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Yes. Winter is coming. Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow! :->

Work Horse Neil Spicer Starts it off!

"Super Sweet" - Eric Cartman

Reprising our tag-team from "Blood for Blood"! Excellent!

I can't wait for winter.

I hope this can be adapted to start in the PCs kingdom in the Stolen Lands.

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I hope this can be adapted to start in the PCs kingdom in the Stolen Lands.

If we pull it off like we hope, you can adapt the start to begin anywhere.

DM_aka_Dudemeister wrote:

I hope this can be adapted to start in the PCs kingdom in the Stolen Lands.

If we pull it off like we hope, you can adapt the start to begin anywhere.

Even the Crown of the World? :)

James Jacobs wrote:

DM_aka_Dudemeister wrote:

I hope this can be adapted to start in the PCs kingdom in the Stolen Lands.

If we pull it off like we hope, you can adapt the start to begin anywhere.

Even the Crown of the World? :)

Sure!

(It'd take a bit more work, but sure.)

Even the Crown of the World? :)

Santa walked into the briefing room of the toy factory with a grim look on his usually cheery face. "We've got trouble. The Misses is missing. Worse, if we don't act fast, it will be always winter and never Christmas."

That silenced the room full of rambunctious elves. All through the room not a creature stirred not even a mouse.

Finally someone spoke. "What can we do?"

"Prepare for battle. We will find her."

See...even the north pole works.

Gary McBride
Fire Mountain Games

Dark_Mistress wrote:

James Jacobs wrote:

DM_aka_Dudemeister wrote:

I hope this can be adapted to start in the PCs kingdom in the Stolen Lands.

If we pull it off like we hope, you can adapt the start to begin anywhere.

Even the Crown of the World? :)

Sure!

(It'd take a bit more work, but sure.)

Even in Irrisen? The magical gate to Irrisen in Irrisen is sure, um, magical.... ;)

(Though I'm certain adapting it wouldn't be that problematic.)

So many of us have fled from Helgen so many times already, I can't believe we're actually going towards the place now.

;)

Reprising our tag-team from "Blood for Blood"! Excellent!

Congrats Kevin!

So many of us have fled from Helgen so many times already, I can't believe we're actually going towards the place now. ;)

I think Helgen is a typo. The outline I was given cited Heldren. Though I also know Rob went back and forth on the name for that town. So maybe it ends up Helgen? Or maybe it's all just some terrible illusion the winter witches have created to cloud and confuse our minds?

Kevin Andrew Murphy is writing the Pathfinder Journal? Excellent! It's funny, because I just posted a question/comment ruminating on my desire for a Pathfinder Tales novel penned by Mr. Murphy.

Huh.

I just noticed that Kevin Andrew Murphy has THREE first names. I just finished NCO Academy, and one of the guys in my flight (from Kentucky) has three first names. Coincidence? I THINK NOT!

So many of us have fled from Helgen so many times already, I can't believe we're actually going towards the place now.

;)

Unless you're Swedish, in which case you know that Helgen is exactly the place to run for. ;)

Good news! We'll finally get an in-depth look at Irrisen and Baba Yaga.

oh, golly gosh!

It's too bad that's a mockup. That cover looks badass.

Nah. I expect Sarah to turn up the awesome factor even higher on an all new art piece. After all, she's got it marked down in her office that she needs to make ALL the art AWESOME! So, I'm sure she's totally got this... :-D

It's too bad that's a mockup. That cover looks badass.

Yeah but it usually gets way more awesome though. with new art being used instead of the recycled art cover draft we usually get when they announce a product. can't wait for the final draft of the cover! :)

I wonder if we'll get a look at how Paizo deals with epic characters in this series eventually? In Witchwar Legacy, Irrivor was a lvl 20 witch and she was the granddaughter of the queen. Should mean that Queen Elvanna, and certainly Baba Yaga are 20+.

Maybe we'll get some extra rules to deal with that stuff in the 5th or 6th Module of the series. Either way, looks like some promising stuff!

I wonder if we'll get a look at how Paizo deals with epic characters in this series eventually? In Witchwar Legacy, Irrivor was a lvl 20 witch and she was the granddaughter of the queen. Should mean that Queen Elvanna, and certainly Baba Yaga are 20+.

Maybe we'll get some extra rules to deal with that stuff in the 5th or 6th Module of the series. Either way, looks like some promising stuff!

