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It is 3rd party ( Green Ronin Publishing Advanced Bestiary 2014 ) But Jotunblooded Giants exist. One size increase.

So one could do a Giant Jotunblooded Storm Giant to make a bigger than titan sized giant.

https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/templates/jotunblood-gia nt-template/

Necroing this post because something interesting happen with my table this week.

I was running this for a second group. After getting through book 6 and some other things the players decided based on buying nobility section of the sargava lost colony book to go for a title and deed to the smugglers shiv. They pooled gold and purchased the title. 14 miles x 12 miles is roughly 108,000 acres.

100 acre of jungle is 500g.

1080 x 500 = 540,000 gold. Because its an island they offered the Baron 600,000 gold.

Title granted was "Grand Shiver of the Western Light" It was purchased on 22nd Pharast 4711. This thread helped figure out the rough cost, as we didnt wanna be precise and nitpick.

Im running a highly modified version of Mummies Mask with some historical changes.. namely that when the fleet, not just single ship, from androfa crashed up in numeria.. another portion of the fleet crashed in osiris.. in our world all humans arrived from those crashed fleets. Its also Mythic and ive got a larger table sized, and has portions of both strange Aeons and reign of winter with some of the continuation of iron gods and legacy of fire.

Archmage of the 3rd Order 'Dhund Hala' Female Slyph Arcanist 7, known for using her assortment of wands in combat and rolling 20s anytime a knowledge check is asked for.

Archmage of the 2nd order 'Soga Nitim' Male Rakshasa-Spawn Tiefling Magus 6, known for duel-wielding his families Intelligent Ironwood Rapier 'Smashur' and a Dragon Pistol when his magic is depleted.

Champion of the 3rd Circle 'Brad Lee Milton', a Half Orc Barbarian 7. He is a former Mercenary turned Archeologist, he specializes in crafting siege weapons and studying all manner of military tactics when not cleaving undead in half with either his adamantine greatsword or smashing them to bits with his adamantine heavy flail.

Guardian of the 3rd Circle 'Kalziel', a genderless Lantern Archon that had been trapped within a glass jar sealed with sovereign glue with a jar of ultimate adhesive remover sitting next to it upon an altar for a few thousand years and has gone somewhat crazy. Becoming a tower shield specialist fighter and specializing in its light rays.

Hierophant of the 3rd Circle 'Lindale Dachery' an Oread rogue 3 and Priest of Brigh who is the Technologist of the group He fights with a wrench and a pepperbox rifle.. he still carries a laser gun though he no longer has any batteries for it. he wears the old robes of the High Priest of Nethys and has collected every funerary mask they have encountered.

Hierophant of the 2nd Circle, 'Altir al Hazarid' a Keleshite human who is an Oracle 5 that is just as obsessed with the Elder as his Father. He is also the bearer of the Scarab Shield and has a pair of Mining Beetles for Companions who are both also oracles 3rd(he splits his xp with them)

Marshal of the 3rd Order 'Suliman the Suli Merchant' a Cavalier in the order of the Eclipse 2, who is also a GentleLady 5 who has just earned her Bachelor's in Marketing from the University. She bears a Holy nagant m1895 and a keen scimitar. She is just as deadly on the field of battle as at the negotiation table. Her camels name is Fartsee Ninetoes on account of the camels special attack method. She has ten teams of laborer's to haul the party supplies

Trickster of the 3rd Order 'Arazona Jones, Half-Elven Professor of History and Investigator 7 extraordinaire she fights with either her composite shortbow or her keen scorpion whip.. those she does bear a dagger of rusting as well for when needed.

Trickster of the 3rd Order 'Sol' The only native of Wati amongst this huge groups of adventurers. She is strange mix of brawler, rogue and bard mostly she smacks things with her heavy pipe and blasts them with her Privateer or snipes them from afar with her composite longbow. She is the only member of the party to recruit any Teams for personal use. She has the second largest thieves guild within wati consisting of 99 teams of robbers.

Iron Gods was hands down my favorite to run. Players started a kingdom with the city of torch and expanded from there.. eventually a few battles and even some huge wars took place. was fun using high tech troops and robots vs barbarian hordes.

Kingmaker is the only AP i have run five time start to finish.

As a whole the tapestry of cheliax aps being failed has eneded up with a reborn cheliaxian empire.. with the queen from curse of crimson throne now on the imperial throne.

