Fine, here's a question: Have you ever seen Source Code? Same director as Moon.
It's called a null blade. It's basically a +1 construct bane bastard sword that can cut through hardness like it was made of adamantine, and that can disrupt magic and technology and scramble their effects... essentially "nullifying" a magical or technological effect for a short time. The blade itself is physical. and is made of a rare and difficult to craft (the secrets of which are held by the Technic League) adamantine-noqual alloy.Then what the hevk is that Technic League captain wielding?Both Star Trek and Dr. Who have managed without for half a century.How... how can you guys do sci-fi technology and not include an energy sword!?James,
will the technology guide have some sort of laser sword so I can roll a Paladin Jedi for Iron Gods?Nope.
Fortunately, there are plenty of d20 compatible Star Wars games to choose from for that.
Or you can just make it a brilliant energy weapon.
How cool is that! I assume there will be rules for tech failure since we are dealing with tech that is both ancient, and has been through a starship crash?
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I know your into comics a little bit, and I was wondering if you'd run across the Rat Queens yet.
“GOLD, GUTS AND GROG,” Part One
Who are the Rat Queens? A pack of booze-guzzling, death-dealing battle maidens-for-hire, and they’re in the business of killing all gods’ creatures for profit.
It’s also a darkly comedic fantasy series starring Hannah the Rockabilly Elven Mage, Violet the Hipster Dwarven Fighter, Dee the Atheist Human Cleric and Betty the Hippy Hobbit Thief. This modern spin on an old school genre is a violent monster-killing epic that is like Buffy meets Tank Girl in a Lord of the Rings world on crack!
Link: https://imagecomics.com/comics/releases/rat-queens-1
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I know your into comics a little bit, and I was wondering if you'd run across the Rat Queens yet.
“GOLD, GUTS AND GROG,” Part One
Who are the Rat Queens? A pack of booze-guzzling, death-dealing battle maidens-for-hire, and they’re in the business of killing all gods’ creatures for profit.
It’s also a darkly comedic fantasy series starring Hannah the Rockabilly Elven Mage, Violet the Hipster Dwarven Fighter, Dee the Atheist Human Cleric and Betty the Hippy Hobbit Thief. This modern spin on an old school genre is a violent monster-killing epic that is like Buffy meets Tank Girl in a Lord of the Rings world on crack!
Link: https://imagecomics.com/comics/releases/rat-queens-1
I have not.
Does Arueshalae's anarchic gift still cause Charisma drain if she removes it? Can she remove it w/o Cha drain?
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Can I haz Null Blade in Iron Gods Mr.JJ sir?
How much of Numeria is Expedition to Barrier Peaks/general SciFi technology where it is obvious what the device is and what it does (e.g. ray guns, powered armor, etc), and how much is Roadside Picnic/City of the Fallen Sky style tech where these magic-using semi-medieval rubes are using a device for something other than its intended purpose, because they cannot understand the original purpose or they're only looking at a part of a larger system (e.g. using tools as weapons, using a MRI system as a drink cooler because it has a cryogenic component, etc.)
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Does Arueshalae's anarchic gift still cause Charisma drain if she removes it? Can she remove it w/o Cha drain?
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Yes, it does cause drain if she removes it. She can't choose to not do so, but she won't do so if it'll hurt a friend. She'd certainly do so to hurt someone who betrayed her, though.
So, Arcadia. When are we going to see that?
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How much of Numeria is Expedition to Barrier Peaks/general SciFi technology where it is obvious what the device is and what it does (e.g. ray guns, powered armor, etc), and how much is Roadside Picnic/City of the Fallen Sky style tech where these magic-using semi-medieval rubes are using a device for something other than its intended purpose, because they cannot understand the original purpose or they're only looking at a part of a larger system (e.g. using tools as weapons, using a MRI system as a drink cooler because it has a cryogenic component, etc.)
