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I did watch it. I appreciated the fact that it had a strong female lead and drew upon Polynesian mythology and it looked beautiful... but plot wise I'm pretty worn out/tired of the old Disney singing princess plotlines, I guess.James,
Have you watched Moana? If yes, what did you think?
Does pathfinder have any deity with some similarity to Maui?
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Does pathfinder have any deity with some similarity to Maui?I did watch it. I appreciated the fact that it had a strong female lead and drew upon Polynesian mythology and it looked beautiful... but plot wise I'm pretty worn out/tired of the old Disney singing princess plotlines, I guess.James,
Have you watched Moana? If yes, what did you think?
Not at this point.
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I feel confident that I could crush a lot more than a hundred duck-sized horses with my size 12.5 feet, so I'll take that option.Mr. Jacobs, Our Glorious Leader,
Would you rather fight one hundred duck-sized horses, or one horse-sized duck?
But would you make dinosaur sounds while you did it? :D
Hey James Jacobs!
Question: I noticed in the CRB it mentioned Good characters protect the dignity of sentient creatures. I started thinking about Erastil, and it makes sense. People eat meat and can still be good.
At what point would you say animal cruelty becomes evil however? Plenty of good characters kill animals, but is it the ones that torture that are evil?
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I don't generally base characters I create off of real world people. That tends to be kinda sketchy and weird and potentially insulting, so I don't do it, and I ask those who write for me to not do it. It happens, and when/if I find out, I ask that author to refrain from it in the future. If they don't... they can expect me to stop asking them to write for me.The first example of a failed good person in Golarion that comes to my mind is Father Tobyn from the first Pathfinder Adventure, Burnt Offerings. He was a cleric of Desna, but his failure in raising his adopted daughter Nualia by being an overbearing father who didn't treat his daughter with respect and was overly protective in a bad way and so on eventually ended up with her becoming the main bad guy of Burnt Offerings. He did not go to a happy afterlife when he died.I thought to myself this reminds me of RL. This led me to wonder, has anyone ever asked you if some character you've written is based off a person you know?
I have heard of this happening in a pfs module. I wonder what you think of that, the portrayal not being flattering.
Thank-you for the answer. I hope I have not caused a offense by asking.
I don't generally base characters I create off of real world people. That tends to be kinda sketchy and weird and potentially insulting, so I don't do it, and I ask those who write for me to not do it. It happens, and when/if I find out, I ask that author to refrain from it in the future. If they don't... they can expect me to stop asking them to write for me.
It sounds like you speak from experience here, if I may be so bold as to inquire. Presumably, you couldn't tell if they based a villain off some jerk that bullied them in high school. Unless the Paizo spying gnomes have been particularly busy.
Did you have to take writers to task for making characters that were thin parodies of certain real-world figures? You don't have to say what they were writing and who they were parodying, since that may be too specific, I'm just curious considering the way you phrased the answer.
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But would you make dinosaur sounds while you did it? :DI feel confident that I could crush a lot more than a hundred duck-sized horses with my size 12.5 feet, so I'll take that option.Mr. Jacobs, Our Glorious Leader,
Would you rather fight one hundred duck-sized horses, or one horse-sized duck?
Unknown. I'd probably make profanity noises as the smell of split-open duck innards grew increasingly vile.
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Hey James Jacobs!
Question: I noticed in the CRB it mentioned Good characters protect the dignity of sentient creatures. I started thinking about Erastil, and it makes sense. People eat meat and can still be good.
At what point would you say animal cruelty becomes evil however? Plenty of good characters kill animals, but is it the ones that torture that are evil?
The point at which it's cruelty it's evil. The point at which you take pleasure in inflicting the pain, or deliberately seek to prolong the pain, or seek to disrespect the animal.
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I don't generally base characters I create off of real world people. That tends to be kinda sketchy and weird and potentially insulting, so I don't do it, and I ask those who write for me to not do it. It happens, and when/if I find out, I ask that author to refrain from it in the future. If they don't... they can expect me to stop asking them to write for me.It sounds like you speak from experience here, if I may be so bold as to inquire. Presumably, you couldn't tell if they based a villain off some jerk that bullied them in high school. Unless the Paizo spying gnomes have been particularly busy.
