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While I'm fine with not all deities' favored weapons being created equal, it occurs to me that Clerics of deities whose favored weapon is of the simple variety kind of get shortchanged since Clerics get proficiency with all simple weapons as a matter of course. One idea I had to make up for this was to say that if a Cleric is already proficient with their deities' favored weapon due to it being simple or a racial proficiency, they get Weapon Focus as a bonus feat with that weapon instead. How does that (or something along similar lines) sound to you?
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I understand that, I meant more from a storytelling standpoint. Since the character I'm asking for is a Wrath of the Righteous character hoping to rebuild Sarkoris, I don't really know if him making a detour to Absalom for the Test of the Starstone makes a whole lotta sense, you know?That kind of ascension to divinity is best handled by ad-hoc GM fiat, not by any sort of predetermined rules set. AKA: it can happen at any time, to any one the GM wants. No need for any special rules at all.Let me start by pre-emptively apologizing for the long and potentially aggravating question regarding mythic stuff.
You've mentioned before that merely being mythic and taking the Divine Source mythic ability three times isn't enough for a character to ascend to proper godhood, that such a character is a quasideity, effectively, and that at that point they could "graduate" to true demigodhood via the Test of the Starstone. Are there alternatives to using the Test as the means by which a quasideity is welcomed by the gods as a junior member of the pantheon? I know deities like Kurgess and Hanspur were granted their divinity by sponsors among the Big 20. Is this something that'd work for mythic PCs as well? I'm aware a lot of this is subject to individual GM approval, but I was just sort of wondering if you guys sort of meant for the Starstone to be THE method any PC uses to join the ranks of the gods or if the only real requirement was that, once you're at the peak of mythic power and can grant spells all the way up to 9th for your faithful, you had to find some way to take the final step, Starstone just being one option out of several?
"Rebuilding Sarkoris" and "Becoming a God" are two pretty huge story arcs for any character. You can't do everything, but you CAN tell your GM what you're hoping to accomplish for your character and then if it fits the story, the GM can make things work.
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The latter part of that answer doesn't surprise me too much, but the first part kind of does, given that Groetus-worshippers CAN be Chaotic Good...which I always thought was awesome.While I do have one idea for this myself, how would you be inclined to envision a Chaotic Good Groetus-worshipper, and are there any noteworthy such individuals in Golarion's history/present?I wouldn't, and there are not.
Just because something CAN be something doesn't mean there WILL be that something.
A chaotic good cleric of Groetus is TECHNICALLY possible by the rules, yes, but it's not something that I feel works well for the faith. Some faiths are less focused than others. I could see a chaotic good, neutral, or evil cleric of Gorum, for example. For Groetus, I see chaotic neutral and chaotic evil. Doesn't mean there'll never be one in print, of course... but it's still unlikely.
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OK, so I have a genealogical question.
(Note: I'm addicted to genealogies.)
Recently (kinda) you gave us the name of Tsuto's father. Given that I brought her into my Jade Regent game, can you tell us who Amaya's mother is? I don't have CoT, and I cannot find anything on the boards about her. Possibly, it's just that my search-fu is weak...
I can't off the top of my head. I'll have to double check my notes at work tomorrow and see if I ever made that name up.
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While I'm fine with not all deities' favored weapons being created equal, it occurs to me that Clerics of deities whose favored weapon is of the simple variety kind of get shortchanged since Clerics get proficiency with all simple weapons as a matter of course. One idea I had to make up for this was to say that if a Cleric is already proficient with their deities' favored weapon due to it being simple or a racial proficiency, they get Weapon Focus as a bonus feat with that weapon instead. How does that (or something along similar lines) sound to you?
I'm not interested in numbercrunching equal weapons for deities. The weapons chosen for deities are 100% chosen for flavor reasons alone. If it's that huge of a deal, my suggestion would be to remove the bonus proficiency feat entirely.
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"Rebuilding Sarkoris" and "Becoming a God" are two pretty huge story arcs for any character. You can't do everything, but you CAN tell your GM what you're hoping to accomplish for your character and then if it fits the story, the GM can make things work.I understand that, I meant more from a storytelling standpoint. Since the character I'm asking for is a Wrath of the Righteous character hoping to rebuild Sarkoris, I don't really know if him making a detour to Absalom for the Test of the Starstone makes a whole lotta sense, you know?That kind of ascension to divinity is best handled by ad-hoc GM fiat, not by any sort of predetermined rules set. AKA: it can happen at any time, to any one the GM wants. No need for any special rules at all.Let me start by pre-emptively apologizing for the long and potentially aggravating question regarding mythic stuff.
