Creative Director
|
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Hi James,
Do drow still retain the elven capacity to physically adapt to their environment over time?
Yes. But they don't really since they don't live outside of the Darklands to an extent yet that enough centuries have passed to have an obvious effect.
|
Creative Director
|
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Heya James
So I'm diving deep into Taldan lore for the new AP. I'm looking into the Karthis family, but can't find much on them outside of the small blurb in the Noble Scion feat from the Player's Guide and a small mention in Echoes of Glory of a "Senator Karthis."
Is there a named Patriarch or other family? Any new political goals? It sounds like they're against Eutropia, but anything more would be welcome information.
Thanks for any help you can give!
I have no idea. I'm not really involved in that AP, and haven't read anything in it but the outline like a year ago. That's more of a Crystal question.
If you've finished Jessica Jones, what did you think of the ending?
Naturally I knocked this out in two six hour sittings as usual. ;)
|
Creative Director
|
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
Outside of the usual dragons, drakes, etc, were there any existing type of monster you would've liked to have expanded upon had Bestiary 7 been a thing?
Yes, but I'm not gonna mention them here because it's not like the world's ending with Pathfinder 2. We'll be able to explore monsters there too.
I thought getting China Mieville to write that crazy-cool chapter on Outsea in "Guide to the River Kingdoms" was really neat--how did that come about?
And if you could have any other celebrities (literary or otherwise) contribute to Golarion lore, who would it be?
|
Creative Director
|
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
I thought getting China Mieville to write that crazy-cool chapter on Outsea in "Guide to the River Kingdoms" was really neat--how did that come about?
We asked. He said sure! :-)
(It helps that we'd already fostered a good relationship with him when we did a big article about his stuff in Dragon Magazine...)
Are you going to go see A Quiet Place this upcoming weekend.
|
Creative Director
|
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
If you did get George R. R. Martin to write material for Golarion, how many major NPCs would end up dead by the end of the first chapter?
That's up to the PCs, as always, in a game. The real question is would he find a way to kill off your PCs but keep you coming back for more?
Hi James,
Is there any rhyme or reason to the way you picked each Runelord's type of polearm?
|
Creative Director
|
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Hi James,
Is there any rhyme or reason to the way you picked each Runelord's type of polearm?
I picked ones where I could that matched the runelord's personality (AKA: Alaznist gets the one that looks most like a pitchfork to tie in her connections to fiends; Zutha gets the scythe since he's all about undeath, Krune gets the spear because he's lazy and it's the one that takes the least amount of "proficiency" to use, and so on), and the ones who were "left over" got ones that weren't already represented.
|
Creative Director
|
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
How twisted an adventure do you think you'd get out of Stephen King or Clive Barker?
More twisted than most gamers would be ready for, I fear, at the mass-market scale at which Pathfinder is out there at the moment.
I mean, there's some words that appear in PG movies we can't really use in print in our products.
Hi James, in The Prophecies of Kalistrade, Kalis is the name of somebody? Or is this just a cool name?
I picked ones where I could that matched the runelord's personality (AKA: Alaznist gets the one that looks most like a pitchfork to tie in her connections to fiends; Zutha gets the scythe since he's all about undeath, Krune gets the spear because he's lazy and it's the one that takes the least amount of "proficiency" to use, and so on), and the ones who were "left over" got ones that weren't already represented.Hi James,
Is there any rhyme or reason to the way you picked each Runelord's type of polearm?
Does Sorshen's represent anything, or did she get one of the leftovers?
|
Creative Director
|
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Any thoughts on the dinosaur footprints recently found on the Isle of Skye?
Neat!
|
Creative Director
|
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Hi James, in The Prophecies of Kalistrade, Kalis is the name of somebody? Or is this just a cool name?
I'm pretty sure we haven't said yet. I didn't make them up and haven't really put much thought into them in any event, so I've no further light to shine there at this time.
|
Creative Director
|
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Does Sorshen's represent anything, or did she get one of the leftovers?I picked ones where I could that matched the runelord's personality (AKA: Alaznist gets the one that looks most like a pitchfork to tie in her connections to fiends; Zutha gets the scythe since he's all about undeath, Krune gets the spear because he's lazy and it's the one that takes the least amount of "proficiency" to use, and so on), and the ones who were "left over" got ones that weren't already represented.Hi James,
Is there any rhyme or reason to the way you picked each Runelord's type of polearm?
Sorshen's is a leftover. Originally, I wanted it to be a glaive with two blades at one end... sort of like a military fork but with cutting blades instead of pointy bits. But a misunderstanding with the artist and the fact that the art came in at the last minute and we didn't have a chance to change it meant she ended up with a double weapon, not my favorite (double weapons are silly), but it's canon now.
