As I've been led to beleive you are a fan of the Edgar Rice Burroughs books; did you watch the movie John Carter, if so how do you think it held up to original source?
Another issue with the book is the spell Hunter's Friend which states
Quote:
You share one of the following class abilities
with your companion for every 4 caster levels you possess:
camouflage, favored enemy, favored terrain, hide in plain sight,
resist nature’s lure, swift tracker, trackless step, venom immunity,
and woodland stride. You must have the ability in question to
share it with your companion, and it functions for your companion
just as it functions for you, save that each favored enemy or favored terrain you share counts as a separate class ability for the
purpose of this spell.
According to the Hunter's Bond ability from the CRB your animal companions:
Hunter's Bond wrote:
A ranger's animal companion shares his favored enemy and favored terrain bonuses.
Minor nitpick but I can see this spell causing confusion to new ranger players/GM's.
However some/one archetype (Beast Master) don't have that line in their Animal Companion ability; so it's a nice bonus for those archetypes that do lose it.
My opinion is to just use the Beastmaster archetype and 1 level of druid to open all AC choices. Just remember you to split your effective druidism level amoung all your ACs.
No need to dip to gain all AC choices...
Beast Master Archetype wrote:
Unlike a normal Ranger, a beast master’s choice of animal companion is not limited to a subset of all possibile animal companion choices—he may choose freely among all animal companion choices, just as a Druid can.
A bit late to the party here, but regards the octogenarian librarian and falling. Assuming he or she is human at 80+ years of age they'll definitely be in the Venerable age bracket which would give them a -6 to Con. So unless they where a very health individual earlier in life I'd suspect they've only got one or two hit points per level by this point... My money is on the blacksmith :) (Or both dying)
Pg. 143
The Huntsman weapon special ability; cut and past from the APG, still does not state that the bonus it provides to survival is equal to the enhancement bonus of the weapon.
FAQ entry on the matter
Great looking book, love the maps, especially the "In World" centre spread, and the caravan routes.
I'm curious how dangerous some of those are, especially the Sklarkar route that looks like it heads straight into the Hold of Belkzen. (OK, looking at the map again it's just that one I'd have some trepidation following :) )
Having just been given a coffee siphon, I too approve of the description. They combine two of my favourite things, Science! and Coffee! and now with that description, three of my favourite things, Science!, Coffee! and Roleplaying Games! :)
Only for a product you otherwise would never have seen.
Established companies don't need kickstarter to raise capital - that's not the only use for it though. One big advantage of kickstarter is that different customers can price your product for themselves differently. Look at rappan athuk - some of the big backers are effectively paying several hundred dollars for a nice cover - that would be extremely risky to try and pull off with traditional sales methods. You may overestimate the demand for leather books and lose a chunk of money or underestimate and miss out on the opportunity. Kickstarter lets you know ahead of time how many such collectors there are and utilize that cohort of customers to drive down the unit cost for the "no frills" customers.
Another example is Steve Jackson Games and their Kickstarter for Ogre. They where always going to release it, but by using Kickstarter they've massively increased the awesomeness in the final product, as well as boosting the print run. And because of the success of Ogre (and it being one of their stretch goals) they'll be doing similar for Car Wars next year.
I now have the thought of combining the traits Rough and Ready, and Heirloom Weapon, have a cook with wading into combat with his great great grandfather's mithral skillet.... shame they're both Equipment traits :/
This might be an error,
Page 92, Cat Burglar archetype.
Both Phantom Presence (4th lvl) & Trap Saboteur (8th lvl) are listed as replacing Uncanny Dodge.
I presume the latter should be Improved Uncanny Dodge given the level it comes in.
In the current Kingmaker game, the first Rogue in the group died and the player brought in a second, so it could be seen as 4 Rogues total.
The game just before Pathfinder had a core of a Fighter, a Cleric, and a Wizard/Rogue/Arcane Trickster. IIRC there was also a Druid and an other Wizard that briefly showed up.
In the book "The Wizard of Oz", The Emerald City is only green (other than the city walls) because everyone is required to wear green lensed glasses while within the city walls.
Excellent art as always :) I think you've mostly captured her look. She does unfortunately end up looking a bit orcish in that image, I always saw her with a slimmer, not so round face (I'll say my bad for not describing her face too much, if at all) :) Not that I'm asking for it to be touched up or anything.
