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I read that as Aboleth sandwich and had to double take.What is your favorite sandwich?Abalone sandwich on sourdough with fancy mustard with lettuce or spinach.
A lot of people seen to have Aboleth on their tummy-brains lately, that's it we need to start up an Aboleth recipe guide :3
I propose grilled Aboleth rolls with diced cucumbers.
And what is James Jacobs favorite sentient delicacy ?
Just curious, out of the player races that have been released in the Advanced Race Guide which ones would you say are the rarest on Golarion?At this point, none of those new races are part of Golarion. If they DO exist on Golarion, they exist on other continents apart from Avistan, Tian Xia, and northern Garund. Where (or IF) they exist, I've not decided yet.
Oh interesting, I had just assumed that they had been retroactively added to certain areas that weren't really explored in the adventure paths.
Isn't it a bit odd though to have all these new races that you guys released, but don't actually exist in Pathfinder's main setting? After all, people are going to be trying to play them in adventure paths and such.
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I read that as Aboleth sandwich and had to double take.What is your favorite sandwich?Abalone sandwich on sourdough with fancy mustard with lettuce or spinach.A lot of people seen to have Aboleth on their tummy-brains lately, that's it we need to start up an Aboleth recipe guide :3
I propose grilled Aboleth rolls with diced cucumbers.
And what is James Jacobs favorite sentient delicacy ?
Not being evil, I don't eat sentient flesh. I don't even eat octopus—they're too self-aware for my tastes.
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Just curious, out of the player races that have been released in the Advanced Race Guide which ones would you say are the rarest on Golarion?At this point, none of those new races are part of Golarion. If they DO exist on Golarion, they exist on other continents apart from Avistan, Tian Xia, and northern Garund. Where (or IF) they exist, I've not decided yet.Oh interesting, I had just assumed that they had been retroactively added to certain areas that weren't really explored in the adventure paths.
Isn't it a bit odd though to have all these new races that you guys released, but don't actually exist in Pathfinder's main setting? After all, people are going to be trying to play them in adventure paths and such.
Nope.
In fact, retroactively adding new races to existing settings is one of my biggest NO commands for Golarion.
It is a bit odd that we did 5 new sample races in Advanced Race Guide that don't fit well into the Inner Sea Region. That's one of the symptoms of "Paizo needs to get its house in order," alas... had I been involved with Advanced Race Guide, I would have probably picked races like androids or lashuntas or something along those lines to stat up, since they didn't at the time have stats but DID have a presence, however small, in Golarion.
We'll find homes for those five races eventually, but those homes won't be in the Inner Sea region or Tian Xia.
Do you mean the Races in Chapter 4?
Don't feel too bad about it; It's pretty clear that the whole race-building section is all homebrew-oriented, and the races created were probably intentionally stretching the boundaries of what could be done to show what it allows for.
That said, it would have been nice to have Constructed and Sexually-Dimorphic in the options, and the android and ghoran are probably better examples of a half-construct-ish and a plant race than the gathlain and the wyrwood and the given half-construct trait.
Hmm, an actual question... Would you think it would be reasonable for an adventure path to allow players to give their characters three traits as long as one of them is a campaign trait and they really follow that with how it gets their character into the adventure?
James sir, in preparation for Reign of Winter DM'ing I've been poking around in my old Frostburn book, and are some of the things withing going to be addressed in the adventure path? I don't think I have ever seen concrete rules for things like cold resistance giving the ability to withstand cold environments and the like. There is a line in the Winter Witch archtype that mentions cold resist helping withstand sevre cold, but thats all I could find in text.
Just curious, out of the player races that have been released in the Advanced Race Guide which ones would you say are the rarest on Golarion?At this point, none of those new races are part of Golarion. If they DO exist on Golarion, they exist on other continents apart from Avistan, Tian Xia, and northern Garund. Where (or IF) they exist, I've not decided yet.Oh interesting, I had just assumed that they had been retroactively added to certain areas that weren't really explored in the adventure paths.
Isn't it a bit odd though to have all these new races that you guys released, but don't actually exist in Pathfinder's main setting? After all, people are going to be trying to play them in adventure paths and such.
