Game styles I rather don't like in an extreme fashion.
Political activist GMs who shmear the fecal-matter of their agenda all over the campaign world.
Actually, severely dislike players that do that too.
This can be fun if folks don't mind the Law & Order-esque "ripped from the headlines" feel of the whole thing.
I ran a session where the goblin miners of a mining town learned about unionization somehow and went on strike. Since we're talking about Pathfinder goblins, this strike was hilarious. However, the party had been hired by the mine owner to do some union-busting, which not everyone was cool with. This lead to a lengthy out-of-character debate on real-world union stuff. It was a bit of derailment, but it was cool seeing the player's real-world political values enhance the sense of investment they had in the conflict.
It's going to vary from person-to-person. I enjoyed GMing that session so much (and not just because I had made custom-modified Pathfinder Battles goblin miniatures with protest signs) that it actually became a recurring subplot in the campaign.
Different strokes for different folks.
Goblin unions? Are you trying to summon a certain poster to this thread? I will now join you.
As someone who had Asperger's back when it still formally existed,
hardly a unique qualification around here :)
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there's more to it then personality. There's some sensory integration issues (my brain in loud and/or light-show style environments is like an old computer running a crowded MMO region or using lots of virtual memory, my sense of smell is incredible, and I can interpret background noises as music sometimes), and even the occasional light touch of aphasia. There's also the whole "can't read humans unless they're in large print" thing, and having a 2007 unspecialized Mac be able to beat me at face recognition.
Right, but my larger point (which you seem to agree with) is that none of that runs into a disease in need of a cure. Your brain (and by extention, you, because you are your brain) are just different, not worse.
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Anyway, my attitude towards a 'cure' can be best summarized as "just say 'no, get it away from me!'". In PF terms, I'd say it would a cursed item, just like a helm of alignment change or the girdle of opposite gender. Nothing's wrong with being NT, but I'm fairly used to the mind I have.
I'd say its more like an apparatus of the crab. Its not the usual cloak of resistance and you're not sure what you ARE going to do with it, but its so different from the cloak that they're completely incomparable.
Yes, I do agree that I don't need a cure.
I guess I call it a cursed item because I doubt a cure could be deactivated and reactivated at will, whereas you can just choose not to use the apparatus of the crab if you don't want it. Owning one doesn't leave you trapped inside a robot when you'd rather not be.
... aspergers which is more of a personality type than a brain disorder ...
As someone who had Asperger's back when it still formally existed, there's more to it then personality. There's some sensory integration issues (my brain in loud and/or light-show style environments is like an old computer running a crowded MMO region or using lots of virtual memory, my sense of smell is incredible, and I can interpret background noises as music sometimes), and even the occasional light touch of aphasia. There's also the whole "can't read humans unless they're in large print" thing, and having a 2007 unspecialized Mac be able to beat me at face recognition.
Anyway, my attitude towards a 'cure' can be best summarized as "just say 'no, get it away from me!'". In PF terms, I'd say it would a cursed item, just like a helm of alignment change or the girdle of opposite gender. Nothing's wrong with being NT, but I'm fairly used to the mind I have.
Also, early intervention to teach kids how to pass is not a cure. It's a treatment.
LOL if I had a nickle for every time a player mooched food.
I host a game and provide food for the other players & the GM (We're a small group). No matter what it is (grapes, unshelled walnuts, chips, cherries, tangerines), it will all be gone by the end of the session. I am very tempted to serve Brussels sprouts, just for experimental purposes.
Player says: What alignment has my True Neutral witch/wizard been leaning towards?
Player means: I want an outsider improved familiar, but not a psychopomp or elemental.
My reaction to the suggestion that we act in this play was that it was an overly convoluted plan to get the Pathfinders their building back, based on the suggestion (by a Pathfinder) that getting the Pathfinders their building back could potentially eradicate the Shadowplague. As a character with the Paranoid drawback, I felt that the chances the Pathfinders were using us was much higher than the chance that this plan would actually work.
You ignore a major advantage of witchcraft: I've been able to heal a small army of warriors as soon as I began to cast!
Because I work in Westcrown, my Sarenraen companion and I have turned quite a profit selling hexes and more mundane medical treatment.
You know, tell that GM from me that he needs to work out who the story is about. If the answer isn't 'The Players', then why the hell should we give a damn about his story?
Also, been there done that. Once played a game where we got to 9th level and the best item in the party was a masterworked sword. My blaster sorcerer blew most of his spells per day on Greater Magic Weapon spells so that the fighters could hurt the bad guys.
The kicker? The epic level GMPC who turned up to bail us out of every fight we were out of our depth with (because we were so ludicrously under equipped we couldn't even afford horses) had a literal tower full of magic items of all levels which were stockpiled so that the elves could use them in the event of war, in spite of us having to work for them for no pay because reasons in order to avert said war. Those magic items might have been useful to us in doing that, just saying...
