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Also have I missed some reason why Succubuses... Succubi? are flavor of the month in this thread?

..sorry for the double post if that is frowned on >.> <.<

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Chromantic Durgon <3 wrote:

Hey James I've been leafing through mythic rules recently and something stuck out to me. Animal companions seem slightly under tuned as you move through the levels.

I mean at the start the 5-/ Damage resistance thing could be really big but scaling up they seem to drop off horribly because whilst the characters are getting some incredible survivability from the extra hit points/hard to kill/Mythic saves/tons of other stuff. Animal companions don't really get anything and the issue is compounded by the number of Mythic abilities which are extra strong against none mythic creatures (Arcane surge for example). Furthermore to my knowledge their isn't anything within mythic rules to give furry buddies some extra defense against magic/elemental damage at all meaning their isn't a great deal to be done against a mythic breath weapon or blaster wizard besides hiding your animal or hoping he blasts the rogue with his super duper evasion. I imagine it would be rather unsatisfying watching Titania the tiger become more and more comparatively squishy as Danielle the druid became more and more badass.

In my group we decided to tweak the animal companion buff so that instead of damage reduction the first investment gives them the general mythic template rules (HP scaling off your rank) +the 5-/ damage thing and the second gives them the savage mythic template but its a 6th tier thing.

I was mostly wondering why animal companions were made this way, was it a conscious design decision to try and move away from animal companions/cohorts as a class feature in mythic or just that they weren't meant to compete with mythic encounters?
and if so why? its not like their are no examples of legendary heroes with legendary furry pals.

OR have I missed something somewhere that says that animal companions gain a simple mythic template causing this whole ramble to be essentially null and void. LOL.

I hope you don't mistake my tone, in general I really liked the Mythic rules specifically for Mythic druids with all the nice nature based stuff (flowers in your footsteps for example.) but this just sort of stuck out to me.

I should work on being more succinct I feel.

When you gain more actions, you gain more power. When you have more than one character, you get to take more "turns" during your turn in combat, and thus become more powerful. As a result, things like animal companions, mounts, cohorts, and the like need to be pretty heavily throttled as far as their power options. At least, that's my guess. I wasn't part of the rules design for Mythic, so you'd have to ask the design team for the actual reasoning behind why they did what they did. That said, adjusting rules for your table so they work better with your style of play is kind of the entire point. Just as you can't go to a big department store and be guaranteed of finding the shirt that will fit you perfectly, and thus will need tailoring to be the perfect fit for you, so it goes with games. Don't be afraid to tinker, and if what you tinker with ends up being broken or whatever, don't be afraid to tinker back to the baseline.

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Chromantic Durgon <3 wrote:

Also have I missed some reason why Succubuses... Succubi? are flavor of the month in this thread?

..sorry for the double post if that is frowned on >.> <.<

A few posters who frequent this thread seem to have a particular fondness for succubi is all. Doesn't surprise me. They're quite likable as far as monsters go.


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My fondness and quriosity of succubi comes mostly from Arushalae. She is by far one of my most favorite NPCs I have run in a campaign yet!

Who was your favorite NPC to develop or wright for in the adventure paths and why?

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Alundrell wrote:

My fondness and quriosity of succubi comes mostly from Arushalae. She is by far one of my most favorite NPCs I have run in a campaign yet!

Who was your favorite NPC to develop or wright for in the adventure paths and why?

Shensen. Since she's actually a character I played for several years as a PC.


What, roughly, is the population of the Inner Sea region?

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It's normal that trying to perceive the nuances of a given situation or work rather than automatically categorizing them into "good" or "bad" and that acknowledging something you enjoy has problems and yet you enjoy it while others do not due to the same problems is not an indictment of your character makes a person feel queasy and disoriented, right? It's supposed to make you feel that way?


James Jacobs wrote:
Alundrell wrote:

My fondness and quriosity of succubi comes mostly from Arushalae. She is by far one of my most favorite NPCs I have run in a campaign yet!

