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Kuje
Great Reader
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 Posted - 03 Oct 2008 : 17:23:44
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Honestly, you don't need the mechanic book to make use of the campaign guide. There is some mechanics in the campaign guide, of course, but there's not a lot of them and the book is mostly just lore.
As to the difference between the Gazz and the Campaign, the Gazz is a smaller book that could be used to give you, or the players, an intro to the setting. I'd consider it more like a player's book that gives summary of the different lands/deities/etc while the Campiagn book expands on that and gives you, if you DM, tons more info about the lands, their rulers, their beliefs, their customs, the deities, the history, etc.
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Originally posted by Ardashir
I'll try for the Gazetteer & the 'new version of the game' (3.75, you've been calling it here on the boards?) before the campaign setting proper, but I'll almost certainly get the big book too. First I'm going for the 'Darkmoon Vale' series.
But perhaps you can help me -- what are the main differences between the Gazetteer and the Campaign Guide? And can you give a basic rundown on what the Gazetteer contains?
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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 - 03 Oct 2008 : 18:37:18
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Coming Soon: Open Call for Pathfinder Society Scenarios
Thursday, October 2, 2008
** Warning: if you wish to avoid possible spoilers about future Pathfinder Society scenarios, do not read this blog post. **
Good news! Next week we begin our first open call for Pathfinder Society scenarios. What do we mean by "open call?" We mean:
1. Not every scenario we release is written via the open call process
2. Outline submissions are based on summaries, rather than true open calls
Rules for submitting Pathfinder Society scenario outlines are as follows:
1. Based on a summary (or summaries) posted on the Paizo daily blog as well as on the Pathfinder Society page, write a 750-word outline following the format of already posted and available-for-sale scenarios.
2. By the due date, email said summary to josh@paizo.com with the subject line [Scenario Name] Submission.
3. Include your full legal name, email address, physical mailing address, and a contact phone number at the top of your submission—this text does not count toward your word count.
4. Once all submissions are in, the Pathfinder Society coordinator will take two weeks to review submissions and select an author for each open scenario. You will receive an email confirming receipt—please allow 72 hours for a response before resending your submission. The coordinator will attempt to respond to all submitters with feedback, but this may not always be possible.
5. If you are selected to write a scenario, you will be emailed instructions that include your word count, due date, and contract.
6. Failing to follow any of the instructions above will immediately disqualify you from the open call.
The open call that starts next week is for Pathfinder Society scenarios #17 and #18—the January March releases. The full schedule for this submission period is as follows:
10/9—Open call begins with summaries posted on the Paizo Blog and at paizo.com/pathfindersociety
10/17—Submissions due by 11:59 P.M. Pacific Time
10/31—Submissions review completed
11/3—Decision announced on messageboards and paizo.com/pathfindersociety after authors are chosen and notified
While we won't begin accepting scenario outlines until next week, here are a few hints to get your brain juices flowing:
Scenario 17—Spiders & Pirates
Scenario 18—Vampires & Vaults
Good luck!
Joshua J. Frost
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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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Ardashir
Senior Scribe
USA
544 Posts |
Posted - 07 Oct 2008 : 18:17:56
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Originally posted by Kuje
Honestly, you don't need the mechanic book to make use of the campaign guide. There is some mechanics in the campaign guide, of course, but there's not a lot of them and the book is mostly just lore.
As to the difference between the Gazz and the Campaign, the Gazz is a smaller book that could be used to give you, or the players, an intro to the setting. I'd consider it more like a player's book that gives summary of the different lands/deities/etc while the Campiagn book expands on that and gives you, if you DM, tons more info about the lands, their rulers, their beliefs, their customs, the deities, the history, etc.
Thanks for the post and the explanations, they're very helpful. |
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Kuje
Great Reader
USA
7915 Posts |
Posted - 08 Oct 2008 : 22:48:44
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Planewalker posted a interview with Todd about Golarion's planes:
http://www.planewalker.com/081007/pathfinder-planes-interview-with-todd-stewart |
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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Purple Dragon Knight
Master of Realmslore
Canada
1796 Posts |
Posted - 10 Oct 2008 : 05:32:05
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Got Pathfinder Chronicles Campaign Setting yesterday...
