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Grand Lodge

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James Jacobs wrote:
Hythlodeus wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
Lou Diamond wrote:
James, does Abrogail Thrune have any siblings? IF so what are their names.
Nope.

What kind of parents call their kid 'Nope'?

Is that where the 'evil' part of their alignment really shines?
Cute. You did, of course, misread the question. The "Nope" was in response to "Does she have any siblings?" She does not, so I didn't need to go into their names, since the "IF so" section let me off that hook.

Can't help but wonder if "did" would gave been a better option.. :)

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Nightdrifter wrote:
This has probably been asked, but couldn't find a good answer. What portion of the population has PC classes vs NPC classes? I'd imagine that's it's not a strict rule of say 15% PCs, but is there a ballpark figure?

There isn't a strict rule, and it'll always feel skewed high in play since PCs tend to interact with other classed characters much more often than the normal NPC. The vast majority of people are NPC classes of level 1 to 5, and the vast majority of them are experts, warrirors, and commoners. What constitutes a "vast majority" is really left to the GM, but having that majority be 85% sounds good to me... I might even go as high as 90% in fact...


Mr. JJ, what would be some of the best schools to study magic in Nex itself?

I know the Arcanamirium was established by the Arclords of Nex in Absalom, but I heard several schools were in Nex, especially for specific schools.

Divination, especially.

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thegreenteagamer wrote:

Mr. JJ, what would be some of the best schools to study magic in Nex itself?

I know the Arcanamirium was established by the Arclords of Nex in Absalom, but I heard several schools were in Nex, especially for specific schools.

Divination, especially.

There are certainly several, but we haven't mentioned any other than the Arcanamirium as far as I know.

Sovereign Court

James,

Is it safe to assume that we're going to be seeing an evil iconic for each of the primary core classes in the coming months or merely just 4 to five new characters?

Dark Archive

Hi James.

Did you get to wrap up Jessica Jones over the Holiday?

Have you seen this stocking stuffer?


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What word first springs to mind in conjunction with the following races?

Aasimar
Drow
Duergar
Goblin
Gnoll
Hobgoblin
Kobold
Lizardfolk
Merfolk
Orc
Svirfneblin
Tengu
Tiefing


Hi again James! So yeah about those awesome intellect devourers, I have some questions...

First, how common is the pursuit of psychic magic among the species? Psychics, mesmerists, etc. as opposed to the previous go-to class of sorcerer?

Second, do everyone's favorite brains-with-legs have a racial name for themselves, or are they cool with the menacing title of intellect devourer?

My third and fourth questions are about egophages, creatures from the Occult Bestiary. In case you didn't work on that book or have a hand in the egophage's design, they are intellect devourers who imbibed too much midnight milk and evolved as a result, gaining flight, psychic powers, etc. Assuming you did have a hand in the egophage's development, I have just so many questions about them. But I'll keep it simple:

Third, how are egophages regarded in Ilvarandin by their land-bound buddies?

Fourth, was the egophage evolution spontaneous - just a fun side effect of drinking the Midnight Koolaid when you're already an intellect devourer with a host body - or was this an intentional experiment?

Thanks as always, and may your holidays be free of brain-eating puppet-master parasites (unless you've already been taken over... in which case, carry on).


James, have you ever read Feesters in the Lake by Bob Leman? Given your appreciation of Lovecraft, I think you might really, really enjoy it.

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Darius Darrenbar wrote:

James,

Is it safe to assume that we're going to be seeing an evil iconic for each of the primary core classes in the coming months or merely just 4 to five new characters?

Nope. The "evil iconics" we're doing for Hell's Vengeance (there'll be six of them; one per cover) are not class iconics, but evil bad guys. They sort of fill six different classic bad guy roles, but are not single-classed characters, nor are they meant to be core class only characters.

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baron arem heshvaun wrote:

Hi James.

Did you get to wrap up Jessica Jones over the Holiday?

Have you seen this stocking stuffer?

