Now that the latest Dragon out, can we get an update on the status of the online supplements?
And before anybody jumps on me for asking this, I am not complaining about it being late. I fully appreciate all the hard work Erik, James, and co. put into the AoW AP, especially the free online supplements.
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...And before anybody jumps on me for asking this, I am not complaining about it being late. I fully appreciate all the hard work Erik, James, and co. put into the AoW AP, especially the free online supplements.
No problem you asked (would like to have the Conversion Infos myself)! I was just wondering the last couple of weeks, how long this thread would take to show itself to the public... ;)
Creative Director
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Well, got good news and bad news.
The Good News is that we've hired a graphic designer. Say hi to Drew, everyone!
He just started here this week, so it's gonna take him a bit to learn the ropes, but as soon as that's done, the terror of these long delays for the online supplements should be a thing of the past. We'll even be able to catch up to the current adventure!
The Bad News is that we're about a week away from the Holiday break. Which means that we won't have a chance to get the supplement underway until next month.
In other words, just about in time for you to start asking for 131's online supplement.
HI DREW!
Happy New Year Drew!
:-)
We'll even be able to catch up to the current adventure!
Well, eventually the last adventure will be the "current" adventure. :)
I put my group in a holding pattern for the last two months with Champion's Belt. It's an easy adventure to stall the party.
Just finished the champions belt, preparing gathering of winds now...
Is that good news, or bad news for me?
:-)
Hi to Erik, James, and the whole Paizo team,
Any chance to get an update of what a possible ETA would be?
Bocklin
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In the words of the Dungeons & Dragons Online development team... "soon".
And, yes, there are skull stickers out there. I got mine in a pack that also included the much less cool pumpkins and waning moons, and put them on graded papers during October when I was teaching 5th grade. Man, I'll have to dig those out. Would be fun to put those on the spine of my DMG!
Anyone else remember the smelly sticker of a skeleton that had "BOO!" written on it? It smelled like burnt jockstrap.
On that note--heya, Drew!
Anyone else remember the smelly sticker of a skeleton that had "BOO!" written on it? It smelled like burnt jockstrap.
I'm not going to ask how you know what a burnt jockstrap smells like. :)
Where's the updates????
They are simply teaching us all a lesson in patience. (resolved sigh)
I'm just interested in reading the sections for running the stories in Eberron. I'm not so worried about the graphics. I just like to read the insight on the different campaign settings since I am running the adventure path in a loosely based Eberron setting.
Come on, Drew! You can do it!
Are you guys at Paizo serious?!?
Two months since the last supplement.
Luckily my group has taken a few weeks off due to successive Sunday holidays and the flu.
I figured by now I would have information I sorely need for conversion to the Realms.
At these higher levels I need assistance in incorporating the
campaign into the Realms.
PLEASE something soon.
I give up. It's never coming out.
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Creative Director
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Are you guys at Paizo serious?!?
Two months since the last supplement.
Luckily my group has taken a few weeks off due to successive Sunday holidays and the flu.
I figured by now I would have information I sorely need for conversion to the Realms.
At these higher levels I need assistance in incorporating the
campaign into the Realms.
PLEASE something soon.
Absolutely serious.
We're trying to get caught up, and with our new editor and graphic designer, we're doing just that. Catching up on the print magazine comes first, though.|
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I don't want to seem like a fanboy, but when I resubscribed to "Dungeon" and "Dragon" last month, the benefits of those subscriptions didn't include online supplements. They're a bonus.
Admittedly, I'd be more bent if my group was working on the two latest adventures instead of just starting the first. But, I'd rather have a quality magazine that ships on time each month and do some retooling of my own on the adventures, than have to wait five or more weeks between magazines that are sub-par when they arrive.
(The latest issue of "Dragon" was well worth the wait, but man, I don't want to go so long without my "Dungeon" fix!)
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I agree also. The online content is a bonus, above and beyond from my point-of-view.
At the same time, I don't start my group on an adventure from Dungeon without the online content being there -- it's just too useful to run a game without. In general, I try to be about 3-4 months behind the magazine when I run a game. I like to be able to read ahead a bit so that I can provide some foreshadowing and weave upcoming events into whatever the party is currently involved with. Once or twice I've taken a villain that appears later and had him present when the party assaults an area -- then the bad guy scampers away and the party is left wondering "who was that masked man?" :)
If they put them out on time, what would we have to complain about? *wink*
Are you guys at Paizo serious?!?
Two months since the last supplement.
Luckily my group has taken a few weeks off due to successive Sunday holidays and the flu.
I figured by now I would have information I sorely need for conversion to the Realms.
At these higher levels I need assistance in incorporating the
campaign into the Realms.
PLEASE something soon.Absolutely serious.
We're trying to get caught up, and with our new editor and graphic designer, we're doing just that. Catching up on the print magazine comes first, though.
Daily updates are needed. Thanks!
I'm running AoW in Greyhawk, so the supplements aren't as crucial to me as it is to others, but I understand the want for the information. Continuity in a game is a must, and when a DM has to wait for information, continuity is at risk.
I believe that the conversion notes made the list of "lessons learned" in preparing for the next adventure path. By making the conversions short, and including them at the inception of the AP, this shouldn't be an issue in AP3.
So, though it is frustrating waiting for information, I find it reassuring that the folks at Paizo are listening to our feedback (raves and rants) and are trying to get the information out as soon as possible, and making changes for the future.
