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I agree with Bishnu on this. I need a chance to react and continue to heal when needed. Also, the threat level of this is overpowered for our level. Karn is retreating and decides that outside has a better chance of survival than this madhouse. I'm bowing out at this point.
Karn moves to Bishnu casting Cure Light Wounds on the way.
Aklo: "Kill it quickly!"
"You can have it. These things are a pain to use."
"I'll use a bow for that."
"Electricity doesn't scare me much, but traps are definitely beyond my abilities..." Karn backs to the other side of the room.
I'm taking the Ghost Touch Silver Scythe +2 and the Merciful Scythe +2. I vote for resting too.
Ok, thanks. I updated my sheet.
I would like the Silver Scythe +2. I would put Ghost Touch on it.
I can only come up with 6 weapons to post: Scythe
"With his gritty nature, I figured he drinks sand."
"Friend, this might speed things up for you."
Karn says a quick prayer and heals himself further.
And he adds in a second for good measure.
Karn adds in Smite Evil to the mix for his next strike.
Due to a family emergency, bot me for now.
Karn tries to slice one in half.
Karn stuffs the orb in his pouch and advances on the remaining skeleton.
Karn attempts to grab the dropping object.
If 4 skeletons can take us down, then something is wrong.
Before everything begins, Karn says "Vildeis bless us and give us your favor in this endeavor." He casts Bless on everyone and Divine Favor on himself. Then he decapitates the first skeleton.
"Well, Claptrap, I'm Karn. What type of golem are you?"
"I like Bishnu's idea. Kill 'em first."
Karn ties off the rope and jumps down.
Karn will wait for everyone else, then trust the magic as he jumps in to float down.
As Jellena heads down the hole, "I was thinking of heading down in case he needs healing... I know this room is painful."
Karn heads in right behind Bishnu. "Velden are you ok down there?!"
At the lack of response, he pulls out rope to go down in to the pit. "Here, hold on to this so I can get down there and check for Velden."
"Are you some sort of automaton? Where is your wizard?"
"These traps are trying to kill us." "Over here Velden. Safety lies out of the room."
Karn moves just around the corner to avoid the arrows. Aklo: "Stupid arrows... Behind the wall until the arrows are done."
I'm on the same page as Bishnu. I would have thought that getting out of the room would have been enough so I would be in the hall until I get hit.
Karn will follow Bishnu. "Are you hurt?"
Karn makes a valiant effort to run for the south door with Bishnu to force it open.
Karn will stay towards the middle front to help with healing, but he will be ready to stride forward if he is needed for melee.
Karn gets ready to continue.
"I have no idea about most of what you speak, but if it is to feed it to the designer of the door, I'm all for it."
"Stubborn door!" He tries again.
"We may want more help..."
"That's a start." He keeps pushing: "There. It's staying now."
"If we try together, it may work better"
"I bet it will be easier with both of us opening it." Karn gets ready to help with the door.
"My strength seems to be failing me, or my footing is not secure enough."
Karn is standing guard.
Even Karn's armor doesn't slow him down.
Karn calms down, looks at the others, and says: "The fighting has stopped and the things are no longer moving."
Karn goes to check on the battle outside.
Karn is pacing, swinging his scythe. In Aklo: "We sit and chat while the golems approach. Can we get the door open? Or should we look for another way?"
"That makes sense. I'm not as worried about them then."
"So you don't think we can turn the tide and win the battle out there?"
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I'm guessing set in Taldor.
It's time to play some blood-pig!
Since Amber is great, I figured this thread could be a good idea. Come one, come all, and share with us why you think she's great.
Here's my top-three: 1.) Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear - Actually, this is the best book I've read in several years. You can read it as just a fun adventure story about a girl and her scooby gang stopping a nefarious plot by a nasty villain, but scratch a bit at the topsoil and there's so much more in there. 2.) Luna: New Moon by Ian McDonald - It's the Godfather on the near-future Moon. Except McDonald's prose is much better than Puzo's. And yes, it does have a scene of people jogging. (Every book I've read by the author has had that.) 3.) Ring Roads by Patrick Modiano - Atmospheric, moody, and reads like a good crime novel despite about perfectly everyday things.
I'll go first. Are amy of you writers of the novels and web fiction serials interested in answering any questions? And, if yes to the previous question, how did you first come into contact with the Pathfinder setting?
Hail Vint, the people's hero!
You made a whole lot of people's life better. Thank you.
