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My September order looks all sorts of screwed up.

It shows the Base S&S game, as well as 2 copies of the add on deck.

Seems to me this post is more about a disconnect between your expectations of the game and treatment of monstrous creatures and that of your GM and fellow players.

It's very hard to play a redemption focused character when everyone else in the group is focused on killing everything you encounter. It's particularly difficult when the GM is running goblins and many enemies as irrevocably evil. I've run much of Rise of the Runelords and while playing the paladin redeemer type could make for a very fun adventure, this particular AP is only going to get more and more confounding to you unless you iron this out.

I'm not trying to criticize your character choice here, but without some kind of buy-in from the GM and from the other players in your group, this is going to be a frustrating, uphill battle for you.

To be clear here:

Redeemer type characters are a blast, nothing wrong with them.

Trying to play such a character when the rest of your group and GM are determined to run a classic hack & slash game is a huge challenge.

This right here. While it is fun to sit here on the message boards and contemplate our navels and the true nature of goblins, doing so while in game when the other players just want to kill monsters and take their loot is a surefire recipe for a bad night for all involved.

TL;DR, change your characters backstory to something more suitable for hack n' slash and save the redeemer dude for a solo session.

Thanks for the help. I called Customer Service and cancelled my subscription.

Kind of weird to do it this way, but meh. Whatever works.

Thanks. So how do I go about starting off with the add-on deck?

I saw this alluded to in another thread, but I would like a clear yes or no answer.

Also, right now I am set up in my subscription to receive both. If the answer to my question is yes, how would I go about modifying my subscription?

Thanks!

Yoshua wrote:

yeah, don't really get the point in pointing out spelling errors when you know what the person is trying to say. phone keyboard aside, English isn't everyone's first language.

My point is that Amazon is able to offer the same product at almost half the cost, the only downside, which is MAJOR to me, is the lack of promo cards.

If i had a way of getting my hands on the promo cards on the side short of ebay there would be nothing stopping me from taking advantage of my amazon prime membership. I would rather support Paizo directly, and i am a BIG fan of having a complete set.

So in the end I will pay double to Paizo, it just makes me unsatisfied that Amazon can offer such a discount for the same product I am buying directly from the distributor. If they offered the promo cards? the ONLY thing that would keep me dedicated to Paizo is customer loyalty.

You can talk with the Customer Reps they have said before that they can start people off with the add-on decks and still get most of the promos if not all of them.

I do not believe that to be accurate.

I called and spoke with a Rep and she was very clear that they could not start with anything other than the current deck and promo. I was specifically told that prior promos were NOT available.

At any rate, cost for me through Amazon is $58.27 including tax for the base S&S game + add on deck. I've had prime since it was available, and PACG stuff isn't even in the universe of reasons why I have it, so cost for Prime is irrelevant to me for these purposes.

Cost through Paizo is $83.25 for the same stuff. That makes being a subscriber $24.98 more expensive. But I get 4 promo cards, making each card worth $6.25.

So it really boils down to the question of do you want the promo cards? If yes, subscribing makes sense because you would be hard pressed to find the cards on Ebay for that price and thats not even taking into account the effort you have to go through hunting for the best deal. If you don't want the cards, then Amazon is the clear winner. (Of course you could subscribe and sell the cards yourself and potentially come out ahead, but lets leave that discussion alone for now).

For me, I am a completionist. I hate it, but I acknowledge that weakness. So I will subscribe. I bought all the promo cards I didn't have on Ebay when I found out that they existed.

Really my only beef with the subscription is the outrageous shipping charges Paizo has. I hate being ripped off like that, but I tolerate it for the promo cards because even after the gouging, I still get them cheaper than Ebay.

but it was apparently a cryptic function of size, weight and destination.

Out of curiosity, what carrier did you use? I ask because I had a similar thing happen when a fellow in Canada bought some 7th Sea CCG cards I had. FedEx air was actually slightly cheaper than surface.

In the course of a game (happens to NPC etc), it would be situational and based on where the game is (store or convention, probably not appropriate; Jims basement, OK) and the nature of the players themselves.

Having a PC (of either sex) raped... my gut says "not cool" but again I suppose it would depend on the players. Some folks might be OK with it.

Svetgar wrote:

Steve, thanks for doing this.

I've tried sending a PM but I can't seem to figure out how to do it. I'm interested in the Dark Sun stuff if it is still available.

Click on Steve's name, and then click on the link that says "Send private message". It'll take you to the PM screen where you can enter your message. :)

Thanks! I figured out that I didn't have PM enabled on my end; that was what was stopping me. :)

Steve, thanks for doing this.

I've tried sending a PM but I can't seem to figure out how to do it. I'm interested in the Dark Sun stuff if it is still available.

I really liked the artwork and design of the covers on all the books.

3.0 / 3.5 was just boring to me. All brown and no flair.

How would someone tell what printing they are looking at purchasing? Is there any identifier on the box?

Interested, but I will elaborate on what a previous poster mentioned. How serious are you guys planning to get?

If it is anything more than 'not very' you are going to have to pick a faction, at least to start with. I get why you would want to have both, but you split your playerbase that way at the beginning and run the very real risk of neither getting beyond a random handful of people on at any one time.

As you know, server transfers get expensive quick. But I am sure quite a few people (myself included) would be willing to pay that cost if there was a clear idea of where the guild would be going and what we could expect.

Just my 2 cents.

The printing of 3.5 was one of the best decisions that WoTC made, second to the OGL.

3.0 was the most major revision the AD&D rules had at the time. There was alot of errata and people figured out what worked and what didn't. Rather than publish everything via errata online, it was all condensed and reworked, and new books published.

This is a good thing because it makes life easier for everyone to keep track of the changes. There were only two other options were to 1) publish errata online and force people to cross reference or 2) ignore the feedback and pretend its fine how it is.

Pathfinder is to 3.5 what 3.5 is to 3.0. Pathfinder is what D&D 4 should have been. PF is the best iteration of the 3x ruleset to date and you can still use the books you bought a decade ago with it. This is why it is so popular.

I don't have a problem with PF 1.5 at some point. I'd rather buy a new rulebook in a few years than print out 100 pages of errata and clarifications to have to cross reference and look up.