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make necromancer focused on Animate dead (fight fire with fire )

I've thought about that. I've also considered making a Shadow focused wizard to travel and be more comfortable in a foreign atmosphere. There would be plenty of opportunities to use the shadow magic. Maybe an Illusionist wizard?

Sorry, forgot to mention that we are limited to the Players handbook for classes and races. And limited to the Players Handbook and Advanced Players Guide for feat and class options. (No new classes from the APG)

I will be playing in a one-shot where we are going up against a group that employs undead and shadow magic. I'm buidling a wizard for the party. The party includes a barbarian, ranged paladin, rogue, bard, and another undetermined. Clerics will have reduced spellcasting, so I was looking at a wizard. I'm in need of help in the build for countering undead and shadow magic, or creatures from the plane of shadow.

Thanks, ahead of time.

Looking to build a skill monkey healing/buffing cleric of Osiris for our upcoming Mummy's Mask campaign. Concept is a student of the old gods and history of Ancient Osirion. Converted cleric from Pharasma. I will be the healer/buffer and probably the face of the party.

Stats are currently (20 pt buy):
Str 8
Dex 12
Con 10
Int 16
Wis 16
Cha 14

I'm looking at Scroll Scholar and/or Ecclessitheurge as archetypes.
First level feats are Fast Learner and Improvisation.
Traits are Seeker and Devotee of the old gods.

I don't need to be a martial cleric as everyone else will have levels in a martial class.

Thoughts?
Thanks

Any possibility of getting just the gods article? I am playing this campaign, not running it and don't want to spoil it. I am playing a cleric of Osiris. I was hoping that there would be a way to just get the double-sized article on the gods. I can find out all the domains, subdomains, and favored weapons online, but I was hoping for descriptions and any flavor text that would be in the article. Don't really think it is worth $16 just for the one article.

Thanks

Okay. I'm currently prepping for Kingmaker, and it's looking like I'll have 6 players, so these conversions are a godsend. I don't suppose anyone has conversions that include updated treasure? Or can give me some advice on changing it myself?

The conversions have the updated treasure already accounted for.

FattyLumpkin wrote:

Vic Wertz wrote:

Because the Flip-Mats just have a wrapper, and not a box, we weren't planning on it... but I'm sure we'd consider it if there were sufficient demand.

I'd purchase a couple!

If it means I can store the Flip-Mats on a shelf with the spine labelled, I'd certainly think about buying a full set. Storing them flat in an art carrier keeps them flat but its a real pain finding the one that you want.

This, definitely this! It is frustrating flipping through trying to find the right one, when a labeled spine would make life soooo much easier.

Just as a reminder...

Not every encounter has to be to the death. Sometimes its good to lull the players into thinking they will walk over everything and then smack them up the head with a big nasty encounter.

Sometimes the PCs need to feel like real heroes that can defeat "easy" monsters without expending to many resources. They need to be able to "show-off" once in a while.

I agree with the OPs thought. However I think it could be done with modules. Maybe do a few sets of Trilogy's? These would be perfect.

I'm currently running two Kingmaker campaign's and both are in their 2nd year and are only half way through (just started the 4th book). One campaign meets for a full weekend every other month, the other meets for 4-6 hours most Tuesdays.

Where is Rhianna? (If Bjorn is now here) Is there something I should know?

Here they are again. Hopefully they work this time. Sorry I about the bad link. Not sure what I did wrong.

Basics 4 (This is the rumors, quests, and random encounters)
Blood For Blood 6 player (This is the conversion pdf for 6 players)
The refined monsters

These work for me, but I created them. I'll check back every couple days, let me know if they work or not.

Thank you Shieldknight for all your work. I, for one, really appreciate the conversions!

I am having difficulty getting these new ones though. When I first tried it, Google said I didn't have permission to access the files and I had to request permission. I sent the email, but have not gotten a reply. Also, when I tried again, the links just take me to a Google home page. Please help!

Thanks,
Strange Doc

My apologies, I thought I had set the settings to allow anyone with the link to view and download. I have updated the settings to public. Let me know if it doesn't work. I view these boards about once a week.