I finished Jessica Jones last Weekend, a few days after it launched. I binged the whole show in two days. SO... no need to wrap up anything over any holiday at all.

Haven't seen that, but I'm not sure how a monopoly game counts as a stocking stuffer... seems kinda big.

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Luthorne wrote:

What word first springs to mind in conjunction with the following races?

Aasimar
Drow
Duergar
Goblin
Gnoll
Hobgoblin
Kobold
Lizardfolk
Merfolk
Orc
Svirfneblin
Tengu
Tiefing

Beautiful

Sexy
Bald
Funny
Mangy
Blue-nosed
Yippy
Scaly
Damp
Snorty
Backwards
Wark
Awesome

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Hitdice wrote:
James, have you ever read Feesters in the Lake by Bob Leman? Given your appreciation of Lovecraft, I think you might really, really enjoy it.

Haven't even heard of it. So... nope!

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Generic Villain wrote:

Hi again James! So yeah about those awesome intellect devourers, I have some questions...

First, how common is the pursuit of psychic magic among the species? Psychics, mesmerists, etc. as opposed to the previous go-to class of sorcerer?

Second, do everyone's favorite brains-with-legs have a racial name for themselves, or are they cool with the menacing title of intellect devourer?

My third and fourth questions are about egophages, creatures from the Occult Bestiary. In case you didn't work on that book or have a hand in the egophage's design, they are intellect devourers who imbibed too much midnight milk and evolved as a result, gaining flight, psychic powers, etc. Assuming you did have a hand in the egophage's development, I have just so many questions about them. But I'll keep it simple:

Third, how are egophages regarded in Ilvarandin by their land-bound buddies?

Fourth, was the egophage evolution spontaneous - just a fun side effect of drinking the Midnight Koolaid when you're already an intellect devourer with a host body - or was this an intentional experiment?

Thanks as always, and may your holidays be free of brain-eating puppet-master parasites (unless you've already been taken over... in which case, carry on).

First Very common, with psychic being the most common class; the others, not so much.

Second They don't have a name for themselves. The "need to have a name for yourself" is alien to them. One of the ways they're aberrations is in how they think, and they don't really feel the need or have an interest in having a name for themselves; that's a normal person concern.

Third Dunno. Haven't given that any thought.

Fourth No idea. I had no involvement with the egophage and haven't had a chance to read the entry or think about how they might interact with the rest of intellect devourer society yet. I'm 99% sure they have nothing to do with Midnight Milk though, and would rather not have them have much to do with Ilvarandin unless when I read them I really like what I see and think they'd fit.

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James Jacobs wrote:
I'm 99% sure they have nothing to do with Midnight Milk though, and would rather not have them have much to do with Ilvarandin unless when I read them I really like what I see and think they'd fit.

Unfortunately, their writeup specifically calls out midnight milk. There's a page reference to Lost Cities of Golarion and everything. It confused me, since the whole point is that the devourers don't drink the midnight milk.

Does it annoy you when freelancers play in your sandbox and mess up your toys?

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Kalindlara wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
I'm 99% sure they have nothing to do with Midnight Milk though, and would rather not have them have much to do with Ilvarandin unless when I read them I really like what I see and think they'd fit.

Unfortunately, their writeup specifically calls out midnight milk. There's a page reference to Lost Cities of Golarion and everything. It confused me, since the whole point is that the devourers don't drink the midnight milk.

Does it annoy you when freelancers play in your sandbox and mess up your toys?

Not so much unfortunate, but it is what it is. If I do something later with that thread, I'll figure it out.

One of the things that's kinda frustrating/crazy-making about writing for Golarion is that not everything I set up gets to be something I get to finish off. The Munavri are a great recent example. I can't write every book, as much as I wish to. I can't even outline or develop or edit every book, so that means that, increasingly, content is developed for Golarion using plot threads I drop in that get turned into something I never really intended.

That said... once it's out there, in print, in public... I've kinda let it go and anyone can pick up those threads, so I've really no one to blame but myself, I guess. I try not to be TOO greedy and self-posessive about content, since Golarion is far more than just my ideas.

