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bump! Thanks all!

I changed the layout as suggested. What do you guys think?

@Liz: Thanks very much. That's what I thought. Not thinking about selling it. I don't think I'm at that stage of my writing career yet :)

@Jesper: Thanks for the feedback so far. I'm looking forward for more...

Hi all:

I've been writing a first-level adventure set in Osirion as a prelude for Tomb of Pharaohs. I think there is a need for more adventures on such an exciting setting so I wrote my own take on it.

I'm currently playtesting it with my local group but since we're not able to play very often, I'm looking for constructive criticism. I focused more on the social aspect of the game rather than combat and strategy (but don't be confused, there is tough combat there!).

Also, I'm not sure about the licensing thing. I don't intend to charge people for it so I'm leaving it as "community use" license. Not sure how that works, I haven't seen any adventure on those terms.

Any feedback is welcome. I really appreciate any and all constructive criticism.

You can download it for free here

Thanks to all!

Cards look awesome. I'm buying them for sure...

dsancho wrote:

I'm no expert on the topic but Black Diamond Games wrote a blog entry about this very recently. You might want to check it out.

David

That is exactly how I was going to respond to this post! Thanks for ninjaing me David!

-Lisa

It's my pleasure :)

I'm no expert on the topic but Black Diamond Games wrote a blog entry about this very recently. You might want to check it out.

David

Hi Are,

Thanks for the quick reply. I'm still wondering about the relative height of both A13-A14 and A8. In order for it to have a walking headroom in between the wooden platform and the floor of A8 on top, there should be at least 10'. That gives you two problems:

a) There can be no drop between the A6-A7 and A8.

b) The open bay in A8 would stand 15' over the river, which is kind of high to be picking up the water quickly (as suggested by the text).

Something's missing, no?

Thanks again!

I'm having problems with the Old Fishery map. I haven't seen this addressed anywhere so given that this is a two year old adventure, perhaps it's my fault. I'm asking for some clarifications, if somebody would be so kind:

1. As I understand, the "ground" floor is the upper floor. Everything there is on higher ground, except for room A8, which goes down to ground level (5' over sea level, as the text says). This means that the lower part of the western wall of the room separates A8 from A13 (A13 is also 5' over sea level, the text says). My problems are two:

a) The windows on the eastern wall of A13 open to A8? the leftmost window should be under the flow of liquid that falls from A7 to A8?

b) The door at the right hand side of A13 should open to A8 but obviously, it doesn't. Where is that wooden platform located with respect to the "ground floor"?

2. I have similar problems with the ship. The "ground floor" (upper floor) has a small boat, which doesn't appear in the "lower floor" (sea level)... why is that? What is the relationship between both wooden platforms on each side of the ship? is one up and the other one down? If so, I'm missing some poles supporting the upper platform in the "lower ground" map.

Any help would be very welcome. I'm planning to run this very soon.

Thanks in advance for your help!

......I might bite the bullet and take one for the team... I think I'll order K3 with this fancy PDF support and try it out... darn online sales: hopefully it comes with a return policy in case the Paizo PDFs (especially the novels) read like crap... :P

I have a Kindle 2 and PDF display is very small - the whole page in the tiny screen at once. Zoom doesn't work and the only way to read PDFs is sideways and that's not great either. The only way I found PDFs to be palatable was converting them to the mobi format previously. Caliber will do that for you and will also keep your ebook library sorted but not in original pdf format. Same thing goes for novels, I always convert them to prc/mobi to make them readable.

Just my experience, I hope it helps.

A lot of the links in the right hand side still display hacked content. Examples include: "Privateer/Fünhaus", "Paizocon photos" and "Secrets of the Mimic". Some at the left hand side are too ("Books I wrote" and more)...

David

Hi Erian: Very good job with this sheet. We're loving it so far. One of my players has found something that might be a bug (although it might be our fault too). When you select the Toughness feat, it doesn't seem to add any HP at all. Is anybody else having this problem too...?

DMcCoy1693 wrote:

Linux is becoming very user friendly. Just saying.

The Idea is is to have a Pay Per use for the PC.... Having Linux on it will still make it a PC.

