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To be fair to John, I know that he was 'burned' by LFR, and I guess that he is just worried that PFS might go the same way...

My own experience in the same region has been that generally, players (with a few notable exceptions) ignore / gloss over the races of other PCs, unless the player in question makes a big deal about it. Whether that breaks verisimilitude or not, I will leave others to judge.

Personally, I have no issues with people who have boons, using them. Having said that, I like the 'non-standard' races being exactly that, non-standard (i.e. something cool and unusual). I guess that I am just not as fatalistic as John about the inevitability of 'monster-only' parties ;-)

5/5

As soon as I can afford it, I'm buying a cage for my goblin. "Can someone carry my goblin around until he's needed to bite someone's face off?"

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Kyle Baird wrote:
As soon as I can afford it, I'm buying a cage for my goblin. "Can someone carry my goblin around until he's needed to bite someone's face off

You should totally rp that and play insids a cage

Sovereign Court 5/5 RPG Superstar 2009 Top 32, 2010 Top 8

Or at least make a construction paper 'cell window' and hold it up when talking IC. :-)

5/5

Matthew Morris wrote:
Or at least make a construction paper 'cell window' and hold it up when talking IC. :-)

agreed

nods imphatically

4/5

I say..put aside the hate and let them have heir fun (hopefully for 12 levels but I figure a few of them will burn/blow up along the way).

Still wish James would try out Gob-Zilla the 12 fire breathing alchemist/master chemist, but after running with his Cleric and Rogue I know ANY gob he plays will be a hoot and useful.
So looking forward to seeing what flavor of pyscho he makes.

Remember, the folks that got the boon had to (mostly) survive one of the deadliest specials ever!

Dark Archive 2/5

I was actually considering NOT learning Common for my goblin. Not sure how that would go though.... Maybe I'll be a monk and take the vow of silence.

Sovereign Court

John Lynch 106 wrote:
And thankfully I live in Australia so I won't have to jump through these hoops to permit goblins at my table. And I want to make it clear, I have no issue with those who gained these boons to use these boons. If I had survived insurmountable odds I would also want to benefit from the reward I had received.

I and at least one other party member did not survive, luckily the rest of my team did (waves at teammate Lady Rabbit)....

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Bruce Chung wrote:
I was actually considering NOT learning Common for my goblin. Not sure how that would go though.... Maybe I'll be a monk and take the vow of silence.

ALL characters in PFS start with Common, regardless of racial languages.

Dark Archive 2/5

CRobledo wrote:
Bruce Chung wrote:
I was actually considering NOT learning Common for my goblin. Not sure how that would go though.... Maybe I'll be a monk and take the vow of silence.
ALL characters in PFS start with Common, regardless of racial languages.

Why you nerfing me bro?

Shadow Lodge 4/5

Bro its not him. It is the 4.2 guide that is nerfing you.

5/5

You can always RP that you don't understand common.

1/5

I think the Pathfinder Society runs all new recruits through a CSOL (Common for Speakers of Other Languages) class or two before kicking them out to their death. You may know the words but your grammar is horrid.

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Lab_Rat wrote:
I think the Pathfinder Society runs all new recruits through a CSOL (Common for Speakers of Other Languages) class or two before kicking them out to their death. You may know the words but your grammar is horrid.

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I can see it.. (Language and Manners lessons)

"No Gottic.. the answer isn't 'I sets you on fire!'"

"No.. you use the salad fork.. not the candle'"

Grand Lodge 1/5

CRobledo wrote:
Bruce Chung wrote:
I was actually considering NOT learning Common for my goblin. Not sure how that would go though.... Maybe I'll be a monk and take the vow of silence.
ALL characters in PFS start with Common, regardless of racial languages.

Maybe, but there are varying levels of CSL (Common as a Second Language). A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, and things lost in the translation could make adventuring quite interesting.

Dark Archive 2/5

Or I can make a goblin summoner, and the eidolon can translate for the goblin. And be smarter, friendlier, etc.

Or can I be the lovechild of Adril Hestram and a particularly attractive female goblin?

Grand Lodge 5/5

Bruce Chung wrote:

Or I can make a goblin summoner, and the eidolon can translate for the goblin. And be smarter, friendlier, etc.

Or can I be the lovechild of Adril Hestram and a particularly attractive female goblin?

It's probably a good thing he's a fictional character, else he might be after your head for even suggesting that. :P

4/5

20gp for the 1st GM to kill a goblin PC!

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Shivok wrote:
20gp for the 1st GM to kill a goblin PC!

Doesn't that break the 'don't be a jerk' rule of the board calling for out of hand killing of PCs like that?

Grand Lodge 1/5

Kain The Seeker wrote:
Shivok wrote:
20gp for the 1st GM to kill a goblin PC!
Doesn't that break the 'don't be a jerk' rule of the board calling for out of hand killing of PCs like that?

Probably not, since it was probably tongue in cheek, unless you think Kain was actually offering gold coins for a character death. But you are flying dangerously close to the Humorless Zone. Veer left!

4/5 ****

Considering the lack of ability to give 20gp and Shivok's good nature I would take his post in a humorous sense and not worry about it.

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Pirate Rob wrote:
Considering the lack of ability to give 20gp and Shivok's good nature I would take his post in a humorous sense and not worry about it.

