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Yup. Like WOTC, Paizo are a business. They have both made decisions for business reasons.


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Oriklad wrote:
Excited to see the Age of ORC taking over the Age of OGL

My guess on the other thread was ORCS, so not bad


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thenovalord wrote:

On a new srd/OGL Can we call it:

Open Roleplaying Community System!

Oooh, I was close. ORC/ORCS, same thing really!!!!


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Even tiny publishers like me are having a decent January on drive thru.

On a new srd/OGL for 3PPCan we call it:

Open Roleplaying Community System!


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KS was meant for small scale.
Please dont boycott as that will really hammer small press.


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Gortle wrote:

Yeah that was because D&D shot themselves in the foot with a terrible edition.

Yeah they have had a torrid time, with all the books they have sold and young and diverse people drawn into the hobby.

I doubt it will be much more than a version 5.25 in its changes ( more like a big errata update) with some mechanical changes and updating of certain words.


I like pre lovecraftian horror ( so William hope Hodgson & M R James). There is the odd tentacle but isnt Alien horrors.

Plus Victorian settings where the 'horror' is the squalor, despair and misery.

So The Jack Hack RPG for example


Cthulhu won. Everything. Luckily Paizo arent obsessed with the Lovecraft Mytho......Oh, hang on!


PFRPGrognard wrote:
Your players do understand that the adventure is dealing with this invasion? It's not the AP for a bunch of odd-ball self-centered monsters doing monster stuff. You need survivors and heroes. Make this clear to them or you might want to run another adventure.

Having finished this a bunch of monster PCs sounds awful. Very human-centric land to me.


An excellent AP, up to the final part where having a rather dull hack through 40 dungeon rooms felt unepic at 17th level.
The party made peace with Azae and Molthune and Z became the main villain of the piece.
Completed in only 35 sessions which is pretty good seeing as it was run online

Highly recommended AP to the right party (mostly human, mostly good, mostly outdoors, and mostly mounted)


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Finished running the AP last night
Played up more of Z's influence to the point where the PCs save the Ironfangs, and they establish a new home away from the horror that humans and elves and dwarves and orcs bring to goblinkind.


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The New Years Day episode was a nice take on an old issue


My PCs have the most blinged up Leshy armies ever known.

We are know 1/3rd way into book 6. They no longer collect trivial thigs like +2 rings


Ironfang is great
It is both fun and easy to run, and very easy to play

Set the party up correctly (non goblinoid freedom fighters keyed to lots of outdoor action) and your good to go

I am currently running it (book 6 about 20 pages in)


Or move to the UK!


Very good.

TThese are my somewhat feeble map efforts for running on Ttop


Kingslayer, a partially complete 3rd party AP, is for CE PCs

I ran shattered star to an evil group

half of the Kingmaker party where LE, and it worked well

Reign of winter we had a party that were mostly evil

Not sure i would play a WFTC or IF good for an evil group?


nice


Veldan Rath wrote:
I’m not familiar with slot zero?

Sit down before character roll up and discuss things! So you dont end up with a hobgoblin in an IF party etc


Slot zero and themes are good

The party I run to is "all human, all from Phaendaer"


NO SPOILERS

Episode two left me a bit flat.

Not sure why. Plot was fine. Setting I liked and quiet gamey to boot.
Was there too much use of the sonic screwdriver?

duuno
Will re-watch and see how that goes


Oh yeah. As @Yakman says there is loads of RP. Many things can be allied with or offer help/hindrance. Many fey creatures to party with, my group even made friendly with the trolls in the castle.

Book 5, as something of an annoying side trek, they turned into a big roleplay fest and I ended up really enjoying running that mod

We do the second session of book 6 on Wednesday. The vault looks to have stuff to banter with, and then a 40 room hack afterwards.

Kingmaker Spoiler

Spoiler:
My parry got ship-in-a-bottled in Kingmaker and Nyrissa still exists. I introduced her in the last room of Book V, as she had been asked to ship in a bottle Nirmathas/Molthune by Arlantia to keep the humanoids out. She instead made friendly with the players and invited them to visit her after they have finished their current quests.
Will be a nice way to get the PCs from 18-20th


captain yesterday wrote:
Robin Hood didn't run.

Had he existed, im pretty sure they would be his tactics


Everyone in the party was human and from Phaendar, and not evil

We started part 6 last week and the energy and motivation is still there.


we have just started book 6, i'm GM. It is a real kick in the door and slaughter goblins AP
Maybe you need to run War Crown instead. I am a player in WOTC and it is all about your list

it would take a lot of work and creativity on your part to add it to this AP


Started this mod. The Influence system in war of the crown seemed to run very well, here it just feels tacked on a bit and doesn't really add much, except to not have 55 pages of hack and slash.


