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![]() Aronbar wrote:
Yeah, so concealed in PF2 means you have to make a DC 5 flat check (instead of a percentage miss chance). Which means you fail on a roll of 4 or less, meaning a 20% miss chance. In any event, in PF1 glitterdust negates invisibility. And if you only had concealment because you were invisible, it will negate that concealment. Oddly, in PF2 you still have some concealment. So I guess the glitterbomb is somewhat less effective in it's coverage in PF2 vs PF1. Aronbar wrote: Right, I agree. You can see someone affected by Glitterdust, but they still benefit from concealment. The problem is, the rest of us disagree with your conclusion. In PF1 the rest of us agree you don't have any concealment. PF2, which is obviously a different system, specifies you have concealment still but for the rest of us the reasonable interpretation of how PF1 glitterdust affects invisibility is complete negation including concealment. ![]()
![]() Chell Raighn wrote:
Imagine glitter dust is a magical sack of flour being burst open in an 2 x 2 square area. That flour proceeds to coat everything in that 100 square ft of area. Now imagine instead of flour is some maddening inducing glitter that is the consistency of flour. And now imagine you get some in your eyes. That's why you have to save against blindness, as you fight through the urge to close your eyes because you have magical glitter in your eye. ![]()
![]() Kyle_TheBuilder wrote: But now you speak my language. The idea is to find what is best dedication, best feats, archetypes etc. to take to support what I have in mind. Right now I really like idea of AoE Knockdown Fighter with Intimidation debuff, though I am open for any other good things. Like Trustrike you mentioned, but I am still not sure how to bite it so use it enough times to really have fun with it as Fighter. So, with true strike you're going to want to get the enemy debuffed first if you can, trip them prone and get them frightened. Then you'll cast true strike as a single action spell (most enemies don't have attacks of opportunity so this isn't as risky as it sounds) and then power attack. It is not something you use every turn, but maybe once a combat. Or saving it for very tough enemies. The goal is to help get critical hits, by giving you two chances on your attack rolls. As for how to get access to the spell. Taking one of many spell casting dedications can get. Any arcane or occult spellcaster has it on their list. As well, clerics of certain deities. For your particular character I would probably go with the bard dedication, as you're already investing in charisma. After bard dedication, you'll need to sink a few class feats into the Basic Bard spellcasting, Expert Bard spellcasting, and Master Bard spellcasting. Strictly speaking you only need the first, but you'll have very limited spell slots. If you're going to pursue it, I would get all 3 spellcasting feats because at worst you can use true strike in all of them (by making it your signature spell, you wont get any extra benefit besides being able to use all your spell slots for it, but hey maybe that works for you). However, you may find that you also want to use those spell slot for other things. The occult spell list has lots of good spells. Do note that True Strike only has verbal components, so you can use it with a two-handed weapon without trouble. Other spells you may not be so lucky. ![]()
![]() It is worth keeping in mind, the usefulness of Hammer Quake will be very dependent on your GM. Why? Because they control how much enemies clump, and how many enemies there are. If there are relatively few enemies, they are unlikely to be adjacent to each other, making Hammer Quake less useful than it appears. However, some GMs might love having all the NPCs stick side by side. How useful Hammer Quake is, will be very dependent on your GM. Also keep in mind it uses all 3 of your actions in a turn, so even if enemies are clumped together, if you need to move to them you still can't use Hammer Quake. I have not played a character with Hammer Quake, but I suspect that it's not actually very easy to use, compared to Knockdown. ![]()
![]() Kyle_TheBuilder wrote:
