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I've always enjoyed Inkscape for making maps. If you make a mistake or want to move something, it's easy to modify.

Please cancel the following subscriptions effective immediately:

Pathfinder Companion
Pathfinder Module
Gamemastery Cards

Please cancel the Pathfinder Adventure Path AFTER Pathfinder #36. I would like to finish off the Kingmaker AP in hardcover.

I would also like to cancel the below after the next shipment. Should I wait and take care of this later?

Pathfinder Chronicles

Thanks in advance! I've enjoyed my subscriptions, just trying to cut back.

Hopefully others can use this thread to clarify questions arising in this adventure. If you happen to see another thread, please link post a link in this one to try and keep things tied together.

Chapter 1: Souls for Smuggler's Shiv
Chapter 2: Racing to Ruin
Chapter 3: The City of Seven Spears
Chapter 4: Vaults of Madness
Chapter 5: The Thousand Fangs Below
Chapter 6: Sanctum of the Serpent God

Hopefully others can use this thread to clarify questions arising in this adventure. If you happen to see another thread, please link post a link in this one to try and keep things tied together.

Chapter 1: Souls for Smuggler's Shiv
Chapter 2: Racing to Ruin
Chapter 3: The City of Seven Spears
Chapter 4: Vaults of Madness
Chapter 5: The Thousand Fangs Below
Chapter 6: Sanctum of the Serpent God

Hopefully others can use this thread to clarify questions arising in this adventure. If you happen to see another thread, please link post a link in this one to try and keep things tied together.

Chapter 1: Souls for Smuggler's Shiv
Chapter 2: Racing to Ruin
Chapter 3: The City of Seven Spears
Chapter 4: Vaults of Madness
Chapter 5: The Thousand Fangs Below
Chapter 6: Sanctum of the Serpent God

Hopefully others can use this thread to clarify questions arising in this adventure. If you happen to see another thread, please link post a link in this one to try and keep things tied together.

Chapter 1: Souls for Smuggler's Shiv
Chapter 2: Racing to Ruin
Chapter 3: The City of Seven Spears
Chapter 4: Vaults of Madness
Chapter 5: The Thousand Fangs Below
Chapter 6: Sanctum of the Serpent God

Hopefully others can use this thread to clarify questions arising in this adventure. If you happen to see another thread, please link post a link in this one to try and keep things tied together.

Chapter 1: Souls for Smuggler's Shiv
Chapter 2: Racing to Ruin
Chapter 3: The City of Seven Spears
Chapter 4: Vaults of Madness
Chapter 5: The Thousand Fangs Below
Chapter 6: Sanctum of the Serpent God

Hopefully others can use this thread to clarify questions arising in this adventure. If you happen to see another thread, please link post a link in this one to try and keep things tied together.

Chapter 1: Souls for Smuggler's Shiv
Chapter 2: Racing to Ruin
Chapter 3: The City of Seven Spears
Chapter 4: Vaults of Madness
Chapter 5: The Thousand Fangs Below
Chapter 6: Sanctum of the Serpent God

When I click on the "Tags" links, I get a blank page.

The search seems to find the information, but still goes to the blank page.

Thanks!

PS, like the new layout for the Blog/Store Blog

Dear Web Admin Guys,

I was wondering if it would be possible to sticky the below posts in their respective forums. This was done for some of the other forums, but I've never requested since the initial proposal.

Much appreciated!

Curse of the Crimson Throne forum
Chapter 1: Edge of Anarchy
Chapter 2: Seven Days to the Grave
Chapter 3: Escape from Old Korvosa
Chapter 4: A History of Ashes
Chapter 5: Skeletons of Scarwall
Chapter 6: Crown of Fangs

Council of Thieves forum
Chapter 1: The Bastards of Erebus
Chapter 2: The Sixfold Trial
Chapter 3: What Lies in Dust
Chapter 4: The Infernal Syndrome
Chapter 5: Mother of Flies
Chapter 6: The Twice-Damned Prince

Kingmaker forum
Chapter 1: Stolen Land
Chapter 2: Rivers Run Red
Chapter 3: The Varnhold Vanishing
Chapter 4: Blood for Blood
Chapter 5: War of the River Kings
Chapter 6: Sound of a Thousand Screams

Hopefully others can use this thread to clarify questions arising in this adventure. If you happen to see another thread, please link post a link in this one to try and keep things tied together.

