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OK so My brother is in prison, for a few more years and would like some of my Pathfinder books printed out. Can i share my PDF with him as print outs. or is that not ok? There are a lot of complication with giving things to prisoners but you can send them printed pages of books in letters but not hardcover books. thanks for reading my question

I feel like that title has been in the Hopper for a while.

I might start a skype d20pro for maps game. I liked the system and still have all the books and might start a game but 1st any one interested?

I am looking to start a d20pro pathfinder game using skype. I am pretty new to d20pro so I have not figured it all out yet. I think that using just the map and using home dice (as long as no one cheats) and skype for the rest works best for me.

If you are interested please PM me or respond to this thread.

I have been thinking about time travel and while I think it's a cool story devise, I don't think it is possible. what are you think any relevant articles or books you know of?

I finally got around to watching it and have a need to process the whole thing. I am not even sure how to start. so
What did you think? was it cosmic horror of the supernatural variety or just craziness?

I have some thoughts on. all that but I can't do the spoiler button right now so I don't want to ruin the show for anyone.

I have a subscription to d20pro and have not yet used it all my players sorta fell through (summer job to 1st borns) in any case I would like to find a few guys that want to play.

I would like to switch off on game mastering. I have a pretty lenient style I think game flow is more important then rules but try to stay pretty close to the book.

I usual run games with only a few players so I off set by doing higher stats and I play a character. both so when some on else DMs I have a character. all my player think I am fair and enjoy playing with me (I realize being my own reference does not say much.

So if you would like to start a Skype/ 20pro game with long time a gamer but 1st online gamer.

OK it is 1am and I cant sleep because my new neighbours have a puppy or a small dog, pretty sure its a puppy but it is crying our side right now no stop. it a little heartbreaking. I have not called the police yet because I don't want to start a feud just yet. I would talk to them but the house they live in is a converted apartment house not sure which one is them. My sense motive and past experience with this sort of thing tells me that the direct good neighbour approach will end poorly.

So what if I found a good home with some one that wants a dog and does not care to much about where it came from?

Help me justify/ talk me out of this plan.

Also any one want a small and or young dog it white and brown does not like being out side by itself late at night. does not seem to eat much.

So i have been doing some theatrical Alchemy since i got the new spontaneous alchemy rules and this is the fruits of my Great work so far. What do you all thing and what stuff have you come up with?

Liquid Ice Urea 5 + spirit of wine 6
Ghast Retch Flask 8 Mortuum(one of my made up ones) + 28 salt + 30 spirit of wine
Cytiliesh Stun Vial 15 magnesium+12 cytillegh spores

Alchemical Goads from Krazy Kragnar Alchemical Surplus Shop
Lesser 30 salt+8 Platinum
Greater 30 salt+15 platinum
Sovereign 30 salt+35 platinum

OK title is a lie but I do have a question.
how does spontaneous alchemy rules and feats interact with the alchemist class feature and master alchemist feat?

also anyone work on new reagents and how other existing alchemical items braked own?

and if you a upset about the lie then I thin we as a community need to stop with the crazy alignment thread just ask your dm. which I guess I could do with this problem too so sorry for being judgmental please forgive me.

I like crafting and I want to encourage my players to craft more so I am thinking if i ditch the crafting feats and use all skills and spell components instead. lookin for thoughts on how to make it work. thinking making it 75% of the price to keep it a little more even.

has anyone done this before?

there first issue of Gygax magazine there had an article on scaling feats like 2 weapon fighting and vital strike like power attack. so you would get the advanced and greater versions of those feats as you level up rather than taking them with a new feat. has anyone done this in a game?

I think that it would free up feats for later levels and could lead to more interesting combat choices. or it could be way over powered. thoughts

it makes sense that if you know how to use one type of weapon you should be able to use ones like it. like a mace and a morning star. or crossbows and repeating crossbows. I get that balance is important but I wonder if it would be fun to ignore balance in a few cases. thoughts.

I am starting a new campaign soon and so the elements I am going to mix all together are,
Ancient artifact that has ten pieces each with a time or space effect
space and planner travel
each pieces in a different time in the inner sea, at least one planet in the solar system, and one on the planes.
some dark tapestry with a possible show down with cuthulu
and as much Hyperion cantos as I can cram in there. especially the strike.

so I guess I will ask everybody how you would stat up then strike.

so any thoughts on any of that would be great and if anyone out there lives near Evarts MI and wants to join let me know.

planning one using some Vegepygmys with spears made of radioactive crystal and just wondering how everyone runs radiation

For the past two weeks I have been hiking the AT I plan on getting to Maine some time in late august. I have been thinking about my gear and how awesome it would be if I had a few items from pathfinder with me on the trail.
1.handy Haversack. No explanation needed.
2. Ring of sustenance. Food is most of what I am carrying and not needing to eat and still have energy to move would be great.
3. Ring of regeneration. blisters knee pain this damn cut on my pinky from cutting up the pepperoni gone in a few rounds. Very nice.
4. Instant fortress. I love my hubba but packing up in the rain sucks hard. Also when I get to the shelter and 6 smelly dudes who snore can suck it when I am in my tower.
5. Boots of striding and springing. Go faster and I bet they are comfy.
6. Vorpal Sword. I figured if I am going to make a list of magic items I wish I had I should but this on there. Plus the dude who has been rolling hikers in the red truck in GA would have something to worry about.

