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Chapter 1 seems to be well shy of the 1000 XP needed to be level 2 by the time Chapter 2 starts. My party only missed out on the 10 XP for an exceptional 3VP feast at Ataiosiphon's and ended the chapter at 700/1000. I expect the funeral games should be giving XP. 60 XP per event (retroactively) was enough for my party, but 80 per would give more leeway for missing any more of the optional awards
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warriorpriest1990 wrote: I feel the intro is a little weak in bringing players together That is also something we struggled with on my end. The Player's Guide backgrounds do a decent job of getting the characters to Iblydos in general, but it is missing some guidance on getting them to justify their presence in Bailax and especially to Terpsime's dining room. It would have been very useful for the players to have a better idea of where their characters will need to be (under Terpsime's hospitality) so that everyone is on the same page about where their backstories need to end and where the adventure begins. By way of contrast if the design team is reading this, Season of Ghosts handled this problem expertly: The Player's Guide was very clear to the players that the adventure would start as they woke up on the morning after the Season of Ghost ritual, and that they were expected to have volunteered to take part, whether by the campaign-specific backgrounds or by a reason all their own.
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On a more serious note, I really really like those paragraphs on Lore skills, detailing which will come up a lot, which will come up a handful of times and which once or twice. I hope that stays in the Players' Guides in some form or other for future instalments
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Good news! There has been an update to the module that extended the mapping to Monster Core creatures. It doesn't add any new art, so creatures that don't have an equivalent in the Bestiaries (or creatures like Archons or the Purple/Cave Worm that have changed significantly) aren't mapped, but it should at least help with switching to Monster Core versions of monsters Spoiler: Of course, it just had to come out not long after I finished prepping my next adventure, doesn't it...
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William Vaughn wrote:
If there are eventually more skymetal dragons, and a noqual dragon has antimagic properties like this here chonky boi has anti-physical properties, I'm rather interested in seeing how a fight against a pair of those would play out. I'd love to see the party have to split their attention with the martials dealing with the noqual dragon while the casters fend off the adamantine boy
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It looks more like nondetection. The traditions, casting time, range, targets and duration are all the same and the text only has very minor wording changes
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As written, the Elemental instinct ability prevents impulses from being used when not raging. While this could be intentional in the case of a Barbarian multiclassing into Kineticist, but it also means a Kineticist multiclassing into Barbarian and taking the Instinct Ability feat can't use any of their impulses out of rage anymore. The ability probably should have a "While you are raging" clause like Raging Intimidation does. (I suspect the issue arises due to the Rage trait pulling double duty as both the "You must be raging to use this" trait and the "You can concentrate on this even while raging" trait)
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Nice. I like that there's going to be more Apex items. In my Age of Ashes game, I had to homebrew something up because none of the existing ones seemed appropriate for the party's sorcerer. More options means a better chance of getting something that feels right
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You might be interested in looking up Knights of Everflame. The first few sessions are right after the party joins the Knights of Lastwall; while there are many volunteers, there are also plenty of conscripts with varying level of scruples. In fact, one of the players actually is a Spirit Barbarian Dwarf, so your idea not only fits the lore, there's an example of it happening in a Paizo-affiliated production.
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TomParker wrote: My party has finally reached this book. I'm wondering if anyone's party resurrected Deadmouth? The AP says his memories might return. Did anyone cook up a good story for the tale of how he ended up a Darklands ghast? It's supposed to be so tragic that "he's gone to great lengths to forget it." I'm planning on making him one of Ilgreth's apprentices. Both Droskar's Crag and Saggorak are in Five Kings Mountains, so I picture he might have been on an errand for his master when Mengkare shattered the orb of gold dragonkind. He was spared the brunt of the quaking and erupting, but as a result got lost in the Darklands where he eventually gets ghasted and captured by gugs (the adventure mentions he might be someone whose disappearance baffles historians, so I assume 700-ish years is survivable for a ghast; the gugs can keep him over generations if they don't live that long). This ties him nicely, if only tangentially, into Mengkare's backstory.
