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How do you say Paizo? You say it reverently, with a tear in your eye, while reaching for your wallet.

... some APs are pretty low key from a historical point if the PCs win (which is going to be the assumption for all of them, I suspect... I'm not too fond of hard-coding into the campaign something that says YOUR PLAYER CHARCTERS ARE FAILURES by assuming one of the Adventure Paths is a canonically regarded a failure...).

I would be very interested in an alternate post-apocalyptic Golarion "failed omens world guide" in which Golarion is reeling from the successive shocks of every AP's worst case scenario coming to pass. Probably at odds with what you have planned for the core setting, but a later supplement perhaps?

Backpack wrote:

In response to the kind and polite criticism thing here are three posts with the same content and consider which would get something actually changed.

1. This game is f*****g broken and literal garbage, whoever decided I can't draw a weapon as part of my move should get his hands cut off so he can never write trash for garbagefinder 2.0
2. Wow, the new action economy seems dumb. Can't even draw a weapon as part of a move. Thanks a lot paizo. Ruined
3. I find that by not being able to draw a weapon as a non action on your turn it really bogs down combat and leads to the party walking with their weapons drawn everywhere as to not "waste" an action. I'm not sure it quite is helpful enough to warrant a feat, ala quickdraw, but perhaps whatever is replacing traits could be used. Even possibly a martial reaction that can be used at the start of combat.

1. Is abusive and will get removed and likely a warning email. Repeated posts like that will likely see the poster banned from paizo.com. Paizo employees are a part of the community and posts calling for them to lose their jobs, cussing them out, threatening physical violence is abusive. It is not only unhelpful but the presence of a post like that on our forums would be a negative drain on the community (both other fans and employees).

2. Isn't particularly helpful and I would consider it baiting. It's a post that provokes arguing–an insult wrapped with a hyperbolic bow. It might stay if people avoid starting a fight over it. It might be removed if it starts a chain of bickering.

Our goal with the paizo.com forums is to foster a welcoming environment for our community. That includes fans, customers, other gaming publishers, our licensees, retailers, GM's, players, people who like Starfinder, or Pathfinder (P1E included), or the Adventure Card Game or all of the above, and employees. If you think that demeaning, screaming at, insulting or threatening people over their preference in hobbies or calling their work trash is okay,...

I guess I just have a request for the mods along these lines: When someone has posted something expressing an opinion in a terrible way that needs deletion, would you please add a few words to the effect of "several posts were deleted. This behavior will not be tolerated. BY THE WAY, the posters liked drawing a weapon as part of a move action". That way, people who are interested in seeing the balance is shifting between different ways of looking at playtest rules questions will not see a skewed result.

I don't think it's wise to assume that vocal response on a forum is indicative of the majority of fans. We're going to see a lot of people voicing their opinions very frequently and vocally throughout this playtest, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they are actually part of a majority.

I recommend that Paizo implement some way of taking a survey of the community in such a way that each of us only gets one vote. Or even each subscriber gets a vote - doesn't really matter to me. I just would like them to get some kind of feel for what we as a community think, rather than just hearing the most vocal 1%. (and if they choose to ignore some of that input, well, at least they are doing so from an informed position instead of a position of ignorance).

Reading this thread I now have a mental image of the First World being a lot like Cloud Cuckoo land in the lego movie. Thank you for that?

Last night I dreamed book 3 came out. Took me awhile after I woke up to realize that it hadn't actually happened.

It's tough for me to let go of this AP. I've been re-examining the Fungal Forest to find out why - the thing I find, well, perfect is the thing where he made entire communities into Factions, and scaled NPC reactions up into a reaction from the entire Xan species and Skis'raal species. I absolutely love that, and would like to apply it to whatever other communities PCs come across, no matter the setting.

Has this species-in-a-location community-as-faction concept been explored in any other rpg product that you guys know of?

One of my PCs would be willing to chip in a few thousand gold pieces.

I think they could, should, and will make such a galaxy map eventually, maybe a couple of years down the line. It'll look awesome.

The "two regions" would be a bunch of little one-star spots all over the galaxy for Near Space and everything else for the Vast. It wouldn't be a very pretty map.

