Awwwe, I'm finally getting to start my dream of running Rise of the Runelords, but this book won't be out in time for me to start. :(
Either way, I will be buying this book because I love how much character this town has and I will want to do campaigns set there in the future! Thank you for making this!
Don't feel bad. This book wasn't out in time for ANYONE that ran this adventure. ;P
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Don't feel bad. This book wasn't out in time for ANYONE that ran this adventure. ;PAwwwe, I'm finally getting to start my dream of running Rise of the Runelords, but this book won't be out in time for me to start. :(
Either way, I will be buying this book because I love how much character this town has and I will want to do campaigns set there in the future! Thank you for making this!
Or for anyone who WROTE the adventure. :-P
The only way to get this book is with a TARDIS...or waiting.
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The little town where it all began... awesome!
Marketer crying out: Small town where big adventures start.
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Updated with final product description and cover image!
Nice cover art!
Sweet! Sandpoint Devil! :D
I prefer Merisiel. Then again the whole cover is pretty awesome.
I prefer the pixie cat rodeo!
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I prefer Merisiel. Then again the whole cover is pretty awesome.
YAY!
Nice cover.
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Is their any way that we could possibly get a flip map of the Rusty Dragon from Sandpoint? PLEASE! 0ne side could have the 1st level of it, the otherside could have the 2nd level?
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Is their any way that we could possibly get a flip map of the Rusty Dragon from Sandpoint? PLEASE! 0ne side could have the 1st level of it, the otherside could have the 2nd level?
There is. I specifically designed the map of the Rusty Dragon that appears in this book to fit on a flip mat (ground floor on one side, upper floor and basement on the other).
It does NOT appear as a flip mat in this book and instead is presented as a standard half-page map, but should the stars come right at some point in the future, it'd be pretty easy, I think, to translate it into a flip mat.
At the very least, GMs will be able to fit a whole floor on a blank flip mat!
THANKS, Mr. Jacobs for that info! With LUCK and the stars align, we could see that in the future, maybe!
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Just one month to go! ;-)
Will the pull-out poster map of Sandpoint & surrounding area be all-new?
If so, who's the artist?
We already have the very cool Flipmat for the very first Rise of the Runelords (Anniversary Edition Hardcover) encounter(s), i would love a "Rusty Dragon Inn" flip-mat & even more.
One thing about the Pathfinder Playtest which was great, was the Flip-mat Multipack.
I wish EVERY Adventure Path would receive at least one flip-mat for it's starting book or even better a multipack for it's most prominent encounter areas...
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Just one month to go! ;-)
Will the pull-out poster map of Sandpoint & surrounding area be all-new?
If so, who's the artist?We already have the very cool Flipmat for the very first Rise of the Runelords (Anniversary Edition Hardcover) encounter(s), i would love a "Rusty Dragon Inn" flip-mat & even more.
One thing about the Pathfinder Playtest which was great, was the Flip-mat Multipack.
I wish EVERY Adventure Path would receive at least one flip-mat for it's starting book or even better a multipack for it's most prominent encounter areas...
The poster map won't be new art.
How much relevance does Sandpoint have to Return of the Runelords? (I.e. do the PCs also start there with it being a sequel?)
I planning on getting that (we're about to start running the last half of Rise very shortly, but Sandpoint is not as relevant after the start) at some point (and also running Jade Regent); if it shows up in Return as well, it makes this something I might get on release, rather than waiting a while.
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How much relevance does Sandpoint have to Return of the Runelords? (I.e. do the PCs also start there with it being a sequel?)
I planning on getting that (we're about to start running the last half of Rise very shortly, but Sandpoint is not as relevant after the start) at some point (and also running Jade Regent); if it shows up in Return as well, it makes this something I might get on release, rather than waiting a while.
Judging from the campaign outline on page 91 of AP#133
As someone who gamemastered RotR, i wish i had this Sandpoint Campaign Setting book then, even if only for the later half of the AP, as there was still quite a lot of roleplaying done in Sandpoint.
Having a 64 page sourcebook instead of the 18 pages in the Anniversary Edition will make fleshing out AP#4 & AP#5 much easier and complete.
So this focuses on Sandpoint, excuse my ignorance but is there a guidebook or source for more information about Varisia as a whole?
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So this focuses on Sandpoint, excuse my ignorance but is there a guidebook or source for more information about Varisia as a whole?
