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And you have HOW much of the map unfilled yet? I think You've got room. Put them right next to something incredibly nasty and have them be just crawling in paladins. Like one adult in every 200 or so. Besides, just because you don't have a group that tends lawful good doesn't mean that everybody's bad, either. The native Varisians don't seem too bad as a whole.
Really? I don't see anything un-paladin-like about crossbows. I'm genuinely curious as to why that's a disconnect for you. And I'm guessing if what you really want is to get your head caved in by an angry dwarf with a hammer, do something really evil within eyeshot of a paladin of Torag. :) What really intrigues me is the paladins of Sarenrae, Shelyn and Irori, (especially Shelyn and Irori) because they're likely not terribly stereotypical paladins. And I like that.
If you do it, it would be cool to pick up where Rise of the Runelords left off. Let the PCs pick up from the point where they're standing over Karzoug's corpse.That's certainly one option... but remember that by the time we'll get to even seriously considering something like an Epic adventure path... there'll be several other APs who might need or justify sequels as well... <sarcasm> And that would be just awful. Honestly, I don't know how I'd bear it. </sarcasm> I'm sure whatever you guys come up with would be fantastic. I also have a feeling RotRL will be considered a classic for some time...
Really? I don't see anything un-paladin-like about crossbows. I'm genuinely curious as to why that's a disconnect for you. I've played a LOT of paladins (dozens, I think) over the years, and, unless I'm forgetting one, not until last year did one of them wear fullplate. I might just be weird in this way, too. (God knows I am in other ways) but holy retribution doesn't need fullplate to work in my mind. The one I'm playing right now is a follower of Erastil, and (once he gets back to his stuff; right now he's unarmored and wielding a hatchet & dagger) he uses a longbow. Most NPC paladins in ultra-stereotypical orders probably go about as you described, but I suspect that's rather less of paladindom than one might expect.
Black Hawk Down Barra Barra is probably the best "getting ready" music I've ever heard. You can just see characters loading weapons, sheathing swords, tightening armor straps, etc. The Matrix trilogy and Animatrix Fight music, baby! Gladiator Others have mentioned. I concur. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night Good for fighting Gothic enemies.
I'm guessing Toby wrote that, but he's in good company on that song. Willie's been a pretty good hand over the years at writing songs people can relate to, too. He did and he is. The same can be said about Johnny cash and a great number of other country singers, both old and new. Note that I didn't say "I don't like country" just that I preferred something else. :)
If you do it, it would be cool to pick up where Rise of the Runelords left off. Let the PCs pick up from the point where they're standing over Karzoug's corpse.
Really? I don't see anything un-paladin-like about crossbows. I'm genuinely curious as to why that's a disconnect for you.
Well, since if the Dvati wants to cast a spell, he needs to stop what he's doing with both bodies to cast it, even the "fight & run off to the other party member with a cure spell active" trick doesn't work. Where you'd really want to be careful is with something like a TWFing nightsong enforcer. Now THAT would be scary. He can flank with himself, has close to full BAB and dishes out twice the number of sneak attack-augmented attacks per round. That would be an incredible villain, though. Especially if you're a somewhat stingy-with-XP GM. Give him a high CON score and make the PCs fight two bad guys and only get XP for one. My inkling is that they'd be okay, but that you'd probably want to be careful with them. What would be really fun, at least for me, to do with these guys would be to make an arcane trickster type who specializes in infiltration. You can then do the "gimme a boost" team climbing stuff you see in stealth games, etc.
This is about as close as I can get. Problem is, I don't drink, and I prefer rock to country. The rest of the lyrics, though? Spot on.
You'd better hope she didn't take Still Spell with one of those extra feats she got for being upgraded to PRPG...Does that mean she's tied up? Screw t-shirts. I want that as a poster.
Quick request of the DM: you've said you're limiting us to two books each. I'd like to make my two books the BoED (I'd like to use the Ranged Smite Evil feat and the Divine Sacrifice spell) and Complete Adventurer (I'd like to use the Devoted Tracker feat; I envision Kyran as a multiclass paladin/ranger). Is this okay? Depending on how the campaign goes, I may want to use other things from those books as well (mostly spells and feats, I'd imagine), but for now, the two feats and one spell in question are my primary concern. I'm specifically NOT planning on using any prestige classes. I'd much rather build Kyran entirely with paladin and ranger levels. My intention is to have Kyran be something of a holy archer (but still decent with a sword), considering that the longbow is Erastil's favored weapon and that he's referred to as "old deadeye".
