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Hello, good and excellent people!

Can we please cancel my AP subscription? Thanks so much!

Hello, folks!

I've been sated with the completion of the Mummy's Mask set. Can we please cancel my PACG subscription for the time being?

Thanks for your help! =)

Hey guys! Could you please cancel my AP subscription? (side note: I'm loving everything in Giantslayer!)

Thanks for your help (and the awesome adventure I've now got)!

Hello, wonderful Paizo people!

Could you please kindly discontinue my AP subscription? Wrath of the Righteous should tide me over for quite some time.

Thanks!

I've been running a pair of players through this campaign on a bi-weekly basis for nearly a year now. We're nearing the end of Chapter 3 and the party is exploring the Spellweaver Ruin beneath Cauldron looking for the wands of control water.

Since my party size is so small and I didn't really care to revamp ALL the encounters beyond Pathfinder-izing them, each player has a main hero that's level 5 and each player also controls a sidekick who's level 3. The sidekick roster has been slowly expanding as the party meets more NPCs, and I've found that to be a fun way to really get the players invested in the people they meet. They never know who they might be able to recruit to their cause in a more active, participatory way. I also padded their coffers a good bit, giving them about 150% what they should have according to the Wealth by Level guidelines and it's worked out great thus far.

But I digress. This Spellweaver Ruin has been SO FUN. I can't tell you how delighted I was for my players to walk right into the eastern pit trap in the main hall off the repurprosed breeding chamber. And then, after puzzling over the arrow slits and not figuring them out, blunder right into the western pit trap too! Then stand there, scratching their heads trying to figure out, "How do we open the door now?" The one player slapped his hand to his forehead, gestured to the map, and incredulously declared, "This hall is perfectly symmetrical! How did we not expect that!"

In all honestly, we haven't laughed like we did this past session since the ridiculously trapped halls of Jzadirune. I, as the GM, am having a ball and the players are enjoying it too.

I eagly await their reactions the horribly creepy spider tunnels Skaven's fled too. They hate spiders! =D

Has anyone else tried this game out?
Path of Exile

It's currently in beta, but it's free and LOADS of fun. Plays like Diablo, but the leveling system is like Final Fantasy VII's materia (you get skill gems that fit into sockets in your items that gain their own experience) combined with Final Fantasty X's massive spheres skill map thing.

So far, the game has proven to be a lot of fun. I'm honestly having more fun with this than I ever had with Diablo 3. Did I mention it's free?

I highly, highly recommend it!

I'm getting a weird issue where if I click through to a thread like this one, all I get is a white page but the page indicates it's done loading.

To further confuse me, I see posts happening in the new post counter despite my inability to access the thread.

Additionally, it's not every thread, and I can't find any rhyme or reason to it.

Whenever I try to search something on the PRD, either through the search box on the left side of the screen or at the top of the search results page, all I get as a result is "Your search didn't match any items." Regardless of my search terms.

I've tried with quotes, without quotes, with plusses, even with just one word like "unarmed" or "paladin" and it's the same thing every time - no hits.

Just want to verify if this is technically "legal" as far as the rules are concerned.

Scenario: A magus w/ Exotic Weapon Proficiency (Bastard Sword), Vital Strike, Quicken Spell, enlarge person, and shocking grasp.

Round 1: Cast enlarge person on self
Round 2:

• free action: cast a quickened shocking grasp, hold the charge
• move action: advance a single move to within striking distance of an enemy
• standard action: Vital Strike, swinging the sword with 2 hands, and releasing the shocking grasp via spellstrike

Is this legit?
Because frankly, I would love to wail on someone this way.

Freedom of Movement

This spell enables you or a creature you touch to move and attack normally for the duration of the spell, even under the influence of magic that usually impedes movement, such as paralysis, solid fog, slow, and web. All combat maneuver checks made to grapple the target automatically fail. The subject automatically succeeds on any combat maneuver checks and Escape Artist checks made to escape a grapple or a pin.

Forbid Action

You forbid the target a single course of action, which it avoids to the best of its ability. You may demand the target not take actions that fall into one of the following options.
...
Move: The target can take no act that would cause it to end up in a different location. The target does not resist being moved by others (and thus can be picked up or dragged, or can float along on a raft), but does not consciously attempt to move (including not directing a mount to move).

bolded things for emphasis

So my question is pretty straight forward, does Freedom of Movement thwart the move option of Forbid Action?

