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The Emerald Root? Never Heard of this one. Where can I find it?
It's the bottom level in The Emerald Spire Superdungeon.
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This came up in another thread so I was curious, why doesn't the Gray Gardener prestige class have an Evil Alignemnt restriction? Or at the very least a "any non-Good"?Because the gray gardeners are an evil organization that, among other things, seeks to catch souls in guillotines and remove them from the cycle. It's adjacent to the type of evil that creates undead.
I believe the question is why don't Gray Gardeners have an alignment restriction of any sort.
Did you ever watch Space: Above and Beyond? If so, what did you think of it?
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This came up in another thread so I was curious, why doesn't the Gray Gardener prestige class have an Evil Alignemnt restriction? Or at the very least a "any non-Good"?Because the gray gardeners are an evil organization that, among other things, seeks to catch souls in guillotines and remove them from the cycle. It's adjacent to the type of evil that creates undead.
Yes, they're definitely evil. That's why I'm curious why they don't have any alignment restrictions?
Edit: Thankies Cole :3
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This came up in another thread so I was curious, why doesn't the Gray Gardener prestige class have an Evil Alignemnt restriction? Or at the very least a "any non-Good"?Because the gray gardeners are an evil organization that, among other things, seeks to catch souls in guillotines and remove them from the cycle. It's adjacent to the type of evil that creates undead.Yes, they're definitely evil. That's why I'm curious why they don't have any alignment restrictions?
Edit: Thankies Cole :3
Oh! Probably because of an error of omission in building the prestige class.
Dunno if you've been asked this.
What did you think of Stranger Things?
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Oh! Probably because of an error of omission in building the prestige class.This came up in another thread so I was curious, why doesn't the Gray Gardener prestige class have an Evil Alignemnt restriction? Or at the very least a "any non-Good"?Because the gray gardeners are an evil organization that, among other things, seeks to catch souls in guillotines and remove them from the cycle. It's adjacent to the type of evil that creates undead.Yes, they're definitely evil. That's why I'm curious why they don't have any alignment restrictions?
Edit: Thankies Cole :3
I see, Thankies.
So I was getting pumped and ready to run a Rise of the Runelords adventure online, and my players and I were all excited...
And then real life decided to hit me like a freight train. For reasons beyond my control, I'm unable to use Roll20, Skype, or the central hub of the community I was playing with l, and thus might have to abandon the game.
I feel awful for doing this, though... Getting everybody's hopes up, and then having them just fall apart right before starting. I hate feeling like I've let my players down.
Any advice?
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So I was getting pumped and ready to run a Rise of the Runelords adventure online, and my players and I were all excited...
And then real life decided to hit me like a freight train. For reasons beyond my control, I'm unable to use Roll20, Skype, or the central hub of the community I was playing with l, and thus might have to abandon the game.
I feel awful for doing this, though... Getting everybody's hopes up, and then having them just fall apart right before starting. I hate feeling like I've let my players down.
Any advice?
Yup, it sucks. Happens to every GM eventually. My advice is to move on to the next game and try not to let this one get you down.
I know that Kellids aren't particularly pro-wizard but if a wizard helped out tribe somehow like defeating some BBEG would they give it one of their tribes younger members that seemed magically gifted as an apprentice?
I ask because i want to know if this would make sense as a back story for a Kellid wizard. Kellids from the Land of the Mammoth Lords if that helps.
Also is there anything that say a family member would give to a Kellid who is going away?
And do Kellids have personal familial bonds or is it on a more large tribe/clan scale? like do they think of their grandparents as their grandparents or as tribe elders without differentiating between those closely related to them or not?
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For things that dictate that a death or condition (usually loss of spellcasting ability) can only be remedied by divine intervention, not a wish or miracle, can a demigod fix the issue or does it require a full god?
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I know that Kellids aren't particularly pro-wizard but if a wizard helped out tribe somehow like defeating some BBEG would they give it one of their tribes younger members that seemed magically gifted as an apprentice?
