I'm just not a big fan of lv1 combat. Its too swingy. I will start there if I want the campaign to be more brutal and feel more on the edge because session 1 really is about establishing tone for the rest of the campaign. Otherwise we are starting at lv3 so they actually can definitely beat generic goon squad. Also lets the players start with a small variety of options.
Working on a magus character who for flavor purposes needs to be wielding a scythe. I need either a way to remove the penalty for wielding an undersized weapon or another way of wielding a scythe one handed. All the ways of removing size penalties are for oversized weapons not undersized. I would strongly prefer to remain a magus but dips are ok.
Balanced. Going all in on one is inefficient pointwise and paladin gets a lot out of both stats. Either being slightly higher is fine but they should have roughly equal investment.
Oozemorph. I love oozes. I want to play an ooze. I just wish it worked at all
270. Grade
271. Distance Sight
272. Calculate
273. Tell Time
274. Trace, Lesser
275. Trace
276. Trace, Greater
277. Predict
278. Predict, Greater
279. Recall
280. Timer
I would say that it depends on how good your gm is at adapting. If they run things exactly the same way every time then a balanced party is a good idea if not required. If their willing to adapt the game then everybody wins :)
"An attempt to subvert the paladin code by engineering a situation allowing you to use a higher tenet to ignore a lower tenet (telling someone that you won't respect lawful authorities so that the tenet of not lying supersedes the tenet of respecting lawful authorities, for example) is a violation of the paladin code." This particular bit is going to be a headache.
You have officially made good > law..... Paladins are now Asimov robots free of making moral decisions. Great.... I would like the option to choose law > good. Otherwise we are just Good kinda lawful not Lawful Good. Glad to know other paladin alignments will be considered. Asmodean Paladins ftw(a great example of law>evil).
Ring of Invisibility + Mindblank. You will literally never find me good sir. I suppose I could ruin your life. Make everything in the multiverse want you dead, alter the laws of physics to make your abilities worthless, and remove your afterlife. But why would I? There is no threat
I like most of this. I was surprised to see that Channel Energy and Spell Points are not connected. I was expecting them to draw from the same pool. My knee-jerk reaction is "don't like!" because I thought the whole point of Spell Points was to get away from having to track several different resource pools. I'll wait to see how things play out at the table though.Spell Points are used for abilities unique to their pool and to the class. The spells from channel are essentially more prepared spells per day. So in order to make them simpler you removed bonus spells per day from wisdom and added them from cha but only as heal/harm spells?
Lv5 party. A huge size red dragon lands in front of the party and demands tribute for passing through his lands. Everyone in the party pays except for the party monk. Monk:"Guys I'm broke"
Tribute was 500gp
Fighter- I jump in the water after them!
LE. I am righteous and I know it. You can't handle the truth.
there's plenty of reason to not play it like pfs. No houserules. Limited rewards. Limited materials for use. Limited to campaign modules. Alignment restrictions. Restrictions on possible player actions. Forced use of all official interpretations. Correct me if I'm wrong on any of those. Not entirely sure on all the rules. Not hating or saying badwrongfun but there is definitely reason @OP if still reading this I also recommend plot XP. Swapped over 4 years ago and it is so much better than encounter based. Also have a current game with roughly 4 players that can't attend often. It helps them out a ton.
I love goblins. Their so much fun. However their not core race material. Guess 2e wanted to copy 5e's core drow scandal.
That 70's show Leo but with spells and a pet owlbear
You already asked the 3 big questions. Which are his goals? Why is he evil? How do you make that work within the party? Answer these and your done 1. Anything that anyone else would want. Evil is usually how someone achieves his goals not the end goals themselves.
