I am planning on doing a blog about my group someday soon, but the short hand is:Vic Wertz (my partner in life and Paizo)
Skaff Elias (former WotC R&D guru and one of the designers that worked on 3.0)
Tom Des Brisay (original investor in WotC and a long-time friend)
Javier Garavito (works at Smith & Tinker, Vic's high school best friend)
Jessica Price (used to work with Jav, now works with the Borg...er Microsoft)
Jamie Fristrom (computer game designer friend of Skaff's)
-Lisa
Ooo!!!
Who plays what?
Just got my "shipping in the next week or so" email!!!+uno
Me too. I can't wait!
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At 50 pages of AP that is 300 pages total of a mini-campaign detailed environment once the AP closes! And that is not counting supplemental material or creatures.
The very cool thing about this (and I wish there was more of it in Golarian) is that the area is open - you don't need to be in a story, just in the area.
It is reminiscent of having detailed encounters just as you travel the map of the world - so a party passing through the area can have these encounters (and maybe get drawn into the AP story arc) or with some work the encounters can be dropped into similar environments piecemeal.
It sounds like the first few Lof APs, location specific desert mod/story arc plus some cool environs
AKA Arabian Nights meets the Road Warrior.
CEO
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I am planning on doing a blog about my group someday soon, but the short hand is ...So in other words a bunch of newbies and young whippersnappers ...
Real question time.
As a GM, how many, if any, TPKs have you had?
Which player's characters have you killed the most, counting all role playing game cross generes?
And yes, it's not a GMs job to kill the players, but I'm am interested in a good story or two.
I've never had a TPK. Matter of fact, I don't think I have ever killed two characters in one battle. I've had a few times where more than half of the characters were down for the count, and the others were just hanging on with a few hp's left, but they managed to pull out the victory.
As for player's characters that get killed the most, I tend to spread the love around to everybody. However, Jeremy Walker had two different characters killed in the Shackled City campaign I ran, and he was really pissed about both of them. One was killed when he was a the back of the party, but had his back to this underground lake, and this aquatic demon snuck up, plucked him from the shore, and killed him in one fell swoop. :) His next character got killed on part of the Abyss when he set up a Leomund's Tiny Hut and forgot that the slaad's could target an area. When two fireballs landed on the hut in the middle of the night, his character died without waking up. Nasty.
-Lisa
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I am planning on doing a blog about my group someday soon, but the short hand is:Vic Wertz (my partner in life and Paizo)
Skaff Elias (former WotC R&D guru and one of the designers that worked on 3.0)
Tom Des Brisay (original investor in WotC and a long-time friend)
Javier Garavito (works at Smith & Tinker, Vic's high school best friend)
Jessica Price (used to work with Jav, now works with the Borg...er Microsoft)
Jamie Fristrom (computer game designer friend of Skaff's)
-LisaOoo!!!
Who plays what?
That is what the blog will be for! :)
-Lisa
That is what the blog will be for! :)-Lisa
Can't wait!!
Sounds great indeed. When is the kick-off?
No problem, and I understand the no time/room.
I'll be creating the table for all six chapters. I presume that it is permissible to post the table in the Kingmaker's thread.
-- david
Papa.DRB
While this is an interesting idea... it's not one we'll have either the time or the room to do, unfortunately.Please oh Please consider putting an index in the last issue (or as a web-supplement) that simply lists:
1. Encounter level
2. Which chapter it is in
3. Page in the chapter
4. Encounter persons/monsters/areaSomething like:
EL..Book..Page..Encounter
.7...32....63...4 Trolls under the bridge crossing the Selarin River near Fort something-or-other
Contributor, RPG Superstar 2008 Top 4, Legendary Games
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No problem, and I understand the no time/room.
I'll be creating the table for all six chapters. I presume that it is permissible to post the table in the Kingmaker's thread.
-- david
Papa.DRBWhile this is an interesting idea... it's not one we'll have either the time or the room to do, unfortunately.Please oh Please consider putting an index in the last issue (or as a web-supplement) that simply lists:
1. Encounter level
2. Which chapter it is in
3. Page in the chapter
4. Encounter persons/monsters/areaSomething like:
EL..Book..Page..Encounter
.7...32....63...4 Trolls under the bridge crossing the Selarin River near Fort something-or-other
That sounds like a fab idea, and should be great for all of us running it!
