I'm playing a Beastmorph Alchemist in PFS play.
I just achieved 3rd level, at which point, I get Beastform Mutagen.
That ability reads:
Beastform Mutagen:
"At 3rd level, a beastmorph’s mutagen causes him to take on animalistic features—whether those of an animal, a magical beast, an animal-like humanoid (such as a lizardfolk), or a monstrous humanoid. For example, when the beastmorph uses his mutagen, he may gain a furry muzzle and pointed ears like a werewolf, scaly skin like a lizardfolk or sahuagin, or compound eyes and mandibles like a giant insect. The beastmorph also gains his choice of one of the abilities listed in the alter self spell, which persists as long as the mutagen. He may select a different ability each time he creates a mutagen."
Alter Self reads:
Alter Self:
"When you cast this spell, you can assume the form of any Small or Medium creature of the humanoid type. If the form you assume has any of the following abilities, you gain the listed ability: darkvision 60 feet, low-light vision, scent, and swim 30 feet.
Small creature: If the form you take is that of a Small humanoid, you gain a +2 size bonus to your Dexterity.
Medium creature: If the form you take is that of a Medium humanoid, you gain a +2 size bonus to your Strength."
My question is, since it says that I can assume the FORM of any small or medium creature, do I use the creature's entry in the bestiary for my skills and soforth? My instinct is to say no, it's just cosmetic, but I thought I'd check in with greater minds than myself.
I'm about to start GMing Beginner Box for a group of possibly TEN 4th, 5th and 6th graders.
And yeah, I know I'm insane. But they were going to start asking random teenagers to GM for them. They're tiring of 4th Edition, and a few of them who have gamed with me have been telling the other kids about my GMing. I even had a mother offer to pay me.
I'm going to go with EdOWar's class conversions, and then attempt to "EdOWar-ize" up all of the races from the Advanced Race Guide for Beginner Box, as well. I'm calling it MonsterSquad ATTACK!, and I'll be running it at DTwenty Games in Normandy Park, WA.
I figure I'll make up some new goblin characters and have the whole chaotic pile of them go through "We Be Goblins!" to really get them to see how fun it is (along with all of the D&D Encounters players who will be there that Wednesday night - I have a feeling we'll have a few looky-loos). Then I'll let them make their own characters, whatever classes and races they want, and I'll start running them through a Sandpoint area campaign, using material from Rise of the Runelords, maybe Chopper's Isle, and The Brinewall Legacy (at least, the first half).
I haven't been this excited about running a campaign in years.
I have a feeling that when I get Pathfinder Society going at DTwenty in the next few months, this gang of kids will be responsible for converting over many more gamers than I ever could.
The reason I'm posting this is to thank the Paizo staff for the creation of the Beginner Box.
At Paizocon 2011, I actually had tears in my eyes while thanking Erik Mona, Jason Buhlman and Sean K. Reynolds for building the thing, because I remembered how much the D&D red box meant to me back in 1981, and I knew that my wife would absolutely FORBID ME to introduce it to my 10 year old son, such is her hatred of roleplaying and D&D.
To have gone from that a year ago to having her "pimp out" (her words) my GMing skills for babysitting services and not having a problem with my son playing Pathfinder -- it is incredibly meaningful to me.
Also, thank you, Ed (aka EdOWar) for doing the class conversions so that I can get these guys hooked on the full spectrum of Pathfinder, and then transition them over into regular Pathfinder, and Pathfinder Society. Ed, if you want those race conversions, you'll get 'em.
And to John Reyst and his d20pfsrd.com, for always being there on my smartphone, so I can use up all of my battery, checking nuances of character class combinations, or any and all of the other minutiae of the game.
To Jason, Sean, Erik, Lisa, Jeff, James, Sarah, Wes... To all of you and more, THANK YOU. I am genuinely in your debt.
And I am really excited to see how ridiculously insane this is going to be.
If a changeling (2 claws doing 1d4+STR damage) at 2nd level takes the Claws rage power (2 claws doing 1d6+STE damage), would she normally do 1d4+STR, and then 1d8+STR when raging?
It makes sense to me since she already starts with claws where another barbarian wouldn't, but I'd like to get some other opinions.
My first inclination is to say, "No." But then, looking at it, I think, "Y'know, this is so crazy, it Just. Might. Work!"
Under Discovery: Vestigial Limb, it says, "The arm does not give the alchemist any extra attacks or actions per round, though the arm can wield a weapon and make attacks
as part of the alchemist’s attack routine (using two-weapon fighting)."
Under Multiweapon Fighting, it says, "Prerequisites: Dex 13, three or more hands.
Benefit: Penalties for fighting with multiple weapons are reduced by –2 with the primary hand and by –6 with off hands.
Normal:
A creature without this feat takes a –6 penalty on attacks made with
its primary hand and a –10 penalty on attacks made with all of its off
hands. (It has one primary hand, and all the others are off hands.) See
Two-Weapon Fighting.
Special: This feat replaces the Two-Weapon Fighting feat for creatures with more than two arms."
So, if an alchemist takes vestigial limb, could he then take multiweapon fighting to take advantage of his extra limb (or limbs, if he takes vestigial limb a second time)?
