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So the Bloodrager's spellcasting, is that gonna be focus spells or more like the limited spellcasting seen with Magus? Or the kind archetypes give?

Good! Good. Had Desna been the sacrifice, I would have brought war to Paizo itself. I remain protective of her lovers, but my greatest fear has not come to pass, thank Desna.

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I've always been of the opinion that magic is as much a part of the world as gravity. Its absence is fundamentally impossible, at least without changing what the very universe looks like. If you take away matter, spirit, life, and mind, then what remains?

Magic is not "supernatural." It is natural. To be without it, and yet still exist at all, THAT is unnatural in the extreme, implying that you are made of something that the entire universe around you isn't.

I like the approach very much. I'd even say that any anti-magic and borked-magic areas in player-facing settings so much entangled in magic as Golarion are extremely bad idea, bad taste, not fun and must be actually forbidden. Yes, to hell with Alkenstar. Maybe even literally...

But, it still is very easy to imagine all these essences without magic. Like with gravity and electromagnetism. You are in the first and kind of exist because of the second. So what? Can you fly or shoot lasers from eyes? :)

You. I like you.

Yeah, I've never been a huge Alkenstar fan. The idea that the world is just like ours except with wizards stapled on haphazardly, that's irredeemably boring. It's also wildly inconsistent with a lot of what we actually see, since the world has a bunch of spirits and things, it has souls and ghosts. Do those go away in Alkenstar too?

I do disagree with the conclusion, mind. If gravity and electromagnetism vanished, we would disintegrate into loose sub-atomic particles. Same principle. The world can't exist without its four fundamentals, and magic is just the recognition of those fundamentals and means of directing them, same as boiling water to make steam.

I've always been of the opinion that magic is as much a part of the world as gravity. Its absence is fundamentally impossible, at least without changing what the very universe looks like. If you take away matter, spirit, life, and mind, then what remains?

Magic is not "supernatural." It is natural. To be without it, and yet still exist at all, THAT is unnatural in the extreme, implying that you are made of something that the entire universe around you isn't.

"Belief makes a god" is perhaps my least favorite description of divinity. I shall be happy to determine that this was delusion.

This was really interesting, though I'm not sure I understood everything that was going on. Was there a reason not to just ask for payment normally?

I do love the everyday magic, though. Exactly what I want to see. People in a world where magic is as natural as air should have little, everyday things they can do.

If Desna falls, I will declare a holy war. No dallying, I will go straight-up Mendev on anyone at all.

Subscribers get a complimentary pdf when their book ships.

Ah. I do end up buying most of the rulebooks, it might be cost-effective to... Eh, I'll do some math. Thanks for the tip!

Wait, you guys have PDFs? It says those won't be available until the 22nd. What gives?

I really enjoyed this book. Lots of rich history and culture, and ways to integrate that into a character. It really makes me want to explore the Mwangi Expanse or the River Kingdoms, or even Old Cheliax. I just have one problem with it: It was basically all about humans.

That's fine when it's the idea of a book. Humans deserve just as much of a spotlight as any other ancestry. But when this was supposed to be about the rich diversity of Golarion, 99% of it was about the diversity of one specific inhabitant species. Alkenstar, a single city-state in a desolate wasteland, got as much attention as the entire nation of Kyonin, and several times more than the three Mualijae nations put together - and that's just the Elves.

Again, I still loved the book, and I'm keeping it around for inspiration. I just think a better title for it would've been "Humans of Golarion."