Last month, I put in an open call for resumes for an editor (original post). We plan to be going through those resumes starting tonight. So if you have been putting off applying, now is the time. As before, please include your edits to this blog post in a word document with track changes turned on. Please send the edited blog post and your resume in .doc/.docx format to this email address. To make sure that your resume is considered get it to us no later than midnight tonight, EDT.
As we mentioned in the big announcement, the Book of the River Nations is getting the character options Hero Labbed. Well we are pleased to announce that everyone that received the PDF copy of the Compendium is getting FREE access to the Hero Lab file, whether you purchased the PDF or if you received it as part of our PDF Guarantee when purchasing the print book.
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For the game master, a new plane of peril—Shadowsfall. This level 5 Adventure takes your gaming party to the Plane of Shadows. The head of the local militia and her children are missing and only the characters can rescue them. In this introduction to Shadowsfall, challenge your adventurers to brave the Land of Eternal Night.
For the avid player, four sample 5th level characters showcase new player options for the Shadowsfall setting—a dhampir champion of innocents, a former angel seeking arcane secrets and a lost love, a bomb-toting kobold native to Shadow, and a fetchling profiteer from the zombie slave trade ready for play in your campaign.
Designed to enhance your world and your game, this expansion supplies a one-page overview of Shadowsfall and features the distinctive monsters of Shadow created for the Book of Beasts: Monsters of the Shadow Plane—the newest in the award-winning series available at your game store today.
Shadowsfall: Temple of Orcus is our Free RPG Day 2012 adventure. Download this free adventure today at DriveThruRPG and at Paizo.com.
As we have been mentioning all week, we have a major announcement that we are making today. I am sure you are eagerly wondering what this surprise is.
So before I make that announcement, I would like welcome E. Steev Ramsdell into the Jon Brazer Enterprises’ family. He will be in charge of creating Hero Lab files for all Jon Brazer Enterprises’ products, insuring that JBE’s products integrate as seamlessly as possible into your game. The first project he has nearly completed is the Feats, Spells, Archetypes Prestige Classes and Magic Items from the Book of the River Nations: Complete Player’s Reference for Kingdom Building. Please help us give Steev a warm welcome into RPG programming.
The image of our Free RPG Day adventure Shadowsfall: Temple of Orcus on the right is slightly different than the image we have been displaying for the past few months. There is a Powered by Hero Lab logo in the lower left corner. Tomorrow afternoon, with the help of the awesome crew at Lone Wolf, we will be sending out the Hero Lab file for this adventure as a regular update for your Hero Lab program. So this Saturday for Free RPG Day, if you are playing in or GMing Shadowsfall: Temple of Orcus while using Hero Lab, you will have all the monsters, NPCs, PCs and magic items you need to run this adventure. The umbral kobold and wanderer races as well as other pieces of Shadowsfall that are previewed in this adventure are included as well. Click here to manually download the Hero Lab file (Link Fixed).
Jon Brazer Enterprises, the first company to provide additional support for an adventure path, the first company to creature a Pathfinder Compatible Free RPG Day product, the first company to use Kickstarter to finance a Free RPG Day adventure, is now the first company to give away a Hero Lab file to all registered Hero Lab users. We hope that your first venture into Shadowsfall is memorable. Make sure to tell your friends how much fun your Shadowsfall adventure is.
Remember, you can download Shadowsfall: Temple of Orcus on Monday from Paizo.com and DriveThruRPG.com. Print copies of Book of Beasts: Monsters of the Shadow Plane, the official monster book for the Shadowsfall setting, are available for purchase at your local gaming store, at your favorite online gaming retailer or from JonBrazer.com.
Taking a break from my normal writing, I decided to write up a quick Oread Fighter, using options presented in the Advanced Race Guide and the Advanced Player’s Guide. If you have yet to see it, this will give you a small preview of some of the options for the oread race contained within.
And incase you are wondering, this has nothing to do with tomorrow’s announcement.
