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What program are you using? What does it do for you that entering data in an excel spreadsheet wouldn't?I've recently started cataloging my RPG collection (as well as my book and movie collection). Bought a computer program to help me do it, in fact. So far, I've cataloged 1 floor-to-ceiling bookshelf of RPG books and 1 half-height bookshelf of RPG books; puts me at about 500 products, if I recall correctly. Still to do, approximately 3 more floor-to-ceiling bookshelves and 2 more half shelves, although there's some regular books mixed in there.
The program is called Delicious Library 2. It does a lot of things that excel spreadsheets don't do, not the least of which is that it gives you virtual bookshelves you can sort, just like how iTunes catalogs your music.
But the "killer ap" for the program that excel doesn't do is how you input your books or DVDs or whatever—you just hold the book's bar code up to the computer's camera, it scans the code, and then it pops it onto your shelf while pulling all sorts of data about the book off the internet.
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I dont know if you've answered it already, but what were the other four?In fact on Eberron, Orcs displace elves as being the most druidic focused race. (The elves are too busy worshipping their deathless ancestors)And that's one of the five things that ensured I'd never be a big fan of the Eberron setting.
In no particular order:
1) How the setting changed monster roles so drastically (orcs into druids, drow into jungle dwellers, etc.)
2) Warforged (didn't like the design philosophy of the living construct type)
3) The way the outer planes worked in the setting. I'm too big a fan of the Abyss to stomach changes there. ;-)
4) The high-magic nature of the setting resulting in things like magic trains or airships or whatever—I much prefer low-magic (like in Conan or Game of Thrones) or standard magic (like in Golairon or Greyhawk).
5) The needless and silly renaming of dinosaurs from their actual names into action-packed extreme names (aka, changing "tyrannosaurus" into "swordtwooth titan").
If you had to pick your favorite campaign setting, and could not choose Golarion or Forgotten Realms, what setting would you pick?
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If you had to pick your favorite campaign setting, and could not choose Golarion or Forgotten Realms, what setting would you pick?
My homebrew setting of Baria.
If I had to limit it to published settings, though... hands down Greyhawk. Even if Forgotten Realms weren't off the list.
BONUS ROUND:
My top 10 favorite published campaign settings for fantasy RPGs, counting down from best (1) to tenth-best (10):
1) Golarion
2) Greyhawk
3) Dark Sun
4) Forgotten Realms
5) Freeport
6) Planescape
7) Mystara
8) Kara-Tur
9) Ravenloft
10) Dragonlance
If you had to pick your favorite campaign setting, and could not choose Golarion or Forgotten Realms, what setting would you pick?My homebrew setting of Baria.
If I had to limit it to published settings, though... hands down Greyhawk. Even if Forgotten Realms weren't off the list.
BONUS ROUND:
My top 10 favorite published campaign settings for fantasy RPGs, counting down from best (1) to tenth-best (10):
1) Golarion
2) Greyhawk
3) Dark Sun
4) Forgotten Realms
5) Freeport
6) Planescape
7) Mystara
8) Kara-Tur
9) Ravenloft
10) Dragonlance
Does it make me look embarrassingly young to only recognize two of those campaign settings: Golarion and Forgotten Realms?
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Does it make me look embarrassingly young to only recognize two of those campaign settings: Golarion and Forgotten Realms?
Woah... yeah, kind of. But no more so than it makes me look embarrassingly old! :-)
It also makes me sad that WotC let some of their most evocative and interesting settings lapse to the point where newer gamers don't recognize them. :(
Does it make me look embarrassingly young to only recognize two of those campaign settings: Golarion and Forgotten Realms?Woah... yeah, kind of. But no more so than it makes me look embarrassingly old! :-)
It also makes me sad that WotC let some of their most evocative and interesting settings lapse to the point where newer gamers don't recognize them. :(
Some of them sound interesting, too. Particularly Ravenloft. Too bad I can't get my hands on them.
Any chance Pathfinder will ever have another campaign setting?
