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As I understand it, you can't have both a familiar and a mount at the same time. Only one combat companion per player (this excludes any mundane pack animals and such).

Instead of being human, you could be an Aasimar and pick up the Scion of Humanity alternate racial trait, so you can still qualify for the Huntmaster feat. Spend your Favored Class Bonus on the special Aasimar oracle option to increase your level by 1/2 for calculating the benefit of one of your revelations (choose the bonded mount). Then at 3rd level, take the Celestial Servant feat to give it the Celestial template. By 4th level, you'll have an effective druid level of 7 for your mount, plus he'll have DR, SR, energy resistances and a smite evil. Mmm...

You describe their combat roles, but do you have anybody who focuses on out-of-combat skills? I've got a halfling ninja with a +26 in Bluff, and he's tons of fun to play. A Kitsune enchanter could do that too. Also, unless it's your ragechemist, I don't see any "Power Attack with a greatsword" damage monsters. That might be worth a try.

Well, I'm not seeing much gish in there, so you might go with a melee cleric or a magus or eldritch knight or something.

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Nefreet wrote:

Separatist Cleric archetype.

Even the seperatist clerics access to the domain is a little iffy because they're not a druid.

The druid domains were released in the same book (Ultimate Magic) as the Separatist cleric archetype. Surely they thought of using them together. If they hadn't wanted them to work like that, they should have done what they did with inquisitions (again, in the very same book), and make them domain-like, but not actual domains.

So I see no reason why you can't do it.

The trouble is that scimitars are one-handed weapon, so they're not eligible for Pirhana Strike. If you want damage to scale up with level well, you either need:

-Spells, like with a magus
-Sneak attack; or
-13 STR to pick up Power Attack (which makes a DEX-based character a little more MAD, especially if you're small-sized)

I've got a Dervish Dancing halfling ninja in PFS, and he's a lot of fun. He's bluff focused, so I picked up Improved Feint to get my sneak attacks off. It's a lot of fun, and I'm considering picking up Risky Striker at level 6 to get better damage (of course, I'd have to carry around potions of reduce person to use it against Medium opponents).

Odraude wrote:

I wonder how army stats will handle going against character stats. Like, if one PC was going against an army, how would Army HP and such handle that?

The character would be treated as a Fine army containing one creature (like the Tarrasque in the example) and would get its own statblock in army format.

If my character defeats an entire army, how am I supposed to carry all that loot?

For the archer, I'd recommend being either human or a fighter, so you can get Precise Shot at level 1. I think it could be frustrating to a new player to be constantly rolling only a +1 or +2 (even before cover penalties) on attacks because all the bad guys are in melee.

The barbarian looks good (of course it's hard to mess up a barbarian like that). You shouldn't worry about getting dominated and attacking your party for a while, and by then you can probably afford the ioun stone that protects against mental control from evil creatures.

On the ranger, for the love of God, take Precise Shot instead of Dodge! If you're going to do archery, you will only occasionally have chances to shoot at people who aren't in melee. That -4 penalty will eat you for breakfast. Other than that, he looks good.

Oh, and once you get some Prestige Points, the first thing you want to do is spend 2 PP on a wand of cure light wounds. Even if you play the barbarian, you can hand it to someone else to use on you, instead of demanding the other party members spend their money on healing you. If you play an archery character, consider spending the next 2 PP you get on a masterwork composite longbow, to get ahead of the game.

I'd go with the witch, but tone down the Dex to 18 or 19 to shore up that Con score to a 14.

I forgot to tell you that i would like this added to # 45225-1, not -2.. The character is only 2nd level now, but im pretty sure once he reaches level 7 he could apply it.. Right?

That's correct.

If you're just looking for the right combination of domains, check out the Separatist archetype in Ultimate Magic. That lets you pick a domain outside of your deity's portfolio, but with some penalties (treat your level, WIS, and CHA as 2 lower for that domain's powers, and not proficient with the favored weapon).

