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So if D&D is 'The world's most popular roleplaying game,' how would one refer to Pathfinder if they don't want to get sued?

The thriving version of world's most popular roleplaying game. :)

Given that DL as novels were written under 1st ed rules the later rules 2e/3e etc just don't capture the feel of the books for me.

Hehe which is why Drizzt and Wulfgar defeat a big bad white dragon in the original Icewind Dale trilogy and really no lowbies have fought a dragon since. 1e != 3e

Wait no, never mind my original post. He's wrong in his layout. The ability starts with a base +1 and increases by another +1 at 4,8,12,16, and 20. So if a Barbarian took it at level 4, they'd have a +2.

I've always seen skill challenges as a mechanic to turn ROLEplay into ROLLplay.

Dragonlance makes for better fiction then it does adventure IMHO. The Core of Dragonlance LITERALLY focuses on world shaking/changing events, before the term was even coined and hated by many fans when WOTC started doing that with the Forgotten Realms.

XP Calculator is a neat idea but I don't need it.
Lots of dice programs. Those are nice for rolling impulse characters. :)
RPG Grimoire is a neat idea BUT since I have GoodReader I can keep normal PDFs on my iphone and read them as is or in plain text format. :)

I have the pdf's on my iPhone and they work fine. It is not the easiest way to read them, but works well enough. The biggest problem is the need to zoom in and then slide the page around, which isn't that big a deal except it slows things down if you are just trying to look up one thing.

Try GoodReader, it's onsale right now, only 99 cents! :)

Erik Mona wrote:

Awwww.

Your taunting will not go unpunished, Mona. You will rue the day that you mocked us, your loyal fans. Just you wait!

Paizocon... wait.. didn't he say he'd be holding Pathfinder fiction in his hand at the next Paizocon! Dang it.. we can't do anything to him then and Gencon is just too public. We need to enlist some office aid..

Hmmm. Looks like solicitations for the third trimester of 2010 are due to our distributor in the first week of February. Wonder what sorts of implications that might have for the announcement of new products...

That means making us wait 3 more weeks!

Did someone say PATHFINDER NOVELS?

Yeap, it's that time of the week again. :)

I don't know that you need "hi-def" maps. I print mine in 20 dpi and they work fine. Most of the...

I think he's referring to image files of the maps that have a resolution high enough to print them to scale, thus making them usable for minis.

Anyone know any good D&D apps? Tomorrow I'm retiring my old Black Berry Curve so I'm trying to build up my app list. :)

I'd totally buy Saga edition fantasy rules. :P

As for that post, I've read stuff like that posted before regarding Saga development. More so about Saga stuff being looked at while they were making 4e. But then again, it came out of Bill Slavicsek's mouth, who I have no tolerance for anymore and don't pay any attention to.

Now we just need a Ptolus on FR to imprison the elminster.

*annoyed*

If you have a problem with elminster in your games, elminster isn't the problem, it's your DM.

Mairkurion {tm} wrote:

It's all a part of that evil Mona's plot, I tell ya!

The Mona is an evil fiend that feeds on your dreams and hopes!

Yeap.

A response from Goodman...

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I did like the suggestion of a DCC RPG. Great minds think alike.

*face palm*

I guess I did say that didn't I. I'd certainly check it out. :)

If they make them, I'll buy them.

Oh they're going to make them, they just haven't announced anything yet.. which makes me sad. I want some novels with the iconics! :)

Yeap. :)

Map in Illustrator. Finish (effects/detailing) in Photoshop.Will finish this someday. DAMN YOU JOB!

Wow very nice.. that reminds me of a Realms city or two. :)

LMPjr007 wrote:

SirUrza wrote:

If it's nerd rage then it's the best kind of nerd rage. It's a 3PP nerd raging against another. :)

Damn Skippy!

So, getting back to the OP, thumbs up for the idea? Down? Or still indecisive?

I'm against it, the encounter system isn't even the same. Resource management sure isn't.

3x/D20 creatures are based off the party.
4e creatures are based off individual characters.

Thus in 4e you could have an encounter clearly designed to have the party out numbered (but not overpowered) with say 10 monsters. In 3e, if you use the same monster, you'd find your party overpowered by 3 or 4 of the same monster.

I would be. I currently operate a Ptolus/Pathfinder blog called the Workshop of the Clockwork Gnome . So the idea of a Pathfinder Lodge in Ptolus would definitely appeal to me.

So you're the clockworkgnome eh? A friend of mine pointed out your campaign summary and after reading it I've been following your blog. :)

my game is set in an original setting so the rules of Golarian or FR, while a good reference, don't matter much.

True true, but often times rules from the official campaign settings find their way into the core rules.

