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am s'posing you could consider the following spoilery, but the following is the link to the pnp adventure path at paizo: https://paizo.com/wrathOfTheRighteous am not defending owlcat writing efforts. the thing is, with even cursory knowledge o' the pnp ap 'pon which the wrath pc game is based, would you expect the owlcat writers to focus on the human elements o' the story and growth of characters as people as 'posed to leaning into the archetypes? serious? is not as if owlcat imagined wrath into being. in its pnp incarnation, wrath is a munchkin's fantasy adventure showcasing the then new mythic rules from paizo. other than the second adventure installment, wrath is designed to be a rather linear and transparent excuse to throw epic cheese at a player. what woulda' made anybody believe owlcat writing efforts were gonna be transformative? we got favorite pathfinder ap, and wrath doesn't make the top ten list. in retrospect, am ok with owlcat's choice to do wrath 'cause am expecting we woulda' been mighty disappointed if they blundered their way through carrion crown, skull and shackles, hell's rebels, etc. @Vaeliorin am kinda feeling a disconnect as you observe you are not finding the game particular challenging, but there isn't enough stat boosting 1007? more such goodies would effective make the game even easier, yes? dunno. in the beta, by the time we were in the abyss, the stat boosting items were not rare, but it still made sense to diversify our party 'cause chances are the best stuff were limited. post drezen world map exploration also provides considerable treasure. be aware, if you are skipping the crusade/army management, you are making a mistake. there is significant loot to be found by conquering opposing armies and if nothing has changed, the best strength boosting item pre drezen is available via an army conflict. am personal just having reached level seven so the relevant battle for the strength belt is not appearing yet on our map, but as everything else is the same thus far, am assuming it will reveal itself in due time. should have multiple +2 items pre drezen and a few +4 including dex and strength. am a big fan o' animal companions and am typical having 'tween two or three in a given party configuration, and that is not including aivu. animal companions, 'cause they ain't as op as in kingmaker, is perhaps a bit underrated in wrath. am seeing folks bragging 'bout the extra attacks they get with some mutagenic warrior build but they ignore how a dog or leopard gets multiple attacks, trip and the critter may attack designated opponents distant from the player and act as a mobile meat shield if necessary. have teamwork feats to provide 'em outflank, seize the moment and tandem trip, as well as potential other options, makes multiple animal companions a serious power boost for a party. as such, if we were able to fully kit animal companions and our entire party with top tier stat boosting items it might be just a smidge unbalancing. aside: worst bug we has had to endure so far is cosmetic. our pc has a darker complexion. so too does sosiel. if you save your game under specific lighting conditions (or so am beginning to suspect) and then reload, sosiel and those with similar complexions become... chalky. if you do not have an earlier reload, you is stuck with your pc or sosiel looking like one o' the undead. sounds like a minor thing, and am supposing in the case o' sosiel we will deal with it, but we need to maintain a few save points just in case this happens again with our pc. am not wanting to spend +100 hours enduring self directed michael jackson jokes 'bout our character appearance. HA! Good Fun!

not very. for those angry the Court might kill roe, keep in mind a couple points: 1) from the moment roe were decided, there has been a whole lotta disagreement 'bout its legitimacy. please recall that rbg criticized the legal reasoning behind roe. unlike gun possession or speedy trial, abortion as a right were created by a handful of justices who were not clear or in agreement 'bout what part o' the Constitution created a new fundamental right and what limitations might exist for such a right. not a strong opinion and since 1973 there has been fears the decision could be overturned. based on nothing save legal merits, the continued existence o' roe for near fifty years is nothing short o' amazing. 2) Congress coulda' legislated a solution anytime over the past decades. this is not a Court problem save that Congressional cowardice has made it so. again, has been fears every decade since 1973 that roe might be overturned, and Congress didn't want any part in creating an abortion right which w/o legislative intervention could be vanished anytime by Justices who were not democratic elected and who is typical more concerned with legal principle than the real world impact o' expunging questionable precedent. many thousands o' women will suffer if there is a return to pre roe fumbduckery? is always a few Justices who take the image o' justice blindfolded extreme serious. remember your school lessons 'bout government? what is the role o' the Judiciary and what is the role o' Congress? took a decade for Congress following brown v. board of education to get off their collective arses and pass the civil rights acts. it's 2021 and Congress never addressed the problems created by roe. ... am not suggesting roe should be overturned, but nobody should be surprised if it is... overturn is not a slam dunk btw. HA! Good Fun!

