The Unofficial Top 32 Guildhall with Golden Filigree

[Steven Helt]

Huh. Never thought I'd need a definition for the word "trap" before. :b

As designers, let's make a pact to give a few potential players nightmares after this round. Let's make someone cry!

Also...anyone else secretly admiring how we got locked into another River Kingdoms round without anyone using the words "river" or "kingdoms"?

[Ziv Wities]

Only if y'all submitted River Kingdoms monsters :P

[Effie Schwartz-Craighill]

Ziv Wities wrote:

Only if y'all submitted River Kingdoms monsters :P

:)

[Steven Helt]

Ha! I just meant we got rivers, forests and marshes. I know some monsters won't be fit for RK. Unless the entries are clever enough to provides clues for variant models.

Good luck Tuesday, gang. Let's get kraken.

[Maurice de Mare]

Pedro Coelho Mendes Bueno Barbosa wrote:

I think Maurice will LOVE the trap twist.

I do have some proficiency with traps.........

and

Called it!

[Maurice de Mare]

I just came up with something vicious, all I need is a forest monster, did anyone submit one of those?

evil laugh

[Steven Helt]

Maurice de Mare wrote:

I just came up with something vicious...

evil laugh

That is what I am talking about! Anyone else ready to drop some "heroes"?

[Clay Blankenship]

Scott Fernandez wrote:

Heads up gentlemen, Sean posted the round 4 rules!

Where? I am not seeing them show up on the main contest page.

[Matthew Duval]

Clay Blankenship wrote:

Scott Fernandez wrote:

Heads up gentlemen, Sean posted the round 4 rules!

Where? I am not seeing them show up on the main contest page.

There was a preview posted here.

[Clay Blankenship]

Thanks!

[Kalervo Oikarinen]

36 hours to go. It's a lovely mix of wanting to see the judges comments and being anxious of what the judges have to say, isn't it?

I wonder if we'll get a breakdown of the creature types before the reveal.

[Maurice de Mare]

Yup, waiting is hard, but I do feel more confident about my monster than I did about my archetype.

I think a breakdown is in the works, my guesses:

plants, fishes and undead.

Spoiler:

I didn't enter one of the above

[Ziv Wities]

Maurice de Mare wrote:

I didn't enter one of the above

What Mr. de Mare means is "I neither confirm nor deny having entered one of the above monster types, and/or any combination thereof."

[Joseph Kellogg]

Well, I just had a dream that the Round 3 entries were revealed, and mine came up blank. Oy.

[Effie Schwartz-Craighill]

Joseph Kellogg wrote:

Well, I just had a dream that the Round 3 entries were revealed, and mine came up blank. Oy.

Calm down dude.

Ok, I'm speaking to myself. CALM DOWN, ME.

I need to figure out how to not worry so much.

[Kalervo Oikarinen]

Michael Pruess wrote:

I need to figure out how to not worry so much.

If you figure something out, let me know.

It's so close, but so far away...

[Effie Schwartz-Craighill]

Kalervo Oikarinen wrote:

Michael Pruess wrote:

I need to figure out how to not worry so much.

If you figure something out, let me know.

Sure thing, but that's a big "if." :(

[Steven Helt]

Dudes,

I just wanted to say I have enjoyed this experienced with you all (or as we say in Tusla, y'all). If you're like me, right now you feel like your monster ranges somewhere between genius and garbage. In the event this round is where I get off the boat, I've have enjoyed the banter, hope we spend some time in a pbp, and become good friends. Looking forward to raising a (nonalcoholic) glass with some of you at Gen Con.

Disclaimer:

Spoiler:

I'm not giving up on this thing though. Hope to submit for the semifinal. :b

[Sam Harris]

Steven Helt wrote:

Dudes,

I just wanted to say I have enjoyed this experienced with you all (or as we say in Tusla, y'all). If you're like me, right now you feel like your monster ranges somewhere between genius and garbage. In the event this round is where I get off the boat, I've have enjoyed the banter, hope we spend some time in a pbp, and become good friends. Looking forward to raising a (nonalcoholic) glass with some of you at Gen Con.

Well said. I've never been to Gen Con and had hoped to go this summer now that I'm next door in Chicago, but some summer projects will keep me away. Maybe next year.

It's been a great run with y'all so far, and good luck to everybody!

[Effie Schwartz-Craighill]

Yup, right back at you guys. :)

[Landon Cole]

It's been a lot of fun and I hope I get to keep having fun.

[Charlie Bell]

I feel the same. I felt pretty confident about Round 2 but I am unsure about this round. Some of the Round 3 monsters in past years were truly brilliant (kakuen-taka, I'm looking at you). I hope that when the dust clears I'm in that category, but I think it's going to be a tough round.

[Matthew Duval]

Very much looking forward to seeing what everyone else came up with. There was a lot more design space here than with the archetypes, so I can't wait to see how everyone branched out.

[Fern Herold]

I'm super excited to see what everyone came up with. Best of luck to everyone!