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Does it make me look embarrassingly young to only recognize two of those campaign settings: Golarion and Forgotten Realms?Woah... yeah, kind of. But no more so than it makes me look embarrassingly old! :-)
It also makes me sad that WotC let some of their most evocative and interesting settings lapse to the point where newer gamers don't recognize them. :(
Some of them sound interesting, too. Particularly Ravenloft. Too bad I can't get my hands on them.
Any chance Pathfinder will ever have another campaign setting?
Dragon Empires is sort of a new campaign setting.
But a brand new from the ground up world? Unlikely. One of Golarion's greatest successes is the fact that it's not splitting its audience into different groups. That splitting of the audience was one of the factors that fed into the fall of TSR.
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BONUS ROUND:My top 10 favorite published campaign settings for fantasy RPGs, counting down from best (1) to tenth-best (10):
1) Golarion
2) Greyhawk
3) Dark Sun
4) Forgotten Realms
5) Freeport
6) Planescape
7) Mystara
8) Kara-Tur
9) Ravenloft
10) Dragonlance
Awesome! I've played in most of those worlds - only missing time in Mystara, Kara-tur, and Freeport. Although I have many of the Freeport books and hope to DM it one day.
I dont know if you've answered it already, but what were the other four?In no particular order:
1) How the setting changed monster roles so drastically (orcs into druids, drow into jungle dwellers, etc.)
2) Warforged (didn't like the design philosophy of the living construct type)
3) The way the outer planes worked in the setting. I'm too big a fan of the Abyss to stomach changes there. ;-)
4) The high-magic nature of the setting resulting in things like magic trains or airships or whatever—I much prefer low-magic (like in Conan or Game of Thrones) or standard magic (like in Golairon or Greyhawk).
5) The needless and silly renaming of dinosaurs from their actual names into action-packed extreme names (aka, changing "tyrannosaurus" into "swordtwooth titan").
Cheers. I share all but one of them (though I wanted to like Eberron). The follow up may be wandering into things you dont want to talk about in this thread, but would you expand on number 2?
I like warforged personally (they're an option for characters from Numeria, in my Golarion as it happens) but I dont really know what 'the design philosophy of the living construct type' actually is, let alone whether I like it or not. Can I ask what they chose that you didnt like and maybe even what you would have done differently?
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What program are you using? What does it do for you that entering data in an excel spreadsheet wouldn't?I've recently started cataloging my RPG collection (as well as my book and movie collection). Bought a computer program to help me do it, in fact. So far, I've cataloged 1 floor-to-ceiling bookshelf of RPG books and 1 half-height bookshelf of RPG books; puts me at about 500 products, if I recall correctly. Still to do, approximately 3 more floor-to-ceiling bookshelves and 2 more half shelves, although there's some regular books mixed in there.
The program is called Delicious Library 2. It does a lot of things that excel spreadsheets don't do, not the least of which is that it gives you virtual bookshelves you can sort, just like how iTunes catalogs your music.
But the "killer ap" for the program that excel doesn't do is how you input your books or DVDs or whatever—you just hold the book's bar code up to the computer's camera, it scans the code, and then it pops it onto your shelf while pulling all sorts of data about the book off the internet.
That is pretty cool. Almost makes me want a Mac. I'll have to see if there's anything similar for PC.
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Cheers. I share all but one of them (though I wanted to like Eberron). The follow up may be wandering into things you dont want to talk about in this thread, but would you expand on number 2?
I like warforged personally (they're an option for characters from Numeria, in my Golarion as it happens) but I dont really know what 'the design philosophy of the living construct type' actually is, let alone whether I like it or not. Can I ask what they chose that you didnt like and maybe even what you would have done differently?
Mostly because they're robots, and I don't want robot PCs in my fantasy games. Android PCs? Absolutely. Robots? No thanks. A "living construct" type exception to the rule that constructs don't have Constitution scores is just bleh to me. Also... I didn't like how they looked.
Hi James,
I've read your treatise on how you handle breath of life as cure deadly wounds on another thread, but I had a situation come up last night in the villains game that I run that prompted another question on the spell.
