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High time for a petition. I've asked nicely on the boards previously, and even talked to Mike Brock in person about it. His, albeit jokingly, response was that since it was the one thing he had held out about with his wife, he was sticking to his guns. My wife, son, and I all play and run games at cons now. We are there for multiple days and often times at different tables, so our one portfolio can't cut it. We like wearing other shirts at cons (I'm a Browncoat) and our Goblin plushies (Grungebutt and Flingapoo) are beloved family members and travel with us to every con.

Venture Captain, Eagle Night, First Paladin of Cayden Cailean Cormac O'Bron, The World's Worst Rogue [TM], having proved his magnificent ruffly shirt was too much for any monster in the Tomb of the Iron Hydra to overcome, is now a Weaponmaster (Kukri) 12th / Knife Master 4th.

Good on ya!

Having bested the nefarious Stone Giant Mokmurian, Venture Captain/Eagle Knight Cormac O'Bron, The World's Worst Rogue [TM], is now a Weapon Master (Kukri) 11/Knife Master 4. He has taken to considering himself the first Paladin of Cayden Cailean and is overjoyed to announce his recent marriage to his Medusa fiance.

As a PFS GM with about a year and almost 2 stars under my belt, I've yet to TPK and have only killed 2 PCs. Once was a a fluke, a flurrying/extra attacking monk took a Paladin PC from full health to death in a boss fight but had multiple crits in the flurry.

The other one was King of the Storval Stairs, which if run as directed nearly insures a PC death if not a TPK imnsho.

Rock on with your bad self homie!

I will strongly second the vote for Quest for Perfection 1-2-3 and Dragon's Demand. Both feel like path kinda deals.

My wife, boy (11), and I are all PFSers and I always try to have my wife and or I at Little Man's table. If you do have a mixed table, it is usually not a good idea to have the kids sit next to each other if at all possible. My gut reaction would be to steer clear of an all kids table, they would be too distracting to each other, but that's just my two centavos.

Another vote for the Asus Transformer!

I want to make a beatboxing Bard.

Not enough Like Buttons IN THE WORLD!

You can only play the bagpipes if you promise to play nothing but AC/DC!

I thought so. Whats Cormac on about then?

Cormac is a fighter/rogue with Fortified Drinker and noble aspirations!

Because when that list was made, there was no option for levels beyond 12. New options have presented themselves since its inception.

And thus a new thread to reflect those options! Game, set, and match the drunken paladin of Cayden Cailean!!!

Just to let you guys know, this thread already exists. It covers all 12+ PCs.

Then why call it "Level 12 Character List?" Seems a bit of a misnomer.

I PFS because it is something my wife and child can do with me without feeling left out!

Venture Captain Cormac O'Bron reporting for duty!!! The Eyes of the Ten are Upon Me! Weapon Master (Kukri) 9, Knife Master 4.

Patient Optimist is referring to the Try Again option under Diplomacy...

Gotcha. I was thinking the retry was gonna be a free action, which woulda been OP as all get out, but this makes much more sense!

It is still a KICKASS combo for my Musetouched Bard!

WOW... just wow. These two can't work together as well as I think they do, can they????

Patient Optimist (Trait, Religion):
Benefits: You gain a +2 trait bonus on Diplomacy checks to influence hostile or unfriendly creatures, and if you fail at such an attempt, you may retry it once.

Antagonize (feat):
Benefit: You can make Diplomacy and Intimidate checks to make creatures respond to you with hostility. No matter which skill you use, antagonizing a creature takes a standard action that does not provoke attacks of opportunity, and has a DC equal to 10 + the target’s Hit Dice+ the target’s Wisdom modifier. You cannot make this check against a creature that does not understand you or has an Intelligence score of 3 or lower. Before you make these checks, you may make a Sense Motive check (DC 20) as a swift action to gain an insight bonus on these Diplomacy or Intimidate checks equal to your Charisma bonus until the end of your next turn. The benefits you gain for this check depend on the skill you use. This is a mind-affecting effect.
Diplomacy: You fluster your enemy. For the next minute, the target takes a –2 penalty on all attacks rolls made against creatures other than you and has a 10% spell failure chance on all spells that do not target you or that have you within their area of effect.

If it were me I would go strait fighter, Human, and use the weapon finesse power attack combo to keep me focused on Dex.