In continuing the pdf'ing (probably not a real verb) of the 6 player conversions and trying to make them look as beautiful as possible and easy to read, I have wrapped up Blood for Blood and have linked them below.

The first file is the rumors, random encounter table and updated quests. The second file is the 6 player conversion. And the third file is a zip file with all the monster upgrades, with each monster individually wrapped up into a 5x8 card size stat block.

Here are the files:

Basic4

Blood for Blood 6 player

Blood for Blood Monsters

Hope you like them. Let me know if you have any problems or if I missed something.

In no way am I intending to infringe on any copyrights. If I have done so, please let me know and I will remove the offending files.

Enjoy,
Shieldknight

If they do not ship automatically and are not part of a subscription, then let it stay as is.

Thanks for the heads up.

Hello there,

I am currently a subscriber to multiple lines and am loving most of them. I am not at all interested in the boxes coming down the main RPG line, but would still like to get the Ultimate Equipment. Is it possible to skip the Bestiary Box and get the Ultimate Equipment and then cancel my subscription until a later date when there is a line of items that I'm interested in getting?

I would like to keep my other subscriptions in tact. And am considering adding another line. But I am just not interested in what is coming up in the main line.

Thanks

I basically keep the NPCs at three levels below the PCs. This allows them to pick them up as a cohort if they wish without overpowering the kingdom.

Haven't had any issues yet.

I am just wrapping up Blood for Blood, reproducing it as a pdf similar to what Feagle and I have submitted previously, along with the monster cards.

I'll try to submit it this weekend.

I will start working on War of the River Kings right away. My group is desparately trying to raise an army, so I need to update my memory on the army rules and figure I may as well convert to the pdf as well.

Any requests or suggestions to better the final product are welcome.

Thanks,
Shieldknight

Thanks Dale.

I'm having issues finding information on the added buildings in the spreadsheet. They aren't in the latest version of the Book of the River Kingdoms. Are they in a messageboard?

An adventurer, aye? Perhaps you could help us. We are looking for a gentleman, red hair, goes by the name of Lucien.

Looking towards Hack, You want to ask the dice rollers about Lucien? I'll talk to our new friend here.

Siral pulls up a chair and sits down with the newcomer.

I have finished VV. I couldn't wait for Feegle. Sorry. I am running it later today.

VV Monsters

PDF format

Hope those work. Let me know if I got any screw-ups.

Awesome work Alexander. This is fantastic work and greatly appreciated. My group is just about to finish up CoT and we are about to jump into Kingmaker. I really liked the format that Feegle put the first two adaptations into, as well as the the work that Shieldknight put into his collection of Monster Upgrades. Was there any plan on doing the other 4 books as I don't see them anywhere?

I am working on the other chapters for the monster upgrades, though they are just a copy out of what Alex did, just in a different format. If I learn anything about adobe at my new job, I may take up the other chapters and try to reformat them to look similar to the way Feegle did them, if he/she isn't available to do them. I really like the format and am working through VV right now.

What am I missing about working the sheet? I am unable to have the army stats add up and apply to consumption. Anyone else have this issue?

I noticed the same thing. There are a couple of equations that are referencing the wrong cells. Just need to fix those and it will work properly. I don't remember off-hand which ones and its been a while since I fixed it myself.

I had been thinking about an additional building.

Windmill: (8BP; May only be built in grassland and hill hexes)
This structure can harness the power of the wind. Whether used for grinding grain, moving water, or cutting lumber, wherever the wind blows this structure has many uses. (May not be built in a city.) +1 Economy, +1 Stability, -1 Consumption when built in a farm or mine hex.

What do you think?

oh...my...gosh!

This is the very reason I have fallen in love with Pathfinder and its creator's. The communication, the development of game aids, and the friendliness and willingness of everyone to talk and discuss. It's one of the reasons that I bought the "Book of the River Kingdoms". A big thank you to Dale for putting this on his website and helping the creator of the spreadsheet to make it better.

Thank you! Don't stop what you're doing. You folks are awesome.

also, dotting for future reference. :)

** spoiler omitted **

Sorry I haven't posted much lately folks. Been super busy remodeling the house and running PFS for a convention. I should be better now that the remodeling is in clean up mode and the convention is done.

