What is the strangest character you or your players have come up with?My strangest character: Torak, the winged awakened deinonychus ranger.
Have you played many monsters?
What do you think about reverse campaigns where the characters are Orcs, Goblinoids or Kobolds?
What monsters do you think would fit into a normal campaign with the least shoehorning?
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I did not vote. I am a bad, bad person.Voting is compulsory in Australia - You get fined if you don't have a good excuse.
My dear old dad used to say if you don't vote you waive your right to complain.
The fact that I don't get fined if I don't vote, ironically, makes me feel pretty patriotic.
In my defense, I did just move and my whole registration situation is kind of topsy-turvy, so I actually wasn't sure WHERE I needed to go to vote. I've been putting off getting my Driver's License address/voting registration updated, since the Department of Motor Vehicles is such a horrendous time sink (haven't really had a half-day to spare since moving, really, save for on Sundays, when the DMV ain't open anyhow).
And furthermore... I really don't know all that much about most of the voting issues at hand. I'd rather not vote than accidentally vote for some sort of mad deforestation scheme or something like that.
Anyway... I'll still complain if the government screws something up.
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What would be the starting racial stat mods for a Pseudodragon PC?
How do we work this stuff out?
Subtract 10 or 11 from the Pseudodragon's ability scores (10 if the stat is even, 11 if it's odd). The results are its ability score mods. You can do the same thing to arrive at ability score mods for any monster.
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Do you think one shot all one race or all one class games would be interesting?
ANY game can be interesting with the right mix of players, first of all.
And I've actually run some one-race games... usually all humans. They're quite fun.
A one-class game is interesting sounding as well; with only one class, you can really specialize the adventures quite well to tell some really neat stories. The campaign where everyone's a wizard apprentice in a wizard school is a lot easier to do if there's no fighters in the group.
James, you are awesome!
Dragons, unite!
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Silly JJ, no middle ground exists in any situation. Just ask people in Israel or Ireland etc.
On the otherhand if you can figure out a way to solve this issue you may have just figured out how to achieve world peace.
So, will you James Jacobs? Will you solve all of our problems and determine the best way to achieve a solution to this conundrum?
The whole Jacobsian middle-ground thing seems to be working pretty well in N.I. right now.
The whole Jacobsian middle-ground thing seems to be working pretty well in N.I. right now.Silly JJ, no middle ground exists in any situation. Just ask people in Israel or Ireland etc.
Yeah, that's what you get for talking to terrorists.
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Did you hear the stars are right and this classic is making a comeback?
I should tell Lou and Greg Vaughan as well.
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Does this make me a jerk GM?
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Nope; that's what players get for asking Hellknights to tinker with their souls.
That said, if the player wants to restore his alignment, that's only an atonement spell away. Or, if the player's soured on paying for others to cast spells on him, an adventure hook away, I guess.
So I was thinking of having a cleric of Asmodeus appear in the middle of the night and appear only to the fighter for an opportunity. Basically give him a map, a ruby hilted dagger, and a small holy symbol of Asmodeus. The job is to follow the map to the end and kill the guy in the room at the end. Then place his body on the altar in the room driving the dagger through his heart and placing the holy symbol on his head. With that the contract will be fulfilled. Except the "room is a secret meeting place to Saranrae. The "guy" is an Azata and if he does kill the Azata and place the body on the altar with the dagger through it's heart and the holy symbol on it's forehead, it desecrates the temple and sets it on fire. What do you think too evil? I mean come on this is the Church of Asmodeus in Egorian we're talking about they'd make him do something this evil for his freedom.
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Is this one of the best threads on the internet, or THE best thread on the internet??
So I was thinking of having a cleric of Asmodeus appear in the middle of the night and appear only to the fighter for an opportunity. Basically give him a map, a ruby hilted dagger, and a small holy symbol of Asmodeus. The job is to follow the map to the end and kill the guy in the room at the end. Then place his body on the altar in the room driving the dagger through his heart and placing the holy symbol on his head. With that the contract will be fulfilled. Except the "room is a secret meeting place to Saranrae. The "guy" is an Azata and if he does kill the Azata and place the body on the altar with the dagger through it's heart and the holy symbol on it's forehead, it desecrates the temple and sets it on fire. What do you think too evil? I mean come on this is the Church of Asmodeus in Egorian we're talking about they'd make him do something this evil for his freedom.Does this make me a jerk GM?
