So most threads are about a particular game and peter out after a few or a dozen posts, including my own.
So I thought it would be nice if there was a spot where you can talk about games in general, what are you currently playing? What's your favorite game you played last year? What game are you excited for? Does your cat sleep on the keyboard? All relevant.
I personally have been playing Assassins Creed Valhalla (for the a viking) and have been getting back into Expedition 33 since they added the free expansion, which is pretty out there, even for Expedition 33 standards.
First off, I'm playing as Tammerine (pre-lich Tammy) a strongheart halfling archery ranger with animal focus. My go to familiar is the cat or spider, my go to animal companion is the wolf or bear (or giant raven).
Feel free to share your own life lessons, I'm currently in part 1.
1) being evil is super easy, barely an inconvenience. But it also means Karlach and I can never be friends... *restarts game*
Long story short, more than a week ago I tried switching to a Starfinder Adventure subscription, then tried getting customer service to switch the current adventure in the pending order to the subscription.
Well they made a mess of things, cancelled the current adventure in my order and spawned not one, but two separate orders for Red Shift Rally and the Kobold King Hardcover, while leaving the current bigger order in limbo.
I've been trying to reach customer service department for EIGHT DAYS and have heard absolutely nothing. I've tried responding to the original email chain, and I've tried starting a new email chain, all to no avail.
Well, you're not getting any more of my money if you're going to ignore me.
Cancel everything.
So far my only recourse is to change the expiration date on my payment method, hopefully that's enough.
Just as the title says, it turns out they have it at the local game store that's conveniently located on my drive home from work. Which is easier for the holiday season.
Thank you, have a great week! Stay warm, it's brutally cold out here on the tundra.
I feel like I'm going to be coming back to this often, with all sorts of questions!
First of all, great job! Looks like a ton of fun!
First question! Can you use your major forms to create armor? Examples in the gear array description only mention weapons and cybernetic augmentations.
B) Do your nanites form all the major and minor forms all at once, or is it as you need the item it's just there.
So I got this game last week but didn't get to play it until Friday, and boy have I been playing it.
But I feel like I should start over and record my findings.
For this playthrough my Biomutant breed is Rex, I went full on intelligence (for the Fievel head) Psi-Freak and I'm going with dark side type of powers but I'm going to side with the ninja hippie tribe instead of the nihilist samurais.
My Biomutant looks like you combined Fievel with Lots A Huggin Bear and gave him PTSD amnesia.
So basically, humanity is wiped out and the world tree is dying and it's up to Captain Lots Of Ammo to save it. Through any means necessary.
So apparently my subs decided they wanted company so they pulled a Dead Reign sourcebook out of a different order and added it to my subs this month, which would normally be fine, but I'd rather get my subs sooner rather than later as the Dead Reign book says it will ship in 16-38 days which is a bit long to wait for a new Starfinder AP.
So, if you could please break up the party and separate the Dead Reign sourcebook that would be great!
I'd do it myself, but I don't want them to think I'm not cool or a narc or anything like that.
Thanks, have a great weekend!
By the way, if you're looking for a zombie apocalypse game Dead Reign is surprisingly fun, I highly recommend it.
Edit: It seems it also shuffled the Graveyard Earth book all by it's lonesome in the sidecar. If you could combine it with the book it tried throwing with my subs into a separate order to ship out when you get them in the warehouse that would be great!
So I don't mind waiting for the order, but I'm curious as to a couple of things.
1. Which product is backordered?
2. Is it actually on backorder or is it the last one you have so the inventory system automatically says it's backordered (our system at Toys R Us would do that, you wouldn't believe how many times I'd have to check the bays or shelves looking for the last fingerling in the store).
3. If it is backordered what's the average turnaround time on that, and further what are the chances your distributer no longer carries the item.
Thanks! I realize that's a lot to throw at you so no hurry!
Have a great weekend!
Also, if your distributer doesn't carry it anymore go ahead and cancel it, no big deal, Palladium Books aren't exactly the trendy thing these days so completely understandable. Thanks again!!