AS I understand it, this model will only apply in low-cost Microsoft-based hardware. There's nothing preventing you from buying a third-party clone PC and installing Linux (or ol' Win95 for that matter). You wouldn't get the Microsoft subsidy for the hardware but you wouldn't need to pay the monthly fee either. I would never pay for such a service from Microsoft but I can see how people on a very low budget might want to get a virtually free PC and pay per usage...

Sweet... I can't wait to see the rest of the iconics. Kyra especially...

dsancho wrote:

I went recently on business trip to Ottawa and I was happy to see that one of the game stores there carried a full line of Paizo goodness: all 3 APs, modules, the campaign setting and the beta! I asked the owner and he told me that they were selling Paizo stuff in the same quantities that 4th edition. Really good...

Which store? I go to Ottawa to visit the in-laws a few times a year and wouldn't mind sneaking out to a game store for a while.

I went to Fandom II on Laurier. The guy there is not especially friendly but they do have a good assortment of RPGs and Games Workshop stock. They also have a lot of board games, although they were out of Kill Doctor Lucky. Too bad. I was looking forward to it.

I went recently on business trip to Ottawa and I was happy to see that one of the game stores there carried a full line of Paizo goodness: all 3 APs, modules, the campaign setting and the beta! I asked the owner and he told me that they were selling Paizo stuff in the same quantities that 4th edition. Really good...

So I was checking the most popular Google searches and I noticed that one of them was "Sandpoint". I immediately thought "Wow, Paizo and Pathfinder must be immensely popular out there". After a bit of browsing, I then realized that Sandpoint, Idaho is the hometown of none other than Sarah Palin. That was why...

I just wanted to share this with everybody here.

David

The spell "Bestow Curse" on page 203 has a "decription" (s is missing)

David

If you saved it, you probably have the html error page on your hard drive :S

So, no, it doesn't work for me either...

David

Yes!!!! Finally...

Now against the Russians for the second time ;)

David

Thanks so much for your help, Cos! I'm really anxious to get my little hands on that awesome Gazetteer.

David

Hi Cosmo, guys:

Order 948772 never arrived. I've been waiting for that Gazetteer since April 25th... PF#9 went out the same day and arrived in one week. Should I wait longer? Please, let me know.

About 965849, if it's being held by the warmachine mini and it's going to take a while, just drop it from the order. I'm just saying this because I don't want the other PF minis to be sold out.

Thanks for your support, guys!

David

Hi James:

Where in Golarion would you place Elsir Vale and the Red Hand of Doom story? That's one of the finest adventures from WoTC, imho.

Thanks!

David

Another vote for a "Guide to Kaer Maga"...

I believe the intention is that Paizo will only charge money for the physical book. PFRPG PDFs are going to be freely downloadable at all times. I know this doesn't answer the question about the SRD but it will definitely help searching specific rules if you or your GM play with a laptop in the table.

Good job! They look great. That's a great help to print handouts for the players. I love it. Thanks so much for this.

David

A more accurate method (the one I've been using, anyway, and the one on the sticky note tacked to my cube wall) is:

Chelaxian is a noun. You can be a chelaxian. You can't have a chelaxian back rub.

Chelish is an adjective. You can't be a chelish. You can have a chelish back rub.

So this is like Spanish/Spaniard (Chelish being Spanish and Chelaxian being Spaniard). This really helps. Thanks for the clarification!

David

Very nice stuff indeed. Amiri's sword doesn't look nearly as huge as in the Paizo blog's pic though. I also like his take on the other two (the iconic monk and the gnome druid). The druid's familiar looks different than the one we know too. I'm wondering what product's cover that is...

David

Chelish is used when referring to a group of people from Cheliax.

Chelaxian is used for everything else from Cheliax.

So...

Chelish farmer, Chelaxian farm.
Chelish warrior, Chelaxian war.
Chelish nice guy, Chelaxian lie.

It sounds like both adjectives work to describe people and things:

"He dispatches five Chelish legionnaires" (J1, page 11)
"the Clan of the Sun has suffered much at the hands of Chelish invaders" (PF3, page 61)
"All tshamek bear the sins of the Chelaxian invaders" (PF8, page 7)
"the righteous Queen Galfrey...a Mendev-born Chelaxian" (D3, page 26)
"a Chelish ship called Direption" (PF8, page 7)

It looks like Chelish is to be used for things and Chelaxian for people. Some authors have messed it up in the past though. Just guessing here...

