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Ar'dreth wrote:

Do we start with a free set of clothes and if so what kind?

As per the standard rules, you get a free outfit valued at 10 gp or less.

Does said outfit count against our encumbrance?

Can you post what a wayfinder is and does? I've never actually done a pathfinder.

A wayfinder is a silver compass with gold accents with an indentation capable of holding an ioun stone

What it does is give a +2 bonus to survival checks to avoid becoming lost, and it can also be commanded to emit light (like the spell) as a standard action

I want in! :) I'm thinking Bard atm, but I need a bit to debate over character concepts :P

I want control of Magnimar! :P

My question is, would they use a slide rule or tables? The slide rule was invented in the 1600s, but if they have a printing press, would they also have invented some form of a slide rule?

It seems unlikely to me that Golarion would need something like a slide rule because theres already something in place to handle it's function (of basic slide rules at least (but given that I think more complicated ones are less likely to develop)). In the Gods and Magic book the wondrous item attuned to Abadar allows you to add/subtract/multiply/divide with perfect accuracy in its owners head (among other unrelated things), which should be more accurate than any physical technology (unless you want to go mapping Alkenstar?) and it could always be re-tuned if you worship someone else.

Yes, as you are not that creature type, you are simply emulating it.

Perhaps that would be a better word to use with these spells, since polymorph has traditionally given powers, types, et al.

"A polymorph spell transforms your physical body to take on the shape of another creature."

So you don't become the creature, you simply look/ have the shape of one physically.

So does this mean that a spell like "Speak with Animals" wouldn't work with a wild shaped druid since it's not actually an animal type / a water elemental/plant druid wouldn't take the extra damage from Horrid Wilting since they only resemble those creatures types?

IF you plan on polymorphing on a regular basis I strongly suggest either getting class features that allow you to still and silent spell your spells (such as arcane trickster) or take those meta magic feats, along with eschew materials.

Also remember if you start at a size larger than medium or smaller than small you have to adjust to one of these sizes before gaining any bonuses for your new form (I would recommend just making a copy of the table on page 212 for easy referral if you are going to use a polymorph spell).

Ah "Natural Spell" feat is definitely the feat to go with as it handles the job of pretty much all those other feats you mentioned (also without increasing the spell slots of the spells)

Also, the line "In addition, other spells that change your size have no effect on you while you are under the effects of a polymorph spell" means that the table on pg 212 is useless to a druid of any of the base races, since there all small or medium creatures.
(Unless they want to use the spell "Animal shape" on a creature thats not medium/small)

polymorph spells do not change type. This is covered in the magic section of the book.

hmmm, well after reading through the Transmutation section under magic like 6 times (pg 211-212) I don't see where it specifically saying you do not change type, with the closest thing that I see being "they do not grant you all of the abilities and powers of the creature" although I might be horribly overlooking something, which is different then saying you do not gain the type of the creature you transform into.

It could probably be determined from "A polymorph spell transforms your physical body to take on the shape of another creature" that the polymorphing lets you keep your type while just looking like a whatever you turned into, but I could also see the line
"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" as a statement that you change into a creature of the vermin type (I believe there's other ways to interpret that grammatically)

Anyways if your type does NOT change does that mean that you are immune to spells that target beasts/elementals/plants specifically while wild shaped into a creature resembling that form?

So I was reading through the pathfinder bestiary preview and under elemental subtypes it lists various effects such as Immunity to paralysis, poison, sleep effects, stunning, and not being subject to critical hits or flanking. Also, Elementals do not breathe, eat, or sleep (among a few other things)

Anyways looking at the players handbook it says under Elemental Body 3 that "You are also immune to critical hits and sneak attacks" which is omitted from the first 2 versions of the spell. Does this mean that you do not gain the elemental subtype by using elemental body/wildshape?

(which I suppose would also mean you don't gain other obvious effects like lack of need to breath, so a water elemental could drown?)

I also suppose questions about weather or not to trust the phb or Bestiary are relevant possibly

*Ooohh that arrow just crit the wind elemental through it's Oxygen"