After I placed the order it says pending but then also says it will ship in an unknown amount of time. I don't suppose you can have someone check the inventory, and if possible you can combine it with the also pending Australia book and the England book in my side cart into one dynamic, action packed order.
If it's in stock, otherwise just cancel whatever is not in stock.
I have an assortment of Starfinder stuff in my shopping cart I'd like to have shipped to a fellow forum member, lisamarlene with whatever shipping is cheaper, also if the Paizocon 2020 code is still active could you apply that to the order (as long as it doesn't drop the order below 100).
So, it's finally happened, after three weeks of ninety degrees every day (I work outside) my brain finally snapped and I accidentally titled a thread "Who Will be The Agents of Edgewatch" instead of "Who Are Your Agents of Edgewatch".
I don't suppose someone can fix that, preferably before my brain tries to attack itself for such insolence. Don't worry, I still have three more days working in the heat this week so you have some time.
So I've added a bunch of stuff to my sidecart the last week or so, I don't suppose you'd mind sending it to the warehouse now rather than having an insanely complicated order for next month.
I hope your week is going well, mine is going pretty good so far!
Anyway, I recently ordered Lost Omens Legends and I was wondering if you wouldn't mind switching it to a subscription. I was going to do it myself but it wanted me to start with Gods and Magic, which I already have so I figured you would be the experts on sorting everything out.
Thanks! As always I've been greatly enjoying your books!
P.S. I sent an email regarding a pawn mix-up with the last order but no hurry!
Apparently my wife went all crazy shopping this last weekend and I got a transaction declined message this afternoon. I don't suppose you can reverse that charge or do whatever magic it is that you do and then have it set to ship Friday.
Thank you! Stay healthy and safe!!
Edit: I don't think it technically charged my card it just pinged it so I don't think an actual reversal or whatever is needed but if you could please push it back to Friday that would be awesome!
I don't know if it's a glitch in the system or if it's just an early warning system, but I got an email saying my complimentary SFS PDFs are pending, which is odd because usually PDFs don't do that.
If you don't mind checking to see what's up that would be amazing! No hurry!
Have a great rest of the week!
Edit: Also, I don't know if my sub order is stuck in some sort of weird pending Upside Down or just waiting for it's turn, but if you could double check the status of that order that would also be amazing.
I got my package right on time last week, opened up the deck and unwrapped the plastic on the cards and went through them and discovered card #46 is missing.
So, I guess if you have a spare card #46, or maybe take it out of Cosmo's deck when he's off doing his dastardly deeds or whatever, that would be great.
No hurry, I'm sure the universe won't collapse without it.
I just wanted to confirm that Pathfinder Advantage would continue on the Adventure Path subscription if that is my only Pathfinder sub when the new edition drops, like it has been.
Thanks, have a great week! Hopefully it's stopped raining for the winter!
Don't get me wrong, it's great to finally get some news but I'm afraid the name Age of Ashes doesn't really tell me anything, other than I'll need a respirator mask, and there's apparently a hill chock full of Hellknights.
So, I'm curious if a general plot has been announced and I'm just missing it or if they're doing it to cultivate mystique.
Exactly as it says, no big deal, you don't have to send it manually or anything, i keep an eye on my order history during the shipping window anyway, so i'd seen it completed and there isn't a tracking number to keep track of. I just thought you'd like to know!
Thanks!
Have a great (and hopefully snow free) rest of your week!
I just wanted to pass along my thanks for you being you!
Your customer service is always helpful and prompt.
Your warehouse always gets it done promptly, no matter how confusing my order.
I've enjoyed everything I've gotten from you and your products have greatly enhanced both my life and my family's too!
Your artists, writers, and cartographers have always been incredibly talented, very approachable, and thoughtful.
Your editors, designers, and developers have always been willing to listen, open to change, and eager to try new things (as well as talented and all that).
Your management team is always willing to take risks and also eager to try new things and have always been incredibly helpful, forthright, and transparent.
Thank you for your web team and message boards, I've made a lot of good friends, learned a lot about myself, both good and bad, and even learned how to write by using your message boards.
