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"Well that was definitely odd! I swore I had that thing in my sights and some how missed."

Sheila gestures to the Pugwampis, and says "These creatures have a strange aura of unluckiness surrounding them, in fact some shady gambling dens keep them hidden strategically throughout their casinos so that the unlucky aura surrounds any one playing at cards, dice or roulette, but doesn't encompass the dealers.

I'm at a loss to see what any of these 'Ameiko' threads have added to the entire discussion of this Adventure Path. I think that this thread should be closed and 3.5 shouldn't be allowed to open another 'Ameiko' thread.

I think that James Jacobs said that an Epic Rules Handbook would be his top pick for the next addition to the RPG line. Maybe we'll hear something about it at gencon.

I told them that they should release a book with a lot of prominent Product Identity updated to Pathfinder Rules. So it would have a chapter of Monsters, and a bunch of sections to make my 3.5 Campaign Settings into Pathfinder settings (I know, I could do all of this myself). And a book with the 'Best of Prestige Classes' also updated to Pathfinder edition. I'm not trying to troll, but seriously other than the Player's Handbook, those would be the only WotC 3.5-ish books I would buy.

One of the best threads on this forum for preparing the Jade Regent is Gluttony's 'Things you've changed and things you should have'. I thought it would be a good idea to see what people have changed or what advice they might give about how they are running the many NPC's in Jade Regent. I know that in my first attempt at running the Jade Regent, the NPCs were the albatross around my neck, and they brought the whole thing crashing down. I think this was because I mistakenly thought that there were going to overshadow the PCs (I think that the Player's Guide was where I got this impression, because the modules have the fault of not mentioning the NPC's enough).

I'll start. This time around, I was upfront with my players about the fact that there were a lot of NPCs in this AP. When I started, I only had two PCs, so I told them that they could pick 1 or 2 of the NPCs in the Caravan to go out on adventures with them. I was consciously borrowing from the JRPG tradition of party formation. To go along with this, I added the idea of recruitment to this campaign. I emphasized this element of the game, and so far the PC's have pursued NPC's to recruit (even ones that I didn't expect, like Skitterfoot). My campaign hasn't finished the 1st module yet, and so far they've recruited Chief Scribbleface and the Licktoad tribe, Walt Proudstump, Shalelu (who took quite a bit of roleplaying and convincing), Koya, Sandru, and Skitterfoot. Ameiko didn't take any convincing after seeing the letter from Rokuro Kajitsu, and she even helped out with the recruiting for Sandru. They're currently travelling with Lute Haggersly (I stole the Haggersly storyline that someone else suggested where he's trading in Southern Varisia), but he's planning to leave them at Riddleport. The PC's have really liked this recruiting aspect, and in instances where it took a lot of convincing, I've awarded them XP by the NPC's CR. For example, Shalelu was adament against travelling with the Goblin Tribe. The PC's first coaxed out the family story of her parent's death, and then convinced her that her parents wouldn't have wanted her to hold such blind hatred for the race of their killers. I didn't plan any of this out, and it ended up being one of the highlights of the campaign so far. The mix of NPC's has led to a real dynamic feel to the travelling.

I'd love to hear what others have done with the NPC's in this campaign.

They should get Richard Borg to do their tactical battlegame. I would absolutely love Commands and Colors: Pathfinder. Especially if it had rules for leaders as pcs, and letting the PC's run one side and the DM run the other side.

This is pretty much the only place where the awesome geekiness will be appreciated.

This question may have been asked and answered, but will several volumes of the Adventure Path be consolidated into one shipment as a result of the delay? That would be awesome for the shipping costs of the Adventure Path.

There was an absolutely stellar magical item in Complete Scoundrel.

It's called the 'Rod of Ropes', and it is essentially Batman's grapple gun. Something like this or a 'hook-shot' would be a welcome addition to the roguish character's repertoire.