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Please rerun the billing for my latest order. The billing method has been updated.

Any idea why the file size on this is so large? Sixty pages came in at 70+ mb. Comparing that to some of my other pdf adventures it seems a bit on the "big" side.

Tsar 4 will be posted tonite when I get off work!

Hooray!!!

Bought and paid for.

All of this makes me happy. Count another one in.

I think a more appropriate approach to this would be a book (or series) like the Book of the Righteous. This could cover the religious orders, paladins, beliefs, prestige classes, etc. and be much more useful in general.

Need to get these things published dude. If this is the best way then I am up for it. I have major concerns that this may be the ONLY way that they will ever see the light of day. Which is a sad thing :(

Hmm...maybe we need to start a massive grass roots publicity campaign on all of the boards for this thing... :)

Greg,

Any word on how close we are to hitting that "magic number" needed to get part 2 and part 3 or is that proprietary information?

I finally broke down and purchased the pdf. While I much rather would have waited for the POD version, it came down to this...do I want to encourage them to publish part 2 and part 3 or not? I have no idea how long it will take for the POD version to become available and I really want to have parts 2 and 3 published to complete the collection. I decided to take the plunge and if POD eventually shows up I will evaluate it at that time.

frog wrote:

All,

I recently moved at about the same time this order was supposed to arrive. I do not know if it did. Do you have any way of tracking it to see if it was delivered?

Unfortunately we can only track items shipped via UPS.

If you have mail forwarding set up with your post office, the packages should be forwarded to your new address.

If the order is returned to us we will notify you and will provide you with options for reshipment.

Thank you. I was most concerned about the "order returned to you" aspect. I imagine it will eventually arrive (or has arrived but was put in a moving box by "helping hands").

All,

Do you have any way of determining if an order arrived? I recently moved and do not know if order 1068884 arrived at my previous address or not.

Thanks

All,

I recently moved at about the same time this order was supposed to arrive. I do not know if it did. Do you have any way of tracking it to see if it was delivered?

Age/maturity level of the group is over 30 yrs old adults. Normally we have no problems with any kinds of adventures. In fact, she can be quite bloodthirsty when it comes to combat. Haunted houses are her Achilles Heel tho...she is absolutely freaked out by them (and not in an "ha ha that was fun" after the fact kind of way).

Her husband thinks that we could give it a try if we stripped out all of the haunted aspects of it in the beginning and maybe throw one in every so often to test the waters. Maybe we can pull it off that way.

Honestly, it isn't worth it to me to upset a friend of over 10 years just to run a specific scenario in a game. This is supposed to be fun, not a traumatic experience. I am sure that I can strip enough out of it to turn it into a dungeon crawl type of atmosphere rather than the haunted house atmosphere and maintain both the adventure and the fun.

I am a bit bummed out. While I would love to run RotRL with my group, I can't. The problem...the haunted house encounter.I have one player who is completely irrational about haunted houses.

Since I have no desire to cause her weeks worth of nightmares nor her husband the misery of dealing with her having weeks worth of nightmares, it looks like this is a "no go" unless I can come up with a way to do this adventure "off screen" and just have them all jump in after it is completed.

Any suggestions?

TPK for our group this weekend. Two of us died in a random encounter with a giant squid (my rogue character and the party fighter) while the rest were killed by a hydra during a resupply stop.

The squid was a CR 9 encounter on a level 6 party...my rogue tried to tumble away out of reach and needed a 4 or higher to make it...I rolled a 2. Attack of opportunity, died. The fighter was shredded by multiple tentacle hits in one round...over 50 hp damage done. She only had about 10 left at the time.

In the second encounter with the two of us gone we just couldn't do enough damage to the hydra to overcome its rapid healing. It ended up sinking the ship and eating all but one of us who swam to the other ship and escaped. Lavinia called off the expedition to the Isle of Dread and turned the boat around and went home.

I don't mind dying when I do something stupid...but that night was just a horrible run of poor dice rolling and bad luck for the entire party...and we paid for it with our lives. Quite a bitter taste in the mouth.

I did learn one valuable lesson from it though. This is not an adventure path that encourages spending feats or skill points in non essential areas. Min/max is pretty much required in order to make it through this.

No more "character building" things like a few ranks in playing the guitar for my character as part of his back story for role playing. I have been reduced to trying to find the ultimate "combo mix" of classes etc. in order to survive.

Time to turn my "role playing" brain off and move back a few years into my "roll playing" period.

Dang it, I am gonna really miss playing Juanisimo Inocencio de Calderon "el Mariachi". I quite enjoyed the scoundrel.

frog wrote:

Hey all,

My Pathfinder subscription shows as canceled and I didn't cancel it. Any idea what happened?

I know that the original subscription was given to me as a gift from a friend and I had re-upped it when it moved to Pathfinder. The friend recently canceled his. Was there a mix up?

There was, but it appears that Corey has already fixed it per your email.

Your Pathfinders should continue arriving without interruption.

thanks,
cos

Thanks Cos...as silly as it may sound, my monthly Pathfinder is one of the bright points of the month.

:)

no pre-charge email so far with this Pathfinder. I hope things aren't screwy with this one, with the sales & holiday season upon us in all.

Things are already screwy with mine. I got the pre-order email the other day. When I checked last night it showed my subscription and order both canceled.

Hey all,

My Pathfinder subscription shows as canceled and I didn't cancel it. Any idea what happened?

I know that the original subscription was given to me as a gift from a friend and I had re-upped it when it moved to Pathfinder. The friend recently canceled his. Was there a mix up?

We gamed over the weekend. We continued on to Krakens Cove.

We got p0wned.

Badly.

We should have known there would be trouble when we couldn't even dispatch the 4 mutant monkeys that attacked us when we were hiking to the cove from our landing spot. It's NEVER a good sign when you can't kill a monkey.

