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If am playing a mesmerist, and i hit someone with an attack, i can trigger painful stare (easy)

If i have the manifold stare feat:
You can trigger your painful stare one additional time per round.

Can i trigger it twice on one attack, since its a free action?

I would say no, you only get to trigger it once per attack. Triggered effects are generally only able to be applied once per trigger, such as only being able to make one AoO from moving through a creature's threatened squares regardless of how many squares they move through in that move action.

Manifold Stare is useful for when you have allies attacking the same creature, or if you're getting multiple attacks on the creature.

i would counter that with AOOs specifically state you only get one AOO for each specific trigger, whereas manifold, and painful stare do not

If am playing a mesmerist, and i hit someone with an attack, i can trigger painful stare (easy)

If i have the manifold stare feat:
You can trigger your painful stare one additional time per round.

Can i trigger it twice on one attack, since its a free action?

Dear james,

If am playing a mesmerist, and i hit someone with an attack, i can trigger painful stare (easy)

If i have the manifold stare feat:
You can trigger your painful stare one additional time per round.

Can i trigger it twice on one attack, since its a free action?

Your thoughts? Errata needed or ask your gm question?

Leave an Opening* (Ex): The vigilante's hidden strike leaves an unbalancing opening in a foe's defenses, setting up the foe to be attacked again. At the beginning of the foe's next turn, if the vigilante threatens the foe, the foe provokes an attack of opportunity from the vigilante. Multiple attacks against the same foe don't create multiple attacks of opportunity in the same round (but attacks against several foes can cause each to provoke one attack of opportunity). Only a stalker vigilante can select this talent.

im still iffy on that, because he hasnt had an opportunity to act, AOOs resolve before any other actions

request for a FAQ
my question comes after this scenario:
vigilante stalker is after his target. target is completely unaware. Stalker uses his surprise round to special charge for some hidden strike (or if u have the talent up close and personal use that) damage. he has leave an opening talent as well. say they roll initiative and the prey goes first. the preys turn starts and the stalker gets an AOO from leave an opening.

the question then becomes does the stalker get the lowered hidden strike dice on this AOO and is the target flat footed since it "has not acted yet"?

didnt know, over the last year hes answered alot of questions of mine and i never knew his preference, good to know though.

Dear James,

my question comes after this scenario:
vigilante stalker is after his target. target is completely unaware. Stalker uses his surprise round to special charge for some hidden strike (or if u have the talent up close and personal use that) damage. he has leave an opening talent as well. say they roll initiative and the prey goes first. the preys turn starts and the stalker gets an AOO from leave an opening.

the question then becomes does the stalker get the lowered hidden strike dice on this AOO and is the target flat footed since it "has not acted yet"?

does the human alternate trait DUAL TALENT allow you to apply the +2 to the same stat or does it have to be different ones, by RAW it doesn't explicitly say different stats

Looking for a GM with standard rules but homebrews that make sense are fine. Previously I was the GM (out of dire need) but we are looking to expand our horizons. We have 3-4 players with 3 of us having nearly entirely open schedules. player personalities:
PICO is... pico...
Zeni is a short figure skater with memory issues but we love him (may or may not be grill).
I (Michael) am a super serious finder of paths, I can be tactless (am working on it.)
Rednose is quick to believe he is the main character of the story takes failures of the group somewhat personally.

You will have fun but no promises to finish the campaign quickly.

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Dear James,

I must say i am not very familiar with deities in pathfinder. so my first question is what is the difference between a divine deity and a non-divine deity(obv power i assume)? the next question is how powerful are different deities, or is it just determined by me as the GM? do you use the divine ranks system from D20SRD or your own system? for example, would someone like Aroden who is a mortal who attained godhood be a divine diety or non-divine? and would he be closer to a demigods level of power or closer to Asmodeus who is a top tier level of power and a divine deity?

id join that club, i fit!---ish!

You told us what happened in character, how about out-of-character?

Were the other players having fun? Are they looking forward to the PvP? Has this player made problems before, either in this campaign or in other campaigns?

