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Happy New Year, everyone!

-Bruce

Happy New Year, everyone!

-Bruce

As a rule, anything based on your mythic will say 'per tier' if it's linked to your mythic stuff, so 'per level' would mean caster level.

Looks OK. You get 1 more trait; 2 regular, 1 campaign, though.

Braydon Chem wrote:

to Vak, with a short bow: "Thank you, I have had a most excellent master."

One other minor question--I infer that Braydon is replying to Vak's statement in italics, which is the convention I use to represent my character's thoughts. Did Braydon really respond to something that Vak hadn't said out loud?

No, he can't read mind (yet, anyway). But his Sense motive and Perception are top notch, so he might have noted your studying his stance. Or it might have been a thanks for the invitation, with a snub tossed at Samal.

Overall, it was a misread by me.

Okay, character is finally in (took 3 attempts - 1 self-aported trying to correct a mistake, 1 when Paizo came up "Page not found" when I tried to save my final draft...3rd time I saved incrementally).

Time to meet..

Yay! Significantly less die rolling for money! And the extra coin doesn't hurt at our level.

Okay, after some give & take with the GM, I've opted to run a version of the Jedi. Combining Soulknife [armored & gifted] & Inquisitor, I get a tracker / face / melee specialist / emergency healer. And extremely S.A.D. on Wisdom. Should be fun!

-Bruce

Dr. H. Wier (the alchemist) is actually a vivisectionist, gestalted with psychic warrior (meditant). His back story varies wildly depending on which personality you ask. With or without buffs, he can hold his own in combat, but relies on sneak attack to deal heavy damage. Also can handle the trap detection & removal.

The jedi is a member of a special order of Irori, primarily used as detectives in solving crime and dispensing justice. 'Judge' might be a more applicable term (think 'Judge Dredd' but much more companionable). That's a mix of Soulknife (guess what his weapon looks & sounds like..), any unarmed fighting class (monk or meditant), and an optional Inquisitor (for interaction skills). Excels in melee, versatile enough outside of it.

I've got other ideas, too, but as mentioned, I'm pressed for time so I'd rather not explore too many other options.

Hello, all.

I'm a recent invitee, and I see everyone else is set and ready.

I've got a few ideas to toss around for my character, but I'm not really sure what everyone feels their role in the party is.

One is a classic cinematic Jedi - horrors - it was just an attempt to see if it can be done in Pathfinder, and the answer is 'yes' (with psionics rules), and it makes a very good front-liner.

Another idea is a nutjob alchemist who believes he's a were-rat (and with mutagens....). Straight-laced introvert doctor on the surface, his other personality calls itself "Duke of Thieves", and is the polar opposite.

I've been given 'til Sunday to get something in print, and more ideas to kick around.

Let me know what you think.

-Bruce

"I've gotten ta know 'human' nature in m' years, It ain't as compl'x as folk make it out ta be.. Dis t'ing's got me stumped, though. Kin see why folks mistook me fer it."

Rova looks pensive

"Looks like we've got a long night travellin' ahead o' us."

"Dat's da advatange o' trained horses, ya don' need ta know much ta control 'em. Jus' learn th' words fer go an' stop, pull th' reins th' way ya want'em ta go, an' ya got th' basics. Any more'n dat, an' ya need some skill."

Basic commands require no skill with a trained animal. Complex commands need Handle animal for teams of animals, or Ride for just one

"So, wha' colors ya wanna paint it?"

As a rule, if the isn't enough cash on hand, you'd only get a fraction of further pools (so you can pay for upkeep) until it caught up. Usually doesn't take more than 1 or 2 splits to make it up to the party (unless it's a god item or something).

Zhiden (& party), I also think a group of strangers meeting & fighting a horde of undead, that few of the members would accept "Sorry, maybe next time you get something." as an answer either.

Of course Rova feels like he's being cheated. In case you don't remember, he specifically asked how treasure was going to be split, and got an agreement that it was to be even shares.

Rova is Lawful Neutral. He keeps his word, and expects others to do so also.

I think a digit got left off the mithril dagger, shouldn't it be at least 2000 for the +1 enchantment?

Hopefully that's it for the 'can't touch this' puns..

Basically, IMO it depends on whether you concider sneak attack as 'additional damage', or a 'triggered effect'.

Triggered effects which do not penetrate DR are negated (p561 "Whenever DR completely negates the damage from the attack, it also negates most special effects.."). It goes on to state examples, but sneak attack is not listed amongst them.

If one conciders it additional damage (it is refered to as 'precision damage', and obviously does not apply at all times (many types of creatures are immune, you must meet specific situations, etc.)), it would stack with base damage for overcoming DR, much like a magic weapon improves the damage total.

The nonlethal part is from Damage (p179 - Minimum damage "If penalties reduce damage below 1, it still does 1 point of non-lethal damage"), which in this case is the important part. Since it would be non-lethal, it negates the sneak attack damage (p68 - sneak atatck "She cannot use a weapon that deals lethal damage to deal non-lethal damage in a sneak attack, not even with the usual -4 penalty")

So basically, you can rule it either way, in terms of triggered effect or additional damage. If it's additional damage, it will overcome the DR. If it's a triggered effect, it won't, either because it never fires, or because it's negated by making it nonlethal.

Of course, there may be errata or a FAQ that addresses this situation that I am unaware of. This is only my interpretation.

PS: the skeleton ignores the nonlethal damage as well - undead are immune to it.

PPS: Yes, I'm a rules lawyer, but I'm a fair and thorough one.

You can, but you need to make spellcraft checks each time you try to memorize something (p219 "Wizards and borrowed spellbooks"). If it's low-level stuff, it's probably cheap to copy.