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Reminds me of this: [image: images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcR13JSdQs0Q0Okv2MBJix-gE8RzdOmX8nseU0wzcbxVTQ&s=10]

"Tucker's Kobolds" from 1987 is about giving weak #dnd monsters with (honestly) excessive tricks inc traps. It's a meme now, picked up on YouTube.Looking through editions, there are zero references to kobolds using traps before it. #odnd just says they are weaker than goblins, basically the crappest humanoid. #adnd1e has them just fighting. #bxdnd says they "ambush". All before 1987. But #adnd2e (1989) has heavy reference to traps for them. TSR eating their own memes.https://media.wizards.com/2014/downloads/dnd/TuckersKobolds.pdf

If I wanted an NPC to have so much meat on them, I would do a Tarot relationship/love spread (5 cards creating a cross + 4 on the side) and interpret it in the scope of the plot. More options and flexibility than a stiff d12

#Pathfinder #Golarion has it ever been stated in canon how much the Bellflower Network and Eagle Knights talk to eachother? I'd probably be at least a little; Andoran is the main destination for liberated slaves, and it'd benefit Andoran to have an ally in your main enemy's underground

@silvergm@dice.camp Oh, that’s incredibly common on Reddit. People don’t read the books, so have no idea that the treasure tables exist, nor that the DC tables exist, that there are guidelines for monster creation, or even that there are pre-defined actions for things like feinting. The flip side of that, though, is that a lot of the people that new GMs are talking to are hyper-orthodox about the game, and have the default position of “why even play this game if you want to do [thing that deviates by an arbitrary amount from the Golarion setting]?”

@silvergm@dice.camp Yeah, but one hit per round is also a fairly good estimate, assuming you’re throwing primarily Pl-2 to PL+0 creatures at them. I think that 1d4 would put it around Level 5, based on what I’ve seen.I wish we had more concrete guidance on item level damage and usage frequency, though.

The main two things were:* Do heads have separate HP from the body? I ruled no, damage done to a head is also done to the body, but it doesn't carry over after a head is severed. This made the heads function like damage-soak minions?* Does regeration scale with Actual Number of Heads or with Original Number of Heads? I think RAW it should scale with Actual Number of Heads, but to keep things simple I kept it stable at Regen HP is equal to Head HP.

Splines are piecewise vector curves, like what you get from the ‘pen’ tool in Photoshop or Gimp. To reticiulate means to put together so as to form a mesh or network. The phrase doesn’t really mean anything in the context of the game.

Oooooh. Those boxes would be useful. Thanks for taking the time to document them!

Big fan of the “let people hate things” motto

@moondog@meow.social There is no community on the Internet that more firmly treats Water Finds a Crack as a play guide, rather than a warning to designers.

Going to second everyone else saying “it’s not your friend’s character”. Roleplaying games have this nasty effect of attracting people that are focused on doing things “the best way” – they see the games as puzzles to solve – but what the best way of playing is is not a singular thing. And people have this weird tendency to also conflate things that seem similar. Here, I suspect your friend is telling you that you “need” to target all of the different DCs: Fortitude, Reflex, Will, and AC. This provides you with the most flexibility as a caster, and the highest chances of actually getting the maximum effect out of your spells. Because of this, a lot of the online discussion around magic users in the game has actually focused on optimizing your ability to target all of these – because, again, the discussions are dominated by people who want to “solve” the game. But if you’re OK with partial successes and playing the character in a way that feels the most organic to you, you should do that. The game is designed so that you don’t need to be hyper-focused on optimizing your choices. But if your friend isn’t ok with you doing that, then you should start asking them why they want to play your character for you.

Includes stat blocks for 20 original monsters in multiple game systems, with design notes, and accompanied by splendid old-school illustrations by @jencmars.Make your players go "NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE"!

https://www.simplypf2e.com/post/recall-knowledge

Shared by one of their players over in the Darklands. [image: 1750706115288-ff103bb3-7516-42e1-9b7c-123fabf82e36-image.png]

@hostilearchitecture Ah, yeah, that makes sense. In my case, a PC took it as a Dedication feat, so I'm guessing it won't be quite as "bad" as it could have been if it was his full class.

Partially. I think its fine to have that kind of thing. But not all the time. Bandits who are actually good people will avoid murder if possible. And while bad people can also have loved ones, that does not invalidate self defense. Just as you said: Self defense is not murder-hoboing. If we are talking murder-hoboing then we should apply that list to city guards and commoners, who are not meant to be fought.

Oran becomes a Summoner, from season 3 of Rotgrind! https://youtu.be/W0IX9_AMvSs