Didnt dislike anything. Ive read through everything PF1 and run almost everything.. only having played jade regent + serpent skull and book 1-2 of giantslayer ive DMed the rest of the tales for the parties that come over here to adventure and live or die but certainly end up changing the world.

For 3.5 we used the Empire rules (from a 3rd party whos name i forget now) for Curse of Crimson Throne, LEgacy of Fire, and Second Darkness.
For PF1 Ive run Kingmaker, Iron Gods, Wrath of the Righteous, Hell's Rebels, Hell's Vengeance, Skulls & Shackles, Ironfang Invasion, ; played Serpent's Skull and Jade Regent; I am currently DMing Shattered Star, Giantslayer, Reign of Winter/Strange Aeon combo, Ruins of Azlant, Mummies Mask all with Kingdom Rules.

We used some version of downtime in every AP, even if not the full kingdom rules.

We did not use kingdom rules for the 3.5 version of Rise of Runelords or Council of Thieves, Carrion Crown.

Cant comment on War for the Crown as ive not yet started going through that. As im currently running 5 other APs over the course of a month. Our current game timeline is January of 4716.

Events from Tyrant's Grasp will play out behind the scenes in the year 4717, 2 kingdom turns per book.

Events from War for the Crown will play out behind the scenes each book being 2 kingdom turns of the year 4718.

Return of the Runelords will be heavily modified as the final AP of 1st edition Pathfinder in our tales in the year 4719 with a set of mythic champion heroes coming from any current player kingdom as their sponser.

Cheliax is the biggest Lawful Evil Empire in our world. It commands the thrones of Cheliax, Nidal, Korvosa, Isger, Druma, all islands of the inner sea proper and the Straights.

Osirion controls the largest Lawful Neutral empire in the world. The four Pharaohs command the thrones of Osirion, Thuvia, Rahodoum, Quadria and are currently fighting over the destroyed Katapesh kingdom with Nex.

Alkenstar has taken the Isle of Jalmeray.

Ameiko commands the largest Lawful Good Empire in our world controling almost all of Tian Xia.

Hope this helps you out. its alot of behind the scenes work that your milage may very far as what the players enjoy. were in our late 30s-early 50s and most have been playing since 1st edition. Heck my brother and i thought we needed to Beat 1e before we could try 2e, we were that much of newbys back in the day. I like running the kingdoms/empire type games its rewarding for me. As back in the 2e DND games most of the players would retire their heroes after reaching name level and gaining followers (roughly 10-12th) so running the kingdom stuff allows the players at the table a reason to keep gaming with the same hero until they reach level 20 or higher (no level cap at 20, just cap of 20 levels in X class at our table)

Basically the whole thing is a spoiler to the many Tales we have run at my brothers house and mine over the past 13 years. These are the changes we have in our world leading up the start of PF2 once we finish the tales in progress a couple years from now. Just figured someone on these forums may be interested in whats happened to another table over the years.

James, Mark its been over a decade. Is there any chance of us getting a full fledged world map? Alot of the cities mentioned in the wiki from various books dont even a location on the map. Even stuff in southern Garund and western Casmaron let alone Arcadia or Tian Xai. I get how folks that visit Sarusan would forget that they made maps.. but the rest of the world.. alot is known to the pathfinder society as a whole.

Love what you all have been doing. :) Hope this necromancy works for an answer.

Our campaign has made some changes, in number of players and extensive use of the retraining via downtime and some just deciding to stay in X location and make a new character to continue onwards with. Our initial GM ran books 1 and 2 and half of book 3, ive taken over DMing for the scavenger hunt of history and last half of book 3 as our route brought us to backtracking. No spoilers in here.

