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So i was reading complete warrior when i came across the spellsword prc. Obviously a more combat oriented version of eldritch knight, i was wondering if anyone would use it over the Ek. Another way of presenting it is, what builds (if any), would convince you to try the spellsword vs Ek.

So when i started my recent campaign with a twist on point buy to see if i could help mad classes. First i set a hard roof and floor cap at 18 and 8 respectively(before racials are added in). Dumping a score to eight only grants a single point, but every score takes only a single point to raise at every increment. So far our party includes a melee druid a, rogue, and a monk. They used 20 point buy and no dumpstats(after racials). So far they have dealing with cr appropriate situations just fine without any implications that it is too easy. I do plan on introducing some less ability dependent classes into the fold to see how it goes for them. Any see any problems coming in the future?

I do mean open discussion, if you love it feel free to state why. That being said, I personally feel kinda meh about that paizo Assassin (and only slightly less so about the 3.5 version, though the magic felt stapled on). Number one on my list is removing the evil only BS. Assassin's don't always mean ruthlessly killing the family man for a pocket full of coins. My favorite example of non-evil Assassins is how the league of Assassins started out in the Wanted comic book universe. anything anyone else want to see differently?

this has been brought up on several occasions. So lets use the fighter to improve these other classes. weapon training is huge to both, not too mention full BAB and d10 hitdice. Any other thoughts on this.

This ones for fun folks. Here are the rules, you may use ANY content from pathfinder AND 3.5. For example a monk/magus with the kungfu genius feat(it changes the ac bonus to int). Lets go crazy folks.

For those who haven't read it here is the link for my monk remake doc. For the thread discussing it here is that link as well.
Anyway, on to business. I am looking to build a charisma based monk archetype(an idea rainzax had) and had the following ideas so far.
1.charisma to ac, and either to hit or hitpoints
2.focused on being "flashy", and replacing several of the classes spell-like abilities for things like daylight and some-such.
3.alternate ki abilities to support social abilities.
4.replacing stunning fist with dazzling display, but have it go off whenever the monk successfully hits with 2 attacks of his flurry of blows.
I would very much like some help, as I have never really designed an archetype before.

So last night, before I went to sleep I had a thought. What if you allowed half your BAB to be added to damage, but you had max hitdice every level? honestly this just a curiosity question.

Introduction

alterations

new 2nd level ability
monastic teachings-a monk adds half his level to all wisdom based checks.

admittedly pretty different, mentioned this before on the new monk thread, so I thought "hey why not post it". let me know what you think.

I have been considering special abilities awarded to to dhampirs turned by the vampire who created them. The lazy part of me wants to just slap on the advanced template and call it good, but frankly I want more. Ideas I've had include constant deathwatch/detect undead, the ability to "adopt" spawn from other vampires, and even to see and experience through their spawn. thoughts, suggestions?
Edit: oh god, I kinda flooded the homebrew boards. whoops

I have heard the opinion, and pretty much agree, that witches make more sense thematically to cast on wisdom. So thinking on this I wondered what the repercussions would be. Obviously higher Will saves, better perception, and monk dip synergy would all be benefits. In return they would lose...focusing on skill stuff (points, knowledge skills, etc). My question is this, is it worth changing the witch to wisdom, aka do the benefits mechanically far outweigh the idea thematically?

I just had yet another realization about the androids, and that is, being of humanoid type means they can be raised as undead. Now in my upcoming zombie/undead apocalypse campaign I really wanna a couple different variations at my players. Ideas include Terminator style skeletons, zombies with circuitry hang out of their wounds, and white noise looking ghosts. I was wondering what other ideas people might have.

So in an upcoming game i am going to try something new. In this game I am detaching xp from leveling and instead want to use it instead as an alternate currency system. Thoughts so far have been extra feats, ability score boosts (limit to 20 maximum), and possibly bonus hero points (not sure if I am using these yet). I am looking for a good way to scale this as well as other possible rewards, possibly on an individual class basis.

as the title suggests, i am looking for advice on how to run a custom campaign online. I have ever been in one before and are looking for instruction. as a player i would like advice on that too. Thank you.

So I am going to try this again using a better subject line. In a previous thread I tried to start a place for people to post their racial feats that catered to the more deprived races of the ARG. It ended up being walls of posts of feat ideas I had, with just a few other posts. I also would like to take a moment to thank those people for their feedback. So after some time has passed I have consolidated my feats into a google doc and ask for public opinion. I am convinced that some of these feats are overpowered, while others underpowered. Feats
Would love to get more feedback. Thank you

I once again come back to androids, though this time the issue is more thematic than mechanical. the issue is this, how does an artificial race access eldritch magic through bloodlines? obviously there is many ways this could be handled, and i think it would be fun to have multiple people post their ideas here.

