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That's absolutely genius; it would be perfect for a game focusing on Time Thieves and travel between eras in the style of Chrono Cross.
This is an awesome thread! I'm on the way to Seattle right now - I'll brain-storm on the plane. My first inclination is one of the Tiefling bloodlines ... those are wicked-slick, and the two-level dip into paladin would be interesting. You know, I can't imagine that there isn't a 3PP class or Archetype out there SOMEWHERE that strikes a happy balance between paladin & antipaladin; it would be cool to play a tiefling who TRIED to live the austere life of a Jedi but lost the path somewhere along the way.
Boomer's novel The Hole Behind Midnight is urban fantasy and quite good. I'm almost done and I've been loving it. ... and here's the book, available for sale through Paizo! The Hole Behind Midnight ... boo-yah!
CLARK! A pleasure to hear from your amazing self, and I'm glad to see you popping in and saying hello! I'll even reiterate & echo your cheer: "... I love Superstar and I love the process and I love Paizo and everyone associated with the process. Believe me, you will be glad you submitted {to RPG Superstar}." Hip-hip-hooray! If you've got an idea for an item, send it! Also: thank you for the monkeys, Snorter. Monkeys make the world a better place.
Monkey pants are damn funny. Notice that they're not tied to the monk class, and not called monk-ee pants. For those wondering, here are the Monkey Pants in question, re-posted from the gag-item thread of RPG Superstar 2008. Truly, my finest moment as a game designer. Pants of the Many Monkeys This simple pair of khaki adventuring pants contains, hidden in its many goody-sized pockets, monkeys. Many, many monkeys. Each day, upon command ("Monkeys!") the pants produce 3d12 monkeys (see page 267, MM). These monkeys are CRAZY monkeys, however, and no amount of training, yelling or stomping of feet will get these monkeys to stop it with their crazy monkey shenanigans. The monkeys are possessed both a limited magical 'hive-mind' and an overwhelming, capricious desire to perform acts of mischief and tomfoolery. The monkeys will probably eat all the rations and poop in the bedrolls. They will pants the cleric and 'honk' the elf's boobs. Also, they like to trip people, drink ale, and steal hats. The monkeys speak French. Moderate Conjuration; CL 5th; Craft Wondrous Item, Summon Nature's Ally III, Prestidigitation; Price 8,000 gp., 2 lbs.
Jay, My best advice to you, which I will note is worth EXACTLY what you paid for it, is to get the flavor and the rules and the coolness and the WONDROUS-NESS exactly where you want them and then tweak ever so slightly during the rounds upon rounds of editing in your future. Por Ejemplo: you've got a super-cool item that is ever-so-slightly similar to a previous winning entry ... like, I don't know, greaves of the awesome monkey or something. Well, that will never do - even if YOUR item gives bonuses to dodging and throwing improvised weapons instead of Balance and Climb. So, change the part that's too similar, and then re-approach it. Do they have to be greaves? Maybe they can be bracers. Or gauntlets. Or a hat. Or a crown! Or something slot-less, like ioun stones but way cooler because it's a floating halo or something. OR: does it have to be monkeys? Other creatures jump around and throw stuff. Maybe another OGL monster is more appropriate! Something else with ranged attacks and high dexterity. Now that they're called slot-less bracer-gauntlets of the awesome drow-sniper riding a trained basilisk, take another look at your rules. ALSO NOTE: the name of your item will be MUCH better!
Oh, that's sexy!
A-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA -*gasp* HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA! I peed a little.
Collected quotes from a long-running Pirates of the Caribbean & Serenity/Firefly-themed 3.5 D&D Iron Kingdoms/Ebberon/SpellJammer game which I ran. My friend Dusty played the Captain. Dave: "Wait, your robot's name is 'Apple'?"
Dusty: "Where is the prisoner?"
Mr. Hubris: "Well, this is pleasant."
Kyle: "You two - seppuku contest! Right now! Your Emperor commands it!" Corey: "Can you botch Pilot rolls?"
