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you wanted to know what it is. 120 pages isn't a particular deep read or huge time investment, but if you genuine want to know more than the fox news or msnbc explanations, you are gonna need do a bit more. the thing is, what is crt is a red herring, 'cause again, it is not being taught in public schools to middle or high school kids. doesn't actual matter what it is if the concern is kids being perverted by the indoctrination o' libs if is not actual part o' curriculum. nevertheless, you ain't gonna know what is crt w/o a little education, which should not be a surprise, eh? HA! Good Fun!

which stats is iv as 'posed to v? could advise if we know where is the shortfall. HA! Good Fun!

our aeon stole everything not nailed down and nobody cared. enter a pub and purloined their food and booze while kitchen staff looked on impotent? our justice were in short supply as we entered buildings in kenebras and took the hidden gold the residents no doubt meant to keep out o' the hands o' thieves and looters. crpg morality is limited to the game impact it has on an alignment compass or faction reputation meter. aside this stuff is so weird. wotr wenduag: and a quirky aside possible limited to early print editions, but the pronoun used to describe wenduag in the first ap installment is mixed-- gets both male and female pronouns in the extreme limited exposure it ever received. we assumed wenduag were male, not that we ever gave it much thought as it were an extreme minor npc in the run o' wotr our group never bothered to finish. regardless, the anime treatment for wenduag, given we thought o' him as they creepy spider dude with the extra limbs and eyes, is kinda amusing... and so utter typical o' what we expect from fans. HA! Good Fun!

crt is 'bout grievance. is not complicated. crt is not being taught in public schools. is university (typical Graduate level) course work. whenever evidence is shown o' it being taught in schools, what is actual revealed is educators discussing ways to make classrooms more inclusive-- is teachers and superintendents self-educating or engaging in continuing education. we got a generation o' white americans who has suffered economic hardships for the past couple decades. is not that white american hardships is worse than minority hardships, but if you is working two jobs (both o' which is just shy o' technical full-time so your employer need not provide benefits) and you nevertheless can't pay rent and utilities and health insurance, somebody must be to blame. so, far-right radio and other media sources, taking cues from rush limbaugh, realized that there were a very large % o' the population which were angry and those people could be politicized and even radicalized. that angry and white portion o' the population were not happy to hear that in spite o' the fact they were working twelve to fifteen hour days, they were nevertheless gonna lose their family farm or that the factory job they had earned were disappeared to mexico or asia or 'cause o' robots. simultaneous, rush and others were blaming migrants for taking domestic jobs, and all those uneducated white americans were being told that while they suffered, junkie street people were getting free money handouts they were just gonna blow on more drugs. and how long is good americans needing to sit in silence as minorities have more kids so they can get bigger free checks from the government? where is the sympathy and handouts for the white working class, the people who deserve help? well, rush and bannon and finally trump tells 'em that is all 'bout the libs trying to screw real americans. the somebody screwing real americans is the libs and the reason for the greatest ream job in american history is 'cause o' some misplaced notion that white americans is the cause o' every problem minorities suffer today. for chrissakes, the civil war ended slavery. you people got brown v. board of education and equality. you even got affirmative action which took jobs away from more qualified whites. are you grateful? no. every time some cop does his job, before you know what the real story is, you people are there in the night burning businesses and stealing tires and hair extensions, just like you always do. sounds racist? sounds ridiculous? crt is not being taught in public schools, but it is a theory which educators has debated and even embraced in part or whole. white americans don't know what crt is, but they do understand it is related to education and they is certain, in spite o' their admitted ignorance as to what exact is crt, that it is yet another example o' the libs blaming white americans for every misfortune which has ever befallen a minority, and the base is way past being tired o' being unjust blamed. real americans is angry and they finally got a President and a party who speaks to them, speaks for them. illegal aliens. welfare leeching junkies. fat cats sending their work to asia or central america. college educated libs. the new gop is finally speaking out against these evils. AP FACT CHECK: Trump seeds race animus with COVID falsehood crt grievance isn't real. the base is even more lazy than chairchucker and is less likely to know what crt is. is no way in hell the base knows if crt is being taught in public schools to middle and high school kids. however, the anger is real. HA! Good Fun!

crt is most assured not being taught in public schools other than universities. however, we did offer links earlier in the thread. noted in the syllubus from brown is the following free resource: https://uniteyouthdublin.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/richard_delgado_jean_stefancic_critical_race_thbookfi-org-1.pdf worth reading. text o' the entire work, excluding table of contents, glossary and intro fluff is something 'round 120 pages. but again, is most assured not being taught in any public school. HA! Good Fun!

