It's particularly disappointing. I like a lot of the concepts for evil gods. I also have no particular issue with "diet evil" neutral cleric types. I've found someone who pays close enough attention to lore for that kind of nuance aren't really an issue. In all my years and all the games I've run, the majority of table disruption from "I'm just playing my alignment!" have come from chaotic neutral characters who don't have any particularly strong affiliation with a deity, mostly rogues and barbarians.
A fellow we have locally has said he felt the best way to do it would be that once a character reaches 12, the chronicles it had are unlocked for play. Its an interesting idea. I think that having GM star replays reset each season rather than getting the one replay for GMing at a con would be better solution though. It both encourages GMing and provides a decent limited reply (5 per year maximum). At worst you get an explosion of GMs trying to get replays, which I mean I don't think anyone is going to say that's bad.
If you're GMing, the easiest way to get her into the fight would be open attacks on the Oracle every time when possible. But she sounds less like a true pacifist and more like a bodyguard for the oracle. A true pacifist would at least try to stop violence maybe with a high diplomacy skill or by using enchantment effect to end battle. Though if she doesn't want to accept an OOC discussion about how her character is impacting everyone else, have your character express how they would feel. I imagine a group of Pathfinders would be quite angry to have someone being a detriment to their team by refusing to help anyone of them but her betrothed.
*wades into the thread, crawling through muddy trenches* "Hey! Anyone seen Rasputin?" shouts the gnome! But seriously, wouldn't it be great if there was like an official PFS Character sheet app for tablets and phones with inventory tracking sheets and everything! It doesn't like generate characters or anything for you, just a simple character sheet! Someone should get on that and give me full credit I say!
Fret not, for I am here and organizing PFS San Antonio's efforts at PAX South! We've got a thread up on PAX South's forum with all our information. Though if you have questions or if anyone has questions, they can ask them here in this thread!
Pathfinder Player Companion: Faiths of Purity; Page 18 Quote: ....You might come from any class (except cleric or paldin, for Apsu does not grant spells);.... It's been stated that this was some sort of weird error by James Jacobs in this thread. This might be a good candidate for the book for some official clarification!
I think the problem most people have with pregens is it kinda defeats one of the major selling points of a table top game which is the liberty to make creative and unique characters of your own. It's one of the reasons I dislike all the special scenarios that require a pregen. They can be fun and quirky, but it's not as interesting. To some extent, I feel a little punished for not playing the season 6 aspis special, because now things like The Bronze House Reprisal scenario, make virtually no sense. This and the pregens aren't optimal in any capacity, and in the more dangerous later seasons (6-7), they can be a liability. It isn't as noticeable at early levels, but the 7 pregens might as well be a detriment save like Kyra.
I think it's kinda silly they call it "atheism" in pathfinder which is essentially disbelief in the existence a of god. I don't think many in the Pathfinder universe lack belief that the gods are real entities. They generally either actively oppose gods like in Rahadoum (anti-theism) or they don't care to worship any of them (apatheism). |
