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That's fantastic! Thanks.

So, I launched our RotRL game last night, and it went smashingly well.
My three players all seemed to enjoy it, and we gamed for roughly 3 hours (minus some toddler interruptions) and they made it through all of Burnt Offerings part 1 and some of part 2 (misc bits of the Local Heroes stuff.)

Funny thing is, my wife is playing her rogue as a very Robin Hood-esque character. When she first saw Aldern Foxglove, hiding behind barrels while his hunting hound died, she figured he was a rotten egg, so she robbed him when he schmoozed on the party after his rescue.

Awesome, right? She ended up anonymously leaving some of the gold she robbed with a needy family (the family that will, soon, have a goblin in the closet ;D ).

So, I haven't read Skinsaw Murders, but I'm vaguely familiar with the plot. Any tips or advice on how to play this into Aldern's character and the next time they run into him, even in Burnt Offerings?
Or should I just play it off as "Oh, I was robbed, so I can't reward you as richly as hoped."

Looking for some cool ways to hook that action back into the game, as it's the kind of roleplaying I want to encourage!

(In other news, I also had a shortage of magical items in Sandpoint, so the wand of CLW they wanted to buy was completely absent. Had a great RP bit from another player interacting with Ameiko, where I integrated the Lonjiku confrontation, and Ameiko ended up giving the party a wand of CLW.)

You'll have to buy some square bases-- Warhammer Fantasy Battles, I believe, does squares.

Personally I prefer round bases because it means you can squeeze groups together more realistically.
Yes, you threaten a large area--but your character only occupies a small part of the 5' by 5' square.

Personally I can't support the GMPC. I've seen it work well a few times, but usually it's not worth the headaches.

I'm about to kick off RotRL for a group of three PCs. One is VERY skilled with RPGs, one is very experienced but less immersed in rules, and the last is a casual gamer.

I ended up going with something roughly close to 22 or 24 point buy. Not sure. I averaged some 4d6 drop rolls ;)

However, I'm using either slow or medium XP progression, and if things are going too easily, I'll add more challenges. I find it easier to just add bits and pieces here and there and to throw in extra challenges--potential for items breaking, higher chances of failure on crazy plans, etc.

I'm also preparing to run RotRL Anniversary, and have asked my (only 3) players to stick with Core and Base classes (Core Rulebook and APG) and races.
It just seems simpler. ;)

I'm enjoying reading Burnt Offerings this afternoon, and have had the opposite reaction to your "meh," so I'm curious to hear how you like it once you get the game going!

You finish We Be Goblins, your players want more, where/what next?

With some imagination, would you link a few modules together or perhaps an AP? Would you create it all yourself... ideas?

What would you do to continue the insanely crazy and overly stupid fun?

Next you play Kobolds Ate My Baby--a classic game for crazy fun!

I just got a Droid Eris, and asked roughly the same question a bit ago. There appears to be no support yet for the Android platform, but at least you can surf the paizo site from the phone.

I'm still trying to get the DL links to work so I can bring my PDF's over to my phone.

Just download on your computer, plug the phone into the comp via USB, then drag and drop the PDFs to the phone.

Or, email them to yourself.

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What kind of app are we talking about here? Character sheet, SRD info, something else entirely?

Links? I can't seem to find any info on it.

No links exist yet; the app is still in early development but at this point is a character tracker with, hopefully, lots of SRD info in it eventually. No release date or further info yet, but it IS being developed.

Awesome. I'm assuming it's just in development for iPhone/iPod right now?

What kind of app are we talking about here? Character sheet, SRD info, something else entirely?
Links? I can't seem to find any info on it.

I think this is the right board for this thread... if not, my apologies and please direct this thread to its appropriate home! (=

I'm wondering if anyone has developed Pathfinder aid apps for mobile phones, specifically Android (but also for iPhone and WinMo) ?

Lately I've been thinking about a basic character sheet app and possibly even a spellbook app. These would be really useful on my Android phone (HTC Hero) at the game table.

If there are such apps, can you provide links, please? If not, let me know what kinds of apps you think would be useful.
Obviously a basic character sheet is interesting but not everyone likes to abandon the pencil and paper. Would reference apps like spell books and other PFSRD material be useful in an app like that?

Has Paizo already developed or licensed some killer app that I've just missed?

Thanks!

Yeah. I'm reading it to my four year old. I've read it, and LotR, many times before.

Good, good. How is your four year old handling it? I'm actually in the middle of a re-read right now and, planning to have kids in a year or so, wondering when they'll be ready for it. Four sounds early to me, but then it is entirely dependent upon the child's maturity.

You can never go wrong with Tolkien. Classic, all around.
You said you're reading The Hobbit already and that's great. You'll find LotR to have a more epic feel to it, maybe a higher level campaign.

I love this sleeve idea. Actually, I just saw some people using this concept on their character sheets the other day at my FLGS.
They simply kept a character sheet in a clear page protector and used dry or wet erase markers to mark temporary information (HP loss, etc) on the sheet.

I think I might try out these cards with the sleeves... sounds like an easy way to manage them.

Too bad we can't purchase a subscription and have it delivered via the FLGS and still have PDFs included. That'd be the ultimate win.

Well, one option I've seen others use is the "code" one. You get a unique code on the back page (put it under a scratch-off panel, even) but you still have to shirnk-wrap the book to prevent people from stealing the code without buying the book.

Only way I can think to solve that would be give unique code cards to FLGS and every PF core book they sell gets a card. Once again, lots more overhead.

$10 isn't bad for that PDF, though. I mean seriously... I paid $50 for the book and thought it was worth every cent. $10 is worth it for the convenience of a backup copy.

Or, you could scan your book, hah ;)