Did you have to take writers to task for making characters that were thin parodies of certain real-world figures? You don't have to say what they were writing and who they were parodying, since that may be too specific, I'm just curious considering the way you phrased the answer.
Not so much experience as common sense, really. It doesn't really matter if no one recognizes your work as being a caricature of someone real when the book first comes out; in this era, things are forever, and what someone might not notice today could become a career-ending blunder a decade from now.
It's just not cool to mock other people, regardless of how you do it. Be it to their face, or by including them in your writing as something to make fun of.
That said, if I WAS speaking from experience I wouldn't cite the experience/example because I would rather it stay forgotten.
I have had to take writers to task for this before though, yes. And I've had to stop using writers for this reason before as well.
Are you much of a one for new year's resolutions? Made any for 2017?
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Are you much of a one for new year's resolutions? Made any for 2017?
Not really, but I did sort of make two of them.
1: Go to the gym at least 3 times a week.
2: Eat less per meal (try to stick to about 2,000 calories a day).
So far, have managed resolution 2 relatively well (except for yesterday). Haven't hit the gym so far this year, but hopefully will start doing that this week.
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I feel confident that I could crush a lot more than a hundred duck-sized horses with my size 12.5 feet, so I'll take that option.Mr. Jacobs, Our Glorious Leader,
Would you rather fight one hundred duck-sized horses, or one horse-sized duck?
What do you think of The Boss's analysis on this question?
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What do you think of The Boss's analysis on this question?I feel confident that I could crush a lot more than a hundred duck-sized horses with my size 12.5 feet, so I'll take that option.Mr. Jacobs, Our Glorious Leader,
Would you rather fight one hundred duck-sized horses, or one horse-sized duck?
Meh. No opinion, other than being not a fan of Springsteen enough that I didn't watch the clip.
What are the odds that you'll try to get your mitts (er... two-clawed forelimbs?) on personal copies of the Pathfinders of Death minis?
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Speaking of Kingdom Death, have you tried it out? .-. I got interested in it due to pathfinder cross over
Also, I got the "It came from the stars" pdf recently so I know what mnemovores Aenigma keeps asking about are by the pdf's description. I'm interested if the same explanation applies to Golarion?
This is first paragraph for their description: "The mnemovore is a sentient hologram completely bereft of its own identity. The creature is actually a fractured portion of an enormous, conscious, holographic demiplane. Mnemovores most often come to the Material Plane as a result of summoning spells gone awry. An attempt to summon a creature from this demiplane cleaves off a sliver of the sentient hologram. The psychic trauma of this separation completely disrupts the light matrix of the summoned mnemovore, resulting in an amnesiac creature filled with a voracious appetite for memories."
I guess it also explains why they are outsiders instead of constructs, but yeah, does that also apply to Deacon Hope? At least picture for mnemovores looks really different
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Speaking of Kingdom Death, have you tried it out? .-. I got interested in it due to pathfinder cross over
Also, I got the "It came from the stars" pdf recently so I know what mnemovores Aenigma keeps asking about are by the pdf's description. I'm interested if the same explanation applies to Golarion?
This is first paragraph for their description: "The mnemovore is a sentient hologram completely bereft of its own identity. The creature is actually a fractured portion of an enormous, conscious, holographic demiplane. Mnemovores most often come to the Material Plane as a result of summoning spells gone awry. An attempt to summon a creature from this demiplane cleaves off a sliver of the sentient hologram. The psychic trauma of this separation completely disrupts the light matrix of the summoned mnemovore, resulting in an amnesiac creature filled with a voracious appetite for memories."
I guess it also explains why they are outsiders instead of constructs, but yeah, does that also apply to Deacon Hope? At least picture for mnemovores looks really different
Been playing the game semi-regularly since the first one came out; just played it most recently last night.
I'm pretty sure that the only mnemovore on Golarion is the one in the adventure in Iron Gods. They are VERY rare, and very unusual, in part because the description you quote from the book is not canon or accurate for Golarion. I'm 99.9999% sure that Deacon Hope is a unique entity in the Golarion universe who rose to being under very specific circumstances as detailed in the adventure.
