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I have noticed recently people rarely use perception properly.
We are currently involved in a dungeon crawl in one of our games.We opened a door onto a battle.
We should have heard that through the door.
DC to hear is -10 (sound of battle) +2 (closed door) +5 (Distance) +5 (Maybe we are distracted) for a total DC of 2.Literally the next door we opened we opened onto a group of enemies that smelled so bad we had to make fort saves or be neasueated.
Dc for smelling garbage is again -10. So again a total dc of +2.The gm ignored this in both instances
Through a door is +5, not +2. If the door was 1 ft. Thick+ It is a +10.
Still unfair, but it helps to even it up a bit.Unused Rule: Seeing by candlelight gives all DC’s involving sight +5 (terrible conditions)
Hey where does the raw say it can't?Very true, in fact by RAW, you can stand against a 1 foot thick wall and perceive what's on the other side by taking a DC10 check.
Brave Sir Robin walks up to the wall and rests his head against it. "The barracks are beyond this wall he whispers"
"How can you tell?" asks Marvello the Magnificient
"There are bunk beds pressed against the wall"
I didn’t think about it this way. Now my +39 perception character can see through 3 ft. of wall
Not being visible and being invisible are very different....is a rule I never see used even though it is RAW.
The game is a lot easier if you merge invisibility, blindness, darkness, impenetrable smoke/fog and total cover into a single concept.
The 24h 'cooldown' retry for Diplomacy.
That and the fact that it takes one minute of constant use.
I ignore the FAQ. Obviously home game, not PFS.Back to OT. One rule I don't use is the rule about multiple sneak attacks with spells. If someone manages to have sneak attack, greater invisibility, and scorching ray, they can have sneak attack on all three rays.Are you saying that you ignore the FAQ that says that someone can't get multiple sneak attacks off if they fire mulitple rays?
Or are you unaware of it and were saying that people don't make use of the illegal option?
So, you homerule that an FAQ doesn’t exist so that you can houserule that they can’t do it?
Speaking of the age categories, does anybody actually use the randomized height and weight by gender and race?
I find that sometimes people just want to play someone who is especially tall, thin, thick, or whatever and so I've always been at tables where you just right down whatever.
So I've totally played a 6'11" 110 lb male Aasimar or a 4'6" 280 lb female dwarf.
Yes. Our group always sticks by the guidelines on the table. If you want to randomly write it down though just remember to keep characters from slipping size categories.
Check out the darkness, light, and vision rules that include this tidbit:
Characters with low-light vision (elves, gnomes, and half-elves) can see objects twice as far away as the given radius. Double the effective radius of bright light, normal light, and dim light for such characters.linkified
Interesting. I will have to remember this.
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Anything?
uh looked up the thread and turns out I undershot the number it was 2929 str score. which was 1.27E+147 Solar Masses so the number has 147 0's 127,000... in solar masses.
I gotta check this.
2900=290 or
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hey zeuz ADM you put some work into that.
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I agree with you completely Adjoint.
The RAI is certainly not what is written.
The reason I see that what I posited as RAW can easily be read that way, is because of the last quote.
It spells out the effect on the character which implies the others do as well.
All characters can clearly see objects in an area of bright light.
A character can somewhat see objects in an area of dim light.The funny thing is that this is still ambiguos.
Can they see the object clearly when the object is in the area of bright/dim light, or when the character is in that area.Basically the "In an area of --- light" can refer to location of the subject or object of the sentence, IE the Character, or what they are looking at.
The light rules are weird, and hard, and confusing
No they aren't. People are weird, argumentative and just plain damn contrary.
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No they aren't. People are weird, argumentative and just plain damn contrary.
I have a rule - it is arguably vaguely written - one way of reading it matches my expectations of how the world works, another way of reading it is counter intuitive and breaks things. Which one do you think is the correct way to read that rule?
The one that matches how the world works is usually the right one, because more often than not that was the inspiration for the rules in the first place (or at least how the rules for the specific actions were written to fit within the larger structure of the rules).
