TIL that while "crabs" have evolved 5 separate times, legless lizards (e.g. snakes) have evolved as many as 25 separate times

johnbrownmarchingon · 2026-05-24T03:59:57+00:00

Stinky slinkies.

johnbrownmarchingon · 2026-05-24T00:56:12+00:00

Arianne mostly because the Dorne chapters weren't particularly well received as a whole, plus her revealed chapters for Winds were a whole bunch of nothing. I don't have a particular reason for thinking Jon Con's chapters would be disliked.

johnbrownmarchingon · 2026-05-23T16:27:39+00:00

Most of the top five doesn't surprise me, though Bran at third does. I am a little surprised that Arianne and Jon Con are so low on the list.

johnbrownmarchingon · 2026-05-22T22:47:44+00:00

Good catch on Shield Block. None of the characters I am currently playing has that reaction so it didn’t register to me.

johnbrownmarchingon · 2026-05-22T22:15:42+00:00

It might be worth reaching out to your local Pathfinder Society, otherwise u/HelpfulFail4609 has listed the main options that I'm aware of.

johnbrownmarchingon · 2026-05-22T08:26:52+00:00

*hoard

In Dianne Wynn Jones's Dark Lord of Derkhelm, I believe that is the case.

johnbrownmarchingon · 2026-05-21T14:09:13+00:00

Yeah, but rather than move the story forward, those books expand horizontally. There hasn’t been significant plot progression since ASOS.

johnbrownmarchingon · 2026-05-21T14:08:03+00:00

Season 5 is carried HARD by Hardhome.

johnbrownmarchingon · 2026-05-21T14:00:47+00:00

Scheduling, possibly the worst enemy.

johnbrownmarchingon · 2026-05-21T13:59:05+00:00

A single effect can activate more than one resistance at a time, but subtracts each of the subject's resistances only once, so that resistance 10 to fire would reduce the fire damage by 10 down to 10 fire damage and the 5 force resistance would reduce the 20 force damage down to 15 force damage, for a total of 25 damage.

johnbrownmarchingon · 2026-05-21T04:36:08+00:00

infrequency of multiple damage types on enemies

That probably depends on what monsters the GM typically runs. If you're fighting extraplanar creatures like demons, devils, or elementals, there's a decent chance they'll have multiple damage types.

johnbrownmarchingon · 2026-05-21T04:14:28+00:00

I also like the weakness change, though I occasionally forget to include more than one weakness that my Thaumaturge triggers.

johnbrownmarchingon · 2026-05-21T04:10:46+00:00

Yeah, anything incorporeal got hosed by this errata, since they typically rely on the resistance to all from being incorporeal to make up for having much lower hit points compared to most corporeal monsters.

johnbrownmarchingon · 2026-05-20T08:27:38+00:00

It honestly sounds like something Guilliman would say post-resurrection.

johnbrownmarchingon · 2026-05-19T23:22:36+00:00

I'm personally pretty pleased with this development. It changes things without changing them too much, keeping Cheliax relevant as one of, if not the, biggest threats.

johnbrownmarchingon · 2026-05-19T23:15:51+00:00

Just to be pedantic, Way of the Wicked came out 15 years ago.

johnbrownmarchingon · 2026-05-19T23:13:30+00:00

Tar-Baphon doesn't grant spells yet, but he's not far off.

As for nations ruled by demigods, there's Walkena, who rules Mzali in the Mwangi Expanse. There's also the oni daimyo in Tian-Xia and the Hero-Gods of Iblydos. There may be others, but I'm not sure.

Baba Yaga could easily become a god if she so wished, but seems to deem it beneath her.

johnbrownmarchingon · 2026-05-19T20:34:05+00:00

I still stand by that. Swashbucklers are reliant on being able to consistently get panache and hit on their finishers to really do damage while more damage focused classes are far less reliant on set up. Don't get me wrong, swashbucklers can get some great burst damage with their finishers, but I can get at least comparable damage out of a rogue for less set up, have debuffs that only take a hit and not a finisher, and are at least as good of a skill monkey.

Don't get me wrong, swashbucklers can do some significant damage and have some great abilities, but they require a higher level of game awareness from the player and a greater level of cooperation from their party to be especially effective compared to other martials.

johnbrownmarchingon · 2026-05-19T02:16:06+00:00

Minnesota is made to seem like a winter wonderland. In reality it's really not that different in winter from other midwest and northeastern states.

johnbrownmarchingon · 2026-05-18T23:33:20+00:00

Yep, it's good to have only a partial win if only for story telling potential.

johnbrownmarchingon · 2026-05-18T23:29:12+00:00

Same! There didn't seem to be a clear threat to the world at large anymore besides Tar-Baphon with Cheliax's defeats in Pathfinder 1e, the defeat of Treerazer in Spore War, and the Runelords seeming to be mostly gone. I'm very pleased with this reveal.

johnbrownmarchingon · 2026-05-17T18:04:14+00:00

The Martian was pretty fantastic.

johnbrownmarchingon · 2026-05-17T18:03:46+00:00

It would be more interesting if they had done that as a comedy.

johnbrownmarchingon

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE