There is a couple paragraphs in the hardcover book Inner Sea Races about Arcadians. And in the book Mythical Monsters Revisited under the Couatl section there is a brief mention of Arcadia as well which seems to suggest an Aztec like society. In truth though I recommend just being a bit patient for the cultures you want, because it's not a matter of if Paizo will get around to introducing them, but more of a matter of when they will get around to introducing them. In fact knowing Paizo, they probably already have a bunch of stuff worked out for Arcadia and its cultures and they just haven't put it in any books yet. And as for Iconics, who knows maybe Paizo will do something like they did for Ninja and Samurai where they took classes and changed them around a bit to make new Iconics.
1. If there was going to be a Guild of Calamitous Intent (Venture Bros.) on Golarion, who would you have as some(not all) of the members of it's Council of Thirteen?The seven runelords, Arazni, Tar-Baphon, Treerazer, Razmir, Baba Yaga, and Mengkare. Geb is a super villain who's wife is more successful and active then he is. She's so great that she could be on the Council of Thirteen. He's also completely obsessed with his arch nemesis Nex. So much so that he can never move on until he knows Nex is dead. With all that in mind, do you think Geb is the closest Golarion equivalent for The Monarch?
1. If there was going to be a Guild of Calamitous Intent(Venture Bros.) on Golarion, who would you have as some(not all) of the members of it's Council of Thirteen? 2. I have seen some of the templates from the Advanced Bestiary appear in some books and adventures (Like Metal Clad and Blood Knight), are all of the templates of that book a part of the setting or is it only a few? 3. In most if not all fantasy settings, technological development seems to progress at a snails pace. If you were to look at that fact in a deeper sense then, "That's just the way the story teller decided to build the setting." What's your opinion on what the cause of that might be? 4. Being as unbiased as possible, who do you think would win in a war between the Reapers(Mass Effect) and the Dominion of the Black?
If you are a woman I would say Holomog. If your a man it seems like you have less value (if that is the right word) then women do in that country. Either way though you would have quite a bit of culture shock to deal with.
So in the Andoran setting book there is a man named Blooded Stag who is a human druid 15 with the fey creature template. How did he get the template? Is there a ritual similar to the ritual that can turn you into a demon but instead of demon it can turn you into a fey?
A few questions James, 1. I know Zura was once an Azlanti queen and that she basically created vampires and I know that Sorshen has some magics that seem to absorb the blood of people for herself. My question is did Sorshen and Zura interact at all with each other and if so what was their relationship like? 2. If Nocticula were to become a goddess would the one Drow family that values her as their patron still continue to do so, (viewing her as being superior now to all other Demon Lords due to her ascension) or would they turn their backs on her? 3. Have you seen the documentary The Mask You Live In? If so what did you think about it? If not I would really recommend it for you. It talks about the problems of our society in regards for letting men express themselves emotionally.
That still makes him stuck up.In fairness to Irori (never thought I'd say that), he disapproves of Iomedae, Cayden, and Norgorber, not because of the rock, but because they copied Aroden. He was cool with Aroden and he's still cool with Nethys, Sarenrae, Shelyn and the other gods who technically ascended. He just prefers that everyone should find their own path to perfection. He probably wouldn't care for someone who took his exact route to godhood either.Are you implying that she's a huge hypocrite, or do you actually not think Iomedae is stuck up? It also kinda makes him a hipster.
When you watch horror movies do your roleplaying instincts kick in and force you to think of the best way to handle whatever terrifying monster the hero is up against? Ex. "Don't use a baseball bat against that zombie, grab the axe instead! It will bypass it's DR!"
So I got a few questions with the last couple being somewhat silly but I am genuinely curious about the answers to them so bare with me. 1. Where on Golarion could you by an airship like the ones mentioned in Ultimate Combat? Now the silly questions. 2. If The Inner Sea World Guide were to end up in the Inner Sea, how much would it be worth in gold pieces to the right buyer? (Keep in mind that it does have the locations of certain mysterious places like Xin-Shalast on maps in the book.) 3.Out of all the books you guys have published, which one do you think would be worth the most in the Inner Sea and how much do you think it would be worth?
It always seemed funny to me, that in a magic rich environment, that the upper class would not incorporate magic into clothing. Light, fire, smoke, shadows, would all be great affects on clothing. I dunno, I think Dr Styx has a point. In some countries like say Nirmathas, you probably wouldn't find clothes like that. But in other countries with a lot of magic like Nex or countries where the nobility go out of their way to show off their wealth like Taldor, it would be perfectly believable that they might incorporate magic, however minor, into their outfits. Minor illusion or transmutation magic to make colors swirl and change across their outfits, or maybe the outfit changes based on the mood their in. Like a jewelry, it could just be another thing to flaunt wealth.
