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James, out of curiosity is there any rhyme or reason behind the power level(CR) of the Daemonic deacons and how that relates to their Horseman?
Just that the four Horsemen all deserved the top slots in the CR scale, and the rest of the harbingers need to live below those slots. Not much more rhyme or reason other than that.
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I understand now that there are no current plans for more Paizo products featuring the Egyptian/Osirion pantheon because currently Paizo desires to tell other stories.
So what do players who want to play characters associated with this pantheon have to do to get such products?
If the answer is "patience", I understand, we just have to wait a few years
If the answer is "Communicate better that people want such products", then I would like to know, as it would be a waste of sentiment waiting for a product in which there is exists no company motivation to create.
I would much prefer being told that if I want something I have to do some mobilization work to get it actualized, than to be patient if there's no intention yet for such a product
Well, in the case of this pantheon, since it's a real-world mythology, there's a LOT of other material to research and read for inspiration, be it real-world mythology and history or material from other RPGs. So whether or not we ever do another bit of information about them in Pathfinder, there's a WEALTH of information out there for folks to enjoy, including a lot that's already D20 specific and should be relatively easy to convert.
Letting us know that there's an interest via posting on boards and giving favorable reviews of product we've already done are perhaps the best methods to let us know you're interested in more, but even then, our own passion for such a product needs to be there. We've done a lot already on the topic with Mummy's Mask, and there's a lot more we still want to cover before repeating our themes.
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Is it possible to physically travel to Rovagug's prison? (Albeit you might find yourself outside the locked "door" to it and not be able to get in).
I suspect so, but you'd need to be able to withstand the immense heat and pressure of Golarion's core, as well as be able to burrow through the planet's mantle and core. And even then, the physical connection between the Material Plane and the Dead Vault (aka the "door") may not be something you can interact with without powerful magic.
Is it possible to physically travel to Rovagug's prison? (Albeit you might find yourself outside the locked "door" to it and not be able to get in).I suspect so, but you'd need to be able to withstand the immense heat and pressure of Golarion's core, as well as be able to burrow through the planet's mantle and core. And even then, the physical connection between the Material Plane and the Dead Vault (aka the "door") may not be something you can interact with without powerful magic.
Wait, can you not get there via the Pit of Gormuz? At least bypassing the core/mantle?
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Is it possible to physically travel to Rovagug's prison? (Albeit you might find yourself outside the locked "door" to it and not be able to get in).I suspect so, but you'd need to be able to withstand the immense heat and pressure of Golarion's core, as well as be able to burrow through the planet's mantle and core. And even then, the physical connection between the Material Plane and the Dead Vault (aka the "door") may not be something you can interact with without powerful magic.Wait, can you not get there via the Pit of Gormuz? At least bypassing the core/mantle?
I suppose that would work too, but that's not really a "physical" route. If the hole were just open to the mantle or core, the planet would be destroyed. Magic steps in there to make the science of how a massive hole like that in the planet's crust would end the world NOT end the world, and that makes it not a physical travel route, per se.
Is it possible to physically travel to Rovagug's prison? (Albeit you might find yourself outside the locked "door" to it and not be able to get in).I suspect so, but you'd need to be able to withstand the immense heat and pressure of Golarion's core, as well as be able to burrow through the planet's mantle and core. And even then, the physical connection between the Material Plane and the Dead Vault (aka the "door") may not be something you can interact with without powerful magic.
Cheers, James.
Seeing as no-one else has perked up, I guess I'll "waste" a question on this.
Q: What's all this about iterations of the multiverse? Is it in one of the published books?
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Seeing as no-one else has perked up, I guess I'll "waste" a question on this.
Q: What's all this about iterations of the multiverse? Is it in one of the published books?
The idea of "wasting" a question is kinda ridiculous. There's no cap to the number of questions anyone can ask; this is the internet. The forums can hold all the questions you want to type. You won't run out of question slots.
The iterations of the Great Beyond are not a significant topic we've covered yet in hard focus, but instead is a topic we've peppered into products here and there in the form of in-world hints and mythologies and teases in books, so they kinda have to be searched out. But basically they talk about the possibility that there is a cycle of existence and that something existed before the Great Beyond did, and might exist after.
That that might be is what folks are guessing and talking about, and what that might be is what I'm not quite ready to reveal.
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Is Androffa still mad max after the mommy daddy gods re-established it? Or can you vacation there without fear of church scrutiny now?