David

Will buy one for sure. 196

I seem to remember James mentioning specifically that they were not going to release any hardcover compilation because that would bring down the sales of the regular monthly releases. Somebody correct me if this is not correct.

In any case, if I were you, I wouldn't wait for a hardcover to get RotRL...

EDIT: Ok, James beat me to it... in any case, question answered :)

Mine turned up last Friday here in Ireland.

Thanks this is great. I was wondering the same thing. Any thoughts on what "TC-1" of "Into the Haunted forrest stands for? How about U of the U-1 of "gallery of evil or U2 of Hangman's noose? what do those letters stand for?

U - Urban

"In the haunted forest" was made to be included in a "Treasure Chest" package with other stuff.

I hope it helps.

David

You have all my support! All the best for Paizo RPG...!

Does that work for orders not yet shipped? I forgot about the discount and ordered Guide to Korvosa and the Harrow deck last Thursday. They're still pending... (Order #906146)

Thanks,
David

Done!

I'm on a hunt for D20/OGL adventures. I know I probably need the Age of Worms, Savage Tide, and Shackled City for sure. I've heard a lot about them, most of that being that they're fantastic.

On my list I've got.

Adventure Book 1 and 2 from AEG
The Caverns of Thracia
GameMastery Modules
Pathfinder
and the three big adventure paths.

Any suggestions on where to look or what other ones I might get?

You might want to check Red Hand of Doom. It's really good.

Russ,

I will put a replacement Pathfinder #4 in with your next subscription shipment.

To our European subscribers,

Unfortunately, it is still too early to give up on your Pathfinder #4. Please give them a couple more weeks to reach you. If you get notification that Pathfinder #6 is getting ready to ship and you still haven't seen #4, let me know at that point and I will get a replacement put in with that shipment.

Thanks,
cos

Hi Cosmo:

PF#5 just arrived today but no sign of PF#4. Are you still on time to put a replacement copy in 6? I just got yesterday the notification that it was about to be shipped. Order # is 881518.

Thanks!

Same thing here in Ireland. Mine was apparently sent on Dec 11th too and hasn't arrived yet...

David

NO

Russ,

I will put a replacement Pathfinder #4 in with your next subscription shipment.

To our European subscribers,

Unfortunately, it is still too early to give up on your Pathfinder #4. Please give them a couple more weeks to reach you. If you get notification that Pathfinder #6 is getting ready to ship and you still haven't seen #4, let me know at that point and I will get a replacement put in with that shipment.

Thanks,
cos

Thanks, Cosmo. I'll wait a couple more weeks then. PF #4 hasn't arrived to Ireland yet...

David

Here's mine. Bear in mind I'm not a native speaker... Thanks in advance for your feedback.

Medallion of Wailing

The goblins of Stormstrand found the medallion in the old tomb. The small rusty piece of metal looked like
a worthless trinket clutched in the closed fist of a long-dead skeleton.
When the young goblin Larbt first squeezed the round medallion in his bare hand, his voice resounded dark and ominous.
After an initial cold chill, they all rolled laughing to the floor. Now, in Stormstrand, catch-the-ghost is a popular game among
the younger crowd.
An inscription in the medallion reads in Abyssal: "Uhr-Alak". When squeezed tight, it makes the bearer's voice sound deep and ghost-like.
All speech comes out in Abyssal, instead of the bearer's native tongue.
Anybody within 10 feet that hears the Abyssal voice must make a Will DC 11 save or be stunned for 1d6 rounds. Characters that saved successfully
are immune from this effect for the next 24 hours.
When the bearer speaks the word "Uhr-Alak" aloud while squeezing the medallion, he or she gains protection from mind-affecting spells for 1 hr.
This effect can be used once per day.
Strong abjuration and divination, CL 16th, Cast Wondrous Item, Mind Blank, Tongues, creator must speak Abyssal; Price 46,000 gp

Cleverly, while Asmodeus is used by WotC they clearly cannot extend copyright over the name, since he shows up in several earlier works such as the Talmud and, indeed, the Malleus Maleficarum.

I just read the Wikipedia entry of Asmodai and saw that the Malleus Maleficarum is a real-life book. I had no idea! Pretty ballsy to create an item out of it. Excuse my ignorance earlier.

Is Asmodeus not WotC's IP? I might be wrong though, I'm no expert on the topic...

A new cooler name for this one could be Stoma-cake :)