>>Ask *James Jacobs* ALL your Questions Here!<<


Off-Topic Discussions

16,701 to 16,750 of 83,732 << first < prev | 330 | 331 | 332 | 333 | 334 | 335 | 336 | 337 | 338 | 339 | 340 | next > last >>
Grand Lodge

Pathfinder PF Special Edition, Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber
James Jacobs wrote:
Jiggy wrote:

James ("Mr. Jacobs"?),

I fear that a flamewar will soon be erupting in another section of the boards unless you can answer this question (long story).

As I alluded to in a previous post, what happens if I cast beguiling gift on a druid, he (somehow) fails his Will save, and I hand him a steel shield? Does he equip it and lose his magic for a day? Does he equip it but can still choose not to "use" it and therefore not lose his powers? Does something else happen?

For the sake of some posters whom I won't name, I hope you have an answer.

Help me T-rex wan Kenobi, you're their only hope...

Beguiling gift is a compulsion. As such, it does not have the capacity to "overwrite" a person's beliefs. Just as using charm person or dominate person to make them do something against their will (such as making a druid equip a steel shield, or in a more extreme situation making a paladin kill an innocent child) doesn't adversely affect their alignment or class abilities, neither should beguiling gift.

The victim of such a sneaky and underhanded attempt would still likely feel violated and creeped out and scandalized by the whole thing. Once they regain control of their actions, they should immediately (or as quickly as possible) get rid of the offending item. If they choose of their own free will to keep using the item, ONLY THEN would there be actual ramifications on the character's class abilities.

Whether or not this answer has any effect on muting the imminent flame war I can't say. I hope it does. My cynical side thinks it'll just fan the flames.

Yes it will, I can think of one poster who would probably say that you've murdered his great character concept. He's already made a post of bitterness on how he's had to retire the spell.

Grand Lodge

Pathfinder PF Special Edition, Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber
Evil Midnight Lurker wrote:
Biichama wrote:
Everyone is having a lot of fun, even though sometimes I suspect the players are trying to break the AP.

Just as it is a prisoner's first duty to escape, it is an AP player's first duty to break the path. :)

(We're hoping that the enraged sheep spirits won't be associated with us. We're probably wrong.)

So you're saying that any campaign that you join, your prime mission is to sabotage it? If you know that your GM and your friends signed themselves up to do a Jade Regent campaign that just because you're the inherent contrarian, that whatever campaign you join your prime mision is to run it off the rails? Did you ever consider just how selfish such an attitude is?

Such a player plays in my home campaigns exactly once. I've seen players who do nothing but run away from plot. They're not doing the people they've come to play with any favors by adding thier physical presence to the group.


LazarX wrote:
Evil Midnight Lurker wrote:
Biichama wrote:
Everyone is having a lot of fun, even though sometimes I suspect the players are trying to break the AP.

Just as it is a prisoner's first duty to escape, it is an AP player's first duty to break the path. :)

(We're hoping that the enraged sheep spirits won't be associated with us. We're probably wrong.)

So you're saying that any campaign that you join, your prime mission is to sabotage it? If you know that your GM and your friends signed themselves up to do a Jade Regent campaign that just because you're the inherent contrarian, that whatever campaign you join your prime mision is to run it off the rails? Did you ever consider just how selfish such an attitude is?

Such a player plays in my home campaigns exactly once. I've seen players who do nothing but run away from plot. They're not doing the people they've come to play with any favors by adding thier physical presence to the group.

I'm joking.

Dark Archive

Kelsey MacAilbert wrote:

Yea, I guessed that you would like it.

Do you think I should purchase any Midnight supplements? Which ones?

IANJ, but I run a 6000 post Midnight pbp here on Paizo. You should certainly buy Midnight 2nd Edition, Sorcery and Shadow and Hand of Shadow. After that, it depends on your game. I have all Midnight stuff.

Dark Archive

so who was the first to make Asmodeus into a god? paizo or wizards?

