Game-related, so I'm going to spoiler it, because I'm not sure this is the right place to ask it.
James, please forgive me asking such pointless questions but here goes anyhow:
You create a 10-foot-by-10-foot extradimensional hole with a depth of 10 feet per two caster levels (maximum 30 feet).
The pit’s coarse stone walls have a Climb DC of 25.
1) Is this a square (with corners and opposing walls) or radius (circle) spell?
Climb DC
Modifier* Example Surface or Activity
–10 Climbing a chimney (artificial or natural) or other location where you can brace against two opposite walls.
–5 Climbing a corner where you can brace against perpendicular walls.
+5 Surface is slippery.
* These modifiers are cumulative; use all that apply.
2) Can a creature brace against the corners of a pit created via Create Pit?
3) Can a creature brace against the opposing walls of a pit created via Create Pit if he is large size?
4) Can a creature brace against the opposing walls of a pit created via Create Pit if he is medium size with a 10' reach?
5) Based on the statement: '* These modifiers are cumulative; use all that apply.' can you brace against both corners and opposing walls thus gaining a DC reduction of -15?
Thanks for your time.
- Gauss
Casting mage's disjunction doesn't just short out buffs and potentially magic items, it leaves a lingering field I can't cast into, correct?Nope. I'm not seeing anything in the spell's description about "lingering fields." It's basically just a supercharged dispel magic.
1. Lemme guess, I saw "1 minute/level" and "40-ft radius burst" and mistakenly put the two together.
2. Do the bonuses from arcane strike stack with those already on a magic weapon?
3. Would a corpse under the effect of gentle repose stay fresh forever when animated as a zombie or only while the spell lasts?
4. How does always-on spell turning, like with thanatotic titans, work? Doesn't spell turning only affect a certain number of levels?
5. Does Sorshen's (or any other runelord's) immortality grant immunity to madness like it does for Karzoug's?
1)The racial mods to the Azlanti are +2 to all stats, correct?
2)Will the People of the North or the Irrisen campaign setting book have racial stats for the daughters of Baba Yaga?
3)Will the Mystery monsters revisited book have actual variants not just monsters with class levels? Since I can only see Yeti, Mothmen, and Sasquach having class levels, I did love the many different variant templates that gargoyles, skeletens, Zombies, etc. got.
4)Since Phantasmal Killer is a phantasm/mind-effecting spell, True Seeing will not offer any defense against it, correct?
5)Is there any reason why the red skinned people of Akiton were never given a name in Distant Worlds?
6)While you mention that Shelyn, Desna, and Serenrae have had "relations" with each other, what other gods/goddesses have they each had been with?
7)Has Pharasma had any "relations" with any of the gods or goddesses? Are there any virgin gods/goddesses?
8)Do Dwarfs/Gnomes still get there AC bonus against Oni with the Giant subtype as they do with humaniods(giant)?
9)Will we see any monsters in the near future that is based on any of these animals: dolphins, weasels/mongooses, starfish, snails, platypus, bats, rats, squirels, butterflies/moths, termites, earwigs, salamanders, kaolas, anteaters, nautilus/cuttlefish, sea cucumbers, pill bugs, sea slugs, or stink bugs?
I would crib a note from Ravenloft for a male changeling. Something along the lines of a male Vistani with "the sight." They're killed at birth and it is generally believed among their people that they will lead to wanton destruction and the end of their society if allowed to mature and use their powers.
So let the changeling become male -- a unique creature -- and every hag oracle starts getting nightmarish visions of this 'impossibility' and the damage it could cause.
:D
Re: Changelings - 1) Male changlings exist. They just have a life expectancy measured in minutes, because mommy normally eats them. 2) I assume they're useless as hag material, which is part of why mommy normally eats them.
For James:
1) When'd/how'd Paizo first come across Carolina Eade's artwork and decide to start using her services? If you know.
2) Am I correct in understanding that a typical art order to Wayne Reynolds can be summed as "send him a bare-bones description, and let him [gleefully] fill in the details?"
3) Would "native outsider" be an appropriate subject for a bane weapon? I've debated having my fighter in Jade Regent get evil outsider bane + native outsider bane enchanted on his weapon (for serious oni-bashing goodness), but not sure if native outsider is actually legal.
