Announced!

Announced!

No mock up at all? That's interesting..

Yeah i agree that's odd no mockup, not that I mind. Just odd. It does sound neat though.

I assume no mock-up because the general lack of old artwork that is pirate-y enough. Without reusing art used for the APs anyway.

Can't wait for this! My avatar has been a pirate for sometime. Validation is sweet.

Mock-up cover added.

Mock-up cover added.

What exactly is that pink flying thing?

Yes more "Piratey" goodness.

Ross Byers wrote:

Mock-up cover added.

What exactly is that pink flying thing?

It's a parrot obviously. All good pirates have parrots around, so it must be a parrot, despite being pink and having bat like wings, and looking more like a giant stirge.

Ross Byers wrote:

Mock-up cover added.

What exactly is that pink flying thing?

It's an elephant.

hmmmm.... so, anyone else sensing Pirate on the high seas campaign after the Jade Regent.

I think I may need to start planning out a Dread Pirate Roberts character

hmmmm.... so, anyone else sensing Pirate on the high seas campaign after the Jade Regent.

I think I may need to start planning out a Dread Pirate Roberts character

Well they did announce it two months ago as Skulls and Shackles...

Well, seeing as they revealed the adventure path after Jade Regent would be set in the Shackles, and deal with pirates back during PaizoCon: Yes, I do sense that.

How many beasties are in this item's bestiary?

How many beasties are in this item's bestiary?

I'm not sure about the final product, but my turnover had 15 new monsters (3 of those with variants), in addition to several pirate NPCs and undead pirates. About half of my word count went to the bestiary section of this volume.

So about two dozen monsters/npcs sweet I can't wait to see some sea monsters/creatures. I am hoping for a giant nautilus, starfish, sea slug, or clam.

So about two dozen monsters/npcs sweet I can't wait to see some sea monsters/creatures. I am hoping for a giant nautilus, starfish, sea slug, or clam.

Question:

Dragon78 wrote:

So about two dozen monsters/npcs sweet I can't wait to see some sea monsters/creatures. I am hoping for a giant nautilus, starfish, sea slug, or clam.

Question:

Why map the map folio for skull and shackles (June) and isles of the shackles campaign setting (early March) are not available earlier than the actual adventure path (mid March)?!?!?!?!?!

Because the maps for the AP won't all be done until the AP is almost done.

Well at least this book is less then two months away.

I'll be lame and hope for a Davy Jones analogue. :U

I would love to see a Pathfinder/Golarion version of Davy Jones.

I've updated the product image and description to reflect the finished product.

I'd buy this for the cover alone!

20 mysterious islands for the price of one.

Nice new art and it is also nice that the new gunslinger gets some love as well.

3 headed Lusca sounds intersting as well.

20 mysterious islands for the price of one.

Nice new art and it is also nice that the new gunslinger gets some love as well.

3 headed Lusca sounds intersting as well.

Would the Skull/Shakles or any other supplement incorporates detailed rules on ships and especially for Naval Combat? The Advance/DMG/CRB have useless and limited information.

Would the Skull/Shakles or any other supplement incorporates detailed rules on ships and especially for Naval Combat? The Advance/DMG/CRB have useless and limited information.

Isles of the Shackles is really designed for GMs, focused on providing a gazeteer of the islands and a pretty substantial bestiary. I'm very excited for this to get published, even though my Shackles sea shanty did end up on the cutting room floor.

The Skull & Shackles AP should addressing the issues you're concerned with since players will themselves engage in some lovely piracy on the high seas. The AP promises to be packed with plenty of piratey goodness.

Arrrrh!

Yeah, there'll be a relatively streamlined set of rules for Naval Combat (sort of a halfway point between the VERY streamlined stuff in GameMastery Guide and the much more detailed rules in Ultimate Combat) with Skull & Shackles—I believe the rules will be in the player's guide.

Will there be anything on reputation in the Shackles, or is that covered more in the Player's Guide, S&S AP, or nowhere in particular?

Will there be anything on reputation in the Shackles, or is that covered more in the Player's Guide, S&S AP, or nowhere in particular?

