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[Adam Daigle]

Dragon78 wrote:

What would be your top 5 character classes for flumphs?

Hmm.. In no particular order:

Oracle
Sorcerer
Paladin
Psychic
Bard

[Et cetera et cetera]

Hey Adam! It looks like I made you thread popular! :) Somewhat. Anyways...

What does it mean exactly when you design a monster? Also what does your monster design process look like?

[Cole Deschain]

Are any other regions of Golarion in the same "nothing nailed down but ____ is the person to touch base with" category as Arcadia?

[Adam Daigle]

Et cetera et cetera wrote:

Hey Adam! It looks like I made you thread popular! :) Somewhat. Anyways...

What does it mean exactly when you design a monster? Also what does your monster design process look like?

What I mean by designing a monster is coming up with the concept, making the stats, and writing the flavor text. My process is touched on in this thread I made a couple of years ago.

[Adam Daigle]

Cole Deschain wrote:

Are any other regions of Golarion in the same "nothing nailed down but ____ is the person to touch base with" category as Arcadia?

I'd say each of the authors for the separate sections in Distant Shores have their mark on those areas. To add to that, I know that Jessica has her sights set on Kelesh after writing the Qadira book.

[Et cetera et cetera]

Hey Adam! Can you say some variation of "hi" to me?

What are you doing for Halloween this year?

Are divs and sahkils based on any real world mythologies?

Did Aroden die by a Flumph eating him?

[Adam Daigle]

Et cetera et cetera wrote:

Hey Adam! Can you say some variation of "hi" to me?

What are you doing for Halloween this year?

Are divs and sahkils based on any real world mythologies?

Did Aroden die by a Flumph eating him?

Sure! Howdy!

I'm not totally sure yet what I'm doing for the actual day. I'm going to work, but after that I have no plans. I wish I did because I used to consider Halloween a sacred holiday, but my celebration of it since I've moved up here has been lackluster.

Look to Zoroastrianism for divs, but sahkils are totally new things that Wes, John, and myself came up with.

He did not.

[Rysky]

How did you come up with the name Sahkil?

[Adam Daigle]

Rysky wrote:

How did you come up with the name Sahkil?

It's a Yucatec word for fear. Wes originally wanted them to be called xibalbans, but I wanted to reserve Xibalba, so I presented sahkil as a replacement and we all liked it.

[Rysky]

Adam Daigle wrote:

Rysky wrote:

How did you come up with the name Sahkil?

It's a Yucatec word for fear. Wes originally wanted them to be called xibalbans, but I wanted to reserve Xibalba, so I presented sahkil as a replacement and we all liked it.

Cool!

[Et cetera et cetera]

<Insert how to say hi in Yucatec here> Adam! You should dress up as a sahkil for Halloween and scare your fellow employees. Then at night you can go around terrifying trick or treaters!

Where do you look to find and learn about interesting mythological creatures that you can use in pathfinder?

Are there any good or better than good Paizo adventures that contain flumphs?

Where any flumphs involved in Aroden's death?

[Adam Daigle]

Et cetera et cetera wrote:

<Insert how to say hi in Yucatec here> Adam! You should dress up as a sahkil for Halloween and scare your fellow employees. Then at night you can go around terrifying trick or treaters!

Where do you look to find and learn about interesting mythological creatures that you can use in pathfinder?

Are there any good or better than good Paizo adventures that contain flumphs?

Where any flumphs involved in Aroden's death?

It would be cool to costume as a sahkil, but that's way beyond my skills. It'd be delightfully creepy.

I've been into mythology since I was a kid, so I've encountered folklore creatures in a lot of different places. Books on particular cultures are great for that, as well as books on monsters and legends. There are some good creature blogs that keep serving me things I've never heard about, and there are some other monster fanatics here on the boards that are great at introducing me to critters I've never heard of.

I can't think of any adventures we've done that have had a flumph in them, so no.

Flumphs were not involved.

[Et cetera et cetera]

Happy Halloween Adam! Hope your Halloween is spook-tacular! Time for some obligatory Halloween questions!

What is your favorite candy?

Favorite costume you've worn?

What is your favorite thing about Halloween?

And finally would you share a Halloween story?

[Adam Daigle]

Et cetera et cetera wrote:

Happy Halloween Adam! Hope your Halloween is spook-tacular! Time for some obligatory Halloween questions!

What is your favorite candy?

Favorite costume you've worn?

What is your favorite thing about Halloween?

And finally would you share a Halloween story?

I'm bad at picking favorites, so I'll just say the first one to come to mind. I really like Take 5 candy bars.

