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To be fair, its not just matter of jerk and non jerk players, some players when they play "morally gray settings" tend to go to silly edgy ends compared to "black and white settings".

Which is why I'll put alignment directly back into the game, if they remove it with regards to character building. Because I hate those edgelords much more than I do hate the people that just don't get that the alignment system has never been meant to narrowly define every single action you take.

Now you've given me something to really look forward to. Besides the Inner Sea region, that's the one Golarian region I really care about and I can't wait to see what you'll come up with to expand on what we already know about it.

I think "Charter" is a modifier to "Superscriber".

"Charter" was a tag you got for subscribing to the Pathfinder line when all we knew about it was that there will be a Pathfinder line. Basically it was a reward for putting your trust and your money into a new and unknown product at a time Paizo needed it most.

edit: Also I think to remember that you had to pre-subscribe to the Adventure Path line specifically. But I might be wrong about that.

Well, I'm also still here even when I lost my charter tag quite some time ago, when I had to pause my subscription for financial reasons. And in the meantime, international shipping costs have unluckily become so insanely high that it just doesn't make any sense to resubscribe.

Basically, buying the pdf here at Paizo and the book over at amazon separately is still cheaper than subscribing.

Those quests might just be perfect in length for my home group, so I'm quite excited about that announcement. :)

I'm pretty sure Paizo is past having an AP written entirely by men.

Well I'll happily expand my list of authors I'd love to see more from with Amber E. Scott, Crystal Frazier and Amber Stewart. This said, I wasn't trying to make a point about them being better writers than the authors of more recent APs. I was just saying that I absolutely loved what they did back then. And I certainly didn't want to instigate another diversity discussion. Didn't even cross my mind that my post could be taken this way, to be honest.

This might be nostalgia speaking and is probably completely unfair towards all the new voices adding to the Pathfinder universe, but reading all those names that worked at the Kingsmaker AP makes me realize that I would want to throw my money so hard at another AP written by those people (add Logue and Leati to the mix, of course).

Can only speak for me but the reason it took me so long (even when I wanted to dive into PF 2E right away) is that I'm more of a story than a rules player/DM. Having to learn new rules isn't that much fun especially when it's that much of a paradigm shift than it was between PF 1 and 2.

At home that's not much of a problem because my players (all family members) don't care for rules anyways so I can just wing it. but here on the boards, starting a game when you'll most probably end up with players with better rules knowledge than you have is a tad intimidating.

Apart from that I'm also not that much into the PFS stuff dominating 2nd ed play here on these boards. And offerings like you just made are unluckily more than rare, so I haven't had the chance to ease into the system like I had way back with D&D 3E.

I'd be interested as well. I'm planning on finally getting to run my own PF2 game next year, but to dip my toes in the system via shorter adventures as a player sounds like a good opportunity to have a look at it from the players' side as well.

Thank you for all the splendid work you did that has made me invest in this wonderful hobby for more than 20 years now. I loved basically everything you touched during your career and while we all love to sing praises to the creatives in the business, we sometimes tend to forget how pivotal the people behind the curtain are.

I kinda lost interest in Pathfinder in recent years for different reasons, but I'll ever be thankful to all the people that helped start Paizo and especially the Pathfinder endeavor, so again, thank you very much and I truly hope you can enjoy retirement and that you stay healthy enough to do so.

All the best,

Wormy

thanks @GM Beernog for doing my work for me. Here I was thinking about how to scan those pages to send them to EltonJ, but this is much easier^^.

Alright. But you must provide the PrC rules so I can look it over.

I can do that, but as said before, it's not that I necessarily want to use the rules, but that I would want to use the lore from that PrC. I'd be perfectly content with building the character with PF1 rules only.

So while doing a bit of research on characters that might fit the setting I stumbled about an article from Dragon #307 that offered some Cormyr-related PrCs.

So without knowing anything about the duration and level range of the mini-campaign, would you mind me building a character with one of those PrCs in mind (not necessarily talking rules, I'm coming from a lore standpoint)?

