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The price increase is nothing considering just how awesome every simple Pathfinder product is. The quality is always there, the original ideas are always flooding onto the pages, and I just can't believe the gift that Pathfinder had become for tabletop RPGs.
Cheers to all the Pathfinder people; users and developers alike.

My group consisting of 3 players usually goes through about one AP per year playing once every two weeks for 4-5 hours. We never use random encounters in order to speed things up and when I give them an encounter and its clear they are breezing through it, I say ``dispatch`` and it ends there. Usually first chapter takes about 5 sessions, and then they tend rest get shorter and shorter as we go along.

Hey Mr. Rielle,
I'll take Class Act: Fighters.
Thank you, and I look forward to your next product.
Cheers,
Chris

I will always put Adventure Paths as Number 1 on my wish list. Even though there are many out there, I love adventure options and it would likly garner more interest. A new campaign world would also be interesting, and could be a great place to jump off of for all the other ideas.

As for the rest of the ideas, they're all great, but are in even greater abundance that the Adventure Paths.

Cheers,
Chris

Hey Mr. Oscar,
Although I don't work for paizo, I can give you one suggestion. Create a character portrait in a game that lets you do so (ex: Skyrim), and press Alt+ PrtSc. After that, go into a word processing program and hit Ctrl + V and it will copy your created portrait. Crop him up a bit and Voila! Your created character is done which you can print out at your leisure.

Cheers,
Chris

I would probably play someone who thinks that whatever he says and does it the "proper" way to do things. And whenever he tries to get someone to do something he wants, and that person doesn't after passing a sense motive check, then your character convinces himself that the NPC's reaction to your character's request was what your character wanted in the first place. So you could play someone who is arogant, but doesn't realize it (or refuses to believe it).

My concern about this and similar products is simply the marketability of the idea, and I'm honestly curious where it is geared towards. From the first few posts, it seems that cost is going to push many people away from the product. Having the minis would be a nice souvenir, assuming RofRL worked out for the group, but that may be the only thing that might appeal to many people. Most people have already played the campaign, so why would they buy the set? The fact that the minis might/are random was one of the big negatives about the old plastic D&D minis. I guess if you need monsters for your campaigns, well then these new minis can fill in for some of the bad guys (although unlikely as monsters constantly change from Adventure Path to Adventure Path). As was pointed out, the ideal thing would be to time a release like this at the same time an Adventure Path releases. I think then sales would likely quintuple and then quintuple again after those buyers said how awesome the minis are and how they have enriched their campaign

So I am legitimetly curious whether this idea for RofRL plastic minis were a spur of the moment idea? Or where it was a carefully thought out and what exactly Wizkids expectations are?

Our group is pretty open to any and all races, even monster classes from 3.5. As for starting level, it would definately be level 1. Since we're pretty new at the Pathfinder thing, we are far from digesting all the resources (and purchasing them), so its difficult even to know where to start

The alive for only 12 hours would indeed be a hasle for the DM and players, and is why I have yet to even attempt it. But as from what I've read from the message boards, you are all very experienced, and I figured I'd pick your brains to see if it could work as I just think it would be interesting.

The reincarnated druid idea sounds pretty good. The undead idea also seems awesome.

The revolving PCs might be something to develope. The party would never know what race/class would show up at their door. If their are any other ideas, keep em comin.

Chears,
Chris

Hey All,
I have always wanted to make a character based on the Manowar song Each Dawn I Die. Basically, I would like to make a character where every dawn, he dies and then is magicaly brought back 12 hours later. First off though, I think it would be a headache for any DM. Second, I would want the event to be clamactic every single time it happens. But I have no idea how I would even begin making a character like this. Thus I'm hoping for suggestions from you all with regards to class, back story, and how my fellow characters might be shocked each and every time. Lastly, is this even a good idea? Please let me know,
Chears,
Chris

For my characters, apart from the many suggestions above, I usually equipe them with a bag of flour to detect invisible people, and a crowbar or portable ram.

My group is a year or two away from this, but I'm really looking forward to it. I haven't bought the first issue yet, but I'm hoping it's similar to the famous Rod of Seven Parts 2nd edition adventure which my group actually asked me to run a second time as they loved it so much. My group doesn't use the Pathfinder Society, but (as I mentioned in another thread), I'm thinking of making their contact Karzoug, since we were TPKed in chapter three of RotRL. Do you think that could work?

After a player mentioned all the things he would do should his current character die, I have considered killing him. Let me give some depth to the situation. We are playing in a custom campaign. The McGuffin is a god-dragon slaying gun spread throughout the world in pieces. Roughly 70% of our party is "pirates" and no one is a cleric or paladin. We are mostly neutral, with a little CG and one LE. There is currently a war with devilkind within the world and we recently escaped conscription. Now the player in question is playing a Vow of Poverty/Truth(Not exalted) monk Tortle(turtle people), and is one of the most annoying characters ever. He consistently tells enemy NPCs the entirety of our plans, insists on a complicated tier-based loot distribution methods, which includes giving it to random NPCs who happen to be nearby, and talks very, very, very, slowly, and in riddles. He has a habit of pissing off every friendly NPC and advocating doing anything that is not finding the McGuffin. After insulting my character's god and being racist to him, I have decided that I may allow him all he desires, by murdering his character in his sleep.

