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Berserker of the Society requires Barbarian level(s).
Bloodrager is not Barbarian.
Bloodragers without Barbarian level(s) therefore do not qualify to take Berserker of the Society, currently.

I'm not trying to win Pathfinder here.

I will welcome whatever end humanity receives with open arms, even unto the heat death of the universe, if it means an end to people saying this phrase and variations thereof.

A player may optimize for a variety of reasons, whether out of a desire to improve oneself, a desire to be a credit to his or her team, or just to survive combat so as to play their guy longer and that player may choose to optimize to any given degree. I would be utterly floored if it were ever in the interest of "winning" Pathfinder. To suggest that it is the reason a player optimizes is insulting in the extreme, as it belittles the time and effort spent in so doing.

Insisting someone is trying to win Pathfinder is akin to making a personal attack, which I really wish people would have figured out by now. It doesn't strengthen your position, it just reads as a weak attempt at painting your target jn a negative light.

So please stop doing that.

So we should ban power attack. After all, it's desired by virtually any character that swings a stick.

Lau Bannenberg wrote:

Who's going home with a pedantry award?

Well, Lau, I think that it would technically be an award for pedantry, not a pedantry award.

** spoiler omitted **

Technically, his full name (as presented in his user name) is Lau Bannenberg.

*Reads CBDunkerson's response*
*Reads responses to CBDunkerson*
*Thinks about potential responses*
Eh. They got this.
*Goes to build a Pokemon TCG deck*

The attempted attack made my GM feel awkward and it was ruled on the spot that a bird shouldn't be able to do that much damage. I accepted his ruling without argument, doing 1 or 2 damage with my peck, and continued the combat on foot, unable to reach any enemies with my unarmed strikes as they were all flying. I understand PFS is "RAW", but I don't like confronting GMs or causing uneasiness at tables, so I let my GM do his thing and talk to him about it before the next game, if I play the same character...

That isn't a ruling. That's willfully contravening rules to nerf a character because it doesn't fit the GM's perception of balance. It's exactly the kind of thing you're not supposed to do when GMing for PFS.

To be clear: your problem there is not with the ring, it is with a GM flagrantly violating the spirit of PFS: legal options should be legal at every table.

Ryzoken wrote:

Kyrand wrote:

Looks like the alternate racial isn't PFS legal (also doesn't allow abjuration, sadly)

We looking at the same thing? Overwhelming Magic from the Inner Sea Races splat that grants Spell Focus as a bonus feat in lieu of Weapon Training and Elven Magic?

Cause I'm looking at the AR and not seeing it specifically banned.

You are correct that I was looking at the wrong thing... Thought you meant the Illustrous Urbanite racial from Heroes of the Sheets.

Whew! I was worried for a second there.

"CL20 arcane locked door? I dispel it."

AM BARBARIAN IS LATE TO PARTY, THREAD DIE OVER MONTH AGO

That is not dead which doth eternal lie

Shield and mage armor cannot be cast when you suddenly need them.

They are most valuable when used to create magic items.

The duration of Mage Armor is measured in hours. It's not a spell you cast at the start of a fight, but at the start of the day. Most mages I've seen enjoy Mage Armor's benefits quite often; it may be one of the most cast spells in a given mage's career.

Shield is more difficult to leverage, until you quicken it or spell combat it. That said, my caster types just buy a +3 mithral buckler to obviate the need for it. My magi might use it, depending on circumstance.

So Mage Armor is most definitely not useless. You have a better case for Shield.

"Why does everyone we meet keep eyeing my bag of swords?"

"Because you have enough magical weapons to blow up a small kingdom."

Or start one, if Westeros is any indication.

Players: "So what are we about to fight? Do you have an image of it?"
Self(GM): "Yeah, let me dig it up. While I do, I can describe it... uh... are you aware of Catdog? Y'know, the cartoon? Cat on one end, dog on the other? This is Snakesnake."
Players: "Weird. What kind of knowledge skill would be appropriate for something like that?"
Self(GM): "Nickolodeon." -mic drop-

A long time ago, in a session far far away:

Player: "I'm going to scout ahead."
GM: "You spy some creatures ahead, look humanoid. You can try a knowledge religion check to know more." -roll- "Yeah, looks like ghouls."
Player: "I can probably sneak around them..."
Self: "You could, but you'd be running the risk of becoming Ghoul Scout Cookies."

Prior to that:

Player: "Ok, so we see a bunch of suits of armor that look a lot like those things we fought upstairs, but they're just standing there? I'm going to go check this door over here for traps. Also, is it locked?"
Table: -looks at scout with a fair degree of concern-
Self: "One does not simply walk into more doors..."

