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Re: Forums/Advanced Class Guide Playtest: General Discussion: Know Direction...

On the naming... The best classes are ones that hit an iconic note (witch! cavalier!). So with that in mind, I think the most obvious for Warpriest is Crusader. Sure, it's a cleric archetype already,...

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Re: Forums/Paizo: General Discussion: Sean K Reynolds is leaving Paizo

Best of luck Sean!

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Re: Forums/Lost Omens Campaign Setting: General Discussion: Monstrous...

In my campaign, a NPC serpentfolk female and a PC fell in love. At first, while she was in human guise - I had Samaritha Beldusk from Second Darkness actually being a serpentfolk, mashing up with...

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Re: Forums: Campaign Journals: Hoist the Colours—a Skull &...

Very cool, I'm running a Second Darkness/Freeport/Razor Coast mashup myself, steal ideas at will from Reavers on the Seas of Fate. I'll follow along here and do the same! My guys are preparing to head...

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Forums/Lost Omens Campaign Setting: General Discussion: Good adventure for...

I have some 7th level pirates headed through Ilizmagorti and I was looking for good short adventures I might insert there for them. I considered Dark Deeds in Freeport (port city, but tropical jungle,...

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Re: Forums/Pathfinder First Edition: General Discussion: POLL: Do You Want A...

Not yet. Eventually. Every game system eventually shows its age, gets bloated, etc. The "3.5 back compatibility" restriction is becoming less important year over year, as the new Pathfinder Unleashed...

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Re: Forums/Pathfinder First Edition: General Discussion: What Are The Last 3...

Currently, in Wrath of the Righteous:LG male human (Tien) monk (monk of the sacred mountain)/paladin/Champion of Irori Previously, in Carrion Crown:NG female human (Vudrani) witch (campaign ended at...

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Forums/Lost Omens Campaign Setting: General Discussion: Passing the Eye

My PCs are about to sail south past the Eye of Abendego and then eventually north again. S&S and SS both kinda cheat by starting south of it - though there's the Free Captains' Regatta in S&S...

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Re: Forums/Lost Omens Campaign Setting: General Discussion: Where are the wars?

You're definitely right in that in a given area of this size (Europe+++) there should generally be many smaller wars going on at any given time. I think the necessity of making a book describing...

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Re: Forums/Lost Omens Campaign Setting: General Discussion: How does an...

He was pretty clear this is Cheliax/halfling type of slavery... Here's the thing. Most slaves - from earlier times to even modern sex slaves - stay where they're told to. Why?1. You try to escape and...

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Forums/Lost Omens Campaign Setting: General Discussion: Golarion: Where's the...

I've gone through playing the vast majority of the Golarion human ethnicities - a Vudran witch, Tian-Shu, Tian-Min... And since I live in Texas and half my family is Hispanic, I started to wonder what...

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Re: Forums/Lost Omens Campaign Setting: General Discussion: Golarion: Where's...

James Jacobs wrote: There's not really a Mexican/Spanish "ethnicity" in the Inner Sea Region. There are some touchstones among the Taldans, Varisians, and Chelaxians with these ethnicities, but there's...

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Re: Forums: Advice: Building a Naked Warrior

Erik Mona's PC Ostog the Unslain is a barbarian who just doesn't wear any armor. See his SRD entry. Three days ago he tweeted "OSTOG REMAINS UNSLAIN! 48 sessions and STILL no armor!" Sometimes being...

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Re: Forums/Lost Omens Campaign Setting: General Discussion: Views on...

IMC in Hermea, since Mengkare controls reproduction of Hermeans closely, anal sex is very common. In fact, it's the only thing dockside sex workers are allowed to do, and that causes a certain amount...

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Re: Forums/Lost Omens Campaign Setting: General Discussion: Views on...

My gaming group is mature adults who all watch hard-R media like Game of Thrones, so we have sex and sexuality in our games. Since love and sex have been a major part of every art form ever in the...

