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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).
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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?! :)
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).
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?
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?
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!
So, I love the stories Paizo tells with his APs.
So, I read through almost the whole rulebook.
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...
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.
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?
Hi there! Do you guys think, that giving a Howler (from Bestiary 2) Spring Attack would make it too good?
I think it’s fitting though. Any thoughts on this in general?
I hope, this is the correct forum for this question. Is there any way to purchase the Bonekeep scenarios?
Can anyone help me or explain how they can be purchased?
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!
So, I dm the CotCT AP.
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.
I don't like the History of Ashes part of this AP.
Thx guys!
Hello, fellow GMs.
Spoiler:
So, one plays a sorcerer with the dragon bloodline. He plans do take the Dragondisciple PrC later on. He wanted to take the brass dragon. Now I thought, what about telling him blue would be better?! Having his familiy worshipping a cult of Kazavon for years, the pc might alteady know parts of Kazavons story, maybe also about Scarwall. Maybe, Kazavon (or Ileosa) could later on somehow influence him in a kind of way - nothing too harsh here. Could this work, or do you think this would be too much? Another playes a Magus, and told me he is working to get a certain sword for his built. I told him, he might find this weapon during the campaign. As he fled the ongoing conflict between Belkzen and Lastwall and the cruelties of war to find some peace in his hometown of Korvosa, I thought he could've heard about tha Serithial while fighting in Belkzen. He might only know the poem and now wants to find it, searching old books for clues.
Do you think I could do this and just wait and see how things develop? Or do you think this is too much info ahead of the time...
I need some help. I am about to start the CotCT AP.
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.
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
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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 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...
The incorporeal entry says:"It can be harmed only by other incorporeal creatures, magic weapons or creatures that strike as magic weapons, and spells, spell-like abilities, or supernatural abilities. It is immune to all nonmagical attack forms. Even when hit by spells or magic weapons, it takes only half damage from a corporeal source (except for channel energy)." So, can a dragon, who has DR damage an incorporeal creature with its natural weapons?
But, for example, a shadow doesn't have DR... And how about the Dragon's Breath Weapon?
So, one of my players wants to play a paladin of Iori, not exactly the perfect choice of a god for a paladin, but here we go.
If not, I thought of making my own, according to the work of the Sacred Order of the Archivists. Parts of the code than could be...
etc., etc. ... Any ideas, what else (or maybe totally different things) could be included?!
Well, I am searching something like this for years now.
This would be awesome to have.
Any experiences?!
While preparing the AP, I thought that the history of Rexus could also fit for a pc. This way, a pc would have a real reason to oppose Barzillai Thrune.
Spoiler:
key the decoding of the documents must be taken care of. What do,you guys think - is this a good idea or not?! I think, it would invest the pcs far more into the AP...
I think of implementing the module "No response from Deepmar"!
From B3: "GRAVEKNIGHT ARMOR In death, the graveknight’s life force lingers on in its armor, not its corpse, in much the same way that a lich’s essence is bound within a phylactery. Unless every part of a graveknight’s armor is ruined along with its body, a graveknight can rejuvenate after it is destroyed. A typical suit of full plate graveknight armor has hardness 10 and 45 hit points, though armor with enhancements or made of special materials proves more difficult to destroy. Merely breaking a graveknight’s armor does not destroy it; it must be ruined, such as by being disintegrated, taken to the Positive Energy Plane, or thrown into the heart of a volcano." So, what does happen, if a pc takes/wears the armor, after fighting and killing the graveknight?
I wonder, because it could easily be, that our fighter will use the armor after the fight, and as nobody knows anything about grave knights this could spell trouble... Any hint, idea and help is appreciated, as I presently don't exactly know how to GM this...
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