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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?
1) Unclear at this time.
2) Spider, moth, bee.
3) I like mantises quite a bit because they always seemed so alien, but really I'm pretty fond of most bugs. The only ones I dislike are the ones that negatively affect me, like getting bitten by a flea or having a grasshopper destroy a tomato plant. I've liked bugs since I was a kid and I would always catch them and observe them then let em' go. I'd also chase my big sister with them, so I'm pretty sure some of my love for bugs was since they freaked other people out that just made me love them more. Insects are like little biological robots. They have a super specialized task and they just do it. They make up the backbone of our ecology by serving as a huge food source for higher creatures and their tasks as pollinators feeds us all.
4) A weird buddy movie for sure.
5) Casmaron and Arcadia are the most interesting off-map places to me.
6) That's a really tough question. Sutter did such a badass job on Distant Worlds that there's something super-likable about each of the planets.
7) Yeah, they'd probably get all dried out and withered like a crumpled up, greasy paper bag. They'd probably rustle a big when they floated around.
8) Not unreasonable.
9) I like their swarm form ability. Worms that walk are vermin, so variants that were made out of bugs would certainly push my bug button.
10) Not yet.
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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!! ;)
So you like bugs and spiders any chance of seeing a PC race based on spiders or insects?
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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!! ;)So you like bugs and spiders any chance of seeing a PC race based on spiders or insects?
I think it's a cool idea and something I'd like to do in the right place and time.
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I think it's a cool idea and something I'd like to do in the right place and time.So you like bugs and spiders any chance of seeing a PC race based on spiders or insects?
Of the various bug-races we've had in D&D over the years, which are your favorites?
OGL - Formians
General - Thri-Kreen
Greyhawk - Aspis
Arduin Grimoire - Phraints
Spelljammer - Rastipedes, Xixchil
Forgotten Realms - Chitine
Dragon - Diopsid, Chagmat?
Other
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1)Which animal do you like best(not as food), octopus, squid, cuttlefish, or nautilus?
2)Have you seen Pacific Rim yet? If so what did you think?
3)What are your top five places of interest in the Inner Sea region?
4)Do(did) you have a favorite fairy tail, bedtime story, and/or campfire story as a kid?
5)Do have any favorite sorcerer bloodlines?
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I think it's a cool idea and something I'd like to do in the right place and time.So you like bugs and spiders any chance of seeing a PC race based on spiders or insects?
Of the various bug-races we've had in D&D over the years, which are your favorites?
OGL - Formians
General - Thri-Kreen
Greyhawk - Aspis
Arduin Grimoire - Phraints
Spelljammer - Rastipedes, Xixchil
Forgotten Realms - Chitine
Dragon - Diopsid, Chagmat?
Other
Thri-Kreen, Xixchil, and Chitine were cool. I'd add aranea to that list too.
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1)Which animal do you like best(not as food), octopus, squid, cuttlefish, or nautilus?
2)Have you seen Pacific Rim yet? If so what did you think?
3)What are your top five places of interest in the Inner Sea region?
4)Do(did) you have a favorite fairy tail, bedtime story, and/or campfire story as a kid?
5)Do have any favorite sorcerer bloodlines?
1) Cuttlefish!
2) Not yet.
3) Uringen, the Sodden Lands, Thuvia, Geb, Varisia
4) This deserves a better answer than I can conjure at this moment. I'll get back to this.
5) They only become favorites if I need the concept for a character. I haven't played a sorcerer in a while, so I have't cultivated any preferences.
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In a crazy parallel universe, when you came into work today you found a memo sitting on your desk. After the great reception that the design-Kyra's-helm cosplay blog got a few months ago, Lisa wants members of the Paizo staff to cosplay each of the iconics at GenCon.
Assuming that the costumes are put together for everyone, which iconic do you get to cosplay as, and who cosplays each of the other iconics?
I'm sure you know them all by heart, but I figured I'd try to help you out anyway! Because I'm a wonderful person like that. :)
Damiel (Alchemist)
Amiri (Barbarian)
Lem (Bard)
Alain (Cavalier)
Kyra (Cleric)
Lini (Druid)
Valeros (Fighter)
Lirianne (Gunslinger)
Imrijka (Inquisitor)
Seltyiel (Magus)
Sajan (Monk)
Reiko (Ninja)
Alahazra (Oracle)
Seelah (Paladin)
Harsk (Ranger)
Merisiel (Rogue)
Hayato (Samurai)
Seoni (Sorcerer)
Balazar (Summoner)
Feiya (Witch)
Ezren (Wizard)
As you are such a insect/bug lover. (me too)
1 - Are we gonna see more magical Mantis monsters in the future products? (so not giant jungle mantis or normal giant mantis species, but mantis creatures with strange abilities, much like the Aranea and Phase Spider are to the spider species, but then with mantis looks and behaviors)
2 - What do you think of Assassin Bugs?