Kyle: "All right, that's it - I'm inviting this mother-f***er to DINNER."
Davian Kash: "RrrrraaaagghhhhaaaAAAA!"
Sam: "Did you just rip his soul out of his body through his face?"
Dave: "Run, you idiot!"
Dave: (gurgling blood) "Remember . . . "
Corey: "So where's the captain?"
Kyle: "And once your ship is completed, where will you go?"
Corey: (whispered) "Give her the baby."
All: "Dave, NO!
Graz'zt: "I don't trust you. I hope the feeling is mutual."
Dave: "Demogorgon & the Abyssals - tonight only at the Civic Center!" Kyle: "Wait, why are we doing this again?"
Dave: "I'll just go heat this up, then."
Kyle: "I will bring peace to this system, so help me god, if I have to personally kill every Human & Halfling on every world, one at a time."
Sam: "To my knowledge, nothing like this has ever been tried before. Ever."
Dusty: "Don't tell Kyle that I said this, but if any of you find anything cool, take it."
Dusty: "Well, I think we got out of that scott-free."
Dave: (to Kyle) "Tell me that he's not throwing loose change at the bard."
Dave: "There is no reason to be hostile. We need not be enemies."
Dusty: "Wait ... Arch-Cardinals aren't supposed to have daughters!"
I'm actually using the name of this book and its companion PC Pearls as the names of two regular features in Level Up. Bah! That silly GM Gems was nothing compared to the inexhaustible wisdom contained in PC Pearls! Why, without the advice of Lord Bedlam Havok to make it shine like that magnificent Collection of Character Inspiration does, Gems is hardly much of a book at all! It's more like ... not ... a book. For crappy jerks!
Planning to run this on Sunday, and I'm pondering the paladin of slaughter. Given the new lay on hands, would a "death touch" (1d6/two levels, save DC 10 + half paladin level + Cha mod) make the most sense, with an option to spend two uses for a channel negative energy burst? Should I consider adding some negative status effects (the opposite of mercies) to the touch as well? Any other ideas or suggestions? Dude, good questions! Here's the real question: is this an OFFICIALLY-OFFICIAL kind of "For the Society!" game that you're going to be running, or is this a fun-with-friends kind of deal? If it's for the Society: don't change nothing! The adventure is designed to run using pre-PFRPG rules, and the official rules on alternate Paladins have not yet been released and might never be. Now, if it's for FUN: hells yes, death touch should inflict "anti-mercies!" That's awesome! In fact, in one early draft of the the adventure, the Paladin of Slaughter actually had a unique feat, available ONLY to drow servants of Abraxus, to use their full Paladin level as their caster level & to gain one sorcerer/wizard spell of their choice as a divine paladin spell of the same level; the spell also gained the [Chaotic] & [Evil] descriptors when cast by them. Heck, there was originally a much higher-level Paladin of Slaughter for the higher-tier of the adventure, who fought with sword, shield and scorching ray. This, of course, just ate up GOBS of word-count, and the saner head of the multi-talented & good-looking Josh Frost prevented me from doing anything too crazy for the adventure. My advice is to make the Paladin of Slaughter a particularly tough foe; as other players have noted, depending on the party, the toughest single fight CAN be the swarms in Encounter 1.
Plus, there's a certain amount of wisdom in keeping the modules self-contained and limiting the buy-in requirements for the line. For the Coliseum Morpheuon mega-adventure/mini-setting, a LOT of my Patrons requested that it should serve, in some way, as a "sequel" to one or more of the Adventure Paths; all I could tell them was that since I don't have the rights to Paizo IP, I couldn't do it ... legally. The truth is, pulling off a 15th-20th level super-sequel to an AP (either ongoing or past) would be a real feat; the time & energy necessary to execute such a thing in a way that pleased both rabid fans of the AP and newbies-to-the-story would make it nearly impossible. ... also: James, you work too darn hard. Spending a Saturday editing my turnover of 'Infernal Syndrome' and also posting here? Get yourself a Snickers or something, man!
