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xavier c wrote:
Too much?

It might be easier on James if you make one post with several questions rather than dozens of smaller posts rapid fire.

And a question for James:

What's your favorite part of Ustalav?


Xavier, you can also post multiple unrelated questions in the same post.


James, I’m interested to hear your opinion on the subject of ancient mythic Pathfinder NPCs. I’m not talking about an entity that’s been around for a paltry one thousand years. I’m referring to a creature that has been stalking the multiverse (and beyond) for over 10,000 years. Specifically, I'd like to hear your thoughts on the following subjects:

1. How would the aging rules apply to a creature that is immortal and no longer ages? Would the mental abilities continue to increase? If so, would there be a limit?

2. Once this NPC reaches 20th level and 10 tiers, would they continue to accrue skills and feats? Surely, an entity that’s lived for over 10,000 years must have acquired feats and additional ranks in skills outside of what the leveling up PF rules allow.

3. What templates and subset of rules would you feel apply to such an NPC?

4. What would continue to motivate such a creature to live? Everything it has known has vanished back to star dust several times over. Why would it want to see these cycles repeat?

BTW, thanks for helping design one of the best RPGs I’ve ever played in over three decades.

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Something that I've been thinking about off and on - what do the people of Golarion call "Scotch eggs," "Spanish moss," "French kisses" or, really, anything that has a Earth-specific name attached to it? More accurately, how do you approach renaming something like that so that it makes sense in Golarion?

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Wraith235 wrote:

I have a Procedural question about the Cleric Spell Murderous Command

for Reference

You give the target a mental urge to kill its nearest ally, which it obeys to the best of its ability. The target attacks its nearest ally on its next turn with a melee weapon or natural weapon. If necessary, it moves to or charges to the nearest ally in order to make this attack. If it is unable to reach its closest ally on its next turn, the target uses its turn to get as close as possible to the ally.

Ive had this situation come up more than occasionally so I decided to ask

Target of the Spell Fails his Save vs the Spell .... however on his next turn - he no longer has any allies around

I can see 3 possible outcomes
1- the Target of the spell sits there and does nothing
2- the Spell effect is nullified because there is no allies around
3- we start beating on Unconscious bodies

and then there's the other situation - what if the target has no allies at all (trap spawned summon monster for inatance)

If there's an unconscious ally in sight, the character will try to kill them. If there's absolutely no ally in sight, I'd say that the target moves in the most logical direction in which the closest ally is probably located.

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Calex wrote:
It seems allot of your co-workers also follow your "Ask" thread. How often do they point out new questions to you to be answered when you are busy with other stuff? (kinda like "Hey James did you see what THEY asked THIS time?!")

Pretty much never. I think I answer the questions faster than they can react?

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Misroi wrote:
Something that I've been thinking about off and on - what do the people of Golarion call "Scotch eggs," "Spanish moss," "French kisses" or, really, anything that has a Earth-specific name attached to it? More accurately, how do you approach renaming something like that so that it makes sense in Golarion?

Obligatory XKCD.

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Archpaladin Zousha wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
Archpaladin Zousha wrote:
Is Korvosa's house Zenderholm of Chelish descent or Taldan? I think I remember reading somewhere that some noble families in Cheliax, despite their loyalty to the nation, have origins in Taldor, and Zenderholm's coat of arms does feature the crown symbol uniquely associated with Taldor. Or am I reading too much into the symbol?

Chelish.

But all of Cheliax is, in the end, pretty much from Taldor. So there certainly is some legacy going all the way back to Taldor there.

Huh. Cool. My half-Shoanti-half-Chelaxian paladiny guy is starting to take shape in my mind!

Now that Wrath of the Righteous is over, I'm so happy! It was almost like you guys wrote it for me! It's the most metal AP I've ever seen! THANK YOU SO MUCH!

And to round things out with a somewhat awkward question. There are a number of races that can't interbreed with each other, but what if someone used transmutation spells to temporarily turn the male partner in a relationship to the same race as the female partner and they attempt to conceive while the spell is in effect? Could that result in a pregnancy where the resulting child is the same race as the mother, as the parents were the same race when the child was concieved, but still biologically related to the father? Or would the genetics simply not connect or become disrupted when the spell ends and the male partner becomes their original race again?

Thanks! Glad you liked it!

A pregnancy that results during a polymorph functions normally... but if you're pregnant and polymorph into something else, I'd say that ends the pregnancy.

