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I'm trying to track down which issues of Dungeon the Ron Shirtz series of Instant Dungeon Tiles appeared in. From this page I believe the artist's work appeared in four issues: 280-283.
From other sites I've cobbled together that the order of appearance is this:
The problem is I've got them all except this supposed "wilderness" tiles of #282. In its place I've got unlabeled "castle" tiles, an image of which you can see in this this auction.
TL;DR I have four Ron Shirtz tile posters that appeared in four issues of Dungeon, but there appears to be duplicate "wilderness" tiles in all descriptions. Where do the castle tiles come from!?
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I'm not the biggest follower of non-Paizo publishers of Pathfinder material, but I keep my ear to the rail. As I'm sure everyone in this section of the boards knows, Clark Peterson is returning to game publishing with his hew venture, Legendary Games. I'm sure he or one of his team will be along eventually to comment on the following, but until that happens:
Their first notable release is supplemental material for a "Gothic Adventure Path" (the pros and cons of which have already been discussed here). I can't quite quantify *how*, but it seems to me that this approach of designing multiple products on a single theme (in regular succession) is unique(-ish) among 3PPs. The difference lies somewhere in the focus.
As I mentioned, I don't grind on any 3PPs in particular, but I think I might start with LG. The corollary between Paizo's most successful APs (their #1 product) and LG's releases is too enticing. Plus it carries many of the same names: authors expanding on their own previous works. I feel like their company's mission statement is to explore the lateral space in each AP, to plug holes that Paizo's format limits against. I like that.
I’m recruiting up to 5 players for a Margreve PbP.
Campaign Primer:
A standard fantasy setting of "medieval" is commonly what we think of as Late Medieval, where so many modern innovations are just around the corner: industry, mass education, science, medicine, the middle class.
The Margreve is the opposite, it is a bit of the Old World, a living memory of the Dark Ages. Steel is less common than iron, superstition and ignorance prevail, trust is a commodity.
Your characters (most likely) come from the medieval world. Though they're aware of the Margreve and its reputation, they (probably) have little direct experience with the the Old Ways that comprise life in the ancient forest.
There is little to compel civilized folk from spending more time than necessary in the dark wood. The story of this campaign is one of discovery, of survival in an alien world. (Think Call of Cthulhu minus the insanity and unknowable evil, but still with the fear and ever-present threat of horrible death.)
Premise
You (the PCs) are beginning your adventuring career with a sojourn into the Margreve. Each year, when the winter snows thaw, the Great Northern Road that cuts through the Margreve re-opens to travelers. But it is by no means safe.
Sly kariv gypsies take advantage of the unwary, bandits waylay the rich, and there are even tales of pineys attacking early spring travelers to capture "new blood." Other, less human inhabitants of the dark forest are a danger to the honest merchants and pilgrims of the Great Northern Road. Even the Margreve itself is known to harass travelers.
The Eye of the Forest Inn in the early spring is a guaranteed meeting place for adventure seekers and mercenaries alike. Just as the earth is beginning to thaw, but the frost of winter still licks the grass on a brisk, cold morning, you set out from the Great City and cross the River Argent, making camp at the edge of the Margreve. The lights of the Great City are still visible on the horizon as you make your acquaintance with a handful of like-minded travelers, headed up the road to the Eye of the Forest Inn to make ready for the spring travel season.
To Join
Send me an email (see my profile) and make a post here indicating your interest. Include in your communiqué:
1) How frequent a poster you are. I’m more interested in consistency than quantity.
2) Your character concept. This isn’t a background, and it isn’t a truncated statblock. It’s a sentence or three describing the character in general terms: demeanor, personality, outlook, etc. Specifics of character creation will be discussed once the group is assembled.
3) Your willingness to “live play” either in a chat room or on a virtual table top, and the frequency with which you could commit to such activity. “None” is a valid answer, but this is an optional aspect of the game I am mildly interested in pursuing, and if it just so happens that I get a group of players eager for some live play, I’ll work toward incorporating it.
