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1 round of use will generally get you the box test and a chance at a knowledge check for any enemies there. It is an incredibly useful item. It was an exceptional purchase for ** spoiler omitted **Gloves of recon 2000gp. 10rnds of whats behind door number 1.And behind door number 2, and 3, and 4, and ...
Well, it depends on how you entered the location. When you ran it for us, it was a car collision in slow-motion =)
cracked Vibrant Purple Prism Ioun stone
I thought you couldn't buy broken items?
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Cracked =/= broken. I know of a number of "broken" items that aren't really broken, and can be purchased. The rule for no buying a broken weapon is meant to prevent people from buying discount items then fixing them. You can't fix a cracked or flawed ioun stone back into a full ioun stone though, they're just poorly crafted, and as a result don't have as strong of an effect, or possible downsides.
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Spend 1 Prestiege to get a Doctor's Outfit, and use 400g to buy a Traveling Garden.
With those two, you gain +3 Saves against Disease.
Another nice combination of goods are Vial of Efficacious Medicine with a Blood-Boiling Pill. This will give you +4 Initiative (Alchemical) for 8 hours. 2 Prestige to purchase the vial, then 75g for each pill. To those who can use this spell, combine it with a Wand of Heightened Awareness. I you prepare correctly, this can result in a total of +8 Initiative overall.
And while you have the vial, top it up with some Clear Ear. Now you have a total of +6 to Perception and Knowledge skills.
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I am tempted to add blood boiling pills to my ifrit gunslinger / swashbuckler.
But at some point the initiative bonus is just silly.
At +16?
Without improved init, or the reactive trait, or any items that boost my initiative, I should hit +14 at level 9. Then go up +1 more every 2 levels. I will also start combat with a wakazashi and double pistol drawn, and always act in the surprise round, and (possibly) get a move and a standard in the surprise round.
Should be fun.
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Clear Ear is a "black market" substance, not an alchemical remedy, so it doesn't work with the Vial.
Pills in the vial is a bit iffy but might be legal. It reads a lot like the vial assumes liquids.
Insert pill, add water. I was thinking it as like an Alka-Seltzer or something.
For something new, how about a Vigil Cap?
You get 3 options:
- +2 to Reactionary Sight-based Perception checks.
- 75% to not have to make a Save on Gaze Attacks. Downside is every enemy gets Partial Concealment (10% miss chance). If you are a blaster caster, why the need to see them when you can blow the whole area up. =)
- +2 Saves against Blind/Dazzle. Plus, Shades.
A Marlinspike can help out as well. For 8 Silver Pieces, it can reduce a Knotted Rope climb check to 3 instead of 5. People in Full Plate can thank you for every little bit of help on their climb checks.
Smoke Cover can help out against enemies attacking from a higher altitude than your party. And if a creature tries to swoop in for the kill, they have to make a save or become sickened (nauseated if they were already sickened)
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Yeah, I know, I know. Here's to hoping it gets reprinted in a hardcover like Ultimate Equipment 2: Electric Boogaloo.
Strangely, Herolab has it listed as the much more realistically priced 9K
Edit, and the alchemy manual has the construction cost as 4500, so it does need to be banned/fixed.
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Boots of the Earth render wands of CLW obsolete. Heck, they render all out of combat healing obsolete. Drop 5,000 gold and pretty much noone has to buy any healing resources again.
Only if you have the book. Also..
These effects end if the wearer moves or is moved, knocked prone, or rendered unconscious.
Hmm, wont help unless you are conscious, able to stand on your own (so no broken leg) and you have to stand still to use them. Nice item, but I can see groups not wanting to stand around for a while.
And useless in combat since you will have to move about. Even a 5 foot step stops the healing.
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I am compelled to jump in here...
You can't "Take 20 to search entire rooms" - as there is no such skill as search. You CAN Take 20 on a Perception check - which takes 1 minute (20 times as long as one Perception check, which is a move action).
