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(First, I looked for a Kickstarter thread but did not find it. If this is in the wrong place, my apologies!)

Announcing Cauldron !!!

Cauldron is a whimsical game where the players are witches and warlocks who compete to see who is the greatest potion maker. Players must use their cards to either grow and harvest potion ingredients, to hex (or curse) their opponents, or to save cards as recipes to brew.

Ingredients are placed in cauldrons and at the end of the game you see what you have managed to brew out of your recipe book. But watch out(!), whenever you play hex on other players you receive corruption tokens in your cauldron which ruins an ingredient. Failure to brew all the recipes in your recipe book will cause you to lose points.

Finally, the two other ways to earn victory points is by harvesting many ingredients and by casting many hexes, allowing for a number of different strategies to explore in the game.

The game runs 45 minutes to 1 hour, for 2-4 players, ages 12+.

Check out the wonderful artwork featured in the video!

Thanks!
Rob B.

Cauldron Kickstarter

I am considering playing a goblin alchemist in the newest AP and I have a rules question.

Would the Burn! Burn! Burn! feat ( Burn! Burn! Burn!) apply to the alchemist's bomb damage...

I know that it DOES NOT apply to splash damage. Splash damage affects everyone adjacent on a successful hit. The target does not suffer splash damage.

So at first level the damage of a fire bomb would be 1d6+int+1d4 and splash damage would be 1+int.

The issue is whether bombs are alchemical (it is an alchemist we are talking about) or magical . I raise this question because of this line from the Alchemist description ( alchemist):

"When an alchemist creates an extract or bomb, he infuses the concoction with a tiny fraction of his own magical power—this enables the creation of powerful effects, but also binds the effects to the creator."

So is it magical or alchemical or both?

I think it would be OK to allow it, as the extra d4 quickly becomes irrelevant by third level or so, as we are talking an average of 2 extra points of damage.

Thoughts anyone?

Thanks,
anthrorob

Inspired by this thread I thought I'd ask the opposite question:

In your opinion what are/were the most UNDER-RATED table top RPGs (past or present)?

-Anthrorob

Looking at it there seems to be a lot more going for it than some other races...or is it just me...

spoiler alert!

Or am I being overly paranoid?

AR

How is that for a cool idea? Give the top thirty-two Paizocon tickets! Paizo could print out a few extra tickets! Granted you'd still have to find your way to the CON and find a couch to sleep on/under/behind...but still!

I think it would be cool to (a) be in the top 32 (Most important!) and (b) be able to meet who my competition was (obviously after the fact). You could even have some panels, et cetera.

You know, I have such good ideas Paizo should just give me tickets...and a bunch of writing work...I need something to distract me from my doctoral dissertation that keeps staring at me from across the room while I try to sleep at night.

Anthrorob aka Idea Man