Diamonds and the dead

If Mr Freeze was in Pathfinder then his quest to acquire diamonds would make perfect sense as a way to save his wife.

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I haven't really grasped what Pathfinder expects about wealth though, or how permanent death is expected to be. If it's a quick trip to the nearest temple, or a spell one of the party has probably learnt, that's a different world. I mean you can reasonably expect to make it to 9th level in a game, the Adventure Paths can go through level 20. But compare that to fantasy stories and it's so massively more powerful. I mean having casually raising the dead be a feat you manage like half way through an adventure is... a lot.

Legends of Tomorrow gets an entire season arc out of wanting to bring a dead loved one back repeatedly. In Pathfinder, they'd have to be pretty cheap to not be able to do it like *snaps fingers*.

That's just a very different approach to storytelling.



... I think I prefer having to arrange epic heists to get the diamonds for a dead loved one before the deadline. Lots of motivation.





So I was thinking about what Pathfinder!Eobard could to, after killing Nora Allen. Like, not what he would do, and not involving time travel, so not very Eo, obviously. But if he could kill someone, immediately regret it, and run to a temple to undo it, that's a very different life.

Though if the temple just let him there's not a whole lot of story in it...



Also it would be way harder to falsely convict Henry Allen in a world where Zone of Truth is a thing.





I think I want to find a group and go play rpgs again. I'm getting frustrated with the kind of stories that don't let me do anything to them. Nobody listens, always the same, very boring.

Give me Pathfinder and a route to becoming a deity, and then I can really get things done...

Alien facilities

Woke up wondering what the bathrooms are like in Starfleet.

Because dream Q asked me to take his dog to go, and it seemed like a truly multi species facility must have an appropriate corner. Admiral Archer managed, after all.

But bathrooms are not a good topic, so speculation moved on.




A boarding school is not a bad place to stash an alien asylum seeker, especially one who appears to be an unaccompanied asylum seeker, and if so was a child soldier. Turlough got treated as well as the children of the local ruling class, it's just the way the local ruling class treat their children is... like that.

But a boarding school with an ex UNIT man in charge (now with a stubborn lack of memory of some of the key facts)(or possibly a suspicious one, if Torchwood were involved), well, that's a pretty good start. Could end up like the Wayward Children books, everyone from different worlds, waiting for their doorway home. Or to learn to integrate well enough to graduate.

Though boarding school teachers have a certain degree of room for eccentricity in a controlled environment too...



Don't think I have any boarding school stories to tell right now though. Or adventures in multi species bathroom design...