Well, after YEARRRRS I am starting with prepping Kingmaker and my first place to go and check out for published campaigns are the Paizo boards. I can‘t write a THANK YOU in every single thread so I want to throw a BIG THANK YOU to all you guys who posted their stuff and ideas here to help out fellow DMs (even sharing stuff via Dropbox, etc.), as those ideas are sooo helpful in prepping my own campaign now.
I am trying for 20 minutes now, to order Sundered Waves. Gets me always to the PLACE YOUR ORDER page, where all my clicks are sucked into the limbo...
Yes, I would!
In my earlier days, finding time to play was never an issue. Now my players are grown up (well, at least one or two ;) , we have jobs, families, some work in shifts - so its getting harder to find time to play. Another aspect is the huge commitment, both in time (for everybody) and workload (for the GM).
I really wonder how many APs most of you have run or manage to run in a year?! Anyway... can we have 3-part APs for Pathfinder, pleeeease?! :)
"This adventure uses several Flip-Mats from Paizo's extensive range, including the Pathfinder Flip-Mat: The Dead God's Hand Multi-Pack accessory." Can you already tell us which Flip-Mats will be used for this adventure?! Would be cool, so I as the DM can start planning this thing out.And - YES - there can never be enough Varisia for me! Especially, since James Jacobs "told us" (in AP#001), that Lamashtu still has plans for this area. I really hope, after more than 150 APs, we will get to know more about those plans (and maybe the Mothman priesty thing on that island off the coast of Sandpoint)...
I had so much high hopes to be able to get a pdf-only sub for stuff, as I almost always gm from my iPad with the PDFs. I would immediately sub to Lost Omens and the Core Line this way! Maybe for Charter subscribers who are with you from the beginning?:)
Awesome book, with lots of details. I really like like some of the „old storylines“ have turned out - like the Glassworks! But, why, oh my why - didn‘t you put the 2 page picture of Sandpoint as a map into the book as well?! This is such an awesome and usefull picture! We had so many maps of Sandpoint and its hinterlands, but this pic - boy, I would love to have this as a poster!
So, we get older, and things sometimes don‘t develop like we had wished for. Sometimes, out of a sudden you take a hit, which you hadn‘t seen coming, and which has been so unsuspected... A very dear friend has passed away. He has been one of my groups players for over 20 years. I still can‘t think this is real, but well... There will be a hole which can never be fully filled again! Now, we just started CotCT this year and are still in Part 1 of Chapter 1 - presently wading through the Bonehalls, I gm.
I try to come up with something special, but I would also like to hear different ideas.
Hopefully I can find something which makes his pc unforgettable for „our“ Golarion Campaign Setting. Thank you!
I but this in a spoiler tag, as there are spoilers for the Hell's Rebels AP as well... Be warned!!!
Spoiler: So, my players really started to hate Gaedren Lamm. He managed to flee during the encounter at the Old Fishery. As they searched through his belongings, they got the idea, that he might be undead, as everything was dirty and rotten down there in the old fishery, and they figured that nobody wants to live under such circumstances unless... well. They are not sure and also think, there might be more to him than just being an old man. As I set him up as a huge crime boss in Korvosa, and now got the idea, to make him a bigger enemy in the campaign, as my players seem to have jumped on this idea. He has connections with Devargo Barvasi (I also plan to use The House on Hook Street). Now I got the idea, because I love some parts of the Hell's Rebels AP, to use stuff from that AP, especially the part about Barzilai, making Gaedren Lamm the one who wants to become a genius loci, but not to become one with the land, but one with Korvosa itself. I thought about his son, Rolth, being the one, who helped with the ritual. I even used the Bells of the Tempel already, during the evolving Chaos, after the death of Eodred. Even the Ruby Masquerade could be used (as a trap from Ileosa), or the Encounter with the bridge in AP #100, I think... Anyway, I thought about this, and think it will work quite well, but as always, more minds make things better, so I wanted to ask around, what you guys think if this...
So, on the latest Know Direction podcast episode, James Jacobs talked about a book which Jefferson named ALMANACH OF GOLARION. A book with a lot of little details about Golarion, like - where does good whine or coffe comes from
I immagined a book like those awesome VOLO'S GUIDES from back in the days.
