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One line per person, no pushing, and if you write the punchline you can begin the next one =)

A Vargr, an Aslan and a Human are captured by natives on a jungle planet...

I think it could be Expedition to the Demonweb Pits

Not sure how the timing works compared to when this was released tho...

Um... it IS right there in the header.

p. 103 of the PF RPG

"RIDE (Dex: Armor Check Penalty)"

RIDE(Dex: Armor Check Penalty

Yup.

/hopes that's enough to defuse the word dumb and the sigh of contempt. It's the weekend! Lighten up a bit man!

Bah, reading is hard. ;-)

The following foci are just some of those that will appear in the Pathfinder RPG Advanced Player’s Guide. As the playtest continues, other foci will be made available through the messageboards at paizo.com.

Maybe he'll get smitten and try to monopolize her attentions in the voyage. And since she's a frisky fey and not into monogamy baby... he will be angry.

He will be insulted.

He may have to slap her.

You know, for honour's sake. A halfbreed harlot, corrupting a pureblood noble? We can't have that!

*giggle*

You said "ass"

Good for you, making and tweaking your own monsters!

The short answer: There's absolutely no reason it doesn't have anything you like.
The slightly longer answer: it's good form to adjust the damage or CR to reward the players according to the threat they face.

How it all happens is up to you. If you invent a special attack that works like rake, called syringe, no problem.

Syringe: when the doctor begins the round with a victim, sorry, patient grappled/ pinned/ whatever... a syringe appears in his previously empty hand and sticks them on the but-tocks.

Chug: when the Student begins the round with a tankard succesfully grappled, he immediately drains 1d10+con modifier tenths of a pint of beer. Treat results over 10 as 10.

Silly examples, but if you want...say...a carnivorous plant to sprout internal thorns and pierce grappled victims, or mouths to open in the fists of maulers, or belly hooks to start digging in, that's your right and privilege. Using existing rules as a guideline is just good sense, and let's players accept it quickly. After squealing.

And yes I'm basically looking at either nerfing the paladin or putting two of every big bad guy in each adventure to soak up his smites

And evil minions with plastic surgery to look extra evil, and pumped up on steroids to look intimidating enough to need smiting... all the way until there are no Smite's left. And some anti-paladin style evil armoured dudes as bodyguards, with holy symbols of evil gods plastered all over their armour.

"I will smite these foul servants of *insert evil god*, for such have I sworn. You, on the other hand, you I can deal with using only my bare hands. And maybe this huge sword. And I'll probably keep my armour on."

Or... or.. imagine using your smite on an illusion. Hmmm - can an illusion fool Detect Evil? If not - why is there Detect Illusion? One for another thread :-)

It kind of seems like rewriting the whole adventure to soak up the paladins smites and ... it is. As long as he's smiting huge beasts the player's happy. Max out the hitpoints on two paladin-fodder beasts, and let the villain look shocked when he splats them. Meanwhile, the stuff you've invented for the other player's characters that only they can do... keeps them happy.

"It's lucky you kept those massive Rock Troll Hydras busy, Sir Paladin, otherwise I could never have gotten those traps disarmed/ performed the ritual to remove the unholy taint from the prison doors/ deciphered those runes safely."

I usually find that once I get over my shock that the players have broken my adventure, that they have no idea themselves what they just did. They assume it was supposed to go that way. They're also ripe for a plot twist to confirm that you're the boss and that they're often right to be suspicious.

"Hmmm - that dragon went down surprisingly easy. I mean, okay, your smite is awesome, but still...a dragon? Hey.. waitaminute... waddyamean the dragon melted into a pool of bad-smelling gunk and a small ruby?"

"Loot!"

"No! Don't touch it! I detect evil on the ruby..."

---and you're off again :-)

Can't wait ... til August? *sob*

Still, it's nice just knowing it's on it's way. Here's hoping there's a third book :-)

My guys also went straight to Farshore, even though Olangru took their cohort. They saved Farshore from the first attack, got the news, and headed into the interior - with their first port of call the rescue.
Except... they have no cleric and precious little divination - so they decided they needed help from the Olman. Who needed saving from an angry volcano/dude.

When they finally reached Fogmire, after some brutal 'random' encounters with bar-lgura, the Big O himself, enormous fiendish giant centipedes, and some other stuff ... they were creeped out, tired, and totally worked up. By the time they'd rescued the cohort, their Olman guide was a captive too. The cohort was in a box, very badly hurt in a nasty, Hannibal Lector in the 3rd book kind-of way. They rescued him only to have Olangru steal him back and telekenis him into the fire pit just to split the party.