Archetype: Buckler Duelist (Inner Sea Primer)

Traits: Rice Runner and Heirloom Weapon choosing the +2 trait bonus on one kind of combat maneuver when using that specific weapon. You will eventually have to pay for Masterwork Transformation to get the specific weapon enchanted, BUT CRAZY WORTH IT!

Prestige Class: Duelist 7-12.

(LOL, now I wanna make this character)

I find it is good idea to have a binder of pregens for both newbs and old schoolers, especially at cons. Better to have them and not need them than to need them and not have them.

Cormac O'Bron, The World's Worst Rogue [TM]: Weapon Master (Kukri) 8, Knife Master 4

A varisian human who's an able drinker, steadfast follower of Cayden Cailean (as long as he's headed into a tavern), and part time Andoran freedom fighter.

Headed for 13th in just a few weeks by way of Eyes of the Ten come Space City Con!

http://www.spacecitycon.com/

I want to trade my Wayang race boon for a Goblin race boon.

I would even be willing to throw in $10.

My son REALLY wants to play a Gobo!

Resistance WAS futile. He HAS BEEN assimilated. Welcome 1 of 1.

An ugly bald dwarf, clad in scale mail surveys the room. Looks at the human dressed up as a halfing:

"Fer shame, Cormac. When did the Andorans start deliverin' messages for Sczarni?"

"I am, at heart, a Varisian first and a rogue a close second. I came by freedom fighting through the back door as it were, on account of a debt of honor." Cormac reverently touches an intricate scarf about his neck, "My people would laugh themselves silly if they knew how many times being so honor bound has brought me to the brink of destruction."

You are just about to drift off to sleep when a voice from the darkest corner of your room whispers in a thick Varisian accent, "You forgot to check under your pillow, boyo. There is the slightest of stirrings in the air and you can sense you are once more alone. Reaching under your pillow you find the following written in a neat hand:

The Cheliax faction has long been on my mind for I am a skilled seducer, a skilled performer, and have done favors for servants of the Dark Prince from time to time but long have I pondered if they would resent my not wanting to hand over the material plane to his rule.

Fine and dandy if you want to be tied to the whims of an insane sadistic dominatrix and the Devils who work her puppet strings.

The Lantern Lodge and their culture fascinates me to no end but experience has shown that such things easily fall to a blade or fireball spell. My legacy must endure long after my bones are dust in the wind.

Is their dedication to honor and face any different from the fanatic need for doctrine of the Paladins and other do gooders of the Silver Crusade? Hardly.

If you want to set your own path, unshackled by doctrine or creed, there is only one path for you, lad. We of the Sczarni have a saying, "A man is what he makes of himself."

Cormac O'Bron wrote:

From here on out, I'm gonna give all my monsters Boots of STFU: +100 to resist trip attacks!

Why don't you just use the rules? Your players will feel less butthurt then.

So the Ogres who took over Fort Rannick all suddenly have enough monk levels to take Monkey Style! Yea, my PCs will not have anything to say about that lol.

Thanks for all the posts, I was just venting. It really is more about the PC in question who ALWAYS plays something that completely gets under my skin. He's a min maxing power gamer who looks for broken builds on purpose.

Hmmm. Worms and Incorporeal beings to team up for the win! With a swarm of Harpies to finish them off!

Except I am running Rise of the Runelords and my party will get uppity if snakes and ghosts start showing up every encounter for no apperent reason, lol.

A monk doing his job is something to celebrate.

Job schmob, tripping when you are attacked as an interrupt is broken with a capitol B.

I've see a lot of DMs homebrew a Reflex save to resist tripping and am seriously considering it myself.

I'm running Rise of the Runelords and one of the characters is playing a Flowing Monk. Even bossfights are now NOTHING to my party because my monsters are always flat on their backs, followed by AOs for standing up, and finishing off with never getting their full round of attacks because they were too busy standing up!

Tripping Monks were broken in 3.0, even more broken in 3.5, and CONTINUE their broken streak here in Pathfinder.

From here on out, I'm gonna give all my monsters Boots of STFU: +100 to resist trip attacks!

Temple of Empyreal Enlightenment: My son's Halfling Beastmaster Ranger, riding a war dog, jumped from a raised stage into a fountain screaming "Cannonball!!!" in mid air.

I have yet to see a Divination specialist wizard in all of PFS.

Does the Core Rulebook T-Shirt provide a PFS reroll?

I am running RotRL and I did all the legwork for my homebrew players and it turned both my wife and a good friend into PFS regulars!

