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I went to the Pathfinder Chronicler messageboard and it seems dead. Most of the posts are old. Is Pathfinder Chronicler in an off season?


Thanks, James!


I wrote a short story that takes place in the Pathfinder setting and I want to post it for other Pathfinder fans but I don't know where to put it. I put it on my gaming blog but I was hoping to share it on the message board, too.

The final (I hope) version of my fantasy adventure short story. If you have a chance to read it please give me some feedback, positive or negative. This has been an exercise in writing and I have tried very hard to hone my skills.

Follow a party of treasure seeking adventurers as they try to escape an abandoned underground city infested with zombies.

Dark Halls


blakbuzzrd wrote:
On a side note, cool mini display!

Thanks! That is a vintage golf ball display case that I picked up in a yard sale for a couple of bucks. I hope to one day paint it and make it look even cooler.


The description of the different orc subtypes and tribes has inspired me to paint some different orc minis to represent the different groups.


Halidan wrote:
I think I'll use your #2 idea on the main (outside) lines of the tatoos, and use my Staedtler pens for the inner lines.

I'm so glad you brought this up! I have that fig and is on my to-paint list. But I also have this Dwarf Barbarian from Reaper that I want to paint in a celtic or pict style with the swirling blue tats all over and had no clue how to tackle it without it looking "painted on"


blakbuzzrd wrote:
Awesome! Looks like they are in the middle of a skirmish at Thistletop!
Dhampir984 wrote:
That troll is frakkin awesome! Love what you did with them all.

Thanks, guys! I have all of the minis for the Pathfinder Icons so I'll be moving on to those next!


Finally Finished!!

The troll I am most proud of, the log is a twig, the bush is spainish moss, and the swamp plants are flowers from a weed.

the goblin chief stands on the severed head of a human soldier
(Warhammer Fantasy soldier head)

The goblin archer takes cover by a log (1 inch twig)

Check out the bases:


Cpt_kirstov wrote:
these stores are normally happy to let someone else clean the bottom of these bins for them - and the hobbist can get flakes of various color slate and shale flakes. ;)

Excellent idea, Captain! I have a few pet stores around, I'll check it out!


Thanks, guys! I went looking at a model hobby shop yesterday. I couldn't find slate but I did find fine gravel. However, I have a ton of woodland grass flock left so I think I'm making forest-goblin bases. I will definitely be buying more pacts of the Goblin warriors & Goblin pyros so I may do some in the grey-blue with gravel or slate.

Anyone else have pics to share of their painted goblins other then blakbuzzrd & me?


I really like the blue! I love the gravel on the bases; what did you use for it? They have an awesome subterrian look to them.


blakbuzzrd wrote:
Nice torches! And I see you went with the now-canonical green goblin. Mine were done up in blue.

I don't have the Pathfinder RPG Bestiary yet; are they described as being blue in there? On the cover they look green. I’ve seen only a couple of pics of blue goblins but several more as green so I assumed the blue was the exception not the rule.

I followed the illustration from Pathfinder Chronicles: Classic Monsters Revisited and page 137 of the Core Rule book. Also over at PathfinderWiki the pics “Thistletop bridge fight” and “Goblin fire brigade” show green goblins.

I'd love to see how yours turned out; do you have a link to a picture?


MUST....HAVE...IT! I just found my new player character! Of course it's difficult to sell an assassin as a protagonist, so I'm invisioning a masked vigilant fighting crime in the dark alleys of Absalom! (feel free to steal that idea) Now I need the Complete Character Folio! lol


I did a quick paint job of Goblin Pyros & Goblin Warriors yesterday and wanted to share them with you. There are a few more details I want to work on but I would say they are ready for play.

Check 'em outMy Goblin Pyros & Goblin Warriors.


I did a quick paint job of Goblin Pyros & Goblin Warriors yesterday and wanted to share them with you. There are a few more details I want to work on but I would say they are ready for play.

Go to My Goblin Pyros & Goblin Warriors.


Wow! Nothing short of awesome! Thank you!


I want to know how much of your lead is painted? I went hog-wild years ago and I got enough lead to make me a master minis painter by the time I'm done.