ascendant element makes some o' the element issues moot, though admitted elemental barrage is also extreme powerful. acid maw is a first level druid/hunter spell and it counts as damage caused by the caster as 'posed to the animal companion. the spell has a decent duration at higher levels and your animal companion may spread the wealth as it were. is a kinda sneaky way to take advantage o' the already cheesy elemental barrage mythic feat. HA! Good Fun!

such is most assured a generalization, and again, we observed not only the possibility o' a foreign language article but the existence o' an outlier article making the claim you offered. an english language search does not impact or preclude the possible existence o' your story. we suggested the search as doing so reveals a multitude o' The Media not indulging in misleading title shenanigans and, in point o' fact, we did not see a misleading clickbait title during a perusal o' the first few pages o' a google news search for your proffered title. the media most assured weren't spreading misinformation. one. greek. source... maybe. you "heard people." great. HA! Good Fun!

given the presence o' deskari minions in both the ap and the cheese, am applauding your choice. our first post in this thread: gonna observe how the eye-roll inducing cheese aroma were palpable from before the kickstarter were funded. HA! Good Fun!

that's the thing. the texas law ain't creating some kinda remote burden on maybe a few people somewheres. roe is current the law o' the land and says abortion is legal well beyond six weeks. the texas law criminalizes abortions past six weeks. is a conflict. the texas law don't even provide exemptions for those who were raped. am having difficulty explaining why the courts is willing to indulge procedural bs when so many facing an already hard choice is gonna need decide whether to risk criminalization.

should be less remote than forever. is a house o' cards built on contrived procedural bs, and is exact the kinda bs the Court ignored last year during the pandemic to grant various religious groups emergency relief from covid-19 restrictions. there is a 5th circuit decision, an administrative stay actually, which s'posed prevents other courts from interfering while certain legal questions is addressed. again, is procedural bs, and we can't see such silliness being carried out too long much less indefinite. SCOTUS could ignore the 5th circuit stay, but via a 5-4 shadow docket decision has chosen to remain silent. again, is procedural bs and am not certain how the 5th circuit stay could remain viable for more than a couple weeks w/o becoming presumptive unconstitutional, but am genuine surprised we are at this point, so... HA! Good Fun!

no. the thing is, the law makes it illegal to have an abortion past six weeks. regardless o' the texas bounty scheme, roe is triggered. the bounty scheme is a way to avoid the criminal courts and the protections defendants would receive in criminal court. from a practical pov, doesn't matter if the texas law is unconstitutional or that you are innocent o' any wrong doing. is expensive and time consuming fighting civil suits, and various conservative groups has already built up war chests in anticipation of going after violators o' the texas law. 'course none o' this would be an immediate concern if any 5th circuit court or SCOTUS did their job and blocked enforcement pending a future inevitable decision. HA! Good Fun!

again, you are gonna need a showing o' sufficient criminal intent/knowledge. if the uber driver drops off a young woman at an abortion clinic, maybe you are able to show the uber driver knew he were aiding in the commission o' a crime. maybe. even with strict liability offenses, there is a limit to how far the causal chain is extending. toxic waste dumping is illegal, and the state doesn't even care if you knew the stuff you were dumping is hazardous. you dump? you are liable. period. no intent needed. the thing is, we don't hold liable the guy who sold gasoline to the person who drove the truck which carried the toxic sludge. there is legal thresholds as to how expansive is the causal chain, but most o' the boogiemen being imagined is unlikely to ever be an issue. am doubting uber drivers is ever gonna be prosecuted 'cause is getting kinda remote and also for simple reason the uber drivers is gonna be asked to drop off passengers not at the clinics in question, but perhaps one block remote from the clinics. cell phone providers is even more remote. HA! Good Fun!

