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Chris Lambertz wrote:

Hey guys! We are now all caught up on the RPG, Adventure Path, Campaign Setting, and Player Companion lines! About 340 new avatars have been added to the pool for selection :)

Sweet!

... *sees avatar*

Aww I liked the cute possessed girl.

And I would like being able to use the cute possessed girl as an avatar someday.

Otherwise, neet!

- Darkmoon Vale/Lycanthropes AP.

- GALT!!! .

- Absalom.

- Nidal.

- Land of the Linnorm Kings.

- Kyonin.

- Darklands.

Necromancer wrote:

Yes, please. That said, it would probably gain more traction if the iconic were described as intersex vs. hermaphrodite (unless we're talking about aberrations, outsiders, tieflings, etc.).

Hermaphrodite as a term has some baggage.

While it has been used in print to describe for instance tieflings that are actually hermaphriditic, or species like proteans that can be when the mood strikes them to be so... the term has been mis-used in the real world enough as a slur against intersex persons.

As such I've been convinced by several folks to actually avoid using the term in the future if possible, and I intend to respect their request.

Now intersex isn't biologically accurate if the person or creature has both male and female organs (like some proteans for instance), but because of the real world baggage for the technical term, I'll personally be using a different word (dual gendered, bi-gendered, etc) in the future.

Kinda relevant.

KahnyaGnorc wrote:

Slay the Dragon, rescue the princess . . . Only, the dragon turns out to be a good guy, and they are in love. It is the prince (the one who sent to PCs on the mission) who is the villain . . . and he sort of took over both kingdoms while you were gone . . . including the armies . . .

That's sort of the plot of Shrek.

Homer Simpson: "How do you know the name of my dream?"

Any wish we missed?

More little foxes on the way?

Isn't Red Mage pretty much a Bard/Magus/Monk hybrid?

I blame Cosmo just for the sake of blaming Cosmo!

F. Wesley Schneider wrote:

Alexander Augunas wrote:

For Wes: What's the number 1 word that you most commonly misspell/mistype?

Skipping ahead.

Normally, I would say "silhouette."

This week, I would say "pharaoh." Because I done @#$%ed it up in a very visible way that thousands of people are going to see in just a few more weeks here.

Well, nobody could agree on how to spell it until fairly recently, anyway. "Faro," the Western (and French) card game is named for the Biblical figure/the title; and the medieval spellings for him tended to be "Faraon."

French use "Pharaon"... it's interesting to note that lower case "h" and "n" are similar enough to be misspelled as/mistaken for the other.

James Jacobs wrote:

Tels wrote:

So will the Herald Tarrasque and the Tarrasque in the bestiary be different? In that the Herald will be weaker? If so, will this represent a sort of 'baby' Tarrasque or something?

Just seems odd to have two creatures named 'Tarrasque' with different stat blocks.

They're pretty much identical. Both have the same stats. The Golarion version has a different alignment, and it includes errata that's not yet in the Bestiary (such as the addition of immunity to ability drain). They're the same creature statwise pretty much.

Does it have any updated defenses against siege weapons? Because I ran a tarrasque encounter a couple months ago; I found it terminally ill prepared for siege weapons.

So, a Weapon of Mass Destruction vs Siege Weapons? That seems to be an intelligent way to fight Spawns of Rovagug...

I apologize that I like to annoy James Jacobs at times.

I apologize that this topic got overshadowed.

Arazyr wrote:

Icaste Fyrbawl wrote:

I may be overstepping my bounds here, but in my experience with resumes, if you want a chance bad enough and feel that your experiences can make up for a lack of qualification, don't cripple yourself by not applying. Diamond in the rough, after all.

As the cliché goes, the worst that can happen is they say "no". 8^)

I dunno.

The worst that can happen is they say "no" and then send Cosmo to visit you.

If it happened, should I hold him as an hostage?

Ilya Mxyzptlk wrote:

I know you've said before that Dragon Empires will not be getting errata'd but I have a question about the White-haired Witch archetype. Was the white-haired witch not getting INT to hit intentional?

