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Lark posted 8/6/2014 17:15 PM
Sorry - rereading my response, I realize I came across as very harsh, and I did not mean to do so. sorry!
sarahstar posted 8/6/2014 17:51 PM
Lark, what you said made complete sense and wasn't harsh at all. I appreciated your honesty and bluntness. Everything you said is exactly what I have been thinking myself. He said he is trying and is slowly learning to control himself which he did the other night. It's so sad that he has to learn to control himself.... it should come naturally. One of my biggest disappointments was when he came into my work, gave me flowers the other day and apologised profusely saying all he wanted was me. Then not long after, sent her a message telling her what he would be wearing for their accidental meeting. It really hurt even though he didn't go. It was arranged after he saw me.
The last couple of days I have felt so so numb. He cuddles me and instead of feeling safe and secure and really loved... now I feel numb... I'm worried that he went to far this time and has lost me even though that's not what I want. I know I love him and don't want to break up. Is this the normal process? or is it because I have lost him and I am sensing his distance in the cuddles?? I haven't felt any anger during any of this only disappointment and hurt. I want us to get through this and I'm hoping he does too.
Ultramarine posted 8/6/2014 18:46 PM
Sarahstar, I don't have advice for you but your post reminded me of an episode early in my own marriage when WH, pre-PA, made me feel really bad about our sex life and insecure and asked me about having a threesome. We talked about it at length and I did not commit to it but neither did I say no. At some point, we created a CG ad looking for a girl.
I know that I was very unhappy then, desperate, and confused. I, too, have a habit of turning serious matters into a joke. It's my coping mechanism, but it really didn't serve me very well in my marriage. If you laugh about it, how can he realize that it actually hurts you?
I realize now that WH and I had very different assumptions about what it meant to be married to someone. To me, it meant exclusivity and loyalty. To him, not so much. Me agreeing to play with the idea of another woman n our bed or being "open-minded" when he flirted with women left right and center probably contributed to him having a PA several months down the road and countless EAs.
Another thing - the fact that your H is being cuddly and lovey to you right now would make me worry quite a lot. Mine would be extra happy and nice to me when things were going well with his other girls.
[This message edited by Ultramarine at 6:47 PM, August 6th (Wednesday)]
blindsided81 posted 8/6/2014 19:31 PM
I am so sorry to see you here. I know you want your spouse to love you and only you, but you can't make him do that.
I am learning as I go through this and I know you can't "nice" him back, you can't join in the "fun" to get him back. You can't control anything he does.
Read the 180. Decide what you want. And settle for nothing less. You are worth it.
sarahstar posted 8/6/2014 23:54 PM
Ultramarine, he knows I am using sarcastic jokes as a coping mechanism so he does realise the hurt I feel which is good. I understand what you mean with the cuddles although I think its more to help make me feel secure and also to comfort him as well I think. He knows this time is different and I won't be accepting any more excuses.
thankyou Blindsided, I will have a look
[This message edited by sarahstar at 11:54 PM, August 6th (Wednesday)]
Pass posted 8/7/2014 09:44 AM
Just when she was so gorgeous, she sent naked photos and a photo of her face he couldn't resist. Honestly, if I was a man and a woman as gorgeous as her "was throwing herself at me" sending sexy messages etc... it was the ultimate temptation.
You need to stop making excuses for him. Men are just as capable of resisting temptation as women are. There are many men on this site who have had opportunities to cheat with "gorgeous women" and have chosen not to.
He is your husband: Resisting temptation is a requirement.
NeverAgain2013 posted 8/7/2014 10:33 AM
LOL..."gorgeous" woman. Truly gorgeous women don't need to troll the internet looking for men. And certainly not lame married ones, at that.
Your husband thought he was talking to Bo Derek but the chances are pretty high that he would have ended up meeting Bo DIDDLEY.
brokenblackbird posted 8/7/2014 11:12 AM
He knows this time is different and I won't be accepting any more excuses.
How does he know this? Is it because you and he chatted with a woman, he took it too far and you said, "That hurt me, don't do it again please."?
Because, honey, he didn't learn any lesson here. Boundaries were broken down and he got exactly what he wanted without any consequences. This is a pattern that will play on REPEAT until you stand up for yourself and lay down what it is you want out of this relationship. He is a cheater. Are you willing to live with that? He likes to chat with women online and arrange to meet up with them. Is that ok with you?
Do you have access to his cell phone and cell phone records? Those need to be checked. I don't think he dropped this latest woman. There are probably plans to lay low until you calm down a little, he'll do that with promises of being different this time, and then he'll start back up with the woman you two messaged.
sarahstar posted 8/8/2014 17:49 PM
That is true Pass...
I do have access to his phone and emails and his phone.
My fear at the moment is that last night we were having a chat and I was trying to work out why he thought he could do these betrayals. Did he subconsciously want to hurt me? About 6years ago, there was a man texting me wanting to go out with me. He knew I was married, I never flirted with him whatsoever. I kept knocking him back over about 6weeks. He kept texting and I said no each time but we also sometimes chatted about general life. I deleted the messages as I got them and as I sent them. There was nothing sexual in the texts. I had kept saying to him that I am married and wouldn't go on a date with him anyway I ended saying to never text me again and I told my husband. He was furious. Even though his phone sex stuff was going on at this same time and the previous 13 yrs he felt I had betrayed him and didnt trust that I wasn't having an affair.
Anyway, back to our conversation last night when I asked him why he did this crap and the fact he had done 3 betrayals in the last year 'that I know of' he got very defensive and upset that I think there is more. The fact he got defensive makes me think that now as that was the reaction I got from him each time he got caught out. What do I do now? Is there hope? I feel numb. He tried cuddling me this morning and I felt nothing but sadness like he's lost me now.
tushnurse posted 8/8/2014 18:46 PM
There's no hope for a successful R and healthy M unless you draw some serious boundaries and give him real and lasting consequences.
