Dryder's page

I made some maps (Vladaams Villa mostly and started with the other maps), which I would share with you, if you like.

There's also a great discord server from a guy who made a website (https://ptol.us/) for Ptolus. You need to register at that site, but it is very well done and a great source for material, as well as an interactive map of the city.

Tarandor! I am in the planning stages of a new Ptolus campaign (due to start later this year) and just found your work...

That is so incredible and it's even more incredible, that you shared it! Thank you so much for your work!
I can't thank you enough!!!

Will this Module cover what was hinted at in AP#03? That a certain goddess has plans for this region?

Do we already know how big those cards will be?

I also thought about integrating Fall of Plaguestone into my campaign, with Phineck running off to the citadel, after the events happening at the modules beginning and placing this stuff in Breachhill…

Will start this AP soonish and prepping it now. This thread is a huge help - big thanks to all of you.

Has anyone had a player playing a Hellknight? I have one and I am thinking of making Alak's story his, at least, that he's searching for the ring of his father, as this is the only item he has left of him, the rest is only memories, so he would love to find his father's ring. Has anyone done this and ran into trouble later on in the campaign?

My players decided that they want to try AoA. I like the AP as a whole but not the beginning with the call for adventurers and all.
Has anybody here used a different beginning?

I am searching a new AP to run for my players and the 2e ones didn't klick (although AV sounds cool, but we just had a huge dungeon crawl!).
I tought about this AP and found your thread - I can't thank you enough for this conversion. This comes in as a huge help!

Thank you! I am sorry, I have to do this. But at least I'll get the PDFs...
Let'S hope, the prizes will get back to normal some day soon.

So, what I wanted to say, would you please cancle all my subs as doon as possible?
Thank you!

After being a subscriber from the beginning, new EU regulations now make subscribing for me no longer worth it. For a single volume of an AP I have to pay an additional total of 10$ for taxes. This makes such a volume (with shipping and stuff) far mor expensive than it actually is. So I rather switch to buying PDFs only (unfortunately you have no PDF sub).
It's not your fault! You're the best company when it comes to customer service and listening to your customers. But unfortunately it is just too expensive now. I am sorry! :(

Best regards
Tom

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.
So, THANK YOU GUYS!

Now it worked... Don't know what went wrong.
Anyway, I am set! :)

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...
I even tried two different browsers. I just can't finish my order and I also don't get any error message. Nothing just happens, when I click on "place your order".
Any idea on what other ways I could try?

Awesome news! Finally I have a chance to attend PaizoCon!

I haven't been that excited about a city book since Ptolus came out years ago. Looking forward to this. And almost 300 pages - wow, so cool!

Will this AP have an underlying mystery or underlying storyline? Or is it „just“ those non-connected cases which the agents have to solve?
Don‘t get me wrong, I like what I read for the first three installments of this AP, I just wonder...

Another reason why its not reaaaaally necessary for Pathfinder: Most of APs are easily cut short and made to be 2 or 3 part APs anyway. So 3 part ap would only really work for the tables that are never able to stay together 6 parts so they can feel like they officially managed to complete an ap.

Or for groups, who would like to experience more different stories in a shorter time.

Yes, I would!
I really love the Starfinder format and with a 3-parter, I also wouldn't mind at which level it starts.
I know, some of the 1e APs could be run as a 3-parter (with some work), but getting such a product from Paizo would be awesome.

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 am a Paizo fan since they took over the Dungeon and Dragon magazines and I am a AP-subscriber from the start. In all those years we managed to play three (yes, only three) APs. I GMed 2 and played in one. We play once a month and like to immerse ourselves into the world and story. That's why we would also like to experience more stories in AP format, but that's just so hard with 6 parts, which take us sometimes three years to complete. Sure, that's not everybodies problem, but I am sure there are people out there with similar issues.

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?!

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)...

Are there any specific cards which are just kind of... too much?! I still consider buying the deck, and I have removed some cards from the old crit and fumble deck. Namely cards that capacitate a pc or let them hit themself with their own weapon.
I would do this again, if the new deck is bringing some fun to the table without being silly.

I like this!

So, for some time I am planning a new campaign for my group (that‘s why it is in the title, to keep my players out).
Back in AP #1 James Jacobs wrote that Lamashtu had plans for the region around Sandpoint. With the new Sandpoint sourcebook, this was a no-brainer to pick up.
I planned this campaign for a long time. Now I am really happy with PF2e and want to convert the BBEG for this campaign to the new rules.
But I have no idea how to do it, as it is a mythic monster. I am talking about the Drakainia (B4, p.76). Thought this would be a fitting agent of Lamashtu. Now, the abilities are not that hard to convert, but the Stats. I could compare her (it?) to Treerazor in the new Bestiary 1, but don‘t know...
Could anybody explain how she/he does such a conversion? I know that Mythic Rules don‘t exist in PF2 (hope something like this will be available in the future, as it was the best GM-tool ever!) and think I will just skip that parts of the monster.
Any thoughts on this?

I totally miss an info on which level they might reavh by the end of the adventure. This alone would be helpful. I hope Paizo will include XP infos in future products, as they are needed, no matter if you count xps or do milestone leveling.

