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Watched it yesterday and it was great. Jackman and Reynolds alone are worth seeing the movie at least once.

After reading Order of the Stick I know of at least on use of a rubber ball that is quite innovative and very deadly.

But ignoring that: Items like this are important to show that playing a RPG should not really just be about "how good is a character at being powerful in combat" and they are just fun to have as a character.

Ashbourne wrote:

I just like cats more than people, cats clean up after themselves.

I don't know about that. I've never seen a cat put something back on a table.

just wait until cats develop the thumb. But after this happening humanity is doomed because they don't need us anymore to open the food cans^^.

Great read. And seeing the other side more fleshed out is always a big plus.

NECR0G1ANT wrote:

keftiu wrote:

I will say that this is undercut somewhat by the bit in the Society Guide where they mention bribing Osiriani officials to circumvent the ban on foreign archaeology - that’s kind of definitionally Not Great.

Where does it say this? I looked in Lost Omens: Pathfinder Society Guide and couldn't find any reference to bribery. The ban is more of a limitation; the Ruby Prince still permits some Society expeditions.

CorvusMask wrote:

Aka, Pathfinder Society isn't N organization retconned as NG, it actually went through character arc as whole of its own throughout organized play campaign.

(and nowadays they are rededicated to archaeology and exploration rather than the paramilitary-ish stuff, just this time doing it in more respectable way)

The Society does still has a Neutral alignment, that hasn't changed.

Not quite as explicit as I thought, but:

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However, the Ruby Prince has recently tightened restrictions on the activities of foreign-based explorers. Though the Society has negotiated to access certain archaeological sites from the Ruby Prince, future missions out of the Sandswept Lodge will likely require leveraging political favors, traveling with an escort, or engaging in covert missions.

When the local monarch has given a ban on foreign looting of their historical sites, and you try to illegally work around that... I think you start to give up your Good alignment.

Depends on what they have to do to still get acess.

WatersLethe wrote:

Personally, I'd be okay with skipping ahead to advanced firearms being the norm. Not really keen on the balancing headache of starting with flintlocks. Like, how many people who are okay with guns in their games are not okay with a little more modern weaponry with fewer headaches?

Balance them right and make sure the Uncommon tag stays on and it's unlikely it be a huge problem right? Also, everyone who is imagining a gunslinger is already imagining a six shooter.

It would make my life easier when converting Starfinder stuff over anyhow...

That would also open up the Advanced design space for other weapons that are even more interesting.

An Alchemical Blunderbuss that fires reagents that mix literally on the fly to create an unstable reaction.

A "silenced" rifle that fires a less damaging sub sonic round, but makes no noise and doesn't make you automatically observed after an attack.

A Magically enhanced pistol that allows a spellcaster to imbue a normal bullet with a spell similar to the Eldritch Archer. They could be called something snazzy. Like Magelocks.

And to think we just finished adapting the Iron Kingdoms Gun Mage to Pathfinder 2

WatersLethe wrote:

I realize I may have come off as sarcastic or dismissive. I love you to death and your playstyle is totally valid.

But if I tried to pass off a book of evocation spells as a big gift for my necromancer player I would face a mutiny!!

I mean, from the pure metagame mechanics standpoint, in my experience a book of evocations is way more valuable to a necromancer than a book of necromancy spells, which would at best be a bunch of free gold for selling it, and at worst a 'taunt' making them feel like they wasted their resources.

Most Wizards I've run for choose all their core spells - in this case, all the necromancy stuff they really want - as their level up spells, or they buy them as soon as they can. A book of Necromancy spells would typically be strictly useless, but a book of spells of another desirable school (like evocation) would be pure gold in terms of giving them access to new resources. Especially if the character could justify using them while maintaining their idiom.

There's some exceptions in 2E, because of things like Animate Dead being rituals, but those are so iconic to the character archetype that I'd assume they'd be worked out with the GM ahead of time to ensure the character will work at all in the campaign.

So yeah, this particular case isn't exactly my normal perspective on things - its largely a mechanical/metagame item :D

True. We never had a problem with reflavoring the look of a spell without touching the rules of it.

Also explodey burny sheep are awesome.

Baa-baa-baBOOM

So true^^

Mark Moreland wrote:

Cyder wrote:

Love this story, sadly I will never get to read how it ends or why they are there. I miss Pathfinder novels.

Just because we don't have novels now doesn't mean there never will be, and even in the absence of novels, if enough people asked for it, we might expand this to give the before and after.

I'd read that! ;)

me too^^

I bashed those segments because, truth be told, they deserve bashing. I did not point any individuals out.

