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Hello!

Can you please cancel my Adventure Path Subscription after the two volumes I currently have pending ship?

Thanks!

y'all helped me figure stuff out, too, and I'm super grateful for your viability <3 <3

Humanoid and Outsider B look raaaaaaaaaad

Have you had the chance to see Crimson Peak yet? If you have, what did you think of it?

Can y'all please stop reminding me about Mimic?

*shudders*

Tirisfal wrote:

BigNorseWolf wrote:

Tirisfal wrote:

I find it interesting that I've only heard cis folks use the phrase "cis scum".

We simply say we don't trust cis people, and that gets recentered by cisfeelings about how wronged they are, rather than asking us what it is that makes us not trust you.

Well, yes. Because you are wronging the individual.

When you take any individual who probably has done nothing wrong and blame them for the failings of a group as unspecific as 99+% of the planet that's some pretty serious discrimination. Replace cis with any minority and read it again.

I'm saying that the phrase "cis scum" is one I hear a lot and it is a false insult that doesn't exist in our circles. Cis folks made it up to make themselves feel like victims because cis folks are not anywhere near as marginalized as trans folks and they have to make it about themselves...every time.

Trans folks are 100% incapable of discriminating against cis people...discrimination is a institutional system that requires us to have social power over you.

Cis folks always use "cis scum" as a way to show that "you're prejudice against us! cis is an insult" and I'm like..."I've never used those two words together...? I just don't trust y'all and making things all about you like you are now is one of the reasons"

Cis people murder us. Cis people discriminate against us in the workplace. Cis people don't recognize our existence half the time.

Saying that I don't trust you isn't discrimination, its a learned behavior.

I must disagree. Anyone can be a bigot, regardless of who they are or how they present or where they stand in society. It is an insidious and active thing, not a by product of experiences.

"prejudice" and "bigotry" are very different things.

I prejudge cis folks to disappoint me or hurt me because its a defensive action to do so.

I am not bigoted towards cis people because I'm not intolerant toward you for holding a different opinions. I just don't trust you.

Marginalized folks are allowed to not trust their oppressors.

Tirisfal wrote:

I find it interesting that I've only heard cis folks use the phrase "cis scum".

We simply say we don't trust cis people, and that gets recentered by cisfeelings about how wronged they are, rather than asking us what it is that makes us not trust you.

Well, yes. Because you are wronging the individual.

When you take any individual who probably has done nothing wrong and blame them for the failings of a group as unspecific as 99+% of the planet that's some pretty serious discrimination. Replace cis with any minority and read it again.

I'm saying that the phrase "cis scum" is one I hear a lot and it is a false insult that doesn't exist in our circles. Cis folks made it up to make themselves feel like victims because cis folks are not anywhere near as marginalized as trans folks and they have to make it about themselves...every time.

Trans folks are 100% incapable of discriminating against cis people...discrimination is a institutional system that requires us to have social power over you.

Cis folks always use "cis scum" as a way to show that "you're prejudice against us! cis is an insult" and I'm like..."I've never used those two words together...? I just don't trust y'all and making things all about you like you are now is one of the reasons"

Cis people murder us. Cis people discriminate against us in the workplace. Cis people don't recognize our existence half the time.

Saying that I don't trust you isn't discrimination, its a learned behavior.

I find it interesting that I've only heard cis folks use the phrase "cis scum".

We simply say we don't trust cis people, and that gets recentered by cisfeelings about how wronged they are, rather than asking us what it is that makes us not trust you.

Randomness: the corpse in the middle is the same guy as the brawler npc from the core rulebook!

I actually got a guy into Pathfinder at the bookstore I work at because of all of the free stuff. He told me he was interested in it but he heard it was like 3.5 and was worried about spending a ton of money on it and his eyes lit up when I told him about the PRD and showed him the free android app. He comes back into my store at least once a month to check out the new books now

Carrion Crown was a road trip, too

Are any of the APs not so city centric? I keep waiting for something wilderness based or exploration based to come out, and nothing... Maybe something with a small town as the hub or even a series of small towns. Something with a sense of adventure.

City based adventures are just not interesting to me (or my group). I am hoping something interesting comes along to get us to try playing pathfinder again. And the next AP series sounds even worse... an evil party? Ugh.

Wasn't Kingmaker, Giant Slayer, Wrath of the Righteous, Reign of Winter, Skull & Shackles, Jade Regent, Serpent's Skull, and Second Darkness all not really very urban?

Y'all always have me sold on religion books :DDD

High CHA Rogues, tbh

I can't wait to see what the bonus NPC/art is for Carrion Crown :DDDD

Squee! Guilty Blood was rad, this is going to be good

She's getting a lot of press

Edit: I'll post the buzzfeed link then. ^_^

I just saw the article linked on fb and I gasped with excitement so loud when I saw her face shared by Laverne Cox I scared my cat!! I was coming here link it <3

Tirisfal wrote:

magnuskn wrote:

Dale McCoy Jr wrote:

Hell's Vengeance is spring ap. You play bad buys. No, I'm not kidding.

