I will see how complete of a list I can make. Several of these are a few degrees of Kevin Bacon away from Aslynn herself. The key lists several metaplot threads that involve Aslynn at some point. Spoiler: KEY:
A: Aslynn or her minions directly involved O: Onyx Alliance T: Thurl D: Desimire K: Koth’Vaul 3: 322 S: Star Pathfinder 1e:
Pathfinder 2e:
Time to play madlibs for who or what the redacteds are! Open the spoiler at your own risk. Spoiler:
1. Grand Lodge 2. Decemvirate 3. Eponymous mask that is being worn 4. Hostile takeover 5. Eylysia 6. Decemvirate member 7. Eylysia 8. Gnome Pathfinder Chronicler 9. #6-10 The Wounded Wisp 10. #10-16 What the Helms Hide 11. Grandmaster Torch 12. Grandmaster Torch 13. Eylysia
NOTE: I have not actually read the scenario. These are merely guesses, but they may or may not be accurate.
Mine is in honor of the film The Dirt, the film adaptation of Motley Crue's biography, recently being released on Netflix. While I certainly don't approve of the actions in the Girls, Girls, Girls B-side power ballad You're All I Need, I can't deny my appreciation for the art form known as lyrical dissonance. The title is reminiscent of soap opera star Jack Wagner's soft rock hit All I Need, as Crue bassist and chief songwriter Nixxi Sixx suspected his girlfriend of cheating on him with Wagner. Meanwhile, Sixx was cheating on her with twenty other women, but the hypocrisy failed to register in his drug-addled mind. Vince Neil's soaring upbeat vocals stood in sharp contrast to the tragic tale of the murder of a lover so that the heartbroken narrator could keep her all to himself. Sixx showcased his dark humor most prominently in the verse-ending line, "But we finally made the news," evoking nostalgia of a time in which securing a headline could be considered relationship goals, long before the era of tweets and hashtags. While this tune would possibly be barred from mainstream airwaves in the modern climate, You're All I Need will remain in the hearts of classic headbangers as one of the all-time great ballads. (OK, maybe not. Home Sweet Home is a far more popular example of a slow pretty song from the leather-and-umlaut clad bad boys.)
I would like it if we just dropped deity alignment and used anathemas to control which clerics can worship whom. I think anathemas are much more clear role-play hooks then alignment, especially since no two people can agree on what Chaos and Law are. I second this idea. Concrete rules are better guides for behavior than alignments, which can be subjective. My characters who worship Gorum tend to act lawful good, despite being chaotic neutral on paper, and I’ve never been warned that I was close to violating Gorum’s tenets.
Name: Ernesto Seppatuuli, the Zircon Sage
Ernesto is a celebrated chronicler of the Pathfinder Society, frequently completing missions related to elemental balance or extraplanar exploration in addition to his duties with the Scarab Sages. He spends his quieter days crafting exquisite musical instruments, a practice that creates at least as many problems as it solves when utilized during adventures. Wishing to set himself apart from the typical shocking-grasp-happy magus, Ernesto styles himself as a "mageknight" questing in the service of Shelyn; his blade companion appears to share such aims when it decides to speak.
The only gender mechanics that I have seen in the CRB are height and weight, which may simply be holdovers from the world’s oldest roleplaying game. I do not recall any PFS scenarios that take height or weight into account. So you should be fine to go ahead and make a character who is intersex, genderfluid, etc.
Modify Memory may be more likely to be used to make a child think something horrific happened, rather than cover it up. Veil sounds as though it is more likely to make the caster, or another creature or object, appear more terrifying to the child. Unnatural Lust.... yeah, I'll give you that one. Even if intended for another use, it has overtly sexual connotations. A variant "Unnatural Gluttony" or something may be more appropriate.
Here's one that will ring true for Starfinder characters: "The first rule of space travel kids is always check out distress beacons. Nine out of ten times it's a ship full of dead aliens and a bunch of free s**t! One out of ten times it's a deadly trap, but... I'm ready to roll those dice!"
I have heard it described not as a retcon but rather more development on a species that was rare in Pathfinder but has come into the spotlight in Starfinder. Few people on Golarion knew about lashuntas, and even fewer knew what "korasha" or "damaya" meant. Who knows if future Pathfinder material featuring lashuntas will have the new details. For mechanical reasons I am a fan of the new stats, as I am loving the Strength and Charisma for my solarian.
John Carter of Mars is Canon in the Starfinder universe so I'd say that the red humans are the Skum to the red martian's Deep Ones.Source? In the Pathfinder comics the iconic heroes travel to the Worldscape, which contains characters from Red Sonja and John Carter of Mars. All of these are Dynamite Comics publications, and I'm still holding out for the heroes to meet KISS.
Several times I've heard people say they joined the Grand Lodge because "it's the I-don't-care faction." While I think it was meant to be the faction for people who want to focus solely on being Pathfinders, others seem to gravitate to the Lodge if they have little patience for investigation or intrigue and just want to hit things. Hence I propose the Beatstick Bros faction (note: ladies are bros too; I want alliteration): home for field agents who cannot be bothered to write down important names and events, who barely speak anything other than Common (and even then, not very fluently), and whose first stop after being paid is the alehouse or the weapons shop. Their skillset is invaluable for defeating the horrific beasts that stand between their more bookish compatriots and the success conditions, but if a key person or macguffin gets caught in the crossfire, that's just the cost of doing business. So draw your +5 keen greatswords and sound the mantra of the BB's: "I attack!"
Gotta be careful with the wording there. Some folks got some heat for Make Taldor Great Again jokes during and after the banquet. As much as I like the factions coming back into prominence, my greatest concern is that the in-game events will mirror real-world politics. In that case, I may need a liver transplant before the season finishes.
Wait, Queen Abrogail Thrune is supposed to be a villain? I've been way off the mark in my interpretation of her.Well, she's a hardcore devil Nazi, so if that doesn't scream "villain" to you, I don't know what to tell you. My interpretation was that she inherited a lot of problems from her family (the whole selling of souls to Hell thing) and does her best to stay strong despite being trapped in her current role. As in, she has to stay with her family tradition of working with devils because they are in too deep to back out of the deal.
I'm not a Democrat, I'm an Outright Libertarian.... but this is a very interesting thread to read.Libertarian usually means "republican in denial" these days... On the other hand, my right-wing associates think I'm a democrat. It's like being a half-elf: looking like an elf to a human, and looking like a human to an elf.
Paths of the Righteous and Blood of the Beast are amazing. I recommend that people who are on the fence about getting them go for it. For now though, we can play our evil characters to get it out of our systems before we have to play good in order to qualify for the new prestige classes. |
