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After some deep thought and consideration, I've realized a way to become rich, or at least famous in Pathfinder. You have to publish a Druidic Dictionary. Now, normally this would be certain death, but if you get a Cohort or Friend to do it for you and then you take the profits, it might work. What do you guys think? Is tgis possible?
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So, you're asking your cohort or friend to violate the druid's code, thus losing most of their abilities and credibility among druids, as well as likely making some sort of druidic hit list, and then letting you take the money they earn? Recall, the companion is still a person, which means they have their own role, goals, and personality, even if you can control them to some extent. They aren't simply a means to becoming more mechanically powerful or wealthy. In the case of a cohort or other NPC, they are ultimately under the GM's control and will not likely do these things unless they are fanatically devoted to you. And even if they went along with it, and perhaps even survived, you would still be reaping the profits. That means you're still a very likely target for understandably angry druids.
This is a pretty dangerous way of becoming rich and famous. Druids are not generally very organized into collectives, but such a possibility is always there. To me, being an adventurer seems about equal on the scales of danger and profit to this, but you're less likely to be actively targeted. Or if you are just tired of that rather cut-and-dry method, you could try to invent something or make some momentous discovery.
Start by being a Leshy Warden. Your leshy familiar will speak Druidic (I hope you speak Sylvan so you can talk with it) w/o actually being a druid. And at low levels it'll be dumb enough to talk into such a thing, and it has no use for money itself so keeping the profits yourself is easy.
It'll still get you totally hosed by druids of much higher level than yourself when you publish, of course.
I planned to do this in a high level mythic campaign once. Got to 16/7 on my rogue before the GM decided he was done with the story. My next feat was going to be druidic decoder! I was quite sad.
Or take the hit yourself. At some point when you are about to gain a level, take a level in the Druid class. You now know the Druidic language and can teach it to one of your fellow adventurers, who can then teach it to others. You are now an ex-Druid.
At first opportunity afterwards, retrain that class level over to something else and continue on your way, keeping an eye out for Druids who are actually powerful enough to do something about what you just did. then learn that language all over again from the buddy you taught it to.
There are way better ways to become super rich....
Full Pouch comes to mind, as do hydra head buffets, or simply becoming an adventurer, or bringing pizza...
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If becoming rich is your goal, just advancing to 20th level and gaining level appropriate wealth will take care of that.
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In a world with Comprehend Languages and Tongues the secrecy of the Druid language is super lame and uninteresting. It's like kids killing to keep pig Latin safe from adults.
If becoming rich is your goal, just advancing to 20th level and gaining level appropriate wealth will take care of that.
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"just"If becoming rich is your goal, just advancing to 20th level and gaining level appropriate wealth will take care of that.
Really, by the time you hit 3rd level as a wizard, you're set. Just open an alchemy shop.
Anything beyond that is just overkill.
There was a running joke in my old gaming group that the best way to get rich in pathfinder was to play in a game run by one of our members, we'll call him Jeremy.
He handed out loot like candy. He ran a Rise of the Runelords game where we'd go on sidequests he made up to find black barrels of loot left by the legendary alchemist, Heisenberg.
One of those black barrels had a full 1,250 pounds of diamonds and rubies in it. We worked out it's worth to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 4 million gold coins. We were level 5 or 6 at the time.
That was the point where even Jeremy was like, "ok, I'm retconning that", mainly because the guys in the group other than myself had come to the conclusion that there was no reason to continue and that their characters were just going to retire.
Even still, we ended up with enough loot that my character had upgraded his starting nodachi to +3, impact & speed by level 7.
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My personal take on how Druidic stays secret is that it is a highly context based language.
In my campaigns, Comprehend Languages works fine to read something written in Druidic, or understand what someone is saying, and Tongues will let you speak it, but since what words you use to describe things are determined by other context-cues.
E.g. the way you would use formal language in some circumstances, and casual language in others, Druidic would use summer-aspected vocabulary in some circumstances/discussions and winter-aspected vocabulary in others, which would be easily translated by the spell, but wouldn't allow you to learn even the everyday nuances of the language without a crazy amount of magically aided study.
But yeah, it probably just shouldn't be that big a secret.
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My personal take on how Druidic stays secret is that it is a highly context based language.
In my campaigns, Comprehend Languages works fine to read something written in Druidic, or understand what someone is saying, and Tongues will let you speak it, but since what words you use to describe things are determined by other context-cues.
E.g. the way you would use formal language in some circumstances, and casual language in others, Druidic would use summer-aspected vocabulary in some circumstances/discussions and winter-aspected vocabulary in others, which would be easily translated by the spell, but wouldn't allow you to learn even the everyday nuances of the language without a crazy amount of magically aided study.
But yeah, it probably just shouldn't be that big a secret.
Maybe it's like the Tamarian language. You can translate the words just fine, but without cultural context you can't discern the meaning behind them. "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra. Shaka, when the walls fell."
If the goal here is infinite I would be remiss not to mention the classic snowcone wish machine of making a simulacrum of a being capable of casting wish.
Also, it's important to think of context. The average person makes around 364 gp per year (making a DC 16 profession check each week, taking 10, skill focus, +1 stat).
Even 1 wish could conservatively grant you 25,000 gp. About 71 times the annual income of a peasant.
^ Yeah free Wishes FTW, nothing can bit that in terms of being rich
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Simulacrum is only a 7th level spell. You don't need to cast wish for this to work. In fact, casting wish yourself would net you no gain.
Unless you use bloodmoney and use magic jar on a whale.
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I'd be careful about using a Magic Jarred whale if you're trying to get rich - they're always swallowing the prophets ;)
Start by being a Leshy Warden. Your leshy familiar will speak Druidic (I hope you speak Sylvan so you can talk with it) w/o actually being a druid. And at low levels it'll be dumb enough to talk into such a thing, and it has no use for money itself so keeping the profits yourself is easy.
It'll still get you totally hosed by druids of much higher level than yourself when you publish, of course.
Just create a druid simulacrum and have it author and publish the book for you.
The best way to get rich- buy some of the cheap adventuring gear kits. Piece them out and sell each item. You made money. Repeat.
