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Mortals & Portals (www.youtube.com)
submitted 10 hours ago by Kichae@lemmy.ca to c/pathfinder@ttrpg.network

Since I'm shilling for people anyway, I thought I'd give a shout out to one of my favourite PF2e actual plays, Mortals & Portals. They dropped S02E19 this morning, and I'll be listening to it tonight on my long drive down to my folks house.

M&P is a podcast style actual play with high production values and (relatively) short episode lengths (clocking in around 45 - 60 minutes), set in a homebrew world. They're not super uptight about the rules or anything, and just do what they need to to keep the game flowing. It's a lot of fun.

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submitted 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) by Kichae@lemmy.ca to c/pathfinder@ttrpg.network

Huge trove of 2e content up on Humble Bundle now, including Player Core and GM Core. Here's a rundown of what's included, cobbled together from some work done by people on Reddit, and some additional legwork of my own:

New to Humble Bundle

  • Pathfinder 2e GM Core
  • Pathfinder 2e Player Core
  • Community Use Package: Pathfinder 2e Remaster Iconics Pregenerated Characters
  • Pathfinder 2e Adventure Path #175: Broken Tusk Moon (Quest for the Frozen Flame 1 of 3)
  • Pathfinder 2e Adventure Path #176: Lost Mammoth Valley (Quest for the Frozen Flame 2 of 3)
  • Pathfinder 2e Adventure Path #177: Burning Tundra (Quest for the Frozen Flame 3 of 3)
  • Pathfinder 2e Adventure Path #190: The Choosing (Stolen Fate 1 of 3)
  • Pathfinder 2e Adventure Path #191: The Destiny War (Stolen Fate 2 of 3)
  • Pathfinder 2e Adventure Path #192: Worst of All Possible Worlds (Stolen Fate 3 of 3)
  • Pathfinder 2e Adventure Path: Quest for the Frozen Flame Player's Guide
  • Pathfinder 2e Adventure Path: Stolen Fate Player's Guide
  • Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Darklands
  • Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Deep Forest
  • Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Dungeon
  • Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Pathfinder Lodge
  • Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Prison
  • Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Red Light District
  • Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Tavern Multi-Pack
  • Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Twisted Caverns
  • Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Bigger Pirate Ship
  • Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Elemental Planes Multi-Pack
  • Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Haunted Dungeons Multi-Pack
  • Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Darklands Starter Set
  • Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Dungeon Perils Expansion
  • Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Urban Perils Expansion
  • Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Urban Starter Set
  • Pathfinder 2e Harrow Deck
  • Pathfinder 2e Lost Omens: Pathfinder Society Guide
  • Pathfinder 2e Quest (Series 2) #14: The Swordlord’s Challenge
  • Pathfinder 2e Quest (Series 2) #15: In the Footsteps of Horror
  • Pathfinder 2e Quest (Series 2) #16: The Winter Queen's Dollhouse
  • Pathfinder Society Intro: Year of Shattered Sanctuaries
  • Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-02: The East Hill Haunting
  • Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-04: The Devil-Wrought Disappearance
  • Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-05: Inheritor's Rite
  • Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-06: Struck by Shadows
  • Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-07: The Locked Lodge
  • Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-08: Foundation's Price
  • Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-09: The Secluded Siege
  • Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-10: Delve the Pallid Depths
  • Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-11: No Time for Treason
  • Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-12: Fury's Toll
  • Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-13: Guardian's Covenant
  • Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-14: The Tomb Between Worlds
  • Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-15: Cavern of the Sundered Song
  • Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-16: Escape from Oppara
  • Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-17: Dreams of a Dustbound Isle
  • Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-18: Dacilane Academy's Delightful Disaster
  • Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-19: Mean Streets of Shadow Absalom

Available in Previous Humble Bundles

  • Pathfinder Core GM Screen
  • Pathfinder 2e Beginner Box (Remastered Edition)
  • Pathfinder 2e Bestiary
  • Pathfinder 2e Bestiary 2
  • Pathfinder 2e Bestiary 3
  • Pathfinder 2e Character Sheet Pack
  • Pathfinder 2e Lost Omens: Monsters of Myth
  • Pathfinder 2e Lost Omens: World Guide
  • Pathfinder 2e Lost Omens: Character Guide
  • Pathfinder 2e Lost Omens: Ancestry Guide
  • Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Dungeon Starter Set
  • Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Dungeon Vaults Expansion
  • Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Dungeon Multi-Pack
  • Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Bigger Island
  • Pathfinder Flip-Mat: City Sites Multi-Pack
  • Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Ambush Sites Multi-Pack
  • Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Haunted House
  • Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Forest Multi-Pack
  • Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Shipwrecks
  • Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Village Square
  • Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Arcane Library
  • Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Museum
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submitted 19 hours ago by Kichae@lemmy.ca to c/pathfinder@ttrpg.network

