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What is the etiquette about posting seeking a response to a question on these forums? I know that on other forums, bumping a thread for attention is considered rude, as is making "double posting" here in quotation marks because I'm referring to a different post made immediately after a previous post of yours, rather than a forum glitch causing the first post to be repeated, because such posting can be viewed as talking too much or being needy for attention.
I ask because I have some questions I made a thread in the Advice section to ask (largely regarding how the different dhampir sub-groups might synergize with the inquisitor class due to their varying attribute bonuses), that seems, for lack of a better term, to have been ignored, as the only post in the thread is my own first post, so any subsequent posts by me would likely be considered a breach of etiquette.
The FAQ button is a good option if it's a rules question—you might not get a personal reply on the boards, but the rules team does go through the FAQ questions and periodically updates the FAQ with answers.
If you're looking for an answer from a specific Paizo staffer, you can always post the question with the staffer's name in the subject line... but keep in mind that not everyone at Paizo is equally active on the boards.
And if that doesn't work, maybe try reposting the question in a different forum? Maybe no one saw it? And certainly, if no one answers the question, bumping it isn't really rude in my book, although give it a day or two between bumps.
A question I have been meaning to ask:
Does Multiattack only grant the First Attack or the entire Chain of Iterative Attacks? So would my Four Armed Alchemist only get 1 Attack with each arm or do they get all Iterative Attacks?
Basically at Level 20 with the Multattack Feat if they were wielding Cestus what would be their Full-Attack? What If they were of a Four-Armed Race that was a Fighter?
Multiattack doesn't grant any iterative attacks.
When a creature uses a manufactured weapon, any natural attacks it has in addition (such as a bite or a gore) become secondary attacks. Some natural attacks (like tentacles) start out as secondary attacks. A secondary attack has a -5 penalty to hit.
All multiattack does is reduce that -5 penalty to a -2 penalty. Doesn't interact with iterative attacks at all.
Opps now I feel stupid... I meant Multiweapon Fighting...
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What is the etiquette about posting seeking a response to a question on these forums? I know that on other forums, bumping a thread for attention is considered rude, as is making "double posting" here in quotation marks because I'm referring to a different post made immediately after a previous post of yours, rather than a forum glitch causing the first post to be repeated, because such posting can be viewed as talking too much or being needy for attention.
I ask because I have some questions I made a thread in the Advice section to ask (largely regarding how the different dhampir sub-groups might synergize with the inquisitor class due to their varying attribute bonuses), that seems, for lack of a better term, to have been ignored, as the only post in the thread is my own first post, so any subsequent posts by me would likely be considered a breach of etiquette.
The FAQ button is a good option if it's a rules question—you might not get a personal reply on the boards, but the rules team does go through the FAQ questions and periodically updates the FAQ with answers.
If you're looking for an answer from a specific Paizo staffer, you can always post the question with the staffer's name in the subject line... but keep in mind that not everyone at Paizo is equally active on the boards.
And if that doesn't work, maybe try reposting the question in a different forum? Maybe no one saw it? And certainly, if no one answers the question, bumping it isn't really rude in my book, although give it a day or two between bumps.
It's more about optimization than how the rules work, and I am not looking for a response from anyone in particular, just people knowledgeable about that kind of stuff. I'll bump it tomorrow, and I will now get some sleep.
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Why are so many female characters in Skull & Shackles so prominently defined by their sexual promiscuity (Tessa, Cerise) or sexual assault (Adelita), including implicit (Locke) or threatened (Caulky) rape?That's a question you'd have to ask Rob and the adventure path authors, since I didn't have much involvement in the creation and development of that AP (with the exception of the 5th adventure, which I did develop).
My guess is because the AP is a pretty edgy one with regards to cruelty and the like, it being all about pirates.
It is interesting to note how it is a matter of perception too.
In another thread there was people arguing that that undertone was lacking in Skull & Shackles and that they were expecting a tone of strong sexual menace and intimidation in a pirate crew.
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Aroden is the last Azlanr. But he was born before Earthfall of after it?
He was the las scion of some remnant of the Azlant civilization, born during the age of darkness or later, or he lived during Aztlan heydays?