It hasn't been like that for thousands of years. Today, it's very much like Golarion, in that if you visited, you'd think whoever "built" Androffa was plagiarizing Golarion. ;-P
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Is Androffa still mad max after the mommy daddy gods re-established it? Or can you vacation there without fear of church scrutiny now?It hasn't been like that for thousands of years. Today, it's very much like Golarion, in that if you visited, you'd think whoever "built" Androffa was plagiarizing Golarion. ;-P
XD, Rovagug's backup prison perhaps.
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Is Androffa still mad max after the mommy daddy gods re-established it? Or can you vacation there without fear of church scrutiny now?It hasn't been like that for thousands of years. Today, it's very much like Golarion, in that if you visited, you'd think whoever "built" Androffa was plagiarizing Golarion. ;-P
What would be your favourite template to put on a Succubus?
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What would be your favourite template to put on a Succubus?Is Androffa still mad max after the mommy daddy gods re-established it? Or can you vacation there without fear of church scrutiny now?It hasn't been like that for thousands of years. Today, it's very much like Golarion, in that if you visited, you'd think whoever "built" Androffa was plagiarizing Golarion. ;-P
Holy Creature?, waifu template?
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XD, Rovagug's backup prison perhaps.Is Androffa still mad max after the mommy daddy gods re-established it? Or can you vacation there without fear of church scrutiny now?It hasn't been like that for thousands of years. Today, it's very much like Golarion, in that if you visited, you'd think whoever "built" Androffa was plagiarizing Golarion. ;-P
Nope.
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What would be your favourite template to put on a Succubus?Is Androffa still mad max after the mommy daddy gods re-established it? Or can you vacation there without fear of church scrutiny now?It hasn't been like that for thousands of years. Today, it's very much like Golarion, in that if you visited, you'd think whoever "built" Androffa was plagiarizing Golarion. ;-P
Not a big fan of templates these days. They feel sorta lazy. If I want a unique creature, I prefer building them from the ground up. That said... I guess vampire.
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Holy Creature?, waifu template?What would be your favourite template to put on a Succubus?Is Androffa still mad max after the mommy daddy gods re-established it? Or can you vacation there without fear of church scrutiny now?It hasn't been like that for thousands of years. Today, it's very much like Golarion, in that if you visited, you'd think whoever "built" Androffa was plagiarizing Golarion. ;-P
I answered the question. Please don't dogpile other questions and clutter the thread.
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What's the lowest mountain on Golarion? (Barely counts as a mountain and not a hill.)
Never bothered to figure that out, and likely never will, since that's not very interesting to me and not really worth tracking in the same way a mountain larger than Everest is.
Thank you for taking the time to answer so many questions, James!
Any plans for any Red Mantis and/or Achaekek related content in the near future (or ever)?
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Thank you for taking the time to answer so many questions, James!
Any plans for any Red Mantis and/or Achaekek related content in the near future (or ever)?
No plans in the next few months among the products we've announced, but who knows what the future beyond that might bring? Well... I know, I suppose, but I don't talk about unannounced stuff here.
Nope.
XD, Rovagug's backup prison perhaps.
Actually, interesting thought -- Do the gods have a backup for Rovagug's prison, in case something should go wrong and/or the stars align just right to risk freeing him? Or do they just trust that anything presenting that sort of threat couldn't overpower them?
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Actually, interesting thought -- Do the gods have a backup for Rovagug's prison, in case something should go wrong and/or the stars align just right to risk freeing him? Or do they just trust that anything presenting that sort of threat couldn't overpower them?Nope.
XD, Rovagug's backup prison perhaps.
Good question! One to worry about for sure! ;)
If you (or Paizo) were offered to write a crossover adventure between d&d and Pathfinder by WOTC (something like Reality Storm: When Worlds Collide),would you?
So when you kill a summoned outsider, it goes to its home plane and reforms. When you kill a called outsider (or kill one on its home plane), it dies, leaving a corpse. But you can't resurrect an outsider, because its body comprises its soul rather than housing it.
That said, since it has a corpse, could you raise it as an undead creature?
There's nothing in the rules to suggest you cant (though it would be congruent with the no-resurrection thing) but I can't think of any instance in the setting where it's happened. I can *imagine* a vampire succubus, but not for instance a ZOMBIE succubus, or a ghoul angel.
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So when you kill a summoned outsider, it goes to its home plane and reforms. When you kill a called outsider (or kill one on its home plane), it dies, leaving a corpse. But you can't resurrect an outsider, because its body comprises its soul rather than housing it.
