Announced! Cover image is a mockup.
What does -EX mean? All the others I see are numbers, like 3-17.
What does -EX mean? All the others I see are numbers, like 3-17.
Exclusive. It's the 4 star GM/Venture-Captain exclusive scenario for the season. For the first year you have to track down one of the above to be able to play it, or be one of the above to receive it.
EDIT: Also, Venture-Lieutenants and Paizo staff would be included in that list.
The -EX modules are the special ones that are limited in who can run them for the first year they're available. From the product description above:
"The Cyphermage Dilemma" is an exclusive adventure to be run only by 4-star Pathfinder Society GMs, Venture-Captain and Venture-Lieutenant campaign volunteers, and Paizo staff for its first year.
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For those who will GM this scenario, I suggest you do some research on Riddleport if you are not already familiar. Paizo's produced a good amount of material on this city, including sections of the Second Darkness Player's Companion and in the first chapter of the Second Darkness Adventure Path, Shadow in the Sky. Using the maps, pictures and personalities from these supplements can bring Riddleport to life and make an impression on the players so they know they aren't just doing another generic mission.
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When will this scenario be available to qualified GMs? I assumed it would be released with the other scenarios last night.
Sorry Doug, it says it's only available for 4-star GMs, VC's and VL's. 5-star GMs must be excluded.
When will this scenario be available to qualified GMs? I assumed it would be released with the other scenarios last night.
Per the product description:
Will be available for purchase approximately Wed, Feb 27, 2013.
You've got another year until it's available for general consumption, but I'm not sure when it will be available for qualified GMs.
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Getting three scenarios done this month along with some other high-priority stuff in the pipeline meant this scenario has been delayed a few days. If someone qualifies to run it prior to public release next year (4- or 5-star GM, venture-captain, venture-lieutenant, Paizo staff) who is scheduled to run it in the next few days, please email me or send me a private message and I'll do what I can to get it to you. I expect it to be in qualified GMs' downloads within the next few days, but perhaps not before the weekend.
Thanks Mark! You're the best! ;-)
Now available to 4/5 star GM's and Venture Officers near you!
Sylvan? SYLVAN?!
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I am disappointed that again we have a scenario filled with humanoid opponents. Where are the monsters? Why couldn't the author have included an encounter with a devilfish, a reefclaw or a bunyip?
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Re: Doug,
As for the opponent spread, I had urged Patrick to do something other than humanoids, which was why he included the hounds in area D2, but yes, a bunyip would have been a fun addition. Perhaps, if we have more time for additional development before this becomes available to everyone we can readjust things to include one, but for now it is what it is.
Act 2, Room D2, sub-tier 4-5 should be quantity (2) to meet the listed CR 5.
I guessed what it meant quickly, but right now if you look, it says available Feb 27. Many will say that was a couple months ago and not think 9 months in future. A year hint might be worth it. And why do we have to wait so long? Not that I am killing off what I already have in my backlog at a couple games/month.
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And why do we have to wait so long? Not that I am killing off what I already have in my backlog at a couple games/month.
Pathfinder Society exclusives are, well, exclusive for their first year of release. If you want to play this before next February, your local venture-captain, venture-lieutenant, or 4- or 5-star GM can run it for you.
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We had to do the final fight with the idea that we all failed the mission and yet we were able to get around this by all opting to contribute to a raise dead. I'd like to know if this DM was correct in their statement that there wasn't any way to complete the mission without having to resort to the raise dead.
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That doesn't sound right to me. Mike Brock was my GM for this, so I'd say it's likely he understood it correctly.
In our case, we weren't surprised by the enemies, but were tricked into letting the main baddie go, in return for the safe return of the Cyphermage. She took the Cyphermage with her anyway, before pushing him overboard when her boat came under attack. We rescued the Cyphermage, but the enemy escaped. That still counted as a passed mission, albeit with a boon crossed off.
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** spoiler omitted **That doesn't sound right to me. Mike Brock was my GM for this, so I'd say it's likely he understood it correctly.
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Thank you. Without being able to read the scenario til it becomes available I'll have to rely on others answers and interpretations. I can see that every game situation could/would be different, yet to be told there was no way to complete the scenario any other way was a bit...
..disconcerting.
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As I think I was the GM who ran it:
A sidebar explaining that "if X dies, NPC Y will pay for the raise dead, but the party loses boon Z" might have been useful, as said boon is not worth the cost of a raise dead, even split 6 ways."
Overall, I was disappointed by the scenario, and I'm undecided about offering it at Owlcon 2013, for a variety of reasons.
I did both at the low teir with good ole cause fear.
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Coup de grace is a full-round action, and can't be readied. The magus can hold her action and start the coup de grace at the beginning of combat, but everybody would have a chance to react.
It would be better for her to use spell combat on the helpless scholar, since two blows should kill anybody. Regretably, she has no touch spells, so she can't use her class's signature cool ability.
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I recently played this adventure as a 1st level magus, and at the end I was able to get the BBEG's spellbook. Unfortunately, my GM has horrible hand writing, so I don't know what the last spell that he wrote down was. The spells I got that I know are burning hands, corrosive touch and magic missile. Would someone who has access to the module be able to post the 1st level spell list so that I could figure out what my GM wrote down?
Or, failing that, what it looks like he wrote was "Senibor". Is there a spell on that list that is similar to this? (the "e" in the spell might be a "c", and the "r" might be a "v", it looks like this: "/". It's impossible to tell.)
Thanks.
Here are her 1-2 spells:
1st - burning hands, corrosive touch, magic missle
And her 4-5 spells:
2nd - acid arrow, bull's strength, frigid touch
1st - burning hands, color spray, corrosive touch, magic missle, ray of enfeeblement