We're just staying previous precedent set back in the TSR days. I believe it came from the Complete Handbooks too, which is one of the few Realms titled books that's very generic. :)

Man, looking at some of these maps makes me feel old school for hand drawing my maps for my homebrew setting.

There are no such things in Golarion you should say. Nothing about the OP sets the game in Golarion; he only saying that he's using Pathfinder rules...

Indeed. I was thinking more along the lines of drow/human heritage anyway. Like the half-orc, like the half-elf.

LMPjr007 wrote:

<snip> That is what I wrote what I wrote. You reap what you sow, Mr. Goodman.

Not picking a fight but thats sad and a prime example of nerd rage.

If it's nerd rage then it's the best kind of nerd rage. It's a 3PP nerd raging against another. :)

Ravingdork wrote:

I found Michael Jaeck's DeviantArt art gallery, which has tons of Pathfinder artwork.

Most of the artists who contribute to Pathfinder have DeviantArt accounts, such as Julie Dillon, Andrew Hou, Svetlin Velinov, Ben Wootten, and Kevin Yan. A search for "Pathfinder" brings up a lot of stuff, both official and fan-made.

Ben did one of my favorite pictures of a nameless dungeon magazine iconic.

I think 4e makes it harder on the DM actually. 4e is in my opinion designed so for players to know very little about the game and make the DM know more about the game.

Yes so of the rules are easier.. but that's because there's also fewer (because it's a newer game), but you need to know more of them then the players do.

I hope your DM goes easy on you guys, because the bard is awefully squishy. I might talk to the cleric player and get him to do most of the melee. While a bard can't full-time heal like a cleric, you can atleast heal the cleric when he's in a situation where he can't cast a spell.

I seem to remember the same from AD&D, elf subraces don't created half-offspring. It's either one or the other. If drow are involved, the child is drow.

Just to correct one small note - maptool does now come with image libraries. You just go to File->Add To Reosurce library and there are some image libraries there that can be immediately downloaded into your install of maptool.

Actually it does, the image library is a seperate 2gb free download via bittorrent. I just don't have the link anymore.

I'm just shaking my head. To me it seems like Goodman isn't receiving the same kind of success with 4e that they did under 3e and now they're trying to back out of the decision they made.

It's understandable.

4e alienated a lot more people then 3e ever did and there's a huge clump of players just not buying anything 4e.

On another hand, there's also the wotc loyalty shoppers. Loyalty shoppers really fall into two groups of people; fanboys and core rules only. Nothing wrong with either, but I think there are more loyalty shoppers playing 4e then anyone else. A lot of the people that accepted third party product in 3e I know have bailed on 4e, either before or after getting the core books for a D20 spin-off or are playing either 3.5e or a "3.75."

Myself, I stopped purchasing 4e after the Forgotten Realms supplements came out. I hated what I saw, knew the campaign I was playing in wasn't going to last (it didn't) and had no incentive (lack of additional Realms books, even though I hated what they did to 4e Realms) to continue buying 4e books. On top of all that, I never checked out the Goodman Games monster hardcover because when I was interested in 4e, WOTC was putting out enough monster stats through free DDI that I never found myself without stats for an Orc or Goblin or whatever of whatever level I needed (not to mention monster stats are easy to making in 4e compared to 3e.)

So what do I think they should do? I think they should pick one system or create their own. Regardless of what they do I think they're going to find GENERIC third party publishing isn't what it used to be.

How's about keeping your party alive and bringing them back from the dead? I mean let's face it, the cleric's spellcasting ability is that of a wizard, except cleric's aren't limited to their spellbook. Channel energy has made it that much sweeter because they can actually cast non-healing spells now because channel energy will do the job.

SirUrza wrote:

David Fryer wrote:

Shadowheart wrote:

Flying kobolds....hmm...*weg*

They use hang gliders. :)

No, that's ewoks.

Ewoks drop stones.

Kobolds drop fire bombs and have ranks in Fly.

Yeah but I don't think Kobolds could defeat stormtroopers. :)

Though a 3.0 book, I still like the original Relics and Rituals from White Wolf.

Surely I'm not the only one who's exorbitantly entertained by the new ads that are popping up like, "Ilizmagorti on 5 gp a day" etc? I love those things.

*nods* I noticed them too and kept reloading to see them all. :)

As it stands I have 5 items, across 3 different orders, Awaiting Pathfinder Adventure Path 29 to ship because those items are listed as "Preorder - Expected approximately January 2010."

I want to make sure my subscription will ship as normal even if some of those items aren't available and that any unshipped preorder items will ship in February (assuming they're released in time for the february subscriptions.)

I can't be the only one that noticed the new minis in the store and ordered them FROM HERE.

