Kyrone wrote: 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.
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.
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).
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?
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.
Michael Brock wrote:
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.
Flynn Forgewind wrote: 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? lordmolay wrote: 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??
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