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Thanks for the quick reply. I guess the next question is where did it land then?! For simplicity's sake, I have no problem saying 'nothing to see here' and moving along, though the 1e GM/player in me has the urge to generate a table to randomly determine the landing spot and slow my game down...
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JackieLane wrote: That sounds about right, yes, assuming you meant "addiction" and not "affliction", which is a generic term for long-term problems that can get worse or better based on consecutive saves (including poisons, diseases, curses). Haha. Yup. Addiction, not affliction.
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Hi y'all, I'm trying to wrap my head around drugs as a mechanic in PF2. Specifically, I am confused as to whether a drug is a poison or a disease. Here's my current understanding: Drugs are poisons; Afflictions are diseases. Is that correct? I'm primarily using the following three quotes as my basis: Drug (trait)
Zerk: "Alchemical/Consumable/Drug/Injury/Poison" Afflictions (listed under Diseases on AoE): "and suppressing addiction by taking the drug only avoids the effects—it doesn’t remove the disease." If my understanding is correct, then a person under the short term affect could be subject to Treat Poison (medicine skill) and a person under the long term affect of an addiction could be subject to a Treat Disease or Remove Disease spell?
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Ravingdork wrote:
Ok. Wasn't sure if you maybe used an Excel file that then linked or imported those values into Word or something like that. Between Pathbuilder 2E and Wanderer's Guide, I should be good to go for my current needs. At some point I may want to expand into more GM-related software for monsters, NPCs, or overall campaign building. Currently, I use Word and Excel for that stuff.
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Redrazors wrote: With the exception of AP 163 and Abomination Vault Player's Guide all of the adventure path material is in Pathbuilder 2e. Some of the items are occasionally renamed to remove Golarion specific names, as it operates under the Open Game License. Thanks, Redrazors. Once The Raven Black pointed out how I had missed some stuff, I went back and realized I wasn't using your software as effectively as I could be (the filters, for instance). The app is SO intuitive and easy to use. Thanks for putting it together!
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Ravingdork wrote:
Those are outstanding! When you say 'it makes characters', what do you mean? Do you mean it is great for final presentation of your character (but you generate the stats and descriptions with another software)?
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The Raven Black wrote:
Hmm. You're good at this detective stuff (see what I did there...).
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NielsenE wrote:
Thanks for all the info. I have started doing more educated research at this point, focusing on the character creation point of view for now. I'll try some of the free demos to get a better feel.
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The Raven Black wrote:
Thanks for pointing that out. I just checked and saw they have the Recording Rod, too. I clearly didn't look carefully enough. I had looked for the Edgewatch Detective Dedication feat and didn't see it. I just checked again and still don't see it. But I could custom add those fairly easily with the very small upgrade price. Interestingly, the Wanderer's Guide mentioned by Alfa/Polaris seems to have all the AoE stuff, too.
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VestOfHolding wrote: I know that Pathbuilder is missing some of the GMG things like the relics, but as far as general options what is really missing? So, yeah, the buying of the information multiple times is the next level of the discussion for me. I don't think I would need to purchase four versions of things but even one digital version in one of those systems means I would essentially purchasing the material twice. Stupid question maybe: Do people buy straight from those providers and skip buying the hardcopy materials from Paizo? Is that why the prices are so close to the hardcopy prices?
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I don't think the information from the Adventure Paths is in Pathbuilder. I completely understand why, but there's a lot of cool stuff in there that I would also like to have one-shot access to. I am prepping a city-heavy campaign to start about a year from now and loved all the Agents of Edgewatch feats, items, etc. Then I also thought about the other APs that are currently out and that will come out between now and then, and it started to get overwhelming... This is one of the things that led me down this path of looking at digital options.
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Howdy folks, I'm not sure if this is the proper forum but I thought I'd start here. Short version: I am looking for the best software/online options for the purpose of character creation for PF2e. I would simply like to be able to mess around with the many great options for character creation and print out basic stat blocks. Longer version: I own the CRB, APG, and GMG, and have a subscription for the APs. And I'm sure the materials will keep coming and I'll keep purchasing new content. But each of these sources has different options for ancestries, backgrounds, classes, feats, equipment, magic items, spells, etc., such that I am finding it overly tedious and time-consuming to peruse options and make the variety of builds I would like to try. Honestly, it's starting to be a deterrent. To combat this Int drain, I've decided it's time to take a look at the digital options. I need all of those character creation options in a single, easy to use place. I love the Pathbuilder2e app but it has a limited amount of the content I would like to draw from. Many of you have so much more experience with this topic; any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.