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Nope; that's what players get for asking Hellknights to tinker with their souls.
That said, if the player wants to restore his alignment, that's only an atonement spell away. Or, if the player's soured on paying for others to cast spells on him, an adventure hook away, I guess.
Nothing is too evil, as long as there's a chance or choice to redeem the character. If the PC goes through with all this and is free of his contract, but this ends up making the fighter LE, allow him to somehow regain his former alignment, if he so chooses.
If on the other hand you set this up, the character does the "dirty deed" and becomes LE and you then laugh evily and refuse to earn back his old alignment and turn the PC into an NPC, that would be an evil, jerk DM move.
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Did you hear the stars are right and this classic is making a comeback?
I should tell Lou and Greg Vaughan as well.
I did. My copy of the limited edition hardcover should be in the mail already, in fact. And when I finish running Shadows of Yog-Sothoth (hopefully sometime this month!), I'll be moving right into Masks.
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If you were forced, at sharp stick point, by a large sweaty man with a beard, to sing three Karaoke songs on LIVE TV, which songs would you sing and at which point would you initiate your master plan for escaping such a horrible scenario?
I would cunningly choose three songs that are instrumentals with no vocals, and when the fatbeard tries to punish me, I'd whip the microphone cord around his sizable ankle and yank him off balance and then flee while he's rolling down the aisles.
If you had to remove a 1 inch cube of flesh from your body on a moving train with an implement of your choice, where would you chose to remove it from and what would you use?
Big toe, removed with an axe.
If you had to stamp on a kitten or a puppy which would you choose and why?
Puppy. Because there's a MUCH better chance a puppy will grow up to be a dog than a kitten.
If your office was involved in a demon-induced inferno, what item would you secretly dump into the hellish flames and later tell your co-workers 'The demon did it!'.
The device that keeps track of the schedule, so that we could then rebuild the schedule and not be behind schedule.
Can you recommend a heavy object that can be best used to direct creativity?
The Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook.
Who would win in a fight - an awakened rogue pteranodon, an awakened cleric triceratops or an awakened bard tyrannosaurus?
Tyrannosaurus. Every time.
What isn't in your wallet but probably should be?
More than two dollars.
If we cut you, do you not bleed?
*SHAKES FIST*
If you were forced, at sharp stick point, by a large sweaty man with a beard, to sing three Karaoke songs on LIVE TV, which songs would you sing and at which point would you initiate your master plan for escaping such a horrible scenario? If you had to remove a 1 inch cube of flesh from your body on a moving train with an implement of your choice, where would you chose to remove it from and what would you use? If you had to stamp on a kitten or a puppy which would you choose and why? If your office was involved in a demon-induced inferno, what item would you secretly dump into the hellish flames and later tell your co-workers 'The demon did it!'. Can you recommend a heavy object that can be best used to direct creativity? Who would win in a fight - an awakened rogue pteranodon, an awakened cleric triceratops or an awakened bard tyrannosaurus? What isn't in your wallet but probably should be? If we cut you, do you not bleed?
You're writing a new movie script, aren't you? "Saw of Misery in Jurassic Park"?
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when writing for an adventure to be published, how high is to high a CR to a party? CR 5 above the party?
That really depends on the nature of the encounter, to be honest. As a general rule, CR 4 above the expected average party level (APL) is the most you want to go. But I've published adventures where there are encounters that could well be CR 12 above the expected APL; in those cases, though, a significant part of the adventure is about weakening that encounter BEFORE the PCs get to it. Basically, a high CR encounter can be mitigated by giving the PCs additional advantages.
Also, not all encounters are equally deadly to every group. A group of all clerics is going to BLAST through an encounter with a bunch of shadows, but a group of all rogues is probably going to get TPKd by it.
CR 4 above APL is generally the highest you'd want to go, though.
Do you sleep?...... It's 8 in the morning here.
You are still answering questions when I get home from work, which is about 9 hours later.
Or does Tom Rex take over and pretend to be you?
Now I need to talk Jacobs into doing Pathfinder: Secret of the Kaiju....
Hyrum.
Assuming a red silver giant arrived in a ball of light and appropriated a native host body, would any of the iconics be acceptable candidates for a Henshin device?