Hags. Hags give birth to males? Doesn't that mean that there is potential for male hags? That is interesting.
If you want a more classic magical girl you could just play warlock instead. Just switch their main spellcasting ability from intelligence to charisma and have them cast spells like a bard but still using the wizard sorcerer spell list. You can even have a familiar too.
This thread makes me want to play as Princess Kenny. Doesn't help that Chthulu is a part of the campaign setting so Kenny could be immortal.
There's a big difference between "Mixes spells and swordfighting" (Magus and Bloodrager being examples of this, or an Eldritch Knight/HellKnight signifier if you want to stretch it) and "Primarly casts spells, but also uses a sword" (Wizard). Aroden belongs in the latter group very clearly. If we take BAB as a measurment of sword skills, yes as a level 20 wizard Aroden did have a +10 BAB, but that's just as good as a level 10 Fighter.Seriously people? This far in and I'm the first to mention Aroden? Also to add to that, the question was for a living and breathing swordmaster, and Aroden as we all know is dead. As a side note the strongest graveknight is Ungarato, the Champion of Gluttony, a human graveknight barbarian 12/fighter 7/
I would argue that the Drow are about as misandristic as we were misogynistic several hundred years ago. Treating said gender as second class citizens with very few rights.That's true. Drow hate everyone, and other drow are generally on top of the enemy list. So not specifically misandrist.Matriarchal does not mean misandrist. I may have embellished a little bit and I apologize for that, but treating men as second class citizens is a textbook example of misandry. Sure a man in their society would do to women what the women do to the men in terms of murder and abuse, but a man can't get away with it like the women can. Just because the Drow are murders, slavers and bunch of other horrible things doesn't mean they can't be misandrists as well. It means that they are murders, slavers a bunch of other horrible things and misandrists. Misandry is just another ingredient in the cultural stew of the Drow.
That's true. Drow hate everyone, and other drow are generally on top of the enemy list. So not specifically misandrist.Matriarchal does not mean misandrist. I would argue that the Drow are about as misandristic as we were misogynistic several hundred years ago. Treating said gender as second class citizens with very few rights.
Yes. Dog breeding has taken a decidedly dark turn in recent decades, with people breeding on what dogs look like rather than health and intelligence and other things needed for a dog meant to work in some fashion. As usual, this makes for sellable pups... But with awful genetic disorders, behavioural issues and so on. It turns out inbreeding really is not a good idea - who knew??? But that isn't what Mengkare is doing. He is breading health, intelligence, and beauty and then raising them to bring out their best qualities. (I know you didn't actually say that he was an evil breeder, it just felt like this needed to be said.)
Back when I took the class Anthropology of Sex and Gender in university we learned about a lesser known tribe in Indonesia called the Dani. What's unique about the Dani is that they all appear to be asexual. Here is a quote about them in the book "Women Celibacy and Passion" by Sally Cline.
I bring this up not be insulting but because paizo likes to model cultures on Golarion after our own. Which is great! But, here is a society where asexuality is completely normal and if you want to introduce a people like that, or if paizo would want to use it they/you can. By the way if you want to verify what I am saying is correct, I believe there are two different tribes named Dani. So just make sure you look up the right one.
I doubt anyone is interested but I have a few theories on that. The first is that there could be an original god of humanity that when he or she created humanity he or she ended up creating them on multiple worlds. The next theory is that humanity itself could have chosen to spread across the cosmos a very long time ago. Meaning humanity didn't originate on Golarion or Androffa but a third planet then made galactic empire which eventually collapsed on itself, but there are still pockets of humanity throughout the cosmos. This would have to be a very long time ago due to the fact that on Golarion their human races are spread out like our races across the planet. So there has been enough time to pass that some minor evolution has taken place. Roughly 50,000 to 100,000 years. The last is from the TV show Farscape. The idea of genetic cousins. Two species that evolved on different worlds but are so closely related to each other they can reproduce. Elves and Orcs are examples of that though there might be some magic at play in their cases. The point though is that the "humans" on Androffa are not actually humans but incredibly similar to us.
I've been thinking this for a long time. ^_^ I don't think the word copy is the right word to use. Copy implies that there is a main template that gets coppied over and over again. What Golarion and Earth are is parallel to one another. They are simmilar but different. But I do have some ideas that give potential answers that may satisfy you. If you want to go with extremely theoretical physics, Golarion would probably be somewhere between a 7-9 dimension parallel world to Earth.(The point in different dimensions when the nature and laws of the universe changes)If you want a pure fun science fiction answer, in quantum physics there is something called quantum entanglement where two subatomic particles behave exactly like one another across any distance. So perhaps Golarion and Earth have some sort of similar connection. If you want a Futurama episode, there was an episode where the professor created a box that had a universe in it, while at the exact same time the parallel professor in the box universe created the universe that the first professor lived in. Maybe there is another similar connection with Earth and Golarion. Hope that helps, confuses you, you enjoyed it, or all of the above. :)
That's so strange that people would object to something that's different and optional. Now that I think about it I guess I am not that surprised. But, thank you for coming up with such a cool and different set of rules. It really adds a great flavor to your world. I find it fun.
