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Justin Franklin wrote:
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John Kretzer wrote:

So what would be the books over all topic that included psychic magic?

An unrevealed topic that I'm not ready to speak more about yet.
Now I am really looking forward to the Summer Con announcements.
That's fine... but that's still not gonna be a point where I'm ready to speak more about psycic magic yet.
Not guessing that you will announce the book with Psychic Magic, just curious what the 2 books you are planning to announce this summer.

Probably something I am going to want immediately.


James, where on Golarion would you say is the nearest analogue to Earth's Polynesia?

Have you (Paizo) ever considered producing some kind of official pronunciation guide? It could just be a web enhancement or a small PDF like the conversion guide. It just happens to be a particular compulsion of mine to want to pronounce everything as it should be pronounced.


Pathfinder Lost Omens, Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber

Hey James, if an oracle with the wrecker curse gains access to a sword that is immune to the broken condition, (say an unbreakable sword) would the sword either....

A. Somehow lose its powers and become broken.
B. Become one of the very few weapons that won't actually become broken in his hands.

If you select A does that mean that the oracle could have the power to break artifact level swords?

If you select B, what level of power would you say the unbreakable sword need to be to become immune to the wrecker curse?


James Jacobs wrote:
But... if I had to get right down to it, and could only pick ONE of my possessions to keep, it would be this.

In my experience, it's the cat that owns the human, not the other way around. You exist to ensure it remains happy and contented, and in exchange it will hunt rats (if it feels like it) and claw the furniture when your back is turned, just so you know that you aren't giving it your undivided attention when you should be.


A question about Mythic Rules and Daemons. I know Infernal Dukes, Nascent Demon Lords, and Harbingers are all stattable as between CR 20 to 25, and that Archdevils and Demon Lords will be able to be statted up with Mythic Rules. Will the same be true of the Four Horsemen and Mythic Adventures? Or are they more akin to deities? If not, who would be the closest to deity level power of the Four Horsemen?


a question here please:

will The Mythic Adventure book have its own Mythic optional character sheet or we have to write it in some place the current sheet?

Also, can you upgrade the current character sheet with spaces like Traits

(T´will be nice to see one character sheet like the Dyslexic Studeos version with Traits and the Mythic Tiers options)

here i drop the link for you!!
http://charactersheets.minotaur.cc/composer.html


I'm going to be running Reign of Winter this Saturday, and I'm trying to figure out the effects of frostbite. Snows of Summer states that people can suffer from hypothermia if they take nonlethal damage from cold weather - treat as fatigued. If this condition is not remedied, they could also suffer from frostbite, and it references page 442 of the Core Rulebook.

Going to the Core Rulebook, all it says about frostbite is that taking nonlethal cold damage makes you suffer from frostbite or hypothermia - treat as fatigued.

By the rules, it seems like frostbite and hypothermia are the same thing - they just make you fatigued. However, I think frostbite should be a bit more than that.

What would you suggest for an additional effect (if any) for frostbite?

Grand Lodge

Hey James, got a question about the spell Keep Watch from Knights of the Inner Sea. What is the definition of "vigorous activity" and "including fighting" for a wizard? My ruling was that if he used any other spell, defensive or offensive, it could be considered "vigorous", but the player is asking for a proper definition.

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Wildebob wrote:

James, where on Golarion would you say is the nearest analogue to Earth's Polynesia?

Have you (Paizo) ever considered producing some kind of official pronunciation guide? It could just be a web enhancement or a small PDF like the conversion guide. It just happens to be a particular compulsion of mine to want to pronounce everything as it should be pronounced.

At this point, Minata (the Wandering Isles) in Tian Xia.

We published a partial pronunciation guide in the first Pathfinder Campaign Setting Hardcover. We've not done so since, really, because we've not had room in the right product to publish it again, especially since the list of words grows by several a month.

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zergtitan wrote:

Hey James, if an oracle with the wrecker curse gains access to a sword that is immune to the broken condition, (say an unbreakable sword) would the sword either....

