Pathfinder Rules Musings – Fortification

“Knife him in the gut!” “I tried!  His armor stopped it!” That is how the Fortification ability is suppose to work in Pathfinder (and 3.x), here are the actual rules as written: Fortification: Th[...]
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Enter the Fan

Warning: This post may or may not contain some factual inaccuracies. These character build presentations are usually Jerall’s domain – but this time around I can’t hold it back anymore. I’m going [...]
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[Carrion Crown] Character Creation Comes the Inquisitor

After a suitable period of mourning for the prolapsed Masks of Nyarlathotep campaign, the group is embarking on a Pathfinder adventure path called Carrion Crown. Set in the region of Ustalav, I gather it’s fraught [...]
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Zeebo Kantelleki

Male gnome rogue 5 NE Small humanoid Init +6; Senses low-light vision; Perception +8 DEFENSE AC 19, touch 13, flat-footed n/a (+2 Dex, +1 size, +6 armor) hp 35 (5 HD; 5d8+5) Fort +2, Ref +6, Will +2; +1 save vs. illusion[...]
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Borderland of Adventure: The Shadowed Keep III

At the end of last session, we left the PCs lurking in Perrin’s  Bluff as they reflected on their experiences and trained to become more proficient in their respective professions. In the five weeks that they rest[...]
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Skullport Tales: Actual Play 18/19

Continuing from our last report, the party and their new friend ### wander into the city of Longsaddle to stop for the night. It’s quiet. Way too quiet. The party is a bit jumpy, knowing that they’re apparent[...]
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Reality Makes the Best Fantasy: Courtesans

Warning: this article deals with issues of sex. In the battle for survival and power, people use their available resources to make the connections they need and get the things that they want. Among many of the tools used[...]
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Raging Swan Press releases So What’s The Pirate Ship Like, Anyway?

This week, Raging Swan Press is proud to announce the release of So What’s The Pirate Ship Like, Anyway? a Pathfinder Roleplaying Game compatible GM’s RESOURCE by Creighton Broadhurst designed to add colour and flavo[...]
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Raging Swan released So What’s The Human Called, Anyway?

This week, Raging Swan Press is proud to announce the release of So What’s The Human Called, Anyway? a Pathfinder Roleplaying Game compatible GM’s RESOURCE by Creighton Broadhurst. If you are as crap at naming NPCs a[...]
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News from Around the Net: 3-FEB-2012

February!?! Where’d January go? Geesh! Here in Colorado, the snow started to fly last night and we are in the first real winter storm in 2012. What does that mean for yours truly? Not much really… I work from[...]
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review: kobold quarterly 20

Metric: Kobolds.  They've proven their worth even in these straitened times.  One of nature's survivors and what's this - next issue they can go into a tavern?  Must be doing something... Click the title [...]
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Divine Favor: The Inquisitor

This part of the divine favor series from Open Design is 20 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial/ToC and 1 page SRD, leaving 17 pages of content for the Inquisitor, so let's check out what we get, shall we? [...]
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Book of Beasts: Monsters of the Shadow Plane

The first of the supplements from Jon Brazer Enterprises for the upcoming Shadowsfall-products centred on the shadow plane, the latest Book of Beasts (the predecessor made it on my top-10-2011-list) is 52 pages long, 1 p[...]
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Divine Favor: the Paladin

This installment of Open Design's Divine Favor-series is 20 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial/ToC, 1 page SRD, leaving 17 pages of content, so let's check it out! [...]
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NeoExodus: A House Divided Campaign Setting

This pdf from Louis Porter Design is 166 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial, 4 pages ToC, 1 page SRD, 2 pages char-sheet, 2 pages mini-monster-sheets, 1 page condition tracker, 1 page combat & initiati[...]
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Obsidian Eclipse Book 2: Root and Branch

This adventure/sourcebook from Louis Porter Design is 27 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial/SRD, 1 page ToC, 3 pages of advertisements, leaving 21 pages of content, so let's check this installment of Obsidi[...]
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My points of light…