I ask because i want to know if this would make sense as a back story for a Kellid wizard. Kellids from the Land of the Mammoth Lords if that helps.
Also is there anything that say a family member would give to a Kellid who is going away?
And do Kellids have personal familial bonds or is it on a more large tribe/clan scale? like do they think of their grandparents as their grandparents or as tribe elders without differentiating between those closely related to them or not?
It's certainly possible. There's a lot of different personalities among an entire ethnicity, after all.
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For things that dictate that a death or condition (usually loss of spellcasting ability) can only be remedied by divine intervention, not a wish or miracle, can a demigod fix the issue or does it require a full god?
"Divine intervention" means the intervetion of a divinity, which includes deities AND demigods.
Are there any spells you feel are under used?
Do you think dump stats should be used or do you think it's not necessary to completely optimise a PC?
Who turned in your favorite performance as Count Dracula in the myriad film versions? Not necessarily which film version is best, there are some great performances tied into fairly shoddy productions...
Speaking of all things undead and anemic, do you have a favorite fictional vampire? If Dracula's your number 1, who's in second place?
Hi James,
I did my new horror movie binge a bit early this year due to work reasons, and watched (rewatched in the case of the last movie). Have you seen or did you see the following, and what did you think?
1. It Follows
2. Bite
3. Clown
Bonus question 4. Do you think a monster designed around the one in Clown would work in Pathfinder? Do you think "clown monster" is a niche needing filled? (I feel movies 1 and 2 are pretty well covered thanks to Horror Adventures)
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Are there any spells you feel are under used?
Do you think dump stats should be used or do you think it's not necessary to completely optimise a PC?
Yes.
I think you should build the PC that makes you happiest. That might entail dumping a stat. That might entail giving yourself a challenge by NOT dumping a stat. Game still works either way.
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Who turned in your favorite performance as Count Dracula in the myriad film versions? Not necessarily which film version is best, there are some great performances tied into fairly shoddy productions...
Speaking of all things undead and anemic, do you have a favorite fictional vampire? If Dracula's your number 1, who's in second place?
My favorite Dracula performance is probably Max Schreck from Nosferatu.
My favorite fictional vampire is probably Selene, from the Underworld movies.
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Hi James,
I did my new horror movie binge a bit early this year due to work reasons, and watched (rewatched in the case of the last movie). Have you seen or did you see the following, and what did you think?
1. It Follows
2. Bite
3. Clown
Bonus question 4. Do you think a monster designed around the one in Clown would work in Pathfinder? Do you think "clown monster" is a niche needing filled? (I feel movies 1 and 2 are pretty well covered thanks to Horror Adventures)
1) Loved "It Follows." Was one of the best movies of the year. If it wasn't #1, it was probably #2 for me.
2) Was pretty disappointed by "Bite." "Honeymoon" was much better.
3) "Clown" was surprisingly excellent.
4) Clowns are pretty anachronistic to me; they're much more of a modern horror than a fantasy one. That said, I think a creature like that one could absolutely work in pathfinder, even if it's not appropriate for most settings. If you didn't want to build a brand new stat block for it, there's always the boogeyman.
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Sp uh, taking a small break RotR's plain plot to do subplot stuff with Nualia/Hells and other things(for example, oops, players remembered after the raid I had mentioned Old Light having magically locked trapdoor(got that from comic bonus material) that I had forgotten about telling them :'D so gotta figure out something out), I thought that'd be nice way to practice doing my own stuff, but my mind is being blank so thats a huge roadblock... So yeah gonna ask bunch of questions hoping to get inspiration from them.
1. How many prisoners can final three levels of Hells hold? Two digits or even three digits amounts?
2. How does Hells get hotter lower the levels? Is it magical thing or are they heated up or is it natural phenomenon?
3. Between three final levels, is there notable difference of how "bad" criminals are on each levels or are they about the same level of "badness" regardless of which of three levels they were originally sentenced?