Well, as a player I was totally into a city campaign and had fun in Korvosa. That HoA-Part just didn't seem to fit and the fact, that we knew that we had to do A, B and C to get what we wanted (D) was like a speedbump. It made sense in the story of the campaign, but we felt stalled, even if most of those encounters are pretty cool.
Your tips with Montlarion Jeggare are great! I think I will do it this way... Thank you so much.
I don't like the History of Ashes part of this AP.
Thx guys!
I need some help. I am about to start the CotCT AP.
You could print them using the freeware software PosteRazor (just google it).
So, I am about to start this AP as a DM now.
I came up with the idea to have Cressida Croft receiving a card from Zellara as well. This might happen a couple of days before she gets appointed as the new field marshal of the city guard, giving her time to follow the pcs to the Old Fishery. She might even be a long-time friend to one or all pcs, making it easier to ask the pcs for help later on. Gaedren Lamm will not be found in the Old Fishery, but documents show, that he might soon team up with Devargo Bavarsi, in order to start a huge shiver-trade organization. In the end, Gaedren will be found alongside Devargo in Eel's End, or maybe later, when a sister of one of the pcs dies because of shiver. This will lead into the HOUSE ON HOOK STREET, with the sister being the MALNOURISHED DREAM-THING of the first encounter in this module. Knowing that Gaedren has something to do with the shiver trade, this might be enough to get the players invested into the modules storyline. Has anyone else thought about having Cressida being a part of the group initially before her new appointment requires her to be at the citadel most of her time?!
Hi there.
I playtestet it once, which was pretty cool. I don't know, though, if the SR is a bit over the top or neccessary at all. I totally don't know if this is balanced, but I needed something to scare my high-level pc, and this the soulswarm has done pretty well... :)
A ghostly mass of intermingled bodies glides towards you. The faces of dozens of individuals distorted in agonizing pain. XP 153,600
DEFENSES
OFFENSE
STATISTICS
ECOLOGY
Desperate Cacophony (Su) The wrongfulness and tragedy involved in the death of the souls make them so sad, angry and desperate, that they start wailing and screaming as soon as they feel any signs of life nearby. The wailing fills the air in a 20 ft. radius, making concentration difficult, much like the spell, distracting cacophony (from Ultimate Magic), but with a slightly more difficult DC. Casting a spell in this area requires a concentration check (DC 20 + level of the spell being cast). Death Vision (Su) The moment a soulswarm is finally put to rest, the creature which killed the swarm gains a vision of the moment of death of the souls. This vision is so intense, that the creature becomes shaken for 24 hours, if it doesn't succeed on a Fortidude Save (DC25). If the save succeeds, the shaken condition last for 10 minutes only. Resurrection Vulnerability (Su) A resurrection cast on a soulswarm reduces its size by one category, a minimum of Medium. A true resurrection destroys it instantly. Sometimes, when dozens of people die at the same time because of the same reason, be that a human made event or a natural desaster, their souls bind together to overcome their grieve and form a soulswarm. The same is true if people die in a massacre, where the wrongfulness and injustice of the act has the same effect.
A soulswarm is a flying intermingled mass of dozens of souls, which claw out and scream at the living. Being an undead creature, a soulswarm doesn't need to breathe, so it can also be found underwater.
I don't know if this might be a thing for the player's guide, but I had this idea for this AP, which might work for other Groups as well and could be entered as advice in the pg: Everybody get's to make his own pc, roll's his stats, selects class, race, spells, skills, etc. and that's it. After that, they hand their charactersheet over to me, the DM. I give that sheet (in secret) to one of the other Players, who than has to come up with a background-story for this rolled-up pc. That player doesn't know yet who's pc this is. This way, the pc's really have no idea who they are, other than knowing what they are cabable of (their pc-sheet). During the campaign (if this works, I obviously haven't read the AP yet) I will Hand out pieces of their background-story.
Good idea?!