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The calculator says that with 2929 strength you can carry
3 957 286 423 569 672 544 968 040 336 314 355 040 562 101 585 619 389 438 625 008 897 486 355 601 704 509 874 725 062 416 979 888 719 833 562 742 816 258 229 429 621 840 548 908 019 359 480 738 481 630 290 686 665 708 354 379 186 176 lbs.
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That is of course in the order of 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0000 times the mass of the universe (estimates vary).
However, assuming that carrying capacity is based on weight not mass, that's a force under 1g gravity. As the centre of mass of such a large object will necessarily be a long way away (in the order of 1e36 miles if normal matter), its apparent weight under the gravity of an earth-sized planet will be 1e72 times less. Which means that you can actually carry 1e72 times as much. Which is then 1e24 times further away, and 1e48 times lighter. And so on.
Which is perhaps all better considered as lifting Golarion against the gravity of a large object sufficient to create that weight, though before you get that far, the whole lot has obviously collapsed into a black hole and your calculations are all messed up.
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The calculator says that with 2929 strength you can carry
3 957 286 423 569 672 544 968 040 336 314 355 040 562 101 585 619 389 438 625 008 897 486 355 601 704 509 874 725 062 416 979 888 719 833 562 742 816 258 229 429 621 840 548 908 019 359 480 738 481 630 290 686 665 708 354 379 186 176 lbs.
Yeah we converted it to planetary masses to try and reduce the silliness but it was still a silly number.
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Rule I never see used even though it's RAW: Spontaneous caster casting-times increased when using Metamagic.
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Rule I never see used even though it's RAW: Spontaneous caster casting-times increased when using Metamagic.
That was one of the major reasons the mantra "Monte Cook Hates Sorcerers" took off the way it did.
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I actually did some calculations regarding coin weight. While there is quite a bit of rounding to get to 1 pound/50 coins (the actual figure is closer to .8 of a pound/50 coins), the coins are actually of a realistic size while still being heavy (metals are dense. Just be glad we didn't go with Tungsten way back when instead of gold).That coins are actually pretty damn heavy. 50 coins per pound, so 2000gp to enchant your sword weighs 40 lbs! IRL 40lbs of gold = $816,640. I did have one GM that would occasionally audit weights on all that characters, chart days of food remaining, and make us find water every day or two.
By the way, IRL its 291.667 penny weights (one copper) per pound, so pathfinder coins are HUGE, like 1/3 of an once.
While you are technically correct (the best kind of correct), I professionally deal in precious metals, so I kind of know what I'm talking about. Coins can be (and have been) made of all kinds of sizes. For my calculations I'm assuming that 1 penny = 1 copper piece. Off the top of my head, I don't know who uses 7.25 grams per coin, but I don't doubt that someone in earth's history has.
In the Middle Ages, a British penny's weight was literally, as well as monetarily, 1⁄20 of an ounce and 1⁄240 of a pound of sterling silver (approximately 1.46 grams). After 1527, the English pennyweight was the Troy pennyweight.
A (modern)pennyweight (abbreviated dwt, from denarius weight) is a unit of mass that is equal to 24 grains, 1⁄20 of a troy ounce, 1⁄240 of a troy pound, approximately 0.054857 avoirdupois ounce and exactly 1.55517384 grams. There are 291.667 pennyweights per modern pound.
You could assume that copper, electrum, gold, and platinum coins should weigh different amounts, but that's not how the rules are written. As I said before, coins that weigh 1/3 of a once each are pretty big. In modern terms, its 180 pennies per pound or 80 quarters.
If you are going with 1/10 oz. and a standard gold piece, it would come out to 160 per pound.
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Did you hear they redefined the kilogram so all SI units don't need specific objects?
That is really exciting. Doesn't effect my work, but it is cool.
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"If you are going with 1/10 oz. and a standard gold piece, it would come out to 160 per pound."
Actually I was incorrect about this, due to the troy to standard conversion. 1/10 troy oz. (a standard size) would equal 145 per standard pound.
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That is of course in the order of 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0000 times the mass of the universe (estimates vary).
