paizo.com Recent Posts in Pathfinder Adventure Path #71: Rasputin Must Die! (Reign of Winter 5 of 6) (PFRPG) Discussionpaizo.com Recent Posts in Pathfinder Adventure Path #71: Rasputin Must Die! (Reign of Winter 5 of 6) (PFRPG) Discussion2022-03-03T13:53:22Z2022-03-03T13:53:22ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Pathfinder Adventure Path #71: Rasputin Must Die! (Reign of Winter 5 of 6) (PFRPG)Aaron Shankshttps://paizo.com/products/btpy8yv5/discuss&page=18?Pathfinder-Adventure-Path-71-Rasputin-Must-Die#8822021-11-18T12:09:20Z2021-11-18T04:38:45Z<p><a href="https://www.pathfinderinfinite.com/product/363571/Pathfinder-Adventure-Path-71-Rasputin-Must-Die-Reign-of-Winter-5-of-6PF1?src=hottest_filtered&filters=0_0_0_0_100163_0&manufacturers_id=5549" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">This product is now available in Print on Demand.</a></p>This product is now available in Print on Demand.Aaron Shanks2021-11-18T04:38:45ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Pathfinder Adventure Path #71: Rasputin Must Die! (Reign of Winter 5 of 6) (PFRPG)Sakul21https://paizo.com/products/btpy8yv5/discuss&page=18?Pathfinder-Adventure-Path-71-Rasputin-Must-Die#8812021-01-12T13:59:29Z2021-01-12T13:59:29Z<p>I've been running a game of Pathfinder set on Earth during prohibition where the players are mafia members and I'm slipping this book in and I'm very excited to play it out. Been wanting to run RMD forever and I've been constructing the prison camp and getting all the minis for it.</p>I've been running a game of Pathfinder set on Earth during prohibition where the players are mafia members and I'm slipping this book in and I'm very excited to play it out. Been wanting to run RMD forever and I've been constructing the prison camp and getting all the minis for it.Sakul212021-01-12T13:59:29ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Pathfinder Adventure Path #71: Rasputin Must Die! (Reign of Winter 5 of 6) (PFRPG)Gorbaczhttps://paizo.com/products/btpy8yv5/discuss&page=18?Pathfinder-Adventure-Path-71-Rasputin-Must-Die#8802018-04-18T17:08:44Z2018-04-18T17:08:44Z<p>The ritual follows The Rule of Cool - it is always five minutes to completion when PCs enter the final room.</p>
<p>I've used the monastery as a toolbox, splitting it into escalating multi-stage fights. In the end, the PCs retreated once and once they were back it was the final big rumble against the Polkovnik and everything that was left alive (or undead) within the inner monastery.</p>The ritual follows The Rule of Cool - it is always five minutes to completion when PCs enter the final room.
I've used the monastery as a toolbox, splitting it into escalating multi-stage fights. In the end, the PCs retreated once and once they were back it was the final big rumble against the Polkovnik and everything that was left alive (or undead) within the inner monastery.Gorbacz2018-04-18T17:08:44ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Pathfinder Adventure Path #71: Rasputin Must Die! (Reign of Winter 5 of 6) (PFRPG)Zaisterhttps://paizo.com/products/btpy8yv5/discuss&page=18?Pathfinder-Adventure-Path-71-Rasputin-Must-Die#8792018-04-18T08:15:17Z2018-04-18T08:15:17Z<p>It played less well than it read though in my campaign. The whole monastery is written as rather static and, as usual, assumes the players take it on in on go. It requires a lot of work, for example, not to stretch the imagination too much. if the PCs take their time and retreat to the Hut to recover. How long does Rasputin's ritual take, and how are the PCs even supposed to know that they might be on the clock?</p>It played less well than it read though in my campaign. The whole monastery is written as rather static and, as usual, assumes the players take it on in on go. It requires a lot of work, for example, not to stretch the imagination too much. if the PCs take their time and retreat to the Hut to recover. How long does Rasputin's ritual take, and how are the PCs even supposed to know that they might be on the clock?Zaister2018-04-18T08:15:17ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Pathfinder Adventure Path #71: Rasputin Must Die! (Reign of Winter 5 of 6) (PFRPG)Gorbaczhttps://paizo.com/products/btpy8yv5/discuss&page=18?Pathfinder-Adventure-Path-71-Rasputin-Must-Die#8782018-04-18T13:34:25Z2018-04-18T06:50:27Z<p>I, um, just wanted to bump this thread and state that this adventure is BANANAS, my players are lovin' it and wow, just wow.</p>I, um, just wanted to bump this thread and state that this adventure is BANANAS, my players are lovin' it and wow, just wow.Gorbacz2018-04-18T06:50:27ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Pathfinder Adventure Path #71: Rasputin Must Die! (Reign of Winter 5 of 6) (PFRPG)Ross Byers (RPG Superstar 2008 Top 32)https://paizo.com/products/btpy8yv5/discuss&page=18?Pathfinder-Adventure-Path-71-Rasputin-Must-Die#8772015-02-10T22:10:29Z2015-02-10T22:10:29Z<p>You know you want to plop that down on a battlemat across from 4 teeny little adventurers.</p>
<p>They have a 7" version, which should stack up well with the Rune Giant mini, but it's out of stock.</p>You know you want to plop that down on a battlemat across from 4 teeny little adventurers.
