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Uhh please tell me you meant "they"Well, I got a few more questions to ask ya Mr. Jacobs. Hopefully you aren't so stupid that you're getting annoyed by them.
Yes. Yes I did mean "they" as in "the questions". I appologise for that off-putting typo. I can't believe I didn't catch that, and I hope I wouldn't be so stupid as to intentionally insult the guy who gave us Pathfinder, Obox-Ob and the awesome yet underused kaorti.
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Fair enough any chance of mentioning which iconics are in the openers then?Any chance of there being preview blogs for Demons revisited (Including some of the artwork?)Hmm. Generally, as we build up to Gen Con, the blog gets increasingly clogged with previews for that month's hardcover release and then perhaps a bit with the Adventure Path. And all the normal Gen Con stuff. It's very unlikely we'll do any Demons Revisited previews, as much as I am personally delighted by the idea. We'll see!Working by memory...
Babau vs. Magus
Balor vs. Rogue
Glabrezu vs. Druid
Hezrou vs. Wizard
Invidiak and Gunslinger vs. Paladin
Marilith vs. Fighter
Nabasu vs. Witch
Nalfeshnee vs. uh.... can't remember
Succubus vs. Cleric
Vrock vs. Ranger
I see. I may have asked this before but is it proper battle? More like the undead revisited (Ie Iconic beat down?) or more the daemons doing there normal thing (Succubus seducing Glabrezu tempting etc.). Also Invidiak that's the name for the shadow daemon right?
I'm hoping HOPING that after next week, when the gen con crunch ends, I'll have more time to do things like not work, and actually enjoy my Netflix subscription again. The first thing I'll watch there is probably "The Frankenstein Theory," but Hemlock Grove will be viewed at some point.Don't bother with Hemlock Grove. Despite a pretty good cast, it's really terrible. I couldn't get through episode 3.
Huh...to each there own. I thought the first three were actually the best episodes so far. The sheer amount of WTF thrown on screen in those episodes was great, and the whole town gives off a (good) Steven King vibe that you just don't see to often in horror television.
What areas in Golarion would you like to expand more upon?
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-If you were going to create a weirder PC Alien race, IE. something more akin to the Brethedans, insectoids of Nchak, Flumphs, or even the Skirr from Fantasy Flight Games' Twisted Lore, how would you do it?
-How would you justify a good Syrinx character, since I'm assuming that that's what they were given PC stats for and its' a lot harder to see how one of them would turn good compared to, say, a Syrinx?
-What of the Monstrous races (Not Tieflings, because I don't quite count them as monstrous races) would be best suited for a "Love redeems"-type plot as an NPC or PC.
-How, other than Backwards Compatibility, would you justify keeping the Vermin subtype? Because, I dislike that subtype and its accompanying mindlessness because of how it implies that arthropods and their kin are "lesser" than other animals, which most people who know about arthropods think is total bunk.
-If you had to, given that they're open content, how would you integrate the Eleti from Mythic Races into Golarion without making them Always Evil like other Undead? Because the idea of a race of skeleton people who reproduce by animating other skeletons and just want to be loved appeals waaaay too much to me.
-Any chance of Prestige Races from Dragon returning as a concept in Pathfinder, given that the idea is open content?
-How would you design a sci-fi/horror-ish "Mutant" class? I'm thinking of designing one with ever-evolving Natural weapons as a class feature, a point-buy system of mutations similar to a Summoner's Eilodion, and a system of Sorceror Bloodline-ish mutation origins (Such as Repressed Emotions, Alien Parasites, Touched By Strange Powers, The Next Stage in Evolution, Strange Radiations, Alchemical Alteration, Magical Warping and so-on), but I was wondering what you'd think would work best.
-What existing Pathfinder creature would be good for occupying an analogous role to the Neogi in a Pathfinder space campaign?
-Is there ever going to be an equivalent to D&D's Kaorti in Pathfinder, IE, humanoids warped into horrible monsters by hideous aberrant things? I mean, you invented the Kaorti, so you'd be the one to make their Golarion equivalent.
-How would you put Dragonborn in Golarion if you were able to and had your arm twisted to, given that you don't seem like the type who'd like Dragonborn?
