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205. Because you're an eidolon/familiar/animal companion and your free will doesn't enter into the equation.

So I am making a demigod who is a CG demigod of Darkness, Retribution, and Endurance. He is also a willing subordinate to Desna whom he worshiped as a mortal.

How would you guys play him?

65. Because love.

Yes they do tie together. I had the limited props yes but I decided to make it work for me. Another tie in is "The keeper's Words." The fellow from instinct with the long hair is the central focus in that one.

You pretty much got Love's Sword.

I'm not leaving tends to get an emotional response. Always be careful when showing your videos to groups of elder women.

Also, I posted the first Errata and FAQ video. There should be a link in the Gamer Talk section.

James Jacobs wrote:

Androids CAN feel emotions, but not very well and they simply don't process them accurately. They're immune to certain types of magically induced emotions (notably fear effects and magical emotion effects), but can feel their own emotions... but just not very well. Think of them as nearly "blind" (or at the least, VERY nearsighted) when it comes to emotions. There is likely an android SOMETHING out there that can unlock this blindness, just as glasses can "unlock" near blindness.

Like maybe they have some parallels with RL issues some have reading emotions in others and expressing their own? That is, an android might have as much of a well of empathy within as a human, but has incredible difficulty understanding why it feels what it feels, what it's feeling, and expressing that?

Re: Immunities, wow, I'll be. Completely overlooked that.

I am now reminded of R. Dorothy Wainwright from The Big O.

It was a 99 ways to tell a story project. We were given a set of lines and a few props and we had to include the props and only use those lines. The idea was she was hungry and he was taunting her by driving by all those restaurants. After the credits he went and ate but did get her anything. An amusing thing. After I turned it in my friend who played the smug guy was at work at a grocery store and this girl goes through his line and while doing this she takes out her sunglasses and asks him if she looks good in those shades. It turns out my professor used my video as an example for his highschool class.

As for the Adventure's over. I liked that one. I eventually wrote a script where the story progresses after that the world changes. I hope to make it in the some time in the not to distant future. I even have most of the original actors interested.

What type of god? A dead one of course!

Mr. James Jacobs,

How do Aboleths reproduce? Also, how does that process vary to produce veiled masters?

I have this character who uses arcane magic (He's a warlock) and he has a strong aberrant bloodline (at this point he has 5 aberrant feats from Lords of Madness). The idea is that his magic acts as a catalyst for his aberrant blood (His lineage coming from the aboleths and veiled masters) causing it to manifest so dramatically and then later should he die a violent death his blood causes him to not die but painfully transmute into an aboleth or some variant.

Then the idea occurred to me "What if that is the way veiled masters are produced?"

Work in my old job did interfere and another part was my innate procrastination which I have been working to overcome with some success. If I could do this as my paying job I think I would like that but for now its a hobby. I enjoy entertaining people.

Technology has a weird relationship with me, the one thing that seems to work consistently is video editing software.

I did not notice that on the time markers. Weird thing that.

I just wish I still had the wet bar to have that being a recurring skit. The drink was grenadine, limeade, and either ginger ale or ice tea I can't remember. Is that the divine rank system from Deities and Demigods? Good to see i'm having a positive impact.

It was the BESM review.

I hope you enjoy the hobbit and and Dragon Age RPG.

Thank you and you as well :)

To Viscount K: Glad I could help. :) Also, I think the Lady behind piratesdarkwater.net mentioned a petition to get it finished.

To Tacticslion: Thank you. I'm glad its good and that I have improved... and that you like my sense of humor.

Yeah Ask Omenseer was an early attempt at something but I kind of lost traction on it. It was the first of the silly entertainment stuff that I did.

Yeah, I don't curse in real life and I thought I could turn that into something amusing for my videos. I just don't have that level of vitriol common to many reviewers and at first that made me a bit insecure because its the internet and hatred is the most common denominator. But yeah a review you can show to your kinds *Thumbs up*

I figured the D&D movie needed a gamer's look at it. Wait, Spoony did a review of it? I thought only NC and that other guy who's TGWTG name escapes me, but he goes by the amazing atheist, did a go over of the movie. I'm saving D&D: Curse of the Dragon God for a special occasion.

