FAQs of Life

When does the Mythic rules playtest starts?

Yawar

Thanks for the FAQ blog!

Man, I remember debating some of these, and my record's lookin' good!

The manipulating an object FAQ refers to your natural reach (aka: 5' for most medium humanoids) or total reach (aka: 10' for medium humanoid with a long spear)?

There goes my dreams of using Great Cleave and some fancy movement feat to launch myself at a castle door using a line of peasants.

By the way, is this stuff going into the FAQ, or will I need to link this blog post when I reference this to people?

Thanks very much Jason.
I'm very happy the team is working on this kind of thing, Your help is very much appreciated.

Post playtests, people demand FAQ.

Post FAQ, people demand playtests.

Post anything, people demand Monks.

Sheesh... ;)

Woo birthday FAQs.

Well they anounced the playtest for late september and I was kinda expecting it in the desing tuesday.

Yawar

Thank you thankyou!

now can you TWF with an Unarmed strike?

Well they anounced the playtest for late september and I was kinda expecting it in the desing tuesday.

Yawar

As long as they didn't specify what year, they're in the clear.

I heard Paizo has a Contract Devil go over each and every promise before it's released to the public.

Maybe Lisa stores it in a carbonite chamber.

Lets not derail this with any playtest talk. The document is coming along and we hope to start the playtest soon.

Jason Bulmahn
Lead Designer
Paizo Publishing

OK so a large creature with reach can stick it's arms in your threatened area, grab your KO buddy from right in front of you and no AoO is drawn :/ I'd take complexity over letting Reach be any more powerful than it already is. :rolleyes:

But this ruling IS within precedence for pathfinder :uhg:

I'm thrilled that you are doing these FAQ blog posts but can I make a fairly simple technical web geek request - can you add a TAG to every FAQ blog post, perhaps something simple like FAQ

Then it would be fairly easy to put up a page that was just a tag page of every blog post tagged FAQ....

(It would be fantastic if you could go back into the archives of past blog posts and retroactively tag those that were FAQ's with this tag as well...)

Keep these FAQ Blogs coming Jason I think their great.

Now all we need is a Golarion FAQ from the developers that occurs once a week on a different day!

OK so a large creature with reach can stick it's arms in your threatened area, grab your KO buddy from right in front of you and no AoO is drawn :/ I'd take complexity over letting Reach be any more powerful than it already is. :rolleyes:

But this ruling IS within precedence for pathfinder :uhg:

Reach should be dangerous and is accounted for in the CR system.

Thank you thankyou!

now can you TWF with an Unarmed strike?

Maybe it'll get covered next week.

Keep these FAQ Blogs coming Jason I think their great.

Now all we need is a Golarion FAQ from the developers that occurs once a week on a different day!

There's always the "Ask James Anything" thread for any Golarion questions you might have.

Post playtests, people demand FAQ.

Post FAQ, people demand playtests.

Post anything, people demand Monks.

Sheesh... ;)

Before enlightenment, chop wood carry water.

OK so a large creature with reach can stick it's arms in your threatened area, grab your KO buddy from right in front of you and no AoO is drawn :/ I'd take complexity over letting Reach be any more powerful than it already is. :rolleyes:

But this ruling IS within precedence for pathfinder :uhg:

It's a game. Compromises have to be made. A simple "While I disagree with your response, thank you for taking the time to answer" would have been sufficient.

That being said: Jason, I agree with your response, thank you for taking time to answer!

Great FAQs No need for suggesting no AoO for reaching into a threatened square is unrealistic since it goes with the theory behind no AoO with cover. In one case a portion is blocked by cover so opportunity is limited, in the other opportunity is limited as most of the target is simply out of reach.

I [heart] FAQs.

I'm thrilled that you are doing these FAQ blog posts but can I make a fairly simple technical web geek request - can you add a TAG to every FAQ blog post, perhaps something simple like FAQ

Then it would be fairly easy to put up a page that was just a tag page of every blog post tagged FAQ....

(It would be fantastic if you could go back into the archives of past blog posts and retroactively tag those that were FAQ's with this tag as well...)

Yes, this is something we can definitely do. Officially on Da List.

Keep these FAQ Blogs coming Jason I think their great.

Now all we need is a Golarion FAQ from the developers that occurs once a week on a different day!

We kinda need all of them to be developing products right now.

I'm not sure I needed any of this information but I'm glad I have it in case it comes up later.

There are some other FAQ's that I hope get attention too.

Still at 100%

Feels good, doesn't it?

I think it's funny the first person to bring up Monks, is the one who made a thread complaining about Monk fans derailing threads.

GG Gorbacz you makeup bag you. :P

Feels good, doesn't it?

It does. :)

But this ruling IS within precedence for pathfinder :uhg:

I'm okay with no AoO, but the no readied attack thing really bugs me.

If there's a snake with 10-foot reach and you're ready to hit that snake at the first available opportunity, you should be able to attempt an attack if the snake's face comes into direct physical contact with your body, no feat required. We're not talking about a stray limb provoking AoO's here; we're talking about a creature that places its face in direct physical contact with an opponent who is specifically ready to stab it in the face.

I don't care what the rules for reach say, if I specifically ready myself to make a melee attack against a creature and that creature's face then comes into direct physical contact with me, that creature is in my reach.

I am genuinely pleased to see these FAQs answered. Thank you, Paizo staff.

