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I've just started running the ORC Beginner Box on the forums and I'd like to be able to refer, collectively, to the citizens of Otari. The terms for this are demonym (how people outside of a group refer to that group, in their language) and autonym (how the people of the group refer to themselves, in their own language); as Menace Under Otari solely concerns people in Otari, I'd prefer an autonym. The Pathfinder wiki page doesn't list anything for this, so I was wondering if anyone's got any info which isn't listed there.

Real-world examples, to help clarify what I'm looking for, include e.g. Philadelphian and Parisian. Lacking any official source, I'm tending toward Otaran or maybe just using the adjectival form Otari.

Nestled far enough away from the bustle of Absalom on the Isle of Kortos to afford its residents quiet and some measure of independence, Otari has established itself in several areas: fishing (along with competent sailors) and logging. Indeed, Otari lumber supplies Absalom's endless hunger for the stuff.

More than that, though, for you, Otari is home--or maybe it's just where you find yourself right now? Children frequent the docks and the nearby forests--maybe you were among them, once upon a time--and the tales of grand adventure told in the City at the Center of the World (those Absalomians sure are full of themselves, eh?) inevitably make their way here. But today, today! It seems adventure has found you in this quiet fishing and lumber town. You've heard of troubles in the Otari Fishery, tales of beasts in the basement, eating all the fish--and, perhaps, soon the fishers!

You've received a letter from Tamily Tanderveil, proprietress of the Fishery. She makes a desperate plea for help, having nowhere else to turn--what scant guard Otari can claim for itself is protecting the loggers, and assistance from great Absalom a week away at least. Her plea is as desperate as it is earnest. Have you the courage to face the menace under Otari?

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Hi, all! Just to be clear up front, this recruitment thread is not part of the Beginner Box event that Paizo is organizing.

For this game, I'm going to use the full rules rather than the Beginner Box rules. I also think it'd be cool if everyone played an orc to go along with the ORC remaster. If people think that's a stupid idea, that's fine, too. :) This is my first time running PF2, my first time running something PbP, and my first time running something in about five years, so I'm restricting options to what's in Player Core 1. I am only recruiting four players so I don't have to rebalance combats while learning the game. I also have a player I met in another game who already has a spot, so I'm recruiting three people here. Recruitment will run for a week, longer if I don't get enough applications.

Standard PbP stuff applies: please use the discussion thread if something makes you uncomfortable. One person being uncomfortable is enough to stop the scene. Try for one post per day when possible. Sometimes it won't be, sometimes your turn in combat doesn't come up every day. If I don't hear from you in 24 hours in a combat, your character will delay or I will bot them given instructions.

For recruitment, please post your player name or how you'd like people to refer to you OOC, your character name, pronouns for both, and your character's ABCs: ancestry, background, and class. Create a profile alias for the character and set up the stats like the characters on my account. It doesn't have to be exactly like that, please just keep it organized and include everything you'd put on your character sheet. Yes, it's a lot, but it will make things move more quickly.

Now for what you can expect from me: as I said, I'm a first time GM. I also work full time and, if everything goes well, I'll be taking a university class in the fall. I'll do my best to keep up with the same one post per day pace that I expect from you, and hopefully more. But life has this annoying habit of getting in the way of hobbies, and I'll do my best to post about that.

I adore the play by post format for its focus on narrative, and if you can't already tell from this post, I'll be emphasizing that in the game. I'll be using Google Drawings and other Google Docs apps for tracking combat and other things. I'll be rolling initiative for players. When there's a group of players in initiative between enemies, you can post whenever you want and I'll resolve things in order.

I think I've covered everything. As always with recruitment threads, please post if you have any questions. Thank you for reading :)

I feel like this must have been asked before, but I'm not finding anything on the forum. Maybe I'm just awful at searching?

I'm playing a witch in a PF1 game right now--specifically, a hedge witch. I'm the party's only caster, so I need to perform a lot of roles--battlefield control, battlefield medic, buffs, debuffs, vending machine for snowball fights, out of combat healing / curative magic, typical arcane utility magic, walking encyclopedia, and so on. This is also why I chose the hedge witch archetype--being able to spontaneously heal like a cleric has saved the group more times than I'd like to consider.

I would love to build something like this in PF2. I understand I certainly won't be able to do everything in the above list, so I'm willing to compromise: the two things I'm most interested in focusing on are battlefield control and healing magic. I'm also happy to explore other classes for this besides witch.

I'm also having trouble finding remastered versions of battlefield control spells I'm familiar with from my 3.5/PF1 days, like web, wall of force, solid fog. To be clear, in contrast to the above links, I am using AoN for those searches. :) Have they all been removed? Are they coming in Player Core 2?