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A few questions came up in our group and so I'd be interested in the wisdom of these boards to answer them. Let's say a solarian puts up an attuned gravity shield:

1) Can the solarian (or anyone for that matter) attack through the shield? (Either with a melee or a ranged attack).
2) Is he in cover against melee attacks coming from the other side of the shield?
3) (If the answer to question 1 is yes) Are his enemies on the other side of the shield considered to also be in cover against the attacks of the solarian (or the attacks of any other character standing in a space protected by the shield)?

Minor spoilers below for the last module in the Jade Regent AP, The Empty Throne.

Today our brave party of adventurers heard of the food shortage issue from Isao. They immediately set out to resolve this situation, however we kind of run into a little problem. We were trying to figure out exactly how much rice are we talking about in that granary... One of my players came up with the random fact that a family of 4 in medieval Japan consumed 1 koku of rice over the course of a year, 1 koku being the equivalent of 150 kilograms (about 300 pounds) of rice. Kasai has a population of about 164000, so let's say 164000 / 4 = 41000 families, each eating up 150 kg of rice per year. That means a total of 6150000 kg of rice per year. We are assuming the bags in the granary each hold 50 kg of rice. Thus, we are talking about 123000 bags in total. Let's assume that the granary in fact only holds about half a year's worth of rice, we are still in the ballpark of about 60000 rice bags, each weighing 50 kg. This is the amount that should be stolen out of the granary in the dead of night, using carts supplied by Isao's buddies and distributed to the citizenry. Ummm, yeeeeaaah, right! This would need some serious logistics to pull off, really... Now we don't mean to criticize the module in any way, after all, we laughed so hard while figuring these numbers out and coming up with various solutions that it was much fun anyway. In the end the party decided to come up with an ingenious way of handling this, by opening a portal inside the granary, with the other end of the portal being somewhere far below the city in some natural cave, to store the "stolen" rice in. Since the portal has a limited duration they need to move this massive amount of rice quite quickly, so by clever application of the Reverse Gravity spell they mean to sort of suck all the rice from the ganary into the portal and be done with it. Meanwhile the druid is going to dig a tunnel down into the natural cave from an empty warehouse rented by Isao, so that the citizens of the city could get to the rice more or less undisturbed.

However we are curious about how other adventuring parties handled this particular problem? So if you have other, perhaps easier solutions, please do share. :-)

Our gaming group recently come back to Pathfinder *again* for the umpteenth time, we seemingly switch between Pathfinder and D&D 4 about every few months or so. :-)

Anyway that's not my point. For a long time I've been eyeing the Pathfinder Society site and thought how cool it would be to have this in Hungary somehow. Granted we could just buy and play the Society modules in my own regular gaming group, but that would not be the same, because I think the whole point of Pathfinder Society is the intriguing prospect that the actual gaming group might change from week to week. Now, there's a hungarian forum for roleplayers but unfortunately I couldn't really generate interest in PFS in the past there, so this time around I thought I'll turn here, to the "source" :-) because maybe there are other hungarian roleplayers here who would like to start the Hungarian Lodge, just don't know how or maybe they just like to lurk on the forums here and need someone to jumpstart things, that sort of thing.

So. Hungarian PFS fans are any of you here? Or is it just me? Really? Alone? In the dark? Nah, I know you must exist, it can't just be me, PFS is more awesome than that. Surely others must think likewise. So, if anyone from Hungary is interested in PFS and lurks here somewhere or finds his/her way here to this topic, feel free to say so and let's start something. Let's put Central Europe on the map of Golarion, too. :-)

Okay, dumb question about a certain section of the salt mines.

Hi Everyone,

I hope someone in the know might be able to answer this question. On Saturday this week I'll have a campaign to start and I was planning on starting it with the first Pathfinder module of course. :-) Anyway since the pdf is not up yet, I think I might need to initiate Plan B, which would be the running of the adventure D0 Hollow's Last Hope (actually it also happens to be my last hope of successfully starting the campaign). So I was thinking along the lines of running this adventure and then send the PCs to Sandpoint. However some information would be nice to have on the distance between Sandpoint and Falcon's Hollow. Are these two locations a world apart or not too far to each other? That would be an important tidbit to know because if they are very far, I'd need to devise some unconventional method of travel like accidentally falling into a gate, flying there on the back of a black dragon, while the PCs are miniaturized so the dragon doesn't notice them or somesuch. But if the two communities are closer, a simple merchant caravan might also do the trick. So if anyone has insights into this, please don't hold it back. :-)

Hi everyone,

I'm not sure that I'm posting this in the right place but this forum seemed to be most fitting for my question.

There are some web-based services where you can (for a certain fee of course) download various magazines in a digital version and read on your computer an exact copy of the actual printed magazine. There is also an option to subscribe to the digital version. I'm not sure if mentioning the name of such a service constitutes as some kind of advertisement, so I'm not going to name it. Anyway I think this is a very convenient method of subscribing to a magazine, you miss nothing because the digital copy is absolutely the same as the paper one, there is no chance of your copy getting lost in the mail or anything.

So, my question would be: is the Paizo staff considering in the near or not so near future to issue Dungeon and/or Dragon magazines in a digital format like I described above?

Thanks for any responses and I do apologize if this kind of topic has already been discussed anywhere on these boards before.