What exactly makes drow chaotic evil?
This is something that has been bugging me for like five years. Their stats and the world say that they're chaotic evil, but everything I've read about them points more toward being lawful. Strict hierarchy and caste system, stringent social norms that can't be overcome, etc, etc...
Nothing I've read about drow suggests that they're chaotic. Part of the reason I don't like them is because they're nonsensical and contradictory to me.
|
Creative Director
|
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
What exactly makes drow chaotic evil?
This is something that has been bugging me for like five years. Their stats and the world say that they're chaotic evil, but everything I've read about them points more toward being lawful. Strict hierarchy and caste system, stringent social norms that can't be overcome, etc, etc...
Nothing I've read about drow suggests that they're chaotic. Part of the reason I don't like them is because they're nonsensical and contradictory to me.
The association with worshiping demons, who are chaotic evil, is the primary thing that makes most drow chaotic evil. The backstabbing machinations in their society are how the chaos manifests, but it's worth keeping in mind that chaotic doesn't have to mean "Always acts randomly," just as lawful doesn't have to mean "Always acts predictably."
I would like to talk about the maps that I find in the manuals. Those concerning regions and nations, rather than those of cities.
I would like to know what program is used to make them. Also, I would like to know if it was possible to find the individual items, such as the single tree, the single mountain or the single hill, which are used in the maps.
Of course, the maps I would like to make are not for profit.
Do we still have any chance of seeing a malebranche statted before Pathfinder 1E ends?
|
Creative Director
|
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
I would like to talk about the maps that I find in the manuals. Those concerning regions and nations, rather than those of cities.
I would like to know what program is used to make them. Also, I would like to know if it was possible to find the individual items, such as the single tree, the single mountain or the single hill, which are used in the maps.
Of course, the maps I would like to make are not for profit.
For the most part I believe our cartographers use Photoshop to create the maps. They draw/create them and the elements themselves as they need them—there's no "magic cartography program" that does the job for them.
|
Creative Director
|
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
Do we still have any chance of seeing a malebranche statted before Pathfinder 1E ends?
Probably not, but not because we don't have time (We've got a year and a half or thereabouts to do more 1st edition stuff)—because we don't really have a story involving them or a need to build their stats.
Is there any particular singer who'd be a good comparison for Shensen's singing voice? (At +21 Perform (Sing) she's probably technically better than any human currently on Earth, but not by an overwhelming margin.)
Hi James,
Where in the material plane could one find Gozreh's petitioners, and what do they look like?
Is there any particular singer who'd be a good comparison for Shensen's singing voice? (At +21 Perform (Sing) she's probably technically better than any human currently on Earth, but not by an overwhelming margin.)
Actually, in standard d20 a +21 is a fair bit beyond real world humans. Real world humans cap out at level 5 and with skill bonus of around 15. Add around +4 in bonuses from aid another and favorable circumstances and a real world human is lucky to roll a 39. Even if additional bonuses are somehow added, getting a 40 or above is world-changing result. A good example is the long jump, before 3.5 simplified it, your jump distance with running start was your check result -5, thus a 39 would be 34 feet, and the world record last I heard was 33 feet.
Of course that's standard d20, not to mention how Pathfinder had a bit of power creep over 3.x.
So, James, how closely does Pathfinder stick to that general rule of a check result of 40 being the absolute-once-a-generation-best-of-real-world-humanity-and-anything-beyond- is-supernatural levels of power?
And how is it explained when individuals in Golarion go past that point? Or is PC's supernatural/demigod power levels just hand-waved as "Heroes!?"
Hi JJ,
I wanted to know if anyone on Golarion ever wondered how Golarion was born.
We human beings have made scientific conjectures about how the Earth was formed by concluding with a certain hypothesis.
On Golarion instead?
Are there any theories about the birth of the planet?
|
Creative Director
|
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Hi James,
Where in the material plane could one find Gozreh's petitioners, and what do they look like?
They generally reincarnate as what are known as "remnants" and usually don't spend long at all before they're reincarnated as animals or elementals.
|
Creative Director
|
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
Is there any particular singer who'd be a good comparison for Shensen's singing voice? (At +21 Perform (Sing) she's probably technically better than any human currently on Earth, but not by an overwhelming margin.)
I don't think +21 is even remotely close to "better than any human on Earth." Since in theory, a human could be a 20th level Expert who pumps all their bonuses into that skill.
In my head though, she sounds like Lisa Gerrard (my own favorite singer).