Aboleths. Derros, intellect devourers, mothmen, succubi, and Lovecraftain critters are fun too.Do you have a favorite monster you like to inflict on PCs? If so, what is it?what would merisiel do if faced with an opponent that is immune to weapon damage? like a swarm?Become very frustrated. This actually happened in the playtest of "Crypt of the Everflame," when she got attacked by skeletons (AKA Jason Bulmahn's favorite monster)
Did you include Mothmen because they ask so many questions, that you go mad? :-b
Is your Home brew world a constant amalgam of your role-playing history or do you start fresh with each new campaign?
Does the actions of previous PCs influence your campaign world and have you had players notice, that an old character is some way influencing the world (ie as a King, martyr, saint, tyrant and so on)?
In the Golarion solar system is there a way to travel between worlds - is it like Stargate or SpellJammer?
In the Golarion solar system is there a way to travel between worlds - is it like Stargate or SpellJammer?
Both technically!
If i recall my reading of the great beyond correctly
Do you like it when your players do voices? In the current game I am playing my character is a refugee noble woman from Galt... I have cut back on the outrageous French accent as I am male and it sounds very corny.. and the rest of the table usually fall off their chairs laughing.
In the Golarion solar system is there a way to travel between worlds - is it like Stargate or SpellJammer?Both technically!
If i recall my reading of the great beyond correctly
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Can we expect the Spanish Inquisition?As with all things Monty Python in gamer circles... yes. We can not only expect them, but we can assume they'll show up several times.
(Longish pause. He turns to Biggles.)
I - I can't say it - you'll have to say it.
Biggles : What?
Ximinez : You'll have to say the bit about 'Our chief weapons are ...'
Biggles : (rather horrified) I couldn't do that...
Reg : I didn't expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition.
(JARRING CHORD - The cardinals enter. Biggles is now in front, looking lost.)
Biggles : Er.... Nobody...um....
Ximinez : (under breath) Expects...
Biggles : Expects... Nobody expects the...um...the Spanish...um...
Ximinez : Inquisition.
Biggles : I know, I know! Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition. In fact, those who do expect -
Is there a Paizo product you wish could be created, but can't do to budget/technological reasons (e.g., boxed sets, monthly mags, etc.)? If so, what is it?"Unspeakable Futures." My post-apocalyptic RPG. It might happen some day, but for now expanding into other genres is kinda not on the table.
what could we as fans do to help make this a reality?
I liked the idea of the Greyhawk wars and From the Ashes but I was unfortunately unable to play in the setting. We also started a very ambitious and heavily modified Red Hand of Doom campaign but unfortunately it ran out of steam before we got into the game proper.
Would Nirmathas be the kind of setting where you could stage something similar?
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Is your Home brew world a constant amalgam of your role-playing history or do you start fresh with each new campaign?
Does the actions of previous PCs influence your campaign world and have you had players notice, that an old character is some way influencing the world (ie as a King, martyr, saint, tyrant and so on)?
My homebrew world is an evolving world; the previous campaign's results lead into and are incorporated into the present. For example, in one campaign, the PCs accidentally released ancient wizards and woke them up; they killed the boss but the others reclaimed several old territories and those regions became new areas in the continent. (These wizards would then go on to turn into Golarion's Runelords.)
In another case, one player wanted his character to become a god. A few years and 22 or so levels later he achieved his goal and in the campaigns to follow, this new god was one that new PCs could worship.
In ANOTHER case, a PC that betrayed the party and was killed ended up being a big bad guy in another campaign.
And so on.
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In the Golarion solar system is there a way to travel between worlds - is it like Stargate or SpellJammer?
There is a way. You can use spaceships. You can use various creatures capable of flying through space. You can use portals. You can use spells. Pathfinder #14 actually explores several such options.
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Do you like it when your players do voices? In the current game I am playing my character is a refugee noble woman from Galt... I have cut back on the outrageous French accent as I am male and it sounds very corny.. and the rest of the table usually fall off their chairs laughing.
I like it when the players do voices that are cool. Not all players are capable of acting or making good voices, and there are some who THINK they are but what they're actually doing is just shrieking or yelling and giving me a headache.