Nope.
In fact, retroactively adding new races to existing settings is one of my biggest NO commands for Golarion.
It is a bit odd that we did 5 new sample races in Advanced Race Guide that don't fit well into the Inner Sea Region. That's one of the symptoms of "Paizo needs to get its house in order," alas... had I been involved with Advanced Race Guide, I would have probably picked races like androids or lashuntas or something along those lines to stat up, since they didn't at the time have stats but DID have a presence, however small, in Golarion.
We'll find homes for those five races eventually, but those homes won't be in the Inner Sea region or Tian Xia.
At the same time, I can sort of understand why it was done. When I read the book, I personally took them as sort of a, "Look at some of the weirder stuff you can do with the system!" Like the familiar monsters were examples of how to use the system to convert while the new races were examples of how to make something totally new and bizarre.
If you really wanted to, you could track down the person/people who made each new race and be all like, "You made it? Now detail a home for it on X continent, Superstar!"
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James, less a question than some info for you.
You mentioned a few posts back they you want your character sheet on iPad.
I do this by using the character folio you guys produce. Open that in good reader ($5 app) and it allows you to directly edit it.
It took me an hour to set up the first one with editable tabs, but after that I just copy a new one everytime I need a character and edit in the profiles directly.
Of course, when hero labs does theirs, it will do all the work for you. But if you're keen to use the iPad already, I've been doing so for a few months now.
All I take to games are my iPad, dice and mini now. No more books and paper for me. (Got all my books in PDF format from you guys as well)
Hope that was helpful, sorry it wasn't a question.
Cheers
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Not being evil, I don't eat sentient flesh. I don't even eat octopus—they're too self-aware for my tastes.I read that as Aboleth sandwich and had to double take.What is your favorite sandwich?Abalone sandwich on sourdough with fancy mustard with lettuce or spinach.A lot of people seen to have Aboleth on their tummy-brains lately, that's it we need to start up an Aboleth recipe guide :3
I propose grilled Aboleth rolls with diced cucumbers.
And what is James Jacobs favorite sentient delicacy ?
Come to the dark side James, we have calamari... And Succubi !
While I have been on the boards for some time, this is my first question for you good sir.
Recently I've been playing with the idea of making a Dwarven Inquisitor of Gorum who has the Anger Inquisition. I hope to one day arm said Dwarf with a +2 Furious Greatsword.
To get started, as an inquisitor I gain the ability to place the Bane ability on my weapon and to Rage through the Anger Inquisition. What would be the outcome of placing Bane on my +2 Furious Greatsword while facing the creature I have Bane against?
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+2d6 Damage (Bane)
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+2d6 Damage (Bane)
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+2d6 Damage (Bane)
Thanks for your time,
Joshua Hirtz
I read that as Aboleth sandwich and had to double take.What is your favorite sandwich?Abalone sandwich on sourdough with fancy mustard with lettuce or spinach.
That made me think of the "Missing Fisherman" adventure plot seed from the inside back cover of Pathfinder #60: From Hell's Heart, with the illustration of an aboleth hung up by the tail from a fisherman's display rack like a caught marlin.
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Do you mean the Races in Chapter 4?
Yes.
The gathlain, kasatha, trox, wyrwood, and wyvarans. They don't currently have homes on Golarion, but if and when we begin to expand into detailing other continents like southern Garund, Casmaron, Arcadia, Azlant, and Sarusan... my plan is to find homes for them. Not all on one continent either... they'll be spread out. OR... they'll end up races on other planets. Not sure yet.
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Hmm, an actual question... Would you think it would be reasonable for an adventure path to allow players to give their characters three traits as long as one of them is a campaign trait and they really follow that with how it gets their character into the adventure?
Yes. As long as all PCs get the same option, you won't have an incongruity of power among the characters or create feelings of favoritism among the players. And a trait is minor enough in power that one more isn't going to make much of a difference.
In fact, giving out bonus traits as rewards for in-game accomplishments is a great way to use the trait system.
Do you mean the Races in Chapter 4?Yes.