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Hi y'all, I'm toying with some concepts for a future campaign (like, a year from now) and found myself thinking about different scenarios related to dreams. I would love to hear any and all thoughts related to the following scenario/questions: Let's say Freddy Krueger type villain exists and is haunting and/or hunting a single individual in his or her dreams: 1) What steps would a simple commoner try to take to deal with this (other than, hire a band of adventurers to fix the problem!)? 2) What steps would a low-mid level adventurer (with limited access to the dream world) try to take to deal with this? I have fleshed out ideas for myself but I'd love to hear the ideas of other players and GMs.
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James Jacobs wrote:
Thank you again for the clarifications. These answers related to undead dreams and souls will help me solidify the plans for my next campaign (insert evil grin here...).
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My other question is this: do undead have souls? From the description in the undead trait (infused with 'soul corrupting evil magic') and the description of the Devourer (who have 'the ability to bind other souls to their own'), I am thinking the answer is 'yes'?
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James Jacobs wrote: Unless we specifically say in a creature's description, any non-mindless creature can dream. Undead included. Normally, a creature dreams when it sleeps. But things that don't sleep can dream at other times. A vampire dreaming in their coffin while they rest the day away is a great example of this. Thank you for clarifying that for me/us, Mr. Jacobs! So, I guess liches do daydream about world domination...
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Basically, I was thinking about a mythos that included Great Old Ones and such, wondering if undead would be immune to interactions and influences that come through dreams, and if they would be unable to enter the Dreamlands through means of dreams. It seems simplest to simply rule that undead can't dream and are immune to such influences.
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Old_Man_Robot wrote:
Under the Unconscious condition, the CRB says, "You’re sleeping, or you’ve been knocked out." That seems to imply that you can be unconscious without being asleep - which would be consistent with the vampire description.
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Corwin Icewolf wrote:
I think this statement hits on another of my early feelings about the game; it feels like it's built intentionally towards teamwork or the tighter numbers system naturally encourages/demands more teamwork. Is this true? I'm not judging this as good or bad, I'm just wondering (I actually might prefer this in a way, not sure). If it is the case, then having a PC that feels more powerful and independent will depend more on the campaign design than the pure PC design. In contrast, if any (or most of them anyway) of my PF1 PCs ended up alone in a scenario or was the last guy standing in an encounter, I always felt I had options (creative or powerful or both) that gave me realistic hope I could save the day in some way (it didn't always work out that way but I FELT that way!). In some of these early PF2 scenarios (most of which have been on the higher difficulty end from what I can tell), I've felt very limited in how I might change the tide of a battle on my own or get us out of a tight space.
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Ascalaphus wrote:
To me, all of the above are versions of heroic. My small amount of play time in PF2 - most of it one shot scenarios - has probably significantly limited many of these opportunities and given me a skewed view.
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Darksol the Painbringer wrote:
Yes. This. Psychologically, it's a different experience. Don't get me wrong, I'll still feel awesome that my action lead to a cool result but it is a different awesome than the fighter awesome. Thanks for highlighting that, it definitely puts into words a chunk of what wasn't sitting right with me.
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Captain Morgan wrote:
I think my disjointed experiences with the 'one shot' scenarios has given me much too narrow a view of the overall capabilities of the various spellcasters. I felt the spellcasters were reasonably well designed, versatile (in the case of the wizard), and ready to contribute to any number of scenarios, but the lack of game time spent on scouting, researching, gathering info in town, etc. (due to real world time constraints), resulted in the less than ideal spell selections, pre-fight tactics, and pre-buffing. In addition, the lack of experience we all had as a group too often resulted in us sort of getting in each others' way at times (such as martials charging in before spellcasters could use AoEs, for instance). I still feel the critical failure spell results were essentially non-existent but that was probably more luck than game mechanics.
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Unicore wrote: Jumping from low level to high level as a caster can be a little tricky because you don't really get to feel out your spell list and see how your different level spells can work together. It can be easy to end up just picking some random spells that sound cool, but that you haven't learned how to get them best to stick yet, and pass up some spells that are better than they look on paper. I think if you keep playing you'll start to get a better feel for your wizard. I totally agree about the lack of spell familiarity. I think I had a false sense of comfort with my spell selections due to my PF1 familiarity. As I look back at my original post and think about what folks have said, I am starting to think that maybe my expectations of the new critical success and critical failure opportunities and frequencies isn't matching up with reality. I LOVE the idea of this new crit system; it seems like what should offer more 'wow' moments as a results for all types of PC builds. But my experience with it so far has been the martials and the martial-themed enemies dropping some awesome crits, not the spellcasters. The main campaign I am in now (PF1) will run at least another year, so I'll hopefully have more time to gain experience with PF2. I'll be DMing the next campaign, so the more PF2 experience and insights I can gain by then will help my group and me make our best decision.