Who was your favorite NPC to develop or wright for in the adventure paths and why?

Shensen. Since she's actually a character I played for several years as a PC.

From Hell's Rebels? That's so cool didn't know that. Speaking of held rebels what time of year does that AP and hells vengeance take Place? Our group like to try to keep the Golarion times line congruent.

What kind of climate does Cheleax have? I know kintargo has been compared to San Francesco by someone else at paizo, but what about the rest of the country?


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Hello, Mr. Jacobs!

I'm very much in love with Golarion as a setting, and I've been doing a lot of writing taking place in it, mostly privately, from various points in its history, about aboleths and thanadaemons and other things. A while back I wrote a thing from the perspective of Aroden that some people enjoyed, and it's over here.

This of course was before I was able to read Pathfinder #100 and all of the goodness within, which filled many of the gaps in the setting left by such an influential god, and altered a lot of my opinions about Aroden's character.

My question to you is, if you can answer it, what kind of person was Aroden? Was he someone full of quiet wisdom, like Jatembe? Did he love humanity? Or, as a lawful neutral deity, did he more precisely love what humanity could achieve?

In writing about him I ended up going in a tragic direction, that maybe he was someone who started out as a typically proud and ambitious Azlanti, but was incredibly pained and haunted by Earthfall (maybe even having been kept alive as means of punishment rather than being simply a survivor), enough that he grew to sincerely love the world and his people after humanity recovered. Or, at any rate, that people had enough of a good impression of him that his death would have been devastating to the common people, even those not of his faith. In the end I feel like maybe I portrayed him as too good of a person, besides being unwilling to wholly condemn slavery/tyranny.

And, in case you can't be too specific about all of that, what's your favorite prehistoric creature that isn't a dinosaur?

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Eal Longwalker wrote:
What, roughly, is the population of the Inner Sea region?

Lots.

If you wanna do the math, go through the Inner Sea World Guide and add up the populations for all the cities listed for the 40+ regions, then maybe increase that by 150%?

There's not really much reason to nail that number down though in my opinion.

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Archpaladin Zousha wrote:
It's normal that trying to perceive the nuances of a given situation or work rather than automatically categorizing them into "good" or "bad" and that acknowledging something you enjoy has problems and yet you enjoy it while others do not due to the same problems is not an indictment of your character makes a person feel queasy and disoriented, right? It's supposed to make you feel that way?

The vagaries of that question make it tricky and difficult to answer.

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Alundrell wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
Alundrell wrote:

My fondness and quriosity of succubi comes mostly from Arushalae. She is by far one of my most favorite NPCs I have run in a campaign yet!

Who was your favorite NPC to develop or wright for in the adventure paths and why?

Shensen. Since she's actually a character I played for several years as a PC.

From Hell's Rebels? That's so cool didn't know that. Speaking of held rebels what time of year does that AP and hells vengeance take Place? Our group like to try to keep the Golarion times line congruent.

What kind of climate does Cheleax have? I know kintargo has been compared to San Francesco by someone else at paizo, but what about the rest of the country?

Yup! The same.

As a general rule, you can assume that an AP starts at about the same time of year that it gets published, but most are kept pretty vague so that they can be started whenever makes sense for your game.

Cheliax's climate is temperate overall. The southern portion is Mediterranean, while the western portion is akin to California.

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bixnoodles wrote:

Hello, Mr. Jacobs!

I'm very much in love with Golarion as a setting, and I've been doing a lot of writing taking place in it, mostly privately, from various points in its history, about aboleths and thanadaemons and other things. A while back I wrote a thing from the perspective of Aroden that some people enjoyed, and it's over here.

This of course was before I was able to read Pathfinder #100 and all of the goodness within, which filled many of the gaps in the setting left by such an influential god, and altered a lot of my opinions about Aroden's character.

My question to you is, if you can answer it, what kind of person was Aroden? Was he someone full of quiet wisdom, like Jatembe? Did he love humanity? Or, as a lawful neutral deity, did he more precisely love what humanity could achieve?