One of my PCs is an evil oracle of life. He cast breath of life on a fellow party member who is an umbral dragon. His argument for why this should have worked is that, unlike cure spells, the spell description for BoL does not explicitly state that the caster is channeling positive energy. I feel it's heavily implied by the context of the rules, and intend to rule zero it as a positive energy effect, but I wondered if you would rule the same way given how you treat the spell in your home games.
Not seeking gospel, mind you - just another GM's perspective.
Thanks,
PWU
Does it make me look embarrassingly young to only recognize two of those campaign settings: Golarion and Forgotten Realms?Woah... yeah, kind of. But no more so than it makes me look embarrassingly old! :-)
It also makes me sad that WotC let some of their most evocative and interesting settings lapse to the point where newer gamers don't recognize them. :(
Some of them sound interesting, too. Particularly Ravenloft. Too bad I can't get my hands on them.
Any chance Pathfinder will ever have another campaign setting?
Dragon Empires is sort of a new campaign setting.
But a brand new from the ground up world? Unlikely. One of Golarion's greatest successes is the fact that it's not splitting its audience into different groups. That splitting of the audience was one of the factors that fed into the fall of TSR.
That makes sense, I guess.
I'm working on my own Eberron-inspired Pathfinder campaign setting. Some things are different (No warforged or warforged equivalent, no dragonmarked [one of the few things about Eberron I dislike is the dragonmarked], no Drow [there are elves with Drow coloration, but they aren't much different from other elves, and use the same stats], and many other changes. I'm keeping most of the major ideas, but I'm changing a lot of the details of how those ideas are carried out to make it my own and not a blatant copy.). I know high magic like Eberron isn't your thing, and therefore you probably won't be too big a fan, but care to wish me luck?
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Does this mean that we're never going to get any in-setting flavor support for non-evil orcs in the future? :(
It's just that...in tabletop RPG land, orc fans have never gotten a Pathfinder-quality, well-written, in-depth, and flavorful book for non-evil orcs. There are a ton of those for elves, but none for orcs.
Does this mean that we're never going to get any in-setting flavor support for non-evil orcs in the future? :(
It's just that...in tabletop RPG land, orc fans have never gotten a Pathfinder-quality, well-written, in-depth, and flavorful book for non-evil orcs. There are a ton of those for elves, but none for orcs.
That's because James Jacobs is a racist! He doesn't like anything green.
That's because James Jacobs is a racist! He doesn't like anything green.
Does this mean that we're never going to get any in-setting flavor support for non-evil orcs in the future? :(
It's just that...in tabletop RPG land, orc fans have never gotten a Pathfinder-quality, well-written, in-depth, and flavorful book for non-evil orcs. There are a ton of those for elves, but none for orcs.
Well, you know it's not easy being green.
I'm too depressed to run a game. And we're in the middle of Broken Moon right before it gets good. How do I fix this situation?
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Hi James,
I've read your treatise on how you handle breath of life as cure deadly wounds on another thread, but I had a situation come up last night in the villains game that I run that prompted another question on the spell.
One of my PCs is an evil oracle of life. He cast breath of life on a fellow party member who is an umbral dragon. His argument for why this should have worked is that, unlike cure spells, the spell description for BoL does not explicitly state that the caster is channeling positive energy. I feel it's heavily implied by the context of the rules, and intend to rule zero it as a positive energy effect, but I wondered if you would rule the same way given how you treat the spell in your home games.
Not seeking gospel, mind you - just another GM's perspective.
Thanks,
PWU
My take: If it heals, it's positive energy. Including a paladin's lay on hands. Including breath of life.
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I'm working on my own Eberron-inspired Pathfinder campaign setting. Some things are different (No warforged or warforged equivalent, no dragonmarked [one of the few things about Eberron I dislike is the dragonmarked], no Drow [there are elves with Drow coloration, but they aren't much different from other elves, and use the same stats], and many other changes. I'm keeping most of the major ideas, but I'm changing a lot of the details of how those ideas are carried out to make it my own and not a blatant copy.). I know high magic like Eberron isn't your thing, and therefore you probably won't be too big a fan, but care to wish me luck?
Absolutely! Have fun and good luck!
