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Join the NPC as they bounce between the distant past to the very distant future to see if a Cleopatra the VII can save things and convince Cthulhu Barbie to give it a chance.

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The war is in full swing and the Parn Squad have decisions to make and revelations to accept, or not accept as the case may be. Join the NPC and Cuthulhu as they ruminate.

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The Super NPC digs their cap out of the closet to show you the possible super heroics of the Metroville role-playing game.

Enjoy :)

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So...

Incredibly late to the party on this, which is somewhat ironic given that Ironclaw & Albedo, both by Sanguine Press, are possibly only the third & second anthro RPG's after TMNT & other Strangeness. Ironclaw is a more fantasy RPG, while Albedo is based on the nineties SF Indie comic of the same name. Sanguine Press also recently (within the last decade) published a modern-day setting RPG 'Urban Jungle', which uses a variation of the same rule set as Ironclaw.

Edit: If your focus is Reptiles & Amphibians, you might find a bit disappointing, as only Urban Jungle provides character options for either as part of the base book. Ironclaw includes some amphibian & reptile options in later expansions, specifically the Book of Jade & Book of Ivory, but in all three they are far outnumbered by the mammals...

I want to think of you as very fashionable late ;)

Thank you. I will take a look.

Huzzah! Mystery solved.

Mysterious old TV shows worming their way into your brain are right up there with mystery tunes playing over and over again in your brain.

Who needs a Lovecraftian eldritch horror to inflict madness?

Huzzah indeed.

Right?

Now I am debating whether to rewatch it.

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.

I want to say it was similar to Ripley's Believe It or Not.

You had a host who would introduce 3 strange stories and would say one of them is false while the others were true. Then the episode would show the stories and at the end the host would talk about each and then reveal which one was false.

Does this ring a bell for anyone?

The NPC follows Luz and company as they toy with primal forces and take Hoot out for a spin.

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Just monk and shadowdancer or are there other options that I missed?

If I understand lineages in 5e correctly, it completely replaces your original race, minus keeping a couple traits, and maybe a couple of other minor things, yeah? This opens up a debate of whether a full ancestry is what you want, or if a versatile heritage would do.

For the same general theme of coming back from the dead as a not-undead, I would look at the existing versatile heritage called the duskwalker.

If you wanted to do a full conversion of a reborn anyway, I imagine your biggest challenge would be coming up with a bunch of ancestry feats, in which case I would still point to the duskwalker ancestry feats as the main place to copy a lot of ideas from.

Thank you. :)

What do you mean?

My apologies. The Reborn character race/ancestry from Ravenloft.

How would one go about doing that or something approximating it?

The NPC takes to the streets in this skate punk RPG. Ready to ride, grind, and fly along?

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"Accessories are the window to a person's soul."
-Sparkle Cadet

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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?

Shifter Archetype I Want: Swarm Shifter.
I was sad that I had to be evil to be a Swarm-That-Walks. So I am hoping swarm shifter is one of the archetypes available for shifter when it comes out. It would also be cool to put the swarm with other mythic paths. For example Swarm Shifter and Azata: Clouds of furious butterflies destroying the enemies of Desna.

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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."

There's also the fact that if she had cooked them in that circumstance she might have been considered a kinslayer.

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

Having recued the Princess, Parn and Party finally make it into Valis to speak with the King and breathe while the big players ready their moves.

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I recently finished reading "The Left Hand of Darkness."

A good book that does the build up to nationalism and isolation, both social and physical, really well.

My mind wasn't blown by the exploration of gender, but I figure this is due to my long involvement in scifi and fantasy and that I live in a Post Advent of Left Hand of Darkness World.

It makes sense they would movie on to a new IP. They kind of peaked with Wrath of the Righteous.

I'm looking forward to it.

Had the thought: What if Shepard is the Big Bad for Mass Effect 4 and maybe 5 and 6?

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? ;)

Action and amnesia awaits us as we try to figure out who we are and how to beat the peak VR game the Hollow. To Gamer Glory!

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Mr. James Jacobs,

Considering that there are a few APs converted to 5E I have to ask: Where do you see warlocks fitting into Golarion?

Gaulin wrote:

The NPC wrote:

Luthorne wrote:

The NPC wrote:

Dracomicron wrote:

The NPC wrote:

Can we be told if the Evolutionist every fully changes creature type? Humanoid to undead/aberration/etc?

In the playtest, that was the level 20 bonus. You got some immunities and your type changed.

I honestly thought it should happen sooner. I suppose we'll see when it comes out.

Cool. At lest it happens at all.

IS the playtest document still available?

Yes, it's available here.

Thank you :)

Just wanted to say, as someone crazy excited for the class, after you check out the playtest document for evolutionist, there's an interview with John Compton about upcoming changes to the class. It's a know direction beyond interview, number 66. I've done a write up of the major points in the playtest forums. Just saying because the changes are awesome!

Know Direction: Beyond 66 – Evolutionist Retrospective

Cool. Thank you. :)

The NPC wrote:

Dracomicron wrote:

The NPC wrote:

Can we be told if the Evolutionist every fully changes creature type? Humanoid to undead/aberration/etc?

In the playtest, that was the level 20 bonus. You got some immunities and your type changed.

I honestly thought it should happen sooner. I suppose we'll see when it comes out.

Cool. At lest it happens at all.

IS the playtest document still available?

Yes, it's available here.

Thank you :)

The NPC wrote:

Can we be told if the Evolutionist every fully changes creature type? Humanoid to undead/aberration/etc?

In the playtest, that was the level 20 bonus. You got some immunities and your type changed.

I honestly thought it should happen sooner. I suppose we'll see when it comes out.

Cool. At lest it happens at all.

IS the playtest document still available?

Can we be told if the Evolutionist every fully changes creature type? Humanoid to undead/aberration/etc?

"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!

They can be a Laurel and Hardy or Lucy and Ethel.

If you're from Minkai they can be a Manzai pair.

Its convention time at the Random Hamlet. Join the NPC and Cthulhu-Barbie as they follow Luz at the Boiling Isles' premiere job fair.

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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.

Was it said anywhere why in Fizban's Treasury when they mentioned Kyrnn they changed Paladine and Takhisis to Bahamut and Tiamat?

In universe, is the bard considered a great songwriter but a terrible singer? Both the barmaid and the jailkeeper seem to have.. interesting reactions to his performance.

I interpreted that as the barmaid heard it too many times and the jailkeeper not wanting to hear the process. Also, Jaskier singing shows that the jailkeeper little control of his jail.

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.

Cthulhu Barbie reflects on her conflicted feelings about her father while the NPC reviews Onward and the brotherly bond of Ian and Barley Lightfoot.

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