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...we either had to go backwards and name them a nonsense word we made up out of the blue or find some sort of workable tree-flavored word that didn't actually build off of the word "tree.

I'm glad you decided knot to bough to traditional fantasy naming conventions here.

You all went out on a limb, and it paid off. The deciduous nature of this remaster required a lot of little creative bits like this to avoid simply branching off the old ancestral roots.

Tree evocation. Without using either of those two words.

Brilliant.

Deja vu all over again.

Glad to see most of the old heads in 3PP are finally in a position/mood to disentangle themselves completely from the rather thirsty and arbitrary business that services the OGL.

This time the licensing lunacy reached even farther than I thought possible, with almost Snidely Whiplash levels of mustache twistery going on in that document.

Glad to wash my hands of that business again, now and forever.

Just when I thought I was out...

Damn you, Pett.

So thrilled this project came through and campaigns are playing out everywhere...

Marvelous job.

we need a protected status and habitat for those that are left

Redmond, WA sounds like a good place to put us up.

Got an extra thousand cots laying about?

I've lost interest in the "who would win in a fight" questions, especially in cases where the NPCs have or will soon have stats.

Emphasis mine.

What mortal NPC on Golarion would be most likely to survive an encounter with Chun the Unavoidable?

From the design notes they accidentally sent with my last shipment:

A hardcover of "Revisited and Redeemed" creatures with bloodlines for each, along with 40 pages of tables for custom redemption of other source material.

Crossblooded Trapper/Wolf in Sheep's Clothing sorcerers are so getting banned from PFS...

The hardcover is tied in to next year's AP, which didn't have any titles nailed down except for the introductory installment "Canticle of the Catoblepas"

You know what? I'm kind of a traditionalist. I like my fantasy to be classic "whatever D&D was."

Still, if suspension of disbelief includes plate mail blocking arrows and bullets as effectively as swords, you can deal with new technology not being as good at world domination/proliferation as you'd expect it to be.

I mean, it's not like they're going to design an adventure where some guy in full plate mail armor is able to make his standing 10 foot jump across a moat full of acid.

Given all the vitriol aimed at all the chocolate-in-my-peanut-butter stuff, I really kind of hope it winds up culminating in the party battling an insane AI commanding legions of clones in reflec armor.

Geb and Nex, then.

I drop paladins first thing.

Honestly, from the perspective of a newly-minted BB player, the CRB is just a list of extra options, it's not an all-or-nothing thing. If you already know the d20 core mechanic from the BB (and anyone who's played the BB will) then you can pick and mix extra rules from the CRB and add them in one or two at a time until you find the complexity of game you want.

It's like slowly boiling a frog. :)

AoO's aren't hard to get your head around when they're just another rule incrementally added to your game. Same with the other additional rules.

If the core rulebook scares off players, just remind them that the bulk of it is "just a ton of new spells, magic items, and classes" and that they're already mostly familiar with the rules anyway.

Hiring a full time moderator would be a really good idea.

It's worthy of a full time job, and isn't as closely related to customer service as most people tend to think.

Paizo has some of the best customer service I've experienced, and after enormous success still maintains relationships with the fan base as well as anyone, but there comes a point where moderation can't just be tacked on anymore.

Throwing my vote in for this as well.

I've got four little gamers and they're killing me with the PFBB requests. Sandpoint box set now comes in ahead of Geb/Nex on my wish list.

I'm not sanguine, though, about either possibility.

I've never seen "sanguine" used that way before. I suppose I should have, but I haven't.

Geb/Nex

Bona fide megadungeon

Age 7, Basic D&D (Moldvay) and the shiny new Expert rules, too.

I'm not sure how long recess was back then, but it sure seemed like we packed a lot of gaming in between the actual eating and...whatever class came after lunch.

With years' worth of purchases through the subscription service and many more pdf's being picked up from other publishers, I've thought a lot about this myself.

What if there was an option to bundle a set of PDF's and queue it up for processing later?

I wouldn't mind if it took a day or two until there were enough resources free to watermark and compress a couple of AP's or my collection of modules.

Say, get an email notification when the process is done?

Ugh, Deckard Cain catchphrase looping in my head. Too early for this...