I have been purchasing from Paizo for a few years now and honestly, this has never happened before. So I want to start off with a congratulations. You made it this long before I got a wrong order, and I figure that's pretty good. However, I do need to let you know what happened and find out how we can best remedy the mistake.

I had ordered three items that were to be shipped immediately:
GameMastery Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Condition Tokens
GameMastery Invisible Character Pack
GameMastery Invisible Monster Pack

I received the Game Condition Tokens and the Invisible Monster Pack, but instead of the Invisible Character Pack I received a set of GameMastery Figure Flight Stands.

Where do we go from here?

Thanks for all the great products, and keep up the good work. I'm sure things like this are gonna happen once in a while. As I said before, I'm actually surprised it hasn't before now. And I can see how mixing these two items up would be pretty easy, they look very similar.

Thanks.

Robert McCarthy 7 wrote:

*BUMP*

First I wanted to say thanks to everybody for all their hard work on these conversions and the PDF formatting... excellent work!

Quick question... are the other chapters being worked on as far as formatting goes?

For the complete PDFs, yes. I am very close to finishing Varnhold Vanishing, but it's been put on hold by my job teaching summer school. I should have it done by the end of the month at the latest, but if I manage to pry an hour or two of free time out of the clutches of breakneck-pace grading and teaching, I may finish it sooner.

I am personally in no hurry to do chapters 4 through 6 - my players haven't even killed the Stag Lord yet, so they're several months off of the later modules. However, I'll have to do it eventually, and so if anyone here REALLY wants it done sooner, I could be convinced. It wouldn't even take any cookies.

I'll put in my vote for VV. I am running two groups through Kingmaker, one just finished Stolen Lands and the other just started Varnhold Vanishing.

Great work btw!

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Okay, made a couple of changes, so here's the Knurly Witch with spells:

Please feel free to make suggestions.

Okay, here she is. Let me know what changes or additions you would like. Tried to keep with the Destruction/Madness theme. I realized after I printed it that I didn't pick any spells yet. I will try to do that tonight yet and repost.

