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Woken Furies by Richard K. Morgan.

The movie version of "The Road" is super bleak. Like soul-crushingly bleak. I wouldn't expose children to it. Heck, I warn all my friends not to watch it!

;-)

Maybe a live action version of the Dungeons & Dragons Cartoon?

Warwick Davis as Dungeon Master. He was good in the Gaiman-scripted Doctor Who.

Ranger, Cavalier, Magic-User (Wizard), Thief (Rogue), Barbarian, Acrobat (Monk?), baby unicorn.

Ooh! A Planescape movie would be awesome! Jennifer Love Hewitt as Doomguard Factol Pentar!!!!!

Something from the Nightside by Simon Green.

Gnolls!!!!!!

Yuan-ti!!!

Dr

Thanks!

I think the Shriek SHOULD have been sonic, but they forgot to make it so. A bit of RAW vs RAI. Ditto with the cackle. It would have been fun to have bards counter-cackle (harumph?) witches.

But I'm glad you can ventriloquise cackles. It will just be creepy.

Yeah, but by featuring them, they'd have to create physics-defying clothing... :)

Great! It will stimulate jobs and careers in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) industries.

So what's good for Pathfinder is good fer America!!!!

Hi! Can an invisible witch use ventriloquism to hide her location while using the cackle hex?

I would hope they use 3.5 rules as their baseline rules, but if I was WotC or whoever owns D&D nowadays, I would probably use the movie (or try to get the people making the movie) to make it one big giant commercial for the new gaming system (5th Wave or whatever they call it).

Maybe they should make a Pathfinder movie instead....

I mean, lots of fans, no 1970s and 80s taint of devil worshiping, iconic characters, a fun kitchen sink campaign setting, and even novels and Adventure Paths to provide plotlines! Seems like a really good idea to me.

Especially if they feature Seoni and Amiri....

OK, I'll check out the Gendarme cavalier. Thanks! Anymore suggestions?

EDIT:

I just checked out the Huntmaster archetype! A dog companion!!! :-D

What's a good Teamwork feat? I'm thinking of either Precise Strike or Paired Opportunists. It's for a PbP, so sometimes tactical movement is a bit handwaved. I also run 2 PCs for the game, the other being an elf barbarian with an elven curveblade, Power Attack, and Pushing Assault, which he hasn't used yet. :-( So I wouldn't be adverse to getting a Teamwork Feat with that guy, too, if that isn't too cheesy.

They should make a D,D&D movie about a Guy who wanders the world, trying out different potions and other consumables. ;-)

-4 Con is very balancing. Totally makes up for super mobility and super sensory stuff. Slow Speed is also relatively debilitating without being totally nerfy. Especially since they an use flight in most circumstances to keep up with and even exceed normal PCs (especially if flying over difficult terrain and the like).

Um. Just finished Tinker by Wen Spencer.

Might start The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny by Simon Green. But I accidentally grabbed book 10 of a 12 part series, so I might delay and try to get book 1 first.

Maybe.

Or I might stroll down to Library 2 to get Woken Furies by Richard K. Morgan. Book 3 of the Kovacs series or whatever it's called.

(I'm really drunk right now.....surprised at how good my spelling and grammar is. If it's good, because, still drunk. :-P )

They should base the film on dungeoneering. And team work. I want to see tumbling to flank, aid another to Power Attack through DR, and fighting defensively to provoke AoOs so a teammate can kick @$$ and take truenames.

I would love it if was a 3rd to 6th level adventure, maybe a warlord or other BBEG is on the border of Home Town, and the heroes go on a couple mini-quests (maybe a heist or two, some dungeoneering, some creepy wilderness), and then invade the BBEG before she can attack.

Maybe Paladin, Ranger (or Barbarian and Monk), Druid, Rogue, Sorcerer, and Wizard?