4. Do prisoners have access to dimension door/teleportation and similar magic? Or do they have secret non magical routes to get out of the prison?
5. Are most of surviving prisoners powerful inviduals(aka high level npcs) or depraved but not that powerful criminals/mooks?
6. Hellfire/Hellstorm(whichever was correct term) Flumes.. Why are they called that anyway? Do they literally shoot Hellfire(or are powered somehow by energy from Hell) or is it "Because it sounds intimidating and scary/cool"?
7. So since standing stones in Sandpoint Cathedral were originally used to control them, does that mean Hellfire Flumes aren't meant to have people inside when they are operating? Or were those stones originally inside the tower?
8. I remember faintly reading somewhere that there was a place that had something similar to those seven standing stones, but I can't remember what... Am I just remembering wrong, or was there another place creepily similar to them?
Thank you for answers in advance, I realize that some of these questions are probably something that isn't known yet, but I haven't had chance to read all the materials :'D I have a lot of question, so saving ones about Midnight Dawn and Lamashtu related stuff for next post
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1. How many prisoners can final three levels of Hells hold? Two digits or even three digits amounts?
2. How does Hells get hotter lower the levels? Is it magical thing or are they heated up or is it natural phenomenon?
3. Between three final levels, is there notable difference of how "bad" criminals are on each levels or are they about the same level of "badness" regardless of which of three levels they were originally sentenced?
4. Do prisoners have access to dimension door/teleportation and similar magic? Or do they have secret non magical routes to get out of the prison?
5. Are most of surviving prisoners powerful inviduals(aka high level npcs) or depraved but not that powerful criminals/mooks?
6. Hellfire/Hellstorm(whichever was correct term) Flumes.. Why are they called that anyway? Do they literally shoot Hellfire(or are powered somehow by energy from Hell) or is it "Because it sounds intimidating and scary/cool"?
7. So since standing stones in Sandpoint Cathedral were originally used to control them, does that mean Hellfire Flumes aren't meant to have people inside when they are operating? Or were those stones originally inside the tower?
8. I remember faintly reading somewhere that there was a place that had something similar to those seven standing stones, but I can't remember what... Am I just remembering wrong, or was there another place creepily similar to them?
Thank you for answers in advance, I realize that some of these questions are probably something that...
1) Unrevealed. It would depend on how big the map of those levels is, which depends on how long you want an adventure set there to be.
2) Well, to a certain extent, it's physics; the deeper you go, the warmer it gets. I suspect there's also some magic at play too.
3) I suspect that the deeper you go, the worse they get, since that's just classic dungeon design.
4) Unrevealed.
5) Both are represented, but I'm not sure what the mix is.
6) They're called Hellstorm Flumes. (There may have been a "hellfire" put in print accidentally; that is indeed an error since hellfire is a specific thing, and these devices don't actually spew hellfire.) They're named what they are for two reasons. The Hellstorm part of the name is pretty much just 100% flavor, and 100% psychological warfare; by naming them something like that, Alaznist makes sure that they sounds scary and frightening and intimidating, not because they're hooked to hell (Alaznist is more of an Abyss kind of lady). They're called Flumes because the image of a flume of fire is really compelling, but ALSO because that's a Point Arena easter egg. Back in the day, they had a flume near the point that was used to transport lumber down the cliffs to the sea so the lumber could be loaded onto boats. There was a small settlement there called "Flumeville" as a result, and I've always liked the word "flume" in part because of the idea that they'd all but launch these huge trees down the cliffside there.
7) You can be inside the Hellstorm Flume when it fires; it's basically a lighthouse that shoots fire instead of light. The standing stones had several purposes; controlling the flume was only one of them, although I also suspect that back in the day the stones and the flume were both part of one larger structure, most of which was not protected via Thassilonian preservation magic beyond the flume and stones themselves and as such has long since crumbled away.
8) There's likely more sets of similar stones near other flume sites, but also the idea of standing stones is pretty common throughout fantasy settings, Golarion included.