They have a 7" version, which should stack up well with the Rune Giant mini, but it's out of stock.Ross Byers (RPG Superstar 2008 Top 32)2015-02-10T22:10:29ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Pathfinder Adventure Path #71: Rasputin Must Die! (Reign of Winter 5 of 6) (PFRPG)Lilith (alias of Liz Courts, Contributor)https://paizo.com/products/btpy8yv5/discuss&page=18?Pathfinder-Adventure-Path-71-Rasputin-Must-Die#8762017-03-24T17:14:08Z2015-02-10T22:06:34Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Ross Byers wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Lilith wrote:</div><blockquote> Cherno Alpha. •swoon• </blockquote><a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/1ccb" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Colossal mini</a> </blockquote><p>;_;Ross Byers wrote:Lilith wrote: Cherno Alpha. *swoon*
Colossal mini ;_;Lilith (alias of Liz Courts, Contributor)2015-02-10T22:06:34ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Pathfinder Adventure Path #71: Rasputin Must Die! (Reign of Winter 5 of 6) (PFRPG)Ross Byers (RPG Superstar 2008 Top 32)https://paizo.com/products/btpy8yv5/discuss&page=18?Pathfinder-Adventure-Path-71-Rasputin-Must-Die#8752015-02-11T01:07:46Z2015-02-10T20:06:22Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Lilith wrote:</div><blockquote> Cherno Alpha. •swoon• </blockquote><p><a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/1ccb" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Colossal mini</a>Lilith wrote:Cherno Alpha. *swoon*
Colossal miniRoss Byers (RPG Superstar 2008 Top 32)2015-02-10T20:06:22ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Pathfinder Adventure Path #71: Rasputin Must Die! (Reign of Winter 5 of 6) (PFRPG)Zhangarhttps://paizo.com/products/btpy8yv5/discuss&page=18?Pathfinder-Adventure-Path-71-Rasputin-Must-Die#8742015-02-06T21:29:20Z2015-02-06T21:11:30Z<p>The attack bonus is an error that made it into the final statblock. See <a href="http://paizo.com/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5lewb?THE-RUSSIANS-ARE-COMING#9" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Mr. Hodge's post here</a>.</p>
<p>Provoking a troop's AoO is a nasty business, and I ran it as an auto-hit against all valid targets.</p>The attack bonus is an error that made it into the final statblock. See Mr. Hodge's post here.
Provoking a troop's AoO is a nasty business, and I ran it as an auto-hit against all valid targets.Zhangar2015-02-06T21:11:30ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Pathfinder Adventure Path #71: Rasputin Must Die! (Reign of Winter 5 of 6) (PFRPG)Cheapyhttps://paizo.com/products/btpy8yv5/discuss&page=18?Pathfinder-Adventure-Path-71-Rasputin-Must-Die#8732015-02-06T20:58:32Z2015-02-06T20:58:32Z<p>The troop subtype states that</p>
<div class="messageboard-quotee">Quote:</div><blockquote><p>A troop’s stat block has “troop” in its Melee entry with no
</p>
attack bonus given.</blockquote><p>It then later says
<div class="messageboard-quotee">Quote:</div><blockquote><p>Troops threaten all creatures within their reach
</p>
or within their area, and <b>attempt</b> attacks of opportunity as
<br />
normal with their troop attack.</blockquote><p>(emphasis mine)
<p>The troop is listed as having an attack bonus for the troop attack of +20.</p>
<p>Is the subtype wrong, and the attack bonus should be listed?</p>
<p>Do they automatically deal damage for an AoO, or do they need an attack roll?</p>The troop subtype states that
Quote:A troop’s stat block has “troop” in its Melee entry with no
attack bonus given.
