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Do you still contribute flavor text? If so are there any recent cards with your flavor text on them?

The only sets I do flavor text for these days are Un-sets. I did a lot of the flavor text for Unfinity. Here's a few I'm proud of.

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I saw a post saying that Boromir looked too scruffy in FotR for a Captain of Gondor, and I tried to move on, but I’m hyperfixating. Has anyone ever solo backpacked? I have. By the end, not only did I look like shit, but by day two I was talking to myself. On another occasion I did fourteen days’ backcountry as the lone woman in a group of twelve men, no showers, no deodorant, and brother, by the end of that we were all EXTREMELY feral. You think we looked like heirs to the throne of anywhere? We were thirteen wolverines in ripstop.

My boy Boromir? Spent FOUR MONTHS in the wilderness! Alone! No roads! High floods! His horse died! I’m amazed he showed up to Imladris wearing clothes, let alone with a decent haircut. I’m fully convinced that he left Gondor looking like Richard Sharpe being presented to the Prince Regent in 1813

*electric guitar riff*

And then rocked up to Imladris a hundred ten days later like

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If people can tell Mirrodin lion people apart from Theros lion people and Dominarian leopard and tiger people, I think they can also tell two groups of jaguar people apart, especially when one lives in caves and the other doesn't

was there any concern about the malamet feeling too similar to naya’s nacatl — and naya/ixalan overlap in general, since they play in similar creative space?

We make a lot of worlds. There’s always bits of overlap.

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hasbro is corrupting our children

If it is acceptable to eat pancakes, Lucky Charms, and waffles for breakfast, why is it not acceptable to have cookies and ice cream for dinner?

Eat cookies and ice cream for dinner. : )

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I feel like Pete Venters filled this role long ago but no one does currently. Ethan Fleischer answers some questions on social media but not on a daily basis like MaRo.

Is there a good resource to learn about WotC's worldbuilding processes for specific planes? There are so many wonderful articles about the more mechanical sides of development, but I've had trouble finding articles about creating each world.

You guys got a little spoiled with me, as I enjoy writing and am very involved in the design. There just isn’t someone similar on the creative team.

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I keep reblogging non-RPG things onto this blog instead of my main one by accident, sorry about that.

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held off asking this for a while but tis the season and all. Do you think Atropus would have had a divine/profane herald and if so what would it have been? Or would the putried angels just suffice for servitors or that role?

Atropus is a primordial, and the closest equivalent in Pathfinder are the Great Old Ones and Outer Gods, which traditionally (at least in PF1E, which is all I'm up on) don't have heralds.

But of course the GM has the final say, and if you think a Herald of Atropus would be cool, a la the Silver Surfer and Galactus, go for it.

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Andrew Robinson on playing Garak for the first time. 

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Apparently my director went to see a production of West Side Story a few years ago, and the guy playing Chino forgot his gun before coming out for his final scene. Once it got to the big scene where he is supposed to shoot Tony, he screeched “Poison Boots” and kicked the actor playing Tony until he went down. The girl playing Maria then had to jerk the shoe off of Chino’s foot, and had to do the gunshot scene asking “How many kicks Chino? How many kicks, and one kick left for me”. 

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I've been asking this around so forgive me if you've seen this elsewhere.

Are you interested in seeing Pathfinder's deities, and their religions by extension, become more morally nuanced now that they aren't going to married to the alignment system anymore?

I'm particularly interested in the possibility of more villains who subscribe malicious interpretations of goodly deities' creeds.

I have to be honest, I'm not really interested in Pathfinder at all anymore. My ADHD has carried me off in other directions lol.

But tbh I <I>was</I> interested in Pathfinder as an extension of D&D, and the less like D&D it becomes, the less interested I am.

EDIT: You know what else I'm interested in? HTML. wtf, Tumblr.

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if anyone tells you any artistic expression that isn’t blatantly hateful isn’t valid, they’re wrong

Discussion topic: Are "sexy goblins" valid and good or are they grossly missing the point? Are they both?

