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If an Advanced Race Guide II were ever published, I could see the Android, Ghoran, and Monkey Goblin surviving into that book okay. Android most of all, as the concept of an android is one that is fairly universal and easy to understand and implement elsewhere. Of course, adding the android to the Core Rules could be another gunslinger in terms of, "Get yer Sci-Fi outta my fantasy!"We have no plans at this point to "graduate" the monsters from the Inner Sea Bestiary into one of the world-neutral Bestiary hardcovers. The whole POINT of the Inner Sea Bestiary, after all, was to publish monsters who I felt would be diminished by losing their ties to Golarion. There are a few creatures in there (the psychopomps and the vampire) who would survive that transition okay... but most of them would lose too much interesting flavor if we had to strip out the world-specific content, I think.
But never say never. A lot can change or happen over the passage of years. But at this point... the plan is to not reprint them. Once Inner Sea Bestiary goes out of print... we'll make some decisions then, and as far as I know... we're still quite a ways away from that.
With the exception of Bestiaries... we're not all that interested in publishing "sequels" to our books.
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What of your non D20 history would you like to share, as far as gaming goes that is.
Whatever folks are interested in hearing, I suppose. I didn't really start working professionally on gaming products until after 3rd edition came along, though. Before that, the total of my published credits were for D&D in Dragon and Dungeon magazine.
If you had to pick one movie that best represents Golarion and Pathfinder, which would you pick and why?Said movie hasn't yet been made.
Aw, is there a good one for Varisia and Rise of the Runelords?
Also, what would Karzoug's accent sound like? I wanna make sure when I use it for foreshadowing, the group recognizes it when I use it again.
If a former Runelord were to become a demon, which would most likely become a Glabrezu?
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Pride- Glabrezu
Wrath- Vrock
Greed- Nalfanshee
Gluttony- Nabasu
Envy- Invidiak
Lust- Succubus
Sloth- Omox?Am I close?
Here and there. We list the associated sins in the text for every demon.
Pride = Marilith
Wrath = Vrock
Greed = Nalfeshnee
Gluttony = Nabasu
Envy = Invidiak
Lust = Succubus
Slot = Dretch
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If you had to pick one movie that best represents Golarion and Pathfinder, which would you pick and why?Said movie hasn't yet been made.Aw, is there a good one for Varisia and Rise of the Runelords?
Also, what would Karzoug's accent sound like? I wanna make sure when I use it for foreshadowing, the group recognizes it when I use it again.
If a former Runelord were to become a demon, which would most likely become a Glabrezu?
Nope.
I'd choose an accent that you'd be able to do well, but since I don't know what ones you can do well, I can't choose.
None; the runelords are all focused on the classic sins, and the glabrezu is focused on the sin of treachery.
If you had to pick one movie that best represents Golarion and Pathfinder, which would you pick and why?Said movie hasn't yet been made.
Give me time.
With the exception of Bestiaries... we're not all that interested in publishing "sequels" to our books.
Does that mean I shouldn't continue to hope for a non-3.5 Elf book? I'd really like to see some attention paid to elves in Pathfinder; they seem to get ignored even more than Dwarves and Halflings do.
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If you had to, who would you hire to play Cayden Cailean in a live action show/movie?
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With the exception of Bestiaries... we're not all that interested in publishing "sequels" to our books.Does that mean I shouldn't continue to hope for a non-3.5 Elf book? I'd really like to see some attention paid to elves in Pathfinder; they seem to get ignored even more than Dwarves and Halflings do.
I'm sure fans of dwarves and halflings would disagree. After all, neither dwarves or halflings got an Adventure Path.
If you were Rick would have you let Carol come back to the prison camp?
who are Rick and Carol?
Mr. James Jacobs,
What of the modules is the most quintessential of Golarion and Pathfinder?
I'm sure fans of dwarves and halflings would disagree. After all, neither dwarves or halflings got an Adventure Path.With the exception of Bestiaries... we're not all that interested in publishing "sequels" to our books.Does that mean I shouldn't continue to hope for a non-3.5 Elf book? I'd really like to see some attention paid to elves in Pathfinder; they seem to get ignored even more than Dwarves and Halflings do.
Yet?
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Yet?I'm sure fans of dwarves and halflings would disagree. After all, neither dwarves or halflings got an Adventure Path.With the exception of Bestiaries... we're not all that interested in publishing "sequels" to our books.Does that mean I shouldn't continue to hope for a non-3.5 Elf book? I'd really like to see some attention paid to elves in Pathfinder; they seem to get ignored even more than Dwarves and Halflings do.
