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Look algorithm, I am NOT going to vote for that item. How many times do I need to down vote it before you get the idea...I mean you would have to pair that item against a real pile of .... never mind.


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Yes I'm yelling at you! You just can't hear me over your buzzing armor and roaring weapon.


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drink a ghost vs kill a ghost followed by make an undead vs. make an undead.


I had to vote over 500 times to see my item...soooo...go for dedicated voter! Now after what I assume to be 800 or so votes I have seen it twice and yet I have been subjected to some claw out your eyes items at least 30 times over that same span.


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I keep running into an item that reminds me of KISS, and not awesome in paint 70's KISS but 80s' day-glo lime green and lavender KISS. How are you still here?


Lots of noisy items. I'm imagining a group that is sounding like a dump-truck dumping a load of symbols going through a dungeon.


pH unbalanced wrote:
These two items go together as perfectly as Kukla, Fran, and Ollie.

I am missing this reference but when I see "Kukla" I hear Ookla in my head and that make me think of Thundar! Ookla Ride!!!


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Jeff Lee wrote:
Thunderfrog wrote:


I wonder if the authors of magical booze items dedicated to a party god stop to consider if anyone else has ever bothered with that same low hanging fruit.
Likely not. That's the thing with themed items, it's like one of those word association games. People think of a deity, or country, or organization, and choose the first thing that pops into their heads when they think of that theme. Of course, so does most everyone else. Part of designing something original is to step outside the norm and go beyond what's typically expected. Explore the design space. Usually there's something waiting there beyond the stereotypes and standard expectations.

Cayden Calaen's cloak of sobriety and chastity !!!


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Hey, I saw the ACDC item! NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ... sing it!


Wow! You could make your money back on this item in like a day if you are high enough level!


Yes item I like you I really really like you. I like you in a house and with a mouse. IF only my item had come up 30 times so far so I could vote it up as thoroughly.


Le Petite Mort wrote:
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Mike Franke wrote:
Ambrosia Slaad wrote:
Mike Franke wrote:
This item x appears to be an ordinary item x, is covered in filigree and runes and when attuned may transform into any of the many kinds of item x, bypass any of the many kinds of DR, or take on any of the various elemental properties. It can also affect incorporeal and haunts but only if you cut yourself and drip your blood on said filigree and runes . And it can also cast magic missile but only at complete darkness.

Fixed

"Where're the Cheetos?!"

Oh I forgot that if you and your buddy both have this item you can share your skills and feats.
And if you die, it raises you as a ghost, and then the weapon becomes dancing and starts hacking away at all your ectoplasms.
And it lets you speak with dead days after the fact, like that other item that does the same thing. No, the other item that does the same thing. No, the other one. No, the other one. No, the one from last year. No, the other one from last year. No... wait, maybe it was one of the four from two years ago, instead.
That's only if the runes inscribed along its hilt are currently glowing a soft blue, which of course only occurs if the bearer is sad.

I thought the blue glow meant you are attuned but the red glow meant you can see the colored auras of other people and then control them.


Ambrosia Slaad wrote:
Mike Franke wrote:
This item x appears to be an ordinary item x, is covered in filigree and runes and when attuned may transform into any of the many kinds of item x, bypass any of the many kinds of DR, or take on any of the various elemental properties. It can also affect incorporeal and haunts but only if you cut yourself and drip your blood on said filigree and runes . And it can also cast magic missile but only at complete darkness.

Fixed

"Where're the Cheetos?!"

Oh I forgot that if you and your buddy both have this item you can share your skills and feats.


Good call!


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This item x appears to be an ordinary item x, is covered in filigree and runes and when attuned may transform into any of the many kinds of item x, bypass any of the many kinds of DR, or take on any of the various elemental properties. It can also affect incorporeal and haunts but only if you cut yourself and drip your blood on said filigree and runes . And it can also cast magic missile but only in complete darkness.


When you use item x you can cast spell y as a z level caster... Sounds good but z level caster can't cast that spell! Incredible op item you just got lucky this round.


chaoseffect wrote:
Pyrrhic Victory wrote:
Hey I just want you to know that about once a year or so this thing is really going to hurt you just to keep you on your toes. Is that ok?
Oh god, that sounded way too close to home for my entry.

Nothing wrong with keeping your buddies on their toes. :)


I don't like you because you seem particularly useless but you are up against a cursed item so you win this one.


You want to make a rogue (says announcer voice) why bother! Now there is mini rogue in a can!


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Wolin wrote:
Cthulhudrew wrote:
I always find myself wondering about masks (and this doesn't specifically apply to anything in RPG superstar, but also things found in the various rulebooks): does anyone actually have their characters going around wearing these things?
The weird thing is the number of masks I've seen that get sucked into your face. I mean, it's two, and one of them was culled, but it's odd. And also sort of creepy.

There was actually a whole series of fantasy books about masks that you wear but are absorbed into your face that give you the powers of the gods. It was pretty good and also a while back so I doubt that anyone is copying anything but the trope is definitely out there.


