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Rise of the Runelords would be a perfect adaptation for this broken up into 6 or so movies.
Before each movie and at the end of each movie as a background for the credits is the up-to-date character sheet of the heroes and major NPCs.

This leads to the follow up question then of if you can wear a spiked gauntlet and not have it interfere with other activities or weapons/sheilds, why would any proficient user not have one worn at all times?

If this is the case, no one's ever unarmed, no one worries about dropping their weapon when stunned, being disarmed of your primary weapon, not having a melee weapon to threaten with while using a bow, having a weapon useable in a grapple or while swallowed, etc.

That just doesn't seem reasonable, or everyone would have worn spiked gauntlets throughout history.

OK using that argument.
Can you sing that song without the microphone and have it do what it's supposed to do....be heard by everyone in the audience? Probably not unless it's a very small venue.
Can you write a post to destroy my point without your keyboard? No. Not one that anyone could see anyway.
These are not comparisons that equal the action being done with a bonded item.
How about this...
I am on a bus and I have a program in my Iphone that allows me to access the PRD spells list. I also have memorized certain spells' info that is usually pertinent to me (like my daily spells). I need to know immediately what glitterdust does. I have read the text for glitterdust but haven't currently memorized the text of the spell because I haven't used it much recently. I can use my Iphone to look up the info I am needing. The Iphone is the item that facilitates my being able to find that spell. I cannot access that info on my own without first memorizing it. I did not and could not spontaneously produce that info. The caster must have the ability to spontaneously produce a spell. He doesn't if an item is the primary facilitator.

Fake Healer wrote:

A bonded object can be used once per day to cast any one spell...
The object is used to cast the spell. The wizard uses the item but he is not casting the spell, he is activating the item that casts the spell.

Then the spell is treated like a spell cast by the wizard for DCs and all that jazz.
That is RAW and RAI and it doesn't allow the Wizard access to the DD PrC.

This has already been discussed, but, once again. So you say he is activating a masterwork dagger that casts a spell?

A bonded object can be used once per day to cast any one spell...
The object is used to cast the spell. The wizard uses the item but he is not casting the spell, he is activating the item that casts the spell.

Then the spell is treated like a spell cast by the wizard for DCs and all that jazz.
That is RAW and RAI and it doesn't allow the Wizard access to the DD PrC.

So, Paizo announced that they're gonna Open Playtest the Cavalier and Summoner and Witch, etc., etc.

Cool!

I'm looking forward to the new book in August.

BUT WHAT ABOUT Warlock, Scout, Samurai, Swashbuckler, Duskblade, Hexblade, etc., etc.?!!

And the PrCs?!: Mage of the 7-Fold Veil, Acolyte of the Skin, Dervish, Bear Warrior, Pious Templar, Radiant Servant of Saranrae, Animal Lord, Tempest, Drunken Master, etc., etc.

Will we ever see some of these in a Pathfinder book?

I might run this as a Cleric of a Pantheon rather than a Cleric of Two Deities.

Just my 2cp.

Glitterdust. For extra fun a sculpted glitterdust is awesome to behold (and frustrating as a DM if the player has been working on his DCs for it), of course sculpted is 3.5 but if allowed in PRPG it's brutal.

If anybody is the area of Worcester, MA is looking for an intelligent, exceptionally hard-worker, I'm here.

taig wrote:

Nice. Where were these originally? I remember there were a bunch of different kinds of grue in the original source, too.

Zork. A game currently best known for the phrase "It is dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue." EDIT: Oh, I thought you meant the thing it was referencing.

Mairkurion {tm} wrote:

I sure would like to see today's blog pic. :(

Here

*and as the moon rises full, our intrepid young man has dreams of hopping about ridiculously in a sideways manner and rooting about in cardboard tubes. He awakens in the morning smelling of cedar chips and musk with bloodstains on his mouth.
"Dear god, what have I done!!"
Rise of the Wereferret, coming soon to a theatre near you!