am recalling a discussion with a bioware developer a few years after bg2 development concluded. the developer mentioned how previous to bg2 development, bio developers (at least the writers and level designers) were required to replay bg1 entire. the developer in question conceded how playing the game were a painful slog until reaching the city of baldur's gate. 'course for the developer the suffering were less 'bout difficulty spikes than it were the widely spaced repetitive encounters and excessive reliance on mindless fed-ex quests, but even so, perhaps you feel better knowing even biowarians, only a short time removed from the initial release o' bg1, had difficulty playing the game w/o it feeling like a scene from ben hur HA! Good Fun!

is a decent question even so. fifty years has seen a substantial amount o' inflation. $7 million in 2021 dollars. most estimates we has seen suggest bernie is worth $2million. as such bernie arguable has another another five million to go before risking the stain o' immorality. am thinking we mentioned earlier in the thread how if you wanna retire at 65 in 2021, then you likely need more than $1million and that is IF you can count on social security supplementing the rather smallish yearly roi and IF you is willing to live someplace affordable. anybody confident social security is gonna be as robust twenty years from today? $1million sounds like lots, and if you are young and stoopid and not considering retirement yet, or if you is the half of the US adult population with literal more debt then assets, one million is indeed a large amount o' cash. such a recognition should be terrifying most americans, but many o' us, 'cause it feels like there is nothing we are able to do 'bout it, push those fears down as we try and get to sleep at night. in the US, $1,000,000 is far less than it seems. if you are not aiming to be at least a millionaire, then you are doing it wrong. HA! Good Fun!

our only point is that if you make statements 'bout the percentage o' unregistered or illegal guns used in US crimes, you are likely gonna need rely on incomplete data. is not a criticism or show o' approval regarding any gun issue being discussed. such data should exist. such numbers should be readily available so that legislators and citizens may make informed decisions. no such data or evidence exits which is genuine reliable. am doing no more than recognizing how US crime stats, other than extreme broad generalizations, is gonna be matters o' conjecture more than fact, and "common sense" often leads to exact wrong conclusions. HA! Good Fun!

the texas law is unconstitutional until SCOTUS overturns roe. is not actual a profound or divisive legal question. there should be a 5th circuit court willing to put the texas law on hold until the this mess is addressed. current silence from 5th circuit and SCOTUS is unbecoming and unjust even if is Constitutional to delay. the easiest way to think o' the texas right to sue anybody in causal chain is to liken it to a bounty. texas effective deputized all citizens to root out the criminals who break the law and then to sue those criminals for what amounts to a $10k reward. as to employer giving money, criminal requires intent. give money must be accompanied with legal sufficient knowledge you is contributing to the commission of crime. HA! Good Fun!

stats related to gun crimes is less likely to be accurate as you get more granular. am knowing the issue has been discussed previous when addressing the number o' gun homicides in the US. the fbi tracks such data based on surveys supplied to them by the literal thousands o' state and local departments across the nation. we got a pretty good notion o' how many gun homicides there were in the US in 2018 or more remote, and the surveys does at least ask police departments to distinguish firearms used as blunt force weapons. shotguns, handguns and long rifles is all having separate categories, but assault rifle, since is such a fluid descriptor, is not part o' the fbi stats. you would think that numbers related to registered v. unregistered would be known. more important, and seeming more obvious, you would think numbers related to illegal possession o' a firearm in the commission o' a crime would be ez to track. have seen a couple guestimates 'bout unregistered firearms but the numbers is based on interviews and surveys with persons incarcerated in state and fed prisons, which obvious ignores the many criminals never caught. we didn't bother to check unregistered v. registered, and our personal knowledge which we has any confidence 'bout the issue is now dated beyond eight years remote, so perhaps somebody somewheres did a more comprehensive study with verifiable data. dunno. regardless, the more specific is your query regarding national crime stats, the more likely you is to be left with an unsatisfactory answer. our federal system which precludes the national government from exercising police power also makes tracking national crime data problematic. is no sinister cover up or anything similar. HA! Good Fun!

