*twiddles thumbs while still waiting*
I really ought to learn about adding stuff on sale to my subscription shipments. :-(
Have the warehouse crew been pulling all-nighters? Mine shipped the day I ordered.
Much appreciated, either way!
Not all-nighters, but pretty darn close to it. The warehouse crew increased in size this week with the additions of Cosmo, Alvarez and Lisa to make sure y'all get your subscriptions just in time for the holiday season. :)
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Not all-nighters, but pretty darn close to it. The warehouse crew increased in size this week with the additions of Cosmo, Alvarez and Lisa to make sure y'all get your subscriptions just in time for the holiday season. :)Have the warehouse crew been pulling all-nighters? Mine shipped the day I ordered.
Much appreciated, either way!
Man. If your warehouse is anything like ours, hope they're all keeping warm in there!
Thanks for getting these out so crazyfast!
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Not all-nighters, but pretty darn close to it. The warehouse crew increased in size this week with the additions of Cosmo, Alvarez and Lisa to make sure y'all get your subscriptions just in time for the holiday season. :)Have the warehouse crew been pulling all-nighters? Mine shipped the day I ordered.
Much appreciated, either way!
And for those not paying attention, yes, the CEO of Paizo actually takes the time to go down and help out in the warehouse. Reason #4,963 Paizo is a pretty dang cool company.
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And for those not paying attention, yes, the CEO of Paizo actually takes the time to go down and help out in the warehouse. Reason #4,963 Paizo is a pretty dang cool company.Not all-nighters, but pretty darn close to it. The warehouse crew increased in size this week with the additions of Cosmo, Alvarez and Lisa to make sure y'all get your subscriptions just in time for the holiday season. :)Have the warehouse crew been pulling all-nighters? Mine shipped the day I ordered.
Much appreciated, either way!
Now if they would only make their books out of chocolate, they would be the perfect company.
Not all-nighters, but pretty darn close to it. The warehouse crew increased in size this week with the additions of Cosmo, Alvarez and Lisa to make sure y'all get your subscriptions just in time for the holiday season. :)Have the warehouse crew been pulling all-nighters? Mine shipped the day I ordered.
Much appreciated, either way!
Yes, great work! I'm living overseas and my order shipped yesterday, fantastic!
By the way Liz, where's the artwork of your avatar from? Looks great.
It's from Lords of Chaos. It's the artwork for the seraptis demon.
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I about had a geek-gasm when I saw the new dragons, .... but ... you guys made the sarlac pit?!?!?!?! Where's mark hammel when you need to throw him into something!
BTW, thank you for doing the dhamper. I was considering doing that myself, but I was hoping you guys would do it.
The dustdigger's been a part of the game since it was first introduced in the "Desert of Desolation" adventures back in the early 80s' actually... whether or not those adventures came out before or after "Jedi" I don't know off the top of my head. We didn't invent this one as much as updated it from the Tome of Horrors, in other words.
Still... glad you like it! :-)
Uh... well, I'll send a *bigger* squad of sneakier and nastier imps! Who will distract you by showing naughty pictures of me dressed in ladies' underwear!You sent me food for a few weeks in addition to my books? How kind!I just got an email saying payment was successfully reprocesed. So it should be shipped to me soon. Such a wonderful present for my Yuletime celebrations.Har har, you think so?!? I've sent my imp squad to intercept and steal your shipment!
*burns the photos, slaughters the imp, makes plans to leave Darkmoon Vale for Cheliax and castrate a certain devil worshiper and then go home to my wife. Not all of us of the furry persuasion are gay. I happen to be straight with gay experience. Which means I prefer females.
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I don't have a problem with the elemental kin (well the undine not being able to breate water is kind of funky).
Amusing thing for me, the slyph and undine caused me a bit of a double take, since I play Battletech :-)
As others have said, if you don't like the Dhampir, then use the half vampire template. The Dhampire doesn't seem to need a LA, though that negative energy affinity really sucks (pun intended)
Hmm negative energy...reminds me of my old online rp where my dhampire almost got killed because an angle used a healing spell to help....didn't work out so well.
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The first Bestiary has the Monster Cohorts section (which I really like!)
Does Bestiary 2 have any additional info on Monster Cohorts? Maybe additional creatures from the new book to expand the main table???
Thanks!
I'm willing to give away a brand new, shiny nickle if someone can please answer my question (above) :)
I'm willing to give away a brand new, shiny nickle if someone can please answer my question (above) :)The first Bestiary has the Monster Cohorts section (which I really like!)
