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I was once playing in a group where we let a couple of younger players in and they were terrible. Their characters had at least three 18s (these were 2nd Ed days). If anything happened they magically appeared even if they were in another room or place. It was very annoying.

So, my character and the worst character of the crew were on the top of a ruined tower and their was a desk (the tower had obviously been exploded sometime in the past) and the charcter pushed mine aside to get to whatever was in the desk. Alas, it was explosding runes and he went down. We were burning goblin zombie bodies outside the tower so I lowered a rope down the side of the tower and put the body on fire. The player never understood what happened to his body and I was much relieved. Earned my dwarf the nickname of Elfburner (still proudly worn).

Don't know if I would recommend it but I decided to take care of it as a character. I think he decided not to play after that...

I found it today and gave it a shot and I could not even choose a class. I may be dumb but it was not intuitive for me at all.

I am loving this sheet. I created a character with a version a couple back and it is the best sheet I have ever used.

That's just wrong...

I have one of these and it is very heavy. It is heavier than what 3 ring binders are made of. And I like that it is customizable. For now I have some pages printed from the rule book for it.

I have used this for several years and love it.

I have GMed Rise of the Runelords and am currently running Curse of the Crimson Throne. I have run part of Second Darkness and just started playing in Legacy of Fire (so do not know much about that yet).

I enjoyed RotR and the players mostly had fun. They had a tough time in Chapter 4. They are enjoying CotCT even more - I have also enjoyed it a lot.

Second Darkness went kind of tough. There was an almost TPK in the 3rd chapter and they made new characters but it never really got going after that - not the fault of the AP. The other problem was when they reformed the party they created a pretty weak party with little healing ability and they were getting the butts handed to them.

My favorite is CotCT - followed closely by RotR. I do like Second Darkness and will try to finish it with them eventually.

I also am attracted to Savage Tide and would love to either play or GM it.

I have only played one scenario at Paizocon and ran either scenario 25 or 26 there. I will have to look to see which ones there were.

I am interested.

Help Obi Wan,

Cosmo,

You had checked into this order for me but a week later or so it is still pending and something new was lumped in with it that may also be holding it up.

Help... I do not have Pathfinder 25 or 26...

Thank you as always,

Bob

No, it is the Companions that come out every other month. The Chronicles are not on a set schedule. They come out when they are ready.

It would be awesome to see a monster product or Dark Tapestry (Lovecraft) creatures...

Takes up Poodle Punching...

Good work Gary...

I have acrobat professional but no Java Experience. How do I access the document on the level to do the work?

There may be character generators out there but usually the output sheet sucks and there are not generators for Pathfinder and I imagine even the 3.5 generators will eventually shift to 4th edition.

This is an area that I have not worked in. How do I access the level of the sheet so I can put the calculations in myself?

Any plans to have the sheet do calculations like your BETA sheet did?

Timitius wrote:

If they find a way to bring Tact-Tiles back, that would be sa-weet.

Tact-Tiles?

One company I thought had improved on them but I bought one set of 4 I believe to check them out and although I like the actual tiles better the way there are made leaves dark edges that are very pronounced through out the map and the lines did not line up well.

Ones I don't like.

The other people made almost the same product as the original tact-tiles and I ordered two sets but they changed them in between the time I found them and received my order. They have gone to a completely clear format. Nice to put a map under but if we had lifesize maps we would be using them to map anyway. I think they are great for war games and such and they actually remind me of my Army days but I was very disappointed when I received them.

Clear Ones.

I have spent a lot of time on this over the years so if anyone has any questions let me know.

Comso rulz

Oops wrong thread.

Hello??? Is anybody there???

I picked up Hero Lab at Gencon a couple of years ago - tried it out and was not very happy at the time. I was then more interested in character generation and then Pathfinder came out.

I could reinstall it and get the new updates and see where we are I suppose.

Oh my god... I have become one of the annoited... That was as easy as staples.

Cosmo Rulez!!!

It depends on the chapter. During Runelords it took about 24 to 30 hours of play to go through a chapter. Chapter 4 took a lot longer for some reason probably about 50 hours or so.

In Second Darkness the chapters are shorter and so far even with the set pieces it only took about 12 hours to play Chapter 2 but chapter 1 was longer and so is three.

I hope that helps.

Wow, what a question.

I had not played D&D for several years because my group had all moved away. I was invited to play again just as 3.5 was kicking in so ended up with the 3.0 and 3.5 books. I played for a bit and DM'd a bit and was of course buying Dungeon and Dragon magazines which I enjoyed even more than back in the day during 1st and 2nd edition days.

Then the end of the magazines hit and I was saddened by the change and not too happy with WoTC. I subscribed immediately to the APs. By this time I had started a new group and was DMing again in the Forgotten Realms. When RotRL came out I was blown away. I dumped the FR campaign and took them to Sandpoint immediately. I ran the entire AP and before it was done started another group with CotCT and then SD. We are enjoying them both.

When the change in rules hit I was at GENCON and at first I was excited but then as more information came out I found myself less interested and then the GSL fiasco began. I made an edition decision, due to the great work of the APs and everything else put out by Paizo to include their world, I would follow Paizo rulewise whereever they when because IMO they were producing the best adventures ever produced for the game and I am loving them. So, last year we began using the Pathfinder BETA rules and in August we will begin using the final rules.

Thank you Paizo for some of the best years in gaming I have ever had.

I am interested in PFS. I do a lot of travelling so scheduling can be tough for me, but I am interested. If it goes off into something else then I am not so interested.

