paizo.com Recent Posts by Violet Hargravepaizo.com Recent Posts by Violet Hargrave2024-03-13T17:58:50Z2024-03-13T17:58:50ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post Discussion: [PFS]GM Dennis - The Confirmation DiscussionQuasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)https://paizo.com/campaigns/PFSGMDennisTheConfirmation/discussion&page=2#562018-07-28T10:27:57Z2018-07-28T10:27:57Z<p>Yup. Thanks for running it.</p>Yup. Thanks for running it.Quasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)2018-07-28T10:27:57ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post Discussion: [PFS]GM Dennis - The Confirmation DiscussionQuasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)https://paizo.com/campaigns/PFSGMDennisTheConfirmation/discussion&page=2#532018-07-28T01:52:46Z2018-07-28T01:52:46Z<p>Meanwhile I am going to be switching out that infusion for range because wow is that ever basically mandatory.</p>Meanwhile I am going to be switching out that infusion for range because wow is that ever basically mandatory.Quasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)2018-07-28T01:52:46ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post: [PFS]GM Dennis - The ConfirmationQuasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)https://paizo.com/campaigns/PFSGMDennisTheConfirmation/gameplay&page=6#2802018-07-27T03:01:15Z2018-07-27T03:01:15Z<p>Quasar fidgets some more and shrugs. <b>"Uh.. the painted caverns of... something or other? Honestly, I'm fairly sure the old guy with the gills in there was probably more of an expert than any of us."</b></p>Quasar fidgets some more and shrugs. "Uh.. the painted caverns of... something or other? Honestly, I'm fairly sure the old guy with the gills in there was probably more of an expert than any of us."Quasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)2018-07-27T03:01:15ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post: [PFS]GM Dennis - The ConfirmationQuasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)https://paizo.com/campaigns/PFSGMDennisTheConfirmation/gameplay&page=6#2712018-07-26T05:36:19Z2018-07-26T05:36:19Z<p>Quasar once again summons to her a sizable collection of rocks, hurling them towards the mites, aiming for the one in the back, and hoping the force of the blast will separate them out.
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<span class="messageboard-dice"><b>Earth Blast, why do I keep leaving out point blank:</b></span> <span class="messageboard-dice">1d20 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (16) + 4 + 1 = 21</span>
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<span class="messageboard-dice"><b>Damage, point blank:</b></span> <span class="messageboard-dice">1d6 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 3 + 1 = 10</span>
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<span class="messageboard-dice"><b>Pushing Infusion:</b></span> <span class="messageboard-dice">1d20 + 3 ⇒ (9) + 3 = 12</span></p>Quasar once again summons to her a sizable collection of rocks, hurling them towards the mites, aiming for the one in the back, and hoping the force of the blast will separate them out.
[dice=Earth Blast, why do I keep leaving out point blank]1d20+4+1[/dice]
[dice=Damage, point blank]1d6+3+1[/dice]
[dice=Pushing Infusion]1d20+3[/dice]Quasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)2018-07-26T05:36:19ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post: [PFS]GM Dennis - The ConfirmationQuasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)https://paizo.com/campaigns/PFSGMDennisTheConfirmation/gameplay&page=6#2632018-07-24T19:59:20Z2018-07-24T19:59:20Z<p>Quasar was preparing to deal with the rather intimidating centipede and perhaps talk to the mites, but as it's quickly dealt with, and was clearly commanded by them, she instead rushes up to the water's edge, to hurl rocks at the one in the back. <span class=messageboard-ooc>Purple, specifically.</span></p>
<p><span class="messageboard-dice"><b>Earth Blast:</b></span> <span class="messageboard-dice">1d20 + 4 ⇒ (20) + 4 = 24</span>
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<span class="messageboard-dice"><b>Crit Confirm:</b></span> <span class="messageboard-dice">1d20 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5</span>
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<span class="messageboard-dice"><b>Damage,Point Blank:</b></span> <span class="messageboard-dice">1d6 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 3 + 1 = 5</span></p>Quasar was preparing to deal with the rather intimidating centipede and perhaps talk to the mites, but as it's quickly dealt with, and was clearly commanded by them, she instead rushes up to the water's edge, to hurl rocks at the one in the back. Purple, specifically.
[dice=Earth Blast]1d20+4[/dice]
[dice=Crit Confirm]1d20+4[/dice]
[dice=Damage,Point Blank]1d6+3+1[/dice]Quasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)2018-07-24T19:59:20ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post: [PFS]GM Dennis - The ConfirmationQuasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)https://paizo.com/campaigns/PFSGMDennisTheConfirmation/gameplay&page=6#2512018-07-21T07:18:31Z2018-07-21T07:18:31Z<p><span class="messageboard-dice"><b>Knowledge (dungeoneering):</b></span> <span class="messageboard-dice">1d20 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8</span>
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<span class=messageboard-ooc>Just rolling this in advance to see if there's anything I should be asking once I come around but it looks like I've got... "yeah that's a big bug."</span></p>[dice=Knowledge (dungeoneering)]1d20+5[/dice]
Just rolling this in advance to see if there's anything I should be asking once I come around but it looks like I've got... "yeah that's a big bug."Quasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)2018-07-21T07:18:31ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post: [PFS]GM Dennis - The ConfirmationQuasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)https://paizo.com/campaigns/PFSGMDennisTheConfirmation/gameplay&page=5#2452018-07-20T19:34:41Z2018-07-20T19:34:41Z<p><span class=messageboard-ooc>It would feel weird not to, I'd say.</span></p>It would feel weird not to, I'd say.Quasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)2018-07-20T19:34:41ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post: [PFS]GM Dennis - The ConfirmationQuasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)https://paizo.com/campaigns/PFSGMDennisTheConfirmation/gameplay&page=5#2392018-07-20T04:58:23Z2018-07-20T04:58:02Z<p>Quasar nods, straightening her clothes again. <b>"Just the one... well, the one who was alive. Religious sort, seemed friendly and harmless. There were also a number of... corpses returned to life by a dhampir with an oddly convenient note of confession on his person... and a bit more exploring we still need to get to, but, well, obvious priorities."</b> She gestures to the minotaur.</p>Quasar nods, straightening her clothes again. "Just the one... well, the one who was alive. Religious sort, seemed friendly and harmless. There were also a number of... corpses returned to life by a dhampir with an oddly convenient note of confession on his person... and a bit more exploring we still need to get to, but, well, obvious priorities." She gestures to the minotaur.Quasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)2018-07-20T04:58:02ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post: [PFS]GM Dennis - The ConfirmationQuasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)https://paizo.com/campaigns/PFSGMDennisTheConfirmation/gameplay&page=5#2312018-07-19T21:30:56Z2018-07-19T21:25:15Z<p>Quasar takes a step back, visibly relieved the people who actually look like they can take a solid hit have interposed themselves, and leans over to Janira for a quick, <b>"You OK? I'd thought you were just going to keep running back towards the city until this jerk gave up."</b></p>
<p>She then once again pulls together the stones for another oversized blast.
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<span class="messageboard-dice"><b>Earth Blast:</b></span> <span class="messageboard-dice">1d20 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11</span>
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<span class="messageboard-dice"><b>Damage,point blank:</b></span> <span class="messageboard-dice">1d6 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 3 + 1 = 9</span>
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<span class="messageboard-dice"><b>Pushing Infusion:</b></span> <span class="messageboard-dice">1d20 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 3 = 11</span></p>Quasar takes a step back, visibly relieved the people who actually look like they can take a solid hit have interposed themselves, and leans over to Janira for a quick, "You OK? I'd thought you were just going to keep running back towards the city until this jerk gave up."
She then once again pulls together the stones for another oversized blast.
[dice=Earth Blast]1d20+4[/dice]
[dice=Damage,point blank]1d6+3+1[/dice]
[dice=Pushing Infusion]1d20+3[/dice]Quasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)2018-07-19T21:25:15ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post Discussion: [PFS]GM Dennis - The Confirmation DiscussionQuasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)https://paizo.com/campaigns/PFSGMDennisTheConfirmation/discussion#452018-07-19T02:32:20Z2018-07-19T02:32:20Z<p>Yeah, they've been cruel enough this whole game I didn't want to chance a "don't roll a 1 or 2" acrobatics check.</p>
<p>Fortunately they don't like the minotaur much either.</p>Yeah, they've been cruel enough this whole game I didn't want to chance a "don't roll a 1 or 2" acrobatics check.
Fortunately they don't like the minotaur much either.Quasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)2018-07-19T02:32:20ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post: [PFS]GM Dennis - The ConfirmationQuasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)https://paizo.com/campaigns/PFSGMDennisTheConfirmation/gameplay&page=5#2192018-07-19T02:04:02Z2018-07-19T02:04:02Z<p>Quasar makes another big grandiose show of pulling together a particularly hefty ball of earth. <span class=messageboard-ooc>Gathering power</span></p>
<p>And sends it forth again.
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<span class="messageboard-dice"><b>Earth Blast:</b></span> <span class="messageboard-dice">1d20 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 4 = 19</span>
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<span class="messageboard-dice"><b>Damage, point blank:</b></span> <span class="messageboard-dice">1d6 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 3 + 1 = 5</span>
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<span class="messageboard-dice"><b>Pushing Infusion:</b></span> <span class="messageboard-dice">1d20 + 3 ⇒ (18) + 3 = 21</span></p>Quasar makes another big grandiose show of pulling together a particularly hefty ball of earth. Gathering power
And sends it forth again.
[dice=Earth Blast]1d20+4[/dice]
[dice=Damage, point blank]1d6+3+1[/dice]
[dice=Pushing Infusion]1d20+3[/dice]Quasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)2018-07-19T02:04:02ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post: [PFS]GM Dennis - The ConfirmationQuasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)https://paizo.com/campaigns/PFSGMDennisTheConfirmation/gameplay&page=5#2082018-07-18T00:40:35Z2018-07-18T00:40:35Z<p>Quasar frowns, seeing the minotaur has stepped just too far away to be properly battered from this side of the river. Giving it a glance, and seeing it at least looks a bit more narrow than the pit in the cave in parts, and leaps across, hoping to at least catch the minotaur's attention, and hopefully not be flattened for her efforts.
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<span class="messageboard-dice"><b>Acrobatics:</b></span> <span class="messageboard-dice">1d20 + 7 ⇒ (19) + 7 = 26</span> <span class=messageboard-ooc>Pretty sure this roll is a formality!</span></p>
<p>As she's airborne, she pulls together a pile of loose stones from the riverbottom to send upwards towards the already clearly enraged brute.
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<span class="messageboard-dice"><b>Earth Blast:</b></span> <span class="messageboard-dice">1d20 + 4 ⇒ (10) + 4 = 14</span>
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<span class="messageboard-dice"><b>Damage,point blank:</b></span> <span class="messageboard-dice">1d6 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 3 + 1 = 7</span></p>
<p>Immediately feeling much more nervous, she adds, <b>"I don't why you're attacking random strangers, but you can at least be sporting and go for someone on her feet?"</b></p>Quasar frowns, seeing the minotaur has stepped just too far away to be properly battered from this side of the river. Giving it a glance, and seeing it at least looks a bit more narrow than the pit in the cave in parts, and leaps across, hoping to at least catch the minotaur's attention, and hopefully not be flattened for her efforts.
[dice=Acrobatics]1d20+7[/dice] Pretty sure this roll is a formality!
As she's airborne, she pulls together a pile of loose stones from the riverbottom to send...Quasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)2018-07-18T00:40:35ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post: [PFS]GM Dennis - The ConfirmationQuasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)https://paizo.com/campaigns/PFSGMDennisTheConfirmation/gameplay&page=5#2052018-07-17T20:23:07Z2018-07-17T20:23:07Z<p><span class=messageboard-ooc>Before I commit to something reckless here- Are we going by the visible width of the river at any given point, where it seems to be 5' across to the east of where I am currently, not even 5 up north, and up to 12 in places, or calling the DC to clear it a flat 10 regardless of where you are?</span></p>Before I commit to something reckless here- Are we going by the visible width of the river at any given point, where it seems to be 5' across to the east of where I am currently, not even 5 up north, and up to 12 in places, or calling the DC to clear it a flat 10 regardless of where you are?Quasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)2018-07-17T20:23:07ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post: [PFS]GM Dennis - The ConfirmationQuasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)https://paizo.com/campaigns/PFSGMDennisTheConfirmation/gameplay&page=4#1962018-07-16T19:45:15Z2018-07-16T09:49:25Z<p><span class=messageboard-ooc>Too late to edit the post, but yeah, less rock throwing, more rushing forward. Just... pretend I was getting really descriptive about kicking a rock into the river while rushing up.</span></p>Too late to edit the post, but yeah, less rock throwing, more rushing forward. Just... pretend I was getting really descriptive about kicking a rock into the river while rushing up.Quasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)2018-07-16T09:49:25ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post Discussion: [PFS]GM Dennis - The Confirmation DiscussionQuasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)https://paizo.com/campaigns/PFSGMDennisTheConfirmation/discussion#422018-07-16T08:10:33Z2018-07-16T08:10:33Z<p>Taking a close look at the range extension infusions, yeah, that seems to be the clear intent. I somehow missed those when throwing this together, and was just going off "Physical blasts are ranged attacks." The fun of trying weird new classes.</p>
<p>I'll have to change that out when I get the chance but, for now year I suppose I'll be revising that to a double move.</p>Taking a close look at the range extension infusions, yeah, that seems to be the clear intent. I somehow missed those when throwing this together, and was just going off "Physical blasts are ranged attacks." The fun of trying weird new classes.
I'll have to change that out when I get the chance but, for now year I suppose I'll be revising that to a double move.Quasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)2018-07-16T08:10:33ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post: [PFS]GM Dennis - The ConfirmationQuasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)https://paizo.com/campaigns/PFSGMDennisTheConfirmation/gameplay&page=4#1932018-07-16T05:36:59Z2018-07-16T05:36:59Z<p>Acting more than a little rashly, Quasar rushes forward, shouting <b>"Hey!"</b> and hurling a good sized lump of stone at the minotaur, hoping to at least make herself an obvious enough threat to divert the rather intimidating foe's attention, as she fully expects to go a bit wide given the distance and poor visibility.</p>
<p><span class="messageboard-dice"><b>Miss Chance:</b></span> <span class="messageboard-dice">1d100 ⇒ 65</span>
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<span class="messageboard-dice"><b>Earth Blast,2 range increments out:</b></span> <span class="messageboard-dice">1d20 + 4 - 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 - 4 = 3</span>
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<span class="messageboard-dice"><b>Damage:</b></span> <span class="messageboard-dice">1d6 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6</span></p>Acting more than a little rashly, Quasar rushes forward, shouting "Hey!" and hurling a good sized lump of stone at the minotaur, hoping to at least make herself an obvious enough threat to divert the rather intimidating foe's attention, as she fully expects to go a bit wide given the distance and poor visibility.