An otyugh who polymorphs into a human and then gets a human woman pregnant would sire a human child, in other words. That child might be an excellent candidate for a sorcerer with the aberrant bloodline, but the child would still be a human.

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Kajehase wrote:
An Alot sighting! Yay!

WOO!

Let me know if you see Great Althoguh!

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Bob790 wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
snickersimba wrote:
Why are you so awesome? Will you ever hire an actual person to live as kyra/merisiel/ezren/valereos? Because that would be awesome. Though expensive, the surgery to have people made into halflings/gnomes/elves/dwarves has to cost a lot
Well... we DID just launch the Rise of the Runelords full cast audio drama, which meant that we got to approve of actors playing some of our iconics. Does that count?
Which one was closest to your image of their character?

Harsk sounds dead on, but they're all quite awesome and great.

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xavier c wrote:
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xavier c wrote:
what would a redeemed gnoll be(or act) like
That depends on what redeemed the gnoll. A gnoll redeemed by a paladin of Sarenrae, a gnoll redeemed by a chaotic good alchemist atheist, and a gnoll redeemed by her own guilt over slavery would all be very different NPCs, for example.
what would a gnoll redeemed by a paladin of Sarenrae be like?

Kind and friendly and patient and humble.

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xavier c wrote:
has Sarenrae(or her worshipers) ever redeemed a pit fiend

Probably not, but maybe. I don't wanna say no in case we want to do one in the distant future, but I don't wanna say yes and give the false impression that there's one in particular I'm keeping secret.

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MeanDM wrote:

Hello James!

Any suggestions on a first Ramsey Campbell anthology of short fiction to start with? I'm in mood for some Mythos reading. :)

Thanks!

Not all of his stuff is Mythos related. In fact, the vast majority is NOT mythos related.

That said... the best book to get these days for an introduction to his mythos writing would be...

The Inhabitant of the Lake

There's fancier hardcover editions of it, and super rare expensive old versions of it if ya want! My hardcover's sitting on the bookshelf by my bed... and it strikes me I should read it now! Well... later. I'm at work and out of reach of the book right now.


So is there any information you could share about the cut dragon septs. The humour dragons in particular seemed really interesting.

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Alleran wrote:

Some Nocticula-related questions:

1) If Ayavah was right all along, and Nocticula is who Ayavah believes she is (which, with WotR, seems more than probable), where does that leave Socothbenoth? Is he really Nocticula's brother?

2) For that matter, is she even the real first succubus?

3) And is it likely that any of the other deities (such as Lamashtu) are aware of this aspect of her?

4) What deities would she forge friendships or alliances with post-ascension? Calistria seems likely.

1) That's an excellent question! Not one that I'm ready to answer, but yeah... there are implications there, aren't there? Mwa ha ha and stuff.

2) Yes. She is.

3) Probably but if they are they're keeping that pretty secret.

4) Not ready to say yet. Calistria could be as much an ally as a competitor; could easily go either way.

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Guang wrote:
When will products for the second half of 2014 and beyond be announced?

Probably around Paizocon. Maybe earlier.

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James Jacobs wrote:
Calistria could be as much an ally as a competitor; could easily go either way.

That's Calistra in a nutshell.

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Luthorne wrote:

1) A friend of mine who's new to the Golarion setting asked me about pantheistic clerics (based on something from Gods & Magic) and ones who adhere to a philosophy; I told that, based on what I remembered and some of the stuff in Faiths & Philosophies, that I thought that the Gods & Magic comment about pantheist clerics was out of date, and that clerics, even if they're part of a pantheistic society, dedicate themselves to a single deity, while oracles or other characters might be less dedicated to a single deity and venerate several equally...so, for example, in a pantheistic society, there might be a shared temple for several deities or somesuch, but the clerics would be dedicated to individual deities, even if they all intermingled easily...was that right? Of course, I also told him to check with the DM because your DM is always the authoritative word even if it is the Golarion setting and if they want to allow pantheistic clerics or ones dedicated to a philosphy, that's fine too, just asking about baseline Golarion assumption.

2) If someone was playing an antipaladin with a fiendish servant, which allows them to get a permanent summon monster, but also upgrades every two levels thereafter, and they wanted to keep a fiendish servant they already had (say, for example, they had a succubus and didn't really want to trade her out for a bebelith or a vrock or a fiendish tyrannosaurus rex), how would you handle it? Just let them stay behind, but the succubus doesn't improve, figure out some way for the succubus to gain some class levels, let them take the succubus on as a cohort via leadership, etc.? Been pondering it lately, was just wondering how you would approach it...

