Once the others have moved past her and made their attacks, Shabbezz elects to remain in the hall where she can snipe while staying out of the way.
Pakuzzo: Pakuzzo smiled mirthfully as he glanced around at the surrounding bystanders.
"You are mistaken, sir, but I forgive you for your ignorance! One day the truth shall be revealed to you!"
Even as he said this, his hands twitched spasmodically around the grip of his shortbow. Pakuzzo was sorely tempted to let loose an arrow at the retreating human's hindquarters, but stayed himself for fear of openly tarnishing the Silver Raven's good name in public. However, he kept an eye on the young man's face and dress for any distinguishing characteristics that he could sear into his memory. That sniveling bastard better pray that the tengu had the opportunity to run into him ever again; the dottari would need a one hell of diviner on call to identify what was left after he was done with him.
You could be right about that. One of my favorite bits about Golarian is that James Jacob has said that Desna's true form isn't humanoid, she just chooses to look that way because she thinks that humanoids are "neat."
Good luck with whatever lies ahead of you, Liz!
*slams head on desk* At first I was wondering as to whom you were referring to, then I saw it. Ironically, I did not get much sleep last night either. 눈_눈 Let's call it a wash.
But... but how else is my 32 CHA diplomancer bard supposed to render the rest of the party irrelevant?!
Will there happen to be images be some of the lesser-known orders in here? I want to see what the Orders of the Pike, Scar, and Coil's respective armors are supposed to look like!
Hey, good to have you. The people here pretty nice, and the boards are run well, so you should do fine. Feel free to ask about whatever comes to mind.
I'd say that it's also worth pointing out that being a priest of a good deity isn't a free ride, especially from an evil individual's perspective. Good deities often expect their priests to be self-sacrificing, whether it's tithing cash, uprooting your life for a crusade, or simply dying for a cause. The non-chaotic ones tend to espouse honesty, which can leave an adventurer's hands tied more often than not, and the lawful ones go even further by demanding submission to laws that the worshiper may disagree with. And it's not enough to mind your own affairs, you're expected to go out and do good on your god's behalf, often for a bunch of people who won't appreciate it, and that's if they're not actively trying to kill you for it; any devout Desnan in Nidal or Cheliax is gonna have a very bad time if they're really serious about their faith. Furthermore, on some level it means always being on guard against your baser instincts, and not taking the easy way out just because it's expedient. Yeah, it would be easier to just kill those bandits you captured and be rid of them, but your god espouses forgiveness, so it's either jail or attempted conversion, which could end with a dagger in your ribs. Yeah, you need that artifact that noble family has kept in it's possession for generations, and you have enough power to just knock down a wall and take it, but that would be wrong, so I guess you're running that errand for the count in exchange. Yeah, you could just let the villagers in the kingdom you're passing through deal with those goblin raiders themselves, but you'd be remiss if you didn't at least try to help, so grab your sword and get to it, I hope you didn't have anyplace else that you needed to be. Help others. Serve others. Give up for others. Others, others, others. Being good is ultimately about caring about the well-being of others more that you care about your own well-being. It's supposed to be its own reward, but all people are simply not wired that way. That kind of life can chafe very easily if you're not all-in. For some people, evil deities offer the freedom and power to look out for number one. Yeah, your goddess may be a total b***h, but at least she recognizes that your own wants and needs are worth addressing as long as they don't conflict with hers. Better to be a king in hell than a slave in heaven, as the saying goes.
By the way, does anybody know how much a standard (i.e. non-magical) jeweled ring costs? Wearing two is required to perform the obedience, but the closest thing I've found was a signet ring costing 5 gp on the Player's Handbook... According to Adventurer's Armory, the price of non-magical jewlery varies widely by its quality, from a few copper pieces for a commoner's ornaments to at least 100 gp per item for the stuff nobles wear. In the Gamemastery Guide, a low-quality gem (azurite, tigereye, turquoise, etc.) is listed as being worth 10 gp. I think it would be a fair assessment to add 5 gp to that for the cost of the ring, making it 15 gp for one ring, or 30 gp total for two. Of course, that's just my take; GM Jammin' says what actually goes.
