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Unrealparagon wrote:
Is it possible for a Mezlan (AP 66, pg 90-91) who was once a wizard to become a wizard again after the transformation?

I'd say so, yes. ESPECIALLY if it makes for a cool story!

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What sounds more badass to you?

"Tree and stone! I honour the gods, man!"

"Hawthorn, a sickle, and blood in the moonlight."

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Genies tend to have an Arabian/Persian sort of feel to them, or, in Golarion, a Qadiran/Kelish design element to their clothing, etc.

As creatures of the elemental planes, is it possible that there are populations of genies that follow other ethnic styles, such as djinn who wear big Ustalavic hats and greatcoats, shaitans with oiled beards and Iblydosian sandals and togas, or an enclave of efreet who wear fine silk kimonos in City-of-Brass variations of Tien styles?


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There was that one calling itself a Jarl (of the North Wind, if memory serves) in Flight of the Red Raven - wonder if it dressed in a viking get-up?

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Archpaladin Zousha wrote:

What sounds more badass to you?

"Tree and stone! I honour the gods, man!"

"Hawthorn, a sickle, and blood in the moonlight."

Neither, really. I guess the second one is a little better because it doesn't use the word "man" in that way, which makes it sound a little bit like it's out of the 70s.

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Set wrote:

Genies tend to have an Arabian/Persian sort of feel to them, or, in Golarion, a Qadiran/Kelish design element to their clothing, etc.

As creatures of the elemental planes, is it possible that there are populations of genies that follow other ethnic styles, such as djinn who wear big Ustalavic hats and greatcoats, shaitans with oiled beards and Iblydosian sandals and togas, or an enclave of efreet who wear fine silk kimonos in City-of-Brass variations of Tien styles?

It's possible, but unlikely.

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Why exactly DID genies adopt Kelish cultural norms and affectations while other outsiders didn't (in-universe, I know the main answer from a development standpoint is likely because Persian/Arabic myth was where genies came from)? Or am I approaching this from the wrong direction (i.e. the Kelish peoples copied the GENIES' culture and styles)?

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Archpaladin Zousha wrote:
Why exactly DID genies adopt Kelish cultural norms and affectations while other outsiders didn't (in-universe, I know the main answer from a development standpoint is likely because Persian/Arabic myth was where genies came from)? Or am I approaching this from the wrong direction (i.e. the Kelish peoples copied the GENIES' culture and styles)?

Well, I'm just a simple girl and not an anthropologist or anything, and I don't want to be hyperbolic or controversial at all, but I'd have to say it's because Keleshites are, objectively speaking, the coolest culture on Golarion by a factor of about 10,000, just as a conservative estimate. (As you'll all learn, if you weren't already aware, when Inner Sea Races comes out.)

OOPS SORRY THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A QUESTION.

Since genies aren't dumb, is there any reason why they WOULDN'T adopt Keleshite cultural norms?

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Jessica Price wrote:
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James, is Jessica not aware that, as a T-Rex, you aren't very good at throwing things without chomping on them first? Or is her DR so high that even a bite from the King of Lizards not much of a factor?

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Tels wrote:
Jessica Price wrote:
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James, is Jessica not aware that, as a T-Rex, you aren't very good at throwing things without chomping on them first? Or is her DR so high that even a bite from the King of Lizards not much of a factor?

If it is he can just replace all her tea with Lipton.

Question! Were you ever able to get Wes to play Bloodborne?


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What CR would This guy with the cape be?

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Jessica Price wrote:
Archpaladin Zousha wrote:
Why exactly DID genies adopt Kelish cultural norms and affectations while other outsiders didn't (in-universe, I know the main answer from a development standpoint is likely because Persian/Arabic myth was where genies came from)? Or am I approaching this from the wrong direction (i.e. the Kelish peoples copied the GENIES' culture and styles)?

Well, I'm just a simple girl and not an anthropologist or anything, and I don't want to be hyperbolic or controversial at all, but I'd have to say it's because Keleshites are, objectively speaking, the coolest culture on Golarion by a factor of about 10,000, just as a conservative estimate. (As you'll all learn, if you weren't already aware, when Inner Sea Races comes out.)

OOPS SORRY THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A QUESTION.

Since genies aren't dumb, is there any reason why they WOULDN'T adopt Keleshite cultural norms?

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RAAARRRHHHHGGGGHHHhhh..

oh

Well... she's kinda right.

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Tels wrote:
Jessica Price wrote:
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James, is Jessica not aware that, as a T-Rex, you aren't very good at throwing things without chomping on them first? Or is her DR so high that even a bite from the King of Lizards not much of a factor?

She does have pretty high DR.