Any advice?

I haven't read all the posts, but one unique advice I might give you is to show said person this entire thread and the hundreds of responses to it (and counting). Everyone has been in your situation with a player who obviously has issues outside the game and is taking out his frustrations in it. If you've tried everything, then you have to be blunt and tell him his playing style isn't working out. I think I may have read that this is a friend of a friend, which makes it all that much easier. Meaning no worries about destroying a friendship over a game.

The Gladiator theme was one of the best campaigns that my group has ever done. Essentially we had a travelling gladiator caravan that went from down to town. One of the favorites we had was an event wall "Sh*$ in the Pit" where a gladiator had to survive 8 rounds with a bullete.

The gladiator theme was also done in Age of Worms adventure path to the delight of my players. Even though it has been done though, I think everyone can dive into it. It is familiar, which means it is accessable. Not everyone will enjoy plane travel (although personally I'd love to see that) or dragons left right and center. I think you could easily combine gladiators with the " Guild of Misfits" idea that Mr. McBribe mentioned earlier. The only problem will be expanding that out of the arena which is a must but very much doable. Ultimately, its impossible to find a concept that everyone will go "Wow, that's AMAZING" but I think gladiators would be a good and safe way to go.

That's where wands and scrolls come in. The latter I know is limited, while the former there is a chance of failure. With no magic though, it will just mean the players will have to find alterior ways to accomplish certain task.

For me, its always been about how I imagine my character. I see a man sneaking in the shadows, disabling traps, and sneak attacking at is leisure. Then their is the all the skills he gets as well, including being able to use any wand or scroll (assuming the use magic device roll is high enough). I first character in Advanced D&D was a rogue so there is that history there as well.

I know bards can do most of what a rogue can do, but its that whole singing lalalala image I can't shake. The only bard I ever made didn't sing. He carried around a cart, and on it was a huge gong. Fun times :-)

In all the campaigns I have ever played, the players always look to two people to get them out of a jam: clerics, and rogues. Its fun as a rogue to always have a place in every single situation that comes up. They are very versatile (despite that being disclaimed by another in a recent post) and that's probably what I like the most. No one expect your character to deal out crazy damage. What they do expect is that you'll save their rears when the harrow cards are on the table. And in my experience, that's what all my rogues have ever done.

There are some pretty cool ideas here. Now I too want to play a DD.

Would be awesome if everyone who posted here could make a Dragon Deciple, and we all fly to Florida or something and have a mega, mega session with our guild of DDs. Don't suppose any of you are millionaires and are prepared to front the bill for a buncha complete strangers? :-)

In 3.5, we were once fighting a golem way above our pay grade without any adamantite weapons or supernatural abilities, but we did have a cliff--and a wizard foolhardy enough to be bait.

The gnome cleric/rogue cast stoneshape beneath the golem to make a ramp.
The aristocrat/bard cast grease under the golem and on the ramp.
The paladin bull rushed the golem.
My scout lassoed the golem, drank a potion of enlarge person, and jumped off the cliff, using a 1 time trinket to featherfall.
The wizard spiderclimbed out of the way.

Ta-Da!!!!

1 golem disposed of.

Amazing man. Quite the team effort and a way of thinking outside the box in an encounter.

My homebrew has no pathfinder society, but each nation pretty much has its equivalent. My players will be members of the Sinister Expedition, newly founded by Emperor Xin to recover lost Thassilonian artifacts.

My RotR ended with them restoring the son of Xin to the throne of a new Thassilon after defeating the seven traitorous Runelords and the PCs became the new Runelords =p

The PFS is kinda designed to be easily replaced by the Striders of Farlanghn or whomever you prefer.

I like that Runelords idea. In my group we change DMs sometimes for campaigns and thus for Rise of the Runelords, I was a player. And our group was TPKed when the giants attacked Sandpoint in Chapter 3 (having failed to stop them from forging their armors previously). So with that, the campaign ended and Karzoug awakened.

In the Curse of the Crimson Throne, I was the DM and decided Karzoug was content with just ruling over Sandpoint and the surrounding areas and after Illeosa was defeated, I had him suddenly show up to help the party to destroy the Fangs of Kazavon permanentaly in exchange for allowing his giants to garrison Riddleport in case the Runelord Shorshen awakened.

All that to simply say that having Karzoug make another appearance and have him be a main NPC in the players lives to reforge the Shattered Star would be pretty cool.

I think the best idea is to turn it into a quest. Maybe Erastil reveals a way to remove it in his dreams or gives him some other kind of vision. Alternatively maybe someone in Erastil's clergy can do it but they need something to do it like a powerful holy item or weapon to metaphorically speaking severe the corruption from his soul.

