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Do you know anything about magic the gathering?
What is your opinion on all the angels being female and all the demons being male?
I know a fair amount—I played a LOT back in college in the early 90s, and I worked at Wizards of the Coast for several years.
I think that all the angels being female and the demons being male is an interesting choice, and one that my personal philosophies kinda sync up with, but I've never really thought too much about it and, indeed never really even noticed it before now.
I am not a fan of such a thing as. I don't like linking morality to gender and i don't like the color black(in the game).and why are all the angels the embodiment of beauty and all the demon are monsters.Males can be beautiful too you know(ancient greeks and romans knew what beautiful males look like).
I'm not seeing any questions there... let's keep this thread to questions for me, rather than debates.
Any idea of a release date of Unspeakable Futures? The small amount I have just read on it has me interested.
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Any idea of a release date of Unspeakable Futures? The small amount I have just read on it has me interested.
I've no plans to release the game at all yet, in fact. I would love to some day, but at this point, I don't have the resources to do so and give it the attention it deserves.
Is there anyway for me to play Unspeakable Futures as is?
1)Can you tell us when will the playtest be for the Occult Adventure's?
2)Will we find out what the 6 new classes will be before the playtest?
3)Will the Inner Sea Races book talk about sea elves and other types of elves other then drow or the standard type?
4)Are there different kinds of dwarves, halflings, and/or gnomes in Golarion?
5)Will there be any new racial feats in the Inner Sea Races book?
6)Now that Advanced classes is out, what are thoughts on the Swashbuckler? Anything you would change?
7)How would you rank the 10 new classes in general?
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I'm not seeing any questions there... let's keep this thread to questions for me, rather than debates.Do you know anything about magic the gathering?
What is your opinion on all the angels being female and all the demons being male?
I know a fair amount—I played a LOT back in college in the early 90s, and I worked at Wizards of the Coast for several years.
I think that all the angels being female and the demons being male is an interesting choice, and one that my personal philosophies kinda sync up with, but I've never really thought too much about it and, indeed never really even noticed it before now.
I am not a fan of such a thing as. I don't like linking morality to gender and i don't like the color black(in the game).and why are all the angels the embodiment of beauty and all the demon are monsters.Males can be beautiful too you know(ancient greeks and romans knew what beautiful males look like).
Okay
1)why do you believe all angels should be female and all demons should be male?
2)why do you think only females can be beautiful and male can't be beautiful?
1) I didn't say that. I said that it's an interesting choice for Magic to have that setup. Obviously, Pathfinder has male angels and female demons, so for Golarion/Pathfinder it's not really a concern.
2) Nor did I say that.
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Is there anyway for me to play Unspeakable Futures as is?
I've run a game of it at some (but not all) PaizoCons, but unless you manage to win a seat at one of those games, at this point there's not really any way for someone to play Unspeakable Futures other than to come to Paizo and convince me to run a game for them.
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1)Can you tell us when will the playtest be for the Occult Adventure's?
2)Will we find out what the 6 new classes will be before the playtest?
3)Will the Inner Sea Races book talk about sea elves and other types of elves other then drow or the standard type?
4)Are there different kinds of dwarves, halflings, and/or gnomes in Golarion?
5)Will there be any new racial feats in the Inner Sea Races book?
6)Now that Advanced classes is out, what are thoughts on the Swashbuckler? Anything you would change?
7)How would you rank the 10 new classes in general?
1) I cannot. It's start date hasn't been finalized, but should be relatively soon.
2) I doubt it. That's kind of one of the points of the playtest—to reveal those 6 classes.
3) It will talk about drow a fair amount. It will mention a very little bit (not much at all) about aquatic elves.
4) Yes. Duergar and svirfneblin and spriggans all come to mind.
5) Probably.
6) I'd give the swashbuckler the ability to swap out Dex for Str for damage modifiers on piercing weapons, but apart from that, I'm quite pleased with how they play out.
7) I wouldn't do that because that's akin to me saying "Class #10 is the worst of them" and I'm not interested in saying that type of thing about our products or the authors/designers who write them. Furthermore... I've not READ all 10 classes—I've only really read and familiarized myself so far with the swashbuckler and to a lesser extent the brawler and the slayer so far, so I don't even have an opinion to not give anyway.
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So the new Obsidian deal makes you very happy, yes?What are your three favorite tabletop RPGs beside Pathfinder?
What are your three favorite console/computer RPGs?
