Pathfinder Adventure Path #109: In Search of Sanity (Strange Aeons 1 of 6) (PFRPG)

I have never read any of Lovecraft's books, so I have no idea who these characters are.

I hereby declare your "True Fantasy Monster Fan" badge null and void.

Thomas Seitz wrote:

James,

Will Herbert West show up in this AP at all?

Nope.

Dammit! What about Jeffery Coombs in some supporting role then? Or that too much to ask for then?

I am a "true fantasy monster fan", doesn't mean I am a "true horror fan". Besides there are plenty of movies that use elements and even creatures from his books.

So I'm curious.....is there any point in generating a "back story" for characters in this AP ? Or is it going to be assigned in some fashion....for example based on the AP trait you choose for the character ?

So I'm curious.....is there any point in generating a "back story" for characters in this AP ? Or is it going to be assigned in some fashion....for example based on the AP trait you choose for the character ?

There will be a point, yes... it's something we're still working on and which will be covered extensively in the Player's Guide, which should be out around the time Gen Con starts.

nighttree wrote:

So I'm curious.....is there any point in generating a "back story" for characters in this AP ? Or is it going to be assigned in some fashion....for example based on the AP trait you choose for the character ?

There will be a point, yes... it's something we're still working on and which will be covered extensively in the Player's Guide, which should be out around the time Gen Con starts.

I'm really excited to hear more about this. Without tipping your hand, are the PCs likely to have all been in a similar place prior to waking up in the asylum, or is it more diverse than that? How do the campaign traits tie in?

James Jacobs wrote:

nighttree wrote:

So I'm curious.....is there any point in generating a "back story" for characters in this AP ? Or is it going to be assigned in some fashion....for example based on the AP trait you choose for the character ?

There will be a point, yes... it's something we're still working on and which will be covered extensively in the Player's Guide, which should be out around the time Gen Con starts.

I'm really excited to hear more about this. Without tipping your hand, are the PCs likely to have all been in a similar place prior to waking up in the asylum, or is it more diverse than that? How do the campaign traits tie in?

I can't say more WITHOUT tipping the hand, and since it's still stuff we're working on the fine details of... just know that we'll figure it out and have rules and advice and all that for it, but at this point we can't tell you more because we don't know 100% how it's going to work ourselves.

I appreciate the excitement and anticipation, but it's not something I can address now. Ask again in the week before Gen Con! ;-)

I sort of want to skip Vengeance, and dive right into this.

Welp, time to start speculating what class Lovecraft will be when the PCs inevitably fight him.

...Ninja, right? Clearly a ninja.

Neo,

Nah. I'm sure he'll be a wizard.

I'm always tickled to see a nightgaunt.

I'm always tickled to see a nightgaunt.

I see what you did there.

*casts "Snilloc's Magic D'oh Meme"*

I'm going to enjoy this AP, methinks.

I wish this was the AP that was releasing now instead of Hell's Vengeance.

It'd be interesting if this issue (if not other parts of the AP) had connections to part four of Carrion Crown.

It'd be interesting if this issue (if not other parts of the AP) had connections to part four of Carrion Crown.

It could be, that some occurences from "Wake of the Watcher" are mentioned, since Illmarsh is just across the bay to the southeast from Trushmoore...

Oh man, it would be cool if the Red Raven was an iconic here. It'll be like Batman or Bruce Wayne stuck in Arkham.

I wish this was the AP that was releasing now instead of Hell's Vengeance.

I wish that what ever AP comes after this one was released instead of this one. But no one will like everything published.

All I know is I loved Wake of the Watcher. It was one of the best modules I can remember. Even if my PCs didn't like it.

Well I hope this means we'll be paying Ustaluv another visit soon in PFS...

I also wonder if while this is going on there is another adventure path where the players are furthering the dark goals of strange beings from beyond the stars...

TOTEZ exciting!

Oh man, it would be cool if the Red Raven was an iconic here. It'll be like Batman or Bruce Wayne stuck in Arkham.

Make your own vigilante, cultists killed my parents, Old Ones are a superstitious cowardly lot...

how will the vigilante alter egos work with the amnesia?

how will the vigilante alter egos work with the amnesia?

Splendidly I would say.....you simply don't even remember your alter ego ;)

Or maybe your alter ego is just one of your many personalities.

They literally just had a storyline where Bruce Wayne had amnesia and forgot he was Batman.

They literally just had a storyline where Bruce Wayne had amnesia and forgot he was Batman.

Yeah and then almost make himself brain dead trying to get back being Batman.

Who is "they"?

DC Comics.

they, them. The collection. Mostly I think it was Dan Dido but I could be wrong. Scott Snyder is the one on Batman right now.

Has anyone seen my pet kitty Hastur?

"Haaas-turrr. Hastur? Hastur!"

Has anyone seen my pet kitty Hastur?

"Haaas-turrr. Hastur? Hastur!"

The judges would also have accepted Hastur, Pussycat! Ia! Ia!

