Chef's Slaad's page

It's been quite a ride.

Or took part in a good egging ...

Egg Slaad

dit you use some sort of filter?

everything in that shot looks purple(or lilac) except the carpet and the polos

even most of the faces!

Backed!

really looking forward to designing my own city house.

what about me?

jip jip yeehah

not excatly bipolar.

What monte cook meant was that a true neutral character would act lawfull towards a chaotic character and act shelfish when near a paragon of good. The object was to 'balance out' the other's alignment. I don't think it was supposed to be too extreme, just highlight a different aspect of the True Neutral's personality when faced with extremes.

If you want to know more'I would start with a player's primer to the outlands, which was the PC book in the original boxed set.

Lucanis looks like he's 12.

funny you should say that. When I saw that picture I immediately thought of Terry Pratchett's book Eric, featuring a 12-year old demonologist

Getting Wizkids to make mini's for your own campaign? doesn't that seem a bit indulgent?

It's almost as bad as having Wayne Reynolds draw your PC. Oh wait... never mind.

Great, thank you very much!

You know you rock, right?

I apologize for the mix up and I will make sure to get the Map Folio put in with your next subscription shipment. As for returning the mistakenly shipped hardcover, I will send you an email with details for how we can accomplish this.

Thanks,
cos

Hi Cosmo,

just wanted to let you know I haven't received the email yet. Could you send it again?

The Demonscar Legacy

it has a nice ring to it and harkens back to the Paizo's very first Shackled City AP.

It looks like something somewhat expensive went wrong. Rather than sending me the Rise of the Runelords Map Folio (priced at $2.00 due to the 10th anniversary sale) you sent me the Rise of the Runelords Aniversary Edition (priced at $59.99), almost double the value of the entire order. It was probably the Gen-con rush.

I would like to return the book I received in error. How do I go about that?

These are amazing. Was this a demo set, or are they on sale?

I'm curious what work hazard led to majority of male TSR employees losing their hair at such alarming rate. :)

Everyone knows the testosterone levels at TSR went through the roof. Fact of life if part of your job is doing a Larry Elmore art order.

That option is for stuff that's on backorder and does not apply to subscriptions.

I know where you're coming form. If only I had a way to shave some money off my shipping cost that did not involve flying in for Gencon :)

I looked it up in the linked threads.

As I understand it, for competitive reasons, Paizo won't disclose the cost or volume of their print work. Neither will their printer disclose wages of their workers. The best you're going to get is this:

I can tell you that they're ISO 9002 Standard Certified, and while that standard doesn't directly address working conditions, it does address process and quality standards that are hard to meet with poor working conditions.

Again, I'm genuinely curious, what information would satisfy you? Because from where I'm standing, it looks like you want information that Paizo is unable to give you without giving up information which, in a market of two, would be extremely unwise to share.

out of curiosity, what would Paizo need to tell you in order allow you to make an informed moral choice?

Please take into account that cost of printing, print run sizes, as well as as turnover and other information is something that Paizo, as a private company, does not need, nor wish to share.

Vassago Embrace wrote:

I noticed that most of the books from Paizo are published in China. While I have no doubt that this is cost-effective, I would like to know if Paizo has taken steps to verify the condition of the workers manufacturing their products. Anyone has any info on this????

Since two employees have weighed in on this thread without answering your question, the answer seems to be that they have no idea what the conditions are for their workers. At this point you have to assume willful ignorance until the company not only gives their opinion but also gives verifiable evidence that they will stand behind.

Or it could be that they chose not to comment on these matters.

I have a difficult time believing blanket statements like Printed in China = child labor or it's opposite, companies are morally obliged to check every aspect of every company they have dealings with, however obliquely.

I am (and for the past 5 years have been) running Savage Tide. In the process of speeding up the campaign, I'm reviewing the last adventures in that AP as well as reading the editorials. It sure brings back memories. Reading how you approached saying good-bye to the magazines that more or less defined paizo for the past 5 years must have been traumatic. you guys were (and still are) a class act!

Read the second installment of the AP after you're done with the first one!
:p

I'd go with Shemeshka the Marauder, the king of the crosstrade. Want to find out more, why don't you give Todd Steward a poke.

cool pics. Thaks for sharing.

Too bad you didn't share as many of the upstaire pics as you did of the downstarirs :)

I think he's referring to a worldwound style area.

Why shouldn't that be allowed? Seems like meaningfull player interaction to me.

You could sell them a subscription to the adventure path line ;)

What would you suggest?

Hi Erik,

So I messed up something. When I posted this message confused giants revisited with Magnimar, City of Monuments. I also though the map folio and Magnimar, City of Monuments would ship together. I wanted the map folio but not Magnimar, City of Monuments.

When I later found out those two would not ship together after all, I resubscribed to the campaign setting.

Now that the map folio has shipped, I would like to once again cancel my campaign setting subscription.

Thank you

Chef's Slaad.

Here's a middle-length formula from the Statistics section of the spreadsheet:

=IF(TopSection!$K$3,HLOOKUP(TopSection!$C$3,XXprebuiltmonstersDONOTUSE!$C$4 :$BI$153,XXprebuiltmonstersDONOTUSE!$B$84,FALSE),10)

bah, amateur.

Lookup is so excel 97. Index & match is how all the cool kids do it these days :)

For my first year or so, I was the only customer service person at Paizo, but I've never been the only one at Paizo doing customer service. I was (and still am) always getting ninja'd on the messageboards by Lisa or Vic, or any number of other folks. I had thrown my lot in with this strange little company where an entire culture of customer service made me, the low-man on the totem pole, feel like I was a key member of a team.