How does this RAW handle scenarios where a goodly cleric summons evil devils/demons in order to extract information from them?If I remember correctly, there are ways to summon demons/devils without the use of Summon Monster. These tend to be more of a ritual, though, not simply "I need a meat shield. Summon Monster, I choose you!" There's something that I don't quite get, though, and forgive me if I'm somehow overlooking the obvious: The domains of Good, Evil, Chaos, and Law have subdomains associated with their related outsiders (Agathion, Archon, Azata, Daemon, Demon, Devil, Inevitable, and Protean). Each subdomain swaps out the 6th-level spell for one that calls that specific outsider. Good-aligned deities grant planar ally to summon only Agathions, Archons, and Azatas, respectively. No problems there. However, Evil, Lawful, and Chaotic dieties only grant planar binding instead to summon only Daemons, Demons, Devils, Inevitables, and Proteans. Unlike planar ally, planar binding requires the prior casting of a magic circle spell of the appropriate alignment directed inward in order to entrap the summoned outsider, otherwise I assume the spell fails. But a cleric is restricted to only casting spells of his deity's alignment; an evil cleric can't cast magic circle against evil because it has the "good" descriptor, a lawful cleric can't cast magic circle against law because it has a "chaotic" descriptor, and vise-versa for chaotic clerics. So functionally, most clerics can't use planar binding because their deities won't grant them magic circle spells with the descriptors of opposing alignments (true neutral deities could, but they don't grant alignment domains or outsider subdomains in the first place). Now, as a GM I would just houserule this to say that all alignment subdomains grant planar ally for their respective outsider type, but a GM who wants to play by RAW might not be so permissive. Furthermore, in PFS games this basically means you have a useless domain slot option at cleric level 13. I only discovered this when I created a cleric of a CN deity with the Protean subdomain and found out that I effectively couldn't cast planar binding (proteans only) because it required a prior casting of magic circle against chaos, a lawful spell.
The Mammoth Rider ("Let me get this straight--I have a HUGE saber-toothed tiger that I can ride around and still cast animal growth on, and somehow this is explicitly legal?"). The Brother of the Seal ("Let me see if I understand this correctly--I can punch a prismatic wall SO HARD that it ceases to exist and still have enough ki left over to kick a Colossal dragon across the room, and somehow this is completely legit?").
If Obama wins the election, before he's inaugurated, Chuck Norris will have killed every single Democrat in the nation. With Obama being killed last.And that, kids, is why you vote Green Party! Hell no. I voted Green in my very first election when I turned 18, back in 2000. I never expected Nader to actually come close to winning, but my reasoning was that I would vote for a third party most likely to get attention and funding later if they got enough votes, and hopefully they would provide a third contender in a future election. It was all based on the idea that the two-party system was fundamentally broken and any change would be for the better. Then W won, 9/11 happened a year later, and here we all are. I will never, as long as I am able to vote, vote for a third party again. I will abstain from voting if I absolutely loathe both candidates beyond reason, but from now on I'm just gonna pick the lesser of two evils and choke back my idealism.
Conan was a wise king. No tyrant.Fair enough I suppose. I doubt he'd take well to democracy. I'd still vote for the man over Romney or Obama. "Conan the Cimmerian 2012-- 'He knows what is best in life.'" He'd win the Primary by forgoing the acceptance speech; he'd just decapitate his strongest opponent and toss the head off the stage, then silently wait for the delegates to disperse.
Despite the fact that his years are catching up to him, Clint is, was, and always shall be one of the greatest filmmakers ever to get in front or behind of a camera. He has always been up front about his political affiliation and still made movies with more or less universal appeal. Chuck, on the other hand, is good at karate, made some truly crappy movies and TV shows, and co-opted an internet meme originally conceived for Vin Diesel as a vehicle for his particular brand of crazy. They may belong to the same party, but there's a world of difference in terms of quality.
No, no, I like this. There's currently a light novel out where the epic showdown between the hero and the demon queen is derailed when the queen points out if the war between demons and humans is ever ended, both societies will collapse due to internal socioeconomic factors and the death toll for each will virtually explode. The mutual war effort is basically the only thing keeping the two of them from becoming stagnant. The only way to resolve the issue is to team up and create a sustainable alternative economic model right under their noses. Makes me wish more fantasy properties dealt with the logical implications of their plots.
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