I really appreciate the time you've put into this, thank you.
This is the same request I made in the previous thread but it never got fulfilled... as it's been a good 10 months, I don't feel too bad requesting again...
Anywho, my request is for my Summoner in a Council of Thieves campaign.
Natalia Luccini:
Tiefling Summoner
5'7"
An attractive female in her early to mid twenties. Light reddish brown skin, amethyst eyes. Two slim horns protrude from her forehead tapering to dull points as they follow the curve of her head back. Blueish black hair, tied back in a pony tail, reaching to her shoulder blades with azure streaks running back from her horns. She has a slim but curvaceous figure. A slender tail reaches down to about mid calf.
Her attire is well made and sturdy, more practical than fashionable, but still a touch stylish. Leather boots come most of the way up her calves the tops turned down forming a cuff. Close fitting trousers, possibly a softer more supple leather. On her top half she wears a tunic secured at the waist by a sash, the front and back of the tunic hang to about knee height, where as the sides only come down to the hips.
Possibly wearing a bodice over that, and either a short sleeved bolero or zouve jacket rounding it off. A satchel hangs at one hip the strap running from the opposite shoulder, and a small pouch rests at her other hip secured to the sash.
And of course her Eidolon
Alteá:
5’9”
A couple of inches taller than Talia, and a bit more muscular, but overall the same proportions. Her horns are thicker at the base, and taper to points, they are also more prominent, not following the curve of her head as closely. Her skin has the likeness of red marble, a featureless white marble mask covers her face. A pair of black feathered wings adorn her back, the feathers edged with a golden hue, they do not look big enough to allow for flight.
Wears either a bustier or halter top, with bare midriff, trousers and boots, all in black and red leather. (somewhat akin to Rayne in BloodRayne)
Hmm, not quite on topic, but definitely relating to character death.
We where playing through Rise of the Runelords and my character had the worst time of it.
After the first TPK (one survivor, by stint of the player was away for that session) my new character, Devlin Blake a human conman/snake oil sales man/swashbuckler, met his end once each module, or rather four of the five modules we completed.
Hopefully I've put in enough spoiler tags :)
Burnt Offerings
Spoiler:
In the assault on Thistletop
During a nasty fight against the goblins, the party lead called for a retreat. Being the swashbuckler he attempted to tumble past a pair of goblins at the rear to set up flanking and clear the way. Failing the roll by one or two he provoked, and wore a couple of attacks from them and was dropped to negatives. Unfortunately the party didn't think to have anyone move to cover their downed companion so the next turn saw a coup de grace.
His corpse was recovered and taken to some druids in the area, and he was reincarnated as an Elf.
Skinsaw Murders
During a side quest relating to one of the other characters back-stories the party travel to the Mushfens where a giant snake managed to do enough damage to kill him (I'm a bit hazy on the details of this death, I think it was just straight damage in a straight up fight.)
Back at the druids, and a quick reincarnate later, he wakes up to find he's now a half-elf.
Hook Mountain Massacre
Spoiler:
We'd just dealt with a pack of (what we assumed where) wild dogs, when an ogre...
...stepped out of the foliage and cleft him in twain, with a crit. from a large great-axe.
Yet more Druids! And he now finds himself back as human, kind of, but female! We found out later she was actually a fetchling, but it was before there was anything more than juts a one or two line description of that race, so mostly human, with lowlight, and cold resistance IIRC.
Now going by the name Lynn we continue the adventures...
Fortress of the Stone Giants
Whilst trying to infiltrate the fortress, she got dropped by a couple of
Spoiler:
wyverns
but by this point the cleric had Breath of Life so was back on her feat quite quickly.
Sins of the Saviors
Miraculously she didn't die here, but I do recall using a lot of the advance rogue talent Defensive Roll
Spires of Xin-Shalast
We only got halfway through this module and while being put into a lot of near death situations never actually died.
From what I recall there where only a couple of other deaths in the campaign (other than the TPK which I might regale you of later), one player lost a character or two in ways we couldn't retrieve the body, and once we had it Breath of Life came in handy in the latter half of the campaign.
Sacred Bond perhaps?
200gp for the two bracelets, give one to which ever of your party gets beat up the most (or who you want to be able to heal) and heal them from across the room.
