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OK, if you are like me you like Pathfinder, but have an issue with the homosexual, bi-sexual, gender-fluid, and other NPCs that frequently appear in Pathfinder (now numbering in the 100s).

I want to set up an online project to go through these NPCs and edit their background to remove any degeneracy that does not align with your personal comfort zone. Sometimes this is very easy, other times the NPCs need a complete reworking.

For example, perhaps we can take Azaz Arafe and Khelru, the homosexual lovers from 'Lovers in the Scorched Hand' and rework them as siblings. That shouldn't be too hard to do.

Here is a list we can start with -

http://wesschneider.tumblr.com/post/93277599246/50-lgbtq-characters-in-the- pathfinder-rpg

We also need to identify the other LGBTQ+ NPCs and revise them to heteronormative standard.

I realize that some may not like this project, but no one is telling you how to play YOUR game. This is for MY game and the games of other people that think like me, the numbers of whom are not insignificant.

One of the problems with Item Creation in 3.5 is that magical item creators are punished by having to take item creation feats that weakens the item creator in other areas. In fact this was one of the main reasons that the designers of pathfinder dropped experience point requirements for item creation in pathfinder. Bizarrely, they kept the feat tax for item creators, and removed the XP requirement for making items. In other words, exactly the wrong way around!

Now in Pathfinder they had to find ways to balance your new ability to create items without XP by having costs in time and so on. Not to mention the feat tax. Now we can remove the feat tax, and restore XP costs for creating magical items, something that was inherently balancing.

Here I will offer a new feat, which is an umbrella feat for taking other item creation feats that you can purchase at any time. For a wizard this can replace the 1st level feat 'Scribe Scroll'.

Item Creator [Item Creation]
Prerequisite
Caster level 1st or manifester level 1st (or equivalent).

You may now purchase any item creation feat that you meet the prerequisites for with Experience Points. Only item creation feats that directly create an item (for example, Scribe Scroll or Create Wondrous Item) may be purchased, and feats that affect the cost in GP, XP, or speed of creation may not be purchased via this feat (for example, the Magical Artisan feat).

The cost of each feat has an escalating cost, depending on how many item creation feats are purchased. The cost is capped at 5000 XP.

1st Item Creation Feat 100 XP
2nd Item Creation Feat 300 XP
3rd Item Creation Feat 600 XP
4th Item Creation Feat 1600 XP
5th Item Creation Feat 3700 XP
6th> Item Creation Feat 5000 XP

An item creation feat may be purchased at anytime, as long as the character has the available experience points. If purchasing the item creation feat would cause the character to lose a level, the feat may not be purchased.

I am seeing a lot of excitement around the Dungeon Master's Guild. The fact that fans are able to sell in game world products is spurring this growth, I believe.

Will Paizo be doing something similar for its IP?

Way of the Wicked allows players to be the "bad guys". However there can be quite a lot of psychological resistance to being really bad guys. Here are some ideas for character creation.

The characters start in prison. They have been convicted of serious crimes. Now generally it would be quite easy to say "OK, my PC is a murderer" but it lacks pathos. The PCs in this adventure path want "revenge" against the state of Talingarde, but seeking "revenge" for your justified imprisonment for murder is banal and shallow. No, that will not do at all. Instead have all the PCs imprisoned for victimless crimes.

The PCs should feel like they are bringing down a hypocritical system rather than just being evil for the hell of it.

Prostitution and pimping
Atheism or blasphemy (against the state religion)
Worshipping Asmodeus or other forbidden deity
Drug dealing or consumption of drugs
Habitual public intoxication
Slumlording
Gambling (especially hypocritical because the guards are gambling too)
Underground arena membership (unauthorized prize fights)
Lèse-majesté (criticizing or mocking the king)
Sedition
Rumour-mongering or inciting unrest
Violating government monopoly by smuggling (for example, bringing in cheap salt from overseas)
Tavern brawling (opponents in brawl turn out to be drunken clerics. You get them blame for assaulting clerics)
Possession or drawing of pornography
Fornication

And so on. Now the PCs are imprisoned for exercising, for the most part, basic rights. The Wicked can now feel a little righteous in their goal of bringing Talingarde to its knees.