paizo.com Recent Posts by evilvoluspaizo.com Recent Posts by evilvolus2024-03-28T05:07:33Z2024-03-28T05:07:33ZForums: Pathfinder Society: PFS2 Session Reporting "Prestige"?evilvolushttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs43or9?PFS2-Session-Reporting-Prestige#12022-09-24T23:59:39Z2022-09-24T23:59:39Z<p>Is this field supposed to be Reputation gain?</p>Is this field supposed to be Reputation gain?evilvolus2022-09-24T23:59:39ZForums: Customer Service: Please Un-Pending Old Orderevilvolushttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs43diw?Please-UnPending-Old-Order#12021-05-05T17:42:27Z2021-05-05T17:42:27Z<p>Going over my bookshelf yesterday, I discovered that Pathfinder AP # 155 and 156 are missing. It seems there was a payment problem last May when my credit card expired, and when the payment was corrected, those two subscription issues remained stuck in a "Pending" status rather than getting ordered properly.</p>
<p>Could you folks give those a shove back into the water slide?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>Going over my bookshelf yesterday, I discovered that Pathfinder AP # 155 and 156 are missing. It seems there was a payment problem last May when my credit card expired, and when the payment was corrected, those two subscription issues remained stuck in a "Pending" status rather than getting ordered properly.
Could you folks give those a shove back into the water slide?
Thanks!evilvolus2021-05-05T17:42:27ZRe: Forums: Age of Ashes: Age of Ashes Book 2 TPK seems unavoidableevilvolushttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs438lw?Age-of-Ashes-Book-2-TPK-seems-unavoidable#152020-11-24T20:29:50Z2020-11-24T20:26:45Z<p>If you wanted to be generous, you could have a bird happen to fly into the wall and just go poof [edit: I now see you made exactly that suggestion], but since you're past that, I'm pretty sure you just fry the PCs and then say "do you wanna make a new party, or shall we chalk this up to a learning experience, say you didn't come straight here, and we try this adventure again...?"</p>
<p>End of the day, 5th level PCs saw a Prismatic Wall and decided to walk through it. If "flickering wall of rainbow magic" didn't provoke a fear response in your players, it sure will in the future.</p>If you wanted to be generous, you could have a bird happen to fly into the wall and just go poof [edit: I now see you made exactly that suggestion], but since you're past that, I'm pretty sure you just fry the PCs and then say "do you wanna make a new party, or shall we chalk this up to a learning experience, say you didn't come straight here, and we try this adventure again...?"
End of the day, 5th level PCs saw a Prismatic Wall and decided to walk through it. If "flickering wall of rainbow...evilvolus2020-11-24T20:26:45ZRe: Forums: Age of Ashes: Cult of Cinders and Cozy Cabinevilvolushttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs437kw?Cult-of-Cinders-and-Cozy-Cabin#52020-11-14T18:56:44Z2020-11-14T18:56:44Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Taja the Barbarian wrote:</div><blockquote><p> This hexcrawl goes on far, far, far too long, so i wouldn't worry about camping being trivialized: If your GM isn't hand-waiving at least some of the hazards away by the time you get halfway through, you might have a bit of a sadist on your hands...
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</blockquote><p>Once I managed to give a character malaria, I literally told my players I was bored of paying attention to the camping rules, and they should just roll every day and not get a 1.Taja the Barbarian wrote:This hexcrawl goes on far, far, far too long, so i wouldn't worry about camping being trivialized: If your GM isn't hand-waiving at least some of the hazards away by the time you get halfway through, you might have a bit of a sadist on your hands...
Once I managed to give a character malaria, I literally told my players I was bored of paying attention to the camping rules, and they should just roll every day and not get a 1.evilvolus2020-11-14T18:56:44ZRe: Forums: Age of Ashes: Tommorow Must Burn Motivation (Spoilers)evilvolushttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs437aq?Tommorow-Must-Burn-Motivation#122020-11-14T18:51:34Z2020-11-14T18:51:34Z<p>Sounds like this is already a lost cause since you're past book 2, but what I did was to move Eclipse from the Ekujae to Thropp. Laslunn had made arrangements with Voz for her to secure Alseta's Ring and report back, and she hasn't responded. So, he sends Thropp to take a more direct (but still quiet) effort to secure the Ring and figure out what happened to Voz, and Laslunn sends the key along with him. It takes Thropp like 6 weeks or whatever to make the overland journey, but once he's done the job, he should be able to pop back through the gate, with the bonus that now they'll know where the Kintargo side of the gate is (they know it's in the area, but haven't actually found it).</p>Sounds like this is already a lost cause since you're past book 2, but what I did was to move Eclipse from the Ekujae to Thropp. Laslunn had made arrangements with Voz for her to secure Alseta's Ring and report back, and she hasn't responded. So, he sends Thropp to take a more direct (but still quiet) effort to secure the Ring and figure out what happened to Voz, and Laslunn sends the key along with him. It takes Thropp like 6 weeks or whatever to make the overland journey, but once he's done...evilvolus2020-11-14T18:51:34ZRe: Forums: Age of Ashes: Will teleporting to Absalom for shopping break the campaign?evilvolushttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs436n2?Will-teleporting-to-Absalom-for-shopping#72020-11-14T18:46:06Z2020-11-14T18:46:06Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">SandersonTavares wrote:</div><blockquote> city level for shopping has been a major hurdle they had to deal with so far </blockquote><p>There's definitely a problem with this in the campaign, particularly in the middle section.
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Obviously, a lot of this can be credited to the ruleset and adventure being written at the same time, and there may have been issues with the expectations. I think the intent is largely to have PCs generally find their needed things adventuring, while shopping is mostly in cities that lag a couple levels behind the PCs and exist to back-fill holes in their gear. Unfortunately, AOA does that and then doesn't provide enough of some staple items that the math of the game is based around. It's nothing a GM can't fix, you just need to be aware it's an issue.</p>SandersonTavares wrote:city level for shopping has been a major hurdle they had to deal with so far
There's definitely a problem with this in the campaign, particularly in the middle section.
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Obviously, a lot of this can be credited to the ruleset and adventure being written at the same time, and there may have been issues with the expectations. I think the intent is largely to have PCs generally find their needed things adventuring, while shopping is mostly in cities that...evilvolus2020-11-14T18:46:06ZRe: Forums: Age of Ashes: Age of Ashes: The Good, The Bad, and the Indifferent (Big Spoilers)evilvolushttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs438f1?Age-of-Ashes-The-Good-The-Bad-and-the#22020-11-14T18:14:09Z2020-11-14T18:14:09Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Quote:</div><blockquote>But... the super cool Silver Ravens can't bother defending themselves</blockquote><p>The Silver Ravens are gone, or at least all the high level ones. They learned of a major threat (to Ravounel? to the world?) rising in the Darklands, and they left to deal with that and haven't been seen in months. With the city's major defenders gone, Laslunn is using a variety of tactics (slaver raids on the coast, hauntings by Barzili Thrune, apparent attacks by Nidalese agents) to destabilize the baby nation in the hopes that what comes after will more profitably match the good old days.Quote:But... the super cool Silver Ravens can't bother defending themselves
The Silver Ravens are gone, or at least all the high level ones. They learned of a major threat (to Ravounel? to the world?) rising in the Darklands, and they left to deal with that and haven't been seen in months. With the city's major defenders gone, Laslunn is using a variety of tactics (slaver raids on the coast, hauntings by Barzili Thrune, apparent attacks by Nidalese agents) to destabilize the baby nation in...evilvolus2020-11-14T18:14:09ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Pathfinder Society Scenario #2-01: Citadel of Corruptionevilvolushttps://paizo.com/products/btq024wy/discuss?Pathfinder-Society-Scenario-201-Citadel-of-Corruption#42020-07-16T18:44:37Z2020-07-16T18:44:37Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">xyxrt wrote:</div><blockquote> This, along with 2-02, is supposed to be released at GenCon, correct? Why the available date of 8/26 then? </blockquote><p>I believe 8/26 is the date they're available for purchase by the general public, after having been initially exclusive to GMs running at the convention. Same reason 2-00 won't be available for purchase until August 4, 2021, but with a much smaller exclusivity window.xyxrt wrote:This, along with 2-02, is supposed to be released at GenCon, correct? Why the available date of 8/26 then?
