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I'm not really seeing how Resonance actually improves the game. It feels like a solution in want of a problem. Before, you were limited to what fit on your character, now it is a limit based on how magic your personality is. Either way, its a limit, and Resonance is far more fiddly book keeping than "one belt slot item per character".

If you want to make magic items more interesting, then do that! Use the Starfinder method of limited +STAT items, and run with it.

Resonance is the first time I feel like 2E is taking a step backwards.

As Alexander Damocles walks in, Theodium looks at him and quizzically raises an eyebrow. "I recall you were a Pathfinder of knowledge. Did you not learn your lesson the last time you tried the Emerald Spirit?"

Settling into a chair, he gives a frustrated and longsuffering sigh. "Oh, I did. That's why I'm back. My daughter, Ashiel showed up. Not only does she have the mark so that she is trapped in this scheme of Pharasma, she managed to talk people into putting her administrative skills to good use. My daughter just became my boss. Every time I return to a shrine or need new gear, I have to ask my daughter for new equipment. At the moment, I don't care if the drink puts me out for a day or two or merely gives me a hangover worthy of Cayden Cailean."

Theodium shakes his head in sympathy as the drink arrives. "Then may you find what you seek in the bottom of the flask." As he walk away, he writes in a ledger "New contact in The Empyrean Order, Ashiel Damocles. Possible business associate."

Fortitude: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8

Downing the drink in seconds, Damocles felt the drink explode behind his eyeballs, and as his head hit the table he thought "Praise Abadar, now I can rest...." as the world faded to black.

Waking up the next day, he awoke to find his daughter staring at him. "Well. This is new. I journey to the Emerald Lodge to establish contact, and as a bargain the tavernkeep throws in you."

Damocles groans and thinks to himself "Will I have to start trying to sleep in Golgotha? At least there I won't have recriminations to wake up to..."

If you want to like a team with no class and mediocre skills, then sure, be a Hawks fan.

TEO is still recruiting! We already have our settlement position established, but that doesn't mean we don't need *you* to join TEO! Want to make a difference in Pathfinder Online, to be a part of creating a good gameplay environment? Join TEO today!

As TEO's ambassador to Pax, I have access to some of their forums. They made it super clear that any member who voted for Aeturnum *should not* and *may not* vote for Golgotha. I fully believe that if there is an issue of people voting again, then Pax will fully investigate and handle it internally.

What reason would I have to pay you rather than run it myself? Why would you need so many accounts?

It seems like you're trying to graft an idea to a game system, and I'm not quite sure they fit.

Taylor Hainlen wrote:

Lisa Stevens wrote:

I am manually pulling all of these orders from the Paizo database with my own hands! It is a bit slow, but I plan to have the spreadsheet in Tayler's grubby hands by tomorrow. Hang in there! You are not forgotten! Sorry for the bumpy ride.

-Lisa

While I would love to get my 'grubby hands' on the data, turns out Connor will likely be the one handling the entry of the data you are manually pulling. I'll have to be content with doing work on the game. :)

Well, I decided to burn the midnight oil a bit and sent you the spreadsheet, Taylor. So you will have to pass it along to Connor if he is indeed the goblin tasked with getting this data into the system!

-Lisa
"earning her goblin late-night stripes as we press towards alpha"

Since when do you have to earn your stripes? You're the goblin in chief, stripes appear when you tell them to!

Thanks for all the hard work!

Alexander_Damocles wrote:

I sense much Dresden Files in this thread....

I want to be a Vampire from the White Court.

No lost Greek God of Bowflex for you.

I sense much Dresden Files in this thread....

May your mines be profitable and your armies victorious. Any idea where the settlement will end up?

Signed, and happily so.

Alexander_Damocles wrote:

Says the paragon of good and righteousness and all that is beneficial for gameplay...

Nah. At this point I just want some revenge against those who carelessly destroyed what I worked so hard to build. Could really care less if I go CE in the process.

Which means sadly your morals are worth less to you than your desire for revenge. TEO was your creation, but with integrity like that, you never could have led it.

Thank you for casting the vision. We'll carry it through, in honor of the Andius that should have been.

Saiph the Fallen wrote:

Bummer Andius, I was looking forward to fighting alongside you. Though I'm now rather excited about having another worthy foe to dance with. Good luck, up against me, you're going to need it old friend. ;)

Maybe you can come join us here after TSV falls.

Says the paragon of good and righteousness and all that is beneficial for gameplay...

The two are separate fields, but they both cost money. So, GW could either hire a new artist, or a new systems programmer. The consensus here is that we would rather see a new systems program.