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we first started reading moon knight back in the early 80s and thought it were a bit uneven with the writing, but when it were good, it were better than almost anything else we read in comics at the time... and for a long time afterwards. always thought it were a mistake to make moon knight part o' the regular marvel line-up, 'cause the most compelling aspect were marc spector's madness, which were not portrayed as funny or quirky but were a real disability and the title character never knew what was real and what were madness. 'course daredevil and other nyc heroes ain't any more real than moon knight, but have them interact with moon knight were, in our estimation, a mistake, 'cause as an audience we knew matt murdock while unwell in his own way were not delusional. moon knight were best when you didn't know any better than marc spector whether or not he were fighting crime or just his own demons while perhaps confined to an asylum. am nevertheless at least cautiously optimistic 'bout the new marvel show. hawkeye genuine impressed us, so am willing to give moon knight a few episodes o' our time. HA! Good Fun! ps we knew almost nothing o' the young avengers and kate bishop, 'cause such is the point when we sorta stopped with most comics. am glad we didn't know kate bishop from the comics, 'cause after seeing hawkeye we went and looked at her print origins. *groan* we woulda' never given hawkeye a chance if we had read young avengers stuff. is perhaps why am assuming they go a different way with moon knight than print and we will not initial hold it against 'em for doing so. disney, surprising, has built up some marvel good will with us.

from the playful darkness encounter you do get a stat boosting book and the helm is potential quite strong until end game. keep in mind animal companions may wear helms. our aggressor velociraptor made considerable us o' the helm. am having a difficult time criticizing the loot reward. our recollection is playful darkness has something like 60ish ac on core (maybe hard) and is +30 level, with ~+30 for all saves. most summons will get chewed up and your party will only hit on a crit or with the benefit o' true strike... or perhaps with a touch attack. even summons, which is a good idea, you need all the essential buffs and debuffs and need use spells which ignore saves and sr, OR go the creeping doom route OR get lucky with an azata caster who also has all the right equipment to maybe generate enough o' a dc to maybe get a lucky cast or two. am personal a fan o' stacked pillars of light and an over-the-top intimidator 'cause then we don't need camellia, but intimidation and stacked pillars o' light is most definite exploitive. there is ways to defeat playful darkness on core-unfair, but they all require the kinda pathfinder cheese... and is the cheese which led to owlcat adding the bloat. HA! Good Fun! ps

free money programs is great right up until somebody realizes they need actual pay for the free money. money is always an issue for schools, and have property taxes pay for public education already leads to shocking disparities in the quality o' facilities. if ultra rich communities wanna spend comical amounts o' money so they may hot-mic their teachers, we say let them do so through private contributions. am suspecting at least a few teachers would quit, but too many o' you vote democrat anyway, so in a state like florida you clowns teaching heliocentrism with spherical planets is already bordering heretical. a few o' you smarty-pants, college educated, lib teachers even suggest that the US civil war was fought 'cause o' slavery. unfortunate, this silliness need be a state-by-state issue, and as usual schools in less affluent neighborhoods would be the ones to pay the heaviest price as they got less money to spend per student. instead o' expensive electronic surveillance, could go even more expensive and maybe kill two birds with one stone-- employ those jobless working class people who is part o' the base which desires this kinda nonsense and have 'em act like china/soviet style political officers embedded in classrooms... or perhaps hire steve buscemi(s). HA! Good Fun!

rile up a texas crowd is the easiest thing one may possible imagine. two words: boomer sooner. done. then again, she probable weren't trying to start a riot. HA! Good Fun!

