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They can start bringing sci-fi back by changing their name back to sci-fi.

SyFy? Really. How do I pronounce that? Siffie?

A lot of things are pretty much arbitrary. A snake with a woman's head is a naga which is an aberration. If you have a woman who's a snake from the waist down, she's a lamia matriarch, who's a magical beast, unless she has eight arms, in which case she's a maralith who's a demonic outsider. If you've got an otherwise normal human with snakes in place of her hair, she's a medusa, who's a monstrous humanoid.

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OMG! I just realized if it was summon butter you could eat it, but have no calories/fat because it would disappear from existence after the spell timer runs out!

Best Diet plan EVER!

Shouldn't we faq this?

It's compatible with RAW though I don't think it's RAI, I think flurry of blows should have been a full round action rather than full attack action.
On the other hand, it might play into the mobile aspect of a monk. He's good at attack and moving though not at attacking and drinking a potion. Seem fair enough.

Wes, Sean, Liz: Why don't we sell these boxes?! I want my employee discount on a shelf full of characters.

Crystal: Sorry about that; Got distracted right after lunch.

Lissa: Is that a euphemism?

Crystal: Not to my knowledge...

The module assumes that after they rescue him, the PCs will ask Biyo Venna where they are and how they got there. Biyo's role in the universe is specifically to find a hero (or a team of heroes) to tell his tale of woe to. They have, after all, just been ejected from a gypsy wagon in a cloud of cards and been dropped into a twisty, curvy, fake-looking world and been jumped by a gang of crows dressed as clowns; questions should abound and Biyo is the first friendly face they encounter.

As for how to share that info: Have fun. Biyo is overly dramatic and hero-worshipping; he thinks the PCs are the protagonists and that they will save the day. He'll grovel, refer to them by mighty titles, and occassionally try to cram pointless exposition into the conversation.

If the PCs opt to not talk to Biyo, then they'll probably spend some time confused. Any of the conspirators will know about Sonnorae and her tokens (they created them, after all) and would be willing to explain (their version) of what happened with the PCs if made friendly. They all know that Zassrion ultimately controls the Harrowed Realm as well, that the Patchwork Lord likes to drag mortal into the dimension for nefarious experiments, and that the dragon is obsessed with escape. All the Conspirators also know that their tokens tug in the vague direction of Zassrion's mobile fortress, and suspect that more tokens equals more accurate directions

Besides Biyo and the Conspirators, few of the storykin are aware enough to understand the world. Mourning Choir knows the history of the Realm and will share it if asked, but she doesn't know much about recent events (such as Zassrion's escape plot). Marzalee's midwife, Molly, shares some of the Queen Mother's conspirator-inspired awareness thanks to their marriage, and could make a good secret ally quietly guiding the party from the shadows (Molly isn't happy with the realm's balance of power, and doesn't share her mate's single-minded artistic bent). And while he doesn't understand much about the PC's or the Realm's larger place in the cosmology, Algon the Ever-Seeking might opt to take on the PCs as "squires" upon meeting them (if he can be made friendly or helpful), and only betray them once they learn the basics of the realm.

You could also leave things more mysterious and just drop hints and clues and rely on the players to investigate and make knowledge checks whenever they find clues or encounter a new twist on the world. Knowledge (the planes) could reveal that the PCs have become trapped in an pocket dimension, and some magical experimentation would reveal that there's no conventional exit. Knowledge (history) or (nobility) could give some context to the name Sonnorae the first time they discover it scrawled on a doorway or gate or book cover. Knowledge (engineering) or (nature) may reveal that the world is a sort of construct; like an oversized, elaborate stage or puppet theater that is probably control from some center location. With Knowledge (arcana) they might deduce that invisible threads of magic crisscross the Realm, probably connecting various "anchors" (the tokens), and collecting those anchors in one place might reduce the clutter and make it easier to follow those invisible threads to more anchors.

Worst case scenario, you can have the PCs stumble across the peddler Everready Jacob, and add Sonnorae's personal journal to his stock (a bargain at only 50gp!), spelling out the Harrowed Realm's history and even more recent developments (curiously, the handwriting changes sharply at a certain point, becoming scratchy and erratic, starting with an entry describing her murder).

Calm down PFS players, this one will NEVER see the light of day!

Sorcerer

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Star Wars

I'm British and I love the fact that I can go into my doctors at any time for any medical problem and not have to pay anything. I have friends who have all sorts of medical problems and they have all been treated for free by our National Health Service regardless of income, social standing or medical condition.