Mathfinder -- a math and statistics focused Pathfinder 2e Youtube channel from Redditor u/AAABattery03 -- celebrates 1000 subscribers by giving us some tools to identify poorly thought out or overly general character optimization advice. It's a good watch! Highly recommend Triple A's posts and videos!

[-] Kichae@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

Running from one platform backed by people who supported Trump, right into another one. Gotta love controlled opposition and the illusion of choice.

[-] Kichae@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

What did you search for? It's, regrettably, a little specific. Try searching for guixgaming@tube.tchncs.de It took 15 seconds or so, but it ended up showing up for me:

Unfortunately, it doesn't return any videos when I actually check out the 'community'. Lemmy doesn't seem to fetch older content from PeerTube like it does from other Lemmy sites. But if I search for the video using the URL you've provided above, and set the search to 'posts', it shows up:

The video doesn't appear as embedded media, though, so while you can interact with the video comments, you still end up sent off to the PeerTube site to watch the video itself.

[-] Kichae@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago

Right. So, no software ever, then. Even if you have a license that grants you perpetual usage rights, that doesn't extend to anyone else shouldering the responsibility of perpetual hosting.

Your right to use software does not give you the right to expect others to store your digital junk for you.

[-] Kichae@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

If you search for the PeerTube channel URL in the BZ search bar, it should pull in the channel as Lemmy community. I don't know if PeerTube and Lemmy are totally working right with each other yet or not, though. They've had issues in the past.

[-] Kichae@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

That sounds like such an incredibly toxic environment. That goes well beyond the kind of infantalization I initially thought, and is well into deeply controlling territory. You need support! Social support, and structural support. Do you have some? Friends? Support groups? People you can lean on, and trust to provide some kind of safety net?

That kind of abuse is scarring. I highly recommend grabing copies of books like The Body Keeps the Score and Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving. There are audio books for each, which are really good, and they're available as epubs if you're ok with digital books. You should grab copies any way you safely can.

You deserve help and support. We all need it to grow up and survive. It can be hard to find, especially when we're hurt and suffering the injuries of abuse. We will often find the wrong people, and find it very difficult to identify and trust the right ones. But there are people out there who will respect, love, and nurture you. If you haven't found them yet, look for them, and don't stop until you find them.

They will change your life, and in ways you will never imagine. I promise you.

[-] Kichae@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 day ago

A big issue with the 2022 signup wave was the influx of new Masto websites, run by new admins. The subscription model of ActivityPub meant they were mostly contentless, and they weren't seeded by knowledgeable users. People needed to understand the basics of federation to find anything because nothing was being syndicated on those sites.

And then a bunch of them shut down when admins who were ok hosting hundreds of like-minded users suddenly had thousands of generalist users flooding their sites.

It was major human infrastructure failure.

And that was as a whole bunch of tenured users started getting hostile over people not adopting the idiosyncratic nettiquite of the was-niche-only-yesterday space. The server blocks started rolling out, and people needed to understand the idea of "federation" (and, apparently, "the Internet") to understand why they were being "denied access" to the cranky people, trolls, and unmoderated spaces.

The truth is, most people don't like the internet. They like the simple, streamlined process of just being owned by corporate interests. Walles gardens work for them in a way public parks never will.

[-] Kichae@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago

No, ActivityPub doesn't share your login credentials with other websites, nor is it a single-sign-in service.

It's a content sharing protocol that lets websites syndicate content. AP will let you see content from PeerTube channels on blahja zone, as if it were originally posted there, if BZ is currently sharing content with the PeerTube site you're interested in.

AP is why you can see content from lemmy.world on BZ. It's why I can reply to you from lemmy.ca. But it won't let you sign in to a PeerTube website, or even other Lemmy-bases websites, any more than it will let you sign in to Facebook.