I think he meant break even with 100,000.

::blink blink::

Did anyone else see the barbarian in the fuzzy pink hat, or is finals week getting to me?

suspiciously eyes the coffee

Papaver... You kill me you really do. If ever we face of in PvP and you hop on VOIP and say some madness like that, ill be laughing too hard to defend myself. =P

I will go ahead an make recordings then ;)

Nihimon wrote:

I would also encourage you to look at the other guilds in the Roseblood Accord to see if one of them is a better match for you. For example, if you are inclined to the life of a Mercenary, you might find a better home with Audacity. If you're heart yearns for the stone halls among your Dwarven kin, you might find a better home with Deepforge Company. If balance sheets and the thrill of the market are more to your liking, you might find a better home with Koinonia Emporou. Additionally, Keepers of the Circle, The Empyrean Order, and The Seventh Veil are all much less focused on a particular aspect of the game, but we each have our own themes.

Well to be honest, your activities seems okay for me, as I am more of a versatile player. Besides playing with the market, I like to do a lot of things, which seems to correspond to your company. It's just about the RP aspect, that I'm not sure for now, since I tend to play very lawful characters, with more militant beliefs, which would kind of direct me more to TEO. But T7V being more "diverse" I would say, I think that it would be maybe a better choice, if I want to convince other French players to choose the same company.

Anyway, I will be in the Roseblood Accord community, that's for sure.

Join TEO, and vacation in Phaeros often?

The most reasonable way for Goblinworks to expand the available hexes would be to add to the perimeter, thus expanding in all directions at once, favoring no one area.

The problem with that theory is that we are already in the North West corner of the river kingdoms. If we expand much, we run into various other countries and the like. If GW decides to add Numeria etc, then we could keep expanding. But otherwise, the map will largely expand to the SE to include an ever larger portion of the River Kingdoms.

So are you all actively boycotting evil groups?

Speaking in a personal role, I will not boycott evil groups. I fully intend to visit Golgotha and any other evil town that won't kill me on sight. I believe that trade is possible with any group that will act in a manner that is beneficial to the game as a whole, regardless of their alignment. I would readily advocate for that.

Can I be evil?

If you have to ask, the answer is no...

How could you possibly ignore HAWT PANTS!!

Practice. Lots and lots of practice.

T7V is not a vehicle for some would-be Alexander or Napoleonic knock-off.

I beg your pardon!

All kidding aside, TSV will do well to have you!

TEO would *love* to have a more European branch. We have a few members from Europe as is, and we would happily welcome more!
Come say hello on our forums!

Lord Zodd wrote:

ArchAnjel wrote:

Internet drama queens just can't be stopped.

Whoa! Whoa! Calling Bluddwolf a queen is a bit much...

He is a princess at best :p

You can't even comprehend how difficult it is to resist the urge to open Photoshop right now and channel the thing that is "princess Bluddwolf" in my head into it.

Make it so.

For those of you who disagree: quit bumping the thread. Prepare yourself to prove your various points in the game. We can talk past each other for months on end, or we can go our separate ways and do our best to advance our interests in the game. I hope to see Good thrive both in the north and the south east. Best of luck to all involved.

We recruit more than poets! Anyone interested in creating a positive gaming environment or being a part of one, TEO is the place for you!

Did you just post a link to the thread we're already in? I believe you did.

Threadception.

Did we just recruit Alexander? Yay!

Shhh...quiet. :)

I won't tell anyone if you won't ;)

How many pokey bits per square mile can we expect in Golgothan city limits?

What's the penalty for doing 26 in a 25?

Any idea where you'll end up on the map?

Pax would be a good place, as would either TSV or TEO (I'm partial to TEO, seeing as I'm a member). TEO is dedicated to positive game play and keeping an area of the map safe for people who aren't huge fans of PvP. If you are interested, you can talk to me or Lifedragn, or any other member of TEO you come across.

Regardless of where you end up, best of luck in game!

We also have a crazy Irish person.

Don't we all? Find me a non-crazy Irish person, then I'll be interested.

The problem is, then, that things would have been run by a military dictatorship. And that is not what the people wanted. You did not convince people to settle elsewhere. And the more abrasive you became, the less people listened to you.

The same is happening now. If you want to collect good minded individuals to protect the starter towns (which TEO could still have done), bashing on the good aligned groups does not make people want to ally with you. Because they don't know when you will turn on them for a difference of opinion.

I stand by that, so have fun attempting to do so.

We intend to. So, in the interests of positive game play, let us do so.

