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It's been about a week longer than the estimate, and the track your package link in the email goes to a page that says to contact you guys.

Any idea where this might be?

I have a bunch of pdf back issues in my shopping cart, but I can't seem to get to the confirmation page to order them. I see the review items page fine, but clicking on confirm and select payment method links to a blank page with a complicated URL and does not load. Are they still for sale?

At first, I noticed that two of them had a red line through the price (112, 114) and then the discount, while the others just had black, so I saved the red two for later, but that didn't work. Do I have too many?

I noticed that a lot of the NPC allies in Brinewall Legacy lean towards the CG alignment, and was wondering if that was going to be a plot element. In particular, are lawful PCs supposed to common into their own once the AP gets to Tian Xia?

Suishen sounds like it will allow some DM flexibility, but what are the main powers of this weapon?

Needs a fencing squad t-shirt.

With purple lettering.

Just saying.

This article had lots of neat pictures of muscle-powered cranes, and a good explanation of how they were used to do things like move 100-tonne obelisks around.

The reproduced pictures and the links to references both look pretty useful for any would-be pyramid building PCs or DMs looking for a construction site illustration.

I love the old Land of Men with Tails modules from Dungeon, and hope we get all kinds of jungle fun.

That said, I must repeat a request I've made elsewhere before: Please, not another Heart of Darkness remake! After so many over the years, a remake of one of Bob Hope's Road to &SOMEWHERE would be preferable. If you need some real world inspiration, how about those Maya ruins United Fruit restored in between shuffling banana regimes? For inspirational reading set in jungle terrain, how about, say Call it Courage? Haiti's been in the news lately, how about some voodoo legends I've not heard of yet? Punch, National Geographic, Harper's, and The Atlantic are all really old; maybe they have some actual exploration accounts from 1870-1890. Just, please, something, anything, other than Joe Conrad again.

Yeah, a high level module. What, no runelords then? Boo.

I like how you're setting these in the places laid out in the various Chronicles products, however. Hurrah for Kaer Maga.

1. If you roll a '1' on the first save for which you have the Improved version of the relevant save bonus feat, can you use your reroll on that save? Like if my first save vs baleful polymorph is a 1, but I have Improved Greater Fortitude, can I roll again?

2. How do these feats work with saves made by the DM in secret? (Improved Iron Will, I'm looking at you!) Is it used the first time a save is needed, or is it never used for these kinds of saves, or only when the die for the first save is less than 11 (or some other player-specified but unchanging value)?

Can a monk take Improved Natural Attack to increase his unarmed strike damage? Could he take Ability Focus (Stunning Fist, Scorpion Style, or Gorgon's Fist)?

I looked this morning and the PFS event page had still never heard of Paizocon. Is the plan to use Warhorn for scheduling/mustering of tables?

Is anyone planning on running PFS events at RavenCon, in Richmond, VA? Dates are April 24-26

Is anyone running a game at MarsCon, Jan 16-18 in Williamsburg?

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What's up with the trepanning on Merisiel? Judging from the yelow-and black cloth she wears, is it some Calistria thing? Something about Yuelral that was cut for space?

The mystery continues!

Also, very nice job on the green tint of the pages. I usually find that sort of thing distracting, but this time I liked it.

The 2008-08-11 version of the player's guide character sheet has Disable Device and Forgery using Dex instead of Int, probably because of errors in backconversion from Beta to 3.5. Rogues beware!

My guesses for the included iconics:

Kyra, the cleric. Sarenrae features as the good deity in the issue with Chapter 2, so we finaly learn what prestige class a cleric with Iron Will gets. Plus, you can't have a desert campaign without scimitar weilding heroes, so it's either her or Seltyiel, and he's probably too dark for the tone this one sounds like, even if he hadn't been in the AP right before it. She's in.

Lem, the bard. The early enemies are slavers, and Chapter 1 looks like it has plenty of social opportunities, like Sandpoint. There's also the Sinbad voyaging JJ mentioned in the chat, and he looks like he belongs on a boat. Given his background, he seems like a likely pick.

Merisiel, the rogue. The sands and seas are good matches thematically for her sort of fighting style. She's also originally from Riddleport. The pigeonhole principle guarantees that at least two of the four must have been together in one of the 3 previous APs, and I consider Valeros and Seoni to be out since their art is the most often used.