So, I am by far not an expert, but I want to make sure we have the same understanding of how multiclassing in PF2 works and what you will get. At no point in a character's career can you ever become a Fighter 4/Barbarian X, where those are levels. Your levels will always be in fighter. You can get the barbarian dedication, which will get you rage. While you choose an instinct, you don't actually get any of the additional abilities they would normally grant (this is for balance). Rage will get you a +2 to damage, but comes with an AC and action restriction penalty. It's not great. If you eventually grab the instinct ability feat you can get another damage bonus, but it again comes at a penalty with Clumsy 1. True Strike and crit fishing is a much better plan honestly, even if more limited use. The penalties from rage and clumsy may not seem that bad, on paper but you will feel them more than you expect. For reference at 20th level your fighter might deal something like 4d8+14. Depending on weapon it could be 4d12+14. That's an average of 40. Rage + Instinct Ability can make that 46. A 15% increase, but at the cost of restricted action usage an Ac penalty. Personally I think it's a wash. Like if you get overly focused on damage numbers, you might think it's a good idea. But from an overall character stand point, that lower AC is going to punish you. And unlike the barbarian, you don't have extra hp to make up for it. ![]()
![]() Kyle_TheBuilder wrote:
The problem is there isn't much options to build that. As a fighter, you get heavy armor. Wear full plate. The only real decisions to make is do you use a shield and one-handed weapon, or not. Based on your desire to knockdown enemies, I suggest using a two-handed weapon with the knockdown and improved knockdown feats. When using a two handed weapon with improved knockdown, hitting the enemy trips them. Grab intimidating strike and shatter defenses for inflicting frightened. There's not really a direct and easy way to grab additional damage beyond wielding a weapon with big damage dice, but using Power Attack with an enemy who is prone and frightened and hoping for a crit while power attacking is your best bet. nd that's basically it. There aren't a lot of little tricks for building damage or increasing AC, at least not once you start selecting things you want to do. You will find the list of options narrows considerably. Actually, it's good because it makes it hard to build a character who is ineffective, but it also means even if you optimize as hard as you can you're not going to feel much more powerful than others. And the power is never in direct numerical bonuses. It almost always in combining multiple actions into a lesser number of required actions, or giving you more guaranteed results like automatically knocking someone prone instead of needing an athletics check that could result in prone. ![]()
![]() Kyle_TheBuilder wrote:
I just want to provide a warning. A someone who was way into optimization in PF1, there just aren't the same kind of ways to optimize in PF2. You don't win fights in PF2 by building a great and powerful character. In you try to be a one man army, and the rest of your party does too, you will die horrible deaths over and over again. The enemy is always numerically superior to you and if you just try to slug it out thinking you have numerically superiority to support you will be incredibly disappointed. I know I was when I first tried PF2. I've never played 5th ed, so I don't know how it compares but I wanted to provide that warning as it's something that trips up a lot of people who played PF1 and are transitioning to PF2. Fights in PF2 are one by debuffing your enemy and working as a team to knock them down to your level. Getting enemies prone and flat-footed so that your fighter can have a high chance to crit them thanks to their AC decreases is a very important tactic. Using abilities like Bon Mot to debuff an enemy's will save so your caster friend can inflict their spell on them is important too. If you don't do these support activities you will fail. If you try to spend 3 actions a turn trying to inflict 3 strikes, you will fail. Just some warnings you should heed. ![]()
![]() Bagronk wrote:
Ravingdork wrote:
To follow up on what RavingDork said, unlike D&D 3.5 or PF1, PF2 numbers are mostly driven by level and your proficiency rating (Untrained, Trained, Expert, Master, Legend) in that thing, and then you add the appropriate ability modifier. So character choices you make rarely change the numbers, meaning things are consistent in how they are calculated. And the options that do change how something is calculated usually still follow level and proficiency, they just let you change what ability modifier you use, or let you substitute one specific usage of a skill for a specific action with another skill. So, using an app like Pathbuilder honestly doesn't hurt the way it could in PF1 where there were so many different things that change your stats in something that it was hard to keep track of and you couldn't figure out how the app arrived at the number it did. In PF2, it's all pretty transparent. At least IMO. ![]()
