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Yes, how do you read them?
Do you spend a single afternoon reading your new book in the course of several consecutive hours? Or do you divide your readings in several days?
Do you flip through your book, reading here and there where your interest is grasped, or do you read from cover to cover?
Do you actually read all the books you own?
I personally vary my approach based on the type of book. I usually flip through rulebooks, focusing on the options potentially interesting to the characters I play and on the rules that may be useful in my GMed campaigns. I think I have never read the Core Rulebook cover to cover, but there are some sections I have read several times. Then I check it frequently when any doubt arises after our game session.
As for lorebooks, including Adventure Paths, I like to read them cover to cover in the course of a single day, when I can, or in a few days when I am busier, since I have found that to me, personally, extending the reading time too much undermines my immersion. I love to read those books in their physical version, sitting on my couch while petting my animal companion. That has become kind of a monthly ritual with time.
And no, I never actually managed to read all the Pathfinder books I own, not in their entirety at least.
Claxon wrote: Because a +2 is likely at most what you would have. And in the case of most rolls, it probably wont make a difference. If it would make a difference, then maybe review you character more carefully for bonuses you might have forgotten. This is very good advice Claxon, thank you!
thewastedwalrus wrote: The Foundry VTT Pathfinder 2e game system already has this functionality, and for much more than just climbing with Athletics. I didn't know about this. Thank you for bringing it up. I will look into it!
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Thank you everyone for your support. Thanks to your suggestions and tips, I think I may finally have an arsenal of solutions to my problem. I will test them! Thanks again.
I get what those traits aim to do (add characterization), but in my opinion they don't do it efficiently, since it is hard to keep track of them and are frequently forgotten.
Anyway, I think you're right. Magic items especially have a lot of circumstantial (not circumstance) bonuses.
I would argue, however, that skill feats also apply, because not always the players develop their characters from level 1. Sometimes they use higher level pregens, or create a character at a higher level. And that's when circumstantial bonuses from magic items, ancestry feats, skill feats, and so on, tend to overwhelm the players.
A Humble Calf wrote: Curious,is there a way to add conditional bonus to the results?
You roll Athletic with a +1 to climb and the macro gives something like:
"roll 25 Athletics, 26 to climb"
As far as I know, there is no such a thing yet. But it might be something that the community could work toward implementing. I was thinking about some sort of message that pops-out everytime you roll a skill check or saving throw for which you have selected the "conditional bonus query" option.
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Totally Not Gorbacz wrote: In PF2, you have only three categories of bonuses: status, circumstance and item. Bonuses of the same type don't stack, so I'd start with making sure that you know which of these three types each bonus is.
This is very unlike PF1, which had 435 types of bonuses, and several of them (esp the "untyped") stacked with each other, so you had to track far more stuff to make sure what's your actual bonus.
Yes, most of them are circumstance bonuses, but usually they do not apply to the same check. I.e., you have a +2 circumstance bonus to Athletics checks made to climb and a +1 circumstance bonus to Deceit checks made to Lie.
@Superbidi: I wish we too had so few of them. Usually skill feats are the main source of them, and you get a lot of skills feats as you progress through the levels. We use Foundry, and to be honest, one of the worst things is that they cannot be (currently) automated, so you need to remember them.
But this conversation sparked an idea. I think that a specific script might help: for example, when you roll Athletics and you have a +1 bonus made to Climb, the macro asks you if you are using Athletics to climb everytime you make an Athletic check, and if yes, it automatically adds the bonus. I should bring this discussion over to the Foundry community, they might be able to help!
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Hi!
So, lately I have been thinking a lot about all those small, circumstantial bonus characters get (mainly from feats). You know, bonuses such as +1 to Athletics checks made to climb, +2 to resist the negative effects of cold weather, +1 when using Perception to discern when someone is lying to you, and so on.
These bonuses have been bugging me since Pathfinder 1E, for the following reasons:
- Players tend do forget about them, and so do I. Even when the circumstance to use them arises, they are so rarely used that no one remembers.
- Players feel overwhelmed by having to remember them, especially when using higher level characters. As an example, I have been playing Sundered Waves recently, and although we had a really huge blast, my players (who have previous experience with Pathfinder 1 and 5E) felt a bit discouraged by the sheer number of small things they had to take in and keep in mind while we played.
- They can be easily given at GM's discretion. When I know a character is grown in Irrisen, I will give him a +2 bonus to saving throws against the effects of cold weather anyway.