3) What are some of your favorite fictitious curses (from any form of media), using as liberal a definition of curse as seems appropriate to you, and what did you like about them? The horror of them, the effort a character had to go through to live with it, or even finding the curse amusing?

1) There are no panthestic clerics or clerics who worship philosophies. That's an element that crept into Pathifnder from D&D, and one that we've expunged from the game... at least as far as our Campaign Setting (and thus, Gods & Magic) is involved. Oracles are the divine casters that are the most appropriate to worship pantheons and philosophies. The GM of course gets to overrule that if she wants. But in Golarion, the rule is if you're a cleric, you worship a single deity. The act of worshiping a single deity in return for powers is the fundamental core and truth of the cleric class, after all.

2) It should be hard to impossible for an antipaladin to gain a fiendish servant as powerful as a succubus before they gain access to their normal class-granted ability, so that means that an antipaladin who has a fiendish servant beyond that is using house rules. Which means that it's the GM's call as to what happens to it. If it were in my game, I'd roll the previous and new fiendish servant into one servant that combines the powers of the various types in some way.

3) "Thinner" from the Stephen King novel is fun (the movie was lame, though). "Drag Me To Hell" has a great curse in it, since it's so over-the-top. "Curse of the Demon" (adapted from the M. R. James story "Casting the Runes") is the one that inspired "Drag Me To Hell" and it's even better. Getting too loose with the definition you can start calling something like the Colour Out of Space a cruse, in which case that one is my favorite... but I wouldn't call it a curse. Not sure... too many curses to choose from!

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xavier c wrote:
how do humans and dragons have sex with each other

Without polymorph magic? Very carefully.

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Guang wrote:
When can we see a picture of an Akiton human?

Later. Not sure how much later. Probably a long time later.

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Freehold DM wrote:
Does anyone in the office drink tea?

Absolutely. There are a few VERY SERIOUS tea drinkers here, but Pierce is probably the king of tea.

I drink tea too. So does Jessica, and Erik, and Jeff, and Lisa, and Wes, and so on. I'd say the majority of Paizo's employees drink tea at least casually, and probably 1/3 are serious about it.

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Kajehase wrote:
And is it tea that tastes like tea, rather than some fruit or berry?

It's real tea for the most part.

The tea I currently have at hand is Jasmine Green Tea.

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xavier c wrote:
How do the kami view the gods?

Depends on the kami, but for the most part they view them as things humans worship and things to respect but not necessarily things they're all that interested in.

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Tirisfal wrote:
xavier c wrote:
Too much?

It might be easier on James if you make one post with several questions rather than dozens of smaller posts rapid fire.

And a question for James:

What's your favorite part of Ustalav?

Carrion Hill, of course. Or expanding that, the entire county of Versex.


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xavier c wrote:
how do humans and dragons have sex with each other
Without polymorph magic? Very carefully.

you answered that question very casually

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Holybushman wrote:

James, I’m interested to hear your opinion on the subject of ancient mythic Pathfinder NPCs. I’m not talking about an entity that’s been around for a paltry one thousand years. I’m referring to a creature that has been stalking the multiverse (and beyond) for over 10,000 years. Specifically, I'd like to hear your thoughts on the following subjects:

1. How would the aging rules apply to a creature that is immortal and no longer ages? Would the mental abilities continue to increase? If so, would there be a limit?

2. Once this NPC reaches 20th level and 10 tiers, would they continue to accrue skills and feats? Surely, an entity that’s lived for over 10,000 years must have acquired feats and additional ranks in skills outside of what the leveling up PF rules allow.

3. What templates and subset of rules would you feel apply to such an NPC?

4. What would continue to motivate such a creature to live? Everything it has known has vanished back to star dust several times over. Why would it want to see these cycles repeat?

BTW, thanks for helping design one of the best RPGs I’ve ever played in over three decades.

1) If they became immortal before they aged to middle/old/venerable age, then they'd NEVER gain those bonuses. If they became mortal after that point, they'd keep the bonuses they already gained, and depending on the method of achieving immortality, might or might not lose the penalties to physical stats.

2) Nope. You stop gaining skill ranks once you hit the level cap, and stop gaining feats when you hit the level AND tier cap. The only way to gain more skill ranks and feats beyond that is to somehow gain racial hit dice, at which point there's no upper limit (save game designer common sense) to the skill ranks and feats. As a general rule, gaining HD is something only NPCs can take advantage of; it's not something PCs get.