Your gut is screaming at you. Yet you are hopeful.
Get your shit together, get organized. See an attorney. Figure out your absolutes and be ready to leave when you approach him with one final opportunity to come clean. Be 100% ready to serve him and throw him out. Until he knows you are no longer a doormat he will treat you like one.
sudra posted 8/9/2014 06:07 AM
Why do you keep talking about him "going too far?"
Any sexual or intimate talk, chat, email, text, etc. to another woman is "too far."
And why would you be laughing about all of this with him? He surely thinks you don't care all that much when you laugh one minute and then tell him you're hurting the next.
Quit allowing this. You cannot control his behavior but you do not have to laugh about it or make excuses about it. And you don't have to stay married with someone who is so disrespectful to you.
If a really handsome man came on to you, would you be unable to keep from having sex with him? I'm guessing you could. You should expect the same from your husband. And he's not just having women come on to him - he's soliciting the attention.
Stop enabling his cheating. Figure out your boundaries (which I hope move drastically from where they have been), draw your line in the sand and let him know. And mean it!
Edited to add - I just read some of your previous posts. You posted on another thread that you didn't know if you could handle a second Dday. Gently, it sounds as if you have had numerous Ddays. You've just rugswept and tried to pretend it was less than it is. Doing what he is doing isn't okay because he's "curious." Likely there is way more than you know. And even if it isn't, your husband has used porn, chat numbers repeatedly and had sex with a prostitute at least once. Each discovery is a Dday.
You need to face what he is.
[This message edited by sudra at 6:17 AM, August 9th (Saturday)]
sarahstar posted 8/10/2014 18:01 PM
Sudra, yes, everything you say is true although he does know that the jokes are my way of coping and I am hurting considerably.
Strangely, I do feel different since he came so close to meeting with this woman. Almost switched off. I love him and always will but I'm wondering if my subconscious is stopping me from getting too close to him again. Is this normal?
[This message edited by sarahstar at 10:05 PM, August 10th (Sunday)]
Ultramarine posted 8/18/2014 17:52 PM
I love him and always will but I'm wondering if my subconscious is stopping me from getting too close to him again. Is this normal?
Here is your answer:
Your gut is screaming at you. Yet you are hopeful.
And on the topic of him knowing that you're seriously hurt because you are making sarcastic jokes - he doesn't. You, on the other hand, are afraid of and are avoiding conflicts. Stop.
sarahstar posted 9/8/2014 00:29 AM
Where do I go from here? Since my husband nearly met this woman, our sex life has quietened down substantially. I think I just felt so wrong to have sex really. After the first 2 days without sex he started getting upset and not in a good way. I was so disappointed as he pretty well reverted back to his old way before he had sex with a prostitute.
Anyway, on Friday, I was feeling really down like something was up so I googled if you can recover deleted messages. You can, so I asked him straight out on Saturday if he has had any contact with her or sent her any messages. He looked me straight in the eye and said no. So I logged onto his email in front of him and told him I had found a way to recover deleted messages. He still denied anything. I recovered the messages and saw he was to meet her on Friday. Obviously that was why I felt so down... my gut was telling me. He was shocked that I recovered them.
She didn't turn up on friday so he had messaged that he would be there today (Monday) and Tuesday. He had nothing to say... no sorry no nothing! All I said was how disappointed I was that he could literally lie to my face. He knows that I had said anymore and that's the end of us yet he still wanted to meet her for morning lunch just so they could see what each other looked like. WTF, of course they would end up having sex. They are both after each other like hot dogs!
Anyway, it was fathers day on Sunday so we acted normal for the children. This morning I sent him a message letting him know that he may as well meet her like the old saying goes...
I know its silly but I feel as though... is it worth going through all this heartbreak and trying to reconcile and him still doing the wrong thing behind my back but the kids have their father at home and I can kind of keep a tab of it? Or do we split and everytime I see him with someone else... I go through hell again anyway and the kids don't have their father at home.
It is such a vicious cycle.
I did also say in the message that instead of him spending all this time looking at her emails and wondering what she looks like and looking at her pictures that he should be spending the time concentrating on us and trying to get my trust back and making me feel safe and secure again.
He didn't go to meet her today, but came into my work instead. Nice thought but he had also sent her a message that he couldn't meet her and the messaging had to stop. OMG he is still thinking of her feelings. I told him weeks ago not to message her... she is just someone on the internet that he doesn't know... I am his wife and partner for 27years! He truly doesn't get it. I just feel like there are constant lies. All I want is him to just tell the truth. Why lie? If you have to lie or delete stuff, obviously it is wrong. It makes me doubt everything now. For all I know the couple of sexual encounters not including the internet affair are not the only ones that have occurred.
I feel so undecided about the future. I am so devastated, yet I can't cry. I can't even get angry. I told him earlier that I haven't made up my mind if I can stay together anymore.
He is saying that it won't happen again and that he means it. That is what he says everytime! How do I know that he means it.. How do I know that he won't do it again? I truly don't know if all of this is worth it anymore. How many chances can a wayward spouse get? I haven't worn my wedding rings for months and he is cracking saying its like we aren't married. Hellooo, I am not wearing my rings but it was you who acted like we aren't married by having sex with a prostitute, a happy ending massage and an internet affair!
Sorry, a long message that probably doesn't make much sense. My mind is going a million miles an hour.
gonnabe2016 posted 9/8/2014 01:34 AM
All I said was how disappointed I was that he could literally lie to my face. He knows that I had said anymore and that's the end of usIf you are going to give an ultimatum, then you need to follow through. You just make it that much harder for yourself when you don't. You told your WH that "anymore and that's the end of us"...and yet he continued on with no consequence.
He is saying that it won't happen again and that he means it.....and he has *what* to back up his statement? What has he done in a proactive manner?
Has he started reading any books? Been to some IC sessions because he realizes that lusting after some anonymous internet person to the point of ruining his marriage points to some really fucked up shit in his head? Offered you total transparency and is willing to be totally accountable to you?