This post is not aimed at criticizing those bonuses, however. Since they are in the system, I would like to know why do you think they are useful, what do they add to the game experience in your view, and, most importantly, if you can share any tips on how to manage them, helping the players to remember them without feeling overwhelmed.
Thank you in advance!
Seems like I missed out on that one. I need to catch up! Thank you!
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Michael Sayre wrote:
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That's interesting! Thank you for your help Michael!
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So, while reading PF2E world guide, I noticed that a number of changes happened in the current state of the Lands of the Linnorm Kings, such as:
Now, my question is whether these changes happened in the course of any Adventure Path, and/or if there is some source where I can learn more on how these changes came to be.
Thank you!
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As a follow up to my previous post on dynamic dungeons, I appreciated a lot the table on page 38 of Eyes of Empty Death, which describes how foes move through the dungeon when they are not in their areas of encounter.
I also liked the box at page 40 where you make a certain NPC retribution proactive. I like to see enemies moving around the dungeon, and sometimes even setting out to look for the heroes!
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I may have chosen my words poorly. By "heavy" I didn't mean "morally heavy", but "serious" in tone. I feel like you have mixed point 1 and 4. Agents of Edgewatch was great but it was... colorful, for lack of a better word. Even the most disturbing NPCs (like a certain prince...) still have a cartoonish feel to them, although they do terrible things. It was empathically taxing to play those scenes, but they still had a tragicomic feeling to them. A certain poisoner was not funny at all, but the whole event in which you have the chance to "meet" him was kind of light in tone. This is all personal feeling, just like my original post.
If I meant "morally heavy" I would have mentioned a certain bargain you can make in Abomination Vaults. That was really interesting and I loved it, but that was not what I meant by heavy. I mainly meant serious in tone, with few funny NPCs and scenes, and a general aura of heroic seriousness.
Might it be that me not finding Agents of Edgewatch heavy was due to the fact that I live in a country where the whole unfortunate events leading to the campaign being dubbed as badly timed had much less resonance? I don't know. Perhaps Agents of Edgewatch was "edgy", but I wouldn't define it heavy in tone (in my sense).
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Tristan d'Ambrosius wrote:
So how'd you play them all in the time since they started being released?
The larger ones (such as Age of Ashes and Agents of Edgewatch), we didn't finish because our group went different ways before the end. We arrived at a reasonable point though (4 of 6, and 5 of 6 respectively) and then narrated the ending.
We didn't play Extinction Curse, since the theme was not appealing to us, but we finished both Abomination Vaults and Fists of the Ruby Phoenix. We are gearing up towards Strenghts of Thousands now, but we are a little scared because of the time requirements. We are trying a smaller group, hoping to play more frequently. Wish us luck!
Sometimes we had to cut here and there to make the game go quicker. We are also a tight-knight group, we have been playing together since Rise of the Runelords. Our turns in combat can be very fast.
But not being able to finish all the APs we played is exactly the reason why I think shorter APs are better suited for my group.
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Having translated and played almost all of 2nd edition APs, this is my (and my group's) wishlist going forward.
1. An AP which is a little heavier in tone. By "heavy" I mean serious, both in theme and NPCs. Something more along the lines of Hell's Rebels, Reign of Winter, and so on. I would not rather *every* AP to be this heavy though, just one.
2. A mix of old-school and new entry writers for APs. I appreciate the work all the new writers put into recent APs, but I also have a deep appreciation for Logue, Pett, Hitchcock, and so on. I would like to see more diversity in the writers' roster for the APs.
3. A viking-themed AP. We had Jade Regent passing through the Lands of the Linnorm Kings once, and Reign of Winter set in Irrisen, with several ties to the Lands of the Linnorm Kings. But I (we) would love to see an entire AP devoted to Paizo's takes on vikings.
4. Some scenes with a bit more edge. I know that having a Shayliss Vinder kind of scene might be too much nowadays, and that even a Foxglove-like obsession could prove a little too disturbing today, but I believe that it is possible to evoke similarly involving scenes while being politically correct.
5. A more dynamic approach to dungeons. I would like the enemies in dungeons to interact a bit more than just "if the PCs make too much noise here, the urdefhans in area A12 come investigating in 1d4 rounds." I know this is a complex one, but it is on my wishlist nonetheless.
