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I have to admit, I'd like to have a character that was more based on the Arcanist, as an alternative to the Technomancer. But I'm not so sure that I really need 7-9 levels of spells. Nut it would sure be cool if there was certain ways to replicate certain 7-9 level spells under specific circumstances, like rituals and the like. Personal Rant: Personally I think that simulacrum should have been done away as a spell and just have been a construct type template that was something a character could build. The rules are just so wonky and a kludge from the 1st edition of the game.
There's nothing uncivil about advocating (not demanding) that an employee who shamed and embarrassed a company be let go to demonstrate a commitment to better values (e.g. Weintsteingate) or work product (Shiftergate) going forward.For the most part everyone has. Those that are disappointed (the majority as near as I can tell) have actually been more civil in their comments than those speaking out against the disappointment.You mean the people who advocated for Paizo employees to be fired or the ones who threatened physical violence against the company? :) WOW...the conflating of issues here is quite out of spectrum here. To compare the creators of the shifter class whom some posters believe have performed sub par to someone who has been accused (and in my personal opinion rightfully so) of multiple felonies is outrageous. Even the concept of calling it "Shiftergate" is beyond the pale. The concept of adding "gate" to something is to indicate that a conspiracy has happened and someone tried to cover it up. I really don't see how Paizo did anything that rises to that level. You may be disappointed in the work that was done, you can point to what you see as flaws in the class, but claiming that Paizo has done something criminal here is IMHO way beyond the pale. Edit: Sorry for coming to the thread late. I see the apology, and accept it. I'm leaving my comments as I stand by what I said, but I piled on and should have read farther.
There are some legality issues that if you would like to discuss offline, I would be more than happy to discuss. But suffice it to say, there are legal issues that you blurring with your statement and are misleading. Further more I would suggest that anyone who is reading this post find legal representation to review the CUP if they intend to publish in this fashion, this venue is simply this discussion.
... meaning some can use him, some can't. I understand that what he was trying to say, but it's important to be factual.
How about a star drive that accesses the Elemental Plane of Time? There is an Elemental Plane of Time for every direction you wish to travel, like the Drift, you use your thrusters to move through the plane of time. Your ship passes through a gate the Time Drive creates, if you move forward in the time plane, you move forward in time buy not in space. If you move backwards in the time plane, you move backwards in time but not in space, but if you move sideways in the plane of time, you move a corresponding distance in space, but if you don't move forward in time on the time plane while doing this, no time passes in on the Prime Material Plane while you are moving across the plane of time, you can open up another gate back to the Prime, and from the perspective of anyone on the prime material plane, you will seem to have moved instantaneously. I have a head cannon thing that the "Drift" and the Elemental Plane of Time are one and the same. Triune just hasn't let any one know yet.
As an aside... what is the difference between OGC and OGL? I'm pretty sure OGL is the Open Gaming License, but not sure what OGC is. OGC means Open Game Content. Generally Paizo designates all of its intellectual property as being "closed content", and the rest to be open content. There have been subtle shift over the years, but for the most part I believe this to be true.
Technicality: this issue has nothing to do with OGL (OGL itself covers only open content, which setting stuff is not). It's the Paizo Community Use License that allows you to use proper given names from the Golarion setting ... as long as your website (in this case) is non-commercial, which Archives of Nethys are and d20pfsrd isn't. Didn't claim OGL, I claimed OGC. The there is a big difference, but you already knew that.
Never suggested that you run something you haven't played, nor do I think that your dumb or lesser. Just suggesting something that can be fun, and get you to know your fellow players. You can run Pathfinder Society games and then I'm sure you can build a rep that will allow you to run games elsewhere. It will take time, but you will have fun along the way. We all want to help, part of the issue here is that we all see your frustration, but what we don't see (and it's the internet, it masks all speech in a strange way) is that you acknowledge people suggestions in the spirit that it was given.
If you can't play games, please consider running games. Perhaps you can join an online game. Moreover please take a moment to think about the tone in which your responses are being made. You have people making constructive suggestions to you . If they don't work for you that's understandable, but lashing out isn't going to get you into a new game faster. I see your frustration, it sucks not being able to do what you love. I bet your not alone.
Hwalsh, Please stop being so defensive. Other people's opinions are as valid as yours. You've made your very strong argument, they have made theirs.
Is there art of Yoon as the "towering juggernaut of strength in which he gets as much strength as possible while his burn mechanic damages the environment around him" archetype?Yoon’s a lady, just a head’s up. And now I have “Yoon looks like a lady” playing in my head....
OK from my perspective, I wouldn't allow this to happen at my table. I just can't imaging allowing a class to transform they want. I just imagine a player frozen with choices. Granted, it's my opinion, but there it is.