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Rysky wrote:
Tels wrote:
Jessica Price wrote:
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James, is Jessica not aware that, as a T-Rex, you aren't very good at throwing things without chomping on them first? Or is her DR so high that even a bite from the King of Lizards not much of a factor?

If it is he can just replace all her tea with Lipton.

Question! Were you ever able to get Wes to play Bloodborne?

All I need to do is make tea out of microwaved water within a 300 foot radius of her to cause that sort of mayhem.

And no. Wes doesn't own a PS4 yet, so for him... playing Bloodborne is what, like over a 400 dollar investment? Also he's super busy writing stuff at the moment, and seeing how Bloodborne wrecked my own deadline... I kinda don't wanna encourage that on Wes TOO much...

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xavier c wrote:
What CR would This guy with the cape be?

CR 1/4 at most. 'Cause he's made out of ink and can be slaughtered by an erase spell.


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James Jacobs wrote:
xavier c wrote:
What CR would This guy with the cape be?
CR 1/4 at most. 'Cause he's made out of ink and can be slaughtered by an erase spell.

HA


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James Jacobs wrote:
xavier c wrote:
What CR would This guy with the cape be?
CR 1/4 at most. 'Cause he's made out of ink and can be slaughtered by an erase spell.

Hmm... wouldn't that make erase the most powerful spell in the game?

"I cast erase!"
"Oh, what do you cast it on?"
"Your Bestiary! The monster's stats and abilities vanish and now he's been defeated!"

[Edit] Oh gosh, is that what happened to Aroden? Did he get erased?

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Jessica Price wrote:
Archpaladin Zousha wrote:
Why exactly DID genies adopt Kelish cultural norms and affectations while other outsiders didn't (in-universe, I know the main answer from a development standpoint is likely because Persian/Arabic myth was where genies came from)? Or am I approaching this from the wrong direction (i.e. the Kelish peoples copied the GENIES' culture and styles)?

Well, I'm just a simple girl and not an anthropologist or anything, and I don't want to be hyperbolic or controversial at all, but I'd have to say it's because Keleshites are, objectively speaking, the coolest culture on Golarion by a factor of about 10,000, just as a conservative estimate. (As you'll all learn, if you weren't already aware, when Inner Sea Races comes out.)

OOPS SORRY THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A QUESTION.

Since genies aren't dumb, is there any reason why they WOULDN'T adopt Keleshite cultural norms?

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Oh. Well...thank you for your input....

...TREE AND STONE! THE KELLIDS ENDURE!

And now that I've got that out of my system, do you think there'll ever be a point where players won't require new feats or stat blocks in EVERY book so you guys can release books that are more about Golarion's places and people (like the afformentioned Romance of the Inner Sea, which frankly I think is a fine idea)?


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Has Pharasma ever had a romantic interest in anyone?


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Cubed wrote:
Has Pharasma ever had a romantic interest in anyone?

Maybe that's what happened to Aroden?


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Spiral_Ninja wrote:
Cubed wrote:
Has Pharasma ever had a romantic interest in anyone?

Maybe that's what happened to Aroden?

Nah, it's the real reason why Pharasma hates undead. Pharasma was smitten with Urgathoa, but Urgathoa wasn't interested and fled from her court, creating the first undead and forever denying Pharasma access to her love.

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Another question unrelated to my previous one. You're the resident expert on Nirmathas, right?

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Archpaladin Zousha wrote:
And now that I've got that out of my system, do you think there'll ever be a point where players won't require new feats or stat blocks in EVERY book so you guys can release books that are more about Golarion's places and people (like the afformentioned Romance of the Inner Sea, which frankly I think is a fine idea)?

I doubt it. Most players are more interested in building their character's stats than in exploring the world, it seems. Those who ARE interested in world exploration tend also to be GMs.

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Cubed wrote:
Has Pharasma ever had a romantic interest in anyone?

Unrevealed.

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Archpaladin Zousha wrote:
Another question unrelated to my previous one. You're the resident expert on Nirmathas, right?

Not really. We don't really have a Nirmathas expert. Maybe Bulmahn. It's one of those regions we've never really done much with.

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I see. Still, you ARE the elfxpert. Is there a significant elven population in the Fangwood?


James, I recently wrote a piece that made me rethink Shelyn - she went from "Okay, that's kind of cool." to "Woah. That. Is. Awesome."

What is your opinion on my conjecture and how accurate/inaccurate do you find it, relative to your own view?

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Archpaladin Zousha wrote:
I see. Still, you ARE the elfxpert. Is there a significant elven population in the Fangwood?

Not significant, no.

