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CottonWolf
Jul 20, 2012

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This is ludicrous value for anyone considering getting into 2e.

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CottonWolf
Jul 20, 2012

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That Solar token owns.

CottonWolf
Jul 20, 2012

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GimpInBlack posted:

Honestly this map makes me more hype to try Pathfinder 2e.

It's also remarkably on point for a joke.

They lose points for colouring, but not coming up with a witty phrase for, Jalmeray though.

CottonWolf fucked around with this message at 20:44 on Aug 21, 2022

CottonWolf
Jul 20, 2012

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Lurks With Wolves posted:

Everyone else already mentioned the worse bits of the Mwangi Expanse's presentation, but the way early 1e tried to sell you on locations by presenting them as thin pastiches of real life countries actively put me off of Golarion. Do you like Egypt? How about China? Don't worry, a legally distinct version of the Roma people are there too.

Once you get about halfway through 1e it feels like Erik Mona is the only writer who really enjoyed making that kind of IRL cultural expy, and in 2e all the setting info's first impressions feel like actual settings I'd like to read about and less like a racist travelogue.

The Egypt expy gets points for going all in on the stupid though. According to the lore, the Earth's Ancient Egyptian pantheon is the same as Osirion's because they're literally the same gods. At some point they decided to gently caress off from Golarian and go and live on Earth instead.

CottonWolf
Jul 20, 2012

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It’s really good. I got my PDF last week. It’s all fluff, but that’s what I want from the Lost Omens series. Some of the details are great, things like goblins measuring time by songs or the length of burning fires. There are some really useful GM details too, if you’re running a game in Golarion, especially the section on what ordinary people know.

CottonWolf
Jul 20, 2012

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Jarvisi posted:

https://paizo.com/products/btq02e0v?Pathfinder-Adventure-Path-190-The-Choosing

New adventure path announced. Looks like a wacky adventure to find all the magical tarot cards

Oooo. A new tarot Harrow reader archetype is confirmed in the Player's Handbook. I wonder if it will be usable with the physical deck they're releasing.

CottonWolf
Jul 20, 2012

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Jack B Nimble posted:

Hmmn. Not really looking for evilish. Curse of Strahd but PF2 is basically what I'm looking for, isn't there one with a spoooooky carnival?

I'm not sure which one you're thinking about there, but there is Malevolence. I've not played it, so I can't vouch for the quality, but it sounds like the kind of thing you're after.

CottonWolf
Jul 20, 2012

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As long as you're group is up for a dungeon crawl, Abomination Vaults is near univerally acknowledged to be good. It's 1-10ish.

CottonWolf
Jul 20, 2012

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Ghost psychic is also an option for maximum Poltergeist energy.

CottonWolf
Jul 20, 2012

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Failboattootoot posted:

Thanks all, that all sounds pretty great, and looking up the specific spells mentioned does make it look like it's gone in a pretty good direction. Are there any particularly cool examples of martials getting spell-like utility? I saw that medicine gives a pretty similar effect to Heal (well, assuming you keep up with training it).

For instance the ultimate intimidation ability, which a specialist can get at 15 is Scare to Death, which is a save or die which does exactly what it says on the tin.

CottonWolf
Jul 20, 2012

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Legendary Thief is a fun feat, but I really wish there was a follow up that let you steal literally impossible things. I want to steal hope from my enemies, or the memory of seeing me.

CottonWolf
Jul 20, 2012

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ShallNoiseUpon posted:

Really love how this system does XP, but have now on a couple occassions ran into the issue where the players will hit the 1,000xp mark in the middle of a dungeon dive and I am always somewhat unsure about what to do in these situations. It feels weird to simply go "ahhh you've reached the magic number, immediately level up" while they are, for example, running away from a rising tide in a coastal marsh that floods the first floor of the dungeon, but it also feels really bad to give the players the XP and then withhold the fun part, which is getting new things to play with.

I suppose the answer to this is "do milestone xp you dingus."

Or go completely the other way, stop mid-fight, and be like "You feel new power welling up inside you", dramatic music plays, and then you blast the baddie with your new toy.

Live your inner Goku.

CottonWolf
Jul 20, 2012

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The Dwarves are coming.

https://paizo.com/products/btq02e6p?Pathfinder-Lost-Omens-Highhelm

CottonWolf
Jul 20, 2012

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First impressions of Impossible Lands. Nearly as good as Mwangi, but it suffers from having less of a coherent theme overall, and feels like 4 mini-setting guides (Nex, Mana Wastes, Geb and Jalmaray) rather than one cohesive one like Mwangi. That impression might change after giving it a more thorough read though.

CottonWolf
Jul 20, 2012

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Did WotC really just re-edit the OFL to gently caress over Paizo et al?