It then later says Quote:Troops threaten all creatures within their reach
or within their area, and attempt attacks of opportunity as
normal with their troop attack.
(emphasis mine) The troop is listed as having an attack bonus for the troop attack of +20.
Is the subtype wrong, and the attack bonus should be listed?
Do they automatically deal damage for an AoO, or do they...Cheapy2015-02-06T20:58:32ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Pathfinder Adventure Path #71: Rasputin Must Die! (Reign of Winter 5 of 6) (PFRPG)Lilith (alias of Liz Courts, Contributor)https://paizo.com/products/btpy8yv5/discuss&page=18?Pathfinder-Adventure-Path-71-Rasputin-Must-Die#8722014-10-21T03:38:44Z2014-10-14T21:14:41Z<p>Cherno Alpha. •swoon•</p>Cherno Alpha. *swoon*Lilith (alias of Liz Courts, Contributor)2014-10-14T21:14:41ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Pathfinder Adventure Path #71: Rasputin Must Die! (Reign of Winter 5 of 6) (PFRPG)Tirisfalhttps://paizo.com/products/btpy8yv5/discuss&page=18?Pathfinder-Adventure-Path-71-Rasputin-Must-Die#8712014-10-13T23:56:53Z2014-10-13T23:56:53Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Khshar'naja wrote:</div><blockquote> Ok, what happens next, do Lenin and Stalin come to your aid, piloting Cherno Alpha? </blockquote><p>Yes.
<p>And then my players would get the chance to redeem Stalin and change the course of history. He was quite the looker when he was younger, after all ;)</p>Khshar'naja wrote:Ok, what happens next, do Lenin and Stalin come to your aid, piloting Cherno Alpha?
Yes. And then my players would get the chance to redeem Stalin and change the course of history. He was quite the looker when he was younger, after all ;)Tirisfal2014-10-13T23:56:53ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Pathfinder Adventure Path #71: Rasputin Must Die! (Reign of Winter 5 of 6) (PFRPG)Khshar'najahttps://paizo.com/products/btpy8yv5/discuss&page=18?Pathfinder-Adventure-Path-71-Rasputin-Must-Die#8702014-10-13T22:45:48Z2014-10-13T22:45:48Z<p>Ok, what happens next, do Lenin and Stalin come to your aid, piloting Cherno Alpha?</p>Ok, what happens next, do Lenin and Stalin come to your aid, piloting Cherno Alpha?Khshar'naja2014-10-13T22:45:48ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Pathfinder Adventure Path #71: Rasputin Must Die! (Reign of Winter 5 of 6) (PFRPG)Brandon Hodge (Contributor)https://paizo.com/products/btpy8yv5/discuss&page=18?Pathfinder-Adventure-Path-71-Rasputin-Must-Die#8692020-01-13T02:43:27Z2014-04-09T15:39:45Z<p>JRR, it would be <i>exceptionally</i> easy to rework RMD as either a standalone adventure or one modified to plug into your home campaign at appropriate levels. </p>
<p>With a slight modification to the hook to encourage PCs to rescue Baba Yaga for one reason or another, it could be as easy as giving them entry to the Hut or even plugging its first room (and subsequent chambers) into a pre-existing dungeon to act as a portal to Earth. I'm sure once you read it you'll find the possibilities for an easy transition to your home campaign will be numerous.</p>JRR, it would be exceptionally easy to rework RMD as either a standalone adventure or one modified to plug into your home campaign at appropriate levels.
