Gromnir

... thanks to texas and a complicit SCOTUS, gd may finally have his let it all burn moment. HA! Good fun!

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am at threshold with our azata sorc and have learned a few new things along the way. there remains a number o' azata spells which continue to function wrong. example: believe in your self should provide a morale bonus to a single ability-- +1 for each 4 caster levels. unfortunate, is providing +1 for each four azata levels. also, the dc generated for azata spells is wonky and while the spells ignore sr, they frequent provide a save so those dcs are important. unfortunate, feats and abilities which ordinarily raise dc o' spells do not appear to work proper when generating azata dcs, but more on that in a minute. there is also azata spells which do not appear on most on-line guides for mythic spells. the aforementioned believe in your self shows up infrequent in lists which perhaps do little more than replicate the following: https://forum.owlcatgames.com/t/complete-mythic-spell-lists-beta/36196 if you have discovered ways to exploit skill checks and you didn't go the trickster route, then azata offers nice bonuses. is a rest bonus from sleeping at the azata "stronghold" which provides a +2 luck bonus for one hour, but is functional permanent. is also a spell, moral support, one o' the spells not showing on many guides for azata, which provides a significant skill and saving throw bonus which stacks with everything. at release moral support was lasting seconds per mythic level as 'posed to minutes, but it now works as described. waterfall sounds groovy, but in practice it is current a trap. when waterfall is cast, those who fail a fort save become vulnerable to cold damage for X minutes where X is the caster's mythic level. nice. waterfall is a conjuration spell and Gromnir took every mundane and mythic feat which impacted conjuration dcs, but those feats n' such do not impact azata spells as far as we can tell. nevertheless, we do not regret having sosiel taking one level of crossblood sorc for the cold spells. is a shield which provides +1 per die cold damage. is hide armour from wintersun which provides +1 per die elemental damage. take water and silver dragon for one level o' crossblood sorc and you benefit from conversion o' all energy spells to cold and another +1 cold damage per die. through mythic you may also add another bloodline, which should be another +1 per die cold damage. as such, sosiel's stormbolts is doing an additional +80 cold damage. sosiel doesn't have great dex, but is no reason you cannot boost his touch attacks so they hit even demon lords. hellfire rays, if such don't bother you too much from a rp pov, represent 45 hd o' damage, so that +4 per die mod becomes 180 bonus cold damage. no doubt the following is a "duh" kinda observation anybody who played azata deep into the game, but aivu becomes an incredible late game healer. is one reason am able to switch sosiel's focus to damage output. in the beta we had aivu through act iv and the dragon was great for dealing sonic damage, but the last few tiers o' spellcasting genuine transform aivu into a fantastic healer, which gives the dragon something useful to do while its breath weapon recharges. not an azata thing per se, but a divine hunter lann's velociraptor celestial animal companion is an absolute wrecker from midpoint o' the game onwards. the velociraptor is unique in that it gets a 14 charisma. why? *shrug* also, while the critter is 'posed to get one use of smite evil per day, the smite is actual usable once per encounter. with eagle splendor you are benefitting from a per encounter +4 smite ability, and is ways to raise further. the raptor gets a significant number o' attacks and on a charge attack is highly possible it functional renders a foe prone. we just completed the laughing caves encounter and lann's velociraptor dispatched the balor solo in one round, and only one attack were a successful critical. HA! Good Fun!

'ccording to a university film class we took an admitted long time in the past, family movies offer studios the most predictable positive roi. go figure. also, having met a few actors and actresses, our personal experience suggests more is like jim carey than you might want to believe, but they does a better job o' hiding their eccentricities than mr. carey... 'cause they are actors. high functioning l00ns. complete aside, for many students, particular at large public universities employing chronic overworked counselors, is frequent the case there is one bs class you need take to fill an inexcusably unexpected requirement to graduate on-time, and the film class were our desperation class. turned out being kinda fun and we don't regret enrolling, but we threw a rather immature and thankful private fit when we discovered we needed the extra class to graduate. HA! Good Fun!