And what he did before raising the Starstone? We will ever get the tales of his adventures as told by his church?
I would be very curious to know what he found and what he did when he first sealed the Worldwound and other tales of his most notorious exploits.
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Opps now I feel stupid... I meant Multiweapon Fighting...A question I have been meaning to ask:
Does Multiattack only grant the First Attack or the entire Chain of Iterative Attacks? So would my Four Armed Alchemist only get 1 Attack with each arm or do they get all Iterative Attacks?
Basically at Level 20 with the Multattack Feat if they were wielding Cestus what would be their Full-Attack? What If they were of a Four-Armed Race that was a Fighter?
Multiattack doesn't grant any iterative attacks.
When a creature uses a manufactured weapon, any natural attacks it has in addition (such as a bite or a gore) become secondary attacks. Some natural attacks (like tentacles) start out as secondary attacks. A secondary attack has a -5 penalty to hit.
All multiattack does is reduce that -5 penalty to a -2 penalty. Doesn't interact with iterative attacks at all.
Ah.
Multiweapon fighting does not grant iterative attacks to off-hand weapons; it just lowers the penalties in the same way two-weapon fighting does. Currently, there are not improved or greater versions of the feat.
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Why are so many female characters in Skull & Shackles so prominently defined by their sexual promiscuity (Tessa, Cerise) or sexual assault (Adelita), including implicit (Locke) or threatened (Caulky) rape?That's a question you'd have to ask Rob and the adventure path authors, since I didn't have much involvement in the creation and development of that AP (with the exception of the 5th adventure, which I did develop).
My guess is because the AP is a pretty edgy one with regards to cruelty and the like, it being all about pirates.
It is interesting to note how it is a matter of perception too.
In another thread there was people arguing that that undertone was lacking in Skull & Shackles and that they were expecting a tone of strong sexual menace and intimidation in a pirate crew.
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Aroden is the last Azlanr. But he was born before Earthfall of after it?
He was the las scion of some remnant of the Azlant civilization, born during the age of darkness or later, or he lived during Aztlan heydays?
And what he did before raising the Starstone? We will ever get the tales of his adventures as told by his church?
I would be very curious to know what he found and what he did when he first sealed the Worldwound and other tales of his most notorious exploits.
The fact that we've got both interpretations and reactions tells me we're in a good middle ground for Skull & Shackles.
Aroden was born thousands of years after Earthfall. As for what he did before he raised the Starstone? Currently unrevealed, but he certainly spent a fair amount of time being an adventurer.
His adventures in the Worldwound were well after he raised the Starstone. There'll be some more info about that (but not much) in the Worldwound campaign setting book.
I have a question of Golarion ethnicities...
We have 'Slavic' sounding personal names and place names in the 'NE Avistan'/ 'NW Casmaron' area...
Is that it's own ethnic group or language? Or is it part of the Kellid realms, perhaps a specific 'branch' of Kellid people/culture?
I've also seen fairly 'Germanic' personal names come up, is this meant to be from any distinct people/language/culture?
Same for the more Celtic-sounding references...
How did the Greek-analogue Iblydos influence early Taldan culture?
Hey again James! I actually having a question regarding the antipaladin, but more specifically about their 'tough of corruption' ability. You see, unlike with lay on hands for paladins (which can be used as a swift action if the paladin targets herself), the touch of corruption has no such stipulation (and for obvious reason, at least as far as the standard antipaladin is concerned). However, for the antipaladin archetype (Knight of the Sepulcher), it is actually possible for the 'touch of corruption' ability to heal an antipaladin (since at level 5, an antipaladin is treated as undead, and the touch of corruption could actually heal them).
anyway, I was curious about two things 1) Are there any plans to do an errata of some kind so that the antipaladin knight of the sepulcher can 'officially' use 'touch of corruption' upon themselves as a swift action? Or 2) would you personally allow them to do it already anyway?
Dear Mr. Jacobs,
Does IANJJ stand for "I am not James Jacobs?"
If so, how does it feel to have coined internet jargon?
Thank you
Just curious, out of the player races that have been released in the Advanced Race Guide which ones would you say are the rarest on Golarion?