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Deriven Firelion wrote:
Thanks for the reply and highlights. Obviously, the massive damage scenario is always a blast (pun intended!) but the versatility of the bard seems intriguing. You're experience of becoming more heroic at higher levels gives me hope because my experience with the 10th level wizard didn't go so well, lol. I don't think I've played enough to have a pool of experiences where the Baddie rolled a 1 on my spell and I got watch it get whooped a little.
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Liegence wrote:
Sounds like an awesome Warpriest who can shine in multiple ways when needed! We'll have to take a more careful at how to build to our particular vision/role of a future Warpriest.
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Cintra Bristol wrote:
I think you've hit on several of the things that have had the biggest affect on our experience to date: 1) one-shot style scenarios limited GM prep, role-playing, and info gathering opportunities, 2) I think we all built individual characters we were interested in playing, rather than building a team, and 3) most every fight has been against higher level foes. The bard/cleric sharing of duties is a great idea!
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Staffan Johansson wrote:
Staffan, Sounds like you've had better luck with spell selection than I did with my wizard too many times! I love the stag move and the use of Earthbind. You are the second response I've gotten in this thread about the awesomeness of Slow, so we'll have to give it a closer look in the future. Our experience so far is that the Baddies have been rolling very good saves which has probably discouraged us from taking or using certain spells more often. We'll need to look more closely at the effects of spells even with a successful save. We've probably been under-valuing that.
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Ubertron_X, Thanks for the thorough, thoughtful answer. A few thoughts come to mind as I consider your comments: 1. PF2 seems more team oriented than PF1, which may take some adjustment on my/our part. That's not to say PF1 can't be played that way (my last campaign was played exactly that way with massive fun-factor) but I think PF1 has more spells and abilities that can be 'sudden' and change the course of the encounter more quickly and/or more severely. I don't think this teamwork style is bad but I think it's a different expectation. 2. It sounds like you had a clear and realistic goal for your battle priest, based on what a PF2 cleric can be down that path. One of the side groups I was in didn't really have much in-combat healing capability and got their buttocks' kicked hard at times because of a lack of a cleric! 3. Your description of the wizard's experience has been similar to ours. I played a Universalist in the level 1 and level 10 scenarios and found myself solid at level 1 and too often underwhelming in the level 10 scenarios (memmed 'wrong' spells, too squishy, fought a golem,etc.). I love the increased grittiness (sp?) of the PF2 experience and think that has to be built into expectations when going into it, including during session zero building and planning. Regarding your experience with your cleric: How often do you find yourself camped next to the fighters and healing every round? I ask because a) that is often the life of a cleric in PF1 and b) that was the experience in a number of the PF2 scenarios we ran (to be fair, we were running a lot more combat encounters than we were role-playing and story scenarios due to running these sort of 'one shots' vs a campaign.)
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Darksol, The examples you cite seem in line with the types of things our spellcasters were doing. "That being said, I do agree that spellcasters needing to, more often than not, require the bad guys to roll horribly, to be cool and effective gives the illusory detractment of heroism." Your phrasing, "illusory detractment', seems to imply you feel linking heroism in any way to the critical failure results for spells is not a great idea? I'm not sure I disagree but I wanted to make sure I was understanding your sentence properly.
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Corwin Icewolf wrote:
Sounds like a great tactic where appropriate. Was this a party plan from the get-go or did you guys stumble across it along the way?
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Salamileg wrote:
Thanks for the reply. I agree healing-focused clerics are legit but my PF1 players have been salivating for a battle-capable version of a cleric (which one of the PF2 players tried but found lacking in his particular experience). Now I'm intrigued: I'd love some details of the Slow awesomeness, if you'd care to share.
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Hi y'all, My primary gaming group plays PF1. We love it for many reasons but, like many others, we don't love the action economy system and some of the imbalances that have developed over time with the many splat books. Since PF2's release, I have had the opportunity to play as a PC in a total of approximately a dozen sessions with a separate side group (level 1 and level 10 scenarios from Plaguestone and AoA). I've also DM'd a 5th level homebrew scenario with that same group to get a feel for what it's like on the other side of the screen. In general, I am very happy with many aspects of the new system, especially the action economy, the critical hit/spell result system, PC build-flexibility, and ease of teaching/learning the rules. I could see my main group converting to PF2 for these reasons and others. Having said that... Something about all of these sessions has felt 'off' and I only today figured out what it was: none of the spellcasters have had moments when they felt 'heroic'. That is, unlike the martial PCs who have their fair share of critical hits that do excellent damage and sometimes finish of the Baddie or change the tide of the battle in a single Strike, the spellcasters (especially wizards and clerics) simply haven't had any such sudden impacts. Yes, the spellcasters have done some different, creative, interesting things but overall, they seem to be seem to be moderate damage, 'support', or 'cool, I gave the Baddie a status 1 thingy'. In general, spellcasters have felt like adventurers, not heroes. I think the Critical Failure effects of spell DCs has the makings of the possibility of feeling more heroic but we never had that happen in any of the sessions. So I wanted to hear from the broader, more experienced PF2 community about their opinion/experience. Am I missing something about spellcasters? Have our spellcasters simply had bad luck with rolls in comparison to the martials? Do I need to define being heroic as something very different for martials and spellcasters? I WANT to switch to PF2 but I can't see myself of my group doing so if being a Hero is not as heroic as we think it should be. Thank you in advance for sharing.