Chapter 1: Stolen Land
Chapter 2: Rivers Run Red
Chapter 3: The Varnhold Vanishing
Chapter 4: Blood for Blood
Chapter 5: War of the River Kings
Chapter 6: Sound of a Thousand Screams

Hopefully others can use this thread to clarify questions arising in this adventure. If you happen to see another thread, please link post a link in this one to try and keep things tied together.

Chapter 1: Stolen Land
Chapter 2: Rivers Run Red
Chapter 3: The Varnhold Vanishing
Chapter 4: Blood for Blood
Chapter 5: War of the River Kings
Chapter 6: Sound of a Thousand Screams

Hopefully others can use this thread to clarify questions arising in this adventure. If you happen to see another thread, please link post a link in this one to try and keep things tied together.

Chapter 1: Stolen Land
Chapter 2: Rivers Run Red
Chapter 3: The Varnhold Vanishing
Chapter 4: Blood for Blood
Chapter 5: War of the River Kings
Chapter 6: Sound of a Thousand Screams

Hopefully others can use this thread to clarify questions arising in this adventure. If you happen to see another thread, please link post a link in this one to try and keep things tied together.

Chapter 1: Stolen Land
Chapter 2: Rivers Run Red
Chapter 3: The Varnhold Vanishing
Chapter 4: Blood for Blood
Chapter 5: War of the River Kings
Chapter 6: Sound of a Thousand Screams

Hopefully others can use this thread to clarify questions arising in this adventure. If you happen to see another thread, please link post a link in this one to try and keep things tied together.

Chapter 1: Stolen Land
Chapter 2: Rivers Run Red
Chapter 3: The Varnhold Vanishing
Chapter 4: Blood for Blood
Chapter 5: War of the River Kings
Chapter 6: Sound of a Thousand Screams

Hopefully others can use this thread to clarify questions arising in this adventure. If you happen to see another thread, please link post a link in this one to try and keep things tied together.

Chapter 1: Stolen Land
Chapter 2: Rivers Run Red
Chapter 3: The Varnhold Vanishing
Chapter 4: Blood for Blood
Chapter 5: War of the River Kings
Chapter 6: Sound of a Thousand Screams

Not sure if anyone has noticed, but the footer seems to have a missing piece.

"...Planet Stories planet logo are trademarks of Paizo Publishing, LLC. Amazing Stories is a trademark of, and Dungeons & Dragons..."

Seems like the Amazing Stories is truncated.

Wasn't sure where to put this, but I thought here would be the best place.

Problem:
I have no idea how to write an effective story, but want to become a DM. What are the best resources out there for ideas on Stories, Plots, Subplots, Twists, Conflicts, and all things story related?

The majority of the G/DMGs out there tell you how to build an encounter, but not how to get the PCs there. I've seen a few glimmers of hope, but they're a bit like an overview for what I want.

Any resources (online or dead tree) that you can suggest? How about game books (as they tend to relate to the subject I'm interested in)?

Any help is appreciated!

Thanks

I wanted to ensure that this hits the appropriate audience.

Play By Post Forum Project

Posted in the Gamer Life section, as that's more appropriate. If you have suggestions or ideas, please post there.

Reposted from ENWorld

Feel free to post here as well.

I've been toying with the idea of creating a Play by Post Forum for some time. However, not being a regular player, I only have a faint idea of what to include. I'm looking for ideas of what to include and will work on this in my spare time.

So, here's what I'm looking for: A central location that will allow gamemasters and players a rich user experience capable of handling content and fun for the purpose of system specific and generic Play by Post internet games.

The forum is more focused on adding more game specific information into the experience. Some features include:

• Multiple characters per user account.
  
• Multiple aliases per character
  
• Generalized posting area with an "Action" area that will show actions taken by the user
  
• Stored die rolls
  
• Time based tracking
  
• Open posting and Initiative based posting
  
• Personalized Avatars
  
• Online maps with the ability to "map out" actions
  
• Ability to use different fantasy languages
  
• Character status and conditions
  
• Turn notifications
  

I'm interested in hearing what other people would like to see out of this. Any ideas or suggestions are welcome, including your takes on the items above (described below).

If there is enough of a need for this, I'd be interested in spending additional time to make this become a reality.

Thanks in advance, and enjoy!

=========================================================

A more detailed rundown of the above items.

Multiple characters per user account - A person signs up for an account and can create multiple characters. When submitting a post, they are able to choose the name of the character. There will be a restriction that the character must be involved in the game to be used for posting.