You're assuming that they'll be drawing it to be scientifically/astronomically accurate. Paizo doesn't seem to be all that good at that - look at all "maps" of the Golarion/Pact Worlds system. None of them have Triaxus drawn with anything close to its proper orbit. The line of its orbit should cut across inner planet orbit lines, from Castrovel on out. Instead, they drew a stylized chart with near-perfect circles for orbits - completely inaccurate and insufficient for any practical use, but ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL. And that is what I think they'll do. A stylized known galaxy chart that makes perfect sense from a Starfinder gaming perspective, and absolutely no sense from a Traveller or astronomical perspective, but so beautiful that the most simulationist player will be happy to put it on their wall.

Stay in a bathhouse instead of a hotel one night. It's cheaper, and you would be amazed at the variety of hot springs type pools to soak in. Sulfur, herbal tea, a column of water massaging your shoulders from 3 stories up, and 4 or 5 more that I can't remember anymore. FYI: Naked, you have a robe for outside the pool, and men and women are separate.

Guang wrote:

Happened to me too, several years ago. My wife and I share an account, and a user name. Had no problems until I contacted customer service about an unrelated issue. Their (very quick) response was to lock me out while not responding to the issue I was bringing to their attention. Only got it unlocked by changing my user name. We still share an account, and a user name, only now one of us is the first name, and one of us the middle name. We kind of need Facebook to keep in touch with friends and family spread out all over the world.

Moral of the story: Don't write to Facebook customer service. Stay under their radar and be happy with whatever they choose to give you.

Truly, THIS is the answer? To love the shackles Facebook places upon you? You've got to be kidding me!!!

Who said love? I've just accepted that I have to pay a certain price for a product I've come to need. How else will we know what my niece is eating for breakfast thousands of miles away?

Happened to me too, several years ago. My wife and I share an account, and a user name. Had no problems until I contacted customer service about an unrelated issue. Their (very quick) response was to lock me out while not responding to the issue I was bringing to their attention. Only got it unlocked by changing my user name. We still share an account, and a user name, only now one of us is the first name, and one of us the middle name. We kind of need Facebook to keep in touch with friends and family spread out all over the world.

Moral of the story: Don't write to Facebook customer service. Stay under their radar and be happy with whatever they choose to give you.

This looks like fun! Been looking forward for a free moment when I could try.

Going to make it a halfling god, see what happens:

Alignment: Neutral Good

Domain 1: 7 Death. (Ooo, a good god of death. Interesting already.)
Domain 2: 5 Community. (Very Halflingy)
Domain 3: 23 Strength.
Domain 4: 21 Repose. (Weird that got both death and repose.)
Domain 5: 28 Water. (hmmmmm)

From the sea we came, and to the sea we return, those of us that are worthy. Together, we are strong, and those who spend their strength for the group are also strong. They tirelessly watch over the living from the water. It is an honor and a privilege to be chosen by the Spiritwhale, to be one of it's watchers. Petitioners of the Spiritwhale take an active role, often appearing to the faithful, and those that use their strength to make the whole community stronger. It's servitors appear as ghostly dolphins of light.

Colors: a deep sea blue, and bone grey.

Favored weapon: net

Holy symbol: A petrified clam or mussel

Priesthood: Main job is escorting the bodies of the worthy on their journey back to the sea. Funerals are worship ceremonies.

I've lived overseas for 2 dozen years. Always did enjoy getting off a cross-country bus or train at the wrong stop, and then figuring out how to get home. It takes a few days. You end up meeting lots of nice people, eventually, trying interesting new food, and learning a bit of whatever the local language/dialect is out of necessity. You also get really good at sign language (need a bathroom, where is the train station, etc.)

Have fun. The local experience is well worth doing, however you end up doing it.

An exact date in the old Golarion A.R.

A future technological history for each of the core races.

A different look-and-feel for tech from each core race. Like elven phasers are made out of wood, dwarven phasers are made out of stone.....only better than that of course ;)

I just wish Mielville would write more Bas-Lag. Most amazing fantasy novels I've read in quite some time.

ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!!!!!

Eureka?

*Facepalm*

*shrug*

Iä! Iä!

What about that steampunk magic-dead land in the SE corner of the map? (name's not coming to me). Seems to me the only place you could find all of those, except maybe the already-done spaceship landing place......

(man, not remembering ANY names tonight!)

If small spaceships came to trade or otherwise discretely visit Numeria on rare occasions, what kind of response could they expect to receive from the Technic League? I'm assuming the Technic League would be interested in any hi-tech items or material they might have - what kinds of things might they offer in return?

YES!!!!

Can't believe I only just now found out about Shadow under Sandpoint!

I'm interested in anything that has this map (preferably with full room descriptions):

Upon rising this morning, the group took another good look at Styrian’s strange spiral map of the Pit, trying to make sense of where we’d been, and what was left to clear.