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Tacticslion wrote:

James, I recently wrote a piece that made me rethink Shelyn - she went from "Okay, that's kind of cool." to "Woah. That. Is. Awesome."

What is your opinion on my conjecture and how accurate/inaccurate do you find it, relative to your own view?

Sorry... I prefer to avoid checking out things like that. For time management and legal reasons.

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Does a cavalier's banner have to be an actual banner? Can it be something else that's distinctive or highly visible on the battlefield, like a tall and elaborate crest on their helmet or a carnyx battle horn? Or are cavaliers and battle heralds pretty much restricted to using lances/longspears in two hands or a shortspear with one hand they can mount the banner on or wearing a sashimono on their back?

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Hey James,

What's the demonym for someone / adjective for something from Abaddon? Abaddonian? Abaddan? Abaddon?

Also, should the adjective "Stygian" (when written with a capital S) only be used for things from the fifth layer of Hell, Stygia, or is something from the river Styx also Stygian? In other words, can a creature from Abaddon (where the River Styx has its source) be called Stygian if it lives in or near the Styx?

Thanks!
-Mikko

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Archpaladin Zousha wrote:
Does a cavalier's banner have to be an actual banner? Can it be something else that's distinctive or highly visible on the battlefield, like a tall and elaborate crest on their helmet or a carnyx battle horn? Or are cavaliers and battle heralds pretty much restricted to using lances/longspears in two hands or a shortspear with one hand they can mount the banner on or wearing a sashimono on their back?

That'd be up to your GM. As long as it uses the same resources as an actual banner (including hand usage and cost) then it should be fine, though.

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Serpent wrote:

Hey James,

What's the demonym for someone / adjective for something from Abaddon? Abaddonian? Abaddan? Abaddon?

Also, should the adjective "Stygian" (when written with a capital S) only be used for things from the fifth layer of Hell, Stygia, or is something from the river Styx also Stygian? In other words, can a creature from Abaddon (where the River Styx has its source) be called Stygian if it lives in or near the Styx?

Thanks!
-Mikko

Not sure we've decided that yet.

Stygian could mean from the fifth layer of Hell, but I'd rather keep it in use as a real word.

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Regarding the kasatha and the other races that first appeared in the Race Builder - I asserted in another thread that you had some issues with their integration into the system, since you hadn't planned for them to appear in Golarion.

Was I remembering correctly?

Thank you! :)


What ethnicity are most of the people in Nidal?

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Why don't we consider centaurs to be lamia-kind?


Tacticslion wrote:

James, I recently wrote a piece that made me rethink Shelyn - she went from "Okay, that's kind of cool." to "Woah. That. Is. Awesome."

What is your opinion on my conjecture and how accurate/inaccurate do you find it, relative to your own view?

James Jacobs wrote:
Sorry... I prefer to avoid checking out things like that. For time management and legal reasons.

Oh! I'm sorry. I wouldn't want to steal your thunder or cause you problems or anything.

Just to be clear, by "piece" I actually mean "post here on the forums, so it's yours anyway" and, if it helps (even though it's written down there on the bottom): I hereby waive any an all rights, claims, options, etc. (generally presume all that overly-specific legal jargon for the spirit of what I'm implying) to "you guys" (i.e. any and all employees at Paizo, especially you, James, or whoever is supposed to have seniority), because, frankly, I don't care.

It's a fan "creation" (and by "creation" I mean "just kind of putting together elements by logic and stuff you've already presented") based off of the things you've already made: nothing there is "original" to me, so much as it is the result of deductive reasoning and interpreting the things you've already written.

Anyhoo, it's about five paragraphs and one sentence.

Does... that make a difference?


Will there be an 'Unchained Golarion' book at some point? Possibly including the Iconics rebuilt using some of the Unchained Rules, like the casting system, or Valeros with the Stamina system etc?


If I wanted to play a beast tamer type class, (like Beast Lord or Packmaster) with multiple Lion animal companions, what ways could I roleplay gaining these companions? Should I work with my GM so that he places the party in a jungle or safari terrain whenever I reach the level in which I could gain another Lion companion? Should I go out and search for one or should the GM set-up the meeting coincidentally?

Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated, I think it'd be cool to play a Lion tamer and would like to get this part figured out before moving to the crunch of it.

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What's wrong with microwaved water?


James Jacobs wrote:
Rysky wrote:


Question! Were you ever able to get Wes to play Bloodborne?

All I need to do is make tea out of microwaved water within a 300 foot radius of her to cause that sort of mayhem.

And no. Wes doesn't own a PS4 yet, so for him... playing Bloodborne is what, like over a 400 dollar investment? Also he's super busy writing stuff at the moment, and seeing how Bloodborne wrecked my own deadline... I kinda don't wanna encourage that on Wes TOO much...

