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Why didn't the elves go to college?

Because they took a Gap year.

Please add your own :)

I think you're talking about Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction hosted by Jonathan Frakes.

I mistook that for Ripley's in my head. I was comparing, but I'm not sure it was the same show.

No wait, you're right. That's the one.
Thank you. It's been bugging me for days.

The NPC wrote:

D3stro 2119 wrote:

Y'know what? I absolutely am, considering I'm the same person who has a homebrew Scion of Pelor playing in his Planescape Future game.

But if you want my 2 coppers, I would tell you to expand the adventure into the multiverse/universe rather than just on one world, since modern Golarion would require a not inconsiderable amount of rewriting for itself, since the og rpg's selling point was in how it was explicitly building off of our world.

Might that make it a touch easier?

Basically-- use the current setting homebrewed as you like (in fact using the premise as a plot for a major event would be cool), but advancing the society to modern is going to be iffy since so many things would be different from our world, and that's not really the tone of the og.

That's fair. At least to me though, it sounds readily doable.

Y'know what? I absolutely am, considering I'm the same person who has a homebrew Scion of Pelor playing in his Planescape Future game.

But if you want my 2 coppers, I would tell you to expand the adventure into the multiverse/universe rather than just on one world, since modern Golarion would require a not inconsiderable amount of rewriting for itself, since the og rpg's selling point was in how it was explicitly building off of our world.

Might that make it a touch easier?

The NPC wrote:

Freehold DM wrote:

Iirc, somewhere on the old white wolf forums people did scion writeups for everyone from Ao to Mask to Mr. Burns and Jean Luc Picard. It may take a moment to find though.

Love scion. Prefer 1st Ed, but am liking the newer stuff too.

What is it of 1e that you prefer?

more or less everything. The game play systems needed to be fixed for a certainty, and the Pantheon outside of Greek, Norse, and Egyptian were a bit sparse. But the newer version takes on the flaws of the older in a very serious way to the point that they have rebuilt the world itself in a very wordy, open history nerd way that just plain reading it, even for fun, requires a day dedicated to research.

That's fair.

Would Scion: Golarion interest you?

I think if you’re making Golarion so unrecognizably different, you may as well not use Golarion at all. The version of this I would enjoy most would just be a demigod-flavored mythic campaign in the regular version of the setting - I’d really enjoy being Achaekek’s daughter or Arazni’s champion.

I'd argue not as much as one would think. It would be easier than Starfinder and how quickly Golarion got to modern tech would also be a big influence on how difficult it would be I think.

Iirc, somewhere on the old white wolf forums people did scion writeups for everyone from Ao to Mask to Mr. Burns and Jean Luc Picard. It may take a moment to find though.

Love scion. Prefer 1st Ed, but am liking the newer stuff too.

What is it of 1e that you prefer?

What monotheism issue? Or is that an issue in Scion rather than Pathfinder?

In Scion 2E they do away with the Masquerade and say that the mythological stuff has always been fully integrated with society, it's just "Over There" for most people and that monotheism still happened. Overall the World is still very much like it is in real life. The issue with that is that monotheism had such a large affect on how the world is today, that their presentation of the World in game doesn't really work.

Had the thought the other night of Scion, but on a Golarion (The Pathfinder setting) that has reached modern level of technology and the scions are children of the gods of that world. It seemed like an interesining thought and side steps the whole monotheism issue that the core book tries to hand wave. The only tricky part I would think would be the PSPs.

Has anyone else had thoughts along these lines? Maybe using Toril of DnD rather than Golarion?

"And that's when Aemond knew he f****d up."

Asking for clarification: Will print books and pdfs still be available?

Because if not this all sounds like DnD CC to me.

"It's not voyeurism if you're supervising."
- Me

Maybe I spend too much time on reddit, but did anyone else listen to Ammit and Khonshu and wonder, "Are they exes?"

Don't you just hate it when the villains are good at seeming affable? ;)

"A new class, the evolutionist, allows you to transform yourself over time into an eldritch being, mechanized construct, sepulchral undead, or riot of biological potential, each with unique abilities—and drawbacks, should you allow your transformation to grow out of control."

Where have you been? Where have you been? Damn you! Where have you been?...How dare you! How dare you come to me now, when I am this!

I like how his experience with the Tuskans explains his line of about wanting to rule with respect rather than the fear the other crime lords rule with.

Betty the White has not died, but has taken the white ships to the Grey Havens. The age has ended and her fight is over with it. The Fellowship is complete again.

