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@JoelHarmon No. Basically what happened as I described it was the subject lost control of their limbs, they went slack, and then fell unconscious. I had no plan of controlling them, just subduing them. But like I said, if the spell allows for that, I have no restrictions.
So as an example - one of her spells was to effectively flamethrower a goblin. She reached out with both hands, and a jet of flame engulfed the goblin. That could be Burning Hands.
Another was that she focussed for a second, and then an Elf PC could sort of "sense" some creatures jump out of her, and run off. That could be Unseen Servant
@BESW In the artwork, sure, but my understanding was you're going to incorporate this in a game by having the more divinely powerful characters be physically larger, no?
The effects of the spells I'm trying to pick have the description of losing bodily control, then falling unconscious, and the other was simply a blast wave that knocked them back a distance. They were looking away from her at the time, so they didn't actually see anything.
sure, but depending on the story you're going for, I could easily see Random Flunky D being more important in the story, because all the higher-ups are so perfectly countering each other
My idea for the campaign is to have PCs be advisors to representatives of major theopolitical factions, and to also be members of an Illuminati-like international secret organisation with its own agendas.
The PCs will be working against each other on behalf of the ambassadors and priestesses they serve, but working together to nudge events toward secret goals.
@BESW Right. I suppose my reworded thrust could be that the most interesting things go on behind the curtain, which means with the less obviously blessed underlings, rather than the official representatives
and further that your players can ignore the physically smaller people at their own peril
that, and the gods may have more trouble directly opposing each other because they are all their father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate
@Ben You may have the best luck googling for spell lists by school, and focusing on Enchantment, maybe Necromancy or Illusion
@JoelHarmon Definitely. One interesting thing about Egyptian theology is that power flows both ways: political power derives from the sponsorship of the gods, and the more influential the god the more political power comes from its sponsorship... but the influence of the gods is derived directly from the number and quality of rituals and worship the god receives.
(Which can be controlled to a certain extent by those in political power, but not entirely, as Akhenaten's family discovered to their peril.)
I mean, I would be outraged, but they literally live in a place where it stops raining for a long time, I can't be mad at a little opportunistic food grabbing at the expense of an amazing animal when there are probably not too many great options during those periods of time
it is not my place to be mad at people in that situation XD
I am especially not happy with the big ones. and as for the smaller ones, they tend to put webs everywhere, and those feel horrible when I run into them X(
and the spiders here overcrowd a little due to the birds mostly being gone
I mean, these are the rules (combined with the global catastrophes over the Earth's history) that led to us (specifically us) typing up stuff on the Internet.
Pathfinder was released in 2009. Since then it grew with the addition of many books. While adding new stuff is great I won't be surprised if a lot of revision had come along. And since those revision are harder to keep track of, so...
What are those rules that have changed drastically* trough...
Oh, the public beta is where its decided what's on-topic? I guess these things kind of grow organically. I've not witnessed the growth of a stack from infancy/Area 51 all the way to public status.
@LegendaryDude It could be defined anywhere along the way, I think, but Literature.SE is still trying to figure out what is on topic. We've talked about poems, opera, songs, and other stuff -- and people are asking the nebulous question of "what is literature, really?".
Only a couple of people in the private beta were literary analysis professionals, so it's mostly non-professionals trying to figure these things out.
@doppelgreener Interesting. Is there concern for crossover with other SE sites? I can see a lot of potential for crossover with SciFi.SE, for example, but I guess the difference is in the types of questions you might ask?
And an awful lot of "is XYZ on topic?" questions appeared during the first few days of private beta before there were even questions about XYZ to analyse! Or sometimes after just one, which was not necessarily a representative sample of the topic XYZ. Several people including myself urged the people doing this to please slow down and let things evolve naturally.
@LegendaryDude No, there is not much concern. There are questions that are equally on topic for Literature and Scifi, but that kind of overlap is fine.
@doppelgreener That's probably the best approach. With a healthy influx of questions the community can decide through votes and closures what types of questions are on topic. What is considered on-topic will naturally form as a result of that process.
@doppelgreener Isn't that new description the description for "Sage Advice"? Unearthed Arcana is the name for the column about beta/playtesting rules or content.
(I'm asking because I might at some point create a rigid framework specifically for 4e emulation because that'd be a fun challenge for my coding/UI design skills and it might bring some happiness to people; and FG came the closest to making a 4e framework be awesome)
Really, it's just so convenient in all the right ways.
@CTWind I'm not a 5e expert and yes I think I was mixing those two up. Want to suggest an edit? (Maybe Unearthed Arcana is an experimental public rules testing ground, or something.)
I didn't do the screenshot but I did search for the description text
Which led me to a site which linked back to the video but using an older, broken URL
And in that old broken URL, I see the name of the documentary
Which is, ironically, the documentary I thought I was looking for, but which isn't available streaming anywhere except for really low resolution rips to YouTube.
And to buy the DVD format is like $60 because it's apparently out of circulation.
@BESW You've used the correct dimensions (300x250 and 600x500) and your larger version is only 60kb. However the most stand-out, brightest part of your image is the two red books and white book smack bang in the middle, and the red book to the left of them. They are the brightest, highest-contrast parts of your image, and they draw my eye away from the writing.
I would look to decrease the brightness and contrast of the background. I would pick a more saturated background strip behind the text and make the text color 100% saturation to ensure it has attention drawn to it by comparison.
I think your simple book image from a few days ago with "Literature SE" up the top would look good too.
So now I'm imagining a campaign set in a world where somebody tried to make Atlantropa and it failed as catastrophically as possible.
Gradual worldwide flooding followed by a series of volcanoes and earthquakes causing tsunamis and widespread environmental havoc--perhaps even a small ice age--as the Mediterranean basin aggressively reclaims its sea from the invading land-apes.
You could throw in some kind of Atlantean undersea element, but you really wouldn't need to.
Pathfinder was released in 2009. Since then it grew with the addition of many books. While adding new stuff is great I won't be surprised if a lot of revision had come along. And since those revision are harder to keep track of, so...
What are those rules that have changed drastically* trough...