Thinking back to the Alien Archive, there was a ooze that was a nanite manufacturer. I could imagine Anacites incorporating something like that into a symbiotic relationship for self repair. Perhaps casting heal spells effects the ooze in side and allows them to heal the Anacite... Or for that matter, allow the Anacite to reconfigure itself... Mechanically tricky but interesting.
I have a feeling that we will see something in Pact Worlds. Nothing to back that up, just a feeling. Well, considering that we have character races that are water breathing, walking around in environment suits, I'm certain that something could be worked out. It would seem to me that those that emulate to be like the "first ones" would have solved that with some sort of battery pack.
Actually there are precedence in Golarion of instilled patriarchy in Taldor. Taldor has never had a ruling queen, due to patriarchal rules and that is part of the plot in the upcoming AP line, where the party is trying to place Stavin's daughter on the throne. Sorry didn't mean to invalidate a point. Merely wanted to add to the conversation.
So I went back to read the entry on the Drow planet and while it does state that they houses still control the Drow population, they are more or less broken up into city states. (I my minds eye, kinda like the Italian states were for quite a long time.) They are still Matriarchal, and all the top positions are Drow only. But they aren't isolationist. People go to them for weapons and armaments, and they also go to them for fleshcrafting. I would imagine that there are others that go to them for other more base reasons as well. So the Drow has a chance of becoming more relevant than the Elves in the new order of things.
That's your opinion. But its not up to you how to tell others how to play the game. And your misquoting me to make your point. So no, your not dealing in facts. You cannot dictate what is fun to anyone. So don't pretend like your an authority on how the game is played.
That's your opinion. But its not up to you how to tell others how to play the game.
Once again the facts don't bear that out. The game is only as combat heavy as you make it.
Comparing starfinder to pathfinder is wrong. In pathfinder, you can build someone with a 20 DPR or 300 DPR at level 12. In starfinder you will never see that kind of discrepancy in the same class. That was not the thrust of your argument and your making assumptions on what is or isn't fun. The facts are that you can make adventures without combat. Bypassing a combat encounter that you don't have to have is often worth the experience points in and of itself in most Paizo written adventures. The facts are that there are many play styles supported by the rules. presenting your opinion as fact doesn't make it so.
Talking about combat is actually very important in terms of both Starfinder and Pathfinder because they are combat games. Yes they are called roleplaying games but there is no mechanic in the rules that rewards roleplaying, it's not part of the default reward structure. I could run two homebrew games using only the rules provided, one with 5 fully fleshed out characters with backstories and motivations, the other with just the character sheets and no story. At the end of those two sessions, even if the roleplaying was phenomenal in the first session, by the base rules of the game both parties will have the exact same amount of experience. The other aspects of the game may be valuable to certain groups, but the rules value the combat effectiveness so building effective characters is very much important. I'll add that I am someone that values roleplaying and story over mechanics and often introduces reward structures for good character moments, but if we're speaking in terms of the rules of the game, roleplaying and story has no actual effect. With all that being said, I think both builds have their own uses and a utility build can be mechanically effective provided the circumstances are right, but in most cases will lose out to a damage focused build. This will likely change in the future as more Solarian revelations are released, but as it stands the damage focused build is probably gonna feel more satisfying to play in general since CC is far more situational and there may be a lot of encounters where you just aren't useful. As for the save issues, I would like to see how it feels to play, but a buff from a revelation may be useful down the line. I can write a adventure with nothing but skill checks and no combat and still give out experience points with rules as written. Your point is not borne out by the facts.
While all of these concepts, (matriarchal, patriarchal and the like) are all a big thing to mine ideas, I think we do a disservice trying to compare it to much to real world concepts. Real world politics run the risk of making people uncomfortable, and I think that the thread has some very interesting ideas, I just don’t want to see it locked.
I was never a fan of the "NPCs can do things PCs can't, all other things being equal," method of game design. Totally kills immersion and suspension of disbelief. I'm on that other side of that argument. NPCs are a literary device to me and that's all I really want with that. YMMV.
So far from what I'm reading here in the post, I really like the Drow. I see nothing wrong with have one of the few remaining Matriarchal societies still existing in this setting. Beside some inetersting things can happen when females have such power. Now if you excuse me my Drow Mistress requests me to return to bed.It's not that they are matriarchal so much as there are no truly patriarchal societies. We have matriarchies and then equal societies. I just dislike the double standard. Drow are greedy opportunists that enjoy spreading chaos, that more than likely pay quite a bit of money fo public relations, so imho they can be trusted to do what is in their best interest. Add to the fact that worlds that exist outside the pact may have never had Drow of their own in their world, you can see where desperate, or equally sinister people would have no qualms in buying from them. Scared that the Vesk, or Azlanti might come knocking at your door, the Drow might be the only ones willing to risk coming to your neighborhood to sell you what you need.
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