If you can take something from your item to use then you really need to tell what kind of action it is to do so. I'm see this a lot.


Damn it stop switching my avatar ...looks suspiciously at dog...


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This item lets you see what should not be seen...and then what should not be seen comes and bites you in the rear! With just a little bit of different flavor this could have been REALLY fun. UP it goes.


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Why yes this is my fancy hat...and my necktie made of cartilage.


Terrible complicated and disturbing item vs make you blind but still see item. sigh.


addendum ...I am now starting to have to choose between two that I had previously voted up more frequently than the one obviously solid and one obviously flawed scenario that has been common for the last few days.


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Yes it is a bummer to see the same items over and over but i understand how the math works. I was hoping after the cull that some of my least favorites would be gone, and they are, but I still have many that are apparently in "my test group" that I have voted down many many many times but keep popping up. It is starting to feel like endless wack-a-mole.


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Item that lets you auto sneak attack, you keep winning because you are full of flavor and always up against something meh.


Ah pretty cool, I know it is just a Dr. Who rip off but I may vote for ....IT COSTS HOW MUCH!!!


Hey this item is a nice little item look it glows and .... whaaat! Looks like I'm voting up version 2 of the pocket library.


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michael patrick wrote:
Mike Franke wrote:


And I think we should call them Chulls just for fun.
Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Lightning Lions?

No (although I need to write that up right now) you know those things that look like lobsters with tentacles for a face.


Special defense every round and special attack every 4 rounds forever no limit vs. blood blood blood! I'm going to have to vote for the blood.


taking a look post cull and ... ah good still plenty of blood items!

And I think we should call them Chulls just for fun.


I just had to vote up an item that gave an insight bonus but never specified the number because it was up against an item with a word in the name comes right out of the real world.


I'm seeing this a lot today..."this item/weapon is completely (this color) except where it is (this color).


So... spell level check....caster level check but different from stated above ... so what's the DC??


I never knew so many magic items emitted an aroma!


it's the itchy and scratchy show!!! and I've had to vote for it at least twice. :(


Still looking for the item that makes me cut myself to use it ... ooh there it is!


Now I have to choose between a cool idea with obvious errors in formatting and grammar and a solidly written spell in a can ... sigh ...


Here is a modern electronic device, there is another modern electronic device.

Here is a device that uses modern scientific language there is another ...


I notice that I seem to be locked into a small subset of the items when I vote kind of like the program is using me to test about 10 items that keep coming up over and over against the rest.


Lots of undead affecting and items utilizing necromancy too.


It seems like blood and copper tubes are a theme this year. Lots of steam punk vampire stuff.


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Unfortunately, I am one of those people that often reads a little in an electronic format and some in the physical books. This has been a nice luxury especially come vacation time when it is easier to carry around an ipad than a bag of books. Like many people I can't justify buying things twice so I will need to decide one way or the other.

In either case I will be less happy than before and likely more choosy. With a subscription I was encouraged to read every story, why not they are all included. Without one, I will likely pick and choose based on favorite authors and subject matter.


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Pathfinder 2.0 is already here and has been here for years, arguably the Advanced Players Guide was the first taste and certainly since the Advanced Class Guide.

Paizo smartly hasn't called it Pathfinder 2.0 considering the likely negative reaction that would create among a certain percentage of their fan-base but the game plays differently than it originally did.

Paizo evolved the game gradually at first and faster lately until it is at least as different as 2nd Ed was from 1st Ed by my recollection. I look around my table and see a lot of players playing characters with "points pools" and many abilities that modify roles (rolls) of various kinds. Now the original classes have been re-imagined more in line with more recent classes.

At my table we already call it Pathfinder 2.0.


I didn't follow forgotten realms after the 4e disaster but I used to love FR and the Zhents. As Dreaming Psion stated above they are really more like the Aspis Consortium but as I remember the Zhents need to be distinguished from Zhentil Keep. The Zhentarim were basically an evil trade organization while Zhentil Keep was the evil political enemy. They sometimes worked together and sometime were more fractured (Think Hydra and Nazi Germany).

It would probably be better to be lawful to be a member of the Zhents but as long as you are after money and power you should be fine.


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When I think of steampunk, I think of it as a world of "What if". What if all of the ideas of the past that were eventually proven to be impossible actually did work. What if electricity could bring back the dead. What if you could shoot someone out of a cannon all of the way to Mars? What if giant land battleships were in fact feasible?

Perhaps it is because in this alternate world the laws of nature are slightly different from ours, or perhaps the people are just able to make scientific leaps that we are not.

How it happens is not as important for me as the result, a world where semi-archaic tech can produce effects the same as or even superior to modern tech. That is steampunk to me.


The same as a commoner taking about 14 points of damage.


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Kronk...obviously a barbarian and I believe inspired by a member of the "Justice Friends" on Dexter's Laboratory.

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