SS, it sure seems as if you are carrying the load of R right now. Drop the yoke. The burden is on him.
lovesobroken posted 9/8/2014 01:44 AM
(()) sarahstar, I think the answer to all your questions are in the previous responses :( its the same shit different day as far as your WHs actions are concerned. :( I woukdnt stay forvhe sake of children, he doesn't seem the best example or a strong parent...
[This message edited by lovesobroken at 1:46 AM, September 8th (Monday)]
tushnurse posted 9/8/2014 08:00 AM
Sarah - Honey, you need to stop giving him chances, and stop listening to his words, and start listening to his actions.
He has NO, ZERO, NADA, intention of making this right, or even stopping. Because you are right he gets to do what he wants, and have the M.
Until you give him some serious, and impactful consequences he won't even begin to attempt to change.
I would go nuclear at this point, for your own sanity. Seriously. It's time. Continuing to allow him to stay, will weaken, and destroy you.
You deserve much more, but until you demand it, you will never get it. Quit being the doormat, and start being the guard, to your heart and well being.
(((and strength)))
Lark posted 9/8/2014 11:11 AM
is it worth going through all this heartbreak and trying to reconcile and him still doing the wrong thing behind my back but the kids have their father at home and I can kind of keep a tab of it? Or do we split and everytime I see him with someone else... I go through hell again anyway and the kids don't have their father at home.
Hugs, I am very sorry. You cannot reconcile with someone who is still doing this stuff. You can't reconcile with someone who doesn't want to reconcile.
As for your children - is this the role model you want for them? To be living with a "family" where the father runs around with prostitutes and meets up with people and treats their mother that way? I know the thought is that they will never find out, but they will. And even if they don't know the details they will know he disrespects you, you are unhappy. Their family life still suffers. It is better to be FROM a broken home than to be IN one.
And making him have actual consequences for his actions - what will come of that? strength for you. Strength in knowing you do not have ot put up with everything he throws at you. Strength in knowing that YOU can do this on your own, you do not need him, and your children will see a *healthy* mother who says and *lives* that people need to treat each other with respect. It will hurt, you will be in pain, you will be devastated seeing him with other women if he continues down that path. But you will also build strength and that hurt will go away because you will see who he is and know that you deserve better.
And if you leaving makes him want to R and actually do the *work* of that? Then you can decide from there. But it'll be on *your* terms, and it will be *your* choice. Not you waiting around for him to choose.
LumpyLola posted 9/8/2014 11:49 AM
I'm sorry you had a negative thing like this happen while trying to recover from your pain.
Sounds like a case of sex addiction. Revisiting the "scene of the crime", aka the sex sites, with your H was really not such a good idea. Just because you two went there together doesn't make it right. In fact, it's almost like the wife giving the husband the green light to continue his shenanigans.
It's like an alcoholic swearing off alcohol, only to have his wife offer to accompany him to the bar. The same temptation will still be there - one that he's shown an inability to control in the past - so why should the presence of the wife make the pull feel any different?
I've been reading here and elsewhere that NC has to be 100%. In this case, it's NC with the sex sites, etc.
[This message edited by LumpyLola at 11:51 AM, September 8th (Monday)]
Lark posted 9/9/2014 11:43 AM
I just wanted to add so that it's clear - your husband has made these choices. He would have made these choices even if you had not been looking at the site with him, it was only a matter of time. It is not your fault at all and not something you can control now or in the future. If you'd done "everything right," he'd still have likely wound up at a site and tried to meet up with women. It's his choice.
sarahstar posted 10/15/2014 18:53 PM
thankyou for replying...
There has been some updates that I couldn't put on here before now and I did get some advice privately at the time from some SI members.
I unwittingly set up a HONEY TRAP. Well it started out as a joke but WH choices made it become a HONEY TRAP.
So when we set up these silly profiles on Ashley Madison, unbeknowns to my WH, I made up another female profile to have a bit of fun with him as a joke for a couple of days as he had once said to me that one day we should get dressed up and go into town separately and pick each other up. So I thought I would do this profile, have a laugh for a couple of days and tell him about it. Well, he deleted the messages again and when I found the deleted messages, I told him any more contact with her (me actually in secret) and we would be over. Well he arranged 2 more meetings and she obviously didnt show. Because he knew I checked the emails and told him to stop messaging, he started up another email. I knew because he was really emailing me
. The old honey trap. The stuff he said to her was heartbreaking but he never once bad mouthed me. I did push him for sex to see if he would but he didnt but I do think he eventually would have
. As he kept wanting to meet her and ring from a public phone.
Anyway, after he decided to be faithful, he came home and he honestly looked relieved and happy.
But then I told him I knew who she was and that she was his f##kin wife. He was absolutely in shock and was incredibly angry. He wouldnt talk to me at all. Since then he hasnt wanted to talk about it and has acted like it never happened.
I expected that he would have been sorry and tried to make it up to me but I have seen no remorse whatsoever.
Two nights ago, I said to him, Do you think we should call it quits? He got so defensive and annoyed at me for mentioning it and said he cant believe I pushed and pushed to set him up like I did. I tried to explain that it wasnt the plan to do that. It was to be a bit of fun for a couple of days until he made the choice to delete the messages and start up another email account. He cant understand that. I also said that regardless of the fact of who she actually was, he didnt know and did the wrong thing. He wrote erotic stories to her of what he wanted to do with her and told her that there was nothing more that he wanted than to be inside her and hold her in his arms! It broke my heart when we have been together for almost 30 years and he has never met her.
I told him he hasnt even tried to be affectionate or loving or tried to win me back and said we are over after he walked out whilst we were talking. He said fine but later came back to me and wanted to cuddle. The next morning he didn't mention what happened but showed some affection. He said that he will do whatever I want him to do. That isnt the point, I want him to be faithful and to show he wants only me but I want him to WANT that
I dont want him to be forced to do it.