There is this Player Companion.
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So this focuses on Sandpoint, excuse my ignorance but is there a guidebook or source for more information about Varisia as a whole?
We released Pathfinder Player Companion: Varisia, Birthplace of Legends a few years ago. That might help a bit.
Edit: I'm too slow for David! :)
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And it is EXCELLENT!
(^_')=b
--C.
I'm SUPER excited for this book! I'm planning to run RotR next year as my first ever running a campaign! I was building everything out in Roll20 and adding details to NPCs that I thought were lacking and then I discovered this and have halted my efforts till I get the book, lol!
Questions I'm curious about:
Will there be rules for the Hagfish challenge?
Are there any more NPCs listed out with the noble families? EG: I noticed it seems that Titus is the only Scarnetti.
Is there any more on the town guards than just the one stat block for the 12?
Also one of my players has elected to be a half-orc witch named Hagar (based directly off of Voltron) with a sihedron rune branded on her hand who moved to Sandpoint just before the late unpleasantness and after the murders, moved onto Chopers Isle and has gone to great lengths to make herself more creepy to the towns people. Obviously that's gonna present it's own set of challenges in the game, lol. I'm curious though, how much will the new content for Choppers Isle complicate Hagar living on it? I was going to just say they didn't burn down the house and stairs but I dunno what all you're gonna throw in there now, lol.
Also one of my players has elected to be a half-orc witch named Hagar (based directly off of Voltron) with a sihedron rune branded on her hand who moved to Sandpoint just before the late unpleasantness and after the murders, moved onto Chopers Isle and has gone to great lengths to make herself more creepy to the towns people.
Er, I mean after the late unpleasantness, not before... Still working out that timeline, lol. She is supposed to have been working for but escaped one of the other lamia matriarch's at work in Riddleport. Although neither the player or character are aware that she was a lamia.
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Will there be rules for the Hagfish challenge?
Yes.
Are there any more NPCs listed out with the noble families? EG: I noticed it seems that Titus is the only Scarnetti.
Yes.
Is there any more on the town guards than just the one stat block for the 12?
Not really, no.
Also one of my players has elected to be a half-orc witch named Hagar (based directly off of Voltron) with a sihedron rune branded on her hand who moved to Sandpoint just before the late unpleasantness and after the murders, moved onto Chopers Isle and has gone to great lengths to make herself more creepy to the towns people. Obviously that's gonna present it's own set of challenges in the game, lol. I'm curious though, how much will the new content for Choppers Isle complicate Hagar living on it? I was going to just say they didn't burn down the house and stairs but I dunno what all you're gonna throw in there now, lol.
It will potentially complicate things very very much. ;-P
They could be Sorcerers wandering the shore, or Arcanists hanging around a bay...
I demand a Shorcerer archetype, as well as Beachcomber Alchemists.
Will there be a wares section for the Pixie's Kitten?
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Hey James!!
Any chance this book goes into more detail about the taxes and economy of Sandpoint at all? I was always curious what sort of difficulties one would run into trying to start up a business out there rather than in Magnimar.
My group has been looking for that information for months now so any extra details help!
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Hey James!!
Any chance this book goes into more detail about the taxes and economy of Sandpoint at all? I was always curious what sort of difficulties one would run into trying to start up a business out there rather than in Magnimar.
My group has been looking for that information for months now so any extra details help!
Not that much, no. It focuses more on the story and the characters of the region than the economy. It does talk about lots of shops and business, but not from a "how do they make money" viewpoint, because I don't find that as interesting to write about.
Not that much, no. It focuses more on the story and the characters of the region than the economy. It does talk about lots of shops and business, but not from a "how do they make money" viewpoint, because I don't find that as interesting to write about.
Any chance you're able to clarify here what sort of tax burdens that players might expect to run into out in Sandpoint? The only reason I'm asking is because of the deals between the noble families in Sandpoint and Magnimar. It's been frustrating the locals but doesn't really go into what sort of impact it would have on players starting up businesses there using either the downtime rules in the Ultimate Campaign book or the alternate profession rules in the Unchained book?
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Not that much, no. It focuses more on the story and the characters of the region than the economy. It does talk about lots of shops and business, but not from a "how do they make money" viewpoint, because I don't find that as interesting to write about.Any chance you're able to clarify here what sort of tax burdens that players might expect to run into out in Sandpoint? The only reason I'm asking is because of the deals between the noble families in Sandpoint and Magnimar. It's been frustrating the locals but doesn't really go into what sort of impact it would have on players starting up businesses there using either the downtime rules in the Ultimate Campaign book or the alternate profession rules in the Unchained book?