Paizo Employee Creative Director

Kelsey MacAilbert wrote:

Yea, I guessed that you would like it.

Do you think I should purchase any Midnight supplements? Which ones?

If you don't have any yet, I'd just look at buying the core setting book and deciding from there if you want more; same goes for ANY setting, really.

Except Golarion. Folks should just buy every Golarion book. :)

Paizo Employee Creative Director

Tanner Nielsen wrote:

*Lights incense, rings the gong, and bows in obeisance*

O, great and dreadful James Jacobs! Mighty are his works upon the land!...

A monk with the Tetori archetype loses Flurry of Blows for the Graceful Grappler ability. He still has the Ki Pool ability, which states,

"By spending 1 point from his ki pool, a monk can make one additional attack at his highest attack bonus when making a flurry of blows attack."

Does a Tetori monk get something else when he spends a ki point, or do they just luck out and lose access to this option with the archetype?

This one awaits your munificent answer.

Good question. Dunno. Sounds like a FAQ candidate though.


Pathfinder Lost Omens, Rulebook Subscriber

Do gods have afterlives? If, say, Cayden Cailean were to die, would go on to the boneyard? Or does becoming a god make that impossible?

Paizo Employee Creative Director

Biichama wrote:

Hi! I'm running Jade Regent for our gaming group and the PCs just did the whole rigamarole with Snorri Stone-eye's funeral barge. Anyway, the shark-eating crab snapped the wizard (Andrezi) in half and the PCs decided that since the oni already probably knew where they were--due to all the notoriety-gaining stuff they'd done, like towing a boat into town and dressing up like sheep to attack Asvig's farm--they might as well use the seal to resurrect him. Which they did on the other side of Kalsgard from where the caravan, ran the f*!& away to the other side and then shoved their potion of restoration down his throat.

Anyhow, what I was wondering is how many notoriety points do they gain through opening up the warding box? DO they get any? (We are breaking now for them to level and they'll hit the Temple of Shelyn next session, so you have some time to answer.)

Anyway, thank you so much for bringing us Jade Regent! Everyone is having a lot of fun, even though sometimes I suspect the players are trying to break the AP.

They actually don't gain ANY points for doing that; the oni who have access to the ability to notice the box opening are not the ones in Kalsgard.

And thanks for playing the campaign!

Paizo Employee Creative Director

ulgulanoth wrote:
so who was the first to make Asmodeus into a god? paizo or wizards?

Actually, neither. TSR was the first. Decades ago.

Paizo Employee Creative Director

1 person marked this as a favorite.
Squeakmaan wrote:
Do gods have afterlives? If, say, Cayden Cailean were to die, would go on to the boneyard? Or does becoming a god make that impossible?

When a deity dies, they go to the boneyard to get judged by Pharasma.

That means Pharasma judged Aroden, for example, and that she has a pretty good idea (or knows outright) how he died.

It also means that the last thing Pharasma will judge before existance winds down into nothing is herself.

Sovereign Court Contributor

James Jacobs wrote:
Squeakmaan wrote:
Do gods have afterlives? If, say, Cayden Cailean were to die, would go on to the boneyard? Or does becoming a god make that impossible?

When a deity dies, they go to the boneyard to get judged by Pharasma.

That means Pharasma judged Aroden, for example, and that she has a pretty good idea (or knows outright) how he died.

It also means that the last thing Pharasma will judge before existance winds down into nothing is herself.

Of course, as the goddess of Death, she probably knows exactly how she will die. Though it is also stated (by you, actually, here) that Groetus will survive and become active after the last soul is judged. Is that last soul Pharasma herself? Do gods have souls?

I'm getting the feeling that Groetus is a conceptual god - rather than a independent actor. He exists because something takes over after Pharasma. Of course, from a cyclical perspective, perhaps he is simply the creator of the next universe, the Kalki, as it were - both the destroyer and the savior (he is CN, and chaos is both of these things).

That's an interesting thought. Is there any evidence that Golarion's universe is cyclical?

