{"id":3017,"date":"2017-07-05T17:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T21:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/?p=3017"},"modified":"2017-07-12T16:59:12","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T20:59:12","slug":"pathfinder-crashbang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/2017\/07\/pathfinder-crashbang\/","title":{"rendered":"Pathfinder Crashbang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Crashbang.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3018\" src=\"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Crashbang.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"826\" height=\"897\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Crashbang.png 826w, https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Crashbang-276x300.png 276w, https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Crashbang-768x834.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve scored the opportunity to join a Pathfinder game, so naturally I rolled up a gnome fighter named Crashbang Gearcrunch.<\/p>\n<p>Why not a paladin, you might ask? Well, he WANTS to be a paladin, but his personality tends to make the clerics and paladins of multiple faiths much more interested in sending him to OTHER churches. He&#8217;s essentially a hot potato.<\/p>\n<p>He also has zero ranks in Knowledge: Religion, so he tends to invoke deities that no one&#8217;s ever heard of before. Naturally none of the ones he calls upon exist in the game world, so nothing happens when he calls upon them other than a fellow player chuckling or facepalming. Both are good.<\/p>\n<p>My favorites that aren&#8217;t just in-jokes are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Arthur, God of Sufficiently Advanced Technology,<\/li>\n<li>Deedee, Goddess of Less than helpful Lab Assistants,<\/li>\n<li>Geordi, God of Large Power Sources and Literature, and<\/li>\n<li>Ginsburg, Goddess of Justice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But I have a whole &#8220;pantheon&#8221; laid out in a spreadsheet ready to use whenever I have the opportunity to make a pop culture reference.<\/p>\n<p>Bonus image: an in-progress version of the above picture:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-05-15_19_15-_Crashbang.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3019\" src=\"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-05-15_19_15-_Crashbang.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"389\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-05-15_19_15-_Crashbang.png 389w, https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-05-15_19_15-_Crashbang-257x300.png 257w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 389px) 85vw, 389px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve scored the opportunity to join a Pathfinder game, so naturally I rolled up a gnome fighter named Crashbang Gearcrunch. Why not a paladin, you might ask? Well, he WANTS to be a paladin, but his personality tends to make the clerics and paladins of multiple faiths much more interested in sending him to OTHER &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/2017\/07\/pathfinder-crashbang\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pathfinder Crashbang&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[293],"tags":[44,295,294],"class_list":["post-3017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ttrpg","tag-crashbang","tag-dungeons-and-dragons","tag-pathfinder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}