3 - What do you think about Bombardier Beetles?
Thanks.
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As you are such a insect/bug lover. (me too)
1 - Are we gonna see more magical Mantis monsters in the future products? (so not giant jungle mantis or normal giant mantis species, but mantis creatures with strange abilities, much like the Aranea and Phase Spider are to the spider species, but then with mantis looks and behaviors)
2 - What do you think of Assassin Bugs?
3 - What do you think about Bombardier Beetles?
Thanks.
1 - If they fit, I wouldn't have any problems with mantis creatures.
2 - They're cool.
3 - Also cool.
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Thri-Kreen, Xixchil, and Chitine were cool. I'd add aranea to that list too.
Definitely. Aranea, despite not generally being playable, are easily my favorite. Along with races like gnolls and lizardfolk, I'd love to see a playable 0 HD version of them.
I had great fun with a Xixchil in spelljammer, as well.
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What IS the general opinion of most nations about the Pathfinder Society? It seems the more I read of them (especially from the Pathfinder Society unlikable or is it just me? thread) the less awesome they seem to be, utilizing unethical methods and hoarding the info and artifacts for themselves, becoming so bad there's actually a special interest group among them dedicated to steering the Society towards good ends (The Silver Crusade) and one dedicated to advocating for Pathfinder agents treated callously by the Decemvirate (The Shadow Lodge). And their treatment of Eando Kline and his warnings speaks VERY badly of them.
Simply put, it seems like most info we've received on the Pathfinder Society makes them seem more like egotistical jerks, more like Belloc than Indy. More like Heinrich Schliemann than Howard Carter. That they're not concerned with the study and analysis of ancient history, but more with the treasures and magic they left behind, and instead of sharing it with the world, only care about bragging about it to their colleagues.
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1) If you like bugs, how do you feel about crustaceans?
2) Do you think a half-celestial worm that walks variant made out of ladybugs (probably a druid) would be a cool planar ally of Halcamora (the empyreal lord)?
3) Do you have any favorite spells, whether because of fun you've had with them, their utility, their thematicism, or something along those lines? If so, can you list a few?
4) What are your three favorite aberrations, and why?
5) Do you have a favorite character class in Pathfinder? If so, which one, and why?
6) Would you willingly become a consort for a thriae queen?
7) Do you like Calistria's herald, the Menotherian(s)?
8) I like aranea a lot too, just because they're spider people who aren't (generally) evil, just interested in exploring magic. If you got to play as one, how would you play up its nonhuman aspects?
9) Do flumphs, in your opinion, like music? If so, what kind?
10) What's the lifespan of a flumph, anyways?
@Set: Aren't there 0 HD versions of both gnolls and lizardfolk in ARG in the race builder section?
1) They're cool.
2) I don't think that'd work well at all. One of the requirements to be a worm that walks is being remorselessly evil. I can however imagine a unique swarm-formed good outsider would fit that role well enough.
3) I don't really have any favorite spells. I'm bad at picking favorites as it is and with the huge amount of spells in the game that makes it even harder.
4) Choker, faceless stalker, lunar naga.
5) I like playing bards, rogues, and clerics.
6) I don't think my wife would approve.
7) She's cool.
8) Weird diets, strange senses (or at least uncommon reactions to different stimuli), other stuff I'm not thinking of at the moment.
9) I'm sure they do. I'm not sure what kind they'd like. I'm sure not every flumph would like the same thing, and I'm pretty sure that their preferred genres would sound pretty different from what we're used to.
10) Dunno.
Mr. Daigle, what can you tell us about a recent incident known as..."Ponygate," hmm?
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What IS the general opinion of most nations about the Pathfinder Society? ...The opinions about the Pathfinder Society vary quite a bit I'd presume.
How about your own personal reaction to these things (the theft of the Thorncrown of Iomedae, the events that led to Eando Kline's falling-out with the Society, etc.)?