3) Depends entirely on the NPC, and on the NPC's story.

4) Also depends entirely on the NPC and the story involving him/her/it. There's countless stories about immortals and why they choose to keep on living or why they seek death out there to seek inspiration from.

Thanks! And thanks for playing!

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James, Who is the person you have made the most angry at the office?

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Misroi wrote:
Something that I've been thinking about off and on - what do the people of Golarion call "Scotch eggs," "Spanish moss," "French kisses" or, really, anything that has a Earth-specific name attached to it? More accurately, how do you approach renaming something like that so that it makes sense in Golarion?

Depends on the region. For something like Scotch eggs, they probably don't have the exact recipe, but something similar named after whatever region they're from. Same goes for plants. For acts like kissing, I suppose the same would apply.

In cases where we have something like this pop up, we handle how to name them in various ways. Some examples we've already done:

Greek Fire = alchemist's fire

Irish Deer = megaloceros

Roman candle (firework) = Desnan candle

Those are the three that immediately come to mind; I'm sure there's more.


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Freehold DM wrote:
Does anyone in the office drink tea?

Absolutely. There are a few VERY SERIOUS tea drinkers here, but Pierce is probably the king of tea.

I drink tea too. So does Jessica, and Erik, and Jeff, and Lisa, and Wes, and so on. I'd say the majority of Paizo's employees drink tea at least casually, and probably 1/3 are serious about it.

Does anyone drink it with their pinkie finger up?


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James Jacobs wrote:
2) It should be hard to impossible for an antipaladin to gain a fiendish servant as powerful as a succubus before they gain access to their normal class-granted ability, so that means that an antipaladin who has a fiendish servant beyond that is using house rules. Which means that it's the GM's call as to what happens to it. If it were in my game, I'd roll the previous and new fiendish servant into one servant that combines the powers of the various types in some way.

Ah, I guess I wasn't clear here. What I was asking is, if with the totally normal fiendish servant class feature (so they're an 11th or 12th level antipaladin), they get a succubus, but then they level up to 13th level, and are supposed to trade up to something from the next summon monster list, but they quite liked having a shapeshifting minion with some nice social skills, possibly even grew to like them as a character, and would rather keep the succubus via some method. Would you, as the DM, prefer to simply allow them to not advance their fiendish servant (ie, the succubus never improves in any fashion, but you don't have to trade up to a bebilith/vrock/fiendish tyrannosaurus if you don't want to), allow the fiendish servant to gain some class levels in a delayed fashion as a way of keeping it 'on par', make them take leadership, evolve a quest to fully summon/call/gate the succubus over on a permanent basis and have a succubus who can then ride your newly acquired fiendish T-Rex, something else?

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Alex Smith 908 wrote:
So is there any information you could share about the cut dragon septs. The humour dragons in particular seemed really interesting.

They aren't cut.

They were mentioned in an article in the fourth volume of Pathfinder, back in a time where we were really just throwing all sorts of ideas out to see what ones folks reacted to and what ones were bad ideas. Those various dragon varieties were one that not many people (myself included) seemed all that interested in the more we thought about them. No other information was ever generated about them, so there was never anything to cut.

We've gone an entirely different direction with dragons, in any event. The primary philosophy we have with dragons now is that the various types of true dragons come in groups of 5. For example, there are five...

...chromatic dragons
...metallic dragons
...imperial dragons
...primal dragons
...outer dragons

A "humour dragon" only has four categories, and therefore doesn't fit that model. A "sin dragon" has 7 varieties, and doesn't fit that model. Creatures that draw upon the humours and sins are very interesting, I agree... we've done monsters on these models a LOT already. But they're not all that appropriate categories to use for true dragons.

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snickersimba wrote:
James, Who is the person you have made the most angry at the office?

I don't know. I don't generally make people angry.

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Belle Mythix wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Does anyone in the office drink tea?

Absolutely. There are a few VERY SERIOUS tea drinkers here, but Pierce is probably the king of tea.

I drink tea too. So does Jessica, and Erik, and Jeff, and Lisa, and Wes, and so on. I'd say the majority of Paizo's employees drink tea at least casually, and probably 1/3 are serious about it.

Does anyone drink it with their pinkie finger up?

Depends on how much pretension the day needs.


