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My thought: perhaps killing Urgathoa ends up being like popping a water balloon. It could just be that she releases a lot of undead energy, or perhaps it's her divine essence trying to make a comeback.

Stormlord506 wrote:

Yeah I still think it's gonna be Iomedae.

At this point I wouldn't be surprised. Killing Iomedae would drastically alter the setting in a way that gives evil a fairly significant upper hand, since it destroys one of the primary counterweights to setting big bads like Cheliax and the Whispering Tyrant.

And if there's anything I've learned over the last 20 years of gaming, it's that grimdark sells A LOT of copies.

I definitely think it'll be one of the good gods. But I'm actually wondering if it wouldn't be MORE disruptive to kill off Sarenrae. IIRC, she's the more popular of the two, especially with the Cult of the Dawnflower. If Sarenrae died, then we get a shitload of political chaos in the Inner Sea, and an opportunity for a much more malevolent deity or force to step into the power vacuum. Imagine if it looks like Qadira is going to turn into the next Cheliax... and with Sarenrae gone, the crusaders of Iomedae will be among the leaders of the response, and I'm totally sure they will easily adapt to the political complexities and not go charging in to smite evildoers without regard for consequences.

The last years have been mixed for organized labor, such as losing the vote at the Amazon warehouses in Alabama. However, this is one scenario where the deck seems stacked against Paizo. Unless UPW is lying, they already have a majority of eligible employees, so Paizo will be fighting an uphill battle to win an election, and firing the employees in question would probably wreck them as they lose most of their talent (leaving aside what the NLRB will do to them).

I haven't been buying any Paizo products in a while, not out of principle, but I simply haven't been playing Pathfinder or Starfinder. However, should Paizo recognize the union, I will absolutely start buying Paizo products again.

Considering that a High Explosive missile does 4d8 and a Tactical Nuclear missile does 5d8, it seems clear that they are *very* small nukes (compared to what we are used to).

It's believable in a sci-fi setting in at least one regard: The hard part about initiating a nuclear reaction like that is pressure. The less material you have, the harder you have to squeeze it to get it to go supercritical. Presumably with the level of technology available, it can be done with minute amounts of fissile material (under unbelievable pressures).

If refined plutonium is still "a little hard to come by", then it's not too wacky to have tiny nukes (with massive detonators).

Another possibility is that those are genuinely clean fusion weapons that don't use a fission trigger, but some other means to bring the material up to the right temperature for a fusion reaction - probably based off their fusion reactor technology. If so, you could theoretically get a very small nuclear detonation by using a miniscule amount of fuel - you could even make a fusion grenade with the same power as a normal hand grenade.

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