[dice=Miss Chance]1d100[/dice]
[dice=Earth Blast,2 range increments out]1d20+4-4[/dice]
[dice=Damage]1d6+3[/dice]Quasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)2018-07-16T05:36:59ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post: [PFS]GM Dennis - The ConfirmationQuasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)https://paizo.com/campaigns/PFSGMDennisTheConfirmation/gameplay&page=4#1892018-07-16T04:19:50Z2018-07-16T04:19:50Z<p>Quasar takes another moment to straighten her armor and roll up her overlong sleeves before saying, <b>"This is why I suggested keeping a distance. Things seem to have worked out well enough though, so I suppose we should all hurry along."</b></p>Quasar takes another moment to straighten her armor and roll up her overlong sleeves before saying, "This is why I suggested keeping a distance. Things seem to have worked out well enough though, so I suppose we should all hurry along."Quasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)2018-07-16T04:19:50ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post: [PFS]GM Dennis - The ConfirmationQuasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)https://paizo.com/campaigns/PFSGMDennisTheConfirmation/gameplay&page=4#1842018-07-15T05:00:18Z2018-07-15T05:00:18Z<p><span class=messageboard-ooc>Alternatively...</span>
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Quasar backs away from the approaching amoeba, if necessary, pushing off the narrow walls as she gathers stone from them...
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<span class=messageboard-ooc>5' step northwest if possible, 15' west with acrobatics to avoid the AOO otherwise.</span>
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<span class="messageboard-dice"><b>Acrobatics:</b></span> <span class="messageboard-dice">1d20 + 7 ⇒ (13) + 7 = 20</span>
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... and then sends forth another blast at the remaining foe.
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<span class="messageboard-dice"><b>Earth Blast, bless, inspire:</b></span> <span class="messageboard-dice">1d20 + 4 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (18) + 4 + 1 + 1 = 24</span>
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<span class="messageboard-dice"><b>Damage, point blank, bless, inspire:</b></span> <span class="messageboard-dice">1d6 + 3 + 1 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 3 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 11</span>
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<span class=messageboard-ooc>And... assuming that I didn't need to tumble away, and it survived that hit, gather power and pushing infusion potentially knock it farther back-</span>
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<span class="messageboard-dice"><b>Knockback,inspire:</b></span> <span class="messageboard-dice">1d20 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (14) + 3 + 1 = 18</span></p>
<p>She smiles a bit, having finally accomplished something useful, and asks <b>"... is he OK?"</b></p>Alternatively...
Quasar backs away from the approaching amoeba, if necessary, pushing off the narrow walls as she gathers stone from them...
5' step northwest if possible, 15' west with acrobatics to avoid the AOO otherwise.
[dice=Acrobatics]1d20+7[/dice]
... and then sends forth another blast at the remaining foe.
[dice=Earth Blast, bless, inspire]1d20+4+1+1[/dice]
[dice=Damage, point blank, bless, inspire]1d6+3+1+1+1[/dice]
And... assuming that I didn't need to tumble away, and it survived...Quasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)2018-07-15T05:00:18ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post: [PFS]GM Dennis - The ConfirmationQuasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)https://paizo.com/campaigns/PFSGMDennisTheConfirmation/gameplay&page=4#1832018-07-15T02:19:26Z2018-07-15T02:19:26Z<p><span class=messageboard-ooc>Is a 5' step NW a valid thing to take here, or are my options withdraw/eat an AOO/wait for Drilla to maybe move a bit?</span></p>Is a 5' step NW a valid thing to take here, or are my options withdraw/eat an AOO/wait for Drilla to maybe move a bit?Quasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)2018-07-15T02:19:26ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post: [PFS]GM Dennis - The ConfirmationQuasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)https://paizo.com/campaigns/PFSGMDennisTheConfirmation/gameplay&page=4#1712018-07-14T06:48:01Z2018-07-14T06:48:01Z<p><span class="messageboard-dice"><b>Knowledge (dungeoneering):</b></span> <span class="messageboard-dice">1d20 + 5 ⇒ (13) + 5 = 18</span>
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<span class=messageboard-ooc>Defenses</span></p>
<p><b>"May want to keep your distance, I seem to recall these get a bit... melty."</b> says Quasar, as she steps forward some, gathering another pile of rocks to push forth, hopefully actually hitting something for a change, ideally the amoeba further down from everyone.</p>
<p><span class="messageboard-dice"><b>Earth Blast, inspire:</b></span> <span class="messageboard-dice">1d20 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 4 + 1 = 20</span>
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<span class="messageboard-dice"><b>Damage, point blank, inspire:</b></span> <span class="messageboard-dice">1d6 + 3 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 3 + 1 + 1 = 6</span></p>[dice=Knowledge (dungeoneering)]1d20+5[/dice]
Defenses
"May want to keep your distance, I seem to recall these get a bit... melty." says Quasar, as she steps forward some, gathering another pile of rocks to push forth, hopefully actually hitting something for a change, ideally the amoeba further down from everyone.
[dice=Earth Blast, inspire]1d20+4+1[/dice]
[dice=Damage, point blank, inspire]1d6+3+1+1[/dice]Quasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)2018-07-14T06:48:01ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post: [PFS]GM Dennis - The ConfirmationQuasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)https://paizo.com/campaigns/PFSGMDennisTheConfirmation/gameplay&page=4#1642018-07-13T19:44:00Z2018-07-13T19:44:00Z<p>Quasar steps up for a closer inspection of the scene, once all the corpses have lied down like they're supposed to.
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<span class="messageboard-dice"><b>Perception:</b></span> <span class="messageboard-dice">1d20 + 4 ⇒ (17) + 4 = 21</span>
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<b>"No, I hear it too."</b> She waves her hand in the direction of the hidden passage, rocks sweeping aside to properly reveal it. <span class=messageboard-ooc>Basic Geokinesis is fun for showing off.</span></p>
<p><b>"And this note seems to be playing into stereotypes in an unfortunate way. I always thought to make zombies you had to be... involved in less savory religious practices? May as well grab the ring to see if anyone recognizes it later."</b></p>Quasar steps up for a closer inspection of the scene, once all the corpses have lied down like they're supposed to.
[dice=Perception]1d20+4[/dice]
"No, I hear it too." She waves her hand in the direction of the hidden passage, rocks sweeping aside to properly reveal it. Basic Geokinesis is fun for showing off.
"And this note seems to be playing into stereotypes in an unfortunate way. I always thought to make zombies you had to be... involved in less savory religious practices? May as well...Quasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)2018-07-13T19:44:00ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post: [PFS]GM Dennis - The ConfirmationQuasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)https://paizo.com/campaigns/PFSGMDennisTheConfirmation/gameplay&page=4#1562018-07-13T07:22:58Z2018-07-13T07:22:58Z<p>Noting that the raw bludgeoning didn't work earlier, as Quasar strides forward into the room, she pulls thin wedges of chipped stone and crystal from the surrounding walls, forming a sharp edged disc to fling towards the less obstructed of the two zombies. <span class=messageboard-ooc>Green has no cover from my current view of the map, and I only had to move 20' if Reshu or Drilla end up blocking that particular angle.</span></p>
<p><span class="messageboard-dice"><b>Earth Blast:</b></span> <span class="messageboard-dice">1d20 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9</span>
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<span class="messageboard-dice"><b>Slashing damage, point blank:</b></span> <span class="messageboard-dice">1d6 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 3 + 1 = 10</span></p>
<p><span class=messageboard-ooc>... I'd say I wished my d20s were rolling like my d6s, but technically they are.</span>
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[Spoiler omitted]</p>Noting that the raw bludgeoning didn't work earlier, as Quasar strides forward into the room, she pulls thin wedges of chipped stone and crystal from the surrounding walls, forming a sharp edged disc to fling towards the less obstructed of the two zombies. Green has no cover from my current view of the map, and I only had to move 20' if Reshu or Drilla end up blocking that particular angle.
[dice=Earth Blast]1d20+4[/dice]
[dice=Slashing damage, point blank]1d6+3+1[/dice]
... I'd say I...Quasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)2018-07-13T07:22:58ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post: [PFS]GM Dennis - The ConfirmationQuasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)https://paizo.com/campaigns/PFSGMDennisTheConfirmation/gameplay&page=3#1472018-07-12T20:41:06Z2018-07-12T20:41:06Z<p><span class=messageboard-ooc>... How sleep deprived was I when I threw this character together that I didn't remember to take point blank shot and precise shot on someone who literally is built entirely around making ranged attacks into melee? Only way it makes sense is if I misread this ability and didn't realize it qualified as a ranged attack. Kicking myself so hard now.</span></p>
<p>Quasar takes a step forward, again <span class=messageboard-ooc>gathering power</span> pulling rocks from the walls to form into an extra large missile, hurling it towards the one zombie in sight, in the hopes of knocking it back to allow others through.
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<span class="messageboard-dice"><b>Earth Blast, into melee:</b></span> <span class="messageboard-dice">1d20 + 4 - 4 ⇒ (13) + 4 - 4 = 13</span> <span class=messageboard-ooc>(+4 if I can fix the worst mistake ever before my feats become relevant)</span>
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<span class="messageboard-dice"><b>Damage:</b></span> <span class="messageboard-dice">1d6 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8</span> <span class=messageboard-ooc>(+1 if I can fix the worst mistake ever before my feats become relevant)</span>
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<span class="messageboard-dice"><b>Pushing Infusion:</b></span> <span class="messageboard-dice">1d20 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10</span> <span class=messageboard-ooc>(-2 if I can fix the worst mistake ever before my feats become relevant)</span></p>... How sleep deprived was I when I threw this character together that I didn't remember to take point blank shot and precise shot on someone who literally is built entirely around making ranged attacks into melee? Only way it makes sense is if I misread this ability and didn't realize it qualified as a ranged attack. Kicking myself so hard now.
Quasar takes a step forward, again gathering power pulling rocks from the walls to form into an extra large missile, hurling it towards the one...Quasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)2018-07-12T20:41:06ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post: [PFS]GM Dennis - The ConfirmationQuasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)https://paizo.com/campaigns/PFSGMDennisTheConfirmation/gameplay&page=3#1392018-07-11T21:34:47Z2018-07-11T21:34:47Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">GM Dennis wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Quasar Bhatt wrote:</div><blockquote>Assuming he doesn't object, she starts heading back to have a closer look at the other carvings, now that they all have a handle on the context, <span class=messageboard-ooc>planning to just take 20 examining the other two,</span></blockquote><span class=messageboard-ooc>In this case, the perception/appraise check was used (with a penalty) in place of a knowledge check. It's measuring not just your ability to make out the carvings, but to recognize their connection to a famous holy text. In that context, I think this check, like knowledge checks in general, is not something you can repeat or take 20 on.</span> </blockquote><p><span class=messageboard-ooc>Weird but reasonable! Still taking a glance at the others barring any odd one mural-per-character restriction on that then...</span>
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<span class="messageboard-dice"><b>Perception, Aid bonus:</b></span> <span class="messageboard-dice">1d20 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (17) + 4 + 2 = 23</span>
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<span class="messageboard-dice"><b>Perception, Aid bonus:</b></span> <span class="messageboard-dice">1d20 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 4 + 2 = 10</span></p>
<p>Quasar nods as she returns from doubling back. <b>"We have to check them both out anyway. Why not start with the more obviously dangerous?"</b> She fidgets a bit more with her clothes, making sure her armor is at least on straight before proceeding.</p>GM Dennis wrote:Quasar Bhatt wrote:Assuming he doesn't object, she starts heading back to have a closer look at the other carvings, now that they all have a handle on the context, planning to just take 20 examining the other two,
In this case, the perception/appraise check was used (with a penalty) in place of a knowledge check. It's measuring not just your ability to make out the carvings, but to recognize their connection to a famous holy text. In that context, I think this check, like...Quasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)2018-07-11T21:34:47ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post: [PFS]GM Dennis - The ConfirmationQuasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)https://paizo.com/campaigns/PFSGMDennisTheConfirmation/gameplay&page=3#1272018-07-11T08:55:07Z2018-07-11T08:55:07Z<p>Quasar gives a bit of a curtsy now that we're doing proper introductions. <b>"Well, nice to meet you. I'm Quasar, and I assume if you're just here for religious purposes, you wouldn't mind us poking our heads around to see what else is in here?"</b></p>
<p>Assuming he doesn't object, she starts heading back to have a closer look at the other carvings, now that they all have a handle on the context, <span class=messageboard-ooc>planning to just take 20 examining the other two,</span> but turns at the last moment to add, <b>"Oh, and do you happen to know why there's an enraged minotaur stomping around outside, or why this place is more popular on full moons?"</b></p>Quasar gives a bit of a curtsy now that we're doing proper introductions. "Well, nice to meet you. I'm Quasar, and I assume if you're just here for religious purposes, you wouldn't mind us poking our heads around to see what else is in here?"
Assuming he doesn't object, she starts heading back to have a closer look at the other carvings, now that they all have a handle on the context, planning to just take 20 examining the other two, but turns at the last moment to add, "Oh, and do you...Quasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)2018-07-11T08:55:07ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post Discussion: [PFS]GM Dennis - The Confirmation DiscussionQuasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)https://paizo.com/campaigns/PFSGMDennisTheConfirmation/discussion#352018-07-11T07:11:16Z2018-07-11T07:11:16Z<p>Yeah, nicely compressed there.</p>Yeah, nicely compressed there.Quasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)2018-07-11T07:11:16ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post: [PFS]GM Dennis - The ConfirmationQuasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)https://paizo.com/campaigns/PFSGMDennisTheConfirmation/gameplay&page=3#1192018-07-11T00:10:51Z2018-07-11T00:10:51Z<p>Quasar steps up and waves. <b>"That's a pretty neat model. Did you set all that up yourself?"</b>
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<span class="messageboard-dice"><b>Diplomacy:</b></span> <span class="messageboard-dice">1d20 ⇒ 6</span></p>
<p><span class=messageboard-ooc>And on the off chance there's anything further to be gleaned about the stalactite/table from either knowledge: dungeoneering or profession (miner)-</span>
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<span class="messageboard-dice"><b>I know a thing or two about tunnel stuff?:</b></span> <span class="messageboard-dice">1d20 + 5 ⇒ (18) + 5 = 23</span></p>Quasar steps up and waves. "That's a pretty neat model. Did you set all that up yourself?"
[dice=Diplomacy]1d20[/dice]
And on the off chance there's anything further to be gleaned about the stalactite/table from either knowledge: dungeoneering or profession (miner)-
[dice=I know a thing or two about tunnel stuff?]1d20+5[/dice]Quasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)2018-07-11T00:10:51ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post: [PFS]GM Dennis - The ConfirmationQuasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)https://paizo.com/campaigns/PFSGMDennisTheConfirmation/gameplay&page=3#1092018-07-10T10:32:27Z2018-07-10T10:32:27Z<p>Quasar eventually just gives an appreciative nod to some quality chiseling and moves along.</p>Quasar eventually just gives an appreciative nod to some quality chiseling and moves along.Quasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)2018-07-10T10:32:27ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post: [PFS]GM Dennis - The ConfirmationQuasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)https://paizo.com/campaigns/PFSGMDennisTheConfirmation/gameplay&page=3#1032018-07-10T02:31:45Z2018-07-10T02:31:45Z<p>Quasar idly wonders aloud, <b>"What do you suppose they soak these in to get that color?"</b></p>
<p><span class="messageboard-dice"><b>Perception:</b></span> <span class="messageboard-dice">1d20 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 15</span></p>
<p>She also has a good look at the carvings.</p>Quasar idly wonders aloud, "What do you suppose they soak these in to get that color?"
