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China is China's friend first and foremost, and I think right now it can afford not to make alliances with violent, untrustworthy, psychotic serial liar with remarkable talent to make enemies with everything. Wonder how Russia can worm out of it with saving face and without causing a world war. The best thing would be to snuff the nasty botoxy goblin and go "Sorry sorry, it's not really us, it's just this one crazy guy. Sorry, won't happen again", but to save face this cannot happen immediately. Alas.

I'm started to look into metamagic other than selective now when casters are no longer useless. Is there a reason not to heighten a spell if they take the same spell level anyway? Also, if you bolster a single target spell, it starts doing splash damage to friendlies. Will have to redo spellbooks, but at least that is kind of one-time thing, unlike buffing. Stumbled upon some dude called something like Sinewy Sinus while exploring. Took a look at his stats, reloaded, buffbotted, pre-cackled luck and defense hexes. He offed my sacrificial skellington friend and feared two critters, but was fantastically susceptible to hellfire and went down fairly easily in two turns, and the best thing of all - he dropped over 20K of XP that got me to level 11. I really don't get the XP system in this game, like in Chapter 2 where the nasty invulnerable thwarted necromancer gives, like, 5 times less XP than lumbering, easy to disable monstrosity she summons. ...anyway. If you guys know locations of other such XP pinatas in Chapter 3, please do not hesitate to send me their way. Boldened by that pile of XP I went after the dragon, managed to sneak on her and she was down in the first round, courtesy of Smiteraptor and Greybor (who really hits hard; too bad he tries to cosplay Sergio Leone's bounty hunters so hard, it's kind of funny). Like, her cellar horticulture was almost worse than her. Also XP was real lousy, especially for a dragon, and so was loot. I mean, it's reasonable to expect a dragon to have the hoard, innit? Nope, some piddly trinkets. She really should have taken example from Neverwinter Nigths 2 red dragon, now that was one wealthy lizard. Back home from the dragon, Daeran took my bony boy on the date. You poor sweet summer child.

Traipsing about Chapter 3. "Hey kids, can you take care of those pesky giants? Your friendly neighbourhood lich is busy hellfiring the one true danger - The Tick Swarm! Seriously, what is it without Owlcat and swarms? Did one of them poke a wasp nest as a kid and carried encounter trauma all the way into professional life? Also, what is a good level to tackle that dragon with a lich on daring difficulty? Her ambushing me is getting really annoying.

Speaking of Apocalyptica and Rammstein

Eh, I still love 'em, always and forever. Dance schmance, Temple of Love is great and that's it. Aaaaaanyway, "So you ran out of Rammstein" edition "We were there first!!" aka Oomph! with bonus Nina Hagen:

My first Kingmaker run was modless and it was the reason why I was bitching about the game so much, so wasn't going to make the same mistake again and modded the f†ck out of Wrath before even launching it: literally half the game (crusades), everything that only causes me a reload (failed trap/lock/lore checks, rest ambushes), obnoxious griefing such as encumbrance (if I can toss fireballs, I can very well summon luggage of sapient pearwood to carry around all my stuff) and time wasting chores like deaths door or not getting stats back without restoration on rest (hey game, lets agree that by clicking this one button I do the following: slowly haul my party to the nearest safe spot, buy scrolls, raIse dead, buy different scrolls, cast restorations and sh†t, rest and slightly less slowly crawl back to the dungeon, ok? Good then!) As a result I am enjoying the game so, so much more and likely will do more than two finished runs, provided there's no surprise House at the End of Fun somewhere.

Funny how hearing works 'cause they don't sound Sisters of Mercy to me at all. Like Paradise Lost in their electrogoth stage maybe:

"So you ran out of Rammstein", cheesy dance music edition:

There always are cooperations and side projects. Lindemann's not the only one, Richard Kruspe, the guitarist, has a side piece too. But we're not in the metal thread here, so something pop-musicy:

So I loaded my Trickster save I didn't touch from...November or October I think, to do some quick respeccing, clicked "Rest" to refill spells...and then in thirty seconds time: Daeran lugged a bathtub to my room, then went out to the briefing room to inform the PC (who teleported straight from that bathtub probably) he's donating stuff, Beth's identical twin came in to say someone named Ciar has gotten ill, tired barbarian arrived to invite us to some Numerian ruins, drunk scammer sauntered in claiming he's a king and I used Trickster option to pretend I believe him, I got a reminder to visit my wardrobe friends though I've already been there and lied to them all for reasons. Oh, and when I went back to my room the tub was gone. Guess it's a good thing I waited on the game, eh. Also makes me think I might want to give it another half a year.