In writing about him I ended up going in a tragic direction, that maybe he was someone who started out as a typically proud and ambitious Azlanti, but was incredibly pained and haunted by Earthfall (maybe even having been kept alive as means of punishment rather than being simply a survivor), enough that he grew to sincerely love the world and his people after humanity recovered. Or, at any rate, that people had enough of a good impression of him that his death would have been devastating to the common people, even those not of his faith. In the end I feel like maybe I portrayed him as too good of a person, besides being unwilling to wholly condemn slavery/tyranny.

And, in case you can't be too specific about all of that, what's your favorite prehistoric creature that isn't a dinosaur?

Beyond what has been said about Aroden in print, particularly in Pathfinder 100, I actually have done very little thought about what he was like. I've always kind of considered him to be somewhat arrogant and standoffish though; not a NICE person but not a mean one.

My favorite non-dinosaur prehistoric creature is PROBABLY a dimorphodon, but if you're looking for entirely non-reptilian? I guess that'd likely be an eurypterid.


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When you gain more actions, you gain more power. When you have more than one character, you get to take more "turns" during your turn in combat, and thus become more powerful. As a result, things like animal companions, mounts, cohorts, and the like need to be pretty heavily throttled as far as their power options. At least, that's my guess. I wasn't part of the rules design for Mythic, so you'd have to ask the design team for the actual reasoning behind why they did what they did. That said, adjusting rules for your table so they work better with your style of play is kind of the entire point. Just as you can't go to a big department store and be guaranteed of finding the shirt that will fit you perfectly, and thus will need tailoring to be the perfect fit for you, so it goes with games. Don't be afraid to tinker, and if what you tinker with ends up being broken or whatever, don't be afraid to tinker back to the baseline

Oh yeah I understand the whole bolstering Action economy = power thing. They didn't really damage animal companions effectiveness too horribly they just kinda made em really really squishy xD their is actually some pretty nice stuff to allow players to eek some more damage out of your buddy be that your style.

Out of interest who was on the design team? I'd like to send my compliments :P I think they really managed to get the feel of mythic heroes right. For the most part.


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Mr James Jacobs,

Is it possible for a wizard or arcane sorcerer to have a leshy as a familiar?

Will there be more leshys in the new bestiary?

Are socks common on Golarion?

Are there people on Golarion that think the world is flat?

and are there any NPCs that you've created where you've given them a happy ending in your head just for closure?

Bonus Question : Are there any words you've created that have been so horribly mangled in pronunciation by the community that you've just run with it and that's how it's said now?

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James Jacobs wrote:
Archpaladin Zousha wrote:
It's normal that trying to perceive the nuances of a given situation or work rather than automatically categorizing them into "good" or "bad" and that acknowledging something you enjoy has problems and yet you enjoy it while others do not due to the same problems is not an indictment of your character makes a person feel queasy and disoriented, right? It's supposed to make you feel that way?
The vagaries of that question make it tricky and difficult to answer.

Would clarifying it with something like bullet-points help? Re-reading it I realize it may be more like a set of questions.


Promted by this topic on stackexchange.

Are skills considered "abilities"?

Quote:
Skills represent some of the most basic and yet most fundamental abilities your character possesses. As your character advances in level, he can gain new skills and improve his existing skills dramatically.

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Chromantic Durgon <3 wrote:


Out of interest who was on the design team? I'd like to send my compliments :P I think they really managed to get the feel of mythic heroes right. For the most part.

Jason Bulmahn, Stephen Radney-MacFarland, Logan Bonner, and Mark Seifter.

(The names of all folks who work on the books and their roles appear on the Credits page of all books btw.)

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TheHappyFlumph wrote:

Mr James Jacobs,

Is it possible for a wizard or arcane sorcerer to have a leshy as a familiar?

Will there be more leshys in the new bestiary?

Are socks common on Golarion?

Are there people on Golarion that think the world is flat?

and are there any NPCs that you've created where you've given them a happy ending in your head just for closure?

