teacher and I'm starting a lunch hour gaming group at my school with 5 grade 5 students. My main concern is that parents or administrators might not think that the game is appropriate for school due to the fact that it has violence involved in it. I think my admin will be fine with it as long as the parents don't mind. But I want to find a way to draft a letter to the parents that would emphasize the value of dnd and convince them to allow their child to participate. If anyone out here can help me by giving me a couple of good paragraphs on how best to give an accurate description of what the game is in a way that will convince them on its educational value, I'd most appreciate it.
Hmm. it teaches problem solving, math skills, vocabulary, and improves reading comprehension. D&D helps me everyday at law school. :)
/edit ninja-ed - that's what I get for using tabs.
I think if you look around the forums you'll find the compilation issue discussed a lot, and I think the basic answer is no. Paizo is worried that re-releasing monthly subscription content in a compiled format will cut into their subscription numbers -- they would lose the month to month income that lets them operate.
http://pathfinder.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page might be a good place to look for basic info covered by the chronicles. If I had to start the chronicles stuff from scratch right now, I would pick a region I wanted to play in and then buy the stuff that applied to that region, and slowly spread out from there.
I'm going to stick with my Battlemaps (because I have so many of 'em!), but if I was starting from scratch I'd probably buy these. The reason being is that you have to erase the Battlemaps but with paper you can keep your maps forever. Very useful if the PCs decide to come back to an area later on. Or just for nostalgia.
What battle maps do you have? PAIZO maps are good, but I also print out battlemaps from users, web sites, and drop old maps from books into photoshop and print with low resolution.
You're right. Keeping maps is wonderful for a gm. The opportunity to reuse is wonderful. I've mounted two doorstoppers into the mid-wall trim and use plastic poster snaps to hold each large battle map. Its almost like my old history classes, where the prof would pull down a map of the Holy Roman Empire from its "hanger"; very useful.
I wondered.......... how is the bottom side of the paper? Does it have enough grit to keep from sliding on a table. I ask because I like the idea of cutting individual rooms and laying out as needed (as suggested above). HOWEVER, as with dungeon tiles, I need to lay down black shelf-liner first to keep all the pieces from slipping/sliding. It works incredibly well. But if gaming paper doesn't slide too much - I will move to using it for a while. Please advise if you know. Thanks.
It feels very similar to wrapping paper. The writing surface is smooth and a bit shiny. The back is rougher, it feels like regular paper (but thinner).
When I laid out a big encounter made up of individual sections (the scribbler's temple from Rise of the Runelords) I put it down on top of a large vinyl battle map and it didn't slide around.
There were a total of 59 Centurions that served in an Imperial Legion. The most senior Centurion in the Legion was termed the Primus-Pilus "First Spear" and he was in command of the First (double-size) Century of the Legion. The other four Senior Centurions serving under him in the First Cohort, comprised of four additional "double centuries", would be, in descending rank, the Princeps, Hastatus, Princeps-Posterior and Hastatus-Posterior. These five Senior Centurions out-ranked all of the other more "Junior" Centurions of the Legion and were known as the Primi-Ordines "First (top) Line/Order".
The other 54 more Junior Centurions each commanded one of the six standard size Centuries in the 2nd through 10th Cohorts of the Legion and were termed, within their Cohort, in descending rank, as Pilus-Prior, Princeps-Prior, Hastatus-Prior, Pilus-Posterior, Princeps-Posterior and Hastatus-Posterior. The number of the Cohort was placed before each of these titles; such as Secundas-Pilus-Prior, Secundas-Princeps-Prior, Secundas-Hastatus-Posterior (2nd Cohort); Sextus-Pilus-Posterior (6th Cohort) or Decimus-Hastatus-Prior (10th Cohort). The attainment of the rank of Primus-Pilus was the aim of every "career minded" legionary soldier. The position was generally held for one year, when the Primus-Pilus, who could then be over 50 years old, would retire as a Primipilaris (ex Primus-Pilus) from military service or be appointed as a Tribune or Praefectus Castraorum (superintendent of the camp) responsible for the units equipment and transport.
