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Revan wrote:

Freehold DM wrote:

I hope it is still in there. It continues to weird me out how good must equal nice and actively insulting a god means zero consequences whatsoever.

Not having the right answers to inane questions is not an insult, and even if it were, assault is not by any reasonable standard a proportionate consequence to insult.

wasting a god's time is not wise.

But she's (supposed to be) Lawful Good. She was a mortal Paladin. The Goddess of the iconic Paladin, to boot. Would you let a PC's Paladin inflict lethal damage on innocents for not answering his questions, or not answering them correctly, without falling?

The rules of what is Good and what is Evil are no different for the gods. Their actions and the intent behind them still determine their alignment.

How about "Sorry, you formulated your third option in a way which makes me not agree with it anymore, although the general idea is what I'd support.". Sometimes getting too fancy with your wording works out contrary to your intentions.

Pathfinder AP's were too short, since most of them did not reach level 20. IMO, they could either have cut out the fiction (I don't think I read a single piece in ten years) or should have stopped with the bean-counting and just have people level up at certain points in the adventure to get to level 20 at the end. And, yes, I know that both of these options are disliked by some other people, since some people love the fiction and others are strongly pro-bean counting.

You don't like adding numbers or reading stuff? Why do you play Pathfinder?

DominusMegadeus wrote:

Arachnofiend wrote:

Iomedae: "Oh holy Inheritor, I beseech thee for thy wisdom and thy blessing."

"IF YOU FOUND AN ORC BABY WOULD YOU KILL IT DO YOU CATCH THE VILLAIN OR SAVE THE GIRL WHAT DID I GET FOR MY THIRD BIRTHDAY!? TIME'S UP!"

*120 Sonic Damage*

"I'M LAWFUL GOOD BY THE WAY!"

That's pretty much not even slightly how that encounter is written.

"BACK SASSING A GODDESS!? WAKE HIM UP, BOYS!"

*Deafened, muted, bleeding out, dumped in the woods*

Iomedae: "Oh holy Inheritor, I beseech thee for thy wisdom and thy blessing."

"IF YOU FOUND AN ORC BABY WOULD YOU KILL IT DO YOU CATCH THE VILLAIN OR SAVE THE GIRL WHAT DID I GET FOR MY THIRD BIRTHDAY!? TIME'S UP!"

*120 Sonic Damage*

"I'M LAWFUL GOOD BY THE WAY!"

Claxon wrote:

thejeff wrote:

Welcome to live pretty much anywhere before the modern era, and still in a lot of places.

The point isn't that Cheliax is wonderful, it's that it's surprisingly not awful for a country run by devils. And that there are plenty of worse places in Golarion.

Exactly, thank you! You get what I'm trying to say.

Yes, s%%# can be bad for certain individuals. But UnArcaneElection was focusing too much on individual outcomes and not the whole.
{. . .}

Not just individuals (although when bad stuff happens to a lot of individuals, it adds up), but also whole demographic groups (including but almost certainly not limited to Halflings and Tieflings).

Maybe if you want to be treated like a human being, you should have been born as one. Stupid slips...

Because after all, it's the GM who's telling the story.

y i k e s

Keep laughing, buddy, I'm going to Elysium when I pass.

The afterlife is a massive scam. 'You' die as an entity when your life ends. Afterlife strips you down and turns you into the fabric of the plane. I'm not gonna waste my life suffering and sacrificing for the weak so I can go to Heaven and get f#$&ing processed. Gonna get my rewards while I'm here to enjoy them.

Asmodeus. Popular, powerful, has his own (awesome) country, Imp familiars are useful, lots of special rules and items.

Glory to the Prince of Darkness.

My only advice would be to avoid forcing the PCs into it. To force a PC to do something requires being more powerful than them and keeping an eye on them constantly. Otherwise they just punch you or skip town. But if you can follow the PCs anywhere anytime and beat them with one hand behind your back... why do you need them? Just go out and police the city yourself with your super ninja powers.

It's not always a bad idea to put the PCs under someone's thumb if it makes sense, but this scenario in particular seems ill-suited for it.

LG has Paladin, CE has Anti-Paladin and LE has Tyrant.

Chaotic Good, despite being the obvious favorite of the devs, is the only one left out in the cold from delicious, Charisma-scaling badassery.

...as it should be. *polishes spiky armor*

Ascalaphus wrote:

However, what is stopping devils from forcing everyone to sign away their souls under duress? Probably the other deities, who don't want their followers stolen away.

Erastil: Hey, have I ever told you about Farmer Bob?

Iomedae: No, who is he?