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One way a society of lycanthropes can propagate and keep their bloodlines fresh, is to kidnap humans of either gender. If the kidnappee is male, he's made to impregnate a female of the tribe and once it's certain that the mating has taken, the now-infected male is then killed. If it's female, she's kept alive until the child is born and then disposed of as the tribe has no use for the liability of afflicted lycanthropes. This would be the rule mainly for werewolves as they tend to be evil as a rule.
[tangent] If it's possible for a child to be born to a werewolf and not even be afflicted, to just be a 'weak pathetic human, with no wolf at all,' that would make a hell of an origin story. A fantasy equivalent of Romulus and Remus, born to a 'she-wolf' and discarded as a child when it became evident that you hadn't inherited 'the wolf,' only to miraculously survive, a human with no special traits, but the memories of having been 'raised by wolves' and deemed unworthy of ever running with them.
Would such a character grow up with a need to prove themselves worthy, perhaps seeking out the curse of lycanthropy, or be filled with contempt and 'counter-rejection' for those who abandoned him, and become a werewolf-hunting Ranger or Inquisitor, darkly dreaming of the day when you wear your mother's pelt like a cloak?
Very cool kinda mythic story possibilities! [/tangent]
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I have a question of Golarion ethnicities...
We have 'Slavic' sounding personal names and place names in the 'NE Avistan'/ 'NW Casmaron' area...
Is that it's own ethnic group or language? Or is it part of the Kellid realms, perhaps a specific 'branch' of Kellid people/culture?
I've also seen fairly 'Germanic' personal names come up, is this meant to be from any distinct people/language/culture?
Same for the more Celtic-sounding references...How did the Greek-analogue Iblydos influence early Taldan culture?
There are different ethnicities in Casmaron, but the bulk of those who live in Iobaria up there where you're talking about are Kellids, I believe.
We've not yet done much more with the Casmaron ethnicities, but there absolutely is a Greek-analoge ethnicity in Iblydos.
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Do you ever get to bring Shimmey to work?
I could if I want to. She actually travels quite well (even then, it's about a 1 minute drive to work).
But I'm not a big fan of bringing pets to work. They're way too distracting, and I'd be worried that someone would trip over her or something.
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Hey again James! I actually having a question regarding the antipaladin, but more specifically about their 'tough of corruption' ability. You see, unlike with lay on hands for paladins (which can be used as a swift action if the paladin targets herself), the touch of corruption has no such stipulation (and for obvious reason, at least as far as the standard antipaladin is concerned). However, for the antipaladin archetype (Knight of the Sepulcher), it is actually possible for the 'touch of corruption' ability to heal an antipaladin (since at level 5, an antipaladin is treated as undead, and the touch of corruption could actually heal them).
anyway, I was curious about two things 1) Are there any plans to do an errata of some kind so that the antipaladin knight of the sepulcher can 'officially' use 'touch of corruption' upon themselves as a swift action? Or 2) would you personally allow them to do it already anyway?
1) Nope. Antipaladins can't heal as efficiently as paladins.
2) Nope. One of the things you give up when you become an antipaladin is the ability to heal as efficiently as a paladin.
What's the weather like in Washington? Is it like English weather?
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There are antipladin archetypes???
Where did the ideas for Ninjas, Samurai, and Gunslingers come from?
There are some antipaladin archetypes out there, yeah.
The ninja and samurai came from history and legend, of course. We were doing the Jade Regent Adventure Path at the time, so we needed to put in support for those two classes for that; the actual mechanics for them were by Jason Bulmahn.
I actually built the first draft of the gunslinger (it was one of several classes I had built for my Unspeakable Futures game), and Stephen Radney-MacFarland took that and developed it (including adding the grit mechanic) into the class you see today.
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Dear Mr. Jacobs,
Does IANJJ stand for "I am not James Jacobs?"
If so, how does it feel to have coined internet jargon?
Thank you
Yup; that's exactly what it stands for. It kinda weirds me out, I guess. And it kinda annoys me a tiny bit when folks have to use it because I'm pretty good at answering questions here...
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Do you ever get to bring Shimmey to work?I could if I want to. She actually travels quite well (even then, it's about a 1 minute drive to work).
