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heh you're half a book ahead of my group :-)
I like your solution, seems like a nice storyline. But it has probably played out by now, so how'd it go?

My group is currently fiddling around in the water crypt - I loved that false trap, it took them the better part of a great session to figure that one out. Last night, the rogue got possessed by Nailah's handmaiden - and the group wizard responded by casting dominate person on the rogue, hoping to evict the previous visitor. I thought that was a nice cliffhanger to end the session on, and next time, we're going to focus on a game of Everyone is John Kris which I've been dying to incorporate in a game.

near the end of book 5:

Dundee, Male Half Orc Ranger 11. Carries a big knife. death by zealot .

Ratesh, Male gnome sorcerer 5, mostly known for his big nose., brutally eaten to death by a Ghoul near a certain miniature city.

TChalla, Male Catfolk Ninja 15, Carries a bigger knife than Dundee and that's probably why he still lives.

Kris, Female Human Rogue 15, threw an intelligent sword into a mud pit, because it had more attitude than herself and There Can Be Only One. Loves boots. Leather. Scared of cat statues. Favorite of a certain mumionofra we should not name.

Together these two are aptly nicknamed the meatgrinder.

Obi, Male Elf Magus 15, Loves his lightning.

Sovellis, Male Evoker 15, caught an unlucky nickname after an unfortunate night out with diseased twins. Has an imp familiar, controlled IC by GM.

I'm looking at one eyeless rogue, one katana-possessed ninja, one cowardly magus, and a wizard with a wis dumpstat.
They tried to teleport to Wati to glue back the rogue's eyes, and made their saves.

I seriously doubt they'll all make it out of section H in more or less one piece, but we're having a blast.

Note to self - during the sand dunes chapter, add an encounter with an undead Kraken skeleton. Maybe add a couple negative levels... :)

Rule #13: When you're down to your last spells, you don't push on - but you take time to rest.

Because if you DO keep exploring, you get your party gnome snatched by the foul Ghast barbarian thing (I shuffled some feats around for improved grapple and run) and your gnome is taken down to the map room, where the pretty gnome gets eaten alive. The party wasn't as fast so they couldn't do anything but give chase. The nasty ghast, covered in gnome sap, belched loudly and bounced the pretty head towards the PCs.

(The player had voiced interest in a new character - sooo I thought I'd oblige)

So, I had a TPK.

huzzah!

Hahahaha. This guy.

Wow, I really hurt them last night. The blue tiles did massive damage until I nudged one of them into baseballing them to bits. Then, half the party failed the crypt thing's frightful aura save. A quickened Dimension Door right in the middle of the party, followed by a teleporting burst sent two very scared characters into two even scarier rooms.

I changed the negative energy creature, so that it was obsessed with healing magic; imagine a person alleric to grapes who is obsessed with wine - he has gathered a decent collection of healing potions!
I figured they may need quite a lot of healing soon ;)

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However, if Paizo is handling the shipping, which I assume is the case, then for most of the world, shipping would exceed (i.e. be double or triple the value of) whatever you pay for the bundle.
How can I get an educated guess of the total charge?

I always prefer reverse gravity in combination with a ceiling.

First, they take a ton of falling damage from hitting the ceiling.
Sure, some of them will have feather fall, but they will be unable to steer efficiently and a couple of ray attacks should help deal with sitting ducks.

Then, when you're done picking them off, casually dismiss the spell, and everyone gets the same ton of damage once more.

If nothing else, it turns their bloodlust to 11 X-D

I'm using snippets from this wikipedia page for the eye taker encounter.

I'm also leaving a book of law on the defendants' table (i.e. the players can look this url up on their tablet) and every snippet they manage to use in their defense *in a meaningful way*, results in a +2 bonus to their roll.

I had a law student friend play one eye, meanwhile I just sat back with a beer, watching the players lie and cheat their way through a pig-latin-lawyer speak encounter. "Here, use that!" "and this, pro bono's sake!"

meanwhile, I'm not too keen about the red herrings. Our play time is limited so we don't want to spend much time on arguing about next course, which is what this chapter is all about. That may be nice for a change of pace, but only for so long.

They already have a rough longitude, they'll probably want to get a latitude, however no encounter zones as written in neither West and East of the Necropolis. I guess I'll just randomly put one of the encounters wherever they point on the map.

91) reporting back to caster type character at inopportune moments i.e. "MASTER! I AM NOW REPORTING, JUST LIKE YOU ASKED, TO TELL YOU THAT RIGHT NOW IT IS NOON!" a split-second before the caster finishes casting that *one* spell that really mattered. Possibly even forcing a concentration check, if you're feeling particularly grudgy.