:-)

Frankthedm wrote:

But this ruling IS within precedence for pathfinder :uhg:

I'm okay with no AoO, but the no readied attack thing really bugs me.

If there's a snake with 10-foot reach and you're ready to hit that snake at the first available opportunity, you should be able to attempt an attack if the snake's face comes into direct physical contact with your body, no feat required. We're not talking about a stray limb provoking AoO's here; we're talking about a creature that places its face in direct physical contact with an opponent who is specifically ready to stab it in the face.

I don't care what the rules for reach say, if I specifically ready myself to make a melee attack against a creature and that creature's face then comes into direct physical contact with me, that creature is in my reach.

You must threaten the square the creature occupies, not the space it can reach into. By the rules a creature occupies the only a certain portion of the map. That is why reach is awesome. The rules also don't care if it is a face or an arm. To the book it is just another attack.

PS:It is one of those cases where a GM must decide to follow the rules or real life logic.

I am happy to see a return of regular FAQs. THANK YOU!!

On the reach thing: Until the feat came out to grant people with a readied action the ability to attack a creature with reach I had just figured PCs could do it anyhow. Basically: in the games I GM everyone effectively has that ability. Without charging a feat.

- Gauss

Does a simple action like kicking something away in a random direction also provoke AoOs?

Does that count as "manipulating an object" even though it requires neither the use of your hands nor any great value of strength/dexterity/coordination?

I mean, you can attack Orc A, turn 180 and attack Orc B without provoking AoO from any of them, so why is it that kicking an inanimate object provokes AoO?

Thank you again to the Paizo designers for taking time out of your busy schedules to post 2 FAQ blogs in a relatively short amount of time. Much love!

Does a simple action like kicking something away in a random direction also provoke AoOs?

Does that count as "manipulating an object" ...

I would say it's pretty much a Bullrush of an unattended object, which doesn't provoke from adjacent enemies... the GM may want to 'adjudicate' the DC/distance kicked, but it's fundamentally a Bullrush in terms of the rules: you could flavor your Bullrushing of an Orc as 'kicking him thru the doorway'.

I'm still wondering about Grapple's movement restriction:
it's worded differently than the 'anchored' aspect of Entangled, so does it just mean the Grappled character can't move themself, i.e. use their own movement modes, or IS it meant to block all movement per se, i.e. even a Titan Knockbacking one of two grappling Halflings, or Gravity happening when the bridge under two grapplers is disentigrated, simply are impossible no matter what if the target(s) are Grappling. It feels like ideally there needs to be a DC for some external forces (bullrushing) but saying no external force may move them EVER is just wierd. Even Immovable Rods offer a Strength check (although that seems like it should be a CMB/Bullrush check under PRPG) and have a max weight resisted.

for 'gravity happening' scenarios, there is the case where both grapplers are unsupported against gravity: which seems like they should automatically fall/move, and the case where one is and one isn't: which seems like a CMB check or encumbrance application is valid. being in a moving river type of situation is also similar.

Rycaut wrote:

I'm thrilled that you are doing these FAQ blog posts but can I make a fairly simple technical web geek request - can you add a TAG to every FAQ blog post, perhaps something simple like FAQ

Then it would be fairly easy to put up a page that was just a tag page of every blog post tagged FAQ....

(It would be fantastic if you could go back into the archives of past blog posts and retroactively tag those that were FAQ's with this tag as well...)

Yes, this is something we can definitely do. Officially on Da List.

do that and we will love you even more ;-)

"If you use Two-Weapon Fighting on your turn to attack with two weapons, do you also take that penalty on attacks of opportunity made before the start of your next turn? How long do the penalties last?

No, the penalties end as soon as you have completed the full-attack action that allowed you to attack with both weapons. Any attacks of opportunity you make are at your normal attack bonus. Generally speaking, penalties on attacks made during your turn do not carry over to attacks of opportunity unless they specifically state otherwise (such as the penalty from using Power Attack)."

This mean that is is possible to attack with a double weapon using Two weapon fighting and then make the Attacks of Opportunity using it as a 2 handed weapon?

yup.
on a RAW basis, you are using the '2 handed weapon' double weapon with 2 hands while 2WF'ing with it,
so all relevant bonuses should still apply, although 'off-hand attacks' (the extra attacks from 2WF)
explicitly say 'only' 1/2STR dmg, which over-rides 2H bonus, forcing 'only' 1/2 STR dmg,
but the main-hand attack is still from a (non-light, in fact 2handed) weapon you are wielding with 2 hands.

i don't think that's the RAI, and stuff like Mobile/2WF Fighter seem a bit unbalanced if you go by that RAW, though.

This mean that is is possible to attack with a double weapon using Two weapon fighting and then make the Attacks of Opportunity using it as a 2 handed weapon?

Not only is it possible to do so, it it the ONLY way to make AoOs with a double weapon (of your size).

I think that there is a feat that allows you to make two AoOs per provocation with two-weapon fighting.

Any chance these can be added to the FAQs?

I do believe the one exception to this rule is a Dwarf who also has the 'Cleave Through' feat, as that allows them to, as a free action when making a cleave maneuver, to take a five foot step if the initial hit, hits. Now then, if you've greater cleaving finish, and that feat also, would it be possible to 'chain' that, since Greater Cleaving finish creates a new cleave target if one of your targets falls, as in, you get to start a new single attack cleave.

OK, so a 5 foot step during a cleave is out, what about Step up, Following Step, or Step up and Strike feats as they are all immediate actions?