With a slight modification to the hook to encourage PCs to rescue Baba Yaga for one reason or another, it could be as easy as giving them entry to the Hut or even plugging its first room (and subsequent chambers) into a pre-existing dungeon to act as a portal to Earth. I'm sure once you read it you'll find the possibilities for an easy...Brandon Hodge (Contributor)2014-04-09T15:39:45ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Pathfinder Adventure Path #71: Rasputin Must Die! (Reign of Winter 5 of 6) (PFRPG)Trace Coburnhttps://paizo.com/products/btpy8yv5/discuss&page=18?Pathfinder-Adventure-Path-71-Rasputin-Must-Die#8682014-04-09T10:13:41Z2014-04-09T10:13:41Z<p>AFAIK, anyone who owns one or more AP volumes has always been perfectly free to run <i>any</i> AP volume as a stand-alone adventure, or to work it into their home campaign as part of their PCs’ ongoing careers. You’ll need to come up with explanations, that work in your own campaign, for how the PCs got their hands on Baba Yaga’s Hut (or the comparable McGuffin) to get them to Earth, and <i>why</i> they’re going there, but that aside, it’s dealer’s (or GM’s) choice. ;)</p>AFAIK, anyone who owns one or more AP volumes has always been perfectly free to run any AP volume as a stand-alone adventure, or to work it into their home campaign as part of their PCs’ ongoing careers. You’ll need to come up with explanations, that work in your own campaign, for how the PCs got their hands on Baba Yaga’s Hut (or the comparable McGuffin) to get them to Earth, and why they’re going there, but that aside, it’s dealer’s (or GM’s) choice. ;)Trace Coburn2014-04-09T10:13:41ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Pathfinder Adventure Path #71: Rasputin Must Die! (Reign of Winter 5 of 6) (PFRPG)JRRhttps://paizo.com/products/btpy8yv5/discuss&page=18?Pathfinder-Adventure-Path-71-Rasputin-Must-Die#8672014-04-09T05:53:01Z2014-04-09T05:53:01Z<p>Is it possible to run this adventure as a stand alone without running the entire adventure path? I would dearly like to drop my players into the middle of WWI!</p>Is it possible to run this adventure as a stand alone without running the entire adventure path? I would dearly like to drop my players into the middle of WWI!JRR2014-04-09T05:53:01ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Pathfinder Adventure Path #71: Rasputin Must Die! (Reign of Winter 5 of 6) (PFRPG)Cheapyhttps://paizo.com/products/btpy8yv5/discuss&page=18?Pathfinder-Adventure-Path-71-Rasputin-Must-Die#8662013-12-18T20:42:45Z2013-10-16T04:12:43Z<p>I still get a warm fuzzy feeling whenever I think of this adventure.</p>
<p>And then I gaze upon Hodge's signature of my copy that reads "He Is Not Dead" in Cyrillic...and I just smile.</p>I still get a warm fuzzy feeling whenever I think of this adventure.
And then I gaze upon Hodge's signature of my copy that reads "He Is Not Dead" in Cyrillic...and I just smile.Cheapy2013-10-16T04:12:43ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Pathfinder Adventure Path #71: Rasputin Must Die! (Reign of Winter 5 of 6) (PFRPG)Osha dombrowskihttps://paizo.com/products/btpy8yv5/discuss&page=18?Pathfinder-Adventure-Path-71-Rasputin-Must-Die#8652013-10-16T03:35:42Z2013-10-16T03:35:42Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Comrade Anklebiter wrote:</div><blockquote><p> They did their job.</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrocaspian_Dictatorship" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Centrocaspian Dictatorship</a></p>
<p></blockquote><p>Us canadian bakus were a force to be reckoned withComrade Anklebiter wrote:They did their job.
Centrocaspian Dictatorship
Us canadian bakus were a force to be reckoned withOsha dombrowski2013-10-16T03:35:42ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Pathfinder Adventure Path #71: Rasputin Must Die! (Reign of Winter 5 of 6) (PFRPG)Osha dombrowskihttps://paizo.com/products/btpy8yv5/discuss&page=18?Pathfinder-Adventure-Path-71-Rasputin-Must-Die#8642013-10-16T06:05:47Z2013-10-16T03:28:10Z<p>I was thinking if the adventurers were elves and were able to stay on earth, would they be able to live long enough to go to my house and look at an adventure about themselves?</p>I was thinking if the adventurers were elves and were able to stay on earth, would they be able to live long enough to go to my house and look at an adventure about themselves?Osha dombrowski2013-10-16T03:28:10ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Pathfinder Adventure Path #71: Rasputin Must Die! (Reign of Winter 5 of 6) (PFRPG)Cthulhudrewhttps://paizo.com/products/btpy8yv5/discuss&page=18?Pathfinder-Adventure-Path-71-Rasputin-Must-Die#8632013-10-01T03:16:13Z2013-10-01T03:16:13Z<p>Change the premise of saving Baba Yaga into stopping Rasputin's engine of potentially worldS ending destruction, and I think that's plenty of premise right there.