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Thanks!

Just checking back in about this.

When I posted to this thread the order was still in my sidecart, but it looks like it's gone to pending.

Hopefully it can still get pulled. Let me know what, if anything, I need to do.

Sorry, even more, yet again.

I just got this guy as a gift.

Can I please have Pathfinder Battles—Legends of Golarion: Gargantuan Green Dragon removed from my sidecart entirely (cancelled)?

Thanks again.

Hey guys and gals,

I think I screwed up when placing an order (again, sorry).

Can I get this to ship with my next subscription shipment please?

Thanks in advance.

That'll do it, thanks!

Hey guys,

I just added some things to my upcoming subscription shipment and somehow messed up my usual shipping method in the process.

Can you change the shipping on this order to UPS Ground please?

Thanks so much!

Awesome as always.

Presently it looks like the item has come in...

The item in question now appears to be flagged as "Backorder". It wasn't marked backorder when I ordered it, and it had been sitting in my sidecart. Now it's moved from my sidecart to my next subscription shipment, but it's flagged Backorder. It's order 2970396.

I'd like to make sure it's not going to hold up my subscription shipment.

Cool, no worries. Like I said, I was curious. I was trying to hit the January order, but I didn't realize the timing required behind the scenes.

Thanks for the reply.

I have an item sitting in my sidecart (order 2959883, placed January 2nd) that didn't ship with my latest subscription shipment (order 2959884 January 9th, shipped Monday). I knew I had a subscription shipment coming up and I was hoping to get this bundled in with that order.

Any particular reason this didn't go out with the subscription? Just curious, thanks in advance.

Soundtrack for Insidious.

Roll each time.

If for no other reason than it would suck to roll a 4 in an early turn and have that screw everyone the rest of the game.

Do I already have a copy of the Gamemastery Guide? Yes.
Do I now have a copy of the .pdf for my tablet? Also yes.

Lots of interesting data in this thread.

If it wouldn't be too much trouble though...

If you've posted in this thread reply and quote your original post and add how long your campaigns took and how frequently (on average) you played.

For me I find that music while gaming can inspire moments and set moods, if timed well. You can play music during gaming, but it needs to fit and can be jarring otherwise. We've carefully groomed our playlists over the last 6-ish years and have weeded out tracks that didn't work.

What I'm also discovering is that certain soundtracks that may not fit in a fantasy game are inspiring me to run other games, or to come up with games just to use that soundtrack while playing.

Most recently it's been the soundtrack to Hanna. Another good one is the Book of Eli soundtrack. I would love to run a game using those two.

I'm surprised nobody's said World of Warcraft yet.

World of Warcraft soundtracks are in our playlists, plus some from Warcraft III and the Diablo series.

Plus a whole slew that I can't recall off the top of my head.

We use a dedicated game soundtrack ipod. It contains a sampling of tracks from our huge library of movie and video game soundtracks.

All the tracks are arranged into playlists that can be shuffled independently. The playlists are created thematically and are titled accordingly. We have the generic Adventuring, Suspense, and Combat, as well as more specific playlists like Town and Tavern. Actually my wife manages the whole thing, so I'm recalling what little I can remember.

We use everything that we think fits, new and old. Video game soundtracks range from the original Baldurs Gate to Skyrim. Many movie soundtracks we use have already been listed above.

This is all group preference really. If music bothers even one player I'd say don't use it. If it works for your group, go for it.

Brap8 wrote:

The only colossal was the red dragon the blue black and white are huge

The blue and white dragons were Gargantuan, if I recall correctly.

You do that very thing. The black, blue, and white are gargantuan, 4x4 spaces.

There sure are Kelsey. While I can't comment on Darby, I can tell you that Missoula has a pretty large gamer community. It's also home to MisCon.

If you're in Montana already try coming up for the MisCon Quarterly Game Day this Saturday, January 21st. I'll be running a Pathfinder game and I'll save you a seat.

Hey guys,

This order contained Gloom: Cthulhu instead of Gloom: Unfortunate Expeditions.