![]() Perception/sense motive should allow other characters to notice if one if behaving differently due to illness, even if the character is not aware of it yet. Medicine checks should definitely allow for it, if someone is prompted to look for it. Knowledge checks about the creature that attacked can help to know if they normally cause disease, which might prompt your medicine person to check everyone out. ![]()
![]() Balkoth wrote:
Well, as you observe level plays an important role in the situation. A level 3 party doesn't have a lot of options. A higher level party might have followers or access to magic that can help them resolve this in a non-violent way. But at level 3 you don't have much options. Presumably you don't have time to back track to civilization with an ogre in tow in chains. You could attempt to have an impartial trial, though it would be rather hard. Basically you would ask the ogre "Did you commit these crimes that we suspect you did based on the guts, arms, heads of the dead people we see laying here?" If the ogre admits to things, well you can punish them however the law would, which is probably death. If someone in the party is particular lawful, and a trial doesn't seem reasonable you could make a deal with the ogre. "We cannot give you a fair and impartial trial, and you are too much a danger to us to keep around. Nor do we have the time to drag you back to society. So we are going to make a contract. The terms of the contract are that we are going to end your life as painlessly as possible, and we are in a position to do so we will resurrect/true resurrect you to face justice at an appropriate location with appropriate representation, defense, and legal proceedings. The outcome may again be your death, or imprisonment with hard labor, etc. Will you agree to this? The alternative is that we end your life as punishment for the crimes we suspect you committed, but we admit it would not be a punishment mete in a "fair" and "legal" way." ![]()
![]() Derklord wrote:
Thanks for clarifying, I figured there was a 50% chance I was reading something in that wasn't there. But with the influx on new people on the board I hope the board stays as welcoming as possible. Regarding the rule about not multicalssing with parent class, I knew I didn't completely imagine it. I do remember back to the ACG playtest, it was one of the most exciting product playtests and I thought the rule of not multiclassing with parent class made sense, but yeah I guess it didn't make it to the final product. And you're right that the Shifter robbing class features from other classes must be what made me think it's a hybrid, though technically it isn't. ![]()
![]() Focused Weapon is really over rated, IMO. Like if I have the free feats/wepon training to spare and I'm (for some reason) using a weapon with a low damage die I'll consider it. But like, you're going from at worst a d4 weapon to at best a 2d8 weapon. That's 2.5 avg damage vs 9 avg damage. So it's an average of 6.5 more damage. Which isn't terrible, but it seems like more to people because of the dice rolling. But most of the time people aren't using crappy d4 weapons. We're using like d8,d10, d12 weapons and so the value becomes less and less. Armed Bravery (assuming you didn't trade away bravery in an archetype) and Warrior Spirit are my first two choices generally because they're both super powerful for the fighter chassis. There other great choices, but mostly for making a combat style that doesn't work well into a good combat style. ![]()
![]() Derklord wrote:
I could have sworn there was a rule that you couldn't multiclass with parent classes, and that Shifter was a druid fighter hybrid but I doubled checked both and I am wrong. However, you tone comes across a bit hostile, though perhaps I am reading something that isn't actually there. Anyways, I would ask/suggest perhaps wording things a bit differently in general so your posts come across in a better way. The world is difficult enough, I want the Paizo forums as a place for positive productive discussion and though we can't eliminate the difference between written and verbal expression, we can all improve our method of communication to be more welcoming and friendly. ![]()
![]() Chell Raighn wrote:
That's absolutely possible. But my experience has been that by engaging the strongest looking enemy (often the boss if there is one) you draw aggro of the other enemies or you lockdown the boss so the archers and mages can do their job. While the pure s*$@storm of arrows and magic you're referring to can absolutely happen, I only see that happen when you have large (6+) person groups such that you end up with like 3 full spell casters, an archer, a bomber alchemist, and your character that can't pounce or otherwise get a full attack while moving. Anyway, if the BBEG dies before your next turn and you didn't need to full-attack, then the combat is basically over and your team did a good job, even if you didn't get to win the DPR Olympics. But honestly to Mark Hoover's point, it depends on a lot of things, mostly outside your control. ![]()
