The degree to which I am entirely enthused by this announcement is difficult to overstate.
I'd say you have been missed at my gaming table -- but that isn't true. We just finished running through [i]The Skinsaw Murders under PF2, City of Locusts (also in PF2) is on the docket, and speaking of dockets - I'm converting Trial of the Beast to PF2 right now.
But I'd rather not have to convert your stuff :)
Thank you very kindly indeed Steel Wind, I felt the same when the wonderful Mr Jacobs emailed me out of the dark folds of space where he lurks plotting the end of all things and asked me if I would like to write this adventure, which of course he knew the answer to before he asked. He knows I've been looking on looking at the cool adventures they have been writing and publishing for PF2 with admiration so it was really nice to be asked to pen this.
Glad you're having fun with some of the older adventures too and bravo for converting them, please say sorry to your players from me for any nastiness that might occur. I really hope you like this one, it was great fun and a total joy to write.
This was just stupendous fun to write, I hope you'll all love it! I was literally bouncing around when James asked me to write this adventure and it was so great to have fun playing about with the wonderful ideas he's put into this AP.
Very happy to answer any questions when this puppy arrives on your doorsteps and thank you for all your enthusiasm you lovely folks.
Just to let you lovely folks know that you can now borrow the wickedly funny Goblins! The Adventure of the Wise Wench novel through kindle unlimited for free!
At last! The Great Mole has spoken and commanded she be a book with proper pages too. Goblins! the paperback is now available, the Great Forest has been felled (and burnt quite a bit to be honest, heh heh) in readiness. Please share, please order, please get your fins and shark costumes ready for All-Sharks Eve!
Some of my favourite quotes from reviews so far...
' I'd expected a few giggles but Goblins! The Adventure of the Wise Wench has some real laugh out loud moments'
'Pett leaves the door wide open for a sequel -- indeed, the Wise Wench at one point confuses this quest with one that she and Urgh will be on in the future -- and if it comes to be, I will be first in line to read it.'
' I was persuaded to read it because it has footnotes. I am enchanted by footnotes in fiction (I quite like them in text books too) - think Terry Pratchett, or Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell.'
'Any book featuring the line “Bring me the nasal siege pliers” is surely worth investigating'
Thank you everyone who has taken time to review Goblins so far, I'm looking forward to seeing more soon.
Heh heh, and this is going to be awesome! Hugely excited about seeing what these wonderfully sick and twisted individuals wring out of Grimmerspace, from what I’ve seen so far it’s very nasty....
Just a quick update, the draft print version is ready, just need to give it final approval so hopefully before the weekend is out those puppies are heading back to papa. Once I have them I’ll post a link to purchase, huzzah!
Hello chums! I've written a funny fantasy book for all, it's about goblins and is available now at amazon - huzzah!
"A woman who knows everything and is never wrong, and a goblin king who cannot abide being corrected join forces to try and save the goblins from being squashed by naughty giants! Join award winning writer Richard Pett in this funny fantasy novel about the most cowardly, selfish, weak and vicious little blighters that live in the Great Forest..."
Once upon a time, there were no goblins.
Most goblins agree this was an unacceptable state of affairs; far too quiet and not enough violence. Not nearly enough violence. And without anyone to start all the fires or eat all the stuff that needed eating, boring too! And who would want to live somewhere boring? So, then there were goblins!
But now, some naughty giants want to squash all the goblins and bring back those terribly boring days.
A mysterious and frighteningly well-informed Wise Wench, an udder-obsessed Goblin King, and a pair of reluctant and, frankly, repulsive goblin "heroes" stand in their way.
Let the chaos begin!
Goblins! - The Adventure of the Wise Wench - is available for your immediate enjoyment at the sites below, as are the opening chapters which are absolutely free, huzzah! If you enjoy them, think what a fine and totally unexpected early Christmas gift the novel would make for you, and be an ideal start to reaping extra goodies in the coming weeks.
It’s a joy to be involved in this ap, it was great fun working with James’ twisted thinking and spread another layer of badness on it, but having to follow the sick demented mind of demented Daigle is worrying, in a good way. Heh heh.
