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Maps often, unfortunately, come in at the last minute, AFTER the majority of the edit passes on an adventure are done. When this happens, last-minute changes and additions to maps can get missed; that's, unfortunately, what happened in this case.
Which is why when I develop adventures I generally try to strip out any references to having monsters appear on specific areas or the like.
In this case, feel free to just have the flaming skulls come in through whatever windows seem good at the time. Same with the cell doors. Tailor things to match your party's skills; if they're doing really well, then have more cell doors open to let out more skeletons. If they're struggling, lock some skeletons up.
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I'll put this here in case other GMs wonder about the same thing :)
Will he just start spelling from the beginng? That would draw things out endlessly. Will he write again what had already been spelled + a new letter in one single night? Then, why not spell out the whole name in one run and be done with it?
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I'll put this here in case other GMs wonder about the same thing :)
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I believe this was answered elsewhere. Basically, the Splatter Man is recreating his MO in life, where his victims would find their names spelled out in blood one letter at a time. It's not the fact that it stays written, but the fact that it was written to begin with.
In other words: The fourth letter will be a single "O", whether it gets added to an already existing writing or by itself - after a clean-up or a relocation?
Yes.
Put even another way: after 10 successful possessions, the Splatter Man wins. Regardless of any cleanup done in-between those possessions.
Is the scale of the Ravengro town map really 50'/square? Because that makes for some HUGE buildings in a "small" town.
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Is the scale of the Ravengro town map really 50'/square? Because that makes for some HUGE buildings in a "small" town.
Yup! Think of them as barns if you will. Or large stores. Or manors. Or temples. Or just ignore the scale completely if it's too vexing.
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So far for the letters, I have had rain fall soon after the PCs find the letters and wash away any evidence and tracks. Though there have been only two letters so far, the PCs have been unusually bright and figured out WHAT was being spelled, and managed to track the guy doing the spelling (after he killed a little girl to get the blood unfortunately). They also figure out that the guy doing the spelling is being possessed.
Unusually perceptive for this hack/slash group!
Now I took a calendar and preplanned when letters would appear, when the town hall meeting would occur and everything along those lines. It takes nearly a full month for things to run its course. The PCs are well ahead of the schedule and doing quite well.
Father Grimburrow has what sounds to me like a villain's name. Does it seem that way to anyone else?
Is the scale of the Ravengro town map really 50'/square? Because that makes for some HUGE buildings in a "small" town.
Well, its an eternal question. Like a certain pirate island a few adventure paths away, wherein a purple brothel was some 120' across on the outside and 360' on the inside. Its magic!
Atleast it is a chance to reuse my favorite manor, quelkins quandry and his home for our young grieving ladys home. Especially as quelkin DID have a bit of a odd reputation in that adventure so long ago :p
I have some questions concerning the bestiary entries.
1. The animated manacles have the "shackle" special attack, but I cannot find it explained anywhere.
2. In the text explaining the Construction Points it says "differently sized objects have CP totals as detailed on the size chart on this page", but the table is nowhere to be found. Maybe a copy/paste problem from the Bestiary...?
3. The Flaming Skull has no attack bonus given for its slam attack.
4. The Ginat Beheaded's melee attack says "slams +4"; is something missing or should it be "slam +4"?
5. The "Belching" Beheaded variant doesn't give a range for the ranged touch attack.
6. The Animated Jack'O'Lantern's bite attack doesn't have an attack bonus.
Otherwise, the Animated Objects and Beheaded are really cool, with a whole lot of variants/options present.
For the GMs out there: What do you think the good professor's spell list would be like? What specialization was he? I see that he's level 7, but I'm curious what the community has to say.
For the GMs out there: What do you think the good professor's spell list would be like? What specialization was he? I see that he's level 7, but I'm curious what the community has to say.
If he had specialized that would have been denoted, therefore we know he was a Universalist. (Though I prefer to think of him as a Diviner myself.)
Being that he is a professor and extensively well-traveled and a secret society member, he probably has a very full spellbook, with a great many spells at each level, and perhaps even some non-standard ones. (Interestingly, his spellbook is not found in the mod. Maybe it's with Auren in book 3? Or maybe his daughter just keeps it.)
I see him prepping a lot of divination spells, as well as mental buffs (ie Fox's Cunning, etc). He stikes me as pretty reckless, so probably not a whole lot in the abjuration space. Also, he probably had a few necromancy spells, fitting into his worldview of "using evil to fight evil" (and give credence to the townsfolk's rumors).