A. Somehow lose its powers and become broken.
B. Become one of the very few weapons that won't actually become broken in his hands.

If you select A does that mean that the oracle could have the power to break artifact level swords?

If you select B, what level of power would you say the unbreakable sword need to be to become immune to the wrecker curse?

B. All the sword needs to be is unbreakable. It doesn't matter what power it is. Most unbreakable magic items are artifacts though.

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Odraude wrote:
A question about Mythic Rules and Daemons. I know Infernal Dukes, Nascent Demon Lords, and Harbingers are all stattable as between CR 20 to 25, and that Archdevils and Demon Lords will be able to be statted up with Mythic Rules. Will the same be true of the Four Horsemen and Mythic Adventures? Or are they more akin to deities? If not, who would be the closest to deity level power of the Four Horsemen?

The four Horsemen are of the exact same power level as archdevils and demon lords—CR 26 to CR 30. Charon is the most powerful of the 4.

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judas 147 wrote:

a question here please:

will The Mythic Adventure book have its own Mythic optional character sheet or we have to write it in some place the current sheet?

Also, can you upgrade the current character sheet with spaces like Traits

(T´will be nice to see one character sheet like the Dyslexic Studeos version with Traits and the Mythic Tiers options)

here i drop the link for you!!
http://charactersheets.minotaur.cc/composer.html

There'll be a new sheet to track mythic stuff in Mythic Adventures, yes, but we've currently got no plans to update the current character sheet. One nice thing about the internet is that there's never a shortage of character sheets to choose from, though.

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alientude wrote:

I'm going to be running Reign of Winter this Saturday, and I'm trying to figure out the effects of frostbite. Snows of Summer states that people can suffer from hypothermia if they take nonlethal damage from cold weather - treat as fatigued. If this condition is not remedied, they could also suffer from frostbite, and it references page 442 of the Core Rulebook.

Going to the Core Rulebook, all it says about frostbite is that taking nonlethal cold damage makes you suffer from frostbite or hypothermia - treat as fatigued.

By the rules, it seems like frostbite and hypothermia are the same thing - they just make you fatigued. However, I think frostbite should be a bit more than that.

What would you suggest for an additional effect (if any) for frostbite?

You can always go to the 3rd edition D&D book Frostburn to get more detailed rules on frostbite.

Currently in Pathfinder, "frostbite" is merely "taking damage and becoming fatigued from cold temperatures." There's no special additional rules for frostbite or hypothermia, because we tend to avoid going into too much detail for things like that or missing limbs or really bad burns or the like since it starts to overcomplicate the game.

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kevin_video wrote:
Hey James, got a question about the spell Keep Watch from Knights of the Inner Sea. What is the definition of "vigorous activity" and "including fighting" for a wizard? My ruling was that if he used any other spell, defensive or offensive, it could be considered "vigorous", but the player is asking for a proper definition.

I wasn't involved in the writing or development of that book, but I'd say that "vigorous activity" would include combat, spellcasting, or anything to do with acrobatics or significant movement. I'd also add in there feats of strength, like lifting up a heavy weight or bashing down a door.

If a player is asking for proper definition... he'll be disappointed, since the whole point of using the phrase "vigorous activity" is that we did NOT want to list every single possible action. He needs to ask the GM, and the GM needs to be flexible so that if the player wants to do something and then decides against it since the thing turns out to be vigorous, the GM needs to be willing to let the player change his mind.


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Hi James,

How do Androids get named in Golarion? the ARG seems to indicate that Androids crawl from the wreckage and ruins all across Numeria. So I'm guessing there's not a whole lot in the way of Android group identity or collective culture. So what goes into Android naming conventions?

Thanks!

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Memento Mortis wrote:

Hi James,

How do Androids get named in Golarion? the ARG seems to indicate that Androids crawl from the wreckage and ruins all across Numeria. So I'm guessing there's not a whole lot in the way of Android group identity or collective culture. So what goes into Android naming conventions?

Thanks!

They either choose their names, know their names when they appear, or get given names by their associates. Android names are generally the same as human names, though.


