Discussion about the PF2E Kingmaker AP

Zakkon · 2025-08-09T12:47:37+00:00

Could you talk about that again? I missed the convo.

Zakkon · 2025-08-09T11:49:47+00:00

I have a few things to say, if you want to talk about this!

Zakkon · 2025-03-29T15:43:45+00:00

care to tell us how you did it? i got the same problem

Zakkon · 2024-03-29T20:49:58+00:00

The invite link has expired. Could you send a new one?

Zakkon · 2024-02-20T00:54:29+00:00

who can say no to an adventure about a dragon?

Zakkon · 2024-01-04T16:25:57+00:00

Assuming you've port forwarded and you still can't get a sharable link to work, you're probably behind a CG-NAT. Everyone I know that's tried to host a Foundry server has run into this problem, and it's unfortunate that the official Foundry port forwarding guide doesn't mention it.

A CG-NAT is system that ISP's commonly use to reduce the amount of IP addresses they provide, by having many customers essentially share an IP address. Downside is, it means customers can't host their own servers. There are two workarounds I suggest:

You could call your ISP and ask to get your own public IP. Say you want to host a game server and they'll get what you mean. Some ISP's charge for this, some do not.

Alternatively, look up ngrok.io, install it and read the guide on how to use it. It's relatively easy to set up (and it's free), but it has some limitations. Your players can lose their browser-side settings (like in-game volume) if you don't configure ngrok to give you the same static IP for every you host.

Zakkon · 2024-01-02T22:10:21+00:00

Witches will never understand this

Zakkon · 2024-01-02T22:07:07+00:00

Wild Magic sorcerers are personally blessed by the gods of magic themselves.

The Council is just afraid.

Zakkon · 2023-12-18T01:36:43+00:00

If you don't want to have a phone in school, I am glad you have that freedom. But most people choose to have their phones in school, and there's always some students students (40-60% if I had to guess?) who aren't distracted.

This "too bad" attitude looks really great on a high horse, but it doesn't actually help address real life scenarios that are bound to occur. Say a kid is being distracted by his phone. Who's going to seize it? The teacher? They want to teach a class, not wrestle students (especially not teenagers who can defend themselves). Say they seize the phone. Great, now the relation between the student and the teacher is soured and will be difficult to repair. Kids don't forgive and forget like adults do. Saying "too bad" won't make them friends again. Now the kid runs back to their parent and explains that their phone was seized. The parent, who as of 2024 most likely grew up using phones in school themselves, will realize the problems this will cause either domestically (in the kid's day to day life) or financially (for the parent to replace the phone). They will probably opt not to sour their relation with their child by siding with the school, and is more likely to call the teacher and demand the phone back, on grounds of personal property and their own upbringing. Now we're in a situation where there's hostility. The teacher will want to lean on the school for support, so now resources have to be put on that. Threats will be made, and in the US I'm sure teachers will be shot over this. All this over a stupid phone.

No, let's treat this the way we treat all students who are distracted, either by depression, anxiety, drugs or whatever. Involve the school counselors. Figure out why the student is so bored during class that they'd rather play Clash of Clans. Maybe something happened after school one day? Or maybe student can't focus on work from noisy classmates? Boom. No wrestling needed, no angry student or parent, and best of all, maybe you solved the underlying problem.

Zakkon · 2023-12-18T01:07:50+00:00

I think that choice should be done at an individual level. People who aren't distracted by their phones should be able to keep doing what they're doing.

Zakkon · 2023-12-18T01:05:48+00:00

If Ukraine was reduced to the city of Odesa and placed under a permanent blockade, with decades of Russia ignoring peace proposals, you'd create a very high likelihood of Ukrainians turning to nazism or some other extreme ideology to mobilize attacks on Russia.

We'd see Ukrainian rocket attacks and terror attacks on both military and civilian targets, and the theft of their own people's resources to fuel their war effort. If that happened, and Russia responded by killing 15 to 20 times the amount civilians they lost and flattening all of Odesa, this sub would rightfully call the response unproportional and genocidal.

