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And just to clarify I meant 'mount' as in to put on a pedestal, and 'mogul' as in the stuffed corpse of the formerly wealthy businessman that I own.

Maybe I don't hear so good, but did you just ask me if I was mounting a mogul?

Cuz dat would be very disrespectful, my friend. Donald Trump happens to be a very good friend of mine, and what you saw wuz just two old friends practicing a football move we used to do all da time when we wuz kids. You know what I'm sayin?

No he asked us how do we see ourselves when we are mounting our moguls. Personally I look up at my ceiling mirror. Or I tape it and watch it later. Yes I do.

I am a mountain moleman.

The kid's actions were quite extreme however I don't believe that they show that he is a sociopath or that that he needs therapy. I have had friends who used to air rifle toads, and strap fire crackers to grasshoppers and things, even into their mid teens. Is that sadistic? Absolutely. But they certainly were not sociopaths and fuctioned well in society and held human life and well being to the same high standard as most people. So I am somewhat baffled by the assumption that a lot of people seem to have that the kid is going to grow up to be a future serial killer, or need medication.

Anyway...smurf.

Golarion is a pretty groovy world so I thought that I would start a thread where people could brain storm cool campaign, or campaign arc, ideas.

Personally I would love to run or play in a great Viking traveling/questing campaign that took the party through the lands of the savage north: Irrisen, the Realm of the Mammoth Lords, the Holds of Belken, the Cinderlands, the Worldwound, and maybe Numeria and Ustalav.

I also like the seedy decadence of Taldor as a setting for a campaign of redemption. The general sense of eventual oblivion is a great mood setter, and the extravagant finery and pomp decadence of the nobles could really be used well to both contrast with, and draw similarities to, some pretty outwardly grotesque evils. Jaded and drugged out devotees of Zon-Kuthon seeded into the aristocracy pulling the strings towards a doomsday, pseodo-Narnian centaur/gnome/awakened animals cult of Lamashtu/Jubilex festering in Verduran Forest, Sahuagin invasion from the sea, righteous heroes turned terrorists after being wronged by noble houses...yeah.

Feel free to share your ideas.

Okay this is going to sound like a troll post given everyone else's views on this thread, but I am truly struggling to understand why this little boy's actions have caused so much outrage and shock around the world. He is only seven years old. Lots of kids hurt animals, and people, when they are young simply because they don't know any better, and because of the thrill of experimentation. As they grow older, their system of values develops, or they learn that those types of actions cause negetive consequences for themselves, and they become non-dangerous functioning members of society.

Sure the fact that the lizards were killed is regretable, and it is probably resonable for the zoo to seek some sort of compensation from the parents, but why are so many people demonizing the boy?

Just adding more monkey heads to this thread. Ape headed avatars attack!!

... when someone compares the 4e previews with mass death I think they should at least be called out as silly.

That's all I'm trying to say.

I mainly responded because I like Paizo as a company and having these irrational and vicious rants on their message boards gives them a bad name. There already seems to be a (very?) small anti-Paizo element on EN World that has likely been caused by all this crazy hate talk.

I'm not saying for people to stop discussing or even complaining about what they feel is going to be wrong with the new edition, but when someone compares the 4e previews with mass death I think they should at least be called out as silly.

I hope that he is joking because if he, or anyone else, truly hates 4e as much as genocide or terrorism then something is very wrong.

terrorism

geoncide
capital punishment
abortion
religious fundamentalists
orthodontists
stupidity
the idea of hell
absolute monarchies
really annoying people

I hope that helps your list.

I hope that you are joking.

Aroden, the Last of the First Humans, is an immortal descendant of the ancient human kingdom of Azlant, which (mostly) sank below the waters of the Arcadian Ocean west of Thassilon 10,000 years ago, when the Starstone fell from space, created the Inner Sea with its impact, and cast the world into a thousand years of darkness.

Somehow, Aroden survived. He is best known for raising the Starstone to its current resting place on the Isle of Kortos, at the heart of the city of Absalom. He thereafter ascended into the heavens, becoming the patron deity of the Kingdom of Taldor.

Over a period of a few thousand years, Taldor (which is located due east of the Isle of Kortos) spread northwest across the southern reaches of the continent of Avistan, where its frontier land claimed territory now known as Cheliax. When Taldor eventually became decadent and effete, the clerics of Aroden took their religion (and their mandate from heaven) west to Cheliax.

Aroden is a god of human culture, innovation, and history. An important prophecy suggested that he was to manifest on Golarion, presumably in Cheliax, about a hundred years ago, marking the beginning of a long-awaited Age of Glory. Instead, at the appointed hour, Golarion was wracked with three weeks of storms. When the weather broke, the clerics of Aroden found themselves disconnected from their god, and all presume Aroden is dead. After many decades of instablility, the diabolical house of Thrune claimed the throne in Cheliax, using their diabolical allies to keep the populace under control.

We are now at the close of the first century of the Age of Lost Omens, when all of the old prophecies are unreliable, and mankind must chart its own destiny.

I suspect that most clerics of Aroden have become clerics of Iomedae, his greatest servant, who is one of the few mortals of Golarion to travel through the Starstone and gain a measure of divinity herself.

Much more will be revealed about these deities in the Pathfinder Chronicles Gazetteer and elsewhere.

Cool!

Awesome journal! Keep it up.