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Asgetrion
Master of Realmslore
Finland
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 Posted - 23 Apr 2009 : 00:36:06
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Originally posted by Markustay
Isn't it simply amazing when a company listens to what the fans want?
Its a beautiful thing. 
Here is what James Sutter replied to my suggestion on Ed, Elaine, Erik, Richard and Steven as potential authors for Golarion novels:
"As it turns out, we know all of those folks.
Without spoiling anything (and I don't necessarily even HAVE details to spoil at this point, so don't read too much into this), I think you're going to be quite pleased with Pathfinder Fiction..."
So it's not anything official yet, but once again a sign that Paizonians really care about the wishes of their fans! :) |
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Purple Dragon Knight
Master of Realmslore
Canada
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36912 Posts |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36912 Posts |
Posted - 28 Apr 2009 : 15:37:09
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I just got my third and fourth Pathfinder products... I started with the Campaign Setting. I got a copy of Classic Monsters Revisited, but it was in sad shape (got mangled in shipping) so I had to get a new one. And the other day, I got in Dragons Revisited and Gods and Magic. I'm currently reading the former, and will read the latter after that.
I've been impressed with most of the stuff thus far. It hasn't yet grabbed me the way the Realms eventually did (Volo's Guide to Waterdeep is where I went from liking the Realms to loving the Realms), but I can see myself really getting into this setting. |
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Ashe Ravenheart
Great Reader
USA
3249 Posts |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36912 Posts |
Posted - 28 Apr 2009 : 18:22:47
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Originally posted by Ashe Ravenheart
Have you been getting the Adventure Paths as well? Those, IMHO, have 'Volo-esque' qualities to them.
Not yet. I plan to, but my resources are still limited.  |
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Ashe Ravenheart
Great Reader
USA
3249 Posts |
Posted - 28 Apr 2009 : 18:30:06
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| I can sympathize with that. I've been cutting back a lot recently. Heck, I'm trying to offload all my comics now too, but for some reason comics from the 80's-90's just aren't selling much... |
I actually DO know everything. I just have a very poor index of my knowledge.
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Hawkins
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 28 Apr 2009 : 18:44:51
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| I am actually torn between desiring to start obtaining 2e Realms supplements and to start buying stuff from the PF campaign setting and supporting Paizo. All I really know is that this summer (the time of year in which I get to work overtime) I will buy Monte Cooke's Complete Book of Experimental Might and the final version of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. |
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Ashe Ravenheart
Great Reader
USA
3249 Posts |
Posted - 28 Apr 2009 : 18:51:03
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In that case, Hawkins, I'd put off on the Adventure Paths until the release of the Pathfinder RPG in August. Sure, the current AP's are fully compatible, but the releases from August forward will be written and designed specifically for the new rules.
You can get the PDFs at a reduced price (or free when you subscribe and the physical book is shipped).
Also, I just saw this when checking the site. They are working on getting Campaign Cartographer as a digital download! |
I actually DO know everything. I just have a very poor index of my knowledge.
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Asgetrion
Master of Realmslore
Finland
1564 Posts |
Posted - 29 Apr 2009 : 01:23:15
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
I just got my third and fourth Pathfinder products... I started with the Campaign Setting. I got a copy of Classic Monsters Revisited, but it was in sad shape (got mangled in shipping) so I had to get a new one. And the other day, I got in Dragons Revisited and Gods and Magic. I'm currently reading the former, and will read the latter after that.
I've been impressed with most of the stuff thus far. It hasn't yet grabbed me the way the Realms eventually did (Volo's Guide to Waterdeep is where I went from liking the Realms to loving the Realms), but I can see myself really getting into this setting.
Gods and Magic is written in a similar style to the FR "deity books", and I think a lot of the stuff could be used in FR pretty easily (for example, Gorum is very similar to Tempus).
Funny that you mentioned Volo's Guides... just tonight I spent a couple of hours reading them, and I found myself thinking that it's a shame that most likely we won't see anything similar to them published in FR anymore. However, I recently got my cope of Guide to Absalom and I think that in quality and style it reminds me a lot of "old skool" FR and Greyhawk supplements -- maybe it's not as good as Ed's amazing Volo's Guides (which are the primary reason why everyone's characters love shopping in my group   ), but in my opinion it gets close. Virtually no "crunch" at all, but lots of flavour and details and locations and names -- just the way I like it! |
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Purple Dragon Knight
Master of Realmslore
Canada
1796 Posts |
Posted - 02 May 2009 : 04:23:21
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
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Originally posted by Purple Dragon Knight
Chapter 5, "Thus it is Written"
Uh... What? 
