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Now I'm curious about the warlord and the milkmaid.

For a class which is traditionally very high constitution she looks kind of sick and tired. On the other hand she also looks angry which is good.

These look sweet! Any chance of getting a Gunslinger style class in the future? Maybe something more space cowboy esque?

Honestly if you want a gunslinger style class you just use an operative and specialize in pistols. They get a bunch of tricks for that including being able to shoot without provoking if using pistols.

It sounds like some things that were feats became weapon traits, I hope there are ways to focus on a weapon and perhaps be able to get traits out of it that it does not usually have. I also hope they do not go the route of Starfinder and make it so only 'rogue' weapons will be able to be used for sneak attack, or if that is true they at least let you open it up with a feat.

Rysky wrote:

Is that Halfling based on Mark Seifter?

That’s why he’s so familiar! And Linda’s the gnome!

Hmm

The halfling seems too irritated to be Mark, and the gnome does not have enough knives on her to be Linda.

Interesting to see the early and tentative thoughts on PFS transferring from First Edition into Second Edition. I will weigh in that I am fine with starting over completely I think the best solution is to just start fresh. I am honestly not a fan of people who have stars getting a discount of any sort on their way to whatever Second Edition will use. With the sole exception of being able to trade some of the older race boons in for that same race in the new edition I am not interested in trading out boons. However if it is not possible to trade in old race boons for ones in the new edition, I will not be upset.

Honestly rather glad to not be converting over my characters from 1st to 2nd edition. Looking forwards to a fresh start in a fresh campaign actually. I just really hope that the first edition of the Bestiary starts to open up some of the more popular races, or I suppose ancestries now. I know people have mentioned Tengu, but it would be nice to see a more balanced Aasimar and Tiefling allowed back into society.

Looking forwards to the high level scenario. Very curious to see if we are actually going to free an elemental lord.

Sort of looks like a sketched outline of the Scarab Sages emblem

Yeah, Barsoom rifles and pistols were always a weird point. Super high range and yet everyone ran around and used sword on one another.

I am wondering if they will eventually do a martial anthology. Get the Golarion Equivalent of the Book of Five Rings, or the Art of War. Fencing manuals and so forth.

Honestly I did not expect them to sanction Kingmaker.

Hi Mark, hope you are having fun at GenCon and travel and such worked out for you. Have any pleasant surprises out there yet?

Now the real fun is how they can manipulate you while telling the truth.

The plane of fire, already on fire before the adventurers get there, for once.

Wow, do you have to kick the dog as part of the somatic component? Still excited about the decapitate spell though. Which oddly enough feels a lot less evil.

Thinking about it, it might be fun if they made a Hellknight Archetype for Vigilantes. It sort of makes sense if you are a very different person while in your armor.

Oh, Ezren needs to be the inn keeper. He really looks the part already! Also I really hope the familiar investigator works with the psychic investigator.

This would require a party to go all in on it, but essentially an adventuring party they had a small canon. So all the canon feats, roll up to a dungeon entrance and start blasting away with a mixture of grape shot and canon balls.

Quite seriously, Archetypes do not feel as bad as prestige classes since you do not need to meet weird prerequisites for them. Prestige classes sometimes felt like you needed more planning, and weird warping of your character to fit.

Nah, Jorsal of Lauterbury is our Local Venture Captain David Montegomery.

Depends on the little halfling jail breaker. From seeing what information we are told here, things in the scenarios themselves make a bit more sense perhaps.

Ah, funny I thought it was the Silver Balladeer from Occult Adventures. Curious to see which of the these new Ruse spells end up in Pathfinder Society.

Yeah but most everyone on Golarion is bisexual unless otherwise stated, so that is not much of a limit.

Red Raven the Gritty Reboot! Also I notice this is all told from an unreliable narrator. Though gotta love Galt "All men should be equal, but you have tainted blood from ten generations back." As my Paladin said "It is telling that the guy from a country literally run by assassins thinks Galt is crazy."

You get size bonuses and penalties. They are always included, but they also even out. You get a +1 to hit for being small, but you also get a +1 to AC. So if you are both small those bonuses even out, but are still included in your calculations.

I hope we get a nice spread showing all the variations on Hellknight armor, and rivalries. Also maybe hints at what is going on with the Order of the Gate, or how Hellknights have interacted with other orders of Knights.

Oh, its really nice to see more Hellknight material.

It seems that either that, or the Decemvirate are essentially a case of convergent magical research. Sort of the way blades in Pathfinder at least have some affinity for grabbing and binding souls. As evidenced by things like Soul Drinker, Final Blades, or the Field of Ten Thousand Swords.

It would make sense if masks magically are associated with protecting your identity.

Roleplaying games tend to pull from fiction. What fiction do you think is most Pathfinder like? Aside of course from the Pathfinder tales.