When getting eaten by the Sarlac was only the start of a bad day.

What was going on?

The NPC wrote:

There's also a trans woman as a major supporting character in Wrath of the Righteous.

There's lots of trans women in the setting, but I do want to note that OP wasn't asking for them.

My apologies.

There's also a trans woman as a major supporting character in Wrath of the Righteous.

captain yesterday wrote:

The NPC wrote:

Tahkisis had been known to gift arcane magic much to Nuitari anger. So when gods circumvent the 3 magic gods those could result in warlocks.

One just might have to exclude the celestial warlocks. As for divine souls those could be the mystics.

I don't play 5th edition but I just wanted to say that I love this idea!

One could even say that because Takhisis was circumventing the rules that that forces Paladine to also bend the rules (as he's pretty clever as far as subterfuge goes for a lawful good deity) albeit not as overtly so celestial warlocks would be more rare.

Paladine would also likely gain, at least tacit, sign off from Solinari. :)

Reminds of a thing I came across online at one point. Good gods have paladins for the straight forward visible good deeds. They have celestial warlocks for the off the books, black ops good deeds.

Also, I want to say Hiddukel did something similar once in a side novella. There was a mage who failed the test of high sorcery. Brought him back to life and the mage continued using magic. He might work as a warlock as well.

Tahkisis had been known to gift arcane magic much to Nuitari anger. So when gods circumvent the 3 magic gods those could result in warlocks.

One just might have to exclude the celestial warlocks. As for divine souls those could be the mystics.

Its like Star Wars and Into the Spiderverse had a kid, but there was a falling out and Star Trek got custody. I can dig it.

Diego Rossi wrote:

So, a typical outsider is similar to an AI, sentient and sapient, but not really self-aware? With the rare one becoming self-aware and developing a "real" soul?

Yup; that's a good way to look at it thematically. They're powerful and can do a lot but aren't normally able to do anything outside of their "Programming" (aka Alignment).

Mr. James Jacobs,

With the above in mind, would it then not be considered a violation to take an evil outsider, use a ritual to strip the evil essence out of the them (Remove the evil subtype essentially) and then have them reborn/reincarnated to give them a new life and chance at choice?

Will they have playable vampires or will a player be able to take one of the ancestries and add the damphir versatile heritage to jury-rig a playable vampire?

Its the CW though.

Still here's to hoping.

I think I get it.

Thanks to all who answered. :)

I do have another question, but I will put it its own thread.

Sadness.
Thank you.

Other than taking the improved unarmed strike feat are there class options for fighting unarmed besides monk?

I ask because the brawler class isn't in the game.

NECR0G1ANT wrote:

Kasoh wrote:

Other thing that I find interesting: Aroden surrounded himself with women who would end up being his legacy. Arazni, Iomedae, and even Milani all circled Aroden and his faith and when he died they had to pick up what was left. I have a poor opinion of Aroden, and Iomedae has had to carry the burden of his legacy--and will probably never shake it. A good woman who had to clean up the messes left behind by an irresponsible man.

A more charitable interpretation is that Aroden recognized the merits of Iomedae and Milani and wasn't afraid to promote them within his organization.

Also, Milani and Iomedae didn't have to clean up after Aroden, they chose to and rose to the occasion.

Interesting though that Aroden could not find men of similar merit at all. Not to mention that all three of the ladies were human.

Minor Note: Milani was a half-elf.

Have babies.

The NPC wrote:

Sibelius Eos Owm wrote:

The NPC wrote:

Right. Yes that is coming back to me. Its Sibelious' description of it as committed that threw me off.

Would you look at that? It appears I was a little over-enthusiastic about that bit of embellishment. Perhaps 'committed' was not the best term to use there; I was not thinking through the implications it could have in this context XD

I'm going to be honest. I can't tell if you're jesting or taking a jab at me. Your word usage legitimately threw me off and made think that I had missed something. However, if I came off as aggressive or condescending I apologize.

Oh no, you're fine. I was poking fun at myself for being unintentionally misleading, I appreciate accuracy--I actually didn't realize the nature of their relationship was not quite as I thought and I legitimately chose the wrong adjective in my original description :3

Okie dokie. All is well then. This would be the perfect time for a gif, but alas. No gif function... At least none that doesn't lead awa from the site. Its nearly 1:30am and I am rambling now.