[-] Kichae@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 days ago

Inviting further genocide is not punishing him for the genocide. He didn't play the strong man and step on a country America went and deeply intertwined itself in. So, instead, y'all held your smug, self-satisfied, fart sniffing noses high and let someonw who has championed the genocide take the reigns once more because yoh wrongly believe not touching the switch gets you out of the trolly problem.

[-] Kichae@lemmy.ca 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Sorry, but as someone who's almost certainly autistic, WTF is this about not letting you shower? That's not an issue of diagnosis - whether misidentified or otherwise.

ASD is a social disability, and it's one with a huge array of differences from the norm, both in type and in magnitude.

Your parent infantalized you. That's not because of your neurotype -- whatever it may or may not be -- but because she projected meaning onto the label you were given.

That's fucked up. I'm so sorry you were treated that way.

[-] Kichae@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 days ago

That is not moderation. Moderation involves removing bad actors from the site, not underground black lists that let you pretend the Nazis aren't living next door.

[-] Kichae@lemmy.ca 29 points 4 days ago

And we can do this all over again in a couple of years thanks to BlueSky's refusal to moderte its service, all because internet users refuse to thi:k abput how the internet works, and peoples addictions to being told what to read.

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u/SillyKenu over on Reddit posted a straw poll this morning asking what everyone's favourite class was. Just in case Lemmy wanted to weigh in, I thought I'd pass it along.

Personally, I'm playing a Guardian (and am really happy with it), but since test classes weren't listed, I chose Oracle. My SO is playing an Oracle, and rework from PC2 has made her so much happier with it, I can't help but love it.

Reddit doesn't allow enough options so found here: https://strawpoll.com/NPgxe850rZ2

Over the past half a year a ton of classes have changed with the remaster, and new classes/options have been added by the truck load. So why not? lets do the Classic discussion thread:what's your fav!

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Wizards+ Released on Pathfinder Infinite (www.pathfinderinfinite.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by Kichae@lemmy.ca to c/pathfinder@ttrpg.network

Haven't had a chance to look at it (or buy it -- curse your finite nature, money!) yet, but Team+'s other releases have been highly reviewed, and I personally have had a great experience with Clerics+ and Oracles+.

For anyone looking for new toys for their Wizard, they now have your back.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Kichae@lemmy.ca to c/pathfinder@ttrpg.network

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/30560583

The Kickstarter is just about to hit its halfway point, and so far they are just over 67% of the way to being funded. People feel somewhat optimistic about its chances, given the timeframe involved, but there's still a big gap between what's been pledged and what they need. If you're interested in a Pathfinder cRPG based on the 2e rules, and you haven't checked it out, the link is in the title.

And a friendly reminder that the pricing is actually in Canadian dollars, so most people will have a friendly conversion rate given the CAD's current value.

The developers have been doing some interviews, though their ground game doesn't seem to be particularly strong. I've collected some of their media tour below.

They've also posted a couple of updates to the Kickstarter page:

Update 1: Approaching 60% Funded!

Dear Demanders,

Today, we are happy to celebrate that we are a goblin's breath away from 60% funded with over 4,000 backers and nearly $300,000 CA raised!

Pathfinder: The Dragon’s Demand is our dream game. To all who have backed, THANK YOU for sharing our vision of a single-player, turn-based Pathfinder Second Edition CRPG that takes role-playing back to its roots with miniature-based characters and digital dice to recreate the look and feel of a tabletop RPG. With your support, we had a strong launch and were 40% funded in only two days!

To those who have not yet backed, we invite you to learn more on our Kickstarter page and in our interviews.

Looking for more reveals? We’ve only just begun. Don’t miss these interviews with Pathfinder: The Dragon’s Demand Product Director, Alan Miranda:

LIVE Q&A WITH DRAGON'S DEMAND DEVELOPER - PATHFINDER 2E VIDEO GAME with Nonat1s on YouTube Discussing Pathfinder: The Dragon’s Demand with Project Manager Alan Miranda of Ossian Studios with Really Dicey on YouTube

We have more exciting interviews in the days ahead!

