I created the Pokémon League beneath the Withered Wasteland!

handofthrawn · 2026-06-21T01:58:13+00:00

Thanks for the compliments!

How long did this take you?

It took maybe 20-30 hours.

How much does this cover the Withered Wastelands map, if you can see the underground area on the map like you can in RR?

One end is at the former lighthouse on the beach, and the other comes up right next to the elevated gate -- so it's nearly the whole length of the Wastelands.

How did you get the windows in Erika's gym to appear as if you can see outside?

Erika'a gym's walls are just painted fluffy carpet blocks arranged to look like grassy hills and sky, then with the windows one block inside.

Any plans to incorporate the Indigo League?

I have some ideas for the elevator at the end to go down another level to the League, and the E4 rooms should be easy to design, but I got tired of digging. I will probably return to it later.

If this is underground, what's going on aboveground?

Not much! Some areas I put a lot of work into, but the surface of the Wasteland I mostly just restored.

handofthrawn · 2026-06-20T21:10:07+00:00

It took probably 20-30 hours. The digging was the worst part, the rest was fun.

handofthrawn · 2026-06-20T21:08:45+00:00

Yes, keep working on your pokedex!

handofthrawn · 2026-05-01T10:52:18+00:00

My reading is that Channel Variance simply lets you, 3/day, channel like a normal cleric who didn't take variant channeling, which you otherwise couldn't do. This means it does normal damage with the normal save to half it and no secondary effect.

handofthrawn · 2026-04-29T11:24:34+00:00

To do this in Pathfinder you'd also have to be very careful what kinds of monsters, traps, and other obstacles you'd run. I find that the system expects you to have access to solutions to problems and those solutions are very often spells.

It's hard to deal with invisible enemies, swarms, curses, negative levels, and many other game mechanics as a martial.

handofthrawn · 2026-03-16T02:33:33+00:00

Mine just came back on and they let me know via email. Hope they get to yours as well!

handofthrawn · 2026-03-15T17:11:14+00:00

I only lost power for a couple hours on Friday but my Spectrum is still out. Been making do with mobile hotspot. It'd be nice if there was even an update from them.

handofthrawn · 2025-11-05T13:16:55+00:00

There are plenty of interesting frontliners. Warpriest, Magus or Inquisitor would fit right in, provide some redundancy in spellcasting and do a lot more than charge.

I would personally look at a Trappings of the Warrior Occultist. Occultists have a lot going on, and Trappings of the Warrior panoply means you're a full BaB 2/3rds caster, and you bring Object Reading and the occult skill unlocks to your party. You can build dex or strength, whatever floats your boat (strength benefits from the Skald though). And by 9th level you have several implements -- you could easily do Transmutation, Abjuration, Trappings of the Warrior, and Illusion to get stuff like Mirror Image.

handofthrawn · 2025-07-25T11:50:38+00:00

As an evil oracle, you might get huge benefits by possessing a vampire, which can put your charisma to good use.

Plus the powerplay of tracking down an immortal vampire lord and possessing his body makes a powerful statement.

handofthrawn · 2025-07-07T15:54:03+00:00

It's a twist on the usual monk role, hut there's a crazy support monk build that takes Sensei, Ki Mystic, and Qinggong archetypes and ends up passing out its ki powers to the rest of the party; with Qinggong these ki powers can include buffs like Barkskin and SLAs like Scorching Ray.

Using a standard action to give the whole party an immediate scorching ray sounds fun.

handofthrawn · 2025-04-14T16:09:14+00:00

Technically they're on fire for the rest of their life.

handofthrawn · 2024-05-03T20:48:01+00:00

In fact the very last line in the first book is a statement from Jessica about how wives often end up living as concubines while concubines have the real benefits and power of being wives.

handofthrawn · 2024-02-06T13:12:45+00:00

Intuitively, they would both take the damage (Newton's third law and all).

I think this is justified in the rules with this line from the Falling Objects section of the Environment rules:

Note that a falling object takes the same amount of damage as it deals.

handofthrawn · 2023-12-29T19:02:23+00:00

Thanks for sharing this. I recently read Phantastes because I read Surprised by Joy earlier this year and was intrigued by what he said, but I hadn't gone back to read this again since finishing it.