Doing so will net you what you can perceive from your current location (ie: most likely NOT such things as the contents of a book on the shelf, the items in a drawer, what's written on the back of the note on the table 10 feet away....).
A search is NOT a Perception check - to treat it as such (which many authors and judges and even players do) leads to many mis-understands and some bad feelings.while a good search of something (a room or even my pocket) might take one or more...
Ever search your house for something you misplaced? I have to do it periodically. You're moving around. You shift things about, picking them up and putting them down. Can't find the object? Check next room. Still can't find the object? Dang it, you give up for now. Then later you randomly spot the object you were searching for... in plain sight. In an area where you'd searched earlier.
How does this happen in-game? Failed perception checks while searching. Then you get asked by the GM for a d20 roll, (s)he adds your perception modifier, and tells you "you found the object you were looking for".
If the party doesn't even mention searching the body or room, tough. But if they do and the scenario/module gives a perception DC... That's how difficult it is to find the object(s) when searching. Almost had the group I ran through We Be Goblins Too miss out on half the treasure, cause they almost left without searching the BBEG's body or room. And that's where some of the best stuff was.
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@Stephen Ross: you forgot the Swarmbane Clasp as a contended for neck slot.everyone has their personal favorites... and you should do what fits your specific character concept and design.
for me, my answer to being in a swarm is {Monty Python voice} runaway! runaway! lol... it's effective and costs nothing and allows you to pull out some alchemists fire or vermin repellent at a minimum.
Objectively the Swarmbane Clasp is a situational fix with a reasonable price (similar to a Golembane Scarab). It's nice that you are immune to the swarms distraction (but not poison or damage) which is usually an easy to moderately difficult save. The buff is tactically questionable as most will have to move adjacent to the swarm (range weapons are better here). Contrast 3000 gp to 4 flasks of alchemist fire attacking as a range touch doing 8d6 of >area< fire damage for 80gp. IMO this is something you pull out of your handy haversack and swap out your neck slot item when the situation calls for it.
A swarmbane clasp is incredibly valuable past about level five, where most mid-to-high level swarms tend to laugh off alchemists fire. I know of a couple of season five scenarios where if your only swarm protection is alc. fire you'll be spending a lot more than 3K on a body retrieval, raise, and restos. The clasp is a bargain, especially when 3K is a drop in the bucket at mid to high levels.
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A golembane scarab is most useful for an unarmed or natural attack build, and then primarily when keeping their amulet of mighty fists doesn't help them power through the DR. If someone uses a weapon, an adamantine weapon is only about 500 gold more than the scarab, and it accomplishes much the same thing. Sure, you lose the ability to detect golems, but if you aren't wearing the scarab until you are attacked by a golem, that ability loses some of its usefulness. Also, PFS does tricky things like make you really assume you're going to fight a golem, then have the creatures not actually be golems.
A swarmbane clasp is more useful, because while the melee character could throw an alchemist fire every round, and collectively the group could as well, the Melee character might do 100+ points of damage on their own in a single round full attacking the swarm. Plus, I've been in several scenarios at high and low tiers where characters missed with their alchemist's fires and only did 1 point of splash. Swarms tend to have good touch ACs. There's at least 1 scenario with a swarm with a touch AC in the 20s and close to 40 hitpoints in the low tier of a mid-level scenario. Of course, to be fair, that's well before you'd likely have the money to spend on a swarmbane clasp anyway. I think they give you a few items that can help, but if you go into that scenario without an area effect blaster, it can be extremely deadly. It's no cakewalk at the higher tier, either.
I'd say buy the swarmbane clasp for a melee character. You can power attack your way through a golem if you have to.
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A swarmbane clasp is more useful, because while the melee character could throw an alchemist fire every round, and collectively the group could as well, the Melee character might do 100+ points of damage on their own in a single round full attacking the swarm. Plus, I've been in several scenarios at high and low tiers where characters missed with their alchemist's fires and only did 1 point of splash. Swarms tend to have good touch ACs. There's at least 1 scenario with a swarm with a touch AC in the 20s and close to 40 hitpoints in the low tier of a mid-level scenario. Of course, to be fair, that's well before you'd likely have the money to spend on a swarmbane clasp anyway. I think they give you a few items that can help, but if you go into that scenario without an area effect blaster, it can be extremely deadly. It's no cakewalk at the higher tier, either.