At first I thought, "no, it doesn't - it's mind affecting and all the examples given are physical impediments to movement, not mental inclinations" - but now I'm not so sure. My impression is this almost functions more like charm person than it does hold person. Rather than making the target unable to move, it makes the target unwilling to move.

Thoughts?

I didn't realize it until after I'd gotten through to the order confirmation (my fault entirely) that my order would be split in twain. Order numbers are 1926665 and 1926664.

Is there any way to hold 65 and ship it with 64? If not, no big deal, but it'd be nice if I could avoid paying for shipping twice.

Regardless of the outcome, thanks for your help!

It seems like most of my posts in this particular forum start the same way...

Fairly soon, my group will be starting a new homebrew campaign. The DM, a glutton for punishment, has declared that we will be gestalt characters. He has also said that if we aren't 20th level, we'll be darn near close to it.

One of the other players will be creating a ninja-inquisitor 20.

Since I see no feasible way of even coming close to his potential damage output without creating an AM BARBARIAN variant or something similar, I've decided I'll aim for more of a battlefield control/party support type role.

For story reasons, I've limited my class selections to two similar combinations: Summoner-Oracle of Nature(or Wood) OR Summoner-Druid.

Caveat: I want to try to be immune to as many sources of damage and statuses as possible.

Which should I go with then? Greater Aspect with the summoner will let me pick up 3 different immunities to energy damage (and I figure I can pad out two others with separate rings), but how else can I shore this character up?

Any ideas?

Quick question - have these spells had new creatures added to their respective tables with the release of the Bestiary 2? I checked the PRD but didn't see any notes indicating they have, but as I am considering a summoner for an upcoming game, I figured I'd toss the question out there in case I'm looking in the wrong place.

I have been tasked with making a high level character for an upcoming campaign. When I asked the will-be-GM what level, he responded "20ish. Oh, and gestalt."

My brain nearly exploded.

I have a general idea, but need some help in narrowing my focus a bit - maybe picking the feats and getting that laid out.

I had a load of ideas for what to make. I thought about a Barbarian-Alchemist/Barbarian-Master Chymist combo who focuses on becoming large and smashing things with his fists. I thought about a barbarian-cavalier who takes rage powers that let his mount rage when he does. I thought about a ranger/ninja who focuses on traps with his ranger half. I really went all over the map.

But the idea I think I've settled on is similar to one of my favorite characters that I've played previously. For some reason, I really, really like casters - and, inexplicably, casters with swords are even more fun.

So I'm thinking of gestalting magus with... something. Here's my basic idea for 18 levels (if my GM wants him higher, I'll cross that bridge when I get to it)...

Levels 1 - 5: magus/wizard (transmuter)
Levels 6 - 15: magus/eldritch knight (ek spell progression goes to wiz)
Levels 16 - 18: magus/??? (I'm leaning toward wizard, just to keep that spell progression going, but I'm not sold on it necessarily)

I'd take the broad study magus arcana and the still spell metamagic feat. In combat spells would come from my magus spells or stilled wizard spells. With still spell, I'd like him to sport some full plate and my GM has said he'll house rule me being able to use a 2-handed weapon as a bonded item if I want it.

He'd cast as a 18th level magus, a 17th level wizard, and would qualify as a fighter of indeterminate level thanks to strange overlapping between EK and Magus.

What else should I do with this?

make combat faster and more mobile by tweaking the rules?

I'm trying to figure out a way to do this and to encourage combat to be something more than a few rounds of movement and then everyone standing still and full-attacking. I'd also like to pull it off, if at all possible, without causing irreparable damage to the fundamental game.

My current idea is to remove iterative attacks. So a level 10 fighter would just get the one attack @ +10.

To counter this, every one gets 1 feat at each level, Iterative, Improved Iterative, and Greater Iterative Attack are available feats (so you can still get them if you really want them), and weapon damage die are doubled. So a dagger does 2d4, a great sword does 4d6, a longsword does 2d8, etc etc.

My theory behind it all, is that if I didn't do anything besides outright removing iterative attacks, a caster and his standard action is going to rapidly outstrip a non-caster's standard action.