Stonecunning wrote:

But it IS +3000 GP to cut down a door when it eventually does come up...

It is so cathartic when you actually get the chance that it is totally worth it.

I played with someone who was so excited to use his adamantine greatsword, he chopped down a statue that was supposed to give us an important clue.

I'm more worried about golems and stoneskin than doors.

I can't find any magic items or spells that give bonuses to create forgeries (there are plenty to detect forgeries though). At least it's a class skill, and you could pick up Skill Focus...

Action: Most Perception checks are reactive, made in response to observable stimulus. Intentionally searching for stimulus is a move action.

Every skill has an "Action" section that tells you how long it takes to use.

RainyDayNinja wrote:

3. Wizards with an arcane bonded item can add magical enchantments to their item at a discount as if they were crafting it.

I was just about to pop in and say that no, they actually have to make the appropriate Craft or Spellcraft check to do the enchanting themselves, but upon re-reading the PFS FAQ on the subject, there's no such reference to actually crafting. Am I forgetting a rule from elsewhere that says arcane bonded items are actually crafted, or did I just make that assumption?

You're the one with a level 11 Wizard/Eldritch Knight with a bonded item. You tell me!

As far as I know, there are only 3 exceptions to the no-crafting rule:

1. Alchemists can craft mundane alchemical items and poisons.
2. Gunslingers with a rank in Craft (alchemy) can buy discounted ammunition as if they had crafted it.
3. Wizards with an arcane bonded item can add magical enchantments to their item at a discount as if they were crafting it.

Figure out what's most important to them, and put it at risk. If all they want is to retire in comfort as bureaucrats, then have something put their social status in peril.

A couple from last weekend:

And just because he is a developer doesn't mean he is Dictator.

The game can be ruled by whoever the GM is. If a GM wants to rule differently, it's his game, his prerogative.

Sure, a GM can rule however he wants. But if you want to talk about that, take it to the Houserules/Homebrew forum. This is the Rules forum, where we talk about what the rules actually say, and the people who wrote the rules are the ultimate authority on that.

There's the Bloatmage Initiate feat, but that also gives you a permanent medium encumbrance.

Is there going to be a regular game day at the APL this Saturday? The Warhorn only shows that one module.

Also, I'm brainstorming what to do with my race boon that I got from GMing at GeekOut. What do you all think of a blasting-focused Kitsune Orc-blooded Tattooed Sorcerer/Bloatmage?

So I discovered on my way home that I still had 2 of those wooden tokens in my pocket that I forgot to turn in. Will I have a chance to redeem them next time I'm at the APL, or should I just turn them into miniature drink coasters?

I came to recommend "A Canticle for Leibowitz," and I'm pleased to see it's already getting some love. It had probably the most realistic treatment of human nature I've seen in science fiction.

And after some recent bad experiences, I would highly recommend that by the time you hit 3rd level, you should spend 2 PP on an oil of daylight.

Players are perfectly free to not buy a wand of cure light wounds, as long as they accept that I'm perfectly free to refuse to heal them using my own wand.

Is there a way to use your firearm as a vessel & cast ranged touch attack spells through that?

In Ultimate Combat, there's a wizard archetype called the Spellslinger that does exactly that.

Yeah, it was pretty brutal. I went and bought oils of daylight on four of my characters as soon as I got home. It saves lives, people!

The best use for High Jump in combat is to take the Qinggong archetype and replace it with barkskin as a ki power.

Offering: Wayang/Nagaji/Kitsune race boon

Want: Any other race boon

Checking in. FYI, I'll be at a Con all day Saturday, so I'll get my profile up and posted some time Sunday.

I heard Ledford is going to be a Prestige Class.

Intelligent Player/Dumb PC: Please keep in mind your character's drawback of an Int score of X. Roleplay it as you will, but roleplaying it as if you had a high intelligence just makes you a munchkin.

What if you roleplay him like Cliff from Cheers? He certainly acted like he was smart, even though he didn't really know anything.

