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Our long-standing band of adventurers is looking for some new companions. We play online on Discord, sometimes using the Roll20 virtual tabletop. We’re scattered about, in two American states, a Canadian province, and Hong Kong, and range from recent university grads to a retired grandfather. We’re looking for folks who can commit to playing, and don’t let rules get in the way of having fun.

We have a long running 5e campaign, but go on various side trips in other systems, like Pathfinder 1e, 2e and Basic Fantasy RPG. Most of us have taken a turn at GMing at one point or another. We aim to be an inclusive group, and don’t want any racism, sexism, or homophobia. If you’d like to meet us, come to our Discord meeting room: https://discord.gg/67HFQjKk . We have just started a Pathfinder 1e campaign.

We’ve been on a summer hiatus, but will resume playing on September 20th. Game time is Friday at 18:00 PDT, 21:00 EDT.

Looking for 2-3 new players to join an existing campaign, the current level is 5. It's a homebrew setting based loosely on the Mystara setting. We play on Sundays, usually around 4p-7/8p CT. We use Roll20 for the VTT but Google Hangouts for voice, we have less issues that way. You can reply here or send me a PM if you're interested.

PDFs should be out this week sometime and physical rewards are still due in March as last expected. At least according to the update from last week.

Have had to part with a couple of choice modifiers. Painful!

Mine also lost several descriptive words contributing to the memorable parts of the character. Still don't know if what I've got evokes it enough.

Tell us about your characters to win BOOKS!

I'll be honest, that 25 word cap is rough! Took me 4 tries to get it to 25 without losing something important. And it's still in first draft form.

Would it be possible to sideline this order for a week so it doesn't ship out quite yet? Had some misfortunes happen on Thanksgiving and need to readjust around here.

Glad it caught your eye. Just wanted to let you know that even though you missed the last 2 kickstarters, it's not too late. We have a level on this campaign called EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING that has all the books, including the ones from the first 2. And then you can add on the Pathfinder book. If you don't want to go all in on that one, there are plenty of other pledge levels but just make sure you add on The Untamed: A Sinner's Prayer, as that's where it all begins. There are hardcover and paperback versions.

And based on your username, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that you'll like my vampire book, Essessa :-)

Hey, thanks for the update! I might have to pass the EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING level and looks a little further down to see what I can find. The comics look good!

Wish I'd heard about the first KS too. Gonna need to dig into this to check out the comics and the game portion. Is the PF part in this KS more like a module adventure, a CS book or some blend? Anyone know?

Hello Dhampir984,

Thank you for the update. We plan to run the September authorization soon. Did you want me to leave the items in your sidecart to ship with that? It may make the shipping a little cheaper. Otherwise I can move them out of your sidecart right away so they can get underway. Let me know what you prefer.

Hey Diego, move them out now so they go first, then the September can go when it goes. Thanks!

Hello Dhampir984,

Looks like we both responded to you at the same time! I unsuspended the older order yesterday and it should be on its way soon. This months items are in your sidecart and will ship out with next months order.

It's all good, extra service can't hurt. :) The items in the sidecart can be shipped out now. I think we're good for awhile now. Thanks for your help and patience.

Hello Dhampir984,

I can see that order 5295521 is ready to ship out when you are. Is this the order you'd like to go out now?

I can reinstate your suspended subscription and move the generated items for August into your sidecart. This will have them generate with your next months subscription items. Is this okay?

Thank you!

Hey Sam and Diego, yes, order 5295521 can be shipped and the rest can be in the sidecart for a bit while I keep organizing the finances.

Hi, can you release my July subscription order, and then if possible move the August order to the side cart? I'm starting to get back on my feet and getting the money reorganized again but it's a slow process.

I have been trying to get a gaming group going in Saint Cloud MN for some time now. Roxorion does not answer his private messages.

Alright then, at least I know it's not me. Or at least not completely.

So I read the whiteboard and understood all the points except #3 in the Core Complaints column. What's 'somey'?

Hello Dhampir984,

Your account is set to receive all of the emails. We haven't sent out a newsletter or anything like that since the GDPR email, so there wasn't one last week or the week before. I've pinged our webstore team just in case but there hasn't been an email for the last 2 weeks.

Thanks for checking all of that Diego. I appreciate it.

Half hour to an hour, i know beggars cant really be choosers. But would be preferred if did not have to do city driving.

Sorry for the delay, I don't make it into this forum as often as I'd like. my wife and I are in a similar boat, we're about an hour from St. Cloud but north of the cities and it's assorted messes. Feel free to PM me if you wanted to talk more about a group or something.

You should go to your My Accounts page, change the privacy settings for e-mail as desired, and then click on the link in the resulting confirmation e-mail that you should get soon afterwards.

Hey David, thanks. I did go and do that when I got their initial email about having to reopt in. I also double checked this morning and was opted in for it all.

Hey all, I noticed I haven't received a weekly email in about 2 weeks. I did go through the confirmation (so not a fan of GDPR requirements lately!) and I also checked my profile and it's set to get all. So am I missing them or did I miss a step somewhere?