However, assuming that carrying capacity is based on weight not mass, that's a force under 1g gravity. As the centre of mass of such a large object will necessarily be a long way away (in the order of 1e36 miles if normal matter), its apparent weight under the gravity of an earth-sized planet will be 1e72 times less. Which means that you can actually carry 1e72 times as much. Which is then 1e24 times further away, and 1e48 times lighter. And so on.
Which is perhaps all better considered as lifting Golarion against the gravity of a large object sufficient to create that weight, though before you get that far, the whole lot has obviously collapsed into a black hole and your calculations are all messed up.
Well, I mean, this guy had to come from somewhere. My current headcanon is that it was a bunch of low-grade mythic rubes using Aid Another and lend path (to grant Mule's Strength*) to literally "do you even lift, bro?"-bootstrap their way out of the black hole which changed them into a powerful non-mythic Tychilarius (much like the mythic lamia becomes a lamia matriarch) - kind of a raw deal in some regards, but existence is existence, right?
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Removing armor takes time (from 5 rounds to 1d4+1 minutes, depending on the situation).
I have never seen a situation when it would matter, though I can imagine one (for example if someone was about to drown, and was willing to drop his armor in order to get a chance to get to the surface).
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There is a form of medium armor called an armored coat that can be donned or doffed as a move action. That item could be very useful for a multi-classed arcane spellcaster who wants to avoid arcane spell failure while casting but have armor protection the rest of the time.
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There is a form of medium armor called an armored coat that can be donned or doffed as a move action. That item could be very useful for a multi-classed arcane spellcaster who wants to avoid arcane spell failure while casting but have armor protection the rest of the time.
My Bloodrager has one, they take it off when they have to do some sneaking real quick.
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Lighting penalties.
Its like the one weakness of humans and yet how often is it ignored because its too annoying to keep track of the lighting penalties.
20' out from the area of normal light provided by a source is dim light - many targets in this region are conveniently ignored their 20% miss chance simply because the human source is within the normal light area.
40' from the edge of normal light source is darkness.
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Rule I never see used even though it's RAW: Spontaneous caster casting-times increased when using Metamagic.That was one of the major reasons the mantra "Monte Cook Hates Sorcerers" took off the way it did.
I decided, a while back, to just house-rule that out, partially because of that, partially because nobody ever remembered so I figured I might as well.
Turns out, it was beyond 'nobody remembered'. The general response was 'wait, that's a rule?'
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My Bloodrager has one, they take it off when they have to do some sneaking real quick.There is a form of medium armor called an armored coat that can be donned or doffed as a move action. That item could be very useful for a multi-classed arcane spellcaster who wants to avoid arcane spell failure while casting but have armor protection the rest of the time.
My bloodrager has one, too, because she wears a Robe of Arcane Heritage beneath it (houseruled that the robe works for bloodragers). Furthermore, she has the Wings of Air feat, which allows her to fly while wearing light armor or no armor. She would remove her armored coat and carry it for overland flight. Later, she made mithral armor that counts as light for movement, but that armor was another armored coat.
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* Rangers need a divine focus, and druids use a spell-component pouch.
* The Ioun stones in that Oort Cloud orbiting your head have AC24, 10 hitpoints and 5 hardness. Any reasonably competent mid-level opponent could theoretically destroy most or all of them in a single full-attack.
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* The Ioun stones in that Oort Cloud orbiting your head have AC24, 10 hitpoints and 5 hardness. Any reasonably competent mid-level opponent could theoretically destroy most or all of them in a single full-attack.
That's why you give them to your ioun wyrd tattoo'd familiar to hold. ;)
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Or implant them.
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Or use a wayfinder for one. The aesthetic of ioun stones orbiting you isn't for most characters anyway.
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Removing armor takes time (from 5 rounds to 1d4+1 minutes, depending on the situation).
I have never seen a situation when it would matter, though I can imagine one (for example if someone was about to drown, and was willing to drop his armor in order to get a chance to get to the surface).