Don't ask about context. All I can say Hyrum's comments caused a running gag at my table regarding Second Darkness to veer off into strange territory.
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Regarding the giant robots in Numeria, can we simply assume that they have pretty much become highly dangerous region specific fauna?
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Now I need to talk Jacobs into doing Pathfinder: Secret of the Kaiju....
Hyrum.
Assuming a red silver giant arrived in a ball of light and appropriated a native host body, would any of the iconics be acceptable candidates for a Henshin device?
Don't ask about context. All I can say Hyrum's comments caused a running gag at my table regarding Second Darkness to veer off into strange territory.
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Regarding the giant robots in Numeria, can we simply assume that they have pretty much become highly dangerous region specific fauna?
The giant robots in Numeria are more akin to things like linnorms or neothelids or froghemoths. They're scary menaces and legendary and all that, but they're hardly common enough to count as something that most folks will have to ever deal with.
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Heya again James,
A long while ago on this thread I said I'd offer you a spot in a PbP if I started one up, since you'd never officilly been asked before. Well I'm going to run RotRL here on the boards if possible and thought I'd better follow through on my promise.
So, if you are so inclined and have the time for one, would you be interested in trying out RotRL in PbP format? More specifically my RotRL PbP I guess, but there are some others running there as well so you have options.
Cheers
You're writing a new movie script, aren't you? "Saw of Misery in Jurassic Park"?
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Heya again James,
A long while ago on this thread I said I'd offer you a spot in a PbP if I started one up, since you'd never officilly been asked before. Well I'm going to run RotRL here on the boards if possible and thought I'd better follow through on my promise.
So, if you are so inclined and have the time for one, would you be interested in trying out RotRL in PbP format? More specifically my RotRL PbP I guess, but there are some others running there as well so you have options.
Cheers
Thanks for the invite! Alas... I don't have time to devote to a PbP game right now; my participation would be pretty spotty and I don't want to hold up the game for the other players.
Have fun with the game though! :-)
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that would be interesting to see....
unrelated note, what hasn't had enough lime light in the past years in terms of adventures in pathfinder that you would like to see but can't see being done any time soon? in terms of monsters, countries, classes, ect?
The Darklands. Dinosaurs. Numeria. Asian Stuff. Epic content. Nautical stuff. Demons. Absalom. Nidal. Land of the Linnorm Kings. Druids. Lovecraftian stuff.
Some of these things are being addressed in current APs. Some are GOING to be addressed in upcoming APs. Some have probably been addressed enough already but I like them so much I want more. Some will probably NEVER be addressed. And I'm sure I left some out.
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Heya again James,
A long while ago on this thread I said I'd offer you a spot in a PbP if I started one up, since you'd never officilly been asked before. Well I'm going to run RotRL here on the boards if possible and thought I'd better follow through on my promise.
So, if you are so inclined and have the time for one, would you be interested in trying out RotRL in PbP format? More specifically my RotRL PbP I guess, but there are some others running there as well so you have options.
Cheers
Thanks for the invite! Alas... I don't have time to devote to a PbP game right now; my participation would be pretty spotty and I don't want to hold up the game for the other players.
Have fun with the game though! :-)
No probs James, just wnated to make sure you'd at least had the chance.
I do enjoy PbP, surprisingly so I must say.
A question I guess - Roleplay games have always been as much about grouping with friends as playing the game. With this in mind, how do you think Pathfinder would go translated into a computer based game (or other gaming platform I guess)?
If you did get this developed into computer games of some sort, how would you go about keeping the roleplay aspect of the game alive?
Cheers
How much do you miss Greyhawk?
And what are your thoughts regarding THIS?
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Thanks for the invite! Alas... I don't have time to devote to a PbP game right now; my participation would be pretty spotty and I don't want to hold up the game for the other players.
Have fun with the game though! :-)
No probs James, just wnated to make sure you'd at least had the chance.
I do enjoy PbP, surprisingly so I must say.
A question I guess - Roleplay games have always been as much about grouping with friends as playing the game. With this in mind, how do you think Pathfinder would go translated into a computer based game (or other gaming platform I guess)?
If you did get this developed into computer games of some sort, how would you go about keeping the roleplay aspect of the game alive?
