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Ayunken-vanzan
Senior Scribe
Germany
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 Posted - 14 Aug 2009 : 07:14:58
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Now that the Paizo server is available again, I was able to download my pdf. I don't expect the print copy to arrive before next week, so for now I have read my digital copy. Thankfully I am still on vacation until Sunday.
Don't forget to check out the free bestiary preview.
Edit: ... and, of course, the 3.5 to PRPG Conversion Guide. |
"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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freyar
Learned Scribe
Canada
220 Posts |
Posted - 14 Aug 2009 : 13:00:05
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Originally posted by Uzzy
Well, it's your fault for living in Canada! The Postmen have to fight off bears and the like. Thankfully, the book itself is hefty enough to knock them out.
It's not the post --- it's the customs officials who want to read all our Pathfindery goodness first! |
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Purple Dragon Knight
Master of Realmslore
Canada
1796 Posts |
Posted - 15 Aug 2009 : 04:11:43
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| Got PDF, Got Book. Happy! :) |
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MerrikCale
Senior Scribe
USA
947 Posts |
Posted - 20 Aug 2009 : 03:47:04
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| still haven't gotten mine. Its all about Golarion for me now |
When hinges creak in doorless chambers and strange and frightening sounds echo through the halls, whenever candlelights flicker where the air is deathly still, that is the time when ghosts are present, practicing their terror with ghoulish delight. |
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Asgetrion
Master of Realmslore
Finland
1564 Posts |
Posted - 22 Aug 2009 : 00:09:30
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Got the book! My, it's big and heavy and beautiful! 
Still continuing my FR Beta Playtest campaign, but I'm also starting my first Golarion campaign with 'Bastards of Erebus'. |
"What am I doing today? Ask me tomorrow - I can be sure of giving you the right answer then."
-- Askarran of Selgaunt, Master Sage, speaking to a curious merchant, Year of the Helm |
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Purple Dragon Knight
Master of Realmslore
Canada
1796 Posts |
Posted - 24 Aug 2009 : 03:38:40
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I'm running Council of Thieves at my FLGS starting August 28. Fellow DMs out there: please drop by to share your experience with I, for this site is slightly ghost townish these days and free of all my players!!! muhahahahah!  |
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Jakk
Great Reader
Canada
2165 Posts |
Posted - 25 Aug 2009 : 05:01:18
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| Apart from the 3.5 FR campaign I'm a player in every other weekend, I'm just reading... and doing lots of that, as I have the PFRPG and half a dozen Golarion supplements to get through... and it's all a pleasure. |
Playing in the Realms since the Old Grey Box (1987)... and *still* having fun with material published before 2008, despite the NDA'd lore.
If it's comparable in power with non-magical abilities, it's not magic. |
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Quale
Master of Realmslore
1757 Posts |
Posted - 06 Sep 2009 : 10:17:31
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I was just thinking how Golarion needs better detailed organizations, cause that's one the reasons FR is superior to other worlds, the variety of them, and one of my favourite D&D sourcebooks are Faces of Sigil and Cloak and Dagger. Now looking at the future products there will be a Chronicles Guide to NPCs and Factions in February and April. It is amazing how they manage to pick just the right products.
Now if the Linnorm Kings, Mammoth Lords, Mwangi, Jalmeray and Azlanti would follow ...
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Kuje
Great Reader
USA
7915 Posts |
Posted - 04 Oct 2009 : 06:09:55
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So, it's been awhile since we've had a post about Pathfinder here.
Anyhow, I picked up the first book in the new thieves adventure path and was really interested that they did a few pages on tieflings. I thought it was fantastic that they brought back the tiefling appearance/abilities charts since WOTC tossed those by the wayside in 3e and I missed them even though I had the charts from the Planescape products. Paizo also included about six different stat modifiers for tieflings based on what lower planar they are spawned from, which is another thing I thought was pretty interesting considering that the 2e tieflings had changes to their charisma (I think it was charisma) which was removed in 3e.
Browsing through the Cheliax book it was pretty interesting to see a few paragraphs about music and instruments. The instruments made out of bones and body organs was pretty uh.... gruesome. :) But I thought of Sage while reading those paragraphs because of his interest in music and instruments. |
For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet and excite you... Books are full of the things that you don't get in real life - wonderful, lyrical language, for instance, right off the bat. - Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 04 Oct 2009 : 09:11:04
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Originally posted by Kuje
Browsing through the Cheliax book it was pretty interesting to see a few paragraphs about music and instruments. The instruments made out of bones and body organs was pretty uh.... gruesome. :) But I thought of Sage while reading those paragraphs because of his interest in music and instruments.