Bonus Question : Are there any words you've created that have been so horribly mangled in pronunciation by the community that you've just run with it and that's how it's said now?

No.

No.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

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Archpaladin Zousha wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
Archpaladin Zousha wrote:
It's normal that trying to perceive the nuances of a given situation or work rather than automatically categorizing them into "good" or "bad" and that acknowledging something you enjoy has problems and yet you enjoy it while others do not due to the same problems is not an indictment of your character makes a person feel queasy and disoriented, right? It's supposed to make you feel that way?
The vagaries of that question make it tricky and difficult to answer.
Would clarifying it with something like bullet-points help? Re-reading it I realize it may be more like a set of questions.

It can't hurt, as could re-posting it grammatically correct so it's not a confusing run-on sentence. As written, it doesn't make sense to me.

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shadowkras wrote:

Promted by this topic on stackexchange.

Are skills considered "abilities"?

Quote:
Skills represent some of the most basic and yet most fundamental abilities your character possesses. As your character advances in level, he can gain new skills and improve his existing skills dramatically.

Only insofar as "things you can do are abilities." The term "ability" applies to spell-like abilities, special attacks, spells, extraordinary abilities, defensive abilities, attack rolls, skills, the ability to breathe, the ability to throw a dart, the ability to read a book, the ability to turn left or right, the ability to see, and so on.

I'm not seeing how any of that has anything to do with the link you posted though.

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James Jacobs wrote:
Archpaladin Zousha wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
Archpaladin Zousha wrote:
It's normal that trying to perceive the nuances of a given situation or work rather than automatically categorizing them into "good" or "bad" and that acknowledging something you enjoy has problems and yet you enjoy it while others do not due to the same problems is not an indictment of your character makes a person feel queasy and disoriented, right? It's supposed to make you feel that way?
The vagaries of that question make it tricky and difficult to answer.
Would clarifying it with something like bullet-points help? Re-reading it I realize it may be more like a set of questions.
It can't hurt, as could re-posting it grammatically correct so it's not a confusing run-on sentence. As written, it doesn't make sense to me.

Alright let me try again:

Is it normal to feel queasy and disoriented when you're trying to:

A. View a situation or artistic work's nuances and flaws instead of instinctively categorizing it as either "good" or "bad?"

B. Wrapping your head around the idea that you can like a work of fiction or fictional character another person dislikes is fine and neither of you are bad people?

C. Trying to reconcile the idea that acknowledging a work's flaws or problematic elements and enjoying it still is not hypocrisy not an indictment of one's personal character?

Does that make more sense?


Do demons ever have things/people they care about?

The closest things I can think of right off are Flauros' relationship with Fhengasma, and Nocticula's relationship with Shamira.

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James,

Hope this finds you doing well. A few questions for you:

1) What are some books/movies/other stories/media you experienced the first time and disliked but gave a second chance and then really enjoyed them?

2) If you were going to run a high fantasy campaign set in the modern world, would you use Pathfinder or another system?

Thanks!


From what I can glean the biggest of the big and the baddest of the bad in the world of the divine are Azathoth, Pharasma and the Rovagug, not necessarily in that order. (did I miss any)

Thinking about this I've found myself wondering who are the little guys among-st the divine. Excluding Demigods. Also found myself wondering as to where the gods who have ascended (via starstone or some other method) sit.

Finally I'm aware that their are some disagreements/feuds between the gods. For example Irori not liking Iomedae due her method of ascension or Iomedae holding a grudge against Pharasma. Or Torag not liking Sarerae because she doesn't hold grudges. How does that actually manifest itself? I mean these are all good/Neutral gods so I have difficulty seeing them having skirmishes in the heavens. What happens do they just glare at eachother whenever they both happen to be passing through the boneyard or something?

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Who in the office is the closest Anti-James Jacobs? The one who comes up with ideas you would never consider and prefers Devils over Demons? Who plays every campaign as a Dwarf?