I believe 8/26 is the date they're available for purchase by the general public, after having been initially exclusive to GMs running at the convention. Same reason 2-00 won't be available for purchase until August 4, 2021, but with a much smaller exclusivity window.evilvolus2020-07-16T18:44:37ZRe: Forums: Rules Discussion: Do potions heal through Cursed Wounds from Clay Golem without rolling?evilvolushttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42vb6?Do-potions-heal-through-Cursed-Wounds-from#312020-05-13T03:49:16Z2020-05-13T03:49:16Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">thenobledrake wrote:</div><blockquote>In 4E terms "save ends" is a typically unmodified 55% chance the effect ends, rolled at the end of each of the affected character's turns. </blockquote><p>Yeah, that looked like it was probably outlyingly-trivial, but 4E was weird.thenobledrake wrote:In 4E terms "save ends" is a typically unmodified 55% chance the effect ends, rolled at the end of each of the affected character's turns.
Yeah, that looked like it was probably outlyingly-trivial, but 4E was weird.evilvolus2020-05-13T03:49:16ZRe: Forums: Rules Discussion: Do potions heal through Cursed Wounds from Clay Golem without rolling?evilvolushttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42vb6?Do-potions-heal-through-Cursed-Wounds-from#302020-05-13T03:48:01Z2020-05-13T03:48:01Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Aratorin wrote:</div><blockquote>The party is level 7 when they encounter a Clay Golem in Extinction Curse, and it's in the middle of a dungeon</blockquote><p>They've used Clay Golem two APs in a row without even a clarifying post on the forums? That's disappointing.
<p>My players haven't reached the clay golem in AoA yet, but I fully intend to use a counteract level of 5 when they do.</p>Aratorin wrote:The party is level 7 when they encounter a Clay Golem in Extinction Curse, and it's in the middle of a dungeon
They've used Clay Golem two APs in a row without even a clarifying post on the forums? That's disappointing. My players haven't reached the clay golem in AoA yet, but I fully intend to use a counteract level of 5 when they do.evilvolus2020-05-13T03:48:01ZRe: Forums: Rules Discussion: Do potions heal through Cursed Wounds from Clay Golem without rolling?evilvolushttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42vb6?Do-potions-heal-through-Cursed-Wounds-from#272020-05-12T19:38:18Z2020-05-12T19:38:18Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Ascalaphus wrote:</div><blockquote>Looking back at clay golems in previous editions, you've always needed a MUCH higher level healer to get rid of the wound, compared to how strong the golem is in a fight.</blockquote><p>I don't think that's necessarily true. Let me take what you started in the previous post and expand on it to what the mechanic actually means in gameplay:
<p>AD&D 2e - Requires level 17 cleric, period. CR didn't exist, but it's an 11HD creature, and the 5000xp award is equivilant to a 15HD creature per table 31. Design intent is still clearly for players to have to seek out a more powerful healer afterward.</p>
<p>D&D 3.0 - Requires Heal (6th) or other healing spell of 6th level or higher. You need an 11th level Cleric, CR 10 creature. Probably requires seeking out an NPC, but not one of dramatically higher level than the party.</p>
<p>D&D 3.5/PF 1e - Specific spell requirement gone, now it's a DC 26 caster level check. CR 10 creature. A 10th level cleric needs a 16 on the die to successfully heal, for a 25% healing chance per spell. NPC is no longer required, but you're probably going to need to take a break for a bit to resolve it.</p>
<p>D&D 4E - Level 15 creature, "the target cannot regain hit points (save ends)". I'll be honest, I have no idea what this implies mechanically, I just wanted to include it for completionism.</p>
<p>D&D 5E - Challenge 9. "Greater restoration" spell, which is 5th level, so a 9th level cleric. If you don't have it prepared, you need to take a day and it costs 100g, but it's otherwise trivial.</p>
<p>Which brings us to PF2. First, consider the case where the counteract check is exactly as written in the stat block, and you're attempting to counter a 10th level effect. So, for a 10th level monster you •must• seek out a caster of at least 13th level. That caster is rolling around a +22 (5 stat, 13 level, 4 Expert) to hit a 39 (must crit). So, a 17 on the die for a 20% chance per casting. So, the party is abandoning the adventure to track down a caster several levels higher than them, and THEN it will take repeated castings. We're in territory harder than D&D 3.0, but still moderately easier than AD&D.</p>
<p>Or, let's imagine that the design intent is for the counteract level to behave like all the other counteract checks, that the counteract level is half the creature's level, and there was a misunderstanding in development that remains frustratingly unaddressed one way or the other by erata or forum post.</p>
<p>Now, our 10th level party gets hit, and the most powerful healing spell they have is 4th level. The cleric is rolling at around a +19 (5 stat, 10 level, 4 expert) to hit a 29. 50% chance per casting. If the party is level 9, probably 40%. We're now slightly easier than 3.5/PF1, but the curse affects all healing, not just those specific wounds. So, probably comparable.</p>
<p>I think the intent HAS to be that second one. The only way the first option doesn't derail an adventure is if you allow "it's magic but it's not a spell" cheese like potions and healing gloves.</p>Ascalaphus wrote:Looking back at clay golems in previous editions, you've always needed a MUCH higher level healer to get rid of the wound, compared to how strong the golem is in a fight.
I don't think that's necessarily true. Let me take what you started in the previous post and expand on it to what the mechanic actually means in gameplay: AD&D 2e - Requires level 17 cleric, period. CR didn't exist, but it's an 11HD creature, and the 5000xp award is equivilant to a 15HD creature per table...evilvolus2020-05-12T19:38:18ZRe: Forums: Age of Ashes: Wait, why does [organization] want [thingy]? ...and other motivation questions [Spoilers, obvs]evilvolushttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs430z5?Wait-why-does-organization-want-thingy-and#42020-05-02T00:21:36Z2020-05-02T00:21:36Z<p>I think I can wrap my head around that reading. Thank you, Zoomba.</p>I think I can wrap my head around that reading. Thank you, Zoomba.evilvolus2020-05-02T00:21:36ZForums: Age of Ashes: Wait, why does [organization] want [thingy]? ...and other motivation questions [Spoilers, obvs]evilvolushttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs430z5?Wait-why-does-organization-want-thingy-and#12023-09-27T19:19:43Z2020-05-01T20:00:37Z<p>So, book 2. The Scarlet Triad gave the Cinderclaws a powerful magic ritual, a clay golem, and a shard of the Orb of Dragonkind•, and possibly other resources as well. In exchange, they get the arsenic-and-maybe-Dahak-tainted gold. What the heck for? There's no reference to the gold in future adventures, and no real indication of a ritual it's being used for, despite references to "draconic resonance" and Hezle testing its "divine purity."</p>
<p>Is the gold just a red herring? Does the Scarlet Triad simply want to help the Cinderclaws free Dahak for their own reasons, and asked for the gold to make their offer more plausible? [edit: I suppose it does say in a sidebar at the very front of Cult of Cinders that they're drawing "motes" of energy out of the gold to reconstruct the Orb. But the Cinderclaw's contact is Laslunn, who is only involved in the slavery side of things? But I suppose the gold can be somewhat explained. It doesn't answer the larger question below, when the nul-acrumi vazghul is specifically intended to help crack open Huntergate and let out the Dahak fragment, and Against the Scarlet Triad specifically has Zandivar trying to release him.]</p>
<p>Which leads to the larger question, why does the Scarlet Triad want to free Dahak's fragment? The books say that the Triad has two plans for getting Mengkare off their back so they can maintain their wealth: the Orb of Dragonkind to control him, and releasing Dahak to distract him. But...really? They're not lunatic cultists, they're rich pragmatists. How is releasing a force that wants to crack open their planet like a walnut compatible with them maintaining lives of comfort and wealth?</p>
<p>Can anyone suggest an alternative motivation for the Triad to help the Cinderclaws that doesn't involving releasing Dahak, but which is compatible with their actions in the other books? It's entirely plausible that they don't even believe the stories of Dahak being trapped in Huntergate, but I get stuck at that point trying to figure out what they <i>are</i> doing there.</p>
<p>• and then we face the issue that giving away the fragment is like Thanos thinking the best way to gather the infinity stones is to give Loki his only infinity stone.</p>So, book 2. The Scarlet Triad gave the Cinderclaws a powerful magic ritual, a clay golem, and a shard of the Orb of Dragonkind*, and possibly other resources as well. In exchange, they get the arsenic-and-maybe-Dahak-tainted gold. What the heck for? There's no reference to the gold in future adventures, and no real indication of a ritual it's being used for, despite references to "draconic resonance" and Hezle testing its "divine purity."