The EK is kind of an NPC I've "appropriated" as a second PC, so he came semi-pre-built. Also, he's an arrogant git, so lots of Cha over Int seems really important to his personality. I only plan on dipping for 1 level in a FULL BAB class, then a couple more sorcerer, then EK for the rest. I really doubt we'll go over 17th level....

I'm leaning towards Standard Bearer Cavalier, more skill points, and they're FACE class skills (Diplo, Intimidate, etc.), so he can fill that role better.

I'm playing in a PbP. I have an elven Destined sorcerer 4 with a longspear, Combat Reflexes and Toughness. Spells include alarm, burning hands, color spray, grease, create pit.

Str 14, Dex 16, Con 12, Int 10, Wis 9, Cha 18

The rest of the party is an elven barbarian with a curveblade, an elven rogue archer, and a DMPC healer dog of some kind.

I'm thinking of taking my martial level next. Should I go Cavalier or Fighter? Are there any interesting Mount-less archetypes of Cavalier?

I'm using the Reach Cleric Guide as a....guide....for my build.

They should base it on a team-based TV show, like Firefly or the A-Team or Burn Notice or Buffy or the Shield or White Collar, trade out tee guns for swords, and have them battle Yuan-ti, Githyanki, Beholders, and Mind Flayers!

Gail Carriger's "Soulless" series is hilarious! :-D

Maybe instead of blindsight, it could have an advanced blindsense ability, with only a 20% miss chance instead of the standard 50%; and possibly Blind-fight as a bonus racial feat?

What's the British version of BBC America? USA UK????

I like how everyone keeps getting caught at stuff. It's kind of a relief from wondering how they're going to get out of it, oh yeah, here comes the really contrived deus ex machina.

Rogue archetype with access to all Knowledge skills and replaced sneak attack with general feats, or just Skill Focus feats, or maybe Teamwork feats, possibly with the Helpful trait.

Oops, missed this one over the weekend.

Clears throat.

Sacred prostitute? What, you don't think I'm down to earth enough to play a common streetwalker? Though maybe one who has managed to claw her way up the social ladder slave ("I prefer handmaiden.") to Matron of the house, that sounds a bit more awesome.

You know what, never mind the pbp, I think I just met the newest resident of Manse Dice.

I've been reading David Sedaris' new book, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, and a french language comic book (graphic novel to all you snobs out there) called L'Imperatrice Rouge.

You'd like it, Doodlebug. It's set in the near future, in a world where the October Revolution failed and the Czars conquered Europe (or, as people of my station call it, Heaven). At least, I think that's what is about; my french is fairly terrible, so I'm reduced to exclaiming, "That character just introduced herself, and her names Adja!" or, "Someone just said something about a library!"

I'm not saying you can become fluent by reading (or whatever) foreign language comic books, but it broadens your mind. Look, whatever, the pictures are pretty.

OMG! Somebody on the interwebs typed rouge and didn't actually mean rogue!!!!!! :-D

CJ Cherryh--Foreigner series, Chanur series, Union-Alliance series, etc. etc.

Jacqueline Carey--Terre D'Ange series (Kushiel's Dart, etc.), the Sundering (Banewrecker and Godslayer), Santa Olivia, Saints Astray, Dark Currents.

Kate Novak (and her hubby Jeff Grubb)--Azure Bonds

Just finished Cold Days by Jim Butcher.

Just started Tinker by Wen Spencer.

Well, it looks like my players don't have time to GM anyways. :-P

I like how there are consequences and they make big mistakes.

Well that's disappointing....

Cool. I don't want to read ahead too much on this adventure path; I'm kind of hoping for rotating GMs so I can play!

Ok, so the PCs began the adventure. They captured a lot of bandits, and plan on forming an alliance with the kobolds. They already took care of the mites.

They also discovered the potential gold mine. I don't have the next chapter of the adventure (levels 4 through 6) yet, but the PCs are planning on using captured bandit labor and possibly allied kobold miners (kobolds get a +2 racial bonus on Profession mining checks). Is this feasible?

