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Apologies if this belongs in a different forum. I want to run the Serpent's Skull adventure path using the 13th Age role-playing game. I like the idea of the adventurers traveling from Avistan to Garund aboard the Jenivere. This will be a new campaign with a new system for my gaming group, and I want this freshness mirrored in-game with a new continent of exotic and unfamiliar flora, fauna, and factions.

To ease the conversion and keep the story and themes of the Serpent's Skull intact, I plan to replace the traditional 13th Age Icons with the factions of this adventure path. I've added a sixth faction, a Serpent Conspiracy. My vision for this faction is that Ydersius is calling to higher functioning serpentfolk to prepare his way. For some serpentfolk that does not mean travelling to Ilmurea, but rather infiltrating and undermining the successors of the Azlanti, the current human civilizations and organizations. Here are the factions as I see them on the equivalent of the 13th Age Icon Relationships Master Chart:

Heroic
Pathfinder Society

Ambiguous
Aspis Consortium
Sargavan Government
Free Captains of the Shackles

Villainous
Red Mantis Cult
Serpent Conspiracy

I'd like to have one more heroic faction but am reluctant to create one whole cloth. I would move one of the ambiguous ones to the heroic column, but they are not my vision of heroic.

Does anyone here have any suggestions or experience with using the factions in a manner envisioned by the 13th Age Icon relations?

Perhaps that's not the best name for this idea. The "Tired Tropes Redeemed" Adventure Path might be more accurate. I was wondering if Paizo was up to the challenge of violating the old Dungeon Magazine submission guidelines and design an adventure path inclusive of the following elements:

• Dragon holding a princess for ransom
• courtly intrigues featuring a Lord and/or Lady Macbeth, Richard III, or Claudius type character scheming for the throne
• knightly tournaments to determine the best to quest for the weapon necessary to kill the dragon / rescue the princess
• evil witches and/or wizards in league with the schemers or dragon
• border tensions with neighboring monarchy (and Gilder to frame for it all)
• other traditional fairy tale and medieval tropes

Are any Paizo fans interested in seeing their favorite gaming company breathe new life into these old tales?

I know people write mostly when something goes wrong or when some action is necessary.

I'm writing to thank everyone at Paizo, from the authors, artists, and editors on down to the warehouse team.

I ordered eight different items from multiple Paizo product lines. I used my Pathfinder Advantage discount, the Season's Greetings card discount, selected some of the deeply discounted Scratch-'n-Dent items, and took advantage of the First Ten shipping deal.

Paizo handled the order without a hitch and I had my items less than a week after I ordered them and at considerable savings. And the Scratch-'n-Dent items were amazing in quality. I've seen product on sale for full price in worse condition than what Paizo considers non-mint.

I am completely satisfied with my order and am immensely enjoying reading Heart of the Jungle right now. I just wanted to thank all of you and reiterate what every gamer should know, Paizo are the best in the business!

Cosmo,

I'm a Pathfinder Adventure Path subscriber. The most recent issue I received was #9. Your website says #10 is still in preorder mode. I just recently remembered that I hadn't updated my credit card information to reflect a new expiration date. I just updated that a few minutes ago. I hope I've done so in enough time to avoid skipping an issue of Pathfinder. Will I still receive #10?

Thanks!

A new question has arisen while I was familiarizing myself with the various forms of the lycanthropes.

Why do Duallen Tiergar and the rangers have fast healing 5 in all of their lycanthropic forms? I see nothing about gaining fast healing as a special quality in the Blacktooth Lycanthropy sidebar on page 75 or in the lycanthrope entry in the Monster Manual 3.5.