-Have you ever worked with Mike Mearls? If so, what was he like, and what does your work experience make you think about his work on D&DNext?
Answered in order of appearance...
Alien Race: By first deciding what kind of world the alien comes from; the world determines a lot of things like shape and style and theme.
Good Syrinx: The same way Salvatore justified a good drow–by loading up some compelling and well-done background writing for the character to explain why it's good. (Whether or not you think Salvatore's a good writer—he DID create the most popular FR character, so he's doing SOMETHING right.) The point is—you justify unusual characters with detailed and excellent and compelling writing on their history.
Love Redeems: Any monstrous race that is capable of feeling love. AKA: Any race that seems COOLER if they can love, and not SILLIER.
Vermin Subtype: It's not a subtype, but an actual type. Personally, I can't justify it. I wanted to roll the vermin type into Animal, and then just say that "An animal with no Intelligence score gains the mindless ability." Eveything else about vermin is more or less identical to the animal subtype anyway. I'd turn the vermin type into a subtype of Animal, just as we did with giants. BUT... I'm not the one who makes the final call for those things. I can present cases and argue for changes, and in some cases I get my way, but in others I don't.
Eleti: I don't know what the Eleti are. Nor do I really like the idea of a race of non-undead skeleton people anyway. I wouldn't integrate them into Golarion. They don't fit the world's themes.
Prestige Races: Unlikely; we've done our big race book already, and I'm not a fan of the prestige race concept anyway.
Mutants: I've already done this for Unspeakable Futures. They're not a class, but a race. Their primary racial ability is that they gain bonus "mutant" feats—feats that have a theme of things like "Extra Eyes" or "Thick Skin" or the like. Things that give you new powers and abilities but also increasingly mutate your appearance. Non-mutants can take these feats as well, but not as often or as easily.
Neogi: The neh-thalguu. We're already setting them up as a major Dominion of the Black race, and they look kinda similar in shape. They're 100% cooler too.
Kaorti: There's not much of a chance of something super similar to the kaorti showing up in Pathfinder, since that entire concept is pretty specific and the monsters themselves are 100% owned by WotC. And since I did invent them, I kinda have said what I wanted to about them.
Dragonborn: I wouldn't put them in, even if my arm was twisted. Dragon people were done VERY well in Dragonlance, and they're such a key part of that world that it feels kinda "fanboy" to me to put things like that into other settings. Dragonborn feel like knockoffs to me, and their proliferation only lessens the impact of draconians.
Mearls: I've worked with him several times–he wrote several adventures for Dungeon magazine back in the day under my stewardship of the magazine. He's a really creative guy who has a deep love and respect for many of the game's traditions, and those are two of the most important qualities someone needs in order to be able to run the D&D brand, in my opinion. He's not the only one driving the D&D Next boat though. I've not actually really paid much attention at all to how D&D Next is developing—haven't had time to, to be honest.
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Well, I got a few more questions to ask ya Mr. Jacobs. Hopefully you aren't so stupid that you're getting annoyed by them.
While the rest of your post seems pretty standard, this part kind of sounds like your calling James stupid (in the way that saying "Well, you're not *that* ugly" is still calling someone ugly). This is, I'd say, demonstrably false and also pretty rude to someone your asking questions of! :o Was this just an unfortunate phrasing?
I went under the assumption it was unfortunate phrasing. If I did otherwise, I would have been annoyed by it, and thus apparently stupid.
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Ah, that's probably it Rysky.
Ok, question for James since I've revealed my lurking!
Is there room for an Aeon that is a manifestation of the opposing forces of law and chaos? Or is that too close to other Aeons (logic vs. emotion, creation vs. destruction, etc.)?
Law vs Chaos is WAAAAY to broad a theme for aeons, since that's pretty much the entire point of the inevitables vs the proteans.
Also, we're moving away from aeons and toward psychopomps as our favored neutral outsider race anyway.
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I see. I may have asked this before but is it proper battle? More like the undead revisited (Ie Iconic beat down?) or more the daemons doing there normal thing (Succubus seducing Glabrezu tempting etc.). Also Invidiak that's the name for the shadow daemon right?
Varies by picture. In some cases, it's proper battle. In some it's kinda more like torture. In some it's flat out PC death.
