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The idea that no one would want to offend a deity by casting Raise Dead has a lot of trouble with the part of the Korvosa sourcebook which describes how the city authorities Raised 13 virgins who'd been sacrificed to Asmodei (to find out if they'd truly been willing sacrifices). I mean, that's *got* to have offended the god. Apparently it was done to prevent or suppress riots. We're having riots now....

I'd be okay if no one in the setting ever used Raise Dead, and we could therefore pretend it wasn't there--just a hack to rescue dead PCs. But it appears repeatedly in the citybook. Clearly people *do* cast it. They just don't cast it when that would be bad for the plot.

Clovis wrote:

I recently bought several from a friend, but I didn't get the stat cards. Is there somewhere online where I can find the stats, beyond what is written on the bottom of the miniatures themselves?

But if you're asking about Ptolus miniatures, they don't come with cards. They are depicted in the book, and may have suggested class andlevel, but I don't thinkthey're fully statted (though to be fair it is a huge book and I've barely scratched the surface.

The named npcs are all fully statted out in the book for sure, and I think a lot of the unnamed ones are statted in the adventures that are presented in the book. (don't have my book at hand, I'll check later)

Where's a good place to learn more about classic greyhawk? I didn't start gaming till the mid 90s and didn't play much d&d until 3.5, the d&d I played before 3.5 was dark sun, spelljammer and forgotten realms so I pretty much missed greyhawk completely.

With a hide of 20 and a decent search/spot/listen/sense motive, I can think of a ton of ways that city pseudodragons could earn or obtain silversheen or alchemical silver. Especially if everyone knows they use it to kill imps.

Charles Evans 25 wrote:

Watcher:

You seemed at a bit of a low point last night in the Chatroom, but I'm pleased to learn that you've picked yourself up to cary on. Keep up the good work! Even slow progress is nevertheless progress.

Thanks. :)

It's been hard lately. I really had to step back from the 4E boards the last two days. My posting slowed down.

I'm doing well though. It's Friday and next week will be here soon, and the chance of seeing the GSL will rise.

Please keep at it. I'm looking forward to seeing answers to your questions.

Silver or good :)
Good question. First thing I thought of was: Pack of pseudodragons grab an imp, pin it, fly up, and then fall with the imp on the bottom? Or drag it over to a silver plated statue and bludgeon it to death?

*goes to compare strengths and grapple checks*

It is a known fact that :

"that he (the king) suffered from some disease beyond even the priesthoods of Sarenrae and Abadar�s skill to cure."

** spoiler omitted **

Detect poison tells if someone is poisoned or if something is poisonous.

How long does the poisoned condition last? Is it the one minute period between the two saves, or longer?

How hard would it be to fool a cantrip anyways? :)

DitheringFool wrote:

Oh man, my order is still pending - I have the Hold for Pathfinder shipping option, what does everyone else have?

Order of receiving the PDF depends on your shipping method and how much you have waiting for your shipment. they do the UPS bigger ones, the UPS smaller ones, the faster USPS bigger ones, The faster USPS small ones.. ect until the longest shipping method, smallest shipment (at least last time we had it explained)

Hmm what about us international types?

*goes to refresh his email*

I think this may be the right forum for this, but if I'm wrong, I appologize. My question is when, if ever will Paizo be using the 4th edition rules (ducks flying projectiles)?

They don't know yet. See 4.0 PAIZO IS STILL UNDECIDED

Kassil wrote:

For the record, for those who'll look in later: Pathfinder, Pathfinder Chronicles, Pathfinder Modules, Pathfinder Companion all add up to Superscriber.

Thanks for listing the requirements, Kassil.

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I saw a copy at Drexoll Games last week. They are in Vancouver, but will ship to the US.

Its a great book.

We've fallen behind eberron!

Bump

1) I will be playing 4.0 and 3.5 depending on who in my group is dming at the time. If paizo converts to 4.0 more time will be spent playing 4.0 unless it is terrible. If paizo stays 3.5 then more time will be spent playing 3.5.

2 & 3) I will continue to subscribe either way

voted

I love things I can give my players. Handouts, maps, atlases, gazeteers, artwork etc.. Anything to draw them into the world and the game.

Voted.

Not sure why he's planning on polling with the same set over and over again. Elimination rounds really only make sense if the product changes from poll to poll.

Chris Self wrote:

logic_poet wrote:

The wonders of NAFTA and globalization at work! I wonder when we'll go to the Amero?

When Mexico stabilizes their economy and stops making ripoffs of American designer items at the same time that Canada stops sending us cold fronts. Note, when this happens, you will know by the sudden cold welling up through the soles of your shoes.

Yeah, I actually think NAFTA might come under some fire from the non-USA. Canada's obligated to sell us a certain amount of natural gas, which made Alberta happy when there was plenty, but now that their production is leveling off, the eastern provinces are starting to get nervous. Meantime, Mexico's having various oil industry problems of their own, and are none too keen to let the US majors compete with the state-owned PEMEX.

