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I have read the Rise of the Runelords adventure in some detail up through what would have been the first book in the adventure path.
spoilers below the cut.

I like the plot and the characters and how things get revealed layer on layer.

I kind of want to adopt the goblins. Sure they're bitey, but they're hungry. And they're currently evil but isn't changing hearts and minds what a Bard is good for?

I have decided I don't want to be a Roll to Seduce bard, because boring kissing stories, and who has that much time? No, my default approach can be Roll to Recruit, ( Read more... )


I'm a bit frustrated with how combat oriented things seem to be. Computers can do the combat parts. People talking to people makes the complicated story stuff happen.


Also the baked in assumption that some things are born evil
is no.

no monsters.
just conflicting needs, lack of understanding, and not learning yet.

... there's an actual goddess of giving birth to monster babies though, the idea of monster babies is pretty thoroughly baked in there.



I shall continue reading
but I'd want to take the story off in whole different directions
make friends and influence people

and I think it pretty much wants pcs to kill them all.