Multiple aliases per character - GMs and players can post as different character names for whatever purpose. For example, a villain is masquerading as a beggar. The beggar's name will show instead of the villain. Anything that happens to the beggar also happens to the villain.

Generalized posting area with an "Action" area that will show actions taken by the user - Forums have an area for posting descriptions of what is happening. This area would have supplemental information that relates game terms to those viewing. As an example, in the d20 system, an attack action would look something like "[Player 1] attacks [Villain] [roll] and hits for [XX] damage. The normal posting area is not affected by this section.

Stored die rolls - Upon submission of a post, the die rolls are saved. The results are randomly generated. This frees up the GM and Players from having to post results.

Time based tracking - GMs are responsible for updating the time in the game. When a game is set up, a date and time is determined by the GM. The GM can progress the time in seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, or years with a simple action. When in combat, the system would automatically adjust time as needed. Actions of players may also add to the time (ex, taking 20 on a search, brewing a potion, etc).

Open posting and Initiative based posting - The GM can control how posting is processed. In times where there isn't an emphasis on "time" ("open posting"), posting can be done at any time by anyone. If there is a need to keep track of who goes, "initiative-based" posting takes over. The current and next characters in the initiative will be visible in the post title and on the page. A person cannot post out of turn in "initiative-based" posting. The GM can institute a "time limit" that will skip over people that do not post within the time frame (ex, 5 seconds, 3 days, or even 2 years). Depending on the option used, the player may be able to post as if he was using a "held action".

Personalized Avatars - Each alias has a picture available for viewing. This way the Beggar and Villain don't have the same visage.

Online maps with the ability to "map out" actions - Map fields with a background of the area are scaled for players to map out their actions.

Ability to use different fantasy languages - If a language is posted that a character doesn't understand, the post will reflect in the same way (random characters). Those that have the language will read it as normal.

Character status and conditions - As with normal forums, there is usually a location below the poster's name that has information about the posting person. This area will be used to show the character's statuses and conditions (ex, HP, Bloodied, Prone, etc).

Turn notifications - As described above, users can see who's turn it is with a quick glance at the thread.

With the fire issue with Q-workshop, I was wondering if my order can be split to receive all items except the Second Darkness Dice Set. I can create a new order with just that item.

If the any other items are unavailable, let me know and I'll deal with those as needed.

Finally, can this be bundled with my Pathfinder Subscription setting?

I know, I'm a pain in the posterior end ; )

Much appreciated!

Hopefully others can use this thread to clarify questions arising in this adventure. If you happen to see another thread, please link post a link in this one to try and keep things tied together.

Chapter 1: The Bastards of Erebus
Chapter 2: The Sixfold Trial
Chapter 3: What Lies in Dust
Chapter 4: The Infernal Syndrome
Chapter 5: Mother of Flies
Chapter 6: The Twice-Damned Prince

Hopefully others can use this thread to clarify questions arising in this adventure. If you happen to see another thread, please link post a link in this one to try and keep things tied together.

Chapter 1: The Bastards of Erebus
Chapter 2: The Sixfold Trial
Chapter 3: What Lies in Dust
Chapter 4: The Infernal Syndrome
Chapter 5: Mother of Flies
Chapter 6: The Twice-Damned Prince

Hopefully others can use this thread to clarify questions arising in this adventure. If you happen to see another thread, please link post a link in this one to try and keep things tied together.

Chapter 1: The Bastards of Erebus
Chapter 2: The Sixfold Trial
Chapter 3: What Lies in Dust
Chapter 4: The Infernal Syndrome
Chapter 5: Mother of Flies
Chapter 6: The Twice-Damned Prince

Hopefully others can use this thread to clarify questions arising in this adventure. If you happen to see another thread, please link post a link in this one to try and keep things tied together.

Chapter 1: The Bastards of Erebus
Chapter 2: The Sixfold Trial
Chapter 3: What Lies in Dust
Chapter 4: The Infernal Syndrome
Chapter 5: Mother of Flies
Chapter 6: The Twice-Damned Prince

Hopefully others can use this thread to clarify questions arising in this adventure. If you happen to see another thread, please link post a link in this one to try and keep things tied together.

Chapter 1: The Bastards of Erebus
Chapter 2: The Sixfold Trial
Chapter 3: What Lies in Dust
Chapter 4: The Infernal Syndrome
Chapter 5: Mother of Flies
Chapter 6: The Twice-Damned Prince

Hopefully others can use this thread to clarify questions arising in this adventure. If you happen to see another thread, please link post a link in this one to try and keep things tied together.

