Hi James,
Merry Christmas and/or Happy Holidays!
Do you listen to much in the way of podcasts, and if so any favorites?
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Hi James,
Merry Christmas and/or Happy Holidays!
Do you listen to much in the way of podcasts, and if so any favorites?
I don't these days. My commute is about 1 minute long, so there's not much time to listen to podcasts there. I might listen to a few on my drive back up to Seattle in a few days though... or I might listen to some music and some Lovecraft audio books instead.
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Merry Christmas! Just a quickie, how did Katapesh end up with a Keleshite majority population? I'm assuming most of them came as religious refugees from Osirion, but I'm guessing there must have been other waves of migration due to how many of them there are.
If we haven't said in Dark Markets or the Osirion book, I'm not sure we've said.
I might listen to some music and some Lovecraft audio books instead.
Are there any readers/recordings you particularly recommend?
Merry Christmas:)
If you guys ever stat up Santa would he be as powerful as Krampus?
When someone dies, goes to the afterlife, and forgets their mortal existence, do they always arrive having forgotten right away or can they have their memories cleansed/stripped as part of a reward/punishment?
Merry Christmas, James.
Does anybody in your family play PathFinder or other Role-Playing Games?
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When someone dies, goes to the afterlife, and forgets their mortal existence, do they always arrive having forgotten right away or can they have their memories cleansed/stripped as part of a reward/punishment?
Normally it happens right away as soon as they're judged. The loss can be reversed by certain events or entities though.
I might listen to some music and some Lovecraft audio books instead.Are there any readers/recordings you particularly recommend?
There are no couatl aasimars. Aasimars are descended from the humanoid celestial races, not all good outsiders.
Does that apply to cetaceals and cervinals as well?
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There are no couatl aasimars. Aasimars are descended from the humanoid celestial races, not all good outsiders.Does that apply to cetaceals and cervinals as well?
Why wouldn't it? Those are both agathions, so they'd work the same way as all agathions, which are one of the celestial races. (I misspoke when I said "humanoid" celestial races, since there are plenty of examples of non-human-shaped celestials of all four categories.)
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Where do daemons originate from in Golarion's cosmology? I have a feeling I read somewhere that they were younger than most of the other major outsider races apart from demons.
Also, thank you for being on for answering so many questions on this thread, and a very happy holiday to you and yours.
Daemons came to be soon after the first mortal deaths occurred, as physical and living manifestations of death itself; check out Book of the Damned for more info.
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I'm love, love, loving the creative stuff coming out of Paizo at the moment. Every time I think "I'd better brace myself to lose interest for a while, they can't possibly top that" you somehow manage it.
The Taldor book was exceptional, the Azlant AP gave me lots of cool lore stuff the upcoming Taldor AP has me quivering with anticipation and the Return of the Runelords AP is going to work out perfectly for us (we have a group that just finished RotRL and is next going to be tackling Shattered Star, so by my calculations we'll be able to run the trilogy pretty much in order with no break). Ultimate Wilderness is one of my all-time favorite rulebooks and I'm very excited for Planar Adventures (I'm very much a fan of moving from "world-neutral" model to tying things more closely to Golarion). All in all, my only disappointment from Paizo is that there isn't enough cool stuff! I'm hanging out for the modules and PF Tales lines to stir to life once more. :)
My question is - are you still getting enjoyment out of the creative work you do guiding Golarion's development and expansion? I really hope it's still as much fun for you to come up with as it is for us to read.
When someone dies, goes to the afterlife, and forgets their mortal existence, do they always arrive having forgotten right away or can they have their memories cleansed/stripped as part of a reward/punishment?Normally it happens right away as soon as they're judged. The loss can be reversed by certain events or entities though.
That's...useful to know, but that you're talking about loss reversal gets me feel like you misunderstood the question. Or maybe I'm just misunderstanding your answer.
Lemme restate my question. Is it possible for petitioners to arrive slated for memory removal, but instead of it happening right away on arrival it's part of the reward/punishment process?
So how was your Christmas?
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I'm love, love, loving the creative stuff coming out of Paizo at the moment. Every time I think "I'd better brace myself to lose interest for a while, they can't possibly top that" you somehow manage it.
The Taldor book was exceptional, the Azlant AP gave me lots of cool lore stuff the upcoming Taldor AP has me quivering with anticipation and the Return of the Runelords AP is going to work out perfectly for us (we have a group that just finished RotRL and is next going to be tackling Shattered Star, so by my calculations we'll be able to run the trilogy pretty much in order with no break). Ultimate Wilderness is one of my all-time favorite rulebooks and I'm very excited for Planar Adventures (I'm very much a fan of moving from "world-neutral" model to tying things more closely to Golarion). All in all, my only disappointment from Paizo is that there isn't enough cool stuff! I'm hanging out for the modules and PF Tales lines to stir to life once more. :)
My question is - are you still getting enjoyment out of the creative work you do guiding Golarion's development and expansion? I really hope it's still as much fun for you to come up with as it is for us to read.