Sorry if this was confusing Wooly... I was just posting our latest campaign update. We have been playing the "Second Darkness" adventure path, set in Riddleport, a seedy, rogue/pirate ruled frontier/port city at the northwest edge of Varisia.
By the way Wooly, those two books you have bought: it is only a matter of time until it "grabs you," as Ed himself has contributed to the Campaign Setting...
Here are the previous entries:
Party Members:
Zim (Kobald Bard 1)
Elgan Falleaf (Elven Wizard 1)
Mogen Movenpoan (Human Rogue 1)
Chaine (Human Fighter 1)
Taub (Human Cleric 1)
Comic strip-style campaign updates, brought to you by one of my fellow players (he plays the kobold bard...) if anyone cares... 
Go to a kobold...
Chapter One, "Intro"
Chapter Two, "Of vermin and other pests..."
Chapter Three, "Blood and Wine" (hey, this one features my PC... the one shown flying out of the window!)
Chapter Four, "Betrayal in the Boneyard"
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Ayunken-vanzan
Senior Scribe
Germany
657 Posts |
Posted - 02 May 2009 : 08:50:37
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| The rules are about to go to the printer: Races and book. |
"What mattered our lives now? When our world had been torn from us? Folk wept, or drank, or stood staring out over the land, wondering what new horror each dawn would bring."
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Asgetrion
Master of Realmslore
Finland
1564 Posts |
Posted - 02 May 2009 : 12:10:23
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Originally posted by Ayunken-vanzan
The rules are about to go to the printer: Races and book.
Ooh... it looks even better than I had dreamed!  |
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Purple Dragon Knight
Master of Realmslore
Canada
1796 Posts |
Posted - 02 May 2009 : 13:44:40
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Hope that this isn't double-sided!  |
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Ayunken-vanzan
Senior Scribe
Germany
657 Posts |
Posted - 02 May 2009 : 14:59:29
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Originally posted by Purple Dragon Knight
Hope that this isn't double-sided!
That would explain why the shipping cost to Germany for the book at Paizo are higher than price of the book itself ... |
"What mattered our lives now? When our world had been torn from us? Folk wept, or drank, or stood staring out over the land, wondering what new horror each dawn would bring."
Elender Stormfall of Suzail
"Anyone can kill deities, cause plagues, or destroy organizations. It takes real skill to make them live on."
Varl
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Ashe Ravenheart
Great Reader
USA
3249 Posts |
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Ayunken-vanzan
Senior Scribe
Germany
657 Posts |
Posted - 02 May 2009 : 17:49:25
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| I know, I know. But the book is a 576-page full-color hardcover. |
"What mattered our lives now? When our world had been torn from us? Folk wept, or drank, or stood staring out over the land, wondering what new horror each dawn would bring."
Elender Stormfall of Suzail
"Anyone can kill deities, cause plagues, or destroy organizations. It takes real skill to make them live on."
Varl
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Ayunken-vanzan
Senior Scribe
Germany
657 Posts |
Posted - 13 May 2009 : 11:43:57
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| The first preview of the upcoming PFRPG is up. You can download the ToC and a spread from the races chapter as PDF. |
"What mattered our lives now? When our world had been torn from us? Folk wept, or drank, or stood staring out over the land, wondering what new horror each dawn would bring."
Elender Stormfall of Suzail
"Anyone can kill deities, cause plagues, or destroy organizations. It takes real skill to make them live on."
Varl
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Brimstone
Great Reader
USA
3290 Posts |
Posted - 16 May 2009 : 22:13:00
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So who has looked at that Masterpiece Shemmy created called The Great Beyond? Just browsed the PDF this morning. Eagerly awaiting print copy via snail mail.
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then, well, the arts of reading, writing, and listening true, and they
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Purple Dragon Knight
Master of Realmslore
Canada
1796 Posts |
Posted - 16 May 2009 : 23:11:29
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Todd Stewart = Shemmy? cool!
I agree. The Great Beyond is a masterpiece. I really like Golarion's cosmology. The way he arranged the Inner, Outer Planes, etc. I'm not missing the Great Wheel a single bit. |
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Kuje
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 17 May 2009 : 07:47:38
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Originally posted by Purple Dragon Knight
Todd Stewart = Shemmy? cool!
Aye, Todd = Shemmy. :)
As for the book, I don't have it yet. :( |
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Misery
Acolyte
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Posted - 17 May 2009 : 12:52:00
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Just coming back to the boards from an overly long hiatus but I wanted to make a note that Golarion has just been incredible. I don't think anything will ever capture the magic of the Realms but I believe most of that comes from the memories I have as a kid getting to know them. Can't really compete with that.