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Are you much of a one for new year's resolutions? Made any for 2017?Not really, but I did sort of make two of them.
1: Go to the gym at least 3 times a week.
2: Eat less per meal (try to stick to about 2,000 calories a day).So far, have managed resolution 2 relatively well (except for yesterday). Haven't hit the gym so far this year, but hopefully will start doing that this week.
Awesome, keep up the good work, James ^w^
(Going to the gym gets easier if you go with a buddy, from what I've seen and experiences anyway)
Does the Paizo office have a gym?
Hi James
I could your a bit of advice. My wife wants me to run an adventure path for her with just the two of us. I would be playing a character as the GM so we would have a party of 2. I know all the adventure paths are designed with a party of 4 in mind. Which adventure path do you think would be the most sutable for a single player?
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Hi James
I could your a bit of advice. My wife wants me to run an adventure path for her with just the two of us. I would be playing a character as the GM so we would have a party of 2. I know all the adventure paths are designed with a party of 4 in mind. Which adventure path do you think would be the most sutable for a single player?
Any and all of them would be likely just as fun and just as challenging to set up for a party of 2. In a case like this, it's generally best, I'd say, for your wife to run the one she's most familiar with, or that is the most compelling, plot-wise, to both of you.
I've run campaigns for one or two players before, and it's actually really fun. Usually I end up running 2 to 3 allied NPCs who are of classes to support the player character, which makes for a fun way to provide some of the camaraderie that you'll be missing by not having a full group of players and helps to keep the AP running without having to worry about the impact on a single player.
You might also consider, if you do want just a party of 2, allowing them to be higher level than normal or even have a single tier of mythic power to up their survivability.
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OH my no.
Does the Paizo office have a gym?
Does the Paizo office have lots of candy, cookies, doughnuts, and enticements to sedentary pursuits?
Hey, James. Happy Birthday to us!
So, what're you doing today?
OH my no.
Does the Paizo office have a gym?
Do you wish it did?
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Does the Paizo office have lots of candy, cookies, doughnuts, and enticements to sedentary pursuits?OH my no.
Does the Paizo office have a gym?
Not normally, but sometimes it does. One of the places they tend to go on display is on the "Free table" right outside my office door, which is a bit unfortunate from the "tempt James to get obese again" angle... :-O
1 Do those who don't come back from the star stone test go on to the afterlife.
2are all(or at least majority)of the impossible kingdoms gods, deities/demigods?
3 Does the golarion setting have a multiverse if so is it just multiple material planes or multiple outer planes as well?
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Hey James I hope you had a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year and a Happy Birthday!
1. I am the GM and one of my players who is playing a paladin is starting to roleplay more chaotic good. Do you have any advice for how I should handle that? And what would do if you were in my situation?
1a. What would happen to that paladins powers if he did go full chaotic good?
2. So according to a Vatican Study, the most common sin among men is lust and the most common sin among women is pride. Here is a source on the BBC news site if you want to look into it a little deeper. If this study is true, why might you think that when depicting a humanized version of the sin, it's almost always to have lust as a woman and pride as a man?
3. In you opinion what do you think the scariest place on Golarion is?
Hey James,
So, I'm running Wrath. I've changed a few things here and there mainly to suit the campaign as it evolved. However, I decided to go big or go home with Book 6. Keeping some events, but going epic wide screen with most everything. Swinging for the fences. I decided to fully embrace the craziness that is mythic.
I am incorporating things from the Worlwound book (the fallen Druids), having armies fight outside of Iz, library research rules and occult rituals, etc.
I know where and how to use the research rules (the library of the Druids) once the Druids are cleansed by the PCs performing a ritual. It is the giving of the ritual to the PCs where I need help.
One of the PCs has the Divine campaign trait with Sarenrae as the parent.
Would it be logical for a herald of Sarenrae to supply this PC with the ritual and explain what it is? Or should I go a route of having someone wait where the PCs are headed and greet him as if he was expecting the PC?