Guang wrote:

James Jacobs wrote:

The Pit was the focus of a campaign I ran here in the office for folks. So yes indeed the region has maps and detailed descriptions; the campaign ran from 1st level to about 10th or level, with the Pit being the primary dungeon that the PCs explored the whole time. I would love at some point to publish it as an adventure, but getting the time to write it up is tricky, when I'm constantly being called upon to do other things for Paizo and Pathfinder. Maybe someday...

Wow! It exists! But it'll be forever till I get it. Feeling very conflicted right now. When did you run it? What was the starting level? Who put up/maintains the rope ladders? How deep does it go? Is there any way to see some of your maps/notes?

I started running it several years ago... don't know exactly how many. The PCs all started at 1st level. Today, they're all 16th level and tier 1 characters who are most of the way through "Necropolis."

I also ran a much-shortened version of the Pit for a Paizocon Game 3 or 4 years ago.

At this point, I don't want to get too much into the details of the site, since I could indeed write for pages and pages about it, and this isn't the place to put that stuff out there. None of the maps or notes are public at this point, although there WAS a player journal of the game around these boards somewhere...

Thank you so much! Gotta go find that player journal now.

So since the Starstone spent about 5300 years underwater, how come all of the deity fish from that period of time are never spoken of?

So that's how the gods of the Cerulean Seas campaign setting came to be.

El. Not technically on Golarion, but you can walk there from Golarion.

Figglewick! Figglewick! Figglewick!

Fun reading.

The problem I see with Sarusan is that it will be the Oceania of myth and dreaming... It's too far away to have a Colonial or post colonial history.

If you want something coffee table (with a U.S. Perspective & baggage attached) but still good I recommend the following episodes from Stuff you missed in history class . I do find they lack a little nuance and come with a how quaint filter - but they are reasonably well researched.

I'm hoping for some of both. Maybe also have an adventure in which you have to fight off hordes of invading rabbits.

I'd like to see Castrovel, Akiton, or Verces. Or all three.

Having said that, I think I'm starting to trust Paizo - whatever they come up with will add more substance to the Golarion mythos.

Yeah, it's a rounding issue, since I tried to base Golarion and its sun on our own. Sorry for the confusion! (Honestly, I'm a little surprised that I rounded that much, but oh well... perhaps I was working from older/less accurate information...)

Here's the distance chart, for anyone else who might be interested:

Golarion planet location overlaps with our first 6 planets - very genre-apropriate, as the planets discovered in more modern times do not have a direct Golarion distance equivalent. 2 extra planets (Verces, Eox) between Mars/Akiton and Jupiter/Liavara.

That was fun! Makes Verces, Eox, Apostae, and Aucturn seem even more weird. Thanks again James Sutter!

Used the orbit calculator here.
http://web.archive.org/web/20071213121121/http://www.geocities.com/area51/c orridor/8611/mseqstar.htm

Depends on if the other people are likely to cheat. Draw first if they are.

Guang wrote:

Is Golarion gravity the same as earth's? Is the sun the same mass as our sun?

Been looking at Distant Worlds....if Golarion gravity is the same as the earth's, then it's sun is 90.1% of our sun's mass. So was wondering, has this issue ever been addressed? I figured the logical place to put it would be Rasputin Must Die, but didn't find anything. Any ideas?

How do you work that out? I mean couldn't the abundane of heavy metals e.g. adamantium, planar gates, artifacts of various natures make the sun the same as our earth's but Golarion have more mass instead?

1. Distant worlds says that the G-Sun's mass is 300,000 times that of Golarion.

3. 300,000 divided by 332,900 is .9011715229, making the G-sun 90.1% of the mass of our sun, if Golarion is the same mass as earth.

4. Ergo, either Golarion masses more than Earth, or G-sun masses less than our sun.

Interesting either way, and could affect all kinds of things such as star type, mean orbital distance, surface gravity, etc.

I think you May be over scienceing it here.

Yes, of course I am. I thought it would be fun to chart out the Golarion solar system based on distance and orbital mechanics. Since the entry for Triaxus specifically states that all other planets behave according to normal scientific principles, it should be possible. So I started looking for confirmation of either the same gravity between Earth and Golarion, or different gravity between Earth and Golarion so I can solve the rest of the equation. Had trouble finding confirmation myself, so asked for help here.