Here’s a behind-the-scenes insight: For our in-game “props,” we partnered with Gracewindale Mini Scenery because we loved the style of their tabletop scenery and wanted to include it in our game Pathfinder: The Dragon’s Demand. Their entire line of 3D printable STL props are fantastic, so please check them out! www.gracewindale.com

Every Kickstarter needs its backers to amplify the campaign, so please share your enthusiasm with your friends and ask them to join the party. Your recommendation and word of mouth are invaluable. You can also shout out about us on social media–Kickstarter makes that easy. We’ve dreamed big, and we need your help to make this dream a reality!

In Gratitude, Ossian Studios

Update 2: Spread the Word With This Surprise

Greetings Demanders!

We've been busy getting the word out there for Pathfinder: The Dragon's Demand, doing interviews this week with PC Gamer, The Rules Lawyer, and Matt Chat (all soon to be posted). They're all super excited for this game! Being both video gamers and tabletop players, they could relate to the miniatures and dice, and were intrigued by the prospect of playing in a 3D cubic grid system where characters can do all kinds of cool things.

The vertical movement in a full 3D grid can take your character almost anywhere they want to go. You can levitate to a window at the top of a tower or climb down a chimney for undetected infiltration (mind the fire!). You can rain down volleys of arrows on your unsuspecting enemies from the cover of tree branches or send swooping monstrosities spiraling away with magical blasts of wind. This is a whole new dimension for tactical combat CRPGs!

And speaking of flying monstrosities, the grioths from the Dark Tapestry inhabit frozen, lifeless worlds in the blacks voids of space, and continuously seek out warm worlds to conquer by ritualistically tearing them away from their suns. But now, these bat-like humanoids have come to the small town of Belhaim with an inscrutable purpose...

https://2e.aonprd.com/MonsterFamilies.aspx?ID=240

So we'd like to bring these creatures to everyone who has backed us so far. In this update, we're giving the Grioth STL from our miniatures collection as a free gift via the link below! If you share the file, don’t forget to tell people where you got it. ;) Thank you all for your support and please keep telling your friends about the game to spread the word so we can reach our funding goal!

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1sjVYeMHYWE81tvjWSB47UWI8oLvlZaAZ?usp=sharing

(Printed and painted by our art director, Philip Lyon)

In Gratitude, Ossian Studios

Update 3: Weaving a Narrative

Greetings, Demanders!

We’re thrilled to announce the project is now 66% funded with a little over two weeks remaining. With your continued support and enthusiasm – and, if we may so bold as to ask, social media shares and word-of-word – we’re hoping to smash through the funding target and into the stretch goals with the force of Gorum exploding across the realms!

I'm Luke Scull, lead designer and writer for Pathfinder: The Dragon’s Demand, and I want to talk about our approach to implementing the game’s story and many colorful characters, as well as how we plan to grant the player agency in interacting with this beautiful world our artists have created.

Firstly, it is important to state that Pathfinder: The Dragon’s Demand is a deep, intricate computer role-playing game with all the narrative depth and dialogue complexity of the most celebrated titles in the genre. Players will experience a compelling new plotline that weaves the machinations of the Dark Tapestry into the high fantasy story of a town under threat from a wicked dragon.

During the adventure, the player will meet hundreds of NPCs that can be interacted with. How these characters respond to the party will depend on the player’s choices and the dialogue skills they possess. Do you wish to be a paragon of virtue and help the many colorful characters that dwell within Belhaim? Or would you rather take advantage of those you meet, and lie, cheat, and steal for profit, or to deepen your connection with the mysterious dark benefactor who haunts your dreams?

Every NPC in Pathfinder: The Dragon’s Demand has a story to tell. Unique dialogue options will show up depending on the player character’s ancestry, background, and class, as well as their reputation, for as the hero’s legend grows, the people of Belhaim will begin to react to their deeds. Harm too many people or loot too many houses and you may find yourself almost as reviled as the great scaled beast that threatens town. Go out of your way to do favors for folk and they will cheer your name as you walk by. Some may even gift you powerful items or show up to aid you.

The world of Pathfinder: The Dragon’s Demand is hugely reactive, with every choice the player makes changing how the story plays out, and deciding the fates of the hundreds of characters who call Belhaim and the surrounding environs home. No two players will have the same experience: in fact, the game will encourage multiple playthroughs with different character builds to fully experience the breadth of possibilities.

