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Bow Staff is nice but, unfortunately not a Finesse weapon. Might be better with a stance.
Alright I got the Auto-sheet working to meet my needs and can flesh out my application. Character Sheet: Zahel Embersworn (Half-Elf Dragon Scholar Sorcerer) Description: Zahel Embersworn is a Half-Elf with a tawny complexion that favors more heavily towards his specific Elvish Heritage. His most striking feature is his pale blue eyes which turn a golden hue when he channels the magic of his blood. He keeps his ebony hair cut to shoulder length and has comely features traditional to one of partial Elvish heritage. Backstory: Zahel's first time casting magic was surprising occasion for all who had witnessed it. Growing up in a small town in Nirmathas his education had been nearly as free spirited as the country itself. The craftsmen and scholars in the town would take turns allowing the children to watch and learn giving them the choice to follow the path they determined would be best when reaching maturity.
After a few years Zahel had shown little aptitude for scholarly pursuits or any craft available to him but, he had shown some potential with the preforming arts. Specifically the art of story telling grasped him, the way that a skilled story teller could make history or fiction come alive off the pages with a few well placed words. He had even begun to pick up some experience with a lute to accentuate the stories, adding more emotion to each tale. It was during one of these performances just after his 19th birthday that Zahel's abilities awakened. During an impassioned reciting of an ancient chant spoken by a powerful sorcerer in his favorite story,he changed the words unconsciously. Zahel's eyes glowed with a golden light and fire burst forth from his hands creating a smoldering sphere that lit his instrument ablaze. The only person more shocked than the crowd was Zahel himself. He had always had trouble interacting with those from either side of his heritage but, it seemed another lurked deeper in his blood. This began his pursuit of knowledge, trying to find out what he could about the Dragon blood sleeping within him and the creatures he might finally be able to feel a kin-ship to.
Very excited to try 2e in a PBP setting, I have been playing Pathfinder for a decade now and have done PBP before. a) Half-Elf
The character will be joining the Call to be able to continue his research into dragons. After discovery that they possessed a Draconic Bloodline, and not exactly know their place as a half-elf, they have thrown themselves into the study of dragons and to learn more about this part of his heritage which makes him special. While they aren't the brightest student they are very persuading in getting their hands on the knowledge they seek.
As excited as I am for all this, it's a shame it's all going to be irrelevant once PF2 drops.Assuming people are going to make the change. I'm passing on 4th edition 2.0 and sticking with my Pathfinder. Did you play 4th Edition? PF2 is way better than 4th edition and it's only in Beta right now.
3.2% of PCs are gnomes, compared to 1.4% of PCs that are goblins. It won't be that big of a change if goblins become more common.We've had goblin PCs since 2010. Nothing is changing!! This is a pretty good point. Why is Paizo Shafting the Tieflings (5.3%) and Aasimar (4.7%) which are already accepted and played way more in favour for Goblins which are barely played and were designed as monsters primarily.
Is this the actual case or are you purposely being fecicous? The simple point is that Goblins were created with an intent or role originally and while having goblins on occasion deviate from that role was fine, it has now gone way past this and put them on the same level as the other cores for being as common. Through out the major cites and communities of Golarion you can find fairly large populations of the other core races. Either this is now also true for Goblins or they really don't belong in the core races. (I'm pro-goblin options, just not pro-coregob.)
I would still love to do another Tian Xia AP, but nowhere did I say that's the one I'm doing next or even the one I WANT to do next. I asked if you had plans to do a AP plot spoiler: at Gen Con 2015s panel. I was told that there were to many moving parts for it and that you would probably never see one happen. Time Travel AP
Trust me, if a town burned my wife for being a witch, I would kill every last one of them.true...but unholy army of the damned dose seem a little overkill Eh Dracula views humans as we would rabid dogs. This is less genocide and more of an extermination in his view.
Ah good old Black "Buck Naked" Whirlwind
Sometimes you have to make a choice that makes some stories more difficult for the sake of game balance and emphasizing other stories you want to tell more. If you want to mod things out to let your players resell cybernetics (or harvest organs from their enemies, for that matter), that's fine with us, but we have to balance things with an eye toward the stories we want to be most common in the game. Like starships, augmentations are both a story element and a mechanical one, and we've tried to find a balance that prioritizes fun and wow factor over absolute realism. So does that mean there is no market for used spaceships?
