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Also, good catch on the language. Is it established in the game the Common in the Mwangi expanse if Mwangi?

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I don't think "Common" covers all the languages like you describe--a character can't take Common, then speak two languages for the price of one just because they're well-traveled. I think you have Common (Taldane), Common (Tien), Common (Mwangi), Common (Osirion), or some other...

Agree with your last. As to the first, yes, I think in The Mwangi Expanse and probably in some earlier books (Player Core?)

Not sure about Osiriani being "Common" in Geb, although it may be the most commonly spoken language there. GM choice, maybe.

Nice characters! I like 'em both. Very minor nit: her Pathbuilder array list's Janet's sex as male. And a question: having been born in the Mwangi Expanse, shouldn't Janet have Mwangi as a language?

I much prefer the Harnmaster way of dealing with languages: you have a native language (the one you were born into) and may have others depending on your background. So Janet would have Kholo as her native language, Mwangi as probably her first secondary language, Taldane as the next one (based on her move to Cheliax), and then others. Of course, Pathfinder's approach is different, but the abstraction level leads to problems. Is "Common" actually a group of languages, and someone who speaks "Common" speaks whatever the common language is where she is? If she moves (Mwangi Expanse to Cheliax for example) does she automatically learn the new "common"? Most people won't care about this, just picking languages sort of at random based on INT mod, and otherwise basically ignoring linguistics and languages as an aspect of the world. And so do I, perforce, when playing this game. But, as they say, I don't have to like it. :-)

Added: Also, nobody calls the language they speak "Common". It's Taldane, or Mwangi, or Tien, or whatever.

Youtube. I used to have Premium. Apparently that expired, because now I'm getting ads every ten seconds or so it seems. Or would be if I hadn't stopped looking at Youtube because of that.

Yes, I could just buy Premium again. Probably. But I'm still pissed at them for just expiring it (I thought it was on auto-renew like most of my subscriptions) so to Hell with it.

I sincerely hope the new forum software, when we get it, fixes the current software's "if it's a product page and a reader is trying to get to 'unread posts' then go to the top of the last page that has old messages on it" (or whatever it's actually doing that requires me to scroll through a couple of dozen messages before I find the ones I want) while "if it's not a product page, go the the last message the reader read".

LOL! When I posted this, the software put it at the bottom of the page -- and then took me to the top of the page. :-((((

This thread is now useless. Lock it please.

My plan for the foreseeable future is to nurse this cold until it goes away or kills me, whichever comes first.

It's making my teeth ache. The ones I no longer have.

Hm. I don't pay much attention to how Paizo does monsters in PFS scenarios. Are they always from the Bestiaries (Monster Core I guess they call it now) or do they create new unique ones for some scenarios? If it's the latter, I agree the lack of stat blocks would be an issue. For the former, well, I have the battle cards, so it should be fairly easy fore me at least to pull the ones needed for the scenario. Yeah, if you don't have the battle cards (which I grant are an added expense) you have to manually grab stat blocks from somewhere (the bestiaries or AoN I guess) and that's a pain.

I'm dealing with a character (Harnmaster, not PF2) who has some forty spells in his grimoire. He's also got a problem: some months ago, trying to learn a new spell, he critically failed his casting roll, suffering a spell misfire that knocked out everyone in the chantry. He woke up first, so no one noticed that he just wandered off -- because the trauma caused him to lose his memory and his ability to speak and also to cast spells or to consciously use any of his arcane talents. So now he's in another country making a living as a teamster. Oh, and somebody he met along the way stole his stuff when they discovered he wouldn't be able to rat them out.

The question is whether his colleagues at the chantry will figure out that he's still alive (most think that he's dead or transported to some other world altogether) and will try to find him.

I think you have as much evidence that people are happy as we have that people are unhappy, not a compelling argument.

For either side, apparently.

There's a pretty strong case to be made that OP is not really bringing in enough business to justify the costs for sustaining it.

You are privy to Paizo's data on the costs and revenues of the OP business? I'm surprised.

"Of course I'm paranoid! The question is 'am I paranoid enough.'" -- Captain Eric Finlander (Richard Widmark), CO of USS Bedford in the movie "The Bedford Incident".

I had pre-ordered a Kindle version of this from Amazon. Just got notified they cancelled the pre-order, on the grounds that the Kindle version ain't gonna happen. Very disappointed I am. :-(

I never liked the level idea anyway. At least, not once I discovered non-level-based TTRPGs, like Harnmaster.