Erastil: He's a mid-fifties human male, raised a family, staple of the community, all around great guy. Never put a foot wrong his whole life.

Iomedae: Sounds like an ideal follower of yours, I take it something happened to him?

Erastil: Yeah, he got tortured and murdered by devil worshipers. But at least he'll join me in my sacred realm and -- hang on, breaking news. Apparently he was tortured to the point he signed an infernal contract and is now damned to Hell for eternity. Oh well!

Iomedae: Sucks to be him, I suppose. Moving on to another topic...

Sounds about right for Iomedae, honestly. She's basically a devil with good PR.

The problem is the same as it ever was. Fear spells should be enchantment instead of necromancy.

In short, diversity in comics is not bad for business. S+$@ty stories and boring characters are bad for business.

The problem is, as mentioned upthread, creators seem too scared to make a minority/lgbt with any flaws or character at all. So all comic fans ever see of 'diversity' are those bland fakers who replaced their heroes. This leads them to the understandable but mistaken conclusion that diversity = bad.

As a 90's kid myself, I am unreasonably obsessed with John Stewart as GL. But they didn't just put a black guy in a green suit and expect people to like him. He had a past, a personality, a relationship with another member of the team (that wasn't just "omg, she's dating a black guy!?!?!?!"). He was a serious foil to the laidback Flash.

They actually put in effort is what I'm saying. That's the key. You will not be rewarded or accepted for being a boring black guy anymore than you will for being a boring white guy. Don't write a token minority. Write a character who happens to be a minority.

I don't get all the hubub about evil spells. They're not chaotic or anything crazy like that. I know lots of devils, and I'm pretty sure they wouldn't give us a spell that had any nasty consequences.

Fighters fulfill their intended flavor pretty well:

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Some take up arms for glory, wealth, or revenge. Others do battle to prove themselves, to protect others, or because they know nothing else. Still others learn the ways of weaponcraft to hone their bodies in battle and prove their mettle in the forge of war. Lords of the battlefield, fighters are a disparate lot, training with many weapons or just one, perfecting the uses of armor, learning the fighting techniques of exotic masters, and studying the art of combat, all to shape themselves into living weapons. Slightly more than mere thugs, these skilled warriors reveal the true deadliness of their weapons, turning hunks of metal into arms capable of taming kingdoms, slaughtering monsters, and rousing the hearts of armies (though not as well as a bard could). Their skill with weapons and armor is matched only by their lack of any other skills, and their mighty fortitude is matched only by their slow reflexes and weak will. Soldiers, knights, hunters, and artists of war, fighters are unparalleled champions, and woe to those who dare stand against them, except for wizards and such who don't find them much of a problem.

I believe the internet parlance is "top kek". You really had me for a second there.

Pharasma for being a non-Evil death deity that dislikes undead. Also, no overdone reaper look.

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Nethys for casting a spell that lets him see the entire multiverse all at once. "But he went insane", you might say. Sounds like bitter grapes from someone who didn't get to ascend.

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Damerrich for being the patron saint of edgelords, but still managing to be a legitimately Good god. Always regret that you were forced to take a life, but never regret taking it.

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Vildeis for representing the extremist, hardcore Good that you would expect from an outsider. An angel who stabbed out her eyes with a black dagger so that she would never again have to suffer the sight of evil is one of the most metal things I've ever read in my life.

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Lissala is... complicated. I love her for being strict but fair, expecting people to follow their superiors and actually rewarding obedience instead of tricking them into killing their wives or other cartoon villany. Lissala also gave us the Lissalan Snake Sigil spell, which is one of the best ever put to paper by Paizo.

The problem I have with her is her alignment. I'm pretty sure she was supposed to be a Lawful Neutral goddess. I'm aware that James Jacobs has explicitly said she was always LE, but it just never fit to me. Her teachings inspired Xin, a LN wizard, to develop the seven virtues of rule. I understand that you can call anything a virtue if you want, but these virtues were then corrupted into the sins. So you have to tell me how wealth, fertility, honest pride, abundance, eager striving, righteous anger, and rest are Evil. If you can manage that, then try to explain how they got corrupted into the sins if they were always whatever Evil spin the rulers put on them. I've heard it argued that Krune was her high priest and he was Evil. This is true, but he was a Wizard. He could claim to be the high priest of Shelyn if he wanted to. Being LE is also completely okay with a LN god.

In short, Paizo pls.

I mean, halflings and gnomes exist. You could outfit a whole small-race castle.

I'm FAQing this because I think it's important, despite the near certainty that devs will say no because they dislike people having fun.

Yeah, necromancy losing healing and getting fear was an awful trade, both mechanically and flavor-wise.