The Cortex review was my first RPG review. It suffered from two things. First, we went off a bullet point list rather than a more written out script (Yeah never doing that again). Secendly I hadn't really hammered out my own format yet. I was cribbing notes from someone else while trying to not look like I was cribbing notes.

Although if you're going through all of my archives you'll come across my community college video production videos. Those i'll be masochistically curious to get feedback on.

Anywho, i'm glad you like them and I hope you keep watching. My next video will be a new segment called Errata and FAQ. It's going to be a Q&A/story telling kind of thing. Less scripted but hopefully enjoyable and interesting. My next review is going to be a board game that i'm sure James Jacobs loves.

Man that was longer than I thought it was going to be.

I know I mentioned its coming a while ago so here it is:

The NPC Reviews: Pirates of Darkwater

The NPC and Ted take to alien seas with the Hanna-Barbara classic Pirates of Darkwater. Trinket of the past or lost treasure to be found again?

Here

Greek, Norse, Babylonian, Hindu, and Shinto. If room the Celestial Bureaucracy.

The NPC wrote:

[...] What are the places in Golarion that aren't copies of real world cultures (Or at least the less obvious ones)[...]

You mean like the Mana Wastes, Numeria, or the Worldwound? None of those, to me, feel like they are very obvious copies.

You make a fair point about the Mana Wastes and the World Wound. Cimer... I Numeria is eh. Robert-E.-Howard-Land.

I realize his whole thing might come off poorly, but i'm just trying to find some bright spots.

*Sees #8*
Say it with me now to words: Bat Cave.

Rules to play a little human boy + Synthesist = Shazam!

I hope they don't retcon clerics needing a god for their spells out of the setting.

Wait... Gunslinger is a playable glass...

Part Five: Rasputin Must Die- Russian soldiers with era appropriate guns fight the PC while surrounded by their dead.
Russian Soldier: Why is the guy with the flintlock out shooting us?!

What happens when one of the characters decides to do some research about where they are and sees all of the suspicious similarities between many of the nations of their world and this planet named for a combination of minerals and decayed plant matter?

lordzack wrote:

thebwt wrote:

It's about matching power level to what your story needs. Cthulhu should be something ultimate. In pulp settings ultimate power is a bit nebulous, in pathfinder it's level 20 plus mythic.

Why does Cthulhu need to be "ultimate" in the first place? He's not even remotely the strongest being in the actual Cthulhu Mythos (for that matter, Kthulhu mentioned in another thread that he isn't presented as necessarily being any stronger than the rest of his race). Even if he were, why would would it follow that he remain so relative to a different setting wherein the protagonists are far, far stronger than in the original source?

I'd make Cthulhu a Star Spawn with mythic tiers, and levels as a cleric of Nyarlathotep. Then again, I'd probably bump up most Star Spawn by giving them either mythic tiers and/or class levels.

I'll fully agree that the Great Old Ones themselves shouldn't really be any more intimidating than demon lords / archdevils / etc. Along with the variation in power levels that that implies...for example Hastur should be considered more powerful than Bokrug, in my less-than-humble opinion.

And even for the "hopeful" set, I don't see too much problem even if the Outer Gods were ruled to be nebulously more powerful than Golarion's big 20. After all, the Outer Gods are very few in number, and other than Nyarlathotep they really don't give a damn about us one way or the other:

Azathoth might be the ultimate power in the multiverse, but seeing as how he's content to just sit around listening to music, he doesn't really pose much of a threat to anyone that isn't actively seeking him out. Shub-Niggurath might have spawned a few Dark Young on Golarion, but she also seems reasonably content to let Lamashtu fill what is nominally her role on Golarion. And Yog-Sothoth, other than siring a few Dunwich Horors here and there also seems content to leave Golarion alone for the most part.

This leads into my previous thought that maybe there is too much Cthulhu stuff running around.

Barong wrote:

Well, jeez, this makes things so depressing and miserable that it makes me not like the Golarion setting.

