Alagard's page

Hi I recently started playing Pathfinder 2e, long time 1e GM.
When the pandemic started my group disbanded and now we are trying online play.
I played a few scenarios and now we are playing age of ashes, tried playing an alchemist but it wasn't fun so I'm going back to my favorite class, cleric, I've seen some posts about builds and have come up with this character, we are 3rd level now, I have no idea what items to equip him with, the GM has given me 1 2nd level item, 1 1st level item and 25gp to equip my character.

This is my selection of feats skills and spells, any changes suggestions and equipment options are appreciated.

Stats

Str and Int +0

Dex and Con +1

Cha +3

Wis +4

Background Dragon Scholar

Human, Versatile

Level 1

Battle Medicine, Adapted cantrip (electric Arc), Domain Sun, Healing font

Level 2

Reach spell, Assurance (medicine)

Level 3

Risky surgery

Skills

Trained

Acrobatics, Intimidation, Religion, Diplomacy, Lore Dragons

Expert

Medicine

Spells prepared

Cantrips
Electric Arc, Shield, Stabilize, Disrupt undead, Light

1st

Magic Weapon, Sanctuary, Disrupting weapons

2nd

Burning hands H1, Spiritual weapon

I've been using Roll20 for years now, we used to play at my house with some laptops for map and combat but with the pandemic we started using it for video and audio too, I always felt it was a little clunky and somewhat complicated to use and GM with, and I don't like the subscription model, I found Foundry and its a one time purchase, has anyone tried it? does it have audio a video communication too?

In general is it good, would you recommend it for pathfinder 2ed?

Thanks.

So I'm still reading the rules and a friend offered to GM a society scenario, it had one encounter, and I raise my shield and block with it, it got immediately broken and the question arose, can I raise it an keep the AC and block again and risk getting it destroyed or not? he rules that I could because it was armor, now I see that shields have their own section in equipment, in the broken rules it says that armor continuous to give AC but I think shields are not armor, what do you think?

And is it worth it? having a shield I mean, I could be using a 2h weapon and dealing more damage instead of having a 5DR for one round, maybe I'm missing something? probably.

Thanks.

Hi I'm confused, how can I build an encounter with human enemies?, I want to build an adventure for a 1st level group based on a city but a 1st lvl enemy say a group of bandits is not a possible encounter since 1 enemy of the party level is a moderate encounter suitable for a mid boss. Am I missing something? Is the weak template my only other option here?

Thanks.

Hi, my group has just finished the first book of hell's vengeance and I was thinking of converting the rest of the AP to second edition but I have two players with classes not covered in the current rules (as far as I know) one is the mentioned anti paladin with the tyrant archetype and the other is a witch, the witch I know is coming in a future book and maybe the player could use other class for now but I cant find information on the anti paladin, any help is appreciated.

BTW I just got the books don't know all the rules yet I'm on my first reading of the core rule book on the game mastering chapter, haven't got to read the bestiary yet.

I just finished the first book and been readin the core rulebook of 2nd ed, will it be hard to convert the rest of the AP? HAs anyone tried? I have a witch and an antipaladin pcs in my group that could be a problem...

Hi, Im looking for and Adventure path (or something like that) that ends by level 10-12, Ive GM some AP and we never finish them, by the time we hit the 4th book I get bored by all the book keeping with so many enemy abilities and the PCs are way overpowered, basically I don't like high level play :D

Any suggestions?

I made this for my tonight's session , I expect my players to battle the chimera and since is their first mythic encounter I wanted it to be something special with music and sound effects, so I downloaded some dragon, leopard and ram sounds and mixed them with some background battle music and thought to share, tell me what you think and I hope you find it useful!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7rwcyjwj563zip6/Mythic%20Chimera%20loop.mp3

I want to make a file with sound effects and music for the first encounter of the adventure to start with a bang, my plan is to start with a thunder sound and begin speaking as Zanthus and while I'm doing his speech the file will last half a minute in silence and then a woman will scream, I will act surprised and look around as if searching for her amongst the players then the other scream will be heard and some goblin screams, the crowd will run in panic while the goblins start to sing and some epic battle music start, and the whole battle will be with music and the sound of the crowd in panic with some goblin screams and evil laughs here and there.

