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If you gave an Awakened T-Rex a class what would it be?Precedence suggests Wizard or Sorcerer
Let's please keep this thread to questions for me; thanks!
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Is there an enclave or Awakened Dinosaurs anywhere on Golarion?
There could be. Personally, I'm more interested in the story possibilities of individual awakened animals. It's a pretty specific story trope, and since it's as fantasy setting it's easier and less awkward to just invent a new type of intelligent animal-like creature for stories about entire enclaves.
Awaken as a story element works best, I feel, when it's a single creature that's been awakened. It feels like it cheapens the ritual if you spam it, I guess.
I'm still a bit unsure about the placement and usage of the flumes and the wheel in Otari.
There is one flume that leads from the north to the wheel (and therefore to the mill) which I suppose is for transporting logs from the lumbercamps to the mill. The logs basically fall down there into the osprey river with the water.
The giant wheel is not powered by this flume but rather by the river itself and has a roughly east/west orientation. It powers the swas ant a treadmill that lifts logs into the loading flume that runs from the mill to the harbour.
It that basically how it works or did I get something wrong?
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I'd like to remind that Ragathiel DOES have nuance, but while I wrote long post about that, I should probably make new thread for it rather than post it here? ^_^; I'll just go do that
Please keep things to questions for me. I've personally done very little work on Ragathiel, so I guess I don't have much more to say about him. He's the least interesting of the empyreal lords to me, frankly.
Not everything in the game needs to appeal to everyone. Me included. That does mean that when it comes to content I'm not passionate about, be it Ragathiel, or dwarves, or Rahadoum, or whatever... that those topics are better covered by other writers and developers. And in fact I'm hoping that more and more voices than my own continue to become experts on the setting, like they already have been.
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I'm still a bit unsure about the placement and usage of the flumes and the wheel in Otari.
There is one flume that leads from the north to the wheel (and therefore to the mill) which I suppose is for transporting logs from the lumbercamps to the mill. The logs basically fall down there into the osprey river with the water.
The giant wheel is not powered by this flume but rather by the river itself and has a roughly east/west orientation. It powers the swas ant a treadmill that lifts logs into the loading flume that runs from the mill to the harbour.
It that basically how it works or did I get something wrong?
The flume from the north is used to transport lumber from the woods even further to the north. It's like a giant waterslide for logs. They splash down into the pool near Otari to await processing. The flume isn't a power source; it's a pathway for the logs. The wheel powers the cutting blades they use to cut lumber into whatever sorts of sizes are requested, then load that OR full logs as needed down to the ships below with the final flume.
What's the Angel I'll list in the spoiler been up to since their resignation, and would they be an Angel or an Archon in 2e?
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In the Lands of the Linnorm Kings, we know that animal companions are allowed to assist a would-be Linnorm King in solo-ing a linnorm, as Nankou's bear animal companion did not disqualify him from Linnorm Kingship.
Would the aid of conjured creatures (called or summoned), animated objects, eidolons, homunculi, or created undead disqualify a would-be Linnorm King from Linnorm Kingship?
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What's the Angel I'll list in the spoiler been up to since their resignation, and would they be an Angel or an Archon in 2e?
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The way you wrote this question confuses me. Please restate it in full; if you're referencing questions you asked upthread, keep in mind that I've got a LOT of questions bumping around in my head from this thread, on top of being pretty stressed and distracted by other current events at Paizo.
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Evening Mr. Jacobs, I was looking over the arch-fiends and I was wondering why Baalzebul's sacred weapon is a spear? I know that what weapons a deity wields versus what their worshipers can use doesn't always correlate, but that's his holy weapon is a spear despite using a longsword himself kind of threw me off.
Can you tell me the why of it, is it an artifact of 3.5, a lore reason, or is it something less complicated?
That was what Wes Schneider picked, as far as I know. He might have had a reason but if he told me, I forgot.
Sometimes we pick sacred weapons because of real-world lore legacies. Sometimes we don't. And sometimes we assign a weapon because it hasn't been assigned enough and we want variety. Sometimes it's based on art we get. Any of those could have been reasons.
