paizo.com Favorited Posts by Aetheldrakepaizo.com Favorited Posts by Aetheldrake2022-01-02T20:36:00Z2022-01-02T20:36:00ZRe: Forums: Pathfinder Society: Paizo Blog: Character Options for Pathfinder Society and Guide UpdatesAetheldrakehttps://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6shbu&page=2?Character-Options-for-Pathfinder-Society-and#672020-08-07T17:12:45Z2020-08-06T18:12:13Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Robert Hetherington wrote:</div><blockquote><p> Fun story from an interactive, contains spoilers for Siege of the Diamond City.</p>
<p>•• spoiler omitted ••... </blockquote><p>and that's the kind of thing i was talking about a while ago in this posts comments. it's not the boons that matter, its the actual story. everything in this story that kept the players desperate and thinking and trying to figure out what to do, and then their reaction to the low tier player and how "ecstatic" everyone was as you said, are the important part that people should be paying attention to. not the silly useless boons on chronicles that just end up getting hoarded "because i might need this someday!" and then never actually used and frequently forgotten. While all the players at those 2 tables may remember this, nobody else really will, and they may not care too much (and some may even doubt such an incredibly unlikely story)
<p>in 2e, my wizard has, on 3 occasions, saved the team from the threat of tpk with an AMAZINGLY lucky gust of wind after the bad guys got a lot of lucky crits and our team getting a lot of unlucky bad rolls. Was a tpk guaranteed? not guaranteed. did we all think it was going to happen? certainly thought so. was this amazing situation that got me "player of the game" (little fun locale thing explained below) recorded on the chronicle? no because it's "not a boon and therefore not important" is how a lot of people in these comments are coming across as. Again, most of these chronicle boons just end up getting lost, or more likely entirely forgotten, and a lot of them are only cute for 6 seconds (hahaha) with a chance of failing to do anything (if they ever actually did anything to begin with). (certain scenario and i cant figure out how to make a spoiler thing) giving my dad a floating dull aeon stone via a lottery system that he glued googly eyes on and called it his Oread characters grandma and gave my cleric a permanently bubbling scarf. both fun yes, really fun, but also ENTIRELY forgotten and ignored 95% of the time and mechanically useless 100% of the time</p>
<p>the story is infinitely more important than a boon that you dont know youre getting and often doesnt work with the character you got it on. in 2e i almost got a firework bomb formula via chronicle on my ranger instead of my alchemist (ended up playing on my alchemist after thinking about it) and it's not a repeatable. sure i could use a boon with a cost to transfer it, but that still has a cost "and i might need those points someday when i need them most!" (and the boon is actually kinda lackluster anyway. most people would call it useless for an alchemist because it does considerably lower damage)</p>
<p>youll almost always get more joy out of the story about your (example, but my true story) bounty hunter ranger who finds a bolas during a situation, ends up fighting a certain creature, creature fails a certain check and you are now recreating the infamous lion king cliff scene, and then that ranger hits that creature with the bolas and trips them off the ledge, jokingly using an intimidate action as it falls to say "long live the king". You couldnt possibly convince me that being the creator pc and narrator of this story is less important than getting a "special", extremely situational, one time use only, not guaranteed to actually work, in general average boon. (because this is how a lot of 1e boons were. so many.)</p>
<p>It's stories like that that players treasure more than just about any boon that would show up on a chronicle because you can share that story with people who know NOTHING about pathfinder whatsoever with minimal effort to convert it to a way theyd understand, but the boons you could get on chronicles dont give you the same opportunity or satisfaction. The stories you get from playing are the gifts that keep on giving. The boons are not.</p>
<p>(explanation for player of the game. at our local area, the person who did the most amazing thing in a scenario, agreed on by a majority vote of the table, gets 3 dollars store credit with a little hand made wooden token made by a guys wife for the location (the store credit was not the token creators idea, the store came up with this for pathfinder society players as a thanks for always coming to the store to do it instead of elsewhere, the lady did this just cuz a hobby), one to each table, every sunday)</p>
<p>(sorry for the rambling, dont take offense anyone, im not mad or anything, maybe a little excited because i can use true stories as examples, and because generally my entire state,including heavy congoers who would gm most/all the slots to get those sweet boons, agrees that acp is better. most people here that went to the big cons specifically to try to get boons, like a leshy boon or a catfolk boon, or any boon really because literally everyone knew that gming at cons were the ONLY way to get fancy boons and everyone else was just SOL, would passively be planning on it literally all year long to make sure they had the time off from work, the money saved up, and the plans made to have transportation and lodging at the usually out of state cons (gencon and origins mostly as those are the biggest nearby pathfinder involved cons)</p>Robert Hetherington wrote:Fun story from an interactive, contains spoilers for Siege of the Diamond City.
