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Didn't you stat them up already? https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/aberrations/hive/ Yes, I get that the vin-number has been filed off, but it's obvious what they are.
Is it because of this? Spoiler: Sorshen is no longer evil after spending 10 millennia in contemplation?
You are correct. Other "solar systems" with planets orbiting a star are called planetary systems, not solar systems.
...but I have made repeated requests of the Starfinder team to NOT include Androffa in that game. Why would you need to make repeated requests? Are they considering putting Androffa in Starfinder? Also, isn't Androffa in another galaxy. Wouldn't detailing other galaxies drastically increase the scope of Starfinder? I'd think one galaxy with 100 billion stars would be plenty of space to work on. (assuming Golarion's galaxy is the same size as ours)
James, have you (Paizo) considered adding feats that can only be taken at level one like we had back in 3.5? I know traits fill this niche to an extent, but it's not really the same. An old favorite of mine was "Spellcasting Prodigy", would you consider this feat too powerful for Pathfinder? It treats your primary statistic as 2 points higher for the purpose of determining bonus spells.
James, I've been reading a lot about the royal lines of medieval/renaissance Europe lately and the inbreeding they did (especially the Habsburg dynasty) and I got to thinking about how it works in Golarion. Is inbreeding practiced among the Inner Sea nobility? If they do I'd imagine they would eventually produce some royal members that are supremely unfit to lead, much like the real world king Charles II of Spain. The final end of the Spanish Habsburg line, with a really convuluted family tree, his parents were uncle and niece.
But how would you represent an individual such as this in game terms? He is a human so he would have class levels, but with his physical and mental problems he couldn't learn any real skills, weapon proficiencies or any kind of feat that requires much in the way of effort or mastery. Being a king he would most likely take aristocrat levels, but how would you show his lack of physical or mental aptitude beyond giving him massive penalties to his stats? Aristocrats do come with a far bit of skills, armor and weapon proficiencies after all, that doesn't seem to fit.
The reason I don't like this AP is because after having D&D as a hobby for the better part of two decades, this AP is just so boring. Giants can be interesting adversaries, but this AP doesn't do anything new or interesting with them, the villain is also really uninteresting. It's just book after book of working your way up the color-coded food chain of giant kin. An entire campaign built mostly around a single type of adversary isn't a very good idea in my opinion. It would probably have been better if they'd done a module about giants, rather than an entire AP.
I saw it last night, and I have to say it was... okay. My spoiler free take on it: It's mostly a Batman movie, that also has Superman in it. Which is fine by me since I love Batman and don't really care for Superman. Wonder Woman is also in it, but I don't see why they couldn't save her for later, she doesn't really do much in the movie. And I can't recall her having a single conversation with Superman in the entire movie. The plot is all over the place, I just got a feeling that they were trying to do too much at once. What really annoyed me was the climactic last act of the movie, the fights just dragged on and on and one carried into another. The last act just felt like half the movie, which is a shame because I really liked a lot of the first 45 minutes. I just think they should have taken their time with their movie series, put some of this stuff off until later movies.
What?! Blasphemy! Nex is the place I've wanted to see an AP set in for ages, especially if it revolves heavily around Nex himself, and not just being set in his nation.
Does my severe allergy to cats make me immune or more susceptible to this item?
James, don't halflings and gnomes seem absurdly short to you? My brother brought his kids over recently and they were around 3 feet tall, same as gnomes and halflings, and I noticed they don't even reach my belt line, and I'm not particularly tall to begin with. I just don't see how they would function in everyday society, at that size their strength should be severely limited by their mass and their small hands and short arms would give them a severe disadvantage in most forms of manual labor. And how would they even work in combat? My arms are a little bit longer than 2 feet, so I would have a massive reach advantage against a halfling in a fight. And then there's the weight, 30-40 pounds? A man my size would have about 25 pounds of skeleton, and 60-70 pounds of muscles (or more if he was very well trained). How could a halfling even compete with me?
They seem more like the types who would build Jaegers to fight kaiju.
James, the issue mentions a "series of chain reactions" that lead to the wrath of the gods being brought down upon Androffa. I understand that (divine?) magic was entirely absent on Androffa and was shoe horned in by the Shoal deities, but could you elaborate on the series of chain reactions that resulted from it? This may be a sidetrack from Pathfinder, but I'm a huge fan of world lore and the like. Is there any possibility on you lifting the veil on Androffa and revealing a bit more about the world? Like maps, nations, major characters and deities (beyond what has already made it into Golarion).
Hi James Given that Mythic Adventures is out now, and has been for a while, is there any chance we will get a Nex (the person) centered AP any time soon, possibly with an appearance from the man himself? Even if we don't, do you at the office have a clear idea of what Nex has been up to since he disappeared, or at least where he went when he disappeared? Or is that something you have to decide when you eventually feature him in some product in the future? With regards to stats, what would you say his basic stats would be like? I'm guessing Neutral male human Wizard 20/Archmage 10. Also would he have "more" to his stats than just the usual build, along the lines of what Baba Yaga got, to pump up his CR? Did Nex worship a deity or another entity? Could you give a brief overview of what his personality was like? Did Nex have any interaction with Old Mage Jatembe? Finally, what would Nex think of Emperor Xin and the Runelords?
Hi James, couple of questions... Which TSR/WotC published adventure is your favorite? Which Dungeon Magazine adventure is your favorite? Which TSR/WotC published campaign setting is your favorite? Also, if WotC had let you (Paizo) own it when took back Dungeon, would you rather have used that one over building your own world for Pathfinder? It bothers you when people ask you things that aren't really questions?