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In the Lands of the Linnorm Kings, we know that animal companions are allowed to assist a would-be Linnorm King in solo-ing a linnorm, as Nankou's bear animal companion did not disqualify him from Linnorm Kingship.
Would the aid of conjured creatures (called or summoned), animated objects, eidolons, homunculi, or created undead disqualify a would-be Linnorm King from Linnorm Kingship?
Anything availalbe to a character via their class level would count. If it's a class ability, it's fine. For an NPC the creator of the story gets to decide whether or not the helper is allowed.
That said, there's no magical rules to break here. If you hired a hundred soldiers to help you kill a linnorm, then killed those soldiers when you were done, and returned to civilization with the linnorm's head and a good Deception check, it'd count. At least until you got found out.
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I think they asked if Hand of the Inheritor (Iomedae's herald 1e, previously known as Hand of the Vengeance when they worked for Ragathiel) would be archon or angel in 2e.
Anyway, I had my own question: So spending more time thinking about it, I realized that Ragathien, Vildeis and Damerrich are all LG archon empyreal lords with really extreme sounding religions. Were they all made by same writer or was there a popular dark fantasy angel period at some point when they were created?
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I think they asked if Hand of the Inheritor (Iomedae's herald 1e, previously known as Hand of the Vengeance when they worked for Ragathiel) would be archon or angel in 2e.
Anyway, I had my own question: So spending more time thinking about it, I realized that Ragathien, Vildeis and Damerrich are all LG archon empyreal lords with really extreme sounding religions. Were they all made by same writer or was there a popular dark fantasy angel period at some point when they were created?
Oh. Archon.
Angels were always intended to be neutral good in Pathifnder, with Sarenrae as the primary/first angel, but some leakage from D&D ended up with them being wishy-wahshy in alignment in 1st edition. We've tightened that up in 2nd edition, although we have also retained the non-neutral good alignments for angel empyreal lords.
Since that herald is an agent of a lawful good deity, I would say they're an archon, if they're anything.
Wes Schneider did most of the work, I believe, on setting up the Empyreal Lords, and had some folks hired to write the book associated with them. I was not associated with that group, and I pretty much don't have any insight into any of those three... other than to note Wes enjoyed grimdark angels.
The way you wrote this question confuses me. Please restate it in full; if you're referencing questions you asked upthread, keep in mind that I've got a LOT of questions bumping around in my head from this thread, on top of being pretty stressed and distracted by other current events at Paizo.What's the Angel I'll list in the spoiler been up to since their resignation, and would they be an Angel or an Archon in 2e?
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I am not referencing them.
CorvusMask got half of my question rephrased. The other half is, what's the Hand been up to after his resignation and replacement in a certain AP? Has he returned to service in another capacity, looked for another job, or is he still meditating?
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Thanks Mr. Jacobs! As long as I have you can you answer a question regarding Aroden, or more specifically his clerics? I remember reading in either a world book or setting book that a tiny amount of his clerics still get spells, if I'm remembering right is that Iomedae simply taking pity on them or is it more sinister? like in Ravenloft where when you pray for your spells it's not your gods answering them but something ells? I know 1E has the Void Cleric archetype for dead gods so is it simply that?
None of his clerics still get spells. He's dead, and thus can't grant spells.
In Pathfinder you want a deity to grant you spells as a cleric or whatever, you have to worship them and they have to be alive in order to do so, and it's not possible for a different deity to sneak in and provide those spells to you while you think that you're worshiping someone else.
I'm not a fan of concepts like the Void Cleric, frankly. There are plenty of non-cleric options for folks who want to do a worshiper of a dead deity and cast divine spells in either edition.
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CorvusMask got half of my question rephrased. The other half is, what's the Hand been up to after his resignation and replacement in a certain AP? Has he returned to service in another capacity, looked for another job, or is he still meditating?
I personally haven't put any thought into that current state of affairs for that character, but I know other developers have, and I'm not sure if they've put something into print yet about it, and I'm hesitant to make up new canon about the Hand off the top of my head because it'll set false expectations among readers, but MUCH WORSE it'll run the risk of making other Paizo writers or fellow developers feel like I'm deliberately trying to pave over their work with my own ideas.
