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The Vancaskerkins are back! YEAHHHHHH! \m/
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Umm, not that I'm not REALLY excited about this AP, but another Vancaskerin???Turns out some families have more than three people in them.
I get that, your comment made me smile, just wondering if there was a reason the Vancaskerin family has become the focus of another AP adventure. I would imagine there are plenty of "misguided" Pathfinder's in the Society after all.
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Umm, not that I'm not REALLY excited about this AP, but another Vancaskerin???
Yup.
Sometimes we put things into adventure paths because lots of our customers ask for them.
Sometimes we put things in because Lisa asks for them.
Sometimes, as in the case of the Vancaskerkins, both of the above are true.
The Vancaskerkins are back! YEAHHHHHH! \m/
I am now excited about this AP. :D
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Can Vaughan write a first level adventure?????
My PCs are frightened already.
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Umm, not that I'm not REALLY excited about this AP, but another Vancaskerin???Yup.
Sometimes we put things into adventure paths because lots of our customers ask for them.
Sometimes we put things in because Lisa asks for them.
Sometimes, as in the case of the Vancaskerkins, both of the above are true.
Not trying to be critical, I was just curious. Honestly I've thought about creating a member of the extended Vancaskerin family for PFS, so I'm not one to criticize y'alls decision, lol.
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Can we skip the pirate opne and go right to this?
No.
But when folks tell us they want the new AP instead of the one that's not yet come out before it... that's one way we can tell we're doing SOMETHING right.
Hopefully, by the time we announce what's coming after Shattered Star, you'll want to skip Shattered Star in favor of that new AP.
And by "skip," of course, I mean "buy anyway."
Can we skip the pirate opne and go right to this?No.
But when folks tell us they want the new AP instead of the one that's not yet come out before it... that's one way we can tell we're doing SOMETHING right.
Hopefully, by the time we announce what's coming after Shattered Star, you'll want to skip Shattered Star in favor of that new AP.
And by "skip," of course, I mean "buy anyway."
If its Numeria, I will indeed buy anyway. :D
Curse you, Paizo, for publishing more awesome adventures that I'll never even come close to being able to play through!
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Curse you, Paizo, for publishing more awesome adventures that I'll never even come close to being able to play through!
Hint: If you just read them, and enjoy reading them, and are inspired to play Pathfinder more because the adventures are fun to read... by my metric, you get your money's worth out of an Adventure Path. You don't have to play them all.
Can we skip the pirate opne and go right to this?No.
But when folks tell us they want the new AP instead of the one that's not yet come out before it... that's one way we can tell we're doing SOMETHING right.
Hopefully, by the time we announce what's coming after Shattered Star, you'll want to skip Shattered Star in favor of that new AP.
And by "skip," of course, I mean "buy anyway."
That would be instantly true if the next AP is set in Irrisen!
Looking forward to this one nevertheless!
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But when folks tell us they want the new AP instead of the one that's not yet come out before it... that's one way we can tell we're doing SOMETHING right.
Hopefully, by the time we announce what's coming after Shattered Star, you'll want to skip Shattered Star in favor of that new AP.
And by "skip," of course, I mean "buy anyway."
I'm not going to lie, the entire Pirate AP has not appeal for me, and neither does/did the Dragon Empire, leaving me thinking the near future of Paizo products would be rather bleak. This I'm interested in, the Aasimar book I'm been wishing for since 3E, I'm looking forward too with hope. And the Runelords updated hardcover all make me happy. But I'll be honest, the next AP just doesn't have any appeal for me.
With that in mind, yes, you are doing a great many things right.
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Can we skip the pirate opne and go right to this?
Your not the only one who has been wishing for an Aasimar book since 3E Beckett;)
I will buy this one, just as I buy everyone of the APs, as long as Paizo has new Monsters, magic items, NPCs, articles, etc. in them I will buy them.
Hint: If you just read them, and enjoy reading them, and are inspired to play Pathfinder more because the adventures are fun to read... by my metric, you get your money's worth out of an Adventure Path. You don't have to play them all.
I don't have to, no - but I want to! I agree, though, that even reading them is more than worth the cover price.
All right!
He's done them before, so I suspect that answer is yes.Can Vaughan write a first level adventure?????
My PCs are frightened already.
I know he can - I've just been spending an inordinate amount of time lately in Tsar....