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Re: Forums: Product Discussion: Razor Coast

Louis Agresta wrote: I looked everywhere: my external storage, my notes, everything. Couldn't find it. As best I remember, it was supposed to be a paralysis inducing intimidation feat. Sorry I couldn't...

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Re: Forums/Lost Omens Campaign Setting: General Discussion: What are some...

Not listed on the wiki is the Blood Circus in Ilizmagorti.

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Re: Forums/Lost Omens Campaign Setting: General Discussion: Golarion: Where's...

Prince with a Thousand Enemies wrote:Ernest Mueller's question raises a host of questions for me. I think he wants to learn about a region that is analogous to Mexico, but I have no idea what region of...

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Re: Forums: Product Discussion: Razor Coast

My pirate PCs are in Ilizmagorti and preparing to head south to the Razor Coast themselves... It's been a long time coming!

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Re: Forums: Product Discussion: Razor Coast

wspatterson wrote: Hola. Okay, I need help getting my party on the right track. Before I posted about the party having motivation issues, because each one had a different motivation. They sorted that...

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Re: Forums: Product Discussion: Razor Coast

carborundum wrote: Ernest's Campaign Journals are one of my favourite things to read in the whole world. The pdfs are permanently installed on every laptop and telephone I have, so I can always read...

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Re: Forums: Product Discussion: Razor Coast

Greg A. Vaughan wrote:Ernest Mueller wrote: I ran my PCs through the Freeport Trilogy (in Riddleport, but whatever) and here's the hooks I have to get them down there. I mashed together Riddleport,...

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Re: Forums/Pathfinder Adventure Path: General Discussion: Poll Which of the...

Played in and completed Rise of the Runelords (3.5), Curse of the Crimson Throne (PF Beta), Carrion Crown, Jade RegentCurrently playing in Wrath of the RighteousRan Second Darkness (chp.1-2, aka "the...

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Re: Forums/Pathfinder First Edition: General Discussion: Why are some...

Monsters generally don't have Internet access to go troll CharOp forums all day.

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Re: Forums: Advice: Why are teamwork feats so unpopular?

1. It costs two people a feat slot for a benefit it's not always likely both will be using all the time. And those players have to really work at joint character-building.2. It's too easy for it to be...

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Re: Forums/Lost Omens Campaign Setting: General Discussion: Chelish music...

Carmina Burana.

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Re: Forums/Lost Omens Campaign Setting: General Discussion: Summoning...

It's like that new State Farm commercial where the agents are chilling at the office but keep getting summoned away without notice by their customers. In fact... It's exactly like that. There's a bunch...

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Re: Forums/Lost Omens Campaign Setting: General Discussion: What information...

I always thought getting bent out of shape at the slohr thing was weird, it's not like 80% of everything else in D&D/PF/Golarion isn't stolen from some other source somewhere. We've got Cthulhus...

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Re: Forums: Product Discussion: Pathfinder Tales: Lord of Runes

Morbus Iff wrote: Received mine today. I _hate_ the new size. It is the difference between fitting them on my mass-media paperback shelves (where all the rest of my nearly 20 Pathfinder novels are) and...

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Re: Forums: Advice: Why are teamwork feats so unpopular?

Snowblind wrote: Shockingly enough, while players are happy with "I kick ass, and kick ass slightly more when my buddy is nearby", the same players generally don't like themes like "I am much weaker...

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Re: Forums: Website Feedback: Spamwar - I'm flagging as fast as I can but.....

Liz Courts wrote:William Ronald wrote: I use the violates copyright or other infringement as spam posts are generally business related. Please use "Breaks other Guidelines". I just did my first...

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Re: Forums: Product Discussion: Pathfinder Tales: Lord of Runes

Dave Gross wrote: I bet Paizo will take this sort of specific criticism to heart and adjust the look of the line going forward, but I wouldn't be surprised if it takes another couple of releases for...

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Re: Forums: Product Discussion: Razor Coast

Louis Agresta wrote: One pointer: I underestimated how devastating the control water spell can prove. If that's in the mix it can utterly neutralize a ship — even the Pride — by simply dropping it in a...