On a side note: Why are elves so common on this list? What is it about them that makes people think they'll make a "Perfect" character? Damn arrogant pointy ears!
I had arrogant, annoying, superior-to-everyone-else elves in a campaign I had started to run once. They were the main villains. I can't remember all my plans, but they had, among other things, put the (skinwalker-ish) shifters in a wildlife preserve in the feywild (First World), and were generally acting like all the player character races weren't sapient.
Catfolk archivist bard w/the +1/2 to all knowledge skills FCB and Deific Obedience: Irori. If you can somehow access the Breadth of Experience feat, even better.
Alexander Dumas, writer of the Three Musketeers, was mixed race (his greatmother was black). I didn't even know that until reading about famous mixed race people. This made me wonder how much i knew about non-white writers and hero figures in fiction.
In Golarion, all my human characters are mixed race (almost all are at least half-Varisian, until Arcadians appear in print). I find strange pure-race people, but this must be a brazilian-thing.
I am very grateful for Seelah, Sanji, Kyra and the others, but all Golarion good deities and human looking celestial figure are white looking (ok, Sarenrae don't appear to be white and Irori don't is but have light skin). Where are the Mwangi or really dark-skinned gods ?
Nethys is Garundi, if that helps. Not sure if it does, however.
14 years would be enough for me to pick up 2 alchemist levels and make me a fortune on the pseudoscience circuit. Take a trait to get prestidigitation, win that prize for demonstrating psychic powers. I would suffer an alignment change (I'm probably LN, but pseudoscience is definitely evil), though.
2 paladins in my game fell for killing my innocent, unarmed, mostly helpless rogue after she surrendered and was handcuffed... The only reason I can think of for them to kill my character was when she confiscated the alchemist's fire after one of them drank it. They were trying to enter the Blackguard prestige class, apparently.
No weapons at the table except the weapons on the weapons table.
Any discussion of alcohol had better be discussing whiteboard markers, hand sanitizer, or Cayden Cailean. If the characters are drunk, it happens between sessions.
No playing your wisdom as lower than it is, or lower than 12 (whichever is lower).
No attacking other PCs.
If this game were a movie, it should not be rated any higher than PG-13. Keep this in mind when describing attacks, choosing alignments, and speaking.
No targeted slurs towards any group existing in real life. Insulting tieflings is acceptable. Insulting women is not.
My DM's house rules:
Players keep the same initiative count throughout the session.
Antagonists all act on the same initiative.
Fine, Westcrown used to have an academy.
If you are riding normally (no sharp turns, no galloping, no tricks) on roads in non-combat or chase conditions, you don't have to roll a Ride check.
Seriously, everyone rolled 1s on their Knowledge: Planes checks for tieflings? You guys now have bad data. The Order of the Rack must be doing a good job with censorship.
DMPCs are nowhere close to omniscient and generally should be told by PCs what to do.
This is the one forum where I can actually disagree with people, because moderators keep everything civil! I never run into slurs on the forums, or other forms of hate speech. Godwin's law seems not to apply here. Paizo moderators are the best!
336. Interrogating a minor NPC using detect thoughts instead of waiting for answers, then using one of the many memory-wipe spells. It is implied that this occurs frequently. (Comic: Not actually a spell caster, just someone who thinks he/she is.)
Both thematically and mechanically, this class is great with a 1-level dip into Lore Oracle. This allows for rage-cycling, CHA to AC, and playing a Nethys-worshipping creator and destroyer of magic. For thematic stuff again, take Arcane bloodline. Additionally, are there any plans to modify Rage Prophet prerequisites to allow a bloodrager to use it?
If you have a 7 Int, you are dumber than Forrest Gump. 7 charisma and you are practically autistic, or else horribly obnoxious. 7 wisdom and you may as well be blind and deaf, with the willpower and drive of a concussed slug. To reduce one score that low is bad...two, and you have a seriously mentally defective character.
Dabbler, autism is not a CHA penalty, as I can tell you from on the spectrum. The iconic druid Lini is roleplayed as autistic, but she has at least 15 CHA. If you had to represent autism mechanically, it might be best represented as a drawback giving a penalty to Sense Motive, Bluff, and Diplomacy, or one making you dazzled by some sensory stimulus, paired with a trait boosting senses or a knowledge skill. I am somewhat offended by the idea that autistics are "seriously mentally defective."
Alchemist. I would get cure spells, buff spells, and make a killing on the pseudoscience circuit selling potions, which very effective, but nobody can replicate them w/o magic. I would grab the Precise Treatment trait (INT for heal) and Student of Philosophy (INT for diplomacy to persuade and bluff to lie). I would also take the Headband Of Ponderous Recollection. I would take the Cosmopolitan feat and add perform(oratory) and bluff to my class skills. Put some ranks into those, and I could run some pseudoscience group or show.