I'm using snippets from this wikipedia page for the eye taker encounter.

I'm also leaving a book of law on the defendants' table (i.e. the players can look this url up on their tablet) and every snippet they manage to use in their defense *in a meaningful way*, results in a +2 bonus to their roll.

I hope to steer this towards an RP encounter, which most of the players seem up for anyway; fortunately I ended the last session with eye taker taking an eye and the players interrupting the court in session, thus automagically becoming the next defendants.

okay. They're fighting Thorn next sunday.

I'm

almost a year has passed, and now I'm prepping the climax of book 5 for my tabletop group. Still I draw inspiration from your characters. We had a seriously good thing going. I'd love to be in touch :)

It really is that quick.

*looks at timestamp of question*

Much like yourself...! thanks.

Despite the mystery around FMG these days, we're still playing and having fun. The players took the lead by finishing book 3 really quickly and NOT reporting back to Thorn -yet- So I've moved events around a bit. They've already spoken to Naburus, where they were gently nudged towards killing a king, and we've cut away at least 6 months of play time (which to us is a good thing - we decided we don't want to play with devils for another 3 years)
The king will die next sunday, come hell or high water.

While reading the inhabitants of the palace, I was wondering about the Sleepless Knight, especially the Quickenss(ex) ability.

A mithral golem is incredibly quick. It can take an extra move action during its turn each round. This means it can move up to double its speed and still make a full attack.

That seems off to me. Full attack is a Full round action, is it not?

Or is he really supposed to be that quick ^_^

Nebta-Khufre and his few remaining disciples were banished to the desert to die.

banished... imprisoned...tomato, tomahto - Only to be freed by my unsuspecting players. Mwuahahahaaa.

Make the necromancer the boss from book 2.

woot! that's exactly the sort of flavor what I was hoping for ^_^

Let's say Nebta-Khufre was imprisoned in the underground tomb where he found the Mask, and the PC's allowed him to escape by digging him out.
Maybe if the PC's would've just left things alone, the whole adventure path would never have happened... Heh, I can work with that.

Getting ready to run this for a new group. As no one has ever played pathfinder before, I'm running a prequel; a caravan of folks who are headed towards Wati to join in the lottery. The catch is that they get ambushed to smithers on the way and never reach their destination. I've told them their PC's should be IDisposable, and everyone is to make 2 characters.

After this first session I can use the prequel to fill up quiet time in the city - rumors of a missing caravan, a disgruntled caravan owner asking around because he is owed a lot of money, etc...

I haven't read the entire AP yet - but if I can add in an event from a future book that'd be great. Maybe these are the giants who steal an item that's meant to be missing in book 3 or 4? Maybe this necromancer is a later villain? Any ideas / tips are welcome.

Danielle Sands, the artist who did the cover piece and iconic nightblade, is already working on pieces as I post this. The saboteur and vanguard pieces are ready to go and the archivist is being worked on now.

Beautiful stuff!!

I'd wish for something else. How do you heal by natural means? herbs 'n' stuff, or sleeping? I assume sleeping, resting; which will just make your party camp for a week or two before going on unhindered. That doens't add much excitement or danger to the game IMHO.

Tomorrow, we're going to finish this book. I will use the insane rants I found on richard dawkins reads hate mail to let the angels speak their minds a bit. Replace God with Sarenrae a couple times and you're all set.

"I will look forward to observing from my post in heaven the exquisite tortures you will suffer at the hands of the just and loving Sarenrae you have rejected."

I couldn't make it up if I tried. I just love those adorable religious trolls.

I think it's a good map, but not a great map. Where does the hatch in the floor go? some labels would've been nice. Why would anyone put a brewery in a place like this - nearby water source? wind powered? I'm not seeing it.

great quality, best I've seen so far - but it's just not exciting... sorry.

First glance : meh, yet another shipwreck. Then I saw the ziplines. And the hut. And it all turned into a homestead I'd love to defend or overrun.
It could've some 'material' floating around in the swamp - misc. gunk and debris would help in making the map come alive.

My new favorite. This map would generate oooooooh's when inflicted upon unsuspecting players - it speaks to the imagination!
I love the campsites around it - not so sure what the flaming rift is supposed to be, though.

I think it looks great. However, there's no story here. Nothing in the picture that matches the title.