The gathlain, kasatha, trox, wyrwood, and wyvarans. They don't currently have homes on Golarion, but if and when we begin to expand into detailing other continents like southern Garund, Casmaron, Arcadia, Azlant, and Sarusan... my plan is to find homes for them. Not all on one continent either... they'll be spread out. OR... they'll end up races on other planets. Not sure yet.
Oohhh. I meant to ask about all the 'new' races with full write-ups (chapters 2-3 I guess). I've assumed that the chapter 4 races were made-up only to demonstrate what weird stuff you could make with the race builder. It is interesting that you are thinking of actually adding them to the setting.
So, to clarify my question then... out of the 'featured' and 'uncommon' races in the Advanced Race Guide, which ones would you say are the rarest on Golarion? ;)
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James sir, in preparation for Reign of Winter DM'ing I've been poking around in my old Frostburn book, and are some of the things withing going to be addressed in the adventure path? I don't think I have ever seen concrete rules for things like cold resistance giving the ability to withstand cold environments and the like. There is a line in the Winter Witch archtype that mentions cold resist helping withstand sevre cold, but thats all I could find in text.
We can't use any of the actual words written in Frostburn since it's not open content, but we can ABSOLUTELY cover the same types of elements that the book talks about here and there. As it makes sense for the adventure path, of course.
And since resist cold blocks damage from cold, I don't see how it wouldn't help protect against being damaged by cold temperatures.
In fact, giving out bonus traits as rewards for in-game accomplishments is a great way to use the trait system.
It really is a wonderful way to give rewards.
On the Races: I can see most of them being in those locations.
I really want an Arcadia Campaign Setting book...
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At the same time, I can sort of understand why it was done. When I read the book, I personally took them as sort of a, "Look at some of the weirder stuff you can do with the system!" Like the familiar monsters were examples of how to use the system to convert while the new races were examples of how to make something totally new and bizarre.
That's exactly the point. I just wish we'd been more explicit about the fact that these are experiments.
But even more, I wish we'd taken advantage of the opportunity to do the races we did in Inner Sea Bestiary. We did 5 of them there too, ya know...
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Come to the dark side James, we have calamari... And Succubi !Not being evil, I don't eat sentient flesh. I don't even eat octopus—they're too self-aware for my tastes.I read that as Aboleth sandwich and had to double take.What is your favorite sandwich?Abalone sandwich on sourdough with fancy mustard with lettuce or spinach.A lot of people seen to have Aboleth on their tummy-brains lately, that's it we need to start up an Aboleth recipe guide :3
I propose grilled Aboleth rolls with diced cucumbers.
And what is James Jacobs favorite sentient delicacy ?
Calamari is delicious. It's also not octopus, it's squid. Makes a huge difference to me.
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While I have been on the boards for some time, this is my first question for you good sir.
Recently I've been playing with the idea of making a Dwarven Inquisitor of Gorum who has the Anger Inquisition. I hope to one day arm said Dwarf with a +2 Furious Greatsword.
To get started, as an inquisitor I gain the ability to place the Bane ability on my weapon and to Rage through the Anger Inquisition. What would be the outcome of placing Bane on my +2 Furious Greatsword while facing the creature I have Bane against?
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** spoiler omitted **:
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** spoiler omitted **Thanks for your time,
Joshua Hirtz
Bonuses with the same name don't stack (unless that name is "dodge").
The additional bonus you get from a bane weapon is an increase to an existing enhancement bonus.
The additional bonus you get from a furious weapon is also an increase to an existing enhancement bonus.
These increases both use the weapon's base enhancement bonus as a starting point.
Therefore, the result, alas, is option 3—they don't stack.
IIRC: Squids have been proven to be more Self-Aware than Octopi...
Maybe we could see an Ultimate, Advanced, or Complete Environments Guide that expands the Environment Rules?
Hmm... Maybe Complete could be used for GM Focused Books...
While I have been on the boards for some time, this is my first question for you good sir.
Recently I've been playing with the idea of making a Dwarven Inquisitor of Gorum who has the Anger Inquisition. I hope to one day arm said Dwarf with a +2 Furious Greatsword.
