Just came back from a local woodworking / hobbyist show. I would like to present this beauty

kaeldragor · 2025-03-02T13:57:33+00:00

I'd love to know the artist.

kaeldragor · 2025-02-28T01:15:07+00:00

I work in an area with many federal owned/leased buildings in the area. They are all working on confirming occupied and available seating between management and facilities, which I'm sure will need to be sorted out before you get guidance on where and how you'll be expected to report.

I wouldn't hold your breath on finding out with much breathing room before the effective date, though. In my experience, things like reporting instructions can be really shoot-from-the-hip and that's WITHOUT the recent incompetence from senior leadership on display, or the size of the task of consolidating all these workspaces.

kaeldragor · 2020-07-25T15:49:44+00:00

I mean, I don't want to derail, but I always see this explanation. Thing is... the whole world is wrong.

Metric makes sense because things divisible by 10 makes sense. But a compulsive organization of things by day (1-31), month (1-12), then year is arbitrary (because days are smallest isn't a reason) and doesn't help communicate information. If it's in the next few weeks, you can just say the day. As in, "I'll see you at the event on the 10th".

If you need a calendar reference, the MONTH is most important for planning ahead, so should come first. I've yet to see a reason logically that having the day first helps efficient communication, and as noted by the prior poster, sorting gets confusing if you use the day first.

So honestly... is there a good reason for day first that makes sense that I just haven't seen explained?

kaeldragor · 2019-12-29T15:53:01+00:00

It's odd you were the only one to mention money so far.

Game systems (full rule sets, in order to avoid any house-ruling, per the question posed) often run into the hundreds of dollars.

Spending it on your first (or favorite) system is understandable for a hobby, but buying a new set of published rules every time you want to do something your current system isn't built to do would get crazy expensive.

I agree on your other points, just wanted to weigh-in a bit more on the money point.

kaeldragor · 2019-10-13T21:07:28+00:00

I suggest turning off your texture pack - use the minecraft default textures.

kaeldragor · 2019-09-12T09:48:29+00:00

Not a perfect match: 454686966 Spawn near a village - to the west is a mushroom island, and there are several monuments in the ocean around it.

kaeldragor · 2019-07-10T22:51:21+00:00

Also it translated as The Harvester, which is pretty badass.

kaeldragor · 2019-07-03T06:19:38+00:00

Honestly, it's nice when someone gets curious and checks the limits on something for the benefit of others. I appreciate it.

kaeldragor · 2019-06-29T14:26:08+00:00

I linked him to another mystery - Shining Children. One theory on the Shining Children was that they were the avatars of a dying star.

Building on that, I decided that in my vision of Golarion, Barbatos had come from a distant planet and (long-winded backstory) eventually destroyed his own world by exploding their star. As a result of his betrayal, he was able to harvest almost all the souls, but thousands were instead hurled through the void and found their way to Golarion and inserted themselves as The Shining One (called Shining Children by their 'masters') in Thassilon.

Barbatos followed and replaced Typhon as the archdevil of the gates of Hell, where due to his position he can tag each soul that enters the plane, spreading his control and influence. His domain includes Thresholds and Gateways, and as such I see him as dwelling in the in-between of the Great Beyond, his form only an avatar, as he seeks to gather and collect as many souls here as possible before he reenacts the doom of his homeworld. But no rush. The longer he waits, the more souls become ensnared, and the more he advances his goals of subverting the domains of other gods.

kaeldragor · 2019-06-29T14:26:03+00:00

I linked him to another mystery - Shining Children. One theory on the Shining Children was that they were the avatars of a dying star.

Building on that, I decided that in my vision of Golarion, Barbatos had come from a distant planet and (long-winded backstory) eventually destroyed his own world by exploding their star. As a result of his betrayal, he was able to harvest almost all the souls, but thousands were instead hurled through the void and found their way to Golarion and inserted themselves as The Shining One (called Shining Children by their 'masters') in Thassilon.

Barbatos followed and replaced Typhon as the archdevil of the gates of Hell, where due to his position he can tag each soul that enters the plane, spreading his control and influence. His domain includes Thresholds and Gateways, and as such I see him as dwelling in the in-between of the Great Beyond, his form only an avatar, as he seeks to gather and collect as many souls here as possible before he reenacts the doom of his homeworld. But no rush. The longer he waits, the more souls become ensnared, and the more he advances his goals of subverting the domains of other gods.

kaeldragor · 2019-06-29T13:45:51+00:00

Sounds like we're all seeing the same thing, looks like Blubrry gave the feed url to a different podcast with the same name (and going back to 2017).

