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That's because Adamantine is from Mythology. It can't be trademarked. Same goes for orichalcum while we're at it.
No matter what they tell you, remember: YOU ARE RIGHT! Fantasy definitions must be defended; otherwise, we end up with vampires that glitter in the sun and goblins that look like green elves. If you choose to die on this hill, I will die at your side.Dragons are a reference to Greek serpents, and then the word and concept evolved and got leggier and wingier, possibly partly due to fossil finds etc. The "Asian dragons" aka the loong likely have a similar origin but developed separately, so are only dragons by convergent cultural evolution. Why are those bad things? Twilight didn't change how vampires are written or depcited in media, and it's very very rare that something does. Nothing was lost. The idea that fictional concepts need to be locked in one incarnation forever is absurd and would make things like TTRPGs very very boring.
So if Monster Core has eight dragons, and Monster Core 2 claims to have eight more, does that mean only around four new dragons will be in the Dragon Codex, as the twenty dragon statistics includes expansions on those sixteen dragons? It says "over 20" so I'm going to guess we get 8 more, for a total of 24.
I've always understood it as the high AC means the champion won't be targeted, so it needs something to punish that and say "Hey! Look at me, not them", and that's where the synergy comes on. You either try and hit the harder target, or go for the squishy and trigger the reaction.
Another problem that I can point about giant whirlwind barbarian is that they compete with casters for AoE space. When we have a sorcerer was common that the giant barbarian player preventing the caster to use AoE effects. . .Heh. The Sorcerer's answer at our table was, "Here's a Backfire Mantle and two healing potions." Now that's a true sorcerer player.
My contender is Nevermind. In a campaign we were in, opponents critfailed enough for us to feel bad about the effect. Also, my character got a fail on this. Oh god I'd never had a proper look at it before. That's disqueting.
The advanced character sheet pack contains sheets for the classes from the advanced players guide. Unless I'm mistaken though, the character sheets are all pre-remaster, so you might find there's some discontinity between the sheets and the modern remastered rules. (Assuming you're using the remastered rules, that is).
Because it's been a year and a half, give or take. There's been an emphasis on the new dragons in MC1, because they're, well new, and slapping an extra 10 or so dragons in the book would bloat. it. Since then, I can't think of a single book where you'd print them. It's not a "minefield"
If I were you - i'd only convert what I need. So if a player wants to worship Moradin, convert him. If none of them do, and you don't want to include Moradin worshippers, don't bother.
Hm, well I can imagine they'd certainly appreciate a Fear Gem.. Even if your party loves to demoralise, this doesn't count as a demoralise, so you can keep the enemy's AC low for them to hit better.
You could possibly consider grandmother spider as a deity, if you still want to try this. She's a god, yes. But she was also mistreated by the gods and not compensated for her work as their weaver of fate. She specifically forbids abuses of power, and encourages independent thought. While not explicitly stated, it would not be hard to assume this applies to her too, making her less of a divine boss, and more of a divine mentor, or guiding figure, who grants divine power not with the expectation of servitude, but with the idea that followers use it to secure theirs and other's indpendence. If the idea of divine servitude is upsetting for you, but you want to play a cleric, this is one possible angle. Obviously - I don't know you - so if this wouldn't work for you, that's fine. I just wanted to give my two cents. :)
I would love the NPC to be a tanuki. Imagine the party having to babysit this mischievous little fella who needs to be taught the way of proper leadership, but is more interested in gathering shinies and tying your shoes together. Hmm... do you think I could sneak into Paizo HQ and write this for them without them noticing
If I were rewriting player core, i'd also have a list of skills that are good ideas for a given class, alongside the whole "You might, others might" section. For example, for fighter it'd say "You might train in intimidation to demoralise your foes, weakening their defences more, or focus on athletics to trip and shove your opponents".
I mean unless there's one I'm missing* you can tell by the name and description alone. A drakeheart elixr is clearly not a "food". It should have a trait imo, but really it's not hard to work out. *WRT respect to capcasin tonic it's not written as a food, unless you really want to drill into the fact it's called a tonic. And in that case, just ask your GM.
God tell me about it. I once had to be a bit nasty and give a player a "Start reading what your character does, and what your feats mean, or you'll need to find another group" warning. I feel horrid doing it, especially since we're friends outside the game, but at some point you're just being disrespected because you're putting all this effort in and someone doesn't want to read a couple paragraphs.
Who's aruging that people don't say casters suck?
I would question the idea that (early) rouge sucks but I don't want to get too off-topic immediately. IMO the biggest problems I've had with the teaching the system has been, and I'm not even being hyperbolic with word choices here, deprogramming habits from DnD 5e.
Also, even at early levels, debuffs are helpful. If, as you say, early levels are all about crits, debuffs and buffed players have a much higher chance of landing that crit. It's why demoralise can be great. I've never seen a player come away from early levels and decide that it's not worth debuffing enemies. I've seen them come away not realising they can do it with things that aren't spells, which goes into my point above. And again, never seen one come away and decide that casters "suck" either. Weaker than they'd like them to be? Sure. Especially if they really wanted to use spell attack rolls. But never seen someone decide they're all worthless.
A few things like bladed scarf or polytool made the jump from gods and magic to treasure vault.
Most of the reprints tend to be taking things from adventure paths or lost omens books, and then putting them into "mainline" products. For example, weapons that appear in an adventure path showing up in treasure vault. To my knowledge, we are yet to see reprints from one "mainline" book end up in another.* Even ROE didn't reprint the elemental spells sectiom, it just added to what was in SOM. *Remastered versions of books excluded. |
