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Lipto the Shiv wrote:

Gimmie both barrels! I can take it!

*chuk* *chuk* *BLAM!* ;-)

Blarg! I am dead!

As an aside, I noticed that bribery isn't explicitly forbidden in the rules... Here's looking forward to 2013! :D

Seems I might be waiting a while... oh well.

Gimmie both barrels! I can take it!

Cap of Vocational Variance
Aura strong divination; CL 15th
Slot head; Price 24,000 gp; Weight 1 lb.
Description
A round, flat topped velvet cap similar to the kind commonly worn by scholars, the cap of vocational variance allows its wearer to tap into the knowledge and experiences of alternate versions of himself that exist in the many, supposedly infinite, parallel universes. Once per day as an immediate action before attempting a skill check, the cap may be activated granting the wearer a significant boost to the skill about to be used. The wearer is treated as having maximum ranks for his level in this skill, and it is considered to be a class skill for the wearer, entitling him to the +3 bonus for being trained in the skill if he does not already possess this bonus. These bonuses last for the duration of a single skill check, up to one week. Though the magic of the hat replenishes daily, the cap of vocational variance may not be used again while it is already providing a bonus to a skill. If the cap is removed while the wearer is still performing the skill check these bonuses are immediately lost. In this case, if the skill being used is one usable only with training, and the wearer does not actually possess ranks in the skill, the check automatically fails.
Construction
Requirements Craft Wondrous Item, moment of prescience; Cost 12,000

Just submitted... now I sit on pins and needles for the remainder of the month worrying that my item didn't have enought 'zazz' to make the cut.

Just for clarity, here are the Hobby Industry estimated sales chart, from Q2 2011

Makes me wonder just what percentage of sales each line is getting.

Also, kinda happy that Shadowrun is on the list.

Also also, really surprised that Shadowrun sales are being beat by the Dragon Age RPG...

gran rey de los mono is BANNED because I don't know what his name means.

Woof! Yeah, hittin on some pretty heavy subjects here...

Ok. Puttin on the serious hat here for a minute... there we go!

Your example of terrorism, isn't exactly accurate. That's more of a shadow-ops type thing. The whole purpose of terrorism is to frighten not the officials in charge, but the populace they govern into your way of thinking. This is why most acts of terrorism in the modern day tend to involve explosives. The targets in and of themselves matter little, it's all about sending a message, which is "listen to us, or we might kill you". It's the 'might' that is supposed to instill loyalty. Unless whoever is performing these acts knows that you support them completely, you are theoretically a target.
In theory, terrorism is meant to foment enough discord among the populace, that they no longer trust in their own officials to protect them, and therefore join the opposition out of necessity.

Nodnarb is BANNED for only posting once on this page!

All politicalliness aside, my dad taught me three things:

Never eat at a place called 'Joe's'

Never play cards with a man called 'Doc'

and Never trust a man with two first names... :)

Dunno if this counts, but I used to have a cleric of a sea god named Saldi Effluvius...

Don't know how much my cred will stand for the double confirmation but...

If your int drops to say 11, you can't cast anything higher than a 1st level spell. While it might not be immediately obvious, a 1st level spell isn't the same thing as a 1st level spell slot. By the same token, a 9th level spell yada yada yada...

So yeh, a 17th level wizard with an 11 int (for whatever reason), could cast a silent, maximized, quickened magic missile that occupies a 9th level spell slot. Since his caster level is high enough, he would still get the max damage (5 missiles at 5 damage per). He couldn't heighten it at all however, because he can't cast anything other than 1st level spells.

Even thought no stats have been published (AFAIK) for characters like Geb, Nex, The Whispering Tyrant, Aroden (when he was mortal), or Baba Yaga, the descriptions of these persons certainly seem to indicate they were (or are) much more powerful than PC's could become with the current rules.

Since I personally feel that anything a NPC can do should be attainable by a PC, a super high level play book, even a very basic one, should be warranted.

Have you ever passed your hand through the center of bonfire without being burnt?

Yes. But it helps to be fast, drunk, and stupid...

I haven't really checked out a whole lot of 3PP stuff yet, although the book of the River Kingdoms does sound pretty awesome...

One thing I haven't heard anyone mention nor seen at my FLGS is any 3PP adventures... Have there been any good ones released yet?

They remind me of the Wolfen from the Confrontation miniatures game (by Rakham). If you need minis for your game, they'll be just like the pics.

I'm still sorta bitter about Confrontation. I had just started to buy some of the Wolfen minis, then next thing I know they're next to impossible to find... Pity, they were some really great minis...

Thread resurrection.
This is necessary I think...
This is just too sweet!

For a minute there, I thought the title of this thread read "Sausage Effigy".

Carry on!

I don't know how many times I read through the adventure and actually saw 'sausage' before my brain kicked in and said "No, dip$#!+! Read it again!"

