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The class itself is so general that you could call basically any Pathfinder class a fighter and not be wrong.

Good Reflex save (nothing about the sword-swinging Fighter says he should be more resistant to mind control effects than anyone else)

I'm a fan of choice for another good save. The circumstances the Fighter comes from can vary and could indicate a good will save. An officer might be better at Will.

My mistake, I forgot that you don't get the discovery until 2. In that case you could be a toothy boarkin whatever melee class you like and still have 4 attacks at 1.

The way you're treating it is similar to Natural Armor rules, which say
"A creature without natural armor has an effective natural armor bonus of +0."

I don't think that's how it works for abilities, just like how I don't think someone can take Improved Natural Armor without at least +1, even though they technically have Natural Armor +0.

If your DM allows it though, no need to fuss over it. Go forth and be a spell-less druid.

Edit: Some reasoning. Emulate a Class Feature: Sometimes you need to use a class feature to activate a magic item. I don't think the Druid's Vestment has an activated ability.

Slumber Witch is good.

For melee, a boarkin skinwalker alchemist can have bite/claw/claw/gore/hoof/hoof at 1.

Easy answer: I agree the Fighter should have more skill points.

Other answer: The fighter needs an expendable resource pool because practically every other class does. And when those pools run out is generally when the group rests. The Fighter is not better off for not having such a pool.

My understanding is that you still need to move into cover after doing this. You hit someone, they turn around for a moment, and that's your chance to skedaddle into cover. You can't Hide in Plain Sight (unless you pick up that ability elsewhere).

Warpriest has a lot of uses for Swift actions, as does the Monk. It's a poor combination in my opinion.

Fair enough, regarding speed. I didn't think people could get decent draws and aim that quickly.

Thanks, Cunningham's law.

Archery is already well in the realm of superhuman, with the ability to do a manyshot without accuracy penalty, or even the ability to nock/draw/aim a full attack's worth in 6 seconds.

If we were attempting realism, Rapid Shot should've been Rapid Strike, for melee rather than ranged combat.

But clearly we aren't. All hail the bow.

I'd say Charm rather than Dominate to be in line.

Addendum questions in 1st post. As for 1, it's the question of whether applying poison falls into "any ability that requires patience or concentration."

Referring specifically to Vishkanya poison here, though the question can be general to monsters with class levels.

1: Can you apply poison to a weapon while raging?

2: The DC is based on your Con (Fort DC 10 + 1/2 the vishkanya's Hit Dice + the vishkanya's Constitution modifier). Does the DC increase if you've already applied poison to a weapon prior, then rage?

Edit: More questions, Alchemist edition.

3: Sticky Poison is cool. Could a Vishkanya make their natural poison sticky? They do create it...just probably not in the way expected.

4: Poison Conversion: Can the Vishkanya alchemist turn their natural poison from injury to another type?

Give the players the option to learn other skills with their downtime then.

If your option is to learn a language or twiddle your thumbs, they'll learn that language. Give them the option to get a bonus to something else and they might choose that instead.

While it is often considered a faux pas to simply ask if someone is a werewolf, "Never Have I Ever" is a commonly accepted game.

Start off with a few possibly scandalous statements, and lead up into "Never have I ever turned into a turned into a bloodthirsty wolf when my twice-damned flesh was exposed to the light of the full moon."

If no one puts down a finger, roll Sense Motive. Cheating is simply deplorable.

Edit: Just noticed this thread was necro'd from 2011. Also deplorable, let sleeping dogs lie.

You could ask your DM to allow you to take Fiend Sight. It's a Tiefling feat, but if a PC wants to spend two feats to see in supernatural darkness, I'd let them.

Or stock up on some rather pricy elixirs

Alignment: TN
Class: Ranger (Favored Enemy: PCs)

Let the hunt begin.

Hm, I agree that the base pool of rounds should be larger. Maybe 3+Con/day, for rounds=level.

I'm all for having Versatile Performance but for Professions.

Full BAB PrCs that give some magical tricks instead of more bonuses to damage/feats.

The thing that bothers me is that it's a double penalty. Small races get smaller weapons and a Str penalty.

There are some exceptions with newer races, such as Wayangs with the Wis penalty. I think that's far healthier than sticking the Str penalty on all small races. Halflings are supposed to be athletic, but they're stuck with the penalty.

Strength as a bonus to hit never sat well with me. I've heard the arguments that it helps to penetrate armor, but how does this explain why unarmored opponents are easier to hit for those with high Strength?

I guess it's harder to block blows that have more force behind them?

You can also use Nature Soul to pick up Animal Ally.

Hey guys, so I made a Phoenix Disciple PrC.

Similar in concept to the Dragon Disciple, but rather than being a gish that becomes monstrous, the Phoenix Disciple is a front-liner that gains supernatural powers themed with elemental might and renewal. Fire is the most common element, but one could easily be a Cryophoenix Disciple, or similar offshoot. My world view allows for phoenixes of other elements.

Design-wise, this class adds utility to martials without increasing their raw damage output, which is already strong point. Wreathed in Glory is fairly weak damage that I expect to be fully resisted by enemies about 33% of the time, however it serves in doing damage to swarms. Blaze of Glory likewise is an option against swarms (and invisible opponents).

Martials often become spell-drains on their caster pals, forcing them to provide them a means of flight to get to the foe, or cast boring healing spells rather than cool spells. The PD still enjoys receiving buff spells, but can provide himself with flight and healing to lighten the load on the party.

