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338. The Erotic Adventures of the Great Enchanter Nowis - Ostensibly a book of rather unpleasant erotica, this crudely printed and amateurishly illustrated volume details the actions of the titular wizard, Nowis as he uses compulsion spells to force a succession of young women to perform sexual acts with strangers, family members, and animals. The book is derided even by it's intended audience of perverts for it's repetitiveness and crudity.

Disturbingly however, a knowledgeable person who reads the book quickly discovers that underneath the perverse subject matter and banal writing the author displays a intimate practical knowledge of how to use enchantment spells to compel obedience from individuals. A person who can stomach spending a week studying the book gains a +1 bonus to saving throws vs. mind effecting spells. Additionally, a spellcaster with Spell Focus: Enchantment also gains a +1 to the DC of his mind effecting spells.

I suspect that "bigger room" is going to be the defining theme of this thread, and it would be great if Paizo can afford it, but beyond that I'm hard pressed to see where there is much room for improvement beyond some minor details.

Sound proofing would be nice, but I suspect that it would be to expensive to do, even if (or especially if) it was something the Convention Center had to do.

More pizazz in the booth perhaps? While it was in a prime location and there was a great selection of merchandise it wasn't as eye-catching as others (like Privateer Press' booth) and I had a hard time seeing it from other parts of the hall.

I would ask that Paizo ratchet back on the number of buttons given away, as I found it impossible to get to the booth soon enough every morning to get that days button.

Another place you might want to look is in the Monsternomicon. The Cephalyx are basically Mind Flayers with a leather and medical fetish.

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Elven Earrings of Flight

Aura moderate transmutation

Slot Ears, wearer must be an elf

Description
These earrings appear to be ordinary earrings shaped like feathers. On command, they let an elf fly, without having to maintain concentration, as if affected by a fly spell by flapping their ears like a hummingbirds. He can fly three per times day for up to 5 minutes per flight.

1095 Pope Urban II incited Europeans to begin the Crusades. ... 1130 The Church banned bows and crossbows as immoral weapons not to be used against Christians. Knights considered the weapons beneath them

The problem with Chivalry is that assuming Knights actually followed it's rules is like assuming that 50's teenagers acted like Wally and the Beaver, or that Sheriffs in the old West acted like John Wayne.

The PC's enter an old wrecked ship to find a man and a woman's skeletons on board. Suddenly, the PC's find themselves in the past, as crew of the ship, fighting in it's last doomed battle against pirates who are trying to kidnap a young woman and kill her fiancée.

If the PC's succeed in driving off the pirates they return to the present to find the skeletons gone as if they'd never existed. If they fail they return to find additional skeletons...one per PC.

I would probably work best if you spread her coming to power over a couple of the APs.

If you're going for a Republican form of government then there's still going to be a council head (mayor, prince, etc...) running things. Say he's the one Ileosa murders, framing the most popular candidate to replace him, and the riots in Edge of Anarchy are caused by the politicking over who's going to be elected the new Head. Ileosa's personal guard is a major factor in quelling the riots, earning her much goodwill.

Then in when the plague breaks out in Seven Days to the Grave, Ileosa maneuvers another council member into bringing in Dr. Davaulus. Only to "humbly" take credit when her agents (the PCs) discover the horrifying truth about the Doctor and destroy him. Ileosa and her guards confront and kill the "evil" council member who brought Davaulus in.

With this, Ileosa has so much public acclaim that she "reluctantly" responds the the "spontaneous" calls for her to be the next Council Head, declare a state of emergency, etc....

I play a life oracle in my Friday night game. I am the party's dedicated healer, and its way easy. More fun than my cleric was, in the same role.

Do you have a limp and warn everyone about the dangers of contracting Lupus?

Utgardloki wrote:

The way I would see it playing out would be that the Odinist wizards would see magic as manipulating forces and power ("I'll blast him with my Rune of Evocation and then transmute the rock he falls on to mud"). The Isisian witches would see magic as manipulating forms and patterns ("By wrapping this string around this figure, I will bind him with immobile magical bonds.")

That characterization makes it sound like the Odinists would be more reductionistic, all about breaking down things into discrete chunks (including their understanding of magic), while the Isisians would be more holistic and concentrate on where stuff fits within the bigger picture. Each 'rune' represents tearing a concept out of the bigger picture and trying to understand it separately, absent of context, which, to the big-picture-fans, would be missing the point utterly.

Neat.

From what I understand, there might not be as much difference between them as you might think.

Both Norse and Egyptian magic relied upon using thru speech or writing words (or runes) of power. Also, both Norse and Egyptian magic was entirely the province of women, Odin's ability to use magic was another example of his breaking the rules to benefit himself.

Er, the Viking/Neanderthal thing comes from the Michael Crichton book Eaters of the Dead, which was made into the movie 13th Warrior.

There is some recent evidence that Neanderthals stuck around a lot longer than previously suspected, but the idea they stuck around until Medieval times is fiction.