so? again, we observed the possibility such an article existed and specific queried language origin. missing forest for a single tree. generalize The Media from a single greek story when is literal dozens o' media news stories which present the issue w/o a misleading title is, at best unfair. serious, do a google search based on the title you provided. observe all the astrezenaca stories which, like the linked nytimes article, observe the need for US astrzeneca employees to need be vaccinated. is gonna take effort to find misleading titles. since we are on a logic trend, might also wanna check the hasty generalization logic fallacy. HA! Good Fun!

we put it into google (fixed the misspell) and got no results for that specific title. different language? maybe the title isn't quite as described? dunno. however, first article retrieved based on word search as 'posed to exact title were from npr It's The Vaccine That's Lost A Lot Of Trust. But AstraZeneca Still Has Its Fans the following article makes clear that US employees o' astrazeneca must be vaccinated even though they likely are unable to procure the astrazeneca https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/30/business/vaccine-mandate.html am s'posing its fun for some to pretend as if The Media is monolithic. at the very least doing so simplifies the blame game. regardless, finding the article in question is less ez than finding dozens which dispell any such confusion, so... is possible the article does exist, and am not doubting somewhere out there in the iterweb somewhere a blog post or fringe story with such a title exists, but is not a The Media thing. simple search o' news shows multitudes o' stories where the need for US astrazeneca employees to be vaccinated is presented w/o a misleading title. this is now a particular appropriate thread response. a is better than b a is better than c a is better than d ad infinitum formal logic is an elegant but incomplete method for reflecting 'pon the merits o' an argument, but is indeed useful. somebody tells you there is worse options than a and you will indeed be justified in heaping ridicule and scorn 'pon their logic. will never reach a point where you may make a conclusion 'bout the safety or efficacy o' a if the argument is that there is worse alternatives than a. options worse than horse jelly? ok. in the present context is as logical relevant as telling us one's preference regarding the pie v. cake conundrum. nevertheless, to be fair, we did a few second search on google and discovered beyond simple the possibility o' miscalculating human dosage from a product equines, the stuff in horse jelly in addition to the active ingredient may be toxic to humans. curious discovery: horses and humans is not same. is also an issue with even human quality ivermectin having a somewhat lengthy list o' known drug interactions which may be problematic for a person being treated for covid-19, and such were the reason for doctors balking at using the ivermectin in the aforementioned story involving judge involvement. regardless, if you are buying horse jelly as a treatment for active covid-19 infection or as a preventative medicine, then you is obvious afraid of covid-19 to some degree. choose horse jelly as 'posed to easily available mitigation and preventative options which is either complete benign or has been tested on many millions o' patients with an extreme low incidence o' side effects is not reasonable. not sure why somebody woulda' wanna argue such a point, but the world is a wide and wacky place, no? oh, and given the current trend o' willful weirdness, we checked illinois and delaware for vaccine verification protocols, just for funsies. https://coronavirus.delaware.gov/vaccine/ https://dph.illinois.gov/news/idph-launches-online-vax-verify-system https://dph.illinois.gov/vaxverify is a state-by-state thing, but delaware and illinois is most definite keeping records regarding vaccinations. that said, is likely nobody woulda' bothered to verify legitimacy o' chloe mrozak's credentials but for the misspelling. keeping her mouth shut once cops suspicion were aroused woulda' annoyed the local constabulary and no doubt convinced 'em she were guilty o' something, but am suspecting the gig were functional up at that point regardless. however, to be fair, is almost always best for people to keep their mouth shut when dealing with cops. you should provide police/authorities your id 'cause is no benefit in resisting such a proffer even if is not legal required. do not resist arrest, but if you believe you is being arrested, then make sure you ask if you are being arrested and state clear you are not complying voluntarily with an arrest even if you are going along peaceably. only other thing you need say is, "lawyer." no sweary. no threats. no explanations or claims o' innocence. HA! Good Fun! ps we misspelled delaware 2x in the 'bove post .