** spoiler omitted **...
and that's the kind of thing i was talking about a while ago in this posts comments. it's not the boons that matter, its the actual story. everything in this story that kept the players desperate and thinking and trying to figure out what to do, and then their reaction to the low tier player and how "ecstatic" everyone was as you said, are the important part...Aetheldrake2020-08-06T18:12:13ZRe: Forums: Pathfinder Society: Paizo Blog: Character Options for Pathfinder Society and Guide UpdatesAetheldrakehttps://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6shbu?Character-Options-for-Pathfinder-Society-and#332020-08-03T21:35:31Z2020-08-01T22:47:41Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Wei Ji the Learner wrote:</div><blockquote><br />
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The Last Bite chronicle was... <i>underwhelming</i> and a horrific end to a very cool Special that was incredibly stressful yet fun.</p>
<p>Please, Organized Play, step away from the 'grind/MMORPG' concept and go back to the flavour-full Boons that made Organized Play awesome instead of a bland boring tabletop WoW/AL clone.</p>
<p>Please. Have the Chronicles tell a full story, rather than being a receipt of participation. What is a Report of Exploration and Cooperation without... a Report? Or the Exploration? </blockquote><p>ah yes, the system that the majority of people disliked so they made a new system more widely available to the majority of players, where anyone can be a catfolk with a little effort instead of only rich people who "buy" a boon through donations
<p>the old system where only a HANDFUL of people could get anything cool. and that handful consisted of people with money to spend and time to waste because getting to the location of said boons cost a lot of money, time, and effort because you had to be a GM (for a lot of the cool race boons), which means you dont actually play the game, and players ended up also not getting said boons except an even smaller handful via raffles.</p>
<p>theyve already explained themselves over the new system. while some people will get the short stick, an overwhelming majority of players WORLD WIDE will benefit heavily. Sure it requires a LITTLE "grind" but they are also releasing a lot more replayable scenarios, and while they may grow somewhat boring after a few goes, it does not take much effort to get the acp for a boon compared to most "grind/mmorpg" systems. Remember, you are supposed to be playing a game for the experience, not a destination. You wont be showing people your chronicle, you will be telling them the story personally because everyone has a sliiiightly different experience.</p>
<p>WoW as your example, actually requires dedicated playing at a certain time, every week, for MONTHS. and mostly only on that specific day or 2, during specific times, usually the afternoon</p>
<p>Society play you can do anywhere, anytime, as much as you want. no "once a week" timegates like your example of WoW (admittedly im using the video game mmorpg WoW, not whatever table top version exists)</p>
<p>and more importantly this works exceedingly well in retrospect of the corona virus. i doubt they expected this to happen. this virus will likely be going on into the next year and the system will be exceedingly useful for that very situation and moving foward</p>
<p>Plus, if you give away boons on all the scenarios, then you wont really sell books, which means less money to paizo and lower quality Society in general.</p>Wei Ji the Learner wrote:The Last Bite chronicle was... underwhelming and a horrific end to a very cool Special that was incredibly stressful yet fun.Please, Organized Play, step away from the 'grind/MMORPG' concept and go back to the flavour-full Boons that made Organized Play awesome instead of a bland boring tabletop WoW/AL clone.
Please. Have the Chronicles tell a full story, rather than being a receipt of participation. What is a Report of Exploration and Cooperation without... a...Aetheldrake2020-08-01T22:47:41ZForums/Pathfinder Second Edition: General Discussion: Paizo Blog: Tales of Lost Omens: ConnectionsAetheldrakehttps://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6shbx?Tales-of-Lost-Omens-Connections#22020-08-02T17:37:32Z2020-07-31T23:03:56Z<p>ooo, interesting</p>ooo, interestingAetheldrake2020-07-31T23:03:56ZForums/Paizo: General Discussion: Paizo Blog: Paizo at Gen Con Online 2020Aetheldrakehttps://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6shby?Paizo-at-Gen-Con-Online-2020#12020-08-26T19:58:06Z2020-07-31T22:08:21Z<p>February 2021 we will bring ancestries: Lizardfolk, androids, geniekin, kitsune, sprites, and more!</p>
<p>lizardfolk already exist right? from lost omens character guide?</p>February 2021 we will bring ancestries: Lizardfolk, androids, geniekin, kitsune, sprites, and more!