I'm editing the updates for #129 and #130 right now. At least, I was... now I'm posting to this thread and will likely get distracted when I hit "SUBMIT POST" and forget what I was doing. Maybe I'll go get a soda...
Hehe.
Soda..ha. We call it pop out here, in the midwest, where the greatest geological feature is the horizon.
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Creative Director
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Soda..ha. We call it pop out here, in the midwest, where the greatest geological feature is the horizon.
Actually, a lot of people here call it pop too. Not me. It's soda in California, and as part of the invading horde of Californians into the Seattle area, I'm doing my part to change their culture to match mine.
Next up: the word "dude". Kyle Hunter's the champion for this one, of course...
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I'm editing the updates for #129 and #130 right now.
If you're editing them right now, what are you doing reading the boards? hmmm? Or do they have it set up, something like a human-hamster wheel, where you have to flip through a certain number of posts on the boards before you can actually work on stuff again?
"Am I a procrastinator? Let me get back to you on that..."
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Soda..ha. We call it pop out here, in the midwest, where the greatest geological feature is the horizon.Actually, a lot of people here call it pop too. Not me. It's soda in California, and as part of the invading horde of Californians into the Seattle area, I'm doing my part to change their culture to match mine.
For many people here in the South it is a coke, no matter what the brand actually is. I, however, learned my carbonated beverage lingo during my formative years outside of Philadelphia and refer to it as soda.
...now about those online supplements?
Would it be hypocritical of myself to say I kinda want the notes in the next week or so? I ain't saying GET EM UP OR DIE, it's just that we're playing tomorrow and I know the whole wind dukes of Aqaa changed to Genies from Calimshan or something like that. When I first ran Whispering Cairn and I read out loud stuff about the wars and one of my player's said "I've never heard of any of that stuff" and then I went back to the Overload...oops. No wind dukes, no wolfspider queen crazy lady, something I forgot about. I can imagine making sure everything fits and makes sense must be tiring work of flipping through campaign settings and working logic into a fantasy setting, especially when there is so much other work to be done for 2 magazines, not to mention personal lives involving people looking down on you with disdain and your parents giving you the whole "We're not angry...we're just dissappointed" thing..
Or maybe that's just my life. I need a job. Does paizo need a really crappy writer? Cause I don't wanna work at a bowling ally. "Hey, these shoes smell like crud"
"Hey! Your mullet's smell is akin to it, sai"
So listen- I appreciate all you guys do by punching out great adventures every month, but would it be so much to ask to just lock Ed Greenwood up in a small room with a type writer to do the notes for Forgotten Realms? I don't care about Eberron, and I'm sure he could survive for weeks off crumbs from that beard of his.
Well Editing is a good thing I suppose. Not to mention it looks like 2 updates are getting released. Can you say with the utmost certainty that we will be looking at finished product sometime next week?
So listen- I appreciate all you guys do by punching out great adventures every month, but would it be so much to ask to just lock Ed Greenwood up in a small room with a type writer to do the notes for Forgotten Realms? I don't care about Eberron, and I'm sure he could survive for weeks off crumbs from that beard of his.
The rumor is that they already have all of the setting conversions up to 131; they're supposed to have had 129 and 130 for months now. They just haven't sat down to edit them, appove them and put them together with the maps and artwork. It's a shame that they can't quickly edit what they receive and post it on the boards right away. Erik Mona once said he was going to do this, but James Jacobs later came in and said they couldn't do this.
Is it possible to get an update, please? Just the estimated time of arrival? An academic guess?
Keep on Gaming.
Loops!
We're hoping to have them up by tomorrow, or the start of next week at the latest. Thanks for being so patient!
-James
We're hoping to have them up by tomorrow, or the start of next week at the latest. Thanks for being so patient!
-James
Burn some of that midnight oil man and let's see it tomorrow!
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Chief Creative Officer, Publisher
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Well Editing is a good thing I suppose. Not to mention it looks like 2 updates are getting released. Can you say with the utmost certainty that we will be looking at finished product sometime next week?
Barring some sort of natural catastrophe or a complete meltdown of our mainframe (in which case we've got bigger problems), yeah, I can say with utmost certainty that we'll have these up by next week. In fact, I will be very disappointed if they are not up by Friday.
--Erik
Killer. Oh, watching my PC's go deaf was the funniest thing I've ever had happen at the game table in a long time. So they use a teleport scroll so they can get back to town for help? I roll that 20% chance that they screw up. Uh oh, off to random location within 1000 miles..
Thanks for the input James and Erik!
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Senior Software Developer
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The online PDF supplement to <i>Dungeon</i> #129 is now available. This supplement contains all the maps from the issue, as well as player handouts and NPC illustrations. It also includes the "Adapting the Adventure" sidebars for the Eberron and Forgotten Realms campaign settings.
Medium Resolution: 2MB PDF
High Resolution: 43.6MB PDF
(We may put up a smaller high resolution version on Monday, so don't worry if 43.6MB is just too much for you.)
Half a loaf's better than none right? The 130 supplement will be up next week.
Great, thanks, just in time...
Yay! Thanks!
Saving: 49% of DA129_Supplement_hi.pdf Completed
This is really, "dialup". ZZZzzzz..... :)
I wasn't online over the weekend - but just checked now (6am Monday), and found the 129 supplement!!! :)
Thank you very much Paizo (and whomever worked on the PDF supplement). You have no idea how useful these things are to the AoW game I'm running...
(Well, you may have some idea, but it involves slightly manipulating the PDF files so that I can use the pictures and maps with my computer and an attached large TV that I have hanging from chains in my basement!)