My wife and I are both new to Pathfinder but wanted to start playing. Most the organized play I have seen is near in the Twin Cities area. Willing to drive, but not quite that far.

Hey, I guess the questions is how far will you travel? I've seen a few odd posts about your area before but none recently.

Here's my question for our valued 3PP folks here: will you continue with PF1 content or are you looking more towards a full switch to PF2?

I don't need a PF1.5 (D&D3.875), but I'm not sure I'm sold yet on PF2 based on what I've seen so far.

I understand creating content for SW, PF1, PF2 and 5E could start to become cost prohibitive quickly. I'm just checking the waters now, fully understanding they could be completely different around PF2 launch.

So this will be the first AP that starts PCs above 1st?

A whole lot of things

You really seem to be energized by this one, like way more than I've seen from you in quite some time (based on board postings). Happy to see you back that way again.

Just backed this one, would've been like #3 or 4 but my tablet didn't have the correct password handy. I really like what you're doing and how you guys set these up. The goal isn't a fortune so it's really easy to get it. And I have had a disappointment yet. Good luck mateys!

The Hoard

All of the things there, it's the older modules that I'd love to dig into more.

I couldn't even list out everything. Just too much. But we've got an entire full sized bookshelf filled with 3.x materials and a small handful of 4e. 4e just didn't work for us so we didn't go all in on it.

We've got all of the PF hardcovers finally. We got behind a bit and finally rectified that. Every AP printed, including RotR #1, still in shrink warp with the player's guide in there. Probably 85% or more of the Campaign setting line. All of the Player's Companions and what they were before that. All the maps (flip and packs).

One shelf will fill all of the PF 3PP hardcovers we've collected, including the shelfbusters from FGG (Slumbering Tsar, Rappan Athuk, Razor Coast). Plus overflow of others we've snagged over times (go go Kickstarters!).

There's 2 shelves of 1e, 2e and my old red box original BECMI books. Sadly, I got rid of the actual boxes when I was kid so I could just bring all the books in a briefcase (it was a thing in my group, OK?) to games. I also lost the Rules Cylopedia to a minor basement flood as a kid. I miss that one and wouldn't mind a new copy.

There's my West End Games d6 Star Wars books and more Vampire: The Masquerade than I care to think about. A few Shadowrun titles my wife added to the collection when we merged ours.

I'd say we probably also have about half of the printed Dragon magazines. Could be more, or less, I never did the count on them. There's a much smaller number of Dungeon magazine too.

I think that's it for books/magazine really. It's not as much as some, and more than others. But I know I can walk over to a shelf and pick up just about anything I want to read, explore or mine for something for a new campaign or story.

I'd absolutely be in favor of an NPCC2. I love using the original and since I know many of my players have or have access to the original, I tend to mix and match the art based on what I want for the story flavor and then find the stat block based on what I need for future encounters.

There were plenty of unassuming looking characters in there that I had much more massive stats waiting for when the PCs got to them. Wasn't hard to do at the table and my notes either, just kept notes on which page the art I showed was and where the stat block I needed was at.

I think Cisco would be a half-elf, but I'm not sure of his class. Would Oracle work? You know, since he can sometimes see the future?

I don't know about race for Cisco, but I very much see him as a sorcerer focused on conjuration, since all the major teleport/dimension hopping spells are conjuration. Probably some divination too for the reading thoughts part.

Felicity: human rogue, skill focuses on disable device, UMD; There's probably an archetype that fits better for her than straight up rogue.

Diggle: half-orc Gunslinger/Brawler.

I could consider grabbing this one. Pawns aren't my thing, been a minis guy for too long. But seeing how these work with map packs, flip mats and minis was a great idea. I'd suggest doing that more often with all 4 products in future blogs. :)

I've pushed an interim possible fix for the sessions logout issue while we figure out a better permanent solution. It has definitely logged everyone out BUT that should be the last time for awhile. Thanks for your patience on this one. It was not a solution I wanted to implement over the long weekend without being able to watch it extensively.

Hey it worked! I was logged in today when I came here. Thanks Lissa, Dean and everyone involved.

Also, seeing some speed improvements today, could be a result of Firefox's update.

Everyone, We are aware of the logout issues and understand cause. The fix is in the last stages of development and should be ready for deployment in the next day or so. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused,

Dean

Hey Dean, thank you for the update. Glad to see that you folks are all on top of it.

I did have to log back in today, but it may be that the fix for that particular issue came in after I shut down yesterday. I can check again tomorrow now that I know this was not a me thing or a Firefox thing, v56.X has had some issues for me, thought this might be one of them.

I did have to log in again today. Yesterday I didn't make here, but I did have a browser cache clearing to deal with some work issues. So maybe that one is still buried out there somewhere?

This has already been mentioned, but I don't think folks have really picked up on it yet...

Return of the Runelords has...

** spoiler omitted **

Has that been done before? I seem to recall something about it in

I did have to log back in today, but it may be that the fix for that particular issue came in after I shut down yesterday. I can check again tomorrow now that I know this was not a me thing or a Firefox thing, v56.X has had some issues for me, thought this might be one of them.

