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As a GM, I would cackle with great delight if a player cast sands of time on a dragon they were fighting. Edit: Guess my post doesn't make much sense with all the <spoilers> in the OP now.
Looks like this is one of those places where the rules contradict themselves. This is the description of the energy drain (Su) universal monster rule (bolding mine):
I'm going to be running Reign of Winter this Saturday, and I'm trying to figure out the effects of frostbite. Snows of Summer states that people can suffer from hypothermia if they take nonlethal damage from cold weather - treat as fatigued. If this condition is not remedied, they could also suffer from frostbite, and it references page 442 of the Core Rulebook. Going to the Core Rulebook, all it says about frostbite is that taking nonlethal cold damage makes you suffer from frostbite or hypothermia - treat as fatigued. By the rules, it seems like frostbite and hypothermia are the same thing - they just make you fatigued. However, I think frostbite should be a bit more than that. What would you suggest for an additional effect (if any) for frostbite?
Page 10 says that PCs can suffer from hypothermia, and if it's not remedied, can additionally suffer from frostbite. It references Core Rulebook page 442. But I can find nothing in the Core Rulebook about what frostbite actually does - it just says characters can suffer from frostbite or hypothermia - treat as fatigued. What should frostbite actually do? I know what it does in the real world, but how should it be implemented in Pathfinder?
I've converted just about everything in there, but it takes a good amount of time to format them for the messageboard. Eventually I plan to compile everything and release it, but real life time is hard to find. If there's a specific creature you need, I'd be more than happy to post it.
It's a -10 penalty in that situation because it was replaced his third iterative attack. If it was done replacing his second attack, it would be at a -5. Replacing his first attack would have no penalty.
Disarm can be done in place of a melee attack, but doesn't require that you be engaged in an Attack Action (as distinct from a Full-Round Action); the giant's best bet is to attack at +27, attack at +22, then disarm the dwarf with a +34 CMB rather than take his third attack at +17. That will provoke one AOO from the dwarf, but on the subsequent round, he must use a Move action to pick up his axe -- which provokes an AOO from the giant -- and having used that Move action can no longer Full Attack, which also negates the benefit of being hasted. Note that if the rune giant uses his third iterative attack to attempt a disarm, he's taking a -10 to his CMB, so it'd only be +24, not +34. Also, if the rune giant were smart, he'd simply 5-foot-step away from the dwarf and the disarm wouldn't provoke, since he has plenty of reach.
I would say that your spell would have been affected by antimagic field. While you created an effect like resilient sphere, the spell in place was actually shadow evocation, which has no inherent protection from antimagic field. Further, I would argue that if you used shadow evocation to create a wall of force, it would still be vulnerable to dispel magic.
Just guessing, but if Gralamin makes it in and survives to 11th level, I think he's going to want to be taking Thanatopic Spell.
Adolphus, though unconscious, does not look to be in any danger of dying soon.
Diurn invokes the blessings of Arshea on all present, though he withholds the healing energies from the wounded enemies.
Creature notes (GM):
Goblin #1: 9/11 hp
Goblin #2: Dead Goblin #3: 10/10 hp Hobgoblin #1: 5/17 hp
Sondor Ironfold: -4/1 hp
I'll be working up a Divination focused Wizard for this. Just a short bit of his backstory worked up so far: he was a member of a previous, quite successful adventuring group, until they ignored his warnings and decided it was the right time to assault that red dragon's lair. Needless to say, the dragon was quite happy to add their treasures to his multitude. Since my wizard didn't go, he's now on the look for a new adventuring group - one that will hopefully lend a little more credence to his harrow readings.
Update coming soon. Regarding Adolphus's suggestion about initiative, I like the general idea. I'll be taking the average Initiative bonus for each group. The new map will have coordinates!
Forgot to post letters/numbers to make referencing squares easier, sorry. Next map will have it.
But: 1) A rogue starts with more money than an alchemist (average 140).
1) He needs an alchemy lab to prepare his extracts and his mutagens and bombs. It's just that bombs are the only ones that he "prepares" when he actually uses them. Does that mean an alchemist needs to spend 75 of his average 105 starting gold to buy a portable alchemist's lab just to be able to use his extracts? A non-portable alchemist's lab is 200, completely out of the reach of an alchemist's starting wealth. That seems pretty harsh to use a primary class feature.
Greater Force Elemental CR 13
Huge Force Elemental CR 10
Large Force Elemental CR 7
Medium Force Elemental CR 4
Small Force Elemental CR 1
I'm thinking of throwing one or two of these at my high level party. They most likely won't have much of a problem with it by itself (although the alchemist who loves his force bombs may be in for a surprise), but it could be an interesting creature to act as a called bodyguard for a powerful spellcaster. Elder Force Elemental CR 16
Forceful Strike (Ex) An elder force elemental deals an additional 2d6 force damage on its slam attacks.