Does Bestiary 2 have any additional info on Monster Cohorts? Maybe additional creatures from the new book to expand the main table???
Thanks!
Yes. There's an appendix with a list of the Cohort-appropriate creatures.
There's also an appendix listing the entries with Animal Companion information.
There is no summary of Familiars, but there are several entries that mention they can be Familiars.
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Not all-nighters, but pretty darn close to it. The warehouse crew increased in size this week with the additions of Cosmo, Alvarez and Lisa to make sure y'all get your subscriptions just in time for the holiday season. :)Have the warehouse crew been pulling all-nighters? Mine shipped the day I ordered.
Much appreciated, either way!
I won't receive mine by christmas, but no complaints here. I hope you guys get some nice relaxing time off soon, just hope you all know we appreciate everything you guys and gals do for us.
But it can create rifts between the Pathfinder/D&D hybrid people and the Pathinder-Only folks. One side is totally happy, the other side is going to always expect a way to tie things to a 3.5e product (I'm in the middle of them both, personally).
One side needs to get realistic. I'm involved in four campaigns, all of which are hybrids of 3.5e and PFRPG. Not one of the players or DMs involved have any difficulty with any of Paizo's releases.
I think it's because we've moved on from the "WotC screwed us" mentality. Just detach yourself from the nostalgia. If Paizo puts out a version of something that isn't the same as the old one, simply use either. Or both. Or neither. Gnashing of teeth shouldn't be an option.
I understand how you feel; you've made it abundantly clear over the past quarter of a decade. Yeah, it sucks. But there's so much good that's come out of the situation that I would never go back to the way things were.
There are conversion guidelines; stuff that's closed content is closed content and there's no way Paizo can convert it without wrangling to the point of diminishing returns. The differences between 3.x and Pathfinder are miniscule (as were the differences between 3.0 and 3.5 for that matter) and in play most will come out in the wash. Any conflict between 3.x and Pathfinder is a matter of people splitting hairs that don't need to be split. :)
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Okay, one quick question for those who already have it, and if it has already been answered and I missed it I apologize. Do the new planetouched races; i.e. Fetchling, Ifrit, Oread, Slyph, Undine; have P.C. stats or do they just have monster stats? Thanks in advance for the answer.
Sorry,
Yes, they all have PC stats.
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Okay, one quick question for those who already have it, and if it has already been answered and I missed it I apologize. Do the new planetouched races; i.e. Fetchling, Ifrit, Oread, Slyph, Undine; have P.C. stats or do they just have monster stats? Thanks in advance for the answer.Sorry,
Yes, they all have PC stats.
Awesome. Even more to look forward to.
Well... They have NPC stats (15,14,13,12,10,8) and they have a "_________ as character" write up. They have player class levels, and are CR 1/2 (the same a human or a halfling would have with the same quantity of gear and stats).
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OMG, somebody finally realized that giving the Concentration check bonus in statblocks is a sound idea ! Rejoice ! Any chance of B1 PDF being updated to incorporate Conc totals as well ? Because calculating them on the fly is bloody annoying.
We've actually been putting concentration check bonuses in Pathfinder adventure paths and modules for quite a while. It just took a bit for the rulebook line to "catch up" (mostly because they don't do stat blocks that often, I guess).
Chances of updating Bestiary 1 with this information are not 0%, but they're not much higher. That's a relatively time-intensive stunt that in, I fear, several cases will cause a line to jump down and force some trickery to make fit on the page again... maybe if the next time the Bestiary needs a reprint, and maybe if that time miraculously coincides with a point where we're all not scrambling to do other things, we can make that adjustment. No promises... and I agree it'd be a GREAT addition...
But it can create rifts between the Pathfinder/D&D hybrid people and the Pathinder-Only folks. One side is totally happy, the other side is going to always expect a way to tie things to a 3.5e product (I'm in the middle of them both, personally).One side needs to get realistic. I'm involved in four campaigns, all of which are hybrids of 3.5e and PFRPG. Not one of the players or DMs involved have any difficulty with any of Paizo's releases.
What I find funny about the "debate" is that the game has never really had a unified cosmology. Subtle things are different about races and planes and deities depending on which campaign universe you were using, Forgotten Realms vs Dragonlance vs Eberron vs Dark Sun vs Golarion.
Paizo creates stuff for Golarion, but home games can mix and match as they have for as long as people have been role-playing.