So, thank you! For everything!
Now, some community members will disagree with me on some things, and perhaps it sounds a bit gushy and perhaps I could've phrased it betterer, and I totally understand and accept that, it's just my own experience.
Thank you so much for suspending my subs, if you wouldn't mind shifting everything that's been building up to a side cart so it'll ship with the next round of subs that would be amazing!
Everyone loves a good space opera! Too bad I can't sing!
However, I have seen a lot of Star Wars and Star Trek spoofs and I happened to find Mass Effect Andromeda Deluxe Edition on sale for super cheap so I thought why not!
Full disclosure, I've never played Mass Effect before.
Though tortured crusaders may be beaten and battered, body, mind, and soul, they still somehow continue through torment and hardship. Despite setbacks and impossible odds, they shine like candles even in the darrkest times. Somewhere in their minds, they realize that they can’t win in the end, but this only strengthens their resolve to fight for what is right, rather than giving in to hopelessness.
Vitals:
HP: 13
1 = 1d10+3
Fortitude +5
+2 Class
+3 Constitution
Reflex +1
+0 Class
+1 Dexterity
Will +5
+2 Class
+3 Wisdom
MAB/CMB +3
+1 BaB
+2 Str
RAB +2
+1 BaB
+1 Dex
CMD 14
10 Base
+1 BaB
+2 Str
+1 Dex
SKILLS
Perception +10(12)
+1 Rank
+3 Class
+3 Skill Focus
+3 Wisdom
(+2 dim light)
Stealth +5(7)
+1 Rank
+3 Class
+1 Dexterity
(+2 dim light)
Survival +7
+1 Rank
+3 Class
+3 Wisdom
Knowledge (Planes) +4
+1 Rank
+3 Class
+0 Intelliegnce
Sense Motive +7
+1 Rank
+3 Class
+3 Wisdom
Handle Animal +7
+1 Rank
+3 Class
+3 Wisdom
Lore (Ustalav) +4
+1 Rank
+3 Class
+0 Intelligence
1 FCB: +1 Skill Point
Special Abilities:
CLASS
Weapon and Armor Proficiency
Paladins are proficient with all simple and martial weapons, with all types of armor (heavy, medium, and light), and with shields (except tower shields).
Aura of Good (Ex)
The power of a paladin's aura of good (see the detect good spell) is equal to her paladin level.
Torment
A tortured crusader’s great suffering in the face of inevitable horror strengthens her faith and resolve, even as it makes her introverted and far less personable than most paladins. A tortured crusader uses Wisdom instead of Charisma as her key spellcasting ability score (to determine her spell DCs, bonus spells per day, bonus on concentration checks, and so on), and to determine the effects of lay on hands.
This ability alters the paladin’s spellcasting, smite evil, and lay on hands.
Self-Sufficient
A tortured crusader adds Knowledge (arcana), Knowledge (dungeoneering), Knowledge (planes), Perception, Stealth, Survival, and Use Magic Device to her list of class skills, instead of Diplomacy and Handle Animal. She gains a number of skill ranks equal to 4 + her Intelligence modifier at each level, instead of gaining a number of skill ranks equal to 2 + her Intelligence modifier.
This ability alters the paladin’s class skills and skill ranks per level.
All Is Darkness
Everything around a tortured crusader is so bleak that detecting evil only reminds her that the odds are always against her. A tortured crusader doesn’t gain the detect evil or divine grace class features. At 1st (level, a tortured crusader gains the smite evil ability, but she doesn’t add her Charisma bonus to attack rolls or a deflection bonus equal to her Charisma bonus to her AC against the target of her smite. At 2nd level, she adds a +4 bonus to attack rolls and a +4 deflection bonus to AC against the target of her smite.
This ability replaces detect evil and divine grace and alters smite evil.