playing evil in wotr suffers from the same fundamental problems playing evil in any heroic crpg faces. each evil game choice/option is gonna be almost entirely insular. for a single act to be clear evil, is gonna need be demonstrably selfish or cruel, or something similar. regardless o' the character's personal moral compass, there is a couple demon lords who is looking to lay waste to a good portion o' golarion, which is presumably where the player character keeps all o' his stuff, so is kinda a built in motivation for not wanting to become a victim o' the forces o' the abyss, even if you is personal as demonic evil as the invaders. however, wotr does provide mythic paths which allow you to kinda choose a flavour o' evil and to possibly differentiate your brand o' evil. demon, devil, lich, and swarm is all offering traditional evil options. is tough to play a genuine benign trickster, so if you is looking to play a kinda amoral sadist kinda evil, then is possible to do so. aeon is also offering the possibility to play kinda dispassionate evil. the players guide for the wotr pnp adventure path is available free from paizo. https://paizo.com/products/btpy919c?Pathfinder-Adventure-Path-Wrath-of-the-Righteous-Players-Guide third paragraph: The theme of good versus evil is paramount throughout Wrath of the Righteous, more so than law versus chaos. Good-aligned characters make the most sense for this Adventure Path, be they lawful, neutral, or chaotic. Whether you play a lawful good hero or a character with more f lexible morals, it’s important that your character be easily motivated to go to the Worldwound and fight demons. It‘s also a good idea, as in any campaign, to make your choice in a way that won’t be disruptive to the party. The disruption caused by bringing different alignments into the party will vary from group to group, so the best way to make sure that your choice works is to talk with your group about what you’re planning. ... evil is possible in wotr the crpg 'cause owlcat made such options available, but given the source material, is understandable if such fare feels a bit clumsy or ill-suited. HA! Good Fun!

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if the supernatural critters would wipe their feet before coming inside during wet winter months, and perhaps manage to eat & drink w/o creating a mess in a .5 meter circumference 'round their bowls, we might consider the swap a trade up and a welcome change. HA! Good Fun!

your need to indulge false equivalency is unhealthy. why do you keep downplaying trump excesses and the insurrectionist efforts on january 6? answer: unless you do so you can't even convince your self that the gop, which embraced trump and is now seeming okie dokie with white supremacists sharing their tent, is just different branding o' the democrats. you latch onto minor mischaracterizations o' biden comments to the media and continue to support the overt ridiculous burisma conspiracy theories because you need to find equivalency between the bidens and the trumps, and reality makes that very hard indeed. is not hard to find individual bad democrats. create a ledger and tell your self that is just as many bad democrats as republicans-- proof they is all bad. whatever. ignore the past +five years. btw, have been banging the muslim ban thing for years, so@KP on top of ZA WARUDO is preaching to the choir in that respect, but bring up is useful for dealing with gd as well. the problem with kp's date is twofold: 1) trump promised a muslim ban in december o' 2015 2) many republicans were still criticizing the muslim ban in 2017 ... every major candidate at the time, republican and democrat, voiced their strong disapproval o' the initial muslim ban promise by trump. were an obvious bridge too far for republican and democrat leadership in late 2015. is not that those republican candidates were lying 'bout their rejection o' the muslim ban neither. were ez to vilify trump in 2015. by january 2017 there wasn't in actuality much more support for a muslim ban 'mongst even republicans than there were in 2016, but trump and bannon had figured out the formula and they knew that moderate republicans would eventual be complicit with the unthinkable if they kept selling hate and fear to the radicalized +20% o' their party. and that is what happened. republicans and independents as a whole did reject the muslim ban, but inch by inch and transgression by transgression, we got to a point where folks like mejier, who we suspect is no chance in hell woulda' defended white vans in oregon, burying ig reports, attempted overturn o' electoral college results and dozens o' other excesses way back in 2015 or even 2017, were struggling with such conundrums? should never have been any difficulty in standing up against such naked villainy, but that is what years o' incremental trump abrogation o' rule o' law and conscience did to the gop as the far right became more radicalized and the moderates passive and complicit followed behind, no doubt telling selves that doing so were ok 'cause they could limit the excesses but only from the inside... or somesuch similar self-serving doggerel. gd, on the other hand, has been perpetual hopeless. they is all bad forces him to downplay obvious excesses and magnify nonexistent or small ones. recall we were told by gd in early/mid 2020 is no way trump would challenge the election results if he lost and such stories were yet another example o' the media trying to make trump look like a monster. 'course when trump actual did challenge election results, gd only saw as proof the system worked as designed, 'cause trump is no longer in office, yes? the capacity human beings to engage in extreme self-delusion is fascinating and terrible, no? yeah, for Gromnir it were december 7, 2015 which were the date we realized that not only were trump unfit for office, representing something vile and repugnant which were impossible to embrace no matter what kinda transactional thinking you might wanna posit, but when we saw crowds cheer and alt-right (but increasing mainstream) media sources applaud his promise, we realized trump were more dangerous than we had previous believed. trump were intentional setting himself apart from those they are all the same beltway politicians and he were doing so not with a positive message, but rather with fear and bigotry. but again, many republicans were similarly disgusted and appalled by trump in 2016 and even early 2017. recall how low 2016 voter turnout was and just how many votes independents received... which gd mistaken identified as a sea change. inch by inch. crime by crime. we already noted just how counter intuitive the trump insanity is, but the more trump did wrong, and the more polarized the country became, the easier it were for people like mejier to meekly ignore each new transgression, and each new transgression made more clear to everybody but gd how ridiculous is his they are all bad silliness. HA! Good Fun! ps and this shouldn't need be said, but clear is-- if DEMOCRATS had been genuine appalled by trump's muslim ban in 2016, then trump would never have been elected to office in the first place. 12/7/2015 "should have been it for anyone with even a pretense of giving a **** about freedom or opposed to government overreach and yet too many folks were and are willing to swallow or downplay" such. instead, too many democrats sat on their arse or voted independent as gd advises. a gentle reminder how painful the mirror may be looking for bad guys.