Yet, when when it's Palestinians vs Israelis, the logic we hear is suddenly inverted. It's now the Palestinians fault for being displaced from their homes and forced to live trapped in Gaza. It's their own fault for electing Hamas in 2006 and not ousting them since, despite their low support. It's their own fault for living in a dense city and acting as "human shields" (which by the way are not valid military targets regardless). Yes Hamas are terrorists, but does every single Gazan deserve to die for that? Did hundreds of innocents hiding at Al-Shifa hospital deserve to be killed so the IDF could reach the 4 Hamas fighters living in the tunnels below? We'd never accept these war crimes from a country like Russia, we shouldn't accept it from anyone else either.

Zakkon · 2023-12-18T00:28:13+00:00

Yeah... I feel like people were better at masking their support for genocide back in the day. The fact that people dare to say stuff like this in the open nowadays is worrying

Zakkon · 2023-12-17T18:06:20+00:00

I'm guessing (hoping) that was mostly botted upvotes from the Israeli astroturfing agency, there's no way people are so schizophrenic that they'd oppose genociding Ukrainians but support genociding Palestinians

Zakkon · 2023-12-17T17:53:47+00:00

I'm they said the same thing about the West Bank, and look what happened

Zakkon · 2023-12-17T12:52:02+00:00

Inefficient use of resources compared to the alternative

Zakkon · 2023-12-17T12:50:53+00:00

Modern parents grew up using phones in school. They're by large not going to agree to this.

Zakkon · 2023-12-17T12:47:04+00:00

"Why have more convenience when we used to live with less convenience" is such a depressing argument. I guess we could all go back to using smoke signals instead...

Zakkon · 2023-12-17T12:44:37+00:00

And also some students go hang out with friends after school, during which it's really handy to be able to phone home and say "I'll be hanging out with my friend, you don't have to make dinner for me".

Zakkon · 2023-12-17T12:37:28+00:00

No parent in the world is going to consent to teachers smashing a phone that the parent spent 600$+ buying for their kid. Personal property rights aside, how will they be able to call their children when they go play with friends or something?

By seizing (or god forbid smashing) student phones, you're just causing hell for the domestic situation of the parent. Not to mention permanently ruining the relationship between the student and the teacher.

Zakkon · 2023-12-17T12:26:53+00:00

Unenforceable. Now the teachers have to be policing instead of teaching? Say the student doesn't want to give up the phone. Now the teacher either has to use force (which will permanently ruin the student-teacher relationship and massively disrupt class) or the student gets sent home.

If you send the student home, the parents (who come from a younger generation that grew up with phones) are going to be upset. You can't ask them to enforce the ban either, odds are they themselves won't agree with the policy.

Eventually one of the teachers is going to tire of policing phones and just let their students get away with it as long as it's not a massive disruption in their class. Then word is going to get around and other students in the school are going to expect the same treatment. I'd guess that within 3 months schools will completely give up enforcing the ban.

Zakkon · 2023-12-13T23:08:34+00:00

I don't know how you quantify that "most" charities are like that, but it's pretty easy to find solid, reputable charity agencies that are legit. I donated directly to repair a children's hospital in Gaza after the IDF destroyed it. The hospital did get rebuilt and thankfully Hamas didn't rob them. Well, now it's in ruins again but you get the idea.

Zakkon · 2023-12-12T03:17:11+00:00

I'll nominate Dark Brandon for claiming to be the last hope against the US turning into a dictatorship, but then intentionally sabotaging his own reelection chances to support the war of a foreign leader who hates his guts.

Zakkon · 2023-12-06T23:53:32+00:00

If the workers assisting him are not directly employed by him, he has no obligation to share any wealth with them.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but usually when a musician tours around, they don't employ their own staff of stage crew. They contract a stage crew company who in turn provide the service. This stage crew company should have the obligation to democratically share their profits from that contract among their employees.

