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  • This works for situations where exact positioning isn’t too important. When want to have AoE spells, move speed, flanking, and battlefield control, it generally because difficult to ensure that the GM and the players have the same picture of the battlefield. Even just drawing it out roughly can help a lot, but pure theatre of the mind really works best when you only care about distance rather than relative positioning and complex battlefield conditions.








  • I started my longest-running campaign with a “one-shot”. Part of that was by the publishers’ design. I ran the free module “We Be Goblins” (highly recommended), which involved a pack of goblins searching for more fireworks. The end of that adventure acts as a teaser for the “Jade Regent” adventure path, which I ran to completion with most of the initial group.

    In that adventure path, the PCs get to revisit (and drive off) their tribe from the one-shot in the opening act.





  • If we want to take this seriously, just for fun, then we need to first consider what “put the last bag inside the first” means. Bags of holding are openings into extradimensional spaces, effectively portals. Theoretically, I don’t think there’s any problem with extradimensional spaces containing portals to each other in a looped manner. The problem comes with the physical act of placing one bag inside the last. In order to do so, you’d need to have a way to teleport into a known extradimensional space without using the opening. I don’t think there’s a way to do that in any edition of DnD or Pathfinder, but I could be wrong. If you can, however, then you could use exactly the same technique to retrieve any of the bags and therefore open the loop again.






  • One of my Pathfinder characters, Bentithan Flinteye. He’s an evil, but pragmatic, Aasimar psychic warrior, who considers his actions to be for the “greater good”. He’ll use this to justify a lot of things to himself and others, but make no mistake he’s evil and ultimately just wants more power for himself; after all, wouldn’t he be able to do more good with that power? There would be plenty of people who’d think he’s right.