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Out of all the threats currently facing Golarion (the Whispering Way, House Thrune, the risen Runelords, the drow, the Worldwound etc.), which do you feel is the most dangerous, barring Rovagug and his Spawn, as basically if they were let loose it's game over? The group that has the greatest likelihood of succeeding in their schemes? What group or entity, that if it was unopposed by PCs, would cause the most serious harm to Golarion and its people short of destroying it? The thing that would unify the peoples of Golarion to try and stop it, a la the Gray Wardens in Dragon Age with the Darkspawn?There isn't one "most dangerous danger" in Golarion. There's a lot of ties for that position. By making these dangers numerous and more or less equally deadly and dangerous, we can do multiple Adventure Paths and not have to worry about doing one that will make every one that follows anticlimactic.
So...which threat seems the scariest to you, personally? Which one would frighten you the most if they were to TAKE OVER THE WORLD?
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1) Do demons normally have no memory of what they went through as larva?
2) Are the bestiary stat blocks representative of new born demons? How much time passes between a demon getting spit out of the Abyss's fabric and the demon being fully functional?
3) Are demons actually born with their ranks of knowledge skills, etc., or do they normally need to spend some time learning how to do stuff?
4) If they don't need to spend any time "training" per se, is it correct to assume that the Abyss itself is imparting knowledge to its new born demons?
5) Do demon lords have any real capacity to single out and reward favored servants who've died and passed on to their realm? The Abyss seems to go much further than any other plane in stripping out the individuality of its petitioners.
6) Sifkesh devours the souls those she drives to heresy and suicide. Is she managing to grab the soul and eat it before it ever becomes a petitioner?
7) Do souls have to go through judgment at the Boneyard in order to become petitioners?
8) Do souls normally have to become petitioners before they can become the various exemplar outsider races?
Edit: Mr. Jacobs made 5 posts in the time it took me to write that. Heh.
Extra question:
9) What's your approximate words per minute when typing, if you can estimate?
1) Normally, they do not remember their time as a larva.
2) Yes. A "new born demon" is a fully formed and "adult" creature, as detailed in the bestiaries. No time at all passes between "birth" and "adulthood."
3) They're born with them.
4) Yes.
5) Absolutely.
6) Sometimes, yes.
7) Yes.
8) Yes.
9) Last time I checked was about 15 years ago, and it was about 80 words per minute. I suspect I might be a little higher than that by now.
EDIT: Just took an online wpm typing test, and I got 89 words per minute with 100% accuracy. So yeah, I did get better. :-P
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So...which threat seems the scariest to you, personally? Which one would frighten you the most if they were to TAKE OVER THE WORLD?Out of all the threats currently facing Golarion (the Whispering Way, House Thrune, the risen Runelords, the drow, the Worldwound etc.), which do you feel is the most dangerous, barring Rovagug and his Spawn, as basically if they were let loose it's game over? The group that has the greatest likelihood of succeeding in their schemes? What group or entity, that if it was unopposed by PCs, would cause the most serious harm to Golarion and its people short of destroying it? The thing that would unify the peoples of Golarion to try and stop it, a la the Gray Wardens in Dragon Age with the Darkspawn?There isn't one "most dangerous danger" in Golarion. There's a lot of ties for that position. By making these dangers numerous and more or less equally deadly and dangerous, we can do multiple Adventure Paths and not have to worry about doing one that will make every one that follows anticlimactic.
Hmm. Probably Rahadoum.
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Hey James,
After reading Dragons Unleashed, I've noticed that there are some dragons in the book who with only a few class levels are almost as powerful as Demigods (one is CR 25). Though they are at their maximum age, there are several ways that these creatures could become even more powerful. Becoming a Ravener seems to be one favorite method for especially evil dragons.I'm betting this will at least be partly answered in one of the mythic books, but I'm pretty curious about this. At some point should creatures that reach a certain CR simply gain mythic powers through their sheer awesomeness? What I've read about the mythic rules so far makes it seem like it would be odd for anything to be above CR 25 without having some sort of mythic power.
CR 30 is our current cap for monster power. We could go higher, sure, but beyond CR 30 the current character level/mythic tier cap makes monsters of that power increasingly pointless to stat up.
A monster can reach CR 30 by utilizing mythic stuff or not, as the designer of the monster sees fit. Neither option is inherently better than the other.