Just put it like this. No government since the 1940's has said that they want to privatise the NHS. Why? Because it would be electoral suicide.

The last thing you should be worried about if you get ill is whether you can afford it or whether your insurance covers it and whilst our system isn't perfect it benefits hugely from the fact that no patient gets charged for their healthcare.

Play a summoner, whose eidolon will eventually take Leadership and gain a summoner cohort whose eidolon will eventually take Leadership and gain a summoner cohort whose eidolon will eventually take Leadership and gain a summoner cohort whose eidolon will eventually take Leadership and gain a summoner cohort whose eidolon will eventually take Leadership and gain a summoner cohort whose eidolon will eventually take Leadership and gain a summoner cohort whose eidolon will eventually take Leadership and gain a summoner cohort whose eidolon will eventually take Leadership and gain a summoner cohort whose eidolon will eventually take Leadership and gain a summoner cohort whose eidolon will eventually take Leadership and gain a summoner cohort whose eidolon will eventually take Leadership and gain a summoner cohort whose eidolon will eventually take Leadership and gain a summoner cohort whose eidolon will eventually take Leadership and gain a summoner cohort whose eidolon will eventually take Leadership and gain a summoner cohort whose eidolon will eventually take Leadership and gain a summoner cohort whose eidolon will eventually take Leadership and gain a summoner cohort whose eidolon will eventually take Leadership and gain a summoner cohort whose eidolon will eventually take Leadership and gain a summoner cohort whose eidolon will eventually take Leadership and gain a summoner cohort whose eidolon will eventually take Leadership and gain a really loud and opinionated monk with vow of poverty who refuses to adventure with anyone who doesn't also take a vow of poverty.

Answer: All of the classes

All classes are equal at level 20 given the criteria the OP gave.

I've never seen any class dominate the *entire* game. Pathfinder did the best job I've seen at having interesting and different but equal classes.

All righty then, folks. I need help pricing out this magic item, the Pouch of Infinite Stars. Let me give some background information, first.

There are many times when I have played a monk and desired to use shurikens as ranged weapons. Three things have stopped me dead in my tracks each time:

1. They function as ammunition and are destroyed upon hitting their target.

2. At a half-pound for 5 throwing stars, having any endurance is going to quickly add up, especially at higher levels when a monk might get off as many as ten (10!) in a single round.

3. The cost of enchanting these disposable weapons is quite high, considering how quickly a monk goes through them.

Now, these problems must have come to the attention of some sage or wizard somewhere, and perhaps a monk in the game world had them craft an item to solve this. Which brings us to . . .

The problem that I am having is pricing the dang thing! Any advice?

Master Arminas

Firefly (2002)

No. The text (unless it's changed from the playtest) says to treat as summon monster # except...; that means it's treated as summon monster #. Also, Jason specifically said during the playtest that Augment Summoning works on it. Also, even the text itself says, "He can cast this spell" when describing the changes.

Zurai is correct here folks. No need to argue. Augment Summoning does apply to the SLA.

Jason Bulmahn
Lead Designer
Paizo Publishing

There are two central issues that have points of contention:

1) Does pounce allow iterative attacks to be used?

2) If you charge on a mount, does that count as charging yourself for activating the pounce ability?

For me, both answers are obviously no.

Some people insist they are obviously yes. Until we get official errata it will remain unsettled.

I would like to request a sticky thread be created (not this one because I can't edit it after an hour), that would, in the first post, give a list of guides in this sub-forum.

In the thread we'll discuss which guides to include and which category they should be in - it would be a community project.

This is my no means a complete list...its just a start.

Also, if you are going to post a guide for this list, please have a discussion thread for said guide in the Advice forum so we can link to it. The guide can be off-site, but we need a discussion thread for it, please. Also somewhere in your guide please reference which books you use (Core, APG, UM, UC, etc...).