You've mentioned before that merely being mythic and taking the Divine Source mythic ability three times isn't enough for a character to ascend to proper godhood, that such a character is a quasideity, effectively, and that at that point they could "graduate" to true demigodhood via the Test of the Starstone. Are there alternatives to using the Test as the means by which a quasideity is welcomed by the gods as a junior member of the pantheon? I know deities like Kurgess and Hanspur were granted their divinity by sponsors among the Big 20. Is this something that'd work for mythic PCs as well? I'm aware a lot of this is subject to individual GM approval, but I was just sort of wondering if you guys sort of meant for the Starstone to be THE method any PC uses to join the ranks of the gods or if the only real requirement was that, once you're at the peak of mythic power and can grant spells all the way up to 9th for your faithful, you had to find some way to take the final step, Starstone just being one option out of several?
I see. It IS the kind of stuff that works better as an epilogue anyway. *shrug*
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What is your favorite class to make a necromancer with?
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I can't off the top of my head. I'll have to double check my notes at work tomorrow and see if I ever made that name up.OK, so I have a genealogical question.
(Note: I'm addicted to genealogies.)
Recently (kinda) you gave us the name of Tsuto's father. Given that I brought her into my Jade Regent game, can you tell us who Amaya's mother is? I don't have CoT, and I cannot find anything on the boards about her. Possibly, it's just that my search-fu is weak...
I doubt it - she's barely a footnote in Council of Thieves. (And given what's happening to her in my CoT campaign, Minkai had better hope that Ameiko survives Rise.)
I didn't know Tsuto's father had been revealed. Who is he?
Thank you! :)
From this post: James made in this thread:
From my (mostly unpublished) Kaijitsu family timeline that I was working with during Jade Regent's first adventure... (spoilered since there are some SIGNIFICANT Jade Regent spoilers in there... and the dates might not 100% match up with the final published info in Jade Regent)
Spoiler:
4685 AR Rokuro arranges to have a beautiful young Tian woman named Atsuii betrothed to his son. Lonjiku and Atsuii are married later in the year at the Sandpoint Cathedral.
4687 Rokuro and Lonjiku travel to Brinewall to finalize the Kaijitsu move south to Magnimar, but when Lonjiku accidently exposes the Amatatsu Seal and alerts the Five Storms, things fall apart. Rokuro sends his son and family south, but the three ships are caught in a violent storm. Two are driven ashore in Brinestump Marsh, while the third bearing Lonjiku is lost in the Varisian Gulf for many weeks. Convinced her family has died, Anya commits suicide. Five Storms oni and ninjas attack and destroy Brinewall, but do not learn that Lonjiku survived the storm, or that his family now lives in Sandpoint. In the midst of her despair over the apparent loss of her husband, Atsuii seeks comfort in the arms of her previous lover from her time in Kintargo, an elven adventurer named Arinellus. He arrives in Sandpoint to comfort Atsuii only three days before a badly damaged ship limps into the harbor. Shocked and relieved to see her husband survived, Atsuii sends a frustrated Arinellus away and spends the next several weeks helping Lonjiku recover from his ordeal and to repair the damage done to the family’s holdings.
4688 All of Atsuii’s hard work at repairing her family after the tragedy nearly falls apart when she gives birth later in the year to a half-elf named Tsuto, the scandalous truth comes out. Enraged, Lonjiku disowns the half-elf and sends him to Turandarok Academy in Sandpoint to be raised as a bastard ward rather than give him the honor of being raised a true Kaijitsu.
4689 Ameiko Kaijitsu is born to Lonjiku and Atsuii. She is destined to be the only one of Lonjiku’s legitimate children, and thus the only Kaijitsu scion with a legitimate claim to the Jade Throne in Minkai.
4702 After a disastrous attempt to reconcile the bad blood between her half-brother and her father results in her brother striking her, Ameiko runs away from home shortly before the events of the “Late Unpleasantness” bring tragedy to Sandpoint. Atsuii Kaijitsu dies during these events of a mysterious fall from the sea cliff near her home.
4703 Word of her mother’s death causes Ameiko to return home, but she finds home as unpleasant as ever. Tsuto walks out on the family at the funeral, leaving Ameiko alone with her bitter father.
4705 Aged 16, Ameiko leaves home for the second time to take up life as an adventurer with several like-minded youths. Her adventuring career lasts just over a year.
