The article talks about Volcanoes, some particularly famous Golarion Volcanoes, and the dangers of such locales. There are 2 archetypes the Cinderwalker (Ranger), the Pyroclast (Summoner) and an Oracle mystery the Volcano mystery.
O.O
What is this new Mystery?
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Aside from additional class skills, the bonus spells are all fire/heat themed as they should be. Some of the revelations are things like
Increasing your charisma score when you take con damage from volcanic vapors
Having your fire spells that do damage catch people on fire
Being able to use touch spells at range on targets that are on fire
Being able to walk on lava/magma/etc without taking damage.
And things of that nature
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Edit: So is Zursvaater the sole god of Fire Giants, or are there others?
From what I gleaned, yes - he's to fire giants what Thyrmr is to frost.
Or does he have worshipers other than fire giants?
He's very fire-giant orientated, believing other races as 'tools' at best. There is mentioning of slag giants worshiping him, but they're in the minority.
July 29th is the street date. It's the same as the PDF date in the product description.
Thank you sir, you just made my week, as I go on vacation right after this, and the final 2 mods will be had to complete the Campaign so I can see the overall flow and make some changes as needed for my Party's "likes/dslikes" and my prefs as well naturally:)
I would have sworn that somewhere the PDF drop date and the hard copy was a week or two after the former??....
Cheers
Tom
The retail release date and the PDF release date are typically the same day. Subscribers receive their PDF in their downloads when their print copy ships (which is generally before the retail release date).
Is anyone else having trouble with the interactive maps of #95 and #96? I cannot see the actual map detail layer. I am getting only the lettered locations nothing more.
Zursvaater always did intrigue me. I wonder if it's worth picking up just for that.
Edit: Wait, I had him mixed up with Minderhal. Did any of the Adventure Path books feature him by chance?
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So I've got some burning questions due to my confusion.
1) Where is the Str 39 and Con 28 coming from? They're both 4 too high. Did he read two +4 manuals to grant him that, or maybe even eight wishes?
2) Being a stalward defender 5, should his DR be 4, not 3?
3) Why is there no reach with the halbred listed? It should be 15-20 ft.
4) Not related to the king, but why do the fire giant captains have wands of silence? They don't have ranks Use Magic Device in any capacity and that's a trained skill. Nor do they have a class or archetype to give them spellcasting.
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@Kevin:
1) Paizo tends to give extra stats sometimes. Its not clear to me why in this case the STR and CON are what they are, but your suggestions are both reasonable.
2) AFAICT, yes, it should be DR4/-
4) My best guess is that they were intended to use them at some point, and were given the necessary skills and/or classes to do so, and then a subsequent editing pass removed this capability. No tactics entries suggest using them either, so the wands just end up as a bit of bonus loot for the PCs. Alternatively, the wands can be moved to be part of the equipment and tactics of the Temple Priests later on in the adventure.
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I guess the only other question I’ve got then is, do monsters not get an ability score improvement when they reach a HD divisible by 4 when they add class levels? Or is it only when they’ve taken four class levels that they get the ability score improvement? I ask because that would change additional stat blocks, but others would make sense.
I guess the only other question I’ve got then is, do monsters not get an ability score improvement when they reach a HD divisible by 4 when they add class levels? Or is it only when they’ve taken four class levels that they get the ability score improvement? I ask because that would change additional stat blocks, but others would make sense.
As far as I know the monsters get those ability score boosts. And the feats every odd level. That's just part of adding class levels to anything, whether it's for a zero-hd player race or something that already had hit dice.
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I guess the only other question I’ve got then is, do monsters not get an ability score improvement when they reach a HD divisible by 4 when they add class levels? Or is it only when they’ve taken four class levels that they get the ability score improvement? I ask because that would change additional stat blocks, but others would make sense.As far as I know the monsters get those ability score boosts. And the feats every odd level. That's just part of adding class levels to anything, whether it's for a zero-hd player race or something that already had hit dice.
Yeah, that's what I always thought too, but the stat blocks throughout this series has shown both, so it's upped my confusion. These last two books seemingly ignored the "every 4 HD" thought process though.