Oh, hey, another opportunity to let my subscription lapse for six months. Woopee.

Didn't you publicly decry the good guy ap, too?

To be fair, that was more about the end result than the plot and themes.

Habitually and sarcastically pooping on something many folks are excited about doesn't make anyone cool - just pointing that out.

Dale McCoy Jr wrote:

Hell's Vengeance is spring ap. You play bad buys. No, I'm not kidding.

Oh, hey, another opportunity to let my subscription lapse for six months. Woopee.

Didn't you publicly decry the good guy ap, too?

Gothic writer Alison Kindler, from Ustalav, always made me think- Anne Rice.

Think Bram "Stoker", as well :)

Lucatiel~<3

Finally came out of the closet today.

"God I love my friends" is all I can say right now. The relief is amazing.

Yay Mikaze!! *hugs*

Aaaaannnd my confidence was for nothing :/

I couldn't get them out of the house, and this was the only day off I was going to have for a while >:(

Still, thank you all for the support <3

I really appreciate everyone involved in the last few pages. I've been away from the boards for a while because of work, but I still check this thread from time to time, and I really appreciate all of you for being so vocal about something that I'm still figuring out myself.

That said, I've been out to myself, my wife, and my therapist for the last few months; if I can manage to get them out of their house, I'm going to come out to my mom and sister at lunch tomorrow.

Thanks to all of you, I'm confidant that I'll be able to handle all of their awkward and well-meaning-but-really-offensive questions.

Despite that, wish me luck D:

No boob plate!! :D

Ps, please hire Eric Belisle forever because he's my favorite Pathfinder artist next to Carolina Eade :D

dunebugg wrote:

If your middle-class straight cis (hate this word) white male

I hate that word too!

I don't see why you should...it just means "not trans".

Without the word "cis", trans folks become the "other" in a way that denotes them as a deviant aberration and suggests that cis folks are the "default" or "normal"; both points being decidedly incorrect.

This isn't the thread to discuss gender studies, but I needed to point that out.

Tirisfal wrote:

Just from the first glance at the doc, my wife and I really want to roll up water and fire kineticists, respectfully. Composite blasts are our favorite part because we tend to roll characters that work in tandem with each other, so I'm really hoping that they get expanded in the final book :)

This makes me think that there should be a Teamwork Feat for Composite Blasts between two Kineticists. Kind of teaming together to combine their elements for a single more powerful blast.

+1

Just from the first glance at the doc, my wife and I really want to roll up water and fire kineticists, respectfully. Composite blasts are our favorite part because we tend to roll characters that work in tandem with each other, so I'm really hoping that they get expanded in the final book :)

I really want to say thank you to all of the trans folks we have here on the boards, and let you know that I truly appreciate all that you do here helping out the other folks that are struggling with dysphoria <3

Squee!

Tirisfal wrote:

"I'm not really a fan of Golarion, but some folks dig it so I guess it has its charms" would have been a lot less sarcastic and flamebaity, but we get the idea.

Snorb wrote:

Forgotten Realms? =p

LOL! I <3 it.

Because I wasn't thinking of either of these published worlds.

Srsly though all game worlds are "charming" from a certain POV. It's just that with one in particular, for me, it's more than a little difficult to get my head around the in-game explanations of why things are the way they are. The sort of make-believe an 8-10 year old comes up with. .. Which can be "charming" in it's own way but I'm not going to pay $$ for it.

Somehow I don't think suggesting that the folks who make their living writing these things are no more intelligent than an "8-10 year old" is doing much for your opinion, either.

How 'bout the one where the whole game world is mish-mash of tropes from a dozen unrelated fictional settings and non-fictional time periods. Each one carelessly vivisected from it's original narrative scope and plopped unceremoniously next to the others with no real attempt at integration. All this strung over a pre-existing game mechanic framework that manifestly does not support the trope-menagerie playing style proffered by the game designer.

I would say more but it might get me in trouble. ;>

"I'm not really a fan of Golarion, but some folks dig it so I guess it has its charms" would have been a lot less sarcastic and flamebaity, but we get the idea.

Ok, what happens next, do Lenin and Stalin come to your aid, piloting Cherno Alpha?

Yes.

And then my players would get the chance to redeem Stalin and change the course of history. He was quite the looker when he was younger, after all ;)

So my wife informed me that today is National Coming Out Day. I said cool, then maybe now is a good time to tell you that I have been considering it for awhile and I might be a woman.

She said: That's cool, I love you for who you are and completely support you.

Cool.

My wife was the same <3

Cleric creature: +2 to Wis-based rolls, channel energy as cleric of HD-2 level, spellcasting (as previously described).

Wizard creature: +2 to Int-based rolls, arcane bond item, spellcasting as previously described, arcane school power at HD-2 level.

