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And Zhayne, I do agree that pounce lets you rake on a charge, but I believe that you need to be grappling to use them. Just like the rule clearly states.

Consider the following

1) The pounce ability specifically says you can rake on a charge and does not specify "if the grapple attack is successful"

2) The velociraptor deinochus dinosaur has pounce but no grab.

3) Rake specifies that the animal has to start the turn with the creature in a grapple to start the rake attacks (which if its not getting the rake from the pounce doesn't make any sense becaue it can't start the turn grappling and then charge)

I can't see any ambiguity at all here.

its pronounced "association of legitimate business persons"

5 attacks on the charge. If the fights are mobile, expect him to leave the fighter in the dust.

From my perspective Obama looks weaker for making the threat, and then not being able to do anything than if he did nothing at all from the start.

Which threat?

That was a link to some videos, not traits. I really don't think The Daily Show is PFS legal.

well it should be! :)

phew.. at least it wasn't the other links i had on my clipboard.... (i will fix the links momentarily)

I don't know if Qadira has an official fiend/tiefling policy. The reaction is probably a little torch and pitchforky, and some of the saranrae clerics are "redeem it" and some of them are a little "kill it with fire!" (the latter obviously did not do so well on their knowldge: planes)

You start with 2 traits unless you get the extra traits feat. This is in the Pathfinder society organized play section of the boards, so I'll assume thats how you want the question answered.

You can have any trait that is legal, and that you have a source for.

This is a pretty big list of traits and you can check the additional resources to see if they're legal. Most traits are legal except campaign traits and traits that mess with your starting wealth.

We just love the strong men don't we? All sorts of talk about how Putin has "stones" and Obama is wimp.

I think this says it better than anything. Start at 4:36

1 bottle of tea, 1 bottle of cold medicine, those balance each other out right?

Also under Alchemical Weapon, it says coat 1 weapon or piece of ammo. That is a bit inconsistant other such abilities which affect a quiver (12 bolts, 3 bullets) of a given ammo or a weapon. So was that an error

You're not just coating the weapon you're doing This

Oh wow i should have avoided accidents, what was i thinking...

Oh well.. crossbow time then?

Also, her short bow should be +4. Same problem, I'm guessing.

I believe she's taking the attack penalty on the bow because its hard for her to pull back

A Strength penalty, but not a bonus, applies to attacks made with a bow that is not a composite bow.

This could be eliminated after the first adventure or two by buying a composite bow.

My parents insisted that I take swimming lessons until I passed the "Intermediate" exam, leading to perhaps 12 years of swimming lessons and the ability to swim 2-3 miles nonstop through a body of water, or swim across a pool with a 70-pound child on my back. (You'd be amazed how hard that actually is.)

Damn, what the hell do they make you do for the advanced class?

I worked at a very busy pool. ~20 times per weekend the rescue log would read "jumped off diving board, couldn't swim, jumped off diving board, couldn't swim". Had to send the lifeguards a memmo about the importance of natural selection in human evolution...

Had one incident where the kid jumped off diving board, couldn't swim. Lifeguard jumps in to save kid. Parent jumps in to save kid.. couldn't swim, grabbed onto lifeguard... who couldn't come up with two people on her. Had to grab onto a pipe and haul the three up in one go.

The general trend for extracts is that if an item doesn't say it works on extracts then it doesn't. Its not a hard and fast rule so the DM could let you if they felt like reading it generously.

Just when you think you've hit rock bottom someone manages to break out the mining equipment...

BigNorseWolf wrote:

The port is also useful for trading, and they need a navy to threaten some of their other neighbors.

Bombers and tactical missiles(or better,bombers with tactical missiles) are by FAR more threatening than Black Sea Fleet with it's flagship being dedicated shipkiller(Georgia in 08 again comes to mind).

Also,shelf itself is quite valuable.South Stream,anyone?

Yes, but you can't threaten with a bomber for very long. Its either sitting in an air port, flying overhead, or its actually violated airspace in which case you're declaring war. With ships you can have them casually bobbing off the coast pointing guns in.

thejeff wrote:

Vlad Koroboff wrote:

It's all about a warm water port. It has been for centuries.

I disagree. I think that in 21st century it is more of unsinkable aircraft carrier and SAM/ASM base. When you have modern coastal batteries,you don't actually need a fleet.Well,not in Black Sea anyway,it is sooo small it's laughable.

Southeast of Ukraine is more interesting because of manufacturing capability.

The port is also useful for trading, and they need a navy to threaten some of their other neighbors.

Which is actually pretty correct as far is average russian knows from history lessons.But Kiev Rus was long ago,Russian Empire-not so long ago and Soviet Union was practically yesterday.During which Ukraine was a subject.

During which time they committed genocide on the ukranians through planned starvation. Thats a pretty good reason NOT to go back to being under Russian rule.