1. He/she was born and brought up there and is currently living there.
So, I've been meaning to do this for a while now, and here we go. Now, I've never done one of these before, so don't be surprise if the first few posts aren't very good - I'm sure I'll improve as I go along. My aim is to do three chapters a week, since that seems a short enough length to not interfere with my other writing. And of course, you're all welcome to chime in with your comments - I'm seriously hoping this won't just be me typing into empty cyberspace. Chapter 1
”Lest anyone should suppose I’m a cuckoo’s child, got on the wrong side of the blanket by lusty peasant stock and sold into indenture in a shortfallen season, I may say that I am House-born and reared in the Night Court proper, for all the good it did me.” This chapter is mostly introducing Phèdre and let us know her very earliest backstory, and to introduce some proper nouns of the world she lives in; the Night Court, Terre d’Ange, Caerdicca Unitas probably being the most important ones. We do also get some information about the customs of the land and of some of the houses of the Night Court – Cereus House specializing in what I interpret as “the Beauty of Fragility.” This, with a re-readers hindsight, seems to me like a poor fit for the woman Phèdre will become, but since she’s only going to be there until she’s ten, maybe the particulars of each house’s teaching doesn’t start until later in an adept’s training and the early years of childhood are given over to a more general training? I can also notice that, even on my first read of the book, one of the effects of the first-person past-tense style is that the scene with Phèdre’s mother leaving her didn’t affect me very much. It’s in the first chapter of a very thick book, and there’s clearly going to be more important things going on later in the book. And yet, I would say that being abandoned by her parent is one of the defining moments in how Phèdre later acts throughout the books. Looking at her relationships with other people, she seems more ready to accept friendships with persons old enough to be her parents than with those of her own generation. More on this later, though.
So that’s what I was. ‘A whore’s unwanted get.’ Poor Phèdre. Chapter 2
She is taught about the origins of the d’Angelines by a former adept turned mystic, called Brother Louvel, who tells her and the other children about Blessed Elua, his companions and their wanderings. After the last lesson, Brother Louvel gives the children flowers to pin on their clothes. In an unwatched moment, Phèdre stabs herself with the pin, and experiences visible pleasure (and pain). An adept who sees this takes her to the dowayne of Cereus House who, after reflexively planning to send her on to Valerian House, which specializes in providing submissives and masochists to their clients, instead sends word to Anafiel Delaunay. So, if Chapter One is about establishing Phèdre, this chapter is about giving us the mystical background of the setting, and I love it. As far as alternate Earths go, the world of Terre d’Ange is one of my absolute favourites, in no small part because of how a tiny little change in an already existing mythology brings on huge ramifications. And while I skimmed over the tales told by Brother Louvel, I’m sure I’m not alone in wishing there’d be an actual Eluine cycle out there to read. (Carey has written a short text about it which I think can be found over at Tor.com, but I’m hazy on the details of this.) In addition, the story as told to Phèdre mostly focuses on Elua and Naamah – it’d be interesting to hear how those in the service of say, Shemhazai tells the story. Anyway, if someone reads this, please comment more on it than I just did. Then there’s Phèdre’s moment of taking her first step on the path that will lead her into so much (exciting and horrid at turns) trouble and glory throughout the trilogy. I don’t have that much to say about it, except that it’s a good thing someone was there to see it, because I suspect that even as a child raised by adepts among adepts Phèdre probably wouldn’t have had a clue what just happened beyond her feeling a bit funny when she did the owie. Chapter Three
Later, she is cleaned and prettied up and taken to meet with Anafiel Delaunay (Hi Delaunay!). He recognises the mark in her eye for what it is and quotes some arcane lore about it. The Dowayne sets a bond-price for Phèdre, and Delaunay accepts it (to the chagrin of the Dowayne without bargaining). It is decided that Phèdre will remain at Cereus House until she turns ten and receive such training as a future adept of the Night Court would have. He writes bawdy lyrics? You mean I’m getting dressed out like a Carnival goose to be sold to some seed-stained scribbler with one hand in the inkwell and the other in his breeches? I’m amused. Both by Phèdre’s ideas of Delaunay before meeting him, and by the thought that perhaps Carey is commenting about what some people might think of her writing-process – the Kushiel-series certainly qualifies as bawdy prose at some points. Furthermore, it’s interesting that Phèdre meets two of the three most important men in her life within days of each other, and in the same chapter. So far we don’t get much information about either one – a bit more about Delaunay, but mostly that he seems to be an important personage, not a courtier, but one with connections at court, and when we see him with Phèdre and the Dowayne he also reveals some learning and a noble’s manner.
