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I suppose it had to happen eventually. It is sad to hear, however. Dragon has been an indispensable asset for my group for the last couple of years, and Dungeons APs have been amazing. I’ll give Pathfinder a shot. And if I don’t like it, well, I’ve got plenty of adventures in past issues that I haven’t run yet. Or, I could just go back and do it the old fashion way – write them myself. I’ll admit that I’ve gotten a little spoiled on the excellent stories and the PDF supplements. I used to write fairly good multi-plot stories and a pretty good artist. These two fantastic magazines have been like candy sticking to my teeth. All-in-all, I don’t think it will be much different. WotC has already started a Sage Advice online column, and they put out supplemental information every day. We all check it on an almost daily basis. WotC will still have their hard product available for purchase and there will still be message boards where we can discuss and share ideas. I do hope that all of the back issues will be available. If not, I better get all I can now. Wow! It’s the end of an era. But all good things must end, right. There was a song that said, “every new beginning came from some other beging’s end”. I was around for issue #1 of both magazines, and I’ll be here for the last. Raise an ale and sing a song to the books of bards and welcome the winds of change.
I suppose it had to happen eventually. It is sad to hear, however. Dragon has been an indispensable asset for my group for the last couple of years, and Dungeons APs have been amazing. I’ll give Pathfinder a shot. And if I don’t like it, well, I’ve got plenty of adventures in past issues that I haven’t run yet. Or, I could just go back and do it the old fashion way – write them myself. I’ll admit that I’ve gotten a little spoiled on the excellent stories and the PDF supplements. I used to write fairly good multi-plot stories and a pretty good artist. These two fantastic magazines have been like candy sticking to my teeth. All-in-all, I don’t think it will be much different. WotC has already started a Sage Advice online column, and they put out supplemental information every day. We all check it on an almost daily basis. WotC will still have their hard product available for purchase and there will still be message boards where we can discuss and share ideas. I do hope that all of the back issues will be available. If not, I better get all I can now and start writing. Wow! It’s the end of an era. But all good things must end, right. There was a song that said, “every new beginning came from some other beging’s end”. I was around for issue #1 of both magazines, and I’ll be here for the last. Raise an ale and sing a song to the books of bards and welcome the winds of change.
My group has finished with "...No Honor". I typed out all the notes and made color copies of the pics. We use a giant grid paper flip pad, so I didn't necessarily need prints of the maps. We're staging this in our own game world, so I had to do the conversions myself – thankfully that wasn’t overly extensive. And it’s probably easier than trying to incorporate it into and existing published world. The web enhancements are nice, but they spoil us. I remember the old days when we “the few, the proud, the DMs” made pages and pages of notes to really make a game OURS. I use “ours” a bit loosely, however. I subscribe to the school of thought that the game belongs to the players, and it’s up to the DM to make it interesting and fun for them. Savage Tide has breathed some new life into our group. A couple of players got a little board with AoW because the DM was not very experienced and the party was too big. To James and staff, I know its hard work to get out all the stuff that goes along with some as large as Paizo. You’re doing a great job. I’m now interested in when #140’s PDF will be ready. I like being spoiled.
Just curious. What kind of characters are in your party? In the last year my bunch has been fairly creative with their races, classes and backgrounds. Now with ST there’s been a couple of surprises: 1. Half-Aventi Fighter - Family killed by pirates. Now she’s as ruthless as they are for the perpose of hunting them down. 2. Shoal Halfling Barbarian – Veiws the Half-Aventi as his master and commander and has a phobia of rope (this is adding some great comic relief). His name is Igot(pronounced ç-gô) Vootvuct. 3. Gnome Bard – Manic depressive goth that plays the bagpipes. 4. Dwarf Warlock – His powers are unstable. He’ll be getting his powers randomly each level (all of them change). 5. A Succubus – Using the Savage Species to create a first level succubus. Noone in the party knows what she is (they think she’s a rogue by class and a hooker by profession). She was kick out of “succubus school” for having to many phobias. What oddities are in your groups? |