PS: Love the new Bestiary. Can't wait to throw an adamantine golem at my players.
We decided not to make the dhampir a template mostly because templates have been, in my opinion, overplayed. The inspiration for our dhampir is one part mythology (which ONLY has human/vampire hybrids) and popular culture, like Blade or Vampire Hunter D (who are also specifically human/vampire hybrids). There really aren't a lot of half dwarf/half vampires, half gnoll/half vampires, half harpy/half vampires, half linnorm/half vampires out there to justify making the thing into a template, honestly.
The argument that we should have made dhampir a template is the same argument that says we should have made half-orcs, half-elves, tieflings, and aasimars templates as well. I can see and understand the logic behind that, but the point is that these aren't templates—they're intended to be actual races that could (and eventually will) have entire societies. It's really difficult to build a society around a template, since a template isn't an actual race of creatures.
One case in point: the ogrekin IS a template. In this case, we did go down that road. But I did spend a fair amount of time during development agonizing over that—the ogrekin came VERY close to being turned into a normal race rather than a template. In the end, I decided to keep it a template, since that's what it was in its original appearance (a point that the dhampir does not have as far as Pathifnder products go) and since it's not really based on any real-world or popular culture race, and thus there's no real preconceived image for the ogrekin.
Yeah, it's a bit of a conundrum...the whole lineage thing. I'm proud that Paizo decided to do their own thing though (and go a different path than Wizards). So I'm guessing playable races (such as Dhampire, Aasimar, Tieflings, Fetchlings, etc etc) are the FIRST offspring of a HUMAN and the appropriate being (and thus no longer merely descended from a Half-Templated being)? That kinda makes sense as Ogres are one to just breed with humans ya know? So Ogrekin makes sense as a template.
One question though. Will the Dhampire get to use an ability similar to the Nosferatu's Swarm Form or are you awesome Paizo duded/dudettes planning on introducing Feats to allow Dhampire to "acquire" Vampire abilities and such?
I'm personally hoping for the following beasties:Here's what you get:
New Playable Races
Dhampire (Part human, part Vampire)New Elementals
Elemental, Magma (Hot! Hot! Hot!)
Elemental, Ice (Ice Ice Baby)
Elemental, Lightning (Shocking isn't it?)
Elemental, Mud (That might be kind of messy.)New Angels
Movanic Deva (Angels tasked with patrolling the Ethereal and Astral Planes]
Monadic Deva (Angels tasked with patrolling the Positive and Negative Energy Plans]New Azata
Coure (Playful and cheerful fairy like Azata who love to spread joy wherever they go) - Well, they're called Lyrakien, but pretty much.New Planar Dragons
Umbral Dragon (Cone of Negative Energy/Cone of Rebuke Undead Gas) (Planar Dragons with negative energy powers) - Yep, updated from Pf #11, IIRC.New Templates
Axiomatic (example: Axiomatic Dire Tiger) - Renamed to Resolute
Archanic (example: Archanic Satyr) - Renamed to Entropic
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Chances of updating Bestiary 1 with this information are not 0%, but they're not much higher. That's a relatively time-intensive stunt that in, I fear, several cases will cause a line to jump down and force some trickery to make fit on the page again... maybe if the next time the Bestiary needs a reprint, and maybe if that time miraculously coincides with a point where we're all not scrambling to do other things, we can make that adjustment. No promises... and I agree it'd be a GREAT addition...
Is there a chance we could get this at least as a seperate download? I know I could just calculate it myself, but I could just copy it from a web download and write it in with my trusty pen.
Love the new Bestiary. Can't wait to throw an adamantine golem at my players.
Me neither. Especially given the CR they'll encounter it at, and not even considering that they will probably be awakened :)
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Chances of updating Bestiary 1 with this information are not 0%, but they're not much higher. That's a relatively time-intensive stunt that in, I fear, several cases will cause a line to jump down and force some trickery to make fit on the page again... maybe if the next time the Bestiary needs a reprint, and maybe if that time miraculously coincides with a point where we're all not scrambling to do other things, we can make that adjustment. No promises... and I agree it'd be a GREAT addition...Is there a chance we could get this at least as a seperate download? I know I could just calculate it myself, but I could just copy it from a web download and write it in with my trusty pen.
Posting the list as a separate download doesn't really reduce the time footprint of this project at all, alas, unless we were to just post it here on the boards, I guess, at which point I still don't think we'd be able to do this faster than anyone else who posts to these boards.
