Are there any titan demigods who can grant spells?
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25 point build
Str 13 (+1 leveling, +6 belt, +4 wish)
dex 14 (+6 belt, +4 wish)
con 12 (+6 transmuter, +4 wish, +6 stones)
int 16 (+2 race, +3 age, +6 stones, +5 wish, +4 from leveling)
wis 8 (+3 age, +4 wish)
cha 15 (+3 age, +4 wish)
It's possible that the +1 from leveling not on his INT could have been dex or cha, in which case the base goes down by 1 and the point cost is the same.
I have a few questions about the Apostasy Wraiths, possible spoiler though so I'll put it in spoiler tags.
Also, I have two question about the androids. It says they don't really remember the forge usually, so do they wake up outside the area with no memory of how they got there? Then second, does Pharasma care about them, that is do they have souls for her to judge?
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Are the Knights of Iomedae referenced in Thornkeep (page 27) an actual specific knighthood? Or is it just a reference to the Mendevian crusaders in general? I'm guessing it's a specific knighthood because of the capital K and because it would've made more sense (at least to me) to simply refer to the crusaders as Mendevian crusaders.
If it is a specific knighthood, will we see more information about it in the future, either in Wrath of the Righteous, any material supplementing the adventure path, or Emerald Spire?
1. Have you seen the Korean Horror Movie "White"? It's been one of the better random netflix horror movie selections I have watched lately. If you did what did you think?
2. Did the Korean Horror movie "Antarctic Journal" influence the Golarion Antarctica at all? reading the oceans gazeteer I thought I detected some influence
3. What are your five favorite horror authors? I would guess H.P. Lovecraft is one. For the other authors, can you recommend any good short fiction anthologies? I've read lots of H.P. Lovecraft, but looking to expand my reading.
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Have you played Crimson Shroud?
It's a 3ds game where your characters are minis, the scenery is like really good Dwarven Forge stuff and you have to roll lots of diferent dice. All the time.
There is reach, SR, concealment... my guess is that you'd love it!
Oracle of Life references Positive Energy Elementals.
Any plans to further expound on these (or Negative Energy Elementals) anywhere/anytime soon?
Would there be Aasimar/Tiefling equivalents of these races then?
I've been imagining how to stat them up, Positive Energy/Light association (Sun, etc) making me think of giving them a Bright Light Aura/SLA that would use a new Supernatural Bright Light category, akin to Supernatural Darkness, which would Dazzle normal Vision folk, Low-Light/Darkvision folk would also treat it as Dim Lighting (Miss Chance/Perception penalty), and Light-Sensitive Darkvision folk would treat it as Darkness (i.e. Full Concealment/Blind). Thoughts?
Have Jyoti/Sceaduinar had any interactions with Golarion? What is the 'creating' attributed to Jyoti?
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In Raiders of the Fever Sea, Wesley Schneider writes that "Mr. NcCreary...made a boat...a full miniatures-scale ship--and it looks fantastic!" He also made mention that this ship smuggled its way onto your top shelf (unless it was some other "James" to which he was referring).
Can we see a picture of it please? :D
I believe there's been a few pictures of it floating around on the internets, mostly associated with various facebook accounts...
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(because I'm a math nerd, I'll include this for posterity)
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I'm over 800 miles away from my Runelords notes at the moment... are you looking at the stats for Karzoug from the original book or the new hardcover?
His +2 for being Azlanti should be in there, but that bonus didn't exist when we first did the Adventure Path, so if you're looking at Pathfinder #6... they aren't there.
I also think I remember giving him his +3 bonuses for age to his mental stats... but again... I don't have my notes handy so I can't confirm.
1. Given Karzoug's dangerous neighbors -- three of them mythic, two of them the most powerful of all time, and the other one actively trying to kill him -- why wouldn't he have any clones?
2. Did Xin-Eurythnia's pillar wall encircle the Grand Mastaba? It looks that way judging by how it's positioned.
3. How would Sorshen deal with Janderhoff? I'm pretty sure a lawful good settlement won't agree with her plans, however covert they may be. Would she try to turn it into Orzammar?
