Quote from: oggsmash on May 02, 2022, 02:54:55 PM
  In the setting the chair does make sense, however in his particular case, his mentor Eisenhorn gave a wonderful body to a horrible heretic, and never even seemed to consider doing this for Ravenor.  I find that odd.   I also think if we are talking D&D, the flying battle chair is probably more expensive than having a restoration spell cast on you.

True, but that's only because the DnD economy is tooled for game balance, not to emulate any real, functioning society where magic is commonplace. It makes less than zero sense for magic items to cost as much as they do, or for things like starving populations to exist. Sometimes I think Hickman got it wrong; DnD does work best as a murder-hobo slaughterfest. Trying to add any sort of nuance or depth falls apart, "because magic."

Paizo Pathfinder - bad news. Apparently, the LGBT section of their message boards started pron chatting about "futa" (976-chi-xwi-diks) and at some point suggested using "gender swap" magic items on children to make them "want more anal rape".
it went downhill from there...
the LGBT posters began hinting at how often they had "dreams" of raping children in their neighborhoods and so forth.

All of the posters who;
A> Said that sexual content doesn't belong on the message boards
B> Said sexual content doesn't belong in the "fantasy adventure" game
C> Said that the LGBT folks were openly discussing child abduction and child rape

Well, all of those (opposed to LGBT) people's accounts got PERMABANED this includes deleting access to the pazio digital store, and any record of their purchases.
it also denies them any access to the digital content that those people had already paid for. Paizo tracks and blocks residential IP numbers, if you have been banned you can never get back into their website unless you move, use new computers, and new e-mail accounts.
... Paizo took steps to protect child molesters and wannabe child molesters.

this should change them from a "mere red" to "BLOOD" as in, Paizo may have blood on their hands when it comes to protecting "LGBT" message board members, child groomers on their message boards, and Their own writers who just can't seem to stop adding "flaming gay halfling" NPCs to their books/adventures/PFS "scenarrios" because they get all hot and bothered by something the size of a human child...

Roll for combat and the battlezoo books, are also especially guilty of the above.
They ban people from RPG superstar, From PFS society, and online pathfinder games...

if a poster even asks about "consent" or the right of a person to say "NO" to unwanted sexual advances/sexual harassment...
They BAN them. cuz, LGBT...
it's their right to rape you.

Quote from: PSIandCO on May 02, 2022, 10:08:28 PM
Paizo Pathfinder - bad news. Apparently, the LGBT section of their message boards started pron chatting about "futa" (976-chi-xwi-diks) and at some point suggested using "gender swap" magic items on children to make them "want more anal rape".
it went downhill from there...
the LGBT posters began hinting at how often they had "dreams" of raping children in their neighborhoods and so forth.

You got the links?

how would I have links?
I AM ONE OF THE BANNED.

also, HOW do you get links for Anti-straight attacks/bans on Pathfinder DISCORD channels?

How about you make a sock puppet account with a laptop at a Micky D's with free internet.
then, pose as a thirteen year old new to the pazio message boards and ask for help...

Let's see how fast pudstuffin or goldenanius start asking you "A>S>L?"
Better yet, go to a PF2E discord channel and ask if its okay to advertise a run of "the fall of plaguestone" ,but stress that you won't allow any sex during your run and do not allow players to "make sexually suggestive remarks" no matter the orientation...

watch how fast the bans come.

Quote from: PSIandCO on May 02, 2022, 10:42:38 PM
how would I have links?
I AM ONE OF THE BANNED.

also, HOW do you get links for Anti-straight attacks/bans on Pathfinder DISCORD channels?

How about you make a sock puppet account with a laptop at a Micky D's with free internet.
then, pose as a thirteen year old new to the pazio message boards and ask for help...

Let's see how fast pudstuffin or goldenanius start asking you "A>S>L?"
Better yet, go to a PF2E discord channel and ask if its okay to advertise a run of "the fall of plaguestone" ,but stress that you won't allow any sex during your run and do not allow players to "make sexually suggestive remarks" no matter the orientation...

watch how fast the bans come.