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Is there a Paizo product you wish could be created, but can't do to budget/technological reasons (e.g., boxed sets, monthly mags, etc.)? If so, what is it?"Unspeakable Futures." My post-apocalyptic RPG. It might happen some day, but for now expanding into other genres is kinda not on the table.what could we as fans do to help make this a reality?
Dunno. Form a picket out in front of Paizo?
The thing is, sci-fi RPGs generally just don't sell all that well, so Paizo's a bit wary of entering that arena. And if we DO, we would want to support the game with regular offerings. Maybe even an Adventure Path line. And suddenly, you're doubling your staff requirements. It's a tricky question with a solution that we haven't yet solved.
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I liked the idea of the Greyhawk wars and From the Ashes but I was unfortunately unable to play in the setting. We also started a very ambitious and heavily modified Red Hand of Doom campaign but unfortunately it ran out of steam before we got into the game proper.
Would Nirmathas be the kind of setting where you could stage something similar?
Molthune and Nirmathas are intended to be Golarion's "Nations at war." So yeah; they'd work great for that.
Do you like it when your players do voices? In the current game I am playing my character is a refugee noble woman from Galt... I have cut back on the outrageous French accent as I am male and it sounds very corny.. and the rest of the table usually fall off their chairs laughing.I like it when the players do voices that are cool. Not all players are capable of acting or making good voices, and there are some who THINK they are but what they're actually doing is just shrieking or yelling and giving me a headache.
Why are you looking at Josh as you answer this?
Why aren't there blog posts on Saturday and Sunday? You guys work most weekends anyway.:)
Can we expect the Spanish Inquisition?
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Can we expect the Spanish Inquisition?As with all things Monty Python in gamer circles... yes. We can not only expect them, but we can assume they'll show up several times.** spoiler omitted **
It would appear I'm stealing your bit....how unexpected.
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Why aren't there blog posts on Saturday and Sunday? You guys work most weekends anyway.:)
Because orchestrating blog posts takes more than one person. It actually takes, at a minimum, three; one to write the post, one to edit the post, and one to upload the post to the blog and make sure all the coding for formatting is correct. And blog posts also often require other resources as well, such as an art director to determine what we can show and who illustrated what, or a manager to approve of a topic.
So it's kinda hard to get all of that done when you don't have everyone at work.
And furthermore, when things are going right we AREN'T working weekends. It's only when we're scrambling against a deadline that we do that. And by not scheduling blogs on weekends, we avoid that type of additional deadline.
Anyway, even if we DID have weekend blogs, folks would still complain about there not being enough blogs. They'd start asking for nighttime and daytime blogs, or something like that. It's best to pick a point to pinch off the blog flow and just be done with it.
Why aren't there blog posts on Saturday and Sunday? You guys work most weekends anyway.:)Because orchestrating blog posts takes more than one person. It actually takes, at a minimum, three; one to write the post, one to edit the post, and one to upload the post to the blog and make sure all the coding for formatting is correct. And blog posts also often require other resources as well, such as an art director to determine what we can show and who illustrated what, or a manager to approve of a topic.
So it's kinda hard to get all of that done when you don't have everyone at work.
And furthermore, when things are going right we AREN'T working weekends. It's only when we're scrambling against a deadline that we do that. And by not scheduling blogs on weekends, we avoid that type of additional deadline.
Anyway, even if we DID have weekend blogs, folks would still complain about there not being enough blogs. They'd start asking for nighttime and daytime blogs, or something like that. It's best to pick a point to pinch off the blog flow and just be done with it.
So you are saying we could nighttime and daytime blogs? ;)
Ok, this has come up several time, so I REALLY need to know.
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
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James what happened to Jimmy Hoffa?He was eaten by ghosts of people who haven't died yet, so his body doesn't exist until after tomorrow.
Here the whole time I thought he went into witness protection in drag as Tammy Fae Baker....... I mean come on there has to be a reason she wore all that makeup.
Is there a Paizo product you wish could be created, but can't do to budget/technological reasons (e.g., boxed sets, monthly mags, etc.)? If so, what is it?"Unspeakable Futures." My post-apocalyptic RPG. It might happen some day, but for now expanding into other genres is kinda not on the table.
