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Abyssal Lord wrote:

Why not bring back old faves like the beholder and the illithid under slightly different names...the eye beast and the mind slayer?

Some 3PP have already done so.

As for why Paizo does not, possibly some combination of;

1) Illegal.
2) Rude to the people who so progressively put hundreds of other elements of their IP up for grabs with the Open Gaming License.
3) An admission that one's own creations are somehow 'not good enough' to stand beside old classics.
4) Tacky.

That tackiness is what makes old school D&D so much fun.

Abyssal Lord wrote:

DANCE

MUSIC
SEX
ROMANCE

Party hard.

That's what I would do if I were a deity. I wouldn't get into all that angst like that Iomedae.

From the website: www.dailywritingtips.com

"Many people think that they sound smarter when they use big words. The truth of the matter is that smart communicators use words that (a) they understand and (b) their readers are likely to understand.

The purpose of writing is to communicate. Communication is the process by which meaning is created and exchanged. If the person who reads your writing doesn’t understand what you are trying to say, no communication occurs when he or she reads your writing.

In order to communicate effectively, you have to use language properly, and you have to use language that people are likely to understand."

Abyssal Lord wrote:

Crystal Frasier wrote:

I am very sorry for that. Ideally, subjects like this are mostly about empathy and learning, but its easy to get lost in jargon.

And some get lost deliberately.

Speaking of empathy, I am reminded of an episode of the Golden Girls where Blanche said of Dorothy's new friend Barbara Thornedyke, that she cares more about words than she do about people.

It's okay to criticize others' techniques, but comments like that start to get a little personal. Let's focus more on the positives than taking digs at other posters.

Point taken.

But really, I do feel the need to point out that people often take digs at others and get away with it because it was done behind a wall of words and the moderators often do not catch it, as oppose to the rest of us who do not need to be so verbose.

DANCE
MUSIC
SEX
ROMANCE

^ that and a vorpal sword.

That and a first edition cleric. All these zombies/walkers would've been blasted away automatically.

The simple truth is nothing in life will reflect the population in any way on an equitable level, from how black/white/asian/whatever is arrested to how many of them are going into Harvard or how many of them are being hired as firefighters. Just not going to happen when you take into consideration economic, cultural and gender factors.

It seems that Paizo here do have a anti-male bias of sorts.

Just at the LGBT thread here a post of mine was just deleted because I "dare" bring up male circumcision and because I suggested that the alteration of the genitals of anyone without their consent (male and female) is wrong.

It seems Paizo, in their stance to be diverse and inclusive, failed to see that they uphold our own prejudices without even knowing it.

6 OF 66 OF HEXAMATRIX 666 wrote:

Mazym wrote:

I wasn't even aware of Savage Tide. I was thinking of Lolth in the G1-Q1 / Queen of Spiders sequence.

That's right! Even Shackled City ended up with a trip to the glorious Abyss!

Not quite. Shackled City's Abyss adventure was part 6 or 12 ("Test of the Smoking Eye". The final stages of the path take place on Carceri.

Close enough! Carceri has since been assimilated into the Abyss. That's why the demodands are there now!

I don't know about provoking emotion....it can get carried away.

Once I had a player who got into an argument with the DM (his sister). In true Knights of the Dinner Table fashion his character was Lawful Good but his action was anything but. They got into a huge argument about how his deity penalized him for alignment infractions (he was a fighter,not a cleric or paladin). He cursed his god and she ruled that the deity struck him dead on the spot. He was sitting in his seat, throwing a tantrum with tears streaming down his face...

I was like...this is supposed to be just a game....!

I wonder why is everybody so eager to cap the level off at 20th level.

Min/Maxing is indeed only a problem if you ran a publish adventure "as is". Otherwise it means very little if you design appropriate encounters.

Abyssal Lord wrote:

Well, at least they cleaned house on the Drow Pantheon. It was getting ridiculous.

Funny because Eilistraee was my favorite deity. XD

Blasphemy!

Given how Lolth have a strangle hold on the Drow, I often wonder why are there even other drow gods and goddesses, Vhaeraun and Eilistrae I can stomach because they later were retconned into Lolth's children.

Then the others, Kiaransalee, Zinzerena, Sevlatarm, Keptolo... I mean, aren't they rather redundant?

So glad they wiped the slate clean!

Arikiel wrote:

TheChozyn wrote:

The ruins of pathfinder alternate world is getting crowded.

hmmm... I'm not that familiar with all the different APs but that sounds interesting. What would the world look like if all the APs had been failed in the order that they were released? How would the different world conquering forces interact? Alternate world Pathfinder sounds like an interesting and dynamic place.

** spoiler omitted **

Having a meteor hit Golarion....

Crucidaemon = Jocasta ripoff???

Abyssal Lord wrote:

How ironic that Annabel would call gay people like us as "queer folk", considering the original meaning of the word queer. I guess straight people are "not queer".

I don't see the irony. It's well-known that "queer" has been re-appropriated from a slur to a positive term. In fact, the original meaning of queer is part of the political statement behind adopting the term. To adopt the term "queer" is to resist heteronormativity. Hence we have fields like queer theory, organizations like Queer Nation, and identities like genderqueer. But it's perfectly possible for straight people to be queer. Consider, for example, a straight trans man. He could be queer.

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In that case, all these talk about what is acceptable terms to address a gay (queer to Annabel I suppose)character or a person for that matter is really a moot point as one term someone finds acceptable is offensive to another.

xavier c wrote:

that there are no male gods of love and beauty

There was one, but he went nuts and now he is the god of pain and shadow.

The irony is that in the real world, the he-man woman-hater Norse pantheon have a male god of beauty, not something you would expect. Although I think Balder being a god of beauty is more of a present day interpretation of him than how he was viewed and worshipped back then.

Beyond that, am I the only one who is a little bothered by the fact that most (not all, but most) of the gay couples seem to be two young, attractive females?

This is one area that I found Paizo taking a step backward. Instead of showcasing more gay male couples (there are indeed more gay males in real life than gay female), they resort to Lesbian couples, which is more acceptable in mainstream media because it caters to Heterosexual male fantasies.

Sometimes wonder if this isn't something of an anti-male thing going on at Paizo.I don't mind seeing female characters, as it struck me odd that the 1E D&D Players Handbook didn't have a single woman on the cover, but sometimes I do wonder if Paizo didn't go a little overboard.

Axial wrote:

Nocticula actually lets people walk around her territory? You think any good-aligned people who set foot in the Abyss would just get mobbed.

I'm now envisioning the Midnight Isles as the Unicomplex and Nocticula as the Borg Queen.

The Borg...

My designation is 6 of 66, Senary Processor of Hexamatrix 666.