Sanakht Inaros PFS's page

From reading the list of abilities they get, I can see more of a Sagat character from Street Fighter.

So far, I've yet to really see slow fall come into play in either of the AP's we've played. And a lot of other stuff, I could explain as his love of fighting, vice contemplation. And the stuff the get at higher levels (15th and beyond), I think the APs end right wround 15th level. So I really don't see him getting those.

I don't think we really need to break it down to hard/soft. It's more a matter of feat selection.

My idea for my character is that he is a monk, only so far as that he prefers to fight with his hands and feet. I want to get away from the sequestered/contemplative monk that has been dominate in my area. I've studied different martial arts down through the years and Muay Thai/Krabi Krabong seemed to be the logical choice.

My choices: Improved grapple (class bonus), Scorpion style (level bonus), and Intimidating Prowess (racial bonus). Human Martial Weapon Proficiency: the Daab (Longsword).

Can a monk, during a grapple, do a flurry of blows with knee strikes? On page 30 of the Beta rules, under Unarmed Strike, its states:
This means that a monk may make unarmed strikes with his hands full.

I'm asking because I'm looking at making a more Muay Thai style monk vice the kung fu style monk that my group traditionally plays.

That is why we should keep killing them and not allowing them to take hostages.

No hostages + being killed = no money + being dead = no incentive to be pirates.

With the problems they are facing, that's your only solution? Genocide.

"You make the choice that is moral.
Or are Somalis somehow incapable of understanding and making moral choices?"

No. Somalis are making the moral choice. They really only have two choices, watch their families starve and do nothing. Or they can stand up and do something about it. They've chosen to do something about it.

We see it as the wrong decision, but we're sitting here in our air conditioned houses, with our ability to go to work and not worry about getting shot. If things get rough, we lose our job we have unemployment insurance that will help us out until we find another job. They don't have that. Strip everything we have away until we're in their shoes, and I'll guarantee you that a lot of people would be doing the same.

There are far more articles showing that their claims of dumping and poaching are in fact true. And most of the sources are from european papers. Those sources I listed are just the first ones, I didn't want to spend the rest of my post doing the copy/paste thing.

There were pirates in Somalia prior to the dumping and the poaching, but their attacks were almost miniscule in comparison to today. (Something like one attack a month if at that.) Whereas, after the dumping and poaching began in the late '90's, piracy began to take off. I think they're up to 80 attacks this year alone.

To say that the situation in Somali is chaotic is an understatement. Reports from various sources say that their are some pirates groups that have aligned themselves with the militias, whereas other pirate groups have had several clashes with the militias.

Someone else said that they have choices. Not really. Do you try to live as a law abiding citizen and take care of your family on $600 do a year? Or do you join the militias and make about $3500 a year? Or do you take up piracy and can make up to $10k in a single hijacking?

And not everyone in Somalia agrees with the pirates. They see it as only making things worse on themselves in the long run.

I don't condone the acts of piracy, but I understand why they are doing it.

Without understanding and trying to rectify the underlying causes of piracy (no central government, no real job prospects, militias seizing and controlling the flow of aid, illegal dumping of waste and poaching) we can kill as many pirates as we can, but in the end, there will still be pirates.

I'm reading John Connolly's BAD MEN and NOCTURNES. Really good crime fiction with lots of supernatural overtures. NOCTURNES is his collection of ghost stories.

Hey Paris, how is the Gator doing? I was on there from 96-01. Are the Echo Whiskeys/CTTs still part of Combat Systems or did they go back to Ops?

I posted this on another board. Europe has known since the late 90's that their waste, nuclear, biological, and chemical, has been dumped illegally into somali waters. And now that the somalis have chosen to go a-piratin', they make the somalis out to be the bad guys in this.

The words of one pirate from that lost age, a young British man called William Scott, should echo into this new age of piracy. Just before he was hanged in Charleston, South Carolina, he said: "What I did was to keep me from perishing. I was forced to go a-pirateing to live." In 1991, the government of Somalia collapsed. Its nine million people have been teetering on starvation ever since - and the ugliest forces in the Western world have seen this as a great opportunity to steal the country's food supply and dump our nuclear waste in their seas.

Yes: nuclear waste. As soon as the government was gone, mysterious European ships started appearing off the coast of Somalia, dumping vast barrels into the ocean. The coastal population began to sicken. At first they suffered strange rashes, nausea and malformed babies. Then, after the 2005 tsunami, hundreds of the dumped and leaking barrels washed up on shore. People began to suffer from radiation sickness, and more than 300 died.

Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, the UN envoy to Somalia, tells me: "Somebody is dumping nuclear material here. There is also lead, and heavy metals such as cadmium and mercury - you name it." Much of it can be traced back to European hospitals and factories, who seem to be passing it on to the Italian mafia to "dispose" of cheaply. When I asked Mr Ould-Abdallah what European governments were doing about it, he said with a sigh: "Nothing. There has been no clean-up, no compensation, and no prevention."