The premise of boards like these should be debate, and people should be open-minded, and willing to accept evidence of issues, and, if presented with enough evidence, perhaps have a honest change of heart.

Both categories I mentioned cannot, because the first category sees the current state of casters as desirable, and the second category refuses criticism on the ground that they love Paizo so much.

This is a systemic issue. You can't fix it with a new book. You would have to fix it with a massive errata, but that would mean actually accepting the fact that mistakes were made, which reading these boards does not seem to be the case.

I have accepted that PF2e will have weak casters, and that nothing will change it.

Late to this but someone could say the same about your side of the discussions.

Great Story. And now I want Starfinder Tales too.

Great story. Can't wait for the book. And it makes me miss the Pathfinder Tales even more.

Tridus wrote:

James Jacobs wrote:

Yup, Merisiel (and the author) is bisexual. And thank you so much for the kind words, folks! This is a story I've been wanting to write for a LOOOONG time, and when I was doing the initial art brief for the APG and saw that heartbond was in there as a ritual, the way I wanted to illustrate it was a no-brainer... love how it turned out! (insert a long line of heart emojis here)

EDIT: Reading the responses has me weepy eyed too! In a good way!

Oh man, heartbond is in there? That's awesome! Definitely something I'd love to have in my games.

On the one hand, I love the lore and thematics and this story is SO endearing.

On the other hand, I can't wait until I have my players deciding to marry each other for the mechanical benefits. :P

For this reason I think we will get a lot of group marriages^^

Great story. And I think I got some dust in the eye.

He is not someone, who you would call subtile.

I am always reminded to a degree of Xykon of Order of the Stick.

This sounds antithetical to his self-proclaimed moniker of WHISPERING Tyrant...

Perhaps because that is him whispering^^

James Jacobs wrote:

NECR0G1ANT wrote:

PossibleCabbage wrote:

I feel like the universe is going to have lots of sun gods. For the most part they're probably going to be largely uninterested in what the entities with similar priorities are up to and more interested in what the entities with conflicting goals are up to.

Speaking of which, I wonder how Nurgal fits into all this?

As an enemy who knows better than to shake the proverbial bee's nest by being too much of a jerk about it. He's just a demigod, after all. He has stats that full deities can push around with impunity if he gets too big for his britches.

Also they can distract him with laser pointers.

I heard Woolballs work too^^.

I mean how Long ago did her new role start? few months a year at most?

For a deity that is Nothing, so no surprise that she is not yet settled in.

The only thing that you're convincing people of is that no matter what changes to the Wizards would be made, nothing short of returning them their Tier 1 Godlike status of PF1 would suffice.

The Problem is, that RPGs and D+D esp. have set it, that a Magic-user bending Reality into a pretzel and a fighter getting a +1 on attack rolls is in the same power Level.

Because he can attack all day as i have learned in this thread.

Wonder what we made wrong in our Groups, because that never happened to us.

Thomas Seitz wrote:

Philip,

The Snap creating Mutants I COULD see but then how do you retcon much OLDER mutants, like say Apocalypse?

I don't see Latveria working the same way that Wakanda does. Mostly because Latveria doesn't have magic rocks.

How do you explain them in the comics? Why are they all over the place now, compared to even 50 years ago. There were always a few, but after "X" they became common.

I think it was originally radiation from nuclear tests, but not sure that still makes sense.

I think that was the Explanation in the start, but that went out of the window after mutants like Apocalypse or the even older Selene showing up^^

But she did have a relationship with Apsu (as someone mentioned), and even had a kid with him (the dragon Peace Through Vigilance.)

Isn't that still just a rumour?

And even if true, it does not mean that Iomedae is big on relationships.

If she had someone she likes in that way, I do think she would have difficulty to have a relationship, because not having much experience with that.
Stopping a demonlord no Problem but a date? That would be much more difficult^^.

Why Paul Dini isn't in charge of the DCEU I'll never understand.

Because it would make sense and we can't have that^^

Preacher, Lucifer, Walking Dead...with some shows (if, like me, you hadn't read the source material) it's easy to momentarily forget they're based on comics.

I think they represent a kind of stealth infiltration into the mainstream. Get the mundane audience hooked, then casually mention "You know this is based on a comic book, right?" And hey, maybe comic books aren't so weird after all.

That is true. I mean how many People would know, that Men in Black is based on a Comic?

I will say this book contains less sexualized art of any deity book ever.

I'm pretty sure even the bible has more sexualized art then Gods and Magic.

Remembering some stuff in the bible it should have been given an Adults only stamp.

A 1-star review because the reviewer ... heard that there's sexualized art? That's new in the "didn't read, 0/5" department.

Did they dare to show an ankle again^^?