Allow me a moment to talk about companions. We plan to have a total of 12, of which the player can select up to three to travel with at any time, for a total party of four. Aside from the Iconic goblin alchemist Fumbus, these companions have yet to be announced, but each will have their own backstory, character arc, and associated quests. Companion relationships with the player character, as well as each other, will shift as the story unfolds. Upset a companion too often and they may leave the party permanently… possibly to show up later as a sworn enemy. Impress a companion often enough and new dialogue options will be revealed—perhaps even leading to romance, if Shelyn wills it…

These companions, as well as important story NPCs, will be voiced by experienced actors, bringing some of the best voice talent to Pathfinder: The Dragon’s Demand. With thousands of voiced lines and enough dialogue to fill several fantasy novels, my ambition as lead writer is to provide a deep world of incredible complexity and unforgettable characters that is every bit as engaging as the best tabletop campaigns.

Finally, I would like to say how excited I am about working with Pathfinder fans on incorporating their own creations into the game. Our higher reward tiers allow backers to include their own personalized magic item, NPC, bard song, or even quest in Pathfinder: The Dragon’s Demand. These would henceforth become part of official Pathfinder lore, to be discovered and enjoyed by players from release to ten or twenty years from now.

If you’ve ever had a beloved magic weapon from your tabletop campaigns that you wish to see included, or you’re a GM who would love to see a favorite quest you once wrote experienced by thousands of players worldwide, consider investing in one of these higher tiers. Your support will also help push the game towards its funding goal and beyond—maybe unlocking new stretch goal features to include even more of the magic of what makes Pathfinder Second Edition so special!

In Gratitude, Ossian Studios

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Kichae@lemmy.ca to c/pathfinder2e@lemmy.world

The Kickstarter is just about to hit its halfway point, and so far they are just over 67% of the way to being funded. People feel somewhat optimistic about its chances, given the timeframe involved, but there's still a big gap between what's been pledged and what they need. If you're interested in a Pathfinder cRPG based on the 2e rules, and you haven't checked it out, the link is in the title.

And a friendly reminder that the pricing is actually in Canadian dollars, so most people will have a friendly conversion rate given the CAD's current value.

The developers have been doing some interviews, though their ground game doesn't seem to be particularly strong. I've collected some of their media tour below.

They've also posted a couple of updates to the Kickstarter page:

Update 1: Approaching 60% Funded!

Dear Demanders,

Today, we are happy to celebrate that we are a goblin's breath away from 60% funded with over 4,000 backers and nearly $300,000 CA raised!

Pathfinder: The Dragon’s Demand is our dream game. To all who have backed, THANK YOU for sharing our vision of a single-player, turn-based Pathfinder Second Edition CRPG that takes role-playing back to its roots with miniature-based characters and digital dice to recreate the look and feel of a tabletop RPG. With your support, we had a strong launch and were 40% funded in only two days!

To those who have not yet backed, we invite you to learn more on our Kickstarter page and in our interviews.

Looking for more reveals? We’ve only just begun. Don’t miss these interviews with Pathfinder: The Dragon’s Demand Product Director, Alan Miranda:

LIVE Q&A WITH DRAGON'S DEMAND DEVELOPER - PATHFINDER 2E VIDEO GAME with Nonat1s on YouTube Discussing Pathfinder: The Dragon’s Demand with Project Manager Alan Miranda of Ossian Studios with Really Dicey on YouTube

We have more exciting interviews in the days ahead!

Here’s a behind-the-scenes insight: For our in-game “props,” we partnered with Gracewindale Mini Scenery because we loved the style of their tabletop scenery and wanted to include it in our game Pathfinder: The Dragon’s Demand. Their entire line of 3D printable STL props are fantastic, so please check them out! www.gracewindale.com

Every Kickstarter needs its backers to amplify the campaign, so please share your enthusiasm with your friends and ask them to join the party. Your recommendation and word of mouth are invaluable. You can also shout out about us on social media–Kickstarter makes that easy. We’ve dreamed big, and we need your help to make this dream a reality!

In Gratitude, Ossian Studios

Update 2: Spread the Word With This Surprise

Greetings Demanders!

We've been busy getting the word out there for Pathfinder: The Dragon's Demand, doing interviews this week with PC Gamer, The Rules Lawyer, and Matt Chat (all soon to be posted). They're all super excited for this game! Being both video gamers and tabletop players, they could relate to the miniatures and dice, and were intrigued by the prospect of playing in a 3D cubic grid system where characters can do all kinds of cool things.