Our Party now Consists of the following Heroes (13 in told if everyone shows up, as you can see from levels and downtime earn xp results some make it every week, some are not as often that they can make it)
L11 Adler, Human Ranger with a Monkey Companion from the Vault of Thorns and the wielder of Gorum's Thorn.(Traveler first time in Trunau was for Ruby's Nameday Celebration)
L10 Celembrimbor the Silver-handed, Fetchling Sanctified Rogue4/ Warsighted Oracle8 wielder of Heartspit (was a passenger on the boat that ended up joining us)
L11 Clarke Daemon, elven cleric/wizard/Mystic Theurge real owner of the inn of trunau, fascinated with skulls and collects one from each species we encounter. (came to trunau a century ago after a great personal loss, owns the Inn)
L01 Dredoc, Half Orc/Elf Bard we just rescued him from a cage some giants were draging him around in and making him sing and dance for them..
L10 Grumog, Half Orc Fighter (Armor Master) weilder of the Keenest greatsword anyone has ever seen (was a sailor on the boat that ended up joining us)
L10 Jooose, Undine Shifter Owl, Bear, Wolverine (was an initiate of Silvermane who joined us after Elbow the orc barbarian died in crushers fall)
L11 Ingirhild Nargyrmkin, Dwarven Ranger/Cernasardo Warden 1 wielder of the keenest dwarven waraxe anyone has ever seen. (elder twin of Umlo)
L10 (blanking on name) Halfling Samurai who wields of all things an underwater heavy crossbow that seems to need no bolts,The rider of Pingo a Camel who is both a drake and giant slayer.
L11 Thorne, Halfelf/orc Cavalier standard bearer 3/ skald wardrummer 3/ battle herald 5 (was a standard bearer serving in the trunau guards that picked up a drum along the way)
L10 Umlo Nargyrmkin, Dwarven Fighter4/Rogue6 master of the flaming skillet and icey spatula (younger twin of Ingrihild)
L11 Yamiel Moon Elf Investigator (he stumbled into our midsts with a teleport gone awry and has been helping us for a while)
L11 Zaxel, Svirfneblin Cleric of Brigh, wielder of Agrimmosh successor of Uskorth (also served in the trunau guards)

Im playing as L12 Varros Koldukar, Dwarf Hunter7, Gunslinger 2, Shield Marshal 3 of Trunau, companion of shewolf known as "The Scent of Cinnamon upon the winds under the light of the full moon" or Luna to others.

So i just recently discovered that having run a pile of campaigns over the past years for my assorted table will allow them to gain some kind of credit with the Society for characters?

I dont so much care about credit for myself.. but i know two of them DO play society games one locally here in mn and the other travels across the country and pops into games when he can.

How do I go physically go about doing so for them?

I have run the old Rise of the Runelords, Curse of Crimson Throne, Kingmaker (for 3 tables), Carrion Crown, Iron Gods, Reign of Winter (books 3/4), Wrath of Righteous (books 1-4), Currently wrapping up book 1 Giantslayer (as a PC) we are on a pause from Shattered Star start of book 4.

Ive also run a good chunk of seasons 1-4 and a assortment of random adventure modules.

I ask here in the Organized Play, GM section as since pathfinder was still 3.5 i have been our tables DM.. having played for a whole 6 game sessions as a player and run.. about a dozen years worth of games for 3 assorted tables Id like to get my heros the credit that they apparently have earned.

Thank you in advance.

Not for the city and kingdom building things. Did you just run with same costs for things?

Chesx wet dry mat, can use ultra washable markers on it. Projector down at table also works. Drawing it out works best.. allows doubling the size of all chambers n hallways cuz paizo assumes 4 player not 6 to ten.

Are you all running the kingdoms in the background, or have you converted the UC/UR stuff over to PF2? Ive only peaked thru playtest.. but i dont remember reading any downtime systems like ultimate campaign has in it.

IF you have.. Possible to share the rules ya all came up for it?

Well he's been a buddy for close ta three decades... story wise it's what ida done as his character. no biggy though after all the gunslingers free starter weapon is broken for anyone else so raw and story wise it's cool fun and could explain how I got a pistol.. the broken musket I found backfired and almost killed me twice.. burnt off my beard in the backfires.. so little brother breaks it and turns it into a pistol for me..

We have just finished the plague house, our party consists of the following..

Adler Redwald Human ranger2 outsider stopped by because he was in the neighborhood, who has proven himself very skilled in combat, even if he cants see in the dark

Clarke Daemon Elvish Enhancer (Transmuter1/Cleric Sarenrae1) that has worked at Cham's Inn for a hundred years and is a native to Trunau.

Dayz a drow slayer up here for some reason he casts no shadow and has been questioning the only assassin that survived for a full 30 hours now.

Grrunt a halforc barbarian who was dwarf trained and raised by the same rich parents as Varros.

Varros Koldukar a dwarven hunter/gunslinger a noble scion of war, who is on the payroll of professor Lorrimor with rich parents and a native of trunau and very meticulous who seeks to reclaim his family former sky castle.

Zxael a Snivfneblin Cleric of Brigh who is Denying the Reaper, trained by the dwarven Koldukar family with rich merchant parents who were jewelers and miners.

There is also a dwarven cleric of Sarenrae 1 who has not been able to make it yet due to work.

