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I really love parts 1 and 2 and 6 of the AP but once the scroll of Kakishon gets involved, it loses some of its lustre. I guess I really like the desert/Arabian theme of the first couple books and I like the idea of Jhavul trying to awaken Xotani and all that, however I don't like that the PCs have to leave Golarion to find/deal with him. Just wondering if anyone's found a way to run this AP without parts 4 and 5 as written?
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Hi there, I'm trying to create a villain that operate within or near a large urban center and uses animals as both informants and assassins. Now the druid seems to be the most obvious route but I was looking into the witch which could serve a similar function. If the witch took the right hexes, he would be able to mimic many of the abilities needed to use animals in such a way.
Just wondering if anyone can suggest any archtypes, feats or spells that would fit this villain? And whether you would have him be a druid or a witch? I want him to be able to control large numbers of various types of animals, hordes of animals even that may be able to overrun a city or town. He is going to be a worshipper of Anogetz, the daemon harbinger of coups, animal attacks and revolution. As such, he could even be a cleric with the Animal domain. I'm really not sure, so any help would be great!
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Hey I just got my pdf of Trial of the Beast and in the Pharasma article in her customized summoning list there is mention of two Psychopomps that are allegedly in Pathfinder #44, but they aren't in the Bestiary. Any idea what happened there?

This may be a dumb question but does Empower Spell make the monsters you summon with Summon Monster spells deal 50% more damage and have 50% more hit points?
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Hey all, I'm thinking of making a ranger who's an expert demon hunter in the Worldwound, but I'm a little vexed as to what Favored Terrain to choose. Is the Worldwound mostly plains? Or is it more Tundra?

Any help would be great!
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Hey All,

I'm looking to create a water-themed villain for my campaign and I've been going back and forth between oracle and wizard and was just wondering if anyone had any recommendations for such a character? She would be level 10. Ideally, she'd have the ability to breathe water and control water, as the room she'll be occupying is largely filled with water.

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Hey I was just wondering where some big dark marshes are in Avistan? The only one I see clearly visible on the map is the Mushfens, but I'm wondering if there are any others? Somewhere a black dragon would lair perhaps?

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I'm creating a villain for my campaign and I started making him as a witch, but I'm struck that alot of the hexes aren't that useful at high levels. Here's what i have so far:

Trelixian Ardorsholme
CE human witch 11
Spells Prepared (CL 11th)
6—flesh to stone (DC 24), freezing sphere
5—baleful polymorph (DC 23), cure critical wounds, flame strike
4—black tentacles, confusion (DC 20), ice storm, phantasmal killer (DC 20)
3—fireball, lightning bolt, ray of exhaustion (DC 19), bestow curse (DC 19), stinking cloud
2—blindness/deafness (DC 18), cure moderate wounds, false life, hold person, summon monster II, web
1—burning hands, charm person, command, mage armor, ray of enfeeblement, sleep
Patron: Elements
Familiar: Scorpion named Droskar
Hexes: Disguise, Evil Eye, Flight, Cackle, Slumber, Misfortune
Major Hexes: Retribution
Feats: Combat Casting, Greater Spell Focus (transmutation), Spell Focus (transmutation), Improved Initiative, Great Fortitude

Str 11
Dex 14
Con 12
Int 22
Wis 8
Cha 14

Any suggestions for how to make this guy better?

Just out of curiosity-aside from the TPK-machine that is Xanesha, what are some other NPCs/monsters from the APs that people have had great difficulty with/are known for TPK'ing frequently?

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Hey All, so i've just finished statting up the major villain for part of my campaign-a cannibalistc human bones oracle of Zura and I'm just looking for some advice as to what spells she should know and what her tactics in battle should be. Any help you could give me would be great!