So that’s the first three chapters, I hope to do about that every week, but with more commentary (I’ve been having some sleeping issues this past week that’s eaten up a lot of time). A few passing tit-bits before I finish: Dowayne is the same word as the modern French “Doyenne” – which basically means Mother Superior. So the houses of the night court are the d’Angeline version of monasteries, and their adepts this culture’s monks and nuns.And for those who don’t speak French, “Terre d’Ange” literally means “Land of Angels.” So, did I miss something important ? Please comment, as long as people are polite and remember to stick to the forum rules, I’m sure this could be a long-running and fun thread.
I'm supposed to get a contributor copy of Wayfinder #11. Can this order please be held until it can be included?
From the Nobel Prize Youtube channel.
I had to change the payment method for my latest order, and I noticed I didn't have to/get to type in the three-digits confirmation code for the new e-number. Did I do something wrong, or is that the way it's supposed to work? Yours, Sweating in Sweden
He's not sick, is he?
That's pretty darn good.
Seems the Fantasy Book Cafe website is running a poll on which books by women writers of Science Fiction and Fantasy are our favourites. Anyone wishing to cast a vote can go to here, and do so.
So I deleted a post over in the Gaming stereotypes thread because in the time it took me to write it, Sara-Marie had popped in to (correctly) point out that the thread was beginning to veer off topic, and when I pressed delete, the post vanished. But... as I asked in the thread-title, don't we get a "are you sure you want to delete this post?" message when we do that, or is the dementia beginning to set in and I'm completely mis-remembering things?
An excerpt from the anthology An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling can be read by clicking the link.
This, sadly unfinished, comic originally ran in the Scandinavian comic-magazine The Phantom, and is an homage to Edgar Rice Burroughs's planetary romances from veteran Finnish comic-artist Kari Leppänen. In it, we get to primarily follow the adventures of one of two survivors on an interplanetary expedition, who have been awakened from cryo-sleep to find the rest of the members in their team deceased, as he finds himself stranded on the planet Xellana - where he is quickly captured by some brutish natives, and his fellow crewmember seems to have ambitions of the evil overlord type...
In case anyone's interested, Pathfinder Comics artist Andrew Huerta is selling some of his original art. (And if you don't like the art of the comics, this is not the thread to point it out in, please.)
In this article from 1831, which itself is a reprinting of her preface to one of the book's early editions.
On episode 7:43 of Writing Excuses, Sutter comes on to talk about tie-in fiction with Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells, Howard Tayler, and Mary and Robinette Kowal. What I'd like to know is - was Howard wearing any pants during the talk?
Nice start to this one. Colour me intrigued in regards to these magic phrases our so-far-not-named former Gray Maiden is hearing from her helmet. Also: Walking into a crossbow-quarrel without even flinching - I don't care if you're wearing plate armour, that's 1st degree badassness.
I see pugwampi! *flees in terror*
Still liking it. Very spooky, and the shae is deliciously evil, in a good way (i.e. not evil for the sake of being evil, but it actually has a reason for what it's been doing).
Based on those trees I'll feel right at home if I ever do make it over there. :-D
GAH! Now I want that thing even more!
Hope you have a good time Savannah. ...and I hope you won't mind if I say that you're surprisingly tall for a gnome.
Could we get recently added downloads (say, purchased in the last month or so) highlighted in some way (different colour would seem to be the easiest to my web-design-ignorant mind)? I'm looking at the My Downloads page, and some areas could really do with something like that to save me some precious time (okay, so it's only about half a second, my point is that, much like this sentence, it's getting a bit cluttered and hard to read, and while I'm sure that, for instance the Pathfinder Campaign Setting part could be split up in different sections, the Open Design section could be divided by magazines and Midgard products and so on, a simple highlight seems like an easy fix). Hope that made sense.
1-hour discussion with the Guardian bookclub here.
...so perhaps it deserves to not get mangled by the profanity filter?
Because some people asked if they could have a copy of the ones I mentioned having made in the Bestiary 3 thread. Apart from monsters from Adventure Path volumes 25 forward, it also includes a few from earlier APs that have been updated in some other Paizo-source, as well as stuff from the Player Companions, Campaign Setting products, and one or two from Wayfinder.