The first question should be, do you really want him back at the table? If you told him, "you're not part of the party anymore, so you don't need to come over" would the rest of the players sigh a collective sigh of relief, or would they be disappointed?

After you let us know what you want to do about the player, we can give you ideas on how to deal with his character.

everyone but the sorc was having fun, the people dont like each other too much it seems the more they talk the more they dislike each other. this player has trouble with anyone who doesnt play pathfinder pretty seriously.

hes my friend so i want him at the table but not at the expense of 5 other players thats not fair to them. the group would be happy hes not there but sad they didnt get to kill him.

i want him to freaking grow up and try to get along with the party but i doubt thats going to happen, and i would also like to remove him from the campaign if he cant get along but i dont want him to hate me for it haha

yeah it probably should be in advice i just thought since i was basically asking the rules on players killing players but yeah

Ok so my group of 6 had a fight, and the sorcerer was withholding information from the group in hopes that the group would die, while maintaining a position to try and run from the fight. they win the fight anyway and his idea is to run up, slight of hand loot all the stuff he wants before they can see it. our alchemist catches him doing it and tries to stop him. the sorc threatens the entire party basically saying if they try to stand against him he will kill them all. the alchemist ends up throwing an immolation bomb at him and the sorc manages to steal 3 items and flees. now that sorc is going around trying to get npcs to help him kill the party, saying they are evil and heritics and whatnot. am i out of bounds as a dm to either have him killed or ALLOW my group(who really wants to) to put a hit out on him/go and find and kill him.

also do i allow my high level story npcs to detect alignment? because the sorc is NE and i asume if the npcs can detect alignment then they are alot less likly to trust or listen to him at all.

James, i have an incident in my group and it has caused one of my players to want to betray everyone in the party and kill them all. he feels its because the group betrayed him, but hes the only one who sees it that way. how do i deal with this person without making the PERSON resent me.

P.S. i want to remove him from the game altogether, like have his character die or something but he wants to plot revenge WHAT DO!?!?

Hey James, what does Maahes, the Guardian Beast look like? is he directly made as Egyptian Maahes? or is he/she different for pathfinder?

i have a player that wants me to make an orb of undead like artifact from baulders gate. now i have no fing clue as to whether or not i should allow this or how to do this if so or anything. i dont know much about it but from what hes told me it seems crazy.
should i allow/spend my time creating the idea of this item for him to command an army of undead? also, he wants to remain neutral with all his necromancy minions and spells and ideas that also a conflict? feels like a conflict

i feel like people are getting the wrong idea, i am VERY willing to let them influence the story, in fact most of the time i encourage it. the only thing to me is that its kind of propitious to believe that some sorc can bust into the scene of this 3 way massive war and hope to topple all 3 of the factions when each faction has a god helping them. this whole problem came about BECAUSE im too allowing for people to do whatever they want story wise and i dont appreciate you implying to the contrary Marcus Robert Hosler.

the scroll of animate undead

he has the idea in his head he can just keep copying the same scroll to cast the spell

i am a newer DM/GM whatever, and i have a campaign that is both faction based(3 factions) and my players really wanted to be on different factions so i let them(perhaps im not very smart) but my groups have very different approaches. one is very martial based. controlling what they do is very easy when they get out of hand. tho i almost never have to worry about them. my other group however has someone who is bound and determined to try and break the game. hes casting spells with scrolls and such that his class cant learn/isnt a high enuff level to directly learn, using his ridiculous charisma to forcefully avoid fights but still want exp, every enemy he DOES defeat hes raising as skeletons or ghouls, and worst off i REALLY want people to choose a faction and stick with it, but hes determined to use this faction to get alittle ahead and build contacts and whatever then take over the faction himself/make his own faction.