So that's my thought process on the design. I'd appreciate feedback. Some abilities could be moved around and fine-tuned. Level 6 and 7 are barren besides earlier abilities scaling, which isn't particularly fun.

I can't really think of prerequisites that I like for this. I considered a fluff prerequisite of needing to have died and been brought back, but that doesn't really do anything besides encourage players that want to enter the PrC to commit suicide once and then be dandy.

Just go above or below it. Unfortunately martials can't fly without magic items, but thems the breaks.

People don't necessarily play those races to be a special snowflake. I don't always play Grippli but I often consider them, and I wouldn't be less inclined to play a Grippli if they were a major race in the world/party. Actually, that sounds fun.

Edit: Wow, four replies within the same minute on that. Excellent baiting.

Natural Attack rules are absurd in my opinion. Why have an iterative attack system in place via BAB when you can instead have multiple attacks from the start at no penalty?

I get that the house cat has claws and teeth, but why can it attack with all three in one round, when a warrior can't pull off two punches and an elbow strike in the same time?

Frogs are cool, sir.

The double-barrel musket almost feels like cheating. But it doesn't reshape reality -besides turning things into corpses- so I guess it's fair.

Grippli - The best race. There is nothing more awesome than being a 2ft tall frogman in a world of hairless apes that take themselves too seriously.

I agree with switch-hitting, the question is which you want to be your focus. Do you want to fire an opening shot on the first turn, then switch to your sword? Or do you want to stay in the back and have the sword as an option for necessity/cleaning up?

I'm surprised they didn't give all martials a minimum of two good saves. Weird.

Returning isn't even that good, since it comes back to where you were standing rather than where you are.

I like the idea of a weapon-thrower, but I shelf it for other systems (or homebrew it). If you want Dex to ranged damage, best off being a gunslinger.

It would have to be pretty rich goblins to disarm themselves of an 8k weapon per attack.

Seems like Agile works with range, though throwing weapons is still a bad prospect in Pathfinder.

I often get a lot of mileage out of Evasion, but that's pretty much it.

Acid Splash can also shut down regeneration (of stuff like trolls), and maybe ruin some delicate metalwork (ie the insides of a lock).

Recently the mighty beard sword has been pointed out to me. So let's say your main offensive is indeed the beard.

What can we do with our hands? A shield and casting spells perhaps? What class will facilitate this? Is there another task for hands?

Why is that a problem? And you can use your own CL if it's better, but you don't have to.

I don't see where it says that, I'm looking here: http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic-items#TOC-Creating-Staves

Magic Item creation general says: A creator can create an item at a lower caster level than her own, but never lower than the minimum level needed to cast the needed spell.

I don't see anything stopping you from having a CL 20 Staff of Light.

If simplifying weapons as a whole is in your interest, why not adopt an a la carte approach as the Legend RPG does?

You can have basic damage die depending on the category of the weapon (light, one handed, two handed), then pick X qualities (reach, trip, better crit range/multiplier), with perhaps more such qualities depending if the weapon is simple/martial/exotic.

I think people are thrown off by the topic name "What sort of monk for a new player", then the post says exactly the type of monk the player wants.

The immediate action attack is generally used when an AoO would not be provoked.

It seems pretty strange, but I don't see anything in the rules. Have I overlooked something, or is this legal?

Or even just ask for access to the archetype on another race, there's nothing super ratfolky about it.

It's very much the best in "Don't shoot until you see the whites of their eyes? I don't shoot until I can see the tears glisten on their cheeks."

Unfortunately that also makes it very dangerous, and best played in a group in which someone is playing a bodyguard (either martial or shield other).

Metal fighting beards

One of the rare cases in which rule of cool is present in Pathfinder.

What about attacks of opportunity then?

Immediate actions are a fun way to stay involved while waiting for your turn. I wish there were more, as I find some characters have too much to use their swift/immediate for, while others never use that action at all.

As has been mentioned, this is likely a reaction to his Archer dying. Let him have his fun for a few sessions, then he might miss the semblance of challenge. Or he might enjoy curbstomping things. Whatever's fun.

One of the cool things you can do with Undine Monks is take Hydraulic Maneuver and pick up Hydraulic Push as Qinggong power. It's not super strong, but it's pretty cool.

I'm played a similar character but such a character works best in a big melee party. When you're the only frontliner, you aren't sharing your blundering defense with anyone.

I used Crane Style (it was good back then), and was considering the Golden Legionnaire PrC. He dipped into Aldori Swordlord PrC to use Dex. The Fighter archetype Swordlord gets Steel Net at 7, which is also pretty great.

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The hound from Game of thrones. Might manage to climb himself up to CGJammie is CE and might climb his way up to CN (or further) but attempted murder of an 8 year old is a reeaaaaaally deep pit.

The Hound is LN going CN.

Jamie is LN on the path of redemption to LG. After all, he was commanded to push Bran by the Queen and he is sworn to obey.

Edit: This is interesting because both the Hound and Jamie have killed a child at the request of the royal family, yet you assign them rather different alignments.

And ironically the killing of children isn't the act that keeps me from making either of them Lawful. . . it does start them both off as neutral however.

With Jaime its the King slaying that you have to reconcile against the strict code of the order of Knights he's sworn to-- vows which he otherwise hasn't broken except two obvious breaches (kingslaying and incesting).

As far as the hound. . . (going to spoiler tag this since its not first book necessarily)
** spoiler omitted **

Tyrion's henchman character is another interesting candidate for CN, though since he is solely motivated by greed I'd say NN or maybe a hint of NE.

Another example-- The Bloody Nine/Logen Ninefingers-- definitely starts off as CN.