SirUrza's page

Aside from the trait blurb in Cheliax, Empire of Devils.. is there any more information on this?

I just love the little catalog books. Even though I get most of the stuff in it from subs, they're so cool to look at. :)

I could have sworn at one point or another I remember seeing in a Paizo book art for a dervish dancer. Maybe not a scimitar but definitely a combat dancer. Before everyone says Ultimate Combat.. the elf swashbuckler wasn't what I was thinking. She was more of a veiled dancer with a whole bellydance/arab garb look.

I received my Ultimate Magic today, I opened it, and was startled to hear A LOT of crackling. Upon further investigate I discovered the binding of the pages completely separated from the spine of the hardcover. When I hold the book up like a T ... (covers open) I can actually seem through the gap between the binding and the cover's spine.

Should I be concerned the cover is going to separate from the pages?

So I just noticed something. If you take Adaptation from the APG to replace Favored Terrain as a Ranger, you end up breaking Camouflage and Hide in Plain Sight which lets you make a Stealth checks in your favored terrain.

If you take Adaptation.. you have no favored terrain. So umm yeah.. is there eratta for this?

Am I just missing them or did the APG not include any alternative class features for Wild Empathy?

So probably like a lot of people, I'm psyched about Diablo 3. Seeing the Demon Hunter got me thinking about how possible that is in D&D. Not so much in 3.5 or 4, but certainly possible in Pathfinder thanks to all the crossbow love.

Obviously you need Two Weapon Fighting, -2/-2.
Grab up Rapid Reload to reload and shoot in the same round.

Now under the Hand Crossbow it says...

"You can shoot, but not load, a hand crossbow with one hand at no penalty."

So does that mean the -2 penalty from light crossbow comes into play?

"Normally, operating a light crossbow requires two hands. However, you can shoot, but not load, a light crossbow with one hand at a –2 penalty on attack rolls."

So check me on this math for dual wielding hand crossbows...

-2/-2 on first attack (assuming their loaded.)
-4/-4 on all other attacks for the rest of combat.

Are there any d20 OGL products that used them as defenses instead of saves?

Who's the pirate on the cover of volume 1? I've only thumbed through it and I don't see any reference to her, npc for later?

Is it too much to hope for or is it already going to happen again?

Help me Pathfinder Chronicler, you're my only hope. :)

So i need an aboleth like monster, slimey and tentaclely that preferably is intelligent. WOTC/Paizo source preferred.

Edit: Must be land-based.

Alright so I've been trying to get a hold of the winter 2010 issue of Top Choice Magazine but have been failing miserably. Mostly because I live in the USA and it's a Canadian magazine. I can't find it on ebay and when I try emailing them, they just don't respond.

Now the Paizo community is pretty cool, so I'm hoping there's someone in the community that has a copy or knows where they can get it and send it to me. PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE. :)

May 25 was my birthday! (No Joke!)

Please cancel the remaining part of my order.

Also, please end my Game Mastery Cards and Game Mastery Maps subscriptions.

Paizo have any plans for a new Summon Undead like spell or a Necromancer prestige/base class to make people that want to play Necromancers more.. well necromancy.

Not exactly Planet Stories stuff, but it is pulp fiction, and was wondering what everyone thought of it becoming a movie?

Will there ever be a Skill Training feat to make a skill count as a "class" skill? I realize there's skill focus but, sometimes it's nice to have both. :P

So I've been reading A LOT of tech blogs and watching a few podcasts.. everyone seems to agree that the kindle is dead.

What do you guys think? I've played with it, two of my buddys got it. I'm really tempted to get one myself.

So I was going through another thread that recently got locked, I won't specify which since well, it got locked, but one of the things I noticed was someone (and by his posts, others) don't know the history of TSR. While I'm not saying it's an unbiased source, what history/biography isn't?... it's still an excellent read and goes into the public history of D&D and TSR.

So get it, it's cheap these days.

I'm saying not. The reason is simple, as things stand, high level play, pathfinder or not is cumbersome.

I would really like to see Paizo use the epic levels rules to reboot high level play.

For example, Vital Strike work great and I'd like to see either more feats like it or some way for Paizo to make Base Attack "pay" for feat attacks. Which means capping the number of extra attacks from BAB. This is a silly example, but think Vital Strike > Vital Strike > Cleave in 1 turn.

The same as loving James Jacobs? And if so, does that mean we're ogling James when we're ogling her?

I suddenly feel creepy.

Like the topic says.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFMJ4z0UJhQ

So I've been going through it, I love it. I've already found 4 npcs I can use even if I don't run a Golarion set campaign.

This book really reinforces my wish that Paizo would do a Chronicle or Companion for the Iconics. Not just covering the core group, but also the Prestige class and Advanced Player's Guide characters.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvH7fMTIfHo

I dunno.

I liked the ruleset and wish D&D 4e was more like it, but I don't know about patronage.

The new oracle on the Master of the Fallen Fortress cover is looking pretty hot.. well except for the glowy scarey eyes thing. Now we gotta see the witch in her full glory!

Seoni might have some competition...

BTW.. where are the APG Iconic backgrounds? :)

Yes I had to be lame and make a first "original" post in the new forum section!

