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I think this is worth bringing to Morrus 's attention... neat!

We've seen goblins, elves and dwarves; now it's time to take a peek at Pathfinder 2nd Edition's small folk - the halflings and gnomes! All to be added, of course, to the Pathfinder 2nd Edition Compiled Info Page! 96491 Halflings -- 8 racial hit points Size small; speed 20 feet Dexterity and Charisma boost, plus one flexible boost; Strength flaw Ancestry feats -- Distracting Shadows (sneak using large creatures as cover) Plucky (overcome fear) Titan Slinger (damage bonus with slings vs. large creatures); also the sling does more damage than in PF1 Lucky Halfling (reroll one skill check or save you critically fail per day) Gnomes -- 8 racial hit points Con and Cha boosts, plus one flexible boost; Str flaw Low light vision Ancestry feats -- Fey Fellowship (more charismatic when dealing with fey) First World Magic (bonus cantrip with various options) Discerning Smell (find invisible creatures) Animal Speaker (talk to animals) What do ability boosts and flaws do...

Morrus, which adventure are you running? I bought the books and thought it would be a good change of pace from my Al-Qadim game, but your comments are giving me pause...how is it less fun, basically?

Any chance of compiling these into an EN5ider article? Would be great to have a PDF with them all together :) That's entirely up to Morrus, but I certainly wouldn't object.

Hey Morrus, I discovered the location of the unapproved message, but when I try to approve it, the sit gives me an error message. PHP Warning: require(..../dbtech/userthreads_pro/hooks/group_start_postcheck.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in ..../group_inlinemod.php(108) : eval()'d code on line 1 Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required '/var/www/virtual/enworld/forum/dbtech/userthreads_pro/hooks/group_start_postcheck.php' (include_path='.:/opt/lib/php') in /var/www/virtual/enworld/forum/group_inlinemod.php(108) : eval()'d code on line 1

Hello Morrus - My understanding is that the block feature is two-way. If I block someone, I can't see their posts or respond to them and vice versa. While that does appear to be working for posters that have blocked me, it does not appear to be the case for posters I have blocked. They have been able to view and quote my posts and I have also received PMs from posters I have blocked. Would you kindly take a look at this for me? Thanks in advance for your help.

Very cool! Morrus can you send someone to get one?!

The launch date for Cubicle 7's WFRP 4E has been revealed -- the game is being released at the UK Games Expo in Birmingham, 1st-3rd June. Check out the video below at the 19-minute mark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePiPbEdFAbc&t=1166s SaveSaveSaveSave

Hey Morrus, I am interested in submitting some short introductory and low level adventures to En5ider, but I have 1 question for you and the community: Do I need to provide the starting settlement? As in, I wish to submit some adventures that can be 'tacked on' to a settlement of choice by the DM, such as the ones already detailed on EN5ider. Would DMs be happy with this? Would I refer to people in their role, or still give them names etc? Eg: the watch captian vs Thorved the watch captain.

Another comment on shields, realism and gaming: using 2 shields as a fighting style seems just plain wrong to me. (This was mentioned in an earlier post by Paizo). If I was GMing the game (probably won't ever happen) I wouldn't allow it, and I certainly won't use it as a player. Edit: source: http://knowdirectionpodcast.com/2018/03/pathfinder-2nd-edition-playtest-special/ said by Mona (from the compilation thread done by Morrus )

Morrus - It really gets old when someone like Remathilis feels the need to announce to the world that he is going to block you. I would report the post but as he blocked me immediately after he posted I do not have the ability to report the post.

Hi I purchased some gold, mainly as a little tip to ENW, but it has not appeared in my account. I've emailed a couple of times and had no reply. Any help Morrus?

There is, but for some reason no one can add it to the first post. http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?593300-Guide-How-to-Win-Fights-and-Intimidate-People-(Another-Barbarian-Primer)&highlight=barbarian Morrus or Yunru, can either of you add this, the thread owner asked for help last page and never got a response.It's going to have to be Morrus, my changes aren't sticking.

There is, but for some reason no one can add it to the first post. http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?593300-Guide-How-to-Win-Fights-and-Intimidate-People-(Another-Barbarian-Primer)&highlight=barbarian Morrus or Yunru, can either of you add this, the thread owner asked for help last page and never got a response.

Morrus, I see that terms like "virtue signalling" (a new one to me) and SJW are not allowed on this forum, but is the same true of terms like "white privilege" and similar?

"Two things I can't stand are racism and the Dutch!" - Michael Caine's character in one of those Austin Powers movies. When you quote a movie, quote it correctly! So that everyone can bake in it's glorious contrariety... ;-) Morrus: The article isn't discussing ANY particular culture, that would be great content! But your doing now what we all don't like saying that Africa or the Orient is a culture, it isn't. It's a collection of cultures. Instead of authors raving against things that are wrong with RPG products, why not show them how it's done?

PS Thank you Morrus for the post and keeping us informed!

Cheers for the paraphrased info Morrus. Very useful. It looks like they are trying to streamline and simplify a lot of things that previously had their own little subsystem.

Morrus , if I may... you said you are very excited about this. Did you feel the same about 5e? Thank you for transcribing this, very appreciated!

Morrus I know you just consolidated all the non-5e D&D sub forums into a neat little package, but you might consider a new one for Pathfinder 2. It's gonna be a hot topic for a while, and likely to become the "other" active and current D&D game.

Knightfall I don't see why not Morrus?

@Ancalagon The third comment by JRutterbush is very interesting. They speculate that there will be four spell lists (Mental, Spiritual, Material, Vital) and that different classes will get access to a portion of those lists. The division of spells into four main themes − mental, vital, material, and spiritual − is something I have been doing and posting about for years (mostly at the former wizards .com forum site, but there might be some posts here too). What they are calling ‘vital’, I call ‘lifeforce’, but the foursome is otherwise identical. I created this thematic spell list because all D&D spells can be organized by one or more of these four themes. It works excellently because it makes users of magic *feel* different from each other. It is a marriage of flavor and mechanics.

You seem angry about something. What's up? Can't an old grognard poke fun at his least favorite edition? I'd comment on other products so as not to pick on one all the time, but I can't wait that long for the next one to appear! Ba-dum! Ching!! *rimshot*

There’s zero chance of the Star Wars movies coming to an end. "All Of This Has Happened Before And Will Happen Again." No, wait, that was something else...

Where does that come from? Just about everywhere from the day Star Wars came out in 1977. I remember all the articles, books, trading cards, comics, games, etc., all describing Chewbacca as a "200 year old Wookiee," though it looks like that is no longer official Disney-era canon. While his Wikipedia entry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewbacca) still includes this, Chewie's entry at the official https://www.starwars.com/databank/chewbacca does not mention his age.

One thing I’m worried about is that this film looks like it may show that every significant element of Han Solo’s backstory - becoming a criminal, meeting Chewie, meeting Lando, getting his blaster, getting the Falcon, being betrayed and becoming cynical, doing the Kessler Run - all happened simultaneously within the space of one adventure rather than as events spread over a rich personal history. It rather diminishes it all if everything Solo is happened within the space of a week ten years ago. If it transpires he first met Jabba and/or Boba Fett in that week too... If Fett shows up, we may also see him disintegrate one or more folks...

I think so. I don’t quite understand it. I think you get actual shares in the game or something. Fig is the platform co-created by Brian Fargo from Interplay and the Double Fine studio as a Kickstarter alternative. It has two modes of contribution. 1. Traditional kickstarter-like pledges. You pick a pledge level that corresponds to a reward, pledge the money, and when the game is complete you get the reward. 2. Investment model. You purchase a number of shares of the game, and you get returns based on your share percentages out of the gross profits of the game. So person x might own 5% of the profits of a game, person y might own 10%, and the studio gets the remaining 85%. The purpose is to allow investments of more than a few hundred in exchange for profits on release, to support traditional kickstarter pledges, and to avoid the kickstarter fees. I'm assuming Fig by default gets a percentage of shares as its fee.

The ignore/block function does not function when you visit using the EN World app.

I think we probably need a rule to prevent it. We can’t stop it on a technical level, but taking the effort to log out and cyberstalk and quote somebody who has used the privacy features to block you is pretty much the definition of harassment. A rule would work. Also? It just seems so effortful, what with the cutting and pasting and logging on with different accounts. Being a jerk must be really tiring.

