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Someone says they are being stalked and harassed anonymously and you reaction is “prove it?” Seriously?...

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Yeah, this was from Age of Ashes, which was very dragon heavy. And also featured Dahak as the overarching villain, which was tons of fun given that we’d just finished the Yazata section in the Scion Companion a few months prior.

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Got some undead and dragon plothooks for everyone!

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Huh, they totally did.

As an aside, I love Saga Edition....

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Might be worth tossing in errata. They do not get access to Oaths, their benefit is the Shahrazad's Tale merit....

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I would be down with both proposals!...

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Maybe one day!...

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I think that’s an entirely valid way to feel and to an extend I agree! One of these days I’ll get around to running a Planescape game that uses Scion as its engine. Although I’m sure I’ll also play it with 5e and PF2 too....

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I can see that. It’s one of the reasons I vastly prefer Eberron’s fixed timeline that never advances from 998 YK, the problems don’t get solved as the timeline advances....

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Updating the Azerkatil was fun! Hopefully branching them out into other covenants gives them a bit more depth.

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Most people have little reason to go there. Same problem Arcadia (and to a lesser extent, the rest of the Upper Planes) suffers from. Many players and DM's I've spoken too feel there is little reason to explore them. The only thing that I think needs to be straight up retconned in Bytopia is how insular it is. I'm actually quite fond of the plane and of gnomes myself, it just needs a bit of sprucing up so it can shine alongside the Abyss, Baator, and the Grey Wastes. There was a great series of threads on Planewalker when it was still active about updating some of the planes. I wouldn't use all...

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No, I haven't seen that! It would be a very interesting read. Where is it?

To be clear, I have no problem shaking stuff up! Settings do need revitalization form time to time. Keith's done a great job tweeking Eberron, Golarion's undergone plenty of updates over the years, and if I am ever so blessed as to write on a Planescape, I know there are parts that need updating (hi Bytopia). I just have a very clear memory of an article bashing the Great Wheel and talking about how the World Axis would be superior in every way. It left a very bad taste in my mouth for a long, long time....

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What turned me off 4e was never the game. It was the way that it’s developers shat on 3.5 and all the previous settings is their Dragon editorials. Especially Planescape and the great wheel. I loved those games and settings and still love them. If they had even said “we are giving you a new toy” instead of “your old toy sucks” I think response would have been different. Likewise if they had let Paizo keep handling Dragon and Dungeon, especially since they could have handled the classic settings, which might have made those fans more willing to give 4e a chance.

Lessons seems...

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Maybe. It’s left up to the Storyteller to decide if the Refrain and/or its corrupted version is a Contagion strain, but whatever it is, the Rosetta Society is interested in it. As for its origins, there certainly some connection to the ancient pyramids, as well as the Rosetta Stone. While there is nothing stating it textually, I certainly see as reaching far beyond ancient Egypt prior to its corruption. The 1001 Nights are then tied into the Refrain when the Eras begins due to the Astral shenanigans described in Playing the Game....

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I believe so. When I used Backerkit to pick up Scion, PDFs and hardcopies were ordered as separate items. Nothing says DE2 has to be the same, but I suspect it will work the same way....

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Oh, that’s a fun idea! I’ll write out my own thoughts before I read the post, but I am very interested in seeing what other people would add and why.

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That's... what the Jaliniyya are?

I mean, they're not, because they don't have Dracula's maltheist ideology, but they fill the same "apply science to the occult" ideology as some of the Ordo. Transcendence isn't their majority ideology, but smaller groups could pursue it as part of understanding their condition....

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No worries! That keeps us honest and language usage is immensely important.

And thank you! I felt it was really important to try and clean those covenants up!...

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Not super interested in the new Smash character, but the very first Mii costume was Altair with Ezio's theme playing in the background. More Assassin's Creed coming to Switch? One can hope....

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Majnun also has a connotation that possession by jinn causes madness. Because of that, we felt using that word would imply something about Curac originally being the strix's magic, passed on through bargains and possession, hence why the Owls are so bloody pissed that anyone can use it in this era. From the research I did and the translations I read, it can be used to mean a person, but it also refers to the state of being....