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I am surprised there is not already a thread for this convention. I am mainly posting this to make anyone aware who plans on going, but who has not purchased their weekend memberships/badges yet, that the convention has announced they are down to less than 200 left. The convention sold out each of the past two years and expects to do it again this year, so if you want to go, you need to buy now and not wait to buy on-site the weekend of the convention.

Since the previous thread that had some comments on this (Pathfinder vs. 5th Edition) got locked for other issues, I thought I would start a fresh thread for this topic. I will start by copy/pasting the replies I got to my question from that thread:

Enevhar Aldarion wrote:

Steve Geddes wrote:

I must confess to having my confidence shaken somewhat based on the announcing/cancelling/amending nature of the release schedule near the end of 4E, plus the (imo) tentative approach regarding sourcebooks for 5E. To me, it gives the impression of not having confidence in their way forward. I get not announcing things too far in advance and also the deliberate slowing of releases, but I feel they've become just a tad too conservative in this respect.

Yeah, I wish there were at least one or two officially announced future supplement releases besides just the DM Screen coming out in a few weeks. They have not even announced yet the next module in the Tyranny of Dragons series.

Hoard of the Dragon Queen and Rise of Tiamat are the only modules. WotC is apparently only releasing 2 modules per "adventure path". And I think they are releasing only one story per year (2 modules = 1 story), though I hope I am wrong about that. Next adventure story will be Elemental Evil.

Honestly, I would like if they did similar to Paizo, 1 module per month, 6 modules per adventure path, 2 paths per year. I don't know how well Paizo's publishing strategy would work for WotC, but it seems to work for Paizo. 1-2 large hardcovers per year, 12 adventure path modules per year, a player companion every 1-2 months (not sure exactly if they are monthly or not), and 1 large stand-alone module every 3 months.

I would love to see something like that for 5th edition, though maybe cut down on the number of "player companions" for every year. Though WotC's aversion to non-hardcover books isn't exactly the best. I liked their softcover books from early 3rd edition (masters of the wild, sword and fist, etc) and wish they would go back to softcovers again. I liked it better than nonstop hardcover books.

Hey guys!

Part of Mark's post from today in the Additional Resources thread:

We have updated the Additional Resources list for Pathfinder Society Organized Play. Changes include the following:

Added Pathfinder Module: Tomb of the Iron Medusa... to the Additional Chronicles section.

Tomb of the Iron Medusa is for 14th level characters!

And from the PFS rules download for Tomb of the Iron Medusa:

Players have two legal options when playing Tomb of the
Iron Medusa for Pathfinder Society credit:

• A player may use an existing Pathfinder Society
character of 12th level who has completed a full, four-part
Tier 12 retirement arc.

• A player may also create a new 14th-level Pathfinder
Society character for use in the module. A PC created in
this manner has wealth equivalent to 185,000 gp but no
single item may cost more than 92,500 gp. Newly created
14th-level characters have no Prestige.

So have fun all you folks wanting more high level adventuring! :)

I know this should probably be in the Lodge forum rather than General Discussion, but I wanted a higher initial chance of Steve and the participants at MystiCon seeing this.

I just wanted to say thank you to Steve for getting a couple of GMs to come to MystiCon in Roanoke, VA at literally the last minute for the convention this past weekend. They were able to run all five sessions they scheduled and I believe the numbers were five players for one scenario and three players with GM-run pre-gen for the other four scenarios. I would have loved to play, but as I was helping to run the convention, I do not think I got to spend more than an hour at a time in any one area over the entire three days. Of course, now that we have a year to plan for next year's MystiCon, I hope that Steve, myself, and the gaming coordinator for the convention can work together to greatly increase those beginning numbers.

I am not really sure if this is the right place for this, even though it relates to the Pathfinder 3PPs. Anyway, I am trying to find 3PPs who are based in the Mid-Atlantic region of the US so that I can send invitations to them to be Gaming Guests at a sci-fi convention I am helping to organize in Virginia for Feb, 2011.

If anyone knows a source for this online and can post it or if the individual publishers who are close enough to be interested in this could post here, I would appreciate it.

This came up in a thread in the Pathfinder Society forums but really needed to be addressed in general.

Pharasma has Death as one of her domains and several of the domain spells deal with creating undead, but Pharasma is completely opposed to that and despises undead. I understand that she is the goddess of death and not having that domain would be wrong, but the Campaign Setting entry for her really needs to have alternate domain spells for her in place of the create undead spells.

This was just announced earlier yesterday, but Snowblind Studios, makers of the Champions of Norrath and Baldur's Gate console games, is making this one and it will hopefully be awesome!

Here is the link.

I do not see a sticky anywhere with the general rules regarding this. I do not understand what causes a thread to get moved to the archives. I can understand a thread not being posted in for several days or a few weeks getting moved, but I posted in an active thread last night and when I went to look for the thread to see any new posts, I had to go through my message history just to find it is now in the archives for the forum it is in. Why does this happen?