Is the gold just a red herring? Does the Scarlet...evilvolus2020-05-01T20:00:37ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder Adventure Path: General Discussion: Credits page quotes from all final AP chaptersevilvolushttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2nndc?Credits-page-quotes-from-all-final-AP-chapters#412023-11-28T00:16:57Z2020-01-10T23:57:55Z<p>Thanks to everyone above who did the heavy lifting. I compiled them together for an answer on reddit, and figured I'd paste it back over here to get everything into one comment.</p>
<p><b>Pathfinder</b></p>
<p>RotRL: The Runelords will return. [Not a literary reference]
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CotCT: Sic semper tyrranis. ["thus always to tyrants" Apocryphally associated with the assassination of Cesar, definitely said by Booth at the assassination of Lincoln.]
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SD: Keep watching the skies. [The Thing from Another World (1951)]
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LoF: Still just one left. [Not a literary reference. Probably refers to the titular Final Wish]
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CoT: Quisque suos patimur manes. [We bear each one our own destiny. Virgil, The Aeneid]
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KM: It's good to be the king. [History of the World, Part 1 (1981)]
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SS: Asps... very dangerous. You go first. [Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)]
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CC: What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets! [Castlevania: Symphony of the Night]
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JR: Hide a stone among stones and a man among men. [The Hidden Fortress (1958]
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S&S: Damnation seize my Soul if I give you Quarters, or take any from you. [Edward Teach aka Blackbeard]
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SS: Sorshen lives! [Not a literary reference]
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RoW: O Wind, if Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? [Ode to the West Wind]
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WotR: Ayavah was right all along! [Not a literary reference. From pathfinderwiki: A woman of many secrets, Ayavah's most outlandish belief is that she believes the demon lord Nocticula to be a fallen empyreal lord and she is seeking redemption from her demonic nature.]
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MM: A crocodile be against him in the water, a snake be against him on land, he who would do anything against this tomb. [From an inscription on the mortuary temple dedicated to Amenhotep]
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IG: Keep watching the skies. [The Thing from Another World (1951). Again.]
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GS: We are like dwarves standing on the shoulders of giants [Bernard de Chartres, popularized by Isaac Newton]
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HR: Omniscient am I not, yet many things i know [Faust, by Goethe]
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HV: I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius, which to Angels look like torment and insanity [The Marriage Of Heaven and Hell, by William Blake]
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SA: Have you found the yellow sign? [The Yellow Sign, by Robert W. Chambers]
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II: Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed [The Last Unicorn, by Peter S. Beagle]
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RoA: Where is my mind? Way out in the water, see it swimming. [Lyrics from Where Is My Mind by the Pixies]
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WftC: I would rather see her lovely step, And the radiant sparkle of her face, Than all the war chariots in Lydia, And soldiers battling in arms. [Sappho]
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Return: New Thassilon is just getting started—long live Queen Sorshen! [Not a literary reference.]
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TG: Everything dies, baby, that's a fact. But maybe everything that dies someday comes back. [Lyrics to Atlantic City by Bruce Springsteen]</p>
<p><b>Starfinder</b></p>
<p>DS: How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? [Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs]
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AtAT: The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. [Sir Winston Churchill]
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SoS: To light a candle is to cast a shadow. [A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin]</p>Thanks to everyone above who did the heavy lifting. I compiled them together for an answer on reddit, and figured I'd paste it back over here to get everything into one comment.
Pathfinder
RotRL: The Runelords will return. [Not a literary reference]
CotCT: Sic semper tyrranis. ["thus always to tyrants" Apocryphally associated with the assassination of Cesar, definitely said by Booth at the assassination of Lincoln.]
SD: Keep watching the skies. [The Thing from Another World (1951)]
LoF:...evilvolus2020-01-10T23:57:55ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder Adventure Path: General Discussion: Best PF1 Adventure Path to convert to PF2?evilvolushttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42n1i?Best-PF1-Adventure-Path-to-convert-to-PF2#192019-09-18T17:32:23Z2019-09-18T16:03:25Z<p>Hey, thanks!</p>Hey, thanks!evilvolus2019-09-18T16:03:25ZRe: Forums: Customer Service: Order 8028663evilvolushttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42r27?Order-8028663#42019-09-16T19:07:40Z2019-09-16T19:07:40Z<p>There's not really much that can be done at this point, but I want this terrible customer service experience on the record somewhere. 33 days after ordering, I not only don't have the book, but it never even shipped from Paizo.</p>
<p>I placed the order on August 14. I'm not sure how it ended up side-carted, I certainly didn't intend to. I'll grant it's my error, but there's clearly something that confused me on the ordering screen. That same day, my August subscription went to Pending, and I emailed customer service to ensure the two shipped together. As of September 16, I have still never received acknowledgement of that email.</p>
<p>I received that subscription on August 26th or 27th and discovered it did not contain the CRB, which I then noticed was still side-carted. I don't have a lot of ability to make outgoing calls during the work day, so I waited for a reply to the email. The next week, I read on the forums that the CSR forum was more responsive, so I posted the above on September 3.</p>
<p>On September 4, I discovered the un-sidecart feature did not require customer service intervention, but is hiding on the Account Settings page, rather than in order history. I removed it from the side cart on that date.</p>
<p>On September 5, I received notice that my September order had been created and set pending, and the CRB order which I had removed from the side-cart was added into my subscription order which was expected to ship in 8-12 days.</p>
<p>September 9, I finally receive the above reply to my forum post, removing the CRB from the subscription order and set to ship immediately.</p>
<p>September 16, I receive an email that my September subscription is now packaged to send and will go out. The CRB order remained Pending, a week after being assured it was set to go out on its own immediately.</p>
<p>At that point, I made arrangements to call during the day, I got a CSR immediately who was able to cancel the order, and I've ordered on Amazon. It will be at my home today before 9pm.</p>
<p>I love Paizo for the content you produce, but this is the first time I've needed assistance from Customer Service, and it's a straight-up unacceptable situation. Even if we assume that my email was removed from the queue after Mr. Phelan's post above, that means it took 24 days without being addressed directly. The Customer Service forum appears to get 4-5 posts per day, and it took 6 days to get a response to a post. Considering your telephone customer service was able to answer me immediately and cancel the order in under a minute this morning, the lack of response to email and forum is simply baffling. If these avenues of communication are not being addressed in a timely manner, they should be discontinued so as not to give your customers the impression they are viable channels.</p>There's not really much that can be done at this point, but I want this terrible customer service experience on the record somewhere. 33 days after ordering, I not only don't have the book, but it never even shipped from Paizo.
I placed the order on August 14. I'm not sure how it ended up side-carted, I certainly didn't intend to. I'll grant it's my error, but there's clearly something that confused me on the ordering screen. That same day, my August subscription went to Pending, and I...evilvolus2019-09-16T19:07:40ZRe: Forums: Customer Service: Order 8028663evilvolushttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42r27?Order-8028663#32019-09-09T21:06:32Z2019-09-09T21:06:32Z<p>Thank you for that. I eventually found the button to un-sidecart the order, and a day later my subscription for the month went to pending and somebody helpfully folded the CRB right back into that order that will go out next week. /sigh.</p>
<p>I appreciate the shipping waiver, and I look forward to the physical tome. •curls up with PDF•</p>Thank you for that. I eventually found the button to un-sidecart the order, and a day later my subscription for the month went to pending and somebody helpfully folded the CRB right back into that order that will go out next week. /sigh.