Do the new planetouched races; i.e. Fetchling, Ifrit, Oread, Slyph, Undine; have P.C. stats or do they just have monster stats?
Wait -- there's an ifrit and an efreet now?
I guess we already have genie and djinni meaning different things, not to mention dragons and dragonnes. Maybe in Bestiary #3 we can have stat blocks for Ratts and Wyld Stallyns. :-)
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Do the new planetouched races; i.e. Fetchling, Ifrit, Oread, Slyph, Undine; have P.C. stats or do they just have monster stats?Wait -- there's an ifrit and an efreet now?
I guess we already have genie and djinni meaning different things, not to mention dragons and dragonnes. Maybe in Bestiary #3 we can have stat blocks for Ratts and Wyld Stallyns. :-)
Speaking of which, we also have ghuls and ghouls and demons and daemons and Matt Damon !
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Do the new planetouched races; i.e. Fetchling, Ifrit, Oread, Slyph, Undine; have P.C. stats or do they just have monster stats?Wait -- there's an ifrit and an efreet now?
I guess we already have genie and djinni meaning different things, not to mention dragons and dragonnes. Maybe in Bestiary #3 we can have stat blocks for Ratts and Wyld Stallyns. :-)
There's plenty of "close-call" names in the game already for the precedent to be set, alas. In the case of the ifrit, there really wasn't a great choice for them; we weren't about to make up a nonsense word for them and use mythological names for the other three, and the fact that there's just not as many fire spirit names going around means that most of them had already been used. And so we opted to use a variant spelling for these guys.
Is there a TOC out yet?
Just downloaded the PDF. Just scrolled through, so far, but I love what I'm seeing. Just one big gripe:
The Krenshar art does not feature a 'OH HAI!' speech bubble. I blame the artist. ;)
In all seriousness: Great work. Can't wait to get my hands on the print copy.
There's plenty of "close-call" names in the game already for the precedent to be set, alas. In the case of the ifrit, there really wasn't a great choice for them; we weren't about to make up a nonsense word for them and use mythological names for the other three, and the fact that there's just not as many fire spirit names going around means that most of them had already been used. And so we opted to use a variant spelling for these guys.Do the new planetouched races; i.e. Fetchling, Ifrit, Oread, Slyph, Undine; have P.C. stats or do they just have monster stats?Wait -- there's an ifrit and an efreet now?
I guess we already have genie and djinni meaning different things, not to mention dragons and dragonnes. Maybe in Bestiary #3 we can have stat blocks for Ratts and Wyld Stallyns. :-)
I understand how it is such a problem. For example, the classic medieval elemental spirits (as recorded by Paracelsus) were Gnomes (Earth), Salamander (Fire), Undines (Water), and Sylf (Air). As you can see two of those have already been used for other creatures in game.
There's plenty of "close-call" names in the game already for the precedent to be set, alas. In the case of the ifrit, there really wasn't a great choice for them; we weren't about to make up a nonsense word for them and use mythological names for the other three, and the fact that there's just not as many fire spirit names going around means that most of them had already been used. And so we opted to use a variant spelling for these guys.
Considering the game has like 5 different meanings for "level," I think our players can handle "ifrit" vs. "efreet," and so on.... ;)
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Considering the game has like 5 different meanings for "level," I think our players can handle "ifrit" vs. "efreet," and so on.... ;)I have my next headline, I think...
"Sean K Reynolds Gloats: Confusing Names Are A Good Thing!"
That's the gist of it, right? ;-)
You didn't know that the K in Sean's name stands for Konfusing ?
My PDF copy doesn't have active links in the Table of Contents... will this be rectified soon?
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You didn't know that the K in Sean's name stands for Konfusing ?Considering the game has like 5 different meanings for "level," I think our players can handle "ifrit" vs. "efreet," and so on.... ;)I have my next headline, I think...
"Sean K Reynolds Gloats: Confusing Names Are A Good Thing!"
That's the gist of it, right? ;-)
I thought it stood for Kiss, as in that's what he tries to do to all the girls. :)
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I thought it stood for Kiss, as in that's what he tries to do to all the girls. :)You didn't know that the K in Sean's name stands for Konfusing ?Considering the game has like 5 different meanings for "level," I think our players can handle "ifrit" vs. "efreet," and so on.... ;)I have my next headline, I think...
"Sean K Reynolds Gloats: Confusing Names Are A Good Thing!"
That's the gist of it, right? ;-)
Kisses are Konfusing, aren't they ? :)