OGL = All games built on the 3.5 D&D Rules.

PFRPG is an OGL rule set.

Beginner Box = PFRPG with some of the more complex rules removed.

Items marked PFRPG will be easier for you to use since you have the Beginner Box.

PFRPG Rules

Click that link to check out the PFRPG rules.

Actually, just replace the Paizo forums with Discourse. More info here.

Don't think discourse is ready for production, but I'd love to see a stack overflow section for rules questions anyway.

Down for a copy of this conversion.

Thanks in advance!

That's one way to look at it. Another way is to say that one cleric is more experienced (aka higher level) than the other. And another way is to say that one cleric is simply more favored by her deity than the other.

Is it right to read this in my head like it's Vincent Vega talking to Mia Wallace about a foot massage?

There seem to be an awful lot of loaded questions lately.

Maybe I'm just getting unlucky.

Oh, you guys should know by now that I'm not going to give any more details than I've already given!

Ok, ok, both are in the Campaign Setting line.

Baseless speculation to run with:

Nex and Geb sourcebooks, obv.

....aaaaand, GO!

Got 'em. We seem to be averaging one of these every day or two now.

Congrats on building a community attractive enough for people to take notice and make custom registration/spambots. :)

My sympathy for the upcoming year or two of escalation between anti-spam measures and the tireless spam machine. :/

Looking forward to more 'wonderess items' for the pinky ring slot. Also any combination of "Black" "Doom" and "Shadow" in the name would get an upvote consideration from me.

Hoping also to find a few more Bag of Everythings and maybe a Six Spells for the Price of Nones hidden in the mix.

I'm paying ~$120 for each path. Cheaping out on the slipcase and demanding it for 5-7 dollars (which seems to be the major hurdle Vic was talking about in 2008) isn't what I was thinking.

Maybe costs could be kept reasonable by making one case instead of a campaign specific one for each AP. Then again it's Paizo so I'm sure they'd rather go big or go home on any product they make, which means production costs might still not be feasible.

Awesome idea though.

You MUST have the Bestiary 1,2,3 loaded, as well as Ultimate Magic, Ultimate Combat, and the Advanced Player's Guide for the RA files to work.

That answers my question, I think. Have everything but UM/UC. I'll see if that takes care of it.

Thanks!

Had a little trouble with my hero lab import, getting bootstrap errors for one of the Things.

Specifically, "Thing 'rRARakSamr' - Boostrap thing 'fUncanConc' does not exist" is preventing me from loading Hero Lab in anything but safe mode, so I have to remove the RA third party update to start up Hero Lab with all my other options.

Additionally, text description and the file name are "Rappen Athuk" as well -- this seems to be entirely cosmetic but figured I'd point it out.

Going to try and import again, but if that fails, is there a good place to go for help collecting errors and squashing them?

Thanks!

I just need one copy of this, and not sure how I ordered two.

Could this please be corrected whenever the Con is over?

The site itself (and products page) is coming along, too.

There are no non-harmful recreational drugs. Recreational drugs lower functional intelligence, perception, wisdom, and motor skills. All of which are harmful in game terms.

Probably helps some social PC's with a CHA boost, though.

3402-1a. Always stand and deliver infraction notices like Walter Sobchak:

"Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is PFS. There are rules."

Oh sure, just make another thing to go on my "Need to Buy" list ...

I'm beginning to think they need to make a Mr. Creosote subscription plan.

"I'll have the lot."

Russia

India
Greece
Babylon
Sumeria
The Middle East

And that's just for starters. There's plenty to draw upon still.

Sorry, wasn't implying that somebody had done it wrong or ran the well dry. :)

Could something like Kipling's Kafiristan show up there? (Or does something like that already exist?)

Pathfinderized Lost City Module was suggested in another one of those "get me to level 7" or "How to lead up to Slumbering Tsar" threads. It's designed for 1-6, I'm sure you could get 7 levels out of it, though.

There's also a link to a number of other converted modules. They're pretty excellent.

Given the number of cultures represented in northern Garund and the east coast of the Inner Sea, what's left to draw on for Casmaron?

Great, now whip-doggers are nerfed too.

Squeatus wrote:

There should be a whip-halberd so I can get more reach on my reach.

