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Aww! I missed it! What was the page about?
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Here you go, I took a screenshot for posterity.
Shhhhhhhh! Don't say stuff like that around my wallet. Seriously though, I'm hoping your right. I'd be in day one for that.
...Those extras were not free. I paid for them. I was also trying to be supportive of FGG. I just figured FGG would ship the books first to those who supported them when they needed help. I was wrong. I should have known better. I understand FGG wanted to sell copies at Gencon. No problem. They need the sales they would get there.They should have let the Kickstarter supporters know that we would not get the books ahead of others even though we have already paid. That would have been fine. It bothers me when I have already paid for something and others get it first who have not already paid. This happened to me with The Slumbering Tsar Saga. I pre-ordered it and paid for it several months before release. It was in the stores well before my copy was shipped. Sorry to be so negative. I am actually a fan of FGG and before Necromancer Games. I think in the future I will not pre-order anything and just wait until I see it for sale. I pledged for an adventure from Gaming Paper that finished about a week and a half before RA. I received my pdf about a week and a half before the pdf for RA. I have a rough delivery estimate, mostly based on lead time from a completely different company, for one, and no shipping details for the other. The later is a 54 page adventure, the former 673+ pages of awesome. Nothing against Gaming Paper, because, as far as I know, they don't have copies to sell yet, but RA was both a larger undertaking, and a bigger success in terms of quick delivery. As a backer, I'm glad that people at Gen Con can by the book. We made that happen. The people that are sitting at the con with their copies of the book are doing so because of us. They are gleefully killing pc's (and maybe a few monsters die, too) because of us. I'm proud of that fact. I don't feel like an idiot for pledging, I feel like a contributor to the fun that hundreds of people are going to have because we came together and made such an excellent product happen. Add to that the fact that we got a ton of extra swag, and I'm sure there are people at the con feeling like idiots for NOT pledging. Realizing now that if the actual book is this amazing, how much cooler would it be to also have level 7b, plus the Cyclopean Deeps, plus the players guide and bestiary to round the whole thing out. I know if I hadn't pledged, and then seen the finished project, and realized that I could have had my name in the back of the book, I would definitely feel like a fool. Reading the rest of these recent posts, it looks like I'm not the only one who feels the way that I do. It also seems that you are, in fact the only one who feels the way you do. EDIT: Point in fact, those extras were free. $250 Pledge - Exclusive Bonus module "Level 7B Caves and Caverns of the Ancient Gods" that will never be released for sale and the exclusive Frog God Games battlemap, along with a Froggy T-shirt, plus your signed & numbered hardcover copy, your choice of unpainted Reaper Miniature (see pledge notes), PDF, plus the option to add your name at the back of the book as a Death Knight of Orcus & Tsathogga. That's what I paid for, up front, with nothing else promised. $250 Pledge - PDF of "Bill's 100 Lines", wallpaper artwork of Rappan Athuk Cover Art, special tribute illustration, Name in Book, Player's Guide w/ PDF, Printer pre-generated characters with PDF, Orcus Button, PDF of Rappan Athuk (Both versions), Signed & Numbered Hardcover of Rappan Athuk, Book of Maps, Softcover of "Cyclopean Deeps" bonus modules 1 & 2 with PDFs, The Windfall PDF, Froggie T-shirt, Miniature, Bonus 7B Module, Battle Mat, GM Screen, D20 Digital Mapset and Hero Lab Data files, softcover copy of the Bestiary, 1 set of custom dice, and poster of the cross section. That's what my final package is. Plus a dice bag for me and one for my gf. Basically, I pledged for a Book, a module, a battlemap, a t-shirt, a mini, a single pdf, and my name in the book. Everything after that was not in the original deal, and was, in fact, free.
Well, Fluffy...I mean the Tarrasque, will always hold a special place in my heart, simply because we encountered one in a high level game once, and turned it into our pet. The Tarrasque, in 3.5 at least, was not immune to mind effecting, so our parties psion hit it with Dominate Monster over and over until it rolled a 1. For the rest of that campaign, we were able to sic him on our enemies whenever we needed to. We had to raid a valley that was heavily defended against us specifically, so we teleported a flying, buffed tarrasque on one end of the valley, and had teleportation circles target the other end of the valley. We then marched a literal army through the circles, formed up, and went to war. It was the most epic gaming moment any of us had ever experienced. Now, from a GM perspective, I love dragons. All of the dragons, but specifically the reds. Evil, greedy, genius' that breath fire. What's not to like. Way too many readings of the Hobbit (not to mention viewings of the Rankin/Bass movie from the 70's) have etched Smaug into my brain as one of the most fearsome beings in existence, and what could be better than getting to be that?
Another good tactic is to get out of the store. Role playing with an audience can be tough if you're new to it, and PFS at not be ideal for developing the skills needed. Sitting around the kitchen table with some close friends, however, may be just the environment you need to build those skills.
In the Inner Sea I would love more Andoran, Numeria, and the River Kingdoms (Brevoy as well). I would also REALLY like to see something in Arcadia. I'm Native American in addition to (mostly) Irish and English. The Anglo/Celtic side of my ancestry is done to death in every fantasy setting ever, I think Arcadia is a perfect place to tap into some of the really excellent Native American mythology, and the several colonies already in existence there make an excellent tie in to the more familiar Inner Sea setting. EDIT: I just finished my epub of City of the Fallen sky last night. Hope to get a longer review in, but it is currently tied with Plague of Shadows for my favorite. I should also add that I will devour anything Dave Gross writes for Pathfinder. Seriously, publish Varian Jegarre's collected grocery lists, with a little commentary from Radovan, and I'll read it.
There are some things that could use addressing, like this feat. I don't think that Paizo needs to come out and say whether or not they are working on it though. To be completely honest, I could have sworn that a prone ranged attack was at -4. I can't find it anywhere and I don't know where I read it but I'm sure I did somewhere. It is entirely possible that they thought the same thing. Being human beings they are entitled to make errors like this once in a while. The good news is that this feat isn't tied to anything else so you can simply ignore it until further notice. It won't affect your game at all. I'm with you on the -4 thing. I have no idea where it came from, but I remember reading that at one point. As to the complaints about paizo's editing, I would encourage detractors to buy a couple books published for a certain system combining cyberpunk and sorcery, or, even better (worse) a certain lupine themed companies offerings set in a universe of insufficient light. You will come running screaming back to the glorious light of the purple golem very quickly. I have thought from the begining that Paizo's writing, game balance, presentation, literally everything about the company, far surpased what I was used to dealing with previous setting and systems. Sure, when editing rules for a textbook sized game supplemt, things mistakes get made, but at least with Pathfinder it tends to err on the side of less broken, rather than more (see the afore-alluded to game systems to see excellent examples of such, and on both sides of the gms screen, no less).
Trail rations...never leave home without em. Seriously, though:
Oh, and metamagic rods are a casters best friend, especially in eberron, where you could keep them all on a wand bracelet and swap as a free action. That got broken real quick when we hit 15 with three casters in the party. |