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P. 219 'Veiled Vileness' feat indicates the only pre-requisite as being a half-orc; is it possible to 'grow into' this feat then with age and experience, a character's features changing over time? What I'm fretting over is a 6th level character, for example, gaining the feat and no longer being noticably a half-orc whereas he/she was before.
Other errors logged. This one's interesting... I'll add in "May only be taken at 1st level" to avoid having spontaneously beautiful half-orcs showing up all over the world.
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As an observation:
P. 17...refine and differentiate their social lives by joining groups...The words in this line are run together very tight in my CS, so that at first I wondered if 'social lives' was in fact 'sociallives' and a typing error.
It's actually a layout error, but it's one we can fix easy enough in the inevitable reprint. Error logged. AND: Thanks for posting these, Charles! :)
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Other errors logged. This one's interesting... I'll add in "May only be taken at 1st level" to avoid having spontaneously beautiful half-orcs showing up all over the world.P. 219 'Veiled Vileness' feat indicates the only pre-requisite as being a half-orc; is it possible to 'grow into' this feat then with age and experience, a character's features changing over time? What I'm fretting over is a 6th level character, for example, gaining the feat and no longer being noticably a half-orc whereas he/she was before.
There goes my rhinoplasty-seeking half-orc character concept.
Admittedly I had it for all of five seconds.
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P. 24
I am uncertain if ‘gaussy’ is the US spelling of ‘gauzy’.
It's not. 'gaussy' would imply that the clothes have an electro-magnetic field of some sort.
Further confusion, sorry, about how you are using djinn/djinni/djinns?
One Djinni, Two Djinn should be the rule. I *think* Paizo's been mostly consistent on sticking with this.
Index needs updating. Some page numbers don't correspond with the entry (e.g. Feats takes you to the Flora section, Firearms takes you to the Psionics section, etc.) its just a couple of pages off, but since were listing errata...
Question:
P. 50Class Abilities: Some sorcerers raised on the Isle of Hermea do not call familiars like others from the mainland. They instead focus their development on harnessing their inner reserve of magic, for use in times of need. This ability replaces the summon familiar ability.How does this alternate class ability function in the context of Pathfinder RPG Beta, where Sorcerers do not have the ability to summon a familiar unless they have taken the Arcane bloodline?
Maybe they could just replace the first power they get from their bloodline ability (the touch/ray abilities)?
I'm assuming that the Beta version supersedes the Campaign Setting, but was curious as to if there were any Golarion-specific spell powers?
The Beta is just that - a playtest, and shouldn't be considered as superseding anything until August 2009, when the final ruleset for Pathfinder RPG is released. Until then, all of the Pathfinder Adventure Paths, Modules and Chronicles lines will be published using the 3.5 ruleset.
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In the PF Beta rules, the cleric rules for domains have changed drastically, with the elimination of domain spells (p176) and the addition of various level-based spell powers, but in the PF Chronicles Campaign Setting (p158), clerics have domains as described in the Player's Handbook. I'm assuming that the Beta version supersedes the Campaign Setting, but was curious as to if there were any Golarion-specific spell powers?
Tim
As the previous poster mentioned, the Pathfinder Beta RPG isn't finished yet; it's still in the Beta and those rules are still subject to change. Including the possibility that we'll change the cleric domains drastically, or even go back to the 3.5 version. As a result, nothing that Paizo publishes until the PF RPG is done in summer of 2009 uses any PF RPG material; it's all 3.5 until then. Including the Pathfinder Campaign Setting.
If we reprint the Campaign Setting after we switch to the PF RPG (which I suspect is likely, since we're selling the CS pretty briskly), we'll update it to the PF RPG rules then (which won't have much affect on the CS, really, but the domains WILL be changing at that point).
As for the last question: We didn't want to include any Golarion-specific powers in the PF RPG because those rules aren't just for Golarion. Just as you don't see a lot of Forgotten Realms- or Eberron-specific content in the 3.5 core rulebooks, you won't see much in the PF RPG that's keyed to Golarion except for deity names; we want the PF RPG rules to be world-neutral, so you can use them for ANY fantasy RPG game rather than just those set in Golarion.
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Confusion is added to, by attempting to cross-reference with the Gazetteer; the Gazetteer (Gazetteer, P. 38) names a 'White Estrid' amongst the rulers of the Land of the Linnorm Kings, but in the text (Gazetteer P. 39) refers to 'when White Astrid of Bildt famously led 15 longships in a daring raid...' (Different name, different town.)
The Gazetteer Timeline (Gazetteer, P. 21) also refers to 'White Astrid' with the Boiltongue slaying deed in 4704.
The correct name is White Estrid.
She became a Linnorm King (or queen, if you prefer) by slaying Boiltongue. The dragon coiled behind her throne is a _second_ linnorm she defeated, which has solidified her place in the nation's hierarchy a power to be reckoned with.
--Erik
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Poster Map:
Map is titled "The Inner Sea Reigon" as opposed to "Region."
Heh. That's pretty much Correction Number One. We considered destroying the entire poster map print run of the first run, actually, and reprinting the book to fix this error and then reattaching the poster map, but the logistics and money involved were too horrendous to contemplate, so we had to suck it up and let it out with that error. It represents, I sincerely hope, the lamest typo Paizo ever prints.
(The second-lamest is the offset index entries for Chapters 4 and 5 in the hardcover. That error is Correction Number Two. Both have long-since been logged in the ERROR FILE in any event.)