The last pick is a little tougher, since you have to wonder if the Second Darkness foursome are eligible. Amiri grew up next door to the Vikings, but she herself is a brunette, and I can't imagine her swinging over in a boarding action. You'd need one rope for her, and one for her ballast-piece. She's out. Likewise, Lini will have to wait for another campaign to go gather cedar for her stick collection. Since there's several forests in 2nd Darkness, I suspect she gets plenty of appearences and we'll have had enough of her. I also hope they save Lini for some madness in Galt someday. I don't think Seltyiel works, since the tone doesn't sound like it welcomes an evil PC. That leaves Ezren, Harsk, Seelah, and Sajan. I could see Harsk being useful for the first couple of adventures, but I doubt this one fits Ezren. Sajan has the fighting style and costume to fit in, like Merisiel. There's also a decent chance they call on Jalmeray, so there could be an article to tie into Vudra. Seelah, while her background is a good fit, has too much armor.

My four: Kyra, Lem, Merisiel, and Sajan, though I wouldn't be surprised if Harsk edged out Sajan or even Merisiel.

As time passes, it will take more and more digging through "Older Posts" to find the backstories on the Paizo iconics. Also, I'd like to see them in one place to use as a reference to noobs. Since you've gone to such trouble to make them, please put them in a convenient and logical spot. I'm thinking that perhaps a link labelled "Iconostasis" under the About Paizo heading would have just the right Gygax feel. I'd probably save "templon" for something in the Gods & Magic book that SKR is working on.

Seriously though, having them in a central location would be in keeping with the whole brandingmarketing point of having them.

I hold for monthly shipping, everything reads as pending, and it's May 30. I think there may be a bug, since I preordered the Gazeteer and it's listed as part of my Chronicles subscription. In any case, please check on things, cause the wait feels longer than last month.

I like how it combines forgery and decipher script, but I dislike the method of learning languages. For one thing, I can't tell how many extra languages you learn if you take this thing as a class skill at first level. For another, with skill points, unless you had a low Int, you could learn a language every level, by paying the two skill points, just like barbarians becoming literate. Last, why retain Abyssal and Infernal, but switch Auran, Aquan, Ignan and Terran to Elemental? Do summoners really need the help?

Is Gorum, CN god of weapons and battle really in the same class as Lamashtu and Rovagug? Is this a holdover from the wars with the Shoanti? Did Torag's (LN god of the forge, &c.) clerics pay somebody off? Or did you guys just mean Norgorber? I find the idea of the god of secrets and murder maintaining a shrine down at the Pantheistic Hall a little hard to believe.

I picked up order #868341 on Thursday February 7th, and it was fine, but I checked my PO Box today, and order 848434 (Pathfinder 5 and J2) is still MIA. The downloads worked fine, but I've seen no sign of the paper copies.

I had a subscription in my cart when I made my most recent order. I'm not sure if that was because I accidentally clicked to add another, or if it was because it needed to be there until I burned through my credit for back issues. In any case, I only want one per month.

Seven Days to the Grave sounds like it might have below-average bloodshed, like "Prince of Redhand" and "Enemy of My Enemy." Any chance we'll see something like those adventures there or in another Crimson Throne adventure?

This path will have the paladin, the bard, the wizard, and I can't tell. Maybe another cleric, or maybe the monk.

What are the Knowledge(Arcana) and bardic lore DCs? What do the PCs learn if they spring the gold for a scroll of legend lore?

I'm crossposting this from the Pathfinder #7 product discussion so that it gets wider readership, and hopefully, consideration.

How about it making it look like a secret door, or perhaps an interesting (non-blank) wall, instead of a book? A treasure-box for the regalia of Korvosa or similar could also be cool. I'd suggest an homage to the 2nd 1e DMG cover, but you guys did that in Three Faces of Evil.

Will the licenses ending mean we all need new avatars?

Since this mechanic isn't SRD, it will be important to describe compelling NPCs and their organizations for DMs to backfill this part. The affiliations are one of my favorite things about STAP.

In the Savage Tiding in Dragon #351, the Ewok^H^H^H^H^H Phanaton has automatic languages Phanaton and Elven, with bonus languages Sylvan and Goblin. The tar gatherers in Dungeon 143 all speak Phanaton and Olman, so I assume Elven is a typo. Sylvan makes sense since the aranea and phanaton druids can speak it, but Goblin looks out of place. I'd swap it for Draconic because of the lizardfolk. I'd also offer Terran (gargoyles) and whatever Bullywugs speak (Aquan?).

What's the name of the Vanderboren yacht that burnt and killed all those people? It seems like one way to introduce PCs would be for contacts with the harbormaster to suggest they check up on the heirs, since they were luckily absent.