
Nullpunkt |

Extremely excited for this! Especially because I am currently running the original Curse and by the time this book comes out, we should be right around the part that saw the mentioned overhaul!
However, I'm a little surprised to see Gaedren.
From my what I gathered on the messageboards, the beginning of the first chapter was also a major flaw of the campaign for a lot of people. Most parties would get very excited about the premise and the mysterious note, finally gaining a lead on an old illusive enemy. They get ready for an epic and twisting hunt for revenge or justice and then...
It's all over within minutes after storming the Old Fishery.
That whole story is also entirely irrelevant to the rest of the AP. All it does is get the characters together. I definitely thought that this would be done differently in the revised edition.

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Extremely excited for this! Especially because I am currently running the original Curse and by the time this book comes out, we should be right around the part that saw the mentioned overhaul!
However, I'm a little surprised to see Gaedren.
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I believe there's an added element to that in the hardcover.

Nullpunkt |
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Nullpunkt wrote:Extremely excited for this! Especially because I am currently running the original Curse and by the time this book comes out, we should be right around the part that saw the mentioned overhaul!
However, I'm a little surprised to see Gaedren.
** spoiler omitted **I believe there's an added element to that in the hardcover.
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Ha! That is a small, but clever change that makes the beginning a lot less disconnected! Kudos!

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[wry]Yeah, Trinia doesn't look like an assassin at all now. Nope. Not in the slightest.[/wry]
In fact, she probably only uses that painter's knife to clean her fingernails. Ah, the hard life of the always misunderstood artist.

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Kalindlara wrote:Ha! That is a small, but clever change that makes the beginning a lot less disconnected! Kudos!Nullpunkt wrote:Extremely excited for this! Especially because I am currently running the original Curse and by the time this book comes out, we should be right around the part that saw the mentioned overhaul!
However, I'm a little surprised to see Gaedren.
** spoiler omitted **I believe there's an added element to that in the hardcover.
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James talked about it in the Curse of the Crimson Throne seminar at Paizocon. You can listen to it here if you are interested.

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Such a good adventure. Look at Trinia, like butter wouldn't melt in her mouth.
I have to ask about changes and updates.
Is the one and only BlackJack now a Vigilante? He has to be, doesn't he?
Do the Plague Doctors now have a level of Alchemist?
I so want to play this new version. But as what? Cartomancer Witch? Korvosan superhero Vigilante? Hell Knight bringing in some proper police work? City Investigator? Shoanti Bloodrager? Rakshasa Sorcerer? Thassilonian Enchanter bringing sexy back? (joke)

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Extremely excited for this! Especially because I am currently running the original Curse and by the time this book comes out, we should be right around the part that saw the mentioned overhaul!
However, I'm a little surprised to see Gaedren.
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Regarding your spoiler. I was certainly aware of that complaint, and I think I might have figured out a way to make it an advantage that the AP starts this way rather than a disadvantage... Not gonna spoil it entirely here, but...
EDIT: Heh, I guess I did talk a bit more about this in the seminars. Yes. The Gaedren Lamm element of the adventure plays out pretty much the same, but there's links now to Rolth, who is Gaedren's son, and his role in the AP and in Korvosa's history is MUCH larger... in fact, while Rolth is no fan of his father, the PCs taking out his father gives him excellent motivation to want vengeance against the PCs! Rolth is one of the 12 NPCs who gets a spread of their own in the book's appendix, and there's extra info there for how he can continue to be a thorn in the PCs' side as a recurring villain, along with a few custom-designed spells of his own that are... creeeeeepy.

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I like the artwork so far, except for Trinia... She looks a little less innocent than before.
Intentional.
She's supposed to be a scapegoat, after all, and if she looks TOO innocent, then it's harder to pin the blame on her. ALSO making her look more self-confident and capable and less like a little kid or a damsel in distress was important as well.

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Such a good adventure. Look at Trinia, like butter wouldn't melt in her mouth.
I have to ask about changes and updates.
Is the one and only BlackJack now a Vigilante? He has to be, doesn't he?
Do the Plague Doctors now have a level of Alchemist?
I so want to play this new version. But as what? Cartomancer Witch? Korvosan superhero Vigilante? Hell Knight bringing in some proper police work? City Investigator? Shoanti Bloodrager? Rakshasa Sorcerer? Thassilonian Enchanter bringing sexy back? (joke)
Some spoilers below...
Blackjack is a vigilante. That was just too obvious and perfect a change.
The plague doctors do not have any alchemist levels, but one of the characters in that adventure does—makes sense that he was called in as a specialist since he's the only alchemist in the group...
AND: Play a harrower!!!!

Duamatef |

Duamatef wrote:I like the artwork so far, except for Trinia... She looks a little less innocent than before.Intentional.
She's supposed to be a scapegoat, after all, and if she looks TOO innocent, then it's harder to pin the blame on her. ALSO making her look more self-confident and capable and less like a little kid or a damsel in distress was important as well.
After I thought about it a while, I realized that innocent wasn't the right word as much as.. Young. But.. The artwork is good either way, just clashes with my mental image of her a bit. :)

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James Jacobs wrote:After I thought about it a while, I realized that innocent wasn't the right word as much as.. Young. But.. The artwork is good either way, just clashes with my mental image of her a bit. :)Duamatef wrote:I like the artwork so far, except for Trinia... She looks a little less innocent than before.Intentional.
She's supposed to be a scapegoat, after all, and if she looks TOO innocent, then it's harder to pin the blame on her. ALSO making her look more self-confident and capable and less like a little kid or a damsel in distress was important as well.
That too. She was never intended to look like a child or teen. I do get what your saying, but as fun as her previous art was... it was never "right" for the character. This version is.

Isabelle Lee |

James talked about it in the Curse of the Crimson Throne seminar at Paizocon. You can listen to it here if you are interested.
That is indeed where I heard it. ^_^
(I sound like such trash on recordings.)

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Will there be a "continuing the campaign" article including the relics and what's and who's under Castle Korvosa?
A little. About 2 pages. Not a lot. The relics have already been super-detailed in Artifacts and Legends and doing more about them isn't really appropriate for the campaign. And what's going on under Castle Korvosa is very much a topic that deserves its own adventure, and as such we play it pretty coy in this book, which is indeed focused more on the campaign rather than what's after. Look at how we handled things in the Continuing the Campaign for the hardcover Runelords... expect something on that level of detail... so again... 2 pages.

Steve Geddes |

Sadly, I held off on running it until earlier this year (a couple of months before it was announced). Still looking forward to it - it played really, really well at the table and all the (minor) issues I had with it have been explicitly called out by James as things he's addressed.
This is going to go from my favourite AP to my "even more favourite" AP.

Arbalester |

[...]at least one established Korvosan NPC who may or may not have a brand new secret (and a lot of brand new powers) to be surprised by!
Here's my guess as to who and what:
Whether I'm right or wrong, I'm ecstatic to see this getting a hardcover, and Pathfinder, remake!

roloz |
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This is coming out right about when my group will be either wrapping up, or at least getting through book six.
I'm still probably going to buy the hardcover though. Just to have it. It's been a great year and a half running this campaign, so this is going to be like a souvenir for me.
I love the Queen Ileosa cover art. Can probably forget about players believing in her for the first couple books though, if they see that ;)