[dice=Perception]1d20+4[/dice]
She also has a good look at the carvings.Quasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)2018-07-10T02:31:45ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post: [PFS]GM Dennis - The ConfirmationQuasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)https://paizo.com/campaigns/PFSGMDennisTheConfirmation/gameplay&page=2#962018-07-09T03:20:04Z2018-07-09T03:20:04Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Niocholu the Useful wrote:</div><blockquote> Seeing Quasar struggling to carry her equipment, Niochulu offers, <b>"Please be lettink Niochulu do the carryink of things of heavy for you."</b> Taking hold of the woman's gear, Niochulu spots the rations. <b>"Niochulu happy to be eatink that for you if you thinkink it help with the carryink."</b> </blockquote><p><b>"I think I'll manage, thanks."</b>
<div class="messageboard-quotee">Niocholu the Useful wrote:</div><blockquote> In response to the question, the northman lays down his pack and removes a 50-foot line of hemp rope. <b>"Niochulu havink the rope for which you do the askink!"</b> </blockquote><p>Quasar does her best to secure her end of the rope, to something so that anyone else not up for a running jump can simply climb down and back up, wincing in sympathy as Luralyn tries for it anyway and fails.
<p><span class=messageboard-ooc>And... yeah, officially snagging the thunderstone as nobody's objected, nice to be less of a one-trick pony when throwing a rock isn't the solution to a problem.</span></p>Niocholu the Useful wrote:Seeing Quasar struggling to carry her equipment, Niochulu offers, "Please be lettink Niochulu do the carryink of things of heavy for you." Taking hold of the woman's gear, Niochulu spots the rations. "Niochulu happy to be eatink that for you if you thinkink it help with the carryink."
"I think I'll manage, thanks." Niocholu the Useful wrote:In response to the question, the northman lays down his pack and removes a 50-foot line of hemp rope. "Niochulu havink the rope...Quasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)2018-07-09T03:20:04ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post: [PFS]GM Dennis - The ConfirmationQuasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)https://paizo.com/campaigns/PFSGMDennisTheConfirmation/gameplay&page=2#882018-07-08T08:35:23Z2018-07-08T08:35:23Z<p><span class=messageboard-ooc>If it's late enough in the day to have eaten the day's rations I brought, I wouldn't mind holding onto the smokestick or thunderstone, otherwise 7 strength continues to be hilarious.</span></p>
<p>As they make their way through the narrow tunnels, Quasar smiles. <b>"Rather relaxing down here, don't you all agree?"</b></p>
<p><span class="messageboard-dice"><b>Knowledge (dungeoneering):</b></span> <span class="messageboard-dice">1d20 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6</span> <span class=messageboard-ooc>Eventually I am bound to roll above a 6 on <i>something</i>.</span></p>
<p>Quasar walks up to the edge of the pit and has a look around.
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<span class="messageboard-dice"><b>Perception:</b></span> <span class="messageboard-dice">1d20 + 4 ⇒ (10) + 4 = 14</span> <span class=messageboard-ooc>And basic geomancy lets me sift the whole 10' cube of the pit for any hidden traps/objects while I do that.</span></p>
<p>Seeing the obvious bundle at the bottom, and the need to get across, she adds. <b>"I don't suppose anyone brought any rope? Those walls look a bit slick to want to go down for it barehanded. Plus I'm not sure all of you can make this jump..."</b></p>
<p>Rather impulsively, assuming the others leave her enough room for the running start (and that she sees no obvious traps), she'll then try to casually leap to the far side.
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<span class="messageboard-dice"><b>Acrobatics:</b></span> <span class="messageboard-dice">1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 23</span></p>If it's late enough in the day to have eaten the day's rations I brought, I wouldn't mind holding onto the smokestick or thunderstone, otherwise 7 strength continues to be hilarious.
As they make their way through the narrow tunnels, Quasar smiles. "Rather relaxing down here, don't you all agree?"
[dice=Knowledge (dungeoneering)]1d20+5[/dice] Eventually I am bound to roll above a 6 on something.
Quasar walks up to the edge of the pit and has a look around.
[dice=Perception]1d20+4[/dice]...Quasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)2018-07-08T08:35:23ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post: [PFS]GM Dennis - The ConfirmationQuasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)https://paizo.com/campaigns/PFSGMDennisTheConfirmation/gameplay&page=2#842018-07-07T08:20:38Z2018-07-07T08:20:38Z<p>Quasar hesitates a moment, preparing to gather her power again to throw a nice sized rock at the minotaur, but ultimately has to admit that one lucky hit from something that big would likely be enough to kill anyone present, and begrudgingly follows behind Reshu.</p>Quasar hesitates a moment, preparing to gather her power again to throw a nice sized rock at the minotaur, but ultimately has to admit that one lucky hit from something that big would likely be enough to kill anyone present, and begrudgingly follows behind Reshu.Quasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)2018-07-07T08:20:38ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post: [PFS]GM Dennis - The ConfirmationQuasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)https://paizo.com/campaigns/PFSGMDennisTheConfirmation/gameplay&page=2#712018-07-06T23:31:18Z2018-07-06T21:00:19Z<p>Quasar frowns as another pile of rocks goes wide. <b>"I swear I usually land those right on target. My balance must still be off from drinking that elixir."</b></p>
<div class="messageboard-quotee">Luralyn Frimbucket wrote:</div><blockquote> He looks at the furrows opened by Quasar's blasts, then turns to the woman. <b>"Alright, I hope this isn't prying, but... <i>How do you do that!?</i> That's not like any magic I've ever seen."</b> He jiggles a finger in one tall ear. <b>"Leaves quite the impression!"</b> </blockquote><p><b>"Yeah.. I've noticed gifts like mine don't seem as common out here as they are back in Vudra. Back there it's just 'this child has a strong connection to the earth' where here it's 'ooh, where'd you learn <i>that</i> spell?'"</b> She shrugs.
<p><span class="messageboard-dice"><b>Survival:</b></span> <span class="messageboard-dice">1d20 ⇒ 4</span></p>
<p><b>"For some reason, I was expecting a clearer trail to follow..."</b></p>Quasar frowns as another pile of rocks goes wide. "I swear I usually land those right on target. My balance must still be off from drinking that elixir."
Luralyn Frimbucket wrote:He looks at the furrows opened by Quasar's blasts, then turns to the woman. "Alright, I hope this isn't prying, but... How do you do that!? That's not like any magic I've ever seen." He jiggles a finger in one tall ear. "Leaves quite the impression!"
"Yeah.. I've noticed gifts like mine don't seem as common out...Quasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)2018-07-06T21:00:19ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post: [PFS]GM Dennis - The ConfirmationQuasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)https://paizo.com/campaigns/PFSGMDennisTheConfirmation/gameplay&page=2#582018-07-06T03:57:24Z2018-07-06T03:56:59Z<p>Quasar steps back slightly to try again <span class=messageboard-ooc>5' step SE</span>, this time bending down, sucking up dirt and stones to a much more intimidating lump, <span class=messageboard-ooc>move action to Gather Power</span> and hurls it forth...
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<span class="messageboard-dice"><b>Earth Blast:</b></span> <span class="messageboard-dice">1d20 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9</span>
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<span class="messageboard-dice"><b>Damage:</b></span> <span class="messageboard-dice">1d6 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4</span>
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<span class=messageboard-ooc>and... the free pushing infusion wouldn't matter because you can't bull rush a swarm, but she just kinda wanted to be splashier about to for the sake of recovering dignity, you know how it is</span></p>
<p><b>"It would be nice if they'd hold still..."</b></p>Quasar steps back slightly to try again 5' step SE, this time bending down, sucking up dirt and stones to a much more intimidating lump, move action to Gather Power and hurls it forth...
[dice=Earth Blast]1d20+4[/dice]
[dice=Damage]1d6+3[/dice]
and... the free pushing infusion wouldn't matter because you can't bull rush a swarm, but she just kinda wanted to be splashier about to for the sake of recovering dignity, you know how it is
"It would be nice if they'd hold still..."Quasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)2018-07-06T03:56:59ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post: [PFS]GM Dennis - The ConfirmationQuasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)https://paizo.com/campaigns/PFSGMDennisTheConfirmation/gameplay#472018-07-05T03:35:12Z2018-07-05T00:00:50Z<p>Quasar is more than happy enough to get away from the potentially feuding pets of the others, and pick up all the supplies she can carry. <span class=messageboard-ooc>A single torch and a day's worth of trail rations. 7 str is hilarious like that.</span></p>
<p>Once out o the road, the appearance of a roiling pile of snakes moving in quickly towards them, she snaps out of her usual awkwardness with a smirk, rolling up her outsized sleeves and tossing off a quick <b>"I've got this"</b> as she sweeps her hands upward, followed by a loose pile of rocks and thick clods of solid earth, which coalesce into a hefty mass before her, before she thrusts her arms forward, propelling the bulky missile towards the snakes from 30 feet away.</p>
<p><span class="messageboard-dice"><b>earth blast:</b></span> <span class="messageboard-dice">1d20 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12</span>
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<span class="messageboard-dice"><b>blunt damage, full to all swarms:</b></span> <span class="messageboard-dice">1d6 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9</span></p>Quasar is more than happy enough to get away from the potentially feuding pets of the others, and pick up all the supplies she can carry. A single torch and a day's worth of trail rations. 7 str is hilarious like that.
Once out o the road, the appearance of a roiling pile of snakes moving in quickly towards them, she snaps out of her usual awkwardness with a smirk, rolling up her outsized sleeves and tossing off a quick "I've got this" as she sweeps her hands upward, followed by a loose pile...Quasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)2018-07-05T00:00:50ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post: [PFS]GM Dennis - The ConfirmationQuasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)https://paizo.com/campaigns/PFSGMDennisTheConfirmation/gameplay#352018-07-04T15:03:20Z2018-07-04T08:31:07Z<p>Quasar nods. <b>"And we're sure these caves aren't flooded? I don't want to end up drowning because it turns out Groetus worshipping weresharks have been waiting for a spring tide to swim up to some otherwise inaccessable chamber or something."</b> She tugs anxiously on the collar of her studded leather armor. <span class=messageboard-ooc>Which has always been such, and was never a chain shirt, because I totally didn't forget that even with no other equipment those are a no-go with only 7 str.</span></p>Quasar nods. "And we're sure these caves aren't flooded? I don't want to end up drowning because it turns out Groetus worshipping weresharks have been waiting for a spring tide to swim up to some otherwise inaccessable chamber or something." She tugs anxiously on the collar of her studded leather armor. Which has always been such, and was never a chain shirt, because I totally didn't forget that even with no other equipment those are a no-go with only 7 str.Quasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)2018-07-04T08:31:07ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post Discussion: [PFS]GM Dennis - The Confirmation DiscussionQuasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)https://paizo.com/campaigns/PFSGMDennisTheConfirmation/discussion#272018-07-03T23:10:54Z2018-07-03T23:10:54Z<p>Oh hey, double checking just now, I actually made a slight character throwing this character together. That should be ill-fitting studded leather I have, not a chain shirt. Forgot to update that when I was making last minute tweaks for the sake of future feats.</p>Oh hey, double checking just now, I actually made a slight character throwing this character together. That should be ill-fitting studded leather I have, not a chain shirt. Forgot to update that when I was making last minute tweaks for the sake of future feats.Quasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)2018-07-03T23:10:54ZRe: Forums/Paizo: General Discussion: Paizo Blog: Farewell to CrystalViolet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo5lkw6?Farewell-to-Crystal#302018-07-04T05:00:10Z2018-07-03T22:05:44Z<p>I'm fairly certain I'm on the record several times over as originally being inspired to start working for Paizo by Crystal. So... here's hoping I will soon be inspired to try a lot of other awesome and fulfilling things.</p>I'm fairly certain I'm on the record several times over as originally being inspired to start working for Paizo by Crystal. So... here's hoping I will soon be inspired to try a lot of other awesome and fulfilling things.Violet Hargrave2018-07-03T22:05:44ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post: [PFS]GM Dennis - The ConfirmationQuasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)https://paizo.com/campaigns/PFSGMDennisTheConfirmation/gameplay#312018-07-03T18:12:00Z2018-07-03T18:12:00Z<p>Quasar gives the bear a wide birth, pressing herself up against a wall, looking slightly nervous. <b>"Right, supplies... from the sound of it, we're probably going to need a few torches, or sun rods, or... people who just touch the ends of walking sticks and cause them to glow... this is all pretty close by though, right? No need to hop on a ship or anything and sail back across the sea, or ride along with some wagon train for days?"</b></p>Quasar gives the bear a wide birth, pressing herself up against a wall, looking slightly nervous. "Right, supplies... from the sound of it, we're probably going to need a few torches, or sun rods, or... people who just touch the ends of walking sticks and cause them to glow... this is all pretty close by though, right? No need to hop on a ship or anything and sail back across the sea, or ride along with some wagon train for days?"Quasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)2018-07-03T18:12:00ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post: [PFS]GM Dennis - The ConfirmationQuasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)https://paizo.com/campaigns/PFSGMDennisTheConfirmation/gameplay#272018-07-03T10:53:18Z2018-07-03T10:53:18Z<p>Quasar waves back. <b>"Yeah, big family here too. Well, not here here. Back in the Impossible Kingdoms mostly. Lot of homebodies and accountants mostly. I originally came out this way to look into some business interests, and well..."</b> she glances down at herself and tugs on her shirt again, <b>"I didn't quite... budget properly for personal expenses."</p>
<p>"I'm told this sort of work tends to pay out quicker than prospecting, so, hopefully this should cover the difference."</b> She quickly adds, <b>"not that I'm just here for the money! Again, like you said, there's all the exploration and discovery and noble deeds for the public good and all too."</b></p>Quasar waves back. "Yeah, big family here too. Well, not here here. Back in the Impossible Kingdoms mostly. Lot of homebodies and accountants mostly. I originally came out this way to look into some business interests, and well..." she glances down at herself and tugs on her shirt again, "I didn't quite... budget properly for personal expenses."
"I'm told this sort of work tends to pay out quicker than prospecting, so, hopefully this should cover the difference." She quickly adds, "not that...Quasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)2018-07-03T10:53:18ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post: [PFS]GM Dennis - The ConfirmationQuasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)https://paizo.com/campaigns/PFSGMDennisTheConfirmation/gameplay#222018-07-03T01:38:34Z2018-07-03T01:38:34Z<p>A young woman of obviously Vudrani descent, with a slight but curvy frame and fidgeting with a rather ill-fitting chain shirt over worse-fitting clothes finally pipes up. <b>"Well, I'm always-"</b> She stops a moment and clears her throat. <b>"I'm always happy enough to hike up a mountain or down through a cave, but... you did say gillmen, right? So... fish folk? Are these caves supposed to be flooded, or are am I maybe stereotyping?"</b></p>
<p>She also makes her way around the room to properly greet the others. <b>"You can all call me Quasar by the way... or Ms. Bhatt. Haven't met a problem yet I haven't had the gifts to handle."</b> She looks for a sufficiently dirty corner at which to wave her fingers at, swirling up a small cloud of dust as a means of showing off a little.</p>A young woman of obviously Vudrani descent, with a slight but curvy frame and fidgeting with a rather ill-fitting chain shirt over worse-fitting clothes finally pipes up. "Well, I'm always-" She stops a moment and clears her throat. "I'm always happy enough to hike up a mountain or down through a cave, but... you did say gillmen, right? So... fish folk? Are these caves supposed to be flooded, or are am I maybe stereotyping?"
She also makes her way around the room to properly greet the...Quasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)2018-07-03T01:38:34ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post Discussion: [PFS]GM Dennis - The Confirmation DiscussionViolet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/campaigns/PFSGMDennisTheConfirmation/discussion#172018-06-28T14:03:24Z2018-06-28T10:25:51Z<p>Done.</p>
<div class="messageboard-quotee">Andrew Mullen wrote:</div><blockquote> If anyone has any unchained monk experience I'd love some advice! I've only played a chained monk, and that game fell apart after 2 sessions. </blockquote><p>I've played a ton of monks, all of them chained. My recollection though is the only real changes are you lose some of the more eccentric higher level abilities, and you just plain have full BAB so you don't end up playing Schroedinger's bonuses when you might potentially kill something on the first hit.
