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I looked again and it says, "An item isn't being displayed here because it's a surprise." Does anyone know what this means? I like surprises as much as the next person, but I sure would like to know what it is to see if the shipping expense is worth it. Is that why the shipping is so much?

Just went to purchase this here on Paizo.com in order to get the subscriber discount, and the shipping was more than the the miniature - $67 and change to Michigan. I don't understand why it would be so much.

Thanks for the sanity check, Fuzzy-Wuzzy! That's what I thought. Not a big deal with HeroLab, I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything. Thanks!

Can you still take the Raised by Belief background (from Lost Omens: Gods & Magic) if your alignment differs from the deity in whose religion you were raised. The flavor text made me think so: "You might remain committed or you may have turned from your childhood creed, but your skills are still founded in your devotion...", but HeroLab is telling me that I can't, which made me question my interpretation.

I wanted to play a Chaotic Neutral Rogue who was raised by a priest of Pharasma and has this background. Of course, Chaotic Neutral is not an allowed alignment for a follower of Pharasma, but as the character has left the church and is no longer a follower, do I still have to abide by the alignment restrictions to take this background?

Thanks in advance for any help!

I believe that each option may be selected once per Chronicle Sheet.

That's what I thought. Thanks for the sanity check, Nefreet!

I just want to make sure that I have this right. The Table of Generic Prestige Awards in Table 5-4 on pg. 26 of the Guide to Organized Play, includes "Free purchase up to 150 gp" for 1PP and "Free purchase up to 750 gp" for 2 PP.

To me, it seems as though these choices are independent. That is to say, once per scenario you can spend 1 PP on an item worth up to 150 gp AND 2 PP on an item worth 750 gp, for a total of 3 PP spent. Is this correct? This has always been my assumption, but as those two selections share the same footnote, which speaks of a "single item", so some doubt crept in.

Sorry if this has already been covered on the boards, but I wasn't able to find it.

It's hard to tell with this one, as the balance is very...erratic. It does get the best rogue archetype's abilities, and lets them not focus so much on Dex as they get free TWF through flurry of blows. I think it comes out ahead of the ninja, but that's after a lot of swerves.

I wouldn't allow a custom drow.

Thanks, Cheapy!

"Creature" can refer to an ally, enemy, or neutral.

So yes, if you 'hide' behind an ally, you gain a +4 AC bonus for soft cover if a bowman wishes to shoot you. That is one way that an ally can protect one of his team.

Thanks for the response, RedDogMT. That's what I thought, but it's nice to have confirmation.

This may be a dumb question, but I can't find a definitive statement on the subject in the forums (or perhaps my search-fu is just off today).

I know that your allies can provide cover to your enemies from your ranged attacks, and that enemies can provide cover to you from ranged attacks of other enemies. But can your allies provide you with cover from the ranged attacks of enemies? It seems that the answer should be "yes" based on the language in the Core Rulebook, but, the use of the word "creature" in the "Soft Cover" section of the CRB has me doubting myself.

What's the right answer?

I have a player in my group who wants to play an Ascetic Acrobat from the Multiclass Archetype project. This looks like an interesting Archetype, but I'm concerned that it's overpowered. Consequently, I am looking for advice from those who may have seen this archetype in play. How did it work out? Is it OP or not? Should I be concerned?

Another issue is that this player wants to play a Drow with custom racial features swapped out for the standard Drow features as set out in the Advanced Race Guide, albeit within the 14 RP budget in the ARG.

I'm concerned that so much monkeying around with the classes and races will lead to unintended consequences, most notably, this character overshadowing other players.

Any advice?

Testing, testing (Hope this works).

Edit: It does. w00t!

I'm always interested in potential new players.

Tell me about yourself.

Thanks for the reply, Spiral_Ninja. I'm in my mid-thirties, live in Shadyside, married with a one-year old, and a lawyer for a local software company. I've been playing Pathfinder for about a year (this year, mostly PFS games), after being out of RPGs for a while, having played 2nd edition and all the White Wolf games back in the day and all the flavors of the Star Wars RPG over the years (I still play Saga). Feel free to PM me if you would like to know more.

How about you? What's your group like?

Hi there. I'm not sure if anyone is still following this thread, but I happened upon it and I thought I'd post. I'm looking either for an existing Pathfinder game in Pittsburgh, or, if I can't find an existing one, to start a new one. I live in Shadyside and would like to play somewhere in the East End at least once or twice a month. I've been playing Pathfinder Society monthly, but would like to get into an Adventure Path or other campaign closer to home instead.

As for the style of game, I'm pretty open and if anybody else is looking for a game, I'm just about all the way reading through Skull & Shackles and would love to run that soon.

So, if you have a group in Pittsburgh that is looking to add a player or if you want to talk about forming a new group, let me know.

Cheers!