Babby Lich is a couple hundreds XP short off level 10 and dog's not rideable yet, but doesn't riding turn the animal into just an additional health bar for the rider? At least Seelah's horse doesn't do anything else when she rides it, and I need the pooch do his stuff on the front line along with Miss Rapta. I do embiggen Sosiel for now, so that he can whack someone from the distance without having to exert his slow self with walking too much. Anyway, the Lich arrived to the fun levels zone and that's where I'll park him for now and do leveling chores with a couple 'nother characters. Maybe I'll give Soz a different beastie now. Maybe a mammoth. Maybe I'll then embiggen them both to have a giant Sosiel on a giant mammoth.

I think forum cookies just had enough of you posting videos of those astronomically ghastly dudes you always post.

I don't care if this supposed to be some metaphor about Germany or whatever, I see a Minotaur having nervous breakdown in a picturesque privy, so that what it is.

My sorcerer finally got liched yesterday (that siege seemingly takes three times as long as the rest of the chapter, though it is a nice dungeon). Was delighted at the view of no save spells, maybe now I could do some damage too instead of leaking oil everywhere like a broken car. @Gromnir, you were not joking about the smiteraptor - as soon as she got celestial she became my most trustworthy and more importantly, reliable damage dealer. Her kill count is way ahead of everyone else's and she deleted majority of bosses, including the Highly Annoying Sarkorian Ghost, the only problem we had was the cultist wizard who got very salty about her thwarted summoning (Chorussina, I think. And next time I encounter her I'm dropping my difficulty to zero just to smear her all across her own pentagram, because it makes no sense to burn all your resources on lowest of the low i.e. cultist filth ). Does the lich power that gets stronger depending on number of dead things in surroundings include your own party and summons? Would be an incentive to bring out your bone friends over meatbags, though I don't have any yet. Is there any way to make Sosiel faster? In turn-based when he finally lumbers into position to do, well, anything, combat is usually over. Don't want to enlarge his dog for riding, I need him in the frontlines tripping.

Yeah, I figured that panicked running is for TB. I noticed I stick to TB more and more as of recent, mostly because my new parties are mostly critter heavy and it's literally impossible to manage them in real time without serious pathfinding (ha!) troubles, counts tenfold for closed spaces with narrow entrances. What's with characters' issues with doors in this game anyway? Sometimes they behave like they ain't seeing the open door when they're point blank starin' at it. Also, melee guys and critters chasing after the panickers should all have Shatter Defenses, no? Magic Fang, thing that is used to buff critters? On one hand, would have never figured to try it on myself. On other, it is a barbarian...Also, I'm not opposed to Trickster since it looks more like Deadpool against Azata's My Little Pony and actually was my first pick for Mythic. Plus I've read it allows to keep some of your Trickster stuff when you go Legend and I will certainly want to go Legend with one of builds.

I never considered intimidation because I have no idea how 90% of stuff in Pathfinder works, but, a) no saves, b) picture of hoofed monstrosities running scared from Sosiel of all people is too hilarious, so I want to try, plz do share how to make scary Sosiel. I'm staring at the feat list like right now and have no clue where to even start. Dazzling display, intimidating prowess, what else, how does he start, what does Thug do, what can cause Shaken, etc?