I remember having Joshua Frost over during his Pathfinder Society tour two years ago.

I told him I work as a consultant in the customer service field. He wanted to know what I thought of Paizo's customer service. I said that I use it as an example of the way you can make Customer Service work for you.

Just look at the CS board. Half the questions there get answered by other customers rather than paizo employees. Paizo only needs a fraction of the Wizards marketing budget becasue customers do that for them.

Art helps sell books. And more sales means cheaper books for me. So in that sense, I'm all for it.

I was recently looking through some of my old World of Darkness books. It's cool to see how the art style carries though the different products. It sort of carries the theme for the series. Same goes for the old planescape setting. Consistent art really adds to the experience.

Whiskey Jack wrote:

How popular is Heineken there?

Maybe it's because of living downwind from the Heineken brewery my entire youth, but it isn't my favorite beer.

Heineken is for foreigners :)

Glad to see you're still going strong Auke, and still have a large part of the original crew. Keep up the good work!

Hi Erik,

I have the giants revisited and the poster map folio in one shipment. I would like to have the map folio and would like to cancel the campaing setting subscription after that. If I'm not mistaken that would include giants revisited.

Could you remove Giants Revisited from my june subscrition and cancel my campaign setting subscription after it has been sent?

Thanks

Cchef's Slaad

I have two really basic questions. Sorry if these have already been addressed.

1. Do you allow PCs to roll multiple perception checks? What I mean is, when the PCs enter a hex with a hidden location, and they all fail their perception check, should I allow them another chance - perhaps in a day or something? How have you been handling this? Do the take 10 or take 20 rules apply here?

I allow one perception check per day. the PC's spend exploring the hex. The take 10 and take 20 rules apply, although taking 20 would mean they're taking nearly 3 weeks to explore a single hex. Besides, most DC's should be easy for a character with a decent perception skill cehck.

2. How do you determine if an enemy gets away when fleeing? I posted this question in the pathfinder RPG->Rules Questions board but didn't really get a straight forward response. Many of the monsters in the AP have a moral section which dictates that they flee after they take a certain amount of damage. How do I determine if the monsters get away or not? Does this simply constitute getting off the board, or is there a more sophisticated mechanic that you are using?

Thanks!

If the PC's chose to chase a monster as it flees, I allow them to make normal attacks (which will probably be ranged attacks unless the PC's have a very high move rate). Once the monster is behind cover or out of range, the monster got away. If the PC's are determined, they can track the monster down.

this allways Seems like the perfect paladin bluff to me

Liz is to Paizo what the Oracle is to the Matrix.

Hmmm...yeah, I'm going to go with that. Except her cookies don't typically result in memory loss.

[paranoia] oh yeah, how do you know? [/paranoia]

So basically it's DM's fiat?

How about this one:

Are you on higher ground when attacking a creature smaller than yourself?

I can't find the option to chose the method of combining shipping (hold for AP, one monthly package, send immediately, etc) Where did it go?

If you're interested in the Adventure Paths, I would go with either Rise of the Runelords (available as pdf and soon to be updated to Pathfinder and republished as a complete book ala Shackled City) or Legacy of Fire, both of which are extremely well suited for a DM who has gotten his feet wet and now wants to go for a swim.

If you're looking for a first adventure to run, I would suggest one of the free RGP day adventures, such as We Be Goblins or Revenge of the Kobolt King, which you can follow up with many of the modules.

Here's my video.

Goblinworks and Paizo have my permission to use this video.

My favorite sofar!

Wow, Taig, great run. Congratulations!

There's been this cray rumor she's

she's been awfully quiet lately. I just hope nothing's wrong.

check out treantmonk's excellent guide to wizards for all the wizardly optimizing you'll ever need

Also, stores can usually back-order AP volumes from their distributor (mine has no problem with that). If that's not an option, well, there's allways Paizo.com :)

plot-wise, I think Kingmaker is one of the best options. For Dungeons, I would recommend Legacy of Fire.

I'm not a really big fan of the bestiaries. I dont really get the appeal of moars monstarz, so I wouldn't know which one to recommend there. Most bestiaries are tied in to the AP theme, so if you are (e.g.) looking for a bunch of devils and LE themed outsiders, Council of Thieves is your best bet. If you want Underdark themed creatures, go with Second Darkness.

Wow, that must have been amazing. Can't wait to get my kids hooked. They're 5, 2 and 6 months, so it might be a couple of years before I can run a game for all three of them :)

We have a regular (monthly) game at our house and whenever my kids throw the dice, they roll great results. Kids and karma ey.

Anyway, Thanks for sharing.

you could use the focus button at the top of each subforum. That will give you all the threads you have visited in that subforum and drop the rest.

Now that kickstarter has done its magic, is there any word on when (if) it's going to return?

yeah, but the OP did not ask for sales data, but rather for number of players. Even without sales figures I suspect there is an estimate of the number of gamers who play pathfinder in a certain area (even if it is only a very rough estimate).

For example, my town has two game stores. Both carry Pathfinder products and order about 5 copies of most products. (they have more core rulebooks and campaign settings). That means that I have at least 10 gamers in my area who visit the store regularly. Assume half of them game regularly (say at least once a month) and their group consists of an average of 4 players (including the gamer who buys the product), that gives me about 20 gamers in my area. Because I know they also but the GM-only stuff, such as the AP's, it's fair to assume that the number of double counts is limited. 20 is a ballpark figure. It could be 30, it could be 10, but it's not going to be 50 or 100, right?

I'm a DM, and I always felt that it was my responsibility to have everything, or as much of everything I could get.

out of curiosity, why?