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*faints*

I have seen : PAIZO acquired by Disney.

With wild claims about a multicrossover adventure path, with Galactus coming to Golarion to devour the planet (and Rovagug) and the PCs have to chase the route that Rovagug used to reach Golarion on a Numerian starship, going so far as Coruscant and the Shiar Empire. The BBEG was a dark chrome Darh Vader made herald of Galactus.
I only missed Duckburg. Scrooge McDuck surelly have a lot of gps (who is richer ? him or Karzoug ?).

Hi.

I am Brazilian (a notorious sexist country) and in the city i live, we have a greater than average number of female gamers. We talk a lot about it. Around here, most female gamers are known to be girlfriends of someone playing, eventually the couple break-up and the girl keep playing. As most girls are someone's girlfriend (a popular brazilian saying says " Every girlfriend of a friend of mine is a man."), most gamers learned to respect female gamers, even if they are single. With time we got so used to that, that woman who started playing by themselves or were more enthusiatic about the game than male counterparts were common, so we started seeming them as for what they contributed to the game not because they were woman.

1- Male gamers behave a lot better if a female gamer is present.
2- Female gamers role play better (brazilian gamers valorize role play over roll play)
3- Female gamers are a bit more organized and dedicated than male
4- Female GMs have a better narrative, in my opnion.

I am not saying that we are perfect or even right. But i do think that games were both male and female gamers play together are better than male-only or female-only.

Our greatest problem are from sexism from women themselves. Many woman here think that anything that doesn't make them pretty ou sexy isn't worth of their time, so they keep away from gaming (or game in secret). Other women thinks that women that play games with men are only trying to seduce them (specially mothers), and this ensure all types of woes.

For infernal: i record myself speaking something in plain portuguese and play it backwards. if i must speak on the spot, i try to speak backward the best way i can.
All those urban legends about rock song played backwards cant be that wrong.

Draco Bahamut wrote:

(i often translate things to german or turking in my campaing because they sound very exotic and fantasy-like in portuguese)

Now I'm interested which words you translated into German.

Nothing complex. Some family surnames and places. Eisritter its top on my mind, it sounds very feudal in portuguese. Nordstadt was a dwarven city in my campaing, Feuerstab was a magic tower etc...

(Edit: Its worth mentioning that i have no idea how these words were meant to sound in german, i only say the syllabes as they would sound in portuguese pronunciation)

(Edit 2) Interesting facts about how some spoken languages sound to some brazialians: (Edit 3 I live in a very touristic city, so we are used to hear people from all around the word talking, this what we talk among ourselves how other languages sound without understanding what they are talking)

German : A man calmly reading a cake recipe, sounds like he is casting a vengeful spell from necronomicon, even swendish that appears to us like random letters held together dont sound like that.
French : Male spoken french sounds effeminate (even with a deep voice), female spoken french sound cheap.
Italian : Italian sounds angry or old, many people have italian accent in brazil and we are used to them.
Japonese: Male spoken sounds like as if he was trying to intimidate us, female spoken sounds like small children.
Chinese: Sounds like someone talking laughing, when they speak really slowly they sound smart or repectful.
Russian: Sounds like crazy talk... while drunk.
English (UK Accent): Sounds like someone drunk or high.
English (US Accent): Today we are very used to american accents, but when i was little people talked it sounded like someone trying to con us or hiding something.
Hindi: Sounds like someone trying to talk really fast.
Spanish: They sound as if they are trying to scare us.

Would a Gelatinious Tesseract (Gelatinious Cube from the 4th dimension) be a Mythic creature or just a high level one ?

I will post the idea here, because i really don´t have the time now to develop it. So if someone like it, maybe he can.

1- Considering that HP mechanics don´t really cover bodily harm, if in your game you need a way to describe dramatic wounds you could create traumas using the disease mechanics. Like punctured lung, broken leg or burned skin, pick a DC, put a Frequency time and cure methods.

2- You could do it a soft way and let it be healed by Cure Disease or a Hardcore way and require the Regeneration spell (in this case, calling the status "trauma" to make it different from disease would be better.

3- I don´t really think Traumas should be a combat thing, because we already have HP for combat. Maybe some consequence for dropping below 0 hit points and falling a save, critical hits or new rogue feats. But my initial idea was a more DM thing to represent dramatic wounds that a merely cure light wounds couldn´t heal.

Ex:

Broken rib
Type trauma, ; Save Fortitude DC 14
Cause fall, bludgeoning critical; Frequency 1/week
Effect 1d2 con damage and while target has con damage all critical confirmation checks against him gain +2 to confirm; Cure 2 consecutive saves

I will not lie, i am sad i didn´t win. But congrats to everyone anyway. At least i got experience (maybe i will even level up).