So.. After a couple sessions poking round town we figured out that we needed to go into the plague house.. i suggest waiting til dawn.. rest of the party says no we are going tonight.. So we went in with 3 heros and my wolf companion.

First floor was a bit before sunset so not too bad.

We poke around and get jumped by a few spiders.. my then hunter falls down a pit in middle of fight with a 1 on a reflex (we house ruled a decade ago that all 1s are fails or crit fails if we confirm w another 1 even if total beats dc)

I used my CLW on myself topped self back off.. two others pull me up.. crazy ghost rat things attack and almost kill my dwarf and halforc brother.

Game session over. Xp awarded. level up happens, no "heal" with leveling but otherwise we rule that everything is applied including new hp instantly. I went hunter1 then gunslinger 1(guntank) with a musket others took L2 in their initial classes

Session 2. We got the stairs room left to look in and some stuff on the second floor. We see a blue flame outside. Human Ranger and Elven Enhancment mage go to put out the fire. Halforc barbarian heads down stairs. I order my wolf E'luna to head and explore two rooms on the second floor, then follow my adopted kid brother downstairs (funny dynamic.. my folks adopted him 18 years ago, my folks died 12 years ago.. so my now 51 yr old dwarf has been raising a halforc for 12 years.. )

Party outside wolf goes right, human and elf go left. human gets mauled by the flood troll.. dropping to zero. mage reads scroll of summon swarm.. spiders end up killing the troll and human gets enhanced con for an hour and gains 2 hp and wakes up. Meanwhile wolf is fighting 3 giant centipedes and cant hit to save her life.. takes 6 rounds to kill the first centi. wizard ends up saving her after the human ranger stealth's and sneaks his way back to the temple in town.

Meanwhile downstairs. Halforc and dwarf are sneaking about, over the bear traps, thru the statue room into the main room.. not high enough of a perception to see the rogue we Know is down here. I bump into him, he aoo and misses. I fire musket, roll a 1 backfire for max (12) damage.. almost killing me.

I sneak off to try and flank.. brother throws axes at the rogue to keep him distracted. I get lined up perfectly.. take aim.. a 2. also a missfire with a musket.. Boom 8 more damage.. im down to 1 HP.

Brother rages charges.. manages to jump over the traps.. chases rogue.. into the anvil of my wolf and the wizard coming down the stairs. brother swings cripples the rogue. rogue throws down wpn surrenders, wizard enlarges person on raging barbarian.. he somehow grows too big to move through out of the space into the room.. sparing the life of the rogue. my wolf tears out the rogues throat as i yell my kill command in dwarven. Mind you im deafened from two musket shots backfiring into my face so i didnt hear the surrender..

My brother turns towards me and takes my musket, snaps it in half and so no gun, it hurts you to use it brother.

Session ends. Ranger is at the sanctuary in town, finds out whats what and is sneaking back to let us know. We find a CLW wand and all heal up.

DM offers me choice; With how lady fate has treated my musket shots I can either add the bolt ace archtype (i do already have MW underwater heavy crossbow from my rich parents), or use the broken broken musket as a pistol, or have a free retraining of the gunslinger level to something else.

thanks for reading.. and if you can make sense of this ramble.. your advice.

I really like it.. and hope to see your posts of how it happens. Kinda wish i was 32 year younger so i could play through those in your world and see how it all works out. I like the generational thing.

Ironfang looks interesting, thats next up in the AP pile here, unless we decide to move to PF 2.0. Havnt poked thru the book much incase of the other players wants to DM it.

Iron Gods was fun to DM you could add that after Wrath.

Wrath that will be a nice twist on things. I like the alternative use of the wardstones. minor demons throughout the books before it is simple enough forshadowing. as would be.. something to let them see one of the wardstones.. in action.. maybe an iceberg flows towards one and melts or something of the like.

Giantslayer im playing through now, were only 2 sessions in so far. So cant help w feedback.

Kingmaker, ive run 4 times now. It is very very much "keep on the boardlands" with the kingdom building that Keep didnt have. Or if you do the kingdom in the background.. then very much will play like Keep did.

Ill have to pick up that dragon to see bout foreshadowing specifically. You gotta decide if you wanna run the blooms and such from kingmaker or go alternative route.. If you want the fae aspect of things or something else. You would need to foreshadow nissa. All the locations and neighboring/rival kingdoms would need to be forshadowed/changed to your world. So your talking bout hex or grid mapping the whole area and plotting out the "static encounters" but thats not too much work.