Same. Cyberware chop shops are a fun trope, and it's sad to cut out all chance of them or any stories related to them showing up. It also makes no sense that the parts become immediately worthless as soon as they're implanted in someone, it's super weird and gamey.I am a little less excited now that as it stands I cannot remove the augmentations of my enemies and install them into my allies. I wanted to truly "Loot" the bodies.I agree. Removing cyber-parts from previous users and selling them for half or less is a common trope in sci-fi and makes much more sense than selling magic items for half value. is there any explanation on how we have such an advanced tech with such a big limitation?
...The butchering axe is a nasty looking humongous orc axe that you can only wield without penalty if you have at least 19 Strength. It does 3d6 damage. It's an exotic weapon...Is that written in a way that lets a half-orc's weapon familiarity to work? Because you say it's an orc weapon, but I don't see "orc" in the name. It seems to only be popular with orcs in 1 country. By the regular rules it doesn't currently apply.
"Take your favorite fantasy RPG to the stars! Set thousands of years in Pathfinder's future..." Even if it's a stand-alone game that can be played without any Pathfinder materials there is some connections implied in the very first sentence. They take about taking "Your Favorite fantasy RPG to the Stars" this being Pathfinder. They also state it is set in the far flung future of Pathfinder. I mean it's hard to call it detached after stating the connections quite directly. Click on the star finder image if you want to see it yourself. I don't really call this speculation.
And halflings are not a different "race" than humans, they're a different species. We are imperfect. Always found those terms were interchangeable in Pathfinder given the main species book is called the Advanced Race Guide.
Now I have 3 Devs commenting on knowing my world views and mocking these views in some fashion. I find that a race with such acceptable Fluid sexuality to still be a Martiarchy to be absurd. That was my main concern since the conservative groups are a minority by this description.
But it's still a... I read this and really can't say anything about other than now feels like this was thought through to push someones agenda. As stated before the Lashunta were already a very interesting race that occupied a unique place in the races of the RPG. I would rather not be fed real world politics in my fantasy role-playing games.
1) A Lashunta is born male or female and then chooses to become Damaya or Korasha later on. In the distant past, males were expected to become Korasha and females were expected to become Damaya and rarely made the opposite choice, but nowadays all four combinations are relatively common. This option leaves open the possibility of families that are all Damaya or all Korasha.It's this option, as far as I understand it (as a non-member of the Starfinder team). There would certainly be a lot of pressure in a Damaya family for all the kids to be Damaya, just like a family of doctors might pressure their kids to also be doctors. But ultimately, the kid gets to choose his or her own path when the time comes. But it's still a Matriarchy?
But it clearly states that they are a Matriarchal Society. Which means it's still "Problematic" and "Sexist".When the majority of historic societies and governments are patriarchal, having one or two matriarchal ones does not make the matriarchal ones "problematic" or "sexist". Pathfinder has already demolished all Patriarchal societies. That's why it's curious they left these other ones.
The Sexual Dimorphic nature was what made this race interesting and unique in the pathfinder setting. Now you basically have 2 less interesting races that are slightly different space elves and space dwarves. But it clearly states that they are a Matriarchal Society. Which means it's still "Problematic" and "Sexist".
My first instict was The Wheel of Time but, that is in Development already. So given that I would like to see one of these made. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistborn_series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stormlight_Archive Both have great stories, characters and worlds. However I really wish they just rebooted the Dresden Files tv series and did it right this time. It did not get the justice it deserved.
Yea it was much better deal for GMs this time around to not have to miss out on the playtest as they volunteered to gamemaster. I hope all future playtests does the same thing.Oh ok. I didn't make a playtest character and didn't know about the boon.It seem odd that you would allocate GM credit to a Playtest character knowing that will it become illegal and have to redo it anyways.The playtest chronicle this time encouraged/supported GM's with vigilantes at the table to assign the GM chronicle to their playtest vigilante character and still get the boons. Yes I really enjoyed that as well.
I guess you could get an arbiter inevitable named Alpha 5 who always say "Aye yai yai yai!"It makes me feel both sad and old that people see the magical child archetype description and think "Sailor Moon" rather than rocking out to the original Power Rangers theme.That's because sailor moon is closer, yes both have transformations, but power Rangers don't have magical pets Or a talking sword named Saba. I believe there is a sword Familiar Rakshasa.
I live in Fort McMurray, Alberta. The closest con I could go to I think would be held in Edmonton which is 5 hours south of me. It wouldn't be a simple venture for me sadly. :( There is a Convention coming up in April for Edmonton PFS. If you GM you can get a race boon for whatever is currently in rotation. Should look up Edmonton PFS on Facebook.
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