Pathfinder General /pfg/
When Starfinder's prerelease book comes out soon, should /pfg/ split into /pfg/ and /sfg/ or stick together as one general? What do you guys think?
Unified /pfg/ link repository: pastebin.com
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Old Thread:
It was already discussed on a few threads. While some would prefer seperate threads, the majority would prefer them to stand under the pathfinder general. Mostly because otherwise the community would be too spread out, and end up with two dead generals. Along with them being related enough that they are essentially the same game anyways.
Hello darkness, my old friend.
So what happened in PLD today? Did we meet the new victim?
They roleplayed a scene where an alcoholic father stops by the bar after picking his kids up from school
When his son complained about the smell of the smoke he struck him across the face until his lip split open
Was the dad or the son the new character?
...That sounds worryingly like the voice of experience, user.
I have been trying to run a Spheres of Might playtest game.
It has been fraught with many delays from scheduling concerns and the playtest documents rapidly changing on us. We hosted our first session last Friday, even though there was no combat, and we are slated to continue on the 12th and every Friday thereafter weekly.
The idea was to gather as much playtest data as possible so as to assist the Spheres of Might developers.
However, we are faced with a major impasse. The Spheres of Might developers in the forums have announced that the martial focus mechanic will be discarded entirely, which is a titanic change that upheaves the entirety of Spheres of Might, since the current metagame of spheremighters revolves around rapidly expending and regaining martial focus.
A less ground-shaking, though still significant, change they have announced is a rewrite of the sphere-specific drawbacks mechanic. Since many optimized builds are grounded in the use and abuse of such drawbacks, this will force a rewrite of most characters who were employing drawbacks.
We do not know how long it will take for the Spheres of Might writers to make public the total overhaul of the martial focus mechanic and the sphere-specific drawbacks.
This is problematic for my playtest, because it means that all of my group's playtest data will be completely irrelevant if it still uses martial focus and sphere-specific drawbacks in their current state.
What should we do? Should we simply carry on and play regardless, even if it means our playtest data is worthless? Should we place the game on hold until the Spheres of Might developers undertake the arduous task of rewriting both martial focus and sphere-specific drawbacks?
fuck off shill
PFG, tell me about the game that got away.
The campaign you were so pumped for, but which died because the GM flaked or the players were assholes, or the party just didn't come together.
A eldritch horror/conspiracy game taking place in a low-fantasy city comparable to 1600s London. Everyone liked their characters, and meshed together pretty well; but the GM called off the session at the last second for three weeks, then just disappeared for another three with no excuse.
Made me super sad.
They didn't share, but I hope they still had fun.
Hush you
Brutal
Sorry to hear that my man
Oh my.
The GM was a super cool guy too, he scattered codes and puzzles throughout the sessions for us to decrypt during downtime, which linked us to videos he'd made that hid pieces of lore trivia, and spoilers for the next sessions. It was basically perfect, then... nothing, it all went up in smoke.
wow
Summary of PLD today:
>"Vult has no time for comfy: turns out while Cashmere was RPing getting out of the bath, getting dressed, and making sure Lysander and Bonbon don't peek, the Tome Awakening happened off screen and now the whole mansion is swallowed in darkness and they have to fight their way out without knowing what's going on"
Cashmere figured out Sigmund got murdered though so that's a plus.
Gloriana still wrapped in bondage with a dog somewhere. (IKiD couldn't make the session)
But where's the new kid?
A "comfy" game where we were courtiers for a minor noble house.
That's in quotes because the first session, and about half of the second session was comfy, but the rest was body horror, despair, and eldritch madness. My vigilante had to hold down another PC while she watched her twin brother (yet another PC) ripped apart by wild dogs. If I had let her go, she would have revealed our position and gotten everyone else killed.
It was brutal and creepy in the best possible way. Buuuut the rest of the players threw a bitch fit, and the GM bailed.
So
Garbage
like the rest of PLD
That only happened by you and the other players fault and yours alone.
Hope you are happy being a fucking asshole that is going to die alone since is uncapable of love and being loved.
Being introduced in PbP at the moment.
Everyone already knew beforehand that they wouldn't be jumping in this session, but they're on their own solo mission, tracking the myth of a lone traveler hauling giant monster corpses around.
...interesting.
What was best about it; the comfy, the horror, or the mix?
Ah, so not a lot happened then?
I hope you still enjoyed your time
Thanks for your input.
