So, I’m playing in a Pathfinder game again. (Yeah, I know; just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.) It’s simple math, but I’m surprised there’s no core chart for the progression of Pathfinder’s Power Attack feat, which is only really a problem because I’m lazy and have a character who’s using … More [Pathfinder] Power Attack Progression
So, this one is actually a surprise: Wizards has partnered up with WizKids to produce a line of pre-painted plastic Dungeons & Dragons miniatures. Didn’t Wizards spend years trying to sustain their own line of plastic pre-painted D&D minis? I have a pile of them from when I was big into 3.5, though the product … More Wizards + WizKids = D&D Pre-Painted Minis
Seeing Serpent’s Skull on sale for the Paizo 10th Anniversary Sale got me thinking about the campaign again, and gave me some incentive to finish this post. Along with Second Darkness, Serpent’s Skull is probably the worst official Adventure Path written. That doesn’t mean it’s terrible or unplayable, but that it has more requirements and … More Improving Serpent’s Skull
One thing’s for sure, Paizo has kept up an impressive quality level on its world-building supplements, keeping its Chronicles/Campaign Setting books on the same bar as the best 3.5 supplements—and often raising that bar. I found the various 3.x “fluffier” books hit or miss, and got into the habit of avoiding them. So it’s been … More RPG Review: Pathfinder – Distant Worlds
Turns out this will be my last, or second to last, post about the Serpent’s Skull adventure path. The reason the last recap took… three months to type is because the game’s been slipping away for a while now. Part of it is on the player end. We started with a large-ish group, six, went … More “Why Did It Have To Be Snakes?”
The last act of module two turned out to be the shortest; surprisingly, the first part (in Eledar) was nearly as long as the race, which just seemed to buzz by in a couple of sessions. Taizon was a letdown for the players. Part of the problem was that they confused it with Saventh Yhi, … More Serpent’s Skull: Racing to Ruin (3) The Terrors of Taizon
Oh, Cayden Cailean. Thank you for taking the Test of the Starstone in order to ponder your cruel Objectivist reality whilst drunk.
Leaving Eleder begins the first major railroad section of the Path—choo! cho0! Racin’ the Rails! It’s a linear segment involving a number of set-piece encounters, and however many random encounters that you choose to insert. The goal: get to the ruin (har) of Taizon before everyone else. As written, that’s not as hard as it … More Serpent’s Skull: Racing to Ruin (2) The Race
Continuing on with some simple conversions of the “quick” templates at the back of the Monsternomicons (by Privateer Press, which were awesome, and I wish they’d either made more or updated them for Pathfinder). Next up, the alpha leader. Pretty standard staple template, it’s a good way to make a creature a semi-unique boss or … More Pathfinder Conversions: Pack Alpha Quickplate
I loved how Pathfinder simplified templates into the “fast template” format at the end of the book; it freed up a lot of space by compacting the more banal ones (celestial, fiendish, advanced, etc.). I loved them even better when Privateer Press was putting them at the end of their Monsternomicon books. Those were technically … More Pathfinder Conversion: Deep-Dwelling Quickplate
Logic is my Virgin Sacrifice to Reality 