James Jacobs wrote:
Odraude wrote:
A question about Mythic Rules and Daemons. I know Infernal Dukes, Nascent Demon Lords, and Harbingers are all stattable as between CR 20 to 25, and that Archdevils and Demon Lords will be able to be statted up with Mythic Rules. Will the same be true of the Four Horsemen and Mythic Adventures? Or are they more akin to deities? If not, who would be the closest to deity level power of the Four Horsemen?
The four Horsemen are of the exact same power level as archdevils and demon lords—CR 26 to CR 30. Charon is the most powerful of the 4.

Roger. Two more questions

1. Would the Oinodaemon be Mythic, or a deity-level entity?

2. What's the difference between using Mythic Levels to bring something to CR 30, and just simply making a CR 30 creature? Is it math issues?

Thanks again and I cannot wait until I get my hands on Mythic Adventures :)

Silver Crusade

Would a Fire specialized Magus be a good representative for the Pyromancer class and build from Dark Souls or should I just build a new class from the ground up?

Dark Archive

Does Dragons unleashed and Fey revisited have Iconic's in the chapter openers?

Also if you were to create new Iconic's (Say for Psionic magic whenever you finally get round to doing that) would it just keep to the core races or is there a chance of using other 0hd races? (Tieflings catfolk etc)

Silver Crusade

James Jacobs wrote:
Wildebob wrote:

James, where on Golarion would you say is the nearest analogue to Earth's Polynesia?

Have you (Paizo) ever considered producing some kind of official pronunciation guide? It could just be a web enhancement or a small PDF like the conversion guide. It just happens to be a particular compulsion of mine to want to pronounce everything as it should be pronounced.

At this point, Minata (the Wandering Isles) in Tian Xia.

We published a partial pronunciation guide in the first Pathfinder Campaign Setting Hardcover. We've not done so since, really, because we've not had room in the right product to publish it again, especially since the list of words grows by several a month.

Knowing I too like to pronounce words as intended, what about a FAQ like item for pronunciations, something available on the website itself and updated as needed?

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Odraude wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
Odraude wrote:
A question about Mythic Rules and Daemons. I know Infernal Dukes, Nascent Demon Lords, and Harbingers are all stattable as between CR 20 to 25, and that Archdevils and Demon Lords will be able to be statted up with Mythic Rules. Will the same be true of the Four Horsemen and Mythic Adventures? Or are they more akin to deities? If not, who would be the closest to deity level power of the Four Horsemen?
The four Horsemen are of the exact same power level as archdevils and demon lords—CR 26 to CR 30. Charon is the most powerful of the 4.

Roger. Two more questions

1. Would the Oinodaemon be Mythic, or a deity-level entity?

2. What's the difference between using Mythic Levels to bring something to CR 30, and just simply making a CR 30 creature? Is it math issues?

Thanks again and I cannot wait until I get my hands on Mythic Adventures :)

1) Unknown. It might not even be an entity at all. We're being coy on that one for now.

2) The same difference between making a CR 20 demon by designing it from scratch or by giving a lower CR demon lots of class levels. OR: If a monster were a painting, the difference would be between using acrylic paint or oil paint. The end result can be equally awesome, but the tools you use to get there vary.

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Rysky wrote:
Would a Fire specialized Magus be a good representative for the Pyromancer class and build from Dark Souls or should I just build a new class from the ground up?

Fire-specialized magus sounds like the way to go to me!

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Kevin Mack wrote:

Does Dragons unleashed and Fey revisited have Iconic's in the chapter openers?

Also if you were to create new Iconic's (Say for Psionic magic whenever you finally get round to doing that) would it just keep to the core races or is there a chance of using other 0hd races? (Tieflings catfolk etc)

Can't remember, honestly. We shipped about 600 books in the last month, and the only ones I really remember with clarity at this point were the ones I actually worked on. I only did brief approval passes of the rest.

If we made new iconics, we'd stick to the core races. That's what being iconic is, after all—being recognizable and familiar.

