Not at all. Just wait until the AP gets to Arcadia!
I am super excited for Arcadia. I ran a sandboxy kingdom-building game there a year or so ago and had great fun with what I added onto the content in Distant Shores. Hoping to see it fleshed out a lot more.
My players keep coming up with ideas to bolster Longshadow's defenses. I've (secretly) awarded them a few Defense Points for legitimately clever ideas, but now one wants to fly to Lastwall once he hits level 10, hire a bunch of mercenaries with the crap ton of gold they haven't spent, and teleport them back to Nirmathas. I love my players, and they are creative, but I am not sure I can let them keep doing this sort of thing without just throwing the siege rules out the window and making the challenge laughable. And ideas would be helpful.
I have what may be a stupid question: When the Stargazer says you gain the Stars Subdomain, is it JUST the subdomain portion, or is it the entire Void Domain as altered by Stars?
I wonder if we're finally getting some variant half-celestial templates. Would be nice! (already have variant half-fiend templates, and I was disappointed they didn't add them in Heaven Unleashed).
In case you haven't heard, Ultimate Wilderness also features new, nature-based, core races that you can play. Two of those races—the long-time favorite and delicious ghoran, and the band new vine leshy—are plant creatures.
Ghoran isn't new though. Or do they mean they're just updating it?
So how do you convince your PCs to take The Long Walk instead of just teleporting to their destination? "Loot and XP" isn't really a good enough explanation for my group. :P
I was hoping for a max of 1 underwater encounter per book, but it sounds like there are going to be a lot more. I like the concept of underwater adventuring, but the rules are pretty darn onerous. I may skip the rest of this AP. :(
My PCs just got out of Phaender and we're about to start Part 2. Question for those who have got past that or at least read ahead: How are you handling all the potential encounters in Part 2, roll for them or something else? Also trying to figure out when to start up the Militia system for them. Any pointers would be grand.
This might be a dumb question, but is there a map key I'm missing somewhere in the book? I get what A, B, C, D, and E are, but C, F, and T on the building maps (in dotted boxes) don't seem to be clearly defined and are confusing me.
Three troops each for Nirmathas and Molthune. Molthune gets Imperial Infantry, Imperial Archers, and Imperial Phalanx (CRs 9, 10, and 11, respectively), while Nirmathas gets Nirmathi Skirmishers, Forest Guardians, and Irgal's Axe troop (CRs 8, 10, and 12). Apparently they work kind of like swarms, but full Troop rules are coming in Bestiary 6.
As for your previous question, the book is chock-full of juicy lore about both countries, and I'm not sure what was previously known. It's really all new to me.
