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Pathfinder: Magic Item of the River Nations

All week long, JBE is bringing you previews of the soon to be released Book of the River Nations: Complete Player’s Reference for Kingdom Building. Check out Monday’s, Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s previews. Today we look at the magic items fit for a ruler.

One of the first magic items we thought of a ring. Fantasy stories are filled with a ruler or something being made to kiss a ring. We we decided to give a mechanical bonus to someone kissing a ring. The Ring of the Respected King grants the wearer a +10 competence bonus to Bluff and Diplomacy for 10 minutes once someone (other than the wearer) kisses the ring. We’re just imagining someone coming to visit the ruler and the first thing they are made to do before addressing the character is to kiss the ring, allowing the player an easier time to lie to the person.

The next magic item is credited to my wonderful girlfriend who came up with this idea. The Game Board of the Strategist appears like a chess board with illusionary pieces that you direct. If two leaders of mass combat forces play a game, the respective armies they lead are granted a +1 enchantment bonus to their OM and DV.

Magic crowns were a popular idea here. We have 3 different crowns detailed within. The Crown of the Golden Empereror can turn the wearer into a gold dragon as well as protect the wearer with a mind blank spell.

That’s all we’ve got for today. Come back tomorrow to see our final preview.

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Pathfinder: Book of the River Nations Kingdom Building

With the Book of the River Nations: Complete Player’s Reference for Kingdom Building premiering soon, JBE is spending all week to share what is inside. Monday we shared the full cover art. Tuesday was the Table of Contents. Today, we’re delving into the heart of the book: the additions to the Kingdom Building section.

The Kingdom Building describes in detail how to, well, build a kingdom. The Kingdom’s Turn is the step by step process how to build your kingdom. This quick reference side bar inside is:

Upkeep Phase
Skip this Phase the first turn or whenever your kingdom is 0 hexes.
1. Determine Kingdom Stability – A stability check to reduce Unrest
2. Pay Consumption – Pay for kingdom’s upkeep
3. Fill Vacant Magic Item Slots – Randomly roll new magic items
4. Unrest – Lose a hex if Unrest is 11 or higher

Improvement Phase
1. Select Leadership – Fill or change leaders
2. Claim Hexes – Increase your kingdom size
3. Establish and Improve Cities – Start cities or build new buildings within a city
4. Build Roads – Add roads in your nation
5. Develop Open Space – Build farms or other improvements
6. Edicts – Set or change level of taxes, festivals and promotions

Income Phase
1. Deposits – Add your own wealth to the treasury
2. Withdrawals – Remove money from the treasury
3. Sell Valuable Item – Roll to see if an expensive magic item can be sold off
4. Income – Roll to determine taxes collected

Event Phase
1. Kingdom Event – Roll to determine which random event happens in your kingdom.

Those playing in kingdom building games already will notice one slight change in this process: Develop Open Space instead of Build Farmlands. Now building farms is one option among many options. Built on the system developed online (and used with permission), these options are now part of the core kingdom building rules. Some of the options are an Apiary for producing honey, an Aqueduct to deliver fresh water to cities and farms, a Fort to increase defenses of your outlying area and give you a staging area for mass combat battles, a Mine to help increase production of your kingdom’s mineral wealth, and a Reservoir to make use of large bodies of fresh water in your kingdom.

A completely new section covers Castle Additions. Now rulers can customize their castle to their heart’s content. Want a sprawling castle with lots of wings? Now you can do that. Do you want a Moat for your castle? That option is available. Or would you rather have your castle protected by Wards and contain an Anti-Scrying Room. That option is available to you.

That’s all we have for today. Come back tomorrow when we start describing Magic Items fit for a ruler.