Why? For fun, of course :)

So, anyone have any ideas? According to Fluff-as-written, yes can only be the answer to 1 of my 2 original questions, with no being the answer to the other one. Unless 300,000 was meant to be a rounding of 332,900?

OP: Dumb looking.
X-wings flying over water on the other hand, throwing up spray as they pass - that I could happily and hypnotically watch for an hour.

I try to take a middle road. I try to make most humanoids and monstrous humanoids as "human" as possible, in the sense of having their own communities, cultures, loves, and way of life (while keeping their non-human diversity and specialness of course).

But they can still be slaughtered if the story or players require it, for perfectly good reasons that are built up when I see either moving in that direction. Crimes deserve retribution. Hitler and the nazis, Stalin, Genghis Khan and the Mongol Horde, colonialists, and so on are all human, but I think most of us would have few qualms at wiping them out if we were aware of their (current, increasing) atrocities in our own neighborhood.

I do leave out non-combatants and children when a settlement of a monstrous race has built up a deservedly bad reputation. I include them when they have not built up that reputation. Hand-waving on my part, granted, but when killing bad guys is the fun that is happening right now, not too many people in my experience want to discover that the "big bad" just happens to also be a loving husband and father to helpless infants.

1. First Matrix movie.
2-4. Extended version of Lord of the Rings
5. A massive spliced-together home movie, mostly of events in my son's life.
6. Hero, a Hong Kong movie from 2002. Original language of course - can't stand dubbing.
7. Castle in the Sky by Studio Ghibli. Original language.
8. The Time Machine, 2002
9. A Christmas Carol, the one with Patrick Stewart.
10. maybe Avatar? Some kind of flashy sci-fi movie with lots of CGI, in any case.

That was a lot more difficult than I thought it would be. Of course the reality is I'd smuggle aboard a mini or micro sd card or 10, containing all the ebooks, movies, and gaming pdfs that would fit.

Edit: Just noticed people are doing TV shows too.....so my number 11 would be Doctor Who.

Myth Lord wrote:

Yes monter codex is great and all. But bestiary 5 in 2015 please not mc 2.

NPC Codex 2 is probably more likely for 2015 than Bestiary 5 or Monster Codex 2.

Meh, not so excited if that's the case. My world is not so overrun by humans for that to be all that useful.

no more undead, demons, or mother-in-laws.
Wait, what?
Also no more core races with professions.

Would love to see more goblinoids, aliens and alien animals, vanilla core races as monsters, and other social humanoids or monstrous humanoids. The Monster Codex was wonderful too - wouldn't mind MC2, 3, or 5.

Take your time. The high production values are what attracted me to CS in the first place.

Hot to other dwarves or hot to humans, elves or halflings?

Sweet is what comes to mind for me. A woman that would work along side you, fight along side you, drink you under the table, and still have a smile for you at the end of the day. Probably also an awesome cook, as I tend to think of dwarves as being very traditional in some ways. Might good-naturedly arm-wrestle you to determine who wins a disagreement instead of arguing about it. Also the last line of defense for the clan, fighting to their last breath against deadly invaders.

Not sure if this answers your question or not, but this is what I picture an awesome dwarf woman to be like.

Throne of Night. A mushroom jungle cavern, home to myceloids, intelligent spiders, fungus wolves, albino pteranadon and a few other fungus creatures. Subject to mushroom spore "weather". All of these are on the original encounter table for the cavern.

The lake I described is in the middle of the cavern, but isn't really fleshed out except for it's shore, and a couple of deeper locations - an island and a sunken ship.

The wider adventure path is twofold: the party is assumed to be either dwarven explorers looking for their glorious long-lost city, or drow looking to make a name for themselves. Either way, the PCs are kingdom building among the various peoples they are befriending/conquering.

Been tweaking it for awhile now, deleting a couple passageways that allow PCs to bypass interesting places, and expanding other areas. I realized that the lake in the fungal wonderland cavern was enormous, and pretty much glossed over.

Thinking of adding one or two dozen Austorian Dwarves, and maybe some Echinn and cave jellies. Been looking especially for aquatic plants and animals and monsters that would fit the wild fungal theme of the cavern, but so far haven't found much. CS only has one fungal creature, a kind of aquatic Mi-go. Doesn't seem a good fit.

So I guess trying to at least come up with a cave template, something like what they have at the beginning of Azure Abyss in which they describe how the standard CS races are different in the depths of the ocean. Then could decide where to apply that on the underground fungal wonderland lake fishies and monsters, many of which would also somehow make fungal, based on the fungal wolf example. Still also looking for aquatic fungal creatures for comparison, but little luck so far.

