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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the 10 Bings - Shang-Chi must travel through the multiverse to gather up 10 variants of Bing Crosby before Christmas, or the Dark Elves will take over the 9 Realms.

The E-Tertals - What? They are electronic turtles; they can't spell!

X-MET - retired Mets players develop mutant powers

If you want to dual-wield the same weapon, keep the minimal -2/-2 to attack, and have a high crit range, dual wield kukris. They only average 1 less point of damage than rapiers (2 less on a crit).

"Language!"

and, of course, the big musical number for the supporting cast: "America's Ass"

I think it is more pro-underdog (big strong beings are rarely underdogs, except against bigger, stronger beings), and nerds do highly value Intelligence, while valuing Charisma lower.

(I do tend to play characters who grow giant and RAWR SMASH, but I still am hesitant to have a low Int)

Well, if they feature monsters not in core, they may just have a supplement tied into the movie that contains them.

Path of War Stalker is a Wis-based class, with a ninja-esque theme and 6+Int Skill points. It also has a martial discipline, called Steel Serpent, that involves corrupting enemies ki and acts like poisons. (It also adds Wis Mod to Reflex saves and Initiative, in addition to Dex Mod)

There are a number of abilities that'll use your Power Points, so a more martial pairing will help do damage while keeping power points in reserve for healing/Vitalist abilities.

Those levels are the minimum requirements to take it. You have to be at least 5th level to get it the second time, for example. You can also retrain feats (optional rule, so at GM discretion).

I do not think RAW take into account shared burden between teleportees. So, GM's discretion imo.

Well, beholders are sort of the trademark D&D-copyrighted monster, so I'd suspect one of those (or more if we get some Zhents involved)

Mind Flayers might be a bit much for the first movie, though...

Is the Vampire/Lycanthrope rivalry in base Pathfinder at all? It can be added to particular settings, but, then again, other settings could have them as allies (well, those of similar alignment, at least)

Also, someone in the movie says Jeff Gordon has the most Nascar wins. But Richard Petty has the most Nascar wins at 200. Jeff Gordon has 93 wins.

Do the writers know how to look things up on the internet? I used to be a big Nascar fan and wrong things like that get me worked up.

I've heard writers intentionally stick in wrong stuff to try and sneak past the editors and consultants, which is where most of the ridiculously bad computer stuff comes from in movies and TV.

Whatever Fnord is, it survived being tossed into Mount Doom.

Well, you could play off a saying of the other big fantasy 5-headed dragon goddess, Takhisis: "Mercy is weakness, and weakness is death."

A "Gadgeteer" class that focuses on inventions/gadgets, guns, crossbows, bombs(alchemist), traps, tools, etc.

Edgar from FFVI? Would be quite fun.

Well, MCU's Shang-Chi's dad can't be Fu Manchu, for many, many reasons, so the real Mandarin makes sense. Daddy would still be a big bad, arguably a bigger bad, in fact.

Northern Canada, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, etc., would be far better locales for the vast Reghed Glacier and Great Ice Sea of Icewind Dale. If Forgotten Realms, maybe Ruathym or another island of the Northmen (like northern Moonshaes, esp if they also do shoots in Ireland or the like). Iceland isn't really that icy enough.

Being healed by an effect is not the same as being resistant or immune to it, and Mythic Fireball says nothing about healing. So, I don't see anything wrong with your reasoning.

The only Psionics I know of for Pathfinder are the ones from Dreamscarred Press (Ultimate Psionics and other books). However, unless you use the "Psionics are different" rules (not advisable), bonuses vs psionics (powers and Psi-Like Abilities) would also count against spells and SLAs.

Psionics has Fission for Egoists. (They also have Fusion for the reverse)

JoelF847 wrote:

Pan wrote:

Hugh Grant to play a villain.

Maybe I'm not familiar with all of his work, but from what I do know, he tends to play benignly bland characters, not quite what I'm looking for in a villain.

Well, I didnt pick him. Though, Grant does play smarmy a-hole characters pretty well. I think he will be fine. I didnt think Ledger would be a good joker. Cant knock it until you rock it.

A lot of bad guys in tabletop campaigns I've played in were smarmy a-holes. An evil vizier type role requires a great deal of smarm (also, the appearance of being benignly bland)

btw, Advanced Study is a Combat feat, so it would already count for Fighter bonus feats. In fact, most PoW feats are Combat feats, so fighters can go hog wild with them if they so choose.

Maybe reduce the number of available Disciplines for 2/3 casters as well

Maybe allow some PoW feats for Ranger style feats, as long as it helps with the style (dual-wield could get prodigious Two-weapon fighting or feats involving Thrashing Dragon, 1h and shield could get Iron Tortoise related feats and shield feats, etc.)

The weaker martials (Fighter, Rogue, Chained Monk) could get the archetypes bonuses without the trade-offs.

The stronger martials could get free Martial Training Feats at odd levels starting with 3rd, so they get some free maneuvers and stances but not full stuff. Or, alternately, they could choose the archetypes and get bonus feats at odd levels from 3rd-13th levels.

One way they could introduce the audience to the more fantastical elements of D&D without overly bogging down the first movie or confusing laymen is to have the story take them to Skullport (if set in FR). Both Waterdeep above and Skullport below are cosmopolitan enough to have all sorts of weird things going on in the background without the need to explain or expound on it (as opposed to weirdness that is central to the plot).

It would be like Luke going to Mos Eisley, the stereotypical country bumkin character first arriving in NYC or London, etc.