This large tiger grumbles a warning as it crouches. Two saber-like fangs jut downward from its powerful jaws.
The damage on the bite seems odd. I figured double dice and up one die. So I was expecting 8d8. Also the base attack didnt go up from +20 even though str went up. Can anyone explain this? Hero Lab went with 4d6 -> 6d6 for animal growth's size increase (which was probably taken from the Improved Natural Attack feat description), followed by strong jaw doubling the dice because it's already Gargantuan/Colossal. As for the attack bonus (not base attack) staying the same, it's because while animal growth gives a +8 Strength (and thus a +4 bonus to hit), changing the creature's size from Gargantuan to Colossal takes its size modifier from -4 to -8.
Hero Lab's take on a Tyrannosaurus with Animal Growth and Strong Jaw: This bipedal dinosaur's front arms seem small compared to the rest of its bulk, but its enormous head is all teeth.
Is this clearly defined somewhere? My GM is currently ruling that if two people dominate the same person the dominator with the higher caster level wins out and the lower level caster's spell is effectively overwritten. This is defined in the Magic section of the Core Rulebook (bolding mine). Combining Magic Effects Multiple Mental Control Effects: Sometimes magical effects that establish mental control render each other irrelevant, such as spells that remove the subject's ability to act. Mental controls that don't remove the recipient's ability to act usually do not interfere with each other. If a creature is under the mental control of two or more creatures, it tends to obey each to the best of its ability, and to the extent of the control each effect allows. If the controlled creature receives conflicting orders simultaneously, the competing controllers must make opposed Charisma checks to determine which one the creature obeys.
This is one of those rules that's well hidden because information is spread out over multiple areas. http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/additionalMonsters/creatureTypes.html#_i ncorporeal-subtype An incorporeal creature has no physical body. An incorporeal creature is immune to critical hits and precision-based damage (such as sneak attack damage) unless the attacks are made using a weapon with the ghost touch special weapon quality. In addition, creatures with the incorporeal subtype gain the incorporeal special quality. One interesting aspect of this distinction is that an effect that makes you incorporeal does not make you immune to crits unless it also gives you the incorporeal subtype.
Regarding the god replacements: Shackled City spoilers:
Pharasma may not work that well as a substitution for Wee Jas. In Secrets of the Soul Pillars, the party fights Ike Iverson, second-in-command of the Wee Jas church, and he uses undead to defend himself - something Pharasma is absolutely against. In the game I'm planning, I'm going to use Nethys instead of Wee Jas. Most people see Wee Jas and think goddess of death, but I'm going to focus a bit more on the magic side. And Nethys is not particularly a stable god, so it kind of fits that his followers are so screwed up in Cauldron. As for the other gods, I'm doing this: St. Cuthbert -> Iomedae
This is old, but since the thread was necro'd and I read it for the first time, I have to comment on the fighter posted on the first page. Specifically: Melee Masterwork Dagger +16/+11 (1d4+20/17-20/x2) Unfortunately for this build, you cannot use Power Attack, Point Blank Shot, and Deadly Aim all on the same attack. This damage calculation is just flat-out wrong.
The initial DC for the Paralysis is correct - standard DC is 10 + 1/2 HD + Ability mod. The save is Charisma based, so it's 10 + 2 - 1 = 11.
Well, my conversion for Lord Orbius was deleted, so apparently I am not able to post creatures that are WoTC IP. Good to know. Would've been nice to get a post saying that instead of the post just disappearing, but whatever.
Yeah, the concept of a CR 3 with 11 attacks that do damage, 10 of which require a Fort save or be paralyzed is just ridiculous. My conversion is still pretty damn strong for a CR 3, but its damage output is pretty low, so it's not too bad. I think.
Now for one of the most absurd CR 3 creatures I've ever seen: the grell. I've reworked its tentacles to bring it more in line with what a CR 3 should be. Grell CR 3
Paralysis (DC 11) (Ex) A grell's tentacles deal no damage, but ooze a paralytic slime. At the end of the grell's turn, each creature hit by a tentacle must make a Fortitude save or be paralyzed for 1d4 rounds. The DC of the save is equal to 11 + the number of times the creature was hit by a tentacle that round. So a creature hit by 3 tentacles would need to make one DC 12 Fortitude save at the end of the grell's turn. The save DC is Charisma-based. A grell may not make attacks of opportunity with its tentacles. Tentacle Regeneration (Ex) An opponent can sunder a grell's tentacles. A grell's tentalces have 10 hit points. Severeing a grell's tentacles deals damage to the creature equal to half the limb's hit points. A grell regrows severed tentacles within a day.
