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love all of this <3

This is specifically about changing a character's ancestry due to Transmigrate.

The adventure itself doesn't quite specify if the PCs are aware of the fact that the rank 5 Transmigrate ritual can change their ancestry. (As far as I could find at least)

Is that knowledge supposed to be purely meta for the players or would it be okay for the entire town to know this in-character? And additionally, would it be okay for certain NPCs to actively choose their new ancestry? (Perhaps through some additional magic?)

This would only effect 2 NPCs in my town:
- So-Jin, who is forlorn in my adventure and is simply tired of watching all her loved ones die. She'd wanna become some shorter-lived ancestry and age like everyone else.
- The adoptive sister of one of the PCs, who is secretly a jorogumo (only her family knows) and secretly the daughter of Ren Mei Li (only RML knows this so far, but it'll be revealed during book 3). The sister doesn't want to be a jorogumo princess and would want to become anything else, in an effort to hide from RML.

Would it be okay for them to actively do this, or should it rather be handled as some kind of fateful luck that made these NPCs reincarnate as something they wish for?

this looks interesting! but will only really become viable for me once demiplane updates their content sharing, so APs can be excluded. if that happens anytime soon, then we're cookin!

idk if there is anything you can or maybe should do to stop them from going there early. this part of the adventure is very sandbox-y and somehow restricting the party from doing something will be difficult to justify.
so, chapter 4 might just happen early and that's not such a big deal.

you can stretch out the research for the wall of ghosts instead.
two ways come to mind:
- if nobody in the party speaks the two languages that are needed to translate zoudou's notes, that will be a roadblock going forward! perhaps the party needs to ask shinzo to bring them a dictionary, and he'll conveniently only find one by the end of summer.
- or simply stretch out the research. either up the number of points that are needed (and can be gained with each method) or make every method take 2-3 weeks instead of just 1?

other things come to mind: making a side quest more important and take more time. perhaps the old village expansion actually takes a month to complete, or the new governor thing evolves into a political drama that involves the party as the two factions try to win them to their side. (if your party likes political drama)

just some ideas, do whatever you prefer ^^

in my own game, i had a very similar thing happen, funny enough! the party cleared the lumber camp in week 3 of summer and are now already doing research on the wall of ghosts. it's week 6 of summer and they already have 4 research points! xD
personally i don't mind that accelerated pace. if i feel it's going too fast, then i'll hit the breaks later. either by adding a time-skip when they return from the monastery (a month or two pass while the party only experiences a few days) or getting to the governor's place will take way longer or the transmigrate ritual takes longer. (or i'll think of smth else, involving backstory and town drama)

but i'm not too worried about it and if the pace keeps up, some of the people that are aware of the time loop will be impressed by the party's progress and will comment on it, when it's their time to reveal their truths (like zhi hui or shinzo).

so good!

I've been out of the loop for a little bit. Is there any information on the Jotunborn ancestry?? Are they Large sized? Or just flavor large. The dude on the cover looks BIG.

personally, i haven't heard anything about jotunborn. but seeing how minotaurs and centaurs are large (and awakened animals can be large) i would be surprised if jotunborn ends up medium.

anchor root!!! <3

I don't know what they expect. They aren't mercenaries who are there for fame and glory. They are just people who are trying to defend their home town, right?
Additionally, the town simply doesn't have large amounts of money!

And since y'all are entering winter now, there is the whole theme around resource scarcity and a literal danger that some people might die of starvation, if there's just not enough food.

If they still want "rewards" then I'd suggest adding some items that have high monetary value but no functional use to the party and let them sell those to Shinzo. Things like art objects that can be found somewhere where it makes sense, or perhaps magic items that are useful mostly for classes that aren't in the party? Just an idea.

now here's a school book i'm excited about!

This is looking real interesting!
Might run this with my current Wildwood crew once that's done ^^

5th level to...?

13th

it's here!!! :D

super excited for that stream on saturday!

Spamotron wrote:

Kaliac wrote:

Anyone know what time (and timezone) the PDF actually releases?

It's Wednesday the 22nd for me! But clearly I'm in the wrong timezone.

I believe the PDFs are unlocked manually when the Paizo staff enters the office. I think they open at 10:00 am Pacific Time.

Aw :(

I hope that's not the case.

it's available now!

Sidenote, this has highest amount of civilian casualties I've seen in a while if you keep messing up.

Yeah, I love that there are very defined consequences! Hope they keep that up for parts 2 and 3!

Super excited for this one!

Loved the trailer too! Dunno why people on reddit are complaining about it. I think Rue did an amazing job ^^

Can't wait to go absolutely feral in late May!