4706 Rich from her adventuring success, Ameiko returns to Sandpoint to purchase an old tavern, “The Rusty Dragon,” and scandalizes her father by becoming a bartender and tavern keeper.
Ooo, another question: Was Atsuii's family from Kintargo? If so, will any of them show up in Hell's Rebels?
:::starts checking wallet and pockets for loose change in case the answer is yes::::
I don't know if this has been asked, but are there plans to advance the timeline of Golarion? Or sequels to the APs? Do they all kind of take place at the same time in different parts of the world?
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You've been gaming a while - do you think you could say how quickly/frequently you've observed gaming lingo change? I speak as someone who really doesn't like a lot of the present lingo because I think it has a real and deleterious effect on how people think of the game, and am looking forward to it changing.
The way people talk about gaming changes slowly, but there are periods where the changes seem to go quickly, and they generally coincide with big sea changes in the industry. Each time a new edition of D&D comes out, the language changes a bit; 3rd edition probably caused the most in my opinion. But it's bigger things, like the rise of World of Warcraft or other significant games that have the strongest effects, for good or for ill, on the way we talk about the game.
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What can a demigod do that quasi deity can't do?(this more of a flavor Question then a rules Question)
Look at the sample stats we've done for demigods; they're all CR 26 and higher. Quasi deities would have a hard time getting above CR 25.
What a demigod can do that a quasi-deity can't do isn't nailed down... but they're just better at it.
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I can't off the top of my head. I'll have to double check my notes at work tomorrow and see if I ever made that name up.OK, so I have a genealogical question.
(Note: I'm addicted to genealogies.)
Recently (kinda) you gave us the name of Tsuto's father. Given that I brought her into my Jade Regent game, can you tell us who Amaya's mother is? I don't have CoT, and I cannot find anything on the boards about her. Possibly, it's just that my search-fu is weak...
I doubt it - she's barely a footnote in Council of Thieves. (And given what's happening to her in my CoT campaign, Minkai had better hope that Ameiko survives Rise.)
I didn't know Tsuto's father had been revealed. Who is he?
Thank you! :)
And I called in sick today so I can't answer the question. I did some background work on the Kaijitsus, figuring out their recent family tree and all that, for Jade Regent and Brinewall, but not all of that information saw print, mostly because I was shifted away from developing that AP and those notes were one of the things that never made the transfer from me to Rob. If the notes still exist, they're on my work computer.
Oorrr... someone found the answer already.
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I don't know if this has been asked, but are there plans to advance the timeline of Golarion? Or sequels to the APs? Do they all kind of take place at the same time in different parts of the world?
Nope.
The adventure paths are pretty much assumed to be in "limbo" and haven't happened for any one incarnation of Golarion until you run them in your incarnation for your players. At that point the order in which you run them and the ones you choose to run or not are what set the advancing timeline for YOUR Golarion.
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I don't know if this has been asked, but are there plans to advance the timeline of Golarion? Or sequels to the APs? Do they all kind of take place at the same time in different parts of the world?Nope.
The adventure paths are pretty much assumed to be in "limbo" and haven't happened for any one incarnation of Golarion until you run them in your incarnation for your players. At that point the order in which you run them and the ones you choose to run or not are what set the advancing timeline for YOUR Golarion.
So what if I GM Jade Regent and then Rise of the Runelords for the same group? What would that do to a certain NPC that shows up in both?
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And I called in sick today so I can't answer the question. I did some background work on the Kaijitsus, figuring out their recent family tree and all that, for Jade Regent and Brinewall, but not all of that information saw print, mostly because I was shifted away from developing that AP and those notes were one of the things that never made the transfer from me to Rob. If the notes still exist, they're on my work computer.I didn't know Tsuto's father had been revealed. Who is he?
Thank you! :)
Wait... you didn't develop Jade Regent? I thought it was your baby...
1) How is AP development decided?
2) Do you still alternate with Rob?
3) I was under the impression Wes was behind Carrion Crown. Was that an exception, or did one of you still develop it?
4) What does it mean to "develop" an AP, anyway? Is it just about making the parts consistent and editing down long submissions, or is there more to it?
Anyway, I hope you feel better. <3
I don't know if this has been asked, but are there plans to advance the timeline of Golarion? Or sequels to the APs? Do they all kind of take place at the same time in different parts of the world?Nope.
The adventure paths are pretty much assumed to be in "limbo" and haven't happened for any one incarnation of Golarion until you run them in your incarnation for your players. At that point the order in which you run them and the ones you choose to run or not are what set the advancing timeline for YOUR Golarion.