Constructed (Ex) For the purposes

of effects targeting creatures by
type (such as a ranger’s favored
enemy and bane weapons),
androids count as both
humanoids and constructs.
Androids gain a +4 racial
bonus on all saving throws
against mind-affecting
effects, paralysis, poison,
and stun effects, are
not subject to fatigue
or exhaustion, and are
immune to disease and
sleep effects. Androids can never gain morale bonuses, and
are immune to fear effects and all emotion-based effects.

so as i read it if you were a barbarian you only get the -2 to AC and Rage Powers but no other drawbacks, worth it?

in a debate in another thread it came to my attention that perfect self automatically disqualifies you for racial feats do to your type being changed to outsider. now i know how rarely a character reaches level twenty, but this still bugs the heck outta me.

After being brought up in the Half-construct/undead thread, i decided to design some pretty plain racial traits that grant the types in question. to be honest i kinda wonder why these weren't just racial traits in the first place.
Cybernetic Implants (7RP)
you count as half-construct for all effects related to race, and gain the typical racial abilities as one.

Touched With Death (5RP)
you count as half-undead for all effects related to race, and gain the typical racial abilities as one.

It's brought up by several posters that they have made racial feats the more deprived races out there (I am looking at you suli). I am in the process of putting together a freakshow campaign and wanted to produce a a line of feats for the really rare races. However it occurred to me that I could probably reach out out to people who have actually, you know , used their feats and have a real idea about balance in the game. Note I will post some custom feats myself later myself but want to open the floor to more experienced homebrewers.

for a while now i have been wanting to do this. i definitely think that less common races need some love in the archetype department, and obviously reusing current racial archetypes accomplishes this for many of them. for example, the stonelord paladin for dwarves happens to fit oreads like a glove.

now it might be necessary to further fluff the actual abilities of an archetype to fit certain races. one that comes to mind is the kinslayer dhampir archetype, which can be used for tieflings by changing any references to undead instead to outsiders with the evil subtype. you could even go as far as to say that "detect evil outsider" works as detect undead but for outsiders, if clarification is necessary.

i will be back with more ideas but i would have other people other people give this concept a try from their own perspectives. Together We are Superior

i know that some of you would love to argue that this isn't unbalanced, but if you want to do that please use another thread. with that being said let me state the reason i don't readily accept this property.
allows wis for attack rolls
allows wis for damage rolls
usable on anyweapon
all for the low price of +1 weapon property
i was hoping to see different takes on how to balance this to pathfinder power level using agile as a comparison. my first thought was to make it a +3 cost but community brainstorming leads toward more productive solutions.

its a two person party with 25 point buy starting at level 5, alot of advice is needed. i do want the dude to have some pretty decent support abilities. also for added info the other guy is doing a fighter, thats using the duelist prestige archetype posted on the boards a while ago. thank you very much.

the question is of course does this work?

young plus advanced equals +8 dex, +4mentals, size reduction CR0
i suggested on a monk thread the following build
garuda born aasimar monk
+10 dex, +6 wis, +4int/chr, throw in weapon finesse and AoMF agile weapon properties and you got a mega untouchable death machine. obviously these builds aren't serious but i would like to see what other people would make with this template. dont forget size reduction though.

Azlanti (regular)
Type
Humanoid (human) 0 RP
Size
Medium 0 RP
Base Speed
Normal 0 RP
Ability Score Modifiers
flexible str, dex 2 RP
Languages
linguist 1 RP
Racial
Feat and Skill Racial Traits
Flexible bonus feat 4 RP
Skilled 4 RP
advanced charisma 4 RP
advanced constitution 4RP
advanced intelligence 4RP
advanced wisdom 4RP
Total 27 RP

title says it all. i think there are plenty of spells added that would work just fine so lets work together and make the list complete, for example i think that paragon surge from arg should be allowed, probably 9th level required.

i was working when this idea popped in my head so it hasn't been tested yet. in lieu of favored class characters instead get a racial feat every three levels of a favored class of their choice. i am really guessing as to what an appropriate amount of levels should be and if it should really only apply to one class. Btw i am calling this rule paragon classing.

just sorta popped in my head but what if you gave up tower shield proficiency but could choose racial feats in addition to normal combat feats. i've taken to calling it the paragon fighter.

i love the feel of it and want to know if it is alright for pathfinder as is, or if someone adapted it.

does this seem too easy to abuse?
oshleh rp10, 7, 8, 7, 3, 0
aberration (-3)
low-light vision (0)
medium (0)
normal speed (0)
weakness (+2con, +2int, -4chr) durable and smart but abrasive (+1)
standard array (0)
defensive training lesser, +4 dodge ac from humanoid humans (-1)
defensive training greater, +2 dodge (-4)
hardy (-3)
languages oshleh,common bonus languages include elven, dwarven, orcish
5 ½ foot tall
hair none
eyes white
driven out by fellow humans after exposure to a strange meteor the people of the city of Osh have found a way to thrive. Cursed with lumpy large deformed heads and bizarre knees that have the ability to bend in any direction, these former humans have a long time before they accepted anywhere.