Hmm. Probably Rahadoum.So...which threat seems the scariest to you, personally? Which one would frighten you the most if they were to TAKE OVER THE WORLD?Out of all the threats currently facing Golarion (the Whispering Way, House Thrune, the risen Runelords, the drow, the Worldwound etc.), which do you feel is the most dangerous, barring Rovagug and his Spawn, as basically if they were let loose it's game over? The group that has the greatest likelihood of succeeding in their schemes? What group or entity, that if it was unopposed by PCs, would cause the most serious harm to Golarion and its people short of destroying it? The thing that would unify the peoples of Golarion to try and stop it, a la the Gray Wardens in Dragon Age with the Darkspawn?There isn't one "most dangerous danger" in Golarion. There's a lot of ties for that position. By making these dangers numerous and more or less equally deadly and dangerous, we can do multiple Adventure Paths and not have to worry about doing one that will make every one that follows anticlimactic.
Why is that Mr. James Jacobs?
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Why is that Mr. James Jacobs?Hmm. Probably Rahadoum.So...which threat seems the scariest to you, personally? Which one would frighten you the most if they were to TAKE OVER THE WORLD?Out of all the threats currently facing Golarion (the Whispering Way, House Thrune, the risen Runelords, the drow, the Worldwound etc.), which do you feel is the most dangerous, barring Rovagug and his Spawn, as basically if they were let loose it's game over? The group that has the greatest likelihood of succeeding in their schemes? What group or entity, that if it was unopposed by PCs, would cause the most serious harm to Golarion and its people short of destroying it? The thing that would unify the peoples of Golarion to try and stop it, a la the Gray Wardens in Dragon Age with the Darkspawn?There isn't one "most dangerous danger" in Golarion. There's a lot of ties for that position. By making these dangers numerous and more or less equally deadly and dangerous, we can do multiple Adventure Paths and not have to worry about doing one that will make every one that follows anticlimactic.
Because religion is really important to Golarion, and because my characters tend to be pretty religious regardless of their class.
TY JJ :)
Is Jason on vacation or something? Or is he too busy to post much?
Hello Mr Jacobs I recently watched the lost room again (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0830361) and I would really like to run something like this for my players. Is there anything in your extensive GMing that could be adapted or currently on use or should I just score something oft own to fit. This, in my humble opinion was one of the best exports from the US to date.
Warm Regards
Stu
James,
You say the cap for CR monsters is 30. Should it not be 35? The maximum cap was 25 (Treerazer etc) pre-mythic. Should it not be raised by 10 like PC levels are effectively raised by 10? What was the reason for the maximum being 30 instead of 35? Of course, anything above 35 is ridiculous.
Can we have cryptic hints for the 2014 AP's? Paizo con is in 2 days and gen-con is next month
I believe that after the Beta, it was determined that Mythic Tiers are worth half a level. 10 Mythic tiers raise your CR by 5 levels.
That sounds honestly a lot more workable, yeah. Is there ever any chance of the firearms rules getting some kind of revision? Guns just trumping monsters as well feels somewhat off.
If by some freak turn of events Pathfinder ever does a more technologically advanced setting or set or rules or campaign area or what have you, something in the rules to compensate for how good guns ultimately get once they start to proliferate and become both common and more advanced would be nice.
A revision to how guns work in this edition of Pathfinder is highly unlikely... but Jason's in a game I run where Rob's character regularly does over 100 points of damage in a round with guns, so who can say?
If we do a new setting/ruleset for a more modern or sci fi genre, that would be a place to adjust how guns or touch AC or both work as well.
It has made me mildly dread the "the party goes to Alkenstar" module mind you, since by my understanding guns are more common/advanced there. Unless I'm off about that one and the place still works like the rest of Golarion as regards firearms.
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James,
You say the cap for CR monsters is 30. Should it not be 35? The maximum cap was 25 (Treerazer etc) pre-mythic. Should it not be raised by 10 like PC levels are effectively raised by 10? What was the reason for the maximum being 30 instead of 35? Of course, anything above 35 is ridiculous.
Can we have cryptic hints for the 2014 AP's? Paizo con is in 2 days and gen-con is next month
Because a 20th level tier 10 character is a CR 25 threat, and we wanted to set the monster cap at +5 CR from that cap.
And no cryptic hints for 2014's first AP. Paizocon is in 2 days, and you'll get some hints then.