First level characters wouldn't do so well in that setting. :)
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He's done them before, so I suspect that answer is yes.Can Vaughan write a first level adventure?????
My PCs are frightened already.
I know he can - I've just been spending an inordinate amount of time lately in Tsar....
First level characters wouldn't do so well in that setting. :)
Greg's more than capable of handling more than one project at once.
In any case... This adventure is completely written. It's sitting on my desk at work this very moment, since I had to write its art order today.
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I'm really liking this Varisia-scavenger hunt idea.
I suspect it'll be a light touch, but I'm curious how the post-RotRl/CotCT/SD developments will be touched on in this AP, esepcially if this adventure goes through Sandpoint/Korvosa/Riddleport and any other locations featured in those APs.
It really sounds like this could have everything that makes Varisia so much fun pop up and play an important part.
(wonder if the Sandpoint Devil has some more fight left in 'im...)
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Well, I'd love to see the developments of prior AP's in Varisia acknowledged here. Then again, I've been asking for some metaplot advancement for a long time now. Golarion is all set-up and no pay-off. ;)
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Well, I'd love to see the developments of prior AP's in Varisia acknowledged here. Then again, I've been asking for some metaplot advancement for a long time now. Golarion is all set-up and no pay-off. ;)
I'm sure there is a group out there who:
Failed to stop the starstone
Released Mhar
Failed to kill Kharzoug
etc.
Paizo can't advance the metaplot without invalidating their game, which I do not support.
Cool, there can never be enough AP's for me!
But first the (to me better sounding) pirates AP!
My question is: The pirates have mostly water-based monsters in them, what will be the theme of monsters for this one?
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I'm really liking this Varisia-scavenger hunt idea.
I suspect it'll be a light touch, but I'm curious how the post-RotRl/CotCT/SD developments will be touched on in this AP, esepcially if this adventure goes through Sandpoint/Korvosa/Riddleport and any other locations featured in those APs.
It really sounds like this could have everything that makes Varisia so much fun pop up and play an important part.
(wonder if the Sandpoint Devil has some more fight left in 'im...)
With the exeption of Magnimar, we won't be revisiting any locations in Shattered Star.
And no half orcs in the iconic lineup; this one'll be a cleric/alchemist/ranger/barbarian group.
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Well, I'd love to see the developments of prior AP's in Varisia acknowledged here. Then again, I've been asking for some metaplot advancement for a long time now. Golarion is all set-up and no pay-off. ;)
Shattered Star is all about that. It assumes Runelords, Crimson Throne, AND Second Darkness have all played out. It's sort of a first for us to do something on this scale that assumes anything like that, so I'm eager to see how folks react...
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Well, I'd love to see the developments of prior AP's in Varisia acknowledged here. Then again, I've been asking for some metaplot advancement for a long time now. Golarion is all set-up and no pay-off. ;)I'm sure there is a group out there who:
** spoiler omitted **Paizo can't advance the metaplot without invalidating their game, which I do not support.
Actually... the MAIN point we don't do this more often is that we don't want to "obsolete" our products. If one can only really "start" an adventure path on the month it is published, and then after that there's an implication that you're "behind the times" or something like that... that's really bad for us.
It's MUCH better to set things up so that you can play Adventure Paths in any order.
Shattered Star will be messing with that assumption, so we'll see how that pans out in about a year, I guess...
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Cool, there can never be enough AP's for me!
But first the (to me better sounding) pirates AP!
My question is: The pirates have mostly water-based monsters in them, what will be the theme of monsters for this one?
There really isn't a "theme" for Shattered Star. It's really a "back to the basics" type AP, to help celebrate the fact that it's the 10 year anniversary of Paizo and the 5 year one for Pathfinder. So... I guess the theme could be:
"Varisian stuff"
or
"Classic Fantasy RPG stuff."
After doing so many heavily themed APs (horror, jungle, Asia, pirates), I suspect folks will be happy to see a "back to basics" AP.
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Curse you, Paizo, for publishing more awesome adventures that I'll never even come close to being able to play through!Hint: If you just read them, and enjoy reading them, and are inspired to play Pathfinder more because the adventures are fun to read... by my metric, you get your money's worth out of an Adventure Path. You don't have to play them all.
While I agree, I would still want to have enough lives to play in all of them and GM all of them.
You think it is possible to create a few simulacrum of myself and develop a "share memory" spell so I can experience all of them?