So we just take your word for it? 

Next time at least get receipts.

Quote from: Semaj Khan on August 05, 2021, 09:27:54 PM

Quote from: PonchoGoblin on August 05, 2021, 09:11:03 PM
Agreed, that's why I try to buy physical/PDFs whenever I can. Hell, the only reason I've pirated something is just to give a look through to see if I like it because 9/10 times the DriveThru preview is just the Table of Contents (which idk if that's on the publisher or DriveThru). Hence why I own a few copies of DCC, OSRIC in physical, OSE, etc.

Oh sure. I've done the same thing. Back a couple of years ago, for example, I thought about getting into WH40K. I got pdfs... from the Trove... looked the rules over, and made an informed decision.  Was that illegal? Yes. Did it help GWs sales? Sure did.

QuoteThe big issue with Fox, at least to me, is that he has an "only I can do this but it's sleazy if someone else does" type of attitude that just rubs me the wrong way. Especially considering that Zweihander is a retroclone to a degree (once again, not super familiar with WFRP).

<Retracted due to enlightenment.>

PIRACY IS WRONG.
I published the "Tome of Psionics" on Drivethru and had to take it down for all the hate I was getting: reddit, amazon, discord, and paizo.
I was able to use a website tracker and found that my book (illegally posted without my consent by "the Trove") was downloaded close to 300,000 times. At 5$ profit for each copy, I'd have 1.5 million (a retirement, a home, a car, and food on my table). Because of the TROVE I do not have anything...

I am not an EVIL corporation. I am not a GREEDY machine. why in the fucking hell would you steal from me?
so, please send me as much cash as you can! if you stole a copy of my book via "The Trove". The Trove collected Advertisement revenue while giving away stollen copies of my book. I am nobody. I am a disabled vet with a 19 by 14 inch hole burnt into my left leg. I have a dozen Auto-immune diseases from my time spent in the SHITHOLE known as the middle east. I have to eat a fist full of pills to just get out of bed, and take testosterone shots so my muscles don't wither and my heart doesn't explode. So... yay for you. good for all of you who piled on hate for me, my book, never bought a copy, and stole a copy via the trove.
at least let me leave my wife and three cats something before I DIE.
put some money in my gofund me or patreon or whatev...

you are a thief and all of your justifications for stealling - are really pathetic.
May you burn in hell.

Quote from: GeekyBugle on August 05, 2021, 10:33:09 PM
Paizo is lucky the SJWs don't speak spanish nor are fluent in hispanic culture. Polyhedron #160 / Dragon #101 has a mini game called Iron Lords of Jupiter.
One of the races is called (I shit you not) Marikon, this is the homophone spanish equivalent of the "a bundle of sticks" homophobic slur.
If I weren't a principled person...

uhm, Paizo only recently started googling their "made up words" for things. Do you remember the "Knights of OZEM" in Pathfinder 1e...
to think, they didn't know they were writing about testicle anatomy for about 16 years!

The bipedal dogoid ancestry in the "Extinction curse" adventure path, where originally going to be named "Shota" until Bulmahn did a "define X" websearch. now we have "The Shoony"...

Quote from: PSIandCO on May 03, 2022, 12:15:24 AM

Quote from: Semaj Khan on August 05, 2021, 09:27:54 PM

Quote from: PonchoGoblin on August 05, 2021, 09:11:03 PM
Agreed, that's why I try to buy physical/PDFs whenever I can. Hell, the only reason I've pirated something is just to give a look through to see if I like it because 9/10 times the DriveThru preview is just the Table of Contents (which idk if that's on the publisher or DriveThru). Hence why I own a few copies of DCC, OSRIC in physical, OSE, etc.

Oh sure. I've done the same thing. Back a couple of years ago, for example, I thought about getting into WH40K. I got pdfs... from the Trove... looked the rules over, and made an informed decision.  Was that illegal? Yes. Did it help GWs sales? Sure did.