5. What do you find attractive about elves?
6. What's your opinion on AD&D's The Complete Book of Elves?
7. Are all elves European-looking or are there any African*-looking ones as well?
*Putting aside that African allows for a wide variation of phenotypes.
8. What did you like most about Forgotten Realms? What did you like the least?
9. Same question but for Planescape.
10. Same question but for Dark Sun.
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I have a few questions about the Apostasy Wraiths, possible spoiler though so I'll put it in spoiler tags.
** spoiler omitted **
Also, I have two question about the androids. It says they don't really remember the forge usually, so do they wake up outside the area with no memory of how they got there? Then second, does Pharasma care about them, that is do they have souls for her to judge?
For the apostasy wraiths... I didn't design them nor did I develop them, and I haven't read their entry in detail... but the idea is...
Now, as for androids... I DID design them, so I can answer the second part of the question better. That said... those answers are going to be vague for now... An android doesn't "wake up," but neither does it remember its creation. In the same way humans don't clearly remember their birth or the first few years of their lives, neither do androids remember the start of theirs. Why? Mostly because I didn't have room in the android description in the book to go into detail about how they work and where they come from and all that... and by making it mysterious, I got to not only dodge that answer until I have a larger area to talk about androids, but also make them more mysterious and thus more interesting!
Pharasma doesn't really "care" about any living creature more or less than any other... but yes, androids do have souls, and when they die they do get judged. And what happens to them at that point... or how it is they have souls... more mysterious mysteries waiting for the right time to be answered.
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What is the mighty T-Rex's favorite type of fish to eat? To actually fish for? Have you ever gotten to use a harpoon?
Ling cod is my favorite fish, with king salmon a close second. Fishing for both is delightful (if at times grueling and deadly boring and just plain deadly) but requires the open ocean. River fishing I generally fish for trout... although I haven't been fishing in a long, long, long time.
I've never used a harpoon.
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Are the Knights of Iomedae referenced in Thornkeep (page 27) an actual specific knighthood? Or is it just a reference to the Mendevian crusaders in general? I'm guessing it's a specific knighthood because of the capital K and because it would've made more sense (at least to me) to simply refer to the crusaders as Mendevian crusaders.
If it is a specific knighthood, will we see more information about it in the future, either in Wrath of the Righteous, any material supplementing the adventure path, or Emerald Spire?
Those knights are part of the order of knights involved with the Pathfinder Online game... more information about them will be along eventually. There's not going to be anything about them in Wrath of the Righteous, since that's an entirely different region. We MIGHT talk more about them in Emerald Spire, but that book's contents have yet to be settled on. They'll certainly be talked about more in the context of Pathfinder Online as Goblinworks gets more done on them for the game.
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1. Have you seen the Korean Horror Movie "White"? It's been one of the better random netflix horror movie selections I have watched lately. If you did what did you think?
2. Did the Korean Horror movie "Antarctic Journal" influence the Golarion Antarctica at all? reading the oceans gazeteer I thought I detected some influence
3. What are your five favorite horror authors? I would guess H.P. Lovecraft is one. For the other authors, can you recommend any good short fiction anthologies? I've read lots of H.P. Lovecraft, but looking to expand my reading.
1) I have not seen it. Just put it on my Netflix queue. Thanks for the heads up!
2) It didn't influence it at all. I just saw that movie for the first time last year. That said, the influences on that movie are pretty obviously the same ones that have long intrigued me about the region—the Shackleton expedition, "At the Mountains of Madness," "The Thing," and so on.
3) My top five favorite horror authors would be: Lovecraft, Ramsey Campbell, Stephen King, T.E.D. Klein, and Clark Ashton Smith. Next in line after them are F. Paul Wilson, Clive Barker, Robert E. Howard, Thomas Ligotti, and Robert Bloch. I could go on...