I try to deliver a solid stunner like the above at least once per session. I'm particularly proud of the first one.

Where does it say that you can't? You could be polymorphed into a frog and still be able to cast spells as a psychic caster.

This is pertinent to what I hope to be my very next character: an Int based Kitsune psychic that uses fox form to zip around and melt peoples' brains, hopefully using the relevant racial traits from Blood of the Beasties, provided they end up PFS legal.

When you cast a polymorph spell that changes you into a creature of the animal, dragon, elemental, magical beast, plant, or vermin type, all of your gear melds into your body. Items that provide constant bonuses and do not need to be activated continue to function while melded in this way (with the exception of armor and shield bonuses, which cease to function). Items that require activation cannot be used while you maintain that form. While in such a form, you cannot cast any spells that require material components (unless you have the Eschew Materials or Natural Spell feat), and can only cast spells with somatic or verbal components if the form you choose has the capability to make such movements or speak, such as a dragon.

Hence: psychic spell casting barring focus/costly material components

Ryzoken wrote:

When the scalpers are using bots to obtain units, normal customers have little choice but to shop brick and mortar.

Or wait until after the holidays when more stock is available.

That assumes Nintendo intends to continue production, which could be true. They may decide to instead make it a limited print run and move on to the Switch or a SNES classic limited print run.

Point is: there's nothing wrong with people lining up at stores to buy a product for themselves or a loved one. Hell, in my household it was tradition to go line up on Black Friday. A bonding exercise where we sat out in the cold and whined so that we could get Mom the free snow globes at Macy's or that new tv to replace our broken one.

I think taks is reacting to the creepy joke in the title, personally. :P

It was a jest made in poor taste, to be honest.

I have absolutely no interest in the adventures of:

CSI:
CHEESE PREVENTION UNIT.

What about Law and Order: Planar Victims Unit?

Even if your fighter is better at fighting than my class feature, my class feature is the superior choice because your fighter (and this has been true of every single fighter ever put in front of me over 15 years of playing D&D 3.x and Pathfinder) is in no way as useful as what could've replaced your fighter in your player slot. If I can have 75% of a fighter and a full caster or a 2/3 caster with 4-6 skill points per level versus your fighter, I would rather not take your fighter 99.9% of the time.

No skill points, no magic, no ability to interact with anything beyond "swing sword, survive the experience." Literally no better than a trained dog.

And the dog cuddles and plays fetch.

If I need a speedbump I'll buy a trained combat animal or roll a druid. That way my "fighter" has pounce and multiple swings that might actually hit. Oh, and if they eat it, the raise spells are cheaper.

And occasionally Mr Bitey likes to snuggle. Fringe benefit.

Emergency force sphere from Cheliax Empire of Devils is very nice, provided you can escape your own box after casting. Life Bubble also very nice for everything you don't want to inhale.

Lemartes wrote:

This shirt is made of light, gossamer-thin fabric embroidered with arrangements of winged feet.

Once per day as a swift action, the wearer can take an additional move action to move and then immediately end his turn, losing any unspent actions.

A character must wear this shirt continuously for 24 hours before he can activate this ability.

Have they nerfed the similar-to-the-old-version-but-better Battle Oracle power, Surprising Charge?

* Looks it up on http://www.d20pfsrd.com/ *

Not according to the PFSRD, they haven't. CASTER SUPREMACY 4EVAR, even at things martials SHOULD be good at!

*Tactfully refrains from pointing out how spell combat and bladed dash can be combined for pseudo pounce as early as Magus 4.*

Diminuendo wrote:

Fencing Grace was altered to not work when using Flurry of Blows

Unless you also take the new Two-Weapon Grace feat from Villain Codex.

Oh hey, another instance where Paizo releases an FAQ that restricts an option only to turn around and put out a product that includes rules options that immediately reverses said FAQ restriction.

If you'd like to know what other instance I might be speaking of, it's the fairly contentious SLA spellcraft FAQ and the immediate release of Ultimate Intrigue with the Conceal Spell feat.

Not cool.

There we were, negotiating with a creature whose presence defied logic. Wanting to ferret out any active spells that might enhance lies (glibness), conceal identity (polymorphs or illusions), otherwise undermine our investigation, my grippli casts a detect magic on a hunch. This prompts an ultimatum: "Drop your spell or I leave." Immediately a new plan coalesced in my mind, and I leave the tent and my allies to further the discussion. They chat and as they do, I begin a walk around outside to check for anything untoward when a guard intercepts my path, attempting to prevent me from accessing a sheltered spot right next to the tent. The gm asks how I intend to respond to the guard and my response is "bull rush."