Not in this AP, but you will see that sort of support in the subsequent adventure path, Wrath of the Righteous, which launches at Gen Con next year.

See HERE for Paizo's answer to epic level rules: Mythic Adventures.

I dunno, Baba Yaga seems kinda mythic, right?

I dunno, Baba Yaga seems kinda mythic, right?

I can only go on what's been reported so far, sir! Feel free to share juicy details! ;-)

Thanks for the link, good to see stuff like this. Theres so many hints in the Golarion material epic/mythic/whathaveyou level play that something like this would seem to be a must have. And if you're talking Baba Yaga, well, yeah. Must have....

I really like the name of this adventure.

The story sounds really promising!!! Love the baba yaga and portal to frozen realms thing!

Never been a fan of winter-based monsters tho, and all famous ones from mythology/folklore are already in the bestiaries/previous AP (yeti, saumen kar, yukionna, wendigo), so i'm curious at what the monsters may be, I hope it ain't gonna be too much giants, linnorms and snow/ice versions of already done monsters, like snow medusa, snow minotaur, snow goblin, snow dwarf, snow cloaker, snow whatever, those are cheap.

Fenrir is the only monster I can think off and he would look like a upgraded version of the winter wolf, and I hope this AP finally brings in the first picture of a Pathfinder Winter Wolf, the poor beasts don't have a paizo artwork yet.

But anyway, bring it on!!

Considering one of the APs is on Triaxus, the last two AP's locations are unknown and the first one will take place in an area that isn't used to "summer winters". I think it is safe to assume there will not be any "snow medusa", "snow minotaurs", etc. the guys at Paizo are much better monster designers then that.

Damn!

*back to the drawing board*

=-)

Excellent. My group will be finishing Jade Regent just in time.

It is of intrest to note that George R. R. Martin said on more than one ocassion that the phrase "Summer Snows", which appears in the first chapter of the first book of A Song of Ice and Fire (not including the proloug) was very important for him and gave him the kick he needed to get serious about writing that book.

May this AP be as awesome as that book turned out to be!

seriously though, I dare Neil Spicer to make this his best adventure, ever. This AP really calls for a kickass start.

Adam Daigle wrote:

I dunno, Baba Yaga seems kinda mythic, right?

I can only go on what's been reported so far, sir! Feel free to share juicy details! ;-)

Since Hardcovers have to go to the printer a month earlier then other products, so #6 and Mythic Adventures have to go to the printer at the same time. So stats for Baba Yaga wouldn't be out of the question.

...seriously though, I dare Neil Spicer to make this his best adventure, ever. This AP really calls for a kickass start.

Gee. No pressure there. O_O

Plus, I've already written it and turned in my manuscript. So, there's nothing I can do to make it "my best" now. Hopefully, it's already got "my best" in there somewhere. :-)

Lord Snow wrote:

...seriously though, I dare Neil Spicer to make this his best adventure, ever. This AP really calls for a kickass start.

Gee. No pressure there. O_O

Hey, I'm a big fan of your stuff, and what you do is already GREAT...

I'm just excited about this AP, and being able to remember the first module as "Neil Spicer's Best" would totaly make it all the more awesome to me.

Anyway, looking forward for this :)

what's going to be the next god article?

James Jacobs wrote:

DM_aka_Dudemeister wrote:

I hope this can be adapted to start in the PCs kingdom in the Stolen Lands.

If we pull it off like we hope, you can adapt the start to begin anywhere.

Even the Crown of the World? :)

You could certainly start there... but it won't make nearly as much sense, since no one would notice when the adventure started...

So wait, this adventure can start anywhere? Judging by the names of the towns, it looks like Avistan fits well, but would Garund be workable?

At any rate I'm REALLY excited, got a lot of character concepts that would work for this. :)

The story sounds really promising!!! Love the baba yaga and portal to frozen realms thing!

Never been a fan of winter-based monsters tho, and all famous ones from mythology/folklore are already in the bestiaries/previous AP (yeti, saumen kar, yukionna, wendigo), so i'm curious at what the monsters may be, I hope it ain't gonna be too much giants, linnorms and snow/ice versions of already done monsters, like snow medusa, snow minotaur, snow goblin, snow dwarf, snow cloaker, snow whatever, those are cheap.