[Charlie Bell]

Hit refresh. Hit refresh. Hit refresh.

STAHP

[Kalervo Oikarinen]

Here's to an exciting round. May the best monsters be left uneaten!

[GreySector]

I'll be at GenCon running PFS. I'll hope to see all of you there.

[Joseph Kellogg]

So, no CR limit on the encounter (although the requirement of one of the CR 2-5 monsters gives us kind of a soft limit). Interesting...

[Jon Haire]

Multiples of some of these monsters in the encounter round would be.... unfair. Proceed.

[Joseph Kellogg]

How many CR 2 monsters does it take to make a CR 25 encounter, anyway? I'm asking for a friend.

[Jacob Trier]

Exciting stuff this round, gentlemen. Well done.

[Jacob Kellogg]

Joseph Kellogg wrote:

How many CR 2 monsters does it take to make a CR 25 encounter, anyway? I'm asking for a friend.

About 2,731.

[Matthew Duval]

Liking what I'm reading so far. Going to be tough to pick what to use for encounter ideas. :)

[Steven Helt]

Please ignore my other post. I deleted it out of shame. I only went up a CR per doubling.

The correct answer is 3072, I think. 2048 makes CR 24, *1.5 for CR 25.

So, what's the difference in 2731 and 3072. Is there a formula for getting only advancing half a CR?

[George Cunningham]

Some great monsters this round guys. Well done!

[Chris Shaeffer]

Hey all, sorry I haven't been active on the boards much since last round! The reason for this is two-fold:

1) I'm working a lot.
2) I'm... DRUMROLL...

*Moving to Seattle!*

I'll try to read everything and vote in the meanwhile. Once the dust clears and I'm all settled after I move, I'll be sure to jump back into the conversations here. In the meanwhile, good luck top 16!

[Matthew Duval]

Chris Shaeffer wrote:

Hey all, sorry I haven't been active on the boards much since last round! The reason for this is two-fold:

1) I'm working a lot.
2) I'm... DRUMROLL...

*Moving to Seattle!*

I'll try to read everything and vote in the meanwhile. Once the dust clears and I'm all settled after I move, I'll be sure to jump back into the conversations here. In the meanwhile, good luck top 16!

Thanks! And best wishes for your move!

Seattle sounds like an amazing place to be right now. :)

[Jacob W. Michaels]

Chris, why would you want to leave Pennsylvania?

[Eric Morton]

Chris Shaeffer wrote:

I'm... DRUMROLL... *Moving to Seattle!*

Does this have anything to do with a certain job opening that was listed on the Paizo site none too long ago?

[Ziv Wities]

I'm gonna pick up the gauntlet on the whole Top 32 PbP thing: I, Ziv Y. Wities, hereby declare myself to be sound in both mind and body, and volunteer to GM a PbP game for some of the Top 32.

This is a bit of a leap for me because, well, I've never actually played Pathfinder before. So GMing for some of its most awesome players worldwide is either a daunting introduction, or an absolutely brilliant one.

I'm less keen on the "everybody plays his archetype" idea. I would love to run a PbP for one or two of the R4 encounters. After that, I thought I'd try one of the Paizo adventures - I'm leaning towards the Reign of Winter AP, but I'm sure I can easily be persuaded to opt for pretty much anything else. If we choose an AP, I make no guarantees about sticking to the source material over time.

Who's in? Also, since there's 31 of you, anybody else want to step up as GM as well? :D

[Effie Schwartz-Craighill]

Quote:

I'm less keen on the "everybody plays his archetype" idea.

Yeah, that would be hard... Some of them are more suited to some environments and types of campaigns.

[Fern Herold]

I'd love to play in a PbP of Reign of Winter. As for "playing the archetype", I could give or take it. I've got a huge stack of PC concepts I haven't used, and I think the huckster would settle towards the bottom of that list.

[Jacob W. Michaels]

FWIW, my impression of the first part of Reign of Winter (by a former Superstar, so nice synergy there) seems like it'd be a good adventure to get your feet wet in PBP play. I just started running it last night.

[Steven Helt]

I will gladly play my archetype or any other idea that seems fitging. I'd like to play her just to ensure that she's as playable ourside her turf as inside it.

[Ziv Wities]

Contrariwise, neither do I object to anybody playing their own archetype... Though I'll need to reserve the right to iron out any gross imbalances that may emerge :P

[Landon Cole]

I've never done a play by post before but, with that proviso, I'd like to join in.

[Sam Harris]

I'd be up for PbP and, especially thinking about this adventure path, I've got some other ideas I might prefer over my archetype.

Although...

Not really a spoiler, since it's in the title of one of the adventures, but just in case:

If we were to go a few modules down the AP, the idea of playing a rogue focused on drowning people in an adventure called "Rasputin Must Die!" would be pretty awesome.

[Kalervo Oikarinen]

Less than 12 hours to go. It's somehow appropriate that the results are revealed at the stroke of midnight here, makes it more dramatic. :)

[Effie Schwartz-Craighill]

AAAAAAHHHHH good luck everyone!!!