Don Juan de Doodlebug wrote:

In other I. Claudius news, I finally find a hawt chick sexy enough for Rome and she turns out to be a manipulative, psycho biznitch. Poor Clau-clau-claudius... :(

Wait, which one? Cause you just described every woman in the thing, aside from his mother. No, wait, she starves her daughter to death and then kills herself, that's as psycho as anyone else. Also, which of the hawt sexy chicks in Rome wasn't a manipulative, psycho biznitch?

Honestly, I thought I, Claudius had a hotter Livia Drusilla (Sian Phillips) than Rome (Alice Henley), but maybe that's just cause I love 'Sidi-ji so much. Old ladies with poison? That's sexy!

+1,000,000 for the Sidi-ji reference!!!!!

I played an elf druid that took Craft Wand to make cure sticks. It was in one of those "save the world" campaigns where the forces of evil were taking over all the towns, cities, and countries with magic shops.

He also had Point Blank Shot, Rapid Shot, Natural Spell (of course!), Improved Counterspell, and Empower Spell.

Just finished Intruder by CJ Cherryh.

About to start Cold Days by Jim Butcher.

Cleave has changed

3.5 - if you drop a creature to 0 or less hit points you can strike another creature within reach

PF - if you make a cleave attack as a standard action, and you hit, you can make another attack against a foe that is adjacent to the first and also within reach.

Quite a change for the cleave ability and tripped up a few of my players as it provides a extra attack without having to kill the first target, but must have the second target next to it.

And now there is Cleaving Finish:

http://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/combat-feats/cleaving-finish-combat

When you strike down an opponent, you can continue your swing into another target.

Prerequisites: Str 13, Cleave, Power Attack.

Benefit: If you make a melee attack, and your target drops to 0 or fewer hit points as a result of your attack, you can make another melee attack using your highest base attack bonus against another opponent within reach. You can make only one extra attack per round with this feat.

brassbaboon wrote:

Aldin wrote:

Druid companions can be dismissed at will and replaced at no cost within 24 hours with ANY terrain appropriate alternative. Yesterday a tiger, tomorrow a combat trained mount, next week a T-Rex...

I knew this and have even contemplated using it once or twice in the past four years (I'm pretty sure this was true in 3.5 as well).

However, as a GM, if a druid's player kept dismissing animal companions for convenience, I would probably his his/her deity or Mother Nature herself visit them and have the druid explain, in character, why doing that was not a callous and selfish action.

I might be convinced otherwise, but I would at least have them explain it to their source of power.

Nature is cruel at times. Those unsuited for their task being weeded out is natural among animals. If the companion wanted a long term contract then they should be adapt so that switching them isn't the best option open to the druid.

Or you could re-fluff the animal companion stuff, and have it be an animal spirit whose form shifts to meet the needs of the druid.

lol, I wasn't pulling a Rip Van Winkle! Defiance is on at 9 and Castle at 10. :-P

Maybe remove some weapon and armor feats from the aristocrat and give them some Skill Focus or non-combat related feats, like Alertness.

Maybe remove Familiar and give an Arcane Bond or Divine Bond to the adept.

We just started a new group. 3/4ths showed up, but that was expected. Most are pretty new to Pathfinder with lots of 3.5 experience. A couple are kind of scoundrels (cavalier and rogue), but the ranger should keep them behaved (real-life wife of the rogue! I'd actually like to see her play a paladin some day...).

NPC classes don't have enough class features to trade out.

Just give the PCs a +1 per level, and let them put it where they want, maybe limiting it based on the type of plus.

For example, you could gain an enhancement bonus on your weapon equal to half your level, max +10 at 20th, only +5 of which is enhancement, the rest are special abilities.

For another example, at 3rd level, you would have 3 pluses. You could use it for +1 weapon, +1 amulet, and +1 cloak. Or +2 ability score, +1 ring. Or +2 shield and +1 cloak. Etc. etc.

You could change your plusses each level, or by spending a Hero Point.

Yeah, I fell asleep hard during Defiance this week.

