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There is a reference to Monster Core 2 on Page 71?

Prince Maleus wrote:

So something I noticed, in the Polygon article they call it the Hellbreakers AP.

But in the Paizo Twitter post about the Polygon article they mention the Hellfire Crisis.

Is this 2 different events or a was there a name change?

Two different things.

Hellbreakers is the name of an Adventure Path.

Hellfire Crisis is the name of the overall meta-event.

Hellbreakers is PART of the Hellfire Crisis, but there's a lot more to the Hellfire Crisis than Hellbreakers.

Perhaps someone should create a Hellfire Club?

He was active here on the forums, on Reddit and other channels up until the end of octobre and then nothing. If it's something Paizo internal and should not be discussed that is okay and understandable, I just wanted to know if he is alright. He is one of the more open and friendly and outspoken people and I really liked his take on issues.

Uhm, where did the Paizo Logo infront of your name go?

Is there any publication or more info about Elidir and the "rampways" ?

Surprise! This will be an October release! :)

Perhaps you should have told Amazon and some other folks. There it is still listed for november.

I will review it tomorrow in my stream ... but in german ;)
The review will be in german, the novel is in english.
No, there is no translation planed at the moment.

James Jacobs and or Jason Bulmahn was there and he repeataly stated that they had to hurry to produce Pathfinder because 4E wouldn't allow them to continue there line of APs. So, yes, PF1 was built so Paizo could stay in business.

AND he said that the OGL debacle was the second time they nearly went out of business because of another company and so they decided now to cut all ties as fast as possible.

EDIT: Mixed up names.

I remember a different company playing games with licenses not so long ago and being declared The Bad Guy.

You don't make more restrictions and get to be The Good Guy.

I think it i a bit "damned if you do, damned if you don't" kind of situation.

Doing nothing would meant that they still had entablements with the OGL and where still somewhat dependent on WotC goodwill. In the long term this would be a very bad descission as WotC (or better Hasbro) has shown that they don't really respect the customers.

Paizo has allways been more open with their licences and the fact that AoN exists - and as Mark has posted is in now way affected - shows that they continue that way.

Yes, it will be bumpy for a few month for sure, but this not so good decisssion seems to be better then the alternative.

First of thanks to Mark and the whole team for the effort they put in to help us all to understand things better.

I'm the maintainer of the german AoN and the german blog about all things Pathfinder.

For the rules part I am NOT translating myself I'm using the translation of the german partner Ulisses Games and have their permission to do that. Am I still affected by the changes?

For the Blog I do translate some stuff, mostly news and announcements an I guess this is covered under the Fair Use clause but just to make sure I 'm posting here.

Cori Marie wrote:

Well next time you see him, please let him know that I have decided to follow in his footsteps and am doing my own version of Bastardhall as a con exclusive game starting next month!

AKA in two days. ;-)

I'll let him know that Bastardhall lives on!

So you could ask him? ;)

Oh, by they way, thank you as well!

Damon Griffin wrote:

I'm running an Aasimar Cleric of Ragathiel in Carrion Crown right now named Ember Kindler; Ailson is her aunt and has made two very brief appearances.

I haven't mentioned any other family members. It's possible that "aunt" is an affectionate, non-literal term, but for purposes of our game they are related in some way. Auntie was kind enough to buy Ember a wig after she got kissed by a vargouille and her long red hair fell out. :)

Neat!

Sorry to dig up long forgotten corpses ;)

It was mentioned in this very thread

Thanks, but that is from another customer, I was thinking more in the line of something official from Paizo.

Starocotes wrote:

My lokal store can order a sketch cover of this book. Was that announced somewhere?

Yes.

Where? Can you point me to a link?

My lokal store can order a sketch cover of this book. Was that announced somewhere?

Any idea when the pocket edition for this book will be available?

So this AP and Triumph of the Tusk will feature Gorums death?

Can we expect this AP being something like a cornerstone like Rise of the Runelords was with potentially some follow ups?

From all the news I expect that the death of Gorum will play into part 2 or 3 and PC will be able to get some mythic options later on.

Should be same day across all formats.

As for the two missing audiobooks you mention, MacMillan Audio has the rights to publish those (or not) still, and when TOR didn't renew the Pathfinder Tales license in 2017, the audiobooks for these were cancelled.