In specific, I'm talking about the Royal Scout of Cormyr (according to the article, an "elite order of Purple Dragon scouts in service of the Crown"). Now as you've said this to be a FR 1st ed. game and this article already is from the 3e era, I'd just like to know if it would be ok for you to add the lore into the game (I'm thinking about playing a ranger either striving to get admitted into the ranks of said order or already being part of it)

Ok, after some pondering, I feel like I have to bow out of this game. I just don't get a feel for a character I would wanna play that would do this world justice. Maybe it's just been too long that I read the books. So have fun gaming, I'm probably gonna enjoy and read the story as it unfolds.

Stat1: 4d6 ⇒ (1, 2, 1, 4) = 8 7
Stat2: 4d6 ⇒ (3, 3, 6, 1) = 13 12
Stat3: 4d6 ⇒ (5, 5, 4, 1) = 15 14
Stat4: 4d6 ⇒ (4, 6, 5, 1) = 16 15
Stat5: 4d6 ⇒ (6, 1, 6, 1) = 14 13
Stat6: 4d6 ⇒ (2, 4, 1, 6) = 13 12

Hm, not that bad as it usually is with me rolling. Not quite sure what to make out of it yet. Thinking wanderer of some sorts, possibly woodsman/armsman. Maybe going for blademaster.

OK, dotting for interest. Love the Realms and that I'm not very well-versed in Cormyrlore (which means I would have to read up on those Cormyr books that you mentioned) makes this seem like a good chance to learn a thing or two, while having fun returning to what still is my favorite setting.

I wouldn't mind starting after the battle of Dumai wells. It's a great closure to what came before and a lot of new things began after that. But if we were to start earlier, after Falme would also be a good starting point.

But in the end, whatever would fit your version of the game best is fine with me.

Perhaps the employees you view as toxic are that way because the environment they're in is itself toxic.

I view exactly one (ex-)employee this way. Everyone else working (or having worked/suffered) in the same environment I don't. So I still think it's the person.

I was happy to not mention her anymore, but as you insist (and I'm only speaking for myself here):

What is the difference here I wonder.

Well, I've seen her toxic behavior while she was posting on these boards. I've seen her fabricating lies about why she got fired from Arena.net. I've seen her basically throw dirt at every former employer. So I've just not a single reason to believe anything she says just because she says it.

Never seen SKR behave like that. Never seen Crystal behave like that. I've just no reason to not believe them when they say something. And it was because of Crystal that I was willing to consider the allegations as serious in the first place.

So it has nothing to do with sex, gender or anything like that. My opinion about your trustworthiness is strictly based on how I see you act as a person.

Well, full disclosure, I never finished the series. I had read everything up to Crossroads of Twilight and had just started reading into Knife of Dreams, when Robert Jordan died, which made me unable to continue reading when I thought I would never see the end of that story.

Up to that point; I'd say that I had read the first 7 books 5 or 6 times, 8 and 9 maybe two times.

In the meantime I have started to read through the books again several times, but never got through it to the end, mainly because there are so many other books worth reading that I just keeped getting distracted. Still planned to read them, and now the tv series might just have given me reason to dive into the books again.

I'd definitely be interested in being a part of that. Would we use the original ruleset? Because I might be a bit rusty on that ^^

Fumarole wrote:

There is no prize for being the first person to comment, nor has there ever been.

I love No-Prizes.

So you're the person that constantly wrote to Marvel back in the days?

Not sure we can ever be too old for pop culture when the pop culture just keeps getting recycled, song is from about a decade ago and re released :D

Well, I just listened to people celebrating a *certain sound from the 90's (Gothenburg melodeath as in In Flames or Dark Tranquility) as the soundtrack of their youth, and that made me feel really old, so I'm pretty sure that I can^^.

*edit: it's relevant only because that sound just got recycled by a new supergroup consisting of actual and former members of said groups.