I appreciate the shipping waiver, and I look forward to the physical tome. *curls up with PDF*evilvolus2019-09-09T21:06:32ZRe: Forums: Age of Ashes: Party size?evilvolushttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42oe5?Party-size#192019-10-07T21:46:58Z2019-09-04T01:13:31Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Ice Titan wrote:</div><blockquote>where I added the cultist skeleton inside that animates if the cube reaches half hp (a residual effect from the ward in B15)</blockquote><p>I _love_ that.Ice Titan wrote:where I added the cultist skeleton inside that animates if the cube reaches half hp (a residual effect from the ward in B15)
I _love_ that.evilvolus2019-09-04T01:13:31ZForums: Customer Service: Order 8028663evilvolushttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42r27?Order-8028663#12019-09-03T16:51:35Z2019-09-03T16:51:35Z<p>I put in this order on August 14, and must have mis-clicked something, I didn't intend for it to be side-carted. However, I noticed that day that my subscription order had also been sent to processing, so I emailed customer service that day to confirm that they would ship together.</p>
<p>I have not received a response to my email, and the subscription was mailed out while my CRB remained in the side cart. Can you please ship out this order immediately?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance!</p>I put in this order on August 14, and must have mis-clicked something, I didn't intend for it to be side-carted. However, I noticed that day that my subscription order had also been sent to processing, so I emailed customer service that day to confirm that they would ship together.
I have not received a response to my email, and the subscription was mailed out while my CRB remained in the side cart. Can you please ship out this order immediately?
Thanks in advance!evilvolus2019-09-03T16:51:35ZRe: Forums: Age of Ashes: 1 - Hellknight Hill (GM Reference)evilvolushttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42nam&page=5?1-Hellknight-Hill#2102019-08-27T23:21:52Z2019-08-27T23:21:52Z<p>Correct, with one point worth emphasizing:</p>
<div class="messageboard-quotee">Quote:</div><blockquote>Encounters with adversaries and hazards grant a set amount of XP. When the group overcomes an encounter with creatures or hazards, each character gains XP equal to the total XP of the creatures and hazards in the encounter <b>(this excludes XP adjustments for different party sizes; see Party Size for details)</b>.</blockquote><p>If you were adjusting the encounter for 6 characters, the "encounter budget" for that would be 180...so, say you add an Elite Goblin Dog to the encounter. The encounter is then a Severe 1 for a party of 6, and characters all earn the reward for a regular Severe encounter of their level, which is 120.
<p>If you wanted to over-complicate things, you could also say that each character is awarded XP equal to the Encounter Budget • (4 / x) where X is the number of players.</p>Correct, with one point worth emphasizing:
Quote:Encounters with adversaries and hazards grant a set amount of XP. When the group overcomes an encounter with creatures or hazards, each character gains XP equal to the total XP of the creatures and hazards in the encounter (this excludes XP adjustments for different party sizes; see Party Size for details).
If you were adjusting the encounter for 6 characters, the "encounter budget" for that would be 180...so, say you add an Elite Goblin Dog...evilvolus2019-08-27T23:21:52ZRe: Forums: Age of Ashes: 1 - Hellknight Hill (GM Reference)evilvolushttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42nam&page=5?1-Hellknight-Hill#2052019-08-31T15:25:09Z2019-08-27T18:57:43Z<p>"You can use an action to Fly 0 feet to hover in place. If you’re airborne at the end of your turn and didn’t use a Fly action this round, you fall."</p>
<p>So, the creature can Fly up, make two attacks and end its turn. The next turn, it would need to either take an action to "Fly 0" and remain in place, or make its attacks and then fly onward.</p>
<p>This is a little inconsistent with the Maneuver in Flight action under Acrobatics, which suggests that in general a hover in place action might be an Expert action, while "reverse direction" is Master. But that's all at GM discretion.</p>
<p>I'd be inclined to take context into account. Somebody flying through magical means probably doesn't need a roll to hover in place, just spend an action to keep themselves aloft. But I've never seen a falcon hovering like a hummingbird, so the Emperor Birds would probably require Acrobatics to hover. Turning around as a Master-level action I can only imagine as flipping a U-turn in place, which again I can't imagine a bird doing, but turning if they've got some room around them shouldn't be too difficult.</p>
<p>The 10-foot hallway for birds with 5-foot wingspans is a bit tight. I'd probably have them swooping past back and forth with a DC 10 to turn around at the ends (rolling a 1 would be a failure, and they'd bang a wing and tumble to the floor). The bat, I'm picturing wide flappy wings as it basically hovers over somebody's face clawing at them. No check, just use a Fly 0 action.</p>
<p>At the end of the day, I'd remember that unlike 3.x, PF2 doesn't proceed from the assumption that PCs and monsters play by the exact same rules. If you can describe it in a way that sounds legit to you and your players, go ahead and do it.</p>"You can use an action to Fly 0 feet to hover in place. If you’re airborne at the end of your turn and didn’t use a Fly action this round, you fall."
So, the creature can Fly up, make two attacks and end its turn. The next turn, it would need to either take an action to "Fly 0" and remain in place, or make its attacks and then fly onward.
This is a little inconsistent with the Maneuver in Flight action under Acrobatics, which suggests that in general a hover in place action might be an...evilvolus2019-08-27T18:57:43ZRe: Forums: Age of Ashes: Party size?evilvolushttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42oe5?Party-size#162019-08-25T19:53:15Z2019-08-25T19:52:28Z<p>Oh, sorry. When I said they're not deformable, I didn't mean to suggest they can't fit through a 5-foot hall. I mean that in 1e, swarms were basically 4 5-foot squares that can be arranged however, so long as they're all connected. In 2e, they appear to be a 2x2 creature period.</p>
<p>As written, putting two 2x2 into the room requires a little overlap, but that's alright. But expanding to 6 players, Ice Titan suggested adding a third swarm, and there's just no reasonable way to play with three 2x2 creatures in a 3x3 room. I was curious how Ice Titan played that, and gave my own suggestion of moving the encounter into the larger room to the north.</p>
<p>Similarly, the three rats in A17 probably need to become 5 rats for 6 players, and I'll be swapping them with the bat in A19. 2e's a more mobile sort of combat, and cramming extra creatures into an already-small area really loses out on that benefit.</p>Oh, sorry. When I said they're not deformable, I didn't mean to suggest they can't fit through a 5-foot hall. I mean that in 1e, swarms were basically 4 5-foot squares that can be arranged however, so long as they're all connected. In 2e, they appear to be a 2x2 creature period.
As written, putting two 2x2 into the room requires a little overlap, but that's alright. But expanding to 6 players, Ice Titan suggested adding a third swarm, and there's just no reasonable way to play with three 2x2...evilvolus2019-08-25T19:52:28ZRe: Forums: Age of Ashes: Party size?evilvolushttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42oe5?Party-size#142019-08-25T18:35:08Z2019-08-25T18:35:08Z<p>For A13/A16 (6 players)
<br />
Rather than boosting either encounter, I'm knocking out A16's doors—by the text, the Warg should be able to get into A15 anyway. If players go in through A13 and trigger the Graveshells, I'll have the Warg try to stealth in during the second or third round (depending on how the fight's going) and try to gobble up a small PC. It's more than a Moderate, but delaying the Warg's entrance should balance that out.</p>
<p>If players go through A14-15 first, the Warg will be the puppies' mother and I'll run it as a social encounter with a possible easy fight.</p>For A13/A16 (6 players)
Rather than boosting either encounter, I'm knocking out A16's doors--by the text, the Warg should be able to get into A15 anyway. If players go in through A13 and trigger the Graveshells, I'll have the Warg try to stealth in during the second or third round (depending on how the fight's going) and try to gobble up a small PC. It's more than a Moderate, but delaying the Warg's entrance should balance that out.