There's a thread in the Pathfinder Adventure Path General Discussion forum called "Adventure Path question." When I click on the link, it takes me to a Reign of Winter PbP. If I search the posts of people who posted in that thread, I can see the posts in the results, but if I try to go directly to those posts by clicking on the link, it still takes me to the PBP.
AC will not scale as well as the enemy's hit bonus, so there will come a time in the future where this problem will go away. But getting there can be a challenge for the GM, since not having fun for multiple game sessions is not a solution. A few things to think about and some options: 1) Is there higher ground the enemies could move into? +1 to hit.
I don't know how far you are in the 2nd book of Jade Regent, but our campaign just finished that book. I'm playing a fighter with a shield and longsword, so he had pretty good AC. There was one combat where we fought something like 16 enemies. None of them could hit me except on a nat 20. The GM proceeded to roll (out in the open with different dice and even a die roller program) 5 nat 20s out of 6 attacks on me. I could only miss these guys on a 5 or less, so of course, I rolled 5 or less for 7 attacks in a row. That one combat almost convinced my fighter he should retire - wearing fullplate and shield, and these thugs hit him with ease, whereas he could barely hit the nearly-unarmored thugs back. Giving up adventuring was looking like the smart move.
You're quite welcome. Kalareem Nerra CR 3
If a nerra touches a regular mirror, the mirror jump happens automatically. A nerra can also touch a highly reflective surface, such as a polished metal shield or armor. This surface must be clear glass, a still pool of water, or shiny metal. There is a 30% chance that the surface is reflective enough for the nerra to make the mirror jump. However, a nerra can only enter a nonmirrored surface - it can return only through a normal mirror. If another mirror is not within the range of the mirror jump, the nerra must wander the Plane of Mirrors and exit through another random mirror portal. Reflective Spell Resistance (Su) A nerra has a special type of spell resistance that causes any targeted spell it successfully resist to bounce off and reflect back at the caster. The caster becomes either the spell's target or the point of origin for the spell's effect, as appropriate. In addition, nerras are immune to gaze attacks, and such an effect is reflected back to its origin. Shard Spray (Su) Three times per day, a kalareem can release a spray of mirrorlike shards from its hands that can flay flesh and cause massive lacerations. The spray is a 30-foot cone, and deals 1d4 points of slashing damage per Hit Die of the kalareem, to a maximum of 5d4. In addition, a wound resulting from a kalareem's shard spray bleeds for an additional 2 points of damage per round thereafter. Bleed damage from this ability stacks with itself. The bleeding can be stopped by a DC 15 Heal check or any application of magical healing. A successful DC 15 Reflex save halves the damage of the cone but does not avoid the bleed unless the target took no damage. The save DC is Dexterity-based. Shard Weapons (Ex) Nerras employ swords and daggers that are made out of the substance of the Plane of Mirrors. They resemble shards of a broken mirror that have been set into a shiny hilt. Despite their fragile appearance, shard weapons are incredibly tough, deadly, and razor-sharp. Shard weapons leave terrible wounds that bleed incessantly. Shard weapons are +2 wounding weapons. In the hands of someone without the appropriate Exotic Weapon Proficiency feat, the weapon is less powerful - it does not count as a wounding weapon. All nerra receive a bonus Exotic Weapon Proficiency feat with at least one shard weapon. Many also gain a bonus Weapon Focus feat for one or more types of shard weapon.
Mud Slaad CR 6
Disease (Ex) Any creature hit by a mud slaad's bite attack must succeed at a DC 16 Fortitude save or be infected with a disease that transforms the victim over the course of a week into a mud slaad. The infected creature can attempt a new DC 16 Fortitude save each day to throw off the infection. Feign Death (Ex) If an opponent strikes a mud slaad and reduces it to 10 or fewer hit points, the mud slaad can as an immediate action attempt to feign death. Any creature that witnesses a mud slaad feign death, including those that that watch it fall, can make a DC 22 Sense Motive or Perception check to determine if the slaad's death is genuine. A cursory check will not reveal that the slaad's death is feigned, and even a Heal check isn't guaranteed to discover the deception, so adroit is the mud slaad at stilling its breathing and reducing its heart rate. A successful DC 22 Heal check is required to reveal that the mud slaad still lives. Sonic Screech (Su) Once per day, a mud slaad can emit a tremendous screech. Every creature within 30 feet takes 5d6 sonic damage (Fortitude save DC 18 for half).