James Jacobs wrote:
xavier c wrote:
how do humans and dragons have sex with each other
Without polymorph magic? Very carefully.

are dragons reptiles or mammals in pathfinder

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Luthorne wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
2) It should be hard to impossible for an antipaladin to gain a fiendish servant as powerful as a succubus before they gain access to their normal class-granted ability, so that means that an antipaladin who has a fiendish servant beyond that is using house rules. Which means that it's the GM's call as to what happens to it. If it were in my game, I'd roll the previous and new fiendish servant into one servant that combines the powers of the various types in some way.
Ah, I guess I wasn't clear here. What I was asking is, if with the totally normal fiendish servant class feature (so they're an 11th or 12th level antipaladin), they get a succubus, but then they level up to 13th level, and are supposed to trade up to something from the next summon monster list, but they quite liked having a shapeshifting minion with some nice social skills, possibly even grew to like them as a character, and would rather keep the succubus via some method. Would you, as the DM, prefer to simply allow them to not advance their fiendish servant (ie, the succubus never improves in any fashion, but you don't have to trade up to a bebilith/vrock/fiendish tyrannosaurus if you don't want to), allow the fiendish servant to gain some class levels in a delayed fashion as a way of keeping it 'on par', make them take leadership, evolve a quest to fully summon/call/gate the succubus over on a permanent basis and have a succubus who can then ride your newly acquired fiendish T-Rex, something else?

I'd let an antipaladin keep a less powerful option if she wants. Depending on what the character chose as the servant, I might allow for some sort of advancement to that servant or not.

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xavier c wrote:
are dragons reptiles or mammals in pathfinder

Why can't Dragon be its own category?

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James Jacobs wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Does anyone in the office drink tea?

Absolutely. There are a few VERY SERIOUS tea drinkers here, but Pierce is probably the king of tea.

I drink tea too. So does Jessica, and Erik, and Jeff, and Lisa, and Wes, and so on. I'd say the majority of Paizo's employees drink tea at least casually, and probably 1/3 are serious about it.

I ingest tea pretty much constantly. :-)


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Holybushman wrote:

How would the aging rules apply to a creature that is immortal and no longer ages? Would the mental abilities continue to increase? If so, would there be a limit?

If they became immortal before they aged to middle/old/venerable age, then they'd NEVER gain those bonuses.

1. Why not?

2. What about if they have the longevity ability or something similar?


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MeanDM wrote:

Hello James!

Any suggestions on a first Ramsey Campbell anthology of short fiction to start with? I'm in mood for some Mythos reading. :)

Thanks!

Not all of his stuff is Mythos related. In fact, the vast majority is NOT mythos related.

That said... the best book to get these days for an introduction to his mythos writing would be...

The Inhabitant of the Lake

There's fancier hardcover editions of it, and super rare expensive old versions of it if ya want! My hardcover's sitting on the bookshelf by my bed... and it strikes me I should read it now! Well... later. I'm at work and out of reach of the book right now.

I'd like to note, that if you don't purchase it online, Inhabitant of the Lake has got to be one of the hardest anthologies I've ever had to track down in my entire life. I finally got a copy a few years back but I had to search well over a dozen bookstores across three Canadian provinces before I found a copy.

And on that note, James, what is the most difficult book to find that you now own?

Liberty's Edge

I am going to sneak into the pazio office and replace all of the coffee and tea with brown water. Also, what happens if a quiploth mates with a human

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xavier c wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
xavier c wrote:
how do humans and dragons have sex with each other
Without polymorph magic? Very carefully.
are dragons reptiles or mammals in pathfinder

Dragons are not animals, and therefore they aren't technically reptiles OR mammals.

Reptile comes closer than mammal though.

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AlgaeNymph wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
Holybushman wrote:

How would the aging rules apply to a creature that is immortal and no longer ages? Would the mental abilities continue to increase? If so, would there be a limit?

If they became immortal before they aged to middle/old/venerable age, then they'd NEVER gain those bonuses.

1. Why not?

2. What about if they have the longevity ability or something similar?

1) For simplicity's sake. Go too far down this rabbit hole and it can get out of hand fast. Because tracking when every single monster in the game hits those three older age categories (and thus listing age categories for every single monster) is clutter and overcomplicates the game for something that really doesn't come into play much at all... if ever, for PCs.

2) Depends. It's a choice you should make as the GM on a case by case basis.

Age category manipulation can be a handy way to massage ability scores to make a monster fit into its expected CR range, of course.


