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Derulbaskul
Senior Scribe
Singapore
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 Posted - 07 Jul 2012 : 12:36:58
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Originally posted by The Sage
Okay, so I've been looking at getting into the PATHFINDER subscriptions again.
I have a rough idea of how they work, but I'd appreciate some info from those who already partake of these services, providing some insight into monthly and yearly expenses -- and just which of the subscription services you have.
Just be very wary of the postage costs to Australia.
I dropped my subscriptions years ago simply because the revised postage costs made everything prohibitively expensive even after the discounts (Singapore was marginally cheaper but still not cheap enough [ahhh, the days of two homes...]). |
Cheers
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 07 Jul 2012 : 14:45:27
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Posted - 08 Jul 2012 : 02:19:23
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Originally posted by Derulbaskul
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Originally posted by The Sage
Okay, so I've been looking at getting into the PATHFINDER subscriptions again.
I have a rough idea of how they work, but I'd appreciate some info from those who already partake of these services, providing some insight into monthly and yearly expenses -- and just which of the subscription services you have.
Just be very wary of the postage costs to Australia.
I dropped my subscriptions years ago simply because the revised postage costs made everything prohibitively expensive even after the discounts (Singapore was marginally cheaper but still not cheap enough [ahhh, the days of two homes...]).
Normally, I'd be weary of such concerns, but with the AUD and USD at parity, it's largely just a question, now, of how much I'm willing to spend.
What I really have to consider, is whether the exchange rate will vary wildly while my Paizo subscriptions are active. |
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Derulbaskul
Senior Scribe
Singapore
408 Posts |
Posted - 08 Jul 2012 : 08:18:18
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
I've gotten stuff from Australia before without postage being unreasonable...
As have I.
However, Paizo specifically called the costs out for Oz a number of years ago. For some reason it was strangely prohibitive. |
Cheers
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Ayunken-vanzan
Senior Scribe
Germany
657 Posts |
Posted - 08 Jul 2012 : 08:40:05
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Originally posted by Markustay
Anyhow, I may have been off-base with their online initiative - it appears it just might be a 'poor man's MORPG'. Damn shame - without the modding tools, its just another knock-off. Now that Diablo3 just came out (and I'm still HERE?!), I doubt this will get the traction they want. Its gonna be Eberron Online all over again.
If they marry it to a customizable game-table and world-scripting tool, then they'll have something. As is, I no longer have much excitement over it. I never bought any of the FR comp games, so why would I buy this? I don't want more toys, I want TOOLS.
You have been heard: Paizo announces Gamespace: it will be a virtual tabletop. |
"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."
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Ayunken-vanzan
Senior Scribe
Germany
657 Posts |
Posted - 08 Jul 2012 : 09:30:26
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... wow ...
Here is the manuscript of the actual presentation by Gary Teter.
Markustay will be very happy, I think.
... and it'll cost nothing.
Best line ever: "Our approach is, just don't be stupid by default." |
"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 - 08 Jul 2012 : 10:14:37
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"We'll have ways for you to give us money, don't worry about that. We like money". |
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to be nurtured like a precious flower, for it is the most precious
thing we have. Wherefore guard the word written and heed
words unwritten and set them down ere they fade . . . Learn
then, well, the arts of reading, writing, and listening true, and they
will lead you to the greatest art of all: understanding."
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Kajehase
Great Reader
Sweden
2104 Posts |
Posted - 09 Jul 2012 : 07:42:58
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Some other announcements: In the RPG-line, they've announced the book after NPC Gallery (like a Bestiary, but with NPCs) to be Ultimate Campaign - a book with tips, rulesets, and other tools aimed at running a campaign.
The Adventure Path following soon to begin Shattered Star is called Reign of Winter (cue "Winter is Coming" comments) will revolve around Baba Yaga and takes place in Iobaria, Irrisen, Triaxus (another planet in Golarion's solar system), Taldor, and possibly Russia (one of the volumes is apparently called Rasputin Must Die). |
There is a rumour going around that I have found god. I think is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.
Terry Pratchett |
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Kajehase
Great Reader
Sweden
2104 Posts |
Posted - 09 Jul 2012 : 07:44:43
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There is a rumour going around that I have found god. I think is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.
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Kajehase
Great Reader
Sweden
2104 Posts |
Posted - 09 Jul 2012 : 07:45:26
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| And there's goblin plushies!!!! |
There is a rumour going around that I have found god. I think is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.
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Kajehase
Great Reader
Sweden
2104 Posts |
Posted - 09 Jul 2012 : 07:51:25
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There is a rumour going around that I have found god. I think is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.
Terry Pratchett |
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Dark Wizard
Senior Scribe
USA
830 Posts |
Posted - 10 Jul 2012 : 06:14:50
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Originally posted by Ayunken-vanzan
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Originally posted by Markustay
Anyhow, I may have been off-base with their online initiative - it appears it just might be a 'poor man's MORPG'. Damn shame - without the modding tools, its just another knock-off. Now that Diablo3 just came out (and I'm still HERE?!), I doubt this will get the traction they want. Its gonna be Eberron Online all over again.