Don’t be confused. One person got something wrong. No need to stress. :) Ha! True. I think the confusion is more in how myopic their view of how to handle the Gygax name has been. But that too is something I should get over; it's been 10 years ;-)

I think I’d rather focus on fictional or semi fictional characters. The occasional real person is OK, but this is about mythology not history. The litmus test on this could be that a historical figure needs to have a significant mythology built around them that transcends their original culture and becomes something close to commonish knowledge within the community. Then remove living folks for courtesy reasons. Ex. Musashi makes sense to me, but anyone I'd have to look up to know who they were, not so much. The question likely needs to be - If I make an article with this personage, can the expectation truly be that the majority of the community will know who it is?

I think I’d rather focus on fictional or semi fictional characters. The occasional real person is OK, but this is about mythology not history. Yeah I get that, but with someone like Musashi it's tough to separate the legend from the fact. I think your rule would be safe with Tomoe Gozen, who's pretty clearly been turned into a legend over time, but Aphra Behn would be a bit too well documented. Maybe a series on real life people who make good inspiration for fictional characters? Aphra Behn, Ching Shih, and, oh, William Dampier, are all good examples, just to pick three.

It’s not “Lost” in space. It’s a remake of the old show “Lost In Space”. It has nothing to do with Lost.Er... It starts with the same word...? [emoji4]

Mythological figures are the primary focus of the article; some major historical figures might be the secondary focus; but we're not going to do stats for living people. Thank you. Should have read down before replying.

I'm pretty sure Mike said Joan of Arc is next, though I'm not 100% sure. I have a build for her that I like and think people will get use out of, just working on the extra text right now. :D Enjoying the wrote ups. Quick question...he came up with the 2 weapon fighting style with the swords mentioned above but nothing stat wise shows this fighting style. Thanks! Aye. He came up with it but he's not really known for that being his style. I just came across that during my research and (for the like dozenth time in my life) been like "Whoa, Musashi. Whoa." Had to mention it. If you want to make it a thing for him, you can swap out the Defensive fighting style (drop his AC by 1), add in bonus action attacks with a shortsword (include that damage add), and lower his katana down to 1d8. :) I would increase the AC bonus for Master of the Sword to at least +2 and possibly higher to bring it in line with other reactions that do the same thing (e.g. Gladiator has Parry that adds +3 as a reaction) ...

That would certainly be bad form. I don’t *know* that it’s about licensor approvals. I’m just guessing. It seems the most likely explanation. The lack of communication is frustrating. I expect for C7 as well as fans, as the fans keep asking and C7 for whatever reasons is keeping quiet. Given things I've heard from prior licensees, licensor approval is highly likely.

Hmm. Tried merging the two threads but it got all screwed up. Ah well. It happens

WotC has been using codenames for its upcoming products for some time, mainly to stop anybody figuring our what's in the pipeline. Those codenames end up as placeholders on bookstores and the like. Eagle-eyed reader Sean spotted some upcoming items on McNally Robinson, a Canadian bookstore's website. 91140 The items spotted were a 192-page hardcover accessory codenamed "Marathon" (May 2018); a 256-page hardcover adventure codenamed "Broadway" (September 2018), and another 256-page hardcover adventure codenamed "Catacomb" (November 2018). There's also a set of "Broadway" dice. Past codenames have included "Labyrinth", which turned out to be Tomb of Annihilation, and "Dust", "Midway", "Cloak", and "Dagger". Let the speculation begin! D&D "Marathon" HC By Rpg Team Wizards ISBN: 9780786966240 format: Hardcover series: D&D Accessory pages: 192 publisher: Wizards of the Coast pub. date: 2018-05-29 D&D "Broadway" Dice By Rpg Team Wizards ISBN: 9780786966288 format: Ga...

Maybe they're waiting for approval form the licensor. Sometimes that can take time (especially with a big licensor with lots of licensees), and you don't have control over it. That often applies not just to the final product, but also promotional materials (we have to run Judge Dredd promotional stuff past Rebellion before we can show them).I see! And Cublicle 7 probably doesn't want to be seen as blaming the licence holder... thanks for the insight.

96304 So I think I figured out where id Software got the idea for the Cacodemon from...

I was 12. How about you? Same here. :)