Demons are bad. And by torturing and killing and otherwise doing their thing against the iconics we all know and love, that point comes across with pretty visceral impact.
Lini's situation is particularly horrifying. I'm kinda sadistically proud of it.
There's also hidden easter eggs in there. For example... Jason's favorite demon is the vrock, and his favorite race is the dwarf, so in the art, the vrock is killing the dwarf. Likewise, Wes's favorite demon is the babau and his favorite iconic is Seltyiel, and so in the illo, Seltyiel is being ambuhsed and jack-the-rippered by a babau.
And yes. Invidiak is the race name for the shadow demon. Took over 3 editions of the game's history for them to get what all other demons had from the start. No WONDER they're so envious.
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James, you mentioned being swamped by genconcrunch and freelance stuff.
What freelance stuff are you working on?
My current freelance duties =
1) Five more demon lords for Wrath of the Righteous's bestiaries.
2) Half of one of the adventures for Wrath of the Righeous (I'm sharing the writing with another author, since we both wanted to write for the AP but didn't have time to write a WHOLE adventure.)
3) An expanded article about a certain demon lord for a certain volume of Wrath of the Righteous.
4) Upcoming back matter for upcoming volumes of the Pathfinder comic.
5) Work on the 2013 Winter hardcover rulebook.
6) Webfiction set in the city of Vyre.
7) Prep for Paizocon adventures I need to run
8) My portion of "Emerald Spire."
9) Wrath of the Righteous Player's Guide
10) I'm sure I'm forgetting something; my big to-do list is at the office at the moment.
Once all that's done, I'm hoping to be able to actually write for myself a little bit and get more work done on Unspeakable Futures.
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James will we ever see a book detailing the planes in more depth? Like what the jungles of the fire plane are like and what the artic tundra of the abyss is like and so on?
I hope so. Until then, "The Great Beyond" will have to do. I'd LOVE to see an expansion of that book that piles on a LOT more game content.
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Ah, that's probably it Rysky.
Ok, question for James since I've revealed my lurking!
Is there room for an Aeon that is a manifestation of the opposing forces of law and chaos? Or is that too close to other Aeons (logic vs. emotion, creation vs. destruction, etc.)?
Law vs Chaos is WAAAAY to broad a theme for aeons, since that's pretty much the entire point of the inevitables vs the proteans.
Also, we're moving away from aeons and toward psychopomps as our favored neutral outsider race anyway.
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I see. I may have asked this before but is it proper battle? More like the undead revisited (Ie Iconic beat down?) or more the daemons doing there normal thing (Succubus seducing Glabrezu tempting etc.). Also Invidiak that's the name for the shadow daemon right?Varies by picture. In some cases, it's proper battle. In some it's kinda more like torture. In some it's flat out PC death.
Demons are bad. And by torturing and killing and otherwise doing their thing against the iconics we all know and love, that point comes across with pretty visceral impact.
Lini's situation is particularly horrifying. I'm kinda sadistically proud of it.
There's also hidden easter eggs in there. For example... Jason's favorite demon is the vrock, and his favorite race is the dwarf, so in the art, the vrock is killing the dwarf. Likewise, Wes's favorite demon is the babau and his favorite iconic is Seltyiel, and so in the illo, Seltyiel is being ambuhsed and jack-the-rippered by a babau.
And yes. Invidiak is the race name for the shadow demon. Took over 3 editions of the game's history for them to get what all other demons had from the start. No WONDER they're so envious.
Hmm thinking either crushed by a Glabrezu that or granted wish gone horribly wrong (Or right far as the demon is concernd.)
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Lini's situation is particularly horrifying. I'm kinda sadistically proud of it.
Are we getting Gnomeloths? :3
And yes. Invidiak is the race name for the shadow demon. Took over 3 editions of the game's history for them to get what all other demons had from the start. No WONDER they're so envious.
Maybe it was part of the terms of going to work for Nocticula (aside from their previous boss being, ya know, dead).
Indiviak Representative : "We accept your rule and all your terms under one condition."
*pulls out and possesses cute little puppy*
IR : "We want names too!" * cue big pouty puppy dog eyes*
Ah, that's probably it Rysky.
