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We got in touch and it's sorted out. :)

I'm allowed to continue calling mine Mechfinder and can call a Starfinder 2nd edition update (if I make one) Mechfinder as well.

We have provided disambiguation to denote that each others work is a separate product.

Also it being a 'generic title' shouldn't be a stab against me. :(

The reason I found out about this is someone congratulated me on finally getting a publisher and I was confused. They thought the other Mechfinder was me.

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I did not know that.

Well, that sucks.

In 2017 I released Mechfinder, a mech supplement for Starfinder.

I just found out that Eldritch Osiris Games is releasing a mech supplement for PF2e called Mechfinder.

What can I do about this?

Kobold Catgirl wrote:

Aside from one 4E Player's Handbook purchase I barely remember from ages ago, I think I've been "boycotting" them since they canceled Dragon and Dungeon. X3

Is "Dragon and Dungeon" a thing because I can't find it from google? x'D

Dragon Magazine and Dungeon Magazine.

I'm still in an ongoing game where I'm playing a trans wizard who got turned into an ice elemental because of touching cursed things (we knew they were cursed but wizard had to know the *specifics* of the curse and also it was very shiny). And honestly, being an ice elemental is pretty cool. :P

Umbral Reaver wrote:

Hello!

I still exist, apparently.

Aaaaaaahhhhhhhh! Existence! Aaaaaahhhhhhh!

It sure is a hell of a thing.

Umbral Reaver wrote:

Did you know that the kiwi is the only bird that lays an egg larger than itself?

That's not possible, but it does lay an egg that's about 15% of its body weight.

It's something I enjoy telling people when kiwis come up because it's funny and easy to disprove just by thinking for a second. :P

Hello!

I still exist, apparently.

Did you know that the kiwi is the only bird that lays an egg larger than itself?

Well, I guess it's more... unbalanced and lacking in options right now. It's still fully functional from 1 to 20. The numbers might just feel a little off in places and I never filled out a lot of what I wanted to do later, like more pilot talents, exotic weapons and defenses, and more options for spells and class features.

Still unfinished. I don't think I've done any more work on it since... 2017? Health has been extremely poor and I haven't been in any Starfinder games since. :(

If anyone wants to do their own expansions or updates to what's there, I'm cool with that.

Interesting. Thank you.

Does anyone still have their hands on any of these things distributed during the initial marketing push for 5E? I'm having trouble finding the old stuff they sent out telling people how to discuss the thing as retailers and spokespeople.

I was just wondering about what happened to Mechfinder! It's glorious and very intuitive.

Very belatedly, here's the pdf link to it (others were requesting it but I forgot to check back in here for a long time).

Mechfinder PDF

Fixed link

I'm still here.

I too would like to hear more about the situation. They've been silent for over a month now.

Bumping this and adding an additional aspect to consider.

Since the path ability is listed as: (Sp), my group and I interpret this to mean that the Mythic spell cast is as a Spell-Like Ability; therefore, they can't be countered, or have any metamagic feats attached to it, and neither does it take up a spell-slot. But as Matrix Dragon mentioned, the augmented version can be used.

While powerful, it does seem balanced.

To very very necro this, was there ever an answer? I'm in a mythic game right now and... it's hard to justify taking this power if it just lets you cast normally without using a mythic point. Just 'extra mythic power' is better at that point.

At least it's not *only* phone. It's a nightmare to deal with services only accessible via phone when you're someone with both speaking and hearing difficulties.

To anyone saying the tag is hard to do:

Custom tags already exist. They can just add them. They've already done so for people before.

Adding a 'banned' display element does not change the username itself.

Good thing nobody is asking for the actual username itself to be altered.

Yeah, that's all that's needed. I didn't mean like an actual modification of their username. Just a display thing.

It'd ease things a lot around here. Too often we're left wondering if some bigot is still there, waiting to pounce.

Thank goodness. I wish we could know for sure (like a 'banned' affix on their name).

Yeah.

And before someone goes 'it's not fair to ban someone for one ignorant mistake,' I will remind you that there are people active on these forums that reliably display the same ignorance over and over at every opportunity.

I have my own cybernetic weapon.

Yeah.

So you know what. I'm going to just start flagging dogwhistles as hate speech.

Mods, you have to deal with this.

I just noticed the flagging options have been changed. There's no longer an 'offensive/insulting' option. You have to outright call something hate speech or harassment now.

This reduces our ability to condemn dogwhistles.

Sending hugs.

I will admit I do not know what 'sheep shalm' means. :I

The thing about autistic rep is that it's usually terrible when neurotypical writers intentionally write a character as autistic, and better when they *accidentally* write a character in a way that autistic people see and take hold of as their own.

As it happens, I'm a severely disabled amputee and I would very much like replacement parts, so I don't like it when people write stories about people like me being less than human.

A core part of cyberpunk by allocishet white writers is the fear of the 'other', as represented by cybernetics. See how often cyberpunk stories angst over the loss of humanity or the soul when someone gets a robot arm.

Transphobia slides in with effortless ease. The fear of body modification was already there. This is more of the same to them.

:(

Take care. Things do really suck lately around here; the slavery discourse has been cancerous. TwilightKnight in particular needs to get banned before I do for flaming him out of existence.

It's stunning that he hasn't been banned.

Rahadoum's problem is that during early development Golarion you literally had to have a country of, erm, "mindless savage primitive orc barbarians who KILLMURDERR-WORD because that's what all orcs do and that's why you kill them on sight" to qualify as Evil without asterisks.

Isn't that Belkzen?

Rahadoum is kinda in weird place because its oppressive anti religious government that does remind of real life religious oppression, but its considered LN despite being portrayed as bad guys because... I guess they aren't as malicious as the actual Evil governments?

(That and Pathfinder has weird habit of treating religious worship and cultures separately while real life religions are usually heavy part of cultures even if member of culture isn't religious. I think its side effect of "gods are real and kind of role models rather than faiths per say")

Like... In early Pathfinder lot of neutral governments are actually quite bad on moral side, they just aren't openly malicious than stuff like Nidal and Cheliax is

There could be a more nuanced rewrite of Rahadoum.

But for now we have militant nu-atheist youtubers given their own country.

Do your own googling. But seriously going to be buying Sara Marie another cup of coffee in the morning.

What happened? And yes, I did googling, but my own social media PTSD meant I couldn't look too far in certain areas. Sorry.

Hello disabled gang!

Severe myalgic encephalomyelitis here, too. It's probably worse than the PTSD or the amputation, honestly.

Solidarity.

I sacrificed my star sign for dark power. Now I am without sign. Anyone trying to read my horoscope just ends up staring into the infinite reaches of the void and I have to snap them out of it.

It's actually kind of annoying.

Only clickbait titles from now on.

"You won't believe what the best class is!"

"This one weird trick breaks Flumphs!"

>:3c