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This seems like a perfect case for why Government intervention on anti-competitive practices is good.

It would be great if we can get the government involved since what Hasbro is trying to due is effectively monopolize an entire industry given how prevalent the OGL 1.0a is.

The government is also invested given that this can and will reduce tax revenues and increase unemployment.

all of this is true, but very unlikely to happen in the US. In Europe I'd say it's more likely, their courts hate monopolies so much.

People who picked up Pathfinder a while after its release might forget that things like Archetypes and Traits are nowhere to be found in the Core Rulebook. On release, these mechanics did not exist. They were released incrementally over time. The robust customization options found in the game now are the result of 10 years of releases. Pathfinder 2nd Edition has things like archetypes built into the core assumption of the game, along with ancestry and heritage feats, a whole new spell level, a whole new class, a whole new race...and with the ability to control proficiencies, it means that in the late game, characters will be even more differentiated and specialized in their skills. The game is already, with what little has been shown, more dynamic than Pathfinder was at release. There are already more options. Consider my fears allayed.

I've played 5e a lot and I understand what makes that game less mechanically satisfying from a customization standpoint. This game looks to have none of those problems to me. It's just different because it's new, which was necessary. Pathfinder would not be improved by just continuing to add new stuff to it forever. The playtest for Pathfinder First Edition was 10 years ago. That's an enormous lifespan for a tabletop game, and it's bloated considerably with all the books out for it. The only way to improve the game is to start from the bottom up.

Since there's a goblin iconic, should we assume goblins are going to somehow become more acceptable in society? Like, such that the average country village wouldn't think twice about a goblin walking into town, where before they might have assumed it was prelude to a raid.

How did Baphomet get to be the patron of minotaurs? Dude's clearly a goat.

When Aroden died, did prophecy break just on Golarion, or across the material plane?

Do you keep up with paleoanthropology?

There's been some really intriguing stuff coming to light in the last few years. First, you had the Denisovans. I think it amounted to a single toe bone or tooth being found in the cave, but the DNA showed it belonged to an entire undiscovered species akin to neanderthals that interbred with humans in east Asia, and yet no bodies or tools or anything have been found in all this time, despite it probably being a huge population. Then you have Homo floresiensis, the "hobbit", originally thought to be basically tiny humans, now understood to be far more primitive, suggesting very early ape-like human ancestors left Africa (think Orang-pendak). Now there's a hotly debated study (by nonetheless well-regarded paleontologists) that suggests a mastodon in California was butchered with stone tools, hundreds of thousands of years before humans lived in America. There's also just a bunch of stories in general that suggest much of what we thought we knew about human ancestry and migration was just a small part of the story.

Sorry to dump all this here. To summarize, I'm not saying Bigfoot is real, but the statement "there would have been fossil evidence" at the very least is not evidence to the contrary anymore.

Every group of players I've ever put in Sandpoint hates Belor Hemlock. They basically feel like the town guard is worthless in general, especially when I run RotR. Am I doing something wrong?

Hello, Mr. Jacobs!

I'm very much in love with Golarion as a setting, and I've been doing a lot of writing taking place in it, mostly privately, from various points in its history, about aboleths and thanadaemons and other things. A while back I wrote a thing from the perspective of Aroden that some people enjoyed, and it's over here.

This of course was before I was able to read Pathfinder #100 and all of the goodness within, which filled many of the gaps in the setting left by such an influential god, and altered a lot of my opinions about Aroden's character.

My question to you is, if you can answer it, what kind of person was Aroden? Was he someone full of quiet wisdom, like Jatembe? Did he love humanity? Or, as a lawful neutral deity, did he more precisely love what humanity could achieve?

In writing about him I ended up going in a tragic direction, that maybe he was someone who started out as a typically proud and ambitious Azlanti, but was incredibly pained and haunted by Earthfall (maybe even having been kept alive as means of punishment rather than being simply a survivor), enough that he grew to sincerely love the world and his people after humanity recovered. Or, at any rate, that people had enough of a good impression of him that his death would have been devastating to the common people, even those not of his faith. In the end I feel like maybe I portrayed him as too good of a person, besides being unwilling to wholly condemn slavery/tyranny.

And, in case you can't be too specific about all of that, what's your favorite prehistoric creature that isn't a dinosaur?