I'm now purposely avoiding the topic on my internet searches. I clicked on one "Gina Carano was horribly mistreated by Disney" video on YouTube and now the algorithm is bombarding my feed with all these terribly opinionated channels with a decidedly... conservative aggressiveness to them.

In the future you might want to try deleting a questionable video from your watch history before refreshing or navigating back to the main page. That usually does the job for me.

Mr. James Jacobs,

How did the Magic vs. Technology and that they are mutually exclusive arise? One would think that considering how processes and technologies develop based on what resources are at hand that they would ultimately converge not diverge.

She's gone to explore the Galactic rim.

Thread Title: What's a cutlass?
Me: A very sharp young woman?

I would like a to see a Dragon Age: Origins remaster and maybe Jade Empire.

Gaulin wrote:

Synthesis - The other main bummer for me in this post. I suppose if we get to keep it as is now and rename it, it's something, but feels like it would be easy to fix and include in the book instead of waiting even longer for a future book.

It became clear that the full concept deserves to be given some significant space to stretch its wings (a la class archetype with all the adjustments spelled out and feats that are specific to the synthesist character only), and the summoner has a set number of pages. In the end, trying to squeeze it in instead of more summoner options in general would be a disservice to both. I'm very excited about getting it out there when we have a good book to include it!

Hopefully it has a better chance at life than the Medium did.

I have reservations, but I am willing to see how it turns out.

There's also a fun little fringe theory that Desna is, in fact, the sole good-aligned Outer God, and that her true form is some kind of enormous, monstrous space butterfly.

As I understand it James Jacobs has shot down the "Desna as good Outer God" multiple times.

The NPC wrote:

I seem to recall repressive laws, slavery, the Pure Legion arresting or disappearing people of faith or faith sympathies, and black flag operations.

How is that LN?

@Rysky ** spoiler omitted **

@The NPC - do you think in evil countries there is no kindness or organizations of do-gooders? Even in very oppressive regimes not every flame is snuffed out. The Alignment of a nation is how it's government and people mostly act - things that are out of bounds with that - are sources of adventure (plot hooks).

And I am referring to how its government and people mostly act. These are not outliers, but staples of the Nation. So, I do not understand what you are trying to say here.

I seem to recall repressive laws, slavery, the Pure Legion arresting or disappearing people of faith or faith sympathies, and black flag operations.

How is that LN?

The NPC wrote:

What is the gist of the capstone? Also, is there a permanent creature type change at some point.

Let me get out my copy here....

Their capstone is "Form that Surpasses the Gods" which counts them as in their final form at all times for adaptation use. So an aquatic Horradin can be always aquatic or venomous or giant or whatever.

They also gain a benefit based on their evolutionary track. Toads grow a size, werebeasts gain DR silver, etc.

As for permanent creature type change, no.

They can do temporary though.

Fluctuating heritage allows a humanoid horradin to count as both humanoid and another creature type when transformed.

And omni-heritage allows a horradin to choose what creature type they count as with a swift action while in their final form.

And every horradin gains the shapechanger subtype when they change shape.

But horradin automatically change back to their base form when combat ends, but their shapeshifting doesn't have a time limit out of that, so a horradin could count as an undead or dragon or whatever all combat every combat.

Hope that helped.

That does. Thank you :)

Deadmanwalking wrote:

Temperans wrote:

I am willing to look the other way for traditions even if it irritates me because of new edition adding more options. But I will not accept a Summoner becoming a solely Divine caster.

You don't have to? I mean, they've explicitly stated it will be a 'pick a Tradition' caster, and I doubt that will change in the playtest. People generally like the flexibility offered by those.

I'll be asking for a default way to get an arcane Summoner with what 2e would consider a divine eidolon, though. Divine list might work fine for psychopomps and angels, but it doesn't work very well for devils or demons.

Although the Demon bloodline of sorcerer is divine.

Fixed the video.

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Today the NPC starts his journey through the land of Lodoss with Parn and company. How will the start turn out?

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Some Good News: Seasons 4-7 has been picked up by Netflix. The Saga is coming.

I want to point out that Tracy Hickman viewed the Dragonlance cosmology as having the gods as entities that simply allowed one to interface with a true 'one god.'

High God.

The One God was an alias used by Takhisis during the latter Age of Mortals.

"I am my own justification."
- Solomon David

"He that master's the Wheel cannot break it."
- Zoss

"Some emperor. You can't even see that you're just a prisoner who's built his own prison. And you're proud of it."
- White Chain

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