Question: the entry for encountering the Father Charlatan haunt states that the spectral con artist singles out the last PC exiting his cell, or one that touched/read his journal. Did the journal get cut out? Can't seem to find it mentioned elsewhere.
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Interesting AC of the animated straitjacket, there.
AC 9, touch 9, flat-footed 10 (–1 Dex)
If you surprise it, it's harder to hit! :P
Interesting AC of the animated straitjacket, there.
AC 9, touch 9, flat-footed 10 (–1 Dex)If you surprise it, it's harder to hit! :P
Darn typos.
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TRUST POINTS.
I made a list of all the Trust +'s and -'s and sure there is a lot of ways to lose them, but not easy to gain them.
Looking at the +'s I have a problem. It says that the group loses 1 trust every day. They start out with 20, if they play good they are able to gain 22 at the evening after the burial...but next day -> 21 and so on.
I can NOT see them gain trust hight as 26 or even 30 as some research or the Church quests require...
WHAT am I misssing?
-> Found it
I was missing THIS:
http://paizo.com/paizo/messageboards/paizoPublishing/pathfinder/adventurePa th/carrionCrown/missingTrustPoints
Are the XP awards for research in Ravengro cumulative or you only get the XP award listed under the DC? For example, if a PC is researching Harrowstone and succeeds at a DC 15 check, doest it yield an 150 XP or 100 XP ?
Are the XP awards for research in Ravengro cumulative or you only get the XP award listed under the DC? For example, if a PC is researching Harrowstone and succeeds at a DC 15 check, doest it yield an 150 XP or 100 XP ?
Cumulative, else the Character cant get to level 4. See my other post ...I went and added all the XP's up (yes...I was bored @ work ..lol)
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Just a little advance preview:
One of the first things Legendary Games will be doing is a "plug in" adventure called the Murmuring Fountain that fits with Harrowstone, that does several key things: (1) gives the chance to gain more trust, (2) inserts some Lovecraft themes earlier in the AP, (3) adds a Poe-esque theme to the adventure, (4) provides more chances for XP, and (5) includes more reason for the PCs to remain in the town.
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Oh look! DM didn't have to let any abyssal dire kittens out of her bag. They seemed to be escaping all on their own. :D
Just a little advance preview:
One of the first things Legendary Games will be doing is a "plug in" adventure called the Murmuring Fountain that fits with Harrowstone, that does several key things: (1) gives the chance to gain more trust, (2) inserts some Lovecraft themes earlier in the AP, (3) adds a Poe-esque theme to the adventure, (4) provides more chances for XP, and (5) includes more reason for the PCs to remain in the town.
Clark
Any idea of when this will come out, for those of us already GMing this AP?
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I have some questions concerning the bestiary entries.
1. The animated manacles have the "shackle" special attack, but I cannot find it explained anywhere.
2. In the text explaining the Construction Points it says "differently sized objects have CP totals as detailed on the size chart on this page", but the table is nowhere to be found. Maybe a copy/paste problem from the Bestiary...?
3. The Flaming Skull has no attack bonus given for its slam attack.
4. The Ginat Beheaded's melee attack says "slams +4"; is something missing or should it be "slam +4"?
5. The "Belching" Beheaded variant doesn't give a range for the ranged touch attack.
6. The Animated Jack'O'Lantern's bite attack doesn't have an attack bonus.
Otherwise, the Animated Objects and Beheaded are really cool, with a whole lot of variants/options present.
1. The shackle special attack was replaced with grab. Ignore that line.
2. This refers to the table on page 14 of the Bestiary.
3. It should be slam +1.
4. It should have only one slam attack.
5. The range is 30 feet.
6. Both bite and slam attack should have an attack bonus of +3.
Thanks for stopping in to answer questions Rob.
Just a little advance preview:
One of the first things Legendary Games will be doing is a "plug in" adventure called the Murmuring Fountain that fits with Harrowstone, that does several key things: (1) gives the chance to gain more trust, (2) inserts some Lovecraft themes earlier in the AP, (3) adds a Poe-esque theme to the adventure, (4) provides more chances for XP, and (5) includes more reason for the PCs to remain in the town.
Clark
This sounds fun! Sadly I suspect it won't be out before I'm ready for it. Roughly when is it due to come out?
Thanks for stopping in to answer questions Rob.
Yes, thank you!
