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Mr. Jacobs,
Are you involved in Clinton Boomers new project in any capacity?
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Mr. Jacobs,
Are you involved in Clinton Boomers new project in any capacity?
Hehe. But everyone knows the only bunny allowed on any mecha is Bun-bun...
Dear JJ:
Pathfinder clerics are awesome. I love the channel energy and all the new improvements you and your team put into them. However, I find that the channel feats are lackluster, exception being extra channel and selective channel. I find them lackluster because they are situational and I'd rather spend my feats on something that will develop my character (I chose item creation feats and Leadership). I know that Divine Metamagic was overpowered and abused greatly but had a good basis for powering things.
Ever thought of having a feat that allows clerics to spontaneously cast remove or restoration at the expense of a channel positive energy? The evil side could be bestow curse, cause fear, cognition, cause blindness/deafness and enervation if you channel negative energy.
I think this would add to the clerics role of a supporter in and out of combat.
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You've heard the cries of the fans, James. Give them Hellbred and circuses!I actually ran a campaign where the PCs were members of a traveling circus to solve the very problem James mentioned: why a Bugbear, Minotaur, Gnome, Tiefling, etc. were all hanging out.
Plus, I had been watching Carnivale.
What was the strangest (or most fun) rationale for a party you played in or witnessed?
Using Carnivale as inspiration is pure win, of course. That show is incredible. And a game that's essentially ABOUT "circus freaks" is a really compelling reason to have weirdo race PCs. In fact, it's the ONLY time I can really stomach this kind of mix.
I've actually played in two campaigns with crazy race mixes.
1) Mike McArtor ran a game when he first started working at Paizo, where the only real restriction was "NO HUMANS OR HUMANOIDS FROM THE PLAYER'S HANDBOOK" because humans in this game were the main villains. We had in that group, if memory serves, an air elemental, a wyrmling gold dragon, an ogre mage, and a "dwarfataur" (dwarf/lion centaur). And me, an awakened flying deinonychus. The game was... interesting. But not enough to keep my interest, alas; the weird mix of characters actually ended up driving me away from the game after several sessions.
2) My friend Steve ran a Planescape campaign and he said "Any race from Any setting is allowed." I played a Small tiefling in that game, and after he died replaced him with a human female rogue/spy named Lavinia Ameiko who had a kobold samurai cohort. Also in that group was a human mage who was super-hideous (face and body wracked by out-of-contorl bone spur growth), a minotaur from Dragonlance (aka the Krynnotaur), and a few other creatures... I believe there was a pixie at one point. That campaign was a LOT more fun, probably because as wild and weird as the race selection was, they all came from SOMEWHERE where those races were the norm. We didn't have anyone in the group who was of a race that didn't have extensive numbers of sourcebooks to back up their society, in other words.
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Two questions this time...
1. As I'm new to the forums do you prefer JJ, James, Mr Jacobs or a nick name I'm completely unfamiliar with?
2. Since your an Indiana Jones man, which of the films is your favorite?
1) James is the preferred option for me. That said, I don't really have any HATED nicknames, really.
2) Raiders is hands down the best without question. Last Crusade is my second favorite. Temple of Doom used to be my least favorite, but I love it now that that fourth mistake is out. Ugh. The forth one is probably my least favorite Spielberg movie of all time... and probably the ONLY Spielberg movie I wouldn't call "great" as a result. Took him several decades to make a terrible movie... it was going to happen eventually. I like to think that he couldn't have made such a mess without Lucas's "help."
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Mr. Jacobs,
Are you involved in Clinton Boomers new project in any capacity?
Nope. In fact, until I clicked on your link, I didn't even know about the project.
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Dear JJ:
Pathfinder clerics are awesome. I love the channel energy and all the new improvements you and your team put into them. However, I find that the channel feats are lackluster, exception being extra channel and selective channel. I find them lackluster because they are situational and I'd rather spend my feats on something that will develop my character (I chose item creation feats and Leadership). I know that Divine Metamagic was overpowered and abused greatly but had a good basis for powering things.Ever thought of having a feat that allows clerics to spontaneously cast remove or restoration at the expense of a channel positive energy? The evil side could be bestow curse, cause fear, cognition, cause blindness/deafness and enervation if you channel negative energy.
I think this would add to the clerics role of a supporter in and out of combat.
The good thing about feats is that there's so many of them to choose from. Certain feats are, well, "boring." Which ones are boring, though, depends on the person.
They may be situational... but in some campaigns they can be super useful.
James,
Is Aroden the inhabitant living on The Hermitage? That would be fun. :)
- Jack
James,
Is Aroden the inhabitant living on The Hermitage? That would be fun. :)
- Jack
Nope.
Aroden is dead.
But that would be fun, eh?
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Have you read Plague of Shadows, and if so what was your overall non spoiler opinion?