No need to get up close and personal with the critter.
It's my understanding that the feat Augment Summoning won't work with the class ability to summon an Eidolon, it's not a spell; but if you use the spell Summon Eidolon to bring it into existence it will get the boosted stats from the feat.
Edit, I forgot to add the following.
Quite how it applies to the Synthesist however is up to the GM I guess.
You know I doubt it will but it would be neat if the crown of the world map matched up with the top of the Inner Sea Map, which in turn matched up with the Dragon Empire map to more or less make one big map. Just saying.
That would certainly be nifty.
I'm guessing (tho hoping I'm wrong!) it will be a nice large copy of the Crown of the World map from the AP, and a nice large copy of the map presented in the Dragon Empire Gazetteer. If that's the case, they're slightly different styles from each other, but I'm reasonably sure the northern extent of the Wall of Heaven is shown on the Crown map, linking those two together.
Now if only I knew enough to try mapping those three maps to a globe :)
There's 16 in all, the list includes a number of dinos & animals from the book, and the two marsupials, Thylacine (previously in a Kingmaker book,) and Kangaroo
Now that you mention the time, I do recall checking on the site over the weekend and noticing the order pending, but definitely no email arrived about it till the shipping notice. As I wasn't intending to cancel any part of the order it's all good, just though it was worth noting in case there was some problem at you end.
So I'll put it down to the 'internets ate my email', and leave it at that.
Good to see the Beginner Box shipping to me, but I'm a bit concerned that I never got a "Hi we'll be shipping this to you in the next few weeks." email.
I've double checked my ISP's and email client's spam traps but no impending order email to be seen.
Just wondering is this a special case due to the Beginner Box? Did the internets eat my email? or perhaps a glitch at your end (in which case you might want to look into it)
As I'm here is there any ETA on the other two products in the order?
I just remembered one thing that WOULD delay orders with extra stuff. If you order extra items that have the "will ship from warehouse in 4-11 business days" (or longer) and add them to a pending subscription order, you order will wait for those items to come in from distribution before shipping.
Well, looks like I shot myself in the foot on this order then. :)
Next year I'll have to try and remember to not add to the August order, I think most other shipment I wouldn't care how soon or late they ship, but the the August bundle is like Christmas, but 5 months early. :)
Thank you both, it looks like I'll be ordering 13 to push the order up over 100 then :)
I was a bit surprised to see how the order got split up, but I'm guessing the system knows best.
I had assumed that Ultimate Combat would get it's own box, and the other Player Companion and Campaign Setting books would get a second one.
(note, I'm not questioning it, just making an observation)
Currently I've got 10 packs of card sleeves in my shopping cart, I am considering getting them added to my next subscription shipment (the late July shipment.)
Is it possible to get an estimation (or exact value) of how much that would cost?
Would there be a significant change if I dropped that to 6 packs?
Or will I need to ask in a couple of weeks once the late July subscription order has been 'placed'?
Now, can a Beast Master Ranger take this multiple times (once for each Companion)?
The feat does state it can be taken more than once, but is it referring the the creature of the class ability when it says,
Boon Companion wrote:
Each time you take the feat, it applies to a different animal companion or familiar.
Hey guys, i was just recently made aware of this thread today. I am willing to accept 2 commission requests for free, either full body or bust, for the sake of practice. The link below is to my deviant art page, please drop me a line if you art interested. Game on friends!!
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As no-one has picked up my request yet, I would be interested if you could look at doing Natalia and her Eidolon
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Just like to point out they don't have to be an even split... However it would probably be inadvisable to still have one at 1st when your 20th.
In the Kingmaker game I'm in I've gone with the Beast Master Ranger, the GM has allowed me to take Boon Companion twice, feat could be read a couple of ways regards Beast Master, or Pack Lord, but then it was written well before UM, or the APG so didn't take them into account.
I've got a Wolf I'm using as the primary AC, levelling it up more often than not, and an Eagle I'll probably be leaving at 5th (1 actual level, +4 from Boon) for scouting.
This works well with Improved Empathic Link letting me see through the eagles eyes when I send it off.