Guides in Alphabetical Order by Class Name

Alchemist

• Ogre's RPG Stuff - Alchemist’s Guide (Core, APG, UM) [Discussion]

Antipaladin

• Bodhi's Guide to the Optimal Paladin & Antipaladin (Core, APG, UM, UC) [Discussion]

Barbarian

• Elewan's Pathfinder Barbarian Guide (Core, APG) [Discussion]

Bard

• Treantmonk's Guide to Bards: Pathfinder Core Rules (Core only) [Discussion]

Cavalier

• The Cavalier's Code (Core, APG, UM, UC) [Discussion]

Cleric

• Tark's Big Holy Book of Clerical Optimization (Core, APG) [Discussion]
  
• Axe’s Guide to Finding Divinity (Core only) [Discussion]
  
• Rogue Eidolon’s Guide to Clerics (Core only) [Discussion]

Druid

• Treantmonk's Guide to Druids Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 (Core only) [Discussion]
  
• Peterrco's guide to Druids (Core, APG, UM, UC) [Discussion]

Fighter

• Rogue Eidolon's Guide to Fighters (Core only) [Discussion]
  
• Bladestorm: "STR Ranger"'s Guide to TWF for Fighters (Core, APG, UM, UC, SoS) [Discussion]

Gunslinger

• Drake_Rocket's Guide to Grand Gunslinginger Greatness (Core, APG, UC) [Discussion]

Inquisitor

• Nobody expects a guide to the Inquisitor (Core, APG, UM) [Discussion]

Magus

• Walter’s Guide to the Magus (Core, APG, UM) [Discussion]

Monk

• Treantmonk's Guide to Monks (Core only) [Discussion]
  
• Revel's Guide to the Monk (Core, APG, UM, UC) [Discussion]

Ninja

• Death from the Shadow: A Guide to the Ninja by Joseph Bucceri (Core, APG, UM, UC) [Discussion]

Oracle

• Channeling the Cosmos: A guide to the Oracle (Core, APG, UM, UC) [Discussion]

Paladin

• Thallin's Guide To Paladins (Optimization) (Core, APG) [Discussion]
  
• Cryptic's Guide to the Pathfinder Paladin: Being a God's Wrecking Hammer (Core) [Discussion]
  
• Bodhi's Guide to the Optimal Paladin & Antipaladin (Core, APG, UM, UC) [Discussion]

Ranger

• Treantmonk's Guide to Rangers in Pathfinder (Core only) [Discussion]
  
• Lastoths Guide to Archery Rangers (Core, APG, UM, UC) [Discussion]

Rogue

• Rogue Eidolon's Guide to Rogues (Core, APG) [Discussion]

Samurai

• //TODO: Need reference

Sorcerer

• The (almost) Complete Guide to Sorcerers- a practical handbook (Core only) [Discussion]
  
• The Inner Power. A Guide for Sorcerers (Core, APG, UM, UC) [Discussion]

Summoner

• The Summoner's Handbook (Core, APG) [Discussion]

Witch

• Hubble, bubble, toil and trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubble (Core, APG) [Discussion]
  
• The Viking Irishman's Witch Guide (Core, APG, UM, UC) [Discussion]

Wizard

• Treantmonk's Guide to Pathfinder Wizards: Being a God (Core only) [Discussion]
  
• Professor Q's Guide to the Core+ Wizard (Core, APG, UM, UC) [Discussion]

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Guides in Alphabetical Order by Core Prestige Class Name

Arcane Archer

• //TODO: Need content

Arcane Trickster

• A Highly Regarded Expert's Guide to the Arcane Trickster (Core, APG, UM, UC) [Discussion]

Assassin

• //TODO: Need content

Dragon Disciple

• Oterisk’s Guide to the Dragon Disciple - A “How To” for the Living Myth (Core, APG, UM, UC) [Discussion]

Duelist

• //TODO: Need content

Eldritch Knight

• Zolthux's Guide to the Gish (Core, APG, UM, UC) [Discussion]

Loremaster

• //TODO: Need content

Mystic Theurge

• //TODO: Need content

Pathfinder Chronicler

• Oterisk’s guide to Optimizing the Pathfinder Chronicler?!?! (Core, APG, UM, UC) [Discussion]

Shadowdancer

• //TODO: Need content

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Other Useful Guides in Alphabetical Order

• Abraham Spalding's Guide to the Holy Vindicator (or more specifically channeling) (Core, APG, UM, UC) [Discussion]

• Ashiel's Guide to Adventure: Preparation, Tricks, and Strategies (Core, APG, UM, UC) [Discussion]

• Guide To Spells (Core, APG, UM, UC) [Discussion]

• So you want to play Pathfinder RPG: A comprehensive guide for Dungeon Masters and Players [Discussion]

• The Viking Irishman’s Guide to Weaponry (Core, APG, UC) [Discussion]

This guide is also mirrored at:

• D20 Min-Max Wiki

1) Since an eidolon is weakened or even banished if it's too far away from the summoner, how does this interact with teleport circles, traps, gates, etc? Do they have to be touching when the effect moves the summoner so that the eidolon is moved at the same time? What happens if they are on different planes or one is in an extra-dimensional space? It seems that this makes teleporting a non willing eidolon or summoner an additional way to banish it.