Man, they were so glad when they kicked his butt. SO glad! And once I stopped sweating it about the order they did stuff in, I enjoyed the module a lot more.

I sent a two-headed retriever after them for trashing the golem and they kicked it's butt. I've rewritten the Temple of the Jaguar with some brutal traps and thrown in a few Logue creations and some Skinwalker sorcerors cursed with Nilbog-traits.

It's not a problem - it's an opportunity ;-)

I'm still trying to decide how to map out Farshore. The wreck's a long way away! I do intend to build something though.

Ronin - just spotted what happened your link: a space slipped in after 3d-

I'm glad. It reminded me of your awesome work :-)

Try this link!

Ronin's tower is amazing! If only the Black Bard would post photos ;-)

Reply sent. I'm all excited :-)

New shiny - yippee!

Now THAT was a professional takedown! :-)

Deposition go okay, FDM?

Okay, I have a bit of quandary. I have a deposition today for the car accident I got into in February. However, my copy of the Pathfinder Beastiary is waiting for me at the post office! Should I rush to the post office and read my copy on the way to my deposition or should I do the *snort* responsible thing and pick it up afterwards?

Get the court thing out of the way first, mate!

+.. how many was it now?

Treantmonk - nice to see you here, welcome to the boards. I have read many of your handbooks and found them helpful and fascinating. I have shelvesd full of books that I haven't read cover to cover, and it's nice if someone can point out that there is in fact an existing feat for the concept I just thought of.

The best way to prove your point is to go ahead and post some interesting stuff, rather than discussing the possibilty that you could have some interesting stuff to post in the theoretical future.

I look forward to you posting some of your handbooks so we can discuss the various mechanical options.

Thank you Sara,

I received a mail from Cosmo saying it had been succesfully reprocessed. With a bit of luck I'll have my pdfs by this evening.

Cheers!

I bought it too. Couldn't wait any longer!
Since a credit card hiccup on Monday which I immediately fixed by authorising a different card, I've heard nothing. I realise that not being able to pay put me to the back of the queue, I just hadn't expected quite as big a queue!

Plus my order is weird - Seekers was split away, an OoTs book I bought was added to my normal subscription items - you need a special kind of packing troll just to get it right!

Still, four days of nail-biting broke my will. (That on top of the whole week before)

I must say - I cannot WAIT to get the real book. The pdf looks fantabulous!!

Well, even though I was keeping an eye on my bank every day, something slipped in under the radar and the credit card transaction for this didn't go through.
I got the notification a few days ago that there was a problem, immediately selected my second credit card payment method, and mailed Customer Services to be doubly sure. It's happened before and the order was delayed by maybe an hour,but this time it's days later and still no second attempt at payment.

Have I done something wrong, not clicked anywhere I should have? Or is it just busy? Stranger still, my bank says there's $190 of space on the card and this order was $81.

Totally shot myself in the foot on Monday, really tempted to just buy a pdf now they're out. I can always give it to a mate when I get another one :-)

(here's a hint.. it starts with an "LLL" noise and ends with an "Itch"... )

Jason Bulmahn
Lead Designer
Paizo Publishing

Heeheeheeheehee!!!!

I should change my name to mud :-)

I checked my bank account every morning, today there seemed ... seemed... to be enough on my credit card to cover the shipment. So I finally get an email from customer service and I think "Hooray!"

Then I read it and see there's insufficient funds. Maybe Aberzombie isn't the only victim of this conspiracy!

Luckily my girlfriend's card had more room on it :-) Now I'll wait politely until they can release my order. Hopefully by the time I wake up.

Then I'll just hold my breath til it ships. That'll teach them!

They're awake in Seattle. Hooray! Now pack my book please!

Can'twaitcan'twaitcan'twaitmuchlonger! I may explode soon!

Think I'll take one too - I'm curious to see what Mr Woon can pull out of his sleeve :-)

There was an excellent DRAGON article from the late 1990s on this.

I've also shot myself in the foot by ordering an OotS book and adding it to my shipment. If I could I'd buy a Bestiary PDF right now to tide me over til my real pdf arrives! I mean it's only $10 and the other one is magic money on my credit card anyway...

Yeah, I don't work Thursdays and was hoping to read the pdf - that's when I discovered the Seeker delay had held up my whole order and asked to split my order. Cosmo did that when he got into work half a day later (other side of the world from me) but they haven't got round to shipping the bestiary yet. Now it's the weekend and it'll be Monday before they can ship it - which means Tuesday before the pdf is available for me - which basically means next Thursday before I read it. When Seeker should be there anyway...so splitting my order made no difference.