EDIT: I'm heading in to work in a half-hour or so, at which point all the other errors above will be logged as well.
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If it was 'most reliable of sets of prophecies' (or books of prophecies), indicating that this was part of a long, almost unerringly accurate chain, I could see some context as having been established for reliability.
This is the intention. The "Age of Glory" part of the prophecy is merely the final part of a string of presaged events, all of which had come through. As the power of old Cheliax waxed with each of these validations of the empire's fate, they began to rely upon them as a certainty.
Which turned out to be a mistake.
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P. 54When Aroden rose the Isle of Kortos from the depths of the Inner Sea and founded Absalom, he called the wise and brave from nearby lands to inhabit the new land and charged them guard the Starstone from al who would relocate it.I see an earlier mention of Aroden having raised the Starstone from the depths, but not the whole Isle of Kortos as well; did he achieve that feat? If so, it presumably becomes an almost as important part of his mythology as the Starstone, that he could elevate an entire island above the sea, and possibly has future implications for Absalom (if someone should find a way to reverse the process, for example....)
'Rose' does not seem to be correct in 'When Aroden rose the Isle of Kortos from the depths of....'.Edit:
Page 57, 'El Raja Key' reference/easter egg spotted... :D
He lifted (better?) the Starstone and the Isle at the exact same time. Since the island is just an island and the Starstone is a legendary artifact capable of turning a man into a god, the Starstone gets most of the publicity.
You're right about the verb, btw. It should be "raised".
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P. 223[/b]
I see Taggoret, Grakodan, Saggorak, Doggadth, Gardadth, and Tar Khadurrm all listed on the map in the area of 'The Five Kings Mountains'. If these were five dwarven kingdoms, why are there six names? Was one of the names (Tar Khadurrm would be my guess) the overall name for this collection of five realms? I note that Tar Taargadth was the name for the first collection of ten 'sky citadels', so I suppose that this lesser collection of five might have been known as Tar Khadurrm. If so why is no mention made of it on P. 223 where the only dwarven realm mentioned is Tar Taargadth, which in turn is not referenced on the map? (Although if I recall correctly, some of the sky citadels may have been in what is modern day Belkzen, which would overlap with the Thassilonian realm of Ghastash on the lost empires map....)
Huh. That's an interesting observation about the Five Kings nations. I'll look into it and get it solved; I suspect that "Tar Khadurrm" is the collective names for the nations and as such should instead be corrected to be "Tar Taargadth", and if that's the case I'll make sure it's more clear.
Certainly there were more dwarven uprisings from the Darklands than in the Five Kinds area. That's where the dwarven Quest For Sky was most successful, but there ARE Sky Citadels in places like Varisia, Belkzen, and even Alkenstar.
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In fact many (if not all) of the index references seem to be incorrect as far as page-numbers are concerned when referring to pages after page 187. So far the page index reference to Nirvana is the last accurate one that I have found; was there some last minute reorganising/insertion of material going on at the start of the Organizations section (begins on page 188)?
Yeah; we built the index at the penultimate last minute, and then discovered we had 258 pages in a 256 page book at the LAST minute. We deleted two pages from the NPC appendix to make everything fit and corrected the Table of Contents, but alas, in a case of the Right Hand not knowing what the Left Hand was doing, we didn't correct the index itself. The index HAS been corrected for the PDF version of the book, though, and will be in the reprint as well. For now, alas, the index entries for Chapter 4 and 5 are off by two pages.
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Question:
P. 50Class Abilities: Some sorcerers raised on the Isle of Hermea do not call familiars like others from the mainland. They instead focus their development on harnessing their inner reserve of magic, for use in times of need. This ability replaces the summon familiar ability.How does this alternate class ability function in the context of Pathfinder RPG Beta, where Sorcerers do not have the ability to summon a familiar unless they have taken the Arcane bloodline?
Since the campaign setting uses the 3.5 rules, this isn't an error. If we reprint & update the hardcover to go along with the PF RPG rules some time in the future, we'll adjust this alternate class ability then.
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I had a thread for this somewhere else...
The Index is off a few pages in places. I try to check it again and post the errors here than, when I am home from work!
edit: Here's the post from the thread I started:
"Just found out that some entries in the index show the wrong page number.
I searched the Sczarni for which the index told me page 197 but it was on page 199.
Than I randomly picked another entry, Ghol-Gon, which the index shows page 220 for, but which is actually on page 222.
The Sweettalkers power-group is also off like the Sczarni...
Anyone found something alike? Maybe we can gather such errors here as a source and as a correction for a second printing of the book...
*off, checking the index a bit more...*"
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What is going on in Alkenstar that there are gears and machines of 'unknown industry'? Is the place built on the ruins of another, older, city? Were the machines designed by a mad genius who took the secrets to his grave with him, and they just tick over now, after his death?
There is not an answer to this question as of yet. Any of those would suffice, and I suspect it will be years before we get to this location in any sort of detail. For now it is something for you guys to dream about and expand.
'...built several millenia ago and marks an astounding difference between it and Martel's Old Bridge...'
What marks an astounding difference? This seems confused, as if some piece of information is missing from the sentence?
I believe the reference is to its age.
Am I correct in thinking that some of these bridges mentioned connect buildings/location within Alkenstar City, and that they are not restricted to connections with other locations around the canyon?
Yes.