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I know "What does X think of Y" questions are generally pretty boring, but I'm legitimately curious: How do the Asura feel about Razmir? It seems like they do the fake divinity thing all the time but an upstart trying to copy their mortal enemies would likely turn a few many-faced heads.
I have a related question. In Curse of the Crimson Throne (old, but Golarion-specific), the asura are said to be "scions of the... Vudrani deities" who "mete out the wrath of the gods". Contrast with the "divine accidents" who seek to "revenge themselves upon the gods" from the more recent, but world-neutral, Bestiary 3.
Which of these would you say is the more correct version for your vision of Golarion?
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Ignoring humans, are the other Core Races of the Inner Sea more populous than the Core Races of Tian Xia?
To get more specific (because I obviously have an interest in this) - just how populous are Kitsune? Some races, like Wayang, seem to have particular areas they come from with denser populations, but I've not found any reference to a particular Kitsune home land. Do they have their own cities, or do they just tend to merge in to the human populations?
On other topics...
1. Cake, Pie, or Cheesecake?
2. A cake has just been cut and you are given your choice of pieces. Do you take a corner piece with lots of frosting, a side piece with moderate frosting, or a center piece with minimal frosting?
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Ignoring humans, are the other Core Races of the Inner Sea more populous than the Core Races of Tian Xia?
The core races of Tian-Xia are, as detailed in Dragon Empires Gazetter:
Human
Kitsune
Nagaji
Samsaran
Tengu
Wayang
Elves and gnomes and the like ARE still present in Tian-Xia, but they're not core races for that region.
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I know "What does X think of Y" questions are generally pretty boring, but I'm legitimately curious: How do the Asura feel about Razmir? It seems like they do the fake divinity thing all the time but an upstart trying to copy their mortal enemies would likely turn a few many-faced heads.
Not only are they kinda boring... they're also kinda frustrating to be honest, since it's REALLY hard to answer them without writing pages of information, since it's such a huge topic, and the fact that there are an endless combination of these questions, I really don't want to get into the habit of encouraging those kinds of questions with detailed answers.
Asura would find Razmir a fun place to play and hunt, I suspect... but there's not a lot of them at ALL there. They have attentions elsewhere.
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How long do you and the company like to go between adventure module treatments of the same sort of thing? For instance, since you published No Response from Deepmar in 2012, how long would you typically want to go before you do another derro-themed adventure? (This is not, alas, an innocent question.)
I prefer not to repeat things that often at all. No plans to do more derro stuff anytime soon.
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1) When you critical hit someone with an owl, do you roll 2d4-4 (minimum 1) or 1d4-2 two times (minimum 2)?
2) Will we ever see a Grippli miniature? Well that's a bit open ended, will we see a Grippli miniature soon :D?
3) Do you have any friends out in that snow storm?
1) What.
2) Unlikely. Because they're pretty niche and pretty small... a combination that more or less means "Unlikely to ever have a mini."
3) Yes. Plenty, on the real-world side and internet side.
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Assuming this hasn't been asked before... Two questions.
1) Are there any more of Tabris' writings about the multiverse? Perhaps about the Law and Chaos elements of alignment, or even the True Neutral perhaps?
2) What character classes would you see having characters that devote their entire lives hunting down Tabris' writings? Arcanists? Investigators? Psychics perhaps?
1) Unrevealed. But I'm sure there are.
2) Any class could work; that type of character goal is seperate from class requirements, really, and while an "investigation themed" background does indeed suggest classes like bard or investigator or inquisitor... it can be a great character goal to give classes not normally associated with such activity as well.
1) Cool beans, and I eagerly await for paizo to take my money for them.
2) Allow me to rephrase: What classes do you think would be most likely to hunting down Tabris' writings and make the most use of them? Emphasized the primary portion of my question.
1) Excellent.
2) My answer remains the same.
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So on Pathfinder wiki I found note on abomination dragons(metallic & chromatic hybrids), humour dragons, mineral dragons, thaumaturgic dragons and sin & virtue dragon. Apparently they were mentioned in 3.5 version of Fortress of Giants.
