I wasn't even playing a multi-hit deck.
I hate the Entomancer so much.
(And yes I could have looked at my upcoming cards but I had no other attacks left in the hand before this, so the result would have been the same anyway.)
Title is a lie. I won't. I will keep picking Forge build because big space sword go 💫🗡️✨THWANG.
(Card art borrowed from the wiki with all due respect to Mega Crit, their copyrights, and their stupidly addictive goddamned game. <3)
(And yes I know Guardian Beast doesn't appear at the end of Underdocks but it's more fun to draw than Wet Rock, Large Fish or Crab²⁰.)
(Edit: This comic contains what is commonly known as a 'Joke™'. I gave him 3 swords and every Sword/Forge power as an easily identifiable way for the reader to see that he had, despite his stated intentions, once again gone hard on Sword/Forge at the expense of everything else, almost inevitably to his once-again demise.)
>!High Factotum Janris Danrok. Everything about his design screams, when you first play the game and encounter him, that this is a man who is being set up to try and stab you in the back later on - either for selfish gain or allegiance to some other power. A career accountant who, despite having a remarkable track record for his performance, just gives off an aura of 'Sleazy Double-Crossing Advisor' vibes.!<
>!But no. Not Danrok.!<
>!Impeccable record-keeping aside, he doesn't hesitate to throw himself in-front of a weapon to protect a relic of your dynasty - enduring almost lethal injury in the process - but then, when your ship is attacked by the same group behind that first travesty while he's conducting an audit, does your Factotum cower behind data-slates and reports?!<
>!No. He puts down his quill, picks up a rifle and starts blowing off heretical heads left, right and center with surprising accuracy while organizing those still loyal to you in the vicinity into a functional fighting force.!<
>!If the game gave me the choice, this man would be getting a post-game promotion to the position of his choice with all the luxuries he could ever desire.!<
Ever since 1E, for no other reason than 'because we can', Paizo have been putting LGBTQIA+ characters into their setting all over the place.
Gay, Lesbian, Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer and everything inbetween and beyond - from major characters like the Iconic Cleric and Rogue Kyra and Merisiel, to major supporting NPCs like Rexus Victocora in Hell's Rebels or the Tirabades in Wrath of the Righteous, to even minor NPCs like Morlibint, the bookstore vendor in Otari.
And the folk I put in the image above are just a fraction of the total - there's so many more of them in the setting, and every single one has always been that way. No retconning them to be queer after the fact, no 'it's fan canon that the developers aren't denying', just a whole rainbow of canonically queer characters everywhere you look.
Paizo don't do it for clout, they don't do it for Rainbow Capitalism, they just do it because they can, and I love that about this whole system and setting. It's why Pathfinder/Starfinder will always be my favorite TTRPG setting.
I figured that, it being Pride Month and all, I'd just make this little post about it. Keep doing what you do, Paizo, and we'll stick by you through thick and thin! 🏳️🌈❤️
EDIT: Bc people keep thinking I'm intentionally engaging in erasure - I was using the gay/lesbian flags as an indicator of 'this character is in an MLM/WLW relationship with this other character'. In hindsight I could've thought it through more, but I meant no erasure or any disrespect by it.