60) Having W.E. heap praise on me in front of Vaughan. Vaughan! Hah! take it Vaughan, take it! Joy, a golden moment W.E. and one I thank you richly for my friend, never to be forgotten
61) Meeting awesome lovely people I never would have without them, working for brilliant gifted folk who are adorable and amazing, and also getting to spend time with them too. Never enough...alas...
Not sure how many changes have been made to the original draft but I've quite a few extras for this one as the word count was slightly lower than usual. I'll post up what's relevant here for your delectation in due course and you can add or ignore as you wish.
Bless you cycnet, I'm very glad it's inspiring some thoughts - that's as much as anyone can hope for when writing settings such as this beast, and yes Flash they do breed, I'm missing a ferret and I'm pretty sure my copy of the Blight has eaten it and that I'll open the pages one day and find a desiccated flat ferret looking at me in horror.
You'll notice inside my corpulent Blighty love that the setting was itself inspired by Pellinore and the City League which appeared in Imagine magazine and inspired me to get writing, hope you'll do the same cycnet and we'll see some settings growing from this baby into something even stranger in the future.
It'll be interesting to see how reviews (which I hope we'll see) look at the big lassie, but my hopes have begun to be realised by your thoughts and I really hope others follow suit. I'd love to see some Blight adventures by others shared or published, one reason I asked Brandon Hodge and Al Rigg to be infested by her when we started work on the last drafts.
Huzzah and thank you kindly, keep reading, keep her away from pets and food and make sure she's always kept in a locked cupboard when it's dark. You might find leaving the odd dead rat or mole in with her might keep her slumbering.
I thought Mikko was slated to be the author for this one?
That's right, I wrote this one (and the placeholder cover does seem to have my name on it), while Mr. Pett wrote book 2. It was an honor to work with him and share ideas with him; he's a great author and person.
I believe the saying is 'Aw shucks Mikko' and that goes both ways, a great team on this AP and it was indeed great fun to bounce ideas about. I think you lovely folks will be mightily pleased with it.
I'm proud and delighted to say the PDF has apparently been finished, awesome credit goes to those wonderful frogs and the many lovely supporters who have been so patient whilst the frogs have had to translate my peculiar words into human.
Huzzah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can't wait to see the finished tome, the artwork I've seen - as I mentioned over on the kickstarter page - is amazing, in fact the Harvester of Cribs is staring at me from my screensaver, funny, I thought she was looking the other way yesterday, now she seems to be
Word just came down the pipe that one of the next rewards (TB5: Children of the Harvest) is done, and should be getting sent out to those who pledged for it soon. Hooray for progress, eh? XD
I love the idea of words coming down the pipes of the Blight, that needs expanding on GM, slither, slither. Mr Bill Webb has been taken by Sister Blight, yarp...
Patrick it's good to find a fellow Therapy fan - the words and anger and chords of Andy Cairns need more fans, spread the word - Therapy is needed for all. Yarp...If we can get a few more fans through the crooked bowels of the Blight's noisy innards it'll be another grand bonus.
Wait, what the, gosh you folks are quick - huzzah! Thank you killer, and to GM and necromental. Don't tell Vaughan you like Jack though, he just gets unbearable when he writes brilliant adventures. Damn, I said it.
in Levee the start specifically brings in PCs from a given location and what happens there is pivotal to the events in the AP. I'm sure you could work a way around this but we are looking at the AP as one separate whole and the other adventures as something else. That said everything is possible but I'd advise running Levee as an entity in is own right.
That's why I love these boards - awesome characters everyone, hope you have fun, or at least don't get too disturbed, actually being disturbed might not be an option... I'm slithering along the side-lines with my pockets full of punishments - mnaaaaaaaarrr.
Okay so I've checked the first draft of Miacknian and in that he was a clonemaster alchemist so I'm afraid I'll have to ask the lovely Paizo folk to answer that one.