Here's the thing to keep in mind about Lovecraftian elements in the Golarionverse.

They're there to be beaten.

Heroic fantasy doesn't play by Call of Cthulhu rules. Pathfinder isn't a universe of despair.

All the talk about those eldritch horrors being above any and all of the gods? It's boastful posturing heralding the multiverse's response, a fist in what passes for cosmic horror's face.

Because heroic fantasy is a place where hope has a fighting chance. And the tougher the odds, the brighter that hope burns.

Cosmic horror wants to front? It'll score some wins. But ultimately Team Good, Team Neutral, and a healthy chunk of Team Evil are going to come together and channel Harrison Ford as they say in unison, "Get off my plane."

The denizens of the multiverse aren't delicate flowers whose minds will invariably shatter due to a paradigm shift. The heroes of heroic fantasy aren't all going to start clawing their eyes out when their perception of reality is challenged. The greatest minds and the strongest willed beings of the multiverse aren't all going to go into fits over the idea of interracial relationships.

And here's another thing: We're winning. And judging by the naked butterfly-winged lady on our side, we're actually winning some of them over.

ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWER

edit-Proclaiming that Lovecraftian creations have to beat or overshadow everyone and everything everywhere everytime is equivalent to pushing either side of a Superman vs. Goku debate, only more verbose.

I agree with your sentiments Mikaze. Finally someone who says it.

Although Desna is not a former Outer God/Great Old One.

I do look forward to killing Cthulhu when Mythic comes out.

May he have the spirit of the Centurion. That should he wait two thousand years each year shall be as dedicated and filled with love as the last.

Or something not Dr. Who ralated:

"And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."

I wanted to post a Sailor Moon quote but I couldn't find one.

The NPC wrote:

I once accidentally painted my group into a corner where their only option was small scale genocide.

I hate to derail the thread but I desperately want to hear that story.

Let's see if I can recount this properly.

The party was sent through a portal that they couldn't go back through. The gate sent them to a small cavern where in lived a race that was a mixture of elf and goblin. Well the cavern was magically sealed so that no one could get out. This entrance to this cavern had been sealed long ago by elven magic and the souls of certain dead babies kept the seal going and it would only open when the ones who had caused their "pre birth" death were killed permanently.

The party arrives and end up getting on the leaders of this little community's bad side. They sneak around killing these goblin-elves as they have to. At one point they end up surprise fire bombing the heck out of the males in their chamber. Anyway they find out from the souls of the dead in the magical seal that the leaders were a bad sort who did some terrible things and were sealed in the cavern long ago with the idea that they would eventually die. However they enacted a ritual that would allow them to return by begetting themselves over and over again. Essentially if they died they would take over the body of any unborn child they had blood ties to and the closest one fathered was usually first.

So the party ended up killing the males. Luckily they managed to convince some of the leaders to die and let go, but the ring leader of this little cadre was elsewhere and wouldn't. They managed to find the ring leader and kill him the first time, that left the females and the babies. The females to defend their home and their children fell to the party's might. That left the babies. Eventually they were down to one baby which gave them an evil glare, so they took to the sealed exit and killed him there where they saw his soul get tortured and torn by the souls of all of their children they had killed through out the centuries.

After a couple rounds of "Dude!" from the players each of the party took time to pray and weep at a nearby shrine. Even the party wizard, cynical and dismissive of the gods on most days felt the need to go to the shrine and clean himself.

I once accidentally painted my group into a corner where their only option was small scale genocide.

I would like to request an expansion of the Summon Monster list to include more Good aligned creatures. There are 7 such creatures on the list, 3 of which are in Summon Monster IX.

I want my Angel Summoner.

And your BMX Bandit?

Just remember that Scottie wrote those manuals conservatively because he knew other engineers would push the limits.

Also, my take on neutral or good undead is that most undead are inherently evil, but extreme age can give them the time and weight of mind to break inherent tendencies and choose a different path... That or direct or indirect divine intervention.

The NPC wrote:

*Curious* What is this for?

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*Curious* Why do you want to know?