<p>So... basically save all your starting cash for a fancy shirt or buy some shuriken, pump up str, consider power attack, split the rest between dex and wis, maybe squeeze in the int for combat expertise and improved whatever, otherwise enjoy shopping for style feats?</p>Done.
Andrew Mullen wrote:If anyone has any unchained monk experience I'd love some advice! I've only played a chained monk, and that game fell apart after 2 sessions.
I've played a ton of monks, all of them chained. My recollection though is the only real changes are you lose some of the more eccentric higher level abilities, and you just plain have full BAB so you don't end up playing Schroedinger's bonuses when you might potentially kill something on the first hit. So... basically save...Violet Hargrave2018-06-28T10:25:51ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post Discussion: [PFS]GM Dennis - The Confirmation DiscussionViolet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/campaigns/PFSGMDennisTheConfirmation/discussion#112018-06-28T02:52:23Z2018-06-28T02:43:13Z<p>Suddenly I'm slightly embarrassed that I dropped everything and slapped together a character with a class I'd never actually looked at in such a hurry last night. Although I AM happy with the backstory I slapped together to rationalize super minimalist equipment purchases.</p>Suddenly I'm slightly embarrassed that I dropped everything and slapped together a character with a class I'd never actually looked at in such a hurry last night. Although I AM happy with the backstory I slapped together to rationalize super minimalist equipment purchases.Violet Hargrave2018-06-28T02:43:13ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post Discussion: [PFS]GM Dennis - The Confirmation DiscussionViolet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/campaigns/PFSGMDennisTheConfirmation/discussion#92018-06-28T02:05:14Z2018-06-28T02:05:14Z<p>I think I'm pretty much all set, yeah.</p>I think I'm pretty much all set, yeah.Violet Hargrave2018-06-28T02:05:14ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post Discussion: [PFS]GM Dennis - The Confirmation DiscussionQuasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)https://paizo.com/campaigns/PFSGMDennisTheConfirmation/discussion#52018-06-27T11:18:33Z2018-06-27T11:18:33Z<p>1) Violet Hargrave
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2) Quasar Bhatt
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3) The Concordance
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4) 226513-1
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5) Regular
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6) <span class="messageboard-dice"><b>Profession:</b></span> <span class="messageboard-dice">1d20 + 7 ⇒ (14) + 7 = 21</span>
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7) Pretty straightforward I think.</p>1) Violet Hargrave
2) Quasar Bhatt
3) The Concordance
4) 226513-1
5) Regular
6) [dice=Profession]1d20+7[/dice]
7) Pretty straightforward I think.Quasar Bhatt (alias of Violet Hargrave)2018-06-27T11:18:33ZRe: Forums: Starfinder General Discussion: New to SF, some help needed! :)Violet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2uwzj?New-to-SF-some-help-needed#52018-02-26T21:10:07Z2018-02-26T21:10:07Z<p>I just finished throwing <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-wOM74f21qyLFiNAaa9B5YGYDLVQYMZsPwo8ZW5vtPo/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">this sheet</a> together last night, which by default auto-fills and calculates a fair bit, but it's laid out as a single page and it's a spreadsheet, so hard coding in any numbers you'd rather track yourself is as easy as just typing them in.</p>
<p>As for Starfinder itself, it's still very much all designed with a grid in mind, but relative to Pathfinder, spellcasting is pretty de-emphasized, guns are pretty much the default, and a 5' step takes a move action, so going abstract should be a little easier. Less likely to be dealing with flanking, or allies being in the blast zone for spells, at least.</p>
<p>Optimization is pretty much a non-issue. There's only 7 classes, size has much less of an effect on things, starting attributes have a hard cap of 18 even after racial bonuses, and point buy is 1 to 1, and stat boosts down the road are spread more evenly, and almost completely decoupled from gear.</p>
<p>And as far as skills and low combat go, it's still built on the d20 skeleton, so combat is still hugely emphasized and the skill system is basically the same as Pathfinder. You have more skills to work with generally, both from every class getting at least 4, and the list being quite a bit shorter. DCs scale better. And the less combat focused classes are a hell of a lot more viable than their rough Pathfinder equivalents. But, these are all tweaks to what's still the same basic system, so if you just don't like it, that won't likely change.</p>I just finished throwing this sheet together last night, which by default auto-fills and calculates a fair bit, but it's laid out as a single page and it's a spreadsheet, so hard coding in any numbers you'd rather track yourself is as easy as just typing them in.
As for Starfinder itself, it's still very much all designed with a grid in mind, but relative to Pathfinder, spellcasting is pretty de-emphasized, guns are pretty much the default, and a 5' step takes a move action, so going...Violet Hargrave2018-02-26T21:10:07ZForums: Starfinder General Discussion: Have an easy to use auto-calcuation-heavy Starfinder character sheet.Violet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2uwxo?Have-an-easy-to-use-autocalcuationheavy#12018-03-22T19:43:18Z2018-02-26T10:18:11Z<p>The sites I usually use for sharing character sheets for online campaigns still haven't set up good Starfinder templates, so I made my own.</p>
<p><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-wOM74f21qyLFiNAaa9B5YGYDLVQYMZsPwo8ZW5vtPo/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Online Starfinder Sheet v1.0</a></p>
<p>It's pretty straightforward. Make a copy. Fill in your attributes/race/class/theme/level/skill ranks and it will automatically update basically everything else. Archetypes are supported. Multiclassing is not, particularly, mostly just because I couldn't think of a way to support it without adding a separate field to track your level, archetype, and first level class choice in each class, and that'd ruin the aesthetics.</p>
<p>That said, nothing should actually break too badly if you start inserting extra rows or overwriting cells, so "not supported" just means it won't automatically take into account racial skill bonuses for races it doesn't know about, or force you to track your own saves if you're multiclassing.</p>The sites I usually use for sharing character sheets for online campaigns still haven't set up good Starfinder templates, so I made my own.
Online Starfinder Sheet v1.0
It's pretty straightforward. Make a copy. Fill in your attributes/race/class/theme/level/skill ranks and it will automatically update basically everything else. Archetypes are supported. Multiclassing is not, particularly, mostly just because I couldn't think of a way to support it without adding a separate field to track...Violet Hargrave2018-02-26T10:18:11ZRe: Forums: Rules Questions: Phrenic Archetype and Mystic?Violet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2uj9i?Phrenic-Archetype-and-Mystic#72018-02-26T08:55:13Z2018-02-26T08:55:13Z<p>I'm pretty sure one of the following is true:</p>
<p>A: If you play a phrenic adept mystic, you never gain access to healing touch at all, perpetually 2 fewer connection powers than a non-phrenic would, begin knowing only a single first level spell, and don't gain access to the full compliment of spells known, nor connection spell for a given spell level until the next spell level is unlocked.</p>
<p>B: Sometime between writing the archetype rules and the final release of the game, healing touch was moved from being a level 9 ability to level 1, and nobody updated the archetype rules with a fix.</p>
<p>The feat question when multiclassing meanwhile is a separate issue, but I'd say by both the letter and the spirit of the rules, if you want to be a multiclassed phrenic adept mystic with access to healing touch, even if you don't take a single level in mystic until level 10 or higher, you don't gain a feat at level 9.</p>I'm pretty sure one of the following is true:
A: If you play a phrenic adept mystic, you never gain access to healing touch at all, perpetually 2 fewer connection powers than a non-phrenic would, begin knowing only a single first level spell, and don't gain access to the full compliment of spells known, nor connection spell for a given spell level until the next spell level is unlocked.
B: Sometime between writing the archetype rules and the final release of the game, healing touch was...Violet Hargrave2018-02-26T08:55:13ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Taldor, the First Empire (PFRPG)Violet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/products/btpy9wzs/discuss&page=6?Pathfinder-Campaign-Setting-Taldor-the-First-Empire#2932018-01-31T00:48:53Z2018-01-30T07:51:32Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Feros wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Dragon78 wrote:</div><blockquote> What powers does the redkind have? Alignment? </blockquote>[Spoiler omitted] </blockquote><p>I still don't have my copy of this one, but I am so very happy to hear that the [Spoiler omitted] survived the editing process.Feros wrote:Dragon78 wrote: What powers does the redkind have? Alignment?
[Spoiler omitted] I still don't have my copy of this one, but I am so very happy to hear that the [Spoiler omitted] survived the editing process.Violet Hargrave2018-01-30T07:51:32ZRe: Forums: Starfinder General Discussion: did i miss it or is there no age progression?Violet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2um9c?did-i-miss-it-or-is-there-no-age-progression#22017-10-22T12:55:32Z2017-09-20T08:31:05Z<p>Fairly sure that one's an intentional omission. Aging rules have always been a bit confusing/prone to abuse, and there's a general move towards simpler rules with less fiddly bits in SF, at least in terms of tracking numbers (see the lack of non-lethal damage, touch AC, CMB/CMD).</p>Fairly sure that one's an intentional omission. Aging rules have always been a bit confusing/prone to abuse, and there's a general move towards simpler rules with less fiddly bits in SF, at least in terms of tracking numbers (see the lack of non-lethal damage, touch AC, CMB/CMD).Violet Hargrave2017-09-20T08:31:05ZRe: Forums: Starfinder General Discussion: Rules and Adventure PathsViolet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2ultn?Rules-and-Adventure-Paths#32017-09-17T03:05:41Z2017-09-17T00:49:03Z<p>Specifically, the idea is that while Pathfinder goes:</p>
<p>Here's the new AP about acrobats in Geb.
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... So here, have a new campaign setting book on Geb.
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... and here, have a new player companion about acrobatics.</p>
<p>Starfinder will go more like this:</p>
<p>Here's the new AP about the goatspiders of Rygel 9. There are articles in the back with everything you need to play goatspider PCs, and an overview of Rygel 9.</p>
<p>This both keeps them from having to spread resources thinner supporting literally twice the regular load of books, and makes logistical sense since intergalactic-scale space fantasy stuff isn't really suited to broadly covering the details of a general geographic region and revisiting it regularly. It's more, here is this one-off planet we really don't have any plans for beyond setting this one adventure there.</p>Specifically, the idea is that while Pathfinder goes:
Here's the new AP about acrobats in Geb.
... So here, have a new campaign setting book on Geb.
... and here, have a new player companion about acrobatics.
Starfinder will go more like this:
Here's the new AP about the goatspiders of Rygel 9. There are articles in the back with everything you need to play goatspider PCs, and an overview of Rygel 9.
This both keeps them from having to spread resources thinner supporting literally twice...Violet Hargrave2017-09-17T00:49:03ZRe: Forums: Starfinder General Discussion: Cultural Ramifications of Serum of Appearance Change.Violet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2ulo7?Cultural-Ramifications-of-Serum-of-Appearance#342017-10-05T15:23:51Z2017-09-14T09:00:07Z<p>Just tossing it out there, but speaking as a trans woman working in fields with significantly higher than average levels of rampant sexism, I'm in as close a position as one can find in the real world to being in the shoes of a drow man with access to a sex-shift serum, and "I'd rather be dead than take that option" is the general stance taken under such conditions.</p>
<p>Dysphoria is, in fact, that bad, and there's this innate sense of solidarity that comes from marginalization and general solidarity with one's gender that shouldn't really be taken lightly.</p>
<p>Plus honestly, this whole conversation hinges on the notion of drow men being a slave-caste plotting rebellion, which really doesn't mesh at all with how they're depicted in Second Darkness. It's much more real-world-patriarichal-stuff-flipped-around, with drow men owning their own businesses, exercising some political influence via their masculine wiles, etc.</p>Just tossing it out there, but speaking as a trans woman working in fields with significantly higher than average levels of rampant sexism, I'm in as close a position as one can find in the real world to being in the shoes of a drow man with access to a sex-shift serum, and "I'd rather be dead than take that option" is the general stance taken under such conditions.
Dysphoria is, in fact, that bad, and there's this innate sense of solidarity that comes from marginalization and general...Violet Hargrave2017-09-14T09:00:07ZRe: Forums: Advice: Let's Queer Up Starfinder!Violet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2ujlp&page=5?Lets-Queer-Up-Starfinder#2152017-12-12T23:22:34Z2017-09-14T06:54:23Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">evilnerf wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Ikiry0 wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Aerotan wrote:</div><blockquote>The family looking a little different is something He's always frowned on, and his worshippers tended to ostracise those who deviated from the norm.</blockquote>I think you might be reading a little too much maliciousness into a Lawful Good faith. </blockquote>People have been doing this for years. There is one poorly worded line in one book, and now all everyone talks about is how he's basically the god of misogyny. </blockquote><p>Yeah, it's been rather explicitly stated that the "traditional values" Erastil upholds emphatically don't include sexism, racism, homophobia, or transphobia, as there never having been a time where anyone in Golarion held those as "traditional values."
<p>Lashuntu culture on the other hand does have a long tradition of strictly defined gender roles, and a generally pro-nature population historically against getting together in big cities, which relatively recently they've pulled a total 180 on. As it happens Castrovel is also the one pact world remaining where farming and hunting are still thriving lifestyles.</p>
<p>I would figure he still has a fair number of worshipers there, and since he IS an LG god, and the radical shift in lashuntu social structure is a good thing, there'd have to be some kind of overprotective-parent-learning-to-let-go sort of thing softening his stance on some issues, while focusing more on his other areas of concern.</p>
<p>There's a lot of potential for positive queer themes there, particularly since it's already so easy to approach the lashunta restructuring from that direction.</p>
<p>There's a lot of other good potential plot seeds baked in there too, but that's beyond the scope of this thread really.</p>evilnerf wrote:Ikiry0 wrote: Aerotan wrote:The family looking a little different is something He's always frowned on, and his worshippers tended to ostracise those who deviated from the norm.
I think you might be reading a little too much maliciousness into a Lawful Good faith. People have been doing this for years. There is one poorly worded line in one book, and now all everyone talks about is how he's basically the god of misogyny. Yeah, it's been rather explicitly stated that the...Violet Hargrave2017-09-14T06:54:23ZRe: Forums: Starfinder General Discussion: Envoy seems... underwhelming?Violet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2uec0&page=2?Envoy-seems-underwhelming#562017-09-10T05:08:35Z2017-09-10T04:59:29Z<p>I'd say Envoy, moreso than any other class, looks like hot garbage if you're looking at it side by side next to any Pathfinder class, but when you get your head around how Starfinder's rules differ the "small" bonuses they toss around are actually quite significant.</p>
<p>It <i>does</i> underwhelm at first level though. Sadly I missed the part of the GenCon demo with ship combat, where they'd shine, and just had to deal with standing still to give small bonuses the rest of the party ignored.</p>I'd say Envoy, moreso than any other class, looks like hot garbage if you're looking at it side by side next to any Pathfinder class, but when you get your head around how Starfinder's rules differ the "small" bonuses they toss around are actually quite significant.