Smite Evil (Su)
Once per day, a paladin can call out to the powers of good to aid her in her struggle against evil. As a swift action, the paladin chooses one target within sight to smite. If this target is evil, the paladin adds her Charisma bonus (if any) to her attack rolls and adds her paladin level to all damage rolls made against the target of her smite. If the target of smite evil is an outsider with the evil subtype, an evil-aligned dragon, or an undead creature, the bonus to damage on the first successful attack increases to 2 points of damage per level the paladin possesses. Regardless of the target, smite evil attacks automatically bypass any DR the creature might possess.
In addition, while smite evil is in effect, the paladin gains a deflection bonus equal to her Charisma modifier (if any) to her AC against attacks made by the target of the smite. If the paladin targets a creature that is not evil, the smite is wasted with no effect.
The smite evil effect remains until the target of the smite is dead or the next time the paladin rests and regains her uses of this ability. At 4th level, and at every three levels thereafter, the paladin may smite evil one additional time per day, as indicated on Table: Paladin, to a maximum of seven times per day at 19th level.
Alone in the Dark
Faced with endless foes, a tortured crusader can’t ask others to confront the same horrors she does. She can’t use her lay on hands ability to heal others or to channel energy, though starting at 4th level, she can convert two uses of lay on hands into an additional use of smite evil. Her aura of courage, aura of resolve, aura of faith, and aura of righteousness affect only her, not her allies. When she selects a divine bond, it must be with a weapon, not a mount.
This ability alters lay on hands, channel energy, divine bond, aura of courage, aura of resolve, aura of faith, and aura of righteousness.
FEATS & TRAITS
Pugnacious
You awake in the asylum with sore muscles and bloody knuckles, as if you were recently in a fight. You even have a vague feeling that you won. You can’t explain it, but you know that you’ve always been easy to set off, and your first instinct when pressed into a corner is to lash out. Stuck in the asylum sets you on edge, and you not only want to figure out what happened to you, you want to free yourself and find whoever did this to you—and make them pay.You gain a +1 trait bonus on attack rolls when threatened by two or more enemies. In addition, once per day you can gain one of the following effects as an immediate action: You can increase the reach of your melee attacks by 5 feet for 1 round, or you can treat your weapon as one size category larger than it actually is for purposes of determining damage for 1 round.
Broken, Not Beaten
You automatically stabilize when reduced below 0 hit points. Once per day when brought below 0 hit points, you can accept 1 point of damage to regain consciousness for 1 round, though you remain staggered and only able to take a single move or standard action.
Guiding Spirit
Few understand the medium’s willingness to harbor powerful spirits, but even if you aren’t one of these talented few, you’ve always identified with their abilities. You’ve always felt that you were not alone in this world and that a mysterious guiding spirit watches over you with singular focus. You may have briefly glimpsed this strange spirit—or maybe you simply feel its presence in times of need. Once per day as a swift action, you can look to your guiding spirit for advice. The next time you roll a d20 in that same round, roll twice and pick the better result. If one of these two rolls is a natural 20, you can use this ability again that same day.
Foul Brand You have the symbol of an evil deity burned into your flesh. If the symbol is on your hand, you take a –1 penalty on Disable Device, Disguise, and Sleight of Hand checks. If the symbol is on your face, you take a –2 penalty on Bluff, Diplomacy, and Disguise checks.
This does not count as a holy symbol for the purposes of a divine focus for spellcasting.
Skill Focus - Perception
Choose a skill. You are particularly adept at that skill.
Benefit: You get a +3 bonus on all checks involving the chosen skill. If you have 10 or more ranks in that skill, this bonus increases to +6.
Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. Its effects do not stack. Each time you take the feat, it applies to a new skill.
Power Attack (Combat)
You can make exceptionally deadly melee attacks by sacrificing accuracy for strength.
Prerequisites: Str 13, base attack bonus +1.
Benefit: You can choose to take a –1 penalty on all melee attack rolls and combat maneuver checks to gain a +2 bonus on all melee damage rolls. This bonus to damage is increased by half (+50%) if you are making an attack with a two-handed weapon, a one handed weapon using two hands, or a primary natural weapon that adds 1-1/2 times your Strength modifier on damage rolls. This bonus to damage is halved (–50%) if you are making an attack with an off-hand weapon or secondary natural weapon.
