If he did say that, then it -would- work on cleave, but only on the first attack not the cleave attacks.
I'm afraid not. You need to use your standard action to attempt to cleave at all. You are making a cleave attack, not using the attack action.
Neither Overhand Chop nor Vital strike say "as a standard action, do X," they both say "when using the attack action, [add X effect]"
And cleave does not say "when using the attack action" it says "as a standard action."
One more time, the first attack roll of cleave is not the attack action, it is a specific standard action that imparts a -2 to your Armor Class and then allows you to roll against a 2nd foe if the first hit is a success.
"So, when you disarm someone, you get the ability to pick up."
is referencing the Disarm rules:
"If you successfully disarm your opponent without using a weapon, you may automatically pick up the item dropped."
"However, to pick up a weapon, you get an Attack of Opportunity"
is saying that after disarming, I can pickup the weapon, but it provokes an AoO, and:
"If you wanted to use said AoO, could you use it to instead attempt to pick up your weapon as well?"
is asking if you may instead pickup the weapon that was just disarmed from you rather than attack.
But, "Automatically" means "No attack of opportunity." And even if it did, you would not be able to use your ATTACK of opportunity for something that is not an ATTACK.
Would you give me some advice? I have recently found myself on the development staff for an upcoming game. I like to follow game devs on various social media, myself, and always wondered if they had more personal accounts separate from public face as game developers.
My question is, do you think I should have a personal e-mail/twitter et cetera? Or, do you find it to be unnecessary?
There are magic systems in books that let you do pretty much anything with magic. Like Garth Nix's Sabriel. Magic flows from a system of symbols representing words. If you meditate you can see the "charter", as it's called, and simply string together a sentence that describes what they want and it happens. Basically only bound by their vocabulary. Basically the Words of Power system but you know all the words.
So, mages without spell preparation limits are awesome, terrifying, and mythical in the golarion setting.
Oh right! The test of the Starstone! I almost feel like paizo will never publish this on the grounds that nothing a human can come up with would be good enough to describe it (and it always changes) and I understand that concept... but some guidelines would be nice...
I don't remember ever reading this, can't find it either. The bestiary section on demons however states that death is their enemy because it allows the mortal to go on to his afterlife reward rather than staying to be tortured.
How do I know what magical bonuses my players are supposed to have for a given level? As in, when is a +4 sword appropriate? +4 armor? +4 cloak? +4 belt/headband?
How do I know whether or not I need to make sure my players get upgrades before tackling Spires of Xin Shalast?
side note: One of my players desperately wants to learn druidic even though he's not a druid (in fact, its because he's not a druid that he wants to learn it). How can he go about doing this, and if he can't, what important things would get in his way?
Shoot, didn't even think of elevation, that area is more complex than I imagined (I haven't run chapter 6 yet).
That's tough, It looks like about 8.5 squares of stairs, but only 30ft elevation.
Then 1.5 squares up to the well is another 10ft up, and 2 squares over by area Y2 is 20 ft up. Those are some stairs!(and a little inconsistent).
I'd write it off as an artists license. I'd go with a 2x scale, and use only half-slabs, if you must be accurate however, normal stairs leading up to the rune-well and to area Y2, though it wont look quite as nice it would be by-the-numbers.
I can imagine that would be annoying, But I own the server so I'm sure to backup everything I do on to my local single player before I restart. I make the world files available to players who want them also.
Wile there are no walls in the eye, consider things like the throne, or the well. They only take one square. And while the stairs+blank signs method makes a serviceable minecraft chair with one block, it's hardly a throne.
By doubling the length of the 5 square cubby it sits in, you can have 3 blocks on either side. that makes the space 3 meters, or 9.8 feet: the same mathematically as the 2 squares on each side of the original. This leaves you with 4 squares with which to build an impressive throne. or if you want to stay consistent to the original throne-to-empty-space ratio, there are some nice 2x2 throne designs as well.
As for the rune-well, there's just no way to do that with less than 3 blocks. In fact, I'd consider adding an extra row of blocks running through the center of the Eye (making it 43 blocks from top to bottom) with the extra row going right through the well and the throne. That would give you enough blocks to make the well look something like this
(my quick soul lens throws it off i think)
Truthfully the real problem came from the WALL. Since in PF the walls of the house are between squares and in MC the walls have to fill an entire square. Mathmatically every 2 squares should be 3 blocks, but I ended up doing double in the end. It feels more spacey. Even if it's a little big sometimes that was okay for me, it's a mansion after all. And, it helps make the thick walls feel more natural.
