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I would like to cancel my Starfinder and Starfinder adventure path subscriptions with immediate effect. Thank you

i ran a very successful 1 (later 2) PC campaign which lasted until 25th level.

I found there are two ways to get past the lack of diverse skill sets;
1) DMPCs - NPC party members controlled in combat by the PCs but role played by the DM
2) Gestalt- give the PCs two classes at once with the better of the two used for saves/HD/BaB
(Etc: Gestalt Fighter/Cleric 1 would have BaB +1, Strong Fort/Will, weak Ref, 1st level cleric spells/channel and 1st level bonus feat)

0. Wrathack is the reason we can't have nice things. RAW

Sounds like its going to be a quite high-powered game.

I'd let him take the feat - I doubt it will be overpowered compared to the mythic rules or psionic powers he will be using anyway.

Hayato can now legally speak Tien but can't legally be a samurai

Fab. Thanks a lot.

Hey, unfortunately order 3359012 still hasn't arrived.

Also I needed to update my card details for the final subscription pack (Order 3422973).

Can you confirm that the payment will be authorised and the order shipped?

Thanks again

MightyJim wrote:

I think it's pretty rare to even want 3 - generally I get frustrated at having to take the 3rd one when i know that if i waited 2 scenarios i could take a far better one with a role card

it's particularly painful for characters with big hands getting closer to death.

You know what they say about characters with big hands...

Big gloves?

Fair enough I'll give it a bit longer.

Thanks for your help.

Hi, this order still hasn't been delivered. I have had a more recent subscription pack delivered (Order 3387923) but the November pack hasn't yet arrived.

While you are looking into my account I would like to cancel my subscriptions also;

Adventure Path: Cancel after Iron Gods 6 ships.
Cards: Cancel after Tech Deck ships.

Thanks

Type of metal: unobtanium
Number 13: 13

Verb 1: extrapolate

Noun: Paintbrush

I absolutely agree. And in fact have worked something similar into my games.

I tried a mixed approach - some encounters I used the cards as designed, in others I gave them out to PCs to 'play' at certain points.

I'd say experiment with methods and see which works for you.

I can't write a detailed response atm, I'll try and come back to this forum and give some more thoughts when I can

Bundle 3 sounds incredible. Thanks!

Still reading the playtest document but wanted to add that I think basing the spirits off the Harrow cards is awesome flavour. Nice.

Both good points

Funny one of my PCs had a romantic encounter with Grok (in fact twice in two different groups) and I've read about it happening in other groups too. I wonder what it is that makes her so... Attractive..

KidDangerous wrote:

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And linkified yours for you =) Hope that helps.

I did try that but the links just re-directed to paizo.com ... ah well, must have done it wrong. Thanks though!

I'm currently running Skull and Shackles in space ("Skulljammer") using DSP's ultimate psionics in place of any magic using class.

It's a lot of fun! I've borrowed from Distant Worlds, Iron Gods and the Technoogy Guide but also Numenera's Cypher system. It's a great way to represent lost/malfunctioning tech. I've converted a lot of the Numenera Cyphers to PF rules and would be happy to share if you're interested.

Players love it so far it's got a very Treasure Planet vibe. I think it would work really well for Kingmaker too

My favorite thing about dropbox is the fact that I can set a crop level and it applies it across the entire book so I can get rid of thick borders and just view the text.

Cool, how do you apply the crop?

I've found that the dropbox app for iPad actually opens and runs the PDFs way faster than iBooks. It also runs word documents and is much easier to upload to.

Never tried goodreader

I had some similar thoughts for my own campaign.

As far as roles and crew combat are concerned I used a hybrid of the stuff sabedoriaclark did, Fire as She Bears! and some rules of my own devising. Its working pretty well so far (we have just started book 3) and you're welcome to take a look at what we use.

I made index cards with all the roles and ranks rules on them to hand out to the PCs which not only served as a reminder of their duties, but also as a way to visually represent officers' votes. If you're interested I can send them your way.

I also made cards for each squad (and enemy squads) to show who was engaging who.

As for kingdom building I also stumbled at the 1 hex point. The island in book 4 is WAY smaller than a Kingmaker hex, so unless you include nearby islands in their territory or 'sea hexes' to fish/plunder etc I guess you'd have to re-work the BP rules (or scale them down).

