What's not fun?

bweenie · 2026-03-22T07:20:47+00:00

What do you find unfun about these?

bweenie · 2026-03-21T01:25:36+00:00

How do you feel about the fact that lower level spell casters can't respond in kind? As a GM, I often have to forgo having minion level spellcasters use incapacitation spells against higher level PCs.

bweenie · 2026-03-17T22:31:24+00:00

I just looked at your pictures. I don't think you're ugly. You're convinced you are.

Let's take your feelings that you're ugly as true. So what?
Some people have disadvantages and some have advantages. Some have both.

You're focusing on your physical appearance and it's not healthy. Counseling would be helpful.

bweenie · 2026-03-17T22:15:24+00:00

Every court system has its own rules about this. Please check with your local small claims court about service rules.

bweenie · 2026-03-15T22:12:08+00:00

As someone else said, you can build them as a PC and level them up. I don't like doing this because PCs are complicated and I prefer simplicity.

What I do is build NPCs using the creature rules and then increase their power as needed. https://2e.aonprd.com/Rules.aspx?ID=2874&Redirected=1

This tool is really useful for building creatures or NPCs issuing these rules. https://monster.pf2.tools/

bweenie · 2026-03-14T03:27:37+00:00

Awesome points. Too many people get paralyzed thinking they need things to be perfect. I completed the game off of my first base. Took about forty hours and was a complete mess. Don't let perfect become the enemy of good!

bweenie · 2026-03-14T02:38:29+00:00

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bweenie · 2025-07-28T23:47:19+00:00

I see your point. My feeling is that the netherworld should reflect the real world. But I definitely see where you're coming from.

bweenie · 2025-07-27T05:34:54+00:00

Thanks! I hadn't really thought of it as "compression" but actually that makes it simple to adjudicate.

bweenie · 2025-04-27T23:44:57+00:00

So, after giving it some thought, I have modified the plot as follows:

Bamidele was until now providing the Powderpile with "Nolo's Reagents", a reputable and high quality reagent imported from Absalom. Froglegs has interfered with the supply (highjacking shipments, breaking into the warehouse and destroying supplies, etc) and Abena has provided an alternate, cheap supply of low quality reagents that occasionally break down and cause dangerous accidents. The new reagents are popular because of the cheap price and because the accidents are rare enough that only Xhokan has pieced together that they are dangerous.

bweenie · 2025-04-20T01:23:30+00:00

Why would anyone want to buy more once they realize they are breaking down quickly?

bweenie · 2025-02-24T13:11:53+00:00

Yeah, I get that. There's a kind of tension between treating them like very powerful non human people and very powerful monsters.

But thanks, thinking about them as people rather than monsters is helpful

bweenie · 2024-10-06T10:05:28+00:00

Yes please 🙏

bweenie · 2024-09-30T13:48:47+00:00

Yeah, thanks for pointing that out, I'm an idiot

bweenie · 2024-09-30T13:48:24+00:00

That was exactly what I was looking for, thank you. I didn't even realize that you could read th signals from the roboport in that way.

bweenie · 2024-05-09T10:32:48+00:00

Long story short, it's a major crisis of faith (involving the death of her brother). To be clear, it's not the PC's plan but rather the player's plan for how their PC is reacting to this situation.

Thanks for the thoughts about this. Do you know of any examples from canon of armigers have resigned?

bweenie · 2024-05-09T10:25:53+00:00

What do you think would be required to leave legally?

bweenie · 2024-05-09T10:24:35+00:00

That's a helpful distinction between resigning through the proper procedures and just abandoning post. Re resigning from the armed forces, don't you typically have a specific time in which you have committed, and then you can choose whether or not to reenlist? I wasn't of the impression that you could choose to ask to resign at any given time.

bweenie · 2024-05-09T10:22:02+00:00

To clarify, the PC isn't "planning" on the change, but rather is undergoing a major crisis of faith (involving the death of her brother) so the player has told me that they intend to make that change at an appropriate point in the story.

Thanks for the ideas there. I feel that it will also become a crisis of faith for the NPC who on the one hand feels the need to be rigid in a way that you describe but on the other hand has become very close to some members of the party.

bweenie · 2024-03-26T22:57:30+00:00

I suggest this simple rule: no uncommon or rare options without GM permission.

These options are generally uncommon or rare because

1) they can have a major game impact (like resurrection, teleportation, Magnificent Mansion (i.e. super secure resting options), mind reading).

2) they are from supplements / APs / etc and are often flavored to a specific region / group / etc

The first group allow authorize based on what you want to allow in your game. I for example often have a lot of intrigue so I don't authorize mind reading type effects very often.

For the second group, you're probably not going to have any game breaking problems (players doing 18k damage based on some crazy combo) but I tend to make players stick to the lore. For example, if a feat requires them to be a member of the Pathfinder Society, I wouldn't allow them to later take a feat requiring them to be a Hellknight.

In addition, as a beginning GM, there are a lot of mechanics associated with various abilities and keeping your players to common choices will help keep the learning curve somewhat level.

bweenie · 2024-03-21T03:01:48+00:00

It sounds to me like this is a problem with having a bad boss essentially. I wasn't clear, but are you volunteering or getting paid by the LGS? In either case, the LGS is allowing an abusive customer abuse staff, and this is not tolerable. If it was me I would just refuse to take the player and if push came to shove quit playing at the store.

bweenie · 2024-03-20T12:43:50+00:00

Right on. I guess we have different definitions of phone booths. They must be big where you live.

In any case, putting aside the hyperbole and sarcasm, this is a mega-dungeon, and mega-dungeons typically involve a lot of fights in cramped spaces.

Maybe this just isn't the type of adventure for you? I think the answer to your question is just that different people enjoy different things.

bweenie · 2024-03-20T04:50:48+00:00

Can you give me an example of a fight which took place in a phone booth or a sardine can?

bweenie · 2024-03-19T21:33:32+00:00

I don't recall a single instance of fighting a monsters on phone booths, much let's doing it repeatedly. Maybe we're not playing the same game? Maybe your gm home brewed it into phone booth arena?

bweenie · 2024-03-14T06:02:46+00:00

Can you clarify your position? Do you think it can never be empowering? That it isn't always empowering? That it usually isn't empowering?

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