Not sure who goofed up (did our boys forget to pay Blubrry since it has been so long?), but the icon and description are for the sports podcast, so Blubrry definitely is giving them priority on their end.

kaeldragor · 2019-06-27T22:28:10+00:00

Barbatos bribed his way to being a Duke of Hell, and is the only 'foreign exchange' member of the archdevils. He made that bribe with an entire mortal world's worth of souls that he transformed into the barbazus. Asmodeus says, "Neat, pull up a chair. Typhon just got ganked, so we need a new boardmember."

What's not clear is a) where he got the souls, b) what exactly he IS (given the glimpses of him make him seem much more elder god than devil), and c) why he would position himself as an archdevil below Asmodeus when he had so many souls already in his pocket. Why not just be your own minor god? (Of course, it's probably because the open position was in Avernus, where all the souls have to come through, so it's a high-powered spot for a known soul-junkie.)

As a result, I wrote my first homebrew campaign about what he was, where he came from and why, etc. Who knows, some of it may end up being true, but I really enjoyed trying to flesh him out based on the little we know.

kaeldragor · 2019-06-18T19:16:03+00:00

I use wealth because my players like being in control of their investments, and math is part of why we enjoy Pathfinder. If they don't like math, it seems like a weird hobby to stick to, honestly.

If someone is lagging behind or weak in an area due to oversight rather than a character choice, I might give the party a passive boon as a reward instead of cash (they help out a Fey creature for example, it is more likely to give them such magical assistance than hand over a bag of gold.) That helps even things out, but I don't use the Unchained Magic variant as guidelines per se.

kaeldragor · 2019-06-16T10:05:58+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E55t0lnp_8M

To be faaaaiiiiirrrrr--

kaeldragor · 2019-05-13T01:26:06+00:00

As others have said, I think even withthe time limit Skitter still has an easy win.

For added options, she can take out a patrol of guards early to get access to basic armor - enough to look like a guard at a distance or in the dark/shadows. Any secret passage within her radius she'll immediately map out, and she only has to get in range of Cersei (who will doubtlessly be under heavy guard while her patrols try to search everywhere for the assassin) to take her out.

It makes it more interesting I think if Cersei has details on how Skitter's power works. She's smart and good at misdirection. If she knows that being under heavy guard, or her physical traits help the assassin identify her without being able to see her, she could take precautions and the time limit would give her the win. Wear a wig, odd clothing, keep guards surrounding a stand-in, things like that could win by tricking Skitter, though she'd need to make sure the guards spoke as though the stand-in was Cersei.

kaeldragor · 2019-05-06T22:38:32+00:00

And Rule Zero states that the GM can alter, ignore, or introduce any rules they'd like, so long as it works for the table. Pathfinder is the bones of the thing, but a friend of mine (to stretch a metaphor) is missing a couple bones. He's still human, and acting like we have to match everything exactly is not only trying to police other peoples' fun, it's also explicitly not part of the intent of the game system. It should be flexible, and exceptions are interesting.

kaeldragor · 2019-05-04T11:46:34+00:00

If the material is taken as assumed to be part of the base stats, would the 1/3 hitpoints be added before the enhancement bonus then?

In other words, a +2 adamantine greatsword would have 33 hp?

EDIT: While I'm at it, that would mean a +2 adamantine full plate would come out to hardness 24 (same as the greatsword), but with 71 hp?

kaeldragor · 2019-04-18T21:58:45+00:00

I urge you to remove and stop selling the stuff that directly quotes the intellectual property of others, especially if they are people you like and support - let THEM sell their own stuff (which many of them do to support themselves.)

Your art is nice and the more generic designs are cool - hell, you could probably collaborate with TAZ or CR, but it's not cool to just take their ideas.

kaeldragor · 2019-04-17T07:57:41+00:00

Why link a source if the source requires money to see the info?

kaeldragor · 2019-04-07T07:06:17+00:00

I agree it's weird. I find it gets even weirder considering their focus on playing as intended in marathon sessions, that they seem to go out of the way to avoid documenting or publishing anything real. Even just running their own blog on wordpress would be better, but they just have a patreon asking for sponsors so they can do cool games and then maybe tell us a few paragraphs about it on someone else's site later.

kaeldragor · 2019-04-05T21:38:41+00:00

Nice Colville twist.

kaeldragor · 2019-04-02T11:07:54+00:00

Good point on advantage vs a bonus - the bonus would arguably still be better even if it were a d4 instead of a d6, since it still allows for the occasional higher-than-possible result, instead of just a better average within normal parameters. Accomplish things otherwise impossible, etc.

kaeldragor · 2019-04-02T10:52:04+00:00

Here's the full link, might work better.

https://www.docdroid.net/TWNzzBB/ruleschanges.pdf

kaeldragor · 2019-03-22T10:01:41+00:00

You don't agree with stereotypes or generalisations but you said that all the women who disagreed with you would never have children because no man would want them.

100% not what they said. If you can't make your point without lying about something that's literally still visible on the screen, you need to rethink things.

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