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The father is the Head of the Household, therefore his word is law. He did nothing wrong... Ignore him. Leafar likes to provoke people and just says things to be provocative.
Fixed the link for you.
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See I thought that she was dead-dead. I could be wrong, because I wasn't sure if the EKG flatlined before or after Hauser disconnected her. Also, it is kind of left up in the air whether our mad bomber was taken to Neo-Alcatraz or not. I assume that he was but he was the first one of the episodes I have seen that we are not shown being delivered there.
Jil Du Ghal is the Hand's only dedicated fighter who specializes in archery. She is also romantically involved with Archangel. Jil Du Ghal CR 4
Eiger CR 3
Michael Bay has confirmed that he has inked a deal to direct Transformers 4 set for release sometime in 2014. Story
If you knew the prisoners were coming back, why make the prison a park/museum with tours and boat rides? It'd be a helluva lot easier to keep all the cells locked up so the prisoners reappearing are still jailed, and without means of escaping into the general population to kill again. With a body count of at least ten as a result, including two cops plus a third retired one, this should be a no-brainer. I realize there wouldn't be show if it was done like this, but it's an extremely glaring plot hole nonetheless. Well we now know that they are not all appearing on Alcatraz. I missed the last couple of episodes so I can't confirm this, but I wonder if there is some significance to the places where they comeback at.
I'm really hoping he didn't just viral video his way into a child protective services visit.
That's not my fault. You should be more disciplined. :) Of course I spent the last two days scanning them to PDF so I could read them in class.
Ultimately though, D&D/Pathfinder is not nor was it ever intended to be a fully customizable game. The same concerns you express about humans are true across the board. There is not much difference between an elf from Korvosa and an elf from Kyonin either, except for fluff. There is no difference between a half orc from the Scarred Lands and one from the Nentir Vale, so long as you stick to the same rule set. In the end the differences between a Samurai and a Knight boil down to fluff. Take away the cultural stuff and they are both guys in medium to heavy armor who hit you with sharp pointy pieces of metal. They even both have a code of honor that they are both supposed to live by and Historically speaking were both more often than not honored in the breach. Where you see humans as being bland, I see them as being incredibly diverse in D&D/Pathfinder. The fact that they get extra skill points and a bonus feat make them much more customizable than any other race, IMO.
You and I are going to have to disagree here Jerry. I have never been a fan of the "mechanics equals culture" idea that springs up from time to time. Sure, Bedouin and Mongals are different and Asians are different from Europeans, but we are all human beings and we are all "mechanically" the same. If you took a child from Mongolia and raised him in an Arabian home he would be Arabian, not Mongolian. If you took a child from England and raised her in a Japanese home she would be Japanese, not English. Culture is not a matter of stats, it is a matter of fluff. As for the lack of human culture, I managed to pick up the entire set of the Gazetteer line at a yard sale this weekend. There are thirteen sets in the lineup. There are two for elves; one for surface elves and one for "drow", one installment for dwarves, one for halfings, and one for all other humanoids. The eight other sets all are about human cultures ranging from Thyatis (ancient Rome), to the Atruaghin Clans (Native American tribes), to Darokin (an odd blend of Musketeer France and westward expansion United States). That is a lot of culture to build your character around without changing the mechanics of the human. As for the rest of the races being stronger, faster, smarter, etc. than humans, that has trade offs. Sure the elf may be smarter or more dexterous than a human (It depends on where you stick that floating +2 bonus) but he is not going to have the stamina or endurance that a human has. Is it any wonder that elven women prefer human men?* On the other hand, the dwarf may be able to drink you under the table and he's a little more observant, but he is not getting the chicks. As for the rest of the stat block, well humans just work that much harder to be successful and in most fantasy world they have succeeded in doing just that. * Spoiler:
Where do you think all those half-elves come from?
So, if I like using a grid map for combat but my friend doesn't, we're going to be able to make that work? Yes, it is called compromise. :)
The witch / warlock debate came up when someone mentioned they would rather Paizo not use "warlock" as a class name because it was a name for male witch iirc. He was berated for it and now it has it's own thread :) That's about the sum of it. People in the thread asked that the debate be moved to it's own thread, so here we are.
Here are a few more monsters I have converted. Narleth CR 5
Narleth are eight foot tall humanoids that blend the traits of spiders and humanoids. They have four muscular arms; each arm wields a powerful short sword. They have multiple red eyes and sharp dripping mandibles. The name Narleth means "silken death" in the elven tongue. They may have been created as warriors during the Divine War, or they may be mutants that arose in the aftermath. Regardless of their origin they became an incredible menace to elves in the days following the Divine War. The narleth haunted the woods and snuck into elven homes to murder their children. Finally the elves banded together and hunted the narleth almost to extinction. There are only a few narleth left, brooding in lonely caverns or ancient ruins. They delight in causing misery on anyone who stumbles into their lair. Dragon, Slarecian Slarecian Dragon, Wyrmling
Slarecian Dragon, Young
Slarecian Dragon, Adult
The name slarecian was one that invoked dread prior to the Divine War. This race of beings were as powerful as the gods or the Titans and they sought to unmake the world for their own dark purposes. They even kidnapped the goddess Drendari and ripped the secrets of shadow magic from her using strange mental powers. These beings were so powerful that it caused the gods and the Titans to join forces to destroy them. Although most of the slarecians were destroyed, some found a way to escape extermination by transforming themselves into mighty dragons. Although they lost a great deal of power in the transformation and they are extremely rare; slarecian dragons are still fearsome opponents. They are highly skilled with magic and the oldest dragons even have the power to destroy magic items and artifacts with their breath weapon. Note: Ancient and above Slarecian dragons have two breath weapons, one is the cold breath weapon that all Slarecian dragons possess. The second is a magical effect that works the same as a Mage's Disjunction spell with a caster level equal to the dragon's hit dice.