It is great that the setting has lower level NPCs yet what happens when the party gets High level. Artificer is my favourite class

That Eberron (at least in the original setting book) seemed a better fit for lower-level characters was, in fact, one of the major early appeals for me. I've never been fond of high-level play too much, because it changes the style of the game in a direction I don't care for. I don't want to play super-heroes, and Eberron initially did a great job focussing on the lower-level experience.

This said, I think there's a lot of higher level stuff to work with, and later books often expanded in that territory, so it's not as if you had to stop at level 10.

Midgard has been great for me, because it just came out at a time I was thinking about creating my own homebrew steeped in the myths and fairy tales of middle-european folklore. Also, Empire of the Ghouls.

Being from Spain, I have suffered thid change and I have had to pay an additional amount of 80$ in taxes in the last 4 months, so I am considering to unsubscribe.

Great. I'm still waiting to even get any of the SoT issues to my home, so now I know what I have to look forward to.

It's like the people changing the rules weren't even aware of that their staff might not be able to stem the additional workload. but I'm also pretty sure they wouldn't have cared either way.

This is in part caused by the fact that the moderators have not been funded and it's a tertiary aspect tacked onto their daily tasks..

I fully understand your stance in the rest of your post (and I agree), but I wanted to point out how much I agree with this. Having been a forum moderator myself, I know that moderating a forum of this size is a full-time job so to tack it on top of another full-time job simply can't work. At all.

As a brief follow-up to KC, why would someone choose differently?

What makes me hesitate sometimes, is that calling someone out for being a hateful person in my experience only leads to them doubling-up on their hate.

And in the current situation, with moderation being slow for the known reasons, and me not being the one directly* attacked, I fear that with my interference I just make things even worse for the people already attacked.

It's more of an instinct than a deliberate choice, and reading what KC, Corie and all the others have to say about it shows me that I need to rethink that.

But the feeling that instead of helping, I would add fuel to the fire is hard to overcome, so this is some thing I'm struggling with (unless something I read is so egregious that I go in full rage mode which might also not be the most constructive thing in the world).

*I'm fully aware that any attack on a member of my community is ,by extension, an attack on myself, but there are definitively different stakes at play here.

I partly blame Paizo for Golarion not to be higher on my "most favorite settings" list. Back then, when they published Age of Worms, I fell so in love with the Forgotten Realms and Eberron Conversion Appendices written by Eric L. Boyd and Keith Baker, that adapting adventures to other settings has become a favorite pastime of mine.

So whenever I read a new Paizo adventure, my mind goes from "Oh, this is great" immediately to "hm, where to put it in Eberron/Faerûn."

I also steal freely from the Pathfinder regional sourcebooks because they are shockfull of cool ideas, that can be used to expand on the lore from those other settings.

Of course, that involves a lot of rewriting and -painting, but that's part of the fun.

In the end, I just love setting design and settings in general. I only came to D&D when the Realms already were established, so I missed out on a lot of earlier stuff, but the magazines did a pretty good job making me intrigued with Greyhawk and Mystara. I also love Planescape to death. And special shout-out to the City of 7 Seraphs.

Then there's Aventuria, Kobold Press' Midgard, FGG's Lost Lands, Ptolus, the world of Numenera, and of course there's Golarion, which I also really like.

But in terms of personal ranking, the Realms and Eberron top them all. In a perfect world and a lot of time at my hands, I'd simply run games in all of them, but the last time I tried didn't turn out too well, so I try to focus on one for starters.

and ok, last post from me as well on that side-topic

Bu...but.. Faerûn was my first love, and it will be my last...

In all honesty, I'm constantly torn between those two. The Realms have much more lore, and an actual metaplot, that I used to love (until I suddenly didn't), so the idea to take it from there and develop my own variant of what happens after 1375 DR is really appealing to me.