I really like the progressive development of your world as described above. Giant ants, hollow thorns the size of apartments and bigger then the typical shack. dwarves having better mining tech then humans. a good trade networks.. Im glad you picked dwarves over elves to bring into the fold.. beards are much cooler then pointy ears. :)

Its kinda interesting being the player. Ive played for maybe 9 months since pathfinder came out otherwise being the DM for a table or two each week.. Now i passed the torch and am playing in both Skulls and Shackles and Giantslayer.

Our crew has just finished up boarding training a couple weeks into the game. Our GM just started playing last year at my Kingmaker Table. Hes doing a good job, helping him a bit as ive already played through book one but we had a good cleave take out most of the party. That GM didnt really at all explain that we could attempt to influence the crew at night.. So come you know when.. everyone still hated us..

Party is an interesting blend.

Our Rigger is a Tengu scout named blackbeak (ninja/skald) who is also the richest of us all having performed every night and gotten 20 gold a day for doing such a great job..

Our Cooks mate is an Azlanti human name Erik Cartman who has got to be one of the worlds best turtle fishermen.. and has managed to convince the captain to slaughter his celebratory pigs for the whole first week.. and managed to keep his boss sober for all cept day 2.

Our Deckhands consist of three of us.. all aquatic beings.
First we have a genderless mermaid investigator named Lotus of the Deep, unfortunatly that poor being had never been onboard a ship before and has been seasick for the past 7 days with lady luck frowning upon her.

Next we have a Sharkkin named Saganon (druid/swash)who is able to mend the ship with but a touch.. makes our repair days.. much easier.. He spends his time talking to sharks and coaxing turtles onto Erik's hooks.

Myself Im playing Gillman gunslinger armed with a repeating heavy crossbow who specializes in sailing, engineering and siege weaponry.. goal of being a shipwright and building some kinda of submarine..

Were having fun its a very much yohoho and a bottle of rum game.

We can frolic under the ship.. weve affixed ropes and spikes so we can tie ourselfs to the hull and float..

Just looking ahead into this book. In e5 is the reactor. My players went through and did the iron gods a couple of campaigns before this one; so as players they are going to want to power down it and use it as they know how good tech items are.

The party consists of a large assortment of heros. Two dwarven fighter/defenders, an Aesmar fighter/ranger/rogue, Ta pair of elven rogues, a slyph arcane trickster evoker,, a holy earth infused oread warpriest of torag, a fletchling slayer/inquisitor of abadar, a barbarian/rogue, a gentleman/gunslinger/hunter most of which use firearms or tech devices.. as their kingdom of has been selling tech/guns across the known world for a decade.. as we set IG in '08. So firearms and such are common in my world.

Anyone bothered to power it down somehow. Without destroying it. An option.. Rebuke Technology seems the best bet.. beside knowledge:Technology or profession:Technologist or even Knowledge:Endgineering in the 50s..

I just used the windows as illusions, the castle is alive after all.. if it can shift rooms around, it can certainly shift about walls to appear to be windows or let them into look out into fantastic views of the various planes, and cities where the riders been from the inside.

Just bumping this 5 years later because.. MUCH MUCH LOVE.

Im running Shattered Star and well claiming lands and such have come up and instead of mapping out the area and making my own map... Finding this one even with squares as opposed to hexs is a life saver. I would gladly pay paizo for them to make a map portfolio for the whole world.

This will be so very useful to me in cleaning up various maps and charts i have lying about my gaming room.

The version of the world im running consists of Rise of the Runelords(3.5), Council of Thieves, Kingmaker, Jade Regent, Carrion Crown, Serpent's Skull, Reign of winter, Iron Gods, Wrath of the Rightous all run within it. And for everything since kingmaker kingdom rules have been in play.. for everything prekingmaker i used the rules from the Empire by Alderac Entertainment Group.

As the DM for my assorted tables for close to a dozen years now. I cant say thank you enough.

In my time-line things are different. Im running it as my 3rd kingdom building campaign set here in this universe, and a couple set in other worlds. The year in on it takes place is much later in the start of winter 4717 this campaign begins. The worldwound has been healed and LG kingdom established up there. As well as all of Numeria is united under a kingdom founded in Torch. (same group 3rd generation heroes :))

hey buddy. We wrapped up a bit after you by the looks of things. Campaign paused this summer after the end of our version of divinity drive. Now am running starwars saga.. looking forwards to seeing how your crew handled things.. as i went way off book for most of things for my table. :)

I used different version of the colored cards. Some had the old picture ids per srd, some were new cards the TL had made, some were cards another faction had made. some were from other ships in the fleet. divinity was the flagship of the fleet in my world, not the only ship.