is ez to look at the guys on the other side o' an issue and suggest they is different. they is lacking self awareness. they is selfish. given the qanon stuff in the article, am gonna once again note how some in this thread has suggested white republicans is uniquely susceptible to conspiracy theory. ignores reality that more than 50% o' democrats post 9/11 believed that the bush administration had awareness o' the impending attacks. am suspecting meijer convinced self trump were a passing phase. how many times did he need convince self that the threat posed by an executive unwilling to follow the rule o' law were exaggerated? dunno. the thing is, with each new gop excess, it got harder to admit mistake and easier to just go along with everybody else in the party. such willful indifference and complicity is not party specific failings, though the 2021 gop is doing their best to break new frontiers as they rush headlong towards the next unthinkable and unimaginable. is fair to criticize meijer, past and present. the thing is, if is no chance at redemption, then you diminish the chance o' additional come-to-jesus epiphanies. HA! Good Fun!

lack o' outrage is, we suspect, almost complete attributable to lack o' awareness. the pnp pathfinder fans clear didn't care, just as pnp d&d fans didn't care 'bout dragonspear's issue. wotr were not a new adventure path, so whatever issue pnp people mighta' had with anevia were pretty remote and well trodden. the gamergate folks are still largely unaware o' the anevia stuff, and the problem now is that many o' them has played through the game and likely has commented 'pon or come to conclusions regarding the title. sudden become aware and need face hypocrisy regarding dragonspear or change their position on wotr is not a comfortable place to be. how does one square contempt for dragonspear while giving wotr a pass? HA! Good Fun!

am not suggesting is the same, but the willingness to minimize the threat o' an autocrat is not new. the movie were in fact released not to criticize nazi germany but rather to highlight the fact the same willful ignorance had been embraced by far too many during the mccarthy era. we don't learn. in fact, because were not same, were easier to ignore the threat and the four years o' excesses and violations o' rule o' law. serious, how often did some idjit on these boards and elsewheres accuse folks o' trump derangement syndrome with each new complaint regarding the previous unthinkable? is not like trump were putin or hitler or... whatever. those patriots who ignored or deluded selves for more than four years were able to look to historical analogues and convince self that trump were hardly the monster being conjured by the liberal media to scare children and fence-sitting independents. inch by inch, and crime by crime, the rough beast, its hour come round at last, did slouch towards bethlehem to be born. ironic. with each new transgression it became more difficult to rationalize and marginalize trump, but in spite o' that it actual became easier for the gop to just go along, 'cause supporters became increasing personal invested in the lies and the knee-jerk tds and fake news responses became second nature. so which were more contempt worthy, the radicalized millions who cheered the monstrosity or the thousands with real power and influence who were fully aware o' what were happening within their party and nevertheless chose to look away, towards a future where trump would be gone and those radicalized millions would need look elsewhere to spend their political contributions? HA! Good Fun!