Dark Archive

James Jacobs wrote:
ulgulanoth wrote:
so who was the first to make Asmodeus into a god? paizo or wizards?
Actually, neither. TSR was the first. Decades ago.

So why was Asmodeus turned into a normal devil in 3.5?

Sovereign Court Contributor

ulgulanoth wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
ulgulanoth wrote:
so who was the first to make Asmodeus into a god? paizo or wizards?
Actually, neither. TSR was the first. Decades ago.
So why was Asmodeus turned into a normal devil in 3.5?

Technically, Asmodeus - Aeshma Daeva "god of wrath" - was a Deva, an evil (demi)god in Zoroasterianism before he was imported into Jewish myth as Asmodai during the Babylonian Captivity.

However, the god status of Asmodeus seems to be ambiguous in most of the TSR material I've read. Perhaps because the distinction between gods and other major outsiders wasn't mechanically important.

Paizo Employee Creative Director

ulgulanoth wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
ulgulanoth wrote:
so who was the first to make Asmodeus into a god? paizo or wizards?
Actually, neither. TSR was the first. Decades ago.
So why was Asmodeus turned into a normal devil in 3.5?

You'd have to talk to the writers and designers of those products. But it basically boils down to the fact that different editions and different books have different writers and different goals.

Paizo Employee Creative Director

Jeff Erwin wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
Squeakmaan wrote:
Do gods have afterlives? If, say, Cayden Cailean were to die, would go on to the boneyard? Or does becoming a god make that impossible?

When a deity dies, they go to the boneyard to get judged by Pharasma.

That means Pharasma judged Aroden, for example, and that she has a pretty good idea (or knows outright) how he died.

It also means that the last thing Pharasma will judge before existance winds down into nothing is herself.

Of course, as the goddess of Death, she probably knows exactly how she will die. Though it is also stated (by you, actually, here) that Groetus will survive and become active after the last soul is judged. Is that last soul Pharasma herself? Do gods have souls?

I'm getting the feeling that Groetus is a conceptual god - rather than a independent actor. He exists because something takes over after Pharasma. Of course, from a cyclical perspective, perhaps he is simply the creator of the next universe, the Kalki, as it were - both the destroyer and the savior (he is CN, and chaos is both of these things).

That's an interesting thought. Is there any evidence that Golarion's universe is cyclical?

You're thinking in mortal linear timeline frame. Think bigger! :P

Grand Lodge

Pathfinder PF Special Edition, Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber
James Jacobs wrote:
Squeakmaan wrote:
Do gods have afterlives? If, say, Cayden Cailean were to die, would go on to the boneyard? Or does becoming a god make that impossible?

When a deity dies, they go to the boneyard to get judged by Pharasma.

That means Pharasma judged Aroden, for example, and that she has a pretty good idea (or knows outright) how he died.

It also means that the last thing Pharasma will judge before existance winds down into nothing is herself.

She'll then close Destiny's book and then turn out the lights as she exits the universe stage right?

Now I'm thinking that Pharasma should be drawn by Neil Gaiman. :)

Grand Lodge

Pathfinder PF Special Edition, Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber
ulgulanoth wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
ulgulanoth wrote:
so who was the first to make Asmodeus into a god? paizo or wizards?
Actually, neither. TSR was the first. Decades ago.
So why was Asmodeus turned into a normal devil in 3.5?

Arch Devils by definition are anything but "normal". It probably has more to do with the fact that the line between god and mortal was more purposely blurry back in those days.


Does paizo intend on doing anything so far as APs go with the Nirmathas/ Molthune war? What about for modules? just wondering because i want to do something with that, but i dont want my own stuff to interfere with anything that may come in the future for the purposes of game continuity. i am only one of 3 guys that run games for our group, and of i have a campaign go one way and paizo goes another, it gets screwy.