I might not be a fan of Eberron, but that doesn't mean I don't love it that folks use Pathfinder to keep their Eberron games and similar games alive! WOO! :-)
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Does this mean that we're never going to get any in-setting flavor support for non-evil orcs in the future? :(
It's just that...in tabletop RPG land, orc fans have never gotten a Pathfinder-quality, well-written, in-depth, and flavorful book for non-evil orcs. There are a ton of those for elves, but none for orcs.
That's up to another company to do. It's not something we'll be doing for Golarion, since in Golarion, orcs are the bad guys.
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That's because James Jacobs is a racist! He doesn't like anything green.
Does this mean that we're never going to get any in-setting flavor support for non-evil orcs in the future? :(
It's just that...in tabletop RPG land, orc fans have never gotten a Pathfinder-quality, well-written, in-depth, and flavorful book for non-evil orcs. There are a ton of those for elves, but none for orcs.
That doesn't explain the fact that the froghemoth is one of my favorite monsters.
I actually quite LOVE the color green.
It's the smell that I don't like about orcs. Gross.
I'm working on my own Eberron-inspired Pathfinder campaign setting. Some things are different (No warforged or warforged equivalent, no dragonmarked [one of the few things about Eberron I dislike is the dragonmarked], no Drow [there are elves with Drow coloration, but they aren't much different from other elves, and use the same stats], and many other changes. I'm keeping most of the major ideas, but I'm changing a lot of the details of how those ideas are carried out to make it my own and not a blatant copy.). I know high magic like Eberron isn't your thing, and therefore you probably won't be too big a fan, but care to wish me luck?Absolutely! Have fun and good luck!
I might not be a fan of Eberron, but that doesn't mean I don't love it that folks use Pathfinder to keep their Eberron games and similar games alive! WOO! :-)
This is why you rock, even when being mean to innocent Orcs. You always want use to have fun. :D
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I'm too depressed to run a game. And we're in the middle of Broken Moon right before it gets good. How do I fix this situation?
I'm no psychologist... but run the game anyway. Usually, when I'm feeling down and I don't want to run the game... running the game cheers me up right fast.
Of course... that won't work if the reason you're depressed has something to do with one of the players in the group, I guess...
1)Have you seen "The Fly"(original), "The Fly"(80's), or "The Fly 2"? if so did you like them?
2)Are you much of a fan of Vincent Price? If so what are top five movies of his?
3)How many types of Gremlins are in the Beastairy 3?
4)Will the two monsters cut from AP#46 make into the Beastairy 3?
5)Demons, Devils, and Daemons, who came into being first, second, and Third?
6)How did Azmodeous and Lamashtu become gods?
7)Of the 20 core dieties who is the oldest? Youngest?
8)Which is the oldest of the Celestial races?
9)Are there any outsider races older then the Proteons?
10)Are you fan of Sherlock Holmes? Do you have any favorite books/movies?
What are your favourite Greyhawk gods? (Core. One of the things that irked me so much about the Realms is that exhaustive, bland list of deitys.)
I'm actually pretty unfamiliar with the setting, beyond whats in the 3.5 rules (which supposedly butchered it). What can you tell me about the setting?
Also is there any chance we'll see a Tsuto mini?
I'm thinking of buying my first set of miniatures (the awesome goblin ones!) but... I'm hesitant to get into that world. It seems like a MASSIVE time sink, for starters. But mostly it just seems like the final destination of geekery, and I dont know if I'm ready to take the plunge. Do you use minis at your table?
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I'm not sure if I own a copy of it or notThis is how you know you're hardcore.HA!
I've recently started cataloging my RPG collection (as well as my book and movie collection). Bought a computer program to help me do it, in fact. So far, I've cataloged 1 floor-to-ceiling bookshelf of RPG books and 1 half-height bookshelf of RPG books; puts me at about 500 products, if I recall correctly. Still to do, approximately 3 more floor-to-ceiling bookshelves and 2 more half shelves, although there's some regular books mixed in there.