It doesn't annoy me when freelancers do this at all, but it does annoy me when there are communications breakdowns in-house as regards certain elements of the world's development and who has "markers" on what parts of the world. We ARE taking steps now to address this and to try to keep it from happening again in the future... but some times, those steps seem to be awfully slow compared to the steps we also simultaneously take to put out more books.

Grand Lodge

Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscriber

Have there been any times where someone else has developed on of your hanging threads, and you've gone, "wow, that's so much better than what I had planned"? And, if so, are you willing to name any?

(As a GM I've had players do it to me so many times...)

Grand Lodge

Let me start off by saying that I don't expect the answer to this question to be a concrete answer, but who would you say is the greatest sword master on Golarion? Also follow up questions what CR might they be and where on Golarion might they be located?

Also as an unrelated question, have you ever considered a comedy styled adventure path?


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James Jacobs wrote:
Darius Darrenbar wrote:

James,

Is it safe to assume that we're going to be seeing an evil iconic for each of the primary core classes in the coming months or merely just 4 to five new characters?

Nope. The "evil iconics" we're doing for Hell's Vengeance (there'll be six of them; one per cover) are not class iconics, but evil bad guys. They sort of fill six different classic bad guy roles, but are not single-classed characters, nor are they meant to be core class only characters.

When you say they're not single-classed characters, does that mean they're all going to be multiclassed?

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Darrell Impey UK wrote:

Have there been any times where someone else has developed on of your hanging threads, and you've gone, "wow, that's so much better than what I had planned"? And, if so, are you willing to name any?

(As a GM I've had players do it to me so many times...)

Absolutely. Some of the locations in Varisia, particularly Kaer Maga, were bolstered by James Sutter. And Wolfgang Baur did wonders with my notes on Thassilon. And beyond that... most of the Adventure Paths, in a way, are things that other authors or writers have developed from my threads, although Rob's catching up there!

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Therrux wrote:

Let me start off by saying that I don't expect the answer to this question to be a concrete answer, but who would you say is the greatest sword master on Golarion? Also follow up questions what CR might they be and where on Golarion might they be located?

Also as an unrelated question, have you ever considered a comedy styled adventure path?

Unrevealed, in no small part due to the fact that there are so many kinds of swords, and that as soon as we reveal that folks want to see the stats, and soon as we do stats, they'll never be good enough. So for now it must remain a mystery. If I HAD to pick someone, it'd probably be an Aldori, I suppose.

Nope; comedy is hands down the hardest genre to do successfully in an AP from a writing viewpoint, and it's far too easy to slip into self-mockery or the like. Not interested. I'd rather do APs with comedy elements in them.

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Luthorne wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
Darius Darrenbar wrote:

James,

Is it safe to assume that we're going to be seeing an evil iconic for each of the primary core classes in the coming months or merely just 4 to five new characters?

Nope. The "evil iconics" we're doing for Hell's Vengeance (there'll be six of them; one per cover) are not class iconics, but evil bad guys. They sort of fill six different classic bad guy roles, but are not single-classed characters, nor are they meant to be core class only characters.
When you say they're not single-classed characters, does that mean they're all going to be multiclassed?

No.

I mean that what class they are isn't important to WHO they are. One we knew would be a priest of Asmodeus, but whether that makes him a cleric or an inquisitor or a ranger or a wizard or whatever didn't matter to the character himself, for example.

There's NOT gonna be a Red Mantis Assassin, but if we DID want one, what class she would be before she got into the prestige class is irrelevant.

Likewise, there's NOT going to be a crazed barbaric overlord, but such a character could be a barbarian, a druid, a hunter, a brawler/ranger, a fighter/bloodrager/skald, and so on and so on.

Class, for these characters, is actually kind of irrelevant. To the extent that for a long time we considered not using the word "iconic" with them at all in public. We relented when we realized that no matter what, they'd be called iconics anyway by the world.