4) Your first name, location (and time zone), and level of comfort/experience with d20 roleplaying.
In the interest of honesty: This isn't a first-come, first-served opportunity. I will select the players based on their skills at communication (as evidenced by their ability to read and follow the above instructions), giving preference to gamers I've played with before.
This game will be taking place on a private forum, the url for which will be given out to the players (and made public after the players are selected).
Hypothetical Situation That Actually Happened But Didn't Really Happen:
Components
Maguffin
Player A (Faction A)
Player B (Faction B)
Synopsis
Player A's mission is to learn X. X is tangentially related to the maguffin, and handling the maguffin may help Player A learn X, but Player A's faction mission doesn't require the maguffin. Player A, acting in accord with good roleplaying and wanting to ensure his mission's success, claims the maguffin.
Player B's mission is to retrieve the maguffin. Thinking that his mission is being fulfilled by Player A's actions, Player B allows Player A to take the maguffin.
Because both players are roleplaying (meaning, they aren't spouting "my faction mission says to do this" and they're keeping secret their faction loyalties), Player B is losing out on his prestige award.
I picked up a few of this guy (alternate link) a while back just because it's a cool mini, but I don't think I've ever seen any d20 creature of a similar description.
Anyone see any problems with changing the vermin type to a subtype of the animal type?
Spoiler:
Vermin Subtype: Vermin are a lower order of animal including insects, arachnids, other arthropods, worms, and similar invertebrates. Vermin possess the following traits:
-Poor Reflex saves.
-Mindless: No Intelligence score, and immunity to all mind-affecting effects (charms, compulsions, morale effects, patterns, and phantasms). A mindless creature gains no skill points or feats. Vermin have no class skills. A vermin-like creature with an Intelligence score can gain skill points and feats as normal.
-Darkvision 60 feet. This replaces low-light vision.
In another thread for NW Indiana there has been some interest in forming a South Bend-area group. It was noted there is at least one Pathfinder group, but so far no society. I gather from that thread there are at least four players interested, and I've witnessed first hand the If You Build It™ law in action, so it's safe to say we have players.
Now we need a time and location. The local game stores can't do much to help us: Griffon Books closes at 6pm and Fantasy Games doesn't have room. (I'm going to call both those places to confirm the above.) Anyone have any suggestions? A public forum is preferable for several reasons, not the least of which is promoting growth of the community. Still, anyone willing to host should be lauded and praised for their generosity, should it come to that.
Personally I'd like to see a Monday night game, but I reckon most want a weekend game, likely Saturday. I could only commit to once a month on the Weekends, but that shouldn't stop us. What day/time would you like to play?
Also, as you're chiming in, note whether you'd like to GM or not. I'll be glad to GM as long as we've only got one table, but I'll need backup sooner or later. (I'm also more than willing to play, I really don't have a preference.)
Looking for 4-7 players to participate in an online society game for approximately two months. Players are asked to participate on a regular basis, visiting the wave at least once a day; more often is preferable.
This game takes place online via Goggle Wave. Post here with your society number, character level, and email address to reserve your spot. Your spot isn't reserved until you post to the out-of-character wave (which you will be emailed). The game starts as soon as we have four waveified players, but if you reserve a spot while the first four are still setting up, you can get in.
This is an online event, so the character you use cannot be played in another event until this one finishes. The goal is for this game to wrap up within sixty days of the launch.
This is a cross-post from the PFS Grand Lodge Forum; this game's recruiting thread is here.
Looking for 4-7 players to participate in an online society game for approximately two months. Players are asked to participate on a regular basis, visiting the wave at least once a day; more often is preferable.
This game takes place online via Goggle Wave. Post here with your society number, character level, and email address to reserve your spot. Your spot isn't reserved until you post to the out-of-character wave (which you will be emailed). The game starts as soon as we have four waveified players, but if you reserve a spot while the first four are still setting up, you can get in.