If anybody else has specific requests, by all means post them. I'll be doing all the creatures in the book eventually, and it's no problem doing them out of chronological order.
One Dark Myrakul coming up. I changed a few things around just a bit. I started him with the Elite NPC array (15, 14, 13, 12, 10, 8) and worked the stats up to where they are now. I swapped his spells around a bit, as some of them made no sense - why cast or prepare spell resistance when you have it innately? Dark Myrakul's tactics also indicate that he likes to blast with some spells, but his DCs are nothing special for this CR, so I figured Persistent Spell would be a decent way to help mitigate that. I also gave him one extra cleric level to account for the difference in CR between 3.5 and PF. Note that the statblock below is without any of his buff spells cast. Dark Myrakul CR 23
Cleric Spells Prepared (CL 19):
Insanity’s Touch (Su) A lichfiend has a touch attack that it can use once per round as a natural weapon. A lichfiend fighting without weapons uses its natural weapons (if it has any) in addition to its touch attack (which is treated as a primary natural weapon that replaces one claw or slam attack, if the creature has any). A lichfiend armed with a weapon uses its weapons normally, and can use its touch attack as a secondary natural weapon. A lichfiend's touch attack uses negative energy to deal 1d8 points of damage to living creatures + 1 point of damage per 2 Hit Dice possessed by the lichfiend. As negative energy, this damage can be used to heal undead creatures. A lichfiend can take a full-round action to infuse itself with this energy, healing damage as if it had used its touch attack against itself. In addition, any living create a lichfiend hits with its touch attack must succeed on a Will save or be struck permanently insane, as the insanity spell. The save DC is Charisma-based. Rejuvenation (Su) A lichfiend's life force is maintained by a powerful fiendish patron or evil deity. This patron can revoke the lichfiend's undead status (thereby destroying the lichfiend) as a free action at any time, so lichfiends are unquestioningly loyal to their patrons. A lichfiend that is killed crumbles to dust and its lifeforce returns to its patron, who may create a new body identical to the lichfiend's prior body if he wishes, or may simply absorb the lichfiend's lifeforce, destroying it utterly. The only way to permanently slay a lichfiend is to use a miracle or wish within one round of the lichfiend's destruction to prevent its life force from returning to its patron. * Cleric domain power.
Skulvyn
I'm not sure exactly what I'm allowed to post - there's definitely some creatures in Shackled City that are WotC IP, and I don't think I should post those. I'm unsure about creatures from books that are, to my understanding, non-OGL, such as Monster Manual II and III. Here's a couple easy ones from the first chapter: Stone Spike CR 2
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I don't know if there was errata changing this since the original post, since the wording is different, but a Zen Archer monk most definitely cannot take vows: The ability to take these vows replaces the still mind class feature, even if the monk abandons all his vows. Still mind is already replaced by the Zen Archer monk, so vows are not legal. Against the shoggoth:
How is the monk moving through the ocean? It's a broom of flying, not swimming. A fly speed does not allow you to move through water as if flying.
Against the pit fiend:
The OP states that wind wall wouldn't work, but he ignores the better version of the spell: fickle winds, which creates a cylinder around the pit fiend just like wind wall, except that it moves with the pit fiend. At CL 18th, the cylinder is 90 ft. high, more than enough to reach the ceiling of the 60 ft. room. Now all the monk's arrows are deflected unless he's directly above the pit fiend. But how would the monk know that's where he has to go? He has no Spellcraft, so he has no idea what spell was just cast, and all he sees is his arrows being deflected. He's got an Int of 7, so he's probably not smart enough to conceive of shooting his arrows directly down on the pit fiend.
Against the ancient gold dragon:
I think other people may have mentioned it, but if the ancient gold dragon uses antimagic field and moves adjacent to the monk, the monk is in a lot more trouble. Changes:
Loses Ki pool (Su)
Add it up: -12 to hit
So, the monk is now adjacent to the dragon with no magic. What's he do? 1) If he full attacks, the dragon's 39 AC is not being hit. Perfect Strike doesn't help here. 2) If he moves any distance at all, he can't use Pinpoint Targeting, so the only way to use that would be to stay still (and by the way, Pinpoint Targeting and Vital Strike do not work together). If he stays still, that means the dragon gets a full attack on him with his suddenly not so impressive 28 AC. 3) Withdraw? The dragon gets one attack of opportunity, which will hit. The monk moves away and then what? Lets the dragon charge him and, oh, how about trip on the charge? 44 CMB + 2 from charging and a automatic 10 = 56, which is the monk's new CMD. Now that he's tripped, he's really screwed - can't use his bow, can't move away without provoking, can't do much of anything. Or, even better, the dragon can sunder the non-magical bow on the charge. Good luck doing anything with your stack of twigs that was once a bow. 4) Move away (take the attack of opportunity) to get out of the antimagic field and use empty body to go ethereal to wait out the spell? Antimagic field has far longer duration - 150 minutes per casting. 5) As 4, but take one shot at the dragon instead of going ethereal. The monk has his full magic arsenal at his disposal in terms of to hit and damage, so he's at a +32 to hit. He fires the arrow, which would hit on the assumed 10, but as soon as the arrow enters the antimagic field, it loses its +5 enhancement modifier. Does that make it lose the +5 to hit? If so, it misses. If not, it still hits, but does not bypass the dragon's DR, considerably weakening the attack. Now the dragon can charge and trip or sunder - again rendering the monk near helpless.