I don't know how comfortable I am with this idea though. It'll make DR less effective for one thing. For another, I figure martial characters will gravitate toward either taking the Iterative Attack Feat Chain or the Vital Strike Chain now, since the Vital Strikes will amp up weapon damage CONSIDERABLY more than they would otherwise.

Anyone else played around with this idea all? Am I embarking down a hopeless road or is possible to pull this off? Has anyone had any success with this? Found any pitfalls I should avoid?

The thread requesting some Finesse Fighter love in Ultimate Combat got me thinking about this.

Does the max dex bonus determined by armor also limit the dex bonus that modifies the wearer's reflex save?

We have a one-shot coming up (same one the Paladin-Sorceror-Arcane Archer from a previous thread is for) and the DM has thrown me a wonderful curve ball. He's declared that our characters will be gestalt.

For those not familiar, gestalt means you advance as 2 classes simultaneously, taking the better of any 2 overlapping stats. For instance, a gestalt fighter-wizard 1 would have a fighter's Hit Die, BAB, Fort Save, proficiencies, and bonus fighter feat as well as the Wizard's Will Save, wizard bonus feat, spells, etc etc.

It was pretty simple to adjust the aforementioned Arcane Archer, but another player will be playing him so I'm left with coming up with another character.

Enter my idea of making Broly from Dragon Ball Z movie 8. My idea of gestalting him is to go Barbarian-Alchemist 14/Barbarian-Master Chymist 1. Race is human. Stats after leveling and magic items are Str 27 (Greater Rage + Mutagen can push this to 39), Dex 16, Con 24, Int 23, Wis 14, Cha 14.

The question now becomes, what discoveries to take?
I checked with the DM, and since Feral Mutagen doesn't really fit flavor wise, he let me homebrew the following discovery and also agreed to let it function as feral mutagen insofar as qualifying for Master Chymist.

Apart from brutal mutagen at level 2 and greater mutagen at level 12, what discoveries would help flesh out Broly? Perhaps force bombs and fast bombs?
(I'd like to pick up combine extracts if possible, for more efficient 1st-round self-buffs like haste+displacement)

Note: If we level, and boy do I hope we do, I can pick up a 2nd level of Master Chymist and snag the advanced mutagen power Growth Mutagen. That will be so perfect if it happens.

I'll be participating in a 1 shot in several weeks time with some old college buddies and I'm torn between 2 character ideas. I'm hoping some of the glorious members of these boards might help me hone the ideas and pick one over the other.
At this point, the only other character idea that I’ve heard one of the other guys discuss is a negative energy dhampir cleric. I think he basically wants to selective channel to avoid us, wade into bad guys, and go nova with his channels. Whether he winds up going with that or not remains to be seen, but he seems pretty keen on it.
From what the GM has indicated, it’s looking like we need to show up with a level 15 character in hand and ready to play. (Epic Fantasy Point Buy, standard WBL w/ no one item costing more than 40%)

My two ideas are:

I'm hoping one of you more mathematically gifted denizens of the boards might come to my aid here. I have been trying to figure out the following odds.

• any one of 3 consecutive d20 rolls comes up >=15
  
• any 2 of 3 consecutive d20 rolls comes up >=15

What's the equation to use here? I know it's a 6/20 (0.3) chance that a single, solitary d20 roll is >=15, and I think the equation for figuing if all 3 are >=15 is (0.3)*(0.3)*(0.3).

Any of you numerological wizards able to help a brother out?

I'll be wrapping up an on-going homebrew campaign in about a week and was hoping to garner some advice from some awesome folk on the boards.

Normally, when I finish a campaign off, I like the final bit of dungeon-y conflict to be really memorable. Last time, I took a whole roll of gaming paper, cut it in half, and taped the sides together to make a gigantic cityscape in which to fight the BBEG.

However, my art skills are pitiful and while the scale of the map was impressive, the visuals didn't particularly pop.

Any advice/direction/tips at all would be super appreciated.

As critical feats trigger any time you crit, these feats are much more attractive to weapons with a threat range of 18-20 than they are for weapons that do huge damage but only on a 20.

The suggestion I'm asking for feedback on would make the Critical Feats a little more attractive for any weapon, regardless of its threat range.

And Critical Mastery would look like this:

What does everyone think? Does this seem balanced?