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Hello Mr Jacobs I recently watched the lost room again (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0830361) and I would really like to run something like this for my players. Is there anything in your extensive GMing that could be adapted or currently on use or should I just score something oft own to fit. This, in my humble opinion was one of the best exports from the US to date.
Warm Regards
Stu
Not sure... haven't watched all of the Lost Room.
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Because religion is really important to Golarion, and because my characters tend to be pretty religious regardless of their class.Why is that Mr. James Jacobs?Hmm. Probably Rahadoum.So...which threat seems the scariest to you, personally? Which one would frighten you the most if they were to TAKE OVER THE WORLD?Out of all the threats currently facing Golarion (the Whispering Way, House Thrune, the risen Runelords, the drow, the Worldwound etc.), which do you feel is the most dangerous, barring Rovagug and his Spawn, as basically if they were let loose it's game over? The group that has the greatest likelihood of succeeding in their schemes? What group or entity, that if it was unopposed by PCs, would cause the most serious harm to Golarion and its people short of destroying it? The thing that would unify the peoples of Golarion to try and stop it, a la the Gray Wardens in Dragon Age with the Darkspawn?There isn't one "most dangerous danger" in Golarion. There's a lot of ties for that position. By making these dangers numerous and more or less equally deadly and dangerous, we can do multiple Adventure Paths and not have to worry about doing one that will make every one that follows anticlimactic.
That IS scary, especially since I play similar characters myself. I just sort of have to wonder about Rahadoum, however. They don't really seem to be mobilizing for war like other groups are. They're too focused on their own problems.
James, I notice we are getting what looks like a Companion (Dragonslayer's Handbook) and a Campaign Setting (Dragons Revisited) book tied to the new module style. Is this going to be the plan going forward or just something for the first one?
Jason doesn't post nearly as much as I do to these boards is all. And perhaps his posting energy is more focused to his Facebook fan page than these boards.Is Jason on vacation or something? Or is he too busy to post much?
Went to his Facebook page, says he is busy with paizocon stuff.
Thanks for pointing me there.
What about you James, are you busy with paizocon preparations?
If someone cast a spell such as Haste or Wind Walk that affect many targets and then an enemy dispel one of those affected people spell.
Will everyone else who were affected by the spell loose it too?
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James, I notice we are getting what looks like a Companion (Dragonslayer's Handbook) and a Campaign Setting (Dragons Revisited) book tied to the new module style. Is this going to be the plan going forward or just something for the first one?
Not the plan, it just worked out well for Dragon's Demand.
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Jason doesn't post nearly as much as I do to these boards is all. And perhaps his posting energy is more focused to his Facebook fan page than these boards.Is Jason on vacation or something? Or is he too busy to post much?
Went to his Facebook page, says he is busy with paizocon stuff.
Thanks for pointing me there.
What about you James, are you busy with paizocon preparations?
Yup; here at the office on a balmy July 4th creating handouts, notes, and PCs for my 2 Paizocon games. I'm hoping to be done soon enough to go over to Wes's place to eat some salmon burgers and play some card games and watch some riff trax...
Enjoy your holiday time, sir, and thanks for taking the time to answer your fans so often, let alone on a holiday.
Though Reign of Winter has pretty much locked in Triaxus's season as winter for the present and forseeable future of the campaign setting, Do you have any idea what kinds of things live there in the summer?
Hi James. Is the failure of prophecy a well known fact?
I'm wondering whether playing a charlatan fortune teller would be harder in golarion than it is in the real world.
In general would you allow feats that add Str bonus such as Dragon Ferocity to be interchangeable with Dex if the PC had Agile enchantment? Or would that be a case by case issue for the rules forum?
Androids count as both humanoid and construct for things that target type. What were you thinking about the subtype for humanoid since things like favored enemy require one? Or, were you just thinking generically and they count as any/all humanoids? I ask as the ranger class gives specific subtypes and android, of course, is not on that list.
You've mentioned before that a setting is made by what isn't there... What are the purposefully absent things in Golarion?
Conversely, what do you think makes Golarion interesting?
James,
Nex is described as a land who pursues and investigates magic without prejudice and preconceived notions. But it has been also a historical rival of the Necromantic kingdom of Geb.
With that in mind:
1) What would the arclords of Nex feel about one of their peers pursuing immortality through undeath (e.g. lichdom)?