And watched the first episode

nicely quirky with a very cool villain


Bit of a big fight in the end.
They befriended the handmaidens, and kept that theme throughout with the other they met
Fight with the tooth fairy was hilarious (at 26HD its a good job it didn't have the half fiend template!!)
They did the next level with the half fiend mandragoras causing some bother.
Now about to enter the 'room below' and finish mod 5


Forgot to mention, the Jub Jub bird got to live for one round of combat....it did crit the cavalier for ridiculous damage but he rolled very well to make the Fort save against decapitation


I think I ran the siege as suggested and even playing via online it only took 2 sessions.….the PCs had done all the commando missions before so severely depleting the enemy.


It is much more likely that the online giants are squeezing the FLGS than kickstarters

KS work best when a small indie person, say myself, wants to produce an idea that wouldn't get made otherwise because I don't have a spare 1000 to pay an artist, and 500 for an editor.

I do get a bit grumpy when big companies use KS....but again it may that they wouldn't take a risk making Game X, if they didn't have guaranteed income!


Has anyone run area G yet? From G1 to G11, an area maybe 250ft wide with no doors/barriers there is a fight in each room!!! Not sure how the PCs aren't going to be overwhelmed, as basically any sounds of battle will be easily heard??

Any experience to share?


I am

We didn't play DS, as having read part 1 it didn't inspire. Instead we just flipped through the core book and grabbed 12 bits of stuff to play with. Luckily the PCs met a Steward and one Aeon Guard who was a prisoner.
Gives the party a nice 'in' though I may need to ramp up the challenges to match their level.


Am in the middle of this now.
I think it is really good fun, and so do the players. There is an awful lot to chat to if the PCs are inclined; and somewhat early on you can mention the hobgoblins that have been seen in the wood to keep the PCs in the campaign theme

Plus

Spoiler:
it has a Jub Jub bird and a Bandersnatch. So tempted to add the lesser Jabberwocky from KM#6.


we got hammered due to the lack of rest when back in the town. GM seemed to think it very important there was no chance to rest


went with 28
Battled her over several days as she couldn't get into the blessed room. Must have had 5 turned to stone over the whole battles with her.


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Darrell
It depends on builds rather than numbers. If you have a very skilly person, or two, you have plenty of time to gain influence all over


I think an all bard party would be pretty good as they can cover most things

We have one (Provocateur) in our party. And a cleric (crusader), an inquisitor, and a fighter

I am playing my first ever rogue / and first ever alchemist (Poisoner/Eldritch Poisoner archtypes)

Everyone is a human, and somewhat noble....each person has a different campaign trait

All going well thus far


Ive been playing it as 'humans' are very unlikely to get the full blight effects, but they can suffer secondary effects such as a bit of nausea


Got to do the playtest at UK games expo last weekend. I played the cleric. I didn't roll above 7 and achieved nothing, the rogue rolled 4 20s and seemed very efficient

May need to play it again to get a better idea!!

Id much prefer Initiative to be based on what you are about to do, then what you were doing, to be honest.


CorvusMask wrote:
Le gasp!

Oddly about half the party speak with a French accent!!!


very good switch on the Navah idea. My party just reached Kusana in POTB last week, and they are somewhat allied now


A hermit will not have much in the way of provisions to feed 20+ people? Maybe have the ratfolks small holding taken over by hobgoblins when he thinks its a safe refuse for the Phaendar? Maybe the Phaendar folk don't want to go anywhere where something like a rat man lives!!!!


really good plan. POTB is the odd one of Ironfang as well, though S.O.S also felt a bit out there

I had Irovetti as a rogueish ally of the pcs so they rescued him

Spoiler for Ironfang

Spoiler:
I have just started GMing POTB. In my KM run Nyrissa actually won in Mod 6 and put the pcs kingdom in a snow globe. I'm tempted to have the Ironfang PCS find it, as 3 of the players did both APs, and bring about a rescue using the Onyx transport stuff, and therefore everyone get to 20th level eventually


just have the masses fight as skirmish groups, then narrate as players hack through 5 or 6 hobgoblins around.
It also keeps them a challenge due to their skirmish abilities


second session all done

even had

Spoiler:
a combat!!


magnuskn wrote:
You gotta wonder how much is left after a while. :p

Yeah, there is already loads of re-hash


We have played our session of this
Very good so far.
The mini game that seems to cover the first bit is actually enjoyable!


...and very nice btw


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