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Adam Daigle Developer |
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1)Did you wright for any other races in the Advanced Races Guide?
2)Have you designed any monsters(stats or info)?
3)So what kind of music do you listen too?
4)Do you have any favorite books and/or writers?
5)What things have inspired your work?
6)How did get started in playing D&D?
7)What is the toughest fight as a player in D&D/Pathfinder that you ever been in?
1. Nope, just those two.
2. I have designed a bunch of monsters. Well over a hundred in the last few years. I've had monsters in AP bestiaries, hardcover bestiaries, written some for Kobold Quarterly and was lead developer on Kobold Press' Midgard Bestiary. Yep, bunch of monsters.
3. I listen to a wide variety of music. While there are certain artists I don't quite like, there isn't a genre I dislike.
4. Again, I'm bad at picking favorites, but some writers I like that come to mind are: Kurt Vonnegut, William S. Burroughs, Chuck Palahniuk, William Gibson, Hunter S. Thompson and many many more.
5. I get inspired by all kinds of things. Media I consume, the weird and messed up things in our day to day lives, dreams, fleeting thoughts, inspiring friends, and other creative people I work with.
6. My first RPG experience was playing Marvel Roleplaying with my cousin who just got the boxed set. Shortly after, I found a copy of Descent Into the Depths of the Earth module at a second-hand book store. I was 11 and didn't realize that there were rulebooks that went along with it, so I brought it to my cousin's house all excited. We didn't have the other books, so we made it up as we went along and had a blast (despite not really playing the game as it was intended).
7. My memory isn't super great, so I'm going to cheat and go with an encounter from a few months ago where our group was infiltrating a cult and we interrupted a ritual they were performing, basically breaking into combat in the middle of a chapel filled with cultists and their leader. Halfway into that combat a big umbral dragon showed up and that's when everything went further south. My character ended up blind, affected by fear, then eventually 0 Str. We all got captured and thrown in prison cells.
Adam Daigle Developer |
Adam Daigle Developer |
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You're a giant fan of one author in particular. Who is that and why?
Favorites again! Umm, I'd say Kurt Vonnegut. His stories were fun and dark at the same time. In the same breath he can make you laugh while you realize the human condition is plagued by s##$heads. I always appreciated that approach.
Adam Daigle Developer |
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Adam Daigle Developer |
Alexander Augunas Contributor |
Adam Daigle Developer |
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Do you find this thread bemusing, confusing, or just plain bamboozling?
Are you having trouble choosing?
I feel like I'm missing a reference, so I'll say that the three choices presented in the first question are so similar that the second question is certainly answered in the affirmative.
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I have a development question for you. When developing rules and descriptions of the weapons and armor, did the team have an expert come in? Was there a research team put together? How did that process work? I have been playing for years and always wondered how that happened and how somebody gets into the field of RPG development at all.
Adam Daigle Developer |
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Do you have a favorite Golarion fan-theory?
Do you mean the crazy stuff folks like you, Mikaze, Set, and others come up with for what really happened to Aroden or what's the deal with the Eye of Abendego or who's a veiled master?
I really enjoyed reading the paranoid hypotheses on who may or may not be veiled masters, but I especially liked the conspiracy theories of Golarion thread. There was some good stuff in there.
Adam Daigle Developer |
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I have a development question for you. When developing rules and descriptions of the weapons and armor, did the team have an expert come in? Was there a research team put together? How did that process work? I have been playing for years and always wondered how that happened and how somebody gets into the field of RPG development at all.
Nope, no experts involved. At least it's not like we had a weapons expert come into the office and demonstrate a few dozen different weapons. The bulk of those decisions happened before I came to work here, and most of those were handed down from 3.5. That said, we have a team with very eclectic interests, so it's not uncommon to find someone nearby that knows a thing or two about a thing or two. For everything else, there's research.
