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Great advice guys, thanks very much! I had told them to look up anything they want to purchase under the base limit and have that ready, so sweet, did something right! And thank Pizza Lord, great advice there :)

according to Pingdom (https://tools.pingdom.com/#!/bFT8Ya/paizo.com) from NYC to paizo.com and the page to load averages 3.8 seconds, which is about what I have been seeing.

The actual paizo site works fine, its just the message boards that run slow for me. I used pingdom and tested paizo.com and got a load time of 2.12. Then I tested "https://secure.paizo.com/paizo/messageboards" and got 14.06 X_X. Everywhere I connect from uses optimum, wish I had something else to compare to.

GMing my first campaign, so far so good. PCs are level 4 and just arrived at the first town in the story. It's a large town with a generic marketplace stat block. I'm a little unsure on how to generate the magic items available. Should I be rolling items completely at random, or catering to the parties needs, or a little of both? Also, should I make a couple things out of their price range to entice them to come back to that market later with more cash, or just make everything affordable to them? I've never been on this side of the table before, help/suggestions appreciated!

I was looking at the nethys archive's treasure generator. Can that be used?

I would love to browse these message boards as a time killer, but it's just so slow. I know it can't just be me, it's the same at work or at home, wired or wi-fi. Any message board link takes at LEAST 30 seconds to load, after my 3rd or 4th thread I try to read I usually get frustrated and give up. I can't be the only one that experiences these super slow load times... can I?

Found the chart, makes much more sense now, thanks very much!

Ahhh, gotcha. Is there a formula?

Hello!
Me and my group are still fairly new to Pathfinder, and this is our first adventure with a ranger. Our ranger just hit 4th level, and as such has gained zero 1st level spells/day. Can someone please clarify what the zero means? Is that for a character who multiclasses into ranger? Can he do anything with it now as a level 4 ranger?

Ahhh that makes sense. Thanks very much!

Quick question, the following string is taken from Koruvus' stat block (Rise of the Runelords - p36 in the anny edition):

Melee +1 longsword +4 (1d8+4/19-20), silver dagger +3 (1d4+1/19-20) mwk handaxe +3 (1d6+1/x3)

Why is the longsword italicized and what does the +1 before longsword mean?

Also, this is a mutated goblin with three arms wielding three weapons. Would he be able to use a full round action to attack an adjacent character with all three weapons?

It means he has 5 levels in the Commoner class.

Okay now I feel stupid. Thanks, lol

In this example:

CN human male commoner 5

What does the 5 mean? Help is appreciated as always!

Oh sweet! Thanks =D

I was looking at the Stone Dragon build you have though, and in that case it's an Oread. This isn't listed as an Oread alternate racial though and that's one of the 2 or 3 books I'm missing. Can you still use this as an Oread? The PC who wants to use it is 4'10" 180lbs and 89 years old, lol, can that really pass for human?

Introducing...

YOU ARE ALREADY DEAD
A Guide to the Unchained Monk

Discuss.

Where can I find the Mostly Human alternate racial? What racial is it replacing? Thanks!!

Thanks guys. Wednesday is coming quick and I was starting to get a little nervous. Needed a little confidence boost :)

Just handle the situation with a quick rules check, if no answer is immediately apparent then give your best judgement and write down the question to check out in your free time.

I have each classes spells for the day written out on index cards to avoid confusion on both the PCs part and my own. Winging it is the part I'm scared of the most =X

Awesome, good advice, thanks. And the only limits I'm putting on them in respect to the CRB were class and race selection. I figured the core classes would be more basic and easier to follow than a swashbuckler or a warpriest. And knowing them, they would pick the most wonky classes on purpose, haha =D

We already did character creation, but we used the Roll method (roll 4, leave out the lowest). We said if characters came out s$$$ty, they could opt to use 20 point buy instead, but most everyone came out pretty beefy (as if they spent around 23 points). We also dont have a Fighter or a Rogue. It's a Cleric, Druid, Monk, Sorcerer, and Bard. The monk is loving Ultimate Combat, the cleric wanted to be a healer, the socerer wanted to cast, the bard wanted to buff, and the druid didnt know what he wanted to do so this is what everyone settled on (and I've been trying to let them get as creative as I can). I figure with five of them, they should be okay. And if theyre too squishy, I can always tone down the encounters a little, right? I have everything else you listed except Unchained, ordering now =D

I have a gaming group that gets together 3 times a week mostly for Euro-style board games and some Ameritrash mixed in here and there. About a year ago we picked up Descent and dedicated Wednesday nights to exclusively playing Descent. We've gone through a couple campaigns and have been yearning for something less restrictive and linear. After some research and discussion, we decided to try out Pathfinder (over D&D). There's 6 of us in total, and out of the group only two people have ever played any form of D&D and this was well over 10 years ago. I was the "overlord" for our Descent campaigns and love the idea of GMing, so naturally I was elected to run Pathfinder. I have ZERO experience. They have ZERO experience. I bought the CRB two months ago and have been reading it religiously since. I've gone from cover to cover at least twice, watch Twitch streams regularly, and have gone through countless YouTube How To's. I also invested in Bestiarys, the APG, the Strategy Guide, Ultimates, and a few other books (mostly unnecessary). I've seen a lot of these "first time GM" threads where people suggest the Beginner Box or some light small Modules. I ran this by the guys but they didnt seem interested, they want something that will last us months and have them grow to levels in the teens. Fine. I compromised, and this is what I came up with.

We're going to run Rise of the Runelords. I've restricted them to Races and Classes from the CRB only, but have allowed them to expand on those classes throught the APG and other books like Ultimate Magic/Combat.

I'm fairly comfortable with the rules of the game, and understand how combat works. They too have a pretty good understanding of the game at this point (its been two months). We did character creation last week, and though they mostly used sourced characters builds from these message boards, everything seemed to go pretty smoothly and the PCs seem to have a decent understanding of their characters.

I guess what I'm asking is do we seem prepared enough? Or are we going to try and start next week, run into a bunch of descrepencies, and say "screw this"? Do you think RotRL will be too tough for me to run as a first time GM?