My favorite costume might be the year I went as a goblin. (Not a Pathfinder goblin, it was much more like Blix from Legend.)

My favorite thing about Halloween is all the creepy stuff everywhere. I love that all kinds of places and things are decorated with skulls and bats and stuff like that. I also like that you get candy and that people dress up.

One Halloween exactly 10 years ago I officiated my best friend's wedding and we were all dressed up. It was a great night.

[DM Livgin]

Just wanted to drop in and say thanks for responding to this thread in 2010!

But a question, what is the most memorable horror Pathfinder session you've participated in?

[Adam Daigle]

DM Livgin wrote:

Just wanted to drop in and say thanks for responding to this thread in 2010!

But a question, what is the most memorable horror Pathfinder session you've participated in?

Glad to be of service! (That was about a year and a half before I was an employee!)

The most memorable wasn't a Pathfinder session (it was D&D 3.5), but I think that I can claim it anyway on a technicality. The session was when my friend Brandon Hodge ran an adventure he wrote that one day would become the module House on Hook Street.

[Et cetera et cetera]

Yo Adam! How about a fist bump? How did your Halloween go?

Could you recommend me some good creature blogs? Also can you recommend good books for finding monsters?

Did Aroden die via candy?

[Adam Daigle]

Et cetera et cetera wrote:

Yo Adam! How about a fist bump? How did your Halloween go?

Could you recommend me some good creature blogs? Also can you recommend good books for finding monsters?

Did Aroden die via candy?

Sure. *fistbump*

My Halloween was pretty uneventful.

Here are a few creature blogs. The first one even has a list of books. Creatures of Folklore and Mythology, Critter Compendium, and A Book of Creatures.

He did not.

[Misroi]

When thickening gumbo, do you use okra or filé powder?

[Adam Daigle]

Misroi wrote:

When thickening gumbo, do you use okra or filé powder?

Neither. I use roux and time. I do add okra sometimes, but not for the purposes of thickening anything. I only use filé on my gumbo once it's in the bowl.

[Archpaladin Zousha]

Strange Aeons SPOILERS!:

I just read Dreams of the Yellow King and WOW! A whirlwind tour of the Dreamlands even BETTER than the one in Shattered Star?! A MEETING WITH THE MAD ARAB HIMSELF?! You guys really put the "love" in "Lovecraft" this time! XD

[Adam Daigle]

Archpaladin Zousha wrote:

** spoiler omitted **

Glad you liked it!

[JohnHawkins]

So would a Paladin flumph be able to wield weapons or would it have to rely on its tentacles.
I plan on adding one as an NPC to Skull and Shackles and weapons would make it more threatening

[Archpaladin Zousha]

How do you feel about your avatar making you essentially the forum's flumphspert?

[Et cetera et cetera]

Hello Adam! How aren't you today? What aren't you up to?

This may be a bit of a loaded question, but what do you think of Wizards of the Coast?

Did a mind flayer kill Aroden?

[Adam Daigle]

JohnHawkins wrote:

So would a Paladin flumph be able to wield weapons or would it have to rely on its tentacles.

I plan on adding one as an NPC to Skull and Shackles and weapons would make it more threatening

I don't know if we've ever said if they can wield weapons in their tentacles, but I'd run with what's most fun. Their tentacles aren't a natural attack, though. Their sting is.

[Adam Daigle]

Archpaladin Zousha wrote:

How do you feel about your avatar making you essentially the forum's flumphspert?

I chose this avatar when I got hired because of my reputation. I've been considering changing it to a mantis, though.

[Adam Daigle]

Et cetera et cetera wrote:

Hello Adam! How aren't you today? What aren't you up to?

This may be a bit of a loaded question, but what do you think of Wizards of the Coast?

Did a mind flayer kill Aroden?

I'm alright. It's Friday and things have been going pretty well at work today. I'm not up to unraveling time and space.

Like, the whole company? I only know a few people there, but those I know I quite like. :)

A mind flayer did not kill Aroden. They don't even exist in Golarion.

[Rysky]

Adam Daigle wrote:

Archpaladin Zousha wrote:

How do you feel about your avatar making you essentially the forum's flumphspert?

I chose this avatar when I got hired because of my reputation. I've been considering changing it to a mantis, though.

A Flumph with levels in Red Mantis Assassin?

[Rysky]

Adam Daigle wrote:

Et cetera et cetera wrote:

Hello Adam! How aren't you today? What aren't you up to?

This may be a bit of a loaded question, but what do you think of Wizards of the Coast?

Did a mind flayer kill Aroden?