as far as losing the opportunity for a final play, it doesn't matter if is called sideline or by dak, 'cause during 2-minute, there is a responsibility to make certain the ball gets to the ref asap so he can set it before the next snap. our experience from college says is qb responsibility, but am s'posing it could be center. cowboys play calling may have been stoopid and it may have been dak or sideline fault regarding the draw, but getting the ball set quick is not a sideline responsibility save for the no doubt hundreds or thousands o' times the 2-minute drill were run in practice to make certain everything goes reflexive in a game, 'cause you don't want your players needing to think 'bout such minutiae in the last seconds o' a game. if dak or the center didn't know the rules, and their respective responsibilities, then is on coaching staff, but such an outcome is hard to believe. HA! Good Fun!

is texas, so am not surprised their qb and media indulges in fake news. have mentioned previous how dallas runs a much more simple offense than most other nfl teams, so less responsibilities for dak, but is either his responsibility or the center to get the ball into the hands o' the ref asap during two-minute drill plays. fans shoulda' been throwing stuff at dak... though fans throwing stuff is not great, unless is chicago during the late 70s regardless, am wondering when it is dallas fans realize that it were not the refs but dak who cost 'em a final play. ... we didn't watch the tv broadcast and only saw the unedited highlight o' the final play on espn. didn't the booth commentators for the game call out dak for his mistake? HA! Good Fun!

HA! Good Fun! ps whatever owlcat did insofar as the smite ability, it did not affect our celestial velociraptor from receiving unlimited smite opportunities. am admitting it feels a bit cheaty, but watching the dino explode stuff is kinda addictive.

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keep in mind, the guy speaking is offering what he believes to be the best legal defense for his clients. so the oathkeepers, no doubt many o' them well-read in the subject o' Constitutional law dealing with sedition, believes there is the possibility the President, unable to rely on standing US and national guard commanders, will invoke 18th and 19th century laws to call up militias to establish control at the Capitol. or Six Oath Keepers Who Guarded Roger Stone Stormed the Capitol: NYT same oathkeepers recent indicted were the folks identified in numerous media sources last year as roger stone body guards. ... am not offering as evidence o' guilt, 'cause while has been more than a year, seditious conspiracy is not gonna be ez to prosecute and so far all we got is video from january 6 and a few tv and print news articles. however, is not difficult to see how the doj is moving up the food chain and given what we know o' john eastman plan for january six and the recent revealed powerpoint mark meadows were applauding in texts and sharing with gop and trump admin people, is taking little imagination to see a possible direction for the doj. HA! Good Fun!

has been a long time since we read native son and is not one o' those great books we wanna revisit. a goal o' the book were to make the reader uncomfortable and it succeeded, but am thinking the narrative suffered from beating the reader with the goal. unfortunate, while the novel brutal forced the audience to consider certain realities, bigger thomas weren't real. bigger did suffer from a shared american experience, and am suspecting many minorities could empathize with his anger, but the main character were a bit exaggerated. is a meaningful book, but is not at all subtle and it don't take a great deal o' reflection to understand themes and messaging, which am s'posing makes it good for high school students but a bit less compelling for those o' us so many decades removed from our high school years. am indeed a bit more curious 'bout what is the books which high school kids need read these days. would be disappointed if is near identical to the lists we recall from forty years removed even if we know classics never go outta style... 'course at least half o' the "classics" we recall from high school were only 'bout three decades old. ... am gonna acknowledge a trend in most o' the more contemporary books we approve: would be tough to get 'em approved by a school board. am an updike fan, but beyond the difficult read, most o' his stuff is adult fare. gabriel garcia marquez and don delllilo is also favored authors, but neither shied away from sex and 100 years o' solitude had the whole incest thing. nabokov? am recalling our high school librarian were delighted to learn we were interested in vladimir, but we would be shocked if lolita made it into the classroom as required reading and pale fire is not ez for grad students much less inner city high school kids. converse, we believe the philip pullman books were underrated as literature and have mentioned previous how much we approve o' a few neil gaiman titles, but fantasy/scifi written for young audiences is unlikely to be approved for american high school teaching 'cause o' the taint all fantasy carries with academics... unless is green knight, beowulf, gilgamesh, the bible, etc. although am understanding a few schools teach the hobbit, maybe? regardless, we would indeed be disappointed if our reading lists from high school looked little different from most 2021 high school reading lists. HA! Good Fun!