2) Rake evolution - do the rake attacks activate when combined with a pounce, similar to the bestiary description of rake, or is the eidolon version limited to only when grappling?

3) rend evolution - is the rend damage limited to only once per round like the bestiary ability (for eidolons with more than 2 claws.)

4) Limbs – could an eidolon with existing limbs spend only 1 point to gain one extra limb to create eidolons that are tri-laterally or radialy symmetric (such as a xorn or starfish)?

5)Burrow – is this only selectable if the eidolon already has claws? If no claws are present, are the claws from burrowing not usable for attacks?

6) Large size – does this give natural reach for bipedal forms and not quadrapedal or serpent forms?

7) Huge size – same reach questions as Large size.

1. You are correct.. you got to time it just right.

2. The eidolon version follows the eidolon rules.
3. Only once.
4. You could, subject to GM consent... We left this option out due to it making the other evolutions function oddly.
5. The claws bit is just flavor. It does not need them as a prereq, nor does it gain them with burrow.
6. Hmm... I need to check into this one.
7. Same.

Jason Bulmahn
Lead Designer
Paizo Publishing

JJ,

I believe there are several (inconclusive) threads on this topic on the messageboards. So I was wondering if you could clarify something on the subject of summoning and how it works in Golarion:

1)If summoning an eidolon only summons an "aspect" of a creature, does this mean that the actual creature remains behind on its home plane?

2) Do items carried/worn by the creature representing the eidolon come over with it when it's summoned?

3) What about items that the eidolon is carrying when it's dismissed (or dies) and is sent back to its home plane?

4) If the answer to 3 is that they are left behind, does this mean the eidolon has to be re(equipped) every time it's summoned?

5) Do the answers to 1 through 4 above apply to summoned monsters as well?

6) And finally, are the answers to all the above questions Golarion-specific, or would they apply to the Pathfinder mechanic in general?

Thanks in advance!

Here's my take—how I justify and interpret the summoner.

1) The rules are unclear as to what happens to the source of a summoned creature, but basically, think of a summoned creature as a "reflection" of a creature on another plane... yet it's a real and physical creature, not just an image. It's likely that whatever the original creature on the other plane was never even realizes that it's "reflection" has been summoned to do the bidding of someone somewhere else. As for eidolons... my preference is to believe that they're not "reflections" of single creatures, but composites cobbled together from many different creatures. The summoner essentially custom-builds his eidolon from partial reflections from numerous different source creatures and then binds that specific combination together with metaphysical "glue" harvested form his own life energies (hence the shared magic rune between summoner and eidolon).

2) In the case of an eidolon, it initially comes over naked. Any gear or items given to it stay with it, vanishing into some inaccessible void when the eidolon is gone and coming back the next time it's summoned. Items can't be utilized while in this "void" but neither can they be destroyed.

3) Those items go with the eidolon, and come back the next time it's summoned. Creatures being grappled or otherwise detained by the eidolon do not vanish; they're released when the eidolon goes away.

4) Nope.

5) Summoned creatures are very different. The actual summoned creature itself has no existence before or after the summon monster/summon nature's ally spell is cast, and thus any items it's equipped with have nowhere to come from and nowhere to go. If a summoned monster is a creature that, in its actual stat block, has gear, that gear is with the monster when it arrives, but vanishes as soon as the monster or spell effect is slain/ends. And any additional gear given to a summoned monster drops to the ground as soon as the spell ends or the summoned monster is defeated.

6) I would say those interpretations should apply to the Pathfinder rules in general, because if they don't work that way, you open up a world of confusing possibilities that the rules don't currently offer solutions to. The interpretations above are the simplest and easiest to handle. If you want to interpret them in other ways, it increases the complexity beyond what the rules can currently adjudicate or cover. AKA: If you or your GM doesn't want to use these rules, he/she is going to have to do a little or a lot of work to explain things otherwise.

I wasn't aware that any of the addressed issues were areas of major dispute and as such, don't see this as a particularly useful FAQ or Blog.

It would have been better to tackle much larger, well known issues such as grapple, pounce, simulacrum, and reincarnate.

YES! PLEASE MAKE FAQ UPDATES A WEEKLY (or bi-weekly) BLOG STAPLE!