6. Keep experimenting with the shorter APs. The way we all play RPGs is changing, and we find the new format much more suited to our needs. We cannot afford to play 5+ hours/week anymore, and longer APs, although immensely enticing, just stay that, because it would take us two to three years to just complete one.
7. Keep exploring new ways of implementing APs with virtual tabletops and shorter game sessions.
8. And more importantly, keep up the good work and thank you for allowing us to tell such wonderful tales through the years!
Wow, I would have loved to be part of this, but I am in GMT+2 time zone :(
Franz Lunzer wrote: Am I the only one having a problem with the sound? Sometimes it's quite quiet, other times it's so loud. The (occasional) music sometimes makes it hard to hear what people are saying.
Add to that, that english is not my native tongue and the accents of some of the players...
You should definitely turn on the subtitles. Of course they are automatic, and sometimes they miss the mark, but they are quite enough to get a general idea of what is being said.
Excellent blog post. Very excited to see how this will play out. A little concerned about the increased versatility to casters, which could widen the gap between them and martial classes, but we'll see!
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Very nice preview. I love the possibility to choose a tertiary stat to boost, so as to allow more freedom in combining the different heritages with the classes. And I also like the separation between innate heritage feat and "acquired" feats: the latter seems basically like alternate racial traits you can select as you character progresses, suggesting that he or she does not only develop his class-related abilites, but also somehow make his heritage and natural gifts stronger. I like the roleplaying potential of it.
And I don't know if I am wrong, but it seems to me like we have a picture for each ancestry as fighters (the goblin was a fighter, judging from his equipment, and both the dwarf and the elf here seem fighters as well to me, their gear is very Valeros-y). Does that mean that we will get a picture of each core class-race combination? That would be incredibly awesome, let me say it...
Wow, great blog post! I hope the next class preview will be something along this line.
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I'm kinda disappointed by this preview. I expected a few more innovations and changes, but the class feels much the same to me instead.
I could do without prestige classes, although I think that with enough improvement and modernisation, they could still be very interesting.
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Nearly endless customization options, Adventure Paths and the best layout on RPG books I've ever seen.
I'm not sure whether someone already suggested this, but I think I would prefer a normal-sized Bestiary, followed by more normal-sized bestiaries. And then, perhaps a single, huge Bestiary with all the monsters from Bestiaries 1-3 in the same book, possibly containing new setting-specific information about each monster. This would make it optional, but would cut the printing costs, since arts can be used again. Also, it would cut down development costs and time, because of its nature of partial reprint. I would definitely buy both the single normal-sized bestiaries and the bigger one, but others may decide to buy only the formers or just wait for the latter.
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WAR FOR THE CROWN PLAYER'S GUIDE
An excellent guide. If I may point out one thing that I really miss, though, it is the class-by-class breakdown. I know we have a huge number of classes now, so what I ask for becomes more and more difficult to achieve as new classes are introduced, but on the basis that Player's Guides do not come in a print edition I think that adding a few pages to the total would not be such a big deal.
I always considered the entry devoted to each class, detailing how its members relate to the adventure's setting, hands down the best part of Player's Guides and I would really love to see them coming back, if not now, at least in Pathfinder 2nd edition, where - at the beginning, at least - available classes will be limited to 12.
Apart from that, though, I consider this guide as one of the best I've ever read.
Ideally, I would like to see how the different classes and heritages work through all (or most) of the levels. That's not something I can accomplish on my own of course, especially as a player. So I am planning to GM a few games and join others as a player: what I want to test is the whole new edition, actually, there is not something in particular I want to test more than other things. OK, perhaps I am a bit more curious about the new three-actions system for combat, the active use of shields, and the transition betweeen "exploration" mode and "encounter" mode.
ryric wrote: The fact that someone can fumble a DC10 check implies that Nat 1s are fumbles even if the DC isn't failed by 10 - I'm not sure I like that. I'd rather the +-10 rule replace nat 1/nat 20 for fumbles and crits and not be in addition to it - especially with skills. I really don't want Olympic class swimmers failing to stay afloat in calm water 5% of the time or people jumping to the moon 5% of the time. If it's just +-10 for crit you avoid that by setting the DC appropriately. Well, in that case just don't ask for a skill check and assume the character is taking 10 on his check, if you are the GM. If you are the player, just take 10.
And if you are in combat, you can just assume that the character failed the check because he was distracted, not because he cannot swim.