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Xzaral wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
Wildebob wrote:

James, where on Golarion would you say is the nearest analogue to Earth's Polynesia?

Have you (Paizo) ever considered producing some kind of official pronunciation guide? It could just be a web enhancement or a small PDF like the conversion guide. It just happens to be a particular compulsion of mine to want to pronounce everything as it should be pronounced.

At this point, Minata (the Wandering Isles) in Tian Xia.

We published a partial pronunciation guide in the first Pathfinder Campaign Setting Hardcover. We've not done so since, really, because we've not had room in the right product to publish it again, especially since the list of words grows by several a month.

Knowing I too like to pronounce words as intended, what about a FAQ like item for pronunciations, something available on the website itself and updated as needed?

I'd rather finally get our rules FAQ in order before branching out to something as non-"load bearing" as how to pronounce words like Khorramzadeh or Yondabakari or Ooliodroo.

In other words, we've just always got better and/or more important things to do, alas.

Dark Archive

James Jacobs wrote:


If we made new iconics, we'd stick to the core races. That's what being iconic is, after all—being recognizable and familiar.

Any preferences for race/gender or is it just randomly decided? several staff members get to choose 1 or a group desicion for the whole lot?

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Shory are dark-skinned, correct?


Im sorry if this has alrdy been answered by Mr. Jacobs but the Huntmaster Cavalier lets you Split your effective Druid Lvl between Muliti Pets.

Does Boon Companion work with this class?

So as a 8Th lvl Huntmaster can u have 2 dogs that are also 8/8? and if so can you take the feat before it would be effective for the dogs? As in lvl 5 turning the dogs into lvl 5 dog / and a lvl 2 dog..? and do the dogs still gain all 4 lvls from the feat?

Boon Companion

Your bond with your animal companion or familiar is unusually close.

Prerequisites: Animal companion or familiar class feature.

Benefit: The abilities of your animal companion or familiar are calculated as though your class were 4 levels higher, to a maximum effective druid level equal to your character level. If you have more than one animal companion or familiar, choose one to receive this benefit. If you lose or dismiss an animal companion or familiar that has received this benefit, you may apply this feat to the replacement creature.

Special: You may select this feat more than once. The effects do not stack. Each time you take the feat, it applies to a different animal companion or familiar.

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Are you planning to restat Achaekek once Mythic is available?

Silver Crusade

James Jacobs wrote:
Rysky wrote:
Would a Fire specialized Magus be a good representative for the Pyromancer class and build from Dark Souls or should I just build a new class from the ground up?
Fire-specialized magus sounds like the way to go to me!

Yay! Well, time to go burn things and listen to them scream :3

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Kevin Mack wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:


If we made new iconics, we'd stick to the core races. That's what being iconic is, after all—being recognizable and familiar.

Any preferences for race/gender or is it just randomly decided? several staff members get to choose 1 or a group desicion for the whole lot?

Gender would be 50/50 split between male and female.

Race would probably be split 75/25 between mostly human and a few others.

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Jeff Erwin wrote:
Shory are dark-skinned, correct?

Correct.

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Im sorry if this has alrdy been answered by Mr. Jacobs but the Huntmaster Cavalier lets you Split your effective Druid Lvl between Muliti Pets.

Does Boon Companion work with this class?

So as a 8Th lvl Huntmaster can u have 2 dogs that are also 8/8? and if so can you take the feat before it would be effective for the dogs? As in lvl 5 turning the dogs into lvl 5 dog / and a lvl 2 dog..? and do the dogs still gain all 4 lvls from the feat?

Boon Companion

Your bond with your animal companion or familiar is unusually close.

Prerequisites: Animal companion or familiar class feature.

Benefit: The abilities of your animal companion or familiar are calculated as though your class were 4 levels higher, to a maximum effective druid level equal to your character level. If you have more than one animal companion or familiar, choose one to receive this benefit. If you lose or dismiss an animal companion or familiar that has received this benefit, you may apply this feat to the replacement creature.

Special: You may select this feat more than once. The effects do not stack. Each time you take the feat, it applies to a different animal companion or familiar.