I have a character who will be level 13 at the end of Eyes of the Ten which I will playing in at a Con in the beginning of August. I am also running Rise of the Runelords in my homebrew game and generating PFS credit for that.

It looks like I will be able to apply the follwing sheets to my 13th level character:

“Fortress of the Under Jorgenfist (areas B1–C9) 12–14

Making him 14th level, and

“Sins of the Saviors” Runeforge (Parts Three–Ten) 14–16

Making him 15th level.

My questions are:

1) Is this correct?

2) Do I get a sash and tiara upon reaching 15th level?

Each book has a sanctioned portion, which each will provide a different Chronicle.

Except Rise of the Runelords Anniversary Edition, which has one portion per chapter.

Improved Invis and Mirror Image are redundant. The images must be visible in order for them to get 'popped', and the images mimic your appearance. If you're invisible, so are they, and thus useless while under the effects of improved invis.

Until you get glitterdusted, invis purged, or see invis-ed.

Murderous command is worthless, and not on the wizard spell list. I'll walk over and try to punch someone, And you're using a cleric spell...

Mystic Theurge Baby!!!! (Psych, just got a wand and a high UMD, lol)

the best answer?

Get the Judge to issue a warning - no PvP guys!

;)

Chill, Winston, we're just smack talking.

Cormac O'Bron wrote:

Benrislove wrote:

If you have an optimized Zen archer, it's generally wise for people to simply stand behind you, while you kill everything and have too high of AC/saves to get hit by anything. This can detract from the fun of others.

Step One: Stoneskin

Step Two: Ice Storm (no save, no evasion, NO NOTHING).

Repeat step 2 till said archer is a puddle of goo.

Adamant weapon blanch on 10 arrows is only 100 GP. My zen archer has 20 ^_^, plenty to kill a wizard.

I'm pretty sure the archer will actually kill you faster than the ice storm will kill them with that plan, but wizards can do many other things, including wind wall.

A Wizard can certainly beat a zen archer, Wizards are full casters that is what they do. My point is that IN PFS I haven't run into encounters that handle 30 AC and good all saves at level 6.

Wizard, Cleirc, Druid, Witch are the most powerful classes in the game, because they can handle ANYTHING, however if they aren't prepared for it (READ: Most NPC mages) they will get crushed by way too high numbers. :)

Sigh... Step 3: Improved Invis

Repeat step 6 till you kill your whole party.

But you are right, PFS vs. Ranged Specialist (and if they are flying, it gets even sicker) is a mismatch.

If you have an optimized Zen archer, it's generally wise for people to simply stand behind you, while you kill everything and have too high of AC/saves to get hit by anything. This can detract from the fun of others.

Step One: Stoneskin

Repeat step 2 till said archer is a puddle of goo.

Roughly: "Often Scyld, son of Scef, from enemy Mike Brock, ... the mead-bench tore, awing the earls." Swapping 'Mike Brock' in place of 'Scyld Scefing' makes a lot more sense.

It would if I sought to praise him, which I shall never do as long as he has his jackbooted heel on the neck of plushy goblins everywhere!

Hwæt! We Gar-Dena in gear-dagum

þeod-cyninga, þrym gefrunon,

hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon!

Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena Mike Brock's

monegum mægþum meodo-setla ofteah;

egsode eorl[as] syððan ærest wearð

feasceaft funden; he þæs frofre gebad,

weox under wolcnum, weorð-myndum þah,

oðæt him æghwylc þara ymb-sittendra

ofer hron-rade hyran scolde,

gomban gyldan. Þæt wæs god cyning!

I think the more varied you make the game, the more fun it becomes. I would rather see race boons given to non-con GMs though, to encourage GMing.

I was in a game once where phantom steed got a poisoned character to the temple back in town just in time to save him.

Two observations:

1) My only kill as a GM in PFS (so far, mwu ha ha) came from a boss fight monk taking a full HP paladin all the way to past negative con in one round. It was as a result of the monk giving up a round positioning himself to get his full flurry on anyone who approached him. These were the directions in his tactics block, and I did not get the reason till I saw it in action. BUT the characters had been warned by an NPC that the boss was a hand to hand combat monster, and the paladin chose to go up without anyone else around to spread the love to.

2) We were at a con this weekend and were in a party without a rogue. My wife, a full hp cleric, triggered a trap causing a statue to fall on her putting her at EXACTLY her negative con. The GM was nice and let her use her portfolio reroll to be at 1 point from death and we saved her.