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Forums: Campaign Journals: Wrath of the Righteous and Pathfinder Pirates AP...

For those who don't know -My gaming group is addicted to writing up session summaries, and by that I mean like 12-ish page PDFs from an average session which I then post on my blog,...

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Re: Forums/Pathfinder Adventure Path: General Discussion: AP with the most...

Curse of the Crimson Throne gets my nod for first on the story front, while not perfect (go chase macguffin chains in the desert!!!). Then Jade Regent. I haven't run or played Iron Gods or Reign of...

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Re: Forums: Giantslayer: RAW, this doesn't feel REAL at all: Providing A...

Yeah, agreed. Too often it seems like the writers want to get some Diversity Points (tm) by including these things but then give them short shrift and no downside. They're unwilling to go full "Blue...

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Re: Forums: Curse of the Crimson Throne: Seems there's next to zero chance of...

Yeah, I agree, I want a mini too. She was one of our favorite characters in that AP (we certainly hated and dismissed the rest of what we referred to as the Boner Squad that got sent along with...

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Re: Forums: Product Discussion: Razor Coast

Louis Agresta wrote: 3. Control Water which can shape large quantities of ocean water is devestating. It can drop a ship 20' so all the cannons point to the inside wall of a water pit. I suggest...

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Re: Forums/Lost Omens Campaign Setting: General Discussion: Arcadia:...

Adam Daigle wrote: Which leads me to your second question... I'm not a huge fan of direct analogs, and when writing Segada I wanted to have it make sense in regards to things that we've already said...

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Re: Forums: Product Discussion: Pathfinder Adventure Path: Curse of the...

There'll be a CoCT hardcover?!?! Woot! My favorite AP ever, we ran it in PF Beta...

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Re: Forums/Pathfinder Adventure Path: General Discussion: Petition to bring...

Laori was our group's favorite NPC from CoCT as well. She was so positive and perky! As opposed to Count Obviously Going To Betray Us we dragged around for a chapter; we referred to those hangers-on as...

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Re: Forums/Pathfinder First Edition: General Discussion: You Don't Have Any...

The problem with this is that people have a very "modern" version of how law enforcement works that isn't very compatible with a more Golarion-esque medieval/Renaissance world. The idea of a...

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Re: Forums/Lost Omens Campaign Setting: General Discussion: Mapping Golarion:...

I'm running a nautical campaign that is roving from Riddleport to sunken Azlant to Garund south of Sargava and this map is invaluable, thanks for doing it.

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Re: Forums/Lost Omens Campaign Setting: General Discussion: Almanach of...

I'd buy it. Golarion is one of the key distinctive elements of Pathfinder and I love the little flavor sidebars in all the products... I make it a point to get them into the game and the PCs love it....

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Forums: Customer Service: Order 7656210 - pp.32-48 missing from Rise Of New...

Hey all! I just got my order yesterday and was reading Rise Of New Thassilon and it appears a whole block of pages are missing, pp.32-48. The adventure jumps from a map of Stethelos to Runelord...

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Re: Forums: Customer Service: Order 7656210 - pp.32-48 missing from Rise Of...

Done, thanks.

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Forums: Customer Service: Order 7962935

I got an email from Paizo saying my card was declined for part of this shipment, but I got the full change at my credit card company. I replied to that email (to customer.service@paizo.com) on July 12...

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Re: Forums: Website Feedback: Attempting to go back a thread level kicks me...

I am also being kicked to the home page 75% of the time when trying to navigate around the forums.

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Forums: Customer Service: Please cancel all subscriptions

Well, I've been a superscriber since the Dungeon/Dragon days and all through 1e. I've tried out 2e and the first AP there but my gaming group isn't interested at this time, so I'm going to have to...

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Re: Forums/Paizo: General Discussion: Pathfinder/Starfinder Novels

I thought the Pathfinder Tales novels were all very good (with the exception of the Greenwood one) and long for their return myself.I'm not into Starfinder or Pathfinder 2e so have stopped buying...

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