How do I make him understand he did the wrong thing instead of him being angry about being set up? He made the choice to cheat and lie, if he remained faithful and honest, nothing would have continued and we would have had a laugh. I dont know what I should be doing.
The stupid thing is that we actually have a happy marriage and there is no reason for him to betray. It annoys me when friends say what a wonderful couple we are and how we have the perfect life. I truly dont understand why. When he started to delete the emails to meet her, we were having sex all the time. We were talking so much and really enjoying each others company again. So to me it made no difference if we were arguing or happy and he betrays. He cannot tell me why and says each time that it wont happen again. Ive had some SI members tell me he is a sex addict but I would thing he would have to look at sex stuff all the time??? There does seem to be a progression from phone sex to massage to casual sex sites to prostitute to internet affair??? I was going to get him to do an online sex addict questionnaire to see after another SI member suggested it to me but I'm scared of his reaction when I ask him to do it.
Do I try and forget what has happened and try to reconcile or are we doomed to end anyway? Do I wait until the children are about to leave for university so their lives are not disrupted. But that is 5 years away
. Can I last that long? I just feel I have put in the effort with no results and want him to want me back.
I love him. I know he loves me but I do wonder if he cares enough for me? He is annoyed that I no longer wear my wedding rings but it feels wrong to wear them now.
Last night I did receive flowers and he was very loving so maybe my show of anger (the first time since finding out about the prostitute in june2014) jolted him the other night. I don't know.
BW me 44
WH him 45
Married over 25 years
together nearly 30 years


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Stryker Biotech Agrees to Plead Guilty to Misbranding Charge
A Stryker Corp. unit agreed to plead guilty and pay a $15 million fine while the medical-device maker was on trial on charges it marketed an unapproved mixture of products for strengthening human bone growth.
The unit, Stryker Biotech, and three Stryker sales representatives were on trial in federal court in Boston on a 13-count criminal indictment claiming conspiracy and wire fraud. The trial began Jan. 9 with jury selection.
Stryker Biotech agreed to plead to one misdemeanor count of misbranding a medical device, according to a letter dated yesterday from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Boston and filed with the federal court.
Prosecutors agreed to drop the case against Hopkinton, Massachusetts-based Stryker Biotech and won't call Stryker Corp. President Stephen P. MacMillan to testify "in connection with current or future trial proceedings" in the case before Judge George O'Toole.
The government yesterday dropped charges against former regional sales manager David Ard of California, according to a motion filed by prosecutors. Attorneys for former national sales representative William Heppner of Illinois and ex-regional manager Jeffrey Whitaker of North Carolina have asked the judge to declare a mistrial. Mark Philip, former chief executive officer of Stryker Biotech from 2004 to 2008, is scheduled to go to trial later this year.
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In a letter filed yesterday in court, the U.S. said Stryker Biotech made $12.5 million by misbranding and selling the bone growth mixture to surgeons over a two-year period.
The company could have faced a maximum fine of $25 million, Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz said in the letter.
The U.S. had charged Stryker Biotech with misbranding and its sales force with conspiring to defraud surgeons into combining the company's OP-1 and OP-1 Putty with the bone filler Calstrux. Some patients suffered adverse side effects and required more surgery, the U.S. said.
"That mixture was never studied clinically," Assistant U.S. Attorney Susan Winkler told the jury in her opening statement on Jan. 12. "They did not know if it worked. They did not know if it was safe, and they marketed it to doctors anyway."
Narrow Exemption
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration allowed the company to supply its products under a narrow, provisional humanitarian exemption. The company had no FDA approval for mixing in Calstrux, which was later pulled from the market, the U.S. says. Stryker Biotech tracked 63 adverse events in more than 10,000 procedures involving the bone mixture, according to a defense attorney.
Ard's attorney, Brent Gurney, said during the trial that Stryker Biotech's products were safe. He displayed a chart showing that less than 1 percent of patients suffered any adverse events, of more than 10,000 surgeries involving the bone mix.
The case is U.S. v. Stryker Biotech LLC, 09-cr-10330, U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts (Boston).


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Black is currently in jail. I wonder who else Stan Campbell "represents." Although 57 percent of the people in Charlotte voted against the Bobcats Arena, they got it anyway. The John Locke Foundation found Charlotte ranked first among large North Carolina cities for per capita revenue and property tax burden.
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I think people are interested in stories where characters change and develop. The paladin, more than any other class, is held up as an ideal. If a paladin were to remain as this ideal all the way through a 20-level campaign, that can potentially be fairly boring, particularly since they're likely to have been exposed to many situations that challenge their beliefs.
Stories of characters with high ideals stumbling, falling, and picking themselves back up again are interesting. I don't think every paladin needs to fall, but I like seeing them learn to loosen up a bit at least.
Gestalt is good for single player campaigns, so good thoughts there. NPC allies are good, but if the GM ends up playing what are effectively 3 or 4 PCs, that can sap a lot of player enjoyement.
The suggestion of Jaunt to let the player control multiple PCs is a good one, but in my own experience, its value heavily depends on the type of campaign you're running. If the player is mostly interested in the combat aspect, then it should work fine. If they're more of a heavy roleplayer, keeping track of several PCs can be more frustrating.
Just as a GM, I'd recommend keeping in mind that not every combat needs to end in death for either PCs or adversaries. Opportunities for withdrawal, or situations where a PC can be defeated, but captured, etc. can be helpful.
One thing I've found that PCs like in single-player or small group campaigns is infiltration/stealth scenarios. In a normal campaign where only one PC is likely to have decent stealth abilities, this can be frustrating for the rest of the group, as they either have to sit on the sideline, or risk ruining it by participation, but a single-PC campaign can be perfect for this.
I remember a few characters who's suffered temporary reductions in charisma. In those cases, I think they all played the character as very non-reactive, or at least non-verbal. Not offensive really, but one-word answers, speaking only when spoken to, etc.