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None of his clerics still get spells. He's dead, and thus can't grant spells.
In Pathfinder you want a deity to grant you spells as a cleric or whatever, you have to worship them and they have to be alive in order to do so, and it's not possible for a different deity to sneak in and provide those spells to you while you think that you're worshiping someone else.
I'm not a fan of concepts like the Void Cleric, frankly. There are plenty of non-cleric options for folks who want to do a worshiper of a dead deity and cast divine spells in either edition.
I remember reading somewhere in a Pathfinder 1e book that time traveling clerics could still get their spells from their gods even if they time traveled to before their gods ascended. I know that's a little different from clerics not being able to get spells from a dead god, but I'm wondering if there's a reason for the distinction? Or am I just misremembering?
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I remember reading somewhere in a Pathfinder 1e book that time traveling clerics could still get their spells from their gods even if they time traveled to before their gods ascended. I know that's a little different from clerics not being able to get spells from a dead god, but I'm wondering if there's a reason for the distinction? Or am I just misremembering?
Faith and divine power to clerics can reach clerics whenever they are and whenever they are. Gaining your spells from your deity is possible through time and space, as long as in your origination time that deity is alive.
The reason for the distinction is mostly to allow clerics in Return of the Runelords to still play, but also because it helps to show how powerful faith is.
So... a cleric of Aroden who time travels into the future from an era where Aroden was alive could still cast spells, but a cleric of Aroden who time travels from the present into the past when Aroden was alive still can't cast spells.
Time travel is weird and complicated and the game's not really built to support it, though...
Is fallen angel Tabris still alive or something? Is he still relevant in Pathfinder 2nd Edition?
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Hi James!
So, as per usual, I have planar/demonic questions. As a background, I was reading through Demons Revisited, and came across the succubus entry. In particular, I'm looking to write a succubus' backstory...but was curious what other "sins of lust" in life might give rise to a succubus OTHER than sexual assault/rape/intimate partner abuse (in the interest of not going there). And obviously I'd like to be sex-positive, as the book is very clear that being promiscuous isn't a sin.
So what sorts of sins can you commit in life to turn you into a succubus after death that DON'T involve sexual abuse, gaslighting, harassment, fuzzy consent, or domestic violence? Would a man who neglected his husband and his children just so he could have flings qualify, for instance?
That's not really a subject that we can go into in depth in print, nor is it one I'll go into in depth here, other than to say that if your soul becomes a succubus, it's because you were not sex-positive in life, but destructive and cruel and so on. That's what a demon is; a reflection of cruelty and awfulness and, well, sin in a mortal's life.
It's very much up to you if you want to build this sort of backstory. Check out Arueshalae from Wrath of the Righteous for my take on a non-evil succubus, and note that the bulk of her backstory focuses on things that happened after she was a succubus and started her redemption rather than wallowing in the awfulness of before.
And as always for this kind of content, make sure your group is consenting to the content before springing it on them.
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So *are* there succubi that specialize in other forms of temptation that have nothing to do with sex/asexual succubi? Can succubi have a sexual orientation other than "pansexual nymphomaniac"? Like something devoted to intellectual seduction or courtly love or a myriad other ways of corrupting people via romance that don't have to involve trigger warnings?
(I guess I should add that I didn't expect succubi to be sex-positive, just that Demons Revisited was trying to be when it spelled out that being promiscuous isn't enough to become a succubus, you have to do destructive things with desire)
Demons are pretty one-note when it comes to their motivations and goals; they're very much focused on spreading destruction among mortals using their sin as a theme for that destruction. There can certainly be exceptions to this rule, as a storyteller wants. Corruption via romance that doesn't involve sex could result in a succubus, or it could result in a different demon entirely.
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For sure.
I guess I should ask-gender identity among succubi? I assume they can be born from people of all genders? Do they all default to the feminine upon transformation, though? Because I can see a somewhat-interesting character based on the queerness of succubi via shapechanging.
Anything goes, pretty much.