That sounds like a lot of fun, but mayhap a tad complicated for a Pathfinder ignoramus such as yours truly. Like, in all the hundreds of hours I spent in Kingmaker I used rods maybe twice because I had no idea how to utilize them properly. So I was thinking maybe a classical look of smelly, drooly, oily barbarian or if going less cliche and more Pathfindery, some sort of slayer? You can sneak attack with a two hander in Pathfinder, right? Camelia can intimidate, she even has a shaman trait "Intimidating display" you can take at level 2. I have to say I'm not, well, exactly warming up to her because she's still horrible deranged psychopath, more like finding perverse fun in keeping her around. Now Wendy, that's the whole 'nother can of brainworms. I have the "everyone contributes to conversation" option turned on in Toybox so I'm hearing a lot of her lines and OMG they are so horrible, like she literally grovels before the MC all the time while urging him to murder everything for no reason, I don't see how even Rageboy McEdgelord demon would want to take her over Lann. In certain other universe she'd make a perfect cultist of Skaen.

Well my sorcerer is level 6 and, while no longer useless because of selective greases and webs, also nothing to write home about. I'm going lichways with him, want to see what's this "merged spellbooks" thing is all about. Oh, and speaking of lich, does it have much need for a cleric or an oracle later in the game? Because

I am dragging the kineticist though low level blues and this guy is so much more useful than the sorcerer that I had to check if I didn't accidentally drop the difficulty or enable some toybox cheat. He almost always hits, constantly crits from stealth and doesn't disintegrate anytime someone blows a raspberry at his direction. He even inspires others to do better because I'm sure Lann misses less with him than he did in that party of the useless sorcerer. Makes me want to roll a martial character just to feel useful; hey, maybe I will, since the game keeps giving me two handers and they are all vendor trash because nobody in the party uses them.

Surströmming is made from herring, not sardines. Also, Surströmming von Herring is a decent villain name. And surströmming itself would make an excellent villain.

Ah yes, forgot good old friend the Glitterdust, it also gets a constant workout. Good to know it does not go obsolete. As for spells in general, I'm already conditioned to skip past anything that doesn't have a "no save" or "save partial" in its description, and whoever designed spells that you have to roll both to overcome resistance and to damage must be a masochist designed for other masochists. (Is there any spell where you have to roll to overcome resistance AND to hit AND to damage? If yes, then if whoever came up with this concept met the person who designed puzzles for Owlcat and got to discussing game design, Cthulhu itself would rise from the depths and end the world to prevent the possibility of a calamity ). I have an idea of Sanctified Slayer Inquisitor mixed with Slayer Deliverer for some future martial run, just haven't figured how many levels of each. Maybe I'll even toss in that monk level for once, since we're going to be Lawful goody goody anyway.

I would agree, yes, low resources aren't terribly fun anywhere. Ember's Slumber (great band name, as an aside) is the most consistently useful thing at low levels, and she gets also useful Evil Eye. I wonder if she keeps being as irreplaceable later in the game...well, other than for aforementioned Cackle exploit. Grease itself is a good spell, but selective Grease is honest god tier spell. Err...unless all enemies in late chapters are flying f†cks, of course. (Which is unrealistic, but I wouldn't put it past Trollcat. )

I don't play POTD, but the digsite is doable on upsaled veteran, also it makes you go creative and utilize those low level spells you normally pay no attention to. It also goes all way back to PoE1, as I have fond memories of defeating the kraken with whatever I could scramble out of ingredients in my pockets because I was out of rests and could not sneak back to replenish stuff. Wrathfinder's problem is that, other than buffs and occasional good spell like Grease, low level abilities are completely useless. And I'm talking Normal/Core here. As for Toybox, it's no problem, I'll wait. First for Owlcat fixing what the patch broke, then the patch of the patch, then whatever patch fixes broke again, then after another iteration or two, Toybox itself. Maybe they'll fix Toybox's bugs too, cause while I can do with never talking to Nenio, belt items vanishing is a no go.

Yep, just before it and I took...something else, I think. Oh well, between my brand new menagerie of pets and sorcerer's selective greases and entangles I think the party can carry this load through the garrison. Aeon looks very interesting conceptually, has very pretty design and his theme is probably my favorite piece of the soundtrack so I'm tempted too, even if picking lawful options makes you look like particularly petty banana republic dictator. I wonder if I can just toybox-lock the alignment and stick with less covert evil dialog options.