Artist: Marc RadleCove Granitefist CR 6 XP 2,400
Male oread** fighter (two-handed fighter*) 7
LN Medium outsider (native) Init +0; Senses darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +2
Defenses
AC 20, touch 10, flat-footed 20 (+9 armor, +1 natural) hp 57 (7d10+14) Fort +7, Ref +2, Will +4
Str 18, Dex 10, Con 14, Int 13, Wis 14, Cha 6 Base Atk +7; CMB +11 (+13 sunder); CMD 21 (23 vs sunder, 28 vs bull rush, drag) Feats Dwarf Blooded**, Lunge, Oread Burrower**, Point Blank Shot, Power Attack (-2/+4), Stony Step**, Weapon Focus (greatsword), Weapon Specialization (greatsword) Skills Knowledge (dungeoneering, engineering) +11, Profession (miner) +12 Languages Common, Dwarven, Terran SQ granite skin**, shattering strike*, slow speed, stonecunning, weapon training (swords) Gear +1 greatsword, +1 half plate, mwk composite (+4) longbow, arrows,
Special Abilities
Burrow (Ex) Cove Granitefist can burrow through sand, dirt, clay, gravel, or similar materials, but not solid stone. He leaves no hole behind nor is his passage marked on the surface. Treacherous Earth (Su) Once per day, Cover Granitefist can can transform a 10-foot-radius patch of earth, unworked stone or sand into difficult terrain. This area is centered on on an area he touches. This last for 7 minutes and then returns to normal.
Having worked with the dwarves most of his life, Cove Granitefist knows the mountains near the River Nations well. He has helped out with more than one mining operation, passing through the looser earth, helping the dwarves to locate veins of precious materials. He also stood by their side, fighting the foul creatures that live deep beneath the surface.
When the dwarves disappeared, he was arranging for goods to be sold to a neighboring nation. He returned to find plates of uneaten food, buckets and carts full of dirt as if dropped by their owners and toys ready to be played with but without owners. Instead of investigating by himself, he decided to hire others to investigate. When he returned, the entrance had been sealed off, preventing him from and his fellow adventurers from discovering the truth. Also, he and his companions were not powerful enough to overcome the new wards guarding the place.
Cove considers himself constantly training, looking to gain enough power to get past the wards and allow himself entrance. He wants to know what happened in that cave and hungers for a way to bring them back from whereever they may be.
Written by Marie Small, Image by Luis Antonio Salas LastraLast week I started posting material from upcoming products that are almost complete but are on hold while I’m finishing up Shadowsfall: Shadow Plane Player’s Companion. This week I’m posting something written by Marie Small, a very talented writer who advanced far in Paizo’s RPG Superstar Competition. We’re showing you the Seedling racial abilities. The Seedlings are a humanoid race of tree people that demonstrate that the forest is far from defenseless. These forest defenders will allow you to see life away from civilization in a whole new light.
Seedling Racial Traits
+2 Constitution, +2 Wisdom, -2 Dexterity: Seedlings are shrewd and hardy but they are physically less flexible than humans due to their bark-like skin.
Medium: Seedings are Medium creatures and have no bonuses or penalties due to their size.
Normal Speed: Seedlings have a base speed of 30 feet.
Low-Light Vision Seedlings make their home in the twilight beneath the thick, intertwined canopy of primordial forests. This grants them the ability to see in low light conditions far better than humans.
+1 Natural Armor Bonus Their plant-like nature has gifted seedlings with a fibrous, stiff skin much like bark. This grants them some natural protection from attack.
Photosynthesis: While seedlings need to eat or breathe, their leaves and nettles allow them to make their own food and oxygen allowing them to go longer without sustenance. They receive a +2 racial bonus to Constitution checks to resist suffocation, drowning, and starvation. The consequences of failing these checks remain unchanged.
Planting: As a standard action, seedlings can extend their feet into the earth below them, merging with their plant-like nature and rooting themselves to a single point. This spell-like ability functions similar to polymorph spells with the following changes: the seedling cannot use this ability on anyone except herself, and she can only assume the shape of a tree sapling resembling her own appearance. For example, an oak seedling can assume the shape of an oak sapling but not a pine or maple sapling. A seedling may maintain a planting for up to 24 hours. While in this form, the seedling gains tremorsense 30 feet.
Plant-Resistance: Seedlings receive a +2 bonus to saving throws versus mind-affecting effects and paralysis.
Plantkin: As a spell-like ability, seedlings can use speak with plants once per day (caster level is equal to class levels).
Languages: Seedlings begin play speaking Common, Seedling and Sylvan. Those with high intelligence can choose the following as bonus languages – Draconic, Elven, Gnome, Goblin, and Orc.
As of last month, Jon Brazer Enterprises has sold over 2,500 copies of the Book of the River Nations. This is a tremendous milestone and we couldn’t be more pleased. We are so glad that our book is appearing at so many gaming tables.
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Last month, I put in an open call for resumes for an editor (original post). We plan to be going through those resumes starting tonight. So if you have been putting off applying, now is the time. As before, please include your edits to this blog post in a word document with track changes turned on. Please send the edited blog post and your resume in .doc/.docx format to this email address. To make sure that your resume is considered get it to us no later than midnight tonight, EDT. 
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