I have several of the books, but to be honest I have never gotten around to playing it. The combat rules are way different than Pathfinder or D&D, as you use a chart and opposed rolls to see if you hit or not. Also, you roll initiative at the start of each round rather than just once per encounter. The game is a lot harder to learn than say BESM, but a lot simpler to learn than Exalted. I don't know if that helps. Personally I plan on picking up Psionics Unleashed and then using the campaign setting with Pathfinder.
Getting their/they're/there right: impossible. Just one of the many reasons that English is one of the most difficult for non native speakers to learn. Or so my friends from Shanghai and Baghdad tell me.
I have two requests. The first is Snowhunter. He is a muscular catfolk with a lion like face, strangely blue eyes, and an unruly main of silver-white hair. He is a tribal hunter so he dresses in a very primitive manner, imagine if you will a hybrid of gladiator and Tarzan. He never goes anywhere without his long spear and a quiver full of javelins. The other is Lyrinal, an elven cleric. She is a servant of the goddess of lust and secrets, so she dresses in a very practical, but seductive manner. However, her clothes are not slutty to the point of drawing unwanted attention to herself. I imagine her wearing some kind of loose fitting but sexy dress, with a catsuit underneath in case she needs to spy on someone or slip away unnoticed. Her clothes have lots of laced slits, which are actually expansion points because she was born to a tribe of elven werewolves. She carries a concealed, but easily accessible dagger and her outer garment will have her holy symbol, a grail with a dagger point down in it, woven somewhere conspicuously on it.
For me, "core" is anything that fits the campaign I am running at the time. So for my current campaign that means no gnomes, gunslingers, ninja, or samurais. Anything else is allowable that is not specifically designated as an alternate system. I am also using traits and, for a more epic feel, hero points. For my next campaign "core" may change depending on what type of campaign I decide to run.
I don't know why but there is just something soothing about pop songs being performed by a bunch of monks. Spoiler:
Yes I know they aren't really monks
If you want to emphasis the "feyness" of the character then I would suggest a lot of enchantment and illusion spells. Put some points into intimidate and look at feats that will boost that, maybe Skill Focus or the like. Beyond that, whether the NPC's army is afraid of her is less a function of mechanics and more a matter of background and "fluff." With the right personality and role-playing Bruce Banner could become more frightening than the Hulk.
Turns out that Pathfinder is super popular in Japan as a result, and leads to wonderful/scary stuff such as this.Awesome. What more do you know!? More links! My only complaint is that the music overpowered the narration at times.
Up next: trying to drown them with create water. Actually, under the rules as they currently exist, if you had someone trapped in a pit and either enough patience or a high enough level character you could drown someone with Create Water. The rules only say you can't create the water in a person, it doesn't say you can't drown in it. I had a CN character in a Rise of the Runelords campaign I was running use Create Water to waterboard a goblin.
Our current party has a witch and a paladin as healers and we have seemed to do okay so far. The only time that things went really wrong for them was when the witch took one too many jolts from Shocking Grasp and ended up unconscious. That was when the busted out the Wand of Cure Light Wounds that they had bought as a "backup healer."
Next up is Dhavut Stonebreaker. He was exiled from the dwarven city of Burok Torn because of his worship of the goddess Belsameth, patron of lycanthropes and murderers. He is a member of the Cult of Ancients which is the most feared assassin's guild in the Scarred Lands. He likes to use his heavy weapons and armor to lull his opponents into a false sense of security before he starts to use his sneak attack and Bleeding Attack abilities. Dhavut Stonebreaker CR 3
First up is Archangel, the leader of the group. As a cleric he worships the god/ess Enkili. Archangel favors his aspect as the Mistress of Fortune and the Master Trickster. He was the one who first brought the Hand together and the one who keeps them together today. Archangel CR 3
In the old Enemies and Allies book there was a group of adventurers called the Band of the Hand. They were a group of mercenaries who's only loyalty was to their paycheck and could be used as rivals of the PCs. I have been looking for a group to serve as a foil for the PCs in my own campaign, and since the Hand roughly mirrors the make up of my group I thought that they would be a great foil. I will warn you though, they are not a direct conversion, more of an adaptation to fit my needs.
Some of us play in groups with a lot of anime fans. So... (IMO), being a "classic" part of your D&D world and being "Anime" are not necessarily mutually exclusive things. It was never my intention to imply that they were. My point was more that fantasy RPGs like D&D, and indeed pop culture for centuries, were using anthropomorphic animals long before anime became fashionable in the United States. It was in response to a number of comments I have seen in various different posts and forums that people did not like catfolk being included in Pathfinder because they were opening the door to anime influences.
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