Her stats are as follows:

Vastya CR 9
Female human oracle 10
CE medium humanoid (human)
Init +4 Senses Perception +9
DEFENSE
AC 20, touch 10, flat footed 20 (+10 armor)
Hp 90 (10d8+20+10)
Fort +5, Ref +5, Will +6

OFFENSE
Speed 30 ft
Melee +1 conductive rapier +9/+3 (1d6+2) or +1 conductive rapier +9 (1d6+1d6+2 with Vital Strike)
Ranged ranged touch +7 (1 negative level, 1/day)
Special attacks bleeding wounds, death’s touch, soul siphon

Spells Known (CL 10th)

0 (6/day)-bleed, detect magic, detect poison, light, guidance, mending, read magic, spark, virtue
1st(7/day)-cause fear (DC 16), command(DC 15), death watch, inflict light wounds, doom (DC16) , obscuring mist, curse water
2nd (7/day)–darkness, false life, deathknell (DC 17), hold person (DC 16), levitate, minor image, inflict moderate wounds, summon monster II
3rd (7/day)-animate dead, bestow curse (DC 18), blindness/deafness (DC 18), inflict serious wounds, searing light
4th (6/day)-inflict critical wounds, fear (DC 19), unholy blight (DC 18), summon monster IV
5th (3/day)-slay living (DC 20), flame strike (DC 19), mass inflict light wounds, telekinesis
Mystery: Bones

TACTICS
Before Combat
During Combat

STATISTICS
Str 13 Dex 10 Con 14 Int 12 Wis 8 Cha 19
Base Atk +7 Grp +8
Feats Vital Strike, Spell Focus (necromancy), Spell Penetration, Toughness, Improved Initiative, Lightning Reflexes
Skills Bluff +18, Perception +9, Knowledge (religion) +15, Knowledge (the planes) +15, Spellcraft +15
Languages Common, Abyssal
SQ death’s touch, bleeding wounds, soul siphon, haunted
Combat Gear +1 breastplate, +1heavy steel shield, +1 conductive rapier

SPECIAL ABILITIES
Soul Siphon (Su) Vastya can unleash a ray that causes the target to gain one negative level as a ranged touch attack with a range of 30ft. The negative level lasts for 5 minutes. Whenever this ability gives a target a negative level, Vastya heals 10 hit points. This is usable 1/day.
Death’s Touch (Su) Vastya can cause terrible wounds to appear on a creature with a successful melee touch attack. This attack deals 1d6+5 points of negative energy damage. This ability is usable 7/day.
Bleeding Wounds (Su) Whenever a creature takes damage from one of Vastyas spells or effects that causes negative energy damage, it begins to bleed, taking 3 points of damage each round. The bleeding can be stopped with a DC 15 heal check or any effect that heals damage.
Haunted Vastya is cursed by the haunting spirits of Zura. Retrieval of stored items requires a standard action unless it would normally take longer. Any item she drops lands 10 feet away.

Hey so i have the first 3 Serpent's Skull adventures but i stopped subscribing after the 3rd came out--recently i've been getting back in to Pathfinder and was wondering whether its worth it get the remaining three volumes? I stopped after The City of Seven Spears, because, while its a really cool adventure, I prefer APs with really strong storylines (less sandbox) and I reading through the blurbs of issues 4 and 5 seem to indicate a continuation of this open endedness. So i was wondering if the last 3 volumes are as good as the first (wish I loved) and better the 2nd and 3rd (which i was a little iffy on)

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So it says in the Book of the Damned: Princes of Darkness that Malebranche are powerful generals of hell sent to mortal worlds to conquer them. It then says that there are 12 Malebranche, 1 for Golarion, 9 for the other planets and 2 for the planets that once were.
Any ideas to which Malebranche goes with Golarion? Or Castrovel?
Also any idea of what sort of stats these guys would have? Just advanced cornugons?

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Hey I'm looking for a group to game with in Vancouver, BC, I dont really know how to find one!

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Hey I'm pretty new to PFPRG and i just have a rules question regarding oracles and their spells known. Do they get their mystery spells added to their spells known list or to their pool of possible spells to know when they next gain a level? For example, if i had a 10th level bones oracle it would have 3 spells known: slay living (from the bones mystery), mass inflict light wounds and say flame strike. Is that correct?

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Hey, i've been thinking about using a cannibalistic cult of Zura to menace the town my PCS are going to pass through and i've been somewhat stumped as to what class i should make the leader of the cult. I don't want a vampire or necromancer, but I want soemthing that emphasizes the madness associated with this cannibalism, i was thinking of making her an oracle, but i couldn't really think of a mystery that would be appropriate.