</p>Change the premise of saving Baba Yaga into stopping Rasputin's engine of potentially worldS ending destruction, and I think that's plenty of premise right there.Cthulhudrew2013-10-01T03:16:13ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Pathfinder Adventure Path #71: Rasputin Must Die! (Reign of Winter 5 of 6) (PFRPG)Axialhttps://paizo.com/products/btpy8yv5/discuss&page=18?Pathfinder-Adventure-Path-71-Rasputin-Must-Die#8622013-10-01T02:49:56Z2013-10-01T02:49:56Z<p>Hey, it's an Uruk-Hai and page 76! The sword and everything!</p>Hey, it's an Uruk-Hai and page 76! The sword and everything!Axial2013-10-01T02:49:56ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Pathfinder Adventure Path #71: Rasputin Must Die! (Reign of Winter 5 of 6) (PFRPG)Orthoshttps://paizo.com/products/btpy8yv5/discuss&page=18?Pathfinder-Adventure-Path-71-Rasputin-Must-Die#8612013-09-23T17:24:32Z2013-09-23T17:24:32Z<p>Alternatively, have them get to Earth via another method, use something like the World Serpent Inn or Sigil or other planar causeway that could logically bridge the gap between worlds/settings.</p>Alternatively, have them get to Earth via another method, use something like the World Serpent Inn or Sigil or other planar causeway that could logically bridge the gap between worlds/settings.Orthos2013-09-23T17:24:32ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Pathfinder Adventure Path #71: Rasputin Must Die! (Reign of Winter 5 of 6) (PFRPG)Zhangarhttps://paizo.com/products/btpy8yv5/discuss&page=18?Pathfinder-Adventure-Path-71-Rasputin-Must-Die#8602013-12-18T20:42:36Z2013-09-23T17:21:44Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Mythic +10 Artifact Toaster wrote:</div><blockquote> so...if I didn't want to play the others, would this be structured well enough to do a one shot? </blockquote><p>You'd need to come up with why your PCs have wound up in the Hut and why they're saving Dear Grandmother. Yaga is wise and powerful, and always makes plans; maybe an great power owes the Old Crone for a service she did (something that's simple yet over-the-top is probably best, like midwife a divine birth) and now seeks to repay its debt.
<p>Feel free to make your premise as insane as you think your group will accept. After all, you <i>are</i> running Rasputin Must Die! as a one shot.</p>
<p>Once you've gotten around how the heck the PCs wound up in the Hut, you can pretty much just roll with the rest. It may well spin off into other things.</p>Mythic +10 Artifact Toaster wrote:so...if I didn't want to play the others, would this be structured well enough to do a one shot?
You'd need to come up with why your PCs have wound up in the Hut and why they're saving Dear Grandmother. Yaga is wise and powerful, and always makes plans; maybe an great power owes the Old Crone for a service she did (something that's simple yet over-the-top is probably best, like midwife a divine birth) and now seeks to repay its debt. Feel free to make your...Zhangar2013-09-23T17:21:44ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Pathfinder Adventure Path #71: Rasputin Must Die! (Reign of Winter 5 of 6) (PFRPG)Mythic +10 Artifact Toaster (alias of toastwolf)https://paizo.com/products/btpy8yv5/discuss&page=18?Pathfinder-Adventure-Path-71-Rasputin-Must-Die#8592013-12-18T20:42:33Z2013-09-23T15:25:01Z<p>so...if I didn't want to play the others, would this be structured well enough to do a one shot?</p>so...if I didn't want to play the others, would this be structured well enough to do a one shot?Mythic +10 Artifact Toaster (alias of toastwolf)2013-09-23T15:25:01ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Pathfinder Adventure Path #71: Rasputin Must Die! (Reign of Winter 5 of 6) (PFRPG)Tirisfalhttps://paizo.com/products/btpy8yv5/discuss&page=18?Pathfinder-Adventure-Path-71-Rasputin-Must-Die#8582013-12-18T20:42:32Z2013-08-22T05:14:17Z<p>So, I was at the local Books-A-Million today and thought, "hey, I wonder what Pathfinder books they have". I walked over there, and found this one, and decided to thumb through it...</p>
<p>Holy crap, Brandon Hodge, holy crap.</p>
<p><span class=messageboard-ooc><i>holy crap</i></span></p>So, I was at the local Books-A-Million today and thought, "hey, I wonder what Pathfinder books they have". I walked over there, and found this one, and decided to thumb through it...
Holy crap, Brandon Hodge, holy crap.
holy crapTirisfal2013-08-22T05:14:17Z