It does underwhelm at first level though. Sadly I missed the part of the GenCon demo with ship combat, where they'd shine, and just had to deal with standing still to give small bonuses the rest of the party ignored.Violet Hargrave2017-09-10T04:59:29ZForums: Starfinder General Discussion: Is it me or do the core 20 deities lack any chemistry?Violet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2uldv?Is-it-me-or-do-the-core-20-deities-lack-any#12017-09-09T22:02:25Z2017-09-09T22:02:25Z<p>I don't know how fair it really is to make this complaint since a stated design goal for Starfinder was to downplay direct involvement of the pantheon in how things play out, and the sole divine caster class is very specifically more of a contemplative guru sort of class than an active church representative, but looking at Starfinder's core 20 deities, none of them really strike me as being particularly concerned with what any of the others are doing. Plus there's an alarming trend towards "this is the deity this race traditionally worships" which kind of inherently drags in some implied racial alignments (and weird ones at that).</p>
<p>Just going down deity by deity here...</p>
<p>Abadar- He's doing pretty damn well for himself lately, and probably has the most direct footprint on the setting via Abadarcorp, but there's no real cause for his followers to work on advancing and no one prominent that'd take issue with his faith's current prosperity. Feels like there's a missed opportunity here fading Erastil and Gozreh into the background rather than playing up a March Of Progress vs. Green Faith conflict.</p>
<p>Besmara- OK Besmara was always one of my favorite minor deities and is absolutely in a prime position to stir the pot with pretty much anyone, but there'd be space pirates to do that whether she was in the mix or not.</p>
<p>Damoritosh- I outright dislike his existence. Being our big war god, he's kind of stealing a seat from Gorum, and doesn't seem nearly as fun. Plus honestly, he's an explicitly evil deity who's specifically cited as the chief deity of the one core race that quite recently declared a war of subjugation against the rest. Which really recolors that from the space opera trope of two big empires butting heads on principle then making up to the vesk being an unambiguously villainous faction with no real business being in the core 7 race options, particularly if you play his obvious plot card of trying to get the Silent War going again.</p>
<p>Desna- In a similar boat with Abadar. Spacefaring societies existing at all should have her pretty content, no real ambitions or conflicts.</p>
<p>The Devourer- Another one I really just don't like being in there. Destroying everything is already Rovagug's domain, and aside from having that sort of kaiju charm, the threat posed by Rovagug casts a huge shadow over both the setting for both games. Took a big team-up of other major deities to seal him away, and now the place he was sealed away in is missing. It's a bad move to recast that portfolio and role in the setting to someone who doesn't have that pantheonic team-up backstory. Plus, while evil, it seems very passive about it, and with the entropy theme feels more like it should be NE than CE, to match up with daemons.</p>
<p>Eloritu- Basically just Nethys. The search for the other runes bit makes for nice plot hooks, but not much is going on here otherwise.</p>
<p>Hylax- I do like having a super chill peaceful bug goddess, but she's too innately passive to drive any conflicts. Also it's weird to me that she's so into free will and tied to shirrens but then she's LG. CG feels like it'd make more sense.</p>
<p>Ibra- Even worshipers of Ibra don't seem to have a clear handle on Ibra's motives or mandates.</p>
<p>Iomedae- There's no world wound, no apparent lingering Chelish empire to worry about (outside the continued presence of the hellknights, but they seem to be downplaying the hell end of things), and her more traditional enemies didn't seem to make the cut. I do really like having her around as a sort of anachronistic vestige of knightly values (even if that is a weird role for the youngest deity in the book), but there's not much for her followers to go crusading against. Damoritosh's forces are allies, the Devourer's are fringe cultists.</p>
<p>Lao Shu Po- Kind of feels like she's picking up the slack from shelving Calistria, Norgorber, and Achaekek, which gives followers something to do, but not making a big splash keeps her in a passive/supporting role when telling stories, and again we have an evil deity as the main patron of a core 20 race.</p>
<p>Nyarlathotep- He seems like the most active mover and shaker in the pantheon, although Mythos stuff always strikes me as too tied to material plane power struggles to really feel like a religious conflict thing.</p>
<p>Oras- I appreciate there basically being a Church of Science, but again, without someone like Erastil to object to rapid change, there's no fodder for conflicts here.</p>
<p>Pharasma- Pharasma still hates Urgathoa. That's the one clear conflict from the old core 20 still going strong, and there's a lot to play up with it with the whole Corpse Fleet angle.</p>
<p>Sarenrae- It's weird for Sarenrae to be around when Rovagug isn't. She's still a generally all around great goddess for any good character to worship, and her church colonizing the sun is amusing but her church kinda feels like they have no pressing matters and can take a long vacation.</p>
<p>Talavet- Doesn't like Nyarlathotep, likes telling stories. No real strong plot threads coming to mind here.</p>
<p>Triune- The whole drift drives breaking off chunks of other planes thing would be a fantastic plot hook for a truly epic campaign with other deities feeling their domains are under direct threat or laying the groundwork for some terrifying multiphase sinister plot from Triune... but to follow through on that, drift drives would need to stop being used and that just breaks the whole setting.</p>
<p>Urgathoa- Again, clear conflict here with Pharasma, and she basically has her own whole planet. Eox being a pact world strikes me as a weirder thing for everyone to be cool with then Geb having a thriving fruit trade though.</p>
<p>Weydan- Feels fairly redundant, honestly.</p>
<p>Yaraesa- She's another advancing knowledge deity in a pantheon where that arguably describes about 8 others. Appropriate for the science fantasy setting to have some redundancy there, but things are pretty well covered.</p>
<p>Zon-Kuthon- It really feels like he should have way more of a spotlight than he does, with exploring the mystery of how he went all Hellraiser and/or Shelyn trying to fix him (or falling to a similar fate) being a general background element of the setting and/or the meat of at least one AP, but... it kind of feels like the Devourer's cult and Nyarlathotep are stealing that limelight, and he doesn't really seem like a natural antagonist for anyone else. If anything having a lot of weird new alien races to interact with makes the spooky S&M religion feel a bit quaint, and between drift travel and high tech vehicles in general the shadow plane feels like it's not going to come up much.</p>
<p>So... for clear conflicts here, we have:
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Abadar vs. Besmara - LN vs. CN
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Pharasma vs. Urgathoa - TN vs. CE
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Iomedae vs. Nyarlathotep? - LG vs. CE but not really an active conflict</p>
<p>And everyone else is just kinda... hanging around being passively worshipped, not really interacting or plotting anything.</p>I don't know how fair it really is to make this complaint since a stated design goal for Starfinder was to downplay direct involvement of the pantheon in how things play out, and the sole divine caster class is very specifically more of a contemplative guru sort of class than an active church representative, but looking at Starfinder's core 20 deities, none of them really strike me as being particularly concerned with what any of the others are doing. Plus there's an alarming trend towards...Violet Hargrave2017-09-09T22:02:25ZRe: Forums: Advice: Let's Queer Up Starfinder!Violet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2ujlp&page=4?Lets-Queer-Up-Starfinder#2002017-12-12T23:22:34Z2017-09-07T05:55:34Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Violet Hargrave wrote:</div><blockquote> And I'm sure when I get the time to read all the way through the setting section I'll find a lot more to comment on (or have a lot to say about the lack of things to comment on) but, this is already a long post for me just trying to get a discussion going. </blockquote><p>Not so much, as it turns out.
<p>The main thing to jump out at me is Hylax further muddying the waters on shirren pronouns (she's a she, described as a queen and mother, which would presumably put her in the host gender by my reckoning, as hosts are referred to as such earlier, which strengthens my case that the "they" bit in Dead Suns was something of an error or a specific character opting for gender-neutral pronouns, but I still think this is something that needs an official writers bible yesterday).</p>
<p>Arshea getting a random shout out in the Other Gods blurbs is interesting, being a fairly minor deity in-fiction then and now, with a big fandom out-of-fiction for the combination of gender fluidity and general sex-positivity, but that's only vaguely referred to in this write-up. Meanwhile, notably absent are any mentions of Gozreh (the core 20 deity with gender fluidity) and Erastil (I'd be curious where he sits on quite a lot of things, but notably lashuntas breaking with traditional social structures).</p>Violet Hargrave wrote:And I'm sure when I get the time to read all the way through the setting section I'll find a lot more to comment on (or have a lot to say about the lack of things to comment on) but, this is already a long post for me just trying to get a discussion going.
Not so much, as it turns out. The main thing to jump out at me is Hylax further muddying the waters on shirren pronouns (she's a she, described as a queen and mother, which would presumably put her in the host gender...Violet Hargrave2017-09-07T05:55:34ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Starfinder Adventure Path #1: Incident at Absalom Station (Dead Suns 1 of 6)Violet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/products/btpy9tmf/discuss&page=11?Starfinder-Adventure-Path-1-Incident-at-Absalom-Station#5112017-09-01T06:32:23Z2017-09-01T06:32:23Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Sara Marie wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Violet Hargrave wrote:</div><blockquote> Does that include it popping up in subscriptions eventually? </blockquote>Unfortunately, that will still have to be done by hand. However, if you wanted to make the process easier for customer service, you could subscribe to #2 and then backorder #1 and put it in your sidecart. </blockquote><p>That... seems to have made things slightly harder for CS in my case, given that I now have 2 copies in here.Sara Marie wrote:Violet Hargrave wrote: Does that include it popping up in subscriptions eventually?
Unfortunately, that will still have to be done by hand. However, if you wanted to make the process easier for customer service, you could subscribe to #2 and then backorder #1 and put it in your sidecart. That... seems to have made things slightly harder for CS in my case, given that I now have 2 copies in here.Violet Hargrave2017-09-01T06:32:23ZRe: Forums: Starfinder General Discussion: [Humorous] 1001 Explanations for the Disappearance of Golarion/GapViolet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2uk87&page=2?Humorous-1001-Explanations-for-the#512017-09-01T06:14:47Z2017-09-01T06:14:47Z<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaPd_ehzkSI" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Because.</a></p>Because.Violet Hargrave2017-09-01T06:14:47ZRe: Forums: Starfinder General Discussion: [Humorous] 1001 Explanations for the Disappearance of Golarion/GapViolet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2uk87?Humorous-1001-Explanations-for-the#492018-05-13T03:29:54Z2017-08-31T02:55:32Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Arutema wrote:</div><blockquote> Cayden Cailean and the universe's worst drunk driving accident. </blockquote><p>Fortunately, his clerics are hard at work rolling sticky balls around everywhere hoping to collect enough random debris to form a suitable, if cow heavy, replacement.Arutema wrote:Cayden Cailean and the universe's worst drunk driving accident.
Fortunately, his clerics are hard at work rolling sticky balls around everywhere hoping to collect enough random debris to form a suitable, if cow heavy, replacement.Violet Hargrave2017-08-31T02:55:32ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Starfinder Adventure Path #1: Incident at Absalom Station (Dead Suns 1 of 6)Violet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/products/btpy9tmf/discuss&page=11?Starfinder-Adventure-Path-1-Incident-at-Absalom-Station#5082017-08-31T00:10:49Z2017-08-31T00:10:49Z<p>Does that include it popping up in subscriptions eventually?</p>Does that include it popping up in subscriptions eventually?Violet Hargrave2017-08-31T00:10:49ZRe: Forums: Advice: Let's Queer Up Starfinder!Violet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2ujlp&page=3?Lets-Queer-Up-Starfinder#1042019-08-25T15:11:35Z2017-08-30T10:35:40Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Ikiry0 wrote:</div><blockquote> Well, it could be be a verb if there was a jackass transmutation mage going about putting people in bodies they don't want. </blockquote><p>A- That still wouldn't quite be grammatically correct.
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B- That's not the context it's being used in here.
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C- There are, in the real world, a surprisingly large number of people with surprisingly large platforms constantly spouting elaborate fiction about a terrible trans cabal forcing children to be trans, who routinely throw the "-ed" on in that exact sort of context, which is what makes it such an upsetting thing for us to see when deployed accidentally.</p>Ikiry0 wrote:Well, it could be be a verb if there was a jackass transmutation mage going about putting people in bodies they don't want.
A- That still wouldn't quite be grammatically correct.
B- That's not the context it's being used in here.
C- There are, in the real world, a surprisingly large number of people with surprisingly large platforms constantly spouting elaborate fiction about a terrible trans cabal forcing children to be trans, who routinely throw the "-ed" on in that exact...Violet Hargrave2017-08-30T10:35:40ZRe: Forums: Advice: Let's Queer Up Starfinder!Violet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2ujlp&page=3?Lets-Queer-Up-Starfinder#1022017-12-12T23:22:34Z2017-08-30T09:45:20Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Aerotan wrote:</div><blockquote> So, very slight necro, but I notice that the Serum of sex shift doesn't say the set of characteristics you choose need to match the conventional combinations. Is there any particular reason a drinker can't choose some features from one sex and some from another? Say, the obvious primary characteristics of a male human, but with the rounded features, body mass distribution, and proportions of a female? </blockquote><p>If I properly recall, the item is rather explicitly worded to allow for that, and also explicitly says it only works when taken voluntarily. Both of which are pretty great aspects of it, and why I mentioned the only thing that strikes me as even potentially worth complaining about is being SO good and convenient as to be arguably trivializing.
<p>Also, there's no -ed at the end of transgender. It's an adjective, not a verb.</p>Aerotan wrote:So, very slight necro, but I notice that the Serum of sex shift doesn't say the set of characteristics you choose need to match the conventional combinations. Is there any particular reason a drinker can't choose some features from one sex and some from another? Say, the obvious primary characteristics of a male human, but with the rounded features, body mass distribution, and proportions of a female?
If I properly recall, the item is rather explicitly worded to allow for that,...Violet Hargrave2017-08-30T09:45:20ZForums: Rules Questions: Forced march and nonlethal damageViolet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2ukek?Forced-march-and-nonlethal-damage#12017-08-29T19:46:12Z2017-08-29T19:46:12Z<p>The rules for a forced march still inflict nonlethal damage, as was the case in Pathfinder, but nonlethal damage is no longer tracked independently. It's just regular damage, with a caveat about what happens if it takes you to 0 HP.</p>
<p>If I'm interpreting this correctly, this means a forced march just straight up hurts you, and removing the fatigue only happens if you fully restore the lost HP/stamina?</p>
<p>Also, does this mean DR helps against forced march damage?</p>The rules for a forced march still inflict nonlethal damage, as was the case in Pathfinder, but nonlethal damage is no longer tracked independently. It's just regular damage, with a caveat about what happens if it takes you to 0 HP.
If I'm interpreting this correctly, this means a forced march just straight up hurts you, and removing the fatigue only happens if you fully restore the lost HP/stamina?
Also, does this mean DR helps against forced march damage?Violet Hargrave2017-08-29T19:46:12ZForums: Rules Questions: Autopilot after race?Violet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2ukei?Autopilot-after-race#12017-08-29T19:40:09Z2017-08-29T19:40:09Z<p>Autopilot/autocontrol can be activated as a swift action after a drive or race action.</p>
<p>Race is a full action however, and a full action now consumes your swift.</p>
<p>Is the idea that you turn the autopilot on with your swift at the start of your next turn, or was this rule written with Pathfinder's action economy in mind?</p>Autopilot/autocontrol can be activated as a swift action after a drive or race action.
Race is a full action however, and a full action now consumes your swift.