This should be alot of fun to DM. Iron Gods+ should be wrapping up about springtime.

My table got a little side tracked in Iron Gods, i ended up letting them step into The Frozen Stars and then came back to The Valley of the Brain Collectors. Also with kingdom building, they are about ready to start to rally some allied forces and launch an all out attack on starfall with their armies..

I will get a kick out of DMing as good guys.. and there are mature enough to handle an evil AP.. I ran an evil campaign for a year for most of the same crew.

Thanks for letting us DM's be the Good guys for a change.

Right on, Thanks for the quick responses.

Last night I did rule that because the Strix Warrior was Large and had reach on the trap basically he was able to hack his way through it. each room was sealed by a sound proof hatch, so he just stepped inside, players closed the hatch so nothing else in the tower could hear. I gave him a 3 reflex saves if he made those he took no damage destroying the trap, which of course he rolled 20's with MY dice.

In this case it was the upper halfs of 8 gearsmen robots. So if it comes up in the future (which it will) i can continue to rule the same way that the trap has the hardness of the robots and half the hit points of a whole robot.

For a physical trap, i very much happy were all on the same page.

For a magical trap, i just wouldnt allow it.

Basically ive been DMing for this group since 1988 at least weekly.
This Iron Gods Campaign we are basically trying to follow 100% PF rules without any of our assorted house rules carried over from gaming together for decades So i and my players very much appreciate the feedback.

Last night while running Iron Gods: Choking Tower

The players encountered a Mechanical Trap that would effect them once they stepped 10' inside the room. reset automatically. Nobody with disable device.

I added that there was 2.5 feet under the trap that was safe they could crawl, but another item caused anyone touching the floor to take some damage.

The warrior in the party drew his blades and wanted to attack the trap physically.

I could find nothing in the core books or on the d20pfsrd.com that answered the players question if he could. It spawned a furious 10 mins of everyone searching forums, posts, google but not finding anything RAW that would allow it.

The warrior found a post that said basically the DM could assign HP to trap as they want (no limitations) and an AC based off the disable device DC. But his phone then died and we couldnt find the link on any of our other devices.

I am wonder RAW if there is something i have to do to make all traps attackable, or if its more a RAI type thing i can do whatever with.

Thank you for you time.

it was a late session w a few ales afterwords tonight, just getting home now. map sometime today.

all of their hexes are connected.

Ive got a hex map i created on large hex paper that covers the whole of the lands in the area of the campaign. Its at my brothers house with my gaming stuff (as we play tonight). Ill take a picture of the big map and scan a couple different copies of the regular graph paper maps, one of the environment and one with the various kingdoms i created on it.
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My party has just gone into the Choking Tower at 8 players CL 8, i had to bump difficulty a bit but that wasnt too hard.

Basically they took over torch and the surrounding area, explored and claimed NE towards Scrapwall, Explored around scrapwall. Now their kingdom is 36 hexes i think. (or 37 i keep forgetting)

They have destroyed a tax collection force, stolen the vehicles. Druid used plant growth to return the battle field to before battle appearance.

The TL that they have encountered have been bumbling fools. Or overwhelmingly strong. Strictly depending on how many captains are working together or against each other on a TL mission.

They are paying taxes to the Black Horse Tribe for them to send onto the soverign

It is very nice, thats why i like reading about other folks running the same path. For myself i take the AP's and lore as written as a guidepost, not so much a linear path.

Ever since kingmaker we have added kingdom rules to every AP, so things play out a bit differently. In wrath it was in the background, more then here.

I think i will check out that site you gave me and work on a summory.

AP wise they have finished book 2, but they are all level 9, one challange from mythic 3 from various other things they have done.

I rolled a few stability checks for Scrapwall, it rolled 1, 20, 20 before modifiers. Players bought 3 staffs of wall of stone, used all the charges on them to reinforce each of the 3 square miles underground i said that scrapwall was.

i ruled that the building at the end of the arena collapsed down to form a perfect surrounding oval to the arena. that was also another engineering check that the engineer and the two other pcs assiting him rolled 20s.

this group of players is the same on i got a TPK in wrath on with a whole series of 1's and 20's.