In my game the PCs have used the downtime rules to establish small bases of operation (in the equivalents of Sargava and Tidewater Rock from my campaign world). This is working ok at the moment but I want to introduce larger scale stuff when they hit book 4/5/6 so I'll be interested to see what comes of this thread.

I like your idea of using disrepute to pay the crew, wish I'd thought of that before getting too invested in making the PCs pay their crew in gp as it sounds a lot simpler (and would make them do more piratey stuff!).

Yep gonna be getting it for 360. Played the beta having heard practically nothing about the game and was very impressed. Gonna be playing a hunter, can't remember the name of the blue-skinned race- but them.

If you do that enough times, you will eventually get all the boons you want.

You might as well save your time and just build the deck you want right out of the box.

I had a 3.5 campaign where 4 of 5 players were rogues (ninja, pirate, bard/rogue and assassin/rogue). The 5th was a wizard.

Was one of our best campaigns ever and (for some characters) lasted until Epic levels. There were some interesting moments as without the traditional combat-based and healing-based characters they had to find alternate ways around problems (the kobold blender being the group's favorite).

After first skim of PDF, this looks incredible. So glad I restarted AP subscription. Hopefully will get to run/play this soon.

Okay I admit I was kinda meh on the Brawler...but this blog post sold it to me.

Ditto.

I think I may have found my new favourite class!

The Skull & Shackles (the big image on this page) is the flag of the Shackles nation- a vast archipelago of scattered tropical islands ruled over by dozens of Pirate Lords who in turn answer to the Hurricane King.

As for dice, no idea. The skull & shackles campaign dice are yellow as is the main colour of the art for the Adventure Path.

Each of these paths have mythic abilities that you can choose from to customize your character and make them do some truly heroic (and sometimes game-breaking) things.

Yeah the mythic abilities range from pretty cool to unbelievable in their power. They can be found here for those who are interested.

I can imagine mythic powers allowing you to do recharge cards easier, adding extra dice to checks (maybe doubling the effects of blessings?) or maybe even auto-passing certain checks?

Mythic RPG rules have an optional 'weakness' element too, where your character is weakened by a certain material (a la kryptonite), type of magic or whatever. I can't see this coming into the card game however as they've mentioned that a theme for S&S is things 'breaking' and falling apart. WotR/mythic seems very epic and over the top and having a similar mechanic to the ship damage system in S&S would possibly harm that flavour.

Mythic banes might require the 'mythic' trait to defeat or have to be defeated numerous times. Someone at the Paizo banquet said that target numbers on some cards for WotR were likely to be in the range of 50 or so.

Mythic weapons might add more damage dice than usual or allow you to recharge/bury for extremely powerful effects.

Been looking at doing something very similar myself. Dotting for interest

How can you say Wrath of the Righteous isn't a "themed" AP?

You're right, it is themed. What I meant was more of a setting-based theme. To me the WotR RPG AP is more themed around the opponents (demons) and mechanics (mythic) rather than setting (worldwound and mendev?).

This isn't necessarily a bad thing but it was one of the reasons I didn't purchase the AP. The flavour didn't appeal to me and I didn't want to commit to a 6 month AP on mechanics/rules alone.

Having said all that (and having had time to think about it), I think I would prefer to play WotR as a card game than an RPG as I'm more concerned with mechanics than story in PACG.

KidDangerous wrote:

Surprised by the choice.

I'm disappointed it's not a more 'themed' AP like Mummy's Mask or Reign of Winter but I guess I'll wait until more details are released.

It's possible they want to alternate sets between standard fantasy (like RoTR) and more heavily themed sets (like S&S). If that's the case, you'll likely get your wish this August and again next August. :)

Good point. Am I going to buy WotR anyway? probably. And if I don't I'll get a class deck to participate in organised play (and get 6 months extra to enjoy S&S!).

Surprised by the choice.

I'm disappointed it's not a more 'themed' AP like Mummy's Mask or Reign of Winter but I guess I'll wait until more details are released. Really depends on how the mythic card(s) work. I'm sure they'll do an awesome job and make me want to buy it anyway!