On the other hand, the way Keith worked magic into his setting, it's tone, the historical background with the Last War, integrating Psionics, the different spin on traditional ancestries, the Kalashtar, Eberron just oozes genius from every pore.

So I've been procrastinating about this for years now.

Inventor with a Wizard Archetype gets you 90% of the way to a proper Artificer. I'm still holding out hope for 2e Wyrwoods, as they're the closest option to Warforged in the setting, and I'm likewise hoping to eventually steal Lashunta mechanics for Kalashtar.

You can imagine how happy I was to get Gnolls as an Ancestry. I'm a big Droaam fangirl.

Dammit. I was just on my way to transfer several APs to the Forgotten Realms, and now you make me rethink if I shouldn't have gone with Eberron instead.

Oh wait, looking at your avatar now, I guess that that second part came across in a horribly wrong way. *blushes* I was strictly speaking about those two figurines above, and you have to admit that the red one looks more dangerous than cute.

*goes hiding in the next oven.*

Apologies in advance to KC, but this is sooooo wrong. This here is goblin territory, if you're looking for iconic kobolds, you need to go there

the blue one is really cute, though.

Things ain't looking too hot over here in Germany, where the onset of winter, a quite high percentage of the population being unvaccinated and a currently ongoing change in government have created a situation where cases are rising dramatically and nobody is really doing anything about it. Makes everyone here pretty nervous.

Hey, at least they are now thinking about forcing us nurses to get vaccinated, because if we don't care enough about our customers to get the vaccine, we should be removed from our jobs. That we literally risked our lives for more than a year to care for those customers, when no vaccine was available, seems to have been forgotten already.

Of course all those idiots out there denying to get vaccinated for Q'Anon reasons can't be bothered with the same standard in the meantime, because solidarity seems to be a one way ticket these days.

Full disclosure: I've got my vaccination as soon as it was available and I've been a pretty vocal proponent of a general vaccine mandate, but that they'd rather single some professions out and even giving that stupid line of reasoning for it really riles me up. Especially as it is not us that is the problem.

People thought Wil Wheaton’s column didn’t belong? What heathens.

Right? And the only thing more embarassing than that was the level of stupidity I stooped down to in defense of that column.

congratulations y'all for proving shivok's points made in the original post.

And thank you to the posters from page 1's first half for simply disagreeing, and even arguing constructively why shivok's idea might come with some problems.

Man, do I wish back to the times when the worst thing we were bickering about was if Will Wheaton's column in Dungeon Magazine was a waste of space. Turns out being one of the longest surviving fossils on these boards is more of a curse than a blessing.

Oh, and as a reminder, there's that nice thread created by Hilary on how to disagree without being disagreeable. Probably worth rereading that thing once in a while.

And if you are worried about how that basic idea might be "taken too far", maybe give us and the moderation a little more credit than that and stop assuming the worst of us.

Assuming that post was directed at me, the problem is that "us". Because that "us" is a pretty diverse group of people.

You get all the credit in the world from me, as I've seen you going out of your way trying to be fair and understanding time and time again. There are a select few posters that I hold in the same esteem.

Then there's the majority that I think are decent people I don't have any beef with. A lot of those are angry at the moment - understandably so - which severely limits their ability to stay fair towards "generally good-faith posters", especially in case of a disagreement. And it's sometimes hard not to feel accused as well, which is probably why the Raven caught me flat-footed with their post.

And then there's one or two pretty loud voices that I basically consider to be as much of a troll than any other troll out there.

I've been doing a lot of self-moderation in recent weeks so as not to add additional - unintentional - hurt to people that are already hurting, but I'll certainly not let the trolls (no matter from where they come) in any way influence what and how I post.

I absolutely did not mean extra scrutiny on a poster or any kind of guilty by association.

Apologies from me for getting so angry at your post. I was aware that you didn't mean it that way but still it rubbed me in a terribly wrong way. But that's on me, not you.

So, it likely needs reviewing, even if the poster did not want to provide fodder for the abusive poster.

