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One of the things that has always bothered me about PF 1 and 2 is how bad crossbows are compared to bows. Any body have any house rules for making crossbows better in PF2?

Wooooohooo! Glad we don't have to wait for these.

This is my favorite one so far.

Is there going to be an app?

The 2nd Edition Bestiary is our dragon format going forward. We'll have plenty of room for dragon flavors.

The Dragon format is changing from the first bestiary? How will it be different?

I love the second edition Bestiary format and I hope they keep it up. The monster lore using the name the monsters refer to themselves as is wonderful. I hope to see more animals and many more low level encounters.

Is there a save for the simple poisons from the Rogue's Poison Weapon Class Feat?

So it's probably just left over from the playtest? Is charge the same as the joust trait?

I think there is a typo in this spell. Instead of other magical spell effect, shouldn't it be other written spell effect?

ABSORB RUNE I
School abjuration; Level bard 4, cleric 4, magus 4, occultist 4, sorcerer/wizard 4
Casting Time 1 standard action
Components V, S, M (a white silk glove worth 25 gp)
Range touch
Target one spell effect
Duration instantaneous plus 1 minute/level (see text)
Saving Throw Will negates (harmless); Spell Resistance yes (harmless)
This spell allows you to lay your hand upon a magical glyph,
symbol, or other magical spell effect (referred to in this spell
description as a “rune”) and attempt to absorb the essence of
its effect. To absorb a rune, you must be aware of the rune’s
existence (but need not know the details of what it actually
does) and then succeed at a caster level check (DC = 10 + the
caster level of the spell affect being absorbed) as you touch the
rune in question. If you fail this caster level check, the magical
rune is not triggered unless you fail the roll by 5 or more.
If you succeed at the caster level check, the rune is removed
from the surface it was originally placed upon and duplicated
on the cloth of a silk glove worn on your hand. The rune
remains located on the glove’s palm in an inert state for up
to 1 minute per caster level. As a standard action taken at
any time during that duration, you can transfer the rune to
another surface similar to the one it was originally placed
upon, at which point the rune’s function either returns to
normal or dissipates harmlessly as if successfully dispelled
(your choice). If the spell’s duration expires before you
place the rune on a new surface, the absorbed rune
dissipates harmlessly.
Absorb rune I affects only runes whose effects
are equivalent to a spell of 3rd level or lower. An
attempt to use absorb rune I on a more powerful
effect automatically triggers the rune when you
touch it.

Raging Swan Press has dozens of detailed villages in their product line, each one with a write up on all the important npcs. Most with some different theme, make up, environment, or even geographical location.

Thanks. I'll look into that

These kinds of books are always on my must by list. I'd get it the second it came out. I love nitty gritty books that feel like they could be actual books in the campaign setting. Volo's guides and Aurora's Whole Realms catalog are my prized possessions in my RPG collection, I used them in every game I ever ran back in the day and I reference them for Pathfinder still. A Golarion Almanac would make my decade.

Can anyone help me find a town to base Riverspire on? The least I need is a map but I would like a map and town details I can alter to simplify prep.

There aren't a lot of resources on elven towns.

If not Paizo, maybe 3pp?

It doesn't necessarily need to be an elven town, I can make the adjustments but I would like it to be a town near the edge of a forest, and near a river if at all possible.

Wow, just finished reading the race description. I didn't expect to get such intimate knowledge about them. I guess humanoid races reproduction is straight forward so you don't normally need to know but still, it was a surprise to see that.

They remind me of the bug aliens in the Doctor Who episode, Planet of the Dead.

John Compton wrote:

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John, Tonya and Linda Thank You for All you do.

John thank you for your inspiration for this years Holiday Journal

Playerville Journal

Happy Holidays PFS Community

Lucas

Wow, that's amazing!

Fallyrion Dunegrién wrote:

Why not roll20?

Patience.

-Lisa

I hope this happens. I have a pro account with roll20 and would love to see Pathfinder licensed content.

The maps look great! I especially like the heated mining dispute. I love the style.

I'm not real into scifi but there are a few things that popped into my head.

1. A flat world

2. A world that is a giant space turtle.

3. A world that is a cybernetic organism

It's a standard action. Ethereal jaunt has a (D) at the end of the duration which means it's dismissable as a standard action.

It's not specifically said in the rules but durations run out at the beginning of the turn.

For example I cast a spell with a 2 round duration, it's available until the next turn, then the next turn, then it's gone at the beginning of the caster's next turn.

Spirit sense - I don't know the answer to that one. It doesn't seems like it does distinguish based on the wording of the ability of the spell or ability but I don't know.

How should the balance of poisons be handled?

The DC, onset time and frequency (both the time and the maximum number of checks) as well as the number of checks needed to cure all work well with the new system, but those things were balanced with the severity of the ability damage, which can't be taken into account with the new rules?

Potent poison attacks that were balanced with easy saves are not pretty much worthless if they work on the same penalty track regardless of their original severity.

Can you suggest a quick rule of thumb to convert those?

I am interested in this same thing. Did you ever figure anything out?

Jeremiziah wrote:

Bioware, please!

Please not! I might be the minority, but I don't consider their games to be RPGs. They're usually squad-level real-time strategy games with many RPG elements and a strong story, but the only game that really captured the RPG feeling for me was NWN - and they messed up the sequel (or let others mess it up).