Yeah, this happened to a PC in my RotRL game just a couple of months ago: got stuck in quicksand and with the major armor check penalty of full plate armor, couldn't make the Swim check to escape before drowning. It's not easy to drown in Pathfinder, and it's the first time I've ever seen it happen. Felt really bad for the player, but the life of an adventurer isn't an easy one!
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Or use a wayfinder for one. The aesthetic of ioun stones orbiting you isn't for most characters anyway.
My stinky dwarf disguised all of his as horseflies.
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Yeah, this happened to a PC in my RotRL game just a couple of months ago: got stuck in quicksand and with the major armor check penalty of full plate armor, couldn't make the Swim check to escape before drowning. It's not easy to drown in Pathfinder, and it's the first time I've ever seen it happen. Felt really bad for the player, but the life of an adventurer isn't an easy one!Removing armor takes time (from 5 rounds to 1d4+1 minutes, depending on the situation).
I have never seen a situation when it would matter, though I can imagine one (for example if someone was about to drown, and was willing to drop his armor in order to get a chance to get to the surface).
Gotta keep Guardian Armor handy for situations like this.
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Or use a wayfinder for one. The aesthetic of ioun stones orbiting you isn't for most characters anyway.
I just got an idea to build Zenyatta from Overwatch.
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Or use a wayfinder for one. The aesthetic of ioun stones orbiting you isn't for most characters anyway.I just got an idea to build Zenyatta from Overwatch.
I actually was tasked with doing this once. I used Witch chassis (INT based, access to Fortune, Misfortune, (snow)ball throwing, and healing) with a Harbinger Archon familiar.
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I want to thank the OP for a clever thread idea that I've enjoyed reading.
To contribute, Eschew Materials only replaces the need for material components worth 1GP or less, not focuses. The sorcerer wants to cast Mage Armour? Best have a spell component pouch or piece of cured leather handy!
Most PCs have something leather carried on them...
Boots, belts, pouches, hats, weapon sheaths, armor, water skin, wine skin, skirt, training harness, bindings, restraints, sex toys...
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To contribute, Eschew Materials only replaces the need for material components worth 1GP or less, not focuses. The sorcerer wants to cast Mage Armour? Best have a spell component pouch or piece of cured leather handy!
This legitimately feels like an oversight since "hold on, let me get my piece of leather" seems to go against the Sorcerer Fluff.
Similarly, I've never seen Psychic Magic required to use Focus components that aren't expensive ones, involved in the spell's effect somehow, or aren't an Occultist's implement. So like the Psychic casting Mage Armor does not need leather, and the Occultist casting Mage Armor doesn't need anything except their conjuration implement. It seems that since the point of Psychic casting is that you avoid the chanting, handwaving, and "stuff that disappears" you shouldn't also need to be carrying around random bits and bobs to make your spells work.
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“Sensei, how did you develop your psychic powers to discover the True Strike spell? Mental focus honed to a sharp point? A calm emptiness that makes you one with your enemy?”
“Actually, the big breakthrough was whittling an archery target by accident while I was thinking on the problem.”
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I want to thank the OP for a clever thread idea that I've enjoyed reading.
To contribute, Eschew Materials only replaces the need for material components worth 1GP or less, not focuses. The sorcerer wants to cast Mage Armour? Best have a spell component pouch or piece of cured leather handy!
I hadn't noticed that Mage Armor needs a focus rather than a standard expendable material component. Time to update my house rule!
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I see casting time being done incorrectly on a regular basis:
Casting Time
Most spells have a casting time of 1 standard action. Others take 1 round or more, while a few require only a swift action.
A spell that takes 1 round to cast is a full-round action. It comes into effect just before the beginning of your turn in the round after you began casting the spell. You then act normally after the spell is completed.
A spell that takes 1 minute to cast comes into effect just before your turn 1 minute later (and for each of those 10 rounds, you are casting a spell as a full-round action, just as noted above for 1-round casting times). These actions must be consecutive and uninterrupted, or the spell automatically fails.
When you begin a spell that takes 1 round or longer to cast, you must continue the concentration from the current round to just before your turn in the next round (at least). If you lose concentration before the casting is complete, you lose the spell.
