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Sake brewer looks like such a friend! :D
I worked so hard for that vibe!!! Thanks.
Holy moley I have a tag on paizo.com!!
I am not sure how spell points got brought into this conversation, but more then anything that has me worried. I thought powers overall all were a little on the weak side, but some added some interesting benefits and with the right feats you could have a decent pool with some nice class abilities to work with. Now that pool is tiny based on charisma and you have too share it to power up magic items... I don't get it? My initial impression is that you take something that was actually a pretty functional part of the game and chew it up so I can boost a healing potion or use a wand more then once a day. Resonance more then anything had the issue of being framed weirdly, I didn't like the idea that I was somehow powering magic items, but I am much okay with it as a tolerance level, you can handle so much magic on your body at one time or something. Heck I might even be okay with the idea that you can use spell points to help power magic items, but to lose spell points to focus even though I like the idea of baseline magic items that can be empowered, is not something I want in the game.
I am not sure how I feel about this. I definitely feel it is in the direction that I want. I like the heritage addition overall. I think some of the options here are very evocative and interesting, coming from PF1 I still feel ancestries are too thin on mechanics/power level, but that is across the board in the game. I still am not sold on ancestry feats, some of the options presented are great, but I am not sold the concept that everyone one of my characters must continue to embrace their ancestry as they progress. I am a big fan of Half-elves since the first Dragon magazine I picked up as a kid with a bunch of Half-elf kits and a big article about them. Something about seeing them downgraded as an option doesn't sit right, although mechanically I see why you are doing it. I am also a little saddened that multitalented (as late as you get it) isn't Half-elf only as I feel that that being the best at multiclassing is an important part of their identity. This sounds dour, and I don't mean it to be, the game plays like pathfinder, just doesn't feel like pathfinder (in some ways), but every update feels like you are analyzing what we are saying and moving in the right direction. thanks.
I love half-elves but this honestly feels a bit like the combat expertise of 2E, I saw it coming, but had hoped they would be able to forge their own destiny.
More Daemons and Abbadon, sweet delicious nothingness!
Flamethrower weilding spacerat bounty Hunter with adorable robot companion, I am in!
Awesome art, also every notice 6 fingers on those hands, such a fun detail!
Made it through the culls but not into the Top 100, so something to celebrate and something to work towards. I would love some feedback on my item: Phantasmal Cup
Once a day, the wielder may will the cup to fill with ectoplasm, and drink from it as a full round action. Imbibing temporarily transforms the drinker into being of ectoplasm. While in this form the drinker may move through walls and nonliving objects using phase lurch as the ectoplasmic creature ability (Bestiary 4 82). In addition the drinker’s weapon and natural attacks pass through nonliving matter, ignoring any armor or shield bonuses to AC (including any enhancement bonuses to that armor) her opponents might have. Enemies with ghost touch armor defend as if the drinker were incorporeal. The effects of drinking only lasts for 1 minute, after which the drinker is left covered in silvery ectoplasm which quickly evaporates.
Saw this once, Thought making a wondrous figurine was a bold choice, but you gave a clean and useful item that I would love to see in any treasure pile, good luck!
DAEMONS!! More DAEMONS!
We were just talking about this in my home campaign. We have played CoT and the events of that seemed to us to set Cheliax in turmoil (from our character's stated goal) IN fact in our World Abgrogail has been overthrown and a distant nephew now rules a more Lawful...Evil Cheliax and that continuity has been playing out in our Jade Regent and most recently Skull and Shackles campaigns. We have established a continuity and progression of time that is our Golarion, not enough that future APs would not woe but some would to be looked at (Hell's Rebels being one). Heading into Carrion Crown we are excited to see what the influence on our Golarion it will have. And we are starting to progress far enough into our future that children of previous character could start popping up in an AP or two! Trust me once you get a couple under your belt it really is your Golarion.
Paizo stole my GM! Congratulations Jason, I know this is a dream job for you, but they are lucky to have you. Everyone at Paizo: He GMs better under the influence fine whiskey or when given the opportunity to do crazy NPC accents.