I was just wondering if anyone had any suggestions?

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It says in the APG that oracles don't follow any specific deity and that they receive their powers from some mysterious power. For each mystery, there are number of deities listed as being associated with the mystery. Like a Heavens oracle receives her power from Desna, Sarenrae, Pharasma and Gozreh. Can you have an oracle specifically devoted to Desna? Like would an oracle be able to take the Spherewalker prestige class that requires the PC to worship Desna?

I was looking over the Red Mantis Assassin PrC in PF 9 and I noticed that they cast arcane spells. I thought this was a little strange and that it would be more suiting for them to cast divine spells as they are essentially religious assassins correct?
Just wondering if maybe this will be changed with the update or is there a specific reason why they have arcane spells?

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Hey, i've just ordered the first two books from this AP and i was wondering if there's been any NPCs using classes from the APG yet, or if there are plans for the classes to be used in later issues?

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So I'm a really big fan of Paizo and of (almost) everything they do, one thing that just didnt do it for me was Legacy of Fire AP, I have the first four adventures for it and while I really loved the first one, the third and fourth were rather lackluster in my opinion, I was just wondering how the last two are compared to the rest. I really like the idea of the players travelling to the City of Brass and the whole awakening of the Firebleeder idea, but if these adventures are similar in design to the third and fourth adventures I dont want to fork out the 19.99,

I was just wondering if anyone has any thoughts on the last two adventures, The Impossible Eye and The Final Wish.

(PS no disrespect meant to any of the paizonians/authors, they're great adventurers, just not up my alley!)

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Hey, anyone know where I can buy Pathfinder products in Vancouver, BC?

Mother of Flies=Baalzebul, Lord of Flies eh eh? Hags are always sweet! Can't wait for this one!

Who's that on the Cover?? and I thought Elaine Cunningham was doing the Pathfinder Journal? (or is that just for Legacy of Fire?)

I'm a pathfinder subscriber, would it be possible to have soem Dungeon magazines that i want to order and a module be combined with my next issue of pathfinder? SO i can reduce shipping costs? If so how would I go about doing that?

I just got my Pathfinder 18 and was amazed with the article about the Demon Lords of Golarion and was especially intrigued with Sifkesh, Lord of Heresy and Suicide. I was wondering if anyone had done anything with her? or had any ideas of how to use her?
I was thinking of having her be a patron to a lilitu who has infiltrated the church of Iomedae and corrupting its priests into suicide and blasphemy, perhaps in an effort to widen the Worldwound. Any thoughts?
Also, I was planning on having one of her clerics take the Demon Disciple PrC from PF 15, and was wondering how to go about customizing it for Sifkesh. Here are my thoughts:
For the Demonic Resistance I was thinking of giving a bonus equal to class level on stabilizing saves when reduced to 0 hp, or something along those lines.
For the lesser demonic boon, I noted that the other disciples have access to two 2nd spells and 1 first as spell-like abilities, but I couldnt think of anything that would particularly suit Sifkesh, except maybe Deathknell, or Inflict wounds or something..
I have no idea what to do for the greater demonic boon, so any thoughts would be much appreciated!!

Hey I was wondering if there were any plans to set an AP in the far North of Avistan, like Land of the Linnorm Kings, Realm of the Mammoth Lords or Mendev? I think it would be awesome to do something with the Mordant Spire, Irrisen (Queen Elvanna), maybe ruined Edassaril (? realm of Envy), etc..wondering if anyone else is as interested as me...or if you Paizoians have any plans for something along these lines?

I've been reading over the Dragons of Golarion article in PF #4 and am intrigued by the mixed bloodline idea of the chromatic dragons. I've been wanting to use a dragon as the BBEG in an adventure I've been planning, which is set in Osirion (ie. desert terrain) and I'm not a big fan of the blue dragons and I really like blacks and can't think of a way to justify putting a black dragon in a desert, so I was thinking of using a blue dragon from the black-mothered Uztaabil clan and somehow have it be a sort of half-black/half-blue dragon...but not by simply adding the half-dragon template...Anyone have any suggestions for this?