Seriously, please don't taunt us with a single seasonal instalment. I'd actually check out the blog regularly if I knew there'd be dependable product support updates. It'd renew my faith that clicking the FAQ button accomplishes something. Even if these particular answers don't help me, this is the sort of thing I desperately want to see from Paizo. Thanks very much and please keep up the good work!

I've created a simple, but functional, template for creating monster cards for the BB. They're designed to print on 3x5 index cards. I use Avery cards (product #5388), but as a cheaper alternative you could print them on cardstock and cut them out by hand.

Monster Card Template

Here's an example, converting Kobolds, Hobgoblins and Gnolls.

And my blog , where I occassionally post stuff for the PFBB, such as core class conversions.

Hope you find it useful.

So you think the best time to alienate customers by requiring them to purchase a whole new set of expensive books is when your biggest competitor is alienating theirs as well? Bad, bad idea.

Complete Monster List:

CR 1/4: fox, otter, porcupine, skunk

CR 1/3: flying squirrel, goat, pig, ratfolk, sprite

CR 1/2: antelope, catfolk, clockwork spy, ghost scorpion, giant crab
spider, great horned owl, kangaroo, leaf leshy, raccoon, sagari,
suli, thylacine, vanara, vishkanya, vulture

CR 1: atomie, carbuncle, death’s head jellyfish, dire corby, elk,
faun, festrog, flumph, fuath, giant gecko, goblin snake,
gourd leshy, nixie, zoog

CR 2: augur, axe beak, clockwork servant, disenchanter, doru,
faerie dragon, foo dog, fungus leshy, garden ooze, giant
porcupine, giant sea anemone, harbinger archon, huecuva,
jackalwere, kappa, raktavarna, sasquatch, shikigami, snake
swarm, spirit oni, tatzlwyrm, venomous snake swarm

CR 3: adaro, adherer, allip, caryatid column, ceratioidi, cerebric
fungus, dimetrodon, giant chameleon, giant rot grub, kech,
magmin, moss troll, phantom fungus, river drake, seaweed
leshy, tripurasura, trollhound

CR 4: aghash, flail snail, foo lion, giant skunk, giant vulture,
kamadan, kuwa, myceloid, pachycephalosaurus, schir, shae,
tanuki, thriae soldier, venomous snake swarm, voonith,
vulnudaemon, zuvembie

CR 5: archelon, ascomoid, cecaelia, dandasuka, derhii, ghul, giant
ant lion, giant owl, globster, graven guardian, grodair,
hieracosphinx, kodama, ogre spider, penanggalen, sabosan,
shadow mastiff, spider eater, tojanida, vodyanoi

CR 6: ahuizotl, annis hag, berbalang, cave giant cerberi, clockwork
soldier, deathweb, giant adult ant lion, hodag, hungry fog,
iguanodon, incubus, jiang-shi vampire, lunar naga, maftet,
terra-cotta soldier

CR 7: adhukait, brain ooze, caulborn, criosphinx, dragonne,
kirin, legion archon, manananggal, megalania, pairaka,
pukwudgie, shark-eating crab, tupilaq, young underworld
dragon, water naga

CR 8: baku, baluchitherium, bone golem, cold rider, deadfall
scorpion, deathtrap ooze, desert drake, girtablilu, guecubu,
hellwasp swarm, iku-turso, lammasu, marai, nephilim, rot
grub swarm, stymphalidies, unfettered eidolon, wolf-insheep’s-
clothing, young sea dragon, yuki-onna

CR 9: androsphinx, baykok, desert giant, garuda, nuckelavee, rift drake,
sargassum fiend, shedu, upasunda, yithian, young sky dragon

CR 10: adlet, bogeyman, contract devil, ghawwas, jungle giant,
mobogo, nue, pale stranger, shira, siyokoy, tophet, young
forest dragon, zuishin kami

CR 11: adult underworld dragon, animal lord, aghasura asura, ash
giant, bhuta, carnivorous crystal, graveknight, lukwata, moonbeast,
royal naga, sapphire jellyfish, sleipnir, spinosaurus,
taotieh, thriae seer, young sovereign dragon

CR 12: adult sea dragon, baregara, basilosaurus, clockwork leviathan,
coloxus, fossil golem, great cyclops, interlocutor, jorogumo,
rusalka, valkyrie