No, it's not; the book of fiends is still very much worth having, however.
You know, an unusually-disciplined Varisian might work well. They tend good (though chaotic) and have no problem with the wandering lifestyle an adventurer leads.
Lawful good but easily offended, makes me think prudish and not afraid to scold.Or maybe even hypersensitive of really petty injustices. The kind of person who will berate someone for half an hour using words like "vile" and "reprehensible" for not giving up their bus seat to a pregnant woman immediately when she gets on the bus. For what it's worth, I've played a large number of paladins in games under several different GMs and I've tried to do a different personality every time. There are four that "stick out" to me, however. The first one, a devil slayer, was a "consummate professional". He wasn't mean or cruel at all, but he was somewhat cold and distant until fiends showed up. The second one was a very grim, guilt-ridden, vengeful type. He was dangerous and scary as hell, but the other PCs felt pretty sorry for him a lot. The next one was a laid-back and kindhearted, but mysterious family man (he had rogue levels and volunteered almost nothing about himself. The other players didn't even figure out that he was a paladin for a few sessions). The one I'm playing now is a very rustic and protection-oriented paladin of Erastil. Paladins, despite the alignment restrictions, can be pretty varied. It's always bugged me (and I get the impression that it bugs you, too) that so many people think paladins should all be exact carbon copies of each other. Have fun with it. :)
My players are voting this week, but right now it looks like they want to play an all-Hellknight party for Curse of the Crimson Throne. A group of hellknights would make for some VERY interesting PCs. A fighter, a fighter/cleric (asmodeus), a fighter/sorcerer (infernal), and a fighter/rogue, all LN or LE but with basically-virtuous goals would be cool.
I don't care whether you do hellknights as a prestige class, standard class, or chain of nifty feats. I just want it-soon. As far as bloatmages go, yeah, a prestige class would be neat. And as far as sorcerer bloodlines go: heck yes. I want to see new sorcerer bloodlines, domains, rage powers, and so on.
Lawful good but easily offended, makes me think prudish and not afraid to scold. Or maybe even hypersensitive of really petty injustices. The kind of person who will berate someone for half an hour using words like "vile" and "reprehensible" for not giving up their bus seat to a pregnant woman immediately when she gets on the bus.
I suppose I should have put "in your interpretation of the psychological makeup of the average Chelaxian" at the end of the sentence? I certainly didn't mean it as an insult (which is what I was trying to avoid you taking it as. I apparently failed spectacularly. Sorry!). Anyway, you're right, but if they're offended by tyranny, then they're not wicked. ;) I'm going to try not to offend you any further, but paragons of lawful goodness aren't always the nicest people you ever would meet. In fact, I would imagine some of them would be pretty cranky (particularly dwarves). And if dwarves can be cranky, why not Chelaxians? There's always the "noble exception," too. I've seen tiefling paladins, drow paladins, half-orc paladins, and even one half-black-dragon paladin so why not Chelaxians? Besides, wasn't it mentioned that Cheliax was LG before the god died?
Chelaxians as a people aren't wicked. They are haughty and proud, though. They're no more wicked than any other people, despite the empire in which many of them live falling under the sway of devils. PLEASE don't take this the wrong way, but you're being too simplistic. "Quick to be offended by what?" Is a good first question. If you take those traits and run them through a filter of Lawful Good, you wind up with something like Solomon Kane. A very intense, driven, and even vengeful person, to be sure. But an utterly heroic and noble one as well. Being offended by a trivial insult and never forgiving is one thing. Being offended by tyranny and bringing down an evil government because of it is another altogether.
Yeah, it was a minor threadjack. I just wanted to be sure that dracobahamut and I understood what the other was saying. I'm actually not angry with him/her at all, just trying to make sure we're on the same page. As far as the "controversial term" argument, yeah, I fully admit that it's a poltically-charged and somewhat ambiguous word, but while there are things that might or might not be terrorism, things like 9/11, the Oklahoma city bombing, or suicide bombers detonating themselves in Tel Aviv fall squarely under that header. I'm also not really trying to start an argument about anything in the real world, I just wanted to make sure when one of us said something, the other understood his point. Sorry if that caused anyone to be offended; it really was not my intent at all. At any rate, the poster I was trying to suss out perspectives with has bailed out of this discussion anyway, so I guess I'll follow suit.