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1)I was reading AP#63(page 42) and found that there is a settlement of creatures called Khaei(from Innersea Bestiary), what are they?
2)Since the Innersea Bestiary isn't out yet what could I use as a replacement for these Khaei?
3)Will we get a preview for the Innersea Bestiary before subscribers(like myself) get there pdfs?
4)Will we ever see options for classes that allows us to pic and choose abilities we can replace for new abilities of about equal value? I mean any one or more, not like archtypes were several things are changed.
5)Will the animal archive book have any rules for any/many/most classes getting familiars and/or animal companions?
6)Why does the blood of the night have rules to play as true vampires?
7)Will the fey revisited book have any new info about the first world?
8)Will the races book for kobolds reveal there origin?
9)Will we ever see what Gnomes were like in the First World? or why they left?
1) They're first mentioned in "City of Strangers." They're statted up in Inner Sea Bestiary.
2) If you want to expand "The Asylum Stone" to include Khaei in the adventure, morlocks are probably the best replacement monster.
3) Probably not. We don't normally preview the 64 page books.
4) Nope. Archetypes are pretty much our answer for that. What you're asking for is more of an entirely point-based character creation system, like GURPS or Champions. That's not the game we're publishing.
5) No... gaining familiars and animal companions are things for those classes, and farming out those class abilities to other classes is kinda not our philosophy. Animal Archive WILL support all sorts of animal options, though, including simply buying or catching an animal and training it as a pet or guardian or accomplice.
6) Because that's an option that some folks want.
7) Probably some here and there, but its focus is on the fey, not where they're from.
8) It's not been written yet. Not even sure it's been outlined yet. What it'll probably do is reveal the kobold creation myth—whether that's accurate or not depends on the GM, but it would be regarded as accurate by the kobolds!
9) Maybe.
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Just wanted to say that I'm halfway through GMing your adventure "Souls for Smuggler's Shiv" and my three younger cousins (their first tabletop RPG game) and myself are really enjoying it!
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Cool; glad you're enjoying the adventure!
There'll be some elements of this type of adventure in the upcoming Wrath of the Righteous Adventure Path. Kingmaker has some similar elements here and there as well.
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So, question. Why Alien Deinonychus Skeletons? Was it just because you wanted the Art of Merisiel fighting them? Why not regular Dinosaurs? Or Non-skeletal alien dinosaurs?
Because the whole point of the Enigma Vault is that it's a sort of museum of alien stuff from other worlds. Not other times, or other continents, or other nations. Golarion has deinonychuses on it, so a simple deinonychus skeleton wouldn't have been appropriate for an encounter in a place supposedly decorated and inhabited by weird stuff from other planets.
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The spell "Suffocation" (APG) has a material component of "a vial containing a bit of the caster's breath", but doesn't list a cost with it.
Are these vials the 1 SP (low enough to eschew materials, high enough to need to keep track of) "vial" in the core rule book, or special fun sized vials that have negligible costs and are found in unlimited supply in any material component pouch?
The vial is assumed to be one of the many things that you can snatch out of your spell component pouch. You can certainly use a "vial" as listed in the core rulebook, but you don't have to if you have a material component pouch, Eschew Materials, or a GM that doesn't want to bother tracking that level of detail.
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Okay. But, given that Changelings are "female only" what race does it become?It switches gender.** spoiler omitted **
What happens when a changeling puts that on?
It stays a changeling. It's a male changeling now, though. Which is weird and strange, but that's what magic can do to a person. It's stats don't change at all, in any event.
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You become the mythical male changeling, just like mythical male harpies. Changeling females will chase you for the rest of your days trying to breed with you.
- Gauss
Which leads to ...
"What is the male equivalent of a "Hag"?A Hag coven can perform a ritual that transforms the Changeling into a Hag. Would that ritual still work on a "male" changeling?
There is no male equivalent of a hag. If a hag is hit with magical gender change she becomes a he, but his stats don't change.
The ritual that transforms a changeling into a hag would absolutely still work on a male changeling. Whether the result if a female hag (that's how I would rule it in my games or in a print product) or a male hag is up to the GM.