As an 8th level huntmaster, you'd be treated as a 12th level huntmaster for what you can do with your pets, up to the limit of your Hit Dice. And you'd only apply the boon to one animal.

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donato wrote:
Are you planning to restat Achaekek once Mythic is available?

Probaby at some point. The time has to be right though.

Dark Archive

I have a very simple question:

Should the DC for the Gibbering Mouther's Gibbering and Spittle be 19?

Or should it be 13 and 19 with the Gibbering based on Charisma rather than Con?

It's been pointed out before that this would be in keeping with the general rules (10 + 1/2 HD + Stat bonus), but for some reason it never gets updated on any book or web site, and I'm beginning to wonder why.

And should Gibbering be a sonic attack?

Many thanks

Richard

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richard develyn wrote:

I have a very simple question:

Should the DC for the Gibbering Mouther's Gibbering and Spittle be 19?

Or should it be 13 and 19 with the Gibbering based on Charisma rather than Con?

It's been pointed out before that this would be in keeping with the general rules (10 + 1/2 HD + Stat bonus), but for some reason it never gets updated on any book or web site, and I'm beginning to wonder why.

And should Gibbering be a sonic attack?

Many thanks

Richard

Were I to design the gibbering mouther today, I'd say gibbering is a sonic attack.

And both spittle and gibbering should absolutely be DC 19.


Some questions relating to Achaekek, spurred on by the question on him (it?) above.

1) You've said that Mythic will allow CR to increase up to 30. Achaekek is CR 30. While it's said to be a demigod-level being, this seems to just hit the top-Mythic point, but it also has five domains (making it a full deity). If you could go back and change things, would you adjust the CR up several points in order to account for these oddities? Would you remove any domains?

2) Only damage dealt by a demigod-level creature or stronger can deal lethal damage to Achaekek, presently. If you restat him at some point, do you envision changing this damage to any damage dealt by a Mythic creature?

3) No deity has ever admitted to ordering Achaekek to kill something. Can you say if any god has ordered him to kill something at all?

4) As a corollary, Achaekek isn't a dumb animal, but does have a (primitive) intelligence. Is it capable of refusing orders to kill something, for whatever reason?

5) What happens if one deity orders it to kill something, and another deity orders it not to kill something?

6) Achaekek thwarts those who attempt to seek divinity. Would this mean that it has in the past preyed on those trying to take the Test of the Starstone?

7) Would it come after a group of PCs looking to slay the remnant of Ydersius (in his skull) and attempt to absorb some element of his divine power into themselves? Or possibly after PCs who "put Ydersius down" in Serpent's Skull in general, as potential future high-level play?

8) Did it come after the Azlanti hero who slew Ydersius the first time? I recall something about it existing long before mortal life came to dominate the Material Plane, so it may well have been around back then.


1) Have you given any thought to the origin of Aboleths in the Pathfinder Campaign Setting?
2) are we likely to ever learn this information?
3) are Aboleth humans from the far future that travelled back in time?

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Alleran wrote:

Some questions relating to Achaekek, spurred on by the question on him (it?) above.

1) You've said that Mythic will allow CR to increase up to 30. Achaekek is CR 30. While it's said to be a demigod-level being, this seems to just hit the top-Mythic point, but it also has five domains (making it a full deity). If you could go back and change things, would you adjust the CR up several points in order to account for these oddities? Would you remove any domains?

2) Only damage dealt by a demigod-level creature or stronger can deal lethal damage to Achaekek, presently. If you restat him at some point, do you envision changing this damage to any damage dealt by a Mythic creature?

3) No deity has ever admitted to ordering Achaekek to kill something. Can you say if any god has ordered him to kill something at all?

4) As a corollary, Achaekek isn't a dumb animal, but does have a (primitive) intelligence. Is it capable of refusing orders to kill something, for whatever reason?

5) What happens if one deity orders it to kill something, and another deity orders it not to kill something?

6) Achaekek thwarts those who attempt to seek divinity. Would this mean that it has in the past preyed on those trying to take the Test of the Starstone?