![]() I would argue that 3 levels of Zen Archer monk is more front loaded than shifter but anyways... Shifter only works well if you want to play a natural attack polymorphing build. If you follow the rules that you can't multiclass into the parent class of druid, I'm not sure there's anything worth multiclassing with. ![]()
![]() TxSam88 wrote:
Oh yeah, very similar boat. Although I will note I think most written adventures are actually based on 15 point buy, but I absolutely hate such a low point buy, and even feel 20 points can chafe if you're trying to play a character to do things that your class doesn't already reinforce. Like if you want to play an archer fighter, but also want to be face your class doesn't give you many skill points per level, and you don't have use for charisma. So you have to spread points between strength, dex, con, wis, int and cha. You want int for more skill points so you can bluff, be perceptive, be diplomatic, sense motive. You need charisma to do some of your skills decently. You want wisdom for saves. You want con for hp and saves. Dex is your main attack stat, and strength for your damage bonus. I feel on 20 point buy you really have to sacrifice and you don't end up with a satisfying character. Even if you're not trying to be the best ever, you end up so mediocre that it's discouraging to try. I much prefer giving an ability score array that's very generous, but honestly for SAD characters doesn't do much but for a build like the above it's a godsend to help make your concept more viable. ![]()
![]() Balkoth wrote:
So it's important to remember that edicts and anathema are set up in order of importance. Failing to strike down evil is the least important of Sarenrae's anathema, though still anathema. I would consider giving her minor curse for a bit. Though I'm assuming the champion did whatever they could to "strike down evil" in whatever the appropriate form is. As to what "striking down evil" means. In my mind, whatever form of justice you can bring that would prevent that person from perpetrating more evil. So, killing them would qualify for sure. But so would imprisoning them. For evil, but non-violent crimes (think financial crimes) making financial restitution and paying extra fines might be appropriate. Basically I just view it as "don't let evil go unpunished". Also, you don't need to go fighting battles that are above your league. Sarenrae doesn't demand you get yourself killed pursuing someone that you can't defeat. That would mean she loses a champion and get's nothing out of it. ![]()
![]() so if nothing else, Set is neutral evil which would mean (in theory) he has Daemon servitors and he is also associated with undead. To be honest I'm not sure what kind of winged animal would associate with that. It is largely flavor, so you don't have to be concerned about "getting it right" but it's nice to see someone care. Unfortunately I don't have anything that states more specifics. If I had to throw out some guesses, maybe scarab wings (associated with Egypt and as such the Osirion pantheon) or maybe bat wings. ![]()
![]() Azothath, at first I was going to disagree but as a GM I wont let a player sit for a long time looking up feats at the table wasting everyone's time. So I would be likely to say they delay, and if they take too long they simply skip their turn. With that in mind, telling the player to create a list of feats they qualify for and would like to use does seem like a good idea, though I don't know that I'd absolutely restrict them to that list, I would tell them that not being able to quickly decide on a feat would see their character delay or possibly lose their turn. ![]()
![]() Diego Rossi wrote: Magic arrows/quarrels/sling bullets are a fairly common kind of loot, and often they are for a weapon that no one in the group uses. Even if someone uses the right weapon, he often has a magical version of it, so he would have no use for a +1 arrow. It's worth noting under errata (IIRC) a +3 ranged weapon doesn't get through DR/cold iron or silver, nor a +4 weapon through adamantine, nor a +5 through DR/alignment. I think most groups either aren't aware or don't use that rule because it was a relatively late change to the rules and unintuitive after years of being played otherwise. And in the case of bows you simply bought some durable arrows of the appropriate material for when it came up. Maybe grab clustered shots. ![]()
