I love the player content from the Stolen Fate player's guide, but I have some misgivings about the power level. Rewrite Possibility, the level 5 focus spell for the Harrow Bloodline Sorcerer, seems weirdly powerful. The ability to use a reaction to reroll any failed check with a +2, keeping the highest so you can't make things worse, every round for a minute, PLUS a +1 to initiative (That part's not a big deal, but it adds even more value to what already seems like a huge amount of value)? Is it just me or is that overpowered compared to other similar level focus spells, even considering you can only have one active at a time and it eats your reaction?
Just wanted to bump the size of the PDF at 192MB, was Paizo able to look into why it's so much larger than standard?
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lmao why would anyone share medical information in an Adventure Path topic?!
Anyway, let me try to contribute something on-topic.
I’ve always looked at the Harrow with misgivings as an overcomplicated version of the Ravenloft system. In the original Ravenloft adventure, the card reading wasn’t supposed to predict the future, it just pointed out the locations of some items. Fast forward a few decades and we’re supposed to predict the future in a game where the protagonists can die in any given encounter? How’s that supposed to work?
“You are the great heroes fated to save Korvosa!”, but oh you died in a common random encounter, too bad. Is the game supposed to be comedy? The GM has to do something to rescue the campaign’s seriousness from this.
It’s yet another common elephant in the room that the RPG industry refuses to discuss and do something about, or even just advise GMs on how to deal with it.
That said, when it works, it’s beautiful. Just have to make the adventure very easy, and be lucky I guess.
That’s my advice to anything related to fortune-telling: make it easy, so that the reading can come true.
This post is a non sequitur; Stolen Fate is about a deck of specific magic cards, each individual one with specific mechanics, and a group of people trying to use them for [plot reasons].
You aren't doing any fortune-telling in this, it's not like tarokka from Ravenloft at all.
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There have been several cases where the pdf seems to be a lot larger than it should be. My understanding, in those cases where Paizo has looked into this, is that it has something to do with the tools and/or methods used to create the pdf. As far as I remember, Paizo has been able to "re-do" the pdfs to reduce the size.
If all that is true, apparently there are some folks making pdfs at Paizo that aren't getting the word about what they're doing "wrong" and how to avoid it.
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I'm trying to purchase the PDF along with the foundry VTT code but when I try to add the Foundry VTT code for this AP to the cart it just errors out. Will I still be able to purchase the Foundry VTT part if I just get the PDF until the foundry VTT code part is no longer erroring?
looks like the link to the foundry code is now working.
Removal of alignment? Say what?
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Removal of alignment? Say what?
Check the blog for the news on the upcoming Pathfinder 2e Remaster.
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With the removal of alignment in the upcoming revision, will this adventure receive an errata for the Harrow Deck?
This adventure is an OGL adventure and, like the Harrow Deck, uses alignment, so no errata is needed.
The Harrow itself is specifically built around the alignment system, though, and if we decide to reprint it, we'll have to come up with nine different words for those 9 elements, probably. Or we might not. Those nine alignments are pretty cosmetic as far as the Harrow is concerned, and even if those words don't have rules definitions in the game 20 years from now, they'll continue to have English language definitions that do all the work needed to contextualize things for the deck.
In any case... it won't impact Stolen Fate at all, nor will changing those words change how the Harrow works.
By the time the remastered books come out later this year, we'll be 2 Adventure Paths into the future from Stolen Fate, after all.
If Stolen Fate proves to be popular enough that we'll decide to compile it into a hardcover... well, I see that as a good problem to have!
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For some reason, the PDF for this is enormous - it's 192 MB. By contrast, the core rulebook is about 80 MB. The entire Kingmaker AP + the Companion Guide together weigh in at about 160 MB.
Most individual AP volumes weigh in between about 20-50 MB.
Can someone please fix the PDF? It's large enough that it's actually inconvenient - it looks like Gatewalkers 3 has a similar (but not as bad) issue, as does the new Starfinder Drift Hackers volume (109 MB). Starfinder Adventure Path PDFs have had similar issues in the past, too.
