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Yes, it is a dwarven thing now. If you want to wear armor as dwarf:
To give the pf2 "Paladin" some inquisitor-like abilities would really fit. But I don't think the "Paladin" should replace the Inquisitor.
Dare I ask what happened with your GM? My GM was frustated by the amount of criticism we players had about many things in pf2. He defended pf2 bitterly and fought against us, finally in forbidding us to say anything negative about. I even started to feel guilty if I wanted to say something negative. So I finally stopped playing. But I will at least try pf2 when it's finished. And so I am quite happy about that our concerns were acknowledged by Mr. Bulmahn in his friendly words.
Hey, Excaliburrover, that were exact my thoughts as I saw our thread was closed. It was a "oh they do acknowledge our problem". I second every single word of what you say. I was really burnt by Doomsday Dawn and particularly by my GM. But I still do trust in that they CAN make Pathfinder 2.0 great, if they change enough.
Yep. Casting in melee.
Actually both your channel pool and your spell point pool will use charisma. If you already have a pool of Spell Points, you use the higher ability score to determine the pool, as normal, and your Spell Point pool increases by 1. Lets conclude: Wisdom is used in offensive spells, the removal and dispel spells, for some static + on spells (which is often only a small factor).It is used for the spell point pool if you don't multiclass. That's all.
What is the problem with "not allowed to lie"? In pf1 I have a paladin with the deception domain (Sacred Servant Archetype) and the legalistic curse (oracle dip) - circumventing truth with different truth and timed silence.
In a world of moral and ethical absolutes (where what they are are defined by deific will and ordained by gods) Assassination is controlled by evil gods and outsiders. As long as you have the empyreal lords of spies, vengeance, scars, determination, executions, death, I am fine with that. As an adventurer you mostly get paid for killing people. Sentients, humans. And sometimes they are not even evil, but just mercenaries or standing on the wrong side.
YES. TOTALLY THIS.
I have played different clerics about 7 times in the playtest. As a optimal cleric I want Str = Cha > Con > Dex > Int = Wis and a D12 weapon.
I think the channel nerf makes a special kind of Clerics more attractive, which is viable, but very, very strange: Wis 12 Cha 18 Clerics.
Then we could use the pfs scenarios as guidelines. They have about 3-4 encounters, often on one single day. With my pf2 caster I have 4 highest level spells and 4 second highest level spells. All other spells are mostly useless in combat / only useful for buffing my weapon attacks with something like True Strike/Magical Striker.
Spellcasters are nerfed to the ground, and they lose an amount of class feats. It just makes things worse. I played a lvl 12 cleric, and I couldn't take the expert weapon proficieny of the fighter prestige class because of the less amount of feats. That was very painful.
I was playing my soothsayer Paladin of Erecura (Queen of the second layer of hell), who got a special negative boon after he channeled Cthulhu once. This means, he has a 20% chance to get affected by a nightmare from the Great Beyond when he sleeps, together with having an evil aura while he is affected. Our characters were on a long way through the savannah, together with a Pathfinder with quite a real nightmare. After its manifestation and our successful attempt to kill it, I rolled his % chance for the next three nights.
We already spoke before that about I should try to let his nightmare fight against my nightmare. But now it became obvious that my Paladin in fact absorbed the other nightmare. Well, this is just another way to defeat the evils, right...?
Almost every single skill feat is a trap. Some of us in Doomsday Dawn started after a few games to not choose them anymore, because they have so good as no impact to the game (and it was so boring and tedious to select them). There are some worthwhile like the Intimidate Feats, but they are the exception.
In the current system Clerics of Lamashtu who chose Positive Energy should never, never take Channel Smite. They can select it (and why not), but it is against their anathema to use it.
I do not think this is intended. Especially if there will be more deities in the future; good deities who allow negative energy, and evil deities who allow positive energy.
Thanks! Now I understand some things better. I normally see only the far too optimized characters of my group. If you like to deal more damage, you might wanna use a D12 weapon instead. The difference is huge, and you should be quite on par with the fighters.
If you use a +1 weapon instead of a +3 weapon on lvl 15, you deal less damage than with a Cantrip (which is already very bad). If you use a +1 armor instead of a +3 armor, you use 2 points of Saves and AC. This means, you have likely 10% more chance to crit fail a saving throw, and your enemies have likely 10% more chance to crit you on a attack.
After reading the Resonance Test, I am merely confused.
Set maximum amount of magic items = 10. (+ a rule which prevents circumventing this number by switching magic items). If it is so, keep it simple. Don't write complicated rules about Invest and RP, if it is just a complicated rules construct for a simple thing. If you want to mark items as magic items, just put them into the right chapter.
