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Probably easier to handle than Fourth World problems...

All of these are perfectly cromulent words.

My mind is a nexus of such things. For example, half fiend goblin wereduck vampire. Technically possible!

"I am a vampiric half-dragon half-troll lycanthropic fiendish snail! Tremble at my illogical glory!"

Evil Midnight Lurker wrote:

The Tooth of Ahazu is a magic item -- an artifact, one of the Teeth of Dahlver-Nar from the ToM. Like all the teeth, it grants you a little of a pact spirit's power if you stick it in your jaw.

EDIT: The whole thing with Ahazu is a relic of his origin as a part of the Savage Tide campaign: early on the party acquires the Tooth, then much later they will inevitably visit the Wells of Darkness to commune with his spirit. If one of the party happens to be a binder, discovering knowledge of a spirit almost completely unknown to the universe is a sort of reward.

That makes more sense now that you've explained it, but its still a pretty lame restriction that goes against all of the norms that were established in PMU.

Indeed -- simply having the spirit be undiscovered makes it enough of a "treasure."

A thought: if the Teeth are in play... there's supposed to be one tooth for every vestige, or presumably for every occult spirit. So here, I'll try to do a quick (and much more regularized than the ToM version) conversion for y'all:

Each tooth of Dahlver-Nar is associated with a single occult spirit. If you implant a tooth in your jaw (requiring the permanent removal of one of your own teeth if you are not already missing at least one; pulling a tooth is a full-round action that inflicts one point of damage) you gain that spirit's major granted ability and its capstone empowerment as though you were an occultist of your total character level who had successfully made a good pact by 10 or more. However, as long as the tooth remains implanted in your jaw, you must show the spirit's physical sign and accept its influence as though you had made a poor pact with it; no means of suppressing the sign or influence will function.

Using an unimplanted tooth of Dahlver-Nar to inscribe its associated spirit's seal grants you a +1 bonus on your binder check against that spirit.

You may implant as many teeth of Dahlver-Nar in your jaws as your species normally possesses teeth, typically 32 in humans and the other core races.

More details to come in a half year or so... but let's just say that Cthulhu is harder to kill than the tarrasque, I guess.

...but... but there's no known way to kill the tarrasque...

*whimper*

Dreamscarred, Radiance House, and maybe E.N. should team to produce a setting in which psionics and pact magic have a major role. ^.^

Berselius wrote:

Will the Kaiju be an entirely new size class (like "Titanic") or did you just settle for Colossal size James?

They're Colossal. But they have some special rules, and their space and reach are bigger than 30 feet.

Are any of them big enough to justify having their presence on the mat be two separate enormous feet? ^.^

Instead of an edit I deleted it by accident... sorry.

Yes the Tailypo being a unique variant of Bauk would be sweet!

I said something like: The Tailypo (Being a freaky child bedtime story) suits really well in Bestiary 4 which has creatures like Grendel, Nosferatu and Bodysnatchers in it, all from books and movies!

I was obsessed by the Tailypo a couple of months ago and wished for it multiple times in the Bestiary 4 wish topic so there is a chance it may be in the Bestiary 4! I really hope so as Tailypo would be both scary, nostalgic and in for some awesome scenario's and stories!

...wait... is that the thing that wanted its tail back? I think I remember that from my childhood...

...I'm gonna go hide in the closet now.

William Ronald wrote:

I see that the elohim are mentioned as a race. Am I correct in presuming that they may be inspired/connected to the Elohim race in the Chonicles of Thomas Covenant as opposed to a more religious approach?

To the contrary. Though now Mr. Covenant is on my reading list. ;)

Again! Bestiaries are Educational!

Do yourself one of the biggest fiction-related favors you will ever do in your life and take it back off the list. :( Seriously.

Arikiel wrote:

I hope there will be an entry for Vorpal Bunnies such as Aslan.

Look up "Al-mi'raj."

Man, it's been so long since I've seen one of those little guys anywhere but a Dragon Quest videogame...

I'm seeing two nosferatu. (Nosferati? Nosferatodes?)

I want a story feat that lets my character learn, over the course of his adventuring career, to forge katanas out of bacon.