When the rights to those novels reverts to Paizo, we will explore making audiobooks of them, because I certainly don't like there being this gap in our catalogue, but there are costs associated with producing those, and the return on that investment for books that are otherwise out of print and years old is much less than the potential return on new material, so we'll have to strike a balance.

Thanks for the info. That is perfectly understandable.

But that Godsrain will be at the same day will help me tremendously.

I hope that using Audible will help the decision for more novels as well.

AJCarrington wrote:

Was anything mentioned re an .epub version as well? This will likely be the first hardback I’ve picked up in quite some time, but love the flexibility of digital.

Godsrain will be available as an e-book and audiobook as well.

Same day as the hardcover or later?

Is there any news about the two remaining novels as audiobooks?
"Through the Gate in the Sea" and "Gears of Faith" are still missing from the audiobook releases.

Thank you for all of your work Aaron.

Where was this announced?

Such things a seldom announced and the reasons for them even more so. I would ask everyone not to speculate anything and keep this positive and just focused on thanks.

Just wanted to thank Aaron Shanks thank you for all the great work you did for Paizo and Pathfinder. May your new endeavor be as rich and as rewarding as this one.

Unfortunatly this looks a lot like Cascadia without the great graphics.

Elemental Stones is referenced in Highhelm. That’s not to say it is not played in Tian Xia.

Any chance we get to see a bit more of the game soon so we can preorder it? It allways takes some time to get it here in germany.

I need a to create a ring that make the bearer "automatically" detec illusions. I know that there are several ways to make the ring less powerfull and so less pricey but I still have to come to grasps with the basic rules for something like that I really would appreciate some help.

Options:
- Always on and no limitations
- Limited range
- only works for a certain time each day after activation
- Only works with a secret check

Azlanti Diamond anyone?

Okay, I'm certain I will not be able to afford any of this but the idea alone is terrific.

we are debating whether the Grinning Pixie flies the flag of the Pathfinder Society, Absalom or non at all.
Usually a ship flies the flag of the nation it hails from. In this case this would be Absalom since the society has it's headquarter there. I personaly think that it would NOT fly the glyph of the open road since this would elevate the society into some kind of government status.

I really would like to have a bit more input form different people.

Heart of the Jungle, page 29 wrote:

Officially, Bloodcove takes its name from the iron-rich waters that spill out of the Vanji River, staining the waters red.

Solved, it would seem!

Thanks, teriffic!

I tried to find some information about the red water in Bloodcove but either I'm blind or I do not have the right books.

For all german speaking Pathfinder fans. Tonight at 19:00 CEST there will be a short preview of the Travel Guide in our stream at https://twitch.com/lurchundlama

Isn‘t the picture of the Intellect Devourer in the Bestiary 2 copyright protected? It was used for the new D&D movie poster.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FYKOyD5UIAAw3PX?format=jpg&name=large

Has anybody a clue where I can find pawns for my players?
- Female Catfolk Magus
- Female Shisk Bard (Flute)
- Male Antgnoll Witch
- Male Strix Investigator
- Male Hobgoblin Swashbuckler

Starocotes wrote:

Congrats!

Why does Jim have a plushie of the german company Ulisses on his shoulder?

If I recall correctly they are the official German language translators for Pathfinder. I think he mentioned in a post awhile back they sent him the custom plush as a gift.

Edit: I was correct

I did know the first part (I'm the admin for THE german pathfinder fanbloig) didn't know the second part (shame on me).

Congrats!

Why does Jim have a plushie of the german company Ulisses on his shoulder?

Somehow I did mess up my post, sorry.

The “Strength of Thousands” Adventure Path takes place at the Magaambya academy in the Mwangi Expanse and the Mwangi Expanse sourcebook has some more background lore about the students and their activities. One rather interesting part is a sidebar about “study groups” that are basically alcohol samplings. One rather favorite drink is “Jatembe Juice” made from dates and ginger and so I had to recreate it. In this video I show how it is made:

https://pathfinder2.de/2022/03/20/how-to-make-jatembe-juice/

It gives no real guidance about when the downtime activities should happen except between and among the stuff listed in that chapter which can happen at different times.

It's intentionally vague so that you can stretch or compress time.

Personally, I'm planning everything out on a Golarion calendar so that I can definitively say what day it is, how many dorm-room game nights have happened, who's birthday it might be, and when bonus content I added in happens canonically in my game.