Nobody in my group is of an alternate lifestyle (unless you count eating WAY to much and being obese as one) and I am playing a cleric/ordained champion that is keeping them guessing as to his affiliation.
I am married with kids and yet I still find it fun to explore different mind-sets than my own within the games that I play. I am very open to people and I don't just have a "live and let live" approach, I have a "live and let live and learn about people's situations and struggles to help me understand what they are going through" type of mentality. I don't just want to be tolerant, I want to be understanding and inviting in my approach to people instead of just allowing them to exist.
I also played a gay sorcerer in a play-by-post who was a bit over the top at times and also was very self-confident (arrogant) and pushy. He was a blast to play and I based him off of a person I met once that I had a good long conversation with.
I haven't played a cross-dresser or a transexual......yet, but only because I have yet to really interact with one and don't want to portray the roll in a negative manner due to a lack of knowledge as to the motivations of such a person.

This is just really plain annoying. Paizo is blocked from my work again. The army periodically tightens down on the sites that people are able to access and for now, Paizo is off limits. So only posting very first thing in the morning or in the evening after the kids go to bed, probably. You can still surf ebay and craigslist or any of dozens of fishing/hunting sites... Gun collection sites and messageboards? No problem! But Paizo messageboards are games and therefore forbidden. I f*cking hate working with dumb-ass DOIM and their arbitrary restrictions!

How to visit the Web sites your company blocks
The Problem: Companies often block employees from visiting certain sites -- ranging from the really nefarious (porn) to probably bad (gambling) to mostly innocuous (Web-based e-mail services).
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Another way to accomplish the same thing, from Frauenfelder and Trapani: Use Google's translation service, asking it to do an English-to-English translation. Just enter this -- Google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=www.blockedsite.com -- replacing "blockedsite.com" with the Web address of the site you want to visit. Google effectively acts as a proxy, calling up the site for you.
The Risk: If you use a proxy to, say, catch up on e-mail or watch a YouTube video, the main risk is getting caught by your boss. But there are scarier security risks: Online bad guys sometimes buy Web addresses that are misspellings of popular sites, then use them to infect visitors' computers, warns Lobel. Companies often block those sites, too -- but you won't be protected from them if you use a proxy.
How to Stay Safe: Don't make a habit of using proxies for all your Web surfing. Use them only to visit specific sites that your company blocks for productivity-related reasons -- say, YouTube. And watch your spelling.

I graduated from UD a year ago or so. *insert school spirit saying here*. Right now I'm aboot 15 minutes away from campus.
I know DOK's but prefer to either order directly from here or go to Between Books in Claymont.

I'm glad to see something mentioned Wayne. I was 99% sure it was his sketches but didn't see anything in the actual document.
DE for the win just moved from Dover to Newark. Fun times.

Just a thought on the rogue issues.....if a Cavalier thinks that there is a rogue around, or figures out that there is after a spleenectomy, then all he has to do is not use his special ability for that fight. No problems. Occasionally a class isn't able to use 100% of it's ability. It happens.

lastknightleft wrote:

I wish that every day lol, I live in FL

I feel you pain on that one. I live in DE!

So a perfectly realistic situation would be for the crafter to start with the same gold, but less experience than the rest of the party. You OK with that?

Malachi Tarchannen wrote:

For all the reasons stated, I've absolutely hated the fact that a mid-level character could belly-flop off the Empire State Building and then jump to his feet, saying, "And now, for my next trick..." I mean, King Kong didn't survive that fall; why should Conan?

And how do the people (average, every day people - likely NPC classes) that fall tens of thousands of feet and survive calculate in?

Such as "The longest survivable fall, 26 January 1972, was Vesna Vulovic a stewardess in a DC-9 which blew up at 33,330 feet. She was in the tail section of the aircraft and though injured survived the fall."

Ah, so now we're getting to the root of the problem...

I could somewhat see needing the Int 13, perhaps. But it would also require Combat Expertise, pretty much completely negating the benefit of the bonus feat not requiring prereqs.

BTW, how are you finding the resources in your neck of the woods? Are you getting ABA or any of the other therapies? How is your son doing?

Also I wish I lived near you too. SoCal, someone in the same boat, thinking of homeschooling, D&Der....it would make the whole process easier and less imposing to share the burden....

DM_Blake wrote:

Yes, you spent a feat on this ability, so you should see some benefit from it. To those who disagree, I ask this: If it were your character, would you ever choose to start with one less feat than everyone else (say, skip your level 1 feat, never take it, pretend it never existed)? No, you wouldn't. If you have invested a precious feat resource, you should have something to show for it.

