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Can't help you with the system, but there is a wargame with minis from Mophidius. You may want to check it.

Hi friends,

Please cancel all of my Starfinder suscriptions, that is adventure path, maps, and society

I want to keep all of the Pathfinder ones.

Best
Francois

Hello,

EDIT: WAIT ! Just saw your Alias. I've got your package actually. But I am not Louis-Philippe Saint Armand and do not live in Quebec. So I guess someone else has my shipment and you got one from yet another customer. I wonder how far the chain goes.

LOL. at least I know who has it :)

Cheers

Hi Folks,

I would like to report a problem in my latest package. I was expecting to receive secrets of magic, and instead of receiving my copy, I instead got the deluxe edition that was intended for one Louis-Philippe St Amand in Quebec.

I have nothing against this fine chap, but I got his order and presumably he may have gotten mine. And we don't quite leave in the same area.

In the package there was also Kindled Magic that I already have, and Spoken on the Song Wind that I was expecting

So how do you want to handle this ?

Why is it unaivalable now ? I would understand a physical product, but a .pdf ??

Well the clear bases may have some merit if you display the minis in a glass displays case : less plastic to block the light

So why not

I have the problem, but when I log in, and refresh, I find that I am actually logged in, and can access my account for instance

Honestly I hope it gets better than +2 lvl / year, because otherwise you may be stuck and prevented from playing your favourite character for too long for most players I know.

I think in PFS 1 it was more along +4 lvls : year ? Anyways, I would compromise for three.

Some people do not have the same commitment as long time players, or else have life issues causing them to stop gaming on the way, so +2 lvls / year seems a problem, IMHO.

- do not try to convert a PF1 character to PF2 based on similarities in class names. Start from what the PC should be able to do and see what PF2 builds allows for it.

Hiya

I would not be so certain on that point. If you use basic builds, you are pretty much able to do the same, and in some cases much better

Best,

link to the rumors ?

So we played the first cinematic scenario recently, which will be included in the Soon to be released Starter set.

It went rather well. I had advised my players to see again the movies, and one of them even bailed out at the last moment because of this.

The Rules system is okay, and fitting well with the genre. It has some subtleties that are not apparently evident (Pulse rifle fire / Flamethrower exact effects) that need researching, but otherwise, it really fits the bill.

For the scenario "Chariot of the Gods" : basically you are royally (CENSORED) but maybe if you stick together, you might survive.totally true to the films.

I look forward to the next one, just out in .pdf, and I should receive it sometimes soon.

We are goblins, we will bounce back !

Want to be scared ?
Alien : Isolation

Great game

Also : not scary but very compelling : Prey

I am in of course.
I had trouble getting into Kingmaker initially, but now I am a huge fan.

I am due to have a session sometime soon, but I was greatly impressed with this game

I stopped watching after 10min.

Why ?

I am slowly discovering 2e through play examples (no time to read the rules), and I really like it so far.

There is again a sensation of discovering something new while actually being in danger. Good stuff all around.

SteelGuts wrote:

The D20 dice is the master of all things. If you got poor rolls, with bounded accuracy, you will be in a lot of pain. You can't maximize enough to protect you from bad rolls.

Oh boy is that the truth. 4 sessions in and all the players have been having a streak of bad luck, while the GM has been rolling hot. (Last night, nobody rolled above a 5 for at least an hour, while the GM rolled 3 critical attacks in a row.)

It was so demoralizing we had to stop the session halfway through.

Well YMMV, but I think this is a good step, as recently the dice roll where only for show hidden behind a ridiculous amount of modifiers, to the point they hardly mattered.

There might be again challenge and danger in the game.

Well I have some items in my cart.

And ... they show as being already bought in 2013. Even though I do not have them and they were not published yet back then.

I guess I own a time machine

I had not read about this earlier as I do not follow the playtest, but the basic idea sounds really good. I hope it gets implemented, even if it needs tweaking.

I will play both certainly. I think I will keep my own campaigns to 1E until I run out of material

looking good for a young Geralt I think, like at the time of the striga novel

Hi,

Could you please generate and send me a .pdf invoice for this order, as it is stuck in customs, and I think the printscreen may not be enough ?

Many thanks
François

I think the great way to market pathfinder, would be to market it not for its rules by themselves, but as the fantasy game engine that allows any kind of fantasy world to exist, and the limitless possibilities.

people don't like rules, and they like even less big rulesbook. But they do want Adventure.

Basically this issue like so many others boils down to me to :

"Do you really want to play a game" ?
Do you want to be challenged by incertitude ?
Do you want to live an adventure and takes risks ?
Do you want to be an adventurer ?

If you answer yes to any one of those, wands of CLW and many other things must go and disappear from this game for good. Predictabilty and high bonuses are the way to boredom. IMO, YMMV and all that.

I don't like assurance, much as I don't like take 10 and take 20.

I think it is an extremely good thing to curb down the mathematical creep of the endless bonuses.

Way less calculation and more realist goals. YAY !

Got to do the playtest at UK games expo last weekend. I played the cleric. I didn't roll above 7 and achieved nothing, the rogue rolled 4 20s and seemed very efficient

May need to play it again to get a better idea!!

Id much prefer Initiative to be based on what you are about to do, then what you were doing, to be honest.

As far as I am concerned, this is a good thing.

Hiya,

not sure what happened, but it seems my card was declined, yet afterwards all seems fine and I received shipping confirmation.