QuoteThe big issue with Fox, at least to me, is that he has an "only I can do this but it's sleazy if someone else does" type of attitude that just rubs me the wrong way. Especially considering that Zweihander is a retroclone to a degree (once again, not super familiar with WFRP).

<Retracted due to enlightenment.>

PIRACY IS WRONG.
I published the "Tome of Psionics" on Drivethru and had to take it down for all the hate I was getting: reddit, amazon, discord, and paizo.
I was able to use a website tracker and found that my book (illegally posted without my consent by "the Trove") was downloaded close to 300,000 times. At 5$ profit for each copy, I'd have 1.5 million (a retirement, a home, a car, and food on my table). Because of the TROVE I do not have anything...

Ah, yes, copyright math.

Look, assuming 1 like = 1 prayer 1 download = 1 lost sale is great for your self-esteem and for getting butthurt, but nobody else cares about your made-up numbers.

Quote from: Shasarak on May 02, 2022, 11:31:35 PMSo we just take your word for it?  next time at least get receipts.

sure thing. However, I encourage you to find out for yourself. Go to a pathfinder discord channel, offer to run a game, but in your add for the game State You won't allow sexual content, particularly Unwanted Advances or Sexual harrasment, (with one very special addition) "Regardless of orientation".
You will be banned so hard.
or go to Paizo message boards and pretend to a 13 year old "brand new player" who is very confused.
"A.S.L." in three, two, one...
hell, just ask the LGBT about making "the ultimate lover" by using gender swap magic items on kids...
they really luv that shit.

Quote from: Cat the Bounty Smuggler on May 03, 2022, 12:42:26 AMAh, yes, copyright math. Look, assuming 1 like = 1 prayer 1 download = 1 lost sale is great for your self-esteem and for getting butthurt, but nobody else cares about your made-up numbers.

I am nobody. I didn't deserve to be stollen from.
send me your money. you don't need it. how about your car? you don't need that. do you have a home? well you don't need that.
A retirement? oh you don't need that. how about dinner tonight? because I don't have anything to eat right now.

go on, self-suck up your self-esteem gravy for admitting you are both a thief and an asshole.

Quote from: PSIandCO on May 03, 2022, 12:54:50 AM

Quote from: Cat the Bounty Smuggler on May 03, 2022, 12:42:26 AMAh, yes, copyright math. Look, assuming 1 like = 1 prayer 1 download = 1 lost sale is great for your self-esteem and for getting butthurt, but nobody else cares about your made-up numbers.

I am nobody. I didn't deserve to be stollen from.
send me your money. you don't need it. how about your car? you don't need that. do you have a home? well you don't need that.
A retirement? oh you don't need that. how about dinner tonight? because I don't have anything to eat right now.

go on, self-suck up your self-esteem gravy for admitting you are both a thief and an asshole.

Hmm, I don't see where I admitted to anything. In fact, let me make a suggestion on how you could make your case without resorting to a disgustingly dishonest rhetorical tactic: "If even one in ten of those represented lost sales, that's $150k of lost revenue, several years' salary at some jobs. Would have meant to me and my family." Had you said that, I'd have probably nodded thoughtfully.

But you have fun with your pity party and delusions of grandeur.

Quote from: PSIandCO on May 02, 2022, 10:08:28 PM
Paizo Pathfinder - bad news. Apparently, the LGBT section of their message boards

So I went over there to find an LGBT section of the message board, I can't find anything.

Quotehow would I have links?
I AM ONE OF THE BANNED.

You got banned, but you are talking about what "apparently" happened?

I'd like to believe you, it certainly wouldn't be the least bit surprising, but without even an LGBT section of their message boards that I can find, it's hard to believe your story.

Quote from: migo on May 03, 2022, 03:47:16 AM

Quote from: PSIandCO on May 02, 2022, 10:08:28 PM
Paizo Pathfinder - bad news. Apparently, the LGBT section of their message boards

So I went over there to find an LGBT section of the message board, I can't find anything.

