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If you want something already created to check against, you might take a look at Rite Publishing's In the Company of Medusa. It has rules and stats for playing medusa from 1st to 20th level.
I would very much like to see the non-binary represention expand from the minor NPCs we've had so far to an iconic. Non-binary to me is a general term for anyone who doesn't identify as male or female.
Caretaker/curator of a "private collection". (actually a collection of spells and magic, but could be taken as art/books etc) If someone asks about the money, it's for new additions to the collection. A commoner can emphasise the menial side of it (cleaning, mending, sorting etc), a minor noble can emphasise history and valuable items.
UK dwelling AP subscriber here. Shipping costs are around the $7 mark (Usually works out that Subscriber's price AP + shipping = Full price AP without shipping.) Actual price is dependent on exchange rates, but estimate in the £14-17 range per issue including shipping.
She said she loved him, at least - third panel
I can certainly see it working that way. What got me confused is this bit contrasted to the first bit (bolding mine):
If a creature with a gaze attack is invisible, does that nullify the ability like a veil would, or does it need to be veiled as well as invisible to nullify the ability? It isn't clear to me from the bestiary.
Nyx?
...okay, I'm kinda freaked by the possible contents of that missing seventh sonnet. Whose story may be bracketed by those lines? I'm nowhere near as good as Kevin, but you could perhaps round it off with something like this, though it isn't an iconic: Optional Extra: Norgorber, the god - "For Love of Secrets"
The pillars of the world itself will shake
I remember those - saw them 5-6 times, mostly post-cull. Mine was the Blightstone, for what it's worth.
Hm, so I made it past the cull but not as far as the top 89. I guess that makes my score 6 out of 6 for not getting through. Ah well, thanks - I'm glad someone saw it.
Just seen mine for the first time, so I made it past the cull. Now I can relax.
I've seen a couple of those, and I count it as a heavy strike against them when they come up. Not an irreversible strike, but the other item needs to be very bad before the rip-off gets my vote.
I had to go and double check that I was still eligible. It turns out I am, so I am now wielding an Item Polisher of Superstar Success* *Not a real item for submission.
One of my players considers the Heralds in the Valdemar books to be paladins hiding under another name.
Nitpick - I think the previous consolidated advice thread is for 2012, not 2013. Thanks. *sighs with relief*
Nitpick - I think the previous consolidated advice thread is for 2012, not 2013. Something that occurred to me with the new voting system - can you vote on your own item if it comes up, or is that grounds for a disqualification and/or auto-rejection? I looked, but I couldn't see anything on that. Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask.
If you want your kitchen to be 3 stones, a fire and table, you buy the Basic Workspace (500gp) for Profession (Cook). If you want something a bit better kitted out, you buy a Kitchen. Depends how cheap you want your inn and what you want to serve. Your really minimal inn costs about 1800gp and has 4-5 cheap rooms to rent. (that's one basic tavern, one basic workspace and one servant's quarters, with the innkeeper and possibly a server using one of the rooms)
You might try Alexander Kent's Bolitho series. It's set in the Napoleonic Era British Navy and covers most oceans and areas in the course of the series. Rudyard Kipling's 'Kim' is set in Colonial India too, though maybe a bit later than you're looking for.
I've played in a few really sandboxy/players-as-content games (mostly PBBG rather than subscription MMOs) and all of them have some level of PvP, although in the ones I've seen most people are focused on building things up rather than tearing people and creatures down. Actually being attacked doesn't happen all that often, and only a few let you opt out completely. More often you can avoid the worst/physical effects, but are still subject to things like economic and social attacks. The one that PFO reminds me most of at the moment is The West (Build/quest/fight as you choose in a wild west setting, team up in a town or alliance or to defend/take forts. Avoiding PvP is possible, but comes with such major disadvantages that it's rare to see someone playing that way past the first few levels. You do start opted out though, so when/whether to opt in is your choice.)
Personally, empowerment, variety and a practical outfit come a long way ahead of images trying to be sexy. IMHO since there are generally as many tastes as there are readers, then the more variety you have (male, female and androgynous) the more likely everyone is to find something they like.
To me it doesn't make much difference. There were 4 major things that made me leave D&D/WOTC for Pathfinder/Paizo:
IF they fix those, then I might wander back and see what they've come up with. Until then, I'll stick to Pathfinder.