if mortismal mentioned one crusade bug, am gonna place good money on a bet there is more. am gonna mention the mortismal guy once more to observe his completion o' the game is likely an outlier. continue with the gambler theme, am willing to bet more than a few current available reviews o' a game which will boast more than 100 hours and were only accessed by reviewers starting last week is gonna effective be reviews o' the first couple chapters, so you is likely getting reviews mostly o' the stuff least busted even in the final beta. as an aside, the single review we read for the game were from screen rant, and we didn't even know screen rant did game reviews. the thing is, while they gave the game a decent score, they observed, "There is one major problem with Wrath of the Righteous that sours the experience, and it's the bugs. There were few moments in Screen Rant's playthrough that didn't have some kind of gameplay or visual bug. These ranged from minor graphical glitches to not being able to escape from situations without a hard reset, to moves and powers simply not functioning, and some near-game-breaking situations that required a lot of save-scumming to get past. The glitches are a constant menace and they sour the experience of what is otherwise a fantastic game." each beta release for wotr were more unstable than the previous iteration with the recognition previous released chapters had fewer quest ending bugs. the final release should have few new features compared to the final beta, so am not expecting an instability spike, but considering chapters five and six didn't even get beta review, the reasonable starting assumption would be that wotr stability at release will be less than ideal. HA! Good Fun!

have been playing the beta exclusive in tb mode at core difficulty. there have been a few tb specific bugs, but most such bugs has been overcome by a momentary switch to rt. overall we got few complaints regarding owlcat's tb implementation for wotr, and is not as if Gromnir is reluctant to criticize. is a whole lotta wotr trash mob combat, so play in tb will inflate gameplay hours. we were kinda in dedicated beta tester mode for the beta, so we stuck to tb with our usual perverse level o' single-mindedness, and is likely we will continue to do so 'cause am considering full release just another stage o' the beta. even so, if we were to recommend a play style based on an unlikely amount o' wotr gameplay hours, we would observe how given how much filler combat exists, rt is a good idea for most combats but any boss or sub-boss battle is worth switching to tb. regardless, am thinking owlcat deserves credit for the job they did implementing tb mode for wotr. HA! Good Fun!

we watched five minutes o' one o' his wotr videos and he pronounced rapier as ra (like the egyptian god) + peer multiple times. inexplicable drove us to distraction. am more than a little disappointed to hear the crusade stuff is still bugged. dead end quest bugs are always frustrating but am expecting a few o' those, particular in the final two chapters. am also suspecting the reviewer is unaware o' many o' the feature implementation bugs, 'cause unless you play a skald or demonslayer ranger, how are you gonna know if those two classes is busted? divine hunter, for example, worked in the beta ok for the first couple levels, but at level three, when your animal companion becomes otherworldly, advancement would lockup... but only if you chose celestial. choose fiendish for your critter and you wouldn't even notice there was a problem with divine hunter progression. is literal hundreds o' bugs like that and a surprising number is effective terminating any kinda character progression in a chosen class/archetype. ... am gonna be curious to see if there is crusade workarounds, 'cause the most recent beta crusade problems woulda' ended our attempt to play the game under any normal circumstances. HA! Good Fun!