CR 13: adult sky dragon, akhlut, alraune, azruverda, ghorazagh,
shipwrecker crab

CR 14: adult forest dragon, brass golem, demilich, ice yai, peri, sepid

CR 15: adult sovereign dragon, cannon golem, crucidaemon, dybbuk,
fire yai, gorynych, jotund troll, jubjub bird, kongamato,
popobala, sea bonze, tataka, toshigami

CR 16: ancient underworld dragon, ecorche, fjord linnorm,
grootslang, hollow serpent, plasma ooze, slimy demodand

CR 17: ancient sea dragon, bandersnatch, shinigami

CR 18: ancient sky dragon, cairn linnorm, norn, shaggy demodand,
simurgh, thriae queen, thunder behemoth, water yai

CR 19: ancient forest dragon, clockwork goliath, deep sea serpent,
humbaba, taiga linnorm, tzitzimitl

CR 20: akvan, ancient sovereign dragon, asurendra, eremite,
jinushigami, maharaja, thalassic behemoth, void yai

CR 21: tor linnorm

CR 22: tempest behemoth

CR 23: hekatonkheires

Archon-
Harbinger
Legion

Asura-
Adhukait
Aghasura
Asurendra
Tripurasura
Upasunda (Beatific One)

Behemoth-
Tempest Behemoth
Thalassic Behemoth
Thunder Behemoth

Clockwork-
Clockwork Goliath
Clockwork Leviathan
Clockwork Servant
Clockwork Soldier
Clockwork Spy

Daemon-
Crucidaemon
Vulnudaemon

Demodand-
Shaggy
Slimy
Tarry

Demon-
Coloxus
Incubus
Schir

Devil-
Contract

Div-
Aghash
Akvan
Doru
Ghawwas
Pariaka
Sepid
Shira

Golem-
Bone
Brass
Cannon
Fossil

Gremlin-
Fuath

Kami-
Jinushigami
Kodama
Shikigami
Toshigami
Zuishin

Kyton-
Augur
Eremite
Interlocutor

Leshy-
Fungus
Gourd
Leaf
Seaweed

Linnorm-
Cairn
Fjord
Taiga
Tor

Naga-
Lunar
Royal
Water

Oni-
Fire Yai
Ice Yai
Kuwa
Spirit
Void Yai
Water Yai

Rakshasa-
Dandasuka
Maharaja
Marai
Raktavarna
Tataka

Sphinx-
Androsphinx
Criosphinx
Hieracosphinx

Tane-
Bandersnatch
Jubjub Bird

Template-
Animal Lord
Fey Creature
Foo Creature
Graveknight
Penanggalen
Jiang-Shi Vampire

Titan-
Hekatonkheires

Back in 2002 Bioware launched a game that is in my opinion the greatest computer game of the 21st century, Neverwinter Nights (NWN). NWN’s single player campaign was truthfully nothing special, it was lengthy and enjoyable enough but nothing about it truly broke any gaming paradigms. What made NWN stand out were three things; the Aurora engine that Bioware used to build the game was launched with it, it came with a DM client for online use, and an active and devoted community that still to this day releases custom content.

Neverwinter Nights allows groups of people to create from scratch their own custom world with it’s own areas, NPCs, spells, monsters, etc. and then host the completed world on a server for players to long in and play a persistent character. The DM client then allows someone to log into the server and wield control over things ranging from spawning and possessing NPCs to creating items, effects, etc. The tools at a DMs finger tips allows them to run highly complex and immersive events ranging from single shot “save the villager from enraged kobolds” to lengthy year long campaigns.

For the last nearly 8 years I’ve been a part of this fantastic community and in that time have worn the shoes of builder, DM, administrator, and player. This brings me to the purpose behind this post, a little over a year ago I discovered Pathfinder and with that one of my favorite fantasy campaign settings of all time, Golarion. Shortly after discovering this setting and beginning to immerse myself in it I began to contemplate building a Neverwinter Nights server within it. This concern was pushed to the wayside though due to a schedule busy with family, work, and already working on another server http://cage.planarlegends.com/.

Then about a month ago the server I was working on slowed down and I found myself with free time again in regards to my Neverwinter Nights involvement. Shortly after this the news for Pathfinder Online hit and that really ignited my interest in building a Pathfinder NWN server. So for the last week I’ve been formulating, contacting NWN friends to bounce ideas off of, and planning as I try and decide if this project is worth starting.

Which brings me to my main question, how interested would the Pathfinder community be in playing on a Golarion based NWN server? I’m leaning towards the setting being based out of Varisia, I’m just trying to decide whether to have the server center be either Sandpoint or Riddleport at this point.

