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Radiant Oath
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Pyronite is essentially dynamite by a different name, right?
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Likely a more powerful fantasy version of TNT (trinitrotoluene), which is what dynamite is made from. Possibly more like tri-cyclic acetone peroxide, or TATP.

"A pellet no larger than a pea" of TNT would not be enough to blow the door off a safe.
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It's an explosive macguffin.
Radiant Oath
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Well, yeah, of course it is! I'm just wondering if there'll be a Gattlebee Prize on Golarion at some point in the future. :P
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I doubt it, since he seemingly ceases to exist after the events of book 1.

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mikeawmids wrote:
I doubt it, since he seemingly ceases to exist after the events of book 1.

My biggest complaint about this AP is that it's more Wild West than Steampunk. The second is that Gattlebee just gets one line at the start of book 2, I think, and then is gone.

He's essential to the backstory of one of my players so I've been having to realllly squeeze him in as much as I can. Seems like a wasted opportunity.
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Virellius wrote:
My biggest complaint about this AP is that it's more Wild West than Steampunk.

I guess you and I have different desires, lol. The Wild West aspect is what drew me in!

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mtvjr wrote:
Virellius wrote:
My biggest complaint about this AP is that it's more Wild West than Steampunk.
I guess you and I have different desires, lol. The Wild West aspect is what drew me in!

Alkenstar has always been painted as Steampunk City so the low-to-zero focus on those tropes set a different expectation for the AP than what my party and I had. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE this AP. It just took some changing of expectations.

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Wild West and Steampunk go hand-in-hand though. They're both based on the late 1800s
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I don't disagree; it's just when you imagine Victorian High Tech, as Alkenstar has always seemed very Piltover-esque, not every character is ready for Bronze Dead Redemption. Believe me, I was absolutely neck deep in Steampunk in its hayday; you would have been hard-pressed to find someone leaning into the cowboy aesthetic. The MAJORITY of peoples idea of the genre is high society/junkers/airships. Wild Wild West was unique in the more common zeitgeist, usually brought up in the 'did you know this was also Steampunk?' It surely wasn't the forefront of the genre as commonly known.

Again, you're not wrong and I do like it. It's just different than what Alkenstar had been depicted as up until this point.
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