It's not that I don't appreciate the offer of a $25 item for $15, but the copy of Gloom: Cthulhu I ordered already arrived in order #1878749. Thanks anyway, but I'll need to work out some kind of return/exchange.

Thanks in advance.

It's super effective!

Happy Friday, thanks!

So first the good news...all the items that arrived are in great shape! I was worried about the Mouse Guard RPG box set, Campaign Coins package, and the Tome of Horrors Complete all being the same box. I thought for sure something would get mangled or crushed. Nope! Everything that came was in perfect condition, thanks for the great packing job guys!

So then the "other" news...the Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Inner Sea Region Poster Map didn't appear to make it into the shipment at all. It's missing. The other 3 maps were in there, but the Inner Sea map was missing.

Could I get one please?

Whew, ok. Thanks Cos, tell Megan she's swell too.

I guess this will be a short panic thread.

Saw your post on FB and figured I better come to the source to be sure. Just wanted to double check to make sure order I placed this morning, 1800672 is ok.

There was some...weirdness when the order was placed, but Megan assured me in another thread it had been sorted out.

In light of the impending sell-out, I thought I should double check to make sure the order looks ok on your end, and that it'll ship with a subscription shipment when the print copies become available.

I was just coming here to report similar strange behavior while placing an order for the same product, Tome of Horrors Complete Print/PDF bundle (PFRPG).

Order 1800672.

It hung while processing the order and then it just returned to the Paizo home page. It never prompted me to select shipping options, but the order seems to have completed as I have an email receipt and the pdf is in my downloads.

I would like the print copy added to my sidecart for shipping with my next subscription shipment if possible.

Thanks in advance.

Hmmm. Let's see here...

Kaer Maga

You know I'm just not sure.

Kaer Maga

+1 twice

Oh that's weird, deja vu.

Kaer Maga

If only there was a place...

Kaer Maga

that a lot of us could agree on...

Kaer Maga

that seemed to stand out from other options.

Kaer Maga

Someplace that had extensive, intriguing dungeons...

Kaer Maga

with a complex, conveniently located city nearby.

Kaer Maga

I don't know.

Kaer Maga

We have to trust Paizo will come up with something.

Kaer Maga

Hmmm. Yep.

I'd be a big fan - especially if it could be set in the dungeons beneath Kaer Maga, since I think that would provide a nice opportunity for 'breaks' from dungeon delving and would also avoid the problem of loot disposal, training/purchasing of equipment and so forth (plus it's just generally awesome).

I'm on board with what Steve's got going here. I'm a huge fan of Kaer Maga and the sprawling warren of tunnels and ruins below.

I'd love to see an adventure path set in, around, and under Kaer Maga. Adventure path + mega-dungeon = everyone wins!

Again this Nick Logue thing comes up. From a distance it looks to me like the guy ripped a bunch of people off so those people need to examine and eventually pursue their legal options. The guy stole and committed fraud plain and simple.

Now why this keeps popping up on the Paizo boards I'm not sure. Was Mr Logue a Paizo employee at one point? I know he wrote several AP chapters, and maybe some other stuff for Paizo, but if he did that as a freelancer I doubt Paizo can do anything about his fraudulent activity.

However if Mr. Logue ever does do freelance work for Paizo again I would strongly suggest a boycott of whatever he does until he has returned all the money he owes, at the very least.

Based on what I have read of this issue I would certainly support such a boycott. Beyond this I'm not sure what Paizo or even the Paizo community could do to help the victims here.

Nic Logue wrote Hook Mountain Massacre, Hangmans Noose, Crown/Revenge of the Kobold King (and many other contributions to Dragon and Dungeon) for Paizo. He delivered product that people enjoyed and built something of a culty following here.

Threads announcing Sinister Adventures LLC, Indulgences, Ebon Shroud, Razor Coast, Anarchist Gamemaster Cookbook were all posted on these forums. This community was actively solicited.

I feel bad for everyone who has lost money as part of this. I nearly jumped in on Razor Coast. It sounded pretty neat. I'm glad I didn't.