Call of Cthulhu, Dread, and Unspeakable Futures
Baldur's Gate 2, Fallout: New Vegas, Planescape: Torment
That would be an understatement.
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That would be an understatement.So the new Obsidian deal makes you very happy, yes?What are your three favorite tabletop RPGs beside Pathfinder?
What are your three favorite console/computer RPGs?
Call of Cthulhu, Dread, and Unspeakable Futures
Baldur's Gate 2, Fallout: New Vegas, Planescape: Torment
:3
*not-so-patiently waits and hopes for a Bethesda deal*
A Magus Kensai/ monk can use the magus perfect strike to maximize the monk unarmed damage? like a large monk hitting 4d8 maximized per hit or more?
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Is it ethical to enjoy a product if the company that makes it apparently is doing bad things? I pre-ordered Dragon Age: Inquisition because I greatly enjoyed the first two games as well as Mass Effect, and many of their other games. But lately it seems everything I hear about BioWare is how they've lied about some upcoming feature or romance in press releases, how Mass Effect 3's ending was still terrible after the free-lc attempt to fix it, how they're terrible for outright rejecting "the indoctrination theory" and how basically BioWare has completely lost any integrity it ever had as a company.
Should I continue to enjoy Dragon Age and Mass Effect and keep giving BioWare my money even though the consensus seems to be "They were great once, but now all they do is lie and attempt to gouge us. And Mass Effect 3's ending STILL sucks!"?
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Is it ethical to enjoy a product if the company that makes it apparently is doing bad things? I pre-ordered Dragon Age: Inquisition because I greatly enjoyed the first two games as well as Mass Effect, and many of their other games. But lately it seems everything I hear about BioWare is how they've lied about some upcoming feature or romance in press releases, how Mass Effect 3's ending was still terrible after the free-lc attempt to fix it, how they're terrible for outright rejecting "the indoctrination theory" and how basically BioWare has completely lost any integrity it ever had as a company.
Should I continue to enjoy Dragon Age and Mass Effect and keep giving BioWare my money even though the consensus seems to be "They were great once, but now all they do is lie and attempt to gouge us. And Mass Effect 3's ending STILL sucks!"?
That's something you'll have to decide on your own.
I'll be buying Dragon Age: Inquisition. I haven't heard anything about them lying or anything like that, and in fact, have been hearing the opposite—that they're being very inclusive and forward thinking in the way they're building the game. For the record, I didn't think Mass Effect 3's ending was terrible—I thought the overblown internet fan-rage reaction to it was pretty terrible, though.
I did not buy Grand Theft Auto V because they didn't have a female playable character, and I'll probably do the same thing with the next Assassin's Creed game (despite having played and enjoyed all the rest of them).
1)So in other words the names of all the classes will be revealed at the OA playtest, correct?
2)Other then the Swashbuckler, what 3 classes would you most be interested to play as, that are from the ACG?
3)I am talking about stuff like mountain dwarves, hill dwarves, tall fellow halflings, forest gnomes, etc. Last I remember, elves are the only ones who have non-"underdark" type variants. So will there be such things, or similar, found in that book?
4)So are guys thinking of doing something different with the whole "explode because of being so full of life" thing for the positive energy plane?
5)Seen any new movies lately?
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1)So in other words the names of all the classes will be revealed at the OA playtest, correct?
2)Other then the Swashbuckler, what 3 classes would you most be interested to play as, that are from the ACG?
3)I am talking about stuff like mountain dwarves, hill dwarves, tall fellow halflings, forest gnomes, etc. Last I remember, elves are the only ones who have non-"underdark" type variants. So will there be such things, or similar, found in that book?
4)So are guys thinking of doing something different with the whole "explode because of being so full of life" thing for the positive energy plane?
5)Seen any new movies lately?
1) I believe that's the plan.
2) Warpriest, Slayer, and Investigator.
3) Nope.
4) Nope.
5) Not in the last few weeks. Been insanely busy, alas. I'm hoping to be able to get out and see "As Above/So Below" in a few days.
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Basically, apparently BioWare once claimed that the race-gated romances of Inquisition won't mean one race won't get more romantic options than others, and now they've officially released the romances and for example, bisexual female elves get six different romantic options, while straight males of any race, gay males and females of any race, and straight female dwarves and qunari each only have access to two.
