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We're starting a campaign in august or so, so we're faced with the difficult choice of picking between a known good AP or this unknown-but-possibly-super-awesome AP. Very tough choice...

Any advice?

Speaking as a GM: I recommend that the entire AP is IN HAND and thoroughly digested before beginning the game.

Speaking as a player: I recommend that the entire AP is in the hands of the GM before beginning.

Reasons: For a GM to have a rough outline of the entire scope of the AP is great. For a GM to have a DETAILED outline of the AP is better. For a GM to have read, digested and then tailored the AP to his players is best.

Just my 2cp.

JoelF847 wrote:

What did the Buddhist say to the hot dog vendor?

Hold the ketchup.

Make me one with everything.

No.

After probably 100 hours of my life spent playing this game (probably closer to 200 now), I can only say that I love the game.

It's sandboxy, but with an overarching plot.
It's deep, but not deep enough to completely lose sight of goals.
It's fun.

I've played pretty much every combination of race/class/origin at least once, though I've only completed the game once. With a human rogue noble.

Then I bought Awakening.

...

Which really should have gone back through the QA cycle a few more times. More bugs than I could shake a lightsaber at! Serious interruption of game enjoyment level glitches. *sigh*

Bioware, I hold you to a very high set of standards.

... I just really wish I could hook up my XBox for online play, as the DLC's look super yum.

My DM was talking about an anchoring spell which was permanent, and brought it up as a potential problem I may have to face. Maybe it's not in pathfinders. If thats the case, I'll just ask him to not use it. Our last campaign was a mix of Pathfinders and original 3.5, so maybe he got muddled. I'm not sure, but I thought I'd ask anyways, as I don't want to find myself without my big nasty monster of nightmares guarding me for the rest of my career as a Summoner, just because it's been permanently barred from leaving it's home plane. It would be really dickish of a DM to do it, but the possibility is there, and it is nasty ._. Not saying mine'll do it, but if someones does, what then? Some DM's like to keep to the rules as they're written, even if that means pain and suffering. The Summoner class as I've seen it, does say that the Eidolon you have is all you get. No refunds. :P

To me, these are all very good questions. And while I'm not trying to be snippy (I'm sick, sorry for my tone) these could have come up in the APG Open Beta and been addressed while the book was still in flux.

To answer the question at hand, I've never seen a PERMANENT banish spell. Per PFRPG rules, as I understand them, both dismissal and banishment are duration instantaneous spells. There is no associated "the banished creature may not return within 1 year and a day" as I think there were in other previous rules sets.

Sparked by a confabulation with my Beloved Spouse (Kobold chorus: "We love you!") I just wanted to confirm something about the Paizo shipping process for pre-orders (hereafter referred to as PSPPO)

So, the PSPPO, as I understand it, is based on the overlap of the amount of similarity of orders. My current is AP, GMG and then randomly, a Runequest book. This means, in my estimation, that if anyone else had this identical order, our orders would get filled, shipped and then PDF'd to us before an order that was LESS similar. But any orders that had larger quantities of orders with overlap would ship before mine and this supposed other person with the AP, GMG and random Runequest book.

Is my current understanding of PSPPO roughly accurate?

I started gaming fairly recently, so my gaming bag isn't as impressive as some here :)

*snip*

I'm sure the more I play, the list will get longer :D

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