So am I a freak or do you buy forward on minis too?

spoiler:
Here the proof of my addiction...My lead collection.


First phase:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b277/LRPGGuildMaster/DSC05650.jpg

still got a long way to go but it's a start!


Cpt_kirstov wrote:
Mitch Brock of Boston wrote:
I wish we could find out which Reaper paint colors to use to color the fig as close to the illustration as possible. Like is the red on her outfit and hat "Dragon Red" #18003 or "Bright Red" #18070?

Click on the picture above, and copy the url.... then go to Power Palette and put the url in under the mona lisa picture, and click load.... then click on the part you want to know the color of, and write it down. problem solved

edit: looks like Pheniox red, rust brown, clotted red..... Brightest to darkest

Awesome! Thanks, Cap!


I wish we could find out which Reaper paint colors to use to color the fig as close to the illustration as possible. Like is the red on her outfit and hat "Dragon Red" #18003 or "Bright Red" #18070?


Pathfinder Troll (finished except for base).

Orc Chieftain.

Orc warrior.

Wolfen Scout.

Wolfen Mercenary

I have more but these are the best so far.


GeraintElberion wrote:
Mitch Brock of Boston wrote:


Pathfinder Troll (finished except for base).

That is ace, much better than anything I can do.

seethes with jealousy

Thank you!

It is actually a very simple technique. A black base coat covered by a dark green that is slightly lighten and dry brushed little by little. I bought some "how to..." paint minis DVDs and it has helped a lot.


Black Dow wrote:
Mitch Brock of Boston wrote:


Pathfinder Troll (finished except for base).
Brutally nice - like it!

Thanks!


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Pathfinder Troll (finished except for base).


My table has just embarked on CotCT! Our first session ended with the fishery and the cliffhanger was the city erupting into chaos. I have purchased the Guide to Korvosa. I have my Harrow Deck and Curse of the Crimson Throne Item Cards are on order. We all very excited and can not wait to play through this entire AP!


AWESOME! A must have!


I look forward to useing this product! Thank you, Paizo!


Just got mine on PDF! Love it!


I love Falcon's Hollow! I don't care what the module is about just put it in the Darkmoon Vale and I will send my players off to their heroic deaths!!!


I am so excited about this book! After getting D0, D1, and now D1.5, my table and I are really intrigued by the possibility of diving into those ruins under the mountain. A book of regional fluff will buy me some time as I wait for more modules based around Falcon’s Hollow.


I got mine yesterday at The Comics Club in Brandon, Florida! D0 turned me on to Pathfinder and now D1 and D1.5 has made it my favorite game setting! Thank you Paizo!!!


The backgrounds for these characters were meant to weave the heroes into the community of Falcon’s Hollow and/or explain how they came to choosing their class.

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Human Ranger 1st level:

Eja Clayborne is close with the Eavewalker Family. Idris was an old friend of her father and became like a father figure to her. Idris taught her the skills of a ranger. They even saved the townsfolk from a menacing owlbear once. Idris knew the lumber barons would see any heroics as a possible threat. He warned Eja to always help the town in a clandestine way.

Idris left two years ago with a group of adventurers and has not been heard from since. Eja has remained a close friend of Idris’ wife Kitani and his daughter Kimi who calls her “Auntie Eja”.

Eja works at Goose’n’Gander, Falcon’s Hollow’s general store. She works for the only civilized gnome in the region, Brickasnurd Hildrinsocks. He is an honest but frugal business man. Asia has worked for him since before her family went back east. The gnome considers her family and worries about her moonlighting as Falcon’s Hollow’s resident defender from the wilds.

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Dwarf Cleric 1st level:

Bjorn was born to proud parents Wolfried and Hildegard Hammerstein. Bjorn worked along side his father in the lumber yards most of his adolescents. The little dwarf family scraped out a living under the oppressive Lumber Consortium.

