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I just received my parcel with my December subs and it only includes Absalom: City of Lost Omens, no sign of Monsters of Myth. The customs slip advices 2 books but is packed in such a way where there was clearly never a 2nd book in the box. There also appears to be no damage to the box.

Hope you all stay safe and have a restful winter break.

Sadly no longer have the shelf space for those and need to save it for the rulebooks and Lost Omens.

Wait, new Gunslinger iconic? I like!

That's something I'm pretty worried about. needing to reword the core feature of the class without a second public playtest? just sounds real easy to miss the mark.

Investigator had a pretty major change to their core combat feature between the playtest and the APG release and the difference is pretty clear -compare Study Suspect/Studied Strike to Devise a Stratagem/Strategic Strike and it really feels like they pulled off something fun.

However, take that with a grain of salt -I only minorly looked through Oracle and never had a chance to play Witch or Swashbuckler, so I'm not as aware of if there were any playtest to release issues. But going from playing the playtest investigator to release has been a lot better and easier I've found

Please ignore this, as it was solved in another thread.

Thanks so much Diego! I'll see if I can delete the other post I made for this.

I had to get the Slithering generated separately due to how starting my adventure sub with Dead God's Hand went and I had to get it generated by customer service. I now have an order for the Slithering separate from my July sub shipment (Order 24337729) and the order for the Slithering shows as not having a valid payment method.
Just wondered if it would be possible to have the Slithering order rolled in with my sub order. Thanks!

Sorry to necro, but The Slithering isn't showing in my July sub at all. Any idea if something may have gone wrong here?

So, I'm looking at my July upcoming shipment (no order has been generated as yet), and while I have the Slithering flipmat, I'm not actually seeing the Slithering adventure in items. I know there was a bit of a problem earlier as I originally had subscribed with my first order being Dead God's Hand, but it's just being a bit weird rn.

I also have 5 items looking to ship as 3 separate packages. Given I'm getting my May order tomorrow (over a month after it shipped), I guess I'm a little concerned about how long 3 parcels will take.

I guess I'm getting a bit concerned. My May order was shipped to the UK on the 18th and still hasn't arrived. I know it's a bigger order but I'm starting to look at my July sub I guess...

Hi physicist-pi,

I have gone ahead and generated The Slithering for you. Moving forward, all of your subscription items should spawn automatically. Thanks for your patience!

Thanks so much.

Just wondering, as I originally signed up for the Adventure subscription to begin with Dead God's Hand (Order 8072924), will I get copies of The Slithering and Troubles in Otari at all? I was just a little concerned as The Slithering isn't showing up in my expected shipping for the next few months while the maps are.

Thanks for your support in this difficult time. Hope everyone is safe and well.

Hey, I was just wondering about the status of my GMG subscription. I can't see any charge on my card at all and I was just wondering what the situation for that is at all.

I'm actually now getting a little worried as I can't see any attempts to charge my card for the GMG this month and we're at the tail end of shipping.

Quietly seething. Group was going in to do the Varl Wex fight, and I had to remind them about the aid another rule because there was no way they could make a lot of those perception checks (most of the party decided for some obscure reason to all dump wisdom bar the ranger and psychic). And then Wex arrived, realised they were there, snuck in through the window, and nearly got a strike on the defenceless and unaware bard... And I rolled a nat 1. And that basically set the tone of the entire fight. Any attack roles I made were natural 1s, any saves were 15+ (so our save-or-suck oracle felt useless).

It was over in 3 rounds and Wex didn't get a single hit in after I was warning them "This is a CR9 encounter and you guys are all level 5". Oh, and now the ranger has Balgorrah and doesn't seem too keen on giving it up until the value of it was mentioned.

Based on a note in Gods and Magic about the great scar on Golarion's moon, was Tsukiyo a god at the time of Earthfall and if so, did he have any relationship with Acavna as a moon goddess and did her death affect him at all? Part of me was wondering if Acavna and Tsukiyo's deaths may have been linked in any way due to their shared portfolio of the moon.

Hi, this order is still showing as pending after being submitted on the 14th, and I was just wondering when it would be shipping.