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Mr. Daigle, what can you tell us about a recent incident known as..."Ponygate," hmm?
I can tell you that I refused the mission.
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How about your own personal reaction to these things (the theft of the Thorncrown of Iomedae, the events that led to Eando Kline's falling-out with the Society, etc.)?What IS the general opinion of most nations about the Pathfinder Society? ...The opinions about the Pathfinder Society vary quite a bit I'd presume.
I don't have a strong opinion one way or the other. Conflict is interesting and even if you get 100 "good guys" together, chances are you won't get them to agree 100% about everything. That said, it'd be cool if people didn't think the Pathfinder Society was made up of a bunch of jerks since they are one of our biggest organizations that happens to share the name of our game.
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Yeah, I was talking about just something with the statistics of something with the worm that walks template (as well as half-celestial). Instead of a dead caster whose soul got eaten by worms, someone was gifted with a new life as (or perhaps even created as) a swarm of ladybugs. But I tend to be a fan of applying templates to creatures and maybe making a few tweaks to suit the desired fluff as a quick and dirty method to make some monsters, like taking a harpy and adding half-celestial and tweaking the spell-like abilities to be more divination-oriented to make a gamayan. Sorry for not being clear.
1) Given the interest of lunar nagas in studying the night skies, do you think you could have one as the ally of some flumphs...or even the two bringing similar warnings from separate studies?
2) If you like crustaceans, have you heard about the peculiarities of the mantis shrimp and the pistol shrimp?
3) I seem to recall that there are flumphs on Bretheda or its moons; how do you think they get along with Brethedans, if at all? Or do they occupy such different ecologies/have such different interests that they rarely interact?
4) What are your three favorite kinds of aliens (space aliens not extraplanar aliens) currently in Pathfinder, and what do you like about them?
5) What would you do if you found out your wife was secretly a veiled master?
6) What are three of your favorite organizations on Golarion, whether heroic, villainous, or somewhere in between?
7) Do you have a favorite alignment or alignments? If so, which one(s)?
8) If someone gave you a flumph lampshade, would you use it?
9) Have you ever kept an insect/arachnid/similar creature as a pet? I've heard tarantulas can make good pets...
10) Do you think a giant spider with the half-dragon template would be frightening, silly, or just plain weird?
1) That's not unreasonable.
2) I certainly have. Actually, I saw my first mantis shrimp when I was 15. I grew up on the Texas Gulf Coast in an area that was plentiful with fresh Gulf shrimp. Most folks down there buy directly from the shrimpers and we had a lady that would come by every so often with coolers of shrimp to sell. We bought some for a gumbo or something and my Mom and I were cleaning them when I came across what I thought was some weird toxic mutant shrimp. So I put it in the freezer and planned to bring it to school the next day to ask my biology teacher what it might be. (This was like 1992 or something, so just hopping onto Google and searching it out wasn't really an option). Turns out it wasn't a mutant corrupted by the many Gulf Coast refineries, but it was instead a mantis shrimp. (It wasn't all colorful, though. Just brownish gray.)
3) Flumphs do inhabit one or more Brethedan moons. I think they'd probably get along well with Brethedans, though I leave the details to Sutter.
4) I don't have a favorite alien. They're all cool to me.
5) Try to sneak away very carefully without thinking about it. OR Join with her in hatching a nefarious plan (and ensure that I'm insulated from any death or evil or whatnot).
6) Whispering Way (because I got to write the article in Pathfinder #45), the Red Mantis Assassins, and Magaambya (though I was tempted to lump all the cool groups in Kaer Maga into a single response).
7) I don't really have a favorite alignment. I often play good characters of some sort, usually NG or CG.
8) Maybe.
9) I've kept insects no longer than a few days. I always feel bad for them and end up setting them free. Of course, that only goes for ones I've caught myself. I've certainly considered getting some pet bugs before. One of my good friends has cockroaches, a tarantula, and some emperor scorpions. All of those sound cool.
10) Yes. ;)
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I don't have a strong opinion one way or the other. Conflict is interesting and even if you get 100 "good guys" together, chances are you won't get them to agree 100% about everything. That said, it'd be cool if people didn't think the Pathfinder Society was made up of a bunch of jerks since they are one of our biggest organizations that happens to share the name of our game.How about your own personal reaction to these things (the theft of the Thorncrown of Iomedae, the events that led to Eando Kline's falling-out with the Society, etc.)?What IS the general opinion of most nations about the Pathfinder Society? ...The opinions about the Pathfinder Society vary quite a bit I'd presume.
