Come and hearken to the last installment of the Fortress of the Stone Giants from Paizo’s Rise of the Runelords Adventure Path. We slay Mokmurien and shed some dim light on the next leg of the plot!
Do you want headless giant necromancers? Hounds of Tindalos? Dwarven boogeymen? Then this is the session summary for you!
In the end, our brave heroes retire to Fort Ranek with loot, freed prisoners, Ravno’s missing sister, and some new scars in tow!
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We are plumbing the depths of the Fortress of the Stone Giants in Paizo’s Rise of the Runelords Adventure Path. Having snuck in via some underground caves, the combat with the giants, ogres, trolls, and other freakier creatures is getting more intense.
My character Valgrim the Summoner is really able to unload on the bad guys now, at least when our fearless monk and/or dragon shaman don’t just charge up into melee before he gets to go. I bet if our enemies were confused or blinded you wouldn’t be taking 100 points of damage in the first round boys!!! And you should hear them complain about my demon monkey slave. He teleports them around all day and then when he starts flinging just a little poo they get all snotty.
All of this and more awaits you – here’s the newest summary!
Oh, and check out Yenneck Grumman at level 10, fresh with a level of Warblade. We’re excited, Bruce seems to take a perverse pleasure in designing suboptimal characters up till now. He’s steppin’ out!
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Paizo Publishing has put out “Alpha Release 2” of their Pathfinder RPG today. For those of you who don’t know Paizo, they were the company that was producing Dragon Magazine and Dungeon Magazine for the last many years under license from Wizards. During that time they took the two magazines to their highest point ever, and their “Adventure Paths” in Dungeon were some of the best D&D adventures to ever see print.
And if you don’t know about Pathfinder, it’s an open game based on the open content from D&D 3.5e. Their goal is to take the game forward while maintaining back compatibility (D&D 4e is fundamentally different from 3.5e in many ways – no old rules content of any sort will port forward without substantial modification). It will be a fully open game, and they are conducting a fully open year-long playtest; the final Pathfinder will premiere at Gen Con 2009.
Our brave party forges deeper into the Fortress of the Stone Giants in Paizo’s Rise of the Runelords Adventure Path.
This time, my character Valgrim the Summoner finally gets to bind a demon! Frequently talked about in D&D but infrequently done, binding a demon to your will has its pros and its cons. He got a bar-lgura (from Fiendish Codex I), or as my party calls it “The Hellutang!”
And we get a little too much excitement – after a boring fight with redcaps, and our dragon shaman browbeating a kobold barbarian into joining us, we meet Xanesha the lamia matriarch for the last time! Ravno the Varisian takes his revenge on her for her abduction of his sister – but perishes himself in the process.
All of this and more awaits you – here’s the newest summary!
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It’s a bit late, but here’s the newest Rise of the Runelords session summary; the second game session of the fourth (of six) chapters overall, as we approach the Fortress of the Stone Giants!
Part III is happening today. I will be binding a creature from the outermost Hells and forcing it to serve me by helping to slay whatever weird semi-giant is in charge of all this nonsense!!!
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So how many of you have actually had a character that does some honest old school demon summoning? Well, wait no longer. Complete Scoundrel has a prestige class called the Malconvoker, which is a good person who tricks demons into fighting the other evil critters they face. Here’s Treantmonk20’s thread on the Wizards Character Optimization board on “Mastering the Malconvoker.” I chip in on good Planar Binding options. I have a related thread on all the legit 3.5e Summon Monster targets. My current character, Valgrim the Summoner, in the Rise of the Runelords Adventure Path from Paizo, is a malconvoker and loving it.
It’s official! Paizo Publishing is the gaming company that was publishing Dragon Magazine and Dungeon Magazine for years until WotC pulled their license. Since then they’ve been publishing the best D&D adventures on the market (and Dragon and Dungeon are languishing in low-content electronic-only hell on wizards.com).
Well, Wizards screwed around and screwed around; even after announcing that they’d get the license and rules to third party publishers (for $5k a head) they never executed on it. So now Paizo has decided to fork D&D by creating a RPG called the Pathfinder RPG based on 3.5e via the OGL. The “alpha” version of it is freely available – in fact, they say once they start selling the beta sometime around Gen Con it’ll still be available freely as a PDF. The beta will be an open beta for a year and the “final” version will launch in August of 2009. They are also launching the Pathfinder Society, which sounds like a competitor to the RPGA.
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