Are these something odd and old that isn't canon anymore? Out of curiosity, what were they supposed to be like before they were scrapped(if they were)?
The Pathfinder wiki, like any publicly accessible and adjustable wiki, is not a great place to get final say or accuracy 100% of the time. It's a GREAT place to start research, which is exactly what you did and are doing! :-D
We first mentioned abomination dragons and the others back in Pathfinder #4, yes... back in the day when we were still scrambling to build up a world at the same time we were placing adventures in it. It was a crazy time, and there was a lot of "Let's throw things at the wall and see what sticks!" When we did the Pathfinder version of the campaign setting... and then again with the definitive "Inner Sea World Guide," we had the luxury of taking more time and abandoning ideas we ended up not liking.
One of those ideas was those dragon categories. They're no longer canon. They were, like the Oliphaunt of Jandelay and the village of Brastlewark and the Mordant Spire things we tried out because we just had a "proper noun shortage" since we couldn't use D&D content anymore. Some of those early creations ended up being good stuff we kept (such as the three I just listed). Others, like the abomination dragons and other dragons did not make the cull.
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Hello James, I hope everything is going good for you.
Anyway I was wondering about the the auction of the Sun Orchid Elixir.
Is it general knowledge of who is making a bid and who wins the bid? Or is that all kept secret?
IE is it easy to find out who won last year? Who is making a bid this year etc.?
Things are stressful and frustrating and busy and so on, unfortunately.
There's not general knowledge of who makes bids, and while who wins isn't intentionally published or revealed... it usually gets out.
We haven't made a full list of who won, or of who's making a bid in any one year, because we want to leave that to our writers and all the GMs to come up with as they need.
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I know "What does X think of Y" questions are generally pretty boring, but I'm legitimately curious: How do the Asura feel about Razmir? It seems like they do the fake divinity thing all the time but an upstart trying to copy their mortal enemies would likely turn a few many-faced heads.I have a related question. In Curse of the Crimson Throne (old, but Golarion-specific), the asura are said to be "scions of the... Vudrani deities" who "mete out the wrath of the gods". Contrast with the "divine accidents" who seek to "revenge themselves upon the gods" from the more recent, but world-neutral, Bestiary 3.
Which of these would you say is the more correct version for your vision of Golarion?
The newer version from Bestiary 3 is more accurate.
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Ignoring humans, are the other Core Races of the Inner Sea more populous than the Core Races of Tian Xia?To get more specific (because I obviously have an interest in this) - just how populous are Kitsune? Some races, like Wayang, seem to have particular areas they come from with denser populations, but I've not found any reference to a particular Kitsune home land. Do they have their own cities, or do they just tend to merge in to the human populations?
On other topics...
1. Cake, Pie, or Cheesecake?
2. A cake has just been cut and you are given your choice of pieces. Do you take a corner piece with lots of frosting, a side piece with moderate frosting, or a center piece with minimal frosting?
Kitsune are populous enough to be a core race there. About as populous as, say, elves in the Inner Sea region. No real homeland; they're more like halflings in that regard, and live in the wild or among other cultures.
1) Pie, closely followed by cake. Cheesecake NEVER with the exception of peanut butter and chocolate ones from Pike Place Market.
2) Less frosting is better.
Ignoring humans, are the other Core Races of the Inner Sea more populous than the Core Races of Tian Xia?The core races of Tian-Xia are, as detailed in Dragon Empires Gazetter:
Human
Kitsune
Nagaji
Samsaran
Tengu
WayangElves and gnomes and the like ARE still present in Tian-Xia, but they're not core races for that region.
I think you misunderstood my question. I didn't ask what the Core Races of Tian-Xia are, I asked if the non-human races of Tian-Xia were more or less populous than the Core Races of the Inner Sea.
You seem to be implying that they are, but I'm not sure.
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Ignoring humans, are the other Core Races of the Inner Sea more populous than the Core Races of Tian Xia?The core races of Tian-Xia are, as detailed in Dragon Empires Gazetter:
Human
Kitsune
Nagaji
Samsaran
Tengu
WayangElves and gnomes and the like ARE still present in Tian-Xia, but they're not core races for that region.