:P
After doing so many heavily themed APs (horror, jungle, Asia, pirates), I suspect folks will be happy to see a "back to basics" AP.
Completely on board with that. It's a nice touch for the anniversary year - I wouldn't have to think twice about running this, whereas with a themed path, there's always going to be someone in my group who isn't so keen on it.
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Well, I'd love to see the developments of prior AP's in Varisia acknowledged here. Then again, I've been asking for some metaplot advancement for a long time now. Golarion is all set-up and no pay-off. ;)Shattered Star is all about that. It assumes Runelords, Crimson Throne, AND Second Darkness have all played out. It's sort of a first for us to do something on this scale that assumes anything like that, so I'm eager to see how folks react...
No matter how they react I am pleased to see the attempt made.
Can we skip the pirate opne and go right to this?
Absolutely NOT!
I'm geeked about this AP, but I'm just as geeked about S&S! Been looking forward to that one since I first heard about it (kinda like this one), and my friends and I have been wanting to do a pirate campaign for quite some time . . .
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I am not sure if I am starving for back to basics, but give me some Runelords is what I say.
I look forward to knowing a lot more about the Runelords.... Give me stats.
In the "managing expectations" department... while there'll be bits of info about SOME of the runelords in "Shattered Star," the runelords are NOT the focus of the adventure path at all. It'll CERTAINLY not have stats for them.
Love the Vancaskerkin tie, Love Varisia, Love Magnimar, hate that I have to wait long for this. :)
In my Burnt Offerings playthrough, I had the femme Rogue PC's background tied to a Magnimarian job gone wrong with her ex-partner/lover Orik. The reunion was interesting to say the least.
Most anticipated AP for me since Kingmaker.
What ideas are you guys planning to take the place of the gods articles you put into the other APs?
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Back to the basics= good.
We could use a good Underdark AP ala D1-3 and Night Below for the next AP btw. <---- not too subtle, am I? :)
I got one question: who the heck are the Vancaskerins?
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I got one question: who the heck are the Vancaskerins?
A family based in Riddleport—a different member of the family played key roles in the first adventure of Runelords, the first adventure of Crimson Throne, and the first adventure of Second Darkness.
By having a Vancaskerkin play a key role in the first adventure of Shattered Star, we help to thematically make Shattered Star a sequel to all three of those.
Well, I'd love to see the developments of prior AP's in Varisia acknowledged here. Then again, I've been asking for some metaplot advancement for a long time now. Golarion is all set-up and no pay-off. ;)Shattered Star is all about that. It assumes Runelords, Crimson Throne, AND Second Darkness have all played out. It's sort of a first for us to do something on this scale that assumes anything like that, so I'm eager to see how folks react...
Thanks, I really love to hear that. :) At this time, I am supposing that you'll only mention the results of the other AP's obliquely, but maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised on that aspect, too. :D
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Thanks, I really love to hear that. :) At this time, I am supposing that you'll only mention the results of the other AP's obliquely, but maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised on that aspect, too. :DWell, I'd love to see the developments of prior AP's in Varisia acknowledged here. Then again, I've been asking for some metaplot advancement for a long time now. Golarion is all set-up and no pay-off. ;)Shattered Star is all about that. It assumes Runelords, Crimson Throne, AND Second Darkness have all played out. It's sort of a first for us to do something on this scale that assumes anything like that, so I'm eager to see how folks react...
We won't be oblique at all. We'll assume that all three APs ended successfully, first of all. That means, among other things, things like...
2) Xin-Shalast's location is no longer secret. The vast amount of wealth there is still hard to get to and dangerous to loot and transport... but it IS happening, and as a result, many factions in Varisia are scrambling to be the first to get super rich. The infusion of wealth from Xin-Shalast may well be the primary thing that eventually moves Varisia from a frontier to a fully functioning nation in a very short amount of time.
3) Queen Ileosa has risen and fallen. Korvosa is now ruled by a redeemed and eager to make up for her crimes Queen Sabina. The Gray Maidens have been disbanded... mostly. Some still exist, and these remnants may be more dangerous than ever.
4) Drow are no longer a secret hidden by the Winter Council. Furthermore, the drow themselves, having been somewhat "riled up" by recent events, may just have a much more visible presence in parts of Varisia...
And so on. There will be more developments as well—those should serve for now as pretty juicy teasers though.