I feel that with an atonement of the most expensive kind, changing Deities is quite alright.

I think that's reasonable too (to keep people from switching domains every morning when they prepare spells), but in the absence of any rules on it, I think changing deities should be considered out-of-bounds in PFS. So just make sure to click the FAQ.

I dunno about that, it'd have to be a Bard that traded out Bardic Knowledge for some other feature.

I'm trained in all but 2 Knowledge skills (plus Linguistics) for a +7 in each. At level 2, bards only get an extra +1 to each from bardic knowledge, so even their trained Knowledge skills will probably be closer to +5 or 6.

The best aspect of Lore Warden in my opinion is the bonus to manuevers, but as an archer he won't be making any unless he has Trick Shot from the archer archetype.

I think if you want to be a skills heavy archer, you might be better served by the Ranger.

Maybe. But I wanted Weapon Specialization and all the extra feats to pump up my damage, not to rely on Favored Enemies. And I've still got a greatsword and 14 STR when I have to do melee, so even as a small character, I'll be able to do some decent combat maneuvers if I have to.

You've got a decent INT score, so you might consider the Lore Warden archetype instead. You don't get the tricky stuff that the Archer archetype gets later on, but you get more skill points and class skills, so you can do a lot with Knowledge skills or Linguistics. That's what I'm using for my archer who just got to level 2; he gets 8 skill points per level, and could probably out-knowledge a bard.

RainyDayNinja wrote:

I was just looking at the Warhorn site, and I'm feeling awfully lonely in those first two slots :-(

Also, I tried to look up directions, but Google Maps and Mapquest don't know where the convention center is. What's the best way to get there from the north (including finding parking)?

TYpe this in Rainy Day Ninja The Wilma M. Sherrill Center Should pop directions it does for me.

Aha! Google Maps found it as "The Sherrill Center and Kimmell Arena." Being a university on the weekend, can I assume parking is a free-for-all?

I was just looking at the Warhorn site, and I'm feeling awfully lonely in those first two slots :-(

Also, I tried to look up directions, but Google Maps and Mapquest don't know where the convention center is. What's the best way to get there from the north (including finding parking)?

14) Do bonuses from an amulet of mighty fists (including properties like shocking) get added to the damage?

@Selena: You should check the stats in your "Class/Levels" box again. They don't quite match up with the pregen, and her given stats are after buffing anyway.

@PeteZero: If you want to play the barbarian, that's fine. But keep in mind that we already have two melee guys (a monk and a paladin), so it might get a little crowded on the front lines. Someone who can buff the party (like Lem the bard) might be more useful. But of course, it's your call.

The level 12 iconics aren't PFS-legal. Just the level 7s. And we're doing the 7-8 subtier anyway.

For the record, D-Kal is my brother, and I've been twisting his arm to try the pregen barbarian.

As has been mentioned, the game rules don't allow Alejia to threaten a coup de grace before the PCs can act. When they enter the cave, combat in't already going; she can't have "readied actions" outside combat, and besides, you can only ready a standard action.

Even if she gets a surprise round, the scholar is safe from a coup de grace.

Rather, she should use her magus abilities to simply attack him with a powerful damaging spellstrike, probabily combined with deadly poison.

I'm getting ready to run this one, and I was wondering about the CdG as well. If the PCs step around the corner, and find her standing with her blade to the throat of the hostage, isn't that a volatile enough situation to start initiative right away? I was imagining her using a standard action to start a CdG (the old "draw a single drop of blood from the hostages throat" move), then ready the next standard action to complete the CdG.

Hey RainyDay. No worries about getting a ticket ahead of time. The door is good enough on Saturday, unless you plan on being there on Friday.

No, I won't be there until Saturday. But since the gaming apparently starts before the general convention, I wasn't sure if that would be an option.

I'm sorry RDN, but at this level, don't you have magic items you could sell for your own Restoration?