But Im missing some goblin sounds I've tried looking for goblin or gremlin screams and laughter but I can't find anything, I remember someone uploading a file with the goblin song years ago but cant find it either.

So I come to you looking for this missing sound effects do you know where I can download something like this to complete the file?, I'll happily upload the file for everyone to use once is finished, Im also open to suggestions for the music.

Thanks.

Hi everybody probably a long post.

I have this adventure idea and I need some help developing it and
populating it with enemies.

First the basics I have a group of 5 players, some are 6th level and some are 7th level we have just finished the adventure Tower of the last Baron and I think they will take the bait for Treasure of Chimera Cove, we are also using the PFRPG rules with all the supplement books from paizo (actually the fighter is a little bit overpowered because of that doing 2d6+20dmg with overhand shop).

I haven’t wrote and adventure in a long time instead playing premade adventures like this ones and Rise of the runlords and crimson throne that’s why I need help I’m a little rusty and the system has changed a lot.

The idea is simple at first, the group is heading to the next adventure and they stop to spend the night in a little town, the town features are: it has only one street, a tavern, blacksmith, grocery store, cemetery, small shrine to a god (don’t know which jet), a well and a wild sunflower “garden”

The plan is that they are arriving at the town when the sun is setting, the few people that they see on their way to the tavern look at them scared and then they sigh of relief before heading to their house in a hurry, when they arrive at the tavern the last patrons are leaving. The bartender/owner, a human probably on his fifties, welcomes them and start to do some small talk while he offers them something to drink and tells them they can sleep on the floor by the fire because the tavern don’t have any rooms being in the middle of nowhere he doesn’t have many travelers coming by, when asked about the town people and the tavern being empty he tells them a story:

A couple of weeks ago weird things started happening in town, a soon as is dark weird noises could be heard and then ghostly figures appeared flying by the town, this ghosts look like demons or monsters and the people stopped going out at night, but it didn’t end there some of the kids in town couldn’t be woken up, they went to sleep and the next morning they didn’t wake up they kept sleeping nothing the people do could wake them even his younger son is sleeping right now, they sent word to the next town for help but haven’t heard from the messenger in days.

At this point I expect the players to investigate and maybe go out to see this monsters, the clues will eventually led them to a little girl who was the first to fall asleep, when they come (hopefully at night) the mother will plead they don’t hurt the little girl that she doesn’t know what she is doing, if they go to her room they will see that her window is open (the only open window at night in town) and that the girl is sleeping on her bed, there is also a night table beside the bed and a big wardrobe (like the one in Narnia) if they stay there for a while at the door they will see one of the creatures come out near the wardrobe and get out of the house through the window, if they get in the room, suddenly the bed looks like it’s far away and no matter how much they walk they can reach it and that their feet are stuck to the ground like if they were walking on mud, when they are finally about to reach the girl a strong wind start blowing in the room (imagine being in the eye of a tornado) but the only thing that is moving is the wardrobe (its shaking) the closer they get the harder it shakes.

Here they have a choice they can kill the little girl and everything stops or if they can deduce that the walking on mud and that the not being able to reach the bed are common nightmares and a few other clues dropped by the mom about the girl being scared at night, they can open the wardrobe (I’m going for the monster in the closet thing) there they will find a portal that takes them inside the girl mind, to her nightmare.

You see the girl has power, she is a sorcerer in the making, she was born with this power that she can’t control and it draw the attention of something, this thing feeds on nightmares, the “ghosts” are this girl nightmares they are bleeding into the real world and their mission is to give nightmares to others and draw them into their world, that’s why the kids are asleep they were the first to be attacked, if left unchecked the monster (Don’t know if there is something with this powers, any suggestion would help) I’ll call him Lord of Nightmares (sounds cool and cliched :P) will enter the real world.

