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  1. Ashtagon

    Ancient Question: How to handle surrendering monsters....

    Feel free to have the last word, if you must misconstrue a quick statement that wasn't written to be legally watertight and cover all loopholes.
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    Ancient Question: How to handle surrendering monsters....

    I'm frankly astonished at how you can twist "good is not nice" into a claim that "good" encourages genocide and rape. I can't even see the spurious logic that might be used to reach that conclusion. I said good is not nice. I didn't say good can't be nice. "Nice" is just another axis on the...
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    Ancient Question: How to handle surrendering monsters....

    I disagree. Good is not Nice. The nice thing is to let them go. The good thing is to consider what will result in the greatest benefit for the greatest number of people.
  4. Ashtagon

    Pathfinder 1E Stabbing eyes, slicing off hands, and fun stuff like that

    Astonishingly, no. Not even the cyclops monster entry notes any special weakness from this. At the very least, I would halve all range increments for that character, and impose a -2 penalty on all vision-related Perception checks (-4 if the object being viewed is at 30 feet or greater...
  5. Ashtagon

    Pathfinder 1E Dragonstar Pathfinder

    Dragonstar SRD The Dragonstar SRD may be useful for conversion projects. It's basically the core SRD with Dragonstar-specific extras. Of course, the IP-restricted content isn't in there.
  6. Ashtagon

    Pathfinder 1E Evil humanoids and the seven deadly sins

    :hmm: Is there anything humanity hasn't bred with? Not sure chastity fits.
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    Pathfinder 1E Rule question: Wild Shape and size change

    The speed growth really isn't fast enough to cause damage. Consider a brisk walking space is probably ten feet per second. That's about the same as the speed at which your druid is growing outward, assuming the growth happens over one second. No one (healthy) ever died from being bumped into in...
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    Pathfinder 1E Armor as Damage Reduction

    Here's something that I came up with once... * Strength bonus no longer applies to attack rolls. * The Weapon Finesse feat lets you apply your Dexterity bonus to those weapons that could normally benefit from Weapon Finesse. These two changes make lighter weapons generally more accurate, which...
  9. Ashtagon

    interesting question

    My personal take on all weapons is that hp damage represents effort spent aviding a real injury. "Damage" may result in a scratch, bruise, or other significant injury, but it can also represent effort/chi/stamina/hero shield/divine will spend avoiding the attack. It's only when you reach into...
  10. Ashtagon

    interesting question

    I'm not sure why this question is interesting :yawn: But yeah. What Dannyalcatraz said.
  11. Ashtagon

    Swimming through a Maze

    You didn't say that. My initial assumption was that it involved a maze where the floor was ten feet deep underwater but the ceiling clear of the water, making walking or wading impossible, but surface swimming practical.
  12. Ashtagon

    Swimming through a Maze

    They take 10, and hope they don't have any combat encounters or dangerous undercurrents. If they do, then Swim checks are called for. But if the water is merely still, they can take 10 on the DC 10 check. I assume they also have an air supply?
  13. Ashtagon

    How big is my katana?

    Sure, knights were taller than peasants of the day. But to say they were taller than modern people is stretching disbelief. fwiw, US Army records note the average modern American man as 5' 10".
  14. Ashtagon

    D&D 3.x best thing to fill the vest slot 3.5

    You should never have a vest slot. Such a gap would be easily exploited by an enemy axe or spear.
  15. Ashtagon

    How big is my katana?

    Wikipedia says that a katana is defined by a blade at least 24" long. Add another 8" (generous) for a grip, and at 32", it's barely long enough to be classed as a longsword. The longest modern "replica" katana I have found has a blade of 33". With grip, it comes up to 41" (estimated). By...
  16. Ashtagon

    Neanderthals

    Unless my understanding of early human biology and psychology is severely mistaken, a major asteroid impact in the local area would encourage the creation of coprolites.
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    Neanderthals

    You know, this merely confirms my earlier statement that humanity reached the Americas 15-20 thousand years ago.
  18. Ashtagon

    Neanderthals

    You can't just blame rising sea levels for removing all the evidence. If that were the case, then there wouldn't be any such evidence anywhere else in the world for the same reason, which simply isn't the case.
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    Neanderthals

    Were any human remains discovered at the site? If this really is correct, it would pre-date any physical land connection, which would imply an advanced ship-building culture thousands of years ago.
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    Neanderthals

    Saying that Neanderthals were more creative than Cro-Magnons because they made cave art first is like saying that sabre-tooth tigers were bigger than modern elephants because sabre-tooth tigers were big first. The cave paintings are proof of a certain level of creativity. But they don't prove...
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