What you are asking for is that Mike and/or John overwrite a fundamental element of the class specifically for the campaign. That is bigger than changing a regular rule of PFRPG (such as banning crafting), and they really try not to do things like that if at all possible, as it makes the entry to PFS even more difficult, as there are then even more specific rules that separate PFRPG and PFS specifically.

I think the campaign is and has to be a little loser on the paladins than a home campaign would be, since the player can't work with the DM and other players in advance to fit in. You can't use a restriction on the player to either stay home or not play their character to limit the power of paladins, it just ruins everyone's fun.

Park ranger at a pool. Amounted to being a bouncer/janitor. Doing first aid on the hernia for the guy trying to pick me up to throw into the pool was hilarious.

Wolf masseuse: Intern at a wolf center, which consisted of making sure the wolves stayed in the center, giving tours, fixing the place and extended time giving bellyrubs to the wolf that was on his own and more than a little down after losing his brother.

bat catcher: caught bats in whats essentially a bunch of big volleyball nets. ID em, weigh em , measure them and let them go.

You can't just photo copy it from a book. Print out refers only to watermark PDFs that have your name on them.

If you borrow your friends book its legal because there's no way of knowing its borrowed, and fulfills the primary purpose of showing the DM what the feat/item/whatever does.

Cash goes for gear. You get a more or less set amount per adventure.

Room and board is covered for the character.

You don't need to UMD your own wand. You buy a wand, when you get hurt you hand it to the cleric/bard/druid and say "three hits please!" Healing a rotating batch of newbs that don't bring their own healing gets expensive after a while, because it comes completely out of your own pocket otherwise. (my druid keeps the 4 wands he's burned down to 3 charges or so spread out in different places accross himself and his animal companion)

Buying stuff:

You buy stuff from the society. The good news is that you can get what you want with few restrictions. If you want a shocking bursting holy ripsaw glaive you can probably get one by the time you have the gold for it. The downside is you can't get custom items. The efficient quiver is fine because is a standard magic item, but you can't order say, a cloak of elven resistance that combines the cloak of resistance and elven kind.

Item crafting is banned: its simply too easy with the infinite down time between sessions for characters to take craft wondrous item and effectively double their number of magic items.

Whats the ETA on those tracking collars? You guys said they would be all the rage next season...

Heyo, welcome to the institution.

To see if something is legal

1) See where it came from. In this case adaptive is from ultimate magic

2) Go to Additional resources. Look for the book its in.

3) You see that everything is legal except what's called out as illegal (some entries are worded the other way around) so most of the books is good. There's no mention of adaptive, so it works.

You can also go to Archives of nethys. See that funny looking round white glyph in front of the adaptive enchantment and most of the other enchants but not in front of breaking? That means its legal for PFS (according to the sites owner, anyway, but there's no reason he's more likely to screw up reading the additional resources than you are. )

Download the guide. It will help.

Don't be afraid to ask questions afterwards. If someone just refers you to the guide just wait, someone will usually be along with a more helpful answer, but it takes more time to look up, link, and layout than it does to just tell the new guy he's doing it wrong.

More or less you build a pathfinder society archer the same way as you build one in any other campaign. Very few of the PFS specific rules affect archery builds (as opposed to say, necromancers or druids)

It sounds like PFS will be easy mode for you. Not much need to go all out with the DPR.

PFS has a lot of social, exploring, knowledge, discovery and other questy type elements to it. If ALL You know how to do is pump arrows into things you're going to be bored for the non combat portions of the evening. Have at least 1 combat trick and 1-2 out of combat tricks.

ESF 1998-2001. I think it was 2000 we were down to an actual tunnel

Monster in the dark.

nope

Ok, the epistemic nihlism about the Russian invasion completely negates any argument as to its legitimacy. Its moon landing hoax levels of whackadoo.

If you're not smart enough to figure out the objective fact that Russia invaded there is not way I'm going to trust you with the subjective determination of the morality of the situation.

Even a "harmless" cyst isn't quite so harmless if it gets near your spine.

Most summoners seem to have just enough cha to cast their spells.

Strength and charisma are both stats that if you don't need them, you can dump the living heck out of them.

Warningshot: Old florida indian word for crossed eyed shooter.

Florida will tolerate many things, but not a bad shot.

This lady misses ,0% shooting average she gets 20 years.

The guy in the gas station hits 1/4 25% , gets 5 years.

Zimmerman hits 1/1, 100% gets off with nothing.

Florida isn't racist, it just believes that gun control means hitting your target!

"Why is your druid turning into an octopus on land?

"Just watch....

This requires a bit of cooperation and trust between everyone at the table.

The DM has to let the paladin know that he's not going to make the paladin fall.

The paladin has to not insist on killing the thing

And the necromancer/demon summoner/whatever needs to avoid having the demon twerk the paladin

The 10 different ways to have your stats lowered (drain, penalty, damage)

The poison rules.