Dark Archive

James, could we get a demonstration on how you see a starknife being used? There's a bunch of contention in our local lodge.

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Archpaladin Zousha wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
Archpaladin Zousha wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
Archpaladin Zousha wrote:
It's normal that trying to perceive the nuances of a given situation or work rather than automatically categorizing them into "good" or "bad" and that acknowledging something you enjoy has problems and yet you enjoy it while others do not due to the same problems is not an indictment of your character makes a person feel queasy and disoriented, right? It's supposed to make you feel that way?
The vagaries of that question make it tricky and difficult to answer.
Would clarifying it with something like bullet-points help? Re-reading it I realize it may be more like a set of questions.
It can't hurt, as could re-posting it grammatically correct so it's not a confusing run-on sentence. As written, it doesn't make sense to me.

Alright let me try again:

Is it normal to feel queasy and disoriented when you're trying to:

A. View a situation or artistic work's nuances and flaws instead of instinctively categorizing it as either "good" or "bad?"

B. Wrapping your head around the idea that you can like a work of fiction or fictional character another person dislikes is fine and neither of you are bad people?

C. Trying to reconcile the idea that acknowledging a work's flaws or problematic elements and enjoying it still is not hypocrisy not an indictment of one's personal character?

Does that make more sense?

I would say no; accepting that what is enjoyable art to one person but maybe not to another person is just a fundamental fact of what makes art ART. Beauty in the eye of the beholder, and all that.

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Voyd211 wrote:

Do demons ever have things/people they care about?

The closest things I can think of right off are Flauros' relationship with Fhengasma, and Nocticula's relationship with Shamira.

Not normally, no. Other than themselves, of course.

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Gladior wrote:

James,

Hope this finds you doing well. A few questions for you:

1) What are some books/movies/other stories/media you experienced the first time and disliked but gave a second chance and then really enjoyed them?

2) If you were going to run a high fantasy campaign set in the modern world, would you use Pathfinder or another system?

Thanks!

1) 2001. First time I saw it I hated it. Now, however, I adore the movie.

2) I'd use Pathfinder.

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Chromantic Durgon <3 wrote:

From what I can glean the biggest of the big and the baddest of the bad in the world of the divine are Azathoth, Pharasma and the Rovagug, not necessarily in that order. (did I miss any)

Thinking about this I've found myself wondering who are the little guys among-st the divine. Excluding Demigods. Also found myself wondering as to where the gods who have ascended (via starstone or some other method) sit.

Finally I'm aware that their are some disagreements/feuds between the gods. For example Irori not liking Iomedae due her method of ascension or Iomedae holding a grudge against Pharasma. Or Torag not liking Sarerae because she doesn't hold grudges. How does that actually manifest itself? I mean these are all good/Neutral gods so I have difficulty seeing them having skirmishes in the heavens. What happens do they just glare at eachother whenever they both happen to be passing through the boneyard or something?

That's a mystery, and it's likely to remain one. Once I do something like rank the gods in power from toughest to wimpiest, that essentially gives rules to the gods and quantifies them and limits story options. Rovagug, Pharasma, and Azathoth are all very powerful, but they aren't necessarily the MOST powerful. Probably. But not guaranteed.

As for disagreements between the gods... they run the gamut from just passive aggressiveness to all out war.

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IDTheftVictim wrote:
Who in the office is the closest Anti-James Jacobs? The one who comes up with ideas you would never consider and prefers Devils over Demons? Who plays every campaign as a Dwarf?

No one comes to mind.

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Keith Apperson wrote:
James, could we get a demonstration on how you see a starknife being used? There's a bunch of contention in our local lodge.

Since it's a made-up weapon there aren't any real-world demos of it I can link you to.

But basically, you hold it by the middle handle so that one blade sticks up from your fist (so you can stab upward with it, as if you were holding a dagger with the blade pointed up), one blade sticks down from your fist (so you can stab downward, as if you were holding a dagger with the blade down), one blade protrudes out from your fist (so you use it like a punch dagger), and the last blade rests against your forearm (you don't use this blade at all when fighting, obviously.