I already cancelled all my subs. Nothing to do with "Paizo Plus" really. I just a) can't afford to keep buying everything and b) don't have any place to put it anyway.

Somehow the title "The Dead God's Hand" has me seeing Wednesday Addams explaining to TSA why she has what appears to be a severed hand in her carry on luggage. :-)

My favorite Twilight Zones from that first run are "The Howling Man" and "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" (which starred an unknown actor named William Shatner).

I have always thought that Harlan Ellison's short story "Jeffty Is Five" would make a great Twilight Zone episode. I also liked his "A Boy And His Dog", which was made into a 1975 movie.

Yeah, Mouser is another one, and probably better suited to, as you say, "thief with wizard training".

I like the AP change. No opinion on the PFS changes, at least not yet.

I just recently decided to change my approach from "buy everything Paizo publishes and hope I can find someplace to put it" to "no subscriptions; just buy the pdf as it becomes available". So how much will the pdf for these eighty dollar APs cost?

Agree with NorrKnekten. I supose this is a decent rule change, and I'm sure a lot of players are happy with anything that makes their lives easier, but I'm tempted to view it as a "dumbing down" of the character. But then, IMO Pathfinder isn't really a role playing game, it's a "kill the monsters" game.

Gord the Rogue was a creation of Gary Gygax's. There were a couple of novels about him, as I recall. My question is "how would you create him in PF2E?" Probably pretty simple: He starts out as a Thief, and later adds Wizardry to his resumé (via Wizard dedication I would guess). I wonder though if there's anything special in Gord's CV, perhaps some special ability not covered by "Thief with Wizard dedication". I suppose you'd have to go back and read the books -- if you can find them. Hm. Wizard dedication. Which School?

I was just looking for an icon pack for the 27 current PF2E classes. I did find a pack for Starfinder (1E from the original date - 2017) but none for PF. :-(

What a weird idea! I like it! :-)

Where is Delos D. Harriman when we need him?

Well, I did it. Just submitted a request to CS to cancel this order, empty my sidecart, and cancel all my Pathfinder and Starfinder subscriptions. Three reasons: I haven't played in several years and have no likely prospects for playing locally; I'm about out of room to store books, maps, etc.; I'm about totally broke. So I'm out. I may buy the occasional Kindle book or pdf, but I'm out. So long, Pathfinder, it's been good to know you. :-(

This is still my favorite AP.

Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on time or within budget.

Even Amazon fails occasionally. I just cancelled an order that I originally placed on June 15th, because they "delayed" it three times. To be fair, they relied on a third party vendor. Still Amazon is the "face" of this order, so it's their fault. :-)

Harnmaster: Kethira, in Chapter 4 (Possessions) on page 102, lists 11 Polearms: 3 Chivalric (Nobility only), 3 Common (anyone might have one), 5 Simple (non-noble soldiers, basically) ranging from the Falcastra to the Trident, and including the Staff and the Spear. Pictures on page 103. :-)

Tried that. Several times. Still no joy. :-(

I didn't know they were doing phone service again. <shrug>

Downloaded the file twice just now. Both times it contained a folder with one file: Droven at level 5. :-(

I'd like to have the art package for the 2e Iconics as a download if possible!

I second this idea. :-)

One of the problems with the class-based system design is that you end up having to shoehorn all the myriad concepts of which players can conceive into whatever classes you have available. Too often there's no good fit.

I don't think you can solve that problem within such a system -- you'd end up with way too many classes for players to handle. A skill based system is better, but even then you'll probably have to add skills to support your concept, and then again you end up with information overload.

What I would like to see in a Shifter class: starting perhaps with the ability to manifest a shape's natural weapons (e.g. claws for a Big Cat shifter), then adding at higher levels the ability to shift into that shape, then later more shapes ending with four or five different shapes from, well, the entire Bestiary. :-)

That's the basic chassis, and off the top of my head. I haven't thought much beyond this but there's probably a lot that could be considered.