If players go through A14-15 first, the Warg will be the...evilvolus2019-08-25T18:35:08ZRe: Forums: Age of Ashes: Party size?evilvolushttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42oe5?Party-size#132019-08-25T18:08:41Z2019-08-25T18:08:41Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Fumarole wrote:</div><blockquote>You could rule that the swarms are on the walls and ceiling in addition to the floor to help them concentrate in confined spaces. </blockquote><p>The problem is that swarms deal their damage by sharing a square with the player. Which means that either you're shrinking the swarm, which isn't fair to the monster, or you're allowing two swarms to attack the same character, which is unfair to the player.
<p>I'm going to say that A5's rafters have been entirely colonized by a massive spider colony, and when they come boiling out, the 3 swarms basically fill the northern two-third of the room.</p>Fumarole wrote:You could rule that the swarms are on the walls and ceiling in addition to the floor to help them concentrate in confined spaces.
The problem is that swarms deal their damage by sharing a square with the player. Which means that either you're shrinking the swarm, which isn't fair to the monster, or you're allowing two swarms to attack the same character, which is unfair to the player. I'm going to say that A5's rafters have been entirely colonized by a massive spider colony,...evilvolus2019-08-25T18:08:41ZRe: Forums: Age of Ashes: Party size?evilvolushttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42oe5?Party-size#112019-08-24T22:43:49Z2019-08-24T22:43:49Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Ice Titan wrote:</div><blockquote>. Add a 3rd Spider Swarm</blockquote><p>How did you wedge a third swarm into the room? I'm noticing it's not even big enough for two Large creatures...swarms don't seem to be deformable by rules in 2E. I also have 6 players, and I'm thinking of going with 3 swarms and moving them into A5.Ice Titan wrote:. Add a 3rd Spider Swarm
How did you wedge a third swarm into the room? I'm noticing it's not even big enough for two Large creatures...swarms don't seem to be deformable by rules in 2E. I also have 6 players, and I'm thinking of going with 3 swarms and moving them into A5.evilvolus2019-08-24T22:43:49ZRe: Forums: Age of Ashes: Community Created Content (spoilers)evilvolushttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42n7o?Community-Created-Content#132019-08-16T19:50:57Z2019-08-16T19:50:57Z<p>These are great, thanks. A note about the Battlements map, you put in your fires as per the existing map, but according to the text, the north and east fires should be completely burned out, and the south and west three are just "fitfully" smoldering.</p>These are great, thanks. A note about the Battlements map, you put in your fires as per the existing map, but according to the text, the north and east fires should be completely burned out, and the south and west three are just "fitfully" smoldering.evilvolus2019-08-16T19:50:57ZRe: Forums: GM Discussion: PF2 1A Sandstone Secretevilvolushttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42o0n?PF2-1A-Sandstone-Secret#102019-08-08T16:18:22Z2019-08-08T16:18:22Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Tim Schneider 908 wrote:</div><blockquote> Most times the group didn't go near the trap, despite a valiant and believed bluff from me that it was in a random spot each play through it was only encountered 1 of 3 tries. </blockquote><p>Test-ran this with my home group to try out the 2E rules, they also completely skipped the trap.
<p>"Wide passage in front of you, smaller doors to the left and right."
<br />
"Can we see any footprints or anything?"
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(two characters both critically fail Perception)
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"Passage in front is clearly well traveled, the side doors seem pretty ignored."
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"Eh, whatever, we want to do this systematically. Let's go left."</p>Tim Schneider 908 wrote:Most times the group didn't go near the trap, despite a valiant and believed bluff from me that it was in a random spot each play through it was only encountered 1 of 3 tries.
Test-ran this with my home group to try out the 2E rules, they also completely skipped the trap. "Wide passage in front of you, smaller doors to the left and right."
"Can we see any footprints or anything?"
(two characters both critically fail Perception)
"Passage in front is clearly well...evilvolus2019-08-08T16:18:22ZRe: Forums: Pathfinder Society: "Wait, that's how it works in the other edition..."evilvolushttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42nw1?Wait-thats-how-it-works-in-the-other-edition#232019-08-06T17:31:19Z2019-08-06T17:31:19Z<p>Ah, I see. We were talking past each other. I was thinking about how Ride-By-Attack and Flyby Attack work on your turn, and you were thinking about whether that implied facing exists between one turn and the next. I think we're on the same page now, thanks.</p>Ah, I see. We were talking past each other. I was thinking about how Ride-By-Attack and Flyby Attack work on your turn, and you were thinking about whether that implied facing exists between one turn and the next. I think we're on the same page now, thanks.evilvolus2019-08-06T17:31:19ZRe: Forums: Pathfinder Society: "Wait, that's how it works in the other edition..."evilvolushttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42nw1?Wait-thats-how-it-works-in-the-other-edition#212019-08-05T08:33:45Z2019-08-05T04:42:57Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">BigNorseWolf wrote:</div><blockquote><p>I'm derping finding any rules for turning while flying. </p>
<p>Its not under the fly skill, its not under movement, its not under the fly spell...its not under the universal creature rules... </blockquote><p>It's under the Fly skill:
<p>Flying Maneuver DCs
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15 Turn greater than 45° by spending 5 feet of movement
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20 Turn 180° by spending 10 feet of movement
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20 Fly up at a greater than 45° angle</p>
<div class="messageboard-quotee">Majuba wrote:</div><blockquote>A flying mount has to expend movement to turn, and I don't think can turn at all and still do a ride-by, but I'd have to check</blockquote><p>A flying mount can turn during a flyby attack because it's worded differently than ride-by-attack. The ride-by requires you to continue moving in the direction of a charge. Flyby attack permits you to take a standard action at any point during a move action.BigNorseWolf wrote:I'm derping finding any rules for turning while flying.
Its not under the fly skill, its not under movement, its not under the fly spell...its not under the universal creature rules...
It's under the Fly skill: Flying Maneuver DCs
15 Turn greater than 45° by spending 5 feet of movement
20 Turn 180° by spending 10 feet of movement
20 Fly up at a greater than 45° angle
Majuba wrote:A flying mount has to expend movement to turn, and I don't think can turn at all and still...evilvolus2019-08-05T04:42:57ZRe: Forums: Pathfinder Society: A Very Bad Thing at Gen Conevilvolushttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42o4u?A-Very-Bad-Thing-at-Gen-Con#62019-08-07T02:11:51Z2019-08-03T23:33:04Z<p>Wonderful news!</p>Wonderful news!evilvolus2019-08-03T23:33:04ZRe: Forums: Paizo Products: CRB: Crafting and Runesevilvolushttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42o75?CRB-Crafting-and-Runes#22019-08-03T21:56:46Z2019-08-03T21:39:55Z<p>In the example given, Ezren is Crafting a Striking Rune, which goes on weapons. He can either Craft it directly onto a weapon that currently lacks a Striking Rune, or he can craft it onto a blank Runestone, and later Transfer the rune onto a weapon.</p>In the example given, Ezren is Crafting a Striking Rune, which goes on weapons. He can either Craft it directly onto a weapon that currently lacks a Striking Rune, or he can craft it onto a blank Runestone, and later Transfer the rune onto a weapon.evilvolus2019-08-03T21:39:55ZRe: Forums: Pathfinder Society: "Wait, that's how it works in the other edition..."evilvolushttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42nw1?Wait-thats-how-it-works-in-the-other-edition#182019-08-05T01:43:20Z2019-08-03T17:29:33Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Angel Hunter D wrote:</div><blockquote>Having never played 3.5 I don't know where the issues were, but they thought I had to turn my "horse" around to move back the same way, they thought controlling a mount was a move action, etc. They could have just hated my flying, mounted, character charging every turn though. </blockquote><p>Ah! The issue's not the mount, it's the flying. Flight does still have an implied facing because of the need to 'turn' your direction of movement.
<p>edit:
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Oh, and Ride-by-Attack doesn't allow you to change directions either.</p>
<p>"you may move and attack as if with a standard charge and then move again (continuing the straight line of the charge)."</p>Angel Hunter D wrote:Having never played 3.5 I don't know where the issues were, but they thought I had to turn my "horse" around to move back the same way, they thought controlling a mount was a move action, etc. They could have just hated my flying, mounted, character charging every turn though.