![]() I mean your options are:
While martial flexibility does indeed make you flexible, you actually have to be very knowledgeable about feats and the situation you're in to make use of it. It's actually hard to play. Probably 80% of people use it to get the same set of feats each combat. As to the value of the different combinations you pointed out...to be honest I don't know. Probably I don't need them most of the time. You can probably play a raging pouncing barbarian and get your job done 95% of the time, and the other 5% you ask the wizard to cast fly on you first. ![]()
![]() TxSam88 wrote:
Yeah, if you start deviating from the base rules you can end up like this. When my group was still playing PF1 that was the case, we also ended up with something around CR+4 for an average fight and usually a whole host of enemies that didn't have HP but rather just a "hit me twice and I die" rule. It was specifically introduced just to slow us optimizers down some. Still combats were over pretty quickly. ![]()
![]() Yeah, the depiction of Drow started changing prior to PF2, it just wasn't as apparent to some people until PF2. Paizo hs attempted to change them to differentiate them more from WotC and to break the association between evil and skin color, as it is a very damaging stereotype. So yes the lore changed, for good reason. Please don't react so negatively when people tell you the lore has changed, because it's usually to make the game more inclusive and friendly to all people and it is deliberate changes by Paizo (at least in this case). Not some accidental change. ![]()
![]() My experience when I played melee characters without pounce was that I'd move to an enemy, make one attack, next round full attack (they would die) and then repeat. Sometimes an ally would attack the same enemy and it wouldn't even require a full attack on my turn to kill them, or they'd already be dead. So I'd say less than 50% of the time would I get a full attack. However at medium levels and above combat tends to last at most 4 turns. As a melee character, pick the strongest looking enemy on the field and set to work trying to kill them. ![]()
![]() So first scneario, no you're not an outsider but you gain the extraplanar subtype. Second scenario, no. Doesn't gain extraplanar as you didn't leave the plane. Third scenario, as far as I'm aware there isn't any cannon ability that allows for travel to parallel universes. Ignoring that part, I would say that if you're from the material plane and end up on the alternate material plane your not treated as extraplanar. So the multiverse is what I normal use to describe all the planes (including material) but will sometimes refer to it as simple "the universe". Plane are like heaven, hell, material, etc. Travelling to something other than your home plane makes you extraplanar. Travelling between planets isn't common, but it's not a different plane so nothing changes. ![]()
![]() I think what you need to look at is the extraplanar trait and to remember that the rules are written with a focus on adventures on material plane and from the perspective of the PCs. But when a character leaves their normal plane of residence, they do gain the extraplanar trait. Which allows them to be subject to spells like Dismissal. Quote:
So outsider specifically refers to things like Devils, Archons, etc. Being made from the essence of their home planes. But you can be extraplanar without being an outsider. So no, your human character never becomes an outsider (unless they have some special class feature that says so) but they can become extraplanar by leaving the material plane. ![]()
![]() ShieldLawrence wrote:
I definitely don't agree with your take. The rules for prone tell you that if you were knocked prone while flying you need to look at the rules for falling. Falling says you only land prone if you take damage from the fall. If a flier successfully arrest their fall (easy check, but maybe you get lucky and they've already used their reaction) then they wont take any damage and will land on their feat. ![]()
![]() I think the biggest reasons should be "why waste your limited resource of versatile evocation on an enemy that doesn't have fire/resistance immunity" coupled with knowing that some of the best spells are fire based. People love fireball. Like sure, if you need to get around an energy type it makes sense but otherwise the default would be to not bother changing the energy type. ![]()