I'm alright. It's Friday and things have been going pretty well at work today. I'm not up to unraveling time and space.

Like, the whole company? I only know a few people there, but those I know I quite like. :)

A mind flayer did not kill Aroden. They don't even exist in Golarion.

Which is why he never saw it coming...

[Adam Daigle]

Rysky wrote:

Adam Daigle wrote:

Archpaladin Zousha wrote:

How do you feel about your avatar making you essentially the forum's flumphspert?

I chose this avatar when I got hired because of my reputation. I've been considering changing it to a mantis, though.

A Flumph with levels in Red Mantis Assassin?

NOPE.

That doesn't make any sense.

[Cole Deschain]

So, what was your favorite part of Horror Adventures? I presume you've had your tenta- er, hands on a copy...

[Adam Daigle]

Cole Deschain wrote:

So, what was your favorite part of Horror Adventures? I presume you've had your tenta- er, hands on a copy...

I'm sure I'm forgetting a bunch of things, but the first two things that popped in my head were the new fear optional rule and the expansion on haunts. The hazards and stuff like that are rad too.

[Cole Deschain]

How about Horror Realms?

(I really enjoyed that one...)

[Adam Daigle]

Cole Deschain wrote:

How about Horror Realms?

(I really enjoyed that one...)

I haven't had a chance to go through that one closely.

[Archpaladin Zousha]

Will gillmen be a viable PC race for Ruins of Azlant or will it be more like how Second Darkness was for drow?

[Adam Daigle]

Archpaladin Zousha wrote:

Will gillmen be a viable PC race for Ruins of Azlant or will it be more like how Second Darkness was for drow?

Mechanically it would work pretty well, but I'm not sure story-wise. I mean, if you want to be activated by your ancient masters, sure. Go for it. ;) Seriously, though, I haven't written the Player's Guide yet, so my real thoughts will be presented there. One hurdle you'd have to get over would be explaining how a gillman became part of an expedition sailing out of Almas.

[Archpaladin Zousha]

Almas?! FINALLY! I'VE ALWAYS WANTED AN EXCUSE TO PLAY AN ANDORAN PC!!!

[Adam Daigle]

Thursty necro'd his thread by wishing folks happy holidays, so I'm gonna copy him. :P

[Rysky]

Happy Holidays Mr. Flumph!

[Captain Killjoy]

A MOST FESTIVE FLUMPHSTIDE TO THEE!

[Adam Daigle]

Thanks!

[Thurston Hillman]

HAPPY HOLIDAYS, ADAM! <3

:)

[Kajehase]

Merry midwinter knees-up Adam!

[Ectar]

Regarding the Sahkils, I have a few questions. Their SQ sections include a few key terms I haven't been able to find meanings for, including: "easy to call", "Emotional Focus", and "skip between". Could you please describe these abilities, or point me in the right direction to find their meanings?

[Luthorne]

Ectar wrote:

Regarding the Sahkils, I have a few questions. Their SQ sections include a few key terms I haven't been able to find meanings for, including: "easy to call", "Emotional Focus", and "skip between". Could you please describe these abilities, or point me in the right direction to find their meanings?

I'm not Adam Daigle, but I might suggest taking a look at the sahkil subtype.

[Adam Daigle]

Luthorne is correct. Those three abilities are all part of the sahkil subtype, which are described on page 308 of Bestiary 5 (or in that handy link).

Now go forth and scare people! :)

[Ectar]

Awesome, thank you! Even having looked at the PRD link, I can't find a similar page on the PFSRD, which is where I was searching before.

Also, your CR 20 baddie is currently featured on The Daily Bestiary which is what piqued my interest.

[Adam Daigle]

Patchen does a great job with that blog, and I'm glad it grabbed your interest! I always love when he covers one of the monsters I've done.

And, you can find all the creature types and subtypes on the PRD if you expand the Bestiaries on the left side and then click on Creature Types. From there you can scroll or search within the page. (Or just use the search bar at the top.)

Edit: Oh, after hitting "post" I realized that you said PFSRD. I'm not sure how that site is organized. I don't use it since they have to change the names of things, so it isn't as reliable for me. From poking around a bit, it looks like that subtype hasn't been added to the site.

[Archpaladin Zousha]

Strange Aeons SPOILERS!:

Assuming the PCs are ultimately successful and prevent Thrushmoor from being absorbed by Carcosa and whatnot, what happens to the County of Versex afterwards? I don't think Haserton Lowls IV has any heirs who could fill the resulting power vacuum, especially considering he basically abdicated when he ran off in search of the Necronomicon. Does he have a will of any kind?