If one of your players was trapped in a pit created by a create pit spell, and said player claimed that he could climb out easily by bracing against the walls (as per the climb skill), thereby reducing the spell's listed DC, would you allow that? Or would you assume that the DC listed in the spell already took things like that into account? How would you rule it in your games? What do you think the intent behind the spell is?
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The customer response to Achievement Feats is the reason we never did anything with them again. People were NOT, overall, fans of these feats. Some folks thought they were way too "video gamey" and thus had no real purpose in a pen-and-paper game, or even that they cheapened the pen-and-paper game. Others didn't like how much paperwork that they made the players track. Still others thought that they were too easy to abuse by spiteful GMs. There was a fair amount of this commentary, and not a lot of "woah, that's cool!" like we got for traits or haunts or several other things we tried out in the Adventure Path.
SINCE then, I've heard from some folks out there who did like them... but at the time, none of those folks really spoke up.
As a result, there's no plans to have Achievement Feats show up in Pathifnder.
We ARE going to be presenting a new history/story-based feat in Ultimate Campaign though.
Thanks for the detailed answer! It's too bad that they weren't very popular, but I suppose I'll always be able to make my own Achievement feats if I ever want to throw them back into my campaigns.
Those history/story-based feats sound like exactly the sort of thing my group would love. My anticipation for Ultimate Campaign: +1.
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Game-related, so I'm going to spoiler it, because I'm not sure this is the right place to ask it.
** spoiler omitted **
No need to spoiler things like that, and I'm happy to answer game-related questions. ESPECIALLY when they're worded in such a straightforward manner! :-)
In any event, that ninja trick only creates 1d4 images. The duration is what's determined by the ninja's "caster level."
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James, please forgive me asking such pointless questions but here goes anyhow:
You create a 10-foot-by-10-foot extradimensional hole with a depth of 10 feet per two caster levels (maximum 30 feet).The pit’s coarse stone walls have a Climb DC of 25.1) Is this a square (with corners and opposing walls) or radius (circle) spell?
Climb DC
Modifier* Example Surface or Activity
–10 Climbing a chimney (artificial or natural) or other location where you can brace against two opposite walls.
–5 Climbing a corner where you can brace against perpendicular walls.
+5 Surface is slippery.
* These modifiers are cumulative; use all that apply.2) Can a creature brace against the corners of a pit created via Create Pit?
3) Can a creature brace against the opposing walls of a pit created via Create Pit if he is large size?
4) Can a creature brace against the opposing walls of a pit created via Create Pit if he is medium size with a 10' reach?
5) Based on the statement: '* These modifiers are cumulative; use all that apply.' can you brace against both corners and opposing walls thus gaining a DC reduction of -15?
Thanks for your time.
- Gauss
1) Square. That's a LOT easier to handle in a grid-based combat system.
2) Nope; bracing requires two very close opposite walls, not two adjacent walls at a corner. You COULD do the climbing against a corner though.
3) Yes.
4) Maybe; depends on the GM. I would say no. Bracing should be, in my opinion, something that works off your space, not your reach.
5) Yes. To do this you more or less need a square pit that's the same size as your Space.
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Casting mage's disjunction doesn't just short out buffs and potentially magic items, it leaves a lingering field I can't cast into, correct?Nope. I'm not seeing anything in the spell's description about "lingering fields." It's basically just a supercharged dispel magic.1. Lemme guess, I saw "1 minute/level" and "40-ft radius burst" and mistakenly put the two together.
2. Do the bonuses from arcane strike stack with those already on a magic weapon?
3. Would a corpse under the effect of gentle repose stay fresh forever when animated as a zombie or only while the spell lasts?
4. How does always-on spell turning, like with thanatotic titans, work? Doesn't spell turning only affect a certain number of levels?
5. Does Sorshen's (or any other runelord's) immortality grant immunity to madness like it does for Karzoug's?
1) As explained by that other helpful post... the 1 minute/level bit is talking about how long it renders items in that area nonmagical.
2) Yes. Arcane Strike grants an untyped bonus that stacks with everything.
3) Nope; only as long as the spell lasts. Then you'd need to cast it again. I know it says "one corpse touched" and a zombie or undead isn't technically a corpse... but that's still kind of a cool use of the spell.