I think you misunderstood my question. I didn't ask what the Core Races of Tian-Xia are, I asked if the non-human races of Tian-Xia were more or less populous than the Core Races of the Inner Sea.
You seem to be implying that they are, but I'm not sure.
Oh! Yeah. Tian Xia is about as humanocentric as is the Inner Sea region. And its non-human races are about the same as well.
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Hello James, I hope everything is going good for you.
Anyway I was wondering about the the auction of the Sun Orchid Elixir.
Is it general knowledge of who is making a bid and who wins the bid? Or is that all kept secret?
IE is it easy to find out who won last year? Who is making a bid this year etc.?
Things are stressful and frustrating and busy and so on, unfortunately.
There's not general knowledge of who makes bids, and while who wins isn't intentionally published or revealed... it usually gets out.
We haven't made a full list of who won, or of who's making a bid in any one year, because we want to leave that to our writers and all the GMs to come up with as they need.
Sorry to hear about the stress and frustration. I hope things improve soon for you.
A follow up question...
So Thuvia does not provide security to keep it a secret?
I don't know what I am asking above is clear enough. I am trying to gauge how much espionage and intrigue goes on. I figure there is a lot between the various bidders...but I am wondering for a outside group looking to steal one or more from the winners.
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So Thuvia does not provide security to keep it a secret?
I don't know what I am asking above is clear enough. I am trying to gauge how much espionage and intrigue goes on. I figure there is a lot between the various bidders...but I am wondering for a outside group looking to steal one or more from the winners.
They likely do provide security. It's all still a VERY undeveloped and undefiled situation though, and I'm not really ready to nail down those details, having simply not thought too much about it.
How much espionage and intrigue goes on? Exactly how much you need for whatever adventure you're running there, frankly. That might seem like a cop out, but the fact is that we're just not planning on doing much with Thuvia anytime soon, so waiting for us if you wanna start that adventure for your home group is a bad idea... ;-)
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James how doable/desirable would it be to do a video game based on one (or perhaps several) of the Adventure paths (Like how there was a video game version of temple of elemental evil?)
I would love it.
All the way desirable.
How doable? By Paizo? Not doable. By a company with the skills and structure and experience who might be licensed it by us? All the way doable.
Will it some day happen? I certainly hope so!
Can I make it happen on my own? No chance in hades. But I can help it happen. And have been pretty much all along.
Hello James,
How are you today?
Verrine Caiteil, the Spokeswoman of the Council of Ushers in Magnimar, is given a LN alignment in the City of Monuments book (pg. 17), but a NG alignment in the Rise of the Runelords Anniversary Edition (pg. 388, under the city stats).
Which one of those alignments do you think suits her best?
Thank you very much!
Hi James,
I was hoping to get some advice from you on a Wrath of the Righteous issue I'm having.
The party is having a very tough time so far, which means I'd like to close any power gaps as fast as I reasonably can.
I had dropped hints about finding Fenton and the Lymirin Discourse. My initial idea was to allow reading all 11 acts to grant ascension, but the player in question died while the party was trying to track down Fenton. Because of this they had to go back to Drezen to resurrect him, which cost them precious time. My players are pretty smart, and I fear they'll think I'm handwaving this if I allow them to pick up the trail where they left off.
Not to mention, the player who is running the army discovered they only have a few days of food left, and they haven't taken Citadel Drezen yet.
So my question is what advice do you have?
Do you think it's okay to allow fighting Soltengrebbe to be a moment of ascension for him? (They never got their army morale above 15 (it's currently at 11) so he's still inside the citadel. Like I said, they're having a very rough time.)
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Following on from that question for such a theoretical game would you prefer new characters made just for the game, A choice of several of the current Iconics, A way to just make random characters or perhaps a combination/mix of the above?
For this type of game? My preference has grown to adhere to the Bioware model—you create your character and have full customization, then your party's filled out by a bunch of pre-built NPCs, the exact mix of whom you take on your adventures is left to you.