I'm nearly positive that there was an article in Dragon that covered this very topic. I've never been able to come up with the issue number. I'd love it if someone here could remember.

Anyway on topic, I think this is great flavor. I have a cleric in my current campaign that's using an engraved holy relic (weapon) as her holy symbol.

It's rarely a good idea to expect a player to have the same knowledge or skills as their character. Metagaming is generally frowned on in most games, and that's basically what this is asking players to do. It's an in game task (that the character might be great at), but now the player needs to use out of game knowledge (to perform a task they may hate, or not do well).

That said, riddles and puzzles are an original AD&D staple, and some players enjoy the challenge. I think the way to add this is as an option, not a requirement. If you as a GM want your players to do these little puzzles, maybe make an in game reward of some kind? Reward all characters (and players) with a little xp for participating?

I'm doing something like this in a Desert of Desolation 3.5 campaign now. This is an AD&D campaign converted to 3.5, and includes a number of code translation style puzzles...ancient writings to translate. When the group encountered the first puzzle we established the system we would use. Spells and skill checks are always permitted to attempt a translation. However, decoding the text IRL earns the group bonus xp that is shared between all party members. Some players like completing the translations, others don't, but they all like the bonus xp and tend to remain patient while the players who love the puzzles work it out.

The only way this works is if you have the whole group on board. YMMV.

Stopped by to concur with Fatespinners comments about this being damage delivered only on a crit.

Also, Smite Evil is a once a day trick for a 4th level Paladin.

Woo-hoo!!! Just got my subscription copy in the mail today at work!!! Looking forward to reading it today during my lunch break!

Enjoy! I ate mine already.

PS. It was delicious.

Got my subscription copy on the 9th.

After spending a couple days with it I have no problem saying I think it's the best campaign setting book I've ever seen for any system or campaign setting.

No worries : ) I knew you'd get to it.

Can the backordered Santa Mousling and Helper be removed from my sidecart please? I didn't see any way for me to cancel it or remove it myself.

Hi again Liz,

Can the backordered Santa Mousling and Helper be removed from my sidecart please? I didn't see any way for me to cancel it or remove it myself.

Thanks again.

Hmm...same here.

I've been so busy the yearly Paizo card not arriving didn't occur to me until I saw your post.

Hi everybody: how long does it take to a Barbed Devil to use his Summon Barbed Devil/Lemures (Mag.)Ability? A standard action, or 1 round as per the Summon Monster spells? Many thanks!

V.

I've always ruled that it's 1 round per the following lines:

From the description of summon "A creature with the summon ability can summon other specific creatures of its kind much as though casting a summon monster spell"

Then from Spell-Like Abilities: "A spell-like ability has a casting time of 1 standard action unless noted otherwise in the ability or spell description."

And then from Summon Monster: "Casting Time 1 round"

So Summon is a spell-like ability with a casting time of 1 round (as noted in the spell description).

Jeremiziah wrote:

His name was Gandalf.

"When a member of Project Mayhem dies, he has a name. His name... was Gandalf."

Project Superstar.

Can the backordered Santa Mousling and Helper be split off into its own order please?

I'd like the pending items to ship as soon as possible and didn't realize the order was waiting on a backordered product.

Thanks in advance.

Try the Falcons Hollow series. D0 - Hollow's Last Hope, D1 - Crown of the Kobold King, and D1.5 - Revenge of the Kobold King.

That'd take up your 40 hours I bet. I have a small side group that has been working their way through this series and they've been having a blast. With ample roleplaying opportunities in Falcons Hollow they made D0 take about 14 hours.

"Listen, there's no way there could be any more ________'s in here..."

Regularly stated by one player in my ongoing campaign where the blank has been anything from spiders to wraiths, or whatever else just nearly killed them.

If Legos won't do and you've got some money to spend try Dwarven Forge.

Marshall Jansen wrote:

For reference: we also calculated the volume of fireballs in 10' corridors, and calculated falling speeds to determine if you would have time to say the words 'feather fall' before hitting the ground.

I'm going to start looking up your posts, because your war stories are gonna be epic.