![]() I would advise you not to assume a GM would allow you truefrost elixirs, since those are an AP specific item. It's not to say you wont be allowed to have some, but I wouldn't build around that expectation. But to your point, in PF1 there is little reason to build around fire if you get an ability that lets you change the energy type. Excepting that there is a limit to how often you can use Versatile Evocation. And depending on build, there are more ways to enhance fire damage (that I'm aware of) than other energy types. Not as an admixture wizard necessarily. But blaster focused characters will sometimes dip sorcerer and grab the bloodline that grants extra fire damage*. I'm blanking on which one that is, I thought orc but it Orc works on any energy type. ![]()
![]() zeonsghost wrote:
Thanks for holding a mirror up to society and life on this planet. Tieflings can represent whatever common scape goat is used in your neck of the woods to create division and other-ing people. ![]()
![]() Lyfe wrote:
It's not the mechanic specifically though, it's just the system limits. No one gets to design weapons from scratch. Like you could play any class with engineering as a skill (not even a class skill, just take the skill) and you can build weapons. It's just the benefits are very minimal to doing so. If you want to pretend like you designed your own weapon that's fine, but mechanically you'll have to use something on this list. I should note also that the class is called Mechanic, not Inventor. And really what the mechanic class does is let you use a drone as a combat buddy (and your drone is better than what other people can buy) or have an computer in your brain that let's you be better than you could on your own physically. They can't let you design weapons willy nilly, they'd end up mechanically broken and be a problem for game play. Or they would be so limited that they'd be worse than other options. ![]()
![]() JuliusCromwell wrote:
Well, it's worth noting that once you get a magical version of the weapon, the fragile quality goes away. So a +1 terbutje is no longer fragile. And there's also a steel terbutje which is the same weapon, but made out of steel instead of wood and rocks, and lacks the fragile quality. Fragile also only comes up when you roll a nat 1, so hopefully not that often. You might make it far enough that you can get a magical one without it being an issue. The steel terbujte could end up being made of any of the special materials that any normally steel weapon could. You wouldn't have to drop the shield as the terbutje is a one handed weapon, but it you will have a competing need of feats for Unhindering Shield and then working into shatter defenses but you totally can do it. I would suggest at early levels use the terbutje two-handed, pick up power attack, use slayer talents to grab ranger combat style for menacing style grabbing dazzling display and shatter defenses. Pick up cornugon smash as well. Later on you can grab shield focus and unhindering shield if you want to. I'd also grab the hurtful feat, which will let you make an extra attack when you successfully intimidate. So you walk up to an enemy and attack with power attack, cornugon smash let's you make a free intimidate check to demoralize. If successful you have shatter defenses which makes them flat-footed next time you hit, until the end of your next turn. You can use a swift action for hurtful which will let you hit them again, invoking Shatter Defenses. Next turn all your attacks will benefit from flat-footed, including allow you to sneak attack. It's a lot of feats, but it'll come together beautifully afterwards. ![]()
![]() I'm going to assume you meant WMD (weapon of mass destruction) not WND which I have no idea what that would be an acronym for. As far as what you can create...well not a lot to be honest. You see, the rules for Starfinder don't cover trying to create "custom" weapons of any sort beyond using the table of already stated up weapons, applying weapon mods/augments (which also already have stats) and at most crafting those items yourself. But crafting items yourself has very little value in Starfinder. You can see the rules for crafting items here. So, you can make weapons with mods/augments that already stated. If you choose to make heavy weapons, some of them are line, cone, or other area of effect weapons which could be called "WMDs". But I get the sense that's not what you're after. I think you're after making a completely custom item that would have better stats than the items in books/SRD. And there are simply no rules to do that, nothing that even comes close. And if you did it wouldn't be balanced. So it's going to be completely up to a GM what they would allow you to do. ![]()