As for good anthologies of short fiction... My recommendations would be:
Ramsey Campbell: Alone With the Horrors
Stephen King: Skeleton Crew
T.E.D. Klein: Dark Gods
Clark Ashton Smith: A Rendezvous in Averoigne
F. Paul Wilson: The Barrens and Others
Clive Barker: The Books of Blood
Robert E. Howard: The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard
Thomas Ligotti: The Nightmare Factory
Robert Bloch: This is a tougher one... but any collection of his that includes "Notebook Found in a Deserted House" should do. That short story is pretty much the first Lovecraftian story I ever read, and it's pretty much as responsible for anything else for my love of Lovecraft.
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Have you played Crimson Shroud?
It's a 3ds game where your characters are minis, the scenery is like really good Dwarven Forge stuff and you have to roll lots of diferent dice. All the time.
There is reach, SR, concealment... my guess is that you'd love it!
Haven't played it. I pretty much missed out on the entire 3DS experience.
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What is the ratfolk presence, if any, in the river kingdoms?Related somewhat. What weapons are they weilding on page 28 of guide to the river kingdoms? (The mivon pic). Looks like a lance bastard sword hybrid.
That's a weird weapon that the artist came up with, I think, that we never really did much with... I seem to recall some other element about why those weapons look like they do, but I can't remember off the top of my head.
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Oracle of Life references Positive Energy Elementals.
Any plans to further expound on these (or Negative Energy Elementals) anywhere/anytime soon?
Would there be Aasimar/Tiefling equivalents of these races then?
I've been imagining how to stat them up, Positive Energy/Light association (Sun, etc) making me think of giving them a Bright Light Aura/SLA that would use a new Supernatural Bright Light category, akin to Supernatural Darkness, which would Dazzle normal Vision folk, Low-Light/Darkvision folk would also treat it as Dim Lighting (Miss Chance/Perception penalty), and Light-Sensitive Darkvision folk would treat it as Darkness (i.e. Full Concealment/Blind). Thoughts?Have Jyoti/Sceaduinar had any interactions with Golarion? What is the 'creating' attributed to Jyoti?
We haven't done an awful lot with the Jyoti, the Sceaduinar, or the references to "positive energy elementals" yet. I seem to remember there may be some similar creatures to them in the Tome of Horrors though.
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1. Given Karzoug's dangerous neighbors -- three of them mythic, two of them the most powerful of all time, and the other one actively trying to kill him -- why wouldn't he have any clones?
2. Did Xin-Eurythnia's pillar wall encircle the Grand Mastaba? It looks that way judging by how it's positioned.
3. How would Sorshen deal with Janderhoff? I'm pretty sure a lawful good settlement won't agree with her plans, however covert they may be. Would she try to turn it into Orzammar?
** spoiler omitted **
5. What do you find attractive about elves?
6. What's your opinion on AD&D's The Complete Book of Elves?
7. Are all elves European-looking or are there any African*-looking ones as well?
*Putting aside that African allows for a wide variation of phenotypes.
8. What did you like most about Forgotten Realms? What did you like the least?
9. Same question but for Planescape.
10. Same question but for Dark Sun.
1) Because he had other options to stay alive, and they had better things to do than waste all their time trying to kill him. The bulk of Karzoug's conflicts with other runelords was with Alaznist, who wasn't all that more powerful than he was, and he was certainly richer and had a bigger army than her, so those two were pretty evenly matched.
2) Dunno yet.
3) They'd either become her enslaved/dominated/charmed forge factory, or they'd be going to war.
4) What those folks would do would be decided entirely by the story you wanted to tell about them. I could see all sorts of possibilities there.
5) They're sexy! And have those cool pointed ears!
6) I enjoyed that book at the time. Haven't looked at it lately for years and years.
7) Depends on what world you're talking about.
8) I liked all the deities, in particular Eilistraee. I liked the overabundance of good guy NPCs the least.
9) I liked the fact that it FINALLY got some demon stuff back into the game after several years of cowardice. I didn't like the use of the cant.