Been collecting RPGs since 1981 or thereabouts. And I've worked in the industry for 12 years so far—4 years at Wizards of the coast and 8 years at Paizo. Both of which hook you up with a LOT of extra product—WotC in particular was good for that. Every few months, someone would clean out a closet or a shelf and post a note to the all hands email list saying something like, "I just put a stack of stuff on the free table!" and there'd be a feeding frenzy where you just grab stuff. I've got like a dozen copies of some WotC books floating around as a result.
I am green with envy, I have less than 1/3 of that. I can recover a bit with the wargames, but still ...
Cataloguing the stuff is too much like my RL work, so I will never do it probably.
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What are your favourite Greyhawk gods? (Core. One of the things that irked me so much about the Realms is that exhaustive, bland list of deitys.)
I'm actually pretty unfamiliar with the setting, beyond whats in the 3.5 rules (which supposedly butchered it). What can you tell me about the setting?
Also is there any chance we'll see a Tsuto mini?
I'm thinking of buying my first set of miniatures (the awesome goblin ones!) but... I'm hesitant to get into that world. It seems like a MASSIVE time sink, for starters. But mostly it just seems like the final destination of geekery, and I dont know if I'm ready to take the plunge. Do you use minis at your table?
Wee Jas is hands down my favorite Greyhawk deity. Close second to Tritherion and Zagyg.
The setting itself is pretty much everything you'd expect from a D&D setting. It's easy to call it "vanilla," I guess. It has a very pulpy feel—pretty much all the same stories that inspired Gygax to build Greyhawk were the same ones that inspired us with Golarion. It's actually got a LOT in common with Golarion, thematically.
Chances of a Tsuto mini coming along some day are pretty dang good...
I do indeed use minis at my table. Generally, metal painted minis for PCs and for key monsters/NPCs, but the vast majority of the minis are prepainted plastics.
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Hi James,
I've read your treatise on how you handle breath of life as cure deadly wounds on another thread, but I had a situation come up last night in the villains game that I run that prompted another question on the spell.
One of my PCs is an evil oracle of life. He cast breath of life on a fellow party member who is an umbral dragon. His argument for why this should have worked is that, unlike cure spells, the spell description for BoL does not explicitly state that the caster is channeling positive energy. I feel it's heavily implied by the context of the rules, and intend to rule zero it as a positive energy effect, but I wondered if you would rule the same way given how you treat the spell in your home games.
Not seeking gospel, mind you - just another GM's perspective.
Thanks,
PWU
I think you can use the same reasoning as this ruling:
Things to remember:The Core Rulebook was written assuming you're playing one of the PC races in that book.
All of those PC races are healed by positive energy.
The paladin has channel positive energy as a class ability--an ability that was added in the PFRPG (in 3.5, they had turn undead).
The 3.5 paladin LOH writeup didn't mention positive/negative energy because channeling positive or negative energy as a class ability (whether cleric or paladin) wasn't a concept in 3.5. Therefore, 3.5 LOH didn't state that it was channeled positive energy, partly for that reason and partly because the 3.5 PH also assumed you were playing one of the standard PC races.
The PF wording of LOH is an example of using the 3.5 wording without revising it to cover all the consequences of the rules changes in PF, such as good clerics and paladins gaining channel positive energy, and without considering that a future book would have a potential PC race with negative energy affinity (a universal monster rule that didn't exist when the Core Rulebook was written).
If LOH (whether 3.5 or PF) said "heal a living creature" or "uses positive energy to heal," this discussion wouldn't be happening at all.
That said, it's pretty obvious that the paladin is a class that uses holy power/positive energy for its abilities, and therefore its LOH healing should be considered a positive energy source rather than a "typeless" healing like resting, using the Heal skill, or the monk's wholeness of body ability. There's no good reason why the paladin's LOH should be considered "typeless" rather than positive, and at least one good reason why it should be considered positive rather than "typeless." Therefore, we're considering LOH to be a positive energy effect.
Therefore, a dhampir paladin hurts himself if he uses LOH on himself.
Note: It is a citation of a citation in the "Lay of hand vs. negative energy affinity", while the original should be in the Patfinder Society section. I haven't jet seen the original.