Ok, question for James since I've revealed my lurking!
Is there room for an Aeon that is a manifestation of the opposing forces of law and chaos? Or is that too close to other Aeons (logic vs. emotion, creation vs. destruction, etc.)?
Law vs Chaos is WAAAAY to broad a theme for aeons, since that's pretty much the entire point of the inevitables vs the proteans.
Also, we're moving away from aeons and toward psychopomps as our favored neutral outsider race anyway.
Ooooh. I hadn't really heard of them (psychopomps) before now. After looking them up, I like them! Any chances of seeing them in a future Bestiary, assuming there is one, or are they too world-specific?
I'm hoping HOPING that after next week, when the gen con crunch ends, I'll have more time to do things like not work, and actually enjoy my Netflix subscription again. The first thing I'll watch there is probably "The Frankenstein Theory," but Hemlock Grove will be viewed at some point.Don't bother with Hemlock Grove. Despite a pretty good cast, it's really terrible. I couldn't get through episode 3.
I second this. It seemed like an interesting set-up, but there were a LOT of characters mixing player knowledge with character knowledge. I forced myself to try to watch the second episode, but I turned if off after the first 10 mins or so.
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Hmm thinking either crushed by a Glabrezu that or granted wish gone horribly wrong (Or right far as the demon is concernd.)I see. I may have asked this before but is it proper battle? More like the undead revisited (Ie Iconic beat down?) or more the daemons doing there normal thing (Succubus seducing Glabrezu tempting etc.). Also Invidiak that's the name for the shadow daemon right?Varies by picture. In some cases, it's proper battle. In some it's kinda more like torture. In some it's flat out PC death.
Demons are bad. And by torturing and killing and otherwise doing their thing against the iconics we all know and love, that point comes across with pretty visceral impact.
Lini's situation is particularly horrifying. I'm kinda sadistically proud of it.
There's also hidden easter eggs in there. For example... Jason's favorite demon is the vrock, and his favorite race is the dwarf, so in the art, the vrock is killing the dwarf. Likewise, Wes's favorite demon is the babau and his favorite iconic is Seltyiel, and so in the illo, Seltyiel is being ambuhsed and jack-the-rippered by a babau.
And yes. Invidiak is the race name for the shadow demon. Took over 3 editions of the game's history for them to get what all other demons had from the start. No WONDER they're so envious.
It's worse. I felt a little guilty about it, and am still kinda shocked Sarah allowed me to order the art in the first place.
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Ooooh. I hadn't really heard of them (psychopomps) before now. After looking them up, I like them! Any chances of seeing them in a future Bestiary, assuming there is one, or are they too world-specific?Ah, that's probably it Rysky.
Ok, question for James since I've revealed my lurking!
Is there room for an Aeon that is a manifestation of the opposing forces of law and chaos? Or is that too close to other Aeons (logic vs. emotion, creation vs. destruction, etc.)?
Law vs Chaos is WAAAAY to broad a theme for aeons, since that's pretty much the entire point of the inevitables vs the proteans.
Also, we're moving away from aeons and toward psychopomps as our favored neutral outsider race anyway.
They're no more world-specific than, say, sinspawn. And we put those in a bestiary.
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Thanks for the reply, James.
So, your when you wear the developer/director hat you're doing your day job.
And when you write for Paizo you're freelancing?
Any non-Paizo work coming up?
Correct; same goes for most of the rest of the department, with the exception of the design team, I believe (a big part of their day job is writing rules content). Although there's typically a LOT of writing/re-writing as part of a developer position as well.
No non-Paizo work coming up.
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It's worse. I felt a little guilty about it, and am still kinda shocked Sarah allowed me to order the art in the first place.Hmm thinking either crushed by a Glabrezu that or granted wish gone horribly wrong (Or right far as the demon is concernd.)I see. I may have asked this before but is it proper battle? More like the undead revisited (Ie Iconic beat down?) or more the daemons doing there normal thing (Succubus seducing Glabrezu tempting etc.). Also Invidiak that's the name for the shadow daemon right?Varies by picture. In some cases, it's proper battle. In some it's kinda more like torture. In some it's flat out PC death.