The biggest problem I have with evil characters is not how well he works with the party, its how well the party works with him. Its not just about how to justify your character working with others. Its actually really easy to justify an evil character working with good characters. You also need to make sure the other players can work with you. Good has a much bigger problem with evil than evil usually does with good. Also Know that every table has an invisible line of sand for morality that is just not acceptable even from evil characters. I would start small then slowly edge your way there. Not only does this make it less likely the other players and characters will want to murder you, it also makes for a nice character development phase even for established evil characters Brilliant post DeathlessOne @Possible Cabbage. One of my favorite theories on afterlife goes as follows. The evil planes aren't actually meant to be a punishment for the dead. Merely an environment that individuals of that particular alignment would thrive in. Ex: LE: a giant bureaucracy made to screw people over through lawful means. CE: an endless pit of doing whatever you want in a kill or be killed environment. Same thing applies to neutral planes. Alternatively if they see themselves as a hero they could easily see it as a heroic sacrifice. I will save the world even if it means my eternal damnation. Can think of plenty of great villains with such a line. Tarquin from order of the stick also had a fun rational. Yes I'll get a horrible end. But in the meantime I get to live like a god for 40 years.
[/i] This sadistic thug is the brother of another party member (who is true neutral). They have grown up watching each others' backs, and are experienced fighting as a team (e.g., CE brother is a dirty trick fighter and N sister is a rogue.) His sister does her best to keep him out of too much trouble, and help him escape the consequences when he does get himself in a nasty situation. Although this character enjoys hurting other people, displaying dominance, and generally feeling like he is powerful, he does care for his sister and is ferociously protective of her, going to any extreme to punish someone who threatens her (sometimes to the extent that she must try her best to restrain him lest he overreact.) That description only describes a small part of the character. Mostly just his biggest motivation/trigger. I could make a character with at least any non good alignment from that description. Pretty sure the point was to give a good example of why a CE character might long term might stay with the party and remain loyal Other reasons include
The problem is that many players view CE as an excuse to murder hobo. Its an alignment that has been as misrepresented as paladins The best way to avoid being a kill sociopath is to not make yourself one. Maybe killing isn't your first reaction to every single problem. It doesn't even have to be a moral objection. Mass murder typically causes problems when other people find out. There is a dial on both chaotic and evil that can be tuned while still falling in the alignment. That doesn't mean you can't still screw with people whenever they piss you off. Rob them. Commit arson. Get them drunk and break their legs in a dark alley. Spit in their food. Harass their family. Turn invisible and open their office door every time they sit down. Plant contraband and report it. Forge a fake love letter and leave it for their wife to find. The point is there are options other than murder and you can have fun using them You don't have to disagree with LG to be CE. Heck you can even agree their more virtuous. No one always acts in accordance with their conscience. A CE could just have done so until he doesn't even notice anymore. He could think himself to weak to follow a virtuous path and doesn't see the point in trying to change his ways. If you want to disagree with LG it gets a bit more complicated. He might find good and evil to be relative terms. Different based on who you ask. Yeah angels might agree with you but what makes their opinion any better than the lower end of the alignment pool. He might have been raised in a society where the values of evil were encouraged and values of good were discouraged resulting in a reversed view on morality. Law vs Chaos is pretty easy to reframe into oppression vs freedom. Alternatively Snobbishness vs Open Mindedness. Traditional vs Free Thinker if you don't want to be opposed to Law just thinking them misguided You might believe that society revolves around social contract theory and that the individual only benefits from other people following it. Suckers.
Arcane Phalanx
Problem 2. For world building I made a scale for typical level to world status. The idea is that as you do stuff you gain Xp and become more famous/prestigious so you move up in the world. Hence you assign default levels based on their position in their line of work. For example a 1st year carpenter's apprentice would probably be level 1 while the last year carpenter's apprentice would be level 4. Talented individuals will be higher than expected, untalented lower. Lv1-4 Apprentice- those still learning their field
This approach can be easily adjusted for higher or lower power games by making the level ranges bigger or smaller I like how your arranging the kingdoms. Not exactly sure what problem 3 is unless you just want kingdom ideas
Yeah numbers bonuses don't fix the tier system. Spellcasters are more powerful because they break the world around them. They have far more options both in and out of combat. Balance Options
@OP sorry but you did ask our opinions :)
Agents of Evil has a very ironically good feat for this. Wretched Curator. After completing one evil ritual, animate dead is no longer evil for you to cast even by RAW. Possibly because it doesn't look so evil by comparison. At some tables you gotta do what you gotta do
W1:1-6
F3:1+ R2:1-10
I play wizards very conservatively for spell slots used. This basically replaces my typical crossbow usage. First round or two throw out a few spells then swap to "I'm helping" Fighters just have better things to do. Unless the targets incorporeal your still better off with a bow almost regardless of build I can see rouges totally using it when they don't want to go melee or can't sneak attack. After the damage stops scaling I would have UMD to do other stuff with
Pure RAW leads to stupid things. RAI leads to less stupid things. RAI with houserules leads to new stupid things. I go for RAI with minimal houserules simply because that's what seems to work best.