am not sure if you are being serious, so will pretend you are. shame on us. of course to other buffs, debuffs and teamwork feats. you do realize outflank is functional a must for any melee character... works ok for ranged. fear, as we has mentioned ad nauseum is also a powerful debuff which a character such as the undead warpriest who no doubt has shatter defenses will exploit to render deskari footed, significant robbing him o' ac. previous we listed all the items which increase illusion and/or enchantment dc. consider all the potential debuffs those make possible. curses directed at deskari once his saves is lowered is a nice way to debuff him further. rangers bond? you do know how effective rangers bod can be, and with distracting shots, your melee characters is gonna benefit even more. if you buff staunton with madness to get the bonus to ab, how is that any less effective than a debuff to deskari ac? who cares if stunton takes a hit to his saves and skill checks 'cause with the kinda damage he and your party do, the fight is not gonna last more than a couple rounds. if you want to hit deskari with staunton is not hard to manage stratospheric ab buffs. since you were planning on a vital strike build, then you must realize there is multiple ways to get staunton the benefits o' true strike, yes? earlier we were mentioning a terrible companion we would never use for a good run... which doesn't apply to a lich run, yes? why did we say we would take the nameless mess of a character? review if need be. with the madness buff alone + the debuffs from that companion and you got a functional equivalent o' up to a 20 point shift in your favor, though likely only 19 as whomever you got doing your cleric domains likely is not sosiel. we would definite recommend adding community domain for any unfair run as well, which should provide another +10 stacking ab bonus*chuckle* for our parties we ordinarily got deskari and baphomet fear locked w/i moments o' the start o' battle, so staunton hacking away with vital strikes boosted by fortune while enjoying that companion's hexes means we are gonna hit kinda regular. etc. you don't genuine need us to run down the entire lists? has gotta be dozens o' videos on how people take down deskari on unfair and am suspecting many have common elements and not all is gonna be one-shot kills such as or weird approach. https://www.google.com/search?q=deskari+unfair+wotr&oq=deskari+unfair+wotr&aqs=chrome..69i57.10205j1j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 gonna once again observe how the most simple reason why offending bloat exists is 'cause is so many videos and guides such as you will no doubt find with your favorite search engine which explain how to dispatch deskari w/o much sweat. the companions are all more than fine precise 'cause owlcat's version o' pathfinder is so easily exploited. could make even better companions? so what? is not about optimization, which you keep ignoring. sure we can build a better vanilla paladin seelah than the handicapped version we ultimate ended up with in our azata run, which was our point. (though, in our defense, stances were only removed from court poets after we started seelah as our paladin court poet) we can build a better blaster than we used for our main azata. we never use that companion, and such is functional self handicapping but not for the tanky explanation you offered earlier in the thread. identify better is not meaningful when discussing whether or not the companions is viable w/o resorting to mercs or respec mods, which if you wanna review were your observations. seelah w/o a horse is capable o' an unfair run, and if she is capable o' unfair while non-optimized, then trying to convince us she (and the other companions) is somehow insufficient for the ordinary wotr player's comes across as wholly unconvincing. is particular weird 'cause is not even some hidden or removed quality o' seelah which you is referencing insofar a the horse. somehow is now meaningful that the divine weapon bond recommendation is evidence o' poor designed companions such as inspired respec mods or mercs. the wotr companion builds is more than adequate, and the bloat is clear not the insurmountable issue you imagine it to be. personal am thinking owlcat's assumed player solution to bloat is terrible, but we played flavor companions and switched to unfair to test boss battles and managed better than just fine. is so much ridiculous dc boosting gear and spell synergies and hex exploits that the bosses don't stand much o' a chance even with mythic bloat... and that should be the real problem being identified, but is nevertheless overlooked. HA! Good Fun!