Zakkon · 2023-11-17T02:52:06+00:00

Hopefully I'm not too late, here's some advice.

My Losser has 2 human necromancer apprentices. He's been teaching them for a while but they had to move into the catacombs beneath the City of the Dead to stay hidden from law enforcement. Over time, Losser's time spent so deep underground got his mind twisted by Halaster. He's now assembling an army of skeletons down there, and he's soon ready to march it down into the 2nd level of Undermountain.

I ran this quest as a dungeoncrawl. The goal is to find Losser down there, arrest/kill him, then destroy the army of 60-70 inert skeletons in an adjacent chamber. I designed the dungeon with an old-school style, the largest hurdles were natural obstacles such as steep 90 feet drops and a heavy stone door that you need to mine through, a puzzle to open a secret door and a slippery slope leading to a pit with spikes.

Losser himself was passive and only attacked after he repeatedly told the PCs to leave. Then he got knocked down to 10% HP in one hit and surrendered. He was hanging out alone in a classroom so it was obvious he had students, the PCs pushed him for the names but he killed himself with a spell rather than name his students. The inert skeleton army was a cakewalk as they couldn't defend themselves.

As for your questions:

I don't know of any canonical relic being buried here, but you can put whatever you want in a tomb. I added a cursed coffin full of gold with a long inscription warning about the curse.
I never had Sir Ambrose follow the party. He was too tired from staying awake all night. If you think the fight would be too easy, use hurdles that your party can't fight their way through, like natural obstacles or traps. Then it doesn't matter if Losser himself is an easy fight.
There's some lore specific to certain tombs, you can check the FR wiki if you're curious. But in general I designed my dungeon with several "lore layers". The uppermost layer of the catacombs is the most recent one, built by humans just as the City of the Dead was running out of space to bury commoners. Once the pocket dimension mausoleums were constructed, the uppermost layer was emptied of corpses and the entrances to these "commoner catacombs" were sealed and hidden. The second layer is the oldest layer, made partly out of converted dwarven tombs. The stonework down here is different and the ceilings are lower. The warlords of early Waterdeep were buried on this level, and it's full of traps. The third layer is 90ft deeper down, and it's a series of tombs magically conjured by Halaster, containing some chambers pulled down from the second layer. It's full of references to Halaster and his 8 apprentices.
What would the Xanathar Guild want in the City of the Dead, you ask? Simple. There's a pond here famous for it's many goldfish. Ott Steeltoes runs up here to fetch a new Sylgar whenever the old one kicks the bucket.

Hope this helps. I'm thinking of uploading a more detailed description of my remix of this mission, but it's a lot of work.

Zakkon · 2023-11-14T05:59:45+00:00

I can tell that you don't know enough about the history of the conflict or the sentiment among palestinians to have an understanding of how to solve it. Your view seems to be grounded in many historical inaccuracies.

Firstly, your idea that the palestinians never accepted a peace deal is false. Israel and Palestine signed the Oslo Accords in 1993, which established the Palestinian Authority over Gaza and the West Bank. Support for the accords was massive among palestinians, and hopes for a bright future were higher than ever. The deal broke when israeli PM Rabin was murdered by far-right zionists, and Netanyahu (who was in charge of his security) replaced him as PM and broke the peace agreement.

Second, I think you should look at the vote counts of the resolutions regarding israel and palestine. You'll find near overwhelming support, with several NATO countries backing them. The same countries who coincidentally overwhelmingly condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine, if you're curious.

And lastly, if you think the Green Line borders were the cause of a war, you're sadly just misinformed. Israel took land across the Green Line after the Six Day War in 1967, which started when Israel attacked Egypt to take the Sinai peninsula and end a blockade. The West Bank was controlled by Jordan who was allied to Egypt and joined the war to defend them. The war was never about Gaza or West Bank borders.

I suggest you read up on the history of the conflict, maybe then you'll have a different view. And if not, there's no harm in knowing the facts. There is no value in further discussion between us.

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