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Rovagug is my guess as his death triggers an end to the uneasy truce the gods had to keep him imprisoned and a rash of wars break out with godly avatars being seen, slain, and rise again.

The knife is the wand, you dont use it to make wands.

One of my biggest disappointments in SF1 was how hard it was to play say a fighter pilot and have that matter. Many of "our" classic sci-fi heroes are fighter pilots and with the starship system as it is , that is really hard to do.

Aroden , god of Humanity or Dead Beat Daddy Deity? a Zo! exclusive....

I think the biggest related issue I've come across is "what if the player want an archetype, but the archetype they have their heart set on isn't available at level 2". If you want to be an eldritch archer, there are archetypes which have 3 feats available before level 6 so you can get out of it in time by spending a skill feat on an archetype feat (e.g. Medic can do this).

But one of the "Strength of Thousands" characters we've discussed is someone who is world class at rituals but can't manage to cast during the stress of combat, which would naturally be modeled with the ritualist archetype on a rogue or investigator chassis. The problem is that the Ritualist dedication isn't available until level 4.

So how do you handle this character who is granted archetype feats from the Free Archetype Variant at levels where they do not want to use them? Buying another archetype would delay Ritualist progress, so is this character just "one feat down" compared to everyone else?

Are you running free archetype on top of the free archetypes you get in strength of thousands? Because that game is specific that you need to pick Wizard or Druid as your archetype

I suppose it depends on what one means with ninja Deadly Martial Artist,Mystic Assassin, or even peasant folk hero.

Samurai is pretty much covered under champion or Cavalier, "Ninja" as a mystic assassin type of thing might be good for a new rogue racket focused on Illusion and stealth over everything else.

Ukuzola Okubulalayo, Matanji Orc and Shadow Caster Druid of The Magaambya.

Part of the contingent sent by The Magaambya to aid against the whispering Tyrant, undead and friends in the world outside of the Mwangi.

He and his shadow hound hunter demons and undead and gather stories and allies for the School.

My cleric, built purely for healing, in Strength of Thousands has been out performing the martials in damage in nearly every fight.

The ADA (Americans With Disabilities Act) is a real law that applies to every business.

If some other business down the block is wheelchair accessible, that does not relieve you of the need to be accessible too.

You can't say "oh look, our partners are making audio versions"* to handwave your own lack of compliance.

*especially when someone has to pay an additional access fee to use those versions.

From everything I have read the ADA doesn't even require you to publish a book in braille or Audio, let alone multiple formats for other needs.

No weapon or game accurately portrays real combat, that is a pretty simple thing to understand. In addition I really do not want to play a non-wargame with a single character that can die instantly at any level from Hydrostatic Shock from a gunshot or a nicked femoral from a sword, probably not alone in this.

I think mainstream elven culture should be ridiculously individualistic and be paradoxically super focused about being in the now but always remembering the past and planning for the future.

Aren't pathfinder Chronicles of famous pathfinders similar to the dime novels?

You smurf smurfers , there is already a smurfing smurf ancestry. It's the smurf smurfing Fungus Leshey.

... I think that sort of collaborative, syncretic, "how do we be more than just crusader-colonizers" spin is the best way to tackle Mendev going forward." ....

To be honest both Mendev and Sarkoris are destroyed kingdoms, and I think this idea is where Mendev and Sarkoris should both lean into, Mendev and Sarkoris realizing they have both have spilled so much blood and lost so much together that the line between them is blurred. Additionally as both sides were fighting to reclaim Sarkoris and close the world wound it would make sense there were many knight and Sarkorian couples, so this generation of Mendev might hold a lot of young people that trace their lineage to both Kingdoms.

I am pretty sure they are common, the reason they weren't in the main race section seemed to be more stylistic. They wanted to get people familiar with the new races outside of the older races first and foremost.

Does anyone else really want something like this? I would pay at least 80 points for a boon to play a Half-Orc Dwarf or Half-Elf Gnome ect.

My theory on the gap is something happened to generate a "Schrodinger's Cat" situation. Everything inside the time of the gap is an uncertainty event. Every choice that could have been made was both made and not made. That is why no records can be proven true, why no one can remember what happened and even the gods arent actually certain because everything is both false and true during that time. This allows everyone's play through campaigns and APs to be true at the same time.

Kind of sounds like this is mostly going to be like a mini-campaign book that lasts a few to a half dozen AP's and is similar to the hard cover 5e campaign books.

Sadly no new necromancy spells.

Repeated use of it would probably not attract her attention but her Clerics, Champions, and assorted Fervent worshipers would probably show up eventually and not care about the neutral reasons.

Vengence can be Just or it can be pretty. If punishment is inflicted or retribution exacted for an injury or wrong then that is vengeance. If it is measured it would be just if it isn't it would be petty.

The lore around Ragathiel has him extremely concerned over making sure, every punishment is balanced with the crime and not to give in to the dark spite-filled pretty vengeance Calistria upholds.

Vengence might be the wrong word, but what it boils down to is Ragathiel and his followers are the people that put themselves in front of those that are mistreated and victimized, those that make sure evil doesn't get away with things because it would be more convenient to look the other way or because they are rich and powerful.

In a medieval fantasy-style world that means mostly violence but they aren't murderhobos and nothing about Ragathiel if you don't let splitting hairs bout the meaning of vengeance get in the way says or even implies they or he is about that just killing people.

I would love to see inquisitor as a damage-dealing cleric doctrine.

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Honestly, I'm the opposite--I wish champions were distanced more from the gods, and got to focus entirely on being as good and kind as possible. If I wanted to play some sky wizard's loyal cop, I'd play a warpriest or inquisitor or whatever exists now.