Full stop. That's where you lose me completely. If you judge my posts based on who agrees with them (and I'm pretty sure that I've been favorited several times by forum members you probably count in the abusive crowd), that is solely your problem, and I will not change my posting behaviour because of that.

If you have a specific problem with what I actually wrote, though, you're free to point that out to me, I'm more than willing to listen. But I'll certainly not let you paint me as a troll by proxy. Or rather, I couldn't care less if you try to.

It isn't possible.

We don't need to change all communication at once. If everyone reading this would try to apply those tools to their own communication skill set (and of course use them), we'd still see a bit of an improvement.

I'd count that as a win and better than any kind of lowest common denominator we could probably agree on otherwise.

I'm so glad that our cats never needed this. They would have probably killed me several times just for thinking about it (and yeah, I'm pretty sure that cats are natural telepaths).

Remember that some of those "new guys" aren't all that new (and a lot of them aren't guys either.)

You're right of course. Didn't want to exclude anyone. In fact, part of why this topic makes me scratch my head from time to time is, that even in the 80, the group I played in was 50% guys and 50% gals. Some of those belong to the LBTQ+-community (of course we didn't use that term, not sure that it even existed back then). And while I don't want to pretend I ever had to experience the same issues my friends from that group had, there was a measure of being bullied and harassed involved just for being part of that group.

What that experience obviously did, though, is blind me to the fact that just because we could handle it pretty well* 35+ years ago, it doesn't mean that it was handled equally well in the wider RPG community. For the longest time I was thinking that that safe space was a safe space for everyone (and of course we didn't even think about being privileged compared to other people).

*"pretty well" is a relative term, of course. In hindsight, I'm quite sure that there were transgressions happening, that nobody did comment on because they were used much worse from other people, and that jokes were made and things were said that wouldn't fly in 2021. And thinking about it this way kinda makes you from the "good guy" to the "not as bad" bad guy. Another thing I would probably have been outraged just a few years ago, if someone had suggested that to me.

I'm certainly not expecting perfection from anybody. Heck, that experience I was talking about was me nearly being banned from another board for getting so fed up with certain trolls that I started to retaliate in equal measure.

As far as the oversensitivity goes, I can only talk from my own perspective. There are obvious trolls, of course, but I think a lot of it also has to do with the history of RPGs and who played them. I mean, there are probably a lot of us older guys that stepped into the world of RPGs to escape from a world were felt like we didn't belong, where we weren't accepted and even bullied and harassed because we didn't conform to certain societal norms of the time. So RPGS were our safe space and with that comes a certain tendency of gatekeeping (because it's OUR safe space).

Now that RPGs suddenly have become the cool thing to do, not only do we have to share that space with the new guys, but now those new guys also start to tell us what we did wrong the whole time (which probably is especially infuriating when there's a grain of truth to it). And suddenly my safe space doesn't feel that safe anymore.

maybe I read too much into it, but sometimes I think that all this childish behaviour (and of course, it's childish) has it's roots in the thought of "you wanna feel safe too? Hey, great, but why don't you go feel safe somewhere else? because this is my territory". It's a gut reaction to feeling threatened, which is a completely irrational feeling, that needs to be confronted head on. But it's also what happens in a lot of other areas in society right now.

Doesn't excuse troll behaviour, that's for sure.

One thing I'd like to add regarding item three: I know that I've been guilty of repeating myself several times, but it was never because I wanted to be heard. It was every time because I felt the point I was trying to make was misrepresented by the poster reacting to it. Not necessarily misrepresented deliberately, I'm not talking about troll behaviour here.

Summation can help here, because it makes it easier to identify the details that might have been misunderstood by the recipient. What also can help is just asking if you understood everything correctly, especially when it is something that might make your blood boil.

EDIT: Cis folks of these forums, /this/ is why so many of us are acting “abrasive.”