Cue a nat 20.

The guard gets shoved aside, my grippli walks past with a smirk and catches the spellcaster on the other side of the tent red handed and the guard never is able to admit to having been bodily shoved aside by a two and a half foot tall talking frog.

Might be one of my favorite moments in Pathfindering.

Thank you for the summation and for the wonderful wild life example.

I mean, I assume it's illegal to strap rockets to cattle. Maybe I need to go collect signatures outside the local Wal-Mart just to be sure.

I'm going to have to look into the California thing. .

Well, the idea is, a common citizen can make an end run around the political gears by getting enough signatures on an initiative, resulting in a proposition being put up to vote each electoral cycle. These propositions can't be altered by politicians once drafted, and can only be overturned by the judiciary, basically. So we end up with dudes standing around outside our shops asking if registered voters would sign their nth attempt to legalize sheep rocketry or whichever inane initiative they've drafted, then get to deal with it again when our ballot informationals roll into our mailbox and we've forgotten that the "Safe Squirrel Sanctuaries and Schools" proposition is actually the thing that says it's cool to strap rockets to farm animals.

In 1964, as a result of Direct Democracy Initiatives, we attempted to ban cable television. It failed.

In 2008, we attempted to do the same thing to same-sex marriage, through Proposition 8, which was enacted via, you guessed it, Direct Democracy. It passed, and was eventually struck down by SCOTUS, if I recall correctly.

Now we're looking at prop 57, which decriminalizes things like certain forms of rape (by intoxication, or of an unconscious victim) as they do not meet the legal definition of violent crime.

For starters. Lots of reading up to do on it. Pay special attention to stuff like Prop 8 of 2008, and 57 of 2016 for sterling examples of why this system can really suck.

Well hell. Don't this just beat the bends?

... Is that a local colloquialism? If so, what particular context pertains to it?

The nearest my Google search found was a marketing blog from 2010 pertaining to competitive advertising, particularly as regards car commercials by BMW and Mercedes Benz. Is that the context?

Why do you find the two terms offensive?

Because it's incredibly reductionist and infers I am utterly uninterested or incapable of engaging with the game beyond whichever end of said spectrum I fall? Further, because neither label is particularly useful for discourse (the act of labeling one or more parties in a given debate does not actually further your position, and is incredibly likely to inflame one or more parties emotionally, presenting a barrier to a mutually beneficial decision), their usage is virtually always intended to provoke a party with whom you disagree but lack sufficient evidence to refute the claims of.

For starters.

And that's not even touching the fact that the term 'rollplayer' is almost unilaterally used as a derogatory term or slur.

Is no one else at all curious whether the party includes a paladin or not?

Cause if it does, I imagine the paladin would know how best to fall...

and last time funds were raised by selling their delicious biscuits to a captive audience consisting of a hall full of gamers.

Clever girls... /JurassicPark

"sorry, we're negating your investment in skills by having your skills just plain not work"

Very much this.

And then, even if you took the feat (instead of sensibly ignoring it), your payoff was a bunch of items that had a chance of exploding in your face and that had limited charges and required additional feat investments to use. "Want to interface with Season 6 content? Devote half of your feats and several skill points, and we'll let you play with some broken laser guns that only shoot about 4 times before running out of juice. Oh, but there's chronicles that will fix that, but don't you dare go looking for them, as that would be chronicle fishing, which is analogous to cheating in the eyes of the community."

There are lots of ways tech can be integrated into a fantasy setting in awesome ways. That is not at all what happened, so many of us, who are nominally fine with sci-fi in our fantasy having been brought up on Final Fantasy and similar games, ended up looking at a set of rules that was actively hostile to players interested in playing with something as simple as a laser pistol.

It's almost always to prevent loss of control of the character to bad guy dominate attempts or something similar. I've never seen a player use that aspect of the black blade for anything but helpful actions.

Yes, that would be normally true, however, as Jason Wu alluded to, there is sufficient evidence to suggest an alternate possible motivation for so doing. Thus, my post; If a player is rerolling a successful save in a bid to avoid other mental domination, great. If they're trying to subvert the no pvp clause or otherwise sabotage the efforts of the table, that doesn't fly.

We now return you to your regular light-hearted entertainment thread.