At the same time, other European ships have been looting Somalia's seas of their greatest resource: seafood. We have destroyed our own fish stocks by overexploitation - and now we have moved on to theirs. More than $300m-worth of tuna, shrimp, and lobster are being stolen every year by illegal trawlers. The local fishermen are now starving. Mohammed Hussein, a fisherman in the town of Marka 100km south of Mogadishu, told Reuters: "If nothing is done, there soon won't be much fish left in our coastal waters."

This is the context in which the "pirates" have emerged. Somalian fishermen took speedboats to try to dissuade the dumpers and trawlers, or at least levy a "tax" on them. They call themselves the Volunteer Coastguard of Somalia - and ordinary Somalis agree. The independent Somalian news site WardheerNews found 70 per cent "strongly supported the piracy as a form of national defence".

No, this doesn't make hostage-taking justifiable, and yes, some are clearly just gangsters - especially those who have held up World Food Programme supplies. But in a telephone interview, one of the pirate leaders, Sugule Ali: "We don't consider ourselves sea bandits. We consider sea bandits [to be] those who illegally fish and dump in our seas." William Scott would understand.

Did we expect starving Somalians to stand passively on their beaches, paddling in our toxic waste, and watch us snatch their fish to eat in restaurants in London and Paris and Rome? We won't act on those crimes - the only sane solution to this problem - but when some of the fishermen responded by disrupting the transit-corridor for 20 per cent of the world's oil supply, we swiftly send in the gunboats.

Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-y ou-are-being-lied-to-about-pirates-1225817.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article418665.ece
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2008/10/2008109174223218644.html

What I would love to see is just the designers sticky a post where they answer the questions. Because searching through all of these posts is time consuming and can get really annoying. There's been a couple times where I'll be referred to post A in thread B that links me to post C in thread D and so forth and so on.

Have a couple questions.

Faction feats: are these additional feats (example: 1st level fighter would have four feats. One from being human, one from being 1st level, one from being a fighter and one from being in X faction.) Or is it more like, in addition to the feats you get from race and class feats you also have these to choose from? I'm going with the latter, but the rest of the group is saying that it's an additional "freebie" feat that you get. Like what they've done in CotCT and SD.

Second, stats. The way I read the PFSG is that seven is the lowest you can take a stat even counting for a -2. Is that correct or can it go lower?

Again, my interpretation is that even with the -2, you can't go lower than 7.

I got this from Sandstorm.

The khopesh: 16 gp, small: 1d4, medium 1d6, crit: 18-20 x2, 4lb, slashing. Can use the hooked blade to make a trip attack.

My group has just started Scarwall and it should take us about a month to finish it. We take turns running an AP and I'll be running SD next. The DM for CotCT and I are both salivating at the thought of playing LoF and CoT.

for a home game I would use a battleax stats off hand.

Sounds reasonable to me.

Thought I would throw up a link with many versions of historical khopesh on it Here

I have that sit bookmarked. I'm finding it very helpful in developing my character for Legacy of Fire AP. And I've been debating about him using the khopesh.

Khopesh

The one used on the show was the one on the left.

Khopesh

I believe the show is called Warriors and the episode in question was about Joshuah and the walls of Jericho. Or maybe it was Battles can't seem to remember which.

Probably Battles.

It was a khopesh. Cause they were talking about how it evolved into other curved blades like the shamshir/scimitar and the falcata.

I love to know what show that was, if anybody knows.

One thing about the cable history channels and shows: when they're right, it's great. When they're wrong, its embarrassingly bad. I wish they had better quality control.

I had been looking for that particular episode for an hour before I posted. I want to say it was the History Channel because, now that Battlestar is finally out of its misery, it and the Discovery Channel are the only ones I watch. And I don't remember seeing any ads for Dirty Jobs or Mythbusters.

There was a show on either the history channel or discovery about the khopesh. And it was guite the functional sword. The tip of the sword was "hooked" and could be used to move a shield out of the way. It could also be used to trip your opponent.

We haven't started it yet. Right now we're running through CotCT and we started that last year. We should be finishing up in about 2 more months. Our group is taking turns running each AP. I'll be running this one.

How about maing a page just for notes? And then as the characters advance they can print that out as needed.

I noticed that you have class features in two different areas, so maybe consolidating that would help. Maybe putting the skills, feats, special abilities and class features on the second page, and move the armor, XP, and class stuff to the first page. Languages I would throw in with skills.

I wouldn't mind a 5 or 6 page character sheet ala Warhammer Character Folio or the Arcanis Folio.

The section for Class features needs to be conslidated and given a page to itself. Our paladin is 9th level and he has run out of room for his class features/special abilities. And the only other complaint comes from the spellcaster types, make the spell book bigger. Other than that, they love the sheet.

Does anyone recognize this website?

http://tommisalama.googlepages.com/PathfinderRPG_Beta_sheet.pdf

I have some feedback for you.

Why ruin such a good setting by porting it over to that crap-tuclar POS that is 4E?

I wouldn't allow him due to the way the setting handles drow.

Has anyone done an errata for this mod? If so, can you point me toward it?

I'm gonna be running it Wednesday.