I suspect so. I wasn't involved in that archetype's design, really, though. That's a good question to post on that book's product page, but it's been years since it came out and I'm not sure the developer will notice a new question there anytime soon...

There is now a Golarion FAQ, so maybe a "Golarion Rule Questions" board could be an idea.

What do you think?

+1 to Darkmoon Vale stuff using Pathfinder rules.

Werewolves Module(s)?

+ Tian Xia.

+ Land of the Linnorm King.

+ Alkenstar/ Steampunk.

+ Evil AP.

+ PCs are Monsters AP.

+ Darkmoon Vale AP (This one got many "point-of- view" possibilities: 1) 'regular citizens', 2) Eagle Knights/Diamond Regiment, 3) good/neutral Fey, 4) evil Fey, 5) Werewolves, 6) Lumber Consortium... many other, this could be a mega crossover AP...

It seems some of you haven't noticed that there is a whole board about it now. :)

Note that you should unfocus the board/forum to see the other posts.

Belle Mythix wrote:

In WotR #6 (ap 78), there a scenario about the PCs failing...

1) if the Demons forces ended up doing too well, would the gods themselves intervene?

2) would the Aboleth try to destroy Golarion to stop the invasion?

2.a) would the gods let them?

1) No. The gods don't do that. It's up to mortals to fail or succeed. Iomedae's intervention with the PCs is as far as the gods generally go.

2) No. They'd be pretty safe in their realms under the sea, and if they had to, they have ways to leave the planet. They're powerful spellcasters themselves, after all!

2a) See #1 above.

1) And if many, many mortals asked the gods to intervene?

1.a) let's assume this is between first wave of PCs failing, and the next wave that might need a bone, would it change the answer?

2) I see.

3) if Insane cultists tried to ask/summon the Outer gods?

In WotR #6 (ap 78), there a scenario about the PCs failing...

1) if the Demons forces ended up doing too well, would the gods themselves intervene?

2) would the Aboleth try to destroy Golarion to stop the invasion?

2.a) would the gods let them?

Freehold DM wrote:

Does anyone in the office drink tea?

Absolutely. There are a few VERY SERIOUS tea drinkers here, but Pierce is probably the king of tea.

I drink tea too. So does Jessica, and Erik, and Jeff, and Lisa, and Wes, and so on. I'd say the majority of Paizo's employees drink tea at least casually, and probably 1/3 are serious about it.

Does anyone drink it with their pinkie finger up?

1) Rocks Fall, Everyone Die.
2) Take time to learn the rules.
3) Set rules, guidelines, etc...
4) ????
5) Profits.

Can anyone in the party even deal sonic damages?

Profession engineer is clearly the BEST SKILL EVER!

Profession god/dess?

Profession Miner should include stuff from Knowledge Dungeoneering.

The wand of Shield kind of puts it over the top. Without that, his AC drops to the point where he's hittable. Get rid of that and Magical Knack and things look a lot more reasonable -- he's now only doing 3d6, or 4d6 on SA. That's enough to drop most 1L PCs, but not likely to kill them unless he crits. And he's a boss. Crits from a boss should be something to fear.

Also: I assume you're giving him Weapon Finesse, or some such? Because his BAB is only +2, which is no great shakes.

Doug M.

His BaB could be +3 if one uses fractions (3/4 time 4)

James Jacobs wrote:

Sauce987654321 wrote:

What CR ranges would you place Magneto, Doctor Doom, Spiderman, and Galactus at?

Superheroes don't really match up well to the CR system in my opinion. I guess... I'd put Spiderman at CR 15, Magneto and Doctor Doom at CR 20, and Galactus at 30? Dunno.

Somehow someone who thinks of the entire Earth as a midday meal and could stand and take that meal while the entire armed forces of a world were doing their best to whale on him... I would argue that a 10 CR bump doesn't do it justice. Or someone who could erase an entire multiverse by emptying his blood on a scribed Pattern... At some point I think, we just go places where CR simply can't scale.

Pretentiousness aside, current Pathfinder isn't mean for CR 31+

williamoak wrote:

Profession (sailor) is essential for a sea adventure; nothing else can be used to guide/control a ship.