Chapter 1: The Bastards of Erebus
Chapter 2: The Sixfold Trial
Chapter 3: What Lies in Dust
Chapter 4: The Infernal Syndrome
Chapter 5: Mother of Flies
Chapter 6: The Twice-Damned Prince

It looks like there's going to be quite a bit of April shipping. From what I see, 3 PFAP, 3 PF Chronicles, 1 PF Module, and 2 PF Companion.

I would prefer to reduce the shipping charges, which I already have optimized with the "Ship with my PFAP" but I'd rather get them all in one box.

Should I change my settings to go Monthly when April hits, or are you planning on doing something different with the mailing?

It looks like there's going to be quite a bit of April shipping. From what I see, 3 PFAP, 3 PF Chronicles, 1 PF Module, and 2 PF Companion.

I would prefer to reduce the shipping charges, which I already have optimized with the "Ship with my PFAP" but I'd rather get them all in one box.

Should I change my settings to go Monthly when April hits, or are you planning on doing something different with the mailing?

I'm thinking of designing a PbP message board system as a way to "break into" GMing for my group (too many GMs right now).

I figure I can start out with a basic message board and then add features like a die roller that stores rolls, interactive maps, Character Builders (at least storing the basics), some kind of campaign manager (wiki and another?), and an option for character journals (blogs?).

What resources would you suggest to get the idea of how PbP works?
What features would be helpful to a GM?
What features would be helpful to a Player?

I've done Play by Chat before on the old days of AOL (TSR Era, which I tought worked well but scheduling was an issue) and one PbEmail but didn't care for the abstact nature of combat for the email game.

I'm tossing around the idea of running the "Rise of the Runelords" AP with a "warmup" campaign where the characters go off to an "adventuring college" to learn the ropes. Think Hogwarts rip-off.

Basically, the characters are 0th level and stripped down to basic stats. They'll start out with a stereotype or two (fat kid, cool kid, gimpy, etc) to help develop personality and overcome adversity. As the 6 year college goes on, they gain Ability Score bumps, Skill Points, Feats, and Powers (yes, I'm converting it). They'll also learn their class features, gain Healing Surges, basically what makes them thier character at 1st level.

There will be mini-adventures along the way, "Skill tests" as exams at the end of the year (maybe even a midterm), some random events along the way, and an American Gladiators Eliminator tie in!).

Anyway, I'm trying to incorperate the 7 sins into the adventures and need some help coming up with some ideas of how to taunt/tempt them. This will give me a gauge of how the players would react for the AP when the time comes.

How would you incorperate the 7 sins? Also, how would you do the 7 virtues to even things out? There's plenty of options for both, just trying to get a bunch of ideas and mix them in.

I've looked over the DMG and found plenty of "templates" for Monsters, but what about statted characters for the BBEG?

Basically, I'm looking for something to create a Nth level Wizard, throw in a couple of lackeys and call it an encounter.

Has anyone seen anything that allows this?

Thought I'd just throw this out there.

I've been creating the "GM Reference" (ex, here) posts for the Adventure Paths since PF#1. I create the posts and link to each successive module in the path. Each time I receive my email for shipment, I "bump" the thread to give it some visibility.

While I rarely go into the "Messageboard" link, I think it would be nice to have these types of references readily available, say by a sticky.

What would be even better if these were created when a new Adventure Path has all the titles available and bumped when a new product ships.

That would be really cool! : )

Hopefully others can use this thread to clarify questions arising in this adventure. If you happen to see another thread, please link post a link in this one to try and keep things tied together.

Chapter 1: Howl of the Carrion King
Chapter 2: House of the Beast
Chapter 3: The Jackal's Price
Chapter 4: The End of Eternity
Chapter 5: The Impossible Eye
Chapter 6: The Final Wish

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Chapter 1: Howl of the Carrion King
Chapter 2: House of the Beast
Chapter 3: The Jackal's Price
Chapter 4: The End of Eternity
Chapter 5: The Impossible Eye
Chapter 6: The Final Wish

Hopefully others can use this thread to clarify questions arising in this adventure. If you happen to see another thread, please link post a link in this one to try and keep things tied together.

