I bought a Starfinder Society T-shirt and put it in my sidecart last night, hoping it would ship with my new Starfinder subscription, but it looks like my subscription is shipping without it. Can you change the shipping to have that shipped as soon as possible? I'm happy to pay shipping, I'd just like to hopefully receive it before the 17th.
Bulmahn, Seifter, and Radney-MacFarland announced it at the rules Q&A Thursday. I can't remember a ton of details but there will be 'planar infusions' (story feats that give you associated planar powers, like fire resistance or abilities to manifest flame if you spend time on the elemental plane of fire), new 0 HD races like tiefling/aasimar for law, chaos, and neutrality (I think the chaos one was previously published) and some magic items/rituals that can allow lower level planar travel
It's really awesome to have a Design team guy answering rules questions, even unofficially, thanks so much! Is there a difference between a PC dealing double damage and a monster taking double damage?
Sgtdrill wrote:
Hehe, maybe I will, but you kill him and it's going to be another paladin in the party. :)
Tangent101 wrote: The Mythic individual with Longevity just stops aging. The only way an Antimagic Field would kill him is if he was on his last breath right when he gained Longevity. Even then, if he were Tier 9 or 10 then once the Antimagic Sphere was gone, he'd come back like a bad penny. Mythic Adventures wrote: You still continue to age, and you gain all the benefits to your mental ability scores. You explicitly do continue to age, it is a potential instant kill for a character with Longevity.
Mythic Adventures p71 wrote:
Normally the extra damage from PA is multiplied by the weapon's critical multiplier, just like damage from Strength etc. With Mythic PA it's doubled, and then re-doubled (or tripled, or quadrupled, depending on the weapon's critical multiplier)
Artanthos wrote:
So, you can select the Spellcasting ability multiple times at the same tier and add all of those spell points into a single pool? What do you think about this text:
Mythic Adventures p171 wrote: This maximum increases to six if the bonded creature selects the legendary item universal path ability twice, and then to 10 if the bonded creature selects the ability three times (again, the maximum cannot exceed the bonded creature’s number of tiers). These abilities are added at the rate of one per day.
Darksol the Painbringer wrote: The way I see it at this point, Mythic gameplay is going to be all about Vital Strike, Standard gameplay is going to be all about iteratives. It's a shame that they make such ridiculous subjects about it. WIth Precision and Fleet Warrior and a high crit range and multiplier the full attack is probably still better on damage (assuming you don't spend the point to get a second standard action that round).
The Spellcasting ability that you can give to Legendary weapons gives you 5 points to spend on spell-like abilities each time you select it. So, two questions: If you select the spellcasting ability twice (or more) at the same tier, can you add the points together to purchase spell-like abilities with a spell level above 5? If so, can you save unspent points from a previous tier for the same purpose? Spellcasting: Spellcasting: This item allows its bearer to cast a limited number of spells as spell-like abilities. This ability can be taken more than once. Each time it’s taken, the bonded creature gains 5 points to spend on selecting what spells the item can cast. A spell costs a number of points equal to its level (minimum 1). The bearer can then activate the item to use each spell-like ability once per day. By spending double the cost, the bearer can use each spell-like ability three times per day. All spells must come from the same class’s spell list. No spell can have a level higher than the bonded creature’s tier. The caster level for these spells is equal to double the bonded creature’s tier. The save DC for these spells is equal to
10 + the spell level + the bonded creature’s tier.
Caineach wrote:
Huh, on my laptop I see zero too, but it showed ~2900 on my phone. I hit dislike and it still shows 0 on my laptop.
meatrace wrote:
I see 2800 dislikes.
Cheapy wrote:
They're actually consistent, just cut in different places.
It does seem more reasonable to compare cities to cities. Unless you're suggesting that less gun control drives up the murder rate in rural areas, but doesn't change the rate in urban areas? A cursory glance at murder rates in US cities on wikipedia doesn't seem to show much higher rates in red states.
Then what is it that would make the minis impossible if they were non-randomized? The price point would be too high to move the same kind of quantity? I should mention that I'm not at all distressed by the current way of selling minis, I'm happy buying the handful of minis I want on the secondary market. I'm just curious about why it is the way it is.
It's certainly not that I don't believe it, I've read enough posts by people who know what they're talking about to acknowledge that it must be true. I just can't manage to understand it. So, hypothetically, what if WizKids sold randomized cases, but only to vendors who immediately opened and sorted the figures. If those vendors priced and sold the minis individually, they would...what? Wind up with a bunch of figures no one wants and quickly sell out of the others? And if they tried to adjust prices to fit demand they'd still wind up with a glut of low priced unattractive minis and the prices on the popular ones would be sky-high? Is it fair to say that this business model essentially depends on getting people to buy minis they don't want?
Vic Wertz wrote: It may not be obvious until you look into it, but the random element isn't about making it a broad, high-quality line of prepainted plastic minis more profitable—it's about making it possible. I've read explanations of this (including Lisa's that was linked to) before, and I still can't quite wrap my head around it. If web stores can buy randomized bricks from WizKids, open them all up, price and sell them individually and make a profit, why is it impossible for WizKids/Paizo to do so?
Zombieneighbours wrote:
I can think of a third way. If the vernacular use of 'theory' is corrupting the scientific use, why not use another term for a scientific theory? I suggest best-possible-explanation-of-the-facts-thingummy.
Maybe he meant civil rights act, and not jim crow? I'm guessing that BNW would say that a restaurant owner not being allowed to discriminate against customers makes the country less free, regardless of whether that's a good thing. Scott Betts et al might say it weighs the freedom to discriminate against the freedom to have a sandwich, or not be treated unfairly. Which I would say is malarky.
Several people in this thread have expressed a desire to ban or restrict large magazines and/or semi-automatic rifles. Many (most?) of them are not pushing for a full ban on guns. Rifles (including, but not only, semi-automatic rifles with large magazines) are used to murder a few hundred people a year in the US. Given all the studies indicating that owning a gun makes you less safe, and assuming that even if the only guns left in the US were revolvers, bolt-action rifles, and break action shotguns, there would be more than a few hundred murders a year committed with them, why don't you support a more comprehensive gun ban?
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