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Blave wrote:
I was reading that the same way but wasn't sure. Thanks.
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Alchemical Wonder wrote:
Thanks for the clarification. I speak 'math' better than I speak English...
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Alchemical Wonder wrote: The second. The last sentence you quoted is your answer. Read on its own, the last sentence seems clear and I agree with you. I think what's throwing me off is the "but" in the previous sentence, which seems to imply the condition is based upon the Rage.
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I am confused about the wording of the last two sentences of the Titan Mauler instinct, which state: "When wielding such a weapon in combat, increase your additional damage from Rage from 2 to 6, but you have the clumsy 1 condition because of the weapon's unwieldy size. You can't remove this clumsy condition or ignore its penalties by any means while wielding the weapon." Does this mean you only have the clumsy weapon while raging? Or do you have that condition whenever you are wielding the weapon.
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Chawmaster wrote:
A couple of other grapple-related questions... The description of a grapple success is as follows: "Success: Your opponent is grabbed until the end of your next turn unless you move or your opponent Escapes." 1. Does that mean that if the opponent doesn't escape the grapple on their next turn that I don't need to use an action the grapple him on my next turn? 2. Does that mean that the opponent automatically escapes my grapple at the end of my next turn (unless I let him go and attempt to grapple him again before the end of that next turn)?
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shroudb wrote:
Is there a 'next level' to a Grapple? For instance, if you grapple a grappled person again, do they become restrained?
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Sorry it took so long to get back... work... gets... in... way... Thank you all for your responses. I appreciate the feedback. It seems that we are all in agreement that there is no clear rule on this one way or another, so it's up to us DMs to decide. Fair enough. I think what's influencing my thinking the most (insert enchantment spell joke here) is the fact that if the subject of the spell fails his Will save he is under the affect of a Compulsion for its duration. To me, this means that he is not aware that he is being forced to take his particular actions each round; his mind has been defeated for the duration of the Compulsion. Even on a round in which he is to "act normally", he is still be compelled to do so and, therefore, not truly acting normally (the spell hasn't ended; he is still Compulsed). I looked back at the spell description, which says this: "This spell causes confusion in the targets, making them unable to determine their actions." And, under the confused condition, it says this: "A confused creature is mentally befuddled and cannot act normally." This seems to imply that the creature is essentially blissfully ignorant and will act normally, without knowledge he is Confused. Acting normally might consist of continuing to fight his enemies or heal an ally (even one he just injured). The two views from DM Blake and Anguish about the memory ramifications is an interesting one. I would probably rule that unless the subject of the spell knew that he was the subject of that particular charm person, he wouldn't be angry about something he was never aware of. So, if the storekeeper was a wizard, was able to observe the spellcaster, and made a successful Spellcraft check (and then failed his save), then when the charm person wore off, he would remember that a charm person had been cast and probably have a clear opinion on the matter. Or, if the storekeeper's wizard friend observed the event and made a successful Knowledge Arcana check, he could tell his friend after the spell wore off that he had been charmed. But if the victim was a lone, nonspellcasting merchant, he would probably not know what had happened. If you were a player in my campaign, how unreasonable would my logic sound to you?
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Is there a clear Pathfinder rule to the following question: If a PC fails a save versus an enchantment spell, is he aware that he is under the affect of the spell? My gut reaction to the question is "No, of course not! That would almost defeat the point of the spell!" Yet, I can't seem to find validation for my gut. The question came up when I looked at the APG spell, Cleanse. Cleanse has a range of 'personal' and one of its effects is that it cures the confused condition. Would anyone in the confused condition use the spell? I would think not because I don't think they would know they were confused. But some might make the case that a PC is not confused on a round in which they can 'act normally', so they would cast the spell at that time. That doesn't seem right to me. So, there's my short question made long... Thanks for any help. |