With the current price of NWN (only 10 dollars at Good Old Games http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/neverwinter_nights_diamond_edition) it’s a very accessible game for those of you who might be new to it or looking to get back into it but can’t find your CDs.

From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

Carl Sagan

"You know how I define the economic and social classes in this country? The upper class keeps all of the money, pays none of the taxes. The middle class pays all of the taxes, does all of the work. The poor are there... just to scare the s%@@ out of the middle class. Keep 'em showing up at those jobs." -- George Carlin

I know this isn't a rule forum, but ....

Pounce In the bestiary. Pounce does not stipulate what weapons you need to use. If a monster has natural attacks and can use manufactured weapons could it use pounce with manufactured weapons?
I always thought pounce was meant for natural attacks, but the rules doesn't stipulate that.

Pounce works with all weapons, manufactured or not. You can't take iteratie attacks with a pounce, of course, and in most cases that won't be an option anyway since the vast majority of creatures that have pounce are not manufactured weapon users.

Bard

He inspires courage among companions, who often do the heavy lifting in his adventures. He's even demoralized a companion. He's used Perform (oratory) to fascinate foes who would be attacking otherwise. He even has a high bluff skill and is highly knowledgeable.

He's also Charismatic, except when he's Colin Baker.

All the Best,

Kerney

I dont have ultimate combat is the sohei in UC?

Ninja? xena doesn't sneak attack tho.

She doesnt necessarily need ki, its mostly some of those stupid "i could of your blood flow" things that she does.

To be honest, that part of the character could be done with a really high cha, and bluff/intimidate. she only uses it for interrogation, it never actually does anything, you could just make people "think" they were going to die, if you don't undo the imaginary thing that you never actually did in the first place.

Dark Halfling (Boggart)

Also known as boggarts, the dark halflings are twisted versions of the standard halflings. They delight in playing pranks on people and will often clandestinely move in with a family to concentrate their mischief on them--sometimes even following the family if they should move. They love to steal small but necessary items, spoil food, Chill Touch people in their sleep, frighten and hurt domestic animals, disguise themselves as monsters just to frighten children, and break items when nobody is looking. They have no lands or homes of their own, but instead slip in out of the dark places built by others. They are superstitious and fear good luck charms and salt (due to their belief it will rob them of their abilities). Though they understand common, they prefer to speak a corrupted version of halfling peppered with cuss words and slang.

Type
Humanoid (Halfling) 0 RP
Size
Small 0 RP
Base Speed
Slow -1 RP
Ability Score Modifiers
Greater Paragon (-2 Str, +4 Dex, -2 Wis) -1 RP
Languages
Standard Array 1 RP
(Common & Halfling, Bonus: Aklo, Giant, Gnoll, Goblin, Orc, Sylvan, Undercommon)
Racial Abilities
Low-Light vision 1 RP
Halfling Luck 1 RP
Silent Hunter 2 RP
Stalker 1 RP
Light Sensitivity -1 RP
Skill Bonus (+2 Stealth) 2 RP
Weapon Familiarity 1 RP
(Slings and Halfling weapons)
Sprinter 1 RP
Spell Like Abilities 3 RP
(Putrefy Food and Drink, Chill Touch, Disguise Self)
Total: 10 RP

... Roger Zelazny's character from the first Wild Cards book...

You've sold me already. Roger is hands down my all-time favorite author, and I've been slowly tracking down his more obscure works. Somehow I completely missed that he was involved with Wild Cards, so now they're added to my active list of books to track down. Thanks for making my day!

Higher ground does not provide a +1 bonus to ranged attacks, only to melee attacks.

Yet another reason not to lean over the edge of one of the wizard's "create pit" type spells, especially given the oft-overlooked point that ending your turn adjacent to one of these means you have to make a reflex save (at +2) or fall in and suffer the consequences (which generally range from screwed to dead).

Maybe I'm the only one who didn't notice...

Armour Check Penalties are no longer doubled on Swim.

You can shoot gargantuan two handed rifles in one hand .

Seriously, a gargantuan double hackbut in one hand, well with enough strength. Sometimes rules are so silly they are cool again. Anyone care to convert 2d12 (from normal) to gargantuan damage?

The number of people that keep wanting to use spellcraft for concentration checks is baffling to me. 5 out of the 6 newest(to me) players I have met are surprised when I open the magic chapter to the part where it shows the concentration rules, and how they work.

