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In a fit of pique because they didn't get a series, Spectre went on to attempt to conquer the world, and were defeated by James Bond.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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. :-(
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.
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. :-)
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. :-)
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.
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.I'm not gaming any more (long story)Oh no! I hate to hear it! XO in my first ship: "If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right." Me: "I am having fun. Am I doing it right?"XO: "No." :-)
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.
My watch continues, but I'm told the package is in the mail.
'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.
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? :-)
Prophecy no longer works, so how could I possibly know what's going to happen?
Ouch! My watch begins. I hope this doesn't put me in the red. :-(
Text is text. And RPGs are not Chess. The rules are whatever the GM says they are. That said, it's nice to know what the rulemakers intended, or at least get a consensus from all the players.
What was the average population density in the thirteen colonies in 1776? What's the average population density in the US today? Just curious how they'd compare.
My car is in the shop, so I'm not going anywhere. Will do some reading, maybe some TV/movie watching, some clanning (playing Clan Lord, a sort of MMORPG, though we're lucky if we get 50 players on line at a time, so maybe just MORPG).
Be aware that when I say "my watch has ended" I mean "I have hard copies in my hot little hands". :-)
So now I guess mine will go to the bottom of the list since I had the audacity to ask a question. Damned bureaucrats. 'In a mature society, “civil servant” is semantically equal to “civil master.”' -- Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough For Love, 1973.
Maps. I love good maps. Will there be maps of the archipelago and/or individual islands anytime soon?
DiBella's most excellent Tuna sub for lunch and dinner today. Bridge Tournament tomorrow, "free" food: it's Taco Friday! :-)
Google "Cheech Wizard". :-)
It's never too late to complain. :-)
My watch ended yesterday.
I'm still watching for the shipment to arrive. Some interesting notes: there are five subscription items and three non-subscription items in the mix. All of them are Pathfinder; there's no Starfinder stuff in here at all. Nearly half of the total cost of the order is in the three non-subscription items (Treasure Vault (Remastered), Treasure Vault (Remastered) Special Edition, and Pathfinder Battles: Leshy Window Boxed Set). Tracking says it'll be here Friday. We'll see.
Rule of thumb: estimate how long you think an IT project is going to take, then double it.
And at 14: (Note: if you don't want red eyes for her, I'd make 'em black. :-)
Lady Carmilla 14
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And at 10: Lady Carmilla 10
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And at Level 5 (Profile deleted to save space): Lady Carmilla 05
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Here's Lady Carmilla at level 1: Lady Carmilla 01
To be born into fading glory is to learn the art of preservation. Her childhood was a lonely, curated thing: hushed corridors, porcelain dolls, formal tutors, and bloodless conversation. She took to study not out of duty, but out of yearning—to understand the forces that gave beauty form and permanence. In time, her magical talent surfaced, unbidden and unsettling. Her power did not flare or flash; it bled. Her spells crept in like a whispered rumor, shaped to disarm, to distort, to entrance. Magic, for Carmilla, was not force—it was intention refined to the point of elegance. Where others were repulsed, Carmilla saw meaning. In blood, she found structure, expression, honesty. She began to paint in it. First small patterns, then entire scenes. Each death she orchestrated became a study in balance, texture, and mood. Her victims—never random—were carefully selected for composition. A disloyal servant posed in a prayerful sprawl. A rival’s lover arranged among thorned roses, face just so. It was art, she insisted. And it was beautiful. She carries her title like a blade: ceremonial, gleaming, and always visible. She makes no apology for her rank, and she expects no questions. Among the shorter-lived peoples, she passes herself off as an eccentric socialite—too refined to question, too remote to suspect. And when she travels, it is not to seek fortune or justice, but to find new subjects, new palettes, new themes. Every ruin holds potential. Every ally is a witness. Every monster she slays is a canvas, waiting to be posed. Carmilla does not kill out of hunger. She kills with purpose. Murder is her medium. Blood is the paint upon her brush. Magic is the frame that holds it all together. Even her allegiance to Zura is more philosophical than religious—an appreciation for what the Crimson Mistress understands: that ecstasy, agony, and beauty are all shades of the same red. She speaks often of transformation, of transcendence. Undeath, to her, is not escape but culmination. She reveres Zura not as a goddess to be worshipped, but as an ideal to be refined toward. Death, she believes, can be survived with the right vision. Immortality must be earned, and she carves her path to it in blood, elegance, and perfect form. She is not cruel for cruelty’s sake, but she is deeply unkind. Lesser mortals amuse her, for a while. She speaks to them gently, encourages their little hopes, and then—if they interest her enough—immortalizes them in the only way she knows how. Her reputation trails behind her in whispers and red-inked rumors. A patron of unsanctioned galleries. A collector of antique blades and preserved hearts. A noblewoman who never ages, never forgets, and never forgives. Carmilla Vaelith is not a villain in her own mind. She is a curator of fleeting moments. A sculptor of endings. Her life is her gallery, and she walks through it unhurried, elegant, and waiting for her next piece to begin. SPELLS KNOWN
Rank Qty Cost Total Spell Cost
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Sunday is "Monty Python And The Holy Grail" at Tinseltown, followed by dinner at Monte Alban. No gaming this weekend.
Marilyn Monroe, faced with Matzoh Ball Soup at a White House dinner: "Don't they ever serve any other part of the Matzoh?" Allegedly. :-)
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