Cheers
As well as or as bad as some of the D&D computer games, honestly. That gamut has run from the jaw-dropingly brilliant (Baldur's Gate II, Torment) to the jaw-droppingly horrible (Death Keep, that horrible Ravenloft fighting game).
The way to keep the roleplay aspect alive is to program in a lot of story elements in the form of a robust dialogue system with NPCs. Bioware and Bethesda do a great job with this in games like Dragon Age, Mass Effect, and Fallout, to the extent that how you handle the dialouge options can open up quests, rewards, or even start combats or adjust your reputation. It works really quite well and is very fun.
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How much do you miss Greyhawk?
And what are your thoughts regarding THIS?
Not as much as I would have missed Greyhawk had I never had the chance to work on Greyhawk through Dragon and Dungeon or through my freelance work for WotC. I got to not only publish dozens of Greyhawk adventures in Dungeon, but got to write a huge amount of articles for Greyhawk in Dragon, and also got to work with Rob Kuntz several times on Maure Castle installments and, as a capstone, got to help write "Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk." In other words, I more than got my Greyhawk itch scratched.
I do miss being able to help build that world, but Golarion is a pretty solid replacement.
Whether or not there's actually plans for a 4E Greyhawk or not (I'll believe this more if I hear it directly from WotC). I'm not going to read that whole thread, but regardless of whether or not it's for real or (as I suspect) it's just satire... WotC owns Greyhawk. They're free to do what they want with it. The setting has already endured a LOT of unfortunate stuff and has survived, and it will continue to survive whatever else is thrown at it, I suspect (and hope).
Where can I get my hands on some plutonium?
James! Some tournament questions, if you would.
1. Would it be a commonly held position among Hellknights that tourney's are frivolous things, or would some Hellknights participate in them?
2. I can picture tourneys in Taldor, but how common would they be elsewhere, like, for example, Andoran or Cheliax?
3. Would there be any such thing as a "neutral ground" tourney where it would be likely to see an Andoran Eagle Knight, a Hellknight, and a Taldan knight all competing?
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James! Some tournament questions, if you would.
1. Would it be a commonly held position among Hellknights that tourney's are frivolous things, or would some Hellknights participate in them?
2. I can picture tourneys in Taldor, but how common would they be elsewhere, like, for example, Andoran or Cheliax?
3. Would there be any such thing as a "neutral ground" tourney where it would be likely to see an Andoran Eagle Knight, a Hellknight, and a Taldan knight all competing?
1: That'd depend on the Hellknight's order. Those orders are pretty varied in their likes and dislikes. That said, the opportunity to show off Hellknight combat superiority in public is always welcome.
2: Tournaments of the like we detail in Kingmaker #35, with jousting and archery and that are pretty common anywhere and everywhere. Actual gladiator bloodsport type battles though are not common in Andoran. They're VERY common in Cheliax.
3: Absalom's a pretty good candidate for "neutral ground."
Excellent James, thanks.
I was thinking Absalom, though I can imagine centaurs breaking up a shipment of horses showing up for the tourney, which might actually be an interesting sidequest.
1: In Golarion where would you put musketeer ?
2: If you could rescue a base classe from D&D 3.5 and had it to pathfinder witch one would you choose and why?
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Have you seen This?
Apparently each hex is 1000 users.
If the Paizo Messageboards were a nation would this thread be the capital?
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1: In Golarion where would you put musketeer ?
2: If you could rescue a base classe from D&D 3.5 and had it to pathfinder witch one would you choose and why?
There are guns in Golarion already... but they're recent additions to the world. A musketeer in Golarion would be a pretty rare character.
As for my favorite base class from 3.5 that's not open content, that'd be the binder.
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Have you seen This?
Apparently each hex is 1000 users.
If the Paizo Messageboards were a nation would this thread be the capital?
I have seen it; pretty cool!
This thread would not be the capital, though. It'd be the Amazon.
There has been lots of talk on these boards about a PF version of Psionics. Some people want the same system, just updated while others feel something new and different is in order.
The amazing people over at Dreamscarred Press is currently wrapping up work on i believe either their beta or final version of a fully Pathfinderized set of rules for Psionics.
Have you any interest in allowing their work to become the official psionic rules?, and if not, how much dinosaur related stuff must i bribe you with till you say yes?