February 2008: Curse of the Crimson Throne Discussion

Voadam, looks like you've got a good start there. It's good to have your PC's direction nailed down.

With a cleric, knight, duskblade, and swashbuckler accounted for, that should give the other players a basis for creating their own characters.

Legildur, you're up next! What have you got cooking?

Also, I wanted to mention that although all the PC concepts are human so far, we've got the gamut of subraces (Varisian, Shoanti, Chelaxian) covered. I like the role-playing possibilities!

Hi all,

The final cover images for the CotCT player's guide and Pathfinder #7 have been posted on Paizo's website. I thought I'd share.

Ooooh, red!

So are there going to be other slots open? It's high time to either open recruiting or close it.

I think Malvoisin may be waiting until February 1st or even later to toss up a recruitment thread. He'd earlier mentioned adding a possible 1-2 players.

The issue of Pathfinder itself isn't slated to appear until March, at least according to paizo's product information. Here's a link to the product release info: Curse of the Crimson Throne

Malvoisin can attest to his intention better than I can, though.

(sorry, got distracted).

I'd be happy to have a crack at a wizard or sorcerer. Any indications about what might be a better fit for this sort of campagn? I'd have thought Wizard - maybe even a diviner...

kinem said:

So are there going to be other slots open? It's high time to either open recruiting or close it.

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kinem, the information Canadienne Bacon provided above is pretty much right on the money.

As of right now, things are still in the really early goings, just because we're still waiting for the adventure and the player's guide to be released. Initially, Paizo's website had said they were due for a February release, but that was recently changed to say March, 2008. I'm actually still (stubbornly) holding out hope that, as a subscriber, I may get access to PDF versions of the materials by sometime late in February, so I'm not changing the title of this thread...yet.

As for recruiting, it looks like we've already got a roster of Canadienne Bacon, Rhun, Voadam, stonegod, and Legildur. With my desire to cap the party size at 6 PCs, that leaves room for only one more. The reason I haven't yet opened recruiting for that sixth spot, is because I want to have the other five PCs nailed down (at least conceptually) first. Once that's done, I can ask prospective sixth players to offer up character concepts, and make my selection based on how well I think the offered concepts will balance with the other five PCs. I'm hoping we'll be at that point by about February 1st. When recruting does happen, it will probably be in a brand new thread, but I'll also announce it here.

Hope that clears everything up!

Legildur said:

(sorry, got distracted).

I'd be happy to have a crack at a wizard or sorcerer. Any indications about what might be a better fit for this sort of campagn? I'd have thought Wizard - maybe even a diviner...

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It's quite alright, sir, I knew you'd find your way back here eventually!

Considering the urban nature of the campaign, it seems likely that the party will have some sort of base of operations which would make it relatively easy to hole up and memorize spells. So, I would think the advantage would go to wizard over sorcerer for the larger repertoire of available spells. In fact, I could see a Diviner as being a pretty cool asset for this group, if that's what you'd like to go with. But, any type of wizard (generalist or specialist) would be excellent, with Rhun's duskblade available to supplement with some arcane magic of his own.

Here's the cover to Pathfinder #8, which contains part two of Curse of the Crimson Throne...entitled, 'Seven Days to the Grave.'