Demons are bad. And by torturing and killing and otherwise doing their thing against the iconics we all know and love, that point comes across with pretty visceral impact.
Lini's situation is particularly horrifying. I'm kinda sadistically proud of it.
There's also hidden easter eggs in there. For example... Jason's favorite demon is the vrock, and his favorite race is the dwarf, so in the art, the vrock is killing the dwarf. Likewise, Wes's favorite demon is the babau and his favorite iconic is Seltyiel, and so in the illo, Seltyiel is being ambuhsed and jack-the-rippered by a babau.
And yes. Invidiak is the race name for the shadow demon. Took over 3 editions of the game's history for them to get what all other demons had from the start. No WONDER they're so envious.
Wow I'm really curious what it is now mind letting it slip? Or at least a clue?
Maybe they are torturing her cat while she watches? Or forcing Lini to eat her cat?
...yeesh, that was kinda dark. I feel dirty now.
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Wow I'm really curious what it is now mind letting it slip? Or at least a clue?It's worse. I felt a little guilty about it, and am still kinda shocked Sarah allowed me to order the art in the first place.Hmm thinking either crushed by a Glabrezu that or granted wish gone horribly wrong (Or right far as the demon is concernd.)I see. I may have asked this before but is it proper battle? More like the undead revisited (Ie Iconic beat down?) or more the daemons doing there normal thing (Succubus seducing Glabrezu tempting etc.). Also Invidiak that's the name for the shadow daemon right?Varies by picture. In some cases, it's proper battle. In some it's kinda more like torture. In some it's flat out PC death.
Demons are bad. And by torturing and killing and otherwise doing their thing against the iconics we all know and love, that point comes across with pretty visceral impact.
Lini's situation is particularly horrifying. I'm kinda sadistically proud of it.
There's also hidden easter eggs in there. For example... Jason's favorite demon is the vrock, and his favorite race is the dwarf, so in the art, the vrock is killing the dwarf. Likewise, Wes's favorite demon is the babau and his favorite iconic is Seltyiel, and so in the illo, Seltyiel is being ambuhsed and jack-the-rippered by a babau.
And yes. Invidiak is the race name for the shadow demon. Took over 3 editions of the game's history for them to get what all other demons had from the start. No WONDER they're so envious.
I'll think about it! ;-P
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I'll think about it! ;-PWow I'm really curious what it is now mind letting it slip? Or at least a clue?It's worse. I felt a little guilty about it, and am still kinda shocked Sarah allowed me to order the art in the first place.Hmm thinking either crushed by a Glabrezu that or granted wish gone horribly wrong (Or right far as the demon is concernd.)I see. I may have asked this before but is it proper battle? More like the undead revisited (Ie Iconic beat down?) or more the daemons doing there normal thing (Succubus seducing Glabrezu tempting etc.). Also Invidiak that's the name for the shadow daemon right?Varies by picture. In some cases, it's proper battle. In some it's kinda more like torture. In some it's flat out PC death.
Demons are bad. And by torturing and killing and otherwise doing their thing against the iconics we all know and love, that point comes across with pretty visceral impact.
Lini's situation is particularly horrifying. I'm kinda sadistically proud of it.
There's also hidden easter eggs in there. For example... Jason's favorite demon is the vrock, and his favorite race is the dwarf, so in the art, the vrock is killing the dwarf. Likewise, Wes's favorite demon is the babau and his favorite iconic is Seltyiel, and so in the illo, Seltyiel is being ambuhsed and jack-the-rippered by a babau.
And yes. Invidiak is the race name for the shadow demon. Took over 3 editions of the game's history for them to get what all other demons had from the start. No WONDER they're so envious.
I'm guessing hers falls more under the torture situation.
So, what are the odds of us getting the Mute curse from Jade Regent in a player friendly form? While in an actual book would be awesome, I'd settle for just having it as a blog post. I've played mute characters before and it's a lot of fun, and totally doable. :) Hook us up, please!
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So, what are the odds of us getting the Mute curse from Jade Regent in a player friendly form? While in an actual book would be awesome, I'd settle for just having it as a blog post. I've played mute characters before and it's a lot of fun, and totally doable. :) Hook us up, please!