Looks great and and can't wait to read it.

Him getting more desperate About his age is one of the even more dangerous Things About him.

I could see him using his People in a ritual to get Young again like the one shown in the Villian Codex i think. Always looked like made for him^^

If they bring back the book line, they should write a book about the story of Iomedae and her Connection to Arazni and her history.

Just explaining how they got the different alignments together, could make it a doorstopper^^

The Glorious Reclamation in Cheliax failed, Heart's Edge is now in the hands of Thrune (and has quite possibly been corrupted), Alexeara Cansellarion is either dead or damned to Hell (via sacrifice, evil spell, or betrayal of her vows), Last Wall is in ruins, the Whispering Tyrant is free, and old Erum-Hel is still around and is preying upon any divine scions Iomedae has sired with mortals.

As much as I respect Iomedae and admire her, she needs to start getting her act together I feel.

None of this is her fault. Even Erum-Hel would only be her fault, if trying to stop him and barley surviving it could be called that.

And I think the list of her successes are a lot longer. But that is never mentioned in this kind of discussions. Wonder why.

Deadmanwalking wrote:

Spamotron wrote:

I their CRs mentioned often when either comes up. Is there more context? Because my understanding is that in the lore Arazni as a Lich was much weaker than she was as Aroden's Herald, and Tar-Baphon didn't just defeat her but performed a humiliating one-sided curbstomp when she was a Herald.

So Tar-Baphon is only just as strong as the inferior version of a foe he defeated utterly?

I don't think we have any evidence she's weaker as a Lich than she was before. Indeed, evidence seems good that it added the standard +2 CR.

That being the case, even assuming she hasn't gained any levels since getting wrecked by Tar-Baphon their original fight would've been him at CR 26 and her at CR 24. Him defeating her pretty easily at that point sounds about right.

When Arazni faced Tar-Baphon she had the powers of the Herald of Aroden, when Geb reanimated her Iomedae held that mantle, so I think a solid case can be made for Arazni to be on-level with Tar Baphon, and lichdom brought her powers on-par with heraldry. Which would imply her humiliating defeat was because of some tactical misstep or sheer poor fortune, rather than Tar-Baphon being noticeably stronger than her.

If I remember correctly in the Adventure Path it was mentioned that part of the problem was that the knights summoned her and forced her to fight the Tyrant and that made her weaker.

That is one part why she is not very fond of the knights to put it midly.

The irony is that they could have asked and she would gladly helped them but the knights being what they are thought not like this.

I do not think he has not much emotion left regarding anything not related to Nex. Arazni was just a mean to the end of showing the Knights how outclassed they are.

Bodyswitch.Twist is he ended up in an ewok. Or Jar Jar if they really want to mess with the hardcore fans^^

Deadmanwalking wrote:

zimmerwald1915 wrote:

Arcadia has developed societies. The same can't be said of the Gravelands and Andoran.

What are you basing this statement about Andoran on?

It's on Avistan, it's definitionally backward.

Their feats of seamanship and shipbuilding are along the lines of the tenth-century Norse, and they don't actually use plate - their soldiers go entirely unarmored in the art despite none of their enemies using armor-penetrating technology more advanced than the longbow. Their smithing is restricted to handicraft production, and accordingly to very small scales and without replaceable parts. They have no knowledge of chemistry.

Did I get the wrong version of Pathfinder regarding Andoran? What you wrote is so far from the description of the country to take it seriously. Tenth-Century Norse and using no plate, really?

Here’s a question- do we know for absolutely sure, that Aroden is dead?

Why couldn’t he have just continued his lessening involvement and left reality? No phone to call, no forwarding address to send the mail. He’s just gone.

I would think that the result would be the same as dead - no spells, no connection to holy places, etc

And the other gods, Pharasma in particular, know he’s gone, but don’t want to let that knowledge out so if/when he comes back, things can go back to the way they were.

If he was still alive, wouldn't his clerics still receive spells? I always thought only death of the god can stop that.

And Pharasma had said that yes Aroden is gone. Out of game some Paizo staff had said so too.

So while I'm sure there are some that will complain about Hickman's work around, I for one welcome the fact he's made Goldballs WAY more fun and interesting that before.

The fact that this group of mutants works together to make that happen, proves what a great writer he is.

And yes making that work is a stretch but that happened before. I mean one example that comes to mind is Storms power makes her highly resistant against telepathy?