our initial test lich and staunton finished off deskari anticlimactic quick. have mentioned previous how is possible to reduce unfair boss will saves by more than 20. replayed a few times and with a glaive the warpriest didn't need be a frontliner but he is capable of big damage if built reasonable. staunton finished off deskari in atleast one fight, which typical only had us lose one or two summons or companions. yeah, get hit by deskari more than once and is pretty much game over for a companion. nevertheless, am suspecting you are simply gross mistaken 'bout the potential relative power of player parties. have mentioned previous how is possible to depower foes like deskari with empowered and maximized enervation, so once you add in factors such as madness domain abilities ('cause a non-save skill boost for deskari also cripples him significant,) as well as the debuffs from fear and literal a dozen other item and spell-based modifiers, deskari on unfair is not the challenge you believe he is. reduce will saves and ac to extreme manageable levels. with the knowledgeable stacking of attack bonuses, ac and silly mythic abilities like last stand, end game bosses rare lasted more than a couple rounds against any o' our parties, but that is 'cause we know the exploits. so, seelah is like staunton if you don't take a horse? that cannot be what you are suggesting. play seelah straight paladin and her main benefits is mark of justice and full ab, which is more than enough to make her unfair viable. perhaps the game don't tell you a horse is needed or that you should switch to a 2-handed weapon 'cause depending on how you loadout your party, those is not genuine essentials. on our azata run we gave seelah 8 levels o' court poet, but such did not help her endgame survivability much. we always play tb, and as such with a sorc who kept the party near perpetual hastened, seelah were able to charge into battle w/o any problem and she were a viable quasi tank. as noted elsewhere, animal companions make better tanks. we actual gave seelah weapon bond and we mistaken had chosen the last stand mythic ability 'cause we didn't realize such were nullified by life bonding friendship 'til late in act v, simple 'cause seelah hadn't died up 'til that point. never respec'd. did every major fight on unfair as well as the hard level difficulty we were ordinarily playing. the eight levels o' court poet were also a bit o' a waste 'cause as we mentioned earlier in this thread, the dc for waterfall were busted. our intent were to make a blaster who could take advantage o' waterfall to do big cold damage and we thought with all the conjuration dc buffing books, feats and items we could make waterfall boss viable. court poet o' eight levels shoulda' given us a functional +3 to dc for our sorc spells. largely wasted on our main character, though such buffs did aid other charisma and int based contributors to our party. again, our seelahs have been nowhere near optimized. did not appear to follow your needs neither. perhaps if we wanted optimized, respec would have us, as we had done elsewhere, give seelah a level o' oracle or sylvan sorc and then go mostly paladin and take a wolf or dog (or boar if serious 'bout unfair) but we didn't do respec on azata. were more than good enough with sword and board plus mark of justice and weapon bond. the reason our parties were effective is not 'cause o' optimization or even anything you has mentioned. we roll-stomped 'cause we knew what spells, abilities and items synergized to give us an overwhelming advantage 'gainst bosses. such imbalance is what owlcat fans want. create such advantages for players and their parties and owlcat's reasonable if cheap response were stat bloat, which nevertheless is insufficient in most cases. 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our high school taught to kill a mockingbird, native son, and invisible man. farewell to manzanar and a few others were staples. were hardly a shortage o' what would be considered social justice material and we went to high school during the freaking 80s back before social justice (specific tied to racial equality issues) were kinda a thing, or at least not that label. am betting those books is still on more than a few school reading lists, and is doubtful anything in dear martin, a book described as ya fare, is gonna shock or offend a person who were okie dokie with native son or invisible man. 'course the books we read were thirty or forty years old when we were in high school. bigger thomas were not a familiar character. even in our day those titles were having settings a bit temporal remote and were less accessible to the average high schooler. parents fighting stoopid battles over school reading lists is eye-roll worthy from our pov. is swell parents care 'bout such stuff and they should be involved in the education o' their offspring, but am betting the children o' parents angry 'bout dear martin woulda' benefitted more if mom and/or pop were involved in their ordinary day-to-day studies instead o' tilting at windmills. same parental effort woulda' been better spent taking kids to the library on weekends or perhaps reading dear martin and then discussing the book with their kids. HA! Good Fun!

so, what is the story behind the single blue unhappy cat in top-right quadrant? one cat receives a distinct downturn frown is the kinda thing which sets off our ocd. ... am not genuine serious btw 'bout needing the story, but is sad such does spark our ocd, which were great in our line o' work 'but is annoying in rl. HA! Good Fun!