Since Pathfinder isn't quite a real life simulator, the main thing to consider when making new weapons is general performance, weight, and size. Then you compare it to other existing things and determine whether you need a new weapon at all or if something else already covers the concept. Trying to get too close to an exact simulation is madness and is often overly complex.
For example, the last time I created new weapons was for the upcoming Pathfinder Adventure Path volume Rasputin Must Die! (that takes place on Earth during WWI). Brandon and I (mostly Brandon to be honest) researched what weapons were in wide use at that time AND in that place. Then we compared our research and design notes to existing firearms in Ultimate Combat. After that it was a development process of working with the design team to make sure the rules were clear, not going to break the game, and satisfied the concept they needed to fit. It was a team effort for sure with each person adding a bit of their own expertise to the stew.
Alexander Augunas Contributor |
Alexander Augunas Contributor |
Adam Daigle Developer |
Adam Daigle Developer |
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now that the paizocon rush is over and the gencon one is about to start, what are you looking forward to?
Well, the big push of the rush was a couple months back where we were trying to get everything done that we will have at GenCon. PaizoCon was a rush for me because I had to finish writing the game I ran and just get a zillion loose ends tied up before the show. Between then and now has mainly been me trying to build a buffer with all the stuff I have to do so being away at GenCon doesn't cut too deeply into my production times.
Now, as for your question, I'm looking forward to having absolutely nothing to do on a weekend. That'd be awesome. I'm also looking forward to GenCon because that's where I see a bunch of my friends that I only typically see once or twice a year.
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Alexander Augunas Contributor |
Adam Daigle Developer |
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Adam,
Is there anything you blame Cosmo for?
Nothing! (except everything)
Which Paizo employee offers you the most high-fives?
It's not a common occurrence, but the one person I've probably high-fived the most is Sean.
How about bro-fists?
Macklin.
Luthorne |
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1) What's your favorite evil (with evil subtype) outsider race, and why?
2) What's your favorite non-evil outsider race, and why?
3) Which of the Outer Planes is your favorite, and why?
4) Would you actually want to play a flumph as a PC if given the opportunity? If so, what class would you pick?
5) What are three of your favorite insect-themed Pathfinder monsters?
6) What are your three favorite deities in the Golarion setting?
7) What are your three favorite outsider demigods (elemental lords, archdevils, empyreal lords, four horsemen, etc.) in the Golarion setting?
8) Is convincing a flumph to wear a pink tutu flumph abuse?
9) What are three of your favorite non-PC humanoid races (adlets, boggards, dark creepers, gnolls, lizardfolk, troglodytes, etc.)
10) If you like insects, do you like insect-like races like bog striders, mothmen, and thriae, or are they not bug-like enough to appeal to your insect love (though perhaps still being appealing on their own merits)?
Adam Daigle Developer |
Adam Daigle Developer |
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As a developer of Paizo what tropes do you feel are still missing from Golarion?
And in fantasy rpgs in general?
Hmmm. This one made me think a bit. I think we have quite a bit in Golarion, so it's hard for me to think of one thing that's missing. If I find it, and it's good, I'll likely try to work it in somewhere. Some tropes are missing for good reasons, either they are bad tropes, or something that we just don't want in our world. One thing I like in fantasy is blending things instead of doing direct ports, and I think it's cool that we have a bit of both approaches in our world.
Adam Daigle Developer |
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1) What's your favorite evil (with evil subtype) outsider race, and why?
2) What's your favorite non-evil outsider race, and why?
3) Which of the Outer Planes is your favorite, and why?
4) Would you actually want to play a flumph as a PC if given the opportunity? If so, what class would you pick?
5) What are three of your favorite insect-themed Pathfinder monsters?
6) What are your three favorite deities in the Golarion setting?
7) What are your three favorite outsider demigods (elemental lords, archdevils, empyreal lords, four horsemen, etc.) in the Golarion setting?
8) Is convincing a flumph to wear a pink tutu flumph abuse?
9) What are three of your favorite non-PC humanoid races (adlets, boggards, dark creepers, gnolls, lizardfolk, troglodytes, etc.)
