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Norin d'orien wrote:

Excuse me for the silly question, are the plastic bases included in the box or am I supposed to buy them separately?

Thanks

They are NOT INCLUDED.

There is no box.

Thanks a lot.

Excuse me for the silly question, are the plastic bases included in the box or am I supposed to buy them separately?
Thanks

Just wanted to say that after 3+ years of gaming, yesterday evening my players met the jabberwock at the end of the blooms sequence.

I must say that as the fellow above me, my players are way over the top in terms of power, so I had to compact the blooms in about a single day to draw their attention and make the encounters serious trouble.

Still the jabberwock came in at the moment when the cleric said he could not stand more than another fight (another CR 16 fight tough he did not knew at the time,that they had waged war aginst CR 16 worms).

Long story short, Ranger wielding vorpal weapon, hasted, prey ability up , meant that 'lil Jabby lasted only 2 rounds before getting his head chopped off by a natural 20.

Shame on me for not foreseeing this anticlimatic (but very funny) result and for buying the miniature (still very nice piece tough).
As a friend of mine once said: "worry not DM, perhaps it has a cousin, or a brother..."

On a side note, has any of you awarded sharpness point based on the encounter CR instead of monster CR? e.g. is the water elementals encounter worth a sharpness point?

So... can anyone tell me what is the DC for spotting secret doors in Irovetti’s palace? I can’t find it anywhere... I’d say around 30?

Think i might have solved the issue. The special attack description says they are frigtened for 2d4 rounds, nothing about getting back. Therefore my mistake was to not have rolled the 2d4 but making the effect last only as long as they were in sight of the ghost.. oh well.

The sorceress decided to partecipate in the illusion monsters event.. all in all it was a great part of the AP.
I have a question related to the ghost ability to wail and make people panicked: once a player fail her saving throw, and runs enough to regain control of her actions, does she become panicked again if she gets back to see the ghost? I ruled that she would not, because otherwise only the cleric would have stayed and most likely would have died a horrible death..

In my campaign i'll make it so that any of the players will be able to use briar without penalties, for rules would be but an impedment in this situation.. (my group is made up by a ranged ranger, a sorceress and a an asmodean cleric...so no real good candidate for a sword there!)

So tonight is the night, after a loooong hiatus my campaign is starting again and i am looking forward to introduce the big feathery guy to my players! I am going to make him pose as no other than GRIGORI! my players told him that he was basically exiled from their kingdom but otherwise left on almost amicable terms...

I was thinking to make him an emissary to Irovetti from nyrissa, only lately arrived in town, because nyrissa is obviously tired of waiting for Briar. Also i was thinking about a forbiddance effect into the lower floors of the palace, placed there by the previous owner to keep out those pesky fey pranksters ( - modified forbiddance to keep out a specific king of creature instead of alignment).. wich would explain why the raven knight has not yet found the sword. The knight would be presented in the tournament as an independent and approach the players by revealing his true identity..and asking for briar!

I support this. Wholehertedly. More dragonsssss!!!!!( i also vote for Belisle as main artist BTW)

I really hope you keep playing this advemture...readinf of your misfortunes has lightened up more than one of my days (I'm a terrible person)

1)Dragons AP!!!
2) runelord AP! (Possibly Mythic!)
3) brevoy game of thrones AP

These would be my top picks

Really really sorry about this.
I love reading, but sometimes a short story is just the right amount of pages you can manage, and PJ were my favourite spot to find just that many pages.
Glad to hear there'll be more pages for adventures and backstory articles tough.

Veeeery nice Rune!

I hope for more info on Shyka(s)!
Can't wait!

Ah. Ok.. still... Can't wait for this!

The only problem i have is the 30 or so Bucks needed for the shipping.. Which is why, tough i am more than willing to pay for the book, i will most likely not buy this, at least not as a preorder. Maybe i'll just wait till it gets translated in italian. Such a shame.
James i apreciate honesty and disclosure more than an immaculate production record. So thanks for the insight!

Edit: just Tried to sidecart it.. And the shipping became 0.. Does this mean i get a discounted shipping or the 30$ will just be added to the other shipping fees?

Hmm... for all the call for azi updates and new linnorms and other GM-oriented material I'm seeing here... maybe a 64 page "Inner Sea Dragon Bestiary" might have some traction...

hmmmmmmmm...

Yes! And maybe an updated daralathraxyl as well? Hmm?

For added fun take a look at the story of Count Ranalc...for little is known of him..

Guys is there a way to protect oneself against lamias' WIS drain? I can't seem to find anything..

I realy love it! And hope more of the like will be presented in the years to come. Tough i only have read the installements up to the fourth i can easily say this is going to stand among my top 3 AP. I absolutely love volume 4 for all the non combat role play heavy court section. If I must find a problem with the AP it is that you end up pretty much being someonelses underling all the time. Sure you apre left free tu pursue your evil tastes but it's all about someone elses objective. At least IMHO.
And yay for angel slaying!

Nice one! In my campaign I Made it so that Count Ranalc suffered something similar to his lover.. Thus forging a certain rapier..

Given that the rules for hexploration were slightly changed from KM to UC there's some slight inconsistencies here and there. But the seeds of what you seek is already there: most mines are defined ad such and you could easily consider that a resource hex. Same thing for the moonberries field. I have decided to follow the description of hexes as it is in the adventure, so i cannot help you further. For higher encounter rates i think i can remember some in later books in the adventure.. But i might be mistaken..