Exactly it was meant to be humorous, especially because we cant give out gold pieces!

The old gp for goblin ears bit.

Sovereign Court 5/5 RPG Superstar 2009 Top 32, 2010 Top 8

I found it funny.

And yes, killing goblins would be a memorable point.* Not from the "I killed a PC mwahahahahahaha!" PoV, but from the uniqueness of the death.

*

Spoiler:
Note: I don't kill PCs, I roll dice in the open, so dice and PC actions kill PCs.

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Matthew Morris wrote:
*** spoiler omitted **

I roll in the open too! Does that mean my vicious tactics aren't to blame for the handful* of PC deaths at my table? Sweet!

*:
Bet you thought you'd read something funny here, didn't you? Not today!

Dark Archive 4/5

Kyle, everyone knows you're really a softy.

Lantern Lodge 5/5 * Venture-Lieutenant, South Dakota—Rapid City

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Mergy wrote:
Kyle, everyone knows you're really a softy.

Like a gelatainous cube of players' tears and Jell-O.

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Black Powder Chocobo wrote:
Mergy wrote:
Kyle, everyone knows you're really a softy.
Like a gelatainous cube of players' tears and Jell-O.

Oooooo, I should make that!

Paizo Employee 5/5 Managing Creative Director (Starfinder)

Player tears and the water from Hitchcock's boat scenario... :)

Sovereign Court 4/5 *

Players Tears.....mmmmmmmm....so sweet :D I thought a goblin bounty would at least bring in a Beer. I would let a dragon choke on his corpse for a good dark stout :D Then raise a glass to the only goblin that new the difference between when and win. Before he bite the Pathfinder that stole his words.

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Well four of us played our goblins (Ranger, Rogue, Ninja, Druid) for the first time earlier this month... no other PCs in the group.

The Pathfinder Chronicle report as transcribed in the edited words of Pathfinder Slugtooth:

The Vent couldn't wait to get rid of us and find "competants"... we attacked the Headnodders and gave the Headnodders the thing, then we got attacked by the right Headnodders we were supposed to get the thing to, we trailed the right Headnodders to the place without the thing, where we totally kneecapped the guards despite being noisey. We set fire to some more nodders, and beat on a klanky thing for hours til it stopped klankity klanking. Then the Nodder and his Big Meow ate our Big Meow but he didn't munch us because we totally talky talked him meezy.

Grand Lodge 5/5

Meat wrote:

Well four of us played our goblins (Ranger, Rogue, Ninja, Druid) for the first time earlier this month... no other PCs in the group.

The Pathfinder Chronicle report as transcribed in the edited words of Pathfinder Slugtooth:

The Vent couldn't wait to get rid of us and find "competants"... we attacked the Headnodders and gave the Headnodders the thing, then we got attacked by the right Headnodders we were supposed to get the thing to, we trailed the right Headnodders to the place without the thing, where we totally kneecapped the guards despite being noisey. We set fire to some more nodders, and beat on a klanky thing for hours til it stopped klankity klanking. Then the Nodder and his Big Meow ate our Big Meow but he didn't munch us because we totally talky talked him meezy.

What headnodder?

The Exchange 5/5 RPG Superstar 2010 Top 16

Does it make me too much of a geek to know exactly which scenario Slugtooth is reporting?

The Exchange 5/5

Chris Mortika wrote:
Does it make me too much of a geek to know exactly which scenario Slugtooth is reporting?

yep!

I, on the other hand, have no idea... (note to self, got to work on geekieness).

Silver Crusade 4/5

Chris Mortika wrote:
Does it make me too much of a geek to know exactly which scenario Slugtooth is reporting?

Sounds like Assault on the Kingdom of the Impossible. I remember that one well, because it was the first PFS scenario I ever GMed.

The Exchange 5/5

Fromper wrote:
Chris Mortika wrote:
Does it make me too much of a geek to know exactly which scenario Slugtooth is reporting?

Sounds like Assault on the Kingdom of the Impossible. I remember that one well, because it was the first PFS scenario I ever GMed.

O.O

wow... I think you're right!

(edit: corrected spelling)

3/5

I have a great RP idea that I want really badly to whip out. It's a long build up, but worth it when it lands.
The goblin character's enamored of the 'city life' so he left his tribe to find his way into absolom's sewers. He considers all of the sewers his 'home', but really, really has a hard time finding food there. Thusly, he goes forth, and gets a job doing the dirtiest of work for a mortician, mostly boxing the goods, if you know what I mean.
So every once in a while he makes a big deal amongst his adventuring companions to take out a huge, greyish hunk of meat, to gnaw on. If no one asks, then he makes a further point of offering some of his Roast Bakothai.
What's roast bakothai, you ask? My goblin pokes you in the front of your leg, 'Dis Frontothai', and back of leg, 'Dis Bakothai'.

Only then do you realize that the goblin snitches parts from corpses to keep the hunger at bay.

Like I said, it takes some timing and delivery, but I wish I had a goblin character to do it in PFS.

The Exchange 5/5 RPG Superstar 2010 Top 16

There's nothing to say you couldn't do the same gag with some feral halfling, a sewer-nagaji, or a half-orc.

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