4) Always-on spell turning doesn't affect a certain number of levels. It always works. It never runs out.
5) Until I stat her up, we'll see. Probably so, but her route to immortality was different than Karzoug's so it may well have different side-benefits.
Okay. But, given that Changelings are "female only" what race does it become?It switches gender.** spoiler omitted **
What happens when a changeling puts that on?
It stays a changeling. It's a male changeling now, though. Which is weird and strange, but that's what magic can do to a person. It's stats don't change at all, in any event.
1) Male Harpy, male Medusa, male... you know, quite a few monsters/races are Female Only.
2) weird question, if someone who was turned genderless by a gender-bending item, would using another one make them hermaphrodite?
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5) Until I stat her up, we'll see. Probably so, but her route to immortality was different than Karzoug's so it may well have different side-benefits.
5. Does Sorshen's (or any other runelord's) immortality grant immunity to madness like it does for Karzoug's?
How did Sorshen gain immortality? Was it bathing in the blood of a thousand Virgins?
2) Can a creature brace against the corners of a pit created via Create Pit?- Gauss
2) Nope; bracing requires two very close opposite walls, not two adjacent walls at a corner. You COULD do the climbing against a corner though.
What does this line mean if not a corner?
–5 Climbing a corner where you can brace against perpendicular walls.
Perpendicular walls are not 'adjacent' walls, they are walls at right angles to each other. Thus, a corner.
- Gauss
Whose idea was it to have the gnomes be from the First World? I know that bit about the gnomes convinced a friend of mine to delve deep into Pathfinder.
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1) When'd/how'd Paizo first come across Carolina Eade's artwork and decide to start using her services? If you know.
2) Am I correct in understanding that a typical art order to Wayne Reynolds can be summed as "send him a bare-bones description, and let him [gleefully] fill in the details?"
3) Would "native outsider" be an appropriate subject for a bane weapon? I've debated having my fighter in Jade Regent get evil outsider bane + native outsider bane enchanted on his weapon (for serious oni-bashing goodness), but not sure if native outsider is actually legal.
1) That would be a question for Sarah. I think it was about the time we were doing the Inner Sea World Guide though...
2) Sometimes. Depends on the thing we're ordering. In some cases, the art order can be summarized as "Iconic Sorcerer fights a dragon in a dungeon." But in others we need something really specific, and the art order can carry on for an entire paragraph in length.
3) Yes. Native outsider is a legal bane choice.
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1)The racial mods to the Azlanti are +2 to all stats, correct?
2)Will the People of the North or the Irrisen campaign setting book have racial stats for the daughters of Baba Yaga?
3)Will the Mystery monsters revisited book have actual variants not just monsters with class levels? Since I can only see Yeti, Mothmen, and Sasquach having class levels, I did love the many different variant templates that gargoyles, skeletens, Zombies, etc. got.
4)Since Phantasmal Killer is a phantasm/mind-effecting spell, True Seeing will not offer any defense against it, correct?
5)Is there any reason why the red skinned people of Akiton were never given a name in Distant Worlds?
6)While you mention that Shelyn, Desna, and Serenrae have had "relations" with each other, what other gods/goddesses have they each had been with?
7)Has Pharasma had any "relations" with any of the gods or goddesses? Are there any virgin gods/goddesses?
8)Do Dwarfs/Gnomes still get there AC bonus against Oni with the Giant subtype as they do with humaniods(giant)?
9)Will we see any monsters in the near future that is based on any of these animals: dolphins, weasels/mongooses, starfish, snails, platypus, bats, rats, squirels, butterflies/moths, termites, earwigs, salamanders, kaolas, anteaters, nautilus/cuttlefish, sea cucumbers, pill bugs, sea slugs, or stink bugs?
1) Yes.
2) No; they have normal human racial modifiers, I believe.
3) Some will have class levels, some will be advanced specimens, and at least one (the Sandpoint Devil) is unchanged.
4) True seeing lets you see through illusions. As a result, since phantasmal killer is an illusion, true seeing protects you from it—it never gets to the point where you're actually frightened by the phantasm since you know from the start it's not real.
5) No. Unless James Sutter just forgot.