Indeed. I kinda like some of the ideas from that section though. I've even thought about ways of incorporating them into the Realms -- especially the bone instruments. They work well with some of the stuff I've written up for the Shaaran tribes, since music often tends to play a significant part in cultures that maintain their histories through oral tradition. |
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Kuje
Great Reader
USA
7915 Posts |
Posted - 04 Oct 2009 : 18:10:16
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Originally posted by The Sage
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Originally posted by Kuje
Browsing through the Cheliax book it was pretty interesting to see a few paragraphs about music and instruments. The instruments made out of bones and body organs was pretty uh.... gruesome. :) But I thought of Sage while reading those paragraphs because of his interest in music and instruments.
Indeed. I kinda like some of the ideas from that section though. I've even thought about ways of incorporating them into the Realms -- especially the bone instruments. They work well with some of the stuff I've written up for the Shaaran tribes, since music often tends to play a significant part in cultures that maintain their histories through oral tradition.
I was thinking that they could also be lost items from Narfell. |
For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet and excite you... Books are full of the things that you don't get in real life - wonderful, lyrical language, for instance, right off the bat. - Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 05 Oct 2009 : 08:20:06
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Originally posted by Kuje
I was thinking that they could also be lost items from Narfell.
And for the Raumviran too.
In fact, I'm might just tinker around with this Raumathar/Narfell musical instrument idea on the weekend.
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Kuje
Great Reader
USA
7915 Posts |
Posted - 05 Oct 2009 : 19:52:03
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Originally posted by The Sage
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Originally posted by Kuje
I was thinking that they could also be lost items from Narfell.
And for the Raumviran too.
In fact, I'm might just tinker around with this Raumathar/Narfell musical instrument idea on the weekend.
Indeed. I meant Raumathar at the same time since they were opposed to each other. Grin. But yea, that would be interesting and I've been pondering fitting them in as items from those two nations. |
For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet and excite you... Books are full of the things that you don't get in real life - wonderful, lyrical language, for instance, right off the bat. - Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
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Kuje
Great Reader
USA
7915 Posts |
Posted - 10 Oct 2009 : 17:49:45
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| Received a email today from Paizo, the bestiary has been released! |
For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet and excite you... Books are full of the things that you don't get in real life - wonderful, lyrical language, for instance, right off the bat. - Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
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Edited by - Kuje on 10 Oct 2009 17:50:01 |
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Ayunken-vanzan
Senior Scribe
Germany
657 Posts |
Posted - 10 Oct 2009 : 19:54:39
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| Vic Wertz said on the message boards that they will ship the bestiaries on Tuesday to subscribers; the official release date is the 21st of October. |
"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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Edited by - Ayunken-vanzan on 10 Oct 2009 19:55:31 |
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Ayunken-vanzan
Senior Scribe
Germany
657 Posts |
Posted - 11 Oct 2009 : 07:17:58
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Oh, and by the way:
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Vic Wertz said on the Paizo message boards:
Oh, and also—you heard it here first—like the Core Rulebook, the Bestiary PDF will be $9.99. (*After* the Bestiary, though, PDF pricing on the Pathfinder RPG line will return to our usual discount of 30% off the print price.)
Need monsters? |
"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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Edited by - Ayunken-vanzan on 11 Oct 2009 07:18:21 |
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Ashe Ravenheart
Great Reader
USA
3252 Posts |
Posted - 11 Oct 2009 : 17:27:44
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Originally posted by Ayunken-vanzan
Oh, and by the way:
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Vic Wertz said on the Paizo message boards:
Oh, and also—you heard it here first—like the Core Rulebook, the Bestiary PDF will be $9.99. (*After* the Bestiary, though, PDF pricing on the Pathfinder RPG line will return to our usual discount of 30% off the print price.)
Need monsters?
Don't forget that the book is 329 pages with over 350 monsters... All for $10. |
I actually DO know everything. I just have a very poor index of my knowledge.
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Quale
Master of Realmslore
1757 Posts |
Posted - 12 Oct 2009 : 07:59:25
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| maybe I'll buy it just for the artwork |
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Patrakis
Learned Scribe
Canada
256 Posts |
Posted - 13 Oct 2009 : 03:59:21
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Hello,
Well, the final verdict has been cast by my players after testing the 4th edition for 6 weeks of playing with it. The word is 4e OUT and get us some pathfinder love.
So starting shortly, we'll switch to Pathfinder and for the first time in 23 years, i'll DM a game outside of the realms.
So Golarion, here i come. Be gentle :)
Pat |
Dancing is like standing still, but faster.