10) If you like insects, do you like insect-like races like bog striders, mothmen, and thriae, or are they not bug-like enough to appeal to your insect love (though perhaps still being appealing on their own merits)?
1) Divs, because I created them. (Well, to be honest, the real world made them, I just got the chance to stat them up and bring them to Pathfinder.)
2) Azatas, because I like the CG feel to them. They also seem to be a bit more varied and even somewhat alien compared to some of the other good outsiders.
3) Abaddon, because it's terrible and desolate.
4) I'd play one if it was right for the game and worked with the other players. I'd certainly pick a caster class. Probably a sorcerer or oracle. Maybe a bard or cleric.
5) Grig, jorogumo, azruverda, aranea, ettercap, formians, thriae. That's more than three, but... YOU CAN'T HOLD ME BACK WHEN IT COMES TO BUGS!! ;)
6) Cayden Cailean, Desna, Norgorber
7) Ahriman, Magdh, Ashava
8) Maybe, but I don't think so. They can think for themselves and make their own decisions, so if a flumph wants to wear a pink tutu who am I to judge the flumph or the convincer?
9) LOVE dark folk! Also, chokers and bugbears.
10) I adore insects and I like those creatures you listed. I'm pretty sure my love of bugs plays into my appreciation of those creature.
Jeff Erwin Contributor |
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Why are there no giant caterpillars in PF?
They're quite shockingly attired.
Why are there no sentient giant caterpillars with hookahs in PF?
Larval insects demand representation!
Cheapy |
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Why are there no giant caterpillars in PF?
They're quite shockingly attired.
Why are there no sentient giant caterpillars with hookahs in PF?
Larval insects demand representation!
I believe you're looking for the >> ASK *ALICE* ALL YOUR QUESTIONS HERE!!<< thread.
Kajehase |
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Jeff Erwin wrote:I believe you're looking for the >> ASK *ALICE* ALL YOUR QUESTIONS HERE!!<< thread.Why are there no giant caterpillars in PF?
They're quite shockingly attired.
Why are there no sentient giant caterpillars with hookahs in PF?
Larval insects demand representation!
Are you saying he should go ask Alice?
Luthorne |
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1) If there's an Ahriman, is there an Ohrmuzd out there somewhere?
2) If you could pick three kinds of bug-themed agathions to get statted up, what insects and/or arachnids and/or otherwise buglike creatures would you want to base them off of?
3) Tangentially, what are some of your favorite kinds of bugs, and what do you like about them? Or are all bugs equally your favorites?
4) Headstrong and impatient azata and cautious but determined flumph, is there a buddy movie in there somewhere?
5) Any part of Golarion that hasn't really been covered much that you'd like to? Casmaron, Avistan, southern Garund, that sort of thing?
6) What's your favorite planet in the Golarion system that isn't Golarion?
7) Considering that many liches get kind of skeletal simply because they don't bother to preserve their flesh, what do you think would happen to a flumph lich that didn't, considering their lack of a skeletal system? Would they just get kind of dried out and leathery or what?
8) What's your opinion on flumph space druids?
9) Do nosferatu fit in with your bug-loving? How about worms that walk?
10) Have you ever ever ever in your long-tentacled life seen a long-tentacled sailor and his long-tentacled wife?
Adam Daigle Developer |
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Why are there no giant caterpillars in PF?
They're quite shockingly attired.
Why are there no sentient giant caterpillars with hookahs in PF?
Larval insects demand representation!
Probably just because we haven't gotten to them yet. I also bet that folks don't think of caterpillars as being dangerous. Anyone who's grown plants can tell you that caterpillars are destructive beasts.
Adam Daigle Developer |
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Adam Daigle wrote:Actually, this was a serious question. :pJustin Sluder wrote:What should I know?Oh, I think you know.
Well in that case, it's a nearly impossible question for me to answer because I don't know what you know so knowing what you don't know is nearly unknowable, not to mention what you should know.