The other senior officers were the Tribunes in charge of the Cohorts and the Legatio in command of the Legion. The Legatio and Tribune, along with a Legate and Prefect, were generally appointed by the Senate and they may or may not of had much military experience. Their respective ranks today would be General, Colonels and Majors.
Entombed with the Pharoahs: The chelish soldiers in this adventure are called Chelish legionnaires, so you could use roman, or french foreign legion ranks and it should sound alright.
Having given a good look at the fighter and Paladin now I have to say I am impressed. While there is probably still going to be alot of Prc'ing out (as happens with nearly EVERY class) the armor training class featrure does make fighter Uber tanks alot more attractive/possible with a straight build (and possibly still fast/agile since high dex fighters aren't hit by heavy armour dex penalties as much)
Paladin also looks ALOT better. This would be a bit more likely to keep a player to 20 as it's abilities aren't as multiclass friendly as a fighter (but that will happen to a char that gets a feat every level)
Shame about Shock trooper not being usable till 16, (my warblade is crying) but while waiting longer sucks, the AC trade of would still be worth taking at higher levels (for warblades I mean as trading To hit for Damage sucks vs high AC baddies), fighter weapon training plus wpn fcs,Gtr would mean the Attack penalty doesn't hurt much at all so you probably wouldn't want it.
Haven't seen one yet but is there/does Pazio have plans for some sort of CharOP Boards- That was always one of my favorite things on the WOTC site for 3.5. As a DM I encouraged Powergaming as well thought out chars really let the group fell their guys rocked (and It is fairly easy to deal with- just use higher CR Monsters a bit more)
The paladin class is going to be improving (imho) in the final version as well (lay on hands as a swift when used on self, and a new smite mechanic).
The paizo boards have had a rocky start with character optimization, there was a lot of arrogant posting during the playtest with a char-op bent. Hopefully the situation will improve as the char-op boards were a nice place with some fine people on it. I'd suggest using the normal forums and tagging your post with [Char-Op] for now.
And I think there is no "better" gaming culture. Every style is valid as long as the persons involved have fun.
Some styles are more conducive than others to making sure that the other people playing have fun, too. Someone might enjoy a game where you take turns picking up the only game piece (a wooden plank) and hitting each other upside the head with it, but that doesn't mean it makes for a good game.
Hey, Kendo is fun!
I'm really interested in seeing how WOTC goes about recruiting new players. I want to be able to keep buying new and innovative products at affordable prices for years to come and that means we need more gamers. If 4e gets it done, I'll tip my hat to them.
You can check out a trailer one of my students made that gives a slim glimpse of all the madness we got up to with our first year on World Performance. Take a look see if you want:
As cool as all that is (and it's pretty awesome), there aren't nearly enough inbred backwoods ogres. Please ensure that these play a larger role in next year's curriculum. Thanks.
Also, welcome back and enjoy your holiday
There might be a scene from Hangman's Noose in that there trailer though.
Some help for your dilemma comes from the description of the spell itself: "The ability to read does not necessarily impart insight into the material, merely its literal meaning." and "It does not decipher codes or reveal messages concealed in otherwise normal text. "
Its sort of like relying on bablefish or google translations of an ancient egyptian text compared to hiring the curator of the museum of cairo. One will word for word translate, and the other will understand metaphor's, short hand, slang, codes, history, context etc..
ok, what is the difference between Pathfinder RPG and Pathfinder Chronicles? The Campaign guide I saw was for Pathfinder Chronicles. So I just got confuddled :)
Pathfinder RPG is the rules system.
Pathfinder Adventure Paths are monthly adventures that form a complete campaign over 6 months. They consist of 1 adventure, 1 big encounter linked to the adventure but written by a different author, and then support material for the adventure path (description of a deity, or a city or an organization, or a small gazeteer of a region).
