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*sigh* here we go again. It's like we're never going to actually talk about Wrath of the Righteous.

Since we know the general CR an Infernal Duke is, what would be the CR of the Whore Queens? Or the Malebranche?

Silly Zaister. Australia is a continent, not a country ;)

If I throw in a deadly encounter that could potentially kill one or more characters, I'll always try to allude to it beforehand so that that is some forewarning.

I'd allow it. I don't think it's game breaking for witches or magi to be able to use Spell Mastery.

Just made the best bacon I've ever had, grabbing bacon from a meat market close by and baking it in a cold oven set to 400 F on a broiler pan for about 20 minutes. It was the perfect crispiness and taste, mostly drained, and just so delicious! Plus, I was able to easily drain and store the bacon fat for later cooking usage. Only downside is that the fat smokes a lot in that kind of heat so when you open the oven, it's really smokey. But, the bacon was amazing!

I'd say that there is nothing in the hex that explicitly states that it bypasses the "Constructs, elementals, outsiders, and undead creatures can't be reincarnated" rule, so I would actually lean more towards #3. Though I could see the case made for #2.

I am going to get a lot of usage from this PDF. Very good!

I don't mind coup de grace, though I use them rare. They are a spice like rosemary, that only needs a sprig.

That said, D&D has taught me that there are worse things than death :)

Odraude wrote:

I know you're a big fan of Dark Souls (Hell yeah!), but have you ever played Dragon's Dogma? If so, what did you think of it?

Haven't played it.

Ah okay. I would highly recommend you play it. It is like Skyrim, Dark Souls and Shadow of the Colossus has a baby. The class system is really good, and fights are quite fun. For larger creatures, like ogres and cyclops, you can climb them and attack their weak points. The game is very challenging and there are a lot of call-backs to D&D (creator is a huge fan). Definitely give it a try.

I know you're a big fan of Dark Souls (Hell yeah!), but have you ever played Dragon's Dogma? If so, what did you think of it?

Yeah. First thing I did with my Warhammer files.

I actually stopped using GameScience dice because when I ran, I kept rolling 20s. I think in one combat against the PCs, I rolled it about 8 times. It was not right.

I wonder how army stats will handle going against character stats. Like, if one PC was going against an army, how would Army HP and such handle that?

...why did he blow up a city block?

Terribly mysterious.

Dragon78 wrote:

Well we have 10 authors for 15 dragons.

Yep, Joseph Carriker, Amanda Hamon, and Tork Shaw each wrote two dragons and the rest of us tackled one.

Guess which one Wes did. It's shocking. I'm sure no one will guess correctly. ;)

Shocking eh? Shocking as in Lightning Breath? As in Blue Dragon!?! Or perhaps a Bronze Dragon?

Judging from their history in Book of the Damned 1: Princes of Darkness, definitely Sarenrae. He killed her creator and she harbors vengeance against him.

Odraude wrote:

This topic is now about Imrijka and Valeros. And why Valeros has a thing for half-orc women dressed like Carmen Sandiego.

He likes it when she travels to different parts of Golarion and commits oddly complicated petty crimes and leaves clues for him to track down with the help of strange children.

It's why he'd never been able to get in Seoni's Skirt. His fetishes are just Too. Damned. Complicated.

Can you imagine how romantic that is? Imrijka stealing the Eiffel Tower so there's a beautiful landmark they can escape to to make love?

Where's Mikaze? I think we have a writing project to be done for NaNoWriMo this year.

This topic is now about Imrijka and Valeros. And why Valeros has a thing for half-orc women dressed like Carmen Sandiego.

I'm sure this is some kind of metaphor for how some people can see naughty things in something innocent, but I'm too busy preparing my sacrifice for Ultimate Campaign to release early.

Uh oh.

I think it's this part "| .][. | " that makes me think boobs.

I'm a terrible person :D

Jessica Price wrote:

Huh, I don't see any naughty bits.

Whenever I look at it, I see Imrijka wearing a pair of breasts as a belt.

Disturbing, on multiple counts.

Yeah that's what I see too!

Also, Imrijka and Valeros is like a thing on DeviantArt. Although I saw a cool picture of Valeros and Amiri being total bros. I'd imagine that's how they'd be like in real life.

"Dude bro, you wanna slay some dragons?"