It's always great to hear folks enjoying the content we create, and that's what makes it worth it in the end! Thanks! :)
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Lemme restate my question. Is it possible for petitioners to arrive slated for memory removal, but instead of it happening right away on arrival it's part of the reward/punishment process?
The "memory removal" happens immediately when a soul is judged and becomes a petitioner. There are exceptions, but they are rare.
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I certainly HOPE they're not trying to condense all three into one movie. The last time someone did that resulted in The Dark Tower which is my 2nd-most disappointing movie experience of all time.Now I have to ask—what's the first most disappointing movie experience?
The 1998 Godzilla.
Why wouldn't it? Those are both agathions, so they'd work the same way as all agathions, which are one of the celestial races. (I misspoke when I said "humanoid" celestial races, since there are plenty of examples of non-human-shaped celestials of all four categories.)There are no couatl aasimars. Aasimars are descended from the humanoid celestial races, not all good outsiders.Does that apply to cetaceals and cervinals as well?
Yeah, the wording got me wondering since I enjoy keeping things "lore friendly" in my Golarion-set campaigns, and I've had cetaceal merfolk aasimar variants in one. Thanks for clearing that up.
Next question, I suppose. Are there any means to record music employed by richer folk on Golarion? Magical or otherwise (like vinyl records).
How might someone damn other people's souls for the purpose of an infernal contract? I recall somewhere saying the more epic contracts could involve many souls as the price for something.
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Season's greetings!
1) What's the Golarion equivalent of Beef Wellington?
2) Are you familiar with TORG? Have you ever played it (and if so, as what)?
3) I just read that you created Kaorti. Cool, I liked them! How did you go about making them up (I understand if that's not a communicable thing)? Any chance they can show up in the Pathfinder/Starfinder cosm?
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Hello Mr. Jacobs,
In general, how much do powerful Demons like Demon Lords and Balor Lords know about Cthulhu Mythos and similar creatures that appear in the Golarion setting?
Depends on the demon in question. Some, like Abraxas, know a LOT, while others, like Juiblex, are unlikely to be aware of them at all. Demons are focused mostly on the Abyss and on destroying the works and lives of mortal life and in encouraging mortals to sin so that when they die they'll make more demons, not so much on the mythos creatures.
Good afternoon, sir!
I hope this finds you in good humor and has not been asked before:
What is your opinion on puns?
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Season's greetings!
1) What's the Golarion equivalent of Beef Wellington?
2) Are you familiar with TORG? Have you ever played it (and if so, as what)?
3) I just read that you created Kaorti. Cool, I liked them! How did you go about making them up (I understand if that's not a communicable thing)? Any chance they can show up in the Pathfinder/Starfinder cosm?
1) It's never come up in an adventure or story, and is unlikely to, so for now make something up and go with it.
2) I do know about TORG, and often admired the art on the covers, but couldn't afford to buy any of the books when it was at its height since I was in high school and/or college and my gaming money was pretty focused on D&D and Call of Cthulhu.
3) When we were all working on the Fiend Folio for 3rd edition D&D, the project lead challenged the half-dozen or so of the writers on the project to come up with what they were calling a "Gith Candidate." The githyanki were a very popular and interesting race of creatures that served as interesting villains and helped explore an unusual domain or concept and fueled a lot of adventures and plots, and WotC wanted to develop several new races in this manner. I decided to go with a race from the Far Realm because that was the closest I could get to doing a Lovecraftian race in D&D at the time, and drew upon my admiration of Lovecraft and the movie Alien and other body horror movies for inspiration for the kaorti. (The name itself came from my homebrew setting, which had a binary race of creatures that, during the day, were a peaceful folk known as the Quinn, and at night transformed into the savage and cruel Kaorti—sort of an Eloi/Morlock situation but sharing the same bodies.)
I can't remember who wrote all of the other Gith Candidates in the book. Matt Sernett did the maug. Erik Mona did the ethergaunt. The nerra were one but I can't remember who designed them. I THINK the Sarkrith were one as well but also forgot who created them. Jesse Decker created the Shadar-Kai I think.
In any case, the chances of them showing up in anything other than a WotC product are pretty much zero; these are all creatures that are owned 100% by Wizards of the Coast. They'll never show up in Pathfinder or Starfinder as a result... unless you put them into your game yourself, of course!
Did you ever get a chance to use the FF version of the Kaorti in any of your own campaigns?
Dear Mister Jacobs,
If you could only have ONE pet in your entire life, what would it be?