I would love to have a huge city campaign with multiple things going on and thought about combining HR wit CotCT. Spoiler:
First thought was that Ileosa and Barzillai would be working together with Ileosa trying to become what she wants in CotCT and Barzillai what he wants in order to rule the lands together. I am just starting thinking this over and would like to know, if someone had the same idea?! I am still not sure of this might work, but maybe someone here has some great ideas on how to get such a campaign going...
How about this one,
First of all, thanx Shaun, for this work! I tried to get actual dates to those happenings.
22.12.4714AR (Moonday)
29.12.4714AR (Moonday)
01.01.4715 (Oathday)
09.01.4715AR (Fireday)
11.01.4715AR (Sunday)
13.01.4715AR (Toilday)
18.01.4715AR (Sunday)
Sure, AP's start in the same month of the year as they come out, but as I had already sent those infos to my players, I went with it, and having BT arrive on new years day is pretty cool!
Is there any way to get that AWESOME map of Kintargo without those creatures all over it?!
I really think that "bloat" doesn't have to be a problem.
This is understood, and I, as the DM am at ease, knowing if stuff like what the OP was talking about happens mit can be changed readily.
I love the APs and the modules Paizo publishes. I know, that a lot of buyers only get them for the pleasure of reading a great story. But in the end, it's still an adventure-module (however big), and it's main use should be for the GM using it at the table.
Actually, I don't like the idea, that my life as a GM is made harder, because there are people who rather use the product in an unintended way (meaning, they only like to read it), and being served first. It's an adventure-module for a roleplaying game. The guys who should get the most out of it are the GMs, not the guys who buy it for the joy of reading. I am not even sure, if the joy of reading would be diminished by a new format... The Dungeon-Delve format was one of the worst inventions in adventure-module presentation!
Prepping APs is a pain in the XXX - every help would be welcome.
Is this serious?!
*face palm* You know what, from now on I will not allow my players any item, or ability which is not recognizeable in the artwork for their pc. That, surely will make them happy! :)
Uff, wow! Scanning the boards and stumbling over this precious little (well, huge) diamond!
My players can add their CON score to their hp at first level. This stopped the stupid 8hrs rest after a single encounter.
So, @1st level: max hp + CON-Mod. + CON-Score.
You remember the Chronicles section of the original RotRL AP?!
I had my group travel to Kaer Maga, and Sheila told them, she would send one of her agents to the city, to get them the ion-stone.
This got us away for a whole session from dungeon crawling.
I really loved the small FR books which were called "Volo's Guide to "X"".
See here, for what I mean.
I know, it's been said a hundred times, but it can,t be said enough: Paizo's customer service is awesome! They never make a fuss about anything.
So, again, thank you for being so awesomely fuss-free, down-to-earth and uncomplicated as you are!
I missed such a list, and because there's so much info stored in the various articles, and taking every single AP from my shelf to find a special article is too much work, I thought I could compile such a list. Maybe some of you find it helpful, so I decided to post it here.
RISE OF THE RUNELORDS
CURSE OF THE CRIMSON THRONE
SECOND DARKNESS
LEGACY OF FIRE
COUNCIL OF THIEVES
KINGMAKER
SERPENT SKULL
CARRION CROWN
JADE REGENT
SKULL & SHACKLES
THE SHATTERED STAR
Sounds cool! I also made Kreed a bit more evil.
Spoiler: In D0 one of the encounters is about a fox caught in a trap. My group saved the fox an cared for him, so that he got healthy again. During the campaign, the fox showed up again and again, and the group realized, that the fox wanted to show them something. The fox lead them to Kreeds manor again and again. So they finally decided to break and enter, to show what's inside the manor. I had a huge complex beneath Kreed manor (old, even before Falcons Hollow was built), were Kreed held Ulizmilla as a prisoner. I decided to keep Ulizmilla alive, and made her an important person for the fey of Darkmoon Wood. The fox I made her companion (made her a witch).
I just realized, after finishing my Darkmoon campaign and starting RotRL, that Varisia doesn't have it's own guide.
I really like the paper minis line.
It is far easier to use a swarm mini, if it is just outright flat, not a figure, like the other ones.
So, would it be possible to just give us a picture of a swarm (of the correct size), without the base, which can be laid onto the battlemap?
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