![]() I don't know the mechanics of whatever rules your talking about, likely because they're specific to the AP. But you're not really going to calculate a pattern of what I'm assuming are random dice rolls, not if they're truly random. Now physical dice are unlikely to be 100% purely random, but they're close enough that you're not going to gain much useful information trying to calculate the probabilities. If the question is about whether your character calculating the chances counts as cheating with the context of the story...well I'll tell you Vegas doesn't like it when you count cards, but it's not technically cheating and they can't refuse to pay you your winnings for it. They will, once they figure it out, politely ask you to leave and tell you that you are no longer allowed to gamble at their establishment and refuse you service which they are within their right to do. If this were to be a less reputable establishment they might harm you for doing it, though they wouldn't be within their rights to do so (normally speaking) and there if they did this kind of thing I would presume they would do it to any winners (of high enough value) regardless of calculating probabilities or not. ![]()
![]() Lyfe wrote:
I don't understand your question. Heavy weapons are for PCs/NPCs to use in regular "person to person" combat. Starship weapon aren't intended to be used in that kind of combat at all. There is a sidebar someplace that says if a starship is involved in "person to person" combat it's weapons deal 10 times the damage against characters as they do against other starships, because they're different scales of weapons. So I guess the answer as I understand the question is, no your drone cannot even physically wield starship weapons. ![]()
![]() Also, for what it's worth the formula for calculating your chance to hit is: 1 - [(AC - attack bonus -1)/20] So if you have a +5 to attack vs an AC of 20 you have to roll a 15 or better to hit. Since rolls of 15 to 20 all hit, you have a 30% chance to hit (each number on a d20 has a 5% chance of appearing, 6 values in this example succeed). So 20-5-1 = 14. 14/20 = 0.7. 1 -0.7 = 0.3 *100% = 30%. There other ways to write the equation but they all work out the same way. ![]()
![]() JuliusCromwell wrote:
"Biggest" as in "in game the physically largest" or has the largest damage die? In either case I would say that neither of those things end up actually making an effective character. Weapon damage dice make up a very small portion of your damage after a certain level. Consider my earlier example, at level 1 the greataxe made up about 52% of your damage. But for the scimitar build (which did more damage) the weapon only made up 26% of the damage. And as you level up and get any bonuses weapon damage dice becomes increasingly less relevant. As for imagery of a large weapon...I've always personally felt just describing my weapon the way I want to the GM and players was enough, even if the weapons stats didn't quite fall in line with that. You shouldn't have to play something mechanically inferior just to be able to describe your character as having a big weapon, something with no mechanical impact. ![]()
![]() JuliusCromwell wrote:
You can make an effective combatant wielding a axe and shield, I was simply pointing out that the method of using Jotun grip to wield a two-handed weapon in one hand is mathematically worse than just using a regular one-handed weapon. May I suggest you play a Slayer with a steel terbutje (it's like an axe, a saw and a club had a baby) and I'm suggesting it again because I'm a sucker for increased critical threat ranges. You could also wield a battle axe. Pick up a buckler as well. Eventually pick up Unhindering Shield which will let you wield a two-handed weapon and buckler. If your open to not using an axe you could take Shield Brace which allows you to use a two-handed weapon from the polearm or spear weapon group while also using the shield (but you do take the shield armor check penalty to your attack rolls so you want a light shield or buckler until you can make it mithral, which allows you to use a mithral heavy shield. The difference is only 1 point of AC. However this style allows you to use your two-handed weapon well two-handed. Which means improved strength scaling (1.5 strength to damage) and power attack scaling. And after picking up Shield Focus/Shield Brace your feats are open to build however you like, though Power Attack is an obvious choice. ![]()
![]() I have to tell you, that other than for "cool" factor, Jotun Grip is pretty bad. Especially as you increase in level. A greataxe deals 1d12 with a x3 crit modifier, and is a two-handed weapon but you're using it one handed with jotun grip at -2.