Is the idea that you turn the autopilot on with your swift at the start of your next turn, or was this rule written with Pathfinder's action economy in mind?Violet Hargrave2017-08-29T19:40:09ZRe: Forums: Starfinder General Discussion: Shirren Gender PronounsViolet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2uje9?Shirren-Gender-Pronouns#302017-08-27T17:05:36Z2017-08-23T04:19:55Z<p>My concern here is twofold:</p>
<p>A- It's important to have a standard in place for how people write about one of the core 7 races in all upcoming official Starfinder material.</p>
<p>B- It's important to have that standard make sense, and not cause offense to any actual real world people.</p>
<p>What we have as established precedent here so far is one specific NPC whose gender is host, and whose pronouns are they/them/themself.</p>
<p>Without altering that, moving forward, the obvious standards to run with so as not to contradict that would be:</p>
<p>#1- "They" is the generally accepted pronoun for all host shirrens, with males using "he" and females using "she."</p>
<p>#2- "They" is the generally accepted pronoun for all shirrens regardless of gender when speaking in common because more accurate terms don't exist or don't translate well.</p>
<p>#3- That one particular shirren whose pronouns have been established does not fit within the typical shirren gender expressions and personally feels more comfortable going with "they" as a result.</p>
<p>#1 I have a serious serious problem with, because the singular they, in the real world, is used very specifically when referring to people whose gender is unknown (i.e. each player draws a card at the start of their turn), or for whom there otherwise aren't appropriate pronouns to use (i.e. my friend bought a binder so hopefully people will mistake them for a woman less often). In both these cases, the idea is that we are actively avoiding the use of a gendered pronoun because we don't want to use a gendered pronoun for someone not of that gender.</p>
<p>On the other side of that coin, as someone who is trans, and does fit nicely into the standard gender binary, I am acutely aware of how painful it is to have people actively avoid using gendered language when referring to me (usually in overtly bigoted terms like "it thinks it's a woman" but some people refer to all trans people as "they" to achieve the same effect). All three of the shirren genders are pretty explicitly referred to as being innately gendered, with all the societal expectations that entails, so it's rude and confusing to refer to any one of them in explicitly gender neutral terms.</p>
<p>#2 is better, although potentially insensitive towards shirrens if they do have gendered pronouns in their own language (although I can totally see a case where they wouldn't as the whole individual identity thing is relatively new to them).</p>
<p>#3 I like because it's always nice to see more non-binary representation, but doesn't help to establish a setting bible for other writers to use, and still leaves this as something I'd really hope gets pinned down before I ever end up needing to know this for professional reasons.</p>My concern here is twofold:
A- It's important to have a standard in place for how people write about one of the core 7 races in all upcoming official Starfinder material.
B- It's important to have that standard make sense, and not cause offense to any actual real world people.
What we have as established precedent here so far is one specific NPC whose gender is host, and whose pronouns are they/them/themself.
Without altering that, moving forward, the obvious standards to run with so as...Violet Hargrave2017-08-23T04:19:55ZRe: Forums: Advice: Let's Queer Up Starfinder!Violet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2ujlp&page=2?Lets-Queer-Up-Starfinder#602017-12-12T23:22:34Z2017-08-23T03:17:59Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Andy Brown wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Violet Hargrave wrote:</div><blockquote>Lashuntas- If I am reading between the lines correctly, roughly half of all lashuntas are now explicitly trans, and there is specific language differentiating a given lashunta's actual gender vs. their dimorphic body type. I am absolutely delighted to see that, even if I don't necessarily think the designers meant to do it. A+</blockquote><p>I'm not sure which lines you're reading between here.
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Any gender can become either body type. Historically, the stresses to go one way or the other were generally forced to a specific gender, now they aren't.
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I don't see how that makes half of the Lashunta trans when body type has nothing to do with gender.
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</blockquote><p>Pre-Starfinder, lashuntas had certain societal expectations and enforced gender presentation forms strictly tied in with certain easily readable physiological features, which largely became noticeable at puberty when certain epigenetic changes begin to occur.
<p>Now, due to a combination of society becoming less sexist and caste-based, and advances in controlling those epigenetic changes, there is a new emphasis on allowing lashunta children to decide for themselves which sort of changes they'd prefer to go through at puberty.</p>
<p>If that isn't something you can read as "lashuntas are all kinds of trans positive" I don't know how to make it any clearer.</p>Andy Brown wrote:Violet Hargrave wrote:Lashuntas- If I am reading between the lines correctly, roughly half of all lashuntas are now explicitly trans, and there is specific language differentiating a given lashunta's actual gender vs. their dimorphic body type. I am absolutely delighted to see that, even if I don't necessarily think the designers meant to do it. A+
I'm not sure which lines you're reading between here.
Any gender can become either body type. Historically, the stresses to go...Violet Hargrave2017-08-23T03:17:59ZRe: Forums: Advice: Let's Queer Up Starfinder!Violet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2ujlp?Lets-Queer-Up-Starfinder#212017-12-22T10:57:31Z2017-08-22T23:06:45Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">MageHunter wrote:</div><blockquote> I think for shirren sex the idea is that male means they have sperm, females have eggs, and the host has the 'incubator' plus some certain traits. Unlike humans that seems to be the only biological difference, so I don't think shirren care too much about pronouns. Also they are telepathic as well as having a bug language, so their language might get weird. They is probably best. </blockquote><p>Oh yeah, there is a fantastic argument to make for (nearly) <b>every</b> shirren just using they. Not really the sort of social structure that enforces gender roles, being formerly of a hive mind potentially leaving them still easing into the whole singular-address concept, no physiological differences other races can consistently pull out/language not mapping one to one and wanting to save the hassle.
<p>It's just the notion of a happy trio with matching "his/hers/theirs" towels where I have an issue. Three gendered pronouns is fine, no gendered pronouns is fine. Gendered pronouns but only for 2/3 of the commonly occurring genders while the third is ungendered is a bizarre misappropriation of an important real-world concept.</p>
<p>And this really isn't the thread to elaborate on my "biological sex" comment. Alternative phrasing there if you'd like: "Yay there's no accidental invalidation of trans people or dog whistles for hate groups in how this text is worded."</p>MageHunter wrote:I think for shirren sex the idea is that male means they have sperm, females have eggs, and the host has the 'incubator' plus some certain traits. Unlike humans that seems to be the only biological difference, so I don't think shirren care too much about pronouns. Also they are telepathic as well as having a bug language, so their language might get weird. They is probably best.
Oh yeah, there is a fantastic argument to make for (nearly) every shirren just using they. Not...Violet Hargrave2017-08-22T23:06:45ZRe: Forums: Advice: Let's Queer Up Starfinder!Violet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2ujlp?Lets-Queer-Up-Starfinder#102017-12-12T23:22:34Z2017-08-22T21:51:17Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">captain yesterday wrote:</div><blockquote> Host Shirren go by the singular they. </blockquote><p>That strikes me as just about the worst possible standard to set here, honestly.
<p>First off, as I already suggested, when your cis population breaks down into 3 genders, and you want to refer to one of them as female, it should really be the one that actually carries the children, because that's going to be the closest mapping onto how humans see things. This would also apply to anthropomorphized seahorses, but here we really don't even have the biologist's pedantry to fall back on, since host shirrens contribute genetic material, and thus clearly the "sperm moves with flagella, egg sits there, so that's actually the male" logic doesn't particularly apply.</p>
<p>More importantly though, people in the real world who use the singular they as a pronoun specifically do so because it is the only gender neutral third person pronoun with any traction in English, and we are not using it here as a gender-neutral pronoun. We're using it as a very specifically gendered pronoun. That gets downright confusing, because hey, now what do we say if we're trying not to specify the gender of a given shirren because we don't know it, or how do we talk about non-binary shirrens? And there's kind of a real world issue here over what you're implying about actual people who go by they.</p>
<div class="messageboard-quotee">Deadmanwalking wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Violet Hargrave wrote:</div><blockquote>Humans- Eh, they're humans. Iconic is explicitly a lesbian though, so that's a good precedent. B+</blockquote>Technically, we don't know that, actually. She could be bisexual or pansexual just as easily. Or even asexual. All we know is that she once loved a woman. </blockquote><p>Absolutely true if we're going by her backstory. I could have sworn someone with authority had gone into more detail since though.
<div class="messageboard-quotee">Wei Ji the Learner wrote:</div><blockquote><br />
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Perhaps a slightly less provocative title might be in order for the thread? </p>
<p>When I saw the initial thread it felt like it was a trolling exercise, and not a legitimate thread.</blockquote><p>Really? I'm just used to that sort of phrasing for general catch-all discussions about this sort of thing. Have a better suggestion offhand?
<div class="messageboard-quotee">Wei Ji the Learner wrote:</div><blockquote><br />
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As far as the Vesk go, I have to wonder if the females are the dominant gender, or males, or if they are more like hobgoblins in that regard: ie, 'everyone fights, nobody quits'.
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</blockquote><p>I feel like of all the core races, vesk are rather intentionally painted with the broadest brush, not setting anything down past "the big tough warrior race." Safe to assume none of the core 7 have any real sexism, so hobgoblins fits better here as a rough analogy than orcs or gnolls, but there's some interesting cultural implications in the women having the sort of mate-attracting-markings you tend to see with male birds. Dead-lifting displays to turn a fella's head now and then?captain yesterday wrote:Host Shirren go by the singular they.
That strikes me as just about the worst possible standard to set here, honestly. First off, as I already suggested, when your cis population breaks down into 3 genders, and you want to refer to one of them as female, it should really be the one that actually carries the children, because that's going to be the closest mapping onto how humans see things. This would also apply to anthropomorphized seahorses, but here we really don't...Violet Hargrave2017-08-22T21:51:17ZRe: Forums: Starfinder General Discussion: Shirren Gender PronounsViolet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2uje9?Shirren-Gender-Pronouns#62017-08-22T21:24:26Z2017-08-22T21:24:26Z<p>Hmm. I just shared a few thoughts on this topic <a href="http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2ujlp?Lets-Queer-Up-Starfinder#1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">over here</a>, and that really doesn't seem like a good precedent to run with. All well and good for a specific individual NPC, but if someone's setting up a writing guide for shirren going forward, I have a big long lecture to give someone.</p>Hmm. I just shared a few thoughts on this topic over here, and that really doesn't seem like a good precedent to run with. All well and good for a specific individual NPC, but if someone's setting up a writing guide for shirren going forward, I have a big long lecture to give someone.Violet Hargrave2017-08-22T21:24:26ZRe: Forums/Gamer Life: General Discussion: The LGBT Gamer Community Thread.Violet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2nxz2&page=288?The-LGBT-Gamer-Community-Thread#143652017-08-22T21:16:57Z2017-08-22T21:16:57Z<p>This feels like something I should cross-post over to here:</p>
<p><a href="http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2ujlp?Lets-Queer-Up-Starfinder#1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Let's queer up Starfinder!</a></p>This feels like something I should cross-post over to here:
Let's queer up Starfinder!Violet Hargrave2017-08-22T21:16:57ZForums: Advice: Let's Queer Up Starfinder!Violet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2ujlp?Lets-Queer-Up-Starfinder#12019-03-10T20:14:14Z2017-08-22T21:14:53Z<p>I picked up my copy of Starfinder over GenCon, and as I read through it, I'm pondering ways to throw characters around who aren't all cis and straight. Let's start with a quick look through the races!</p>
<p>Androids- Specific thought was given to the notion that a race that doesn't reproduce sexually is going to have a whole lot of agender, genderfluid, and non-binary people, and this is even reflected in the iconic operative. A</p>
<p>Humans- Eh, they're humans. Iconic is explicitly a lesbian though, so that's a good precedent. B+</p>
<p>Kasathas- Nothing really jumps out at me here since they're basically just humans-with-more-arms, but there is a note about barely perceivable gender differences which... none of the artists seem to have caught. C-</p>
<p>Lashuntas- If I am reading between the lines correctly, roughly half of all lashuntas are now explicitly trans, and there is specific language differentiating a given lashunta's actual gender vs. their dimorphic body type. I am absolutely delighted to see that, even if I don't necessarily think the designers meant to do it. A+</p>
<p>Shirrens- Between having 3 genders, and a culture explicitly based around celebrating individualism, this is hands down the race I'm most excited about in the specific context of making queer as hell characters, but also the one with the greatest need to clarify a hell of a lot of things first. Like, what is the whole pronoun situation here? If I had to guess, I'd say males go he/him, hosts go she/her (specific reference in the stat block to 'queens' and all), and females have their own pronoun set going on. This is something that really needs to be sorted out officially before anyone can really properly write about any non-male shirren NPCs.</p>
<p>Also having 3 genders calls for a lot of specialized terminology for attraction. If you're straight, or ace, that's fine. A certain percentage of them being trisexual is a given. If you're specifically only interested in others of your own gender, that's manageable. But, what if you're, say, a host who's only interested in other hosts and females? Or exclusively into males? There is a need here for a fairly robust lexicon. D for now, real easy to up to an A with a well-thought-out blog post or something.</p>
<p>Vesk- I appreciate the women being larger on average and not having breasts as non-mammals, but that's just realism. Potentially some ground to explore with trans vesk doing interesting things to alter the color of their scales, but nothing really hinted at in-text. C.</p>
<p>Ysoki- Explicitly called out as having no real cultural gender signifiers, and a lot of notes about living on the fringes and standing up for each other. B</p>
<p>Moving on to the equipment section...</p>
<p>Serum of Sex Shift- This is the one thing in the book explicitly created with trans characters in mind. It's right here in the core book, comes across as the latest in a line of similar items (to the point where I'm 95% sure Amber Scott wrote this entry), and it is very carefully worded to avoid any awful garbage like "biological sex," language that excludes non-binary people, or you know, the core race with three genders. So, definite A for effort, although there is a definite cis-writer's-take-on-being-trans, come to a decision, hop into a building, tada, one-and-done angle here which is arguably dismissive of what we have to deal with in reality.</p>
<p>And I'm sure when I get the time to read all the way through the setting section I'll find a lot more to comment on (or have a lot to say about the lack of things to comment on) but, this is already a long post for me just trying to get a discussion going.</p>I picked up my copy of Starfinder over GenCon, and as I read through it, I'm pondering ways to throw characters around who aren't all cis and straight. Let's start with a quick look through the races!
Androids- Specific thought was given to the notion that a race that doesn't reproduce sexually is going to have a whole lot of agender, genderfluid, and non-binary people, and this is even reflected in the iconic operative. A
Humans- Eh, they're humans. Iconic is explicitly a lesbian though,...Violet Hargrave2017-08-22T21:14:53ZRe: Forums: Advice: How can I get women to join my campaign?Violet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2ufig&page=3?How-can-I-get-women-to-join-my-campaign#1372017-07-04T04:01:35Z2017-07-01T08:51:06Z<p>If I may step in here and try to address the original issue in good faith here...</p>
<div class="messageboard-quotee">ColbyMunro wrote:</div><blockquote> I am running a west marches game, which means the game can consist of anywhere between 12 and 20 players who alternate in and out of sessions. Despite getting a large number of people interested, I'm having issues convincing my female friends to sign up to play. I would really enjoy ... to be more focused on character development and interparty politics</blockquote><p>As plenty of other people have pointed out, those are two distinct, unrelated goals you have for attracting players. Also, they're both sorts of players you are inherently going to chase off by running in the West Marches format.
