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Happiest of Holly Days!


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Pathfinder Maps, Pathfinder Accessories, Starfinder Society Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber
Kobold Catgirl wrote:
Happiest of Holly Days!

As a horticulturalist that grows hollies, I believe everyone should get one!

Happy Holly Days! :)


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So this is my first post since the Occult Beta Test many many moons ago but I have been lurking through most of the terrible and watching a bunch of folks try their darned best to try to make sure this is a safe place for people and honestly renews my faith in the hobby. Thank you folks, from my Ace self and my NB partner we adore ya all :)


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Welcome back to posting and thank you for the comments.

Folks sometimes forget Ace and non-binary when some of that vitriol starts flying around.


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Quite welcome, and yeah us Ace's are all Expert level in Stealth at times XD. If only we could control it we would could be unstoppable :-p or at the very least much more hilarious pranksters.


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I've been avoiding the latest thread on a certain topic, but I want to add Luis Loza, too, to the "staff/freelancers" list. I think his posts have been incredibly well-phrased, direct, and helpful to discussions.

Radiant Oath

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I wrote this a while ago, back in our more innocent days when Paizo's playtest of Pathfinder 2 meant the forums were full of rage about goblins being a player race. I thought I'd repost it, because it reminds me that we can still sometimes find humor in amongst forum disputes.

♫ The grar grows wild on the forum tonight
Not a Paizo mod to be seen
A forum of aggravation
And Sara Marie’s still our queen

The crowd is howling with ev’ry preview Paizo’s tried
Couldn't keep it in, it’s a crazy ride
Don't read them now, don't let them see
Another post of negativity
Conceal, don't feel, don't let them know
Well, now they know

Let it go, let it go
Don’t post there anymore
Let it go, let it go
Stop trying to keep a score
I don't care what they're going to say
Let the grar rage on
The posts never bothered me anyway

Let it go, let it go
Don’t post there anymore
Let it go, let it go
Stop trying to keep a score

Let it go (go, go, go go, go go, go go, go, go, go go)
Let it go
Let it go
Let it go

It's funny how some distance makes everything seem small
Edition changes that once enthralled me can’t get to me at all
It's time to see what 2e can do
To test the limits and break through
No right, no wrong, no rules for me
I'm free

Let it go, let it go
I can let those posts go by
Let it go, let it go
You’ll never see a reply
Here gobs stand and here gobs stay
Let the grar rage on

The Playtest’s action economy seems rather sound
But in all these blogs so little content can be found
And one thought comes with all the songs I’ve sassed
I'm never going back, the past is in the past

Let it go
These posts never bothered me anyway
Let it go, let it go
The flame war rages on and on
Let it go, let it go
That perfect gob is gone
Here gobs sing and here they play
Let the grar rage on ♫

Wayfinders Contributor

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It also reminds me that we've been through some of this before, and weathered it, and found our community again. If anyone wants to join me in singing silly filks, I'd love that!


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Merry Christmas Eve to those who observe it, and particularly to the fine employees of Paizo. As hard as these past few months have been, the reason I've stuck around is because the people working at Paizo have contributed so much joy to my life over the years. We appreciate all of you more than ten threads like this could ever express.

Liberty's Edge

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I want to thank my local post office forgiving me an opportunity to spread some holiday cheer. Received a box from Paizo today while getting my mother-on-law's mail for her. How unusual, I already got my Paizo box. Duplicate order? Same stuff, I guess duplicate order. Happen to glance at label. Oh no, this is someone else's box.

Six mile ride later, got the opportunity to hand a gamer's mother his box so he can have it for Christmas. Very sweet lady.


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Oh my gosh, that's so charming and sweet!


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I wish I knew some names to throw around, but I just want to give a big thank-you this Boxing Day to all of Paizo's wonderful warehouse workers and associates! None of the goodies we've been sent this year would have arrived without their hard work, and they're every bit as integral to the company as the CEO. We really appreciate y'all. You're the unsung heroes of the Paizo offices, and it can't have been easy to keep up with demand this holiday season on top of everything else going on.

Silver Crusade

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As of the Grand Bazaar: Warehouse Manager: Jeff Strand, Distribution Lead: Heather Payne, Warehouse Team: Alexander Crain, Mika Hawkins, James Mafi, and Loren Walton.


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I want to thank everyone I've ever had an interesting lore conversation with here. It's the whole reason I came around in the first place, and I so desperately don't want to lose it. Very grateful for the cool world to obsess over, and cool people to obsess over it with.


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Okay, some new stuff--thanks to Mark Seifter for telling me who did what.