Could you clarify if you are the GM or another player? Advice to you will likely depend on which of these is the case.
For example, if you are the GM, the advice might skew towards how to create opportunities for her character to get the kind of political clout. Mixing politics into your adventure planning and such, so they have an idea of who their likely allies or enemies would be in such an endeavour, or creating opportunities where she or other party members can be put into leadership situations. If she's just a starting character, maybe create or locate a character with similar goals who could mentor her.
As a fellow player, you could advise her to look for those sorts of opportunities, or back her up when she is in a leadership sort of role.
That said, a lot of this will depend on the type of campaign this is. If it is an adventure path (other thank Kingmaker), it will depend on how far the GM is willing to go off-script, though her character could still have these goals and her behaviour could be defined by them.
If it is a homebrew campaign, the GM is likely to have more flexibility, and most GMs I know love when players have long term goals. It is good to let the GM know out of character, because it can give them hooks to use in upcoming sessions.
Good article. The GMs I've gamed with for many years have usually laid out a social contract, that indicates the players should create characters that get along. Even if the character is disagreeable in general, they're loyal to party and the party's goals. Even evil folks have friends.
This has mitigated, but not entirely removed the "I'm just playing my character" sort of disruption.
Individual mileage may vary though. I had the pleasure of watching a Kingmaker party implode over a betrayal a few weeks ago, and the whole group seemed to be having a great time with in-fighting.
I'll add my vote for Kingmaker: Sound of a thousand Screams, due to insufficient foreshadowing for the PCs. As the GM, you get some foreshadowing, but it really needs to be re-worked in order for the PCs to pick up on it.
We always called them "Archpeasants".
Sounds neat. I'll give it a listen.
For some context here, Elton, I haven't had a lot of direct interaction with you over the years, but I do recall many posts by you here under a few different names, and on other boards like ENWorld.
I understand you've acknowledged the need for an editor for the actual Player's Guide and your wiki, but I think that cannot be emphasized enough. As you yourself state:
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This cannot be overstated. You are attempting to bring interest to a product that you have written, and the Kickstarter pitch is unfortunately a fairly good example of your writing style. Your writing always conveys your own enthusiasm about your work and your subjects of interest (Alexander the Great, psionics, realistic campaign weather patterns, public nudity, etc), but does a poor job of enticing others to share that enthusiasm.
I understand that you are not sure how much it would cost to have an editor for the entire project or the wiki, but perhaps you might have a friend or colleague who would be willing to edit just the Kickstarter page for you. If so, I think it would help your pitch immensely. I'd strongly urge you to reach out to other small publishers to check on editor costs though.
As for the art, I actually don't mind the idea of using real-world maps, particularly if the setting is based on a particular era of history, but the character and cover art shown don't sell the product very well.
The hero looks like fairly generic poser art (though I realize you've said in a previous thread that you use a different 3D modeler), and the helmet on the cover mock-up also doesn't grab me.
The idea of a Hellenistic, psionic-focused, near-real-world campaign setting is already going to be fairly niche, so some attention-grabbing art could go a long way. In addition to linking to Yama Orce's Deviantart, as was suggested if you were working with them, perhaps it would be worth seeing if he would let you use a piece of existing character art for the mockup.
I like that you have a 2-page mockup of the layout, but I would suggest that the image should be large enough for the text to be legible. This might be another good opportunity to showcase the editing. Have a side-by-side comparison of the existing wiki page for the topic, and then the mock-up can have post-edited text.
Again, if you are unable to find an editor that would just work on a page or two, I'd suggest asking a friend who conveys themselves well in writing. It is only two pages, and a mock-up after all, so it wouldn't need to show the true final quality, but it should be an improvement over the wiki.
Regarding the rewards. For a first Kickstarter for a niche pdf product like this, I wouldn't suggest offering pledge rewards of more than $50. You can always offer higher reward tiers if it looks like the Kickstarter is going to take off. You're more likely to get interest from a large number of people willing to drop a few dollars than a small number willing to spend $150 towards this kind of product. You may even want to scale your base pledge down to $5 for the pdf.
I think the problem with assigning another priest or paladin as the PC's adviser was basically spelled out in the original post. The previous head of Solku's Sarenites retired and left the PC paladin temporarily in charge (suggesting she was likely the highest ranking paladin available).
Any adviser-priest or paladin is probably going to have to come from outside of Solku, and since it is the most prominent stronghold of Sarenrae in Katapesh, probably outside the region, which is also more complicated by Sarenrae not having that strict of a church hierarchy (IIRC). ie, the priests in Solku don't really have anyone further up the chain of command, though there are definitely more powerful clergy elsewhere.
Moreover, we have the situation with the PC inquisitor, which complicates matters. Right in the class description, inquisitors are permitted a bit of leeway when going outside of their religion's ethos, but the PC took an already shady plan and turned it into attempted murder.
So, there are a few things that need to dealt with. Solku is a stronghold of Sarenrae, and was founded by Sarenites. It is perfectly legitimate in my mind for their clergy to be tried by the church. In fact, it would not surprise me if that were a tradition of the city. It also doesn't surprise me that exile/excommunication would be a punishment for these kinds of crimes. Sarenrae is a diety of mercy and healing after all.
That said, given that the crime was again another religious leader, I think the lord of the city was more than justified demanding this be handled by him. I think the punishment dealt out to the paladin was extremely harsh, particularly given that he was doing this to the interim head of Sarenrae's faithful in Solku, among which I believe Lord Kel Kalar counts himself. I could see this harming him politically.
So, the net result here seems to be that the inquisitor was excommunicated and exiled by the church, but the paladin was exiled by the city council.
This seems to me that it would provide a good opportunity for both PCs. Since the paladin will be protecting this remote town for a few years, she likely won't have access to someone who can simply cast commune. However, if she still has her powers, she can be reasonably sure that she acted in good faith.