Just that Hope is on this Island would make anyone wonder, what she could do with all this powers at her hand. I mean Mimic with just five powers duplicated could get bad. But her duplicating jamie madrox and having all the other powers for example would get out of control real fast^^

Great story. And he should have worn Glasses. That would have worked^^

now I can't get the picture of a large group of cobolds following a metallic dragon everywhere and wondering than he will start doing "dragon stuff" (meaning the things the evil kind of dragon is usually up to)

And after some time they start to learn by example and discover that not being evil is something that is good for them.

We could do that, yes^^

The way the goverment in the Comics works someone will do it sooner or later. And will be surprised if it blows up in his face like the dozen of times before^^. I mean being stupid seems to be a requirement for the job.

So prepare for the new and improved Puppet Master as a brain in a jar or something like that.

That's for certain.

Puppet Master is certainly alive. But I do not think he will be glad about it.

Just read the new Fantastic Four and I must say it is a great example of the current version of the Hulk. The last page alone ....

lowfyr01 wrote:

The discovery is something that would be too easy. That is one reason I think he stays at 19th level .

Do we know he's still 19th level or is it at all likely he might have levelled up when the new World Guide comes out this month?

With 2 Edition it might not make a difference, but I think he will stay at 19th level for now. For me it is one of his perks^^

lowfyr01 wrote:

Until old age catches up to him^^

He should have hit 20th level and taken Immortality as an arcane discovery while it was available. Or gotten himself some of that sweet, sweet Sun Orchid elixir. Blind auction where you pay regardless of who wins is pretty rough though. On the other hand, he could organize a heist to get a vial that someone else won. That could be an interesting part of an AP, with the party being tricked into doing it. I'm not sure if any of them have had a proper heist module.

I'm hoping that maybe the second 2020 AP or one of the 2021 ones will finally be a Razmirin AP. I do want him to stay in power though. He's just too interesting to let die.

The discovery is something that would be too easy. That is one reason I think he stays at 19th level . And the struggle with his own mortality and keeping up his con is one of the points that make him such an interesting character.

Getting the Elixir would be the best chance if he does not want to become undead. But I would try to buy it. Trying to steal it would not only get the seller on his case, but the other bidders, too. And that could get too much even for him.

Until old age catches up to him^^

I find it funny that working with Sorshen is something that gets such a reaction. Never played Winters Reign? You rescue someone who makes Sorshen looks harmless.

One last thing attacking Sorshen just because she is evil would make me wonder how good the party is. And redemption is something that any person calling themselves good should not ignore.

Is pixie in any of them?

not yet.

@Thomas Seitz: For a number one compared to a lot of other stuff it is living up to the hype in my opinion. Esp. compared to a lot of X-Men stuff from the last years.

Later, I saw some quotes from the director indicating that he liked creating movies where some people loved them and some people hated them.

It's not like that would not happened anyway. Pleasing everyone with a movie was impossible with the first one and it is even more impossible now.

And it is a difference between not liking something and writing or making videos talking about the "agenda" of the movie or just trying to sell made-up stuff as fact. I mean some people on youtube seem to make a habit of talking about the "agenda" of Studios for getting more women or minorities in lead roles. Seeing that they do that to every movie that fits that I wonder what their agenda is^^

That bit of the story makes perfect sense to me. Walkena and Mzali are responding to a real and legitimate problem that the Mwangi Expanse has been having. They are doing so in an extreme and unrepentantly Evil fashion, with fascist leanings.

Many of the best villains are not purely Evil for the sake of it, they have a point. An argument and a cause that, taken on its own and ignoring their actions, even the most reasonable people can look at and say 'Hmmm, yes, that makes sense.' It's the things they do in pursuit of that cause (or that they claim are in pursuit of that cause, but actually reveal their hypocrisy) that make them villains.

That is true. That kind of villians are always better than the usual being evil for evils sake. Classic Examples are Magneto, Ra's al Ghul or more recent the already talked about Killmonger from Black Panther.

VerBeeker wrote:

Though...why Zimmer would she aid a nation ruled by despot Devils? Or go after Galt or Ravounel?

She is a Romanov, and that house for four hundred years was among the most barbaric and despotic on Earth; for a hundred its armies buried generations of revolutionaries from Paris to Budapest to Warsaw. Anastasia was returned from death itself to ensure that this legacy would continue, and has been transplanted to a world that has not yet learned to fear the names of Moscow and Rome. It will. Its peoples run rampant. They will be brought to heel.

You make her sound like a more bloodthirsty version of Ivan the Terrible. That would be quite a feat. And with revolutionaries in Paris I hope you do not mean the war fought against the french revolution. That was not so black and white you make it sound.

Not to forget to conclude from her family to her being the same is not really a thing to do. Leaves a bit of bad taste.

Great Story. And more than a little gross^^

Can't wait to read more about this.

Great story. Would love to read more about the two.