You can find a heated discussion about healing and different creature there (and I suspect James will not like it at all. One guy calming that undead and constructs can be healed by anything that isn't positive energy. Bleah.).
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1)Have you seen "The Fly"(original), "The Fly"(80's), or "The Fly 2"? if so did you like them?
2)Are you much of a fan of Vincent Price? If so what are top five movies of his?
3)How many types of Gremlins are in the Beastairy 3?
4)Will the two monsters cut from AP#46 make into the Beastairy 3?
5)Demons, Devils, and Daemons, who came into being first, second, and Third?
6)How did Azmodeous and Lamashtu become gods?
7)Of the 20 core dieties who is the oldest? Youngest?
8)Which is the oldest of the Celestial races?
9)Are there any outsider races older then the Proteons?
10)Are you fan of Sherlock Holmes? Do you have any favorite books/movies?
1) Yes, I liked all three. The Cronenberg version from the mid 80s is far and above my favorite—one of my favorite movies of that decade, in fact. BRILLIANT movie. The original's quite good... but the remake is one of the few examples of the remake being better than the original. The Fly 2 was fun... but not great. I did like how there was a lot more actual fly monster mayhem in that one though.
2) I am indeed. My top Vincent Price movies though... not sure I can do that since I've seen so many of them. I do have a soft spot in my heart for "The Haunted Palace" though, since it's a Lovecraft adaptation. And the most recent one I saw, "Witchfinder General," was quite good.
3) Can't say yet.
4) Nope. As I mentioned in the other thread, there were actually 3 monsters cut from #46. None of them are going into Bestiary 3; they'll see print in another place.
5) If you mean who came into being in existence in Golarion's multiverse? Devils were first, then Daemons, and then Demons.
6) That depends on who you ask. Both topics are covered in detail in the first two Books of the Damned.
7) Pharasma is the oldest. Cayden Cailean is the youngest.
8) Angels. I think...
9) Qlippoth are older than the proteons.
10) I do like Sherlock Holmes, but I've actually never read any of the stories. I really REALLY enjoyed the latest incarnation with Robert Downey Jr. though, and I'm looking forward to the next one next month.
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Note: It is a citation of a citation in the "Lay of hand vs. negative energy affinity", while the original should be in the Patfinder Society section. I haven't jet seen the original.
You can find a heated discussion about healing and different creature there (and I suspect James will not like it at all. One guy calming that undead and constructs can be healed by anything that isn't positive energy. Bleah.).
Sean and I actually chatted about this very subject earlier today; that's why I mentioned lay on hands in the first place.
I'm not really interested in going to that thread; Sean's already answered the question the way I would have in any case.
Which map projection is your favorite? And which type would you prefer to adapt to Golarion once all the geography's been nailed down?
...Whether or not you guys can have made and sell an actual globe, you should totally publish a punch-out fold-up Dymaxion icosahedral globe like National Geographic WORLD used to make. :)
That's up to another company to do. It's not something we'll be doing for Golarion, since in Golarion, orcs are the bad guys.
So where's the book where you introduce the Demon species of Orc?
After all, normal humanoids cannot have the "Always Chaotic Evil" label on them, since that's the gimmick of Outsiders like Demons :P
A "living construct" type exception to the rule that constructs don't have Constitution scores is just bleh to me. Also... I didn't like how they looked.
I'll admit it, I don't really agree with the whole constructs not having Constitution scores thing; partly because I think ability scores are to some degree an abstraction and the "no life" flavor-text impacts their game performance when I want them to be tough and stompy and hard to put down. It's particularly iffy to me with constructs that have internal structures and complicated systems running them, (like clockwork golems, robots, and androids,) oftentimes paralleling biological structures, because at that point, the flavor-text doesn't hold up for me either. If I had my druthers, robots at least would have the (systematic construct) subtype and have bonus hit points based on the integrity (Constitution) of their systems, not just size.
I figure there's a reason the robotic Inevitables aren't constructs anymore, and part of it has to do with what the creature type won't let them do.