One other thing I've occasionally used to deal with bullies at the table. I bring a (non rulebook) book with me. When they start yelling, I pull out the book, start reading and tell them 'let me know when you're ready to start playing again.' It gives me something to hide behind, something to concentrate on other than the people yelling and if absolute worst comes to worst, something to use as a shield vs fists and thrown items. That may just be me though.
Alternatively, drop a Mirror of Opposition in front of them and then play the duplicates with exactly the same (illegal) skills and tactics that they use themselves, only against them. I have used that once or twice in extreme circumstances to demonstrate that everything a PC is allowed, NPCs are also allowed (in my games at least), but then I have a wicked streak, I'm afraid.
I haven't had time to pull together a submission (too many other projects on the go) but my vague idea was something like this: Spoiler: There is a third party playing rival merchant houses off against each other - trade rights for maps to hidden treasures, trade deals for artifacts with no questions asked about their origin, knowledge of trade routes and information for info about ancient things etc.
PFS wants in on the deal/to take the third party's place/to retrieve something used in one of the deals.
My sense of humour is probably (as usual) way of course, but what comes to mind is: Sometimes even Adventurers get into too much hot water...
We felt this was a little gonzo and the writing was over the top and not in a good way. We ALL agreed the mechanics are whack. I liked the idea and Sean liked the flavor. But the execution, the over the top writing and the really difficult mechanic description held this one down. This was an example of one of our "good idea, but had to reject, and its too bad, too..." items that we had this year. Thanks Clark. That'll teach me to try and compensate for submitting a bland spell-in-a-box last year - looks like I went too much the other way. Oh well, next year I'l have to try and hit somewhere in the middle and hope it's third time lucky.
Any feedback would be much appreciated. My skin is pretty thick, so criticise away.... :) Thanks Cat DREAM CUTTERS
DESCRIPTION
CONSTRUCTION
Thanks Starglim and Elora. Looks like I need to make myself a whole lot clearer in general. Oh well, plot description is always my weak point. :( Detailed responses in the spoiler. Thanks again. Cat Spoiler: Very much liked the main character from the first sentence, though I don't see why she was kicked out. It seems like a perfectly reasonable PC tactic in some circumstances .. It's good to see intelligent creatures as individuals that fit into the setting in the same ways that unusual PCs can. The idea was Mlissa was kicked out for turning too many of her competing fellow pathfinders into stone, instead of cooperating as required.
I think I may have been rushing through this bit - I only caught the details towards the end of the submission time. Next time, I'll definitely explain more and rework the order for clarity. The repairs were actually done by Mlissa jamming an animal in the hole and turning it to stone - hence the animals all over it. I'm not sure that #1 is enough to count as an encounter either in terms of XP or time, or that it's separate from #2. The same could be said about #3 to #4. The adventure as a whole feels too short. It could even be argued that it's only one encounter. Right. Too thin, more needed. I'll work on that - thanks.
The real chips were mended by Mlissa slapping an animal over the hole and turning it to stone, the fake chips were made by turning animals to stone and breaking them into chips. I guess I really need to crank up my clarity. Also, I'm a little concerned about the similarity (vague as it may be) of an "animated obelisk" to the animated monastery in Christine Schneider's winning RPG Superstar adventure proposal. Cool idea, but not something that should be done very often, so that might be a major strike against you. After I sent this in, I had a nasty thought about that myself. Too much similarity can be a bad thing.
Glad you liked that.
Um, caught. That's what I get for rushing, I guess. :(
It was very helpful! Thanks for taking the time.
I can guess some of the reasons mine didn't make it through, but any feedback is welcome. I will do my best to respond in kind, as and when I can. Spoiler: The Eternal Obelisk Introduction
While the smugglers bring in raided gems, spices and other trade cargoes, Mlissa lends her skills to creating fake artifacts for them to sell - chips of stone said to have come off the obelisk in places that have now healed. In actual fact, the chips are made from animals brought in by the smugglers and turned to stone by Mlissa. Summary
Player Introduction
Since then there are new rumors spreading that the Eternal Obelisk has absorbed magic and can give it back if you just press the right carvings on its sides. The Pathfinder Society now wants a follow-up report and an investigation into the rumors. Encounter 1 - All Friends?
Encounter 2 - Loose snake
Encounter 3 - Chute trap
Encounter 4 - Mlissa waits
The grooves are actually the trigger that awakens the obelisk in defense of the way station - if blood flows along any of them, the obelisk begins to awaken. Encounter 5 - Animation
Conclusion
From Wiltshire, England.