This is an online event, so the character you use cannot be played in another event until this one finishes. The goal is for this game to wrap up within sixty days of the launch.
This is a cross-post from the PbP forum; this game's recruiting thread is here.
Looking for 4-7 players to participate in an online society game for approximately two months. Players are asked to participate on a regular basis, visiting the wave at least once a day; more often is preferable.
This game takes place online via Goggle Wave. Post here with your society number, character level, and email address to reserve your spot. Your spot isn't reserved until you post to the out-of-character wave (which you will be emailed). The game starts as soon as we have four waveified players, but if you reserve a spot while the first four are still setting up, you can get in.
This is an online event, so the character you use cannot be played in another event until this one finishes. The goal is for this game to wrap up within sixty days of the launch.
Male Half-Elf, for sure. 7th level Chef, 7th level Student, 2nd level Game Designer
Looking for 4-7 players to participate in an online society game for approximately two months. Players are asked to participate on a regular basis, visiting the wave at least once a day; more often is preferable.
This game takes place online via Goggle Wave. Post here with your [b]society number, character level, and email address[b] to reserve your spot. Your spot isn't reserved until you post to the out-of-character wave (which you will be emailed). The game starts as soon as we have four waveified players, but if you reserve a spot while the first four are still setting up, you can get in.
This is an online event, so the character you use cannot be played in another event until this one finishes. The goal is for this game to wrap up within sixty days of the launch.
So if my lingo seems cryptic, it's because I'm trying to avoid spoilers. With all the buzz surrounding GenCon, I don't think a simple spoiler tag will suffice.
On page 5, last sentence of the page: "Make certain the group decides on one course of action before proceeding."
Why the group? It seems to me that one course of action for the whole group needlessly penalizes the group (frex: the bard with ranks in Disguise is going to be pissed if he's forced to use Stealth). Wouldn't it make more sense for each character to choose their own method?* Success or failure still affects the group normally, but they're more likely to succeed if they get to play to their strengths.
The only answer I can think of is that the scenario *wants* the group (or rather, individuals in the group) to accrue failures at the start of each Act, otherwise the uh... failure total might never reach the trigger point.
Thoughts?
*:
It's entirely possible that each character *should* choose their own method, and I've just misinterpreted the one line I quoted from page 5.
I'm looking a half-fiend-like template that doesn't require an alignment change. (I wanna keep the character NG, but have something to reflect his time in hell.)
Also, can you think of any fictional characters that might represent such a class? (Hellboy comes to mind, but that's not quite right.)
So in an effort to build up my digital gaming skills, I want to run a PFS game by google wave. The scenario will be The Third Riddle.
Description:
When Pathfinder Colm Safan entered the Nethys-linked heart of the fabled dungeon known as the Ravenous Sphinx, the Pathfinder Society expected to solve one of Osirion's greatest riddles. Months passed with no word from Safan, and you and your fellow Pathfinders find yourselves dispatched into the desolate wastes of Osirion's notorious Parched Dunes to find the sphinx, find Safan, and uncover the mystery he sought. With a band of cloaked riders on your trail and a trap-filled dungeon ahead, will you solve the third riddle before time runs out?
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I'll open the game to the first five PFS legal characters to follow this post. Remember, you can't use this character for any other PFS games until this scenario is completed (or, I guess, until you bail, which would kind of be not cool, but is the reason I'm running five players). Create or update your PFS character's profile and use it to reserve your spot - if there are changes (such as displayed faction) that you can't update yourself, note those changes in your post; likewise with completed but as-of-yet unreported scenarios.
I'm still setting up the wave(s), I expect to be done with that this evening sometime (tomorrow at the latest). I'll then make sure the characters are legal (if they're new) and send the wave link and/or invite to the players. This is my first attempt at PFS online, my first use of google wave, and it's been a few years since I did any roleplaying online. However, I expect to visit the wave several times per day in an effort to keep the game moving. I ask that the players commit to a similar level of waving once the ball gets rolling. My goal is to finish this scenario by the end of the month.