So, this came up and I really need an idea of how to rule this.

The level three skald performance states this:

Song of Marching (Su): At 3rd level, a skald can use raging song to inspire his allies to move faster without suffering from fatigue. By expending 1 round of raging song, the skald invigorates allies within 60 feet, who may hustle (Core Rulebook 170) for the next hour; this movement counts as a walk (not a hustle) for the purpose of accruing nonlethal damage and fatigue. The skald must continue to perform the song for the remainder of the hour, otherwise its effects end, but only 1 round of raging song is expended for that hour.

However, the mounted Overland movement rules state the following:

Mounted Movement: A mount bearing a rider can move at a hustle. The damage it takes when doing so, however, is lethal damage, not nonlethal damage. The creature can also be ridden in a forced march, but its Constitution checks automatically fail, and the damage it takes is lethal damage. Mounts also become fatigued when they take any damage from hustling or forced marches.

Would you rule that Song of Marching allows mounts to hustle without taking the lethal damage?

Hmmm...is the Torrent still in Ravounel? That's something I'm wondering about.

According to Tomorrow Must Burn, yes they are.

I just started an office campaign in Ravounel, based on a small county on the southwestern border. Building up a LOT more Ravounely info there... although it's pretty isolated from Kintargo and the rest. Maybe I'll toss it out there for folks to check out some day, but in the meantime, glad to see folks are having fun with Ravounel as well! It's probalby my favorite new nation addition to the setting.

Ah! I want to know so much about it right now! Between my Hell's Rebels group and one of my Hell's Vengeance PCs playing a Jhaltero, I'm trying to get as much about Ravounel down as possible. And yeah, it's been so much fun to play with as a setting, and I'm genuinely excited to see where it goes later.

Now I need to go tell my Age of Ashes GM what I think each of my Silver Ravens would be doing in 4717AR, aside from possibly having to deal with incursions from the Darklands -ooooh, maybe something to do with Ilvarandin?

So, I got my hands on Tomorrow Must Burn and I figured I'd make some notes of things that are changed/updated between the descriptions of Ravounel from Hell's Rebels and 4719AR. Of note, the implication is that the rebellion took around 2 years, assuming a start date of 4715AR then with the last few books taking place in 4717AR.

• The Kitkasiticka village now has a name -Tastikka. In addition, as suggested in her NPC write-up in The Kintargo Contact, Solmestria has stepped down as rokoa in favour of Rarrnir.
  
• We don't really have any more settlements listed beyond Kintargo, Vyre, Cypress Point, Whiterock, Acisazi and now Tastikka, but there are mentions of mining and ranching communities in the Menador Mountains.
  
• We also know from the Lost Omens World Guide that there's a major aquatic elf city -Irim- in Nisroch Bay.
  
• There's also mention of a goblin tribe -the Saltstinks- who live on Cape Dis. (this is of interest to a goblin player of mine)
  
• We also have a new geographical feature -the Revousa Ditches at the confluence of the Katharevousa and Yolubis Rivers.
  
• The Menador Gap is still closed.
  
• Deepmar has been abandoned and there are strange lights -a follow up to No Response from Deepmar may be in order.

As for Kintargo, there's some updates to things.

• The Court of Coin has been replaced with the new Silver Council, however they're still powerful noble houses and wealthy power brokers. The Kings & Queens of Vyre support the Silver Council but aren't members -though I can see Manticce maybe being on it in her public face as a powerful businesswoman.
• The Order of the Torrent has taken over Castle Kintargo rather than returning to Citadel Vaull.
• The Temple of Asmodeus is being converted into the new seat of government.

Overall this is pretty interesting. It definitely suggests that the "official canon" Ravounel won't end up a democracy like Andoran or similar. It's still beholden to the nobility and landowners (though to be fair, the existence of the Board of Governors basically implied that anyway). Bainilus called herself "Domina", a title from the old Chelaxian empire, and while we know that the strix, aquatic elves and Vyre representatives all sit on a broader Council of Peers but their interactions tend to be fractious.

I definitely found this stuff helpful for building up stuff as I continue running my group through stuff. Also, we finally got NPC art for Chuko!