People commenting on this are EXTREMELY disappointed, and essentially feel "cheated" because the elven characters have a lot more options than anyone else. I personally think it's piddling over numbers, but if what they say is true, that BioWare promised an equal amount of romance options for each combination of race, gender and sexuality, then did the exact opposite with some combinations getting many more options than others, it seems like a lie. Is it a lie?
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Basically, apparently BioWare once claimed that the race-gated romances of Inquisition won't mean one race won't get more romantic options than others, and now they've officially released the romances and for example, bisexual female elves get six different romantic options, while straight males of any race, gay males and females of any race, and straight female dwarves and qunari each only have access to two.
People commenting on this are EXTREMELY disappointed, and essentially feel "cheated" because the elven characters have a lot more options than anyone else. I personally think it's piddling over numbers, but if what they say is true, that BioWare promised an equal amount of romance options for each combination of race, gender and sexuality, then did the exact opposite with some combinations getting many more options than others, it seems like a lie. Is it a lie?
It's not a lie. It may be miscommunication between different members of a vast team that's building an incredibly complex game, or it may be merely the game creators having to make some tough decisions to cut some romance options in order to actually get the game out on time.
Whatever the case, it sounds like the standard fan over-reaction to me, or people who are just looking for an excuse to be angry. The fact that there's that many options at ALL for so many diverse options is so much above what most other games do that it really feels like customer entitlement gone overboard.
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i have a player that wants me to make an orb of undead like artifact from baulders gate. now i have no fing clue as to whether or not i should allow this or how to do this if so or anything. i dont know much about it but from what hes told me it seems crazy.
should i allow/spend my time creating the idea of this item for him to command an army of undead? also, he wants to remain neutral with all his necromancy minions and spells and ideas that also a conflict? feels like a conflict
As a general rule, the creation of an artifact should be the point of an entire campaign, not just something a PC does as part of an item crafting spare-time project. Further, whether or not a PC can even do it requires GM approval.
Whether or not you can avoid being evil and still create undead depends on your game—if you're using Golarion and want to adhere to that world's canon, creating undead is evil and doing so will make you evil.
If you want to let your player's character create ANY artifact, though... make the steps needed to craft the item things that require entire adventures to complete.
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Depends on a case by case basis. Most such paladins would likely NOT end up in Dis, but instead in another place. Erecura likely has more than one place where she can send her worshipers. A paladin wouldn't go on to Hell, though. The simplest solution is that the paladin goes to heaven to serve Erecura's lawful good interests there. Or maybe just merges with the quintessence of Heaven.Something that I have been wondering about. How does your alignment effect what your afterlife is like in corner cases? For example Erecura is the Queen of Dis, and Lawful Neutral. So at least hypothetically she can have Paladins, so what happens if that Paladin passes on and goes to meet up with her in the afterlife?
So are you saying that Erecura has more then one planar realm?
can all god have more then one planar realm?
Yes to both.
Desna has at least two realms, for example.
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Does he have a thread?I have no idea. I'm not involved in that book beyond the approval stages. That's a Patrick question, in other words.Will the Cohorts & Companions book have lots of summoning stuff in it?
Will the Cohorts & Companions book have new organization rules in it?
Dunno, but you don't need a thread to ask folks things.
Very very much. I've played all the games on up from Arena. Skyrim is one of my favorite games ever.Do you like the elder scrolls?
(https://www.youtube.com/user/ShoddyCast/videos) has a lot of lore videos on the elder scrolls world
Have you ever considered adapting Elder Scrolls lore into a Pathfinder format, like assigning domains and stuff for the gods, and then playing Pathfinder in the Elder Scrolls world?
Thursdays, what are they good for?
1)Have you personally designed any classes for pathfinder? If so wich ones?
2)Who is writing each volume for the Iron Gods AP?
3)Would you ever allow someone to play as an android?
4)Does the Androffa/Androffian people still exist on there world?
5)So I am correct in thinking that the monsters we will get in Occult Adventures will be just psychic magic versions of existing monsters?
6)Any chance that Occult Adventures will have magical artworks like paintings(cursed, haunted, or otherwise)? How about creatures that look like(or are) paintings?
7)How about magic items like new types of crystal balls, dice, chess sets, pocket watches, umbrellas, Victorian style clothing, canes/walking sticks, recorders/phonographs, playing cards, etc.?
8)Will OA book have anything along the lines of stuff for carnivals, circuses, world fairs, freak shows, etc.?
9)Will the Giantslayer AP have other creatures of the giant subtype like trolls, oni, gigas, etc.?
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Thursdays, what are they good for?