The political education of Peter Meijer “Well, my Republican Party wouldn’t scare him,” Meijer said with a shrug. I asked if he understood why George and his friends might be scared right now. He smirked. “The inability to affirmatively and consistently reject anti-Semitism and white supremacy?” The fundamental problem, Meijer said, is that Republicans are offering no plans for improving lives and making the future a more promising place. Instead, the party continues to rely on grievance and fear—and misinformation—to scare voters into their ranks. But he didn’t say any of this to George. ... the most disturbing aspect o' the current gop leadership is the collective awareness they is shoveling trump's bs, and the realization o' just how dangerous were january 6. these guys know how close we were to seeing the system break over a lie. tds? serious? nevertheless, these same individuals is active undermining already insufficient procedural safeguards so that if something similar happens in the future, the outcome will be different. HA! Good Fun!

we mentioned earlier in this thread how during a stream with owlcat and paizo developers, james jacobs, the creative director o' paizo, started talking 'bout how inclusive is the pathfinder game and how they specific designed wotr to be such... and the owlcat developers sudden became taciturn--looked like kids caught stealing. some serious poker tells on display with one owlcat personage literal covering her mouth with her hands. another owlcat visibly swallows and sudden begins looking at something or someone off-screen. 'course nobody from owlcat addressed james feedback, but one o' the owlcat community managers ('cause apparent they need two) changed the subject: okay, next question. and again, is not just hidden... hiding what were presented were matter o' fact in pnp. we did everything on the list provided and could not access. am suspecting this were not original capable o' completion, cause for us, with our original game, is not. HA! Good Fun!

was kinda our point. refer to as a medical condition or a health problem and then have potential response being to observe how is unnatural, should be the kinda thing which sets the teeth on edge o' more than a few folks, but we ain't heard any complaint whatsoever. am suspecting is 'cause anevia's unnatural solution is largely unknown by the fanbase. aside, can say with certainty urgathoa gets a few nods in lich dialogue options, but am only knowing through act iv. by comparison, in the beta we played an azata through act 4 as a desna worshiper and our current azata, almost most done with act v, is a follower o' cayden cailean and the two azata has played almost identical-- maybe three different dialogue options and nothing significant. not a meaningful choice. HA! Good Fun!

just checked for extreme late fifth chapter saves and we can ask 'bout the scabbard and the pawning o' the sword, (oddly shows up as a new dialogue option) but nothing else. however, these is saves which we suspect were unaffected by some late patches. passing perception and persuasion checks o' 50 for our act v angel is a non factor. is an inquisitor with acolyte who went full wisdom, so even if these were hidden checks, we could only possible fail on a 1, and again, we got save points which would allow us to try over and over and over. could we be stuck in a tom stoppard play? possible, but unlikely. HA! Good Fun!

those sneaky *astards. ... we figured out the change. irabeth's sword. can't progress w/o irabeth's sword, which were not present in beta or at release. when we played with angel no irabeth sword. replayed with azata and we were past the siege of drezen when sword were final patched back into the game, so again, no chance to get your hidden dialogue. am thinking is no accident the sword were missing from the game for so long. could claim to paizo were an oversight and not an intentional effort to hide. HA! Good Fun!