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Do orcs exist on their own in Tian Xia, or would any orcs/half-orcs there be immigrants from Avistan and Garund?
Not significantly enough to be mentioned yet. There's some there, just as there are some samsarans in the Inner Sea region, but not nearly enough to register on a national scale. If they did, we would have mentioned such in Dragon Empires Gazateer, similar to how we mentioned there ARE elves and hobgoblins living there.
So... are they sacrificing interns behind the closed doors of Paizo for the holiday?
Why is Valeros Neutral Good? I know worshipping Cayden Cailean doesn't mean he has to be Chaotic Good, but from what I've seen and read about the guy he seems pretty Chaotic Good.
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Do orcs exist on their own in Tian Xia, or would any orcs/half-orcs there be immigrants from Avistan and Garund?Not significantly enough to be mentioned yet. There's some there, just as there are some samsarans in the Inner Sea region, but not nearly enough to register on a national scale. If they did, we would have mentioned such in Dragon Empires Gazateer, similar to how we mentioned there ARE elves and hobgoblins living there.
That reminds me: We know where the ELVES there came from. Where'd the HOBGOBLINS come from?!
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Ah, thanks ._. Hellfire/Hellstorm thing has been confusing me since RotR switches between two and a lot of different sources also switch between them, though hellfire seems to be more common of the two. Maybe I'll assume its because Brodert mistranslated the name or something. Well anyway, rest of the questions
1. One more question about Hells, or well, rather about designing prison/literal dungeon dungeon. I'd imagine it would get boring if it was just long corridors with lots of cells and some bigger rooms for interrogation/guard breaks and such, do you have tips on what to keep in mind when designing interesting prison dungeon?
2. Also, come to think about it, has it been revealed what powered Hellstorm Flumes?
3. So if Scarnetti family gets revealed to be behind arsons in Sandpoint and get ruined, do their Magnimar branch also get ruined in progress? I mean, does Magnimar branch also get jailed or just their reputation ruined?
4. Do intellect devourers have rivalries with each other?
5. How does Midnight Dawn intend to transfer "soldiers" to Ilvarandin? Same way Devourers themselves get back there?(I'm actually bit confused how they get back to Ilvarandin after they get to host through midnight milk... Dream lens confuses me a little bit :'D)
6. So the lens keeper ulfen warrior!sorcerer!Tiluatchek, he is mentioned to have bodies of succubus assasing, storm giant and umbral dragon(and possibly Vumeshki's, but its bit confusing whether sorcerer!Tiluatchek or wizard!Tiluatchek has him) stored somewhere. How do devourers store bodies for later use? Can multiple different devourers wear them like suits?
7...Come to think about it, wait, intellect devourers can snatch outsiders?
8. Kaleb!Tiluatchek's masterplan involves making version of Midnight Milk that can be introduced to water supply. Midnight Dawn is mentioned to target suitable hosts for body snatching, so if Kaleb!Tiluatchek's plan would succeed, would they invade in masse and take even the bodies not suitable for warfare or would they still target only useful ones?
9. Is Midnight Milk considered an illegal drug by authorities meaning its not known that Kaleb sells it? I might have messed that up since I kinda imagined Kaleb tries to sell it as sleep medicine while claiming addicts use stronger version of the stuff.
10. Do all types of demons work for Lamashtu, even if in smaller numbers? Yerrin-Ku, glabrezu who Scribbler summons, is mentioned to avoid summoning vrocks because they are more associated with Pazuzu.
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So... are they sacrificing interns behind the closed doors of Paizo for the holiday?
Unlikely. Since we've not had interns for many years, do to adjustments to Washington law a few years back making internships more or less not feasible for small companies.
Of course, I spent the day not at work, so who knows what sorts of shenanigans went on there? Not me, that's what I'm saying.