2) How much of a secret is the knowledge required to acquire the feat eye of the arclord (inner sea guide pg. 286)? Is it a well guarded secret? Would the arclords teach it to outsiders (such as a paying student from a different nation)?
3) Assuming the third eye was something Nex (the archmage) developed, I imagine that another powerful wizard could (in theory at least) acquire something similar if exposed to similar knowledge. How do you feel about a variant "eye of the arclord" power granted through an arcane discovery (from ultimate magic)? My idea is renegade wizard who "stole" the secret of the eye, but developed different powers (with more of an evil bent to it).
As usual thank you for your time (hope you are enjoying PaizoCon)!
James, I have a question: if I raise the dc by 5 points when I craft a magic item, can I create 2000 gp per day? I found nothing against it in the rules.
Hey everyone,
Did you know that according to EnWorld the best 3e D&D adventure is Red Hand of Doom by James Jacobs and Richard Baker?
Can you give some cryptic hints as to what you had for breakfast today?
Dear Magnanimous King Tyrant Lizard,
As a GM, what are your thoughts if your players collectively decided on their own to create an all ______ party?
1) the same race
2) the same class
3) small sized
4) the same alignment
5) Cavaliers/Druids/Summoners
Thanks!
James,
If you have say Spell Perfection(Shadow Weapon) and you make a longsword with it. Let's say you also have Weapon Focus (Longsword). Would you get double the benefit of Weapon Focus(Longsword) from having a Spell Perfected version of Shadow Weapon create a longsword? Would this also apply to say, Power Attack if you use it with the spell perfected Shadow Weapon?
Thanks in advance
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Dear James Jacobs,
As the author of the "Cults of the Dark Tapestry" article in Pathfinder #42, how would you go about mechanically representing cultists/wizards of the Old Cults at your table with regards to the use of Planar Binding/Planar Ally style spells?
For instance, a Cultist of Azathoth casts Planar Ally- I'm having a hard time finding creatures in the Bestiary that are thematically Mythos and yet can meet the mechanical requirements of the spell (Outsider, not Aberration). Similarly for the archetypal wizard who "knows things that man was not meant to know" and his/her Planar Binding spell.
Ditto for cultists and their Summon Monster spell line- it seems odd for the cultists to be summoning Fiends and Demons rather than Mythos entities. Can you recommend a patch-over for this?
Thanks for any advice.
So, we know that the Forlarren are what happen when a nymph gets... ahem... unwanted attention from a fiend, and the nymph's reactions to it.
Question: How would some stronger female monsters (such as the erinyes, tataka rakshasa, and jorogumo) react to such... forceful contact?
Or does that vary with the individual?
Has there been any more mention about the virtual table top? I am itching to use it!
Has there been any more mention about the virtual table top? I am itching to use it!
IANJJ, of course, but there is a Gamespace thread where Gary Teter posts occasional updates. Tonight, he said they are moving to beta and attendees from the banquet and last year's will have access to start trying it out.
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I am asking this here since I can't seem to get a good answer on the Rules Questions forum.
My guestion:
Energy Reflection:
(Its listed under the Elemental Knight Archtype for Sulis from the Advanced Race Guide)Energy Reflection (Su): This functions like the reflection magus arcana, except it only works on spells that deal acid, cold, electricity, or fire damage.
However the Reflection Magus Arcana states it works bacically like Spell Turning. This means no energy based AOE, Ranged Touch, or standard Touch Attacks could be reflected.
I can only think of 3 or 4 spells in total from the basic Pathfinder system that the power (a 12th level requirement for a Magus) could even work on.
What would your call be on a possible fix, or would you just tell a player to forget about it and wait for any offical errata?
I can see where allowing energy AOE spells to be reflected would be too powerful, but energy Ranged Touch attacks could possibly be a good exception IMHO.
This shouldn't be the place to go to because the rules questions forum is slow, first of all.
If you're not comfortable making a ruling for your game and want to wait for official errata, my suggestion would be to tell the player to pick a different archetype.
Spell turning also fails to stop touch range spells.
Touch range spells aren't the same thing as ranged touch spells. And ranged touch spells target you.
[Sorry for replying for you James, but it think his problem is a simple misunderstanding of how spell turning work.]- * -
Question:
You have read the Versatile Spontaneity feat?
