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I'm on a bend looking up information about the different Shoanti Quahs. One thing I'm wondering is if there are any identifying colors specific to each Quah?
Such as on their banners or what they'd wear to show Quah unity in times of war or celebration.

Draknirv wrote:

You're not discouraging at all! Thankyou for your advice and help.

I'm aware of the value of exposure and joining a company is definitely a goal I have at the moment, I'm looking for how to turn my passion with Pathfinder into money to help me get there (and also to help feed myself, haha).

I've been looking over the Community Use Policy, as well as the OGL and the CCLegalCode. From what I can tell, if I make it clear that I'm asking for money for an original work (modular tokens) but still release Golarion-specific content for completely free as a side (providing all the relevant Community Use tags and credits), it should be fine.

My full intention is to release my writing and mapping content for free for the benefit of the Pathfinder community, only asking money for content that can truly said to be created by me and not a derivative work.

Does this sound to you like something that'd be acceptable as far as you're aware? I have a huge amount of respect for you and for Paizo for what you've done with my favorite iteration of tabletop roleplaying, hence why I'm asking for your feedback.

The Community Use policy is pretty cut and dry—you can't make money off of a site that uses Golarion's intellectual property. You'd have to do your modular tokens on a completely different location or site from any community use work you do, and the tokens themselves can't use images from our products or proper nouns we've created. You could, for example, offer a goblin token and call it a goblin, but any art on that token of a goblin can't look like our goblins. Or you could offer a map of a temple of the god of destruction, but you couldn't offer a map of a Temple of Rovagug.

It can get tricky and complicated the closer you get to our intellectual property, and I'm not a lawyer so I'm not the best person to ask for advice.

Even so, you're very helpful.

Thankfully Golarion is a great "everything" setting, so making setting neutral creations that work with it is pretty easy. And who knows maybe in the future once the project gets off the ground, I'd be able to partner to make those goblin tokens. Its an inspirational thought.

You're not discouraging at all! Thankyou for your advice and help.

I'm aware of the value of exposure and joining a company is definitely a goal I have at the moment, I'm looking for how to turn my passion with Pathfinder into money to help me get there (and also to help feed myself, haha).

I've been looking over the Community Use Policy, as well as the OGL and the CCLegalCode. From what I can tell, if I make it clear that I'm asking for money for an original work (modular tokens) but still release Golarion-specific content for completely free as a side (providing all the relevant Community Use tags and credits), it should be fine.

My full intention is to release my writing and mapping content for free for the benefit of the Pathfinder community, only asking money for content that can truly said to be created by me and not a derivative work.

Does this sound to you like something that'd be acceptable as far as you're aware? I have a huge amount of respect for you and for Paizo for what you've done with my favorite iteration of tabletop roleplaying, hence why I'm asking for your feedback.

Hey, James!

I'm a longtime fan of Pathfinder and have been playing since the original release of Rise of the Runelords. I've absolutely adored the setting and have frequently thought of ways to make it pop even more to life whenever I've played with my friends and family.

I'm currently looking to become something akin to a mild community content creator, to more or less give back to and enhance the game I've loved to play for such a long time. As such I have a couple of fan projects aimed at improving 1st edition Pathfinder in fan-canon way.

The projects I'm working on include 3 separate ideas meant to work as an addition to the Golarion setting:
- To produce additional maps for existing locations in the Pathfinder Universe, such as the unmapped town locations in Sandpoint
- To add a more full and detailed entry and 1E boons to the many minor deities of the setting.
- To create a line of modular tokens able to be mixed and matched to represent a greater variety of characters on a digital space or (potentially) on the physical tabletop.

I'm wanting to run a patreon for these to accept donations, but release the first two projects for free
I've looked into the OGL and from what I understand I need express permission to do this. However, some parts of the Community Use Policy suggest otherwise, that I don't need express permission. I'm unclear on it as I'm unsure whether releasing the project for free while asking for donations counts as commercial or non-commercial.

Do you have any advice for me in regards to seeing my passion through? Can you point me in the direction of who I should contact in regards to obtaining license permission to make these projects if I do, infact need that?

Draknirv wrote:

How likely would you say it'd be for a typical Dretch Demon to advance into class levels? Like, off-the-top of your head percentage how many have class levels?

I don't recall their being any Dretches with class levels in any AP, but I figure it's probably a thing given their humanoid level intellect. Or are they just so gosh-darn lazy that they'd hardly bother with that sort of self-improvement?

Very very very unlikely. They're born of the sin of sloth, after all. They generally don't have the capability to do much with their lives ever.

What if they were into Jubilex? Like that fat guy in the chair with his heart out from Rise of the Runelords. He was a powerful wizard and all he did was sit around in a sewer for years.

How likely would you say it'd be for a typical Dretch Demon to advance into class levels? Like, off-the-top of your head percentage how many have class levels?

I don't recall their being any Dretches with class levels in any AP, but I figure it's probably a thing given their humanoid level intellect. Or are they just so gosh-darn lazy that they'd hardly bother with that sort of self-improvement?

Draknirv wrote:

The descriptions for the Dead Vault note that Asmodeus uses the plane like a prison for those beings he can't even allow to be rendered back into quintessence, such is the danger of what they know and have done.

What sort of knowledge or behaviour would constitute justification for being booted to the Dead Vault instead of just a good old' fashioned smiting? Discovering the spooky secrets of the Catafalque is something that comes to mind.

