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Jeffrey that is really great stuff…my group ran Night Below with AD&D rules like 20 years ago and we want to do it again using PF1 rules.

Any chance you have Hero Lab files for those encounters? Our group gets together using a VTT and HL makes that a lot easier.

Thanks very much for sharing this and looking forward to hopefully more!

Awww, I do not... I haven't been saving these. :( Sorry, I really didn't think anyone would even care about this post.

20: Wizard's chambers. Unfortunately you misspelled unfortunately.

That's unfortunate...

Hello,
Not sure if anyone would be interested in this, but my group is doing a run through of this in PF 1e, so I'm posting a google doc of the updated conversion of box set. Work in progress, but feel free to use this or make suggestion on classes/archetypes/weapons/items and such.

I've left comments on, so feel free to make comments here or within the document.

A Night Below - Box Set PF 1e Conversion

This is a work in progress, as there are a lot of Deities in Golarion. I always liked the idea of a gods "chosen" or favored...
The Chosen

Please feel free to give feed back, tips, suggestions, threats...etc.

Adding this into the pile...

A hybrid class mix of Monk/Wizard The Bookworm.

I did read a few but tend not to go into a critical discussion in this forum. Takes time and care then not usually well accepted.

I think I left the ability for anyone to leave comments on the specific google doc. I am always open to feedback and design improvements. :)

Glad someone even read these, let alone liked them :)

Hello,
Just posting a number of homebrewed archetypes and classes that I've made for my home table. Mainly posting these cause my table reads the forums more often then my direct emails to them. :) Please feel free to comment, feedback, make threats, etc.

Bowsinger This is an elven racial ranger archetype.

Chi-Strike Master This is an unchained monk archetype (think Iron Fist flavor).

Clueless Crook This is a lucky idiot rogue (No high Int needed - unchained rogue archetype).

Hellbound Rider A cavalier archetype (think ghost rider on a nightmare - still working on mount stats).

Hellspawn Redeemer This is a paladin archetype (think Spawn flavor).

Idiot Savant This is a wizard archetype (No high Int needed).

Illithid Adept A psychic archetype (Our campaign is set in a mixed Golarion/Forgotten Realms world (think of this as a mind flayer wanna be).

Juggernaut This is an unchained barbarian archetype (this Colossus).

Pactbound Warlock This is a witch archetype (simulates flavor of D&D5e warlock).

Phase Spider Style This is a new set of monk style feats.

Phaseblade This is an android racial ranger archetype (think the Vision type flavor).

Sorcerer (Oni Bloodline) added in an additional bloodline.

Spiderfang This is a drow racial unchained monk archetype (think spider-man flavor).

Verdant Vanguard This is a druid archetype (think Venom symbiote but of vines and vegetation like mech suit.

Vampiric Ravager This is a dhampir racial unchained barbarian archetype (think blood thirsty lust for combat).

Mutant Warior This is a full class mix of barbarian/ranger/shifter wrapped in Wolverine flavor.

Thunderborn Champion A take on Thor as a full class, mixing warpriest, fighter, barbarian, and some cleric.

I am running it tomorrow, so I am tagging this to keep an eye on advice. I'm doing a PF1e version I've converted. Excited to delve into this.

Hey all,
I just started to convert this adventure into PF1 rules. Not sure if anyone has any tips or possible already done this? If not, I'll open a google document and share with all interested. :)

I need more kaiju... *rawr*

Oh yeah, here we go! I had a picture of Greg V. up at all times as I wrote my adventure as my muse... hmmm, is that too creepy?

I can't wait to see the final product!!

Hey peeps, not to resurrect an old thread, but my group will be undertaking this adventure in a month or so, so took the info presented here and made a single reference document. I have not yet edited it, but feel free to check it out, download it, or comment with ideas. I am setting it on the Island of Kortos outside of Absalom...the Red Hand pushing out or recruiting the centaurs and harpys into their army.

Red Hand of Doom Pathfinder Encounter Conversion

Had a monstrous good time working on this! :P

Are there any Div's and Daemons in this bestiary?

No and yes. :P

Thanks End for the great review! Hope everyone likes the adventure, I had a blast working on it with crew at Rising Phoenix games!

Me<---can't help but keep smiling. That's all I will say...

I'm really enjoying the issue! Nice work everyone!

I am unable to attend PaizoCon this year (sad) and so in dedication to the amazing people I've had the pleasure to work with and to the supporters of Paizo's great products...I wanted to give a little bit of my time to make a quick map. Feel free to use it in a campaign or not. :)

I call it Emptyskull Mountain. It was created by the Leonardo Da Vinci of goblins and carved into a small mountain range...

Map Here: Emptyskull Mountain

Enjoy!

I know what Im getting for an early X-mas gift for myself!

Players confront a massive black dragon, "Welcome to my lair... you have all been a thorn in my side for far too ****" Player interrupts, "BLah, blah, blah. I attack him!"

I am very excited for this product. :)

Oooo, the Dwarven stuff is pretty cool, Sky Seeker style rocks (f~*% you reach users) and Dwarven Scholar is a Wisdom based battle Bard :3

Glad you liked the dwarven stuff! I had a blast with those little guys. :)

I can't wait to play this!