I'd say buy the swarmbane clasp for a melee character. You can power attack your way through a golem if you have to.
This right here.
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I usually buy adamantine weapons so I'm not that worried about the golem. But the swarmbane clasp's big virtue is indeed "unchaining" the martial PCs.
Swarms tend to provoke a lot of AoOs from moving through your square, and then you're in a position to full-attack. Meanwhile, at higher levels they start to carry fairly vicious rider effects on their swarm damage.
Swarms' touch AC tends to be 17 and up. Getting in that alchemist's fire hit isn't a sure thing for half the party. But if the barbarian can full-attack the swarm it'll be dead in 1-2 rounds.
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There's only 3 swarms that need the clasp: tick(automatic Con damage), leech(too much hp) and hellwasp(resist fire, intelligent), but oh boy do they need it.
I'd say vescavor too but the GM thread for that scenario told me that you can easily outrun them and who am I to argue against internet people.
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I would like to mention that
Durable Arrows {alchemical weapon} mundane $1 or magical(+1...) $1+ are available via the Alchemy Manual pg20. Currently PFS legal (Additional Resources). Note that magical arrows are only magical the first time they are used, but they may be re-enchanted (upgraded).
THIS!!!
Every one of my characters has a single durable adamantine arrow. For 61gp you have an improvised weapon that ignores hardness.My archers carry a quiver of them for 1220gp. At the end of combat just walk around and collect them all up again.
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don't forget the mighty tangleshot arrow (20 GP)
After playing a ranged hunter up to level 11, I can testify that they are incredibly, however since they allow archers to sacrifice one one of their many attacks to inflict a rather nasty condition on the enemy (with little to no chance for them to remove it), they seem a bit uderpriced/lack a real downside like a reduced duration.
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Venture-Lieutenant, Netherlands—Leiden
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Also, empowered cyberplasms.Both times I ran that scenario the party Diplomanced it. tongues is a hell of a drug.
I was hoping to get the chance to try that during my second playthrough, but it didn't work out that way. Instead I used a longspear and a swarmbane clasp to "investigate" its HP.
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don't forget the mighty tangleshot arrow (20 GP)After playing a ranged hunter up to level 11, I can testify that they are incredibly, however since they allow archers to sacrifice one one of their many attacks to inflict a rather nasty condition on the enemy (with little to no chance for them to remove it), they seem a bit uderpriced/lack a real downside like a reduced duration.
Well they get really silly in that RAW an imp with a tangleshot arrow can entangle an ogre...
besides that, the biggest advantage they have over tanglefoot bags is weight.
Tanglefoot bag is 25 GP the DC is 15, and weighs 4 lbs.
Tangleshot arrow is 20 GO, the dc is 1o, and weigh 'normal' ammo weight.
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Venture-Captain, Germany—Bavaria
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don't forget the mighty tangleshot arrow (20 GP)After playing a ranged hunter up to level 11, I can testify that they are incredibly, however since they allow archers to sacrifice one one of their many attacks to inflict a rather nasty condition on the enemy (with little to no chance for them to remove it), they seem a bit uderpriced/lack a real downside like a reduced duration.Well they get really silly in that RAW an imp with a tangleshot arrow can entangle an ogre...
besides that, the biggest advantage they have over tanglefoot bags is weight.
Tanglefoot bag is 25 GP the DC is 15, and weighs 4 lbs.
Tangleshot arrow is 20 GO, the dc is 1o, and weigh 'normal' ammo weight.
You can also shoot several arrows in the same round without quick draw, attack at a far greater range, the attack roll benefits from any enhancement bonus on your weapon, as well as weapon focus and similar effects.
