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I picked up the anniversary edition Runelords campaign and am starting it up with one group soon. In fact, I got so much interest, I have enough players for two campaigns, so that's what I'm doing.

While I could just run two versions of the Runelords campaign, I'd prefer to run Runelords plus one other Varisia-based AP so that I'd have the option of the characters bumping into each other, or hearing about each other. The question is then: which other AP?

Shattered Star is out since it's in the future and I may want to run it with the two groups after this current campaign.

I've done a lot of urban campaigns, so I'm a bit urban-ed out, thus I'm leaning towards Second Darkness over Crimson Throne. But Second Darkness has a mixed reputation. Is it really that bad? I've seen some ideas of mixing up some of the two APs. Does that work?

Thoughts?

[Not sure if there's a better forum for this, so I'm dropping it here.]

I'm considering running a marathon Pathfinder campaign between Christmas & New Years. I figure I have at least 40 hours worth of play time available. With that, I'd like to run as much of a complete story arch as possible. Given my available prep time is limited, and that this is a single, one-off event, I'd like to use published adventures as much as possible. Suggestions?

I've thought about modifying one of the Adventure Paths, but I'm not even sure if that could work. Seems like running an Adventure Path would take at least double the amount of time I have (and even that's optimistic). Is it even worth trying to compress an Adventure Path into a week of intense game play? Does one particular Adventure Path better lend itself to such meddling?

If not an Adventure Path, then what?

Not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet, but the Pathfinder RPG is currently at #1 for the Role Playing & Fantasy category and the Science Fiction & Fantasy > Gaming category. It's at #774 overall.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books/16211/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_b_2_3_last

http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books/16211/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_b_2_3_last

Can't wait to get my hands on my copy.

Does anyone have any statistics on this?

The society scenarios can be completed in a matter of hours. The adventure paths spread out for a whole campaign. So what about the modules? Do you tend to complete them in one session? Two? More? How many hours?

Thanks!

Is it just me, or do the Orcs come across as Chaotic Evil while the Hobgoblins come across as more Lawful Evil, or at least Neutral Evil. I can't find anything about this in the book itself, so perhaps this is just my imagination.

I know Monte has been peripherally involved in the Pathfinder RPG and Pathfinder is currently sponsoring his Dungeon-a-Day project. These are all signs of the great goodness.

But the very best product Paizo could create for Pathfinder Chronicles would be a Ptolus conversion book. Yes, I know this would require licensing from Monte. But if there were any way to have Ptolus "officially" adopted into Golarion with Monte's blessing and the Paizo touch, that would be all the more awesome.

Ptolus, for me at least, is the quintessential 3.5 setting. Properly marrying that with the Pathfinder Campaign Setting would not only allow Ptolus to live on, but eliminate the perpetual shoehorning involved in homebrewing the combination.

I can easily imagine that Monte is not interested, but it wouldn't hurt to ask, would it? :-)

I'll admit that one of the reasons I haven't dived into Pathfinder is that I find the website almost impossible to navigate. The Paizo website feels like a ecommerce store first and foremost with everything else as a poor add-on. It took me more time than it should have for me to figure out what Pathfinder is, what the various products and subscriptions are, what the difference between them is, and so on.

Can I offer a few suggestions?

Pathfinder, the rpg, needs a home that *isn't* an ecommerce site. It needs a clear, clean, uncluttered, please for the love of god as few links and sidebar crap as possible, nice site. Don't even dare look to WotC as an example. It should be the community hub and a great reference for players completely new to the game.

While I'm at it, let me add my own wishlist for the Pathfinder website:

Personally, I'm not interested in hardcopies. As much as I like them, I move around too much and don't have the space. I would much, much rather invest and play an RPG for which the material is online. This is one reason I'm so excited about Monte Cook's Dungeon-a-Day.

For me, the ideal RPG website would have all materials online including rules and adventure modules. Not as PDFs but as actual web pages as PDFs are, let's face it, more difficult to read on screen than web pages. Most importantly, the site would include a searchable database of all spells, monsters, magic items, etc. I would gladly pay a subscription fee for such a site.

In fact, I could imagine a site and set of tools in which each account is a sort of personal bookshelf and database. I might only have access to the modules and web pages for which I've subscribed or purchased. Purchasing a module or book would include access to the crunchy bits in my own account database. For those that worry about offline access, it's still possible to provide PDFs or even some sort of desktop client.

Pathfinder is already becoming a solution to the problems WotC left behind for D&D. Could the Pathfinder site also be an example of DDI done right?