I would say our perceptions are skewed on the matter. We have all manners of ways to hurt people in real life but loss of agency is rare and often scarier. Enchantment also is much more dangerous than evocation. That means more fear and therefore more stigma attached Another way to consider it might be that an evocation spell is a weapon while an enchantment spell turns the target into a weapon to be used against those around them, typically with them being aware or becoming aware later I agree logically that enchantment is as moral as evocation. However we are not logical creatures. Btw every game I play in has at least 1 dystopian regime member in it........
1. You screwed with a chronomancer
Black Mamba- cloak of resistance +5, prestidigitation keeps it clean and flowing back dramatically regardless of conditions, floating disk greater 1/day, and grants a +10 to perform(grand entrance) checks Rod of Bureaucratic Casting- as quicken rod greater but once you are no longer in combat you may not cast spells again until you fill out paperwork for a number of hours equal to the sum of the levels of the spells quickened 3.5's grog of substantial whimsy is always a good time
Cavalier Order of the Staff
Missing another spell lv2-4 but I haven't been able to find it again since I first found it There's also several teamwork feats but they have to take them as well or you have to jump through a lot of hoops to be able to be both able to cast and give them to allies.
Puzzle Box. Cast it on literally everything Shrink Object. Need to carry something? Need through a wall? Can't get the door open? Ever wish the floor beneath your enemies just wasn't there? This spell is more useful than a dagger both in use and what you can just carry around with you. I really don't know how many times a quickly deployed wall has saved my butt Full Pouch + Alchemical Tinkering. Between these two spells you are the greatest alchemist in the game. All those lists of alchemy items at your fingertips within 2 actions. Not only that but if you invest in heighten spell they all scale with your level Create Demiplane. Such a fun spell series. Create your own worlds with all kinds of fun rules to play with. Makes everything from literally inescapable prisons to awesome beach house downtime areas Secluded Spellbook. Also a touch attack
Hmmm. Seems like a disagreement on expectations. As gm you really can't be wrong here. Consequences are a part of the world you make and how harsh they are is ultimately up to you. In this case it seems there was a player/dm discrepancy in expectations so I would recommend a bit of mercy but not so much so that he doesn't get the point. I would give him a really really tough time of it but not an auto kill. Probably around 30% chance of living should do so CR15/16 if its solo probably with a few lesser encounters to weaken him first. I like the idea of a herald but there was one particular thing from 3.5 that might do better. Basically it was a clone of the player that pissed off a deity sent to kill that person. It had some nice buffs on top of the copy pasted stats notably that it couldn't be harmed or hindered by any but whoever it was sent for. The goal is to put him into a situation serious enough that he learns not to F*** with OP world individuals while still giving a fair chance of survival
Well not everyone plays the same way even in the same system Just in Pathfinder I've seen
You can add persistent for another +2 but that would put you at your level 9 cap. Spell perfection limits the highest you can get up to a 9 TOTAL level. IE you can only add a +6 net value in additions to a lv3 spell. The largest addition is then marked off(typically quicken at +4) and whatever remains is the spell slot spent. Magical lineage actually pushes this up by 1 level by lowering the cost before being considered Ex with your setup
Of course you can fill in the heighten levels with other metamagic but it makes for a good example due to its flexibility
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Alright going to do this step by step
Technically you can apply lineage to quicken first making it a lv4 spell but there is no benefit Heightened spell is the odd duck of the metamagic family. Due to the wording it cannot be reduced by cost metamagic modifiers by RAW. It doesn't "change" the level of the spell, it just allows you to prepare the spell at a higher level and reap the benefits of that. Heighten spell means you can cast it with a higher level slot to gain the benefits of it being a higher level spell(namely save dc but there are a few other instances where it matters). Keep in mind though that if you apply quicken spell with spell perfection this caps at a +2 level increase due to spell perfections lv9 limit Please let me know if you need anything clarified