I'm going to guess, just a shot in the dark really, that this topic ends with ChaosTicket saying Druids are worthless as-is, and should be Full-BAB with 8 + Int ranks per level and 3.5e Wildshape.

A little off target (I erred towards Fighter/Rogue Druid, he went Wizard/Cleric Druid), but I still feel vindicated.

I'm going to guess, just a shot in the dark really, that this topic ends with ChaosTicket saying Druids are worthless as-is, and should be Full-BAB with 8 + Int ranks per level and 3.5e Wildshape.

We are the unsilent majority.

Zygomind isn't even an encounter. It's a campaign in and of itself.

I also FAQ'd. About time the dev team got around to answering this one.

WALL OF THORNS

Wall of Thorns is so obnoxiously strong.

It has no save or SR and every option the spell lists for being stuck in it is coupled with a horrible drawback.

Magical fire can work, after 10 minutes.

You can slash through with a machete at one square per hour.

If you have good strength, you can power through with full-round actions and still take the damage.

If you do manage to move at this snail's pace, don't worry, it still sucks. The thorn bush itself is almost 100 cubic feet and last for an hour and a half. The Druid might have cast it from anywhere within ~200 feet of you, and his whole party had time to set up an ambush for you.

This is not counting the possibility that the druid turned into a Behemoth Hippopotamus and came in after you because he's immune to it from Woodland Stride.

It's only balanced by being on the spell list of a 9th-level caster who can turn into an elemental.

ohwaitthat'snotbalancedatall

This all sounds very reasonable, but can someone point out the rule that prevents a CE cleric from taking the Devil subdomain of Evil? Or a LG cleric taking it off of Law? Assuming that the deity or philosophy domain list contained it, which admittedly would be odd.

Probably no rule against it if you can find a LN or NE god that offers it. The trouble, as you alluded to, is finding that god. I wouldn't hold my breathe for such a deity being published anytime soon.

There's a Lawful Version of the subdomain and an Evil version of it.

Devil (Law) will still have the other domain power and spells of the Law domain, while Devil (Evil) will have the other domain power and spells of the Evil domain.

You can be Lawful Evil (Take either one), Lawful Neutral (Take Law), or Neutral Evil (Take Evil).

No actual need for goatees (two of my PCs are women)

Sir, that is the best reason for them to have goatees.

Oath Against Chaos Paladin of Abadar or Tyrant Anti-paladin of Asmodeus.

More seriously, a Cleric -> Hellknight Signifier is probably the best you can do. Cast OP spells, hit things with a mace, heilworship a Lawful god.

But no one ever was assaulted in the middle of a library by a folio volume.

You must hang out in some lame libraries if you've never been assaulted by a book.

I understand that the business isn't easy for non-white actors. It goes without saying that anyone with a soul supports gender/racial/whatever equality. In this specific case however, it appears a Japanese actress was never even on the table. Which makes sense to me. Just visually, Major has never screamed "JAPAN". Purple haired chick with red eyes, preference for leather jackets. She's the epitome of 'anime', of course, but not really a Japanese character in any way that the actress' ethnicity matters.

That being said, ScarJo isn't the best, Lucy was garbage from the get-go, and this will probably be another embarrassment. It has potential, but potential is worthless in Hollywood if you don't get results.

I only hope Togusa and his badass revolver get enough screentime.

DM of the Rings forever has a place in my heart for the "walking stick" scene when they're trying to get into see Theoden. That and all the GMNPC Gandalf jokes.

But yes, Darths & Droids is better.

I've never seen any of the D&D movies beginning to end. Just snippets when flipping through the Syfy channel. Are they on Hulu or Netflix? Are they worth checking out?

First one needs to be watched so you understand what we're dealing with. A baseline of what they thought we wanted to see.

I recommend Vile Book of Darkness because it's actually a little more tolerable than most Syfy originals. It mostly makes sense, no matter how bad the acting/effects are. Also, I just like the main character for whatever reason. It's not very Paladin-esque the way he goes about it, but he was always trying to do the right thing. "People forget how crucial it is to keep trying, even if they screw it up now and then."

They use ~^*MAGIC*^~ to send all sentient life into an endless nightmare, so Nethys thinks they're a bunch of cool dudes. To be fair, people who fight against them also use ~^*MAGIC*^~, so it basically cancels out.

Besides that, I'm not sure anyone anywhere is okay with the Mythos. Maybe some Demon Lords?

On one hand, "gave rise to WoW". Kill yourself, Time Magazine.