That said, since it has a corpse, could you raise it as an undead creature?
There's nothing in the rules to suggest you cant (though it would be congruent with the no-resurrection thing) but I can't think of any instance in the setting where it's happened. I can *imagine* a vampire succubus, but not for instance a ZOMBIE succubus, or a ghoul angel.
or a Ghast Ice Devil!
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So when you kill a summoned outsider, it goes to its home plane and reforms. When you kill a called outsider (or kill one on its home plane), it dies, leaving a corpse. But you can't resurrect an outsider, because its body comprises its soul rather than housing it.
That said, since it has a corpse, could you raise it as an undead creature?
There's nothing in the rules to suggest you cant (though it would be congruent with the no-resurrection thing) but I can't think of any instance in the setting where it's happened. I can *imagine* a vampire succubus, but not for instance a ZOMBIE succubus, or a ghoul angel.
The way I see it and the way I'm trying to make it function is this:
A summoned creature does not exist before or after it is summoned. A summon spell creates a platonic ideal version of the creature, summoning it from raw unformed magic and quintessence, so that it doesn't have anywhere to go when it dies or the spell ends—it just ceases to be.
A called creature dies normally, leaving a corpse. A called creature can become undead, as can an outsider who isn't called but dies anyway.
It's a lot rarer for outsiders to become undead, but they can. And in fact some existing undead are specifically ONLY from dead outsiders, like nightshades or many devourers.
They don't and can't.I meant the devils within Hell. How do they know/tell?Any hints on how Hell knows what iteration of the multiverse it is?
What are constant between iterations?
One question per post, please. I'll answer the first, you'll need to repost the other separately.
Hell doesn't really know anything; unlike the Abyss, it's not really sentient.
I think this line of questioning is based on the example of an infernal contract given in the Book of the Damned (and previously in the Hell's Rebels AP).
MATERIAL PLANE, in the FOURTH incarnation of the THIRD Cycle of Mortality, on file in the Fallen Fastness 9485785,68863:2141,70036233.
This is a lawful contract between
If that isn't a reference to iterations of (some version of) reality, what is it?
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They don't and can't.I meant the devils within Hell. How do they know/tell?Any hints on how Hell knows what iteration of the multiverse it is?
What are constant between iterations?
One question per post, please. I'll answer the first, you'll need to repost the other separately.
Hell doesn't really know anything; unlike the Abyss, it's not really sentient.
I think this line of questioning is based on the example of an infernal contract given in the Book of the Damned (and previously in the Hell's Rebels AP).
If that isn't a reference to iterations of (some version of) reality, what is it?MATERIAL PLANE, in the FOURTH incarnation of the THIRD Cycle of Mortality, on file in the Fallen Fastness 9485785,68863:2141,70036233.
This is a lawful contract between
That is a reference to iterations of (some version of) reality, yes. Doesn't mean that the bulk of devils know what it means, though. Or even that it's factually accurate; it might simply be something Asmodeus put in there to trick you.
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The way I see it and the way I'm trying to make it function is this:A summoned creature does not exist before or after it is summoned. A summon spell creates a platonic ideal version of the creature, summoning it from raw unformed magic and quintessence, so that it doesn't have anywhere to go when it dies or the spell ends—it just ceases to be.
A called creature dies normally, leaving a corpse. A called creature can become undead, as can an outsider who isn't called but dies anyway.
It's a lot rarer for outsiders to become undead, but they can. And in fact some existing undead are specifically ONLY from dead outsiders, like nightshades or many devourers.
Out of curiosity where do summoners Eidlons fit into all this are they just a summoned creature or more a called one?
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Out of curiosity where do summoners Eidlons fit into all this are they just a summoned creature or more a called one?
The way I see it and the way I'm trying to make it function is this:A summoned creature does not exist before or after it is summoned. A summon spell creates a platonic ideal version of the creature, summoning it from raw unformed magic and quintessence, so that it doesn't have anywhere to go when it dies or the spell ends—it just ceases to be.
A called creature dies normally, leaving a corpse. A called creature can become undead, as can an outsider who isn't called but dies anyway.
It's a lot rarer for outsiders to become undead, but they can. And in fact some existing undead are specifically ONLY from dead outsiders, like nightshades or many devourers.
They fit awkwardly and annoyingly, and I prefer them to be the quintessential "Come from nowhere, created when activated, don't exist at any other time" summoned creature.