But then since each stair was 5 ft across and the spiral stain between them was 10, and I needed 2 walls between them the Manticore room and the dining room ended up getting 2 blocks bigger as a result.
Using 2 blocks for every square also really helps building along curves. If there is a cave wall cutting a square in half diagonally you can just pop off one of the corners in the 2x2 block that corresponds to it.
I made a replica of The Misgivings to live in for my Minecraft Survival Server. I'm sort of at a loss for what to fill the rooms with. It feels empty. Suggestions?
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Room Numbers based on the original printing of the adventure, not sure if they changed in the Anniversary version, but I own that one too if someone needs a room clarified.
(because I'm a math nerd, I'll include this for posterity)
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I'm over 800 miles away from my Runelords notes at the moment... are you looking at the stats for Karzoug from the original book or the new hardcover?
His +2 for being Azlanti should be in there, but that bonus didn't exist when we first did the Adventure Path, so if you're looking at Pathfinder #6... they aren't there.
I also think I remember giving him his +3 bonuses for age to his mental stats... but again... I don't have my notes handy so I can't confirm.
I am using the Hardcover. The text does specifically state that he got hit +oldman stats but not his -oldman stats (cause he is kept young). I guess the real reason I'm asking is, assuming I'm right (and I think I am or he'd have to have started with a 6 wisdom otherwise), would giving +2 to everything except INT make him unbalanced for his CR? He would get 20 more hit points, and +1 to AC, Fort, Refl, Will, and +2 to his CMD. What's more important? Keeping him mathematically accurate and increasing his CR(if it merits that at all) or keeping his stats appropriate for his CR, and let the math bugger off?
I've done some reverse engineering of Karzoug's stats (I wanted to see just what a 25 point build on a true azlant would look like). I may be off on where 1 point was spent and thus which stats other than INT were raised as he leveled, but once I took off the bonuses for his magic items spells and transmuter ability it actually became extremely easy to see what his base stats where. Unfortunately, it seems like he's only getting the default human stat bonus (+2 to one stat)rather that the Azlanti +2 to all. Mostly on account of he had to have started with an 8 wisdom. Is it possible this was an oversight? I'll admit I may have made a mistake, but I am pretty confident in my calculation. I ask because I want to give him +2 to all the others if this is the case, super-powered ancient human race makes me a little giddy.
(because I'm a math nerd, I'll include this for posterity)
Boring math stuff, just in case you're interested:
25 point build
Str 13 (+1 leveling, +6 belt, +4 wish)
dex 14 (+6 belt, +4 wish)
con 12 (+6 transmuter, +4 wish, +6 stones)
int 16 (+2 race, +3 age, +6 stones, +5 wish, +4 from leveling)
wis 8 (+3 age, +4 wish)
cha 15 (+3 age, +4 wish)
It's possible that the +1 from leveling not on his INT could have been dex or cha, in which case the base goes down by 1 and the point cost is the same.
The XP explosion is slightly addressed, they suggest slow progression.
As for the wealth, Epic Meepo I think you are mistaken, a little.
See, if you fight cr 15 you would want to award cr 15. which is fine when your fighting cr 15, but not cr 10/tier5. average armor class for cr 10 is 24. a APL 10 party considers this an easy fight, but cr 15 is an average AC 30(according to monster creation rules in the bestiary) and the rewards for cr 15 are balanced to give characters the bonuses necessary to target a high AC. But if your CR 15 is because you have 10/5 then your characters are getting the ability to hit a cr15 opponent when the ones they are fighting are no harder to hit than a normal monster of their APL.
IF the party only fights normal non mythic monsters of a cr appropriate to their level+tier then it works fine with extra treasure (and probably should get more so they can handle the extra defences and monster to-hit). IF the party only fights mythic monsters for the extra challenge than it only works with normal treasure for their level.
but the biggest problem is switching between the two in the same campaign.
that was complicated, does anyone still follow me?
level 5 party fights a monster at cr5, gets cr5 treasure. Level 5 tier 5 party fights a cr5/tier5 monster and gets the same fair fight, but gets more treasure for it being equivalent cr 10. The next fight is much easier comparatively.
seems problematic, not sure how to reconcile.
You know I just noticed the ethillion from the abjurant halls does a good job of disenchanting rules.