I'm in - for what it's worth
I think you can find them here (If that link works)
Like.......this......maybe?
Done that way each line will count as one word (at least, according to MS Word).
They're also printed on the inside of each ROTRL front cover, and can be found in this blog entry.
See if you can read this version.
There are descriptions of all the symbols here if that helps.
I'd like to see 1 line stats for cohorts etc, rather than full stat blocks. Just enough to tell me what the villains have to work with without distracting from them. Maybe something like: Cohort: Joe Bloggs (Human Fighter 2) or
or
True, true. I tend to think on the basis of: same company + same eventual product = same guidelines. But maybe that's just me.
For the Gamemastery Open Call at least, anyone reaching the second round or later had to use the American spellings and was recommended to use them for the first round as well. Does that help at all?
Vic Wertz has said in the Format Question thread that EVERYTHING counts towards the 200 word limit.
Having regrown my nails after the Open Call, I'm now ready to start eating them again - my submission just went in.
Adding mine to the list. Spoiler: On the first day of winter, the priests of Azurestone renew the village’s spells of protection against the deadly Shardsingers of the surrounding forest. The focus and anchor for these spells is the Fire-feather, a silken black feather that shimmers as if it has been coated in ruby dust. Local legend tells how the founder of the village fought and defeated the Shardsingers’ guardian - a fiendish dire raven that shimmered red just as the common starlings shimmer blue and green in the sunlight - and brought away its flight feathers as proof of his victory.
The first day of winter is now barely a fortnight away, but the Fire-feather has vanished from its guarded safe - and one of the priests is also missing. His footprints lead past the post where the guard slept and out into the woods. Meanwhile, the first flakes of snow are drifting in on the wind... In a raging snowstorm, PCs must fight high winds, poor visibility and sapping cold to find and follow the tracks before they are hidden beneath the snow. And the snowy landscape itself holds dangers, for the trail leads through the hunting grounds of the Shardsingers. These strange creatures appear at first to be no more than hollow shards of ice that sing as the wind blows through them, but unwary creatures have been known to stand entranced by the same song while the Shardsingers weave a cage of ice around them and freeze them to death. Later, on the scree-riddled lower slope of the mountain, roams a trio of Dire Weasels, driven down from the mountain by vicious, mobbing ravens and hungry enough to tackle even well armed humanoids. Above the weasels, the trail leads on to a tiny crevice and cave, haunted by the ghost of the original Red Raven. It is here that the priest, a tiefling adept named Tathlan, has fled, tormented and bullied by the raven ghost and its living descendants until he eventually cracked and stole the feather in the hopes of bribing the ghost into leaving him alone. Meanwhile the raven ghost cannot rest until its feather is returned to it, and outside, the Shardsingers are waiting to capture the feather and prevent the villagers from ever blocking them out again. The final showdown becomes either a two or a three-way battle over Tathlan and the feather. On one side are the PCs, on a second, a swarm of Shardsingers who may join up with the third group, the ghost of the Red Raven and a flock of his fiendish raven descendants if only to get rid of the Fire-feather once and for all. If the PCs successfully retrieve the Fire-feather, they must still battle their way back to the village against the looming deadline of the ceremony.
Unless it's changed since the original document, the top ten will be told by Oct 15, then they have until Nov 1 to send in their outline and the overall winner will be notified by Nov 15.
Yes, I've been scribbling away since I sent in my query. I can always use a new monster, NPCs, town and encounters. Besides, it gets my brain up to speed ready to write the full thing if necessary. :D
I'll post mine too if/when I get that rejection letter. Meanwhile I keep reminding myself that if I chew too much off my fingers, I won't be able to type. : ) What kind of worries are giving you nightsweats? Let's see: 1) It didn't arrive. 2) It did arrive but it wasn't compatible and the translator tore it into gobbledegook. 3) I should have made it more factual instead of writing it as if it was the Adventure synopsis you always get at the beginning of a module. 4) I repeated myself too much by covering the points twice (once in running text and once as a bullet pointed summary) - and I still came in at barely 600 words before personal details. 5) Tagging a word count summary on the end will be taken as insulting and see it ditched on the spot. 6) it is so far off the beaten and expected track that it will take a DC600 Survival check just to find it. Hm - I think I'll go and climb the walls for a while after that.
Encounter-wise, I was looking at this thread in the Modules section - saying about 25-30 envounters a module or enough to level the PCs twice. So - max about 35 encounters - I'll make a note. :)
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