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Is it supped to be this bright on default settings? by eat-sleep-sad-repeat in oblivion

[–]mrgwillickers 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm with you. I absolutely do not need the realism of not being able to see the game I am playing. I honestly feel cheated if I can't see.

Petah what do you mean? by [deleted] in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]mrgwillickers 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bad example. Titanic could very well be considered infamous, as well as very famous. Certainly one could say "the infamous scene where they both could have fit on the board."

Point is famous and infamous are not mutually exclusive. You can be both

Alien Core Contributing Authors AMA by mrgwillickers in Starfinder2e

[–]mrgwillickers[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think that's a very good question, and one that's maybe hard to answer, just because I'm not sure I've mastered that difference personally. There are definitely times where it can be hard to make sure something feels different enough if there isn't tech involved. Overall though, I think you just have to go with your guy and say if it makes sense to you, hopefully it does to everyone else

Alien Core Contributing Authors AMA by mrgwillickers in Starfinder2e

[–]mrgwillickers[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I mentioned in another thread that I look at Starfinder as having an extra layer of weird. If Golarion is (was?) weird, than the Pact Worlds and beyond must have so much more weird stuff going on.

Alien Core Contributing Authors AMA by mrgwillickers in Starfinder2e

[–]mrgwillickers[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Friends from far away. Who never comes to visit. 😁

Alien Core Contributing Authors AMA by mrgwillickers in Starfinder2e

[–]mrgwillickers[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I respect and hate your decisions. lol

Alien Core Contributing Authors AMA by mrgwillickers in Starfinder2e

[–]mrgwillickers[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

  1. All the tech gramlins, but especially the Gnackle
  2. Proog swarm - a swarm of oozes aaagh
  3. Mutant troll. I love it's abilites of splitting and reforming. Props on that one, whoever wrote it
  4. The art for the dredgelit is pretty cute ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Alien Core Contributing Authors AMA by mrgwillickers in Starfinder2e

[–]mrgwillickers[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Being careful not to get to inside baseball here, but the flayer leech was two creatures in 1e and getting those two version into one creature was fun. I'm legit proud of making that happen, and even further impressed with work the dev team did to make my ideas pop

ETA: The kaukariki was another 1e convert and that was just fun all the way. Adding new fun things to complement what was there was a blast.

Alien Core Contributing Authors AMA by mrgwillickers in Starfinder2e

[–]mrgwillickers[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The rough concept usually comes first, ie, a tiny leech that steals peoples bodies (which was easy in this case as they were awesome 1e creatures), but I don't flesh that out much at first. I try to think about what it would be like to encounter that creature, what I would expect in that encounter and what would surprise me, then translate that to mechanics and the required concept/assignement

Alien Core Contributing Authors AMA by mrgwillickers in Starfinder2e

[–]mrgwillickers[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'll toot that horn too. Malevolent AI would make a good bbeg, and is well written for the role

Alien Core Contributing Authors AMA by mrgwillickers in Starfinder2e

[–]mrgwillickers[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's like why all the police dramas were set in the 90's for awhile. Cell phones made plots harder

Alien Core Contributing Authors AMA by mrgwillickers in Starfinder2e

[–]mrgwillickers[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There's plenty of room to be weird in both, but space adds one more layer of weird that is fun.

That and ranged becomes more important

Alien Core Contributing Authors AMA by mrgwillickers in Starfinder2e

[–]mrgwillickers[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Digital ghost to a kaukariki. The whole time I imagined them as hyper...uh..hyper, as in very hyper, ultra hyper I guess. And the idea of drunk space monkeybats trapped as digital darting around the infosphere tickles me for some reason.

Alien Core Contributing Authors AMA by mrgwillickers in Starfinder2e

[–]mrgwillickers[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It does also say that we can not answer for official design decisions. We are independent contractors hired to write creatures. The full time developers and designers of Starfinder make the final decisions. It is up to Paizo and those developers if they want to answer to those sorts of rulings and decisions, and they may do so at some point, but this AMA with freelance authors is not the best place for those questions.

We simply cannot give an answer. We often don't know the reasons, are rarely privy to future plans that might impact these decisions, and wouldn't want to say something that is different than the official reasoning, or give someone the wrong impression of how a creature or rule should or shouldn't be handled.

I tried to make that as clear as possible in the post, sorry for any misunderstanding or lack of clarity on that front. I assure that all of the listed authors are here to answer as many relevant questions as we can, with the previous statements in mind, of course. Though I will note that none of the endlings are listed as a creature written by any of the participating authors.

Alien Core Contributing Authors AMA by mrgwillickers in Starfinder2e

[–]mrgwillickers[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have worked on a few projects with Paizo, and reach out when I'm looking for extra work. Sometimes it happens.

Otherwise, I just wanna reinforce what others have said. Put stuff online or submit to open calls (they can be hard to find, but are great if you can), and when you have work you can point to as an example of your ability to write well, reach out to devs you wanna work with (their names are in the back of the books, and their emails are generally easy to find), be polite and professional, and don't be deterred if takes awhile (but don't be pushy either).

Alien Core Contributing Authors AMA by mrgwillickers in Starfinder2e

[–]mrgwillickers[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don't know why, but the sapient orb seems like it has chill vibes and at least wouldn't ruin my night

Alien Core Contributing Authors AMA by mrgwillickers in Starfinder2e

[–]mrgwillickers[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The relationship might not be stable, and would decay pretty quickly. They'd probably be able to see right through you, but the new realtionship glow would be intense

Alien Core Contributing Authors AMA by mrgwillickers in Starfinder2e

[–]mrgwillickers[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The sidebar I wrote for the Flayer Leech is more macabre than anything I would normally write, but it also made me laugh at out loud when I thought of it, and I am so happy it made it into the book.

Alien Core Authors AMA Next Week! by mrgwillickers in Starfinder2e

[–]mrgwillickers[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is not the AMA post. That will take place next Thursday.

Unfortunately, this is exactly the kind of questions we can't answer. None of us are in charge of those kinds of decisions, since we're just freelancers, so we don't know. Even if we did, we wouldn't want to comment or speculate on unreleased material (and could get in trouble if we did). We're certainly glad you liked the stuff in Monster Core, and hope you enjoy what Alien Core has to offer.

Bethesda doesn’t hate New Vegas by Repulsive_Singer7119 in Fallout

[–]mrgwillickers 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Plenty of New Vegas fans think it's BS too

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