I was going to follow up by asking if you're worried you'll run out of places for things to take place that you can keep creating APs and modules and other stories in, but given how huge Golarion is, I doubt that would happen for decades, so instead I wonder...
1) Does that mean we'll never see new material published in a region that has already been thoroughly affected by an AP or novel or the like? Say, the Shackles? Considering the very structure of that nation is affected by the PCs in Skull and Shackles, does it mean there can never be another adventure there? Or if so, how do you do that?
2) What about the novels? Will time forever be in limbo for them? Or is there going to be long term continuity amongst them, like in other major RPG worlds translated into novel form, such as Dragonlance Or Forgotten Realms?
3) How about PFS? (I haven't researched the next statement too thoroughly, so it may negate the entirety of the hinging question if I'm wrong, but...) From what I hear, they evolve the "state of the world" of PFS by the majority results of decisions made by PCs. Does none of that ever advance the canon Golarion?
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And I called in sick today so I can't answer the question. I did some background work on the Kaijitsus, figuring out their recent family tree and all that, for Jade Regent and Brinewall, but not all of that information saw print, mostly because I was shifted away from developing that AP and those notes were one of the things that never made the transfer from me to Rob. If the notes still exist, they're on my work computer.I didn't know Tsuto's father had been revealed. Who is he?
Thank you! :)
Wait... you didn't develop Jade Regent? I thought it was your baby...
1) How is AP development decided?
2) Do you still alternate with Rob?
3) I was under the impression Wes was behind Carrion Crown. Was that an exception, or did one of you still develop it?
4) What does it mean to "develop" an AP, anyway? Is it just about making the parts consistent and editing down long submissions, or is there more to it?
Anyway, I hope you feel better. <3
Yeah, it was my baby, and had I been able to launch it when I wanted, I would have been able to develop it. It was originally going to be the AP that became Legacy of Fire, then Kingmaker, and then maybe one other in there but it kept getting shifted around due to the fact that we needed ninja and samurai and other rules content. And the earliest we could get all that in was Ultimate Combat. I COULD have presented all that information in the form of backmatter articles for Pathfinder, but management wanted that info in a hardcover. Which was the right call. It just meant that the Jade Regent AP got delayed several times. To the point where I'd been promoted to Creative Director and Paizo finally realized that building and developing a 6 month adventure path takes a person 9 months, and thus one person can not do every AP. We went through a few years of experimenting on how to get it done, when the final answer is "Hire more folks or do fewer Adventure Paths."
Anyway.
1) By management, with input from myself, Wes, and Jessica.
2) Yes.
3) Wes wrote the outline for Carrion Crown, but Rob and I developed it (I developed the 1st adventure, Rob did the rest).
4) Developing an AP means coming up with the idea, writing the 20,000 word outline, creating or possibly even writing the Player's Guide, assigning all six parts of the adventure to the authors, working with the rest of the AP team to sort out the backmatter articles and monsters, checking up on the freelancers to ensure they are on schedule, and handling revisions to the work. Once the freelancer's turnover is done and you have it in-house... you go through and do a VERY in-depth edit and, in most cases, rewariting of the text to make it fit the world, the rules, and mesh with the other volumes. The developer is the one who has to make sure all the adventures link right, and is the first person to actually read every adventure through from start to finish. Sometimes, the rewriting of an adventure is significant. Sometimes, it's significant enough that the developer feels he/she should take a co-author credit. (Usually, the point at which we take co-author is beyond where we probably should, since it's stronger for the brand to have one adventure author even if well over 50% of the words are the developer's.) The developer also has to handle the map turnover, which VERY often means redrawing the maps, since a surprising number of game designers find it very difficult to create maps. Once the adventure is developed, the developer builds an art brief for the art team to create an art order—the developer essentially decides what in the adventure gets illustrated. Once that's done, the developer sends the art order and the map order alike up to the art team. At that point, the adventure is largely out of the developer's hands and he/she moves on to the next adventure, but has to come back to the previous one multiple times to approve art, approve maps, answer editor questions, write or delete text to help copy fit the final words on the page, and then give the final thing a look-over before it ships to give the last minute approval. I suspect I forgot a few steps, but that's the bulk of what a developer does.
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I don't know if this has been asked, but are there plans to advance the timeline of Golarion? Or sequels to the APs? Do they all kind of take place at the same time in different parts of the world?Nope.
The adventure paths are pretty much assumed to be in "limbo" and haven't happened for any one incarnation of Golarion until you run them in your incarnation for your players. At that point the order in which you run them and the ones you choose to run or not are what set the advancing timeline for YOUR Golarion.