Hey, I was wondering if anyone was starting a CoCT play-by-post campaign? Cuz this AP is awesome and I really wanna play it, but unfortunately am without a gaming group.
Maybe this is the wrong place to post this, but I didnt know where else!

I just finished reading "Wells of Darkness" and I came across a reference to Red Shroud's daughter Fall-From-Grace, who some how shed her demonic form..i was wondering if anyone knew anything more about her, or where i could find information about her

Hey, so I've had this idea about an evil druid NPC who uses animals as a spy network and as shock troopers. But I'm having difficulty fleshing her out. I get easily distracted by prestige classes and more often then not i try to make my villains belong to them. There arent too many PrCs that match the pure druids capabilty or progression. So i was wondering if anyone had any tips regarding feats, racial substitution levels, skills, some must have spells,, and the best animal companion..She's gonna be around 13th -15th level...probably closer to 13th, depending on how far my PCs get...
Any suggestions about how to a good villain druid would be great!~

So, just a query, having just read "Enemies of My Enemies", I have become enamoured with Iggwilv.
So my first question is where can i find more information about her, such as background, apprentices etc.
Also i was wondering about the title of Witch-Queen. From what understand there are at least two, Iggqilv and Zbavra. Zbavra is detailed in the Book of Vile Darkness. Is she to devils what Iggwilv is to demons? And exactly what does it mean to be a witch queen. Is there some society of witches they rule over? or does it simply mean extremely powerful female spellcaster?
Any insight about these topics would be greatly appreciated.

I'm a big fan of the 3.5 Ogre Magi (well at least their appearance)but I've been disappointed time after time when i try to use them as villains in my adventures..They always end up dying or simply being too weak. Has anybody experienced a similar problem or have any ideas to build a powerful and interesting ogre mage villain?

So I am an avid Dragon reader, but I had a sort of "dark patch" where i missed a huge number of issues. I'm only now trying to catch up. I dont know what i was thinking...Anyways, I have the issues containing the Demonicon of Iggwilv articles about Demogorgon, Malcanthet, and Zuggtmoy. All threee of these articles have associated Thrall of (insert demon lord) prestige classes. I was wondering if all of them do. Because I just bought Hordes of the Abyss by WotC and i am really intrigued with Pazuzu and Fraz'Urbluu and i was wondering if the Demonicon articles about them contain prestige classes as well.

So I'm thinking of running the STAP in Eberron and I've read on some other threads that Iggwilv could be seen as Sora Kell in Eberron. I was wondering if anyone had done this and how this change would effect the game. Sora Kell is by all accounts a night hag, who bore the three hags that now rule Droaam. Iggwilv is a human. Is there anyway to change her into nighthag while still maintaining her wizarding powers?
Any thoughts on this matter would be greatly appreciated

Can anyone suggest a few powerful and interesting prestige classes for druids which could be useful in the STAP?

Hey, i'm planning on making my druid become an Elemental Savant(Complete Arcane) and i'm playing in the Savage Tide and I was wondering if anyone could tell me what would be the best energy type to specialize in given the monsters and encounters in the STAP.
Any comments or ideas would be GREATLY appreciated!
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Hey All, I'm starting a new campaign with my group and I'm thinking of creating a cleric as my PC. The only thing is that I hate the whole..Healing....Love....Caring....Undead Smiting...aspect of them....I need a cleric with some power and some mystery...I was wondering if anyone has any good ideas regarding a non-healer cleric build (ie. domains, deities, PrC etc..). Also, if anyone wants to state their feelings on this matter, that'd be awesome!

Thanks TPO

In all the Forgotten Realms resources, it states that the drow were once called dark elves and that they had "dark" skin. Does that mean that they had black skin like they do in present day or more of a brown colour like that of people from Africa? It says that their "physical forms transformed to match the taint in their souls" or something along those lines. So my real question is how are the Ilythiiri different from the drow,aside from psychologically?

Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew if their are any resources about the countries of Mulhorand, Unther and Chessenta anywhere...and if so, where are they? Also...if WOTC has any plans of releasing an Old Empires sourcebook along the lines of the Unapproacheable East, Shining South and Underdark books? Hehehe.....Any help would be awesome!...eheh