To get started, as an inquisitor I gain the ability to place the Bane ability on my weapon and to Rage through the Anger Inquisition. What would be the outcome of placing Bane on my +2 Furious Greatsword while facing the creature I have Bane against?
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** spoiler omitted **Thanks for your time,
Joshua HirtzBonuses with the same name don't stack (unless that name is "dodge").
The additional bonus you get from a bane weapon is an increase to an existing enhancement bonus.
The additional bonus you get from a furious weapon is also an increase to an existing enhancement bonus.
These increases both use the weapon's base enhancement bonus as a starting point.
Therefore, the result, alas, is option 3—they don't stack.
I thought that might be how it worked, but I figured there was no harm in asking.
So onto my next question. Switching the weapon to a +2 Courageous Furious Greatsword, normally I would receive a +1 to any morale bonus besides the fear bonus from the Courageous ability itself. During a rage this would incrase to a +2 because of the Furious ability boosting the enhancement bonus to a +4, correct?
If that is correct, would this work the same way when fighting an enemy you have bane against with a +2 Courageous Greatsword?
Thanks for all the help,
Joshua Hirtz
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Calamari is delicious. It's also not octopus, it's squid. Makes a huge difference to me.Come to the dark side James, we have calamari... And Succubi !Not being evil, I don't eat sentient flesh. I don't even eat octopus—they're too self-aware for my tastes.I read that as Aboleth sandwich and had to double take.What is your favorite sandwich?Abalone sandwich on sourdough with fancy mustard with lettuce or spinach.A lot of people seen to have Aboleth on their tummy-brains lately, that's it we need to start up an Aboleth recipe guide :3
I propose grilled Aboleth rolls with diced cucumbers.
And what is James Jacobs favorite sentient delicacy ?
I'm glad I'm not the only one that doesn't eat octopuses on moral grounds while still eating seafood. People seem to think that because they're so strange their intelligence doesn't count. It's up there with eating dolphins or great apes in my mind.
Do you mean the Races in Chapter 4?Yes.
The gathlain, kasatha, trox, wyrwood, and wyvarans. They don't currently have homes on Golarion, but if and when we begin to expand into detailing other continents like southern Garund, Casmaron, Arcadia, Azlant, and Sarusan... my plan is to find homes for them. Not all on one continent either... they'll be spread out. OR... they'll end up races on other planets. Not sure yet.
Is there a reason why they must have homes in the game world? I mean they were just examples of the things you could do after all.
Now if you guys want to I am all for it...but if you force them in that could be poorly done.
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Calamari is delicious. It's also not octopus, it's squid. Makes a huge difference to me.Come to the dark side James, we have calamari... And Succubi !Not being evil, I don't eat sentient flesh. I don't even eat octopus—they're too self-aware for my tastes.I read that as Aboleth sandwich and had to double take.What is your favorite sandwich?Abalone sandwich on sourdough with fancy mustard with lettuce or spinach.A lot of people seen to have Aboleth on their tummy-brains lately, that's it we need to start up an Aboleth recipe guide :3
I propose grilled Aboleth rolls with diced cucumbers.
And what is James Jacobs favorite sentient delicacy ?
... How? (And I know squid and octopi are differant creatures, are squid not sentient?)
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IIRC: Squids have been proven to be more Self-Aware than Octopi...
Maybe we could see an Ultimate, Advanced, or Complete Environments Guide that expands the Environment Rules?
Hmm... Maybe Complete could be used for GM Focused Books...
Note to self : read whole thread before posting.
I'd like an environment book too ( Frostburn, Stormwrack, & Sandstorm were some of my favorite supplements for 3.5). Maybe something dealing more in depth with unnatural weather and areas like the primal magic storms in The Mana Wastes, The Worldwound, The Eye of Abendego, Irrisen's winter charms, and the First World's effect on The River Kingdoms (and everywhere else for that matter)
As for a question, What types of environments do you most like to run/play in?
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So onto my next question. Switching the weapon to a +2 Courageous Furious Greatsword, normally I would receive a +1 to any morale bonus besides the fear bonus from the Courageous ability itself. During a rage this would incrase to a +2 because of the Furious ability boosting the enhancement bonus to a +4, correct?
