James T Boyd's page

My 2 cents for what's worth.
You're clown concept as you described seems fine, some of us have day jobs after all, naming him herpes seems vulgar for vulgars sake and adds nothing to the roleplay element of the character, I'm picturing bad joke eel here.

You're "pimp" character on the other hand is problematic, not knowing of course what language you use at the table it feels like you are demonizing or belittling sex trade workers, and contributing to the use of negative language around female characters in a fantasy setting. The pimp trope renforces a gender hierarchy which I believe paizo and pathfinder are interested in moving away from. Sexist jokes are still sexist, even if you don't mean them to be.

Just be glad that it's a Wight and not a Shadow. Same CR, but incorporeal, just slightly lower HP, and its spawn aren't weakened at creation. While Energy Drain is stronger than the Shadow's strength damage, you'll have a much harder time killing a shadow at level 1 simply because you can't damage it. Or at least I'd think you would.

EDIT: And did I mention that the shadow can fly, so it can gain a higher ground advantage to its attack rolls? Oh, and it attacks against Touch AC. So sit it 5 feet off the ground to make its attacks +5, against Touch AC, meaning it typically doesn't need to roll higher than a 10 to hit just about everyone, and then 1d6 strength damage. At level 1 you pretty much can't hit it unless you're a caster or you have holy water, so you just have to kind of stand there and take the beating.

Spoiler. Thornkeep has a shadow and a wight for those lovely first level characters

As a person who reads a lot of comics (no really, like A LOT) I feel that with the average story and average art that you find in the last story arc and again in issue 7, you need to bring something else to the table. The maps did that, it pushed a mostly forgetable tale into a different space, that being the tabletop. Comic collectors should not be caring that the comic comes a "little creased" it is ultimatly the maps that are going to make these collectable and have any value after purchase or years down the road. I feel that your products should all lead back to the game, to boost sales of the core books and Golarion setting books, the comic no longer serves this purpose and I fear is now moving in the direction of failure.

As a Casual Gamer who has only played on 5 senarios (and two of these at a con)since, I think, August, I would be saddened if I went to a bimonth game and found I was baned from playing because I hadn't played in enough senarios with a single character (I know this would never happen in my region. Props to our VC who has been more than great). I see the word optimized thrown around a lot, and I think it's great if players wish to have characters like that, but I don't think it should be expected when you sit at a table to play, each character should be as fun and unique as the person playing it, when you start excluding based on build of the character and the experience of the player you have entered into the realm of elitism, and that's fine if that's what you like... if you don't want to play with a fresh off the street player who happend to show up on a day a teir 5-7 is being run that's your option. by turning away the newly interested you can only hurt the community, if an "elite" player dosen't want to run with the "newbs" they can choose a different route, the PFS is not here to cater to the "old guard" (unless I'm very mistaken by the reason PFS was started) it's ultimate goal is to get people playing, and in turn sell more product. At the end of the day win or lose, live or die, the experiences we take away from the table are just as much built on the interactions we have with our fellow players as it is on the story we're told, any new player, playing at any teir will be back if they have a good time, share a few jokes, and meet some liked minded people to share an afternoon with. "elite" players should be more vocused on growing and supporting the community than in protecting their "snowflakes" from the curse of the deadly "newb"