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Interesting - what makes you think there will be a Pathfinder 2.0? Have they said or hinted at anything? Was the Mythic Adventures kind of the kickoff to it? I like Pathfinder as a player, but I'd hate to DM it (I DM'd a long 3.5E game and it was a chore to DM higher levels, and I think PF...

I live in the northeast, where there are no Circle K stores... but, whenever I go someplace that has one, I still think to myself, "strange things are afoot at the Circle K." Heck, I just did that a month ago when I was in Florida, and it's been almost 25 years since the original movie?

Bogus! :p

OK, I just finished Towers of Midnight, so I'm 2/3 of the way through the final trilogy. I thought Gathering Storm was very good, definitely an improvement over the previous books, though I did think Knife of Dreams was better than the books before it. The action was strong throughout, though...

I like that idea - I've never been a big fan of dipping into different classes just for one level.

I gave him XP for you.

Using 4E rules, or 3.5E or Pathfinder, or something else?

I actually thought 4E combats tended to run quicker than 3.5E combats - especially at higher levels where 3.5E had parties spending so much time buffing before combat and then debuffing the bad guys to start the combat. Of course, in 4E, you had conditions you needed to track, but that seemed a...

agreed - 1e and 2e was full of the 15 minute adventuring day, as was 3e. Cleric uses up his or her Cure Lt Wounds, and you're done. Don't want to risk getting caught outside of town if that happens. I don't love 4E, but a 15 minute adventuring day was very rare in the 2 year long campaign...

When I first ran a 4E practice adventure, I was disappointed with a solo I ran - Sinruth, the hobgoblin chieftain, a level 2 solo from early 4E days. A level 2 solo soldier with 185 hit points. However, his attack powers did next to nothing - he had two at-wills, one did 1d10+4 and the other...

I guess I've run enough friendly NPCs over the years that my players would be more surprised by a betrayal. The only time I really remember it not working was from Rise of the Runelords - the PC that won the admiration of Aldern Foxglove from that initial encounter immediately thought something...

Interesting - as a DM, I love the read-aloud text. The players know to pay attention when they get it and that it contains important material and sets the scene, unlike when I'm running an NPC that the players are not 100% sure they can trust and if their information is important or not. I...

Thanks for the good information DocSER. I'm definitely going to read more into the adventure, and also try to get a better feel for 5E. I'm also wondering how long the DV would fool my old group if they had no access to the actual adventure.

Walker - you can buy copies on eBay if you really really wanted it. The price has come down from GenCon week and the week after GenCon.

Agreed on Paizo - good customer service and doing things the right way has really helped them out. WotC - deserved or not - got a lot of bad publicity with the start of 4E. (I got burned out on 3.5E towards the end, and didn't see that PF had changed 3.5E enough to make it "fun" for the DM again.)

I think the difference between 3e and 4e adventures was that 3e had a boatload or three 3rd party adventures. 4e seemed much more limited, so bad to average adventures stood out a lot more. It's a lot easier to ignore poor work from a 3rd party.

I ran a 2 year long 4E campaign using Paizo Adventure Paths. I was looking for something that would be longer than your standard module where you gained 3-4 levels. I wanted something that could last for an entire campaign and didn't really see much that was appealing with the published 4E...

I didn't get the impression that the disguised villain (DV) is forcing the PCs in a certain direction and that they have no choice. The adventure makes it clear that the DV does nothing to arouse suspicion on itself while progressing through the swamp, while it tries to lead them to location...

Not sure about Under Ilefarn, but Dragonspear Castle starts in Daggerford, so I assume anything that helps flesh out Daggerford and the surrounding environs would be helpful.

I think that's a nod to old school D&D. I remember once we ended up locked in a cell back in 2E days. The strongest PC failed his "bend bars/lift gates" check, and each PC after that failed as well. The way the old rules were written, you could not try again until you hit the next level...