If that is correct, would this work the same way when fighting an enemy you have bane against with a +2 Courageous Greatsword?
This is starting to delve into the land of rules questions/character build questions, which means it's better asked in the rules forum where folks can FAQ the question if needed. I didn't design the corageous or furious weapon abilities, so I'm not sure what the designer's intent was. My gut feeling is that it wouldn't increase your morale bonus at all, though.
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Do you mean the Races in Chapter 4?Yes.
The gathlain, kasatha, trox, wyrwood, and wyvarans. They don't currently have homes on Golarion, but if and when we begin to expand into detailing other continents like southern Garund, Casmaron, Arcadia, Azlant, and Sarusan... my plan is to find homes for them. Not all on one continent either... they'll be spread out. OR... they'll end up races on other planets. Not sure yet.
Is there a reason why they must have homes in the game world? I mean they were just examples of the things you could do after all.
Now if you guys want to I am all for it...but if you force them in that could be poorly done.
Yes, there is a reason. Verisimilitude. World continuity. Logic. Personal preference.
Golarion is NOT a "everything is possible world." And the more you drill down into smaller and smaller parts of it, the more you build places that simply can't have everything. There's certainly yetis on Golarion, but there's certainly not any yetis in a random dungeon in the middle of Osirion, or even in Osirion itself. We define worlds and regions in that world as much as by what is NOT in there as by what is—if everything is in there... it's sloppy.
Furhter, bloating a single setting with too many races gets ridiculous. It's like putting a dozen tigers on an island that's only a thousand feet across... what are those tigers eating? Why are they even still alive?
Building dungeons, regions, and on up to entire campaigns requires logic in order to make things make sense, and part of that is not simply continuing to add entire societies to regions where, for the past five years of real world time and the past ten thousand years of in-game history time where those races aren't mentioned at all.
I think I've confused myself. Those example races will eventually be getting a place in some region of the universe?
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... How? (And I know squid and octopi are differant creatures, are squid not sentient?)
Octopodes are much smarter than squid, at least as far as current science understands things. Not only that, but octopodes do things like build gardens, play with toys, have incredibly complex hunting tactics, and so on.
Squids and octopodes are both molusks, but then again, humans and moles are both mammals. There's a world of difference between human and mole intelligence... and in fact a world of difference between human and chimpanzee intelligence. Same thing's going on with the octopus and the squid.
Now, if I see more evidence that squids are more intelligent than I've been led to believe (which is certainly plausible), I'll stop eating squid as well.
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I'd like an environment book too ( Frostburn, Stormwrack, & Sandstorm were some of my favorite supplements for 3.5). Maybe something dealing more in depth with unnatural weather and areas like the primal magic storms in The Mana Wastes, The Worldwound, The Eye of Abendego, Irrisen's winter charms, and the First World's effect on The River Kingdoms (and everywhere else for that matter)
As for a question, What types of environments do you most like to run/play in?
We've got a Worldwound book coming soon. I'm actually developing it right now. We've done other region books before too... Into the Darklands and Heart of the Jungle both come to mind.
Are you specifically asking for a big hardcover book?
My favorite environments to run/play in are urban, temperate forest, coastal, and oceanic.
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... How? (And I know squid and octopi are differant creatures, are squid not sentient?)Octopodes are much smarter than squid, at least as far as current science understands things. Not only that, but octopodes do things like build gardens, play with toys, have incredibly complex hunting tactics, and so on.
Squids and octopodes are both molusks, but then again, humans and moles are both mammals. There's a world of difference between human and mole intelligence... and in fact a world of difference between human and chimpanzee intelligence. Same thing's going on with the octopus and the squid.
Now, if I see more evidence that squids are more intelligent than I've been led to believe (which is certainly plausible), I'll stop eating squid as well.