James Sutter wrote:

Dragon78 wrote:

1)How ugly do the male lashunta look like? Are we talking just harry dwarf or like a shorter version of that guy from Goonies with the misshapen head/eyes.

1) Not that ugly, really, more just short, muscular, and brutish-looking... not full-on dwarves, but more like a cross between a modern man and a Neanderthal. If you're into gorilla-shaped men (and hey, my dad falls into that category--dude's knuckles are like walnuts), then maybe Lashunta's the place for you!

So... Frazetta Man?

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FrazettaMan

As the creator of that page... I'd have to say that male lashunta sound like they'd be borderline Frazetta Men physically, but not very close to the archetype in terms of behavior.

James: Re-reading Council of Thieves, I came across a description of a melted metal disc in the Westcrown Pathfinder Lodge that's all that remains of an ancient construct that fell to Golarion from Akiton thousands of years ago... a construct that is obviously a Martian Tripod (with extra invisibility field). Would this be likely to be the creation of some militant Ashok, or are there some straight-up Sarmaks hiding out up there?

Hm, Summoners as Persona-users...

Is there any possibility of a "crossover book" with the Gothic Grimoires, featuring Mythos Ki Feats for slightly mad monks? ^.^

I'd take those AND books for Law and Chaos.

Odraude wrote:

Rysky wrote:

Odraude wrote:

Where did you come up with the name for Golarion?

Where did you come up with the name for you? (Sorry for the jack but its been bugging me awhile)

It's a secret ;)

But the answer is right in plain sight :D

Primes spray bottle full of Salt Water

or....
all search results are in Portuguese and Rysky no understand Portuguese :(

You're not looking at the problem the right way. Perhaps if you contemplated your reflection for a while...

Until a sourcebook goes so far as to state "Known on other worlds as Pelor, Ra, and Sol, Sarenrae is a goddess of the sun" I'm going to assume the dieties of Golarion (which are radically reduced in number thanks to Rovagug) are an insular lot equivalent to the iconic era of the American mafia: busy with their own local interests and issues, and while aware of things taking place further afield, uninterested unless it provides opportunity or threat to their own agenda.

Some of them are local. Some of them aren't.

Pharasma is the Judge of the Dead. For the ENTIRE Material Plane. All the spirits of all the slain of all the worlds of all the starry universe flow through her Boneyard on the way to their afterlives.

Asmodeus? Has, in theory, appointed an individual malebranche to oversee the subversion and eventual conquest of each and every inhabited planet in the universe.

These are not small gods.

The sangoi entry has me extremely curious about just what kind of destiny might really be awaiting those "marked" children. Potential PC background there.

I think it might be best, and by best I mean worst, if there really isn't any destiny involved at all -- the little bastards are just horribly paranoid.

Probably lifeboats, fighters, that sort of thing?

Looking over this... what it needs is to be able to miraculously fold up into a Tiny sphere with the wearer intact inside, so it can roll around and zip into small tunnels. And you should be able to collect mysterious artifacts from Silver Mount ruins to upgrade it. And the class description should use female gender. ^.^

It is once per day.

Now, now: that spell doesn't do anything more than gather information the target knew. It imparts no volition or consent.

Gotta have Pharasma in there somewhere. She's not Golarion's Judge of the Dead, she's the entire universe's Judge, period.

The Trickster might just be the Trickster, putting on names and faces like we put on hats.

Over on the RPGnet forums, the point was raised that Conan is anything but a typical Cimmerian -- they're a bunch of gloomy fatalistic nobodies who roam around their mist-shrouded hills and don't do much but sulk and feud. Conan left to get away from that life.

My thoughts, as always, are "Arcadia has been in contact with Avistani cultures for FIVE. THOUSAND. FRELLING. YEARS, which, let me remind you, is ten times as long as it's been in the real world, and if the Arcadians are running around as Native American Pastiches in warpaint and feathers and have strictly inferior magic and tech compared to the colonials it will be remarkably insulting and racist."

Please let them have civilizations comparable at the very least to the Linnorm Kingdoms, if not Cheliax and Andoran?

Asmodeus and Ihys were the first gods in their region of reality, the area around the Seal (whatever the heck that is). Even that volume of Book of the Damned acknowledges that they later met beings from elsewhere.

It's really difficult to decide who really came first on the knowledge we've been given.