Shrug!
Just to tell you where I found about reviewing classic creatures, was the preface to the bestiary in Carrion Crown #1.
"In the coming months, we’ll be condensing much of this information here in Pathfinder Adventure Path and expanding it with new rules and ready-to-use stat blocks for a variety of classic creatures, adapting them as challenges for a range of CRs and offering toolboxes full of specific creature information to supplement the basics already included in the Pathfinder RPG Bestiary. It’s something a little different, but we’re only trying this out with one creature a month, so keep on expecting plenty of entirely new creatures in this section even as we test our mad experiment."
Now, the guy who wrote it could have just meant y'all were doing it just for Carrion Crown. So, that could be my mistake. But, like you said, I'd like to see more of it when you get around to it.
Love what y'all are doing.
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And if "kill the ancient mummy overlord" isn't a classic storyline... I'm not sure what is?Will the ancient mummy overlord be capable of unleashing the Ten Plagues of Egypt-I-mean-Osirion, regenerate from death as he consumes the poor saps who opened a chest containing his vital organs in canopic jars, and be seeking to resurrect his lost love? And will there be an option for a party containing an Andoran gunslinger with twin pistols, a Chelaxian gentleman explorer and his twin-sister archaeologist bard along with a badass Osiriani fighter in black desert robes with a curved sword?
I ask because reasons.
You should totally copyright that before someone steals it and makes it into a blockbuster movie!
At this point in time I'd probably say "Rise of the Runelords."Mr. James Jacobs,
What of the modules is the most quintessential of Golarion and Pathfinder?
True. What about ones that aren't part of an AP?
1)Are any of the Kaiju on the list in B4 actually good aligned?
2)Are there any Kaiju like Mothra, Hedorah, or King Caesar?
3)Are any of the Kaiju on the list in B4 a creature type other then magical beast not including the star titan since we know he is undead?
4)Any reason why you didn't make Kaiju immune to petrification or polymorph effects or give them SR?
5)If the Vercites created the Star Titan then can they create another Kaiju?
6)Are there any Kaiju on any of the other planets?
7)Can Kaiju be found on the other continents other then Tian Xia?
8)Are Kaiju immortal or do they still age and can eventually die of old age?
9)Do Kaiju reproduce? If they do what form of reproduction?
10)Will we ever find out there origins?
I need your unmatched Dino knowledge!
My GM is allowing my samurai to take a dinosaur as a mount because we befriended a clan of dinosaur riding elves. I'm a kitsune. What dinosaurs would make for good mounts. Our campaign is mostly in a jungle.
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Just to tell you where I found about reviewing classic creatures, was the preface to the bestiary in Carrion Crown #1.
"In the coming months, we’ll be condensing much of this information here in Pathfinder Adventure Path and expanding it with new rules and ready-to-use stat blocks for a variety of classic creatures, adapting them as challenges for a range of CRs and offering toolboxes full of specific creature information to supplement the basics already included in the Pathfinder RPG Bestiary. It’s something a little different, but we’re only trying this out with one creature a month, so keep on expecting plenty of entirely new creatures in this section even as we test our mad experiment."
Now, the guy who wrote it could have just meant y'all were doing it just for Carrion Crown. So, that could be my mistake. But, like you said, I'd like to see more of it when you get around to it.
Love what y'all are doing.
Ah; yeah. That did indeed mean "in the coming months of this Adventure Path."
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And if "kill the ancient mummy overlord" isn't a classic storyline... I'm not sure what is?Will the ancient mummy overlord be capable of unleashing the Ten Plagues of Egypt-I-mean-Osirion, regenerate from death as he consumes the poor saps who opened a chest containing his vital organs in canopic jars, and be seeking to resurrect his lost love? And will there be an option for a party containing an Andoran gunslinger with twin pistols, a Chelaxian gentleman explorer and his twin-sister archaeologist bard along with a badass Osiriani fighter in black desert robes with a curved sword?
I ask because reasons.
Probably not.
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True. What about ones that aren't part of an AP?At this point in time I'd probably say "Rise of the Runelords."Mr. James Jacobs,
What of the modules is the most quintessential of Golarion and Pathfinder?
I suppose I would say "The Feast of Ravenmoor," since it has the right combination of roleplaying, site exploration, mature themes, dark humor, horror, and Varisia.
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how soYup; the gap is infinitely big.is the gap in power between a demigod and a deity big.
i mean can a deity do things a demigod cant do
In that we don't have rules for what gods can do yet, which means they can do anything we want them to do in any story we do, which means their power is essentially infinite. Some are more powerful than others, so even between THEM the gap of power is infinite.