<p>If you really want PCs playing off each other in interesting ways, you need a group where everyone is on the same page tone wise, making a considerable investment in their characters and eachothers' characters, along with the greater world of the setting and whatever the main thrust of your campaign is. If you're keeping everything very floaty, light, and friendly to people constantly jumping in and out, you don't really have the bedrock for that sort of serious character development to build on.</p>
<p>Meanwhile women, as a general rule of thumb, really aren't keen on interacting with creepy dudes, and especially aren't keen to put ourselves in situations where women are vastly outnumbered by men (who, statistically, are less likely to have their back in a clear unqualified fashion when a creepy dude reveals himself). So group size is against you, as is the wild card of new people constantly dropping in and out.</p>
<p>The simplest solution on both fronts here would be to not run a West Marches game, and instead just run a traditional campaign with a reasonable sized party, players who all know and like each other already, meeting on a regular schedule. But I assume you're really married to the West Marches idea for one reason or another.</p>
<p>On that assumption, you can probably spur on more character interaction in a few ways. Mandatory backstories, maybe throwing in some suggested hooks or traits to tie people to some aspect of the setting so they have that in common/to argue about. Push people into interacting around the campfire at the end of the adventuring day rather than skip to morning. Work in a lot of NPCs with serious agendas and obvious material reasons to help or hinder them.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, to get more women playing, the most obvious thing to do would be to just ask those women you know who you've presumably invited and presumably are on the fence about agreeing what concerns are holding them back and address those. Keep in mind though that women tend to be very much conditioned to just quietly avoid situations we aren't comfortable with rather than speak up, particularly in situations where there is a creepy dude present at a social gathering (and again, if you have 12-20 players, at least one of them is almost certainly a creepy dude).</p>
<p>Honestly, I can't really suggest any quick tips to help there. Personally speaking, I don't think I could be talked into a seat at a table with a bunch of men I don't really know at all, especially if they're all friends/acquaintances of the male GM. I'd need to know anyone who proved to be a creep would be dropped from the game no questions asked, without any resentment from anyone or the dropped creep then having an axe to grind with me, and any group who's going to make that sort of promise up front is kind of intimidating in its own somewhat creepy way.</p>If I may step in here and try to address the original issue in good faith here...
ColbyMunro wrote:I am running a west marches game, which means the game can consist of anywhere between 12 and 20 players who alternate in and out of sessions. Despite getting a large number of people interested, I'm having issues convincing my female friends to sign up to play. I would really enjoy ... to be more focused on character development and interparty politics
As plenty of other people have pointed...Violet Hargrave2017-07-01T08:51:06ZRe: Forums/Gamer Life: General Discussion: The LGBT Gamer Community Thread.Violet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2nxz2&page=257?The-LGBT-Gamer-Community-Thread#128082017-05-02T13:06:55Z2017-05-02T03:29:30Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Crystal Frasier wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Lissa Guillet wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Selene Spires wrote:</div><blockquote><p>Okay...maybe people here can help me with my social anxiety I am having over the LGBT minger/mixer. I would have to go presenting as a guy...but calling myself a Trans woman. I feel...like people might not believe me...or even get hostile. I hope I will be able to present as woman for it...but right now that will be a long shot.
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</blockquote>I wouldn't give it a second thought. Lots of trans women who have trouble getting things together before a big event early and before transition. We all understand. I know, many lgbt cons have had little ribbons for preferred pronouns that you can pick up and I can't imagine an LGBT mixer wouldn't have some method for that these days to. Every one has to start somewhere. I went to my first support meeting "en homme" as we called it in the day. Worked up to changing at the center and eventually just being able to handle everything before hand. Took some work and some time and I'm sure you won't be alone. Go, say hi, meet some people, find some resources. You'll be great. </blockquote>What Lissa said. Remember that all trans women start out presenting as guys. It's not a comfortable place to be, but it's not something any of us would look down on you for <3 </blockquote><p>I went to an LGBT-focused gaming convention not too long ago, presenting in as masculine a fashion as you can imagine, with a big shiny "She/Her" ribbon hanging off my ID badge, and not once was I so much as accidentally misgendered.
<p>I still felt like some kind of horrible confusing fraud the whole time of course, but that was 100% internal.</p>
<p>And of course with any luck, a couple months from now I might be going to a con on HRT under my dead name, which should also be a weirdly awkward experience.</p>Crystal Frasier wrote:Lissa Guillet wrote: Selene Spires wrote:Okay...maybe people here can help me with my social anxiety I am having over the LGBT minger/mixer. I would have to go presenting as a guy...but calling myself a Trans woman. I feel...like people might not believe me...or even get hostile. I hope I will be able to present as woman for it...but right now that will be a long shot.
I wouldn't give it a second thought. Lots of trans women who have trouble getting things together...Violet Hargrave2017-05-02T03:29:30ZRe: Forums/Gamer Life: General Discussion: The LGBT Gamer Community Thread.Violet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2nxz2&page=252?The-LGBT-Gamer-Community-Thread#125542017-04-10T04:59:18Z2017-04-08T06:25:34Z<p>Catching up on the last week's worth of posts here, it seems there's some call for a general reminder that being trans is not a sexuality.</p>
<p>Whether you are assigned the wrong sex at birth and who you are attracted to are two completely different variables, and "I'm trans" is never an appropriate response when asked whether you are attracted to people of the same sex/opposite/both/neither.</p>
<p>I'd say they're completely unrelated, if not for the fact that for whatever reason trans people are SIGNIFICANTLY more likely to experience same-sex attraction than cis people, statistically speaking.</p>Catching up on the last week's worth of posts here, it seems there's some call for a general reminder that being trans is not a sexuality.
Whether you are assigned the wrong sex at birth and who you are attracted to are two completely different variables, and "I'm trans" is never an appropriate response when asked whether you are attracted to people of the same sex/opposite/both/neither.
I'd say they're completely unrelated, if not for the fact that for whatever reason trans people are...Violet Hargrave2017-04-08T06:25:34ZRe: Forums: Community Use: Golarion Solar Ephemeris: Get sunrise/sunset times for your gamesViolet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2u83h?Golarion-Solar-Ephemeris-Get-sunrisesunset#52017-03-10T19:01:53Z2017-03-10T19:01:53Z<p>This is actually super super handy for a project I'm working on, thanks!</p>This is actually super super handy for a project I'm working on, thanks!Violet Hargrave2017-03-10T19:01:53ZRe: Forums/Gamer Life: General Discussion: The LGBT Gamer Community Thread.Violet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2nxz2&page=241?The-LGBT-Gamer-Community-Thread#120372017-03-05T00:35:07Z2017-03-03T20:30:13Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Tequila Sunrise wrote:</div><blockquote>What are your thoughts on the safety pin thing, and other passive indicators of alliance/friendliness? (Happy Humanist symbols, rainbow accessories, etc..) Do they make you feel even a tiny bit better when you see them? Do you even tend to notice small symbols like these?</blockquote><p>A well-intentioned but incredibly stupid, and honestly harmful idea.
<p>First off, there's the stupidity of the whole "secret symbol" aspect, which supposes that somehow, all the at-risk people will be aware of what wearing a pin means when they see you, but not one single neo-nazi is going to hear about it and wear one to lull people into a false sense of security.</p>
<p>Moreover, why the hell should anyone act like being a decent empathetic person who stands up to bigotry be a secret club you need a badge for? It gives the impression that decent people are rare and need to stay hidden, to be sought out and whispered to, in a world where bigots are everywhere.</p>
<p>If your goal is to make marginalized people feel safe, and/or make it known you are a decent person, you need to make your views on people's basic humanity known to everyone present, and do so <b>actively</b>. Bring up racism, transphobia, homophobia, and misogyny in conversations anywhere you go, and in a way that makes it clear these are things you find disgusting, with no place in society. Make a particular point of bringing this up in front of people who "don't like to talk about politics." If you do that often enough to earn a reputation for it, not only will you not need to wear anything to indicate that you're someone marginalized people can safely talk to, you're going to make bigots extremely uncomfortable around you, and when bigots are uncomfortable and nervous, that's when marginalized people can feel safe.</p>Tequila Sunrise wrote:What are your thoughts on the safety pin thing, and other passive indicators of alliance/friendliness? (Happy Humanist symbols, rainbow accessories, etc..) Do they make you feel even a tiny bit better when you see them? Do you even tend to notice small symbols like these?
A well-intentioned but incredibly stupid, and honestly harmful idea. First off, there's the stupidity of the whole "secret symbol" aspect, which supposes that somehow, all the at-risk people will be...Violet Hargrave2017-03-03T20:30:13ZRe: Forums/Gamer Life: General Discussion: The Role of Slavery in Your GamesViolet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2u7n1&page=2?The-Role-of-Slavery-in-Your-Games#932017-03-14T08:40:23Z2017-03-03T11:55:24Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">thejeff wrote:</div><blockquote> I don't actually want to justify, I'm just not sure how to deal with it as a accepted backdrop in a setting. I'm not really happy with the "you can't be good unless you're an active abolitionist" approach. </blockquote><p>The ultimate motivating factor behind every argument on PC alignment I've ever seen is this bizarre assumption that every PC is inherently good, because the PCs are the protagonists which makes them "the good guys."
<p>Absolutely nothing with regards to morality, storytelling, or the rules of the game supports this, and it is therefore not a valid base assumption to come into an argument with.</p>
<p>In addition to the Good and Evil alignments, there is this third option called Neutral. Generally speaking, people who are Neutral understand the difference between right and wrong, and consider themselves to be fundamentally good people because they avoid doing things they know are wrong. What sets them apart from Good people however is that they sometimes recognize what the right thing to do in a situation would be (abolish slavery, remove an evil dictator from power, etc.) but opt not to do it for understandable reasons (it would take years of draining effort/be a huge personal risk/is something someone more motivated probably has covered).</p>
<p>Evil people also largely consider themselves to be good people, doing things they would openly admit are the wrong thing if looked at in a vacuum, but finding ways to rationalize them as special exceptions (obviously slavery is wrong but this guy tried to kill us and knows where the villain of the week is, so it's OK to chain him up and make him lead us to him).</p>
<p>If you are not playing a character who always does what's right, no matter how personally inconvenient or risky, don't put Good on your sheet. It's simple, and I've never met anyone who refused to allow neutral characters. Outside of PFS games, it's also totally possible to play an Evil character, who ends up going along with the plot and saving the world for purely pragmatic reasons (you live in the world, it's where you keep your stuff, and speaking of stuff, monsters drop major loot).</p>
<div class="messageboard-quotee">Knight who says Meh wrote:</div><blockquote> Rationalize would probably have been a better choice. I would probably drop the "active" requirement but I don't think "good" characters should support or excuse slavery. I think if you're searching for the ancient macguffin to save the world you could probably ignore the evils of slavery and still count as "good." </blockquote><p>OK now here's the thing. This entire conversation even happening in the first place is hugely offensive to a huge swath of people, as you are making an academic game out of discussing basic human rights. That is never a pure academic hypothetical without any real world impact, and if you think it is, you're not qualified to be discussing it. This "balanced scales" argument in particular though is something being actively applied to justify awful things in the real world, today, with people turning a blind eye to some serious crimes against humanity "in pursuit of a greater good." Ponder this in whatever combination of maintaining civility/trans rights/refugee intake/deportations/prosecution of terrorists you'd prefer.thejeff wrote:I don't actually want to justify, I'm just not sure how to deal with it as a accepted backdrop in a setting. I'm not really happy with the "you can't be good unless you're an active abolitionist" approach.
The ultimate motivating factor behind every argument on PC alignment I've ever seen is this bizarre assumption that every PC is inherently good, because the PCs are the protagonists which makes them "the good guys." Absolutely nothing with regards to morality, storytelling,...Violet Hargrave2017-03-03T11:55:24ZRe: Forums/Gamer Life: General Discussion: The LGBT Gamer Community Thread.Violet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2nxz2&page=240?The-LGBT-Gamer-Community-Thread#119962017-03-02T03:06:52Z2017-03-01T20:22:46Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Bob_Loblaw wrote:</div><blockquote> I don't even know if I'm transgender. I don't know how to know. Some of my friends say that I am and others say that I would know. Some tell me not to worry about it either way and just focus on being happy. That last one is really hard if you don't know who you are. </blockquote><p>Something a lot of people tend to say: If you're even in a position where you find yourself asking "Am I trans?" then you are absolutely trans. There's even a website based on the premise- <a href="http://amitransgender.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">amitransgender.com</a>
<p>Feels like a joke, but as you'll generally find for yourself when you start getting pushback from intolerant people, cis people never lose sleep over what their gender is. At all. Not one single night. It's weird, right?</p>Bob_Loblaw wrote:I don't even know if I'm transgender. I don't know how to know. Some of my friends say that I am and others say that I would know. Some tell me not to worry about it either way and just focus on being happy. That last one is really hard if you don't know who you are.
Something a lot of people tend to say: If you're even in a position where you find yourself asking "Am I trans?" then you are absolutely trans. There's even a website based on the premise- amitransgender.com...Violet Hargrave2017-03-01T20:22:46ZRe: Forums/Gamer Life: General Discussion: The LGBT Gamer Community Thread.Violet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2nxz2&page=238?The-LGBT-Gamer-Community-Thread#118972017-02-23T14:45:52Z2017-02-23T01:57:06Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Selene Spires wrote:</div><blockquote><p> I also have been thinking about the people I plan to come out too...how will they react and will it change the dynamics of the relationship? I am not exactly the same person I was two weeks ago..I feel I am still me though...just more me...if that makes any sense. </p>
<p>I feel I am acting more naturally...it feels great, but the back of mind is asking "Do they know?" I guess it has always been there...but now it is dieing... </blockquote><p>In my experience, you're entering into the most torturous period of being trans right now. Once you hit the point where you stop lying to yourself and looking for alternative explanations for why you might even be considering that maybe you're trans and fully embrace it, it's a bit like that need to tell everyone else who you really are is a snowball you just pushed down a hill, and it's just going to keep growing and gaining momentum.
<p>That said, feeling incredible anxiety over actually telling people is both totally natural, and frankly a good survival instinct. People's reactions to learning people are trans are totally unpredictable, often dangerous, and if anything, it's the people who claim to love you unconditionally who are most likely to turn on you, with the people you hardly know being way more likely to be totally accepting.</p>
<p>On the upside, the people with the worst reactions to coming out tend to be the ones with the deepest denial that you might be, so you can get pretty heavy handed in testing the waters. Bring up stories about trans people in the news around people, and feel free to make your feelings clear on them. The people who jump right in with prior knowledge tend to be safe to come out to. The ones who are legitimately horrified but had no idea that, oh, <a href="https://twitter.com/smbess/status/833732192048144384" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">government officials literally think of us as animals</a> probably aren't safe to come out to yet, but they'll get there if you keep bringing these stories up.</p>
<p>I've never hit a point with anyone where it wasn't still hard to really pull the trigger on saying "I'm trans" though. Even with friends who just came out to me about the same. Gotta give the bandaid a final tug in the end, but don't feel bad about how much time you need to spend slowly and carefully peeling it to get a good grip.</p>Selene Spires wrote:I also have been thinking about the people I plan to come out too...how will they react and will it change the dynamics of the relationship? I am not exactly the same person I was two weeks ago..I feel I am still me though...just more me...if that makes any sense.
I feel I am acting more naturally...it feels great, but the back of mind is asking "Do they know?" I guess it has always been there...but now it is dieing...