No, his war stories are going to be math

Edit: Ok, I stand corrected. Marshall Jansen has some harrowing tales to tell, and brother, so far they ain't pretty.

It sounds like everyone is winging it for the most part. PF characters with the adventure run as written.

This is encouraging since I plan for Savage Tide to be my next campaign, and my group is still up in the air as to what system we're going to use.

I actively run 3.5 / PFRPG on a regular basis.

I DM a 3.5 game (using many house rules adopted from PFRPG) every other week with 7 players.

I also run a Pathfinder session once a month.

The 3.5 game has been our ongoing campaign since well before Pathfinder was even a thing.

Well sonuvacrap...why have I been playing it as a burst all these years? Huh...

OK...forget fireball then; the point still stands, even if the example provided was faulty. An emanation acts like a burst, which is blocked by things that provide cover, which a backpack (or handy haversack would provide, and so the effect would not penetrate to affect creatures on the outside.

At best, one might reasonably argue that loose flaps would allow for the effect to seep out at some given angle (which is the basis for the bulls-eye "silence" lantern idea), but if closed up nice and tight, there would be no effect.

No.

There are too many people disagreeing with this ruling for you to make your post as if it were fact with no further discussion required. Although for me the discussion is nearly done; I'm satisfied with my earlier statements and I'm not sure I'll come up with a new and improved argument 2.0.

Refer to all the statements regarding burqas, hats, shoes and umbrellas. Aren't these silly? If you rule that the emanation can be hidden from a person (with only fabric or leather), then couldn't the person be hidden from the emanation (by...clothing?)? My opinion is that this is an exploit and would allow a second level spell to be defeated by a hat.

Fireball is a "spread" area spell... it goes around corners and trees.

By the rules, your clothing or a backpack or a boot doesn't provide cover so those would be ineffective versus Silence or Fireball in any case.

I agree that a handy haversack would block a Silenced coin simply because once the coin is in the haversack and the sack is closed, it exists in an enclosed extradimensional space. I suppose the spell might "spill out" of the haversack when it was opened, since opening the haversack effectively creates a portal between dimensions that the emanation could travel through.

Or maybe not. :)

I can start getting on board with the idea that an extradimensional space can suppress an emanation spell as you describe.

I'm still not ok with it being suppressed by a mundane backpack, or a shoe, or a hat, or anything along the lines of "if I hide it, it no longer works". A second level spell shouldn't be beaten by a hankie.

So, I would rule that in order to qualify as cover against a burst/emanation the cover has to a) be able to survive the effect (if the blast does damage) and b) the cover must be sufficient to also block Detect Magic.

The above ruling is my favorite so far. It also accounts for a tower shield.

Brother Elias wrote:

Just for clarity. If the silence was not blocked by the backpack, then a light spell on a coin would also not be blocked?

As far as I can tell, the spell light is a different case altogether. It doesn't indicate the illumination generated by the spell's effect to be an emanation at all. The spell creates natural light that extends a defined distance, in a manner similar to that of a mundane source; it creates regular light, and as such it would be blocked by anything that would normally block light.

I think this pretty well answers the Light question.

Upon review, Light isn't an emanation.

Upon further review, neither is Continual Flame.

Just for clarity. If the silence was not blocked by the backpack, then a light spell on a coin would also not be blocked?

So all I have to do to provide light for the party is to put it on a coin, and then I can keep the coin in my backpack, or my pocket, and I'm good?

It's an interesting call one way or another. If you say that silence is not blocked, then you have to say that all emanations and bursts are not blocked. If you say that the silence is blocked, then you have to say that all emanations and bursts are blocked.

I guess the question becomes - at what point is an emanation blocked by intervening material? And at what point is it not?

We're getting dangerously close to the point where we start talking about magic and physics, as covered (or not covered) by RAW. It's a weird place.

Once light is generated by magic it behaves as light does in "the real world"? Once silence is generated by magic it behaves...as magical silence does in the real world? I admit I don't have a good answer for this, but emanations being blocked by either by a tower shield or just a layer of cloth or leather bothers me.