Who knew that former US President George H. W. Bush was a Game Master, and a groundbreaking pioneer at that! He spoke about points of light campaigns in 1989 almost twenty years before D&D 4th edition. What’s that[...]
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Jade Regent Chapter 1, The Brinewall Legacy, Session 1

Welcome to the first chapter of our Jade Regent campaign, The Brinewall Legacy! Our neophyte adventurers in Sandpoint are drawn into long-hidden secrets by their friends, relatives, and loved ones, all linked to Sandpoin[...]
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EN World Review – Review of They Shall Be Paid In Coin of the Realm by Taurus Twelve

Happy Humpday, fellow gamers!  We’re halfway to the weekend, and this week cannot get over soon enough to please me.  I’ve got not only my regular local Friday night game this week, but also my bi-monthly D&D [...]
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The Sinister Secrets of Silvermote

This adventure from Total Party Kill Games is 67 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1page editorial, 1 page SRD, leaving a whopping 64 pages of content! Not bad at all, so let's check out the dread laboratory of Temerlyth, [...]
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10 Luckbringer feats

By Thilo Graf This pdf from Rite Publishing is 5 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page SRD, 1 page advertisement, leaving 2 pages for the 10 feats, so let’s check them out! Steven D. Russell’s Luckbringer is[...]
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#1 With a Bullet Point: 7 Time Thief/Time Warden Feats

This pdf from Super Genius Games is 3 pages long, 1 page front cover/introduction, 1 page SRD, leaving 1 page of content: [...]
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Naming Conventions

  I’m not sure if there’s any thorn that sticks in the side of Game Masters more than coming up with unique, believable names. When we succeed, it’s glorious; our friends remember the names of thei[...]
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Race Relations in Dungeons & Dragons

In our current Pathfinder campaign, my wife Katie plays halflings. She’s worked out this wonderful, fairy tale backstory about a wolverine that fall in love with a halfling, and had a sorcerer turn him into a halfl[...]
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The Sinking: Animation

This installment of "The Sinking" from 0one Games is 15 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page SRD, 1 page editorial, 1 page ToC, 1 page advertisement and 1 page back cover, leaving 9 pages of content, so let's check out[...]
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Death in the Spindleflow Marsh

This free little adventure from Headless Hydra Games is 11 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1/2 a page editorial, 2 pages of advertisements and 1 page SRD, leaving 6 1/2 pages of content. [...]
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[Review] Kobold Quarterly 20

“”Do not throw the arrow which will return against you. - Kurdish Proverb“ - Civilization IV tech quote The kobold mines have produced a new issue of Kobold Quarterly. Issue 20 takes a look at archers,Â[...]
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Kobold Quarterly #14 for Free!

So, do you read Kobold Quarterly? It’s pretty great and has stuff from Pathfinder, 4e and AGE. Also, non-crunch stuff. Still not sure? Well, it’s your lucky day. Download Kobold Quartlery #14 for FREE up unti[...]
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Tuesday Magic Item – Dragonpoint

Our contact was furtive, more so that usual for a dealing in black market magical weapon, which said something.  One he was certain that we were unobserved and he had lit a ward candle.  “Let me see the money,[...]
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#1 With a Bullet Point: 9 Armiger Feats

This pdf from Super Genius Games is 3 pages long, 1 page introduction/front, 1 page SRD, leaving 1 page for the 9 new feats of the Armiger. Let's check it out! [...]
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[Pathfinder] The Oracle of Lore

Sadly, Varen, my Jade Regent monk died an ignoble death at the hands (or proboscis) of some giant vermin (my group’s first PC death in the AP). To keep things rolling, my GM (and co-blogger) allowed me to reroll as[...]
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Skullport Tales: Interlude

Zeebo had watched the world burn. He had seen nations laid waste by dragons. He had watched the dwarves become enslaved as their cantons were overrun by orcs. He had walked through cities ruled over by demons. He had wat[...]
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Kobold Quarterly #14

After posting that this issue is available free until February 14, 2012, I relieved it was an issue I hadn’t reviewed. So here we go. For Pathfinder in this issues, there is the fully statted-out Prince of Wolves f[...]
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Monster Monday: Ossein Giant

This statuesque giant has tan skin. Its hair is braided into a ponytail, and jewelry made of bone adorns it. Ossein giants are sometimes referred to as bone giants. By using their mental abilities, these giants can manip[...]
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TrollTips #4: 5 ways to get started that aren’t in a tavern.