Solatra: I recently got ahold of the Lost Omens Character Guide, and I love the dwarven lore. Clan daggers are just brilliant--at first I hesitated, because "that seems really specific for such a broad ancestry". Then I realized that's the whole fun of ancestries: giving them broadly applicable traits that would normally be very specific which the player can then use, subvert or reject. No matter what the player/GM does with them, clan daggers offer a fantastic way to customize individual dwarves and make them stick out, not to mention a really cool tradition overall.

I also love the differentiation between "mountain dwarves" and "deep dwarves" and "surface dwarves". Again, it invites customization along deceptively simple categories, which is so encouraging for new players who are trying to work out how to fill an empty page with backstory and personality. And while some players like playing "classic dwarves" (often defined as either mountain-dwelling or purely underground-dwelling), others like playing people immersed in surface cultures who just happen to be dwarves, and allowing all these styles to coexist is tricky. A really useful design choice can be to avoid closing any doors you don't have to. Solatra pulls it off here with the categories, while still giving players tons of prompts to work with.

On top of all this, it's all really nicely-written! Thank you for so beautifully expanding on one of my favorite ancestries, and actually making me love them a lot more!

A couple details I especially love:
- Beards are fashionable specifically for deep dwarves of all genders as well as surface dwarf men. I like that it's not just an "all dwarves" thing.
- "Mountain dwarves" makes me think of The Hobbit, and I think that may have been the point--dwarves that are separate from human society, but still interact here with it more than the deep dwarves.
- The art (I know that's not your fault, but it's just breathtakingly lovely--I can't even tell which piece is more gay, and that's surprising!)
- The customization potential for the clan dagger sheathes. It gives me so many character ideas.

Ron Lundeen, Alexandria Bustion, Eleanor Ferron, Mark Seifter: So I've started playing Kindled Magic with my group, and I'm actually only a little ways in (we just finished Session Zero last week), but... wow, this is the fastest I've fallen in love with an AP to date. Just the start of this AP is making me really want to check out other adventure paths. It's this great reminder of everything Pathfinder APs can be.

So, basically, this is praise strictly for the interview concept, the AP concept, and the Player's Guide. The concept is adorable and fun and creative--I was so worried when I heard "magic school AP" that it was going to be some awkward Harry Potter clone, and then I heard it was the Magaambya, and my mind shifted mercifully from "Harry Potter" to "Wizard of Earthsea"--something sweeping and mysterious, something encouraging curiosity about the world.

The interview was so much fun. Having it be a "public" thing (where we actually answer the questions in front of the other PCs, allowing us all to get to know each other a little bit) is great. It's especially wonderful for the classic "edgy, secretive" PC problem--right off the bat, sorry, buddy, you have to at least give us something to work off of, and now we have a half-dozen roleplaying prompts per character.

The questions are all great, and the "perquisite"/"sponsor" concepts offer so much potential for hooks and connections to town. My wizard was firmly rooted in "I'm an edgy outcast/Sparrowhawk ripoff", and I didn't have any thought of how she might be connected to Nantambu... until I had to think of a perquisite. Now she's also helped some farmers on the outskirts handle a goblin snake, giving her a few minor and flexible connections that might come up later.

The Player's Guide is gorgeous, and full of great concepts and cool backstory prompts. It's really clear and super evocative. It's a treat to read. I'm so excited for this AP. Overall, what a great way to get players started on what I'll bet will be a fantastic journey.

I loved a lot in the LOCG, but I've been browsing it slowly. Likewise, I'll get around to praising more in SoT as I get further along. I've also got a lot of good to say about the MWangi Expanse book and the Magaambya section of LOCG, I just need more time with them.


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Solatra does incredible work, and is also very sweet. I was just praising all the dwarf stuff in the Mwangi book, which I really can't praise enough.


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I know so many people who've raved about the Mwangi dwarf content!


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I so want to play in this AP, though it would probably have to be online, since I don't think my current group is interested - and we're in the middle of other stuff.


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Kobold Catgirl wrote:
I know so many people who've raved about the Mwangi dwarf content!

It's one of the strongest books Paizo has done, IMO. Not perfect, but very, very good.


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I will say, I really like the Mwangi book's introduction--especially the "Exciting, not exotic!" sidebar, which is a really helpful way to think about things.


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I'll send some kindness around and tell devs and forum users alike to look up "Geraldine loves star wars" on YouTube. 34 seconds of video that always make me smile, rain or shine.


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Ooh, here's an obscure one.

I'm browsing Wayfinder #14 right now (shoutout to Timitius, Liz Courts, and everyone else who's made that magazine great) and I want to acknowledge John "Moonstonian" Leising's amazing Weal or Woe article, "Spider and the Fly". What a brilliant concept for a brilliant pair of NPCs. Catherine Batka's art does wonderful justice to these two (our "spider" is gorgeous and frightening, but somehow the artist managed to get across "neutral" in both her human and arachnid forms), and the writing is superb and lovely. I want to use these two in a game someday.

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