Please contact me privately if anything is wrong with my latest orders, otherwise best regards

Francois

whaaa ?
I have the distinct feeling that PF2 characters will be even more powerful than the ones we have today, which are already a problem for game balance.

I hope it is something without any kind of plane hopping and demiplanes / other planes / mildly like it is planes, as I feel it has been done to death already

Whatever it is, I hope the monsters power increase a lot so they stop being the pushovers they are today

Hi,
Basically, if I'm reading you all right, you can sue a KS after a certain number of anniversaries without the rewards ?
Can anyone expand on this ? (I am not planning to sue this one, but I have someone else in mind).

Over the past few months, I've seen a slew of players asking how to make what is essentially an anti-class. The weak, sickly barbarian, the uncharismatic sorcerer, the fighter with no physical stats, and the one from the title, a stupid wizard. In short, the players wanted to take the attributes that a class's abilities sort of depend on, and purposefully put their lowest scores in them.

I get the reasoning behind it. If you have a character who has to struggle to overcome something, then they can feel like they have more of an arc. But if you are essentially less useful than your average commoner, why would someone bring you out into a dangerous situation? Which was why I made the case in No One Wins When You Build A Stupid Wizard that the way to have your cake and eat it too was to play a character who is actually another class. The weak "barbarian" is actually a slayer or a rogue who uses precision and tactics to overcome stronger opponents, the smart "fighter" is actually a magus or a wizard who is a soldier, using arcane power to compensate for physical frailty. Etc., etc.

What surprised me, though, was the vehement reaction from a lot of people to this opinion. If a player wants to play a wizard with an INT of 11, they said, then they should be allowed to do that for story reasons. Which left me scratching my head. After all, if you don't bring anything to the party, then why would they want you on their team?

Looking for thoughts and opinions from others. To be clear, I'm not talking about players who put their second-best stats into a class's necessities, or who use feats and class features to substitute abilities for their features. I'm talking about situations where a player is purposefully sabotaging their own character's effectiveness, and why anyone would impose that kind of a burden on the rest of their table.

Short answer from me, and YMMV :

it's not like there are too many of us around there

A +1 weapon is now a far bigger deal than in the past, since it doesn't do just +1 damage but gets an extra die of dammage. A +2 weapon gets two extra dice. That's huge! A +1 two-handed weapon of any stripe will do wads of damage with every hit, even without a critical.

I'm sure many of the special weapon properties will still exist, and they will be further icing on the magic cake.

And I am hoping the power of the monsters scales as well, because otherwise, the already way too easy combats will be even less challenging.

There's already a cookbook for food that gives you in-game benefits

The Culinary Magic Cookbook

Proud to say I contributed to this, with my Orange Cockatrice receipt

kyrt-ryder wrote:

How is 5E forced Low Magical Gear? (Note the distinction. High Magic Settings don't require High Magical Gear)

The way 5e handled magic items made it amazingly prohibitive to try and craft items, 90% of items required attunement, and that any magic items that actually modify things like skill numbers basically break the game because of it's bound accuracy.

Currently, any stat boosting item already break PF too.

Why should they be available for sale if no NPC is able to craft them in the first place ? There are no NPCs of that level around.

I like the idea of resonance, though as it stands now, it looks complicated.

My vision is that low levels should be somewhat believable while as levels go up restrictions should be lifted to showcase your rise to fame and power.

Otherwise, you just cheapen the wonder of magic and heroism.

I always invest some charisma in my characters, as I feel otherwise that my cjaracters are ridiculously overpowered and boring due to the low level of the opposition. I prefer to play a charismatic character with some challenge.

There are flaws built in the current edition and some people love to exploit them for the kicks, ingoring that it is destroying game cohesion around them, or perhaps enjoying it in a selfish way.

Civilizing humanoids.

That would make for a great Asmodean villain story

I'm more curious why there aren't more teleport circles. It only takes a single lvl 17 wizard

I think you have the answer here

I think the AP will be interesting, however, the OP raises some concern I share : the tendency to write APs that ensure the good guys win. And overnight, everyone and everything changes for good and XXI century earth values.

Very good.

And then what space is left for heroes and adventurers after that ?
Taldor is interesting precisely because it is not a friendly place for most people and because of its decadence.

It reminds me of the Forgotten Realms where at some point every evil area or so was liberated, so ever more ridiculous threats had to be invented to keep the audience entertained.

In short, this is a writing trap. I just hope this AP does not fall into it.

My one gripe so far, is that I cannot find my subscriptions anymore.

Since Galt was a nation-level province within the Empire of Cheliax, you could go with some kind of Duke or Archduke for the ancestral claim, but they'd probably have the goal of creating the title of King of Galt.

Unless you want to tweak things and have it be that there was a subservient King of Galt who was a vassal of the Empire of Cheliax.

Mmm

I remember an artifact about the galtian royal carriage, though I may be misremembering.

I'd like aquatic aspects to be made available for the Shifter

How about finding a group that is not about PvP ?
Frankly, I would not tolerate today anyone whose character is about finding excuses to fight and murder my PC.

I just read the shifter, and I am quite thankful to the authors, as it seems a good thematic class.

The "underpowered" parts are just fine by me - I am not looking for this.

However, the list of animals is a bit limited for me, and I'd like to see additional ones released, especially aquatic ones :
- Dolphins
- Turtles
- sharks
- whale

If anything has already been written with those, please point me to it.