Huh. I must have missed that thread. I haven't had a game with the new cards yet so I'll see how that goes.

As long as future sets are going to be more consistent that's a good thing I guess.

So I've just opened my box of Sins of the Saviours and noticed something odd. The new cards are a different colour to the old ones. To be precise they are of a lighter saturation (hue is the same, but the new cards appear 'faded' against the old ones making it really easy to spot the difference).

Before I opened the box I noticed it was the new printing (all my others are first printing) so I was expecting the cards to be slightly shorter (I think Vic said 0.5mm?- it's barely noticeable) but I hadn't heard anything about a colour difference.

I'll see if I can upload a picture.

Have I got a dodgy batch? Has anyone else experienced this?

Level 20/Tier10....

It's one of the world's most powerful mortals optimised for crits doing what he does best. I'd be disappointed if he didn't do 400 damage

There will almost certainly be Blessings of Besmara and Norgorber. Cayden Caliean would be another great fit as would Gozreh and Asmodeus.

I'm sure I remember reading somewhere that BotG will still be the 'default' basic blessing.

He looks awesome. Love the sword-cane

So in Skull & Shackles, when we needed some intro adventures that take place outside of the Adventure Path, Mike and his team more or less made up their own stories... and those adventures in turn inspired the Plunder & Peril module.

I really like the idea of this, I'm halfway through a S&S RPG campaign and having more side-adventures to chuck in is great, but the fact that they are designed (or just inspired) by Mike and co. is simply brilliant.

I like topics like this.

It reminds me that I'm not entirely alone in that I strongly associate, say, numbers, with very specific colors.

Well, maybe I am, but, you know, people have things they associate. Sometimes. With stuff. YOU DON'T KNOW.

Sounds like Synesthesia.I have it too, makes everything colourful and really helps me to remember lists, facts etc.

As for the original topic, I'd go

LG: White (shining)
NG: Gold
CG: Yellow
LN: Light Grey
N: Slightly Darker Grey or Green
CN: White (as in free from colour)
LE:Red
NE: Purple
CE: Black/dark purple

Reign of Winter or Iron Gods would both be exceptional choices for future sets. Haven't got much experience with Jade Regent but I wonder whether all the travel without the RPG backstory might dilute the theme a little?

Mummy's Mask could also work- exploring tombs, ancient treasures, traps it all fits the game mechanics nicely and the desert travel part would be interesting to see PACG-ified.

I'm looking forward to everything that awaits even though I have no real prior paper and pen rpg experience. The notion of guns coming into the game didn't feel really natural but I'm excited to see how it all works together.

Can't wait for everything coming down the pipeline, but not gonna lie... I'm really anxious for some ninjas.

There was much debate about firearms in the RPG version of S&S. I don't think you can have pirate-themed anything without a few pistols and cannon.

I stopped my subscription after reign of winter, looking to start again for iron gods.

If I remember correctly it was about £20/month all in. A touch higher than Amazon but worth it for the PDFs and 10% discount in the store. It would normally take about 2 weeks to arrive in hard copy though (by which time I'd read the PDF) which was the only real downside IMO.

There was an option for express shipping but that was way expensive.

Edit: you can also bundle any other products you buy into the same deliveries as the APs to save on shipping. I ordered a map pack and other bits and the shipping price barely changed from what I was paying for the AP alone.

Hope that helps

Mike Selinker wrote:

Lirianne would like to have words with you. Possibly at ten paces.

won't lie - I wasn't expecting a female gunslinger. still, cool backstory. looks like I'll still need to play my 'game-owner's privilege' power when it comes to picking characters for S&S

Yup, I've already shot-gunned (get it?) her too

Would the type of bonus not matter? For instance Melee is going to be used more than, say Knowledge.

Yeah, I'm happy to stick with lists for now as I only have two groups and I love a good bit of admin.

I'd also be worried about spoiling the game for newer groups if they for instance drew a really cool boon or scary bane but then I say "Ah- no sorry we can't use that, it's from Saviours take this quarterstaff instead". I can see the immersion being damaged possibly (same reason I like the current set up with boatloads of henchmen and not a 'henchman stand in' card but that's a whole other topic).