Any way I need to sleep and charge my phone need to make 14 miles tomarrow. I would love to hear more ideas for magic items that would make hiking 2181 miles easier. If you interested and hearing more I am on Facebook kevin d smitter. I wont be on for a while but I'll friend anyone and hay if its lame you can unfriend me.

I have been playing an alchemist since round two of the play test, about half way to 17th now. I don't think I will ever play anything else. I have been thinking that while there are a lot of cool alchemy Items out there, Could we think of more.

I have been thinking about doing something with the idea of the Baghdad Battery. Some kind of alchemist spark, I think there was something like that in 3.5 don't remember where.

so what are some other item every one has homebrewed up for there games or anything related to alchemy in general?

with all the ways to buff stats, what should a person with a very high Int, Wis, Cha act like?

Sherlock is pretty good example of high Int, what about high wis, or cha.

this year my friends and I will be celebrating the liberation of serfs in Russia, and I would like to invite you all to join us in celebrating the end of serfdom in Russia.

Why are we celebrating that, because, we need a random holiday for February, January we Celebrated Randolf Scott's Birthday (look him up awesome guy) and Next month we are Celebrating Hitler's Death and the end of WWII. March will be the Ides of March unless we can find something better.

Which brings me to my next point, as my friends and I will do this every month all year, so we could use some help with finding Random things to Celebrate.

I have been playing an Alchemist for 15 levels and I think that it might be my favorite Character ever, I have been playing for 20 years or so so that is saying a lot. So I would like to start a threat about Extracts, home-brew extracts, cool stories about extracts and Questions about extracts.

So to start it, is any one using Elude Time and how are you using it? I think it is a cool formulae but not sure how to use it effectively.

My friends two sons, 12 and 8 just asked me who would win, batman or Cthulu. I felt I need help with this one, My money is on Cthulu in a strait up fight, but if Batman was just trying to stop cthulu's cult I would say Batman.

I am Thankful for, Craftics #33 clear-thickened acrylic cement, it has increased my minis collection and by at lest 20 and save many more.

Also the space bar, not getting very far with out it

I am thinking about making different types of "Philosophers' Stone" that work like Metemagic Rods, So would that be unbalancing? has any one done something like this all ready? Have I been watching to much Fullmetal Alchemist?

anyway just want to get some feed back. Thanks

So I am going to run a post-apocalyptic campaign some time this winter. and I have been thinking How is it going to end. So I thought we should talk about, the best way for the World to END, not like the planet blows up because Rocks flouting in a Void is kind of fun but not for that long. So more like all of society crashes and maybe a lot of people die, and most of the infrastructure fails as well.

Anyway What will the Apocalypse look like to you?

I am in Evart looking for a few more players, new and old welcome, send me an e-mail. thesmitter@hotmail.com. I am running a game that just hit 13th level, welcome to join that game, I will be starting a new new one some time soon.

I am looking for more players for my game, any one playing in the Evart, Big rapids, Cadillac Area and would like to join my game. If so e-mail me at thesmitter@gmail.com or post here.

Also are there in pathfinder society games going around here at all.

sorry if this is in the wrong place,

So planning on running a Apocalypse game, earth, higher tech but not to much, probably no magic but have not decided, Any way what classes do you think fit.

Fighter, Ranger, Rogue, Are a for sure, the rest may take some work.

Anyway what do you guys think

My friend made a Goblin Cavalier with a giant spider mount and I thought it was pretty cool and should share it with the boards. And it got me to think what are some other Cool character Builds. So share you neato builds here.

don't care about RAW or Character effectiveness, just was it cool and was it fun to play

Explosive bomb*: The alchemist’s bombs now have
a splash radius of 10 feet rather than 5 feet. Creatures
that take a direct hit from an explosive bomb catch fire,
taking 1d6 points of fire damage each round until the
fire is extinguished. Extinguishing the flames is a full round
action that requires a Reflex save. Rolling on the
ground provides the target with a +2 to the save. Dousing
the target with at least 2 gallons of water automatically
extinguishes the flames.