When your base attack bonus reaches +4, and every 4 points thereafter, the penalty increases by –1 and the bonus to damage increases by +2.
You must choose to use this feat before making an attack roll, and its effects last until your next turn. The bonus damage does not apply to touch attacks or effects that do not deal hit point damage.
RACIAL
+2 to One Ability Score: Human characters gain a +2 racial bonus to one ability score of their choice at creation to represent their varied nature.
Medium: Humans are Medium creatures and receive no bonuses or penalties due to their size.
Normal Speed: Humans have a base speed of 30 feet.
Languages: Humans begin play speaking Common. Humans with high Intelligence scores can choose any languages they want (except secret languages, such as Druidic).
Focused Study: All humans are skillful, but some, rather than being generalists, tend to specialize in a handful of skills. At 1st, 8th, and 16th level, such humans gain Skill Focus in a skill of their choice as a bonus feat. This racial trait replaces the bonus feat trait.
Dimdweller: Whenever characters with this trait benefit from concealment or full concealment due to darkness or dim light, they gain a +2 racial bonus on Intimidate, Perception, and Stealth checks. Humans can take this trait in place of the skilled trait, also gaining darkvision to a range of 60 feet. Source PPC:BoS
Equipment:
Ealdeez Tattoo 20g
Serrated Greatsword 55g
Hide Armor 15g
Silver Holy Symbol of Iomedae 25g
Sacred Text of Iomedae 10g
Silver Bell 5g
Daud Signet Ring 5g
Tabard 5g
Appearance & Personality:
Tall and gaunt while possessing sharp, almost feral features and piercing red eyes indicative of the Daud family and preternaturally grey hair Saturday still carries a softness and calm about him, even as he bears the weight of a person's hate a hundredfold. Dark circles accentuate his red eyes, as many thoughts weigh on his mind, or lack thereof, or perhaps he enjoys dreaming more than the waking world (can you blame him?). Whatever the case the young man's favorite pastime is without a doubt napping, and listening to bells and music boxes when he can find them.
Going about he wears layers of dark and dull colors reminiscent of his homeland, in no so part accentuated by his right arm being almost completely covered in tattooed black smoky flames, or is that supposed to be fur, all save for the tips of his fingers, tattooed red. He has a wild mane of unnaturally early graying hair, he keeps it long but he has shaved the sides, leaving him with a feral messy stripe. Beyond the morbid art on his arm he wears the lower jawbone of a bear like a necklace, and his family's signet ring depicting a slumbering wolf with one eye open.
Calm, almost half-asleep unless roused to violence, Saturday possesses a dry response to most verbal situations, though he strives to follow Iomedae's presentability. Despite his appearance his voice is soft, and, like his mood, half-asleep, or half dreaming.
Unsettling rather than intimidating he's obviously not the best around people like he is with beasts, yet he still wishes for human interaction.
Flavor:
"He who makes a beast of himself removes himself from the pain of being human."
Saturday sits in a pew in an ivory temple to the Inheritor, empty, all save the priestess giving a sermon. He tries his best to take it in, to grasp at what she is saying, but only bits and pieces can get through. He know he can do better, so he stays, even though there are other things he rather be doing, long after she has stopped, waiting for her to start again.
The dark woods just outside the doors call and whisper to him. The wolves howl and birds and bats chirp, the woods and the sermon soothing and enraging at the same time. A calming darkness. An inspiring brightness. Hungry fangs. A stern stare.
So he sits, as he called forward and back, admonished and ridiculed, welcomed and Invited. But he knows he can do better. So he stays.
For GM:
The tattoo is also the unholy symbol (and the Brand drawback) for the Daemonic Harbinger of savage regression Ealdeez, The Beast Behind the Dream.
The family signet ring for the Dauds has multiple meanings, as basically a family of Renfields and devoted servants to the Whispering Tyrant they act as guards to those unliving, while also remaining out of sight while awaiting their master's awakening. For Saturday there's the added play of inbetween man and beast, dreaming and living.