“You all meet in a tavern…” Ugh! Chances are that you’re probably already groaning. Getting started with an RPG campaign can be fun, but this old trope needs to be retired. Here are 5 alternate wa[...]
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Van Graaf’s Journal of Adventuring

This pdf from Mongoose Publishingis 142 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial, 1 page advertisement, 1 page SRD and 1 page back cover, leaving 137 pages of content, so let's check out what Van Graaf's tome has[...]
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The Spirit of the White Wyvern

This adventure from 0one Gamesis 34 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial/ToC, 1 page SRD, 1 page advertisement and 1 page back cover, leaving 29 pages of content for the adventure, so let's check it out [...]
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Supplement Review: Caves & Caverns (PFRPG) by Creighton Broadhurst and David Posener from Raging Swan Press

Just about every fantasy campaign I’ve ever played in has involved a cave system or cavern at one time or another. And though I’m a fan of dungeons, I really like it when there’s more of a natural eleme[...]
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Grab Kobold Quarterly 14 for free!

The kobold overlords have decided to give their Summer/Gen Con 2010 issue, KQ 14, away for free! Pop over to the Kobold Quarterly store and use the following coupon code KoboldWelcome at the checkout. This offer runs fro[...]
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Review – True Halflings

True Halflings is a resource for an alternate type of halflings, one perhaps more true to their original literary roots.  If more humble and homebody sort of halflings are welcome in your campaign, this is the supplemen[...]
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Sorcerer’s Options: Beyond Bloodlines

This pdf from Super Genius Games is 11 pages long, 2/3 of a page front cover, 1 page editorial & SRD, leaving 9 1/3 pages of content for the sorcerer. [...]
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Mythic Menagerie: Faeries of the Fringe

This installment of the Mythic Menagerie-series from Super Genius Games is 15 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page introduction, 1 page editorial/SRD, leaving 12 pages of content for the new fey, so let's check them ou[...]
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Pattern Seekers – Episode 7: Gold, Gold, Gold (Part 2)

Our heroes are on their way out of the mines when Pho stops and bristles at somethingahead.  Thea calls on people to stop and Dr Martin see a trio of black circular stones on the ground ahead and rushes forward to bottl[...]
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Reavers on the Seas of Fate – Season Two, Twentieth Session

Twentieth Session (18 page pdf) – “From Shore To Sea” – The crew drops into the village of Blackcove to check in on their old buddy Jaren the Jinx. Apparently his jinxiness has gone nuclear as te[...]
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So What’s the NPC Like Anyway?

This pdf from Raging Swan Press is 15 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page blank inside of the front cover, 3 pages introduction, editorial foreword and ToC, 1 page SRD, 1 page advertisement and 1 page back cover, leav[...]
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30 Haunts for Kaidan

This installment of Rite Publishing's #30-series takes us to Kaidan. It's a whopping 28 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial, 1 page ToC, 4 pages advertisement, 1 page back cover and 1 page SRD, leaving 19 pa[...]
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What Pathfinder gets right, part one

To hear the fanboys talk you would think that Pathfinder does everything right and there is nothing to fault in Paizo’s premier role-playing game. There’s a lot of truth to that too; Pathfinder does at awful [...]
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Jade Regent Character Creation Rules

Here’s the rules we are using for our Jade Regent campaign from our GM Paul, with some explanations from me. Allowed Rulebooks APG is in, the Ultimate books are out (although during the campaign you will have the c[...]
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New Monster – Deep Miner

DEEP MINER A sickly green glow lights the corridor as an emaciated specter of a dwarven miner emerges from the wall.  The wreckage of a dwarven soul mutters to himself, his eyes unfocused until he sees the gold ring on [...]
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Borderland of Adventure: The Shadowed Keep II

At the end of last session, we left our heroes standing over the bloodied corpses of their bandit enemies. Although victorious, the party were much weakened by their struggle. Kemmo wanted to leave immediately while the[...]
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