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1 Do those who don't come back from the star stone test go on to the afterlife.
2are all(or at least majority)of the impossible kingdoms gods, deities/demigods?
3 Does the golarion setting have a multiverse if so is it just multiple material planes or multiple outer planes as well?
1) Depends if they don't come back because they died without their soul getting stuck somewhere.
2) Unrevealed.
3) The Great Beyond is the multiverse, so yes. And the Material Plane itself (aka "the universe") is big enough to old all of the campaign settings that exist if you so wish.
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Hey James I hope you had a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year and a Happy Birthday!
1. I am the GM and one of my players who is playing a paladin is starting to roleplay more chaotic good. Do you have any advice for how I should handle that? And what would do if you were in my situation?
1a. What would happen to that paladins powers if he did go full chaotic good?
2. So according to a Vatican Study, the most common sin among men is lust and the most common sin among women is pride. Here is a source on the BBC news site if you want to look into it a little deeper. If this study is true, why might you think that when depicting a humanized version of the sin, it's almost always to have lust as a woman and pride as a man?
3. In you opinion what do you think the scariest place on Golarion is?
1. Talk to your player, let them know what's going on. If they want to build a new character that's chaotic good, perhaps a warpriest or cleric of a different, more appropriate deity, let them rebuild and play the new character. If they want to keep playing a paladin, provide them with a code to follow; if they continue to play against lawful good, then they fall and become ex-paladins.
2. I'm sure from the Vatican's stance the study is true, but from other people or other religious viewpoints that don't hold to the conviction that lust and pride are sins that the study is hogwash. I have no interest in quantifying in-game sins according to gender. Gross.
3. Probably Rahadoum.
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If I wanted to check out some of your recent non-Paizo freelance stuff, where should I look?
There's not a lot of recent non-Paizo stuff, actually. I've writen a few short articles for the Kobold guides, but that's really it. The current project is Sandy Petersen's Cthulhu Mythos for Pathfinder... it should be out later this year.
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Hey James,
So, I'm running Wrath. I've changed a few things here and there mainly to suit the campaign as it evolved. However, I decided to go big or go home with Book 6. Keeping some events, but going epic wide screen with most everything. Swinging for the fences. I decided to fully embrace the craziness that is mythic.
I am incorporating things from the Worlwound book (the fallen Druids), having armies fight outside of Iz, library research rules and occult rituals, etc.
I know where and how to use the research rules (the library of the Druids) once the Druids are cleansed by the PCs performing a ritual. It is the giving of the ritual to the PCs where I need help.
One of the PCs has the Divine campaign trait with Sarenrae as the parent.
Would it be logical for a herald of Sarenrae to supply this PC with the ritual and explain what it is? Or should I go a route of having someone wait where the PCs are headed and greet him as if he was expecting the PC?
If you're going full-on mythic... having some mouth-breathing mortal courier wait at the side of the road to give them something is boring. Go for having Sarenrae herself show up in a vision to give the character the ritual.
Dear James Jacob,
What are some rejected concepts for classes you and any devs have tossed around? Which ones do you want to try and revive? Were there any too complex to finish?
Sincerely, Darbo the Shed-Dweller
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Dear James Jacob,
What are some rejected concepts for classes you and any devs have tossed around? Which ones do you want to try and revive? Were there any too complex to finish?
Sincerely, Darbo the Shed-Dweller
Generally, rejected concepts aren't worth talking about, in part because we rejected them and aren't all that interested in pursuing them, and it's not really that great to tease folks with them, in my opinion. Sorry!
Generally, rejected concepts aren't worth talking about, in part because we rejected them and aren't all that interested in pursuing them, and it's not really that great to tease folks with them, in my opinion. Sorry!Dear James Jacob,
What are some rejected concepts for classes you and any devs have tossed around? Which ones do you want to try and revive? Were there any too complex to finish?
Sincerely, Darbo the Shed-Dweller
It's all good. I can understand the sentiments.
Given how heavily it rains in Seattle, what's the homelessness situation like there? I though to ask because I live in San Francisco, and it's raining a lot here right now.