The vertical movement in a full 3D grid can take your character almost anywhere they want to go. You can levitate to a window at the top of a tower or climb down a chimney for undetected infiltration (mind the fire!). You can rain down volleys of arrows on your unsuspecting enemies from the cover of tree branches or send swooping monstrosities spiraling away with magical blasts of wind. This is a whole new dimension for tactical combat CRPGs!

And speaking of flying monstrosities, the grioths from the Dark Tapestry inhabit frozen, lifeless worlds in the blacks voids of space, and continuously seek out warm worlds to conquer by ritualistically tearing them away from their suns. But now, these bat-like humanoids have come to the small town of Belhaim with an inscrutable purpose...

https://2e.aonprd.com/MonsterFamilies.aspx?ID=240

So we'd like to bring these creatures to everyone who has backed us so far. In this update, we're giving the Grioth STL from our miniatures collection as a free gift via the link below! If you share the file, don’t forget to tell people where you got it. ;) Thank you all for your support and please keep telling your friends about the game to spread the word so we can reach our funding goal!

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1sjVYeMHYWE81tvjWSB47UWI8oLvlZaAZ?usp=sharing

(Printed and painted by our art director, Philip Lyon)

In Gratitude, Ossian Studios

Update 3: Weaving a Narrative

Greetings, Demanders!

We’re thrilled to announce the project is now 66% funded with a little over two weeks remaining. With your continued support and enthusiasm – and, if we may so bold as to ask, social media shares and word-of-word – we’re hoping to smash through the funding target and into the stretch goals with the force of Gorum exploding across the realms!

I'm Luke Scull, lead designer and writer for Pathfinder: The Dragon’s Demand, and I want to talk about our approach to implementing the game’s story and many colorful characters, as well as how we plan to grant the player agency in interacting with this beautiful world our artists have created.

Firstly, it is important to state that Pathfinder: The Dragon’s Demand is a deep, intricate computer role-playing game with all the narrative depth and dialogue complexity of the most celebrated titles in the genre. Players will experience a compelling new plotline that weaves the machinations of the Dark Tapestry into the high fantasy story of a town under threat from a wicked dragon.

During the adventure, the player will meet hundreds of NPCs that can be interacted with. How these characters respond to the party will depend on the player’s choices and the dialogue skills they possess. Do you wish to be a paragon of virtue and help the many colorful characters that dwell within Belhaim? Or would you rather take advantage of those you meet, and lie, cheat, and steal for profit, or to deepen your connection with the mysterious dark benefactor who haunts your dreams?

Every NPC in Pathfinder: The Dragon’s Demand has a story to tell. Unique dialogue options will show up depending on the player character’s ancestry, background, and class, as well as their reputation, for as the hero’s legend grows, the people of Belhaim will begin to react to their deeds. Harm too many people or loot too many houses and you may find yourself almost as reviled as the great scaled beast that threatens town. Go out of your way to do favors for folk and they will cheer your name as you walk by. Some may even gift you powerful items or show up to aid you.

The world of Pathfinder: The Dragon’s Demand is hugely reactive, with every choice the player makes changing how the story plays out, and deciding the fates of the hundreds of characters who call Belhaim and the surrounding environs home. No two players will have the same experience: in fact, the game will encourage multiple playthroughs with different character builds to fully experience the breadth of possibilities.

Allow me a moment to talk about companions. We plan to have a total of 12, of which the player can select up to three to travel with at any time, for a total party of four. Aside from the Iconic goblin alchemist Fumbus, these companions have yet to be announced, but each will have their own backstory, character arc, and associated quests. Companion relationships with the player character, as well as each other, will shift as the story unfolds. Upset a companion too often and they may leave the party permanently… possibly to show up later as a sworn enemy. Impress a companion often enough and new dialogue options will be revealed—perhaps even leading to romance, if Shelyn wills it…

These companions, as well as important story NPCs, will be voiced by experienced actors, bringing some of the best voice talent to Pathfinder: The Dragon’s Demand. With thousands of voiced lines and enough dialogue to fill several fantasy novels, my ambition as lead writer is to provide a deep world of incredible complexity and unforgettable characters that is every bit as engaging as the best tabletop campaigns.