"Hell yeah brah, afterwards we'll drink some ale from its skull!"

"DUDE BRAH!"

Don't brain-eating zombies try to coup de grace in order to devour brains?

Tacticslion wrote:

Mikaze wrote:

I'll accept any heartwarming pictures of Imrijka X Valeros rated from G to X.

I can try...

So, uh, here we go?

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. ----....====
. /[[ ]] \ / :::: \
. | .][. | | \ :: / |
* {||} ** {||} *
.. {||}..... {||}
.. <-->..... <-->

... see, Imrijka is on the right (it's clear because of the hat), and Valeros is on the left (you can tell because he has no hat).

Does this satisfy, great one?
(My meager skills aside.)

This is the best thing.

Glad to see ASCII porn makes it past the mods ;)

Speaking of 1D&D, weren't there rules for orgies? It's where this picture is from (Semi NSFW but everything is censored. I swear it had stuff like its affects on psionics and magic and all that.

I...what... but... no...even...don't...wow...

The dad, is that a young Hugh Laurie?

Voyd211 wrote:

Seriously though, has anyone considered making a WtW out of a dragon of any kind?

WtW?

Thinking he means a Worm That Walks.

That remark made me make some pasta and meatballs. mmmm

That is true, forgot about that. Thanks. I can look forward to this sooner now :)

Oh damn. That means I still won't get it till the 29th... well damn :/

So what does it mean that something is in your sidecart? I got the description but it says it's in my sidecart.

Cast insanity but instead of making them confused, give them amnesia.

Good thing the setting is in nice, bite-sized pieces, or else I'd never get into Golarion.

I actually really like the name. Thanks! I'll pick this up and show my friend. He really likes transhuman sci fi.

I'm trying to throw my money at my monitor, but it's not working!

I love WoP and I wish Paizo supported it more instead of treating it like a red headed stepchild. Consider me buying it.

Jinmenju also are in the Jade Regent AP (#5 I think?). Though it'd be cool to see them reprinted.

There's also Bestiary 3's Cannon Golem.

Pretty much was Todd said.

Unrelated, but I always feel bad that whenever I've talked to you on the messageboards, since they've been in regards to things I didn't like in The Great Beyond hehe :D Which, I really liked the book, so right on!

Apologies for the silly question, but how modular is this with the Pathfinder Core Rules? I'm interested in dropping some of the fantasy characters into a world like this for a brief adventure, but I'd like to know how well (or terribly) they'd fit. Thanks for any help!

Man, I don't think I can wait until the 29th :( I'm seriously thinking about getting the subscription now...

...and I caved.

I'm actually fine with mithril and adamantine taking a long time to craft. They are supposed to be rare metals that are difficult to work with to everyone except the finest smiths.

I'm sad we can't see the Coeurl reprinted for Pathfinder. I loved the displacer beast.

John Kretzer wrote:

There is something I don't get...I'll remind you I am all for characters of variety of sexual orientation and other areas of diversity....

Why does it matter that your role models...or people who you look up to have to be exactly like you? Personaly I look up to people in history or literature because of who they are and what they did...not who they love or the color of their skin, etc. I am not saying you are wrong...just trying to understand it.

Also...the only thing I don't like about having the Iconics sexuality defined at all is because there GMs who use them as pre gens for new players...and I rather have that new player definer that character. Though I don't mind them exploring these characters more in the comics book and giving them depth.

It's not so much that all your role models have to be exactly like you, it's when there aren't any that it becomes hard.

To take it to the extreme, if all the postive role-models available, everyone who's held up as a success, as someone to emulate, are straight white men, it's much harder for the gay black female to see herself having a chance at reaching that goal. While that's an extreme example, it isn't that long ago it was fairly accurate, at least for women who didn't want a traditional female role.

So it's not so much, all my heros have to be gay, for example, but it's nice if there's an example showing that gays can be heros.

When you're a straight white male, as I am, you're so surrounded by examples of people like you that it's easy to take to role models who don't match you, because you're overwhelmed with those that do.
Now imagine growing up gay and never reading a book, never seeing a movie or TV show with a gay hero.

Adding to that, imagine if you were gay and all you saw in fiction were terrible stereotypes or effeminate bad guys. Or being a woman and all you saw in fiction were either damsels in distress or radically proportioned and wearing a napkin. Or being colored and all you saw were the plucky, sometimes inept sidekick, or worse, the evil foreign bad guy and his minions. Or being non-existent in almost all anime.