There's this thread started back in 2012 and still active today:
https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2nxz2?The-LGBT-Gamer-Community-Thread

With over 800 pages, I obviously didn't read the whole thing, but it spiraled into degeneracy immediately where a mod had to remind people to keep it PG-13. Popping around on it, there's a lot of cringe, but nothing like PsiandCo was saying that I can see. I browsed through the last few pages and it's typical lefty circlejerk stuff, with one person literally spamming "hugs for whoever needs them" every single day, and "muh pronouns, REEE."

Then there's this thread from a month ago talking about someone that got banned.
https://paizo.com/threads/rzs43lkw?SHAME-ON-YOU
Couple posters seem to sympathize with the ban-ee, but state they feel they must "walk on eggshells," to which the "tolerant" users ironical suggest he self-reflect on why that is.

In closure, while I haven't seen any hard evidence for the above claims, the board is certainly a regressive hellhole. I have half a mind to start a "Christ-centered gaming" thread and see how inclusive their "No Intolerance" policy really is.

Quote from: oggsmash on May 02, 2022, 02:54:55 PM

Quote from: THE_Leopold on May 02, 2022, 02:45:26 PM

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Quote from: GeekyBugle on May 02, 2022, 01:59:27 PM

Quote from: Ghostmaker on May 02, 2022, 01:40:55 PM
Indeed. The whole 'trans identity' issue kind of breaks down if it's NOT an issue any more.

Eclipse Phase, for example: most morphs beyond flats have a built in 'switch' to swap genders. Takes about a week before the nanomachines and whatnot get you fully rebuilt. And if not, the friendly medtech two doors down can probably manage it for you.

Yeah, I know, sufficiently advanced technology indistinguishable from magic, etc.

But the point is that someone obsessing over their 'erroneous' gender in EP would probably be viewed as a weirdo. It'd be like someone in present day bitching about their shirt being uncomfortable. Stop whining about it and go change shirts!

Which is the exact same argument against the combat wheelchair, trans issues, etc in a setting of high fantasy where magic can cure such ailments.

Now, a combat wheelchair a la (IIRC) Riddick? I can see that.

  Something that has always bothered me about the combat chair Ravenor uses, is that his mentor had connections to get a guy who literally is one of the worst villains in the Imperium of man a whole body made to put his consciousness into.   He seemed to never bother trying this for his star cadre member and the guy he thought would be a great inquisitor one day.  Other than that detail though, WH40k's universe makes sense to have something like a combat chair as well.  D&D never made sense, and I can see scenarios where WH fantasy it could make sense, but the strange push to have disabled people represented as fully capable PCs has always seemed really odd to me.

The "chair" was basically a floating casket that holds whatever husk is left of Ravenor.  That completely makes sense due to the back story of the character and actions in prior books that setup this type of life-coffin.  Further many Space Marines that are still "functional" are dropped in Titan's to be their "pilots" so the lore backs up the reasoning.   

If you are literally a cripple in D&D and need a wheelchair to move around you are basically not leaving a certain area and not traveling around the world unless you have someway of migrating Vertical movement spaces at will.

If the backstory meshes well and the mobility won't be a hinderance I don't see a problem with having a mobile "chair" of some sort.  That has to be solved first and foremost and not have a game built around "Well you can't go down stairs there Claptrap..."

  In the setting the chair does make sense, however in his particular case, his mentor Eisenhorn gave a wonderful body to a horrible heretic, and never even seemed to consider doing this for Ravenor.  I find that odd.   I also think if we are talking D&D, the flying battle chair is probably more expensive than having a restoration spell cast on you.

It's been a while since I read the Eisenhorn books. What're you referring to regarding the body given to a heretic?

Also, 40k Imperial medical tech has hard limits. As THE_Leopold notes, the life-support chair was analogous to a dreadnought casket for crippled Astartes (not titans dude, different giant robot)