In terms of Kisetz, I've only quickly read the published adventure but in terms of the draft:
Spoiler:
The original Kisetz (then referred to as the Ketz) was intended to be very close at one time to the PCs - ideally a lover - and her first encounter was to simply rave at the object of her scorn. I've attached the original sidebar for her in case anyone wants to run it that way but obviously these things get chopped and changed for good reason during development.
The Past Catches Up…
The Ketz is an old, old friend of the PCs, and of one in particular. At least she was a friend—until in her eyes one PC betrayed her, breaking her hardened heart in the process. These events happened long ago, of course, before the PC’s memories of their lives. The question is, how?
Of all betrayals, love is the easiest to explain; the Ketz loved the PC, who found out what she was like—her crazy temper, her unpredictability—and jilted her. She was broken by her unrequited love; rejection hounded her throughout her life, and she fell into bad company and bad ways—because of the PC. Be careful with who you pick if you use the love angle; it must be appropriate for the PC in question to fall for such a wild woman.
If the love angle feels wrong, consider the close as kin angle; the PC and the Ketz were inseparable; ready to take on the world, but one does not choose one’s kin, the PC left on a mission (whether he wanted to or not) and left Ketz abandoned in a cell; the hands of their worst enemies of something similar.
The trickiest but most rewarding angle is also to use Ketz as a way of explaining a PC (or maybe several PC’s) background traits. This method requires the most work, but is the most rewarding for your players.
Whatever the case, start with the PC knowing nothing about her, but slowly consider explanatory memories appearing in dreams. Unless you deem otherwise, the relationship is irretrievably broken but grant the Ketz a final line or two that makes the PC think that if only the past had changed, the future could have been much brighter. The Ketz also knows Asfar, having been sold by her and being her slave when the PCs were. The PCs may deduce that and take action, but she never gives the information freely.
Hmmm, the ones that are lightly spiced and grilled until they are crispy, laced with those little live frogs that crunch and taste vaguely of burdock and sugar. Yum.
The book will be on sale afterwards Alice, via the frogs, fret not. I'm also hammering a few crooked nails of adventures slowly into place and that will be available in due course - although obviously stitching flesh together takes time.
I've also recently seen the Tome of Blighted Horrors in her full glory, she's beautiful. The developers John Ling, Alistair Rigg, Jeff Swank and Greg deserve considerable credit for what they've done - frighteningly nasty, I can't express my praise and slight concern enough.
For me it's a personal choice-I always much prefer lower level when I'm playing and GMing. For me there is more danger and therefore more malice in lower level adventures, hence keeping PCs in them for longer.
I'm pretty sure it is a Paizo-sponsored documentary on the ongoing writers' feud between Greg Vaughan, Richard Pett, and Nicholas Logue. Getting all the waivers so that the three can legally be in the same room is requiring multiple reams of paper for the lawyers to haggle over.
I never liked either of them, not right from the start...
Making the Blight a lower-level setting (maxing at around 14 for the toughest NPCs) was very much a serious choice based on my own love of lower-level adventures and the edgier danger I think they tend to have.
That doesn't necessarily mean all the monsters peak out at about CR 13 though......
I just stumbled across Richard Pett's Kickstarter for his swords & sorcery urban horror campaign setting, "The Blight."
This setting really seems like your cup of tea. Are you a backer?
Have been since day one, yup!
A good point well raised Haladir, I thank you for it.
You are Mr Jacobs, as I have said before, a singularly very talented and excellent likeable person who happens to have superb taste too...if it hadn't been for James re-writing and bashing and leeching the good words from the chaff over many years at Paizo the Blight would never have happened - he makes me a better writer. Like all my Paizo stuff he's a co-author of anything I write as far as I'm concerned.
Hey, wait - the Blight by James Jacobs and Richard Pett has a nice ring to it:)
And Haladir, when you say stumbled, does that mean you haven't pledged yet? Hmmm, Sister Blight can get very angry when she's ignored, and now she's burst from her cellar, blinking, she's so hungry. There are still a few safe days to feed her before she slithers away to find her own way and home, looking for those who did not give her succor in her hour of need...