So basically the excavator is now in this stone lined chamber with a huge huge power cord running up to the surface up to the Reciever array.

scrapwall is unaware of the machine, just that an 'earth quake happened'

I really like how you do that blog.
Ive been following along since the first link. I would love to do something like that for my campaign, is it that hard to learn to do?

few hundred years or shorter if is a post apocalyptic, if unexplored by civulized races 500 - 1000. no more than a few thousand years atthe most

Im sorry to hear that.

my crew is talking about using it to create a network of underground tunnels connecting at first torch and scrapwall, then any other cities they incorporate into their growing empire.

Ive told them its too big, to unwieldy to use even in mass combat. So they have "settled" with using to to build underground highways so the technic league patrols dont spot the massive military buildup. :D

The funny thing is, one of the characters is carrying around two small portable generators, that would have been enough power to run it.. but hes "saving the generators" (he bought w his share of the gold) for use when he finds a lab capable of upgrading his cyber-enhancements.

So last week, my party did some amazing ENG rolls (35/36/39) to place the Explosive's from the crashed rescue ship with the Incorporial's inside of it all around the exterior of the Excavator, to clear our the remainder of the Rubble around it. One of the clerics watched the explosion happen while in wrath form. It was a pretty cool ending to the hellion battle.

Now the Party has a 100% functional Excavator, however it has no power so will take a bit to trickle in the charges from the Reciever Array.

Does anyone have specs for a working Excavator?

I did use my version of him.
It took two adventures, but i used him as written (including the random rolls for his abilities - hes a "broken" AI so i wanted to include some not soo good round choices.

My party is fairly powerful. I ran it with 7 level 8 with one cleric being CR8, Pc's still have zero arcane power.

Almost killed the Warrior and Rogue, one more round and i would have had it. IF i had been able to launch even 1 batch of repair drones. i too would have had at least one of them.

The party really enjoyed the fight, and passing their First Mythical Trial. I told them that all the Tier fights will be similar to that, but not created with broken programing.
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Now they have absorbed Scrapwall into their growing Kingdom and have decided to ship all the Junk from scrapwall down to Torch to process it into parts to rebuild the ship under neath there.

Also they made DC 33, 36, 39 Engineering rolls to place the explosives from that little ghost ship all around the Excavetor to clear it out. I gave them a 5% chance that using all 3 charges would clear it out and not damage it at all. (They roll a 20)

So ive got to come up with specs for that. Luckily the explosion knocked out all power reserves. So they are now again sending power from Torch to Scrapwall Reciever and routing it down to the Excavetor.

Im taking into account the technic leagues Overwhelming taxes for my players.. so 5k = 10k

Dont forget the party gets a single raise dead scroll in book one when they rescue their friend from the down below torch.

We just finished LOR on monday. Hellion took two sessions to battle, I used the modified hellion boss fight thread infos. My large party really enjoyed it.. and well For an Iron God.. Hellion could not roll above a 6 on any attack rolls.. and not above 2 for any saves.

Raise dead is a 10k diamond thats required. and knowing a priest that will cast it.

You can craft a burial shawl of Gentle repose for about 1000gold that has 1 use per day of gentle repose that has a variable duration (1 day per caster level)

one scroll of gentle repose would be same as a cure light.. 25gold.

I ran book 1 parts 1-3 for 4 players, then added 3 more for part 4.
We went off the rails a bit between 3 and 4. couple days exploring outside of torch.
For the journey to scrapwall i had 8 players, first part of torch 7, now that were at the hellion battle tonight. were at 8, possibly 9 players.

I ran Wrath of the Righteous for a table of 12 and a table 9.

Ill check out that link and see how it compairs to my notes. I use a kindle to GM with, so all my notes are digital. I can spoiler some stuff here or PM ya and can chat specifics.

I would like to point out, Kreggal has made another appearance. This time he has been gifted by the Powers with the form of a Harbinger Archon and shown up a few times when some heros down southeast of the wound have raised up a mythical tier.

:) Just saying, he IS still out there.

I made an attempt at a different version of him. My party consists of 1 level 8 and 7 level 7's. All will have their 2nd mythic rank after the battle. We have gone a fair bit off track from the AP. Though i do have all the books cept the last one. after what happened under Torch, they all wanted to spend time looking for skymetal weapons. They invested two levels worth of XP in securing their Kingdom of Torch. They control 32 hexes and have some allies against the Technic League already.. So power level is a little different. But maybe it will inspire someone else to do it more proper for the AP as written.