Back from GenCon with two copies of the Pathfinder Core Rules - one for each hand! Running over-the-top-awesome games for Tim Hitchcock, Adam Daigle, their cadre of super-GMs (including Shackletons and a certain Head-Eating Yoda) & many wonderful players of the Pathfinder Society has honed my adventure-fu to a razor edge, and we're moving forward on design, hammering that fluff into gold! Next step is getting my copy of the Pathfinder Bestiary, which is when the real crunch-work starts! Again, thank you to everyone involved!
In the event of emergency, Sam Berry (player of Tordek) and I will drive back to Indy to fetch Paizonians. It's what we WereCabbages do, and I think that I'm technically closest. Just light up the Cabbage Symbol if you need us, and shine it toward the Mississippi!
Steve, I hope you're feeling better today! I didn't want to say anything, but your avatar has been looking a little sickly for some time now - it's now surprise that the great news about Ashton getting on board this project might overwhelm you! Take care - we don't have enough Russell to go around, if you drop on us!
What did Boomer do? Boomer, madman that he is, has built a comedy-themed adventure based around a ribald & raucous group of Pathfinder-universe performers called the Merry Jackanapes - the whole she-bang debuted at PaizoCon II, run by myself & one Mr. Hugo "Butterfrog" Solis, and we were honored to have a fantastic & insane time at the table with wonderful players (including the always wonderful SunshineGrrrl)! The adventure, originally designed as a one-off, 4-hour event in the style of the Pathfinder Society Scenarios, is currently undergoing another round of edits, some further development, and expansion at the hands of the aforementioned crew, plus Adam Daigle and Ashton "N'Wah" Sperry. Once it's ready, you'll get to see it, guaranteed - for now, check out this thread on the topic:
Ah, my Brothers Kikai, Frost, Shadowborn & Daigle! I had not realized that we were all of such holy leanings! I, myself, am ordained the Right Reverend Clinton J. Boomer by the Universal Life Church, and I'm pleased as ... PUNCH to learn that we're a denominationally-inclined collective! Perhaps we can get our next PaizoCon tax-free ...
I again want to thank everyone for their feedback! I'm glad that people have enjoyed this adventure, and I wanted to respond to comments about the difficulty of the Faction missions. I thought that this scenario was a lot of fun, but during the two times that I ran it at Paizocon only two characters (total) completed their faction missions. I think the missions in this game were difficult on purpose... This is 100% correct, but I certainly hope that no one was too frustrated by the increase in difficulty, which was not intended to be TOO sudden. A lot of effort (by writers, but even more by the esteemed Mr. Josh Frost) is put into balancing the difficulties of the Faction Missions for the Scenarios, and while I thought this one was balanced (in that they were all pretty hard), I'll take any blame for error. By the way, [bDarian Graey[/b], I'm sorry that your GM rubbed your magical loss in your face. The power hidden behind the door is really meant to be lost, no matter what, but your instincts were good. Oh, those stupid paladins!
Hey, all! Just wanted to pop in and thank everyone both for their kind words and for their feedback - I'm a fan of this adventure myself (having been given the opportunity to play through it on two separate occasions at PaizoCon!), and I also hope to be able to answer questions & respond to concerns. As to your most recent question, Doug Doug, specifically regarding the Chronicle Sheet and the omitted spoiler, the intention from the beginning was that the PCs simply can't get the prize. Having access to something like that would be game-breaking, at least in a shared world like the Society. Of course, allowing access to an artifact-level secret like that in a HOME game would be up to the individual GM!
Thank you, Vic! For those interested in discussion on this adventure, head over here!
Oh, no! Good-hearted Sharoth has transmogrified into the monster called only EVIL OVERLORD - and I am to blame! What horrors have I unleashed upon the world with my ... my ... writing!?! All I wanted was to make the world a better & more gonzo place! I'm, like, a post-modern Dr. Herbert West ... himself, a post-modern Victor Frankenstein! Who was, now that I think about it, sort or a Prometheus figure or something, if I remember the Cliff's Notes correctly. ... anyway, uh ... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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