Hi,
Do scholars of planar lore know that the Abyss is sentient, or is that something that hasn't necessarily been realized by anyone in the campaign setting?
Thanks!
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Have you watched Arcane on Netflix? If yes, what are you thoughts so far? If no, what's keeping you from it?
Haven't watched it.
I've got a LOT of other things I'm more interested in watching first. In the specific category of Netflix Animated Shows, I still have to finish watching the 2nd season of "Love, Death, and Robots."
Even then, I'm not really interested in Overwatch at all, so there's not a lot of compelling need to me to watch Arcane. Especially with so much other more interesting to me content on Netflix, Shudder, Hulu, HBO, Amazon, etc.
What's keeping me from it is a lack of interest, in other words.
How about the new Wheel of Time show coming out on Friday? Interest in that one?
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Have you watched Arcane on Netflix? If yes, what are you thoughts so far? If no, what's keeping you from it?Haven't watched it.
I've got a LOT of other things I'm more interested in watching first. In the specific category of Netflix Animated Shows, I still have to finish watching the 2nd season of "Love, Death, and Robots."
Even then, I'm not really interested in Overwatch at all, so there's not a lot of compelling need to me to watch Arcane. Especially with so much other more interesting to me content on Netflix, Shudder, Hulu, HBO, Amazon, etc.
What's keeping me from it is a lack of interest, in other words.
Not a question but just so you know Arcane is based off of league of legends not Overwatch (Probably dosent make a diffrence either way.)
to keep with the threads theme you ever watched an anime called Escaflowne?
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Have you watched Arcane on Netflix? If yes, what are you thoughts so far? If no, what's keeping you from it?Haven't watched it.
I've got a LOT of other things I'm more interested in watching first. In the specific category of Netflix Animated Shows, I still have to finish watching the 2nd season of "Love, Death, and Robots."
Even then, I'm not really interested in Overwatch at all, so there's not a lot of compelling need to me to watch Arcane. Especially with so much other more interesting to me content on Netflix, Shudder, Hulu, HBO, Amazon, etc.
What's keeping me from it is a lack of interest, in other words.
Not a question but just so you know Arcane is based off of league of legends not Overwatch (Probably dosent make a diffrence either way.)
to keep with the threads theme you ever watched an anime called Escaflowne?
I did know that but I forgot. PVP games all kind of blur together into a big mess of 'Not for me' I guess.
In any case, yeah, it doesn't make a difference, other than to provide more proof as to just how uninterested I am in either of those games, I suppose?
Haven't watched Escaflowne.
Will you be checking out Sandy Petersen's Cthulhu Mythos for Pathfinder 2e? The PDF was released yesterday, with the hardcover coming early 2022.
Have you collaborated with Sandy on other projects than his 1e Cthulhu Mythos book?
Will you be checking out Sandy Petersen's Cthulhu Mythos for Pathfinder 2e? The PDF was released yesterday, with the hardcover coming early 2022.Probably, if only out of curiosity to see how what I wrote for the 1E version of it got updated.
Ooh, what parts did you write?
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Ooh, what parts did you write?Will you be checking out Sandy Petersen's Cthulhu Mythos for Pathfinder 2e? The PDF was released yesterday, with the hardcover coming early 2022.Probably, if only out of curiosity to see how what I wrote for the 1E version of it got updated.
About 100,000 words in all. It was years ago, but it was the majority of the rules content (stat blocks) for the monsters, the Great Old Ones/Outer Gods (including the rules for elder influences), Dreamlands Cat PCs, Ghoul PCs, Zoog PCs, and some of the Gnorri PCs sections. I think also a chunk of the rules for Dread and Insanity and maybe a few of the items.
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Do fiends have "job satisfaction"? That is, does Pazuzu enjoy corrupting people, and does Dispater like ruling his iron city?
And if so, are the evil-aligned planes actually paradises for their inhabitants, or at least the upper echelon of their inhabitants?
Yes they do. You can, I suppose, consider them paradises for those in power, but in the case of fiends, what makes a paradise for someone in power is very much the opposite for pretty much everything else in that area.