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I'm hoping next year we can have more than a week's range to submit the event. I realize there was notice in the boards, which I only found after digging as I'm not a frequent board poster. A few weeks and an email notice to past event runners would be fantastic.

Last year, the deadline was also a week (eventually extended), at the end of March. This year, the deadline was over before March started, and I went looking at the start of March for it and found out again that I was too late.

Please, please make 2019 more friendly to event runners. It's making me feel like my contribution to the convention is not valued.

Sure.

Necromancer! Hope arcanists aren't hard to figure out.

EEP! DIBS!

Anyone looking for a roommate? Got my room reservation (arrive Thursday the 26th, leave Monday the 30th), but hoping to cut costs. Please PM me .

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Thank you.

I'm not sure the Rakehell is an intellect devourer... let me check.

LCoG is extremely vague, save that it implies a single being of shifting gender (rather than an intellect devourer in a series of bodies). As Russ Taylor said, though, it's barely a footnote.

Presumably NOT an intellect devourer, but it's not out of the question. Trust no one. As a plot hook for the home audience and/or future development, anything could happen.

The fluidity would be part of the host body even if Rakehell's being worn.

Forgot about Reiko, good catch, pH! Yeah, genderfluid =/= transmasculine, but it's a facet that's also underrepresented in our hobby, so once again, excellent marks to Paizo for extending the banner of inclusiveness!

It's at most a line or two rather than a developed character, but the Rakehell (ruler of Duskport in Ilvarandin) is genderfluid. Loosely inspired by Orlando, particularly how the character was presented in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

(yes, not a trans man, but the post caught my eye)

What if you forgot to charge your phone? What if you had it on silent? What if you didn't construct contorted scenarios to justify your visceral reactions?

I finally broke out Skull and Shackles to play and noticed that the base characters are missing along with the fleet card. I need the following cards:

Alahazra character card
Jirelle character card
Lem character card
Lirianna character card
Merisiel character card
Seltyiel character card
Valeros character card
Alahazra role card
Jirelle role card
Lem role card
Lirianna role card
Merisiel role card
Seltyiel role card
Valeros role card
Plunder / Fleet Card

I do have the tokens for each character.

I'm probably going to houserule up the charges (50?) for trivial electronics.

Great song reference for a thrilling book!

And your cats are adorable.

They were delicious. Thanks so much!

Looks like the taxfest discount failed to stack. Adding it to the queue for a manual fix, and thank you!

Oh, yes please! Russ Taylor natch.

Shout-out belatedly shouted back :) Glad your encounter got you to the finals.

Best day ever!

You should probably put them one level lower, as their CR is considered one lower. This will indeed still be an upgrade (with a size that varies depending on their gear allocation and how much was in the Big 6 already), but honestly, it's probably more in line with what their challenge likely should be, there just wasn't a way to do it before without overloading your PCs on gear every time they win a fight.

I'll probably pick the level that corresponds to the NPC gear as compared to PC gear, references those two tables in the CRB.

Yeah. The look on Hunter's face, Coulson? :)

Maybe Hydra pulled strings to keep her available, in case they needed to open a bunch of mail.

Wished they'd not done something as silly as the one woman with the hands, who could have been depowered far more easily than they did.

Heading out, running one event, keeping time open for social :)

Except the PBR stands for "Pathfinders Before Runelords" :)

The Strategy Guide was put together and printed before the recent FAQ ruling that reversed that rule and introduced the exception that the corners—as in D&D v.3.5—are indeed threatened.

How annoying. I checked and re-checked that when the book was being written, making sure that it matched up with the rules as they were at that time. Some times you just can't predict the future :)

I haven't regretted keeping mine :)

I know setting vs. neutral is always on my mind when I work on core products, and commented as such in my turnover. With many items, I work them so they have an obvious pivot into the Golarion world, but don't call it out directly.

Material like that (the items mentioned in the preview) were in the turnover, so I imagine material like that is in the final product to. Space is limited and a whole book could be written on tactics, so it focuses on information the new player needs to work effectively, not an exhaustive treatment. I was a minor contributor on the book, but that was one of the areas :)

Does anyone else besides me want more Hobgoblin options and perhaps a book on the goblinoid races? God I could use one.

Me! I worked on them for the Advanced Race Guide, I'd love to come back to them in another book.

Coulson (his first name is Agent) rocks. I wouldn't have watched the show without him.

