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Can an operative with Death Strike and solarian levels make a trick attack with a Solar Shield?

You should have said the orc ancestry was now perpetually and irrevocably available.

Does the flickmace change mean a similar change is due for the Asp Coil? It is also a one handed reach weapon (although it does require a purchased boon)

I was able to enter the code, but I don't see where to go to complete the process. My cart is empty. What do you do after redeeming the code?

Probably not intended but if a Druid have order explorer they get more than one focus spell with the Advanced Elemental Spell feat.

Advanced Elemental Spell needs to add a line that says either “choose one elemental order you belong to”, or “you make take this feat multiple times using a different elemental order each time”, or “you gain the spell for each elemental order you belong to”.

Order Explorer says “you are now a member of that order for the purpose of meeting feat prerequisites…. You don’t gain any of the other benefits of the order you chose.” That would seem to imply that you can use the new order as a prerequisite for AES and take the new spell. Hero Lab’s current behavior is an example of that; it lets you take AES once for each order you are in.

The argument against that is that is exactly how Order Magic functions, but the wording is completely different. Order Magic even includes this: “Special You can take this feat multiple times. Each time you do, you must choose a different order you have selected with Order Explorer.” Without that wording, I didn’t think you could take a feat more than once.

Advanced Elemental Spell says “you gain the advanced order spell associated with your order”. What if you have Order Explorer and belong to two elemental orders? Pick one? Gain both? Gain the one from your initial order?

If a ranger is knocked out and revived in the middle of a fight, is his current prey still marked, or does he need to take a new Hunt Prey action? Hunt Prey has the concentrate trait, but we couldn’t find any interaction between that and the unconscious condition.

The last sentence in the second paragraph of the Skills chapter says "Each time after the first that you would gain the trained proficiency rank in a given skill, you instead allocate the trained proficiency to any other skill of your choice." That's a strong argument to pick a different Lore skill. The problem is, given the wording of the ability where it specifically calls out taking different skills for the duplicate non-Lore skills you are being granted, and does NOT say that for the Lore skill, is that intended to be excluded. And actually, by that wording, you wouldn't even have to take a different Lore skill... you could take ANY skill you weren't already trained in.

Yes, but they all have wording like this: "You gain the trained proficiency rank in Stealth and Thievery. If you would automatically become trained in one of those skills (from your background or class, for example), you instead become trained in a skill of your choice. You also become trained in Kobold Lore." That seems like it might be intentionally excluding the Lore skill from the free pick, although I can't find anything that explicitly says that.

If you get the same Lore skill from two sources at character creation, do you get to pick a different Lore skill as a replacement for one of them? It seems to work that way for non-Lore skills, but that wording isn't there when the Lore is listed. Specifically, the Kobold Lore ancestry feat and the Sewer Dragons background boon both give Kobold Lore as trained.

To follow up on this, Entropic Strike has the Operative property. So if I take a level of Operative, can I Trick Attack with a Pike-delivered Entropic Strike?

Is there anything that can be done with playtest points that were recorded on the original paper form and not in the system? I have several games - including one run by John Compton at Origins last year - that were never reported online.

Based on what I've been seeing in the games I've played, this wording in the Earn Income section could use clarification:

"The Task Level of your Earn Income check is equal to your level – 2 (minimum 0) by default (GMs should check Table 10–5: DCs by Level on page 503 of the Pathfinder Core Rulebook to calculate the DC)".

The first sentence uses "level" for both Task level and PC level, and then says to look up "DCs by Level". I've had GMs use both task level (giving first level characters a DC of 14) and PC level (giving a DC of 15 at first level).

Just sent an email for a missing session to the above address.

Piling on to this thread. I also got a part 2 ticket but not a part 1. Hoping for added tables.

I'm excited about most of what you describe here, but I have one concern... you list one of the challenges as "complicated text", and you list one of the sources for addressed concerns as Apocrypha. That is a game I REALLY wanted to love, but I have always been stopped by what I have seen best described as "an unscalable wall of keywords". Please find a way to make the text on the ACG cards clear without requiring the player to constantly refer to a glossary.

I think it would be interesting to see what the museum has morphed into over the intervening years. It's reasonable to think that the place, instead of a fun happy-time museum to take the kids, would now be a secure storage facility for all sorts of world-ending things that are far too dangerous to be left in the public's hands.

...especially since that is what it seems like it always was (unofficially) to begin with.

Feint appears to be worded differently in Starfinder than it was in Pathfinder. Pathfinder just says your opponent loses his Dex bonus. Starfinder says you treat him as flat footed during your next attack. Does that mean if I feint an adjacent enemy and then cast a spell, he can't take an attack of opportunity in Starfinder?

Please consider setting up a "subscription pick up" line at the booth, so that if we are just picking up subscription items we don't have to wait in the line outside the exhibit hall just to get those items.

Is anyone looking at a better method of marshaling tables for the specials? As a survivor of the crush of almost 1000 people in the hall outside the Sagamore Ballroom, I would hope there was something in the works to improve that process. At the very least, I would think completely clogging that hallway is a safety issue.

Will we need to pre-register to play the Organized Play events?

Any update on an Origins schedule yet? Event registration went live yesterday.

Took a closer look, and it looks like it is by season.... Season 1-3 games are 4 player tables in both Regular and Core, and 4-6 are 6 players in both.

They go all the way to season 6. Playing a season 5 or 6 game with 4 core characters sounds.... challenging.

There are a lot of Core games listed on the Origins event grid, but they all show a maximum of 4 players. Is that the way it is supposed to be?

The Origins event grid is out, and I don't see any Pathfinder Card game events on it. Is there no Organized Play at Origins?

roysier wrote:

Those are nice improvements but what happened to making more playable content? As an experienced player I really only have the new scenarios to play, I already GM 3 to 4 times a month.

Check the second to last paragraph.

This is the best news in the entire article. Our local PFS play is struggling because it is becoming difficult to find scenarios that can draw a full table of people who have not played it yet.

Great - thanks!

Just played this one last night, the scenario was a lot of fun up until the last encounter. That's considered a fair Tier 1 fight? Our whole party was down to the floor before the GM obviously started pulling punches.

Played this at low tier also, and I agree... if you are a low level group, someone is going home in a body bag.

I saw the piece in question - it sure looked like an April Fools joke to me. Anyone know for sure?

In the last issue of dragon there was an add for a D20 that in place of a 1 there was "D'oh" i don't remeber the name on the company but i did go to there web page and i could not find thd dice to order... Dose anyone know where i can order such a d20??

This is apparently not fixed yet. I looked at my subscriptions today, and it shows Dungeon #118 shipping on 12/13 and Dragon #327 shipping on 12/20.