If we ever quantify deity powers in print, which I hope we do not, that answer will change.
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James, what is your academic background?
Before working professionally on gaming products, what did you do for a living?
I have a degree in English (creative writing emphasis) from U. C. Davis.
Before I started work at Paizo as an editor/developer, I worked at Wizards of the Coast as an order processor and eventually as part of the web team doing support there.
Before I worked at WotC, I worked at a life insurance company in a call center answering phones and talking to life insurance agents who had problems and gripes and complaints about how we were handling their commissions money. (This was, by the way, my least favorite job ever...)
Before I worked there, I worked for the Washington State Department of Health as a data-entry clerk.
Before that, back in college, I worked at a movie theater as an assistant manager.
Before that, in the gap between high school and college, I worked for a summer at Olyoptics, helping to prepare comic book page color guides (essentially, as an apprentice colorist). Got to work on some Batman comics, Sandman, Akira, and a few others that are now pretty obscure.
Before that, I spent a summer helping my dad on the boat doing commercial salmon fishing.
That's pretty much it. Once I moved to Seattle, I also did a LOT of temp jobs, mostly data entry once folks realized I type at about 80 wpm.
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I need your unmatched Dino knowledge!
My GM is allowing my samurai to take a dinosaur as a mount because we befriended a clan of dinosaur riding elves. I'm a kitsune. What dinosaurs would make for good mounts. Our campaign is mostly in a jungle.
I would go with something that's Large sized and a quadruped. Some sort of ceratopsian makes the most sense, since they're all about charging and have built in lances!
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1)Are any of the Kaiju on the list in B4 actually good aligned?
2)Are there any Kaiju like Mothra, Hedorah, or King Caesar?
3)Are any of the Kaiju on the list in B4 a creature type other then magical beast not including the star titan since we know he is undead?
4)Any reason why you didn't make Kaiju immune to petrification or polymorph effects or give them SR?
5)If the Vercites created the Star Titan then can they create another Kaiju?
6)Are there any Kaiju on any of the other planets?
7)Can Kaiju be found on the other continents other then Tian Xia?
8)Are Kaiju immortal or do they still age and can eventually die of old age?
9)Do Kaiju reproduce? If they do what form of reproduction?
10)Will we ever find out there origins?
1) Unlikely.
2) Yup; just as Rodan inspired Agyra and Godzilla obviously inspired King Mogaru, there are others on the list who were inspired by other kaiju. Yarthoon is probably the best Mothra stand-in... or perhaps Ebeshra. Queen Vorgozen is very much a Hedorah hommage. Not really a King Caesar one... I'm not a big fan of him, but Lord Varklops is the Ghidorah kaiju.
3) Queen Vorgozen is probably an ooze. Shbloon is probably an aberration. The rest are probably all magical beasts... but one or two more might be aberrations.
4) Can't make something immune to everything. They have pretty strong Fortitude saves, and their recovery ability more or less means that they probably won't stay petrified forever. And I didn't give them SR because it's good for the game to have tough monsters that don't have SR; keeps variety in there and lets spellcasters have a bit more fun.
5) Maybe.
6) Yes.
7) Yes.
8) They're effectively immortal.
9) I suspect they can. Kaiju offspring being a big part of the movies, after all...
10) I'm pretty sure I've got lots more to say about them in the future...
Dear Magnanimous Tyrant Lizard King,
Any chance we're going to see a Mecha King Mogaru in the Iron Gods AP (or associated supplement)?
Do especially powerful evil souls, like the Runelords, make more powerful evil outsiders?
If so, do you think any of the Demon lords would be angry they're being deprived of potentially powerful demons by the Runelords extending their lives?
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As in Monster Zero!? Really!!?Nope. Zero.Dear Magnanimous Tyrant Lizard King,
Any chance we're going to see a Mecha King Mogaru in the Iron Gods AP (or associated supplement)?
nope.
As in we're not putting mechs or giant robots like that into Iron Gods.
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Do especially powerful evil souls, like the Runelords, make more powerful evil outsiders?
If so, do you think any of the Demon lords would be angry they're being deprived of potentially powerful demons by the Runelords extending their lives?
Often they do, yes.
And no; they're patient. . Demon lords don't always want more competition, and there's always plenty of new powerful demons for them to grab as it stands. They can wait for the corruption of mortals to run the course.
Does this also confirm after you use all your Runelords in your evil plans, we'll have a "Rise of the RuneDemonlords" AP?