Maybe it's just because they've gotten relatively negative press with these events. We just need an opportunity to see Pathfinders doing undeniably heroic stuff (The end of Shattered Star KIND of counts, but it's also problematic due to the massive collateral damage).
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[PFS tangent]
It might help to highlight an Aspis Consortium sponsored team of explorers plunder some Osirioni tomb and set up an auction for the stuff they've found, which might include stuff that can cause plagues of ghoul fever, or amulets that control mummies, or canopic jars that unleash swarms of crop-devouring locusts or bone-stripping beetles or similar scary stuff that a Pathfinder Society group would be more likely to hand over to their leadership to be locked away forever.
Or to have some stuff get stolen from the PFS vaults, and end up on the black market, with it highlighted how nasty this stuff is, and how it was being locked away for a reason, to give them more of a Warehouse 13 vibe.
Not everything need be tangible. Some information might be dangerous, such as a Whispering Way-created means of casting spells by tapping into your own life-energy. After you've read the tome and ruminated upon it's secrets for 24 hours, you can take a point of Con damage while casting a spell, and you can add one level of metamagic to it for free, or cast it at +2 CL, or cast it as a move action instead of a standard action. Hot stuff! But you weaken your spirit in the process, and if you die while still suffering Con damage from this spellcasting technique, you are guaranteed to rise as an undead spellcaster of some sort. And so the Society locked away or destroyed every tome they could find sharing this special technique, lest every unwise or desperate spellcaster on the planet accidentally turn themselves into an undead.
Demoniac texts might similarly offer *slightly* improved variations on common spells, requiring an act of obeisance during spell preparation, perhaps, or just when the spell is learned, a small evil act, to get the ball rolling. Casting the spell (or performing the rites of obeisance to prepare them) becomes addictive, using the Gamemastery Guide addiction rules, and if you succumb fully, your alignment slips to evil and / or chaotic. The improvements on the spells would be similarly wicked, inflicting bonus damage to good creatures, allowing you to designate an evil ally to be completely unharmed, doing extra damage to natural animals, conjuring fire that is half fire, half unholy power (that bypasses fire resistance), etc.
I think it's up to the individual GM, or the writers of the PFS mods to add these sorts of details in, so that the Pathfinder Society player gets the impression that some of this stuff that's being taken out of circulation by the leadership is *bad stuff* that kind of needs to be kept out of circulation. If the Society doesn't find it, and lock it down, then some other schmuck is going to find it, and whatever dark genies await in the tombs and crypts and ruins could get out of their bottles and spread all sorts of havoc.
Osirion, in particular, having opened up it's ancient ruins to foreign exploitation, would be a hotbed of this sort of potential problem, particularly with some ancient pharaohs having dabbled in all sorts of dubious things, like Rovagug worship, and alliance with powers from the Dark Tapestry.
I haven't played a lot of PFS, so I'm not sure how much this comes across in the organized play mods and their objectives, but it *should* be part of the theme.
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Thri-Kreen, Xixchil, and Chitine were cool. I'd add aranea to that list too.Definitely. Aranea, despite not generally being playable, are easily my favorite. Along with races like gnolls and lizardfolk, I'd love to see a playable 0 HD version of them.
[tangent]FWIW, Here's the one I've put together, final spoiler in the bunch.[/tangent]
Who are you again? Also you have until 2020..
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Check out the spider in this article.
Yeah, there's some cool stuff there. One of my friends sent me that photographer's photoset knowing my love of insects and arachnids.
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Hey, welcome back from GenCon!
For some reason, I thought you would enjoy this gallery of animals wearing clothes. They look kinda sinister and and monstrous.
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how do you like seattle in the summer. i loved it when i lived there. also how humid does it get in texas (last time i lived there was when i was 5, so dont remember much) i've moved around the country a lot:)
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Hey, welcome back from GenCon!
For some reason, I thought you would enjoy this gallery of animals wearing clothes. They look kinda sinister and and monstrous.
That's wonderfully strange. Thanks!
I think the dark background really brings the sinister to the pictures.
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how do you like seattle in the summer. i loved it when i lived there. also how humid does it get in texas (last time i lived there was when i was 5, so dont remember much) i've moved around the country a lot:)
Summers here are awesome. I only wish that they were longer. :) This summer in particular (only my second) has been exceptionally wonderful. There has been very little rain and the highs have been in the mid to high 80s most days. Pleasant and warm, but not an oven like Austin is in the summer. I made the joke that this whole summer has been September weather, since that's about when it starts cooling off to reasonable temperatures in Austin.
