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Vic Wertz wrote:

Explanation of where I went wrong.

Hah! That'll teach me to give off-the-cuff opinions without actually putting in the time to run a check on the legal cases and reading the license at least three times rather than once. Sloppy. Thank you for taking the time to point that out.

Ah well, no harm done. I didn't realize that the d20 system underpinning D&D constituted Mechanics either, though obviously I should have.

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Wizards of the Coast doesn't seem to consider Tieflings and Aasimar to be Product Identity.

The 3.5 SRD has Tieflings and Aasimar in it (albeit as monsters under Planetouched, and player races as a footnote).

It's a bit cumbersome to view the original material, and you have to use the wayback machine to view it, but:
http://web.archive.org/web/20160202110448/http://www.wizards.com/default.as p?x=d20/article/srd35

More conveniently, you can use d20srd.org, which has the same content, but I figured you'd be more interested in the source.

Further, look at the SRD5, which also has a very carefully delineated list of what is Product Identity, yet doesn't mention tieflings, despite being in the SRD5.

https://media.wizards.com/2016/downloads/SRD-OGL_V1.1.pdf

I'm surprised I'm not seeing (or haven't noticed in another thread?) discussion of the capstone.

Remade Self (Sp): At 20th level, one of the following spells affects the psychic as a constant spell-like ability: arcane sight, fly, haste, heroism, nondetection, or tongues. While the psychic is under the effects of this spell-like ability, each time she casts a psychic spell she can link one phrenic amplification or major amplification she knows with a point cost of 1 to that spell without spending any points from her phrenic pool. This amplification is in addition to the maximum of one amplification per spell.

Is this decision made at level 20? Can it be changed? Is it more fine grained, such as only having one of them active at a time?

If it's constant, why is there a conditional effect tied to it being active? Does it require anything special to turn it on? Is there ever a reason to turn it off? How would one do so?

Amy, register on nwpfs.org as well because most of the local stuff in WA is on that forum. I know Tony and Dorothy Lindman (at least) read the forums regularly so they can help too.

Looking at the Olympia forum Olympic Cards and Comics has a regular setup and is biweekly.

I knew olympic cards and comics runs things, i just wanted to get in touch with whoever was coordinating, and I had trouble figuring out who that actually was.

Thank you for the mention of nwpfs.org, I had no idea that existed. Which is kind of unfortunate, seems like a thing that should be visible.. somewhere. Not sure where.

Edit: Now I see that forum does not permit any access to any information of use without registering.

Well, nevermind then. :/

I know this is a little bit of thread necromancy, but this seems topical, and I'm a little puzzled.

I'm trying to get started here in Olympia, and the only person I can find anywhere for 'coordinator' for this region is Jeff Way, but everything indicating that is rather dated, and his current title shows Phoenix, Arizona.

Is Jeff Way still the V-L here? Or is it someone else?

Ah, but looking at your account shows you have a PFS character registered. :) Maybe a mistake, but there it is.

(PS You should really try out PFS some time, its a blast!)

Yeah, I JUST saw that... I have no idea why that's there, I didn't make it.

I'd like to play PFS but severe anxiety issues. Me having a panic attack at a table wouldn't be enjoyable for anyone.

I've gotten one and I've never actually played Pathfinder, much less PFS.

I was quite puzzled by it; I don't have enough of a context to understand the email I received.