CottonWolf
Jul 20, 2012

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Wizards discovering what happens after you gently caress around, I see. Good on Paizo.

CottonWolf
Jul 20, 2012

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Yep. That’s it.

CottonWolf
Jul 20, 2012

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Tian Xia is next year. Two books. The Mwangi-style setting guide and a character options book. I’m pretty hyped.

CottonWolf
Jul 20, 2012

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A classic WotC own goal.

CottonWolf
Jul 20, 2012

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Chevy Slyme posted:

Dragons are getting moved from the old color scheme to a new set of families based on magical traditions. Other OGL monsters and magic items getting changed or removed (RIP Owlbear). Gnoll’s getting a new name. Comprehensive errata for Witch (specifically new and improved Patron interaction mechanics to make that feel more important), Oracle, Alchemist and champion.

They’ll pry owlbears from my cold dead hands.

Pretty happy with most of these changes. Looking forward to seeing what 2.5e looks like.

CottonWolf
Jul 20, 2012

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That is extremely cool.

Though I’ve not played any of Bkom’s games, so who knows what the quality will be.

CottonWolf fucked around with this message at 18:26 on Apr 30, 2023

CottonWolf
Jul 20, 2012

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Nooooo. Why? Why would you make an action RPG? 2e is RIGHT THERE!

CottonWolf
Jul 20, 2012

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Yeah. It’s not a bad fit, it’s just not what I wanted, at all.

CottonWolf
Jul 20, 2012

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Lamuella posted:

I'd imagine if they were going to do a 2e ruleset in a crpg they'd give Owlcat first bite of the cherry, and it looks like Owlcat are still putting out dlc for Wrath of the Righteous, so we might be a while.

Perhaps. They might well be too busy with that 40K money now.

Either way, with the licensing stuff going on over on the tabletop side, we’re almost certainly not going to see any new 1e games.

CottonWolf
Jul 20, 2012

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Something BG3 scale seems unrealistic, but there’s no reason 2e couldn’t get a Solasta/Owlcat scale game. The question is, who’d make it? There aren’t many CRPG studios that aren’t a) already tied up in multi year projects or b) owned by Microsoft.

CottonWolf
Jul 20, 2012

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Clerical Terrors posted:

From perusing their discord it seems like they don't like the idea of switching to 2e because they'd have to completely rethink their game instead of building on what they had in Kingmaker and WotR, which is understandable.

I get it, but I don’t like that it means no more Pathfinder games from Owlcat.

CottonWolf
Jul 20, 2012

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Andrast posted:

Does it? There is no reason for paizo to refuse to license any of the old pf1 adventure paths for further games.

I was just skeptical that Paizo would want to touch any of their old 1e OGL stuff at this point.

CottonWolf
Jul 20, 2012

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That's cool. I hope this means, eventually, every outer plane gets a new dragon. I guess this is really an infernal dragon update. (Edit: Luis Loza confirmed on Paizo's website that infernal dragons still exist as a separate thing, and may get a 2e update eventually.)

CottonWolf fucked around with this message at 22:47 on May 3, 2023

CottonWolf
Jul 20, 2012

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3 Action Economist posted:

Looks like we're getting a book next year with 6 new ancestries, including minotaurs and centaurs.

https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6siay?Grandmother-s-Story-Part-5-The-Howl-of-the-Wild

(Scroll down through the story.)

E: Hoping this means we get other big ancestries like half-giant.

If they carry on the tradition of giving at least one new class in a rule book, this seems like the perfect excuse for Shifter. That would leave Inquisitor as the last heavily requested class.

CottonWolf
Jul 20, 2012

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Is all you have the Corebook?

CottonWolf
Jul 20, 2012

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lol at ever using that when Pathbuilder exists.

CottonWolf
Jul 20, 2012

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I think the two closest are Lizardfolk and Kobolds.

CottonWolf
Jul 20, 2012

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Chevy Slyme posted:

If you’re pinning your hopes on the remaster making a wild shape druid less of a spellcaster and more of a shapeshifter melee… keep hoping.

We’re going to have to wait for them to redo shifter for that.

CottonWolf
Jul 20, 2012

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I suspect both Samurai and Ninja or some renamed version of those will end up as archetypes in the Tian Xia character options book.

CottonWolf
Jul 20, 2012

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HidaO-Win posted:

Pharasma being killed by a returning Aroden would pop me a lot.

Gozreh seems to be a decent bet as maybe a climate change allusion.

Aroden coming back and being the new focal villain of the setting would own.

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CottonWolf
Jul 20, 2012

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I like “Lie on a crit fail, but everyone knows it’s a lie and you get a circumstance bonus attempting to act on it”

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