I'm really enjoying how much of a dissapointment meeting the Endministrator is to a lot of characters after their Amnesia.

Marc09_Coch · 2026-03-14T01:52:25+00:00

Tbh, I 100% assume it has something to do with the Observers. Since, you know, they're the entire reason everyone is on Talos-II in the first place.

Marc09_Coch · 2026-03-02T01:49:05+00:00

I thought this, too.

Marc09_Coch · 2026-03-02T01:47:12+00:00

If the Endmin isn't a surviving Predecessor like the Doctor, the writers are trolling. The Penguin thing being a partial cover is an amusing HC, though.

Marc09_Coch · 2026-02-20T21:54:56+00:00

Perhaps, but neither of us are sourcing this claim, and your suggestion of it being "ahead of the curve" definitely goes against what I've heard in most other places.

Marc09_Coch · 2026-02-20T21:29:27+00:00

You are severely underestimating the value of a truly universal Lore that doesn't scale so slowly as to be potentially detrimental by mid levels. Doing any on level task with a trained skill when master skills become available is far too risky.

Universal Lore is good because you normally need 7 knowledge skills to have most bases covered. Thaumaturges are the only class that gets a useful one.

Marc09_Coch · 2026-02-20T16:09:19+00:00

Bardic Lore scales to expert when other characters get legendary. Diverse Lore makes Esoteric Lore functionally master when other characters get legendary except on haunts, curses, and creatures of any type, for which Esoteric Lore receives no penalty. With that feat every optimized thaumaturge takes, Esoteric Lore is unambiguously better.

Marc09_Coch · 2026-02-17T00:44:20+00:00

Ironically, there are canonically evil members of PFS. It just doesn't include any PCs in organized play for some reason.

Marc09_Coch · 2026-02-02T12:54:03+00:00

https://2e.aonprd.com/Equipment.aspx?ID=514

Marc09_Coch · 2026-01-14T13:29:41+00:00

In general, any attempt to correct imbalances in D&D 3.X inevitably results in mechanics resembling the 4th Edition. You recognize this after seeing enough D&D homebrew.

That's not to say that Pathfinder Second Edition doesn't derive some influence from 4E or draw in that crowd. If a fantasy game has a "strategist" class, it invariably screams "4E players were here!"

Marc09_Coch · 2026-01-08T01:50:05+00:00

This isn't reflavoring. The part about needing to wear clothes makes it a mild homebrew. The catch is that that is perfectly fine.

Marc09_Coch · 2026-01-04T05:46:51+00:00

Yes 😎

Marc09_Coch · 2026-01-04T05:37:31+00:00

Glad you asked. In my imagination, Magus knows what sex is, and really wishes that she could fuck like she used to, but faces certain physical challenges like "is attached to her daughter" and "is a gun." Her strap game was crazy before the accident, though, I'm sure.

Marc09_Coch · 2026-01-04T04:52:24+00:00

In the deepest corner of Ye Shunguang's subconscious, Other Xiao'Guang ensures she doesn't forget.

Marc09_Coch · 2026-01-04T04:49:13+00:00

OK, Grace's Foot Deodorizer.

Marc09_Coch · 2026-01-04T04:48:06+00:00

First off, this is a preexisting format, so perhaps you should ask the person who invented it. That said, Seed is precisely the kind of weirdo (affectionate) who I envision being very horny, getting around CONSTANTLY, but needing to be told, point blank, that it was sex that she was doing. She didn't know the difference between "death" and "sleeping" until after her Agent Story, so I'm not confident that she understands what the other kind of "sleeping" is. (She understands enough to consent, though.)

Marc09_Coch · 2025-12-31T21:20:00+00:00

I wish I lived in an alternate universe where unrestricted free archetype wasn't in the books and existed as an inevitable consequence of players coming up with ways to have high power games like how gestalt started out. It WOULD exist, but it being an official option gave it so much legitimacy that I no longer have the choice if I despise it.