I would still love to do another Tian Xia AP, but nowhere did I say that's the one I'm doing next or even the one I WANT to do next.

Creative Director dinosaurs should just eat folks, not tease them. ;)

Is there at least a flavor of thing you'd want to do next you can share?

While I would love to do another Tian Xia AP, there are other stories as well that have had even less attention than Tian Xia, believe it or not. And I'm not the one who makes the final decisions anyway.

I've seen threads asking for many of those other things. But sheesh, you'd think being Creative Director would get you a few perks. ;)

I would LOVE there to be a future for a Tian Xia AP, or for more exploration into the setting. If there was anything to read into my statements, it should be that, and that I'm frustrated that we don't have more opportunities to do so, even if several of those opportunities are ones that I've negated on my own by, say, deciding to do an AP about demons or about robot gods or whatever.

What's stopping you from deciding to do this (Tian Xia) instead of what comes after the Runelords return, or whatever is on deck already for after that? Shouldn't it be nearing time for another 'risky/concept' AP after the likely smash/traditional AP the new Runelords AP would be?

Nice blog, pretty enjoyable. Do you normally focus on archetypes and feats?

How about:

SmiloDan wrote:

Halfling: Warrior, Skill Focus Stealth. They were terrible at everything except hiding.

Or maybe chained monk with Skill Focus Stealth? They had really good saving throws too. Maybe a defense-based build and/or archetype? Just de-emphasize the unarmed fighting bits.

Warrior and SF: Stealth fits a lot better. I'd rather toss in free save bonus feats than try and shoehorn monk into this. I think monk, even if you try and scrape a lot of serial number off would be too good.

Halfling with slayer and Dodge, Skill Focus Stealth, and Iron Will.

Wizard: I think the Basic D&D legacy is why I have never played a wizard.

I don't think slayer goes well with the halfling. Slayer has a much higher pedigree of 'I can kill anything' than the halfling ever did. I could probably get behind Dodge and the Stealth focus.

But the bookkeeping on them was so stupidly easy.

Well, lemme go grab my copy of Players Manual off the shelf and take a guess at a few of these.

Cleric: definitely would need to do a turn undead versus channeling energy blasting undead. They also had the no edged weapon restriction. So a very restricted weapon proficiency, down to just mace, club, war hammer and sling. Casting looks to me to be the same, anything on the list is fair game as long as you prep it each day. Don't see anything about swapping Cure spells out as needed. So there's another change up. I'd say they get Iron Will as a feat to mimic the saving throws.

Fighter: this one, I swear requires the least added/removed to it to mimic the original flair. It pretty much used anything and everything. Maybe Iron Will like the cleric.

Magic-User: this is the wizard. Required spellbooks that you keep secret and all! I'd suggest some kind of innate bonus to UMD checks and eliminating any kind of concentration for spell use. If someone interrupts you, you just lose it. Pretty harsh, but it's in keeping with the spirit of the original.

Thief: oh you roguely rascal of squishiness. I know my original party spent a very large of resources keep ours alive until we all finally gave up on it. I'd give this one several bonuses to skills, I'd go a +2 to disable device, perception, climb, stealth and sleight of hand. This is on top of what a PF rogue would get for these. Backstab was a bonus to hit back then, and double damage with any weapon it can use. Which was all 'missile' (ranged) and one handed.

I'll try and add more on the race-classes tomorrow.

Ask and you shall receive!

Can we get a side view too? :D

I'll take the deep lurker or chuul. Mostly because it reminds me of a session where the party's druid was also the cook. And she cooked everything. Including chuul. She scored a nat 20 on the cooking check plus bonuses and ranks in cooking. It was apparently palatable for all. :)

Has there been any official word from Paizo about the binding issue I've heard about (and seen many CS thread on)? Does it seem to be just a bad batch during the print run or is it hitting every copy out there? I just got my copies the other day, and while I haven't had a chance to check them over yet, I'm concerned mine will have an issue too.

Let me know if anything else needs to be adjusted.

Thanks!
-Katina

I'm good, I caught the email explanation this morning. Have a good one!

Can you hold order 4410604 till the next subscription order is ready? This one's so small I'd rather wait for it and save the tiniest bit I can on shipping.

OK. The Aquatic Adventures map is based on the same, not-to-scale Golarion map that's been around for a while. The real gem, though, is that it provides names for things that we haven't had until now. So that's a win.

I was going to point out the Blood of the Sea map, but it seems the AA one is better or just has more details to add?

A lot of other posts.

Interesting stuff. I like the LEGO addition to the game, but I'm also a LEGO geek so the small additions are cool to see.

Definitely NOT interested in the cutesy stuff like the High Rollers or Rocky the Red though.

But, but, but... It's a widdle, ittle, bittle tiny red dragon with a tiny hoard.. Ready to lull some unsuspecting adventurer/party into meeting mama......

Hey all, can we put a hold on this order for a bit? I need to get my stuff in order before we go with it. Thanks!