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A player from one of my gaming groups has created a very nice iPad app to track initiative and more, based on the magnetic board we've been using in my group. He is now offering the app cheaply in the iPad App Store. Check it out here if you like.
No, I gotcha. This sort of muddying of the dragon pool just eventually leads to the 0-HD dragon race. The weirdo dragon monsters are just stops along a line I have no interest in traveling. It sounds like we're of the same mind on this. Personally I wouldn't mind 0-HD dragon men monsters. The madness doesn't lie in the existence of creatures like this, the madness lies with those who assume that any 0-HD creature is automatically a "playable" race for PCs just because an entry "XY as characters" is listed. I hate it when people automatically take to mean "as PCs" and don't understand that those rules are necessary to build any of those creatures at all.
I'm all for more description and campaign background over yet another "playable" race.
Awesome! Will this be available in print, too? Perhaps even as a bundle?It will be available at Lulu, as soon as I receive the proof copy, I believe a month or so. We are also considering some sort of discount for those who bought the pdf version. Details still to come. That's cool! I will buy the PDF then for now.
Interesting to see that rather new stuff like Jade Regent issues or Land of the Linnorm Kings are already running that low.
My order #1892757 was only processed partially (two out of nine items). I hope the rest will be processed today, it would be disappointing to have to sit out another weekend before I can read the Dragon Empires Primer. I know last week's weather is to blame, but it feels weird that the PDFs are available to buy right now, but some subscribers are still waiting for access.
Usually NPCs with PC classes get base scores of 15, 14, 13, 12, 10 and 8 before racial modifiers. If the NPC hat only NPC classes (such as warrior), the base scores usually are 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, again before racial modifiers. Orcs have the following racial modifiers: +4 Strength, –2 Intelligence, –2 Wisdom, –2 Charisma. The orc warrior's listed ability scores are: Str 17, Dex 11, Con 12, Int 7, Wis 8, Cha 6. This means the scores were as folows before the addition of the racial modifiers: Str 13, Dex 11, Con 12, Int 9, Wis 10, Cha 8 This conforms to the NPC array mentioned above. I hope this makes it clearer.
Looked at the thread, still don't get it. There is nothing positive at all about this character to me. Anyway, this doesn't really belong here. Sorry for "threadjacking".
Well, I guess you GM'ed/saw her GM'ed differently than I did. ^^ I just read the adventures, never played them. As a GM I'd hate to have to play a character like that and would probably swap her out for another character. As a player I would hate if my party would want to associate with her. Her whole character concept repels me. On top of that, the illustration is ridiculously bad which doesn't help. To be honest, I've only read the first three adventures, the whole leaving the city for two adventures just when things are beginning to get interesting put me right off this AP for the time being. I'd probably swap out the whole Brotherhood, as Zon-Kuthon is the one evil deity that I can't really get behind as a GM, and I'd much rather not have to use his religion in my game.
I really can't see at all what is supposed to be cute or even symapthetic about this Laori character. I think I'd find her insufferable.To each his own. Laori was, as for now at least, the most memorable character presented in the AP's I've GM'ed and/or read. That's not a contradiction to what I said. I wasn't inferring that character couldn't be memorable. I just don't see how one could refer to this murderous psychopath as cute or even just sympathetic.
Ah well. I certainly wouldn't file that under "cool". And I'm quite sure that's not an intentional reference.
22 favorites, gathering people such as TOZ, Kelsey, Zaister and Gbonehead. Huh. How did I become noteworthy? :) By the way, I certainly don't want a Pathfinder Second Edition. But what I wouldn't mind would be a revised Core Rulebook. Not revised rules, mind you, just a revised presentation, moving away from the organization originally introduced by the SRD. Too many rules are spread out over too many different places in the book and could well benefit from consolidation. Also there still are a lot of rules that could be better worded or clarified. A Revised Core Rulebook in that fashion, I think, could be a good idea.
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In the end, I got at least one of every mini and there isn't one mini in the set that I think of as completely worthless - which was never true of any of the sets from wizards. (I'm looking at you, you chraals and three-armed wrackspawns!) One more observation: a previous poster had noticed that one booster position in the brick always yielded either a succubus, a vampire or a lich. This was true of my case, too, and I noticed that several other figures that I got multiples of seemed to come from the same position in the brick too, I think all the goblins, the rat and gnome (now that sounds like a British inn!), and also the wolf and venomous snake, as well as Seelah came from the same booster positions within the individual bricks. Maybe this should be mixed up a bit more in production, or astute buyers could take certain picks from bricks displayed in shops. None of my boosters were taped, by the way, which made it easier to unpack. :) Two minis, the manticore and one of the ogres had separated from their bases, but that's nothing that can't be easily fixed.
If the singles prices really are as Paizo proposes, I can simply sell the Large mini I didn't want at 100%+ markup ($12/$20 vs. $5.99) and just buy another Large booster. If necessary, rinse and repeat.Good luck, let me know how that works out for you. I have no interest in doing that, I'm just pointing out the weird result of the decision to make all Large minis rares.
The new ePubs don't seem to have covers the way the previous ones did. Is that intentional?No... it isn't. How do you mean, exactly? I've uploaded the new epubs to iBooks on my iPad. The older epubs show an illustrated cover, while the new ones just have the default cover that iBooks generates. They also show no cover in iTunes. Here's a link to a screenshot from my iPad showing the effect.
For me, level 13 was the cutoff point when I played a monk in a Council of Thieves campaign. The spell resistance ability is much more a hindrance than a benefit for a martial character that works in a group that has spellcasters. I'd say nine times out of ten, if a spell was cast on my character in combat, it was by an ally and not an opponent. And, really, the last thing you want to as a monk is waste a round using your standard action to lower your spell resistance, so you can be hasted, healed, or what have you, when instead you could rather make six or seven attacks as a full-round action. Spoilers for Council of Thieves, especially part six:
Once our group reached 13th level I was ready to switch to fighter levels instead, but - as my character had been suggested as a candidate for new Lord Mayor of Westcrown - my GM offered me the choice of taking two levels of an NPC class instead, namely aristocrat. Since this was already close to the end of the campaign and thus the last time for our characters to level, I think it was a nice idea. And I was happy that I wasn't hindered by spell resistance against allied spells in the final fight of the campaign.
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