If I was to play with a lot of groups, or with groups who are not new to the game then I would consider the proposed changes to quicken set-up. I can see it coming in handy for organised play down the line.

Thanks for the responses! So let's see if I've got this right..

If I want to specifically play a Varisian human, I'd need to buy the inner sea world guide and take it with me to each session?

I'm playing S&S at the moment on 'campaign mode' so we use our own non-PFS characters but can claim credit for our PFS characters as if we had used a pre-gen. If they are a lower level character, the gold is reduced (or could I "hold" the chronicle for when they get to the right level?).

The modules I can't claim for but I could in theory run them again with a PFS group and claim the chronicles as normal. I could even run We Be Goblins multiple times and players could claim the chronicle multiple times (for different 1st level characters).

Greetings! I'm a long time pathfinder (and dnd 3.x before that) GM and player, but I'm considering organising some sort of PFS group in my area. I have a few questions first. Sorry if any of these are a bit basic :D ;

I'm looking at making a Varisian Bard. I have the RotRL 3.5 Player’s Guide in which the Additional Resources lists the equipment as being legal but there is no mention of the Varisian race (ie Humans who start with Common and Varisian as languages). Does that mean that I cannot play a "Varisian" if I don't have these rules from another source (I don't)? I assume I can just say I'm Varisian and just not speak Varisian?

Claiming GM credit- I’m running a Skull & Shackles campaign for my home (non PFS) group, so do I get to claim GM credit for the sanctioned parts of each module? If so, do I apply the chronicle sheet directly to my character and gain the XP, prestige and gp (and other boons) written on the sheet as if I'd played it myself?

How about other modules (eg. We Be Goblins?) I’ve GM’d it and other sanctioned modules for my non-PFS home game, can I claim the GM credit for these?

What about the players from these games (Modules and APs)? Can they put the player credits towards new PFS characters?

Finally (for now!) I see some Pathfinder Tales novels have Chronicles- I own Prince of Wolves, does that mean I can apply the chronicle? The chronicle grants 0 XP/gp/prestige but has a boon which gives a bonus when interacting with lycanthropes and the option to buy a magic rapier, do I just get these boons? Just for reading the book? What about if I have multiple characters?

Sorry for the wall of text and thanks in advance!

As mentioned above, the treasure to be given out to the group is pre-written into the adventure. Most encounters will have a treasure section detailing what (if anything) is the reward for defeating that encounter.

The tables in the Core Rulebook are for generating your own encounters and show how much (roughly) treasure you should be handing out. Bear in mind that if you're making your own encounters, its usually more realistic to add up all the treasure for all the encounters in a particular section (ie a dungeon) then split the treasure in a way that makes sense (so enemies use the treasure etc) as Rub-Eta mentioned. Pre-written encounters (such as in an adventure path) will have this done already.

If you were to go through every encounter in Burnt Offerings for example and add up all the treasure it should roughly match the tables in the Core Rulebook (don't worry about being exact to the last cp though).

PCs acquire the treasure whenever they find it, so if they kill the goblins they get all the gear they were carrying and anything listed in the encounter's 'treasure' section (some may require perception checks or other skills to find if not immediately apparent). If the PCs don't find the treasure they don't get it.

@OP: If your husband is only near sighted (and by only I mean has no other visual disorders or pathologies which reduce vision) then the problem should be correctable with spectacles. A pair of single-vision spectacles set up for the specific distance at which you game or a pair of varifocals would allow him to view the dice without bringing them closer.

Of course if there ARE other visual problems (and I suspect there might be by the sounds of it) the solution would be slightly more complex. I'm a Dispensing Optician in the UK and I'd be happy to give you some more advice if you want to PM me.

Otherwise yeah just explaining the situation to the GM would be a good step.

@Myles Crocker; ageing shouldn't reduce your ability to game dude! Spectacle correction would help if set for the right working distance. Go see an Optician rather than an Ophthalmologst and ask for intermediate spectacles or varifocals.

One of my favorite Easter eggs is in the 3.5 Expanded Psionics Handbook. The power deja vu is not only present on its own page, correctly alphabetized, but also randomly in the middle of the next page as well.

Ha brilliant! Never noticed that before!