With this AP and the Mythicness. IF they pass their Challanges, the creature they slay than explode and does just enough damage to kill them. They wake up nitted back together by the nanobots they injected themselfs with back under torch. with everyone else that is not mythic frozen in time for another round. as though time stopped while they Tier'd up. It was simular in Wrath but with divine energy and not well the light of the emperor :)

Solomani I greatly thank you for this. It will make for an awesome ending to the Scrapwall section. And give them a taste for what they are up against.

I appologize.

In another thread i read something about being able to or not sunder a robot. Im guessing not allowed, because even though they have hardness they are not an object?

Its been a few months, how far in to the AP are you guys now?

Wow, thats awesome.

I havnt looked at 5e. How hard would it be to reconvert it to PF rules?

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My players went in with no maps, none of the residents they talked to for a long while were that good with geography, the one winged party member couldnt roll above a 8 on his perception and geography.

So as they explored it started out looking a bit different.
Once they rescued whiskerfoot, this is the version of the map of scrapwall that they were given as part of their reward. This version ive color coded based on this explorations, and what parts of the town are friendly towards them. The huge orange section to the east/north outside of the normal map. Ive increased the scale of things.. its full of all sorts of rusted and broken things. just hull remaining.. and just a big ol junkyard of mostly unalligned folks. think of it like a few hundred Dump's or Pits full of refuse.

(in my camp were running a kingdom, they are intending to make scrapwall city two in their kingdom. and already have a small force of friendly paladins and crusaders across the water at the Grave, but choose to come in as a party not commanders)

The Steel Hawks and Red Tooth's Raiders are sorta working like a militia force taking out the remaining Smilers and Rust Lords minions.

Party is all set to go to the Arena next session, they will be arriving at nightfall and have accepted the challenge.

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It worked in a somewhat linear fashion.
Steel hawks gave birdfood quest.
Sent her on to Dineva(sp). she asked them to help reclaim her medlab that the smilers took over. along the way they rescue 'Umm" a random NPC that was going to be eaten by some smilers, he spreads words of their courage.
They found whiskerfoot (who they had met and saved previously back under torch and let free) who led them to red tooth.
Redtooth sorta says theres some explosive in the valley, but you gotta get past a basalisk and some ghosts. they do.
Have the option to blow up the dish or the "scrappeak" for 1 use of explosive, they found three packs, and the arena for 2 of packs.
They choose to go to the dish and disable it, reprogram it and password protect it. Funny enough the engineer get himself scanned and copy sent off to the void. the rest of the party slay it and they managed to stabalize their engineer. But I have a copy of him now!
party has chosen to battle in the arena, not to just blow it up. Though the rogue is thinking bout giving redtooth's raiders the explosives to set all three charges and blow it to kingdom come while the rest of the party sleeps in the afternoon..

Engineering use skill checks at data centers they come across in their travels. med labs would be good locations. give them more knowledge based on how good they roll. and even more info if they role good.

As Dm you can always give them enough time between events in the campaign to retrain feats as they learn and encounter new ones.

Total house rule:
Ive ruled it as holy(positive energy damage) with unholy being (negative energy damage)

My party even has a tiny dagger for each member that Heals 1 point of damage per stick to living beings or harms 1 point of dmg to undead.

They have come across hostiles with unholy weapons and ammo. So the evil archers can "heal" their undead allies.

I allowed the machinesmith in my campaign, as a not at level one character. a very simple two fold requirement for it. One of my players is taking it up next level.

Offering some of my upgraded creatures for use for other groups with larger parties.

Miranda (i cant remember how her name is actually spelled so i change it to make it easier to remember for me.

Added a summoner to follow her around.

Aldronard's Grave

I didnt tweak stuff in book 2 too much, side from hellion, who im not yet totally happy with so not sharing it just yet. As i wanted the party to at least make it to hellion's domain by last game session, so that two of my players could see it before they went on the road with renn fairs for 6 months.

Not an Illithid but there is a Pathfinder creature that somewhat serves a similar purpose. I dont have any my 3e books or id whip up a conversion quick. I too want the stats, just dont have them memoriezed. This week my party took care of birdfood, the smilers, and the wreck, all set to blow up the three places for redtooth next week. So im roughly 3-4 weeks away from being on book 3 and needing to have to tracked down the books. Once i find it i will go ahead and post not an Illithid, cuz thats copywritten but a Void Twister as thats all me :P and open source.

PS if you want hexes there is a map that serves mighty well one of the other gents came up with in the additional resources thread.