My site: http://www.patoumonde.com |
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Ayunken-vanzan
Senior Scribe
Germany
657 Posts |
Posted - 27 Oct 2009 : 22:38:33
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| Now I have the PDF of the Bestiary, and I am thumbing through the "book". It is great! Some monsters are brand new integrated from other sources (frogemoth, vegepygmy), others are from other Paizo products (neothylid), in part substituting monsters which are not OGL like the Mindflayer. Very useful are the appendices, listing monsters by type, terrain, role, etc. |
"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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freyar
Learned Scribe
Canada
220 Posts |
Posted - 28 Oct 2009 : 12:33:05
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Originally posted by Ayunken-vanzan
Now I have the PDF of the Bestiary, and I am thumbing through the "book". It is great! Some monsters are brand new integrated from other sources (frogemoth, vegepygmy), others are from other Paizo products (neothylid), in part substituting monsters which are not OGL like the Mindflayer. Very useful are the appendices, listing monsters by type, terrain, role, etc.
Actually, the neothelid has been in D&D for quite a while. And it's even in the psionics section of the 3.5 SRD!  But the Goblin Dog is a good example of a Paizo creation. |
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Ashe Ravenheart
Great Reader
USA
3252 Posts |
Posted - 28 Oct 2009 : 14:52:47
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Originally posted by freyar
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Originally posted by Ayunken-vanzan
Now I have the PDF of the Bestiary, and I am thumbing through the "book". It is great! Some monsters are brand new integrated from other sources (frogemoth, vegepygmy), others are from other Paizo products (neothylid), in part substituting monsters which are not OGL like the Mindflayer. Very useful are the appendices, listing monsters by type, terrain, role, etc.
Actually, the neothelid has been in D&D for quite a while. And it's even in the psionics section of the 3.5 SRD! But the Goblin Dog is a good example of a Paizo creation.
Probably missed because the Neothelid is in the Psionics portion of the SRD. Still, the artwork's a lot better! |
I actually DO know everything. I just have a very poor index of my knowledge.
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Ayunken-vanzan
Senior Scribe
Germany
657 Posts |
Posted - 28 Oct 2009 : 15:36:51
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And I thought the neothelid to be a creation of Paizo ... never mind.
On a related note, you can find the monsters online in the PRD, without the art, of course. |
"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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Quale
Master of Realmslore
1757 Posts |
Posted - 30 Oct 2009 : 19:49:09
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Honestly I'm not impressed with the bestiary, the text for the most monsters should at least be double.
Nicest surprise was the shoggoth. |
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Quale
Master of Realmslore
1757 Posts |
Posted - 04 Nov 2009 : 16:18:05
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| New products were announced today, there will a Mwangi adventure path and I'm extremely happy. |
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Ayunken-vanzan
Senior Scribe
Germany
657 Posts |
Posted - 06 Nov 2009 : 20:12:53
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| Yes, there are many interesting products. Biggest suprise to me: a module, written by Monte Cook. |
"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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Caedwyr
Seeker
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Posted - 09 Nov 2009 : 18:43:25
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Originally posted by Quale
Honestly I'm not impressed with the bestiary, the text for the most monsters should at least be double.
Nicest surprise was the shoggoth.
I agree that I would love more text, but the problem with doing that is going to two pages or more per monster would mean that they'd have to cut about half or more of the monsters. I personally find the The Monster Revisited line of books and the monster write-ups in the APs to be good sources of monster fluff. |
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Quale
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 10 Nov 2009 : 17:51:01
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| Still, I noticed there was some room for some monsters. Agreed about the Monster Revisited line, my dream-MM would have 100 monsters with four pages average for each one. ;) |
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Fingal
Seeker
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Posted - 13 Nov 2009 : 14:53:52
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I've just bought the Chelliax book as a taster to see whether I want to start devoting more money, time and space to yet another setting. Wasn't going to but when I saw Steven's name attached to it I took it as a mark of quality and poney'd up the cash.
To be honest I'm not really in the market for another classic High- Fantasy setting as I already have FR for that and my tastes run a little more (a lot more in fact,) towards ancient history and myth. But, you never know: this time next month I'm sure I'll have the entire campaign setting commited to memory.
Anyway. My gf just texted to say the book arrived at her work so I'll get to read it over the weekend. Looking forward to it. |
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Purple Dragon Knight
Master of Realmslore
Canada
1796 Posts |
Posted - 13 Nov 2009 : 21:21:53
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Seekers of Secret would be a better "taster" book IMO. If you want a low cost option to learn about the world, the Pathfinder Gazetteer is the best (cheaper version of the Path Camp Setting)
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