Well, if you're going a natural attack build, then BAB doesn't really matter - you're gaining a STR bonus that pretty much compensates for the BAB loss.

On the other hand, if you're not planning on always using a natural attack routine, it certainly is a hit.

Yes and no. It's ultimately +2 to hit, but it's also entry into feats and the like that may have BAB prerequisites.

I will say, however, that my DD is using a polearm for most fighting, switching to a bow if tactically needed. BAB helps all of that. I generally expect to use my claws and teeth only if grappled.

And now I kind of want to build a natural weapons DD that dips Scaled Fist Unchained Monk in that Lore Warden Fighter spot to gain Dragon Style and monk stuff.

My entry was Divine Hunter Paladin 2, Archeologist Bard 1, Id Rager Bloodrager 1, Lore Warden Fighter 1. Strong saving throws, strong self buffs from rage, smite, and archaeologists luck, reasonable skill points to cover that pesky know:arcane 5 along with the basics, spontaneous casting from bard for entry. Also managed to snag a couple of nice bonus feats, opening up bow use in a pinch. Oh, and only 1 lost BAB.

That fighter level could probably be something else.

Mage of the Wyrmkin wrote:

I think that a store incentive plan is a good idea. The Harder to Kill boon seems to be overpowered IMO. I like the thought that PC can be killed if they dance around the front lines with low hit points instead of strategically withdrawing. If the bonus was divided in half say 2/5 it would serve the same purpose without unbalancing the game.

Speaking as a player whose high hit point character who could survive to -19 Hp ate a x4 crit and died by 4 hit points, I say it probably wouldn't.

For context, I was a level 8 playing low tier in a tier 5-9, and had more hit points than most of the other PCs there, and almost as high an AC. And the GM's dice rolled 3 20's in a row on the first round of combat.

If its the occasion I'm thinking of, it was only a x3 crit. Halberd. Very messy. Took weeks to get the blood out. Of the floor. Only took a few seconds to get the blood out of the mage.

If not, carry on.

The minmaxer is trying to dial back the carnage but Gorum keeps sending them natural 20's anyway...

I have (just recently) seen a player use a reroll to cancel a possible crit to spare an NPC we wanted to bring in alive.

It was amusing.

...you're embarking on a heist mission with a fighter and a zen archer who have zero ranks in stealth.

And yet we still managed to get through the scenario with both prestige without rolling initiative thanks to the wonders of invisibility sphere and a history of playing video games like Tenchu or Deus Ex. Man, those two were the proverbial fish out of water though.

Okay, thanks.

So players can be told the spell 'dominate person' is in use?

Spell craft will tell school of magic. Sense Motive can tell under mental influence/control

Those are some general tips, but many of them are not related to the Pathfinder Society Campaign. The limitations are major. You cannot sleep to regain spells/special abilities(by choice), run away from encounters, use diplomacy to avoid fights or acquire loot permanenetly.

Thats why its railroading.

Literally none of this is true.

Greater teleport.
/thread

Ryzoken wrote:

Ambrosia Slaad wrote:

Ryzoken wrote:

"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."
-Martin Niemöller

{marks "Godwin" on bingo card}

While that is the historical context, the quote seems more apropos as regards abuse of power and why you should care even if you are not the group being oppressed.

Or you can choose to be reductionist and assume I'm invoking Godwin when I'm really not. Either way, the post I responded to reminded me of this quote, so I posted it. I'll now be leaving this thread, because in the grand scheme of things, what Paizo does with their forum doesn't concern me overmuch. Its fun to post here sometimes, but then there's threads like these and posts like yours; just more people looking for reasons to be upset, jumping at shadows.

...you know this is a message board, right? And that someone was stopped from post on it. That is what happened. You literally invoked Godwin, that's no 'second way of seeing it.'

Maybe you need to step away from the keyboard for a bit, get some perspective before you compare a user being banned from a message board to one of the greatest tragedies in human history. And in the spirit of this thread, pretty sure this post will be removed, and for good reason, since this entire chain is inane.

I give up. Enjoy your echo chamber.

Because obviously two situations need to be perfectly the same in terms of scale in order for any parallel to be drawn.

Ryzoken wrote:

"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."
-Martin Niemöller

{marks "Godwin" on bingo card}

While that is the historical context, the quote seems more apropos as regards abuse of power and why you should care even if you are not the group being oppressed.

Or you can choose to be reductionist and assume I'm invoking Godwin when I'm really not. Either way, the post I responded to reminded me of this quote, so I posted it. I'll now be leaving this thread, because in the grand scheme of things, what Paizo does with their forum doesn't concern me overmuch. Its fun to post here sometimes, but then there's threads like these and posts like yours; just more people looking for reasons to be upset, jumping at shadows.