Except that this is a misguided argument. Nothing in those feats implies that they only function before the game starts, or even that they're allowed before the game starts. That means there's no basis for anyone to say you're forcing them to pretend that feat is discarded for no gain. The character will have exactly as much chance to use it once the game starts as all the other characters have the chance to use their feats.

I'm a very generous DM, but I think I would say no. An earlier poster hit this on the head when they said the gold piece figure is not "How much gold you have made in your career to spend on items", it is the value of the gear you should have at that level. Which feat you take should not matter.
Oh something didn't click but it does now...if you feel this way, and obviously there are a couple of people and that is cool, then the OP in this case (and his party) should designate which of their paid for items were made by the druid, yeah?

I would allow it but I would restrict your items to items that are affordable to someone with that amount of starting gold and no feats. So no individual items can have a full value of more than a certain percentage of the starting gold. Usually I use 1/2 the starting gold as my per item cap. It makes players spread the wealth a bit and prevents the "look upon my poor ragged self as I hack thee down with mine Holy Avenger sword" type of dude that dumps all the money into one item.

My situation is similar to David's. If the school just says, "We have nothing to teach him because he's too far above his grade level. Have you considered private tutoring?" then there's something seriously wrong with the school.

Homeschooling appeals to me but my wife worries about the lack of broader social interaction.

Come to the dark side Fake Healer - search your feelings. You know you want to homeschool.

Seriously, my wive and I have been very happy homeschooling our children. We have got to know them very well and can take real, direct pride in all of their achievements. They are better rounded, better read, and more mature than most children their own age. My wife, who for years doubted her own reading abilities, is quite proud of the fact that she taught all four of our children to read. If we fall down in one area here or there, we know that they have the ability to learn whatever they want on their own, and they have a desire to learn as well. In my opinion, the desire to learn is the single most important aspect of education a child can recieve.

The main downside to homeschooling, and it needs to be faced up front, is that it is a real investment of time, limiting the freedom of the parents. But as far as I am concerned, if you can't sacrifice time for your children, why have them. I have trouble relating to parents who view time spent with their own children as a burden.

Lokie wrote:

Imposing a strength requirement on crossbows kind of seems against the grain or point of the thing.

True, but why can't you have a +1 str bonus to damage on a crossbow, as opposed to a longbow or greatbow? THAT is what generally makes the crossbow lose out as a viable weapon: if you have the strength, you use a bow, because it WILL be better than the crossbow.

So, if you have a str crossbow, that consideration goes away. However, the -2 to att for not having the required str doesn't seem to make any sense for a crossbow. Thus, if you go through the effort to make a str crossbow, and you have the str, you can crank and fire just as you would a regular crossbow. With the PFCS feat, you get to use it like a bow (this is now 2 more feats than the bow user needs...)

However, if you don't have the str, you just need longer to draw it. So how long? I think most could draw even a very heavy bow in a round or two...

If you have a very mighty arbalest (str 40 or +15) and you have a 20 str (+5), it would take you 3 SA's to draw the arbalest, 3 MA's with Rapid Reload (so a shot every other round!).

At least, that's what I propose. I want to see more crossbow options for directed, single damage (thus a strength crossbow).

Anyway, I am done with this subject. I obviously have too much emotion about it to continue on rationally.

Okay, adding a new post because the reply feature is getting a little wonky..

Here's an idea that worked for a cousin of mine- private charter bus. It was easy to put together because we were in NY(brooklyn specifically), but it might work for you if you find enough parents who felt the same way you did and could prove that their kids deserved/could make it into a more challenging program.

And my daughter does run rings around most of the 4th graders in the school in most subjects. There are more than half that are better at math, but in reading there is only a couple even in her range. There is a Needs Assistance, Meets Proficiency and an Excels At grading for her grade. I have been lobbying to get her into an Advanced Reading program but the teacher "hasn't had time to test the whole class in that area yet". If you haven't tested her skill level in reading then how do you judge her on a report card? I am getting nowhere with this teacher and her previous one in Catholic school was no better. By 4th or 5th grade kids have decided if learning is fun or if it is something to just grind through and I've seen too many talented people left to die in the education system to leave my daughter at their hands. School in general (unless you toss 5-10K into the equation) isn't geared to make people into the best they can be, it's geared to teach to the average which makes everyone in the system gravitate toward that average.