Fenrir is the only monster I can think off and he would look like a upgraded version of the winter wolf, and I hope this AP finally brings in the first picture of a Pathfinder Winter Wolf, the poor beasts don't have a paizo artwork yet.

But anyway, bring it on!!

I would love to see some more lupine and Fenris-inspired monsters myself, complete with art.

So wait, this adventure can start anywhere? Judging by the names of the towns, it looks like Avistan fits well, but would Garund be workable?

At any rate I'm REALLY excited, got a lot of character concepts that would work for this. :)

From what we've heard, it will default to Taldor, but it will be reasonably possible just to cross out the place names and choose ones suiting where you want to start.

Joseph Wilson wrote:

Adam Daigle wrote:

I dunno, Baba Yaga seems kinda mythic, right?

I can only go on what's been reported so far, sir! Feel free to share juicy details! ;-)

Since Hardcovers have to go to the printer a month earlier then other products, so #6 and Mythic Adventures have to go to the printer at the same time. So stats for Baba Yaga wouldn't be out of the question.

Bingo. The very next issue of the AP series (Wrath of the Righteous #1) will be using Mythic rules so I think it's very possible for a cameo of the rules in Reign of Winter #6.

Personally, I hope that we see Baba Yaga detailed with Mythic Rules in the Continuing the Campaign article. The playtest should be over, and most of the rules fully developed, by the time the CtC article needs to be written. I'd like to think whoever writes the CtC article (Daigle, I'm looking at you) will have access to the Mythic rules.

Dark_Mistress wrote:

James Jacobs wrote:

DM_aka_Dudemeister wrote:

I hope this can be adapted to start in the PCs kingdom in the Stolen Lands.

If we pull it off like we hope, you can adapt the start to begin anywhere.

Even the Crown of the World? :)

You could certainly start there... but it won't make nearly as much sense, since no one would notice when the adventure started...

The land of the midnight sun suddenly becomes forty days of night and no one notices?

I've been in Alaska at midsummer when the sun never set. Locals told me I wouldn't enjoy the winter.

Considering one of the APs is on Triaxus, the last two AP's locations are unknown and the first one will take place in an area that isn't used to "summer winters". I think it is safe to assume there will not be any "snow medusa", "snow minotaurs", etc. the guys at Paizo are much better monster designers then that.

I know, but its just so difficult to make up good snow/ice monsters, especially when it are gonna be so many of them, ive never seen and about to see the first good ice/snow monsters I hope, as mostly D&D, games and other such stuff always use ice versions of hydra's, medusa's, minotaurs, boars, cloakers and such uninspired horrors.

Domovoi would be a good guess, fenrir as wel (I hope it isn't an unique monster but just like Medusa and Minotaur a entire race of monsters)
But here my knowledge of ice creatures ends, Megafauna?

I can't say i'm not extremly curious at what treasure paizo will give us in this AP.

I wouldn't mind seeing snow goblins statted up, now that they are doing the same for the monkey goblins.

Anyway, I would guess the reason we haven't seen too many Ice monsters is that only one AP so far has had a volume where they would be appropriate (The Crown of the World portion of Jade Regent). They had some cool Inuit monsters in that volume, so I have high hopes here that Paizo can produce some good critters.

Wow this is awesome! :) I just restarted my Adventure Path subscription, and what a time to do so! I mean I know it's still 3-4 months away but still. :)

So, Heldren ("Helgen?") isn't on any map as of this point?

And is it designed so that it could be anywhere that a DM wants to start? (Varisia, Nirmathas, River Kingdoms, Kyonin, Andoran, Nidal, Cheliax, Taldor, etc....)

That's pretty cool -- great decision. Heldren is small and generic enough that DMs can fit it in any of several Avistan regions -- and isn't on any official map so we can do what feels best for us individually.

Or,... is it going to be placed somewhere specifically in Avistan (but made generically and small enough that a DM could easily remove it and put it elsewhere? (also good design)

What about Waldsby?

We're aiming for Heldren to generic enough to be placed anywhere, but it is actually somewhere specific in the Inner Sea region—it is a small Taldan town.

I hope this can be adapted to start in the PCs kingdom in the Stolen Lands.

At first that sounded cool, but then I realized that my level 17+ PCs would handle the situation themselves - so that wouldn't work well with the beginning of an AP.

Any suggestions on how to handle that?