Knowledge (Nature) can also be used.

** spoiler omitted **

Not every classes get Knowledge Nature as a class skill, not many classes/archetypes lack profession...

I was talking about mummies mask. :/ I am sorry for all the confusion. I was not familiar with the terms. I am starting my very first pathfinder game on the thirteenth

Adventure Path start at level one, but can (and often will) be hard for a group of newcomers to Pathfinder/ Tabletop RPG.

I want to play the newest adventure path! But I can't, because its for high leveled players.

inb4 What?

More likely to be Monstrous Humanoid.

When do you think the first volume of the Iron Gods AP will appear on the website this month?

When will we be told what the AP is after Iron Gods?

IANJJ, but,

After the first Volume of Mummy Mask hit the street date.

At Paizocon.

- Were-Jackal.

- Were-Scarab.

- Were-Scorpion / Scorpion man / Girtablilu...

- CN Human Natural Were-Eagle Martial Artist Monk.

- Human "Gadgeter" Rogue (this Archetype/Alternate need to be created).

- Ghoul?

- Ghost?

- Necromancer...

- Cleric of some Cosmic Horror.

Pan wrote:

Mikael Sebag wrote:

Torn between two options:

- An (un)lucky Taldan archaeologist (the bard archetype that is) who has been the sole survivor of no less than twelve dungeon delves throughout Osirion. It's gotten to the point where no adventuring party will hire him ... until he finds a group of people unaware of his reputation (the other PCs). His journey into Wati will be his thirteenth attempt at a successful expedition.

I like this.

Yeah, that's pretty badass.

And better come up with a very good reason why you are still level 1 (with probably 0 Exp)...

David knott 242 wrote:

I am worried about the effect that this adventure path could have on American weather. This time last year, Paizo published "Reign of Winter" -- and we are just now getting out of our most brutal winter in several years. What is an adventure path set in a hot desert likely to do?

On a more selfish note, I'll keep my fingers crossed that the pattern continues. Not only was it a brutal winter for America, but it was for Canada as well since bad weather (of the cold variety) tends to be magnified from what the US gets. So if you guys get an insanely hot summer thanks to Mummy's Mask, us Canucks might get an extra-long summer for once, as compared to the usual 2 months out of 12 that we get where I'm from.

Though I'm not a sociopath, so if that nice Canadian summer comes at the expense of a deadly heatwave down south, I'll withdraw my cross-fingered wishing.

Can't they make an Eternal Autumn/Spring one?

That, my friend, is utter minotaur dung! I worked at an animal shelter for a month. My job was working with bunnies. If raised right, they won't kick or bite. They might pee once or twice when little, but you can litter train them. Litter training bunnies isn't hard. Get an office kitty or somthing. A good workplace has an animal. Because animals are awesome

Maybe some people at the office are allergic to animal?

I blame Cosmo for the following scenario:

Finds sloth "no" reaction gif.

Cannot decide if this goes in the Sloths pictures folder or the No reaction gifs folder.

WHAT IS THIS LIFE, COSMO?

Put in one folder, then add a link to them in the other folder?

Clicking on the tabs (Store Blog / Paizo Blog / Web Fiction) at the top of the main page doesn't work for me - it just reloads the Store Blog page.

Still does this.

John Kretzer wrote:

HangarFlying wrote:

I don't recall reading a resolution to this yet, but have you figured out how you're going to get the "100" onto the spine of AP 100 that would satisfy your personal OCD?

Would stopping the APs at 96 and than starting over with AP vol. 2 #1 work?

Nope. Because AP Volume 2 is "The Skinsaw Murders." (We don't call them issues, since that's a magazine term, and these aren't magazines. A bit of pedantry that's not as important today as it was the day we switched from magazines to books, but it does actually still mean some stuff for industry and distribution and printing and costing reasons.)

New Edition of the game that isn't named Pathfinder, problems solved for the next 8 years/16 AP?

No, from experience. Munchkins go apesh*t almost literally and create the cheesiest monstrosities ever. "Halflings" with a 50 ft move speed kind of thing. Big things to watch out for aren't even the SLA's or racial stat bonuses, you need to look out for active tactical superiority. A race that can fly is better than a human getting a feat. Darkvision seems mundane until you need it.