Finally, I would like to say how excited I am about working with Pathfinder fans on incorporating their own creations into the game. Our higher reward tiers allow backers to include their own personalized magic item, NPC, bard song, or even quest in Pathfinder: The Dragon’s Demand. These would henceforth become part of official Pathfinder lore, to be discovered and enjoyed by players from release to ten or twenty years from now.

If you’ve ever had a beloved magic weapon from your tabletop campaigns that you wish to see included, or you’re a GM who would love to see a favorite quest you once wrote experienced by thousands of players worldwide, consider investing in one of these higher tiers. Your support will also help push the game towards its funding goal and beyond—maybe unlocking new stretch goal features to include even more of the magic of what makes Pathfinder Second Edition so special!

In Gratitude, Ossian Studios

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submitted 1 month ago by Kichae@lemmy.ca to c/pathfinder@ttrpg.network

Looks like Paizo has 20% off on rulebooks and some adventures on their website right now, in case soneone was eyeing the books but waiting to pull the trigger.

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Someone's going around on Reddit recruiting for a Nova Scotia 'friendlies' Discord server. I just wanted to pass the link along in the off chance that someone here was interested.

https://discord.com/invite/C2qPFDMc

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submitted 3 months ago by Kichae@lemmy.ca to c/pathfinder@ttrpg.network

Also on Kickstarter, and wrapping up in the next couple of days (ends on 9 August, at 6pm EDT/midnight UTC+0), is Legendary Game's Sea Monsters bestiary.

I grabbed their Mediterranean Monsters and Latin American Monsters books last month, and was really happy with both of those. They were thick softcovers with a lot of interesting legendary beasts, spirits, and faeries. And since I apparently just collect monster books now (BattleZoo and Viklander say 'hi'), I'm absolutely getting this one, too.

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submitted 3 months ago by Kichae@lemmy.ca to c/pathfinder@ttrpg.network

I was trawling Kickstarter again and came across another project supporting Pathfinder (this time both 1e and 2e): Lugon: Evolution & Magic.

It's a setting book that's adding some new races, classes, and spells, apparently with a focus on how magic interacts with or is derived from the ecosphere.

It has currently met its base funding goal, but it doesn't seem to have as much momentum as some of the other projects I've highlighted. Some of the stretch goals include extra spells, and "Mage guilds", which -- to my ear, at least -- sounds like some extra Wizard schools, something I know many Wizard players feel the game could use post-remaster.

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submitted 5 months ago by Kichae@lemmy.ca to c/pathfinder@ttrpg.network

Dr. Dhrolin's Dictionary of Dinosaurs is a monster book for D&D 5e written by paleontologists Drs. Nathan Barling and Michael O'Sullivan is gettinf a Pathfinder 2e conversion.

The book features realistic dinosaurs and paleontologically accurate (as of 2023) background information, as well as artwork by paleo-artist Dr. Mark Witton.

I'm maybe a little too excited about this one. I was a dinosaur kid growing up.

Buried somewhere in the announcement post on reddit is some really interesting creature adjustments coming with the book. u/Linda_Zayas_Palmer, a former Paizo developer who consulted on the conversion, dropped this:

Roughly 4 level -1 adjustments, 20 level +0 adjustments, 75 level +1 adjustments, and 20 level +2 adjustments.

So it's going to be a massive toolkit for GMs.

At level -1, we've got things like thin dermis, which includes vulnerability to slashing damage.

At level +0, we have things that you might be looking for to change your creature's habitat but that aren't going to make significant difference to their power level. Concepts like wader, which helps with moving through shallow water, and pneumitisation, which makes your creature a bit faster at the expense of making them easier to topple over.

At level +1, there are tons of examples. Some of them are more defensive, like a bony frill that can be raised defensively. Others grant new Strikes or reactions, ranging from the realistic, like adding a horn attack, to the fantastical, like a dinosaur with web-shooting spinnerets or the ability to shoot off psychic mind rays. And others do a variety of other concepts that I'm not previewing just yet :)

At level +2, we start getting into concepts like super-tanky creatures with thick armoured plates and creatures with neurotoxic venom.

You can find the original announcement here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Pathfinder2e/comments/1dfy8r0/british_palaeontologists_excited_by_pathfinder/

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