It's worth saying that even though I'm recruiting for excited, motivated players (who probably have an above average amount of free time, like me) allowances will be made for real life. If you're going to be gone one weekend or if you wind up without internet for a few days, just communicate with the group and it'll be a-ok.
Also worth saying is that I'll show whomever asks how to use google wave. Once I figure it all out myself. Contact links are in my profile, I prefer chat options (send the message anyway, I'm usually invisible).
So in an effort to build up my digital gaming skills, I want to run a PFS game by google wave. The scenario will be #11 The Third Riddle.
Description:
When Pathfinder Colm Safan entered the Nethys-linked heart of the fabled dungeon known as the Ravenous Sphinx, the Pathfinder Society expected to solve one of Osirion's greatest riddles. Months passed with no word from Safan, and you and your fellow Pathfinders find yourselves dispatched into the desolate wastes of Osirion's notorious Parched Dunes to find the sphinx, find Safan, and uncover the mystery he sought. With a band of cloaked riders on your trail and a trap-filled dungeon ahead, will you solve the third riddle before time runs out?
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I'll open the game to the first five PFS legal characters to follow this post. Remember, you can't use this character for any other PFS games until this scenario is completed (or, I guess, until you bail, which would kind of be not cool, but is the reason I'm running five players). Create or update your PFS character's profile and use it to reserve your spot - if there are changes (such as displayed faction) that you can't update yourself, note those changes in your post; likewise with completed but as-of-yet unreported scenarios.
I'm still setting up the wave(s), I expect to be done with that this evening sometime (tomorrow at the latest). I'll then make sure the characters are legal (if they're new) and send the wave link and/or invite to the players. This is my first attempt at PFS online, my first use of google wave, and it's been a few years since I did any roleplaying online. However, I expect to visit the wave several times per day in an effort to keep the game moving. I ask that the players commit to a similar level of waving once the ball gets rolling. My goal is to finish this scenario by the end of the month.
It's worth saying that even though I'm recruiting for excited, motivated players (who probably have an above average amount of free time, like me) allowances will be made for real life. If you're going to be gone one weekend or if you wind up without internet for a few days, just communicate with the group and it'll be a-ok.
Also worth saying is that I'll show whomever asks how to use google wave. Once I figure it all out myself. Contact links are in my profile, I prefer chat options (send the message anyway, I'm usually invisible).
Along with a bunch of other gaming materials, my PFS character and chronicle sheets were stolen. I'm not concerned too much about "proving" my character at the local game store since that's where he gained most of his experience, but I was planning on using the character at GenCon. Is there a chronicle sheet recovery process?
(Also, sorry if this is a re-post, but it appears the forum ate this the first time.)
So along with a bunch of other valuable gaming stuff, my PFS character and chronicle sheets were stolen. I'm not really concerned about my local game, but I had planned to use this character at GenCon - is there a recovery process?
Two things: 1) regeneration 5 means it regenerates 5 hit points each round, and 2) if it takes positive, negative, acid, or electricity damage its regeneration is "off" on the following round.
Since designing that creature I discovered that regeneration and creatures without a Con score don't mesh (but in practice, the above worked just fine, so I left it on the website). With any luck, the final play-tested mold gaunt template will appear in a KQ issue soon.
I've yet to assign GM rewards for eating two scenarios at GenCon '09 to my character. How should I handle this? Do I fill out chronicle sheets for myself, or get someone else to do them?
Also, it's not listed in the guide, but I'm pretty sure I read it on the boards: I can buy items from these chronicle sheets, yes? Even if I've played three scenarios since getting credit for 'em?
(All of this is based on the presumption that "season 1" - for the purposes of GM rewards - is defined as everything after August 13th, 2009, not scenario #29 and later.)