We aren't really building our technological devices to be intentionally alien or to conceal their use. They were built by humans, and therefore they'll be familiar to humans—a laser pistol looks like a gun, in other words... but all futuristic.
There will certainly be some items that are unfamiliar because they have no real-world analong, but for the most part, the trope of "You need to play a minigame to figure this item out" isn't part of the adventure path. Figuring them out is the same as figuring out a magic item—it's just a skill check.
We want PCs and NPCs to be using these items, in other words.
We aren't really building our technological devices to be intentionally alien or to conceal their use. They were built by humans, and therefore they'll be familiar to humans—a laser pistol looks like a gun, in other words... but all futuristic.
There will certainly be some items that are unfamiliar because they have no real-world analong, but for the most part, the trope of "You need to play a minigame to figure this item out" isn't part of the adventure path. Figuring them out is the same as figuring out a magic item—it's just a skill check.
We want PCs and NPCs to be using these items, in other words.
I didn't mean for them to be unusable. For instance, in City of the Fallen Sky, Alaeron has a Numerian orb that pretty clearly casts time stop with a finite number of charges. But it wasn't built for that purpose: it was part of a larger device with greater powers.
Or since the Technic league has always been portrayed has half-scavengers, something like stripping the laser from an industrial welding robot and disabling the safeties to make a laser rifle: its new use clear and obvious, but still not what it was designed for.
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We aren't really building our technological devices to be intentionally alien or to conceal their use. They were built by humans, and therefore they'll be familiar to humans—a laser pistol looks like a gun, in other words... but all futuristic.
There will certainly be some items that are unfamiliar because they have no real-world analong, but for the most part, the trope of "You need to play a minigame to figure this item out" isn't part of the adventure path. Figuring them out is the same as figuring out a magic item—it's just a skill check.
We want PCs and NPCs to be using these items, in other words.
I didn't mean for them to be unusable. For instance, in City of the Fallen Sky, Alaeron has a Numerian orb that pretty clearly casts time stop with a finite number of charges. But it wasn't built for that purpose: it was part of a larger device with greater powers.
Or since the Technic league has always been portrayed has half-scavengers, something like stripping the laser from an industrial welding robot and disabling the safeties to make a laser rifle: its new use clear and obvious, but still not what it was designed for.
A lot of the gizmos and gadgets in Tim Pratt's novels have powers on par with what an artifact can do. We will indeed have technological artifacts, and just as with magical artifacts... what they do and how they look will be VERY varied.
But the bulk of the devices will be pretty obvious to us Earthlings what they're used for. That said... we won't immediately understand the difference between a laser rifle, an atomizer, and a vortex gun. At least, not till we shoot up a few cars and washing machines with them.
That's a shame. I was hoping for a slightly more inscrutable level of tech. Anyway, I'm not here to argue. Thanks for answering!
Sorry if you're tired of answering questions about technology, but I was wondering how the mechanics will be represented. Are they basically non-magical magic items, or will they be more like normal equipment?
It's called a null blade. It's basically a +1 construct bane bastard sword that can cut through hardness like it was made of adamantine, and that can disrupt magic and technology and scramble their effects... essentially "nullifying" a magical or technological effect for a short time. The blade itself is physical. and is made of a rare and difficult to craft (the secrets of which are held by the Technic League) adamantine-noqual alloy.Then what the hevk is that Technic League captain wielding?Both Star Trek and Dr. Who have managed without for half a century.How... how can you guys do sci-fi technology and not include an energy sword!?James,
will the technology guide have some sort of laser sword so I can roll a Paladin Jedi for Iron Gods?Nope.
Fortunately, there are plenty of d20 compatible Star Wars games to choose from for that.
Or you can just make it a brilliant energy weapon.
I like this. So since it's properties seem to be atomic on some level, stemming from the metals, does that mean I could still bypass the hardness of and disrupt technological devices while in an anti-magic field? That would make the Technic League deadly indeed....