Odds are very slim. Having seen PCs who were mute or took a vow of silence in play before and noting how little those characters had to add to the game session from a roleplaying standpoint, I don't think the mute curse is really all that appropriate to players at all.
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I was thinking about something after playing pathfinder yesterday. Cure spells have a will save to resist them in their entry in the book, yet PCs do not tend to roll a save against healing. Now this made me think that since it is a will save, a person can accept a spell and therefore fail a will on purpose. Same goes for reflex if a person decides to just "take it" for some reason and not move. However, would the same go for a fortitude save? I ask because the majority of a body's function happen without a person telling it to do something, so can a person somehow will their body to fail a will save on purpose or would they HAVE to roll, no matter the circumstances? I was wondering because of a werefolk encounter and some people wanted the affliction and it is a fort save. I don't personally think you can tell your body's immune system to allow something to happen, so I figured I would ask. I am both trying to get the official answer since I could not find it in the book, and your opinion because I am wondering if I am the only person that thinks it does not make sense to be able to fail a fort save on purpose.
Also, do you think it is going a bit overboard if I throw in one or two cursed items in an adventure I am running? It is Skulls and Shackles by the way and the party is so min maxed that they are clearing encounters in less than two rounds.
Yes. You can voluntarily fail any saving throw, including a Fortitude save. Saving throws no more model reality than do hit points, after all.
And whether or not you include cursed items in your game is up to you; you know your players' opinions on such items, and their tolerance for them.
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And what is your favourite Dead Can Dance song right now?The Host of Seraphim.
Why can I see that being played when Treerazer attacks Kyonin directly?
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In Champions of Purity there's a magic item, the Devil's Key, which is basically a sword that.. I'll just quote the thing to avoid confusion
I had thought though in Pathfinder there wasn't any more of that whole "you don't actually kill an evil outsider if you kill it anywhere besides its home plane" stuff? The sword seems to imply otherwise.The devil’s key is designed
to permanently slay evil outsiders by
bringing the fight to their plane of
origin so they can be killed outright.
Once per day as a swift action after a successful attack against
an evil outsider, the wielder can activate the sword to plane
shift the wielder and the target of the attack to the creature’s
home plane. The targeted outsider can resist this effect with
a successful DC 20 Will save. Once the target of this ability is
slain by the wielder, the sword activates another plane shift
as an immediate action that brings the wielder back to the
exact spot it previously left.
I thought this item was neat, but I read it as designed to be a way to kill a "summoned" evil outsider. Basically, rather than beating a summoned creature simply sending the creature back to its home plane, you follow it there and kill it for real...
In Golarion lore is it possible for an outsider with an alignment subtype to have an alignment shift? Be it through "character development" or powerful magic forcing it. Like a demon becoming neutral on either axis or even lawful or good.
And if so, what would happen to the outsider then? (aside from its social life becoming much more complicated)
Also about dragons, I read in Dragons Revisited from 3.5 that chromatic and metallic dragons can in rare cases change their alignment, which also has a cosmetic change as a consequence (metallic dragon scales dulling etc). Is this still canon to golarion?
So, what are the odds of us getting the Mute curse from Jade Regent in a player friendly form? While in an actual book would be awesome, I'd settle for just having it as a blog post. I've played mute characters before and it's a lot of fun, and totally doable. :) Hook us up, please!Odds are very slim. Having seen PCs who were mute or took a vow of silence in play before and noting how little those characters had to add to the game session from a roleplaying standpoint, I don't think the mute curse is really all that appropriate to players at all.
I could say the same thing about players I've seen play a deaf character too. That is, where the GM didn't completely ignore that the character was deaf. That's why even just a blog post would be nice, since like I said, your reasons to me would easily apply to the deaf curse too. Not trying to be rude or challenge you by the way, just wondering.
Yes. You can voluntarily fail any saving throw, including a Fortitude save. Saving throws no more model reality than do hit points, after all.
But you can't be tricked, right? I remember in 3.x I always thought you could, but I am thinking I remember someone at Pathfinder saying you always get an option of a saving throw once you know what the spell actually does. So, if I hand you a potion and say "Here, drink this potion of healing" and it's a potion of inflict light wounds, you get a saving throw. If I say I am going to cast cure light wounds on you, but instead cast inflict, you still get your saving throw. Right or wrong?