I know the Paladin has always been a class but it really seems more like a +1 LA template that should be applied to a base class similar to the +2 LA Saint templates. Probably to much of a leap for backwards compatibility. Too much of a leap for backwards compatibility, yes. Too much of a leap to have me truly intrigued? Hell no! How would you execute this? I'd probably call it something else, but I'm genuinely interested. You've waved something in front of me that I didn't even know I wanted until now. Have you been doing something like that in a home game?
Yup! Well done!Yup; Erastil does indeed have paladins. They're not the "knight in shining armor" type, for the most part, though; more like rugged down-to-earth paladins. Most of them are probably "self-taught" even. Awesome! Incidentally, once again, a fan asks a (fairly trivial) question, a senior employee answers less than an hour later. Try finding even ONE example of that on WotC's boards.
Not that I'm holding myself up as an example of perfection, because I've snapped hard at another poster on at least one occasion I can think of (and I really wish I hadn't; I dragged real-world politics into a discussion that didn't need them in a very adversarial way), but I think the best way to accomplish the "intelligent and civil" standard is to exemplify it, or we haven't been, learn from it and try to do better. I know, easier said than done, but something for us all to shoot for.
This is my new avatar. I'm (at the moment) the only one with it, so let's keep it that way, shall we, folks? Ditto. Edit: on second thought, nah. If someone else decides this is a good avatar, I don't mind sharing. I shared the Hellknight avatar with a number of people for quite a while. I hold out eternal hope for a good noble-looking full-face helm. (Like a cross between a Hellknight's helm and Seelah's)
This is the key phrase here, people! We know what to do! In all seriousness, it's kind of cool to start at the beginning with this and be able to be an expert on Golarion as parts are revealed. Trying to get the same level of mastery with any of WotC's settings (with the possible exception of Eberron, and even THAT'S got a lot out for it) is pretty damn daunting. I can wait. I'm glad to know that they have enough ideas to keep going for a LONG time.
Me too. For the first time ever.I think almost all of your questions would be answered in the gripping pages of Classic Monsters Revisited. It has a section on all the goblinoid races, from goblins themselves to hobgoblins to bugbears. There's also one on orcs, so you should check it out for all your monster fluff needs.I'll second this. As a side note, it made me want to use gnolls. Same here. Hyena-headed bandit slavers have never seemed so interesting.
Great. So it's decided, then. When will it be out? :D I'd buy it. I'd also buy the Aberration one. And an undead one. (Think about the undead from the RotRL AP; the black monk, the hidden beast, the headless lord, the skinsaw man. Heck yeah, I'd like to see a Paizo book on undead.)
I think you may be mixing terrorists and anarchists up. What you're describing is more of an Anarchist pr Social Darwinist kind of deal. Anarachism is a belief, terrorism is a (thoroughly despicable) method. The wikipedia page on terrorism: Link
Sure. Why not? Use the stats of a fire elemental, but make it lawful good and have it "blaze with the light of the sun" i.e. yellow-white (or, heck, blue-white) flames rather than red-orange ones. If that's not enough, slap the celestial template on it. Hmm. If you want to go REALLY spiffy... Step 1: take a normal fire elemental of the appropriate size.
If reading Pathfinder products has taught me anything, it's that one should never underestimate the impact of flavor text. The bugbear in the MM and the one in Classic Monsters Revisited are EXACTLY the same, stat-wise. But the one in the MM is a whole heck of a lot less scary. If it needs a bit more oomph or tweaking, slap a searing light spell-like ability on the thing or similar. Those changes, combined, might bump its CR by 1. Nothing too extreme to worry about. Edit: If you have Anger of Angels by Malhavoc Press, you can really go one cooler by having an Ophanim paladin of the appropriate level show up instead. If not, it's open content. Shouldn't be too hard to track down. (Ophanim are basically sentient, flying wheels of holy fire) If you're really interested, I can post stats for one, but honestly, the tweaked fire elemental should be all you need. They're CR 4 with 4 hit dice. Edit 2: If you have the book of Hallowed Might (also by Malhavoc press) that has elemental angels in it. The fire angels are CR 5 and have 6 hit dice. One warning, though: they are NASTY CR monsters; they have an impressive array of spell-like abilities (most of them fire-based, but including some healing). Edit 3: If none of this suits your needs, refine your request a bit and I'll take another swipe at it. I don't currently have a game going, so these calls for aid from other GMs/players are both fun and a way to keep my skills sharp for me. If you're asking as a player, see what your GM will go for.
Do you want them to have a spider connection? I couldn't disagree more. I'm SO ready to have drow be something other than spider-fetishist-more-evil-than-fiends-subterrainean-torture-fanatic-elves- in-name only.
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