It's gonna be a 'blast!'

Nice post! :)

What height are the platforms at A5?

A5 says they are 200 feet above ground, A2 says if you look out the window you can see the top of A5c and the bottom of A5b and doesn't mention A5a being visible at all, even though that part of the map is more or less symmetrical.

I wonder if they used to be aligned vertically, not horizontally?

Hey Jared,

Credit to the artist, but someone made a nice little visual for the puzzle here: Puzzle

We're running this tomorrow and I anticipate a great deal of trouble with the puzzle on page 8, with most groups either being stopped dead until they figure it out (massive time-waster) or just giving up and hoping they can smash the door down or as truly enterprising PCs sometimes do, cut a path through the wall next to the door. Either way, it has the potential to turn into a big time-sink and will have to be managed carefully, especially as it comes at the very beginning of the scenario when it's harder to gauge how much time spent on something like this is too much time.

Even having read the explanation, it took me a long time to figure out how the author was arriving at the numbers. This puzzle should have had a visual to expedite its solution in real time. They went to the trouble to do a handout, but not one that was actually of much use.

Interesting puzzle, however the execution of it in the scenario is lacking, and as GMs, we'll want to make sure too much game time isn't spent getting past it.

Hey Janet,

This might be a little too late, but if the players have trouble solving this challenge, the GM could hold up their own fingers or draw hands showing the numbers as a Visual Aid. Alternatively, the GM could allow something like a successful DC 18 Perform (musical instruments, including [keyboard, sing, string, and wind instruments]) or Knowledge (history) skill check to recall the melody of an ancient Jistkan nursery rhyme to be played. If they fail at this, they may possibly open the door by casting a spell with a sonic descriptor.

<3

Thank you again, Air0r

I just submitted the winning entry... I don't mind showing its inspiration: AMAZING SPACE ALIEN

w0ot

I know delays suck and it is difficult to wait, especially when you've put forth money, but as I finished my development/editing part of the Setting book all I could do was smile. This is bada**. I can't wait until you all get this and start having nightmares from the horrors contained within! Please keep the faith, this is massive, but I have no doubts you will all be so pleased with it. :D

Who doesn't blame Troy for everything? :)

Nice!

Thanks again Endz for the kind words and great review!

Great team, great fun, and a great product! Hope everyone gets a kick out of it!

Wow Mike! Who all contributed to this wonderful product of monster and mayhem!? (For those also interested in authors: Jacob Michaels, Jarryd Webber, Jason Owen Black, Jeffrey Swank, Joe Smith, Joshua Hennington, Kim Frandsen, Landon Winkler, Margheita Tramontano, Maria Smolina, Marr Kimmel, Mike Welham, Nikolai Samarine, RObert Thomson, Scott Janke, Wojciech Grynchala, and Jeff Gomez)

I liked the Neverspill Goblet as well. For utility, I also enjoyed the universal lock. Not happy with the simple lock on the door to your rented room? Apply a universal lock to thwart the common theif!

I'm glad you liked the u-lock! I had a lot of fun with this project!

Eleven, or “El” was born Jane Ives. She was abducted at birth and raised by Doctor Losandro within the walls of the Briarstone Asylum. Doctor Losandro referred to the young child as “Eleven,” after the patient’s room number. At an early age, Eleven began to exhibit powerful psychic abilities. These powers were to be exploited, as the asylum staff believed they could train and focus Eleven’s powers to manipulate and potentially cure other patients. Eleven was subjected to various experiments to increase her psychic abilities until the fateful day she was placed into a special sensory deprivation tank. This tank was designed to amplify Eleven’s powers and she was instructed to look into the mind of another disturbed patient, Ulver Zandalus. That night, Eleven breached the bounds of the Material Plane and released something from a shadowy dream world. This dark creature is somehow a part of El, yet its bond to her was broken in an instant. The creature has now journeyed to the Material Plane through the very rift Eleven created to hunt for blood.

The demogorgon exists as an unfettered eidolon, but without its link to its summoner, it is perpetually driven to bond with another life-form. It attempts this by hunting, feeding upon, and occasionally dragging its prey back to the shadow world.

Related to the topic of playing a monster PC: Monster Classes They all contain a base race and additional progression of the race as a class (similar to Savage Species).

Jeffrey Swank wrote:

Air0r is correct. Not only does the monster classes include dragons, earth elementals, succubi, hound archons, and dryads, but also include astral deva, barghest, bugbear, centaur, ghost, erinyes, gelatinous cube, ghouls, gnolls, minotaur, ogre, satyr, harpy, hill giants, imps, janni, lizardfolk, manticore, medusa, mummy, pseudodragons, rakshasa, flesh golems, treants, troglodytes, trolls, and winter wolves...(and that's just from Bestiary 1)

I need to re-download the file... I don't recall all of those being in there yet...

Air0r, they haven't yet all been released.

*big grin*

Nice Job Matt!

As one of The Blight's developers, I can tell you all... the time is close. Very close. You will soon know why you are afraid of the dark. You will soon learn why you fear the night. :)

New APs!