some people will never admit a mistake. context is important, no? if the only companion you come up with to refute the notion that the wotr companions is viable even on unfair is a single lich-only option (and staunton is indeed still viable unfair) then has the example served better to illustrate your point or ours? *insert shrug emoji here* respec mods won't fix the problem, 'cause the problem is not the owlcat builds for companions but rather the requisite high degree o' knowledge o' pathfinder and wotr specific. is not even genuine a matter o' optimization as your mention o' seelah should make clear. don't matter how optimal is seelah at level one when facing playful darkness or nocticula. our angel run were with a sacred huntsmaster/zen archer and no matter how we built such it weren't gonna be anywhere near as powerful as a combined spellbook angel. we didn't choose optimal stat distributions or skill choices, and near the end o' the game we were choosing feats for flavour. we did not go half-elf for our azata blaster sorcerer, though would be something we obvious recommend to a player choosing to optimize. didn't matter 'cause we knew which domains to choose and which spells were synergizing and which hexes worked best and/or stacked with other hexes. have used "optimization" language our self and am thinking is not actual accurate. to succeed on even moderate difficulty levels w/o suffering significant frustration you don't need anything close to optimal, but you do need a high degree o' wotr and pathfinder specific knowledge. 'course again we has noted owlcat fans actual want the bloat, even if they rail 'gainst it. owlcat fans do not want any kinda balancing efforts to be made by the developers to their favorite exploits, which leads to mark of justice, the madness and community domains as well as the metal curse hex being disproportionate powerful. is hellfire rays comical overpowered when elemental damage boost options is worked into the equation? 'course they are, but as such is in pathfinder, is no way owlcat were gonna nerf. is dozens o' such exploits and owlcat fans has made it most clear they love such nonsense, which is why the even more munchkiny mythic path options owlcat largely spun outta whole cloth is also having fan approval. note, is not overpowered merged spellbooks which is criticized even in this thread but rather the fact only lich and angel enjoy. am knowing people don't wanna admit, but the reason you got bloat and difficulty spikes o' bosses is precise 'cause you got the unbalanced mess o' a game you wanted. am suspecting the only way to make even a few encounters any kinda challenge for knowledgeable players were to add bloat, 'cause as much as kingmaker coulda' been renamed pathfinder: adventures in munchkinland, as soon as wotr were announced as the ap chosen it were clear the player power level were gonna get an upgrade. regardless, companion builds in wotr is not a genuine problem which limits success in wotr. identify one lich specific companion who is nevertheless unfair viable as evidence to refute such is perhaps not as effective as you thought it were. HA! Good Fun!

amusing part for us were: "She said students initially assigned "Dear Martin" will instead be required to read "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee." the parents angered by having their children indoctrinated with liberal notions o' social justice will no doubt cheer their victory... which is kinda strange 'cause am assuming most 'o such parents had to read to kill a mockingbird in high school. might be giving too much credit to parents, but am suspecting at least a few googled "harper lee" and then shared what her novel were 'bout with likeminded lovers o' liberty and family values in rural sw Missouri. HA! Good Fun!

the thing is, in the US those methods you mention for controlling the populace ain't directly attributable to The Government, and similar options has been 'round for centuries in one form or another. of all the things we are concerned 'bout, a social credit score system taking hold in the US is not reaching the top 100 list o' worries. first we would need a national police power and supporting infrastructure, which is even less likely today than twenty years past. social credit is not like the half-arsed and doomed border wall funding or even fed agents in numbers showing up at night in unmarked vans to kidnap people off the streets o' US cities. a genuine social credit score system is gonna need be having widespread state and fed support in terms o' monies and manpower, if only briefly, and am not seeing that kinda cooperation happening anytime, much less anytime soon, though pretend as if it could never happen is also foolish. we mentioned previous, but when states began implementing covid mandates, many local sheriffs and mayors simple said, "no." ... uh, ok. what now? from a practical perspective, there was little governors could do to enforce guidelines and mandates. social credit is monumental more difficult to imagine into being in the US 'cause there ain't a national police power, so the fed government would actual have less power to enforce than the governors who sat impotent while sheriffs and mayors flouted the law. unless social credit were something which The People were near universal demanding, which is indeed a real and serious possibility and should not be dismissed outta hand, am not seeing it being a government tool. our serious response to less than serious observations. HA! Good Fun!