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Hm. What makes a character a priest? Divine spellcaster? Or just "I want to be a priest"?


Therrux wrote:
Also as an unrelated question, have you ever considered a comedy styled adventure path?

I've had an idea for this for a while, but I'm not entirely sure how to go about it. The basics of the plot is that the heroes are called upon because "the fourth wall has been critically damaged, and someone needs to repair it." The games if chalk full of mechanical and pop culture references, and characters are generally very aware that they are in a game. As the PCs make progress in their quest, other threads start to pop up that are gradually more traditional and serious (since they're fixing the fourth wall) and the metagame references become sparser and sparser until by the end, their nominal goal is something entirely different, like saving the world from an evil wizard or rescuing a princess.


Mr. Jacobs, are you playing in a Siege of Serpents game?

Or, for that matter, a gameday IV game?

Silver Crusade

James, I need your help. I am writing the back story for one of my characters. He is an inquisitor of Asmodeus and a member of the Thrune family. I plan on buying the new book on Cheilax on the 18th but I would like to get his story written before then.

Are all members of the old kings line dead? Does Abrogail have any Kids? Does she have any paramours or a former husband or bastards.

My character was recently made a Cambion by Abrogail's Pit Fiend for foiling an Assassination attempt on Abrogail by a terrorist group in our campaign that is trying to topple the government. His reasoning was he saw my character as an up and commer and wanted to be able to control him and have my character indebted to him so he gave him power as a method to do this as well as having my character contracted to him.

Radiant Oath

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What does splint mail in Pathfinder "look like" for lack of a better term?

I can't remember if I asked this specific question before, but I know you've said before and codified in Inner Sea Races that elf and orc blood in a human family line manifests sporadically in later generations like extraplanar blood in the families of aasimars and tieflings does, with half-elves or half-orcs being born to otherwise normal human parents, and not always specifically from a human and elf or human and orc pairing, or a pairing of two of the same kind of half-breed, and the child of a half-elf and half-orc pair would likely just be human, with possibly some throwbacks to either parent's heritage if the player so chooses.

My question is this: What's the result of a half-breed character having kids with a member of their non-human ancestor's race, like a elf and half-elf, or an orc and half-orc? Is it similar to how it works with humans, with the resultant child being an elf or orc with some human-like features? Would the child be another "half-breed" like their non full-blooded parent? Or would the child be human like with a half-breed and human?

Yeesh, fantasy genetics! You answer one question about it and ten more pop up to follow it!

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Ed Reppert wrote:
Hm. What makes a character a priest? Divine spellcaster? Or just "I want to be a priest"?

Being part of the church's clergy is all it takes. You don't have to be a divine spellcaster to be a priest, but it's a lot more common.

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The Fiend Fantastic wrote:

Mr. Jacobs, are you playing in a Siege of Serpents game?

Or, for that matter, a gameday IV game?

Nope.

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Lou Diamond wrote:

James, I need your help. I am writing the back story for one of my characters. He is an inquisitor of Asmodeus and a member of the Thrune family. I plan on buying the new book on Cheilax on the 18th but I would like to get his story written before then.

Are all members of the old kings line dead? Does Abrogail have any Kids? Does she have any paramours or a former husband or bastards.

My character was recently made a Cambion by Abrogail's Pit Fiend for foiling an Assassination attempt on Abrogail by a terrorist group in our campaign that is trying to topple the government. His reasoning was he saw my character as an up and commer and wanted to be able to control him and have my character indebted to him so he gave him power as a method to do this as well as having my character contracted to him.

Cambions can't be made via devils; they're demons.

As for the line of kings... I'm pretty sure the old lines are either dead or in hiding. Abrogail doesn't have any kids. Not sure about paramours, but I don't think so. The Chelaix book may have more, but I wasn't really a big part of the book's creation overall, nor have I read it yet, with the exception of the parts that interact directly with Hell's Rebels.

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Archpaladin Zousha wrote:

What does splint mail in Pathfinder "look like" for lack of a better term?

