Hi! While I have yet to run Pathfinder, I'm eagerly awaiting my turn to do so and have thus read every one that has come out so far. My DM in our Savage Tide campaign has occasionally utilized a "D20-compatible" sourcebook (it's 3.0, I believe) called simply enough "Villians" to spruce up some of the high level encounters in that game. Something of note, besides the fact that some of the writing within is ascribed to Mr. James Jacobs, is that the town of Sandpoint appears in its pages. Since our DM is using it, I'll have to go from memory, but in the chapter that contains it, it desribes a creature similiar to the Nightwalker from the D+D cartoon (not from the Monster Manuel) that abducts people from the town of Sandpoint (it's got a half-fiendish Nightwing minion). I'm wondering if this is coincidence or if it's something from Mr. Jacobs homebrew campaign? Are there any other references to Sandpoint in other pre-Pathfinder books out there?
Awesome book BTW, Fighting Arendagrost in STAP was far more entertaining with the addition of a 57 HD, Colossal, Awakened T-Rex with Ranger levels. No really...:p
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I'll have to go from memory, but in the chapter that contains it, it desribes a creature similiar to the Nightwalker from the D+D cartoon (not from the Monster Manuel) that abducts people from the town of Sandpoint (it's got a half-fiendish Nightwing minion).
The Sandpoint devil? Bah! That's just a local myth told by fishermen trying to cage drinks from credulous out of towners...
I think its been mentioned that the compleat encounters have some references / bearing on Golarion.
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Hi! While I have yet to run Pathfinder, I'm eagerly awaiting my turn to do so and have thus read every one that has come out so far. My DM in our Savage Tide campaign has occasionally utilized a "D20-compatible" sourcebook (it's 3.0, I believe) called simply enough "Villians" to spruce up some of the high level encounters in that game. Something of note, besides the fact that some of the writing within is ascribed to Mr. James Jacobs, is that the town of Sandpoint appears in its pages. Since our DM is using it, I'll have to go from memory, but in the chapter that contains it, it desribes a creature similiar to the Nightwalker from the D+D cartoon (not from the Monster Manuel) that abducts people from the town of Sandpoint (it's got a half-fiendish Nightwing minion). I'm wondering if this is coincidence or if it's something from Mr. Jacobs homebrew campaign? Are there any other references to Sandpoint in other pre-Pathfinder books out there?
Awesome book BTW, Fighting Arendagrost in STAP was far more entertaining with the addition of a 57 HD, Colossal, Awakened T-Rex with Ranger levels. No really...:p
HA!
Yup; All of Villians is indeed written by me... it was my first d20 book, actually. And "Sandpoint" is indeed from my homebrew world, although I never really detailed it all that much until Rise of the Runelords... it's ALSO based in part on my real-world home town of Point Arena (which basically translates into "Point Bar of Sand" or "Sandpoint").
I'm pretty sure I didn't drop Sandpoint in anywhere else until Runelords, but I could be wrong.
In any case... many of the villains in that book are from my home-brew world, so chances are pretty good you'll see some of them warping and changing into villains in Golarion. Take the first villain, for example... an evil queen obsessed with beauty? Hmmmm...