I would also like to note this issue. At the very least it hasn't crashed my PDF reader yet.
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I am pretty much finished prepping this and it is excellent. I am very excited to run it. There are a couple of small snagging issues which are easily fixed but people should probably be aware of.
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I just wanted to add that I love the Oppali, I can wait to see how my players react to them.
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This is correct; these are bespoke 8th level monsters and are built as such; they're not built using the PC creation rules. As such, their beaks do damage in a range that's appropriate for a level 8 creature using a non-agile attack. To get to this range using d4s, you'd need to do 5d4+10 and that's a lot of d4s. For our bespoke NPCs and monsters, we try to minimize those dice in keeping with our own internal monster design philosophies (aka, for level 8 creatures, we try to keep them to rolling 2 dice for their Strikes).
Zashuvins tactics have her casting divine lance, a spell she does not know
Not sure why divine lance was cut from this new monster's stats, but that apparently happened for the monster and didn't get adjusted in the encounter text. Sorry about that. Either give the hurlilu divine lance, or ignore that tactic.
The Bhanyada scavengers have an effect if their bite attack deals piercing damage. They have no way to deal piercing damage.
Their jaws Strikes have the versatile piercing trait, so if they want to do piercing damage with their jaws, they can. Gnashing Bite has different effects depending on what kind of teeth they bite with, basically.
Vampire Siege is inconsistent on the number of giant flytraps, it says both 3 and 4
3 is the correct number here.
Kannij is medium, his creature type is normally large.
Kannijo's size is correct for him; he's smaler than the normal spirit naga. Some times for monsters we alter their size. In this case, Kannijo is a smaller-than-normal spirit naga. Size in 2nd edition doesn't really have much impact on a creature's stats like it did in 1st edition.
Critically failing the check at the Carnival makes you stupefied 3 but with no listed duration. Likewise at the Big Sky but with enfeebled. Critically failing the Rabbit Prince makes you Clumsy 3 for a week, I assume these should be the same.
When we don't list a duration for something that makes you stupefied or enfeebled or the like, that effect is permanent until it is removed via magic or other methods. This is for high level characters, so they will be facing some high-level effects that require them to use spells or their resources to recover from. If your group is struggling with effects like this that are permanent, feel free to give them time limits. Also keep in mind that condition values don't stack, so if someone is permanently stupefied 3, then is affected by something that makes them stupefied 1, they don't become stupefied 4 (unless that effect specifically says it increases a condition's value).
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Just looking through the Players Guide.
The Vengeful Spirit Deck feat of the Harrower archetype seems to have some typos. It is listed as a Metamagic Feat but doesnt affect spellcasting in any way. Its text says you can sustain it but it doesnt have the sustain tag. Should Metamagic be Sustain? Is it one action to Sustain and two to continue to throw cards in subsequent rounds?
Metamagic is a typo. That trait should be Manipulate.
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I have now finished prepping this. There are two small issues with the maps.
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For Snakebite there are no F3 markings for where the plants start, either in the module or the interactive map pack. I assume they converge from three different directions.
The plants can start at three points you decide upon from different directions.
For the theatre map there is no marking for the starting point for the fire. It does say it rings the stage but that's a little vague given the size of the place.
Alas, I can't share an image of the map here with my correction to it, but the text itself is a bit misleading. The initial fire shouldn't "ring the stage" but should be more or less a five-foot-wide arc along the stage, so that the fire is basically burning in a "U" shape along the bottom of the stage and then it grows from there.
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The adventure specifically notes these placements in the text. The maps lack the notes the AP says are there.
I gave advice in the previous reply, but yes, we normally don't place monsters on maps with specific tags. This is intentional; it helps empower the GM to make their own decisions for monster starting spots since the PCs can adjust the starting positions by being sneaky or distracting or unlucky or all that.
In this case, I suspect the problem arose from me forgetting to develop that bit of text away from having monster locations shown on the maps and it ended up getting missed during edit.
Again, the monsters can start anywhere you want them to start, but converging from 3 directions is best.