I was going to follow up by asking if you're worried you'll run out of places for things to take place that you can keep creating APs and modules and other stories in, but given how huge Golarion is, I doubt that would happen for decades, so instead I wonder...
1) Does that mean we'll never see new material published in a region that has already been thoroughly affected by an AP or novel or the like? Say, the Shackles? Considering the very structure of that nation is affected by the PCs in Skull and Shackles, does it mean there can never be another adventure there? Or if so, how do you do that?
2) What about the novels? Will time forever be in limbo for them? Or is there going to be long term continuity amongst them, like in other major RPG worlds translated into novel form, such as Dragonlance Or Forgotten Realms?
3) How about PFS? (I haven't researched the next statement too thoroughly, so it may negate the entirety of the hinging question if I'm wrong, but...) From what I hear, they evolve the "state of the world" of PFS by the majority results of decisions made by PCs. Does none of that ever advance the canon Golarion?
I'm not worried at all about running out of places for adventures. Not at all. For example, we've set 5 of them wholly or partially in Varisia, and there's STILL a lot of stories I want to tell there... and that's just 1 region of about 45 regions.
1) Unlikely, but we've done a few "sequel" prodcuts before. Like Shattered Star. Or the Xin-Shalast entry in Lost Cities. We may do so again, but we generally prefer to focus on new topics.
2) The novels have their own continuity, and we do our best to not cross their paths with one another, so that we don't make our authors read every prior novel in order to know what they can or can't do. The exception would be stories that DO build on the previous one, like Dave Gross' stories about Radovan and Jeggare.
3) PFS has its own, separate canon. It's essentially a long-running campaign, and it sets its own advancement of the calendar. It's a lot more complicated than the two above, but no, the actual events in the PFS campaign do not, generally, get hard-coded into the world. Because we don't have a place TO hard code those events. And frankly, hard coding them in to the setting is kinda lame. It'd be like saying someone's home campaign gets to decide how YOUR game plays out. No thanks. I'd much rather preserve a status quo and a static timeline that doesn't advance,so that any one campaign, be it a home game or a giant public one like PFS, gets to make the right decisions for it and not have to be forced to accept some other story.
I suspect I forgot a few steps, but that's the bulk of what a developer does.
And your personal projects have to comes outside that. Wow. How many hours a month do you think you get to spend on non-Paizo work? (Freelance or personal projects?) I'm guessing it can't actually be all that much.
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I suspect I forgot a few steps, but that's the bulk of what a developer does.And your personal projects have to comes outside that. Wow. How many hours a month do you think you get to spend on non-Paizo work? (Freelance or personal projects?) I'm guessing it can't actually be all that much.
Pretty much zero. Not only because Paizo keeps me busy, but because once I'm done working, my game design energy is usually used up.
Sorry it's not a question, but I totally understand that. The last thing I want to do when I get home is more of what I did at work.
So you need to recharge! (Here's my question!) We have talked about places you'd like to see - any plans to get away from things for a day or three and go see something inspiring? I'm a fan of National Parks, as you might recall.
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Do you think you could help me get a specific piece of art?
I really like the image of Arueshalae from Demon's Heresy (pg. 59). I don't like the Face Card image at all, and the cover art from The Midnight Isles isn't my favorite (sorry, Mr. Reynolds!) I want to provide that image to my players as the "face" of Arueshalae.
Is there a possibility that you could link or provide a high-quality version of the image in question? I assume Paizo has that sort of thing on file somewhere. I'd really appreciate it.
Thank you! :)
Hi james i hope you had a great day...i was wondering where can you buy the software you used to do the maps on your blog..your world map looks great..and speaking of your blog...update please
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Also, if you don't mind ID'ing people, who is who in this image?
Thank you! :)
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You've been gaming a while - do you think you could say how quickly/frequently you've observed gaming lingo change? I speak as someone who really doesn't like a lot of the present lingo because I think it has a real and deleterious effect on how people think of the game, and am looking forward to it changing.The way people talk about gaming changes slowly, but there are periods where the changes seem to go quickly, and they generally coincide with big sea changes in the industry. Each time a new edition of D&D comes out, the language changes a bit; 3rd edition probably caused the most in my opinion. But it's bigger things, like the rise of World of Warcraft or other significant games that have the strongest effects, for good or for ill, on the way we talk about the game.
Sounds about right. Can you think of/recommend a few antidotes for someone who wants to do more to scrub unwanted language patterns out of their own mind?
