Hi All
I'm thinking of buying some 3rd party Pathfinder products. What would you folks out there recommend to someone like myself who prefers to DM my own campaign world rather than Golarion.
Thanks in advance !
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I personally liked "Retribution". It had interesting NPCs, and from the way it was written, it looked like PC choices could really make a difference in those NPCs' lives. After deciding I liked that, I looked into some other "Raging Swan Press" adventures, and decided that "Dark Waters Rising" was nothing to sneeze at either. It gave the PCs an emergency situation, with the opportunity to save lives.
(I first looked into "Retribution" because of the following thread:
Please recommend 3PP PFRPG module)
I also liked "Races of Wind and Wing" for its flying PC races.
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Thanks for the plug, ShadowcatX! My site is btw. Endzeitgeist.com. 3 new reviews coming up tomorrow, btw.! :D
In asnwer to Owen's question. I guess its a bit of both. I personally like things that help me flesh out my world and things that inspire me. I also like to read what others would recommend in general as i can always find a use for something !
In asnwer to Owen's question. I guess its a bit of both. I personally like things that help me flesh out my world and things that inspire me. I also like to read what others would recommend in general as i can always find a use for something !
Raging Swan produces an extensive amout of inexpensive PDFs in a Dungeon, Urban, and Wilderness Dressing series to assist GMs in fleshing out their adventures. I believe that Dungeon Dressing: Portcullis is still being offered for free on this site and others.
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I am primarily the DM for our group. The following 3PPs I use and accept carte-blanche due to consistent high-quality: Raging Swan, Rite Publishing, Super Genius, and Kobold Press. There are other great 3PPs, but those are the companies that I consistently use.
Also, check Endzeitgeist's reviews - top-notch guy, top-notch reviewer. Listen to him.
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Jump all over Psionics from Dreamscarred Press.
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What do you seek? Tell us about your campaign, your PCs, or where you want your campaign to go.
That said:
Necromancer Games/Frog God Games: old school adventures, dungeons, megadungeons, mini sandboxes. Tome of Horrors revised (is also on PFSRD). Also Razor Coast! Just read the reviews. Tome of Adventure Design!
Kobold Press/Open Design: Midgard campaign setting (more eastern european myth/tropes incorporated vs traditional western fanatasy), excellent adventures. Excellent books on Game Design.
Legendary Games: stellar supplements to Paizo APs
Raging Swan Press: Generic, medieval fluff and cruch, great adventures. Check out the numerous free previews for any product on their site.
Rite Publishing: great crunch pieces, Coliseum Morpheon, Japanese Horror setting: Kaidan (check out the free adventure), Adventure Quarterly is Dungeon magazine's successor.
AdventureAWeek: lots of adventures...
Dreamscarred: Psionics
Alluria: awesome underwater stuff and some fey material
Super Genius Games: great crunch.
RPG Superstar 2008 Top 4; Contributor; Publisher, Legendary Games
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Thanks for the kudos Thanael.
Legendary Games products are themed to blend well with Paizo APs (horror for Carrion Crown, Asian for Jade Regent, fey and wilderness for Kingmaker), and in the case of adventures have specific connections that make them fit in, but all of them can also stand alone apart from the APs and have great flavor and play value for any campaign where you want to touch on a similar trope or flavor even if you never use an AP.
We also just started a new line of "Ultimate Plug-In" products that are expansions to the core hardback rulebooks and not directly tied to any AP. The first one, Ultimate Rulership, is a massive expansion of kingdom-building rules.
Hope you find something you like from us or from any of the other great 3PPs out there.
Minotaur Games offers a number of PDFs to add to your game.
The monster focus line looks at one creature in detail, giving you rules to make that monster central to your game.
The favored terrain line gives a busy GM everything needed to add an iconic location to their setting (like an Inn or Gambling House).
/shameless plug
Jason Bulmahn
Minotaur Games
4 Winds Fantasy Gaming provides GM and Player's aids, knowledge cards, and a series of supplements including Luven Lightfinger's Gear & Treasure Shop (a thoroughly packed equipment book), Strategists and Tacticians (lots of cool prestige classes and new combat manuevers), and Inkantations, a book of tattoo magic and body art.
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I'm a fan of the Dreamscarred, too.
As of now, though, I'm waiting for Hydra Publications to release their setting, Andronia, and the new Thunderscape setting from a group I can't quite recall (Kyouden perhaps?).
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I'd also highly recommend Fire Mountain Games.
Their "Way of the Wicked" adventure path was a great series for evil PCs.
And they just put out a preview of Book 1 of their new adventure path "Throne of Night", an underground exploration series. Looks like it's going to be great.
Just my 2 cp.
Thanks all for the great recommendations so far. My own campaign to day has centred around a swamp region full of ancient ruins that have some relation to a long dead serpent folks. The region is predominantly inhabited by lizard folk that appear to worship an ancient and long dead leader of their race. The players however have uncovered a sinister event involving the ancient leader rising from the dead in the form of a lich.
Hope that helps give some ideas of where my game could go and possible steer some more ideas.
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Thanks all for the great recommendations so far. My own campaign to day has centred around a swamp region full of ancient ruins that have some relation to a long dead serpent folks. The region is predominantly inhabited by lizard folk that appear to worship an ancient and long dead leader of their race. The players however have uncovered a sinister event involving the ancient leader rising from the dead in the form of a lich.
Hope that helps give some ideas of where my game could go and possible steer some more ideas.
Wow! Have you checked out Lizardfolk of the Dragon Fang from Ragin Swan?
It sounds like it might be perfect for you!
Nope not checked it out but im about too !
OK just ordered that one. It seems to fit perfectly !