I'm just about to start running this path, and I too have a player who is intent on becoming a Hellknight. My biggest question isn't about rationale, but feasibility. To be a Hellknight, the candidate must slay a devil of a CR equal or greater than his level in the prescence of another Hellknight. How would I go about justifying this? I had thought about just having another Hellknight show up as he neared seventh level because 'he was ready', but this seems a bit contrived. Any other ideas?

Better to be a bother than have your resume eaten by the dire hamsters in the email server! :D

Dire hamsters!? Inconceivable!

Excellent, thanks!

Sorry to be a bother.

Hi,

I was wondering if it would be alright to send a letter inquiring as to the status of my resume. I submitted it around the point when Paizo.com was undergoing maintenance, and am uncertain whether it was successfully received.

I once had the brilliant idea to add a 'super-crit' rule to our games. I announced one night that if a nat 20 is rolled, and the confirmation roll was also a nat 20, then a third confirmation roll would result in an instakill.

An hour later at the end of 'Poryphry House Horror'... Player gains initiative and fires an arrow at the BBEG... 20... 20... 18...

I was not a happy camper.

CourtFool wrote:

Jandrem wrote:

I eventually figured out that if I could catch this character flat-footed, their AC plummeted to around 13.

Did your player take steps to prevent his character from being caught flat-footed?

Not really. I recall it being one of his arguments against his character being too overpowered.

To be fair, it's not like I was able to dish out a lot of damage with my +1 rapier. :)

We had a Elf Bard in our Scarred Lands campaign who worshiped a jelly donut. We thought he was just messing around when he rolled the character, but he kept this going for about 2 years RL, singing praise and trying to gather worshipers of the jelly donut. When the donut got stale, he just went to the bakery and got a new one, and began singing praise for his deities new form. All things considered, he rolled played it excellently; he was very excited about this jelly donut!

The scary part about this was the backstory he wrote up, explaining just how his character came to worship said donut... I can't remember all the details, but I remember reading it, nodding to myself thinking "yeah... that makes a lot of sense" I think I even gave him some bonus xps for it :P

I rolled up a six-armed tauric wood elf/hippogriff named Murtauch one time. Never got a chance to play him as his soul was lost to a deck of many things right off the rip...

This one's almost a two-for-one...

A few years back I was running my group through the revision of 'Mud Sorcerers Tomb' When they entered the room with the strange altar and magic carpet, a few of the party members wisely decided to circumvent the carpet by hugging the walls of the room so they could get to the altar. Once they got there they took quite some time investigating the items on it. Eventually, one of my other players got bored and announced he was walking over to the altar as well. Right over the carpet. As soon as his foot his the ground I announced to the group that his character had vanished. Naturally this freaks the rest of the party out. They then start frantically debating over how to free their companion from the trap (he was visible in the carpet as a small figure drowning). After a few moments, another player declares "I'm going to throw the carpet into one of those braziers and burn it!"

"Oh, so you grab the carpet?"

"Uh..."

*Poof*

Even though they managed to free the second player, this really made my day, I tell ya! :)

Two dozen kobolds.
I gain the initiative.
FIREBALL, BEEYATCH!

I swing my broadsword
at the great wyrm red dragon.
Crap! I rolled a 1!

The monsters are slain,
our knapsacks laden with loot.
Quick! To the tavern!

The DM curses
after rolling for treasure.
Music to my ears.

3.The Blue Goose

That's funny. There was actually a bar/restaurant near where I live a while back called The Blue Goose.

21. Hell in a Handbasket - "Where are you going?" "Hell in a handbasket"

22. The Library - (recycle the previous gag)

Don't forget my favorite "No Place In Particular"

I once ran a game where I had planned an encounter for the PC's to accidentally free a trapped efreet. I had it set up so the efreet would be unable to escape from the immediate area he was encountered in, and would try to bargain for his life. Naturally, the players wanted wishes.
I then whipped out a six page contract I'd prepared ahead of time, filled with as much crazy, legalese-sounding terms and clauses as I could come up with. I had each player read and sign the contract in character.

The best part was the contract was designed to allow me to adjucate their wishes pretty much however I wanted. >:D

Chuck Norris CAN in fact, drive 55. He doesn't however, because it's faster for him to walk.

As far as traps and AC goes, I'd say that if the party is aware there is a trap (the rogue found it), then they wouldn't be flat-footed if said rogue botches his disable device check. If they just blunder into a trap with no knowledge of it being there, then I'd say they're flat-footed.
This is just my thoughts. I have no idea if there's an official ruling on this.

I wish that I would win the lottery.

Granted! You are subsequently stoned to death.

I wish that Paizo still published Dungeon and Dragon.

I wish that I hadn't got in a car accident earlier this week.

Granted, but you get into a car accident tomorrow.

I wish my dog didn't like to climb onto my lap when I'm trying to post a reply.

I wish that corporations would lose the rights of a person.

Granted, but they gain the powers of a government.

I wish that Microsoft had not canceled True Fantasy Online.

Don't forget to pick up a medical grade truncheon. :)

Dear God! This thread... will.. not... die! HOW DO WE STOP IT?!?!?

