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Chris Shaeffer wrote:

Hey everyone. I don't want to be overstepping my bounds in posting this, but time is short and I don't want folks lagging behind if there's even a slim chance of it happening.

Leviathan's End maker Jason Keeley posted that he cannot continue the contest. If you think you might have been close to getting in the top 16, then be prepared for the possibility that you might get bumped up!

More than likely we won't have an answer for this until Paizo opens again tomorrow morning.

Jason, I already said it in your map thread, but good luck with the move and please make it to top 32 next year. I really liked your stuff and was hoping to see a cool monster from you. In fact, please still post a monster if you can!

Thanks! I did have a (hopefully) fun idea for a monster, but my apartment won't pack itself! Maybe I'll post it if I have the time...

Thanks to everyone who voted for my map!

Unofrtunately, I just found out that I have to move for work reasons and I don't have the time to continue in the contest. I am very excited to have gotten this far and I wish the best of luck to everyone else!

Everyone's maps look FAN-tastic! Good luck!

My players were nearly defeated by the Chelish Armada last night and I finished my submission this morning. Not a bad 24 hours!

Thanks to the judges and thanks for everyone's feedback!

I'm a bit swamped at the moment with Round 2. Plus, you know, regular 9-to-5 work. Who needs it? Oh wait, I do to be able to trade money for goods and services. But when this weekend rolls around, I'll be back here to talk about some of the thoughts behind my design!

And I'm running the first adventure of book 6 of "Skull & Shackles" tomorrow night! Good thing I took Friday off.

Another quick question: If we are designing a dungeon-level map, should we put various room markers (A1 through A13, etc.) as if the map was going to be accompanied by a few pages of room descriptions?

Yeah, thanks! Puts my mind at ease.

I feel like a dope for asking this:

Does a "previously unmapped region of Golarion" mean that we need to find a place that has already been named (say, in the Inner Sea World Guide), or can we create a place out of whole cloth that could conceivably exist in Golarion?

I spent last night sketching up some ideas of my own and now I fear that time was wasted...

Thanks!

Hello and congrats to all the others who made it this far! Including my fellow first-timers! Yay!

By way of introduction, my name is Jason Keeley, and I edit puzzles for Penny Publications. You may have seen our magazines at fine newsstands and drug stores everywhere. And before you ask, yes that is an actual job. I spend my days thinking up lists for word seeks, writing clues for crosswords, and other puzzle-related tasks, the minutiae of which would probably be duller than you might think.

I play games of all stripes and I love it. I am closing in on finishing GMing my fourth Adventure Path (Skull & Shackles). Fifth, if you include Dungeon's Savage Tide campaign, which we didn't actually make it all the way through due to life interfering. But at least I put my own ending on the adventures that happened so far.

Plugs: I have 2 writing credits in recent "Wayfinders" (#10 and #12), and a grimoire I wrote for Fat Goblin Games recently went up for sale. I also do the majority of the editing for the e-zine "Worlds Without Master." It's mostly swords-and-sorcery fiction, but each issue also contains a small, usually self-contained, RPG.

Well, I guess I better get back to sketching out some maps! This is very exciting!

I hope I can squeak in this question under the wire:

If I were to create an elemental of some kind, should I try to fit in all categories (small, large, elder, etc.) or should I just pick one of those categories and run with it?

Thanks!

Thanks Jade! Let us know if you do ever run FF!

Anyway, I'm one of the guys from Pantheon. The editor-in-chief to be exact. To be perfectly frank, Joel and Erica were two of our playtesters, two of our lead designer's old friends and they got pretty excited about the game. So, yes, those reviews aren't exactly unbiased.

But Zafrod was one of our players at Ubercon and I believe that he did genuinely like the game, despite being shot in the face! A double-barreled musket will ruin your day!

Also, the art in the PDF is exactly the same as the art in the color copy. I can see how Erica's comment could be confusing; I think she was just glad to have physical copies of that art.

By the way, if you want to see Fortune's Fool in action, we'll be running a bunch of games at Anonycon Dec. 3-5! It's in Connecticut, so if you are in the area, stop on by.

I'm running Burnt Offerings as PbP game on another site, so I've got some time to mull over an interesting tactic that the group is attempting.

They made their first assault on the thistle tunnels in front of the fort and they acquitted themselves pretty well. They managed to capture Gogmurt the goblin druid, but not before the little blighter could send an animal messenger to Chief Ripnugget. Of course, Gogmurt has spilled the beans on Nualia and her cohorts.

Here's what they'd like to do next (one of the PCs giving orders to Gogmurt):

***
"Alright, Gogmurt," Rauno says, patting the little goblin on the shoulder, "it looks like we have a common enemy; that longshanks woman and her companions. If they were truly responsible for the attack on Sandpoint, then they have caused the deaths of innocent people and lead your tribesmen to their deaths.

We don't want to kill any of your tribe, but if they are in our way, we will. Therefore, my small friend, I need you to give the longshanks lady this message: We have killed Tsuto and know her true name. Unless she and her companions meet us here at dawn tomorrow, we will use our own black magic to bind her soul and torment it for eternity!" Rauno's eyes become big and he raises his hands in the air for effect. "If they do not meet our demands, or do not believe you, collect what tribe members you can and flee the fortress. You do not want to be around once the ritual begins. Any soul near the longshanks is sure to be drawn in along with hers."
***

The PC speaking here is a rogue/fighter who managed to make a pretty good roll with his Bluff check. Another PC severed a dead goblin's head and scratched some Thassilonian runes on it to give to Gogmurt as sort of a calling card.

So I'm at a bit of a loss as to how to adjudicate this. I want to reward them for a clever plan, but of course, they can't get exactly what they've asked for here (the least reason of which is that the four non-goblins in the fort would cream the party if they all fought together).

Any thoughts?

Now that is what I call Epic-Level Support :)

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True enough!

Works now, thanks!

I'm having difficulty downloading the PDF of Hollow's Last Hope. I click on the "Personalize File" link and nothing seems to happen, even when I check back after a few minutes. I've personalized and downloaded many a PDF before this, so I don't know what the problem might be.