Monsters by type*:
Aberration: Akata, Blightspawn of Ghlaunder, Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath, Elder Thing, Faceless stalker, Ghorazagh, Irlgaunt, Moit of Shub-Niggurath, Rorkoun, Royal naga, Shadowgarm, Shriezyx, Spawn of Yog-Sothoth, Star-Spawn of Cthulhu, Weaverworm
Animal: Elk, Mokele-Mbembe, Nandi bear, Megapiranha swarm, Piranha swarm, Pterosaurs, Snake swarm, Thylacine, Venomous snake swarm (Aquatic): Adaro, Ahuizotl, Aspidochelone, Ceratioidi, Elder Thing, Eurypterid, Gare linnorm, Giant sea urchins, Gillman, Grodair, Haniver, Lukwata, Megapiranha swarm, Ningyo, Nuckelavee, Piranha swarm, Rorkoun, Selkie, Tikoloshe, Vouivre, Weaverworm (Cold): Gnoph-Keh Construct: Aluum, Animated object, Ebon acolytus, Gargoyle Guardian, Golden Guardian, Idols, Mask golem, Tribal Totem, Wax Golem
(Earth): Spine dragon (Evil): Hell gigas, Spring-Heeled Jack, Fey: Ankou, Biloko, Blodeuwedd, Fey Animals, Gremlins, Huldra, Lurker in Light, Nuckelavee, Skin stealer, (Fire): Brimorak demon, (Giant): Atamahuta oni, Great Cyclops, Hell gigas, Mountain troll, Thawn (Goblinoid): Ja Noi,
(Incorporeal): Allip, Arcanotheign, Banshee, Obambo, Vilkacis Magical Beast: Ahuizotl, Aspidochelone, Camulatz, Carbuncle, Chemosit, Chupacabra, Clawbat, Dweomercat, Funtum-Dekyem, Gnoph-Keh, Grodair, Grootslang, Hodag, Inkanyamba, Leucrotta, Lukwata, Peryton, Ratling, Ravener behemoth, Rompo, , Siren, Skrik Nettle, Stymphalides, Trollhound Monstrous Humanoid: Adaro, Agogwe, Bog strider, Calikang, Ceratioidi, Derhii, Gargoyle, Lamia matriarch, Ningyo, Popobala, Qallupilluk, Sabosan, Saumen kar, Selkie, Stygira, Umasi, Vouivre, Witchwyrd Ooze: Alchemical ooze swarm, Colour out of space, Verdurous ooze Outsider: Arcanotheign, Caulborn, Nihiloi, Psychopomps, Steward of the Skein, Outsider (air): Kaminari, Personification of Fury, Zhyen Outsider (chaotic): Avatar of Ydersius, Azatas, Demons, Dimensional shambler, Emperor of Scales, First Blade, Guribast, Proteans Outsider (evil): Asuras, Avatar of Ydersius, Baregara, Basileus, Daemons, Demons, Devils, Dimensional shambler, Div, Emperor of Scales, Impundulu, Kytons, Outsider (earth): Shaitan, Zhyen Outsider (fire): Zhyen Outsider (good): Agathions, Angels, Azatas, The Grim White Stag, Guribast, Hand of the Inheritor, Lar, Spirit of Adoration Outsider (lawful): Asuras, Axiomite, Baregara, Basileus, Devils, The Grim White Stag, Hand of the Inheritor, Kytons, Lar, Outsider (native): Emperor of Scales, Garuda, Half-janni, Kami, Lar, Onis, The Sandpoint Devil, Suli, Treerazer, Outsider (water): Personification of Fury, Zhyen Plant: Boruta, Calathgar, Fungus leshy, Living Topiary, Mandragora, Mi-go, Mindslayer mould, Moonflower, Umdhlebi, Vireseed swarm, Zomok (Reptilian): Hollow serpent, (Shapechanger): Faceless stalker, Ghul, Imentesh protean, Impundulu, Lamia matriarch, Naunet protean, Oni, Selkie, Steward of the Skein, Werebat (Swarm): Alchemical ooze swarm, Bloodhaze mosquito swarm, Piranha swarm, Rot grub swarm, Snake swarm, Stymphalides swarm, Torble swarm, Venomous snake swarm, Virespeed swarm, Water strider swarm, Template: Banshee, Dream Eater, Ectoplasmic creature, Fey