Don't let my doom and gloom get to you though. Things are getting better, especially in the RPG scene for women and the Comic industry for colored people. And that makes me happy. Because while I love Batman and Solid Snake, I'm also happy I got acquainted with El Mariachi from the Mexican series at a young age.

Also, I'd like more options for cosplaying besides Johnny 2x4 :p

There is something I don't get...I'll remind you I am all for characters of variety of sexual orientation and other areas of diversity....

Why does it matter that your role models...or people who you look up to have to be exactly like you? Personaly I look up to people in history or literature because of who they are and what they did...not who they love or the color of their skin, etc. I am not saying you are wrong...just trying to understand it.

Also...the only thing I don't like about having the Iconics sexuality defined at all is because there GMs who use them as pre gens for new players...and I rather have that new player definer that character. Though I don't mind them exploring these characters more in the comics book and giving them depth.

Because when you're young and you're pushed around all the time for being a different race or sexuality, or you're being the butt of sexist jokes, it's good to see someone like you in fiction to relate to and look up to. And when people around you tell you that you're worthless because you're not white, or not straight, or a woman, it can really make a difference to see a positive role model that proves society wrong and shows that being a hero transcends race, gender, and sexuality.

It's certainly better than what scraps we have in video games these days. I guess I can look forward to being the foreign sidekick, or the foreign minions of an evil guy.

Wow this captain sounds like a huge prick. This is definitely an out of game issue and he needs to chill out and deal with it.

Weren't Neothelids overgrown Mind Flayer tadpoles?

Scott Betts wrote:

John Kretzer wrote:

I have to completely disagree here. This is not a batter question. It is baiting. It is so you can cornor him or her...and declare Broken Arrow as bigot or whatever label you want to throw him into a group.

Which fails on so many levels...

1) Treating people as 'groups' instead of inviduals is why we have racists and bigots today. Commiting the same sin to somebody who disagrees with you does not make you a better person.

Since when is calling someone a bigot for their bigoted actions or words the same as using racist/homophobic/whatever stereotypes? There's no such thing as the sin of accurately labeling someone.

I'm not throwing him into a group and then judging him based on perceptions of that group. I'm trying to expose his rationale, and use that underlying rationale to ridicule his position.

He is demanding justification for things that require no justification, so instead of providing him with the justification he claims to want (which, mind you, plenty of people have given him already), I'm more interested in finding out why he is demanding justification for something that doesn't require justification. I think that's far more interesting, because it gets to the heart of why he cared enough to question it in the first place.

So calm down.

Sorry - AFK for some time.

Yes it is a baiting question - but one I'm happy to address.

1. Please quote my "bigoted" words.
2. You're here to ridicule my position as opposed to enter into a discussion. This says to me you aren't actually prepared to listen so much as simply looking to twist my words to what you want to the inevitable cry of "redneck!"
3. No, Paizo don't have to justify their position. But this is a discussion board. Paizo, as a diligent and forward thinking company, is open to discussion regarding their products.
4. My ulterior motive of calling it PC BS? Because I hate PC BS. Adding one of each type (which is where the thread was going)...

It's cool. Back then I had a terrible temper and a chip on my shoulder so I ended up smashing his minis and punching him in the face. Which, in retrospect, didn't help my case... but I felt a lot better after that ;)

Sad thing is that Andrew is really starting to sound a lot like that guy from the Gaming Store. He always made false equivalence and hyperbole about letting race into D&D would "open the floodgates" for homosexuals and other "liberal b~!@!%$@" to come in. Don't get me wrong, as a fat guy, I'd be okay with a fat iconic. But I understand that in terms of identity, I and most people use gender, races, and sexuality more as an identifier, not their weight. Plus, I've never been discriminated against for being fat. And honestly, I can always just not be fat (working on that). I can't stopping being Puerto Rican or stop being heterosexual.

In response to the lack of Hispanics and Pacific Islanders post, I'd wait until Arcadia and Sarusan are fleshed out more to see them. Although the Hispanics would probably be more akin to the native Taino, Caribs, and Central American ethnicities rather than current-day Spanish influenced Hispanics. Though I could see them combining a bit of both. That's what I've done in my home setting.