Grant you, part of this might be from trying to fiddle with the system in the past for a couple construct villains (a sentient flesh golem and a 3.5 inevitable,) and an NPC (a quadrone modron,) and getting a bit frustrated with the results.
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10)Are you fan of Sherlock Holmes? Do you have any favorite books/movies?10) I do like Sherlock Holmes, but I've actually never read any of the stories. I really REALLY enjoyed the latest incarnation with Robert Downey Jr. though, and I'm looking forward to the next one next month.
Have you seen the 2010 BBC show Sherlock? I just finished it last night and it's amazing. Looking forward to season 2 in 2012.
Did you ever read The Modern Path? Do you use any third party Pathfinder content?
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Which map projection is your favorite? And which type would you prefer to adapt to Golarion once all the geography's been nailed down?
...Whether or not you guys can have made and sell an actual globe, you should totally publish a punch-out fold-up Dymaxion icosahedral globe like National Geographic WORLD used to make. :)
Globe.
But since globes are really hard to do, I'd probably default to the Robinson or the Winkel-Tripel projection.
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That's up to another company to do. It's not something we'll be doing for Golarion, since in Golarion, orcs are the bad guys.So where's the book where you introduce the Demon species of Orc?
After all, normal humanoids cannot have the "Always Chaotic Evil" label on them, since that's the gimmick of Outsiders like Demons :P
The "demon species of orc" are demons. A human or an elf or an orc or a lizardfolk or whatever who dies and whose soul goes to the Abyss and who eventually transforms into a demon doesn't care what his physical body was—it's only the sin that counts.
You'll note in Pathfinder we don't use the "Always this alignment" rules. We just list the alignment. What actual alignment a creature is we leave up to the GM. Or in the case of creating print products for Golarion... up to me. We've had lawful evil and neutral evil orcs in our products before, and I'm pretty sure we've had chaotic neutral one here and there. Haven't had a good one yet because there's been no need for one yet. If we do an adventure where there's a good orc, we'll have a good orc, but I wouldn't trust that challenge to any old adventure writer—it'd have to be someone capable of pulling that off and making it work. Some adventure writers are great at maps, some are great at story, some are great at rules, some are great at stat blocks, some are great at names... but VERY FEW are great at all of those.
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Have you played Batman Arkham City? What did you think?
I just got done defeating the Riddler.
Who is your favorite Batman villain?
I bought "Dark Souls," and hoped to be done with it before Arkham City came out. I was not... turns out Dark Souls is really hard and really fun. And I wasn't done with it before Skyrim came out. I set Dark Souls aside to play Skyrim, and now Assassin's Creed is out, and so is the Jurassic Park game. I own a copy of Arkham City; it's sitting on my coffee table... but it'll be a while before I play it.
My favorite Batman villain is Ra's al Ghul.
I'm glad your response was reasonable. Though I should have pointed out that I find the notion of Good orcs to be a bit far-fetched. I've been mostly supporting the notion of there being Neutral orcs among all the Evil ones, just to get rid of some questionable moral implications in my campaigns. And because I actually want to see a Cleric of Sarenrae putting the whole redemption thing to good use.
Also, would it sound weird to play an Orc cleric of Sarenrae in your opinion, James? It does say that formerly evil beings count among her worshippers...even though I am quite sure that character will have to roll Diplomacy checks in towns and prove his good intentions throughout a campaign.
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I figure there's a reason the robotic Inevitables aren't constructs anymore, and part of it has to do with what the creature type won't let them do.
There's two reasons we changed inevitables into outsiders.
1) They're living creatures, and thus can't be constructs.
2) We wanted them to be the iconic lawful neutral outsider race, and in order to do that, they had to become outsiders.
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Have you seen the 2010 BBC show Sherlock? I just finished it last night and it's amazing. Looking forward to season 2 in 2012.10)Are you fan of Sherlock Holmes? Do you have any favorite books/movies?10) I do like Sherlock Holmes, but I've actually never read any of the stories. I really REALLY enjoyed the latest incarnation with Robert Downey Jr. though, and I'm looking forward to the next one next month.
Have not.