I understand and even sympathize with that. Problem being of course (and I speak from experience) that it can easily turn you into the bad person in the eyes of the moderation while the trolls are having a field day with having you brought down to their level.

Also keeps people like me from posting at all because I don't agree with you (general you, as in: the good guys) all the time with everything you say and I don't want to be in the crossfire just by being confused with the trolls for not agreeing 100%.

bust'em out again.

kinda did, because Linnea the Driver's post did make me take the book from the shelf and I'm really tempted to give it another try. Would probably take quite some time to prepare it though, mainly to get rid of some of the things Balacertar mentioned.

Also it would pretty much put a stop to some other things I'm pursuing as of right now and trying to do too many things at once was large part of that GM burnout I mentioned, so I don't want to repeat that.

They are in 3.5 and are old, old, old. You have to buy a buncha outta print magazines...

Unless you happen to have that beautiful Shackled City Hardcover that still makes me mourn for the fact that Paizo couldn't give AoW and ST the same treatment.

Brings back great memories when I started to run SC and AoW in Eberron. Unluckily, those games died due to me having a major case of GM burnout, so I never got to finish them.

Is it really so inconvenient to log into the Paizo store once per month, add all the wanted PDFs from that month to your cart and then buy them?

As far as I am concerned, it is not. And I am already doing that with the books from the other lines.

Still would love to have all those subscriber tags shown under my nickname, and the only option that would ever happen would be with a digital subscription.

Also, as a German customer, the most convenient thing for me to do was to stop playing Pathfinder completely and just return to being a happy TDE player for the rest of my life. Everything's written in my native tongue, a great setting with tons of adventures and tons of support from the publisher and the community, way easier to find groups to play with, and I wouldn't be bothered with shipping costs like at all.

Not saying that I'll ever do that, but from that perspective, asking for a little bit more convenience doesn't seem to be terribly unreasonable. But to me, it's not a make or break deal.

Hehe, I knew about the Let it Go version. It's absolutely hilarious how the guy can barely hold his laughter when the juror gets excited about the song, not knowing what will follow.

And thanks for the warning; I had probably liked it better if it had been another attempt to rickroll me (and not André Rieu) ^^.

As far as finnish bands are concerned, I remember that Children of Bodom once covered Brittney Spears, but that was, while absolutely awesome, even more horrible than the original, so I won't link it here.

I'm more into stuff like this amazing piano cover of Insomnium's Heart Like a Grave. That's music that I find relaxing.

Would anyone be interested in PDF only subscriptions if they were merely a convenience (auto billing and dropping of PDFs in Organized Play scenario style on the street date) and not a way to get the PDFs earlier?

Again, can only speak for myself, but getting the pdfs earlier has never been a deciding factor when it comes to the AP subscription. I have a huge backlog of books that I have still to read even going back to 1st edition, so that's the least of my concerns.

While I appreciate the PF wiki, it only summarizes things. Usually you have to go to the source material for details.

You're right of course, but if you don't mind fleshing the world out on your own, there's more than enough to work with. So if you don't want to spend money on the books, you certainly don't need to. (and my digital content folder certainly speaks to the fact that I'm not one of those people ^^).

Then you clearly don't understand how cheap gamers can be.

Not quite sure though if that applies here. We already can get the rules for free (via Archive of Nethys). We can already get a huge lot of Golarion lore for free as well (Pathfinder wiki). And with just a bit of search, you can find an array of free (or at least very cheap) adventures to go with if you don't want to create your own or adapt those you already have (which in my case, would be enough to last for several lifetimes).

Add to that that you can already get the official adventures as pdf only, and I'd think that mose people that sub for the APs do so explicitely because they want to have them in book form, not because they have no alternative.

Yes, a digital subscription would mostly be a thing of convenience to me. On the other hand, my AP subscription becomes more and more of a hassle to me (for reasons Paizo can't do much about, aka international shipping and German customs/tax laws), so I'll probably end it at the end of SoT anyways. Maybe replace it with the Pathfinder Society subscription.