lizardfolk already exist right? from lost omens character guide?Aetheldrake2020-07-31T22:08:21ZRe: Forums: Pathfinder Society: Paizo Blog: February 2020 Pathfinder Society ReleasesAetheldrakehttps://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6sh4o?February-2020-Pathfinder-Society-Releases#142020-02-28T17:35:03Z2020-02-28T02:56:30Z<p>i wish i could start playing my lizardfolk so he can start meeting all these lizzies showing up in scenarios. i definitely have more than enough points by now ):</p>i wish i could start playing my lizardfolk so he can start meeting all these lizzies showing up in scenarios. i definitely have more than enough points by now ):Aetheldrake2020-02-28T02:56:30ZRe: Forums: Pathfinder Society: Paizo Blog: February Update— Achievement Points , Stars, Novas, Spotlights and Conventions!Aetheldrakehttps://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6sh3w&page=2?February-Update-Achievement-Points-Stars#942020-02-10T21:09:52Z2020-02-08T04:05:19Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Donald wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Davor Firetusk wrote:</div><blockquote>I'm not sure what wasn't clear in the sample explanation for the Hobgoblins. Races aren't 'locked' it's not a video game. Lore driven decisions make the campaign interesting. </blockquote><p>So I can play a Hobgoblin without a boon in PFS?
<p>The "uncommoness" is artificial. If you have a party of six Iruxi, those six are the only know Iruxi in the Pathfinder Society plus any NPCs met along the way. Gen Con special events are the only time more than six Society members are together. The can be 2000 people in the world playing Hobgoblins, and it will not effect any other game going on. </blockquote><p>Not in society. OUTSIDE of society yes, as long as you own the content.
<p>(the rest of this is not specifically for you, I just don't want to make a 2nd post) </p>
<p>It sounds like people are upset that the races cost too much and compared to gming at a con, sort of yes, it gets you enough points for half of a "chose your boon" which when you remember you get to chose whatever you want and you earned half of it, that's not that bad. </p>
<p>Now sure, you don't actually get a full race boon, but you also don't get something you don't want. I GMed at origins once and got a leshy boon. Did not really care for it. Basically a wasted boon. No offense to anyone or leshy, but at that point 2e was confirmed to happen and 1e was going to end, and I already had literally almost a dozen characters, most of which weren't even level 10 or up. I also really like reptiles and leshy was just a neutral thing, so it just wasn't for my tastes. But my friend also GMed origins and he completely ROCKED a leshineticist. He dove into that and rode it all the way through eyes of the 10. Good for him. </p>
<p>But now, if I GMed at origins, assuming most or all of my slots went off, which I probably wouldn't do a whole lot, but probably would play a few times, I would earn a decent amount of acp. Even if it's not enough for a current race boon, at least I don't end up with another boon I DON'T want. </p>
<p>And I can save those points for a future boon rotation. Potentially saving up for a new super amazing boon that, at the time they come out, nobody will have the points for yet and I will. What if they made a conjoined aasimar tiefling. Like you get all the best parts all the time. And the cost was like 200 points or something. Also maybe only 1 purchase ever (until they change it later) and most people are like "damn it, now I wish I didn't buy that hobgoblin and leshy" but then next week it's game time and I roll up with one. That'd be amazing. It'd be beyond a simple convention boon and super rare. In the end it would have been worth it. Personally I'm only buying an Iruxi. Then I'm saving up for a tiefling AND tengu (or something else. But I'm adding tiefling to whatever) and together those will be expensive. But by the time those come out for society, I'll have saved up the points for it. This is just an example. Probably won't happen, but you can imagine. What if they put a single mythic tier in as a reward with restriction that you can never gain more than that single mythic tier and must be a certain level and it would be Hella expensive. Maybe the benefit from that could be something like, once per scenario you can regain all your spell slots of a single spell level, or all your hp, temporarily max your focus points at 3 if you only have a pool of 1. See? Sounds awesome. The possibilities are nearly limitless for this system.</p>
<p>And that's sort of how it is now. We don't see long term goal. We don't see what will happen later. Some of the boons may suck, some may be like "Im not sure I personally want it but I'm sure it'll become useful to some". And then someday some REALLY amazing things will come out and people will want them, and some people will have decided to save up the bonus points from cons and such (and there will probably be some paper boons, not quite as good as ancestry boons but still good.) and they'll be having the last laugh. They'll be changing things as things go and they'll probably try to get the best balance they possibly can.</p>
<p>Paizo is thinking big picture with this achievement point system. All we can do is learn to accept that they probably know more about what they're doing than we do. And that they'll do things well enough to satisfy the majority. There will always be some who aren't happy, but that's humans. There's no pleasing everyone.</p>Donald wrote:Davor Firetusk wrote:I'm not sure what wasn't clear in the sample explanation for the Hobgoblins. Races aren't 'locked' it's not a video game. Lore driven decisions make the campaign interesting.