I'd still suggest a hound archon arrive in this remote town to act as an adviser. Sarenrae obviously doesn't intervene in mortal affairs directly very often, but a faithful servant from the celestial realms is a clear sign of approval at a time when the paladin is probably at her lowest.
Moreover, this might be a good time for the inquisitor to grow as well. Class directives or not, the inquisitor clearly acted against Sarenrae's teachings, and I wouldn't be surprised if the goddess had stripped some or all of his powers. Yet, if the paladin intends to act against the church establishment in Solku, she might be able to use the inquisitor's help, and thus help him redeem himself. Paladins do have to walk a stricter line than inquisitors, and someone more worldly or politically inclined could be a great help in the days to come. Unless he's just a crazy murder hobo, because his previous actions could indicate that as well ;)
(BTW, thanks for starting this topic. I generally avoid the boards this days, but have run a campaign in and around Solku previously, so I find it an interesting area, and like contributing to the discussion.)
There are some issues there. Sarenrae is the goddess of healing, so I could see her preferring a non-violent solution, but the Keleshite version of her religion is known for being...more brutal than necessary, and if I recall, that is where the Katapeshi branch of the faith originates.
The paladin retaining her power is a very telling sign. To me, that suggests she is on the right path, and she has suffered for her understanding.
Solku is also in a precarious position, as it is threatened by gnollish hoards, and the martial might of the Saerenites are a big part in holding them at bay. Would Sarenrae want opposing factions within her church if it would mean the whole city could get wiped out?
As a GM, I might be inclined to send the PC a vision, and then a minor PC as an advisor (perhaps a hound archon). Particularly if the archon were to work with the PC openly, this could be a sign that she has the favour of Sarenrae, mitigating the violence of an intra-church conflict.
Sad to see that the final mockup is still the double-deck box, but as Vic mentioned above, this probably means they didn't have a choice.
Still a buy for me.
I've had a lot of fun with a few Fiasco sessions over the last year or so.
On the fantasy front, I have two 13th Age games starting up. One as a player, and one as a GM. There's something highly appealing about a single, one-sided page for a character sheet.
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I'm somewhat of an optimizer for my group, but I try not to stomp on other people's builds or make characters that are just plain better than everyone else's. Each player needs to have their chance to shine.
This is a good philosophy to have, and there can definitely be a lot of fun to be had being creative within specific limits.
I kind of agree with Apocalypso. If he's building his own guides to things that he wants to do, and wants to run a rotating group of PCs that can come and leave as he pleases, it sounds like he might be happier GMing.
Even as an experienced GM, I generally prefer limiting the source material PCs are allowed, simply because I'm not going to be familiar with every little thing. With a group of newbies, this becomes even more important.
I wouldn't recommend speeding up leveling either. I find it much more difficult to get players used to the game when they come in at higher levels, or level very quickly. People forget which powers and abilities their characters possess.
I wouldn't suggest that his fun is less important than the other players or GM, but it isn't more important either. It might be time to have that discussion. "Your constant demands to have your way make me not want to play anymore" is probably a good starting point.
Edit: Also noticed this was your first post. Welcome to the boards, and to Pathfinder!
I'll echo what a lot of other people have said here, but I might as well chime in.
My groups usually meet every week, with occasional interruptions. We're lucky if we can get 2 sessions in December, for example.
When running 5-6 hour sessions weekly, I've finished APs in about 7-8.
Most recently, I finished running Jade Regent over the course of 40 2-3 hour sessions. It took about a year.
As far as rules to save time:
Interesting project, but I can't see picking this up. Even the download-only on the Big Finish site is $12.99, and I still consider that too much to pay for an hour-long audio drama. Best of luck though.
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I've seen this one in use before, and be an effective deterrent. If the player is wondering why another party member can hit a specific AC and they can't, "You are unaware of all the modifiers in effect" is a great catch-all answer.
It could even be treated as a curse, and removed as such...until it comes back again.
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What about making an agreement with the player on using the knowledge to benefit the story? make him an agent of the GM? if he likes to spoil himself that's his choice (or sometimes necessity - ever had the wonderful luck of choosing exactly the spells that would get no use at all at a given situation? or walk into a situation that you know would make you depend everything on good dice rolls..and your dice never roll high), the matter is that he doesn't spoil the game for others
I was asked to join a friend's Crimson Throne campaign after I had run the entire adventure path itself. This was a but more above board of course, as the GM knew I had run the adventure path.
I tried to avoid offering solutions, but did make myself a resource for offering information about the region, tied my back story in, etc. The GM used me for plot hooks several times.
If he's going to cheat regardless, and deny doing it, this may be an option if you can't kick him from the game.
I'm going to dissent a bit here. I've considered similar house rules for particular campaigns. At the kind of level where you're dealing with +3 or higher weapons, DR 5, 10 or even 15 isn't much of a hindrance to most front line characters.
As a GM, this seems like it could be a bit more about giving certain creatures a but more survivability, rather than forcing combatants to keep a weapon of every type on hand to absolutely maximize damage dealt by PCs.
If you have another inquisitor in the party, there is the Shared Judgement Feat, and the Lend Judgement (and Greater version) spell.
We had this occur in one of the groups I GMed towards the end of the Crimson Throne adventure path.
Crimson Throne:
This was due to a Harrow Deck of Many Things, and actually resulted in several evil duplicates. Some of which have made their way to other campaigns.
The character in question was an oracle of wind and a devout Shelynite. She was very repressed in some ways. One of the other party members (a wizard) was very casually derogatory to her throughout the entire campaign, but she kept putting it aside for the greater good.
I played the evil duplicates as completely lacking that impulse control. This manifested in other ways, but it meant that they would constantly target him, humiliate him, spite him, etc.
There is a portion of the adventure path where a large portion of Korvosa's treasury is recovered. The wizard was quite happy, and had made clear that he was going to take as much as possible for his own goals.