TL:DR so my questions are do i raise the difficulty of someone whos using spells higher then his level/outside his class, and do i raise the difficulty for this person with an army of undead?

and how do i punish/slow down/stop someone who is abusing his overly high score? am i allowed to?

i feel like maybe some of my players are taking advanatage of the fact that im newer and im pretty nice and lenient

James, i have a question.
i am a newer DM/GM whatever, and i have a campaign that is both faction based(3 factions) and my players really wanted to be on different factions so i let them(perhaps im not very smart) but my groups have very different approaches. one is very martial based. controling what they do is very easy when they get out of hand. tho i almost never have to worry about them. my other group however has someone who is bound and determined to try and break the game. hes casting spells with scrolls and such that his class cant learn/isnt a high enuff level to directly learn, using his ridiculous charisma to forcfully avoid fights but still want exp, every enemy he DOES defeat hes raising as skeletons or ghouls, and worst off i REALLY want people to choose a faction and stick with it, but hes determined to use this faction to get alittle ahead and build contacts and whatever then take over the faction himself/make his own faction.

TL:DR so my questions are do i raise the difficulty of someone whos using spells higher then his level/outside his class, and do i raise the difficulty for this person with an army of undead?

and how do i punish/slow down/stop someone who is abusing his overly high score? am i allowed to?

James, i really want to play an orc or half-orc beast rider cavalier! but everyone i talk to suggests against it in most campaigns, so i have a few questions:

1)can mounts not being... mounted fight indoors without me on them?
2)while i am mounted, lances say they can be wielded in one hand, not that they become one handed weapons, do they still apply 1.5 str?
2a) can i technically dual wield lances while mounted? how would this work?
3) i only started playing dnd/pathfinder a few weeks ago, but i grew up with warcraft and the like, and i like to believe that not all orcs HAVE to be mindless savage desroyers, should i just relearn my own idea of orcs? it seems like in dnd and pathfinder they are only really bad guys like undead.

Edit: what are the rules for point buy reguarding mounts? for example if the game is a high fantasy point buy, can i restat my mount with something like say half the normal point buy or so?

Edit: cleave while mounted? yay or nay?

ok so depending on the building i could have something like a large spider? or for the tenguhatamoto can i have my large dire boar inside a building fighting along side me if i cant ride it?

Depending on the mount what are the conditions/can a mount fight without me riding it? since from my basic understanding cavaliers are the worst class in the game without being outside and mounted. is there a way some class can have the mount for outside combat and a pet sort of deal inside buildings?

ok, i just wanted to create a unique type of npc for my players to meet and see. as a gladiator so how it looks is very important for gladiators

i was just posting here because i figured someone from the pathfinder society would have a def answer, i should have clarified this is purely home game with friends. just trying to make sure this isnt some earth shattering law

Hello, as a GM can i make a custom weapon that uses all the stats of another weapon, but looks different?
such as can i have a greatsword, with all the stats of a greatsword, but has a weird design?
or can i have something like the spiked chain weapon, but instead fo a single big long spiked chain, make it 2 smaller but still long chains one for each hand, but it still count in every way as one 2h weapon, only looking different?

well in a normal session u talk to people on skype or in roll20 or whathave you and every roll and choice is live. in PBP i think u post on the forums and u have whatever alloted hours to respond

online, pref roll20

im sorry, i take it there is a dedicated forum for pathfinder, i bid thee ADUE

is this a PBP, im new to pathfinder(like a week since i started reading and stuff) and new to... uh.... well role-playing in general would you take me if its not play by post?

I know this post is kinda... awkward.. but im also new to these forums. now i know some of you are gonna say "why didnt you just look for a campaign directly" and i dont have a great answer for that. most of the campaigns either have hundreds of posts looking for people or are PBP? i dont want to do play by post. anyone know a DM starting a new non PBP campaign?

P.S. I have ALOT of free time, i put forth alot of effort, while im new to role-playing it wont stop me from trying hard, and i learn quick so its not like you have to teach me anything(or much)

Im new to pathfinder, and role playing in general. and these forums. i was kinda afraid to post a new thread to see if en expirienced GM would take me into a campaign. but every post ive seen has hundreds of posts or is a play by post. idk if i can do play by post. is this play by post?