We get worried about being forced to sell you our water too. In the west we get pissed off at your illegal softwood lumber tariffs as well :)

Overall NAFTA hasn't been bad for Canada, but I don't see the Amero happening ever.

My local gaming store in Vancouver (Drexoll) has been getting all of the Pathfinder stuff in AFAIK.

Voted.

What is Edge of Anarchy? This is the first time I've heard of it? While I've been a [/i]Dungeon subscriber for years and reading Pathfinder[i] from the start, I've been absent from RPG messageboards for 2 years or so. It wasn't until last month I started actively reading, thus explaining my lateness for the party on the HMM issue...

Edge of Anarchy is the 7th volume of pathfinder, and the first chapter of the next AP. It is an urban adventure set in Korvosa.

I bought the book and was happy with it. I'd been looking for a way to help frontline combat classes compete with casters, especially well built fighter / mages or paladin sorcerors. The overpoweredness of the ToB classes is nothing compared to Wraithstrike from the complete adventurer or the glut of full bab caster prestige classes in all the splat books.
I think the reason people find it so shocking is that martial characters caught up to all the power creep that casters have enjoyed for years in a single book.

The flavour took a bit of time to get used to, but I think you can strip out a lot of the wuxia without too much effort. Compared to playing my high level fighter, the martial adept was a lot more interesting round to round.

Hopefully they get the balance and the flavour right in 4e.

SirUrza wrote:

*nods*

Get our orders shipped. :)

Hey Urza and the rest of the thread... :D

I just gave them a quick call and pointed at this thread. Corey took a look at my account and straightened it out, and they're going to be putting some answers up.

That's good news, I've been wondering about the preordered map folio as well.

In the Rise of the Runelords Player's Guide it states that some traveling gnomes might come from "the shey citadels of Irrere." What does shey mean? It's not in the dictionary.

It's just a guess, but shey might be a misspelling of fey and it might be a reference to a fey controlled area in the north. A witch queen of Irrisen is mentioned a lot in some gamemastery modules.

http://paizo.com/paizo/v5748eaic9kv7&source=rss

I'll have to go from memory, but in the chapter that contains it, it desribes a creature similiar to the Nightwalker from the D+D cartoon (not from the Monster Manuel) that abducts people from the town of Sandpoint (it's got a half-fiendish Nightwing minion).

The Sandpoint devil? Bah! That's just a local myth told by fishermen trying to cage drinks from credulous out of towners...

I think its been mentioned that the compleat encounters have some references / bearing on Golarion.

It is hard to think of what they are off doing during their 80 year liminal phase.

Frat parties?

I'm happy with all the modules and all the authors that have come out, especially Hook Mountain. The people I plan on running it for like horror movies, and love call of cthulhu. I'm personally a big fan of SLA Industries (despite its many obvious shortcomings). I think you need the dark and shocking moments to give the PCs a chance to shine. The Torture Porn thread and similar comments made here were a bit of a shock to me. But everyone is entitled to their opinion.

:) Very neat idea. Is he a transient, resident or offshore orca?

The ability to chose any low level bard / wizard / sorcerer spell as a spell like ability is just begging for wraithstrike and power attack.. Getting hit by a swim-by-attack like that would add some panic to a situation.

--edit-- Gahh I forgot that you don't get iterative attacks with natural weapons. That would make wraithstrike less useful.

Prestidigitation might be handy for something without hands.

The party will just have to devote more resources to healing potions and a cure light wounds wand than the "optimal" party. But they'll have fun. And having fun while playing a low-level cleric is an astounding success in the first place.

:) IMHO an optimal party should be devoting a bunch of resources to cure light wands. A lot of healing happens after combat is over anyways. Why waste a couple of 4th level spell slots, when you get 50 cure lights for the low price of 750 gp? Even less if someone can be talked into taking craft wand. By high levels everyone should be packing a bunch of these and some scrolls.

Depending on what books you are allowing, the divine feats from the player's handbook II could be handy as well. Basically they would let her trade turn attempts for small bonuses to ac, saves or DR.

At higher levels, quicken and extend are two very useful feats. One of the frustrating parts of playing a high level melee cleric is the two to three round buff routine you need to do (Righteous Might, Divine Power) before you can really start smashing. Quicken spell helps you cut that down to 1 round. Extended vigors, and vigorous circles (Complete Divine spell) let you heal a bit as you fight.

I think its already been mentioned, but as a cleric she has the ability to wake up everyday and completely customize her spell list and how she wants to play. One day she can be the tank, the next a healer, the next a buffer etc.. Feats like quicken and extend transfer across to each role very nicely. The flip side of that is that all the possibilities and spells can get very daunting and confusing for a starting player.

By the book, no.