Have you tried out the Scholar of the First Sin version of Dark Souls II ?
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So you need to recharge! (Here's my question!) We have talked about places you'd like to see - any plans to get away from things for a day or three and go see something inspiring? I'm a fan of National Parks, as you might recall.
Turns out, going on a long vacation when I'm really busy at work only means I come back to more work than when I left. Not a great way to recharge. I'm trying to do tiny little Micro-Recharging instead, taking a day here and there, and also ramping back on my extra writing for Paizo to boot.
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I ask this only for clarification. If my aasimar character takes the celestial servant feat which gives her animal companion the celestial template and thus makes it a magical beast, does the animal companion's attacks thus become magical for purposes of bypassing DR?
No.
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Do you think you could help me get a specific piece of art?
I really like the image of Arueshalae from Demon's Heresy (pg. 59). I don't like the Face Card image at all, and the cover art from The Midnight Isles isn't my favorite (sorry, Mr. Reynolds!) I want to provide that image to my players as the "face" of Arueshalae.
Is there a possibility that you could link or provide a high-quality version of the image in question? I assume Paizo has that sort of thing on file somewhere. I'd really appreciate it.
Thank you! :)
I can't. Not only are those originals really large files, but it's our policy to not give out art we pay for at full resolution. I suppose the best you could do would be to extract the art from your copy of the PDF of that adventure?
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Hi james i hope you had a great day...i was wondering where can you buy the software you used to do the maps on your blog..your world map looks great..and speaking of your blog...update please
The first map was done entirely by hand, with pencil, pen, and markers.
The second map was done via Campaign Cartographer, which you can get here.
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Also, if you don't mind ID'ing people, who is who in this image?
Thank you! :)
Starting at the 3:00 position, the guy in the fancy shirt is Erik Mona. Going clockwise, the guy at the left is Jason Bulmahn, then the one with his back to the bookshelves is me, and then the guy in the background is Rob McCreary.
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Sounds about right. Can you think of/recommend a few antidotes for someone who wants to do more to scrub unwanted language patterns out of their own mind?You've been gaming a while - do you think you could say how quickly/frequently you've observed gaming lingo change? I speak as someone who really doesn't like a lot of the present lingo because I think it has a real and deleterious effect on how people think of the game, and am looking forward to it changing.The way people talk about gaming changes slowly, but there are periods where the changes seem to go quickly, and they generally coincide with big sea changes in the industry. Each time a new edition of D&D comes out, the language changes a bit; 3rd edition probably caused the most in my opinion. But it's bigger things, like the rise of World of Warcraft or other significant games that have the strongest effects, for good or for ill, on the way we talk about the game.
Don't try to scrub everything. Pick a few, and just don't use them, and when they come up in topic, make a POINT of not using them so that others might get used to the idea of calling it flavor text instead of something else, or a fighter/wizard (or magus) instead of something it's not, or to only use the word decimate when they actually mean "To reduce by 10 percent."
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And Desna in Avatar:The Legend of Korra is male. He and his fraternal twin sister however, are hard to tell apart unless they speak.Nope; their names are their names. Desna is still called Desna in Tian-Xia, in other words. They're also not seen as different genders, generally speaking, unless the deity is gender fluid. They ARE depicted as different races/ethnicities now and then though.Do any/many Golarion deities have alternate names? As in, not titles like "the Radiant One", but different actual personal names? Like FR's Chauntea is known in some regions as Bhalla, for example. Or do Golarion deities have only a single name that they are known under, regardless of Varisia, Minkai, Vudra or Mwangi?
How about being seen as different genders? Other than the obvious ones like Gozreh who have a prevalent duality. Is Iomedae worshipped as a male in some other lands? Is there a male god of death and rebirth worshipped in some land?
And Desna in Avatar was named LONG AFTER I named my own Desna back in 1988 or thereabouts.
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What would you say has been the greatest conflict in the Inner Sea region prior to the Worldwound opening?Just prior? Probably the Goblinblood War, I suppose.
Ah, cool!
What monster in the Bestiaries scares you the most? Like, what monster, whether mythological or Paizo-created, gives you nightmares?
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...wrote a list of names...
Believe it or not, I actually did come up with that five-letter combination of names on my own. I'm not claiming something outlandish like it was stolen from me, but it wasn't consciously a name I took from elsewhere. Certainly, none of the names Wikipedia cites evoke imagery of an elven woman who came down from the stars with power over dreams and who might just be some sort of alien giant space moth.