Let keep in mind power attack gives you a -1 penalty for +2 damage on one handed weapons. So our scimitar will deal 1d6+6 (22 str) damage for an average of 9.5 damage. But we aren't using power attack and have +2 to hit. If we activate power attack, we gain +4 damage, for 13.5. Our greataxe is 1d12 + 6 damage, average is 12.5 damage. Now you could activate power attack for more damage, but you're to hit is going to decrease by 2. As you continue to level you will get more bonuses to attack and damage that will make the difference not so apparent. But keep in mind ultimately the difference in raw damage between a scimitar and greataxe is 3.5 average damage vs 6.5 average damage. Based on the 1 point of attack for 2 points of damage of power attack, this basically always a bad trade to use jotungrip. Now, if you took 3 level of titan mauler barbarian for oversized weapons, and got the orc butchering axe (3d6 damage for medium) and instead use a large size one which you can wield thanks to massive weapon ability (although the penalties are bad) and the math can lean in favor of such shenanigans. Especially if you add in other size change stuff, such as being enlarged. I think there is a rule about 1 effective and 1 actual size change so wield a large size butchering axe, while enlarged, with one of the various effective size change affects your weapon can do some crazy damage. ![]()
![]() UnArcaneElection wrote:
Yeah, good point. People play dex magi primarily because of point buy or bad rolls. But if you had a stat array (I give a generous one in PF1 of 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11) it's a lot easier to put 16/15 in strength and int, 14 in dex, and go about your business. It just takes a significant effort/cost to get dex to damage for magus (or most anyone), and without it your damage takes a significant hit. It's mostly a problem at lower levels (say before level 7) but that's still a significant portion of play. Of course, getting to a point where you can ignore strength with dex to damage is going to be more optimized than needing both strength and dex, but I think it makes the lower level play experience much more challenging. And if your GM doesn't let you get agile weapons (already a significant cost) then you get shoehorned into very specific builds. ![]()
![]() Dagnew wrote:
I would say that's impossible. Not impossible to create an alchemical consumable elixir that affects a person's lifespan in general, but impossible for the PCs to figure out the Sun Orchid Elixir recipe, even the "reject" version. The lore around the elixir is that it's a closely guarded secret, and if it could be replicated probably other people would have done so in the 3000 years it's been a thing. However, I do like saying yes to players when it's reasonable and an elixir of "extend my life from 1 to infinite years" has minimal actual bearing on the game. I would allow, as a 20th level alchemist feat, something that worked like the philosopher's stone feat which would grant you a recipe for an a special elixir that would work like the sun orchid elixir (but only for you) and work like the reject elixir for others. I realize it's functional not very different, but from a lore stand point the alchemist is creating their own formula not duplicating sun orchid formula. And they tune it to their physiology so it doesn't work as well for others. Oh, and probably add a restriction to only create 1 a year. Edit: Rereading your statement you may have intended essentially what I just suggested and I misunderstood your post in my original statement, but I'm just going to let it ride as is. ![]()
![]() To me "when" vs "whenever" doesn't make a difference. The process plays out like this:
As for the question of "it is always on" yes in the sense that it doesn't take an action to activate and affects any enemy that meets the condition of you having successfully demoralized. No, it's not "always on" in the sense that they must first be demoralized by you. ![]()
![]() Scarletrose wrote:
I mostly agree with you, but do disagree about evil aligned outsiders. I do believe they are naturally going to be evil, however like any creature, with effort they can change so they are not irredeemably evil. However, I also believe the amount of effort is incredibly high, because the souls that created the devil/demon/daemon in the first place were evil. They are made from the essence of evil. But tieflings, no. I do not believe one wit that they are predispositioned innately to evil, but do think that the societies they tend to grow up in will make them like resented outsiders and it is easy for them to fall down an evil path. ![]()
![]() QuidEst wrote:
The lore also says that the reject elixirs are given to the failed bidders as a partial compensation because they don't get their money back from the bid. So presumably there isn't a "infinite" supply. However, this should really mean that it shouldn't have a fixed price. It should still be rare and though there are more than 6 per year, it's probably not enough that anyone with 10,000 gp can get it. Although it is worth noting that PCs wouldn't have that kind of cash until between 14th and 15th level (in PF2). And PCs wouldn't want spend all their wealth on this item (probably). And you have competition from merchants and other wealthy people (presumably).
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