When you throw it, you throw it like a boomerang, by holding a blade and then hurling it. Maybe like a Frisbee.

Remember too that it's a piercing weapon. The four blades of a starknife aren't sharp. They're pointy, but you can't really cut yourself by grabbing them on the side really. They don't do slashing damage.


If I may be so bold, there is a star knife used in the Vampire Hunter D sequel, Bloodlust.


So I'm part of a writing community called the Protectors of the Plot Continuum. The basic premise is that we send agents into bad fanfiction and set canon the way it's supposed to be.

One of the quirks of our setting is minis. Whenever a canon name is misspelled, it creates a tiny monster relevant to the setting. For instance, misspellings of Lord of the Rings names result in mini-Balrogs, and Harry Potter ones result in mini-Aragogs. Agents usually adopt minis; my characters have more than a dozen of them.

What do you think the mini would be for the Pathfinder Chronicles? I've always thought it'd be either mini-Rovagugs or mini-Tarrasques.


James Jacobs wrote:


As for disagreements between the gods... they run the gamut from just passive aggressiveness to all out war.

would even too good aligned gods go to war? O.o

Also have gods ever gone to war with Pharasma? I find that a little odd given her position as the arbiter of where souls end up.

Scarab Sages

James,

Good morning. Is there any official word on the life span of a Leng Spider?

Also, can Leng Spiders breed with non-magical, giant spiders? If they can, would the offspring also be Leng Spiders, or just more intelligent giant spiders?

Thanks in advance for any response. You kick ass.

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What do you write as your ethnicity if you're playing a Brevic human? What's written in its history and stuff seems to say "It's a nameless blend of Taldan, Kellid and Iobarian," but that's kind of a lot to write on a character sheet?

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Brother Fen wrote:
If I may be so bold, there is a star knife used in the Vampire Hunter D sequel, Bloodlust.

The IDEA of a weapon like this is hardly ground breaking. It was, of course, originally inspired by the glaive from Krull. So, I guess you could watch Krull to see one SORT of in action.

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Voyd211 wrote:

So I'm part of a writing community called the Protectors of the Plot Continuum. The basic premise is that we send agents into bad fanfiction and set canon the way it's supposed to be.

One of the quirks of our setting is minis. Whenever a canon name is misspelled, it creates a tiny monster relevant to the setting. For instance, misspellings of Lord of the Rings names result in mini-Balrogs, and Harry Potter ones result in mini-Aragogs. Agents usually adopt minis; my characters have more than a dozen of them.

What do you think the mini would be for the Pathfinder Chronicles? I've always thought it'd be either mini-Rovagugs or mini-Tarrasques.

Sarenrae. She's the one people mis-spell the most, and as a result that mis-reading/mis-spelling leads to folks thinking her name is pronounced like Saran Wrap.

For the record, it's pronounced like this:

SAIR-in-ray

Rhymes with "FAIR in ray."


Yes! Krull. We need a glaive like artifact for Golarion!

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Chromantic Durgon <3 wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:


As for disagreements between the gods... they run the gamut from just passive aggressiveness to all out war.

would even too good aligned gods go to war? O.o

Also have gods ever gone to war with Pharasma? I find that a little odd given her position as the arbiter of where souls end up.

Very doubtful that two good deities would go to war, which would I hope be obvious and common sense.

And yes, some divinities have taken issue with Pharasma. Groetus, for example. Of course. "War" is not the right term, really, for when two things fight. And that particular case is more of a cold war I guess.

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Aberzombie wrote:

James,

Good morning. Is there any official word on the life span of a Leng Spider?

Also, can Leng Spiders breed with non-magical, giant spiders? If they can, would the offspring also be Leng Spiders, or just more intelligent giant spiders?

Thanks in advance for any response. You kick ass.

Leng spiders can live for thousands of years.

And no, that's gross. That's bestiality, akin to humans attempting to breed with monkeys. (Which of course means that they COULD do so with magical/scientific help in a mad wizard/mad scientist sort of plot.)