James,

I am rewriting the Haunting of Harrowstone lower prison levels somewhat to make the scene the three boss prisoners on that level and their minions fighting the ghosts of the remaining guards for control now that the warden is gone. My question is can a ghost kill another ghost in a permanent fashion? My feeling is no, especially in this situation. How would a normal Golarion ghost work here?


IANJ (well, unless the J stands for Jesper, in which case IAJ) but the normal way to rid a place of a ghost in Golarion seem to be the traditional kill-it-with-ghost-touch-weapons or figure out what ill caused it to come back as a ghost and see if you can somehow undo it.


Kajehase wrote:
IANJ (well, unless the J stands for Jesper, in which case IAJ) but the normal way to rid a place of a ghost in Golarion seem to be the traditional kill-it-with-ghost-touch-weapons or figure out what ill caused it to come back as a ghost and see if you can somehow undo it.

Yup. But I am talking ghost on ghost action here. Say a guard ghost encounters a prisoner ghost escaping and prisoner ghost slays guard ghost in the fracas. Does guard ghost and prisoner ghost re-pop the next night to play it out again?


Alan_Beven wrote:
But I am talking ghost on ghost action here.

Ghost porn?

James! How does a multiclass summoner synthesist work with other classes. That's not so clear... lets say you have a 5th level rogue, he takes a level of synth, now he wants to wrap himself in eidolon and attack. Synthesist says he uses his eidolon bab, but he has more bab from being a 5th level rogue. So does he get only BAB of +1 or does he have his full +4? Or does he get both? a +5?

-Tundra


Concerning Pharasma's end-of-universe prophecy, there are some things I keep wondering. Will all those who were judged, then were sent to afterlives as petitioners, have to be judged again as the planes they went to in turn will die their prophesized (planar) death? Further, will Pharasma get to Yog-Sothoth, Azathoth and the like before she judges herself, or is the Dark Tapestry "outside" the mortal universe in this regard? I realize this may be known to none but possibly Pharasma, but am curious as the "judge herself last" bit comes up every now and then to illustrate Pharasman philosophy, and as such, its context becomes interesting. : )

Paizo Employee Creative Director

Dubiousnessocity wrote:

Does paizo intend on doing anything so far as APs go with the Nirmathas/ Molthune war? What about for modules? just wondering because i want to do something with that, but i dont want my own stuff to interfere with anything that may come in the future for the purposes of game continuity. i am only one of 3 guys that run games for our group, and of i have a campaign go one way and paizo goes another, it gets screwy.

We haven't announced anything along these lines yet... and we generally play our cards pretty close to the chest for things in the future. If you're worried about new expansions to areas that we might some day in the future "obsolete," your best bet is to probably just stick to places we've covered... but even then we could go in there and tinker. Being flexible and willing to retcon either your own work or our work in this case is pretty much one of the things you have to be comfortable with when you GM in a published, actively supported campaign setting, alas.

Paizo Employee Creative Director

Alan_Beven wrote:
Kajehase wrote:
IANJ (well, unless the J stands for Jesper, in which case IAJ) but the normal way to rid a place of a ghost in Golarion seem to be the traditional kill-it-with-ghost-touch-weapons or figure out what ill caused it to come back as a ghost and see if you can somehow undo it.
Yup. But I am talking ghost on ghost action here. Say a guard ghost encounters a prisoner ghost escaping and prisoner ghost slays guard ghost in the fracas. Does guard ghost and prisoner ghost re-pop the next night to play it out again?

Unless a ghost is put to rest by its specific conditions, it comes back no matter how it got killed, as long as its rejuvenation ability works.

Paizo Employee Creative Director

Tundra Dragondust wrote:
Alan_Beven wrote:
But I am talking ghost on ghost action here.

Ghost porn?

James! How does a multiclass summoner synthesist work with other classes. That's not so clear... lets say you have a 5th level rogue, he takes a level of synth, now he wants to wrap himself in eidolon and attack. Synthesist says he uses his eidolon bab, but he has more bab from being a 5th level rogue. So does he get only BAB of +1 or does he have his full +4? Or does he get both? a +5?