If you could pick the actors for a Dark Tower tv series, who would you go for? (Naturally this is a TV-MA Netflix special)
I actually liked the choice of Idris and Matthew in the movie version.
I found that the titles of the fourth, the fifth, and the sixth books of War for the Crown adventure path have no numbers in them. Shouldn't the books have number 130, 131, and 132 in their titles?
Hi Mr Jacobs,
Actually i'm playing an Unchained Barbarian who unconsciously perform act of faith towards Yog-Sothoth.
Can you suggest me some little things about this?
What symbols can he inscribe or gestures perform?
Or Maybe words he can spoke while he is asleep under the stars.
Thank you for your answer
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If you could pick the actors for a Dark Tower tv series, who would you go for? (Naturally this is a TV-MA Netflix special)
I actually liked the choice of Idris and Matthew in the movie version.
I wouldn't at this point. I'd rather they just give up on trying to do that project into TV or a movie.
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I found that the titles of the fourth, the fifth, and the sixth books of War for the Crown adventure path have no numbers in them. Shouldn't the books have number 130, 131, and 132 in their titles?
Turns out that since War For the Crown isn't actually out yet and doesn't yet physically exist, they also don't have physicality to ANY of the books yet.
Check the spines again half a year or so into the future when physical real-world spines for those still-not published products are published, and if the numbers are still not there THEN there's a problem.
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Hi Mr Jacobs,
Actually i'm playing an Unchained Barbarian who unconsciously perform act of faith towards Yog-Sothoth.
Can you suggest me some little things about this?
What symbols can he inscribe or gestures perform?
Or Maybe words he can spoke while he is asleep under the stars.Thank you for your answer
I'd suggest playing a different character. Yog-Sothoth is more interesting as an NPC deity and opponent rather than a PC deity.
The birthyears of the several important characters like Stavian, Eutropia, and Maxillar Pythareus are not mentioned in Taldor, the First Empire. The surname of Stavian and Eutropia is not mentioned, either. It really frustrates me. Will the upcoming War for the Crown books further explore these things?
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The birthyears of the several important characters like Stavian, Eutropia, and Maxillar Pythareus are not mentioned in Taldor, the First Empire. The surname of Stavian and Eutropia is not mentioned, either. It really frustrates me. Will the upcoming War for the Crown books further explore these things?
If those dates are important for War For the Crown, the information will be there. If not, the information will not.
If it's not important, that means you can pick whatever dates you want.
I have not read any of the War For the Crown adventures and so I can't say one way or the other.
There is a race called ysoki on Akiton. Are the ratfolk on Golarion and ysoki same species? If so, are the ratfolk originally from Akiton? I personally think they are entirely different species because there is no way they can come to Golarion. Hmm, via the elf gates, perhaps?
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Will we ever find out?Hey James. Who/What is Lamashtu's eldest or most powerful offspring?Unrevealed.
Not unless we decide to feature that offspring in an adventure, frankly, and we're comfortable pinching off the potential of having an even more powerful or older offspring ever in the future. I"m not a fan of hyperbole; saying Monster A is the most powerful of a category isn't great unless you know going in that the monster in question is intended to be the oldest or most powerful. It's not something to be cone on a whim or a lark.
Certainly one of the oldest and most powerful ones we HAVE statted up is Uvaglor, the ancient vrock from Demons Revisited.
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There is a race called ysoki on Akiton. Are the ratfolk on Golarion and ysoki same species? If so, are the ratfolk originally from Akiton? I personally think they are entirely different species because there is no way they can come to Golarion. Hmm, via the elf gates, perhaps?
They are different species. If they weren't then they would have the same name.
Ysoki are one of the core Starfinder races, and their stats are very different from ratfolk stats.
Distant Shores was an amazing book for the story and background, and I'd love to see more on those locations.
What level of interest beyond sales would it require to push development of Arcadia and/or Garund?
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Distant Shores was an amazing book for the story and background, and I'd love to see more on those locations.
What level of interest beyond sales would it require to push development of Arcadia and/or Garund?
That's not something I can give a concrete value to. But customer interest alone probably would never result in ANYTHING being made. We need to want to make it too, and we need to trust we have the right people in place to make it right.
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James what are the chances that we see the species of aboleth that are the true leaders of the aboleths? And same question for the original sorcerer king serpent folk?
If we didn't do this in Ruins of Azlant, chances are very close to zero, since I don't see us doing another significant aboleth adventure path anytime soon.
And Ydersius is kind of the "original serphent folk badass" I guess.