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John Lynch, thank you for your comment. Don't worry, I didn't take it as an offense. In fact, I think perhaps I explained myself not that good. I make a point of *NOT* introducing to many sourcebooks at once for new players. I have my own format to limit available sources even for experienced players, which I call Pathfinder Vintage. Although the main aim of that format is coherence, especially when running Adventure Paths (treasure, player's guide, etc.), when I apply its rules to the adventures I usually get the new players to play (Crypt of the Everflame, Rise of the Runelords), it effectively coincides with a reduction of the sources available (for both me and the players) to the Core Rulebook.
So *THAT* is not the problem. Yeah, I feel the game is a little bit bloated, but at the same time that is the strenght of Pathfinder, offering so many options to the players. My point was another: the problem is that when starting to play, new players sometimes know beforehand the differences betweeen the various systems, and in our case we can limit the alternative to Pathfinder and D&D. Usually this a priori knowledge is based on hearsay, and it is quite reductive and incomplete. The result is that, in my experience, new players tend to think about Pathfinder as a game that will become increasingly difficult for them. They know I may limit the sourcebooks at the beginning, but they know that sooner or later they will need to expand their horizons, because to them Pathfinder is "the game that offers a lot of customization and character's options," while D&D is "the game that takes it simple." This is clearly wrong, but that's what they think, at least the prospective players I've met in the last few years.
Now, take this knowledge and apply it not to new players in general, but to the *new* audience RPG have now: many of the people who love customization, depth of options, roleplaying games in themselves, game mechanics and so on, they probably already play the game. My OP focuses on the new players who fall out of those categories: people who want to try the game out, that have no previous disposition to RPGs. Now, what I argue is that D&D is currently more attractive for this kind of players, which I argue, are the majority as of now in Europe, for the following reasons.
1. It is thought to be simpler.
2. It is thought to be newer, and hence more modern.
3. It is thought to be the RPG per antonomasiam.
Now, there's nothing we can do about point 3, and as for point 1, it is more a matter of marketing than game system in my opinion. But for point 2, well, a new edition is needed. That's the only way to make Pathfinder look like a fresh game, and not a game clinging to 20 years old rules, although revised 9 years ago. New players know that. They usually know that Pathfinder is based on 3.5, and they think about that system as unnecessarily complex. They want something new, something fresh, something modern.
Of course, it is important to stress that I don't think that new players are right. I think that Pathfinder 1st edition is not so hard, and its learning curve is not impossible, if a good GM aids the players. I'm just arguing that, according to my experience, it seems so for new players nowadays. And since new players today are a bit different from new players 9 years ago, I argue that new players today not that interested, at the start at least, in countless options but rather interested in simplicity, they usually tend to look at Pathfinder as a worse alternative to D&D for them.
In my opinion Pathfinder 1st ed is not hard. It is sometimes unnecessarily complex on certain things, as Erik Mona himself said in the KnowDirection podcast, but complexity does not equate with difficulty.
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Elegos wrote: Im putting this out there: if Paizo want this game to work out, they need to break into twitch in a big way. Maybe reach out to Geek and Sundry, get some of theor cast playing the playtest with a couple of big name voice actors. Make Pathfinder 2 into an entertainment to watch as much as it is to play cause that is a major driver on 5e sales. Stuff like critical role and the adventure zone have brought a lot of people to the table who would never touch rpg's if they hadnt seen celebrities they like playing the game I agree with you. This kind of partnership draw a lot of new players to the game, in my experience. Although they usually draw people to RPGs in general, so they are quite beneficial already.
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“A wider public” – A reflection on Pathfinder 2nd edition
A premise: I love Pathfinder 1st edition, and what I am going to say is driven by that love, the same love that brought me to become a Pathfinder translator for my country (Italy).
I think that a second edition of Pathfinder was unavoidable if we wanted to avoid the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game as a whole to slowly collapse and fade away. Why should you listen to me, now? Because I am going to give you a new perspective, perhaps one you are not very familiar with. I will tell you about Pathfinder in Europe.
RPG games are far less popular in Europe than in the United States. When you like a system, you usually have to endure some pain in order to find a party to play with, even as a GM, unless you are not playing the most popular system around. It used to Pathfinders a few years ago, now it is D&D 5th edition.
I recently moved to Paris for work. I moved from a relatively small city in Italy where I had slowly built my party of friend with whom I have completed several Adventure Paths using Pathfinder Rules. When I left, I said myself. “Do not have fear, Giuseppe, you’re not going to give up your favored hobby! Just imagine how many people you will meet in Paris who will be ready to embark on a campaign with you! Paris is a huge city after all!”