-Tundra

It works like any other multiclass. He only improves his eidolon BAB with synthesist levels, and therefore if he has a better BAB from other levels, his BAB would go down to the lower value.

Not all classes are good idea to multiclass with.

Paizo Employee Creative Director

4 people marked this as a favorite.
Analysis wrote:
Concerning Pharasma's end-of-universe prophecy, there are some things I keep wondering. Will all those who were judged, then were sent to afterlives as petitioners, have to be judged again as the planes they went to in turn will die their prophesized (planar) death? Further, will Pharasma get to Yog-Sothoth, Azathoth and the like before she judges herself, or is the Dark Tapestry "outside" the mortal universe in this regard? I realize this may be known to none but possibly Pharasma, but am curious as the "judge herself last" bit comes up every now and then to illustrate Pharasman philosophy, and as such, its context becomes interesting. : )

Cool thing about this is that it's SO far in the future that I don't have to even pretend to be coy about whether or not we'll ever do anything with it.

Because we won't.

How will it work? We can't know. Mortal minds can't comprehend it. And we'll all be dead long before then anyway, so we should instead just worry about how we're going to get the giant rats out of the basement.

As for the "Judging herself last," that's a bit I was inspired by from an old Lord Dunsany story about Charon. It's very short and it's public domain—you can check it out here!


James Jacobs wrote:
Tundra Dragondust wrote:
Alan_Beven wrote:
But I am talking ghost on ghost action here.

Ghost porn?

James! How does a multiclass summoner synthesist work with other classes. That's not so clear... lets say you have a 5th level rogue, he takes a level of synth, now he wants to wrap himself in eidolon and attack. Synthesist says he uses his eidolon bab, but he has more bab from being a 5th level rogue. So does he get only BAB of +1 or does he have his full +4? Or does he get both? a +5?

-Tundra

It works like any other multiclass. He only improves his eidolon BAB with synthesist levels, and therefore if he has a better BAB from other levels, his BAB would go down to the lower value.

Not all classes are good idea to multiclass with.

More for Tundra than James, but there's a FAQ on an extremely similar question.


Hey James, I've got a bit of a complex query for you:

Do you know when did Zon-Kuthon have the Star Towers constructed? Immediately after Rovagug was imprisoned (at which point Zon-Kuthon was actually Dou-Bral), before he was imprisoned in the Shadow Plane or immediately after Earthfall? (and his release from said Shadow Plane?)

I realise it's a bit esoteric, but am trying to update the wiki site.

Dark Archive

What do you think of this?

Paizo Employee Creative Director

ulgulanoth wrote:
What do you think of this?

Didn't look... no time for You Tube! MUST FINISH RUNELORDS........(crash)

Paizo Employee Creative Director

Neil Mansell wrote:

Hey James, I've got a bit of a complex query for you:

Do you know when did Zon-Kuthon have the Star Towers constructed? Immediately after Rovagug was imprisoned (at which point Zon-Kuthon was actually Dou-Bral), before he was imprisoned in the Shadow Plane or immediately after Earthfall? (and his release from said Shadow Plane?)

I realise it's a bit esoteric, but am trying to update the wiki site.

I do know... but it was LONG before humanity came about, and yes, it was when he was actually Dou-Bral, and more details beyond that aren't things I'm ready to talk about.

Dark Archive

alright, so... how is that going then? :P can't stop my self taking your time


Pathfinder Lost Omens, Rulebook Subscriber

Does the Bane weapon enhancement have a visual effect? Maybe flashes of destructive energy, or the weapon gaining spikes/serrations or such?

Paizo Employee Creative Director

Squeakmaan wrote:
Does the Bane weapon enhancement have a visual effect? Maybe flashes of destructive energy, or the weapon gaining spikes/serrations or such?

It certainly does in my game.


Jade Regent #6

Spoiler:
says that the Jade Throne is a powerful artifact whose powers are available only to the rightful Empress or Emperor. The Continuing the Campaign section does not say what these powers are. They must be significant since the oni plot revolves around the Jade Regent becoming emperor and accessing the powers by eliminating all other scions.
What are the powers of the Jade Throne?