Than one day a missionary from the Church of Light brought news of Iomadae, the goddess of valor and justice. Bjorn heard the preaching of the human cleric. She spoke of a deity that blessed the courageous, who gave gifts to her faithful to defend the weak, free the oppressed, and champion for justice. The missionary told the people if they gave worship to Iomadae then the town would flourish and its people would be filled with the grace. For the large part, the people of Falcon’s Hollow rejected the missionary and her goddess. The Hammerstein’s, like most in Falcon’s Hollow, wanted nothing to do with organized religion. They were happy to live life however they felt fit and be able to change with the situation instead of being restricted a set morality. However, there were a handful of people that wanted to hear more. And no one wanted to hear more then young Bjorn, who deep in his soul longed for justice.

It was not long after the small group of worshippers pooled their time, talent, and treasures together and built the Temple of Iomadae. Wolfried was furious the day Bjorn quit the lumber yards to join the Order of the Sons of Iomadae and become a cleric. After a few years Bjorn reconciled with his father and even rid the lumber yard of a terrible poltergeist, which had claimed the lives of several workers, by invoking the intercession of Iomadae. Many of the lumber workers turned to worshipping the powerful goddess who had saved them through her servant know to all as Bjorn “Ghostsbane” Hammerstein. (Dwarf Cleric 1st level)

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Half-elf Wizard 1st level:

Sangilak Ek-Chua made his way to Falcon’s Hollow over 20 years ago. Described by many as a quiet man known for his love of books. Few know he is a half-elf and none know of his pursuit of arcane knowledge. He hides his passion for the mystical. Magic-users not in the direct employ of the Lumber Consortium are viewed as highly potential threats and are usually run out of town.

For years he has worked as a records clerk at Hollows Tribunal, the local court house. Sangilak has been a silent confidante of Magistrate Varmos Harg for many years. Sangilak is one of the few people that know the magistrate’s shame, loneliness, and thirst for true justice.

Other then himself, the only resident student of the arcane that he knows of is Sharvaras Vade. Sangilak suspects Vade to be a dark wizard perhaps dabbling in necromancy. To complicate matters Sangilak befriended Savram, Vade’s son, hoping he can gently influence the boy to explore more benevolent magical disciplines.

Sangilak knows that only through live application of his spells will he excel in his craft. He waits patiently for an opportunity to help the community with his mystical powers.

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Halfling Rogue 1st level:

Eilo Buckram was raised by his widowed father. It was hard working long hours at the paper mill and trying to look after a young motherless Halfling son.

Eilo was never accepted by the other neighborhood children. He was ridiculed for being small and often picked on and bullied. It started as a game when the “bigger kids”, mostly humans, teased him saying he was “too small” to go with them. He would quietly follow them and every time they caught him he just got better the next time.

As adolescence came, the kids began getting into petty crime. Eilo was disgusted by them hurting the elderly, vandalizing property, and stealing from people. He started staking them to foil their plans, making noise to give them away when they were sneaking, steal back whatever they stole and give it to it’s rightful owner, etc. He learned to fight because he wasn’t always sneaky enough but he got tough, fast, and smart.

As they grown into young adults, his once playful rivals aspired to join the Redrock Guild, an organized crim syndicate. Eilo spent so much time sabotaging the plots of the Redrock Guild that his father had become convinced that Eilo was now a member of the gang. He couldn’t make his father believe he was actually fighting the real criminals.

Out of concern for his father’s anxiety, Eilo obtained a job as a bookkeeper. The work was honest enough for his father to believe his son was no longer a criminal. Also his work spared him physically so that at night he could pursue the task of keeping Falcon’s Hollow safe.

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[b]Human Fighter 1st level[/b:

Surinder Murali’s father left when he was young. Why? He could never be sure; the story would change with his mother’s sobriety. The questions concerning his father stopped to matters as much when the Goblin Wars begun. He was of age at the time and was carted off with nothing more then a pitchfork to fight wild goblin warriors. Soon he was assigned to a particular soldier who treated him fairly decent.