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the only thing i remember about austin was that was the first time i saw a dead person, we just got to town and stopped at a gas station, the door was ajar there was blood everywhere and the guy was half laying out the door. my dad gunned the car as fast as he could, we drove to the nearest pay phone (this being 1981 had no cell phone) and called the cops. needless to say we didn't stay in Austin, tho i do have friends that recently moved there and i've heard nothing but great things about it. i'm glad you're enjoying Seattle, our daughter was born there and we'd have probably stayed out there but my mom had health problems (which have since been corrected) and we wanted her to be able to spend as much time as possible with her only grand daughter, so we took one for the team as it were:)
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Wow. That's the second weird "just getting into Austin" story I've heard. The first was from an old bartender working the carousel bar at Circus Circus. He was leaving the military after serving overseas and was processed out in San Antonio, so he headed up to Austin by bus to see what opportunities he could find there. He went downtown just as Whitman was up in the UT tower sniping people. He said screw this and he immediately went back to the bus station and headed west.
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Did you enjoy GenCon?
Also what are all the spoilers in Iron Gods?
I did! It was a lot of hard work and tiring, but I had a fun time. I got to see a bunch of my friends that I only get to see once (maybe twice) a year and I got to meet new people (like you).
I have no spoilers for Iron Gods at this time. Actually, the AP is still an infant at this time. It just lays there making strange sounds. We'll teach it to talk soon enough.
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Did you enjoy GenCon?
Also what are all the spoilers in Iron Gods?
I did! It was a lot of hard work and tiring, but I had a fun time. I got to see a bunch of my friends that I only get to see once (maybe twice) a year and I got to meet new people (like you).
I have no spoilers for Iron Gods at this time. Actually, the AP is still an infant at this time. It just lays there making strange sounds. We'll teach it to talk soon enough.
...and by teach it to talk, he means harvest the bodies and consciousness of other humanoids, distill it down into a fine orange paste and electrical impulses and directly feed it into a series of glass tubes and copper wires hooked up to Iron Gods' central processing unit.
If machines aren't born with a soul, they'll reverse-engineer one!
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Hi Adam,
Since you wrote the article on Baba Yaga and her history in TWQR, I figure that you're probably the one to pose this question to. I'm wondering what Baba Yaga's point of "Mythic Ascension" was. When and how did it happen?
That's still a mystery. Dear Grandmother doesn't divulge her secrets easily.
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Wow. That's the second weird "just getting into Austin" story I've heard. The first was from an old bartender working the carousel bar at Circus Circus. He was leaving the military after serving overseas and was processed out in San Antonio, so he headed up to Austin by bus to see what opportunities he could find there. He went downtown just as Whitman was up in the UT tower sniping people. He said screw this and he immediately went back to the bus station and headed west.
i would've too:) the funny thing after we left texas we went to florida, rented a house, my dad got a job then literally two weeks later we had to evacuate because of a hurricane, our house was wiped out, my parents said f*c$ this and we moved back to the midwest lol they still refuse to this day to go back to either state:)
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That's still a mystery. Dear Grandmother doesn't divulge her secrets easily.Hi Adam,
Since you wrote the article on Baba Yaga and her history in TWQR, I figure that you're probably the one to pose this question to. I'm wondering what Baba Yaga's point of "Mythic Ascension" was. When and how did it happen?
Curses. Any chance of seeing it at some point?
Also, were you the one to write up the new Fate patron for Baba Yaga as well? If you were, would you say that the patron is a good fit for somebody using the Winter Witch archetype? The archetype limits the witch to a certain list of possible patrons and doesn't include Fate, but it's thematic based on other patrons a Winter Witch can take (e.g. Wisdom or Portents), so I don't see any reason why it wouldn't have been intended as possible for Winter Witches other than that it only appeared recently and the archetype has been around for much longer.
Maybe, but probably not in print. We've done a bunch with Baba Yaga and I'm not sure how much of that we're going to revisit. Who knows, though.
I did write up the Baba Yaga article and the fate patron (though the patron was certainly a collaboration between Rob and I). I think it could be a good fit for someone using the winter witch archetype. The fact that it came about later is certainly the best reason it wasn't included.