Exactly how does Bloodborne fuel your Pathfinder creative fires?


Hey James,

Spoiler:
I've introduced a thing in my Iron Gods game, now on book 5, that the Androffans began a project to remove the artificial sterility on androids. Live android birth was the project's goal. The project was extremely controversial, and when the first android was born naturally, things began to get nasty on Androffa for androids. The "Firstborn" android (who happens to be one of the PCs, who has no idea) was put on Divinity right before it left Androffa, along with the researchers in the project. The captain personally vowed to raise the Firstborn as his own (the captain of Divinity also so happening to be another PC, who also has no idea...yet).

So now my question is: what would you, oh great creative director, have named this project? I don't want it to be something corny or cliche like "Project: Genesis" but so far I've come up with nothing good.

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Have you heard of the local play running in Seattle now, H.P. Lovecraft: Stand-Up Comedian?

I'm guessing it's not something you're interested in seeing, but if you've seen it, how was it?


Ross Byers wrote:
What's wrong with microwaved water?

Somehow it fails to steep the tea correctly. It's weird, but true.


Kajehase wrote:
Ross Byers wrote:
What's wrong with microwaved water?
Somehow it fails to steep the tea correctly. It's weird, but true.

Probably because the water isn't as aerated or gaseous as boiled water is.


What kinds of animals would a druid or ranger in Alkenstar, Nex, or Geb most likely have access to for a companion?

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Kalindlara wrote:

Regarding the kasatha and the other races that first appeared in the Race Builder - I asserted in another thread that you had some issues with their integration into the system, since you hadn't planned for them to appear in Golarion.

Was I remembering correctly?

Thank you! :)

Correct. The new races introduced in the Advanced Race Guide were built as nothing more than examples on how to build unusual races (fey and four armed and Large and flying and construct) using the new rules, but unfortunately, those choices were not built with Golarion in mind, and had no place in the world. We can't just drop in random new races into a world that's already established, but neither did management want to "strand" those races, especially once they got picked up in Bestiary 4. And so we've been working to integrate them into Golarion. The Kasatha are in, as of Iron Gods, and we're working to find roles for the others in the upcoming Inner Sea Races book.

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Filby Pott wrote:
What ethnicity are most of the people in Nidal?

Mostly Chelaxian but some Varisian and Taldan as well.

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HangarFlying wrote:
Why don't we consider centaurs to be lamia-kind?

Because they're not.

Just because they have vaguely similar silhouettes doesn't make them the same. In fact, apart from that, they really have no similarities at all.

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Tacticslion wrote:
Tacticslion wrote:

James, I recently wrote a piece that made me rethink Shelyn - she went from "Okay, that's kind of cool." to "Woah. That. Is. Awesome."

What is your opinion on my conjecture and how accurate/inaccurate do you find it, relative to your own view?

James Jacobs wrote:
Sorry... I prefer to avoid checking out things like that. For time management and legal reasons.

Oh! I'm sorry. I wouldn't want to steal your thunder or cause you problems or anything.

Just to be clear, by "piece" I actually mean "post here on the forums, so it's yours anyway" and, if it helps (even though it's written down there on the bottom): I hereby waive any an all rights, claims, options, etc. (generally presume all that overly-specific legal jargon for the spirit of what I'm implying) to "you guys" (i.e. any and all employees at Paizo, especially you, James, or whoever is supposed to have seniority), because, frankly, I don't care.

It's a fan "creation" (and by "creation" I mean "just kind of putting together elements by logic and stuff you've already presented") based off of the things you've already made: nothing there is "original" to me, so much as it is the result of deductive reasoning and interpreting the things you've already written.

Anyhoo, it's about five paragraphs and one sentence.

Does... that make a difference?

It doesn't make a difference at all, whether it's one sentence or ten thousand. If I review one homebrew creation, I imply that I'll review them all. And I don't have time to do that.

More importantly, if you create something and then at some point (ANY point) in the future I create something similar out of coincidence (happens all the time when you have multiple people creating content in a shared world), I do not want to run the risk of someone coming up with an email that I wrote a day or a decade before where I offered advice on a homebrew idea that they then claim I stole for Golarion.

Not saying that would happen if I read your creation. I'm sure it wouldn't. But I don't want to expose myself to the possibility even once; sorry.

By all means, if you are looking for feedback, post it here on the forums, but please not here. I want to keep this to me answering questions, not me offering feedback and advice. That's not the point of this thread, and it's not something I'm comfortable doing unless I'm paying the person I'm giving advice to with the intent of publishing their work.

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