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NobodysHome wrote:

So how are Captain Yesterday and I not locking every single thread we post on? We don't even pay attention to the topic...

i told my son to get into his car seat and he said "you're a frustrating a&%%+#% dad!" the best part is, he learns that language from his mom:)

also we're doing Iron Gods inspired by X-files, i was going to save it for halloween but the family insisted as soon as possible:) the thread is called The Twilight Files: x-filing Iron Gods, i suck at linking so you're on your own finding it:)
now what was this thread about.........

GALT!!

And something about threads locking refugees.

Well, this looks shiny.

OH WAIT THAT'S BLOOD.

And it's fresh.

Bearded Lady and other circus tropes/characters.

What would you do if you suddenly turned into a guy?

Kajehase wrote:

*puts on two layers of full plate armour*

Care to make a comment about this place?

Not without breaking the site's profanity filter.

I want some, for bugs extermination.

Has this been posted yet?

Avatar of Cosmo.

Spawns of Wes.

An awakened T-Rex named James.

Robo-Chris.

Gary Golem.

Nothingness Elementals.

Paizo Golem.

One of these days, someone will blame Cosmo's parents for Cosmo.

RAT-BURGER! Who want a Rat-Burger?

End of the world as we know it?

If you're on this thread, this might interest you.

Author Dave Gross was kind enough to include me in his Creative Colleagues series of interviews. Check it out to hear more from me about creating some of the most terrifying parts of the Pathfinder Campaign Setting, “consensual trauma,” writing GLBTQ characters, and my long hinted at secret project!

So you were the guess of Horror?

Blood of the Circus.

People of the Circus.

Circuses of Golarion.

Circus Handbook.

Clown of Golarion. Just to mess with James Jacobs !

Forgot about Circus of Golarion, a book about traveling performers, jesters, magicians, clowns and acrobata and how they survive on the roads.

+1

Are there any Clowns?

I blame Cosmo for the "Apologize to Chris Lambertz for All of your misdeeds here" topic being nearly forgotten.

Should we expect some Stargate jokes/references?

A good GM can make any skill relevant. A Profession (innkeeper) check, for example, could be used to notice that the inn's ledger had a bunch of suspicious transactions near the end.

On the other hand, a player should not be surprised if profession (midwife) doesn't come up much during a dungeon crawl.

"The monster is a pregnant female."

*PCs help her give birth, then kill her*

"Can we keep the babies?"

The game could be only profession skills, changing which ability score one uses depending on the situation...

- Profession Adventurer.

- Profession Monster Hunter.

- Profession Tomb Raider.

- Profession MurderHobo.

- Profession...

Party/Group's theme song, Characters's theme songs, Party/Group's Dramatic Pose's theme song, battle theme(s), Villains's theme songs, Boss Battles's theme songs, etc...

I have a party whose initial concept had them as a traveling band of acrobatic/carnival style mercenaries led by a Gypsy woman. They were going to go with Court of Miracles.

- A Circus Freak.

Maybe a Noble Scion. Undeads? Hire someone to destroy them.

The penultimate dilatantte who will not get personally involved but let minions do all the work.

"Why am I still level one when everyone else is level 17?"

Clown-Bat / Bat-Clown?

If COSMO wrote a Module/AP, would we blame him for the lameness or setting the bar too high for the next one?

C. Nutcase wrote:

Liz Courts wrote:

James Jacobs wrote:

Clowns aren't humanoids. They're aberrations.

Evidence: Cosmo.

Or Outsiders.

Or Aberration (augmented Outsider).

Or Outsider (augmented Aberration).

Maybe Monstrous Humanoids or Fey?

Qlippoth Lords are Outsiders.

I thought Great Old Ones or Outer Gods...

James Jacobs wrote:

Clowns aren't humanoids. They're aberrations.

Evidence: Cosmo.

Or Outsiders.

Or Aberration (augmented Outsider).

Or Outsider (augmented Aberration).

Maybe Monstrous Humanoids or Fey?

C. Nutcase wrote:

James Jacobs wrote:

C. Nutcase wrote:

On your way back from a walk, you come across a wriggling mass of tentacles on the ground, what do you do?