If they marry it to a customizable game-table and world-scripting tool, then they'll have something. As is, I no longer have much excitement over it. I never bought any of the FR comp games, so why would I buy this? I don't want more toys, I want TOOLS.
You have been heard: Paizo announces Gamespace: it will be a virtual tabletop.
Coincidentally, WotC's own DDI-based D&D VTT (Beta) has been cancelled. The shut down will take effect July 30th, 2012. D&D VTT customers have until then to take screenshots of their data to make copies of their materials.
http://www.enworld.org/forum/news/326233-wizards-coasts-d-d-virtual-table-cancelled.html |
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
15724 Posts |
Posted - 10 Jul 2012 : 06:58:40
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LOL
Every time I get new hope that 5th edition will be a D&D Renaissance, I hear things like this. 
I said it before - the first one with a fully-functional virtual world builder will win all the marbles. Too bad they hired that wacko to do it in 4e - that one guy probably cost them their top-spot in the RPG industry. Had the VT been ready at the start of 4e, it would have went a long way to smoothing ruffled feathers (over FR... and other things).
Not that that was the only nail in 4e's coffin, but it was one of many, and a pretty important one at that. The DDI fell way short of what it was ever meant to be.
Funny, but now I think D&D/WotC is "going old-school", and Paizo is trying to go 'new school' at this point. The next couple of years will be very interesting - you never know whats going to catch-on, and 'retro' seems to be all the rage now. Regardless, all of this means that consumers have a lot to look forward to. |
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Ashe Ravenheart
Great Reader
USA
3252 Posts |
Posted - 10 Jul 2012 : 12:40:35
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It's probably been mentioned already, but I'd like to take the time to point out that Wayfinder #7 is out on the Paizo website. It's free, and there's a couple names you might recognize on the contributors.
Just sayin'. |
I actually DO know everything. I just have a very poor index of my knowledge.
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36966 Posts |
Posted - 10 Jul 2012 : 15:04:48
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Originally posted by Dark Wizard
Coincidentally, WotC's own DDI-based D&D VTT (Beta) has been cancelled. The shut down will take effect July 30th, 2012. D&D VTT customers have until then to take screenshots of their data to make copies of their materials.
http://www.enworld.org/forum/news/326233-wizards-coasts-d-d-virtual-table-cancelled.html
That's sad... After promising it to us literally years ago, it gets canned while still in Beta? Not good for them.
And it draws much vacuum that their proprietary approach means take screenshots or lose everything. I feel bad for the people that got on board with this, and now have to find some alternative. I'm surprised WotC doesn't try to do a simple export to HTML or something, to keep those folks from being left hanging.
I'm inclined to think that if WotC had gone with a simpler, rules-neutral approach (much as I've been advocating for years), then the VTT would have seen wider adoption, and it would have been rolled out much sooner. I'm not trying to say "I told you so," especially since I have no data beyond that link, but it's hard not to think that an earlier product, usable by a larger portion of the gaming populace, would have been more successful.
It also makes me think that WotC just needs to forget about doing software. The Forgotten Realms Interactive Atlas and Dragon Magazine Archive were great products, but failed -- in large part because they came out before there was a good market for them. The E-Tools they did with Code Monkey was another great bit of software, but once WotC decided to go in another direction, that was the end of that... And now there is the long-awaited and practically stillborn VTT, another e-casualty of theirs. Not a good track record at all... |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 10 Jul 2012 : 15:23:50
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Folks, I know the issue of the Virtual Tabletop can be a contested one [based on past discussion scrolls], so I'd appreciate that we take this side-chatter to another scroll.
Thank you.  |
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Ayunken-vanzan
Senior Scribe
Germany
657 Posts |
Posted - 10 Jul 2012 : 15:25:25
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Since Paizo's gamespace will be rules neutral, hopefully 4e and 5e players will be able to continue playing there now that WotC canceled their beta.
Gary Teter just posted pictures used in his presentation demonstrating the VTT. And Lisa Stevens talks about free and paid content.
EDIT: oops, sorry, Sage, I was writing this post when you posted your request above. |
"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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Kajehase
Great Reader
Sweden
2104 Posts |
Posted - 11 Jul 2012 : 17:11:46
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| So... based on reports from PaizoCon, there may be an Alkenstar module in the making (probably a Pathfinder Society Scenario). Get your guns ready ladies and gentlemen, it's time to form a posse! |
There is a rumour going around that I have found god. I think is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.
Terry Pratchett |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 12 Jul 2012 : 01:57:45
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Originally posted by Kajehase
So... based on reports from PaizoCon, there may be an Alkenstar module in the making (probably a Pathfinder Society Scenario). Get your guns ready ladies and gentlemen, it's time to form a posse!
I guess I'd better get back to reading Ed's original PATHFINDER serial based in Alkenstar, eh?  |
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Ashe Ravenheart
Great Reader
USA
3252 Posts |
Posted - 12 Jul 2012 : 13:05:34
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Originally posted by Ashe Ravenheart
It's probably been mentioned already, but I'd like to take the time to point out that Wayfinder #7 is out on the Paizo website. It's free, and there's a couple names you might recognize on the contributors.
