Advice on the current sale (through March 10)


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So, there's another sale. By itself no big thing -- Paizo has one every few months. But this time, a bunch of 3PPs have joined in. That's less common. It leads to the reasonable question: what here is a real jewel that shouldn't be missed? And what is there that is intriguing, but you'd like to know more? Here, I'll start:

Shouldn't be missed (Paizo): The Hangman's Noose, by Nicholas Logue. One of Nicholas Logue's best works, and also one of his most underappreciated. A horror-mystery for first level characters (!). 3.5 but converts easily. You can buy the hard copy for an astonishing $2 -- I'd guess Paizo wants to free up some warehouse space, and is trying to move the 3.5 stuff. Very strongly recommended.

Shouldn't be missed (3PP): Panataxia was a steal at $4 and is even more so at $3. It's a terrific planar adventure... for 2nd level characters. And it works really, really well. The encounters are either level-appropriate, or they provide various ways for intelligent players to deal with them. And it's engaging and interesting, and written with a real sense of fun. I'd also recommend Tales of the Old Margreve, which is a collection of short adventures of varying level along with various other stuff, including a really interesting forest that's part setting, part NPC. TotOM is set in Kobold Press' Midgard world, but adapts easily to pretty much any campaign.

I am curious: Razor Coast (Heart of the Razor) -- I'd like to check out Razor Coast, and three adventures for $14 seems like an okay deal. But do you need the main Razor Coast books to play these? And are they as good as you'd guess from the author's list? Also curious about the Fantasy Shards and Bits. It seems like a potentially nifty idea, but even with the discount some of these seem a little pricey. Are you really getting $7 worth of cool here?

Okay, over to you. What do you strongly recommend, and what would you like to know more about?

Doug M.

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Never thought of Hangmans noose - reading the reviews now. Thanks for the heads up.

Just bought about $50-60 worth of PDFs so this one may have to wait.


Bump. -- Sale threads never seem to get much traction. Does everyone already know what they want?

Doug M.


Huh! Between yesterday and today, they adjusted a bunch of prices upward. They're still on sale, but are no longer crazy cheap. I'm guessing that $2 figure was an error on someone's part.

That said, you can still pick up all of Curse of the Crimson Throne for $6.99 per module. (At least, for now you can. Maybe not for much longer, as two of these six modules are now on the "just a few left" list.) AP modules currently go for $23 each, or about $16 with the subscriber's discount. And CotCT is a really good AP; even though it's 3.5 and several years old, it's still firmly lodged on most people's top five. An entire AP for less than the current retail cost of two modules... that seems pretty attractive.

Doug M.


Douglas Muir 406 wrote:
Also curious about the Fantasy Shards and Bits. It seems like a potentially nifty idea, but even with the discount some of these seem a little pricey. Are you really getting $7 worth of cool here?

I like the series, evocative descriptions you can plug in for various terrains. I found these very good for pbp games where you can copy and paste a paragraph of description and have it integrate smoothly.


Any advice on the best of the 3.5 adventure paths? I've got the PF Runelords anniversary book and pdf already and I'm considering grabbing all of Legacy of Fire. The problem is I want all the AP bonus articles from each of them.


Voadam wrote:
Any advice on the best of the 3.5 adventure paths? I've got the PF Runelords anniversary book and pdf already and I'm considering grabbing all of Legacy of Fire.

The current sale covers the first four APs -- Rise of the Runelords, Curse of the Crimson Throne, Second Darkness, and Legacy of Fire. If you've already got RotRL, I'd personally put CotCT above Legacy; they're both fine APs, but I think Curse just has more interesting stuff going on. But YMMV; you won't go wrong with either of those. As to Second Darkness, most people would put that one pretty far down the list -- the first two modules are perfectly okay, but the AP as a whole is not considered one of the better ones.

Doug M.

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