Wand of mount. Its so very useful. Cover, mobility, trapfinding, meatshield, dps, and bonus perception checks all rolled into 1. Pearls of power are good however they are not meant for the same purpose as wands or scrolls. Wands are for spells that are good with low CL and benefit from spamming. Scrolls are for emergency spells that save your butt even without CL or spell save dc and normally aren't worth preparing. Pearls of power are for refreshing your day to day spells Cloak of Res, Ring of Protection, Bag of Holding, Boots of the Cat, Ion torch with heightened continual light, Hat of Disguise
Ring of Wizardry
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The Nethysian ring has a lot of potential though due to the spell level reduction Do note that while more cost efficient than pearls of power, echoing rods are not the most efficient for ALL spell levels(1,4,7) and cannot be used with other metamagic rod
I meant use a rod of echoing spell to recast a spell study spell. Echoing spell rod is actually a really cost efficient alternative to pearls of power
Occultist. Partial caster and partial combatant. He could be using old pieces of their parents adventuring gear for implements. With the right build he could end up outdoing either his brother or his sister BTW stealing this backstory for some NPCs. Nice job
Bed of Iron, Expeditious Construction, Open and Shut, Clarion Call, Petungrelo’s Validation, Mount Communal, Alchemical Tinkering, Full Pouch, Mindlocked Messenger, Aqueous Orb, Enlarge Person
Training(inner sea intrigue) +1 enchant- the wielder* gains a combat feat determined at the time of crafting so long as they meet all other perquisites. You may not use feats "gained" this way to meet other prerequisites Paraphrased but you get the idea. They can give anything from improved initiative to dodge to arcane strike to quickdraw. Very nice for finishing a feat chain or just grabbing a nice stat boost. Do note that wield is an undefined term so it is up for debate
Firstly I would address the EVIL of necromancy. Some groups follow RAW and say that since necromancy is "inherently evil" you can't remain good if using it regularly. The feat "Wretched Curator" removes the evil tag for those tables. Animate Dead, as Dasrak covered, is your go to spell for reanimating corpses. It does have a lesser version available 2 levels earlier that I recommend you take and trade out once you get the real deal. The feat False Focus helps tremendously with early onyx costs and is useful for many other common spells. The False Priest archetype gives you false focus and provides an upgrade to most bloodlines. Notably the ability to spend spellslots to use scrolls without using them up. This effectively gives you access to all the lovely cleric spells. Repair undead is another needed spell. Lastly Enervation, Possession, and False Life are my favorite non undead necromancy spells For bloodline I would go Arcane. Undead bloodline is lackluster. Meanwhile I have yet to see arcane bloodline be a bad idea While I agree with Dasrak its a bad idea, an Arcane Archer build is possible. Let me know if you want more details on that
NE. It to me represents Power at any Cost or in this case knowledge at any cost. Definitely south of neutral given his willingness to kill for knowledge. As others have pointed out the pursuit of knowledge is neither chaotic nor lawful. That axis would best be decided by factors not yet given about how he goes about discovering these laws. Also pointing out most of Cheliax is neutral not evil
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic-items/wondrous-items/wondrous-items/m-p/needl es-of-fleshgraving/ I can't find a size/weight limit
Also Red Fel did a brilliant guide to the alignment in 3.5 http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?448542-Compliance-Will-Be-Rew arded-A-Guide-to-Lawful-Evil
I trust them until given reason to not. The vast majority of DMs will do what is best. That said I have never had a GM that I agree with entirely. The trick is to make sure everyone is having fun
Race Human- racial favored class bonus + bonus feat
Plays mostly like a fireball blaster but with Dragon's Breath instead. Costs you a bit more on rods but you a wide variety of CC you can use while hitting them
Been going through material trying to get as many spell slots as possible that I can decide on the spot or at least in less than 15 minutes. To be clear I am not looking for versatile spells like summon monster. Exceptions are those that actually let me prepare spells. Just wondering if I missed anything Bonded Item
I would say something like(L to R is better to worse on tier) 1 Wizard, Witch, Caster Druid, Cleric, Melee Druid
Caster druid and cleric were close. Fighter and barbarian are also close. Probably just my biased love of brawler that puts it at t4 for me General Rules
Yeah they should be fine assuming their builds are decent
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