If you still need a good starting point why not have them as part of the pathfinder society dedicated to uncovering the truth about Aroden's death. They get funding, and you can make it so they are seen as the mulder and scully of the organization. They will eventually deal with some big s@%@, but they are seen as a joke that will never uncover the truth by the rest of the society. Plus it gives them easy access to resources that they might not normally be able to have as basic adventurers. As for a way of uncovering the truth, you could have them obtain pages and sections of the book of the damned scattered throughout the campaign while they are investigating lead. A completed book will most likely have the truth in it. I would suggest reading about it in Hell Unleashed for how to use it.
I asked this question jokingly before but now that I think about it, would there be gods that exist that deal with the more basic and universal aspects of the universe that are beyond mortal concern and control? If reality itself recoils in the presence of the old god wouldn't that mean that they are against the rawest aspects of our universe shouldn't that mean they are against said thing instead of representing it? After all life and death doesn't recoil from Pharasma, instead she embraces them.
Finally, someone make stats for themselves, I have been waiting for that!
I'll take your first point under advisement. Maybe I will give my players an upward and downward limit to thier stats and a limit to the number of stats that are too high and to low. For example they can only have two stats that are higher then 14 and one stat that is lower then 10. As for the opener you presented for me I don't think I will use it but I heard there is supposed to be a new D&D movie that is going to come out soon and I hope that is the opening for that movie.
Wow, that is a s$@$ storm of a plot hook. It's complicated and it has the potential to involve every part of the multiverse. I love it.
That could be fun. I would prefer it if my players didn't know why they were there, but that could lead to a potential invasion of the dominion of the black or the Night Heralds finding out that Cthulu is sealed away on our planet. Which would be terrifyingly awesome.
1. The idea with that one is that it can give the players a simple way to get back to our world if they want to. Though they would have to be immortal or have the sun orchid elixir if they wanted to make it to our time. 2. I was going to have it that the training the society puts them through will raise their base stats to 15 point buy so they can alter themselves a little if need be.
So I am going to make a game where my players play themselves, and find themselves on Golarion in the year 4705. The point of the game is for them to get stronger and to find their way back home to our world. The fun part of the game is that they can go through adventure paths if like because I will make them canon along the timeline of the world. They also have to think of what their own stats would be using 15 point buy, while thinking critically about which classes would work best for them, though there are restrictions on certain classes such as sorcerer nad oracle. I even figured that they could appear outside of Absalom and get the training they need by selling their cell phones to the society to become members. What I am having problems with is the reason why they are there to begin with. I can think of some sort of Protean Lord, Qlippoth Lord, Elder Gods, Nethys or even Haagenti calling them as a part of an experiment. Or perhaps one of the Empyreal lords or Gods of good calling them to Golarion on the chance that they might be a powerful force for change and good. Maybe even having them there as being a delayed side effect of Aroden's death. But it all just seems a little hallow and predictable. So who do you think could take people from a different universe where their own universe is a game and why would they? Also as a side question, if you found yourself in that situation what class would you be? I would be a wizard.
For home games you can certainly assume APs have already occured, and vague tales of bands of heroes flit about as rumor here and there.You really can't because every single AP is a world changing event, and if they'd all occured, Golarion would be unrecognisable. The simplest thing to do is to simply ignore it. Which means that the parts of Reign of Winter that did not happen include Elvanna's freezing the world. There are subtle changes in every single adventure path but for the most part the adventure paths aren't about changing the world but stopping the world from being changed. There are a few exceptions to this like wrath of the righteous but in Second Darkness, nobody even knows that the events occur and the statusquo is maintained.
I have a theory myself about Mengkare, and it has to do with the golden orb of dragon kind. According to the book Artifacts and Legends Mengkare gave shards of the orb to various leaders of the inner sea as a sign of good faith to them. But the interesting thing is that in the core of every single orb of dragon kind, there is an ancient dragon of the same color. I believe that Mengkare is the dragon that was sealed inside that orb.