6) They won't let me say.
7) Pharasma has probably been with other deities. There are certainly at least a few virgin deities too, although none that we've revealed yet.
8) Yes. Because the rules say they get this bonus against "monsters with the giant subtype," Not "humanoids with the giant subtype."
9) In some cases yes. In some cases, like dolphins and bats and rats, they're already in a Bestiary.
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If one of your players was trapped in a pit created by a create pit spell, and said player claimed that he could climb out easily by bracing against the walls (as per the climb skill), thereby reducing the spell's listed DC, would you allow that? Or would you assume that the DC listed in the spell already took things like that into account? How would you rule it in your games? What do you think the intent behind the spell is?
I would ABSOLUTELY allow it. The DC listed in the spell is the base DC, and as such is completely open to various modifications like bracing and the like. That is the intent of the spell.
Of course... the player would have to SAY they're "bracing" or whatever.
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Okay. But, given that Changelings are "female only" what race does it become?It switches gender.** spoiler omitted **
What happens when a changeling puts that on?
It stays a changeling. It's a male changeling now, though. Which is weird and strange, but that's what magic can do to a person. It's stats don't change at all, in any event.
1) Male Harpy, male Medusa, male... you know, quite a few monsters/races are Female Only.
2) weird question, if someone who was turned genderless by a gender-bending item, would using another one make them hermaphrodite?
Succubus and nymph are other female-only monsters.
Goes the other direction too. There are no female satyrs or incubi, for example.
2) Up to the GM.
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How did Sorshen gain immortality? Was it bathing in the blood of a thousand Virgins?5) Until I stat her up, we'll see. Probably so, but her route to immortality was different than Karzoug's so it may well have different side-benefits.
5. Does Sorshen's (or any other runelord's) immortality grant immunity to madness like it does for Karzoug's?
That's a secret for a later day and a later product.
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2) Can a creature brace against the corners of a pit created via Create Pit?- Gauss
2) Nope; bracing requires two very close opposite walls, not two adjacent walls at a corner. You COULD do the climbing against a corner though.
What does this line mean if not a corner?
–5 Climbing a corner where you can brace against perpendicular walls.Perpendicular walls are not 'adjacent' walls, they are walls at right angles to each other. Thus, a corner.
- Gauss
That means that someone confused me.
You can't "brace" against a corner if that's all you have.
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1- can someone other than the wearer activate them if the command-word is known by the said person?
2- if multiples items or proprieties on the same item are linked to the same command-word will all of them activate at the same time if the said word is used ?
1) No. You have to have possession/physical control of an item in order to activate it with a command word.
2) Nope; you can only activate one item at a time.
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Firstly, I am becoming a fan of both Pathfinder and it's community as they welcome me to table-top role playing in general. It's been a blast, and it doesn't even actually involve playing but talking about playing.
I'm having fun with whips, and I just asked the question but am curious.
Whips are stated to do no damage to creatures with +1 armor bonus or +3 natural armor. Is this damage treated as 0 damage or literally doing nothing
Or
Can you use a whip to perform a coup-de-grace against those creatures, and how would you as a most wonderful man describe the grueling effect.
Sincerely,
That new guy.
First off... welcome to he boards!
For whips, no damage to those armored creatures = literaly doing nothing when you try to damage them. You can still use a whip to trip or disarm a foe, though.
A coup de grace delivered with a weapon that inflicts non-lethal damage wouldn't kill someone, but would just knock them out. I would describe such an attack against a foe as whipping them in the neck and choking them out until they faint, or perhaps yanking them off balance so they hit their head and black out. You can't do this against a foe you can't damage, though, and so you wouldn't be able to do this against a properly-armored foe.
Can Brew Potion be used to make oils for offensive purposes? Would it work exactly like using the spell on which the oil is based, including holding the charge, or would the fact it's a substance change things, such as needing the opponent to sit still as you apply the oil, or the character applying the oil being affected by it, being the first creature touched?
James,
Is there a current favorite monster or story hook that is not published that you are working on?
Is there a monster or story hook that you want to work on but can't at this time?