must have been really buried and not original accessible at release either 'cause we passed the skill checks and got medical condition. nowhere available during beta neither. and again, why hide? purposeful hide? regardless, am thinking obfuscation were the point. regardless, complete lack o' upset is what is surprising. the gamergate folks is quiet and the folks who would ordinarily be curious 'bout the attempt to hide has also been silent. HA! Good Fun! ps we just checked btw, to see if perhaps the internet had spoken on this and we missed: https://www.thegamer.com/pathfinder-wrath-righteous-secrets-tricks/ "It is possible, through speaking with Anevia and Irabeth at length, to learn that Irabeth once sold her family sword to pay for medical expenses for Anevia. Upon learning this, you can then ask Anevia what was wrong with her — she will never tell you what it was, however. In this game, at least." from reddit you will see posts as recent as a month past which specific mention how is not mentioned in the game save as a secret medical condition, or somesuch. skill checks passed. if is now in game, am suspecting is recent and am suspecting owlcat surreptitiously added.

possible confusion. am thinking the near complete lack o' people being upset is the surprise. particular after other games which dealt with similar content had developers facing considerable backlash, owlcat taking a hard pass shoulda' elicited some reaction. reality has been no reaction, or near none. in the crpg, is not actual implied what is the medical condition, so am suspecting the vast majority o' posters shrugged and moved on w/o a second thought. probably figured it were just another example o' sketchy owlcat writing. in retrospect this approach were a good choice by owlcat as they has somehow managed to avoid controversy. am nevertheless surprised owlcat were allowed to sleight-of-hand this aspect into nothingness. HA! Good Fun!

edit: am not recalling exact wording at the moment, but reveal were along the lines o' a "medical condition that was expensive to resolve." that's it. handled different than pnp and were clear hiding. in the pnp setting is not the kinda thing one would need hide, so the layers o' obfuscation were owlcat's own spin. HA! Good Fun!

doesn't actual get explicit discussion even when skill checks is passed. anevia's condition is never disclosed, or at least it weren't every time we played. HA! Good Fun!

am also confused by a few fixes. the loremaster quirk which allows you to choose any feat including trickster mythic feats were s'posed addressed in a previous patch, but we frequent test out mercenary builds and the loremaster exploit were still present last week. the nightspinner quest still bugged for us though it were addressed in a recent patch. similar, but different, the zaoris's pin from the mines is indeed gone, but is not available through crusade battles in our current run. etc. unrelated, but equal curious, have been waiting for somebody (anybody) to mention the anevia elephant in the room, but such has surprising never happened. given the siege of dragonspear kerfuffle, the lack o' acknowledgement o' anevia is curious. am suspecting more than a few people who claimed to have played the wotr pnp adventure has not, 'cause owlcat handling o' the issue were noteworthy though hardly surprising. personal we didn't bring up earlier 'cause we assume the worst o' gaming communities and have rare been surprised by the reality-- unnecessary distraction. nevertheless, is now three month post release and am nevertheless surprised by the absence o' people asking owlcat for an explanation. HA! Good Fun!

there has been near two dozen mcu movies. the first spiderverse movie is among our top three sooperhero films, period. am also not a fan o' the multiverse thing btw, and we expected to dislike the first spiderverse film in part 'cause the comicbook arc 'pon which it were based were... stoopid. a multiverse war o' totem animal/people hybrids or somesuch nonsense? is quite possible sequel movies will be garbage in part 'cause the multiverse thing allows for all kinda opportunities for writer self-implosion. paradox is not a writer's friend no matter how many fan fic geniuses believe the contrary. am also not a fan o' the green lantern silliness many superhero titles have embraced in recent decades. earth has a dozen green lanterns and they is increasingly diverse. we need green lanterns who not just represent every ethnic background, but they collective need display the entire spectrum o' sexual preferences while overcoming physical and/or mental obstacles. *sigh* instead o' a new spiderman or green lantern to make everybody feel included, why not create a genuine new f'ing hero? etc. ... am underselling how much we don't like the multiverse idea and the notion o' infinite spider-mans. regardless, no matter what happens with sequels it won't change how much we liked the first film. HA! Good Fun!

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you may be confusing with soliloquy, 'cause regardless o' root, addressing another character does not remove from possibility o' being a monologue. HA! Good Fun!

assuming he gets around to editing this, the original reads as follows: anybody that doesn't think there wasn't massive election fraud in the 2020 presidential election is either very stupid, or very corrupt! am gonna concede, is rare we agree with trump but even a broken clock and all that, eh? HA! Good Fun!