Based on the sales numbers so far( I know its early) do you think Paizo will continue the series?
Our book trade distributor says that our sales are tracking just fine for this point in the launch of a new book line. So at this point, we're just going to keep on doing what we're doing...
But if you like what we're doing, make sure you tell your friends—gamer and non-gamer alike!
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Have you read Plague of Shadows, and if so what was your overall non spoiler opinion?
Based on the sales numbers so far( I know its early) do you think Paizo will continue the series?
Our book trade distributor says that our sales are tracking just fine for this point in the launch of a new book line. So at this point, we're just going to keep on doing what we're doing...
But if you like what we're doing, make sure you tell your friends—gamer and non-gamer alike!
What the...? You're not Jacobs!!! You can't answer questions in his thread!! What are you trying to do, collapse the universe?
Wait! Crap! Don't answer that!
Dear James,
I have been working on this character since I first heard about Serpent's Skull, and I might get to play him next week!
Isn't he awesome?
Can he be resurrected / reincarnated?James,
Is Aroden the inhabitant living on The Hermitage? That would be fun. :)
- Jack
Nope.
Aroden is dead.
Actually, that's an interesting question: Pathfinder Deities can be slain, but can they likewise be ressurected? If so, we're probably talking about the mother of all alignments of cosmic energies, and epic asshattery from the other Gods to try and skew the reborn Deity towards their own view-point.
Another thought: If people stop worshipping a Golarion Deity, do they go into torpor, just travel to other worlds to start over or do they diminish and become Demi-Gods or simply powerful Outsiders?
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Dear James,
I have been working on this character since I first heard about Serpent's Skull, and I might get to play him next week!
Isn't he awesome?
It's not my fault if something kills him after "Souls for Smuggler's Shiv," yeah?
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Actually, that's an interesting question: Pathfinder Deities can be slain, but can they likewise be ressurected? If so, we're probably talking about the mother of all alignments of cosmic energies, and epic asshattery from the other Gods to try and skew the reborn Deity towards their own view-point.
Another thought: If people stop worshipping a Golarion Deity, do they go into torpor, just travel to other worlds to start over or do they diminish and become Demi-Gods or simply powerful Outsiders?
Whether or not a deity can be resurrected is something that we haven't yet investigated. At this point, no slain deity has come back to life as far as I know, though, so I suspect that no, a deity cannot be resurrected. They're VERY hard to kill... but even harder to bring back to life.
Aroden, though, won't be coming back to life. At least, probably not as long as I'm at Paizo. The idea of the primary deity of humanity dying is too fundamentally part of the campaign setting to change; that's a load-bearing plot point, in other words.
If a deity loses all of their worshipers, they do not go into torpor or anything like that. They just become "forgotten." This is Lissala's current state of being. They're still out there, though. Probably with more worshipers on other worlds to keep them busy.
(in another thread) With the exception of a relatively small number of ret-cons (such as making Alkenstar a much younger country), things that were mentioned in the previous hardcover but aren't in this one ARE still in the game. Something like the Lumber Consortium in northern Andoran is still there, but they're focused on a small part of one region, and that just doesn't justify the group taking up any space in the book when we want to talk about more important elements (such as organizations that have been or likely will be playing key roles in Adventure Paths or the Pathfinder Society).
I find this very intriguing. Could you enumerate what the small number of retcons in the Inner Sea World Guide are?
If I want to use selective channel do I need to know where my opponents are? Let's assume I know there are 3 baddies, but they are invisible or I am blind.
Who is Lissala? I know it is a deity, but what page and book(assuming the campaign guide) is she in? I can't find her.
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Who is Lissala? I know it is a deity, but what page and book(assuming the campaign guide) is she in? I can't find her.
Lissala for a list of sources, she is also in the Deity section of the Inner Sea World guide with the rest of the dead and forgotten.
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(in another thread) With the exception of a relatively small number of ret-cons (such as making Alkenstar a much younger country), things that were mentioned in the previous hardcover but aren't in this one ARE still in the game. Something like the Lumber Consortium in northern Andoran is still there, but they're focused on a small part of one region, and that just doesn't justify the group taking up any space in the book when we want to talk about more important elements (such as organizations that have been or likely will be playing key roles in Adventure Paths or the Pathfinder Society).I find this very intriguing. Could you enumerate what the small number of retcons in the Inner Sea World Guide are?
Not really without going through the thing with a fine-toothed comb.
I know that we changed Alkenstar into being a MUCH younger country to explain why guns aren't more common in the region—because they're new! (The previous edition of the book had Alkenstar and gun tech being about 5,000 years old, which is thousands of years more than we've had guns in THIS world, so it was ridiculous to think that guns in Golarion stagnated at the black powder level while we've gone from that to the stuff Rambo uses in a tenth of the time).