animals, Frostfallen creatures, Graveknight, Haunted One, Half-janni, Taotaomona, Vilkacis, Zombie lord, Undead: Allip, Banshee, Beheaded, Daughter of Urgathoa, Drekevac, Ectoplasmic creature, Forsaken Lich, Frostfallen creatures, Gallowdead, Ghul, Graveknight, Grim Reaper, Hollow serpent, Mother’s Maw, Ningyo, Obambo, Phantom Armour, Revenant, Skeleton, Spartolos, Taotaomona, Tikoloshe, Tuyewera, Vilkacis, Vrykolakas, Warsworn, Zombie, Zombie lord, Vermin: Ant lion, Belostomatid, Bloodhaze mosquito swarm, Eurypterid, Giant Fly, Giant Hellgramite, Giant sea urchins, Rot grub, Torble, Water strider swarm, (Water): Suijin
by CR:
CR 1/8
Torble CR 1/3
CR ½
CR 1
CR 2
CR 3
CR 4
CR 5
CR 6
CR 7
CR 8
CR 9
CR 10
CR 11
CR 12
CR 13
CR 14
CR 15
CR 16
CR 17
CR 18
CR 19
CR 20
CR 23
CR 24
CR 25
by terrain: ANY TERRAIN Akata, Allip, Aluum, Animated object, Ankou, Banshee, Beheaded, Boruta, Changeling, Colour Out of Space, Daughter of Urgathoa, Dimensional Shambler, Drekevac, Ebon acolytus, Ectoplasmic creature, Elder Thing, Emperor of Scales, Fukujin, Gargoyle, Gargoyle Guardian, Golden Guardian, Graveknight, Grim Reaper, Half-Janni, Haunted One, Idols, Lar, Mask Golem, Mi-Go, Mindslayer mould, Moit of Shub-Niggurath, Peryton, Rot grub, Royal naga, Skin stealer, Snake swarm, Spartolos, Spring-heeled Jack, Star-spawn of Cthulhu, Suli, Taotaomana, Torble, Tribal Totem, Tuyewera, Undead Ningyo, Venomous snake swarm, Vilkacis, Vireseed swarm, Vrykolakas, Warsworn, Wax Golem, Zombie lord ANY TERRAIN (COLD)
ANY TERRAIN (LAND)
ANY TERRAIN (TEMPERATE)
ANY TERRAIN (WARM)
COAST (COLD)
COAST (TEMPERATE)
COAST (WARM)
DESERT
DESERT (COLD)
FOREST (COLD)
FOREST (TEMPERATE)
FOREST (WARM)
HILLS (COLD)
HILLS (TEMPERATE)
HILLS (WARM)
MOUNTAINS (COLD)
MOUNTAINS (TEMPERATE)
MOUNTAINS (WARM)
OCEAN (COLD)
OCEAN (TEMPERATE)
OCEAN (WARM)
PLAINS (COLD)
PLAINS (TEMPERATE)
PLAINS (WARM)
PLANAR (ABADDON – NEUTRAL EVIL)
PLANAR (ABYSS – CHAOTIC EVIL)
PLANAR (AXIS – LAWFUL NEUTRAL)
PLANAR (ELYSIUM – CHAOTIC GOOD)
PLANAR (HEAVEN – LAWFUL GOOD)
PLANAR (HELL – LAWFUL EVIL)
PLANAR (MAELSTROM – CHAOTIC NEUTRAL)
PLANAR (NIRVANA – NEUTRAL)
PLANAR (PLANE OF AIR)
PLANAR (PLANE OF EARTH)
PLANAR (PLANE OF FIRE)
PLANAR (PLANE OF SHADOW)
PLANAR (PLANE OF WATER)
PLANAR (NEUTRAL GOOD)
RIVERS/LAKES (COLD)
RIVERS/LAKES (TEMPERATE)
RIVERS/LAKES (WARM)
RUINS
SKY (TEMPERATE)
SWAMP (COLD)
SWAMP (TEMPERATE)
SWAMP (WARM)
UNDERGROUND
URBAN
From my inbox:
What nice people. Just giving away all that cash.
*sees the Frostfar tribe's location* Viking goblins!!
Goodbye Big Man.
Very nice costume. :)
Stretched between the lamplight and the cigarette ash
We can take a bit of red a but of white and blue
This thing can cross oceans in its seven league boots
It ain't come from the hungry it ain't come from the bored
(from Thea Gilmore's song We Built a Monster
Congratulations Sean. You just sold me a book. I might post something about the actual topic of the blog-post later (when I'm not half-asleep).
Raul Meireles. There's only one Raul Meireles. (repeat ad nauseum) [spoiler]And go Daniel Agger!! (only, not in front of the kids)[/url]
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