*bump*

If I have a 15th level Fighter who has taken, Quickdraw, Two-weapon Fighting and Improved Two-Weapon Fighting... can he throw 5 daggers w/ a full attack action? Normal BAB is +15/+10/+5, would the thrown daggers be at +13/+13/+8/+8/+3 then?

I'm currently running a solo adventure Saga Edition campaign and am looking for some suggestions as to what direction to go in at this point.

The adventure is set during the initial phase of the Yuuzhan Vong invasion.
Basically, I've run this player through the story of Resident Evil. Had him get stranded in a remote mansion in the Hapes Consortium and slowly discover its been overrun by zombie-like creatures. After going through the mansion and finally discovering passage to an underground research facility, he found that scientists working for a company called Aurora have been experimenting with Yuuzhan Vong slave seeds, a vong flower, and the rakghoul virus.
Barabels that have been exposed to their hybrid virus turned into Hunters, humans and near humans into zombies, etc etc

He has gone through the entirity of the mansion and the research facility, and escaped by the skin of his teeth from the auto-destruct the blew up the facility and the mansion.

The broader plans of Aurora are to deliver their engineered virus into the atmospheres of 3 planets along the Yuuzhan Vong invasion corridor. When the Vong attempt to conquer those planets to continue their advance, they will be entirely stymied by Aurora's genetically enhanced forces (the infected population).

During the adventure, my player discovered that his commanding officer was actually working for/with Aurora and believes him to now be dead. In the research facility, he found mention of a "Theta Facility" located on Ziost and a cargo vessel named "The Tenebrous Star" left the research facility for Ziost 3 days before the player arrived on site.

His destination is now the Theta Facility on Ziost. As I feel we've run through the plot from the original Resident Evil, I'm not really looking to continue along those lines. He is looking to take down Aurora, but I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas as to what I should throw at him on Ziost?

He is Level 9, it is a solo campaign, but he has a salvaged T3 droid from the mansion running around with him and he is remarkably hardy and kicks butt in melee.

Any ideas/suggestions are most welcome!

I would actually consider 'playtesting' legendary games kineticist as a (extremely loose) way to see how a class that focuses more on spell attacks and dcs works against the chassis in paizos kineticist. Obviously there are a ton more factors, and legendary kineticist might be a bit overtuned while paizos is maybe undertuned, but it could be a fun comparison.

That was my original intent with this, but people were more interested in arguing over homebrew vs 3rd party.

I would agree with you, but most tables I have played at don't like using 3rd party materials to replace officially released materials. While I will at my table, you should assume that official trumps 3rd party. Not that they will coexist.

Seppukumon wrote:

You mean the ones who asked for the class to be ported over want it to feel like it used to? Shocking.

Oh yeah cuz that's how balance is achieved.

Wait it's not.

Not very shocking though

Very easy to balance it while keeping the same feel.

Just because you can't see that doesn't make it not true.

You mean the ones who asked for the class to be ported over want it to feel like it used to? Shocking.

I mean, the playtest is the time to complain the most, and I'm mainly keeping it here, and only then because no one was interested in actually playing along with the prompt of the thread.

Which wasn't is it as powerful, but how do the comparative playstyles feel on the table.

Ignoring the semantics argument only one person actually answered.

But if you want the current version scrapped that's your perogative. Just don't be surprised if some people state that they like where current playtest is heading and just want to see some basic changes to better realize it.

There are people who will like anything, that's why I said in my original post, if this is near how it will be when released I am sticking with the Legendary Kineticist for my players.

Same damage means nothing when the damage between the two systems isn't the same nor health values. Plus, that's base damage. What 1e kineticist was functioning at base even half the time.

But it you want to remove most of the classes versatility. Locking it mostly be to single Target or self buffs and completely focus on blast's I guess that's an option.

One I don't expect to happen. Because it would require a complete rewrite. While revision happens often, I don't think I've seen a complete and utter change to that extent yet.

I still maintain 1e was a fundamentally flawed and broken system and should never receive anything more than a nod for lore reasons.

You seem confused, infusions still used base damage, and often used half base damage on success. At the cost of your level in hit points. Composite blasts did 2d6 instead of 1d6 per level, but cost (2*lvl) in burn damage, so that wasn't an all day every day ability. That is without any other augment on it.

2e is just as broken and flawed as 1e, just in different ways.