My tables been complaining that I smell like grease, poop and dick cheese. Any hygiene tips for the obese and porn addicted role player?
Tell us about them! Are they rugged and handsome? Soft and cute? Have they been battered and beaten?
Rugged, cute, and battered
Come on, introduce us to them!
The mix.
I built a character for a comfy game, so suddenly needing to deal with eldritch rituals, Cronenburgesque abominations, and infectious glass really pulled me out of my comfort zone and forced me to adapt. The GM said he was a huge Dark Heresy and CoC fan and it fucking showed. The horror was pitch perfect.
Shower every day, wear clean clothes, wear deodorant, and shave.
If people are still complain, do all that right before game time. It's pretty simple.
app.roll20.net
I've cross-referenced the players with the application thread, and Temeria is not only new, but in fact, never applied at all. It is quite rude of them to not post their application where we can see it!
It was fun! It started late and ended at the usual time which is why it wasn't as busy as usual, and there was a chunk of battle which was tough because most of the party didn't get enough sleep to recover their resources.
>guns
>engineering
>heroics
>???
>dragons, maybe
I'm glad to hear you had fun!
Hopefully you'll be able to start at the normal time next meet, eh?
How's necrooccultist?
Considering the shitstorm the game causes every single day, I'm legit surprised the account isn't a brand new totally anonymous alt. Maybe Vult chose to avoid backlash by instead recruiting someone who doesn't even know what /pfg/ is.
a side grade
Makes for a good Bad Toucher
Probably someone who's friends with him and/or the other players outside of /pfg/ (possibly from F-list?)
Though it is funny to think they roped in some Roll20 rando who doesn't fully understand what he's in for.
S-Should I PM them?
Are you warning them, or hitting on them?
Either way, yes.
No Bully the Rando!
If you do PM them be Nice!
...
Not if I PM them first!
Any of you guys know which book was various Pact with Devils were in?
I believe it was Hell's Rebels 5.
Playing a necromancer all about efficiency that eventually wants to become undead, for reasons both obvious and otherwise.
In the mean time, what's the best way for a human sorcerer to ignore or reduce sleep so they have more time to study? How early can I totally ignore it? All I can think of is Ring of Sustenance or become undead, the first doesn't do it completely and I'm not sure how to do the latter yet.
The 1st level spell Keep Watch lets one creature/2 levels stay up all night and benefit as if they'd rested.
What do you do when a member of your party dies at low levels, and you want to resurrect them to save them from damnation?
Are they free to return, even if they are damned?
You get ONE pass. Once you hit level 7, or die a second time, and no one can resurrect you? Your char is gone. It's seemed fair thus far with my GM and the plethora of people he's played with.
Well I guess that fixes the problem immediately from level one. I didn't expect it to be that easy.
Does anyone even play the Pathfinder Society scenarios?
They're usually just a few combat encounters along a super-strict railroad. So no.
I can't really give 'em a pass, being a player, and I don't think they even want one. They've rolled a new character that they seem to like better.
The problem is, my character feels like they were damned on a technicality, and ultimately wanted to be a good person but didn't get a chance to redeem themselves. And I don't think my character can move past that.
>Gloriana still wrapped in bondage with a dog somewhere
I want to know more.
That's fine too user. Not saying our way works for everyone, it's just worked thus far. If it's more fitting for your play style, or the story at large, or the personal story of the character then by all means you do you.
Temple of the Empyreal Enlightenment is apparently decent.
Logs of this got posted a while back.
tldr Gloriana pulled into /u/, asks for dick because she's straight, noble lady answers her request with Dog
How do you treat ungrateful quest givers?
What about those who are irresponsible, even from the personal point of view. You help them and then they condemn you as irresponsible?
That's my favorite scenario.
Curse of Ravenmoor is also good.
>Summoner uses CHA for primary stat
>Diplomacy, Intimidate and Bluff aren't on their skill list
JUST
Who fucking cares, the DCs on those skills are trivial and the mechanics are so hopelessly broken it just comes down to the GM making something up.
You missed the part where Vult has been trying to end this mission for like three sessions now, and now has a fifth player to introduce on top of that.
How's the speed of combat nowadays?
>trying to end the mission for three sessions
if by end the mission you mean "string it along by separating the party so he can rape everyone".
He even bragged about it and his "Art of separating the party" in the discord.
>also trying to give players the lewds they signed up for
I see nothing wrong with this senpai
Lysander didn't get lewds. Lysander got drunk while all his prospective partners were either cooking off their rape-debuffs or getting fucked by dogs.