My group is going into runeforge this week for the first time. Any advice on which enemies should attack on site and which should simply look up and say "who are you and what are you doing here?"
Honestly I kind of like the idea of a character leaping into an incredibly tough battle and having a zero chance of dying, and then doing this again for 5 more battles before encountering one mythic creature that really messes up their everything and leaves them in the infirmary. It makes that mythic boss fight feel that much more important and threatening, and they know they have to fight it again and win this time.
Now that is an exceptionally clever idea. I'm not familair with the shattered star (would like to run it as a player) but from what I've looked up that could be a very interesting way to make it work.
as for his Sin... suffice to say that he known to, on occasion, get drunk and sing "Veovis Andorhal: he's the greatest man of them all!"
(Veovis is of course, his own name.)
I forgot to point out, we're on our way past the storval stairs right this moment. So we will be fighting mokmurian soon.
I'll also add that i have him rotting away. The color of his hair fades away the higher level he gets, he coughs up blood particularly when casting lots of magic. Each milestone in his ocracle's curse makes it get worse. Currently he is immune to disease because frankley, no living virus or bacteria could sustain itself on his wasting flesh. I can easily halt the progression of his symptoms but leave him with the scarred face from enduring it. That wouldmake it so he could keep the -4 cha for character purposes.
I have an oracle in my group. His story goes like this: he used to be a wizard who tried to unlock healing magic using arcane means rather than divine, (bards and witches can do this fter all). On, lets call it a whim, Nethys cursed him one night declaring that he would not have personal control over divine spells until he learned to respect it. So he stripped him of his arcane magic spell casting ability(all his wizard spells fizzle now) and gave him a wasting disease. Now he can heal everyone but himself. No magic he tries can cure the disease.
His goal is to return to arcane magic using thasalonian rune magic or the words of power system, thinking they pre-date Nethys' assention to godhood they wouldnt be under his sphear of influence. And/or cure his disease somehow.
I plan on giving him a ritual to find in runeforge that allows him to cure his disease but it sacrifices his eyes, he will decline because he uses scroll magic a lot.
As an oracle of life he gets cured of all disease at lvl 20 but i want this to be significant in the plot somehow rather than just something he gets for leveling. And he'd rather be free from wasting than get arcane magic back, he's better now with divine spells than he ever was with wizard spells.
Sticky situation. As a DM I'm perfectly fine with converting an NPC to a PC, and with having some healthy party tension. Lyrie can slowly change her ways in an attempt to win-over her new "friends." But the rogue will certainly cause some pretty serious contention. Perhaps talking to her player and telling them that being loudly against Lyrie and her every action is acceptable RP but to, please, not try and kill her for the time being? Maybe later they can be frenemies?
I mean, she'll likely never be able to get over the death of her sister, but hey, resurrection is totally a thing.
Why not? Sometimes when I play skyrim and cant figure something out I doubleback and say "maybe there's something I've missed."
dont get me wrong, I love separating metagame from character knowledge, but sometimes I think we do it so much that we sell our characters short.
I'm not saying there IS something to go looking for, I'm just saying they call them SECRET passageways for a reason.
I think alchemists are a bit to smart for the goblin tribes associated with the raid, but go with what you know. I sounds like you have a scene in your head you really wanna share with your group, id say do it, and alchemists fire does the trick pretty well. Maybe they stole it? but then, you don't really have to explain WHAT kind of bombs they are -or- where they got them. Just have them hucking them.
perhaps there is a connection between the caves systems and the hole in the ground... i mean they both lead into the earth. But if the party doesn't want to go until they're all dead above thats another issue entirely.
Whats the parties alignment? When the US went into WWII they didn't say, "kill every soldier wearing a swastika," they knew many of them were scared and simply following the chain of command. My point is not every member of an army is your enemy. As a cleric it might help to point out that some of these giants may be content to just go home after their leader is taken out than die trying to protect their misguided tribesmen, and ending their lives would be immoral.
1) Do you like Karzoug and the eye of avarice batter now with the more terrain and minions? Or did you feel like it was perhaps thematically better to have him alone in an inside out soulwell?
