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Bluddwolf wrote:

3. The Devs needed to accommodate Chaotic Good bandits, so they could ply their skills without slipping into Chaotic Evil. The SAD mechanic accomplishes that.

I never understood how banditry would be anything but chaotic neutral at the very most. It certainly should bring your good alignment down. SAD is not chaotic by itself. SAD is evil. It's exploitation of others with the implied threat of force should they resist, this is evil. SAD in a land where theft is illegal is both chaotic and evil.

Robin Hood wasn't good for stealing, he was good for what he did with said money. What he did was for the greater good. He took money from oppressors, and gave to the oppressed. What player bandits will do is for themselves, and entirely selfish. I'm not saying SAD shouldn't be in the game, but it should not be associated with chaotic good, because it's not.

You should be required to give your spoils (or a portion) away to npcs to maintain chaotic good, otherwise you should shift slowly to chaotic evil. This would also allow you to play a high reputation chaotic evil character for those people who want that.

I agree, there's no real way to justify that stealing from people is "good" unless you can be certain that the person you are taking from is evil and planning to do evil with those resources unless you take them. But to me, banditry for personal gain using the SAD mechanic definitely falls right into the neutral category and I don't think it should make you evil either. Being selfish is a completely neutral action, and as long as you aren't trying to kill people for the loot it shouldn't pull down your alignment. Given that, a chaotic good bandit is viable so long as the banditry itself is the most evil action they perform, but they are otherwise good.

If siege camps had their supplies refilled by the addition of IG resources I don't see the need for an abstract hex based line of supply. Players would be loading up wagons and pack mules and periodically driving them to the front. Rather than camping on a hex until the disruption timer counts down the opposition would need to actually locate and destroy or capture a supply train.

I definitely agree with this as well. No need for some abstraction of supply routes and more complicated game mechanics when you can just have characters reliant on actual supplies.

I am now wondering how an actual siege would work though. What benefit would there be to the attacker to maintain a prolonged siege over a more quick assault as soon as they breach the walls? And is food currently a necessity in Pathfinder, something characters would actually suffer without?

I agree, there doesn't need to be a difference between PvE and PvP death. Your corpse should still be lootable if you die in PvE, but maybe just give anyone stealing from your body a criminal flag for some length of time.

Speaking of the quick/obvious paths and the slower/hidden alternatives, what do we know about how maps are going to work in Pathfinder Online? Is it going to be an automatic thing that is just recorded and you can access at any time with a press of the "m" button or will it be more complicated than that? I'm hoping for something more interesting, where finding and mapping an alternative route through some hills or a jungle could be potentially very rewarding as it gives you a route not many others know about, or the possibility to produce and sell maps to guide others through the area.

So is anyone else willing to take over as DM for this?

At this point, I wouldn't get my hopes up.

I've still been checking it almost every day to see if something changed.

I would like to add that I have a continued interest as well. Very much anticipating the start of this thread.

The website started having problems, maintenance or something, just when I finished updating the sheet. Lost everything I did and had to go back and redo it all. Incredibly annoying, but I believe I have everything needed on my character's profile at this point.

Alright, spell selection is the only thing I have left to do and I should have that finished in another 10 minutes or so. So I'm pretty much finished and ready to go when everyone else is.

I will update my character with all the final stats and gear sometime tonight, but I'm going to be busy for the next few hours and unable to do anything (I'm actually going to be running a D&D 3.5 game). But thank you for accepting my character, I'm really looking forward to this campaign.

And I'm a little bit later responding because I somehow missed your link to this thread the first time around, and I was waiting for an update to come in the last thread.

Edit: Well, I've updated it with most of my stats, but I haven't selected all the equipment yet as that will take me significantly longer to do.

Alright then, thank you for your interest in my character. I'll roll up the rest of the stats on him today, hopefully. Really looking forward to this game.

Ok, I figure if this is going be a random game, why not attempt to make a random character:

I will roll 1d20 for races, -4. races will be alphabetical from Core then in the order you posted the non-core races above.

1d20-4 Half-Elf

Class will also be 1d20, +1. Order will be 11 Core, then the 6 from APG, then Magus and the 3 from UC(Didn't count Anti-Paladin as that's an evil class that doesn't seem like it would mesh well with the concept of the game.)

1d20+1 Magus.

So Half-Elf Magus. Coolness :)

Think I'll probably go straight Magus, though I am not positive. Will work up a character over the next few days.

I really like the concept you have here of rolling up your character randomly, but I feel I should just make one correction to your system. Adding/subtracting from a d20 roll doesn't increase/decrease the range of the roll. 1d20+1 has a range of 2-21, but there are still only 20 options in there.

Clumber here. Since you said you were still accepting submissions, I thought I would post my character concept for you approval. I left out most of his stats as I haven't finalized those yet, but the gist of my character is there and I might as well wait for you to approve the character or not before continuing.