Chapter 1: Howl of the Carrion King
Chapter 2: House of the Beast
Chapter 3: The Jackal's Price
Chapter 4: The End of Eternity
Chapter 5: The Impossible Eye
Chapter 6: The Final Wish

Hopefully others can use this thread to clarify questions arising in this adventure. If you happen to see another thread, please link post a link in this one to try and keep things tied together.

Chapter 1: Howl of the Carrion King
Chapter 2: House of the Beast
Chapter 3: The Jackal's Price
Chapter 4: The End of Eternity
Chapter 5: The Impossible Eye
Chapter 6: The Final Wish

Hopefully others can use this thread to clarify questions arising in this adventure. If you happen to see another thread, please link post a link in this one to try and keep things tied together.

Chapter 1: Howl of the Carrion King
Chapter 2: House of the Beast
Chapter 3: The Jackal's Price
Chapter 4: The End of Eternity
Chapter 5: The Impossible Eye
Chapter 6: The Final Wish

Hopefully others can use this thread to clarify questions arising in this adventure. If you happen to see another thread, please link post a link in this one to try and keep things tied together.

Chapter 1: Howl of the Carrion King
Chapter 2: House of the Beast
Chapter 3: The Jackal's Price
Chapter 4: The End of Eternity
Chapter 5: The Impossible Eye
Chapter 6: The Final Wish

I think this is the best place to put it, since I'm not looking at a game system.

Anyway...

I'm in the process of creating a game and want to have a "random" feel to the land. I have the basic land masses created and I need to populate them with land forms. However, I don't know what kind of logic to use to create them.

Has anyone seen a sourcebook that tells how to create random land? Has suggestions for the probability of a land form being close to another?

I want to keep it "random" as the map is of considerable size (over 184,000 hexes, including 50% water).

Any help is appreciated!

I sent an email regarding this order. Please cancel. If you have any questions, please respond to the email.

Thanks

I posted the "GM Reference" to the wrong section.

http://paizo.com/paizo/messageboards/paizoPublishing/pathfinder/adventurePa th/legacyOfFire/shadowInTheSkyGMReference

It should be in the Second Darkness.

I've had a few people say that these are quite helpful. Can something like this be added as a "sticky" to each of the Adventure paths when they're set up? That would make it easy to find : )

Thanks!

I'm sure this dead horse has been hit a few times too many, but I thought I'd throw it out there.

I've made the personal choice to reduce on the amount of books that I own and believe that the PDF is the way to go.

Is there any way that we can get a PDF Only subscription for existing subscriptions? It's not a matter of the shipping and handling, it's a matter of the shelf space I have available.

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Chapter 1: Shadow in the Sky
Chapter 2: Children of the Void
Chapter 3: The Armageddon Echo
Chapter 4: Endless Night
Chapter 5: A Memory of Darkness
Chapter 6: Descent into Midnight

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Chapter 1: Shadow in the Sky
Chapter 2: Children of the Void
Chapter 3: The Armageddon Echo
Chapter 4: Endless Night
Chapter 5: A Memory of Darkness
Chapter 6: Descent into Midnight

Hopefully others can use this thread to clarify questions arising in this adventure. If you happen to see another thread, please link post a link in this one to try and keep things tied together.

Chapter 1: Shadow in the Sky
Chapter 2: Children of the Void
Chapter 3: The Armageddon Echo
Chapter 4: Endless Night
Chapter 5: A Memory of Darkness
Chapter 6: Descent into Midnight

Hopefully others can use this thread to clarify questions arising in this adventure. If you happen to see another thread, please link post a link in this one to try and keep things tied together.

Chapter 1: Shadow in the Sky
Chapter 2: Children of the Void
Chapter 3: The Armageddon Echo
Chapter 4: Endless Night
Chapter 5: A Memory of Darkness
Chapter 6: Descent into Midnight

Hopefully others can use this thread to clarify questions arising in this adventure. If you happen to see another thread, please link post a link in this one to try and keep things tied together.

Chapter 1: Shadow in the Sky
Chapter 2: Children of the Void
Chapter 3: The Armageddon Echo
Chapter 4: Endless Night
Chapter 5: A Memory of Darkness
Chapter 6: Descent into Midnight

Hopefully others can use this thread to clarify questions arising in this adventure. If you happen to see another thread, please link post a link in this one to try and keep things tied together.

Chapter 1: Shadow in the Sky
Chapter 2: Children of the Void
Chapter 3: The Armageddon Echo
Chapter 4: Endless Night
Chapter 5: A Memory of Darkness
Chapter 6: Descent into Midnight