Paizo Employee Creative Director

The Guardian Beyond Beyond wrote:

Jade Regent #6

***spoiler omitted***

For now... they're up to the GM to decide upon.

RPG Superstar 2008 Top 32

I added a spoiler tag.

Dark Archive

Can you tell me who if anyone from the Paizo staff will be at Dragoncon in Atlanta this year?

Paizo Employee Creative Director

Mine all mine...don't touch wrote:
Can you tell me who if anyone from the Paizo staff will be at Dragoncon in Atlanta this year?

All I can say is that I won't be there. Dunno about the rest. I kinda deliberately avoid convention-related stuff unless I'm told not to by the boss.


James Jacobs wrote:
ulgulanoth wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
ulgulanoth wrote:
so who was the first to make Asmodeus into a god? paizo or wizards?
Actually, neither. TSR was the first. Decades ago.
So why was Asmodeus turned into a normal devil in 3.5?
You'd have to talk to the writers and designers of those products. But it basically boils down to the fact that different editions and different books have different writers and different goals.

I always was like WTF on pixies. 1st ed they had polymorph. 2nd they had polymorph. 3rd they had polymorph. Then, with WotC's inability to make polymorph not totally OP, they got rid of so many things that had polymorph in 3.5, and pixies were among them. I was sorta sad to see Pathfinder stayed with the 3.5 pixie, although I like the "alternate abilities" so I add "Alter Self" onto that list for special pixies. So, that brings me to my actual question on this matter... did Paizo not realize they used to have polymorph, or was it a choice to not return it to them after 3.5 took it from them?

Paizo Employee Creative Director

AbsolutGrndZer0 wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
ulgulanoth wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
ulgulanoth wrote:
so who was the first to make Asmodeus into a god? paizo or wizards?
Actually, neither. TSR was the first. Decades ago.
So why was Asmodeus turned into a normal devil in 3.5?
You'd have to talk to the writers and designers of those products. But it basically boils down to the fact that different editions and different books have different writers and different goals.
I always was like WTF on pixies. 1st ed they had polymorph. 2nd they had polymorph. 3rd they had polymorph. Then, with WotC's inability to make polymorph not totally OP, they got rid of so many things that had polymorph in 3.5, and pixies were among them. I was sorta sad to see Pathfinder stayed with the 3.5 pixie, although I like the "alternate abilities" so I add "Alter Self" onto that list for special pixies. So, that brings me to my actual question on this matter... did Paizo not realize they used to have polymorph, or was it a choice to not return it to them after 3.5 took it from them?

Paizo certainly knew they used to have polymorph... it's just that polymorph is a complicated spell that doesn't do many monsters any favors at making them easier to run. Furthermore, those types of effects tend to make it less likely that when you encounter a monster, you'll be fighting the monster in its true form, which makes it increasingly frustrating to use the monster for a lot of reasons. Unless the monster's WHOLE SCHTICK is changing shape, we actually really pulled back on granting any monster polymorph... and when we do, we instead generally give them change shape instead.

So... mostly an aesthetic choice, because of the fact that the visuals of fighting a monster should evoke images of that monster, not other monsters. (Again, unless the monster's something like a doppleganger or succubus or the like who's all about changing shape.)

Sczarni RPG Superstar 2012 Top 32

James is it true you sent pugwampis to fiddle with the servers to keep people out of this thread so you could work?

Sucker Punch status?

Did you let any good Golarion tidbits slip out in chat last night? (11 P.M. is too late to stay up)

Paizo Employee Creative Director

Thomas LeBlanc wrote:

James is it true you sent pugwampis to fiddle with the servers to keep people out of this thread so you could work?

Sucker Punch status?

Did you let any good Golarion tidbits slip out in chat last night? (11 P.M. is too late to stay up)

No comment.

Saw it, gave it a C-. Review here.