Now that you mention it, I suppose selling my Ring of Featherfall would get me just enough gold to afford it...

But hey, if the pregens sell their gear, that's essentially free, right? :-)

Paul, how important is it to buy tickets to GeekOut ahead of time? Can I plan on just picking one up at the door?

Also, will there be a regular game day at the APL next weekend (the 11th), or will everyone still be recovering from GeekOut?

If you want to ride an Axe Beak, I'd recommend GMing those scenarios so you can put the boon on a brand new character, and plan it from the start. A monk/cavalier multiclass might work, but I'd be wary of multiclassing, especially if you didn't plan it ahead of time.

I'll just quote G. K. Chesterton, because he sums up my thoughts on Hermea quite well:

"The one objection to scientific marriage [i.e. selective breeding] which is worthy of final attention is simply that such a thing could only be imposed on unthinkable slaves and cowards. I do not know whether the scientific marriage-mongers are right (as they say) or wrong (as Mr. [H. G.] Wells says) in saying that medical supervision would produce strong and healthy men. I am only certain that if it did, the first act of the strong and healthy men would be to smash the medical supervision."

I would like to play with rainydayninja, lord knows I voted for his item enough times.

Thanks! Now, if only you'd voted for my monster that many times... :-P

I'd rather play Oxirane, the Thrice-Unslain (my level 8 dwarf Qinggong Monk of the Four Winds) in "The Red Harvest." I mentioned it before, but it bears repeating: He's still got a negative level from his last death, so I'd ask anyone adventuring with me to pitch in and help me pay for another restoration at the beginning. I would, of course, repay in whatever way I could once I get my gold at the end, if anyone else needed spellcasting services.

I don't have his character sheet with me, so I'll post the stats some time tonight after work.

How many atheists are you familiar with who committed mass murder in the name of atheism?

For that matter, how many atheists are you familiar with who committed any crime in the name of atheism?

And, beyond that, what possible reasoning could there be behind lumping atheists together as having anything in common with one another, beyond simply not believing in a deity? Their atheism is a lack of belief, not the presence of a massive set of core tenets of faith.

Oh, so you don't like it when people lump atheists together based on that one incredibly broad label? Well, guess what?

I don't like it either. That was my point.

There have been billions and billions of Christians throughout history. Many were great humanitarians. Some were mass-murdering Nazis. Likewise, there have been billions of atheists throughout history. Many were great humanitarians. Some were mass-murdering communists. And while many gamers have even founded charities, a few have snapped and committed suicide or gone on crime sprees because they got too involved in their character.

But it's the bad ones that always make the news. As G. K. Chesterton said of newspapers, "They cannot announce the happiness of mankind at all. They cannot describe all the forks that are not stolen, or all the marriages that are not judiciously dissolved. Hence the complex picture they give of life is of necessity fallacious; they can only represent what is unusual." If you go through life assuming all Christians think like the Westboro Baptist Church or Pat Robertson by default, you're going to end up with a very skewed and cynical view of the world.

There comes a point where, if you're in someone's company and they blatantly do something you don't agree with, you have to do something if you want to disassociate yourself from it. Even if it's only one member of a much larger group.

This strikes me as a rather silly position. If, for example, the Southern Baptist Convention issued a press release denouncing what Pat Robertson said, would you know about it? I hear the same thing from people claiming that "All Muslims must support terrorism, because I've never heard any of them denouncing it." (Newsflash: They do, but the people who say that don't go out looking for it.)

Besides, if I went around denouncing and distancing myself from every stupid thing that some TV preacher said, I wouldn't have time for anything else. There's about 2 billion Christians in the world; why should I be held accountable for everything they say and believe?

Or maybe I'll take your tack and just assume that any atheists I meet from now on support mass murder, until I hear them specifically denounce Mao and Stalin.* Sound fair? On second thought, I think I'll assume people I meet are fair and reasonable until they themselves say or do something to suggest the contrary.

*Gross exaggeration