Yes, they should do a full rewrite, playtesting is THE time to do full rewrites, and no you don't need to remove versatility to balance it, you just add a resource to limit the number of uses of the versatile features. Focus points, a burn pool similar to reagents or spell slots, etc.

They want to change it because the pf1e design has no actual place in 2e biome so it must be changed.

Obviously given the feedback on this forum this won't be the final version of the class for this edition.

That's not true at all, there are clear ways to take something from 1e and translate it in 2e terms. This is why we still have things like power attack, which itself is just vital strike from 1e except that it multiplies on a crit.

You don't HAVE to change it in its entirety when there is a clear way to do it in the new terms that doesn't break it, and something being broken works both ways, overpowered and under. They have focus spells, those are clear perfect uses for infusions instead of overflow which would remove the infinite use excuse for it to be so underwhelming in what it can do, they have drained or stunned for burn as an optional consequence for overchanneling in desperate situations, they have the same cones lines columns bursts and auras that can be used for form infusions, they have new more specific terms for status effects to be used for substance infusions, put flourish on it to make it once per turn but don't make its main thing provoke AoO, use con for attack or bonus damage so that it has SOME use outside of DCs and 1 ability that lets you use it to name a number of creatures to not be effected by an aura.

The change they are doing is not because the design has no place, it's change for change sake.

Verzen wrote:

Seppukumon wrote:

What the title says, I am curious what people think when comparing what the homebrew brought compared to what the playtest has.

Mainly, cantrips vs "strikes", focus abilities vs overflow, burn as stun vs no burn at all, proficiency progression going to legendary for blasts vs master.

If the class releases anywhere near how it is in the playtest I believe I personally will continue to use the homebrew as I personally find it to be better thought out and implemented than how the playtest reads.

I am unfortunately not in any PF2E games at the moment, my group is running a few other systems right now so I probably wont get to play to see how it really feels. So I wanted to hear what anybody who has played with the Legendary Kineticist homebrew and the playtest, which do you prefer?

I like what the Legendary did with elemental defense. I really, really want it back.

Good news for you! The Legendary Games Kineticist exists. If it does what you think the kineticist should do, talk to your GM about using it. If they don't want to then talk to them about why. It doesn't seem like the developers at PF2 want to make that exact same class for their game.

It feels like they want to change it just to change it but don't really know what to do with it honestly.

It seems that Adapt Element "Gather" option allows you to Gather any element in your environment, no matter your inner gate. Then, even without specific impulse, you use this "gathered element" for generic purpose, such as Element blast "...using your gathered element".

Not gamebreaking, but quite nice to have options.

Choose a non-magical portion of an element you can channel that’s within 10 feet of you.

You have to be able to channel the element, so your 1 element as a dedicated, 1 of 2 for dual, or any of the universal.

*Edited formatting.

The homebrew is imbalanced is my opinion.

It isn't like game breaking imbalanced, it does need a few tweaks. I played the Legendary Kineticist from level 1-20 in a campaign and had a player play one from 1-20 in one of my campaigns. Neither were doing too much more than anyone else to where it was noticeable or game breaking. Though again, yes it does need a few tweaks to keep it in line with other classes.

Martialmasters wrote:

DM_aka_Dudemeister wrote:

It's weird to refer to Legendary Kineticist as "homebrew" when it's by a reputable 3rd party publisher and an author who has worked for Paizo in the past.

Imo if it's not official paizo material it's home brew, even if it's been licensed and put up for sale.

Heh, in all fairness tho, even if kinda-sorta technically correct, it's prolly better to differentiate the commercially available 3rd-party stuff with somebody's completely free homemade game stuff- so as to minimize confusion. ;p

In my defense I was very tired and forgot the term 3rd party when I was writing my original post.

What the title says, I am curious what people think when comparing what the homebrew brought compared to what the playtest has.

Mainly, cantrips vs "strikes", focus abilities vs overflow, burn as stun vs no burn at all, proficiency progression going to legendary for blasts vs master.

If the class releases anywhere near how it is in the playtest I believe I personally will continue to use the homebrew as I personally find it to be better thought out and implemented than how the playtest reads.

I am unfortunately not in any PF2E games at the moment, my group is running a few other systems right now so I probably wont get to play to see how it really feels. So I wanted to hear what anybody who has played with the Legendary Kineticist homebrew and the playtest, which do you prefer?