The session didnt advance as much as expected then. Calm down.
NO FUCK VULT REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>martial focus mechanic will be discarded entirely,
But why though? I actually liked that mechanic, and it reminded me of Psionic focus.
Is Lysander gonna get knifed next?
Lysander hasn't left the game, so no.
No, but something else will pierce him from behind
He's gonna get shafted that's for sure.
A manticore tail?
How are these girls shrugging off rape so easily anyway
And did Cashmere even get the eggs out of her ass?
>How are these girls shrugging off rape so easily anyway
They've got a template that works off the physical effects of having horse-sized dicks jammed in you.
The mental is a bit harder to work out, but every time one of these girls has gotten boned, the corruption mindbreaks them before the dick does.
Gloriana was consenting, bonbon is crazy, cashmere hasnt gotten over it
Starfinder update, not checking old threads to see if it was mentioned yet or not.
Lashunta are now two subspecies, no longer divided between male and female but by whether they choose tp grow into leaders or warriors.
Elves are now even more insular, aloof and dickish than before.
Everything on Castrovel wants to eat you.
How does that even work
Why is Bonbon crazy? And did Cashmere spend the entire session moping or something
Are Elves Eldar now or something
>no longer divided between male and female but by whether they choose tp grow into leaders or warriors
Intredasting, so all the leaders are one gender and all the warriors are another?
>eggs in her ass
Wait what? Thought she got CORED, not bugged?
>Gloriana
>Consented to a dog
Manticore apparently laid eggs up her ass
>Gloriana was consenting
No, Gloriana has gotten to stage II of 'holy shit the scent of dick is so strong'.
There's logs floating around somewhere
>First look at the Elves
>Oh look it's another woman
>Lashunta are now two subspecies, no longer divided between male and female but by whether they choose tp grow into leaders or warriors.
Fuck you, Paizo. Fuck you in your hairy, stinking asses. The sexual dimorphism wasn't "problematic," it was fun.
No, now they choose to grow up into being more like dwarves or more like elves, either kind can be male or female, so there are thicc-strong psychic girls with antennae now. Also tall prettyboys.
Hm. Turning lashunta from gender dimorphism to seperate subspecies seems okay, but making it a "choice"? Seems odd.
>There's logs floating around somewhere
I've seen the logs, I'm expressing my disgust and surprise at someone like Gloriana *wanting* something like that.
>elves
>oh look it's another woman
Male elves are fucking irrelevant in any setting and you know it, they're basically just flat girls with dicks anyway
Nightwalkers have DR against all nonmagical damage because they just heal it.
Bonbon describes herself as crazy
Was only based on a manticore
Yes.
She's mindbroken or something
Or rather she's "his", although unless the doggo is like some sort of super doggo that got hit with a promethean's ascension ray it probably doesn't even understand what's happening
user, Paizo literally put Tumblr: Divine Edition into the game. Every Iconic we've met so far features choice and personal discovery as their major themes. Every planet or system or government discussed is built around personal freedom and equality.
Choice and Inclusion are the major themes of Starfinder.
If by "consent" you mean "agreed to wanting to be tied up and everything that comes with it".
THEY BETTER NOT FUCK UP SPACE HELLKNIGHTS.
where are my space nazis anyway
Also who's the Tau expy
>agreed to wanting to be tied up and everything that comes with it
>Oh hey, when's Lysander coming back? I really, really want him to bone me
>Noblewoman brings in a fucking dog
>I guess this works too
So basically PF/SF is now the anti-40k, when all we want is something in the middle.
Mark my words, Hellknights and the White Chelish Empire are going to be a mixture of bumbling bureaucracy, rigid dogmatism and vaguely racist ideals.
They'll be presented as effective, efficient, lawful and utterly boring. The death of freedom for a little comfort. They won't be the heroes, they won't even be the good guys. They'll just be like, Mom and Dad to your stereotypical California teen from the 90s; annoying, obnoxious and you hate them, but they still pay the bills and keep the creepy men away.
To be fair, Dina did it explicitely so she could mindbreak and capture Gloriana, and then deal with Lysander.
The betrayal was a surprise
>Every Iconic we've met so far features choice and personal discovery as their major themes
Don't forget the bug race are LITERALLY built around getting off on choice and personal discovery.
>logs
How many threads back? Don't need a link, just an idea of where to look.
At least a week ago
Maybe someone will repost it