"He's really stepped up his game."

awesome book, just wish you put in a tech based alchemist archetype

I had a few different ideas for such, but both of them would have consumed as much space as any three other archetypes in the book.

Can you get more cybernetic arms than you originally had? The book doesn't say one way or the other.

It does say, in that "A cybernetic arm completely replaces a normal arm, from the shoulder to the hand." An additional arm wouldn't be replacing your normal arm, and would need new rules / GM approval.

Since the AP takes steps to give you charges, and you could always just use grit without the signature deed when you got desperate, you'd probably be better off with a signature deed that did more.

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The problem is that Guts has a cannon in his arm, not a pistol. Maybe that's the closest you can get to being him, though.

That, and playing as a Titan Mauler. :)

If you're talking home play, see about talking the Gamemaster into an implanted weapon that takes up the entire arm (so you can't use it for anything else). I'll be using that system for larger weapons implants (two-handed firearms, one-handed melee weapons)when I run Iron Gods this Fall. This could also work for a leg-implanted machine gun or similar craziness, though I'd suggest that take an exotic weapon proficiency too.

Changing a limb into a weapon opened up whole can of worms that didn't seem suitable for a brief item entry.

James Jacobs wrote:

Implanted weapons must either be light melee weapons or one-handed firearms.

Note. This includes monowhips. HANDLE WITH CARE.

As one of the three people on the planet that actually enjoyed Johnny Mnemonic, this pleases me greatly.

Certainly one of the inspirations for that particular bit of cybertech (both movie and short story) :) There was some priority on not taking a whole page for the rules for it, so it's a simple approach and I hope Gamemasters override anything that offend their sense of silly.

@Russ Taylor - My 11 year old and I played your "Right Place, Wrong Time" game at PaizoCon. The game must have inspired him as he had me subscribe so he could GM this as his first AP. He's already reading away.

Thanks for a great game! I look forward to playing Iron Gods!

Wow. That really makes my day to hear. Thanks for sharing that! You were both great to have at the table.

Just started reading the Android article and I have to say whoever wrote that intro paragraph needs a round of applause. It was both beautiful, moving, and exactly what I wanted to start stepping into the mind of that races. Even got me a little misty eyed.

Thanks! I don't know how much Adam improved on that paragraph, but I was struck while writing it how being an android means never knowing your descendants, the closest thing to biological children androids have.

Magic has laws, they just aren't the laws of physics. Indeed, they violate the law of physics all over the place, including the laws of motion and thermodynamics. You can try and stretch physics to include fantasy magic, but doing so serves both poorly. Accept that in a magical universe, more than one set of rules govern reality, making it quite different from our own world.

It's no odder to be able to shut down technology than shut down magic, in a magical universe.

I played it as Dave Riley. Coming into this late. Because if I can't pull the card, I'm not going to do its text.

Thanks as well. Found you not long after I got there :)

Friday, May 22 - Monday May, 25th.

Much better weekend for me, even though it now overlaps my birthday. :)

Very safe bet that the android article talks about renewal :)

Me too! Om nom.

If they had robots and didn't have one with a saw blade, I'd have to call shenanigans.

You're welcome :)

Both her sidearms are in the book. There's a couple of things that the suit could be. :) Speaking of sidearms, that's quite a right on the cyborg.

Networks look to make a show as long as it make enough money. That can come in many forms. There's various magic numbers for syndication, struggling shows that are close to those numbers may get another season (or abbreviated season) if syndication looks promising. Magic numbers include 4 seasons (88 episodes), 100 episodes (perhaps where 5 seasons comes from), and 65 episodes (13 weeks @ 5 episodes per week).

Factors that eat into a show's profit: declining ratings, growing cast, increasing cast salaries. Any of those can get a show scaled back or canceled. By no means exhaustive. But that's why you see aging shows cut back on cast, reduce the number of times each cast member appears in an episode, and shoot in cheaper locations. Can also be a factor behind replacing highly-paid cast members, though that's as often people wanting out.

I was thinking "Amiri demonstrates a robot's vulnerability to critical hits", myself.

For people not doing Iron Gods, you can use this book without owning the Technology Guide.

I think there's confusion on what an investment is. Investment would involve ownership or a stake in the proceeds. And would trigger certain types of oversight. This is fundraising. Patronage is the closest model, except with promise of product.