7) Would it come after a group of PCs looking to slay the remnant of Ydersius (in his skull) and attempt to absorb some element of his divine power into themselves? Or possibly after PCs who "put Ydersius down" in Serpent's Skull in general, as potential future high-level play?

8) Did it come after the Azlanti hero who slew Ydersius the first time? I recall something about it existing long before mortal life came to dominate the Material Plane, so it may well have been around back then.

1) Hmmm... good point. He grants 5 domains. He is therefore a deity, and we will not be statting him up until we generate rules for statting up deities... which we may never do. And the more I think of this, the more I'm okay with this, since it lets the Blood Mistress be the "boss" of a Red Mantis themed AP and not the god itself.

2) Don't have to worry about it anymore, since we won't be statting him up.

3) I could say, but at this point I'm not ready to.

4) He's capable of refusing.

5) Achaekek gets to make his own decision and the deities get to fight over the repercussions.

6) That's certainly what it sounds like!

7) Probably not, since he's a deity, but he certainly might send minions after the PCs.

8) Nope. Achaekek doesn't go after everyone that it could go after.

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Khonger wrote:

1) Have you given any thought to the origin of Aboleths in the Pathfinder Campaign Setting?

2) are we likely to ever learn this information?
3) are Aboleth humans from the far future that travelled back in time?

1) Yes. Lots.

2) Yes. Eventually.

3) No.

Silver Crusade

Khonger wrote:

1) Have you given any thought to the origin of Aboleths in the Pathfinder Campaign Setting?

2) are we likely to ever learn this information?
3) are Aboleth humans from the far future that travelled back in time?

There's no telling how many Illithids you bemused/Aboleths you angered with 3. :3


James Jacobs wrote:

1) Hmmm... good point. He grants 5 domains. He is therefore a deity, and we will not be statting him up until we generate rules for statting up deities... which we may never do.

[...]

2) Don't have to worry about it anymore, since we won't be statting him up.

I think I may have accidentally shot myself in the foot, then (do I get kudos for noticing the demigod/god issue with him?). Some follow-ups:

1) The five-domains-equals-deity thing is interesting. Is the rule that full deities grant five domains (even if Achaekek might be among the weakest of them... maybe) important to how deities function in the setting, influence the world, gain and lose power, or anything to that extent? Or is it just a handy means of saying X is a deity but Y is not?

2) Let's say that somebody who I'll call definitely-not-Alleran was plotting to at some point employ Achaekek (roughly his currently-statted form) as part of a Mythic campaign where Achaekek is coming for the PCs. Since demigods can be as low as CR 20-22 or so (what I think you've said Arazni may have been around when she was ganked by Tar-Baphon), is it out of the question that Mythic characters, perhaps high-tier ones, would be capable of inflicting lethal damage on Achaekek by virtue of their Mythic status? They could, after all, technically qualify as "demigod level" in power.

3) Or is there some sort of inherent "demigodness" that Mythic characters/creatures cannot possess without becoming explicit demigods themselves?


You've said multiple times that you are interested in making a Swashbuckler class. How would you differentiate that class from the Fighter and the Rogue (which I consider to be the closest to that role)?


Adventure Path Charter Subscriber; Starfinder Charter Superscriber

I too would like to see your take on a Swashbuckler class.

+1 to what Albatoonoe says.

Please, Please.

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Both Settlement Rules and Kingdom Building Rules use Economy as a statistic.

Do you think its a balanced House Rule to make the Settlement's Economy bonus stack with the Kingdom Building Economy bonus, providing a small overall bonus on Economy checks for the Kingdom?

Second question, how excited are you for Ultimate Campaign? I'm not sure if I can wait until the 29th, personally ....

Edit: Third Question; can you do a non-lethal coup de grace? Essentially forcing your target to make the Fortitude save or get knocked unconscious?

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Alleran wrote:

1) The five-domains-equals-deity thing is interesting. Is the rule that full deities grant five domains (even if Achaekek might be among the weakest of them... maybe) important to how deities function in the setting, influence the world, gain and lose power, or anything to that extent? Or is it just a handy means of saying X is a deity but Y is not?