so, your one kinda example is self-identified as an outlier. exception which proves Gromnir's rule? ok with us. btw, we keep mentioning intimidation builds and how powerful they are, so is perhaps overlooked that staunton makes for a viable option for lich party intimidator seeing as how seelah and sosiel is not gonna be lich besties. hardly ideal an ideal use for staunton, but is workable for an outlier companion only available to lich players. simultaneous, you in fact recognize the problem ain't the companions, but is rather encounter design which punishes anybody not knowledgeable o' owlcat's version o' pathfinder... which is repeating back to us our own oft-repeated argument. your realization also invalidates your initial respec mod observation as the problem is the game is curiously designed for players with a high level o' knowledge o' the wotr implemented rules, so being able to custom build seelah or regill won't likely help with the problem... particularly as you feel cheating abilities up to 40 is insufficient in some cases. respec is not a particular useful tool in the hands o' a player with limited knowledge o' owlcat's rules. heck, seelah is a funny mention as you meet her at level one, so is little you might want that you cannot spec or respec sans a mod anyways. whatever flavour you imagine is cooked into seelah is limited to level one feats and the class choice, which is hardly obstacles to building her many different ways. again, is not the companions, not even staunton, who you unlikely used meaningful in game as you just finished your first run with an azata. the tower shield bit is just weird for staunton but is hardly a real problem and may even come in handy in the extreme limited situations when you is losing dex and dodge bonus. if you do not know the stacking rules and owlcat's unique implementation o' them, then wotr is likely to be a frustrating experience. period. for whatever reason, owlcat designed the game so as to be moderate challenging for players with over-the-top knowledge o' their rules, and punishing for casual players. doesn't work for us, but owlcat fans appear to enjoy that kinda thing. converse, if you do know all the exploits baked into owlcat's wotr, then all the companions is endgame viable even on unfair. is not the companions. optimize a wotr level one seelah *chuckle* will not somehow marked change any issues you have with facing demon lords, playful darkness or the pathetic quasit. HA! Good Fun!

disagree with the first point. agree with second. merged spellbook angel characters are unburdened by the need to meta. the capacity to spam bolt of justice and storm o' justice with a high caster level character who also has a few o' the best defensive buffs in the game almost eliminates the need to micro parse the owlcat implementation o' the pathfinder rules. if you wanna play wotr straight, w/o reading guides or having awareness o' the best fests/spells/weapons/class features, w/o comical specific awareness o' the wotr synergies which exist specific in the owlcat implementation, then merged angel is nevertheless gonna be viable for a normal difficulty run and maybe even core. unfortunate, particular given enemy stat bloat and immunities, we would suggest wotr were designed less for merged angel spellbook, 'cause the stat bloat don't matter for such characters, but rather for what we woulda' previous assumed were a small % o' wotr players who play at the margins o' the rules. inexplicable, the design o' many encounters hinges on the assumption a player will have indulged the kinda game the game mentality which gives 'em a huge advantage when facing bosses and the like, particular from the midpoint o' the game forward. knowledge and exploitation of pathfinder's non-intuitive stacking rules results in a significant gulf between the kinda attack bonuses and dcs a casual player may achieve versus the numbers you will see produced by persons who clear has meta'd the game to an extreme degree. am gonna suggest the enemy stat bloat we see in the game is legit if one assumes the player is commonly making use of multiple exploits, the kinda exploits which a pnp dm/gm would likely disallow. am not a proponent o' the wotr design philosophy which avoids almost any effort to balance but instead inflates foe capabilities so as to counter the assumed player exploits. however, am clear not the target owlcat were aiming to reach. wotr mythic paths is horribly unbalanced, but based on feedback we has seen, they is popular. w/o the bloat, the players who make extreme use o' pathfinder stacking opportunities woulda' been bored with wotr, but is hard to imagine the game were genuine designed for such players, and yet, here we are. HA! Good Fun!