KNURLY WITCH . . . CR 19
Female Annis Hag Witch 14
CE Large Monstrous Humanoid
Init +2; Senses Darkvision (60 feet); Perception +28
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DEFENSE
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AC 25, touch 11, flat-footed 23. . (+4 armor, +2 Dex, -1 size, +10 natural)
hp 220 (7d10+14d6+126)
Fort +14, Ref +11, Will +14
DR 2/bludgeoning; SR 17
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OFFENSE
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Spd 40 ft.
Melee Bite (Annis Hag) +20 (1d6+7/20/x2) and
. . Claw x2 (Annis Hag) +21 x2 (1d8+7/20/x2) and
. . Nails x2 (Nails) +16 x2 (1d4+3/20/x2) and
. . Rend x2 (Annis Hag) +20 x2 (2d6+10/20/x2)
Space 10 ft.; Reach 10 ft.
Special Attacks Agony (DC 22), Evil Eye (DC 22), Misfortune (DC 22), Nails, Nightmares (DC 22)
Spell-Like Abilities Alter Self (3/day), Feather Fall (At will), Fly (14 minutes/day), Fog Cloud (3/day), Levitate (1/day), Poison Steep
Witch Spells Known (CL 14, 20 melee touch, 15 ranged touch):
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STATISTICS
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Str 25, Dex 14, Con 22, Int 20, Wis 11, Cha 12
Base Atk +14; CMB +22; CMD 34
Feats Alertness, Arcane Strike, Blind-Fight, Combat Casting, Great Fortitude, Improved Blind-Fight, Improved Natural Attack: Claw x2 (Annis Hag), Improved Vital Strike, Intimidating Prowess, Vital Strike, Weapon Focus: Claw
Skills Bluff +8, Diplomacy +8, Fly +24, Intimidate +32, Knowledge: Arcana +29, Knowledge: Nature +22, Knowledge: The Planes +29, Perception +28, Sense Motive +2, Spellcraft +29, Stealth +22, Swim +11
Languages Aklo, Boggard, Common, Draconic, Giant, Undercommon
SQ +2 to Initiative, Deliver Touch Spells Through Familiar (Su), Empathic Link with Familiar (Su), Retribution (5 round(s)) (DC 22) (Su), Scry on Familiar (1/day) (Sp), Share Spells with Familiar, Speak with Animals (Ex), Speak With Familiar (Ex)
Other Gear Bracers of Armor, +4, Scarab of Protection, Strand of Prayer Beads
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TRACKED RESOURCES
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Alter Self (3/day) (Sp) - 0/3
Bead of Healing (Strand of Prayer Beads) - 0/1
Bead of Karma (Strand of Prayer Beads) - 0/1
Bead of Smiting (Strand of Prayer Beads) - 0/1
Fog Cloud (3/day) (Sp) - 0/3
Levitate (1/day) (Sp) - 0/1
Scry on Familiar (1/day) (Sp) - 0/1
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SPECIAL ABILITIES
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+2 to Initiative You gain the Alertness feat while your familiar is within arm's reach.
Agony (14 rounds) (DC 22) (Su) Target is Nauseated.
Arcane Strike As a swift action, add +1 damage, +1 per 5 caster levels and your weapons are treated as magic for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction.
Blind-Fight Re-roll misses because of concealment, other benefits.
Combat Casting +4 to Concentration checks to cast while on the defensive.
Damage Reduction (2/bludgeoning) You have Damage Reduction against all except Bludgeoning attacks.
Darkvision (60 feet) You can see in the dark (black and white vision only).
Deliver Touch Spells Through Familiar (Su) Your familiar can deliver touch spells for you.
Empathic Link with Familiar (Su) You have an empathic link with your Arcane Familiar.
Evil Eye -4 (8 round(s)) (DC 22) (Su) Inflict penalties with a glance.
Feather Fall (At will) (Sp) Feather Fall at will.
Fly (14 minutes/day) (Sp) Fly for 14 minutes/day.
Improved Blind-Fight Melee attacks ignore the miss chance for less than total concealment and can still reroll for total concealment. Invisible attackers within 30' you have pinpointed gain no advantages to hit you with ranged attacks.
Levitate (1/day) (Sp) Levitate 1/day
Misfortune (2 round(s)) (DC 22) (Su) Target must take the lower of 2d20 for rolls.
Nails (Ex) The witch's nails are long and sharp, and count as natural weapons that deal 1d3 points of damage (1d2 for a Small witch). These attacks are secondary attacks. If trimmed, the witch's nails regrow to their normal size in 1d4 days.
Nightmares (DC 22) (Su) Target suffers the Nightmare spell.
Poison Steep (Sp) The witch can use her cauldron to brew a foul toxin in which she can steep fruits and other delicious edibles, transforming them so that when eaten, they have the same effect as a poison spell. Brewing the toxin and then steeping the food take
Retribution (5 round(s)) (DC 22) (Su) Target suffers half the melee damage it inflicts
Scry on Familiar (1/day) (Sp) You can scry on your familiar once per day.
Share Spells with Familiar The wizard may cast a spell with a target of "You" on his familiar (as a touch spell) instead of on himself. A wizard may cast spells on his familiar even if the spells do not normally affect creatures of the familiar's type (magical beast).
Speak with Animals (Ex) Your familiar can communicate with similar animals to itself.
Speak With Familiar (Ex) You can communicate verbally with your familiar.
Spell Resistance (17) You have Spell Resistance.
Vital Strike Standard action: x2 weapon damage dice.

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Alright, sorry its taken so long. Life gets in the way sometimes. I got it done and will post it at lunch.

I use a round wooden candle holder I found at Wal-mart. Gives the dice a good sound when they hit.

I've become pretty familiar with the Witch class. I have one player who's PC is a witch and I have converted the Old Beldame to witch as well. I can take a look at this later this week. I'll give it a shot and post a conversion as soon as I get it done.

We've done this!

For combat we used small 1/2" diameter (Medium/Small) and 1" diameter (Large) colored magnets with a clipboard that we had glued a piece of tin to and covered with a 1/2" gridded laminated sheet. Works well, and the driver can participate if he/she is willing to glance at the board once in a while and has a good memory for "seeing" the pieces. (You could just use a metal clipboard instead.)