For me it's working out like so:
4721 Arodus 4th-10th: Chapter 1
4721 Arodus 11th to 4722 Erastus 28th: Chapter 2
4722 Erastus 29th-31st: Chapter 3

Quizzes or Exams every month, with 4 total Exams correlating to completion of a downtime study period. Quizzes are basically only roleplay opportunities.

Actually that doesn't fit with the chapter about Nantambu in the Mwangi Expanse book.

I'm trying to geht the calendar in the chapter about Nantambu (Page 235) aligned with what I can find elsewhere.

It says that the first day is the spring equinox, which would be 20. Pharast in 4721.

Calender

So is the 20. Pharast equal to the added first day of the year that is mentioned in this sentence?
"These feast days are not part of any month, and an extra day is added at the new year." ?

If that is the case the 21. Pharast would be the feast day dedicated to Old-Mage Jatembe and ther 27. Pharast would be the feast day dedicated to venerating the ancestors. 28. Pharast would be the first day of the first month of the new year?

Anybody here has any idea how students form other parts of Golarion would have traveled to Nantambu? Especially Avistan or Absalom?

Any ideas or recomendations on running the AP with milestone advancements rather then handing out XP?

I would like to write a story for a german fanzine. The fanzine is available free of charge as a PDF but there is also a printed version (with the exact same content) for which there is a charge.

Is that possible under the community use guideline?

@gisher
Thanks a lot for this detailed walk through, now it makes sense to me.
Even though that seemed like a very specialized usage I can't find any other way to get to the same result.

Starocotes wrote:

Actually I'm not looking for a way to get a wizard to wield any weapon, I'm looking for a way to make sense of Unconventional Expertise and I can't find ANY.

Consider the Wizard I was describing before. Because Wizards don't advance all Simple Weapons, they would never become Expert in their Elven Curve Blade even though they would become Expert with daggers, staves, etc. at level 11.

By taking Unconventional Expertise they would become Expert with the Elven Curve Blade at level 13. (It's a little later than desirable, but better then never.) That's the reason for the feat.

I did understand that, but to take Unconventional Expertise they have to take Unconventional Weaponry first which would make no sense for them at all bevor also taking Unconventional Expertise.

With Unconventional Weaponry they would get NOT proficiency in the weapon they choose.

Similarly Rogues, which only advance some Martial Weapons, can use this feat to get Master proficiency with an Advanced Weapon that they chose with Unconventional Weaponry. (They'd have to become Trained in all Martial Weapons first, of course.)

Unconventional Expertise is for the classes with oddball Weapon Proficiency advancements.

But in those cases the Unconventional Weaponry doesn't make sense on it's own.

Actually I'm not looking for a way to get a wizard to wield any weapon, I'm looking for a way to make sense of Unconventional Expertise and I can't find ANY.

Expertise is likewise useful for other classes that only get specific proficiency, like Rogues who only get a select number of martial weapons or Wizards who never even get simple weapon proficiency (for some stupid reason) and need Expertise even for weapons they treat as simple.

Just startet to research that myself. For a wizard the

Welcome.
That the title was changed from "Human Resources" - which I personaly find a little disrespectuful - is a very good sign.

What was strange for a moment is the fact that there is another Maggie Gallagher out there who seems to be the opposite of the one mentioned here.

Fixed link

Thanks, I tend to forget that this forum doesn't do that automatically.

Paizo Welcomes Maggie Gallagher As Director Of People And Culture

This sounds great. Alone the fact that they moved on from the rather awfull "human resources" title speaks volumes.

But it is rather unfortunate that there is another Maggie Gallagher out there who seems to be the opposite from this one.

Thanks a lot for all these answers. That really clears up some things.

So far it is not really that hard to stop someone from casting but it gets harder to stop someone from sustaining a spell once it is cast.

Sustaining doesn't get the manipulate traits from components and so you can do that even if you grabbed of constrained.

Is there a problem with the shipping of this book to other (overseas) retailers? I've been looking to buy this book ever since it came out but no European sellers seem to be carrying it. Ordering from Paizo directly means having to pay $40 in shipping to Europe, so I'd like to buy from local stores.

I've got mine from here: https://lurchundlama.de/Pathfinder-Absalom-City-of-Lost-Omens-P2

There are some:

- Attack of opportunity ( On critical Hit )
- Fighter Disruptive Stance ( On Hit )

But only in combination. Very few spells trigger an AoO by themself.

Everything else seems pretty specialized.

Is there any way to disrupt a spell or stopping the caster from sustaining it besides the feat Counterspell?