Pathfinder: Book of the River Nations Table of Contents

With the Book of the River Nations: Complete Player’s Reference for Kingdom Building coming out soon, we’re doing previews all week for the new book. Yesterday, we released the coverart as wallpaper for your computer screen. Today we’re sharing the full Table of Contents. Without further ado, the TOC:

Chapters                                                            Page
1 Exploration                                                          3
2 Kingdom Building                                                 5
3 Mass Combat                                                     19
4 Feats                                                                 29
5 Spells                                                                 32
6 Organizations & Secret Societies                       37
7 Magic Items                                                        41

Tables                                                                  Page
1-1 Travel and Exploration Times                           3
1-2 How Big is a Hex?                                              4
2-1 Kingdom Improvements Per Month                    7
2-2 Kingdom Edicts                                                 15
2-3 Kingdom Events                                                16
3-1 Army Size                                                          23
3-2 Strategy Track                                                   24
4-1 Feat Summary                                                   30
6-1 Devout Healer                                                   37
6-2 King’s Eye                                                         39

Sidebars                                                                Page
Encounter Sites                                                         4
Order of Exploration                                                  4
Order of Phases in a Kingdom’s Turn                         6
Ruler Titles                                                                 8
Claiming Your Own Territory                                9
Preparing a City District Site                            10
Army Size and Build Points                             20
Why Such Large Vassal Armies? District Site        23
Mass Combat Summary District Site               24
Using Magic to Increase a Kingdom’s Statistics        32

Appendix: Kingdom Sheets                                      43

As you can see, several pages have increased content. The kingdom building section has 2 additional pages of content, the mass combat section has an additional page of content. And there’s a two page section of magic items that wasn’t there before. Tomorrow we’ll discuss what exactly is new in those section.

Pathfinder: Download Book of the River Nations Wallpaper

All week long, Jon Brazer Enterprises is going to be sharing little sneak peaks about the Book of the River Nations: Complete Players Reference for Kingdom Building, order today at your local game store. Stop back at JonBrazer.com each day to find out what new and cool things you will find in the book.

For today, we’re kicking it off by showing off the cover. Download the widescreen and standard screen wallpaper version of these awesome cover done by Luis Antonio Salas Lastra. Stop back tomorrow to see some new additions not currently in the PDFs!

JBE’s 2nd Anniversary Sale

Two years ago today, Jon Brazer Enterprises released our first product. To celebrate our anniversary, we’ve reduced our prices on every PDF that is over $1 by 20%.

Everything!

Pathfinder. Traveller. You name it. If it costs more than a dollar, we lowered it by 20%. See everything for sale at DriveThruRPG, RPGNow and at Paizo.

Thank you for being with us on a wonderful two year ride. We hope you will be with us every step of the way for the next two years.

Traveller: Your Life of Crime in a d66 List

You do the Crime, You do the Time. That’s the way it goes isn’t it. Once you’re out of jail you, have a story to tell and a history. Enrich that story with the latest d66 lists. First up is d66 Criminal Ship Names. Every good crime story has a ship in it somewhere. Whether it is the getaway cruiser, a blockade runner or a yacht designed to scam suckers out of credits, there is always a ship and that ship has to have a name. Get the best with d66 Criminal Ship Names.

As the next part of the story goes, you were caught and ordered to spend time in a detention center. Come up with the name on the spot with d66 Prison Facility Names. These names keep your story fresh and interesting as you just rattle off how you were sent from prison to prison because you were too dangerous.

While doing time in lockup, you earned yourself a nickname. d66 Prison Inmate Nicknames. Gives you your character’s nickname as well as the nicknames of everyone else you knew there. These nicknames make excellent allies, contacts and enemies from your former life.

And for those that have no interest in crime, we bring you d66 Vilani Names. The race that populates most of the Third Imperium need lots of and lots of names. This triple list special gives you a full list of Male Vilani Names, Female Vilani Names and Vilani Last Names for the price of two lists. A total of 108 names to mix and match in any order you want and to keep your players in NPCs for a long, long time.

Download these and other d66 lists today.

“Traveller” and the Foreven logo are Trademarks owned by Far Future Enterprises, Inc. and are used with permission. The Traveller Main Rulebook is available from Mongoose Publishing.