If you managed to build a weak Cleric... how? What was your weapon, what was your domain? Or did you try using cantrips or spells? What did you do in combat? Which class feats do you have?
Definitely B, then C, then A
A bard can make a good frontline character if you take Fighter Dedication. You can still cast Inspire Courage and Shield while wielding your bastard sword two-handed. My Doomsday Dawn part 2 character took armor proficiency (heavy) and wore full plate (retrained for the 1.3 update). Actually I played a Bard/Cleric on lvl 7. I bought myself the proficiencies with heavy armor and martial weapons with my general and ancestry feats. With my class feats I took Weapon surge. I never took a single bard feat. I could inspire courage and deal more damage than the fighter (Inspire Courage+True Strike+Weapon Surge)... I had to haste myself to give me all my buffs, using them for one mighty single strike. (+2 to attack, +1+one Die to damage, rolling the attack twice). Surely I used a D12 weapon, even if I couldn't cast many things without taking actions to take the grip again.I first tried to build a caster bard, but the caster bard was underwhelming, in comparison to this.
If these items are free from flavor restrictions, you can flavor them yourselves. Instead of having a paladin wearing a Demon's Mask for Intimidating (which is terrible, and the reason why my characters never bought one).
I second this.
So, as long as every player follows the rules and does not try to abuse this for doing evil stuff, and everyone has fun on the table, there is no reason why your character should not follow a deity of any alignment.
B. I also changed how the stat block appendix looks. Rather than including all of the stat blocks in the same section and alphabetizing them, I broke down the appendix by encounter area, starting each one on a different page. Each encounter area's appendix now prints all of the stat blocks—both the ones already appearing in the adventure as well as every stat block necessary for scaling the encounter for larger groups. That way you can find all of the creature statistics all in one place, flipping pages less often or just printing off the pages you need. Yes, please! And please write the orders for the adjustments also in the appendix. This is exactly how I prepare the combats of scenarios. I am only printing these stat blocks for running it, to have them before me, while I read the scenario on the laptop.
A D6+1 looks always underwhelming if someone else deals D12+3 or D12+4 damage per attack.
Sure, you are right. Noone wields his holy symbol in his hands. This is just a bit of flavor - you actually can cast while holding holy books in your hands. But normally you just have a hand free or take emblazon symbol.
I would like to have a clarification for which spells and powers are counting towards the multiple attack penalty. This confuses me. Spells and powers with the attack trait do definitely count. I think spells which require an attack roll or a Strike might also count. What about blasting spells without the attack trait?
Could you explain to me why some spells have the attack trait and others have not? It feels quite random for me.
So did Irrisen stop existing because there are no rules for witches yet? I wouldn't say that. But it definitely erased my Cult of LN Diabolists in Absalom which I builded up with several characters, and I will miss them. They are half secretive, and half accepted by the good churches, because their main focus lies in gaining more personal power by improving the society, for example by building sanctuaries for homeless children (with a subtle indoctrination). They are more belittled than accepted by the church of Asmodeus.
The Hell in Pathfinder is not exactly that what the Hell in our world is. I am just concerned that the restrictions on many deities could be based on real-world concepts, and not based on Golarion-based theological principles. I do not want the rules to contradict the lore.
The restrictiveness had some weird follow-ups. I played an evil character against my will (Cleric of Asmodeus). Sometimes I enjoyed playing neutral with evil tendencies, but now I really learned to hate being forced to evil deeds. I only play divine characters, because I find religious depths interesting, especially in the corner cases (like Dispater, who is beyond doubt the least evil Archdevil ). In PFS1 I played some LN Diabolists, and so I wanted to play some Diabolists in the Playtest.
I played a Druid and a negative Channeler on lvl 5, with as good as only Heal spells prepped. In both cases we had a positive cleric as well, and it was necessary. I bearly had enough healing for myself (fair enough, I played offensive and was tanking by sole healing, instead of using shield). In both scenarios I used up all my Heal spells (lvl 1,2,3) in one single combat. I had Battle Medic + Natural Medicine and a Wand of Heal lvl 1.
So even if you cast only Heal spells as Druid, it is not enough Healing for your entire group - in my experience.
Page 280: Cleric Archetype - Advanced Dogma.
Gain one cleric feat. For the purposes of meeting its prerequisites, your cleric level is equal to your actual level. In every other Archetype it is scaling "equal to half your level", so I believe the cleric should scale like them. Page 283: Wizard Archetype - Expert Wizard Spellcasting
Like in the Cleric Archetype, it should not be at 8th level (this makes zero sense) but on 16th level.
I shall not allow others with questionable alignment auras possess me. My General of Vengeance, I let this only happen because I had to give my sword away, and I cannot fight such evil with bare hands. Forgive me for I felt I needed these claws and this power. Not profane strength but thine is the only thing I need.
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