Jim Groves wrote:

Enlight_Bystand wrote:

If I were to guess, they're holding those two until the unholy combination of an AP in the area and the respective people are free to write a part...

You are wise. But sometimes we mention things so that they know that we think they're cool and hope to see them some day. ;-)

Nothing inspires more than knowing people dig your stuff.

But all of these Castles look pretty damn awesome too.

Well, I'll admit that to me Kronquist sounds more like the grocery store owner in a story by Hjalmar Bergman or August Strindberg than the looming keep of some gothic horror story. Luckily that's not a problem for most customers, I bet. ;)

The thing is, in the Castlevania games, Dracula's real name is Mathias Kronquist. (Vlad Tepes was just a noble he killed and impersonated long after becoming a vampire.)

...So I suppose if you fused Castle Kronqvist and Bastardhall, you'd get one reasonable approximation of the Demon Castle itself :)

Evil Midnight Lurker wrote:

xorial wrote:

Another thought. Earth & Golarian are in the same universe, so that means you can insert Doctor Who, right?

As someone else on the board posted a while back: TARDICH (Time And Relative Dimensions In Chicken Hut).

Baba Yaga is the Rani?

No, she's The Baba.

Another thought. Earth & Golarian are in the same universe, so that means you can insert Doctor Who, right?

As someone else on the board posted a while back: TARDICH (Time And Relative Dimensions In Chicken Hut).

You kids talking about me?

ohcrap

Uh! Hello, um, Little Mother, how are -- ohgodno

....I ... hope you are well.

(Guys. Listen. Whatever you do, DO NOT ASK HER A DIRECT QUESTION. Muse about things. Steer the conversation gently toward topics of interest. But NO QUESTIONS. Especially not about stuff you think she might actually WANT to tell you. And above all BE POLITE.)

Othniel Edden wrote:

Are Heldren and Waldsby so similarly arranged on purpose?

Yes. That was something purposeful Rob and I talked about in development. I wanted the two towns to be eerily, uncannily similar (all the way down to some of the inhabitants)...and yet, strikingly different at the same time, because of the contrast between Irrisen and Taldor...almost like some layer of witchcraft had contrived all that the coincidence. A little something to creep out the players, while also giving them a chance to find something familiar and destiny-driven about their role in the adventure path.

...Is this going to continue through the AP? Will there be similar towns in furthest Iobaria, winter-bound Triaxus, and this-isn't-even-the-same-galactic-supercluster Siberia? All with statues apparently chiseled by the same sculptor, maybe of the same subject?

Because yikes.

Dragonborn3 wrote:

Oh dice gods... o.0

The rules for Young Characters... the first book of Curse of the Crimson Throne...

I think I may cry at all the awesome! Ex-Little Lamms that just escaped are going to be officially possible!

As much as this resonates with me, the one that's really sticking out in my head is a Five Years Earlier series of adventures before Rise of the Runelords. :D

And now I'm seeing only-slightly-younger Merisiel trying to ride herd on ten-year-old Valeros, Seoni, and Kyra. :D

EDWARD DEANGELIS wrote:

To many Gnomes.

No such thing.

A toast: to many gnomes! (drinks)

Clearly, modern wizards' usage of staves is due to corrupt and faded legends of the proper way of things. :)

It occurs to me that the characters won't think of this as going to "Earth." If they ask the locals, they'll be told it's the planet Zemlya. :D

...Witchguard ranger? A ranger who protects a witch?

I am tired of shouting battle-cries at this mage! Boo will finish his eyeballs once and for all so that he does not rise again! Evil! Meet my sword. SWORD! MEET! EVIL!

Meaning leave out edition war stuff.

Replacing the Pactmasters of Katapesh with robed Thri-Kreen could be a funky changeup. They'd exist in the wilds of Katapesh (and as far north as Osirion, Thuvua and Rahadoum and as far south as off the map), but the only city-dwelling Kreen known would be the coldly dispassionate Pactmasters. (They might have a city or even an entire nation of such, to the distant south, but that would be a legend to the folk of the Inner Sea and northern Garund.)

And the Pactmasters and other city-dwelling kreen would insist on being called tohr-kreen.