Wanna know the results? After 4 months spent searching, posting in Meetup groups, Facebook groups, sending mail after mail to the local PFS coordinator, I gave up. And listen: I was offering to GM, not trying to get in a group as a player. Only a few people wanted to play Pathfinder, and most of them were newbies: and they all would have preferred D&D. You know what? I tried to post on a group offering myself as a D&D GM and you know how many candidates I got? More than you can imagine, my friends, and more than I am willing to admit.
But I endured. I painstakingly put together a group of 5 players: none of them had played Pathfinder before. We met on a Sunday afternoon to create our characters and…that was the moment I realized Pathfinder was going to slowly die, unless an undreamt of new edition came out. The players were confused. Too many options, too many sourcebooks (I even projected the Strategy Guide for them), too many rules. I tried to help them, to guide them, and eventually we did it, but I was left with the unpleasing sensation of having made their characters myself. Before I left, one player asked me: “Why don’t we just play D&D instead?”
This happened on Sunday, the 4th of March. You know the rest of the story.
I was excited, as though one of the Gods of the Inner Sea region had heard my unspoken prayers. Pathfinder 2nd edition was a thing!
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Now, I want to speak a bit more in general. In the last few years, many friends asked me to GM a game for them. 5 years ago, when I started to play, they were all people in the category that some would define as “nerds” or “geeks”. They were driven by a sincere love of fantasy or RPG, and were willing to try out this new (to them) game named Pathfinder, which promised depth and endless possibilities of customization. They loved it, and they became my party. We achieved many RPG goals together.
It has been 2 years since the last “nerd” person asked me to run a game for him: someone with an interest in videogames, fantasy books, or other similar things. I got a lot of requests, but not from them. "RPGs? Too mainstream!," told me someone. How ironic!, I thought.
Most of the prospective players were girls who had seen Stranger Things and were interested in finding out what a RPG was. Others were people in search for a new pastime. No previous interest in fantasy, no love for RPG, and unsurprisingly…no love for math and complex character building processes. I made Pathfinder players out of them of course, but that was not easy. I had to work hard and many of them asked me to simplify the game, because they didn’t have the time read all the published books.
And now I am left with this feeling that Paizo is doing the right thing at the right moment. Carpe diem. I am not a veteran player by any means, I have not seen previous edition wars in the past, and I was not there when Pathfinder first came into light. But this time I will be. And I will work hard as I ever did in order to promote it. I hope it will be a bit less complex, with a slightly more comfortable learning curve for new players. Because we have to deal with it: RPG games’ public has widened significantly over the last few years, and Pathfinder 1st edition was not in line anymore with the new players. And although we could continue to ignore those “newbies”, I have realized how crucial they are not only for Paizo’s sales and consequently for the quality of its products, but for the diffusion of our game in itself. Annoying as it may seems, we must take them into account, and give them a reason to prefer OUR game to the others on the market. Their exigencies changed, and the game needs to change as well, because as Cicero said “the shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.”
Just my two cents. I may be wrong on several, or all points of my post. After all, I've never been to the U.S, and I'm sure it is a completely different world over there. But that is what I am feeling, and I needed to share with you guys.
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Jojiro wrote: I also think that Pathfinder has become the legacy of the old guard, and is no longer at all an attractive game for a new audience, unless they are inducted by a Pathfinder-player. Making a game that's exciting for both new and old players is a pretty important evolution, even if it's painful to transition. I second this.
Besides, as far as I am concerned more personally, I only started playing Pathfinder in 2013, and I always felt like I had arrived later to the show, such as when you start watching a movie from minute 45 or so. I love Pathfinder, but I didn't feel completely at home while playing it. There were a lot of old good stuff that I never got to play, because they became too old in the meantime. Now, I can finally see the story begin, and that will probably push me to buy more products than in the past :)
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Believe me or not, inside of me I had the feeling that the time was come...I tried to push it back, but in the last few months it had become more like an awareness than a sensation. And now, it's here! Well, let's hope for the best!
We will be playtesting hard in Italy!
BOOM!
Wow, super excited and looking forward to it!
Hi,
is there any news? I'm going to run my game on Wednesday, and I would like to get what I paid for in time!
Hi all,
I've just purchased the Syrinscape sound pack for The Dragon's Demand. In my download page, however, I'm not able to download the product. It makes me click on a link reading "Click here to fetch serial number". When I click, however, it just brings me to the top of the page.