Thanks,
Pendin Fust
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Can Brew Potion be used to make oils for offensive purposes? Would it work exactly like using the spell on which the oil is based, including holding the charge, or would the fact it's a substance change things, such as needing the opponent to sit still as you apply the oil, or the character applying the oil being affected by it, being the first creature touched?
As in, an "oil of fireball" that you throw and it blows up when it hits the target and the flask it's in breaks?
Nope; that's a Wondrous Item.
Thanks for the answers!
Unspeakable Futures - Is this because of time or legal type obligations?
Also...what is Unspeakable Futures?! Best I could find in a quick search was from a PaizoCon 2009 event referring to a group of 6 people in an apocalyptic Earth after the Great Old ones are now a fact.
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Thanks for the answers!
Unspeakable Futures - Is this because of time or legal type obligations?
Also...what is Unspeakable Futures?! Best I could find in a quick search was from a PaizoCon 2009 event referring to a group of 6 people in an apocalyptic Earth after the Great Old ones are now a fact.
Unspeakable Futures is a postapocalyptic d20 game I've been building and designing and periodically running adventures and campaigns in for over ten years. I first started building the game in the early days of 3.0, and it's been through a LOT of changes along the way. It's currently running on the Pathfinder rules.
Some day I'd love to work it up to a for-real book and get it published. But I don't want to do that until I have the time and resources to devote to it. Currently, those resources and that time is devoted to Paizo products.
2) Can a creature brace against the corners of a pit created via Create Pit?- Gauss
2) Nope; bracing requires two very close opposite walls, not two adjacent walls at a corner. You COULD do the climbing against a corner though.
What does this line mean if not a corner?
–5 Climbing a corner where you can brace against perpendicular walls.Perpendicular walls are not 'adjacent' walls, they are walls at right angles to each other. Thus, a corner.
- Gauss
That means that someone confused me.
You can't "brace" against a corner if that's all you have.
Ahhh I think I understand the confusion. There are two types of corners and I was not specifying the type of corner. (I thought it was self-explanatory in the question, my bad.)
Example: The letter "L" has an inside corner with perpendicular walls. The outside corner has no perpendicular walls. Thus you can brace on the inside and not the outside. Hence the wording on page 91 where you can brace in a corner that has perpendicular walls.
So to restate the question: Can you brace in a corner that has two perpendicular walls (the inside corner of the "L") as per the climb rule quoted on page 91?
If not, what exactly does that rule mean? How do I use it?
- Gauss
I just read your Xoan from Sean's Hungry Little Monsters. Are there any creatures like that in Pathfinder? I found the idea of quickly switching between emotions and going mad due to it to be really cool.
A somewhat popular trope is that of the mysterious "caretaker race". Beings who for many years have been following some ancient order to ensure the upkeep of something. Kind of like those beings on The Citadel in Mass Effect. I recall that this occurs in the Darklands somewhere, but does it occur elsewhere in Golarion? If so, are there any products to read about that?
I would crib a note from Ravenloft for a male changeling. Something along the lines of a male Vistani with "the sight." They're killed at birth and it is generally believed among their people that they will lead to wanton destruction and the end of their society if allowed to mature and use their powers.
So let the changeling become male -- a unique creature -- and every hag oracle starts getting nightmarish visions of this 'impossibility' and the damage it could cause.
I know Mr. Jacobs said otherwise in his response, but I like this answer.
1)What I mean by monsters based on those animals I mean like giant versions, prehistoric , swarms, mythical versions, undead, etc. examples would be like giant starfish, termite swarm, Encantado(shapeshifting dolphin from portuguese myth) so anything like these?
2)Yeah they did put out that feat that gave sorcerer bloodline powers to any one that has a good cha score so I don't see how a familiar could be game breaking? I could think of some interesting archtypes for classes to get an animal companion. I could see how tomany animal companions could be gamebreaking but I would still like those kind of options.
3)Seen any movies lately and if so what did you think of them?
How did Sorshen gain immortality? Was it bathing in the blood of a thousand Virgins?That's a secret for a later day and a later product.
Mr. James Jacobs,
If a character gains a channel energy ability but at their character level -6 but also gain an ability that allows half of their class level to count to their level of channeling energy would these two abilities stack and would it equal out to the character's level or exceed their character level if it was over?