i dont want to make too powerful a starter race for 10 points

this should be interesting, ill start with geomancer from complete divine. i just changed the wording of the spellcasting portion (got rid of spontaneous heal spells) and changed its ley lines to be picked from the rangers favored terrains. this is definately an easy one

i am wipping out my old fiend folio for this and wondered if there was an updated system for this

is there a list of these anywhere i know of those involving scout (rouge)/ plus most things. also the mysterious pistolero need not be mentioned as i dont give a crap about raw and that is clearly a misprint
(edit) i also wanted to know any that would be particularly fun to play.

has there been any adaptation to pathfinder for this? i have used the 3.5 versions with some success but it didnt feel very satisfying, i have been kicking around some bloodline tie in ideas but i was wondering if anyone else explored this.

i was thinking of building a fighter archetype that exchanges bonus feats and maybe some weapon training in order to slowly receive all four sets of elemental bloodline powers, with the exception of 20th so sort of like gaining elditch heritage as a bonus feat but four sets of it, also want to change 20th level ability to reflect this janni inspired class, the question is this a good idea or would i just be wasting my free time?

someone may have already asked but is there any out there? i recall a shadow dancer one in linnorm kings but i am curious about others (especially dragon disciple would love to see that go with other bloodlines).

someone in my group is really pushing for taking the feat multiple times, most of the droup says no because it isnt written as such however i am not sure this is game breaking in and of itself, by the way this isnt campaign related i just got ultimate magic and shared with the group.

i think this is what i want to do for next campaign but i've never played a magus before (or any spellcasters, usually fighter or barbarian) any build ideas to help me out. level 4 25 point build, custom races allowed.

asper
humanoid (dhampir) 10, 9, 10, 9, 7, 6, 5, 3, 0
medium
normal speed
standard language -1
change ability scores to weakness +1
low-light vision-1
lightbringer -2
hatred undead -1
disrupt undead 1d6 1/day -1
detect undead 2/day -2
greater defensive training -3
ability score, dex+2, +2con, -4wis

descendants of Pharasma worshiping vampire hunters whose goddess gifted with magically enhanced vials of vampire blood to better improve themselves for fighting their sworn foe. Though their order has long since been abolished in an official capacity their descendants are forever altered by their ancestors “enhancements”.
Research into their history may reveal the rather disturbing truth however, that their abilities came not from Pharasma as their leaders claimed but from a dark devil deal. Any who come to possess this information may come to be the target of the remnants of the original order.
P.S. The order is called breakers of the fang

should they get to choose a large battered firearm? i wanna say yes it would make sense with powerful build roleplaying wise but i dont see specific language regarding it,did i miss something?

my buddy has his mind set on a urban barbarian/ gunlslinger multiclass (sort of describes it like punisher set up) he asked me to help because i am the most familiar to pathfinder out of my group but i personally never played either class. the character is a asimar 5th level. any input on this would help alot.

where do i find this weapon enhancement, and can it apply to composite longbows? if so does the damage bonus stack?

when i passed around the custom race playtest the first thing a couple people asked is "are there more options available?". I told them this was just a playtest but then started wondering. is there any new custom race material that people have come up with, would love to hear it and share with the group. thank you very much.

a buddy just messaged me and asked if i could get with him build this thing. the thing is other than amateur gunslinger feat at first level i dont know to take this thing. please help, this could be potentially awesome if it works

i want to use a player character version of the half golem template from 3E but i feel it is much to overpowered (especially clay, immunity to slashing and piercing yeesh) of course this would use the new half-construct type but i was wondering where i could make player character changes with destroying the "feel" of the template?

this a race i built using the ten point system of the advanced race playtest

oshleh custom race rp 10, 11, 12, 8, 7, 4,0
humanoid (human) (0)
medium (0)
slow speed (+1)
weakness (+2con, +2int, -4chr) strong and smart but abrasive (+1)
xenophobic language (0)
advanced intelligence, int +4 (-4)
defensive training lesser, +4 dodge ac from humanoid humans (-1)
defensive training greater, +2 dodge (-3)
advanced dexterity, dex +4 (-4)
languages oshleh, bonus languages include common, elven, dwarven, orcish
finished racial modifiers +4 dex, +2con, +6 int, -4chr
5 ½ foot tall
hair none
eyes white
driven out by fellow humans after exposure to a strange meteor the people of the town of osh have found a way to thrive. Cursed with lumpy large deformed heads and bizarre knees that located lower than normal on the leg with the ability to bend in any direction these humans may have a long time before their accepted, and when that happens their incredible intelligence will be a great boon to mankind.

any advice on race maybe even good multiclass options?

if i allowed for mixed races so long as there is no level adjustment
exactly what other restrictions should i allow?