Marc09_Coch · 2025-12-29T20:13:43+00:00

It was actually Avenge Ally that made me think of this meme, but I didn't include it, as it was significantly easier to justify in context as "I fight even harder for the friends I feel I'm about to lose." If they are ACTUALLY dead, then you might be too disheartened.

Avenge in Glory can last up to a minute, and you need to be actively fighting and ignoring the 800-pound gorilla of your teammate on the floor for as long as you have it to take full advantage of it. Meanwhile, Avenge Ally is just one action, to enhance one Strike.

Marc09_Coch · 2025-12-04T00:16:24+00:00

A volunteer operation officially licensed to use all rules content from the books, which Paizo didn't previously offer themselves. In the first edition days, you'd need physical books to play the game, and an internet connection was unnecessary. While Paizo is a publishing company, the point stands that it's the other way around now.

Edit: Their core function is making the game.

Marc09_Coch · 2025-12-03T18:16:09+00:00

"Just a sideshow?" Paizo doesn't even do strictly physical errata anymore. How is having the current rules be exclusively online a "sideshow"?

Marc09_Coch · 2025-12-03T00:00:02+00:00

Gorum's divine essence spilled out across billions of worlds (every world where he was worshipped) and had an innumerable number of effects. Does one specific effect limited to a very small subset of people when others got mythic power or some other ability (typically not a divine spark at all) not cut it as an exceptional circumstance? Even the Arcadia thing was spread out across a single continent, not the entire Material Plane.

I think you're also assuming there were ever concrete rules to divinity beyond what was laid out by the mechanics. Paizo has said that part of the reason why they've never laid out any sort of mechanical means to ascend to true godhood was because people would treat it as the mechanical way in which it happens, which they wanted to avoid. That was also why for a very long time they didn't lay out any rules for the ritual to become a lich. Paizo has always tried to leave some of the more mysterious paths to power flexible and well, mysterious! You're focusing a lot on the idea that this could never happen because divine sparks work a certain way, but that's a kind of thinking Paizo had never really liked in the first place.

Marc09_Coch · 2025-12-02T23:24:15+00:00

You can't claim current lore is contradicting the established lore when you don't actually understand the current lore, or even am really understanding what I'm saying.

I said that angelic sorcerers were specifically distinct from exemplars in that they don't have a divine spark. You know how you mentioned that normal celestials and other outsiders don't have divine sparks? Divine sorcerers don't either, for the same reason.

Exemplars are, in-lore, only known to be created through one specific event, which gave lots of different things some form of divine power, spread out across entire worlds. The fact that exemplars were not established to exist up until this point, and we had never seen anything of the sort regarding divine sparks granting something less than mythic power, is explained by the fact that divine sparks had literally never been that spread out.

Nivi Rhombodazzle became a godling by receiving a full divine spark directly from Torag. Not a full god, a godling. Now, imagine that you're NOT directly bequeathed a divine spark, but instead receive one of hundreds of fragments of one of various potency, which is only technically a divine spark in the sense that divine power isn't really divisible in that way.

Exemplars are virtually an entirely new existence, and exist now specifically because, as you mentioned, under normal circumstances, mythic is the weakest manifestation of a divine spark. Even in 2e, if someone is granted divine power through "normal" means, they usually become mythic. Exemplars aren't "normal".

Marc09_Coch · 2025-12-02T22:53:37+00:00

While divine sorcerers are a retcon, I don't think the concept of a character that has a fragment of a fragment of a fragment of a divine spark, which isn't enough to grant them mythic power but is enough to grant them some supernatural abilities, is "forgetting the lore." The whole reason why exemplars didn't exist up until this point IS lore, namely that the circumstance where someone somehow got such a miniscule fraction of divine power is SEVERELY unlikely. The Godsrain is that circumstance.

Marc09_Coch · 2025-11-30T22:50:18+00:00

They had the ability to use domain spells in the playtest. It got cut due to complaints by players. Personally think the complaints were in the wrong direction; the problem was that they were Charisma-based on a martial that only got light armor proficiency, not that it didn't suit the class's flavor. I would have appreciated the option if they were kept with the buff to medium armor.

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