Hey James,

The reason that I like the high damage rules for falling is that I want to keep a feeling of mortality in my games. The Cliff's of Certain Doom towering 100' over the valley should be something that every sane person should stay clear of.

With the current rules a 100' drop is almost certainly survived by any character over level 5 even if they fail the save.

It is a not a question of should you fear the Dragon. It is a question of what does the dragon fear? Falling off a 300' cliff should make people terrified. That is why the dragon is going to live up there.

Besides this is me watering down my falling damage rule I was using 55d6 at 100' before.

The DC is the reflex save to take half damage the faster you are going the more difficult it is to roll with the hit.

Also if we are talking about spell effects. A telekinesis spell will only move a person 20' a round so unless the target will have several rounds to act before getting to lethal levels. In the case of reverse gravity the victim has at least 2 rounds (one on the way up and one coming down) to save himself or be rescued.

There is a bunch of people in my area that are home schooling (the area schools have failed 2 years in a row to meet standards) and under Umbrella schools they have some OK guidance, group social interactions and a certain amount of lesson plan guidance. Their kids from ages 6-18 are some of the most well-spoken, well-mannered, socially adept, and educated kids I've ever come across. I have better conversations with any of them than I do with most adults and the topics of conversation are very challenging and show a special affinity with intelligent topics.
I am a pretty sharp dude with decent overall knowledge and I am particularly good at math and science. I don't think it would be hard to educate my children at least to the High School level if not through until the end of HS. Of course I do realize that I would also be educating myself in this process which is a bonus and I believe that a good teacher can teach anything, whether they have a degree in it or not. It's a matter of learning what you are teaching and presenting it in a fashion that makes the info fun and easy to absorb.
The teachers in my area are a joke. I am sick of getting my 6 yr old's first grade teacher sending home report cards with "Meets Proficiency" in areas that I know she has a greater than or equal to ability level as an average 4th grader. The girl is 6 and she reads and understands novelettes, the bible, and any signs, books, papers she can see and enjoys her high proficiency at it.
I don't trust some lump of a teacher who is just shoving kids through an education system with my children (and it seems like a majority of them are from my experiences).

At least the kids dealing drugs in school will have something else to spend money on other than guns.

*Just one more reason why I am thinking hard about home-schooling the fruit of my loins.

I don't mean to go off topic, but I have a question for Treant. I was just wondering what your next guide was going to be. I really liked the first two, and I can see that you are paying a lot of attention to detail.

After reading through the bard's spell comparison, I am yearning for a Wizard one. Please tell me it is on your to do list :D

The biggest difficulty for me in running this, would be to keep myself away from the temptation of, once they get to giving their gifts to baby Jesus, having something really bizarre and out-of-place happen. Like having a wormhole suck them out of Biblical Israel and drop them into the Material Plane of Golarion and progress into an entirely different campaign from there.

That or have them continue to quest together, eventually becoming powerful movers-and-shakers of Israel and leading them to an Epic level campaign culminating in defeating and forever destroying Lucifer.

....I had to get all of that out of my system.

Fake Healer wrote:

I almost do want to see a solo fight between a fighter and a ranger. The switch-hitter ranger with entangle and an AniComp I believe would have the upper hand against a melee oriented fighter. And if not the ranger could run away (faster) and the fighter couldn't track him anyway.

PLEASE don't take this the wrong way, because we got along pretty good in general, but as for this paragraph:

SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP!

Hopefully that isn't too subtle. ;)

Give it up Treant. Petrus is determined to continue acting like all of the Ranger's abilities pale in comparison to a fighter's because a fighter can fight better, can take the skills and be worse at them, and no proper adventure should ever have skill usages that matter. Some people just won't see the forest for all the trees.

I almost do want to see a solo fight between a fighter and a ranger. The switch-hitter ranger with entangle and an AniComp I believe would have the upper hand against a melee oriented fighter. And if not the ranger could run away (faster) and the fighter couldn't track him anyway.

I've been told I have well-turned calves BTW.

And you......you're too......KILT WEARINGY!!!

Children of Men
Raising Arizona
Fight Club

Shawshank Redemption.