I dont see a reason why he couldnt remain a paladin if he was a ghoul as long as he was 1. Intelligent and 2. kept his alignment. You could really play up the corruption idea like maybe as he see's a farm boy running by he has a sudden instinctual need to feed but barely fights it off.

I think most paladins and clerics would be constantly watching him so while there might not be any actual penalties to the transformation (although there should be) there should certainly be some social ones like clerics, paladins, and inquisitors looking to put him out of his misery

Or looking to recruit him ;-)

When my group any I switched to excel character sheets and posting all our stuff on a website, we all began planning ahead of time. Like everyone, we love making characters and dreaming of what they will be, and so I find it helps to flesh out the way we play our characters from the beginning.

That is not to say that I enjoy it, but rather it has almost become a requirement.

Just the name of this Thread and the posts that have so far followed have made me think to the good ol days before 3.0. At that time, it was always a tough decision as to what to level up as, but a good one. And I think, for my next character I am going to do what some of have suggested and allow the the campaign to build my character.

This may have already been suggested in one of other hundreds of posts but I personally simply limit certain books.

As my group and I have gone along, whenever something becomes too powerful like the 3.0 Foresaker pretige class, or the vow of peace, vow of poverty monk, we vote on banning it after the campaign is done. And as I am the DM most of the time and can veto any votes, well...

When someone does make a power character though, there is nothing stopping the DM from amping up enemies. A Hill Giant's challenge rating doesn't change if you give him full plate mail and a +5 large tower shield with a huge +5 vorpal sword that he is monkey gripping in his hand. If the players intentionally go out of their way to make a DM's life difficult by using improved invisibity all the time, then I will do the same to them.

Hey All,
I've been playing D&D for many years and now just started Pathfinder. In that time, I've had my characters swinging swords and casting spells. Sometimes however, there have been some spectacular combination attacks and I thought it would be fun to see which are some of your favorites.

My personal favorite in my experience was my goliath who had the Throw Enemy feat. We were facing the boss and I asked the mage in the party cast Prismatic Wall. One thrown boss through the wall and the fight was over. I look forward to reading your crazy combos both ones that worked and ones that were epic fails.

Chears All.

I don't think I can match the greatness already posted above. From experience though it always seems that black dragons are the easiest to defeat. As soon as the players ask the color of the dragons scales, they always sigh in relief if its a black dragon.

One thing you may want to consider is proving to the world, not necessarily how powerful a black dragon can be, but how powerful acid can be. Perhaps carry around vials of acid to poor up your dead (or captured) enemies. Your character could become known as the first ever Acidmancer.

Just a thought.

There really is no right or wrong answer to the question.

In my opinion I have always found the rogue to THE most versatile, particulary if he's of a small race. He can disarm traps, get in a good sneak attack, cast spells from wands and scrolls with use magic device. He is the "jack of all trades" (which I think is a prestige class in 3.5), and scout ahead for threats before the party is surprised by enemies hiding behind the tree in the middle of the field.

I once made a force missile mage which was a prestige class from one of the dragon magazines (328?). Apart from bypassing shield spells, adding energy descriptors, it also gave you 1 extra missile. So with the twin-spell feat, and other meta magic feats, you can do a LOT of damage. Combine that with a few levels in Force Adept, and a MM mage can be a force to be reckonded with.

A player can make any type of mage (or other class) very powerful if you have the character specialize in one type of spell, school, or ability (a grappler, critical hit master, throwing enemies, etc...). The biggest flaw is that you lose the versatility that you could have with other spells.

But who cares? It's fun to make characters that stand out from the croud. Even if magic missile may at times be less powerful in a fight, to YOUR character it is the most powerful spell in existence.

The problem is that it's always difficult for any new person to come into the group if you've been playing with the same people a long time. Even though you make different characters, the faces of those those characters, that being your friends around the table, remains a constant. There will be a great degree of unassuredness your players may have for the new arrival, especially if they don't know him/her.

Ultimately, it has to be a group decision, and people can not be afarid to have feelings hurt. If the new person arrives, and after four sessions or so your other group members aren't happy, then you have say to the new person that its not working out. It is better to lose one new person, than lose two more people.

There is no way the new person should use the old persons character. That in itself is saying to the new player that your other players prefer the other person that left. For them it will be like a doppleganger has taken his/her place.

As for what to do with the character of the person leaving, a simple urgent mission is all it will take for the character to leave the group, while opening the door for a possible return in the future, either as an NPC, or when your friend returns on holidays from college and can't wait to roll dice again.

And lastly, if the new person does not work out then three players works absolutely fine as I can attest to. You are the DM, so there is nothing stopping you from taking away a naga or two, or dropping a bosses hit points to make an encounter less challenging. And of course, you could always make a character yourself to help the party.

Chears man, and good rolling.