Things got worse from there.

We climbed down the cliffs and ended up fighting a couple of infected cannibals. By the time we were done, all but 2 of our party of 6 were infected by some kind of disease. We still don't know what we are going to do about that. We are hoping we can get back to Sasserine and buy some cure disease potions or treatment before they turn all "braaaaaaaaaaaains" on us.

We ignored the only boat left that wasn't on fire and went caving...found 3 more cannibals and killed them. We went into a tunnel and danged if we didn't get attacked by a flying monkey, with acid blood, that explodes when killed. Maybe we should have thrown water on it and seen if it would melt like the witch in the Wizard of Oz.

Moved into a large room hung with cloth...and got whacked by a mutated dinosaur. This guy took one look at our mage and decided he was lunch. By the time we were done, the mage was dead, one rogue had been shot in the back with a lt. crossbow by our cleric (our DM plays the "1 is a fumble, if you confirm it I get to screw with you" rule..the cleric rolled a fumble, confirmed the fumble with another roll of 1, then rolled two 20's in a row for the "to hit" on the rogue and maxed out the critical damage. The guy went from +13 hp to -5 in the span of an eyeblink).

So now we are here, one dead, out of spells, all but 2 infected, with a dead dinosaur laying there and praying that we don't have another one show up like in the picture that our DM showed us.

As I said, we got p0wned.

There is some good news though. Juanisimo (my character) is now at 4th level and so is the Cleric. The question is, do I take another level of rogue or do I split to a fighter/rogue to give us some help getting out of there? (our DM will let us level up between sessions...which is kinda nice of him)

Frog

This sounds like awesome character development and a great way to tie your character into the campaign world.

Just out of curiosity about your character, when you encountered that hot mama in charge of the Lotus Dragons (whatever her name was), did you consider wooing her and ruling the Dragons with her? I'm interested in hearing how a social rogue dealt with that possiblity.

As for buying a house, if your DM has access to Dragon Magazine number...umm...333(?), the Worm Food article features an awesome fix-er-up building. It doesn't help you with the cost of buying one, but if your DM can let you claim a ruined building, this article has some fun rules for using craft skills and the like to fix it up.

Wooing her? No, not really. He is a pure neutral and is out for what is best for him. In this case, trying to woo the woman whose entire organization you just wiped out in a rather ruthless fashion didn't seem like a wise idea...I mean, how can you trust her not to knife you? And as for ruling the Lotus Dragons with her? Well, she was about the only Lotus Dragon left when we got to her...we were pretty thorough.

Besides, I didn't like her dog. :)

Frog

Besides, it's an Adventure Path meaning that many plot events in Sasserine are already pre-planned. I'm just curiious how you and your DM negotiate your way through them andhow your plans evolve. Regardless, I find the idea intriguing and simply want to know how it works out.

PCs in my homebrew kinda did something similar, but they didn't have they capital so instead they found an investor to buy up a few old tenements then moved in and began gentrifying an old, run-down neighborhood.

As they went through adventures they'd find people they liked and trusted such as a PCs widowed mother who was a part-time seamstress or a hard-luck NPC contact or the victim of some monster abduction and move them into the neighborhood. A carpenter they rescued lived rent-free and became the handiman for their buildings and eventually turned into a block-captain to keep an eye on things while they were adventuring. It was fun.

Good luck on your venture into real-estate.

Rez

I figure a strategically used Leadership feat can gain me enough followers to begin keeping the place up to snuff. Who knows...the Lotus Dragons may rise again (under my control of course), but as a more benevolent force for the town.

Frog

frog wrote:

My DM is laughing about the whole thing...I think he has some unexpected surprises for me...

Frog ... please remember to dig this thread out of the archives in 4 adventures and let us know how your plan has evolved.

Rezhas read the entire APdave

Sure thing

Although this post does sound a bit like you might be tweaking me about how the best laid plans go awry. :)

Frog

frog wrote:

My DM is laughing about the whole thing...I think he has some unexpected surprises for me...

No kidding, really ?

BTW if you are playing and want to keep things interesting and surpising - what are you doing on this board ?

Not reading any of the messages other than the one I posted on is what I am doing... :)

As for the other, I know that I don't have enough $$$ to buy them up now, but for the future it might be fun.

Frog

no idea frankly, but I gues cityscape might have information about prices of housing based on district and social strata (call it an eductaed guess, am away from the books atm )

But, allow me the question, WHY would you want to puchase a house in Sasserine ?

I want to build an upscale restaurant "The Lotus Dragon" in the caves underneath the area. I figure that if I own the whole block, then I can market the thing as a "theme" restaurant and hotel style for those rich folks in town looking to add some "spice" to their lives. What rich lord and lady wouldn't want to dine in the most feared thieves den in the city???

Looking long term here...I want to use it as a front for my own thieves/spy guild. I am wooing Lavinia and hope to get her made ruler of the city before the end of it all, then marry her and run the intelligence agencies for the city.

Yes I know, the best laid plans of mice and men and all that, but a rogue on the run from the Bandit Kingdoms can dream can't he?

My character is a social rogue...he steals by wooing the ladies into "gifting" him their valuables. He figures that he has found the perfect lady to settle down with in Lavinia, and so is working on getting her put into power, and then being the true power behind the throne.

My DM is laughing about the whole thing...I think he has some unexpected surprises for me...

All,

After a long hiatus I am back in an ongoing game. We are playing the Savage Tide adventure path and have just finished up the first adventure. I want to buy some of the abandoned buildings in the Sunrise section of town, near Dead Dog Alley.

Any idea where there is information on how much empty buildings may cost to purchase in this part of town?

Thanks,

Fear the Frog