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Pathfinder Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Owlcat's next Pathfinder RPG - now in ALPHA

Discussion in 'Owlcat Games' started by purpleblob, Nov 27, 2019.

  1. Xamenos Learned Patron

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    I'm not that worried. Eventually people will realise they have more important things to worry about, and the disease will burn itself out. And I'm not talking about Corona here.

    Let me answer your question with a question: Have you actually played Kingmaker? If yes, then you should have at least some amount of trust towards the based Russians who did such a good job subverting the expected wokeness. If not, you should probably listen to the people who actually know what they're talking about.
     
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  2. LannTheStupid Товарищ Patron

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    I don't think it is possible nowadays without 1-2 billions of deaths.
     
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  3. Desiderius Found your egg, Robinett, you sneaky bastard Patron

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    Time heals all wounds. Eventually, Infinitron will even run out of fedoras to give me non sequituriously. I hope.

    And Roguey, the strong womynk Mother Nature does in fact privilege us with now and again will be a lot more appreciated once they're no longer stuck being fashionable in the fat, stupid part of the taste distribution.
     
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  4. ~*´¨¯¨`*·~-.¸-AIN'T Arcane Patron

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    Playing the Alpha and surprised at how few bugs I've come across so far. Only serious one is that my arcanist can't change his spell specialization on level up.

    Best part so far: seems they've improved enemy spellcaster AI/scripting. Seen a few times where an enemy wizard would start by casting invisibility then spend several rounds casting summon monster so unless you have see invisibility you can't just select all > left click the wizard to win the fight.
     
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  5. Blutwurstritter Learned

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    Shouldn't the badge come with a gun and special privileges ?
     
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  6. Xamenos Learned Patron

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    I'm not sure how you could get to that number. It's predominantly an American problem, secondarily residing in Western and Northern Europe. And even in a worst case scenario you obviously wouldn't have to kill every single resident of these countries for it to stop being a problem.
     
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  7. hell bovine Arcane

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    Hm, maybe someone at Owlcat has actually listened to feedback and played the SCS mod.
     
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  8. Desiderius Found your egg, Robinett, you sneaky bastard Patron

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    Arcanists don't have Counterspell exploit yet.

    Let's work on changing that.
     
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  9. santino27 Arcane Patron

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    Ah, had no idea that's how we enabled campaign perks/badges. Whoops.

    Enjoying the alpha so far although wish it didn't essentially start with meeting that pair.
     
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  10. InternalRevenue Novice

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    Great news on both counts, maybe that KS update about their new bugfinder system wasn't BS after all. How do the "new" classes stack up to their modded CotW counterparts? Arcanist for that one for instance had to go with a hacky dual-spellbook solution to replicate the prepared-spontanous system, same for the Shaman.
     
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  11. guestposting Novice

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    In the adventure path, there is no trans orc; the trans character is the half orc paladin’s human wifey (it’s Anevia, not Irabeth). I’m halfway through chapter 2 and so far nobody’s mentioned being trans.

    One qualification: the alpha is chapters 1 and 2, but WOTR also has a prologue like kingmaker did. Prologue not included.

    So far it’s good. The mythic abilities shown earlier ITT are NOT the mythic paths, which are story related. You get to take a mythic level between chapters 1 and 2, before you’ve committed to a mythic path, and the game lets you mix and match abilities for the moment. The choice of initial mythic ability taken at level 6 does not limit your choice of mythic path down the line. Or at least that’s how it works now. You also get a mythic feat taken from a second list (stuff like extra spell slots or unlimited rage).

    Less magic loot than at this point in Kingmaker, although there are now a bunch of enchanted weapons that deal powerful debuffs on a critical hit. Like knocking down all nearby enemies that fail a fortitude save.

    Haven’t tried that mod for kingmaker, but with arcanist in WOTR, you have your wizard spellbook and then you choose your spontaneous spells like they’re feats or special abilities when you level up. Hexes work the same way.
     
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  12. LannTheStupid Товарищ Patron

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    When an automated regression testing system is considered "BS".
    Задорнов was right.
     
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  13. Lacrymas Arcane

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    Now that we have our pledges all sorted out, how do we vote for the rats?
     
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  14. ~*´¨¯¨`*·~-.¸-AIN'T Arcane Patron

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    I am starting to run into more bugs the more I play. But still, it's an alpha so it's forgivable.

    I never played CotW but arcanist and shaman both work pretty simply. The UI to prepare spells is the same as that of any prepared spellcaster, but the prepared slots don't go away as they cast them they just lose uses for the level of the spell.
     
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  15. Desiderius Found your egg, Robinett, you sneaky bastard Patron

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    Spirit spells treated like Domain spells. Not sure why CotW made it so complicated.
     
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  16. InternalRevenue Novice

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    From my reading Spirit magic is supposed to be like having 1 extra sorcerorous slot per spell level, with 2 spell choices determined by whatever spirits you have at the time (how does the wandering feature function btw?). So while treating them like domain slots is much simpler and easier, you lose out on some versatility. Maybe Owlcats's still working on that and a domain slot is a placeholder.

    https://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/hybrid-classes/Shaman/#TOC-Spirit-Magic
     
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  17. mediocrepoet Arcane Patron

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    Like this
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    Have your next of kin send a picture of it in and the splatter will be interpreted by the Owlcats vote counter.
     
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  18. Desiderius Found your egg, Robinett, you sneaky bastard Patron

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    The custom archetype of the companion only has one Spirit, which avoids that problem. They'll probably handle it like a Cleric with two Domains, but may allow you the mini-popup to let you change it to the other spell.
     
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  19. guestposting Novice

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    You can give her a second spirit with one of the mythic feats.
     
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  20. Desiderius Found your egg, Robinett, you sneaky bastard Patron

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    On the one hand the trans/poz isn't in your face at all, on the other a lot of the writing in the encounters reads like it was done by a twelve-year-old and could use an editor. P:K struggled sometimes with LG (often the genocidal option) and so far here L is sticklers and prudes who bully all the good-hearted criminals for no reason at all. They do better in the context of the crusade itself with a good bit of buttkicking for goodness.
     
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  21. rusty_shackleford Arcane

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    we're reaching levels of cope never thought possible
     
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  22. S0rcererV1ct0r Liturgist

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    Except that Pathfinder is a high fantasy world. You can even shapeshift even into a dragon. Anyone who wanna to change their gender can use reincarnation or similar spells;
     
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  23. Gangrelrumbler Arcane Patron

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    Which companion is supposed to be trans?
     
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  24. guestposting Novice

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    None. A plot critical NPC was trans in the adventure path, but that hasn’t come up at any point in the Alpha. Like your non companion advisors in Kingmaker.
     
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  25. Sarkile Augur Patron

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    Anevia, but it isn't a companion. Just an NPC.
     
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