So I can play a Hobgoblin without a boon in PFS? The "uncommoness" is artificial. If you have a party of six Iruxi, those six are the only know Iruxi in the Pathfinder Society plus any NPCs met along the way. Gen Con special events are the only time more than six Society members are...Aetheldrake2020-02-08T04:05:19ZRe: Forums: Pathfinder Society: PFS2E: Additional Resources listAetheldrakehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42sgm?PFS2E-Additional-Resources-list#162020-02-24T18:58:22Z2019-10-16T22:41:39Z<p>To be fair, you'd think they would be getting their act together a little bit more with the new edition. With the 2e core essentially being mostly the same as 1e core in terms of races and classes, and 1e having been out for over 10 years, maybe some people are a little bit sick and tired of playing the same things in core/mostly core after 10 years, or any amount of years really.</p>
<p>Maybe there are some non core things that are already released that they really really really like and if those were core or already legal (cuz maybe they understand paizo takes a little to update additional resources, but starfinder was pretty fast on some of their AR updates) you probably wouldnt see a peep out of them. </p>
<p>I know someone who literally wont touch 2e until Tengus come out and that's only because there's no playable panda race so tengus became their go-to ONLY race. Tengus wont be out until at least next gen con, and probably another few months after that before they become legal, so that really sucks because he's an amazing roleplayer, and theyre just sick of core too. Theyve been playing a human for 30 years irl, give them a break for not wanting to play essentially lord of the rings, because that's sort of what core is. And of all the new races they could have brought in, they chose goblins...the dumbest and most annoying of races to bring to society. I've heard a lot of people preferring kobolds instead lol. At least kobolds can be reasoned into society. There's the sewer dragons of absolam...the high profile kobold scenario of society where kobolds actually do good work, unlike goblins, until paizo just retcons everything. But i digress, things could have been handled way better.</p>
<p>i was actually gonna have a giant edit to agree with them and some other things, but then paizos website broke on submit edit, so that explains, in itself, how society is. it's broken lol</p>To be fair, you'd think they would be getting their act together a little bit more with the new edition. With the 2e core essentially being mostly the same as 1e core in terms of races and classes, and 1e having been out for over 10 years, maybe some people are a little bit sick and tired of playing the same things in core/mostly core after 10 years, or any amount of years really.
Maybe there are some non core things that are already released that they really really really like and if those...Aetheldrake2019-10-16T22:41:39ZRe: Forums: Pathfinder Society: Will lizardfolk, leshy and hobgoblins be society legal on release?Aetheldrakehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42s0n?Will-lizardfolk-leshy-and-hobgoblins-be#432019-10-18T08:01:21Z2019-10-16T22:23:13Z<p>lol yup figures. we're probably going to have to wait for a literal christmas miracle or new years present for any new legal stuff in society. 1e is still waiting on content apparently so might as well just play whatever in society (within reason) until paizo decides to put any effort into updating their online guide then rebuild if decisions ever get made.</p>
<p>with only 2 repeatable scenarios and only core being legal on top of no evil stuff in society (which isnt even fun cuz its society anyway) might as well enjoy the stuff you buy until they say otherwise. not like they can really track what race, archeype, or spells you use.</p>
<p>until stuff starts getting added to the additional resources, might as well play whatever your gm allows as if youre doing society home games and dont travel.</p>lol yup figures. we're probably going to have to wait for a literal christmas miracle or new years present for any new legal stuff in society. 1e is still waiting on content apparently so might as well just play whatever in society (within reason) until paizo decides to put any effort into updating their online guide then rebuild if decisions ever get made.
with only 2 repeatable scenarios and only core being legal on top of no evil stuff in society (which isnt even fun cuz its society...Aetheldrake2019-10-16T22:23:13ZForums: Rules Questions: spellcasting needing clarificationAetheldrakehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2ul89?spellcasting-needing-clarification#12021-02-04T04:12:45Z2017-09-07T19:47:54Z<p>can an official give an answer on to whether or not spellcasting requires a free hand in general?</p>
<p>it's never specified it doesn't, but at the same time it doesn't specify it does</p>
<p>example. it says spellcasting is basically entirely obvious, and all the spellcasters in the book show that they are using their FREE hands, but nothing specifies otherwise anywhere and people are freaking out trying to abuse it in ways that might not be intended</p>
<p>people are trying to use 2 handed heavy weapons, or any combination of weapons that fill all their hands, and then just cast spells because they think they can</p>
<p>and I feel this needs to be added to the FAQ that it SPECIFICALLY does or does not, none of this vague bs</p>can an official give an answer on to whether or not spellcasting requires a free hand in general?
it's never specified it doesn't, but at the same time it doesn't specify it does
example. it says spellcasting is basically entirely obvious, and all the spellcasters in the book show that they are using their FREE hands, but nothing specifies otherwise anywhere and people are freaking out trying to abuse it in ways that might not be intended
people are trying to use 2 handed heavy weapons, or...Aetheldrake2017-09-07T19:47:54Z