Eberron, as always, handles this very well - in this case, both by allowing divine characters to be a half-step away from their gods /and/ by allowing divine characters dedicated to an ideal or domain, rather than a god.

PF2 attempts to straddle “powerful shield of your god” and “Alignment warrior,” but the end result is a kind of incoherent combo: a devout warrior who cares about one of six preset philosophies more than anything actually tied to their god or church.

You can totally do Ideas, philosophies etc as a "god" it isn't in the published setting but it isn't hard to do with in the rules of the game.

Calistria probably has a large sect of Abolitionists as nothing breeds wanting revenge as being enslaved.

Desna would abhor slavery because it means a lack of freedom to travel.

Iomedae - basically the good of lawful goodness would probably see it as a twisted mockery of law and as evil as it gets so support slavery's destruction.

Torag would have it because it ruins families,

Erastil because it ruins community.

In fact all good deities probably hate slavery, most chaotic and neutral too.

I am guessing in 2e Orcs will like other races not really have as big a pantheon as they did in 1e and most cultures we see will worship already established gods just with different names like how the Matanji worship Kazutal,as Majagua.

Examples:
Dretha, is so much like Lamashtu it's silly for example and why would Lamashtu allow such a thing to exist and take worshipers from her, especially since she is known for killing and taking the power of deities and demon lords whose power she wants.

Zura sounds like Urgathoa.

Gorum and Zagresh are pretty similar especially with Gorum's 2e revision/Clarification.

Writing policy is always a legal issue.

Still wondering why people think lawyers are the right kind of professionals to help a company work with its employees on how to improve their overall management process.

Especially considering such an expense is a pretty high investment. What is the return here?

Going out on a limb but because a very large part of a lawyer's job, especially a cooperate law firm on retainer is to advise the company on laws and how to be in compliance with them?

I get that most of us only get involved with lawyers while being defended by one or being defended against one, I'd never trust anyone advice on the legality of things that didn't have a law degree personally, that would be like trusting someone's opinion on medical issues that was just spouting off on a forum or Facebook.

The campaign players guide has some I think?

Really sucks that Guns and Gear didn't get into this update.

It's still a step forward and super relevant to the issues Paizo is in the middle of.

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literally falls into the definition. So it must further the goal of diversity unless you hold the opinion that LGBT+ inclusion isn't warranted and a good step to prevent homophobia and transphobia?

Yup, all for diversity as long as it brings them money but at the top, not so much.

Again how is adding someone that isn't a straight white male at the top of the corporate ladder not furthering diversity?

Why would it shock people that with their continual growth into computer games, e-commerce, and the nexus and easier 3rd party publishing that the two people who are in charge of those things are given more leadership authority and voice? And at least one of the people given more leadership responsibilities was not a straight white male, how is that not furthering diversity?

The other item phylacteries arent symbols of evil so probably won't get renamed, I think it was just the idea of something so holy to some people being turned into an unholy thing that was the reason it was changed.

Has it been said why Sara was fired?

They can't legally say why she was fired, that is a law designed to protect employees.

Mkombozi (Alijae Elf Witch and Worshiper of the Redeemer Queen)
- a silver-tongued elven witch that seeks to spread the "corruption" of his God Queen and cause Demons to stray from the Abyss and into the light.

Mask of Dancing Spears (Matanji Orc Wizard and eventual Magaambyan attendant)
- Orcish Conjurer, scholar, and student of the Magaambyan Tradition and as culturally suitable demon hunter.

Bone Orchid's Whisper (Great Gnoll Bones Oracle)
- Great Gnoll Healer and speaker for the ancestors.

Asehngo (Song'o Halfling Champion of Balumbdar)
- Small but Mighty defender of the tiny and timid or Giant and Gentle, and Song'O stick fighter.

Okori Vertis (Vidric Human Swashbuckler)
- worshiper of Lubaiko and Milani and itinerate Rebel (waiting for guns for this one I think)

Irekyo (Bekyar Human Diabolic Sorcerer and Healer)
- A rigid and traditionalist man but secretly kind healer that bears the weight and duty his ancestors incurred during earthfall with a resigned sense of fate.

K'ch'irpi ( Sharp Tongue Grippli Pantheonic Cleric of Gozreh and Erastil)
- Wandering Shaman of the natural force embodied by a Mix of Nature and Community, he gains power from his worship of both his gods with Gozreh being his primary patron. Chirp travels the expanse teaching how to live in balance with nature while still creating communities

I don't think they are any more Antagnoistic than Chelaxian, Gebian, Mordant Spire Elves, or Mammoth Kings. They represent a less pleasant group and culture within the expanse but not inherently evil just pragmatic, power-hungry, and focused on survival against invaders.

I do think that the term ethnicities was wrongly applied to these groups. They don't seem to be ethnic groupings but rather socio-cultural groupings more akin to nationalities than anything else.

Man totally forgot about this and my entry is in the top 101.

The other Half section says there can be half dwarfs, half halflings and more.

Seems like it is a reference to the Veiled Masters being back, the Legends book is full of them and their plots.

Interesting Times if Hao Jin is still alive and walking around.

I think this sense of what is best to play is a local thing not overall like people seem to sometimes think.

I was under the impression they didn't want to step on the Dreamscarred press crew's toes.

If Gorum can have it, then it would be listed under the alternate domain section of his write up on Gods and Magic. Gorum doesn't have any alternate domains.

I know we havent got the additional resources update yet but I would like to put in a request in advanced for the pantheons in this blog post to be allowed in PFS 2E.

For those with it already How many Gods made it into the book? and are there options for worshiping a pantheon?

Under the Naur they get Fierce Survivalist but I can't find that as a Nuar ability?