As an aside, I once got props for using 'defenestrated' in conversation.
Gaming also taught me the word 'formication' (note: not for-N-ication...)

Tarren Dei wrote:

I think it would make a great engine for a Supers game. From what I've seen of 4e, the fit seems better than it does for fantasy.

I'd beg to differ. In my experience, Supers RPGs function best on an ungridded level and when you have access to powers that can be used outside of sharp limits.

Absolutely agreed. I remember way back when White Wolf put out Aberrant, and everyone in my group thought 'This is the way to go! Yeah!' Fast forward several years to when the d20 version of Aberrant was published. I was excited as hell to get it for Christmas, and I read it cover to cover. Then I realized the flaw. The level system of d20 was counter-intuitive to the style of game. While you started at third level, and were technically a super hero, it didn't seem like you could ever do anything 'truly' powerful. Even a character with the super strength ability would only top out pretty close to what a D&D character of a similar level would be. A very far cry from the tank-lifting, earthquake causing strength that is a staple of the genre. While it makes sense for heroes to 'grow', the leveling system just didn't fit the bill.

I find this thread silly.

On second though, let us not go to the 4th Edition and the "Younger Audience" thread... 'Tis a silly place.

Sorry. Couldn't resist. :P

I believe that for magical weapons and armor, each plus adds 1 to hardness and gives the item +10 hit points. So the mithril armor would have (8 x 5) + 50 = 90 hp.

Lipto the Shiv wrote:

Wicht wrote:

In June the family is going to Origins in Columbus for our family vacation.

Rock on! Make sure you check out the North Market while you're in town.

I'll look into it. We're going to make a whole week of it. Currently we are also planning on the science center and the zoo.

Also, if you're into that kind of thing, try to hit up a restaurant called Akaihana (previously Restaurant Japan). It's easily the best Japanese food in the city (and if you believe several reviews found on the interwebs, possibly the country.)

In my 20+ years of gaming, I have never seen someone play an undead character except vampires. I would be very interested in seeing someone play a sentient skeleton.

Did it. Died the first session. :)

My Nerull worshiping cleric is fervently working towards becoming a lich.

Sorry I was boring. In fact, I specifically invoked the ewok imagery and said "replace the teddy bears with bug-eyed flying squrrels, and you have the idea".

Call it the path of least resistance I guess. :)

Wow. That would have made RotJ so much kewler... :)

Welp, there it is! Proof that God exists and wants us to be happy!

Empowered, enhanced, maximized, twinned Orb of Force from a 10th level wand. Followed up with a quickened, empowered, enhanced, maximized, twinned Orb of Force from a 10th level wand.

(Epic artificers can be a handful :P)

In June the family is going to Origins in Columbus for our family vacation.

Rock on! Make sure you check out the North Market while you're in town.

I had a complete collection of all the previous D&D minis sets, up until the Player's Handbook ones that came out this week...

-Lisa

Aaargh! I have mini envy.

(That is to say, I am envious at your collection of minis, and not that the envy I have is small...)

Regarding the new set though, those previews befuddle me. I seem to recall in the past, all the minis in the preview shots were painted MUCH more elaborately than what was generally found in the boxes. If the minis in the preview look that bad... yeesh.

Mahrdol wrote:

I see Wotc is recycling their artwork from 3.5 to 4.0 now.

From a business stand-point, this makes a lot of sense. You paid a few hundred bucks for this piece, and you're only going to use it once? Unh uh, buddy. You run that thing into the ground, get your money's worth. Palladium has used this strategy for decades, and they're in no real danger of failing.

Besides, this isn't really new. How many 3e and 3.5 sourcebooks had that one picture of a boot with a bone sticking out of it? Like two hundred gazillion?

Man, when it rains it pours. If you couldn't already tell, my posting quantity has also been reduced and will be for the foreseeable future. I used to post mainly at work, and since I've been laid off my interweb access is sporadic at best. I'll try my best to keep up in combat and such, but otherwise I'd say just assume Soll is hanging out and being the silent, grumpy guy of the group. :)

Kilgore Bloodaxe - Half-fiend Half-dragon Ogre Fighter
Hax Manly - Space detective
Beezle Bubwaller - Halfling Rogue
Kilty McKiltsonson - Halfling Bard (played the bagpipes)
Lipto Slapdyback (aka Lipto the Shiv :) - Halfling Assassin
Shiny Silverman - Warforged Artificer w/mithral body

This one was a friend of mine: Turk 'The Ottoman' Footholder
Same friend: Rock Hardigan
Different friend: Biggy McLargehuge

I remember a matching portion (match word in column a to definition in column b) of a quiz in high school that once I had finished I took a second look at. The answers went 1. A, 2. B, 3. C, and so on all the way down. I thought it was pretty funny.

dronf

Fnord is is, the, or, but, and and.

Fnord is the time between awake and asleep.
Fnord is the sound of one hand clapping.
Fnord is the 18th syllable in a haiku.
Fnord smells like Saturn.
Fnord is equal to 'three and a bit'.