Oh. Somehow something in Ravenmantle's post got eaten. I gotcha:
And OMG the Carbuncle is now the most kewlest monstar in all the worlds ever evar! Thank You Thank You for bringing back the Carbuncle!
Not a problem my friend. Our pleasure. ^_~
I´m excited to see the release of Kingmaker #1. I´m from Germany and I ordered it from Amazon.de. How long does it take to get the copies to Germany? I just can´t wait... :)
I was browsing the PDF and it looks great, but I was wondering if there's a reason for the change in the naming convention used in the previous "one file per chapter" releases? It's difficult to actually know what each part is in this file.
Maybe but probably not, what's the issue?
Except for the "OMG" part, I could totally see that being a part of my post. :D
Huh... must be part of the bug that ate that part of your original post. I'll get that checked out. :P
I read some of the introductory text from the Players' Guide for Kingmaker to my fiance. She said: "Awesome, old school D&D at last!!"
There are times when it is good to have played since the 1e days . ^_^
Most of the files do NOT have what they are, just page numbers. IE. In AP5, Book 30, The Twice Damned Prince the actual adventure file is labeled: "006-055 PZO9030 Prince.pdf". For Stolen Lands the adventure file is labeled: "006-055 PZO9031.pdf". Notice no hint of what the file actually is. Same for Into the Wild, Brevory, etc.
-- david
Papa.DRB
I was browsing the PDF and it looks great, but I was wondering if there's a reason for the change in the naming convention used in the previous "one file per chapter" releases? It's difficult to actually know what each part is in this file.Maybe but probably not, what's the issue?
Read about 15 pages between last night and this morning. Excellent work all. knocked another one out of the park.
Okay, I may have spotted a potential error in the PDF.
The stat block on page presents a CR 6 NPC with 8 class levels. Shouldn't the CR be 7? Mind you, I haven't actually read the adventure yet so it might not be a mistake.
Does he have NPC class levels? Then it's CR = Level minus two.
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That's it on the head. You don't know which file is the adventure, which is the bestiary, etc.
Most of the files do NOT have what they are, just page numbers. IE. In AP5, Book 30, The Twice Damned Prince the actual adventure file is labeled: "006-055 PZO9030 Prince.pdf". For Stolen Lands the adventure file is labeled: "006-055 PZO9031.pdf". Notice no hint of what the file actually is. Same for Into the Wild, Brevory, etc.
-- david
Papa.DRBI was browsing the PDF and it looks great, but I was wondering if there's a reason for the change in the naming convention used in the previous "one file per chapter" releases? It's difficult to actually know what each part is in this file.Maybe but probably not, what's the issue?
I´m excited to see the release of Kingmaker #1. I´m from Germany and I ordered it from Amazon.de. How long does it take to get the copies to Germany? I just can´t wait... :)
It depends. Most packages from Paizo arrive in about three weeks, one broke all records with only just over one week. Some need more time; my January delivery from the 21st actually arrived a few days after my February delivery from the 10th (this 6 1/2 weeks for the former and 3 weeks for the latter).
Amazon is another chapter. They have to wait for the books to arrive from their distributor, and that may cause longer delivery times than ordering directly here at Paizo.
Is the player's guide available? Or when will it be available?
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Okay, I may have spotted a potential error in the PDF.
The stat block on page presents a CR 6 NPC with 8 class levels. Shouldn't the CR be 7? Mind you, I haven't actually read the adventure yet so it might not be a mistake.
Ok; I just downloaded the book here at home and checked out the NPC in question... SPOILER for Kingmaker below...
Check out the Stag Lord's "Before Combat" notes; he's more or less perpetually drunk and is constantly sickened. He takes a -2 penalty on pretty much EVERYTHING he does, and he makes a lot of unwise decisions against the PCs and on how to set up his fort's defense. As mentioned in his "Before Combat" notes, his CR is lower than normal by 1 as a result.