Ahhh okies, did not know all that
This is starting to delve into the land of rules questions/character build questions, which means it's better asked in the rules forum where folks can FAQ the question if needed. I didn't design the corageous or furious weapon abilities, so I'm not sure what the designer's intent was. My gut feeling is that it wouldn't increase your morale bonus at all, though.So onto my next question. Switching the weapon to a +2 Courageous Furious Greatsword, normally I would receive a +1 to any morale bonus besides the fear bonus from the Courageous ability itself. During a rage this would incrase to a +2 because of the Furious ability boosting the enhancement bonus to a +4, correct?
If that is correct, would this work the same way when fighting an enemy you have bane against with a +2 Courageous Greatsword?
Oh, you are right.
I'll take it that way and thanks for your time.
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I'd like an environment book too ( Frostburn, Stormwrack, & Sandstorm were some of my favorite supplements for 3.5). Maybe something dealing more in depth with unnatural weather and areas like the primal magic storms in The Mana Wastes, The Worldwound, The Eye of Abendego, Irrisen's winter charms, and the First World's effect on The River Kingdoms (and everywhere else for that matter)
As for a question, What types of environments do you most like to run/play in?
We've got a Worldwound book coming soon. I'm actually developing it right now. We've done other region books before too... Into the Darklands and Heart of the Jungle both come to mind.
Are you specifically asking for a big hardcover book?
My favorite environments to run/play in are urban, temperate forest, coastal, and oceanic.
Yes. Yes I am asking specifically for a big hardcover book filled with lovely scenery porn for which to visit and/or kill adventures in.
James sir, in preparation for Reign of Winter DM'ing I've been poking around in my old Frostburn book, and are some of the things withing going to be addressed in the adventure path? I don't think I have ever seen concrete rules for things like cold resistance giving the ability to withstand cold environments and the like. There is a line in the Winter Witch archtype that mentions cold resist helping withstand sevre cold, but thats all I could find in text.We can't use any of the actual words written in Frostburn since it's not open content, but we can ABSOLUTELY cover the same types of elements that the book talks about here and there. As it makes sense for the adventure path, of course.
And since resist cold blocks damage from cold, I don't see how it wouldn't help protect against being damaged by cold temperatures.
"Can cover" or "do cover" in the AP Sir? Was also curious if there was some concrete things in there about the level of protection say, and snow leopard, has versus, say, severe cold. Things like that. If not it might make an interesting blog for a lot of customers.
I love Coastal and Oceanic campaigns! They are just different for me
NOTE: I have never traveled outside of Missouri so yeah.
About when did the mass Lichification occur on Eox? Relative to the founding of Absalom.
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"Can cover" or "do cover" in the AP Sir? Was also curious if there was some concrete things in there about the level of protection say, and snow leopard, has versus, say, severe cold. Things like that. If not it might make an interesting blog for a lot of customers.James sir, in preparation for Reign of Winter DM'ing I've been poking around in my old Frostburn book, and are some of the things withing going to be addressed in the adventure path? I don't think I have ever seen concrete rules for things like cold resistance giving the ability to withstand cold environments and the like. There is a line in the Winter Witch archtype that mentions cold resist helping withstand sevre cold, but thats all I could find in text.We can't use any of the actual words written in Frostburn since it's not open content, but we can ABSOLUTELY cover the same types of elements that the book talks about here and there. As it makes sense for the adventure path, of course.
And since resist cold blocks damage from cold, I don't see how it wouldn't help protect against being damaged by cold temperatures.
Can cover AND do cover.
For example, in Pathfinder #6, which takes place at high altitudes beyond what was covered in the core rules, we put an article in about mountain climbing and the dangers of the death zone at super high altitude.
There's been plenty of other examples since, but that was the first one.
Didn't Jade Regent cover some Artic Environs?
Didn't Jade Regent cover some Artic Environs?
And how!
Nipples felt like pencil erasers, it was so could.
What?
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Was the Pharaoh of Song from Osirion's past an adherent of Shelyn?
Everything written about her so far paints her as one of the more benevolent pharaohs, and the name felt Shelynite to me. Very curious about that one and Kahotep, Pharaoh of Tomorrow.
Probably not. The bulk of the ancient pharaohs were themselves demigods (or at least thought they were), and many of them were associated with the now-lost gods of ancient Osirion, if they even felt the need to worship things rather than solely BE worshiped.