Odd that some of the crocodile ones are there, like the goblins, but I guess those are going to continue to be produced by repear unlike the missing ones.

Todd Stewart wrote:

*ponder* This might prompt someone (possibly me) to put together a list of any vampires mentioned in any Pathfinder book.

DO IT!!!

please :)

Why? Need to make some booty calls? :)

Brian E. Harris wrote:

Speaking of Combat Pads, did I hear that you're updating this? What's changing?

We're not quite ready to say. Soon!

My money is on the combat pads saying pathfinder on them. :)

Shadowheart wrote:

Flying kobolds....hmm...*weg*

They use hang gliders. :)

No, that's ewoks.

The good folks at Lone Wolf Development have a Pathfinder enabled character generator that is pretty amazing called Hero Lab. We will be working closely with them to make it even better. We are also talking with d20 Pro and Fantasy Grounds about Pathfinderizing their various digital tabletops. Lots of cool stuff, if only I had a couple of clones to get it all done! :)

Oooh exciting. I really like Fantasy Grounds.

SirUrza wrote:

How silly is to say that ALL the dragons of a campaign setting go insane with Rage and go on a rampage.. and then none of the following roleplaying supplements even mention dragon devastation to the region.

Silly? I disagree. It's a very good thing.

It's a good thing that this major event was built up to be something it wasn't? I don't think it is a good thing, I think it's a bad thing. It's a breakdown in quality, in continuity, and in effort. It's why the Realms, Eberron, and every other setting put out under 4e isn't supported after 2 books.

My example was of WOTC making something to be a hurricane and then supporting it like it's a little drizzle. It's false marketing and bad game design. It took 3 years for the trilogy to concluded, in that time supporting products could have come out giving the players and DM the ability to play through those events. When the dragons rage ended, reconstruction would have begun and status quo would have been restored. No minor or major NPCs had to die, no political alliances needed to change, nothing.

Instead we got 1 supplement that barely covered the events of the novels, because it came out too early, and didn't give us anything we didn't already have in the Monster Manual to bring the dragon rage to our table.

James Jacobs wrote:

First or Second: Urgathoa (now a goddess; she was also the first undead creature in existence, and the first undead deity).

Second or First: Zura (demon lord of vampires and cannibalism).

It's unclear at this point which of those two were the FIRST vampire. But we do know that the Blood Emperor was the third.

Runs off to find nurse maid Yoda as canon is born.

As long as there are no midiclorians involved..

If we ever wish to advance the timeline, the APs DO become canon. If we ever want to do a sequel to an AP, the events DO become canon.

Well this is good to hear. :)

As for Cheliax... we LIKE having a nation of devil worshipers. It's pretty fun to explore the connotations of a thriving nation where the leaders are actively evil but not warlike. Cheliax is also one of the nations that very much feels uniquely Golarion, rather than a version of a real world location like Osirion or the same-old knights and kings medieval setting. We've put a lot of work into Cheliax, and we're proud of it. It's also one of the five factions for our Org Play department.

I like it too.

Not every story has to create massive changes to a world to be good. In fact, massive changes to the established world more often than not get customers riled up, in my experience.

Please no world changing stories of the month. Wizards tried doing that to the Realms through the entire 3.5 run, but ultimately their "Realms shaking events" only effected the area whatever novel trilogy covering those events was set it.

How silly is to say that ALL the dragons of a campaign setting go insane with Rage and go on a rampage.. and then none of the following roleplaying supplements even mention dragon devastation to the region.

*nods*

I'd like to throw out another nod to Maptools, it's an excellent program. It's free.

There's a 2gb library of art that you can download with just about every item, token, structure you could possibly want. Organization isn't too great, but if you took the time to change the folders around (because that's all it is, a bunch of folders with image files in them) to make it easier to use, then it's a powerful reason for Maptools.

I abandoned RPG.NET a LONG time ago. They are like the Fox News of rpg sites. Claim to be unbiased but aren't. I find their site almost completely irrelevant to real life gaming.

Same, I found some of their stuff to also be misleading because of the bias slants I've saw on there.

SirUrza wrote:

I'm appalled, go home people. :)

I *am* home.

Yeah at 6am...

Yeap, if the BAB of the class your taking increases, so does your characters.

Take the sorcerer for example. From level 2 and 3 have the same BAB, so when leveling from 2 to 3, your BAB multiclassed wouldn't change, but when you take your 4th level of sorcerer it would increase.

Anytime your BAB hits +6, you get an extra attack regardless of the class level.

Your saves work the same way btw.

Check your email, I sent you something a few days ago. :P

35PS email that is.

Sounds like you should be playing a druid to me. :P