What do you think of it? It seem to work very differently for arcane spellcasters that will be capable to find with relative ease spellbooks with the spells they want and divine spellcasters that will be limited to scrolls.
It leave me very dubious about its balance.
I am curious about something...why don't the gods grant boons like Demon lords, devils lords, Empyreal Lords, etc. ?Because we didn't think of it in time. Doesn't mean that some day we won't expand the boons/obediances out for all the gods though, some day. (Note: Devils don't grant boons. So far, we've only done boons for demon lords and empyreal lords, I believe)
So will you guys be doing this in Inner Sea Gods book coming out?
Because religion is really important to Golarion, and because my characters tend to be pretty religious regardless of their class.Why is that Mr. James Jacobs?Hmm. Probably Rahadoum.So...which threat seems the scariest to you, personally? Which one would frighten you the most if they were to TAKE OVER THE WORLD?Out of all the threats currently facing Golarion (the Whispering Way, House Thrune, the risen Runelords, the drow, the Worldwound etc.), which do you feel is the most dangerous, barring Rovagug and his Spawn, as basically if they were let loose it's game over? The group that has the greatest likelihood of succeeding in their schemes? What group or entity, that if it was unopposed by PCs, would cause the most serious harm to Golarion and its people short of destroying it? The thing that would unify the peoples of Golarion to try and stop it, a la the Gray Wardens in Dragon Age with the Darkspawn?There isn't one "most dangerous danger" in Golarion. There's a lot of ties for that position. By making these dangers numerous and more or less equally deadly and dangerous, we can do multiple Adventure Paths and not have to worry about doing one that will make every one that follows anticlimactic.
So what would make Rahadoum more frightening than, say, Cheliax?
Will Mythic Adventures and Bestiary 4 be added to the PRD when they're released?
My character recently received a Spine Shield; a +1 spiked heavy steel shield that can basically shoot a spike at an enemy as a ranged attack three times per day. Is there any way to increase the number of times per day that I can use the magic item's ability?
Has there been any more mention about the virtual table top? I am itching to use it!IANJJ, of course, but there is a Gamespace thread where Gary Teter posts occasional updates. Tonight, he said they are moving to beta and attendees from the banquet and last year's will have access to start trying it out.
I did not have time to provide a link last time... Here you go
James, what do you think about the idea of the VTT? I know some people don't even like having a laptop at the table, but our group is in three or four different cities for an average session. We'd rather spend the time playing than driving.
Magus and Telekinesis
The old 3.5 Blade Storm is back >.<
1. Can you thrown 15 Greatswords(at caster Lv 15 of course) with Telekinesis Violent Thrust to deal 2d6 dmg with each sword No save, no spell resist?
2. A Magus using Spell Combat can use Telekinesis and throw 15 weapons using Intelligence modifier as the spell says plus his Intelligence modifier again if he use Arcane Accuracy Arcana?
3. When Telekinesis refer to a weapon standard damage means that is unmodified by anything else like magic properties and abilities the weapon may have?
1. Of the Empyreals, Arshea is by far my favorite given our shared interests. Where did the idea for him come up?
2. Given that he's both transgender and sexualized, has anyone complained about him perpetuating stereotypes or somesuch?
3. What's Arshea's CR? What evil beings are around his CR?
4. Since Ragathiel's celestial obedience means he wants people at the forefront of cosmic battles (from what I read in Wes' thread), what does Arshea's mean?
5. Given Arshea's obedience, would you allow any of his worshippers to take the hedonistic (Ultimate Campaign, p.65) drawback?
6. In Ultimate Campaign (p.76) "You might earn XP as a story award when your business earns its first 1,000 gp or first 100 points of Goods. " Any advice on creating a table for businesses similar to the one for kingdoms on p.215? Spefically, how much xp should each level of achievement get?
7. About how much downtime is there generally, as a result of the players, during the course of an adventure path?
8. Do you think aasimars and tieflings got shafted regarding their spell-like abilities? Seriously, just how useful is daylight or darkness? What sort of replacement abilities would you considered balanced?
9. Given Paizo's interest in the Mythos, how come Tok'l (what Mi-Go use their earthquake machines to mine for, and make brain cylinders out of) wasn't one of the seven skymetals?
10. What's the best way to get you interested in a new setting? For example, I want you to check out Touhou. What would you want to see?