How massive is this theoretical mass?

1) Smaller than me: I investigate and am intrigued.

2) Larger than me: I flee and am intrigued.

Let say small, the "body" kinda looks like the night sky.

A) It's just on the ground.

B) It's in a small crater.

C) It's on the ground and there is a tear in the fabric of reality nearby.

The established protocol in such a case is, of course, to poke it with a stick. That's what I'd do. I'd also take pictures with my iPhone of course. Video too! YouTube Sensation!!!!

And CIA, FBI, MiB, weird cultists and what's not.

C. Nutcase wrote:

On your way back from a walk, you come across a wriggling mass of tentacles on the ground, what do you do?

How massive is this theoretical mass?

1) Smaller than me: I investigate and am intrigued.

2) Larger than me: I flee and am intrigued.

Let say small, the "body" kinda looks like the night sky.

A) It's just on the ground.

B) It's in a small crater.

C) It's on the ground and there is a tear in the fabric of reality nearby.

On your way back from a walk, you come across a wriggling mass of tentacles on the ground, what do you do?

Someone cast reduce person on you and it works, what do you do?

C. Nutcase wrote:

IT'S THEM! RUN!

CEASE ESCAPE ATTEMPTS, CITIZEN. THERE IS NO ESCAPE. THERE IS NO RETREAT. THERE IS NOWHERE DEVOID OF OBSERVATION. WE ARE ALL. WE ARE EVERYWHERE. GLORY TO THE MANY.

Do you know a certain Seven of Nine?

...

****, THAT WAS THE BORG!

IT'S THEM! RUN!

Were you hoping we forgot about this topic?

If they aren't sterile, can they produce "Cyborg" with other humanoids?

Lord Fyre wrote:

James Jacobs wrote:

xevious573 wrote:

** spoiler omitted **

What happens when a changeling puts that on?

It switches gender.

Okay. But, given that Changelings are "female only" what race does it become?

It stays a changeling. It's a male changeling now, though. Which is weird and strange, but that's what magic can do to a person. It's stats don't change at all, in any event.

1) Male Harpy, male Medusa, male... you know, quite a few monsters/races are Female Only.

2) weird question, if someone who was turned genderless by a gender-bending item, would using another one make them hermaphrodite?

Might I point out "Mature" means different things to different people?

For example, Mature to me means very grey situations. MAture sex and violence means to me "There are various ways to introduce sex (and reprecussions) into a game." "Ways to deal with crippling wounds include..."

I don't need "Here are rules for body part size." "Is my ogre having sex piercing or bludgeoning damage?" "Roll d100 to see if you knocked her up." "Roll on the random limb loss table."

That's me. Others might want random fertility tables, more boobies in art, and mechanics on how aroused you feel after slaughtering a score of halflings.

Our hosts clearly feel they have their own guidelines on a) What they consider mature. (as evidenced in their products) and b) What they choose to allow their partners using the compatability license to show as mature (the little black square in my copy of The Black Monestary.)

Are we still talking about Pathfinder/Paizo or did we derail into talking about FATAL?

C. Nutcase wrote:

Halloween/etc costumes/outfits?

What about them?

Is that something Paizo would do? Or maybe just design?

long ago someone wanted PC equivalent of NPC classes.

Cori Marie wrote:

Has Paizo ever considered selling tabs for their books? It's something I typically do to my own books by hand for easy reference, and one of my players said that it's a great idea and was surprised that you don't sell pre-made tabs for that purpose

Nope. We're mostly doing book publishing. Something like custom tabs would be a thing we'd probably rather license than produce in house. And even then... not sure how well they'd sell...

Halloween/etc costumes/outfits?

Oh well maybe next year,..... cleric or a catfolk... cleric or catfolk choices choices.

Catfolk Cleric?

which do you suppose is freakier

a drow stripper or a tiefling stripper??

I would say, depends on which kind of tiefling (and drow?), and which gender...

I took up this project because of the concept. I don't get a chance to write evil too often these days.

<<Goes back to writing material for PCs to use... >>

Jason Bulmahn
Lead Designer
Paizo Publishing

Make an Evil AP (with one or more Campaign Setting and Player Companion book(s) that go with it)?