From what I've read about it, it's the first post-apocalyptic game that would really catch my interest. Go for it!
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Do you like it when your players do voices? In the current game I am playing my character is a refugee noble woman from Galt... I have cut back on the outrageous French accent as I am male and it sounds very corny.. and the rest of the table usually fall off their chairs laughing.
I was inspired by your accent and had a Galtan woman give the group their mission on Friday night, accent and all ... I had a table of mystified looks and I had to repeat everything without the accent ... oh well, at least my Vudran merchant and stoner grit junkie accents got some love.
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James, how is the move going?
Slowly but surely, although the latest batch of boxes I've procured are too big. AKA: Full of books they're almost too heavy to lift, and they're too big to fit into the trunk of my car in any case. Which kinda sucks... got a bunch of boxes that won't really be useful as a result.
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My son really likes dinosaurs, I am looking for a good book for him, do you happen to know of any good books that might appeal to a four year old dinosaur enthusiast?
Not off the top of my head; anything with colorful pictures works well, though! Those are the ones I loved the most as a kid. That, and the ones that were like encyclopedias so I could more easily learn the dinosaurs' names.
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Does the Great Beyond Abyss have layers as such? How does the interaction between the different ‘realms’ or layers of the Pathfinder Abyss work?
It does; they're called "Abyssal realms" and they basically exist as immense underground regions. Some of them are like normal caves, but most are so huge that they have their own skies and atmospheres and are their own worlds.
My son really likes dinosaurs, I am looking for a good book for him, do you happen to know of any good books that might appeal to a four year old dinosaur enthusiast?Not off the top of my head; anything with colorful pictures works well, though! Those are the ones I loved the most as a kid. That, and the ones that were like encyclopedias so I could more easily learn the dinosaurs' names.
Maybe 4 years old is a bit too young for this one, but it is very good and child-friendly and has awesome illustrations.
http://www.dinotopia.com/
Dinotopia: A Land Apart From Time
Written and illustrated by James Gurney
Explorer Arthur Denison and his son, Will, are washed up on the shore of an uncharted island, where they are astonished to discover a civilization of dinosaurs and humans living peacefully together for centuries. Published in over 18 languages and winner of the Hugo Award, The Colorado Children's Book Award and the World Fantasy Award, this New York Times besteselling book features over 160 pages of full-color illustrations and an uplifting story that will absorb readers of all ages.
My son really likes dinosaurs, I am looking for a good book for him, do you happen to know of any good books that might appeal to a four year old dinosaur enthusiast?Not off the top of my head; anything with colorful pictures works well, though! Those are the ones I loved the most as a kid. That, and the ones that were like encyclopedias so I could more easily learn the dinosaurs' names.Maybe 4 years old is a bit too young for this one, but it is very good and child-friendly and has awesome illustrations.
http://www.dinotopia.com/
Oh, we (my sibs and I) used to have Dinotopia when we were kids. The first two books I think. I asked my mum what happened to it just last week, she can’t find it, but I’m hoping it will turn up. I think my son would love it and it’s hard to get hold of these days.
I never knew about the website though, so thanks for the link.
Same here. Still have it. Gonna hold on to it just in case I get a child of my own some day.
You are welcome.
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What is your favourite layer of the Abyss (in the Great Wheel version)?Of the ones I had a hand in designing, probably a tie between Shendilavri and Zionin. Of the ones that existed prior to my involvement, probably Gaping Maw.
Ah, now Shandilavri I remember; Malcanthet’s realm. Which one was Zionin, what were some of its notable features, and was the name’s similarity to Zion intentional or significant?
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Does the Great Beyond Abyss have layers as such? How does the interaction between the different ‘realms’ or layers of the Pathfinder Abyss work?It does; they're called "Abyssal realms" and they basically exist as immense underground regions. Some of them are like normal caves, but most are so huge that they have their own skies and atmospheres and are their own worlds.
Where do these underground Abyssal realms exist in a physical context? If you tunnelled up through the ‘roof’ or ‘ceiling’ of one of these realms, would you emerge into the Maelstrom? The Astral Plane? Another Abyssal realm? The bottom of the realm you just left? You would keep tunnelling forever? Something else?