Quickdraw a 6 foot tall greatsword? No problem. Quickdraw a 1 inch thick wand on your wrist? nope.

Greenpeace is a disgusting, antidemocratic, fanatic movement with a very firm power agenda

Could you explain that last part... at all?

perpetrating revolting acts on defenseless animals so they can be filmed and used to smear others

Citation?

An imp familiar would be trickier. I'd have to think about it more to come up with a workaround for that.

The imp can look like a crow or just be invisible.

We should make a list of ridiculously priced items that Pathfinders can buy which would serve no purpose! but would still take all their wealth!

The list of things that DON"T do that is shorter, and its mostly what people buy.

Its not just that these items are themselves bad, its that they set the standard for items to follow, resulting in wondrous item prices that are usually completely out of whack with their actual benefit.

Do NOT pop it. Go to the doctor. Not the one with the rattle.

BigNorse: You think the 7k cost to ignore Difficult terrain as long as you are doing certain actions is worth it? I just dont see how. I dont see the logic in awarding that ability to be 7k.

I would like to see the math behind half of the wondrous item costs in the core rulebook. I sometimes think they were more or less a direct port from D&D.

Didn't say it was GOOD.

I said it was better.

Its sub optimal, partially because the slippers exist. But its not the outright inanity of the old wondrous items like the aforementioned apparatus of quali.. the crab.

Well lets see the boston tea party was the begining of a revolt to overturn the rule of a distant king

At that point it was a protest against the economic policies that allowed the dutch east india company to import tea CHEAPER than anyone else could, not a revolution. It was exactly like the occupy wallstreet protestors that you deride so much.

to allow the local people to choose their own lives and have a representative government.

England was a representative government, through parliament. Benjamen Franklin and a host of other founding fathers made a livign representing the states in england.

What it wasn't was direct representation, which has its ups and downs.

Green peace is using at the very least psuedo terrorist tactics to tell other people around the world how THEY have to live to be aligned to the proper GP philosophy to avoid further problems.[/quote

Of course they are. They think that whales are sentient enough to not be callously killed for moronic reasons. They see whale as/close to people, just like some people saw blacks as some/close to people and some didn't.

Quote:

So yeah, we want to live free as we choose to VS you willl live how we tell you to are VERY different indeed

You also want to impose that way on another living being, which they consider a person and you don't.

No. I presume you're asking for someone else. I think they have it mixed up with the confirmation, where you can do that.

Jiggy, it would seem exceedingly odd to me that the logic applied to one strength dropping thingy, despite the exact meaning of its wording, would not apply to another strength dropping thingy despite the exact meaning of its wording.

terrorists get hit eventually

Unless they win, then you get off on their birthday.

Besides the fact that you don't agree with them, can you tell me any actual difference between the green peace folks and the boston tea party?

Affirmative action, depending on its effectiveness, is either two wrongs trying to make a right or one wrong trying to right 100 wrongs.

There is an item below I was looking at for my Barbarian

Belt, Minotaur

And that's one of the new, BETTER items.

Its not horribly priced.

It recognizes that you will have a strength belt and adds a cool rider onto a strength belt

I mean your 12th level character could be fully geared... or have an apparatus of the crab.

A ninth level character would have to dump half their WBL into the cloak of the bat....

Healed to full health. While the time between scenarios is technically undefined i think its safe to say its more than a day.

Everyone else heals up the hit points they lose in between adventures, the eidolon should too.

You [redacted] hippie, Comrade Jeff.

Also,
God Is Love

Love is blind.

Ray charles is God...

QED and other ostentatious latiny stuff.

I think the primarily made of metal part puts the same restriction on it that applies to adamantium hafted weapons: the smyning doesn't work. If he could put some funky gear doodads on the haft of a pole arm he could do the same for a quarterstaff.

The thing is the niche occupied by wide open spaces that used to be provided by fire have been pretty well filled by farm fields and lawns. There's not a heck of a lot of the old growth forest left, and its not functionally a renewable resource. Letting it burn on occasion is fine but it seems like we CAN"T put a road into an area without it quickly being logged. Some of it at least needs to be left the heck alone for a while.

Oh good, I've been running an antivirus trying to see if my settings went wonky...

And anothermage is going to need a new ignore script apparently...

What does that mean?

That Paula Deen is now the Ukrainian defense minister?

Like Chris mentioned , a lot of us find it incredibly difficult to save (buy nothing) over multiple chronicle sheets.

I also find the pricing on some items a bit ridiculous for what they do.

Almost anything outside of the christmas tree is going to be ridiculously priced. A lot of it comes from the 2e idea that you'd be using what you found, so price was kind of irrelevant. The idea that you'd customize your gear along with your character has created a new paradigm, and the old pricing scheme just doesn't fit anymore.