But you can't be tricked, right? I remember in 3.x I always thought you could, but I am thinking I remember someone at Pathfinder saying you always get an option of a saving throw once you know what the spell actually does. So, if I hand you a potion and say "Here, drink this potion of healing" and it's a potion of inflict light wounds, you get a saving throw. If I say I am going to cast cure light wounds on you, but instead cast inflict, you still get your saving throw. Right or wrong?
Yes. You can voluntarily fail any saving throw, including a Fortitude save. Saving throws no more model reality than do hit points, after all.
Right.
The Hybridization Funnel from UE creates a mixture of two splash weapons. When thrown, "Creatures are affected as if hit by both".
How does that work with PBS and the Alchemist's damage bonus? It seems to me that PBS should only apply once, but the Alchemist ability twice. Opinions?
I hope I wouldn't be so stupid as to intentionally insult the guy who gave us Pathfinder, Obox-Ob and the awesome yet underused kaorti.
Kaorti are super sweet if you want to play a Fiend of Possession. It even makes sense in-universe.
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And what is your favourite Dead Can Dance song right now?The Host of Seraphim.
I'm planning on using Chant of the Paladin as the theme for Queen Ileosa when I run Curse of the Crimson Throne. Just imagining it playing when the PCs are first escorted into her throne room seems really fantastic.
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A magic item doesn't have to be an artifact in order to baffle and vex a 1st level spell. And whether or not someone's tried to further decipher the Azlanti Cube... not yet. Maybe some day we'll cover that in an adventure or something.In Classic Treasures Revisited, there's an "Azlanti Cube" derivative of the Cube of Force (or rather a possible primogenitor that Nex may have adapted his own designs from...) that has defied attempts to translate it except in a partial sense because it seems to be a mix of Azlanti and Thassilonian writing.
Given how cheap a Comprehend Languages spell is, am I right in assuming that the reason this hasn't been used to help decipher it is because the cube is in fact an artifact (major or minor?) of some description? Has anybody tried to use particularly powerful magic to force (pardon the pun) a translation out of the cube? Or perhaps a legend lore spell?
Would comprehend languages be able to decipher*:
1) words pieced together from 2 (or more) alphabets?2) sentances using the same alphabet, but different languages?
3) slang?
4) L33T speak styled words?
How does comprehend languages deal with words with no direct translation into the caster's tongue? (e.g. all the different Eskimo words for ice/snow)
* I understand all responses reflect the personal opinions of James Jacobs and no way reflect upon Paizo's official rules interpretations.
What is the only element on the periodic table that was named after an individual while that individual was still alive?
Just to make your brain hurt: Treerazer vs 20th level synthesist.
G'day! :D
But, really, you've mentioned things that aren't exactly squarely in the text of the rules for what he could do. Do you speak with the same flexibility you would have as a GM in your home setting? Or, are you actually giving a good representation of what he can do as always-imagined but may not have had room to print?
Furthermore, do you encourage GMs to take flexibility with what beings such as demon lords can do even though something may not be in their stat block?
What is the only element on the periodic table that was named after an individual while that individual was still alive?
Neon.
Keanu Reeves is still alive, right?
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In Golarion lore is it possible for an outsider with an alignment subtype to have an alignment shift? Be it through "character development" or powerful magic forcing it. Like a demon becoming neutral on either axis or even lawful or good.
And if so, what would happen to the outsider then? (aside from its social life becoming much more complicated)Also about dragons, I read in Dragons Revisited from 3.5 that chromatic and metallic dragons can in rare cases change their alignment, which also has a cosmetic change as a consequence (metallic dragon scales dulling etc). Is this still canon to golarion?
It's absolutely possible. That's how we get fallen angels, for one thing. And there'll be a a reverse of that—a risen demon—in Wrath of the Righteous. What would happen to the outsider would depend on lots of variables—it's not as easy as designing a template, since each case should be unique and handled as appropriate.
As for dragons—dragons can be any alignment, but they're almost always the alignments listed in their Bestiary entries. Alignment changes do not cause physical changes to their coloration.