it is painfully ez to build a character or party wrong, just objective wrong. is painful ez to build a character or party which performs great for the first 1/2or for 2/3 o' the game only to discover the bosses in the last 1/2 or 1/3 o' the game is functionable unbeatable for you. even if you know pathfinder backwards and forwards, you may still be in for pain 'cause rules related to mind affecting spells is applied different in pnp compared to wotr. and don't forget the bugs which will cause pain if you are unaware of them. the current worst ranger archetype you may choose is the demonslayer. doesn't look bad and sounds like a good option for a game in which you is fighting many demons, yes? unfortunate, the current state o' the demonslayer is such that you only get favoured enemy bonuses against outsiders which is not demons. etc. probable most painful is looking to the owlcat boards for insights. is not that the advice you will find is bad, but very quick is gonna seem like there is a small number o' correct spell options and feat options for a given class. if you multiclass a paladin, you are doomed. if you play a nature mystery oracle and don't go mounted, you are doomed. if you don't give greyboar shield bash feats, he is doomed. think we are exaggerating? think again. part o' the pain is that only most o' the board build advice is steeped in hyperbole. it is indeed true that you may build yourself into a hole. just as bad is if you follow the board advice you may get the impression that the options for avoiding the hole is limited. if we hadn't spent an embarrassing number of hours with the beta, we might be more concerned 'bout the possibility for reaching late game pain... and am nevertheless anticipating pain to come our way due to hubris. will be something(s) we didn't know 'bout how owlcat implemented different from paizo or different from earlier beta builds. am not thinking min-max is necessary, but such a conclusion is more o' a quibble regarding nomenclature. can build a less than ideal character which will nevertheless be mighty successful in wotr. the problem is the holes and the pain which accompanies falling into the many holes. not need to be min-maxed, but need to be aware o' the holes, and hopeful one is able to recognize which holes described on the owlcat boards ain't actual holes. very confusing. HA! Good Fun!

complete aside, the last couple days has seen frequent owlcat message board "crashes." if owlcat bandwidth cannot handle the recent increased pre launch traffic, am wondering how things go on september 2. do not expect a smooth release in any way, shape or form. less likely to be disappointed. am recommending you wear your seatbelts. HA! Good Fun!

the fire is changing winds in our area. typical winds where we live is westerly (west-to-east.) with a predictable daily shift being a change 'tween south westerly to north westerly. current, when it gets cooler in the eve, the smoke from the fire is actual being sucked down into the foothills where we live to the west o' tahoe. am getting genuine easterly winds for 'bout 1/3 of the day. HA! Good Fun!

IF you play oracle or cleric + angel, then concerns 'bout difficulty should be diminished. is not a min/max thing. as we noted, what made our earlier cheese build powerful were less the min/max stuff than it were simple going angel + oracle. is no reason to avoid playing angel + anything. angel is possible the most appropriate archetype choice given you is leading a crusader army against the forces o' the abyss. actual kinda sucks am gonna avoid because o' the difficulty reduction aspect; Smite Heretics is having personal appeal for at least one run. am not suggesting you should play angel and have an easier run. however, am letting you know that if you play cleric or oracle and then take angel, gameplay post drezen is gonna become relative easier. HA! Good Fun!

play an oracle or cleric with angel as your mythic path also effective slides the difficulty in the direction o' ez. am not suggesting the combo is a you win button kinda approach, but a few o' the angel aoe and direct damage spells, which you will get relative early due to spell book merging, ignore sr and thanks to your increased caster level will result in jaw dropping kinda pain for evildoers, particular for demons. at some point, perhaps early, am gonna play a caster oracle, but am purposeful going azata (or something else) as 'posed to angel. one reason am going not angel is 'cause when we did so in the beta with an admitted cheesy qstaff wielding sacred fist(1)/paladin(2)/thug(2)/oracle playing core difficulty in tb mode it were ridiculous and not 'cause o' the ac and saving throw boosts. the thing that made the game so much easier a bit past drezen were the angel spells, and that were with five less oracle spell casting levels. HA! Good Fun!

didn't say it was. however, there is considerable numbers o' people in the US buying the stuff from feed stores and they obvious ain't in the icu when they get their john deere hat from a rack and a tube o' horse jelly. is not hard to find links on line where people is asking what is the proper dosage for their 165lb "horse." people is self administering way before the stage they would otherwise be getting dexamethasone. far too many people rejecting any mask or vaccine efforts is nevertheless quite obvious afraid o' covid. horse jelly, for their peer group, is a social acceptable alternative. HA! Good Fun!