So we're starting this game tomorrow, and I've not played Star Wars in about a decade. I'm looking for a good "player's guide" type site (or forum) - (think Treantmonk's guide to stuff) - I did some googling, but couldn't turn anything up. Any suggestions?
Some other specific concerns I'm hoping to become educated on:
1) Is there any reason to *not* play a force-user? (Specifically if the group is comprised of "roll" players.)
2) I'm interested in force-using classes/concepts that aren't Jedi/Sith derived. I'm aware of the force adept - any others (prestige included)?
Do you think blade binding (the special attack) and Blade Binder (the feat) from the Pathfinder CS needs a PFRPG update? Specifically, I'm wondering if it should make use of CMB/CMD (seems like it should).
Blade Binding:
When blade binding, an attacker first catches his opponent’s weapon in the crook of his khopesh. He then twists his khopesh, locking the two blades together, forcing both blades from their guard positions. The attacker then strikes with an off-hand weapon or surprises his opponent with a sudden unarmed attack.
New Attack Option: Bind
As a melee attack, you may attempt to gain control of your opponent’s weapon. Make an opposed attack roll against your opponent, including all appropriate modifiers. If you succeed, you bind your opponent’s weapon.
A bound weapon cannot be used to make attacks, nor does it allow its wielder to threaten any space. A bound weapon can be wrenched free with a successful opposed attack roll, or can be dropped as a free action. If your opponent does not free or drop his weapon he cannot move beyond your reach.
While binding your opponent, you suffer the same limitations, except you may end the bind as a free action. If you attempt to disarm your opponent or sunder the bound weapon, you do not provoke an attack of opportunity, and you get a +4 bonus on the opposed roll and the damage roll of the sunder attempt.
Blade Binder:
Not only are you skilled at binding your opponent’s weapon, you can seize the advantage while he struggles to retrieve his blade.
Prerequisites: Base attack bonus +4, proficiency with khopesh or temple sword.
Benefit: You receive a +2 bonus on opposed attack rolls made to bind an opponent’s weapon, as well as any opposed rolls to maintain the bind. This bonus stacks with the +2 bonus from wielding a khopesh or temple sword. If you succeed in blade binding your opponent, your opponent becomes flat-footed until he either wrestles his blade free or drops his weapon.
Special: A fighter may gain Blade Binder as his fighter bonus feat. A monk may select Blade Binder as his 6th-level monk bonus feat.
Tear it apart, please. Seriously. Pretend you just bought a $30 book sight-unseen specifically for this class, and this is what you got. What's your reaction, what would you use/leave, what would you change, what questions do you have?
For the fluff oriented: Gunmarshalls are the peacekeepers of the Mana Wastes. When this class is finally done there'll be some stuff about how they're hard but fair, emphasis on hard when it comes to outsiders (as in, not from Alkenstar). Think Seth Bullock meets Dirty Harry.
So in the fantastical world, any polytheistic one will do, the Gods are real, their presence is tangible, etc. Does an active atheist suffer consequences for their belief?
To be more specific: The Atheist can see the works of the Gods, just as everyone else can, through clerics and avatars and whatnot - he just chooses to believe... something else. It doesn't matter what The Atheist's reasoning is, he's just convinced the Gods don't exist, that those displays of power come from some other source.
Moreover, he's actively trying to convince others in this world to believe what he believes: that there are no Gods. What in-world consequences, if any, arise for such a person? How do others view and interact with The Atheist? Do the Gods take notice? Do they take any action? Is the Atheist's "logic" at all likely to gain a following?
Bestiary[/i] page 303, Rock Throwing]... Damage from a thrown rock is generally twice the creature's base slam damage plus 1½ its Strength bonus.
All giants' rock throwing damage is equal to its base slam damage plus 1½ its Strength bonus. As giants are the most common rock throwers, I must ask: are their stat blocks in error regarding thrown rock damage?