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Hello James,
How are you today?
Verrine Caiteil, the Spokeswoman of the Council of Ushers in Magnimar, is given a LN alignment in the City of Monuments book (pg. 17), but a NG alignment in the Rise of the Runelords Anniversary Edition (pg. 388, under the city stats).
Which one of those alignments do you think suits her best?
Thank you very much!
I'm super busy and kinda stressed out and have been on and off getting sick since Thursday and procrastinating about doing all the other stuff by answering a few Ask James questions, that's how! :-)
City of Monuments is correct (I feel that suits her best on account that I wrote that book—;D). Runelords just forgot to fix that during its update.
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Hi James,
I was hoping to get some advice from you on a Wrath of the Righteous issue I'm having.
Spoiler:So I have a player who started with us, then left for a while, recently rejoin our game. The player missed the end of book 1 so has no way easy way of being mythic.
The party is having a very tough time so far, which means I'd like to close any power gaps as fast as I reasonably can.I had dropped hints about finding Fenton and the Lymirin Discourse. My initial idea was to allow reading all 11 acts to grant ascension, but the player in question died while the party was trying to track down Fenton. Because of this they had to go back to Drezen to resurrect him, which cost them precious time. My players are pretty smart, and I fear they'll think I'm handwaving this if I allow them to pick up the trail where they left off.
Not to mention, the player who is running the army discovered they only have a few days of food left, and they haven't taken Citadel Drezen yet.
So my question is what advice do you have?
Do you think it's okay to allow fighting Soltengrebbe to be a moment of ascension for him? (They never got their army morale above 15 (it's currently at 11) so he's still inside the citadel. Like I said, they're having a very rough time.)
Introducing the character as if he'd been part of the gaining of mythic stuff all along is the best bet, frankly. You can let the player build into his character's background what he accomplished to get that way. It's already tough enough jumping in without having directly experienced the story and growth alongside the other player characters; don't throw additional hurdles in, is my take.
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Who do you think was more badass, the Ancient Greeks or the Ancient Romans?Ancient Romans. 'Cause HBO's "Rome" was excellent.
Darnit James, now I have another show I have to binge-watch! :P
And on an unrelated note, here's a question: How do Kellids wear their hair? Do they prefer short hair? Long hair that they can braid? Beards? Women wearing their long hair tied up around their face to look like a beard?
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Who do you think was more badass, the Ancient Greeks or the Ancient Romans?Ancient Romans. 'Cause HBO's "Rome" was excellent.Darnit James, now I have another show I have to binge-watch! :P
And on an unrelated note, here's a question: How do Kellids wear their hair? Do they prefer short hair? Long hair that they can braid? Beards? Women wearing their long hair tied up around their face to look like a beard?
Fortunately for you, Rome is only 2 seasons. I like season 1 best, but mostly because the penultimate episode is OUTSTANDING.
Kellids wear their hair all sorts of ways, normally influenced by the region; they're spread all over. The stereotyped Kellid hairdo is wild and free. Like Conan.
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I made a lvl infinity character called the creator, who has an 1000 in every score, and his skills are +2500 in all skills, and his BAB is +1000, and his weapon is a +infinity greatclub and a +1nfinity composite longbow, and all special abilities and feats, and is every single race, and is larger than collossal, and has a 3500 to fort, reflex, and will saves, and has a 2000 cmd, and a +1500 cmb, and a 1530 AC and all spells, and he can make 200 attacks every round(spells included), and is pretty much the beastest beast there is in pathfinder.
Would anyone EVER face this guy?
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I made a lvl infinity character called the creator, who has an 1000 in every score, and his skills are +2500 in all skills, and his BAB is +1000, and his weapon is a +infinity greatclub and a +1nfinity composite longbow, and all special abilities and feats, and is every single race, and is larger than collossal, and has a 3500 to fort, reflex, and will saves, and has a 2000 cmd, and a +1500 cmb, and a 1530 AC and all spells, and he can make 200 attacks every round(spells included), and is pretty much the beastest beast there is in pathfinder.