It comes down to the same thing as the 3.5 stacking racial templates and buying off the level adjustment, you will see them taking "flaws" that give them negative points so they can pick up more abilities that give them an unfair advantage.

Depends on what the party composition will be, you have no right to b**** about flying Fighter/Rogue (other than them getting this a first level) if you have a Wizard (and/or Druid) in the party as well, but feel free to b**** about winged Cleric, Druid, Sorcerer and Wizard.

The Mummy's Mask Player's Guide is up!

Thanks, and I thought so. :)

I thought it was three weeks...

Shouldn't this show up today? (along with subscribers early access).

Orthos wrote:

Belle Mythix wrote:

Mikaze wrote:

Adam Daigle wrote:

Mikaze wrote:

Internet Explorer 9

Version 9.0.8112.16421

My god, man! Are you forced into this? Are your assailants monitoring your actions? Blink twice for 'oui', once for 'non'.

blinks once

I gotta pay the bills!

Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, etc...

All are free =) And infinitely better.

I always though that anything with the word - Microsoft - in it was a virus.

Windows 8 seems to make installing Linux a pain in the ass.

On topic, the loading speed seems to be in RollerCoaster mode.

The Players Guide section in People of the Sands is 2 pages of campaign traits in the back of the book.

Some of us prefer the Free Player Guides.

Still have some loading issues (Sony Xperia, Android, default browser).

And the Focus thing already mentioned.

Adam Daigle wrote:

Mikaze wrote:

Internet Explorer 9

Version 9.0.8112.16421

My god, man! Are you forced into this? Are your assailants monitoring your actions? Blink twice for 'oui', once for 'non'.

blinks once

I gotta pay the bills!

Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, etc...

On topic, the Focus thingy seems to have trouble staying on again.

Belle Mythix wrote:

Reposting...

James Jacobs wrote:

Archpaladin Zousha wrote:

Earlier you mentioned that Sakvroth is the universal sign-language for people that dwellin the Darklands. That's all fine and dandy, but what about deaf or mute people that dwell on the surface or have taken a vow of silence or other people who use sign-language? It's my understanding that Sakvroth is specifically used when they don't want surfacers listening in, so is there a sign-language that people on the surface who can't or won't speak can communicate with others? Or do they do things like write out their statements or read lips? What does an awakened gorilla do if she wants to order a drink at the bar?

Sakvroth is not meant to be a language for the deaf, but they can certainly use it. There is no official braille or sign language in Pathfinder. That's a shortcoming of our design of the world. That said... with remove blindness/deafness being a low level spell... it's easier to fix in Golarion than it is on Earth.

Physical muteness (independent of deafness)... Regeneration?

"Cult of Silence", vow of silence, large area permanent Zone of Silence ?

I'm not sure what you're asking there... seems like you left some words out.

Reasons for using Sign Language, and ways around those reasons...

How is the site update affecting your job?

Come to think of it, this kinda explain the lack of updates to the PRD/avatars.

Reposting...

Archpaladin Zousha wrote:

Earlier you mentioned that Sakvroth is the universal sign-language for people that dwellin the Darklands. That's all fine and dandy, but what about deaf or mute people that dwell on the surface or have taken a vow of silence or other people who use sign-language? It's my understanding that Sakvroth is specifically used when they don't want surfacers listening in, so is there a sign-language that people on the surface who can't or won't speak can communicate with others? Or do they do things like write out their statements or read lips? What does an awakened gorilla do if she wants to order a drink at the bar?

Sakvroth is not meant to be a language for the deaf, but they can certainly use it. There is no official braille or sign language in Pathfinder. That's a shortcoming of our design of the world. That said... with remove blindness/deafness being a low level spell... it's easier to fix in Golarion than it is on Earth.

Physical muteness (independent of deafness)... Regeneration?

"Cult of Silence", vow of silence, large area permanent Zone of Silence ?

By the way, maybe this topic should be moved to Off-topic discussion...