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Guide to the Guides

alchemist crafter

SLAs, vivisectionist / arcane trickster

SLA vs Spells

mythic

Passive voice

writing advice

manyshot full attack cancel

Decide full attack flurry

Full attack can be an attack + move OR multiple attacks.

"things should be the same, or they should be different." (And by "different" I mean "very different" so you don't mix up the two.)

spellsong is a "feat effect"

highly unlikely to see a point based class system

spellcasters / skill

Wraithstrike's Broken Classes campaign

The feat I'm playtesting in my game is actually a variant of the Dervish Dance feat from the Qadira Companion, but that works with rapiers.

I believe Wes was the one who first pushed for a summoner, although his original idea was a lot more like what I would have preferred—a summoner who conjured specific types of creatures (akin to how summoners in Final Fantasy summon specific creatures from the world's mythology, or how demonoligists summon specific demons).

The evolution of the class into something that can custom-build a monster of any type was Jason's brainchild, I believe. He was certainly the one who attached the word "eidolon" to the class.

Of course, keeping track of who originally came up with what for things like this that are born in group brainstorms is kinda tough...

arcane strike used to be a chain

Summation of the desires on how to "fix" the monk.

metagaming

0 is not the same as null

i don't get why people see D&D or it's derivatives as medieval european.

you have medieval knights wearing rennaiscane era armor, wielding roman era falcatas, worshipping greek gods, traveling with native american shamans wearing the hides of saharan beasts, who transform into prehistoric dinosaurs who are accompanied by modern japanese schoolgirls wielding Tokugawa Era Daisho and Wearing black pajamas, and old men wearing robes and pointed hats who chant mathematical equations to control reality, on a journey to kill brain eating space aliens, giant sentient firebreathing spellcasting reptiles and sentient jello.

SKR hates free action items

SKR wishes you could take feats early.

Feat prereqs

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Alchemist magic item creation, redux. All evidence so far.

The birth of the bodywraps of mighty strikes.

summoner cohort

list of constructs you can actually make with the new rule of must meet CL

The difference a year makes.

Wildblooded can't be combined with crossblooded.

Intelligence scores and real world equivalents.

Use "Slot none" instead of "Slot —".

(As another side note... summoner spell lists are kinda messed up and I've been kinda silently hoping they'd get errataed for a long time now, but that ship's mostly sailed, it seems...)

Noted for errata

Order of spell-things in stat blocks

For what's worth, when writing feats I was told to avoid using the term 'attack action' because it creates just this type of confusion.

James asked to not answer rules questions?

Magic items don't use "you," it's one of the annoying holdouts against my second-person crusade. The writer should use "the user/bearer/wielder" as appropriate.

Alchemists would serve as suppliers and creators of several raw materials for creating stuff. And they might even help by creating some elements or even entire constructs of their own. (Using rules for crafting constructs for alchemists we've not yet revealed, of course...)

OUT OF DATE - Alchemist can take item creation feats.

gnomes aren't tinkerers

That said, I might well just add a new category, like (St) for steampunk powers, and have a sidebar talking about counting them as (Ex) or (Su), depending on the style of the campaign.

halfling flying saucer

The only problem with James answering rules questions is they're often his opinion of how the rule should work, or even his house rule. Then people quote his answer as if it's the official rule, when it isn't, and that makes it harder for when the design team wants to give an official ruling on something.

This is not to say that James doesn't know the rules. He does, and he's a great GM. But he doesn't have to deal with the rules in the maddeningly-precise way that the design team has to.

"Enemy Hammer" was my spell (one of a couple of things I did to make it into the preview). I don't want to step on Jason's toes but I'll quickly drop in and say the intent when I wrote it was if you make your save nothing happens to you that round (act normally).

Note: For better or worse, we often "test out" new rules in the campaign setting line.

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Shares my experience with casters and martials, and their contributions to the game

If you end up with an NPC who should be, say, CR 8 but all of his/her numbers make him look like CR 3, you really SHOULD just use CR 3 for that NPC. Likewise, if you totally numbercrunch a CR 8 NPC up so that his numbers match, say, CR 15, then that NPC should be CR 15.

Summoners in Golarion

Eidolon Models in UM as potential patch for Eidolons

When the forums are unanimous, freakin' listen to them.

darkness explained

Summoner common source of abuse

Nothing about a banshee's wail says it heals undead creatures instead of harming them, therefore it affects dhampirs just like it does humans.

sotsbam

compare to the average!

brass knuckles, unarmed, why

Why skills to determine damage is a bad idea.

~8 clicks before it goes on the FAQ list

JJ added the "I'm a vagina" one accidentally

Skeleton Crew should have [evil]

" I strongly suspect it'd be when they do their "Daily Readying of Spells", since it fills the same space as preparing. "

Yep (mechanically, that's the spontaneous-caster equivalent of "the time of day a prepared-caster prepares spells").

Why FAQs take so long. The queue is cluttered with stupid questions.

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