Would anyone EVER face this guy?
Sure. Waldorf could.
The deities in my homebrew are human enough personality-wise that the players can identify with them, but are deific enough that testing them is foolhardy, and depending on the deity, possibly a death sentence.
I don't stat them out...I don't need to.
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The deities in my homebrew are human enough personality-wise that the players can identify with them, but are deific enough that testing them is foolhardy, and depending on the deity, possibly a death sentence.
I don't stat them out...I don't need to.
I'm not seeing a question there.
Let's keep the thread to questions and answers, please. Even if the questions sometimes get... ridiculous.
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I made a lvl infinity character called the creator, who has an 1000 in every score, and his skills are +2500 in all skills, and his BAB is +1000, and his weapon is a +infinity greatclub and a +1nfinity composite longbow, and all special abilities and feats, and is every single race, and is larger than collossal, and has a 3500 to fort, reflex, and will saves, and has a 2000 cmd, and a +1500 cmb, and a 1530 AC and all spells, and he can make 200 attacks every round(spells included), and is pretty much the beastest beast there is in pathfinder.
Would anyone EVER face this guy?
The deities in my homebrew are human enough personality-wise that the players can identify with them, but are deific enough that testing them is foolhardy, and depending on the deity, possibly a death sentence.
I don't stat them out...I don't need to.
I'm not seeing a question there.
Let's keep the thread to questions and answers, please. Even if the questions sometimes get... ridiculous.
Oh you're right, forgot what thread this was :|
So...where did you get the idea for your deities and their back stories?
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Quick question for clarification from someone new to this - based on a Magus' ability to use spell combat, is he able to, at first level, declare use of spell combat, accept a -2 penalty to his attack for the round, make that attack, then cast true strike, and on his next turn declare the same and begin by casting blade lash with a +28 on his attempt to trip (+20 from true strike, +10 from blade lash, - 2 from spell combat) and follow up by stabbing his now almost guaranteed prone enemy with a -2 on his attack (though his opponent now has negative four to AC and hit and must accept an attack of opportunity to stand up)?
If so, could four magi in a party use this technique with reach weapons, considering the rules to remove your hand from a two handed weapon and return it as a free action, to choose two enemies and alternate who is casting blade lash that turn with who is casting true strike in order to keep them down until they run out of spells, getting attacks of opportunity if the enemies ever try to stand up, all while remaining out of reach of the targets?
Lastly, since blade lash specifically states "you can use this weapon to attempt a trip combat maneuver against one creature within 20 feet", my question is if you are using a reach weapon and it is elongated (this would also apply to creatures with longer natural reach, etc.) would the recipient of this spell be able to use it to extend their reach by 20 ft for the trip attempt, or would a Huge ogre magi with a reach weapon still only be able to blade lash a target within 20 ft.?
These are good questions for the rules forums and FAQ tags; can't answer them here. Sorry!
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Sure. Waldorf could.I made a lvl infinity character called the creator, who has an 1000 in every score, and his skills are +2500 in all skills, and his BAB is +1000, and his weapon is a +infinity greatclub and a +1nfinity composite longbow, and all special abilities and feats, and is every single race, and is larger than collossal, and has a 3500 to fort, reflex, and will saves, and has a 2000 cmd, and a +1500 cmb, and a 1530 AC and all spells, and he can make 200 attacks every round(spells included), and is pretty much the beastest beast there is in pathfinder.
Would anyone EVER face this guy?
What about Statler?
Got a Bard/Skald question for ya
lets say i have a String instrument with a command use of http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/a/alter-musical-instrument
on it
said bard/skald has Versatile Performance and a perform String skill selection
if he uses the magic effect of the Instrument to make it sound like a Drum
Qa: does it shift from Perform string to Perform Percussion?
or even though it sounds like a Drum does it stay within Perform String?
i ask because your still using the same Strings they just make a different sound
and if its the Latter
would it count as a Perform percussion but use the Strings perform?
im not trying to get around skills. its more of what i said before" Same strings, same Music sheet, different sound"
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"Rome" is indeed excellent. That Tullo character, and the fight against the gladiators!