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James Jacobs wrote:
xavier c wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
xavier c wrote:
how do humans and dragons have sex with each other
Without polymorph magic? Very carefully.
are dragons reptiles or mammals in pathfinder

Dragons are not animals, and therefore they aren't technically reptiles OR mammals.

Reptile comes closer than mammal though.

Does that logic apply to humans/elves/dwarves/gnomes/orcs/etc.?

(The logic being that humanoid creatures are not part of the Animal type and therefore aren't classified using Animal classifications.)

In other words, did you just destroy our real-world taxonomy system? ;-)

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James Jacobs wrote:
xavier c wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
xavier c wrote:
how do humans and dragons have sex with each other
Without polymorph magic? Very carefully.
are dragons reptiles or mammals in pathfinder

Dragons are not animals, and therefore they aren't technically reptiles OR mammals.

Reptile comes closer than mammal though.

A common mistake is to lump dinosaurs with reptiles when actually many of them like T-Rex are taxonimically much closer to birds.

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The Block Knight wrote:


I'd like to note, that if you don't purchase it online, Inhabitant of the Lake has got to be one of the hardest anthologies I've ever had to track down in my entire life. I finally got a copy a few years back but I had to search well over a dozen bookstores across three Canadian provinces before I found a copy.

And on that note, James, what is the most difficult book to find that you now own?

The original Arkham edition? Yes... it's a very rare and very expensive edition of the anthology, and not only because it was Ramsey Campbell's first book, I believe (or one of the earliest). But the copy I have is the hardcover reprint by british publisher PS Publishing. The copy I linked in my previous reply is a paperback reprint of that printing I think. It's inexpensive.

If you have a copy of the Arkham edition, I'm super jealous!!!!

Hmmm... most difficult book to find that I now own? Let's see here... it's certainly not the most expensive book I own (that would be my Centipede Press edition of Lovecraft's work).

Until they reprinted it, Volume III of Lovecraft's Selected Letters had been driving me up the wall with its rarity, but once it was reprinted, it was EASY to get.

And there's other books, like the Arkham edition of Michael Shea's "Polyphemus" that I wanted but never really tried to track down until I saw it for sale at Powell's books one day out of chance. And it took a while to find a copy of one of Joseph Payne Brennan's books that included "Slime" in it, but that search only took a week or so, so that was hardly "tough."

Hmm. I suppose the book that took me the longest to track down and find a copy to buy would have been Pagan Publishing's Ithaqua Call of Cthulhu campaign book, "Walker in the Wastes." I missed picking it up when it first came out, and since then I've only seen it pop up on eBay now and then for about 150 to 200 bucks. I tried bidding on a copy several times, in fact, but never won the auction. And then, on a lark last year, I searched Amazon for it and found a copy for sale from a used bookstore for only $40... POW!

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snickersimba wrote:
I am going to sneak into the pazio office and replace all of the coffee and tea with brown water. Also, what happens if a quiploth mates with a human

Good luck on the first.

You get a half-fiend human with the second... assuming you don't just get a dead human.


James Jacobs wrote:
xavier c wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
xavier c wrote:
how do humans and dragons have sex with each other
Without polymorph magic? Very carefully.
are dragons reptiles or mammals in pathfinder

Dragons are not animals, and therefore they aren't technically reptiles OR mammals.

Reptile comes closer than mammal though.

I asked because it was related to the (how do humans and dragons have sex with each other) question

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xavier c wrote:
Has a gnoll ever fallen in love with a human?

I'm sure that's happened. Not sure we've had any show up in print, but I believe there may be one... maybe in Rival Guide?

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Alexander Augunas wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
xavier c wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
xavier c wrote:
how do humans and dragons have sex with each other
Without polymorph magic? Very carefully.
are dragons reptiles or mammals in pathfinder

Dragons are not animals, and therefore they aren't technically reptiles OR mammals.

Reptile comes closer than mammal though.

Does that logic apply to humans/elves/dwarves/gnomes/orcs/etc.?

(The logic being that humanoid creatures are not part of the Animal type and therefore aren't classified using Animal classifications.)

In other words, did you just destroy our real-world taxonomy system? ;-)

Those things are humanoids, and therefore they can all pretty much be quantified as mammals or what ever (all the ones you list would be mammals). It starts getting weird with some of them... like gnomes (who come from fey origins).

In any event, our real-world taxonomy system is not built to accommodate fantasy and supernatural races, so you shouldn't try to use it on things like dragons.

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