2) Ameiko is your PC originally right? My players have really taken a liking to her, at least how I portray her in any case. We last left off at the end of the sandpoint raid by stonegiants, they saved Hemlock from Direbears and they headed to the knight brewry where I had Ameiko helping defend the town. Two players ran to catch Teranikus. The battle was won with no NPC's captured but they made no significant effort to extinguish the fires. Hemlock shouted to take the last giant alive before re ran off but just then im going to have those 2 Players see Scarnetti getting toted away in a wagon. Might be an interesting scene since one of them is former Szcarni. In any event, they have a fly spell active at the moment and I expect them to fly off and try to save him.
I would think the giant, knowing he thinks of the smaller races only something to be pittied will not be intimidated into staying after the only threats to him leave with only hemlock ameiko and a few guardsmen to detain him. I wanna give Ameiko a cool line or 2 and thought you may want to throw a suggestion out there? I was thinking maybe she could have a barrel of black powder or something(asians had that first on earth i believe) and kick it over to his feat and hold a flaming crossbow bolt pointed at him while she throws a badass threat. Thoughts?
IMC, I allow anyone with an item creation feat to "deconstruct" the item, getting the equivalent of "ethillion" out of it: Golden, sparkly "majic juice" that can be used to power the creation of a different item. The end result is the same as selling an item (you get the same value of ethillion out as you would have gotten in gold if you sold it), but no more worries about oddly sized weapons and armor or evil items going to waste. You can tap all those rings of protection/cloaks of resistance/amulets of natural armor and pool the ethillion to create a nice tinker toy of your own design!
I do this too. But I call it Residuun, and I only refund the magic for the enchantment. For example: A +1 golden hilted katana with a giant diamond pommel would return 100 gold (we use the silver standard), and will destroy the sword.
Requires Dispel magic and 1 day per 1000 gold of the creation cost.
... is this off topic?
ANYWHO
what happened to all the runelords? Sins of the Saviors says the runeforge contains "Vital clues preserved in the notes and workings of the complex hint at not only how each of the runelords planned on surviving the fall of Thassilon, but also reveal how to undo the magic that has preserved them for the past 10,000 years."
But from skimming through the anniversary edition I can only find information on Runelord Zutha's phylactery. Did I just miss it?
it should be noted, however, that the copy of "Rite of Passage" that I own is from first edition. at least I think, the characters have numerical renown, rather than dots.
page 165 of the revised edition says under rite of passage: "before the rite of passage, the group are not yet rank 1. Their teachers do not teach them any* gifts.
*emphasis mine.
I like it the way you described, but it conflicts with both the character generation rules used for the pregen(which assumes rite of passage was completed already) and the story presented in the chronicle (which in contrast, suggests the pups have not had-any- sort of training by their sept; they were locked alone in a warehouse until their rite). none the less the story does go on to assume they have access to their gifts. I think white-wolf just decided to let them have their 3 gifts on account of that's what is fair for a new character to have and simply considered the continuity as less important.
I just got a published story about a pack's rite of passage, complete with pre-gen characters. it says in the ritual section of the werewolf rulebook that group cannot learn rites or gifts until their rite of passage is complete, but the pregens all have 3 gifts and some have rites.
does anyone know anything regarding this old RPG that can help clarify? I'm not running the actual story as it's presented, I'm just nabbing some of the encounters.
but they would be physically capable of doing so(if not being grappled, and there was enoung space for one wide all-or-nothing slash). so what do you tell a player? too bad?
if someone has a 22 strength, I think I'd let them make an attack with a greatsword with one hand. with penalties but it seems like they could do it., though the rules don't seem to mention trying to use two handed weapons this way at all.
large scorpion-like construct with grab gets an opportunity attack on a charging fighter for moving through its threat range. does he get the free grapple check even though its not his turn? I typically say free actions can only be taken on your turn, and only immediate or interupt actions on on your off turn. but free actions in the core rulebook say they can be taken as PART of another action. so I ruled it could grab the fighter.
the fighter then asks to use his great sword in the grapple, I say no, light or one handed only. she asks if she can use her two handed weapon in one hand with the appropriate minuses... I say I don't know, I rule that she can't because its not the using two hands part getting in her way its the category of the weapon due to its size.
The way I see the intent is that a person is stronger with their dominant hand, thus 1/2 for their non dominant hand, and two hands confer the original x1str for main hand and adds the 1/2 from your off hand's strength swinging the weapon.
I would rule that if a weapon is being wielded in two hands (say, a temple sword) it gets 1.5xstr and then the kick or headbut gets str.
adding power attack in seems a little broken, but the world makes more sense to me this way. And its no more broken then the twohanded fighter archetype.