The original oracle had a string of greater prayer breads...and so did the duplicates. One of them, knowing his plan, used the Bead of Summons to call forth an efreeti and wished the entire treasury to be fused into a ball of lead out of spite.
Another one of the duplicates sought out a nosferatu vampire the party had come to an agreement with earlier in the campaign and bargained her way into vampire-hood just to better oppose the party's goals.
I liked the idea of an evil duplicate that isn't set on immediately destroying you. If they are you, with the good/evil switch flipped, they can imitate you perfectly, know all your allies and enemies, etc. They can make an excellent enemy.
As for the evil duplicates in this case, the original oracle was granted a miracle by Shelyn and asked for the duplicates to be freed of their compulsion...because Shelynites are all about the love.
I'd have to agree with other posters here. The 1d6 lethal damage suffered with no save for being in -20 or below temps is covered in the first sentence of Endure Elements
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"A creature protected by endure elements suffers no harm from being in a hot or cold environment."
The damage from the environment is described as lethal, but not cold-energy damage, so I would say it falls clearly under that sentence as far as the spell goes. The words 'no harm' are pretty clear.
The fortitude saves for cold environments are not just for non-lethal damage, but for frostbite (which is treated as fatigue), so I can see it warranting a special call-out. No FAQ needed.
Now that said, when I'm looking at various cold weather-gear, I'm only seeing it as giving bonuses to the fortitude save for non-lethal damage, and nothing about the lethal damage, which does seem like an oversight.
Back in 3.5 (and I will admit I still use these rules), I was fold of how the environment books, and I think even the DMG treated hot and cold. In addition to more temperature bands, with penalties not being quite that severe, warm clothing had the effect of you treating the temperature as warmer than it is.
I often frown on using real-world environment explanations, but I live in a city where the temperature regularly drops below -20 F in the winter. I have trouble picturing a northern village where a commoner ducks out to grab firewood and dies from exposure in 2 minutes (2d6 lethal damage) even if they've bundled up ;)
Minor thing. I notice that when doing a search for a spell in the prd, the mythic version shows up before the normal version of the spell.
I post some variant on this whenever I notice a similar topic come up. I haven't read the full 350+ posts though.
With some groups, any resource one character has is expected to be used in full for the benefit of the party. This is definitely metagaming, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing.
In the games I've played it, we usually take the opposite approach, particularly since magic item creation does take real time where the crafter is effectively out of action. A character who takes a magic item creation feat is not obligated to use it for the benefit of any other character. ie. The fighter might want that +5 longsword for 25000gp instead of 50000gp, but I'm the one that has to spend the next 50 days creating it. Their discounted price isn't worth my time, etc.
That said, groups vary, and the meta-gaming argument is not an invalid one. Sometimes it is okay to bend or ignore in-game concerns, depending on the make up of the player group.
I think, (and this applies in any situation where trade or barter might occur between characters), that it is important to set some ground rules. I'll use one of my own past characters as an example.
Xebbidiah was an item-creation focused cleric of a merchant god. I was last to join the group, and his in-game situation reflected this. He had been hired by the rest of the party under the following conditions of employment.
1. Base pay was 1/6th of adventuring spoils
Overall, the party was pretty satisfied by this, and I made sure there were few negative surprises. Xebbidiah was happy to extend credit if a party member didn't have cash or barter, or forgive debts if someone did him a favour. He made sure to encourage other party members in business ventures as well.
The party knew what to expect from him, so there weren't any surprises.
Keep in mind, if you're riding it, and have mounted combat, you can negate one hit per round with a successful check, and the unicorn has a fair amount of self-healing available.
If your GM agrees that it would be underpowered, and is making you use both the mount ability and leadership, then I would suggest compromising with a few extra hit dice initially (or maybe just treat the unicorn's hit points as the max possible for its starting hit dice).
Yeah, I'd interpret that as the paladin having a unicorn cohort who accepts being a mount, rather than it also being a 'Paladin Mount' as per the class feature. Advancement would be as a cohort.
On the bright side, this might mean you can take the weapon bond as well. Not a bad investment for Leadership if your GM is behind it.
If your GM feels that it is powerful enough that it should count as a both a cohort and a paladin mount, I would suggest generally leveling it as a cohort, but allowing it the Link, and Share Spells abilities. I'd considered suggesting Devotion as well, but a Unicorn has an ongoing Magic Circle against evil effect anyway.
(A unicorn with class levels sounds pretty cool actually. Unicorn paladin with the weapon Sacred Bond on their horn...or a ranger unicorn...now I have to go write down some NPC ideas..)
Oh, that's true. I hadn't even thought of that when I looked at the packaging mockup. If it looks like that because it will be in the box as a single stack turned sideways, that would be just fine.
If the packaging isn't finalized, would you consider something that would fit all the cards in a single stack? I'm not fond of the two-stack package of the original, and if these are oversized cards, I'd rather not go looking for a custom plastic case.
That said, glad to hear about the new set. I loved the face-art of the original, but really disliked the back-art, and would have liked something similar to the back-art for the plot twist cards. Glad to see that the new set will have different back-art.
I tend to vary my house rules a bit by campaign.
Currently I'm running a campaign where all PC's are lightly armed and armoured. As such:
1. We're using the class defense bonus rules from unearthed arcana, extrapolated for the PF classes.
Not something I use for every campaign, but frequently broken out for urban settings.
Seems reasonable. The witch hex has already opened the door for sleep being an effective tactic later in the game.
In our Jade Regent campaign, I have a very mature/trustworthy character playing an evil character, and it has been fantastic.
The character is a CE witch, but has a strong attachment to one of the good-aligned NPCs, and one of the good-aligned PCs. Their strong loyalty is usually enough to override their normal inclinations (though they still will suggest horrific plans, etc).
When the party's not around, the character is far more likely to give into their horrible impulses when dealing with problems.