Since we have this thread, I hope folks don't mind me reposting this from the tangent on Verces:

The Starstone originally lay on one of the two worlds that would become the Diaspora, but it was undiscovered until Eoxian emissaries found it and secretly used it to ascend to godhood. The Eoxian deities, like their mortal relatives already descending into envy and paranoia, saw the waxing power of the starfarers of Damiar and Iovo and feared what might happen if they too became gods... so they urged their mortal worshipers to create a doomsday weapon and use it against the twin worlds. The devastation of Eox was unexpected, but in the mad gods' view, a small price to pay for their own safety.

The gods of Eox may not yet be aware that the Starstone has been found and used. If they ever find out, Earthfall may look like a harmless summer storm...

Also he built Atomic Robo.

[Eox/Diaspora tangent]
The Starstone originally lay on one of the two worlds that would become the Diaspora, but it was undiscovered until Eoxian emissaries found it and secretly used it to ascend to godhood. The Eoxian deities, like their mortal relatives already descending into envy and paranoia, saw the waxing power of the starfarers of Damiar and Iovo and feared what might happen if they too became gods... so they urged their mortal worshipers to create a doomsday weapon and use it against the twin worlds. The devastation of Eox was unexpected, but in the mad gods' view, a small price to pay for their own safety.

The gods of Eox may not yet be aware that the Starstone has been found and used. If they ever find out, Earthfall may look like a harmless summer storm...

It's an AP focused on Baba Yaga. Baba Yaga is FROM Earth. QED.

All of which are preyed upon by the stochastic ooze.

A world where life is in great abundance would be *teeming* with micro-organisms, and yet, in the Golarion setting, disease organisms are paradoxically affiliated with necromancy, the energies of anti-life.

So, depending on whether Golarion-logic regarding disease and life applies off of Golarion, Castrovel would either be a bacterial/viral/amoebic/etc. playground, or surprisingly sterile and life-free on a micro level.

...You haven't read Heart of the Jungle at all, have you?

Go check it out for more non-necromantic, brimming-with-life, horrifying tropical diseases than you ever wanted to know existed.

What is the cause of this obsession, and to what end? Curiosity and experimentation? Are there any other obsessions they have which might help me also better categorize them?

It's difficult to say for certain, because of all Lovecraft's nonhuman creations, the Elder Things were mentally the closest to human. You wouldn't go too far wrong in thinking of them as just a highly advanced culture that happened to be weird barrel-shaped things.

The most relevant quote:

Poor devils! After all, they were not evil things of their kind. They were the men of another age and another order of being. Nature had played a hellish jest on them — as it will on any others that human madness, callousness, or cruelty may hereafter drag up in that hideously dead or sleeping polar waste — and this was their tragic homecoming.

They had not been even savages — for what indeed had they done? That awful awakening in the cold of an unknown epoch — perhaps an attack by the furry, frantically barking quadrupeds, and a dazed defence against them and the equally frantic white simians with the queer wrappings and paraphernalia . . . poor Lake, poor Gedney . . . and poor Old Ones! Scientists to the last—what had they done that we would not have done in their place? God, what intelligence and persistence! What a facing of the incredible, just as those carven kinsmen and forbears had faced things only a little less incredible! Radiates, vegetables, monstrosities, star-spawn — whatever they had been, they were men!

Mikaze wrote:

This idea is possibly going to be very very relevant if a certain something hinted at in Magnimar: City of Monuments and maybe turning up in Wrath of the Righteous comes to fruition.

What reference is this?

Certain heretical worshipers of Nocticula, the Demon Lord of Succubi, believe her to be a fallen Empyreal Lord who wants to redeem herself.

I have noticed that her major activity in the Abyss seems to be killing other demon lords...

Now I want to revive the Blink Mammoths from Dragon #156.

While waiting for the next bestiary, it might help to hunt down the original source of the formians -- The Radio Man by Ralph Milne Farley. Erik Mona is apparently a fan and has been pushing for the formian redesign to harken back to these books. (I've never managed to lay my hands on a copy, so don't look at me for further answers.)

I wonder whether or not male lashunta have antennae. I'd assume so, but you never know.

Maybe if we got some servitors to write "SOME HUMAN" in very large letters in the corner of the planet? ^.^