Ah! The issue's not the mount, it's the flying. Flight does still have an implied facing because of the need to 'turn' your direction of movement. edit:
Oh, and Ride-by-Attack doesn't allow you to...evilvolus2019-08-03T17:29:33ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder Adventure Path: General Discussion: Best PF1 Adventure Path to convert to PF2?evilvolushttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42n1i?Best-PF1-Adventure-Path-to-convert-to-PF2#22019-07-23T15:23:47Z2019-07-23T05:10:42Z<p>Personally, I'm leaning toward Shattered Star. Not out of ease, but because I really wanted to run that and haven't got around to it.</p>Personally, I'm leaning toward Shattered Star. Not out of ease, but because I really wanted to run that and haven't got around to it.evilvolus2019-07-23T05:10:42ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Pathfinder Tales: Pirate's Honorevilvolushttps://paizo.com/products/btpy8xc7/discuss&page=2?Pathfinder-Tales-Pirates-Honor#592014-08-21T06:38:57Z2014-08-21T06:38:57Z<p>Perfect, figured it was just the checksum digit that was off. Thanks so much!</p>Perfect, figured it was just the checksum digit that was off. Thanks so much!evilvolus2014-08-21T06:38:57ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Pathfinder Tales: Pirate's Honorevilvolushttps://paizo.com/products/btpy8xc7/discuss&page=2?Pathfinder-Tales-Pirates-Honor#572014-08-20T03:30:49Z2014-08-20T03:30:49Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Liz Courts wrote:</div><blockquote>The correct number is 978-1-60125-523-5.</blockquote><p>That appears to be the paperback ISBN.
<p>Hate to be a pain, just trying to get all the Pathfinder books tidied up on Goodreads.</p>Liz Courts wrote:The correct number is 978-1-60125-523-5.
That appears to be the paperback ISBN. Hate to be a pain, just trying to get all the Pathfinder books tidied up on Goodreads.evilvolus2014-08-20T03:30:49ZRe: Forums: Product Discussion: Pathfinder Tales: Pirate's Honorevilvolushttps://paizo.com/products/btpy8xc7/discuss&page=2?Pathfinder-Tales-Pirates-Honor#552014-08-15T06:03:52Z2014-08-15T06:03:52Z<p>The ePub lists the ebook ISBN as 978-1-60125-524-1, which ISBN.org considers an invalid number. Is there a typo?</p>The ePub lists the ebook ISBN as 978-1-60125-524-1, which ISBN.org considers an invalid number. Is there a typo?evilvolus2014-08-15T06:03:52ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder First Edition: General Discussion: Stealth Errataevilvolushttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2pt9j&page=3?Stealth-Errata#1472013-06-04T21:01:35Z2013-06-04T21:01:35Z<p>Ah, so I'm seeing what the problem is now. The PRD text is different from the Core Rulebook Errata PDF.</p>
<div class="messageboard-quotee">Errata PDF wrote:</div><blockquote>Creatures that fail to beat your Stealth check are not aware of you and treat you as if you had <b>total concealment</b>.</blockquote><div class="messageboard-quotee">PRD Website wrote:</div><blockquote>Creatures that fail to beat your Stealth check are not aware of you and treat you as if you had <b>concealment</b>.</blockquote><p>Based on what Jason said above, I'm pretty sure that the Errata document is the correct text, and the PRD is a typo.
<p>Edit: Mebolex caught it a full page before me. Whoops.</p>Ah, so I'm seeing what the problem is now. The PRD text is different from the Core Rulebook Errata PDF.
Errata PDF wrote:Creatures that fail to beat your Stealth check are not aware of you and treat you as if you had total concealment.
PRD Website wrote:Creatures that fail to beat your Stealth check are not aware of you and treat you as if you had concealment.
Based on what Jason said above, I'm pretty sure that the Errata document is the correct text, and the PRD is a typo. Edit: Mebolex...evilvolus2013-06-04T21:01:35ZRe: Forums: Pathfinder Society: Languages in PFSevilvolushttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2pscq?Languages-in-PFS#152013-05-23T23:54:35Z2013-05-23T23:54:35Z<p>No mention of Kellish?</p>No mention of Kellish?evilvolus2013-05-23T23:54:35ZRe: Forums: Advice: Smallest group of 20's to fell the Tarrasque?evilvolushttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2pqm9&page=3?Smallest-group-of-20s-to-fell-the-Tarrasque#1122013-05-10T21:12:33Z2013-05-10T21:12:33Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">SPACEBALL12345 wrote:</div><blockquote>Anybody know/have evidence to support the regen temporarily stopping from hit point damage? </blockquote><p>I feel like "no form of attack" pretty clearly kicks the legs out from under your theory.SPACEBALL12345 wrote:Anybody know/have evidence to support the regen temporarily stopping from hit point damage?
I feel like "no form of attack" pretty clearly kicks the legs out from under your theory.evilvolus2013-05-10T21:12:33ZRe: Forums: Advice: Smallest group of 20's to fell the Tarrasque?evilvolushttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2pqm9&page=3?Smallest-group-of-20s-to-fell-the-Tarrasque#1102013-05-11T00:00:36Z2013-05-10T21:04:38Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Kiinyan wrote:</div><blockquote>I can see the argument of the Tarrasque coming back from suffocation, since it is a save, but not starvation. Starvation is not a form of attack, and it cannot be healed until food is consumed. As long as the Tarrasque is kept away from food (I believe they cut it up and moved it into a small demiplane) it will eventually die simply because starvation damage cannot be healed</blockquote><div class="messageboard-quotee">starvation rules wrote:</div><blockquote>A character can go without food for 3 days, in growing discomfort.</blockquote><p>The keyword you ignored there was "character." Surely you don't think a bear starts dying 4 days into hibernation?
<p>T is known to nap for centuries between popping out and munching down on a nation or two. Yes, if you lock T up in some inaccessable place, it would •eventually• start taking starvation damage, but not in your lifetime. And eventually it would take lethal damage equal to its hp, and go into a cycle of being dead, then at 1hp, then dead again.</p>
<p>Riiight up until a curious adventurer, or small animal, or whatever, finds its way into your impregnable cell (adventurers are GREAT at breaking into impregnable cells) at which point, jaws go SNAP, T heals to full, and the rampaging begins.</p>
<p>I can't help but think that your "kill T by starvation" solution looks a hell of a lot like T's natural lifecycle.</p>Kiinyan wrote:I can see the argument of the Tarrasque coming back from suffocation, since it is a save, but not starvation. Starvation is not a form of attack, and it cannot be healed until food is consumed. As long as the Tarrasque is kept away from food (I believe they cut it up and moved it into a small demiplane) it will eventually die simply because starvation damage cannot be healed
starvation rules wrote:A character can go without food for 3 days, in growing discomfort.
The keyword...evilvolus2013-05-10T21:04:38ZRe: Forums/Gamer Life: General Discussion: Was I guilty of being a bad guest?evilvolushttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2o784&page=6?Was-I-guilty-of-being-a-bad-guest#2862015-03-02T04:10:32Z2012-06-05T23:08:51Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Owen K. C. Stephens wrote:</div><blockquote>If I get to count each major variation as a seperate curse (the difference between "Thor Smash It!," "Thor Smash It With a Hammer!" and "Thor Smash it In The Crotch," to give some analogy curses as examples of what I am talking about) would bring me to dozens at least.</blockquote><p>And don't forget my two favorites: "Thor H. Odinson!" and "Thor Odinson on a Furtherprofanity Pogo Stick!"Owen K. C. Stephens wrote:If I get to count each major variation as a seperate curse (the difference between "Thor Smash It!," "Thor Smash It With a Hammer!" and "Thor Smash it In The Crotch," to give some analogy curses as examples of what I am talking about) would bring me to dozens at least.