1) No stats for a fox familiar.. well it's in Dragon magazine, but I'm assuming since the Witch uses one, it'll be stated in AGP?

2) Will it and the other new familiars be available to wizards and sorcerers?

I'm hoping the that the tables are fixed in size for space reasons and that the lists aren't unique... but then I look at familiar bonus spells and realize there are wizard/sorcerer familiars not listed and makes me wonder.

What's up with the crazy new titles guys? Are congratulations in order? Congrats!

And how can you have a "Fiction Editor" when you haven't announced a Fiction line yet. :P

Check out the new episode of Known Direction. I join Ryan in reviewing the GM Screen in Episode 6.

http://35privatesanctuary.com/

Available on iTunes too. ;)

...disgusting!

I didn't know they made them, but they do, and GROSS!

Last time I posted about damage shipments I was told to change my shipping. I did that, and my adventure path still comes with a mangled cover and the first 10 pages are bent. Everything else in the package, fine.

Either the product is leaving Paizo damaged or there are goblins getting inside my boxes and intentionally going after my AP volumes. Either way, if the next subscription comes damaged I'm cancelling ALL my orders, my subscriptions, and switching to amazon. I'll get the PDFs another way.

I've been ordering stuff online for years, I work in retail, I've never seen so much damage product in barely dented boxes as the last few months since packaging has become almost an exact fit.

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. :)

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.)

It's New Years Day and Vic and Lisa are working and calling Gary in. What kind of customer service is this! I'm appalled, go home people. :)

Happy New Year Paizo! :)

I think the subject is self explanatory. :)

Like the topic says, any chance of some fiction on the guy? I can't be the only one wanting some. :)

I posted this topic before but I can't find it.. guess the forums ate it.

PS.. this topic is serious, but to also fill charles evan's fiction post quota. :)

Any chance of seeing the Whisper Tyrant featured in a novel sometime soon? :)

I just want to say I love this place. My huge decemeber order is shipping and I took a look at the breakdown and DAAAANG.

Not only did Paizo pay for half my shipping cost (you guys are AWESOME!) but I saved nearly $200 on my order in discounts!

That doesn't even include the almost $50 in free pdfs. I look at my order and smile.

I'm looking for a class similar to the Mord Sith in Legend of the Seeker. More or less a dominatrix class with anti-magic abilities. Anyone know a good d20 source?

Can you Judgement before the surprise round? The judgement ability doesn't seem to have any vocal or semantic components to it. It's just a supernatural ability.. which means it doesn't provoke an attack of opportunity.

Great, but what about using it out of combat? Does using it on unaware target make them aware? As a swift action it can be used in a surprise round, but that does seem to me mean that using it starts the surprise round.

Let's face it, paladins walk around detect eviling everyone.. but that doesn't start brawls. :)

So I was watching the Paizo-con videos again about Pathfinder fiction and I had a thought.

You guys said you didn't want to do world changing stories.. that's fair. But what about backstories or stories used to foreshadow an upcoming event/ap?

I'll use Curse of the Crimson Throne as an example. What if before Curse came out, a novel was written of a hero discovering a plot to kill the king, to get tangled up in it, only to fail to save the king and the queen succeeding... enter the AP.

Basically tie-in novels to stuff you're already doing.

Might not make it in time but I'll ask anyway.. I change my subscription options (added one actually) and one of my items in this order got cancelled. That's normal behavior, I understand, but the cancelled item was keeping the items in the order from shipping. I'm hoping that the order could be delayed and shipped ship with the Dec subscription shipment. If not, I understand.

This book is the perfect place to reintroduce the apprentice level rules system from 3.0 that was abandoned in 3.5. Come on Paizo, you know you want to. :)

I realize that Paizo isn't really responsible for what happens to the books after they've shipped the books, but I'm growing really concerned.

Simply put, the boxes you guys are using aren't protecting the product at all. The last 3 shipments I've received have all come damaged. On all of them 1 corner of the box has been dinged, which results in that corner of all the books inside the box getting damaged.

I realize using boxes that fit the books perfectly might be cheaper, but it's leaving the books inside exposed to any impacts the box takes.

With my last order, the map and screen came in fine (well the screen didn't but I was able to flatten it) but the AP, Module, and Chronicle are all noticeably bent.

I can't be the only one that liked the apprentice rules from the 3.0 DMG that weren't carried over to 3.5. Has anyone tried to convert them to Pathfinder?

The kindle has picked up A LOT of steam. Though it could just be a fad and be dead in a year, who knows.

Will Planet Stories ever adopt an ebook format? I'm not talking PDFs here like the Pathfinder stuff, but legitimate ebook distribution.

Has anyone taken the Pathfinder character sheet and turned it into a form that can be filled out in Word, Excel, or Acrobat?

Haven't heard much about this coming out as a pathfinder compatible product since Paizo announced Pathfinder RPG. Anyone know anything new?

You know, with all the awesome stuff that comes out of Paizo, you gotta wonder where's the bad stuff.. and if it's bad.. how bad is it? For that matter, where is it kept? Was the real reason they moved offices because they needed a larger containment unit to store all the bad? There's some mad scientists at work at Paizo and there's gotta be some crazy stuff that never makes it to print.