The first line state that well you can read it. Dose this mean all the alchemist bomb have a 10 foot radius or just the base line fire Bombs. I have gone back and forth on this one.

So mutagens are pretty much out..or are they.
what would a troll want to mutate into

What else would you do with this Idea.

I am hoping to use the Troll of Absalom.

My players are level 12.
Thanks for the help

In an other 6 to 8 months, My campaign will reach Epic levels. I am going to start looking in to how to do that well with Pathfinder. Anybody doing something with this. I will post my Idea because I know every one is still at GenCon so it will be a few days before any will read this.

First thought switch to d30

So anyone got using Power components with Extracts

I know he might do Lovecraft and that would be awesome, but I want to talk about his other Moives.
Cronos, Mimic, Devil's back bone, The Hell boys, Pan's Labrinth

what else am I missing

SO still don't have my PDF (I am cool with that....really I am., total cool...) And I would like to know about the alchemist before I go to bed.

I still run the great wheel, because planescape has room for every thing. Plus Sigil is just to cool to give up. But i was wondering what everyone else is doing especially in Golarion. I just figuer that the old "clueless don't know anything" still works.
I even make my characters think that what is in the Pathfinder campaign setting is what is true until we inter act.

All the stuff in the world wound and in Cheliax just seem like the blood war spilling over in to the prime. I am hopeing to tie that into the BloodWar Box set. should be fun.

But what are you doing with the planes

I am going to run a game in Absalom using the Troll of Absalom, I have not decided if I want the Troll to be the villein or as a tragic character in need of help from his own creations. But what I do know is I want Alchemical Altered Trolls made from the Troll of Absalom's own body part reanimated.

So my player are now 12th level so I want to have some pretty powerful Alchemical Altered Trolls. I also need some help coming up with so crazy powers for them that my player will not see coming. I want them to scream "oh $^%& run" a few times.

Also does anyone have any more information on the Troll of Absalom.

Thank for the help,

I know it pretty Cliché but it is fun and if you don't think so you could just flame everybody and so we all have fun

So anyway I took some test about this very thing and it said that i was a 5th ranger CG, I think it was kind of off but I do enjoy the back-country so I just agreed.

so What would you be

Why did the Duck Family Call the FBI

OK last night I was running a game,In one of the encounters the characters fought a Mindflayer with a Glabrezu, they killed the mindflayer and found a contract for the enslavement of the Glabrezu. I did not write the contract out but I might do that at some time, anyway as long as the Glabrezu is not put into situation that is meant to kill him he will serve the holder of the contract.

the party is a three man party (couple player could not make it) a Chaotic Neutral half orc rouge, Chaotic Good Ranger with favored enemy evil outsiders, and A Chaotic Good alchemist,

The whole party deside that the Rouge should keep the contract for now until we can figue out a way to get ride/destroy the Glabrezu. The Ranger for the rest of the night told the Rouge to summon the Glabrezu for every fight, and when the Rouge was domanated into giving the contract over, the Ranger gabed the Contract saying “it's combat so I better take that” but after the fight he did not give the contract back and used the Glabrezu a couple more times.

As I was handing out EXP at the end of the game I informed the Player of the Ranger that his Alignment shifted to Chaotic Neutral because of the way he handled the use of the Glabrezu. He used it many times, some of which were not need. He took the contract the first chance he had after we found it and he keep saying things like “we can use him for good to the other players”

There was some what long argument after I did this where the player said that he could not see how he did not act with in his Alignment. NOW am I being a jerk and overly harsh?

I was just wondering if there is anymore information on the Troll of Absalom other then what little there is in the Absalom Book and the classic monster revisited.
I was thinking adding Levels of Alchemist to a Troll, and possible giving him minions made from all of the spare part of himself alchemical reanimated.
But before I make a bunch of crap up, I want to know what is already there.

I do a few thing that i think help the game run pretty smooth, but I find my self wondering what ever one else is doing

So to start things off I have two thing that i have been doing to help out my game.

One I give my players Jobs Like "James you are running Initiative tonight" and then I give James the GameMastery Initiative board and he keep track of it for the rest of the night with Me giving him the magnets of the badie's Initiative. At first i did not like the idea because as a GM it has always been my Job to Track Initiative but it as made my job easier just by handing that off.

The Next thing I do at he table is I keep maps under a Large sheet of Plexiglas and every one keeps has dry erase markers and takes notes about HP, conditions, There insanely chart (don't read that book). This lets all the player see all the other player stuff but I also keeps everyone honest and saves room a Character sheets. Also it keeps the maps Flat and it make it easier to mark on them. (not that the flip mats need it but other ones do)

So that is do things that i do to make GMing easier. Cus GMing ain't easy. What are some thing that you do to make life as A GM easier