And don't forget my two favorites: "Thor H. Odinson!" and "Thor Odinson on a Furtherprofanity Pogo Stick!"evilvolus2012-06-05T23:08:51ZRe: Forums: Rules Questions: Bag of Holding: Opening Sizeevilvolushttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2mihh?Bag-of-Holding-Opening-Size#152011-07-07T21:43:16Z2011-07-07T21:43:16Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">beej67 wrote:</div><blockquote>So the 2 foot dimension is not the circumference. 4 feet is the circumference.</blockquote><p>Yeah, my 2-ft. circumference was a typo. My dimension for the diameter was correct, though.beej67 wrote:So the 2 foot dimension is not the circumference. 4 feet is the circumference.
Yeah, my 2-ft. circumference was a typo. My dimension for the diameter was correct, though.evilvolus2011-07-07T21:43:16ZRe: Forums: Rules Questions: Bag of Holding: Opening Sizeevilvolushttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2mihh?Bag-of-Holding-Opening-Size#62011-07-07T16:34:26Z2011-07-07T16:34:26Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">AerynTahlro wrote:</div><blockquote><br />
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The very first sentence in the item description tells you the dimensions of the bag:</p>
<p>"This appears to be a common cloth sack about 2 feet by 4 feet in size."</p>
<p>A sack generally has the opening on the "tall" side, so it stands to reason that the Bag of Holding is 2'x4', with a 2' opening at the top. You can't expand that to be wider than 2'. </blockquote><p>And if you want to apply some extra nerdliness to it, for putting anything not flat into it, you're looking at an oval or circle with a circumference of 2 ft. For something of uniform shape, that's a circle with a diameter of roughly 1.25 feet.AerynTahlro wrote:The very first sentence in the item description tells you the dimensions of the bag:"This appears to be a common cloth sack about 2 feet by 4 feet in size."
A sack generally has the opening on the "tall" side, so it stands to reason that the Bag of Holding is 2'x4', with a 2' opening at the top. You can't expand that to be wider than 2'.
And if you want to apply some extra nerdliness to it, for putting anything not flat into it, you're looking at an oval or circle with a...evilvolus2011-07-07T16:34:26ZRe: Forums: Conversions: Let's build Captain America!evilvolushttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2mh8u?Lets-build-Captain-America#232011-06-30T16:54:15Z2011-06-30T16:54:15Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Tilnar wrote:</div><blockquote>Officially, "peak human strength" to Marvel is the ability to press 800lbs.</blockquote><p>Sounds like an str of 25, then.Tilnar wrote:Officially, "peak human strength" to Marvel is the ability to press 800lbs.
Sounds like an str of 25, then.evilvolus2011-06-30T16:54:15ZRe: Forums: Conversions: Let's build Captain America!evilvolushttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2mh8u?Lets-build-Captain-America#62011-06-29T17:54:24Z2011-06-29T17:54:24Z<p>Quite frankly, I think you need to build him on a 10-point buy, with 8/8/8/14/13/15, then apply the "super soldier serum" template, granting +10 each to str, dex and con :)</p>Quite frankly, I think you need to build him on a 10-point buy, with 8/8/8/14/13/15, then apply the "super soldier serum" template, granting +10 each to str, dex and con :)evilvolus2011-06-29T17:54:24ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder Adventure Path: General Discussion: Beyond the Jade Regentevilvolushttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2l89n&page=5?Beyond-the-Jade-Regent#2152011-06-09T21:26:54Z2011-06-09T21:26:54Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Dubiousnessocity wrote:</div><blockquote> Does that mean that you will put into the blog as soon as you announce it so we can know whats going on out here in the seattle area? and more over why is paizo con held so far away from your headquarters?</blockquote><p>Guh? You do know we recently put in a couple bridges to let you get from Seattle to Bellevue without having to charter a boat, right?
<p>And the HQ is in Redmond, which is just about exactly as far away from "out [there] in the seattle area"...</p>
<p>/confused</p>Dubiousnessocity wrote:Does that mean that you will put into the blog as soon as you announce it so we can know whats going on out here in the seattle area? and more over why is paizo con held so far away from your headquarters?
Guh? You do know we recently put in a couple bridges to let you get from Seattle to Bellevue without having to charter a boat, right? And the HQ is in Redmond, which is just about exactly as far away from "out [there] in the seattle area"...
/confusedevilvolus2011-06-09T21:26:54ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder First Edition: General Discussion: Terrible Remorse = terribly overpoweredevilvolushttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2mbxa?Terrible-Remorse-terribly-overpowered#242011-05-31T20:43:15Z2011-05-31T20:43:15Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Calixymenthillian wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Matrixryu wrote:</div><blockquote> Hmmm, this isn't the only spell in the game that allows you to make a creature lose turns with no saving throw...but then again Maze is a much higher level spell. </blockquote>That, and <i>maze</i> doesn't leave the target to be ripped to pieces while it's losing those actions. </blockquote><p>A level higher than Terrible Remorse, we have Suffocation. Success = Lose a Turn. Fail = 3 more saves. Miss any of them, lose all your hit points. Unless you've got my DM, in which case failing that initial save kicks you to the lose all hit points part. Ick.Calixymenthillian wrote:Matrixryu wrote: Hmmm, this isn't the only spell in the game that allows you to make a creature lose turns with no saving throw...but then again Maze is a much higher level spell.
That, and maze doesn't leave the target to be ripped to pieces while it's losing those actions. A level higher than Terrible Remorse, we have Suffocation. Success = Lose a Turn. Fail = 3 more saves. Miss any of them, lose all your hit points. Unless you've got my DM, in which case failing...evilvolus2011-05-31T20:43:15ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder Adventure Path: General Discussion: What's the lethality rating for the APs?evilvolushttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2maxx?Whats-the-lethality-rating-for-the-APs#172011-05-26T15:45:21Z2011-05-26T15:45:21Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Rogue Eidolon wrote:</div><blockquote>The underwater cave/helmet is kiteable.</blockquote><p>I just recall the helmet handing out a lot of damage for level 2-3. But the OTHER underwater cave scared a number of fluids out of my players.
<div class="messageboard-quotee">Rogue Eidolon wrote:</div><blockquote>The party almost TPKed when they agroed the top floor of Rannick and X&L all together.</blockquote><p>Ah, that'd do it. As written, it's much less scary. Only one sister, and she's on a different floor from the nasties up top.
<div class="messageboard-quotee">Rogue Eidolon wrote:</div><blockquote>They tried to be SWATish. They really did. They even got over the wall unnoticed, which was impressive.</blockquote><p>Wow, that IS impressive. My folks did up from below instead of over the top. Even widening the space so that the inhabitants actually FIT, it just wasn't all that dangerous.
<p>The song is relatively short range compared to the length of wall, so I'd call that pure bad luck on your PCs part.</p>Rogue Eidolon wrote:The underwater cave/helmet is kiteable.
I just recall the helmet handing out a lot of damage for level 2-3. But the OTHER underwater cave scared a number of fluids out of my players. Rogue Eidolon wrote:The party almost TPKed when they agroed the top floor of Rannick and X&L all together.
Ah, that'd do it. As written, it's much less scary. Only one sister, and she's on a different floor from the nasties up top. Rogue Eidolon wrote:They tried to be SWATish. They really...evilvolus2011-05-26T15:45:21ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder Adventure Path: General Discussion: What's the lethality rating for the APs?evilvolushttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2maxx?Whats-the-lethality-rating-for-the-APs#102011-05-25T18:46:56Z2011-05-25T18:46:56Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Rogue Eidolon wrote:</div><blockquote>BO—3 (5 character deaths, nearly a TPK but due to greed fighting a bonus monster)</blockquote><p>Yeah. Bonus monster is icky, until the PCs realize it can't chase them. Other trouble spots are the underwater cave, and the helmet.
<div class="messageboard-quotee">Rogue Eidolon wrote:</div><blockquote>tSM—4 (2 character deaths, almost a TPK, but characters jumped off a 200 foot building to escape that encounter)</blockquote><p>YES! As written, the final encounter area is begging for a TPK. My players flew to the top, then fled DOWN the stairs. Poor, poor choice. Best fix to this area is to swap her with her sister. Officially the same CR, but not in actual play.