Among the trees the soldier that accompanied him was taken down by a single crossbow bolt. The seasoned goblin warrior thought he would “play” with the human youngling before killing it. Unbeknownst to the goblin, or anyone including the young peasant boy, was the rage that had swelled inside him. From the abandonment by his father, the apathy of his mother, and shame of his inescapable poverty, fueled a boy of twelve to erupt and stab his pitchfork deep into the laughing goblin warrior. With his soldier dead, Surinder donned the fallen man’s helmet, picked up his short sword and trek further into the woods.

By dawn the sergeant had thought the soldier and his boy dead or had deserted until he saw the boy emerge from the forest. Surinder dropped the fifteen goblin scalps at the feet of the sergeant and sat by the fire without a word. Four years later the war was over and the boy was returned to Falcon’s Hollow like discarded military equipment. His mother had died while he was gone and years of fighting had left him without a purpose or hope. He began to drink.

His drunken brawls eventually landed him in the town jail. In the morning his throbbing headache was interrupted by Sheriff Deldrin Baleson giving him a sermon about a “purpose filled life”, “the greater good”, and “direction for his anger”. Somewhere between the coffee and the early afternoon Surinder began to listen to the Sheriff. By that night he had given up drinking and after a month of training with Sheriff he was deputized.


My table decided they wanted to be from Falcon's Hollow.

The races/ classes were

human ranger
dwarf cleric
half-elf wizard
halfling rogue


I'm very excited about this!

My table has started with "Hollow's Last Hope" last week. We decided that all the player characters would be from Falcon's Hollow. So I purchased “The Crown of the Kobold King" to get all the details about the town. I knew my table was going to love playing D0, I made sure to introduce a couple of the children from the D1 to build an emotional bond early. The players like “their town” and after successfully returning with the cure, they are considered heroes by some and potential enemies to others. I was very excited about them starting D1 in two weeks. But now it is even better knowing I will surprise them at the end of June with the shocking "Revenge of the Kobold King!"

Thanks Paizo for the high quality, fun filled games!


I'm very excited about this!

My table has started with "Hollow's Last Hope" last week. We decided that all the player characters would be from Falcon's Hollow. So I purchased “The Crown of the Kobold King" to get all the details about the town. I knew my table was going to love playing D0, I made sure to introduce a couple of the children from the D1 to build an emotional bond early. The players like “their town” and after successfully returning with the cure, they are considered heroes by some and potential enemies to others. I was very excited about them starting D1 in two weeks. But now it is even better knowing I will surprise them at the end of June with the shocking "Revenge of the Kobold King!"

Thanks Paizo for the high quality, fun filled games!


I'm very excited about this!

My table has started with "Hollow's Last Hope" last week. We decided that all the player characters would be from Falcon's Hollow. So I purchased “The Crown of the Kobold King" to get all the details about the town. I knew my table was going to love playing D0, I made sure to introduce a couple of the children from the D1 to build an emotional bond early. The players like “their town” and after successfully returning with the cure, they are considered heroes by some and potential enemies to others. I was very excited about them starting D1 in two weeks. But now it is even better knowing I will surprise them at the end of June with the shocking "Revenge of the Kobold King!"

Thanks Paizo for the high quality, fun filled games!


So excited to hear you're staying 3.5! Solved my subscription dilemma and ensured me a place to get fresh published adventures for the game table! Thank you Paizo for sticking with the fans!


I apologize for starting yet another thread on this topic. I saw the pervious topic and now understand. Since a decision about switching to 4E is pending. I have decided to subscribe to pathfinder in the meantime. Thank you all for your help.


I for one hope it stays 3.5, until Paizo has no other choice then to change to 4E.

I find 3E adequate for my gaming needs. I think 3E is vastly better then 2E was. I am confident that 4E will be an improvement on 3E (if for no other reason then the zillions of hours of playtesting and millions of gamers’ feedback directly and indirectly to WotC).

But I, like many 2nd edition friends I know, can not afford to just throw away my enormous investment in 3E, which by the way is less then a decade old. I will not be coming over to 4E for many years to come if ever.


I want to subscribe to Pathfinder however I will not be moving on to 4th edition.


Congrats, Christine! I am so excited about this adventure! I voted for this mission so now I'm "putting my money where my mouth is" and pre-ordering! I can't wait to drop this into my campaign and see the reaction of my players!