Woo! ASS KICKING!!!!


James Jacobs wrote:
Voyd211 wrote:

So I'm part of a writing community called the Protectors of the Plot Continuum. The basic premise is that we send agents into bad fanfiction and set canon the way it's supposed to be.

One of the quirks of our setting is minis. Whenever a canon name is misspelled, it creates a tiny monster relevant to the setting. For instance, misspellings of Lord of the Rings names result in mini-Balrogs, and Harry Potter ones result in mini-Aragogs. Agents usually adopt minis; my characters have more than a dozen of them.

What do you think the mini would be for the Pathfinder Chronicles? I've always thought it'd be either mini-Rovagugs or mini-Tarrasques.

Sarenrae. She's the one people mis-spell the most, and as a result that mis-reading/mis-spelling leads to folks thinking her name is pronounced like Saran Wrap.

For the record, it's pronounced like this:

SAIR-in-ray

Rhymes with "FAIR in ray."

That's usually not how we determine minis. Also, considering that in-universe, minis are treated as pets... Yeah, people frown on humanoid minis.

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Archpaladin Zousha wrote:
What do you write as your ethnicity if you're playing a Brevic human? What's written in its history and stuff seems to say "It's a nameless blend of Taldan, Kellid and Iobarian," but that's kind of a lot to write on a character sheet?

Pick which one of the three appeals to you the most.

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Voyd211 wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
Voyd211 wrote:

So I'm part of a writing community called the Protectors of the Plot Continuum. The basic premise is that we send agents into bad fanfiction and set canon the way it's supposed to be.

One of the quirks of our setting is minis. Whenever a canon name is misspelled, it creates a tiny monster relevant to the setting. For instance, misspellings of Lord of the Rings names result in mini-Balrogs, and Harry Potter ones result in mini-Aragogs. Agents usually adopt minis; my characters have more than a dozen of them.

What do you think the mini would be for the Pathfinder Chronicles? I've always thought it'd be either mini-Rovagugs or mini-Tarrasques.

Sarenrae. She's the one people mis-spell the most, and as a result that mis-reading/mis-spelling leads to folks thinking her name is pronounced like Saran Wrap.

For the record, it's pronounced like this:

SAIR-in-ray

Rhymes with "FAIR in ray."

That's usually not how we determine minis. Also, considering that in-universe, minis are treated as pets... Yeah, people frown on humanoid minis.

That's what you get when you invite a different brain into your world. New ideas get introduced and new concepts take root.


James Jacobs wrote:
Voyd211 wrote:

So I'm part of a writing community called the Protectors of the Plot Continuum. The basic premise is that we send agents into bad fanfiction and set canon the way it's supposed to be.

One of the quirks of our setting is minis. Whenever a canon name is misspelled, it creates a tiny monster relevant to the setting. For instance, misspellings of Lord of the Rings names result in mini-Balrogs, and Harry Potter ones result in mini-Aragogs. Agents usually adopt minis; my characters have more than a dozen of them.

What do you think the mini would be for the Pathfinder Chronicles? I've always thought it'd be either mini-Rovagugs or mini-Tarrasques.

Sarenrae. She's the one people mis-spell the most, and as a result that mis-reading/mis-spelling leads to folks thinking her name is pronounced like Saran Wrap.

For the record, it's pronounced like this:

SAIR-in-ray

Rhymes with "FAIR in ray."

Would happen a lot less often if English would just adopt the use of the letter "ä"


If you're familiar with Death Note, would you consider Light Yagami an evil vigilante?

Also, here's a list of minis, if you're curious.


Have you read the novel "Southern Gods" by John Hornor Jacobs? I thought a Mythos novel written by a Jacobs might have caught your attention.

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Voyd211 wrote:

If you're familiar with Death Note, would you consider Light Yagami an evil vigilante?

Also, here's a list of minis, if you're curious.

I know what Death Note's about, but have never seen it/read it.

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