Once inside they have to rescue the kids and finally the little girl, I don’t have a lot developed here but what I got is this, they will “wake up” in the field of sunflowers (this is where the girl used to play and thus is a “safe” place, a place where she felt secure) everything is dark, pitch black, they can’t see anything, when they try to light a torch or use a light spell, the light will immediately dim down to the illumination level of a candle, it doesn’t matter how powerful the spell in here light is weak, when they look around they see the sunflowers but they are huge, that’s because they see things from the perspective of the girl, since they are inside her mind everything looks to them like it looks to her, the nightmare is a representation of the town where the kids are trapped.

I imagine the kids trapped inside monsters and when the monsters are defeated the kid has to wake up in order to escape, the only way I can think of is pretending to fall, you always wake up when you fall in a dream, once the kid starts to fall he wakes and disappears, they will hear the screams or something of the kids to guide them through town, one idea I had was that since the girl has never set foot in the tavern when they go to rescue the bartender kid it will be filled with voices and blurring images, glimpses of what the girl could see and hear when she walked down the street and in front of the tavern.

The first thing they will see after leaving the garden is the well and they will hear a girl crying form inside the well, inside the well is the girl alter ego, when she played she was this heroic adventurer a sorcerer warrior that defeated demons and monsters, this “hero” is trying to rescue her but was captured and thrown in the well, the scariest place in town for the girl, the PCs have to climb down and pull her out but inside the lights won’t work and they will have an inexplicable fear, the emotions of the girl are mixing with theirs because of the significance of this place (remember they are in her mind) once they pull her out, the girl transforms into a woman and explains who she is, but she doesn’t know that she is not real she believes she has slay demos and dragons, and she points at the girl window explaining were she needs to go, and the window will illuminate like a beacon, this is the girl calling for help to her alter ego.

When they finally reach the girl room they will be confronted by the lord of nightmares who has trapped the girl and he will tell to the “hero” that she is not real that if the girl wakes up she will disappear essentially die and that she should help him, the party needs to convince her not to and defeat the monster once the monster is defeated the girl will ask what is going on and the hero will ask a moment with her, the girl will be excited to meet her hero and she will tell her she needs to wake up, the hero will linger in this words and with sudden realization will fall disappearing, everything will start to collapse and the PCs need to escape the dream as it crumbles around them, parts of the room will disappear in the blink of an eye, the girl scared will start crying and then she will disappear too, they need to reach the wardrobe before it disappears to exit the dream.

What happened is that the hero realized that she was as much the little girl as she was herself and woke up, leaving the girl trapped in the dream, she took possession of her body, and when you wake up you can remember your dream for a few minutes before it disappears of your memory, this is the time the PCs have to escape.

After that I plan that she will maintain the girl persona for as long the PCs are in town, and will become a recurring villain or something.

So what do you think? Opinions and criticism are welcome.
I need help expanding the encounters in the dream world and populating the adventure with monsters and NPCs but any help is welcomed.
Sources of inspiration:

A weird dream I had about a journalist who had been building a city inside her head since she was a child and one day one of her character possessed her body and was trying to bring her lover into the real world as well. (As I said weird dream)

The movie insidious (that’s how I imagine the dark dream world like the astral plane)

And of course Inception.

I read there is a FAQ for Pathfinder but I cant find it anywhere, can someone provide a link?

Thanks.

Hi my order hasn't arrived, it was supposed to be here by the 24, it has been 14 business day by now.

I was looking for this line of products but could only find the color Cooper, and was wondering if you carry them or I could special order them.

here is a link to the vallejo page with the range Im talking about.

http://www.acrylicosvallejo.com/gb/liquid-gold-gb.html

Hi Im the DM of a group of 4 players that dont have a healer, we are playing council of thieves, originaly there were 5 players and one was the cleric of the group but he is not a reliable player and only showed the day we made characters and the first session, so my players are wondering what to do without a cleric and I need to come with a solution.

THe party consists of 1 fighter 2 rouges and 1 summoner

The obvious solution could be adding potions to the loot and wands but is difficult to drink a potion in combat and costs your whole action and a potion can get "old" a caster level 1 potion of CLW at level 5 is just useless, the problem i see for the wands is that none of the rogues have ranks in use magic device and maybe they didnt planed to but Ill have to ask them to invest skill points there if I were to add wands.