That's the type of evil character I'm okay with in a campaign. As long as it is a mature player, and messing with/betraying the party is off the table, it can be functional.
Heh. It if helps, it isn't something I'd allow in a game anyway, ShadowcatX. I think you're right though. Malachi asked for any post or rules call that might support their position, and that entry was the only thing that even remotely came to mind though.
The natural attack comparison makes sense though, as far as the same limb not being involved in two types of attacks in the same round. You might be out of luck unless you have an extremely lenient GM, Malachi. If you mainly have the weapon combo for thematic purposes, maybe go the simpler route and use TWF or THF depending on which makes the most sense at the time.
This FAQ entry suggests a pretty good argument that it could be legal, though the specific example is for taking your hand off a two-handed weapon to cast a spell.
It does seem cheesy, but that's not what you're asking.
Without going into to specifics, the main disadvantage with multiclassing that many times (in my view) is that it will be a long time before the character gets to the place you actually want.
That said, if you're okay with tracking all the various class abilities, and roleplaying the awakening of your PC's dragon blood over many levels, I say go for it.
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Yup, nothing saying that you couldn't have a different sort of flavourful weapon. I remember really enjoying an article in Dragon during the 2nd Edition era about variant holy swords.
The weapon you describe sounds like it would be based on the atonement spell. I'd probably call it 'Redeemer', and give it some flavour as a weapon placed by an agent of a deity to be found by a character seeking atonement, or questioning their dark past.
I suspect it would largely depend on the religion. In Golarion, most holy avengers are probably associated with the church of Iomedae. I wouldn't be surprised if a legendary sarenite wielded a scimitar with similar abilities.
In Eberron, the most paladin-centric religion (Church of the Silver Flame) has the longbow as its iconic weapon. I wouldn't be surprised if a holy avenger were a bow in that context.
I think your powers are going to lost, unfortunately. Though if the GM is forcing a change to CE, a change to anti-paladin would be a way to keep something similar.
I'd be tempted to play the paladin as someone who is still clinging to their own code, but whose natural instincts have been completely changed. Someone who would still want to offer mercy, but whose initial instinct would be to kill prisoners out of hand, etc.
Could be fun playing the struggle. If you could keep on track most of the time, maybe an atonement would eventually work.
"I'm really sorry about cutting your throat there. I did want to hear your answer, but sword arm was kind of moving by itself. Back in the old days, I'd have been able to heal that before you bled out but...oh, you've pass out...no, no you're dead. Damn. Gonna have to invest in a healer's kit I suppose."
Edit: Hadn't read the Atonement spell in a long time, but it looks like that will be what your paladin is after. As long as he remains repentant, and struggles against the impulses brought on by his magical alignment change, I don't think it would even require the extra offerings.
That said, if he gives in to the evil...then yeah, much more difficult.
Faiths of Purity: Sarenite Paladin's code wrote:
The best battle is a battle I win. If I die, I can no longer fight. I will fight fairly when the fight is fair, and I will strike quickly and without mercy when it is not.
Based on this, your player's interpretation, and your limits seem reasonable.
Zahir ibn Mahmoud ibn Jothan wrote:
Okay then. That makes a lot more sense :)
Zahir ibn Mahmoud ibn Jothan wrote:
It's a misconception that a Paladin can't scan a room with the full cone. So he can scan a whole bar, and then narrow things down like a normal use of the spell, OR he can just pick a target and get the move action equivalent of 3 rounds of scanning on that specific target. The first use is helpful in social situations to scan a room, and the latter is good in combat to size up the BBEG and see if he is a smite target.
That is certainly true, but I am unclear as to how it was a response to the portion of my post which was quoted.
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This might have been pointed out elsewhere, but this is something your paladin would possibly know. Detect Evil functions like the spell. As per the chart in the spell, most evil-aligned characters, NPCs, etc. don't even begin to give off a faint evil aura until they hit 5 hit dice/levels (outsiders, evil clerics and anti-paladins and undead would be the major exceptions).
To use your example above, unless those were particularly powerful goblins, they wouldn't have registered as evil. Same thing with a lot of the NPCs you meet. If they're low-enough level, they won't give off an evil aura, even if they're horribly depraved.
Most of the populace falls under that category, so I doubt most paladins scrutinize everyone they see. If you take a few seconds to size up someone you're interacting with, that's not unreasonable. I'm also one of those GMs who would say there aren't a lot of visible signs to indicate this, but the more familiar someone is with what you are (if they know you're a paladin, or can make a reasonable guess), I'd allow an appropriate check.
Now that said, your paladin may not know this, which could explain ignorance in the situation with the goblins above. I've seen paladins who have been played with low int, no spellcraft, etc. who don't have a precise understanding of how their abilities work. I've also seen perfectly good in-character reasons why they may become overly reliant on detect evil over things like sense motive checks,etc.
I had planned (but sadly never played) a Kalishtar summoner whose Eidolon was going to be the physical manifestation of his Quori soul. So, over time, I would have taken evolutions to make it look more and more like a Quori (though I forget which type).
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Any chance the prd will be updated with these changes before the next core rules printing?
I'm curious to see what the Golarion version of Saint Cuthbert is like...and since I'm assuming he's not a god, which religion(s) consider him to be a saint.
+1 for Summon Monster and Summon Nature's Ally I-IX lists (and Summon Swarm, Rain of Frogs, Mad Monkeys, etc)
I would suggest your GM keep a list of your minimal possible rolls for any given subject. Might save some unnecessary checks.
I don't think it is unreasonable for that sort of character to get prompting from the other players or the DM for even obscure things that they should remember. I would also suggest keeping extremely detailed notes if you don't already do so.
This is one of those bits of roleplaying that can be difficult; accurately playing a character with mental stats much greater or lower than one's own.
In a similar way, I would find it reasonable for a character with a 6 Int to not be able to make logical connections, or someone with a 6 Wisdom to make bad decisions even when their player knows better.
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