James When Pharasma judges souls does it ever happen that she doesn't know what to do with someone, as in it isn't clear where a certain soul belongs? Also do you think "curse of infertility" falls within the boundaries of what the "Bestow Curse" spell allows you to do. Basically a curse that makes you infertile (man or woman). Finally, is it possible to use "Polymorph Any Object" to permanently change the appearance of one person into that of another? For example a crime lord changing his appearance to match Lord Gyr of Absalom?
That is certainly a possibility, but turning into anything incorporeal requires an 8th level spell (Undead Anatomy IV), whatever item you use to create that effect is going to be expensive if it is even within your means to create/aquire.
If it is primarily a cosmetic issue then I would suggest a Hat of Disguise, or a Greater Hat of Disguise for slightly less cosmetic changes. EDIT: Linky: SRD Link
Hey James, happy new year So I'm over at my parents house this week and I start to dig through some of my boxed up old D&D books and I (gleefully) look through some of the 3.x era adventures, including my signed copies of Red Hand of Doom and Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk. It did get me thinking though. What on Earth lead to Wizards using that idiotic adventure layout with encounters separated from the rest of the story? It makes it so annoying to read the books that use it, and having to flip back and forth makes it less easy to use rather than more. I have to think that those who were forced to write using (like you and many other industry veterans) told them it was a bad idea to go at it this way. Kudos to you for Red Hand by the way, probably the best 3.5 adventure Wizards published. If you were playing it in Pathfinder, where on Golarion would you put Elsir Vale? What would you use in place of the dragonspawn creatures in the adventure? Also, didn't you break one of your own rules in regards to adventures by putting so many half-dragons in one book? Well, at least they weren't dire rats...
I haven't actually tested the mythic rules in play so I can't speak to their implementation, although I'm not exactly encouraged by what I'm reading. D&D should not be a shoot first to win type experience, mythic obviously has serious implementation issues. What I don't like personally is the whole mythic flavor, the whole "super special snowflake" thing going on, with the mythic power sources and the mythic trials. 3.x's epic level system was much cleaner in this regard, you can be the guy who just clawed his way to the top through sheer skill, determination and luck. Like Greyhawk's Lord Robilar, a highly experienced adventurer who is just tough enough to make it to 24th level after a lifetime of adventuring. Anyway, I just don't understand why Paizo was so hell-bent on not updating the epic rules, yes they needed some work in places, but it would have been a much better option to update them than to create a whole new system with an even narrower range of use than epic had. In the end they just ended up (seemingly) breaking high level play even more than epic already did.
Oh great and terrible tyrant lizard, did you see the trailer for the new Jurassic Park movie? If so, what do you think of the preview, hopeful or skeptical? Also, does Pharasma have to judge every single creature that dies or is there something along the lines of advanced screening in the Boneyard? "Yes sir, your flight to Nirvana has been pre-approved." Also, does Pharasma ever make mistakes or can she be decieved? "No, no. I'm a DIFFERENT Ted Bundy."
worked well enough for the guy in ferries county.I fully encourage you test that theory by grabbing a gun and threatening some police officers then. Have fun.You don't actually think police are less likely to shoot an armed/violent white criminal than they are a black one do you? I'm not sure what case you're referring to. Regardless I'm not interested. You people may dismiss my posts are trolling if you prefer, but don't get upset with me when I point out that the most likely outcome will happen most of the time. Yes, you can probably find cases of white people not getting shot when they should have and black people getting shot when they shouldn't. This is what is known as anecdotal evidence. The overwhelming body of evidence that is statistics doesn't support a police war on black people. I do however accept the notion that black people don't trust the police. The fact that black people don't trust police is due to them being told their entire lives that they shouldn't, that the system is out to get them. I blame this on race-baiters like Louis Farrakhan, Al Sharpton and their ilk. Regardless, I'm done with this thread and further discussion serves no purpose. The justice system has ruled, the evidence supports the police officer. Case closed.
I fully encourage you test that theory by grabbing a gun and threatening some police officers then. Have fun. You're approaching this backward. I'm not contesting that I'll fall.
You don't actually think police are less likely to shoot an armed/violent white criminal than they are a black one do you? I fully encourage you test that theory by grabbing a gun and threatening some police officers then. Have fun.
You need a reality check. Statistically it's far more likely your relatives will be killed by another black person than a police officer. That statement was in response to the posters comment that he feared for his relatives being gunned down by police simply for being black. The idea that police can simply go around and gun down black people piecemeal without any justification or reaction is an idiotic fantasy perpetuated by the anti-police crowd you typically find among the left wing. While it is true that blacks are disproportionately involved in police shootings that has less to do with the fact that they are black, and more to do with the fact that while blacks are a minority, they commit the overwhelming majority of violent crimes. Perpetrating violent crime is typically a good way to get yourself shot by police, regardless of color. You don't actually think police are less likely to shoot an armed/violent white criminal than they are a black one do you? If you do I fully encourage you to test that theory by threatening some police officers with a gun. Regardless, with blacks committing the majority of violent crime it stands to reason that they do so primarily in their own communities, which leads to the majority of blacks being killed by other blacks as statistics clearly show and not by the mythical renegade KKK police. Pointing out this flaw in that posters worldview is the purpose my statement served. Or in simpler terms: a reality check.
You need a reality check. Statistically it's far more likely your relatives will be killed by another black person than a police officer.
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