Intelligence always seemed pretty book learning to me. I feel a 7 INT is more like the kid who never went to school or lived out in the wilderness. Not going to have a lot of academic skills or knowledges, but they could be world smart if they have a high wisdom or charisma they could easily be the face of the party or the most perceptive on the group. What I feel most people are thinking of as a direct analogue for intelligence in the real world where in many ways you would need several low mental stats to equal that. low int is more uneducated to me, those are the people who think the world is flat or all wizards are necromancers. Low wisdom is lacking common sense or naive i think severe autism might be an example of extremely low wisdom (right?) charisma would be uncouthness i guess, it could be ugliness, I think extreme examples might be people like sociopaths? anyway I think low INT can actually be played in ways other then dumb.
So as years of art school and laziness have slowed my simple addition skills to a minimum, I will let you know some of the tricks we use at the table. 1) Dice app! phone or tablet dice app preferably one that adds basic static bonuses you can program in. Not as fun as rolling dice but this can be a time saver, for heavy multi-attack characters. 2) Math app, I have downloaded some simple brain training math apps, and I run through them once or twice on game day to get my head straight for counting. 3) separate attack sheet. My S&S Barbarian has a clean attack info sheet with the most common types of attacks and their info so i have Regular attack, Raging and attacking, Raging and Power attacking plus all their modifiers on their own lines for a couple of my common weapons. This is basically a must do with any melee class. optional: 4)Vital strike build! Okay I know its not optimal, but I have been planning on a single strike build for a possible WotR campaign, and buy minimizing the number of attacks I make it means less dice, less time for me fumbling around
DAEMONS!!!! Daemons in pathfinder are unique. And as Occult adventurers may give us the rules for "souls" and how soul stones would work I think an AP explore them would be awesome. What do you do with Daemons? Avert the Apocalypse of course! why would it be awesome: 1) Definitely could do a path around the 4 horsemen's' servants trying to fulfill a prophecy to bring about the end of Golarion. Those are big and exciting stakes to base an AP around. 2) It would flesh out the much underloved Neutral Evil in Golarion, and seeing as Demons and Devils have already had AP spotlights this seems like the perfect thing. 3) Possible Return to Mythic, while I am not saying the campaign needs to be mythic, if Paizo wanted to return to those rules this seems like the AP to try that, or possible slip a little mythic in at the end instead of a full mythic campaign.
Archetypes: Druid that gives up wildshape for more casting power or a resource to empower casting. Bard designed for throwing weapons (darts daggers) or magical disguise and mimicry Samurai- with more mystical power slant Cavalier with a focus on camels Wizard- with archetypes for the spell schools
Not sure how common it is to everyone else, but my Druid lived on Aqueous Orb for his life span. Damage or Drowning are whatever, But the ability to move someone around is killer, I could not tell you how many people got rolled off cliffs or out windows.
Several things to add: 1. the 3.0 Swords and Sorcery supplement Hollowfaust does a great job of describing a city run by fairly Neutral Necromancer overlords and how a culture would grow up around it. Great read for flavor. 2. I get it, RAW Animate Dead is as evil act, but what does that mean for a character? Can a good or neutral character not commit an evil act? I say all that would do flavor wise would mean they they have to use it sparingly, like in Saga Star Wars, it takes awhile before Dark side points wear off. If you are raising skeleton's and therefore putting a stain on your soul, but you use those skeletons to defend a village against rampaging Orcs, well I think you can win its a moral wash kind of situation. 3. When I have dabbled in Necromancy I try to stick with monsters I have killed as corpses, don't go around raising up local graveyards of peoples love ones (or if you must in a pinch use skeletons so they don't know immediately its aunt Irma). I also have very good reasons for explaining why i am not evil (bluff, diplomacy etc) usually i am of a camp that says necromancy in an arcane form is not evil, magic has no alignment (not that effects game terms) but that is how I play my character.
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I disagree with you interpretation of rules as intended in there. Here is why: 1) I would be inclined to believe most unintelligent undead that were created have a last command of "guard this tomb" or "kill anyone who disturbs the treasure". That covers most dumb unintelligent undead (remember the necromancer in question here is an abberation most i think we can agree are still pretty evil.) 2) I would assume that the majority of undead in the world happen through means other then the animate dead spell (spontaneous, cursed, collection of negative energy something like that). 3) Intelligent undead need to be controlled separate and are in constant chance of breaking free so I doubt its hard to miss a saving throw vs. a dead guy. does that sound like a reasonable argument. hell think of all the fun you could have if this statement is the way it works (as I believe). |