Is there a consistent place on the site to look for announcements like about Inner Seas Races? If I hadn't seen the discussion here, I would know nothing about it. Attending conventions is not really in the cards for me, so I rely on what I see here on the site.
6) I'd give the swashbuckler the ability to swap out Dex for Str for damage modifiers on piercing weapons, but apart from that, I'm quite pleased with how they play out.
You can kind of do that, however its on a single weapon of your choice.
weapon (such as the longsword). When wielding your
chosen weapon one-handed, you can treat it as a
one-handed piercing melee weapon for all feats and
class abilities that require such a weapon (such as a
swashbuckler’s or a duelist’s precise strike) and you can
add your Dexterity modifier instead of your Strength
modifier to that weapon’s damage. The weapon must be
one appropriate for your size.
Working on a duelist myself that use the Dueling Sword Mastery line, but i do wonder if its worth going into the duelist prestige later on or just stick to Swashbuckler the entire way.
Do you have any ideas for the Swashbuckler so far you want to share?
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Have you ever considered adapting Elder Scrolls lore into a Pathfinder format, like assigning domains and stuff for the gods, and then playing Pathfinder in the Elder Scrolls world?Very very much. I've played all the games on up from Arena. Skyrim is one of my favorite games ever.Do you like the elder scrolls?
(https://www.youtube.com/user/ShoddyCast/videos) has a lot of lore videos on the elder scrolls world
Not really.
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1)Have you personally designed any classes for pathfinder? If so wich ones?
2)Who is writing each volume for the Iron Gods AP?
3)Would you ever allow someone to play as an android?
4)Does the Androffa/Androffian people still exist on there world?
5)So I am correct in thinking that the monsters we will get in Occult Adventures will be just psychic magic versions of existing monsters?
6)Any chance that Occult Adventures will have magical artworks like paintings(cursed, haunted, or otherwise)? How about creatures that look like(or are) paintings?
7)How about magic items like new types of crystal balls, dice, chess sets, pocket watches, umbrellas, Victorian style clothing, canes/walking sticks, recorders/phonographs, playing cards, etc.?
8)Will OA book have anything along the lines of stuff for carnivals, circuses, world fairs, freak shows, etc.?
9)Will the Giantslayer AP have other creatures of the giant subtype like trolls, oni, gigas, etc.?
1) I designed the first drafts of the alchemist and the gunslinger, but they went through a LOT of revisions before they were in print.
2) In order: Neil Spicer, Nick Logue, Ron Lundeen, Mike Shel, Tim Hitchcock, Crystal Fraiser
3) Yes.
4) You'll have to wait to see the answer to that in Iron Gods #6. I'm not gonna spoil it yet.
5) That's not yet set in stone, but that's the basic idea. Similar to how Mythic Adventures did that, but instead of psychic versions of monsters they did mythic versions.
6) The book's still being written, but not by me. There's a chance, I suppose, but I don't know what that chance is. Probably somewhere between 0% and 100%. ;-P
7) There will be occult magic items, yes.
8) Not really "occult" but we'll see.
9) Of course it will. Every AP so far has, actually. And they didn't even have "giant" in their names!
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1)how does a god gain a realm on a plane with such a radically different Alignment as there own as with Milani(Chaotic good) and Axis(Lawful neutral)?
2)with Milani being Chaotic good and Iomedae being Lawful good. How do they get along?
3)If you guys make a new great beyond book what would you like to see change?
3)If you guys make a new great beyond book will Axis get a new city map?
1) Varies by deity. In Milani's case her Axis realm is more of a hideout or something she snuck in and established.
2) Poorly. They don't hang out much. Iomedae is frustrated with the mayhem and disrespect and insubordination Milani encourages, and Milani is frustrated with Iomedae's obsession with tradition and law and her overly-stern attitude.
3) The size of the book. It should be a lot bigger than the last one.
4) I'd like to figure a way out to do maps for all the outer planes, but the sheer size of those locations makes maps tricky.
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Is there a consistent place on the site to look for announcements like about Inner Seas Races? If I hadn't seen the discussion here, I would know nothing about it. Attending conventions is not really in the cards for me, so I rely on what I see here on the site.
Just go to each of the product lines and sort the results by "Newest First."
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what are the upcoming books (please list them and what they are about)
Our release schedule is too huge for me to do this; it'd take hours, frankly, and I don't really have the time to do that. Fortunately, we've done it for you already. Just go to the various product lines on the webstore and sort by "Newest first."