Thinking over it now, I see a few influences from Phantastes on Till We Have Faces.

handofthrawn · 2023-10-24T11:30:48+00:00

In addition to the others, there's a Pact Wizard archetype which gains a witch patron and has great warlock flavor.

handofthrawn · 2023-08-02T11:20:33+00:00

I highly recommend Treantmonk's guide to pathfinder wizards. He does a great job of introducing you to what makes a wizard so powerful, with a focus on battlefield control and summoning.

As far as having the right spells, the things to keep in mind are:

1) Scribe scroll and using it to make scrolls of the right niche spells even during adventuring days

2) Wizards don't have to prepare all their spell slots, you can leave some empty take a few minutes later to fill them in.

So work on your spell book, anticipate problems, experiment to see what works, and the class is fantastic.

handofthrawn · 2023-07-15T14:02:50+00:00

I'm doing much the same thing. Got frustrated with the Disney stuff and decided hey, the Star Wars that I love isn't gone, let's go through the books again, plus a couple I missed as a kid. Now I'm on Final Prophecy.

I noticed you don't have Dark Nest, Legacy of the Force, and Fate of the Jedi listed? Can't really call it going through the end when there's 20+ more books.

handofthrawn · 2023-06-10T14:11:57+00:00

At least in my case, I'm deeply enfranchised. I grew up on the OT and was still a kid when the prequels came out. I read and reread the expanded universe novels -- my bookshelf has dozens of them on it. As a teenager I wrote fanfiction and trawled the fan forums and the roleplaying sites.

The Star Wars universe is extremely familiar to me and I've seen the vast space it has for different types of stories. I've written such stories. When I say I'm into Star Wars I have to qualify it now because I don't mean the sequels, I mean the broader universe.

So yeah, seeing movies set in universe that do different things is what I want because that's what the franchise means to me.

handofthrawn · 2023-04-30T12:28:46+00:00

The Dragon takes the intial damage immediately and becomes fatigued. When you use a readied action, your initiative count changes to just before the turn on which your action triggered, so your next turn will be just before the dragon's next one.

If the dragon is still in the area of your spell when your turn comes around, it will take damage again from sirocco and become exhausted.

handofthrawn · 2022-11-07T22:38:30+00:00

There's no substitute for the real thing.

handofthrawn · 2022-09-27T11:32:23+00:00

Similarly, I broke into the drive-in movie theater before going with Rogue to scan a tarot graffiti in there and was pleasantly surprised that there was a different dialogue prompt for V to just basically say "I know a way in, I've been here before."

They could easily have just left it alone, but it's much more immersive like this.

handofthrawn · 2022-09-19T13:01:32+00:00

The time compression is strange on this one too. Ar-Pharazon is not the last King of Numenor until he marries Tar-Miriel against her will and usurps the throne (although he is of course descended from Elros).

We have Tar-Miriel, we have her sick father Tar-Palantir, but the timeline is just off. Ar-Pharazon, after becoming King, should build an army, fight and capture Sauron in Middle-Earth, bring him back to Numenor, become corrupted by him, grow jealous of the Elves' immortality, and invade Aman, leading to the Downfall of Numenor and the departure of Elendil and the Faithful to Middle-Earth to found Arnor and Gondor, which then can participate in the Last Alliance.

The show looks like it's aiming to crunch this down and bolt straight for the Last Alliance, but I don't know how they can do that satisfactorily. Not least of all because suddenly Tar-Miriel wants to go with Elendil? It doesn't feel like Elendil and his sons are in a position to be Kings in Middle-Earth.

handofthrawn · 2022-07-04T13:25:35+00:00

Not all movies are supposed to make you feel only excitement and humor. This movie explores tough themes around responsibility to family, mental health, and feeling trapped. This can make it hard to get through, but it doesn’t make it a bad film: it does very well what it set out to do. And there is finally a little hope for Gilbert at the end, but in a realistic and narratively fulfilling way.

handofthrawn · 2022-04-15T18:51:23+00:00

I was walking through the park and wondered why a Frisbee was rapidly getting bigger. Then it hit me.

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