Nope; chatroom was relatively non-inquisitive last night.


Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber; Pathfinder Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber
James Jacobs wrote:
Thomas LeBlanc wrote:
Did you let any good Golarion tidbits slip out in chat last night? (11 P.M. is too late to stay up)
Nope; chatroom was relatively non-inquisitive last night.

Only because I was busy, and you won't answer my questions about unannounced releases anyway. ;)

Was there only one starship crash in Numeria or have there been several? Are there other places that starships have crashed?


Didn't the spaceship crash all over, but the largest chunk was in Numeria?


I wonder some things concerning the fluff of the Witch class, and how it interacts with Golarion's metaphysics.

1. Could you give some examples of things that could, in Golarion, be examples of Patrons? Deities? Fiends? Living, specific creatures? Fictive creatures? Abstract forces?
2. Reading it, the description of a Witch's Patron seems much like the Mystery of an Oracle. What makes them different? Would it be correct to say that the Mystery brings the energy in from an external divine source to cast a spell (making the magic divine), using the innate insights of the caster (making the Oracle a spontaneous caster with a Spells Known table), whereas the Patron does not provide the energy for the magic (making the magic arcane), but provides the "blueprints" for how to shape that energy into a spell (making the Witch a prepared caster)?
3. Rules-wise the familiar is a living spellbook. Is this also what happens fluff-wise? That is, is the familiar a repository of the spell knowledge, or is it merely the interface to the knowledge and/or energy of the Patron?
4. Would it be appropriate to allow Witches to take the Spell Mastery feat, selecting a set of spells they could then prepare without their familiar?
5. What, exactly, does it mean to commune with the familiar to prepare spells? Meditating in its presence? Playing with it? Performing rituals while it watches?
6. Do familiars age at the rate of normal animals, or do they age with the Witch? Some of those animal choices would need to be replaced every few years, and presumably the spells with them.
7. What kind of Patrons empower the Irrisen Witches and/or Baba Yaga? 8. Could those Witches be indirectly weakened by striking at the Patrons?
9. If the Patron of a Witch is destroyed, can she make a pact with another?
10. On the subject of pacts, does Witch magic come with obligations, so that it can be withheld by the Patron unless the Witch carries out its will? Or are they more like Oracles (or Wizards, for that matter) in this regard?
11. What kind of familiar does Baba Yaga have?

Grand Lodge

Pathfinder Lost Omens, Rulebook Subscriber

Oh mighty T.Rex, a few small questions for your great brain.

Firstly, I find one thing about the Church of Razmir confusing. I understand how easy it is for them to con everyone else, but how do they con themselves? Obviously they aren't getting spells by praying to Razmir, since he can't bestow spells on them (not being a real God). According to the Inner Sea Guide, they use arcane magic to trick people into thinking they can cast clerical spells (or some-such, I might have read wrong). For arcane magic, the process of getting the actual spells is drastically different (active study or internal knowledge). Surely, the priests themselves would notice something amiss when they realize that the "holy books" they're studying to gain magic are suspiciously akin to spellbooks...wouldn't they?

Also, concerning Ratfolk. Why'd you guys make them? Do they feature prominently in Golarion? If they haven't yet, will they? Have you ever used them or seen them used (as NPCs or PCs) in your own campaigns?

Paizo Employee Creative Director

Justin Franklin wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
Thomas LeBlanc wrote:
Did you let any good Golarion tidbits slip out in chat last night? (11 P.M. is too late to stay up)
Nope; chatroom was relatively non-inquisitive last night.

Only because I was busy, and you won't answer my questions about unannounced releases anyway. ;)

Was there only one starship crash in Numeria or have there been several? Are there other places that starships have crashed?

Until we do something more significant with Numeria, I'm not gonna say.

1 to 50 of 83,732 << first < prev | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | next > last >>
Community / Forums / Gamer Life / Off-Topic Discussions / >>Ask *James Jacobs* ALL your Questions Here!<< All Messageboards