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Dubious Scholar wrote: Actually, since a hand cannon is thematically changing damage type by what you load into it, I don't think Modular is appropriate. There's no reason loading ammo for a different damage type for my next shot should take an additional action. One might make the argument that the action to change damage types represents you switching around your pouches of ammo so that the chosen type is easily available. That said, I wouldn't be opposed to a "Modular reload" trait that lets you switch damage types like modular does, but when you reload instead of as a separate action
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James Jacobs wrote:
Ooh, that sounds quite interesting. ut my vote down for the Golarion Post AP
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As a general rule, the person who closes into melee range might get the first hit in, but the one who got charged gets the second, third and fourth. Every action you spend moving to a melee opponent is at least one action they don't need to spend on their turn. My rule of thumb (that granted I came up with because of this thread and hasn't been battle-tested yet) would be to make sure you have 1.5 to 2 actions' worth of useful things to do once you've finished moving. So Stride-Stride-Flurry would be a good use of a turn because Flurry is 2 actions in one. Or Stride-Stride-Strike in the case of a Fighter who considers threatening an AoO to count for that half-action in my rule of thumb. So then the question becomes what should you do if you don't have the movement to close into melee and still be useful. In that case, you still have options. Obviously getting into stance is probably your number one priority, but after that, you can still move to a more advantageous (one that might reduce your risk of getting flanked, or that blocks the path to your casters) or enticing (close enough that the enemy will want to close into melee) location. You could get yourself a crossbow, sling or cantrip to punish an enemy that's not getting into range (It doesn't need to kill them, just do enough that they move in to stop you getting free damage). And if you have nothing else to do, readying a Strike on the first enemy that gets into range can be a better use of two actions than Stride-Strike, since you would still get the first hit but also make the enemy spend the movement. And lastly, as others have pointed out, this only works if you can get the long-legs to cooperate. If they charge in right off the bat, then yeah there's little you can do to make the enemy come to you instead of you to it. However, if you can convince them to force the enemy to make the first move, they can still use their superior speed to outflank the enemy once they're closer in, while getting support from their slower companion
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James Jacobs wrote: The scene you're referring to where Iomedae "wrecks your face" is an error in our writing, not in her personality. We mistakingly leaned into the idea that PCs would be antagonistic toward her, and should have focused instead on how she can help you. It's the one thing I wish I could go back in time and fix about the storyline of that adventure path, because it's flat out wrong in how it presents Iomedae. I've said this before on these boards, but our lack of a process by getting story errata out means that this clarification and admission of error gets lost soon after each time I point it out or admit to it. Are you keeping (or have you kept, if that part of the development is already over) an eye on how Owlcat are handling that scene to try and update how this encounter plays out?
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Mark Moreland wrote: That's an interesting suggestion. I hadn't even considered that. I know we don't have existing art of that situation, so it's harder to simply slot into the schedule, but I'll keep it in mind. What I hear you say is that whichever book you guys are currently preparing art orders for will inexplicably have a picture of Valeros and Kyra fighting at a checkpoint.
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A lot is being said about the trait's protection for BBEGs, but it's equally as important that it protects the PCs as well Cult of Cinders: With their +20 to hit, the dragon pillars can very easily critically hit the level 7-ish PCs (making the save from the beam's effect one degree worse). On the Violet pillar especially, the incapacitation trait turns a Stunned 7 into Stunned 3. Stunned 3 is painful, but manageable. Stunned 7 can easily turn into a TPK
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Vardoc Bloodstone wrote:
It seems more likely that the omission happened the other way around: Eleanor wrote an encounter with 3 creatures, wrote the blurb that said the pillar could only control 3 creatures, then when the devs chose to add a fourth creature, they didn't think to update the beam effect (very likely since it's in a completely different section of the adventure). Changing the composition of an encounter is something that happens often in development. Changing the text of a trinket ability, especially one designed to make sure the PCs don't get permanently mind-controlled by accident, less so
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Aratorin wrote:
And if you Earn Income, there's a chance that you fail and get a negligible amount of money. Besides, there are three factors that may make Crafting an item a better choice than Earning the Income to buy it. First, the DC is determined by the item you are crafting, so there is a possibility of an easier check with a greater chance of a critical success. Second, the progress you make is determined by your level, not the item's nor the settlement. Third, you only make one check, so there is no risk of failing further. So all in all, if you are level 4, in a level 3 settlement and want a level 2 item, crafting this item will have you make an easier check and "earn" you more money per day than Earn Income, and once you've gotten one success, there's no chance of not making that money. It's not always the right choice, but Crafting is not useless
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Aratorin wrote:
I have in my Age of Ashes game a medic with Continual Recovery. I know from experience how much healing 6 straight Treat Wounds checks puts out (especially considering how trivial it is to have Assurance high enough for a guaranteed 2d8 healing per check). You say no one would ever choose to continue treating wounds for an hour and I'll counter by asking why anyone would take Continual Recovery if Treat Wounds already does it baseline (as per your interpretation).