Any ideas?

the problem has been fixed please try to charge me again and send my items.

thanks

I had them suspended because I thought I could fix some problems Im having but its gonna take more time than I expected, therfore I have to cancel for now, I hope to subscribe again in the near future but right now its not possible.

Thanks.

Hello Im having some problems with my credit card provider is it possible to suspend my suscriptions untill next month while I fix the problem or change credit cards?

Thanks.

The problem with the credit card should be fixed now, please try again sending my order.

Thank you.

I rememberd reading in this forum that this rule was gone, but its still there in the book, is this a left over from the 3.5 SRD or the rule still stands?

Are this items waiting for seekers or something? because they have been pending for a long time now.

Yvicca

CE Medium monstrous humanoid (aquatic)
Init +7; Senses darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +11
Aura horrific appearance (60 ft.)
Defense
AC 20, touch 13, flat-footed 13 (+4 armor,+3 Dex, +3 natural)
hp 78 (4d10+5d8+36)
Fort +11, Ref +8, Will +9
SR 15
Offense
Speed 30 ft., swim 40 ft.
Melee +1 short spear +14/+9 (1d6+7) and claw +11 (1d6+5)
Special Attacks evil eye DC 14 Horrific Appearance DC 14
Spells Known (CL 5 th)
3 rd—cure moderate wounds, grater magic fang
2 nd—barkskin, bull’s strength, resist energy
1 st—charm animal(DC 15) cure light wounds, faerie fire, speak with animals
0—detect magic, detect posison, flare, read magic
Statistics
Str 24, Dex 16, Con 18, Int 8, Wis 18, Cha 14
Base Atk +7; CMB +8; CMD 21
Feats Skill Focus (Bluff, Perception), Alertness, Greater Fortitude, Improved Initiative
Skills Bluff +9, Knowledge (any one) +5,
Perception +11, Stealth +10, Swim +19
Languages Common, Giant
SQ amphibious, nature bond, nature sense, wild empathy,
Woodland stride, trackless step, resist nature lure, wild shape (1/day)
Ecolo gy
Special Abilities
Evil Eye (Su) Three times per day, a sea hag can cast her dire gaze upon any single creature within 30 feet. The target must succeed on a DC 14 Will save or be staggered as strange nebulous distress and a gnawing sense of impending doom plagues the victim. If a sea hag uses her evil eye on someone already afflicted by this curse, the victim must make a DC 14 Fortitude save or be overwhelmed with fright and collapse into a comatose state for 3 days. Each day that passes, the comatose victim must make a DC 14 Fortitude save or perish. The evil eye is a mindaffecting fear effect. The save DCs are Charisma-based. Evil Eye Curse: Gaze—failed save; save Will DC 14; frequency 1/day; effect staggered (or fall comatose if already under the effects of the evil eye).
Horrific Appearance (Su) The sight of a sea hag is so revolting that anyone within 60 feet (other than another hag) who sets eyes upon one must succeed on a DC 14 Fortitude save or instantly be weakened, taking 1d6 points of Strength damage. Creatures that are affected by this power or that successfully save against it cannot be affected again by the same hag’s horrific appearance for 24 hours. This is a mindaffecting effect. The save DC is Charisma-based.
Combat gear +1 short spear, bracer of armor +2
Other gear death’s head coffer (50 pp, dead rat inside)

Shark
Statistics: Size Medium; Speed swim 60 ft.; AC 18 (+6
natural armor +2 Dex); HP 40 (5d8+20) Init +6 Attack bite +9 (1d6); Ability Scores Str 18, Dex 14,
Con 18, Int 1, Wis 12, Cha 2; Special Qualities scent. blindsense.
Saves Fort +7 Ref +5 Will +2
Feats Weapon focus (bite), Improved initiative, Improved Natural armor
SQ Link, Share spells, Evasion

Still pending, I thought the subscribers and preorders were to ship by wendsday, is something wrong with my order?

