Pathfinder Adventure Path: Reign of Winter Player's Guide (PFRPG) PDF

It's here! :)

It's strange, but I kind of see the release of the Player's Guide as the opening overture for each AP. It's the announcement: Now we begin!

Delicious!

Ok everybody...say it with me...all together now...YAY!!!!!

*deeeeeeeeeep breath of air*
...yay!

YAY!

the hell of eternal waiting has finally frozen over!

Very classy move putting the Winter Witch Archetype and the Winter Witch Prestige Class in the Player's Guide. Well done!

Yep. Saves people trying to remember wich two or three products they were tucked away in :p.

I'm a bit annoyed by the campaign traits, considering they are the same as those presented in People of the North.

They're supposed to be, just like the Shattered Star campaign traits were in Varisia: Birthplace of Legends. The two-page spread in People of the North is specifically headed "Reign of Winter Player's Guide."

The lady in the middle is certainly Christmas-y. ;)

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Oh, ow with the ice spike. Also:

Let's remember not to post spoilers from the other Reign Of Winter threads or product descriptions!

Given the flurry of discussion, a lot of us have kind of taken details of this AP for granted, but we should try to keep the player's guide thread spoiler free!

I mean seriously. Can you imagine playing through this AP without any idea of what exactly was coming? :)

I posted it in the blog, but this might be a better place for it:

Ideal Party of Four:

To many Gnomes.

To many Gnomes.

No such thing.

EDWARD DEANGELIS wrote:

To many Gnomes.

No such thing.

A toast: to many gnomes! (drinks)

Mmmm... toasted gnome... my favorite!

I posted it in the blog, but this might be a better place for it:

Ideal Party of Four:

** spoiler omitted **

Awesome guide! And great idea put the winter witch archtype AND the prestige class together in it! I like your style ^^

*deeeeeeeeeep breath of air*

...yay!

Louder!

I've been looking forward to this Player's Guide, but after reading it I'm not exactly sure how I feel about it. Compared to all the other Player's Guides we have from the former AP's, this one doesn't fool around with nice but somewhat vague descriptions - which is refreshing.

However, I have to wonder how many GM's complained about spoilers to Paizo for the first paragraph to happen? I can't recall any former Guides to be that much of a spoiler to any major point of the respective AP... also, giving the players options necessitates some information what these options are about/for, no? Just because the AP is titled "Reign of Winter" and the name Baba Yaga is thrown around doesn't give the whole plot away, at least not any more than "Rise of the Runelords" told you that some ancient dudes were about to come back, or how "Kingmaker" indictated that you wouldn't be a dingy commoner forever. Maybe its just me.

I am a little sad to see that there isn't any race and class advice. I can see that stuff about races is difficult to pull off when the guide tells you outright you will go to a a lot of exotic places, but not even classes? This was always cool for new players or if someone was totally lost about what to play (and it didn't stop the Jade Regent PG to include such information).

The Cold Weather Primer is cool (pun intended), I'm sure it replaces what might have been a new mechanic or subsystem in other Player's Guides. Nice to see that some of the lesser-used Core Rules are being put to use. Bonus points for inclusion of Winter Witch archetype and PrC, and cold weather equipment.

Hooray! Glad its out, can't wait to play this one.

Regarding the no-spoiler section, I think it was unnecessary. The player's guides never gave anything away that the players SHOULD'T know, and neither does this one. Even very detailed guides, like Carrion Crown and Jade Regent, helped give an idea of what was coming without spoiling anything secret. I'd have rather seen that space filled with information Heldren, what the PC's likely know at the beginning of the adventure, or cold weather survival tips.

I miss the guides that gave information specific to races and classes, those had the best value in my opinion. I'm not going to complain about a free product, especially when they're as good as this, but that format always appealed to me the most.

Still, really excited to see how this one goes, I've been brainstorming characters all day! :D

Just printed out a copy of my PDF to review prior to starting up this campaign, and on the copyright page I notice that it says 'Printed in China'. No it wasn't! I just printed it myself, and it was never released by Paizo in printed form! :P

Huh, just noticed that the Winter Witch prestige class in this PDF differs from both the original winter witch in Paths of Prestige, as well as the web supplement they released intended to fix the winter witch. Any reason why?