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That reminds me: We know where the ELVES there came from. Where'd the HOBGOBLINS come from?!Do orcs exist on their own in Tian Xia, or would any orcs/half-orcs there be immigrants from Avistan and Garund?Not significantly enough to be mentioned yet. There's some there, just as there are some samsarans in the Inner Sea region, but not nearly enough to register on a national scale. If they did, we would have mentioned such in Dragon Empires Gazateer, similar to how we mentioned there ARE elves and hobgoblins living there.
From a creepy artifact.
What is your preference for classes for people playing pathfinder for the first time (along with RPG's in general)? They have experience reading RPG's but have never played before.
also How do you make fighter feel interesting and unique?
bonus question: What is your favorite pathfinder comic arc?
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Ah, thanks ._. Hellfire/Hellstorm thing has been confusing me since RotR switches between two and a lot of different sources also switch between them, though hellfire seems to be more common of the two. Maybe I'll assume its because Brodert mistranslated the name or something. Well anyway, rest of the questions
1. One more question about Hells, or well, rather about designing prison/literal dungeon dungeon. I'd imagine it would get boring if it was just long corridors with lots of cells and some bigger rooms for interrogation/guard breaks and such, do you have tips on what to keep in mind when designing interesting prison dungeon?
2. Also, come to think about it, has it been revealed what powered Hellstorm Flumes?
3. So if Scarnetti family gets revealed to be behind arsons in Sandpoint and get ruined, do their Magnimar branch also get ruined in progress? I mean, does Magnimar branch also get jailed or just their reputation ruined?
4. Do intellect devourers have rivalries with each other?
5. How does Midnight Dawn intend to transfer "soldiers" to Ilvarandin? Same way Devourers themselves get back there?(I'm actually bit confused how they get back to Ilvarandin after they get to host through midnight milk... Dream lens confuses me a little bit :'D)
6. So the lens keeper ulfen warrior!sorcerer!Tiluatchek, he is mentioned to have bodies of succubus assasing, storm giant and umbral dragon(and possibly Vumeshki's, but its bit confusing whether sorcerer!Tiluatchek or wizard!Tiluatchek has him) stored somewhere. How do devourers store bodies for later use? Can multiple different devourers wear them like suits?
7...Come to think about it, wait, intellect devourers can snatch outsiders?
8. Kaleb!Tiluatchek's masterplan involves making version of Midnight Milk that can be introduced to water supply. Midnight Dawn is mentioned to target suitable hosts for body snatching, so if Kaleb!Tiluatchek's plan would succeed, would they invade in masse and take even the bodies not suitable for warfare or would they still target only useful ones?
9. Is Midnight Milk considered an illegal drug by authorities meaning its not known that Kaleb sells it? I might have messed that up since I kinda imagined Kaleb tries to sell it as sleep medicine while claiming addicts use stronger version of the stuff.
10. Do all types of demons work for Lamashtu, even if in smaller numbers? Yerrin-Ku, glabrezu who Scribbler summons, is mentioned to avoid summoning vrocks because they are more associated with Pazuzu.
You can think of "Hellfire Flume" and "Hellstorm Flume" as being synonyms, basically. Hellstorm Flume is the correct one.
1) Look at adventures that feature prisons that you admire and enjoy and emulate them.
2) Nope.
3) Unrevealed; that's an ongoing story thread that's yet to resolve.
4) Yup.
5) That's also an ongoing story thread that's not yet resolved (but it has to do with dream travel type magic; you go into a midnight milk fugue, an intellect devourer hops into you, then it dreams you back into the dark, more or less.)
6) The whole Tiluatcheck story got kinda mangled in between my significant notes and what happened in the article in design/development/edit, alas. I should have just taken the time to write that whole 5,000 word article myself rather than write a 3,500 word outline for it, I guess. If/when we pick up the story again later, I'll untangle it then; for now, if you're going ahead with your own story, pick what works best. Intellect devourers store bodies via effects like gentle repose or oil of timelessness or (if they're REALLY powerful) temporal stasis. Since a "suit" is just a body, it doesn't have anything that keys it to a specific intellect devourer; they can share them if they want.