10) I liked that it was so different from any other setting and that it had such a strong focus on Psionics. I didn't like that some of the "dragons" didn't look like dragons at all.
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(because I'm a math nerd, I'll include this for posterity)
** spoiler omitted **I'm over 800 miles away from my Runelords notes at the moment... are you looking at the stats for Karzoug from the original book or the new hardcover?
His +2 for being Azlanti should be in there, but that bonus didn't exist when we first did the Adventure Path, so if you're looking at Pathfinder #6... they aren't there.
I also think I remember giving him his +3 bonuses for age to his mental stats... but again... I don't have my notes handy so I can't confirm.
I am using the Hardcover. The text does specifically state that he got hit +oldman stats but not his -oldman stats (cause he is kept young). I guess the real reason I'm asking is, assuming I'm right (and I think I am or he'd have to have started with a 6 wisdom otherwise), would giving +2 to everything except INT make him unbalanced for his CR? He would get 20 more hit points, and +1 to AC, Fort, Refl, Will, and +2 to his CMD. What's more important? Keeping him mathematically accurate and increasing his CR(if it merits that at all) or keeping his stats appropriate for his CR, and let the math bugger off?
James, how do you go about creating maps for Golarion/your games? Do you go into minute detail or go with more basic maps? Do you hand draw your maps? Basically, would you main detailing your process for creating a map such as the one for Sandpoint or Varisia?
1. Have you seen the Korean Horror Movie "White"? It's been one of the better random netflix horror movie selections I have watched lately. If you did what did you think?
2. Did the Korean Horror movie "Antarctic Journal" influence the Golarion Antarctica at all? reading the oceans gazeteer I thought I detected some influence
3. What are your five favorite horror authors? I would guess H.P. Lovecraft is one. For the other authors, can you recommend any good short fiction anthologies? I've read lots of H.P. Lovecraft, but looking to expand my reading.
1) I have not seen it. Just put it on my Netflix queue. Thanks for the heads up!
2) It didn't influence it at all. I just saw that movie for the first time last year. That said, the influences on that movie are pretty obviously the same ones that have long intrigued me about the region—the Shackleton expedition, "At the Mountains of Madness," "The Thing," and so on.
3) My top five favorite horror authors would be: Lovecraft, Ramsey Campbell, Stephen King, T.E.D. Klein, and Clark Ashton Smith. Next in line after them are F. Paul Wilson, Clive Barker, Robert E. Howard, Thomas Ligotti, and Robert Bloch. I could go on...
As for good anthologies of short fiction... My recommendations would be:
Ramsey Campbell: Alone With the Horrors
Stephen King: Skeleton Crew
T.E.D. Klein: Dark Gods
Clark Ashton Smith: A Rendezvous in AveroigneF. Paul Wilson: The Barrens and Others
Clive Barker: The Books of Blood
Robert E. Howard: The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard
Thomas Ligotti: The Nightmare Factory
Robert Bloch: This is a tougher one... but any collection of his that includes "Notebook Found in a Deserted House" should do. That short story is pretty much the first Lovecraftian story I ever read, and it's pretty much as responsible for anything else for my love of Lovecraft.
Thanks a bunch!
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How much time have you spent voting for the RPG Superstar contest so far?
Zero seconds. I generally avoid the whole contest until the end, when I traditionally serve as a guest judge for the last round, because I don't really have time to get involved in the context, and because I want to enter that last round fresh without preconceptions about the finalists.
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I am using the Hardcover. The text does specifically state that he got hit +oldman stats but not his -oldman stats (cause he is kept young). I guess the real reason I'm asking is, assuming I'm right (and I think I am or he'd have to have started with a 6 wisdom otherwise), would giving +2 to everything except INT make him unbalanced for his CR? He would get 20 more hit points, and +1 to AC, Fort, Refl, Will, and +2 to his CMD. What's more important? Keeping him mathematically accurate and increasing his CR(if it merits that at all) or keeping his stats appropriate for his CR, and let the math bugger off?