After reading this:

Also, note that Pathfinder RPG subscribers who have Pathfinder Chronicles, Planet Stories, or GameMastery Maps subscriptions—*and* have chosen to hold their products for monthly shipment—will be waiting another week or two until those products arrive.

Those who have Pathfinder Adventure Path subscriptions and have chosen to hold for that will be waiting until the next AP arrives, probably in early November.

If you're in one of those groups and you don't want to wait, now would be a good time to set your RPG subscription to ship as soon as products arrive.

Is it posible to move the product that will hold this order to november to the next month so the order ships when the Bestiary arrives?

Thanks.

Hi my order is only showing one item the AP but in my subscriptions this other two are showing for this month also,

1x Pathfinder Chronicles: Seekers of Secrets—A Guide to the Pathfinder Society (PFRPG)
1x Pathfinder Chronicles: Princes of Darkness—Book of the Damned Volume 1 (PFRPG)

Werent they supoused to ship thogether?

I cant find the scrolls, wands, armor and weapons tables, they didnt make the cut? or are they in other chapter. Im refering to the tables for spells in wands and scrolls and for which armor or weapon (like full plate or longsword) apply the randomly generated magic bonus.

The chase looks interesting and exciting, you could have your players on the edge of their seats.

Share your descriptions for some of the skills checks of the chase.

Im converting my CotCT campaign to PFRGP an Im confused as to what experience method to use, when I was reading the conversion document it said that the default in 3.5 was fast so I changed to fast progresion but know that I have the new AP it says that uses the medium progresion and now I dont know if my players will level up to fast for my campaign.

Should I use the fast or medium xp chart? Im not adding encounters to the AP and Im using the new way to calculate how much xp each npc/monster is worth.

Thanks.

Can I buy a print copy of this? or why this wasnt printed?

Can someone please help me

Hi, there has been some subscription items in my sidecart for some time now, when are they going to ship?

thanks.

Hi all, happy holydays.

In a few weeks I plan to run Fortress of the Stone Giants and was looking for some music/FX of a town in chaos, like screems, battle sounds and the like for the invasion of sand point. So far I've been unsuccesful searching, thats why I turn to you my fellow gamers :) If anyone can point me to a place were I can download or buy something like this it will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

when will this arrive?

Topic

P.S. Tried to post this in the products disscusion forum but there is no ADD NEW THREAD link in those forums.

Topic.

For those of you who havent found this pice of... work in facebook avoid it like the plague.

D&D Tiny Adventures is a "game" for facebook where you select a premade 4ed type of character and go on adventuring, at this point of the "game" is where the fun ends, adventures consist of a series of events in wich the only interaction you have with the "game" in a span of 2 hrs is to decide if you wish to use a potion, each event consist in waiting around for 10 minutes for the game to tell you what happened and then wait again, here is an exemple of what can happen in a given event:

Encounter 1: Forest

It was getting late, but Alagard thought he saw something intriguing at the top of a nearby hill.

Alagard made a Constitution check with a difficulty of 12 . . . and rolled 2

He tried to push on and reach the top, but he was already too tired. Alagard practically passed out only one quarter of the way up and tumbled back to the base of the hill. When he awoke much later, whatever he thought he had seen was gone.

Alagard took 9 damage.

Alagard received 25 XP.

And thats the "game".

Now everything is listed as preorder again, what happend?

Hi, yesterday I recived Pathfinder 13 and the Second Darknes Companion but the other items are missing, the shiping metod says 6-10 bussines days and today are 16 bussines days, I remember reading somewhere that this month subscription were being delivered in two shippments, if so, one is missing.

Yesterday I finished painting the Scarecrow and thought to put it here to get some constructive critisism.

When paizo anounced the pathfinder line of miniatures I knew I had to start painting again but my painting experience was a regiment of skeletons and a regiment of zombies almost 5 years ago, this is my first finished miniature in that many years, I have the miniatures for the frist module but not enough time to paint them, I paint the scare crow because one of my goups are going to enter the clock tower tomorrow, today I star painting Xanesha.