One of my top three favorite TV series, with "Band of Brothers", and on top 1: "Six Feet Under" (Rome and BoB are tied for the second place).
to James: do you like movies about gladiator films?
and what is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?^^
Introducing the character as if he'd been part of the gaining of mythic stuff all along is the best bet, frankly. You can let the player build into his character's background what he accomplished to get that way. It's already tough enough jumping in without having directly experienced the story and growth alongside the other player characters; don't throw additional hurdles in, is my take.Hi James,
I was hoping to get some advice from you on a Wrath of the Righteous issue I'm having.
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Thanks for the reply! We've already started and I'd already decided he wasn't mythic, but that was definitely a mistake on my part.
I'll talk it over with the group and see if we can all agree that it's for the best. They're pretty reasonable so it should be fine!
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As usual, thanks for the last batch, and answering everyone else's questions.
As usual, I have more.
1.) Do the clerics of various deities retain their abilities outside of their normal neighborhoods? Reign of Winter seems to imply that a cleric a golarian deity functions entirely normally on say Earth.
2.) Is there any planar limitation? Such as Sheyln dwells on one plane and a cleric on another plane finds their powers diminished the further from that home plane they are?
3. Since Inevitables start going peculiar after fulfilling their initial function and being operational for longer times (this might be old fluff, so correct me if I'm wrong), is it possible for Inevitables to end up as different alignments? Inevitable paladins or hellknights?
4. Do any of the Inner Sea deities include in their mythologies references to neutrally-aligned: the aeons, inevitables, proteans or the like?
5. Since Aroden and Iyths prove that deities can die why have the various gods not gotten together to attempt to determine a more definitive method of let us say concluding Rovagug aside from the typical 'seal away the evil' thing?
6. Are we ever going to get definitive answers to the questions raised in Occult Mysteries, or is that stuff forever going to be plot bait for creative DMs?
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1) So what kind of setting book would contain information on every day life of commoners and festivals and other such stuff? I mean, as awesome as it is I don't see Paizo doing book that is all about festivals/celebrations/holidays so in what type of book would you guys include those type of stuff if you wanted to detail that sort of fluff?
2) Is it just me or is quote lot of Rise of the Runelords actually a horror campaign?
I mean, serial killer haunted house horror, hillbilly horror, lost in blizzard cannibalism horror...
3) So, if PCs(or someone else, like that ancient white dragon who can follow them through portal) open the portal in Runeforge letting inhabitants who can leave out of it, what would Runeforge inhabitants do once they have escaped the forge?
4) I might be little confused about the timeline, but if I understood right, those dwarf brothers who had expedition to Xin-Shalast died years earlier than when Mokumarian found the city? How would have things changed if expedition had been success and they would have reached the city?
Like, they probably couldn't have woken up Karzoug since they weren't wizards, so would discovery of city and it being made public would probably mean Mokumarian wouldn't seek the city out years later since its already discovered and probably being looted, but would someone else have eventually been enslaved by Karzoug or would is plans have been doomed in that scenario?
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Have you thought about having the thread name changed (similar to Jason's) to read "all your Non-Rules questions here"?
No, because I do and will answer many rules questions to do with the vast majority of the books we publish. Just not for the hardcover line that the Design team handles. Rules questions on stuff from Adventure Paths, Campaign Settings, and even the Player's Guides are open territory usually, unless the question diverges into how those rules directly interact with things in the hardcovers.
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What about Statler?Sure. Waldorf could.I made a lvl infinity character called the creator, who has an 1000 in every score, and his skills are +2500 in all skills, and his BAB is +1000, and his weapon is a +infinity greatclub and a +1nfinity composite longbow, and all special abilities and feats, and is every single race, and is larger than collossal, and has a 3500 to fort, reflex, and will saves, and has a 2000 cmd, and a +1500 cmb, and a 1530 AC and all spells, and he can make 200 attacks every round(spells included), and is pretty much the beastest beast there is in pathfinder.
Would anyone EVER face this guy?
Nope. (Not talking about that Waldorf. This one.)