Also, thanks for the tip on Last Days on Mars, I was thinking about watching that lately.
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Sorry if you're tired of answering questions about technology, but I was wondering how the mechanics will be represented. Are they basically non-magical magic items, or will they be more like normal equipment?
They're constructed as if they were magic items, yes. They're not really normal equipment... although there are some relatively inexpensive tech items.
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I like this. So since it's properties seem to be atomic on some level, stemming from the metals, does that mean I could still bypass the hardness of and disrupt technological devices while in an anti-magic field? That would make the Technic League deadly indeed....
Also, thanks for the tip on Last Days on Mars, I was thinking about watching that lately.
Unlike the majority of the items in the book, the null blade is as much a magic item as it is a technological item... but its underlying materials, the noqual/adamantine alloy, would still function in antimagic OR antitech fields.
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That's a shame. I was hoping for a slightly more inscrutable level of tech. Anyway, I'm not here to argue. Thanks for answering!
There are other sources of advanced technology in Numeria that aren't from humans. Those sources of tech WILL be inscrutable. They won't be detailed int he Technology Guide, though. They'll be detailed in the Adventure Paths as appropriate... MOSTLY in part four.
Have you seen this suspected Chupacabra?I have.
They put the chupacabra down. :-(
Sorry if you're tired of answering questions about technology, but I was wondering how the mechanics will be represented. Are they basically non-magical magic items, or will they be more like normal equipment?They're constructed as if they were magic items, yes. They're not really normal equipment... although there are some relatively inexpensive tech items.
Ah, well I'm a bit disappointed. Thanks for answering my questions.
Or check out the front cover of Risen from the Sands as it depicts the male half-orc Warpriest and female half-elf (my guess) swashbuckler in action. At least according to F. Wesley Schneider although it's been long suspected those two were the Warpriest and Swashbuckler since it came out.Agreed. Where can we find the art work on the warpriest and swashbuckler?In the future.
Awesome. I'm loving the half-orc iconic.
Also, question. Would you feel the gravity gun from District 9 to be something that would fit the theme of Numeria?
Golarion has many human ethnicities inspired by, well, our human ethnicities. When a player wants to play someone based on a real world ethnicity, there's usually a good suggestion, or two, of a Golarion ethnicity that might be a good fit for their character concept, at least in the parts of the world that have already been detailed.
So, my question: If a player wants to play the Golarion equivalent equivalent of Jewish people, what ethnicity might work? Keleshite? Adding to the conundrum (at least in my mind) is that there is a crater of an ocean right where Israel would be on the Inner Sea map.
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Isn't it a profane guift, and thus, something she wouldn't use anyway, given her status and goals?Does Arueshalae's anarchic gift still cause Charisma drain if she removes it? Can she remove it w/o Cha drain?
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Once she gets redeemed it's no longer profane.
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James, has the Technic League been able to reverse engineer and develop new technology? Or are they pretty much just scavangers?
They're scavengers on one level, but yes, they have been able to reverse engineer technology and some of them know how to repair or create new technological items. Not many of them though.
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Weddings. What is your opinion/preference on them?
Yea or nay?
Large with extended family or small with close family/friends?
Priest or celebrant?
Lavish?
Themed?
My preference is that the bride and groom get to set the preference for them. My personal tastes tend toward smaller gatherings for anything, though.
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Golarion has many human ethnicities inspired by, well, our human ethnicities. When a player wants to play someone based on a real world ethnicity, there's usually a good suggestion, or two, of a Golarion ethnicity that might be a good fit for their character concept, at least in the parts of the world that have already been detailed.
So, my question: If a player wants to play the Golarion equivalent equivalent of Jewish people, what ethnicity might work? Keleshite? Adding to the conundrum (at least in my mind) is that there is a crater of an ocean right where Israel would be on the Inner Sea map.
There's not really an obvious choice for that kind of character on Golarion. Not every ethnicity got represented. Keleshite would work though, as would Taldan I suppose.