I'll add an opinion. What is the point of this discussion. Someone got banned. If that person has an issue, then they should discuss it with the mods. Why should I care, it has nothing to do with me. His rights weren't violated. He doesn't have a "right" to state his opinion on this forum in any way he wants. This isn't a street corner. His Ban doesn't affect me, and it doesn't really affect anyone else here that wasn't involved in the situation. If I have a post deleted, or I am banned and I have an issue with it I will contact the mods to find out why.

The whole purpose of this public display seems like it is an to rile some people up into making some bad decisions. My opinion, is to see to your own house. If you have an issue take it up with the mods. If they don't listen, find another playground, this is the internet, there are plenty our there. It is not like you are getting kicked out of your house. Stop trying to gather the peasants to grab pitchforks and go after you perceived adversaries. Be an adult, handle your business, let people handle theirs.

"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."
-Martin Niemöller

Markov Spiked Chain wrote:

I usually use Delay Poison at the start of the day. You're unlikely to know if you need it until you need it, so giving up on a great buff is rough. I agree there might still be a corner case where you'd use it mid-combat against some horrible poison monster. But it'd be nice to know if it's a super narrow special case, or a "sing every morning to keep the doctor away" masterpiece that mostly replaces Delay Poison Communal with perform rounds instead of spell slots.

Delay poison, as far as I understand, prevents the target from being aware of being poisoned until the spell wears off. And, since multiple doses of poison stack the DC, delay poison can be really lethal if all the doses of a day of spider smashing are resolved at once...

"We fought a lot of spiders today, and I'm not sure how many if any were poisonous. We should probably hedge our bets, so here, drink this Antitoxin. If you start losing against the poisons in your system, we'll pop another Delay and prep Neutralize in the morning."

I'm just simply trying to defend possible situations because the guy isn't here to defend himself.

Don't.

*receives Venture briefing*
"Alright lads, afore we head out, what say we just take a quick lookie at our kit, make sure we've got what all we need. Y'know, the standards: rope, soap, and torches and the like."
-beat-
"Why do we need rope?"

My soul died a little after that exchange. I mustered a half hearted "Ah, ye ever been aboard a ship what ain't got rope? It ain't a pretty picture there; whole thing just falls apart really..."

We didn't end up needing the rope that adventure, but to have the rope talk right after having Master of Spells Aram Zey describe us in glowing terms...

*mentally prepares to miss the CotCT sanctioning by a single day or something*

This is totally the time to engage on a planar adventure/help Lastwall/become an orc warboss instead of clearing Scarwall, right?

Sound like it's time for a recap episode full of previously aired footage and a voice over explaining the plot by the narrator.

Remember to include commercial breaks!

Hire a swarm of sick children to sneeze and cough on your GM?

Open Gaming tables are pretty much done by the gamemaster in question completely on their own, just as they have been since the D+D days. It's how all of the other games not run by the Big Two get represented for the most part. Pretty much the only oversight that's done over open tables would be the convention person in charge of open gaming.

Typically they're run in a distinct open gaming area, separate from the Network campaign tables.

A veritable hive of scum and villany.

I have never had a good experience with Open Gaming. After a couple of years including Gen Con Indianapolis and Gen Con So Cal (back when it was a thing), I just stopped trying.

By contrast, while there are occasionally stinker tables, the majority of Organized Play has been quite enjoyable.

That is not dead, which doth eternal lie,
And with strange aeons, even death may die.

Ia ia Corethulhu Ftaghn!

Breakfast.
A modern Final Fantasy that doesn't suck.

Oh, in the Pathfinder rules set?

lots of stuff.

Esoteric Magus.

Arcane Pool enhances your unarmed strikes, so you don't need a magic amulet for that. Mage Armor and Shield are on your spell list, so you don't need to buy those either. In theory, if you were so inclined you could prep the stat booster spells (Cat's Grace, Bull's Strength, Owl's Wisdom if you take Spell Blending) and skip buying those items, though I might make a concession and buy a magic belt and headband.

Boom! Instant awesome.

Man... I keep coming back to this class+archetype combo. All this last week or so. Esoteric Magus. It's like a bad penny. Maybe I do need to make this after all, despite already having a kung fu fighter.

I mean, I do hear everybody is kung fu fighting...
Those cats... they're fast as lightning...

*opens Youtube to go listen to the full song*