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Mechanically, Studied Target is like telling a rogue that their sneak attack only works with feint.

How about oracles have focus points like normal?

Accept Curse (action, metamagic): If the next action you take is to use a focus power, you increase the effects of your oracle curse by one stage instead of spending a focus point.

Refocus (activity, 10 minutes): When an oracle uses the refocus activity with a curse at a stage greater than minor, they reduce the stage to minor instead of regaining focus points.

I'm starting a new game, and every player missed the fact they get +2 to four ability scores during character generation.

I suggest you put "Ability Boost" on the table for each class at first level, like it is for 5th, 10th, etc.
Then update the Ability Boost text for each class to include 1st level, with the restriction that the first level boost can't take a score above 18.

The class description has a reminder for all the first level character options except this, and new players are missing it.

If the multiple-attack penalty represents becoming off-balance from previous swings, shouldn't taking a non-attack action reset or reduce that penalty?

If not, could there be a specific action that does so?

The wording that is used almost everywhere is "Charisma checks and Charisma-based skill checks", however the circlet just says "Charisma-based checks". Is this difference in wording deliberate?

Secondary question; is it meant to work on concentration checks for charisma-based casters?

Couldn't the dual identity stuff just be an unchained skill unlock for the disguise skill?

Vigilante (Feat)
Pre: Character level 7

This feat functions as Leadership, but your cohort is your own character's secret identity. Changing between identities takes one minute, and can be included in the time it takes to change outfits and/or armor.

You may choose if any given follower is aware of either or both of your identities.

You may not take this feat and Leadership. If you gain Leadership as a bonus feat, you may take this feat instead. This feat counts as Leadership for meeting prerequisites.

Make it 300 gp, and call it a masterwork improvised sap :D

let me bold something, then.

Multiweapon Fighting (Combat)

This multi-armed creature is skilled at making attacks with multiple weapons.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, three or more hands.
Benefit: Penalties for fighting with multiple weapons are reduced by –2 with the primary hand and by –6 with off hands.
Normal: A creature without this feat takes a –6 penalty on attacks made with its primary hand and a –10 penalty on attacks made with all of its off hands. (It has one primary hand, and all the others are off hands.) See Two-Weapon Fighting in the Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook.
Special: This feat replaces the Two-Weapon Fighting feat for creatures with more than two arms.

That right there is a rule that allows you to attack with more than two hands. This feat doesn't grant you additional attacks, but it does reduce the penalties of the additional attacks you already have.

I allow my characters to craft items with their starting wealth.

I also allow my villains to do the same :)

This thread is unmanageable. Do not want.

So basically 16000 gp worth of catalysts?

I don't like your answer, but rather than argue, I'll agree that the rules are silent on the issue. High five! This is what the thread is for.

The "nature" of crafting materials might be worth discussing in the upcoming book.

I only dislike wands of CLW because wands of infernal healing are so much more cost effective for out-of-combat healing.

As a DM, I don't care if they have a cheap way to heal up between fights. Half the time I'll give them an out-of-combat healing thing.

As long as I'm doing enough damage that they need in-combat healing, I'm happy.

I don't mind items that are tailored for a class, though I do get annoyed if they exclude other classes that fit the theme. Cavalier's challenge and paladin's smite evil are pretty similar. Either could be interested in a mounted combat item. I saw a few items this year that favored one over the other when it could have included both.

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Handy Haversack is my measuring stick. It's one of the few items I'll blow the bank to buy at low levels, regardless of build, and I don't ever tire of it at high levels. It's a solid item, with an interesting twist besides just "extra-dimensional space". I'm not saying I want to see variations on it; I'm saying if there wasn't such a thing already, it would be a Superstar submission.

If you were a mage inventor, and came up with a new magic item that you could:
a) sell in a major city as fast as you could make them
b) hold a patent on, because it is not based on prior art
c) not sue or get sued by Apple for

it might be Superstar.

Thoughts?

Glorious.

Though to play, you can only mark a space if you up-voted the item because it was the better of the two.

I find it helps to read them aloud in a british accent. The bad ones end up sounding like a Monty Python skit.

Steven T. Helt wrote:

But a "reject" button to prevent repeats seems smart. We aren't ranking the items from 1-900. We're looking for 64 keepers.

Two problems with that statement. First, we're *not* looking for 64 keepers. That "64" thing was briefly discussed brainstorming sessions for voting procedures, but it's not something we elected to go with; unfortunately, not everyone on staff had learneded that we weren't going with it, and it was incorrectly mentioned in public early on. In fact, the judges will look at however many items it takes to get a great Top 32, whether than number is 32, 64, or higher.

Second, a "reject" button would actually be a harmful addition from a data-gathering point-of-view. This system works best when entries are paired up against the widest possible variety of other entries, and if you could opt out of seeing a particular entry, that would result in fewer pairings being registered.

Third, there are probably a few jerks out there deliberately down-voting good items in order to give their own item a better chance. We don't want to give them access to an instant-kill button.

next year's entry:

Knife of Many Things
Aura overwhelming universal; CL 25th

Slot -; Price 19 gp, 99 cp per month for three months; Weight 1 lb.