On the other hand, the only use they can think of for Charisma is deciding your fate after you've failed because of your crappy stat distribution. Pretty accurate.

I'm 100% Swine, btw.

Season finale of America was an encapsulation of the show as a whole. There were never any heroes, but usually we had a villain you could root for. I hate downer endings.

I'll throw another vote in for no one but you ever using Marshmallow Fallacy, or agreeing that it is a thing.

Alni wrote:

Val'bryn2 wrote:

Alni wrote:

Goblin_Priest wrote:

Maybe he finds himself to care too much for that particular slave, and considers this a weakness, thus frees the slave in order to be able to acquire another to more properly exploit.

But in this case the more "acceptable" solution would be to sell them and buy someone else, which he wouldn't do since he cares. And just freeing her would mess with his ambitions which he cares about even more.

Is this the more acceptable solution, though? Say I am an evil cleric, who has grown fond of someone who is a slave of mine. They return my feelings, and I free them. What's the most likely outcome? They continue to follow me, knowing I'm a nice guy (or at least nicer than most people think) and I've planted the seed of corruption, they follow me around, learn from what I do, start rationalizing some of my behavior based on knowing I'm a "good person", and so sign up for Asmodeus as well. As others have said, it's a promotion, showing the masses the hope that ensures they will stay in the mud, praying (to Asmodeus :) ) for mercy, and a chance.

I like that!

Edit: So maybe possible to go from slave to "apprentice"... that's an interesting idea.

Sounds like the perfect setup for later taking Leadership and choosing the slave as your cohort.

Exactly. Get your Sith on.

We're gonna build a fence to keep the mailmen out.

And we're gonna make them pay for it!

The flaw with Salim's argument is that the gods are actually severely restricted from toying with mortals by the contract of creation. They can't just go down, dominate a million people and force them to attack a city they don't like. They need to have followers that would be willing and able to do so. Those followers have as much free will as anyone else, even if they're outsiders. I could agree that the way souls are eventually stripped of their memories and warped into outsiders or pieces of the planes themselves is horrific and not very fair, but no one makes that decision. It's just how the world works. Pharasma is one of the 'force of nature' deities. She has existed since life and death have. Much like Gozreh, she is a function of the universe rather than another creature within it. Is it 'unfair' that gravity pulls you back to the ground when you jump? Who gave it the right to decide that?

And I've never seen a deity take credit for mortal achievement unless it was their own followers accomplishing those things directly through the deity's power... which means it pretty much wasn't mortal achievement.

Basically, Salim is just a stupidly stubborn individualist from a country founded on an overreaction. "That religious war was pretty horrible. To promote peace, self-discipline and family loyalty, let's ban the worship of all gods, including ones that promote peace, self-discipline and family loyalty."

One day, Pathfinder: Rise of the Runelords for Playstation 12 will need you. Believe the dream!

I think what he has is Ego, Wealth and Nothing to lose.

Gods help us, Trump is a PC.

Abadar is a damn good businessman. Cornered the market on truth-telling magic that doesn't suuuuuuuck.

11. If there is anything I have learned in my travels across the internet, it is that a key can do many things. I’ve seen a key move cities, make men stave off death, and turn an evil hag's heart half-circle. This entire forum has been constructed from a key. A key damned a woman, whose heart clung to the hope that another loved her when he did not. Once, it made a man seek immortality and achieve it.

Ravingdork wrote:

he will be the very best. B-)

♪Like no one ever was♪

♪To punch them is my real test♪

You guys know there's literally a Paladin code for Abadar, right? Like, they're canon, and Abadar has lots of them.

Either of them could do either of those things. I fee like what you lose going Paladin is not worth what you get. Inquisitors aren't that far behind Full BAB classes in a fight, but they gain so much in skills, spells and class features. Inquisitions are super flexible. You can be a gunslinger, a mounted fighter, make all your social skills Wisdom-based, Rage like a Barbarian, etc.

Definitely check out some Inquisitor archetypes, by the way. Sanctified Slayer, Preacher, Sacred Huntsmaster, Monster Tactician, Hexenhammer, tons of options.

My vote is for Inquisitor, if you didn't notice already. Nothing against Paladins, but Inquisitors are just that cool.

Also, who knows if a God can truly, actually die permanently?

Everyone.

Lamashtu killed one to ascend, two died during Starfall, Ydersius can be killed after Serpent's Skull, etc. Gods dying isn't super common, but isn't unheard of.

Meanwhile our parties go full communism with multiple members taking crafting feats. One guy does wondrous items, another does weapons and armor, and another does rings.

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I could take a feat for +2 to bluffing.

Or I could take a feat and get an 8th level Bard.