Hi!

I am to GM for three 13 year old guys who will play for the first time. As 2E is awesomely easy to teach we will use those rules. However, I thought of GMing Emerald Spire for them. Anyone here who already played it and can tell me, if I just could replace the monsters with the 2E-versions (if they already exist)?

I think that Plaguestone is a bit too much for beginners, as they have to do a lot of roleplaying in the beginning of the adventure and they've never played an rpg before.

Or do you guys have a better suggestion as what to play with them?

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?:)
But my shelve space can't cope with another PF edition right now, whereas my HDD can!
Guess I have to buy the pdf's single-wise then...

(...)

Exactly what I meant!

What is said above. Also, a problem I, as a GM had in most APs and Modules (with few exceptions)is: too less opponents. Most of the time PCs have to fight a single opponent and even if that one is 2 or 3 CRs higher than the party average it's normally 4 actions vs 1 action per round. Players
were far more challenged when I added some lackeys or other opponents who happened to enter the fight to make things more complicated.

Damn!
And thx for your answer!

So, I have three subs: APs, Modules and Comics.
Do Comics count, so that I need only one more sub?

Thank you for clarifying this!
I got my copy of the first volume, also the second one.
So I guess, from now on, eversthing will be back to normal.

Thank you!

Hi there.

I realized, that I no longer get the prewarning or shipping eMail for my stuff. I only heard that you had problems with DNS stuff on your website - might this be the reason?
I got my last pre-announcement eMail for Tyrants Grasp 1 and waited weeks for the shipping mail to arrive in my inbox (which never came) but the file was already avavilable for download.
No I got the second part of that AP without any eMail at all.

Next question: You no longer do the "one file per chapter" files?

Would be nice if you could shed some light on this. I am not complaining, just wondering...

Thx!

Yep, same here. Got a second eMail now. But the PDF doesn't show up in my downloads...

Oh my, finally got my shipping email and guess what - for some reason the module didn't ship...
Man, somehow this module will not find it's way to me easily. Never had such a thing before with a shipping notification. The mail just states that the module didn't ship... *sad*

It's almost here - an awful long wait is over!
I really hope, Paizo publishes more modules in 2019...

Well, if Paizo wouldn’t have neglected their module line, things would look different as well...
Thank you all for your answers and insights!

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!
I didn‘t get it why you haven‘t included that as a poster map as well...

So, I love the stories Paizo tells with his APs.
DMing an AP is a huge commitment. It takes a lot of time if you, like me, can play only once every six seeks.
I really would like to see shorter AP, like in Starfinder.
Will/Could this be a thing in the future?
And sorry, if this topic has come up earlier...

Just played the very first session tonight, and it's been great fun! :)

** spoiler omitted **

Oouuch - really? Still no pdf here (waiting for shipment), but this sounds tough. Well, so the PCs learn that running from things sometimes saves the day - hopefully...

Oh my, I so badly want to read this. My order is pending since August 15th...

So, I read through almost the whole rulebook.
There are things I "think" are less good than in PF1, but as I am unable to find a group to playtest the rules, I can only take guesses... My biggest concern is, that it "feels" like we loose, how to say this... character diversity. The rules "look" like it will be hard to make different fighters, alchemist, or whatnot. But it's hard to say, and these rules are far from written in stone and a lot is missing.
There is a difference between using rules in play and just reading them and making your mind up about stuff.

As I am almost only DM Pathfinder, I like most of the stuff I read in the rulebook, but I can understand the fears players might have...
In the end, we just roll some dice to get a little bit of randomness into the game and we like to experience great epic, creepy and heroic stories.

I just found asking myself: Would I use rules with far less options, if the stories Paizo continues to tell are still as cool as they are?! This is a tough question for me and I wonder, who else thinks this way...

I always hate it, when I have to search a specific weapon.
Why can't we also have an alphabetical weapons list (like you did with the class feats), with a column indicating the kind of a given weapon.
That would be a tremendous help during gaming, as the weapon kind normally isn't stated in a module or AP.

Ah, ok. That explains it. A short note about this would‘ve been helpful on that page...

But why? I could avoid being touvhed if I am dextrous. Maybe exclude the armor?

P.16 of the Playtest Rulebook says:

To calculate her AC, add 10 plus her Dexterity modifier (up to her armor’s Dexterity modifier cap), plus her proficiency modifier with her armor, plus her armor’s item bonus to AC and any other bonuses and penalties that always apply.

To calculate her TAC, add 10 plus her Dexterity modifier (up to her armor’s Dexterity modifier cap), plus her proficiency modifier with her armor, plus her armor’s item bonus to TAC and any other bonuses and penalties that always apply.

So, whatˋs the difference?

Page 88 of the Hardcover states, that the Direption was visiting the city several times over the course of the years 4703–4711, but that at some point after that the ship was reported as “lost” by its owner.

On page 37 of ISWG under the year 4708 we can read that an aging King Eodred retreats from rule of Korvosa, leaving his untested young wife, Queen Ileosa, in charge of Varisia’s largest city.

I always thought, according to canon, this AP would play out in 4708. Is this just a minor error, or did I get something wrong?