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Where is the Year of Yokai stuff?:(

On @thecreaturecodex, a different blog

I understand the confusion, I was a little miffed that they chose such a similar name for their blog, but tbh I think the Codex is better than my Chronicle ever was

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so uh... WotC really screwed the pooch on the OGL, huh

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IIRC Ahriman, the div demigod, has a screaming void in his belly that victims he swallows are trapped in

Among creatures you know and/or have created, how many have an internal demiplane they can draw creatures into? You statted Dalmosh and the Striggore, and I remember Pathfinder has the Ketesthius, the Dweirgeth, and the Leviathan, but are there any more you can recall?

The spirrax from late D&D 3.5 has a portal to a dimension of entropic dust inside of it; when I converted it to Pathfinder, I switched it to a random plane for a reason that I must have had four years ago but have since forgotten. The astral dreadnought transports people to a prison plane as of D&D 5e. In the Numenera RPG, the first monster book (Ninth World Bestiary) has the latoses, giant metallic humanoids who have a demiplane instead of a head, each one containing an empty, preserved city from a long-forgotten civilization

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Sorry to bug you again, I know you don't check here very often anymore but I have a question. I'm currently putting together a pf1e campaign revolving around two cults, one of them belonging to Sifkesh, trying to summon forth Tsathoggua from N'Kai where they believe he is sleeping and I was surprised by the amount of creatures that would fit as his followers. It occurred to me that 3.5's hagspawn would make for some great early muscle. Would they work more as a template or full creature?

You’re not bugging me :)

I would use hagspawn as a full creature (like changelings), but if you want more variety template could work too.

In fact you could just use the ogrekin template and change its type to monstrous humanoid.

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tbh after learning that Erik Mona has a portrait of Comte de Ste. Germain with an Iron Cross on it in his office, and kept it there after it was explained to him by a Jewish co-worker why that was a problem, I’m EXTREMELY leery of anything occult-related that Paizo puts out

This, too, to be honest.

Paizo’s gotta be real careful about how they use the Serpentfolk, and it’s all the harder because one of their stated canon tactics is sending transformed members of their kind into human settlements to undermine them.

which is unpleasant if you consider… more or less everything about the Secret Lizard Illuminati conspiracy theories in real life.

They likely haven’t toyed with the Serpentfolk beyond SS specifically because of the antisemetic origins of Lizardmen/Snakemen Conspiracies.

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Tsuchinoko real...

Tsuchinoko

Image obtained from The Cryptid Chronicles.

[It isn’t often that the world of yokai and the world of cryptids overlap, but this is one of those instances. Although there isn’t a lot of evidence suggesting the tsuchinoko is anything but a misidentified snake with a full belly, it is a beloved critter in many parts of Japan (and has a Pokemon based on it in the form of Dunsparce).]

Tsuchinoko This snake is the length of a man’s arm and twice as thick. Unlike most snakes, it has a short, discrete tail much thinner than its body. Its head is broad and triangular, and bears an incongruously wry facial expression.

Considered to be mythical by many, the elusive snake-like creatures known as tsuchinoko are intelligent predators with a mischievous streak. Their diet consists of small mammals, birds and other reptiles, but they have a pronounced fondness for alcohol. Many of their encounters with humanoids are in order to obtain such a beverage, which they accomplish using lies, threats or empty promises. Tsuchinoko are consummate liars and enjoy sending other creatures on wild goose chases based on their empty words.

Tsuchinoko are exceedingly rare; a single forest may only be home to one of these creatures. They are good parents, raising their young together until they mature, then splitting up as their children find territories of their own. Tsuchinoko keep little treasure, although they may treasure a prized bauble or two as a keepsake of a particularly impressive con.

Unlike other snakes, tsuchinoko do not slither—rather, they crawl in inchworm fashion with startling speed. This strength allows them to launch themselves fully a yard into the air when threatened, sending them hurtling towards enemies with a mouth full of tiny, venomous teeth. When a tsuchinoko cannot win a battle, it flees, gripping its tail in its teeth and rolling to safety.

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