Description
On command, while folded, this knife can convert its blade into a brush, bottle opener, hammer, crowbar, thieves tool, scalpel, chisel, scissors, file, whetstone, soap, fishing line, compass, toothbrush, back scratcher, flint, shoehorn, nail file, tweezers, pliers, spoon, fork, drinking straw, oral thermometer, the other thermometer, sewing needle, quill, dental floss, shot glass, toothpick, prophylactic, hand mirror, signet ring, candle, eyelash straightener, lipstick, lint roller, hand towel, thimble, chewing gum, earplugs, cough drop, comb, corkscrew, hole punch, handkerchief, or handsaw.

While in possession of this blade you are immune to fly effects, unless it is stored in an extra-dimensional space. Removing the tool during flight causes you to descend at 60 feet per round for 1d6 rounds.
Construction
Requirements Craft Wondrous Item, prestidigitation, creator must be neutral; Cost 6 gp.

I might need to work on the word count.

I also consider what this item would look like after some professional feedback.

If the core idea is original and cool, and the problems can be easily fixed, I tend to be much more lenient. We're looking for an inventor, not a lawyer. By the time the judges get to it, they can look for both cool and perfect.

I figure I'm just here to vote down things that are unsalvageable, in order to save their sanity.

Aside from the known guidelines, I also use the following criteria.

Game Balance:
If Paizo published this, would I house-rule it out of games that I run?

Price:
If I saw one for sale, and was an ideal character build for its purpose, would I buy it at market price? If I looted one, would I still just sell it?

Clarity:
When I see the name again do I remember what it does, or will I have to read it again? (I'm looking at you, Ioun Stone)

Am I going to have to talk to my DM/Player about it to make sure we both think it does the same thing?

I think I might need a break. I'm channeling Simon Cowell.

I want to make some of these these contestants weep uncontrollably in front of a live studio audience.

I've drafted it, but there's a hole right where the Superstar part needs to fit.

Finally. Doubt I would have made Star Voter if there was any other way of knowing it submitted properly.

Psst, Paizo; if voting slows down, do another cut. All the maniacs will be checking to see if we made it. Promise!

Not so much a phrase that I tire of, but there are a lot of decent items in the list if the authors had stopped writing after the first benefit.

Mostly, I'm tired of seeing "You will be able to place your vote in ____ seconds."

It should say "You must wait ___ seconds to become attuned to these entries." and that line should have filigree.

You won't have seen those two items paired together, though. That's the important part, judging each item against the other, not each item individually.

Not so. I've seen the same two items paired together three times in a row.

I considered it my punishment for voting them equal.

I'm getting a little tired of seeing bold tags on the item's title.

bracket-B-bracket Filigreed Shadow Lantern of Safely Resting bracket-slash-B-bracket is better

I don't down-vote for it, though.

I could see Paladin | Oracle(life) having a pretty good time.

You'd be running around beating the snot out of things, using your life-link to heal your allies, and dropping a LoH on yourself now and again to mitigate the damage.

Rogue | Monk is nice if you can get a stunning fist off at the beginning of a flurry.

Synthesist | Paladin would be crazy scary.

What happens when you use polymorph any object to permanently turn your familiar into a human?

Then you'll always have a date on Saturday night. Unfortunately, your date has no class.

The arrow doesn't disintegrate into a fine powder, guys.

There is still something there what can emit light, it just is no longer a functioning arrow.

It's magic divination, which is great, but not a +50 perception. If you notice, spider man almost always wastes his surprise round doing nothing but shouting "spider senses tingling."

I have no RAW answer for you.

Were I your DM, I'd let you use Predator’s Grace from the fur domain until there is an official answer.

Walk (Dex)
You are skilled at walking, either through use of feet or magic, and you can perform daring or complex maneuvers while grounded. Note that this skill does not give you the ability to walk.

Requirement
You cannot take this skill without natural means of walking or skipping. Creatures can also take ranks in Walk if they possess a reliable means of walking every day (either through a spell or other magical manner, such as a druid's wild shape ability)

Check
You generally need only make a Walk check when you are attempting a complex maneuver. Without making a check, a walking creature can remain standing so long as it doesn't attempt to move more than half its speed while chewing bubblegum or texting.

Move more than half your speed without looking silly: DC 15
Climb stairs without using the handrail: DC 20
Forget why you were going somewhere and turn 180 degrees, but totally play it off: DC 25

Collision while walking
If you are using feet to walk and you collide with an object equal to your size or larger, you must immediately make a DC 25 walk check to pose like a douche and make it look like the other guy's fault.

Hottie Proximity
Walking near people that you find attractive adds penalties to your walk check as noted on the table below:

Checked means that a cutie is watching you walk past, and you must make a DC 20 walk check to keep from clenching your butt cheeks and walking funny.

Blown Away means you see someone gorgeous, and must make a DC 25 walk check to check them out without walking into something or stumbling over some damn thing and looking like a fool.