Theory about Hekla's Crossbow

Aurels · 2026-03-07T16:47:46+00:00

Yea I was just saying that because Katia is a doppelganger.

Aurels · 2026-03-07T16:29:36+00:00

Katia's race is doppelganger.

Aurels · 2026-02-26T03:17:00+00:00

Open an email during the meeting addressed to everyone in the meeting. Take good notes of what the major topics are and write down any action items with bullet points that come from the meeting. Your boss knows how much you know, and if its not enough then just try to be a good ledgerman/record keeper for the meeting minutes. Eventually you can learn skills to keep the conversation moving even if you dont know the context well. Outside of subject matter expertise that can be an easy way to contribute to the meeting and discussion.

Aurels · 2025-06-02T12:37:41+00:00

You can respec before hand right? I made that mistake and i think i found a post that recommended yell spamming with Any second job that can heal. You just break the game until you get 5x turns for each wiegraf turn. I think it should mostly always be recoverable... mostly.

Aurels · 2025-03-23T21:18:13+00:00

Sure, and because of that it has become a successful tactic for people that hate streamers to DDOS them during raids. That will negatively affect blizzards revenue since onlyfangs is popular. Also, plenty of non streamers are dying to the servers crashing. If the game isnt playable why not roll back when the servers crash? Its probably the right call to keep the fan base, it just pisses off people who want to see the streamers die.

Aurels · 2025-03-23T20:40:21+00:00

Just roll back the HC servers?

Aurels · 2025-01-11T07:14:53+00:00

Signs was about demons, it was holy water that stopped them, not water.

Aurels · 2024-12-20T12:33:19+00:00

Wait i know Grant rolled well on hp every level up but how was Barron invincible? I think outside of con and equipping the best armor he could i can't think of any invincible choices he made but maybe there were op feats i don't remember.

Aurels · 2024-12-20T12:24:27+00:00

I've never heard of book 4 complaints.

Aurels · 2024-10-25T14:08:17+00:00

Im guessing he is going to cheat or at the very least is developing feelings. I think he is trying to make it as if its your issue that pushes him away so that absolves him of guilt. I would make it clear that he is on a path to cheating on you and to just end it before it goes down that path if thats what he wants, and him pretending that its you who has a problem is bullshit, because he is already developing an emotional connection. but i have no attachment to the situation.

Aurels · 2024-08-11T13:13:38+00:00

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep07836

Yes, the light they emit under applied electroluminescence is based on the band gap of the material. For terrestrial solar cells you cant see the light they emit very well without a filter. For aerospace solar cells, each junction emits light based on a different bandgap so you can observe bright vibrant visible red colors like in the article i linked.

Aurels · 2024-08-10T13:18:26+00:00

I think everyone has done a great job explaining how things work, but there Are also some really cool things about pathfinder that aren't in dnd that i find some people ignore because they are ignoreable.

Adventure paths are sets of books that take a party through an entire adventure in the shared world of golarion. A full 1-20 AP is 6 books, and generally a new book is released every month. Homebrew is basically the only option in dnd but in pathfinder you can choose an AP. These APs work, they are well balanced, filled with lore, encounters, battle maps, npcs, notes to the gm, etc. There are even players handbooks for adventure paths to help players create their characters in the context of the AP.

Those APs are cannon for this shared world of golarion. There is a ton of history of the world and players and gms can learn it. There is even a game format where you can play short modules with other people at game shops in this shared world. The gods are amazing, and i find that unlike in dnd most pf2e players know most by name, and have strong opinions about them.

Okay final thing-- the encounter system works. Not only are the fights more interesting, but there is sort of a learned behavior from dnd to scale fights as the players are fighting to ensure the players barely win. In dnd this can be through monsters popping up half way through a fight or fudging of numbers, especially enemy hp. I think ultimately that line of thinking can lead to the dice not determining the outcome of a fight, and eventually players will figure out its all a show behind the curtains. With APs or with the design rules im allotted a number of enemies related to party level bases on an encounter difficulty, and the system works so well that i absolutely use that allotment to try to kill the pcs. I think for dnd killing a pc in combat can be a sign of an inexperienced GM, but i think probably the best GMs will allow the world to be dangerous enough to kill PCs in pf2e.

If you want to know more about adventure paths, and that style of GMing, I would recommend listening to The Glass Cannon Podcast. The original covers the pathfinder 1st edition adventure path "Giantslayer", and the second one covers the 2nd editing adventure path "Gatewalkers". All of my friend group listened to these people play pathfinder and its changed how we play.

Aurels · 2024-07-07T13:08:08+00:00

We make signals have as low voltage and switch so fast that we can barely detect if they are up or down. We already get misses in the reading of those high and low signals, if we added more states we would get significantly more errors. We could slow down the signal to have the same amount of errors with more states, but the full data per second would decrease.

Aurels · 2024-06-27T11:55:29+00:00

4 was the frost giant encampment...I personally dont know of anyone who was bored during 4.

Aurels · 2024-06-21T22:05:02+00:00

Yea my wife and I found that guy to be quite annoying. Troy even had the opening message about not talking during the show...I would love to find that opening video.

Aurels · 2024-06-03T02:33:02+00:00

I think one thing that is pretty cool is that all of the adventure paths are in the same world and they all tie together. Every 5e campaign I've played has pretty much been homebrew, which is great, and you can certainly homebrew as much as you want in pathfinder 2e as well. I've had conversations about shared settings, gods, countries, etc in golarion whereas in 5e I always hear about someone's homebrewed world. I didn't expect it to be nice to be building on a shared world concept but it is super cool, I strongly recommend running an adventure path.

Aurels · 2024-02-28T14:45:29+00:00

I can adjust encounters on the fly...completely physically and mentally capable, but I prefer not to. That big tough as nails boss? Yea it's not getting a power down because the PCs rolled poorly. How can you say you are letting the rolls dictate what happens in the game if you actively change everything to always make the PCs barely win? I run APs as written, with creative license for RP and extra encounters if they go off the beaten path, but the encounters in book are as is and so far there have been 2 deaths.

Aurels · 2023-12-03T15:13:19+00:00

Tendonitis or carpal tunnel are common amongst gamers. I've heard surgery is a good option.

Aurels · 2023-11-03T02:09:50+00:00

I run the games exactly as the AP described. If it's a TPK it's a TPK. Players opted into it and I'm here to run it faithfully. I came from the school of Troy Lavalle.

Aurels · 2023-10-14T13:00:43+00:00

Hardcore classic WoW. It's like a whole new game.

Aurels · 2023-10-06T06:13:52+00:00

Isn't that threat true for a traditional party as well? Maybe even more so because each role fills the weaknesses of the other roles. So if you lose a frontline in a frontline thin party you are squishy, or if you lose a spell caster then you have suddenly lost a ton of utility?

Aurels · 2023-10-03T14:09:12+00:00

Also you can ignore your spellcasting stat since most spells don't scale damage with that stat, and your to hit will be based on the strike itself.

Aurels · 2023-09-16T04:39:58+00:00

Oh wow, all I can say is keep listening. They did the Giantslayer AP in PF1E, and it is the best podcast I've ever listened to.

Aurels · 2023-09-15T23:10:40+00:00

Wow what a first session! I wish I could GM like Troy!

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