Rogue creature: +2 AC and +2 to Dex-based rolls, sneak attack for 1/2 HD d6 (max 10d6), evasion, uncanny dodge. (10+HD also gets 2 rogue talents (one may be an advanced talent) and improved uncanny dodge.)

Thanks!!!

The templates sound amazing. What are the cleric, wizard, and rogue templates like?

BUT WHAT ABOUT THE BLOODCROW

Primates love social hierarchies. Even the ones near the bottom of the social ladder often attempt to feel better by exerting authority over the few beneath them. I confess that in high school, I was pretty far down the ladder, and I often tried to take it out on those even less popular than me. I figured out what I'd been doing once I had graduated, but it was too late to prevent the psychological damage I'm certain I contributed too; I haven't even been able to find them to apologize. I hate so many of the lessons I learned in school.

Good people and bad people sometimes treat others badly, or say stupid things. The difference is that good people actively try to better themselves and avoid making the same mistakes twice. I regret a lot of the things I said in college, and the things I argued. And even after college, I still find myself making mistakes and being a dumb person. I don't think I'm a good person, but I want to be.

A few years ago, I pushed a very dear friend away because I got called out for being a dismissive jerk, and rather than take it as criticism and move on, I took it personally and fought, and blew it up way beyond anything that it should have been until I felt like the worst person on the planet. I got back in touch with her and apologized two years later, and thankfully I've earned myself a second chance, but I still think about it and I'm still embarrassed by it, but that's how we learn and improve!

Fourshadow wrote:

It has already been established as such, so why change it now?

Because it's needlessly anachronistic and sticks out like a sore thumb compared to the rest of the setting, especially given how this nation supposedly grew out of a vassal state of other realms. Also, in a setting where firearms are rare and armored warriors still prevail, they've been set up to be slaughtered in any battle.

While the attire, colonial US anachronisms, etc. would be fine in another setting, given Andoran's prominence in the Inner Sea, just "ignoring it" doesn't really work.

I love the premise of Andoran as a solid "good guy nation", but every time I had to look at the uber-colonial artwork, it killed it for me. Andoran is the nation that I WANT to like the most (I've centered a campaign there).

Its THAT argument again!

Look, first off, 17th-19th century stuff is my favorite; my homebrew is heavily inspired by the cultures of that era (such as colonial America, the French Revolution, the Age of Enlightenment, Edo Period, etc), so its safe to say that this is totally my cup of tea. I get that this isn't for some people, just as pirates and space lazors aren't for others, but I'm the target demographic for this one.

Secondly, how does this really anachronistically stick out when its stuck between a nation with a space ship jutting out of a mountain, a nation with an abyssal chasm torn into it, or (my favorite) a nation shrouded in fog and overrun by Victorian zombies, vampires, and werewolves and was once ruled by Sauron?

Last I checked, Golarion is supposed to be a kitchen sink, so claiming that ONE nation is anachronistic when the rest of the campaign setting is taken into account is just silly.

Golarion isn't middle earth; there are wizards flying spaceships, dragons with guns, pirates fighting kamen rider assassins, and liches with pith helmets, 'cause liches love pith helmets.

Tirisfal wrote:

Kvantum wrote:

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That's even better than the vanilla investigator! Its like the butterscotch topping to my favorite class :DD

please tell me that there's art accompanying this... :X

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So bittersweet: [Naples Daily News] "Fort Myers woman recognized by state on long-time partner's death certificate"

I really hate that Gov. Scott and AG Bondi are still fighting equality in my state.

Scott hates education, too.

But for me, it ranged anywhere between "bi doesn't exist" to "so you're a total slut then?"...

Same. I've been told that because I'm married to a woman, I'm actually straight and that I'm making it up just want to be "a part of their club", or because I'm effeminate I'm totally gay and she's just my beard, or I'm asked if there's "someone else" besides her.

My best friend, who is also bi but totally tone def to about 99% of things, told me the other day that I'm, quote, "the gayest dude married to a woman [she]'s ever met", which is really hurtful.

I'm just gonna keep calling em people if that's all right with everybody and if someone wants to be called something other than the regular thing they can ask and I'll be happy to oblige.

Call most people little one regardless of gender or size anyways.

What is this "regular" of which you speak?

Which is why i said "if", i'm merely human. :)

I know; I wasn't scolding you, I was simply telling you that you were right in not assuming. Sometimes text doesn't convey meaning, sorry :)

Thomas Long 175 wrote:

There are more than 2 genders? O.o

I think she means intersex individuals, if i'm not mistaking.

There's more than that.

Tirisfal wrote:

Rysky's gonna be excited about this! :D

*sniff*

The Pumpkin gets me ^w^

You are pretty neat.

If you do a lich bard, make sure their instrument is a creepy pipe organ.

made of bones and organs

Neat!

Rysky's gonna be excited about this! :D