I downloaded the evaluation copy of Battlegrounds and DM Familiar but have not had time to play with them much yet.

Trying to figure out how to really make everything work the way it is in my head right now. May have to have the players bring laptops if I do the mapping software but then what about all my minis... Aaahhhh...

I got it to work too. I assume Thanks to Gary or Ross are in order.

Then scenario 26 did not show up in my downloads...

Thanks for making things easy guys.

I was just going to create this thread...

Gary, you have some esplaining to do... Or at least fixing.

Ross - I so agree. One of my players sent a link to those tables a couple of months ago and if I had a place to put it...

Not a death but...

We were in a cavern below a valley full of graves and ghouls, etc.

There was a ladder going way up into the darkness. I took the ladder. There was a trapdoor with a padlock on my side. I opened the lock (the days of Theives) and cracked the trapdoor and peeked inside. There were feet walking around all over. Someone threw open the trapdoor and reached for me. I grabbed his hand and jerked him right down through the hole yelling in coming to the group. The figure fell a long way maybe a 100 feet, hit the ground, bounced and stood up. It was a wight. I lost a level and the group turned him. He started back up the ladder.

...if one of your favorite threads is this one.

The revision is some changes to the charcter cards to make things a bit more clear and gives you plastic characters to use rather than cardstock ones. It is a nicer game overall with the revisions and does reduce confusion. The upgrade package is worth getting.

Battlegronds looks good and I am now thinking that I might just throw a large screen TV in my gaming room so they can see what is going on all the time with their movement and such. I was not thinking mapping in the beginning of this conversation but am now. What about uploading maps in this program. I am not going to recreate all the maps I use.

Urg! Ack! Must ...resist ...Shiny ...Purple ....gah .....

I was in luck. Just returned from my local store and they had it. They had several items - I did not really look at the others because I knew what I wanted and it was one per customer.

I looked around the shelves for a bit. I could not find their Paizo stash. I saw some of almost everything else to include what appeared to be a full collection of the 3.0 Ravenloft stuff but if they had Paizo stuff it was well hidden. Maybe it all sells out as soon as it comes in. I know I have seen it there in the past or maybe everyone here locally buys direct and she can't move it.

When the Pathfinder RPG comes out I will go back and ask about it.

All explained right here...

Pathfinder RPG Subscription Thread.

You may be a Paizo nerd if... You have a new purple frame around your avatar... Too much good stuff.

This is starting to get complicated...

Thank you for your hard work Gary.

And of course subscribed...

You know you are a Paizo nerd when.... Oh look a new subscriber tag.

It does help. It would be very nice to be free from hand drawn maps. Does the mapping software show them just what they would see given their light source, etc.

Dalesman - I heard not heard of this program. Do you upload the maps from the PDF of the AP and use them on the computers in real time. It looks like the program keeps track of the initiative too which is very nice.

I am probably going to go with something in the next few months but have not figured it out yet. I actually have Hero Lab and was very disappointed in the character creation stuff.

I have another similar program that I also did not like. This program looks promising if it lets me upload maps or if the creator recreate all the maps from the APs for use in the program.

That was just wrong...

I want to put my vote in for continuing the APs are their current length.

We played Rise of the Runelords all the way through and we are currently playing two groups one halfway through Second Darkness and one almost halfway through CotCT. We have also selected DMs for the next two APs and one of those is looking to be the DM for AP 7 - after hearing James and Wes talk about it at Paizocon.

I would buy these even if I did not think I would get around to playing them. I did not stop my Dungeon or Dragon subscriptions because I had a couple of hundred issues.

I would be very disappointed to cancel and have a hole in my collection and then find they were out of print and then find they were $50.00 each on ebay (which Pathfinder 2 was until it was reprinted making my stashed copies less valuable for a time).

I do not buy all this work because I think I will run it all. I buy it because IMO it is the best RPG material being created today and I do not want to miss a thing and I love playing it.

It is very cool. I ran it at Paizocon. I loved this scenario.

I have ordered 8 copies. My intent was a copy for me and give others as a gift to my group members. After seeing this thread I am reconsidering whether I may need a couple of more for myself.

I am subscribing though so I will have the PDF. With the BETA I just printed the PDF and put it into a notebook with tabs so I could find things easily. I actually had three notebooks so I had spells and magic items separately. That worked great for me and I may do it with my PDF again. I unfortunately, gave away my last copy of the BETA for a new player and when the final comes out I need to get that back for my collection.

I am excited about this move. I have only used three of the set pieces so far and as a rule they have seemed a bit disruptive. Once I chose the wrong hook and it went poorly. The second one in Second Darkness was not really a challenge for the group and was almost a waste of time. The 3rd one in second darkness ended up being a TPK for various reasons (although mostly bad rolls and saves and a devastating Critical Fumble Card at exactly the wrong time).

I was not too happy when they first began and I am way excited that they are coming to an end.

My comment on bringing back comments is not for me...

Thanks...

Planet Stories has me reading some of my old favorites.

Finished ERB's Martian series a couple of weeks ago and almost done with the Lensmen Series by EE Doc Smith.

Maybe after that I will jump back on some planet stories or reread the Skylark Series.

I also have some Lovecraft I haven't read yet...

I think the best thing was the gaming...

It was awesome to sit down with people both as GM and a player who knew what they were doing and played their characters well.

I had an awesome time. I thank those who GM'd for me and those who I had the honor of playing with.

All I can say about the trivia contest is:

GO TEAM - it's all we had going for us.

Of course, as long as the schedule of life cooperates.