Not sure where you're getting information that Asmodeus uses the Dead Vault as a prison. There's nothing about that in the section on the Dead Vault in Planar Adventures, and it's not intended to be a prison plane owned by Asmodeus at all. Certainly Asmodeus has other prisons all over creation, some of which are certainly hard-to-reach and remote demiplanes, but the Dead Vault is not one of them.

The whole point of the Dead Vault is that it was created by a wide range of deities with one purpose—to imprison Rovagug. Asmodeus's role in that whole thing was pretty much just to turn the key in the lock that sealed the prison.

Other information about Asmodeus using the Dead Vault as his personal super-max prison is, pretty much, an error, in other words.

"Many have wondered about the Vault’s interior; as no

divine servitors of Rovagug encased within have ever
escaped, only dreams and visions sent by the imprisoned
god provide a clue. Much larger than the 20-mile-wide
lip of the Pit of Gormuz, the Dead Vault resembles a
gigantic hollow world, thousands of miles in diameter,
utterly devoid of light, and literally swimming with
a chitinous ocean of the Rough Beast’s frenzied, self-
cannibalizing servitors. But other things exist: entire
sections of the Darklands have been subsumed and
absorbed into the vault, especially parts of the lowest
layer and the bizarre creations of the Vault Keepers, as
well as packs of devils and others that somehow survive
amid the devouring anarchy.
These last prisoners raise yet more questions: Has
Asmodeus used the Vault as a repository for more than
just Rovagug? Does the god-fiend exercise his power over
its gates to condemn enemies to a certain, swift death or
eternal silence trapped within a realm to which only he
possesses the key?" - From Pathfinder Chronicles - The Great Beyond

The descriptions for the Dead Vault note that Asmodeus uses the plane like a prison for those beings he can't even allow to be rendered back into quintessence, such is the danger of what they know and have done.

What sort of knowledge or behaviour would constitute justification for being booted to the Dead Vault instead of just a good old' fashioned smiting? Discovering the spooky secrets of the Catafalque is something that comes to mind.

All of the interplanar cities have a significant population of aasimars, tieflings, or what have you. Such as the City of Brass or Galisemni or even Dis. While outsiders don't need to eat, drink, or drop loads, these native outsiders definitively DO. How do these cities handle this problem? Handing everyone a magic food fork seems cumbersome and theres nothing written about these places having any kind of farming infrastructure. So how do they feed these significant populations of plane-bred peoples? Do they mass import food? If so, from where?

I'm writing about Sithhud, Nascent Demon Lord of Blizzards, Frozen Dead, and getting Beat Up by Large Former Humans. For a player in one of my games.
I'd like to know more about Sithhud's personal realm, The Razormaze Glaciers where he's hiding from Kos-the-big-cheese. Even if it's just your unofficial headspace on the place.
Thankyou.

Who is your favorite not-core deific entity in the setting?

How would Irrisen arrange and equip it's standing army for a pitch battle? About what percentage of that army would be comprised of Ulfen soldiery as opposed to Fey, trolls, winter wolves, and giants? Are there any particularly notorious tactics their armies might employ to great effect?

Kelseus wrote:

What is the nature of the Black Triune?

I've no idea what you're talking about. So my guess is its nature is ... mysterious!

They're talking about the three secret ancient dudes that rule Nidal.

Also, in Irrisen it's noted that the bark of a witch-tree/winteryew can be shaved off and eaten. What kind of tavern fare or just plain home cooking would a peasant make with this? Would it be any good or would it just be depressing like some kind of bark-flavored jerky?

What's the deal with Demogorgon, Behemoth, Vepar, Marbas, and Ipos? Anything you can shed about who they are and what they want? Or just what they may look like.

With the absurdly high amount of deific entities in the Pathfinder setting will we ever see more books like Inner Sea Gods, Inner Sea Faiths, Faiths of Golarion, or Book of the Damned that properly expand and flesh out these minor deifics?

People widely make use of BotD pages 8-108. I don't know a single player that would ever pick the minor deifics from pages 110 to 133 in that book due to how little information there actually is to go on.
It's a part of the setting that saw a lot of teasing and not a lot of delivery despite there being a significant amount of players and GMs that would love that kind of content.

Will we be seeing any of the other Golarion regions outside of the Inner Sea expanded upon further in the future? Southern Garund, Arcadia, and Casmaron could all stand to benefit from being expanded Dragon Empires Gazetteer style.

Also, will Razmir ever get his own AP?

What is the food like in Nidal? I'm planning on running a campaign there and I'm having trouble finding information about the country's undoubtedly unique cuisine. The farmers grow grains and there's fish and standard european fantasy game to hunt, but what about fruits and vegetables?
What would be some unique dishes that the Kuthite peasantry or high society would come up with?
How does the Shadow Template affect the flavor of an animal?

What fueled the decision to make PF2E more like 4e instead of 3.5e(but better)?

I know it took a lot of people by surprise after the success of Starfinder being 3.5e(but better and also in space) and there have been a significant amount of people wondering if this was really the right call.

Do you feel like it was the right call?

A couple of questions.

Will there be Evangelist/Exalted/Sentinel boons for each of the new deities like in the Book of the Damned, or will they be single boon setups for the new prestige class? It'd be a bit unfortunate to only be able to build into one prestige to get the boons instead of having options.

Will there be illustrations for each of the new deities? With 24 in the list, that theoretically is enough space.

Will there be images of the holy symbols of the new deities?

Will there be information on the various planar realms associated with these deities similar to Book of the Damned?