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The Family (pantheon)

Durridan Vladimir was known to be an adventuring champion of Cayden Cailean. He was not just a champion of Cayden but of a pantheon consisting of three deities: Cayden Cailean, Desna and Kurgess; which Durridan affectionately refers to as 'The Family' based on the fact that Cayden and Desna elevated Kurgess to godhood and some theologists and priests of Kurgess believe that at least one of them is Kurgess' parent.

Durridan Vladimir was the only son of Dmitri Vladimir, one of the six Varisians killed by the attack led by Alamon Scanetti. The other five Varisians killed were Octavian Lixandri, Palin Magravi, Valin Magravi, Casamir Pangrati and Felix Rosetti

Part of the deal peaceful resolution with the Varisians was to grant ancestral rights to large-sized portions of the Hinterlands farmlands to the families of the six Varisians killed by Alamon Scarnetti and his brothers and cousins.

Durridan and his three sisters were granted the lands east of the Lost Coast Road, south of the Soggy River and north of Whisperwood.

Palin Magravi was Risa Magravi's husband. Valin Magravi was Palin's identical twin brother. Valin's family was granted ancestral farmlands in the hinterlands (north of the Soggy River, east of the Lost Coast Road, south of Ashen Rise, and west of Egan's Wood. Risa negotiated to be granted a lot of land south of the Sandpoint Boneyard instead of farmland in the hinterlands.

Durridan was an adventurer throughout Varisia for two decades before his father was killed, and had fathered many daughters (but no sons) over those two decades. He used the majority of the wealth he acquired from adventuring to support his daughters and their mothers. He set down roots after his father was killed to help his mother run the family farm and extended invitations to his daughters and grandchildren to come live on the expanded family lands, which several accepted. Many of his bloodline follow the personal pantheon he reveres. Some of the other farming families and residents of Sandpoint came to revere The Family as their pantheon as well. Word of The Family spread out from Sandpoint since its founding and the worship of the pantheon can be found wherever Cayden, Desna and Kurgess are revered.

Traditionally the first day of a extended-stay (2 month) family reunion of Durridan Vladimir' s descendants, begins on Cayden Cailean's Ascencion Day (11th of Kuthona) and lasts until Merrymead (2nd of Calistril). It is not unusual for at least one local family member to join a Varisian caravan one of their cousins is in at the end of this time or for a visiting cousin to decide to stay around longer. Sometimes this choice is an involuntary one, depending on where and who they were with while celebrating Merrymead - some visiting family decide to catch up to the caravan that already left earlier and some locals who were passed out in one of the caravan carriages decide to make their way back home.

The Family [pantheon]

Deities: Cayden Cailean, Desna, Kurgess

Areas of Concern: bravery, healthy competition, travelers

Edicts: seek glory and adventure, compete to your full potential, explore new places

Anathema: be mean or standoffish when drunk, engage in bigoted behavior, cheat at honorable contests

Divine Attribute: Constitution or Charisma

Devotee Benefits

Cleric Spells: 1st: Fleet Step, 3rd: Haste, 5th: Dreaming Potential

Divine Font: Heal

Divine Sanctification: Can choose holy

Divine Skill: Athletics

Domains: Family, Freedom, Might, Travel

Favored Weapon: Starknife

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Hi, James.

I have a suggestion regarding the tropic of Cancer. With the Magaambya being the one of the oldest repositories of knowledge on planet, would it make sense that the reason Old-Mage Jatembe chose the location for the school was because it was along the Tropic of Cancer (or whatever the name equivalent would be on Golarion)? The same principle might also apply to other notable locations of repositories of knowledge on the planet that have been built (including ones along the Tropic of Capricorn as well).

Has anyone else had a similar thought?

Does anyone know of any existing maps/globes of Golarion have been created that align Nantambu as being along the Tropic of Cancer. The ones I have seen so far have Nantambu/Magaambya slightly above the Tropic of Cancer.

An online calculator I have come across lets you input a latitude with a specific date to figure out the time of sunrise and sunset. The address is below.

https://gml.noaa.gov/grad/solcalc/sunrise.html

James, what do you think would be the best words to substitute Cancer and Capricon with regarding those two latitudes on Golarion?

There are some high-level PFS-mode only sanctioned modules, not just scenarios, for high-level PFS characters.