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Aratorin wrote:
The exception proves the rule (In the original sense of the phrase). By only mentioning that 0th-level items are included in the book, that implies that formulae of other levels are not in the book. Aratorin wrote:
But they're not granted directly by a feature. If that were the case, the Uncommon trait on spells would do literally nothing, since spellcasters are "granted" new spells by a feature. Unconventional Weaponry explicitly grants access to an uncommon weapon. Feats with focus spells directly tell you you gain the spell in question. "Go pick from that list" is not directly giving you an uncommon feature. Aratorin wrote:
Alright, two lines copied over from the playtest. It's relevant because it's evidence that the description is not a deliberate choice in the final rule, just a missed spot in editing. --- I'll add one more piece of evidence to the fact that it is not intended: the Alchemist Kit includes a Basic Crafter's Kit. If it was intended to include all the Equipment chapter's formulae, the alchemist would not make such a big fuss of counting how many formulae they have in their Formula Book feature (since the equipment chapter contains all level 1 alchemical items in the CRB)
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Let's see.
Evidence that it is:
At this point, you're at best in Ambiguous Rules territory: if one version of an ambiguous rule seems too good to be true, it probably is
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Archpaladin Zousha wrote: Come to think if it, that IS an aspect of goblin culture Torag would smile on: their knack for taking junk and making it into useful stuff. Sure, it isn't pretty to look at, but they're just starting down that path, so it's kinda like your kindergartner's macaroni art that you put up on the fridge to encourage them to improve. Torag does seem like the kind of god who'd regard entire peoples in a paternalistic kind of way... Well, now I want to make a goblin cleric of Torag who crafts all kinds of things because he likes the pats on the heads he gets when the other clerics take his macaroni-drawing contraptions and put them to their beautifully crafted suits of armour
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Temperans wrote: Scry and Fry should be a possible tactic. Because, even us mudane IRL use scry and fry techniques via satellites, drones, cameras, missiles, snipers, etc. I don't think this is as strong a defence of your point as you think it is. The average civilian doesn't have easy access to these (except cameras and some drones). The average specialised civilian (aka an adventurer) might, if they put in the effort. That sounds suspiciously like Uncommon, or even Rare for satellites and missiles, rarity.
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The monk in my AoA campaign has spent just 3 skill increases in Medicine and just a few skill feats into Battle Medicine, Continual Recovery and Ward Medic. The only other healing is from the bard with non-signature Soothe and a rapidly obsoleting level 1 Heal wand. With only that, I know from experience he can bring the party from the brink of death to full health in under an hour. Battle Medicine is good enough for emergencies, but in general is best left unused (so that in case of emergencies it's still available); making sure combat ends quickly so Exploration healing can be used If that's good enough for a primary healer, it can definitely work for a backup
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Darksol the Painbringer wrote:
You can infer from a quick mention in Part 4 that said BBEG shouldn't have left yet. Now, the book should probably have been a lot clearer about that and made sure to note that if the PCs visit their home before Part 3, they're present to keep the trap disabled and point the PCs towards the accomplice instead, but it's pretty clear it was never intended for the PCs to encounter this trap at level 1
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Ascalaphus wrote:
A +2 circumstance bonus to damage was how the Playtest handled increasing the size of a d12 die. That part of the die size increase rule didn't make it to the release
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Mechagamera wrote:
Well, that was the justification for the tribe featured in We be Heroes? Their chieftain went blind from staring too much at Sarenrae's magnificent glory
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Paul Watson wrote:
And therein lies at least part of the misunderstanding. It's not a final consonant, since there's a letter after it. In fact, the purpose of most silent Es is to turn a silent final consonant into a spoken non-final consonant. Buut, we're drifting further and further away from coups de grâce
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James Jacobs wrote: Looking at my river analogy; it doesn't matter if buckets are being taken away by people with plots, or if "buckets" are just vanishing on their own without any mind directing them; the inevitable end result is the same. Considering that, what does Pharasma think of Galt's soul-trapping Final Blades?