T7V Avari wrote:

Andius, you gave up control of one of the game's largest starting militaries because you are convinced that this game can actually be "won" or "lost" during the land rush. If you were half the strategist you say you are, that would not have happened.

My decision to leave was largely based on seeing how easily this alliance could be sold into such a horrible decision despite the warnings given. I believe that is the decision that will kill you, but if it's not, you've demonstrated that you'll probably make another that will. I already wasted two years and hundreds of dollars building something you guys will wreck with careless decisions. No need to wait around and invest more time and money before seeing which decision will ultimately wreck it.

Respectfully, Andius, your point has been made. Continuing to make it will not change the facts. It can, however, push people to not trust the alliance. In effect, your actions now are directly against the organization of good aligned and good intentioned individuals. You now stand against everything you stood for. Please, if you cannot support us, then do not bad mouth The Roseblood or TEO. It does not reflect well on you, helps no one, changes no minds, and can be detrimental to the efforts of promoting positive gameplay.

Drogon will go out of his way to make sure all players in his store are welcome and accepted. He's really good about that.

As for teens in PFS, I welcome them. My flat out favorite person to partner with at a table is a local teen who is acts very maturely and tends to make the table have more fun.

That needs to be brought to Mike Brock's attention. That is unacceptable behavior.

More neutral-goodness! Best of luck, in all your circles!

Alexander_Damocles wrote:

The Roseblood Accorded Association of Federated Independent Sovereign City States in a Bond of Fellowship has finally launched! Glad we got *that* cleared up.

I think you forgot Conglomerate Affinity Sovereignty Organization in there somewhere ROFL

I tried!

The Roseblood Accorded Association of Federated Independent Sovereign City States in a Bond of Fellowship has finally launched! Glad we got *that* cleared up.

Bugs happen, and they can be devils to iron out. Best of luck to the goblins, I'll happily wait.

Good job getting some of them handled so quickly.

My accounts are now linked! Well done, GW!

One thought for you: if the leader of the SBC is run by the person to beat the reigning leader, what happens if an outsider joins the clan, beats the leader, and then demands that the clan fight on behalf of another organization?

I think a barbarian themed group is awesome, I just want you to be aware of a possible weakness.

Purple Fluffy CatBunnyGnome wrote:

*giggles and does a little cheerleading sidekick on her way out the door*

*sprinkles glitter*

I died laughing. This is best thing.

*sprinkles more glitter*

Uh oh... we're going to have to fight a glitter swarm, aren't we?

She does that a lot. Especially around Kyle Baird. Best way to spot him approaching is the warning puffs of flying glitter.

Best of luck to all the goblins on the bug hunt. I know how much of a pain that can be, and I'm totally not worried about how long it will take to sort this out.

After all, I'm a lot younger than the guys in my local groups, as well as being kinda hideous.

The first may be true, but without even having seen you, I can assure you that the second is simply not true :)

My issue is that when I attempt to link the accounts, it says that the email is already in use at goblinworks. Well, yeah, cause its my email, of course its already in use.

So, at this time, I can't even link my accounts to tell you if the buddy pledge is an issue.

The Goblinworks site has been up for at least an hour now - just a word to the wise sign up through paizo.com first. I did it the wrong way and couldn't confirm the account when I tried to link it to my paizo.com account in the kickstarter. I am sure its an easy fix ;)

Exact same issue.

I read it that Golgotha is allied with Pax Aeternum the same way TSV and TEO are allied.

If that is the case, then I totally agree that Golgotha is in the free and clear. But I thought that Golgotha was mainly Pax members who want a LE settlement?

Ryan Dancey (Restrictions for Winners of Phase 1 of the Guild Land Rush) wrote:

A follow on question to that regards federations of guilds where several independent groups pledge to work together in-game. This is a bit of a corner-case but we would rather err on the side of engagement than in disengagement. So we are ok with federated guilds participating in Phase II, with the proviso that anyone who voted for a winning guild in Phase I is still ineligible to participate in Phase II. A "federated guild" is a separate organization of people organized primarily independently of a guild that won Phase I, not just a subset of a winning Phase I guild's members who want to have their own identity and take part in Phase II.

This seems to very directly address the situation Golgotha is in. I don't see any reason they shouldn't pursue their own Settlement in the next phase of the Land Rush.

Playing Devil's Advocate, I'm not sure I see it that way. Golgotha is now a part of Pax, and its members are a subset of a winning Phase I Guild. Golgotha is no longer primarily independent of Pax or a separate organization.

(Please note, I'm merely trying to understand a grey area of the rules. I believe Pax is entirely acting in good faith in a rules area that is not quite clear)