Gestalt Expert/Warrior.

Thicker pages/paper?

You'd be amazed what canvas sacks with dollar signs emblazoned on the side will buy! (Unmarked, nonsequential twenties only, please.)

Nearyn wrote:

Cha 16 (Playboy by day, terribly frightening by night)

He fights crime all night.

When he's not fighting crime, he's training.
When he's not training, he's memorizing useless s#@& in case the Riddler uses it in some riddle.
And I assume he sleeps at some point.

When the hell is he putting on the "Bruce Wayne, playboy" facade?

He should be known as a recluse who people aren't even sure actually exists...not a playboy.

He is Batman, and his Batcave exist outside of time and space.

I've played a lot of neutral characters that use whatever means necessary to kill the people eating monsters. I was doing this before Supernatural went on the air.

The Winchesters are at the limit of "Fighting Evil with Evil".

There is "The end justifies the means", while not necessarily evil is in the "Good is not (always) Nice" category... kinda goes with "Evil isn't (always) Bad".

A Chaotic Evil guy might see himself as Lawful Good; he enforce the law of "the strong survive, the weak die" and get rid of the weaks who are bad for the world, thus doing good.

Gorbacz wrote:

American public goes ballistic if:

1. Nipples are exposed
2. Children are in danger

Anything else is generally fine with an average Yankee - ultraviolence, disembowelment, genocide, homicide, suicide, more ultraviolence. But the moment you expose boobies or hint that little Sue might get a load of spiked tentacles in all the wrong places, John and Jane hit the panic button and send "please stop this or we'll notify our local religious right organization" emails.

Not quite true.

There are plenty of other things that gets the American public to go ballistic.

In Burnt Offerings, for example, two elements in Sandpoint got some folks worked up...

** spoiler omitted **

We'll continue to expose nipples, put kids in danger, and have good aligned homosexuals and pro-choice NPCs and their like in the game now and then... but we generally don't do so too often because in the end we want the game itself to be what folks are talking about, not one minor single little element of it.

Make said children Avatars of the Elder Gods/Great Old Ones and/or Anthropomorphic Personifications?

Could give something like:
Little kid: *get stepped on by a dragon* "Hmm, excuse me, mister dragon, could you watch where you are going?"

... or just kill the dragon.

C. Nutcase wrote:

It has rules for pregnancy that some people use.

And poked fun that children are rarely mentioned outside plot points (like when they get kidnapped).

Come to think of it, child characters are rarely mentioned/incorporated (outside backstory), any idea why?

Two reasons come to mind:

1) Because the rules don't really support children. You could, I guess, apply the young template to a PC... but still, what class is your 1st level wizard when he's 4 years old? Is he still a wizard? If not, then what class is he? And what happens to that class when he becomes a wizard once he reaches his starting age? The game simply doesn't directly support children characters that well at all, and so we generally don't use them a lot.

2) Because people get worked up and nervous when we put children into adventures and the like, for whatever reason. We had a bunch of kids in peril in several of our earlier adventures (Crown of the Kobold King and Edge of Anarchy both come to mind), and we did have a fair amount of people complaining that it wasn't cool of us to do "kids in peril" in adventures. So we've shied away from that.

It's particularly frustrating to me that, for example, the game doesn't really support running a Game of Thrones type adventure, since we wouldn't be able to really model a robust character like Arya Stark without kludging together some rules for how to stat up a 12-year-old rogue or getting a lot of "think of the children!" emails.

Make a Lovercraftian horror disguised as a cute kid?

C. Nutcase wrote:

...mentioned the infamous BoEF...

Yes... although I've always felt that RPG books and products that use photos as illustrations instead of paintings are lazy and dull ways to provide art for imaginary settings, regardless of the actual content of the RPG product. In the case of that particular book, it makes it feel more like titillation/pornography than an actual legitimate book covering a rarely-covered (ha) topic for RPGs.

It has rules for pregnancy that some people use.

And poked fun that children are rarely mentioned outside plot points (like when they get kidnapped).

Come to think of it, child characters are rarely mentioned/incorporated (outside backstory), any idea why?