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The file names are named the way they are because those are the names our art director generates for them for printer purposes and for our own organization uses. I'm not sure we can change them, but I'll look into it.
Ah ok, I was just surprised to see it change so drastically compared to the previous five adventure paths.
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The file names are named the way they are because those are the names our art director generates for them for printer purposes and for our own organization uses. I'm not sure we can change them, but I'll look into it.Ah ok, I was just surprised to see it change so drastically compared to the previous five adventure paths.
Can't you rename the files once they're downloaded, though?
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Can't you rename the files once they're downloaded, though?The file names are named the way they are because those are the names our art director generates for them for printer purposes and for our own organization uses. I'm not sure we can change them, but I'll look into it.Ah ok, I was just surprised to see it change so drastically compared to the previous five adventure paths.
I can, it's no big deal, I just wondered if there was a reason for the sudden change.
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I can, it's no big deal, I just wondered if there was a reason for the sudden change.Can't you rename the files once they're downloaded, though?The file names are named the way they are because those are the names our art director generates for them for printer purposes and for our own organization uses. I'm not sure we can change them, but I'll look into it.Ah ok, I was just surprised to see it change so drastically compared to the previous five adventure paths.
My guess: Different person made the files, therefore they named it something different. I'm not a part of the PDF creation process so I really can't say.
My guess: Different person made the files, therefore they named it something different. I'm not a part of the PDF creation process so I really can't say.
That's exactly what the deal is. I'll ping folks about this come Monday, and we can likely get this fixed but at the very least we'll make sure the rest in the series aren't like this. Thanks for the heads up Andrew!
Are the maps on pages 58-59 supposed to be blank?
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Are the maps on pages 58-59 supposed to be blank?
If by "blank" you mean "No labels or tags," yes. They're more intended to be illustrations than maps. It's just for GMs to see how the whole region looks. The versions of the maps that'll appear in the adventures as needed will be fully tagged.
If you mean that in your PDF that part of the page is just totally blank, that's a problem with the PDF.
Is there a reason my copy of Stolen Land says it's expected to ship in April?
Is there a reason my copy of Stolen Land says it's expected to ship in April?
Do you have something else ordered that is scheduled to go out with your next issue? For example, some pre-order item?
I have multiple subscriptions, but I have my combined shipping settings set to ship out the adventure path as soon as possible.
Think I found the problem. For some reason my first issue was sent to my side cart and set to ship with my second issue. I told it to ship as soon as possible and now it's in pending. Wierd.
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Think I found the problem. For some reason my first issue was sent to my side cart and set to ship with my second issue. I told it to ship as soon as possible and now it's in pending. Wierd.
Pending is normal. I got the email Wed that mine would be shipping in the next few days. After that mine has shown pending, i know mine will be near the end as I have 2 mini's shipping with it. So it sounds like if yours is showing pending now that it will ship this coming week. You should likely get a email Monday to that effect. If not you might want to mention it again. But I would post in costumer service as you will likely get more help there.
Think I found the problem. For some reason my first issue was sent to my side cart and set to ship with my second issue. I told it to ship as soon as possible and now it's in pending. Wierd.Pending is normal. I got the email Wed that mine would be shipping in the next few days. After that mine has shown pending, i know mine will be near the end as I have 2 mini's shipping with it. So it sounds like if yours is showing pending now that it will ship this coming week. You should likely get a email Monday to that effect. If not you might want to mention it again. But I would post in costumer service as you will likely get more help there.
I realize that pending is normal, it’s the part where my first issue got tacked onto my second issue in the first place that I found weird.
If by "blank" you mean "No labels or tags," yes. They're more intended to be illustrations than maps. It's just for GMs to see how the whole region looks. The versions of the maps that'll appear in the adventures as needed will be fully tagged.
If you mean that in your PDF that part of the page is just totally blank, that's a problem with the PDF.
This is great! Maps with no labels on them... exactly what customers were asking for. Tops for listening to us, Paizo!
Can't wait to start reading through the PDF when I get home from work. Can't wait for the printed edition (lounging in the chair) either!
Is that supposed to be Erastil on the cover?