WHOA!
I'll have at least a year's worth of canon and new lore to read!!! This mofo is THICK!!! and the font is SMALL!!  |
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Ashe Ravenheart
Great Reader
USA
3249 Posts |
Posted - 10 Oct 2008 : 13:33:34
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| *sniff* It's a beautiful thing, isn't it PDK? And to have so many different cultures and peoples. *siiiigh* It truly reminds me of the first time I cracked open ol' Grey Box. |
I actually DO know everything. I just have a very poor index of my knowledge.
Ashe's Character Sheet
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Kuje
Great Reader
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Ayunken-vanzan
Senior Scribe
Germany
657 Posts |
Posted - 11 Oct 2008 : 08:14:28
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I have enjoyed the two parts of the interview very much. The coming book about Pathfinder's multiverse will offer much lore for fans of planar settings, I think.
On a side note, Paizo's blog has a big chart of Golarion's solar system in the entry from the 6th of October. And in the entry from the 10th of October there are two pictures from the (not so) lovely side of the elven empire of Kyonin which has a demon problem in its southern parts. |
"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 - 24 Oct 2008 : 11:02:39
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News from Paizo:
The Pathfinder Bestiary (OGL) and
The Pathfinder Chronicles: Princes of Darkness—Book of the Damned, Volume 1
"Gods and Magic" and "Elves of Golarion" have both shipped yesterday, so they are avaiblable now.
And from the Paizo Blog: Prestiges Classes will be released next Monday as free download for playtesting.
Edit: No, it wasn't enough yet:
Pathfinder Chronicles: Dungeon Denizens Revisited
All you want ever to know about otyughs, purple worms, mimics, gelatinous cubes, rust monsters, owlbears, and ropers. (And much more.) |
"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 24 Oct 2008 14:03:01 |
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Ardashir
Senior Scribe
USA
544 Posts |
Posted - 24 Oct 2008 : 21:00:22
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Originally posted by Ayunken-vanzan
News from Paizo:
The Pathfinder Bestiary (OGL) and
The Pathfinder Chronicles: Princes of Darkness—Book of the Damned, Volume 1
"Gods and Magic" and "Elves of Golarion" have both shipped yesterday, so they are avaiblable now.
And from the Paizo Blog: Prestiges Classes will be released next Monday as free download for playtesting.
Edit: No, it wasn't enough yet:
Pathfinder Chronicles: Dungeon Denizens Revisited
All you want ever to know about otyughs, purple worms, mimics, gelatinous cubes, rust monsters, owlbears, and ropers. (And much more.)
Woohoo, good news all! |
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Purple Dragon Knight
Master of Realmslore
Canada
1796 Posts |
Posted - 26 Oct 2008 : 01:50:37
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| Sweet... thanks Ayunken! |
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KnightErrantJR
Great Reader
USA
5402 Posts |
Posted - 26 Oct 2008 : 15:34:54
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Don't forget, if you are interested in the Pathfinder society at all, Pathfinder Chronicles: Seekers of Secrets--A Guide to the Pathfinder Society is also coming out:
Link!
Mod edit: shortened the page-stretching link. |
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
15724 Posts |
Posted - 27 Oct 2008 : 07:26:03
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Finally!
Now I have something to spend all my dirty, filthy money on, now that WotC isn't printing anymore FR products. 
I am SO glad Paizo is keeping the 3e torch burning, even if it does mean the eventual end of the Realms.
You know... when Hasbro finally decides D&D isn't worth the effort... |
"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
657 Posts |
Posted - 27 Oct 2008 : 11:13:50
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| I have looked through all my preorders and decided I will subscribe Pathfinder Chronicles as soon as my Pathfinder Chronicles Adventure Path Subscription is up and running. That will safe me money and the time I have to invest for securing that I don't miss any part of this goodness. |
"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 - 28 Oct 2008 : 06:09:08
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As announced, the Prestiges Classes Pathfinder style are avaiblable for download and playstesting.