Nope, no chance. Sorry.
In my experience in playing the game, making PCs pay taxes is not fun, and thus time spent building up complex subsystems to track taxation is time better spent focused on building up other things that are more enjoyable in play. If your table enjoys this element of verisimilitude, feel free to build it up in your game. Use Ultimate Campaign as a starting point if you wish, I guess.
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Tsuto is dead (as is his dad).
No he's not...he keeps trying to show me kitty butt when I type.
My cat is named Tsuto after that character. We were playing RotRL when we got him 5ish years ago.
So is anyone else having trouble downloading their copy?
As in a I can't find it in my digital assets & the "downloads" tap on the product page won't even load.
So is anyone else having trouble downloading their copy?
As in a I can't find it in my digital assets & the "downloads" tap on the product page won't even load.
I'd imagine it's because they aren't releasing the PDF until Wednesday.
I had no trouble downloading mine on October 4th.
Does the purchase of the book not come with the PDF?
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I eventually got it downloaded. Only done a quick scroll thru so far, but it looks great! :D
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Awesome book, with lots of details. I really like like some of the „old storylines“ have turned out - like the Glassworks!
But, why, oh my why - didn‘t you put the 2 page picture of Sandpoint as a map into the book as well?! This is such an awesome and usefull picture! We had so many maps of Sandpoint and its hinterlands, but this pic - boy, I would love to have this as a poster!
I didn‘t get it why you haven‘t included that as a poster map as well...
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Awwwe, I'm finally getting to start my dream of running Rise of the Runelords, but this book won't be out in time for me to start. :(Don't feel bad. This book wasn't out in time for ANYONE that ran this adventure. ;P
Well, my party is closing in on wrapping up Hook Mountain Massacre in a few months, so I think this book will be just about perfectly timed for me to use for Books 4-5.
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If I may, I haven't gotten more then a few pages into prepping Shattered Star and Return so I don't know if they spend any time in Sandpoint.
Oh okay. Well both are in Varisia, Shattered Star is mostly in Magnimar(as in, you travel to Thassilonian places all varisia, but Magnimar is your "home base"), but contains visit to Kaer Maga. So not much Sandpoint stuff I think? Maybe it has one visit there. I know that in returns there is brief Sandpoint while traveling to somewhere else, but Returns is pretty much Varisia road trip aka you vist all the major cities(except Janderhoff *sadface*). Either way, you could use book to expand the visit to Sandpoint during returns if you want to
So most Sandpoint heavy APs are RotR and Jade Regent, though to be honest this book contains enough material you could run your own AP with it
(Book does feature details and map on cool Thasslonian ruin, so you could technically include it as bonus dungeon during Shattered Star)
Just ordered this and can't wait to get my hands on it. I have a few questions on some of the contents for anyone who may have the pdf already.
Does this contain any of the adventures from The Beginners box or the Bash Demos. It would be nice to see those adventures made cannon. Also do any of the card game b deck stories in here such as Podiker leaving poison traps around town and Jubrayl Vhiski having stats and being an actaul threat in town.
Either way I hope to use this book to great effect in My Rise Anniversary game that I am starting tonight. I have the original Rise modules that I recieved from a friend and I bought the anniversary edition this year and just got the opportunity to run it. Needless to say this book is a culmination of what actually drew me into Golorian lore and I hope to see more like it going forward.
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Just ordered this and can't wait to get my hands on it. I have a few questions on some of the contents for anyone who may have the pdf already.
Does this contain any of the adventures from The Beginners box or the Bash Demos. It would be nice to see those adventures made cannon. Also do any of the card game b deck stories in here such as Podiker leaving poison traps around town and Jubrayl Vhiski having stats and being an actaul threat in town.
Either way I hope to use this book to great effect in My Rise Anniversary game that I am starting tonight. I have the original Rise modules that I recieved from a friend and I bought the anniversary edition this year and just got the opportunity to run it. Needless to say this book is a culmination of what actually drew me into Golorian lore and I hope to see more like it going forward.
It assumes those adventures already happened, both Thelsikar and Blackfang are assumed to be dead