Outside of combat, the roleplaying was great. Confined space with little noise. We had a lot of fun and managed to get a couple of scenarios in before we even reached the con.

This stuff just keeps getting better and better. Thanks for the time and effort you have put into this. Also thanks to Vic and Dale for adding their info. Much appreciated.

Man, I love this company and its fans!

Love this! Very cool!

If you are taking suggestions...

Would it be possible for you to add buildings? Or is it easy enough a non-coder could do it? I'm using the additional rules from Jon Brazer's Book of the River Kingdoms. Any possibility of adding the additional buildings from there?

Thanks

Thanks everyone for your suggestions. A topic that may need a little more mechanics probably.

But as I stated earlier, this is for my Kingmaker campaign. The player that wants to do this is the Spymaster. However, he didn't want to have to take the feat. The Kingdom's Assassin did take the leadership feat and hired on a Bard as a cohort. Since I already have a party of 6 PC's, I'm thinking I'll have the Assassin's cohort stay behind and run the spy network. That would take him out of the fighting and take care of the spy network.

Thanks again.

Feel free to continue discussing if you have any additional thoughts or ideas. I'm always open to more.

I'm running a Kingmaker campaign and have been asked a question I'm uncertain of how to answer.

How would one institute a spy network? What would it cost? Would there be different costs depending on how good it is and how secret it is? I'm sure there is more, but I'm tired and its late.

Thanks,

alright here is a link to the map of your current kingdom.

X is explored
F is farmed
O is claimed/owned

MAP

and Almathea, and Raktin, and Adreccam.

I have a proposal.

This is Flynn btw.

Viktor, please email me.

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I will be posting a map of what you have explored thus far later today. This should help you in determining what hexes you want to claim. We could even do some exploring via forum if you would like.

Month 35? Wow, I didn't realize we went through 10 months this last weekend.

The following are things that are happening during your months of Kingdom Building. I thought maybe while we stat out the kingdom, we could also do some role-playing. (And move some plot lines along ;)

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I'm still thinking about the Windmills. But I'm thinking they can only be built in a farmed hex with no other improvements. Give a +1 Economy, +1 Stability, -1 BP Consumption. Cost 8 BP. Just what I'm thinking at the moment.

My players definitely stay out!!! You know who you are.

I really don't want to see this turn into an arms race like Living Greyhawk did in the Shield Lands. Seriously folks, pretty please with sugar on top.

Seriously? I don't know who you played with in the Shield Lands, but the people I played with were heavy on the role-playing and light on the roll-playing. There was many a battle that we barely made it through by the skin of our teeth, just because somebody wouldn't do something because it wasn't in character. I also lost a lot of treasure and experience because we were playing in character instead of battle mode.

BtT, Some groups just don't want to role-play. You can't stop them from playing the game. Asking people now days to know their faction leader, his/her favorite food and tactics, and what are the general goals, is like asking an average American if they know who is the current President and Vice President and where they stand on the issues. Quite a few don't know and don't care.

Can we setup a tithe and also buy our own home near the capitol in our country?

Sure

I am also adding a windmill to the buildings you can construct in an open hex.

Windmill Windmills are used for grinding grain and moving water. Must be constructed in a hex already farmed. +1 Economy, -1BP consumption
This is an early draft, I will be making changes to it. I haven't decided on a cost yet.

Do they respond well to cookies? Because I can promise them cookies...

I've heard cookies can go a long way in getting Paizo staff to do things for you.

@Shieldknight You're welcome to it if you like, though I can tell you that I'm about halfway through RRR as it is. Gimme a week or so of procrastinating my end-of-year grading, and I should be finished both RRR and VV. At this point, now that I have my templates set up in Word, it's really fast for me to zip through them. (I got halfway through RRR in about forty minutes this afternoon.)

Beautiful! Good news for all! Don't suppose you'd be willing to share your template? I plan on running other AP's after I'm done with Kingmaker and the look of your template is easy on the eyes and would be really nice to have for the other AP's when I convert them to 6 players. Even if I'm using a public conversion, I could transfer everything to your template. Great job BTW!