Two Conclusions:

1) Sometimes a GM's hands are tied. The original example at the top of the tread sounds like 2 mobs ending up together and that is the fastest way to a TPK.

2) Some GMs are gonna cut you some slack, some are not. I personally would not play a care bear RPG which did not allow for death.

Who said there would not be faction missions??? I thought the podcast made it pretty clear that not only would there be faction missions, but they were going to evolve into some either/or situations and the overwhelming tally of the path taken would steer the faction down different decision trees.

What they did say was there might not be SPECIFIC faction missions for each faction each adventure. Those factions without specific missions might have overarching goals instead.

My knee jerk reaction here is to agree with the folks who said "have a backup character ready if things don't look like they are gonna pan out for you" You could always (ok, usually) play a pregen and apply the sheet to your character.

I was at a table at a con recently and during character introduction it turned out we had three Chelaxian Tieflings in the party, A rogue, a ninja, and a necromancer. A guy at the table playing an Aasimar Silver Crusade Pally just got up and walked away, lol.

That is not to say you can't disagree with an evil act another character commits and take measures, short of attacking the character, to rectify the situation. Case in point: at another recent con I was on a table where a character on cut a deal with a Naga, exchanging its freedom for some information. My character, who was a CN Andoran Fighter Rogue, said, "Not just no, but hell no!" and attacked the Naga because that's how I felt he would react.

Can a (particularly malevolent) GM use shirt rerolls for bad guys?

Semaphore??? Smoke signals??? Interpretive dance???

Two Observations:

1) Three threads up from this is a thread called "Has PFS gone too far into 'hard mode'?"

2) I was in a 7-11 online mod last night that killed two characters.

It wasn't the monsters or the GM that killed the characters last night, although a good GM with the right attitude can make the simplest mod an exciting and deadly good time (as anyone who has played on a table run by, say, Mike Brock can attest). I was a front rank type who never went below 1/2 hit points the whole time last night and you know why? Because I prepare for the worst and adjust my tactics CONSTANTLY to give myself the upper hand. I've drunk a gallon of antitoxin when I didn't need to, spent THOUSANDS of gold pieces on buff scrolls even though I can't cast a single spell, I am almost never near the party when an AOE goes off, and I would say AT LEAST 50% of my gp expenditure has gone to defensive items.

Also at three points in the game last night characters made choices that triggered my inner voice to scream, 'why on earth would an adventurer worth his/her salt make a decision like that?' I never said anything out loud because hey, your character, your call. But in each of those three cases it went PHENOMENALLY SOUTH for the character in question shortly thereafter.

I'm not saying that in any given mod there is not a chance to snuff it hard. The character I am bragging on here has a death under his belt (back to back Ice Storms, no save, no evade). What I am saying is the choices you make both in your build and on the table can make it hard for even the best GM to kack you.

Two Observations:

1) Three threads down from this is a thread called "PFS Too Safe For Characters?"

2) I was in a 7-11 online mod last night that killed two characters.

It wasn't the monsters or the GM that killed the characters last night, although a good GM with the right attitude can make the simplest mod an exciting and deadly good time (as anyone who has played on a table run by, say, Mike Brock can attest). I was a front rank type who never went below 1/2 hit points the whole time last night and you know why? Because I prepare for the worst and adjust my tactics CONSTANTLY to give myself the upper hand. I've drunk a gallon of antitoxin when I didn't need to, spent THOUSANDS of gold pieces on buff scrolls even though I can't cast a single spell, I am almost never near the party when an AOE goes off, and I would say AT LEAST 50% of my gp expenditure has gone to defensive items.

Also at three points in the game last night characters made choices that triggered my inner voice to scream, 'why on earth would an adventurer worth his/her salt make a decision like that?' I never said anything out loud because hey, your character, your call. But in each of those three cases it went PHENOMENALLY SOUTH for the character in question shortly thereafter.

I'm not saying that in any given mod there is not a chance to snuff it hard. The character I am bragging on here has a death under his belt (back to back Ice Storms, no save, no evade). What I am saying is the choices you make both in your build and on the table can make it hard for even the best GM to kack you.

I would Kobiashi Maru the bejesus outta the thing and find a way to track down the Pathfinders one by one while they slept after making them believe they had already had the "boss fight." I'm a nearly 12th level CN fighter/rogue, I DO NOT believe in fighting fair.