A spell with a casting time of 1 swift action doesn't count against your normal limit of one spell per round. However, you may cast such a spell only once per round. Casting a spell with a casting time of 1 swift action doesn't provoke attacks of opportunity.
You make all pertinent decisions about a spell (range, target, area, effect, version, and so forth) when the spell comes into effect.
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I see casting time being done incorrectly on a regular basis:
I'm curious what mistakes do you see people making?
(others have noted that many people playing Sorcerers - or actually most spontaneously cast spells- forget that if they apply metamagic feats the spell takes a full round if not already longer)
what other mistakes do you see people making?
(asking as a player and GM)
The difference between 1 round and a full round.
I also have to remind people often that spells that are cast as swift actions don't provoke.
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I see a lot of people get 1 round and full round action confused a lot.
Full round action completes on your turn.
1 round action completes before the start of your next turn. It makes it super easy to interrupt with any damage. You have to make a check against... 10 + damage taken I think. Which can approach really high values quite easily.
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I see a lot of people get 1 round and full round action confused a lot.
Full round action completes on your turn.
The confusion is understandable given that "full" means "one complete". Therefore, "full round" sounds more like a name for the period of time from the beginning of your turn to the beginning of your next turn than a name for a combined move and standard action. That makes me wish that Pathfinder had renamed "a full round action" to "an extended action" or "a combined action."
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I see a lot of people get 1 round and full round action confused a lot.
Full round action completes on your turn.
1 round action completes before the start of your next turn. It makes it super easy to interrupt with any damage. You have to make a check against... 10 + damage taken I think. Which can approach really high values quite easily.
I've been using the "take dmg before spell is completed" rules for a while now [Concentration check = 10 + points of dmg + spell level, I think], but this sub-topic discussion has me questioning whether I've been doing something wrong.
Can someone tell me if both of these scenarios are correct or just the 2nd example:
Battle A: Enemy archer [higher initiative] strikes my spell caster w/ an arrow before I complete my Magic Missile spell [standard action]; I need to make a Concentration check so as not to lose the spell, right?
Battle B: Enemy archer [higher initiative] strikes my spell caster w/ an arrow before I complete my Sleep spell [1 round casting]; I need to make a Concentration check so as not to lose the spell, right?
And now I can just admit, this is the 1st time I've realized Sleep takes an entire round to cast!
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Can someone tell me if both of these scenarios are correct or just the 2nd example:
Battle A: Enemy archer [higher initiative] strikes my spell caster w/ an arrow before I complete my Magic Missile spell [standard action]; I need to make a Concentration check so as not to lose the spell, right?
Battle B: Enemy archer [higher initiative] strikes my spell caster w/ an arrow before I complete my Sleep spell [1 round casting]; I need to make a Concentration check so as not to lose the spell, right?
The difference is, with the Magic Missile they can only interrupt you if they use a readied action to shoot you during spell casting.
With the Sleep spell, they could make an ordinary full-round archery attack during their turn, after you start casting the spell, and still interrupt your concentration.
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Although a melee combatant could take 2 swings to stop you. One with their readied action, and one with an AOO.Can someone tell me if both of these scenarios are correct or just the 2nd example:
Battle A: Enemy archer [higher initiative] strikes my spell caster w/ an arrow before I complete my Magic Missile spell [standard action]; I need to make a Concentration check so as not to lose the spell, right?
Battle B: Enemy archer [higher initiative] strikes my spell caster w/ an arrow before I complete my Sleep spell [1 round casting]; I need to make a Concentration check so as not to lose the spell, right?
The difference is, with the Magic Missile they can only interrupt you if they use a readied action to shoot you during spell casting.
With the Sleep spell, they could make an ordinary full-round archery attack during their turn, after you start casting the spell, and still interrupt your concentration.
And if it had a one round casting time instead they could get an AoO, a readied action, and a full attack action.
For example, they go just before the caster ready an action to interrupt spell casting. Caster begins casting, triggers readied action, triggers AoO, turn continues back around to melee which then takes a full attack action on the caster. The chances of successfully making all those checks is real real low. Like it should be.