There is a system for tracking the PCs' infamy as pirates in Pathfinder #55: The Wormwood Mutiny.

When will this be in stores?

Really looking forward to this one because it has a lot of new monsters, mysterious islands, NPCs, adventure hooks, etc.

When will this be in stores?

The retail release date is April 25th.

I got my Email, yeah.

Just got this added to my downloads, there is not a separate per chapter download.

Just got this added to my downloads, there is not a separate per chapter download.

Same Here...

I've NOT got my email and they took me money like a bloody Pyrate last week. Those scurvy scoundrels, I'll tie them to the yardarm if I ain't got my email tomorrow.

Wow, now that's a lot of monsters in one book. Pleasantly surprised!

So yeah, the lusca is my new favorite monster.

Still pending :-(

As the PDF finally becomes available and as hard copies make their way into people's mailboxes, I want to give a very loud shout out to the wise and hirsute Mark Garringer, former Venture-Captain of the Indianapolis Lodge, who play-tested a number of the bestiary entries for me. His help and suggestions were very helpful and much appreciated.

I'd also like to give much deserved praise to Paizo developer Patrick Renie for the great work he did patching holes and scraping barnicles off the hull of this particular vessel. Lusca lovers should know that the final version of that monster is much more Patrick's three-headed baby than it is mine.

Arrrrrrrrgh!

And finally, in the course of creating Isles of the Shackles I wrote about a half-dozen sea shanties, only one of which made it to my final turnover. Alas, that too ended up on the cutting room floor. Soooo, for your grog-swilling pleasure, I present it to you here. It makes more sense once you've read the entry for Whyrlis Rock and the Field of Bones and Black Glass:

Gray Whyrlis was an Angry Man
He kept his Hate in Baskets
And all the Souls that Sailed with Him
Got measured for their Caskets

So if ye Wish to live Real Long
Pay Heed to this, me Sonnet:
If you Decide to Boil the World
Be Careful you're not On It

Back to work now, you filthy dogs, or I'll have yer guts for me garters!

Just got this added to my downloads, there is not a separate per chapter download.

This might be because there were only 2 chapters. I'll get up a by chapter version shortly.

It seems to me that some of the Bestiary entries should be NPC style entries like in the GMG. The Pirate ones come to mind

Page 8: "The island is covered with Ghol-Gan ruins--enormous, crumbling edifices that remain as reminders of humanity's impertinence, as well as its capacity for evil."

Mike? The Ghol-Gan were cyclopes, not humans.

(The book is otherwise very good, but this apparent error or retcon bugs me.)

Is the Soucouyant (Isle of the Shackles, p. 61) considered a type of hag?

Their appearance and attributes would seem to fit, but they do not get any of the coven bonuses.

Is the Soucouyant (Isle of the Shackles, p. 61) considered a type of hag?

Their appearance and attributes would seem to fit, but they do not get any of the coven bonuses.

They're hag-like, but they're not actually hags. We would have spelled it out specifically in their flavor text (and in their name by saying "hag" as part of it) if they were.

"The dangers of the archipelago are legion,": for they are many.

Hey, so what's the deal with the map in Isles? It doesn't have a lot of the locations on it. Like Port Peril is the only one of a bunch of listed coastland locales that is even on the map.

I can understand minor locations not being on the little islands on the map, but what looks to be "capitals only" on the map makes it of little use. Did those get left off accidentally (in which case a pdf update would be nice)?

Hey, so what's the deal with the map in Isles? It doesn't have a lot of the locations on it. Like Port Peril is the only one of a bunch of listed coastland locales that is even on the map.

I can understand minor locations not being on the little islands on the map, but what looks to be "capitals only" on the map makes it of little use. Did those get left off accidentally (in which case a pdf update would be nice)?

The deal is that we didn't want to overly clutter up the map with location tags. The map's already pretty cluttered as it stands with all the island names on there.

But the point of a map is to find things on it, not just be pretty art of an archipelago. Like I say, I can understand that on the islands, but the mainland is a big lump of green, the other coastal cities couldn't go on there?