Just sayin'.
Okay, subtlety didn't work, time to break out the big pimpin' foam fingers.
Why, look! There's the new issue of the Wayfinder magazine and, by jove, a certain Candlekeep scribe has gotten his first published piece in it! (Page 8, in fact!) |
I actually DO know everything. I just have a very poor index of my knowledge.
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Brimstone
Great Reader
USA
3290 Posts |
Posted - 12 Jul 2012 : 13:30:49
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Who? |
"These things also I have observed: that knowledge of our world is
to be nurtured like a precious flower, for it is the most precious
thing we have. Wherefore guard the word written and heed
words unwritten and set them down ere they fade . . . Learn
then, well, the arts of reading, writing, and listening true, and they
will lead you to the greatest art of all: understanding."
Alaundo of Candlekeep |
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Ashe Ravenheart
Great Reader
USA
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Kajehase
Great Reader
Sweden
2104 Posts |
Posted - 12 Jul 2012 : 19:53:51
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Originally posted by Brimstone
Who?
Not me! I got my first in the Absalom issue. |
There is a rumour going around that I have found god. I think is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.
Terry Pratchett |
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LastStand
Learned Scribe
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Posted - 12 Jul 2012 : 19:59:27
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Originally posted by Ashe Ravenheart
quote:
Originally posted by Ashe Ravenheart
It's probably been mentioned already, but I'd like to take the time to point out that Wayfinder #7 is out on the Paizo website. It's free, and there's a couple names you might recognize on the contributors.
Just sayin'.
Okay, subtlety didn't work, time to break out the big pimpin' foam fingers.
Why, look! There's the new issue of the Wayfinder magazine and, by jove, a certain Candlekeep scribe has gotten his first published piece in it! (Page 8, in fact!)
Congrats! |
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Quale
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 18 Aug 2012 : 14:23:03
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| Did you hear about the new adventure paths, the first one will involve Baba Yaga and Irrisen, after that the crusade AP against the demons in Mendev. I skipped all the APs after Kingmaker, this one has potential, hope it won't be just hack and slash Diablo. |
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Ayunken-vanzan
Senior Scribe
Germany
657 Posts |
Posted - 18 Aug 2012 : 15:27:26
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| Extra for this AP they will be designing "mythic level rules", which are not just rules for playing Level 20-x, but a way to pursue an epic destiny already from Level 1 on onwards. It should be a way to simplify high level play (or let a group of two play an adventure for four players). Playtest will start in about a month. |
"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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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
15724 Posts |
Posted - 24 Aug 2012 : 04:50:30
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Bought the Inner Sea Guide at Gencon; definitely worth the $50.
I have to say, the setting reminds me of both FR and Wilderlands of High Fantasy. The 'vibe' is most certainly FR (and apparently their campaign world began with a Spellplague, or rather, just got over one). How very interesting. {smirk}
I am getting a kick out of all the derivativeness (an empire left in the ruins of crashed flying cities?). The whole things remonds me of what I am trying to do right now - a massively homebrewed version of the Forgotten Realms.
Not knocking it - they made many of the same changes I would have (like the way they split the main campaign area in two). I'd like to see something similar to the Pathfinder society in 5eFR (I used the 'Wayfarers Guild', which was associated with the churches of Oghma & Deneir, and Candlekeep).
I also heard a lot about PF rules at Gencon (I only still have the free beta). I really like how folks describes 'haunts' to me (ghostly traps). I hope the 5e rules guys take a look at some of what they did. Not that they should copy it, but there are some great innovations in there. |
"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me" --- Dudley Field Malone
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Ayunken-vanzan
Senior Scribe
Germany
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Posted - 24 Aug 2012 : 06:23:35
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I think haunts are a most welcome invention. They were introduced with Pathfinder #2 "The Skinsaw Murders" (Rise of the Runelords Adventure Path), and they are good way to build a truly haunted house. Before, you would place a few traps here and there, a ghost in the attic, a skeleton in the locker, and a zombie on the stairs, but this would make such a "haunted house" quite like your ordinary dungeon. By haunts you can really summon the atmosphere such a spooky places deserves, and it's no your ordinary dungeon delve.
If you can, try to get the Rise of the Runelords Anniversary Edition. |
"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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Kajehase
Great Reader
Sweden
2104 Posts |
Posted - 24 Aug 2012 : 08:45:18
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And the best source for the final (?) version of haunts (there's been a change or two since Skinsaw Murders is in the GameMastery Guide, or, if you're more tolerant to reading on a screen than I am, the PRD, where you can check out all the Pathfinder rules for free.
(Geez, I sound like I'm selling the stuff.) |
There is a rumour going around that I have found god. I think is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.
Terry Pratchett |
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Ayunken-vanzan
Senior Scribe
Germany
657 Posts |
Posted - 24 Aug 2012 : 11:04:13
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| "Skinsaw Murders" in the Anniversary Edition is updated to the GameMastery Guide's haunts rules. |
"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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