7) If something has a body and a brain, they can body thief it. So yes, for most outsiders they can.
8) If the plan succeeded, they could poach the entire town of Sandpoint, which would result in a Roanoke type mass vanishing.
9) It's not yet known to the authorities, but if/when it does become known and folks realize what it is, it'd ABSOLUTELY be illegal.
10) All types of demons could theoretically work for Lamashtu... or for ANY demon lord for that matter. Succubi and invidiaks are associated with Nocticula, vrocks with Pazuzu, and so on, but they don't all work for those demon lords.
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What is your preference for classes for people playing pathfinder for the first time (along with RPG's in general)? They have experience reading RPG's but have never played before.
also How do you make fighter feel interesting and unique?
bonus question: What is your favorite pathfinder comic arc?
First time players should limit themselves to the Core Book, and even better, to the Beginner Box. Fighter is the easiest class to pick up. It's important if you're an experienced player to NOT get carried away with teaching new players—do NOT give them a "You can pick any feat from these 50 books" or otherwise overwhelm them with options.
So yeah... ABSOLUTELY go with the Beginner Box. It's built specifically to introduce new gamers to gaming.
I make fighters interesting and unique the same way I make ANY character interesting and unique; I come up with a fun and memorable personality for them. For example, in the Mummy's Mask game I'm playing, I made an elven fighter. I made her "unique" by having her be VERY religious (she worships Sarenrae) but also focusing in on her forlorn aspect; she's super friendly but has a really low self-esteem thing going and is constantly afraid her friends will abandon her. Then, as you play, seize on things that develop naturally and build on them. In the game, my character lost one of her eyes to a horrible undead eye-plucker, and that's made her even MORE worried that her friends will abandon her because she's deformed, so she's taken to trying to make friends with the monsters as well if that might work so that she's got as many potential friends as possible, but at the same time gets all self-sacrifcy when her PC friends are in danger and does things like intentionally provokes attacks of opportunity so they can move around safely. AND she's super religious, yeah, but not that smart (Int is her dump stat), so I play her as having all sorts of weird quaint desert elf quirky beliefs, like "If you find a dry well, spit into it to seed more water for the next person to come along."
I like the first arc and the Magnimar arc.
What does Andoran think of benevolent, good-aligned monarchies like Kyonin and the Five King Mountains?
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What does Andoran think of benevolent, good-aligned monarchies like Kyonin and the Five King Mountains?
They're probably kinda confused by them, and think that they could probably learn a thing or two from Andoran if they'd only listen, but aren't too worked up about it since they're wedged between Taldor and Cheliax and have other things on their mind.
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Whoops ._.; I kinda messed up little then. Well, good thing I had Kaleb claim to party that he is 'trying' to setup a shop to sell it as sleep medicine and hasn't done yet so, so if they realize it is pretty much unknown street drug he can claim to not have any idea of that ^^; Thats what I get for misremembering stuff
Actually, just to check I didn't misunderstand again, would Midnight Milk became illegal even before folks realize its connection to body snatching?
BTW, what would Midnight Dawn do if authorities are given bodies of devourers? Body snatch officers who saw them or mindwipe them?
Thats all questions for now, now to plan stuff for next session x-x;
Can half elves grow beards? I ask because i am considering a half elf raised by a dwarf.
If not would he wear a fake beard or would dwarves be understanding of his predicament?
Have you seen the Acqustions Inc. DnD games with the guys from penny arcade DMed by Chris Perkins?
If so what do you think?
And do you like funnier more light hearted games like that or more serious ones?
1)So James, are you excited about the next Underworld movie?
2)Are excited about the next and final Resident Evil movie?
3)What is the last animated movie you have seen?
4)Are there any videogames coming out soon or within the next year that you are excited about?
5)Are there any rules from Pathfinder Unchained that you like to use or are at least thinking of using?