Pathfinder Modules are standalone 32 page adventures. Usually include a new monster or two, some new magic items and a kick ass adventure. The Pact Stone Pyramid, The Hangman's Noose, Tower of the Last Baron, River into Darkness, and all sorts of other fun adventures.
Pathfinder Chronicles is setting material for DMs. This is world building information that is usually light on stat blocks and heavy on quality writing.
Pathfinder Companions is setting material that is safe for players. Contains more crunchy bits than the chronicles products, feats, traits, usually a prc or two.
The chronicles and companion stuff is 'stand alone' but their subject matter is usually linked to the current 6 month adventure path. For example, the Guide to Korvosa came out during the Curse of the Crimson Throne adventure path which is set in Korvosa, the guide to the Darklands came out during the Second Darkness adventure path etc..
You don't need to buy the adventure paths to make the chronicles stuff work and you don't need to buy the adventure paths to make use of the chronicles stuff. They just fit together nicely like bacon and eggs or beer and a sunny patio.
Also part of keeping rude people away the Mod's job. Actively preventing those that are over the edge of polite behavior from posting, just like we should generally not respond to those over the limit of polite behavior.
:) Of course we want the mods working on their other jobs and spending as little time moderating as possible.
I do not think the crowd that came over during the beta playtest are a representative sample of the CO boards. I followed the CO boards for a couple of years and used it as a resource much in the way the GM Reference threads for the adventure paths are used here. If I had an oddball character theme or idea that I wanted supported by the rules mechanics, a post or a perusal of the reference threads usually yielded all the information required. It was nice to have all the crunchy information condensed in one location, which the community did their best to index / sticky.
I used to read the character optimization boards a lot. The people on the wotc 3.5 boards spent a lot of time putting together reference threads (what feats were in what books, what prcs came from where, what spells etc) and other useful information that had nothing to do with 'omg pwning' the game. It was like the pathfinder wiki but for rules mechanics.
A CO board here with the paizo flair for being accepting and polite would be awesome.
I think I agree with the general trend of the thread so far.
The city and regional maps are useful. The rest of the maps are not very useful.
Right now I use posterazor and photoshop to take the pdfs and turn them into battlemaps and then print them out. I'd be happy to have a product that cuts out those steps.
I'd like maps / handouts I can show the players, either as utility maps (city maps, regional maps) or as battle maps.
Almost finished Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson. A few more chapters to go.
I'm also about half way through Shadow's Edge (Book 2 of the Night Angel trilogy), by Brent Weeks.
On deck is Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson. From what I gather, this is a seperate story from Gardens of the Moon. So my question is:
For anyone who has read it, will it draw me in as Gardens did? I couldn't put that book down.
I liked deadhouse gates better than gardens of the moon. Both are awesome. I've probably read those two books 5 or 6 times. Up until I started law school I'd re-read the entire series each time he put out a new book. It's amazing what you can spot / read into / understand more of in the first few books with the perspective you get from the later ones. Really a pleasure to go back to them.
I don't beat to death. I gently flog to death with scented shoelaces.
How much you charge for that service?
You're lucky you're in Canada. It's probably legal there.
Like "happy endings" are now, apparently.
Lucky Canuckleheads...
Are they really?
Legal or lucky?
Threadjack
Spoiler:
The actual act, exchanging money for sex is legal. However everything else in the transaction is illegal (running a brothel, soliciting in public, living of the avails of prostitution, transporting someone for the purposes of etc..
It gets an air of legality because the larger cities like Vancouver are lax about enforcing the law. The mayors in Vancouver for the last little while have been half-assing some harm reduction plans. Not sure what the current mayor has planned for dealing with all the tourists and media for the Olympics.
Robert Hawkshaw
(Pathfinder Chronicles Superscriber; GameMastery Superscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber),