<div class="messageboard-quotee">Rogue Eidolon wrote:</div><blockquote>HMM—4 (3 character deaths, almost a TPK twice)</blockquote><p>I'm trying to remember where my people had trouble. All I'm coming up with are the picachus behind the fort. I wouldn't rank this one over a 3.
<div class="messageboard-quotee">Rogue Eidolon wrote:</div><blockquote>FotSG—not done yet, but is looking to be at least a 3</blockquote><p>This was the last one my group finished before it fell apart. I'd call it a 2 or 3, but my guys were a crazy ninja SWAT-team by this point, so YMMV. If they haven't learned to stop kicking in the doors by now, they're never going to stop getting murdered.Rogue Eidolon wrote:BO--3 (5 character deaths, nearly a TPK but due to greed fighting a bonus monster)
Yeah. Bonus monster is icky, until the PCs realize it can't chase them. Other trouble spots are the underwater cave, and the helmet. Rogue Eidolon wrote:tSM--4 (2 character deaths, almost a TPK, but characters jumped off a 200 foot building to escape that encounter)
YES! As written, the final encounter area is begging for a TPK. My players flew to the top, then fled DOWN the stairs. Poor,...evilvolus2011-05-25T18:46:56ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder Adventure Path: General Discussion: What's the lethality rating for the APs?evilvolushttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2maxx?Whats-the-lethality-rating-for-the-APs#92011-05-25T18:24:03Z2011-05-25T18:24:03Z<p>Curse of the Crimson Throne:
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Edge - 2: Nice slow start, nothing to be too worried about
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Seven Days - 4: Specifically, the final encounter area is very nasty
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Escape - 2 or 4: Depends entirely on whether the PCs feel the need to kill absolutely everybody, and whether they take the many hints about the true nature of their enemies. Also much nastier if you upconvert to PRPG stats.
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Ashes - 1: I can't think of a single ugly encounter, unless your players are utterly incapable of taking a hint.
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Skeletons - 3 or 5: The very last encounter is fairly nasty while the "fourth of four" varies widely in lethality. My group lost 4/5 PCs in that encounter, while a group who has faced one of those before could lose none.
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Crown - 2-3: I'm having to dial up the difficulty in several places, but I haven't seen yet how the end boss will turn out. I don't anticipate much trouble.</p>Curse of the Crimson Throne:
Edge - 2: Nice slow start, nothing to be too worried about
Seven Days - 4: Specifically, the final encounter area is very nasty
Escape - 2 or 4: Depends entirely on whether the PCs feel the need to kill absolutely everybody, and whether they take the many hints about the true nature of their enemies. Also much nastier if you upconvert to PRPG stats.
Ashes - 1: I can't think of a single ugly encounter, unless your players are utterly incapable of taking a hint....evilvolus2011-05-25T18:24:03ZRe: Forums: Local Play: Seattle Pathfinder Society GatheringAsadel ibn Hussam (alias of evilvolus)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2igqy&page=2?Seattle-Pathfinder-Society-Gathering#912008-10-28T19:00:55Z2008-08-22T23:41:55Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Zoomackulas Eichendar wrote:</div><blockquote> Characters look good and the party seems well rounded so far, might need a arcane person though. Some ranged attacks will help out a lot also. I played my ranger and he did really well from far away but I think it was my new pathfinder dice which rocked!! ;-) </blockquote><p>Well, there was a fellow around here a bit ago named Chendl, I believe he said he was an archer. But he wandered off somewhere muttering something about becoming a wizard. No idea what that was all about.
<p>I must say, I'm fond of shooting folks in the face before they've had the chance to get their wits about them...</p>
<p>/pats the crossbow at his hip.</p>Zoomackulas Eichendar wrote:Characters look good and the party seems well rounded so far, might need a arcane person though. Some ranged attacks will help out a lot also. I played my ranger and he did really well from far away but I think it was my new pathfinder dice which rocked!! ;-)
Well, there was a fellow around here a bit ago named Chendl, I believe he said he was an archer. But he wandered off somewhere muttering something about becoming a wizard. No idea what that was all about. I...Asadel ibn Hussam (alias of evilvolus)2008-08-22T23:41:55ZRe: Forums: Local Play: Seattle Pathfinder Society GatheringAsadel ibn Hussam (alias of evilvolus)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2igqy&page=2?Seattle-Pathfinder-Society-Gathering#892008-10-28T19:00:55Z2008-08-22T20:37:25Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Zoomackulas Eichendar wrote:</div><blockquote>Post your charaters here! Just make an alias under your pathfinder society number where it says register a new charater on the pathfinder society page!!! I think this will be used to track things in the future but I think they are still working on things at this time.</blockquote><p>Yeah, yeah. I'm here. Err, I mean...I live to serve. Or whatever.
<div class="messageboard-quotee">evilvolus wrote:</div><blockquote>Grr...I'd really like to take this kid to scimitar/kukri for flavor reasons, but the damnable scimitar isn't finessable. I hate having to pick between flavor and effectiveness.</blockquote><p>Zoomackulas Eichendar wrote:Post your charaters here! Just make an alias under your pathfinder society number where it says register a new charater on the pathfinder society page!!! I think this will be used to track things in the future but I think they are still working on things at this time.
Yeah, yeah. I'm here. Err, I mean...I live to serve. Or whatever. evilvolus wrote:Grr...I'd really like to take this kid to scimitar/kukri for flavor reasons, but the damnable scimitar isn't...Asadel ibn Hussam (alias of evilvolus)2008-08-22T20:37:25ZRe: Forums: Local Play: Seattle Pathfinder Society GatheringAsadel ibn Hussam (alias of evilvolus)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2igqy&page=2?Seattle-Pathfinder-Society-Gathering#792008-10-28T19:00:55Z2008-08-21T00:34:35Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Owen Anderson wrote:</div><blockquote>Vile oppressors!</blockquote><p>Pfah. We have no interest in oppressing anyone. We simply feel it is our duty to provide an excellent product at a comfortable price, and with us around to do that, it's quite unnecessary for anyone to bother trying to compete. One might even say it's quite rude of them.Owen Anderson wrote:Vile oppressors!
Pfah. We have no interest in oppressing anyone. We simply feel it is our duty to provide an excellent product at a comfortable price, and with us around to do that, it's quite unnecessary for anyone to bother trying to compete. One might even say it's quite rude of them.Asadel ibn Hussam (alias of evilvolus)2008-08-21T00:34:35ZRe: Forums: Local Play: Seattle Pathfinder Society GatheringAsadel ibn Hussam (alias of evilvolus)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2igqy&page=2?Seattle-Pathfinder-Society-Gathering#772008-10-28T19:00:55Z2008-08-20T23:54:28Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">thelesuit wrote:</div><blockquote><p> So far we look like a party of mostly Qadirans!! Which I find most auspicious.</p>
<p>CJ
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—Parald Dassem </blockquote><p>Well, two Qadirians, an Ossiran and two unlabeled folks. But one has to wonder whether Meegon knows what he's signing up for, since he claims to be second level which is impossible if he's never played either of these two adventures.thelesuit wrote:So far we look like a party of mostly Qadirans!! Which I find most auspicious.
CJ
--Parald Dassem
Well, two Qadirians, an Ossiran and two unlabeled folks. But one has to wonder whether Meegon knows what he's signing up for, since he claims to be second level which is impossible if he's never played either of these two adventures.Asadel ibn Hussam (alias of evilvolus)2008-08-20T23:54:28ZRe: Forums: Local Play: Seattle Pathfinder Society GatheringAsadel ibn Hussam (alias of evilvolus)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2igqy&page=2?Seattle-Pathfinder-Society-Gathering#752008-10-28T19:00:55Z2008-08-20T21:35:24Z<p>All signed up and mustered, now I've just got to find time to build a character ;)</p>
<p>Zoom, thanks so much for volunteering to DM this! Would you like us to post character here ahead of time, email you, or what?</p>All signed up and mustered, now I've just got to find time to build a character ;)
Zoom, thanks so much for volunteering to DM this! Would you like us to post character here ahead of time, email you, or what?Asadel ibn Hussam (alias of evilvolus)2008-08-20T21:35:24Z