My cable provider doesn't provide an HD BBC channel, and watching shows on it in low-res is infuriating, so I generally don't watch BBC at all. Which quite frustrates my desire to watch the latest season of Primeval.
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Did you ever read The Modern Path? Do you use any third party Pathfinder content?
I have not read that.
I do use third party Pathfinder Content. The bulk of what I use comes from the Complete Tome of Horrors. I'm running the 3.5 version of Necropolis for one of my groups right now, and I use Green Ronin's Book of Fiends a LOT. Advanced Bestiary as well.
Did you ever read The Modern Path? Do you use any third party Pathfinder content?I have not read that.
I do use third party Pathfinder Content. The bulk of what I use comes from the Complete Tome of Horrors. I'm running the 3.5 version of Necropolis for one of my groups right now, and I use Green Ronin's Book of Fiends a LOT. Advanced Bestiary as well.
Third party content is truly the best. Your support for it is why I bought into Pathfinder instead of 4E. I never played 4E and have no opinion whatsoever of the system. I went straight into Pathfinder for the OGL, and have not been disappointed by the system itself.
The Modern Path is pretty cool. It's D20 Modern Pathfinder. I'm working on a superhero supplement for it, and have a thread for it over in Pathfinder Homebrew (The writers are okay with me making a supplement. I checked with them.).
Have you ever worked on multiple projects at once? I've got a TMP superhero system and a standard Pathfinder Eberron-inspired campaign setting in the works right now.
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Have you seen the 2010 BBC show Sherlock? I just finished it last night and it's amazing. Looking forward to season 2 in 2012.10)Are you fan of Sherlock Holmes? Do you have any favorite books/movies?10) I do like Sherlock Holmes, but I've actually never read any of the stories. I really REALLY enjoyed the latest incarnation with Robert Downey Jr. though, and I'm looking forward to the next one next month.
Have not.
My cable provider doesn't provide an HD BBC channel, and watching shows on it in low-res is infuriating, so I generally don't watch BBC at all. Which quite frustrates my desire to watch the latest season of Primeval.
I understand that. I just got BBC America in HD this year. I watched Sherlock streaming from Netflix though.
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Third party content is truly the best. Your support for it is why I bought into Pathfinder instead of 4E. I never played 4E and have no opinion whatsoever of the system. I went straight into Pathfinder for the OGL, and have not been disappointed by the system itself.
The Modern Path is pretty cool. It's D20 Modern Pathfinder. I'm working on a superhero supplement for it, and have a thread for it over in Pathfinder Homebrew (The writers are okay with me making a supplement. I checked with them.).
Have you ever worked on multiple projects at once? I've got a TMP superhero system and a standard Pathfinder Eberron-inspired campaign setting in the works right now.
Heh... you realize that by saying "Third party content is truly the best," you're also saying "Paizo products are inferior," right? No big deal if that's really what you mean, of course, but still... heh.
Anyway... I really DO love how many 3rd party publishers are supporting Pathfinder. It's really cool.
Unfortunately, one of the truths of working in a publishing company like Paizo is that you really don't have a lot of time to look through books beyond the ones you create. When I go home to relax, assuming I'm not doing freelance writing for Pathfinder stuff, and assuming I'm not running a game... I really don't have much time left over to read new game products or to keep up with 3rd party products. Especially since a significant portion of my non-professional gaming energies remains dedicated to Call of Cthulhu. And as a result of all of this... I just don't have the time to get involved in 3rd party products as I used to—back in the early days of 3rd edition, I was ALL OVER 3rd party products, though! It's good to hear and see a similar wealth of options exist for Pathfinder.
As for working on multiple projects at once... every single day. That's more or less standard operating procedure at Paizo. Right now, my primary project here at work is the Rise of the Runelords hardcover, but I'm also helping out with the Jade Regent adventure path and the Skull & Shackles adventure path, outlining and assigning the Shattered Star Adventure Path, outlining the books in the Campaign Setting and Player Companion lines, generating maps for flip mat products, working on an adventure for next year, helping with the module line, periodically creating blog posts, and working on several other projects that are still top secret. It's pretty crazy.