That had a ripple effect—the Worldbreaker, which was once a giant siege cannon type thing that one of the Armies of Exploration from Taldor lost to the Gorilla King got changed into a magical siege engine built by dwarves—what the thing does we haven't detailed yet, but I suspect its something like a ballista that shoots lightning, fireballs, and other potent magical stuff.
We also changed some of the names associated with Tian Xia to be less easter egg and more serious, and changed how a fair amount of the feats and stuff work (although this last bit is less ret-con and more update to the new rules).
I'm sure there's more, but I can't really think of any off the top of my head. I'm sure someone will be along soon to help out.
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If I want to use selective channel do I need to know where my opponents are? Let's assume I know there are 3 baddies, but they are invisible or I am blind.
If you can't select targets (because you can't see them), then selective channel won't help you. Being blind pretty much negates your use of selective channel entirely unless you have another way of selecting targets.
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Who is Lissala? I know it is a deity, but what page and book(assuming the campaign guide) is she in? I can't find her.Lissala for a list of sources, she is also in the Deity section of the Inner Sea World guide with the rest of the dead and forgotten.
There ya go.
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I know this is probably a questions that has been long answered but are their any plans to do a future adventure path that begins at a higher level then 1st?
Nope.
Starting at 1st level is too important for a campaign for us to want to abandon that.
If we want to do an AP that hits higher level, a much better bet would be to do one that follows the fast XP track instead of the medium one. An AP that uses the fast XP track would probably le PCs reach 17th or 18th level easy, and might even let us hit 20th.
What multi-class combo do you find to be surprisingly effective?
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Its funny, only a few minutes ago we were talking and I suggested something that was visually similar to the Keketar (they like the serpentine model) and then we began discussing a way it could actually maybe be a unique one. I'd say great minds but mines okay at the best of times.
Edit: Forgot to ask a question, do you prefer the serious or silly questions in this thread? Not saying either is inherently better or worse but for personal taste.
To me, a "cool" eidolon would actually be one built to resemble an existing outsider, honestly, and played as if it were a unique member of that type of outsider. I get that that's a pretty different take on how most folks view eidolons, but I really do value the concept of things belonging rather than things being weird one-of-a-kind freaks.
In my games the ONLY summoner that has shown up either by a player or GM was a kobold who's tribe lost their dragon master and "formed" his eidelon to look like the old dragon so neighbors would still see it and fear it.
Appropriate use of a summoner?
Were I to build a summoner... that character would probably be chaotic good and have some sort of azata-themed eidolon something like a lillend, I suspect.
You just made my girlfriend really happy - she's build exactly that character & eidolon a couple of months ago.
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What multi-class combo do you find to be surprisingly effective?
That's a tricky question. Fighter/rogues work really well, but that's hardly surprising. Same for paladin/monks or ranger/barbarians. And any spellcasting class doesn't really work well at all... which leaves relatively few combinations open to choose from. So... I guess I don't find ANY combos to be surprisingly effective.
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Edit: Forgot to ask a question, do you prefer the serious or silly questions in this thread? Not saying either is inherently better or worse but for personal taste.
I actually prefer serious or semi-serious questions. Silly questions are fun, but not as productive.
The only "questions" I really don't like are the "X or Y" type questions. I find it hard to motivate myself to answer a question when a poster doesn't bother to actually write out a full sentence.
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To me, a "cool" eidolon would actually be one built to resemble an existing outsider, honestly, and played as if it were a unique member of that type of outsider. I get that that's a pretty different take on how most folks view eidolons, but I really do value the concept of things belonging rather than things being weird one-of-a-kind freaks.In my games the ONLY summoner that has shown up either by a player or GM was a kobold who's tribe lost their dragon master and "formed" his eidelon to look like the old dragon so neighbors would still see it and fear it.
Appropriate use of a summoner?
I suppose... although if I were building that as an encounter, I'd make the kobold an illusionist instead.
Excellent! Was it a cool character?Were I to build a summoner... that character would probably be chaotic good and have some sort of azata-themed eidolon something like a lillend, I suspect.You just made my girlfriend really happy - she's build exactly that character & eidolon a couple of months ago.
Not much playtime yet (we have multiple competing groups and campaigns) - but the two of them (character and eidolon) have a little rivalry going on about which one is the prettiest...
As a side note, in this case it didn't matter much, since we didn't start as level 1 characters - but it's not really possible to create a "correct" eidolon to mimic most existing outsiders at level 1, or the first few levels in general. Of course - at later levels the eidolon certainly exceeds the specifications of the desired base creature so its not necessarily an issue in bigger campaigns.
I'm looking forward to what Ultimate Magic will do in this regard :)
I'm trying to help a new player come up with an idea for an Eidolon, just wondering, whats the coolest Eidolon you've seen or heard of?
A player in my group is playing a summoner with an eidolon that looks like the bandersnatch from Alice in Wonderland (the Tim Burton version).