If only there was someone who could put a whip on your whip, so you have reach while you reach...

Perhaps tying an improved familiar to the end of your first whip, and then giving *it* a whip-dagger could work here. That's like 20 feet of reach.

You could also try arguing that the unfurling of your whip familiar is really a move action, since he's doing the actual attack, and get another attack out of it.

There should be a whip-halberd so I can get more reach on my reach.

Problem solved. Fantastic.

Somebody hurry up and get Logue writing again. (No, it's not too soon.)

grabbed his bag and slammed the door and rode his bike back home after we had another player stop him to get his character sheet.

People mention maturity issues, and I see the "rode his bike home" bit and think, "Yeah, he may literally have some growing up to do still."

Second thing I noticed is that someone stopped him as he raged out the door to tell him not to forget his character? Probably not the best time to worry about something like that.

Some people get really frustrated. If it's not harmful or intimidating, you can deal with it or not. I wouldn't suggest antagonizing them in any event.

It would be remarkably cynical for the car manufacturer to just say "well how many people would do that? I MEAN REALLY!" It's a design flaw, a potential problem, a chink in the armor, and should be addressed.

The problem here is they're not even dealing with issues anyone can possibly predict.

"I need you to update the owner's manual to include the amount of time I can reasonably expect my car to operate under water. Also to what depth is my car rated?"

"The MPG estimate is not accurate enough. I need an exact calculation based on my daily commute."

"MPG rating is useless. Everybody worth a damn uses metric weights and measures. Why has this not been addressed?"

"I am living in my car, and even though everybody I know is clamoring for instructions on how to properly install fitted sheets in the back seat, you have consistently ignored us in these forums."

"I got a ticket for selling bootleg t-shirts out of my trunk at a concert. I wasn't told this would happen when I bought the car. Please execute and then fire whoever is responsible."

"I don't see why you needed to introduce all this feature bloat with my car. I would have much rather had a GPS system and HUD than manual controls on my thermostat."

"Thermostat? That would have been nice to know! I've been lighting fires on the floorboard all this time. We need bigger buttons."

"I've never used the brake pedal, and I've had no problems with MY driving. Seems like it's operator error."

"My friend died in a horrible accident outside of Tempe after strapping a jet engine to the roof of your car. You need to issue a recall, obviously."

"Richard Branson is aiming for sub-orbital travel--why are you guys still terrestrial?"

If certain rules begin to screw up the game then I expect them to be fixed, not shoved under the carpet because that one rule can begin to break others if it's touched.

It seems like a pretty sound policy not to "fix" one rule at the expense of half a dozen others.

I had a gnome in my party that was also a bard. He specialized in keyed instruments. He didn't settle for a squeezebox or something small. No, he had a steam organ. It was pulled by a team of ponies trained to dance to music.

+10 if this bard concept is expanded by making Toccata and Fugue in D Minor the only song he knows how to play.

which level was the party when they faced a 7 troll scouting party? That sounds badly balanced.

So it worked out perfectly. :)

Once someone suggests reading this thread title in the voice of President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho ("...he's gonna fix EVERYTHING!") can you ever stop hearing it that way?

Squeatus wrote:

Would the person she is attacking while dancing be able to fight back? From what I can see the answer would be no. They just sit there and let her tear them to shreds...

I'm sincerely doubting the TPK, but I'd say even though it isn't listed, the ability is mind-affecting and thus an enchantment, and subject to the elf +2 bonus.

Hopefully there's someone not attracted to females for another effective +2 bonus.

She's ready to drop suggestion on anyone who makes it through, so I expect if they all charge into the room (and thus into the area of effect) without some caution it could get ugly.

They can defend themselves normally although that's it... maybe limit it to a number of rounds equal to constitution for every round she dances *and* exerts herself physically, like attacking with claws, then she drops to fatigued or has to make a choice between dropping the dazed conditions or whatever.

Really, though, I think it's very scary but not insurmountable if everyone is dazed on entry, she drops entangle on the entire crew (no reflex save, I'd rule) for half-speed movement + difficult terrain and they're moving 1-2 squares a turn to get to the unlucky guy who almost becomes her meal.