Maybe it was that way in the beta version.

Not sure if it's been mentioned yet. Light and Darkness spells work differently than they used to. Darkvision also allows you to see through magical darkness now as well.

But not Supernatural darkness.

But as ability damage works in PF, if you have a 12 and lose 1 point, your modifier does not change.

Ah! I understand now, well that is crap IMHO. Did 3.5 work like that? Is the PF text perhaps badly worded and the intention was that ability modifiers should drop in line with ability score?

"For every 2 points of damage you take to a single ability, apply a –1 penalty to skills and statistics listed with the relevant ability" is technically not incorrect, every two points will result in a -1 whether your original score is odd or even. However it needs an addendum to indicate that if your score was originally even then even 1 point could lead to a modifier reduction.

Let us phrase it this way:

In pathfinder, unlike in 3.5, ability damage applies a penalty of 1/2 the ability damage (rounding down), irrespective of the ability score being affected. 4 strength damage will always result in a -2 to strength related rolls, no matter whether your strength score is odd or even.

In my experience, GMs "get" it faster than players, because the odd/even math was never too tough for players, GMs have to juggle many more statblocks and penalties.

I don't think this one has been mentioned yet, and it's something I never noticed before (or if I did, I promptly forgot):

Monk fast movement does not stack with the bonus speed granted by expeditious retreat, haste or other effects that grant an enhancement bonus to move speed. Barbarian's fast movement, however, does stack, as explicitly stated in the class ability and because its bonus is untyped.

I don"t know if any one has posteed this, but the other day reading through my core rule book under DRUID! I found a hidden gem, in the description under weapon profiencies i see no mention that taking no druid weapons no longer causes a loss in the druids spellcasting or special abilities, though the armor restrictions still apply!

Howie23 wrote:

ryric wrote:

And so a lot of forms can breathe underwater that you wouldn't normally expect, e.g. rats.

Whatever real world experiments and/or movie portrayals might be out there, in game terms a creature needs the aquatic subtype to breathe water. Rats do not have the aquatic subtype. Rats don't breathe water.

No, but by the raw rats have a swim speed. That means when you polymorph into one you gain the ability to breathe water

Quote:

If the form grants a swim or burrow speed, you maintain the ability to breathe if you are swimming or burrowing.

Hmm this is an odd one.

Literally speaking I believe you are correct. But I think the intention of the rule is if the creature you polymorph into can breathe under water or underground you can as well. So if you polymorph into a shark you can breathe underwater.

I think the rule needs some clarification but I don't think "rats breathing underwater" is the implied result and so it should not be used for the list of rules this thread is compiling.

2. Weapon enhancement bonus (the plus portion, not the cost equivalent) overcomes various DR at different DR than just magic. Specifics: +3 negates cold iron/silver, +4 negates adamantine, +5 negates alignment based DR. This ability is not granted for greater magic weapon.

This is one of the most amazing facts I've gotten out of this thread. Never noticed it until now.

Anything stating Reflex saves don't work as written is unnecessary and heavy handed.
Moreover, it's wholly unrelated to this topic. There are not "official rules" when Reflex saves can't be made because they can ALWAYS BE MADE. That's your official rule. If I am standing in the middle of a 100' wide plain where a 100' slab is to be dropped on my head and it allows a Reflex save, I can make the save. That is the rule. You just don't like the rule because you don't think it is "realistic." Well too bad, that is neither relevant to this thread or to how the game is written.

The oracles curse progresses even if you multiclass, just at half it's normal rate for non-oracle levels.

Rugult wrote:

I adore this thread! (Dotted) Also I figured I would add my own rules bit for GMs/Writers out there.

The following rule is for adding class levels to monsters and I've overlooked it up until recently:

"The first step of this process is to modify the creature's ability scores. Creatures with class levels receive +4, +4, +2, +2, +0, and –2 adjustments to their ability scores, assigned in a manner that enhances their class abilities."

So be sure to further up the stats of a monster before adding levels to it!

I'm sorry but I need a bit of clarification here: Does this mean that a monster has to take a -2 penalty to a stat every time it levels up? I'm not sure I understand the logic of that.

Where is this rule located; the Bestiary?

Thanks.

SJ

it means when you make a monter a pc, you take the monsters stats, giv it +$ to any 2 stats, +2 to any 2 stats, and -2 to a stat, rather than assign ability scores and racial modifiers

so for example a creature with 20 20 20 20 20 20 for stats would have scores of 24 24 22 22 20 18