2) Let's say that somebody who I'll call definitely-not-Alleran was plotting to at some point employ Achaekek (roughly his currently-statted form) as part of a Mythic campaign where Achaekek is coming for the PCs. Since demigods can be as low as CR 20-22 or so (what I think you've said Arazni may have been around when she was ganked by Tar-Baphon), is it out of the question that Mythic characters, perhaps high-tier ones, would be capable of inflicting lethal damage on Achaekek by virtue of their Mythic status? They could, after all, technically qualify as "demigod level" in power.

3) Or is there some sort of inherent "demigodness" that Mythic characters/creatures cannot possess without becoming explicit demigods themselves?

1) Full deities grant 5 domains, demigods grant 4. There's certainly more to it than that, not the least of which is that a mortal can theoretically challenge and kill a demigod, but not a deity.

2) At this point, with Achaekek being a full-fledged deity, he's out of reach of Mythic characters. He doesn't even have a stat block in Pathfinder—no deity does. Even if the mortal becomes a demigod.

3) Until we do a deities rulebook (which we're unlikely to do... but never say never!), nope; a mortal, even a mythic mortal, can't kill a god by conventional means (aka by using game rules to combat the deity). There may be other ways to kill a god but they'd be handled as part of a story or campaign and wouldn't have stat blocks.

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Albatoonoe wrote:
You've said multiple times that you are interested in making a Swashbuckler class. How would you differentiate that class from the Fighter and the Rogue (which I consider to be the closest to that role)?

The same way one differentiates between a samurai and a cavalier, or an antipaladin and a paladin. Or maybe not even that.

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Alexander Augunas wrote:

Both Settlement Rules and Kingdom Building Rules use Economy as a statistic.

Do you think its a balanced House Rule to make the Settlement's Economy bonus stack with the Kingdom Building Economy bonus, providing a small overall bonus on Economy checks for the Kingdom?

Second question, how excited are you for Ultimate Campaign? I'm not sure if I can wait until the 29th, personally ....

Edit: Third Question; can you do a non-lethal coup de grace? Essentially forcing your target to make the Fortitude save or get knocked unconscious?

Depends on the nature of the campaign whether anything's a balanced House Rule. I can't say without knowing all the details of your game. If you're house ruling, let your players know and tell them "if it doesn't work out, I'll change it back."

I've already got Ultimate Campaign. I don't need to be excited at all.

Yes, you can do a non-lethal coup de grace; that's the way you do a knockout blow.


James Jacobs wrote:

2) At this point, with Achaekek being a full-fledged deity, he's out of reach of Mythic characters. He doesn't even have a stat block in Pathfinder—no deity does. Even if the mortal becomes a demigod.

3) Until we do a deities rulebook (which we're unlikely to do... but never say never!), nope; a mortal, even a mythic mortal, can't kill a god by conventional means (aka by using game rules to combat the deity). There may be other ways to kill a god but they'd be handled as part of a story or campaign and wouldn't have stat blocks.

I'm a big fan of not statting up gods - does this mean the 3.5 stats and abilities etcetera in AP9 are effectively retconned/irrelevant?

I'm just curious about how you think about instances like this (rare as they are).


James Jacobs wrote:
Albatoonoe wrote:
You've said multiple times that you are interested in making a Swashbuckler class. How would you differentiate that class from the Fighter and the Rogue (which I consider to be the closest to that role)?
The same way one differentiates between a samurai and a cavalier, or an antipaladin and a paladin. Or maybe not even that.

Well, I was fishing more for semi-specific "Class Features" differences. Or maybe you knew that and you're being coy about potential future products.

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Steve Geddes wrote:

I'm a big fan of not statting up gods - does this mean the 3.5 stats and abilities etcetera in AP9 are effectively retconned/irrelevant?

I'm just curious about how you think about instances like this (rare as they are).

Yup. Achaekek's stats are obsolete now. Feel free to use them for fun though... or as his avatar.

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