Because this is a hornets' nest that s/he seems to be poking and I want to know that i'm not going to get stung before I answer either way.

If I recall correctly you get notified when someone favorites something that you posted. So they end up knowing who favorited what.

*Curious* What is this for?

Xyber 9 New Dawn. Great cartoon, but a rushed and terrible ending.

Also, Pirates of Darkwater. Another great cartoon, but cancelled too soon. No ending.

The idea for a main bad guy who is a literal mother of monsters.

Either a witch or an Alchemist who a can breed monsters the "Normal" way but gets the best results and loyalties by dosing herself with with potions and mutagens and using herself as cauldron. She then uses the "children" to get what she wants.

Considering what's been going on in the internet of late. My question how likely is it someone or some of you would find the idea offensive?

With Calistria and the elves.
-The elves focus on her deception and vengeance aspects. Elven temples of Calistria are set up like thieves guilds
-Calistria is not the head of the elven pantheon. She is just the one who accepts non elf worshipers.

Have it turn out that the aliens are just slightly different humans and they have come to bring us back under the rule of the Emperor because we are lost world and if we don't acknowledge the Emperor's Authority the Astartes will come in and enforce compliance.

I wasn't originally going to weigh in on this subject for a couple reasons:

-I'm just an NPC. I'm either back ground stock or quest giving so what do I know?
-I didn't bring my chocolate, graham crackers, and marsh mellows.

But this whole thread has made question the value and wisdom of having an Off Topic forum.

No mention of religion was made in the video. Only that she is waiting until marriage and it has been hard.

Besides discipline and self control is very important for an athlete. It puts a kabosh on all of her plans if she were to get pregnant.

I have to take issue with that. There could be any number of reasons as to why he is not married.

1. Perhaps he has not found a female goddess that he believes is worthy of being his wife. Perhaps no goddesses out there would want to be his wife. After all, there are not that many female goddesses, and none of them (however much they may personally like Erastil) seem to share his views on gender politics.
2. Perhaps, deep down, he realizes that his views are so archaic and he would not make the woman that he loves happy. Thus, he refuses to marry because he would not want to put anybody through the pain of being his wife.
3. Perhaps he is too busy with his responsibilities towards his followers to devote any time to romantic/familial pursuits.
4. Perhaps he did have a mortal or goddess wife at one point, but she either left him or died, and now he devotes himself solely to his work.

I personally tend towards the idea that Erastil had a wife who died at some point in the past. Maybe by Rovagug?

Then they can start worshipping a deity worthy of worship. Say, Desna, or Abadar, or Calistria, or Shelyn, or Iomedae, or Gozreh, or...the list goes on and on. When I say "watch his temples burn", I don't mean just the structure, I mean the faith entirely. It fills me with delight to excise belief in him from the face of the world, along with Asmodeus and all the other misogynist/chauvinist/sexist/etc. deities, faiths, societies, organizations, cultures, and individuals - I like nothing more than destroying them utterly, so thoroughly that even the memory of their names is lost for all time.

While I would contest Calistria being worthy of worship (That's just me) destroying the memory would be short sighted. Memories of bad things and ill time should be remembered so those who come later will noy be unprepared when they raise they're head again.

Marriage is a state issue not federal.

"If I die tell my wife I said Hello."

It was said in the ASK James Thread that Eternal Youth and Immortality allow you to keep going until violence or disease gets you.

Or pie.

I forget where mind you but I believe James Jacob has stated that they are not worshiper dependent.

As nobody has said it yet, ahem "'Sup witches?"

The fall to mortality might actually balance Zon-Kuthon out and might give a clue to what turned him.

A lot of angry or confused epic level people running about. Now without the fear of godly warfare to keep them from direct action.

Also, without the gods the natural and super natural order starts getting out of control. Starting small at first but getting continually larger and more dangerous.

Additionally, there would be a rash of assassinations as some folks think there gods aren't worthy anymore (Say Asmodeus).

Now that I think about it there would also be a mad rush to the star stone.

Might I suggest Weapons of Legacy for a good model of weapons with level scaling abilities?