The Witchwar Legacy (16-18), The Moonscar (15-17), Tomb of the Iron Medusa (13-15), Academy of Secrets (12-14), The Ruby Phoenix Tournament (10-12) and the higher levels of The Emerald Spire Super Dungeon.

As there are several high-level sanctioned AP books as well, you could play your high-level PFS characters (gained via the campaign-mode sanctioned APs/modules) through the specified sanctioned parts of high-level modules/AP books you did not gain PFS credit for yet.

There are 14 campaign-mode sanctioned 1E APs with the standard tiered range for each of the six parts of the AP.

There are also 2 campaign-mode sanctioned APs that have tiers that cover all 20 levels for each of the six books.

Unlike with using just PFS scenarios, with the sanctioned AP books and modules, there are tiers that include up to 19-20.

So, there are plenty of things you could run those campaign-mode earned high-level PFS characters through.

Some players might just enjoy having high-level PFS characters, even if they never use them.

Ask yourself this question. Why do some toy/comic book collectors enjoy owning but never opening/reading toys/comics in their collections?

Why bother having them if they are not going to enjoy them (in the traditional sense of playing with/reading them). Not all such collectors have them for the purpose of reselling at some point in the future. Yet, they still provide those owners joy for having them as part of their collection.

Thank you. :)

You can apply the first chronicle sheet to a new 1st level PFS character. For example the chronicle sheet for Skulls & Shackles Part 1 can be used to create a level 1 character OR holding it in place at 2nd level.

You can also choose slow advancement or normal advancement for each AP book you run/play.

I have already come up with an AP book/sanctioned module order that would work so all the chronicle sheets would cover all levels starting from level 1 up to book 6 of the APs I run.

The chronicles sheets held at higher-level are placed in the earliest unfilled eligible level in the level range for each chronicle sheet.

I am also using campaign mode-sanctioned adventure modules that fit in nicely with the themes of the APs I am running, that fill in the empty level gaps, so by the time I am finished running the APs, there are no empty levels below the Book 6 chronicle sheets for their PFS characters.

Thank you.

The Choose Your Own Adventure version sounds good.

For the bedtime version style, I think using the iconic characters that appear on the covers and throughout the APs as the heroes of the story would be cool, as you would also have added visuals of the heroes of the story to show your little ones as you read them the story.

I was referring to what is stated in the current 1E PFS Guild Guide, not the 2E one.

"They are not even required to use the Pathfinder RPG rules, but they must
run the adventure using a tabletop roleplaying game and use the Adventure Path or Pathfinder Module as the primary source for adventure content."

That is why I asked my question if earlier versions of the (1E) guide did not include that stipulation, and my question regarding reading them as bedtime stories using dice (and a tabletop rules set) to determine things as we read them as bedtime stories is.

With the exception of Return of the Runelords, Wrath of the Righteous (which both have chronicle sheets for each two level ranges from 1-2 to 19-20) and the first AP Books for Mummy's Mask, Reign of Winter and Strange Aeons (which have 1-2 reportable tiers) the remaining AP books all have have three level reportable ranges (2-4, 5-7, etc.)

Did all the AP books only have 2 level range reportable tiers at one time?

Thanks for taking the time to clarify things for me.

Thank you to both of you.

That is one of my goals for alternating between adventure paths. It will take a few years, but that will be a nice perk after we complete the adventure paths.

Reading posts earlier in the thread, regarding reading adventure paths as a bedtime story. It looks like in the current PFS guide that is not possible (as it states you have to run the APs using a tabletop RPG). Was that stipulation not in earlier versions of the PFS guide? Or could we read them as bedtime stories while rolling dice (using a tabletop RPG rules set) to determine things as we read the 'bedtime story'?

My players have 2 sets of PCs. I am running a different AP for each set of PCs (alternating back and forth after completing each AP book).

Can they each apply the credit from each AP book for both APs to the same PFS character, or do they need 2 PFS characters each (one for the 1st AP books, and another for the 2nd AP books)?

Thank you.

Hi.

When you are running sanctioned campaign mode APs and adventure modules, can you only apply the credit only to PFS characters of the same edition of the AP/module, or can you apply it to either edition of PFS characters?

For example, if I run 1E Skulls & Shackles (in campaign mode), can my players and I apply the credit to 2E PFS characters?