I can't remember if I asked this specific question before, but I know you've said before and codified in Inner Sea Races that elf and orc blood in a human family line manifests sporadically in later generations like extraplanar blood in the families of aasimars and tieflings does, with half-elves or half-orcs being born to otherwise normal human parents, and not always specifically from a human and elf or human and orc pairing, or a pairing of two of the same kind of half-breed, and the child of a half-elf and half-orc pair would likely just be human, with possibly some throwbacks to either parent's heritage if the player so chooses.

My question is this: What's the result of a half-breed character having kids with a member of their non-human ancestor's race, like a elf and half-elf, or an orc and half-orc? Is it similar to how it works with humans, with the resultant child being an elf or orc with some human-like features? Would the child be another "half-breed" like their non full-blooded parent? Or would the child be human like with a half-breed and human?

Yeesh, fantasy genetics! You answer one question about it and ten more pop up to follow it!

Splint Mail: It depends who makes it. Dwarven splint mail, elven splint mail, Taldan splint mail, Gebbite splint mail, and lizardfolk splint mail would all look pretty different. But "generic" splint mail would be informed by the image results on a google image search, I guess. It's not an item that we've put much work into "Golarionizing" at all.

For the most part, a hybrid race who has a kid with a full race partner would produce a hybrid child OR a child of the full race. Which one is essentially random, and depends on the story you want to tell. The rules themselves don't go into detail on the subject, and therefore the GM and player get to make those decisions on their own, or roll randomly, or either make a subsystem to determine it or to search one out on the internet. I'm sure many options exist. Some might even be not tasteless. I suppose it's possible.

Silver Crusade

Thanks James, what is the correct term for when a Pit Fiend creates unique devil with his devil creating power?


James Jacobs wrote:
Darius Darrenbar wrote:

James,

Is it safe to assume that we're going to be seeing an evil iconic for each of the primary core classes in the coming months or merely just 4 to five new characters?

Nope. The "evil iconics" we're doing for Hell's Vengeance (there'll be six of them; one per cover) are not class iconics, but evil bad guys. They sort of fill six different classic bad guy roles[.]

What are these classic roles?

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James Jacobs wrote:
Archpaladin Zousha wrote:

What does splint mail in Pathfinder "look like" for lack of a better term?

I can't remember if I asked this specific question before, but I know you've said before and codified in Inner Sea Races that elf and orc blood in a human family line manifests sporadically in later generations like extraplanar blood in the families of aasimars and tieflings does, with half-elves or half-orcs being born to otherwise normal human parents, and not always specifically from a human and elf or human and orc pairing, or a pairing of two of the same kind of half-breed, and the child of a half-elf and half-orc pair would likely just be human, with possibly some throwbacks to either parent's heritage if the player so chooses.

My question is this: What's the result of a half-breed character having kids with a member of their non-human ancestor's race, like a elf and half-elf, or an orc and half-orc? Is it similar to how it works with humans, with the resultant child being an elf or orc with some human-like features? Would the child be another "half-breed" like their non full-blooded parent? Or would the child be human like with a half-breed and human?

Yeesh, fantasy genetics! You answer one question about it and ten more pop up to follow it!

Splint Mail: It depends who makes it. Dwarven splint mail, elven splint mail, Taldan splint mail, Gebbite splint mail, and lizardfolk splint mail would all look pretty different. But "generic" splint mail would be informed by the image results on a google image search, I guess. It's not an item that we've put much work into "Golarionizing" at all.

For the most part, a hybrid race who has a kid with a full race partner would produce a hybrid child OR a child of the full race. Which one is essentially random, and depends on the story you want to tell. The rules themselves don't go into detail on the subject, and therefore the GM and player get to make those decisions on their own, or roll randomly, or either make a subsystem to...

Was the question tasteless? If so, I apologize. :(


James.
I had an idea for a character concept and had some questions. Do the Golarion Vudrani have the cultural male to female transgendered folks like they do in India? In India they are called the Hijra what are they called in Golarion?


