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You do get to make a move and full attack. Which is excellent. I've been taking another look at the Battle Oracle. I think it is better than I remembered.

One thing I still don't like about it, though you don't have to take that revelation, is the Maneuver Mastery. It's kind of weird it explicitly lets you use your oracle level instead of your bab when you do a cmb with your selected feat. But it doesn't add your charisma bonus. If they were going to go that route, I would think that the charisma bonus should have been added.

I just think maneuvers aren't very useful the higher you go, particularly since even with this mystery you aren't going to be super good at them. Even with the size change magic you have available you aren't going to be nearly as good as some of the other classes.

It's got a good level 20 capstone too, but most people will never see it.

I love the idea of Maneuver Mastery, but it picks up a bit slow for my taste. Since you don't get "improved" until 7th level, it's not really worth using (or taking) until 7th, while a fighter who wants to use combat maneuvers can start with "improved" at 1st level, and have "Greater" at 6th. Net effect:

• The fighter gets to use combat maneuvers effectively during levels 1-10, levels when many of the maneuvers shine.
  
• The oracle gets to use maneuvers during levels 7-10 before finding that most high-CR enemies are not vulnerable to combat maneuvers. Also, by the time the oracle's combat maneuvers come online, he's got a boatload of powerful spells available, and should probably spend his actions casting them.

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Ever considered using the favored class bonus on this revelation? +1/2 to Oracle's effective level. Means you can get the improved version at level 5 and greater version at level 8, and a total of +5 extra CMB at level 10.

OK, that makes sense.

So if an animal companion has int of 3 or higher, it can selects regular PC feats as long as these feats are reasonable and it meets all the Prerequisites?

Rule of Animal Companion Feats:

Animal companions with an Intelligence of 3 or higher can select any feat they are physically capable of using.

I notice that some of the animal companion feats are from monster feats. Now question is, can a flying animal companion take the Flyby Attack Monster Feat if it has an intelligence of 3? Of course in PFS.

Thanks, all.

Also new to pathfinder and looking for group that accepts brand news. I can do skype + maptools at Fri, SAT & SUN night. I would love to play the rise of the runelords as PC. But anything else is fine.

Thanks!

BTW, I'm on PST time.

I am new to tabletop RPGs, mostly. I've been around for quite a while, owning the old Basic and Expert D&D sets, and AD&D books from editions 1 through 3, I believe. I have played CRPGs from the days of Wizardy, Bard's Tale, Ultima, etc., and have played a number of MMORPGs. However, I have never actually played any tabletop game.

In my youth, I tried. I really wanted to. Like I said, I bought the sets and the books! The problem was, nobody I knew played. And when I did meet those that wanted to, nobody had a clue HOW to, so nothing ever happened. I even joined a club back in high school, and I think we met two or three times, and it fell through. We never even played once!

Flash forward to now. I'm married, and moved to a new town (hell, a new country!) and it seems the town I live in has a gaming group, and they play Pathfinder! Or, they DID play, but now, they only play Magic and Warhammer. I don't want to play those, I want to play something like D&D or Pathfinder, but no, they don't really do that anymore, because nobody really wants to.

So, here I sit, with my Pathfinder Core Rulebook, with nobody to play with. At this point, I don't know if I'd even be any good, but still, I would love to give it a shot.

I have looked through the forums here, and noticed that people do play online, when they can't do it in person, for whatever reason. I see that they use Skype or Vent or TeamSpeak to do so, along with some RPG specific whiteboard type apps (which I haven't downloaded yet, but I plan to, cause they sound rather cool.)

My question is, how likely am I to find a group that would be willing to have someone that has never played before? I understand the basics, obviously, but I really don't know how I would do in a real game, and would love to find people that would be a little more patient. I'd also want to start at the beginning, level 1, and learn as I go. I know some people start new games (encounters? adventures? not sure what exactly you would say here) but start off as higher level, and I'm...