As mentioned in the linked thread at Paizo - and since we had a discussion about spellcasting for assasssins somewhere here in the Keep - in this incarnation the assassin does not have spellcasting capabilities.
Oh, and of course there is no Red Wizard ...  |
"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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Purple Dragon Knight
Master of Realmslore
Canada
1796 Posts |
Posted - 28 Oct 2008 : 22:30:20
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Awesome! (downloading while I write this)  |
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Pandora
Learned Scribe
Germany
305 Posts |
Posted - 29 Oct 2008 : 08:49:48
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quote:
Originally posted by Ayunken-vanzan
As announced, the Prestiges Classes Pathfinder style are avaiblable for download and playstesting.
As mentioned in the linked thread at Paizo - and since we had a discussion about spellcasting for assasssins somewhere here in the Keep - in this incarnation the assassin does not have spellcasting capabilities.
Oh, and of course there is no Red Wizard ...
IMO the Dragon Disciple is wayy too powerful (7/10 spell levels plus d12 hit points plus tons of stat increases plus wings ...) like many of the changes made in Pathfinder. They seem to think that you can balance the classes better by giving them more power, but that makes them even more unstable when comparing them against each other. Luckily its still a beta and hopefully they will recognize this problem before the release. Some classes needed more style (Fighters and Barbarians for example) and others need more restrictions (casters) which could be "hidden" in style adjustments too.
Oh and one tiny bit that needs rewriting from the Eldritch Knight: In theory you could interpret the 10th level power in a way that enables you to cast several spells each round ... if you score many critical hits. |
If you cant say what youre meaning,
you can never mean what youre saying.
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
15724 Posts |
Posted - 29 Oct 2008 : 15:39:51
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Originally posted by Ayunken-vanzan
Oh, and of course there is no Red Wizard ...
In Golarion, you can play a Scarlet Sorceror instead. |
"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me" --- Dudley Field Malone
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Ashe Ravenheart
Great Reader
USA
3249 Posts |
Posted - 29 Oct 2008 : 17:03:37
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What I'd like to see from Pathfinder is a set of rules/guidelines on how to convert 3.5 classes/etc. to the Pathfinder rules. Most of it is basic, but I'd like something a bit more formal on how to qualify abilities of Prestige Classes between the two.
Regarding the Dragon Disciple, any time you put the word Dragon in any class or ability, it becomes über-powerful. So no real concerns there. |
I actually DO know everything. I just have a very poor index of my knowledge.
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Misery
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Posted - 17 Nov 2008 : 09:21:06
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Before I post to the prestige class thing, I wanted to say back on page 5 when people started talking about the big Warcraft/bunny ears on elves that before any of them did it, Record of the Lodoss Wars did it FIRST and BEST. Anime ears, yes, but they looked amazing.
... or maybe I'm just thinking about Pirotess in general ... ah who cares :D
The work on balancing things has an issue to it that has to be looked at from a 3.5 edition point of view. As a big selling point, they want this to be as 3.5 backwards compatible as possible.
Are all the core classes and PRC classes more powerful then before? Yep. But they kind of HAVE to be. A lot of the mid and later things released by WotC for 3.5 WAS powerful, far better then anything that came out with 3.5 core books. So they either redo all THAT stuff, or they just up the older stuff to keep up with the newer stuff.
Heck even as is, my little bro loves the new fighter from the Beta rules, but still finds more fun playing a Crusader or Warblade from Book of Nine Swords. Still, its at least decent now when comparing.
Yes theres a power creep coming on, but it almost HAD to be done.
On a side note, I love them getting rid of how they USED to do favored classes. XP penalty for not doing what they thought you should do? Laaaaame. I like it just giving you an extra HP or SP now if you do. Maybe thats just me though. |
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danbuter
Seeker
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Posted - 19 Nov 2008 : 00:52:10
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I am about halfway through the book (flipping around and reading interesting stuff). I really like this setting. I'm actually more excited about using this setting than I have been about any setting since 1e FR, when I was a kid. Don't know why, but Golarion just clicks for me. It has most of the things that I tend to shoehorn into any setting I run already, which makes my life easy.