1)So, seen any movies lately? If so what were they and what did you think of them?

2)Have you seen "City of Lost Children"?

3)Have you played any of the Dragon Quest(Warrior) games?

4)Have you seen the movie "Yokai Monsters: 100 monsters"?

5)Now that Bestiary 5 is out, what are your top 10-20 art pieces in that book?


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James Jacobs wrote:
justmebd wrote:

For the Record: I LOVED Mythic. It totally worked for me.

In the spirit of the thread:
Has Paizo ever considered putting out a "Dungeon" style Magazine/product? I know there are 3rd party sources out there for this kind of stuff, but I was curious if Paizo ever has entertained the notion.

Not really. We've been having greater success with our current products than we did with Dungeon. In a lot of ways, the Adventure Path IS the evolution of Dungeon.

I agree, but I miss the Polyhedron part of Dungeon far more. For me it was the high point of innovation for the 3/3.5 era.

I'd love to see an alternative AP line where each AP effectively included a new setting/genre.

But that would probably require you to have some kind of D20 Modern like core rulebook, and a whole bunch of other distractions. As I say, I'd love to see it but I don't expect it.


How would you make a bard (with the Chelish Diva and Savage Skald archetypes)/cleric work?

Is possible to take both exalted and evangelist prestige classes together?

What saints serve Shelyn?

What is the status of relations between Cheliax and Kyonin (aka the elven nation)?

If Kintargo becomes free what would Andoran and Taldor do?


James Jacobs wrote:
The facade of the Sandpoint Cathedral is illustrated on page 11 of Rise of the Runelords. It's a stone building, t(...)

I had seen that, and honestly thought it must have been a miscommunication between the art director and the writer... Since the art looks like a typical medieval church with a bell tower and square walls. The map shows such an elegant, curved shape, I couldn't reconcile it with that image.

I may sqaure off the building a bit for purposes of building it, bit this helps a lot... Thanks!


Sir Jacobs, what occult class would you prefer to play as?

Dark Archive

Hi James.

Did you get a lot of Fallout gameplay during the holiday?

Would you eat this on Erik Mona day?

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Lou Diamond wrote:
Thanks James, what is the correct term for when a Pit Fiend creates unique devil with his devil creating power?

Devil Shaping. It's called that whether or not it's a unique devil or a standard one.

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AlgaeNymph wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
Darius Darrenbar wrote:

James,

Is it safe to assume that we're going to be seeing an evil iconic for each of the primary core classes in the coming months or merely just 4 to five new characters?

Nope. The "evil iconics" we're doing for Hell's Vengeance (there'll be six of them; one per cover) are not class iconics, but evil bad guys. They sort of fill six different classic bad guy roles[.]
What are these classic roles?

The first role = evil priest. We haven't revealed the next 5 roles yet, so that'll have to wait.

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Archpaladin Zousha wrote:

Was the question tasteless? If so, I apologize. :(

Nope; it wasn't tasteless at all. But it's a topic that, the more you go into game mechanic details, the better the chance that it'll turn tasteless or immature gets, so one just has to make sure to keep that in mind if one were to build a whole big interbreeding subsystem into the rules.

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The Minis Maniac wrote:

James.

I had an idea for a character concept and had some questions. Do the Golarion Vudrani have the cultural male to female transgendered folks like they do in India? In India they are called the Hijra what are they called in Golarion?

That's not something we've done much detail with yet since we simply haven't done much work on Vudra at all. There are ABSOLUTELY transgender folks in Vudra, but we haven't worked further details out there yet.

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Dragon78 wrote:

1)So, seen any movies lately? If so what were they and what did you think of them?

2)Have you seen "City of Lost Children"?

3)Have you played any of the Dragon Quest(Warrior) games?

4)Have you seen the movie "Yokai Monsters: 100 monsters"?

5)Now that Bestiary 5 is out, what are your top 10-20 art pieces in that book?

1) Spectre: Entertaining but kinda boring and run of the mill.