What should I do?
It is quite urgent, so please help me solve this problem as soon as possible.
Thanks!
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Oh, that's quite sad. I thought everyone could see that...And instead, it was just my plugin -_-'
So let me change my mind: this was a huge opportunity to add some interesting feature to PbP, sadly wasted. Unless there is something coming our way but I cannot see it, which is entirely possible...
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I find it nice. A bit minimal, but nice.
[u]Underline[/u] definitely works now. And oh my god, also [color=red]colors[/color] do!
And also, it is possible to use a second font to separate things:
[code]this may be used to write descriptions, such as the descriptive text of modules and Adventure Paths[/code], and this for the body of the post.
This is going to have a huge impact on the way I format my posts in PbP!
Wonderful stuff there GM Ladile, thanks!
Guisseppe, your name sounds like my real name...or the way english-speaking people usually write it! :D
Anyway, I'm going with a Str magus. I don't know how I'm going to bring him up to a decent level though: I'm not so experienced with PFS neither, so I would like to ask you if you have any advice on this. Would that be a problem if I bring a level 1? I have some GM credit to apply, but I have only GMed Core games.
Hey all, checking in! And thanks to the GM for the invitation.
I'm going to play a magus, still quite undecided whether based on Str or Dex, but slightly tending toward the former for a bit of change.
Hey everyone! Glad to have the chance to play with some of my experienced players on the other side of the screen. My character for this exciting scenario is going to be ... *drum roll* ... him! A human, Taldan swashbuckler. A young lordling trying to put his skills to test within the PFS. He's also a confirmed agent, so you'd better watch out! :D
I still need to make some purchases before we start, but I will do as soon as possible.
Same as Euan here. Between current and planned campaigns, I'm full at the moment. But I thank you for the opportunity!
I'm going to work on my character during the weekend. Do we have something common that I should adhere to?
I'm interested. Although I live in a different time zone, it will be the afternoon for my, so that's going to be fine for me. If PFS, there are a few characters that I can bring, but perhaps I'll end up using a new level 1 character.
Removed money for Lucien's purchases from his character's sheet.
Great! I'll start working on my character today ;)
I would love to be in for a second table, should it pop up!
There's a mistake in the recruitment applicants sheet. Giuseppe Capriati is my username (and real life name XD), not my character's name. My character is Vasilyan Medvyed. I would define him as something between a ranged tank and a ranged striker, with the ability to act as the secondary healer.
Still here! I'm enjoying my character's creation so much that I'm working to make the best out of it. Probably going to submit my application tomorrow.
Wouldn't mind at all to try your format, since I think it could improve me both as a player and as a GM. Currently I'm a little bit overwhelmed with recruitments though, if I'll have enough time, I'm surely going to submit a character for consideration!
DM Jesse Heinig wrote:
Totally a fine idea, though of course it limits the combinations that I could choose for the ultimate party make-up (I would not stick you with an evil character in the group).
Kingmaker has a fairly heavy focus on Erastil, as that god's portfolio oversees rural areas and the borders of civilization. Eventually that gets eclipsed a bit as the game shifts into settled kingdoms and large towns and cities but there is no reason not to use that as a starting hook; the AP features several pieces designed to include Erastil's faith in the story.
Note that Erastil is not what I'd call a "progressive" deity and a strict interpretation of his teachings as published could cause some friction with, say, female party members.
In general I have no problem with paladins. Kingmaker does ask if players are going to make certain choices, but unlike Skull & Shackles it doesn't assume that there are places where you will fail if you are not ruthless enough. Instead, your moral choices are more a barometer of how you will shape the society that you help to build as a culture hero. For a paladin, this could cause interesting developments because Brevoy is a very loosely structured society that doesn't have a strong set of moral values, and forging a new kingdom around the principles of order and moral certitude would challenge many Brevic notions of politics.
Wow, thank you for that answer. I'll try to build the best character possible for this campaign!
DM, what are your thoughts on a divine hunter paladin of Erastil? And, in a more general sense, what do you think about paladins in this campaign? I had the chance to play KM in person last year (we only went through the first book, though), and I was playing a paladin. There were no problem at all with party members, since we felt like Erastil tenets were very easy to share in the Stolen Lands, but I'm asking your opinion nonetheless. I've got other ideas in case this wouldn't work or isn't reccomended.
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