Just keep in mind I have practicaly no expirience painting and that I painted him in one afternoon :P

Here are the links:

Scarecrow 1

Scarecrow 2

Scarecrow 3

My players just defeated Justice Ironbriar last friday but they did the most unexpected thing... they started apologizing to him, the story goes like this, they arrived at his office in the sevens saw mill after battling the cultist and started figthing with him and two henchmen, In the figth they exchange a few words so I ask for a sense motive check and one of the players realices hes under a charm effect and tells the party, they start using subdual damage a beat him up, at this point Im thinking they want information and are curios why would he be under a charm, they dont know who he is but do know he is a cleric of Norgorber (he casted some spells and after looting him they found a holy symbol) so hes unconcious and since the party doesnt have a dispel magic prepered they decide to stuff him in their bag of holding and go out of the city to interrogate him the next day

So the next day in the wilderness hes bound and gaged thinking how to get out of this predicament when the party cast dispel magic and he realices Xanesha has being using him, at this point I think of doing what the book says and ask the players to look the other way for a few hours and sold Xanesha but the player playing the figther tells me "while I untie him I tell him we are deply sorry for having him tied up like this" and the other players follow him apologizing, so I acting as Ironbriar start yelling at the characters "do you know who I am, Im justice Ironbriar you are in deep trouble" It was really funny and unexpected, they started talking and Ironbriar blamed Xanesha for the killing and said he was being used, everything was going well (for Ironbriar) untill one of the character asked him "you are a cleric right? we foud this on you" handing him the Norgorber symbol, so I thinking he was busted said "Yes my order was being used by that monster, we are the protectors of magnimar if one of its rulers is not good we must eliminate him..." I was thinking now their are going to see the lie and we can move on, but they bougth it, I mean they really believed it, I was thinking come one he a cleric for the god of murder you cant belive this but they did, so they made an agreement he would not press charges for being kidnaped is they keep the whole murder cult to themselves.

So what do you think? :)

I see that some items are now backordered and that must be whats keeping my order from shiping, is there a way to modify my order? I want to cancel those items and add some others to qualify for the shipping discout for orders over 100 dollars.

Thanks.

Hi, I just got my order today and after checking its contents I notice that Treasure Hoard #1 was not included, could you send it please? when I placed my order I wanted to buy Vallejo Model Color: Matte Medium but it was out of stock know you have it, could it be posible to send it with the Treasure Hoard #1?

Thanks

Hi, I just got my order today and after checking its contents I notice that Treasure Hoard #1 was not included, could you send it please? when I placed my order I wanted to buy Vallejo Model Color: Matte Medium but it was out of stock know you have it, could it be posible to send it with the Treasure Hoard #1?

Thanks

Any idea when this order is going to ship? its been half a motn since I order those items and still havent shipped.

Thanks.

I just suscribed to Pathfinder Companion and the next book appears in my sidecart waiting to be shipped, I know this is a mistake since the next book is due August but my credit card could be charged for it.

Please fix this. Thanks.

Hi, I was about to place an order but in the shipping metod I can only choose USPS Priority mail wich is too expensive, my subscriptions are shipped USPS Package service, why cant I choose package service in my new order?

Thanks.

P.S. Waiting for answer to plance order.

Hi, Linguistics is a TRAINED skill and in the forgery rules it states that: Your Linguistics check is opposed
by the Linguistics check of the person who examines the
document to check its authenticity. What im getting from this is that only someone trained in linguistics can detect a forgery, I think this should be changed, I think that if you know the handwriting of someone you could recognice if someone tries to forge a letter using his name, at least you should be able to try, if the forgery is good you fail because is an untrained skill but if it not that good you could be able to identify it as someone elses handwriting even if you dont know how to forge a signature or letter.

Well thats my two cents so far.

P.S. Sorry for the bad english :P

My players want to investigate this part of sandpoint and I remember reading something about it besides the story of how chopper killed all the people and how he killed the last sherif and had some sort of shrine to a demon in his house but I cant find more information in burnt offerings, if is there Im must be going blind because I cant find it but if this information never existed an Im imagining things have any of you come up with a side quest to chopper's isle? :P

Thanks.