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Just a question about Survival checks in the adventure. At one point the PC's get to follow a suspect's tracks. My question is how did the DC get so high? It should be 5 lower than the text says by the Survival table. One of my PC's is a 1/2 orc Inquisitor with Scent so tracking this individual is ridiculously easy (and not really a problem for the group), but how do they show Shariff Caeller if they can't find the track visually?
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This sounds fun! Sadly I suspect it won't be out before I'm ready for it. Roughly when is it due to come out?
We're shooting for GenCon, but we dont have our art and layout process down like an established company does. Gearing up the first products always takes a bit longer. Plus, we are trying to incorporate all the bells and whistles for pdf products, which no one else is really doing.
I wonder, how is Ravengro supposed to be pronounced/stressed? Does the name have anything to to with ravens?
I wonder, how is Ravengro supposed to be pronounced/stressed? Does the name have anything to to with ravens?
It was probably at one point named Raven's Grotto, and the people in the town shortened it to Raven Grotto and then Ravengro slowly over time.
"Raven grow" for how I pronounced it.
"Raven grow" for how I pronounced it.
After a series of jokes going something like "Oh, I was looking for Ravenshrink, where can I find that place?" by my (apparently) comedic players, I've taken to pronouncing it: "rah VEN grow". I dunno, just helped to stop the jokes.
How are PCs supposed to be informed (and be intrested enough to investigate) the spelling of Vesorianna's name?
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How are PCs supposed to be informed (and be intrested enough to investigate) the spelling of Vesorianna's name?
My PCs took to that on their own, the professors will points out that he went to the church because he felt that knowing the name of -every- person who was at the prison at the time of the fire was important since the whispering way followers could have been looking for any of them. My players immediately went to look the graveyard and then set off trying to find all the names as their next priority.
On a side note, one of my characters name starts with 'Ves' and had given a V for Vendetta type play off the V in her name at one point. When the V appeared on the memorial she gave a joking 'It wasn't me, guys'. When the second letter appeared she actually started to freak out a bit. I suspect the third letter is going to have them really panicking followed by a sense of confusion and relief when the next letter comes up and they realize it isn't her name.
It might help if they notice that her name is on the Memorial. Probably won't be specific until a handful of letters are there since "V" is pretty common in Varisian names.How are PCs supposed to be informed (and be intrested enough to investigate) the spelling of Vesorianna's name?
It's not that difficult a name to spell anyway. It's not as if her name were Vhezzoryanha or something like that.
Killed my first PC today. The party had used up their haunt siphons. And the cleric thunked Father Charlatans skull with the holy symbols. A battle with some ectoplasmic dudes, some bad will saves and a bunch of high damage rolls later and he was done. When the only healer/Positive energy dealer in the party is the one in the other room, Father Charlatan is a bad man. I let him roll up a new cleric and just made him one of Father Grimburrow's flock. It really wouldn't hurt to have 2 clerics in a party in this AP and my guess is that one of the other PC's will take a scoop of cleric at their next level up.
Question for my fellow DMs who already ran HoHS - How many villagers did you put into Town Hall in Smoldering Revenge?
I'm really at a loss how many of them should be there to be challenging enough... And where did you put the initial fires?
Question for my fellow DMs who already ran HoHS - How many villagers did you put into Town Hall in Smoldering Revenge?
I'm really at a loss how many of them should be there to be challenging enough... And where did you put the initial fires?
I had 20 in there with 6 players and it worked out ok.
I had 20 in there with 6 players and it worked out ok.Question for my fellow DMs who already ran HoHS - How many villagers did you put into Town Hall in Smoldering Revenge?
I'm really at a loss how many of them should be there to be challenging enough... And where did you put the initial fires?
I had 60 villagers + council-members + the sheriff + Kendra, and though it was tough my group of 5 or 6 managed it with no fatalities (a little challenging at moments, but that's the point). Initial fires were behind the podium on stage & two evenly spaced on each side of the hall.
The Lopper. Is he really just a CR5? I've come close to TPK'ing the party. Twice. Fudging die rolls kinda helped, but still. He hit them harder than the actual wight did (they needed the XP because they have rarely gone to town).
He was a disappointing cake-walk for my party, but that may be because the majority of them were 3rd level, with around 6-7 PCs, still had a few ghost-touched items, had positive energy spells, had just rested & re-geared at the temple and were otherwise loaded for bear.
He scared them for a a few rounds though.