My ONLY gripe is that there are a few too many decadent, falling-apart empires. One is all that is necessary. But from what I saw, different authors wrote different countries. Still, I am VERY happy with this book. I've already ordered all the other sourcebooks, though I am not getting the adventures, as I don't use 3e. |
Nothing beats the gray box!
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Kuje
Great Reader
USA
7915 Posts |
Posted - 05 Dec 2008 : 04:34:43
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They've released a magic item PDF:
http://paizo.com/download/pathfinder/PZO1110AE-MagicItemsWeb.zip |
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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KnightErrantJR
Great Reader
USA
5402 Posts |
Posted - 07 Dec 2008 : 00:50:14
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quote:
Originally posted by Kuje
They've released a magic item PDF:
http://paizo.com/download/pathfinder/PZO1110AE-MagicItemsWeb.zip
I love the new magic item rules, but I haven't done much to try them out yet. I really like the idea of having to make a check to create a magic item, and how that naturally flexes into the explanation of cursed items.
I also like the idea that without some of the key elements needed to make a magic item, you can still attempt to make it with an increase to the DC. While I'm running a Pathfinder game right now, I immediately started thinking about how you could apply the information from VGTATM to this, by allowing various elements to provide a bonus on the check to create the magic item. |
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KnightErrantJR
Great Reader
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Posted - 07 Dec 2008 : 00:52:07
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Oh, one of the people in my gaming group started up a site to be kind of the equivalent of the Hypertext d20 site. Its not quite as handily cross linked quite yet, but all of the core rules of the Beta are entered in at this point.
http://pfogc.com/ |
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Kuje
Great Reader
USA
7915 Posts |
Posted - 07 Dec 2008 : 02:18:42
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I skimmed the PDF, mostly the items themselves, but I didn't read the info in depth because reading a lot of text on the comp causes my eyes to ache. But the rules looked pretty interesting from what I skimmed.
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Originally posted by KnightErrantJR
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Originally posted by Kuje
They've released a magic item PDF:
http://paizo.com/download/pathfinder/PZO1110AE-MagicItemsWeb.zip
I love the new magic item rules, but I haven't done much to try them out yet. I really like the idea of having to make a check to create a magic item, and how that naturally flexes into the explanation of cursed items.
I also like the idea that without some of the key elements needed to make a magic item, you can still attempt to make it with an increase to the DC. While I'm running a Pathfinder game right now, I immediately started thinking about how you could apply the information from VGTATM to this, by allowing various elements to provide a bonus on the check to create the magic item.
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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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Quale
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 07 Dec 2008 : 10:23:01
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| God & Magic finally arrived, I particularly like Cayden Cailean, the drunken one, some of them nicely fit in FR |
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Lord Karsus
Great Reader
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Ayunken-vanzan
Senior Scribe
Germany
657 Posts |
Posted - 13 Dec 2008 : 10:21:35
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I think, yes, it is. I really like the cosmology with its onion-structure, with prime material and shadow plane as its twin core, and surrounded by the Maestrom with the Abyss.
As sources we have the PFCS with information on gods and planes. This month the Pathfinder Chronicles on Gods and Magic was published, and we expect the Pathfinder Chronicles on the Great Beyond (= Manual of the Planes) in April 2009. |
"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 - 14 Dec 2008 : 11:04:27
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And in case no-one's mentioned it somewhere else already, it seems that the last instalment of the Second Darkness Adventure Path will be written by some little-known guy called Brian Cortijo.
Congratulations Brian |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 14 Dec 2008 : 15:50:47
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Originally posted by Kajehase
And in case no-one's mentioned it somewhere else already, it seems that the last instalment of the Second Darkness Adventure Path will be written by some little-known guy called Brian Cortijo.
Congratulations Brian
Ooh, I wonder if there will be any Cormyr lore in there? |
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