I would lean toward "yes," since that puts them somewhat in line with 3.5 giants' thrown rock damage.
I feel like I remember creatures with a rake-like ability (maybe called rake!) that allowed gore attacks. Are there any compelling reasons a creature couldn't have a rake ability or rake-like ability with something other than claws?
For reference, the rake ability:
Rake (Ex) A creature with this special attack gains extra natural attacks under certain conditions, typically when it grapples its foe. In addition to the options available to all grapplers, a monster with the rake ability gains two additional claw attacks that it can use only against a grappled foe. The bonus and damage caused by these attacks is included in the creature's description. A monster with the rake ability must begin its turn already grappling to use its rake—it can't begin a grapple and rake in the same turn.
Format: rake (2 claws +8, 1d4+2); Location: Special Attacks.
I've been using this alternate ability in the game I run for a few months now, but it hasn't seen a lot of use (mainly because we've been doing RotRL #4 and #5, which is giant heavy, so the ranger doesn't feel the need to change 'em much).
Any comments, suggestions, insights would be welcome, but so far I've found no snafus.
Benefit: Any effect that would normally make you panicked instead makes you frightened. Any effect that would make you frightened instead makes you shaken. Any effect that would make you shaken has no effect on you. Not that you can still become increasingly frightened by multiple fear effects from different sources, but each source is modified before it is applied to you. In addition you gain a +2 bonus on any saving throw versus fear effects.
(Love the feat, btw.)
You're basically immune to anything that causes the shaken condition, right? Like, even if you're currently frightened and someone Intimidate (demoralize)s you, you don't care because, "Any effect that would make you shaken has no effect on you."
Or, is it that Intimidate (demoralize) would, in this instance, cause panic, thus it can effect you?
I know there's a handful of licensed Pathfinder products released already, but I've only read one, Tome of Secrets. Don't get me wrong, for $10 I'm not complaining, there's plenty of stuff I can use in that book. But it does remind me of a time not too long ago when "crap" and "3rd party publisher" went hand in hand. Historically this problem solved itself because the crap20 stuff didn't sell so the company making it stopped making it.
But between then and now the PDF came of age, which pretty dramatically changes things. So for those of you who've seen more Pathfinder licensed product than I:
Is there a higher standard in licensed publishing with the PFRPG?
Are publishers paying attention to the subtle improvements made to 3.5, not just the obvious and vaunted ones?
I could have sworn I've seen a spell or item that conjures a swarm of butterflies to distract an opponent for a short time; that it was butterflies made me think it was associated with Desna, but for the life of me I can find reference to this anywhere.
Whether it was a Pathfinder or not, I'm certain in was 3.X D&D, but beyond that I couldn't say if it was official or something homebrewed. Anyone know what I'm talking about, or am I starting to confuse daydreams with reality?
(And apologies if this isn't a good place to post this thread, but I couldn't find a better fit.)
The request is simple: Can I get a stack of a dozen or so current Paizo catalogs?
The reason I'm asking is a little more complex.
Reason:
I want to start an on-going PS game at my LGS. The only time I can do so is on a weekday, and my LGS is only open till 7pm on weekdays. I don't want to start any earlier than 4pm, because I don't want to automatically cut my potential player base in half by eliminating school-age players (which would happen if I started any earlier than 4pm).
In an effort to convince my LGS to stay open late enough for me to run a 4-hour game session (plus clean up), I'm going to "sell" it as a chance for him (the Owner) to sell Pathfinder products to active players. Since the store doesn't currently stock much in the way of Paizo product, I'd like to be able to plop those catalogs in front of him when I'm making my pitch, with the proposal that players will be able to see what's available and order it through the store - that way he can still sell product and won't have to put out any money (at first*), but he can still see whether or not him staying open later on my behalf is worth his while or not.
(*Until people actually start buying Pathfinder stuff, then I'm sure he'll want to.)