Something like Deus Ex (the first one, not the sequel) or Vampire Bloodlines would be fun, too.

+1 a Pathfinder Infinity Engine game would be a dream come true.

I have a 6th level character that qualifies for this!

Hermea!? That hasn't been mentioned since the 3.5 campaign setting right? Awesome. I was wondering if it even existed any more.

Tyler Beck wrote:

Dylos wrote:

Why is the Iconic Kenesist a young human? Last I checked that wouldn't be PFS legal.

The iconic characters aren't really created with PFS in mind. I'm assuming whoever ordered the art for the kineticist imagined her as a young human and wrote the character's backstory with that in mind. Can one of us create a young character for PFS? No, but you can play this one.

Right, but it makes her the first iconic that cannot be used as an actual character and leveled up, since it's only legal to play her as a pregen.

Any other pregen, a player can decide they like the character and continue to use them by leveling them up, but this one cannot be leveled up since they would no longer be legal.

Well you can still play an older yoon. :)

Awesome! You deserve it dude.

Update: We now have over 90 tables scheduled (93 exactly, 95 if you count the module and the AP being ran as two each) and 5 (count em) 5 five star GMs! (that is counting myself and TOZ of course.)

I want one!

congratulations!

It's a shame there's no program to apply templates for the lazy GM.

Herolab can do this.

I'll totally help. Take Mike up on his offer. That's awesome.

My first character was really not that great and I stuck with it. He's played 12th level plus games and done well.

Im not gming at paizocon but of you're going I could play a slot with you

A big thanks to Robyn for posting this. It's nice to be announced. :)

Thanks everybody! Customer service got my profile updated today! I actually put off posting here because it didn't feel right to post to the forums until the 5 stars were updated and next to my name. :)

Thanks again for all the support and warm welcome. I've asked a lot of you guys for a advice a long the way. Thanks for helping this happen. :)

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I don't know yet until open signup comes up as I'm not GMing. I did lottery some cool games though.

Wow, Archer quote. Nice

Thanks for the thread.

I'm interested in something informal. We will be a big group so meeting in the Park is good with me

Congrats Chris! I know you have deserved this since I played your Ruby Phoenix Tournament. Good job!

Here's a cheat sheet with a description of the always available list and the fame table. It makes it easier to make purchases if you have it at games.

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I'm still interested in an FAQ on this to find out how channel energy works with cursed wounds.

Congrats Katie! It's well deserved!

Michael Brock wrote:

The elf oracle favored class bonus (which is also the aasimar oracle favored class bonus), is most likely going to be removed as an option.

I hope there is a free character rebuild, this is a fairly heavy hit to a elf oracle.

I have a character using the same option. If there is no free rebuild, I just won't be playing that character anymore.

Congrats!

Really neat post and responses, but I think this is the wrong sub-forum. This might be better served in Pathfinder General Discussion.

It was in general discussion. It got moved here.

Aberrant Templar wrote:

Brian Darnell wrote:

Any good reason why they don't just propagate forever?

Globsters don't have an intelligence score, and have no capacity for learning or reason. And they're oozes. So they mostly just float around eating whatever happens to get close to them. They aren't even animals with instinctive drives, they're literally mindless.

Also, the description says they can reproduce after consuming four medium sized creatures but it doesn't say those creatures carry over from day to day.

So I imagine areas where globsters exists quickly become devoid of food and develop a reputation among intelligent underwater critters as a place not to go.

Oh, areas with globsters are full of food. Just that it is roadkill flavored jello for the bigger, nastier beasties that lie beneath the waves. So essentially, it is a mix of both dwindling food sources and increasing number of predators, made all the worse that they are just mindless jellyfish basically, and as such they can't solve the problem.

Plus, due to the heavy connection with the sea in the bestiary entry, you can also assume that they are rather reliant on a saltwater environment. Not that they'd just up and die in fresh water or land, but they likely cannot really THRIVE. It might be an interesting adventure seed though, having an encroachment of a new, more adaptable breed that are devastating a swamp (and with both ecological and possibly economic interests in the area, you could find lots of shadowy forces that might have had a hand in this shift in habitat)

This is the answer I'm going to use.

They need to eat the equivalent of a family every day to do it? Most living creatures don't stand by and watch you do that, they run, fight, or whatever.

It doesn't have to be intelligent creatures. It can be any 4 medium creatures or equivalent. So 8 smalls, 16 tinies, 32 diminutive, or 64 fines. They have a swim speed of 40 and they are mind;ess, this is their only way of reproduction so they don't care if they take 1d6 damage. 1 globster becomes 2, then the next one consumes and creates and so on. They can just swim around eating and vomiting, eating and vomiting, eating and vomiting until it isn't an ocean, it's a globsterpocalypse

The globsters are all killed by the shadows, specters, wights, and wraiths that took over the world.

Also, someone threw brown mold into the Elemental Plane of Fire, turning it into the Elemental Plane of Brown Mold.

Congratulations. You have unseated the former winner and become the current winner of the thread.

The same reason any other monster doesn't take over the world:

They sit around in a 10' x 10' room waiting until adventurers come in to either defeat them or be dinner.

You win the thread so far. Any better reasons?