Golarion has many human ethnicities inspired by, well, our human ethnicities. When a player wants to play someone based on a real world ethnicity, there's usually a good suggestion, or two, of a Golarion ethnicity that might be a good fit for their character concept, at least in the parts of the world that have already been detailed.
So, my question: If a player wants to play the Golarion equivalent equivalent of Jewish people, what ethnicity might work? Keleshite? Adding to the conundrum (at least in my mind) is that there is a crater of an ocean right where Israel would be on the Inner Sea map.
That is a good question. I'm not James, but I would say it would depend on which sub-ethnicity of Jew you were wanting. For Ashkenazi I'd go with Chelaxian, I'd go with Taldan for Sephardic, Keleshite for Mizrahi and Yemenite, and Garundi for Karaite. If you have no idea what any of those mean I'm sorry for the overly complicated opinion.
Also, question. Would you feel the gravity gun from District 9 to be something that would fit the theme of Numeria?Absolutely.
Awesome. I shall begin constructing the stats for one immediately.
Will we see a lot of the new ACG classes in Iron Gods?Not a lot. But a few. I've done the stats for the first 2 adventures so far, and there's a brawler in there... but that's it so far. The ACG classes will probably be a step less common than the APG classes.
Is Summoner still the rarest class?
If so, what do you think the rarest archetype of Summoner is?
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Will we see a lot of the new ACG classes in Iron Gods?Not a lot. But a few. I've done the stats for the first 2 adventures so far, and there's a brawler in there... but that's it so far. The ACG classes will probably be a step less common than the APG classes.Is Summoner still the rarest class?
If so, what do you think the rarest archetype of Summoner is?
I suspect so, yes.
The rarest archetype is the synthesist.
Hey James, hope you're doing well! Questions:
1) What 3 events (if you can think of that many) in your life do you wish you could observe from a third-person perspective where you could slow-down, pause, filter or otherwise manipulate? (For example, one of mine would be when the guitar in my room seemed to start strumming itself; I'd want to be able to see if there were ambient vibrations that caused it or something of that nature)
1) I can think of plenty more than 3. One would be "Don't sell Obox-ob to Wizards of the Coast!" Another would be "Don't let your weight get so out of control!" And the third would be "Don't be so timid about starting that relationship!"
1) I would ask about the third one, but it seems like a creepy and evil thing to do.
2) on a scale of 1 (little) to 20 (too much), how busy are you these days?
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Hey James, hope you're doing well! Questions:
1) What 3 events (if you can think of that many) in your life do you wish you could observe from a third-person perspective where you could slow-down, pause, filter or otherwise manipulate? (For example, one of mine would be when the guitar in my room seemed to start strumming itself; I'd want to be able to see if there were ambient vibrations that caused it or something of that nature)
1) I can think of plenty more than 3. One would be "Don't sell Obox-ob to Wizards of the Coast!" Another would be "Don't let your weight get so out of control!" And the third would be "Don't be so timid about starting that relationship!"
1) I would ask about the third one, but it seems like a creepy and evil thing to do.
2) on a scale of 1 (little) to 20 (too much), how busy are you these days?
1) It would indeed be creepy and evil. Let's just say that I can be kind of oblivious at times and leave it at that.
2) 21. Posting this from work on a Saturday as proof, even!
Who was Golarion's most famous conqueror or military tactician? Who were its Alexanders, Hannibals, and Caesars?James, what would you say is 2SPOOKY4U?Haven't found it yet.
[cough]Sun-Tzu[/cough]
(Sun Tzu was an advisor, not a conqueror and king. Note all 3 examples he gave were of rulers AND conquerors, not just generals.)
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Actually Tels was more on the mark and I was less accurate than I could have been. Generally I am more interested in the military strategy side of things rather than holdings and administration. Remember Hannibal was a great tactician but he still lost in the end.
So, yeah, who were/are Golarion's best military strategists and generals?