On truth ? I am still waiting a Player Guide to Varisia. I know that there are 3 player guide to adventure paths set in Varisia, but it´s not the same. I want a player guide that talks about the borderline relationship among Varisians, Shoanti and Chelix. How the people of Varisia see the giant Thassilonian monuments, the half-orcs of Belkzen and the Ogrikin from Hook Mountain. From the Velashnu horselords to the Dwarfs of Janderhoff. I want to give it to the players and be at rest about the matter.

They wouldn't work. NPC classes have no class abilities to swap out, and therefore can't have archetypes.

For player characters, maybe. But for GMs, i don´t think so. They don´t need to be as big as the players archetypes, and they can change things like skills, weapon proficiences and spell lists as fit for GMs imagination.

Failed Apprentice (Adept Archetype)
Spells: Failed Apprentice casts arcane spells, even if he is unarmored he has to check a spell failure chance as if he is wearing leather armor all the time. If he got 95 or higher in the spell failure check, he gets a string of wild magic and casts his Failed Apprentice spells with +1 caster level.

Spoiled Princess (Aristocrat Archetype)
Class Skills: The Spoiled Princess loses Craft and Survival skills, but gets Stealth as class skill.
Weapon and Armor Proficiency: Only simples weapons, and light armor.
Royal Grace: At 5th level Spoiled princess put her cha bonus in saving and as a luck bonus do AC.

Waitress (Commoner Archetype)
Class Skills: Appraise, Escape Artist, Heal, Linguistics, Sense Motive and Perception.
Weapon and Armor Proficiency: None, but recieve Catch Off-Guard as a bonus feat at 2nd level.

Magismith (Expert Archetype)
Class Skills: Appraise, Craft, Disable Device, Knowledge (Arcana, Engineering), Profession, Sense Motive, Spellcraft, Use Magic Device
Skill ranks per level 4 + int
Mastersmith Spell List: Starting at 2nd level and at even magismith level, the magismith adds a spell from this list to his Magismith class spell list (Magismith don´t learn to cast spells): Align Weapon, Bless Weapon, Chill Metal, Heat Metal, Identify, Mending, Magic Weapon, etc...

Militia (Warrior Archetype)
Alignment: Lawful only.
Class Skills: Climb , Craft , Handle Animal , Intimidate , Perception, Profession , Ride , Sense Motive, and Swim.
Skill Ranks per Level: 2 + Int modifier.
Weapon and Armor Proficiency: The Militia is proficient in the use of all simple and martial weapons and with light armor and shields.
Defender´s Morale: Every time a militia gains a morale bonus to attack or to damage while defending their home community, he gains a +1 bonus to attack and to damage.

James Jacobs wrote:

We can't use "DM" because that (and Dungeon Master) are trademarked by WotC.

Plus, as James said, we already had our "GameMastery" brand, so the decision to use "GM" probably actually took less time than writing this post did.

If weren´t for your GameMastery line, it would be cool if you called it PM (That stands for PathMaster). Here in Brazil we use DM but never use what it stands for nor we translate it, we just use Mestre(Master).

Questions:
1- Do you actually study about others cultures when you write about a new culture from Golarion or do you create details based only in what you already knows ?

2- Did you like the Red Steel setting from Mystara ?

3- A lot of Brazilians think that would be cool if Golarion had a country based in our country. Our "Sertões", jungles, legends etc.. Brazilian culture is very different from latin america and besides the Red Steel setting we never had much screen time im fantasy. If we send books (in english) to Paizo about us, would you read it ?

In Campaign Sourcebook and Catacomb guide from AD&D, some words "death" were swapped with "megadeath". I was still learning english at the time and actually thought you could use megadeath to say something was really really dead.

Yeah, he scientist taht invented spectograph was a priest and cheif astronomer of Vatican.

Dear Mister Reynolds,
How are you ? I am having a nice day reading some books i bought from Paizo Publishing. During my reading of Ultimate Magic i found some matter that i thought would need discussion if you don´t matter. I found that the separatist archetype deserve more to differentiate it from some core options like philosophic clerics. Maybe would be harder to recognize them as priest of the god with knowledge religion or a bonus to diplomacy as the cleric become used to defend his sect ideas in religious debates. I am sure it would be reasonable and i trust Paizo´s decisions but in my opnion this point could be improved so everyone can benefit.

Thank you for your hard work making such wonderfull products.