The judges would also have accepted Hastur, Pussycat! Ia! Ia!

I don't normally hold with puns, but this is too clever to hate.

James Jacobs wrote:

MythicFox wrote:

James Jacobs wrote:

Thomas Seitz wrote:

James,

Will Herbert West show up in this AP at all?

Nope.

How about Randolph Carter?

There WILL be a couple of NPCs from Lovecraft's writings who have roles to play in this AP... but I'm not gonna say who they are, now that I've already said that Herbert West isn't in the adventure (of course, the timing doesn't work out for him, since he's met his fate years before the events of Strange Aeons...).

You'll find out soon enough!

Didn't West come back as a disguised alien in Through The Gates of the Silver Key, though? Or do we, like Lovecraft himself, not talk about that one? ^_^

I think that was Randolph Carter.

I think that was Randolph Carter.

MY SHAME IS IMMENSE. You are, of course, correct. ^_^

(I was thinking of the right character... just the wrong name.)

Excellent timing with this new Kickstarter from Sandy Peterson...

Do you read Sutter Cane?

Do you read Sutter Cane?

No but I did think Carpenter's movie was a great homage piece. :)

I hope this AP is a real character grind. I have played the Call of Cthulhu RP game, and you literally lose characters on a weekly basis to horrific demises or you go insane. I'd hope that the characters that most players start with are not the ones that they end up finishing the campaign with...

I hope this AP is a real character grind. I have played the Call of Cthulhu RP game, and you literally lose characters on a weekly basis to horrific demises or you go insane. I'd hope that the characters that most players start with are not the ones that they end up finishing the campaign with...

I'd say that'd be very antithetical to Paizo's design philosophy.

Looking forward this. I hope that later in the AP any sanity mechanic will have Will saves appropiate to the level of the characters. That was kind of a problem in Wake of the Watcher, where the Will saves seemed way to low for the character level and I had to raise them substantially to even threaten the player characters with some sanity issues.

Excellent timing with this new Kickstarter from Sandy Peterson...

Wait, what? How have I not heard about this Kickstarter before? Dude. O_o

I'm still curious about who the other two Iconics will be for this AP. Feiya is our Arcane, and Erasmus is I guess our de facto Skill Monkey (the adaptability from his choice of spirits), so we need Divine and Warrior. Who hasn't seen action lately?

Looking forward this. I hope that later in the AP any sanity mechanic will have Will saves appropiate to the level of the characters. That was kind of a problem in Wake of the Watcher, where the Will saves seemed way to low for the character level and I had to raise them substantially to even threaten the player characters with some sanity issues.

A "Sanity mechanic" is not really appropriate to Pathfinder and won't be part of the Adventure Path. Insanity will be handled as part of the story and as GameMastery Guide's rules as afflictions.

*wonders if Pickman or someone else will show up...*

magnuskn wrote:

Looking forward this. I hope that later in the AP any sanity mechanic will have Will saves appropiate to the level of the characters. That was kind of a problem in Wake of the Watcher, where the Will saves seemed way to low for the character level and I had to raise them substantially to even threaten the player characters with some sanity issues.

A "Sanity mechanic" is not really appropriate to Pathfinder and won't be part of the Adventure Path. Insanity will be handled as part of the story and as GameMastery Guide's rules as afflictions.

Or that. Although apparently it was appropiate to Wake of the Watcher, as layed out in the side bar of that volume of Carrion Crown on page 29.

Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu game uses a Sanity mechanic to track madness, and if you’d like to replicate this experience during this adventure, you may use the following as optional rules.

Also, as James has said before, they are allowed to change their minds between past and future products.

And those optional rules use the Gamemastery Guide, as James just said.

James Jacobs wrote:

magnuskn wrote:

Looking forward this. I hope that later in the AP any sanity mechanic will have Will saves appropiate to the level of the characters. That was kind of a problem in Wake of the Watcher, where the Will saves seemed way to low for the character level and I had to raise them substantially to even threaten the player characters with some sanity issues.

A "Sanity mechanic" is not really appropriate to Pathfinder and won't be part of the Adventure Path. Insanity will be handled as part of the story and as GameMastery Guide's rules as afflictions.

Or that. Although apparently it was appropiate to Wake of the Watcher, as layed out in the side bar of that volume of Carrion Crown on page 29.

In fact, feed back and how it worked out in Wake of the Watcher is what helped me decide it wasn't appropriate. AKA: Think of the inclusion of a sanity mechanic in that volume as an experiment, and the results of that experiment are that sanity mechanics don't work well for Pathfinder/fantasy games.

Aw. I LOVED sanity mechanics in Wake the Watcher! :p ;)

“That is not dead which can eternal lie,

And with strange aeons even death may die.”

Announced for August—do you know where your Sanity score is at? Product image and description are not final.

That guy with his hooked serrated sickle thing reminds me of someone... Hmmmmmm.... Looks almost like a question mark. And his robes are yellow! HMMMMMM! Who could that be?