On Golarion humans are the dominant race so when it comes to the subject of other races you are not going to find as much. However there are a few other species, mythic heroes and villains that I do know of. First, of the core pantheon we only know Aroden, Nethys, Cayden Cailean, Iomedae, and Irori were human. Urgothoa is the very first undead that has ever existed so it is highly likely that she predates humanity. The other gods look like whatever you want them to look like and are species less, as they are gods. With that said every other races has different pantheons that they worship. You can read about them in the book Inner Sea gods. As for specific names of incredibly powerful non-deity beings there are as you said not a lot but there are a few that I know of but, ancient Dwarvish, and Gnomish culture is mostly unknown as we don't even know their homeland which makes them a tad more difficult. And halfings make it their business to stay out of the limelight. But some of the names I do know of off hand would be: Kabriri, the demonlord of ghouls who used to be an elf. Taargick, the dwarven king who created the axe of the dwarvish lords and set out on the quest for the sky. Belkzen the orc that forged the nation that bears his name and there is also every single elf in the Mordant Spire too. There are also a few big guys that you might be able to infer as well. Such as the elf that created the Elf Gates as well as a handful of them that may live on Castrovel. There is a nymph queen who is the most powerful nymph so it wouldn't be to hard to imagine a Gnome that is the paragon of Gnome kind that may even be the cause of their exodus from the first world. And it wouldn't be to surprising to find out about a Halfling that fought alongside Arnisant during the shining crusade against Tar-Baphon but hid from the spot light as there was apparently a bunch of Halflings that fought in the war but didn't get recognition. Hope this helps.
There is a side bar in the Fortress of the Stone Giants adventure (Has an article that talks about Dragons in it) that talks about grey dragons. In it, it says that there were originally 6 families of metallic dragons, and that the last and the most powerful Platinum Dragons were almost all hunted to extinction by Dahak. The last was a pregnant female who was able to escape after being horribly wounded and due to the wounds Dahak gave her, her clutch was mutated and corrupted which became grey dragons. The grey are hated by all other dragon types because due to their experiments on themselves to reclaim there glory they created all of the other dragon like beings such as dragon turtles. I am not sure how canon this story is but there is nothing that refutes yet, and it still makes sense in the pathfinder world. But as for a reason for the convocation of dragons would be if the party were to stumble across a platinum dragon egg.
Well, it's true that the beast thing may be a myth. But I'd also note that Aroden's death didn't happen all that long ago, cosmologically speaking. And I don't think that there's a new god of humanity yet, either. So you could go with the assumption that it's just a myth. Or you could presume that humanity has and is changing as a result of Aroden's death, but that change is not yet particularly notable...though we know that modern day humans are individually less powerful than the...The death of Curchanus was also a VERY long time ago. For all we know, the fabric of reality was much more malleable at that time, so Curchanus' death had a greater impact on the world than Aroden's death did. And actually, that's probably the case to point to - if the death of gods irrevocably changes the concept of humanity, how come humanity is both still around and recognizable as such after Aroden died?Apparently some concepts have literally ceased to exist with the death of their deities. What if humanity did change but in a more subtle way with Arodens death? When Aroden the lawful god of humanity who promoted human expansion and civilization died at least two human empires that we know of (Cheliax and Lung Wa in Tien Xia) and had little to nothing to do with each other collapsed with his death. So what if the ability to create human empires was the fallout of his death?
So I was looking through the old 3.5 module Guardians of Dragonfall and one thing they talk about it in is that all dragons go there to die and rest in peace with each dragon having there own ways that they die. There are special crypts for each dragon as well for where they die to. Only three dragons however have their death rituals mentioned however, green, bronze, and white. To quote the module: Green: "The ceremony involved a number of steps, all orchestrated by animated plants. First, guardians (constructs that act as protectors of dragonfall) delivered sacrifices from the Emerald Graveyard (a Huge room that has the bones of green dragons in it) and animated plants bound them while the dragon assumed a commanding pose before them. Next, strong acid showers slowly stripped away the flesh of sacrifices, while the plants grew into the body of the dying dragon and symbolically “reunited” him with the forest. The last thing the dragon heard was the sweet screams of the sacrifices. Meanwhile, the flesh of the dragon was absorbed into the magical plants, allowing him to live on within the forest. Finally, as the acid showers subsided, the animated plants collected all of the bones and swept them down to the Emerald Graveyard." Pg 12 Bronze: "The ritual for bronze dragons begins when the dragon steps out onto the peninsula. With a brilliant flash, dozens of bolts of lightning strike from the clouds above and outline the dragon’s form with a glowing silhouette of raw power. For a split-second, the dragon seems to become living lightning as the power surges through its body. And then, with an earthshattering roar, the body disintegrates into particulate energy and becomes part of the
White: "The dragon icewalks up to the summit of Fimbulpeak (A large plateau within the crypt) and his sacrifices, animated by the magic of the crypt, surround him. One by one the humanoids are frozen solid beneath the gaze of the dragon, before tumbling off the peak to shatter against the walls of the crevasse. Finally, the dragon himself is frozen in a position of draconic glory, his body being drawn into the icy walls of the cavern to eternally gaze upon his fellows that make it this far." Pg 16 So I was wondering if anybody had any ideas for the ways the other 7 dragons might ritually die? |