Like it a lot. A game would become better if it were played on this map.
The color scheme makes it look gritty, cold and wet - spot on.

The ice-plains-surrounded-by-mountains (right side) seem a little too convenient; What happened here that created these pits, such weird natural formations? If the island is, for example, an old volcano, I think it should look a bit more like one.

Wow, Browman summed it up perfectly. There's nothing here that makes me want to go in. Why is there no secret door leading to the enslaved inbreds? Where would the monks train? Why was the abbey built *here* specifically? I don't think this is a superstar map.

Excellent map. I'd buy this as a flip-mat.

I have a problem with this map: Visual aids are supposed to clarify the situation. And this looks overly complicated to me, trying to be interesting to a fault. For example, North is to the south-west; I'd say that the map could easily be printed in landscape, eliminating the need of re-thinking which direction is where. Also, overlapping areas are very cool - but difficult to express clearly without adding noise.

At first sight, the map presents a believable, living, active town, but the longer I look at it, the worse it gets. for example, wouldn't Shoanti be clever enough not to build a city at the bottom of a cliff? Gravity would make a cheap weapon. And I'd expect more natural borders around the town to make it more secretive.

seems a bit too small for a tomb. This would make sense as a room near the front door, to keep most basic intruders out, than a mastermind's home-in-the-afterlife.
I'm not happy that the goal of the map is at the first path to the left from the entrance. That's a problem.

Pretty :) The monsters fit together nicely and they make sense in the terrain.

The river runs from top left to bottom left, so it makes sense that the waters are quiet in the upper right corner of the pond and that there's a nest of some sort there. I like that.

I don't think it snows this much in Cheliax...
I see no way to use this map in a game.

We already earned the Giantslayer achievement in RotR4. So much loot, none of it useful to the players.
I really don't see the fun in this AP.

At least with WotW we eventually got a 3rd book -.-

Thank you guys. It has been awesome.

Thanks Sara, fwiw I think your team are doing an excellent job <3

Bah, I've been sick. Better now. But let's continue!

It's OK Cala:

There is someone behind the curtain. Artephius bomb the curtain.

There's not a lot of controlling to do. Artephius' software is doing that. Let's hope there aren't any bugs, mkay? ^_^

The chained warrior writhes about in fear, as he finds himself unable to withstand the terrible chain's patient force. SE corner of R4!

Isn't it always the same with these guys? Nobody Ever Looks Up!
reflex save vs dc20: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (5) + 10 = 15
The archer burns.

Artephius <---
Caladwhen
Vexor
Grumblejack

new map is up

Artephius responds to Cole's voice commands. "Message received. Command published to Queue."
...Whatever that means.

Hi guys,
order 3234402 was placed on october 4th; it's been a month and I haven't seen any change. Is everything OK?
thanks!

I'll try and get the map updated this weekend.

Both bowmen at P shout in horror as Talon cuts their beloved cleric in two.
"By the light! Avenge her!"
"You will Dieee for this!"

The archers fire their bows as best they can.

full round, manyshot, good hope +2
#1
atk: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (6) + 14 = 20 dmg: 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 6 = 13
atk: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (11) + 14 = 25 dmg: 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8
atk: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (8) + 9 = 17 dmg: 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 11
#2
atk: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (5) + 14 = 19 dmg: 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8
atk: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (4) + 14 = 18 dmg: 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 6 = 13
atk: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (14) + 9 = 23 dmg: 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8
Talon manages to dodge three of the arrows, but he catch the other three in his arms.

The warrior at Q steps behind Talon and makes one powerful slash at a vital area - cuttin deep at the base of his wings.
good hope +2. vital strike
atk: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (6) + 15 = 21dmg: 2d8 + 8 ⇒ (2, 5) + 8 = 15

29 + 15 = 44 damage. Are you dead yet?

The fighters near Artephius busy themselves with the alchemy golem and score a critical hit, cracking the glass of one of his reservoirs.
Artephius remains mechanically dispassionate, but his emotionless error messages are an indication of his peril. "pressure drop detected in container #2. Emergency protocols initiated."

Rygat sings lustfully as both clerics slide off the blade - yes, there are two clerics now. All of them are extremely dead.

Congratulations Talon - you've just killed Kyra!

Most of my free time is spent prepping for the climax to book 3 for my tabletop party. It's a bad week for me to be in combat :-/
I'll try and keep things moving.

That is an awesome story, Sindran; and the spell sounds awesome too...
At level 10 you can get the lesser version. Would you like to see if it feels overpowered?