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Interjection games tends to give you ALOT for what you purchase. The Tinker is one of the best buys I've bought to date. Also heroes of the East from Little Red Robin Games is downright groovy. Some of the classes are one rename away from functioning perfectly in any setting. Also all of my players love pro wrestling, so their King of the Ring Wrestler class was a prerogative.
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OK just ordered that one. It seems to fit perfectly !
See? Tell us more details and we find good stuff for you. What level are the PCs now ? What's their home base? Race/class? Background? Tell us more of the Lich!
Raging Swan has a sort of generic setting - the Lonely Coast - in all their products that ties them together. So you might find more of their products useful. I'd definately check out their free products. The village backdrops line has a whole village fleshed out - maybe as a home base for PCs, and they have lot's of adventures. the Villains books feature pregenerated NPCs, Villains 2 has Parardar Levien: CE male human lich sorcerer (draconic [red]) 15. MAybe he fits for your lich character? Or you could get their 100 % Crunch Liches pdf, for more liches than you can shake a bone at... Also be aware that several of the older pdfs are compiled into bundles now and cheaper overall.
If you go to their website you get lots of little free previews for every last product.They also have a Money Back Guarantee for products purchased from their site. Of course ordering from paizo is also ok and it's the best place to check out reviews.
More lizardfolk goodness from Raging Swan:
Dark Oak (adventure)
Village Backdrops: Thornhill
Random Marsh Encounters
..and one freebie from Little Red Goblin Games:
Lizardfolk racial options
On another note - not lizardfolk related - you might perhaps want to check out Headless Hydra Games products. They have a few free products on paizo that can be plugged into most campaigns. All are set in their Mor Aldenn mini setting, and if you like what you see of that, they have bundles and discounted products available on RPGNow.. The viridian legacy AP adventure #1 does mention lizardfolk though...
Publisher, Raging Swan Press
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I just wanted to thank everyone for the kind words about Raging Swan Press! It's jolly decent of you all. I have tremendous fun running Raging Swan Press and I'm glad people are enjoying our products.
And luckily, even if Raging Swan Press hasn't got what you are looking for, I guarantee one of the other 3PPs will have just the thing!
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Endzeitgiest reviews is where I go to find what I want!
I am known to be a big fan of The Time Thief by Super Genius Games.
ShadowcatX, thanks for the mention I love the Taskshaper as well, expect to see it compiled in The Secrets of Adventuring in Sept.
Elorebaen thanks for the mention (that's a high recommendation!)
Thanael thank you! I am very proud of Coliseum Morpheuon and love that it has stood the test of time, Kaidan is the little engine that could, and that is high praise for Adventure Quarterly!
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Endzeitgiest reviews is where I go to find what I want!
I am known to be a big fan of The Time Thief by Super Genius Games.
ShadowcatX, thanks for the mention I love the Taskshaper as well, expect to see it compiled in The Secrets of Adventuring in Sept.
Elorebaen thanks for the mention (that's a high recommendation!)
Thanael thank you! I am very proud of Coliseum Morpheuon and love that it has stood the test of time, Kaidan is the little engine that could, and that is high praise for Adventure Quarterly!
While designed for the Coliseum Morpheuon, Rite's "Faces of the Tarnished Souk" line are awesome NPCs that can really be inserted anywhere. For example, I use them quite a bit (Po'kesteros being my favorite) in my current Kingmaker (Paizo AP) campaign.
Thanks again for all the great advice - downloaded the Lizardfolk Racial Options - great stuff. OK as per Thaneal's request here ya go. There are 4 players in the group. Three aged 30-45 and my son aged 15. As its homebrew ive allowed them to play what they want and then we sandbox the world around them.
The party consists of Gnome Druid, Dwarven Monk, Goblin Alchemist/Gunslinger and a Hobgoblin Fighter. All of them are level 5. They live in a region known as 'The Serpent Lands'. The southern area is predominantly like the Louisianna Bayou wheres the north his more dense semi-tropical rainforest that eventually becomes mountainous. There are scattered Baronies, Kingdoms etc but there is no one or more regional rulers. In fact there is lots of 'unclaimed' territory simply because nobody has been able to establish and hold onto the land. Lots of walled villages and homesteads each of which carves out a living in this 'harsh' region. In my eyes a region where heroes can really make a name for themselves.
One challenge my son has set me, literally last night. He would like his goblin character to be less Golarion and more Warcraft. e.g. Mercantile, steampunkish basis. I really do like where he is going with it as he could really play it well.
If your son likes the steampunkish feel, you could try LPJ machinesmith (or the expanded pack here).
I am primarily the DM for our group. The following 3PPs I use and accept carte-blanche due to consistent high-quality: Raging Swan, Rite Publishing, Super Genius, and Kobold Press. There are other great 3PPs, but those are the companies that I consistently use.
Also, check Endzeitgeist's reviews - top-notch guy, top-notch reviewer. Listen to him.
Ugh, how could I forget! Frog God Games is another 3pp that is stellar. I will purchase their products without a second thought.
Raging Swan seems to fit very well for your style with it's small easily pluggable pdfs. I'd check out one of the village backdrops at least.
I would recommend you to check out Frog God Games. They have some free pdfs in which you can check out their style. Their implied (and soon to be published) setting is similar to your own, with lots of wilderness between small islands of civilization.
http://talesofthefroggod.com/ The free downloads are on the left, check out the lairs pdf expecially.
Contributor; Publisher, Kobold Press; RPG Superstar Judge
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For the dwarven monk, there's new monk styles, feats, and weapons in New Paths: Expanded Monk and Ninja.
Thanks Thanael and Wolfgang. I guess ive got some more downloads to check out ! Im off on a business trip next week to Canada and the US. (Im in the UK) - this is giving me plenty to read on the plane :-)