At the point you have a 20th level character, adding or missing a global +2 to stats isn't going to make much of a difference. And NO player will notice if a stat block is mathematically accurate or not. So the choice is up to you.
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James, how do you go about creating maps for Golarion/your games? Do you go into minute detail or go with more basic maps? Do you hand draw your maps? Basically, would you main detailing your process for creating a map such as the one for Sandpoint or Varisia?
If the map is going to be part of a published product or otherwise go beyond my home game, I draw them out by hand. Usually on a sheet of 11 x 17 inch graph paper. I start by drawing the map in pencil, then once I like it, I ink it with pens of various pen width; fat tips like Sharpies for walls, thin tips for details and doors and stuff. Sometimes I'll scan in the map and add some color notes and fill up areas with water or rock with photoshop's aid; other times I just use markers or colored pencils to add color as needed.
If you have the Beginner Box, you can see an example of the type of map I might turn over to a cartographer as the sample dungeon.
If the map's for a game I'm running but don't plan on publishing, then I often use maps I take out of adventures, or just make the maps up as I go if I'm not running an actual adventure.
What are your thoughts on the modrons?
Was thinking of this idea of a PFS Scenario where an Alchemist goes mad and joins the circus. You have to capture him alive.
Is that something you'd think would be a good scenario?
What is the mighty T-Rex's favorite type of fish to eat? To actually fish for? Have you ever gotten to use a harpoon?Ling cod is my favorite fish, with king salmon a close second. Fishing for both is delightful (if at times grueling and deadly boring and just plain deadly) but requires the open ocean. River fishing I generally fish for trout... although I haven't been fishing in a long, long, long time.
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Go to Mexico or Hawaii and fish for Mahi-mahi. A real rush catching one, then if you eat it within a hour, it is ambrosia.
Germaine to my previous question: are the classic/public domain pantheon of Greek titans (Cronus, Rhea, Oceanus, etc.) known in Golarion, or do they have their own set of titan demigods?
Also, who came up with the setting fluff for the demondands in Bestiary 3, tying them to the titans?
And are we likely to see stats for any more gigas (like the Abyss gigas, etc.) in the foreseeable future?
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Go to Mexico or Hawaii and fish for Mahi-mahi. A real rush catching one, then if you eat it within a hour, it is ambrosia.What is the mighty T-Rex's favorite type of fish to eat? To actually fish for? Have you ever gotten to use a harpoon?Ling cod is my favorite fish, with king salmon a close second. Fishing for both is delightful (if at times grueling and deadly boring and just plain deadly) but requires the open ocean. River fishing I generally fish for trout... although I haven't been fishing in a long, long, long time.
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Or come to Alaska and try some fishing in the Kenai River. Basically the best place to fish for King Salmon in the world.
How come the Iconics in the NPC Codex don't have any archetypes? I've always figured Seoni would make a perfect Tattooed Sorceress, especially when the art in the book even uses her and shows her skink kinda fading into (or out of) her skin.
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Androids:
- how noticeable is the "faint metallic sheen to their eyes"?
- some people assume they will not eat or sleep, but I don't see anything saying that in the Android race description, what is the canon interpretation in Golarion?
- they can reproduce with humans or with other androids without the use of magic?
Edit: wait for James 1 word reply with some trepidation. :-)
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Germaine to my previous question: are the classic/public domain pantheon of Greek titans (Cronus, Rhea, Oceanus, etc.) known in Golarion, or do they have their own set of titan demigods?
Also, who came up with the setting fluff for the demondands in Bestiary 3, tying them to the titans?
And are we likely to see stats for any more gigas (like the Abyss gigas, etc.) in the foreseeable future?
Unknown; our Greece analog (Iblydos) isn't really detailed yet, and I'm not sure how much we'll be embracing real world mythology there. We didn't do much for Osirion from Egypt, but we did a little here and there, for example.
I forget who wrote the demodand history, but I know that Wes and I came up with the idea and I did a pretty heavy development pass on the text.
Yes.