I have to say that I didn't like the PF1 Shifter much. As I recall, I thought it was too... clunky, I guess. It seemed like it was just sort of thrown together rather than thoughtfully designed. Others probably reacted differently. :-)

Note: if you group the creatures in the Bestiary(ies) as say Folk (playable Ancestries), Animals (mundane creatures, not magical, not mythological or fanciful), Beasts (magical, mythological or fanciful creatures), Ethereals, Undead, Other (this is one possible grouping, I may have missed something), I'd say Shifters should be limited to Animals. Being able to shift to some other Folk (or another appearance of your own Folk) would be interesting, but may be too unbalancing. Being able to shift into Beasts would be cool, but again perhaps too unbalancing. OTOH, the possibilities for infiltrating an army of orcs or dragons, for just one example, are certainly intriguing. :-)

I would like to play a Druid with Owlbear shape, though apparently some god went through and removed all of Golarion's Owlbears a while ago. :-)

There are twenty-five classes listed on Archives Of Nethys right now, the last two of which are the Animist and the Exemplar from War Of Immortals. The next two are the Commander and the Guardian, from Battlecry! I know that there are two after that, the Necromancer and the Runesmith, to be published in (I think) some book with Impossible in the title which has not been announced yet (GenCon 26?) That makes a total of twenty-nine. Will there be more?

You need some Harniacs. See HarnMaster/Harnworld from Columbia Games. Better yet look at Kelestia Games' HarnMaster: Kèthîra and their various setting modules for Harnworld.

Slayer of hafling giants? :-)

DungeonmasterCal wrote:

quibblemuch wrote:

I'm not gaming any more (long story)

Oh no! I hate to hear it!

Thanks. Tl;dr, I just wasn't having fun. And I can not have fun for a while, but after a year with no improvement, it's time to move on.

XO in my first ship: "If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right."

:-)

My watch has ended. I think. I haven't opened the box yet.

"Over" is overused these days ("over 20 types of dragons"). "More than" sounds much better here. To me, anyway.

OTOH, if that's the only thing I can find to complain about, this product is doing pretty darn good. :-)

Looking forward to it.

I just got an email that the Player Core PDF had updated. I was able to download the actual file now. Yay!

I got the same email. I didn't believe it. Now I'll have to go check it out. :-)

My watch continues, but I'm told the package is in the mail.

Several years ago I asked my FLGS why they didn't host any Pathfinder games (I would add Starfinder but I think this was before Starfinder). The answer: "We used to, but the guy (the Venture Agent) never showed up. We're not doing that again." <shrug>

On the fourth Tuesday of next week. At dawn.

'd like to close by circling back... if Paizo is still doing business on Twitter - and encouraging customers to do so - that's a bad thing in my opinion and shame on them. If the profit from that exposure is the difference between solvency (ie. paying their staff's wages) and insolvency well... I'd like to think if I was business-owner I'd do the right thing, no matter how hard that decision was.

I don't know if Paizo has a Twitter account. I don't care. You say that if Paizo "doing business on Twitter" (I don't know what that means) is the difference between solvency and insolvency Paizo should "do the right thing" which means they should dissolve the company. Seems to me that's cutting off your nose to spite your face. IOW, stupid. I don't see Paizo as stupid.

Evan: On release day (July 31) as I understand it.

Hm. Neither my American English nor my British English Oxford Dictionaries contain that meaning. <shrug>

Waiting is…

All right.

I'm about at the point where it no longer matters to me, because at 78, and with no one in my circle of friends who is at all interested in playing Pathfinder (or Starfinder), and with the demise of "Paizo Advantage", I'm seriously considering bailing altogether on these games. <shrug>

Unlike Efteiroh I haven't crunched the numbers, so I'm operating on mostly feel rather than facts right now.

1. I'm 78 years old.

2. I have 22 subscriptions listed on my "My Subscriptions" list, five of which -- Adventure Card Game, Comics, Pawns, Player Companion, Tales -- are apparently defunct. I had a Battles sub, which I've cancelled, and that doesn't appear. That leaves 17(!) active subscriptions.

3. What I have so far gleaned from this announcement (I missed the one back in April) is that keeping up with Paizo publications is going to take some work which I will probably find annoying.

4. I haven't thoroughly read the last couple of AP or rules books.

5. I haven't even opened the box on last month's shipment.

6. I'm guessing it's costing me between $2000 and $2500 a year for all these subs. That's with the Paizo Advantage.

7. I haven't played or run a game in years.

8. None of my current circle of friends is interested in Pathfinder or Starfinder.

9. I'm running out of room to store stuff, leading to me at least think about cancelling all the subs and just buying pdfs, if I buy anything at all.

So, at this point I can apparently sign up for this thing now, or wait until the store goes live and my "Paizo Advantage" disappears. Or I can cancel all my subs and forget about Pathfinder and Starfinder.

Suggestions? :-)