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The boons are being changed. This thread is to discus what players think should be on the new sheets.
I personally would like to see vanities on the sheets. This could give players something other then rise dead to buy with there fame. The other idea could be to make some of the vanities at a lower cost if you have the boon for pathfinder tales. The bonus you gain from the novels are ok. Most of the items on the sheets most players could not afford. Moving what we have now to something you just need to spend fame on is a good way to make it worth more.
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How about making those boons PERMANENT instead of 1-shot? The boon for "Blood of the City" would be much more useful as a permanent character enhancement to a bard or rogue.
They're actually already saying they're doing that--four books together. Once you've used all four expendables on the same chronicle, you can pick one to become permanent (but you have to find scenarios where you can use all four of them first).
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That's part of the problem with the current method of doing it. There are very few times where the boon comes in to play.
I would like to see something more like a plot hook. So you could build a character around the boon. The best way to do that I can think of is with some kind of vanity that you need to buy, or something like it.
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Are the boons for the tales changing to 1 per player per book vs 1 per PC per book?
Because if so I need to fire up the printer before the official change :P
Here's a clarification request for Mike. If you have (and have used) the current Tales Boons on your current characters, will there be an option to have the new boons or are we out of luck if we've already used them?
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That is actually a development question since they are the ones designing the new Chronicle sheets, but I will take a stab at it.
My understanding is that the same boon that was published for Prince of Wolves will be the same boon that is used on the four books per Chronicle. The same boon that was published for Winter Witch will be the same boon that is used on the four books per Chronicle along with PoW. Same with Worldwound Gambit. And so on. This Chronicle sheet will probably be labeled Pathfinder Tales 4711/4712 or some such.
The next Chronicle would have the next four books that were released chronologically and would be titled Pathfinder Tales 4712/4713.
Once all four boons have been initialed by a GM, the should be a permanent boon available to choose to apply to a character. If you already have the four separate boons, the GM should be able to take the compiled Chronicle of all 4 boons and initial each one. You would then be allowed to continue using the boon for any character until you are ready to assign the permanent boon to a character for good.
I'm sure John will step in and correct any mistakes I made above, but I believe that is the intent.
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I'm still not sure I understand how this works... it must be too early in the morning!
Instead of the kinds of boons we see currently, I would've liked something more standard like a +1 permanent bonus to a Knowledge skill (e.g., geography, local, nobility), but only pertaining to the region in which the setting takes place, or perhaps specific to a particular kind of situation. So, for Blood of the City, you might get a +1 to Knowledge (local) when in Magnimar. For Death's Heretic it could be +1 to Knowledge (planes) but only for The Boneyard or Axis. These boons would be equally useful to all character classes, and while they wouldn't come into play too often, the more you read, the more likely you would be to have a mission somewhere that you (as a player) have read about, and thus you'd be positioned to know a bit about it from a roleplaying perspective to line up with that bonus.
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Unfortinately I got Zeppo and Gummo backwards, I appologize for that.
(Gummo managed the boys, prior to enlisting, then Zeppo stepped up which meant he was in fewer movies.)
And I didn't mention the honorary 'Marx Sister' Margaret Dumont.
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I should remind my wife about Margaret Dumont. She names all of her characters after Golden Age Hollywood actresses. She had a halfling rogue in LFR named Jojo Pickford, who was unlike her great namesake Mary Pickford in being prone to viciously killing everything in sight.
Well, unlike Mary Pickford to the best of my knowledge, anyway. At least there's nothing on Wikipedia about her being an itinerant murder hobo.
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Mike, you need to go kick on some doors. It is absolutely unacceptable for you to be available at 6am Pacific Time and not your counterparts. Go tell those slackers to chug their coffee/booze and get to it. You all decided to throw our world upside down with one big podcast of changes and now you must suffer the the consequences.
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