Bridge of Spies: Brilliant and incredible.
Furious 7: Made me cry! Very good; best of the seven!
San Andreas: Silly.
We Are Still Here: One of the best horror movies of 2015.
Headspace: Meh.
The Atticus Institute: Pretty good.
Terminator Genysis: Better than I expected. 3rd best Terminator movie. Still not great.
The Vatican Tapes: Wasted potential.
Human Centipede 3: Close to unmatchably bad.
We Are the Night: Great!
Digging up the Marrow: Brilliant movie, especially if you're into horror movies.

2) Yes; great movie.

3) Nope.

4) Nope.

5) Top arts, choosing ONLY new art for the book: brain mole, wood colossus, deep one hybrid, Leng ghoul, therizinosaurus, red panda, all the sahkils, shen, su, vishap, wyrmwraith.

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shady18 wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
justmebd wrote:

For the Record: I LOVED Mythic. It totally worked for me.

In the spirit of the thread:
Has Paizo ever considered putting out a "Dungeon" style Magazine/product? I know there are 3rd party sources out there for this kind of stuff, but I was curious if Paizo ever has entertained the notion.

Not really. We've been having greater success with our current products than we did with Dungeon. In a lot of ways, the Adventure Path IS the evolution of Dungeon.

I agree, but I miss the Polyhedron part of Dungeon far more. For me it was the high point of innovation for the 3/3.5 era.

I'd love to see an alternative AP line where each AP effectively included a new setting/genre.

But that would probably require you to have some kind of D20 Modern like core rulebook, and a whole bunch of other distractions. As I say, I'd love to see it but I don't expect it.

It would probably require us to have another Paizo's worth of employees, with the alternate line having its own designers, developers, editors, art directors, and so on, and that's not possible at this time.

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SCKnightHero1 wrote:

How would you make a bard (with the Chelish Diva and Savage Skald archetypes)/cleric work?

Is possible to take both exalted and evangelist prestige classes together?

What saints serve Shelyn?

What is the status of relations between Cheliax and Kyonin (aka the elven nation)?

If Kintargo becomes free what would Andoran and Taldor do?

I wouldn't. The flavor of Chelish Diva and Savage Skald aren't thematically complementary in my mind, and therefore I wouldn't do it.

It's possible to take any combination of prestige classes together, but keep in mind that the more similar they are, the more likely they are to overlap powers and thus not give you as big a bang for the buck.

We generally don't track/list saints until they're needed for an adventure. None come to mind immediately for Shelyn.

Cheliax and Kyonin don't interact much at all, and they pretty much hate each other, being entirely opposite in so many ways. If they were neighbors, I suspect they'd be in an open war.

Not much, initially. Ravounel is a relatively small area—it's the smallest of the six Chelish archduchies. Andoran and Taldor both have a lot of other irons in the fire but in time I suspect Andoran would start supporting Ravounel and using it to help build their case against Cheliax and as a foothold for better trade to the north. I doubt Taldor would do much at all.

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GM Lamplighter wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
The facade of the Sandpoint Cathedral is illustrated on page 11 of Rise of the Runelords. It's a stone building, t(...)

I had seen that, and honestly thought it must have been a miscommunication between the art director and the writer... Since the art looks like a typical medieval church with a bell tower and square walls. The map shows such an elegant, curved shape, I couldn't reconcile it with that image.

I may sqaure off the building a bit for purposes of building it, bit this helps a lot... Thanks!

Frankly, the communication you think exists between the art director and the writer pretty much never happens. That communication exists between the adventure's developer and the art director, and often you need to accept corners cut. At the time of that art's creation, we had a lot of things going wrong, and the art itself is really nice so it was something solid to cling to. But even in the best of times, getting art and map to match well is probably one of the most difficult parts of the job.

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Wylliam Harrison wrote:
Sir Jacobs, what occult class would you prefer to play as?

I guess psychic. Frankly, all six classes are a bit too fiddly/complex for my taste and preferences.

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