A freak accident involving many monkeys and a time machine in the Panama Canal that will always occur tomorrow, never today.5

Gojira
Low Tiara
Go to Qadira

Looks like Paramount just cast Chris Pine to star in the new D&D movie. Hopefully the movie winds up being worthy of A-list talent.

There seems to be a rule that big blockbuster franchises require at least one Chris in it...

Alternate weapon prof. list for different cultures(at least based on continent), I mean an exotic weapon to one culture would be a common one to another.

Rename "Exotic Weapons" to something like "Advanced Weapons." Then, have cultural flavor for different weapons and make the split between the three categories purely mechanical. You want something that behaves like a martial weapon, but has an extra property or wider threat range? Advanced Weapon!

Oggr is an ogre-descended race from Dreamscarred Press, same company as Forgeborn.

from here (near the bottom of the page)

Gignere wrote:

Can you use the fused physical stats to qualify for feats? Or must the synthesist use his own stats?

Just as a Str11 character wearing a belt of strength +2 bumps him to Str13 and allows him to take Power Attack, you can do this. You just couldn't use the feat without the belt/eidolon-suit.

Fabulous
Nocturnal-
Oriented
Radical
Designs

What I like to do with new players is ask them what they want to play, divorced from game mechanics. Describe the character like you would do with a movie or novel character. Then, I could curate (I guess that's the best word for it) options to, not only work with that description, but also avoid so-called "trap options," ones that look good on paper but don't work out in actual game-play. (If I am the GM or know what the GM allows and doesn't, that's better) That way, you don't need to read up on the ton of options and rules, just the ones pertinent to the character you wish to play.

However, barring that level of assistance, I'd go with CRB options to start, and expand as you get a better feel. (like the previous posts said) You can even look to, say, the characters in the Beginner's Box as a base.

The Great Guardians of Gaston's Gazebo Gates to the Grand Greek Gardens.

No time to lose
No time for Toulouse
No thyme to loose

Today lot of people imagine D&D gnomes as twins of the ones from World of Warcraft.

Well, WoW gnomes are basically Dragonlance tinker gnomes, especially since Jeff Grubb had a big hand in both worlds (and he was the one who thought up tinker gnomes).

KahnyaGnorc wrote:

Tolkien did hate allegory, but he liked applicability. Allegory is a heavy-handed 1-to-1 relationship, usually like hitting the reader over the head with the connection. Applicability is more of a soft 1-to-Many relationship, where the reader can draw parallels to multiple things. The One Ring offers power and temptation, but that can manifest in many myriad ways.

Like the temptation to find layered allegory where there is in fact none.

:D

The sheer POWER of reading too much into things is too tempting not to pursue to many. I may or may not be part of that many...

Tolkien did hate allegory, but he liked applicability. Allegory is a heavy-handed 1-to-1 relationship, usually like hitting the reader over the head with the connection. Applicability is more of a soft 1-to-Many relationship, where the reader can draw parallels to multiple things. The One Ring offers power and temptation, but that can manifest in many myriad ways.

I convince Head Machinist Sparkflux's machines to rise up in revolution, which results in Headless Machinist Sparkflux.

Sirius Sa'luk's middle name is Shirley, and loves it when people tell him "Shirley, you can't be Sirius!"

YawarFiesta was born a Ford Fiesta, but was polymorphed . . . into a Taurus.

Fish-Malkovich is actually an amphibious reptile, not a fish.

Classics from Williham Steaksear:
Ham-Latte
Romano and Juliet
Big Macbeth with Cheese
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar Salad
A Midsummer Night's Dram

Zeus is at it again, hitting on random creatures, natural objects, and abstract concepts...

Minneapolis
Minnehaha
Minnie Mouse

Your hit points not only cover your toughness, but also your ability to turn a deadly hit into a grazing one (a high-level character has a lot of experience in not dying). Being helpless removes that ability.

Snowgirls - Santa's Sexy Helpers (Ho Ho Ho, indeed)

What about 3rd party races?
Hexbreather is a child of a hag and an orc.

When I roll a character with a particular weakness, whether it is a low ability score, saving throw, skill, or, say, vulnerability to cold, I expect encounters that will play to said weakness, just like I would expect encounters that will play to the character's strengths. I would not expect to have all the encounters tailor-made for the character's strengths, not all for the character's weaknesses.

GMs who decide that a character weakness should be constantly and repeatedly targeted and at least as bad as players who expect their weakness to never come into play.

The whachamacallit and the doohickey doing their thing with the thing, and everything just *strange noises*. Ya know?

Having a session 0 (or other pre-campaign session) where you help the players build the characters they want to play but also fits the campaign (a giant-slaying build is good for a giant-heavy campaign, but not an undead-heavy one, for example) and is effective. Newer players and those without enough system mastery might not know of classes, feats, and other options that might fit what they want to play better, especially if you have 3PP available.

Thursdays down at the Gladiatorial Arena.

do-wop
she-bob
K-Pop

Dr. Albert W. Wily is the sadistic mad scientist behind giving Wile E. Coyote his intellect and his self-destructive subconscious. He had no part in the creation of Road Runner though.

This makes a weird amount of sense. What artist is ever appreciated in their own time?

A lot, from Michelangelo or da Vinci to Elvis Presley or Metallica...

How I usually put it is that D&D and Pathfinder (as well as things like GURPS, Savage Lands, etc.) are not so much games as they are boxes of tools that DMs/GMs/etc and players use to make their own games. And, like any box of tools, they can choose to use some tools, not use others, and even add new tools to the boxes.