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Tyler Hildebran wrote:

This feels like it's giving gatekeepers more fuel for the fire. Our community is pretty great, and I haven't seen much of that kind of behavior, but as soon as people can point to an app that empirically says "I know more about this than you" it's gonna be a problem somewhere, sometime. Just thought I'd put that out there.

How is having the high score in a trivia game "gatekeeping"? As long as you can buy any Pathfinder publication without proving you have a minimum score in that game, then there is no 'gatekeeping'.

Would Pathfinder be a better game if no one was allowed to know more about Golarian than their GM? Or more lore than anyone else at their table? Do you think GMs are going to recruit players based on a score in a trivia game about Golarian?

Or are you just afraid that some people will brag about their scores in public instead of keeping quiet and pretending they don't really know that much.

I don't care if someone brags, I don't care what their score is, I just want to make sure every table is as welcoming and inviting as it can be for everyone, and being told "no you can't make x character" or "no you can't worship that god" because you know more about the lore than them sucks. If it's your gm making a table wide decision, that's one thing, but I've seen my fair share of people being dicks in my time to know this will probably come up.

I should be clear, I don't mean people are gonna be excluded at the table, nor do I think Paizo would ever put any of their books behind a wall like that. I'm saying there are gonna be people who get shut down at the table, told their voice doesn't matter, and made to feel small because the person telling them that has a higher score than them. I'm not saying the app shouldn't exist, I'm not saying the scenario I listed is gonna be common, just that I wanted to make sure Paizo was considering the ramifications of their actions. I *want* to be wrong, but I felt like it was important to bring up.

This feels like it's giving gatekeepers more fuel for the fire. Our community is pretty great, and I haven't seen much of that kind of behavior, but as soon as people can point to an app that empirically says "I know more about this than you" it's gonna be a problem somewhere, sometime. Just thought I'd put that out there.

My boy Griffon's saddlebag! super glad to see that he'll be publishing ORC stuff in the coming months/years!

They forgot a Background. Here's my shot at it:

Yearning for Freedom. You've been in chains, and after many cruelly foiled attempts to escape, were beginning to lose all hope. But one day your captors were alternately gawking at an Aiudara and each other instead of paying attention to you, and when the mysterious and apparently inactive gate suddenly flared, you took your chance to leap for freedom. The next thing you knew, you were once again standing next to an apparently inactive gate, and months of time were gone . . . but so were your chains, and your masters were nowhere to be seen. You quickly made yourself scarce to evade capture in case they return, and found that you have some inexplicable new powers and skills to help you do exactly that.

Your Deviant abilities are of the Wraith classification. You gain the Eerie Flicker deviant feat. As a quirk, whenever you use a deviant ability, both you and the environment around you seem to blur and almost run together momentarily, during which time you can seem to disappear like a vexing mosquito.

Choose two ability boosts. One must be to Dexterity or Wisdom, and one is a free ability boost.

You're trained in the Acrobatics skill and the Underworld Lore skill. You gain the Quick Squeeze skill feat.

Halfling is hereby added to the list of Appropriate Ancestries.

I love this! It lends itself really well to the CG champion thematically too! (Also yay for halfling solidarity!)