Oh, I really enjoyed the new teamwork feats. The Iridian Fold itself is quite interesting, and the feats help back that up.

Well with that and the cape tricks in Dirty Tactics Tool box we are getting closer, and closer to emulating Batman.

Ruby Phoenix and Sihedron Rune so basically Aspis doing the flipside of Pathfinder's victories.

It is going to be really strange to no longer have Mike Brock as Campaign Coordinator. I hope that his successor is able to deal with the level of quality PFS has come to expect.

The reason is that Chelish High Opera is performed in Azlanti. It is also important to remember that until the death of Aroden it was also the liturgical language of his church. Which means it is probably much closer to being the Latin equivalent. So while it is a dead language it is twitching fairly heavily.

Not sure of the best real world equivalent for Jistikan though, I think you could argue something like Greek or maybe Etruscan, the Hellknights are much more likely to speak that though due to their explicitly modelling their own organization after the Jistikan military.

This isn't as well-developed as other things I've read on the thread, but, here goes...

In the Shattered Star PbP I'm in, my character is a pit-born tiefling rogue who clawed his way up from the gutters of Magnimar to become a Pathfinder, in the hopes of getting out of the criminal lifestyle he grew up with. Our current party is almost entirely human, but one of the former members was an aasimar urban druidess with malformed legs. She left the party because her player dropped from the campaign.

For the longest time, the aasimar kept flirting with my rogue. Unfortunately, thanks to a combination of my character not having any ranks in Sense Motive and having a WIS modifier of 0, I didn't get it until much later. She even hugged my character in the aftermath of the first adventure's opening encounter, and I didn't clue in on it.

But there was one time our party split up to gather information on our next task, and my rogue and the druidess went off to see a fortuneteller with our sorcerer. My rogue asked her why she walked the way she did. Here's the quote that should have clued me in on her attraction:

(Paraphrased) When asked why she walks funny wrote:

"Birth defect. No shame in asking, people always do. It's alright. It makes me more attractive to burglars, less so to slavers."

And I'm not even kidding when I say my first reaction upon reading that was:

An Oblivious Tiefling's Thoughts wrote:

"Well, I guess that makes sense--pickpockets would have an easier time outrunning you."

I'm still kicking myself for not getting it until recently.

That is actually sort of sweet in an awkward kind of way. Pity the player had to drop out of the game, but definitely the sort of thing you want to end the campaign and say "I think I need to see a druidess about pick pocketing."

Eesh, there has to be a better way to set wards than that. Also razor wire and pain. Sounds like a Kyton of some sort.

Well yes, I mean its no surprise that one of the suggestions is "Make it like it used to be." Also I have found the dispel magic counterspelling tends to work fairly well.

To be fair, I have no idea how those got into this either. Honestly its a home game, just discuss it with your GM. I think it strayed into werewolves since they are the 'standard' werecritter.

Honestly, part of this is a lot of the time people have no idea how being a werecritter works. Also added to that is that afflicted can either be ignorant of their condition, or aware and able to actually exercise some control. Also I am curious where you are pulling your thoughts on how lycanthropes work LazerX.

As for why it is inherited? Its a curse, those tend to follow families. Also you can feel free to make it as infectious as you want in your home game, but if your paladin manages to fight a werewolf without getting dinged by a bite it seems a mite vindictive to say "And you get cursed anyways." Though thats personal taste, and groups vary.

Well it would be funny to go "I spend a smite point." I am also perplexed why anyone would want to go away from cantrips at will and counter spelling.

Talking about the Goz Mask, and Fog Cutter glasses actually raises a question in my mind. What is an item that you think is priced correctly for what it does? I mean there are the various stat booster items, but unchained just came out with a few rules varient that removes the various state boosters. Apparently due to people just not liking or being impressed with the static booster items.

Well the divorce rate is skewed by people that remarry multiple times. At which point you have to realize it is not solely about finding another person, but being the sort of person that is the marrying kind.

Wow, puzzle box looks like it would be a nasty spell. Also the art is as always really nice.

Actually the question about Nurgal and how his Succubus servants would look made me curious. What diety or demon lord would have the most atypical demon minions?

To be fair not every Aspis agent were push overs.

In any case I look forwards to return the favor after this years siege, to go beat the Aspis in their own little club house. I mean this is the second time someone has come in and tried assaulting the Grand Lodge.

Yes, it sounds like a really weird one honestly. Since there is an implication you are going to have basically divine and arcane casting as plug in options for the class. Perhaps the best 3.5 analog would be the factotum, which was another very odd class. Thankfully it does have a very strong hook to hang itself on in terms of game play.

Really, the obvious name is "Pathfinder Chronicler" well if you want to do a bit of an homage to Sage Advice that is.

This is why I like the echolocation spell.

Well I guess Grootslang at least solve the "What if we find one of the monster's eggs." problem for Paladins.