But I'm not a big fan of bringing pets to work. They're way too distracting, and I'd be worried that someone would trip over her or something.
Just tie up Cosmo so she'll have a scratching post and all will be well :3
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Yup; that's exactly what it stands for. It kinda weirds me out, I guess. And it kinda annoys me a tiny bit when folks have to use it because I'm pretty good at answering questions here...Dear Mr. Jacobs,
Does IANJJ stand for "I am not James Jacobs?"
If so, how does it feel to have coined internet jargon?
Thank you
Sowwies, I couldn't resist.... please don't eat me
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Just curious, out of the player races that have been released in the Advanced Race Guide which ones would you say are the rarest on Golarion?
At this point, none of those new races are part of Golarion. If they DO exist on Golarion, they exist on other continents apart from Avistan, Tian Xia, and northern Garund. Where (or IF) they exist, I've not decided yet.
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What's the weather like in Washington? Is it like English weather?
I've never been to England, so I can't say.
Also, the weather varies depending on where you are—there are rainforests and deserts in the state, after all.
Here in the greater Seattle area, summers generally are around 70 to 80 degrees, with a few weeks getting into the 90s. In the winter, things don't often drop that far below freezing; mid 20s at lowest but usually up in the mid 30s to low 40s. It rains often, but not hard—the typical rainfall is more like a gentle misting, but it does this a lot. Right now, the skies are partially cloudy and at times quite sunny.
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Yup; that's exactly what it stands for. It kinda weirds me out, I guess. And it kinda annoys me a tiny bit when folks have to use it because I'm pretty good at answering questions here...Dear Mr. Jacobs,
Does IANJJ stand for "I am not James Jacobs?"
If so, how does it feel to have coined internet jargon?
Thank you
I tried to get IANJ into its own unique avatar, but did not fair so well. James, will you talk to someone about making it so?
Are you interested in any of the various D&D reprints that are coming out? Do you still have your earliest gaming books?
Has there been any released maps of the darklands and what they appear beneath? Kind of like an underlay of the Inner Sea Map, but denoting the areas of the darklands.
James,
does the clone spell work on a vampire? How about a lich?
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I tried to get IANJ into its own unique avatar, but did not fair so well. James, will you talk to someone about making it so?Yup; that's exactly what it stands for. It kinda weirds me out, I guess. And it kinda annoys me a tiny bit when folks have to use it because I'm pretty good at answering questions here...Dear Mr. Jacobs,
Does IANJJ stand for "I am not James Jacobs?"
If so, how does it feel to have coined internet jargon?
Thank you
Nope, cause I'd rather not have that out there.
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Designed for the game.
There's actually a LOT of work that goes into designing a new class for the game, but the first step for both base classes and prestige classes is that the idea has to be able to say "No" to the question "Is this class concept already covered by options in the game?"
If not, then the class gets designed, then playtested/developed, then edited. There is no "magic formula" that we use to make a class happen.
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Has there been any released maps of the darklands and what they appear beneath? Kind of like an underlay of the Inner Sea Map, but denoting the areas of the darklands.
Yes. Into the Darklands has these exact types of maps.
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James,
does the clone spell work on a vampire? How about a lich?
Not really. A clone activates once a person dies. A vampire or lich has already died; that's how they become undead in the first place.
If you destroy a vampire or lich or any undead (and I mean DESTROY... not just defeat), then clone can bring them back as surely as resurrection or true resurrection... although getting a sample of the undead's flesh that's not rotting would be tricky.
Just curious, out of the player races that have been released in the Advanced Race Guide which ones would you say are the rarest on Golarion?At this point, none of those new races are part of Golarion. If they DO exist on Golarion, they exist on other continents apart from Avistan, Tian Xia, and northern Garund. Where (or IF) they exist, I've not decided yet.
Are you referring to those random creatures in Chapter 4? (i.e. the fey race, the wood golem race, etc?) Or does this refer to the whole book, because I actually can't think of a race in Chapters 2 or 3 that hasn't been placed in Golarion somewhere.