Also, this would be for a PFS alchemist.
Also, this would be for my personal 1st PFS character I'm creating for Paizocon. Go big or go home, right?
( This is a quick questionnaire for a possible business venture. )
1. What do you consider the “Glory Days” of Dungeons & Dragons?
(What version of D&D do you consider the best? And no, "Pathfinder" isn't a viable option, despite the fact that I agree with you.)
2. If you were to name your favorite and most memorable D&D modules, what would they be?
(Be as detailed as you want to be. I like to pull them out of my garage and read 'em from time to time, too.)
Lord Zsezse Works has a sale on their maps and papercraft models from April 7th until midnight on April 15th. Their stuff has to be seen to be believed, and many of their maps can have 1" gridlines turned on or off through filters in Adobe Reader.
I know all of this because I'm helping them out cleaning up their English on their pdf's and webpages (Antal & Zoltan are from Hungary), and I got to write all the copy and name their newest map, The Sussurus Tomb.
It's weird knowing that copy I wrote on Thursday night, and the name I came up with for the map are now on their product and on the website on Saturday. Pretty cool.
I'm going to be running it to schoolkids in 3 sessions of 1 hour and 45 minutes each.
I know I can get the dungeon done in they time, but I was wondering if I mohr be able to run the first session with the premade characters, then use the second session making their own personal characters, and then finish up the final session with the new characters, after discovering the bodies of Ezren, Kyra, Valeros, Merisiel, and Harsk (a dwarven barbarian I've premade).
Whattaya think? Will this work?
I've been in love with the Falcon's Hollow setting since the moment I first read Hollow's Last Hope, and Age of Worms is extremely appealing to me. I know that I'll have to cut the adventure path (seriously) short, but I really like the concept of putting these adventures together (Hollow's Last Hope, Crown of the Kobold King, The Whispering Cairn, Revenge of the Kobold King, Three Faces of Evil, and then maybe Hungry Are The Dead as a grand finale).
Am I a fool for even attempting this?
Oh, also, the PC's are the MONSTERSQUAD!
It's my 9 year old son and my 10 year old nephew playing two characters apiece, this time playing monsters I've worked up with PFBB stats and using classes from EdOWar's blog:
http://edowarsblog.wordpress.com/downloads/
We have:
A whisper gnome ninja,
A tengu monk,
A goliath oracle of lore,
A wayang witch,
A compsognathus familiar.
Together, they are MONSTERSQUAD!
I've gotten them right to the gates of Droskar's Crucible and they'll be going in today, as soon as my two year old goes to playtime with his mommy. If anyone is interested, i'll try to do up the campaign under the heading "MONSTERSQUAD, ATTACK!"
And I'd really appreciate any advise anyone could give me on how to make this frankensteinien hodgepodge somehow work.
Sorry if this has been covered before, but I simply must know.
When a summoning spell ends, does the summoned creature go back to where it came? What if the creature is killed? Would there be a way to prevent this (perhaps some sort of planar lock spell)?
I can't find the answer to this in the core rulebook or anywhere online.
I have a question about black friday sale shipping.
I'd like to buy the Dragon Magazine Monster Ecologies book (on sale today for $2.99), but the idea of paying more for shipping than the cost of the book makes me not want to purchase it. However, sometime in November or December, i'm supposed to be coming in to the Paizo offices for the PAX GM's game.
Could I but it now and pick it up then?
I was a GM at PAX, and so I earned the PFS reward where I can pick either a Aasimar, Tengu or Tiefling for PFS play. I still have never played in a PFS scenario, and I like the idea of playing a Demonic Tiefling Magus. I know that Bastards of Erebus has a feat that allows a player to pick their origin and also roll 3 times to see what special ability they receive instead of Darkness 1 time/Day.
I know that PFS players are not allowed to take traits from adventure paths, and I figure that feats from AP's are out too, but I thought I'd ask.
I'm going to be starting an all-goblin campaign in the next month or so. Two of the players are going to be playing Chuffy Lickwounds, Overseer of Village Stabbings and Poog of Zarongel, Master of the Pit. We also have a barbarian, a Warlock (male Witch) a Blue Psion, and a feral Blue baby Psychic Warrior, just a precious bundle of teeth and claws that comes at you like a spider monkey...
I promised myself last year when I became free at the last minute, wandering the halls while forlornly watching all the fun, that I would never miss it again.
Now, I'm free to go, but I can't find anything but the shotglasses on the website, where tickets were listed on Sunday night.
This was going to be my Father's Day present to myself.
That's where I have my campaign set, and I've done a pretty good job so far of placing Falcon's Hollow in eastern Karrnath, and The Styes as a suburb of Karrlakton.
I'm going to be doing workups of all the Eberron races to update them for Pathfinder. Is anyone interested?
Or has anyone else out there already done the work so I can just steal and goof off?
Just wondering. I did my damndest to get my local library to convert their Dragon Magazine subscription over to Pathfinder, but there was some glitch in the transfer process.
I don't own any of the books, and I'm wondering if I should just wait for them to be collected since it's at the end now...
Rebis Ouroboros