In my experience, you're entering into the most...Violet Hargrave2017-02-23T01:57:06ZRe: Forums/Gamer Life: General Discussion: The LGBT Gamer Community Thread.Violet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2nxz2&page=231?The-LGBT-Gamer-Community-Thread#115192017-02-01T06:33:58Z2017-02-01T01:07:51Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Hrothdane wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Crystal Frasier wrote:</div><blockquote> Trump has never really cared about LGBT issues, but Putin hates the queer community, and Bannon HATES trans people. I honestly think this is laying the groundwork for an anti-LGBT event aimed at splitting the main queer community from the trans and/or bi community. Or more likely, Trump doesn't see any conflict of interests in leaving the Obama protections for LGBT federal employees AND pushing through FADA by executive order—trying to have his cake and eat it, too. </blockquote>I didn't know that Bannon had it out specifically for us...that's incredibly scary D: </blockquote><p>A not-at-all-insignificant percentage of articles published on Breitbart are just absolutely viscious libelous hit pieces written about random trans people nobody's heard of, accusing them of everything from terrorism to pedophilia, and providing entire family trees to stalkers.
<p>Plus they're who started that whole "drop the T from LGBT" thing.</p>Hrothdane wrote:Crystal Frasier wrote: Trump has never really cared about LGBT issues, but Putin hates the queer community, and Bannon HATES trans people. I honestly think this is laying the groundwork for an anti-LGBT event aimed at splitting the main queer community from the trans and/or bi community. Or more likely, Trump doesn't see any conflict of interests in leaving the Obama protections for LGBT federal employees AND pushing through FADA by executive order—trying to have his cake and...Violet Hargrave2017-02-01T01:07:51ZRe: Forums/Gamer Life: General Discussion: The LGBT Gamer Community Thread.Violet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2nxz2&page=229?The-LGBT-Gamer-Community-Thread#114342017-01-24T03:44:50Z2017-01-23T23:45:01Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Cthulhusquatch wrote:</div><blockquote> In the past couple weeks I was doxxed by a neo-nazi website and outed as LGBT... it was related to the possible march in Whitefish... because I opposed it and I am from the area... and opposed their harassment of a child. That is always fun, especially with my own far right past. I really didn't get it as bad as it could have been.. probably because that particular website prefers going after women and children. I also still intimidate many of those people. </blockquote><p>For what little comfort it is, Team Nazi is so far past the point of reserving doxxing for prime targets that dedicated doxxing boards are starting to just look like phone books, and the last time I've heard of anyone getting so much as bunch of pizzas they didn't order was something like 2 years ago. Still distressing to see first hand, sure, but as a harassment tactic it seems to have totally lost its teeth.Cthulhusquatch wrote:In the past couple weeks I was doxxed by a neo-nazi website and outed as LGBT... it was related to the possible march in Whitefish... because I opposed it and I am from the area... and opposed their harassment of a child. That is always fun, especially with my own far right past. I really didn't get it as bad as it could have been.. probably because that particular website prefers going after women and children. I also still intimidate many of those people.
For what...Violet Hargrave2017-01-23T23:45:01ZRe: Forums/Gamer Life: General Discussion: The LGBT Gamer Community Thread.Violet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2nxz2&page=226?The-LGBT-Gamer-Community-Thread#112882017-01-09T22:50:04Z2017-01-09T22:03:11Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Wei Ji the Learner wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Crystal Frasier wrote:</div><blockquote><br />
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Really sick of this "crazy trans lady is a murderer" trope, when we're so frequently the victims in violent crimes and so rarely the perpetrator. </blockquote><p>Looking for good stories that treat trans-people right and perhaps maybe even as protagonists without Mary Sue/Gary Stu Complex.
<p>What would be a good place to start? </blockquote><p>Aside from Crystal's list, the two best recommendations that come to mind are:
<p><b>Sense8</b>- Full disclosure, I haven't watched past the first episode, but I've seen it talked up by enough people, but it's written and directed by trans women, and if I properly recall the trans character in the main cast is played by a trans actress, so my understanding is it's nicely handled.</p>
<p><b>Kamen Rider W</b>- Arguably I'm cheating here. <a href="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7yfghIosq1qdodsno1_500.jpg" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">If this character reads as a cis man to you, never mind.</a> Otherwise, hey, Kamen Rider W is a Japanese superhero show where the titular hero is this weird two-minds-in-one-body fusion of a dorky wannabe noir detective and his partner (in the sense of running a detective agency, and also in the sense of portraying them as a couple to the fullest extent one can get away with under applicable broadcasting standards), who while never specifically stated to be such reads pretty clearly as trans (or at the very least, really pushing back against gender norms) and a shockingly positive portrayal of someone on the autism spectrum. Neither is ever specifically called out by anyone, and both take a back seat to generally being the more competent of the two, to the point where a later plot arc involves the dorky wannabe noir detective's feelings of inferiority.</p>Wei Ji the Learner wrote:Crystal Frasier wrote:
Really sick of this "crazy trans lady is a murderer" trope, when we're so frequently the victims in violent crimes and so rarely the perpetrator.
Looking for good stories that treat trans-people right and perhaps maybe even as protagonists without Mary Sue/Gary Stu Complex. What would be a good place to start? Aside from Crystal's list, the two best recommendations that come to mind are: Sense8- Full disclosure, I haven't watched past the...Violet Hargrave2017-01-09T22:03:11ZRe: Forums: Starfinder General Discussion: Post questions for a live Starfinder Q&A next Wednesday!Violet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2u3uh&page=2?Post-questions-for-a-live-Starfinder-QA-next#512017-01-06T10:35:27Z2017-01-06T10:35:27Z<p>1) I seem to recall a tease about radically changing how AC works (or basic combat math in general in some way). Anyone willing to get into the specifics on that?</p>
<p>2) There's a really noticeable difference in general artistic sensibilities in what's been revealed so far and typical Pathfinder art. Is the generally less rough and angular look to things just happenstance of trying out different artists, or the result of trying to give the whole game a different vibe?</p>
<p>3) With Pathfinder/Golarion, a lot of staff writers have staked their claim to a degree on particular regions and cultures at this point. Have people started calling dibs on aspects of Starfinder yet? Alternatively, what's everyone really excited to tackle in the short term?</p>1) I seem to recall a tease about radically changing how AC works (or basic combat math in general in some way). Anyone willing to get into the specifics on that?
2) There's a really noticeable difference in general artistic sensibilities in what's been revealed so far and typical Pathfinder art. Is the generally less rough and angular look to things just happenstance of trying out different artists, or the result of trying to give the whole game a different vibe?
3) With...Violet Hargrave2017-01-06T10:35:27ZRe: Forums: Rules Questions: What exactly is a Slam Attack?Violet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2u3o3?What-exactly-is-a-Slam-Attack#102017-01-03T23:21:25Z2017-01-03T23:21:25Z<p>If we're looking at this from a visualization standpoint, for things that are roughly humanoid, I always tend to picture slams as the same sort of motion as a backhanded tennis swing, just without the racket. Big ol' swing of your big beefy forearm from your chest outward to knock aside wimpy little humans cowering before you.</p>If we're looking at this from a visualization standpoint, for things that are roughly humanoid, I always tend to picture slams as the same sort of motion as a backhanded tennis swing, just without the racket. Big ol' swing of your big beefy forearm from your chest outward to knock aside wimpy little humans cowering before you.Violet Hargrave2017-01-03T23:21:25ZRe: Forums: Community Use: [Community Project] Wayfinder #17 Call for SubmissionsViolet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2tz0w&page=3?Community-Project-Wayfinder-17-Call-for#1192017-01-08T00:38:30Z2017-01-02T19:54:01Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Timitius wrote:</div><blockquote> 3. Timing of the end of the submission period. Around the holidays is just too busy for some people. </blockquote><p>That was definitely a big factor for me. Aside from personally dealing the holidays, I find all my professional writing work tends to cluster up around the very end of the year as various editors and artists take time off. I only managed to find time to sit down and think of one submission, and wrote it about an hour or two before the deadline.Timitius wrote:3. Timing of the end of the submission period. Around the holidays is just too busy for some people.
That was definitely a big factor for me. Aside from personally dealing the holidays, I find all my professional writing work tends to cluster up around the very end of the year as various editors and artists take time off. I only managed to find time to sit down and think of one submission, and wrote it about an hour or two before the deadline.Violet Hargrave2017-01-02T19:54:01ZRe: Forums/Gamer Life: General Discussion: The LGBT Gamer Community Thread.Violet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2nxz2&page=224?The-LGBT-Gamer-Community-Thread#111762016-12-29T18:22:27Z2016-12-27T06:08:47Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Kalindlara wrote:</div><blockquote> My appointment with my endocrinologist is in March. So... we'll see if I make it that long. I'm fairly assured in my own strength, but with the turn things took in November, I can't say with certainty that it will still work out. Who knows what measures will have been taken to stop people like me by then? I still don't have valid ID... and I don't know if I ever will, for similar reasons.</blockquote><p>I can relate to all of that in a pretty active and immediate way. <a href="http://www.transequality.org/documents" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">This is a handy resource for some of the ID stuff</a> if you do want to try and tackle it. In particular, I BELIEVE that site has info on how to get an up to date passport with $100 and a note from any physician that you're seeking/getting any sort of treatment, no specific need to be actively on HRT/getting any sort of surgery.Kalindlara wrote:My appointment with my endocrinologist is in March. So... we'll see if I make it that long. I'm fairly assured in my own strength, but with the turn things took in November, I can't say with certainty that it will still work out. Who knows what measures will have been taken to stop people like me by then? I still don't have valid ID... and I don't know if I ever will, for similar reasons.
I can relate to all of that in a pretty active and immediate way. This is a handy...Violet Hargrave2016-12-27T06:08:47ZRe: Forums/Gamer Life: General Discussion: The LGBT Gamer Community Thread.Violet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2nxz2&page=223?The-LGBT-Gamer-Community-Thread#111262016-12-22T06:27:29Z2016-12-21T08:13:01Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">The Doomkitten wrote:</div><blockquote> Something to be noted: I hardly play Overwatch at all. It's a great game, don't get me wrong, but I'm generally too busy, and in the rare occasions that I have time to play some vidjagaems, I prefer to spend them trying to make some progress in single-player games. But I absolutely love the characters, the lore, the worldbuilding, etc etc., so I read the comics and try to absorb as much media about it as possible. </blockquote><p>Honestly, I've always been terribly fascinated with how little the plot/backstory/fandom of Overwatch has to do with the actual game itself or vice versa.
<p>Blizzard: Here's a bunch of cool women (and some men in culturally stereotyping Halloween costumes). You can either draw heartwarming fanart of them all being super queer, or play this game where they all shoot each other in the general proximity of a car loping about at 5 mph.</p>
<p>No particular reason for the two activities to intersect at all.</p>
<p>Today's announcement was very nice though either way.</p>The Doomkitten wrote:Something to be noted: I hardly play Overwatch at all. It's a great game, don't get me wrong, but I'm generally too busy, and in the rare occasions that I have time to play some vidjagaems, I prefer to spend them trying to make some progress in single-player games. But I absolutely love the characters, the lore, the worldbuilding, etc etc., so I read the comics and try to absorb as much media about it as possible.
Honestly, I've always been terribly fascinated with how...Violet Hargrave2016-12-21T08:13:01ZRe: Forums/Gamer Life: General Discussion: The LGBT Gamer Community Thread.Violet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2nxz2&page=222?The-LGBT-Gamer-Community-Thread#110542016-12-12T13:58:51Z2016-12-12T11:40:35Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Iammars wrote:</div><blockquote> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/james.mcteague/posts/10210927934776046" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">So, I, uh, did a thing today.</a> </blockquote><p>It's amazing what a relief it is just to get that out in the open, isn't it?Iammars wrote:So, I, uh, did a thing today.
It's amazing what a relief it is just to get that out in the open, isn't it?Violet Hargrave2016-12-12T11:40:35ZRe: Forums: Community Use: [Community Project] Wayfinder #16 Call for SubmissionsViolet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2tjza&page=6?Community-Project-Wayfinder-16-Call-for#2532016-10-05T21:42:17Z2016-10-05T21:42:17Z<p>If the idea is to go for an anniversary issue, there's something to be said for not focusing on any specific theme, and trying for as diverse a set of articles as possible, and just throw in a little of everything.</p>
<p>That or look way back to the ideas initially laid out for Pathfinder The obvious implication of naming the whole book line for the Pathfinder Society (and this magazine after their Wayfinders) is that someone was planning to focus adventures on the exploration of deep uncharted wilderness, but somehow things got sidelined into predominantly urban settings. And/or a serious look at the non-human core races who really tend to fade into the background.</p>If the idea is to go for an anniversary issue, there's something to be said for not focusing on any specific theme, and trying for as diverse a set of articles as possible, and just throw in a little of everything.
That or look way back to the ideas initially laid out for Pathfinder The obvious implication of naming the whole book line for the Pathfinder Society (and this magazine after their Wayfinders) is that someone was planning to focus adventures on the exploration of deep uncharted...Violet Hargrave2016-10-05T21:42:17ZRe: Forums: Community Use: [Community Project] Wayfinder #16 Call for SubmissionsViolet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2tjza&page=5?Community-Project-Wayfinder-16-Call-for#2412016-10-01T03:58:05Z2016-10-01T03:58:05Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Set wrote:</div><blockquote><p> Congratulations to all who got in, especially those first-time submitters! It's great to see a constant stream of new blood, with fresh new ideas!</p>
<p>Also, remember that you might get mysterious emails from editors, wanting to ask a quick clarifying question the day before they turn over your polished piece for publishing.</p>
<p>Try not to be like me and find one of them a few months later in your spam folder. Ahem. :)</p>
<p></blockquote><p>Amusingly enough, I saw this just after replying to the acceptance e-mail and dumping out my spam without looking at any of it.Set wrote:Congratulations to all who got in, especially those first-time submitters! It's great to see a constant stream of new blood, with fresh new ideas!
Also, remember that you might get mysterious emails from editors, wanting to ask a quick clarifying question the day before they turn over your polished piece for publishing.
Try not to be like me and find one of them a few months later in your spam folder. Ahem. :)
Amusingly enough, I saw this just after replying to the acceptance...Violet Hargrave2016-10-01T03:58:05ZRe: Forums/Gamer Life: General Discussion: "Gamer Girl": Thoughts on This Label?Violet Hargravehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2tx7t&page=4?Gamer-Girl-Thoughts-on-This-Label#1542016-10-11T01:21:33Z2016-09-28T09:35:16Z<p>Funnily enough, when I was first coming out as trans, I started a blog called "Secret Gamer Girl," specifically in reference to how "Gamer Girl" (and Geek Girl, and other variations) is a loaded, derisive term, rooted in a baseless sense of entitlement that games are an explicitly male space and any women in them are an aberration (with the "Secret" part referring to all the double-standard-loaded "Fake Geek Girl" talk I overhear from people who think I'm a guy).</p>
<p>Of course, now it's been a few years and I've gotten so used to people using that or a variation to refer to me that personally it just feels like my name now. Still, in other contexts I find it's better to avoid describing someone as "a gamer" regardless, and there's rarely call to specify that you're referring to a woman (particularly since if I recall, statistically slightly more women play games than men in the first place). Just say, "all the other women from my gaming group agree that ____" or "what? Every woman I know is into RPGs," or "oh yeah, I play a ton of ____."</p>Funnily enough, when I was first coming out as trans, I started a blog called "Secret Gamer Girl," specifically in reference to how "Gamer Girl" (and Geek Girl, and other variations) is a loaded, derisive term, rooted in a baseless sense of entitlement that games are an explicitly male space and any women in them are an aberration (with the "Secret" part referring to all the double-standard-loaded "Fake Geek Girl" talk I overhear from people who think I'm a guy).
Of course, now it's been a...Violet Hargrave2016-09-28T09:35:16Z