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Are you referring to those random creatures in Chapter 4? (i.e. the fey race, the wood golem race, etc?) Or does this refer to the whole book, because I actually can't think of a race in Chapters 2 or 3 that hasn't been placed in Golarion somewhere.Just curious, out of the player races that have been released in the Advanced Race Guide which ones would you say are the rarest on Golarion?At this point, none of those new races are part of Golarion. If they DO exist on Golarion, they exist on other continents apart from Avistan, Tian Xia, and northern Garund. Where (or IF) they exist, I've not decided yet.
Whether or not that's what Matrix Dragon was talking about... those are certainly what I'm talking about.
Whether or not that's what Matrix Dragon was talking about... those are certainly what I'm talking about.Are you referring to those random creatures in Chapter 4? (i.e. the fey race, the wood golem race, etc?) Or does this refer to the whole book, because I actually can't think of a race in Chapters 2 or 3 that hasn't been placed in Golarion somewhere.Just curious, out of the player races that have been released in the Advanced Race Guide which ones would you say are the rarest on Golarion?At this point, none of those new races are part of Golarion. If they DO exist on Golarion, they exist on other continents apart from Avistan, Tian Xia, and northern Garund. Where (or IF) they exist, I've not decided yet.
Then to reword his question (because I am curious as well) ....
Of the Core, Featured, and Uncommon races presented in the Advanced Race Guide, which race would you say is the rarest. Non-canonically, of course.
To help you out, here's a list of the races:
Core Races
Dwarf
Elf
Gnome
Half-Elf
Half-Orc
Halfling
HumanFeature Races
Aasimar
Catfolk
Dhampir
Fatchling
Goblin
Hobgoblin
Ifirit
Kobold
Orcs
Oreads
Ratfolk
Sylph
Tengu
Tiefling
UndineUncommon Races
Changeling
Duergar
Gillman
Grippli
Kitsune
Nagaji
Samsaran
Strix
Suli
Svirfneblin
Vanara
Vishkanya
Wayang
Are you interested in any of the various D&D reprints that are coming out? Do you still have your earliest gaming books?Not really, since I do have all my earlier game books. I like that WotC's reprinting the books though!
Yeah, me too. What's your favorite before-you-were-famous-era RPG product? Or does that drift too close towards potentially offending peers?
As someone who experienced it, what are your thoughts on the transition between being a 3rd party company to being the 1st party company?
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Then to reword his question (because I am curious as well) ....
Of the Core, Featured, and Uncommon races presented in the Advanced Race Guide, which race would you say is the rarest. Non-canonically, of course.
On all of Golarion? I can't say yet because I haven't nailed down the core races for most of the planet's continents.
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Yeah, me too. What's your favorite before-you-were-famous-era RPG product? Or does that drift too close towards potentially offending peers?Are you interested in any of the various D&D reprints that are coming out? Do you still have your earliest gaming books?Not really, since I do have all my earlier game books. I like that WotC's reprinting the books though!
Queen of the Spiders.
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How did you get your job at Dragon?
Well... technically, I never worked on Dragon, apart from writing a lot of articles. I worked solely on Dungeon at Paizo.
I was hired to join the staff as an associate editor because Jesse Decker had been hired to join WotC's design department—at the time, he was the editor of Dragon. There were some promotions at Paizo and some reorganizations, and that left a gap in the hierarchy on Dungeon, and I'd been a regular writer for the magazine for a few years at that point, and so I got the call from Johnny Wilson that was basically: "Wanna work at Paizo for Dungeon Magazine? They took one of mine, so I wanna take one of theirs!"
(At the time I was working at Wizards of the Coast doing work in the sales department and the website handling contracts and the like. I'd actually interviewed for the design position that Jesse ended up being hired for, and in the end it was down to the two of us, if I remember correctly... they went with Jesse because he had more experience at the time. In hindsight, I'm glad that I never did get hired to work on the D&D design team, although I did apply for a position there several times and got closer each time...)
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As someone who experienced it, what are your thoughts on the transition between being a 3rd party company to being the 1st party company?
It's really exciting and stressful and scary and inspiring and humbling.
Although Paizo was more of a 2nd party company than a 3rd party one first... then we WENT to being a 3rd party company and now up to 1st party!
Very tumultuous.