I'd also love to see Arcadia, and any other continents that might be in the pipeline. Not really concerned about finding people that look like me culturally or ethnically - I'm so different from 99.9% of the people where I live that conversations stop every day so people can stare and speculate about me instead, so value a wide range of ethnicities and cultures more than being represented, per se. Would love to see more of the variety of the human species represented in-game.

If I have my character note book with me, I show them how I have organized my characters and how I include the rules with my character.

I would love to see an example of this. Sounds like the perfect way to do a character sheet to me. Pls share?

Pretty sure Way of the Wicked 3pp adventure path covers the rules for this....
Found it. From book 4: "Are vampire and lich PCs permitted in the “Way of the Wicked”? The short answer – yes, absolutely. With Prince Gaius Vestromo (in Book Three) and The Nameless Tyrant (in Act Three above), PCs have clear routes towards gaining those templates."

So you'd probably have to get books 3 and 4, then you could do it. :)

I think my wife decided to play a catfolk recently because we just got a cat.

I wanted to see what Pathfinder money would feel like in the hand in real life, so I researched and went and got one. Only a copper piece, unfortunately. Silver, Gold, and Platinum are a bit beyond my budget.

I started with the standard weight of 50 per pound. This comes out to 9.0718474 grams. I looked for some rarer coins (there is notably a couple India coins that weigh 9.07 grams) Research started on Wikipedia and ended up in the 2013 standard catelogue of world coins.

The closest coin I could find at the local coin collectors shop weighed in at 9.000 grams, was 92% copper, 6% aluminum, and 2% nickel - close to perfect for 1 cp. 9.000 grams is 99.2% of the target weight - a pound of them would be 50.4 coins - so close as to make little difference.

Even better, it is a common coin - some of you might even have some in your pockets right now. The Australian 1 dollar coin, an almost perfect fit for a physical Copper Piece. I bought one, and its nice to have around to give a feel for transactions.

All values of coins are the same weight, just different sizes. A Silver Piece would be only slightly smaller. Gold and Platinum pieces could be the same diameter and half the thickness.

This wouldn't work for me. I'm a total chocoholic. "Let's go to the plane of shadow. That must be where he's hiding the dark chocolate"

Hey James,

My home campaign revolves around the Inner Sea and Isle of Kortos mainly. (Sorry if this has been asked before or maybe covered in a product already out?) Any idea of the more frequent underwater sea life near the Isle?

Is there a larger population of one creature versus another and/or is the area warm enough to see certain water creatures like sharks, orcas, giant octopuss, sea drakes, grindylows, devilfish, aquatic elves, cecaelias, gillmen, locathahs, merfolk, sahuagin?

Have you checked out Cerulean Seas 3rd party supplements?

Sorry, not my thread. James' thread.

I'm interested in how he'll be able to pull it off.

"Sir! We just received word! The Epsilon colony was overrun by an unknown alien attacker - 300 years ago!"

Studio Ghibli's Castle in the Sky crashed into Golarion. At least that's what the Gearsman always reminded me of.

Odraude wrote:

Rysky wrote:

Odraude wrote:

I have a feeling that tonight's the night. I can smell it.

I am so making Odraude the the name of the Demon Lord of False Hope in my campaign setting.

Man, that'd be so awesome. Make me CR 30 and you'll have yourself a deal!

And... we'd have to figure out how to pronounce my name...

Oh - drawd

Oh - drood

Ah - drid

Don't fall for it! The demon lord of false hope is trying to trick you! If you pronounce his name correctly, he will appear!

Formians are now aliens from Castrovel. I'm cool with that honestly.

Very nice. Would love to have a Castrovel sourcebook too.

From The Great Beyond:
"Axis: The plane of unyielding law, the perfect city of Axis is home to the mathematics-obsessed Axiomites, the underground kingdoms and floating hives of Formians, and numerous gods of law."

Is this being superseded with the B4 then? Dare I hope for an updated cosmology sourcebook?

Since the 4th Bestiary is coming out soon, and would make the job that much harder, I went through the sourcebooks, APs, modules, and counted up the creatures that have an actual entry. *drum roll*

1,361

The bestiaries (and human ethnicities) are my favorite part(s) of pathfinder. Compared to other rpg products, I feel they have as much depth but much more breadth and variety.

If someone else has already done this and come up with a different number, would like to hear it as well.