I've resigned myself to not glaring jealously at people who already have their pdf. There's nothing I can do, and I doubt there's any way he packers can work through their orders any quicker.

I still refresh my email every 5 minutes just in case though...

Now just waiting til the packers put my order together and shout, "Release the pdfs, Smithers."

Won't be tonight, it's almost bedtime here in Europaland. Hope you get your split order sent soon too.

Thank you, sir!

I'm looking forward to it.

I noticed Cosmo had replied to a few requests to split orders. Maybe he'll spot mine soon too.

/crosses fingers and toes

JollyDoc (on enWorld), posting here as Joseph Jolly, ran Age of Worms, Savage Tide, ROTR and COCT with a group of between 6 and 8. You might want to post in one of his threads (here or on the enWorld Story Hour forum) and ask him for ideas. He recommended doubling all mooks and not boosting the levels of 'named' bad guys. (Just gives the big group too much xp, and forces them to deal with spells etc that are beyond their level).

The numbers issue is definitwely your biggest headache. Good luck! I've ran weekend sessiosn for 7 and 8, I'm not sure I could do it every week!

Way off topic now, but I'd rather you didn't post such bitter sarcasm, Aux. I read that last comment as a compliment to the amount of info Lisa gave on an issue that isn't life or death. From where I'm sitting it certainly didn't seem to be directed at you.

Maybe you'd consider re-reading it.

Hi Lisa, Just want to let you know that I'm one of the people who would be affected by the Seekers delay, but I never got an email. It's not a big deal for me but I figured you should know if there's a glitch.

Anyhoo, I've since posted in Cust Serv asking if my order can be split. I'm sure it'll all work out. Thanks for taking the time to explain it all, Lisa.

Paisome...

Mmmmmmmm, PIE.

It might be waiting for Seekers of Secrets... or you could indeed be the victim of a Paranoid Vendetta Conspiracy (TM)!!!

Just realized that the Seekers of Secrets was delaying my Bestiary. Doh! Hopefully they can yank it from my order and send it nxt month, freeing me for Bestiary goodness :-)

Wish I'd noticed that earlier, I've a day off today and could be browsing pretty pdfs. Now I just have to do all that painting instead :-(

Hi guys,

As Seeker of Secrets has a delay, could you remove it from my order and ship the rest please? I can wait another month for it, but not another moment for the Bestiary!

Thanks in advance, sorry for the hassle - I know you're very busy!

Jeff

More monsters are always good, and things you can't heal with channel energy - clouds that sicken, ability damage, negative levels etc. Swarms may be nice - automatic damage every round and tricky to use area effect spells against if the cleric has to stay within 30 feet too.

The 30' radius is a good one to exploit - baleful transposition, lasso, grapple or drag away a victim. Push, entangle, beartrap or telekenisis the cleric out of the way, drop them in a pit, lock them behind a portcullis, or keep them out of the action briefly while hurting them. Target two PCs at opposite sides to split the clerics, focus fire on two targets more than 30' apart.

Confusion effects are great for splitting the party - a gibbering mouther is always good for a laugh. Lots of undead minions will keep them turning instead of healing. Animate skeletons with animate object and watch them waste turning attempts and wonder who is bolstering the undead. Use low-level plentiful undead with dangerous powers like ghouls - they can't risk healing if someone might get paralysed, so they'll turn instead.

With 8 PCs you're much better with lots of enemies spread out than one or two big ones. Huge fights are fun :-)

Traps can suck up a lot of healing, as can simple stuff like poisoned caltrops.

That's all I have for now!

Gone midnight here in the Netherlands - maybe I'll have a shipping notification in the morning. Oh yeah - and a pdf, though that's definitely not what I'm waiting for. Honestly :-)

Oh, alright, you got me...

Scott is NOT the new editorial hire.
-Lisa

carborundum wrote:

In the CoT pocket dimension thread Lisa and James say they've hired a new editor.
In the enworld thread Scott says he's pursuing new opportunities in te Seattle area.

Am I putting 5 and 5 together and making 55 million?

I'm guessing 'yes'. Sorry.

Mage Killer class variants.
Disrupt spellcasting, reflect spells, redirect spells, steal voice etc etc

In the CoT pocket dimension thread Lisa and James say they've hired a new editor.
In the enworld thread Scott says he's pursuing new opportunities in te Seattle area.

Am I putting 5 and 5 together and making 55 million?

Makes me think there should be more mage-killer classes and builds :-)

If you've preordered or subscribed you still have to wait for the postman. Of course, you might not be in Europe...

Hmm. We hadn't considered that, but we can look into it...