I'm just glad I woke up in time to watch Castle.

It went pretty well. We set it up as a 2 week journey from Restov to Oleg's Trading Post.

The party was a cavalier, rogue (will multi-class into witch), and an archer ranger.

They battled a pair of worgs, vanquishing them with ease, then came to a cross roads where they could use either the New Ford or the New Bridge. They chose the New Bridge. On the way there, they noticed carrion birds and then discovered the chopped-up corpses of two bandits...and they noticed the hands had been severed from the corpses.

The PCs then followed footprints from the scene of the carnage to a small campsite where they discovered a backpack containing a spellbook and some black robes, which they stole.

They then returned to the road and took the new bridge over the river, a narrow affair about 3 feet wide with open sides and a hand rail. At the halfway point, they were attacked by 4 crawling claws! After being choked a bit, the rogue and ranger threw their attackers over the side of the bridge. One that had wounded the rogue ran away. The cavalier destroyed the 4th one. The party then saw the necromancer on the shore.

The PCs set up a fake campsite, using the backpack full of spellbook as bait. The necromancer used a scroll of mount then snuck forward and used her arcane bond to cast summon monster I to summon a fiendish riding dog to fetch the backpack, then bring it to her, then she would mount the mount and ride away. Unfortunately for her, the cavalier charged her down and knocked her out. The PCs interrogated her, found out about her obsession with Kessler (she of the double hatchets), then executed her for being a witch.

The ironic thing is, she never hurt any of the PCs. She shot (and missed) a ray of enfeeblement after the ranger shot her. She was using the crawling hands to just wound the PCs, then use their Mark Quarry to spy on and track them later. All to get noticed by Kessler, who probably doesn't even know she exists. :-P

Anyways, they had to take a day off from travel and use untrained Heal checks to give each other bed rest. :-P

Then the PCs smelled smoke on the wind, investigated a burned out region of the forest, and let it go.

Then the PCs got back on the road and then made camp. Just before dawn, the PCs were ambushed by alchemist fire-wielding kobolds, lead by a kobold alchemist. I gave the kobolds Swap Places feat instead Skill Focus Perception. The plan was to swarm a single PC with 3 or more kobolds, then have them fall back and drink potions as they switched spots. Didn't quite work out that way. 5 kobold goons died, 1 ran away, and the alchemist used expeditious retreat to retreat expeditiously.

The PCs gained a lot healing potions and alchemist fires from the fallen kobolds (the alchemist leader was both productive AND generous!), and even gave a potion to the cavalier's horse.

A couple days later, they encountered a variant of the dire flytrap. It knocked out and grabbed the ranger, and dragged her towards it. The PCs used up many Hero Points and almost all of their alchemist fire, but they eventually prevailed! The cavalier had to use both his Tactician ability to share his Precise Strike feat and Challenge ability.

They continued on their way and made it to Oleg's Trading Post.

Cool! Thanks! I'll definitely add a river ford!

Maybe even add a "build a bridge" encounter later!

The first session will only have 2 PCs, which is why I'm bothering with an intro at all.

I like the idea of meeting with the other 3 groups before hitting the road.

And Benoc, I REALLY like your idea for using the moon radishes as a cure. Maybe for lycanthropy? Are there any poisonous lycanthropes? Like a wereviper or werehedgehog?

The make-up of the party might be changing too. The druid might be a cleric, the magus might be a rogue-witch. Who knows??????

EDIT:

Also, I don't have chapters 2-6. To be honest, I don't want to know too much about them because I hope we can trade GM duties between different chapters.
I also haven't GMed in a year, so I'm rusty.

OK, I'll check out the link. I have a couple of ideas for stuff on the road from Restov.

I need to read up on all the other groups. I've never run anything in Golarion before.

I might also make a LEGO version of Oleg's camp. :-D

Well, the session is tomorrow (7pm EDT 4/21/2013), so I don't really have enough time to make anything TOO complex....

Childlike halfling rogue spy?