There was mention that it's a misprint and it should be 20sp, rather than gold. I'll see if I can find the post.

...Is that Damiel in the double-page art spread after the contents, fighting a clockwork dragon with Amri and Kyra? Just got my physical copy in the post and I was not expecting that.

Thirded. Phone says invalid file type.

Hell's Rebels (so Ravounel, so right on Citadel Enferanc's region) has Ithanothaur, a CN mature adult umbral dragon (so CR 15) living in the North Plains on the Cheliax-Nidal border.

As you noted, protection from evil doesn't provide immunity to mind-affecting effects. Psychic inception doesn't interact with it at all.

But the spell description itself explictly states the target is immune to any new attempts to possess or exercise mental control over the target.

Since they're immune to charm and compulsion effects (which are, by definition, mind-affecting), and psychic inception allows the mesmerist to affect immune targets with their mind-affecting spells and abilities (albeit with a 50% chance of it actually working each round and having to stare at them the whole time), it does actually have at least some corralation.

Otherwise, this basically says that a 1st level spell with a duration in minutes per level can basically shut down an entire class.

So, this has just come up in the game of Hell's Vengeance I'm running. One of the PCs is a mesmerist and I'm getting close to putting them up against the first character in a while who might actually have a chance of beating their Bluff checks.

The NPC's tactics in particular call out their use of Protection from Evil. And this is where I come to a stumbling block. I've read the FAQ on Protection from Evil (it blocks spells like charm, dominate, suggestion, etc) and the spell itself calls out immunity to such effects.

However, the mesmerist's first bold stare was psychic inception, and I could do with some advice on how the two would interact.

My reading from this would be that things like Charm Person or Suggestion would only have a 50% chance of working each round. Would this be a correct reading?

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o, I'm still not 100% happy with these, but your thoughts so far?

I kind of love them. It's a nice touch using different handwritings for the various labels, even if some of the fonts are a touch hard to read. Makes it look like it's been through a wringer of censors, which I'm sure was the intent. The "official" town markers being sized proportional to population while the indigenats just want to make damn sure you know they're there is another good touch, though the writing of "Kitkasiticka" in the strix's red (not the town marker itself, just the writing) is kind of hard to see against the largely black background. Maybe use a yellow or light green if you can rationalize a pencil that would produce that color (pitchblende?).

Deepmar penal colony is left off the map entirely, though again I suspect that was intentional and gives it a gulag/secret city feel. Maybe add a marker for it on the second, edited map? Carmus is ever so slightly in the wrong place. The prevailing winds are northwest to southeast, and would blow into the main cove that is open to the northwest. It should sit on the southeastern shore of the smaller neighboring cove, just a smidge northwest of where it is now, for better harborage.

"Part of the Land of Nidal" rubs me the wrong way as a descriptor. You could just leave off the "Part of the" and it would work fine. Also, the "North Plains" label should probably straddle the border, as the geographic feature itself does.

"Ashford" is a name from A Song of Ice and Fire, and I would rather it not be. I suggested "Pickford" as a replacement a few posts ago.

Yeah, I'm already changing up the fonts, due to a player with dyslexia in my group, I'll shift Carmus a bit. The bit about "Part of the Land of Nidal" came from a map of Scotland from the 1600s I used as inspiration, but I definitely agree that it isn't really needed. Been shifting some of the stuff around as well, your thoughts on this one?

So, I'm still not 100% happy with these, but your thoughts so far?

First is this one which doesn't have Acisazi or Kitkasiticka marked on it.

Second is one after the aquatic elves and strix have made their thoughts known on how terrible these Chelish cartographers are, which can be found here.

Both are pretty big actually, so zoom in.

Bother. I'd forgotten how URL tags worked on this board. These should work properly:

Ravounel, pre-Night of Ashes

Ravounel, post-revolution

Would you mind dreadfully if I used these and your musings on town names for a larger, "in-universe" map of Ravounel I've been working on for my campaign? This stuff has been so useful for fleshing out the region and really helped me as a GM, but since I'd probably be posting some stuff online, I'd rather check with you before doing so.