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1) Will the book use the 'new' stat blocks as introduced in DMG II and the newer Dungeon magazines?
2) Will there be an overall index of shops, NPCs and locations?
3) There were 2 different 'Faces of Cauldron' art in different Dungeon issues, will this be reproduced and will ther be more NPC images?
4) If I started Life's Bazaar next week from my old Dungeon copy because my impatient players are chomping at the bit to start, will I be okay or were there significant rewrites and changes that you suggest I hold my horses until the 27th? :-)
-DM Jeff
1) Will the book use the 'new' stat blocks as introduced in DMG II and the newer Dungeon magazines?
I believe James said no - the change-over occurred too close to the deadline to changes however many hundreds of pages of stat blocks to the new format
2) Will there be an overall index of shops, NPCs and locations?
I think yes.
3) There were 2 different 'Faces of Cauldron' art in different Dungeon issues, will this be reproduced and will ther be more NPC images?
I don't know - but there is new art that isn't maps, so hopefully.
4) If I started Life's Bazaar next week from my old Dungeon copy because my impatient players are chomping at the bit to start, will I be okay or were there significant rewrites and changes that you suggest I hold my horses until the 27th? :-)
The pertinent changes that James has pointed out up to now basically amount to Having Vhalantru show up whenever you feel is dramatically appropriate during the slave auction, rather than definitely at the end, and making Kazmojen a 2nd lvl fighter IIRC rather than 4th, since he tends to grind parties up a little in his current state.
I say start - believe me, I learned the hard way that it will take *several* sessions to complete Life's Bazarre.
Happy gaming;
-M-
Creative Director
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1) Will the book use the 'new' stat blocks as introduced in DMG II and the newer Dungeon magazines?
Nope. If I had to go through the (45,000 word or so long) stat block appendix and convert all those stat blocks to the new format, the book wouldn't have been ready to go to print until August. Which would have made a lot of people here at Paizo unhappy.
2) Will there be an overall index of shops, NPCs and locations?
In the introduction to the adventure, we've listed all the important NPCs in one section. We've also given short (or sometimes long) descriptions of the 40-some locations in the city of Cauldron. We added a few new locations to the city, but we didnt' index every single shop in town. That way lies madness.
3) There were 2 different 'Faces of Cauldron' art in different Dungeon issues, will this be reproduced and will ther be more NPC images?
Both 'Faces of Cauldron' pieces are in the hardcover. All of the important NPCs have head-shot illustrations now as well.
4) If I started Life's Bazaar next week from my old Dungeon copy because my impatient players are chomping at the bit to start, will I be okay or were there significant rewrites and changes that you suggest I hold my horses until the 27th? :-)
If you haven't started Shackled City yet... I'd recomend holding off if you can. Not only are there a fair amount of minor revisions and corrections in "Life's Bazaar" (mostly to bring it up to the 3.5 rules), the hardcover has a lot of advice on character creation, including several adventure-specific traits that PCs can take. But if you really can't wait, Life's Bazaar should keep your group busy enough until the hardcover comes out, at which point they'll be ready to start the new adventure Chris Perkins wrote to bridge the gap between the first two adventrues.