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Ice Titan wrote:
Stealth has the Conceal an Object action (which is distinct from Palm an Object). That sounds pretty applicable as a replacement for Sleight of Hand
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Well, that'll teach me to fall behind. Here is a big update https://github.com/alexbrault/Pathfinder2EOversights As for the things I didn't include: S. J. Digriz wrote: I was surprised that they didn't fix the bulk of manacles. Manacles, which one imagines as heavy clanky chains of iron with thick iron restraints at either end, have no bulk! This means that your ranger/bounty hunter can carry 100 sets of manacles on their belt without any increase to their encumbrance! This is a power level comment which I don't include in the repo because of their subjectiveness. Quandary wrote:
I'm having trouble finding a phrasing for this that doesn't boil down to "Is Continual Recovery really supposed to allow continual recovery?" If you can find one, I don't mind including this Quandary wrote:
As above, this is more subjective than what I include in the repo. Strill wrote: The Fighter class feat Flinging Shove lets you use Aggressive Block to shove 10 feet on a success, or 20 feet on a critical success. That makes no sense, since Aggressive Block doesn't involve a roll. It just automatically succeeds. Does that mean it just automatically shoves 10 feet? As was mentioned, Flinging Shove also applies to Brutish Shove Strill wrote: The Fighter feat Aggressive Block is triggered mostly on enemy turns, but lasts until the start of YOUR turn. This means it has no effect if your turn is next. Is this intended, or should it last until the start of the OPPONENT's turn? This is also subjective (and was the same in the playtest as pointed out by Rysky) Alsolomir wrote: 5. The Wizard dedication archetype "Arcane school spell" does not give access to "Hand of the Apprentice" since universal wizard is not a school of magic. Was this intended? Hand of the Apprentice is gained through a feat. ZomB wrote:
This is one more subjective power level thing. Ezekieru wrote:
Ironically, after so many entries omitted for being power-level opinions, I'm including this one despite this because it seems very likely that they forgot about the Reach when writing the errata. If it had been printed in its post-errata form, It would have been subject to the same subjective clause as the others. Speaking of which, even though I'm not including the subjective power-level stuff, feel free to keep posting them in here; I'm sure they're very useful for Lyz and the rest of the design team
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Key terms sidebar wrote: Finisher: Finishers are spectacular finishing moves that use your panache. You can use a finisher only if you have panache, and you lose your panache immediately after performing a finisher. Once you use a finisher, you can’t use any actions that have the attack trait for the rest of your turn. Impaling Finish wrote:
Are there things that don't have the attack trait but use the multiple attack penalty, or is this just some leftover artifact from a time when finisher didn't have to finish your attacks?
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I made a quick pass over the errata document to strike out the things that were addressed. There may still be some in the FAQ section, since I wasn't in a great position to look at the thread for what they referred to. We may also want a clearer indication of what's been addressed and what hasn't; I'll experiment with some when I have time. As usual, the repository is available here: https://github.com/alexbrault/Pathfinder2EOversights/
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I built maps for the jungle encounters that don't have a map on page 32 (I'm using the Swamp for A11, the ruined temple for A16, and the two clearings for A5 and A6). The grids are set at 70 pixels so they should fit perfectly in Roll20
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Well, I shouldn't procrastinate on updating the repo should I? https://github.com/alexbrault/Pathfinder2EOversights Lyz Liddell wrote: Thanks again for all your help on this! We’re working up a formal errata post to come out before the end of the month, so you’ll see final calls on almost everything here soon! Hurray! Formal Errata post incoming!
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Vaktaeru wrote: Is the github still being updated? The last commit is over a month old now. Obviously people get busy and things happen, but this can be continued elsewhere if OP no longer has the bandwidth to keep up with the flood of attention (and derailing) this thread has received. I have a fork that I keep updated (currently as of a few posts ago; I don't have time to update it today, but I should catch up some time this weekend). I don't know if VestOfHolding wants to keep maintaining the repository; I'd be happy to make a huge pull request if he is, or to take over the project if not.
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Everything up to Fuzzy-Wuzzy's post has been updated. https://github.com/alexbrault/Pathfinder2EOversights citricking wrote:
I don't really want to get into power-level debates in the list. I'd rather stick to confusing passages and objective or obvious mistakes over more subjective things such as whether a weapon is one die size too large or electric arc's power relative to other cantrips. tivadar27 wrote:
Nothing in Silent spell says it removes an action (contrast with the Sorcerer's Quickened Casting), neither does the Spell Components section of the rules say the actions and components must correlate 1:1. Unless someone else chimes in that the text is unclear, I'll leave that out. Fuzzy-Wuzzy wrote: So if you must dispute, please take it to another thread. Unless, of course, you are yourself a dev. Yes, that. Please.
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CrystalSeas wrote:
If the automatic Youtube captions are good enough, Youtube has a transcript of the captions (automatic or otherwise). On desktop, they're in the ellipsis menu next to the Share and Save to playlist buttons
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I've forked the repository to split the corrections by book and updated the list up to Syri's post above (linked in the ReadMe for reference if someone posts while I'm typing this post). You can find it here: https://github.com/alexbrault/Pathfinder2EOversights There's a few posts upthread that I didn't include, justified below. Aenigma wrote: Then I'm really not sure why does the magic sense feat exist in the first place. The arcane sense feat simply allow me to cast detect magic at will. I can even heighten it to 4th level. So can I assume that magic sense is a trap feat that should be avoided at all cost? As has been mentioned upthread, both feats have different tradeoffs, benefits and downsides. Ravingdork wrote: Some places in the Bestiary lists equipment in the singular whereas others list it in the plural. I don't understand what you're referring to. Could you provide an example or two of each? |
