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Hello,
I've been listening to Terry Pratchett's Diskworld series and focusing on the "Guards! Guards!" chain of novels and it REALLY makes me want to run a players-as-cops campaign where the first reaction on seeing someone with a drawn weapon isn't to open with fireball and follow-up with frenzied barbarian. Unfortunately everything I've ready about AoE has convinced me that the authors didn't achieve this but it's more of a "hack and slash, loot the corpses, why does the dungeon look like a city street?" game.

Is it worth trying to edit the AP into something where clues matter, reputation with informants matters, social interactions with NPCs matter and following the law (at least when you might get caught) matters? Or is it easier to ditch it all and start from scratch?

Or is there maybe a different AP (even in 1E or that game with 2 Ds in the title that shall not be mentioned) that would be easier to rebuild?

Thanks in advance.

If you pick the first level champion feat, Faithful steed, you can select Legchair (grand bazaar) as your steed. Technically it says that

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Your companion is a strange creature, akin to a chair with bestial legs.

but nobody would probably mind if those legs stand on the slides of the rocking horse, at least it's closer to what you're looking for than a horse.

THAT IS BRILLIANT!!!! Leg chair = rocking chair = rocking horse. No stat or performance change, just what a chair looks like! You may friend are a GENIUS!!!!

I'm very much interested in a SF 2ed because I enjoy playing 'crossover' type games because of the fish out of water amusement factor but also because myself and other local players sometimes remember a rule X but it was only X in a different system.

I was looking through the Field test and reading the Android race. There is no longer an option for Xenometric Android which I feel is disappointing as I had androids figure heavily in a home campaign (A BBG was vat-growing Androids to mimic specific politicians and industry leaders to take over a company -> country -> planet -> system -> universe -> Multiverse.)

Anyway, the thought hit that Paizo missed the opportunity for Android to be a Versatile Heritage like Tiefling or Oread. Androids are not written as breeding with any other races BUT all sentient races that trade technology above a certain point would be capable of creating androids in their own image. If versatile heritages exist because they intermingle with other races then it's not particularly logical for Elves to create an android to mimic an elven tiefling and if they did in all likelihood the tiefling features would be cosmetic or addressable with 'adopted ancestry'.

I understand that Paizo needed to make their Starfinder android compatible with their Pathfinder android (Which is GREAT!) and they probably didn't consider the option of a human-android in Numeria might actually be the only yasoki-android from the original crash. Missed opportunity. The benefit to Android as a variable heritage is that each time a (non construct) intelligent races is added to the Starfinder universe the Android doesn't need to be errataed for a new xenometric form. There might even be androids of privative races that can not create their own if other sentients wanted to send observers/infiltrators without disclosing their existence.

Before I attempt to homebrew an Android Versatile Heritage and try to make it as close as possible to the 2E remastered Android Heritage when applied to a Human, has anyone:

1. Previously done this and I'm wasting my time?
2. Got any suggestions?
3. Got any watch outs?
4. Want to help?

Thanks in advance.

Hello. I'm coming to this late and I want to say that your map is an AWESOME tool for someone not deeply familiar with all of the nations of Golarion.

A feature to consider for the future (and I don't even know if it's possible) might be an overlay for languages and an overlay for primary religions and maybe one for races. Every nation has a primary language and additional languages commonly spoken which is great if you start with the nation but not if you want to know where certain languages are spoken. Likewise we can guess where you will find worshipers of Asmodeus as the primary religion but where is he the 2nd or 3rd most common god? And where would you expect to find large concentrations of Dwarves or Gnolls or Orcs in the general population.

This might be more information than you are capable of storing or sharing but I did want to get the idea out there in cases it was as simple as a lookup table for colored regions.

Thank you for listening and thank you for your great map!

Hello,

Just finished FoC. Party wizard has Sanvils spell-book and is on very good terms with Kohnir to the point where he can probably copy spells. The adventure path does a good job of saying what spells they have memorized at the time but now what other spells they may have in their spellbooks? Any advice on how to flesh it out? I don't want to give out too much or too little. By my understanding there will be limited opportunities to buy scrolls or similar in scrapwall so the players really need to be prepared before going (or take a detour to Chessed)

Thanks in advance,
Sean