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Oh YES!
I have been asking for this!
Such a long wait...
guess my black dragon and his minions will be very hungry by march.

looking forward to seeing the actual art for this.

can a bard take 20 on perform?
is there a time frame for how long a bard can perform and hold the audiences attention? Will he need to make skill checks periodically?

See the bard and the rogue devised a scheme where the bard shows up at Scarnetti manor and charms his way in and offers to perform in exchange for a meal. Then during his performance the rogue sneaks in the upper floor and attempts a burglary. But how difficult should the bards skill checks be?
btw
The rogue is after a mastercrafted composite longbow +1 in a fancy case along with silver tipped arrows for lycanthrope hunting.

My group is exploring Magnimar and I have come across a few items that puzzle me.

1. How do you pronounce Naos? Is nAose long A? or nOWse? perhaps na Ose long O?
also, what is the significance in being the only district without an obvious descriptive name?

2. What are the stats for Paralictor Darean Halst of the Hellknights?
also, where can I find stats for a typical hellknight?

3. Therhyn Raccas is a LE half-elf rogue 9, even-tempered, one armed leader of the Night Scales thieves guild. That's very descriptive and I feel sure there is a good story there...
but male or female?

thanks for any help you can offer

The design staff probably have a pretty solid agenda for the big book of everything, but I wonder if I am alone in wishing that some things from the Beta playtest be moved into a follow up book with the monsters.

I like having everything rules related in one book. (The 3.5 rules compendium is a fantastic resource.)
But for the final version of the Pathfinder RPG I would prefer that the magic items, specific traps and the monster stats be in a separate book.
Then players could be asked not to bring it to the table.
Yes I know they will probably buy it and read it, but at least an attempt at keeping the GM's resources separate from the main rule book would make me happy.

I saw pathfinder 1 at my FLGS and was blown away! Awesome production
did I buy it? no, sorry.

you see I am running D&D games for my kids and their friends ages 8-14.
I really wish my adult friends who like RPGs had schedules that could mesh with mine...

anyway I quote Mr Jacobs here:
"... Pathfinder is not necessarily intended for young audiences. Our solicitations for the product to distributors suggest ages 16 and up. Our market research indicates that the average age of our customers is in the late 20s. Mature elements will continue to appear in Pathfinder now and then as a result. I suspect STRONGLY that sanitizing Pathfinder so as not to offend anyone would result, overall, in a loss of business for us, based on the fact that in Dungeon, the darker and grittier adventures routinely won us the most praise and support from our customers."

so what about the game mastery modules? same setting right? is the content aimed at the same maturity level? my son loves your goblin song and artwork. he came up with the idea that he wanted to play a goblin character who goes on adventures and his friends said cool lets do it.
I have never run monstrous pc's before but I am winging it.

I hope there will be some gamemastery products aimed at a slightly younger audience I do buy the item cards and map packs, the kids love that stuff.

tom

Will any of the pathfinder or game mastery modules have maps for miniatures or be based on the flip maps and/or map packs?

I love using miniatures in my games of D&D and like to have scale maps for the encounters. I would be most likely to buy a module that had miniature scale maps with it or built around existing map packs referenced in the adventure.

I have collected several of the map packs and item cards, it would be cool to have pre-built adventures to use them with.