Has anyone found a way to involve pure casters in the tournament as well? I' m a a bit short on ideas and could use a suggestion or two.

Do want!

Sooo... nothing? They've just released paper minis for jade regent! Where's my Drelev, my Armaag, my irovetti?

In my Kingmaker game two players have creation feats: wands, rings and wonderous items. Kingmaker is a bit atypical tough in so that it gives you years of time to craft. If the players do not abuse it creation can also get pretty funny and useful.

Soooo maybe i can join the cry for your expanded tournament goodness?

I like the added conditions, tough it's maybe too much for such little gain?

I would go with an alliance sort of pact, instead of a true annexion. This way you could keep TF as it is in B4B. My players actually kinda forgot about rezbin asking for help and when they did remember i told them that Loy would rather develop the city on his own, and only later ask for annexion, as a proof of good will.

I like the idea, tough you will have to do a significant amount of rework. I would suggest to use some sort of fey instead of humanoids, you can keep the theme and also create some nice NPCs.. Useful for a little foreshadowing maybe? The hero could be a couple of erlking plus amadryad whom beat the thing by sealing him at the cost of their life,

FilmGuy wrote:

Hey all,

I'm about to hit Runeforge with my group and I was wondering if anyone had worked up interesting spellbooks for loot that they'd be willing to share. I'd like to tailor the spellbooks a bit, but I haven't had the time to do so yet. Short term I'll probably hand wave and try to work something out before it's time to sell them, but I thought I'd see if anyone had anything they were willing to share.

Thanks.

I just finished these, put them below. The sad thing is I spent a lot of time working on them and the players just sold them. Hehe...I should have expected it.

** spoiler omitted **...

Could someone explain how the prices were calculated? Especially Vraxxeris seems to be off..

The cover kills it! Totally buyin' tnis! Also, hoping for more on the line, something like.. Path of the Aldori, or path of the mantis or dunno, path of the grey gardener.. Or path of rahadoun? Very exited for this book!

Group hug is sooooo adorable! Makes you wonder what kids value in real life.

Forwarding to my GM. Thanks!

IMC Gregory was beaten in a tense battle of diplomacy by the cleric who won the last roll-off only thanks to his trait (seductive or something like that) which gave him the edge by swaying the female audience on his side. Truly nice!.

Hi james,
Do you think that the swordlords of restov would oppose the opening of a sanctuary/church to asmodeus in their city?
Consider that IMC (kingmaker) the PC high priest is an asmodean. He said he is looking forward to have an estabilishment in several closeby nations.

Hello James, i am GMing kingmaker and one of my player is an asmodean cleric. Said player said that his long term objective would be to turn himself into a devil, possibly a new type, focussed on exploiting mortals lust to corrupt them. In the past i was scarred by allowing players to do whatever they wanted and i am now trying to keep things more balanced.
We had a couple of ideas on how to achieve such a thing and would like to know your opinion on which would be more balanced.
1) turning a part of his WBL in research, providing him with progressive bonus, comparable to those given by magical items
2) creating an 'outsider' prestige class with five or so level culminating in the trasformation into a native outsider
3) adapting the rules for demonics transformation.
4) some other direction?
Thanks for your suggestions!

Oh! Bonus question! Have you ever been to Italy?

Ok i run the event and used the idea of the out-of-place barbarian (namely Kundal), a flea-show by Tigg tannersen, a group of varisian dancers ( who later revealed themselves to be assassins sent by Drelev) and a couple of comedians, using puns and jokes from a thread on the forum i found by tiping 'golarion jokes'. Thanks all for the imput!

Awesome! Now i only have to decide wether to buy it right here right now or wait for the italian publisher to translate it...! So much doubt!

Yay totally buyn' this!

I didn't notice that. Thanks for pointing it out!
Altough I seem to remember that the male-female role-inversion was something related to culture and not a response to recent events, this, coupled with the fact that i think that a spree of female births was also mentioned somewhere.. Maybe the year is wrong? Or maybe the losses and the female births percentage was worse than we think.

The summary of NPCs and PCS was much apreciated! Thank you!

so much win!

Soooo my beloved baroness player asked for a jester contest, to select her personal court bufoon. I would greatly apreciate any suggestion on contestants, jokes, tricks and ideas in general to give her and the other players a good bit of roleplaying and posssibly a good laugh.
To give an example i was wondering about introducing a mockingfey (parrot-like fey who can change shape into miniature version of humanoids), who would present herself by assuming Oleg's appearance and acting all pissed up because a NPC wizard i created (Stroom adoptive son) had minimized him, enter real Oleg, embarassed silence, shrilling voice debate ensues.
Anyone? I would like to present at least 3 contestants.
Thanks!

Suggestions on how to deal with sudden PVPness in the party.
A table of random NPCs names to substitute the ones inevitably killed by the players.

will be getting this one!

Realm of the felnight queen maybe? It fits the theme and could Also be easily connected with the bigger plot.

Interesting! What classes will he/she be? Are you planning on using UC rules? How will you handle the kingdom roles being only one? What about combats? Are you the GM or the player? If the latter how will you change the background of the AP?

Nice! I wish i had seen this before!