I actually have 'drop everything' actors that if I see a movie that has them in it I must do that. The short list is---
Patrick Swayze- especially Steel Dawn or Roadhouse.
Heath Ledger- especially Knight's Tale and that one with Mandy Moore in it.
Sandra Bullock- everything.
Matthew McConahaugh- everything, I have a bit of a man-crush on him. I think he could turn me! Especially Reign of Fire.

I don't get the 'low AC' talk. Eventually a mithral fullplate and full use of max-dex for it makes him very close to a THfighter in full plate. He's gonna have the same access to AC boosting items like rings and Natural Armor. I would like to see a level 10 ranger and fighter compared with comparable equipment and see what the actual AC, ranged hit and damage, and melee hit and damage would look like. If I get time today I will slap them together to see, but I'm uber-busy.

@Fake Healer: I just don't think that sentence really supports what you think it does.
The main purpose is clearly to say if you can't wield a (2-Handed Weapon) Double Weapon in two hands, you can still attack with one end of it, one-handed. The fact it says you CAN use Double Weapons as a SINGLE 2-Handed Weapon doesn't counter the fact you're wielding it in two hands when using it as a Double Weapon (they're listed as "2-Handed Weapons" in Equipment), but is simply a nice option for those who don't like the -2 penalties... i.e. if only one end has ghosttouch or something especially useful, why take the 2WF penalties when you can maximize your chances with the effective end?

If you are attacking with it as a double weapon, you MUST be wielding it with two hands, which is THE requirement for the 2-Handed damage bonus. There simply is NO penalty which supersedes the fact you're wielding it two hands. There is nothing suggesting the main-hand counts as a 1-Handed weapon that isn't stemming from the subject marker: "the (2WF) penalties apply as if..." (which don't themselves speak to STR dmg bonus).

If you WANT to read it as counting as a 1 Handed + Light Weapon for ALL purposes (even though it's not introduced that way) that also bars Power Attacking with the off-hand, since it then "is" a Light Weapon, which makes the build EVEN less viable. Given that this came up in context of 2WF not being effective even when ignoring DEX req to focus on STR, I'm not sure what the big deal is about spending another Feat (Exotic) to make a fairly big Feat investment (2WF) effective in one melee context (Full Attack).

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Double Weapons:
Am I missing something?

This is what the damage section says (that's relevant):
"Off-Hand Weapon: When you deal damage with a weapon in your off hand, you add only 1/2 your Strength bonus. If you have a Strength penalty, the entire penalty applies.
Wielding a Weapon Two-Handed: When you deal damage with a weapon that you are wielding two-handed, you add 1-1/2 times your Strength bonus (Strength penalties are not multiplied). You don't get...

"Double Weapons: Dire flails, dwarven urgroshes, gnome hooked hammers, orc double axes, quarterstaves, and two-bladed swords are double weapons. A character can fight with both ends of a double weapon as if fighting with two weapons, but he incurs all the normal attack penalties associated with two-weapon combat, just as though the character were wielding a one-handed weapon and a light weapon.

The character can also choose to use a double weapon two-handed, attacking with only one end of it. A creature wielding a double weapon in one hand can't use it as a double weapon—only one end of the weapon can be used in any given round.

In the Switch-hitter guide it states that Dex is not important to the build. That said Mithral full plate has Max Dex of +3 which isn't bad considering that the primary ability of the build was strength and that dex was only a consideration afterward. If you wanted to invest more into Dex than Str then you would be the Archer build, not the switch-hitter build.
The switch hitter is different than the archer and you don't seem to be seeing the differences.

I like the pineapples......is that wrong?

Were they in initiative? If not then the others would've been flatfooted to him and not able to try to stop him. If they were in initiative then it would be possible but I would require that they know that something had happened to Valeros, i.e. a spellcraft check or something, otherwise they would have to just assume the Valeros was doing a slightly odd movement or trying to escape from something dangerous.
If I saw the huge fighter-type in my group turn and run and I don't know that it is a mind-effecting spell or something, then I would be more inclined to think "Oh crap, something in that room is REALLY f~*#ing dangerous.....WAIT FOR ME!!" than to try to stop the fighter.

Use an alternative means of storing information, such as with beads or knotwork

The Goblin Wizards 'spellbook' could be a collection of knotted strings all rolled up and stored away in a pack, or hung carefully on the wall of his cave. To prepare spells, he traces his pudgy fingers along the strings, with his eyes closed, measuring the spaces between knots.