Memories aside though, this world will do JUST fine. I was SURE I would love the whole drow arc most but Pathfinder #19 and up have been amazing. Love the feel the whole thing gives off and having Elaine C. writing stories in them ... yes please. |
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Shemmy
Senior Scribe
USA
492 Posts |
Posted - 17 May 2009 : 17:28:16
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Originally posted by Purple Dragon Knight
Todd Stewart = Shemmy? cool!
Yep, that'd be me. :)
I'm glad you like the book, and any comments, both positive or negative that you might have once you have the chance to go over it more fully, I'd love to hear. |
Shemeska the Marauder, King of the Crosstrade; voted #1 best Arcanaloth in Sigil two hundred years running by the people who know what's best for them; chant broker; prospective Sigil council member next election; and official travel agent for Chamada Holiday specials LLC.
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Purple Dragon Knight
Master of Realmslore
Canada
1796 Posts |
Posted - 17 May 2009 : 17:30:43
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| I hear you man... I love the Legacy of Fire AP. I play a Badawi tribesman (desert nomads; think of the Bedine) ranger specialized in archery. Animal companion at 4th: camel! |
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Purple Dragon Knight
Master of Realmslore
Canada
1796 Posts |
Posted - 17 May 2009 : 17:34:20
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Originally posted by Shemmy
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Originally posted by Purple Dragon Knight
Todd Stewart = Shemmy? cool!
Yep, that'd be me. :)
I'm glad you like the book, and any comments, both positive or negative that you might have once you have the chance to go over it more fully, I'd love to hear.
My previous post was in answer to Misery; Shemmy beat me to the punch!
Now that you're a published author, shouldn't you switch your Shemmy handle to Todd Stewart? just a suggestion... I know it would reduce confusion overall (I'm not the brightest bulb around here, but if I didn't know Shemmy was Todd, perhaps others not so acquainted with the Keep wouldn't know either...)
Loving Great Beyond. I'm saving some of it for the actual print book, whenever I get it... (can't do it proper honours via PDF reading right?) |
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Shemmy
Senior Scribe
USA
492 Posts |
Posted - 17 May 2009 : 17:57:21
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Originally posted by Purple Dragon Knight
Now that you're a published author, shouldn't you switch your Shemmy handle to Todd Stewart? just a suggestion... I know it would reduce confusion overall (I'm not the brightest bulb around here, but if I didn't know Shemmy was Todd, perhaps others not so acquainted with the Keep wouldn't know either...)
Loving Great Beyond. I'm saving some of it for the actual print book, whenever I get it... (can't do it proper honours via PDF reading right?)
It's not my first book actually, just the first one I was the sole author on. I co-authored Paizo's Osirion supplement, had a few sections in the campaign setting, and before that had some Dragon and Dungeon pieces. I've just had the Shemmy/Shemeska/etc handle on so many boards online, I've kept it up. Only place I go by my real name at the moment is over on Paizo's boards.
At some point I'll get around to changing names, or adding alts or putting something in a sig, depending on how various boards handle such options. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36912 Posts |
Posted - 01 Jun 2009 : 23:41:27
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I just added to my collection of Pathfinder Chronicles stuff... Guide to Absalom, The Great Beyond, and Dungeon Denizens Revisited all arrived today.
They're all going into my reading list; I've just got to finish the Zobeck Gazetteer first.
It's kinda funny... During 2E, I got exactly one third-party D&D book, and I didn't care for it. For most of 3E, I only had a couple of third-party books. But I got to where I was buying those more and more frequently, and since 4E D&D came out, I'm going exclusively with third-party books. Kind of a weird shift, thinks I. |
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Purple Dragon Knight
Master of Realmslore
Canada
1796 Posts |
Posted - 04 Jun 2009 : 02:56:35
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| Embrace the dark side of the force... yesssss! |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36912 Posts |
Posted - 12 Jun 2009 : 14:28:50
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| So I was reading The Great Beyond last night... And I read about the plane of Leng. I wonder how many people realize that was almost entirely Cthulhu-based? |
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Ayunken-vanzan
Senior Scribe
Germany
657 Posts |
Posted - 12 Jun 2009 : 15:17:58
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| Leng was first mentioned in Pathfinder #6 "Spires of Xin-Shalast", where we got some background information on the plane of Leng (including it's ties to the Lovecraftian myhtos). Since then the denizens of Leng are part of Golarion's cosmology. Their most recent appearance is in Pathfinder # 21 The Jackal's Price. |
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