JBE is Going to PaizoCon

Its official as of earlier this afternoon! Jon Brazer Enterprises is going to PaizoCon! We are so excited. Our current plan is for me to run some games/seminars while the worlds greatest girlfriend works the vendor’s table.

So we’d like your input as to what we should do. Here are a few ideas we have:

Seminar – Designing your own Conquest Campaign: This seminar helps GMs to set up their own sandbox-style campaign,
Seminar – Monster Designer: Never designed a monster before? Join us as we design a monster together.
Game – River Kingdoms Diplomacy: Diplomatic actions can be tricky, but in the River Kingdoms they can be deadly. Your kingdom is frequently raided by thieves from across your border, in your neighboring country. How will you stop these invaders?
Game – Surviving the Worldwound: You join a regiment in the 5th crusade. Now you are the last survivors of that regiment. Will you make it home with so many miles of corrupted land and viscous forces standing in your way.

Please share your thoughts.

Pathfinder: Book of Beasts: Wandering Monsters 1 Released

Book of Beasts: Wandering Monsters 1 from Jon Brazer Enterprises describes new fierce and fantastic denizens for many campaigns. This fully bookmarked PDF includes 5 new monsters that provide players with new challenges and new difficulties to face. These monster include:

Blightdaemon (CR 4): daemon of disease that leaves a trail of death in its path,
Death Adept (CR 8): an undead priest and commander of the undead forces,
Mantian (CR 5): a mantis-looking magical creature with deadly poison stingers,
Remembrant (CR 3): a flying undead that remembers those that wronged it in life, and
Rock Ophidian (CR 3): a salamander-looking dragon that spits balls of acid at its dinner.

Enhance your world and your game with these monsters.

Book of Beasts: Wandering Monsters 1 is available at Paizo and RPGNow.com.

Pathfinder and associated marks and logos are trademarks of Paizo Publishing, LLC, and are used under license. See paizo.com/pathfinderRPG for more information on the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.

Traveller: An Ocean of d66 Lists

Just in time for your weekend Traveller game, Jon Brazer Enterprises brings you four new d66 lists for your game.

The first one is for players as much as Referees. d66 Gambling Games. Every gambler needs their preferred way to potentially make a fortune and every world needs its own way unique way to lose big to your bookie. d66 Gambling Games can give you inspiration for your game and for your character. Can your character pick the winner in every game from Asteroid Orbiting to a Zero-G Joust.

Next we have d66 Large Bodies of Water. Many worlds have oceans and every last one has a name. Bodies of water are important for life as well as transportation. Give those bodies of water names a name with significance like Zhodani People’s Ocean or a characteristic like the Hundred Island Sea.

As always we bring you more ship names. This month we have d66 Research Ship Names 2. Name that science vessel something a scientist would be proud to make his big discovery in. Perhaps genetic research is done in the Helix or protection of endangered species is done in the Space Shepherd.

Finally we bring you the next installment in our alien name series. Written by Albert “GamerDude” Beddow, Jr., we present d66 K’kree Names. These two lists are for the price of one. It presents both male and female K’kree names for your game in an easy to pronounce format. Get the best names in space with the d66 lists. Look for Sword World Names as the release of the alien book gets closer.

For more information on these and other d66 lists, goto JonBrazer.com.

“Traveller” and the Foreven logo are Trademarks owned by Far Future Enterprises, Inc. and are used with permission. The Traveller Main Rulebook is available from Mongoose Publishing.

The Brazer Bulletin at the Robot Viking

Dale McCoy of Jon Brazer Enterprises is now a regular columnist over at the Robot Viking. In his first installment of the Brazer Bulletin he discusses what the GAMA Trade Show is really like. He went last year and shares his experiences of what it is like to go.

Future post to the column will discuss Third Party Pathfinder and Traveller Products, Pathfinder and Traveller News, and anything else going on in the industry. Be sure to read it every Wednesday.