Against the solar angel:
The monk has a Knowledge: Planes check of +20. Assuming a 10 on a single die roll (as per the rules laid out in the original post), he gets a 30 to know about solar angels, which, being a CR 23, requires a 33 to know them. He knows absolutely nothing about them, and therefore all the knowledge he uses to prepare for the fight is null and void. End.
I'm going to be running Shackled City sometime soon, and I'm in the process of converting the creatures. I went right to the BBEG first, so here's my take on a Pathfinderized Adimarchus. Adimarchus CR 23 Angelic Form CE Medium Outsider (chaotic, demon, evil, extraplanar)
AC 43, touch 26, flat-footed 36 (+7 armor, +6 Dex, +9 insight, +10 natural, +1 dodge)
Implosive Strike (Su) Three times per day and no more than once per round, Adimarchus can cause an opponent to implode with any normal melee attack. In addition to taking damage, the target must make a DC 38 Fortitude save or collapse in on itself and be killed instantly. Adimarchus must declare that he is using this ability before the attack roll is made. The save DC is Constitution-based. Lie in State (Su) If both of Adimarchus's forms die, Adimarchus (in his current form) disappears after 24 rounds. The body reappears dead but intact on Occipitus, his realm in the Abyss. Any equipment Adimarchus was wearing or carrying at the moment of his death is likewise transported to Occipitus - and is likewise reconstituted if it was destroyed. Dimensional anchor, dimensional lock, and similar spells delay the body's transportation in this manner, but once the spell's effect ends, the body transports to Occipitus immediately. After lying in state for 1d100 days on his home plane, both of Adimarchus's forms are restored to full life. If Adimarchus is slain on his home plane, he is dead forever. Madness (Ex) Adimarchus uses his Charisma modifier on Will saves instead of his Wisdom modifier, and is immune to confusion and insanity effects. Razorwings (Su) These gold-plated wings have razor-sharp feathers. Adimarchus can attack with them as an off-hand weapon, although not in the same round he attacks with two hand-held weapons. The wings deal damage as a +1 keen scythe. Shroud Alignment (Su) Spells and spell-like abilities with the good descriptor treat Adimarchus as if his alignment were good. Magic items are similarly fooled. Demonic Form
Lie in State (Su) If both of Adimarchus's forms die, Adimarchus (in his current form) disappears after 24 rounds. The body reappears dead but intact on Occipitus, his realm in the Abyss. Any equipment Adimarchus was wearing or carrying at the moment of his death is likewise transported to Occipitus - and is likewise reconstituted if it was destroyed. Dimensional anchor, dimensional lock, and similar spells delay the body's transportation in this manner, but once the spell's effect ends, the body transports to Occipitus immediately. After lying in state for 1d100 days on his home plane, both of Adimarchus's forms are restored to full life. If Adimarchus is slain on his home plane, he is dead forever. Madness (Ex) Adimarchus uses his Charisma modifier on Will saves instead of his Wisdom modifier, and is immune to confusion and insanity effects. Shroud Alignment (Su) Spells and spell-like abilities with the good descriptor treat Adimarchus as if his alignment were good. Magic items are similarly fooled. Ashen Blade
FYI, high SR is not 10 or 11 + CR - that's standard. Very, very few creatures in any of the 3 Bestiaries with SR have less than 10 + CR, and the vast majority are 11 + CR. The few that are very resistant, but not immune, to magic have 15 + CR.
Base AC for all creatures is 10. Everything else is a modifier, whether it be natural armor, shield, deflection, dodge, size, etc.
I'm not letting the GM win this one. This is not a good attitude to have. It creates out-of-game conflict and resentment. Regarding your specific idea, however, the GM has an easy way to win against the wish. Assuming this is Golarion, once Pharasma has judged a soul, it can not be resurrected by mortal magic.
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