For reference, Boon Companion is from Seekers of Secrets, page 16
@VM mercenario: I'm sorry, I really tried to track down where the picture comes from, but I couldn't track anything down. The only hint I can give you is that the art work is apparently signed with a small drawn square with a "23" inside. Perhaps there is an artist on deviantArt that signs his/her art that way?
I can't double check at the moment due to being at work, but I did get some results using TinEye reverse image search.
I was there just 3 weeks ago, the tower next to christchurch cathedral is now completely gone, but when I was there I climbed it.
Strange thing is, the damage from the previous 7+ quake was minimal and this 6.3 one just completely ruined everything!
A couple of things to note there, the previous one was ~40km away, and 11km deep, this one was only 10km, and 6km deep.
It's also been reported that the ground acceleration in the September quake was .8G, where as the latest one was 1G. Not being a geologist/geophysicist I don't know why there'd be a difference in the acceleration.
My personal suspicion is those two facts (closer, and faster acceleration) coupled with instability caused by Septembers 'quake (both buildings and ground) set the city up for more damage this time round (again, not my field of expertise so I could be way off there.)
And of course here I am, in Wellington, sitting pretty much right on top of a fault that is due to go sometime in the next 50-100 years IIRC.
Ohhhh, nice new map :) I've always been a fan of cartography.
I do recall there was a thread a little while back where some ingenious people overlaid the Inner Sea map on a globe of the earth based off a couple of clues from James Jacobs(IIRC) i.e. Magnimar was supposed to be around the same latitude as Seattle and Northern Garund should be around about the tropics.
Anybody have the time (and inclination) to try putting this map on a globe? Perhaps with the Inner Sea map overlaid as well?
If you take boon companion twice, you could end up at 12th level with a 12th level companion and an 8th level companion with the beastmaster ranger.
Or two 10ths, which is the plan I have for my ranger, his hunting dog, and eagle. My hope is the Eagle will be quite useful in another level when I pick up Improved Empathic Link.
As a note, while you don't get the Animal Companion till 4th level, there's nothing stopping you forking out some of your starting cash and buying an animal. You just need to figure out how to keep it alive till 4th level :)
I'd appreciate the option to group by product family, i.e. Pathfinder RPG, Player Companion, Chronicles. Possibly with a way to collapse the categories. One exception would be playtest documents that should have their own section regardless of what actual product family they belong to.
Also, either hiding, or having the one file per chapter download on the same line I think I have about 86 files in my list and 27 of those are double ups.
...When the weapon is held in hand, the wielder gains an enhancement bonus on Survival checks made to track any creature the weapon has damaged in the past day...
I've been meaning to drop a request or two into this thread for awhile now. None too sure why I've not gotten around to it till now. Anywho my current request is for my Summoner in a Council of Thieves campaign.
Natalia Luccini:
Tiefling Summoner
5'7"
An attractive female in her early to mid twenties. Light reddish brown skin, amethyst eyes, navy blue hair tied back in a pony tail reaching to her shoulder blades with azure streaks running back from her horns, her pointed ears revealed as her hair is. Two slim horns protrude from her forehead tapering to dull points as they follow the curve of her head. She has a slim but curvaceous figure. A slender tail reaches down to about mid calf.
Her attire is well made and sturdy, more practical than fashionable, but still a touch stylish. Leather boots come most of the way up her calves the tops turned down forming a cuff. Close fitting trousers, possibly a softer more supple leather. On her top half she wears a tunic secured at the waist by a sash, the front and back of the tunic hang to about knee height, where as the sides only come down to the hips.
Possibly wearing a bodice over that, and either a short sleeved bolero or zouve jacket rounding it off. A satchel hangs at one hip the strap running from the opposite shoulder, and a small pouch rests at her other hip secured to the sash.
And of course her Eidolon
Alteá:
5’9”
A couple of inches taller than Talia, and a bit more muscular, but overall the same proportions. Her horns are thicker at the base, and taper to points, they are also more prominent, not following the curve of her head as closely. Her skin has the likeness of red marble, a featureless white marble mask covers her face. A pair of black feathered wings adorn her back, the feathers edged with a golden hue, they do not look big enough to allow for flight.
Wears either a bustier or halter top, with bare midriff, trousers and boots, all in black and red leather. (somewhat akin to Rayne in BloodRayne)
Thanks in advance, and looking forward to see what someone can come up with.
